skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not trying to start a flame war, here. I was seriously surprised. I get that some people love using Windows.

I had a similar transition. I used DOS through XP/2000 heavily growing up. I worked jobs that used Linux and had a Mac at home until I had a recent job as Win10 was being adopted. I tried to give it my best effort. I got a book on Powershell and read it and researched. I was aghast that the same frustrations I had with XP and earlier hadn't been touched. I wish I had kept a log as I re-discovered them.

* Nobody used PowerShell. I tried to push it, but then I realized I needed a BAT file wrapper to run PS1 files, anyway. I was hoping PowerShell would be a next-gen BASH, but having verbose flags is great in scripts, but horrible interactively. The system I was on was air-gapped and the documentation required an extra download on each system.

* Man, Windows still updates a lot. Often requiring reboots. MacOS asks to reboot like twice a year (and doesn't force it). With Linux it's very, very rarely necessary to reboot.

* I found window management awkward. I was coming from Linux where META+LMB moved Windows, META+MMB resized them. I tried the hot-corners shortcuts and other built-in things, I tried installing a few things.

* When the UI is busy I still can't resize or minimize it?

* Control Panel and other configurations were a huge mishmash of tacked on menus with a mix of old UIs and icons.

* I really missed ssh-ing in to query and poke at stuff. RDP felt so heavy for small stuff that should be quick or automated.

After a few months I toyed with WSL, but spent most of my time sshed into a Linux box using vim or bash when managing files or source code. Most of the small services I set up running in Linux. After a year and a half I left for a variety of reasons.
My college roommate didn't (and still doesn't)!
"There is a very large amount of oil production on hold or at low capacity in North America because the prices are currently too low and very much expected to go higher in the future."

You realize that this is the clusterfuck? no? We are looking to a Jojo effect. Oil prices too high? Recession. Oil prices too low? Oil producers can't afford to invest and produce (what is already happening now).

This is actually the reason why we will never run out of oil. No kidding. I assume most of the oil will stay there, where it is. In the ground!

https://ourfiniteworld.com/2019/07/10/why-stimulus-cant-fix-...
Weirdly, the situation is exactly the opposite of what you describe. You might say "hey, it's a private organization, they should be free to make their own rules about who they choose to serve." Many businesses before the civil rights act made exactly the same argument as they excluded African Americans as customers. This type of discrimination was made illegal.

The strange thing is that it is precisely this type of law that has created this situation. The Feds assert that if a university does not apply these extraordinarily dubious adjudication rules for sexual harassment and rape, then it is discriminating against women and is subject to losing any federal funding, including student loans, which effectively shuts down the university.
You mean passport?
More culture than law - my personal experience is that sub cultures within rigid legal systems that do not make it a good idea to lend aid (China for example) will do so regardless because of their subculture value system.
Prisma 1 indeed has a couple of quirks that we're currently ironing out with Prisma 2 (or the "Prisma Framework" as we now call it). Would love to hear from your whether the new version actually solves your pain points!

Feel free to reach out to me: burk@prisma.io or @nikolasburk on the Prisma Slack https://slack.prisma.io
The bystander effect is probably complete nonsense, there have been some recent studies that tried to replicate its findings and they found the opposite to be true.
I'm interested if this can indeed be categorized as 'poisoning'. If I understand it correctly, what the wasabi did is similar to what extreme emotional stress can also do... So if the effect of too much wasabi is considered 'poisoning', can extreme emotional stress be considered a poison?
Looks amazing. Thanks!
I have been using in my home for several years a Quantum external LTO-7 drive, which is connected via a Serial-Atached-SCSI cable, so I also have a SAS HBA card in a computer.
I am living in the European Union and I have bought the required hardware from an on-line shop from Germany, where it was cheaper. Now you can also buy it easily e.g. from Amazon. The cost was around 3000 EUR.

The tape cost is about 10 EUR per terabyte. Previously I was using HDDs for archiving. I have not followed closely the evolution of the HDD price, but looking now on Amazon I see about 30 EUR per terabyte.

I have a data archive of about 120 TB, but I am paranoid because of past data losses due to defective HDDs/CDs, so I store 3 copies of each tape (in different places).

That means that by using tape instead of HDDs, I have already saved 20 * 360 - 3000 = 4200 EUR.

Someone who would store just 2 copies of each tape (the minimum rational value), would need to have a data archive of at least 75 TB to recover the initial cost.

Nevertheless saving money is not everything, you also gain peace-of-mind because the chances of the tape becoming defective just from storing are negligible compared to a HDD, which if not used for a very long time might never start spinning again.

With tapes you must transfer the data only when you can no longer buy drives that would read them. With HDDs you should better replace them before their warranty expires, as I have seen too many that died immediately after that.

