skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, this is close to the amount of time where I decided to throw in the towel. Do you agree that this seems like a particularly long period of adjustment? I have been through many new laptop purchases at this point in my life and I can't ever remember the a period of adjustment longer than say a week or two tops.
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IMHO the "less wrong" isn't very relevant, while the "useful" is the important part :)
Absolutely. I'm just referring to the high profile news around specific events that might have made people think about it briefly. Possibly more effective than any hand wringing we might do.
Seems like it crossed the barrier from internal to external once a blog post was made about it and it was published to HN. Just saying.
Interestingly pu-erh is often referred to as "red tea" in Western countries.
There is in the EU:
https://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/infrastructure/project...

`In October 2014, the European Council called for all EU countries to achieve interconnection of at least 10% of their installed electricity production capacity by 2020. This means that each country should have in place electricity cables that allow at least 10% of the electricity produced by its power plants to be transported across its borders to neighbouring countries. 17 countries are already on track to reach that target by 2020, or have already reached the target, but more interconnections are needed in some regions.`
The article argues that we because our existing differentiation between humans and those others, we need a revolutionary change, meaning a large change.

That last bit is very nicely done rhetorically. But I don't see any actual argument in the article that the practical effects of the philosophical shift have to be large, or even will be large.
Even if it is, this might be the first time I've seen a programming language that isn't based in English (aside from the more esoteric Brainfuck-esque languages for code golfing).
... but this laptop hasn't even been browsing the web, and so it will have no history and no cache and no saved passwords for websites and wifi hotspots ...
I'm not going to explain to you why it matters in which direction societies evolve.
And yes, the 'wrong' candidate obviously can exist, for example the one that deceives the voter.
Online shopping doesn't work in Africa, not because of web forms with an ability to capture localised addresses, but because of the lack of affordable, reliable logistics. Africa is vast and largely rural. You can get reliable delivery at a cost. Cheaper delivery options have a tendency for things to get lost.
While I applaud OP for bringing modern tech to Africa in the 'Silicon Savannah', online shopping requires highly efficient logistics infrastructure that goes beyond web forms.
Source: I built and operated successful online retail in Africa.
A language with Internationalized keywords would be pretty dope.
My dog loves hunting rats. Why don't they just get some dogs?
> Êle tudo-óra tâ buscâ sarna pa cuçâ.

Lovely, taken from the linked blog. https://belamaquista.wordpress.com/
The first time I ordered something from Amazon to be delivered to my workplace, I spent like half an hour trying different variations of the address so that it would pass the validation. And my workplace is a university building where 200+ people work, in a European country.

Finally, I got it to work by typing "Campus of <X> Place, Faculty of <Y> Building". It wouldn't work without the words "Place" and "Building", which we don't ever use (we typically just write "Faculty of <Y>, Campus of <X>"). And the form didn't provide any clue about that being the problem.

The address on a letter has always been a free text input field, it still is when one writes private letters, and everything works fine. Why they have to complicate so much something that just works is beyond me.
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The lack of standard address system does not make a place a shithole.
Agreed. I don't know what Shakespeare was thinking with Sonnet 18. What a waste of effort.
> That said HRC lost because the popular vote is not what the candidates compete on.

For sure, but the popular vote should be better represented by the district maps.

> I am still bitter about her ... successful interference in the DNC

I was a Bernie supporter, but I knew that the political machine wouldn't swing so far as to select him. He is too unorthodox, too progressive, too not-rich.
This is a PR piece.

A European law called PSD2 (Payment Services Directive v2) enters into effect tomorrow (Jan 13th) that forces EU banks to provide APIs to third parties.

> Under PSD2, banks in Europe will need to make customer data available in a secure manner, and eventually give third parties access to their customers’ accounts [1].

[1] https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/psd2-europe-banki...
We're really getting to the point where violence may be the path of least resistance here. I thought i'd never say that!
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I have twice the biomass of the average human. Should I get two votes?
Moderation is essential because by publicly making an example of trolls, you can change the culture to prevent it. It's the same theory as patching up broken windows to ensure that worse things don't happen.
I visited Beijing for a month and didn't see a blue sky for a single day. I feel like my entire outdoor experience was filled with dust and smog, so many people were wearing dust masks... it felt like the apocalypse was right around the corner.
> Once our societies will be ruled by technocratic dictators applying the science of economics to the whole market you could write articles like this.

I've lived in one such state (only for like 8 years, but still). It was a complete failure. They had to inroduce martial law to keep people in line, and finally it defaulted and dictators left on their own.

