skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article leaves out the minor detail that through sponsoring the Linux Foundation, Microsoft is paying Linus' paycheck.

That being said, I'm really excited about the apparent culture shift inside Microsoft. Let's forget about the ugly past and judge them by their recent actions.
A few years ago, when Adobe shut down the licensing servers for CS2 it posted direct links to "officially cracked" versions with serials on its site:

http://web.archive.org/web/20161009002305/https://helpx.adob...

(View source or disable CSS if the scripting is funny, and you'll see the loot.)
It's an interesting episode, and I've really enjoyed the previous Gimlet seasons' candor. He discusses part of the solution in that episode, though. Many of the really huge podcasts have much lower production costs, because they're just a compelling host (or small group of hosts) and they don't take a ton of time or money to make.
I've led a number of people through these exercises at this point. They're good for making the math concrete.
Bitcoin testing $8,200 levels, BayernLB forecasts BTC Price at $90k by 2020
You've created one of the characters from Douglas Adams' "Restaurant at the End of the Universe", the Ameglian Major Cow, which had been bred to actually want to be slaughtered and eaten.
But I also believe many people are mistaken about their preferences. Using your example of physical activity, I find that people greatly overestimate how difficult cycling is when done regularly.

Of course, I do agree with it. I can also confirm that going to gym regularly and getting jacked is not all that hard either. Nevertheless, median American is in terrible physical condition, obesity is rampant etc. Point is, there's quite apparently a wide chasm between knowing things, and actually restructuring your life according to those ideas: this requires committment, effort, planning, foresight etc. We gave up on expecting those things from average person in other areas (e.g. consider recent idea of "food deserts", which implicitly assumes that a person affected by those is unable to have enough foresight to make weekly or biweekly travels to grocery store, something our ancestors 100 years ago were perfectly capable of), so I find strange the incredulity of cycling proponents when it comes to understanding people shunning bicycles.

Similarly, many people have views about cycling that are false. For example, I've talked to several drivers about buying groceries on a bike, and I was surprised by how few seem to consider that you can add cargo capacity to a bike. Groceries seems to be many anti-cycling drivers "gotcha" question, but it's really not a problem.

There's no "gotcha". It's simply extremely convenient to do grocery shopping with a car compared to a bicycle, and adding cargo capacity only alleviates some of the inconvenience. The only reason people bring up groceries, or ferrying kids to school, or all the other excuses you've certainly heard fair share off is that when you say "car is simply more convenient to me", you're met with incredulity, and are being explained to, like the grand parent poster, that driving actually makes thing worse for you. You need to keep explaining the exact ways in which alternative ways are less convenient (less cargo capacity, more physical exertion required, more time spent on commuting with public transit etc), and the response is usually either minimizing the cost, or moralizing about health benefits or externalities.

I don't think these things are obvious, but most drivers I've talked about these issues with seem to take very little initiative to investigate these assumptions. The easiest way would be to ask experienced cyclists.

Indeed, "it's simply more convenient" is not the acceptable response here, you need to ask experts to tell you that you're wrong.

Also: I don't think that I'm calling drivers stupid or oblivious. If you think I am, can you explain how?

I don't think I quoted anyone calling drivers that, but the grandparent comment certainly implied that people driving in Manhattan are making choice that's simply wrong for them, which implies that they are either stupid, or, more charitably, oblivious.
From the TrueCrypt shutdown page: http://truecrypt.sourceforge.net/

> WARNING: Using TrueCrypt is not secure as it may contain unfixed security issues

Which if you are into conspiracy theories can be rendered as

Using TrueCrypt is Not Secure As => using TrueCrypt is NSA
Fairchild F8 was common as a rad-hardened 8-bit CPU in space and military tech. That's simpler than a Z80, and potentially more flexible.
Adobe is complying with an Executive Order. Why are you all picking on Adobe?
Because BTC will be 11x more useful, how?
I worked in design for almost 15 years before getting into software development. I have a few former colleagues who moved over to Affinity. It's got really good reviews so far. When my copy of CS3 stops activating (probably next pc upgrade), I'll probably buy a copy.

