skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Darryl Cherney once organized a pee-in to protest a call by Ronald Reagan for mandatory government drug testing, convincing several hundred people to mail urine samples to the White House. When the containers were all ruptured by the sorting machinery in the Garberville post office, much of that part of the county's mail smelled like a public toilet for several days. Darryl was informed of the disaster and shrugged sheepishly. When you were saving the planet, you won a few, you lost a few.

https://books.google.nl/books?id=WDvNaVv_sX4C&pg=PA164&lpg=P...

Bob Shireman, who calls himself a "consumer advocate," created the "Piddle to the President Kit." Nw you can send President Reagan your urine in a leak-proof missive, thanks to the sterile specimen cup, the currugated mailing box addressed to "Ron and Nancy," and the set of mailing insttructions that come with each kit.

https://books.google.nl/books?id=neYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT12&lpg=PT...
I won't bother telling you the advantages I got over the other OSs, but I am curious why you are denouncing linux in the first place.

Installing any non-free linux OS will grant you an complete out-of-the-box experience, imo superior to Windows/Mac.
Even Nvidia Optimus powered laptops are fully supported.

Hit me up if you managed to run windows on the same hardware as the OP. Or even running MacOS on any other computer. I am wondering if your documentation would be more concise.

so long..
Yes, there is so much untapped potential for wind and solar that at the current time it's pretty much pointless to spend R&D on unproven technology. We don't have the time to develop new methods for energy generation before we need to be mostly carbon neutral. For the same reason it doesn't make much sense to fund next-gen nuclear power. It just takes too long.
There's some odd stuff though this time though for example this story https://www.skynews.com.au/details/_6160720369001
I recently tried Debian 10 on a MacBook Pro from 2014 and it worked surprisingly well. The computer fan(s) would however not start when needed even after installing extra software like mbpfan. Something to watch out for!
Except for.. English. Where they score the worst out of all Asian nations.
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Applies to any development environment: A fast development environment with a _properly_ configured anti-malware solution (so not a malware solution that scans on every file _access_ and a slow one at that: Symantec Endpoint Protection). Obviously a fast computer which does not clock the CPU down under load.
Other people have reported that Firefox runs fine, so it might have just been my setup - I might have been a little hasty to write it off.

I'll try it again at some point, but disable TreeStyleTabs, that might have been one of the causes for the slowness.
Ironically DDG was down today about an hour ago
The philosophy of science precisely prefers knowledge which gives falsifiable, testable theories. A hypothesis indicating every possible outcome with little differentiation is worthless.
What is "better"
There were widespread closures of public accommodations, but there were no efforts made in 1918 to keep people from going outside or stop them from visiting friends and family.
It will require parliament to actually enact a law to cancel GDPR in order for it to change.
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Much larger discussion around this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23414556
Working for a US company while traveling outside the US
My department is transitioning to be full remote and before I dig into it with my boss I wanted to know what potential problems I might face with my company when asking them to let me work for a month+ at a time from another country.

I plan on maintaining normal hours and my mailing address won't change. My bigger concern is if there are legal issues. My company deals with sensitive data and has some compliance procedures that I need to investigate separately.
Java has been broadly used in HPC and low-latency trading software for years now. That's not only because much more attractive time-to-market but also because in many cases Java is on par with c/cpp when it comes to performance. Sometimes even better.

I'm under the impression that you are not interested in educating yourself on the topic, however if I'm mistaken, have a look at some reasons why Java can be as fast or faster than c/cpp:

- TLAB (thread-local allocation buffer)

- Escape analysis

- Mono- and bi-morphic callsite optimizations

- JIT in general (dead code elimination, implicit null checks, CHA-based optimizations, etc).

Also, you don't have to use Oracle JVMs. There's IBM's J9, OpenJDK-based Zulu, or commercial JVM from Azul (Zing).
Isn't that a problem of ZFS? I don't mind SMR HDD if it was labeled as such and warn about it's weird performance traits.
Step 1: Decide some parameters on what you want the name to do. Is it going to be descriptive of the prouct? Do you want it to be a single word or multiple words? Do you care if it gets an acronym? Do you want to use existing vocabulary/meanings or create a new word or repurpose an old word?

Step 2: Once you have these parameters set out - come up with a list of potential names. No name is too stupid for this step. Add to the list in as many different mindspaces as possible (in the morning, before sleeping, after a drink, after a smoke, after a coffee, etc).

Step 3: Seek feedback on the list of names from a trusted source. "Would you use a software product with name X that does Y?" "When you hear of a software product with name X, what do you think it does?"

Step 4: Hopefully the above steps narrow down the list some, with your shortened list go and see if there are other products using the same name and decide if you want to do a weird spelling or axe the name entirely.

