skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Whether it's about the economy at large, your own household, a supply chain, what have you - as soon as you optimize for efficiency by removing friction, you take all the slack/damping out of the system and become instantly more liable to catastrophic failure if some of your basic conditions change

I would hope that the fragility of JIT supply chains was laid bare for everyone in the Covid crisis but I expect that lesson will soon be forgotten.
Without inspecting the implementation of `sponge` that's how I assumed it already internally worked.
The original facebook chat had a small windows in the bottom right corner so that wouldn't be it; guess the guy changed himself over the years.

Hej o/
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Well, big part of Tokyo is built on artifical islands filled in with garbage. Some of the most lucrative places including Ginza are like that. :)
I don't agree, I think he speaks and writes with nuance and intelligence. What is your issue with his Bayesian statistical approach? He went to UofC and LSE so he clearly had top notch training.

His 2016 model and he himself were much more predictive of the trump EC win, he repeatedly stated it was a possible outcome, something the vast majority of other forecasters completely missed.
Nate likes to make pretty charts. Let’s just leave it at that. Anyone who’s even half serious about econometrics or statistics can see right through his work.
On the human rights front? Compared to most of the rest of the world they are extremely developed. At least free speech is protected which is more than can be said for most common of Europe now.
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> "The university's cyber insurance policy paid part of the ransom, and the university covered the remainder. No tuition, grant, donation, state or taxpayer funds were used to pay the ransom," University of Utah officials added.

Can anybody elaborate more on this ? What are the other resources than tution/grant/donation/state/fund to earn money ?
Apple’s Response to the Temporary Restraining Order Requested by Epic
Maybe geological but surely not generational.

What it also is here is male. I haven't met a single woman in Germany who'd have the app.
Those are not successfull start ups, those are companies that make money.

There are plenty in france.

The startup model assumes you use VC cash to drive explosive growth.

Bla bla car took 13 years to slowly becomes the average company it is, being covoiturage.fr before. Deezer barely makes a dent in spotify market despite the fact it was born before. Even french don't know about daily motion, it survives because of all the pirated content it contains. Captain train had a moment, and lost it. The oui sncf service has won. At least if you disagree, none of them scream "explosive growth" in my mind.

I'm not saying there are no successful startups. Meetic and free are examples of that in there times.

But there's not a lot of it. Next door, ledger was midly successful, and maybe kryll will do something if they manage to get binance on board and then add the forex to their targets, but I don't see a uber, stripe, dropbox, etc. anywhere.
Yup, SourceTrail is probably my favorite before deciding to build Codemap. Since my day job mostly use Typescript, I have to build this to serve my own need.
I also blocked port 53 in my firewall (except for the Pihole; no DoH there). After that, I noticed that some applications have some DNS servers hard-coded. 8.8.8.8 being pretty prominent.

My solution was to assign the Pihole the IP address 8.8.8.8 as well. Then I added a static route in at the router to route 8.8.8.8 to the Pihole.
Now every request to dns.google will also be handled by pihole instead of getting timeouts.
Yeah. This genuinely looks like it offers something more than previous USB boot solutions.

Wonder if it can somehow be combined with or run in conjunction with iPXE :D
How about https://shop.udoo.org/products/bolt.html?

You can also look at https://www.amd.com/en/products/embedded-minipc-solutions.
So just like Signal?

Why is that being brought up as difference?
> Telegram has a great UX,

And a great bot API. It's literally one of the easiest to use APIs I've ever seen. If you need a home-made solution to control something from your phone or even get push notifications, a Telegram bot is the way to go.

They also have an API which lets you make clients. That, on the other hand, is one of the worst APIs I've ever seen, but it exists, and you can't say that about most centralized and popular messaging solutions.

Because of that API, there's a great client for Windows 10 called Unigram, which is much more pleasant to use than all those Electron apps.

I suspect Unigram is the single reason why Telegram is so popular in the blind community, even though iOS accessibility is horrible, much worse than in most apps of this kind.
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I've gotten kernel patches (and some other GPL bits and bobs, although with time they got rid of everything other than the kernel) on request for ROS6.

For ROS7, however, support said in June:

That is not yet readily available since v7 is not really complete yet and is during heavy development right now, everything is changing, including the kernel. I will inquire how long it will take to get the files you need and will let you know once I have some information.

This is a good reminder to ping them again about this.
So we are talking about something that has happened since 2011.

Let’s do a thought experiment.
Try selling something in a Best Buy and asking them will they allow you to publicize in Best Buy that you can get a lower price if you buy from their website. How do you think that will work out?
>That depends on the language and the GCC version.

I was quoting TFA verbatim. I actually never use -Ofast myself, beyond -O3 I tend to use the individual flags manually, checking wit benchmarks that it makes a difference.

