skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Most jurisdictions won't enforce a contract entered in bad faith.

What? What exactly is bad faith here?

How is buying insurance on things you expect to fail any different than, say, buying options on the stock market, or some other form of intelligent betting?

You have expectation X, you find a third party that disagrees and has expectation Y, and agree to make a bet on the outcome with odds relative to X:Y. If your assessment of the situation was closer to the truth than the other party, you can stand to make money.

The assumptions of the insurance company is that they have superior models and can amortize losses among many people and thus charge only a small margin. They don't always have the best models though,
and I really don't see how calling them on it is 'bad faith'.
You're probably confusing ARPACK with BLAS / LAPACK.

Pure julia ARPACK already exists, e.g. https://github.com/haampie/ArnoldiMethod.jl/.

A competive BLAS-gemm is implemented here https://github.com/YingboMa/MaBLAS.jl/blob/master/src/gemm.j... (single-threaded).

A LAPACK-like library could be https://github.com/JuliaLinearAlgebra/GenericLinearAlgebra.j...
These days, it really comes down to “Do you need to support IE?” — even for fairly new features, if they're standard you should still check https://caniuse.com/ first but it's likely that the answer will be “Yes” for everything except IE11 and, far less frequently, Mobile Safari.
Or, even better, the "find" feature should support multiple user-specified options about what to care about in the search, like is done for the "match case" option. Simply allowing regex covers most issues.
>Postgres is truly an exception that proves the rule.

That's not what "an exception that proves the rule" means. It means "you may walk here" implies (proves the rule) there is a rule that you can't walk elsewhere.

In any event, plenty of second systems are fine. It's ridiculously outdated advice. Any time someone replaces their Flask web app with a go or rust version, qed.
markdeep which includes plantuml and various other tools. Note too that plantUML has evolved into a more general diagramming tool with standard library icons
Sounds to me like your sheriff might be doing a good job and the system might be working. Now if you had a sheriff that were a real problem and still couldn't get voted out, then you'd have an example of a broken system.
Even if Julia never ends up being the very best at anything particular, Python has shown that being "generally the second best language for everything" has even more value for most people. Leveraging 80% of the flexibility and composability of Lisp, 80% of the "code that looks like pseudo-code" aspect and overall easy to use from Python, 80% of the speed of the fastest static languages and eventually the library and tooling maturity to support all use cases, it can definitely become an even better second best language for everything.
I would personally recommend libsodium.js as the default choice for a JS crypto library: https://github.com/jedisct1/libsodium.js

Fundamental issues with JS/web crypto aside, that is. You would still need something like WebSign (https://www.cyph.com/websign) or a framework like Electron that allows shipping your application outside of the browser.
How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit
Several other networks are showing up on downdetector.com too, including Sprint, U.S. Cellular and Consumer Cellular.
MacOS 7.1 was the pinnacle, imo. MacOS 9 had lots of the space-wasting pretty chrome we're decrying here in WinXP.
It's like having to wear a helmet when you ride a bike, you might say why does the government cares, it's my life after all.

But the problem with this logic is that if you fuck up hard enough you effectively become a liability for society. You'll hit the safety net and tax dollar will be spent helping you recover. And that's a good thing in my opinion, but because of this we can't just watch people going "YOLO" and putting themselves in extremely precarious situations and say nothing.

If the guy ends up on food stamps, society will pay for those. It's therefore in society's best interest to prevent this insane risk taking.
> because they're so incredibly popular with shuckers.

You missed the part where the Red drives are being advertised as NAS drives. Nothing to do with shuckers; actually, they getting the Whites got the better part of the deal. It's the people who bought the Reds for the advertised purposes, who got screwed.
That is the current suggestion: https://puck.nether.net/pipermail/outages/2020-June/013124.h...

This is because of an update in the systems from the Sprint side to help
merge with T Mobile. That happened from 12am-6am EST and Sprint's systems
clashed with T Mobile's. I'm glad I have off today.
The script is probably probing for already compromised machines.
It's awesome that they have Python as an option out of the box. Kids bringing their lego creations to life is a great way to introduce programming.

I remember using LeJOS to run Java applications on my RCX back in the day. Had to figure out how to install and use Cygwin on the family computer. Kids these days have it so easy ;)
Guile seems to have made some substantial improvements too. Has there been made any performance comparisons between the Racket VM and Guile?
Exactly - this is a silly choice. Making it inaccessible to users of Office 365 for business is a terrible default choice.
FWIW, in my work I've seen both. But I'm sort of asking things at a higher level. If a client is asking you to prioritize a generic enhancement over others, they are presumably doing so because they believe that generic enhancement will have the greatest value to their work.

