skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are operating within a very simplistic -- and at this point outdated -- narrative of both Europe and the challenges facing the continent. Also, the comparison between Europe and the United States is a persistent but very wrong-headed one. The two are not comparable. States are not like countries made up of people with much that divides them, like culture, values, language, history, geopolitical interests, etc. The financial crisis was a reality check, history crashing the party, that put into stark contrast the forces, tensions, and interests that make up Europe but were simmering under a veneer of wishful thinking and cynical neocolonialism masquerading as fraternité.

Surely, European cooperation of some kind makes sense, if only to secure a basic peace and to avert war. But the dream of a federal Europe is dead, and frankly, was stillborn. It won't happen. Not only is there no path to that happening, not only has nothing like that ever happened, but it doesn't even make sense. Go ahead. Tell me what it means to be "European". You can't. There's no such thing. It can't compete with being French, German, Polish, Italian, etc. Worse, you can't even join it. The United States started as a British colonial possession (mostly) that formed the nucleus of the country. People moving to the US were joining a society that had already existed, even if loosely. There is no "European" nucleus and you couldn't impose it on Europe even if it wasn't a vacuous idea. Every attempt to unify Europe failed. It was always and can only be an imperialist endeavor. Right now, it's largely a German play. Look at Merkel. She has no position in the EU and yet is treated as if she had. That's not a coincidence. Nobody wants to be part of some crypto-German empire. Those who do move to Germany.

This is why we're seeing Central/European European coalescing into a web of alliances based on the historical and present need to form a cohesive bloc able to repel both German dominance and Russian aggression. It is a geopolitical necessity and an act of self-preservation. They don't want to vegetate in a state of permanent neocolonial mediocrity. They didn't throw off the yoke of Russian dominance just to become a second-class corral of cheap labor and an economic dumping ground for Germany and other Western countries. They don't want to be what Piketty calls "foreign-owned countries". A federal Europe wouldn't magically dissolve the power relations in Europe, it would formalize this dominance under the guise of unity, cooperation, and some "new European man" nonsense. Gee, where have we heard that farce before.

A better solution, grounded in the hard facts of reality and not insipid bromides, is to respect national sovereignty and to maintain a forum or forums for fostering, organically, European cooperation and the resolution of disputes. The US will play an important role in maintaining the geopolitical balance.

P.S. Manifest destiny make no sense in relation to Europe, and it is a dubious concept anyway.
i've seen many cases how twitter silences and bans people speaking out against the democratic party
I was on crutches for a few months a number of years back when I broke my foot. Fortunately, I was able to switch to mostly working from home. But it was still really eye opening. I cut out most of my travel, didn't really go into the city at all, got home grocery delivery, etc.

I did find I was able to cook so long as I kept things simple and didn't do anything that would have required moving heavy pots around. Decent takeout options are pretty limited around where I live so I felt I had to just cope with cooking the best I could.
I have a P51, and I just bought a Pixelbook because the P51 is a great machine but not really a laptop. See here: https://programmingzen.com/google-pixelbook-review/
+1 for restic. I switched to restic(+B2) from duply+duplicity(+S3) (another backup tool supporting dumb remote storage, encryption, incremental backups, and snapshots) and life is so much better. Duplicity needs the duply front-end for too many basics, it regularly needs full backups to be made and stored, it's not built at all for random access (it takes eons in order to list or fetch a specific file from a specific incremental backup), and it needs a barely documented command line switch in order to not bug out with S3 if you have too many files (why is that option not default? Its default S3 configuration has a max limit on file size. Duplicity splits the archives containing your files, but it has one un-split archive listing filenames or some kind of metadata that it doesn't support splitting, so if that file gets too big, then your backups just start failing). Restic is nice.
Yep. I just joined a company and what I could do in two months blew their minds. A lot of which was thanks to all the freebies by Django.
Plain-jane Eclipse works better for me than IDEA for my hobby Java coding. On my late 2015 Mac, Eclipse much snappier and the font-rendering is better. IDAE takes 3+ mins to launch. Eclipse takes 20s on a cold launch. To be fair I am not using any plugins and not doing any JEE stuff.

I just can't get IDEA to respond to clicks in less than 10s. There's obviously something wrong with my setup.
Given that you were essentially learning management while in the role, did you ever end up hiring people with prior management experience to report to you? What was the mentoring like for these folks - were there cases where your reports actually had more experience than you?
>Before the election, we also detected and took action on activity relating to hashtags that have since been reported as manifestations of efforts to interfere with the 2016 election. For example, our automated spam detection systems helped mitigate the impact of automated Tweets promoting the #PodestaEmails hashtag, which originated with Wikileaks’ publication of thousands of emails from the Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta’s Gmail account. The core of the hashtag was propagated by Wikileaks, whose account sent out a series of 118 original Tweets containing variants on the hashtag #PodestaEmails referencing the daily installments of the emails released on the Wikileaks website. In the two months preceding the election, around 57,000 users posted approximately 426,000 unique Tweets containing variations of the #PodestaEmails hashtag. Approximately one quarter (25%) of those tweets received internal tags from our automation detection systems that hid them from searches. As described in greater detail below, our systems detected and hid just under half (48%) of the Tweets relating to variants of another notable hashtag, #DNCLeak, which concerned the disclosure of leaked emails from the Democratic National Committee.

