skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are a bunch or articles that talk about people using balloons to send material to North Korea.

The Human Rights Foundation even collects flash drives to load them up with content to smuggle into North Korea: https://flashdrivesforfreedom.org
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So what do you get for trying to upstream an entirely useless patchset that exists purely as a GPL workaround to enable the ever-proprietary NVIDIA driver? Do you realize that's spitting into the face of the very people trying to drive open-source software across the entire stack?

Greg KH called this trolling, and he isn't one to mindlessly throw around insults.
I'm not sure I understand your comment.

Why would the US Government (aka. Taxpayers) pay for internet use in other nations?

We already have expensive problems domestically that people would rather spend that coin on.
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I use FF as my primary dev browser. The debugger lets it down and the JSON viewer in the network tab is annoying... but everything else is excellent. The CSS layout inspectors are particularly good.
Indeed. However I get the feeling people will just be paying more for this in overheads and fees now.
There have been some recent attempts at creating EBNF grammar definitions for Japanese that try to balance simplicity and coverage https://learn-japanese.org/2020/01/04/japanese-grammar-in-eb...
Government may be bad, but private businesses are not accountable in the same way as an elected representative. It's the accountability I want. Can we expect to see any judicial recourse for this gross criminal negligence here?
The weight has to be way less important than the tires. Mountain Bike tires have more ground contact area and have very aggressive tread compared to a road bike tire, which is going to have a huge effect on efficiency. You can hear the difference if you ride each style of bike over the same piece of pavement.
I adopted this style after working in TypeScript for a while and then going back to C#. I came to really like having an explicit receiver on every function. I work in a lot of languages where that's required, such as TS and Rust, and now the “normal” C# style of calling a method without receiver is confusing.

Also lots of people love to add _ or m_ before fields to distinguish them from local variables, so why not just use `this.`? I think once you actually use this style it starts to make a lot more sense.
Sending less data over starlink (which is not tcp/ip btw).

I’d you can make 10Mb suddenly only require 900k of actual raw bandwidth by say adding a fpga or something then you can increase throughout to the users.
I prerecorded myself in video meetings for a week (and nobody knew)
Huh. Fighting robots in car trunks seem to be more common than I realized.
I think there actually are bad styles. The google style guide is such a bad style guide. The combination of 2 spaces indent and not putting { and } on top of each other makes it difficult to see at a glance where a block begin and ends.
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> and we expect the freedom to use it how we want

I suspect Apple will argue the oppose. The "freedom" argument has been common in the perennial "iOS v Android" discussions, from which I'd note that iOS appeals to many because it's locked down; it's easy to use and it's not junk. The Play Store was a mess last I remember it. Some consider that freedom, others dislike it. It's a brand perception thing, and I wouldn't be surprised if Apple makes the same point, that an open platform would harm their brand reputation.
Welding is just practice, practice, practice. Like everything else.

Welding lifting rings onto stuff is not really a high bar. High quality welds are easy if the materials you're dealing with are easy. Stuff that is exotic, expensive and hard to work with is the stuff that takes real skill because it's really hard to get a ton of practice at those things (there's only so much magnesium alloy that needs welded) so you need a lot of skill and experience in varied circumstances to do a high quality job from the get go.

I can weld and I can dick around in a bash shell but I'm much better at the one that is my current day job that I do for ~40hr a week.
Wasted.

Competent people are worth a salary, they typically end up working somewhere else or go abroad completely.
Great, more mindless drones without a wide picture of things in their heads, way to go for the modern slave drivers. Preheating for predefined occupations assigned at birth, the digital caste way.

Ever noticed how the most agenda-aligned comments are always at the top? HN has become the most disgusting indoctrination platform in the whole IT, and the day will come when it'll burn up in colourful flames.

A sea of change, my ass! Better be prepared for the ocean of backlash for all the crap you're being peddling.
I did write a proposal for "in place" reference (i.e. string interpolation) but could not reach consensus with the D community for it.
> it gives a (double-story) and a (single-story) the same codepoint.

But they did see fit to have ɑ (LATIN SMALL LETTER alpha)which is distinct from α (GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA).
It’s fairly cheap compared to some of the vintage systems I’ve seen. Acorn stuff here in the UK goes for a fair bit of cash at the moment. This is depressing as I actually turned down a whole 600kg skip load of it once.
The smooth resize test (2019)
> the port sent a team of Syrian workers to fix the warehouse

Welder's nationality doesn't seem to me a relevant info to be included in a postmortem.
I kinda like that PICO-8 is software only. I get anxious about not owning the hardware otherwise (and no, I cannot buy everything that strikes my fancy). This makes all software-only PICO'ers first class citizens.
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I got into playing Mindustry on plane rides sometime last year and it has the amazing ability to make a 5 hour cross continental flight go by in an instant.
> Never underestimate Microsoft's ability to constantly change its mind.