It didn't help that the science applied was marxism-leninism, but I'm not sure any of modern theories are that much better if you let a dictator follow them to the letter.
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Yes, they have a "demonetized" status for videos that don't violate their TOS but aren't "advertiser friendly". Their general lack of transparency about it is also quite annoying. There also does seem to be some kind of manual process going on which is very strange. I have a small anecdote about it, unfortunately the creator took down the video talking about it after the problem was resolved or I'd just link that. I'll try to summarize as best I can.

There is a channel I watch, called "Counter Arguments", it is pretty much exactly what it sounds like. He made a video a while back called "Punch a Nazi"[0]. Some weeks after it being up, he got it taken down as violating the TOS for promoting violence. I don't believe he actually attempted to get it reviewed and put back up. The funny thing about the video is it is a video that is ultimately against political violence and he puts clips from a couple other videos in it that actually do promote violence. Those videos were never taken down. He posted a video about what happened to the video because people were asking him about it. A few days after posting the video about it, the video was put back up. I believe it may be demonetized, but I'm not sure. He seems to have scrubbed the videos discussing it from his channel.

We have no way of knowing if it was a manual or automated action that caused the video to go down, nor if it was a manual or automated action to get it put back up. The timing of it, sounds to me like it may have been flagged, a YouTube employee looked at it and didn't like what it said, so took it down. Potentially another YouTube employee saw the other video about it being taken down and put it back up. We have no way of knowing. I think if he would have never made another video about it being taken down, it likely would still be down today.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XtQ1BVhcOk
Just through SSH, they're essentially identical to keyboard input, just wrapped in different ANSI escape codes.
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"bcash" as you call it really is more like the original Bitcoin than bcore. The whole chain split and scaling debate shouldn't have existed, the 1mb limit was only put in place as a temporary measure to stop spam early on in Bitcoin's life.
That's such a simplistic view of life.

We would be able to identify an extraterrestrial cell as surely as if it was carrying flashing lights and screaming "I'm an alien". While all life is based on information, and information needs to be somehow encoded in a, let's call it, genetic code, would that code be DNA and RNA based? would in encode proteins, and if so, would the building blocks be the same 20 amino acids that we have an Earth. Would the genes be encoded using the same nucleotites, and would "letter" in the genetic code be encoded by 3 nucleotides? If so, would always the same 3 nucleotides encode the same aminoacid as on Earth? etc, etc.

There are so many places that life could be different, that the chance of mistaking Martian life for terrestrial life is vanishingly small.
> By selecting Intel’s Management Engine BIOS Extension (MEBx)

Where and how do I do that?
> [...] Intel expects to have issued updates for more
> than 90 percent of processor products introduced within
> the past five years.

https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-issues-update...

Sandy Bridge is older than that.
My girlfriend recently switched to iOS just because she wants those emojis back for WhatsApp. Can’t even blame her!
If you run a 700M$ exchange, you should probably have a cold backup of your database every other hour. I think.
I don't mean they're literally being sneaky. The point was, from an OS or userland perspective, it should be invisible. Besides performance, it should have no effect because it is literally breaking the CPU model by executing code it shouldn't. It fixes it by not retiring the results, but the bug is in leaving an effect that can be found.
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HELP I THINK MY ACCOUNT IS TRYING TO BEING STOLEN FOR SOME PEOPLES LIFE EXTENSION SCAM
I think this is less about left and right, and more about extreme elements on both sides arguing for actions supported by rhetoric use of factual statements that are easily questioned and where studies are available that would put their view into doubt.
What would be the point though? I feel like that would only increase misunderstandings . Like searching for documentation or help online on that function.
Probably, internets detected malware or spam coming from your IP. Check there: https://whatismyipaddress.com/blacklist-check
That's what they do with formulas in Excel.
There it sucks HARD. Try googling for documentation on StackOverflow for example. Anything you want to copy paste doesn't work because Excel is expecting the commands in a different language.
I will concede this is true, and I was going to say in the original post something along the lines of "not that she would have done anything to stymie this issue," but I felt that the comment was more on the fact that we don't have fairly drawn maps for our elected officials.
//OFFTOPIC

The author says:

>>Designer at Google with a RISD sleeping pattern.

What is an RISD sleeping pattern?
As opposed to rat poison anywhere else? I don't see this as a failure of pot farming, but rather farming in general.
I meant no special rules for this kind of setup, its precise status is quite undefined, it's certainly not a roundabout.

In the Netherlands if a motorized vehicle is in an accident with a weaker traffic participant (pedestrian or bicyclists) they are automatically liable anyway, that doesn't change. So you're left with give way to the right and don't hit each other, yes.
I never understood why US airports never implemented the transit concept.

