skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another thing that's not mentioned in the article is the Astravets nuclear power plant in Belarus, which is largely subsidized by Russian funds and is seen as a political maneuver by Russia to threaten Lithuanian sovereignty. Lithuanian energy situation has been an issue ever since the closing Ignalina nuclear power plant as a condition of joining the European union. There were plans to build a new modern nuclear plant in its place, but it has been canceled, largely as a consequence of the 2008 financial crisis. The Astravets power plant is seen as a way to force Lithuania to buy cheap electricity from Belarus and keep close ties to the Russian sphere of influence. It's choice of location is largely questionable, being built just 50km from Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The power plant is set to start generating electricity sometime this year and Lithuania is looking to reconfigure its power grid in time to boycott it.
Allowing CMake functions to return(value)
https://wordpress.org/support/article/changing-the-site-url/
> That argument can be made without drawing emotional prejudices into it, but it wouldn't hurt to raise the question of prejudice while conducting this debate,

There's a public sector equality duty under the Equality Act 2010 which is one reason people are looking at the disproportionate impact on some groups.
Wrote some stuff for esp32 in c. Am I an embedded dev yet?
If your project uses CMake, you could

* add the structopt repository as a git submodule to your project

* add something like `add_subdirectory(structopt)` to your top-level CMake script

* add structopt to your target_link_libraries

and you're good to go.
> A proposed law, the News Media Bargaining Code, would force us to provide you with a dramatically worse Google Search and YouTube, could lead to your data being handed over to big news businesses, and would put the free services you use at risk in Australia.

The last point particularly reads as extortion.

I get why those under Murdoch umbrella hate it so much but is picking another evil the only option?
"Grow Up" and that millennial nugget adulting take on whole new inflections.
I actually own a TAP (gen 2). It's surprisingly quick to pick up, especially with the apps, and once you get used to them they work surprisingly well.

One of the reasons I got it was actually how appealing the alternate mouse inputs were.

I tend to "collect" dexterity-based hobbies, so ymmv, but I found it pretty fun and satisfying to pick up. I'm completely out of practice now (new baby and wfh sucked up a bit more of my free time) but might just pick it back up anyways.
I'm not sure where people get this idea. Chrome on my old Note 8 is as fast as Safari on my newer iPad, and doesn't need to reload tabs as I switch between them nearly as often. On top of that, the Safari interface is completely unintuitive ("I have to hold which button to access that? I can't just tap it?").

I wouldn't even bother owning an iOS device if it weren't for the third-party app selection (specifically for art production). Which is the most infuriating part: devs could do all of this stuff on Android, they just refuse to.
Side issue, but... maybe Google can pay some tax in this country as a first step.
So much for openculture dot com when they serve a forbidden error.
My take is that it's about the "stimulating activity" rather than the actual screen time. When broken down it's intuitive, but the "reduce screen time" adage often gets repeated without that distinction.

Specifically about your problem: for me, I move from a state of "active engagement" to "passive consumption". 1 to 2 hours before bed, I stop doing anything engaging that requires my active participation - work, video games, learning. I shift to lounging on the couch and reading fiction or watching a movie/show. The key is in my intentions behind each: in the evening, my goal is to relax. I dont turn on a movie with the intention to learn or to be entertained; I'm just there to experience it.

Sorry if that's too abstract; the feeling is hard to communicate. Hopefully it's a useful starting point for further thinking.
I'd say News Corp (Fox News, Sky News, NY Post, etc.) ranks pretty high on the list of damaging companies, and this law was clearly written to benefit them.
The Economist paywall can be bypassed by disabling Javascript on the browser. They used to have a limited number of articles you could read per week for free, but it looks like that's not the case anymore. It's really a shame because their journalism is really high quality, but I guess they do have to pay for it somehow.
Safari on iOS is seriously the most buggy browser ever. You can mostly write something and it will work on Firefox and Chrome without issues.

Not only is safari full of bugs, the bugs won't be fixed, and if they do, it will take years.

Current serious bugs:
1. Add a site to the home screen, go to another app for 20 seconds and then switch back: congratulations, it's frozen.
2. You can't even stop scrolling on the body element, so tens of thousands of developers resorts to ugly hacks like eg. https://github.com/willmcpo/body-scroll-lock that kinda works in some situations.
3. The lack of features. Who doesn't as a developer feel bad for the person who spends forever trying every single browser in apples app store in an attempt to find a browser that supports push notifications. Of course none of them do, it's all Apple's shit.

You really can't have much experience with web development if you don't know how terrible iOS is for web as a result of Safari.