So if ICE asks github to prioritize better native CI support for Windows, or something, they're doing it because it is of maximum benefit to ICE.
the Video looks great.
Reply later, and set aside do seem really useful. I'd like that for work email, not just a personal hey.com address. I wonder if they considered just building an email client. A lot of this doesn't require a special backend, and could be done for any email provider with a special client. Then it wouldn't require anyone to change addresses.
133 MHz

64 MB

2 GB

Luxury. Back in the '95 days you were lucky if you had 4 MB RAM.
> Docker—how do you screw that up so bad that it's simpler to get working on macOS

You need to add "systemd.unified_cgroup_hierarchy=0" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX and then install moby-engine. Something about upstream docker not supporting the newer cgroups in more recent linux kernels.
As far as I remember it was difficult to re-implement because the Flash player was backwards compatible with all Flash versions. And this was also why there were so many security issues.
Cookie wall. No thanks.
You can throw your biased partisanship right out the window.

The data demonstrates pretty clearly that whomever holds control of both houses of congress, gets bills passed, regardless of which party, and even usually regardless of which party holds the presidency.

[source](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics)
Windows 2000 felt like a tank. You'd boot it thinking it was meant to run servers and web sites, but you could run it on your PC, and play games on it. It was robust. You could finally boast of high uptimes like the Linux folk!
It exists. It's called NotePerformer.

https://www.noteperformer.com/
I used to always buy Hitachi as well, but when I decided a few weeks ago to replace all my old 4TB HDDs with 8TB HDDs I found out that they're quite expensive (did they use to be that expensive?).

Well, in any case now I bought 8 Toshiba N300 8TB (4 HDDs for a server and another 4 for a NAS, both used by a RaidZ1) and so far they worked (and they're not loud and don't vibrate like hell when the disk is spinning, unlike the WD Gold).

It's the first time that I buy Toshiba HDDs - I'm quite sure that if they would have been Seagate then at least 1 would have already failed.
Interesting! I've been thinking of building a NAS and hadn't considered the rockpro64. Have you found that 4GB RAM has been sufficient for ZFS? I'm currently running a small ZFS array with 12GB RAM and the box never seems to use anything close to that amount, but ZFS has a reputation as something of a RAM hog.
The data demonstrates pretty clearly that whichever party control of both houses of congress, gets more bills passed, regardless of which party, and even regardless of which party holds the presidency.

source: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/statistics
I apologize for the strength of my language. There are several words I used in that comment that I should not have. It's far too easy to forget in the moment that there are real people making these decisions who may very well read what you say. I understand where you're coming from with the decision and will try to select more appropriate titles in the future. And will be much more mindful about how I register complaints.
Alito did respond to this too. As he says, if they check a box saying they are black or Catholic, presumably they are one or the other. But checking a box saying you are homosexual doesn't give any information about your sex.
I'm on T-Mobile and can confirm that I have been unable to make or receive calls for the past hour. Also, my home Comcast internet seems to be operating at dial-up speed and with insane latency. Something big is going on.
If Github/Microsoft publicly refuse to serve ICE, they will directly make it harder for other companies to serve ICE, through bad PR and through inspiring workers in other corporations to pressure their own companies to do so.

It is to some extent a symbolic gesture, but symbolic gestures have power in our world, especially when they are done by the powerful.

And of course ICE is part of the problem. Sure, the way they are regulated is also part of the problem, and that also needs to be changed, but the boots on the ground and their direct managers are not blameless. And they are likely to hold full responsibility for some of the horrendous acts being committed, not everything is commanded from on high. Not to mention the criminal negligence displayed in cases like losing track of people's children - that was not an order from somewhere, that is some bureaucrat who should be held personally accountable for failing to do their job right with catastrophic consequences.
Blink is a fork of WebKit though. Firefox is the last big non-WebKit browser afaik.
Genuinely curious, why is that better than just having good midi i/o? I would think almost anyone doing composition and notation, who has expensive, realistic orchestral libraries to play things back on, already has a DAW of some type. And the type of full control you're describing sounds like it could really include a lot. You'd need features like a recording timeline and playback control, parameter automation, advanced routing options, return tracks, side chain inputs, plugin latency compensation, ability to freeze or record plugin output to save cpu resources. Pretty much everything a daw has.
Do you keep track of what CA each website you visit is currently using?
HTML5, the canvas API and all the new browser APIs right after it.
Flash Player is possibly the worst piece of software ever written, with literally HUNDREDS of vulnerabilities discovered so far. If I tried I most likely couldn't produce that many vulnerabilities in software.

