skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Based on the excellent documentary series "Star Trek" I think it's safe to assume there are species that would colonize the galaxy.

But on a more serious note. You make an interesting point. Our entire history has been a fight for survival against a merciless environment (and other species). It's a core part of our DNA to colonize, grow, and thrive.

But assuming that is representative of what all life would go through may not be safe. It's hard for me to imagine how evolution would create life without the threat of killing off bad mutations, but that doesn't make it impossible. Definitely good to keep an open mind.
MIT terminates funding and research ties with China's Huawei and ZTE
While this certainly true in some cases, I don't think this is one of them. They can be large enough to easily use, only 2 values are entered and are familiar for that purpose. The commonly seen alternatives are worse.
i don’t see anything regarding the various font types that can be embedded in the pdf. Only a weird « bytes to string » that seems to assume a font char index automagically corresponds to a utf16 codepoint...

Has the author even read the pdf spec ?
Yes, that's what I meant to say. Sorry for the "thinko".
He'd have to renounce his British citizenship though in order to get German citizenship.
I'd personally put GoG ahead of Steam, and not just for "grr Steam" reasons. Steam has a habit of breaking in weird ways like telling me I can't view my own achievements because my profile is private or suddenly wanting to download 0 bytes for half the games in my library. GoG on the other hand has been totally rock-solid for me.
Or worse, the only way to watch it _is with a cable subscription_. What??? Spiderman Homecoming on Amazon straight up cannot be rented without signing up for a Starz subscription.

It's completely baffling. Amazon really dropped their 'customer obsession' on the video side.
>> We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem [...]

>And it's true

Maybe I'm the exception, but given the choice of shelling out $60 (works out to just over 4 hours of work at median US pay), or waiting a few hours/days/weeks (depending on DRM strength) and getting it for free, I'm picking the latter every time.

edit: changed average pay to median
The new leader of computational biology project Folding Home
My entire family is in medicine and I am well aware of this.

However, cases like the one I mentioned are fairly clear cut, in my opinion.
The copyright holder isn't trying to make it scarce. The studio/distributor would really love it if NetFlix extended the licensing contract window instead of letting it expire. But, NetFlix will only pay to extend its availability if the content is attracting people to its platform and that's becoming less likely and necessary as NetFlix builds its own content that will remain on the platform forever.

Basically, we're going to end up with a streaming platform from every studio/distributor where you'll pay them directly instead of paying the broadcaster since the internet has made it so easy for studios and distributors to become "broadcasters" too. What seemed like a good thing at first is actually going to be worse in the end for consumers. We're going to be paying the same as before for each movie purchase/rental and then even more than before to license each show we want to watch.
He could do that, but dual citizenship is hard to acquire in Germany so that might be a reason to not do it I guess.
People who claim trickle down economics don't work aren't willing to fold up their sleeves and work for it.
I don't think there's anyone who disagrees that IBM was a great company once.

Do you have a more recent example? something that happened several years after Louis Gerstner first assumed leadership.
If you write a library, or expose a public interface, I do expect a lot of unit tests. Unit tests can run offline, fast, during build time. I don’t mind integ-unit tests that perhaps simulate a database in memory to avoid mocking the entire storage layer. I rather have tests that are technically integration tests as they include more than, well, a unit, as long as they are idempotent, test mainly one thing, and can run fast and offline. Not sure if there is a term for it but I call these integunit tests... (probably the worst name possible)

