skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this approach.

One benefit of your solution over the `textconv`-based approach mentioned in the article is that your solution offers two different levels of diffs (XML and TXT).

To simulate that with textconv, you’d have to switch between two `diff.doc.textconv` variants.
I used to work out regularly, eat a low-carb diet, and made an effort to walk to work whenever I had time. Now I'm still doing all that stuff, but I also have to do it while skipping the walks to work (which is shut), work out without a bunch of gym equipment (gym is closed for indoor classes, equipment is sold out in most stores), and all of the added stress and boredom of lockdown made me gain a bunch of weight, which I'm now trying to drop. And in addition to the potential health effects of being overweight, I also have the possibility of getting COVID to add to it all.

I don't think the "obesity is really worse than COVID" thought process takes into account how much worse the pair are than either one individually.
It isn't hard to become a P.I. so maybe some of us should become a P.I. and start requesting data on lawmakers, then send petitions to their home address. I believe that would be legal.
Something from https://system76.com/ maybe? Ive never had one, anecdote but the two people i know who got the 16" MBP have had to return them with hardware issues, at least apples support is pretty good. Im hanging on to my 2015MBP for dear life, has great connectivity and reliability, id like the new 16" as it is nice but am waiting for a hardware itteration, suppose by then there might be something arm based released?
This is not news. We knew about this from the beginning of the pandemic, but we now know that other factors are at work:

* Comorbidities. According to the CDC, 94% of COVID-19 deaths in the USA had comorbidities, at an average of 2.6 co-morbidities per death. [0]

* Country of residence. Living in a country that has restricted doctors from using hydroxychloroquine increases the chance of dying from COVID-19 by 77%. [1]

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[0] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm
[1] https://hcqtrial.com/
I met DK when he was visiting my university. So "his" office was the office he was assigned when visiting. He is the most wonderful person you can imagine. He came to my office and he introduced himself in the most affable way. We socialised quite a lot for the duration of his visit. I went into his office because he wanted to show me some proofs on his whiteboard, that he was very excited about. There was a email client on the screen but I didn't pry, I just noticed it.

Also, it is pretty much absurd to believe that someone who is on the faculty of a university, where all business is conducted via email, will not read email.

Basically, what he is saying is that he will not read your email.
>Claim: there are no numbers larger than 100,000,000,000,000,000.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrafinitism
I suspect that you misread my post as this seems unrelated to what I was saying.

The rent-seeking issue was related to folks worrying about the loss of local jobs due to bookstores closing down. My personal preference for digital media's unrelated to that point.
I think the issue is that parallel workflow is a bridge too far for the current legal profession. They do sequential and they like it. A tool that makes the sequential workflow better will gain more ground than one that tries to change the process whole hog.
Nice! I’ll need to check this out, I’ve been running an EchoLink proxy for years now but client software for Linux never really existed.
N=1, but it works great in Firefox on Linux and doesn't use noticeably more resources that what I usually see with video calls.
> Used to be able to just drop commands into rc.local but now it's not as simple.

Why not? Also you can try https://linrunner.de/tlp/
Well said. It's always funny when some acronym no one's heard of shows up unexplained on HN.
Will This Old Financial Tool Transform Tech Investing?
==Trump has been sanctioning China because of Ugyhur camps==

Congress passed the sanctions bill. It passed the House 413-1 and the Senate vote was unanimous, according to your link.
I got involved with amateur radio ~20 years ago as a teenager Handled radio traffic for various marathons.
Was a bunch of 60-70+ people and a few teenagers.

Got briefly involved a few years ago. Still dominated by 60-70+ year olds. Me and a friend in our early 40s were the “kids”
How about being able to transmit data undistorted from A to B?

I mean, it's not about emails must be ugly or must be read in white-on-black 80x25 terminals, it's about them not being distorted/broken on delivery.

If you can't manage that, then you should think about how this portrays you as a submitter. Doesn't matter if you zip, if you post diff on https: somewhere, if you uuencode or mime64, but not being able to choose tools for yourself that do NOT distort what you send is quite a powerful signal.

Ask yourself, if your ZFS-with-checksums or your VPN with authenticated headers or your file integrity checking software says "this incoming data is distorted", do you really imply that the first reaction is to turn off checksums and just eat the data? Is this the "missing generation" projects would lose?

I think I would like to be able to run OSes and code written by people that defaults to not turning checksums off on first indication of errors.
Then why did they allow someone else to create an email like mine without the dot and I even get the occasional mail addressed to them. This is really shady, specially for an important service like email.
My first question here:

Why is the DMV in possession of nuclear-powered attack sub's, and for what and why do Private Investigators need those?
> In a nutshell, format string bugs are a class of bugs in which an attacker provides their own format string data into a formatting function, e.g. printf(attacker_controlled)

It might be an odd thing to have a strong opinion about, but I consider it poor form to use printf in a C hello world, for this reason. Stick with puts unless you need to use format-specifiers in the string.
You don't need to root your phone to sideload on Android... at least I've never encountered an Android device where that was true.
Certainly it seems reasonable to me that Apple can have whatever business model they want. They want to charge for A and not B, so be it. They aren't the IRS or something.

