skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
5 1⁄4" floppies in the year 2020? I'd be sweating. I assume he's saving multiple copies.

Still have painful memories of using Fastback, a DOS based backup software. Sitting there feeding floppies into a drive. Stacks of floppies. Twice. Praying the data would restore.

Part of my innovative file sharing solution, aka SneakerNet.
It's easy to say. Hard to do.

$50m realized, now... cash in your pocket vs. maybe $1B.... but you don't know - there's a very real chance the company will die before that.

50m now vs 1b later is way too simplistic of a view.
> There is a very important distinction between confirmed deaths due to coronavirus, and deaths of people who may have shown some coronavirus symptoms.

Yes. Correct. Agreed.

If that's the measuring stick the USA has been overcounting. Healthcare has been authorized by the CDC to count suspected but unconfirmed (i.e., no test) as positives.

Add in the fact that healthcare facilities are compensated more for Covid-19 case, and most of those facilities are for-profit...what could go wrong?
"Getting a DXF or DWF into any other app in 2020 is a freaking nightmare."

At least you can do it on a non-Autodesk affiliated software stack that more-or-less works https://www.opendesign.com/
Eh, this is PowerMacs. Games used WASD + mouse from long ago.
colleague is using Windows Phone to "prevent distraction". He says the only usable app left is Mail.
how i archive.is illegal but Way Back machine not? Seems odd that you isolate a single archive service as illegal instead of saying "Internet Archiving is an illegal operation"
Don't treat others in (a way you would not like to be treated).

You can parse the sentence by evaluating the parenthesis first, "a way you would not like to be treated.". Let's think of a few ways you would not like to be treated. I don't want other people to

* Scream at me

* Insult me

* Put words in my mouth.

Then it says "don't treat others" in such a way.

A gotcha here is that not liking something is not exactly logical inverse of liking something. Liking something means positive feelings. Not liking something means negative feelings. Feeling neutral is a third category, not included in either.
AMS Notices have gone crazy with their file size; not sure why. Are they generating them from PS?
Indeed. Autodesk Advance Steel generated fabrication drawings need a lot of effort to get it right but AS was ahead of Tekla in regard with connection design and modeling/detailing super strange parts/structures.

As for the prices...in 2014, 2 Advance Steel licences were something like 12000 euros and one Tekla license was about 18000 euros.
I literally spent the weekend setting up Debian on a Mac Mini. While I had trouble getting anything more modern to install (certain dependencies are hard to find), I was able to get Arctic Fox working, and found that it was fairly snappy given the fact it’s running on a G4 processor.
I'm struggling to see how this article is awkward for the BBC. It's not as though the BBC has not reported the situation in the UK: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-53592881 .
“Give me six lines written by the most honest man…”
Air travel is ecologically unsustainable.

I would hope the Corona crisis would be the perfect opportunity to wind down this archaic sector and transition that part of the economy to something more future sustainable.
Before Hitler lost the war, he was just another politician, a very effective one, but just one of them. You can see it in how people talked to him, wrote about him or even worked with him. It was after the war, when the leader allied with Japan, India and Iran was made into the greatest evil white supremacist of all time... by Russia, the U.S. and Britain... Sure!

If you could look at this from the outside, you'd see how much of a joke it is.
The regions of the UK that voted for Brexit will probably be hit the hardest because a deregulated environment for technology companies will not benefit them. The loss of the single market and JIT manufacturing will, most certainly, lead to the closures of manufacturing sites. We could also imagine the downfall of some industries in the UK (aeronautics for example).

The eye-watering spending plan will require cash, a lot of it, and the COVID + Hard Brexit that's currently looming could very well prevent it from happening. The government has not been great so far at following up on their promises.

The EU was scapegoat that the government and tabloids used for a lot of issues that were mostly national (including the infamous immigration laws). Even after leaving the EU, the blame game is still in full play; never is anyone taking responsibilities for their actions, it's always the others' fault.
Well of course, but since the word can mean both things, it’s a pun regardless of whether or not the devs intended it to be one.
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Are you arguing that the fundamental design choices in the code architectures are so bad that it is not worth investing in development? If so, what are you basing your claim on?
The only reason the Daily Mail (a demonstrably racist publisher of right-leaning lies and propaganda) would publish this is to create anger from those who regularly read it. Since there's are a lot of people wouldn't agree with this decision.

Also, I find it odd that this article is even linked on 'Hacker News'. It has zero value to our community (imho).
CERN sponsors Kicad for EDA.
> Utilitarianism and its hard problem of not killing your grandmother if she isn't contributing anymore.

