skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The writers were big Sci-Fi fans. The Asari were heavily influenced by the Minbari of Babylon 5. There are lots of other callouts to classic Sci-Fi in the series.
> "Lighthizer has pushed hard for an enforcement regime more like those used for punitive economic sanctions – such as those imposed on North Korea or Iran – than a typical trade deal."

Anything that looks like the good old days "foreign aggression" are sure to be well-received by China... Not.

Are the US genuinely looking for a deal? Or do habits die hard?
Azure Boards to the GitHub Marketplace
how about something like - if the product needs to be uninstalled to be returned the company needs to provide for uninstalling the product from the purchasers location and shipped back to the company, with full payment of shipment and uninstallation provided by the company.
Correctly price in the negative externalities caused by burning petroleum and people can go have their fun in ICE cars away from major population centers. It'll be more expensive, for sure, but I don't think it'll only be in the realm of the rich. Gas is already something like $8/gallon in many parts of Europe and is still widely used, just for daily life (forget racing).
Works perfectly well with FF + uBlock + uMatrix (without modifications!!)
Yeah but than you always generate an additional request, with HSTS cached, browser with fetch the https version without an additonal redirect. I wrote a post about it some time ago https://pawelurbanek.com/amp-seo-rating-performance
After experiencing Android development with Kotlin, I will choose Kotlin again by default. Admittedly, my experience with the most recent version of Java is not there, but Kotlin has some things I never found in Java. It statically checks for possible null pointer errors, and you can define free functions (without a class definition). Another nice thing is being able to declare constructor parameters as fields at once, and also automatic generation of getters / setters with data classes. This saves a ton of boilerplate. Maybe Java has some or all of these things now, but last time I used it, it didn't. I don't see it as a tower of Babel, but you have to keep on learning.
> If your company is so ethically bankrupt that you can't afford the risk of someone who would only reveal things that are of critical importance to the public, then maybe you aren't the "good guys" anymore.

Exactly.

Fortunately, a great many companies are not hiring him, so it’s not like not hiring him will expose that we’re doing tons of illegal stuff.
Modern diesels are supposed to have particulate filters installed.

Yet just yesterday, in “ultra low emission zone” Central London, I saw a Ford diesel van with a 16 plate (meaning, it’s a late-2015 Model at the earliest) spewing a cloud of black soot every time it pulled away at an intersection.

It’s clear that there are still too many DPF removals going on, and lax controls about monitoring emissions from supposedly-compliant vehicles.

(Motorcycles are another huge issue. They may be compliant with noise and emissions regs at the factory gate, but too many people swap the exhaust for a loud, polluting, illegal one.)
I think it’s just WIP. Just like VS Code wasn’t perfect from the start.

But I can imagine it following the same path. Ecosystem becomes more mature. Plugins get more sophisticated.
The Nordic law fearless women love
(In the following, I'll break out the numbers for black people separately from non-blacks or general population, since black people are killed by police at a higher rate, and those killings get a lot more attention)

We should of course be trying to reduce police killing, especially police killing of unarmed people, and seriously looking at the factor of two difference between the rates for blacks and non-blacks (factor of three for unarmed killings) to see if it is due to racism by police and fix that if it is.

But we probably also should not overstate the risk. Getting killed by police in the US is way down on the list of things that are likely to get you killed, even if you not white. An unarmed random person is about as likely to be killed by lighting as killed by police. An unarmed black person is 3 times as likely to be killed by police as killed by lighting, and 3 times as likely to be injured by lighting as killed by police.

Here are the numbers.

There are typically around 1000 police killings in the US per year, and about 200 of those are black people. The black population is around 37 million, out of a total of around 330 million. That gives a black killed by police rate of 0.54 per 100k, and a general population rate of 0.30 per 100k.

About 10% of the black people killed were unarmed, and about 5% for the killed population in general, bringing the unarmed killed rate to about 0.05 per 100k for blacks and 0.015 per 100k for the general population.

