skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have travelled extensively in Latin America and Africa.

The vast majority of developing and undeveloped countries don't recycle - which is the worst thing you should be doing - they reuse.

Beer and soda bottles have a deposit that is higher than the liquid in them, and everyone returns the bottles like clockwork. If you want to buy a 24 pack the first one is expensive, then you just bring back the empties and pick up a full one, so it's like a permanent rolling deposit.

Developed countries not doing this is shameful. We are supposed to be the world leaders, but we're just leading the world in using stuff up. We have so much to learn.
Outside of a full time job? Roughly how many hours did you put in a week?
Because mechanisms instantiated are by their very nature "published," and any repairs are documented because they require intervention by the mechanic... or could be documented by anyone with enough knowledge and training to examine the mechanism.

Patents and other intellectual property methods are the only barrier to a competitor reproducing the mechanical product, but software allows additional barriers to reproduction as well as a means to prevent modification of the operation from the manufacturer's desired behaviors.

I'd also note that the era in which those mechanisms were created and documented included an expectation that owners often did their own automotive maintenance and repair and were far more mechanically-minded (it was an age defined by mechanisms) than current owners of autos.
Codeweavers has this working with their professional Crossover app. I recall it requiring some hacky tricks and a special compiler for the shimming, so there's been some issues trying to upstream the changes.
got it, thanks so much!
Where I went to school, many minorities with low SAT scores were pushed through to create a more diverse student body.

The problem? Many couldn't handle the work load, lacked even the basic skills for many of the classes, and dropped out well before finishing.

We should be looking further down the education chain.

Colleges should have an academic requirement. If it's not the SATS, then grades or something similar. If you can't get in based on these requirements, then college might not be for you.

Many people don't go to college and are still successful. We have plenty of jobs in the trades that go unfilled every year.
No, I keep two completely separate laptops... one for work, one for personal. On the work laptop, I do not do a single task that is not work-related. When I want a break, I switch to the personal laptop. It does take some discipline, but after a while it becomes second nature. You end up in a place where there are no distractions, only deliberate choices to either work or play.
ah, that should do fine then.
With a great deal of caution I finally upgraded one of the 5 Macs I own to Catalina over the weekend. First thing I notice is that my NFS mounts no longer work since, they were mounted at a non-standard location. I've shelved further plans to update until I resolve NFS mounts issue using the automounter. Sigh. The apple ecosystem is becoming harder to use. But I really have no choice I do a lot of iOS and MacOS development, and its the only platform I can use for that purpose.
Chinese dynasties have always ended in rebellion. 5000+ years running.
/r/askscience 2019 novel coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Q&A
Probably because of the inflated viewer numbers FB puts out. BBC sees it as a win, bc more views when all they are doing is tending FB's garden.
How to Use the Plan 9 C Compiler
I can barely handle the simultaneous absurdity and obviousness of this study.
All of this is widely talked about in the United States where we debate the legitimacy of drone warfare, the history and legacy of racism, and the missteps of American foreign policy. We read Howard Zinn in my (public) High School history class.

You appear to want to debate "whether America is evil" or something but I'm talking about a distinction between manufacture-of-consent propaganda and state control of speech and dissidence, which does not exist in the United States.
Coronavirus Phishing Attacks Are Actively Targeting the US
Wait... looking at this, doesn't this mean that by deliberately misusing the `codec` module, meta programming at compile-time (somewhat like Lisp macros) is possible in Python?

By using a custom parser, people are able to add custom syntax in python (which is... undoubtedly unpythonic) with just a decorator(or a magic comment) on front. I can't wait to start abusing this... :-)

Edit: Looks like a pattern matching syntax that hooks in pampy would be my first hacking project :-)

# coding: patmatch
import patmatch

input = [1, 2, 3]
patmatch input:
case [1, 2, x]:
print(f"{x} is matched!") #=> 3 is matched!

def fibonacci(n):
patmatch n:
case 1: return 1
case 2: return 1
case _: return fibonacci(n - 1) + fibonacci(n - 2)
Or to stress test various nations’ biological controls with a “safe” virus that shouldn’t backfire and destroy the creator.
Natural gas pipelines do not handle embrittlement from H well.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S245232161...
The door problem plagues all shooters.

https://gamasutra.com/blogs/AndrewYoder/20190808/348237/The_...
Royal Mail is a private company now, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail#Privatisation.
One aspect that drives cost is that high precision circuits often need a few parts that have tighter tolerances than the typical 5% or 1% that are usually good enough for 99% of use cases. And these parts are a lot more expensive.
Since you're planning far ahead for the exam, have a look at writing both Technician and General in the same session. I took (just) my Tech a few months ago and several people at the session did both. After studying for General I'm kicking myself for not doing it myself. There's a lot of overlap and a lot of it is pretty intuitive if you have a science background.
There is usually the not entirely trivial problem of knowing how to set up the antenna. HF antennas that are efficient tend to be very long, and different lengths for each frequency. Let's say somewhere between 60 and 120 feet long being typical. If you are relying on a pre- installed antenna then it doesn't sound very disaster proof.

