skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this is very informative. I work in a small accounting office (<10) and our main software is only available on Windows. In addition to this, all we use is Office 365 (Excel and Outlook) and browsers.

It’s an ongoing problem to keep these bog-simple machines running smoothly. Constantly slowing down, and under performing. What’s more—IT is the person who knows the most.

I imagine it’s the same for many small businesses. I hoped LTS was a solution. Evidently, to the detriment of users, MS wants one option (and all the telemetry. Haha.)
If performances are a concern I would build it in QT, not Javascript. Just opening Firefox eats like 400 MB ram on my PC !
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In 2015 the Australian Tax Office searched Craig Wright's home due to possible tax evasion [1]. I'm not sure of the outcome though.
[1] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/dec/09/bitcoin-f...
> I don't think my sample size is representative but I think it's a warning of how strong nationalism can be

Unfortunately, that's the kind of things you can hear anywhere in the world.

> I imagine it's much stronger in China where the government actively encourages it.

I wonder... I have a colleague of mine who grew up in a communism country. According to him, most people back then didn't really buy into government propaganda, which contrasts with modern democracies which rely on more subtle propaganda (Chomsky's "media control").

I really have no idea, it could well be that Chinese are on average less nationalist/warmonging than Americans for instance.
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I always apply Chesterton’s fence before breaking rules and regulations: if I see what the rule intends to accomplish, I can make sure to accomplish the same thing in another manner (walk across the street even if there’s a red light if there are no cars around). If I don’t see the point of the rule, I’m hesitant to break it.
China's Faces Tough Tradeoffs with Yuan Devaluation
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Why is it stupid or reckless?

In fact, this is a good way to mitigate risk. Most genes in mosaicism, even if parts of the mosaic is faulty, continue to function or partially function.

Would you rather risk complete failure? (Potentially killing the fetus or embryo.)

Also, someone has to take those (potentially reduced) risks if germ line modifications are needed.
Reviewing planning paperwork for the flat I now own in a medium-sized English city, you could see the history of this in the paperwork.

The first application to build this building (replacing a small family home on a relatively large plot) was rejected for having too few parking spaces. Policy at the time assumed housing needs space for cars, if you don't build space for cars they litter the streets so each home must have 1 space or more for larger homes.

But the last application (ie the one they actually built) was only accepted after reducing the number of spaces, because by then policy had changed to dissuade people from owning more cars. They'll park them on the street anyway (and they do) so giving them more spaces just encourages owning even more cars in a congested city.
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> The detector elements of a camera could be made pretty sensitive, but they can't detect fewer than one photon.

Or can they?

If the detector elements were part of a quantum computer (or a quantum computing "chip", whatever that will turn out to be) they would be able to analyze all the photon paths (Feynman paths) bouncing back from the subject, even those that would decohere / collapse away in a traditional detector.

IANAP, but wouldn't a quantum chip be able to perform some amount of NLOS by analyzing the paths of even a single photon?
Just curious.
Are you financially well off ?

Are you very confident in your skill that you have no worry of being unemployed at all ?

My personal opinion is that people who are not gifted but work very hard and have an average IQ can not take risks like leaving a tenure job unless they are free of financial responsibilities.

What are you thoughts ?
Github: https://github.com/liyasthomas/postwoman

Back Story: https://dev.to/liyasthomas/i-created-postwoman-an-online-ope...
Is the kind of facial recognition only bad if wielded by a nefarious government?

Partly I think that huge DNA databases, biometric databases and millions and millions of cameras would be wonderful for catching criminals. On the other hand, the opportunities for abuse are too many to number. Has anyone written anything interesting on where/how to draw the line?
Short Version:

Devaluing the Yuan offsets US tariffs but comes with dangerous tradeoffs.

-Increased difficultly servicing dollar-denominated debt.
-Potential for Capital flight if devaluation continues
-Escalation of trade war with US

China is between a rock and a hard place as the government's legitimacy is founded on economic growth and a slowdown risks unrest.
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Trump is drooling that he wished he had this power.
wow that was a great video thank you
The interesting and scary part is that (if you are a fan of him / Brexit at any cost) Johnson is not defying parliament but simply "preparing his bold programme for government" to be delivered in a Queen's Speach a couple of weeks before Brexit date.

The dual narrative of politics continues, and both sides of the equation literally experience a different universe it would seem.
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I think paramount to all of those is the revolving door / political corruption that is Washington.

