skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not allowing post downvotes is, IMO, a key factor in what allows HN to be such a great community. Subreddits that allow downvoting, for instance, often see topics that would expand their contributors' horizons "die in New" not because they are against the rules, per say, but because the user who happens to see them first thinks "this isn't my cup of tea." Flagging is the right answer - let people flag flagrant rule violations, but don't let them kill things they find uninteresting. That allows interesting content to rise for everyone.
The fact is, the West (mainly talking about the U.S. here) doesn't care about freedom. They've made this clear many, many times. It's a buzzword, used when convenient.

It sounds better to say you're invading a country to bring freedom to its people then to say you're invading to take their oil.
I'm probably going to buy it; I do 3D animation/simulation stuff that gets huge benefits from parallelism, and it sounds like the Ryzen 9 beats everything other than the top-line Threadripper 2990WX (which has 32 cores but only 3GHz base clock with 4.2 boost). The Threadripper isn't a clear winner (the base and boost clocks are quite a bit lower), and they're super pricey ($1.7k). $750 for 16 cores at 3.3/4.3GHz is incredible.
Three surprising why most website and mobile app redesigns fail
So stop using Facebook. (I'm not defending Facebook's practices, but nothing is stopping you, your friends, or family from just not using Facebook/Insta/What's App anymore.) Is a banned account really something that should be subject to a public vote? That's ridiculous; that implies that Facebook is some kind of human right. It isn't. Stop using it if you don't like it.
"symlink is just a file…"

A file for which you exclusively use lstat() & readlink() instead of all the other usual functions in the standard library you use for regular files. What about named pipes? Or sockets? Or whiteout? Are they too just files since they have a filename?
Beaker didn't run on my Ubuntu. I opened an issue and was ignored.

I guess Dat is too much JavaScript to be worth it anyway. The tooling and documentation are very poor, most of stuff is outdated. They claim to have a vibrant community but it's mostly two or three guys loving their Beaker browser and caring none about the rest of the world. Perfectly fine for a closed community, but not for a protocol that should be aiming widespread adoption.
>Justice isn't a pick and choose kind of thing.

Yes, it is. That is the entire purpose of the executive branch; choosing what laws to enforce. We don't have the capacity to enforce every law. There are such a ridiculous amount of laws on the books over the last 250 years that enforcing them all is impossible. So, we prioritize things. There is a reason why most lawyers will suggest that you don't talk to the police without an attorney present[0]. If they want to get you for something, they will find something.

Also, justice and law are not the same at all. We do not have a justice system. We have a legal system. If you have more money, you will almost always have more favorable outcomes in court. I'm not saying to throw the baby out with the bathwater. We need some laws and law enforcement. But legality does not equal morality. You have to weigh things on their own.

[0]https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE
Why not both? Practice is useless without direction, direction is useless without practice.
Europe is a very important component there as well. The EU plus wider Europe is an economy the size of the US, so a very substantial part of the global economy to say the least.

It remains to be seen exactly how Europe will go in regards to dealing with China. I think that will have a considerable impact on the extent of China's economic isolation, if that is to be (assuming they don't liberalize access to their economy and end various negative trade practices).

Obviously most of the major economies of Europe are increasingly debating how to handle China. In terms of potentially limiting China's access to their markets, limiting the ability of China to buy their companies, forced technology transfer, and so on. The outcome of which way/s Europe breaks on this topic is an interesting wrench in the whole thing (eg Western Europe might put up further defenses, while parts of Southern Europe and Eastern Europe + Russia may go more heavily with China).

If you're eg German automobile makers or Italian & French fashion / cosmetics companies (LVMH is drowning in Chinese sales presently, making Bernard Arnault worth nearly $100b), you desperately want to maintain full access to China at low tariffs.
U.S. pet doctors steel themselves for online pharmacy challenge
I think OP's point was that the phone would physically be with the courier for a part of the day.
The danger with external funding is forced growth before the platform is ready to be monetized.
A Step-by-Step Guide to the High Stakes Interview
It sounds like you've built yourself a wonderful life. I think people really underestimate the greatness of doing seemingly mundane things consistently. All the things you mentioned seem trivial to an outsider, but over the course of a life, they make your whole existence so much much more pleasant.

Investing time in a marriage, or parenting, or working out seems less important than just about anything at the moment you have the opportunity to do it, but lots of people get divorced and it makes them very unhappy. Lots of people are estranged from their children and it makes them very unhappy. Lots of people suffer from health problems directly related to diet and exercise.

Obviously there are lots of things we can't control and I certainly don't mean to suggest that anyone who gets divorced, etc. brought it on themselves, but for how mundane most people consider these things, becoming a fit, healthy 60 year old who is happily married to a wife of multiple decades with fulfilled adult children is really quite exceptional. I think that would fit most people's idea of a "great" outcome, but in my experience, people don't really strive toward that on a daily basis, because the daily building blocks don't seem important.

