skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He said specifically add to home screen. If the “plethora” of PWA features are available for Android, where is the thriving market of web based games on Android?
Introduction to 8 Essential Data Structures
I think the available extension mechanisms in Unicode are quite limiting and in fact close to useless because you can run into trouble when you use them.

What I want is refer to new symbols through some unique ID, a decentralized way to serve those symbols, including all relevant information (such as what those symbols mean, what they are based on, what glyphs are preferred/available, how the use of these symbols evolved over time, references to related symbols, etc. etc.).

If I want to invent a symbol for a Coke can, a link to an external website [1], a new mathematical operator, or even Covid19, I want to be able to do it now, not wait for Unicode to stamp the proposal.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23016832
They assume 3% fizzle yield. It wouldn't work anyway (there will be exactly zero yield), the core will remain intact, ready for insertion into another physics package.
From the introduction of the Paper:

"We emphasize that the whole technology is futuristic and the reason should be clear to all the accelerator experts... We also note that a 1000 TeV machine requires the accelerator circumference of the order of 1000 km with the magnets of ≃ 10 Tesla which is totally ridiculous... Even if it becomes the reality, the cost of the construction is of the order of or more than 100 billion US$... the power required for the
operation of the machine may exceed 50 GW"
Only the fact their Information Dominance Center is build to resemble the Bridge of the USS Enterprise of Star Trek.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/nsa-chi...
Absolutely. I just mean that even if consumers somehow guessed that something was different, and like you pointed out: they would have no reason to suspect that -- the information wasn't even available to decipher what that difference was. So, their cover story is completely asinine any way you look at it.
Are you a person of color?

It may be relevant to whether or not you could or would likely understand adequately why this might bother someone.

Edit:

Downvotes won’t make this inconvenient reality go away.
Not to defend the insurance companies, but I think it is bad faith because the intention of the insurance is to protect the insured from risk from an unforeseen situation, not to attempt to gamble or arbitrage against the insurance company.
> Windows 10 is a warmed-over tablet GUI forced onto a desktop. With ads. With terrible updates which break things.

... as a Service.

I'm stuck with it, but God, I miss Win2k and Win2k3.
I could imagine a wider “targeting” beam, fired so that a satellite overhead of the target site could catch neutrino scatter from the warhead. I don’t know what ridiculous engineering would be required to get sufficient neutrino collection for that to work, on a satellite, but if the budget covered a 50GW neutrino beam it might stretch to that, too.
The allocations for the StaticArrays solve must come from somewhere
Ideas like this are a great way to signal how privileged you are. Black people being murdered by the cops don't care about master/slave jargon in technology, it's hilariously out of touch that someone would even think this is at all important with respect to the issues going on right now.
I'd be surprised if it was less than 100k acres. If you haven't been in that part of the US the scale of nothingness is hard to put in words.
So your argument is: the slippery slope is real but we've already got too much speed so we might as well hit rock bottom?
Wouldn't something like this work in a game engine that can export to Webassembly, like Godot?

Though in either case, you lose the web platform, with its accessibility (aria, screen readers) and forward compatibility (like the one we had with the move to smartphones, etc).
White people fighting worthless causes to feel good about themselves and patting themselves on the back because they fought away racism by changing names, episode 2345.

But sure, go ahead, make the term disappear. That will surely fix the underlying issue.
"My straw reaches across the room, and I drink your milkshake"

The vast majority of my mining/drilling knowledge comes from There Will Be Blood, which if (big if) is accurate would mean this plan wouldn't work.

If some person with actual knowledge said this was a valid strategy I'd certainly be willing to donate though.
You cannot make tendies day if you read the fillings.
In what context is it OK for a policeman to assault someone in handcuffs?

Or shoot an accredited camera person in the eye with less than lethal ammunition designed to only be used by shooting at the pavement first?
Well, there will be a lease auction, so you can feel free to bid $2.50 per acre per year.

But basically, almost nobody is willing to even go to this land even if they did own it. Even environmental charities would probably set their sights elsewhere: jungles and waterways are almost certainly more environmentally significant.
> Yes you could!

That seems to be up for debate as the article discusses people who did exactly this and had their lease denied.
Employees who want to get paid by the company and at the same time trying to control whom their company should or should not do business with should re-apply for the job that matches their beliefs.

Company cannot and should not have to comply with myriad of conflicting opinions and/or try to satisfy wishes of different opinionated groups of different flavors.

This "let's please twitter mob" mentality is hurting our country.
Sure but that's because a "time-series" database is trying to get functionality that isn't already part of the underlying data store, for example if you're using RocksDB underneath and want to avoid slow scans.

