skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Operator’s Manual, 2016
For a site named Last Week in AWS, the advice is very sensible.

Summary:

- DO for simpler setups, with clear pricing (no surprises)

- AWS for scale
False positives? Since years I have not checked my gmail spam folders and whatever I've missed, I did not miss it.

If your email triggers gmails spam filter, you're doing it wrong. YMMV.
Read the article...

"The company was found responsible for 17 of the 21 major fires that blazed across California in 2017 alone. It was responsible for the deadliest fire in California history last year, the Camp Fire, where 86 people were found dead and more than 50,000 were displaced."
No, a lot of hoops are barely even legal.

Many services don't even allow you to delete your account, just to disable it and have it hang around in their database as long as they want. That's a blatant violation of privacy.
As I read it, it’s exactly judge people by character.
If they don't know by that age (attending school), something is very wrong.
Because in practice the places where it’s easy to go from BTC to fiat, and the places where you can easily money launderers, are distinct.

Financial regulation has caught up to most of the exchanges and it’s not always easy to get cash out of a system (and that’s not even mentioning loads of shadier exchanges near-guaranteed insolvency)
If you're allowing a single data point to have that much power over what or how you think, you've already lost. Especially if you decide to ignore context like "I just lost water by running and I haven't had anything to drink yet", or even important variables like time of day. The number by itself is meaningless. Data (as in a ton of data points) with context can be incredibly useful. Don't blame the tool if you don't learn how to use it properly.
Yes, it’s on our road map.
Cache because the notepad++ website is currently unavailable: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:dMqHQf...
> A shady developer tricking people into a subscription because they don't know any better is way different from malware that reinstalls itself even after a factory reset.

A shady developer tricking people and a shady website tricking people result in bad things.

To get this trojan I'd need to go into settings and tick this box:

https://q3fb03rfy3f4ahuzu2uy6e11-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

Then go to the dodgy website, then download the apk, then install it then pikachu face when I get a trojan.

And you can talk about how great Apple's security is but to fix this issue all Google has to do is remove that tick box in settings so no more sideloading apps.

But that also comes back with drawbacks that I assume an Apple user like yourself wouldn't know about, because all you know is a walled garden. Sort of like how Chinese people love the fact their internet is censored. So safe, so secure.
Confirmed from NZ.

Now the question is, state or privately backed DDoS?

The third option is that they took it down themselves due to a different kind of abuse, i.e. a report form or something.
Five years after Alice-5 lessons learned from software patent litigation
> starting something smaller and more modern

Where do you draw the line? Do you throw away Linux and write your own OS, which is bound to grow to the same level of complexity because it needs to deal with hardware complexity? Or do you throw away the existing hardware as well and start from silicon? Maybe even reboot the computing stack on an entirely different type of hardware?
It's not nationalistic and it's not flaming. Are you a fucking shill or just retarded?
there are games that solve the issue by adding physical limitation to movement so that there's a cap to the coordination skill ceiling, nothing can fix esp (enemy highlights trough wall and scenery) of course but there are ways to constrain players so that the field is level, so for example both in war thunder and arma 2 your turn rate and aiming speed is controlled by the type and equipment you're using. even an aimbot or godlike reflexes won't save an enemy if you manage to get the drop on them and using terrain cleverly can negate most of the skilled/cheater advantages.
Proof please that only one party consistently pushes the envelope.
Because we help you to organize and store your knowledge. The brain works better visually then verbally and that’s the reason we are combining the world of notes and mind maps together.
Interesting summary of biomedical progress, but the extrapolation at the end is a leap too far.
I think Oberon doesn't have the community to thrive though. A language nowadays is much more than the core, it's also all the libraries, tooling and tutorials around it.

That said, Oberon probably makes a very fine teaching language.

