skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The real equivalency is that Saudi Arabia, Israel, the US, Russia, China, and - increasingly - the UK and other satellite states are now essentially extreme nationalist regimes with a far-right political slant and a fondness for various forms of violence.

The differences are more about superficial local colour than political dynamics, which are becoming depressingly consistent across the board.

It's becoming less and less surprising that there are high-level links between all of them which converge through the use of social media and other tools of influence.
But programmers normally don't type things out long hand. They use tools for their language which automatically add indents and autocomplete symbols. If the only alternative parse for <- in Python is "less than minus", it should be fairly straightforward to program any serious IDE to replace <- with ← in the right context.

Would programming in a language with first class variables like Haskell help you? In Haskell, x = y means "let x and y be synonyms, which the compiler can freely substitute" whereas to mutate a value you have to say something like `put x y` (x is not a variable, it merely refers to a variable). It's approach is so different from standard that it explodes my head but I wonder if it's more approachable to nubs.
What industry do you work in?
Zebras have a different herd mentality to Horses, pretty much they don't have one. They do move around in groups for mutual protection, but they live more as individuals and do not follow a single alpha male herd leader as horses do. So with horses you can set yourself up as the alpha leader and they will follow you, but that doesn't work with Zebras. This combined with their more aggressive nature has made them impossible to domesticate.
I don't get this. I'm a software developer in Belgium, and basically all cards are in our hands over here. There is a huge shortage of software developers.

If I quit, I can get a job within a month which gives the same or better pay.

From the company view, they need to spend several months trying to find a new employee, and then give full pay while that person is still learning the codebase, and other employees wast time getting him/her up to speed. It takes another few months before this person is 100% productive.

So as an employer, you are basically pulling on the shorter end of the string.

So my question: why is it so much different in the US?
No problem, it looks good now. Whoever you were using for ads were not sending good clean ads.
Despite that they are still regarded as one of the least bad telcos because their customer service sucks much less than that of their competitors (e.g. Telefonica O2, which is a large one, was basically impossible to contact for most customers for months at a time because of "technical difficulties"). Their mobile network is comparably good and all in all they are seen as the premium option on the German market.
I think you're right - an essay should communicate a key thought, broken down in logical steps, coherently tied together. This is important for a whole host of skills.
>With newer generations of AMD CPUs, AMD has fixed some of these bugs

Or rather, broke something. There are suitable counters working correctly on late Bulldozer iterations, but not on Zen.
Another resource to check out is IncrediBuild. It's a dedicated solution to reduce C++ build times. You can learn a lot about it on our website. I'm sharing the link to our blog (it's new, so there should be a lot more content added in the future) where we post content exactly about that: https://www.incredibuild.com/blog?utm_source=hackernews&utm_...
> Also, anyone pretending to be a competent computer programmer while whining about being unable to use Unicode in your text editor, please find a new hobby.

Yes. It seems like programmers are people who make the technology of the next generation using the technology of the previous generation.
Prions do lead to certain degenerative brain diseases. Alzheimer's is caused by different factors, though. Perhaps you're thinking of beta amyloid tangles, which are a different matter.
It's both. I love Vive and Rift and own one of those, and while content makes me want to use the device longer, the device itself makes me want to.. well not.

Vive is far too heavy and Rift has issues with lens fog (so I can't bloody see anything a minute after putting it on my head)
> Bottle water is another case. I'll generalize and say that most bottled water is pretty much the same...

> Again, marketing. They are selling you an image.

A great example of this is Fiji water.

"Earth's finest water"

It plays on the allure that a product that comes from a "distant land" must be better than local water.

But few will ever ask for research to prove it's better.

I can't believe we are paying for water to be shipped thousands of miles, that likely has minimal benefit beyond what can be sourced locally.

