skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The latest release has some interesting features like handling list of files as input, PCRE support, more readline-like bindings at the in-built prompt, lazy unmount, auto-proceed on open option (very handy when you are opening files one after another).

The keybind `e` to edit a file in `EDITOR` has been restored on multiple user requests.

Along with pre-built packages there's a static binary to download and run `nnn` without installing.
Why? Pipefy sucks. Tallyfy is awesome.

Canny sucks too. Lame, conflicted, clueless people.
An easy way to break TrueCrypt system disk encryption
> But Apple is old, so you can't fully count on POSIX.

Strange thing to say since macOS is officially certified UNIX(r) POSIX, and has been for many years:

* https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/brand3653.htm

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POSIX#POSIX-certified
Any politician/party who goes for such a policy would lose a lot of popularity.

A slow rollout could happen where this short renewal time only applies to new licence holders, but then it'd take 20 years to really see its effects.
No, the .02 is correct. If you ignore the percentages part (since both left and right side use it), you're doing

0.72 x 0.03, which is indeed 0.02

If you do it as probabilities not expressed as percentages, it's 0.0072 x 0.0003, which is 0.0002, but that's 0.02%
Wow. I know like every new car comes with a trial but I didn’t realize people actually activated it.
AFAIK they changed it to 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3.

Sorry. Someone had to.
thanks. it was actually my fault, i shouldn't have deleted the virtualhost. but when you have many domains these things can happen
It worked for me (I was trying to prove someone else wrong.)
Two more questions (if you see this, I know it's been a few days), are you running SQL Server on Linux or Windows? And are you using encrypted connections?
They also own Pandora.
> can trivially combine them

Could you explain to me how can you trivially combine two apps?

> In the process you'll also get to reuse large parts of both UI code, and almost all of the non-UI code.

Yes to the non-UI code. Hard no to the UI code.

You will need to design a completely different set of interactions, components, layouts etc. for the mobile version compared to the desktop version.
Yes, they have different programs with different manufacturers.

Almost all of them include between 3-12 months of free service (I think specific lines in Chrysler's lineup across brands are the only ones with 12, Alfa Romeo I know of specifically).

A lot of vehicles it's actually considered an "upgrade" to the stereo system and is only included with the more premium package.

A lot of people buying cars usually ask about it having Sirius or Satellite radio; they've been adding a lot of new shows and stations like comedians and they have a lot of sports. Their comedy channels are very similar to comedy podcasts and they've been growing this lineup. Having it all integrated into your vehicle without having to plug in your phone is still a big feature with older people and even some younger ones.
When the stocks weren't rallying as they are now, the attrition was higher by industry standards. Either way, they do have forced attrition, too [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22295120
Cargo ships looks like a diversion from lobbies. It should be relatively easy to solve (upgrading 50k motors is much easier than redesign transport on land to trains, subway and bus). The trick is to conflate nitrogen oxide emission with air pollution.

When I look at data I find that transport is "20% of CO2 emission" (https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emis...) but shipping is "2.2% of the global human-made emissions in 2012" (form wikipedia http://www.imo.org/en/OurWork/Environment/PollutionPreventio...)

What does it means ? Well, shipping uses dirty fuel and is very polluting but that's also a scapegoat for individual consumerist culpability.
Haskell in Production: Riskbook
Can't speak for the FAA but the CAA only requires me to sit with an instructor for one hour every two years to renew my SEP rating.

It's not onerous and I think you're right, a sit down with an instructor every two years to correct any minor bad habits before they get out of control is an excellent idea.
KYC screening vs. One time passwords
Yup, this will work fast enough work for most apps.
Totally understand, and thank you for the feedback! Do you think that there is anything that would help building up trust? More details on how Senu works? Details on the background of the team? A technical whitepaper? Something else?
How CEO of MākuSafe Developed Tech That Identifies Risk to Labor Workers?
There's really no other words for it: a six figure job from the comfort of your own home/office is fucking magic

Everyone should get the chance to experience it.
Perhaps your experience not only isn't universal, but the magic trackpad may not be all that magical after all.
I can sort of see the rationale for this, but it's been a long time since I've worked anywhere where this was feasible even 50% of the time; nobody wants fragments of a feature in trunk, and the codebases tend to be inflexible. "Commit to branch", sure; branches are cheap.

