skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I joined a running club. Met smart goofy inspiring people. It really has turned into a social thing for me more than a physical thing but some of the people are very experienced and provide great actionable advice that has improved my running to places I’d never thought I’d get. I also learn about alternative life styles and prioritiziations in life. It’s great
Acornsoft sold their games in 5.25" floppies inside some very nice black plastic covers. I found that floppies that had been stored inside these covers had survived, while those that were in the typical paper or cardboard sleeves had not. This was about 10 years ago, when they were about 25 years old.
Remember that the big power people behind these movements control resources. So their wealth stands to increase relatively speaking as more and more money is printed and the value declines.
"I don't know what the truth is, but let me idly speculate in favor of my political team"
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I think his point is that the option is "strengthening the flag", i.e. increasing (the already really high) German standing in the world through economy, diplomacy, alliances.

The odds of Russia attacking Germany, even indirectly, are absolutely minimal. Germany is one of their main export countries and is one of the leading countries in the EU (more big trading partners for Russia) plus a member of NATO.

On top of that, Russia is a shadow of the USSR. A bit more than half the population and an economy which in relative terms is a dwarf (i.e. the USSR had a much higher share of the world economy than Russia does now). Let's say they occupy Germany after a "clean" campaign. Their economy would be completely shot.

And let's not go into guerrilla warfare territory, they couldn't even control Chechnya, let alone 80 million educated people which would surely get foreign support in terms of arms and supplies.
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Nuke them. The tanks and ships are foreplay.

Unfortunately for them, places like the Ukraine are the proxy battlefields in the global chess game. “Crossing the rubicon” is a step the only ends one way.
If you want to see projects coded in Python (random forests, word2vec, convolutional neural nets), I recently finished producing this set of videos: https://www.packtpub.com/big-data-and-business-intelligence/...
Anything with XFCE - you'd probably do well with Xubuntu.

This is XFCE in 2003: https://cdn.xfce.org/about/screenshots/4.2-3.jpg

This is XFCE today: https://cdn.xfce.org/about/tour/4.12/xfwm4-tiling-small.png
I think the obsession of many modern workplaces with “team stuff” is making things pretty hard for some introverts. If I could work (truly —- i.e. no interruptions at all unlesss something’s on fire) solo for a couple of days a week, I suspect I’d be a whole lot more sociable in the evenings...
I wouldn't really classify this as an introductory course. Some background in A* search, Markov processes etc is required.
David has a fantastic narration style and this is one of those courses where I had to step out because I had other responsibilities and not because I got bored with the content.
Smoking weed and contemplating stuff helps a lot.
Yes, every UK bank had to write to their customers updating their terms allowing such activity end of last year.
China suspends Marriott website over geography gaffe
Whats new, I raise you the British SA80 mk1 assault rifle. The UK Chinook helicopters ordered in the wrong spec that cost double to convert to the correct spec. The Eurofighter a decade late. The QE aircraft carriers with no aircraft, where they were still arguing if it needed a catapult years after it was ordered. The UK Nimrod MRA4 that were all built and then cut up again...

edit: sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SA80#Service_and_modification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Chinook_(UK_variants)#C...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurofighter_Typhoon#Delays

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth-class_aircraft...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAE_Systems_Nimrod_MRA4
No imagine when things get rough those who could most well contribute to it will also be in the best position to leave the table with out covering their part of the check.
Because shipping products from overseas where they are mass-made is cheaper than producing them next corner. An effect of globalization.
> if you're running a game server you really don't have to care very much

Think also about scientific computing, which usually doesn't need to be done in a secure multi-user environment (strictly speaking). I.e. you could limit security to the entrance gate (log in).
German engineering is a myth. Go to any store and check out whatever has the "made in germany / quality german engineering" sticker on it and amaze yourself with squiggly plastics and fake metal parts.
And employers who would rather their programmers work for love than money are shit employers.
Do you use Windows 10. It is a nightmare full of gratuitious undocumented feature changes.
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It’s not about who speaks English but about who was born Brahmin - that’s been true in India for 5000 years!

India couldn’t function as a modern state with out a de jure lingua franca, that being English is an enormous advantage for international trade too.
And this is why Revert first, continuous deployment with feature toggles is the most stable way to run production. Deploy the new stuff, add some feature toggles. If the last version is stable, and your code is easy to revert, then you don't have to worry about downtime. If you're doing a major deploy, you can use the feature toggle to slowly turn it on (or off) and even use it test your new code directly in production (the systems I've used in the past allowed a developer to specify a feature toggle to be on for just their session). Databases can be tricky to toggle, but you have to build that into your design.
Or they work on farms, or they build crafts as craftsmen/craftswomen in their own workshops, etc. Definition is very broad.
If you ever wondered how to sharpen a pencil?

https://www.mhpbooks.com/books/how-to-sharpen-pencils/
Don't blame libertarianism for the state having broken the market so badly that wealth inevitably gets funneled to the few. Crony capitalism is not libertarian, rabidly competitive markets are.