But, that's the power of perception at work.
The reason I book an AirBnb is that I want my home away from home. I don't want a hotel. I want to pop into an area that I'm visiting and feel as if I have my own space.
It's not beastly. Just a few :imap's will get you there in vim.
For my amusement mostly, here's the Julia translation:

nums = [1,2,3,4,5]
nums ↑ 6 # const ↑ = push!; const ⤉ = pushfirst!
nums ⤉ 6
nums .+= 2 # addition-assign to add 2 to each item
nums[[2,4]] .= 99
nums
nums ⩠ 7 # ⩠(a,b) = a[a.<b].=b
nums

nums = [1,2,3,4,5]
nums ↔ "hello" # ↔(a,b) = hcat(collect(a), collect(b))
nums = nums ↔ "hello" # re-binding nums
That's exactly what this is, but at the wholesale level. The price is so flexible that it sometimes goes negative.
> The right amount of freedom is the freedom to do as you please , as long as you don't hurt people or property

I ll be damn’d if that bot aint a libertarian
I use a site called "ArXiv Sanity Preserver" - it's mainly for machine learning papers based on its current audience, but it provides pretty useful filtering based on user reviews.

In any case, you can still estimate the quality of a paper with a minute of research into the authors. This is a good idea even if it's in a journal.
basically this is GCP style Committed Use discounts for AWS.
> 1) This is an upgrade to the touch sensitive button that's on all YubiKeys today. The reason you have to touch the key is so that if an attacker gains access to your computer with an attached Yubikey, they will not be able to use it (it requires physical presence). Now that touch sensitive button becomes a fingerprint reader, so it can't be activated by just anyone.

I'd like it to work that way but when I'm reading the article it doesn't explicitly say that (only mentioning integration with Azure that's not interesting for me).

Is there any authoritative info that the fingerprint reader will work as touch button but with verification of fingerprints in all scenarios? (like touch-to-use on OpenPGP applet, U2F applet etc.)
> Under Linux it's entirely trivial to make a different glyph appear on the screen when you press a particular button or combination of buttons.

I'm assuming you're yanking everyone's chain, because suggesting that having to customize standard keyboard layouts just to be able to write code in a programming language is simply absurd.
> It's not obvious that your mostly-idle plant is a better business than a much smaller one which runs all the time.

This process is usually not profitable because of the energy cost it requires. This is why I am proposing it as a way to absorb energy surplus. But I am only talking about what would happen if you got electricity at zero cost. At negative costs, even crazier things would happen.

The reality, is that, to my knowledge, the Australian grid does not "sell" electricity for negative prices, it only "buys" it. If it were to pay clients to absorb electricity, I would just dissipate heat in well ventilated radiators, make a ton of steam, and make a show of giant tesla coils. Radiators can be made out of scrap metal, it really is a small investment that can lie dormant at no cost if negative electricity prices only happen 5% of the time.
The flag you're talking about is (as its name hints) about the legacy U2F which can't do this flow at all. As I explained this already works fine and I use it every day.

Using the FIDO2 Yubikey as sole source of truth replacing usernames and passwords is not available in U2F that's a WebAuthn feature only and apparently it doesn't work in Firefox yet which is disappointing.
I don't think I am confused. The point is that, logically, either you do not tag something with names, and then, naturally, the order decides. Or, you tag something with names, and then, given you named things, there ought to be no order.
Not so with the C++ initializers. An initializer list in a constructor should mirror the declaration order, or you won't go warning free. Every time you'd touch the internals of your class, you'd need to touch every constructor that uses an initializer list.
Same with the struct initializers now. You are having this:

struct A { int a, b, c};

you need to do this:

A a = { .a = 1, .c = 3};

but you can't do this:

A a = { .c = 3, .a = 1};

because... well, because C++. There is no reason to disallow the second form except for .. what exactly? What is the reasoning of the C++ committee to not be able to mirror what one can do in C (where, aside of the missing typedef or "struct" in front of A, both forms are valid)?

Just as you're saying, the C++ committee seems to be confused about order-dependent and named initializations, and for some love-of-bean-counting insist that named initialization needs to respect order _as well_.
> Is there any credit card size yubikeys yet?

