skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Stories like these document how immature Google is for the B2B market.

No sane company can risk being obliterated by Google's bully ToS and ignorant support.
Just call customer service ...
Is this practical? I'd expect that temperature gradients and moisture in the air have an effect on the distance the laser light has to travel; are the changes caused by vibration significantly larger?
Buy used, problem solved.

Bought a £8k 6 year old car, sold it for £2.5k after it broke and wanted £2k for repairs 6 years later. So £1k/year.
Current car costs £0 in tax, £0.02 p/mile, £360 insurance per year
Earth-Moon-Earth, sorry, jargon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth%E2%80%93Moon%E2%80%93Ear...
Be aware that those rankings are heavily biased.

e.g. they don't count 95% of German research at all.
Seems a bit silly to blow of the course work and not get a first - also not a terribly good indicator that they will adapt well to the workplace.

Obvs if its a former Polly the difference between a first and a 2.1 isn't as important as an Oxbridge First.
You're not completely forced, you can choose to move companies. So unless financially constrained, either you enjoy the company of the people you work with enough to stay there or you should move.

Also sometimes it takes a while to get to know people and you don't necessarily know ahead of time who that will be. Saying that I've had maybe one friend who I would still speak to 5 years after leaving a company.
Why these big switchbacks, like atl-jax-orl and orl-tpa-mia? Kind of out of the way for little benefit. Perhaps Orlando could be a hub, with lines going NE, NW, SW, and SE.
Jesus Christ, could there be more condescending commentaries than yours or that of some other replies? You can safely assume that I know who Peter Norvig is, so keep it civil.

His post illustrates how many programming tasks have gone from problem solving to lego-brick programming, where library is piled upon library and each of them is incomplete and contains piles of bugs. What could possibly be wrong with that approach?

Just like Norvig, I don't claim that Python is bad per se or anything like that. All I've said is that it's painful to go from CL to Python in terms of the general features of the languages (not their tooling). If you have never done this transition, have never programmed sufficiently large programs in CL and Python, please don't comment on it.
> Do you seriously believe this?

I know that even on a pretty small spend AWS had assigned us an account rep who would have moved heaven and earth if this had happened to us. I know Amazon retail has real humans in Ireland who will take my calls and take me seriously when I have problems.

I got an email recently from Google saying they were required to inform me they’d hired another gigantic Indian outsourcing company to do ... some kind of customer support work.
Why not just use keepassx for Mac with parallel versions on for iOS Android with cloud sync can someone explain to me? I have everything I need auto complete control strength etc + it's open source.
When to Use Git Reset, Git Revert and Git Checkout
Super sloppy or really bad, such a migration should be without any side effects of this kind. It also could expose the company to a legal mess because they could be under the obligation to inform their users.
Please don’t swear. Please. There are no victories down this spiral. Only barren soil.
Gameboy Emulator Running on ESP32 – 520KB RAM, 16Mb Flash
Well phonics was also considered a fad and the optician that diagnosed my dyslexia asked if I had been taught using phonic's as that was though to have worse outcomes for Dyslexics (neurodiverse) students.
I think it's not quite "tech can do no wrong", but "all problems can be solved with tech" is definitely prevalent. I guess it's because we're all tech guys here and "if you only have a hammer...".
OK, I looked it up and it was Ivany-Pogost. A Novgorod settlement/trade outpost established in early 12th century. So the map is correct there.
What do we know when we know someone?
That discussion has been had so many times, it's not even funny. Of course you should not tolerate intolerance, that's not even up for discussion anymore.

And no, you obviously shouldn't attack people for "wrongthink". You have to attack them for acts, not for thoughts. Standing up in public and calling for violence and persecution against people is an act, not a thought.
This is my favourite explanation of how a Kalman filter works

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/aguaviva/Ka...
My mum bought a car in 1992 for ~$16,000 NZD. Still driving it today. It’s a Toyota so maintainence is tiny. My dad still drives my 1998 Mitsubishi.