About 500 people are injured by lighting every year in the US, giving a lighting injury rate of 0.15 per 100k, and about 10% of those are killed, giving a killed by lighting rate of about 0.015 per 100k.
It can't be for lack of crawling - my little ad-free forum which hasn't seen more than a couple concurrent users for years is crawled daily by Googlebot.
>Flashed died out way before canvas.

No. Canvas was introduced in 2004 but not really mainstreamed until a few years later. I would put the golden age of Flash as 2000-2008, with a slow decline after.

>It remained strong in games and ads and disappeared everywhere else.

You're just saying things, but you inadvertently hit on the point that I'm making, that is the decline of Flash coincided with HTML/JS being given capabilities to actually replace Flash. Had that never happened, you'd still have Flash because there would be things that people would want to do over the web, and no other way to do it.
you can buy a 2015 Nissan Leaf for a put $12-$14k on carvana. Surprised me!
company car with unlimited mileage. So far I've driven more than 11.000 km in a month - mostly private, due to the customer being 5min away from my home.
Post-mortem and remediations for the Matrix.org security breach
A person who self reports little sitting is just likely to have a standing or physical job. So this is a weak version of correlating physical activity.
What I have done is make a simple gatbsy starter and have components for signup/contact etc. all ready. And wrap everything with a bootstrap theme.

On average I spend 2 hours setting up a new landing page.
Take these 2 minutes to spice up your Vue.js App
The limitation with the approach (of HTTP=>HTTPS redirects) is that your average coffee-shop-wifi-user may not notice if their connection does not upgrade to HTTPS due to malicious interception of their connections.

With HSTS, once they've connected to the server over HTTPS once (e.g. at home), every connection from that browser will be immediately upgraded to HTTPS before even trying HTTP.

Your suggestion is valid - as HSTS is only delivered over HTTPS - and the upgrade is still required the first time.

See Firesheep for an example of how HTTP can be intercepted - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firesheep
Tellico Rocks! It can search bookdbs and can also Investors dvds and other stuff
I closed my PayPal account many years ago, but they keep mailing me updated terms. I haven't agreed with them in years.
Even you want to change, I still recommended Apple Magic Keyboard 2 for its pure quality and reliability. Not the most budget keyboard out there, but you get what you pay for
(unlike their infamous butterfly switch Macbook keyboard, their desktop keyboard is good) It gots ultra low profile and good key travel, and the quiet, tactile, clickiness, which I really like.

It has lightning, but I plug it only for charging for an hour, and use it wirelessly for several months before I have to charge it again, no big deal. I mean, the battery life is insane, you forget to charge it.

I used to use Logitech G Pro tenkeyless for a while, it's good, but the most used key's keycap fell off after a while, which is quite disappointing. It is also unrepairable because they use their proprietary switch. Also, personally, it's too big for my hands anyway.

I used to getting into mechanical keyboard scene for some times. It's cool to talk about variant of switch and design and artisan keycap, but I found that it never ends(and it's expensive) So I just grab an Apple's one and get on with my life. Happy so far. :)
From what I can see so far, there isn't any way to replicate 90% of the functionality through the assistant APIs, and even their FAQ and messaging seems to be reinforcing that they won't be adding it.

For example, you can't grab images from a camera through the assistant API, you can't get notification of a doorbell ring, you can't get notified when one of the devices detects a person.
Forget all the rest. He has been in the US for 17! years as a contributing member of society.

What business do we have sending him back to India?
Can the grid handle 10% of cars moving from gas to electricity? 50%? 90%?

Not to mention battery issues (range, charge time, safety, etc) which are getting better, no doubt about it

It's not only a matter of having the right socket
I don't know if that was a good idea considering there is a soldering problem on the Nexus 5X which shorten its lifetime to around 2 years, CPUs just fail after some times. I preferred to take a Android One device since then, cheaper while being similar in speed. (Phones such as Nokia 6.1 and so on) but the Pixel 3a is nonetheless cool, hope it will don't have conception issues!
My only knowledge of Henri Bergson is from perhaps a less intellectual source, the Monty Python sketch 'Spot the brain cell':

Cleese: ... Well your first question for the blow on the head this evening is: What great opponent of Cartesian dualism resists the reduction of psychological phenomena to physical states?

