skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
unfortunately, I was unable to find one with a replaceable battery. I, at least, got one with other replaceable parts, though. I got the HP ENVY 15z (Ryzen 2500u).
New Loom Early Access Build (Java)
Ding ding ding. You get extra camp tickets for adding tests :)
There's one more layer above that: the user. That is to say it's a social problem as much as a technical one.
Don't mix up movies and reality. They are often based in reality, but movies exist for entertainment and that often means exaggeration of the truth for effect.
Xbox doesn't use Bluetooth (to talk to controllers)
Just for curiosity, what kind of processors and servers do you have?
All depends from hardware vendor. A lot of modern Android smartphones has encrypted bootloader for example, so, nothing prevent them to lock-in your device right now.
"In the United State there is an extreme anti-intellectual bias among conservative middle and lower class whites."

On the contrary, progressives in the US outright reject factual information and statistics and instead focus on political correctness and feelings.

There are many anti-intellectuals on both sides.
Is Permanent a consumer product or enterprise? B2 is definitely enterprise.
As far as I'm concerned, the people designing modern user interface styles are not doing it for my benefit.

They're doing it to sell adverts (removing the boundaries between content, forms and advertising), track where I'm looking (he's opened the scroll bar! our content is engaging/boring!), adopt fashions to make their competitors appear dated and justify their own careers.
lol, I disputed the idea that people don't dispute Covid's seriousness, and people thought I disputed Covid's seriousness and disputed the post itself. We have to go deeper.
Quelques nouveaux liens de plus, ça m'aidera à maximaliser la procrastination.

A few new links will help me maximize my procrastination.

/s
Sounds like a recipe for producing a handful of brilliant scientists and a generation of traumatised students.
That's probably the least controversial statement in the interview.
Who are some of the famous Russian authors for high school maths?

Sorry about going on a tangent but looking for good books for my kid.

Thanks!
Tax income is already way below spending. Countries are going deeper and deeper in debt every year.

The healthcare budget is a rather small part of the total government budget, a small increase is probably too small to register on the radar. But if it does, one might assume that the government would rather keep healthcare running, especially given the circumstances, and cut money anywhere else.

To make a comparison for US readers. Healthcare in Europe is like freedom of speech in the US. It's deeply ingrained in each citizen and cannot be taken away.
Or you could just listen to Depeche Mode [1]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TKHxp6VwwGY&list=PLiN-7mukU_...
Thanks for asking. Yes we are, but we want to always have a super generous free-tier. We were looking into charging educators for using Barbra in the classroom with more features (like tracking, permissions, etc), and also charging power-users (people with a lot of flashcards and notes) a small subscription fee of around 5-8$ a month.

What do you think? :) is it fair?
Yeah, my experience recently really reminds me of 90s Microsoft just coasting — except that they forgot to get that level of marketshare first.
The source is dead. I thought wikipedia would be better about that
In which state GitHub cannot be accessed on Jio's network?
Correct. In german it's called "Konjunktive Normalform" and targetted at a german class I decided not to translate it.
Technically she did not deceive though. If you read what she said everything is truthful.
'This comment' was asking with what authority fennecfoxen was claiming to know what 'the world at large' would prefer.

There was mention of 401k's (something I believe is peculiar to <5% of the world's population). The claim that emergency surgery was impossible during any kind of lockdown (not true, in my understanding). The claim that hospitals would be bankrupt without profitable procedures (something that simply doesn't make sense outside of the USA).

The GP is entirely speculative, and claims to speak for an audience that doesn't necessarily agree with them.

My question - in response to the claim that the world agrees with them - is what part of the world they are in, and what part do they claim to speak for. I don't understand what there is to understand with this question.
To be fair, in the nordic languages "middle of" something can mean "we're in the midst of an epidemic" or "we in an ongoing epidemic".
It's not true that one needs to pay for a reasonable computer-science education. One can learn wholly online for the cost of Internet connectivity.

