skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm a touch typist. I do not look at the keys. The issue is managing the keyboard switch on every single computer and OS that I use.

We're talking: Linux workstation at work, company-issued MBP for remote work, my personal OpenBSD laptop, my Windows gaming desktop. The gaming desktop has its own host of issues and might as well be qwerty. And then I'm having to do things on other peoples' workstations constantly (and others mine) and I've only encountered two people in my whole career who use Dvorak.

My point is that typing speed is roughly equivalent and it doesn't reap any benefits with all of the time spend managing workstations and context switching between layouts.
If Apple did not block sideloading on iOS, they wouldn't practically be able to implement this kind of censorship in China and elsewhere. They would be able to remove it from the App Store, but people would be able to acquire the software via other means.

(This topic doesn't really apply to macOS though, just iOS.)
Do you mean to say you anticipate Facebook publicly stating that they refuse to comply with the law? I don't think that's liable to last very long in any country where they have a physical presence.
Relatively easy to make work and quite uneconomical compared to ground solar fields. (Multiple.)
For finding and validating an idea, you can read Lean Customer Development: https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Customer-Development-Building-Cu...

I highly recommend this book.
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Where do you live for 200$ a month ? Even without considering inflation I have my doubts.
There are many more embarrassing medical conditions other than HIV status.
The motivation to comply would come from the risk of having harmful legislation passed if you don't. Zuck either didn't think they'd do that, or didn't care if they did, or thought they'd pass legislation either way so why bother.
Welcome to the modern era of induced pluripotent stem cells. 2012 Nobel Prize With just a little cocktail, usually of transcription factors, you can make one type of cell turn into another. usually, you will convert it to a less differentiated (cells are created in a sort of tree structure where the leaves are more and more specialized) form, which can then be pushed to develop into other specialized forms.

This is really common in the lab now. You can use them to create organoids which are like mini-organs that have a lot of the properties of, say, a lung or a liver or a stomach or a brain, but aren't a full organism. Very useful for making models of mammalian biology.

By the way the discovery that led to this was a huge surprise (at least, that so few factors were required to transform cells) but there is still very little known, IE we can't arbitrarily convert one cell type to another reliably. Culturing mammalian cells is pretty hard.
"No mention of or link to the older study you cite."

It's right there in the 4th paragraph.
You can use µBlock Origin to manually block individual elements on the site, which seems to work fine for the Daily Mail sidebar.
> At which point the megacorps will discover that governments command actual loyalty and a monopoly on force.

Agreed, but only with the caveat that that is temporary. I think we are rapidly approaching the point that corporations will be able to sidestep the rug governments currently threaten to pull out from under them. I think that tipping point will be an interesting, if not horrifying inflection point in our history.

Furthermore, much of (at least in the US's case) the "force" you speak of is now rooted in the military-industrial complex. What happens when defense contractors find that it might be more profitable to throw their hat in with a megacorp rather than the government? It's a scary thought.
There’s definitely a net loss from mining (at least while PoW coins are still en vogue), but I think it might not be as large as you’d think, since there’s a rather large energy reduction in the form of criminals and others who move money around without governments’ consent, no longer requiring secret boats and planes and air-conditioned vaults to transport physical cash in.
No, there is a real distinction here.

Someone who is a fan of cryptocurrency itself is a fan of the ideas behind it and what it can bring to the table. People who are only satisfied in the outcome if they become rich are clearly not interested in the real benefits of cryptocurrency. So asking fans of cryptocurrency this question is a waste of time because the answer should be the same.

The point of my comment was to highlight to OP that they have a categorization problem. Just because a division exists doesn't mean you get to call No True Scotsman.
Thought experiment: imagine doing React development with all inline styles. Someone invents CSS. Would you use it?

Of course not: CSS is a bad idea in 2019. In 2004 it solved some of the problems we have React to solve today, but much, much weaker
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And the language was very complicated. (For the time; C++ is probably worse now, and it took years for templates to stabilize.)
If you compared apples to apples, then, instead of people "all legal entities", aka corporations and sovereigns, would your analysis hold up?
> 4. This is a semantic argument now.

What about wikipedia entry that lists a specific syntax?
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Why would anyone run ngrok "in production" anyway? I thought it was just a tool for briefly making your computer into a publicly available server?
Ok, well i just said it, so somebody did.

There is no difference whatsoever between the same function duplicated with different types.
There is many example why medical record is a very sensitive data.