Heck, Safari isn't even behaving close to Safari. You have safari on desktop, safari on iOS and safari standalone on iOS. All of them behaves completely different and has different bugs and feature support.
A problem there (which the previous system attempted to solve) is to establish a reasonable ranking of students that is aligned between schools. It may well be that in some year and some subject the best student of school X is weaker than the worst student of school Y, and that in many institutions it would be reasonable that in some subject according to an objective country-wide ranking noone in their class deserves an A this year (I don't know the specifics of UK A-level grading, but I'm thinking of an exam policy where A implies being in the top 15-20% countrywide).

However, teachers naturally want to motivate their best performers (what teacher would grade so that the best student in their class would get a B- ?) and school administrators have a practical incentive to inflate the grades. This means that subjective evaluation of speeches and projects (especially if you're comparing them within a single institution, not to what projects and speeches are considered good and bad in other institutions) and continuous real-time questioning won't lead to an evaluation that's useful to determine where a student stands in comparison to other students in other institutions, and furthermore, they are going to be optimistic. A relevant headline is "40% of A-level results were downgraded from teachers' predictions." - however, that seems normal and expected to me; do we have the equivalent numbers from last year, comparing the teacher's prodictions with the actual exam results?

Technically you might consider taking the "local evaluation" and make an adjustment for the institution, but this is exactly what they attempted to do this year in UK, and the whole original article is about the limitations of this approach.

Also, fraud and cheating is a problem. There are many approaches that have proven to result in somewhat effective remote teaching and learning, however, we don't have good solutions for effective remote evaluation (this is a problem that I personally experienced this spring in my work). For the pre-COVID remote education, the only thing that IMHO worked was a network of in-person proctoring centers supervising the testing process and identity of the people who are taking the test (otherwise people will get others to take the test for them, it's not a hypothetical issue) or, in certain cases, a privacy invasive and labor intensive online proctoring.

IMHO it makes all sense to separate instruction and teaching from final evaluation and certification, due to the unavoidable conflicts of interest and misleading results that happen otherwise. This is also what UK has chosen as its policy - but as they found out, this means that they can't have a meaningful evaluation if they skip the actual evaluation part this year.
I've been hearing loads of reports of kids getting marks way off what was predicted, and clearly the algorithm is... wrong. This essay is a good explanation of why. One thing that annoys me a bit is that we as a society have discovered all sorts of interesting thing about statistics and decision theory, causality, etc, but then we don't apply them. Why didn't Ofqual find some people who understood how stats work, and and ask them for advice?

It seems clear that if you just take a distribution from previous years and lay them on top of a ranking, you are creating a lot of problems. And you are hiding your incentives on the penalty function, which is something he mentioned. People have correctly figured out that a good kid at a bad school will not be found, and that the marginally second best kid in a year is going to get marked down.

Whatever you think of exams, and I'm no fan, they do give people that mix of noise and signal that society needs to put to rest the issue of who deserves what. They're not entirely a lottery, not entirely skill or hard work, but if we need a way to distribute X number of future doctors, that's the long established way to do it.
It's the other way around. Bitcoin pays miners who keep the network running. It does so by creating bitcoins. Its not peoples money that is used to pay them its indirectly trough inflation. No one cares about that because price gains have been way higher than inflation loses. Also the upper hard cap of 21MM makes people think inflation doesn't exist. Yet it of course exists until the block reward is actually zero. In other words the price has to go up forever doubling at lest every 4 years on average to cover its own running cost with the simultaneously halving reward. It's obviously a scheme that will collapse, it's just designed to possibly last many decades.
Bottom line:

"With the new database-based science, there is often no moment when the complex becomes simple enough for us to understand it. The model does not reduce to an equation that lets us then throw away the model. You have to run the simulation to see what emerges. For example, a computer model of the movement of people within a confined space who are fleeing from a threat--they are in a panic--shows that putting a column about one meter in front of an exit door, slightly to either side, actually increases the flow of people out the door. Why? There may be a theory or it may simply be an emergent property. We can climb the ladder of complexity from party games to humans with the single intent of getting outside of a burning building, to phenomena with many more people with much more diverse and changing motivations, such as markets. We can model these and perhaps know how they work without understanding them. They are so complex that only our artificial brains can manage the amount of data and the number of interactions involved."
Agenda.

The US has records not broken stretching back to the very late 1880s and 1890s and of course there were a few hot years in the early part of the 1900s. Quite a few records are still standing from the 1930s.

Still in the end understand every generation has doom and gloom weather prophets and today we like to bludgeon people with "scientist say this" but that was the case a hundred years ago to.

record books are fascinating but better yet are finding archives of newspapers which are online for nearly every major metropolitan area.

