skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not misguided.

It's not like Palantir is selling hamburgers to millions of faceless individuals. They themselves want to take the responsibility for their consulting for government agencies. I assign responsibility to them, too.

Can you think of examples of amoral company decisions from history? I can...

"Our bank just facilitated the deposit of enormous quantities of paper money. We didn't do the drug-smuggling."

"Our company simply supplied The Republic of ___ with ammunition. That was our only involvement."

"The government needed to sort incoming prisoners by religion. We merely won the bid to do the data-processing."

Palantir's arguments are more annoying, though, since the company management is not just amoral, but proud of itself.
It took me 2 years to make my first dollar from a product. Here's what I learnt
Can someone actually mention the positive side of Mercurial specifically?

I'm getting bit by git so often and for those people who are barely programmers are also required to use git to commit their HTML/CSS stuff but once something doesn't work, I have to Google around and waste an hour trying to fix the repo and I'm all for willing to use something else if it's better but I know that people just simply jumped on it because of Linux/Linus name without thinking (kernel workflows are different than most people's but people only realized after feeling the pains) and the git's ecosystem is already far ahead of the others.

I even considered using subversion locally to push to central git but there is no such luck when the reverse is quite possible.
Sounds a bit like Ethereum but without a cryptocurrency?
depends on the company I guess. at $CURRENT_STARTUP we pay pennies per pay period (literally - I'm not really sure why, but roughly 60 cents) for top tier platinum HMO, zero deductible, $4k max out of pocket for copay. $PREVIOUS_STARTUP was the opposite, bottom tier HDHP and they only paid half the premium, $9k deductible.
https://web.archive.org/web/20200827063018if_/https://filebi...
https://web.archive.org/web/20200827063445if_/https://file.i...
People act on what they remember
> We need blanket legislation outlawing the notion that by virtue of purchasing a plot of land one is also purchasing control over everything visible from said plot at the time of purchase.

We already have that, in the form of urban planning. There are professionals in charge of ensuring everyone's rights are respected by defining and upholding an urban plan and construction regulation.

Otherwise a you get is a sea of shanty towns.
Same! It'll be interesting to follow this and see what happens. But in the long run I think we need something distributed but also connected (like diaspora or mastodon maybe, concept wise). And as always, it'd be probably hard to establish.
Off-topic, but what is the Navionics free, better competitor? Thanks.
MewMew, a programming language which let's you code in cats' langauge
It is - and sometimes I get called by middle name instead of either of the other names.

In e-mails the failure rate for people getting my name in the right order is around 80% - sometimes even after I've corrected the sender three or four times (with decreasing subtly)
While I have no knowledge to critic your analysis, I just one to answer to one point:

> 3. People hear about 1 and 2, hear about/experience packages being delivered more slowly, and think that this surely means that "the Trump administration is trying to sabotage the post office to suppress voting!!!!".

I think this is a bit unfair. D. J. Trump has repeatability express his hatred for mail-in voting, and him, and his administration, has expressed several time that they could/would gut the USPS to prevent mail-in voting.

So while your analysis might be true, and the current state of the USPS has nothing to do with the current administration, it is unfair to present the current fear of voter suppressions as unreasonable.
For me it looks like a source with two rotations, one for the millisecond cycle and the other for the 157-day cycle. Perhaps something is obstructing the source and is rotating around it.
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No so fast. China tried to crack down on VSAT terminal possession for years. Up to no, to a very little effect.

Brown trucks with gobs of antennas are the guys who are tracking them down, some Chinese 3 letter service.
Agreed, but... often these ugly codebases are also very difficult to write tests for, because the code isn't well-factored, there are large functions which combine lots of unrelated behaviors, etc. etc.

I inherited a codebase of this type two years ago. It was only 10k sloc of Python but some of the worst code I've ever worked with—of course it had no tests either. Retroactively writing tests for the existing code made no sense—half the behavior wasn't worth preserving.