Rinse and repeat and of course YMMV. I'll admit that I've only ever used this process for coming up with names for personal blogs and usernames such as bitbybitbybitcoin.
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I'd think that a fancy looking website for a group-buy, where you manage a relationship with a manufacturer to build to your spec & you build (or get them to build) the software behind it would give it what you want. Kind of like https://www.weargustin.com/ or a Massdrop?
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I fear this is too little, too late. Also Google is defacto a browser monopoly too.
It totally could be meaningless. I think there is this conflation of two thing. I don't think "General Intelligence" is a thing. We don't have it, AIs probably won't. We have a collection of specialty neurological adaptations that are useful but certainly not adapted for "any" use. Even if they can be composed to be more powerful, there are a lot of limits to it.

This doesn't mean that AI won't get smarter than us at everything we can do, but based on the fact we are not getting much smarter we have to ask: is that just a limit of biology? Or are there scaling limits to Intelligence? Organizations and societies are a great example of the scaling limits of "Intelligence", they bypass a lot of human limits to make gesalt intelligent agents more reliable and less prone to certain biases, but generally not meaningfully "smarter" than any individual, just more patient and consistent. There are clear limits on the scalability Intelligence, just throwing more computational power at the problem isn't enough for runaway-agi
Epidemiologists have long argued that we over index on diseases like Ebola, who are too lethal to pose a pandemic risk. There have been 1,590 confirmed Ebola fatalities since 1976. Scary if you live where the outbreaks happen, but surprisingly small for how much we freak out about it.

Should we spend some resources on Ebola? Of course. But those resources should be spent in line with the risks as we best understand them. By 2004 we already had evidence that coronaviruses were much more dangerous than Ebola, with the 2003/2004 SARS outbreak killing half as many people (774) as Ebola has in nearly 50 years. Ignoring COVID-19, SARS and MERS (both coronaviruses) have killed 1,640 people, exceeding Ebola’s grim toll.
Funny how no one wants to talk about the reason that the NHS is doing these deals.

Of all the competent devs / data analyst in the UK, how many do you think actually want to work at the NHS?

So lots of demand / need (healthcare is a mess in part because of data management via paper) and no supply / interest of talent.
This also makes it quick and easy to share photos to social media.
One of the most useful design-related tools I've found is this color picker which generates complimentary colors for you based on model of your choice (triadic, analogous, etc.):

https://www.sessions.edu/color-calculator/

I always struggled with picking complimentary colors and found this worked a lot better than most of the pre-defined color palette suggestions out there.
Timed to match the slowing of the Earth's rotation, no less.
‘Safe Streets’ Are Not Safe for Black Lives
I agree, which is why I referred to it as "google-chrome-ing" (very awkward term) in my original post.

The Chrome teams (the ones that deal with standards, improving chrome, etc) are certainly filled with good people trying to improve the web, but there is such a conflict of interest there with a more open web or a web with certain features. Those employees are obligated to be on the wrong side of those discussions in really insidious/subtle ways sometimes, and those at the level at which strategy is conducted have a clearer view but have an even stronger incentive.
Here's Taleb on Black Swan and corona:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tb2pXXUSzmI
Ironically, Bing (powering DDG) is not mentioned in the article at all.
I agree with this sentiment - single-dimensional intelligence is usually reactive, instinctual, applies to a very specific event or context. I believe human-level/multi-dimensional intelligence is the ability to extrapolate/abstract ideas from many different single-dimensional understandings.

I think regardless of whether or not AI is or ever will be multi-dimensional, that will depend on its ability to consider and make conclusions from many different single-dimensions - libraries if you will.
The traditional way of naming was to base in on the product function or feature. For example, MS Office is literally an office suite composing of a spreadsheet, word processor, etc. Windows is another example, "floating bordered boxes" were quite common then but Microsoft gave them a name based on their functionality.

But the modern hipster way is to name it something cool and different! Android, for example, is quite futuristic and refers to a robotic machine, it has nothing to do with a smart-phone OS, does it? Same is the case with Ubuntu, Hadoop, MySQL, Python, Chromium, Electrum, etc. You can even name it on a Greek God or something these days!
I'd say a similar thing about my HP EliteBook x360 830 G6 as a 13-inch running Ubuntu 20.04. I love having a matte screen (that's still a touchscreen if I ever want it) and both USB-C and USB-A ports! HP even lets you custom order with FreeDOS so you can skip the Windows license. iFixit gives it 9/10 on repairability: https://www.ifixit.com/Guide/HP+EliteBook+830+x360+G6+Repair...
I think it's more coincidental than ironic.
For the kick drum, shine an ionizing laser beam at a nearby storm cloud for truly thunderous bass.
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"You aren't what you eat - you are what you don't poop." -Wavy Gravy
If you decide to block traffic and scream things in public, why should those images be modified? How is that not historical revisionism, like 1984?
Seems to me to be a mistake for Apple beause they've now opened themselves up to the liability of editing any part of the world imagery to the benefit of various aggrieved parties including foreign governments because they can no longer use the defense "we can't do that, system doesn't work that way, it's automatic, etc etc"
It wouldn't have to do any of that if it was simply keeping an activity:non-activity ratio that resulted in 2 primes. I'm not sure to what degree of precision this flashing is happening but if it's very precise then there you go. 2 primes result no matter what your day/timescale/number system is.
No precedent within living memory is not the same as no precedent.