On a predictable schedule, too! Cf. their annual reorg, which leaves everyone confused for a good 3-4 months per year.
Ask yourself, why are "web standards" or "standards bodies" good? Why should they have "power"? The W3C held back the web platforms for years.

What's the point of having an extremely complex standard that nobody else will ever implement anyway? Remember, it would take billions of dollars to implement a competitive browser and then you have to give it away for free.

If even a trillion dollar company like Microsoft thinks it's better to team up with a competitor rather than implement HTML all by themselves, it really should make you think.

Consider, there's only one Linux kernel, there's no "Linux standard", just one kernel - and the world runs on it. I don't see people running around complaining about how that's a threat, even though it's much harder to switch operating systems than browsers. Sure, there's POSIX, but that's a tiny subset of Linux features.
For private groups, or individuals, sure you can get away with this.

For a government to do this? How could that not lead to an armed conflict?
No, it explicitly states that all the problems are pre covid and even pre Trump.
What programmers need to know about encodings and charsets (2011)
Have you seen the project championed by the 8BitGuy? I think it's called Commander X16 or something like that.

Oldschool, C64 compatible, and designed for the days one programmer could understand everything about his/her computer.
You piqued my curiosity with your comment, I'm trying to find what research is out there. I've found some articles behind paywalls (I may dig further later to find non-paywalled versions, I'm not dropping $44 for a paper, especially one on the periphery of my interests) in public policy research about these issues, which makes sense.

Not research, but where it was driven home for me was Venezuela and their oil and energy sector. A major economic concern (before the drop in oil prices) was the drop in oil production rates, which was due, largely, to a reduction in proper maintenance after Chavez (still alive at the time I was reading about this particular issue) had nationalized companies and appointed non-experts into leadership positions.

But it's not just them, that was just a particularly well publicized case. While many people probably believe (rightly) that the US federal government is corrupted and incompetent, a lot more corruption (and incompetence) lies at the local and state levels. Probably due to the reduced scrutiny they suffer.
Totally correct, the other person cannot have read it.
Control arm on the front passenger wheel. That corner planted into the road and threw the car into a spin.
Not "all the time", but at any one time - at the same time (eg: watching superbowl - but of course any kind of multicast/broadcast is a little different).

At any rate, it's mostly about the bandwidth each satellite has to route. I don't know what the likely number of subscribers for any one LEO sattelite will be? Will it really be on the order of 100 million notalso served by 4g cellular, dsl and other broadband?

Say for new York state its a large area and population total but the area where you might want/prefer satellite service isn't very densely populated?
Reason is still an alternative syntax to OCaml for native development, although I have no idea how many people actually use it for that.
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I think it should be "turnover has shown to be vanity and profit sanity." This is apparently based on a phrase I've never heard: https://www.quora.com/Who-coined-the-phrase-turnover-is-vani...

I realize this doesn't really help, I don't understand the phrase either.
LOL, try Verizon-level of rural infrastructure neglect. I paid for a guaranteed 3,300Kb/s down, 768Kb/s up. I usually got 900Kb/s down, and 150Kb/s up. to quote the linesman who had the shit job of patching together the literal 1930's(!) phone lines," I was told by corporate to absolutely not replace any lines unless they're taken out by a drunk or a tree. the cable on that spool I pull behind my truck is going to go white from sunfade long before I ever get to use it."

I non-jokingly asked him which tree I should cut to 'accidentally' nail the worst sections of wire. his response was essentially 'they're all so bad you'd need to cut down a lot of trees'. Verizon DSL was my only choice beside Hughesnet or dial-up. I ended up moving instead.
Note that this is also how can "cheat" to get default but overrideable interface methods (before they were introduced in C# 8):

https://sharplab.io/#v2:C4LgTgrgdgNAJiA1AHwAICYCMBYAUHqAQwFs...
It's pretty cool though I prefer H. W. Bush's feature with the Geto Boys [1] and in terms of presidential rap, Bill isn't the best Clinton [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IJCFc_qkHw&t=213

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NltUHA22oQ
I hate road noise so much. They have a large botanic garden near me. The problem is they built it close to the highway and you can hear constant road noise throughout the entire park. It completely ruins the experience of what would be a very nice park.
You hear about stuff like that way more than you used to because every time you go on the internet you have to skim over the low effort comments pointing out the rare failure modes in which everything is dangerous to find the real content.

The world doesn't need a lecture on proper jack stand usage every time vehicles are mentioned and doesn't need a lecture on linseed oil fires every time deck finished are mentioned but it gets it anyway.
Why did forming the council fail?
Microft should have rebranded firefox as IE. They already should 0 vision or threw in the towel. Don't look at theme for help.
Yup, Factorio is addictive in the same way that reaching flow (the psychological state) is addictive. It's a game to experience the joy of problem solving.
I got it. Tnx! :-)
Do you like games at all? Almost any game would be “more efficient” if you could just write code to declare yourself the victor. Games - for that matter, pretty much any leisure pursuit whatsoever - are not about efficiency.
They max out the speed with tests. It does use libuv. Uvicorn is the indicator as it uses libuv underneath.