Jones: I don't know that!

Cleese: Well, have a guess.

Jones: Henri Bergson.

Cleese: Is the correct answer!

Jones: Ooh, that was lucky. I've never even heard of him.
Binance exchange hackers steal bitcoins worth $41m
Waymo is already available to the public in Arizona:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-waymo-selfdriving-focus/w...

Tesla’s most recent FSD video took place around Palo Alto. The same area where its 2016 video was filmed.
The rise of fear-based social media like Nextdoor, Citizen, and Amazon Neighbors
> Yet, at some point in the past decade an insatiable greed appears to have taken over the industry.

I'm not saying that there aren't greedy game companies, or outright nefarious practices; but speaking as an industry insider I can at least understand why the entire industry has lurched this way.

There's 3 things that you must take on faith are true:

1) Microtransactions bring in money.

2) Games cost more to produce than they ever have.

3) Roughly 90% of gamers are very price sensitive.

So, if you leave out micro transactions, then your budget is slashed and you have to make a lesser game, you might think this is fine, but our competitors will (and do, because we have a very tight policy regarding microtransactions) walk all over us in terms of budget. R&D is expensive and we'll be playing catch-up for years.

You could of course, attempt to keep the budget and not introduce micro-transactions. You could argue that our games make a modest profit even without monetisation but that's certainly not always true, and the closer we move to operating on the breadline the more likely we are to make "safe" choices because risking anything could put hundreds of people out of work (and, we are guilty of this in some cases; see: Assassins Creed)

Finally you could say: well, if the cost of producing games has increased, why not increase the base price instead of chopping it up into add-ons to create special editions and in-game content that needs to be purchased. The answer is of course that if we raise the base price people will be outraged, games can be expensive (if you only play a handful of hours they are more expensive than a movie ticket, but obviously the cost-per-hour of entertainment goes down if you enjoy the game- still, there is personal risk for this) so people aren't willing to risk $100-$120 for a base game, in fact, many people wait for the game to come down in price before buying (as high as 15% of players based on the last time I looked at our market segmentation).

I mean, I understand, it's not enriching your experience to have paywalled content inside the game. But what you don't realise is that a lot of the content that even made it in to the base game, made it in on the fact that there are people who _really_ want to buy a special hat.
Including growth number makes the whole picture even worse because losses increase faster than revenue. I.e. they're "buying" new revenue on credit for an ever increasing price.
> Both the versions have snprintf.

Yes, but with different format strings.

It is obvious isn't it? There are just 2 FPU operations in coolsize_f, while coolsize_i have a bunch of 'if'. It just cannot be that the speed difference is due to FPU operations. It must be somewhere in snprintf.

But if you asked, I tried to test my assumptions.

tl;dr:

- seems that measuring is wrong somehow

- in any case formatting in snprinf is much slower than calculations itself

Numbers for test "as is" are:

Timing 500000 iterations
F time 0.151318
I time 0.064491

Then I changed:

- snprintf(size_buf, 12, "%.*Lf%c", i, size + rem * div_2_pow_10, U[i]);
+ snprintf(size_buf, 12, "%" PRId64 "%c", size + rem * div_2_pow_10, U[i]);

This way I just replaced floating point formatting, with integer formatting. It broke all tests of course, but it doesn't matter for our test: all the calculations are the same and we are measuring them.

The numbers are:

Timing 500000 iterations
F time 0.056365
I time 0.064846

Now coolsize_f is faster. But it somehow strange, because I expected coolsize_f to be even more faster in this case (coolsize_i conditionally uses longer format string).

Then I removed all the snprintfs (in case of coolsize_f I just commented them out with FPU operations; in case of coolsize_i I commented out the if around snprintf):

Timing 500000 iterations
F time 0.012604
I time 0.007449

Now coolsize_f has just while-loop, and coolsize_i has this loop and a bunch of 'if's. But coolsize_f is slower, wtf? I did look closer and found one difference between loops:

if (rem >= 512) ++size;

Seems it is a costly operation when inside of loop.