So when I see the price including depreciation it seems odd that people change cars so often they worry about resale value.

I would either buy new and drive it into the ground or buy second hand.
Playfair Cipher Guide
One of the issues of working from home is that you track your hours more closely. So where as in an office if you're only productive for 5-6 hours it's not tracked and so people probably won't notice. If you work from home your expected to be productive for 7-8 hours a day. This can mean working 2-3 extra hours that typically you'd save in commuting.

I don't see myself as being particularly more productive at home. I charge by the hour and so financially it doesn't make sense to commute and pay for an office, but for anyone who's getting a fixed wage I think the commuting benefits can be over stated. The main gain is in flexibility.
>Their policy is to not share any information about what caused this and they will not reverse these actions.

There's their side of the story.
And what about hylang.org ? I'm surprised it's not even mentioned here : nice lispy syntax with all the python packages = best of both worlds :)
Some other reasons:

- you use softwares that are scriptable in Python (SIG, Blender, etc)

- you write a lot of glue code. That pretty much Python raison de vivre.

- you do a lot of data analysis manually. Pandas is the new excel, and jupyter the new matlab.

- you do a lot of sysadmin. Scripting is just easier in a dynamic language.

- you do a lot of CRUD websites. You just can't beat the frameworks from this language for this kind of things. They do most of the work for you, and do security better than you do.

- you want to integrate new members in your team faster. Python is easier to learn than lisp.

- you are coding a GUI. With kivy you can target desktop and mobile with one code base, and some skins are pretty (https://imgur.com/a/IjM0XGW). With QT you can do powerful things on the desktop. With wx you can do simple GUI simply.

- you have a lot of different kinds of task at hand, and don't want to have too many different languages in your stack. Python is never the best language at anything, but it's a damn good language for most things, so it makes it a versatile toolbox.
It's not a stupid question and you're right, this doesn't solve anything, it just shifts the problem.
Dig tunnels for delivery bots
The link is there, but labelled as Dover-"Saint-Omer". Which is a little odd as that's inland behind Calais and Dunkirk.

You can still find "wool churches" from this period, although assigning a single date to a church that was assembled over centuries is a futile exercise.
Uber actually loses money on each ride.

This is only true if you're using referral credit. In well established markets (eg San Francisco) very few rides are subsidized, and Uber makes a healthy profit.
You are extremely manipulative and selective and use a lot of brute force to come to the conclusions you like to have from the start.
I don't see why that means he's not a touch typist?

I actually use both hjkl and the arrow keys. Arrow keys are useful for moving the cursor in insert mode.
Time to

1) grab/download the entire mailbox from Gmail
2) delete the mailbox at Gmail
3) export all gdrive data, use the export function
4) delete the gdrive data

5) register with fastmail, yandex or protonmail
6) start mailpile on your raspberry pi or similar
7) use mailpile as frontend for yandex/protonmail/other-imap account.

8) nextcloud as good enough but shitty replacement for gdrive

Self-hosted ftw.
How can compilers optimize a printf() call without format strings involved towards a simple puts() call? Sure it would be easy in C++, roughly like

inline void printf(const char* const s) { puts(s); }
void printf(const char* const s, ...); /* non-trivial implementation */

but that's not possible in C.
> Getting it all packaged up correctly for each platform is much less than straightforward and if your app isn’t FOSS it’s exacerbated by LGPL linking requirements.

Electron also has LGPL dependencies (Blink, FFMPEG) and libui depends on GTK which is also under LGPL so...
Not exactly. What is strongly encouraged is supporting Putin's cult of personality. And Russia (especially Moscow) is more along the lines of crony capitalism these days.

They do try to wrap it in nationalism and appeals to history ("back when the motherland was strong!"), but it's transparently about enforcing the oligarchy.
>His post illustrates how many programming tasks have gone from problem solving to lego-brick programming, where library is piled upon library and each of them is incomplete and contains piles of bugs. What could possibly be wrong with that approach?