On a personal note, I really wish they would have done a Linux release.
How long did you give yourself between jobs, to recover? Do you have the resources to take a significant length of time away from work - say, 6m+?
It appears that the system font was changed. I'm trying to figure out what it is now, it appears that San Francisco isn't even installed on my system anymore. GitHub, Twitter, and other sites using system-ui / -apple-system as the font-family now look very odd.
Recommend me resources for self-teaching economics on undergrad level
Can you recommend me books and online classes that give a quick yet comprehensive understanding of the economics? I'm interested mainly in microeconomics, game theory, finance, behavioural economics.
Is it just this episode or all episodes?
I'm not talking about dropping 32-bit support. I'm talking about audio glitches that come up with every single major and minor update to macOS (or any OS). Catalina seems to be especially bad in regards to general stability.

Many audio tools have to deal with third-party, paid, and often abandoned drivers and plugins. So the 32-bit transition made for some difficult decisions. Nobody is arguing this is a surprise.
> I'm old enough to remember Bill Gates appearing as a borg on Slashdot and the infamous mutating linux ads MS ran when Win2K came out

And XBill, don't forget about XBill!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBill
Embed any file into an encrypted, self-decrypting HTML file
As long as GNU autotools relies on Automake, Perl has some life left in it.
That's a better introduction, imo
"anyone can be made to look bad" is an opinion that basically throws the human capacity for discernment under the bus, and if humans can't discern things then why bother with anything?

No; rms is gross and creepy because rms is gross and creepy. Not because some conspiracy has worked to make him look like he is.
You don't give human activity enough credit !

"According to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the world’s volcanoes, both on land and undersea, generate about 200 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually, while our automotive and industrial activities cause some 24 billion tons of CO2 emissions every year worldwide."

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/earthtalks-volcan...
It's the software support and maintenance that's hard. Replacement apps and configuration. Especially if you want to do email...
Big monitor or two is needed more than absolute top line cpu performance - I use a small nuc like system at work as a desktop.

At home, I have a PC with a big monitor for gaming and I ssh to my macbook for dev work from that using the ubuntu shell.
There biggest issue was that all of their podcasts are expensive and overproduced while the most profitable podcast are unscripted, with interesting hosts. Relay FM isn’t struggling and the most popular Apple related podcasts - The Talk Show and ATP bring in enough money for their hosts to make a good living.
Here's a few fun facts about Belgium:

- Belgium has three official languages (French: fr-be, Flemish: nl-be and German: de-be).

- Belgium is divided in provinces.

- Provinces in Belgium are either French (thus mainly speak french) or Flemish (thus mainly speak flemish).

- … with the exception of some areas near the german border which mainly speak german. But not the whole province.

- Brussels is not part of a province. It's part of a region called "Brussels Capital". It is French speaking, although it's in the middle of a Flemish province. This is what that looks like: https://twitter.com/Adys/status/1175063489653727233

As you can imagine, most software doesn't account for any of that shit, yet tries to be clever and eg. have websites ignore accept-language.

I recently updated my Nintendo account to be in Belgium. My nintendo account is now half-translated in dutch (NOT flemish). Half because their dutch translation is vastly incomplete. I have no apparent way to change this back without lying about where I live.
That's not true, and commenters who post glib claims like this have no idea how far the truth goes the opposite way. I've personally spent countless hours working to counteract manipulation and abuse on HN. I've written the subsystems of the HN software that focus on that and catch quite a lot of it which, as a result, you never have to see.

From all that work, experience, and data, I've learned how utterly misplaced these cheap claims about astroturfing and manipulation usually are. They mostly have nothing to do with reality. What's going on is that when people encounter views they dislike, they get upset and reach for explanations of abuse, bad faith, manipulation, disingenuousness, etc. as a way to ward them off. People on all sides of every issue do this. It's against the spirit of HN, which is why the guidelines ask users not to.

