skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But if the goto fail code had been run through an automated code formatter it would have been more obvious because the human indenting error would be fixed.

Is it possible to write a formatter that would fix an issue like that for yaml or python for example?
It doesn't even pass the sniff test. Why assume that a virus originating in wild animals which interact with humans reached humans by escaping BSL-3 containment, rather than by wild animals interacting with humans?

Especially given the prior form of this conspiracy theory having held that the virus didn't merely escape from a lab but was created in one, I'm suspicious that what we're seeing here is an attempt to sneak that original, stronger claim
in on the back of this weaker version.
Apple and Google Covid-19 Contact Tracing
I feel like most quarters won't necessarily give easy opportunities for insider trading, because stock prices over the course of the quarter are greatly moved by macro trends that are hard to forecast. But there are definitely some short-term events that move a stock in fairly predictable ways (an acquisition offer, an imminent recall, earnings coming in way way above or below guidance, etc). With a bit of leverage it's easy to just wait and make plenty of money off of particular events rather than maintaining a continuous insider-trading portfolio. Of course this strategy makes your trades much more suspicious too...
> I self-hosted my website on 56k

Some can barely afford a cheap prepaid phone to make occasional calls, let alone a landline to tie up 24/7. Even then, running a web server is not trivial for most of the general public, a dial-up or DSL line is unlikely to come with a static IP address, and if folks don't know how to run a webserver, they certainly don't know how to set up a hostname with dynamic DNS.

> What you're talking about is business crap leaking into areas it shouldn't. Uptime, availability, CDNs. All completely unneeded.

No. You're talking about that. My point was much more basic.
This is hardly an issue for server side config files or CI/CD config stuff.
Honestly doubt that watching the movie is the pure and core reason people go to the cinema. I only go to get out of the house and share the experience with friends. I am usually annoyed at how loud the cinemas are, if it was about fidelity I would stay at home.
Yep, seems to have the same functionality.

I've submitted beta feedback indicating my concerns.
So if no one can play the market successfully, it’s socialism propping up the rich and forced austerity for the poor to maintain the “story”, as Trump calls it, romantic nonsense as Thiel writes about it, propping up the imagined belief we need elites pushing us forward.

Elite wealth managers alone, btw. A minority of rich actually have marketable skills.

Has nothing to do with business acumen (math models have shown one time success was luck not skill and continued success is simply bought; hi Bloomberg)

So yeah let’s keep playing this game, guys! Physics I’m sure shows somewhere this was predetermined by the motion of the stars and matter we can’t see.

Why NOT subject the mathematical majority to a system that (conveniently) won’t educate them well enough to even offer a chance at falsifying the underlying presumptions!
What if instead of text based chat you had to post voice responses. May make it more real?
I've heard about this study but haven't read it carefully. My problem with these studies is that their methods of analysis are overly complicated I'm not knowledgeable enough to know if the results are being managed.

The range is from 1993-1998 while this was published in 2004. I'm not sure why that range was selected.

Also, consider the universe:

> Initially, we begin with 6,052 transactions. Before analysis we apply several
screens to the data. Only U.S. common stocks are included in the study. These
screens eliminate, among other things, all preferred stock, ADRs, REITs, foreign
stocks, and mutual funds. We also eliminate all initial public offerings (IPOs)
from the sample.2 In total, 360 observations are eliminated for the reasons given
above. Among the surviving transactions, approximately 59% of the stocks are
listed on the NYSE, 40% are traded on the NASDAQ, and about 1% are listed on
the ASE.

Why eliminate those other things? Would the conclusion have changed if they had been included?

> As indicated previously, Senators report transaction amounts only within broad
ranges.

Ranges are as follows:

$1,001 to $15,000

$15,001 to $50,000

$50,001 to $100,000

$100,001 to $250,000

$250,001 to $500,000

$500,001 to $1,000,000

over $1,000,000

And from the paper:

> As before, we again estimate the value of their trades using the midpoint of the range reported by the Senators for all transactions less than $250,000. For all transactions above $250,000, we assume a transaction size equal to $250,000.

