skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Keep two or three, put one in a bank or a safe at home. That should be enough redundancy for most people. As long as you can still get in to revoke/enroll stuff you should be okay.

It’s not so much a problem as it is a balance of security, redundancy, and effort. You decide where you want to be on that balance of considerations.
I do not particularly agree with the some of the arguments made in this thread for and against the status quo, but some of your statements are factually incorrect.

>For example, I can't edit a legal document while SSH'd into a host computer on my firms network.

Track changes is supported by LibreOffice and its kin, so certainly possible to ssh into a computer on your firms network and edit it. Might require an X server on your local machine, I am not sure if libreoffice works in terminal (but its open source, so if you really wanted to you could add support!)
That said, the recommended way to do what you are asking is to run an "Online Office Server", which gives you a online version of word (think google docs, but looks like MS word) that you can access through you VPN or company portal with ssl/tls. Different workflow for different folks I suppose.

>Also, Track Changes doesn't allow two people to work on a document asynchronously, while git does.

Office 2019 has added 'source control like' simultaneous/asynchronous editing when integrated with a Sharepoint server. Multiple people can have the file open, and the save button both commits your changes and pulls whatever other changes have been committed since, with options to resolve conflicts.

Furthermore, with the office 365 version of the office suite (or Online Office Server, which is nearly the same thing but self hosted) it is possible do live editing, whereby multiple people edit the same document simultaneously (google docs style). Not sure why you would want to do that, but it eliminates merge conflicts at least and seems to be pretty popular at my workplace. Especially useful when someone is presenting slides and there is something you don't like in them ;-)

Of course, as long as your document is on a sharepoint server, you get version control built in and can roll back to see the document at any save point, do diffs, etc.

It is true that the FOSS world is more civilized, but Microsoft isn't sitting by idly. They spent $8B on github for a reason, and it wasn't to get their business model.
Parent is voted down but the cynicism, unfortunately, is well founded. Not to victim blame but there is a certain amount of distrust and suspicion we all should have with regards to any profit seeking entity - especially one that does not rely on you paying them - that makes outrage at these entities for ‘betraying us’ laughable at best.

Maybe “brain cells” is harsh but do at least use your instinct.
The leap between IBM punchcards and VT100 makes no sense. Teletypewriters used 72 characters per line. IBM mainframe line printers used 132 characters per line. DEC and IBM probably just happened to pick 80 character columns for unrelated reasons (1970s CRT resolution and 1920s printing technology, respectively)
I think that's the best part
Not faulting them for having significant sums there. But "life savings"? Ouch.
Well to start, there's browser history sync through your Google account. I'm not aware what the privacy policy is on that data, but I'd imagine it allows Google to get aggregate views at least at the domain level, if not the page level.
There is rarely a single person behind changes though. You would have to show a list showing the person who proposed it, the people who requested changes to it and the people who voted for it.
> The 'weekly shop' is not really a thing that inner-city dwellers tend to do that often

Something I wish the holier than though types thought of when they banned plastic bags here. No I can't just keep my reusable bags in the back of my SUV so I have them when I go shopping.
Awesome! Me too.

I love knowing more specific details and storylines, related to an individual person.

This is true for real sports. People have lots of details about them that aren't directly related to the game.

And I am glad that you are also as excited as I am to see these personal storylines play out!
It was force pushed before code review.
reminds of the same ppl who said in 2003-2013 that competitors to the ipod and then the iPhone have better features or are better. Tesla's value is not just in the features, price, and performance, but also the brand itself.
Their first big feature being a totally wrong Satoshi article was really perfect. I'm surprised they're still around TBH...
Every democracy has given up nearly all their sovereign immunity with a few exceptions.

I guess they could reverse that decision.
Yup! If I’m going to do a 15 mile run on Saturday or something crazy I will top it off before, but’s it’s pretty good at battery life. Too reason I don’t have an Apple Watch.
Is there a way to automate this:

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/house-bill/1569...

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To amend title 28, United States Code, to add Flagstaff and Yuma to the list of locations in which court shall be held in the judicial district
for the State of Arizona. <<NOTE: Aug. 9, 2019 - [H.R. 1569]>>

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. DISTRICT COURTS IN THE JUDICIAL DISTRICT FOR THE STATE
OF ARIZONA.

Section 82 of title 28, United States Code, is amended by striking
``Globe, Phoenix, Prescott, and Tucson'' and
inserting ``Flagstaff, Globe, Phoenix, Prescott, Tucson, and Yuma''.

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Note the use of "striking" and "inserting" which is basically a diff.

The reference doc is here https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...

One possible low hanging fruit would be to automatically at least create diffs for these type of situations? Thoughts?

