skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I heard a podcast of the "University of Flanders" which says that dictatorships are not actually effective in this way. Reasons given (i.e. these points are all his words, not mine):

- They're often very corrupt

- It's commonly believed that Nazi Germany relieved the crisis of the 1930s, but that is propaganda and Hitler probably made it worse.

- The propaganda also paints a picture of a strictly organized state, but nothing is further from the truth. Nazi Germany consisted of cogs that didn't work together so much as against each other (the army against the party, the SS against the SA, etc.). Coordinated chaos.

- One man can impossibly oversee everything, he can't enforce his vision in all these different places, resulting in a lot of different "clans" that have power in the name of Hitler.

- Our democracy is a lot of talk and little action, lots of checks and balances, where the public can check what the government does and can remove them from power. That sounds inefficient, but the decisions are carried by the population and let's keep it like that.

Source (in Dutch) with a timestamp where he gets more on-topic (before that is more background info): https://youtu.be/_866RrJJy6A?t=600

I don't say I find it super convincing by the way, certainly points like "one man can't oversee it all" doesn't rule out the option of a group of supposedly smart people that oversee it all (much like today) and make the rules for everyone. No argument is made for democracy, the main argument is against dictatorships with weasel words like "often very corrupt" and against Hitler's dictatorship specifically (when there are more current, seemingly better-functioning and longer-lasting examples like, indeed, in China).

Of course, that I don't find the arguments made very convincing also doesn't mean that I'm in favor of a group of smart people ruling over everyone or against democracy or something.

I just don't know, but this is a datapoint where someone claims that this thought "a dictator should excel at this" may not be right. The podcast typically invites researchers in the field that are often very knowledgeable and give much more convincing presentations; this person is a historian so presumably also knows a thing or two about the topic, even if I still have some questions.
I learned something new, the efficiency rating is really different than what occurs when in use, so 90% efficiency pans out as less than 70%. So the work here is to keep the temperature of the motor down to maintain efficiency.

the difficulty is not all motors are of course able to be programmed so while this fix will help those that are it does point out that there are still big energy savings to be had to replace existing 'dumb' motors. Now I will mention the obvious, none of them should be on the net but I can see a local network that is air gap being useful
That's a different question from whether capacity is available. You could have less than before and still have plenty.

There is also a question of short term vs. long term. In the short term if some things are made only in China they may become temporarily scarce. In the longer term either China will come back online or capacity will be created somewhere else (or both).
This sounds like a sort of Malthusian trap like argument. The economy is de-materializing while continuing to grow so I don’t think this paradox is a stable truth.
It's clearly something that no one could know, nor would it make a whit of difference if they could know. It's a lame joke. Laugh. Or don't laugh.
Conversely, I haven't seen evidence that the availability of social safety nets is a significant factor. More data is required, but I still believe my theory is on sound footing based on existing fertility data.
Another question: I don't take advantage of X network transparency all the day every day, but it is very handy when it's needed. Will there be an equivalent in the Wayland (or, should I say, post-Xorg) world?
* Buying lists, dumping money in email campaigns to lists

* Losing patience with the development of a sales funnel, dumping money into ads that have no reasonable copy, targeting, offer

* Repeating offers because the development of a sales strategy is hard

* Ignoring blockers to brand development.. such as changing the company name/logo often, ignoring feedback from current customers about things like broken products and poor customer experiences, etc., and instead, dumping money into ad campaigns instead

etc

etc
Tracking live data from betting markets for every Super Tuesday state
Recent Excel has a much more convenient interface for formatting pretty graphs than I remember from ~10 years ago. The available options are mostly the same, there indeed aren't really any new features in that, but it has live preview and more "visual" ways to modify the graph, compared to the gruesome modal interfaces that I remember where you have no idea what will happen until you "OK" it.
It's not a hard-wired trait that they cannot do something (i.e. preferentially learn foreign accents or however you would positively describe that).

And it's not exactly an advantagevthat once crystalized, my speach is pretty much incapable of adapting to Russian or anything more foreign.
Let's not forget the political rallies.
I am paying my environmental footprint under the name of "US federal tax"
If you are expecting me to pay more, you have something else coming from your blindside.
> I'm guessing customer IDs are associated with e-mail addresses?

They are (on Let's Encrypt's end), if an email address was provided.

It's a 1:n relation, the same email may be used for any number of ACME accounts. Roughly speaking, for most clients, the ACME account maps to a specific ACME client on a specific host. If you run three servers with separate ACME clients, you're probably using three ACME accounts (even if you're using the same email and issuing certificates for the same domain).

Large or custom implementations may reuse the same ACME account across many servers and domains. (Issuance would typically be centralized and operated as a separate system in these scenarios.)
Ice wine is the only wine I like (sweet).
The idea that we should bear short-term consequences for long-term prosperity is the human nature we need to solve for.