I think the above comment was more about Facebook being somewhat hypocritical in complaining recently about the one time they do have to pay, despite the fact that in most of their business they don't.
Why would you have to root your phone? On my Android phone I just go into the settings app to enable third party appstores.
While true for early adopters, this won't hold true as the network grows.

Moreover, if you can access the very same content from Google Chrome, should Google remove their own browser too? The same happened to Podcast Addict, police all the podcasts in the world or we will remove your app.

The concern is Mastodon app developers are small one-man shops, less likely to be able to bring reason to bear and get Google to review these warnings. These app devs cannot possibly be held responsible for every post on the entire Mastodon network.

https://twitter.com/PodcastAddict/status/1261651512947691520...
I wouldn’t assume he doesn’t care. He is human don’t forget. I do wonder how much the tougher stance towards China is specific to this administration. Can we know that a different administration would not have acted similarly. Maybe not the willingness to increase taxes on trade quite so aggressively, which is odd coming from a republican but the results have been encouraging with the American economy hitting record highs despite his much vilified trade war.
Mastodon is aimed at the average person. Knowing how to sideload apps should not be a requirement for using it.
Not true on Android, you just need to download and install F-Droid; a free software app store.
Thankfully, "more likely" does not mean "guaranteed". In the article if you're male and over 80 you still only had a 12% shot of passing due to it. Which means you actually probably won't die of it, but I wouldn't play a game with those odds, not to mention all the secondary effects - at least Russian Roulette has a fairly binary outcome.
On iOS maybe, but there's no problem installing 3rd party app stores on Android without rooting. See for example F-Droid.

Recent versions of Android have also improved the permissions model... you can specify what apps (e.g. F-Droid) are allowed to install other apps. You don't need to add a blanket allow forever.
> - Hard to add memory and ram

In fact, impossible for a long time already.

Upd: I mean laptops; not true for other products.
I am! It was a horrible mistake and I'm glad he's gone now. But to be clear, Bolton did the vast majority of his damage during the Bush administration.
Depends on the country I guess. In the US you can watch videos from Ham Radio Crash Course and sit for a license online. The quiz is easy and you can then move on to learn more advanced stuff. The only focus should be on not breaking things (like interfering others or causing electrical havoc)
In Argentina you only can sit for an exam after 30 2.5 hour lessons, that is several months listening to things you would better read/study out of a webpage.

And the attitude if you try to suggest a simpler process is "you are a criminal wanting to circunvent the laws!" (this attitude also comes from guys in the US if you suggest things like asking if you could license on a country and operate on a different one.

I'm better off using marine band, off road VHF frecuencies and GMRS as I please.
Yeah, I understand but the background is weak. The majority does feel happy that the outcome was less violence and it doesn't affect them but the question should always be, at what cost.
It depends on how they do it. In my case I had a DB on my computer with thousands of cards. They could have used those cards as part of my sentencing but didn't. Instead they tried to estimate losses based on cards they believed I used.

I don't know if it was correct but it seemed like a more reasonable way to do it.
Sounds like a good idea, might generate a dynamic visualization on some examples. :)
Agree, the internet was NOT created as a missile command and control system.

Baran's seminal work on packet-switching was a RAND C2 study whose concepts were rejected by the extant defence contractors as impractical. When DARPA later wanted to interconnect it's collection of computers to create ARPANET for researchers, Baran's theoretical ideas were dusted off and the rest is history.
What Is The JAMStack?
Yeah i get that, but i don't really care about that promise. I'm curious, today, to see what could be done now with this _existing system_ if pushed even further and what kind of error bars will be seen compared to existing calcs. I'm sure these folks must be playing around with all sorts of things that cant be put in a nice paper right now.
The problem is the 'App Stores'.

Think of them as retail outlets, in a mall. Do you see shady stuff going on there?

Would 'The Gap' sell porn to increase profits by 15%? Of course not. And for obvious reasons.

We shouldn't think of 'App Stores' as some kind of truly open marketplaces, any more than a shopping mall is.