Then knowing what frequency will work at what time is worthy of some study. 2E0XJM going clear
> Yes, there are certainly similarities between the USSR and China.

You are reading my comment in a shortsighted way. Note how the second part of the sentence mentions the US under GWBush - obviously I'm not arguing 2000s US and 2020s China are similar in political or economic structure. The point is how political consensus with fascist characteristics, that had looked unbreakable until then, can quickly be upended by crisis when the system is shown as uncapable to guarantee personal safety.
I don't really care if it's not a formal requirement. At least I can flex on my friends :)
I kept looking for the punchline or disclaimer, but apparently this is simply an FYI on how to better exploit labour.
Hmm, well then it would be 1999, first two digits are 39.
It's not bad at all. CNN showed its incompetence again with headlines like "Hong Kong turned into a ghost town".

And then I went out and people are playing in the park, doing sports, going shopping, eating at restaurants - all the same except the horrifying crowds of tourists, which are gone.

We do work from home though, something that a Hong Kong employer wouldn't usually allow.
I strongly suggest this alternative software for the desktop:

https://www.insynchq.com/

Worth every penny and is (for me) the better Desktop client.
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Have you published any papers or benchmark of your model? I have reservations about taking this pitch at face value.
> That seems similar to the way people say PIN number even though PIN itself means personal identification number.

At least in Germany/German language, if you use such a redundant wording, you are often considered to be not very knowledgeable. In the 90s, some people even loved to point out that SMS is the name of the service - the message is an SM (oh, the funny puns that can be constructed from this fact).
> Ultimately XHMTL is better suited to epub's use case, which is static documents that are written once and not dynamically generated by templating languages or libraries.

That's backwards. Relying on software to assign random meaning to broken input is never a good solution to anything, neither for static documents nor for dynamically generated documents. It's just that HTML allows you to get away with it, kindof (i.e., no scary error messages, just subtle breakage everywhere), which is why people built templating systems that didn't bother with correctness either. If the web had been XHTML from the beginning, templating systems would have been built in a way that makes it hard to generate broken documents in the first place, because the error messages would have created the incentive to do so, thus avoiding a lot of the subtle breakage as well.
Is that true now with the new data?
This whole disease and infection comes down to a fundamental breakdown of sanitary practices of a society. Things like 1) cutting up and selling wild animal meat with your bare hands, 2) not washing your hands, 3) eating uncooked meat from wild animals like frogs, cats, rats, mice, "bat soup", 4) having open air "squat toilets" like latrines where when someone shoots their diarrhea, it turns into a mist and everyone in the room gets infected... If these conditions were improved, these viral outbreaks either wouldn't happen or wouldn't happen as often as it does in China. All I know is if you try to get away with that kind of stuff in the U.S., you will have the health department, dept of agriculture, the cops would all show up and shut you down and/or get arrested for it.
ARIA is always improving but really the problem is that most developers either don’t use it or don’t test their usage. This is not a problem of needing new technology as much as companies skimping until they get sued.
>Developer productivity is not linear in function of task difficulty.

Tried to come up with the draft of an equation (upgrades welcome ;):

cDev = capability(dev); // > 0

dTask = difficulty(task); // > 0

ssttTask = shortestSolutionTypingTime(task); // > 0

pk = priorKnowledge(dev,task); // in [0,1]

lcd = log(cDev / dTask);

timeTaken(dev,task) = (cDev <= dTask) ? +Infinity : ssttTask * ((1 - pk + lcd) / lcd);

productivity(dev,task) = ssttTask / timeTaken(dev,task)
= (cDev <= dTask) ? 0.0 : lcd / (1 - pk + lcd); // in [0,1]
Interesting. It sounds like communism is a better system for planning and building infrastructure while capitalism is a better system for using and living within infrastructure.
You would be correct. Of course it is just a USB 2.1 box and enumerates as a HID device and a bulk data endpoint so presumably spending some time with a USB protocol analyzer and running it through its paces would illuminate some aspects of its operation.