The natural end of that is generally going to be prosperity across the board, and hopefully a government financially solvent enough to actually pay for those in need and essential services, all of which should be lower as a result of a better market doing much of that naturally.
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Army Rips Out Chinese-Made Surveillance Cameras Overlooking U.S. Base
Renegotiating the best deal ever: Mark Blyth explains Brexit in 5 min [video]
Not much, and it tends to be unpredictable. Mortality is overrated anyway. We'll all be dead one day, and then it doesn't even matter any more.
And more Fears of Brexit drain as more EU27 ambulance staff quit the NHS

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jan/13/nhs-ambulanc...
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I'm not sure this is a good way to look at things. We live in a world where deterrence is very important to not end up like Crimea. Maybe NATO is enough for Germany, but this is basically just outsourcing your defense to the US.

I'm not really a fan of the military or it's bloated budget in the US, but we don't live in a world where war is impossible.
Also INTP, also run a company, also work too much. What makes me happy? Mostly travel and my kid, but also the satisfaction of achieving success at complex goals. And food, sometimes. I know this amount of work is unsustainable and accept that I will work too hard for awhile and relax more later. It's OK.
To be honest, suspend still doesn't work properly, even in the latest version of Windows 10.
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> I thing the problem is its half-born federal structure.

And corruption, political dynasties, general incompetence and huge cultural baggage.
The ferrule is also the name for the joint between the tip and shaft of a pool cue.
My family was from UP, I don't think knowing Urdu helped us very much when the registrar at University of Sindh in Jamshoro tore up my cousin's matric certificate in front of him for being a Mohajir when he tried to register for classes...
A lot of the start problems were due to Microsoft making the backend of the start menu system a database instead of files.

There was a lot of locking issues, which broke in weird ways. My understanding is that the latest release gets rid of it.
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libertarianism in action IS crony capitalism

pretending anything else is akin to talking about how "real communism has never been tried"
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Any idea what will be the solution? Keep more speculative data in the pipeline? Performance penalties on security faults? Complex rollback?
We need more middle class people who are educated to come into political stream to counter the existing political class which caters to the rich and the poor. Then things my change for the better.
The article is slightly inflating it's claim. There is a middle class. But, there are two things which drive markets in India - one is mentioned in the article, the price and second is utility. Frequent discussions in offices are about - What is the point of a Starbucks coffee when a "similar" thing can be had for much less. Phones tend to be measured on music volume or camera.

I have seen Domnios in a tier 3 city. The opening night had a huge crowd and continued to do so for next 6 months. Then the novelty wore off. Now there are barely 4-5 people even on a weekend night. People fail to see the point of a "costly" pizza when 2-3 meals can be had for same price. But, if there is a grand occasion like birthday, anniversaries people still land up there.
I am single, live alone (with a blind dog I am re-teaching to hike with me), and work as a software developer exclusively remote. I started a meetup to teach aspiring developers that has evolved into a "stitch-and-bitch" where everyone teaches, got a side-hustle teaching and guiding sea kayak trips, and volunteer as a snowboard instructor. I probably sound like a jock, but you would recognize me as a nerd. And I am HAPPY!

0. Quit your job. I know this isn't reasonable for most people, but it was the best move toward happiness I ever made. I just hit ten years without full-time employment.
1. Create a hobby for yourself and become skilled or expert in something outside of work.
2. Start a meetup. The one I started came from working out of the local coffee shop when the baristo asked if I could help him learn html/css/js.
3. Find a side-hustle. I need new challenges, and while software engineering provides loads of those, that is just "tagging up".
4. Volunteer. Give time to your communities.
5. Exercise. Your biz probably keeps your mind sharp, but keeping your body sharp will yield tremendous mental dividends. As a kid, when I complained about doing school work, my mom would tell me to do 100 pushups.
6. Read. For pleasure as well as for work.
7. Meditate.

Going back to school has its appeal, but has financial and opportunity costs. I was an unmotivated student and only performed academically when I took too few or too many classes.

You have created an illusion for yourself around time, an illusion that it is moving quickly and that you don't have any. You don't have any because you don't TAKE IT. Is there anything you always wanted to do? Go do it! Tell your team that you are taking an afternoon off every week to pursue X.

I always liked the notion not of "human being" but rather "human becoming".
Here's a pretty decent technical note which covers definitions and quantifies 'middle class' in India: https://www.cgdev.org/doc/2013_MiddleClassIndia_TechnicalNot...

Most data that I'm familiar with is from the National Survey of Household Income and Expenditure (NSHIE) by the NCAER, or the NSS by the gov. But they hold these surveys rarely, I'm hoping to see an update to the 2011 NSHIE data for example, this year.

