skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Surely you ruin your credit when you default on the loan?
My wife's grandmother recently passed away, and as part of cleaning out her apartment my father-in-law wanted to share with me his mom's collection of these postcards. There were about a hundred of them, all stacked together in a shoebox. Some had dates on them for when they were made (the oldest was from 1931 or '33, can't remember), others didn't.

I remember thinking how beautiful they were, how neatly the pages folded up and were clasped by the tab on the front. Inside, the descriptions of the places were as idyllic as the drawings--I have never been to Sioux City, Iowa, but the postcard certainly was persuasive!

It gave me a feeling similar to looking at the liner notes for vinyl albums--it truly felt like a quality keepsake, and I can understand why Gramma kept them rather than sent them.
Adding a response to the original question: The Battle of Gisors in 1198 was an English victory on French soil.[1]

Regarding the English Longbow, there appears to be an ongoing debate regarding when the longbow was developed, as used in the Hundred Years War. There are some who argue that prior to the late thirteenth Century, English bows were either a shortbow or less powerful "ordinary bow."[2]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Gisors

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_longbow#Origins
It's easier to get alignment right if you use raw disk, especially if you then run dmcrypt on top of your RAID.

Unaligned partitions is a common source of bad performance, and it's not a thing that (used to) "just work".

Therefore I've seen "don't use partitions" not be recommended, since it's otherwise a source of potential unalignment.
Honestly I think that Apple will keep increasing the price until it hurts their bottom line. And why wouldn't they want to do that. They are accountable to their shareholders not the consumer.
I can only speculate, just like you, but I think it has to do with Europe very recent history, in particular on the communist side of the iron curtain (think Stasi, etc.). Half of Europe knows first hand what it is to live in a repressive surveillance state, and the other half has witnessed it.
Font licensing is rent-seeking bullshit on the level of "Mickey Mouse" copyright extensions and I'm surprised the big foundries have managed to convince everyone that they need to pay for typefaces, which are explicitly copyright-free in every major jurisdiction.
And the bleed continues. Who important is still left? Soon enough it will only be the good little corporate grovelers that will implement whatever Facebook tells them.
This is the most positive thing I've read in a while. Perhaps we'll reach a point where it becomes ingrained in society that popularity in numbers actually means nothing. Quantities of shallow praises become worthless once the praises are indeed exactly equal to zero.

Then maybe our tribal instincts will kick back in and we as a society will return to seeking few but high quality praises, from people we trust and with whom we are connected on a human level—ie. deeper, multi-faceted connections.
Seems relevant to the event-stream fiasco from yesterday.
What's wrong with Nimbus Sans?
All the popular maps get traffic data from people who have their map apps open. [1] Waze has somewhat gameified it to make users give them even more real-time data.

My SirusXM radio gets its data from traffic probes and GPS equipped trucks while also monitoring other conditions, probably from a command center. They state there can be a 20 minute delay.[2] I’m surprised they aren’t collecting data from my radio since my car has LTE.

[1]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Traffic

[2]https://m.siriusxm.com/servlet/Satellite?c=SXM_PageDetail_C&...
There are degrees of difficulty. If you're developing on Linux there are numerous portability traps you might fall into if you're not paying attention and testing on other platforms like MacOS or BSD. From glibc-specific functions and structure members, to libraries which are Linux-only. You also have compiler differences, e.g. GCC vs LLVM.

None of these are usually much work to correct. But they can creep in without you realising if your CI isn't testing on multiple platforms.

The most annoying I had recently was a service using PAM for authentication/authorisation. Linux-PAM is both Linux-specific and subtly incompatible with Solaris PAM (the original implementation) and OpenPAM on FreeBSD. This means you have to have three sets of ifdefs for the different implementations, which is annoying. But if you developed for Linux and never tried building or testing on the other platforms, you would never appreciate the problem even existed!
It's a fully supported use case of mdadm RAID to use bare devices.

These are data disks containing no operating system, so there's no booting from them and GRUB doesn't come into play.
Here in Kyiv (Ukraine) used Nissan Leafs from the US are popular as taxis. But what to do when it gets cold in the winter? Batteries on this car were already small when they were new, and by now they are in somewhat degraded state because Leaf's thermal management is not nearly as good as Tesla's. Heating eats that battery very quickly. So, the solution is to put a small gasoline or diesel fuel heater, and use the electric battery for everything except heating.
Well, it does say "By some estimates, as many as one in 100 people have", which sounds like it means, "by the highest estimate anyone has made", or "range with highest maximum anyone has estimated". Usually a more average number is used, than an extreme, when an actual value is unknown.
Yep. It's clearly in violation of the 1974 modification to section 51,

>“All persons within the jurisdiction of this state are free and equal, and no matter what their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges, or services in all business establishments of every kind whatsoever.”
Most recent bug: UEFI ignores POST timeout and basically skips it when a specific SATA drive is connected.
Fascinating! I guess I'm gonna continue blocking all custom web fonts like I've been doing for the past 5 years :)
Recent discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18537211
It doesn't matter what the other device uses, all you need is cables terminating with the new socket. Like mini and micro usb cables.