This is why its still in my junk box and not in an ewaste skip somewhere :-)
I don't really have anything to add, but thanks for the reply. It's an interesting topic.
How does the market data show that? This is not an A/B test, there is usually not an equivalent alternative to compare against.

See e.g. the right-to-repair debate. The function is important enough for farmers to demand regulation and drive the prices of old, non-locked-down tractors through the roof. And yet, it's still more profitable for John Deere to lock down their tractors.

When deciding between the packages "modern, feature-rich tractors that are locked down" or "old, reparable but overpriced tractors", the former probably win. That still doesn't imply that farmers "want" locked down tractors or that reparability is of no importance to them.

Also yes, we do need ethics in business. Last thing I've read, even some MBAs have heard of that by now.
They do touch on rights here briefly:

"The choices were made with factors such as licensing ease..."

Although it sounds like maybe they did the work and then approached the licensing matters (which would be strictly speaking the wrong way round)
Square Secret Code and Source Dumper – Weekly Challenge
> Also let's not forget that C exploits go back to the 80's, when most of us where doing full application in Assembly.

I'm not sure this statement adds anything to your argument. "Exploits go back as far as the language was in common use" doesn't really mean anything.

I'm sure Ada has had exploits, especially around its early lifetime. But its a language that's supposed to be safe.
Brings up a good point—the importance of understanding the requirements/levers of other groups in order to get things done. In this case, pointing out the law.

Back when IE was ascendant and Mozilla was fading, another group in my corp developed a web app lousy with proprietary Microsoft code (ActiveX?). All it took for the CEO to shoot it down was me mentioning that a fifth of our customers wouldn’t be able to give us money. He would’ve done the same for the Mac users at 5%, given the option between a functional and a flashy site. (Seriously, with a Clippy-like assistant!)
Yes, that is an issue for Tor. But it's still arguably worse for I2P, because all peers can connect to each other.

But regardless, that's why I never use Tor or I2P from home, except through nested VPN chains. I don't care so much about VPS, because I'm very careful to isolate myself from them. For dedicated servers, however, which are more expensive, and where I invest more work for setup, I also use nested VPN chains.
total recovered: 472. total deaths: 362.

So there's roughly the same chance as recovery as dying.
My experience as well. And one hour on the air each day led to a 5 wpm increase each month for several months.
No - I don't shop at whole foods; didn't think I suggested that I do.

When I say "careful about sourcing", I mean that a good percentage of what I buy comes directly or nearly directly from local farms. It costs more than the random grocery store stuff from large distributors. I can afford it so I don't mind and the markup isn't crazy.
Can you give a quick tl;dr about 1?
The worst is when I accidentally sub-verbalize a speculatively executed conversation branch, leaking information I didn't intend to.
In small doses their effects are far more deterministic, and seem to still be beneficial even when too subtle to notice any immediate acute effects.

Though I do agree with your position when it comes to higher "trip" doses. I think we should make a point to accompany any such warnings with a mention that these substances are still very useful in small doses.

I've come to view the "trip" doses in genreal as over doses, since the small doses are still so useful without the unpredictable madness.

We shouldn't forget anything can be dangerous in large enough doses. The difference between poison and medicine is generally in the dosage.
Unfortunately most laws and policies incentivize to recycle above reuse.
I thought this was the case too.

One of the things that surprised me was how people who are horrible online are even worse offline.

I think there are plenty of online consequences. Post a controversial post and someone will verbally slap, share, shame you. Shaming might be far worse than a physical punch to some people.

I think a lot of people who become trolls don't become trolls for the sake of of trolling. They do it because they're trying to enforce consequences upon someone.
That's an interesting thought: If Cloudflare didn't exclusively use Google to determine if you're a human, I wouldn't mind them nearly as much.
> You appear to want to debate "whether America is evil" or something

No. I have no interest in saying that at all. I have not said that anywhere in this comment thread.

All I started out saying, and am continuing to say is that the major difference with propaganda in the USA is that the vast majority of Americans have no idea they are subjected to it, and would get angry if it was pointed out to them.

That's all.

> state control of speech and dissidence, which does not exist in the United States

I agree, you are absolutely correct.
I 100% agree especially with the urban planning thing. As an American, I'm tired with the fact that I need a damn car for everything. Not only that, but the type of car and age can also be an indicator of wealth or status. So now I have to be conscious of a stupid means of transportation because it has an affect on my status. Also repairs are like 500% more than they are for a bike, which is so simple you could teach a 5 year old to fix.

Also Americans just love to tell you how much they love having a yard and doing yard work. I learned a few years ago that lawns used to be something only aristocrats could afford because it showed your wealth that you could afford to not have land for the use of food production. Now you get fined if your neighbor rats you out to the local government for letting it get to high.

