skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's not actually certain.

well, you can argue but it's a matter of UK law: http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2018/1149/regulation/2/ma...

the PRA has stated that EEA firms will require a license (with some temporary transition arrangements:

> Passporting rights will now cease at the end of the transition period. Once passporting rights cease, EEA firms currently operating through a passport in the UK under the existing European passport framework will require a Part 4A permission under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) to be able to continue carrying out regulated activities in the UK.

see https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/eu-withdrawal/temporary-perm...

> This is quite likely to happen because the EU has a track record of revoking financial licensing as part of trade wars with European countries. For instance they revoked acceptance of Switzerland's financial licenses as part of trying to pressure the Swiss government to cede significant powers to Brussels.

this is the worst example possible you could have given, the result of the loss of equivalence was that the Swiss gained business, while EU firms lost business
All the luggage is stored below the passenger cabin, though.
Applying Mypy to real-world projects
> A growing body of research suggests that this nightmare scenario is fairly common for Americans.

This is just about every interaction with the medical system for me. It’s not just surgery. At the moment the current one I’m dealing with is a case from UW medical center. They’re billing my wife for special neurological testing that was denied by Cigna. I look at the Cigna policy and her diagnosis is covered for the testing. But they have a specific list of DX codes and the very generic one that UW supplied on their claim isn’t in it. They need to use the ever so slightly more specific code relevant to my wife’s condition. But trying to get them to understand this and resubmit it is like talking to a wall. Additionally being in network apparently they shouldn’t bill for denied tests. But here they are billing. I hope we will be able to resolve it eventually but once again it’s hours upon hours of effort from multiple people going into something that just shouldn’t happen in any other system.
Yep. It’s like they decided to copy the worst of windows 8.
The Coronavirus Disease Has an Official Name: Covid-19
I'm not a frugal person, but I don't like debt. I use a Google Sheet that I wrote many years ago that tracks my income and recurring spend. All of my receipts go through Expensify. I also have another sheet that tracks my spend (from Expensify) against my income to make sure lifestyle inflation stays in check. For investing, I have a 401k and a IRA that I contribute way less to than I should
?

In laboratory one-terabit over single fiber was achieved in 2009, multi-modal cable records are something like 150 Tb/s.

In the field single-carrier terabit-per-second transmission on a deployed fiber network trials have already been done. https://www.nokia.com/about-us/news/releases/2019/09/30/noki...
If you do it at a small scale, where a team of a handful engineers is responsible for following/maintaining/debugging countless distinct systems that are only linked through Kafka, its insane.

if you have hundreds or thousands of engineers in more teams than you can count, and each team is responsible for a few event producers or consumers and have the time and resources to dedicate to be experts about their own systems and their interfaces/boundaries, it's an amazing way to scale your organization. It really does work.
Second this, great book.
This still leaves the question whether it's worth it to "setup shop" easily in the UK with a market of ~66m people or the "hard" setting up shop in the EU with ~500m people. You can't just set up in the UK and then operate in the EU, that's the whole point of the EU...
haha, why?
They didn't, following the arrest in Iran and subsequent release of a Crypto AG salesman in 92, they cite the salesman as talking with news organizations, they also cite a Swiss TV broadcast in 1994 and reports from Baltimore Sun in 1995.

The new fact is that the company was co-owned, then fully owned by the CIA.
The day they provide this, is the day they are clearly signalling the end of macos.
Lavabit was a service that effectively held keys for its users and was compelled to disclose them. If we were discussing whether a vulnerable service was somehow compelled by the USG, I wouldn't argue. I doubt you'd even need an NSL compromise Lavabit; you might even be able to do it with routine civil litigation. Don't ever use things like Lavabit. That's why we talk about "end to end encryption", as opposed to the bad kind of encryption.
Huh. The first thing I did with the fancy translucent card was to apply permanent marker to the front because I could read the CVV from the wrong side.
Snowden didn't follow the orders to the letter and then get punished. He wasn't a scapegoat for following a broad government policy which later became inconvenient/unpopular. He became an enemy of the state for opposing a government policy.
White House Earmarks New Money for A.I. and Quantum Computing
Snowden famously avoided any type of punishment by fleeing. Vindman was fired but will surely land on his feet somewhere.
Does the punishment need to meet a certain severity level to be "bad"? The parent comment I replied to made it sound like criticizing the government is free from any consequences in the West, which is patently false.
It's the middle of the desert but geographically close to one of America's largest rivers, which supplies the overwhelming majority of our water. Whether or not that's sustainable is a matter of debate, but you don't have to be a hydrologist to look out over Lake Mead while flying in and see the water is historically low.

