skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dvorak's greatest hits: "nobody wants a mouse", "Steve Jobs going the way of pet rocks", "cable modems are a dead end", "the mac is dead", "ipod is a niche product", "wikipedia is a dead end", "podcasting is a dead end", "linux is a dead end", "time to short apple", "the iphone's a flop", "ipad's a flop", "apple watch's a flop", etc.
False advertisement is also illegal.
Title is incorrect, it uses EMG signals.
What's the exception?

And is there a special license for being allowed to create money?
Please explain. Having a strong political opinion as an editor and firing your most popular author who has the contrary opinion sounds exactly like what that is.

That's just how it appears anyway.
Luckily, regexes are extremely easy to unit test.
Looks awesome. I am going to try it for a Employee background script we have been using.
I want to add to what chris_mc and others said confirming this horrible instance is used as a training exercise for lots of the US military.

When I did USMC boot camp in the late 2000s this and other less publicized examples were used to enforce disobeying unlawful orders and encouraging critical thought.

To quote a West Wing episode (AFAIK): "All wars are crimes." I'm glad we try to do better by teaching from our mistakes.
I like the guy who goes into work at 5am then goes back to 'sleeping' at 7:15am. heh.
Going off grid.

https://www.google.se/amp/s/amp.reddit.com/r/phoenix/comment...
what exactly is an 'active' homeless person
Oil companies have won international law cases against Venezuela as one normal example. You have to be able to enforce that through seizing assets though (if necessary), backed by force. That's true in any such court case, whether we're talking domestic or international.

Conoco won a judgment against Venezuela before the International Chamber of Commerce and they have an open case before the World Bank's International Center for Settlement of Investment Disputes. They can then plausibly leverage the US Government as the means to seize assets of Venezuela in the US (Citgo being an example).

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/25/business/energy-environme...

An unorthodox example: Iraq's invasion of Kuwait was basically universally found to violate international law. The UN authorized coalition of 30 nations made them pay for it (crushed their military and economy).

You have to have a really big stick to back-stop anything like 'international law.' The UN and most agencies don't have that kind of power unto themselves, only nations do, because in most cases it ultimately comes down to military enforcement (for the exact same reason taxation enforcement ultimately is supported by a gun). The sole major exception to that, is the US using the USD global reserve currency as a platform for sanctions (through various levers), and or working with the EU and other large economies to sanction in concert (Iran, North Korea, et al.).

The US is one of the few entities capable of unilaterally dictating international law, because of its numerous large sticks. It occasionally suffers the non-surprising blowback from doing so (as with the recent withdrawal from the Iran deal).
A person who thinks in such terms must inherently be an artifact of the past. How else could one imagine the future properly? Attacking satellites of any type, is an inherent dismissal of the idea that there could be a peaceful purpose of such a device. It is better if going forward we get a type of basis for understanding the threat models that the actions we perform necessitate. A common vocabulary is the basis of trust.
False marketing would be in and of itself illegal, if this happened in Hong Kong.
Sigh. Look at that thing. Regexes are write-only!
MySQL used to be more popular. It was the M in the LAMP stack, which virtually everyone used to use.

It also used to be more scalable, because PG's replication story used to be poor. This is why Google and (I assume) Amazon used MySQL internally. This is all a long time ago, but I suspect this is the reason more people are familiar with MySQL than Postgres at these companies. Keep in mind that Spanner was developed and used internally at Google long before it was publicly announced.
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That sounds awesome. I wish I could pay to lie in a hospital bed and have a medical professional administer intravenous DMT just for a short period (at least initially). Hopefully this work will bring us closer to a world where supervised DMT voyages are available to the public.
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That is a point not oft appreciated. There is a price at which your bank can maximally use your funds. The should use them at that rate. So what is the rate, and what is the bank that allows that?
MRT is pretty awesome. The trains are all automated. The buses are pretty nice too (and double decker).

