skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, that's exactly what people do. Although the spending money part is kind of optional now, since the game is free to play. And it's not really "a lot", it's like 1 AAA game, for most likely way more hours of entertainment.

This is also something that happens in pretty much every multiplayer game with skill based matchmaking that exists. However, other games are much better at mitigating this. In LoL for example, your MMR doesn't decay at all. It does get soft-reset once a year when the new season starts, but that reset is quite soft and you can't "stack" multiple years of resets on top of each other. If you had top 1% MMR in 2015, you still have top 1-2% MMR. All games could do more to prevent this, simply by changing how their matchmaking works, but CSGO really takes the cake in terms of requiring an absolute minimum amount of effort, plus actually "forcing" people to smurf unintentionally, just because they took a long break from the game. It's comical at this point.
KeyboardMaestro could probably do that on the Mac
Single purpose cards only work for details used for securing online transactions. Many compromised cards come from breached small business POS terminals.

Active confirmation of purchases would be great if it were available, but I. Not aware of any US card issuers that allow you to opt-in to such a service.
splat?

urls = ['https://example.com/foo', 'https://example.com/bar']
HTTPX.get(*urls)
I recently entered DevOps (not my choice), and I would like to take your request further: replace everything with a regular language.

Having to use a gazillion declarative languages to achieve what a regular programming language does is simply crazy.
The UK system is very smooth as a small business owner.

When an employee leaves a job they are given a P45 form to hand to the new employer, which contains a summary of any pay to date for the current tax year along with a tax code.

All I have to do when hiring is enter this information into the accounting software and everything just works. National Insurance, Pensions and Student Loans are calculated monthly and taken via Direct Debit, as are VAT payments and returns. Employees are automatically emailed payslips with breakdowns of their pay and deductions.

Any relevant information is submitted to HMRC (the UK's IRS) by the accounting software, so it takes me ~10 mins a month to complete payroll for 5 employees. When an employee leaves, creating a P45 for the next employer takes a single click.

The gov.uk website is exceptionally well organised and contains detailed lists of everything an employer or employee needs to do at all stages in the process.

The US self-assessment system seems opaque, inefficient and ripe for abuse in comparison. It also places the stress of reporting taxes onto every individual rather than just the employers.
Wow, best argument I've seen in a while for not switching. ;-)

I'm holding out hope for new keyboards so I can stay with macOS. For now using wonderful Realforce keyboards 99% of the time anyway.
Seems as though GitHub are now responding to this...

Just received a response from GitHub support (I removed their name):

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> Oct 30, 10:38 AM UTC

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> Hello,

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> Thanks for taking the time to let us know. Our team is currently

> investigating the account in question.

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> Please let us know if we can help in any other way!

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> Thanks,

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Only financial newspapers, Bloomberg, WSJ and the like. I like The Atlantic, but don't subscribe. I wish I could subscribe to a collection of them, since it gets expensive.

Reuters seems reliable and don't seem to want to perpetuate partisanship in the way that The Guardian has lately. Having an agenda is fine, having that agenda be perpetuating pointless conflict with "the others", and proving how intelligent we in the in-group are is not very useful. This article was just the final straw. I come from Norway which isn't a two-party nation so I think this enters into my dislike for the black and white thinking that seems to be growing in the Anglosphere where I currently live.
The intent is that you have to pay to use the WiFi. Even if you find a clever technical way to circumvent that that, the judge will see what you were trying to do: avoid paying for the service is offered. The court is not a computer and a judge will use their human brain to make a judgement of your intent.
Can You Get Too Old to Be Good at Video Games?
httparty is a dsl wrapper around net/http, so it's also limited by it. For instance, it doesn't come with keep-alive support (I'm using httparty in my dayjob legacy code).

httpx is more than concurrent connections. It's actually about concurrent requests done right, advanced http features (it can do connection coalescing, alt-svc), and it comes with a baked-in plugin system which makes it easy to extend.

