skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, the US leveled an entire country and has been occupying it for almost 20 years just out of the goodness of their heart, grandma must be so proud, no economic interest whatsoever!

What confuses people like you is that you think selling the oil is the only way the US has to benefit from the war. The US most of all, like all superpowers before it, wants control of the market.
>I feel there's in inherent risk in any trade.

And why should the consumer accept that risk and not the vendor?
When you're 55 you'll rapidly lose interest in what other people think is ideal.
I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you aren't aware of the following things about the Chinese government:

Estimated one million Uighur Muslims vanish into Chinese ‘re-education’ camps
https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/estimated-one-mil...

China treats Uighur kids as ‘orphans’ after parents seized
https://www.apnews.com/903a97b7c62a47b98553b6f422827dd7

China social credit system - get your dog taken away.
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-social-credit-system-p...

Vaccine Campaigner Detained on Tiananmen Square After Protest of 'Despair'
https://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/vaccine-campaigner-de...

If you are, or now that you have, and you are still supporting Americans killing American jobs and a malevolent Chinese government, then you sir, are a disgusting human being.
Does anyone know what the Engineering application process at Mozilla is like?
You can disable the PSP in newer BIOSes. I can do it on my X370 Taichi. The link below is old but accurate. Go AMD and don't look back.

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-PSP-...
Have you played Supaplex as a kid, by chance?

https://youtu.be/8dMF3jU-nwc?t=34
Not to me, as that's not an actual user need. Legitimate money transfer needs are things like, "send money to my cousin back home" or "buy a thing". Despite Bitcoin being around for a decade, it has made approximately zero inroads into those markets.

I'll grant Bitcoin has some utility for light crime, like buying drugs or evading capital controls. And it's the technology of choice for ransomware and some kinds of electronic fraud. (It's bad for serious crime as it leaves too much of an audit trail.) But I don't think crime is a very good domain for running real businesses, so that doesn't count for me either.
I really can't understand why you can't get into the U.S.!
Different people implementing them?
The dream is that the PSTN will be done away with entirely, with all traffic going through the internet

How far off the mark am I in thinking that part of this dream you have, that was left unstated is that 'all traffic going through the internet' assumes we've fixed the last mile problem of broadband connectivity to rural areas? Because otherwise that dream effectively cuts a lot of people off from the rest of the world.
The Acer C270 line of Chromebooks is my favorite because you can run pretty much any Linux distro from a USB, thanks to the Intel CPU.
My desk phone at work has automatic inbound fax detection and reception. And one of the local medical firms has a phone number with a prefix that is one digit off from my desk phone direct line. You can guess what happens.

It's kind of amazing what kinds of things they will put in a fax. Stuff I would find very personal, for sure, and wouldn't want to have faxed around carelessly.
Why don’t “real” salads include lettuce?
Can't help but think of this:

> The only real performance advantages the GeForce3 currently offers exist in three situations: 1) very high-resolutions, 2) with AA enabled or 3) in DX8 specific benchmarks. You should honestly not concern yourself with the latter, simply because you buy a video card to play games, not to run 3DMark.

> The GeForce3 is consistently a couple of frames slower than the older GeForce2 cards

> Between now and the release of the GeForce3's successor, it is doubtful that there will be many games that absolutely require the programmable pixel and vertex shaders of the GeForce3

https://www.anandtech.com/show/742
> Employers want specialists, and pay for them. If your CV is two or three distinct things (I don't mean a selection of languages, or front and back end dev here, I mean distinct skills like say programming and accountancy) it's very unlikely to get you a better salary.

This really depends on your employer and your definition of specialist. There are jobs where following a very straight career path would be a disadvantage: you might be perceived as a boring candidate who would potentially struggle if given work outside their domain. I think it's fair to say that, generally, breadth is valued more at smaller companies where people have to multi-task.

In academia it's much easier to do well as an inter-disciplinary researcher than it is to try and be the best in a single field. The obvious killer combo right now is machine learning for X, where X is a field which does not have a strong grounding in computer science. Hacker news gives a very skewed view on the world, as if everyone is up to date with the latest developments in deep learning. In reality, most people in academia are pretty unaware of what's possible, or don't have the technical skills (or grad students with them) to make use of it. This is currently true even for maths-heavy fields like physics, which you may find surprising - I certainly do. Now is a really good time to get on the ladder.

You also need to consider job satisfaction. People who are pretty good at several things may be bored with a single track career, and no amount of money will make up for that.
I also read somewhere where uber drivers were "given tickets" while local law enforcement turned a blind eye to didis. Definitely hard to compete.
People are suffering from taking too many pay day loans.

I think I will donate 2 billion dollars to my local pay day lender.

There, problem solved.

Now people dont need to be worried about paying it back.