Another decent study building on NSHIE data: http://www.thesuniljain.com/files/thirdparty/NCAER%20How%20I...

Does anyone know where to get more recent data?

In any case, the middle class in India is quite small, probably around 100m people, but definitely not above 200m. What's somewhat left unsaid by the Economist is that growth prospects are pretty good, with the middle class group doubling less than every decade, in addition to growth of the rich group.

India will also be this century's most populous country, outgrowing China probably next decade and will keep growing a few decades after China's population will have started shrinking. And looking at the age-demographics, China is headed into difficult territory whereas India will have mostly young (i.e. productive) population for a long time.

So I agree with most of this article, but it definitely also leaves a few things unsaid. In terms of India's attractiveness as a new global market, I'm cautiously more optimistic about India's position than most, but not by much.
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Yes, but at a price and space disadvantage. A set of leadholders to match the gradient of a good art pencil set will cost at least tens, more likely hundreds of dollars. They will also take more space. Clutch pencil leads are not as readily available everywhere, especially in different hardnesses.
> Wow, the UK is really embracing technology

They did not have much choice. The deadline is before brexit.
Code generation aka compilation. Everyone generates code all the time. And all abstractions leak eventually.
Surface boats have never been the Germans forte.

The Bismarck was sunk by a handful of guys throwing torpedoes out of WW1 biplanes.

Incredibly that the nation which brought us the U-boat thought it prudent to forgo all anti-submarine measures.
In Washington State, a community has chosen to live off the grid
I applied the patched on both my systems (iMac 2013 core i7 on Sierra under HFS+ that was upgraded to High Sierra for the occasion, and a MacBookPro 2017 already on High Sierra under APFS), and I can confirm that both my systems are seriously and objectively slowed down, 4 days after the patch now.

From what I could observe, applications taking the most serious hit are electron based (like VSCode, that went from smooth as silk to mildly sluggish) and Safari.

Docker on mac has also taken a hit, although I couldn't quantify it objectively.
That's quite a sweeping, derogatory generalization
I've read those two sentences three times, it's not even close to suggesting "testing is not important" or a problem. The problem is the duration of each release and the lack of time spent developing new code.
OK, but what if I stopped buying US goods and US services? What if I pulled my investments from US equities? What if I added a tariff on services provided by US companies, because they had benefited from an un-competitively low corporation tax rate?

The US is not the first empire. You might want to read up on how the others failed.
> I like AAA games, almost none of the games I play are available on Linux (primarily Blizzard games). A lot of desktop apps I like or need are not on Linux, etc.

I don't have any first hand knowledge about the AAA gaming industry but from what I understand, the studios offload a lot of the work to the GPU manufacturer (nVidia most likely) who then "fixes" the bugs in what they call a graphics driver.

I think this is the main problem. The so called graphics drivers do too much work and games don't pull their own weight.
Not to mention the Nimrod AEW - I remember seeing one dumped near the perimeter fence of RAF Kinloss - contender for the ugliest plane ever to fly.
And this is the case
Gold and the dollar are outdated technologies
I have never seen even a simple argument for why your second paragraph should be true.

On the other hand I understand the principle that money makes more money (the principle of investment and ROI), and I don't see how "competitive market" tackles this.

It basically feels like the capitalism starts off from fairly-level playing field, but over time becomes more and more unstable, the gap ever-widening. We have already seen it fall (at the beginning of communist regimes), and I'm afraid we'll see it fall again.

That's a pessimist view, which I hope won't turn out to be true, but I'd be interested in exploring alternatives.
One of the big problems in Indian economic statistics is that a lot of wealth and income if the "middle class" and the rich actually doesn't show up in official statistics. Their income is in what's known as "black money". There are a lot more rich ajd middle class families in India than show up in official statistics. That's precisely why socio economic classes in India used by economists and marketers are defined by a combination of education, occupation and device ownership rather than income.

Source: Am a Market researcher and analyst who segmented Indian market for a major corporate
> There's nothing DIY about a ready made Linux distribution such as the Fedora Desktop.

Until you want to change something. It is trivial to target a single use case and make it easy with Linux (most of the time) or almost any other OS, but that isn't what we want from Desktop OS, we want flexibility so we can conform it to our workflow, and Linux Desktop is absolutely terrible at that because it's become a giant Rube Goldberg machine of schizophrenic and often half-thought out components written with the idea that they're in a multiuser server environment but pretending they were designed for personal desktops.