A typical RJ45 female socket is more than the height of a modern laptop.
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These disks almost certainly don't contain an operating system, so they don't need to be bootable.
Survivors begged nurses to be killed, the pain was so great.
The iPhone allows the ability to use old headphones if you use an adapter. So you have to remember to carry that with you. You then have to buy another adapter to charge the phone at the same time as using the headphones. Say you want to use YouTube, but not pay for Red, Unlimited, or whatever they call it now. You have to leave the screen on, which means eating the battery. Two dongles or you run the risk of running your phone down.
Why bother? I won't buy iphone anymore
Googlability for people who have the same problems.
This was done with a replacement on hand which was more functional, more reliable, and easier to use. BT is not any of these things.
Would you please relate to Cloud native then?
https://landscape.cncf.io/format=landscape

Took me a while before I found that, would have been helpful earlier on.
I think designers have the very challenging job of "threading the needle" between business considerations and aesthetics. Both can be critical depending on the mission.

Unfortunately, "subjective" is often used as a dirty word especially around here where some folks even claim to prefer html stripped of all styling. As you pointed out, there is a lot of thought and sweat that goes into the creation of a typeface. The artistic aspects deserve respect and attention not just from the practitioners but also from their users.

I think it's actually a good thing that there's a proliferation of typefaces. If a large company, wanting to avoid millions of dollars in fees to license a typeface, can pay a designer to create a new one that's a good thing. Even if the typeface is created for reasons of brand vanity, it puts someone to work and helps to further the development of typography in general.
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BT is on the same 2.4 GHz band that most Wifis use, and I can tell you from personal experience that there can be interference. Given how ubiquitous Wifi is, the available bandwidth for BT devices will most definitely not be able to serve the theoretical maximum of users in any given space.
> She's also unlikely to get anything she writes published.

I chose not to remain in academia, but I still publish from time to time and certainly I've never had anything turned down by an editorial board for not being presently employed in academia (and then the article goes on to anonymous peer review). One can put down one’s university alumnus e-mail address in one's contact information, and if institutional affiliation is asked "University of X (alumnus)" is enough – often in the humanities the affiliation is shown in the article to give readers an idea of what tradition the writer comes out of, not necessarily where he/she is presently employed.

With regard to your wife not being able to borrow from uni libraries, that is unfortunate, but you shouldn’t disparage academia internationally as an elitist club for that, because there are myriad institutions where borrowing privileges are extended to alumni or even to the general public.
What is the simplest way to prevent Overfitting?
2 GB / 1 vCPU about $20. On DO you can get 4 GB / 2 vCPUs plus 80 GB storage and 4 TB on Transfer for $20. (Same with linode.com, upcloud.com)
No. Not an iOS monopoly either. Look up the definition of monopoly.
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I used to notice this in shops too, as a teenager. We had a sort alternative mini shopping zone, like a slightly upscale indoor market. As soon as me and a couple of guys went into any empty stall, within a couple of minutes other people would crowd in too. We'd then pick somewhere else and watch the same thing happen. Always amused us.
There are more and more phones produced without a headphone jack: https://smartphones.gadgethacks.com/news/always-updated-list...
I would have been more surprised if they had announced that he was not.

People try to create buzz and headlines, but should start by explaining how the Chinese system works... Which is less sensational.
The upload buttons of those sites seem to be there mainly to create plausible deniability. If any content creates trouble which cannot be made to easily go away just by taking it down, the site owners can claim they did not upload it themselves and that they don't have any records of who did. Or they could also create fake upload records if they want to stretch things a bit further. In practice, I think it's a very safe bet that 99.999999% of the documents on those sites have been obtained through scraping other sites, and are not user-submitted content.
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Substitute free to use and the statement still hold. I'm actually in favor of sites not specifying any fonts at all - only things like size, bold, italic. Let the user set a font preference in their web browser to something the find easy to read. No designer can say what is pleasing to everyone and never will. This whole thing is really just self gratification for designers.
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True to that. Software engineering isn’t just web apps.
A useful guide to using Helm for CI/CD in Kubernetes setups
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These prices are nuts. 4 cores with 8GB RAM is $72/month. That's without any storage.
I’m sure that had happened many times before too. You can still get horribly burned in a conventional attack.