What we need is just more independent means of distribution.
Should we spend more time on LeBron James' hypocrisy or the President of the United States' hypocrisy? One is the most powerful person in the world, the other is a basketball player. Focusing on LeBron is just another red herring to distract.
On most x86 chips since the Pentium Pro (and the K6 for AMD, IIRC) the machine code instructions which are visible to the programmer are turned into "micro operations" by the CPU's instruction decoder. See here for a introduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro-operation
But it doesn't significantly interfere with astronomy.
I have done codec development, heavy C++ programming, web development (front end), worked with MS Office exclusively for a year when I was a "manager" and now onto to blogging and copywriting. My trusty companion in all of this has been my Macbook Pro 2015 (Early) and it has never once crashed or stopped working.

I have seen so many Windows machines come and go and nothing can hold a candle to a MacbookPro. This is my personal opinion - ymmv. But, if you are looking for a 1-time purchase that will last you atleast 6 years, and you use your machines carefully, then a Macbook Pro is worth the investment.

Fair warning: I have no idea how the ARM-based macs are going to turn out.
The OP article itself links to an article about trump considering officially labelling the situation a genocide.

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/08/25/trump-administratio...
Thanks! Thats a really good tip. I didn't know I had easy access to the db client stats!
I'm conflicted over this business. It's ran by good people but I don't think it's the right solution for independents to compete with Amazon.

Just go straight to the local bookstore's website. A lot of the stores on bookshop also have an online store. Bookshop is a supplement and basically just plugged straight into Ingram (the distributor), so they're able to sell whatever your local indie's web store lacks.
Be Excellent to Each Other and Party on Dudes
Bookstores offer something electronic media doesn't -- discovery.

1. You know what you want, you search for it and order it.
2. You know vaguely what you want, you search, read reviews and order it.
3. You walk into a bookstore and wander around and eventually pick something out.

I just haven't seen #3 replicated in online fashion. Sure there are a million sites that will guide you to what you want, but you never quite find yourself in an odd section of the store, pulled in by something you would never have tried before.

More than anything else, I think this what people miss. They don't want bookstores to exist just because.

Depending on how old you are, there is a big difference between the big stores now, and the same stores just 20 years ago. They used to carry a much larger selection of actual books. My local Barnes & Noble has huge sections dedicated to toys and other things where books used to be. On the actual shelves that remain there are fewer books, and far fewer mass market paperbacks. The latter having been replaced by the more expensive trade paperbacks. The books they do have tend to be on the very popular end -- something which needs far less discovery. The library depth they used to have is gone.

This leads to two bad experiences that we didn't use to have in the big book stores. You want something simple that should exist -- Tom Sawyer for instance -- and you might only find the trade paperback for $13.95. But you need it for school and it's too late to order, so you get gouged. Other times I'm looking for a book that would have been in the back catalog but isn't any more. They will helpfully offer to order it for me -- at a higher price and longer wait than Amazon, other retailers, and frequently B&N online as well.

I get they want to carry less inventory. But the whole point of a bookstore (to me) is the wide inventory of books I don't know I already want. If it's a matter of just books I know I want, I don't have to go to the bookstore.

I keep going and I keep hoping, but those days appear to be gone. Good luck to Powell's if they have a better store than my local B&N.
I became a ham out of love and respect for my deceased father, who held a General license, knew Morse code and had been a comms tech in the Air Force. I keep the license in case of emergencies. But neither of those (good) reasons are going to pull new people into Ham.
One of the interesting things about the church I grew up with is that the church constitution strictly limited how you can ask for money for the church fund - only once per week at the first Sunday service. This was obviously very limiting, but strictly defining what cash flows were acceptable also (in my eyes) helped prevent a lot of the greed and prosperity focus that infects many other churches.

I can’t help but wonder whether authors of constitutions would see benefit to strictly defining what income flows are acceptable. The founding fathers in the US took a few steps in this direction by strictly* defining what kinds of federal taxes were acceptable, but didn't really go beyond that.

*Maybe too strictly - economists generally agree that apportioning all your taxes is a bad idea because it can be pretty regressive, and we needed amendments to get around that for income tax.
Sure, let's have a look at Article 4 GDPR: ‘consent’ of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her

In this case, I doubt that consent is freely given (which requires a true choice on the user's part), I doubt that it is specific (that the choice is granular pertaining to different cookies fulfilling different purposes), and I doubt that it is informed (that the user understands the relevance of different cookies).

Most importantly, consent given in the context of a visit of the zoom.us site cannot be specific and, at the same time, cover cookies being unexpectedly set by a local uninstall program. We are not talking about the usual session ID cookie here ("remember log in details").

Recital 43: Consent is presumed not to be freely given if it does not allow separate consent to be given to different personal data processing operations despite it being appropriate in the individual case,

Somewhat questionable in this case. Is there a way to opt out of the specific cookie? I guess not.

or if the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is dependent on the consent despite such consent not being necessary for such performance.

Quite likely.

Recital 42: For consent to be informed, the data subject should be aware at least of the identity of the controller and the purposes of the processing for which the personal data are intended

Where does Zoom explain the purpose of the "everlogin" cookie?