The Adler Luxury Hostel is one of the best hostels I've ever stayed at, and it's right off the train in Chinatown. I suspect most people using this guide have hotels booked for the conference, but I'm just leaving this out there for people visiting on their own.

I never got fined in Singapore, but I didn't realize some of the things in this guide are banned (drinking on a train, brining a Durian on a train, etc.) If you ever see litter in a mall or on the street, it stands out. A lot. The city is extremely clean, because littering fines are like $400.

The Tree Top Walk is amazing. If you can spare a full day for it, totally do it. Don't feed the monkeys. Walk around the reservoir. You have to get to it by bus, but if you plan it right, it's a really nice hike.

During the right time of year, you can also go to the Ballet Under the Stars. That's a truly fun and spectacular show.
Sure, it's a useful feature, but my password manager (1Password) already does it. I'm OK with testing out this extension regardless, but wouldn't be if I wanted to limit my data use like the post's author.
Compilers already have ABIs, they're just compiler-specific and not documented. If they didn't have an ABI, then you couldn't link 2 C++ libraries together.

In terms of having one spec that handles arbitrary architectures, maybe it could be defined relative to the C ABI? I don't actually know how what the internal ABIs used by the current crop of C++ compilers looks like, so I don't know if they could be expressed relative to the C ABI or not.

Alternatively, one could come up with a set of configurable values that define what makes one architecture different from another (such as word size, long/pointer size (if different than word size), endianness, etc). You know, the stuff that the compiler already has to know about in order to compile for an architecture (and I'm pretty sure clang at the least already has a way to even define new target triples in terms of a set of configurable values for this sort of thing). I assume existing compilers don't invent entirely brand new ABIs for each new architecture but instead just adapt an internal standard C++ ABI to the new architecture using a similar process already. The same could be done for a public standard C++ ABI.
I am Bulgarian.

The "push for gender equality" under communism is largely misunderstood, and purposefully so, in the West.

As an example the entrance exams for primary school teachers were more competitive than the exams for any of the hard sciences or any type of engineering.

My mother failed her teaching exam, yet was accepted into the Naval Academy, a cross between MIT and West Point.

Those women who would have had the prestige of being teachers, the relatively high salaries, the early retirement and a whole host of other benefits lost them during the transition to the point that today being a teacher is one of the worst possible jobs. So now they are moving to tech, their second or third choices under Communism.
> This was probably the first time this had ever happened. (If it had happened before, it surely would have been spread far and wide by social media & the press.)

That is a very big leap. Social media might be widespread, but almost everything in the world goes unremarked upon. Think of all the news stories that turn up an old tweet or Facebook post that, if anyone had paid attention at the time, would have stopped events from progressing.
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Likely depends on whether the story is being told to customers/users or investors. As long as their service does what is advertised, customers/users would be hard pressed to prove any harm. Investors on the other hand have a reasonable expectation that the thing they are being told they are investing in is the thing they are actually investing in.
No, it's not... Otherwise 'government censorship' would be redundant. I just checked the top 5 google results for "censorship definition" [0] [1] [2] [3] [4] and NONE of them limited it to government only. I mean, the first sentence of the Wikipedia article even mentions corporate censorship specifically: "...as determined by a government or private institution, for example, corporate censorship."

0: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/censorship
1: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/censorship
2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship
3: https://www.vocabulary.com/dictionary/censorship
4: https://www.aclu.org/other/what-censorship
And they even note that they are a proud equal opportunity employer and don't discriminate based on age. The fact is they will hire older people, just not as special agents. Special agents have a mandatory retirement age of 57 so anyone older than 37 will not be able to work 20 years (required for government penaion). I'm not sure if a private sector employer could get away with that.
The email states they’re winding down more than just him. Not everything is a conspiracy, PC Mag could just be cost cutting or downsizing due to a reduced readership.
MySQL was easier to run.

