skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many computer programs or websites were more responsive in the times of Pentium II than they are now. It looks like we negated a lot of hardware advancement by inefficient software or by putting advertising in almost every possible place.
Sadly it seems that most have gone the opposite direction with making schools more like prisons. Metal detectors, visitors watched with suspision, high ratio of supervised to supervisees resulting in effective partial rule by them. Am I talking about prisons or schools? Yes.
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That looks quite expensive and doesn't disclose details about the kinds of disks used (upfront) and the connection speeds allotted. The seed times are also too short with the ratio "or" time clause. Anyone wanting to seed to maintain an archive of content for the future may find this tedious. There seem to be many others that provide more (cheaper, faster and more features/flexibility).
I'm glad to see this as well. I've been working on a site as part of a class project to help surface used items that have a long useful lifetime. My hope is that this will help in a small way to reduce the cycle of consumerism.

Here's a link to the site:

https://createdtolast.com/laptops
>Compare it to your own job - if I had the same tools as you, could I walk in and do the same job you do?

Should access to a compiler be gated just because amateur programmers probably don't know as much as people with a degree?

The fact that you need to go to a doctor, to get referred to a facility which will run a test, which will then send that test data back to the doctor, and at the second appointment the doctor will go over the data with you to see if you needed to go to the doctor in the first place...is just an absurd waste. It shouldn't be so hard to get a few measurements done on your own body.
This is probably not something anyone wants to talk about. Great question though. It would be interesting to know.
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Same here : https://crt.sh/?id=2500908236

12h long certificate
Wouldn't Combine be the official competitor of RxSwift?
So you're upset that he's NOT being tried in the press, and instead under judicial review in a court of law? I don't see any problem here.
>Net negative emissions must be a global goal within 5 years because this is a climate change emergency.

No, it's not. You know how I know it's not? The people who keep telling me this keep flying on jets, private jets even!

In any case, with any plausible amount of warming, humanity will be fine.
The judge hasn't said that at all. The judge said that the UK law as a matter of fact doesn't bar extraditions for political reasons - so the defense has to prove the treaty is legally binding on the court as a pre-condition for even making the argument that extradition should be stopped because its politically motivated.
Referencing the http://coronavirus-realtime.com/ website, the graph of the number of infections over time is suspiciously non-exponential right now. I think China and the rest of the world are both struggling to collect data on confirmed cases.
> it's perfectly fine to use one cloud provider and a different productivity suite

Yes, but this is just the same with Azure as it is with AWS.

> I don't see a lot of efficiencies between Azure, VSTS and O365

Efficiencies are certainly there for Microsoft at least, since all these services are hosted on Azure behind the scenes.

From the user side, yes, Azure, Azure DevOps, O365, Exchange etc each has its own admin portal/web app. But TBH I think this makes a lot of sense, and results in a better user experience, since each web app can be specialised, instead of having to fit everything into a single UI.

Azure DevOps has good integrations with Azure though, such as AAD for users and permissions, service connections, Azure-specific CI/CD tasks etc.

> AWS is still the best

Citation needed, and by what measure?
Trump has not even nearly as much power as you seem to think. We hear about his abuses of power because hearing ”California government implements reforms to reduce carbon emissions, in spite of Trump” doesn’t generate as much emotions as his corrupt practices.

Imagine a Chinese provincial government openly (key word openly) going against the CCP’s wishes. Or a judge, or a prosecutor.
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> I'm French, and we've been lucky so far, but I expect chaos when it's going to start. The government has long lost all political legitimity here, and people absolutely distrust them, so I don't think they will not peacefully comply to government attempt to limit the propagation.

Lot of French follows the rules. They will complain (a lot!) about and break them here or there but I expect most real French to mostly follow official orders.

In the other hand, I will totally bet on the fact that the kind people that loot trains after accident or shops after World Cup victory and attack both firefighters and policemen on a daily basis will do the same if there are confinement measures.
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Propaganda works.

You probably once supported his fight for free speech, until they made up the "Trump supporter" story.

With that, they actually managed to catch many people who previously supported him.

Of course, he was "left" and they told all his friends that he "now supports the enemy".

Was a really clever framing move.
They have had the capability for decades back at my first job on campus at Cranfield University (which has its own airport)

BAE where doing tests of this lading passenger jets on wet and slippery runways for example
And I should care if the Botswanan Fru-Fru Toad goes extinct because...?
It is sad to say that, but I would feel safer traveling from the EU to Russia than to the USA right now. My last visit to the states was such a bad experience (I've never been as physically terrified in my life as when the customs officers interrogated me), that I will never go there again.
It's not a bug in a specific IDE - it's a language design feature that makes building support tools like IDEs harder. It also goes against Python's own zen of "explicit is better than implicit"
> Just because the law requires us to give our data to the government

Not sure where you live but if you're giving too much information over by law, you should leave. Giving your address, Name, maybe Citizenship and birthday to your government is not as crazy as it sounds.
My ISP is legally bound to respect my privacy. I have regulatory bodies literally 10 minutes away, that can deal with tham, and a court system where I (and many more like me) can sue the ISP if they do something bad.