Anyway, if Adobe had rewritten Flash in Rust it could've lived on for years and years. Instead they were completely clueless on how to fix it.
Even to this day it is not fully supported, so please cut the bullshit

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51160348/pwa-how-to-prog...
Elsewhere on HN I read mention that it works wonderfully until you want a raise.
Considering it is impacting other non-celluar services (like Facebook), I'm guessing it is an internet backbone issue (e.g. bad BGP routing was broadcast?).

PS - This doesn't mean it is unrelated to the Spring/T-Mobile merger, they themselves could be the ones who screwed up routing.
I haven't seen the data for a few years, but I believe random Synology and other premade NAS dominated the market. To the point where ZFS would always be an edgecase.
Aw, thanks. I should have been nicer too. I was making myself chuckle while I wrote some of that, which is one way to mitigate the tedium of writing similar things over and over, but I fear that it comes across as a bit mean sometimes. By the way: nice article!

Battery is at 2%...
Worst case, you can use a helper server... The flash content tries to do an HTTP request, the container intercepts that, sends it to a proxy somewhere on the web, which does the request and pipes the response back.

Sure, someone has to run that proxy, but I'm sure flash games sites wouldn't have trouble doing so.
SMR+ZFS doesn't have to be bad, but you'd need a host-aware SMR implementation and then you'd need to make a lot of changes to ZFS to make it effective with SMR. In principle though, it seems like ZFS could actually make great file system to work with SMR drives.

I think the complaint is they rolled these out with the SMR effectively hidden by the drive firmware, so a) huge performance impact in cases where caching couldn't save you , b) no easy way for the software guys to address the problem, and c) no way for the customer to know any of this.
America's Constitution was designed from inception to have strict separations of responsibilities among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, such that they must work together to exercise power. This is meant to prevent any one individual or a party from becoming too powerful and thus endangering liberty. When they are not working together, they are meant to be powerless. Legislative power in particular was meant to be wielded by Congresspersons directly accountable to their constituents.

Judges as legislators violate this separation, undermining not only key protections on democratic integrity, but the legitimacy of the whole scheme, through its avoidance of that direct democratic accountability.

Note that excessive delegation from the legislature to the executive branch through agencies with rule-making power is also a separations-of-power concern, and there is special law around the procedures by which executive agency rule-making may take place. Another case is executive power being wielded by Congress: Seila Law LLC v. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, argued this March and not yet decided, took on the problem that the head of the CFPB was not accountable to the President.
I don't know that much about the physics of neutrino radiation, or the fine details of bomb design. I do have a hard time believing that such a beam can dump enough neutron radiation into a subcritical bomb core to trigger a meltdown or fizzle detonation without also giving a dangerous exposure to any human who is in the way of that beam.

I'm also suspicious of the difficult of aiming a beam that's a meter wide at the target distance to hit a nuclear warhead core reliably halfway across the world. If you miss, how do you tell what direction you missed in and correct?
I'm still developing web services connected to an Ingres instance running on a rickety ~22 year old Sun server with lots of bits and pieces cannibalized from its long dead siblings.

We have the replacement system almost ready but won't really be able to swap the thing until the project owner retires (yay politics!).

It's important but not time-critical, so if it dies before he goes we can just eat the downtime and take a couple of weeks to migrate.
Facebook has announced a virtual digital literacy skills program for Africa
I know SWFs can be decompiled -- can they be modified? Can the sitelock code be disabled or altered?
Minecraft Neat Neural Networks Learns to Path Find
The doubt sits with those who don't want to work remotely but now have to.
Think this is pretty pedantic. A valid reading of the sentence implies that of the sites that used video, almost all used Flash video.
Also MikeRoweSoft

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_v._MikeRoweSoft
The telltale sign that you are thinking critically and non-emotionally, is that feeling of discomfort you get.

Life starts outside your comfort zone.
Your startup is not your baby
Well.... yeah. If I wanted to be a smartass I would be saying something like "the 00 when it got adopted into the working group is important" though, unlike random changes before wglc.
> This then comes back to our question of de-escalation. If someone is unarmed and behaving violently.. the police will probably successfully de-escalate them and indeed, de-escalation is the correct approach. However, if someone is threatening lethal force, then de-escalation is no longer the correct approach.