I’m not trying to downplay the horror of the nuclear bombings. I’m just upplaying (is that a word?) the rest of the war.
Details are there in appropriate pages.

> C5 instances feature the Intel Xeon Platinum 8000 series (Skylake-SP) processor with a sustained all core Turbo CPU clock speed of up to 3.4GHz, and single core turbo up to 3.5 GHz using Intel Turbo Boost Technology. C5 instances offer higher memory to vCPU ratio and deliver 25% improvement in price/performance compared to C4 instances, with certain applications delivering greater than 50% improvement. C5 instances provide support for the new Intel Advanced Vector Extensions 512 (AVX-512) instruction set, offering up to 2x the FLOPS per core per cycle compared to the previous generation C4 instances.

https://aws.amazon.com/ec2/instance-types/c5/

Haven't looked up details for the new stuff yet, might take some time to be up.
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Well, it's not my definition. It's Isaiah Berlin's and was the foundation of US policy from 1960 to about 2000. A bit less lately. Do you want to know more? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Concepts_of_Liberty
Get that in writing. At some point there might be an investigation however small even if just internal, and any email is better than he-said-she-said scenario.
Google May Be Fined Up to $4B for GDPR Privacy Policy Violations
> Because Rich has the rights to do what he wants with his time and money. (Like everybody else.)

This feels like a non sequitur. Having a right to do something is completely orthogonal to whether you should do that thing.
Why are there no women in crypto?
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> But maybe it's fraud in the moral sense and not fraud in the criminal sense?

Yes, that's what I meant. It's not fraud in criminal sense, but it's definitely immoral - and I often find myself wondering, why some of those practices aren't considered legal!fraud?

> But there's a not direct person-to-person link where money trades hands and the other person gets screwed. Instead it's much more subtle than that.

Sometimes there is. I complain a lot about dishonest ads and telemarketers, because in those cases there's a direct link - a telemarketer manipulates a poor person into buying stuff that they don't need, and that doesn't perform as well as advertised. That person is then left with mostly useless paperweight, less money for their real needs, and a sense of shame that makes it hard to admit they were duped. Yes, I know of such cases first-hand. There are degrees to this, and ultimately, it usually doesn't result in life-threatening problems, but then again me punching you and taking your lunch money also doesn't cause you more harm than hurt feelings and going hungry for the day.

Step above that are faked and bribed reviews. Again, one can say it's just noise, but then just imagine a person who needs an appliance, and can't afford to make a bad purchase. All this noise suddenly makes it very likely that whatever they buy will be crap, and they'll get an utterly suboptimal deal. I've been in that situation in the past, and though these days I can afford to pay premium and buy a branded product just to avoid dealing with this bullshit, most people I know can't, and thus shopping is often a lottery of regrets.

> My point is that simple lying is not a crime. So it can't all be a crime. And now I'm back to trying to figure out where the line is.

Same as I do. It's a hard problem; doubly so if you include enforcability and cost/benefit into calculation.

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Come to think of it, maybe I'm just too sensitive about people's feelings? Maybe I mistakenly want to hold our modern civilization to much higher standards than warranted? Maybe it's still really a jungle, a dog-eat-dog world, and hoping for a society of friendly cooperation is too much?
Absolutely shocking puff piece written by someone who knows nothing about security or performance but however claims to be able to advise on both matters.
I do like wireless, for a different kind of reliability: never ever having to worry that I'm going to snap off the plug in my phone, pull the jack off the circuit board from sitting on it wrong, whatever. When I sit down on the train, last thing I want is to sit on my phone wrong and wreck the phone and the headphones at the same time.

Moving parts and physical connections are fragile. Wireless connections solve that fragility. Agreed that pairing sucks, but that's a solvable problem.
Lacking negative impacts doesn’t imply that there’s benefit, my anecdata seems to be mostly neutral.

The only thing that being developer hints at here is often that group is often more techie and either would be on wireless or have very strong opinions about their listening setup. But the same is likely true for audiophiles (likely skewing toward the 3.5mm).

For what it’s worth, I’m not arguing for the jack to be gone - just sharing the reception I’ve seen in my network.
Well, I originally got this ASRock mainboard because they seem to be much better on support.

For example, they have BIOS updates still in 2018, while the vendor of my previous mainboard from the same generation stopped pushing updates in 2016.
" As she did not grow up in the U.S., I explained the intended meaning of what I said..."

I did grow up in the US, and don't get the reference.
Which one? I'm in the market for a super cheap one!
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But clock speed doesn't really mean anything these days either. 1Ghz is just as arbitrary - the instruction rate through two CPUs at the same clock rate can vary massively.

So a vCPU is an arbitrary unit but as each is equivalent then they can be benchmarked for the relevant workload.
Most hosting companies do. Cloud hosting (a small subset, as far as I know), generally don't.