Consent should not be regarded as freely given if the data subject has no genuine or free choice or is unable to refuse or withdraw consent without detriment.

Again, is there a way to opt out of the specific cookie?

Article 7 GDPR: The data subject shall have the right to withdraw his or her consent at any time. ... It shall be as easy to withdraw as to give consent.

It's quite easy to consent to cookies at zoom.us. Where, however, can a user revoke their consent?

When assessing whether consent is freely given, utmost account shall be taken of whether, inter alia, the performance of a contract, including the provision of a service, is conditional on consent to the processing of personal data that is not necessary for the performance of that contract.

I don't think it's possible to use Zoom without this (unnecessary) cookie being saved. Therefore, consent is most likely not applicable.

Again, ICO guidance is a great resource: Be specific and ‘granular’ so that you get separate consent for separate things. Vague or blanket consent is not enough.

Consent under GDPR simply doesn't work like "I consent to all of your cookies".
Lenovo has an updated ThinkPad line, T14, that has also AMD 4000 series as an option. I would definitely check that out, as AMD is running circles around Intel CPUs especially on laptops where the power consumption is more limited.
This is typically done via a Freedom of Information request, for your license data, much or all of which is a Public Record. It's not nefarious on the part of the government, it's one of the checks and balances placed upon our government. The PIs, however...
Yeah, I built a solar tracker that sits out in the sun. I originally printed with black PLA plastic. After a few hours of direct sunlight it melted! Now I print with PETG and that stuff is solid.

I can't really tell the material properties differences between PLA and PETG (in terms of strength).
Set it up to forward to their support e-mail addresses...
Without getting into the details of this - yeah I disagree with it - but, Android allows side loading. Isn’t that what everyone wanted from Apple?

On a higher level, what’s the problem and what should be changed? Google has a policy that people don’t like, Android can side load, isn’t that exactly what people want?
I'd say we didn't through tantrums as adults, rather buckle down and work.
I've had a run of damage to books, but from what looks like printing ... for what I suspect are actually fakes.

The binding is a bit off, or pages just didn't print right / are malformed, or strange sort of "weathering" like effects over time, and etc.
There's an xkcd for everything. Sure, that's probably my email address.

https://xkcd.com/1279/
Fediverse isn't an acronym, nor is it a term "no one's heard of". You haven't heard it before, and it's great to explain it, but don't project that either.
They aren’t prevented from taking about it though. They are just prevented from talking about it inside the app, for various reasons, such as Apple not wanting its app platform used as a venue for dissing itself, and because that kind of contentious content is not what Apple wants its users to experience when using Apple devices.
Thanks for your work. JS8Call seems really cool, but I can never make any contacts with it. Maybe bad luck, but every time I try on 20m through 80m there's nobody on the other end. (FT8 and friends working fine.)
Interestingly, the experiment in Figure 2 was to demonstrate that action potentials could be generated from isolated neurons in buffer solution just as well as they could from an exposed neuron in situ -- so the squid still dies, but it's not tortured to death.
>The difference is that when you go to Kroger you search the shelves with your own eyeballs. [...] I suppose an argument could be made about the layout of store shelves serving a similar purpose to the prioritization [...] the shopper arguably has more agency in determining what products they see and when in a meatspace store

For example of Kroger or any other retail store, the shopper doesn't have full visibility of buying options because the curation also happens before any product gets stocked on the shelf. E.g. the hidden retail-corporate-buyer-and-vendor relationships. Kroger example[1]. Costco example[2].

Because shoppers are not sitting in grocery chain's corporate headquarters to see what products the company rejects/prioritizes, they will still be influenced by self-interest of the retailer. Those are private negotiations of vendor contracts that influences what shows up on shelves so they can be as opaque as Amazon's recommendations algorithms. If Kroger wants to remove Kraft Macaroni & Cheese from the shelves and just promote their own-store-brand Kroger Macaroni & Cheese[3], the shopper doesn't really have any more agency.

[1] https://www.thekrogerco.com/vendors-suppliers/become-a-suppl...

[2] https://www.costco.com/vendor-inquiries.html

[3] https://www.kroger.com/p/kroger-original-macaroni-cheese/000...
A reminder that F-Droid [1] is a free software app store that can be used to download free/open source software, including Mastodon clients.

[1] https://f-droid.org/
First off, Trump’s foreign policy on China is working as their economy contracts. Or do you want an invasion?

Second, Lebron can do much to educate himself on China, as he’s already an activist in other areas, and he has millions of followers. But it looks like he’s educated himself on who pays his paycheck.

Lebron is free to say and support whatever he pleases. We’re all free to stop listening, stop watching and stop buying what he’s selling.