skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tangentially related but I’ll lay out a problem I have for a small office I run. I want to backup and sync my files cheaply somewhere, say GDrive. I want a Uzi that gives me snapshot/versions of files it backed up. Is there a good open source solution for this? Restic and friends are a little too technical for my non-technical office. Thanks
It's true that Borges read books in their original languages, but he also did translations himself and even stated that a translation could improve upon the original--although I doubt that he'd say that his own translations were so-improved.
Now write it in Clojure and compare your line counts
Anyone reviewed how it compares to indico or eventbirght?
I wonder what kind of class action or civil enforcement exposure Airbnb has. Certainly this has to be revealed honestly in their S-1 docs.
For those who didn't read the article: wunderground is still around, but the writer of this blogpost is leaving.
Can humans tell pâté from dog food? (2009)
How weird that you didn't mention asylum in this entire post, not even once. You keep talking about "illegal immigrants" and "breaking the law", completely ignoring the fact that claiming asylum is legal.

Many of these people who were being caged are people who claimed asylum at the border points of entry; they were not illegal immigrants, nor did they try to sneak in. The correct thing to do in this situation of not having enough room would be to release them into the country pending their asylum hearing, rather than locking them up in substandard, inhumane, occasionally deadly accommodations.
Yes, indeed; Restic just happened to be an easy-to-use deduplicating backup program that supports various cloud storage backends, including the one I happen to use (Backblaze). Not needing to patch together some sort of pipeline of dedup --> upload to remote storage is a nice selling point.
Cirrus' Vision Jet also has autolanding called "Safe Return" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiGkzgfR_c0
I remember when dBase III+ shipped, there were some nice new features though we moved over to Clipper when that launched and completely avoided the "joy" of dBase IV. I did also try out another couple of compilers called Quicksilver and dBXL, but Clipper ate their lunch.

I wrote quite a few tens of thousands of lines of code in Clipper (using the BRIEF editor) all the way up until ~1998. By then I'd more or less switched to VB+SQL Server.

Gotta say I really loved working with Clipper, it was a really nice superset of dBase but had many of it's own specific design features.
When CPS gets involved, do we then keep the kid in a cold warehouse inside a fenced off pen, leave them to sleep on the floor with a space blanket, give them antipsychotics to sedate them, fail to provide them with soap and toothpaste so they become ill? Further, fail to keep records so they may never see their parents again?

This is literally what's happened to thousands of children. We don't know exactly how many. And before another person carelessly posts some sentiment about how this is okay, I hope you also take the time to do some real introspection.
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Absolutely! I still tend to stop and edit and overthink way too much to finish longer things, so tomorrow I'm starting https://nanowrimo.org/ to attempt to actually finish a novel draft without any second guessing. It's in the same spirit as the freewriting exercise, just extended to a month. :)
Part of a very thorough youtube series on space exploration. Goes into depth on a lot of futuristic concepts that probably would appeal to the average HN reader.

This in particular explores mind-machine interfaces similar to the neurolink project of Elon Musk.
Or easy chair: https://www.easychair.org/
In an effort to reinvigorate my computer chops, I've been bouncing between macOS, linux (Manjaro), and Windows 10 on my personal laptop, switching to the next OS in rotation every Sunday night. I'm set up to develop a number of my personal web projects in all three operating systems, with my environment being (more or less) the same across all three (Angular and Python development) using Sublime as my primary text editor, Firefox as my primary browser. I've gone out of my way to NOT rely on the Linux subsystem on Windows, trying to keep my Windows experience more 'vanilla'. I'm only on my second week of using Windows, but I have to say, it is BY FAR my least favorite environment to work in of the three.
I've found different Toastmaster groups operate a bit differently. Some are very strict (using clickers whenever you say "um" for example) and others not as much. So OP, if you do try Toastmasters, and the first group doesn't "feel" right, see if another nearby group is available.
Tempting... must sit on hands...