Doesn't seem that hard. When I'm old and feeble I'll be totally relying on social systems to protect me (respect for property rights, policing, etc). Ergo, I should be working as hard as possible now to make the system robust such that people can't hurt the elderly. If they aren't safe, I will eventually be wiped out.

If I'm in a position where I can kill my mother to benefit myself, the rational lifetime-optimum response is to improve the system of policing and investigation so I couldn't possibly get away with it. This will inconvenience me now but secure my comfort in the future.
The way the US property market works just completely blows my mind. Even with federal regulation there is a lot of racism inherently built into the system. Cities drain money from predominantly black neighborhoods by not repairing or updating infrastructure. Banks drain money from those neighborhoods by denying loans and undervaluing property. No surprise the buyer got an appraisal of $0.
Depends on the newspaper. Things that the newspaper doesn't want to judge the truth of usually get put in quotes or have attributes like "alledged" or "supposed" added. Without such limiting additions, the newspaper is assumed to embrace the written statement as true and will e.g. be liable for slander. The yellow press will care more about the catchy headline than the slander charges, so they usually avoid being precise and accept the punishment as cost of running their rag...
I set a solid purple background because I feel unused screen space is a waste.
Such a simple minded reply, the BBC can do both at the same time.
It is and it is not.

The secretary of state did say that. And meant it.

But so far, it feels like he is a bit alone, with a few old industrial/regulatory interests behind him, but it's not clear whether it will plainly fall flat and fail, or if it will take momentum.

The same thing happened with the StopCovid French app.
The same thing happened also with the "sovereign cloud" platform in France.
The same thing happened too with the Hadopi thing (sort of a monitoring/controlling body to prevent peer-2-peer media piracy).
Somehow the same thing happened with a recent shutdown of a nuclear power plant in the objective of lowering CO2 production.

"The same thing" = absurd, poorly thought, poorly motivated and poorly executed ideas.
It is sad that the WSJ sold out to the Murdochs and lost their way. It used to be the case that financial papers would have an agenda on their opinion pages, but when it came to making money people needed/wanted the truth or something as close as possible to this -- the market did not care about spin and believing spin that differed from reality would cost you money.

I was a decades-long subscriber to the WSJ print edition and as long as I ignored the last few pages of the first section I was a happy camper. I cannot imagine what possessed Murdoch to engage in such value-destruction, but the FT and Economist are now my go-to sources for getting news that is as low-spin as possible.
I've seen more than a few sites use the RSS logo to point to a newsletter signup. I'm not sure whether it was deception or ignorance.
I set up Mastodon to give it a try a few months ago and I share your pain, as someone used to old-school unix sysadmin it seems pretty ridiculously complicated and you basically have to input a bunch of docker commands and hope that whatever tutorial you're following doesn't open too many security vulnerabilities.

That being said that's just the modern webdev bloated and unoptimized stack. Go fast, break things and if it doesn't work you can probably solve it by adding another layer or three on top of it.

We can complaint all we want about it but clearly modern web developers prefer to work with these technologies (and sometimes for very good reasons), it's not like we can force them to do things our way.
I always love comments like these,

Having been through this cycle a few times at different companies, the bean counters always love OPEX until you move everything to OPEX causing that annual budget to explode then all of a sudden they want to "Reduce costs", so people start shifting things to CAPEX until that budget explodes then they want to "Reduce annual capital spend" so people start shifting thing back to opex.....

And so the cycle goes, over and over again

bean counters and MBA's live in this mythical land where $100,000 over 5 years or $20,000 a year is some how different
For reference, the domain of usage of this timer thread is in a server-side application. Clients do not have to run this. The server application handles many clients simultaneously, so cost of spinning is amortized across many users.
> Could also mean we test more people, register more mild cases.

Note that the trend is worldwide. Even in countries with very high testing in the beginning. South Korea for one!
Well, good! That's the kind of person you'd want on your currency. Why pick someone who hates their country?
Alexa is taking over the game, even with the not-quite-natural syntax and privacy concerns. That said, speech is laborious compared to thought. Elon Musk is working on thought (for real).
You must not have been around in 2000. That was a wild ride even for techies.
Considering that his life's work was to ensure that his country wasn't British, Gandhi feels like a strange choice, much as he's an obvious choice of face for the rupee and international accolades and someone that obviously did significantly influence the course of British history. I'm not even sure Gandhi would have wanted to appear on British currency, at least not after the early period in his life when he unsuccessfully tried to earn the respect of the British by encouraging Indian Hindus to volunteer for British war efforts.
That would be my guess too.

