skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Technically this would work with any interlisted stock, though the DLR ETF is very popular for this because of its liquidity.

An interlisted bank/telecom stock has far more liquidity than DLR does.

This is a bit of a problem because you’ll pay at least half a cent or a cent in spread for your purchase and sale to the market makers. This adds up a lot more quickly on a $10 DLR than a $100 bank stock that’s liquid enough to have the same spread.

A 1cent spread costs you 0.1% for the buy and then again for the sale on DLR. On a $100 stock, it’s 0.01%.

DLR’s advantage is that it isn’t volatile because it only holds dollars and nothing else.

If you use a bank stock, the advantage is that you’re “in the market” during the duration of your trade. On average, that’s a plus, but you could lose/gain a few percent in the time it takes to journal.

The other disadvantage of DLR is that it does have a management fee. You shouldn’t hold it for long periods, but it’s another mark against DLR.
Microsoft Windows. I lose 10-20 minutes 1-5x a day just logging in to Windows in the NHS...
WYSIWYG editors...

worst: confluence, bottom: desktop office suites, still bad: google docs
Berkeley University unlocks its course on happiness
Private until someone flags someone or everyone as infected.
The authors of DP-3T have already explained the privacy holes in their scheme. It's in the trade-offs section of the paper; eavesdroppers, savvy hackers and governments can identify and track infected users (to varying extents) without much trouble.

A tech-savvy person could drive by your house and find out your IDs for that day. If you reveal them later on (as you would if infected), that person would know you're infected. In small towns a single person could in practice publish a database of all infected households.

A government can install Bluetooth receivers throughout a city and find out where an infected user passed by.
You're right of course. We we should have a preferred order. Let's define conditions as something common like group chat. Let's also define backdoor as something that allows any non-group member to read the messages.

1. Signal: Open source with E2EE group chats. Best choice, let's use that.

2. WhatsApp, Proprietary with E2EE group chats. E2EE implementation might have a backdoor with some probability. Let's avoid it if we can.

3. Telegram: Open source client with no E2EE group chats. The implementation leaks all group chats to server and anyone who hacks the server, and there's nothing we can do. It's backdoored by design. Let's avoid it at all costs.
Dunno. I went to two EE schools, and in many classes teachers stressed that to get results we need to make assumptions that are only partially true, to approximate, to skip over [irrelevant] details, etc. And this was very deliberate and stated upfront.

And, I still like to nitpick. :) Hmm. Maybe it's because you have to be aware of the details/limits to be able to figure out what approximations and simplifications are reasonable.

Maybe that's where the value of nitpicky mindframe lies.
> at least two of {true, necessary, kind}

Are "necessary" and "kind" lies acceptable?
another popular alternative I see mentioned a lot https://github.com/wting/autojump

> autojump is a faster way to navigate your filesystem. It works by maintaining a database of the directories you use the most from the command line.
How to figure out what motivates you, besides money
Ask HN: How can I restore my concentration when reading?
Years of skimming text online and rapidly flicking between browser tabs has severely impaired my ability to just stop and read something in print or online with my full attention and concentration. I can't even enjoy a novel sometimes because my mind won't quieten down and instead will wonder off to another thought.

As soon as I attempt to devote my full attention to a text - not skimming but properly reading all the text and concentrating of the meaning of the text - my mind fires off a myriad other thoughts that dilutes any attempt to concentrate on just one thing: the text in front of me.

Have you ever been in a similar situation? How did you overcome it?
I don’t understand why we go through all this trouble? If we’re talking about Apple and Google they already have all information about where the majority of people have been (everyone that didn’t explicitly turn off their location tracking services).

It also doesn’t require anyone to install an app...
In the spirit of dialectic (thesis/antithesis/synthesis) it is
precisely context which determines the "truth", "relevance" and "correctness" of any claim - to assume it a-priori is a framing tactic.

The premise "Garbage collectors are nice and save a lot of work." is true precisely for the set of problem-domains (read: contexts) for which GC is the solution. Outside of those problem-domains, "GC is not always nice and can create a whole lot of work." is also a true statement.

