skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, I had to find out this was planned and acted on after the decision was made and the alternative was written without any regards of the original project.

And that is fine if it would stay pcp-dstat as-is.

The most upsetting to me is that Dstat is no longer a python tool you can drop on a JeOS, Synology NAS or a WRT router to get it to work, you now have to install PCP and all its dependencies to make it work, which goes against the original design goals. (i.e. we used to support Python 1.5 for a long time to accommodate RHEL2.1 during its life-cycle)

Also, by taking the Dstat code, removing the plugin mechanism and replacing it with a PCP backend, writing a python plugin for Dstat is no longer possible. This is promoted as being a feature as "your plugin is now a config file" which is a bit disingenuous as you have to write a PCP backend which is a lot harder.

And it is not even a drop-in replacement, it only implements the built-in counters, not the full set of plugins (i.e. --top plugins are missing). So the argument that it needs to work as-is for existing customers does not hold true either.

By taking that name (with the Red Hat clout) there is no chance of anyone taking over maintenance without having to deal with 2 products using the same name, which I guess is forcing your wish on other distributions too.

Wrt. the change was properly announced. I bet the checklist was properly checked. Or to quote Douglas Adams:

“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.”
Because WPF is .NET based and internal Microsoft teams with C++ codebases (like Windows and Office) didn't want to take a dependency on .NET (or rather they tried with Longhorn and couldn't make it work).
Don't really know how a single anecdotal experience can be used to extrapolate the value of the concept. This is about pay per value. If enough people value something and have enough ethical principle, they'll contribute. You can make a lot money if you add value to people. I pay $5 a month to a Fitness coach who posts amazing videos on youtube for free. It's valuable to me, so I return the favor. If someone falls on the street, we rush over help them up. The same concept needs to start applying for development.
If Github aren't doing KYC and AML, then their payment processor better have. Otherwise this is the swiftest way I've seen to make $5K.
How does SAML work in practice?
Since Microsoft's goal with everything they've been doing in the past few months has been to gain developer trust and mindshare (WSL, a better windows terminal, all the new Github features, etc.), I don't see this as a realistic outcome. They also don't seem to plan on monetizing this, as they're currently giving away free money and said they'll only start charging transaction fees next year. This whole endeavor is to get developers on Github so companies will pay to use Github enterprise
Yeah, the author is obviously a geed.
BTW, any other European retro-computing enthusiasts that see this, feel free to exchange your thoughts on how to find the machines that escaped the relentless push towards green tech.
I'm not even sure where to begin.

1. There is plenty of distinction from the Fifth Circuit decision - for example DAPA and expanded DACA deal with folks present in the country illegally, while H-4 spouses have legal status. Another distinction is that the H-4 work authorization is interstitial - it only applies to those with an approved green card petition, and bridges the gap until the green card is received. That does not apply to DAPA.

2. That Fifth Circuit case was never decided on its merits - it just upheld a preliminary injunction from the district court.
I would rather work less longer days than more shorter days, under any scheme. Maybe in a world where I was working fully remote, it wouldn't matter, but the overhead of getting ready, commuting, and getting wound down again is a constant that doesn't vary significantly whether I work 12 hours or one.
Depends on your investors - VC vs rich baseball player is different

Depends on DAU, MAU, time spent per day on app, estimated CAC and projected LTV

I'm sure a niche social media app with LTV of $10k/user but only 5k users could raise money easily
There’s also the Cosmo https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cosmo-communicator

It’s expensive and in prototype stage, but looks like a promising project.
No I've not read that. My background is in botany and I took coursework in evolutionary biology and evolutionary theory.
Its much more technical than the book you referenced, but I highly recommend:

https://www.amazon.com/Not-Design-Retiring-Darwins-Watchmake...

Warning: this book is very much oriented towards a technical discussion in evolutionary biology. Its not really built for entertainment.
> literally everyone who'd want to visit Facebook knows Facebook's URL

I'm not sure I'd agree with this. I don't think most people look at or really understand URLs or domain names. I think people assume they are a lot "fuzzier" than they are, so "facebookapp.com" or "facebook.foobar.com" or anything else would be assumed to be "Facebook" by most people.

As technical people it's easy for us to assume things that feel basic to us are at least understood but I don't think it's the case. My parents do most of their shopping online, and when I was growing up we always had computers around, but I don't think either one of them really understands URLs or things like file hierarchies, or windowing systems on desktops for example.
You could decode all of them as BigInt, but then you would be accepting a large overhead for the much greater number of constants like 1 or 42 where it's unnecessary.
Everywhere you pass that JSON data would need to be updated to operate in terms of BigInt instead of number.

If you only decoded big ones as BigInt, you would have the same problem of updating the code but now you have 2 codepaths at every callsite!