>Yes, but unfortunately it's the Intel default, which contributes to some of the compiler mythology.

I didn't know that. I guess Intel is extremely performance-oriented and doesn't really care for portability so it makes some sense for them to do that.

>Regarding unrolling, you usually do want it in numeric loops, and -O3 unrolls (and jams) as -fopt-info shows.

Sure but that's to my point: the default optims for -O3 are fairly aggressive already. Unless you're writing code where performance is absolutely critical you'll probably be do just fine just remembering to pass "-Wall -O3" to GCC and that's it. Actually for most of my code where I want good performance but I'm not counting individual clock cycles I tend to default to -O2 which gives you most of the performance benefits with more conservative and easier to debug optimizations.

And for cases where you need to go beyond -O3 you'll probably have to write some benchmarking code before you can decide which additional option to use. At least, in my experience.
1960: The Year the Singularity Was Cancelled (2019)
I feel there might be disparate impacts between the reactions from CCP threats and USFG threats...
Are you implying that presidential elections have any effects on foreign policy?
Andrew Gelman, one of the authors of the model, has some thoughts about that. I can't find the earlier article right now, but the Economist model counts with that as well. See the blog post (down in the first P.S.):
https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2020/08/14/new-fiveth...
In a scientific paper, the author would just write down what they do, and trust the reader to be experienced enough to discount such problems themselves. Now, journalists write for a general audience, that is they write for the lowest common denominator, and accordingly the question what they should write there becomes a quite interesting question.

So, 538 did actually change their error estimate during the 2016 campaign to better account for problems of correlation. From a purely mathematical standpoint that is kinda the wrong thing to do, but it is arguably better in line with what the readers expect an error estimate to be.
Wow, this is actually very weird.
Not official, but Unigram for Windows 10 is the way to go for me.

It has everything it should have and is not Electron. The best app of this kind there is at the moment.

I'm not affiliated with Unigram in any way, just a happy user.
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I remember reddit as this weird place when Digg waa big. No subreddits just one listing. Didn't really switch over until the digg death.
Ahwwww.... Rrrr Rrrr Rrrr!
And it limits spam.
And trailers and reviews were famously broken for console/PC games historically.

Pretty much every product sold in our society has its' design shaped by the need to make money (i.e capitalism).

I'm not sure why you're singling out F2P games here specifically, relative to all the other half-baked crap designed to make a profit.

At least hundreds of millions of people daily get value out of playing free games without spending a cent. Consider the fact that all console/PC gamers have spent money on the game up-front, whereas a very small proportion of people on mobile pay for all of the rest.

Like, I don't enjoy games with micro-transactions, but clearly lots of other people do. Who am I to judge their fun?
Note, GPL licensing is in decline (see https://resources.whitesourcesoftware.com/blog-whitesource/t...) and has dropped to third of open source licenses in market share. If this continues expect the dominant tools of the future to be under more permissive licenses, as they were in the distant past; remember, permissive open source licensing predates the FSF.
There are small developers that make free stuff and when someone asks for an Android port this devs can export an apk but for and .iOS person they can't give them a package.

Other example a kind makes a small mobile game and shares it with his friends , except his cousin is using iOS so he can't install and play it.

All this things you can't do on iOS is not because Apple is incapable of allowing this scenarios, is because this is not in Apple financial interest.

I assume someone would say something about security, the kid would maybe put code to steal your pictures, then my answer is the sandbox is garbage if you can trick it or trick the user to give full access for a small game and a competent developer would have placed code to fake data if needed.

Apple is getting greedy and pretending it acts for the user is getting harder and harder and eventually they will reach the limit, starting a fight with Epic will cost them more on the long run IMO because it makes more mainstream Apple practices that we on HN already knew but regular people did not know.
>Radio Free Asia (RFA) published an article explaining the reason that the U.S. closed China’s Consulate in Houston.

>The article stated that the U.S. has known that the staff members at the consulate were conducting suspicious activities, but, for a while, it did not take any action. The Second Department of China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA), which is the PLA’s intelligence unit, sent staff members from a large network company, with fake IDs, to China’s Consulate in Houston. Those technicians used a large video platform’s backend data to identify people who might participate in the Black Lives Matter (BLM) and ANTIFA’s protests and then created and sent them customized videos on how to organize riots and how to do promotions.

>The purpose was to “weaponize” big data technology. It delivered relevant materials precisely to those people who were most likely to participate in the protests, while other people could not even find those videos.

>RFA did not spell out the company names. A Twitter account said the technicians were from Huawei and the video platform they used to identify candidates and push videos to was TikTok.

http://chinascope.org/archives/24225?doing_wp_cron=159809560...
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I use processing all the time.