Both for beginners where it was packaged with PHP and available with basically every webhost, and for advanced users that took advantage of the simple and reliable replication. There were a lot of problems with it, but the novice users didnt run into them and the advanced users knew how to deal with it. These decades of mainstream use carry a lot of momentum and many large companies continue to use it because they've always used it (like Youtube for example).

PostgreSQL only recently became much more usable after v9.5 and is now being recognized and growing in popularity.
Or to paraphrase DHH[1], it costs very little to adjust your terms but can have an outsized impact on a portion of your users/developers who are otherwise marginalized.

[1] https://twitter.com/dhh/status/1038083068760752129
Is Tim Bajarin still a columnist for PC Mag? Wayne Rash? Whitson Gordon? Brent Johnson?
So, I am a person who wishes there was a proper article I could read for this. I don't know how much this matters to people, but I can understand written English far far better than I can understand spoken English. I know auto-translate works for some. I am trying with applet and get nothing. I like core idea. I feel often people outside English land get second class experience.
CTRL+D works. You like it. Great use that.
You don't think anybody needs an alternative? Or you don't think having an alternative will help at all? Fine. Think what you want.
One thing's for (mostly) certain: it doesn't hurt. So there's really nothing to complain about.
When I used to listen to the TWIT podcast (its been years..), I liked Dvorak's cynical perspective vs the love everything new and tech of the other hosts. He was cranky. I give him bonus points for remembering lotus's Jazz software in the podcast (and calling it out for its problems when it came out).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lotus_Jazz
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On the boards I look for jobs this is a problem. Many are posted by recruitment agencies that don't want to leak information that would allow someone to apply direct and bypass the agency (meaning they will lost their commission), and as such they try to be vague, maybe citing the sector at most.

Also there is a sense of salesmanship in the ads, and telling you that you'll be grinding out JavaEE isn't what they'd like to highlight, but they'll find some distinguishing features such as 'casual dress', or 'why commute to the city when you can work around the corner' or what not.
Oh no, not another "Silicon Valley is dying"article. Here's the numbers for VC investment in 2018, if anyone is interested. [1] California companies raised $12B and $12.7B in Q2 and Q1 of this year. Almost 90% of this is in the valley. Next is MA at $2.8B. Texas is a DISTANT 5th with $606M. And no Midwestern state even makes an appearance in the top 10. Just this month Lucid motors raised $1bn, Postmates raised $300M and Proterra raised $155M.

[1] https://www.pwc.com/us/en/industries/technology/moneytree/ex...
Really? Mexican food is inherently a health risk because of cilantro?
Yes nearly 40 years of predictions will offer plenty of fuel if you're looking to burn someone.
Presumably "not asleep like most people are at 4 AM".
De-platforming is an explicit choice to disassociate from a particular, repugnant point of view. It's a highly visible, inherently political (and therefore public) move.

Firing your star columnist by email citing budget concerns doesn't fit the MO.

De-platforming is also not usually deployed in service of mere political disagreement (staunch conservatives speak at institutions that perform no-platforms all the time). It's reserved for positions that are perceived to be outside the bounds of what should be accepted by society such as white supremacy, blatant homophobia, etc.

As far as I'm aware, Dvorak didn't publicly hold any such positions. So even if (and that's a HUGE what-if given the facts) he were let go for ideological concerns, it wouldn't count as a no-platforming move.
The timing looks really bad. I'm reserving judgement to see confirmation from their other columnists (whom I listed in a separate reply). His tweet also claims it to be a false pretense -- why take one person's word over the other?
> China, Explained

> BY BETHANY ALLEN-EBRAHIMIAN

Wow. That's an incredible title to use on a subject that is so narrow in scope.

Let's look at her other articles:

https://foreignpolicy.com/author/bethany-allen-ebrahimian/

Seems pretty one-sided.

And her twitter:

https://twitter.com/BethanyAllenEbr

Seems pretty one-sided as well.

Just to be clear, I don't intend to personally attack her. Just pointing out the bias in her reporting while we are on this topic of "wumao".