What I wound up doing was slowly refactor as I worked on things, writing a new component (with tests) and replacing bits of the legacy code. I also added linting and typechecking and now the code is not gorgeous, but it's serviceable and a lot less buggy.

In retrospect it might have been better to just rewrite it from scratch, architected for testing, but it's difficult to be certain. I think it was probably better for the team to see the codebase improved piecemeal bit by bit, even if it took longer.
Yeah but I like Gitea and it doesn't support Mercurial. How can I just use it?
Windy has a satellite view of the hurricane here:

https://www.windy.com/sv/-Satellit-satellite?satellite,29.07...

Hit play button to see progress from last hour to current.
WiFi Not Working and How to Fix IT?
The wireless network plays a major role in our daily lives. In the digital era, the Internet is used for entertainment, social networking as well as for almost every work purpose. Imagine one day you are working on a very important project and suddenly your WiFi is not working, you lose your access to the internet. Isn’t it a torment?
Depends what going overboard means. Is it a waste of time? Well, it doesn’t take that much time, so no. Is it effective at fighting racism? My bets are on the number of people before and after the change who are racist being exactly the same. Whether it’s effective or not is dubious because we have no way of doing a measurement. Aren’t there some evidence-backed ways of fighting racism we can look at instead?
The Hero
Typical CEO that just want to build their resume.
Have you read 1893 "THE INVENTIONS, RESEARCHES AND WRITINGS OF NIKOLA TESLA" by Martin?

It's fantastic and a dollar on kindle. Within 30 years of Maxwell's equations.
French-Vietnamese suggests Bay or Mai (which are Vietnamese, but not French at all) and the list of "French name which may also be Vietnamese words" is a list of English names, for some reason (Ames Austin Bailey Bell Bo Bruce Desire Forster).

Then tried French-Dutch and once again, most of the suggested names aren't very French at all, and not really that much Dutch either. Even though almost all French names are also used as is as Dutch names (well, in Flanders at least). Allard, Alvin, Anne (as a male name?) or Carolus? These don't work.

I'm not sure which source these names come from, but I wouldn't use it for French.
Limburgs?
Of course not, because people weren't allowed to move freely within the Soviet Union, but unsightly people could be freely moved by the authorities.

Maybe we should ask some of these slum inhabitants if they'd prefer to be allocated a menial job, be deported, or keep living their lives in the slum.
Damn I need to increase my cat watching time.
I think you need to update your knowledge of the polls, as much as you may dislike Trump, he isn't down by 10+ points any more.

Regardless, the media has convinced people that only the Republicans and Trump want to see something done about TikTok, but, in fact, there are plenty of Democrats who are also wary of TikTok. Maybe they don't want an outright ban, but they want something done. But since that doesn't garner as many clicks, there will be a bunch of stories claiming it's a bad idea because Trump did it.

There are real reasons we should be worried about the CCP right now. If you track the news, you'll see lots of people being found to be CCP spies and charged. There is a big problem with the CCP having spies and/or people friendly to the CCP in government and academia. Don't let your hatred for Trump blind you to the fact that the CCP is rapidly becoming an issue.
Isn't this just optimization of control parameters?

What is the comparison with existing control engineering methods like PID tuning, MPC and optimal control?
A few billion, at least for those kind of stakes
> A proper transit network and walkable design ensures that this doesn't become a problem.

How do you expect to put together a working transit network, which is very sensitive to urban planning, if you are also argue in favour of ignoring any restriction imposed by urban planners?
10 years ago, I found some software updates annoying. 5 years ago, I found most of them aggravating. Now, I find them to be outright harmful except for rare cases.

It's very common for (particularly mobile software) to just break the product entirely. Features I regularly used and depended on--sometimes even the main features--are just deleted. Gone, with zero chance of using it again. Sometimes ads are thrown in, adding a major vulnerability. Other times they reduce/cripple features, yet somehow worsen performance despite doing less. Sometimes they wipe data. Sometimes they update and suddenly require a google or facebook login to use "for convenience" (inconveniencing me who never needed to login before).

