skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Judo is a really good tip for cyclists. Falling and cycling go hand in hand to the point that everybody that cycles will fall at least once in their life in an uncontrolled manner, and during the training phase likely much more often than that.

Agreed on the electric bike craze, I get passed on my trusty old twelve speed with some regularity by 70 year olds doing 30+ kph (which suggests at least some of these have their limiters removed). Falling at that speed at that age is certain to end bad.
Not sure about Huawei, but Samsung is not using their own modem in all of the phones they make. I'm not sure what % but they do use Qualcomm's modem in at least some of the models.

3G is based on CDMA technology (wideband CDMA) and does require licensing fees. It doesn't really matter whether the chip manufacturer or the phone maker pays the fees. The end result is that non-Qualcomm chips make the product more expensive (and Qualcomm gets stronger anyway due to licensing fees).
Denmark is a member of Nato, so the question is if Nato would be able to hold it.
I spent several years working toward the goal of maximizing my Free Time, and hit a point a couple years ago where I'm effectively as Retired as I want to be, at any given moment. The SaaS businesses tick away in the background and seldom require my intervention apart from a quick customer service email sweep every couple days.

I'd recommend this path over the VC + Co-Founders "Startup" life that gets promoted here so often, since I've never seen an outcome from that track that appears to me to be relaxing and enjoyable.

Anyway, regarding the calculator submitted here, it seems to use a bunch of the things I do in (what I consider) my Free Time to deduct from the amount of (what it considers) my Free Time. When I have the chance, I go out Bouldering (which it counts as fitness) or play with my kids if they're off school (which it dings as parenting).

Every hour you're not working for somebody else in exchange for money aught to be considered "you" time. All the other things on that list seem like perfectly fine ways of spending that time.
I just do Backblaze with a client-side key. Cheap and effective. I do wish they had a Linux daemon client. I'd pay more for that.
I suspect that the sort of person who would be convinced to look it up and decide for themselves would be less likely to do so after reading the sort of comment I replied to.
The Big Bang vs Cat videos?
Exactly - bicycle tires.
The same problem, using Safari, tap on link and nothing happened.
Izrael's startup ecosystem heavily relies on ex-military intelligence officers, they have an entire pipeline for hiring them into startups.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardbehar/2016/05/11/inside-...
My sister plays this game called Bakery Story. I played for a while too and shared a lot of my sister's online friends. There were a few people who had exquisite bakeries, each a world of intricate design and my sister was in the top tier of that type of thing. My bakery was a bit more functional, I was there for sibling rivalry reasons rather than the global community.

We had not heard from one online friend for a while. But then we got a message from the daughter of the lady who had the neatest bakery in the American mid-West. As you can imagine it was doom and gloom, she had not made it out of the hospital.

Both my sister and myself were shocked by the news, however, we had been there for this lady, her life coming to a premature end in a hospital. Online her world was nothing like the sad reality of her real life. We envied her in this online world, she was in the handful of true greats, not just for the bakery but for the personality.

We did not have time for anything too fanciful, we heard our online friend was poorly and two weeks later we had the message from the daughter who was not yet teenage. Everyone in the game added a tombstone - a game prop - in memory, there was mourning going on, nobody knowing what to say for the weeks after that.

I can remember telling my workmates that I was in stunned silence due to an in-game incident, but you just don't expect online friends to die and you don't imagine that you could be stunned into silence by such an event.

We also had no further messages from the daughter so that was that, abrupt. But, if I think now of how ill she must have been and how we lavished praise on her for her creations without knowing that she was at death's door, I think we helped provide an escape. In our own special way we visited her online every day during those difficult times and talked about what mattered to her in her world.

Games can be special like that.
Interesting. Given that scraping Amazon is illegal, shouldn't these companies pinpointed and sued?
It uses content-dependent splitting of blocks (for deduplication), and I'm too paranoid to accept that block-sizes will not reveal anything about my stored data.

https://www.tarsnap.com/download/EuroBSDCon13.pdf
> My supervisors understand that some days I'm not going touch code, instead I'll spend my time on education by keeping up with new tech, or, writing docs.. anything but talk with other co-workers distracting them.

Couldn‘t agree more. There are days I spend exclusively reading and thinking. I regard keeping up on technology, thinking about potential approaches and solutions to various problems we’re facing as an essential part of my job. To an outsider that might look like a pretty relaxed work life, but this kind of preparation allows the actual execution, the thing that looks like work, to be the easiest part of a project.
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This post is almost surely funded by affiliate commissions paid by ExpressVPN, NordVPN, and Astrill VPN, all of which are listed as "Top VPN providers" before the article even begins. Therefore, there are some serious omissions[1] in this list.