Go through the wiki and give it a try when you can.
If true, this is extremely sad and pathetic. People need to read 1984. People need to read the history of USSR. Or even modern China.
Or:
Biology is really hard, and returns to investors in the space have been pretty tame, and taken longer than promised (expected). See commentary by Peter Thiel in Zero to One for more on this topic.
In response to this reality, one tactic is to create a narrative that sells the vision of biotech as a tech or engineering discipline to an investor audience that is naive about biology and uber bullish on tech eg, this article).
"Biology? It's just engineering, we can engineer things, we'll just engineer biology (please invest in us as if we're tech]".
Never mind that engineering is a tradition built on minimizing variation, while biology is a science founded on understanding a built-in mechanism for generating variation.
"Life finds a way". Indeed. I've been on numerous synbio projects and one thing is certain, evolution is always driving against the engineered design. And by driving against, I mean undoing. Entropy might slowly undue engineering, but mutation and selection? It's an entropic accelerant for engineered outcomes.
Also, engineering is about "parts" and synbio is constantly dreaming of building things by putting parts (promotors, genes, etc) together from a catalogue. In reality, biology is interactions, where the expression of almost everything is dependent on the context of all the other parts. So outcomes aren't simply "the sum of the parts". When they are it's for a minority of cases.
Finally, as you scale a process (say from a test tube to a 1,000,000L industrial sized fermentation tank, biology almost never cooperates.

Biotech's dirty secret is that biology is Not engineering (it is still a discovery science)...but the music is still playing folks, dance on!
(Sorry, it's early, I'm still pre caffeinated, and this topic always rankles me).
"don't put all your eggs in one basket"
Other slow music worth checking out, in some other genres:

Jolene by Dolly Parton slowed down to 33rpm:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=doz1QJ7LwjA

And some slow covers:

Vanilla Fudge (they do a few like this): https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6CL8ASLVWPk

Issac Hayes 18bmin cover of By The Time I get to Pheonix: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r_Kb607VNKM

Dick Slessig Combo doing a 42 minute version of Wichita Lineman:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MorgJwbBhe4
Let's be perfectly clear: there was no Lois Lerner fiasco. A massive number of 501(c)(4) organizations started forming with (typically right-leaning) political names, despite the fact that 501(c)(4) organizations aren't allowed to operate as PACs, because "the net earnings of which [must be] devoted exclusively to charitable, educational, or recreational purposes." 26 U.S.C. § 501(c)(4) available at https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/501.

This phenomenon was much more common among Tea Party groups and libertarians (many of whom fundamentally dispute the legitimacy of the tax code) than among paleoconservatives, neoconservatives, or any brand of liberal or progressive. See generally Jᴀɴᴇ Mᴀʏᴇʀ, Dᴀʀᴋ Mᴏɴᴇʏ: Tʜᴇ Hɪᴅᴅᴇɴ Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Bɪʟʟɪᴏɴᴀɪʀᴇs Bᴇʜɪɴᴅ ᴛʜᴇ Rɪsᴇ ᴏғ ᴛʜᴇ Rᴀᴅɪᴄᴀʟ Rɪɢʜᴛ (2016).

Having a 501(c)(4) with a political term like "Tea Party" in the name is per se probable cause for an investigation. The ability to spin that into some kind of partisan witch hunt was a major propaganda victory. This was conduct by principally one side of the political spectrum, and the IRS had no more an obligation to treat the parties equally than the ATF does when investigating Second Amendment fringe groups or the DEA does when investigating head shops or the FBI does when investigating eco-terrorism.

TLDR: If you don't want to be investigated for unlawfully using your non-profit for political purposes, maybe don't put political terms in the name of your non-profit.
Where they expect annual snow and have segregated bike lanes you simply plough those, too. I've seen this in Sweden in Uppsala. You bike across a hard pack of snow, just like the cars on the roads. The cars need studded snow tires but the bikes are okay without. In the melt when you can have ice patches then studded tires on your bike are possible.
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I don't think that's true, at least for Helsinki. Plenty of companies here who hire non-Finnish speakers. I think there's half a dozen Indians in the office where I'm working at right now. Not an issue. I think country-side can be conservative, yes, but Finland is quite progressive in many respects. In immigration there are some heated opinions but I think that's true for many countries.
Why `&& true` after that apt command?
An interesting point is that they have yet the data of the phone owner, because is required by the new laws that you send they your name, phone number and your email in order to receive some notifications from the government. This has happened since the last two years or so.
https://www.openfl.org, but it would be awesome to have an editor.

