skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That makes no difference whatsoever. All UTFs are mappings of USVs to bytes.

As a last resort to try and clarify what I meant in my original post (requoted below):

> The only reason I can see is in ensuring that text is losslessly convertible to other UTFs, particularly UTF-16 (which exists for historical reasons)

What I mean here is that if converting to a UTF is important, then maybe restricting strings to code points or Unicode scalar values is justified. If textual data is stored in bytes that are conventionally UTF-8, there should be no need to do any conversion to a UTF, since ultimately the only UTF that is useful should be UTF-8. All you would be doing by "converting to a UTF" is losing information.

That was my last attempt. I'm sorry if you still can't understand it.
reCaptcha has a noscript alternative with iframes and checkboxes. Once completed you have to manually copy an authorisation string to a field and submit it.
What strange goalpost shifting.

China's adherence to the Paris Accord despite agreeing to far greater cuts in emissions than most of the developed world is globally recognised.
Trump pulled out of the worldwide agreement a few years ago and regardless the States wasn't even on track to meet it's paltry targets.

The hypocrisy is front and center on the world stage.
> [...], we use a private mail server.

I will always recommend against running your own mail infrastructure. The administrative expense is to high in the long run. Unless you want to employ a 24/7 on-call admin team, Office365 is always the better choice. Email encryption can still be done client side (SMIME/PGP).
this little extract is one that i identify with a lot:

Christina Kimont, 38, speaks of a similar experience. “The fact that I can be immediately good at something has left me as a jack-of-all-trades and master of none, so to speak, and left me rather adrift when it came to finding my life’s purpose.”
This didn't work for me the first three times I tried. It said I had to log into the app and deactivate my account (which of course I can't do because I don't have an account). It eventually claims to have worked on the fourth try, but I have no way of checking because it doesn't let you look up numbers without being logged in.
There are broadly 3 levels of the amount of data that people have:

- Fits on one computer (most of the market)

- Fits on several computers (most of the rest)

- Requires a significant cluster of machines (50+ to store it)

Hadoop only really solves the last one. It has huge overheads in terms of speed and in terms of resources and headcount to run it properly, so it only makes sense at a particular scale. It's like a mainframe – most companies shouldn't buy one.

If you add to this the fact that Hadoop was about batch processing, and its "realtime" capabilities were poor, there really aren't that many potential customers, and many of the potential customers would rather run it in-house, or build their own system.
small aside, but it looks like rkt is not going to be that replacement. Recent disclosure of vulnerabilities in rkt that Redhat are apparently not going to bother patching indicates they don't currently see it as an active project.
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I have our work VOIP account set up on my Android phone. It's integrated into the dialer and works for incoming and outgoing calls. On outgoing calls I have to select whether I want to use the SIM or the VOIP account.

It's a geographic (local) number to our office and costs £7.99 per month. Seems like it would be easy enough to add one for personal use as well.
The controls are terrible. I can't figure out how to zoom, and if I right click I get into some sort of "tilt" mode that can't be escaped from without reloading the page.
Quite an unfortunate situation for those who would like public pressure on apps to minimize the permissions they ask for. Atleast in whatsapp's case it would be hard to convince most people to stop allowing contact access to the app as being able to send messages to all your phone contacts without any setup on your part is probably one of the major reasons that whatsapp became so popular.
hope it's better than UE4 support for it, which is basically 'here's a bunch of code, good luck'. it has such crippling bugs its utterly unusable. Good luck unity to do better! I hope they make it awsome.
This paragraph sums it up:

"My first hint that this was a skewed view came in university. I very quickly learned that, while I may have been the “best” in all of my high school classes, I was now in a place where my peers had been the “best” in theirs as well — and in most cases, their best was better than mine. This realization automatically dulled some of my drive to succeed. I would never gain the admiration and accolades I had received my whole life up until this point, so where was the desire to try? Still, I managed to get by receiving relatively good grades without an extreme amount of effort."

I too was gifted. I too had problems in college upon realizing I wasn't the smartest guy in the room anymore - sometimes by a long shot. Fortunately I had a couple things to save me. One was an article pointing out that most of the millionaires, using being a millionaire as a proxy for success, were all average or "C" students in school. The article theorized it was due to the "smart" kids getting lazy because things came too easily for them. The other was I grew up in a lower class household and my father worked on the side on home improvement projects - kitchen, bathroom and family room remodels. I had to work with him since he often needed help. Unfortunately I had learned to apply a strong work ethic to work, but not to school. Once I made that adjustment everything turned out fine. I ended up graduating summa cum laude. Has my life turned out as I expected? No - and that's a good thing. But that's also another story!
I'm not up to date on the relevant research, but isn't most learned or innate intuition just a set of fuzzy rules based on observation (be it visual or other sensory perception; or pre-defined behaviour in the case of innate intuition)?