The problem is that Lambda are vampires. Their model is completely superfluous. They do not add any value over self-assigned MIT lectures on Youtube. From what I have gathered, Lambda is the kind of setting where folks like me are supposed to show up and supplement the "teacher" and their lack of knowledge; normally, when I do that, I expect to be paid six figures per year.
I was under the impression that underwater cables were fairly reliable, but it seems they require frequent repair.

Per wikipedia:
> Still, cable breaks are by no means a thing of the past, with more than 50 repairs a year in the Atlantic alone,[48] and significant breaks in 2006, 2008, and 2009.
Firefox content process has a live connection to the X11 server
Either you use Electron or you don't.

VSCode is handling a lot of the heavier stuff in C++, but it's still an Electron app, with the sluggishness that comes with it. Compared to things like nvim or sublime text 3, VSCode performance ranges from "meh" to "ugh".

It's true that VSCode is somewhat usable (unlike Atom). However, it is not impressive, despite so much effort being put into its performance (including a vast amount of core code being written in C++).

For this reason, I take VSCode as the perfect counter-argument to Electron: It shows you that the absolute best case is somewhere between poor and mediocre responsiveness with pretty high resource consumption for the task.

(Anyone who finds VSCode to be snappy is either too used to the sluggishness of web, unfamiliar with how a responsive application feels, or has just thrown so much hardware at the problem that it ends up being decent.)
The problems here are searchability, padding to hide sensitive file size, and having to move large containers back and forth to make small edits. If the remote backup is designed around a proper client-side encrypting product, you can have all this easily. If the encryption is done with a plugin, you might accidentally forget to pipe backups through it, or you might misconfigure something. So yeah there's things like cryptomator, but they'll never be as properly designed service with automatic client-side encryption.
My South African cousins have desperately wanted an African Fortnite server. When playing on EU servers their latency was around 200ms on a good day iirc.
Good one.

Some folks have lost that ability a long time ago. Wink wink.
Something like this is in Josh Tannenbaum’s PhD thesis, where he calls it “The Numbers Game.” https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/16714

He uses the game to show that people do something akin to Bayesian updating over possible concepts and have certain intuitive priors (e.g., ‘even numbers’ is a priori more likely than {2, 7, 9, 31}).

This is briefly mentioned at the beginning of Kevin Murphy’s Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Approach, so you might also have encountered it there.
> I have no inside knowledge as to AWS chose Cape Town.

Well its public knowledge that Amazon has had a dev team in Cape Town for many years and they were part of the initial ECC efforts.
Popular isn't the same as influential. For a good example of "unparalleled influence", look at the Velvet Underground. They hardly sold any copies of their first album, but as (I think) Brian Eno observed, "Everyone who bought that album started a band". Velvet Underground and Nico is arguably one of the ten most important rock albums ever made.

Maybe, fifty years from now, we'll look back on that first Taylor Swift album as world-changing. But I doubt it. Talented? Yes, remarkably so. But I don't hear a "Heroin" or "Venus in Furs" level change in the very nature of music there.
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Hey, I'm not ageist either but I tend to avoid young inexperienced recruiters. They tend to make assumptions about salary expectations and are somewhat ossified (e.g. New is always better!) The actual age starts at <30. A recruiter in that age group is killing time looking for their 'real' job and has close to zero industry experience ... or life experience for that matter.
Even more so if you make it meta like you just did, watch this!
I don't think just plopping all the subject material in front of a student and expecting everyone to immediately "get it". Some people may have the intuition to read a group of definitions or a proof and suddenly understand the higher level concepts gluing everything together, but that certainly doesn't work for everyone.

Anecdotally, having a textbook that explains a concept via examples without jargon and informative pictures, then throwing all the definitions and proofs at me has been much more helpful to my understanding in multiple subject areas.