Note that lots of Nim syntax and features were inspired by Wirth's languages including Oberon and Modula 3 (https://nim-lang.org/faq.html#what-have-been-the-major-influ...)
This makes for one difference which sometimes bites people even if they use the two tools in the same way: if you change a file "while committing it", e.g. changing it in one window while writing the commit message in another, Mercurial will commit the changed version, while Git of course commits the file as it was when you staged it, or when you ran commit -a.

I find this quite handy in Mercurial, as I sometimes realise while writing the commit message that e.g. I forgot to remove a line of temporary debug output, and I can still go and do it before I save the commit message. But that's very bad form that reflects badly on me. The way Git does it feels more correct.
NodeBB team here. We host Notepad++'s forum. We're keeping an eye out for suspicious activity on the forum as well, as these types of spam dumps occur often.

That said, the Notepad++ forum has been the target of a low level DoS attack for the past month...
Yeah fastmail's filters are doing an ok job.
Not really a data scientist myself, but using Nim for my PhD in physics to analyze the data I took for an axion search experiment, code at [1].

I just love it. Super productive to work with and in my case faster than the C++ framework I'm replacing.

The ecosystem of course is pretty small. But for me wrapping C code, porting something or reimplementing some libraries can be a lot of fun, too. In my experience every hole I've found was easily plugged so far.

[1] https://github.com/Vindaar/TimepixAnalysis (recently due to ..reasons.. all development happened on the open PR)
> Shares and likes became more important that keywords

Many seem to think so. If true, it means that Google now "Pageranks" not thanks to websites contents maintainers establishing links to other sites, but to visitors posting links on social networks. They switched from the 'authors side' to the 'audience side'.

(Yes, there are many contents maintainers who also are active on social media, however they don't post the overwhelming majority of non-spam links published on social media).
> disrespects those intentions and wishes

I don't interpret it this way. All the author has said is that he didn't want the hassle of fighting the take-down, not that he particularly wished for the take-down to proceed or that he thought it was correct (legally or otherwise).

Depending on the wording of the take-down notice, not having removed the history as well as the latest easily accessible versions could have been an error on his part that Monotype may now ask him to rectify (hopefully nicely and politely, if they do), or as he is active on this thread he may do anyway.

The tone of his comment above doesn't suggest he is bothered by people drawing attention to the matter.
Out of curiosity who else do you subscribe to?

Routers and Guardian are my only go to sources where I don't have to outright be suspicious of anything they write (with some caveats for guardian).
More Than Slack. More Than Trello. FREE
There is an "adapted from his book (McMindfulness)" attribution at the bottom.

I think the problem is that the author thinks his opinions are facts,though.
When the CPU's developer manual is 2198 pages and still growing, any option other than starting with Linux and trying to keep up (i.e. VT, SGX, TPM, GPU, etc) will be extremely costly.

https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents...

These things like Oberon and Inferno are from a more innocent era of computing.
I've been wondering how long it would be until a16z said something along these lines. I agree completely and am blown away by the progress we have made on informational medicines in the past decade. I would highly recommend to you, if you're a tech-focused person, to get into the field now. I feel like the internet era has matured significantly to the point where the frontier aspect of it has been tamed. Now it's time to move into biology. Look for foundational companies that power the biological information revolution.
Confirmed from FR
If the last time was an indication I fear we might be in for an spate of "X is eating the world" posts again.
Well, it kinda helps that they were the first good search engine. Their name is synonymous with performing a search, much in the way people say "let me grab a kleenex" with regard to tissues,or "I used a q-tip to clean my ear, doctors and their advice be damned" with regard to whatever the hell q-tips are called without referencing a brand name.

Granted, as a result of that in Google's case, their market dominance is kind of self-perpetuating, because that higher usage leads to better results, since our brains think very similarly, so that thing you were thinking of has already been searched for, and thus their algorithm has already filtered the results down to what you likely want before you even know that you need to search for something.

Take a new video game for instance where you want to search for the map or walkthrough for a particular level.