It's perhaps a defect in the JSON spec that it doesn't have a provision to support BigInt, but it's not really clear what should happen!
Look at some of the other products Teenage Engineering has produced. They have a crank control for the OP-1 (https://teenage.engineering/products/op-1/accessories) plus other LEGO accessories.
The paper itself concludes that

> Furthermore, all three forms of social class were
positively associated with actual rank, indicating that those with relatively high social class did objectively better on the flashcard game relative to their lower-class counterparts (rs range = .04 to .20, all ps < .001).

in line with the article.

The paper reported on statistical or percentile rank. Are you perhaps confusing it for colloquial "ranking"?
This abstracts out a couple of things:

- TfL isn't just the Tube. Tube profits are used, among other things, to cross subsidize the buses and ferries and whatnot, which carry less passengers per driver. There's also the stuff like bike infrastructure which has most of its cost frontloaded.

- Track is not a sunk cost, there's also ongoing maintenance and renewal. They've spent billions and are spending billions of pounds on upgrading the signals, and are also spending billions of pounds on upgrading the fleet and make it bigger. Not to mention capital works like building out the Northern Line Extension, the upgrade of Camden Town and eventual separation of the Northern Line, the continuous drive to build accessible access to stations, the assorted array of Crossrail-related upgrades, etc.

- National funding. TfL has seen its operating grant from the Department of Transport shrink to zero since 2017/2018, and has to make up for it from other sources.
Also IIRC there's no fee to park there on the weekend.
Here there's an offence known as "theft by deception" which would probably cover what is effectively a conspiracy to do so.
Remote-controlled car zips by on US interstate highway
I would agree: https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/15263800131...
Apple's Newest Store and the Logic of Philanthro-Capitalism
Concur. It's why I pay $1/month to his Patreon account.
What Is Visual Testing? A Definitive Answer [and Approach]
GitLab actually has an open source SCM that you can selfhost.
IBM makes it illegal for customers to build emulators for most mainframe products, to protect their business.
Line Wobbler! https://wobblylabs.com/projects/wobbler
The most comfortable suit is still more uncomfortable than a t-shirt and shorts.
Thanks for the heads up. I'm not totally convinced about "Pythonic" as a figure of merit for anything (often it seems to merely mean "clunky"), but it's a good point about the wasted allocation [1]. And the one-liner for-loop is almost identical to the comprehension anyway.

I think the reason I instinctively write it this way is because in my mind, I basically think of list comprehensions as sugar for map + lambda. I'm "really" trying to write map(enable, psus). But of course, it's a method, so you need the instance[2] - map(lambda psu: psu.enable(), psus). The reason I prefer a map over a for loop is because it's a habit borne of the principle of least power - map provides a guarantee than no "funny business" (data dependency) is going on between the elements of the list you're iterating over. I scrupulously avoid for loops on principle, unless I need that kind of funny business. Of course in this case the for loop is so short as to make no difference, but like I say - it's a habit. In my code, "for" means "funny business here".

[1] not that it matters in this case - you're not toggling power supplies in a tight loop.

[2] Technically, in Python, map(psus[0].enable, psus) would work if psus was not empty. Or you could spawn a new instance: map(PSU().enable, psus). But ugh, talk about defeating the purpose.
It looks like you sponsor an individual and not necessarily an entire project. I get that it is wayyy less complex to build that MVP, but I wonder how project dynamics will change if you have a team of, say, 3 core contributors that are in actuality dividing work fairly evenly but one contributor is for some reason getting 50%, 100%, 200%+ more in contributions than another contributor.
Now what to about the Birds and Limes.
The acquisition isn’t even closed yet and suddenly every decision done is mysteriously pushed by IBM.

I am not saying that "every decision is mysteriously pushed by IBM." I'm saying that IBM culture will - over the long run - infect Red Hat. To pretend otherwise is, IMO, pretty naive. Over the decades, company after company after company has been acquired, and nearly every time the acquiring company makes the same promises about maintaining autonomy for the acquired company. And sometimes it holds up for a few months, or even a few years. But every single time, at least that I can recall, in the long run the acquired company eventually gets totally absorbed by the parent and starts to take on their characteristics. I haven't heard any cogent argument yet to justify believing that this time will be different.

IBM are also not idiots because it would destroy they purchase.