The Fed has been much more aggressive than the ECB, and it's why the US recovered faster than Europe.
I am fine with this. Bernie Sanders once said mass immigration was a "koch brothers scheme." I agree with this sentiment. Increases in GDP don't seem to help the lower class. As GDP has risen, inflation adjusted income has flatlined. As population has increased, and as housing investment gone higher, housing prices have skyrocketed.
Broken back buttons are often due to a site where a placeholder loads and it turns around and loads the real thing. Back takes you to the placeholder which promptly takes you back where you were.

There are sites that explicitly mess with the back button but I haven't seen one in ages.
Another single year observation attributed to climate.
The near term is precisely what monetary policy affects...
No insurance company is solvable against a global pandemic event.

Except Berkshire Hathaway:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-berkshire-buffett-insuran...

If Warren Buffett himself survives, I expect to see his shareholder letter next year talking about how their losses notwithstanding, COVID-19 left Berkshire Hathaway in a stronger position relative to the rest of the insurance industry, and has improved their outlook for the future.
Though new, there's the MS Edge Extension site. I don't expect there's much room for an additional third-party extension site in the market.
Something similar is happening in multiple European countries e.g. Helsinki has not had over-night snow (snow that stays for two consecutive days) this winter and it's likely it won't happen.

We are not sure what kind of butterfly effects this or other stuff (e.g. big lakes not freezing for the first time in recorded history) will have, but it's quite scary.

https://yle.fi/uutiset/osasto/news/finland_experiencing_mild...
I expect it is to imply they had no cooperation with the CIA as far as they know with their own Intelligence agency.

there is a good chance the Swiss intelligent apparatus knew what was going on so if this complaint vanishes or settles quietly we will know what is up
In the consulting industry I’ve seen PDF being used precisely because third parties couldn’t mess with the content anymore.
> This has resulted in many revelations towards understanding myself and also others

Same here, and I find the perspective of "discovering yourself" fascinating; I always thought I knew myself but it wasn't until I started journaling that I realized how much I didn't know.

There's just so much going on behind the surface. I highly recommend taking up journaling as a habit!
He doesn't have the plan and associated funding and the people in place.

Maybe easy is the wrong word, but he's definitely well-positioned to reap more reward of what he achieved so far
In later news, I'm currently reading a paper on pubic hair grooming of American women post 1970s
The quality of offsetting programs varies drastically. For example, if I just say I'm going to offset your emissions then do nothing, I can offer that service for $1EUR/ton. At the other end of the spectrum would be something like methane recapture tents over abandoned mines, where there is no risk of addition or gaming (because it costs so much to build mines in comparison to what this earns). And in the middle is something like planting trees. It's not clear where on the quality spectrum the program you're referring to is, but I would guess it is not going to be at the high end.

The other thing to keep in mind is that we are only looking at low-hanging fruit right now. That's actually one of the really appealing things about this climeworks idea. It can be scaled indefinitely. Carbon capture from mines and manure digesters can only scale so much, because there are only so many abandoned mines and only so much undigested animal manure.
When a stock splits, the market cap still stays relatively the same.

Market cap for GE is still lower today (93 B) than it was in 1997 (208 B). Unless there were major spin offs, that means the company is worth less.
UAE closing all schools for at least 4 weeks due to coronavirus – state media
We will see. I think it can kill 220x more people than it already has if it continues to spread like it has been doing so far.
Conferences are all about cross-pollination. Sometimes it's ideas, sometimes it's serious illnesses.
It's lovely that you've done this! That being said, I'm inclined to believe that it's too difficult to get your average Joe to engage in shareholder initiatives, it's hard enough getting them to vote (in Canada at least). I would suspect that a path that would show more promise is the notion of corporate contracts that Elizabeth Warren proposed but unfortunately, it seems that she won't be the nominee.
I'm too lazy to do the stats, but the US sample size is too small to prove a difference in means here, even if we knew the distributions and there wasn't ferocious noise in all of this.
Magma Partners scores $50M to build the A16Z of Latin America
But Welch was CEO from 1981 to 2001, not 1997 to today?
Retired, or Hoping to Be, and Saddled with Student Loans
macOS Catalina, i.e. version 10.15, has actually already moved to zsh, but – as you said – bash is still installed:

% bash -version

=> GNU bash, version 3.2.57(1)-release (x86_64-apple-darwin19)
they're crew socks
Good management is one thing. Rainmakers are another. I’m not sure why a university needs someone actively managing funds instead of using passive vehicles
You can't ramp production that fast, especially since so many factories moved to China. So given a limited resource, you have to discourage people from buying out all the supply so you can preserve your healthcare capability of the medical staff. I would guess it's a judgement call that ensuring medical personnel have masks is a greater epidemic fighting effect relative to the epidemic reduction in casual people wearing masks.