> If someone has spent a couple of days working on something without committing it, I'd be concerned that they're stuck, or spinning wheels. I'd check in on them.

This is more reasonable. Working without review leads to worse fiascoes the longer it goes.
I tried to use Google Pay (back when it was Android Pay) at a Cumberland Farms and when the reader read my phone it actually crashed the payment system.

A few months later my grocery store put up "now accepts Android Pay" signs. I went through the self checkout lane and the phone was read, but the payment never went through. Had to use my card eventually.

Then my expensive phone broke and I bought one without mobile payments.

But it did work at Dunkin Donuts a few times, so there's that.
From Tech Founder to CEO
What's the ideal implementation of a modern census?

We now have multiple demographic databases accounting for all peoples, both living and dead, updated in near real time.

Facebook & Google, telcos, credit rating agencies, data aggregators, NSA, law enforcement, credit card companies, voter registrations, medical records, etc.

Instead of sending people around with clipboards and surveys, why don't we just run some queries on the databases we already have?
You might be interested by the idea of "Coasian Hells" which are situations where someone has tried to set up a delivery structure that doesn't match transaction costs. Good examples:

-UK rail (in practice train operators, the railway operator, and rolling stock leasing companies spend vast resources trying to charge each other for things)

-Boeing's supply chain for the 787

Basically every failed outsourcing project has failed because the people designing it did not understand the implications of Coase
They have an incredibly efficient negative cancelation program that hikes the teaser rate to something like $45/mo.
> Probably best to ignore both git and node_modules folders with arq.

I agree with this. I also have (is) `Photos Library.photoslibrary` and (contains) `cache` as my exclusions. The exclusions have made my Arq backups less painful.
"As a result, I have become the late adopter among my group of friends because the first iteration of any new technology usually just isn't worth the issues."
This is only true for things where reliability matters more than the new features the new tech provides. In the case of cars, of course, I'd prefer reliability.

But for other things like the original iPhone, sometimes new tech is just better than whats out their even if there will always been some flaws in the first versions
Sundial Cannon
>I don't see where your link points to this

Recently there's been a lot of speculation that Shadow Brokers were in fact the "second source". That may or may not be true.

>I mean it's pretty obvious the Shadow Brokers were aligned with foreign policy interests of the Russian government

It's really not. Unless everything anti-US fits that mould, but then we'd have a plenty of other governments to suspect too.
Those facts also make it a risky bet because it is easier for competitors to enter the market. Airbnb is only massively profitable because they have a dominant position but what will happen if that position starts to slip and they have to compete for listings? The surcharge is inevitably going to fall.
Microsoft releases new dual-screen device SDK
I have probably 6 or 7 paid subscriptions for my personal use. Aside from Netflix, SxM is probably the one I would cancel last of the group.
L.A. wins appeal in fight with Uber over scooter and bike data
The bottleneck is the number of mechanical ventilators available.

Ideally we want someone on a ventilator to be in an ICU and under a doctor's supervision, but in a crisis you can put a ventilator anywhere. A patient with COVID-19, will likely spend about 2 weeks on a ventilator.

Unfortunately, there are only about 60-70,000 mechanical ventilators in the entire US (and maybe double that if you include older less automated ones), and about half of them are for neonatal wards. [source](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21149215).

10% of COVID-19 infections require mechanical ventilation. [source](https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/record/NCT04244591).

This means that if the US encountered an outbreak on the scale of what is happening in China, then we would also quickly run out of ventilators, and the mortality rate would be 2-4x what it would be otherwise, rather than the 1-2% mortality rate everyone is expecting.
Have a look at figure 8.1 here:

https://www.ipcc.ch/site/assets/uploads/2018/02/ipcc_wg3_ar5...