Remove money from politics and many of those issues will resolve themselves.

Make it so politicians may never become lobbyists, and in fact make it so lobbyists can't give money to campaigns, politicians, or PACS and Super PACS. Make it super hard to raise money except via grass roots and small donors.

This may cause some career politicians to throw in the towel and retire and make way for fresh ideas.

Replacing these career politicians opens the way for fresh ideas on Climate change, voters rights, etc... I see nothing so wrong as our corrupt political apparatus. It's not just us though, it's all politics everywhere, but it's definitely blatant in America.
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The person doing the screaming in option one would probably very much prefer you using option two.

Option one assumes that you can easily reverse your action with no damage done, which very often isn't the case
Profits that don't register for Google can make a sensible business for a smaller company.
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WizSec: Kleiman vs. Wright, Part 5
Macau is a fraction of the size of Hong Kong. I don't really think it's a comparison worth making in any deep sense.

- GDP: Hong Kong 341.4 billion USD, Macau 50.36 billion USD

- Population: Hong Kong 7,392,000, Macau 622,567
That's what round(3) is for
I wonder if maybe it has to do with more screen time and less real-world socializing. Can't meet a girl when you never leave mom's basement. Also staying in breeds phobia's of crowds and people and social interactions which causes probably a lot of the incel behaviors in the first place.
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But then you need someone to test the nails for standard-compliance, and what metrics should you give them to make sure they do a good job...
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Well, it's about balance.

If you applied the "Scream" test for a component you don't know what it does in an airplane, it might fall/explode/whatever.

If you do it in a non-critical codebase, it might just break the build, and have someone call you for it.

In the first case, the Chesterton's fence caution is more advisable. In the second, you could go with a "remove it and see what happens" approach.
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Can't martial law be declared due to an emergency [1] and then pretty much all bets are off? Or actually go to war (fights are being picked all over at the moment), causing such an emergency?

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/01/preside...
This is something that I deal with every day. You never know when you're going to die. But even when I was in my 50s, barring surprise diseases and accidents, it was far off in the distant future.

Not so much now. Especially because time is subjectively faster. Months seem like weeks used to.

But there is an advantage. Now it's a convenient excuse to avoid doing whatever I don't want to. I'm far less constrained by what others expect of me.
Good. The people voted to leave the EU, so get on with the job and make it happen.
The story seems to be based on a satire cartoon: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22375/did-a-sov...

Certainly the practical issue of what to use as performance indicator is a deep one, at least if one wishes to have a system that efficiently satisfies the needs of the population rather than their stated wants.

Today we could probably build some decent abstract indicator out of a myriad of detailed statistics, but the soviets didn't have much IT infrastructure in place and had to make do with simpler indicators. The linked memoir has the following summary of how the planned economy worked in practice:

> The Soviet manager’s success indicator was a measure of gross output, such as weight, quantity, square feet, or surface area. [...] The Soviets experimented by adding other indicators, but in the end a gross output indicator always determined the manager’s success or failure.

> Soviet managers were as autonomous as their market counterparts. They set their own plan targets by disguising their productive capacity and overstating their resource needs. Soviet planners served primarily as supply agents for enterprises, endeavouring to supply the enterprises with sufficient inputs to fulfill their gross output targets. The system of material supply could seldom perform this task, and Soviet factory managers made barter arrangements with one another and produced their own inputs. This activity led me to the conclusion that the Soviet economy, like a market, was organized polycentrically and not hierarchically as a planning system. The “central plan” was little more than the summation of the factory manager's individual plans.

I would caution that this account seems like it overstates the actual independence of the managers, no doubt there were many political restrictions on their freedom of action in practice, but the general account that the plan essentially comes from the low level managers seems sound.
Opening the link I was hoping that this would be a postman with better support for file uploads. I have a long lived desired to be able to have postman request which embeds a file to upload. I really like postman features and UX but when I need a test suite for a file upload endpoint it doesn't match.

Tried several hacks to achieve to embed files but none worked. If the endpoint supported Content-Transfer-Encoding it would be kind of easy to do.
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> that's a plan for financiers and capitalists to trade in the blame for continuing climate change.