[1] https://i0.wp.com/vpnscam.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/201...
I still think the NSA employs Linux devs so they can deliberately insert flaws. Why would they not? It would be very easy. But every time I mention it people reply "But but many eyes! They'd get caught!"
Are you forced to have a job, groom, eat or sleep?
Another configuration language, which, I think, is pretty clean and down to Earth: https://github.com/zaphar/ucg
"The pleasures of urban populations have become mainly passive: seeing cinemas, watching football matches, listening to the radio, and so on. This results from the fact that their active energies are fully taken up with work; if they had more leisure, they would again enjoy pleasures in which they took an active part."

-- Bertrand Russell, http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Probably. So what? Doesn't make the facts of the article any less true. Just need to do research on those three companies as well independently if you want to know more.
My friend doesn't know how to code and got the whole questionnaire correct.
Like all recent submits for this site, this is just a collection of Amazon affiliate links.
Everyone in Israel has to do military service so you would be hard pushed to create a company selling pea shooters that did not have ex-military in it. As for 'military intelligence' that is a large part of what the military actually is, so you would expect them to graduate into tech roles rather than making pea shooters or anything else 'harmless'.
Can you present evidence for why NordVPN should be in the list?
Neat techniques. I had done similar stuff in some protocol code that i had a chance to write.
There's one more problem: cost per kwh. It might be competitive in the current market (though arguably it actually isn't). But to stay competitive in the future it will need to keep up with mass produced solar/wind continuing to drop in price. It seems solar + storage bids are continuing to break records and are already underbidding nuclear, even before considering subsidies. IMHO, prices will continue to drop over the next years/decades. Bids are currently going as low as 2 cents per kwh in some areas and prices dropping to below a cent might actually happen at some point.

Energy storage is much less of an issue if you can simply produce more than you need to offset e.g. cloudy days and use the excess energy to synthesize any of a wide range of fuels that can be stored, top up batteries, pump water to some reservoir, or power any of the many ways in which we can store energy. People are getting creative when it comes to energy storage. Energy storage cost is dropping rapidly as well.

Nuclear doesn't just need to get safer, it also needs to get vastly cheaper to keep up with this. IMHO if you are not designing for half a cent or less per kwh, you might as well not bother. My understanding is that current designs are off by factor 10 at least. At those prices, even the security needed to protect the facilities will be prohibitively expensive.
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Though different people consider different things simple. To one a loop is fine, to another a map is a better choice.
This quiz wasn't illuminating at all. You generally start with assuming and validating a "C Datatype Model" i.e. ILP32/LP64 etc. for your system. Once you know that, these questions are easily answered.

If you want to see some real tricky C code, see some of the articles here: https://locklessinc.com/articles/
It's a press release
I think the big difference is that US companies can meaningfully resist the US government if they choose to, and they often do. Chinese companies cannot.
Huh, that hits hard...
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It means people with ALS don't get Alzheimer's according to a correlation. Now, how is the inherent lifetime and lifestyle difference bias corrected? No idea.
> Indeed they do: https://youtu.be/_YVWdxr0E_g?t=155

What a fine example of the white labcoat as an authority prop!
Two this year, of which one is a very young and not particularly huge company. That suggests there's room for a couple more.
1) This made me curious. Are any of the compilers in real use nondeterministic?

2) Probably that's not needed? A normal optimizing compiler just inlines the function somewhere new — and boom? Then again, can that really happen with practical contemporary compilers and this exact statement?
It gets biased because a single positive feeling is enough to get the human mind to think there is a causal connection between the pill and the "cure".

There are hundreds of variants of the common cold virus, and you are at any time more or less immune to a subset of them, so many times after you're exposed you just feel ill for half a day. If you pair one of those occurances with your magic pill intake, you'll truly believe the pill caused you to get better, and then you'll keep buying that pill every time you feel a cold coming up for the rest of your life.

A real medical study is 10,000-100,000 patients, it's not possible to draw any conclusions from a single human's observation in this regard... but people keep trying, it's due to the nature of the human mind and its analysis of causality :)
Yeah the business destruction argument is the most perplexing. It's like shop owners thing that people prefer shopping on noisy dirty streets to quiet pedestrian areas. I don't know how you can come to that conclusion.
Yeah yeah yeah... Is Saudi Arabia an enemy too? You can lie yourself all day long but America doesn't stand for democracy, freedom and all that BS.

It stands for its interests.
The moral values are invoked only when they are aligned with US's interests.
wild - this thread appears to be brigaded by pro CCP posters
map/filter/reduce is simpler, but it takes some getting used to. Loops have worn a deep rut in my brain.
Yes, so longer genes are more likely to be impacted as expected given genomic damage theories and random damage model. (Likewise if transcription cellular machinery starts to introduce more random errors longer proteins would be impacted more.)