You'll get better results using Google, because most other people are already using Google to search for that exact same thing, whereas when I do the same with duckduckgo, it's hit or miss on the results.
Pretty much yes. While you can find tech companies that hire exclusively English speakers A LOT of companies require fluent Finnish, even when the internal language is Finnish.

Finland is still in many ways a very conservative society.
I just wrote a message to support and I will keep you posted about any updates.

Just to be sure I also ordered a free SIM card so I have a spam phone for these kinds of services.

Thank you for the advice.
Indeed. But a premise of Buddhism is that the ethics came about as the result of meditation.
I don't know whether to be frightened of the cult-of-activism or just confused about this disorganized rant.

I see fascism hidden in words like this. The whole motivation seems to be that you must feel rage about anyone and anything which disagrees with your social ideals and any other reaction is unacceptable.
I had the same problem with npm, I think, and JSON, because npm could not simply load the huge JSON file into memory. A huge anything can crash a naively written tool used to handle smaller instances.
I am surprised I can't edit this on HN (Or missed the UI? I've been using HN for years) and was very tired - but 'choices' :]
Seems like an awful lot of configuration to get it half working like you want.

On the one hand, I’m thinking about getting an XPS because it’s literally 2K cheaper than a macbook and is upgradeable. On the other hand, a macbook still has a bit better build quality and macOS is still the most polished and easy to use OS (even after Catalina).

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. I also really, really like Time Machine.
Since when is an arbitrary cross-origin domain name a valid user interface choice?

From a security standpoint, using the _path_ of a trusted domain is still a thousand times more secure and convenient, rather than navigating to another arbitrary domain name with no validation of whether it is affiliated with the domain where you've come from.

If Google push this sort of mechanism, it's opening up a whole load of fraud capabilities! If I'm on gmail and receive a phishing attack email, tricking me into navigating to "gmail.new" which asks for my google password, should I type it into the box? There is a green padlock in the URL so it must be fine.
> I don't know of any mainstream religion that encourages waiting for god to fix things.

Individuals certainly use God as an excuse sometimes. I've seen some of my relatives say they didn't believe in anthropogenic global warming because God wouldn't allow people to change his world (or something to that effect). Sorry, I don't remember seeing that particular verse in the Bible; and in any case, God lets people do lots of pretty crazy things. Giving us the dignity to choose means giving us the possibility that we actually will royally mess things up.

But I don't think that has anything to do with religion per se. You get atheistic libertarians saying that global warming can't be happening because it isn't priced into the market; or that if it does happen, market forces will intervene to fix things.

People are just really good at finding reasons they shouldn't have to be inconvenienced.
It's worth pointing out every other major phone company besides maybe Samsung also lost [1].

[1] https://bebusinessed.com/history/history-cell-phones/
GP did specify a generous range.
Long Reads are almost always guest authors with a book extract or essay, and it notes at the bottom the associated book.
Even third world countries like South Africa can afford free online tax filing for the majority of taxpayers.
> you have to use a stylus, which despite Samsung's belief hardly anyone wants

That's an odd swipe in an otherwise good post. You don't have to use a stylus with the Galaxy Note series but the option is quite popular
Surely at this point the state has emergency powers to nationalise PG&E and seize control altogether. Why hasn’t that happened yet?
> Saying "the deterioration of quality in most modern software" is such a cop-out.

Fair. It's just my opinion. Though I'm not the only one expressing it. You've probably heard the phrase "optimizing for lowest common denominator", or as 'dredmorbius calls it, "the tyranny of the minimum viable user".

> I personally find that a lot of software I use daily does improve over time, especially web software.

I find the reverse. GMail and Dropbox being prominent examples.

> Reddit has very little telemetry and quite famously barely looks at the data it does gather.