But yes, I think you could. The Chudnovsky algorithm is only a half page of Python. dc can be formatted nicelyish with comments but you can also golf it obviously.
I've tried disabling javascript several ways, and they all lead to a complete crippling of the site. 30+ JS scripts are load. As it should be obvious from using the mobile version of the site that it makes heavy use of javascript. Even the source is riddled with script tags. I have no idea how you're coming to your conclusion, but it matches none of what I'm seeing.
Austin Meyer did help on an actual autoland device that was based on the same concept: the VP-400 by Vertical Power. But I'm not sure it ever went anywhere. In theory with that system, you could push the "oh-shit" button if you lose your engine, and it would take over the autopilot to try to automatically fly the calculated path.

Of course I don't think it was as fully integrated, so no automatic radio callouts or anything.

I'm not sure if the product actually ever became available.

HOWEVER: If you have a TruTrak autopilot, and an an iLevil ADS-B receiver, then Xavion has a super experimental "auto" button that will actually control the autopilot, to attempt to automatically fly the calculated course.
Oh wow, now THAT was a classic. I remember playing that on an old version of openSuSE... maybe 9 or 10?
> Not really sure how to fight that.

Rather than trying to challenge them on whether they really do have anything to hide, I usually try to challenge their assumption that privacy is an individual right. Privacy isn't an individual right. It's a societal right. It's there to ensure those who want to make change can effectively organize, which is necessary in a democratic society. So you have the right to privacy whether you like it to or not, because society needs it. Keeping your individual porn habits secret is a side effect.

People who tend to argue, "I have nothing to hide," usually think well of themselves. So if you can get them thinking of privacy as a social good, more "we" than "me", then you can show them that supporting privacy protections is more of an altruistic gesture than a vice.

If they want a specific example, the I usually talk about women's suffrage. It's only been 100 years since women didn't have the right to vote in the U.S., and suffragettes were extremely effective in 1919 by organizing privately then showing up in mass to overwhelm legislatures and mount demonstrations that couldn't be silenced or hidden. If lawmakers knew about all those damn women organizing such big events, women likely would not have been successful at getting the right to vote.

Privacy is the lubricant that lets society move, whether it's pro-life movements, pro-pot movements, or any other political movement. They all need privacy to actually be successful.
At every large company where I have worked (Intel, Qualcomm, Google, Facebook) the majority of my colleagues have been non-citizens. In some cases (Qualcomm SD, Google) 100% of the people on my team were non-citizens.
Well, yeah, a faction ends in jail because someone rats them out—either inside or a competitor.
Most people are reasonable.

Certainly, a simple protest is not harassment, nor is asking pointed questions. But all it takes is one unhinged person to make it turn violent.

Likely? Not really. But certainly not outside the realm of possibility.
He has a major case of Trump derangement syndrome: https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/aaron-sorkin-trump-is-rea.... Read his "open letter" to his daughter as well. It did not age well, at all.

A rational person would eventually conclude that dumb people do not become multi-billionaire real estate moguls or tv stars, or win US presidential elections with half the money and without any political experience. But that's not the possibility TDS sufferers are willing to entertain. Eccentric? Yes. Selfish? Yes. Not a good speaker? Yes. Dumb? Hell no.

Is there any doubt in your mind that Sorkin's diatribe is aimed squarely at barring just _one_ kind of political advertisements and speech? I mean, let's take just one sentence of what he wrote: "Right now, on your website, is an ad claiming that Joe Biden gave the Ukrainian attorney general a billion dollars not to investigate his son." There are two problems with this sentence:

1. I'm from Eastern Europe originally, and I'm pretty sure that's exactly what happened. But if you disagree, then,

2. You can't impeach Trump for, allegedly, doing the milder version of the exact same thing.

You can't have it both ways, and yet that's exactly what the likes of Sorkin seem to be arguing for. And at a minimum, you have to agree that what Sorkin is characterizing as "truth" in this case, not only smells fishy, but, well, there's no evidence that it is, in fact, truth.