Road transport is growinv catastrophically in addition to dominating other transport in absolute terms

I have difficulty understanding how you can present a figure like 4.6 tons per car and argue that it's not a lot, especially as developign countries are headed dangerously toward widespread car ownership.

The "50000x" number about cargo ships isn't CO2 emissions, it's about other pollution due to cargo ships using bunker fuel.
There is an alternative ACME server implementation available from Buypass: https://www.buypass.no/ssl/products/acme. Haven't tried it personally, but they launched support for ACME v2 in late 2019.
The same author did Planck.js, so I imagine these are designed as modules to work together. (Dunno yet, just discovered and reading..)

http://piqnt.com/planck.js/
And that's why I never even activated XM on my new car even though it came with a 1 year free trial.

I have Pandora Plus $5/month.
Why Shouldn’t a Horsefly Be Named After Beyoncé?
Imagine travelling in this blended wing body aircraft
> hiding the type of user agent you're using from the site means less finger printing opportunities

There are other (maybe a bit more complex) ways to tell what browser you're using, and whether you block ads.

> I've never seen a quality site that tried to block me for using an adblock

...yet. This is starting to change, and a lot of websites still have ads as their main source of revenue. Either that, or subscriptions, and the latter (for online newspapers, for example) is taking off very slowly.

Again, our usage patterns are in the minority, so whatever tough choices we might want to make are not necessarily to everyone's benefit right now.

At least in theory, I support the Better Ads initiative by Adblock Plus. Even though I've mostly been using uBlock Origin lately...
The trick with the "weird" feeling is to bail quickly and use cash or a traditional card if the ApplePay process isn't working, so folks behind you don't get annoyed.

I've found that AP either works or doesn't in the first couple seconds (and is overwhelmingly the former).
Another option for e.g. network devices is to run your own CA, i.e. issue your own root certificate.
I use and love it in all of my cars. I have Spotify and Apple Music too, but there's something about actual "radio" without commercials that I enjoy for longer drives.
Don't touch Canny with a bargepole - team of confused idiots.
It supplies rpc and pub/sub and has several language bindings (python, js, C++ in our case) We use it; it’s ok. I haven’t found anything better.

I would like something lower overhead than websockets but then js support would be likely more painful.
At a previous employer, my dev team was pretty anti-social and we were in the basement of the building with a floor that was under construction between us and the rest of the company. I noticed most of the company had no clue who were on the dev team or what we did. So I set up a weekly lunch where we would play board games while playing. This helped us get to know others within the company, and made us feel like part of a larger community. I am not sure if this is what you are looking for, but I was surprised by the results. They continue to do this even while I am no longer working there.
Ruby API: Easily Find Ruby Documentation
user manual for some DOS wardialing software:

http://www.textfiles.com/hacking/tl-user.txt
Fun development: MOST US cards don't do contactless at all, which led to some annoying interactions for both US and UK merchants when we were visiting last summer.

UNTIL I realized that ApplePay worked on every contactless terminal. The bartenders & clerks looked at me a little funny, but when they realized they didn't have to do the goofy exception process required for a purchase signature, they didn't care.

Even so, though, cash is still king. I always have $100-200 on me.
In the order:

sponsorship - because I'm an immigrant

Tech stack - I spend most of my after office hours in doing new projects, effectively, I like to use the skills learned in the job. So an advanced tech and freedom to experiment with tech is always a top preference

sustainability - a continuous revenue-generating company or dependent on new sales every time

motivation - be it a side project or office work, I enjoy working on the problems that are pointed out - greater the impact, more the involvement

hierarchy - from my experience, too many levels above you is a problem not just in career growth but also product implementations, which kills the pace and transparency

compensation - a 20% hike is the least I expect
Every time I make this painfully obvious point, I also get downvoted.

I'd really like any of the downvoters to explain their objections. How can any one working in tech or policy deny the existence of ubiquitous demographic databases? How is this even controversial?