I'd also throw "extremely wordy passages" in there as well because having something repeated & reframed multiple times has help me understand something from multiple perspectives - and remind me of a previous definition at a crucial point in the text.
I've never heard of Blackblaze B2 but it seems good according to some reviews and cheaper. Does it have a Desktop app or UI or something like that? I'd love to replace Dropbox with this. If not, someone should do a UI wrapper around B2 and charge for it ;)
Curious to hear what you think were the most controversial statements were?
I feel the same, but I don't think that's the issue; the problem is that there is such extreme amounts of new music coming out everyday, and "everybody wants to reach everybody", i.e. a lot of artists are going for maximum exposure. You can hardly contact relevant blogs etc, because lists are being sold so unscrupulous bands can send out thousands of promo emails.

That said, there really should be a recommendation service focused on small but active artists. I hate that spotify etc is turning music into an on-demand commodity rather than a socioculture art form. For the interested, music journo Liz Pelly has a lot of good pieces on this topic.
Thank you for the kind words! Glad to hear you enjoyed it.
I don't consider a git UI to be complete unless it has interactive rebase support (ie, the ability to squash commits together so the history looks like 'implement X', rather than 'implement X, 'fix X', 'minor typo on X', 'add additional unit test for X').

Command line is great if you prefer it, but Fork, SourceTree and Tower all have interactive rebase support. Here's me using Fork:

https://twitter.com/mikemaccana/status/1237708418124742656?s...
If this is that important to you, encrypt your data locally first then just upload the encrypted data. For an example see Rclone [1].

[1]: https://rclone.org/crypt/
If there are 10 lots and eleven bidders the last bidder loses and has to go high. If you realize others are going high quick enough you can up your bid before someone else and thus not lose.

Even in a Dutch auction you are generally allowed to change your bid after you make it.
> What if that single disk were to be lost?

This was a cost analysis, mostly for those that can't afford B2. You can buy two drives for the cost of a year at Backblaze and have N+1 redundancy.

> You're paying Backblaze to ensure that GB can be accessed in the future

No doubt, which is why I prefaced this with "If you don't need to have your data in the cloud".
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To come back to one other point. Why Google payments uses PGP: because all other payment companies in the world do too. We work with many different companies, and when dealing with files, they all figured out how to use PGP 20+ years ago and probably won't change unless they are forced to. :)

(googler opinions are my own)
Why isn't this name used for a tar gui frontend? :p
Team Trump Turns to Peter Thiel’s Palantir to Track Virus
We don’t need to “just” reopen things as a kneejerk reaction. We will need to reopen things sometime.

But from the earliest lockdowns, all the forecasts have been that about 60% of the world population ultimately gets infected anyway. The lockdowns are about making that happen in a more orderly way, one that doesn’t absolutely crush our hospitals, ICUs, ventilator capacity, and our stocks of PPE. That’s what we’re buying with the lockdowns. That’s where the lives are being saved.

That makes sense, for a while. That doesn’t make sense for five years. The question is where the line goes in between, and I really don’t know exactly where. We may have passed it or it may be months ahead.

Just remember that even if we are right to call for a much longer lockdown, we shouldn’t go all William Bligh about it, condescending to abuse people who are stubborn and wrong for their stupidity on the matter. Such an approach is anti-leadership; it gets you senseless mutinies instead of buy-in.

(See also: Bill de Blasio enjoying the amenities of the Park Slope YMCA mere moments before shutting down all the gyms. Not a great way to build solidarity.)
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> You yourself said that web servers are a place where this is a good idea.

I said that "panicking from Drop::drop is a bad idea, but that panicking is a good idea in general (e.g. in web servers)".

We are in agreement that panicking is a good idea in general, but you seem to be turning that around, arguing that "Panicking is a good idea in general, therefore panicking from Drop::drop is a good idea". One does not follow from the other.

If you believe that unwinding from Drop::drop is a good idea, enumerate the value this feature adds, its costs, and make a case about why this trade-off is worth it.