Perhaps create a script just for this:

https://www.congress.gov/search?q=%7B%22congress%22%3A%22116...
Yep. Looking at those links in particular Le Bron James has made no claims that he has a photographic memory and it seems he does not have one. Maybe he's deliberately hiding it but that seems unlikely.

Precise recollection of detail is not a photographic memory by any of the usual definitions of that term. Photographic memory != impressive memory display. The BBC link you provide suggests there isn't anything especially remarkable about his impressive memory for detail in a just played match and that such is quite common among highly trained athletes. I'm told it's common for cricketers to be able to recall the detail every single ball they faced in a score of over 200. ie facing more than 500 separate deliveries. I'm impressed by it, it's great. It isn't photographic memory.

I'm not belittling him, the levels of training and skill he has attained are utterly amazing. If a very famous person is also a decent human being through it all and uses their fame for a positive impact on the world that is far more impressive to me than claims of additional genius outside their field of expertise.
Yeah, because they were totally oblivious to "invention". They knew exactly what "arms" meant and it wasn't a static term.
No, puberty blockers don't cause any permanent body changes: that's the whole point. They delay the decision. You can still go through a male or female puberty once you're older.

Most people are "conservative" on this issue because they have no idea what they're talking about, just like every almost every other issue related to trans people.
Teaching Rats to Drive Tiny Cars
most individual stocks lag the index . the odds of choosing a stock that beats or meets the index are low.
I'm one of those that sticks with 80x25 because I had decades of it influence me.

I do understand, though, that it's dumb, and wouldn't force it on others.
No, even if law enforcement doesn’t respect your rights, you still have them.

That’s why if the cops are violating your rights, you follow up in court.
Next you'll be censoring people's posts and tweets because they "lied." Those can have even more influence than ads. I believe it is a slippery slope.
Style is subjective. Everywhere else it under performs a Model S and costs twice as much.
We're testing this out on .com to see what value it really gives us and how it works, and depending on that then we might roll this out to EE. HOWEVER any move to do so will be properly communicated, and we're not going to implement it without carefully considering an appropriate opt-out strategy.
I think it will depend heavily on whether the voting public wants to allow legislative power to enact common sense regulation on ownership and ad funding and the like.

Otherwise look for entrenched players to continue winning at the expense of the public interest.
I have no idea what Google is censoring in the search results, but compare the "search suggestions" for almost anything even slightly controversial. For example type "is stephen miller" (a Trump advisor) in Google and Bing and you can see how Google just removes stuff.

I suspect they are partly worried about results being gamed there...but everything is gamed. Maybe the main search results should be empty too.
> Any digital photography is by definition computational.

That's not what "computational photography" means to most. For example, the QuickTake is not considered to have done computational photography.

Computational photography uses computation to go beyond what a simple lens → sensor → sensor-to-image algorithm (like a demosaicing algorithm) can do.
why is it less rational for the stock to rise 20% than it was to fall 20% in 2018?
There are actually maps which show where the water levels will be at each year. My great grandma's house was recently sold for over $1m and only has 70 years before it will be permanently underwater and likely destroyed by 50 years if there is any heavy rainfall.
I think that's the point. The leaked emails were boring and normal except to conspiracy theorists.
Nice site, the only problem I have with the content is the Flat-Humaans style, which seems to becoming extremely popular with start-ups and is pretty over-used. I'm not sure I particularly like the style anymore either...

It reminds me of Ikea instructions, which are meant to purely convey the procedure of assembling furniture with no emotion. But when you're describing your business you want to evoke emotion right?

Ironically, these cartoonish Flat-Humaans convey no human emotions at all. They feel like a wall of propaganda of what the company is telling you how the product/service will function (much like war propaganda)...
For transparency

Yeah, don’t do that. When interacting with the government, you give them what they need and no more.

Sounds like you got a really stupid CBP agent.
I've seen almost every one of my old favorite news cites tear holes in its focus and its integrity chasing clicks. Clickbait, misleading headlines, and wildly off-brand stories seem to be the norm now. It's gotten bad enough that I've begun filtering my content by author rather than by site. Whenever I see a big headline on a general news site, my first thought these days is wondering how each of the other sites I read will bend over backwards and stretch the story to the breaking point to make it somehow relevant to that site's focus. A recent low point this week was beloved technology news site Ars Technica running a front page story about a man having his forty pound scrotum removed.
Maybe instead they could just pay taxes?
Mattresses?

https://www.fastcompany.com/3065928/sleepopolis-casper-blogg...
Because a vocal minority makes a lot of noise.
edit: was trying to make a joke, it was a bad joke
you can mitigate this buy selling long dated put options on tesla, which hare very , very expensive and can yield a big return even if Tesla does nothing
> Expose what practice?