I am sure they wont use this guaranteed income to jack up the rates more.
That may be true (but is arguable) if you see college as nothing but a vocational school, training you to be the best worker which society could ask for.

A truly liberal (in the John Stuart Mill / Enlightenment sense of the word) education gives you the tools you need to engage with the world. How can you ever change society if you are only able to see the world in what makes money, and are never given the time and resources to think beyond what is today towards what could be?

It is true that some people can learn some of these things on their own, but having 4 years to think surrounded by an environment where everyone else is focused on that same goal can really make a difference.

If a pragmatic man like Bloomberg believes in the value of a liberal education (again the old sense of the word), you can bet it's not total hooey.

(although see my other comment for what I believe is behind at least the timing of this announcement)
It's a good market in some sense, but it's a bad market for businesses that want to do things like IPO. It's also not a great market for people who want to stay alive in that many existing competitors are known for their violence, and if they come after you calling the police is not a great idea.
Fax has a carve out in PCI & HIPPA compliance, and there is a huge existing momentum behind continuing to use fax.

Alternatives for actually secure document transmission boil down to difficult to use private messaging/"secure" email systems (that only work in their walled garden).

Many in the general public get frustrated with these walled gardens, as it is another login & interface to remember, and their credit union/bank, healthcare provider, company, etc will each have its own totally unique system
The first version of Metro [0] is on sale now at Miniature Market for $11 [1]
(shipping is a flat $5.95 for orders up to $99; after that, shipping is free).

Metro is a tile-laying game by Dirk Henn, who also designed Alhambra and some other well-regarded Queen games. It plays 2-6 and scales well -- I've played it at 2 and I've played it at 6 -- though some point out it may be more strategic at lower player counts, esp. at 2.

The rules are simple -- either play the one tile you have or draw a tile and play that instead. The tiles represent tracks on the Paris Metro and you need to play it so its tracks fit with the tracks on the tiles next to it. You're trying to build routes, the longer the better, since you get a point for each tile that your route takes, including ones you loop through. Routes that end at the central power-station have their score doubled. That's basically it.

The game can be played casually. Some people do make it thinkier, which would raise the playing-time -- if you have such people around, you may have to nudge them to play faster -- i.e. set a 30-second timer for them or the like.

There is also a newer edition of the game, also on sale at MM for $22 [2], that comes with 4 expansions, including a stock expansion -- you don't own a railroad if you play with it, you have 4 cards representing stock in up to 4 railroads and depending on how well those railroads do, you get points at the end. There are 3 other expansions that do other things. This edition is a tad less charming in that it replaces the wooden train pieces with cardboard ones, though in both the pieces just sit on the side of the board, indicating that a train route is unfinished and are removed to indicate that a line is done.

Interesting that the newer edition has only 6 copies left while the original has 20+, meaning they have a lot. On the other hand, I watched a Tom Vasel review [3] earlier today where he basically said the expansions are not really necessary, that the base game is sufficient.

Miniature Market is in the midst of a sale now, which should last till 11/26, and will have another one later this week. They do order-holds, so you can rack up a few orders to get to $100 for free shipping or at least to get a few games shipped together. So you might find some other things too, for the office or yourself.

[0] https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/559/metro

[1] https://www.miniaturemarket.com/qng60159.html

[2] https://www.miniaturemarket.com/qng10241.html

[3] https://boardgamegeek.com/video/147901/metro/metro-review-do...
> These people are freaks in the most awe inspiring and amazing way I can possibly imagine.

I went to youtube to find out what you mean. Didn't need to search for long. Here's one example. I don't know what grade this is but the climb is definitely freaky.

https://youtu.be/4QrvLoxFAM4?t=180
> To be fair, it has always been used to sell political agendas. Politicians have advertised in online platforms way before 2016.

Agreed. Perhaps a better way to phrase it is that its only in 2016 that the true power of the platform to spread misinformation with a political agenda was realized. Which naturally people care about a lot more than product placements.
I don't think it makes any difference whether it's a smear campaign or not, through the lens that most media companies are pushing an agenda one way or another as their bread and butter.

Rupert Murdoch wanted the Australian Prime Minister replaced, and within a week his wish was granted[0].

News media is a powerful force, and Facebook is no doubt stepping on those powerful toes that have enjoyed the ability to influence elections and political leadership for a century. The recent Cambridge Analytica scandal put some blood in the water, and the Old Media sharks have gathered.

If there is a smear campaign going on, it's another case of elephants fighting and the grass getting trampled. Old Media want Facebook to be better regulated so the trajectory of Old Media's declining influence is temporarily improved. Facebook will implement relatively ineffective reforms with all the enthusiasm of an aspiring sportsman writing an english literature essay, and the users will continue to slowly leave the service as they grow weary of it for their own reasons as opposed to some spectre of manipulation; if they're not off FB already, there's no further scaremongering that will make any difference.