From what I've seen as an attorney and tax accountant, greatness in a profession is also more closely related to getting the little things right day after day than any sort of heroic undertaking. There's always a place for heroics, but I think most people would be surprised at how often the little things get messed up, and how easy it is to look quite competent by just doing the seemingly mundane things consistently.
Win+1,2,3,4,5... does what you ask for, in both Windows and Ubuntu. It follows the order of the apps on your task bar.
But China had started to take more control over Hong Kong well before any protectionist trends. Maybe they took the West’s blasé attitude as a signal that they could get away with anything, including concentration camps.
Dark mode.

I know, I know, that's an old one as well. But hey, it would be really really nice.
Are EVs more expensive to insure in 2019?
I don't think you're wrong in a technical sense, but the human factors in a contemporary DAW environment are imposing a huge penalty on what's possible.

The biggest issue is that we're using plugins written by third parties to a few common standards. Even when the plugins themselves are not trying to make use of a multicore environment, you still get compatibility bugs and various taxes on re-encoding input and output streams to the desired bit depth and sample rate. It can really throw a wrench into optimizing at the DAW level because you can't just go in and fix the plugins to do the right thing.

Then add in the widely varying quality of the plugin developers, from "has hand-tuned efficient inner loops for different instruction set capabilities" to "left in denormal number processing, so the CPU dies when the signal gets quiet." Occasionally someone tries to do a GPU-based setup, only to be disappointed by memory latency becoming the bottleneck on overall latency(needless to say, latency is really prioritized over throughput in real-time audio).

Finally, the skillsets of the developers tend to be math-heavy in the first place: the product they're making is often something like a very accurate simulation of an analog oscillator or filter model, which takes tons of iterations per sample. Or something that is flinging around FFTs for an effect like autotune. They are giving the market what it wants, which is something that is slightly higher quality and probably dozens or hundreds of times more resource-hungry to process one channel.

If all you're doing is mixing and simple digital filters, you're in a great place: you can probably do hundreds of those. But we've managed to invent our way into new bottlenecks. And at the base of it, it's really that the tooling is wrong and we do need a DSP-centric environment like you suggest. (SOUL is a good candidate for going in this direction.)
Took a year of grad level particle physics and I only managed 16/20, haha.
The most common zip code they get on the questionaire is for the Pioneer Square area, where many homeless services are provided and the price of rent is higher than average. They don't require any evidence of being housed previously and, even if they did, coming to Seattle with the promise of friend hosting them on their couch counts as "living in the area" before becoming homeless.
It is, you can still use Google SSO.
It took 100 million years for evolution to design cows and 400 million years of evolution have been impacting fish, so it will take approximately 4x as much investment or time to develop a "Further Than Fish" replacement
> while in the previous paragraph you conceded that "[law enforcement were] enforcing a law for that law's sake." Are they or aren't they enforcing a law?

It seems that you've gotten mixed up about who is saying what in this convo. I am actually contesting the notion that anybody was "enforcing a law for that law's sake" - it was dewaine who said that, and has repeated that assertion in a sibling comment to this one.

The primary thrust of my point is that these sorts of actions don't reflect a devotion to the letter of the law, but rather a nebulous "whatever it takes" approach, even unto naked PsyOps, to achieve a misguided end.
So for the political conflict, it’s loss for xi for the moment because the trade deal was rejected by the old guards. For the internal conflicts, Hong Kong is a wildcard and I wouldn’t count out how powerful a shutdown of the Hong Kong economy is. For the neighbor conflicts, Philippines and Australia used to be somewhat on the Chinese side but that has completely flipped the last year or two. Philippines just slammed China today for sinking Philippines fishing boat and called them ‘cowardly’. And the pro China members were voted out in Australia governments. As for Taiwan, it has got bolstered support from US, new arms deal, and its top presidential candidates have distanced themselves from China
I'd ask how these salaries are in relation to cost of living.

Doing this makes the ones that look "mediocre" much better.
Maybe relevant for Stripe? Based on their acquisition of Indie Hackers, it seems like they’re adept at this kind of acquisition. And online security contributes to their goal of increasing “the GDP of the internet.“
Microsoft OneDrive isn't too bad, and copies photos fine without stripping data.

For family plans, Google/Apple both run 30 bucks/year for 200 GB shared by up to 6 people.

Comparable MS is 100/year for 6x1 TB, with Office thrown in.

(Just spent a few minutes looking this up earlier today. Have all three free tiers, use MS most.)
Bartlett is the most amazing presenter nobody ever heard about. I like his talks/papers very much.
High times in ancient China revealed in funerary cannabis discovery
Id rather see someone become the Beyond Bread/Pasta with zero carbohydrates, that i believe would be a much bigger market.
Sure, sure! And ditching net neutrality regulation is a great way to bring broadband access to rural, urban and lower income areas! That worked out!