Nope, I'd like to see one too. In the mean-time Fidesmo card can replace some usages of Yubikey (U2F, OpenPGP): https://shop.fidesmo.com/products/fidesmo-card-2-0
The nice thing about science is that there is little space for speculation in old-grown domains such as electromagnetism.

In this very moment, when you sit next to many WiFi devices, probably in an urban region with many mobile phone cells and a that, you can forget about the effect of the magnetic field of the earth onto your body. It is just negligible.
Budapest declares climate emergency, teases carbon-neutrality
> This undistracted state of [the] ordinary mind is the meditation.

What if your mind's not ordinary? (I don't mean 'oh so special and better', I just mean atypical).
> 1. ASCII is a subset of Unicode. You can be both.

You can encode a character, just like you can express Farsi symbols and smiley faces and other emojis, but no keyboard layout supports it. What's the point of supporting a character if no standard input device lets you type it?
Amazon won the US market, it hasn't won the world yet.
thanks! this was very useful
But when you started your business, was it:

- With a goal of supporting your health and personal needs

- An exercise of your own judgement, where your decisions were based on your own huristics for evaluating reality?

When you looked at something and thought "this is, based on my genuine judgement, impossible" did you decide to do something else? Or did you say "I have strong evidence that this cannot possibly work, and I'm really sleep-deprived... but sleep is for the weak and impossible is nothing." and plow onwards relentlessly?

If the former: great!

If the latter: Thats the problem that I think DayDollar is talking about. It is a pattern that I fell into at MIT -- I took on more commitments than was possible to grow into with the skills I knew how to gain because "impossible is nothing". I was constantly drunk-with-fatigue. I looked for help learning how to write first drafts and got told "just do it!" so I spent hours digging my nails into my skin in front of a blank page. I didn't know how to "do it" but the answer was too obvious for anyone to believe me. I asked for help learning how to manage my time and manage writing. Instead, I got encouragement.

The problem with giving advice like "you can do it!" or "start before you think you're ready!" is not that it is wrong. The problem is that it does not assess the situation. Bad advice is a zero-argument function.

Good advice recognizes that you are the source of observations about your situation and gives you a tool to do that better. Good advice offers heuristics: fallible methods of solving a problem which rely on human judgement.

The author of this piece quotes author David McCullough:

> There comes a point where you just have to stop, and start writing.

Good advice would be a question to ask to guide someone to realize when they've hit that point.

--------

The comment below me by /u/throwaway35784 tells you to do a whole bunch of things and the only thing it asks you to observe about your current situation is "Find a problem you have."

Everything else that he says is advice that is often a good idea but depends on the situation.
Only the static password and one time password modes though. In those modes, the YubiKey acts like a keyboard and literally types out the password when the user presses the button.

The flagship YubiKeys can also act like a smart card. They are PIV compatible and support X.509 certificates. They can also store encryption, authentication and signing OpenPGP keys. GNU Privacy Guard opens the YubiKey as if it was a smart card.
The incentives are all wrong (causal inference edition)
Meanwhile I just wish I could use my old Yubikey like everyone else. But it seems that outside of walled googlenet there is very low chance for it. It is now second year as yubikey is collecting dust in my drawer. Fuckyou very much google, I really appreciate this.
For cases like this, when people leave their key permanently attached to a device, it would be nice if the device itself had this functionality built in. I mean, the iPhone already has a secure enclave to store this kind of sensitive data.
Did you mean OLED? Anyway, yes there are places, and these aren't terrible:

https://www.techhive.com/article/3316544/best-tvs.html

https://thewirecutter.com/electronics/tvs/

https://thewirecutter.com/guides/buying-a-tv/

For a mail order / online retailer, visit this page at Crutchfield:

https://www.crutchfield.com/g_146350/All-TVs.html

Then click the red text "Explore Articles & Videos", just above the listings on the right side. Their TV Buying Guide has good visual explanation of LED-LCD vs. OLED, for instance.