Aside from 1918, the quarantine of entire cities and counties has been a common tactic to control plagues from bubonic to yellow fever. There are even reports from the Black Death of some Italian cities delivering food to peasants to encourage them to stay home.
Imagine if the goal isn't immediate destruction. Perhaps the jet thinks it destroyed or evaded them. Then it gets back to base.

Drones phone home with location data of base for other ordinance, release biological warfare agents infecting an entire base (or worse), or spread from the infected jet to other vehicles and equipment doing untold billions in damage.
I agree, and this is why I'm glad people like RMS exist, even if he is difficult/off his rocker/whatever else -- the free software movement and the ideas it espouses would almost surely have not made it this far (and benefited all of us) without people who cared so much to tip the scale.
This will also be an issue with some docker images built some years ago with an outdated cert store somewhere in there. Unmaintained images are, in effect, frozen in time.

I'll just mention glassfish here in case someone in the near future wonders why this or that application is failing: it has it's own cert store (different from the JVM one), and it is a bit out of date. Yes, I just ran into a github project whose last commit was 3 months ago (march 2020) and that wouldn't work with LE certificates, all because deep down the docker matrioshka, there was a glassfish with outdated certs.
Woah, this is complete news to me! I have tried with my Macbook chargers (90W and 60W), an Apple USB-C cable, and an Anker USB-C cable and nothing will charge them. They are running the latest firmware too. The only thing that works is the original A-to-C cable, and a cheap one on Amazon that I bought as a backup....

Guess I need to do some more testing — thank you!!
Are yo running Firefox on Linux? Or some other platform?
Afaik, it's still mostly from Bing.
Restaurant details and reviews app made in Flutter, Firebase
Made an app using Flutter and Firebase, where people can register and start exploring wide categories of restaurants present in their cities and also check the reviews and feedback for a specific restaurant. There is also a 'likes section' where all the restaurants liked by the user are displayed.
> Moo TV (if I remember correctly).

Meuh Meuh TV. In the earlier version you had to use TV cards with special chips to use it. Good times.

I think it pretty much died with the advent of digital TV.
There are odd features with the covid genome that make it seem more than just a bat bites researcher scenario.
Catskills. IMHO the game went downhill with the T2A release in 1998, and then was completely ruined by the time Renaissance came out in 2000 (although I had already quit well before then).

It's a shame because I feel like the gameplay was kind of already destroyed by the time the servers were relatively stable and bug free, so it feels like it never really lived up to its potential. But during the few hours a day when it actually worked properly, damn.
If you write a put option, it has downside limited only by the underlying zero price of the security minus the premium. If you write a call option, your downside is theoretically unlimited. If you buy a put or a call your downside is limited to the option premium.

edit: i should say writing a put option (short put) your potential downside is the difference between the strike price of the option and the premium, if the underlying security goes to zero.
> The philosophy of science precisely prefers knowledge which gives falsifiable, testable theories.

Knowledge doesn't give falsifiable, testable theories. Falsifiable, testable theories give knowledge. That's why the philosophy of science prefers them.
Ironically, Bing Rewards is one of very few tools moving towards Lanier's glorious vision of paying people for their data.
I think there's a lot of analysis paralysis on deciding where to blog, so I threw together a quick repo you can just clone, drop some Markdown files in and it'll auto-publish to Gitlab pages and Neocities whenever you push:

https://quicksite.stavros.io/

It's not as plug-and-play as paying for Wordpress hosting, but you also don't have to deal with all the update pain.
Or a bad config. 90% of the time it's a bad config.
"Chimps have better short term memory than humans, even on human oriented tasks... Short term memory is an important dimension of intelligence. By Kelly's argument, humans are not smarter than chimps; indeed, he would claim that "smarter than chimpanzee" is a meaningless concept. This is cold comfort to the chimps whose species survive only because we deign to allow it. It is colder comfort still to all those species we have already wiped out. It's also cold comfort to humans who might be worried about being wiped out by machines." -- Human Compatible by Stuart Russell, page 148
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Comparing oranges to tangerines:

– Total population of US (2019): 329 million [1]

– Total population of UK (2019): 68 million [1]

– Total deaths in US caused by police (2019): 1112

– Total deaths in UK caused by police (2019): 3 [2]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_populatio...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guv5LUT1AFw
Compromise. Ask for an extra week of vacation. I got three days for the mere possibility that I would be around in case production went down. It didn't. I was the only engineer on the team at the time. Come to think of it, no different from you. Since you will definitely have to work, a whole week or even longer is completely appropriate. Ask for a bit more and compromise if you have to. But you must get compensated for this well. One day for every hour you need to work seems fair.
The ux is very debatable. It's the same as every other messaging app now adays.