If you are arguing for any one of those two view-points without acknowledging the validity of the opposing view, then that tells us way more about your problem-domain than it does about the utility of GC.

When you are using a ruler to measure a table, you are also using the table to measure the ruler...
Interesting, I had a similar issue with my NZ-issued TransferWise card, however it resolved itself in a few days. This was in Dubai airport & then across a few merchants in the UK, though.
On the one hand Vivado is not entirely terrible considering that it can get some work done, but on the other hand it's beyond me why it's lacking the most basic needs of software development.

Zero support for source control? SoC have no examples, why can't they systematically provide an hello world example (blink a LED) with their development boards? The IDE itself has close to zero doc and there is no help on the internet, it takes 3 freaking days for an experienced developer to figure out how to create a project.
Ha I got a random color and thought “Mutant Green”. Turns out there are 4 other colors named that! Well done all around!!
I used to work together with a sales guy and he both increased revenue and made customers happy, mostly by chatting with people about their issues on the phone and inviting existing customers out for dinner to solicit feedback and/or tutor people on how to better use our software.

Him showing prospective customers how to make our software work for them produced both healthy revenue boosts for us, and also large monetary savings for our customers. Similarly, introducing the right IBM technology into your company can be a purely positive game-changer.

While there are certainly dishonest sales people out there - just like there are dishonest programmers -, it wouldn't be fair to derogate all of them as "leeches".
I’ve been working remotely between NZ and the UK for the last 7 years. I was dealing with HSBC and then Barclays Wealth in the UK but recently started using the TransferWise Borderless account after Barclays wanted £40 a month account fees...

They make everything so painlessly easy. It could take a couple of days to get cash from the UK to NZ where it can be under an hour with TransferWise. I can’t sing their praises loud enough, especially after having the deal with UK banks
Installing bluetooth receivers throughout a city is only feasible if you plan to use it for way more than just coronapatient tracking.
Devuan is a fork of Debian and it's alive and well.
To emulate the live preview, there is a neat piece of software called entr[1], from their main page, you can do something like:

ls | entr make

And whenever you save a change, the build is triggered and the preview is updated.

[1]: http://eradman.com/entrproject/
Acid2 Test for Game Boy Color
"OMG! We know ID 04d07402e5a502fb7ae0a7847853f1ac5d2a280729901a29738fb3b017135934 is infected and not quarantining but we have no idea who they are! If only this system weren't built for security we could save the elderly! Won't someone please think of grandma?"

You really think that won't be the predicate for abandoning security and anonymity?
A First Look at Timothée Chalamet in Dune
I miss Arch occasionally but I don’t like being responsible for the operation of my machine; I would rather delegate it to the operating system. ;)

The good thing about Ubuntu is that it’s the default “Linux” (distribution) so whatever you are looking for, there is likely an AskUbuntu question, a .deb package, a blogpost, or a mailing-list entry to help.
Google has always had variations between the [query keywords] results of the “Google indexes” AND the “literal website keyword instances/indexes”; that’s not new, unrelated to search operations aside from the fact that advanced search operators make this more easy to see.

(In fact, the article I linked to references this as a way to do quality assurance on Google’s indexing on content on your own domains.)

———

Note that the sum of the counts for the following three queries:

[“aaa” AND “bbb” site:domain.com]

[“aaa” AND -“bbb” site:domain.com]

[-“aaa” AND “bbb” site:domain.com]

...in theory should equal count of this query:

[“aaa” OR “bbb” site:domain.com]

...in practice though, they never have; by never, since Google first released their search results.

——

Further, while counts frequently are over 1000, only the first 1000 search results are viewable, and vast majority of searches only pull the first 10 results and review an even smaller percentage of those 10 results.
Sure. So I go to cancel my account. Not unhappy with the service, just trying to save some money. Recurring subscriptions start to add up.