The practices that have resulted in Intel being sued/settling/fined by companies/states/FTC/EU/Japan.
Pagan Traditions: How the Ancients Celebrated Beltane
> Archival of footage shouldn't be dependent on a third party platform that can, at will, delete every single video on a whim

Thankfully censorship-resistant anonymous p2p file sharing systems exist, I hope they become more popular for archival work.
I wouldn't put much stock in that particular rumor unless AMD is going all in on servers to the detriment of consumer chips. Or maybe they're developing two cores but they've been working hard to re-use engineering effort until now. They don't have the number of silicon engineers that Intel has and not even Intel is developing separate server and consumer cores.
Is there a chance that someone on the same outgoing network as you is spamming heavily and you get also blamed because of it?

I don’t doubt Google’s classification is buggy but there might be ways to route around these bugs.

It’s super annoying that these systems are so inscrutable.
We'll know better when we see the 10Q
Hello! Self-hosted users on EE are currently not affected, we opened an issue here to clarify: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/issues/164
I think the problems with the majority of newspapers are the cash that the owners are taking out. Real news is doing fine; the problem is newspapers were sold to thieves.

As evidence, I give you:

Washington Post, Talking Points Memo, The Information

it's perfectly possible to have a profitable news company. Even hard news. You're not going to get that by spamming AP wires, sports scores, and clickbait though. You get it by paying great reporters to tell me things worth paying for.
Edward Snowden searched the CIA's networks for proof that aliens exist.
This is an insightful comment. The audio engineer Steve Albini often comments that one reason he only records artists using analogue tape is because digital is easily lost either through obsolete and proprietary formats, or deliberate governance. Analogue tape, although inconvenient, requires a physical action to be destroyed in possibly many physical places and isn’t subject to evolving digital formats.
I appreciate it when creators provide introductory material in a top-down, inverted pyramid style. When I’m reading that sort of documentation, I am probably investigating tools for solving a problem and perhaps comparing different options. A quick summary that confirms I’ve found the right sort of thing — or that warns me immediately if I haven’t — and that sets out its distinguishing features and priorities is helpful. Following that with an overview of the main concepts and structure with some concise examples of typical use cases gives a flavour of what it’s like to use this tool in practice and provides some context for any larger examples or more comprehensive reference material.

This starts right from the first sentences describing the tool. I am a particular fan of people who don’t hide the purpose of the tool behind several lines of adjectives and credits. The Redis description in the article is exemplary, IMHO.
You're not following the point. The point was that people did care about the leaks and took appropriate action.

Secondarily, you're not understanding the leaked documents. The leaked documents showed that the NSA believed that the phone metadata program was legal. Once there is a court ruling that it is illegal, its lawyers cannot justify the program.

Thirdly, your phrase "another whistleblower" shows that you do not know what a whistleblower is. Leaking thousands of programs where just one of them happens to be illegal but not obviously so (to the point where Snowden was far more interested in PRISM, an obviously legal program) is not whistleblowing.
And Apple with their low clocked super-braniac cell phone chips has been achieving surprisingly good performance for their power envelope.
The 25 lines comes from the 2 Kb display RAM of the VT52/VT100, plus the desire for 80-character lines.
> semi-auto and fully auto rifles not invented until about 1910

Not true; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_gun#Early_rapid-firing...

> In 1777, Philadelphia gunsmith Joseph Belton offered the Continental Congress a "new improved gun", which was capable of firing up to twenty shots in five seconds [...] Congress requested that Belton modify 100 flintlock muskets to fire eight shots in this manner

1777 was 14 years before our Bill of Rights was ratified, and 4 shots/second is faster than an average person can fire any semi-auto weapon, including an AR-15.

Also, do you really think the Founding Fathers didn't envision technological advancement? Of course they couldn't have predicted exactly what our current technology looks like, but I'm sure they saw the progression from clubs to swords to guns and expected weapons to continue getting more effective. How could anybody not expect technology to advance over time? It's literally been doing that since the beginning of the world.
Apple has nothing to do with 80x25. That all happened before they existed. So I'm confused about all the references to them.
*Run rate of 500,000
> The VT52 and its successor the VT100, though, doubled that capacity giving users the opulent luxury of two entire kilobytes of display memory, laid out with a font that fit nicely on that 4:3 screen.

> .. 80×25 just sneaks under that opulent 2k limit with 48 bytes to spare.
Yeah, I started doing 1-on-1 with all of them when the team was about half size. The reason I got one of the guys "promoted" as dev lead is so he can take most of the mentoring and feedback gathering. He is not their boss though, with no authority to assign work or make demands.

Nowadays I do 1-on-1s with the dev lead, the assistant, and the product owners (senior devs and architects), so only 5 people.

Still, that would mean the dev lead would need to do 25 1-on-1s, so we have a structure of peer mentorship, with two phases: a formal and an informal. The formal is to maintain quality of information gathering and fairness. The informal is to allow for rapport and flexibility in the part of the mentor. We started this recently, we'll see how it goes.
My Grandma went from riding a horse to town to space travel, the internet, and smart TVs.