Look, obviously there are some rare situations where de-escalation is not possible, like the North Hollywood Shootout, but it sounds like you're saying that the police should come in guns blazing whenever they think a suspect is threatening lethal force. That's obviously wrong. Police should try, to the greatest extent possible, to avoid shooting anyone. Whenever possible, they should de-escalate the situation, which refers to stuff like this:

> De-escalation more broadly refers to the strategic slowing down of an incident in a manner that allows officers more time, distance, space and tactical flexibility during dynamic situations on the street. Applying these specific skills increases the potential for resolving the situation with minimized force or no force at all, which reduces the likelihood of injury to the public, increases officer safety and mitigates the immediacy of potential or ongoing threats. A reduction in use of force incidents also reduces community complaints, promotes the perception of procedural justice and, most importantly, promotes resolution of events with the public’s compliance. [1]

Here's one case of what not de-escalating looks like, and the kinds of police attitude problems that are at play here:

> “Last week, there was a guy in a car who wouldn’t show me his hands,” the officer said. “I pulled my gun out and stuck it right in his nose, and I go, ‘Show me your hands now!’ That’s de-escalation.” [2]

[1] https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-applauds-a...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/28/us/long-taught-to-use-for...
WD lost all their goodwill with me as a customer because of this. Shocking how fast a brand can go from trusted to distrusted once they are shown to be untrustworthy. ;)
I personally use Frescobaldi - it works well for my flow. Apparently it has some midi input support, but I haven't tried that myself. Midi output/generation has also existed in lilypond for a while.
I'm failing grasp what your point is suppose to be. The original poster lamented that the ending of the line item veto has had a significant impact on Congress's behavior during and after the line item veto. I pointed out that the line item veto only existed for 2 years and only applied to very specific budgetary matters. I maybe mistakenly thought my point would be self-evident, so let me clarify. I believe the OP's idea that the elimination of the line item veto has had a significant impact on the current state of congressional politics is incorrect because the line item veto was not in place or applied generally enough to have ever had much of any impact on congressional politics.

Based upon that clarification is your point still relevant and if so can you explain it?
Differentiating between "small tech businesses" and VC-style startup tech might be useful here.

There are many tech businesses that can and do qualify for traditional financing/funding. The difference is that banks aren't interested in funding high-risk moonshots.

Simplified examples:

Tech Biz #1: Founder identified a niche, has a few customers, and has been working on making the consultant -> product jump. They're paying the bills but see an opportunity to offer their product to many more customers and would like to work on the business instead of working in the business. They want to hire a programmer and invest in marketing but need to borrow money to make it happen.

Tech Biz #2: Founder wants to build X for Y and change the way people do Z. It's going to take many programmer-months to build the product and a sales and marketing team to change consumer behavior. There's no guarantee that they'll find product-market fit but, if they do, the business has the opportunity to scale rapidly with strong margins.
You bring up very good points. I certainly don't trust most if any of the other critical pieces of the stack. I think those are attack vectors or points of failure as well and that risk needs to be mitigated. But on the other hand, the NPM package web is much larger and the barrier to entry is much lower so I would consider it to be much higher risk than the rest of the stack.

We as an industry need to put work into reviewing, simplifying, and increasing visibility at all levels of the stack, especially firmware. We're building high and fast and while standing on the shoulders of giants is a great place to be, we need to make sure the giant is more than just a house of cards.
Answer: install Firefox.
That does not solve the issue of a corrupted BIOS/UEFI, right? I assume at least that UEFI Secure Boot also protects itself from any attempt to be replaced without proper signed keys. Without this kind of protection, you either have to have a readonly BIOS/UEFI (so no possibility to issue updates), or you have a root-writeable, and so root-kit-able BIOS/UEFI.
We bought an Anki Cozmo when they were heavily discounted following the announcement that the company was stopping operations. It's been great. This looks like a step up!
I was more thinking about how all the right leaning subs have been co-opted by the alt-right gamer types and trolls. The far left subs aren't much better, but there are plenty of open minded moderate subs. I find neoliberal to be a great place to discuss center-left policy.
There have been a lot of interesting projects released as alternatives to Elasticsearch and Solr like Sonic, Tantivy, Toshi, Xapiand, Typesense, Blast, etc.

List here: https://gist.github.com/manigandham/58320ddb24fed654b57b4ba2...
I wonder if social media, which bombards us with scenes of violence pretty regularly has a mass effect on the general population?
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