No cancel button. Read the online documentation. To cancel you have to delete all your computers from your profile which deletes the underlying backups.

The yearly charge will be authorized in the days before your subscription expires “so there’s no interruption in service.” But you can’t tell them you want to cancel without deleting all your backups and you don’t know when the charge is going to renew.

So in order to use you’re full subscription you’ll need to set an alarm to cancel on that day, and then go ask for a refund because they’ve already charged you for the next year.

It’s an intentional dark pattern to make cancelling difficult.
We're free to make our own licensing choices of course. This is all in an interest of a discussion.

As I said, this is a choice between not passing on any less freedom you yourself received vs the absolute freedom to do whatever.

As far as the GPL is concerned, your code cannot be more free, because it's precisely the limits the GPL imposes that make it valuable.

I'd say the BSD is more "developer-friendly", whereas the GPL is more "user-friendly", in a broader sense.

The BSD licenses are more 'absolutely free' in a libertarian sense, whereas the GPL offers certain guarantees and if your definition of freedom fails within, they're a lot stronger than what BSD offers, but it's not for everybody.
For travel, is there any benefit to using TransferWise's debit card over a traditional debit/credit card that advertises 0 foreign transaction fees?

I remember somewhere about how the conversion rates are dictated by Visa/Mastercard on most credit/debit cards. Wondering how those rates compare to TransferWise's, and if their extra fee on top is justified.

Some examples:
https://www.schwab.com/checking
https://creditcards.chase.com/rewards-credit-cards/sapphire/...
GPL gives freedom to the end user of the software, while (for example) MIT gives freedom to the programmer.

People who think GPL is less free than MIT missed the point of freedom GPL is about.
It will compliment CCTV quite nicely... and since the former can do biometric identification then cross referencing that ID# 04d07402e5a502fb7ae0a7847853f1ac5d2a280729901a29738fb3b017135934 is really Bob Smith who lives at 1234 Main Street will be easy enough.
To honour the 15th birthday of the Acid2 web standards compliance test, I'd like to present cgb-acid2 for Game Boy Color
It's a great project from a great idea, but I'm a little desapointed that it seems to be turned into a joke contest.

For example, most voted name for 000009 is "Really Dark Blue ", which does not really work...
How about letting nature take it's course?
They didn't have Google Apple and Facebook before and we survived plagues that make Covid look like a joke.
I think I've used a very similar one called LazyDocker. But after a while I found that it wasn't that useful, and I don't like seeing the "donate" button in my face all day (call me old-fashioned).

The true power of CLI apps comes from "alias" commands that you build up yourself. The following commands are great examples of this:

alias docker-kill-all='docker kill `docker ps -aq`'
alias docker-rm-all='docker rm `docker ps -aq`'

After a while I've learnt that a gui or cli-gui can never compose as well as the terminal can...
Doesn't TopTracker payments require both freelancer and client to create a Payoneer account? Requiring clients to sign up for Payoneer is a huge barrier to adoption for your service.
>unless you maintained a 100% strict policy of only installing using Ports (yeah right)

What do you mean "yeah right"? That's precisely how everyone I know has always managed our BSD fleets. If something isn't in ports (yeah right), you just make a port out of it. It takes 5 minutes unless the software has some crazy messed up build system.
FTA

IBM has tried to get around this by insisting its non-contract is a contract for the purpose of satisfying California law, but isn't a contract such that it makes its commission terms enforceable.

The leeches are the lawyers and managers who come up with nonsense like that
I make one change to every new .bashrc file.

I change this:

HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000

to:

HISTSIZE=1000000
HISTFILESIZE=2000000

You would be surprised how useful this one change has been, answering historical questions easily, like how to generate that rsa key, or what packages did I install for that project last year.

You can usuall answer questions with ^r instead of the man page. Or maybe:

"history | grep -C 10 <foo>"
I second that. I loose 5 to 10 minutes every time I want to change a network setting. No idea how it got messed up so bad. What used to be two mouse clicks away from the desktop in XP is now hidden away by the "settings" app that doesn't contain any settings at all.
I agree that academia isn't only about following a set of rigid rules, but following rigid rules is certainly partly what academia is about. For example, you must include all data. Omitting data is research misconduct.

