skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why Do Chinese Call Electric Cars “Electric Dads”?
> I’m also guessing that installing and configuring Emacs is way more work than installing Python. And any gained Python knowledge will pay you back tenfold more than learning Emacs.

I’m a full-time python developer in the sciences and an emacs user and neither of those claims are true.

More’s the pity.
> Consoles will become more expensive but games will cost $60. Payment processing fees have to be passed onto the customer. Your $0.99 game with 30% cut is now a $1.30 game because of credit card fees. No more Steam cards at retailers.

All these statements require hard proof. Additionally, "you already earn more money than I'd like" is not exactly a valid case to make against a cut.
A fair bit of my education was Civ. There's never enough time in a history class to show you much of what's out there to learn, but Civ was a great way to learn about some cultures I'd never have heard of otherwise. The Civilopedia was pretty good reading for a time before Wikipedia, and it gave you the basic list of what Sid thought were the important cultures. Of course you can always add more, but Civ is a decent start if you want to know about someone other than Greece, the Romans, and Egypt. The list of wonders is also fantastic if you want something approaching a canon of stuff we've built.

I haven't dared to go back to the series in the later years, too much addiction potential.
You realize that all of the carbon in fossil fuels was once in the atmosphere right? The earth spits out a little bit of CO2 naturally, and the sun is a bit hotter than it was 100 million years ago, but we aren't turning into Venus anytime soon.
Twitter accounts of Forbes 75 Most Powerful People. Guess who's is 70% fake?
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This is what amazes me. I suspect there's an entire generation of developers and technologists that don't realize we used to manage infrastructure and deploy applications ontop of it.

It's like as if somehow, in many eyes, that's impossible now. Depending on your scale, it may be impractical given external hosting options but it's certainly not impossible. Lots of data centers rose and started automated processes of shared hosting and co-locating hardware which was a step forward. I remember working with Rackspace, Equinix, The Planet, etc. which further automated quicker server deployment, had applications for UPS resets/interrupts, etc. The more you moved towards a specific business's automation services, the less portable your infrastructure was outside that environment.

That continued on until you now have more sophisticated hosting like what AWS and GC provide. Now, abstractions exist for about everything in a data center and the trade off is that you now have to manage all that complexity through proprietary APIs, consoles, and so forth.

In addition, the tradeoff here is the more complex the infrastructure, the less easy it is to shift it to another provider. That may be fine for you, it may also not be. It's all definitely possible though.
Creating a global musician database from Discogs to Postgres
Creating a global musician database from Discogs to Postgres using Elixir and sweet_xml
I felt that way for a long time and then started to not care, because it is... boring? These points remain true, life is still pointless, but not giving a fuck is a thing in itself. "Fuck that". Not a key to survival, not a happy state, not even worth gaining, just a distinct category you may find yourself in someday.
I don't see any big problem. There is a blog post on the Golang website explaining everything. (My only complaint is there is no cheatsheet on golang.org for this) Also it's actually quite nice that it's possible to keep all maintained - and possibly incompatible - versions on the same branch without the overhead of a 3rdparty acting as package curator/distributor.
Nintendo hardly sells hardware at a loss, hence why they focus on game experience and not on ultimate graphics experience.
I mostly agree, but one disappointment with the 1984 movie I remember were the Sardaukar suits. Seemed rushed and not fear-inducing as they should be.
I have played around with similar projects. A good starting point is google's NLP sentence parsing API. Be warned: the accuracy may not be good enough for your application.
It sucks to feel that way. It might not be as bad as you think it is: I expect those earning more will more eager to note what they are.
I have a HP ENVY x360 15-ee0002na. I like it a lot. Battery is ok, screen even is ok and it has 16gbof ram

Trying to find a Ryzen 4xxx with 16gb of ram in the UK is quite hard! Plenty of Intel's though, it's almost like Intel flooded the market or no one wants Intel
As others have pointed out the displays aren't 2k and they aren't 120hz and they cost almost $200 alone. So none of the marketing is true.
Not the OP but I thought it was miss-spelled at first.
This is true, but:

1. If you are building the web server, the async stack would have the functions of the web server code too. The thread only sees its history from when it was spawned for that request.