All languages with unwinding in the same space as Rust do not allow unwinding from destructors, because it adds no value, and adds significant costs. For example, C++ and D do not support it. C++ used to support it, like Rust, but considered the value it added as "negative" (that code deserved to be broken), and changed its semantics to forbid this by default. AFAICT, the same arguments that apply there, apply 1:1 to Rust.

In Rust, the cost of this feature is real, e.g., from basic impls like the impl of `Drop` for slices, reused by most collections, to pretty much every Drop impl of every type guarding an important resource in a module that uses unsafe (e.g. the many Iterator drop guards, etc.).

So I stand by my original claim: panicking from Drop::drop is a bad idea: there are no worthy use-cases for it, its costs are real, pervasive, and unnecessary, because in practice nobody does this, but every writer of unsafe code must write code to defend from it, which makes trickier code even trickier to write, read, and properly test.

C++ is the sane language here. Rust is not.
Nah CD-R's only last 10 years at most. Get some LTO tape.
1 and counting! maybe dang will come and tell me I'm triggering people or something.
Copyright and Crisis: Filters Are Not the Answer
I can confirm anecdotally that having a baby crying at all hours of the day and the night also makes humans less interested.
I use Crackbook Revival (Chrome) which is similar in purpose. However instead of giving you a countdown timer (because "but 5 more minutes, mooooom") it never actually stops you from browsing, but instead slows down select sites with every page load. First loading a page is instantaneous. 100th time takes seconds which is frustrating enough to cause me to go off and do something else, but without the same anxieties that Leechblock causes.
This reminds me of one of my favorite stories in This American Life, about a very young daughter who has a lot of questions, and her dad (a professor) asks her to write them down. She comes to him with a list with questions like “are we alive? Explain.”

I don’t want to spoil it, but it’s simultaneously hilarious and a tear jerker. They just replayed it a few weeks ago, you can listen to the climax and conclusion here: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/697/alone-together/act-one-...
What's also interesting about this question is that storage density continues to double every several years. It would be safe to assume that the entire current planetary storage would fit on a thumb drive 166 years from now. Maybe by then it'll be magneto-spintronic-DNA time crystals.
I'm an American, so the usual caveats apply, but I think more should be made of this statement from the interview:

"The Swedish laws on communicable diseases are mostly based on voluntary measures — on individual responsibility. It clearly states that the citizen has the responsibility not to spread a disease. This is the core we started from, because there is not much legal possibility to close down cities in Sweden using the present laws. Quarantine can be contemplated for people or small areas, such as a school or a hotel. But [legally] we cannot lock down a geographical area."

If we take that as a given then the approach used in, say, Italy isn't doable. Why not put that out there and let there be a public debate about the issue? Is there a sense that this isn't the time?

Maybe there is a debate. I'm not exactly in touch with Swedish politics, so if someone knows, I'd love to hear about it.
because bootstrapping entire systems without C.
From what I recall, the shading for inset and outset is left up to the browser and is different for different browsers.
I think the compiler project we did in college was probably one of the most valuable assignments I ever had. I still have barely any understanding of how a modern compiler works, but it made me much better and understanding compiler error messages.
What are the complete citations for those papers?

In the decision analysis class I took 3 years ago they proposed the framework in the following paper:

Matheson, James E., Michael M. Menke, and Stephen L. Derby. "Managing R&D portfolios for improved profitability and productivity." The Journal of Science Policy and Research Management 4, no. 4 (1989): 400-412.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=62055342011699436...
> even though anime characters more closely resemble aliens than actual human beings

The typical characteristics of child-like appearances is proportionally large head compared to the rest of the body, round head, and large eyes.

It also happens that having a large head with large eyes is a common method to make it easier to express emotion for objects which we know is fake. For example, the two main robots in the movie wall-e utilize this a lot, and yes, one can interpret that as if both robots are children as they do have more human child like proportions than human adult proportions.