> I still don't think that trimming a graph in a way that doesn't even change the conclusion of the sentence that refers to it … is worth trashing an entire 300 page book.

You're strawmanning. The trimming is simply the most obvious of many errors found in a single chapter. There are other known errors as well as (probably) unknown errors.

That said, I think we should be forgiving when people make mistakes as long as they own up to them. Neither the author, the publisher nor the university have demonstrated much of a commitment to research integrity in this case. That's my main complaint.
That is true, but I suppose the issue arises from people who cannot make an accurate assessment on the "necessary" front.
Perhaps a loose interpretation of “wasted”, but multiple different games have wasted a lot of time I would otherwise have spent doing more productive things. E.g. currently I have a side project that is actually really interesting to me but I have been spending my limited free time (with a toddler and an infant to keep up with) playing Deus Ex Mankind Divided. I may not end up spending an actual 100 hours in it, but I did a few years back with its predecessor Human Revolution.
How do Google and apple access each others' data?
You're just making that up, you know. Nuclear has been given such horrible handicaps as 100% loan guarantees. Oh the burden they operate under!
TensorFlow TFRecord File Viewer
LaTeX. Compiler errors, add-ons from the 80s, and unhelpful defaults. No problem to write Chinese chara… oh, in this environment? Sorry.

C++ compiler (or even better: linker) errors. They are just not meant to be read by humans, lacking any pointers on what's really the issue.
Coronavirus: Huawei urges UK not to make 5G U-turn after pandemic
I will almost always get a least one developer making exactly the argument in the example whenever I suggest Python, so their point stands. When I proposed Django, getting a Rails counter proposal doesn't fall into the "100% correct but misses the point entirely", it is entirely on the nose.

So your counterpoint is ironically similar to the articles point.
It didn't say sales folks suck, it was merely a comment that it's a difficult choice and your comment also shows that - if "sales leeches" get cheated everyone gets impacted (including customers).

Perhaps a better question would be should one (facts aside) emotionally align with Sales or Management. Engineering and others most certainly weren't asked and Sales likely didn't come up with the idea to screw themselves over.
Correct vs curious. Brilliant. Thank you.

What's the opposite of pedantic? "Colloquial"? Please tell me.

Whatever we end up calling it, both Adam Gordon Bell and Ezra Klein are superior.

While listening to Abstraction and Learning with Runar Bjarnason https://corecursive.com/027-abstraction-with-runar-bjarnason... I was struck by how AGB is able to adopt Bjarnason's worldview and explore it. While I was busily compiling a list of all the ways I disagreed.

I'd like to become more like AGB.

Ezra Klein routinely does this. He's so cordial, respectful of his guests. He genuinely enjoys wearing other people's beliefs for the purpose of discussion. I got so much out of his interviews with Grover Norquist and George Will. I'm still surprised.

Klein's recent interview by Ben Shapiro (for his book Why We Are Polarized) is a master class in not being baited, staying on message, using measured humor to push back, and somehow engaging one's debate partner in a positive constructive enjoyable manner. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMOUiWCjkn4

I have no idea how Ezra Klein does it. Practice, temperament, experience?

Maybe the key is to just be curious, like you suggest.
How does one patch KDE2 under FreeBSD?
How to render your song as an image
Maybe using the system is optional, but it gets you into the high priority group when you're waiting in line for hospital access
I wonder if they could reduce the power to the Bluetooth chipset to artificially reduce the range?

Might be possible with iOS devices as it's pretty easy to test each of them. Harder to do with the 1000s of Android devices that exist.
But wait, with this system the infected ones have to voluntarily reveal their ID, otherwise nobody knows what their ID are. So how is "We know ID .... is infected but we have no idea who they are" possible?

edit: and no, the observable "ID" is not fixed, so you can't link two unknown IDs.
Performance comparison of parallel ray tracing in functional languages
If you assume roughly even distributions of talent across gender

Given the differences in the genders of who chooses to study the relevant qualifications, that's obviously a false assumption.