I am also not targeting Foreign Policy as a news media, as Foreign Policy itself doesn't seem to suffer from bias against China as a whole, as there are other authors that are either more neutral or biased towards China:

https://foreignpolicy.com/tag/tea-leaf-nation/

https://foreignpolicy.com/author/melissa-chan/

https://foreignpolicy.com/author/ran-jijun/

Edit: Attempt to remove personal attacks in the comment.

Edit 2: Remove the section about myself.
The pre-boot environment needs to find the kernel and initramfs somehow. My guess for how Apple is booting from APFS, now that it's all APFS, without a separate recovery partition? They've got this minimalist EFI jumpstart code in the firmware, it loads the EFI file system driver for APFS, and now it can locate the bootloader, kernel, and kext cache.

For a long time Apple has had an HFS+ driver baked into the firmware. The way APFS is implemented with EFI jumpstart, they've got much less filesystem code in firmware.
My guess is they couldn't afford him anymore. As a 36-year-old star veteran, his compensation was probably a sizable chunk of production costs. Meanwhile, the magazine business is still hurting.
> And is there a special license for being allowed to create money?

The difficulty is not in letting people make accounts and setting balances on those accounts. The difficulty is getting everyone to not immediately withdraw the entire balance as cash.

There are regulatory hurdles, but they're very much secondary.
Check out TimescaleDB, a Postgres extension that auto-creates partition tables for you while PG11 native partitioning you still need to manually run CREATE TABLE.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18026699
i believe there is another proposal suggesting every individual should be able to deposit funds with the fed
In a proper democracy false advertising is or should be illegal.
It usually only happens to me when I'm drifting off to sleep and I've managed to come up with a solution to something I've been working on (or otherwise an interesting angle to pursue). Too often instead of taking it down in some manner, I quasi lie to myself that I'll remember it in the morning, so I can continue to fall asleep instead of taking any other action in that moment. The next day it becomes a game of recall.
I guess you are talking about the second law of thermodynamics? Even humans don't violate that, the have to get the energy for generating information from somewhere, and that increases entropy.
Thank you for commenting, I have not lived in a way to understand the tradeoffs. I do not mean to miss understand. Where I am from I worked with many women in tech, who all graduated from technical universities. I do not know. I hear a lot about how in the west women are dissuaded from tech. I do not know.
One would expect a repdigit sequence of length k to appear once in a 10^k normal sequence. So in the 10^1000000 expansion of pi, one should expect a million zeroes to appear in a row once. You can check this to a limited extent here: http://www.angio.net/pi/. It only goes up to 200 million (2 x 10^8) digits, but sure enough 00000000 happens to appear twice. (Nonetheless, we don't actually know if pi is normal.)
I suspect the issue with truck pollution at the LA ports is idling rather than driving.
I vividly remember trying to explain this to people during the financial crisis and people not being able to grasp it. I only learned it from being friends with an accountant who worked for a big bank.
Seriously, how often do you look at a man’s shoes?
I think if you were to casually browse JCD's twitter feed over the past few weeks, you might see a lot of posts and retweets that many people might find objectionable.
> There are a lot of My Lai's and William Calley's in other countries throughout history. But far fewer Hugh Thompson's and to me that's the 'real' America.

There were a lot of My Lai’s in Vietnam. Biggest misconception is that it was some kind of fluke. But in a “war” where entire civillian populated areas were designated “free fire zones” where you could kill anything that moves, civillian massacres were the norm. Not every solider did it of course but it was a regular feature of that war.