Twitter openly admits to censorship. They censored legitimate journalism for political reasons.

Source: https://www.lgraham.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/4766f54d-...
> Are housing, healthcare and education costs included in the inflation numbers?

Yes, CPI includes housing, healthcare and education. The only measures commonly stripped out are food and energy, to exclude commodity volatility; that measure is presented as "core inflation" and is more useful when considering things like interest rates than real wages.
The Go plugin wasn't open source, right?
> Facebook, for one.

So let's say in theory you could add a great deal of people as friends (thousands even) and in that case it would be quite difficult for the FBI to run that down (as they say). Besides they would have to supoena records from Facebook at a certain point if the 'friend' was not someone they could easily determine just from a picture or limited contact info.

And don't even get into 'linkedin' that is filled with more people you don't really know or care about than any service.

Most likely they will just work the other way. Someone makes a trade and they then see if they are linked to anyone in anyway at the company.
this is awesome. ascii art is a beautiful thing in the terminal lol. I've randomly embedded ascii arts to pop up when i run certain commands in my machine. had a giant image pop up in code review and was like yeah, i'm cool like that!
> I'd rather a messy story that includes details of how someone screwed up

Strongly disagree. I am mostly interested in reviewing your best work, and ensuring that it is correct, as much as I enjoy hearing the story about how you got there. When we spend a lot of time on specs and ensuring they are correct, it's mostly important that I can review your change and compare it to the spec to ensure correctness. A commit that was wrong, but was corrected before it ever went to prod, doesn't really help me at all during code reviews.

I agree that 'git stash' and 'git commit --amend' are also important skills to have, but I prefer to make small, incremental commits that are obviously correct changes in isolation, even if they are not very interesting, so long as they are moving something toward the goal. Then I'll condense them into commits that look something like "the whole change I intended to make" – but that's maybe once it's fully formed and the tests are actually passing.

I don't like to keep a lot of small commits around, again selfishly and simply because they can make rebasing harder. It is telling how many things I do in service of keeping it easy to rebase a changeset. It's not an unobtrusive feature and there's definitely merit to the argument that it's a nice gun to shoot yourself in the foot with.

There is a happy medium between squashing all commits within a feature branch, and keeping every "boring, but obviously correct" incremental change intact forever. A change is only interesting in isolation if it might be reverted, or if I read it in isolation and for whatever reason strongly believe that I might ever want to read it in isolation again.
> Plugging in certain android phones

I don't have them, but then I don't do anything with phones over usb other than charge them

> usb wifi

It's built in (as is 4g, although I now tether on my phone)

> monitors not detected, monitors being forgotten

I've used an external monitor rarely, I don't recall any issues. I've seem people using external monitors on their macs and windows laptops, they often seem to have major problems.

> grub conflicts after windows updates

So a windows bug then. As I don't run windows that's not really a problem.

> graphic cards drivers in messed up after apt upgrade shenanigans

I run an LTS version of ubuntu, went from 8.04 to 12.04 to 16.04 -- took the opportunity to replace my SSD for something a little larger. Next time will be 20.04, but at that stage I think the laptop will really be due for a replacement.
BD Wong Doesn't Want Fame–He Wants Success
> To do it yourself, you must incorporate and seek non-profit status which can take over a year and thousands of dollars in the United States

Joint business bank account at any major bank solves this. File for an llc in colorado (~$65) and open the account. Tax free, fee-free, and you can get multiple debit cards.
We‘re reorganizing how Twitter is going to work together for the next decade
Infoblasts!

Blipverts are quite a lot worse for you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJP-Ilw_xaY
I would think the difference would be from the data input pipeline, efficiency in batching, updating online models. The inference itself would be the exact same.
But in Europe, someone is more likely to complain to regulators than to sue you themselves.
Please don't use examples on a 13-year-old community wiki as recommendations, period!

See the many other comments I've made in this thread for how to handle elements of postal addresses in Django.
In my experience, it honestly isn't even close. Think about it this way:

In the US, you have an army of groups who will actively/passively work against a corrupt person: free media, lawyers, civilians with strong rights, judges, police, opposition politicians, civil liberties groups, government oversight committees, industry regulators, consumer groups, and generally speaking, a law-abiding and non-corrupt population.

In China, you have none of those.