You can be blackmailed because you have or had a "shameful" disease, a potential employer can deny you a job because you were too often sick for his own taste, insurance might deny you because you have a too risky profile, ...
I don't know what the real impact is, but if your site shows me blank page without javascript(I have it off by default) I am closing the tab.

I don't think supporting noscript version is costly because for me that's how it supposed to be by default. 90% sites that are currently on the internet would work just fine without any js and 95% would work with as little as hackernews has. Modern CSS allows to create most of the experiences and unless you need some interactive forms or serving live broadcasts, games etc., there's just no point in using javascript.

Over the years I've stripped javascript from about 40sites which I visit daily without sacrificing any real functionality. Those sites download and render visibly faster, only relevant cotent is shown and I even implemented dark theme for them. My only javascript fixes are for broken galleries or embedded videos (and those wouldn't even be necessary if developers wrote a fallback to noscript).

It used to be that developers loaded many little scripts so I could only block the useless crap but since everything is minifed and bundled in one huge unreadable file, I just use uMatrix to block it entirely and Stylus and Tampermonkey to fix it.
Go is trendy and Go is outside of the mainstream in it's minimalist design choices. Are you trying to say that Go is not in fashion and has made mainstream language choices?

I think you're just upset about the choice of the word hipster but as with all words it's a shortcut to actual meaning. It was intended with a hint of playfulness and not intended to make you feel bad, even if you don't agree with the choice of word.
STDs in general are sensitive since people may want to hide them or hide the implications. Abortions are sensitive as well depending on the social group.

If you're underage you may especially want to hide those two from your parents depending on the social group. If you're a woman you may also want those two hidden from your family depending on the social group. Sweden has a large refuge population from very conservative cultures and things like acid attacks against women are decently common. So not keeping those thing hidden can get you killed or horribly injured if you're in certain social groups.
Would put YouTube TV also on that list. Just a much better UX and cheaper t boot.
There is zero legal risk unless they decide to subpoena him, which they did not.

The reason to show up is that these people have the power to make laws and make Facebook's collective life in the UK difficult, and so it is in Zuckerberg's interest not to piss them off.

However, there may have been a calculation that him showing up wasn't going to make much difference to the opinions of MPs, and might provide video clips that were bad publicity.
More to the point, they have a legal entity in the UK:

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/06331310

NB Pretty normal for a multinational to have at least one (and sometimes many) legal entities in each country where it has physical operations (offices, employees etc.).
There are quite a few hosts responding on port 80 in the 188.92.248.0/21 subnet, including versions of httpd and php over a decade old. I wouldn't be surprised if there are more things unsecured. Yikes.
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Due to axial tilt, for most of the year geosynchronous satellites are in full sunlight 24/7. Twice a year, around each equinox, there's a period of 44 days during which the satellite goes into shadow briefly each day, for a time ranging from 2 minutes, to 72 minutes at the maximum.

https://corpblog.viasat.com/how-satellites-are-affected-by-t...

This compares pretty favorably to capacity factors of other power sources.

Illumination per square meter averages quite a bit higher than ground solar, and except for the brief times in shadow is 30% higher than ground solar at noon.

The book evaluated other locations including Lagrange points. Everything had pros and cons; the main disadvantage of Lagrange points was the greater distance, requiring bigger antennas. I think more delta-v in deployment was a factor too, though I forget by how much.
You're saying you can live for $200 USD/month. Where are you located?
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No, I don't see this happening any time soon. But it isn't outside the realm of possibility that something could indeed happen, possibly before the turn of the next century.
Care to elaborate? If this is faster and more efficient, why is it #40 on coinmarketcap.com?
For example: you measure concentrations of `p` gases at `n` different places. You collect the results in a matrix A where A_ij is the concentration (a value between 0 and 1) of gas `i` at station `j`.

Now you factorize A ≈ B * C in the sense that ||A - B * C|| is small in your favourite matrix norm. Here B is of size `p × k` with normalized columns and C is `k × n` and of course k is very small.

Then the columns of B form an approximate basis for the column space of A -- so B compresses the data of A well.

Now, if also B is element-wise positive, you might interpret the columns as concentrations (values between 0 and 1 due to normalization). And you could plot them.

It's not mathematical, but it's also not a crazy interpretation.
I suspect (but never confirmed) that they have some "quality binning" at the factory; the runs closer to set quality get the "main brand" label, the slightly worse get the "value brand" label, etc.

That the cheap store brand is made by the same company that makes the expensive brands is true, one only has to check the manufacturer data on the label.
Well for one thing, there are many medical conditions that can be embarrassing when shared with non-medical professionals. Do you really want your neighbor finding out about that rash or fungus you called about?
Yes and no.

