skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Sure but that's the same story with helos as well.

That's not the case, as helicopters can use terrain to hide in ways an A-10 simply can't. The Longbow Apaches only need to expose the top of their rotor mast above a hill or treeline to target the enemy. Other Apaches can then fire missiles indirectly (without seeing the target) and kill the enemy forces.

Flying "nap of the Earth" has its advantages...
I think that most people, if offered $17/year for Facebook, would quit. I don't think the value to the user is that great. That's not a problem for the company as it exists today. It feels like a flawed assumption that users have a committed interest in sites where they share content. People have a passing interest, and different parts on their brain conflict. Their lizard brain might want cat gifs, while the planning part of their brain knows they should stop procrastinating and get to work. The planning part is the one who gets out the credit card. The last thing that Facebook or ANY content-oriented site is to deal with the responsible parent, as opposed to the distracted child. Having the parent make the decisions is better for us. Much of the internet depends on that never happening.
But that is still entirely subjective, i pretty much prefer Notecase/Fractal to Slack/VSCode.

As i wrote in another reply you probably want to rename this to themability (or customizability, but that can be a bit vague whereas themability is a common feature that one may want from a GUI toolkit) instead of look.
I would say that this is not objective at all; I find VS Code well designed but it doesnt fit with the rest of the Gnome desktop (or any desktop) at all, whereas fractal fits well with the rest of the gnome system, and in my opinion looks quite nice.
The Yuan to USD exchange rate is still close to an 11-year low so China's economy is already in flux.
If you think satire layers cancel out, you clearly haven't spent enough time on the internet.
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When my parents were first married they would be forced to eat abalone due to running out of money at the end of the month. They had friends who would go abalone diving on the California coast and give away bags of it.
since when RTX 2070 ship with 14GB of GPU Ram, Max memory for RTX 2070 super is 8 GB.
Wikipedia has an article about the former principal of Randolph County High School in Alabama: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulond_Humphries

There were tensions over interracial prom dates, then the school burnt down (it was unclear whether the Panthers or the Klan was to blame, but the smart money is on the Klan), there was something of a consent decree, and the principal was promoted to superintendent.

There are large tracts in the country that are so backwards that they cannot be improved, also because anyone capable left generations ago.
It generates power (useful work) but it certainly does NOT produce more energy.
Attic fans are great for cooling at night, but I've found they make a difference only at cooler latitudes like Michigan where night temps fall 15 or 20 degrees below daytime highs of ~85F, reducing the house to 65 or 70 after sunset.

In the mid-Atlantic where I live now, night temps don't drop more than maybe 10 degrees below daytime highs of ~90F. So bringing in the evening air via an attic fan puts the house at no less than a toasty 80 (with 70% humidity) -- still uncomfortable.
Wrong. ActiveX ran binary code directly on the machine. You can't do that if you're not on a Windows platform. I suppose maybe you could have used ActiveX to run Sun binaries on a Sun platform, but how useful is that? Any website is only going to have Windows/x86 code, and will fail on a Sun or other platform.

And no, at the time, many other browsers were not available on Windows, as they had a tiny market share, largely due to how incompatible they were with sites.

ActiveX failed eventually because of the rise of Javascript, and also because ActiveX was a giant security nightmare.
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This kind of cynical profit calculation has nothing to do with the problem at hand.

The most likely explanation why they would not remove the listing in a regression-safe way even after getting dragged to court is that the team dealing with the lawsuit is paid for being good at lawsuits, not for avoiding them, while the team responsible for managing third party listings is paid for snacking third party listings. It's almost surprising that the listing apparently did disappear while the court was watching.

Put all this into an organisation that has a multi-decade tradition of sidelining mundane, conventional company goals like striking a profit in favor of enigmatic founder strategy and nobody will ever risk rocking the boat by pointing out problems outside their job description.
Honestly, your comment is not very constructive. Did you create this account only to critize and lessen this security issue?
Why would you want to do that? Isn't the point of Node that you get a powerful GUI system but the tradeoff is that you have to use Javascript (or Typescript) instead of a nicer language?
The less flippant explanation is that SQLite can only handle a single writer at any time and when you try to access it with two concurrent writers (or a concurrent reader and writer in some modes) it will by default return a "BUSY" error instead of blocking.

So, if you're were getting unexpected "BUSY" erorrs than, yes, you would be using it incorrectly. However, AIUI, you are always expected to see some amount of BUSY errors during normal, concurrent operation and have to deal with them explicitly. So the fact that you're seeing BUSY errors alone doesn't mean you're doing anything wrong...