You don't need to do that with a relational columnstore like Redshift, BigQuery, MemSQL, Vertica, Kdb+, or others. They're designed for massive aggregations with rows stored in highly compressed column segments that support updates and joins. And they're much faster than any custom compression scheme on top of another slower data store.

There's also the in-between options like OpenTSDB and Pinalytics that use Hbase/Bigtable. That's a sorted key/value datastore but it still applies compression on the row segments so you can leverage that in scans without a custom compression scheme on top.
No, just Thomas. See PDF page 52 at https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/061520zor_f2...

My guess is that many of the justices thought that granting certiorari at a critical moment in the public debate might provide a convenient excuse for Congress to sit on its hands.
Sotomayor and Ginsburg have both previously signaled their willingness to reexamine the precedent, yet neither wrote a dissent. If Congress does nothing I'd expect SCOTUS to revisit the issue in the next couple of years.
Github is more fascist with their code of conduct thought policing than ICE could ever be.
Yes, will have humans fix the machine translated versions soon!
There we go again with a Rubocop-like complaint. Are we at the pinnacle of ridicule yet ? Because I don't think I can take anymore. The amount of bigotry in the news is puzzling.
What Happens After the Universe Ends?
They chose to pay his severance instead of disclosing they had an unethical CEO for 5 years.
A lot of the other comments here seem absurd to me. We should all be able to imagine terminology that would be repulsive. (I.e., imagine if some tech term or project name were a racial slur. Would you really argue against changing it?). So yea, there's a line to draw somewhere; we can't say every technical term is immune from critique.

So then the argument is that in this particular case it's just not a big deal and people shouldn't be upset about it. Well, if you're saying that, I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that your recent ancestors didn't have to deal with slavery!

What percentage of people in tech are Black? Some single digit percentage? What if tech were 95% Black? Would we really say master/slave? Of course not. That wording has a lot of baggage for some people! So even if 9 out of 10 people don't have a problem with the word and see this as a PC slippery slope, that doesn't mean the minority is wrong to request changes. It's not difficult to change the terminology, and it helps some people, so why fight it.
Not transmitting; just listening and figuring things out before taking the next step. I'm well aware.
Yup. Playing around with something trivial for a couple of hours is easy. Throwing away failed iterations over and over "for fun" rapidly becomes "not fun." And if there's a real chance basically no one will care if you succeed, why bother?

There's unlimited things we -could- be doing, but only a limited number are worth it, so this is rational.
I can't reply without repeating myself so just gonna copy/ paste from the post you replied to.

> There is a small cost to updating existing projects, but for new projects, the cost to use a different term is zero.
Exactly what mani says. For many people, Redshift, or just plain Postgres, is good enough. But if you find yourself wresting with poor performance, slow queries, high costs, or just an annoying developer experience, I'd encourage you to look at time-series databases (eg TimescaleDB, where I work).
The titles of the "executives" from the article:

* director of safety and security

* director of global resiliency

* senior manager of global intelligence

* manager of global intelligence center (GIC)

* contractor who worked as an intelligence analyst

* senior manager

None of these are what I'd consider an executive, as titles go, at major tech companies. The highest ranking title (director) is solidly middle-management.
That doesn't seem credible yet

https://twitter.com/MalwareTechBlog/status/12726471098339409...
Unlikely that an attack would manifest itself in this way. I think it's an SS7 screwup since it seems that signaling is mostly what's gone pear shaped.
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Hehe, I have a son like that too, he'll be 13 this year and I'm happy to say there has been a small increase in intellectual curiosity in the last six months or so. OTOH I also have a daughter who'll soon be 10 and she has the opposite problem, she's curious about everything (for instance she self-studies Japanese because she loves robots and sushi and wants to go to Japan and just the other day she learned the location of all 50 US states, just because, and we're not even Americans) but it also means she never really dives deeply into anything. So intellectual curiosity is good but it's not enough. These days I try to teach her grit, so she will stick to something even when it becomes a bit boring...

Anyway, with my son I've found that when I include him and let him help with things I do around the house, like carpentering, he's much more interested than if I try something more "artificial" for lack of a better word. It's as he wants to do "real" things, because nothing beats a computer game when it comes to not being real.
Most likely one of two ways:

1. His employment contract specifies what reasons may justify a "termination for cause", and this wasn't listed.

(1a. eBay didn't want to have to prove that the conduct here met the definition of a specified "for cause" cause.)

