skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is interesting. I always thought crypto exchange <==> bitcoin, and so you still have these centralized actors in the system and it isn't any better than regular banks. But you're saying that if the whole world was using Bitcoin you wouldn't need crypo exchanges and everything would be decentralised, right?
Hackers won't target Emacs, they aim for bigger targets, software used by many people.

Emacs is so obscure that nobody bothers to work on emacs exploits, so your worry is not really justified.
I'd counted that conflict as internal in GP. It seems the nations of the time agreed: none recognised the Confederacy.

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

(I've noticed many revolutionary movements fail when their key exports turn out to have been worth less, due to stocking or substitution, on world markets than they'd been planning. Sometime I should check successful revolutions, and see what happened in their export markets...)

Edit: for the US revolution, nothing so far on the economic effects of the British blockade, but the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Chesapeake implies they lacked complete naval superiority.
My first click was the link for "Accessing a value of an unexported identifier". Figured I'd see some reflection trick or similar. In looking at that code I still have no idea what it's doing in relation to accessing an unexported identifier.

So I went to the next link down, "Unexported fields from an exported struct". Figured this would be the clever way to access the "message" field. But again I don't get it. It seems it's the same code as the last example.

This either says something about my ability to understand Go code or that maybe a bit more exposition would be useful for at least some of the examples.
Baidu Launches Its New Urban Robotaxi Service
If they add everything other than the last part I think its fine. I think something used for self driving should be on its own separate hardware unrelated to any other hardware used for any other purpose within a car in order to fully isolate itself at the hardware level so your infotaiment system doesnt crash the whole system rendering your car undrivable for a moment.
The article is about migrating some existing systems that can't easily run on anything newer to at least be on supported hardware.
He's also a psychotherapist, so one of the primary jobs he has to fulfill is developing a positive internal voice in his clients, and damned if he sounds like a Mr Rogers for adults at times because of that.

Hey it's 2020, apparently a lot of us are reading whatever Alain puts out because we need it, not because we strictly think we're at a point in life we feel like we've reached success and deserve the cheery voices in our head now.
Also there's essentially two parts to this, the neural net is used for speech-to-characters, and then a language model is used to convert the character stream to words.

I found that the language model they supplied was trained data that did not contain the words I needed, and got significantly improved results when making my own language model using the kenlm[1] tools.

[1]: https://kheafield.com/code/kenlm/
I guess people in Barcelona, Venice and Prague would disagree, this is really the best side effect of coronavirus despite the loss of income

I will rather have less frequent public transport to save money the whole city (center) occupied by tourists
> expression semantics for almost everything.

I've never understood why languages don't do this. There seem to be lots of advantages and almost no disadvantages.
> I used to see brick-and-mortar and online businesses accept Bitcoin, and ATMs; these have all but dried up.

People were accepting bitcoin for payments under a flawed assumption that a zero-confirmation transaction was in some way "secure," despite this not being enforced in any way by bitcoin's consensus rules. The introduction of RBF made it clearer to people who had made this bad assumption, and they revised their policies about accepting unconfirmed payments.

ATMs are still around, and growing in number, but they seem to be getting more expensive to use. See coinatmradar.com. There are magnitudes more now in 2020 than there were in 2015.

> As the mining difficulty has increased, more people are genuinely concerned about the carbon footprint.

People who think this need to ask themselves: "what can I do about it?" The answer to this is absolutely nothing. People are going to mine bitcoin, and you're going to have to get over it, because you can't change their decision. If it is inevitable that people are going to mine bitcoin, then rejecting bitcoin because you don't agree with that is simply self-harm. You are foregoing potential benefits (of price appreciation, technological improvement, etc) because of a religious-like belief that humanity would be better off using less electricity. (Ironically while spending half the day in front of a computer, having a TV in every room, carrying a smartphone around 24 hours a day and cooling down with the aircon.)