To use SQLite correctly from multiple processes, you have to do one of two things:

- Add explicit code to retry on BUSY errors everywhere you do SQL queries
- Serialize all access the database, e.g. by using a mutex

GP appears to have chosen the second option.
On why "quantum teleportation" can't be used for faster-than-light communication:

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/155913/quantum-t...

https://www.askamathematician.com/2013/01/q-what-is-quantum-...

https://medium.com/starts-with-a-bang/ask-ethan-can-we-use-q...
Are all schoolrooms able to absorb / taught the same state mandated curriculum though? I can imagine tons of things being skipped in more "poor/inner city" like classrooms, compared to things taught to middle class kids... (I can also imagine jaded teachers, huge commotion from the kids, etc preventing fully covering things).

Not sure, so just saying...
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Does Signal still use Google API? It's the epic fail for messenger who declared privacy too.
Now there are poachers and counterfeitters.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/longreads.com/2019/02/12/the-ca...
Related: Recent Tim Ferriss interview with brother Charles Koch > https://tim.blog/2019/08/11/charles-koch/
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I personally think email and phone spam should carry a much bigger criminal penalty and straight out block countries that don't cooperate.
If someone had made this comment 10-15 years ago and used it to caution the US about why it was foolish to invest $3.6 Trillion into destroying middle eastern infrastructure, it would have made coherent sense to consider.

But it's simply too late. The policies you describe are benefitting most Chinese people and are broadly supported domestically in China. Your characterization of China's dealings in Africa borders on absurd, and the IP theft claim (even if true) would not justify any of what you suggest is necessary.

> It's true that the full case has yet to be made to the American people.

Nor will it be. There is no definition of US national interest that is utilized in policy discussions. Leaders stick to painting foreign leaders as despots and the American people happily pay for all the warmaking.

What is different about China is that most Americans broadly support what China is doing and respect President Xi's leadership.

The US spent $3.6T on a useless war that had supremely negative ROI and now China is right behind us ready to attain first world status and beat us at 5G, etc. China didn't cheat us, our leaders did by wasting $3.6T in the middle east. The US middle eastern wars are the biggest financial fraud in the history of the world.

By simply doing infrastructure improvement and focusing on domestic issues, China has nearly overtaken the US, and the US response is supremely outdated and fails to recognize that it was US mismanagement that closed the gap, not Chinese cheating.
User data for a single website is probably not worth much. User data for every single website a user visits in a day? A bit more. Hence, advertising networks.
The environment knows nothing about "China" or "USA" either, these are just arbitrary groupings of people. You can compare the whole of the USA with arbitrary subsets of China, and find that the USA is the biggest polluter in absolute terms. Of course it's as pointless as comparing the whole of China with the whole of US, what counts is the per capita emissions. Qed.
I now consider myself one of these people. I've written and shipped a number of business applications, but have little understanding of CS concepts and was unable to complete some leetcode problems I tried a while back. Unfortunately, I find myself mentally unable to keep focus and and attention to properly learn. I've looked at going back to school as well, but cost make it impossible.

Anecdotally, i recently became semi_obsessed with operating systems and OS development.I tried to pick up C wanting to do some kernel development on NetBSD and thought it would be easy, given the familiar syntax, u just needed to learn pointer logic/ arithmetic. I was finally defeated after trying to write a program with multidimensional arrays and working with them decayed down to pointers. At the same time, though, I need a new job asap, so I've given up on the interesting stuff and am back to learning stuff for employability reasons only
The early chapters of Ninefox Gambit[0] have Captain Cheris recalling some of her experiences in giving orders and taking orders in such a system.

The key is that the soliders are set to a strategem, not a specific x-y-z position, and have to try to keep in that cadence, so to speak. Yoon Ha Lee's writing is incredibly strange and open to interpertation here, so if this sounds strange, it's somewhat meant to be (Calendrical Rot, corpselight, amputation guns, etc.). Reading the early chapters is better than me trying to explain it.

That said, trying to manage battle is fruitless and attempting to impose order into something that intentionally random and chaotic is not going to go well. Col. Boyd's OODA loop[1] is pertienet here. If your enemy knows that they have been looped, then putting random noise into the system can alievate that and get them back into the war.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machineries_of_Empire

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
Good point. Hadn't considered that.
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I hope this trade war finishes quicker. Everyone playing this game will lose. Global supply chains are much more complex and complete impact is difficult to understand. Hope sense prevail at the end.
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Doesn’t Canada do this?
The downvotes are sarcastic as well.
Given that US emissions are more than double China's per capita, I only have to believe that China's numbers have less than a 100% error.

Satellite monitoring of CO2 emissions has a pretty wide error bar, but it's not that wide.
Suggestion... Don't block Google dialer app from a majority of non-Google phones.
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Star Trek "does it" by literally converting matter into energy, beaming that energy to a remote point, then converting it back into matter... in place... somehow by teching the tech. That's usually what people mean when they say "teleportation" - actually somehow instantaneously moving a thing from point A to B, rather than transferring its state.