Huh. That's not what I expected. I see Reddit as poster child of making the UX worse and worse, driven by advertising goals - something that generally does correlate strongly with running telemetry. I'm confused about them now.
> Genera (the Symbolics Lisp OS) did host some C

Symbolics had their own C compiler, which was unrelated to zeta-c. One could use it to for example compile the C-based X11 server.
Pro-Assange accounts are indeed being censored:

https://classconscious.org/2019/06/29/protest-at-twitter-hq-...

There is a media block (the UK can do that quite simply) on any reporting about Assange's health and conditions in Bellmarsh:

https://www.opednews.com/articles/Media-Block-on-Assange-s-T...

There is a definite campaign to torture/brainwash Assange while he is in Bellmarsh, as discovered by a UN investigator:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_94lj_bosc&t=3s
Hookers.nl breach: cracking 57% of the passwords in three days
I never really liked VR headsets. They were a good idea, but they are big and clunky, and remove awareness of what is going on around you.

On a side note, it is quite funny to poke somebody wearing one and seeing them being scared out of their wits because they wasn't expecting it.
Stream Xbox One Games on Android Smartphone
A Survey Finds Speech Restrictions Are Pretty Popular
Ok as my domain is newly registered that could be a valid reason probably.

It's a TLD and no service like ProtonMail. Gmail would be the next party I don't want to share information with - I know those are complicated preferences from a "normal" point of view but I don't like to spread my data too much.
What about the "rattling chains" part?

Yes, you generally can't resell relationships - transfering recurring services is usually impossible on the web, or a huge PITA off-line. That's another problem with them.
You are correct. Being on steam doesn't necessarily mean that a game has DRM. It's up to a game developer to implement steam's DRM or not. Check out the big list of DRM-free steam games:

https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_DRM-Free_Games...
Microsoft’s $10B Deal with Pentagon Might Change the Cloud Computing Game
> the identity of a commit should be defined by a hash of its contents only, but independent of its history

I think this is sort-of how Pijul and, earlier, Darcs work (https://pijul.org/)
UK Election Tech Handbook
While Maemo/MeeGo was cool (Former N900 user here), I doubt it would have succeeded in the long term. It would have been equally difficult to entice developers as it was for the windows phone platform, putting Nokia in the same position as they were with WP.
I once made a bad design decision that led through a chain of errors to ~ £120K in contract penalties (That was the profit on that contract for the first quarter wiped out, allegedly)

From them on I always asked at interviews how would such a issue be dealt with.

Most interviewers would go on about how it's never only the fault of the developer, etc .. but one basically said: Well, we might need to reevaluate your position at the company.

Turns out that the guy was a totally incompetent manager who was sacked so I dodged a bullet there (Evaluation of his skills by three different people, not me obviously)
Well, in some aspects there has been, in others not.

I'm pretty sure a Syrian or a Venezuelan, for example, who was living in way better conditions a decade ago, can very easily agree that this is so.

The relative stability and prosperity aside (which itself is arguable, with a declining middle class and stagnant wages, but anyway), I'm not so sure why it's so hard for e.g. many Americans to see this, as if today is the culmination of anything good in history.

Yes, today they have black civil or gay rights that they didn't in the 30s. They also have more mass shootings than any other time, more inequality, a opioid epidemic, tons of police shootings of blacks, more incarcerated people than any other time, not the best president (and neither the best democratic opponents), and lots of other issues besides. And while TV might be better today, it's not the most memorable decades for movies or novels.

Technology is cumulative (short of a catastrophic event, like the fall of Rome). Culture and society and politics are almost a random walk. They can go either way. Even the most sophisticated societal advancements can go away in a heartbeat, as they found in '30s Germany...
I've been a social smoker for ~15 years; I attempted Juul-ing about a month ago -- had to stop it as I was immediately (from the 1st puff) feeling unwell, super dizzy and occasionally with a massive headache.
Even if this is not linked to any "contamination" of the pods, the amount of nicotine the put in those things is just insane.
Didn't even bother giving the vaper to somebody else, I just threw it away
Best quote ever: "I heard years later that the person who inherited my code hated me."
Mainly, but not all. The first known death was unrelated to THC carts and was at first considered death by pneumonia...
Isn't that interesting - the UK regulates medicines pretty closely, but I've just tried and I can go straight to the web site and buy one here, no questions asked.
Some long flights with newer planes have USB, so that would be an option.
I'm not going to deal with any "interest-based recommendations" until they are transparent about how they work. I've personally neutered all the platforms I use to avoid this type of system.

