skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What a perfect way for the state to exercise control over religious organizations! You’d quickly end up with every such state sponsored “church” as disruptive to state interests as the Church of England, the Lutheran State Churches of Scandinavia or the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association.
It's not a pedantic point. Since the relationship between the references is wrong (SCM <> hosting service), one can't do an analysis.

Putting it in those terms, questions like the storage requirements of an SCM can't be answered (because GH is a hosting service) and usability of a hosting service can't be answered either (because Mercurial is an SCM). Ultimately, it doesn't allow the fundamental question to be answered - was it a matter of SCM, of hosting service, or both?

As a matter of fact, the article is imprecise/confusing, as it partly mixes issues that were originally separate (although later it expands on this).

See the two separate JEPs:

- [JEP 357: Migrate from Mercurial to Git](https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/357)

- [JEP 369: Migrate to GitHub](https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/369)

Based on a quick reading, the main driver has been the SCM.
> Ah yes the good strawman fallacy argument

It isn't, that's literally what you said. That we should be okay with contact tracing if we have anything else that uses the fine-grained location permission.
Hi maxraz, are you logged in? You have to have an account in order to answer exercises.
Adding Phan to this conversation initially created by the creator of a PHP, now in the hands of TysonAndre who does an insane amount of good work on it
Data Driven UIs, Incrementally (Yaron Minsky, Jane Street at Strangeloop 2018)
I'd live a tool like grafana but with minimal to no javascript, whilst keeping the plethora of backends compatibilities. Just simple graphs from any tsdb with fast page loading speed.
You know the point I'm making - It's a business entity because it makes money and manages money like any other business. Why shouldn't it be taxed?
the term applications was just as common as programs? Apps as a short form for directories names or variable names was also pretty common?
Military Infographics
Looks like a combination of slow CPU and slow storage. EMMC can often be quite a bottleneck, maybe if they could get a faster storage controller like new UFS or smth
For a PC, you'll most likely have USB latency, double-buffering, latency between the graphics card and the screen, latency due to picture processing in the screen. All that is additional to the 1ms that the pixels need to switch color after the instruction to do so has been received.
You then pocket the net return on investment from the ETFs. The risk mitigation is that the interest free period is usually over 2 years, enough time for a stock market recovery should a downturn happen and you fail to time to market and sell on a high.
>The biggest gripe is that everything feels sluggish. Alt-tabbing between Firefox and a terminal takes one second, as does switching between Firefox tabs.

Looks like the culprit is the CPU/SoC: Rockchip RK3399. The specs for it do look decent on paper [1] but I guess it's simply too slow and not suited for laptops due to a small cache. It looks like a mobile phone SoC.

>The screen size and resolution scream for fractional scaling but Manjaro does not seem to provide it. Scale of 1 is a bit too small and 2 is way too big. The screen is matte, which is totally awesome, but unfortunately the colors are a bit muted and for some reason it seems a bit fuzzy. This may be because I have not used a sub-retina level laptop displays in years.

Screen is a deal-breaker for me. I stare at screens for hours on end and if it's not something in the same class as a retina screen on a Macbook or iMac, I just ditch it quickly. As for fuzzy screen and muted colors, well, that's the fault of the matte layer on the LCD panel. It's purpose is to diffuse light and minimize reflections. Personally I don't like to make that trade-off and prefer glass surfaces on my screens. I'll make a shade and make sacrifices as to how I orient myself to enjoy crisp text and proper colors in photos/video.

As for scaling, only Cinnamon DE does it right. I've tried almost all DEs over the past 6 months or so and Cinnamon's new fractional scaling and HiDPI support is the best by far. [2]

>The trackpad's motion detector is rubbish at slow speeds.

None of the non-Macbook trackpads are great. There's a project that's working on a good Linux trackpad driver but it's far in the future. Don't bank on it in the short-term. [3]

[1] http://rockchip.wikidot.com/rk3399

[2] https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2020/02/cinnamon-desktop-fractio...

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23235609
InfluxDB may require big amounts of RAM when working with high cardinality data. It works OK with up to a million of time series. Then it starts eating RAM as crazy [1]. How many time series does your InfluxDB setup contain?

[1] https://medium.com/@valyala/insert-benchmarks-with-inch-infl... .
Plus, future updates have all the benefit of open-source software.