If I play tennis for a while, I will get better at predicting where the ball will go after my opponent hits it merely because I have seen many combinations of shots and subsequent ball trajectories.

I think it would be weird to not call it an intuition just because it was learned by a deep neural net in this case.
Revealing someone's name and occupation to random strangers isn't a privacy violation?
Can somebody enlighten me why robo-calls are such a problem in the US? I'm completely ignorant of any relevant legislation or enforcement, but as a young German I can literally remember exactly two unsolicited survey calls in my whole life, both on a landline.

This suggests some fundamental difference compared to the US which maybe should be changed instead of a third party band-aid app with lots of problems, but again I don't know this difference and thus will refrain from judging...
I recently bought the E480 (20KNS0LE00) and would definitely vouch for it.

(converted INR to USD)
The initial specs were ($730)
- 4GB RAM
- i5-8250U (8) @ 3.400GHz
- 1 TB HDD

I decided to upgrade to 480GB SSD and 12GB RAM as it has two memory slots. The upgrade cost me $120

I am running arch linux on it and it's pretty smooth.

The only downsides are: Display is not FHD and the Keyboard is not backlit. (The models here in India do not seem to have them, but I really needed one as my current laptop was almost unusable.)
It said that for me too, and I've never had an account. I kept trying and it somehow worked on the fourth try. The format I used was "+1xxxxxxxxxx" for the number, not sure if that made any difference.
Don’t know if it’s an option but I wouldn’t mind Firefox always suspending unused tabs.
Indeed you're right, but the problem is that your devs' machines and your production systems are running different OS's/distributions.

Nix tries to solve this, but it isn't there just yet.
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A DSL can be immensely useful in terms of useability. But it is not trivial to be done right. You need to define a consistent grammar, make sure it's intuitive to your users and free of all sorts of fun bugs that happen when odd constructs are put together.
> The website encountered an unexpected error. Please try again later.

Has somebody a copy?
Bought the ThinkPad x1 carbon as a replacement for my 2015 MBP a few days back and the experience has been really disappointing.

It took me a couple of hours just to install all the latest updates/drivers/bios updates. The Lenovo provided "updater" software is just horrible. The windows UX actually feels nice for me, just need to get used to it.
Setting up development environment has been a struggle though. Linux subsystem feels super slow and the lack of good terminal makes it even worse. Upcoming WSL 2 update and the new terminal should improve this though but I wouldn't hold my breath.

In conclusion - I'm not recommending switching to windows. There's basically nothing that feels better than on Macs, except that the laptop itself was a lot cheaper.

EDIT: + I'm really impressed that I can still sell the old macbook for like 600€. The ThinkPad will probably depreciate in value a lot more.
Evidently not or Docker wouldn't exist.

Yes, Docker is a shitty solution to just packaging applications, but it exists because Linux developers keep saying "apt exists. It's solved! What's the problem? Static linking? Why would you want that? Portable binaries? But apt is the only place you need to put your app so you don't need them!"
The problem that I have with Our World in Data is the how the counting is so biased AF

As an example

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2015/white/index

VS

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2015/black/index.h...

That is, if you are a Black Male in the US between 15 and 35, yes homicide is how you are more likely to go. And that news becomes very important to Black mothers, fathers, grandparents. The real — as in US government stats — on infant and maternal mortality are also worse than many Caribbean countries.

My takeaway is that there are different “world”s within countries — especially for marginalized groups where the country doesn’t have the will or resources for a safety net.
"It's only the urban middle class who worry about the preservation of the countryside, because they don't have to live in it."

- Sir Humphrey, Yes, Minister
The Battle.net launcher uses Qt, and they already have a macOS version of it, so it shouldn't be too difficult to port.

Edit: That said, it's not like the lack of Unity Editor on Linux was stopping them from having a Linux version of Hearthstone. It has been possible to target Linux for years.
Building public infrastructure just isn't a priority in the US. We can analyze the differences all we want but at the end of the day it just isn't that important. US society and politics isn't focused on that kind of thing and it is becoming less of a priority in Europe as well.

Addition: I don't know why this would be objectionable. The US has built a lot of infrastructure. Europe has built a lot of infrastructure. So has China, the Middle East, Korea, Japan and whoever else. They all have different system and ways of doing things. And they all fail and fall behind when it is no longer a priority. What the problem then is, is interesting, but not really that relevant. Because the problem is you can't fix the problem. Say you would need to restructure the MTA, who is going to do that? No one because there isn't much to gain, and a lot to lose. It's the same with housing markets. There are dozens of ways you could tackle housing, but it just isn't a priority. While protecting property values and not alienating voters is. It is a social rather than a technical problem.
We can only wonder.

Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional.[1]

[1]https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/
I only have anecdata of course but so far I've had a 100% success rate. I imagine this will come down eventually but for the past ~year or so it's been working fine to just hide the honeypot field with CSS
You could use JavaScript cryptocurrency mining instead. User clicks a button to activate miner script, it runs in their browser for 10-30 seconds or whatever, then reports back to your server that they are good to go.
If technology doesn't catch up, then we're doomed. But that's unlikely; there's nothing like a crisis to spur innovation.

We're dealing with human nature here. People have their own problems to deal with, and tend to ignore things that aren't an immediate concern. So you need to adjust their environment in a way that aligns their goals with some environmental goals, all without destroying your economy. Do it too fast or hard, and your economy crashes, and all environmental incentives go out the window as your country's focus changes to getting out of bankruptcy.

It calls for finesse and timing.
A lot of companies think they need machine learning because the management consultants tell them they do (and hey, we can set it up for you!). And those that are "doing machine learning", often aren't doing it very well and have trouble applying it to the business.

Note I'm not saying all. Just 99%, like the parents comment referred to. That leftover 1% are the companies you can name off the top of your head. ExxonMobil, Target, Chase, Visa, etc.
A Google programme failed to detect cold fusion – but is still a success
> Yes, that use case sounds very much like what Profiles are for.

I'm not quite sure how profiles work in Chrome, but from a Firefox point-of-view this is only true if you also want to keep your history/bookmarks/settings/add-ons completely separate, too.
Here is the one I found

https://ifex.org/serious-privacy-concerns-raised-about-the-a...
Probably half and half. Crichton's writing always has some scientific roots even if it's pseudoscience (and some of his books have a real obvious agenda). He usually is tapping into an overstated but real fear, and I think Jurassic Park is firmly rooted in correctly fearing man's tendency to leap into something without fully understanding the risks if they see major benefits.
Seems like the website is having some problems, here’s a mirror: https://web.archive.org/web/20190531023057/https://www.priva...
It's not whether you need it, it's about becoming a standard. Ubiquity is a strength. It's much easier to learn a few docker commands that will run a container the same way everywhere instead of worrying about distros, folders, config files, volumes, etc. The container registry also makes software distribution much nicer than installing and configuring repos.

It's great that you compile postgres but I just want to run it in a clean and portable way, along with several other programs, and without learning new workflows for each one. Docker containers give people more options to package and run software in a simple standardized process while offloading the tedious system details that don't matter. That's progress.
I think the author's point is:

> I can give my coworker a docker image and it mostly "just work" without failing because she happens to be running a slightly different version of Ubuntu with different system libraries present.

"I can give my coworker a VM image and it mostly "just work" without failing because she happens to be running a slightly different version of Ubuntu with different system libraries present."

and also:

"I can give my coworker a full system container image and it mostly "just work" without failing because she happens to be running a slightly different version of Ubuntu with different system libraries present."
What is even a Docker startup? Docker the tool is a relief in every way & so is Kubernetes.
Small companies can sell their data. Almost all of the data collected by all those small companies mentioned in those GDPR popups will end up in the hands of a few large entities.

The data is the same, regardless of who collects it. Leaking it is equally dangerous.
Yeah, you're always going to be reliant on third parties in a complex world. What is important is how beholden or locked in you are in any given arrangement. If you are free to move from one contractor to another because they are all interoperable, then you're independent in a more important sense.
No it wouldn't have. What's unzipping and running that code? What's monitoring it and restarting it? How do you mount volumes and env variables? How do you open ports and maintain isolation?

A container is vastly more powerful for running an application than a tar file.
Sure but the point is that almost nobody does.
>> facebooks, googles or reddits

Yes, it definitely seems with market leadership comes big data. Seems to me big data is highly relevant. More relevant now than ever.
> Can't, say, Ericsson take the radios in their cell towers or picocells, redo their tape-outs for phone scale, and end up with a workable mobile radio?

They can, and they did. Not exactly of course, the two products are fundamentally different, but the organization owns enough IP and good engineers to make a viable product. From a technology standpoint it seems reasonable.

The problem is that the competition is tough and you need to stay on your toes with much more rapid iteration than on the "other leg" where you sell expensive stuff to telcos. And the margins on the consumer side are smaller. So, historically, it has proven very difficult to host the same two "legs" in the same organization. The one with bigger more reliable business tends to push the other out. It's been the same with much of the computer industry too.
I agree that it's possible - potentially trivial - for a bot to figure out if a field is hidden from view, but "really ineffective" seems a bit extreme for something I've seen work well multiple times.

It's not a definitive solution, but it's an easy and practically free first line of defense for a young project, and depending on the project, can stand for years.

Overall, it depends on the sophistication of the bots your project attracts.
VMs are application agnostic, while Kubernetes is a service manager.

If you want to run 200 different services on 40 machines, you may find hand crafted VMs easier to create and forget.