But unit / unit++ tests are not just for you, they are for me, they give me confidence I can touch your code without inadvertently breaking something critical that you may have missed in your acceptance tests. It gives you peace of mind to be able to refactor. An acceptance test may tell you they something broke, but a good unit test will show you exactly where.
it's theft, regardless of how they legally-engineered their way around it. quit defending them
fts and ftw are glibc wrappers over glibc wrappers that I had to bypass for better performance. They are made for convenience, not for speed.
The title is misleading: "A book" tends to inclinate that it's not a specific book, which is the anithesis to the fact that the Boekenweekgeschenk very much is.
Oh man. This type of marketing makes my blood boil. I understand doximity is in the business of preventing situations like this through connecting data systems and I respect that, but are we are at a point in a society that nothing no matter how personal or sacred is fodder for the marketing machine? This is a touching story but in reality...it's sponsored content.
No, not for EU citizens.
MCMD: Commands for high-speed processing of large-scale CSV tables
Bezos World or Levelers - Can We Choose Our Scenario?
Steam is not DRM though and they offer lots of DRM free games too[0]

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games...
Not affiliated, and have not used this yet.

Stumbled on a mention of a sub-command in an SO answer. Found the what-is page interesting. A little surprised, given the scope and focus on UNIX philosophy of this project, at the lack of discussion and packages (and the lack of stars on github).

Full documentation at: https://www.nysol.jp/mcmd2/en/index.html

Aside from what seems to be the official Python wrapper (https://pypi.org/project/nysol/) and another unofficial (https://pypi.org/project/mcmder/) I didn't see any other packages.

Also, their full list of OSS projects: https://www.nysol.jp/#softwareLists
> BTW in early 20th century, China entered its own Enlightenment because of shattered state control and those efficient printing machines

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_learning was... earlier than "the early 20th century". What are you referring to? What exactly are you arguing happened?
Might want to stock up on used ones.
As someone who owns a long range EV I don't see trucking/towing going away soonish. Even towing marginal 6-8k loads we see ~11mpg in our efficient truck(v6 turbodiesel). The energy density just isn't there for 100mi+ trips.

That said I'd kill for a diesel electric truck, love the torque and smoothness of our EV.
>Who thought this feature would be a good idea seriously?

every single ad tech bro
Pwn20wnd Unc0ver V_12.2 [How to Jailbreak iOS 12.2 to iOS 12.2.3 Public]
You might enjoy, in a "never try this in practice" sort of way, some code I did to make a working Python variant, which compiled to Python byte code, and supported Perl-like pattern match syntax, like:

# get_function_names.py
for line in open("python_yacc.py"):
if line =~ m/def (?P<name>\w+) *(?P<args>\(.*\)) *:/:
print repr($1), repr($args)

See http://dalkescientific.com/Python/python4ply-tutorial.html .

It got appreciative hisses when I did a lightning talk about it at a PyCon.

FWIW, I co-founded Biopython back in 1999.
If I was going to downvote or flag your comments it would be because your question seems related to the post in the the most tangental way possible then you start making accusations about someones mental health that you have zero knowledge about because you got down-voted.
Cookies and How You’re Tracked Online
I prefer GoG, as well. I was attempting to express my understanding of the generally sentiment that I see from gamers

I have a cron job that backs up my library every two weeks via lgogdownloader
I wish. This figure is reloading the formal tool after a one line change in the RTL.

Placing (not routing!) takes around 24 hours since we need to run in a larger environment than just the block level to get realistic timing reports
Intel provided another great example of this recently: Thunderbolt 3 controllers used to cost quite a bit, so they weren't included in lower-cost devices.

They saw that that didn't work out that well for them and made it royalty-free. Now it's basically the new USB standard.
Yes! I have the same and despite spending thousands of dollars trying to find a better monitor it's still best solution I've found. I can keep 4x80 column files open in vscode or 8 if I split them vertically. And with a single monitor I can still easily use a KVM switch.
I recommend this article for another essay on this topic: https://www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2011/11/30/how-doctors-di...

It really boils down to quality over quantity. After all, I'm sure most would choose to die comfortably in their bed after a week rather than in a few months all while in excruciating pain.
Does that make a difference? The end result is the same. Games that that you want to play are locked behind a particular launcher.
Yes IBM also developed for the Nazis during the Holocaust...
Ubuntu for desktop
Mac for laptop
Won't it be inefficient to convert engine displacement - > charge - > vehicle displacement again?