We seem to be a society hell bent on declaring our generation as the worst off and the good old days are long gone.

and people wonder why they are are unhappy
When Murdoch and Google duke it out using the Australian people as their human shield I find nothing to be happy about and plenty to be sad about. Both parties here are disingenuous about their stated positions, both are rather cynical in how the perform their negotiations. In the end the public, no matter what, will end up the loser because neither of these parties has their best interest at heart. Murdoch just wants money, Google wants to get as much content as they can for free and meanwhile whatever they agree on will be paid for by the public in one way or another. This is a disgusting spectacle at many levels.
re: bananaface

> I don't like the news media but they can't just "not appear" on Google's results. Google has way more leverage than them. Their choices are: accept Google stealing your content and giving you some traffic in return, or die. It's like saying, "you're free not to farm on your feudal overlord's land." Where else are you going to go?

>

> The problem isn't a matter of rights, it's that Google has too much power. Individuals can't exert any leverage, they have to accept Google's terms. I don't think that's healthy, it's quite dangerous actually. The only way to address that is a collective intervention.

The leverage is that you stop using Google to get news, no?
Awarding GCSE, AS and A levels in summer 2020: interim report
Micro Center is nice if you live near one. The closest one to me is about an hour and a half away and the city I live in has no other computer parts stores. The mom and pop shops are all repair shops, so if I need, say, a new video card or want to buy a new processor I have to order it online, get lucky with Best Buy randomly having it in stock, it or drive the hour and a half to Micro Center.
You have hung a lot on the single word “unremarkable”, so perhaps I did not make it completely clear what I thought was unremarkable. The only thing that I meant was that if a given architecture for NLP would require retraining from scratch in order to work with a new language, I would not think that fact would be surprising, or be indicative of some fundamental flaw or limitation in the approach taken.

If, on the other hand, a given architecture could not be retrained to perform well on a different language, or only on a group of related languages, that might be indicative of a fundamental limitation in how far it could be developed, depending on what sort of accommodations have to be made for new languages.
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An exam tests that you have absorbed and can apply the knowledge. In subjects like mathematics I'm not sure what prepared speeches might give you, and grading based on real-time, in-class questioning is going to be subject to bias from the teachers.

The whole reason we have a controversy over this is that the teachers were asked to give predicted grade to their pupils, and in aggregate their predictions were improbably high compared to other recent year groups.
The Lancet study was also debunked and retracted in case you didn’t know.

It’s a sad state of affairs when science has been hijacked to score political points but I guess that’s nothing new.

https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/lancet-retracts-major-co...
I've been practicing meditation for several years now.

The phenomenon described in the article is very obvious to every practitioner - it can happen that for some time you will feel worse (actually I'm surprised that it's only 8%).

It is related to psychological mechanisms of repression, which is weakened during meditation practices. That is why during serious meditation retreats (like 10 days vipassana) some people freak out and they aren't able to finish the retreat. It's perfectly normal and usually has positive effects in the long run. Although sometimes meditator is not able to work through the energies released - he should seek (any) professional help then.
Maybe news isn't sustainable in the long run anyway. Independent journalists (who CAN survive on 50k-150k in ad revenue) are the future.
Please, this not Reddit...
Nice try. Still going to be mindful and meditate.
Collective Bargaining
I think WASM can do hard-realtime but that's not really the goal of wasm3, they advertise 14x slow-down compared to "native". However I think a lot of usages of MCU are not actually "hard-realtime", my connected light bulb for example uses the ESP32, I don't think you would get a noticeable difference in perf by using wasm3 but you probably get a lot of benefits, OTA for example, running an interpreter.
In Germany it's punishable by law indirectly (https://tipps.computerbild.de/hardware/firmware/imei-nummer-...), in UK it is a direct crime that may yield 5 years of jail time (https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/31/notes?view=plai...).

Be fucking careful when you are traveling with a phone that has an IMEI in the software that does not match the one on the sticker.
I am using Sailfish OS on a Sony Xperia XA2. I am using it now for about 1 year. Before that I used Sailfish OS on the original Jolla 1 for 5 years. I have also used a Nokia N9 with Meego Linux, which can be considered a forerunner of Jolla/Sailfish.

It uses Qt, Wayland, Systemd. The original Jolla 1 even used Btrfs, which was deemed a mistake. Sailfish OS is available on more devices, like the Pinephone, Fxtec, Cosmo Communicator and others. If you have the official version for Sony Xperia, you get Alien Dalvik, with which you can run Android apps. I am using Whatsapp and Firefox as Android apps this way. I am still hoping that Signal takes off for mesaging, a native app like Whisperfish is something I would really enjoy. With Whatsapp a native app is not possible, there have been threats for lawsuits.