Source: Worked very hard for a decade to protect both patient and voter privacy.
> Hopefully some of this $75M goes towards a competent javascript programmer for their frontend

hmmm
You can't just ignore the percentage signs.

0.72% expressed as a decimal is 0.0072. 0.03% expressed as a decimal is 0.0003. 0.0072 x 0.0003 = 0.000002. Expressed back as a percentage, that's 0.0002%.
Beer Waste Saves Montana Town $1M on Water Treatment
> low to medium risk areas and average 10 - 15% per year.

Where can I get this return reliably at "low risk"?
One thing that I wonder is whether we could ever identify an alien communication signal as an alien signal is likely to be much more advanced. In that scenario, the alien civilization is likely to be able to send their signal at the Shannon limit. Additionally an advanced civilization is likely to be sending signals optically instead of over radio waves. But even if we assume radio waves, Shannon says that the you can send the most information when using a random code. As you approach the Shannon limit the signal becomes more noise-like as the encoding tends towards random. So it’s entirely possible an alien signal is likely to look like pure noise to us and hence we may miss a true alien signal.
While this is a thought provoking article, it makes assumptions that are not necessarily true. If a person thinks in terms of resources and not in terms of products you can begin to see the fallacies. It is easy for a group with common interests to share resources. The problems begin to arise when the group doesn't have a resource that it needs. As an example, if the Iroquois lived in a region where there was no obsidian which they would want for making tools and hunting instruments, they would need to approach a neighboring community that has access to the material If that community didn't want the Iroquois to have that material because it would upset the balance of power in that this material could also be used for making weapons of war. If the other community already had all the resources it needed to comfortably survive, how would the Iroquois over come their reluctance to give them obsidian? For the Iroquois this is becoming a matter of survival of their people. It they don't have this resource they won't have the tools they need to farm or to hunt. This is just a simple example, with more complex societies the more complex the problems.
In my life time, I have seen people try to sustain "gift economies". I remember the communes of the sixties. On paper they sounded quite reasonable. Most of them didn't survive or evolved into capitalistic economies.
One last point. Slavery was not an out come of the invention of money. It was the out come of the invention of war. What do you do with enemy combatants that surrender? Do you just kill them? Not if your humane. You make them slaves.
Posteo.de and ZeroMail
> it's 0.0072 x 0.0003, which is 0.0002, but that's 0.02%

No. 0.0072 x 0.0003 = 0.00000216‬ ~= 0.000002 = 0.0002%
The number of deaths is not being accurately reported either, so both the numerator and denominator are inaccurate.

There are mixed reports coming out of China that claim 60% of bodies are collected from homes, not hospitals, and that only 20% of the dead are being counted as "confirmed" COVID-19.

Also, we do know reliably that about 10% of cases overall, require ICU & mechanical ventilation. I would not characterize that as "vast amount of mild cases"
Well, I wasn't aware of, at least, some of those tools. But, also... Contextualise really fits my very specific needs and way of modeling knowledge/information. So, I was scratching a very specific itch. But, also I hope that with Contextualise I am putting something new on the table even if that is just a somewhat simple UI on top of a straight-forward but understandable data model.

Thanks for your feedback. Genuinely appreciated.
> Does anyone have a good backup solution for one's code folder? Large amount of small files (probably tens or hundreds of thousands. It's got a load of node_module folders as well I'm sure)

I've been using Duplicacy (along with Arq and Time Machine) which is amazing at speedy backups and deduplication. However, I've found that restores require quite a bit of CLI-fu [1].

Considering a move to Restic, because they have a killer feature which allows one to mount a snapshot as a FUSE filesystem [2].

[1] https://forum.duplicacy.com/t/restore-command-details/1102

[2] https://restic.readthedocs.io/en/v0.3.2/Manual/#mount-a-repo...
Also owned by Sirius btw
I think autonomous driving advocates would do well to look at the history of computer handwriting recognition, an easier technical problem with lower consequences that received significant investment over decades. But it has never gotten good enough to succeed in the marketplace against alternatives.