What to do about it? Edit whole genomes so they're more stable somehow? You cannot reasonably expect to remove all environmental insults.
This is such bullshit. Head of an American online travel company based in Bangkok is Ex-CIA. Large rest of the C-suite is all Israeli Defence Forces.
So now what?
Second this. There are a few study apps that make use of free time on the toilet for a few weeks and you’re good to go.

I have probably a dozen RTL SDR’s strewn about boxes and junk drawers, but the idea of relying on them in an emergency is unsettling. The little baofengs have a terrible interface but last a long time on a charge and are pretty rugged.

The point about practicing is legit. Most comms with these radios happen with relays, but you’ll want to know where people will be in simplex (walkie talkie style) operation if there’s no infrastructure.
I’m sure they make the flaws look like honest mistakes, and whatever gets found by someone else is simply patched with a “bugfix” commit.
Click bait.

Greenland originally belonged to Norway, which entered a union with Denmark. Denmark then retained it later on.
It would have been very problematic to transfer Greenland to a non-Nordic country unless the people living on Greenland strongly requested it. Which is unlikely.
but in the US they usually aren't simultaneously employed
Denmark doesn't own Greenland so is not in a position to sell it. Denmark is together with Greenland (and the Faroe Islands) in a union, kind of like England and Scotland is in a union.

The union is sometimes called the Kingdom of Denmark and have a shared royal crown, and obviously Denmark is the dominant part having 100 times the population of Greenland. But in theory they are equal parties.

At the time the offer was made though, Greenlandic home rule was not established yet, so it was basically a province or colony of Denmark.

Native population were forcibly displaced (by Danish authorities) to make space for the American Thule Air Base, so I'm not sure the Danish at the time were morally superior in their treatment of the native population compared to the US. In the post-war the strategy was basically to treat Greenland as a Danish province and turn the Inuit into Danes - one of the approaches was to forcibly take Inuit children from their parents and let them grow up in Denmark. In the 1970'ies the strategy was changed to give Greenland partial independence.
Well, then time spent working is also your "free time" because that's your personal choice to work, unless you're a slave.
You didn't explain what's political about any of those posts.

Just because there's a political party committed to believing "the sky is red" doesn't make it political to say "the sky is blue".

I was the author of the "contraceptives are like antibiotics" comment btw. The point wasn't to make any extreme conclusion (I admit I can see how it could be taken that way in e.g. an abortion debate, but only by reading words between the lines that simply are not there). The point of that comment was not to score points in any political debate but to suggest an intuitive way to think about the results of the paper. Some commenters make the error of extrapolating straight lines, essentially saying "We observe reverse-correlation between education and birthrates over several decades, therefore they must be reverse-correlated forever". I pointed out an example, in a similar context[1], where such linear thinking would be wrong ("We observe the bacteria numbers are declining, therefore they must continue declining forever").

[1] Similar in the sense that they both involve living populations, population growth and decline, growth and decline caused by particular changes, etc.
In Europe you can buy it straight from the dealership. It's been available for almost a year.
So what? Well, we get to choose which side we allow to spy on us.

I mean, I suppose we could make an argument for all people being equal in all equal ways, but don't forget that the each state actor is driven by different sets of morality, politics and even philosophy, or perhaps lack of it.

The only conclusion we can derive is that this whole surveillance/spying thing will never stop, everyone does it and will continue to do it. It would be wise to assume that everything is bugged, everything has backdoors, and every hardware vendor has been compromised.
> 2. Every country and probably several companies of each country will do this as long as we are the divided world we have to live in

I really hope that a “world government” never happens, it is too much of a risk.

Consider the US for example: once the land of the free, it has become a land of espionage, lack of personal privacy and persecution. This hasn’t begun with Trump, but it became a lot more evident with him as a president.

What I want to say is that the risk of a global government going rogue is too high.

I hope that we will always have a plurality of nations and ideas, living peacefully with one another.
They were young, and had their reasons. :)
I hope you were joking. This is just a "gotcha" quiz and not relevant at all.
This documentary about Utrecth is p0rn for bike lovers https://vimeo.com/344373585
Over time I removed all the C preprocessor tricks from my own code and just wrote ordinary C in its place. Much better.

I don't get it. If my macros produce standards-compliant code and they make my code easier to read and understand, why shouldn't I use them?

My goal as a developer is to write clean performant bug-free code... not to make life easy for compiler developers.
I'd love any feedback!
I've never used Common Lisp, I know some Clojure, used emacs-lisp, tried Racket, Fennel. I love Lisps. But I always wondered: What happened to Common Lisp? Some of the opinions I heard:

- CL is too big (compared to Racket and Clojure)

- Lisp-1 vs Lisp-2

- recursion discouraged (is that even true?)