This part is particularly strange, because a major benefit of open source software is other people can fork and keep the project alive if the company goes out of business or loses interest. I myself have rescued abandoned projects before and just released a new version for one today. This benefit is clearly missing for this product, at least I can't see any way to revive it to keep commercial use alive without a license change.
I have seen and used both American churches and Soviet community centers.
There is no unconditional goodness on this planet, but the way some people think they can reinvent better commu-nism "this time" is a 100% evil.
It take hours to read a whole 10TiB hard drive. Depending on use cases, it can be unacceptable.
It doesn't take an expert to realize that a place where belief in irrational things is encouraged isn't amazing.
I would love to see XCode on that benchmark, as I regularly manage to out-type it.
Having worked with multiple Mercurial repositories managed by a custom tool which is now also being converted to Git, I can confirm that the smart choice for a new developer is to choose Git.

It’s no longer “Choose Git or Mercurial?” that is the topic, but instead it is which Git branching model to choose.
I danced latin and ballroom during my masters and first two years of PhD. I never knew i would have that level of coordination.

Then I danced salsa and butchata when I moved university and it made me much more sociable. Whether or not its translated to cognitive ability, I'll never know. But it has translated to confidence and sociability, and it's a great way to get out if my own head and have fun.
Are you sure you are not talking about the current US government?
"Rocketreach has not met the requirement of the GDPR to name an EU representative (Art27) to account for the processing of European Personal Data. In their answer, the CNPD makes it sound like it is optional, it isn't. Instead of pursuing Rocketreach locally on that basis alone"

LOL, yes.

I'm sure they also do not meet the legal requirements of North Korea, Saudi Arabia, and many others.

Likewise, various EU corporations do not meet the legal requirements of non-EU places like those. Would he prefer that they did?

Even more interesting, since he expects the US to follow EU law, how does he feel about the EU following US law? The US has that Patriot Act, and lots of EU companies are not compliant. Maybe he should report a few EU companies to the FBI.
Show HN: Beep – A Voice Sharing social app
Photoreal Roman Emperor Project
I'm not sure how I feel about the screenshot at the end, showing that various policy makers also have their personal information being sold.

I guess the information is out there, and doing so also makes it definitively personal for the policy makers / enforcers involved.

That said, the policy makers / enforcers may be genuinely hamstrung. The US imposes its laws globally because of it's status as a global reserve currency (trading in USD requires the transaction to route via the US, thus making the entity subject to US law).

The EU doesn't have such status or power over US companies. The most it can do is try to prevent them from operating in the region.

As a person who almost certainly has his personal information being sold on this platform, I'm not pleased, and would love to see something done to prevent this kind of activity. Unfortunately, that depends on the US government to take action, and the last 12 years haven't been a flying endorsement of the effectiveness of the current government system. (This is not meant as an statement regarding the effectiveness of either President, but rather a regarding the low output from the system as a whole)
Nowhere was communism ever mentioned, only the potential for a "community center" which is a rather generic term that can exist independent of communism.
That might be slow because of autocomplete list starting and not because of rendering.
LIve demo up now: https://start.cloudbrowser.xyz
Most LCDs only buffer a single line at a time:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wts8f1bNnbo
If money could fix Intel's problems they would have none.

The only thing that might help Intel would be the CIA or NSA engaging in some more espionage.
That's not the case with a let-binding, which creates it's own scope for blocks. I think you're mixing it up with var, which yes it does have the problem that you're mentioning. (And hence the universal advice of avoid using var.)
Copy/Pasta Driven Development
Indeed it is, the point being that the mask hysteria has reached such a level that irrelevant articles must be suppressed for the sake of it. What was unscientific has become anti-scientific.
The Global Quest to Trace the Origins of Covid-19
It's a respiratory virus, it spreads through droplets, the symptoms are very similar to those of influenza, and the demographics of the people dying of this virus are very similar to the demographics of the people who usually die of influenza. The IFR seems to be a little bit higher than that of recent influenzas.

No, it's not a flu virus, but it's definitely comparable. This thing looks nothing like ebola or measles or herpes, for example.
It's called Electron and it shouldn't have been used for building desktop apps in the first place. I presume it was built as an inside joke when people were joking about web browsers becoming the new OS.

That said, it allows companies to use cheap web developers to build (previously more pricey) desktop apps, so it's used everywhere now. It's good enough to make money, but obviously using the wrong tool for the job will make some aspects of the experience worse.

Since most consumers hate working with the buggy software on their computer anyway, the loss for a company in making it slightly worse by introducing delay is negligible.
I get better at sports when I play people better than me, not when I go for the easiest opponent.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23552667
The problem is not that India doesn't have good developers, they do of course. The problem is that the average is brought down by the fact that a lot of people are only getting into IT because it is their best chance at living a middle-class life, not because its something they're interested in, and the volume business model of Indian outsourcing companies. Combine that with the "just do what you're told" mentality and its not a good deal, or only for certain projects.