> I've seen more pessimism about scalability, as off-chain solutions have failed to meaningfully materialize.

They are materializing. The Lightning Network is running now, and improving frequently. I suspect people who are pessimistic about this have not actually attempted to run their own node yet and are waiting for adoption to grow first. Kind of reminds me of people who were waiting for Bitcoin adoption to rise in 2011, and failed to capitalize on an enormous opportunity.

> Post the big bubble of 2018, the public Bitcoin "brand" is basically tied to get-rich-quick scams and ransomware.

It was associated with this way before 2018. When I first heard of it in 2011 it was being branded as a ponzi scheme. It was tied with the silk-road for buying drugs. WannaCry was just the case that brought it to more people's attention.

Bitcoin is still doing as it always was, and in many ways it being distinguished from other get-rich-schemes (known as shitcoins), by focusing on the fundamentals of its finite supply and network effects. The shitcoiners are doing bitcoin a favour by dissociating themselves with it and trying to promote their scams.
Great! This is getting closer to a testable hypothesis. I’m imagining “students chosen randomly from the applicant pool, and students chosen based on merit will have indistinguishable academic results”. This isn’t perfect yet but it’s closer to being testable.

However, my hazy understanding from psych lectures years past is that similar experiments have already happened and the results are in. University achievement was found to be correlated with big 5 consciousness and IQ. (I can’t remember the effect sizes.) I have no idea how well the US collage admissions process selects for those traits. I’d love to be proven wrong, but I would bet money a lottery would lower the average academic achievement of collage graduates.

(Edit: first result on google scholar talks about the positive correlation between GPA and consciousness: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/per.732 )
Libreswan: Teaching old code new tricks [pdf]
These points seem to be about why fedora workstation is not a great fit for him/her. Workstation defaults to gnome, other spins or server don't.
The ACLU is a complete joke to most people and the least thing from moderate possible. They also can't stand normal people having guns.
I think DC is the exception here. Most cities are cookie cutter buildings downtown, with the same restaurants. Out towards the suburbs its cookie cutter strip malls and the same restaurants. Oklahoma and Texas feel a little more unique since they tend to have a local set of franchises.
It is then odd that the majority of scientists have rejected nationalism for as long as nations existed.
What Is Hall Effect?
"Amity is a summer town, we need summer dollars."
Image Classification Made Easy in the Browser with Tensorflow.js
Telematics can be dangerous also. Things downstream might be using that data for things they shouldn't...safety systems, etc.

Also, couldn't ADAS be an issue? Sending the driver lagged lane encroachment info, for example.
MS, understandably, feels differently about other companies' anticompetetive behavior than its own.
.Net Core compiles to native and can be packaged to not need common runtime installed. And targets linux. You can even have it create a single file executable though admittedly it unpacks to temp folder at runtime if you do this. Down side is everything is like 80 MB minimum if you do this.
Great memories you brought back. Minicom times were so simple, the BBS sysop dialed upr2.clu.net for us so we had a nice UUCP connection and got our mails pushed out.

I had to undergo the same chicken egg situation with uudecode
Easy. Tourism generates sales tax revenue, keeps storefronts occupied and employs people.
> based on keywords

keywords like for porn ?
> For that you need to run btrfs-check, and that can only be done offline.

You almost never want to run btrfs-check. In itself, Btrfs is fairly "self healing", and only if you run into "weird things" in the log like invalid index files should you run check, and almost certainly never with the --repair option.

The thing about Btrfs (and ZFS) is that it is Copy-on-Write, and as such, new data is written to an unused part of the filesystem. It doesn't need to modify structures of existing data, thereby reducing the risk of bad metadata.

A file in Btrfs is either written or it is not. If a power outage occurs after a file has been written, but before the metadata is updated, the file is not written, and in case you're updating a file, the old file is still preserved.