Compared to problem solving which doesn't use "lego bricks" and re-makes the wheel?
> Google was scrapping Yelp reviews to show snippets in their Google Places product. Yelp CEO didn't liked that

Who would? What would Google do if someone decided to scrape all their Google Maps, Shopping content? Apart from adding stronger Captchas, that is... Google has been stealing content from smaller and better sites to improve their own half-arsed products for many years.
How the peso’s decline forced Argentina to return to the hated IMF
I guess the primary reason it works is because the factors you mention vary significantly slower than the vibrations from speech.
Here's a description from wikipedia:

The book's title comes from the fact that the Atari 2600, initially branded the VCS (Video Computer System), did not have a video frame buffer, and required the programmers to write each line of video to the television, one line at a time. As there were only a limited number of machine cycles in which to do this, the programmers were literally racing a high speed electron beam across the screen.[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racing_the_Beam

I read about it somewhere else too, but it's late and I can't remember where. Will update tomorrow if it comes to me.
Windows 10: Case sensitive DNS error
Which was possible because Microsoft decided to use Core Foundation APIs for sorting instead of their own implementation for spreadsheet data. Or maybe it's not for spreadsheet data, but just their custom file picker or something?
Someone has done a 1:1 (pretty much) clone of FT2 for modern operating systems, such nostalgia! https://16-bits.org/ft2.php
You're making a clear appeal to "the truth is in the middle, both sides are good/bad, only centrists have it right", which is nonsense.

Reality and objective truth leans more to the left, in comparison to the current political climate, which is unfortunately skewing to the right in a lot of countries.
Agreed, but now that the problem has been identified, why do so many people continue to finance or lease new cars?

Car maintenance isn't that scary if you have a steady income and buy something rational (90s japanese instead of 2000s range rover)
There may have been a lot more cross-culture communication than you think.

Examples include Venetian and Florentine trading posts in Beijing/Dadu and other cities in the Mongol Empire, Caucasians living in Xinjiang, and so on.

The issue has more to do with the lack of written records than anything else. Given how little we know about contemporary kingdoms and empires in other parts of the world, I wouldn't be surprised if there were significantly more Europeans in China and SE Asia, and at least a handful of East Asians in Europe and the Near East, during that time.
Scientists think the cell nucleolus may play an important role in aging
I've had nothing but horrible experiences with Microsoft. Frequent down times, high latency, surprise licensing fee increases, vendor lock-in, software that gets worse every year. I wouldn't wish Outlook or Skype on my worse enemy.

Also if you don't pay up, they might raid your office and take your computers.

https://torrentfreak.com/microsoft-sued-over-mafia-like-anti...
No painful switching is intended; for Norvig's purposes there are Lisp programmers taking an AI course and Python programmers taking an AI course, and both groups should be able to follow examples in a language they know, without stumbling.

Only their teachers need to adjust to the updated code examples in Norvig's updated book, and this summary is a very nice introduction to the main differences between two basically similar languages.

When and whether students should learn Lisp, Python, neither, or both is an entirely different issue.
I didn't think about it from that angle. You're absolutely right. That really does make it worse.

I think I'll defer to Depeche Mode on this one:

People are people so why should it be
You and I should get along so awfully

So we're different colours
And we're different creeds
And different people have different needs
It's obvious you hate me
Though I've done nothing wrong
I never even met you
So what could I have done

I can't understand
What makes a man
Hate another man
Help me understand
> It was that now only governments are allowed to gather and keep this data.

That just isn't true.
> Just enable 2FA all your issues will go away.

If migrate to a different country and dont have access to your old number you will be in world of pain.
Are algorithms hacking our thoughts?
They treat it as a built-in function, instead of always linking it to system libraries. Built-in functions they can implement however they want. If you insist on using the library implementation (e.g. because you have your own), you have to tell the compiler not to use its internal one.