What can I, citizen of small EU country, with an en_US firefox, do against cloudflare?
From now on, neither perl, ruby nor python will be installed by default on OS X

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20109469
Why is he calling Bellingcat a warmongering propaganda operations and saying they've got a "source of state, corporate or institutional finance"? I though they were independent
The people talking about 'hunger goes away after 3 days' are talking about people who are mentally-prepared to experience it.

You and the people talking about civilization only being 3 days away from anarchy are talking about "desperate people".

I don't think anyone is confusing the two groups of people; just talking about two different possibilities for different people.
Here’s a new, succinct account of how terribly the Abe government is handling the situation:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/26/opinion/coronavirus-japan...
If there's one thing I've learned with all these app stores and digital stores, a better way to handle this when you move countries is to create a new account for that country and also retain the older account (if possible, without a payment method, just to have access to older purchases and to free items).

Ideally, software would make sure that you can use the same account across countries as long as you can attach the appropriate payment methods. They don't do this even for content that's not controlled by giant corporations that are stuck in the past.
The US may have a high CO2 per capita but also look at surface area. Because that reflects how polluted a piece of land is. The Netherlands (my country) is high on the list with 3859 tonnes of CO2 per square kilometer. Belgium at 3279. Germany at 2239. Switzerland at 970.6. And then all the way to the bottom the USA at 547 tonnes, sandwiched in between Hungary and Spain.
put.io isn't a traditional seedbox. They do caching + dedup + transcode + chromecast etc. It's sort of like seedbox + plex and the UI is quite clean. It's not geared towards the private tracker crowd. It's for casual users who use public trackers, and it's a pretty good service for that. Casual users don't care about ratios. They just don't want to get notices from their ISPs.
Reminds me of this, https://www.businessinsider.com/steven-strogatz-interview-on..., interview with Steven Strogatz, when he gets onto the idea (and dangers) of what beauty means in maths.

Also, this https://plus.maths.org/content/andrew-wiles-what-does-if-fee... from Andrew Wiles, when he mentions that maths, the actual doing of it at least, isn't so much the cold hard logic of formal equations, that's just how it's communicated. It's the sitting down and trying to grapple with some mathematical ideas when it becomes more akin to musical experience.

iirc, there's a passage in Godel, Escher, Bach where Hofstadter actually works through a mathematical calculation and compares its cadences with musical experience.
And there's the poems of Rebecca Elson (Theories of Everything, Explaining Relativity) that do the best job, for me, of describing what is actually appealing about maths.

Like this article, they all emphasise the joy of just sitting down and playing with mathematical ideas. That that is where the understanding and fun really is, though difficult to communicate directly. It's not so much the technical bits of learning formulae and grinding results out of them that, at least when I was at school, was all we ever really did.
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This works fine until it does not, for example when dealing with custom UI controls, which is when reality sets in and you find yourself wrangling HTML IDs, XPaths and CSS selectors again.
The encryption and authentication that the Lisp image exposes :)

Someone else mentioned that kubectl port-forward also adds these for you, so if you are not in a private cluster, it may be a better option.
No you don't, there is 27 days incubation factor which means 27 days before the initial outbreak for things to spread and no possible way to do anything about that. Then you have whatever time for doctors to identify that this is something new and a big deal, again time that things can spread without your ability to control it.
Thank you for the explanation. It has solidified my view that Brave's actions are unethical. The ethical problem with ads is that they are distracting, overly promote particular things over others for reasons of questionable buyer benefit (such as that the promoter has more money to spend on ads than competitiors), and subvert normal human behaviours (such as attention to colourful or moving things, familiarity and learning through repeated exposure, and so on) to channel money to someone.

Thus it is ethically justifiable to block ads on the grounds that we should come up with a monetisation model for content that is not ads. Blocking ads and then offering your own ads is not ethically justifiable in the above context (and in fact is a bit tacky). Personally opting to replace ads with different ads is also not ethically justifiable in the above context (and is a bit defeatist). It's nice that the replacement ads pay you money, but this is unrelated to the ethical argument (and obviously the advertiser comes out ahead even in this scenario, because otherwise they wouldn't run the ads).
A little correction: an isomorphism is a homomorphism which is bijective and has a homomorphism as its inverse. For many structures the inverse being a homomorphism automatically happens as a logical consequence of the function being a bijective homomorphism, but this isn't the case for all structures. The most prominent examples are topological spaces: a bijection between topological spaces can be continuous (i.e. a homomorphism of topological spaces) but can have an inverse which is not continuous.

