skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did the US gov really make any money on it, or did it pay the banks through another channel (such as non-returnable Fed-printed loans) so the banks can "give back the TARP money." (a PR win for both the gov and the banks, but still a net loss for the public). I may have read something on this a few years back.
Sorry, meant to say scale type questions like 1 for dissatisfied and 5 for satisfied. You can see it on the google form, but not through formfacade.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwITzptBor8Q9OQ733...

https://formfacade.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwITzptBor8Q9OQ733a...
This is repeated frequently, but I was never able to get my AMD 560 to work on Linux at 4k with MST (or turn down the fan speed). With Nvidia I installed the binary blob and 4k over MST “just worked”. I tried the amdgpu and Pro versions of the drivers.

Neither company is perfect with Linux support. As with most things, there are pros and cons to both sides. But for anyone else reading here, just because you pick AMD does not mean everything is magically trouble free on Linux.
>If you are that tight, shouldn't you take more time to build enough money before starting your business ? The actual "let's eat ramen for 2 years" mentality is usually unhealthy and you can't expect a gov. to encourage it.

In general I'm inclined to agree, but contrast this with my experience almost 20 years ago. I was 18, I was doing some ad-hoc programming jobs for few local businesses that earned me some money occasionally. I made a mistake of deciding to register my starting up business as required by the law back then. I immediately had about $340 per month to pay for myself (that was a bit more than $340 is now). I budgeted for this and I had the money for about a year set aside. After two months of making around $500-$600 the majority of which I was loosing to pay for various insurances I decided to move to UK. There if I registered my business as a sole trader I would pay £2.5 per week, or nothing if I registered a limited company. Almost 20 years later I live in Poland but my company is still registered in UK. Income and corporate taxes are actually lower in Poland now (17% in PL vs 20% in UK for personal income tax on company dividends and 9% in PL vs 20% in UK on company profit), but I prefer to deal with the UK tax man where if I make a mistake or I need advice I'm treated like a customer, not a potential tax evader and criminal. This however, is another matter altogether, but it would definitely affect my decision whether to start my startup in PL. Also, I heard some localities are better than others in this regard.

>On other angles, cutting these costs to 0 would also create so many loopholes for other businesses that should otherwise pay full price.

That is the eternal excuse for compulsory payments. "What if employers force their employees to become self-employed and they force them to pay nothing for their pensions?" is the usual argument for minimum contribution legislation. My answer is, if the tax man does its job properly this is a non issue. In UK there is a piece of legislation called IR35, basically it allows the tax man to detect such arrangements where a de-facto employment is hidden behind false self-employment and apply employment taxes backdated to both parties for years. It works pretty well from my perspective.
Isn't "remain" option possible?

Pardon my kidnapping the thread, but I don't think HN would appreciate splitting the discussion.
most important treaties will be negotiated under new treaties, as it's in interest of both parties (people tend to forgot it's not in U.E. interest to have no deal at all). If there was a real threat, The City would have already left somewhere else, and it's not the case. Actually, it's pretty obvious that U.E. makes everything they can to impeach the Brexit that's why I tend to think the real threat is more for U.E. (as an institution) than for UK.
Funny you wrote that.

The whole point of brexit was to be able to make their own decisions.

Didn't start off that well.
There have been several articles in the past few days whinging about both mozilla and chrome incorporating DNS over TLS. Someone seems to be REALLY unhappy about this and those people seem to be trying to use the press as a microphone.

It seems like it's touching a nerve and advertisers and governments are really sweating losing their ability do low effort snooping.
> So we would never build a computer because back in 1950 we didn't know how to make compilers

No that's different - the big idea with the Itanium was specifically to shift the major scheduler work to the compiler. We didn't build the first computers with the idea we'd build compilers later.
As Adams noted: “There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened.”
Where I live the enterprises recycle their packaging, something a lot easier to achieve than with individuals, so can't see it becoming a huge deal yeah.
I personally found that the things the article's author argues that Zuckerberg doesn't understand are being acknowledged and discussed by Zuckerberg itself in the leaked comments.
This was an issue with the previous proprietary drivers, but the modern open source ones just use Mesa like everything else sane.
It's not really for the UK to "give up" NI - under the Good Friday Agreement the island of Ireland can be unified at any time if the populations of the North and South consent to it.
> Startups don't create wealth, they concentrate it.