Turkish F keyboard is essentially a highly used Dvorak used equivalent and coincidentally Turkey often wins some of the most typing competions. This is not scientific evidence so to speak but our best bet to understand this is to analyze Turkish F keyboard.
> "it's partially artistic"

When I view the moon with my telescope, I see the same haze. I think its earths atmosphere, not the moon that causes it.
Basically, what you are describing sounds somewhat nonsensical. When you encrypt and sign data to be transmitted to someone else, 4 keys are involved. You encrypt with the receivers public key so that they can decrypt using their private key. Then, you sign with your private so that they can verify it was you with your public.

For this to work, you had to have a way to securely transmit your public key to the receiver and their public key to you. That is what the web of trust facilitates.

If you are in complete control of all locations, then you don't need to do the counter signing. Just indicate what key did the encryption on the other side. When you get it, either you can successfully decrypt, or you cannot. That is, never transmit your private key.

Now, you could self sign, I suppose. Such that you transmit another key to sign against to the remote. But what does that accomplish? If your backup system is compromised, they will have both keys on the remote. The one to encrypt, and the one to sign.

The reason I mentioned private encryption before is there is no need for authentication of data you created. Specifically the key. If you are the only one that knows the pair, then just make sure to keep one side secured. If you are worried it will ever get compromised, just make a new one every time.
If you turn your apple retina display to 1080p mode, then I would think it's not that good when there's a 1:1 correspondence between physical pixels and pixel data. However when the size stays the same, I wouldn't expect much difference.

A 32 inch 4k display downsampled to 1080p, well... :)
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How do you think this has changed since 2008 proved a relatively small number of corps acting together can crash the global economy in a weekend?
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> "You can't ship software in a language without generics!"

Isn't this is a strawman? Most arguments in favor of generics in this thread and elsewhere are well informed and people just want safer code...

As you said, you can already have generics using unsafe solutions. Some built-in types have generics. Most people just want this type safety.

interface{} does feel like a temporary and clunky solution for people used to generics.

> And lastly, one thing that you can't really appreciate without trying Go--the lack of generics/expressiveness and general simplicity of the language largely means everyone writes the same boring, predictable code, which means you can pretty much pick up any project on GitHub or your own code from years ago and understand it almost immediately.

I don't get this argument. Why are generics more complicated than other features? Has this hypothesis been tested?

I personally find that using generics is way easier and faster than interface{}, Reflection or code generation. Also simpler and less error-prone than features from other languages like inheritance, operator overloading and unbounded coroutines.
Given that the authors encourage people to be aware of motives and bias, it seems appropriate to discuss their motives and bias as well. As they said, we all engage in motivated reasoning.
How, exactly, are we approaching that point? You think militaries and police are becoming less capable? That employees are becoming more loyal to their employers?
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How can it both claim decentralized trust and be closed-source?
I was just thinking on my way to work this morning about crypto - it was so much fun riding the thrill late 2017, excluding the tech, it was an exciting time for many. I crave another crypto boom
Use Zocdoc to find a local PCP with lots of availability. The ones with lots of availability are more likely to prescribe whatever the patient wants and needs.
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> This is a long way of asking: do you want cryptocurrency to succeed if you knew that you could not profit from it doing so?

That is a brilliant question!

Instead of all the endless bickering between crypto-fans and -haters reaching from technology to fiscal policy to society, it reduces the conflict to one simple test, as a sort of precondition.

Anecdata, but just going through my set of acquaintances, personal profit was always a factor. And I never even thought to question it. In hindsight, however, it seems (1) such an obvious thing to do, and (2) makes it clear to me that my acquaintances probably wouldn't give a damn about crypto if there wasn't a chance to profit from it.

I mean, the only reason Bitcoin went mainstream in the first place is not because of the technology (which existed for a decade), but because there was a extreme bubble (again) and mainstream people wanted to get rich quick.
> Are you trying to say that Go is not in fashion and has made mainstream language choices?

I can't even understand how you can be constructing such a statement. "In fashion" and "mainstream" are pretty synonymous to me. In consequence, the statement is contradictory. Hence, No, I am clearly not trying to say that.

> I think you're just upset about the choice of the word hipster

No I'm saying that the team behind Go is just really considerate and principled. They don't follow all the latest fads, simply because those fads are the reason why so many other languages suck and projects written in them become giant unmaintainable hairballs.

They are engineers (label them conservative if you like). Not hipsters.
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It’s quite clear they’ve had good reason to worry, no?