The tapes work OK both in Linux and in FreeBSD, but the FreeBSD utilities are more convenient, so I have connected the tape drive to a FreeBSD server and I transfer the data to be archived through 10 Gb/s Ethernet, which is faster than the 6 Gb/s SAS, so it is not a bottleneck. The writing speed of LTO-7 is 3 Gb/s, so that is the bottleneck anyway, not the interfaces.

That speed is much faster than of any HDD of up to 8 TB that I have ever used, but I have not checked the latest HDD models to see if they have improved their speed to levels comparable to tapes.

Using tape is very simple and retrieving any file (I have a tape index on my SSDs) takes at most 3 minutes, including the time to manually start the drive and inserting a tape in the drive. The maximum seek time is about 2 minutes. When I had a HDD archive, there was still the same time for manually selecting a HDD and inserting it in the HDD rack. For retrieving very large files, the tape can even be faster, due to the faster sequential speed.

The conclusion is that if you have data of at least several tens of terabytes and/or if you value that data enough to want to avoid any chance of losing it, than magnetic tape remains the best solution for now.
I'd have expected emotional stress if she'd thought she'd slathered a dish in wasabi and only got avocado, if it was the other way around physical stress is pretty likely.

Though I don't get how you'd eat "a large amount of wasabi", surely the first spoonful would tell you it's not avocado unless you don't have nerve endings, or a nose?
Deadlocks can happen in any kind of concurrent system with locks. As soon as you start building & using locks with Promises, this is quite easy to happen.

That said, the need for locks in JavaScript is much less than in a typical multi-threaded language, so it's a lot easier to keep track of and avoid deadlocks, if you're even using locks at all.
Huawei Develops System to Detect Road Rage and Stop Angry People Driving
You wouldn't pay $25 for a clearly well executed 13th Century painting by the artist who taught Giotto, unless you knew other people would pay more?

That comment isn't painting you in as good a light¹ as you might think.

¹Hah!
I don't think this can be reduced to being taught at a university.

A good analogy might be going to a gym: some people have the discipline to just work out at home on their own; others simply need the right environment to get into the right mindset.

Some people can perfectly teach themselves programming, but it requires both practice and individual research, aka. doing stuff and reading articles/books/papers. Others may just need the environment and guidance of a university to reach an optimal mindset for learning the right things.

And even among those who "learn" at a university, there's always those who think that all they need to do is attend classes and let the knowledge drip into them. Those people often go out being as incompetent as they went in, because they didn't spend any time improving themselves.

Ultimately, saying university is either pointless or a must for every person is missing the point. Some people are better off without it, others could hugely profit from it. The only absolutes are that university is the "safer" route, while self-teaching is, if it works out, the more direct one.
ALTBalaji partners with Microsoft to bring video streaming to offline users
I do a LOT of traveling, as I’m a consultant. I fly 2-3 times a month, often internationally. Seriously it is not a concern for me.
I'm running it in an LCX container on OpenWRT. Better to have an external disk connected for the container so the logging will not burn the internal storage too fast.
> Petrol prices only falling by four-twelths when the crude price fell by nine-twelths suggests that petrol costs a lot on top of the crude price and that a 50% crude increase might lead to, say a >100% petrol price increase

Why? If petrol price is fairly inelastic to crude price (for reasons siblings note) that means it would increase a little, not a lot.
> It has made me not trust my computer. I second guess myself much more. If some option no longer exists, I wonder if it was just my imagination or if it was quietly deprecated while I wasn't looking. Does it even matter?

Reminds me of 1984.
We're both discussing what he wrote.

Terje Søviknes seems the closest match to your description. For an adult in a position of power to get a 16 year old drunk and then have sex with them is obviously wrong. It's certainly caused a scandal in Norway: https://exepose.com/2018/02/15/endless-sex-scandals-in-norwe...

You apparently regard the case as one involving "consenting adults", even though you describe the girl as drunk! It does seem that at bottom, the tiny minority of people who think they've found a morally defensible interpretation of RMS's comments are the people who are basically ok with adult men sexually exploiting teenage girls. Or at least, who think it's very important to sharply distinguish these people from "real" rapists.

I assume that the politician you are referring to remains in power because the allegations are (you say) unproven.
Sure, but that's the point. Paraphrasing brodo's reply, anyone who says outcomes here are all culture or all nature is full of it. However, we've swung all the way to the other end where to imply that nature might play a role in outcomes here is grounds for excommunication from many circles (see Damore and Empathizing–systemizing theory).
Interesting that sloped window sills are considered hostile. They're important for preventing rot and water damage, regardless of size and type of building, but in modern construction too expensive. There was a good article from an historical architect I read some years ago lamenting how architects no longer consider small details like that anymore, even for projects where such expense wouldn't be an obstacle.