Why floor it at 250? Why not keep the midpoint, at least for 250 - 500 and 500 - 1mm?

I also thought it was odd to look at two portfolios, one of buys and one of sells. If the buys outperformed, but sells were a lot larger, then its not a good strategy on the whole. That's before we even get to the performance measure used.

Think could all be above the board and decided upon prior to actually crunching the numbers. But there are too many things here for me to definitively buy the narrative.
Why risk your life and the lives of others to go watch a movie? Not essential and therefore very questionable.
Cool times anyway. Windows 95 brought back the fun I was missing so much since when I reluctantly moved from my beloved Amiga 4000 to an anonymous Pentium PC circa 1994 - I had been programming under Windows 3.11 for a while when Commodore went down the drain.
There are a few other problems working with trad distributors & retailers that drive publishers batty:

- Retailers expect to pay a 55% discount off list and return books that don't sell. (https://outskirtspress.com/articles_trade.html)

- Many retailer won't work with anything that's self-pubbed or POD, although the latter issue is changing as quality improves.

- Distributors want to have review copies, art, promo materials, etc. in hand many months before the official release date (6 is typical) which forces planning and editorial deadlines to start at least 18 months in advance.

Ingram is a silent giant in the U.S. book publishing industry. TFA mentioned IngramSpark for self-pubbed authors, but Ingram has other wholesale and distribution programs aimed at traditional and indie publishers as well as the iPage book database, which many retailers and libraries use to place orders and find titles for their customers/patrons. This post outlines their approach to indies: https://www.ingramcontent.com/blog/demystifying-book-distrib...
This is how The Mighty Slime Mold hunts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YWbY7kWesI

>How This Blob Solves Mazes | WIRED

>Physarum polycephalum is a single-celled, brainless organism that can make “decisions,” and solve mazes. Anne Pringle, who is a mycologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, explains everything you need to know about what these slime molds are and how they fit into our ecosystem.
nginx/1.10.3 (Ubuntu), really?
A dumb idea I had was to turn each and every occupation into a competitive sports.
This is a good example of how Ag supply chains fail because when they work, they work well..when they fail, they fail spectacularly. We are dealing with perishables.

The supply chain insecurity and instability is the reason I advocate for local food and smaller farms to take care of food. Another interesting point is that all the food destroyed is classified as commodities or grown at commodity scale.

I am a proponent of automation of Ag in small acreages for local food supply. Currently only commoditization of Ag get Agtech investment $$.

I guess that is necessary, but imo, Agtech for food supply and localization of short supply chains hasn’t even started attracting investment ..esp for automation.

We are going to need small local farms and because no one is going to be willing to drag a plough, we are going to need compact farm bots to automate most of labour and consumer sized Agtech to deliver food to be self sufficient. When supply chains are tight and taut, there won’t be any wastage.
that is not quite correct. apart from the gymnasium which you enter in 5th grade (not at age 8) there is also the gesamtschule which offers all three kinds of graduations. in a gesamtschule the decision to do the final three years of high school to get the abitur isn't really made until you are in grade 10. so there is absolutely no reason that anyone is prevented from getting into university just because they or their parents didn't decide early enough.

as for the cost of living, there is financial support for everyone who otherwise can't afford it. if the majority of students depend on their parents then thats because those parents can afford it.

but money is not the main reason why most people don't get into university.

germany has other good options for higher education besides university. the USA does not.

it is only natural that most people follow their parents when it comes to higher education. i do not see that as a problem that needs to be solved. it may be beneficial to mix things up a little, but university education is not a panacea, and i'd rather see the reputation and recognition of alternatives increased.
Or just charge cover/raise tix/charge a "corking fee" and allow people to bring their own
Not even talking about the haptic feedback, pressure sensitivity (fun for drawing, handy for quicklook and dozens of other things). Precision? Oh yes. Moving per pixel is bliss.