Depending what you look for, calling them and chatting can work too.

// Keep in mind with any review site or retailer, paid review placement can be a thing.
Can relate to this, when I was younger this was the same for me (and not limited to psilocybin).

However the older I get, the more useful the 'revelations' (I rather call them insights) become. As in: I can actually use them to do things better in daily life.
Depends on the state, I'm sure, but in Hawaii it was a minimum of 70 sq ft with a minimum width (smallest dimension) (8ft?). In Canada (and I suspect the US), there has to be a window large enough for emergency egress.
I get what you mean and I do sympathize somewhat.

The fact is, however, that modern society doesn't fit everyone. Since we won't allow people to withdraw from society that means we're actively forcing people to live a specific way of life that some simply cannot handle.

Simply putting more pressure on those groups will result in the forming of parallel societies and in the long run that means that those parallel societies will form a separate culture and try to secede. If we stop that there will be conflict. History tells us such conflict will be very bloody, no matter who ends up on top.

This is a cycle that Western Civilization has dealt with for thousands of years. Personally, I wouldn't mind trying to break it this time.
TLDR:
Most of the time C++ with GCC was best.
> Now lets look into israel and their spying/influence in traditional and social media.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
I disagree with the author. Although all points outlined in the article might be independently true, making a general rule out of it is not ok. Especially modern, agile marketing teams that understand the importance of testing and learning are able to produce campaigns that generate positive ROI/ROAS.

Sidenote: Co-founder of Admetrics here. We provide an experimentation solution that enables businesses to run marketing experiments on their data at pace, so we see a lot of test results on a day to day basis.
Outside of our bubble, people don't care about ECC memory on their laptop or desktop. It also adds ~12% (iirc) more memory cells, meaning higher memory cost, which is going to be a hard sell given that it's a solution to a problem that most customers don't even know about, nor would most care much if it was explained to them. From a user perspective, memory is fine as it is, and if memory corruption does occur, it's probably blamed on buggy software. That would make any such push look like a desperate "we need a differentiator to tell people why they should buy our CPUs and upsell them in the process" move. Competing on price, speed, and (for laptops) power consumption would appear much more promising.
I think it's not about whether algorithms are better than humans. It's about whose profits these algorithms optimize. Google's algorithms tend to optimize Google's profits.

Advertisers utilize algorithms too. But it gets more difficult when Google removes/limits access to information and knobs.
James Dean to be 'resurrected' for new Vietnam war drama
Kamal Meattle's primary result was demonstrating increased blood oxygen levels in occupants of buildings with large numbers of plants. This is consistent with the results of the study finding pollutants not filtered from the air. Additionally it is worth noting that achieving that result required not only large numbers of plants, but extensive care for the plants. The requirement that the plants be frequently cleaned of dust to keep their pores open may also be involved with the results. In any case, all these studies agrees that large numbers of plants are required to generate detectable results.
Thanks andr3. That captures my thoughts perfectly. :-)

Its great to see such an open company. My boss and I frequently check Gitlab issues and look forward to release on the 22nd. :thumbsup:
A book suggestion:

Zen and the Brain – Toward an Understanding of Meditation and Consciousness
By James H. Austin https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/zen-and-brain (Austin is a professor emeritus of neurology, neurologist, researcher, and Zen practitioner)

Austin covers the effect of psychedelics and their effects relative to meditation but nothing about meditation on drugs if I remember correctly. The personal parts are easy to read. Neuroscience and chemistry are much harder. The reference and source notes section is valuable if you are doing research.
So you're implying that our ability to take risks in the pursuit of massive systemic gains is exactly zero?
One of the points of Manufacturing Consent is that it's not necessarily the government directly choosing a narrative (that sometimes does happen, especially through selective leaks) but that the news media itself and the people who end up doing editorial policy are largely aligned with the government to begin with.
That algorithm should be called square rootus horribilis.

Let's say we're square rooting a 3-4 digit number (or you can multiply/divide out the exponent accordingly).