I wonder if it is instead possible to have a universal battery installer. A universal battery pack that serves the same purpose as what you suggest, the size of a small engine + petrol tank.

One that is cross compatible with all electric cars. (the hard part) maybe it can be a section in the boot itself. So when not in use, it is simply boot space. (will be easier to be universally. Compatible too) as long as there is a power in the boot.

You pick one up from a store and as long you return it to another store inside of a few hours, you are only charged the cost of electricity + battery rental.
I wonder how they determine how much energy is absorbed. In my example above, CB radio operates at ~27MHz. Most folks would say that’s going to pass right through, but damn if it didn’t cook me.
> Nuclear's is 80%

Why is that?

I'm sure we're all broadly in favour of free markets. Do electricity consumers buy nuclear because it's good value?[0]

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/news/2017/dec/21/hinkley-point-c...
This is what you get for buying digitally locked media in iTunes, Google play or Amazon.

Don't buy shit you're never going to own. I've had a roku dominated house for years. If I want to control content, you have two choices:

1.buy thw dvd/bluray

2. Pirate it

Don't buy stupid stuff that's tied to a platform or storage locker. Easy
> right option

Well, indeed. If you ask the usual humans if they want to eat, sleep, work, have fun, and also go grab a drink, yes, they want all of that at the same time.

People are rarely consistent in their wants, and it's no surprise that the voters eat up the imperial nostalgia. The UK will negotiate the best deals. Ah yea, sure you will. Naturally in the free time left after negotiating brexit itself.

> unique to the UK

no, alas this irrationality is endemic.
OS/2 warp. A great operating system.
The group owners have readonly access to all the messages, apparently.
>UPlay: awful and hated

What's so bad about uplay?
>"I wanted to tell him that if we had done everything we could she would have gone to the palliative unit or home on hospice."

I'm confused by this part. It almost implies that the code also involved intentionally not saving her
Windows 10, disk 1 of 2639
Tesla’s new Raven motors and a more energy dense pack based off the 2170 cells in the Model 3 make this use case within reach. Their Semi is dragging a 80k tractor trailer load (concrete blocks) around to demonstrate the high end working.

Disclaimer: I occasionally tow ~2500lbs with my Model S. Works very well, no Auotpilot though while towing.
Kale is really nice if you freeze it, boil it then put it in mashed potatoes. Throw a smoked sausage and a bit of bacon in and you're sorted.

https://coquinaria.nl/en/dutch-winterfare/
Derived user data is still user data?

Up to the point where the client sends something mathematically indistinguishable from random noise to the server. At which point it's useless except for yet-to-be-discovered quantum effects. Which will then be outlawed.

Either way, the whole advertising revenue model is sickening pile of "they technically didn't object and it's not technically illegal", luckily it will die along with DRM and copyright. In the meantime I sincerely wish all parties who profit from it a stomachache proportional to their standard of living.
Biggest benefit of having a compiler in your toolchain is that it often serves as the majority of your integration testing layer.

That said, you should proliferate unit tests for algorithmic logic. That can be a small subset of your code, but a large part of your domain (depending on richness). Integration testing can be written manually, or you can pick a compiled language that does a lot of the lifting by type checking and producing the binary. Acceptance tests guide the overall happy path and can protect against weird regressions.
It may force industry standards to organically align with Toyota design direction, allowing for easier compatibility.

Also, if the industry follows your lead, you always stay in front.
*Is this compliant to the pdf spec?
This is great news to the extent that it includes tech for fully electric vehicles (as opposed to "electrified", a red flag word that includes hybrids as if they were on the same footing as electric cars).

The "green" halo bestowed on hybrids is really no longer justified. They still burn gasoline, pollute almost as much as any other car, and have ultra complex maintenance like any ICE car.

I hope this isn't just a feint to encourage competitors to get mired in hybrid tech... although in that case the silver lining would be Toyota trying to take a leading position in fully electric.