If a crash occurs while writing metadata, Btrfs has multiple copies of metadata, and is able to repair itself online.
I don't know what bandwidth has to do with react managing the DOM.
That is like asking to move to a different house because you don't like the color of the walls.
The Future of Remote Work
What would you prefer? Continue working from home or you're missing the office already?
Sounds nearly indistinguishable from AT&T and Comcast in the states.
The thing that makes Bar Harbor distinct from Boston is that it's just far enough away from Boston that your average Masshole can't convince the wife and kids to pile into the Land Rover/4Runner and drive there on a Friday night or Saturday morning. Look at Portland for contrast.
Treating 10KB of JavaScript as equal to 10KB of HTML is a big mistake. They transition over a network in the same amount of time, but HTML is far faster to process. Websites with large HTML sizes often display far faster than the same information that use JavaScript client-side frameworks. Often the framework is still trying to figure out which way is up, while the HTML version is already being displayed. It's a trade-off that isn't discussed enough.
I hear your pain.

I wish this wasn’t the top voted comment.

Things that are subversive, clever, mind bending, tongue in cheek ... tend to get criticized around these parts for not being simple, plain, and literal.
No, with ZFS you just tune the recordsize of the dataset to match your database record size.
No, read the description. To be personal data for the purposes of the GDPR, it must be related to an identifiable natural person (ie not a corporation). I don’t see how Microsoft could relate a MAC address to a natural person.
So basically an article where someone with relationship issues writes off all marriages because obviously we are all only attracted to what is least good for us.

I really don't understand the use of this sort of writing.
I don’t think this is really practical or actual (isn’t tree coverage decreasing?) but I’m all for planting trees
And it's a very tenuous dream at that, I'd say. It requires constant handholding, upkeep, juggling, whatever you want to call it, to manage all of the visas, plane tickets, bookings, finding remote work, finding a network of people for which reason you allegedly moved to the country :)

Call me square but it's much easier to just overpay for rent in the USA and just focus on building "bulletproof" skills for a long career here.

After all, nobody stands up postgres on EC2 anymore right, we all just use redshift and lambdas? right? ok well maybe not all of us :)
How Recruitment Software Is Changing HR
I know.

The Rust spec defines "unsound" as "introducing undefined behavior in safe Rust". The API of the cxx crate allows a safe Rust program to have undefined behavior, and it is therefore unsound.
Can you share a link to a react app that is both complex and fast?
Haven't testing rates increased significantly? A natural outcome would be that we see more mild cases which previously would have flown under the radar.

I don't buy the article's hypothesis of social distancing being a factor. Social distancing has been ongoing for a long time, and if anything it's happening less now as people fear the virus less with dropping fatalities. So why would social distancing suddenly now begin to have a greater effect?

Mask usage could play a role. If you're infected while wearing a mask your initial viral load is likely significantly reduced. And at least here in England masks were not mandatory until recently.
If you think about it, it's a weird consumerist way to think about buildings -- what's important about a building is why I, the tourist, thinks of it, and not the people who have to use it every day. Most people don't spend their time going from hotel to hotel not knowing where they are, so buildings aren't built to keep those people from being bored.
the pendulum can swing too far in either direction. but pumping out features with no regard for how they will be maintained is a recipe for lower velocity and less stability in the future.
It's relatively non-polluting and leads to growth in amenities that can also be enjoyed by locals.
This is why we need municipal competition, we have a last-mile cartel where they have agreed to not compete and just extract rent in the US.
In this hypothetical SHFT situation where the USD is worthless... what do you imagine the world looks like?

Let's say you bought an ounce of gold today for $1,955 and then the US economy craters and the USD is worthless. What are you going to do with that ounce of gold? Do you really think you'll be able to barter with that gold to get the rough equivalent of $2,000 in 2020 purchasing power?

Or in a true SHTF situation will there even be networks available for you to trade Bitcoin? Or servers to continue to mine and process transactions? I doubt it.
New Generation TLDs and Their Roles in the Internet Industries
I'd agree - some great stuff, great innovation.