I'm not certain whether somehow mass-entangling an entire object with something else that receives its state and becomes a perfect (or near perfect because real life doesn't have "Heisenberg compensators" like Trek, to compensate for the Heisenberging) copy of the original is more or less ridiculous than Star Trek's version.
Very interesting and provocative read, so another book on my reading list.

I grew up in small town America myself. I now live in Europe because in part it reminds me of the nice life I experienced there -- focus on family and community rather than the atomistic, anonymized individual of the big city. Europeans support families (and in particular raising kids) better than Americans do.

I sometimes talk with Americans about the problem of urban privilege, and the fact that urban Americans a) can't usually understand where rural Americans are coming from and b) see themselves as superior. Every point you can make about white privilege applies to the urbanites and the urban/rural split as well. I have lived in Sweden, which reminds me very much of rural Utah culturally, and in Germany which strikes me more like where I lived in rural Washington State.

I love how this guy seems to have made it across this divide both ways, and come to understand the quiet strength, admirable characteristics, dignity, and community that lies behind rural life and to understand the fact that this urban privilege can be seen through (as he calls back-row rather than front-row).
The way CORS and other cross domain tech works this is actually pretty easy to accomplish. Though many sites track IP, because IPv6 is out it's getting pretty tricky to filter without losing some data. Plus an IPv4 address costs less than a penny per hour to rent.

But at the end of the day it doesn't really change much. They're going to detect signal somewhere or another. Where they detect it, they keep the data and source locations, where they don't they update their spam ML models. Unless you start going to the illegal side of the spectrum (DDOS, widespread fraudulent ad engagement, etc) you're not even going to piss them off, really. They won't even notice you.
> FizzBuzz [...] You wouldn’t believe how many people can’t do it.

This is so true. IME, less than 50% of applicants can even get close. Mostly due to not remembering or even knowing about the modulo operator or a suitable workaround.
Scripts I run have access to my development environment for a free software project I already keep in a public repo.

What they don't have access to is my actual desktop, nor yesterday's snapshot of the VM desktop.

It's obviously not as fast as running GNU on bare metal, but it's fast enough for text work.
I live in $civilized_country and have gotten one unsolicited phone call ever. It was from an Indian, so either it was a scam or someone who doesn't adhere to telemarketing blocklists.

Do not blame USA's inadequacies on human nature.
At least with eBay you can see the actual product that will be shipped to you, and if not represented correctly you can dispute (as you mentioned). With Amazon you might buy something that gets "fulfilled by one or more third parties" which may or may not look like the picture.
It's definitely worth reading OpenAI's statement, but I don't think speculation is out of bounds here either. The statement is reasonable on its own, but doesn't acknowledge that the decision is a sharp break from OpenAI's entire founding ideology.

Musk said in 2015 that the point of OpenAI was "to empower as many people as possible to have AI. If everyone has AI powers, then there's not any one person or a small set of individuals who can have AI superpower." Sikka argued that "openness" was the fundamental reason he supported the project. OpenAI was heavily criticized by other AI risk researchers for its public approach, and argued strongly that it was doing the right thing. It specifically invoked the threat of AI tools being abused by small groups of people in secret as more pressing than the threats from self-directed or public-use AI.

But the closest the statement comes to addressing that is describing the restrictions as "an experiment", and mentioning that in 2018 OpenAI added a charter with a caveat saying it might publish less stuff. That caveat and the decision to invoke it here are essentially unexplained; since the charter almost certainly postdates some GPT-2 work it seems to be a circular argument.

Frankly, GPT-2 seems like exactly the sort of work OpenAI was worried about in the first place. Ten thousand people can troll and spam ideas without any AI support, but with a GPT-2 equivalent it becomes possible to a government, company, or intelligence group to massively scale its impact on public debate. If OpenAI thinks state actors can't replicate their work, the fears invoked at its founding are called into question. If it instead thinks public access to such tools is dangerous and they need to be kept in select hands, the project's entire rationale is invalidated. If they simply hope to spark discussion and give people time to prepare (mentally or technologically) for the idea of compelling auto-generated text, that really ought to be said more clearly.
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??? What GUI system do you mean?
As long as you also sit beside the smelter that makes the metal for the engine, drive shaft and gearing.
Absolutely, in fact many employment agreements have wording that puts you in violation of your agreement if you don't disclose your ideas immediately in writing.
Sure, Ultimately it is Amazon's fault for not policing their site and allowing blatant fakes to be sold.

I'd still argue that it's really better to buy expensive brands at shops licensed by the brand.

I can be pretty sure that I don't get a dud, when I drop 800$ on a Rimowa suitcase in one of their stores. Not so much, when ordering from Amazon.
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So what? It’s not like the only two possibilities were “delegitimize the election he won after saying he would accept the results” or “accept the results of the election he won after saying he wouldn’t accept the results if he lost.”