Regardless of any possible cynical interpretations, it does seem like a hugely positive move overall. Since renewables are now price competitive with dirty options like coal, more and more of the grid will flip over to clean energy, so all-electric vehicles are going to have a huge impact on cutting CO2 emissions.
Napkin math:

If 1 million people sign up to AN+ at $10 per month, that’s $10 million per month brought in, or $120 million per year. Apple takes $60 million of that, and 300 publishers divvy up the other $60 million, which if distributed equally would be $200K per year, per magaizine. Apple has stated that payment will correspond with performance, which Apple defines as “time spent,” which will probably heavily skew to the publications being featured on the front page of AN+. Publications that don’t use the enhanced format (which is roughly half of them, currently) will likely never appear on the front page, which means they’ll earn nada, and the revenue will be lopsided to the publications Apple promotes.

Everything hinges on how Apple defines “Time Spent” and how much that correlates with promotion on AN+’s front home screen.
On the flip side, I switched to Firefox once the first “quantum” version was released (62?) and I haven’t experienced a single crash.

Then again, I don’t remember seeing a crash in either Safari or Chrome in ages, but the point being that Firefox seems at least as stable as it’s competition.
Very interesting reflexions. JRPGs, there's just something about them.
The major militaries are usually run by governments that have laws that they can enforce without using their militaries.

Or do you want other countries to invade the US because they don't like what facebook is doing?
Apple TV is about 1000% better when you ditch the supplied remote and instead pair a normal querty-style Bluetooth keyboard. Nearly everything in the UI works with the combo of arrow keys + return key, and you can actually type text for searching instead of stabbing around with the crappy remote, or trying to make Siri work.

Probably not so true for tvOS games, but for the usual use case of Netflix, Amazon Prime, YouTube, settings, etc., a keyboard works great.
Still making more than one a day. Maybe they're running out of places to park 'em.
This makes me think of the "bed time" iOS clock which is confusing me every time I try to use it.
I still don't quite see why I as a company would want to help a competitor enter the market on the same playing field as me.

Is it so effective in increasing customer acceptance?
Unless you have specific requirements, Ive always found prisms to be bloated / heavy. I prefer Hasura.
The IBM before around 1990 and today’s IBM are totally different companies. The only thing that’s the same is the name. Same could be said for HP.
“Two monitors or one window manager” is a study I’d like to hear.

Is it better to constantly move your head from physical monitor to monitor, or switch space/virtual desktop?

Of course this requires a WM that can switch to another space instantly, so macOS is ruled out.
Lubuntu. I like the balance it strikes between light-weightness and completeness.
> I haven't tested to see if it still gets delivered to the server.

I have, and it does.
It's been interesting watching Prisma, formerly Graphcool, transition from backend-as-a-service to open source backend to client ORM library. They also use bleeding edge patterns, so I always know where to go for examples as stuff gets adopted mainstream :) Keep up the good work Prisma team!

Question specific to this autogenerated client: does that mean I have to bump client version numbers every time my backend schema changes? Does this help if I'm building a backwards-compatible api, like Stripe's API [1]? Apologies if this is already answered in your docs.

[1]: https://stripe.com/blog/api-versioning
>Even major film publishers agree, that selling DRM-free video is fine.

What are those "major film publishers"? All the movies in your link are niche.
We are seeing this happen as you speak.

With game developers going back to proprietary launchers and platform exclusives, piracy of such games is rising again.

I predict the new Metro and Borderlands games will be heavily pirated.

When the epic launcher lacks more than half of the essential features of Steam, people will boycott your platform for forcing them to use it.
That sounds similar, except you prepare some of the steps in the pipeline. Sounds like you still need some client-side tool to support the manual deploy, though. That's my point -- no matter what you do, it's not practical to reduce the client story to a single command without a wrapper around kubectl.

Interesting idea to pre-bake the YAML manifest. Our tool allows deploying directly from a local repo, which makes small incremental/experimental tweaks to the YAML very fast and easy. Moving that to the pipeline will make that harder.

