skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had a similar situation while driving through South Carolina on the freeway - we saw a small fire on the side of the road! My wife and I were wondering if anyone called about it and I thought that probably not, everyone assumes someone else did. We did end up calling 911 and they didn't seem aware if it yet and sent a fire crew out!
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Its the link in the sentence "In the end, the TC-497 was also abandoned." - that I followed... interesting that they'd use an ARG as a reference on it ..
You’re right, my bad, it even says so right there in the article!
I worked for one of the biggest boarding school software companies. The only option was full-service, but clients could chose between hosted by us or hosted by them. We didn’t just do 1 database per school, we did entirely separate hardware/VMs per school. Some regions have very strict data regulations and the school’s compliance advisors tended to be overly cautious; they interpreted the regulations and translated them to even stricter requirements. These requirements were often impossible to satisfy. (How can the emergency roll call app both work offline AND comply with “no student PII saved to non-approved storage devices”? Does swap memory count as saving to a storage device?? Is RAM a “storage device”??? Can 7 red lines be parallel!?!?)

Shared DB instances would have been completely off the table. Thankfully, most boarding schools have massive IT budgets, so cost minimization was not as important as adding additional features that justified more spend. Also the market was quite green when I was there. Strangely, the software seemed to market itself; the number of out-of-the-blue demo requests was very high, so first impressions and conversion to paying clients was the primary focus.
I haven't liked Theresa May since she went full Janet Reno over video games during her time as HS. It was the first time I heard her name probably. Minor thing but strikes a cord with me. As PM she was just marginally better than Johnson.
Does anyone know what problem are they trying to solve?

I find it confusing that the foundation statements says it's just a formalization of existing practices but on wikimedia meta page it say it's an urgency.

Also if this just formalizes existing practices why creating a "retroactive review process"?
The system that I’ve most enjoyed using recently has been hasura. It’s basically a plug and play graphql api that sits on top of a Postgres db. I love it. You can call your database directly from your clients, with row level permissions, and real time subscriptions. It’s just great.

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>left-pad

That is all.
He has power over the Prime Minister that only the Prime Minister could explain. It is possibly narcissism or implicit blackmail. The Cummings character could dish the dirt and bring the PM down.

The wider Conservative Party do not hold him in high regard. Cummings isn't even in the Conservative Party. The Daily Mail is a good bellwether on this - there is no love for Cummings except from Boris. And Boris has got Brexit done so doesn't need his chum. But he has also been isolated from others during this infatuation with the Cummings.
I can confirm that BigCommerce does this.... or at least they did 9 years ago when I interviewed there!
An untouched quote from his article:

> Experiments on viruses that could cause a
> global pandemic killing many millions were
> halted but were recently cleared to resume
> and will be conducted in these ‘top
> security’ labs.

He was talking about pandemics and quoting an article which does mention SARS and coronavirus.

This is a tiny gotcha "oh but you didn't technically use the word SARS or coronavirus yourself when quoting the article the first time so it doesn't count".
I also agree with Steve Jobs, and with you when you say that you have to "understand as a fact that".

For me it's enough to see someone that is doing it. If he can do it, I also can.

But I think there is also something related with imagination, knowledge, learnings. I cannot imagine the infrastructure a 100M business requires. I guess that is why so many ex-googlers or ex-amazon, after quitting, build great things. They have seen it before.
Yep, Truth doesn't matter. Only illusions
Everything for this is in place. No changes or features outside of AP are needed.

Mastodon even has a simple key-value table that any profile can enable and fill with details such as "website: example.com", "twitter: @jack" and so on.

This feature already has "verifications". Meaning that you can add proof that example.com, keybase etc are really yours.

This could easily[1] be expanded to verify ownership of SMS, or messenger apps. Provided those apps have some form or authentication/proof in place.

I have this on our roadmap for our "fediverse linkedin" project (another story for another time) so would gladly offer help here; keybase with my contact details in my hn profile.

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[1] It would be easy after a refactoring. The code handling this in Mastodon is not ugly persé, but rather unfortunate. Tightly coupled to the God-Model "User" (which seems to happen with every rails project at some point) and spread over some json-store, model and unrelated controllers.
For 'videoconference' you mean i Guess?
Because a laptop just for zooming on pictures...
Joke aside, stop being lame and trying to sound 'cool' n'y using a company name without reason!
I met Steve Roberts at an engineering fair on the UC Berkeley campus, where he was showing his Behemoth bicycle.

A few years later, I tagged along with a friend of mine who provided the internet connection to his warehouse workshop, where he was building the Microship. A commercial cell-phone tower onboard, etc. Wild stuff.