More testing does not explain falling CFR in South Korea for one thing.
An annoying diet is a bit different from "hey this segment of people should just not exist", isn't it?

(If that's what TERFs ~actually~ want I don't have the time or nerve to debate, but wherever you draw the line, it's still a very different category of belief)
Not enough. As my current team is in love with NoSQL and refuse to learn anything related to SQL. But when dealing with legacy stuff, I get to do all SQL related work. Anything in SQL is faster to develop and execute than NoSQL. Only advantage of NoSQL is that you don't need to think about your data, just stuff everything in a json.
My thoughts, also. It's obvious why they don't, but ideally, every business would take a "we don't negotiate with terrorists" stance on this.

Could governments outlaw these ransom payments?
I actually wouldn’t mind the subscription model if they priced you for daily use. $0.99/day to use Adobe suite would be perfect.
> The latter is about running machine learning algorithms in your browser to infer your interests.

Oh nice, sounds like my information will now not only be sent to someone else, I even will be doing the computation for them to increase their margins and pay with reduced battery life. Awesome!
> The reason this is being done is exactly the same reason why he was not given the Nobel Peace Prize and not acknowledged outside India for a very long time.

While I think it's farcial to place him on British currency, largely for the reasons you've outlined, this part of your claim has no basis in fact.

Gandhi did not receive the 1948 Nobel Peace Prize because he was dead and the prize is not awarded posthumously. The diary of a prize committee chair recorded that one member was in favor of awarding the prize posthumously. Instead the 1948 Nobel Peace Prize was not awarded because “there was no suitable living candidate”.
What will you use multicore support for?
It seems an ok technique, if you understand that the person does not use those languages, because maybe what you are testing is how well they approach something they do not know anything about.

I had this happen to me in one interview https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13295212 using Python which I didn't know very well. Despite it not working out I thought it was one of the better interviews I've had.
Nvidia in 'advanced talks' to acquire ARM for over $32B
> On a ship, I don't imagine that engineering would be very involved in helping to set the direction

On a warship at least, engineering would make inputs into command decisions, at least by identifying constraints such as when maintenance is required, redline limits, etc.

In fact the Kirk / Scotty relationship (as per classic Star Trek) is a fairly good model, except that there would be multiple Scotties, representing other functions such as damage control, weapons teams, etc. These different teams would have to mutually deconflict, e.g. scheduling maintenance / repair around critical warfighting activities.
I think this is a bit too extreme but it's not difficult to imagine a world where everyone is taking anti depressants and pain killers on a regular basis.
While 25-year-old car lacks many of new tech gadgets it still is likely to have most important conveniences (A/C etc). The most important difference is safety (while not death cages like cars from 50 years ago, 25-year-old cars are still light years behind current cars) and emissions. The latter means that soon those cars might be banned from cities (at least in Europe), which renders "moves stuff around just like a brand new one" invalid.
The effect of Covid-19 on the property industry
> Technically, for the individual, it's correct that they didn't die from the flu...

I’m not sure this is accurate. From what I’ve read, many people simply aren’t tested. They are old, got pneumonia, and died. The cause of the pneumonia may have been any number of things, but some large proportion of them are expected to be flu during flu season.
The vote was a close one; it should have been taken into account to come up with a compromise. I think remainers were ready to accept a soft Brexit and everyone would have moved on. It would have represented a loss of influence for the UK (it's going to happen anyway), but it would not have been the shit show that we have seen since then. The soft Brexit proposition exploded right after the vote, and Brexiters started pushing for a very hard Brexit.

I disagree with your statement on the democracy not working at the scale of the EU. The EU is a democratic institution, with limited responsibilities (the UK famously fought back against tighter integration). Recent history in the EU has shown that people are ready for more integration now that the UK is (unfortunately) gone (as seen 2 weeks ago with the common debt).
With all due respect for the library and its beautiful showcase of demos, why do we apparently keep having to re-invent the wheel? Log-scaling axes seems like one of the most fundamental features in any plotting library. How many dev hours are wasted implementing logarithmic axis scaling for the umpteenth time?
Okay, so let me lay out why I'm suspicious of those numbers in the context of the article. The paragraph before that states:

>The number of deaths from coronavirus in Iran is nearly triple what Iran's government claims, a BBC Persian service investigation has found. The government's own records appear to show almost 42,000 people died with Covid-19 symptoms up to 20 July, versus 14,405 reported by its health ministry.