It's like Mark Twain said, everybody has some purpose in life, even if it's only to be the "before" exhibit.
I've been really impressed with Cloudflare lately between this, 1.1.1.1, and warp. It's nice to see a large company find ways build up their business by supporting the public good.
One very clear explanation of the problem is in a "PhD Comic" post: http://phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1162

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Also, remember that the fight against cancer is a marathon, not a sprint. It is like curing "virus infections" or curing "bacterial infections". It's imposible to cure them all with a magic weapon. Someone makes a new antibiotic/antiviral drug, someone makes a new vaccine, someone makes a new mixture to prevent dehydration, someone makes a new procedure to detect the infections. Each is only a step. Get happy for every step, but remember that it is only a step and there are a lot ahead. (Just ignore the press titles, assume they are always linkbait.)
wow! "Prime minister" in order to avoid the fact that she is President.
This sounds like something right out of the "Seattle is dying" propaganda documentary that released lately. Living in White Center, I don't experience any of this. People act like its the lower 9th ward or chiraq or the walking dead around here, and it just isn't.

Seattle, by itself, cannot solve the homeless problem, we can only hope to maintain it to some extent, many of its root causes are far outside of our city limits. 80% of our nation is paycheck to paycheck, until that changes neither will homelessness. We need more housing of all kinds immediately, even if it means imminent domain, and we need clean needle facilities. We also need to give the wealthiest employers in king county a choice, pay better wages or get taxed, and ownership and investors must take the pay cut and the cost cannot be passed to the consumer. Landlords need to have some limits, they are driving the costs up enormously. Free markets were supposed to be free from usury and rentiering, not protections for them.
Whereas in a theocracy, the Ruler is bound by the law of God. God wants You dead on the spot, and the Ruler is his instrument on Earth - and then You die.

The Ruler is now not at fault, because God told, and used, the Ruler to do the deed. The Ruler is absolved of responsibility - God's Will.

...do you see and understand the difference?
As this post talked a bit about the history of computer networks I have to jump in and highly recommend "Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins Of The Internet" (https://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late-ebook/dp/B...) to everybody curious about how that thing called internet came to be. It's such a great book about an era not so long ago, but often already forgotten.
This is true of Dat, though. You can jump back to a website’s prior history at any time, so long as those chunks are still seeded.
Headline:

> Saudi Arabia tracks runaway women by cellphone IMEI

Parent:

> Engaging security forces to chase women

I'm sorry, what's the need to rephrase?
I can't wait to open a can of the Beyond Meat of the Chicken of the Sea
Maybe I'm hoping for a more thoughtful legal system than is actually in place. While your example would be unusual it's only unusual now. Meaning you're basing what what is usual on the length of the prison sentence can gradually increased over time as long as it never appears to be usual compare to the "current mean". Much of this is legislated which implies to me that unusual would fall outside of what has been legislated.

Forcing someone to eat a box of baking soda would be unusual to me because it's in a totally different category of punishment. Like fining, community service, or death instead of prison.
It seems obvious to me: if laws against behaviors that are common among homeless were actually enforced then some subset of the homeless population would try harder to not be homeless, or move to another location.
I am struggling with i9 9900k running @ 5.1GHz. Plugins that process signal with extreme accuracy require a lot of power. It's like with game - your PC probably wouldn't struggle with running many instances of Solitaire, but multiple instances of GTA V with ultra details could be problematic.
This will lead to an arms race with deploying cellular, GPS and wifi jammers. You can order them online right now for low prices, at low power they are very unlikely to ever be investigated.

https://www.jammer-store.com/gps-blockers-jammers/

Do note things like this are HIGHLY illegal, and carry pretty insane fines if you are caught.
It wasn't always so great across the board. Back in the late 80s or 90s I could write and distribute my own code for free. OTOH, for my day job developing network code on larger machines, we had to pay hefty licensing fees to get a decent compiler. Or debugger. Or libraries to do the most basic kinds of things. Corporate control hadn't come down to the smaller machines, but open source hadn't grown up to the larger ones either.
It doesn't have to be better than fish in every way. Just in the ways that consumers care about.
What laws has Pak government passed recently?
elevated CJD risk? when you built these things you wanted them big, for efficiency, and so the dug up the aurochs genes. Now we're boned. Giant feral carnivorous cows roaming the landscape.

Add some bison genes and we can have thundering herds of them flattening cities, hoovering up the inhabitants on their way through.
Capgemini Labor Condition Applications
Any chance of adding angel.co as a source too?
I expected the movie:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_(1982_film)
> This is because free monoids are ordered lists, the most fundamental data structure in all of programming.