It is good to recognize brave soldiers that resisted. But we must be respectful enough of those who were murdered to not attempt to rehabilitate the image of America in Vietnam by pretending those resisters were the norm or represented the true spirit of America and what it was aiming for or some such sentimental nationalist nonsense. As the article notes, a My Lai happened every month in Vietnam. Civillian mass murder was an explicit goal and the U.S. was very good at it.
I don't follow your point exactly but we both agree that the closure of the Senior House is too bad.
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I completely agree - US forces behaved terribly during the Vietnam war. Sadly, I can't think of a war where civilians didn't get massacred. Maybe not to the same extent as in Vietnam, but massacres happen. The truly fucked up part is that there are likely many massacres that have never been reported.
Sorry to the person who PM'ed me on other media, KSMAP was a phonetic translation. I cannot myself translate it faithfully.
JSON support, ability to query it, JSONB support, real spatial extensions, timescale extensions, consistent behaviour, online backups. We now have to migrate from MySQL to Postgres because of these features. Instead of MySQL 8 we will be probably usng Pg 11. Now we are using MariaDB.
I was gonna say that's ridiculous, but took a second look and maybe not

> @MrNoysSky Replying to @THErealDVORAK @dancosta "Probably cuz you're a Trump supporter. Good for them"

Right, he did re-tweet Greenwald apparently and something about Keith Ellison's victim's abuse medical records. Well fire him on the spot and maybe even burn him at the stake, I guess. /s
Monad Transformers aren't _that_ bad, the MTL style of doing things makes it all pretty painless.

It also provides a huge opportunity for testing. At a very high level, you describe all of your effects as a series of embedded, compostable DSLs that you define interpreters for. The awesome part is that you can switch out the interpreters at will, so you can, for example, replace something that handles network requests with something that returns dummy data almost effortlessly.
I don't think that's true, in the usual sense of the term.

When a replica is used as a read slave, that introduces problems with (strong) consistency, that definitely starts to resemble any other distributed system.

Adding automated failover adds the need for some kind of consensus algorithm, another feature of distributed systems.

However, if failover is manual, for example, then 2 nodes can be nearly indistinguishable from 1 node, if no failover occurs.

It also strains the definition of "distributed" if both nodes are adjacent, possibly even with direct network and/or storage connections to each other.
> Banks don’t loan out deposits.

While this is technically true, the statement does not do justice to the real economical case. You start pulling out the banks funding (i.e. deposits, interbank loans etc.) and the bank must start to liquidate its assets (i.e. loan book). In practice it is perfectly fair to say that bank uses deposits to fund its loan book, and thus saying that bank loans out deposits is not that wrong.

It's a bit like we having a lunch but you forgot your wallet. I pay your lunch and when we get back to office you pay me back. Then I start running around and telling that I paid your lunch. Yes, technically true, but not quite representative of practical economic reality.
History. A long time ago, in the early 90s, there was a database called msql. It was a little DB that used SQL and ran well on low end systems. It was also free. In fact, it was the ONLY free SQL database out at the time -- that's why it was written.

Because of those two advantages (that really only lasted a couple of years), a small ecosystem developed around it. This was the database you used to develop interactive websites in the early/mid-90s.

Then MySQL came. MySQL extended mSQL, and kept compatibility with it's ecosystem... and people switched from mSQL to MySQL.

Postgres also existed in the 80s and 90s, but it used POSTQUEL, was harder to setup, and had higher system requirements. Not a lot, but enough to discourage use on low end computers. (Remember, Postgres at the time was being developed on university servers, where they had plenty of system resources.)

They did address these points in postgre95 (in fact, Postgres adopted SQL as a response to mSQL popularity), but by then it was too late. mSQL and MySQL already had an ecosystem.. and in that brief moment, they lost the race.

The idea that it was slower stuck around for many years, even after the improvements in computers, and (less so) optimizations in Postgres made it no longer true.

Postgres didn't start being considered again until Go, RoR, et al started to become popular.. displacing the PHP ecosystem. And the biggest reason you see MySQL around so much today is that there's about 25 years of legacy code built around it.

Edit: If you're curious what POSTQUEL was like: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QUEL_query_languages
> It's mostly men, white guys in my city

I am sorry, I am not American, though I live here. Does this not in itself contribute to the uncomfortable feelings of women and minorities in your city?
I like Kenneth's comments: https://github.com/requests/requests/blob/master/requests/pa...