Here we are, decades later, and most this tech is available for anyone to buy retail at the local grocery store, or your favorite maker vendor like AdaFruit or Element14 or Pimorini. Or eBay.

I am super thankful I got to share that evening with his projects. He loves learning and sharing his discoveries. Artist more than engineer? There's a difference?
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This is such an interesting thing to discuss. Of course I agree with you, guns, war planes, missiles are obscene, every dollar spent on weapons when people are dying from dirty water is revolting, our armies seem to be deployed primarily to expand and protect empire. But while as a twenty year old I was firmly anti-military, got arrested at anti war protests, personally I began to look at the military differently after the Australian army's deployment to East Timor, in Bougainvile after the ceasefire, and the federal police deployment to the Solomons after the civil war - I believe these deployments protected civilians from real danger. Perhaps as I have come to understand my own limitations, I am less bold in my imagination as to how long it will take us as a species to transcend selfishness and violence. For the foreseeable future violence and war will be part of the human experience, this doesn't justify its glorification, it doesn't justify empire or drone strikes on weddings, but this realisation has utterly dismantled my previously held belief that abstaining from all preparation and participation in violence and war is the responsible, progressive position I thought it was. The abysmal quality of political debate doesn't require us to reduce the sophistication of our own thinking to simplistic characterisations, we're capable of understanding that state sanctioned violence at the police or military level is supported by both good and bad faith agendas, and perhaps only at the extremes it is possible to tell which is which.
I understand the anger by some users, but why punish those (like myself) who were quite interested in having a public Triplebyte profile?

I think they should go the middle road: make it opt-in. If you do nothing, nothing changes, but if you want a public profile, you can get one!
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A funny thing about the desktop icon setting - they are actually aware that it's hard to find so on one of those screens in Settings you get a link like "How do I change the desktop icons?". Clicking that does not take you to screen where you can change it though, instead it opens a help page in your browser that describes the awkward navigation steps to get there.
Harassment is a form of censorship.
So, you are admitting some of the decks have been fabricated? Which ones?
The only thing I’m arguing is that if my location doesn’t matter to the job, then the location I’m in shouldn’t matter to the salary equation: only what you’re willing to pay for my skills and what I’m willing to accept. Tax or other legal issues aside, once I’m employed remotely, it shouldn’t matter to you if I then decide to leave my expensive NYC apartment to live for a fraction of the cost in some rural town (assuming I have adequate internet etc). The employer shouldn’t then say well your cost of living is now lower, so we will pay lower. I’m still the same person providing the same value.

If the company wants to save money, then why were they willing to pay more just because I lived in a higher cost of living area, rather than looking for people in the lower cost of living areas to begin with?
Dave Winer, creator of RSS, said that in the future everyone will be famous for 15 people. I think we’ve been living in that world for a few years now.
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As mentioned in the article, there are advantages to face shields. I'm particularly interested in them because I have heard complaints about masks from people who say they have difficultly breathing with a mask.

Hopefully there will be some discussion here.
Wuhan lab was researching bat coronavirus unrelated to nCov
But didn’t he quote the rule saying that in cases like the care of the young child, the rules may not be practical and should be applied as well as practically possible? If the rules indeed had this clause, doesn’t that address exactly your second point?
The "obvious" reason would be if a person is used to terminals but not vim, as ctrl-c usually kills processes.

I think a lot of confusion could be avoided if distributions like Ubuntu, that are commonly used by new Linux users, were to set e.g. EDITOR=nano in their default ~/.bashrc. That way, writing "git commit" from a terminal, typing "v" inside less, etc. would all bring up nano instead of vim by default.
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This is the normal business model in much of Asia. Large, tightly knit, near monopolistic, corporations operate over many sectors. Classic example are Zaibatsu of old and Keiretsu of today. Is it any surprise that the same business approach is used in software?
As an aside, having your entire blog italicized might look « better » on the eye but it's incredibly laborious to read.
You don't really need to know which one is which (and if the counterfeit one is perfect, does it even matter?).

But if you have 2 bills with the same SN, then you know someone is creating perfect counterfeited bills.
I thought a lot of phone calls were actually routed over the internet?
Not fending for triplebyte at all here, but what do you all have in your Triplebyte account that isn't on the web somewhere already anyway?
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Do you have a source for the news on _Generic? I can't find any.