If someone built a new, joy to work with and develop for, userland on top of the Linux kernel that wasn't oriented towards the idea that the system is a multi-user network server in 1983, I would subscribe the hell out of it (though in my opinion it had better be open source regardless). As a side project, I'm actually playing with concepts in this vein, but I'm really not that good a developer and don't have a lot of time to devote to it, it's just that no one else is doing it.
Very interesting possibilities ... network is really same as physical highways ... should be funded and run by the locales and federated into a wider network ... let’s start the journey ...
But spotlight doesn’t search inside those bundles, that’s the main difference. Even the ability of MacOS to list applications when using the open with context is so much faster compared to windows which grinds for several seconds to populate the list.

Heck even using the New... context window in Explorer is a joke.
We just had tech sales folks from major hardware vendor approach us with a pitch to strongly consider AMD EPYC based servers for our next compute purchase. They highlighted

* Value for money

* memory performance on inter core access

* more memory channels per core

* still within x86 ISA negating the need for any Se rewrites.

Our workloads are memory access bound. So the above points hit home.

We're going to try AMD servers for the first time at this research group. If they do hold the promise, intel finally got some active competition in our realm!
I'm saying that it is English that is a privilege language, not Urdu
How do you deal with financial stress? There's a study that says that financial stress has a big impact on one's health and can even lower one's IQ by 13 points.

http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2013/09/princeton_univers...
Let me leave a plug here for the rare hacker news commentator that has Apple II nostalgia, C++ skills, and Linux or Windows GUI knowledge.

After having tons of fun getting my Go Apple II emulator basically working, I realized my efforts would be better spent improving an existing emulator than bringing mine up to parity, and switched my efforts over to working on OpenEmulator.

It has a portable emulation library at its core, and a relatively thin layer of Mac OS GUI to show the windows, etc.

If someone with the right skills helped to create GUI layers for Windows and/or Linux, I believe it would become much more popular, and start attracting more development to add functionality, peripherals, etc. It already has some of the best disk emulation, and almost certainly the most accurate CRT emulation of any Apple II emulator.

If you'd like to try it out, try 4am's build: https://archive.org/details/OpenEmulatorSnapshots
The QE aircraft carriers with no aircraft

This is hardly a design fault. Instead, how about Type-45 destroyer gas turbine engines suffering from overheating in gulf/Mediterranean temperatures.
Agreed. Indians are conservative in spending habits and I think that's a good thing. Eating out is the best example. In West eating out is the default choice, even those who can't afford it will choose to eat out. On the contrary in India, eating out is a conscious choice even for very rich.

But I think with new generation, this culture is changing slowly.
If you're interested in reading old Apple II disks, track down John Morris' recent AppleSauce work. It's fantastic. He's @DiskBlitz on twitter, and gave a talk at the last KansasFest about AppleSauce: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMrOiYCEuxc
We saw instances which normally kept a healthy stock of CPU credits quickly burn through them and severely degrade in performance thanks to Meltdown :<
My almost totally unsubstantiated understanding is that you tend to get less graphite and more binders in mechanical pencil and leadholder leads, because they need greater mechanical strength to stay in one piece without the support of a wooden matrix.

I can say that lead extracted from a Dixon Ticonderoga produced considerably less smoke than an 0.9mm Pentel-branded mechanical pencil lead when I drove five amps at 30VDC through both of them in turn, as a test of whether a newly arrived bench supply, cheaply bought from a no-name manufacturer, would live up to its rating. Both leads eventually glowed cherry red, as would be expected of any small-diameter carbon resistor dissipating 150W, but I wasn't equipped to measure such temperatures any more accurately than by eyeballing the emission color, which suggests a temperature in the rough neighborhood of 800-1000°F. On the way there, both leads cooked off everything that wasn't carbon, the Ticonderoga lead producing a faint ribbon of smoke that ceased after a few seconds, while the mechanical lead, despite its smaller diameter, released such a robust and prolonged emission that I wondered whether it might burst into flame. Once they'd cooled back to ambient, I handled both leads, and found the Ticonderoga about as sturdy as it had initially been, while the mechanical lead became extremely fragile with the loss of whatever waxes had burned off; I wasn't even able to remove it from the test jig without breaking it several times, and when I carefully loaded the largest piece into a pencil and tried to feed it for a writing test, it was too weak even to stand up to the clutch.

I haven't tried it with leadholder leads, not having enough use for such tools to own any, but I'd expect a result closer to the mechanical lead than the wood-pencil one.
Yup. I just saw Happy People: A Year in the Taiga [1] about heart of Siberia where hunters live a solitary life of hard labor and independence most of the year. They have very little impact on the world, but I think most people are generally ignorant of things like their Co2 footprint. Significant or insignificant goes many ways..

[1] https://m.imdb.com/title/tt1683876/
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You are 100% correct. I remember friends buying both desktops and laptops at the time that essentially contained XP-targeted processor/memory configurations, but instead now were shipped with 32-bit Vista. It was a perfect recipe for bad performance out of the gate, and that's before you even get into the pre-loaded McAfee, etc.