The only claims you've ever made about abuse on HN, unless I'm forgetting something, have been complaints about your ideological opponents. The opposing side makes exactly the same claims about yours. Everyone who thinks this way is sure that HN is secretly dominated by their enemies and the mods are probably in cahoots with them. But they all, of course, have a different picture of which side is dominating—always the one they dislike.

In the case of the OP, it's clear that the submitter is here to promote Citylab. But there's no evidence that the voting on these stories has been manipulated. They're just articles that a certain class of (legit) HN users like and tend to vote for. When we notice a submitter with a promotional history, we penalize the account; we want users to submit stories that they ran across and personally found intellectually interesting, not because they or a friend or an employer have something to promote. Still, this is the mildest class of bad behavior that we see on HN; such submitters usually haven't got a clue that they're doing anything wrong, and they're doing nothing underhanded behind the scenes.
Entropy running low is a frequent and actual problem for me on virtualized or headless servers serving https content. It slows everything, including ssh, to a halt.

You can see your current entropy level, which is probably high due to having a keyboard, with this command:

cat /proc/sys/kernel/random/entropy_avail

You can watch this number drain by reading from /dev/random continuously.

http://www.issihosts.com/haveged/ Haveged has existed since 2003 and has lots of documentation and discussion of its randomness.
I have the means to stay 6m away from work.

I never really took time between jobs. Maybe a week or so to take care of paperwork for the new job.
He seems so proud of it
IMD Smart City Index 2019 (First Edition)
Honest question: does this ideology scale to regard white American’s history with slavery?
Will cell service stay up in the event of a power outage in Northern California?
PG&E has floated the possibility of a major power cut in Northern California this week. Realistically, if a multitude of counties lose power, will cell phone service continue to function for the duration of the outage?
How awful. Imagine if the subject of this was a dog instead, it would anger so many people.
It wouldn't be, because ð is an eth, not a delta (δ). Eth is an old english letter.
I really tried to use VeraCrypt on my main desktop Windows machine. But every Windows 10 major update was a chore to get working with decrypting everything, especially with GPT. (Did you know that if you leave updating Windows too long the calculator just straight up stops working?) Eventually I caved in and bought Windows Pro so I could use BitLocker (I'm aware of the problems of using closed-source encryption software but it's good enough for me). Another sad victory for Microsoft's anti-competitive practices.
Once enough people like you get old enough your house will be getting torn down anyway
> Could an international, decentralized curve be constructed by standards bodies from several geopolitical adversaries such as US, China, Russia and Turkey all simultaneously issuing 1 point each to create a combined 4-point curve, so that no single standards body has opportunity to purposely make the result insecure?

The process would be a little more complicated than simply choosing 4 points, but yes you could do something close enough to this in theory.

In actual practice there's really only two sets of curves most people [0] implement, and just about everyone agrees to use:

- The NIST p curves

- Curve25519/Curve448 by Bernstein &c.

Which you use tends to fall on what side of the crypto divide you fall on:

- NIST p curves if you care about governmental compliance such as FIPS

- Bernstein &c's curves if you care about security and distrust NIST created curves.

I personally fall on the latter side but spend most of my time doing software for the former. :) A promised later revision to FIPS will standardize Bernstein &c's curves.

Almost nobody implements negotiating arbitrary curves. That's really unsafe.

So, as 'tptacek would say... just use Curve25519.

[0]: I'm talking about major software such as TLS, VPNs, SSH, Kerberos... etc.
The process you describes is kinda a safety net. Buildings aren’t like software where you can continuously design and push updates. You get one shot and mistakes are very expensive.