No thanks.
read it again...
wow thanks im cured
I would agree, or at least acknowledge that there was some truth here, if the worker's revolutions that have happened actually made anyone happier or less stressed.

The only thing I've seen in all my travels that made anyone any happier is strong family ties.
Doesn't have two separate concepts for "branches" and "bookmarks" which is extremely confusing compared to the simple Git DAG.

Not having to add crucial functionality like stashes by editing the config to add a new module.

Better UI. For example to get full hash of the current commit, the recommended way to do it in git is `git rev-parse HEAD`. In hg it's `hg log -l 1 --template '{node}\n' -r .` Yes really.

Easy to customize logs.

Magit exists.
It's a pretty bad misfeature though, since it's a feature you might accidentally use without realizing it if you don't use a linter.
As someone who also wrote my own deep learning library from scratch in a less-known language (Nim: https://github.com/mratsim/Arraymancer), I must say this looks very nice.

I especially like the syntax for declaring neural networks.

One thing I'm unclear of is the slicing. get_fancy seems quite complex compared to Numpy and it seems to return a copy instead of allowing in-place modification of a slice?
> Every interaction I've had with mindfulness so far hasn't been that it was "sold"

In defense of the author, it isn't really hard to come to the conlusion that mindfulness is mostly an attempt to sell stuff: Open the search engine of your choice, type in "mindfulness" and look at the results. Look at any pop-psychology, lifestyle or fashion magazine, and be greeted with advertorials for "calm" or similar apps.
There's a lot of alternatives out there, and you can even make your own; there's nothing particularly secretive about the ingredients of generic vape liquid. Of course then you have to know your sources of the raw materials.
I don't often need this, but in Hg I simply use commits for that and use histedit to clean up later. The staging area basically is just a commit, just one that's not part of your history yet.
Since you mention tidyverse, I might shamelessly mention that I'm currently working on a sort of port of ggplot2 and some dplyr features in Nim [1]. It's super WIP, but for most plots and simple data frame operations (complicated stuff I do beforehand) I need it has mostly replaced plotly [2] (or in some cases matplotlib).

However, don't expect the included data frame to be fast. That in combination with a dynamic nature has been out of scope for me alone.

[1] https://github.com/Vindaar/ggplotnim/tree/addDocs

[2] https://github.com/brentp/nim-plotly
Evolution doesn't have a goal though, evolution is more like maintenance and jerry rigging than it is engineering.
Apple did this in 2018 when two movies bought on iTunes were removed from a user. After contacting support the user was offered two vouchers for rental movies, which is obviously worth less.

1: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2018/09/13/apple-is-...

2: https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnarcher/2018/09/17/apple-res...
That's not true. Flash had accessibility features added to it some time ago:

https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/products/flash.html
Wasn't bitbucket pretty much that at first? Then they added git support because in our day and age you need git support if you want to be relevant as a code repo hosting solution.
I know but that is not possible in every situation. I for example had no recovery mode on a MBP so I needed to get the Apple software on it somehow.

The tool from dosdude can do a bit more. With it I managed to install High Sierra on a MBP from 2009 (which isn't compatible anymore but it runs flawlessly).

Before it had an HDD with Windows only and no access to recovery mode or diagnostic tools. Thanks to the "High Sierra Patcher" everything works now :)
Obama: There are ambiguities. People who do good stuff have flaws
Sea-level rise could flood hundreds of millions more than expected