I recommend starting with the (x + .5)^2 = x(x+1) + .25 shortcut, multiplied by 100, to be able to compute all multiple-of-five squares 5, 10, 15, 20, ..., 95. Then, from some multiple of 5 that is x, with k in {-2,-1,0,1,2}, use (x+k)^2 = x^2 + 2xk + k^2 to tweak that to a particular perfect square. E.g. 42^2 = 1764 = 1600+160+4. Now, we're square rooting a number, so find the two nearest perfect squares. Depending on how close you are to halfway between them, and depending on if you're in the mood for that sort of thing, poke it up by <0.25 to account for the quadratic factor of whatever you're square rooting (because (x+.5)^2 is 0.25 less than the average of x^2 and (x+1)^2), and then linearly interpolate between the two perfect squares. (You don't really have to calculate both neighboring squares to interpolate, because the difference is about 2x, and you probably already calculated that when you did the 2xk calculation.)

So for example, what's the square root of (types randomly) 5719? Why, 56 is 7*8, so 5625 is 75^2. We're like, 95 more than that, out of 150? So, 75.6 and change. Or more exactly, 94/151? That's like a +4% -.6% adjustment of .6 [1], so maybe 75.62. Or even closer, you might use 94.2/151, sure.

[1] (a+n%)/(b+m%) can be approximated (a/b) + n% - m%, for small percentages.
The Four-Day Work Week Is the Future of Work
NoSQL/NewSQL/MySQL is not a zero sum game
>It wasn’t entirely my fault!

Sorry mate - it was.

>I was 37 and had never invested in anything, let alone digital currency

I'm 30 and started investing about three years ago. Simple vanilla stuff that doesn't get you rich in the short term, but will likely make a profit in the long run. Crypto was always off limits for me, because I know that I don't know much about it.

>but I felt like I was missing out on a huge opportunity

FOMO is one hell of a drug.

>As a precariously employed freelance writer

Invest what you can actually afford.

>I started to hear about cryptocurrency everywhere—the news, social media, even at my local barbershop.

>Maybe I’ve discovered an Amazon in its infancy!

This is the kicker. If you hear about something everywhere, chances are you didn't discover it.

But at least he learned the right lesson:

>Maybe Ethereum will revolutionize the financial system one day, and if my barber tells me about it, I’ll swallow my FOMO

Hope he makes it back somehow...
So you think it's fine to not hire someone and possibly ruin their career and life based on unsubstantiated allegationts?

What if you got falsely acussed of sexual assault? Will you go "well that sucks" and start collecting food stamps for the rest of your life?
They should make it mandatory, every user should be forced to answer certain question after their stay or pay a fine - they can pitch it as a 5% discount

Yeah, sure. After I get the privilege to stay in a soulless, cookie cutter appartment where I have to tiptoe around the neighbors because the lease is illegal and pay essentially the same amount as for a hotel room, I also get threatened with a fine for not working for free for AirBnb?

And all that while possibly recorded by hidden cameras, which are not part of the description and for which AirBnb doesn't really give a fuck, unless there's some bad PR to counter?

I think I stick with hotel rooms.
It is just static HTML and CSS files, with sprinkles of JS when necessary. I don't like using third-party frameworks or themes because they tend to get in my way. I designed it all from scratch.

I've been experimenting with functional (atomic) CSS lately and built a small framework that ended up using in Hexadecimal (if you peek at the source code, you can see weird classes like m-0, p-0, etc..). I liked it, but one should be careful in not overusing it, otherwise, it is an unmaintainable mess, yet again.

Below, I linked my Netlify config [0]. My static files live in the src/ folder, so you should probably change that if you have them in a different folder. If you don't know what Content-Security-Policy (CSP) or Strict-Transport-Security (HSTS) headers do, leave them out. It is easy to shoot yourself in the foot if you don't know what you're doing.

[0] https://privatebin.net/?c794ba90771f6e10#GSnJJ3dnd5r3ZDGgi9R...