Our electricity situation is more distributed. Yes, the Hoover Dam is nearby, but we draw power from thousands of sources, most out of state. The newest/densest development in the last several years -- City Center on the Strip -- has its own off-the-grid power system.
I maintain a blog that teaches readers how to implement toy versions of big projects in C++ at https://littlebigprojects.io. I hope to eventually cover distributed systems and compilers.
In the UK you get additional purchase protection when you pay by credit card, which can be useful on larger purchases - lots of people have been saved by this when companies have folded.

https://www.moneysupermarket.com/credit-cards/guide-to-credi...
The factors of 27 are 1,3,9 and 27. That’s four factors. That's why door 27 is closed at the end of the open/closing process - employees 1,3,9 and 27 touch the door and so the final state of the door is the same as the initial state of the door.

Maybe you are talking about the number of prime factors. This quantity is irrelevant to door open/closing problem.
Which Chinese Citizens in the US are you referring to?
> What? No such thing will happen.

We're already seeing it happen with Beijing blaming the mishandling of the virus outbreak on local authorities in Wuhan. The people are rightfully looking for a witch to burn, and the CCP will give them one that doesn't upset their hold on power.
I don't recall NASA outright banning C++ exceptions - especially not organization-wide. Code running on space hardware has very specific risk profile, and AFAIK NASA dislikes exceptions there because they add risk to code (without a mechanism like Java's checked exceptions it's too easy to add a code path that can generate an unhandled exception, terminating the program).
I agree the mobile app (on iOS in my case) is at best an afterthought, and most likely not even a high ranking afterthought.

However, out of curiosity...what would you imagine a better Backblaze mobile app would do?
> There's no "ISA debt"

?!?! Of course there is! What are you repaying when you get a high paying job?
For a trip of 150 miles, does flying have a lower carbon footprint than driving? (For that matter, for any distance, same question.)
If it's done tastefully, I can see this being beautiful. However, I just know it'll be abused and we'll end up with horrible UX on loads of websites
I barely had time to skim it, but I'm not sure I like how the ST12000NM0008 shows up in the table. I find it really hard to reason about what the real failure rate could end up being on those drives. For example, you've got about 45 days average on each drive, so the failure rate is multiplied by roughly 8 to extrapolate the annualized failure rate. Doesn't that over state the estimated rate of failure since drives will tend to fail more often at the start of their life?

I only guesstimated out of the table and didn't have time to look at the actual data, so it's possible I misread something.
This book was amazing since it had you starting at the transistor level, building gates, components, the entire CPU/RAM, ASM, and finally building a mini OS to run on the entire platform.

Could not recommend enough.
There is no right to be free from competition.
Budget 2020 Misses for the Healthcare Sector
>Firstly, like in every country, most UK businesses don't sell abroad at all.

One third do. As for the rest, they may not trade abroad directly, but their suppliers and customers certainly will.
Are these larger datasets routinely subject to the same kind of inspection this titanic.csv of self-driving car datasets?
Direct link to the unlisted interview video rather than the post-discussion: https://discordapp.com/invite/010JCPblJTh3d6CXe
As big of a challenge as this is, the party has more control now than it ever had before. Control from technology but also control from social structure and how they teach people to think.
That's a great change. Containers are one of the things that made me move back from Chrome, it just feels far more useful to me to mix different contexts in one window than having to run entirely separate browser profiles as I had in Chrome. The one thing that prevented me from creating more elaborate container setups was the lack of sync, it just gets too annoying to set that kind of stuff up repeatedly. But with sync I'll probably look at creating more fine-grained containers than the basic work/personal setup I have right now, e.g. separating out Google in a separate container.
> pay it daily

Unless I can automate this it’s still an extra step I can’t be bothered to do.
Not using them is insufficient, they should be disabled at compile time. IMHO, of course.
Not really sure what your argument is. But it’s wrong, because n=4 is a counterexample. The factors are 1,2 and 4. This is an odd number of factors.

Edit: it seems you are talking about 'The number of factors in the prime factorization of n'. This is not really relevant to the question posed in the submission.
It depends on the partner. For Backblaze specifically it is indeed free.
I would quit if I was forced to install that.
I am curious about how exactly you go from observing biological complexity to doubting the biomedical community's confidence in vaccination as a safe and effective means of combating infectious diseases.
I use mate desktop with i3 for the windows management. This means everything just works. Volume keys, brightness, usb storage auto-mounting, complex audio configuration, printers configuration, lock screen, battery management, mouse settings, external displays settings, screenshots and so on and so forth. I get the best of both world. Without Mate, I would have to hack everything together and spend days configuring everything by hand.

If you want to replicate this setup: Start with Ubuntu Mate. Install i3 via apt. Select i3 on the login screen. In your i3 configuration add the following:

exec --no-startup-id exec mate-settings-daemon
exec --no-startup-id exec mate-screensaver
exec --no-startup-id exec mate-power-manager
exec --no-startup-id exec nm-applet

Welcome to the year of Desktop on Linux.
The cost comes from having to track what automatic and temporary objects have been created and attaching them to the exception context so you can destroy them if an exception is thrown. Another cost is having to track which base classes of a derived class have already been constructed when the derived constructor throws. You get noticeably better generated code when the compiler can skip all that junk.
Exceptions are expensive and I hope no body uses it in the hot path (80%). The compiler has to inject a lot of code to unwind the stack that affects the cache. It is however not expensive for common operations (20%).