If it is true, it would be amazing. So many of my APIs are unwieldy because of Microsoft's refusal to support this one feature.
I'm really not convinced he's ideologically driven. I imagine he makes a lot of money for doing what he does, given his track record.
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I was referring to the recent trend of blaming USA for Cuban poverty. Characterizing it as "elephant in the room" is somewhat en vogue for leftist types. And I was turning it back on them. The real "elephant in the room" is the failings of the brutal communist ideology that failed the Cuban people in nearly every possible way.
It's not quite that bad. Solar panels that point directly at the sun during the summer solstice will still receive 91% the density of light during the winter solstice. ( cos(24deg) ~= 0.91 ) Where I live (about 40deg north), the winter solstice is 63% as long (9.5 hours) as the summer solstice (15 hours). Even a thick blanket of snow, or 100% cloud cover, will only reduce power by about 50%.

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Under the worst possible conditions (not considering temperature), on the shortest day of the year, with 100% clouds and a thick layer of snow, PV panels would produce 14% as much power per day as on the longest day of the year with 0 cloud cover.
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Compare the Snow train to the mundane shit I did, no I wouldn't, I realise that my comment, which at the time i made it was not the root of a tree, appears that I am. It was the antarctic snow cruiser, an absurd half backed con job, that was never ever going to work i resonated with, no the snow train is the antithesis, competent bold well executed.
I think the outrage is more at the cabinet, and the attorney general no less, all defending what he did.

Saying "he was just being a good father" is insulting to all the other dads who didn't break lockdown.

Also, the rewriting of history, implying all along that you were just meant to use good judgement.
Definitely agree with you here.
I wonder, if you get from VSI an Alpha or Itanium license file for OpenVMS, would OpenVMS for VAX accept the same license file?

People long ago cracked the license key generation for OpenVMS. (Plus, there are various leaked license files floating around, including non-expiring perpetual licenses.) The OpenVMS hobbyist community has always opposed doing that – there is no reason to do that when there is a legal method to run OpenVMS, and there was a concern it would damage relations with HPE thereby threatening the future of the hobbyist program. But, if there stops being any legal way to run OpenVMS on VAX, I wonder if the community attitude would change on that topic?
Lombardy was utilising operating theatres and had ICUs and trauma bays full (70-80% is full because you have lost lost of your surge capacity), using the vents in all these areas.
There was a shift to NIV because once you have no vents you let people die
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> And it's conceivable that it's only a relatively small percentage of all practitioners who actually upload patterns.

That holds for anything through - including programming. Why would it be so hard to accept that a group of people can be active on internet without adding stuff to wikipedia?

Wikipedia is crappy about anything sewing, knitting, embroidery etc related. But whenever I need something, I can find information on reddit or blogs or youtube quickly and easily. It is not that information does not exist on the internet in general, it is that those groups dont find wikipedia place to put stuff in. It is not even that those groups cry for wikipedia to add them in cause they are helpless without that. Wikipedia is not a thing in that space, because who cares about wikipedia and anecdotally those few who tried found it generally waste of time and frustrating.

This is wikipedia finding about situation, because its mission is "to be the largest, most comprehensive, and most widely-available encyclopedia ever written" and it is failing in these areas. And somehow people take offence on that.
Tbh I haven't checked the details, but if that was the case, then the government was criminally poor at communicating the rules given the sacrifices others have made in attempts to follow them.
To me it's more:

Stone Age (1985): Windows is a single-user graphical shell for the PC that is necessarily very close to the hardware.

Bronze Age (1993): Windows NT is launched as a multi-user secure applications platform. Hardware access is no longer direct. This is sold almost exclusively to businesses.

Iron Age (late 90s): "Hardware" is no longer fixed at boot. Computers are no longer islands. Users expect TCP/IP networking built in. USB arrives round about Win95OSR2 and complicates everything. Security problems start to matter. Windows acquires a rounded, "friendly" skin and the cheerful rolling hills of the default background.

Steel Age (2006): the security problems become untenable. Downloading anything from the internet is extremely risky. A decision is made to kill the "stone age" line of compatibility; everything derives from NT now, and the normal logged in user is no longer "root" all the time. UAC appears to guard the user against malicious executables.

Tablet Age (2012): the iPad is eating their lunch. Microsoft panics. Having had a tablet OS for ages that never took off outside of niches (Windows CE), they decide that Windows will be relaunched as a tablet-first OS with everything written in C# using their new flat graphic design style. The 99% of desktop users are disoriented by the tablet-first design. Windows phones are launched, then the burning platform sinks below the waves again, taking Nokia with it. Pity, the Nokia Lumia 1040 was an amazing phone.

Missing Era: there is no Windows 9.