They will opt to use imessage just the same as everyone pretty much opts to whatever is already installed. You could swap out imessage with a 1990s version of aol messenger and people would opt to use that.

Apple does not have a monopoly on good ux. In fact a lot of it is just garbage
> Poorly looking sites have poor experiences. […] You can't have a site that works well that looks like shit.

There are many sites that work well even though they look like shit. Craigslist is a good example.
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Thankfully the new Microsoft Edge will save us. /s
I was wondering why my search queries were returning no results.
But in this scenario, how is the dynamic library going to be upgraded?
I understand you have your personal suspicions. I used to have similar thoughts. But please understand a) this is a well-studied topic, and b) a major component of America's endemic racism is white minimization, deflection, and denial, something made possible by pervasive white ignorance.

As an example, you might read Loewen's "Sundown Towns". He covers the Nadir, the post-reconstruction period that includes events like the Tulsa Massacre. He demonstrates pretty convincingly that white-led ethnic cleansing was widespread across the US. Through a variety of historical records, including extensive use of census data, he demonstrates that in town after town, all across the country, white people violently drove out any black people and then used violence to keep them out. And then they quietly erased that history, despite keeping otherwise extensive historical records.

Was any of this covered in my high school or college education? No. That's even though it demonstrably took place in towns all around where I grew up. That a lot of suburban growth was driven by racism. That wealth distribution was driven by racism. That made it easy for me to think that racism was this thing that happened long ago or far away. When instead I grew up soaking in its structural effects.
Your analogy makes no sense. This isn't being sold, it doesn't hide the users, and the users were never invisible to begin with. Everything else you said makes sense though, and I would say that the larger a group chat is, the more useful (like how public Matrix rooms aren't E2E encrypted since that's useless). And just generally useful considering how often images get shared these days.
Personally I don't want an IDE, just solid integration with existing editors.

I didn't fully understand the power of this until I started working with Rust and VS Code. It's a really first-class experience. Hints and type errors show up so immediately and responsively in the editor with complete contextual information that I can develop essentially an entire library or application without ever running a build once. It makes me feel like I can just tear through hundreds or thousands of lines of code because I'm getting so much constant feedback on everything I write.
ThinkPads are quality machines, but I interpreted the comment to mean more than just the base Linux experience. For better or worse, some people want something more than a black plastic business machine.
Yes it was?

“Today, DuckDuckGo combines data from more than 400 sources into its search results: Microsoft’s Bing is predominantly used to surface relevant pages, but Wikipedia, Apple Maps, TripAdvisor and DuckDuckGo’s own web crawler also contribute.”
Right, if you get a bitflip error in the encrypted data, decrypting it isn't going to yield something that the error-correcting-codes work on, right? It'll potentially ruin all your data, not just the single affected bit. I guess if GSM is doing it it must be useful, I need to read up on that.
I'd say it is due to incompetence, but not as much the individual engineer's as failures of the organization, though I have seen plenty of people not doing the job they're qualified for. These failures stem from plain mis-management, political turf wars, and misaligned incentives -- cost-cutting being the most obnoxious driver, causing a landscape of balkanized teams to fight for resources and engineering concerns becoming an aftertought.
I have no idea what you're saying with this comment.

I said that we should take actions that have been shown to improve the situation. 8canwait.org goes over many of them, and I'm sure there are lots of other actions we can take as well.

Zero is impossible without a perfect populous. It is the enemy of 8canwait (and I know, it was created by people who think zero is possible).

Someone saying "zero is possible" makes it seem like they don't understand the situation enough to have a real conversation about it.
No it's not. Seamless multi device support on android includes multi vendor support too.
I love ddg and use it as my primary search engine, resorting to !g for google queries about 25% of the time. If anyone is curious about how ddg results compare to that of google, check out a site I made Search Compare [0] that shows the results of each side by side. Note that it looks at the html version of ddg results. One downside of ddg is that they do a worse job at filtering our conspiracy theories

[0] search-compare.netlify.app
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I really wish a longform document/essay/dissertation was done on how impactful the loss of Google Reader but the thriving of Twitter and Facebook ruined the internet and allowed clickbait and shortform incendiary content to thrive.