Theoretically it could be extremely convenient to use the US as a transit point if your final destination is, for example, a country in Latin America.

But when you connect via any US airport you need to deal with imigration, pick up your luggage, deal with customs hassle, re-check your luggage and proceed through the entire TSA song and dance.

Depending on the airport not even 3 hours may be sufficient to make the connection and the hassle you experience is just not worth it.

For comparison: Some European airports have legal connection times of 30 minutes (Vienna). Longer than 90 minutes is almost unheard of.

Just about any international airport gets that concept, even in massively underdeveloped countries. The US just doesn't seem to get it.

It must cost US carriers dozen -, if not hundreds of millions in yearly lost revenues.
I disagree, it's not "first world problems." Largely the saving grace of the family was that they are extremely wealthy. They had the money to hire attorneys to stand up to the bank. In most instances, the bank would have been able to do what they want, because 99% of the people lack the funds for an actual legal fight.

What makes the article new worthy is that the bank lost when it overstepped its bounds, and that this was only possible for someone with an estate of several million dollars. It shows how biased the American legal system is against people without money. How did I come to this conclusion? It's simple, JPMC clearly knows what they are doing when it comes to probate and the legal system. This wasn't some novel plan they had to make money on estate. They knew exactly what they were doing and what moves they could play. It was a shock to them that they lost, and they lost because the plaintiffs had a legal team that could understand and combat it. Most attorneys couldn't handle a case like this, and those that do aren't cheap.
In the Philippines here. I'm a native English speaker and my Tagalog is pretty bad, but it looks like it's Ruby with Filipino syntax.
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There are similar words in English. My favorite example is Pudding, which can mean anything from black pudding (a sausage), to yorkshire pudding (a bread) to plum pudding (a dessert)

source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-brits-talk-about-...
Same in many parts of the US, except it's taken one step further with "chai tea" - even in big-budget advertisements by chains who should know better.

Seeing or hearing "chai tea" drives my Indian wife up the wall everytime.
I've seen a couple of Spanish versions of Python out there, just novelties, never seen them move beyond a proof of concept. There's a whole bunch of esoteric programming languages that don't use English, just like Brainfuck. [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_languag...
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Thank you for the link! This one looks interesting.
Translate garam masala next. :)
I do buy the golden rule as the only unarguably reasonable philosophical principle (I hold it pretty highly as an essential combination of rationality and empathy), I'm just arguing for the sake of it.

The reason I consider humans the most competitive is because we could potentially wipe out any form of life (for some, we would have to go too). As for the special thing, I don't think we're special in the sense that we have some innate quality that separates us from other animals, we're just more intelligent. Some unknown gap between the smartest animals and us results in the situation we see today: humans have created technology and industry, pursued math and science. No other species has, as far as I know (or at least not to a degree that makes it significant relative to human understanding)
Tried logging out as well. But didn't try incognito, admittedly.
Exactly. The touchscreen is a safety hazard. There's a reason why military aircraft utilize a HUD.
Fossil of dinosaur swept away in ancient Australian river found
There are more options now, including angry and sad reactions.
Anecdotally my girlfriends 2015 Macbook with 1st gen butterfly switches suffers less of a problem than my MBP with 2nd gen switches
I don't believe you. Sounds like some marketing theory.
I've only heard "red tea" used to refer to rooibos tea.
Back in the 80's there were a few variants of Basic and Pascal in Portuguese.
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On almost any machine with MEBx you can just mash the boot options key right after power on and while on a properly locked down machine you won't be able to change the boot order you will be able to select MEBx.
Esperanto would be nice
Making a population "legible" is one of the functions of a state, for good or ill.

https://c4ss.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/James-Scott.pdf
> OK but "Why was the Confederacy pro-slavery?" or "How did the Nazis justify their actions?" are different questions than "give 3 ‘good’ reasons for slavery and 3 bad reasons" which was the example given.

You are right, that's why I said that the question was poorly asked.

> the teacher was oversimplifying the language of the question for his/her students to the point where all nuance was lost ... which suggests they're maybe not ready for it.

Again you're right, since I'm not from the US, I forgot that the fourth grade is for 10 years-old.
You are doing this once per device, every n days, with n typically at least 90, possibly more. Your login form consists of a single field for your mail address which is autocompleted. I really do not see your point.
It’s a nice change of pace from our usual jobs of not having fun making useless technology.
> If humans aren't exceptional, do we acknowledge some sort of responsibility to provide for ants?