However bad you think corruption in the US is (and I believe you when you say it's bad), it's degrees worse in China.
I'm one of those folks who would love to drop everything I have going to wander off into the desert/forest/underwater/whatever with the intention of bootstrapping a new city from scratch. The more I talk about it, I've found that there are a lot of people who would love such an adventure - if we could all just find some effort worth getting behind. It's sort of like starting a hippy commune, only with high-tech intentions. I'd rather embrace the world and one-up it than to hide away from it. I meet a lot of people who agree so I'm surprised there aren't more projects of this nature getting traction.
> when pitching or promoting their companies

...and the whole point of pitching or promoting a company is...making money!

> "changing the world."

That isn't falsified by putting 5 million dollars in exchange for dropping a VC-funded startup. It may well be easier to change the world with that kind of money absent the attached strings.

> They don't say "by the way guys I'll happily disband this whole thing the instant someone offers me a wad of cash."

Well, a big enough wad of cash. They don't have to. This is one of those "well duh" situations.

This is actually a business risk, that one or more of your key/critical employees will get lured by an offer they can't refuse. (As I keep trying to keep this on-topic) This is particlarly so for founders with unproven business models, who VCs might otherwise pressure into much less attractive equity/control positions.

> fully trumps every other principle one holds

This is a strawman. You've implied violation of principles you hold (without stating them outright) but haven't demostrated violation of any of that founder's principles. I've pointed out at least one that we can presume that was upheld, in the return of assets.
This. GKE is rediculous how easy it is to spin up a cluster. 60 seconds max. Why fight setting up K8S?
You get:

* pluggable authentication methods (literally adding JWT, session and cookie tokens takes one line of code
* pluggable output serializers (want YAML? Plug in a renderer. XML? Same thing)
* pluggable documentation generators
* Utility methods for handling RESTful response types

DRF has a staggering amount of features that, if implemented by hand, require a stupid amount of time and a 100% guarantee of subtle bugs.
What? Why?

Studies show that narrower streets cause cars to drive more slowly, making neighborhoods more livable. (Less noise, among other factors.)

There are other methods used that also cause cars to slow down - road humps, textured (fake cobblestone) crosswalks, pedestrian refuge islands, pedestrian bump-outs, replacing parallel parking with angled end-in parking, etc...

When you have raised sidewalks traffic speeds don't really doesn't affect walk-ability as long as there's crossings at lights

No, walking on a sidewalk with traffic whizzing by at speed is not a pleasant experience.

increase overall efficiency and throughput

Increasing throughput is last century thinking. Current best practices is to encourage people to use transit, especially in a city like Chicago that has (in spite of its flaws) has pretty good transit for an American city.

Here's a PDF from CDOT explaining much of this: https://www.cityofchicago.org/content/dam/city/depts/cdot/st...

[Edited to add PDF link]
Well, we can debate the meaning of "offended," but for the purposes of this discussion, I mean "causing the user to react in a way perceived as negative for the end user experience and reflecting poorly in engagement metrics."

As a conservative, it's tough to avoid seeing opposing points of view. You'd have to avoid all late night shows, nearly all TV stations and newspapers, and most social media. We're quite accustomed to seeing opposing views and if it actually bothered us seeing them, we'd be frustrated virtually all the time.

Left-leaning people can quite easily participate in society without seeing opposing views. You can openly discuss even political activism at work without issue. Avoid Fox News and Breitbart and you're unlikely to see anything much different than what you already believe.

Maybe "offended" isn't the right word, but I do think it's a contributing factor.
The list of top supercomputers isn't a list of which systems have the most ALUs that you can shove floats through (though that is definitely a strong correlate). The difficult part in HPC is actually being able to keep those ALUs fed with floats. In large HPC applications, the communication is the principle bottleneck in being able to scale up [1]. Communication patterns for HPC application also tend to very much have a bursty everybody-is-sending-at-the-same-time pattern, which makes it very easy to saturate a typical star-like Ethernet network configuration (supercomputers typically use a torus or mesh-style interconnect).

For GPUs, one trick you can do is to do GPU-to-GPU communication that bypasses the CPU. I don't believe the hardware that extends this to do CPU-less transfer systems across different nodes is common on non-HPC systems.