The amount of just unsourced vitriol of your comment is unapproachable

My comments are phrased in a level, factual manner. They're mostly retellings of things seen or experienced first hand, thus I am myself the source. But if you want sourced evidence of similar claims, by all means, go read the recruiter lawsuit against Google that was filed. It has plenty.

Maybe try talking to actual women in the field before making such wildly false claims

If you're going to assert a claim is false you need to pick something specific and show it's false, otherwise you're just blustering. And having direct experience of talking to women about this, I can tell you that many recognise the built-in advantage they have and are quite uncomfortable about it.

I do find it hilarious that there's this overarching "feminist propaganda" and despite all that tech companies still routinely have essentially no women in the engineering staff. [0]

It's pretty ironic that you put citation number in square brackets and then don't actually provide one, given your moaning about unsourced claims. As for "essentially no women" you mean about 15-20%, which is far cry from essentially none. It's this sort of thing that justifies my claim of propaganda; it's normal for jobs to have unbalanced distributions of genders. Very few jobs have exactly equal proportions of men and women. For instance HR has a higher proportion of women than software has a proportion of men, but I don't see much talk of the terrible anti-male bias that must obviously pervade the HR industry. /s
How to Interview Engineers When You're Not Technical – Part II
Space Shuttle was a system designed around classified military requirements that disappeared and left the civilian program holding the bag.
In areas with heavy coal mining activity the water and the soil is poisoned from erosion and runoff and people that live in these places come in enough contact with the toxins (mostly heavy metals) that they develop medical problems later in life. In practice the effect is about the same that you'd get if you lived in a radioactive area.
I used to trade FX in my hedge fund, where of course we got interbank rates. The spread would have 5 decimal places for something like EURUSD, so 1.12345 bid, 1.12346 offered, based on mixed prices from different brokers.

I was astonished when I tried to change some money in the retail market and instead of the 5th decimal digit being different, it would be the 2nd.

Luckily these days there's several services that will give you something near the same spread, close enough to not care to search for improvements. Revolut does something like that, as does TW. I'm sure some of the other challenger banks are doing this as well.

Another big bonus is they don't force you to change your money. This is a big deal if you have an old bank like Barclays that will see your incoming USD and change it to GBP, losing you several percent in the process. If you have Revolut or TW you can actually just keep your USD, chances are there's something you pay for in dollars.
Tangentially related: is there any payment gateway that allows one to accept international payments (for SAAS) paid out to transferwise accounts? I know paypal doesn't connect with TW. Is there any other gateway that does? Especially for Freelancers (not operating as a business).
I use rclone for that purpose.

https://rclone.org/crypt/
I can confirm that the revive via DFU works. It also works over normal USB (instead of usb-c) connector as I used my gf older mac pro late 2015. Be aware that you need at least Mojave 10.14.6+ as the app configurator can't be run/installed on previous versions. There is also a big difference in App configurator 2.10 vs the latest 2.12. On 2.10 (you can find dmg file on internet, but be careful about running untrusted software) you can restore BridgeOS on the chip without wiping the data. In version 2.12 it will wipe all data!

Initially, I tried to restore the system via Virtualbox where I installed Mojave via Apple Configurator but that didn't work as it break during the revival of the last step because of the constant USB de-plugging from host/guest machine during the process. I think just the revival step in 2.12 should also work as it flashes also the bridge os and power it up which should avoid any data loss but don't take this for granted.
> What happens then?

Nothing. Except a slightly elevated chance of getting infected.

Remember: The goal is not to (make your Grandmother) die for your cause, but to make the virus die for their ill-calibrated conspiracy theory.
In the US at least, I think you just argued exactly how the slippery slope isn't a slippery slope. The US government is never going to spring for getting every American a smartphone.