But then I hit a strangeness. I tried to make coolsize_f to show the same timings as coolsize_i or lower. I removed this 'if' inside of 'while', I discovered that type of rem is long double (so it was converted to int for bitwise & and then back to long double?) and changed it to int. And nevertheless I see the difference:

Timing 500000 iterations
F time 0.010668
I time 0.007448

WTF? I changes the order of tests in test_relative_speed, so the coolsize_i tested before coolsize_f:

srand48(17);
gettimeofday(&t0, NULL);

for(i = 0; i < n; i++)
coolsize_i(lrand48());

gettimeofday(&t1, NULL);
timediff(&ti, &t1, &t0);

srand48(17);
gettimeofday(&t0, NULL);

for(i = 0; i < n; i++)
coolsize_f(lrand48());

gettimeofday(&t1, NULL);
timediff(&tf, &t1, &t0);

and viola:

Timing 500000 iterations
F time 0.006025
I time 0.011848

I don't know how to explain it. n seems to be large enough to make any caching effects to be small and insignificant. Maybe it has something to do with compilator being too clever and removing "useless" code? But why the changing of order of time measures makes any difference? It needs more testing.

edit: formatting
> Following up on this, I found an article[0] claiming that it isn't really an issue since a pure CSS keylogger can only catch one character.

That reminds me of:

• Stealing Data With CSS: Attack and Defense
https://www.mike-gualtieri.com/posts/stealing-data-with-css-...

• CSS Exfil Vulnerability Tester
https://www.mike-gualtieri.com/css-exfil-vulnerability-teste...

• CSS Exfil Protection (Firefox)
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/css-exfil-pro...

• CSS Exfil Protection (Chrome)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/css-exfil-protecti...

Never really got much coverage. It's not mitigated by uBlock or uMatrix (unless you deny all CSS).
I honestly cannot imagine this perceived slowdown is anywhere but in your mind.

Much less that it affects the fun of driving for the great majority of people.

Do you have any sources for that?
Bit OT, but I'm curious about whether the UX team ever discussed the ethics of Fortnite silently installing BattlEye, anti cheat software that's difficult to remove and yet breaks the Windows preview build upgrade process.

I'm fine with anti cheat software in general, but this one felt like malware.
The free market is one aspect of capitalism. The concentration of capital which can be leveraged to undermine the freedom of the market is another.
How to run async JavaScript functions in sequence or parallel
Spend time understanding your current traffic and users.

- For the traffic: do the users just find it on Google Search, and then leave immediately? What are they looking for?

- For the requests: is it all from 1 or 2 users? Are there many users? Can you talk to them (email, chat box, ...). Do they use it for personal projects or for work? etc.

Once you have an idea of what's going on, you could start charging money, potentially.
Anime is used in subculture in Japan, but on TV (except for very specific time windows) and in the streets you dont see much of it. I live in Japan btw.
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White Discharge Treatment

Uncontrolled discharge of a white or sometimes yellowish, sticky, foul-smelling material from the vagina is called Leucorrhoea. In Ayurvedic history, Leucorrhoea is known as Shveta padaratha, where Shveta means ‘white color’, & Padaratha means ‘discharge of fluid’, generally known as whitish or yellowish discharge from female genitals. White discharge is normal sometimes because it shows change in hormones. Normally it occurs before girl’s first period, & hence considered as sign of puberty. But it’s an abnormal condition of reproductive organs of women when it continues for weeks or months. If not treated properly in starting stages, it becomes chronic problem of female vagina or cervix, generally non-pathological symptom secondary to inflammatory conditions of vagina. It’s common problem faced by every women of any age.
Flash was fast. Much faster than JavaScript+DOM at the time. In fact, it was only within the last few years that browser JavaScript and rendering engines became more performant.
Interesting, that is news to me, has it always been like that for Samsung? I was always under the impression most Smartphone or Electronics devices has a 1:! US:UK/EU pricing due to VAT.