[1] One of the main criticisms of LINPACK as a benchmark is that it is a low-communication benchmark. Essentially, you're doing O(n^3) computation on O(n^2) communication. In many benchmarks, such as grid simulation, the ratio of computation is communication is constant with respect to size.
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Was a big media workup (like y2k) leading up to it and now it has faded from memory. It's like everything else that is the issue of the day and then ceases to matter at least in any way as much as whatever you read seem to make it before hand 'sky is falling comply comply' so typical. After you have been through similar things you know the way this type of thing is overhyped (I mean by what will actually happen and who it will happen to way overblow ie 'shut down my shitty little website for fear' mode.)
Yikes, that open office picture looks like my nightmares.
اجمل+صور+رجال+2018+اجمل+الصور+الشخصية+للفيس+بوك+للرجال
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Honest question: don't the rich also lose during a global crash?
It's funny you should mention Portugese, there was a report in Schweiz aktuell once where they said a lot of Portugese speakers would better integrate in Rumansch speaking parts because Rumansch and Portugese are similar.
Good point. I was hoping to get answers from various folks. I'm on a relatively common MBP, and have only ever used water. That gets it mostly clean, but not all the way.

The Apple Store folks always give it a good clean when I go in for my weekly (har har) keyboard cleaning, so I've never had to go past water myself.
I was just in Sicily and we managed to get a local to talk to us about the local economics - we're pretty sure he was willing to open because we were the only people around, and basically confirmed this: that the Mafia made it really hard to get (and keep) anything going.
Medicade plan offers food as medicine
Sup Eddie. Besides books, did you go and ask people about how to be a great CTO? Who did you pick to ask, and how did you find those people?
I feel like this only makes sense if you build cities of any size, even when they have 50 people, as if they are ultra-dense. The reality is that public transit takes a certain size city before it reaches critical mass and becomes superior to individual transit. Even where I live (Portland, Oregon) which is considered to have decent public transit, I would have to walk a lot and plan on 2-3 times as long if I wanted to stick with public transit. The density just isn't there yet.
There are few things that benefit everyone all the time. If we eliminated everything that only benefits a few people at any given time, what kind of world do you think we’d end up,with?
It's more like he's refuting the claims you usually hear from the CCP as part of their external (and internal) propaganda and national narrative.
Trial runs for fascism are in full flow
Here's Axios's take on the issue:

https://www.axios.com/conservatives-republicans-social-media...
A "permanent injunction" just means "I promise not to do it again and will get in more trouble next time if I do," not that he can't be paid in options in the future.
One of the reasons that there is no particular statue for insider trading is that it's difficult to say who the person who insider trades harmed.
Mojolicious::Lite

See here how easy it is to get started and actually do stuff with minimal effort: https://mojolicious.org
if that's true, that rule should be applied to everyone, not only milo.

there are more right and left-wing fringe users that love to brigade other users.
> It's a robust market with quite a few major competitors.

4.

There are FOUR major competitors (AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, and Verizon) and this is soon to be 3, assuming the Sprint - T-mobile merger goes through. (Which it most likely will)
Entefy: 17.7M in funding, 5 years, 0 product, is this a scam?
It's the same with everything. After a while, in college, one learns what the important things to pay attention to are in class, and what aren't. It makes one a much more efficient learner.
Some people perform better under pressure, but for someone else it might be the opposite. The trick is to identify what makes you go into the zone. Then trigger it with some imagination, or actually putting yourself in that kind of situation.
Somebody needs to lock @jack in a room and make him watch this video on "repeat" for 400 hours.

https://youtu.be/Vhh_GeBPOhs
At least for Intel processors, one can run the LINPACK benchmark using pre-built binaries provided by Intel: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-linpack-benc...

There must be something similar for AMD processors too, but I can't find it with some quick duckduckgo. Perhaps someone else can link it?

Just a silly thing to compare your PC with the big dogs.
In this case, we're talking about having an automated service (Cloudflare) manage your HTTPS, not paying a human to carry out a manual HTTPS set-up. We're talking about a self-service laundromat, not a specialist dry-cleaning service. Just like I'm able to have an automatic washing machine in my home, I see no good reason why that automated HTTPS service can't be self-hosted, with no loss of ergonomics.
Even though insider trading laws can be quite nuanced, this is 100% legal.
Fossil itself is stored entirely inside a SQLite db and only uses it to do everything it needs; if Fossil can do it, any VCS can do it. In fact, there is a whole section on that point in the official SQLite page (https://www.sqlite.org/lang_with.html#rcex2).

I'm not saying SQL is the best way to store and query DAGs; any graph database would be better. All I'm saying is that SQL is probably better at designing and maintaining a solution than what git does with its custom file format and custom code.

I'm only comparing what the pile-of-files that git currently is and a full-fledged SQL database. None is perfect, but one feels overall easier than the other.
I wonder how much of that is gray economy. Greece has massive underreporting of anything tax and business related, because they don’t verify it. Farms and businesses don’t report actual sales, earnings, probably even employees (anecdotally from locals reporting of income is less than 10% of actual).

Spain has a problem with permanent labor given to senior employees with most youth being excluded from full time jobs. There is also some type of earn-in system to get to a full time job. If a lot of local industry is tourism, those can be filled with temporary work as well, that is probably not accounted for in these statistics.
CME patent identifies speculative network hacks used by speculators