Are you confusing fee& dividend with cap&trade?
Do we know the queen's stance on Brexit? It would be hilariously ironic if her response turns out be something along the lines of "well I'm supposed to stay out of politics, but you kind of forced my hand in telling the world in how horribly stupid I think this entire thing is"
The people didn't vote to crash out without a deal. In fact, all the Vote Leave literature explicitly said we would negotiate a trade deal before we left.
>Does it make large sections of the Chinese population feel safer? I think so.

I don't think it makes people feel safer with their freedom or their rights (property or otherwise), rather it makes people less anxious that people act outside the bounds of acceptable behaviour (e.g. act disorderly).

However, the problem here is that it is done by constant fear. Instead of educating people about why they should behave in a positive manner, they are coerced into behaving by fear. It's Clockwork Orange territory.
"a mapping startup", "Founded Date: Jul 1, 2013" [0]. How long do people call themselves a startup these days? :)

[0] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/what3words#section-o...
Care to explain the downvote? I was only explaining that a huge number of people feel it's democracy that's being upheld by this action.

I personally disagree entirely. I just am amazed that a fragmented simultaneously different truth can exist so openly with people believing the side they agree with.

Of course I see the risk to UK democracy and the strategic (and in my view dangerously manipulative) use of the system and of course with the timing it seems impossible to argue seriously that it's just to set out a programme of gov, but that is the line Johnson is selling.
What were those legitimate gripes?
Putting the substance of the politics aside, I wonder why all this feels coordinated.

I mean Trump, Brexit, Putin, Erdoğan, The guy in Brazil, in Hungary - all seem to act like a part of a bigger organization.

I don’t really believe that there’s a grand conspiracy but I am fascinated how unrelated organizations act in resonance.

It’s not even limited to big politics, suddenly right wing bigotry is sexy. “Lone wolfs” attack women, minorities or pretty much any outliers, movements emerge as ways to combat vegans, girls that don’t behave in the desired ways etc.
Almost nobody in Hong Kong under 30 identifies as “Chinese”
Yeah, e^n grows much faster than sqrt(2 pi n), so sqrt(2 pi n)/e^n will tend to 0.
She’s been (rightly) tight-lipped and has steadfastly refused to comment, but the BBC reported a while back that some “unnamed sources” close to her believe she is silently partial to Leave.

This older NY Times story talks about her unionist view, the controversy in The Sun’s claim that she is pro-Brexit, and surprisingly also the prorogue: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/25/world/europe/queen-elizab...
"minority"
This is where a written constitution is super important. The UK (or England & Wales to be specific) doesn't have one, and relies on 'constitutional conventions' (which needless to say shift in interpretation by whoever is in government).

The lack of a written constitution has allowed certain things like the UK equivalent of the 5th Amendment (invoking the right of silence when questioned in a criminal proceeding does not invoke an appearance of guilt that can be told to the jury) disappear under Tony Blair.
There's conflicting reports on this, because this is roughly the time that in "normal" operation that it would be suspended for conference season and then re-opened via the Queen's Speech.

The problem is these are not normal times, and the Parliamentary majority is trying to regain control of the legislative timetable but without bringing down the government.
It depends. If I'm never planning on visiting the "live dashboard" of some website then all the extra code that is loaded for that feature is useless to me. That's why separate bundles exists (with browserify, webpack etc).
Closer to crashing out. This will obviously weaken the EU which will be viewed as a positive outcome by other major players: Russia, China and (bizzarley) US.
The two concerns I have are performance and correctness. I don’t know enough about the implementation of round(3) to know... perhaps someone else does?
I would interpret them at saying, "if you don't know why something is there, break it", and "if you don't know why something is there, don't break it"; how are you interpreting them, then?
There's some evidence that the same people keep turning up in the same places. Plus the same internet memes, although who knows if they're a leading or following indicator.
This is the first time I've heard about this emoji being in some way connected to white suppremacy... is this a thing?

Edit: relevant wikipedia article
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OK_gesture#As_a_white_power_sy...

It seems online culture is so plastic that we can quickly see a move from irony/trolling to sincere usage. How is a person not at the fronts of where hateful groups and their opponents meet supposed to navigate a battlefield of memes and conventions that see distinct transitions in cultural symbols (like a phase change almost) from benign to harmful within weeks?
The article says the last times this was done, parliament was suspended for 5 and 13 days respectively while Mr Johnson is asking for 23 days this time. That’s telling.
Chrome is an advert delivery mechanism, if you see it from that perspective it looks highly lucrative.
Python already doesn't have the best performance. If you need to round a lot of floats in a loop you better bring some time.
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So the plan is for Parliament to be suspended between 10th September and 14th October.