The problem was they grew hugely during the dot com bubble - to a size that was never sustainable, and then post bubble, couldn't work out how to make enough money from their offerings in the face of Linux on commodity PC hardware.

Not just OS/hardware either - the Java ecosystem and Libre/Open office still live on.
Naive economics: it's good for us when foreigners come here, give us money, and then leave.
This article explains why travel in a lot of the US (born and raised here) is not interesting except for New Orleans and maybe Austin, or SF and Berkeley. There's a despair here that I bet the French or Portuguese have a perfect word for.

I hope old Europe doesn't fully go this way because it's my favorite place to go. It's oldness is very soothing which is a sensibility or modality I got from my father.
Very cool how we are learning that the microbiome seems to play a significant role in -so- many previously unexpected bodily processes.

Does anyone know of some other interesting findings to share?
100%. Shameless Plug - In fact, I'm currently building an "inefficient," "micro" web framework specifically so I can build more stuff, more quickly [1].

An entire app can be build in a single js file (with only one dependency... and it's 150 or so dependencies and sub dependencies).

1: https://github.com/jeremyaboyd/simplemvcjs
> Your insignificant observations are just that - insignificant. Global warming is a much larger subject then the average Joe can observe.

And their observation in one location over a span of just 40-50 years is somehow more representative.

> I also never understood the counter-point of just "do nothing." If we do something and global warming wasn't real, what do we lose?

Seriously? I'm losing every day as damn CO2 taxes are already in all products and services that matter. Check how much gasoline and electric energy used to cost before climatists infiltrated governments.
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Unfortunately, I've found that even the remaining second-hand stores have lost a bit of this "uniqueness" from location to location. Now they all push the same anarchist, grunge aesthetic. I dont mind it, but its not novel to me anymore, and it'd be nice to experience something else.
> Also, why do young Japanese women all have black hair ? Hint, it is not because all Japanese woman have black hair. Etc.

Curious what you mean by this? Most Asian people have naturally black hair.

If anything, there was a period in the late 90s-2000s when most young Japanese people dyed their hair brown (it was a fashion fad), so if you saw an Asian person with brown hair, it was likely they were Japanese.
That's outrageously good. Sadly I can't seem to find it. Their website shows a minimum of £26 for unlimited data on a monthly contract, and £13 a month for a yearly contract.
> I think it is safe to assume that Alain de Botton writes for what he feels is "most people"

He also wrote "How Proust Can Change Your Life", which may or may not be for "most people"
No, I didn't. Last I looked you couldn't at all. Apparently I can now, but not via my Roku. I have to figure out how to get to Netflix from a PC apparently.
To the degree that there is a certain sameness, at least in the US, the other thing that probably contributes is chain stores/restaurants. It's more pronounced in some places than others but both urban shopping malls and places on the street overlap a great deal from city to city.
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This is a flaw in nearly any pop-psychology article. They find a perfectly valid trend, and then write without subtlety or nuance: "When x happens we [all] think y." Well, that's obviously silly ... some people may act the way the article describes, but obviously people are different, and are operating under a number of different incentives and pressures.
When everyone started working from home, Rogers in Toronto (1 of the 2 cellular networks) basically crashed on the voice side.

It was painful to get them to admit anything was wrong, until I asked if this would impact 9-1-1 calls too, then they admitted an issue with full-digit dialing (aka: 10 digit dialing).

Even units that were resistant to switching from the conference line migrated over.

I wonder how this afternoon will go if this continues.
He could be right - I was operating under an assumption that it's the same CAN bus access they're using, it's entirely possible it's only an isolated segment.

I did not confirm this, purely an assumption on my part as it does appear to have access to HVAC, lock settings, as well as fuel information which makes me suspect it's not so isolated.
I suffered a similar breakdown with no raid. But this was about 5 years ago. The filesystem filled up, had plenty of snapshots, but removing snapshots did not actually clean up any space. Had this happen twice. So I don't think this is related to RAID. Just regular old butter filesystem.