2. eBay could have terminated him for cause, but intentionally terminated him for no cause instead in hopes of avoiding negative publicity.
People are fearmongering and sharing pictures of DDoS activity out of context. There are always attacks like that going on in the background, it doesn't mean that's the cause.
You can't make a directed neutrino beam because the direction they're emitted in a reaction is random. That includes particle accelerators which make neutrinos by colliding other particles. A single reaction product comes out in a random direction even though the momentum and energy of them all together are conserved.
I am bummed that you are making what are in effect, velvet fascist statements. This is literally one of the freedoms we have left, in that the businesses we run don't have to support things that we don't believe in.
That does seem silly on principle, but I doubt many Office 365 for Business users actually need such a thing anyway. Maybe it's some kind of bug or oversight?
I'm all for these changes on a personal level, but when a company like Github (and by extension MS) makes a PR move virtue signaling like they actually did something then we should be skeptic, because they have time and time again supported ICE and other law-enforcement that tells a very different story.
One of my fave Flash animations was a Stick Figure Animation, called "Time to Die."

I don't know if it can still be found anywhere, but it was a riot (and rather bloody).

You would pick which weapon they would "test," and one of the choices would result in a Snake Pliskin-type of character getting loose, and slaughtering everyone.
Unfortunately you need to be acredited to be able to get access to banks APIs and in order to get acredited there are certain requirements such as needing to be a legal entity. Alas, no dice for the enthusiasts.
Wrong era.
But drilling fundamentally and permanently alters the land, even if it is a lease rather than a purchase.
How is that plenty? Is Android not Linux?
I remember there was a claim against a former employee at tesla. And of course companies have a lot of money and power that could be leveraged against an employee, but there are always two sides. It would be big news if tesla did something like that, can you point to a story about that?
What's unfortunate is that a lot of bills are not even brought up in the Senate or the House for a vote after the other house passes them, often with overwhelming bipartisan support.

This effectively grants the Senate majority leader and House speaker veto power over any legislation. Even if the rest of the body supports the bill, the leader of the house can just kill it by refusing to bring it up for a vote.

I'm not sure whether this practice happens because the leader of the bodies don't want it to pass, or there's not enough floor time to bring it up, or if these bills are ultimately tucked into an omnibus package and passed into law that way.

The good news is that if people and their legislators truly care about this issue, they can demand that leaders allow votes as a condition for their support. The system is bad right now, but it can be changed.
My understanding is that LEGO changes their molds very frequently, leading to greater expense but if you've ever played with "off brand" versions of the same thing, it's easy to see why it's important. I'm sure there's also just a brand surcharge. Of course as a socialist I wish all of this was open source and not-for-profit. But given private ownership and the profit motive, I'm pretty happy with LEGO quality.
Can you elaborate? What does the map look like, where do the tourists go, and what part of it will be defiled with oil & gas development?

You might be right. But based on the information in the article, it might also be true that tourists don't ever notice that any of this happened.
I was cheering a little inside while reading this and agreeing mightily until I realized it was an ad. Boo.
I think a 5-second summary of the difference is that Materialize is Oracle FAST REFRESH for almost* all of SQL, as opposed to just those very limited cases where Oracle's FAST REFRESH works.

Oracle's docs have entire features in order to help you diagnose whether your views are eligible for fast or synchronous refresh[1]. In Materialize, everything you can express in SQL is fast refreshed. No caveats.

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/DWHSG/sync.htm#DWHSG914...

*Almost, because the surface area is truly astonishing.
How will this OS be secure? Via obscurity?
For most Americans and, I’d guess most citizens of most countries, enforcing immigration laws isn’t a big debate and enforcement is routine and companies don’t question enforcement by their government.

So the question is can employees who have diverging moralities have direct input on what a company considers moral and immoral outside the common take of the population at large?
I’m aware of these biases. However, I still believe there to be a gentle conservative / libertarian slant here. It’s not just downvotes, it’s also the volume of content with that slant.

I still think it’s a great place, fwiw. It’s not intended as wholesale condemnation. Every community is bound to have a leaning, and I’m part of some others that lean more progressive / leftist.
I'm curious how many other people share my ambivalence toward amateur radio? I want to be interested in it, but since encryption is forbidden I can't think of very many things I'd really want to use it for, what w/ being unable to trust the authenticity of transmissions and having no confidentiality.

I enjoy listening to stuff w/ my RTL-SDR rig. I also find the emergency communication capability that radio amateurs provide a Good Thing(tm). I just can't see what, personally, it could possibly be useful for.
Is that a function of flash, or how the creator using Flash implements with it?

It's easy to make a mess in many things, and it's true Flash has it's share due to it's sheer ability to create beginners in the realm of digital experiences.
I don’t know the details of how durable a uranium warhead core is (and I suspect it’s very highly classified) but they’re pretty precisely machined bits of metal. Even a 3%-yield fizzle should be more than enough to de-rate one. At that point the uranium could be recycled to build a new core, but that’s about it.
Yeah, I always wondered who came up with this master/slave terminology and what they had in mind. Was it a joke?
Overbooking never went away, it's still a problem. In the US there are laws they have to follow for bumping compensation now.
Give me 650bx42 at 27psi.
You've gotten downvoted for some reason, but I think you're right. The religious people I know could no more choose not to believe than I can choose to believe. Religious belief or non-belief comes as a response to life's experiences, heavily influenced by the level of indoctrination inflicted by parents when we're young.