I honestly think the government needs to stop with the homeownership BS. It's a stupid farce that low income types should not have. They can't afford to maintain it timewise and are being preyed upon by lenders who lead them to believe that property equity has value. The purpose of equity is to decrease your liability. People here treat it as a forced savings account and refinance the MOMENT they are strapped for cash.
Hukou, new word for me, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hukou - short answer is like a household registration, social, caste like thing.
As do I. That said, there is something to be said for the economics of using software to compensate for manufacturing tolerances in hardware. 3D printers are a good example of taking a crappy platform and making it perform reasonably precise things using clever software.

Of course sometimes that software is in an FPGA design :-). I expect that once the Xilinx RFSOC starts ending up in test gear you'll see some more cost effective GHz gear but very unhackable due to the FPGA nature of things.

Of course no amount of software is going to make the front end conditioning circuits quieter (well I suppose simulating them and designing from that might but not on the instrument itself). That will always need a certain expertise to design and implement.
I don't remember where exactly I saw this, but some boards even stack components, so that e.g. a tiny SMD part sits under a bigger component that has some empty volume under it (e.g. an SMD resistor under a socket or capacitor). Good luck finding that without taking the board apart completely.

To be honest, I think layouts like this are done for practical reasons like space constraints rather than to annoy reverse engineers. If you are serious and can disassemble a board, you will find these components immediately.
How do people magically get their hands on these various substances and know that they’re authentic?
Does smoke interfere with operation? Is a clear line of sight to the sky required?
FreelancerCV- https://freelancercv.com/
I don't know about that, I much prefer playing chess video games against an artificially limited AI. Granted you did say "often", and I agree this is the exception.

Starting with an AI that is weaker than human players, and then artificially limiting it even further does not produce a great AI. Although, some players still choose to play against these easiest of AIs.

I believe starting with an AI that is far stronger than any human, and then artificially limiting it will be fun. This is a fundamentally different situation. This is like a chess engine, no human can hope to win without some artificial limitations on the AI. This is a type of AI we have never experience outside of a few abstract board games like chess. I look forward to seeing AIs like this come to 4X style games such as Civilization.
True as of just now, so yes.
I'm not saying that yours is not a valid data point, but "developing in perl" strikes me as likely to be a fairly tiny subset even of developers in general.
I don't have any insight into how they are choosing, but they are investing in improving OpenStreetMap in many places:

https://github.com/osmlab/appledata/issues
I registered an account just to comment on this. With all of the new interest in psychedelics over the past few years, so many people are jumping it without preparation and without an idea of what they're risking.

As far as drugs go psychedelics are generally very safe. They can have amazing therapeutic properties for some people. But don't do them without first doing as much research and preparation as possible, and without some idea of what you're getting into. Psychedelics break down walls in your brain, but some walls are there for a good reason.

I had an intensely terrifying "bad trip" (on something much less potent than DMT) some time ago that I'm still trying to come to terms with. I had no idea that the human mind could suffer like that. The suffering, terror, and panic was really beyond anything I've ever experienced.

Some people argue that there is no such thing as a "bad trip" -- only difficult ones that unearth negative thought processes and past trauma, and that you can utilize them to become a happier and better person. For a lot of people this is definitely true, but there are cases of psychedelics triggering long term anxiety, PTSD, DP/DR, etc.

If you want to get into psychedelics -- and especially stuff like DMT -- do your homework. Ask yourself why you actually want to do it. If you decide to go through with it, respect the drug, start with low dosages, and follow harm reduction practices.
Remember that “the hard problem” might not exist at all in the scientific formulation you expect, but instead arise out of a failure to internally reconcile archaic Cartesian dualistic thought patterns with established neuroscience.

In other words, perhaps people are taught to have subjective experience — how to be a subject, because it has certain advantages in our current social context.

And this may not be the only way to be.

And this may be what psychedelics teach.
Absolutely :) I "discovered" this when researching implementing a new language on top of python. The decorator is completely unnecessary, so you can have a complete language with custom features built entirely on top of the python interpreter.
Use a Morse code email reader :-).

I started implementing an Android "Morse" keyboard widget but gave up realizing how deeply into Android I was going to have to go to make it do what I wanted. My plan was to use the accelorometer to read the finger taps so that I could send texts by tapping my phone while it was upside down on the table next to me.
Being praised by whom? By media and censors controlled by China's central government?

The small guys go down first (local, followed by provincial).

In communist China you don't replace the central government. The central government replaces you.