Also, you still have to do the YAML magic in the CI. We have lots of small apps that follow exactly the same system in terms of deploying. That's why a single tool with all the scaffolding built in is nice. I don't know if Gitlab pipelines can be shared among many identical apps? If not, maybe you can "docker run" a shared tool inside the CI pipeline to do common things like linting?
Someone has to read the actual legal verbage. For example, to quote https://twitter.com/Tweetermeyer/status/1092570451329441792 on Tesla's free patents - "A common belief is that anyone using Tesla's patents has to give Tesla access to its patents, but that's not quite accurate. To meet Tesla's "good faith" standard, you can't have asserted an EV-related patent or IP right against ANYONE."

Start with the actual press release: https://global.toyota/en/newsroom/corporate/27512455.html

which links to:

https://toyota.jp/cmpn/gp/ma/dc/electrification-technologies... - whose title is "Inquiry regarding royalty-free availability of electrification technologies up to 2030"
The old layout continued to get updates for a while after it went closed source.
> unimaginable

I imagine adding types gradually as a design solidifies, rather than slow velocity early on. Best not to be dogmatic on these things.
You really think it’s nonsense? I mean, it’s pretty clear what’s going to happen. The city will be under water, and relatively speaking, fairly soon. It’s basic physics at the end of the day.

Beyond that, this article really cuts to the heart of the astounding carelessness and wastefulness of humanity. IMHO, we deserve what we’re about to get.
Same. Low-dpi monitors cause a lot of eye strain for me.
Reasons to abandon Windows for Linux:

1. It works

2. Lets you use a huge variety of sensibly licensed, high quality software

3. Hardware works out of the box, unlike my perfectly fine scanner on Windows which doesn't work on anything newer than XP (except Linux, of course)

4. Updates less likely to brick your hardware

5. If something breaks, you'll be able to fix it instead of looking cluelessly at logs that don't tell you anything.

6. You can tweak by hand whatever you want
> MacOS with stock window manager.
De Bruijn Torus Generator in Python
It would already a great step if we would stop criminalizing assisted suicide. My grandmother recently passed away from cancer and she luckily suffered only a relative short while after switching from treatment to palliative care. She said from the first day that she only wanted to die quickly and asked the doctors repeatedly to give her something to end her suffering. Her health deteriorated to the point where she couldnt get up anymore and my parents had to find a palliative care facility. Only there was she given proper pain medication, which is horrible in itself, but still had to die slowly.

Its cruel and nothing more. I have little sympathy for the religiously driven pro-torture faction.
Yeah seriously. Almost every single American mispronounces my name even after I say it multiple times. Hell, they mispronounce common, one syllable American names like "Lou" more than half the time. When I tell them my name is like another name they can pronounce except without the "o" at the end, they still can't pronounce it despite being able to pronounce my name with an "o" at the end. After three decades of this, I've given up trying to correct people, trying to go with the Americanized pronunciation, or even using my full name at all. It's pointless. Americans are simply incapable of pronouncing anything even remotely foreign even if I enunciate it for them. I don't even bother with my last name. However they say it is fine because it's always wrong. I would recommend people adopt very simple American nicknames if they move here like many Chinese do, even if the name seems like it would be easy to pronounce. There's just no hope in getting people to pronounce your name right. Or accept the American wrong pronunciation and go with that. I've used all these strategies at some point in my life so now I have three names.
Not only a longer grounding, but some airlines are canceling orders and many passengers don't want to fly in them.

The 737 Max could become the Edsel of airplanes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel
I have thought long and hard about why I believe in God (and appreciate science greatly, of course). I have posted my thoughts in detail at http://lukecall.net . These things help me even when life is hard (as designed--but worth it). (edit: I should probably have made this as a reply to other comments ... having some computer trouble in last few days; will try to remember. Also, the web site is lightweight and easy, I hope, to get around. The link in question is a few lines from the top.)
Wojtek: The bear who fought Hitler's Nazis