On a slightly unrelated note, I once suffered a complete failure of BTRFS where after a shutdown it just wouldn't mount anything again. Interestingly, on IRC, I was told that his is because the firmware on my Samsung NVME SSD was buggy. It might be, but ext4 has not failed me once in that regard.
>ZFS has a good share, if not 100%

ZFS has no Raid5 write-hole...no traditional Raid problems at all (z1/2/3)

>leaving files/directories/volumes without CoW

No...just NO, just for a special Cases like a Database.
Is it the R18A1 engine? I have a 2009 and I near-obsessively monitor the engine temp while driving, hoping I don't get the same issue. :(
1) You would have to explain how the problem of existing structures account for the orders of magnitude cost of new construction.

2) Why is this any different now than at the times of the examples? It would seem as though, if you initiate a project, you would have an incentive to complete it within your term in office. This could have been accomplished with many of the historical projects cited - Empire State Building, Golden Gate bridge, man on the moon (mostly).
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Could it be better treatment protocols?
I’ve heard good things about https://nostarch.com/tcpip.htm
Can't speak of DC but I feel that even culturally, large cities have more in common with each other than they do with the sparesly populated regions in their own countries.

London, Paris, NYC, Tokyo, Seoul, KL, Singapore, Cape Town, Shanghai, Buenos Aires... Same same but different.
> If someone can compromise your "full hand scanner" or compromise the biometric database (which will inevitably happen), then you are compromised for life, since you cannot change your hand.

Suppose this happens. The world now knows all of your fingerprints. And at some point in the future you walk up to the desk of a datacenter where there's a security guard who phyiscally takes your hand, inspects it, and places it on the scanner. Can someone other than you pass this check?

Biometrics are a hard, mostly unsolved the problem, because the hard part is replacing the human security guard who verifies that you're scanning a real person's hand. For not super security sensitive applications TouchID, FaceID, and friends are good enough because most people aren't in Face Off or Mission Impossible.
Why do people even feel the need to defend consoles? The fact consoles are also artificially restricted doesn't mean it's okay for the Iphone to be, it means they need to be fixed as well.
The purpose of marriage is not and has ever been to be happy all the time. If you view love and marriage as about a transaction where the output must always be happiness, then you're setting an impossible standard. The author presupposed that marriage is about feeling really good all the time, well - most of us are going to hit hard times at some point. If you're so selfish as to believe your partner must always increase your own happiness - you're going to have a really bad time dealing with the realities in life. You might even be such a narcissist that you map your own failings onto the other person and decide they are 'wrong' when you're really a stubborn, selfish, unlovable hedonist.
If it's the Milliondollarhomepage.com then it isn't quite living up to its legacy ;)
I tried using ZSH. My first experience was using a bunch of plugins like zsh spaceship and having the shell slow to a complete halt.

I then used "stock zsh" and running commands was fine except some autocompletes like git-autocomplete were terribly slow and, for example, did not support `git switch`. This broke my workflow and it was easier to just go back to bash than to figure out how zsh works. I found that autocomplete in zsh is a lot more opaque than in bash. I'm sure there are ways to fix it. My way was to switch to bash.

(Now I use magit so the need is lessened.)
Depends on the employer - most outsource their web access to a proxy provider that has configurable content block-lists.

but yes, porn is likely blocked and/or reported on in most large organisations.
It seems like the only real difference is where you put the effort. With Zettelkasten (Z), it's while reading, with PARA, it's before and after a project which might need those notes.

The Z method seems more scalable to me, since if I'm reading, I have time to spare.
The services industry is highly sought after in general. It is very labour dependant rather than industrial. With tourism, it cannot be off-shored. Plus, increased foot traffic brings vibrancy to the city. More arts and culture, parks, museums, restaurants, etc.