If you believe the sales pitch is to help you know that 2 ECU will be twice as fast as 1 ECU (without having to worry about, does this chip has 8MB of L2 cache or 12?).

If you're more cynical, you'll probably think they do it to help hide the fact that cloud computing tends to get trounced badly across all performance aspects (raw cpu, ram, disk io and network io) while being quite a bit more expensive.
A Look at the Open-Source Talos II POWER9 Performance Against X86_64 Server CPUs
Aha: It's:

npm_package_description = 'A Secure Bitcoin Wallet';
It's not really niche. The GP's problem is solved because pairing effectively becomes "put these two things close together and open the box".
Have a sit back and think for a moment, honestly, about what you're trying to achieve with this comment.

Does it reflect a genuine worry that men are being excluded from the software industry? Does it stem from a belief that there are too many programs targeting women in software? Or maybe it's a belief that any gender-targeted support programs are fundamentally immoral?

I think, if you're honest with yourself, you'll realise that your goal isn't really to help or support anyone, or to end gender inequality, but instead to take the opportunity to engage in a little bit of reflexive and unhelpful "look how much men are discriminated against" complaining.
I'm a longtime Gandi user. But I absolutely loathe the new web UI. To the point where i'm considering moving my 200+ domains somewhere else.

At the time I chose Gandi for the 2 factor auth, and because it was a European company, but in the meantime there is plenty of other registrars offering the same.
I guess it's no worse than the other main use of conference talks I've seen, which is to hawk the speaker's latest book. Maybe that's diminished somewhat, I have not been to many conferences lately but 10-15 years ago it seemed like most talks were peppered with phrases like "I talk more about this in my book..."
Cloudflare Workers, a cheaper API-Gateway alternative
Can I just say how insane it is Youtube charges you for the privilege of turning off your screen? I remember the original iPad did this for free. How is this the world we made for ourselves?
Parent was probably referring to the fact that phones still have usb-c/lightning ports and you can plug usb-c/lightning headphones to them just fine. The port is not dedicated but as long as you are not charging it works identically to the old headphone jack.
For one thing, you might not want to risk being in jail.
Hi,

I had a bad experience at Insight Global. Recruiter submitted my resume without my permission. I had already asked a different recruiter to submit my resume for that particular job. So, I lost that opportunity, completely.
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I think if Google Maps was an optional download and said "when you use Google Maps we are tracking where you are so we can show you things and know what kind of traffic is around", and when Google Maps was off or uninstalled they didn't track you, then they could offer the exact service you as talking about without causing GDPR problems. I believe Waze managed to do it like this without needing always-on OS-level triangulated coverage maps, but I could be wrong.

This seems like one of those things that is a huge thing A that they do with the data that no one likes, but in response Google says "but we do B with it so A is fine" and the response is "you could easily do B without doing A so just do B" and Google says "well we don't make as much money just from B so we will do A and since we also own the OS you'll just have to be ok with it".
In The True History of the Conquest of New Spain [1] (a first-hand account of Hernán Cortés' expedition in Mexico, that brought down Monetzuma's Aztec empire) there is a passage where the author, discusses the matter of human sacrifice and cannibalism with some local priests (I think these are not Aztec, but Tlascalan priests, from one of the cities allied to Cortés).

I can't find the passage in my hard copy of the book, but, from memory, the priests basically state that offering human sacrifices to the gods is the pious and proper thing to do. Castillo ends up persuaded of this, although he continues to abhor the acts they perform, of course. These priests also practiced self-mutilation, so they had noses and fingers, etc, missing. I think the point was that they were offering parts of themselves, too, as sacrifice to their gods.

There's no doubt that human sacrifice is a barbaric custom, that was historically practiced by few societies in the same scale as it was by the Aztecs. However, it is important to understand that, to them, it was not an act of evil, or even of righteous revenge towards their enemies. It was an act of worship to their gods.

My point is that we cannot apply our own concept of morality, which is probably influenced by the dominant religion of the western world, Christianity, to the manner by which people lived their life in a society that might have, for all intends and purposes, been on another planet for most of its history. If we are to judge those people, it must be on their own terms. And on their own terms, human sacrifice and cannibalism was what their faith (and therefore, their morality) required of them.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_verdadera_de_la_conqu...

[2] Bernal Díaz del Castillo, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernal_D%C3%ADaz_del_Castillo
> made the TPU and open sourced it

In no sense is the TPU open source. If having an open source framework that is able to use the hardware doesn't mean it is open source - or if it does mean that to you, GPUs are open source too.
Thanks for those Numbers, give a much better perspective to One Party System Members count and Population percentage.
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