If you heard of Gunicorn, Uvicorn is the version of Gunicorn with libUV, hence the name.
They've provided financials?
Paypal trusted? I can't think of anything less trusted around here.
I've clocked ~2300 hours on this game. It's called 'cracktorio' for a reason.

The scaling up is so fun. When you launch your first rocket, that's just the start.

The goal is to build an enormous base, to try and launch a rocket every minute or even faster.

It requires elaborate multi-lane train/rails networks to sustain a base like that and it is awesome.

But you can build your bases any way you like and use any technology you want.
12 ways to call a method in Ruby
How did the article not mention extension methods, when that's arguably the only true use case (many are against such methods).

I'm a big C# fan, I like a lot about the language, but the inheritance is especially cumbersome and it can become a minefield for the uninitiated. It's only something you avoid when you have tripped by it. The biggest minefield is when using them in initializers, but I'm pretty sure the compilar has displayed warning for sometime and I believe Resharper has had it forever (.net 3.5?).

The only legitimate uses of 'this' is when is when using indexers and when using 'this' as the first parameter in extension methods. Nothing else springs to mind, and as mentioned above, 'base' should normally be used in indexors.

However, there are times when I have used it for readability (which could be considered as an antipattern). I guess this is an example of why languages become so complex. Semantic sugar everywhere (it's addictive!)

Extention Methods
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/programming-g...
I agree. For me it'd be out of reach.

However, for Speccy hardcore fans it's probably right. A well-designed ZX Spectrum retrocompatible computer, with modern connectors, and without any of the hassle of a real Speccy. It's not a gaming platform either; I assume most owners will want to write games and software with it.

This is a luxury & niche item, and for that £300 is probably right.
I don't have any sources at hand but basically every existing platform in the past used to charge a fee for releasing on their platform. Nintendo certainly did on their consoles, Windows effectively did by charging for the SDK's. Both Microsoft and Sony also charge for publishing to their stores for the respective consoles.

Apple (and Google) both give the SDK away for free and for a low fee you can publish to the platform and in exchange they handle the payment etc.
30% sounds like a lot but if you consider the cost of having to deal with a payment provider and maintaining it etc it's for most companies a no brainer and peanuts.
Looks fun, but of course this one is 100% manually controlled.
Indeed. However I get the feeling people would just be paying larger overhead and fees hack or no hack.
I built a Twitter bot on AWS and then again on Azure
Yup, not unlike how actual factories operate apparently. It's also a never ending process because once you unblock one bottleneck, a new one is revealed somewhere else. That the primary challenge in the game is an emergent phenomenon of producer/consumer systems is what makes it so beautiful of a game.
> A useful comparison is the cost of fixed wireless internet service vs mobile service. The price/GB of the former is usually far lower than the latter despite running on exactly the same infrastructure.

Glad you brought this up, fixed wireless is my career so this is something I've thought about a lot over the last 15 years or so. I would argue that the difference in pricing between fixed wireless and mobile is actually almost entirely driven by the 'fixed' qualifier - it's just much easier and cheaper to deliver Internet service to a fixed point where you can put a high gain antenna (like a rooftop) than it is to deliver to a cell phone in someone's pocket inside a building.

Of course the next question is why don't the mobile operators do home service with a fixed antenna on the rooftop like fixed wireless operators do, but using their massive spectrum and tower footprint advantages? I don't really know the answer to that. There have been a lot of efforts to do this, actually - the earliest one I know of was Sprint putting up these diamond shape antennas on rooftops back in the late 90s / early 00s. I think at least part of it is that it's hard to have high-gain antennas on rooftops coexist with low-gain antennas in cell phone on the same medium, and another part is that it's hard to hire and train and manage folks to do the home installs. I do believe that part of the push to 5G is to enable this type of service, though.
I guess you'd want to have service with multiple ISPs based on the hope that one of them would not correctly implement the order. I wouldn't try to predict which ISPs that would be.

You don't want to hear this but I think it would take a year or more to build a "great firewall of USA" that actually works.
> Could you speak about administrators that vote for their own interests.

So, given the rising costs of Health Care and College both situations are good examples of this. The rising 'costs' are more people in administration. This could be blamed on regulation among other issues (greed).

As for voting in their self interests, I live in California now. University of California is the #1 employer in this State. This doesn't happen by chance. It happens due to stakeholders. Many people in this States want an 'easy' and 'stable' job. The easiest way to do this is require more red tape (regulation/'initiatives'/etc), in the name of 'progress' and then now you just created a 'stable and easy' job to make sure certain quotas are reach.