It might sound elitist, but if someone tells me they have a better input interface than one of apple's trackpad, my mind goes somewhere else. I even replaced the mouse at my work with their trackpad.

I remember when I was big at CSGO and wanted to play a few matches on the go one time. I still ranked pretty high, with a TRACKPAD.
The theory about the virus being accidentally released from a Chinese lab was actually the original, dating back to January - the claim that it was created in a Chinese lab seems to have sort of metamorphised out of that as it spread.
Smooth scrolling isn't impossible, but it does need to be specially implemented. Firefox does so if you set the environment variable MOZ_USE_XINPUT2 to 1. Of course, on Mac OS X, it's built-in to the UI toolkit, so every application has it.
Thanks for the pointer. I hadn’t heard about this at all!
Interesting that, at the time of commenting, his Wikipedia page hasn't been updated with his death yet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Horton_Conway

Peace, and rest.
Having a family at the top of a corporation does usually lead to the firm operating with long term vision more consistently.

Yes, if a Chaebol style leadership was in Boeing, MD corporate leadership wouldn't have gotten the chance to ruin Boing. We all know that the take over of Boing by MD leadership is why we have 737 Max.

I am sure there are many many hedge funds that would love to asset strip Samsung or any other chaebol of S. Korea.
Their Terms of Service (https://help.github.com/en/github/site-policy/github-terms-o...) say:
One person or legal entity may maintain no more than one free Account (if you choose to control a machine account as well, that's fine, but it can only be used for running a machine).
Sure!

[0] Official I2P Java client download: https://geti2p.net/en/download. Once started, you should check the router console, on localhost:7657. You can check the firewall settings on localhost:7657/confignet (which TCP/UDP ports to open, for instance).

[0a] If you want to host an eepsite (I2P's anonymous websites), you should follow indications located on localhost:7658. You'll have to set 'http://localhost:4444' as your browser's proxy to visit eepsites (*.i2p).

[0b] I2P technical documentation: https://geti2p.net/en/docs/.

[1a] i2pd (C++ implementation): https://github.com/PurpleI2P/i2pd/releases/tag/2.31.0

[1b] i2pd documentation (very useful) https://i2pd.readthedocs.io/en/latest/.

[2] List of supported I2P applications (it might be outdated): https://geti2p.net/en/docs/applications/supported.

[3] MuWire (file sharing program): https://muwire.com or muwire.i2p.

[4] Popular torrent tracker: http://tracker2.postman.i2p.

Keep in mind it can take several minutes for your router to get some speed.
That presumes, which is always my complaint about this subject, that this is an advantage. I'd say that's what sh, ksh, and bash have over powershell (tm).

The problem with pipelines of objects is that it is inherently a more strongly typed, defined, interface. And therefore special-case. Streams of characters is as loosely typed as it gets. And for processing text files and gluing disjointed tools together, it may seem crude, but is very effective. Especially for quick text processing jobs, or automating series of commands.

The UNIX shell concept has been honed and refined over 50 years to do exactly what it does, and it does it very well. It is also extremely generic. This choice was on purpose and has stood up well to the test of time.

Powershell is somewhat a perl-for-windows-admins. A write only pile of special tools and special cases for the peculiarly baroque system interfaces of that particular OS. Neither better or worse than VBA from what I can tell, just the passing style this decade.
The site kept getting hugged to death, so I'm temporarily adding a free login gate to reduce the traffic load
Memories by Desire
You don’t “have” to make things async just because they’re remote.
I don't think it's just badly-designed XML that turned people off it. XML itself is just not very good for configuration: it's repetitive, there's no straightforward way of making a set of key-value pairs (just a long set of representations with different tradeoffs), and it's quite complex to parse and process because it has such an all-encompassing scope. I feel like XML is only really the right answer if you have something which resembles a document which you want to mark up, which is a tiny subset of what it is marketed and actually used for.
I have auto update turned on and I'm still on 10.15.3.
I started using this expression in 2006 when developing apps for flip-phones. It was common for the phones to fail to reliably receive app installation files and mid-way through the process, disconnect their serial ports from my development computer.