But they were already due a recess between 13th September and 8th October for their yearly jolly at the seaside[1].

Having just returned from their summer recess between 20th July and 5th September.

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_conference_season
not exactly time trackig software, but they have made our tasks easy by providing a phone with custom launcher with apps (which includes time tracking software too), websites & content that's important.
https://scalefusion.com/android-kiosk-mode
Not sure what's bizarre about it - the US sees the EU as a competitor economically and stands to gain even more power over the UK as a result of Brexit.
Boris Johnson doesn’t appear to care if Parliament votes at all! I’m still amazed how a majority can support BoJo as PM given his desire for Brexit and a no-deal, but at the same time oppose Brexit, no-deal, and Remain. If Theresa May had a spine she would have revoked Article 50 before stepping down.
The whole Brexit issue can only weaken the EU and, as a consequence, was always going to be positive for the other major players.
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> Care to explain the downvote?

There are always one or two pro-Brexit people in threads like this who get defensive at the sight of any opposition to their way of reasoning about this.
The irony is that under WTO rules, we'd trade with less say on the rules that under pretty much any other arrangement.

Not that the whole Brexit thing was ever very rational (in the homus economicus sense) but this is sliding into a farce and tragedy all in one.

If I were an optimist, I'd say that this is posturing to force the EU's hand but I suspect that unless a face saving measure is found, this is it.
> on average less nationalist/warmonging than Americans

Less warmongering on average, but get them on the topic of Japan and things change. Vastly more nationalistic on average, and with a much larger population that is way more homogeneous in their politics and nationalism than you've ever seen anywhere in the US. Source: seven years in China.
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Well, that sounds like it could lead to interesting scenarios then.
StackOverflow is just the path of least resistance. There was a time when developers would just have framework or language books sitting around for reference.
I don't know that it is "wrong", just unexpected. I suspect most people expect all math functions to be purely implemented in numerical terms, so finding string manipulation is surprising/interesting.
So efficient that nobody really cared about or mentioned it all those decades, so there's that...
Hello, I am one of the founding contributors to Tridactyl.

I think the three comments from this one[1] down summarise the overall issue well.

[1]: https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl/issues/1800#issuecomm...

After appealing the first reviewer's decision, we appealed to the amo-admins who basically said "we agree with reviewer 1 and will reject affected versions of the addon".

Apparently they have decided that all of our addon versions ever are affected (which is not really true) and have delisted the entire addon.

Further, they have asked us to also remove another opt-in feature that disables some CSP protections so that Tridactyl can insert its own UI into e.g. raw.githubusercontent.com. This is required because webextension content can still be blocked by a site's CSP setting, supposedly this is fixed in Firefox 69, but our testing is inconclusive and the new Firefox ESR is 68 anyway.

Our intention is to make tridactyl compatible with the AMO reviewers' requests for the sake of our users, but we're all very busy and none of us really wants to make these (in our opinion) overly invasive and unnecessary changes.

Our understanding is that users who have already installed Tridactyl will continue to have it installed and that new users will not be able to install it or find it on the AMO (where it has been removed with no explanatory text), but they can follow instructions on our github repo to install it fairly easily.

We believe that the AMO reviewers' choices do not serve the community and that a more suitable response would be to ask us to display prominent warnings over these features for our users and ask for their re-informed consent for their continued use.

We also note that loads of other extensions (including Mozilla-recommended addons) talk about the very same config settings that we have been delisted for on their AMO pages![2]

[2]: https://www.google.com/search?q=site:addons.mozilla.org+exte...

Just deleting the features and undoing the changes for all users (as Mozilla has asked us to do) means that Mozilla is forcing our users to adopt a risk model and level of risk aversion that I think is not actually appropriate for the majority of our users. If we want to trade a little security for functionality we should be able to do that.
The far right has been coordinating for a while.

Besides its ties with Trump, Russia has also been financing extreme right parties in Europe (and probably elsewhere), and pushing divisive propaganda through its press divisions (RT, ...).
The National Museum of Computing at Bletchley Park is well worth a visit, too!
What happens when you launch Firefox for the first time?
A bike that goes nowhere is much safer than the alternative, in the US, at least.
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