Here is a discussion I've found: https://community.openfl.org/t/i-think-openfl-need-a-power-u...

Also an open-source candidate: http://en.fairygui.com
It's the result of it, and will probably continue to be so.
> While Unix is clearly tied to C at an API level, the actual ABI is entirely based on machine code, and can be accessed through any language that can produce a binary.

I see your point, but the Oberon system does have an ABI, it's not necessarily coupled to the Oberon language but it is coupled to the linker of the system. I have created binaries for Oberon in a rudimentary assembler, it's not hard to have them work together with the native libraries (modules). In fact it's less convoluted than ELF for example.
I'm personally running Manjaro, it's as easy to set up as Ubuntu and gives you access to the AUR. Much less of a commitment... An Arch installation requires plenty of effort
Random comment - I find it interesting that I have such a strong association of open source = github, so when something is on gitlab, I automatically deduct mental points, even though that's not fair at all.

I think gitlab's sidebar is probably not helping with my association, it's too similar to bitbucket or other "enterprise-y" type websites.
>> more direct mapping onto manipulating a DAG of commits

That would be a leaky abstraction. The fact that is using DAG should be irrelevant. If they find a better way of doing the work, that shouldn't really affect the ux.
I'm loving the Revolutions series. The first season is a little unpolished, but it gets better by the French Revolution.

On the other hand I really didn't enjoy the Dan Carlin episodes about WW1. His overly dramatic and histrionic delivery becomes tiresome. After about twelve hours of scenery chewing about how awful trench warfare was and all the grisly suffering, I decided he was enjoying it too much and gave up.
I'm a MMO Solodev streaming gamedev: best decision ever
Also, nuclear bombs. Iron from old (pre-1945) sunken ships is valued for its lack of trace radioactive isotopes in making sensitive detection equipment.
The level of political demagoguery surrounding this is really shocking. Gavin Newsom is blaming “dog eat dog capitalism” and “corporate greed” for the wildfires: https://www.sfchronicle.com/california-wildfires/article/New...

Of course, PG&E is the kind of regulated entity people like Newsom wish all corporations were. Private investors put up the capital to build and maintain the electric grid. The government, through the California Public Utility Commission, tells them what to spend it on: https://www.pge.com/en_US/about-pge/company-information/regu.... The CPUC reviews PG&E’s proposed expenditures and approves the resulting electric rates. The CPUC then allows PG&E to set rates high enough to recover a 10% profit on that expenditure.[1]

Under that regime, PG&E’s incentive is to spend more money gold plating the electric grid. The more it spends, the more profit it makes. The reason PG&E didn’t spend more money on wild fire safety is because the CPUC is run by political appointees and they have strong incentives to keep electric rates low in the short term. (This is a common problem with rate regulated utilities. They underinvest in infrastructure because voters demand low rates for electric, water, etc.)

Now of course, California doesn’t have the money to build its own electric grid. So Newsom is calling on Buffett to bail out PG&E. I.e. let different private investors take in the risk and expense of the CPUC’s years of short sighted behavior.

And, of course, this is the kind of thing that only happens in America, and maybe some third world countries. Not because Europe doesn’t have investor owned utilities. They are common. Some of the largest grid operators in Germany are private companies. Rather, it seems to be the result of the unique political dysfunction in the US. American politicians and their voters live in a fantasy land where they can literally say the grass is blue and the sky is green because that fits into their narratives about the world.

[1] That’s about what it works out to. It’s a more complicated rate return calculation: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUCWebsite/Content/Ab....
If you're a developer/coder/sysadmin you can find companies that will hire you speaking only English. This is very common, though much more so in Helsinki.