So the S10e is only £669.00 in the UK inc. VAT? Are there any further discount from main-street retailers?
That is arguable. I am sure there are a lot of Harry Potter (and Star Wars, etc.) fans that have spent a lot of money on merchandising，which is not as accessible as DLC but is kind of the same idea.
Author here - hopefully the level of detail here will let others learn from our mistakes (and hopefully benefit from how we've chosen to fix them going forwards). Happy to answer any/all questions or comments.

TL;DR: keep your services patched; lock down SSH; partition your network; and there's almost never a good reason to use SSH agent forwarding.
Learn how to generate CSR in Microsoft IIS 10 with a step-by-step tutorial
Huh. I hadn't realised that two sigma were that old. My point still stands though.

Market making is a different kettle of fish in the sense that it's more of a financial service than a directional bet on markets. It's also much less capital intensive so there's less pressure to raise money from clients. As a market-maker, you can certainly find yourself on the wrong side of a trade, but generally the goal is to be as market-neutral as possible.
I use it more or less exactly how it was described here:

http://howardism.org/Technical/Emacs/literate-devops.html

The only real additions relate to internal tools which we developed for our work (I do sensor development and integration).
You can buy any part of it on aliexpress. There is quite big community around that model.
Are there any good alternatives that let you self host a server send don't send your data to someone else? All I've found are some plans from Spark. It doesn't look too difficult to make, just wondering if there were any other kit projects out there.
Essentially it is not anonymized but pseudonymous. No identifier and no timing data would be much closer to anonymous.

True bounded anonymous data is done by aggregation and/or mixing.
> is associated with significant and long-lasting changes in clients’ personalities, especially reductions in the trait of Neuroticism and increases in Extraversion.

Yes. That's how it should be.
Honestly I've never heard of DPF removals before (edit: reason being mandatory car inspection usually finds this modification where I live, apparently it used to be a thing for some time and then the inspection protocol was changed). I only heard about people bypassing the AGR (exhaust recirculation), but that's independent of diesel/petrol (both have them nowadays).

That being said DPF issues seem to mostly impact people who only use the car for short distances; I've lived with DPF diesel cars for ~10 years and no issues. That being said any ICE powered vehicle is completely unsuited for travelling short distances, not just from an ecology point of view. Some more than others, though, it seems.
Yes. The same is true for oil. We will in fact never run out of oil. The most part of what is left will stay where it is. In the ground.
OpenSUSE Leap looks interesting. They have a KDE option too, unlike RHEL 8.
Swift doesn't work natively on Windows which is a massive downer for many people.
A number of sites filled the void left in place of What.cd and preserve even more content than before. The community is very dedicated.
Better than most countries, yes.

Better than most of the western world? Not by far.
Distributed Fabric: A New Architecture for Container-Based Applications (2017)
Sure!

So an example is the old Renault Sport Clios. These had the 2.0 NA F4R 830 motor with cable actuated throttles. The combination of this and no turbo means the throttle response is immediate, much better than newer turbo cars with drive-by-wire throttles. In fact it's so much better than I went out and purchased one.

Power has no real correlation with throttle response. Auto boxes often make throttle response worse - in fact even the latest ZF8 gearboxes tend to have noticeable lag between applying throttle and the power to the wheels. If you want to experience this for yourself I would recommend driving a manual M235i and an auto M235i back to back.
As you are discovering, most people object strongly to the idea of removing streetlights. Darkness == the unknown == fear. Yet, many people live without streetlights, and we have lived without streetlights for most of our history. Although streetlights and other persistent night-time lights are useful, they are massively overused, and are increasingly being overused as they become more efficient.

https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/10/led-light-cfl-b.html
Hmm, mine were OMRON I think. Cost about AUD $5 each.
>This is massively confusing. Do we invest in Kotlin ...or do we invest in Dart ?

Oh come on. Pick one. That's what you do for every other platform. Hell, even for web development, you'll have to make framework and transpilation decisions. This is no different.

>These guys can't afford 10$ courses on udacity and Coursera.

Yeah, too bad there are no free ways to learn programming languages on the internet.

But there is something arrogant about stating that programmers in developing nations somehow aren't capable of reasoning about tool choices for Android development.