If you want to change the environment right now, build buildings that let people live closer to work and commute less.
Microsoft might claim it's a Legitimate Interest (recital 49 might be useful here, though I'm not sure it applies).
I have had this issue as well. Although to be fair, I would say this isn't the fault of R. Educators in the field of data science love notebooks because they can pair documentation, visualizations, and code all in one document. However, heavy reliance on notebooks produces a class of programmers who have very little clue how the code they are writing actually runs.
If you like Unix, Cromix was built on the z80.
If you're interested in learning how to do data cleaning and restructuring in R, I highly recommend the "Wrangle" chapters of Hadley Wickham's R for Data Science book, which you can read online here: https://r4ds.had.co.nz/wrangle-intro.html
Take another look at the amount of greenfield and brownfield land inside the metro zones, or the actual occupation rates of housing. Australian cities are not land constrained within their boundaries. (The lack of development of regional areas, access to fresh water or alternate shipping routes is a real but separate issue.)

Besides all that, low capital gains taxes and negative gearing created the investment class in housing. Ie. Those who have 3 or more investment properties as it is now so is a net gain to lose money on a poor rental investment. And banks feed off this investment, valuing properties within the metro areas at ever higher amounts, propped up by low capital gains taxes and negative gearing. It is a vicious cycle of capital speculation.

Even though for pure rental income from a property, regional areas have historically been better investments.

And btw surfers 1. Has the second highest growth in the country 2. Is anything but pleasant.
And why would they care to improve when they know their user base will let them get away with it and even side with them against Apple ? Reposting a comment I left elsewhere in the thread :

For the most part, it's not a technical issue at all but a cultural one : pro audio users are notoriously, almost pathologically conservative when it comes to software upgrades.

You'll find plenty of threads on forums like Gearslutz, asking for tips on how to downgrade brand new Macs to an older version of macOS that doesn't even support their hardware. Or 2019 threads asking if it's now safe to upgrade to High Sierra. They're typically 2-3 versions behind. Why ? Older is just safer, better in their worldview.

In that context, audio developers know they have customers on their side against "evil Apple that's always breaking everything for no benefit", and they get away with emails that read like Apple just unexpectedly dropped a bomb on them without notice, and it'll take them 6-12 months to get ready, like WWDC and 3-4 months of developer betas never happened.
I've only spent 3 days in Amsterdam and I enjoyed the ability to walk the city. I covered quite a bit of ground there and most of the areas were void of cars. Pretty great for tourists; although I'm not sure how much locals like the tourists.

I think I was in "the ring", if we're talking about the adjoining canal systems that circle around the center part of the city.
Support for a toy conlang in a translator made with the support of enthusiasts developing it via a partner program is not really comparable to expecting paid services (i.e. needs real support) to support a language with less than 5,000 monolinguals on their own.
Oh man, Pandora is still around? It was my favorite online radio for so long starting in 2007, but they made it increasingly difficult to access their service from Europe and they never did roll it out here. Ended up being too much effort. Still miss it though.
This is a wholly toxic situation for companies anywhere thinking of buying US connected software where the person lives in a country that might at any point become persona non grata in the US and put on some embargo list.

Safe prediction is that in the future no software or technology purchased will have its origin in the US.
This is only on 32-bit versions of Windows 10. Which I can only imagine is a very small portion of W10 installs.
Such as their imposition of extensive telemetry in windows 10?
Oh well, I guess the rumor is junk then.

I will say, however, that executing LLVM bitcode on different targets than the compilation machine is a subject of active research. It's one of the things that I work on in my day job.
Air quality app gone from app stores in Vietnam amidst choking pollution
Wait until MacOS move to homemade ($$$) ARM cpu and everything you use except what is made by big publisher is broken, forcing you to buy a huge string of fresh arm software to replace depreciated x64 intel capable softwares.

In every Apple technical decision, there is a financial motivation.
I only use my mac for audio production these days. I'll upgrade from 10.12.6 when I'm absolutely forced to.
Vuescan is great, its better than most scanner apps too, insomuch as, its actually good at scanning.
That's just performance spelled differently.
Released SwayDB v0.10.2 with Monix Support
Totally agree, they should have measured it in golden retriever units. This giant China pig = 15.74 golden retrievers! /s
Ah, oil sands. I've recently learned about the environmental issues surrounding them, and their existence makes any kind of complaining about dangers of nuclear waste completely ridiculous and/or disingenuous.