The classic example is a function which maps an interval to a circle by applying cos and sin to get the coordinates; this is continuous as small changes in the interval result in a small change in the position on the circumference, but its inverse is not continuous because there will be a point on the circle where the nearby points on one side come from the start of the interval but the nearby points on the other side come from the end of the interval.
My understanding was that this virus has a molecular proofreading system that reduces its mutation rate, and makes it unlikely to develop a more deadly strain - was this dispelled in any way?

Can't find exactly where I read it but it's e.g. mentioned here: https://www.statnews.com/2020/02/04/two-scenarios-if-new-cor...
Well according to the other side, people died because of the releases. Information was lost, sources fled.

https://text.npr.org/s.php?sId=712659290

So again, right or wrong depends on your opinion.

Also again, I re-iterate and stress. I am not defending the bad actions of the US or anyone, I just don't believe that Assange is this 'holier than though' who needs to be coveted.
I may be simplifying but wouldn’t the ultimate “meta” move be to adapt the concepts behind John Boyd’s OODA (observe, orient, decide, act) loop[1] in your thinking? Basically you need to always adapt to changes in the game and get inside your opponents own loop.

If you’re able to run your own OODA process faster than your opponent, you’re already acting before they have even realized the game has changed.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/OODA_loop
This is exactly what gives me pause when paying these credits offered by the airline.
I wonder if we could charge by total weight of passengers and luggage as that directly correlates to fuel usage.
By comparison pdm-09 would have killed somewhere between 8 and 60 people with ~78,064 infections not 2,715 and counting. Thus reasonably getting a vastly lower response.
> The first vowel and third consonant are different in both dialects.

To my eye, each word has no more than two consonants in RP?
I wonder if the file format they use to store the digitised plans will still be readable 300 years from now.
What are you afraid will happen if you take a day off?
Well now I want a language to overload white space as an operator
Correct me if I'm wrong, but its also nowhere as mortal or serious as these others you are listing.
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> Craig Murray's website suggests he is, for example, a credulous believer of Russian explanations for events. He does on occasion correct himself (such as in his post about the famed picture of two different people walking through two different channels - https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2018/09/the-impossib.... ) but nonetheless he has a long-standing mindset which will temper his beliefs and of course colour everything he sees and his interpretations thereof.

and you somehow think

> I did not attack his credibility
So shooting the messenger is now a defensible position in polite company?
I'll be honest; I genuinely don't know how many times I would expect someone to have handcuffs attached and released in such circumstances. Is eleven times a lot? The Guardian doesn't actually express whether this is excessive or lenient.

The Guardian doesn't seem to make any comment on that. I would expect his defence lawyer to complain about his conditions no matter what.

The article headlines with thehandcuffs, but the vast majority of the article is nothing to do with that. So honestly no idea on that one; feels like a headline designed to attract attention and maybe spark outrage based on a reader's pre-conceived ideas without actually making any value judgement.

I get it, he's Assange, the state is bad, he's a whipping boy. Probably all true. Really, I think he's going to get a raw deal in this and I think the states involved have really spent too much time and effort chasing something that really won't benefit them, and perhaps not with as much fairness as we'd like.

But the breathless rush with which people run to believe is disconcerting.
Because most old tools absolutely suck. People aren't chasing the new stuff. They are escaping from the old stuff.
There's a school of thought that says if your target customers are mass producers, it doesn't matter how much your development kit costs. Because any professional engineer on a work project can afford a $30 dev kit, and a good portion a $3000 dev kit.

Of course, not everyone follows this line of thinking; due to their cheap, accessible hardware there are innumerable people with Arduino/ESP8266 experience, which might lead people to attempt mass produced projects with them.
Blocking a hall is like commenting out code.
I wonder about copyright issues though. Is Win2K now in the public domain?
Lando would like a word with you.
For me, the good part of the article started in the section “The Meta in Real Life.”

I think President Obama played a meta game using technology to win election. President Trump played a meta game using skills developed as a TV host to win election.

I think, in a way, that Peter Thiel’s thesis in the book “Zero to One” is also about playing a meta game to develop monopoly type businesses.

I have always loved using Lisp languages and in a sense continually extending a language to “meet the problem to be solved” is another form of meta game. Rise above the fray, look at things from high altitude, be a good generalist, and win.