Not necessarily provide for them, but the opposite extreme (not caring if they exist) isn't all that much better and hubris born out of the notion that humans are so exceptional and at the center of everything.

Because this ignores the fact that our habitat (Earth) doesn't just revolve around our existence, our existence is just a part in a vast ecosystem which can only work because life exists in all kinds of shapes and forms.

Nature isn't optional, it's what allowed us to get where we are today, the more we forget this the more likely we are to make mistakes which can't be reversed and will ultimately lead to the destruction of our one and only habitat.
That was roughly my guess. I asked because I ran into a specific edge case where this is finicky.

AFAIK, arrow functions do (and should) have names if they're assigned to a variable.

const foo = () => {};
// undefined
foo.name
// "foo"

I ran into a specific bug where this doesn't work for the following case when using babel to target modern versions of node:

export const foo = () => {};

Note that's only when the declaration is part of an export (https://github.com/babel/babel/issues/7194).

The name works fine in the browser, but since jest/enzyme use node to run tests, I had issues with functional components (defined as arrow functions and immediately exported) were missing their names.

FWIW, this isn't an issue in Babel 7.
what would be the point of this? why not just use mainstream payment methods and then when someone actually wants BTC, purchase it from an exchange for fiat? The whole point of cryptocurrency is that its decentralized, creating a derivative on top of it (for payments??) issued by a centralized company subject to counterparty risk kinda ruins the purported advantages of Bitcoin don't you think?
Facebook overhauls News Feed in favor of 'meaningful social interactions'
It seems to me that few people are talking about what actually happens to phones/laptops when they're unlocked by a password given by the passenger.

There's a HUGE difference between...

A) A derpy mall-cop DHS agent casually browsing through your laptop/phone for a minute or two, looking at emails, pictures etc.

B) The contents of hard-drive/flash/phone being copied to a government server, stored in perpetuity, and subject to n-th degree content searches forever.

A is just annoying, B is vastly more concerning.
We still haven't interacted with all of the life on our own planet. There are things living in the dark places of the world that are difficult for us to reach.

Is it really necessary to preserve potential (but not confirmed) Martian life before establishing a beachhead?
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You just described Excel, and I can assure it is anything but "pretty dope". It is in fact a monstrous pain in the ass.
The evidence so far predicts that Mars is now sadly dead. The ratios of gases in its thin atmosphere are not consistent with a living planet (no oxygen, and the seasonal methane is probably geological).
Ancient Martian life was probably identical to Earth's, due to similar conditions, chemistry and exchange of genetic information between the two planets (and Venus, in addition to life from other solar systems via comets).
In the rocks we should find fossils eventually with our current rovers.
Seconded. I'm also Irish and the new postcodes are the ultimate in clarity imo. Each dwelling/unit has one code, and each code represents one dwelling/unit.

I live in quite a remote spot, so before, my address was just my name + the general area I live. Thats fine for the postman who knows where I live, but I dont know how other delivery services figured out where I was. Also I'm pretty much at the centroid of 3 towns, and different services would route deliveries via different towns. I had to learn through trial and error to put 'via X' or 'via Y' as my address depending on what service I was using.

Eircode clears all that up.
because http://forum.jurdopomoga.in.ua
It only sucks for us, that are used to English as "programming language".

Many Office users only speak their native tongue, are quite happy with the translations and don't even know that StackOverflow exists.

They rather buy books, https://www.fca.pt/en/catalogue/computer-science/office/page...
Haswell and Broadwell introduced INVPCID support, unless there were further undocumented improvements I'm not entirely sure what this is based on.
clean. it was probably because I have firefox for android with adblocker extension and it migth have confused their JS based bot detection.

also, glad to see HN removed the click bait title.
They may well ask for your passwords to the common cloud services; they already ask for your social media passwords.
But Denmark does require more than just a building number and a postcode.

For the UK, "10, SW1A 2AA" is sufficient for an address [2]. To avoid mistakes, it's recommended to write "10 Downing Street, LONDON, SW1A 2AA", but this can be looked up in the database[1]. It's usual when entering an address online, or over the phone, to give the postcode, the number, and then confirm the street.

The postcode for my workplace in Copenhagen, 2100, covers a good chunk of the city. I have to mispronounce the street name several times when speaking on the phone :-S.

[1] https://www.royalmail.com/find-a-postcode — try something like W14 9NL for a normal street.

[2] In fact, SW1A 2AA is sufficient for the Prime Minister's office. Places that get a lot of post are given their own postcode, it can be as specific as an office within a building.