He could have, for example, said he’d accept the results, period. Or reserved the right to challenge the results if there was evidence of irregularities.

You don’t get to build your very own custom Kobayashi Maru and then complain that it’s a no-win scenario.

Keep in mind that my original comment was a reply to someone who seemed to be implying that Democrats made up accusations that Trump wouldn’t accept the results. I was pointing out that not only did Trump say he wouldn’t accept the results if he lost, he really didn’t accept them even the way it happened. This being bad is a secondary point (although it certainly is bad); the main point is that this was a real thing, not something made up by Democrats.
I'm not sure if I'm not responding seriously to satire, but are you aware of what "burnout" means?

From https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/burnout :

"Definition of burnout

1 : the cessation of operation usually of a jet or rocket engine
also : the point at which burnout occurs

2a : exhaustion of physical or emotional strength or motivation usually as a result of prolonged stress or frustration

b : a person suffering from burnout

3 : a person showing the effects of drug abuse"

I mean, by the looks of the landing page, I guess (3) could fit somewhat?
not tree - graph. graph is universal. tree is MongoDB. Thats not what you want. Graph is what makes this problem hard.
The direct link to the report is https://services.google.com/fh/files/misc/state-of-devops-20... .
You know, libertarians often watch train wrecks and wonder how people can so clearly report problems and commiserate but the obvious solutions never seem to come up.

Refugees... from a third party service... because things changed since they began there

Some other third party service welcomes them, but has bad front end...

SOLUTION:

1. Mercurial and Git are decentralized! They have been designed to be so. Make your back end decentralized also. Why rely on a centralized site?

2. We used to run front-end programs on our computers! What a concept. We thought desktop computers were far better than mainframes and “fat” clients were far better than “thin” ones. Now we are all back to mainframes.

3. End to end encryption! I mean wow half of all humanity has their accounts in an epic database of 3-4 billion people from many breaches. All their private information is now out there. And you trust GitHub, Facebook or whoever to host your group’s private data?

MaidSAFE, MetaMask and other projects do 1,2,3. You should be in control of your keychains. We have plenty of desktop apps for managing eg git. Why let GitHub do it?

At the very least, run GitLab on your own in-house servers. But there are other alternatives.

And frankly, think about the speed and environmental impact of shipping all those bits to Google where you are “renting” Google Docs / Drive software to collaborate on something. You can have a lightning fast network in the Brazilian Favelas or a village in Namibia. Dating sites, ZocDoc, OpenTable, GrubHub can all be local open source apps running on local mesh networks. But nooo, we need project loon to send our signal to california in order to talk to our neighbor or coordinate dinner plans. And in Kashmir, etc. the government can simply turn off our internet and suddenly BAM — can’t even stock drugs locally for people??

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/14/technology/india-kashmir-...
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> (as are all successful end user oriented applications).

That is a very debatable assumption. The large majority of apps I use use the desktop's native theme.
I'd try a huge sphere of polyamide aerogel, wrapped in an aluminum shell, then evacuated. If that didn't work, I'd give up immediately, because vacuum lifters are stupidly difficult when hydrogen exists.

Okay, I wouldn't give up immediately. I'd also try a vacuum onion, with multiple layers of aerogel and aluminum, with each successive layer evacuated to a different pressure.
People always claim this in mercurial posts, but it's really hard to tell to what extent this is just that people who are using hg all the time are familiar with the hg commands and so don't notice the problems any more.

As a irregular hg user, I frequently run into (or help others with) issues with the ui, like "why does `hg log require `-f` to do something useful", "how do I refer to the current head commit (protip: it's not `tip`)", "how do I see changes relative to a branch (bookmark) on a remote" and "which set of commands am I supposed to use for history rewriting nowadays and how do they work?".

hg has some nice features, but the idea that it's got a fully intuitive and uniformly well designed interface is, in my experience, a total myth. Which isn't to say that git has a great CLI of course, just that the extent to which hg is better in this area is often overstated.
What scientists mean by "teleportation" is more like this: you have one particle A here, one particle B there, and by "teleportation" you make particle B have the same state as particle A.

Critical point: for each particle you want to "teleport", you have recipient particle standing by to receive it.
What about the various "adult/continuing education for working people" courses where you do a bit at a time? Supposed to cost less as well.
I'm not sure it is possible to distinguish one or another considering the way things have played out / information available.

But as for any intent to "trash the US", at least as far as a trade fight goes I'm not convinced that any other trade fight plays out any differently. Personally I would do things differently, but the results may be the same.
I can only imagine how unfathomably ridiculous this would look like to an onlooker
> I've written and shipped a number of business applications

Then you are a programmer.