2. As an example, if you needed to start 5 async tasks and await them, the async code would keep caller context if you break inside the task. For the thread-request model, you start new threads for each 5 tasks, if you debug-break in those threads you would not get the caller stack context. Or do you?
Professionals like Dr Gupta who said for so long at the beginning of the crisis to not wear a mask?

https://www.cnn.com/audio/podcasts/corona-virus?episodeguid=...
Well, it's written right in the title: "Earth's land mammals by weight". So no, it doesn't include bacteria, insects, other invertebrates, or anything living in the sea, but the point it's trying to make about the impact of humans on the planet is still important...
No, not at all. Solid angles could describe how big the display looks, but absolutely nothing about its resolution.
> Suppose it's just Murray's reporting that isn't evenhanded.

Murray is clearly on Assange's side, but that doesn't mean his observations of the judge's behaviour aren't accurate. As far as I know, no one's refuted what he described in the passage I quoted above.

Also, it's not just Murray. Here's the International Bar Association's Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) ("the global voice of the legal profession" according to the site):

> IBAHRI Co-Chair, the Hon Michael Kirby AC CMG, commented: ‘The IBAHRI is concerned that the mistreatment of Julian Assange constitutes breaches of his right to a fair trial and protections enshrined in the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, to which the UK is party. It is deeply shocking that as a mature democracy in which the rule of law and the rights of individuals are preserved, the UK Government has been silent and has taken no action to terminate such gross and disproportionate conduct by Crown officials. As well, we are surprised that the presiding judge has reportedly said and done nothing to rebuke the officials and their superiors for such conduct in the case of an accused whose offence is not one of personal violence. Many countries in the world look to Britain as an example in such matters. On this occasion, the example is shocking and excessive. It is reminiscent of the Abu Grahib Prison Scandal which can happen when prison officials are not trained in the basic human rights of detainees and the Nelson Mandela Rules.’ - https://www.ibanet.org/Article/NewDetail.aspx?ArticleUid=c05...

Would you argue the International Bar Association isn't being evenhanded here?
How has the XDK become suddenly available for free?
> But on Windows, for example, python may not be installed

Actually Python is not a very good example since Windows now includes python and python3 commands by default[0]

0: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-the-windows-...
ok, reasonable, though it would seem that one could do both. i.e. for those that dont want to include multiple versions, be easy, for those that need them, then you have extra complexity.
This here, should be the top comment.

The court already validated that Apple disabling Epic account was okay.
i'm pretty sure the $200 quote is an "it's possible" type thing, like where car companies quote prices "from" the lowest-spec version.
That doesn’t really help, as while typically it’s assumed the aspect ratio is 16:9, that’s not always true, making such a scheme ambiguous. Listing vertical resolution with aspect ratio is fairly sane, though. Or use standardized specific resolutions (e.g. FHD, QHD, 4K UHD).
Glue down your Option key and you're set!
>Sometimes they'll upgrade the charge or write a false charge because many people just plead guilty

How do you know that, and where do you live that the police file charges? That's typically the job of a prosecutor.

>A local police department was spreading similar misinformation on Facebook about something being a misdemeanor when it should have been a summary offense. I ended up having to get the DA involved to set them straight so they wouldn't ruin someone else's life.

Would you provide more information about the local police department and the "something?"

And how would it ruin someone's life if they thought that 'something' carried greater consequences than it actually did?

For example, if the police refer to "jaywalking" as "felony jaywalking," that doesn't actually make it a felony, nor does it mean that if someone jaywalks that they would have a felony on their record.