I was visiting and walking through a Boston neighborhood earlier this year and noticed a very old brownstone (or whatever the Boston equivalent is) that had recently been remodeled on the ground floor. There were two windows, one original and one newly built. The original had a sloped window sill of 4-5 inches but the new sill, the same width, was level. Even with aluminum window casings I imagine the new window will eventually begin to leak sooner or later.
Spot the Boston Dynamics Dog Launch Video
I've never been able to break into management and now I'm 40. Compared to most programmers I'm personable and outgoing. Getting a leg up into management is very difficult. In 13 years as a programmer I've never worked with anyone who achieved it. Don't bank on it being possible. If you want to get into management you need to take radical action. Don't drift along like I did and be bitterly dissapinted that you're stuck in development probably forever, like I did.
His webpage: https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/calculus.html

The book he mentions, Visual Complex Analysis by Tristan Needham, is awesome.

If you feel little bet insecure and lost with complex numbers, their relation to e and all the other things, just buy that book and look at the pictures. One hour looking a the pictures in the book is equal to 30 hours of studying the subject. You can use the book as a companion to any other book on complex analysis.
I doubt Hacker News automatically merging 2 lines into 1 line was the cause of the original bug.
That's not opinion - no study has shown prayer to have any effectiveness on flu symptoms.
The first ten years after a major spelling reform can be a bit of a mess, but as long as the changes aren’t too big or unrecognizable, it should be doable. The Commonwealth should be able to do it, if the political will is there.
Personally I can't be bothered and use grid for both. Why have a separate syntax for one dimension?
Bitcoin’s price has fallen by more than $1k in less than an hour
ATtiny Running Lisp
To be fair, if you go in all gun-ho for a huge bite of real wasabi like you would avacado you're going to get a whole load more than most people would mix in with their sushi.
I was a former developer at Facebook. If you have the chance, watch YouTube techlead’s video on Facebook. He summarized it better than I can.

There’s a strong lack of management and high blame culture. “Empower engineers and focus on impact” is the motto there. Basically that statement has lead management to say “here’s something and go make something happen”

Directions are ambiguous and leadership has no vision and when things go right, they get all the credit but shit goes down, engineers get blamed.

Not to mention the ambiguity in the performance review. It’s highly political. My team judges engineer quality based on lines of code written and not quality of code. On top of that, there’s this weird pride/arrogance in everyone at Facebook.

Also, due to the lack of vision and direction of team, everyone is doing the same thing but different way. It’s just a terrible org structure.

I need to emphasize this point. This is a company wide thing and not a team thing. Everyone suffers this issue because mark sucker berg and Sheryl sandderp refuse to take any accountability for the culture and direction the company is going
World Bank forest-rescue program 'kickstarted' by Germany
(We're getting way off topic) but I think the problem with auto increment is that it can't be sharded easily since multiple shards can increment to the same value. If you then try to go back to random ids you're now stuck with 8 bytes which will conflict once every billion items or so. I guess it's pretty extreme premature optimization but I think UUID is nicer for future-proofing at the cost of some performance. (I would love to see benchmarks to know exactly how much performance I am giving up though)

By the way uuidv1 is already prefixed by a timestamp! But unfortunately it doesn't use a sortable version of the time so it doesn't work for clustering the ids into the same page. I think it was really designed for distributed systems where you would want evenly distributed ids anyway.
This is an Apple product that literally sells itself
I actually do notice and appreciate it, personally.

I don't mean to excuse the keyboard problems - those should be addressed. But I just wanted to share my opinion because there are A LOT of others who feel the same way I do - they just have no incentive to participate in these discussions. I usually just ignore them - but in this case I was a bit bored.
He mentions that right above though

> The Conservative Prime Minister Edward Heath brought the United Kingdom into the European Economic Community (EEC)in 1973, and voters ratified the decision in a referendum two years later.

I think it's just a typo, and he meant 1975
Take a look at the amazfit pace. It's not as comprehensive as the garmins but does provide accurate data for cycling and running. You can also load gpx routes into it.

It's £105 delivered from amazon in the UK. I expect a similar price in your country https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CRPSJJX/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_...
It's difficult to see why Stallman would choose this case to make a point about rape vs. statutory rape. If you look at the context, the person he was replying to was pointing out that Minsky having sex with the girl in question (if this happened) might have legally constituted rape.

Statutory rape may in some cases not be a serious crime (e.g. an 18 hear old having sex with a 17 year old), but we are talking here, hypothetically, about a 70 year old man having sex with a 17 year old sex slave. And yeah, when you are a 70 year old man being offered sex for free by an attractive teenage girl who for some reason lives on your weirdo chum's private island, I do think some degree of due dillegence is required.

>My understanding is that he did make a public retraction of sorts this month

I know - I mentioned that. I asked if there was any evidence that he'd changed his views prior to September 2019. There appears not to be. And he has never apologised or shown any hint of shame.