In everyday life speaking Finnish will be beneficial, for obvious reasons. I've been here a few years now, having moved from Scotland. Using English I've been able to get my brain scanned, buy a couple of flats, deal with daycare (I became a parent after moving here), and most bureaucracy.

Finnish is indeed hard to learn, but even getting the basics down will make your life easier and better.
I doubt we'll ever get the full story of what happened, and how much Nokia told Microsoft of the state of the business that changed hands. But you are, of course, right; it could just as well have been a really, really bad business deal for Microsoft.
It seems to be hosting user generated content that authors can get paid for by people that like it, so presumably it was flagged because of some content (not this particular page) that is, or at least is closer to being, pornography.
You can only edit comments for two hours.
They're not competing on margins, they're "competing" by making game developers sign up for exclusivity deals.
The main problem here is that the 2-ton suit of power armor doesn't really care about what's behind it when it slams the brakes for a pedestrian, you would probably be pretty upset if you were biking behind me when this happens.

I think it's a great thing that the car prioritizes pedestrian safety, but it's very unfortunate that people would abuse this.
Oh to be blessed with decent analytical intelligence. Not everyone is, however.
Not everything FB does is evil then ... unless it's a PR stunt, of course.
The canals freeze. That's sea water, too.
The address bar is a thousand times cooler than my terminal because it understands English and does package management automatically, often in under a second.

I just wish it could convert files.
it is unsurprising to me that someone defacto advocating for vigilante justice is also lacking in substantive justification.
I did my own measurements, I got about 0.01 floating point multiplications per second out of my brain.
PG&E makes a profit that is calculated as a percentage of what they spend. The government (California Public Utilities Commission) approves their spending proposals and resulting retail rates on that basis. PG&E had the incentive to spend more money on maintenance. The government is the one that has the incentive to keep voters happy by deferring spending on maintenance.

See: https://www.cpuc.ca.gov/uploadedFiles/CPUCWebsite/Content/Ab...
This is pretty normal, all registras have usage restrictions. Most are poorly enforced but googles reqs seem pretty reasonable, The problem with all registers is you have very little recourse.

I quite like gsuite but if your only domain is bought as a google TLD on google domains with your gsuite account via google pay with google voice contact details and gmail contacts. God help you.
Take back your data and kiss latency goodbye. When you deploy Boots™ on The Ground, you're in command.
I would just get a XPS if I wanted a better Linux experience rather than install Ubuntu on my MacBook as Macs are optimised for macOS which is why it is easy to use but they always have poor support for Linux. I see less of a reason to mess around with something else less optimised unless you are ready to tolerate the oddities and inconsistencies found from switching from macOS to Ubuntu.

> I need a stable OS that allows me to be productive without having to waste hours looking for workarounds and setup and doesn’t break my config every upgrade.

Exactly this, If I just want to get my work done and avoiding tweaking sane defaults or googling issues or reverting settings in my specific desktop setup, I'd choose macOS straight away. For only development issues, I would need a machine that is better for finding or debugging system-level bugs in low-level software components, I'd choose a XPS with Ubuntu.

A Hackintosh or Linux on a Mac both require extensive tweaking depending on your requirements and may not be for the faint of heart. Your milage may vary here.
Is HTML5 not the intended replacement for Flash?
"Life finds a way", Jurassic Park jokes aside, was the moral of the whole saga: Thou shall not mess with systems you do not understand.

Taleb talks about caution all the time for a reason, complex systems are, indeed, complex.
>10 years later, copy-paste is still a horrible user experience. Different apps use different clipboards :scream: Even for copying these commands from Firefox to the terminal with keyboard shortcuts (CTRL INSERT, SHIFT INSERT, as CTRL C has a different meaning in terminals), you'll need copy-paste fixed already.

IMO this thing is way overblown. What applications these days do not simply use primary and clipboard selections in a consistent way? (FTR I like them separate very much as I would hate to have my clipboard contents change by simply selecting some text.) Middle click is not a shortcut for Ctrl+V!