When I was 11 or 12, I realized I didn't believe in god (I didn't know the term "atheist" at the time). My parents were Catholic, and I was forced to attend CCD weekly during the school year (the Catholic version of "Sunday School") in addition to weekly Mass. I tried so hard to believe in a god because I didn't want to disappoint or anger my parents, and I wanted to fit in with my peer group. I was trying to make a choice to believe, but that's just not a choice you can make. You either believe, or you don't.

In hindsight I'm glad I failed to choose to believe, but at the time I agonized over my non-belief daily, thinking there was something wrong with me.
>and the benefit here is non-existent.

To be clear, I'm not advocating for this change to occur. But clearly others disagree with you on this bit.
I'm guessing you got that impression by reading between the lines since he certainly did not say so literally. Since the memo is pretty short, could you go back over it and offer up a justification for that assertion? Is it possible that you rushed to judgement and heard what you wanted to hear?
Windows XP is Windows 2000 with a theme. Though the difference in resources was Win2k could run on 32MB of ram, and XP ran on 256, despite being the same OS with the same functionality, even the same drivers.

If you had beefy enough hardware, which we all eventually did years after XP came out, it ran as fast and almost as stable as 2000.

If you didn't mind the bland theme, and wanted higher FPS while gaming, with more responsiveness (less of a delay when double clicking on a window, for example) then running Windows 2000 over XP was a no brainer. In competitive first person shooter circles at the time, people preferred Win2k to XP for these reasons.
The US sent 3 carriers towards Asia last week to deter China and other countries from thinking that the corona pandemic and US riots was a good time to escalate.
That's a neat app I haven't heard of before, thanks for sharing. Mine is a little different under the hood. Instead of using CGDisplay functions, it uses newer, private frameworks to toggle the display filter that are the same ones used by the system's own settings pane. The CGDisplay grayscale function is a little bit darker, doesn't persist through sleep, and doesn't sync up with System Preferences.
Interesting. If I'm in distress as a result of some event that would obviously make a reasonable person feel distress, I don't think I'd make the leap to "my brain needs healthcare." I think of therapy as debugging thoughts and emotions that have come unglued from reality, or where the intensity has spun out of control and taken on a life of its own.
How about uranium? (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moab_uranium_mill_tailings_pil...)
Yes that is what they teach american kids: you pay the fee, you own the stuff.

It often turns out to be more complicated, because most of the land in the United States is stolen land. In the Hawaiian Kingdom, King Kamehameha III "invented" private property because the kingdom was starting to open up to the global world and he wanted to make sure the lands which the people occupied could not be stolen by way of foreign military invasion. Which is impressive considering that a foreign military invasion did indeed come, and those lands could not legally be seized by the invading forces. The land would need to be stolen by other means. Up until then, land was not property it was a responsibility, to the family, the community, and by extension, the nation as a whole. Land could not be owned, only stewarded. Land could not be sold for profit. A friend of mine put it nicely, he said that, to him, the buying and selling of land is like prostituting a family member, who is also an elder.

It just doesnt make sense, so try not to think about it. You get too many people thinking about it at the same time, the whole system is liable to fall apart.
What could cause all major cell phone providers to experience outages that began at the same time in the same day?

A solar flare seems unlikely, since WiFi does not seem to be effected (for me at least).

Routing issue maybe?

One possibility: it’s all just T-Mobile, but people are bad at reporting. For instance: if a non technical person tries to call a t-mobile number from their Verizon phone, and experiences an “outage”, they may report this as a problem with their own phone rather than understanding that it was on the receiving end (and knowing to try to call other carriers).

This could also explain problems with Facebook messenger (if the T-Mobile outage is effecting data). It’s not a problem with messenger etc. it’s just that messenger is the service that some T-Mobile customers are trying to use and having it not work. So they report it as a problem with the black box they know as their phone.

That or we are getting hacked. And if that’s the case then buckle in and charge up your ham radios.
The entire US? Really? I suspect that nobody has enough bandwidth to DDoS the entire US...
The article says that they're using Plaid to make the connections. I imagine Plaid also powers the categorization of the data as well. This really just seems like a pretty wrapper of Plaid data, in which case, you probably won't get much value out of it if you're using other tools like YNAB.
I once suggested an idea like this to them. Their reply was, simply:

> Why do we have to do everything?

Custom-printed decks of cards are insanely cheap. You should take your idea and run with it!
And don't forget the middlemen that monetize your de-identified data in exchange for providing the service :)