Now those two things aren't the same - the number of deaths of people who could possibly have had coronavirus isn't the same thing as the number of deaths of people who were actually confirmed to have coronavirus. The first is a quite expansive definition which is what the BBC is using, and the second is the number the Iranian regime publishes. And that second definition is a perfectly reasonable thing to publish, it's what the UK publishes and reasonable people know that's likely to be an undercount.

Now, given that the BBC is already comparing apples to oranges, comparing the suspected cause of death with confirmed. Let's look at the claim you're quoting.

>The number of people known to be infected is also almost double official figures: 451,024 as opposed to 278,827.

So what I'd want to see, before I took the second quote seriously, is a defintion of what the numbers refer to.

Because if you read it in context, that sounds to me very much like it could be the BBC is doing exactly the same thing again, comparing the official figures which are the number of people actually tested confirmed cases, with the unofficial figures, which are simply people presenting with symptoms but not comfirmed.

Testing capacity is a worldwide issue, but apparently with Iran we're going to try and literally tie this to the Iranian revolution.
I'm a recent convert to Tailwind, like your builder a lot.

Any chance you can/will integrate the TailwindUI components for those that have purchased them? For me, that would be killer for quick mock-ups and starting points.
Eastern Turkey in that time was predominantly Roman/Greek. On Wikipedia at least Saint George is described as a soldier of Greek origin.
Not sure why you get downvoted. The pre-corona aviation growth rate was a real problem.

> Aviation could consume a quarter of 1.5C carbon budget by 2050

https://www.carbonbrief.org/aviation-consume-quarter-carbon-...
> It is the same for this soapbox product, no?

Absolutely not the same. His work was not achieved due to exploitation of anyone. His personal views do not change the usage of the product and do not mandate any kind of compliance or agreement to any of his values. You want to put someone who simply expresses a contrarian view on the same stand as someone who actively exploits their employees?

> I don't care if it is cancelled tbh, i just don't want the people behind the product to get my money, is this bad?

First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist...

Yes, pretty bad. This is the seed of totalitarianism that is planted in most progressives minds and speeches. You just don't think is bad because you are not in the out-group yet.
Gandu ji is going places!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJU_6C4gK0
Analog EEs tried for a long time to produce a pure analog circuit with actual chaotic behavior.

Chua's circuit was the first actual successful attempt.
This is very odd for a country to celebrate in this way a foreigner that lead a revolution which concluded in huge territorial loss.
They like the hardware maybe?
What I always wondered is why these units don't come with heat recovery ventilation system inside. Seems obvious.
The UK government also has the ONS data measuring excess mortality (the most accurate numbers) and these are freely easily available online here: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...

Does Iran have similar numbers easily available? (Obviously, these don't have to be in English.)
Follows from muted instances show as requests on Mastodon. It stands out when you try to migrate a big account.
You are conflating reporting and editorializing. Whether the trial was fair and the execution just is an opinion, and yes, that has a bias. But whether you agree with the sentence has no bearing on whether it took place.

So no, you can't have it both ways. You can't point to objective reporting and claim it has a bias, when in reality you mean that the reporting isn't showing your preferred bias.
Saint George was a Greek. Whether the Greeks are to be considered "white" depends on whatever your definition of white is I suppose.
The reason that people now prefer "they" instead of "he" is that it causes a bias towards a gender when discussing things. If you're talking about something that has typically been male-dominated, it's kind of unfair to use "he" when talking about unknown people. So people prefer the use of "they" now, even though it's supposed to be plural. English just doesn't have a neutral pronoun otherwise.
In July 2020, more visitors of Gov.uk used Safari (38.67%) than Chrome (38.18%)
How much did he pay to buy those buildings in cash? That seems like key information to allow readers to draw conclusions.

What was the market value for them?
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That is an irrelevant detail. The comment you are responding to isn’t saying that https is foolproof. They are saying that it would help people to be more free of digital control if privacy respecting technology is so common that it isn’t suspicious when you use it.
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I don't think the people with controversial opinions voice them publicly.
Why is this frustrating? The banks make a profit this way, just like you described. They are not public services. Banks that operate with alleged "systemic racism" are bound to lose out on profits to banks that don't, therefore the case for it isn't very strong in this situation.
You keep using their share of the phone market when we're talking about the app market. Whether the iOS app market and the Android app market are the same market has nothing to do with what percentage of the market for phone hardware each platform has.
Gandhi has some interesting history/opinions about black people. It's an interesting read if you have time.
No, they're undercounting.

You can't get away from the piles of corpses, and only a small number of these are explained by the increases in other deaths.