There are couple of threads in dforum that discusses this and to have throw attribute [1] and eventually making nothrow as default [2].

[1] https://forum.dlang.org/thread/sbdrybtyfkxfhxxjgqco@forum.dl...

[2] https://forum.dlang.org/post/qur0l0$2h8s$1@digitalmars.com
Well yes. And that's why there's a group that has in the committee that has been trying to steer await towards a proper do-notation.
Well this is off-topic but Soviet Union was an expansionist superpower whose elite ultimately seized control of production and capital. Whatever you mean by "pure socialism", it at least should aim for ownership of production capital to be distributed among the people. Soviet Union was not for the people as much as the elite that was leeching off the working class.
At least our Thai Airways A380 only had a singular, front-facing camera at the top of the vertical stabilizer. No other view was possible. But this may depend on the plane's configuration.
There were other popular social media platforms in the past, such as Sina Weibo and other online discussion boards, which were not heavily monitored as WeChat is.
China literally tried to hide everything about this virus, going as far as prosecuting people for mentioning it. Don't take it as ad hominem, but i dont know how you're missing the point here.
Very anecdotal evidence, but 3 of the 3 Seagate drives I ever used (all external 2,5” USB 3 HDD’s, in Seagate’s own enclosures) failed within 2 years, under very modest workloads (just used to store video files for my tv to play).

Meanwhile all WD’s have been rock solid.
Does TW have a banking license? I seem to recall they don't, so your money wouldn't be insured in the same way, or something like that.
I have no idea whether or not it's the best approach, but it's certainly the best approach I've seen so far. Unless you have a better alternative to propose?
Galaxy S20 Ultra flaunts its camera bump in first real-world photos (Upd
But it's not just about quantity. It's also _different_ people who will die. That radically alters things from an ethical perspective.
The disease of the modern age is the belief that ‘my opinion is better than your knowledge’.

An anti-vaxer is standing in the way of true knowledge. Opiate prescribing was driven by pharmaceutical interests and lobbying, as well as a misguided notion that pain is something to be conquered and abolished.
When I was in the US during medical school, I routinely saw people being discharged after simple procedures with bucketloads of opiates, things that I would discharge in Australia on simple analgesia (paracetamol and ibuprofen).

The public health stance on vaccines is not in any way analogous to the opiate crisis, and whilst I understand the layman’s distrust of medical experts arises in part from this, the two are separate issues stemming from different causes
If a variable is declared at the beginning of a block, its use has to be audited throughout the entire block.

Well, if the variable is declared at the beginning of the block and is scoped to the entire block, we have two possibilities.

One is that the variable really is relevant throughout the block, or close to it. In that case, full mutability makes it more difficult to understand the behaviour, but if the variable is immutable or can only be mutated using explicitly controlled tools then the audit you mention is trivial.

The other is that the variable is only relevant to some relatively small part of the block. In that case, it is possible that the function is trying to do more than one thing and that part of it could beneficially be separated into its own function, taking any variables that are only relevant to that part with it. It is also possible that the variable is being declared prematurely and starting its lifetime earlier than necessary, in which case it may be better to move the declaration later so its lifetime is shorter and the area where it is in scope is reduced.

The latter cases do tend to lead to shorter functions, or at least reduced scopes, and for good reasons.

However, what you can't do is magically take a mutable variable that is genuinely relevant throughout some algorithm that really is complicated enough to require 200 lines of code to describe it, say the current state of some fundamentally complicated state machine, and make that complexity go away just by factoring out smaller functions. You're still going to have to pass the variable or some equivalent around, and you're still going to need to mutate the state in lots of places. But now your logic for doing so is scattered across 50 4-line functions, and to establish the true behaviour you don't just have to audit one of them, you have to audit them all and all the code that connects them.
He's saying they easily could have been.

See: Three Felonies a Day
Did you ask that same question above about Snowden? Like “what orders did he follow”?

If we are talking about whistleblower protection, it should be same whether the delivered news is favorable to you/us or not
Does the app do anything besides let you edit the colors, stroke, and speed? The blog post made it sound like it would make creating animations from scratch easier, but all I see is library of pre-made animations. If it can be used to make new animated icons, then the main page does a bad job of showing that.
> You cannot modify most attributes via CSS if they're loaded as an image.

You can't modify the attributes with CSS outside of the IMG, but CSS embedded in the SVG still works.