The scale of Facebook's user numbers means that this attrition rate will probably still see it more powerful and influential than Old Media for the foreseeable future; Old Media are just trying to tilt the playing field in their favour. Same ol' same ol'.

[0] https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-18/liberal-leadership-sp...
re: quality declining
Source? I don't see this at all.

re: sjws
This is just a vocal minority demonized by certain political groups to stir up anger. Sad to see it's convincing people.
Well, even if you had a good database design, you'd only then be able to argue that a greater portion of the problem is SQL.
Scientists explain how wombats drop cubed poop
Inbound fax detection is pretty easy to script, I've gotten lots of sensitive faxes from insurers despite emailing them to cease and desist faxing me. Very annoying!
Aren't vegetables and thus salads mostly carbs, though?
I'm not a Trump supporter, but blaming fake news and facebook for Trump election is exactly the reason why he got elected. We better look at the underlying reasons that draw him to power. Smart use (and abuse) of social media helped, but there's waaay more to his story.
The money will go to a school which likely could not possibly go bankrupt based on their current endowment. It could be much better spent across hundreds of state schools who do not have the same liberty or vaults.
They’re still selling Solaris licenses to enterprises. If they keep the FUD churning they can continue to suck what is essentially free money from those customers.
I had massive attack while reading it, ... playing in the background...
Because sometimes people write privileged shell scripts, and they should not be vulnerable.
What? Facebook is singularly keeping me, my family, and my friends together on a single platform. That provides immeasurable value to me.

I'm not spending 1 hr/day on Facebook, not even 1 hour/week, but when I do want to plan something, or reach out to someone, I know I can get to them via Facebook. I know I can coordinate anything and everything over Facebook because everyone I care about is on there.

Facebook is a tool. If it's not useful to you, maybe you don't have the problems others have, or maybe you're not as proficient at using the tool.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_magnitude
I am not aware that Linux has a reputation for being non-complex.
Agreed.

Bloomberg rejoined the democratic party this year.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/oct/10/michael-bloo...

He also expressed his interest in running for president in 2020.

This is obviously a PR move to win favor amongst the college age people and to gauge his prospects. I'm sure his team is going to poll people, especially students to see how this PR stunt goes and if the numbers look good, he'll declare in a couple of months.

It's no secret that the extremely wealthy tend to have sociopathic tendencies. They don't do anything for charity or out of the goodness of their heart. They always have ulterior and selfish reasons.
Private schools cost money. Somebody has to pay and it isn't the state. If your parents don't want to pay for a private education, then take it up with them. It's fair from Harvard's perspective and the perspective of the general population.
https://www.cooksmarts.com/ is amazing. 4 complete meals per week, can tweak serving sizes and dietary constraints, takes seasonality of vegetables into account, strives to have overlapping ingredients, tells you what you can prep ahead of time, great video guides to fill gaps in your techniques, and the food is generally fast to prepare and quite tasty.

You can also easily search the back catalog of recipes if you don't fancy the current week's meal plan.
Oh yes I remember these. A family friend bought one to run his business on, clearly happy that he'd got a bargain. It was a piece of shit and he was forever running into compatibility problems with software.
Functional, stateless JavaScript finite state machines and statecharts
Thank you! That sounds nice and....extreme hehe. The names are so Cold War/1990ish.

http://www.oocities.org/hotdeathuno/html/printable.html
A platform can't be held responsible for every opinion some idiot posts, true. When nations weaponize your platform to disrupt foreign elections[1] and facilitate outright genocide[2], you don't get to shrug and ignore it.

This is not just about selling data to advertisers anymore.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/11/05/facebooks-election-interfe...

[2] https://www.lawfareblog.com/facebooks-role-genocide-myanmar-...
Better Local Journalism, by Local Reporters, Is the Goal of a New Database
I skipped straight to espresso using one of the little espresso gadgets, the Staresso. I still wish it wasn't a pressurized portafilter, but I've been pulling decent shots out of it for nearly a year now, and it's one of my favorite toys. It's just a fiddly mess to clean up after, so I have to set aside ten-fifteen minutes to pull my shots.

It's a cheap option, but scarcely the most usable one--among other things, you also have to go way beyond their recommendations when it comes to filling and tamping the shot, and pre-heat of the assembly with hot water is kinda essential. But for roughly $100 all in including a hand grinder, it was a cheap stab at seeing if I wanted to tinker with espresso. Turns out I do, so sometime in the next couple of years I'll buy into a mid-grade machine for the countertop.
I should have used better terminology. The article here describes aircraft stalls and I was talking about the same.