You can always publicise an alternate policy when the mask supply does increase later..
I typed my notes in an app like OneNote (this is a while back, I forget what it was called). During class, I'd type an outline of the concepts and examples given in class and then organize them away later, with each tab being a different concept. If I didn't understand something after the fact, it was still in my outline, and that was a sign that I'd have to ask the professor about this concept later.

A lot of people will tell you to write everything down and do something with it later. If you didn't understand the concept in the first place, that's not going to help! This is why writing notes didn't work for me. I write slow, but I type fast.

Being present, physically and mentally, in class was important for me! I couldn't do this if I was falling behind writing things down. Also, ask questions if you don't get a concept. Writing what the professor says verbatim is not a note. Writing the underlying concept down is.
I use -avz
So that they can be replaced by companies that are more robust to things like Coronavirus?

Why would we care how robust our businesses are to such a rare event if we can mitigate it in other ways? You think it would be better to lose those businesses just for the chance at something better replacing them, just to avoid resorting to those mitigations?
No good deed goes unpunished...
That's encoded in each individual port.

lapack, for example, has USES=fortran[1]. That invokes Uses/fortran.mk[2] and accepts the ports-default fortran compiler, FORTRAN_DEFAULT, which is definedin bsd.default-versions.mk[3] as gfortran (GCC).

[1]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/math/lapack/Makefile?r...

[2]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/Uses/fortran.mk?rev...

[3]: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/ports/head/Mk/bsd.default-version...
They're talking seriously about canceling or postponing the Olympics, so yeah.
Expanding the point ;)

But it's a shame, really. I get why such a petition would exist, I also don't envy the position Addler finds himself in these days.
Top soccer teams have been playing in empty stadiums, so why not?

https://www.pennlive.com/sports/2020/02/italian-soccer-game-...
I've recently found something to dislike about the coloured error messages.

The default colour is restored after the newline, rather than before it.

* https://github.com/llvm-mirror/clang/blob/6803cc1958b56e0bd5...

I have recently set DECSCNM on in my terminal(s), which inverts everything, effectively swapping the foreground and background colours. The clang error messages now come out with unsightly large streaks of extraneous colour, as freshly erased lines caused by scrolling fill with the colour that clang has not yet turned off. clang was always doing this. But when it's the background colour it's more visible.

It would be such a simple fix, that's actually in line with code elsewhere in the same class. I wonder how many years it will take to get it changed.
I think to be able to understand the article's point one has to take for granted that the opinion of the stock market is not gospel.
USCIS Launches New Online Form for Reporting Fraud
"2019 was the second-warmest year on record globally, according to the US National Oceans and Air Administration"

The link between climate change and problems with ice wine production in Germany by lack of ice seems pretty direct.
"Microservices" don't guarantee that everyone doesn't have to talk to everyone. Good thoughtful design is necessary regardless of how you're building/organizing/deploying/operating the code.
Yeah, crowdsourced content is great, but there's something to be said for things curated by a single actual human being.
> Public, legal trackers would have NO problem with this.

How can you tell that? What would make legal content more likely to be supported by the seeders? Believe me, none of the seeders ever asked themselves whether holding that data was legal or not in the decision on whether they keep it. Private trackers solve this issue by rewarding people that does keep seeding them, I guess supporting that kind of private community could allow to support older content, but there will always be an effort/gain that will be considered.

For something to keep being seeded require someone to still want to seed it. There's just too much content to care about and not enough people caring about it though. People want what's new, not what's old, so they go that way instead and abandon the older things.

I have no doubt that I could find a bunch of royalty free content that just can no longer be found anywhere, even with Web Archive goal to archive everything.

The legality of it doesn't affect how people act with content.
It would be, if the requirements were clearly documented, consistent for all pages, and consistently enforced. They are none of those things.

EDIT: the other big difference is that every time I've attempted to contribute to an open-source project, people have, in general, been helpful and willing to explain what needed improvement. On Wikipedia, it's a much more hostile attitude. People are less willing to explain why your content was reverted or nominated for deletion, and if you protest, there's a decent chance that you'll be sanctioned (either topic-banned or temp-banned from Wikipedia). Imagine if forgetting to run a linter got your SSH key tempbanned from the project and you'll have a closer analogy to the current process.
I don't think Hacker News supports PMs.

I managed to find your email address from your GitHub profile. Going to send you an old fashioned email.
Oh yea I agree, SXSW music & film are great. But as someone who’s been to SXSW I don’t understand the point of SXSW “interactive”. And in this article it’s talking about big tech companies backing out.