After that the phones would be, essentially, a brick.

I did not have the technology to fix it - a JTAG connector and software to drive a reinstallation of what I assumed was the firmware.
Hey! Interestingly I watched that video a few months ago and I didn’t know who that person was. It did trip me up and I had to listen to that passage twice to understand what he was trying to say. The rest of the video was amazing though!

So you definitely have a point.
+1 for the bit about machine generated code. I think if you're going to have significant whitespace, Haskell does the right thing here: the indentation rules are specified in terms of automatic insertion of braces and semicolons. Almost nobody is them in by hand, but they make codegen easier.

Re: the bad merge, that can happen the other way to: this was the cause of Apple's infamous goto fail bug. I think block structured languages should do what go and some others do: braces on conditionals and loops are mandatory, parens are optional.
If you're in the Java world, HOCON is pretty neat.

https://github.com/lightbend/config
Once a summer or so, my family goes to the Kenda Drive In in Marshall, Arkansas.

People usually play frisbee and socialize while we wait for darkness to arrive. Food and snacks are delicious and moderately priced. The ticket to get in is something like $20 a carload.

I don't know how the owners make money. I figure it must be some kind of community service project, promoting a wholesome community. It is awesome.
Pretty clickbait title
Blocks are handled via indentation.

let function1() =
for i in 1 .. 10 do
printf "%d " i
printfn ""
function1()

borrowed from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/fsharp/language-refe...
Macbook Pro's trackpad is _HUGE_. It's just about half the width of a 15" macbook pro.
Let a handful of lawyers that work in cases that overlap your expertise know about what you can offer them. Once you have a successful gig under your belt, further gigs are easier since lawyers are themselves a niche "market" and prefer working with people who are experienced and knowledgeable (and therefore vetted) about working with other lawyers.
Breaking apis, is breaking apis. Even for security reasons.

Removing something that works is not, in itself, "improving" security. It is breakage in the holy name of security.

If you have broken your system in the name of security it is not a more secure system. Its just a broken system that does not do its job. It might be "more secure" when users fix api usage, in the mean time its useless and is going to cost everyone time & money to fix.

It might makes more sense in the long run to move to something with a stable api.
See, that's exactly the problem. They tack on "nuclear" and "critical" to empty phrases so they sound scary to people who know nothing about nuclear fission. Thanks for confirming.
I gave up trying to buy from Amazon, and I'm finding many interesting Shopify sites that focus on particular areas. I had no idea all these companies existed. It made me realize that Amazon serves a singular purpose for me in peace time: fast shipping. Low prices (don't care) and wide selection (Google search) are solvable otherwise. But it's just simply the fastest shipping. Now that it isn't, I'm much less loyal.
Wholly agreed. I have no current ambition to actually do it in the foreseeable future. But if someone does I would love to hear about it. And that they do it safely & wisely, with honesty and the Golden Rule etc etc :) Maybe we could learn some good things from it, and it seems almost as interesting to me as space travel.
I learned about that when I was reading the novel by Pynchon. I can't remember whether it was actually in the novel or if I stumbled across it while cross referencing.
Freenode is where I turn when I'm completely stumped by a tough problem. Some helpful person usually points me in the right way quickly. Sometimes I can even point someone in the right direction myself.
I myself use DAVx^5 with NextCloud for many years and it works fine. But having written quite a bit of client code for CalDAV, let me tell you these are really arcane protocols in dire need of replacement. It's really no fun at all, and I wish "we all" could move to something a bit more modern (which essentially means: something more RESTy). I have no idea how this could work, though...
> Due to release process failures, Node.js v10.20.0 shipped with source and header tarballs that did not properly match the final release commit that was used to build the binaries. We recommend that Node.js v10.20.0 not be used, particularly in any applications using native add-ons or where compiling Node.js from source is involved.