This was, in effect, "banned" from mainstream "free" press for years, until Trump dragged it out in the open in a way they could not ignore. Did he do it to destroy Joe's presidential campaign? He sure did (Joe isn't running anymore - he's only pretending to; there's no fundraising). Can you fault him for it? I can't, espeically not after the shit bath Trump himself was subjected to. No matter how you slice it, this stinks to high heaven. Given the situation I don't want any Biden ties to the Chinese in particular, and that $1.5B his "talented" son got from them kinda gets in the way of that.
I suspect they’re saying anyone who looks/sounds different must be foreign.
Earth itself has finite matter, so therefore resources are finite.
"Begging" for Patreon subscribers should be more than enough of a red flag for the state of Youtube Creators. They're resorting to platforms like Patreon because they have a much clearer estimate for their paychecks, unlike Youtube where your video can be claimed, demonitized, etc and you instantly lose that revenue.

This is exactly why content is suffering on the platform, you can't afford to invest money and time into a video which might be taken down by some Copyright bot.
https://xkcd.com/2159/
Although most of the advices focuses on specific techniques (which is very important to focus on), I want to emphasize something different: diet and lifestyle.

Without sounding too obvious, I can not recommend you enough reducing caffeine and alcohol use (if its a problem) and focusing on sporting regularly.
"cisgender"

Who gets to decide when a person should use the word 'cisgender'? I'm being told what I have to call you, yet this word is thrown around as if I had any choice in the matter.
A Data Visualization of Levi's “Fit Numbers”
The landing page is here.

https://mailchi.mp/8e0622427dd5/prjmgrwkly

TIA for any hints you could give.
> Starting that way will cause a huge segment of the population to switch off as soon as you start talking.

Why is that? Is a huge segment of the population in favor of social injustice?
Depends on the route. Flying IFR you can get routed all over the place. Also, head/tailwinds exist. It's more just to show ballpark relative efficiency numbers.
Tami Facillitates the Learning of Trigonometry
I used to have anxiety attacks when I was in school, I had stage fright from my child hood, I avoided crowd, never participated in extra curricular activities unless it was forced or mandatory and even then I used to find reasons to skip it. I dreaded that I would stand out and become a laughing stock. But in my 8th grade one of my teachers pushed me to present a lot of projects regularly. At first I tried to find way out of them but slowly I got around the fear bit by bit and Now thankfully I am in a better position when it comes to presentation, talks and general speaking skills. I guess one can confront fear bit by bit and chew through the pain/trauma and build resistance. That's all just wanted to share my experience hope it helps.
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> However, I do think it ignores the elephant in the room which is that Earth only has finite resources.

Are you sure about that?
Without question, the Earth has a finite mass.
But 'resource' in the sense you are using the term pertains to the various ways humans can utilize the various finite components comprising the Earth. And that may well indeed be infinite.
Just like OCaml, Java (AOT compiled), C#/F# (AOT compiled), D, Nim, Ada, FreePascal.
There are many developers who might not have done K means clustering or unsupervised learning at all. We should think about them as well. And I think the article did a good job of explaining related concepts. I liked it.
You don't understand why people use a communications app with 1.6 billion users as opposed to one with likely less than a million?

It's network effects

In my own anecdotal experience Signal ranks way below Viber (popular with migrants + expats), Wickr (popular with people doing illegal things and corporate executive scheming), Telegram (popular in crypto, scammers and terrorists)

The only real broad use of Signal i've seen is amongst journalists - and even there i'm not certain how much they actually use it or if it's just the "i'm crypto aware" version of a blue checkmark for their Twitter profiles
Yes, both are implementing Garmin's new emergency autoland feature.
Interestingly enough, the baseband for iPhone XS runs x86.
It looks like BMW is not in compliance. As far as I can tell, no one has done a complete corresponding source (CCS) check on that code like we did for Tesla: https://lists.sfconservancy.org/pipermail/ccs-review/2018-Ma...