The problems with southern Europe are similar. Hierarchical business culture, placing high value on keeping appearances, different work-life-balance mindset. Some countries produce world-class software that people around the world use, some don't, and its not hard to see why. Its not coincidence.
Like when they used mobile phone numbers given for security purposes for marketing?
Now watch the entire currently-EU based adtech industry relocate out of the EU...
Thanks for this. I definitely wasn’t expecting VSCode to be almost on par with Emacs...
Looks like rocketreach is aggregating information that is public on fb,linkedin etc. He forgot to mention that the google search result he got is already selling those, but maybe we ve become blind to that? Rocketreach is packaging and selling it directly, google does it indirectly. Same thing though, are those illegal?
Rust has a related concept of capturing references by default:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/rust-by-example/fn/closures/captur...
" Romans getting a slave to murmur stuff is what we might call "value signalling" these days."

? Virtue Signalling is when people brag, or indirectly brag, or overtly indicate their support for some cause, so as to highlight their virtue. It's used in a derogatory sense when people do it in a vapid manner, i.e. write things on Instagram, but otherwise their actions are shallow.

That said, that literally a slave was there to remind a General to not believe his own hype is just an incredible degree of self-awareness and social understanding of human nature by the Romans - and an amazing ability to act on it.

Could you imagine something along the lines of that these days for celebs, CEOs or in the White House?

My gosh.
Ah yes, clearly the only two options here are all-in capitalism or communism. Definitely no room in between those two points for anything more nuanced.
Thanks for a very nice piece of educational software.

I never learned 8080 assembler, but I'm familiar with the MOS 6510, Motorola mc68000, Intel i860 and ARM assemblers, and with that background I could use your self-explanatory emulator immediately after reading the capitalize demo code.

Learning on the raw iron was much harder as every crash necessitated a cold start followed by loading the assembler from tape...
At this point I think it's safe to say---clojurescript has proven itself and is not a risk.

An excellent language, good libraries (Metosin's ambidextrous router, Reitit, stands out here), the best development story with Figwheel, and oh, dead code elimination for free, as the cljs compiler leverages Google's Closure (not to be mistaken for Clojure) compiler.

Not to mention that cljs is actually a better fit for React even than JavaScript---implicit return, bias towards functional programming, and it requires no magic JSX step---in cljs you just write your html in nested data literals. It's a dream.

I haven't even mentioned black magic like core.async, or that now your front-end devs have a foothold on the JVM rather than the more-impoverished Node ecosystem(oh, you want to keep Node? Well, cljs runs there too!).

Pitch is a well-funded German startup making a presentation tool in the browser---as in, they can't afford to get their front end wrong---and they're comfortably using cljs.

Frankly at this point I think anyone serious about the frontend, who wants it to be good, not just passable, should be using clojurescript. There are reasons not to---if you need something today, and don't have time to learn a lisp---but for anything not due next week, I'd recommend cljs.
I’m kind of amazed anyone would say that. The Voyager probes revolutionised our understanding of the outer solar system, and provided vital information necessary for the planning of later missions.
> Especially now since MS programs are bleeding people due to remote learning.

Can you elaborate on this? Are they just losing students? Why do you think it's happening?
https://archive.is/0knTf
Why do you need to get me to utter the phrase "black lives matter" specifically? Why can you not settle with, "I care about ending all forms of racism," as stated above, or even "I care about black lives"?

The specific phrase "black lives matter" is required because it is the same as the organization - it is designed to conflate.

Are you specifically able to say "I don't necessarily agree with Black Lives Matter?" (Think carefully, because the far-left are experts at taking something you say out of context)

The primary media outlets putting BLM at the helm of the protests have been left-wing media outlets. In the UK, it has been the BBC, Channel 4 and The Guardian.

> When you hear someone talk about “open source,” or read a news article that mentions “open source,” do you think they are talking about the broad social movement, or about the OSI specifically?

This one is interesting because the OSI claims itself the arbiter of the term "open source," and there has been much debate on this issue, for example surrounding MongoDB's attempt to call their SSPI license an "open source" license, despite not being accepted by the OSI or meeting their "open source definition" because it discriminates based on field of endeavour.
“ The USA will ultimately be destroyed by completely ignorant Christians who are able to fake some semblance of rational thought.”

Church attendance in the US is dropping dramatically, catching up with democracies elsewhere in the world.

Generally the more educated and free a population, the less church (or mosque or whatever) going there is.
Currently there's not much the data protection authorities in the EU can do about foreign companies abusing the data of users.

I assume that in the coming years (or decade?) there will be more efforts to ensure the enforcement of EU law for foreign companies that offer services to EU citizens as part of trade deals.

Right now there's e.g. a flourishing industry of data brokers in Israel that illegally collects data from EU (and US) citizens and sells it, a practice which is hard to stop as well since most of these companies don't have offices in the EU.