Really what I’m saying is who cares if tech pulls out? Its the worst part of the conference. I can’t imagine anyone other than Austin beer & discount ice sculpture sellers would mind if SXSW interactive disappeared forever.
The question still is how? i.e. in this case which parts fail?
I've had remarkably good results in general (for reading) using the Poppler library's "pdftotext" utility. Since it defaults to writing output to file, I wrap that in a bash function to arrive at a less-like pager, with page breaks noted:

pdfless ()
{
pdftotext -layout "$1" - |
sed 's/\f/\n\n ----------------- ----------------- <page> ----------------- ----------------- \n\n\n/g' |
${PAGER:-less -S}
}

The key is the "-layout" argument, which preserves original layout of the document. This ... may not be what you want visually, but makes backing out the original text somewhat easier.

Of course, requesting the LaTeX sources would be preferred.
Microservices are not the only way to split a system.

Far from it. They are the most onerous, least tractable way to get what you are going for.
My guess would be both - it draws wall power up to a point and once it hits the limit of the charger (usually 5W for the small iPhone cubes) the rest comes out of the battery. So light use might still trickle the battery, but turning on the camera probably drains the battery slightly.
I know that's what you may have felt in your head, I'm just talking about what your comment suggested, even if wasn't directly advocated. You mention ethical codes as filling in a gap here (where there the financial incentives work against you), and my point that it's not really effective for this scale (e.g. the level of coordination for the evil to be avoided). If you didn't mean or realize that implication, fine, I'm just speaking to how it comes off.
It's debatable whether they were stupid reasons, that's your opinion.

But yes, it's called Right to work.

> A Right To Work law guarantees that no person can be compelled, as a condition of employment, to join or not to join, nor to pay dues to a labor union.

This results in less powers to unions, which means employers have more freedom of discretion to fire employers, but also means employees are not forced into massive corrupt labor unions that halt efficiency.

Right to work states are mostly red states.
typically deploying to production around a hundred times per day

That is insane!

We make a release once a week at work and things still go wrong sometimes. I am in awe how they are able to pull this off, especially at their scale.
Inflation remains low? Seriously, I have no idea how they are computing that rate when asparagus is $4.99/pound these days. It seems like low rates feed the housing bubble nicely, and if housing costs were more adequately represented in the CPI, it would be much higher.
There's also another Twitter thread that has the final, cleaned up panoramas: https://twitter.com/DonaldM38768041/status/12345820835126190...
Netflix uses Druid for Real-Time Insights
Oh, and one way I've heard to express it is that most businesses are focused on costs and profits. But the right approach is to focus on value creation and waste.

So if I'm making hamburgers, the way to sustained profit isn't identifying my biggest cost (say, beef) and then cutting it. It's by identifying the biggest wastes and reducing them. So the first thing I do is to reduce beef inventory, so I'm not throwing out unused meat (or serving old meat, which also reduces customer value). I minimize overproduction, so I'm not tossing (or serving) staled cooked burgers. Maybe I change how the patty is made, because all things equal people like the look and flavor of a thinner but wider burger that peeps past the edge of he bun.

Similarly, I'd look at customer service as a way to maximize value delivered. Even if we make and sell a product that's in theory great, no value is delivered if a person can't figure out how to work it. So obviously, we need to help every person who buys it. But then we also look upstream in the process, to see how we can redesign the product and its experience so that customer support is less necessary. That in turn lets existing CS staff discover and mitigate less obvious problems.

Is that helpful?
Yeah. Not sure - maybe it dates from a time when clojure was just a toy or prototype or something.
I prefer dry. I think ice wine is gross, but I wouldn't want to ruin it for others.
Robinhood Picked a Bad Day to Break
They probably wouldn't - you wouldn't want the phone to die if someone unplugged the charger during high usage.
Potassium metal battery emerges as a rival to lithium-ion technology
From the Havard PDF on NoteTaking [1]:

● Avoid transcribing notes (writing every word the instructor says) in favor of writing condensed notes in your own words.

● Review your notes on the same day you created them and then on a regular basis, rather of cramming your review into one long study session prior to an exam.

● Test yourself on the content of your notes either by using flashcards or using methodology from Cornell Notes[2]. Testing yourself informs you what you do not yet know from your notes and successful recall of tested information improves your ability to recall that information later (you will be less likely to forget it).

● Carefully consider whether to take notes on pen and paper or with a laptop. There are costs and benefits to either option. For example, note-taking on a laptop may allow you to include more content in your notes, but at the risk of being distracted by unrelated tasks.

● Avoid the misperception that you know lecture content better than you actually do, which can lead to poor study habits. While course topics may appear easy to understand in class, they may be rather difficult as you are reviewing them several
weeks later while preparing for the exam. Be aware that you will forget some of what you have learned and adopt better study habits to address the gaps in your knowledge.

[1]https://hwpi.harvard.edu/hilt/files/hilt/files/notetaking_0....

[2]http://coe.jmu.edu/learningtoolbox/cornellnotes.html
Oughts isn't ises.
We've fixed the typo in your comment above.
In the eyes of apocalypse, we are all the same.