The only real way to know the age of non-photo non-realistic image of a character is in context or if the author spells it out. If we were to guess the age of Donald duck we would base it on that he has a job, has nephews, and wear a time appropriate hat for adults, but also that his head is slightly less round compared to Huey, Dewey, and Louie.
It exists, but it's not that common. My uncle (in Belgium) had one in his house in the nineties, with mixed opinions. Every x years there's some hype around central vacuum cleaner systems in the building industry, but the excitement is always short lived: no matter the improvements, it's still vacuuming. And most people don't like to do that very often.
Turns out that immutable data structures can share a lot of structure safely.

https://www.amazon.com/Purely-Functional-Structures-Chris-Ok...
I need my doctor to have a basic understanding of statistics. I don't need them to have a profound knowledge of anything except their professional specialty.

Chances are they took a basic Epidemiology class -- or a class that had it as a component -- and covered "Stat for medical workers." And that should be enough.
There isn't a shortage of food. Farmers growing food are essential and doing what they did before. There are logistical issues. Restaurants order food differently than grocery stores so some supply chains are overfull while others are empty. Both are looking to the other for help but the setup makes it in efficient
> you pay limited price and can throw it out of the window at any time

Lambda School is also limited price as well. And you can 'throw your education out of the window' metaphorically, after you've paid the fee, any time you like. You also can't throw a book out of the window until you've paid the whole price of it.

> Claiming slavish tax is the same, like Lambda does, is simply a fraud.

It's just a fee for a service. It's not a tax. And there's no deception so it isn't fraud.
Any comparison notes with the similar app "DemoPro - Screen Annotation"?
Since when did Medium.com offer to log you in with your Google account like this?

http://www.jaruzel.com/files/medium-google.png

I've got uBlock and Cookie Cleaner running - but it's clearly doing some sort of cross-site shenanigans to create this pop up.

Time to stop visiting Medium.com I think.
The thing about enterprise services is that they don't operate in the same environment as ones on the open internet. So while these vulnerabilities look bad on their own, they aren't that bad when you stack the enterprise's other security services and processes on top.
I think your comment just put a lot of people on to Backblaze B2. At least you did for me. I was using S3 but I think I'll consider Backblaze now as an alternative.
County of Santa Clara Identifies Three Additional Early Covid-19 Deaths
I don't know about sync.Map, but many concurrent maps don't require any locking (or require rarely).

Protecting map with a lock is a very naive solution, it'll perform badly with a lot of concurrent writes.
But it's not necessarily called the Department of Defense. That's literally the name of it in the US.
People who give money to museum and university endowments typically attach conditions that are very much meant to be litigated if they are ever violated. The recipient expects this. They don't make promises to donors, they sign contracts that force them to use the money the way the donor wants them to.

These terms and conditions are ridiculous if they want to be compared to museums and universities.
> So (ignoring whether these features are useful or good) in order to be able to run Linux on modern hardware these types of features are necessary.

TBH, I find the argument "we are locking down your choice here because of Microsoft pressure" to be ridiculous at best.

The correct arguments should be more in line of "you can turn this off", but these arguments do not answer the very valid question of "what if it is my hardware vendor --like Google -- that is forcing me to turn this on?".
It sounds exactly what the UK was going to do until Imperial released a report that said it wouldn’t work.
That is a great article. And a great result!
I guess my biggest question is how do you upload data? Through the web browser? Desktop client? Can I use RClone or rsync or an SSH / SFTP connection?

For people with more than 10 GB of data, using CLI tools will make integrating with your product much easier.
I don't think that is the service they are offering. It simply says storage. The only sharing mentioned is sharing with other user's archives.... not public access.

But regardless, we have no idea what backend they are using. Hell, I can go to S3 right now, put a gig out there, and a million hits only cost me pennies. And in theory, that cost will only continue to shrink.