I think another possible strategy would be to go after the clients of these companies. If they can't legally sell their data to companies in the EU or US their business model would falter. The GDPR actually mandates that you as a data controller validate that companies which process data for you adhere to GDPR principles. Right now it seems this isn't being enforced much yet but I think it will be soon, which hopefully will have an effect on data brokers outside the EU as well.
This is on point. Whenever I have tried reading the re-frame docs (I actually have tried more than once during the prevt years) I always get frustrated/bored from the lack of actual use cases and explanations of why this could be useful to me!

The docs just seem to academical for me... They would be excellent for a master's thesis but not for somebody deciding if he would like to invest time into a project.
That’s sounds like corruption could easily happen, what’s the justification?
You will need the knowledge which the Bachelor would have taught you. If you've already got that knowledge through other means, to the level that a PhD requires, then actually getting that degree should be pretty trivial. Do it as distance learning, and treat it as a refresher to make sure you're as sharp as you think you are.
I have shipped some of my belongings from Scandinavia to California and back, in plywood crates. Shipping company said that if the crates were untreated, customs in both ends would bake them at rather high temp to kill insects (content still inside). Unsure if that is true or just a myth to make people comply
That is going to be a long-ass cable
Unlike the authoer, I haven't found Github Actions very intuitive to work with :)

I've asked this before on a similar post, maybe someone here knows. Has anyone managed to get a Pre-Release to track Master using Github Actions? I can't seem to find a working example that does this (and I can't seem to cobble one together myself)

There are a few things that are seemingly intentionally left out of GitHub Actions... like you can create new Releases on a push, but there is no direct way to delete/update a release with fresh builds.

I know you can just get build artifacts - but those are not publicly available and hard to link people to.
> The above code is supposed to show a unique number for each button when the button is clicked. What it will actually do is to show the same number for all buttons, the number being equal to buttons.length.

no "let" will work as expected (lexical scoping). It's var which worked at the function scope, that's why "var" usage is not encouraged.

It's very confusing to JS newcomers, that's why it is important to learn the history of the language.
This is about religion, what does that have to do with politics?
Make the changes in your php.ini

Use a configure file that sets env variables for your project files. Put call in that file.
Is there a good reason to still use php when you can use hacklang (https://hacklang.org/) which has much stronger type system. Some would even call it php++.
Does GDPR apply here? They might not be selling to the EU, and they aren’t monitoring EU persons but just selling historic information. I don’t read GDPR as applying globally to any and all trade in EU personal data. https://gdpr.eu/companies-outside-of-europe/
It is because of our early history - heavy with hubris - with introduction and escape/release of cane toads, prickly pair, tiger pear, rabbits, foxes, camels, fruit fly, etc ... that Australia is now extremely cautious.
Main takeaway: strict types won't make your code faster!

It may make it slightly slower
Many contemporaries of early Russian communism have described that the whole thing have started with mass apostasy.
Which of course could, in turn, be the result of people being disappointed by G-d, which, in turn can be the result of massive and proliferating slavery/the-world-owes-me mindset with pure inability to risk and do business.

The latter is mostly the same today. The G-d loves everyone but gives to patient and industrious.
When are we going to admit that GDPR is a failure?

Asserting a bunch of rights around personal privacy is great, but I've yet to see any compelling evidence that the relevant courts and bureocracies are capable of enforcing the law effectively. EVERYBODY is cheating.

Every time this is brought up on HN, the response is to wait for when the big fines start coming.

It's been two years. They're not coming.
General consumption drives the need for heavy industries that contribute the most to pollution, so it's indirect but still the consumer at the helm.

However, I totally agree that the focus should be on those heavy polluting industries. I don't believe it's evil for humans to want to live the lives they do, with the technology we've created, and I also don't think we can change enough people to ever make a dent in those consumption requirements. Better to fix the issue more efficiently, at the source of the pollution, by switching heavily polluting industry out for greener alternatives, as the input into the consumption machine.
Unwritten rules of baseball
So it's a browser within your browser running on a remote machine somewhere?

At first glance it seems needlessly complicated, but modern browser finger-printing is also incredibly complex. So this might be better than a VPN... As both the IP and the browser are proxied
US companies should follow EU law when they are doing business in Europe, or processing EU citizens' data.

Likewise, EU companies should follow US law when they are doing business in the US.

Businesses should not operate in jurisdictions where they can't meet the legal requirements. At the very least, RocketReach should geoblock itself in Europe.
That was in the 1930s.. quite a stretch to project that failure to modern times.
Yes it does apply. https://www.hipaajournal.com/american-companies-gdpr/
The diaeresis is unrelated to the umlaut though, it's a notation borrowed from old Greek. It never quite caught on in English, but it's part of the standard orthography of many other languages.