I mean... honestly. We have so much knowledge at this point, and coupled with stuff like what exxon (and many others) are up to:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/exxon-knew-about-...

This can’t be an extreme view these days?!
I hope very soon. Then we can end this absurd experiment where multinationals and trade deals are above countries.
Why not fine the company, Medicall, responsible for taking the calls? Or Voice Integrate Nordic, who supplied the callcenter-system, depending on who is at fault.
> You could run Opera in Linux emulation mode and also use VNC to another machine.

What? There's a Linux emulation mode in Plan9? O_o How well does it work? Could I run anything Linux in Plan9?

EDIT: Woah.

https://9p.io/wiki/plan9/Linux_emulation/index.html
I agree that there's been a move to split "Store Brand X" into "Store Basics X", "Store Brand X" and "Store Finest X", and that the "basic" product is often perfectly good.

However, for broader product categories, there's also a tendency for the most and least expensive products to be outliers, with the cheapest being barely enough to justify the label and the dearest being aimed at rich suckers. Hence the heuristic of getting the 2nd cheapest (especially if it's a one-off consumable, where savings won't accumulate); or, if splashing out, getting the 2nd most expensive.

In my experience this definitely applies to things like wine and chocolate, where the scale is roughly:

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does Sweden have a HIPAA equivalent? if not, is it something that would have been applicable?
And the top 1% of the American population controls around 40% of the wealth. In accordance with the power law, the top 20% of the population owned 86% of the country's wealth.

Still doesn't seem like a pipe dream.
As much as old time mainframes and Novell NetWare based applications could have.
In addition there are plenty of people who do use Go yet still criticise its lack of generics. But apparently these are not “real” Go users?
Buckle up - it's only worsening. I'd bet on there being plural internets by 2030 at this rate.
Because they were not actually doing anything that directly challenged the authority of governments. If they step out of line to the extent of a direct challenge, governments will just arrest management until they get new managers/owners who behave, as we see constantly in China where the threshold for pissing off the authorities is much lower.
> You think militaries and police are becoming less capable?

What guarantees that they will always be on the side of governments?

> That employees are becoming more loyal to their employers?

No, but the common citizen is becoming that way. Right now, are people more likely to call up their representative to try to get something done, or post something to facebook related to their political leanings?
In contrast, what we know from facts about sea travel: even real land monsters might leave you alone once in a while but the sea is actively trying to kill you at every moment. There are real problems to be solved, like fresh water generation, bad weather and having enough food supplies to last until landfall. The monsters out there are quite real and quite deadly.

Did you know that the sea is still deadly? Not all of these are fatalities, but some are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_shipwrecks_in_2018
I'm more concerned about government intervention into speech and policing what is appropriate than I am fake news, which a recent study showed wasn't even that widespread.
Hi, I created an account to say this: my grandfather was there after the bombing and said that the numbers where heavily downplayed. They were saying 30k, when in fact, it was at least 75k, probably way more. It hurts me personally to have my grandpa indirectly accused as a revisionist, when he was personally there, thus this reply. I don't like it when numbers like these get changed because of politics.
As usual assumptions are much stronger than what Bitcoin has. I'm really sorry about the fact that this currency is voted up so much.
Definitely agree here.

Shoehorning an existing codebase into being MISRA compliant is utter hell. It's something you really need to design-in from the beginning.

Also for anyone in the audience who's going "ugh, MISRA..." -- the 2012 spec revision is a significant improvement on the 2004 version and cleans up a lot of the more troublesome rules.

Even if I'm not doing MISRA-required code, I still find myself sticking to its suggestions... "Allocate memory statically" is a really good one, especially on embedded systems.
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Education isn't a cure all. Highly educated citizens can still be wrong en masse.
It completely blows my mind when I see stuff like this. We're not all perfect programmers, I'm sure, but still. An alarm should go off in your head when the thought occurs to put front-end code into a query. The only exception I've encountered is if I want to inject some HTML formatting into a string for emails sent from SQL Server, but even then it's extremely limited in use, and I still think to myself, there must be a better way..
Misleading label to say, e.g. "The horse is unstable." when intending to explain how the horse is outside the stable. (re: Stable == Compound in Debian-speak.)
What kinds of cartels? In general, I'm assuming the same as in other industries... Are there big cartels in other insurance markets, like home, car and life insurance?
This is actually one of the specific variations to the "don't use GOTO" rule in MISRA-C-2012.

You're allowed to use GOTO provided you're jumping forward, and only for error handling.