I am very happy with Sailfish, and have been for 6 years. I enjoy having plain linux on my phone, being able to use ssh as root and having a device that I trust. There are some 'costs' involved, like having less shiny bling and less apps available. Companies like Apple and Google can spend billions on their phone platform. Jolla only has about 100 employees in total. You do have to adjust your expectations somewhat.

Jolla have received criticism about not having open sourced all their software. I do understand that criticism, but that argument doesn't make Apple or Google look any better :) I am curious about where linux phones will go in the next years, but currently Sailfish is good for me.
This is just Apple. It's useless, implausible, unreasonable, unviable...

Right up until other people do all the R&D for them so they can pick out the parts they like for a big announcement on stage. It's a smart strategy. They get to look like geniuses while others do the hard work and take all the risk.
Secured voice and video calls over the internet and in local network via Wi-Fi
Sounds like a problem that should be easy to find on an org chart.

If you don’t reward good ideas (they don’t even need to be particularly good or novel, just common sense), you’ll have a company trying to grow something that’s reached its peak usage with motivational speeches, very inspiring leaders and good old pressure on employees as a form of local optimization.
I really hate that I get dumber and dumber with age and that the laws of my country do not let me stop this slow mental dulling. It feels like a group of people physically attacking and overpowering me and I am confused by why I should follow these obviously evil laws.

I like the way this article is written, with all the references plainly accessible.
Show HN: Send LWN articles as PDF to a mobile device
At a guess you are not the target audience and this up front commitment is their way of filtering you out.
> all I could think in my first month in central London was "wow it's so cheap here".

I think you're possibly the first and last person to have that thought ;)
I put an ENORMOUS amount of effort not to have Google involved in my life and for them not to have ANY of my data, and I constantly find myself failing.

So yes, I feel it's fair to call it stealing my data.
This is the most interesting, friendly, respectful, online discussion about bussing I've ever read! Usually bussing is such a controversial divisive topic... Kind of like the "tabs -vs- spaces" of transportation and logistics.
If you wanted to try ppc64le, you could reach out to OSU's OSL Lab. They have Power8/9 machines and you could build your software and possibly arrange some time for PoC.

https://osuosl.org/services/powerdev/request_hosting/

There are also these https://raptorcs.com/TALOSII/
That's not how IBM works or how they have ever worked. The whole idea here is to put you in touch with their sales organization who will put some effort into determining what the best way of fleecing you is.
The underlying data is just more grades though, isn't it? How you did on this or that exam, coursework, etc? Minus substantial facts like whether you were ill, your gran died, whether you had tutoring, and so on?

You're right that grades are reductive, but the alterntive isn't more of the same information.
There is already a lot of lightweight alternatives for Electron: electrino, neutralino, Quark, Deskgap, WebWindow, litehtml, tomsik.cz/graffiti, yue, nodegui, etc. No need for yet another one.
If they believe that Google should compensate them then they can already demand that Google stop linking their pages, and then bargain with Google the ordinary way. Why is it fair or necessary to add extra laws here?
I just want to have a place where I can tick, "Google, please never ever collect any of my data".

But I don't have such a thing, not because it's impossible to create one.
Thinking about every aspect of my life in a very deep and logical way is what got me depressed. And what got me out of it was being busy enough that I didn't have time for that.
Buy used tires and wheels & make reservations online.

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Ask HN: Why a big org like Amazon release a mediocer windows primevideo app?
i have been using the Amazon PrimeVideo for Windows recently,mostly for downloading in hi-res and view on Weekend with out buffering issues.

the app seems to be lacking even Basic Q/A in lot of things, for example a simple download feature they have is not downloading anything and if we minimize it the download restarts , it works very unpredictably.

so my question is how a Big org like amazon that produce stable platforms like AWS, but at the same time produce a mediocre products like this

what structure they have in terms of engineering, that's making this differences?
Microfront ends – should I care?
Never underestimate the huge authoritarian streak in Australia. The Wowsers have always been a powerful force in politics, and the average Aussie loves the smack of firm government.

Most of the problems in Aussie politics can be laid at the door of the Boomers, who vote in idiots because they don't understand the issues and are scared of change.
The Virus Total detection list is very interesting [1]. How can your antivirus-software not detect a dangerous, publicly known, two year old exploit? How can anyone take these products seriously? Of course McAfee does not detect it.

[1] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/dd71284ac6be9758a5046740...
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How China’s Expanding Fishing Fleet Is Depleting the World’s Oceans
Best weather in continental USA? You mean in Orange County? I lived in Irvine for 6 years and it was essentially an average of 72 all year and mostly sunny days and barely any rain at all. Versus SF which gets way more cloudy and rainy days and isn't as warm.

I've left now but I miss the SoCal weather badly.