Aircraft stalls are not extra-ordinary events and with auto pilot on the computer is always adjusting the angle, speed , preventing stall etc.
The examples you give are all “people behaving badly” on Facebook, not Facebook explicitly acting in bad faith.
I second chess.com. And the guests they have, Hou Yifan and MVL today, absolutely elite players. Yet they manage to keep them understandable.
Public schools shouldn't be dependent on the whims of philanthropic billionaires. They should be supported by the state. It goes against everything they were set up as.
Testify, brother!
Sorry, perhaps I didn't understand. Are you saying Eich's startup meets all three of those criteria?

As I said, I'm not saying all of them are scams. Indeed, I specifically mentioned two other possible classes they could fall into. And as I think is clear from my initial comment, I'm open to the possibility that someone will find a use for blockchain that enables some sort of viable business that couldn't be done with other tech.

You of course don't owe me any explanations. But you're the one who jumped in with a variety of handwaving contradictions to my comments. So if you want to to be taken seriously, backing you agitation with evidence would be a good step.
I hope you're not waiting until you retire to enjoy your free time and your community.
Simple question is, "Where did the energy go?" First guess would be that the bodies of the fat eaters produced more heat, perhaps on account of a less efficient metabolism of fat. Couldn't that be measured directly with a thermometer? Other guess would be that the fat eaters were more active, producing more mechanical energy. That would be a very interesting possibility to explore. A few decades back, my reading led me to think that conventional wisdom was that fat-burning exercise was aerobic, ie requiring oxygen and breathing. Could burning fat require more exertion to acquire the oxygen?

Does the “not all calories are identical” assertion reduce to "the number of calories of heat obtained when a food is burned in a flame outside the body (the number of calories on the label) is not equal to the net number of useful calories obtained when the food is metabolized?"

250 calories per day is only about 1 kg per month of weight loss. This is not trivial compared to typical weight loss results, but it is quite a bit less than what people searching for diet advice would consider a game-changer. And it is not clear if there are other consequences of changing the composition of the diet over the long term of steady weight loss that most dieters need.
Threads Cannot Be Implemented as a Library (2005) [pdf]
Thank you for sharing this. I love the logo, but IMHO the overall look of the 2014 design (type, grid, illustrations) is a little too similar to theguardian.com aesthetic.

Edit: I was commenting on the 2014 design.
> How did those drag and drop tools back then handle creating a UI for screens ranging from 400pt wide to 2560pt wide?

For simpler forms you'd just set anchoring properties of the widgets in question (akRight/akBottom in Borland's VCL or whatever its counterpart is called in WinForms or what was its predecessor). Nowadays it's even easier with things like, say, GTK's HBox/VBox.

> Computers operated within a lot more limited constructs back then.

Resource limits didn't stop web browsers of the era from rendering complicated tables in a variety of sizes.
> A truly liberal (in the John Stuart Mill / Enlightenment sense of the word) education gives you the tools you need to engage with the world.

But the current education system doesn't give you either.

You don't get tools to be useful - IE STEM related, engineering, math, etc.

You also don't get the tools to "engage" with the world. Blocking traffic, needing safe places and being triggered by anything you disagree with isn't "engaging" the world.
A fourth option is for WSJ to display the article when people have ad-blockers disabled.

I don't use ad-blockers at work, and this article is surrounded by ads but still only shows first paragraph.

So I've viewed their ads for the "pleasure" of reading just one paragraph? That's not worth clicking, so people should really stop linking to WSJ.
Internet access outside of cities and suburbs is pretty awful, there are lots of businesses and residences plugging away with flakey, capped internet and lifeline phone service.

Worse yet, those running what service there is can go out oof business or hang up on users they don't want, and your totally SOL: https://www.cnet.com/news/in-rural-farm-country-forget-broad...
I've been using this as a reference while building a webapp with flask. It's been treating me very well.
.. all of which require some kind of rendering software that has to actually be installed on your machine.
My experience with low carb dieting is that you end up eating a lot more fat, which is more satiating -- so you naturally eat less.
The UMA benefit is a double-edged sword. Best-case RAM latency probably gets worse, all else being equal. But maybe they've made Infinity fabric faster enough in Zen2 to eliminate any additional latency compared against the local memory domain in Zen1.
> btrfs' offline dedup (which, despite the name, can be done on a mounted filesystem) is far more rational.

You still have to process it, and you are still going to use a lot of ram -- and you are going to want to use a lot of ram once you get into larger data sets otherwise the process will take days.
A Game Player’s Manifesto – Richard Garfield (2016)
you should know this was kind of a lightning-bolt comment for me. thanks!
The Great Disillusionist
Yeah our building (Melbourne) doesn't even have copper going to it, we just have FTTB then CAT5 to each apartment.
Because lettuce is filler whose main purpose seems to be to take up space on the plate. It doesn't provide an saity, and something like iceburg lettuce has very low nutritional content. It just a cop out for restaurants.
The moment someone unironically uses "social justice warrior" either to refer to themselves or an opposing group I can't take them seriously.