What a strange and incorrect assertion. Please walk us through your mental though process so we can re-educate you.
The comment I was replying to was also using the fact that mjg is a specific person who knew Stallman as a reason they are credible. When the thing being discussed is how reliable someone is at conveying private information they have, rather than them making some argument devoid of experience, ad hom is not a fallacy.
From an outside point of view, it seems crazy to split off and annex a part of an island. The shoreline very clearly marks the border. Obviously I understand the Brits who have lived in Northern Ireland for generations might feel differently about this and it's a complex issue for sure.
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Affected versions
The exploit works well until WhatsApp version 2.19.230. The vulnerability is official patched in WhatsApp version 2.19.244

The exploit works well for Android 8.1 and 9.0, but does not work for Android 8.0 and below. In the older Android versions, double-free could still be triggered. However, because of the malloc calls by the system after the double-free, the app just crashes before reaching to the point that we could control the PC register.
Yes, I have opened a ticket here: https://trac.videolan.org/vlc/ticket/22914#ticket
However, I think my first description here in the comments was not concrete enough. I don't think the (awesome) function from winamp is as trivial to add as it might have appeared :)

Thank you again, anyway!
Surely that is in response to Brexit as in Brexit with a deal?

A No-deal Brexit is quite different and will surely have real life consequences, not in the least in Northern Ireland.
>It's a different matter for laptops where consumers have much less say on the topic, of course.

The rumor is Microsoft's Surface Laptop announced today will be AMD which will be the beginning of the end for Intel as OEMs will fall in line.
Seems like a costly mistake, surprised they didn't figure out whether this was solving a legitimate problem, and/or filling a legitimate market need _before_ the costly development cycle. I literally cannot even imagine a UI that would be made better by this feature -- so surely before all that investment, apple had _some idea_ of how it would be used that would radically transform UI forever.

Maybe this comes down to a human brain / body form thing, where the best thing is just to have a simple point-and-click interface because it aligns well with human intuition and natural behavior.
> which means in order to make use of that hardware you have to taint your kernel and aren't free to update it if the in-kernel ABI changes.

I have difficulty placing all the blame on Nvidia here since it is the kernel developers long-held disdain for stable driver ABIs that Nvidia feels forces their hand. There are those who argue otherwise, but that argument is basically "all software should be open source". Even if we go with the more reasonable "all drivers should be open source" that still introduces problems because of bonkers patent law nonsense.
For this subject, it's really just a matter of opinion more than anything.

I think if someone is commenting and has subject matter expertise, they should mention that ("I'm a doctor and happen to know that ..."), it's better than having everyone else adding disclaimers to their comments.

In an online comment no expertise is usually assumed, but yes this leads to stuff like a scientist with decades of experience publishing a study saying something that people don't want to hear, and then some troll on twitter says "No it's not" and people run with it because that's what they want to hear.

I think it's the Internet in general, it's not specific of HN.
> That all just sounds a touch complicated compared to data in database, code somewhere else (like git).

You use Postgres as a deployment target and not as a replacement for git. It's not complicated at all. You even get features like transactional deployments and the ability to prohibit applications from directly touching the data.

> pgSQL specialises in the relational model of data

The relational model is SQL:92, Postgres does much more than that. Postgres has JSON support, recursive CTEs, Row Level Security, and Window functions that would require dozens of lines of procedural code to do what can be done with a single OVER in its SELECT clause.

> If I were using SQLite and someone wants to do fancy triggers then maybe I need to swap to PostgreSQL.

If you want to put your business logic into an RDBMS, you wouldn't be using an embedded DB anyway, but rather Oracle, Postgres, SQL Server or DB2, which are designed for this type of architecture.
> * It's quite safe, at least safer than Naples from where I am from

Fun fact, we've only ever had 2 serial killers that we know of!
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I don't disagree, but as an individual taking action, it sure feels futile.

On plastic waste specifically, I think there is far more consumer awareness and consciousness than where I am now, Japan. Everything is in bags in bags in bags.
DeepMind Builds Neural Networks That Spontaneously Replay Past Experiences
Y2K had huge amounts of resources thrown at it to make sure it wasn't a problem so I'm not sure that's the best analogy.
Not sure if this is off topic but here in Canada we also have Interac E-Transfers which is what I use to pay my rent.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac_e-Transfer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interac

It works quite well.
I don't understand, it seems like these are just rental services for expensive farming equipment? Are we just calling rentals [Blank] as a Service now? Maybe Enterprise should change their business model to Cars as a Service.
That really depends on the extra curricular though. There's plenty that aren't expensive at all: Scouting, (most) sports, and volunteering. Those all demand mostly time commitments with small outlays for relatively cheap equipment.
This is probably the most expensive way to make a rocket body I can think of.
Apple and MSFT do not belong in that list at all. Google remains to be seen, but they’re doing just fine. Apple has demonstrated time and again the ability to innovate in the hardware space, even if you find their products overpriced like I do. And MSFT has so many different extremely successful products they’re totally unkillable.
Drivy rebrands to Getaround six months after acquisition
In NI:

- Irish border posts are setup

- Lots of confusion at the border

- Small groups of young men throw rocks at the border guards

- Escalations occur

- People die

- New era of the troubles ushered in

- 10 years later and thousands killed / displaced

Meanwhile in scotland

- Scottish referendum tabled

- Overwhelming support to leave the UK and rejoin the EU

- Referendum passes (just)

- UK dissolves into England, Wales and NI

NHS still underfunded.
> Wanting to take over Taiwan,

This is as expansionist as the American Civil War... I.e. it's not expansionist but really a 'domestic' matter.