E.g. gcc docs on this: https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Other-Builtins.html
Are you experiencing huge downtimes during application deployments?
It's just the layout of the particular subreddit. The overall reddit layout has not changed.
I have to ask someone to bring kubernetes into the comparison -redundant with Erlang?
>In 2012, the country’s police investigators were repeatedly thwarted by a hacker known as the “Demon Killer,” who posted a series of death threats online. The hacker used Tor to successfully evade detection for seven months, which was a major source of embarrassment for Japanese police — and likely fueled demand for new surveillance capabilities.

yes.. it was a bad bad hacker who fueled demand for more money thrown at the defense industry and not someone acting on purpose.
How  Time Tracking Software Will Help You Keep Track of Your Time
If only they put as much care into making sure their new laptop keyboards did't start failing after 2 months, I might still consider spending 2-4 times as much for their hardware..
It's also a way to get out of the house with your SO if you both like movies.
The problem with IE was not that Microsoft developed IE, the problem with IE was that Microsoft used its ownership of the operating system and MS Office as well as contracts with PC manufacturers to give IE an overwhelming advantage over the competition.
One-off trips require learning a new mode of transport, so one-off are a natural weak spot of a "new" mode of transport. (how much time buffer do I need at the station, how do I conveniently pay for my ticket and so on). Getting people to switch rarely happens.

Your best bet, as a new rail line are people whose regular transportation demands change while the line is still new and shiny (e.g. new job at the far end of the line, do I drive/move/rail?). This also meshes very well with the real estate development model of financing the line.
Brick-related xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1988/
One of my favourite explorations of the ELF format is linked in the comments. Just how small can you make an ELF executable? [0]. Spoiler: 45 bytes, when you go far enough that standard assemblers start getting in the way. When the ELF header becomes part of the program itself.

> Of course, half of the values in this file violate some part of the ELF standard, and it's a wonder that Linux will even consent to sneeze on it, much less give it a process ID. This is not the sort of program to which one would normally be willing to confess authorship.

> On the other hand, every single byte in this executable file can be accounted for and justified. How many executables have you created lately that you can say that about?

[0] http://www.muppetlabs.com/~breadbox/software/tiny/teensy.htm...
Craigslist is terrible but people still use it. If Google entered that market and showed their own classified ads as search results above Craigslist's, would you say that "Craigslist couldn't see their audience was going to dry up"?

At what point is it too much? Google wants to classify all the world's information—doesn't seem like there are many markets it wouldn't enter. Is every business just living on borrowed time because the Eye of Google hasn't swung toward them yet?
He created several classes of beings with the capacity for free will, since love freely chosen is the only kind of real love. Knowing that some would choose to hate him (or do anything else, for that matter) doesn’t shift responsibility away from them for that choice.

Actually, the existence of evil is one of the biggest arguments for God’s existence via showing that there are universal, objective moral values and duties. Summary is —- one cannot call some actions evil except by contrast with what is morally good. We all know certain things are absolutely evil (although some atheists deny that). And moral accountability is impossible without a moral law and a moral law-giver.
Why did people boycott Digg?
One can argue that Microsoft may put whatever they want as default on their OS and customers always have choice to vote with their wallet. In real world, most of the population is too naive to change default or learn something new just because of technology ideology differences. Furthermore, if I want to switch over to something else, I would lose other dozens of apps that are not available there. So customer is effectively tied up with dominant product and accept it as benevolent dictator. The apparent choice in theory is not really a choice in reality.
The final section of this recent Changelog podcast provides an interview with the Datasette author, https://changelog.com/podcast/296.
The Norvig’ article is from 2000. (Hy is from 2013.)
Email Hackers Are Winning
While a nice thought, that is only true if:

a) at least two of these secret security teams exist, funded by different political superpowers

b) the one team behind this worm was funded by a group insisting on global denuclearization.