Yeeeeesh.
I like to make hierarchical text outlines.

I feel like once you need a general graph sort of structure, you're too far down the road to spaghetti and/or excessive detail.
>still holding off on claiming that this virus ties into that concern...

But that claim is not being made here.

>then it is not a case of human activists encroaching...

...nor is that claim being made. Did you really mean to say activists? Even if it’s a typo and you meant activities, that still is not at all what’s being said. The idea is more about climate patterns and the plausibility that changes in them (regardless of cause) could change migration ranges.

BTW when it comes to China, National Review is a pretty biased source.
What Einstein May Have Gotten Wrong
Even so, there is still a lot of text manipulation that you need to do that is simply a distraction from the actual functionality of your script
If it were written in Python that particular category of bug simply could not exist. The human perceived block level always matches the machine read block level.

In short, there's no issue to fix.
Never mind! It's not that interesting, what with the announcements at the top of the page explaining why the page is locked for editing.
You can "airgap" a gaming system so you can't use any external resources. It is very clear what you can use and what you can't.

Here you have a network connection and you should use it. It's part of the challenge. What counts as an external setup?
This. After having read a lot of papers you can find out how you can use that knowledge to produce another one.
Not that it's any better -- but for what it's worth, YAML is a recursive acronym for "YAML Ain't Markup Language"
Many software bricks can be resolved with a screwdriver and solder iron, then reflash, pull battery or gate.
As I understand it, not all components are sourced from the same manufacturer for the entire run of any one model.

But you're still absolutely right. They should be testing every possible configuration.
What he's arguing is that if you have this:

BUTTON 1 - BUTTON 2 - BUTTON 3

In your situation, you have to tap, lift finger, place finger to move, lift finger, tap, etc.
In the other situation, you have to place finger, press lightly, move finger, press lightly, move finger, etc.

Using tap-to-click can't be faster than the other situation.

That said, I use both. Sometimes I just tap, sometimes I press, sometimes I press harder.
With any downvotes, I would appreciate a courteous, thoughtful comment. I have not understood the possible harm in what I said, only likely disagreement. Disagreement is OK, but it seems that it could be better to write clearly rather than just quietly hide.
What is even greater: with version 1.0 TOML supports different value types in arrays. That means it is compatible with JSON data structures and allows easy conversion of existing applications to it!
I'm now* waiting
Bathrooms / Porta-potties.

Litter.

And self-control. Kids especially - they'll car hop.
Why the US still doesn’t have a contact tracing app for Covid-19
The shell would then have to also have a mechanism to pass all local state such as command history, local non-exported variables (including shell functions), open file descriptors, currently running jobs, etc. to the subshell.
Do What You Love: and Other Lies About Success and Happiness
This is what I've been using, but it appears to be abandoned now?

I finally got the caldav part of it to work for a group of people using various flavors of Mac, Linux, and Windows -- PCs and phones. It was a huge pain in the ass, because each client accepted a different form of base-url-plus-calendar-locator, and some very non-technical users were on the other side of the planet, and it took weeks of trial and error before we got everything working.

Carddav looks hopeless, I can't even something that works between DavX5 on my android phone, and whatever the hell my wife's iPhone needs, and we're in the same room.
Keiretsu-type groups that do everything in-house can prevent whole business sectors from emerging.

In Japan the relative lack of independent software companies have been attributed to Keiretsu structure. Software development was just in-house activity to serve established product divisions. It was not seen as business to be sold independently. For example, Toyota made whole integrated CAD/CAM/CAE system called 'TOGO' in the late 90s.

As a result Japan has been mostly no-show in software business outside console games. Software they develop is sold inside hardware.
Really wish GroupDAV would have gained more traction.
They are like Apple. Lots of marketing a medium quality product but charging luxury pricing.

They do this from TV, to smart phones, to SSD, to appliances.

They are on my "no buy" list.