This is different. I don't see this replacing processing, but it'd be a good supplement.
There is a whole memory allocation system used to combat fragmentation toward the OS level. Erlang also uses a multi-tiered approach, but note that a lot of things are easier because there is far less sharing going on and more things are isolated.
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Keen to use this for notifications and web hooks etc. slack seems great but would rather not buy into yet another proprietary ecosystem if I can help it
>right around when yours peaked

What? That's a wrong assumption on your part. No, you are characterizing my experiences with video games as a kid arbitrarily to support your own argument, which is--I think--just a fallacy: "the world's always been the same, it's you what's changed and you are just referencing fond but ultimately biased memories". I expected more from video games when I was a little kid, that's the whole point of my comment, so I didn't glorify them, even as a kid, to the point of having my judgement significantly clouded.

Same thing when people criticise heavy smartphone usage, for instance: "well, people watched more TV then; it's always been the same. You miss being young". You couldn't take your TV virtually everywhere, so the extent to which people distracted themselves and neglected their lives was less.

>by pretty much any standard, these newer games were better than the ones that came before them.

Watch this (or almost any other video from crowbcat): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWVtZJo-HqI. This is the tendency in video games: less resources, less elaboration; higher prices for the whole game (DLCs, Season Pass, etc.). As with anything, it's "reduce the costs, increase the benefits", as well as "make it more addictive", even at the expense of the product's quality.
If you value your data and sanity, don't buy QNAP
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no, the CCP is far more ethnosupremacist and totalitarian
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Yeah, this is a real problem. The incentive structure is such that people are encouraged to find "novel" things. This leads to lots of data-dredging for significant findings that are counter-intuitive.

And because of the bias towards novelty, replications are not regarded as worth publishing and so these results remain unchallenged.

It's a hard problem, and has been known to be a hard problem for at least the last forty years (within psychology, at least) and yet very little has been done.

Brian Nosek and the OSF are doing good work here though.
Holy shit this is some fast progress. I've had to fiddle with EFI and iPXE recently and the experience was horrible. Basically you try ten different systems and they all have ten different issues. Very recent systems are somewhat ok but running a machine from four years ago in efi mode is a clusterfuck if you try anything more involved than "boot Windows or Linux from disk".

The compatibility matrix of this tool right here is impressive.
TeX is not under an free software license.
You can only unmap a full page, but there aren’t any full empty pages because the memory is fragmented.
Nate Silver was merely wrong, as compared to everyone else, who were spectacularly wrong. I'm not sure how that counts as a ringing endorsement.

These polls also never factor in things like "social acceptability of admitting that one voted for an unpopular candidate" or "groupthink among media organizations which aligns to their side of the isle." The entire polling fiasco should be interpreted as the limitations of quantitative data, as opposed to qualitative data.

Our final forecast, issued early Tuesday evening, had Trump with a 29 percent chance of winning the Electoral College.1 By comparison, other models tracked by The New York Times put Trump’s odds at: 15 percent, 8 percent, 2 percent and less than 1 percent. And betting markets put Trump’s chances at just 18 percent at midnight on Tuesday, when Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, cast its votes.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/why-fivethirtyeight-gav...
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I wonder how true that is nowadays - that answer is 10 years old and I remember some Linux distro those days having seperate images for liveusb/livecd/netinstall etc., But most distros these days have a single image for both usb boot and cd boot.
Part of the reason is that the entire purpose of the app store is not to be forced to give your private information to every Tom, Dick and Harry private vendor.
It doesn't seem like porting new devices to ath79 is very involved [1]. I would highly encourage you to make a project out of porting RB2011.

[1] - https://git.openwrt.org/?p=openwrt/openwrt.git;a=commit;h=7a...
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> no one's buying a Starbucks with BTC.

I paid in UPXAU but I did buy Starbucks with crypto just the other day.

https://uphold.com/en/blog/introducing-the-worlds-first-mult...
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A mutation of the novel coronavirus increasingly common throughout Europe and recently detected in Malaysia may be more infectious but appears less deadly, according to a prominent infectious diseases doctor.
Well in the present case, it's more they want a cut from everything everywhere.
One of my main takeaways from Antifragile was that the people often involved with making processes efficient have no business being in that position. He was right to label management science as quackery and practitioners as charlatans.
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> get value out of playing free games without spending a cent.

Mindlessly grind medallions or whatever. The problem with IAP games (free or not, afaik a Dead Space game was selling ingame crafting materials as IAPs) is they waste your most precious resource: time.

> And trailers and reviews were famously broken for console/PC games historically.