I use SVGator to create animated SVG and it exports an svg file with embedded animation via css animation / transform, they work great as <img src=".svg">
How does making up something ridiculous like "33% insanity" give you anything that's resembles a subject that we can discuss? Hyperbole in, hyperbole out.
I'm sure it varies from one group to the other. This CppCon talk from 2014 says no exceptions are permitted in mars rover flight software.

https://github.com/CppCon/CppCon2014/blob/master/Presentatio...
I did't expect you would name "global leader" in each of those items, that would be a lot. Maybe ping pong as another one?
Because you would then have two incompatible banking systems and the whole thing would be a complete pain for everybody.
Asynchronous Array Functions in JavaScript
Sounds like this should be on Twitter
Slightly off topic, how do companies find pharmaceutical companies in Mexico that have what they need? I would like to be a "proper prepper", which is easy to do for all things except BP medication. Pharmacies won't be available if society is ever put on hold and pharmacies won't sell me a case or crate. Would I need to become a lab or start a pharmacy myself?
He didn't identify Coronavirus specifically. He initially called them SARS cases. The message to his colleagues was along the line of, "hey, there's something going on here. We're seeing SARS again." After that, he was called into the police department for "rumormongering."
I feel like some of this begins to cross the line from frugal to cheap. Hunting down a neighbor with a rosemary bush (aside from not actually providing the prepared leaves of camellia sinensis) instead of spending a few bucks on a box of tea seems absurd--it assumes your time and effort have no value at all.

By all means, don't waste money. But before even that, don't waste your time. You can always earn more money, but you'll never earn back time.
If everybody does this then I guess it's up to Google to compute the consensus among those lists.
We have a lot of future applications and directions in mind, including the feasibility of applying this to distributed computing and consensus.
In particular, the idea of training a model generating CA parameters instead of having a CA fit a specific pattern is of great interest to us and the synthetic biological field. Feel free to get in touch.
Time to replace the battery?
This is where I diverge from Jimmy, as he is misinterpreting what the commenter is saying. The commenter is talking about _audit logs_ of changes to Wikipedia being kept in WORM compliant record, which is a good idea - audit logs should be immutable. Jimmy seems to be interpreting the comment as saying the pages of Wikipedia should be immutable, which obviously should not be the case.
Really, there was just the one referendum, and it succeeded. It was confirmed twice later, once weakly, and a second time more strongly, via parliamentary elections that both gave power to the pro-Brexit party.

I don't believe that this constitutes a ringing endorsement of Brexit, and has more to do with the failure of the Remain-focused politicians to pull together properly. But Remain was given three tries to win, and it screwed up royally last time. I do not believe it is the right choice, but it is a fait accompli and they must deal with that.
Brexit will have a financial impact, but I don't believe it will be what everyone thinks it will be. The UK will likely have forgotten the 'light touch regulation' that in part caused the credit crunch, in the chase for bringing business to London in the mid 2000s.

History will probably repeat itself: the current, or next Government will reduce regulation to encourage businesses to stay or locate in London. Banks will exploit it somehow. Cue next financial crisis.
When Fury Overcomes Fear by Xu Zhangrun - is a good read. The professor who wrote this has been suspended.

http://www.chinafile.com/reporting-opinion/viewpoint/viral-a...
No, it isn't. Culture is copyrightable.

The fallacy in all of these arguments is the inability to distinguish between the defining properties of a specific cultural object, and the cultural field - the set of relationships - it's embedded in.

Batt wasn't sued for a minute of silence, but for using the minute of silence as a cultural signifier. And the Cage estate doesn't own the copyright on silence - it owns the copyright on silence framed within certain applications in certain cultural contexts.

Amateurs and consumers tend to think of cultural artefacts as self-contained objects. So when you sample something you are making a copy of an object - exactly like copying a data structure.

It's just data, isn't it?

No, it isn't. That is 100% not how it works. You're actually sampling a reference to a location inside a global data structure called "culture". The sound is a pointer to that reference, and the reference has a financial value which is related to its cultural notability and influence.

There's more - much more - to it than that, but that's the level at which this issue really operates.
I use B2 as “cold storage” of large-ish files. It’s incredible how low the monthly bills are.
Surely if you're interested in another language suitable for writing an OS, translating from rust shouldn't be very difficult.

The other way around might be, as rust semi-intentionally makes it difficult to do things like linked lists or big mutable graphs that other languages encourage.

But rust->c should be fairly easy if you know c and the book teaches enough rust. Sum types get replaced with null and unions, traits get replaced with functions that take that type, etc...
That's not what they said or meant.
I'd argue most of the modern frameworks with all the bells and whistles (Redux, Hooks, ...) are even more ugly, and actually harder to master.

https://medium.com/re-dom/master-the-dom-bc1a2a06089b
Known as "starving the beast" https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast
Okay, how about these examples?

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/24/chicago-poli...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Foreign_Intellig...