Good article.
This is amusing to hear in light of all the "saving face" talk about China.
As pointed out by the UN Special Rapporteur on torture, they were not, and the Swedish authorities did everything to indicate that they didn't care about Assange's answers, they just wanted to force him out of the embassy.
Sure, but most of the time they are highly correlated, especially in security critical systems.
Nobody needs to work on a Pentium II- though I think we could probably find a lot of applications for really old CPUs. The main issue is how much power they consume.

My 2013 MacBook Pro retina started having weird, annoying keyboard issues. I could spend 600$ to get it repaired or 1000$ to get a newer, refurbished macbook. However I'm finding a hand me down 2009 MacBook is working just fine after putting an ssd in it.
The dumb part of all of this is how the gov. and the IOC handled the summer olympics up to this point.

For instance there was the discussion around the marathon, where runners would be at serious risk when running outdoors in the middle of the summer in Tokyo. Yet it took months and months of discussions, stupid alternatives (including "let's change Tokyo's time during the Olympics so the marathon starts at the planned time, but it would actually be super early morning when the sun is still low") to finally move it to a place where people won't be dying.

The current administration is well above caring for public safety, but we can hope the international outcry will be huge enough of a threat to force their hand.

[https://www.reuters.com/article/us-olympics-2020-marathon-id...]
Maybe this is the best attack on copyright we have. It at least proves the smartest in this case have good intentions.
I don't think there /hasn't/ been a class based system in human prehistory even. Granted then the classes may have been hunter and gatherer. It is fundamentally inevitable as a result of specialization and even within the same the normal curve would effectively do the same.

There are of course differences in the degrees of inequality.
Nothing will ever change if no one expresses their desire for it to. New ideas and ways of life only win out when the people chanting "it is what it is" are drowned out by those shouting "it shouldn't be so!"
Reminds me of the castle in Gormenghast
> We don't buy movies. At least in the US, we buy license/right to view.

(IANAL) That part is the same even if you buy a music CD or a Blu-Ray disc. You're only granted a license to play it for your personal use (and you're not even allowed to play at a public event or broadcast it). But, you're legally allowed to make backups for yourself and (in certain instances) encode them for use with a different mechanism. That's one of the things that iTunes (taking a popular example) helped revolutionize, with CD ripping and place-shifting the content for convenience. DRM, along with making the breaking of DRM illegal (is it still illegal for all kinds of content? I haven't kept up) is what messed this whole thing up.
Boom. Here's someone considering the source. Well done 9nGQluzmnq3M. I bet very few people actually did.
Any comparison will have flaws but Phoronix has a track record for having bad non Linux benchmarks. People complain because they want a fair comparison.

Benchmarks are vital. They can give you an estimate of how your application performs. They also often showcase how optimized a product is on different platforms.
I also think about travel/tourism and social media in this way.
It's no different here in the EU. After all, Sweden and the UK (until recently) are EU countries.

I'm from Germany, and I can totally see things like this could happen here too.
_Communism_ developed in highly individualistic Western Europe... As did fascism. I'm not convinced there's a magic Europe-individualistic gene.
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I'm curious about your account loss. Was it a Gmail address that was your Google account? Did it have a verified phone number linked to it?
I recall reading a hand-wringing article about a canyon with a lot of ancient Native American graffiti carved on the walls, and how it was in a state of crisis because modern American teenagers kept carving their own graffiti on the walls.

I don't really see how we can defend the idea that the ancient graffiti is historically valuable and it's a good thing it was left there, but the modern graffiti is a menace that needs to be stamped out.
Ah, I see. In which case, then yes. I attack his credibility. I attack yours. I attack mine. You are biased. I am biased. He is biased. Everything you write is tempered. Everything I write is tempered. His credibiltiy is compromised and the source must be considered, as is yours, as is mine.

This shouldn't be controversial, yet here we are. Seriously, here we are.
Are you recycling or wish-cycling?
In Australia and New Zealand other-bank ATM withdrawal fees are $2.
International withdrawals depend on where you are but 3% or $5 (whichever is larger) is common. This is additional to whatever forex rate they give you.

It's only recently that newer banks are removing these fees.

However, accounts are generally free.
That sounds great. The syntactic simplicity of prefix notation and Scheme seem particularly suited for early education. I imagine it will help form a intuitive mental model of computation and mathematics, before being taught the classic infix notation. I guess you'll see!
You are forgetting, for example, your income data, your marital status, your penal history, your real estate, and not to mention any data gathered while doing some police investigation even if just brushing past your shoulder. Also, your health history.
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I'm guessing most countries have laws allowing the authorities to forcibly quarantine people if they feel they are at risk of spreading disease, and similar laws for limiting public activity. Certainly they do for shutting schools and other public buildings.

Institutions in developed countries are far better equipped to deal with this level of crisis than China has been. Australia, where I'm from, has had infections since mid Jan but has been able to effectively quarantine people and prevent community transmission thus far.