There is big amount of propaganda from Western media on this topic as well: If Taiwan had been in a position to fight the communists to retake the mainland the US would have supplied help and call this 'liberation' of the mainland. But of course any plan of the communists to complete the takeover of the country by getting their hands on Taiwan is labelled 'expansionist' and 'a threat to security and stability'.

Same old games...
True, but when you're just starting out and you and your co-founders are the only employees you have a choice not to pay anything extra in US.

I don't envy US healthcare arrangement. The healthcare insurance is the only one of those compulsory taxes I don't mind here.
Thanks, I was very satisfied with the one with the patterns, it really felt good to see that the project was capable of producing something of artistic value.
At least in Croatia, I would say people are still figuring out how to do the startup thing. Certain incentives and incubators have appeared in the past few years, the country has shown some interest with improving regulation and some people are trying it out. The biggest thing I would say is the culture where I would say people are very risk averse so they do not want to jump into debt for some crazy idea so they cannot afford paying people. Most startups I know in Croatia are started by friends where no one is getting payed and then later there's a squabble when it turns out the friend who started the company now owns it while the others are just employees. Other startups hire lots of college interns for 5€ net an hour and waste time with them learning how to code instead of paying actual professionals. I would say the scene is improving and each year there are 2x as many startups doing recruiting but it's all still in its infancy.
Yes, the FED is a government organization. It's a government organization that creates money out of nothing and issues 6% dividends to its shareholders:

https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/bcre...
There isn't enough.

Even for aviation alone, which is about 6% of US fossil fuel consumption, using a process Boeing had lauded as a "breakthrough" a few years ago, essentially using a salt-water pickleweed (halophytes), you'd need the entire states of Kansas and Oklahoma, plus considerable chunks of Nebraska and surrounding states, to meet present US demand.

We use a lot of fossil fuels. Mind-boggling amounts. And those accumulated slowly over immensely long periods of time, though that's due to inefficiencies both in what ancient biomass was kerogenised in the first place, and the losses in keroginisation (essentially: petroleum formation). Jeffrey S. Dukes, "Burning Buried Sunshine" (2003), lays this out for coal, oil, and gas.

For petroleum, we're presently burning about 5 million years of accumulated fossil biomass every year. Or, alternatively, we burn through a full ancient year's biomass accumulation every 6.3 seconds.

All biomass, roughly, equates all human and livestock feed, plus some construction materials waste-streams (mostly wood and forestry products). When you say "use biomass", you're really saying "go through the leftovers of humans and livestock". And quite simply, there's not all that much there. Maybe 5-10% of current total energy use if you could efficiently capture the entire wastestream (and keep in mind that it is very widely distributed.

In practice, you could probably power waste water treatment plants off of captured biomass, with some surplus left over. But not much more than that.
But it worked, and actually kinda worked well. One more case of apple bringing a product to a market that's not ready for it.
Over the years, I must have annoyed various DBAs by saying "Is that a query, or a ransom note?"
You’re a Bad Listener: Here’s How to Remember What People Say (2018)
Marks of an Excellent PhD Thesis
(Full disclosure, former AD employee)

In particular with precision Analog / mixed-signal / RF, there is a real recognition that there is no perfect Amplifier / Converter / Black Box X, that will satisfy all applications. That all abstractions (and inputs) are leaky, a wire is never just a wire, ground is never ground, noise exists, etc. That the reality is that there are myriad tradeoffs to be made depending on what you want to do, and the best way to be successful is to acknowledge that fact from the start without any bullshit; And as a supplier to tell you exactly what those real-world tradeoffs are and help guide you towards being successful.

To their credit the applications engineers and even sales folks when I was there were just as happy to sell you a $.05 "jellybean", as they were to sell the latest precision laser-trimmed FancyAmp if that's all you needed because they were like minded engineers too, and at the end of the day, building something that did the job it needed to was satisfying.