Well, I think unsigned integers are even more fundamental than ordered lists, and those behave as the ring of integers mod 2^bit_width .

So aren't rings even more important in programming than monoids?

My answer would be that neither really is.

You're confusing a few examples of important things happening to be X, with the concept of X being an important concept.

When people use ordered lists, they are not thinking of them as monoids, or using any interesting theorems from monoid theory.

If mathematicians had never come up with the definition of monoids, C and C++ would have been designed in exactly the same way as they are now.
It is a very complicated problem. One idea I've thought about is to hide a server in the woods. You should be able to connect it with a pre-paid gsm sim card and for power have a large battery... The server should be hibernating and consuming minimal amount of energy while not serving requests.

A second option is to piggyback on other services, such as github, wikipedia (some allow personal pages in your own namespace) and various message boards. You could even mail your blog posts to Swedish government services as they would be obliged to archive it. People would "access" your blog posts by mailing the same government services and requesting all emails sent by saifulwebid on June 12, 2019 for example. Of course this idea doesn't scale and if enough people tried it they would change the rules.

Usenet posts should last a very long time too. But even those eventually vanishes and posts from the 80's are nowhere to be found.
The long-awaited upgrade to the US weather forecast model is here
Why zero carbohydrates?
80% of our population lives paycheck to paycheck and cannot afford a 400 dollar car repair bill. That is instant homelessness for a lot of people. So much wealth is hoarded in so few hands that we are squandering vast amounts of economic potential.
> The natural resources in the middle east are important to the world ....

Let's fix that. X-Prizes for not using oil, but something else renewable.
I highly recommend Tresorit. I've been using it for just over a year and couldn't be happier. Simple interface and the app seems very performant (macOS). At least I haven't noticed it hogging resources.

https://tresorit.com/
As somebody who has worked at research institutes in the US, this comes up a lot. Some companies say that an academic user must have an e-mail address ending in ".edu" (which in the US means a school or university), but others define it more broadly to include non-profit research institutes as well. It gets murky because many research institutes actually have grad students doing their projects there (even if they are officially enrolled at a university elsewhere).
Transit says it can improve bus time accuracy with machine learning
> one man has the entire monopoly over our entire online social life

You chose that. I don't need Facebook/Insta/What's App to have an "online social life." Literally nobody is forced to participate in that nonsense. Use Snap, iMessage, Twitter, Pinterest, Reddit, Slack, IRC, 500px, Vimeo, Signal, email, SMS, phone calls -- there are plenty of options.

FB, Insta, What's App aren't the entirety of the social media universe. You can't be "mad" at Facebook and then continue to use it. That's a bit hypocritical. If this situation is really that important, then stop using those services! It seems like the same thought patterns seen in abusive relationships: he beats me, but I can't live without him. That's bullshit. Leave those platforms. You see it as a "monopoly" because you allow it to be.
Apple iCloud Comes to the Microsoft Store for Windows 10
> Officially Ryzen 9 3950X supports up to DDR4-3200 (1600 MHz)

No, it supports "4200+ with ease, 5133 demonstrated".

From official slides https://www.anandtech.com/show/14525/amd-zen-2-microarchitec...
> without starting a world war.

Without starting a flame war, lets check thoroughly if it is actually the case.

1. Who are Russian allies? How many of them? How much will their military capability contribute to fighting force? Answer: 0

2. Can enough Nato forces be deployed to decisively push the front? Yes

3. Can casualty ratio be sustained? Yes

4. Can subsequent enemy counterattack be made wasteful? Can your logistics train support prolonged defense? Yes, Nato militaries' trademark is tenths of kilometres long area denial killzones, enough to outrange even TBMs and nuclear artillery. American military logistics is second to none.

5. Can your gains be secured without you having to push further into enemy territory? Yes, to begin with, it was Russia here that had to operate across natural barriers, and frontline bottlenecks.

6. All of above boils down to conventional positional warfare.

Nato countries had all tools they need to enforce global order all these years, but they didn't because of their weak will.

When the Union collapsed, you saw a wave of all kinds of dictatorships and satrapies falling down or softening up, all because they knew that there is no longer a big guy behind their backs now, and that Nato can to "desert storm" any of them 10 times over.

All and everything was setup for the West to police the world for 3 decades, and use that time to clean the world from rouge states, but no, the West choose to simply walk away from that opportunity.
Of course that's the way to give the general surviving population resistance.
Bypassing Google's Santa Application Whitelisting on macOS (#hacking)
Any extra African data centers would be located in the major coastal metropolises, which are already connected with the major undersea cables. Sure, it's logistically difficult to ship stuff to inland rural Africa, but delivering equipment from Shenzhen to Lagos or Mombasa is not much more expensive as delivering it to London or LA.
You can already make low carb pasta dishes using zucchini and various flour replacements, and there are plenty of low carb tortilla brands.