Updates before used to be bugfixes and cleanup, and major upgrades came out every year or two and you'd have to manually opt in to those by going to their site and downloading a new version, or going out and paying for it. Now your old, functional software is wiped from your system and replaced with a bad imposter using the same identity.

I'll begrudgingly install OS updates sometimes, but only weeks or months after release when all the downsides and upsides are easy to consider. The chances of me coming across some harmful vulnerability in the wild is far less likely than the reality of dealing with a harmful, work-destroying update. I haven't encountered the former in over a decade. I've dealt with the latter several times this year.
I recall from the last time this plane hit the news cycle that it is designed to cruise at 60,000 feet where air density is lower and better fuel efficiency can be had.
What makes you think that? The Russian government just poisoned another opposition thinker, these things are not beyond the pale. North Korea hired a couple of pretty girls to kill a renegade brother or somesuch in public. China has disappeared people over just a few wrong words

If I were in that position I'd make sure I have at least a couple bodyguards, and good ones at that
Popularity over time seems like something relevant to integrate: at least half the German-Dutch suggestions would be something for either great grandparents or just grandparents.
https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3995404
What a hackjob that is.
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Guido introduced breaking changes in the 3.0 upgrade while he was an employee there.

A developer friend mentioned that with a little investigation you can take any major pain point in Python and track it back to a developer who was hired there for a few years.

Does anyone else have any more examples?
> Advertisements pop up at random times

Do you have a screenshot?
If TikTok gets purchased, all its US employees are going to get a pay cut.
Time may be a wave moving in a fifth dimension and we are the front
Does anyone know a good alternative for Mercurial to Gitea?
Rapidly becoming an issue? The US has been ignoring China’s burgeoning power for 50 years and allowed US CEOs to get gazillion dollar payouts by shipping American manufacturing jobs to China. That doesn’t change the fact that 1) an isolated spasm against TikTok accomplishes nothing if not part of a broad and permanent portfolio of initiatives, 2) whether Trump wins or loses this election he doesn’t give a shit about anything but his own political and financial fortune, and is too dumb, too lazy, and too corrupt to actually lead this soft power war. If you think Donald Trump is up at night worrying about China exfiltrating the data of US teenagers data... I can’t help you but please wear a mask.
They will have to turn it off over countries that don't fancy free communication and are capable to get a projectile in LEO or have a market for electric cars.
Not really. The guy selling you apples is just selling you apples, but the guy trying to sell you a bridge might just be abusing your naiveness.
For any token kind, it should be easy to come up with a minimal piece of syntax which includes that token.

There is the problem, any tests that fail in the lexer now reach down through the parser to the lexer. The test is too far away from the point of failure. I'll now spend my time trying to understand a problem that would have been obvious when the lexer was being tested directly.

>Basically, treating the lexer part of a lexer/parser combo as public interface is rarely going to be a good idea.

This is part of the original point, the parser is the public interface which is why the OP was suggesting it should be the only contact point for the tests.
that's funny - I'm currently trying the jj remap, but I keep going for esc out of habit
I haven't found a library for Python that does real time sounds in the way that old home computers (BBC micro etc) used to do. I got loads of pleasure when I was a teenager making sounds on my computer and hearing them back in real time, and I'd like to get that immediacy back (I have a theory that fewer kids are interested in programming than might otherwise be as it's much less immediate and accessible than it used to be).

If anyone knows of one, I'd love to know about it.
> you don't get people wasting a lot of time trying to find the ideal workflow in Mercurial.

Interesting. I’m keen on trying Mercurial, but one thing that has somewhat confused me is the profusion of branch-like workflows. Named branches, bookmarks, now also topics (or whatever it’s called), hidden commits etc.