Why? It never exceeded consumer expectations, which are extremely high for automated systems. Even a correctness rate of 99.9% means multiple errors per day for most people. Consumers expected approximately zero errors, despite not being able to achieve that themselves, sometimes even with their own handwriting!

Because handwriting is made by humans, there is some percentage of it that simply cannot be reliably recognized at all. But people hold that against computers more than other people because computers are supposed to be labor saving devices.

Likewise because roads are made by people, and other cars are driven by people, so a self driving car will never be able to be perfectly safe. But that is essentially what advocates are promising.

That’s especially true if people expect the same level of convenience, especially in terms of time. People speed and take risks all the time when driving, in the name of saving time. I think it’s likely that an autonomous car optimized for safety would also be a car that just takes a lot longer to get anywhere with.

Speed matters. It’s a big reason we all use touch keyboards on our phones instead of handwriting recognition.
People pay for followers (bots). To make the bots look more organic rather than 10,000 bots only following the same handful of people that paid for followers, the bots will also follow random people.
I feel about list comprehensions the way I feel about regular expressions. Below a certain point of complexity, both are vastly superior ways of expressing what's going on. Above that point, comprehensibility drops off fast, and they immediately become inferior tools.

For example, something like:

[some_func(y) for x, y in some_dict.items() if some_condition(x)]

...is, at least in my mind, eminently more readable than the imperative equivalent, and less PEBCAK-risky (i.e. what if you have to do two similar iterations and forget to use a different accumulator between the two?).

However, I totally agree with you re: "don't get too clever". Pretty much the instant you have nested comprehensions, or try to get clever iterating over multiple data structures in a single expression, it immediately becomes much worse than the imperative form, and you should feel a little bashful and bust out some loops, functions, and accumulators.

Same is true for regex. Something like:

($match) =~ qr/\A(?:foo|bar)[.]com (\d+)-baz$/

...while it does require you to know regex, is way simpler and more robust than writing the equivalent stack of many string slicing conditions, and less error prone. However, once the "too clever" rubicon is crossed (subjective, but my personal rule of thumb is: more than 50chrs of non-literals or more than one lookaround expression), like list comprehensions, it rapidly becomes much harder to understand than the equivalent long, explicit, string-slicing form.

As with many things, I think that skill in these areas is a matter of knowing when to stop.
I hope I am wrong (or better, I hope what I read is wrong) so I can use Firefox with uBlock on my iPhone (I use Firefox on desktop).

AFAIK, you cannot install uBlock (or any add-on) on Firefox for iOS.
Using Telecoils to Turn Hearing Aids into Mini Loudspeakers (2009)
That's because USA is way behind in card payment infrastructure (technologically speaking).
Currency reserves are not the ledger. The ledger of the monetary system is, not surprisingly, the electronic ledger in the central bank that interconnect all the private banks.

The private banks have their own ledger, and, in that sense, they can create money. But if they have to operate outside their ledge, they need a "more real" money. That money, it's the ledger in the central bank (and cash).

This "more real money" is called "bank reserves" (not to confuse with reserves of gold or foreign currencies that are a different thing).
I'm not sure how SoundCloud works but does following someone get you more of their data than you would get otherwise? If so, I would say the incentive is data collection.
twitter doesn't work on my browser, is there a link to the article or is the analysis done on twitter itself?
> it seems likely that pretty much everyone who dies will be tested.

Anecdotal reports out of China estimate that less than half of the dead are taken from hospitals.
Bash and Awk are not the same class of languages, so they can't be compared to/replace each other.

Bash is a glue language, while Awk a scripting one, so it rather makes sense to compare Awk with Python/Ruby/similar.
Everything goes, thanks
"I have become the late adopter".

Exactly my thoughts when reading about the blended wing aeroplane, yesterday.
It isn't the Cash that makes Cash – It's information that makes Cash
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