A brief look at the code BMW provided suggests they haven't provided any information on how to build or install the code, both of which are required by the GPL.

If you do find or receive source code from other car manufacturers, please try to build it before concluding that they are compliant. If you have trouble, please report this issue to us at https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compliance/#reporting and we'll do our best to help.
I'm not defending AirBnB, because they totally enable and profit from scams as documented in the original article. But it is just the user expecting to get hotel services (rebooking and room swaps) from a non-hotel (whether genuine homestay or micro-hotel-entrepreneur).

AirBnB wont play down that expectation because again they profit more from it, but from the website and concept it is clear that you are dealing with random unprofessional strangers with a minimum of guarantees. Its kinda like the Uber contractor-vs-employee categorization for drivers.

AirBnB should definitely do a better job, but I maintain the risks are inherent in the business model, and you and the other users want the benefits of the risk (lower prices), without accepting the consequences of the risk.
Maybe the most moral thing to do would be, should you find yourself employed at an immoral company -- Fight to do everything in your power to change the company's course, while drawing your salary (and thus their resources), and not contributing towards the immoral actions at all? Basically you'd be forcing them to fire you at some point, but until then, you're fighting against it for as long as possible and thus hopefully maximizing the chance of changing course.
I rarely book for more than two people, but when I have I found that filtering on "2+ bathrooms" very quickly gets me the flats that really have several bedrooms.
well as im not very familiar i cant judge about it, the only other languages i know are c#, php, html and css but i do get your point!
> Dragging children across two thousand miles of desert and multiple borders (where many die en route) is far worse endangerment.

Would you say the same thing about children dragged across the Atlantic Ocean on cramped boats to arrive at Ellis Island?

I really don't think "endangerment" is a reasonable description of this situation. Parents are doing it because it's what they believe is best for the kids, because conditions are more dangerous where the kids are.
At this point, I think APEX is the best product and biggest selling point of Oracle. Too bad they don't focus in selling it.

The largest drawback is that it comes with an Oracle database bundled, so many of the savings in development time are wasted dealing with it.
As well as a dramatically shifted power dynamic whereby the 40 hour workweek is a relic of the past, and people work 2-3 jobs just to scrape by. It's easier to say "burn it down" when you're already in the flames.

It's also, depending on who you ask, one of the few avenues left for people to affect change on a larger scale. Literally nothing else is working, and internal revolts have changed quite a few minds.

Employee activism is a necessary and under-powered force to help manage the insatiable greed of board members.
Well there you go:

Dietary fiber intake and risk of colorectal cancer and incident and recurrent adenoma in the Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian Cancer Screening Trial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4588743/
From OPs link:

> If we perform similar backups to the same remote destination over SSH (Borg) and SFTP (Restic), the initial backups take roughly the same time, but the subsequent incremental backups take something like 10x longer with Restic.

Also I'm wary of encrypting personal backups. I think the chances of me forgetting a password that I used literally once are quite high, and what's the point of a backup if you can't actually access it?
Why should they give up and run away instead of staying and fighting? Why is the former better than the latter? Personally I prefer to tackle challenges head-on rather than giving up.
Even if a significant portion of GitHub's employees are non-US citizens, it's highly unlikely they're illegals.
Arguing that “they’ll do it anyway” is why IBM supported the holocaust, why companies like NSO sell to to human rights rights abusers, etc.

The argument basically boils down to supporting literally anything. If enough people start saying “no, we won’t support that”, it pushes up the price of the behaviour, and could eventually lead to the entire industry dropping support - for example when all the pharmaceutical companies decide to stop allowing their drugs to be used for executions.
If anyone thinks Github boycotting ICE will change anything of ICE's conduct, that to me is some kind of Delusions of Grandeur. The money involved are a tiny part of a forgotten section of their budget.