- There is a thing called "Lisp Curse"

And then seemingly language's popularity decreased. Let's ignore the fact that I really like Lisps, aside that, are there any compelling reasons for an average Joe programmer like me to start learning Common Lisp in 2019? Honest question.
Do you have a link for the AWS 1/TB-month and Google? I'm interested.
So many kudos to the Elite Dangerous team!

I salute you guys!

Rest in Peace CMDR.
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According to Wikipedia everyone in China has compulsory military service, too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Liberation_Army

Makes the revelation that "some people working at Huawei have links to Chinese military" just so shocking. Trump's totally right we should all buy USA tech and not use Huawei for 5G. /s

When's the list for other countries being published?
Alabama forbids abortion even in cases of rape.

Some other states have very short time limits for legal abortion.
It would be correct to answer that I don't have enough information to choose an option. It's incorrect to answer that I don't know.
How about American citizens consider removing their heinously destabilising military bases from other sovereign states, and instead using those resources to make the lives of their own citizens better?

The world is tired of the USA bully thug politics involved in its placement of military bases around the world, and the arrogance of those who support these imperialist actions is very telling. These bases are not making the world more stable - they are, however, making the 1% of America's lifted military-industrial-pharmaceutical classes more wealthy.
The NHS in the UK pays much lower prices for most drugs than the insurers do (there are the odd egregious cases where a company take the piss, the interesting thing is that we do actually fine them in a rare case of consequences been applied) because simply put they are negotiating for 65 million consumers in one go, if the NHS price is high enough for them to make a healthy profit per patient it is a no brainer.

The system requires numerous feedback loops and clinical overview (ours is called NICE - National Institute of Clinical Excellence).

Is it perfect, no, few human things are.

Is it massively preferable to the average healthcare situation for Americans - hell yes it is.

I pay for my prescriptions which is £9 per drug per month (whatever the cost to the NHS of that drug is), I take 3 drugs so that should be £27 per month except they considered that case and I buy a NHS Pre-Payment Card which costs me about £10 a month and covers me for any number of medications. [1]

So for £10 a month I get the routine medications I need to make my life not just bearable but enjoyable which allows me to work.

So if costs controls in government are your concern the elect better people with better systems.

Lest anyone think I'm all sunshine and roses on the NHS, it requires drastic reformation (and they really really need to get rid of their 'internal market' way of running) but the idea is as sound now as it was in 51 years ago (almost to the day, it was founded July 5th 1948).

[1] https://apps.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/ppc-online/patient.do
Actually it's provide them much more than just marketing. They'll be only one company to know detailed information about client connection quality, they'll able to optimize routes for their CDN even more. It's crucial competitive edge for their primary service.
We could make for better luck, but then we'd need many more actual researchers, including basic research. We could get this funded directly instead of best people getting siphoned off to pharma sector to develop next patent to cash out. Etc.
"spending time with my kids" is not "living in crippling fear of them dying".
> If my macros produce standards-compliant code and they make my code easier to read and understand, why shouldn't I use them?

The problem is they don't make code easier to read and understand. Worse, the unhygienic nature of C macros makes it hard to contain them.

I haven't seen your code, so I'm speaking based on what I've seen of mine and others' code. If you dial it back, the person who has to deal with your code after you leave will appreciate it.

More generally speaking, if you're doing metaprogramming with the C macro system, you've outgrown the language and should consider a more powerful one.
Denmark did sell the Virgin Islands though, including the population.
"meaningfully resist" are there many examples of that? I remember Qwest CEO meaningfully resisting did not work out too well.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20367692
the difference is speculation to outright imagination which does no favor to real threats. there are plenty of crackpots and conspiracy nut-jobs out there.
>US companies can meaningfully resist the US government

That doesn't seem to be the case but the narrative. There were enough leaks, document dumps, and whistleblower revelations to dismiss this narrative.

Sure, for the US having competition is a problem but sometimes the US citizen should zoom out on Maps and Google some labels they see. Literally, most of the people do not live in the USA and you can confirm that by Googling labels in the maps, things like "France", "Germany", "Turkey", "Azerbaican", "China", "Japan". You will notice that these are lands that are somewhat similar to the USA but are not the USA but using the stuff made or operated in the USA.

For people looking from that part of the world, the "Chinese are spying on us" panic is met with "Oh really, that's so bad. Poor thing" level of simphaty.
Can you assure that your preprocessor tricks always generate compliant code?

For me writing embedded code is the ultimate test for your programming skills, since a lot of C toolchains for embedded devices (as in bare metal embedded) are unstable, only almost compliant and full of weird behaviors and hacks.
Sure, with your amount of data you need data.table. But that is your specific use case. That has nothing to do with dplyr not being production ready, just that it is not the right tool for you. Separate things but somehow programmers love to consider them the same.
Game communities focus, but IRL most people don't until it is way too late. Why is it so?
I’m sorry for a stupid question but do you have streets and cars there?
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