Professors and students lose out due to admin workers are more aggressive on making the government enrich their interests.
"Async is great b/c now Boring Code can now simply await Performance Code" - that's really smart, I like that philosophy.
You're not alone there. I wonder if starlink will increase property values in rural areas.
Interesting.

Have any interest in expanding this into a blog post? I've been working on a similar post. Maybe we can compare notes. I'm at michael at testdriven dot io, if interested.
This stuff is all pretty common sense. Since when do you need a "webpage making concrete recommendations" to know that storing thousands of tons of explosives in a single place in major city is a disaster waiting to happen?
Ubuntu Touch is still going, fairly strong too, though I think it's aim is to fill a niche rather than challenge Android and iOS anytime soon.

https://ubports.com/
EMDR also
I mean, "government can't run services well" is probably overly simplistic and incorrect.

But what if we replaced it with the following: "an extremely politicized government can't run services well".

Is that a controversial statement? And if it isn't, doesn't that suggest that you don't want an extremely polarized/politicized government running extremely critical infrastructure?

> The private corporations will quickly increase prices while reducing services.

This is fairly simplistic, as we know that not to be the case for the vast majority of private services we use today. Yes, there exists conditions where this is true (monopolies), but it's true less often than the above statement that "politicized government can't run services well".
If they stay, most likely wasted. Or they succeed despite the organization, but ultimately fight an uphill battle the entire time. It's usually best to just leave, but that also creates a vacuum that will be filled with an incompetent (or subpar) yes-man further exacerbating the problem.

That can create conflict for civil service employees. To stay where you're not that useful and feel it's a waste, but you're doing some good by shouting into the storm and trying to hold back the stupidity. Or to leave and let an incompetent person take over behind you (or competent but overworked because they don't fill the position). If you stay in that situation it's out of a sense of duty, but it's incredibly exhausting.
I would describe posting your code in 21 patches, the last of which makes it fairly obvious there will be legal issues as "unconstructive toxicity" as well. Particularly when submitting something for a kernel team in a company like Facebook.
Was society willing to pay for workers when they had slaves?

To think that if only the Confederate states would have made that iron-clad argument back then, the civil war would have been avoided. Imagine how low the prices could be if we still had slaves.

If your business is unsustainable without taking advantage of the workers then it ought not to exist.
Sounds like you have experience with above-ground lines. I specifically said buried lines - which are mostly immune to environmental issues.
Surely, it's not a monarchy until he hands the company over to his eldest son. This is just vanilla plutocracy.
The primary danger from oily rags is probably from slip and fall on the oil you're working with.

It takes very specific conditions to get oily rags to ignite. As a rule you're gonna have a hell of a time getting any lubricating oil specifically designed not to degrade in a high heat environment because the chemistry that keeps those oils stable over a long time at 200deg (or whatever) makes them very hard to ignite.
I'd really like to financially support continued development of servo, so I hope something gets decided on quickly to centralize and organize funding of the servo devs. The longer this takes the more likely it is they just get another job. Sure you can find new talent but it will take them time to get up to speed with the project.
Lots of things are under the Reason banner:

- The Reason syntax at https://github.com/facebook/reason

- Esy, the npm-like Opam-compatible package manager at https://esy.sh/

- Reason native tooling in https://reason-native.com/

- Not forgetting that Dune and Odoc, two standard tools in the OCaml ecosystem, both support Reason syntax.

EDIT: and I forgot about the various editor plugins which provide Reason support, the most well-known is probably https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=jaredly....
Apple has blocked telegram updates before when they tried to push updates to comply with GDPR.

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/5/31/17412396/tel...
Front passenger control arm. Basically the suspension collapsed and planted that corner of the car into the road.
The tests aren't compute bound. They are testing requests per second. It's testing biased towards IO, not compute. Please read the article.
I'm talking about every optimization that reduces repairability. While I'd prefer to be able to fix things, just producing and shipping a whole new unit to a small subset may be less wasteful overall (at that scale) than designing for repairability.
I've thought about this as well. Tapping the URL bar on an iPhone should open a multi-line wrapping text block that doesn't require painful horizontal scrolling.
Hopefully in 2020 most internet traffic is encrypted. If encrypted traffic is compressible you're doing it wrong.
If it helps I found the addictive driver of factorio to be very different than MMOs. It's more like the feeling of cleaning and refactoring code, but more enjoying than frustrating. Hard to explain but their game design is quite good.
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The real vintage hardware has lots of problems and hassles, too. It's often complex to plug it to a modern monitor, it has no USB ports, it requires additional and expensive gadgets (drive emulators, video converters, replacement PSUs -- the consensus on the C64 subreddit is that you should never use the original C64 PSU). You end up buying so much stuff you might as well go with one of these retro-remakes or an emulator.