I'd love to see that kind of expansion, but I mostly expect to see the end of Trick or Treating.
My company is actually going through the transition to cursor/keyset pagination. As a SaaS company starts having to support larger customers, they will likely have to go through this exercise. The reason is because most pagination is usually implemented with LIMIT/OFFSET in a SQL query. Using OFFSET becomes very expensive for pagination queries because the query has gotta do a full scan till it reaches the desired offset.

Imagine a table with a 1 million rows, and you return pages in 100 item chunks. To get page 500, using the OFFSET method, you would have to scan through 100*499 records before you even get to the first record you care about.

This can lead to all sorts of cascading problems because slow queries can cause back pressure build up from other queries queuing up. So in order to scale, services push the complexity out to the client. Conceivably, you can cache the indices on the client side, and abstract a page-number based paginator on top of it.

Here's an article talking through the issue: https://www.moesif.com/blog/technical/api-design/REST-API-De...
I could be seen as a living case study for these theories.

I started experiencing a complex combination of physiological symptoms in early adulthood (actually in childhood in some ways), that gradually got worse into my 30s.

All kinds of treatments were suggested and tried over several years, but nothing really moved the needle until I started regular practice of subconscious emotional healing techniques. I've been doing this type of work for about 7 years now.

There is improvement in a lot of areas, though the process is not complete. I still have some anxiety and muscle tension/pain, and evidence of inflammation in my body. But it's not nearly as bad as it was before I started the emotional work. And I keep finding new emotional baggage to heal. So it's a long journey, but the results are clear.

It's hard to talk about with peers, as there's a general attitude among scientifically-minded people that the notion of a link between emotions/thoughts and physiology is absurd.

Yet the very same people will generally insist that there is no mind-body distinction, and that consciousness is obviously just an emergent phenomenon of brain matter/chemistry.

Apparently it doesn't occur to a lot of people that if mind and body are one and the same, mind activity must surely be deeply interconnected to physiology.

Anyway, that's a little of my story.

AMA.
These are hypnagogic hallucinations: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypnagogia . People experience them while falling asleep.
>it'll probably be a long time before enough browsers support this

Will it? All major browsers now receive automatic or timely updates. The speed of features rolling out over all major browsers is pretty rapid now days and unless you care about supporting IE you can expect new features to be ready to use within a year.

There is only so much you can do to support users using a discontinued browser many many years out of date. Unless you want to be stuck in 2013 forever you have to let them go eventually.
That's actually a pretty simple solution and something I would totally opt into. Just a checkbox in your account settings that says I don't want to see any FBA or verified sellers only.
Yeesh. You guys just went from restoring my faith a bit a few months ago to this possibility? I’m sorry, but please get a grip here, it’s tiring being on this rollercoaster.
What..?
Hola. Not related to this post, but I remember you from the early days of Envato when Jeffrey way and you had most of the blog posts. I learned a lot and kickstarted my career from those tutorials. Cheers and All the best..!!!
You're using the term 'predatory pricing' in a non-standard way. Predatory pricing is the practice of pricing low (sometimes lower than cost) to drive competitors out of business. But you seem to be using the term to refer to pricing _high_, which is the opposite.

In any case, why does it matter if a seller asks a high price for something? If you and I are unwilling to pay the price, no one will force us to buy the item.

Are you also against people placing very low bids for items you're selling on eBay?
As a former attorney, I'd just do a diff. Save a copy, reject all changes, then do a diff and compare side by side. As a current software engineer, Word is definitely sufficient (and understood, which sf good) for two small adversarial teams. Key words being small (two huge firms negotiating a huge deal should not be using Word) and adversarial: I think a lot of times when tech-people suggest lawyers could do a better job they forget the other side isn't trying to be helpful.
Predatory pricing is actually when you price products really low and undercut everyone.
>I vaguely remember Tesla discussion on HN not long ago of it being cash strapped and was on the verge of bankrupt.

That is called fud. They omitted the part about Tesla being able to raise capital very cheaply and easily and about how Tesla is cash-flow positive. I think his kids will be fine. If Tesla were truly in dire straits as the media said it was, the stock price would have reflected that (single digits or low double-digits instead of $200-300/share) and Tesla would not have been able to raise money on such favorable terms.
Papers aren't graded on their real world effects!
I'm perfectly familiar with the idea that one word can have multiple meanings. I don't see any evidence that "people of a certain generation" have issues with that idea.

One can also talk about the idea of different registers – informal, formal, technical, etc. Meanings which are acceptable in an informal or colloquial register can be viewed as less acceptable in a formal or technical one.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DINEwuxbI-E
Windows 7 is end of life in about 2 months. There should be no expectation of future updates on an OS passed its EoL especially when it was such a long support period.