Oh but that's easy. Don't preorder and don't buy games based on just one review. Especially don't buy games based on the developer's trailers :)
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That is hilarious. I never saw this when it happened, but the "tramp stamp" description is just unbelievably apt.
Been looking for something like this for a while. We see if more repos get added soon (Ubuntu and fedora would be nice!)
Put in a 2080ti or a 1080ti for the previous gen One an a 9900K in a Dr Zaber case and water cool them I would really like to see that.

You’ll need a DC-DC set up and a custom one to boot, and an external water loop.

Not to mention that even building an air cooled SFF build is hard, SFF components are rare in many countries and often require you to import it yourself which adds a big premium in the form of import fees, you also need an SFX PSU for that case and one of the smaller ones to boot as well as likely do your own custom sized cables to actually fit things in.
If it's what they want, then not really.
Interrobang ‽ has bad readability, in my opinion. Perhaps a capital letter P with a dot underneath would be better. I found many letters with "DOT BELOW" in charmap, but no "P".:

ḄḅḌḍḤḥḲḳḶḷṂṃṆṇṚṛṢṣṬṭṾṿẈẉẒẓ

It makes absolutely no sense to me, that there would be some characters with dots below, but not others, even of the latin alphabet. What?! Why?!
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Wow so just linking from the app to the internet where something is for sale is not allowed without a cut? If I use the app know as Chrome on iOS and I click on a link to a page on amazon.com where I purchase a chair, by that logic does Apple also want a 30% cut on the price of the chair?
Perfectly fine. This is why the MSRP - Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price - or RRP, Recommended Retail Price, is common practice. The manufacturer publishes the suggested price on the box itself, so if a store tries overpricing by 30%, you know just by looking at the box that you're paying more than you should and should shop elsewhere.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/m/manufacturers-suggested...
Ok correct me if I’m wrong, but the rationale is pretty much that since there is a commercial version of Wordpress that this app interacts with, the user should be able to purchase this through Apple’s payment gateway?

If this is correct, wouldn’t the same logic apply to other tools, such as JIRA and Trello and whatnot? Or am I mistaken?
Thanks. Any specific reason for choosing Mixmax?
Dam, WaPo didn't, there goes my theory the Left have always defended art and culture. Unless WaPo was more conservative back then.

"Kids," a disturbingly voyeuristic look at adolescent promiscuity, is virtually child pornography disguised as a cautionary documentary.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/movies/...
Easily record your daily Peak Flow Readings (PFRs) with this Peak Flow Diary designed by an asthmatic for asthmatics.

Each page of the diary has a 1-week (7-day) chart for recording your morning and night peak flow readings.

The diary has 52-weeks so you can easily record a year of your peak flow readings.

Easily portable you can take this diary with you to your Doctors or the Hospital to show the medics your peak flow readings which could aid them in treating your asthma.

In the age of computers and smartphones sometimes a low tech solution, like a paper based diary, is a better solution than a smartphone app or a web app.
No, the impoverished lifestyle of small farmers prevented them from having coins for trade. It's easy to imagine that these farmers were impoverished because they were oppressed, but it's just as true that they did not have opportunities to engage in trade which would have enriched them.
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Nobody's saying the Chinese nation is dangerous. China is a great country filled with wonderful people. The problem is the Chinese government, the totalitarian system that's doing a genocide as we speak and trying to bully the world into quietly ignoring it.
Children’s role in spread of virus bigger than thought
Important to note here that Andrew Gelman is involved in the Economist model (which increases my prior that its correct, even though it shouldn't).
I see a clear link between the easy money Apple is getting and the precipitous drop in quality of their OS releases. Without a perfection obsessed CEO at the helm, if cash is free, why try harder?
Wow, whiscal is really nice!

I did a research recently and settled with xmind but I don't really like it.

I'm definitely gonna try whiscal.
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Depends on the country also, the 2080ti / 9900K / 32GB RAM, 960GB ultra fast NVME and a 2TB SSD version costs £3,400 in the UK the BOM for those parts is at best equal and depending on the availability actually cheaper than buying them separately.

The Corsair One is the first pre-built I was actually considering buying because of its form factor, use of more or less standard PC parts and the warranty and serviceability of it.
So this where errno comes from. I discovered it by accident on my system a few years ago and have been using it ever since. Really handy when working in C. Still no idea why I have that package installed though.

On another note

> pee: tee standard input to pipes

Goddammit guys!
Music is fine, but something less niche might work better - it was almost in sync with the music I was listening to, but might be off-putting to people who aren't into electronic music. Maybe there's some elevator music that fits better - and a spoken message helps understand the concept, especially for normal people who aren't power users or developers.

GDPR-compliance sounds good when it all happens offline in the browser. I'd definitely make that a selling point. Everyone is on their toes about it, if you can take away the worry of "Where is that company located? Where are their servers? Do I need to run this by our data protection lawyers?", you've removed a lot of barriers.