Is there a good definitive guide somewhere on the best workflows for hg?
While a transmitter is indeed to a first approximation a beacon screaming 'I'm here!', do keep in mind that these antennas are highly directional, and while there will be side lobes, you basically need to be in the beam path to even detect it's there - complicating matters significantly.

Besides, the antenna itself is rather small, and can be hidden inside just about any structure transparent to RF in the relevant frequency bands - say, a seemingly innocuous water cistern on the roof, for instance.
Generalize CSS Selectors
Has MS worked with government to make it easier to call
up records of my hemorrhoids or eczema?

If so, I'll reserve some hate for MS, too.

With billions of people on this planet, some terrorist kingpin and I might have the same birthmark on our ankle. Thanks to the work Palantir does, that could result in law enforcement swatting me, or worse. That is sickening.
Right. What it really does is take an image of a character in an arbitrary, but mostly standing, position, and returns an image in a standard resting stand position. This is neat, but costume generation is several steps past that.

Now, if you could take a collection of pictures of a character from anime and get a 3D model you could feed a fashion CAD system, that would be impressive.

There is CAD for fashion, and it's very good.[1] The CAD systems understand cloth physics quite well now. A machine learning system which takes a set of pictures of a character in different poses and tries to make clothing which matches would be a useful achievement. It's a big job, but probably do-able. The problem is reasonably convex. If you have a character in a dress, and you start with a generic dress in the CAD system, you can keep tweaking parameters and textures until it matches. The ML system doesn't have to invent a 3D dress, just keep tweaking a basic form.

[1] https://clo3d.com/
Uber for airplanes coming soon!
Zoom is a US company
Fascist states often differ little from low budget spy movies.
openSUSE has automatic snapshots with a fairly extensive retention policy.

Kernel 3.14 is ancient. I can't bring myself to worry about it.

I think your fourth paragraph cherry pick is disingenuous. A more complete excerpt, "There’s a special case when the block groups are completely unused, possibly left after removing lots of files or deleting snapshots. Removing empty block groups is automatic since 3.18."

Fedora 33 users will be getting kernel 5.8 from day one, and 5.9 soon after release.

I doubt my case is atypical. I haven't balanced my years old non-test real world used Btrfs file systems.

I think you could switch your concern and criticism to the fact wikis get stale.
Most of IRC is on those 'channels' (#whatever). and most channels (at least back in the day) were public, so you could just go to #books or whatever. For example, I spent my formative years on #uiuc, where there was a healthy community of 50-100 people from the university I was at. Newcomers would stop by on a regular basis and ask a question or just start chatting or troll or even grief--there were kickbans and scripts and bots to help manage larger communities.

Also these persistent channels are created just by joining the channel with that name; they disappear when the last person leaves. Notably, the first person to join a chatroom gets "operator" status, and thus the rights to change channel settings and kick/ban people etc. So there evolved a culture of bots, who would sit in channels with op status and 'occupy' it in case someone came along; these bots had op status themselves, and were programmed to auto-ban certain users or even domains, and auto-op their owners and their owners' friends. slap me summa dat +o.

And of course, there were the bot wars and the attempts at deliberate netsplits to try and steal op status, which were fun games for the script kiddies, but would really take the piss out of your evening chat when they would come by.
The DMV loses money.

The FDA loses money.

The FCC loses money.

These are public institutions, not for profit enterprises. They're funded partially by fees and usually largely by congressional appropriations.

You beg the question by beginning by comparing the USPS to other carriers. It's one of the few public institutions required by the constitution! Even the Defense Department doesn't get that privilege, and it loses hundreds of billions a year and doesn't have the same requirement to fund pensions for employees who haven't been born yet.

Lastly, delaying flats and prioritizing packages during a situation when many, perhaps most people will vote by mail due to a public health crisis is if not malicious, dangerously ignorant of the societal implications.