Final Form (present): Microsoft go to version 10 then promise to stay there forever. Updates are now continuous and rolling. They've mostly backed off the tablet interface .. but never really finished the modernisation.

(As a Windows developer, the extinction lines in the fossil record that stand out across all the APIs are "Vista" and to a lesser extent "8". 10 is a consolidation with a drip-feed of additional APIs.)

Future? Well, Unixisation is creeping in again along with a friendliness to Open Source. At some point they may deprecate CRLF and try to change the percieved default path character to '/'.
Why? I.e. why not some sort of Scheme?

I absolutely don't meat starting a "holy war", the question is intended purely for sake of learning more about Common Lisp, what features does it have which make it a right tool for this job in particular.
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The virus under research had only a 79.8 % match to ncov
The script converts each characters on the website into a moving span.

I made this script to have fun when I was old-school about javascript (no framework, no dependencies, no VDOM).

It's quite relaxing to see the words 'reactive' like atoms.
Works for me on Firefox for Android, but uBO is blocking 27 items.
The autoconf checks if the build environment has a sane C compiler, standard C library, shell and command and all. At that time, well 30 years ago, it might be useful, but today, it's completely garbage. If the build environment found out to have an insane non standard conforming behaviours, there is nothing to do about it. And the autoconf's workaround implementation almost always won't work today in such an insane environment anyway.

What I don't get is the autoconf failed to update it to the modern situation and still keeping the behaviour that is totally irrelevant and considered harmful today.
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Yes, just like Stockholm Syndrome, it was made up to cover up a bungled police response. Neither one is a real thing.
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It actually it is (mostly) as easy as it can be if you think about how the web lets one run third part code safely, not only as a sandboxed in the host environment but also from different domains. I've seen this space evolve since the days of DHTML and the best way to create dynamic content is with document.createElement. Actually I use the crelt[1] util, and the code is shorter and faster then any React/Vue virtual-dom templating system. It like finally riding a bicycle a without training wheels after 15 years of practice.

[1] https://github.com/marijnh/crelt
Absolutely. It’s like the imperial college guy. I think he deserves an outrage for his fantasist models, but him not respecting the lockdown after he recovered from covid, and could neither infect or be infected, is common sense. The lockdown was aimed at reducing the pace of infections, not to enforce some petty rules when they don’t make sense. The outrage is really only about loving the rule over what it is trying to achieve.
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"The Joel Test": 12 concrete questions that can easily be assessed.

"The Developer Culture Test": 12 vague statements.

How is this a test?
But this isn't about bombs..! This is you trying to twist a discussion about an early warning system into a discussion about offensive weapons!
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He didn't break any law
> How can the emergency roll call app both work offline AND comply with “no student PII saved to non-approved storage devices”?

By having its offline data store approved as a storage device?
I think this is a big "gotcha".

I'm not sure from your post if you've noticed that he yesterday held a press conference with the national UK media in which he cited the fact that he predicted the threat from coronaviruses a year previously.
You might just as well ask why that miraculous cure for baldness is so useless. You let some used-car salesman talk you into believing that it actually works, but it doesn't — no matter how much you want it to.
I was pondering about the idea of a browser extension for a sort of local DNS. Paying for domains could be ditched if everyone had a local copy of a database that mapped any character sequence (even emojis) to a server address that would get filled in by the extension in the url bar. Not sure if it would extend to mobile or all websites, but could work similar to a social network in the sense that you need to get the extension (i.e. access) first, and then you can find someone just by using a string that they've provided. Combined with something like Github pages it would offer a full free solution.
I’m confused why you aren’t voted up, this is an extremely accurate description that is pertinent to the story.

To give our non-UK friends a bit more context (in case anyone thinks “flimsy excuses” is applying a bit of bias) he was caught going on a walk in a little town near his second home (itself a few hundred miles from where he probably should have been). His excuse was that he was feeling ill and had troubles with his eyesight so he decided to go for a (30 mile) drive to check ... I dunno, if he could see I guess? That thing you do when you have trouble with your eyesight, jump into a car and go for a drive.

Update: the “upvote” point was because your comment was greyed out, and after I upvoted you were still greyed out, suggesting you were fairly deep in the -ve at that point
What law did he break?
The theoretical efficiency gain appears to be greater than the stated 14%. The article cites a video [1] which in turn cites 49% vs 63% maximum theoretical thermal efficiency for a traditional engine and for the Entry Ignition engine, respectively. That makes it a 14 percentage point increase which is 29% increase in efficiency.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiUnqlGzLw8
The irony in this is that this type of language about "inclusivity" only really appeals to a narrow subset of upper middle class white people.