Imagine if what you say is true for every nuclear power, except one (likely the one that is behind this worm).

Have we heard of any other enrichment facilities that have been targeted? There are still a ton out there[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enriched_uranium#Global_enrich...
Find a local bitcoin exchange. Meet in person to exchange
How the Math Men Overthrew the Mad Men
I should have been more precise. I'd say elixir makes erlang more accessible and easier to work with, not "better" as they are two different beasts with two different focus.
How a Company Scammed Silicon Valley and How It Got Caught
Security Checklist for Android Application Development
Also chiming in - I do control stuff in aerospace, Kalman Filters are the industry standard, have been so for decades, verging on low-tech now. Lots of interest in online particle filters in my little niche currently.
Staying in an Airbnb in Japan? Pick up your keys at a convenience store
"Oh, so all of those politicians and right wingers who are calling for hermetically closing the borders and imposing special laws on immigrants have all been fined and/or put in jail?"

Some of them. How about not calling for new laws, how about applying EXISTING laws?

"That's great news! Why hadn't I heard about this before? Perhaps because it's complete nonsense?"

Possibly. But also possible that you get your news from Spiegel Online. We will never know...

"Left wing junta? With a Christian conservative chancellor and completely ineffectual so-called left wing parties?"

Former Stasi Agent Merkel is a left-wing dream come true. All left wing projects were realized by her. Marriage for all? Sure. (By the way Marriage with a child? Ok, we accept if you are a Muslim immigrant. Polygamy? Okay, we accept.) End of nuclear energy? Done by Merkel. Energy revolution? Done! Open boarders for all? Done!

It is not surprising that the left wing musician Campino and former left wing foreign minister Fischer have strongly spoken for Merkel. "We can not have a better chancellor than her".

IM Erika (her Stasi undercover name) has been a nightmare for Germany.
I got the impression that step 1 isn't needed, it was more:

1. Create a google account and set your recovery email to the victims.

2. Use the new account to commit a range of ToS violations.

3. Wait for Google to suspend the entire GSuite account and every linked account.

For step 1 I don't think there is (or at least wasn't) any validation, I found out a family member had me as their recovery address when they changed passwords.
Not if the index runs on Tor, such as ZeroNet.
It's a great feature, and I use Local History a lot.
One thing to bear in mind, though, is that it will go if you invalidate caches.
"Discovery of the most ultra-luminous QSO using Gaia, SkyMapper and WISE"
Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia (PASA)

free PDF version: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1805.04317.pdf
As a mathematician who works with category theory, Haskell is a piece of cake. Much simpler than java, python, ruby, etc. It just requires a kind of thinking that is not tought to computer scientistis or on any programming courses. I recommend the book Category Theory (Steve Awodey ,2006).
it would be great if there was a demo video. I'd love it see it in action, and in particular the major differentiators from other blogging platforms. My first question on reading it all is: can't we do all this with wordpress? I imagine we can't, but I'd love to see a video that shows me so.
For anyone reading who is looking for a certificate authority make sure you check out https://letsencrypt.org/ I'd pretty much always go with this over the cheap tiers of the existing certificate authorities.
I was a researcher at a reasonably big UK University until about 6 months ago, and I used SciHub fairly regularly.

Sometimes I used it because we didn't have the right subscription for that publisher to get me the journal I needed, but mainly I used SciHub to access papers I already had the "right" to access. The layers of logins screens, buggy single-sign-on systems, having to be in the right IP address range, not being able to download a PDF, meant that I almost always attempted to get the paper through SciHub first, and only went through the library systems when I couldn't find what I needed on SciHub.
Trains only run over pedestrians when the rails appear almost abandoned. A well-frequented line would be eager. (Unless they are actively trying to commit suicide)
How would that work? Same rules as the multiplayer mode (anyone can control any lemming, everyone works from a shared pool of skills)?