Like the way IBM managed to avoid destroying Lotus, Informix, Tivoli, Rational, Sequent, Truven, Explorys, Phytel, etc.?
> Google Analytics

Ah, wonderful. Google and whoever is developing the app snooping on what you do in your terminal. What could go wrong?
Nike Says “Girls Can Do Anything and Everything”
The New Yorker (and virtually every other NYC media outlet) is staffed with young arrogant liberals that get uncomfortable when you ask how they can afford to live there (hint: wealthy boomer parents). Harboring contempt for the financial district downtown is baked into their ethos.
WPF started XAML, then came Silverlight, WinRT and UWP. They are superficially similar but under the hood the code is quite different and each has its own set of weird limitations so you can't just reuse code. Also, in the case of WinRT and I think also UWP the new framework had less features than its predecessor so in a sense it was worse and less powerful which is not a good way to convince people to port their code.

When WPF came out there were quite a few very cool open source projects that built on top of it because it's really easy to extend WPF and build components for it. But then every two or three years MS announced a new framework so most of these efforts died out. When you look at commercial third party suppliers like Developer Express they have the same component in three or four flavors. this must be a huge and expensive effort to maintain.
It annoys me that the README correctly indicates this is a terminal emulator, but not the title
Reduced working time doesn't have to be accompanied by reduced pay
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/asia/four-day-workw...

We just need to realise that most office workers don't work 40 hours anyway and adjust cultural norms accordingly.

> (zero hour contracts, shift work, part time, ...... etc).

These are fairly recent phenomena, not only in the UK but all over the world, aren't they. We need to fight against it.

> It feels like one of those ideas that would work if there were less scarcity in the environment.

Isn't it obvious that there IS less scarcity since the beginning of the 40-hour culture? Perhaps it just wasn't distributed fairly.
China is surprisingly carbon-efficient–but still the world’s biggest emitter
Who's forcing anything? It's op-in. I welcome our capitalist overlord with open-arms if they want to sponsor my volunteer work. It's a win-win scenario.
Well, we do try to do better than the Cottington planning department. Like all changes, it was posted to devel-announce (https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel-announce...) to get more visibility than just a devel-list post (or a random wiki page).

In retrospect, it would have been nice for the devs working on this to contact you directly and explicitly about the proposed change. I'm sorry that didn't happen.

But here we are now -- at this point, what outcome would you like?
> and they are also making it infeasible (in most cases) to transpile BigInt code to fallback code using Babel or similar tools.

That doesn't sound like a recommendation.
Especially as, if you're in a situation where you have to use CGI rather than a better server worker solution, you probably also don't have access to the environment to install pip packages.
Is VS Code not an IDE at this point?
I don't think this comment is very accurate.

The first party stores do not make more money than Steam and other third party stores combined with mobile

I also don't really know what business model you're describing. Subscription with a weekly game drop? PSN is the subscription for online Playstation services and it comed with several free games a month. There are a few existing "stream any game" services as well, PSNow, Origin's subscription etc.
Mine is a cheap one, it does not have an external sdcard slot. It just has the internal 32GB, 1 usb3 and 1 usb2 slot and the HDMI port (and wireless and bluetooth). So i could boot from an external USB, but that kinda kills the point of the computer stick :)
Well first, we're talking about the zip code one is raised in not the zip code one ends up in later in life. Second, we're discussing the efficacy of IQ as an actual measure of intelligence. You're assuming IQ is a good measure of intelligence in order to prove IQ is a good measure of intelligence. Sure, zip codes are a proxy for IQ if we accept that IQs test something other than just intelligence.

Finally, the causal relationship you have set up between intelligence and quality of living situation, while undoubtedly true to _some_ extent, ignores everything we know about system racism, system sexism, our horrific healthcare system and a host of other factors that complicate this idea - at least in the US.
The Fairness Doctrine? That might do it. If people who only get their information from one source get both sides from that source, that might help.

But I suspect that these days, there'd be just a caricature/strawman of the other side, not an honest presentation, and therefore it wouldn't actually help. (And I don't just mean Fox would do it. I could see CNN doing the same, just less blatantly.)

And, those who only want to hear one side can get their "news" online these days. So I don't think it would work. It might help, though.

I don't have an answer, either, by the way.
IMO, the most natural method is simply:

>file
IIRC the rodent populations can reproduce much faster than their predators and completely overwhelm them. Worse, once the fruits are gone the rodents start to eat everything in sight until they starve en-masse and leave the ground covered in dead rats.

Unless you are highly adept at making rat jerky you are going to be in trouble when winter comes.
Tesla’s demise could bring down the whole ‘house of cards,’ warns strategist
there is a very real difference between a terror attack, and a normal call out.

the reason why the area was delegated hot was because of reports of gun fire/ramming.

sadly, your logic isn't correct, we still have firefighters burn to death while trying to rescue civis.

--https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/jul/04/grenfell-tow...

"A firefighter at Grenfell Tower prepared to die when his oxygen almost ran out during the attempted rescue of a 12-year old girl because the fire lift failed, the public inquiry has heard."

many people died in this event, not because of firefighters on the ground, but because of leadership/command/govt.
> Am I doing things wrong?