Yes, the USPS can handle the volume. But for the sake of our elections, and based on issues we may have with counting ballots, postmark and receipt date laws that vary by state, can we agree as a bipartisan issue that mail delivery now, of all times, shouldn't be compromised?
How to use xsv (in Windows) to split up a CSV file too big for Excel
I brushed up against SAT solvers in school, but never quite got a grasp on them. The "proof" at the end is 200 GB - is that size related to SAT solvers in general, this particular problem, the dimensionality here? A billion-sized search space giving a 1.6 trillion bit proof sounds awfully exhaustive to me, but I also can't imagine what such a large proof would even be about.
Respiteful
Just another day of performative antics by psychotic Whites massaging the prostate of ethnonarcissistic minorities.
Are your users evil, or just careless?

If they're evil, then after giving them root access, you can never take it back again. They can do anything to persist their access, and you will never forsee what they could do, so you shouldn't try.

If your users are careless, a simple note at the top of authorized_keys saying "Don't add anything to this file plz without asking the security team" should be sufficient.
I can't help myself, but for me this idea of "functional CSS" stands again the idea of cascading stylesheets. I cannot follow the criticism on semantic markup, because there's nothing bad about semantic, precise markup, except you are a designer and only care about visuals.

A core idea of CSS is nesting of expressions, and I've seen many usages of SASS/LESS which render to expressions such as ".body.active h2#primary" which just show the author did not understand how to write efficient and precise CSS queries.
It should be "ssh-keygen", not "ssh".

ssh-keygen -t ed25519
ssh-keygen -t rsa -b 4096
I'm not sure what you mean by "emojis come from the rendering application". Some applications (particularly web applications) forcibly replace emoji characters with inline images because they don't trust every user-agent to have a sufficiently-complete emoji font installed, or because they want to use their own custom emoji designs rather than the platform-native ones. That's not a fault of emojis or the font setup, though - that's just paranoid developers.

Most UI toolkits will render emoji characters according to whatever emoji font you have installed, just like they'll render Cyrillic characters according to whatever Cyrillic font you have.
That’s a different Biblical personage. The son of Noah from which “Semite” derives is Shem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shem), and is quite distinct from the prophet Samuel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel).
CAD software like AutoCAD or Microstation is the worst for this. Before I was a developer, I was a land surveyor, and I used to have so many updates bite me in the ass in exactly the way the author describes. Honestly, open source has made things a lot better since I don't have to deal with enterprise type shrink-wrapped software anymore.
Is there an open format for bookkeeping data? I suppose you have ledger-cli but that's hardly useful for normal people.
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Most V engines can operate this way -- obviously not at full power. GM, Daimler, Honda, and FCA do this on some of their production v6, v8, and v12 engines. It is not that difficult to skip some cylinders, engines have a lot of rotating momentum.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-Displacement_System

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Fuel_Management

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_Cylinder_Control

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variable_Cylinder_Management
Unfortunately, you couldn't troubleshoot a failed component without breaking it all apart. Say you have some leaking current when they should be off...
> e.g. keep Ctrl-D as page down.

I tried doing the same using xdotool by binding Ctrl+F<something> to PageDown but for some reason it didn't work for some reason and I didn't investigate enough.
Pkgdb belongs in libdata, not var
Audio- and Gaze-Driven Facial Animation of Codec Avatars
> but from within the rendering application.

I'm not sure if you imply that the emoji glyphs are not from a font, because they usually are. To display emojis well, you should have your normal font setup, plus one font for emojis (like [Noto-Emoji]. All desktop applications I use display these glyphs and don't interfere with it. The only example of something overriding your selected font is Slack, which uses small images if it knows the emoji.
At least, that is true on my Linux. What Windows does, I have no idea.

[Noto-Emoji]: https://www.google.com/get/noto/help/emoji/
Since it works even when Internet is disconnected,it doesn't seem to be that centralized. You can send only text in the disconnected mode, though.