(Plus, as anyone whose done consumer/ high-volume electronics will tell you, BOM cost is it's own variable in the optimization space that can lead to some creative design choices!)
How much faster is Redis at storing a blob of JSON compared to Postgres?
> but some places still look like Half-Life 2

Fun fact: Half-Life 2's art director is Bulgarian.
Address sanitizer can detect this sort of thing, so yes, you can protect against it. It comes at a performance cost, though.
Oh sure, you are right. But the thing with collecting heaps of data is that it needs to be harder. If my ISP is going to filter and process all packets in realtime, sure they can get a lot of unencrypted stuff from me. In essence, other than heavy censoring countries like China, I don't think most ISPs do that (a number of users doing that is pretty small, so the effort on their part is not worth it).

And as you and others have said, it can be done by looking at IP addresses i connect to as well.

What I do achieve is that nobody has a "full" picture of me, but only some subset of data that I transmit.

I also use two independent ISPs in a loadbalancing/failover configuration, so that helps with the cause as well, thougb my primary use is fail-over since I am in this internet business :)
Let's not forget NAFTA. Especially what it did to textiles and the car industry. (Mexico's not manufacturing the raw and intermediate materials they're making our car parts from.)
I'm concerned, but mainly for the mid-term future than immediate starvation and riots.

Borders and ports will cope - only after a period of obviously not having nearly enough customs and other staff for borders and checks. Temporarily difficult then. Particularly as we have a government that doesn't want to spend on any necessary service.

Good Friday agreement is my biggest short term concern. That requires a lack of borders, and Brexit seems to require the impossible in NI. Mid-term I see reunification. Short term could get ugly if there's border posts, and just one incident...

Mid term, it's destroyed UK's international reputation, it's boosted independence thoughts across the nation, and our politicians of all colours are clearly no longer fit for purpose. You tell me where that takes us. I see a further decline of science and business as more goes to the EU than here. Why would a project choose to locate in a post-Brexit UK with no EU agreement?
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cgi-bin/glue.cgi – blast from the past!
Thanks! I was a kid when my parents were forced to move to Turkey in 1989, then returned a year later because the older relatives couldn't make it(and didn't want to, anyway). I am not sure that deportation is the right word here, they gave them to option to have a suitcase with the belongings and leave or remain and face whatever is coming next(it wasn't a genocide but imprisonments and murders were a thing).

Later my parents moved to Turkey again due to the economic situation while our relatives took care of me and y brother(At that time it was not possible to immigrate to Turkey legally, so they went to work there). So in 1999 through very illegal ways they managed take us to Turkey and we couldn't go back to Bulgaria for many years until we sort out our legal situation in Turkey. Even though my parents are skilled (Electrical Engineer with a masters degree and a nurse) they had to work undocumented, effectively ruining their careers.

Overall it turned out fine I guess. Could have been worse or better, each situation comes with it's benefits in the long run. I am not big fan of borders, so mildly annoyed from the recent trends of love towards borders.
I've been pushing the author to write this up for a year now (we both work at University of Tennessee). He teaches a lot of OS-oriented courses and makes them for fun so he is perfect to write this.

Next I'm trying to convince him to make an OS in Zig for Raspberry Pi with a focus on graphics. If you have any suggestions for him, shoot him an email!
Y2K is a really bad example. It's a near certainty that, had everyone just sat back and collectively said "It will just be fine," bad things would have happened.

We don't really know how bad. Maybe "just" a lot of financial systems screwed up with people losing access to their money for weeks or months. Or maybe at least partial failures of the electrical grid and other systems. But almost certainly not good.
The Northern Irish who identify as British would not be very happy there. Pretty sure they would not accept this.
I am absolutely sure people had hard hats for work prior to 1919. Pith hats, for example.
PM ... how?
Using the Python Zip() Function for Parallel Iteration
Blazor is definitely not a shiny new technology. It's been around for years but still hasn't seen it's official release.

Last significant bit of news from it was the "official preview" phase, back in April.

If I understand it well, it WILL be released soon given that .NET Core 3 has just been released too.
treats everything as a regex by default but you can turn it off easily... /\Vwhatever... see :help \V

you can also use \< and \> (beginning of word, end of word) for easier phrase matching... /\<my phrase\>
This is a whataboutism that distracts from actually doing anything meaningful about climate change. We can't fix the entire problem, but combating climate change will require everyone to do as much as they can - so we should get to doing our part in transforming our economy.
"anytime a cow eats fresh grass, it creates cream high in conjugated linoleic acid, a heart-healthy unsaturated fat that’s liquid at room temperature. In cream from animals fed grain, however, saturated fats dominate, which makes for a stiffer, more brittle butter."

Recall reading a paper on the subject - the composition of milk between American and European cows is noticeably different.

Possibly this

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3475924/
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