No. Mutating state that is shared between different parts of a program is often a bad idea. The functional programming community learned the first half of that, and now goes round preaching the mistaken idea that all mutation is bad.
The solution to that is to have enough solar to generate the power you need even on cloudy days, then sell the excess to the power company on normal days.
My current side project idea: build a modern programming language with a nice syntax that compiles (transpiles?) to mainframe COBOL, mostly to get mainframe programmers to stop writing code in SHOUTING ALL CAPS.
>Consider the "Tyranny of Rockets" problem: if you want to send a rocket up 1 km, you need X fuel. But to get to 2 km, you need way more than 2X fuel- because you first have to carry all that extra fuel up 1 km, which takes more energy/fuel, before you can use it to go the other km. And if you want 3 km up... well, you get the idea. It's exponential in cost.

Is this correct? I know how the Tyranny of the Rocket Equation relates to mass, but I've never heard it used in terms of altitude before. Using the kinematic equations, it seems the initial velocity required to reach height 2X would actually be less than double of that for just X. However, I'm not sure if that also applies to rocket launches and if it does how it relates to fuel requirements.

Feel free to correct me if I'm on the completely wrong track here.
I really hope you are right. :)

> The IPCC doesn't do any research themselves and don't check the data, its a meta-study.

The people writing the chapters are involved in doing the research. (It's not like doing that is a full-time job, mind.)

> What started my skepticism was when I realized they don't actually know how much human co2 emissions affect the temperature. Go try and find that number, you won't find it cause we don't know.

For anyone wondering, look here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_sensitivity

Short answer - doubling the atmospheric CO2 should lead to an increase between 1.5 and 4.5°C, though more current work I remember narrowed the range down somewhere around 2.3°C-3°C. There is a lot of work down to narrow it down further.
As I've read the comments here, I've realized that I really don't like the idea.

This puts:
a) A lot of power into the control of Github
b) changes the entire incentive model for FOSS development
c) devalues the aspects of a "sharing economy" and "co-opetition" that FOSS has grown.

My question: Will a sponsored person be able to see who has donated to them? That should be kept anonymous. Otherwise people will be able to "buy" the feature they want over others. Community interests will be lost.
The steep learning curve is worth it because most of the paradigms of WPF are transferable to other frameworks. It's my opinion that learning it well will actually make you a more organized programmer in terms of your architectural chops.

Its heavy use of binding, aspect oriented programming, dependency injection, cascading styling dictionaries, converters etc. are heavily leaned upon in a number of other UI frameworks. Once you understand how to organise these paradigms properly, you'll find a lot of other frameworks far easier to migrate to.

It's well worth learning, even if it's just as a transitory learning mechanism. I'm a big fan of learning frameworks that change your way of thinking and reduce the learning curve of other technologies. It's not for the feint of heart though - if you've never learned architecture to a level where you can separate your UI concerns from your logic properly and learned how to inject function into your UI from your viewmodel, there are some hard concepts to wrap your head around - especially when it comes to debugging - if you don't separate your concerns properly, it will make testing and debugging a bitch.

There are a lot of "Oh wow! I never thought about it like that!" moments of realization on the curve - rather like that moment when Scotty realizes that he never considered that it was space that was moving in his transporter algorithms.
I enjoy these puzzles a lot in my commute time. Recently on a flight to Germany I built a solver in python. It was a pretty great way to consume a portion of the long flight from US.

I’ve recently started reading up on optimization strategies, my first attempt was pretty straightforward. It’s a fun exercise I recommend for anyone who likes solving these puzzles manually.
You can certainly serialize to a string but knowing when you should revive to a BigInt seems tricky. You could prefix the strings I guess?
Is this really done? It seems like this approach would require all arrays to be allocated with at least a page's worth of memory, which seems incredibly wasteful if you have a bunch of small arrays with a handful of floats or something.
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Medication is one way, but not very sustainable. Do take the medicines your doctor prescribes, but also plan with your healthcare professionals to taper off the dosage. For longer term, therapy, counselling, meditation, exercise & diet are better suited. It depends a lot on the severity of the symptoms though.
An AGI, connected to Micro-Electro-Mechanical switches, could learn to let hot air molecules into a box and cold air molecules out of that same box. But such an AGI would function as Maxwell's Demon, and would break the laws of thermodynamics if they didn't consume a certain amount of energy and give off a certain amount of waste heat in the process.

So intelligence = entropy production and energy consumption, and so it cannot grow out of control and transform the planet overnight.
It is inconsequential
I think BWI has one if you're in the right spot. It was closed the last time I was there, however.