Just take a look at e.g. https://energyeducation.ca/encyclopedia/Oil_sands_tailings_p... ; apparently creating city-sized lakes of badly contained, liquid, ridiculously toxic, harmful for thousand years sludge is somewhat unremarkable, whereas replacing some of that demand with nuclear can't happen because of orders of magnitude less volume of much easier to handle (and reprocessable in the future) waste is somehow a show-stopper.
Tell that to the vegan at work who makes a big show of it, but still eats with everyone else (and what they eat) if the group goes to Five Guys for lunch.
They often restrict tourism from Mainland China as leverage, as Taiwan receives a lot of tourism revenue from China.
You can think of it this way. If the PRC were to say, "oh, by-the-way, feel free to recognize Taiwan as an independent country", every other country in the world would likely do so.
Best thing you and I can do to prevent climate change is to not have kids.
Mopeds have already been banned from bicycle paths [1]. Reportedly scooter-related accidents went down from 53 in 2018 to 10 in 2019 [2].
Finally, for e-scooters the situation is more complicated/fluid [3]. Only approved models are allowed and you will probably need to have insurance.
E-bicyles are probably the best option if you need to commute medium distances.

[1] https://newmobility.news/2019/04/08/mopeds-in-amsterdam-no-l...

[2] https://nltimes.nl/2019/09/16/amsterdam-use-cameras-enforce-...

[3] https://www.vraaghetdepolitie.nl/verkeer/overig-verkeer/mag-...
Some years ago, I wrote a tool to merge databases. There were a few differences in schema that it handled through configuration, but the tool was mostly about changing primary and foreign keys as it transferred the data so the merges wouldn't clash.

What's your use-case on "merging schemas"? Does it not merge data? Is it like you have a database with a table with columns "foo", and "bar", and then another database with a table with columns "bar", and "baz" and you want one of the database to end up with columns "foo", "bar", and "baz" without moving any of the actual data?
When you vote with your wallet, people with more money get more votes.
A tangent:

There's this fascinating (to me, anyway) line between "viruses" (including worms, Trojans, and similar malware) that antivirus programs will tackle, and adware/spyware that they usually don't.

The difference between the two is whether it not there's a corporation publicly taking credit for the program and suing antivirus companies for defamation over calling it a "virus".

Adware/spyware is limited in distribution methods and payload types by the letter of the law, but otherwise the two classes are functionally identical.
Though the OP is mostly correct. You're response is straining reality.

Russia is technically a democracy, but given that Putin controls the press directly, murders opposition members, and thwarts opponents from running in elections, it's a de-facto dictatorship.

Those are all terrible, terrible places frankly we shouldn't trade with them purely on a moral basis - but we would tolerate them if they played nice.

FYI: Cuba did not 'steal oil' this is false. And nobody cares about Iran's Oil power, they care that Iran has a publicly stated objective literally of overthrowing the USA. And Syria has no oil, your points verge on conspiracy theory. The US would love to rid itself of any entanglement in Syria, and frankly Iran if it could.
Same message in Vietnam. I don't think it has anything to do with the ban.
data.table is amazing. after getting over the learning curve i pretty much never touched dplyr again. pandas... lol. Hopefully https://github.com/h2oai/datatable lives up to its counterpart

managing python dependencies is no fun either, tbf
PG&E could shut off power across Bay Area on Wednesday and Thursday
Yes, but now Microsoft owns:

- VSCode

- GitHub

As well. They are fighting for the hearts and minds of the next generation of developers. They might win.
BIG by Matt Stoller: Joe Biden Empowered China's Censorship of the NBA
Pretty sure the person you're replying to was being sarcastic.
(Tiger was released in 2005, before Intel Macs.)