If they don't think it will change anything, we can agree that this boycott is purely symbolic and will accomplish nothing.
Can someone break down what makes up the 91MB this app weights in at? Since its 94% swift I'm a bit surprised
Angular Reactive Forms Benefits: Custom Validators
Tableau Tech Workers Walked Off the Job After Software They Made Was Sold to ICE
Very cool! The effect on page layout sounds like it would be pretty similar to Oracle's hybrid columnar compression[1], but they claim average compression ratio is more like 10:1. Any idea what would make so much of a difference?

[1] https://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/exadata/ehcc-twp...
Why? Couldn’t it absorb almost all energy that “touches” it? Making it impossible for us to detect the tiny amount of heat generated? Genuine question.
Pretty much true for most large tech companies, at least in the SF Bay Area. I've worked at 2 large and 1 small tech co and it was only the small company that had mostly US citizens (mostly because of the cost of dealing with immigration lawyers etc)
i gave it a star! i think the simplicity of the game is what makes it special!
This is a good point. WSL is a good addition, but Windows 7 felt more streamlined and less cluttered. I almost dread dealing with Windows 10, the updates and Cortana trying to activate have definitely made me lose trust using it as a daily driver. Then again, I'll be putting off the Catalina upgrade as long as possible, too
With experience and some anxiety resistance filler words can be filtered out as you said. It does detract ones attention from the speaker and reduces the quality of the talk. It is a long process.
>I've spoken with people who have said they are ok with it, when I start asking questions or sharing details on how this has been abused I tend to find they have not thought it through

In the future just ask them to unlock their phone and hand it to you so you can look at their email, text and browser history. Watch them hesitate and refuse.
I've used Airbnb exactly once, probably 8 years ago once. Me, wife, her parents and my parents all met up in Paris. I rented a 'luxury' apartment that was enough to sleep 8 people and looked great in pictures.

When we got there half the furniture was gone because the guy apparently got divorced between when the pictures got taken and his life "now", half the beds were kid's mattresses on pull out beds, there was no longer a shower but literally a full fledged hot-tub that had a flex shower over it.

the coffee machine and half the utensils in the kitchen had mold on it. we never got enough towels for all the people.

we stayed there for one day and couldn't do it anymore, i sent an email to Airbnb and the owner asking that we part ways amicably and they let us out of the contract, both replied that it was past 12 hours that we stayed there and i was liable for full cost.

i went outside to a payphone, called collect to a number listed on my platinum amex and explained the situation, the first thing the amex rep said: "i'm sorry to hear about your situation, we're immediately refunding you the full amount, go find a hotel room, enjoy the rest of your vacation and we'll call you when you get back to the states".

when i got to the states i had my money back from amex and Airbnb for weeks would write to me that "they're investigating my situation", at which point i didn't even bother reading their emails anymore. it was a crap company then and it seems like it's a crap company now. there really isn't any reason to do business with companies that don't value the customer, no matter how appealing the "price" may be.
These tools keep authoritarians in power and indirectly impact hundres of millions of people. It's like saying you don't care about pacific ocean plastic because you live on the east coast.
Members of Congress, while in Congress, can literally say anything they want to with complete immunity.
I would argue that the 2nd most important part of a backup is the restoring. Many products don't focus on that enough because it's not the part that most customers will experience until there is an emergency.
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OK but now that I have made the bomb before you were able to stop me, will the federal government finally recognize Petoria?
I understand the preaching to the choir thing. But a lot of people aren't even aware of the history of the FBI. This isn't even a detailed history, just mentioning some scary and relevant facts about the organization that not everyone is necessarily aware of.

I think that speaking in technical, generic and hypothetical terms isn't effective. You have to ground the conversation in actual misdeeds. Otherwise you're likely to get the "but I don't have anything to hide" response.
Which was my point when I said I feel the world is wasting a huge amount of memory. It feels like a step backwards.
I sincerely hope you are joking but from what I've seen myself it would not surprise me at all.