Ctrl-C is indeed used to send SIGINT to the foreground processes in terminals and thus terminal emulators, and the established alternative for terminal emulators is to replace Ctrl-C/V copy/paste with Ctrl+Shift+C/V (I think that's how even cmd.exe works these days). Copying and sending a SIGINT would hardly be a useful default.
You can use Clipman from the Xfce project to merge your two clipboards into one or ignore the select one.
Doesn't completely solve your issue but it gives the user more control, and also a nice clipboard history.

https://docs.xfce.org/panel-plugins/clipman/start
The idea behind what I wrote (which I realize now was unpopular) was that a somewhat overzealous safety system shouldn't be a big deal compared to the possibility of it preventing thousands of dead kids a year, if deployed at scale. Asking such a system to distinguish pretend behavior seems like a big ask.
The article also notes that Oulu has inexpensive housing. Inexpensive housing is a lesson many cities could use—from Berlin to London to San Francisco. Having affordable housing help everyone from people with high-paying tech jobs to have the time to find new work, to people with lower incomes.
I've also been looking around for an alternative these days. The main reason for me is performance: you can get a HP ZBOOK STUDIO X360 G5 with 64GB RAM, i9, 2TB SSD, solid 4k display and graphics for roughly 3500€

I'm just unsure of how much productivity I'd lose when going back to windows with a virtualized linux for software development.

I guess I have to hold out and hope for the new macbook pro 16".
Light does not have relativistic mass, but it does carry energy. The full version of Einstein's famous equation is E^2 = m^2c^4 + p^2c^2; a photon has m=0, so E=pc.
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Smart devices mimic what they hear around them so they can blend in. For example, for wifi using the same MAC address and IP info as something transmitting frequently. You'd have to check the sequence numbers or use multi-directional gear to detect it reliably.

Conceivably it would use a different waveform with lower energy when transmitting clandestinely, but that would be insanely expensive to achieve, probably need to add a separate chip, and it wouldn't work for people who change phones regularly.

I'm reminded that a while back the Shin Bet modified a phone to have a chunk of plastic explosive, used to kill a Hamas bomb maker. It was detonated remotely with a non-phone protocol (as the phone channel was in use by the target).
Some distributions don't have /dev/tcp enabled in bash, though.
docs.new is pretty convenient
Truth be told I personally think infrastructure and cultural norms that take automobiles as the default preferred road use are the real cause, but at the point of impact the car, operated by a driver (or machine) is the cause.
I've heard so many tales of Finland's wonderful social programs. Aren't they supposed to have some of the best education quality in Europe as well? [1]
It's fascinating that a country with such a harsh climate and constant jokes about its peoples' coldness toward one another makes so much room for social security and actually caring for its people.
I'm not so sure this model would work for cases that don't involve IT giants. I mean the problem that used to be widespread in the USA - factories closing down and laying off workers. Establishing another factory might simply not be regionally viable so the town gets abandoned, losing population and resources. A bit easier with the IT sector, we can all move around if the pay's right and it's not like the company itself needs some strict local conditions to fit their needs.

[1]: Looked it up, they're certainly getting praise for it: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-finland-beats-america-on...
"Detailed analysis by Boeing shows that even where this crack is present, it does not immediately compromise the safety of the aircraft – as indicated by the time-frame given by regulators to perform the checks."

Oh, well that seems absolutely fine then...
> The only people who are experts in a particular industry are the people running the businesses that make up that industry. So the government, in order to try to make rules that don't suck, depend on their input when drafting the rules.

A government, for the people, should ask the users and customers of the corporations, its citizens who suffer the most from top-down decisions.

What recourse do average citizens have when corporations, which must always act in their own interest, decide to prey on them? Governments are supposed to protect us from that shit.

It should be a triangle: People choose which corporations to support, governments make sure people have a choice.
Google bid for the gTLD (https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/) and won it (https://icannwiki.org/.new), so they have full control over it.