>Lesswrong

No idea why you think this interminable blog post is relevant. But of course it's no surprise that you're linking to Lesswrong, which has a history of burying serious discussion of rape and sexual assault in endless reams of pseudorationalist bafflegab.
This isn't entirely accurate. The hack that they used (writing creds directly into the TCC db instead of using the official dialog) was closed by Apple in High Sierra I believe (might've been Mojave? I can't remember atm). Regardless, now they use the official prompt. Of course, while Apple went to the trouble of SIP protecting the TCC db, they didn't actually fix the API for getting Ax permissions, and it's still a massive pain to get it even remotely right.

As for what they're using accessibility for, I believe the official primary use case is tighter integration with the Office suite (e.g. showing users if anyone else has the doc open). So nothing exactly malicious.

This isn't anything new. Keep in mind that Dropbox was offering sync status icons for years before Apple finally created an official API for doing so. IIRC that was using an even dirtier hack, involving monkey patching Finder at runtime. I'd definitely count that as a useful feature as well, and one that Apple had no interest in supporting until it became a user expectation.

I've got no affiliation with Dropbox, and I can definitely see the concern over the TCC hack. But once you try to do any meaningful integration with macOS, you do begin to sympathize. The official APIs are limited, flaky, and prone to deprecation at a moment's notice (see Quicklook plugins in Catalina for a fresh example). And Apple, despite making it impossible for third parties to innovate in their ecosystem, gets to paint themselves as saints.

Security is paramount, of course, but needlessly restricting how users and developers can use the OS will either lead to even dirtier hacks, or only Apple apps being allowed to do new, interesting things. And I don't particularly like either option.
> I made the leader board. That accomplishment doesn't get credited to me.

How should such an accomplishment be credited?
Couldn't find the prayer stats.

I doubt there are any. It seems like a study fraught with problems, to put it mildly.
That is a distinction without a difference.

"iPadOS (then still called iOS) update".
> most endurance athletes live about as long as their less-active peers.

I'd venture to say they live far longer.

From the introduction of Vina & al 2016:

In longitudinal studies, physically active men and women have an approximately 30% lower risk of death compared with inactive people (Schnohr et al. 2015). No upper threshold for physical activity has ever been recommended (Pate et al. 1995). In fact, in studies performed on top‐level athletes, participation in endurance competitive sports increases life expectancy (Hartley & Llewellyn, 1939; Prout, 1972). Moreover, Karvonen and co‐workers found that Finnish champion skiers lived 2.8–4.3 years longer than the general male population in Finland (Karvonen et al. 1974). We tested the effect of strenuous exercise, performed by well‐trained humans, on their longevity. We measured average and maximal lifespan in cyclists who had taken part in the Tour de France between the years 1932 and 1964 and compared them with those of the average population in those years. Only cyclists born in Belgium, France and Italy were included in our study. The results were striking: we found an 11% increase in average longevity in Tour de France participants when compared with the general population (Sanchis‐Gomar et al. 2011). These results have been confirmed recently with the observation of a significant 41% lower mortality rate among French elite cyclists from the Tour de France, compared with the general male population (Marijon et al. 2013). Evidence from human studies supports the notion that regular, vigorous aerobic exercise might be a useful tool, with a dose–response effect, to improve the overall health status and longevity of the general population (Ruiz et al. 2010; Teramoto & Bungum, 2010). However, the controversy regarding the potential adverse effects of regular strenuous physical exercise continues (Benito et al. 2011; Schnohr et al. 2013). Schnohr and co‐workers have found that moderate‐intensity joggers have lower mortality rates that sedentary people or high intensity joggers. In other words the relationship between intensity of jogging and mortality follows a U‐shaped curve (Schnohr et al. 2015). Thus, the ideal ‘dose’ of exercise needed to improve longevity is not a simple linear relationship. Genetic aspects as well as lifestyle factors (smoking, diet and alcohol consumption) may be important in interpreting studies aimed at determining the effect of exercise training on longevity.
While we're talking about thing we don't understand: I never understand the need to scoff at people who make such a small mistake. If you have a need to call people unbelievably stupid, there are lots of better alternatives.

Looking at the pictures, there is no name or picture on the fake card. The card looks exactly the same as a normal one. The only difference is the word 'specimen', which doesn't even cover the whole card and to me does not convey the meaning 'fake, don't use'.
The Mixpanel (if that is the company being referred to, seems pretty obvious) CEO's callous firing of someone who asked for a raise, then threatening anyone who disagreed with this decision with termination is horrendous (if true).
The Content-Type header of the article is set to the empty string. It still renders, but I'm guessing the author hand-coded a website and screwed it up somehow. He probably should have used one of those Wix-style solutions he mentions in the article.
You can write a blog. I think people would take interest in those kinds of stories.