If you want to run 10 services with different levels of replication and redundancy on 40 machines, then Kubernetes will do that for you.
I have very good experiences with Gitlab CI: It just recompiles the PDF(s) from the repository within a minimal docker container (containing a full Tex Live repository) and pushes them online on a website (sFTP or similar). Also Gitlab allows to host the build assets.
What if they destroyed the accessibility of the land, thereby making logging and farming uneconomical?
> This happens in both startups and enterprises alike: people like to think they have big problems too often.

A.k.a. resume-driven development. Having Hadoop on your CV looks sexier than awk.
Relational databases work just fine for terabytes of data. Aparently there are postgres deployments with petabytes of data. There aren't all that many companies with datasets that require anything else. Google and Twitter have the problems Hadoop solves, but it's fair to say that approximately nobody else has those problems.
Also relevant if you want nationalized healthcare expect to pay a significant amount more in taxes. America is the third most populous country in the world with over 320M documented citizens + an unknown amount of undocumented citizens. Roughly half of the us population does not pay income taxes yet still need to be covered by healthcare. It’s probably much more affordable and of better quality to get a private insurance plan. So either be an entrepreneur who makes money so that you can afford that option or get healthcare through a company and moonlight your way to the top. Edit: also you can elect S-Corp and get a payroll system like ADP with a healthcare plan they provide
That's a good idea, but it requires the language ecosystem to be shipped with that kind of preprocessor. In the given examples (Java and Python), that's not the case. And the proposal fails if you comment out non-compiling code without the context switch to a preprocessor:

if false:
this(does not compile)
else:
that.might("be")
This is great!

I have high hopes for it, since the experimental version already worked quite well for some time. Still, Unity was one of the reasons I got Win10 on an external hard drive...

It's quite a dead meme, but with things like photopea, Blender, smooth Linux VsCode version, stepping stone distros like Mint and now Unity the year of the Linux desktop might come!
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Should You Move to Bali?
That's awesome. Go Ireland. They benefited somewhat from the tech investment yet they are not scared to stand up to the same. I like it. They're historically neutral so perhaps that sort of fits.
> The one thing that I've come to realize is that we're losing. The web is now closed. Owned by Facebook and Twitter for the most part.

Nah.. They're both losing users.

The problem with "modern" internet is, that there's more and more people using it, and that makes the numbers 'weird'. The number of IRC users is probably higher than it was in the late 1990s/early 2000s. But back then only geeks used internet, and only they were on irc.. and now.. a lot of them are still there, just that now there is a bunch of of other people on facebook.

As we've seen with myspace, digg, etc., and as we're seeing with tumblr and also facebook now, younger, more tech-savy users have no issues with changing platforms.. from facebook to tumblr to snapchat to instagram to SomethingNew(TM).

One "bad" turn of events, one company that doesn't want to sell to facebook, and the "owned by" sentance will be completely different in a couple of years.
AIUI, concrete is there for fire code reasons. You want the stairwell to burn last to give everyone a chance to get out.
Where people harvest their own money
That I didn't know. I don't remember ever seeing it, I suppose it is not used much?
wow desoxyn is a pretty powerful chemical (if memory serves its pharmaceutical methamphetamine) just getting elvanse was a struggle for me and its not enough that ive stopped backing it up with cigs and coffee, i wouldnt think id need to go to the level of desoxyn but a slightly higher dose on my elvanse would likely help me however theyre reluctant enough to give me the dose i have let alone increase it
There are torrent sites that do this already (not as spam prevention, just to generate money). It's pretty annoying but I guess for spam prevention you could make the length of time shorter.
Consider the case of carrying electronics (or storage) vs. shipping them, crossing borders, and implications for inspection.

If it's not on you, they can't beat it out of you.

Of course, they might decide to beat you anyway. Which raises the question of whether it's strong crypto or rule of law that matters more. I'm not sure which way I come dwn on that myself, though could argue for bits of both.
"Currently, we estimate that your browser has a fingerprint that conveys at least 17.66 bits of identifying information."

However, some of the information sent by my (stock browser) is clearly false:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/60.0

Platform: Linux x86_64

I didn't mess with my user agent, so I assume this is related "resistfingerprinting" in about:config.
No, your strawman collapsed when I realized that if/when the new Nazis DO take over society to the point where anti-Nazis get kicked off Twitter, I'll probably already be in a prison camp or mass grave.
no insomnia for me, i take my dose in the morning but i sleep better since going on them rather than worse
Does 'ultra-processed' food cause earlier death?
Nope, screen readers (usually?) ignore elements with "display: none".

To be sure, you could add aria-hidden="true", which I'd guess most bots don't recognize.

http://alistapart.com/article/now-you-see-me/
It’s a four year old account with 1300 karma.