No?
This is the problem of interpretivelaw in the hands of a politically ductile interpreter. This is the same type of abuse around structure on political extradition that the United States Second Amendment (whether you agree with it philosophically or not) gets treated with. The plain, unambiguous English contextually tortured to confer that which it in no way does. The Interstate Commerce clause and regulatory mandate is perhaps a less controversial example where jurisprudence has recognized that the Federal Government can assert authority in ways completely counter to a straightforward reading of the law.

Words, statutes, and legal language are meaningless theater if all we do is lampshade or cast them aside when they are inconvenient or the first time they are found to be politically inconvenient or unpopular.

I weep for Justice. She's out in a dark alley somewhere in a dumpster while political expedience seems to win in the limelight lately.
Sure it is, I can run Skype and Web applications on the XBox, alongside plenty of other stuff on the store.
It seems to be the opposite at my house, not that I can do any actual numbers. We have more deer, tons of squirrels that we never saw growing up. Turkeys that didn't even exist in the state. Flocks of geese that land in fields like never before. We live in a very rural area but not a crop farming one, mostly just cows.
You're misremembering (or didn't follow far enough to get?) a few things.

The spice prolongs life, in a way they are unable to replicate or otherwise export production of. Production of the Spice also is devastating to the ecology of Arrakis (nee Dune). The natives haven't tamed the worms - but do co-exist with them. The Houses exploit both however, and the planet itself.

The guild navigators value is NOT they can perform computations machines cannot - it's NOT a complexity problem. Some spoilers so I will be oblique, but their ability is tied directly to what the Bene Gesserit are trying to breed. And to what Paul is/his abilities are. It's inherently an "organic"/meat-puppet power - as it is implied it's tied to forebears and progeny...

And finally, as noted, there is a deeply held proscription against "thinking machines" due to an... event. This actually isn't HUGELY relevant, but allows Herbert to eschew futorology in favor of his allegory.

The story's GREAT :)
(especially up to and including Book 4, which completes a full arc.)
This is why I never use anything but "1" as the first number in my go modules. The second number is the major (breaking changes) version field, and the third number is the minor field (non breaking changes).

These are just the kinds of things you put up with when writing go code and need to work around bad designs of the language and ecosystem.
I think about this aspect of the book all the time when I see kids (and increasingly adults) invested in games like Pokémon during our ongoing mass extinctions. The book doesn’t cover the intermediary steps between its barren world and our own, but it’s a pretty easy to draw a through line between the digital ecosystems we’ve built in the past 40 or so years and the synthetic life of Blade Runner.
That figures, depressing though.
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1983 calls back.
Depending on what you're doing, just use curl
The 'Electric Runway' concept pops up from time to time.
I'm not sure how developed it is, in the absence of large electric aircraft.
Midnight Commander is not covered by the "nostalgia clause" :-)
It's definitively the reference to COVID. Telling people to die from a preventable cause is conflicting with the rest of the message.
When widescreen LCDs were starting to replace 4:3 LCDs and CRTs, the screens were described as 720p, 1080i, etc. It wasn't until 4k was a thing that screens were described by their width instead of height.
If i had to retain one thing from SICP, it would be this from the preface of the first edition:

First, we want to establish the idea that a computer language is not just a way of getting a computer to perform operations but rather that it is a novel formal medium for expressing ideas about methodology. Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.
WWF: Natural world being destroyed at rate ‘never seen before’
Right, the shift away from X doesn't mean the death of using GUI apps remotely, it just means moving to a Remote Desktop model instead of telling apps that their render target is your X server through a tunnel.
> If you're staring at a 500nit screen at full brightness all day, you're probably not doing your eyes any good.

I'm kinda surprised how many people set their screens to 100 % brightness (300-400 nits for most screens) on their desktop. I find that blinding and very uncomfortable. That also seems to be a reason why people complain so much about IPS bleed and glow; using the screen near full brightness in a dark room for gaming or movies. Personally I find the "0 %" setting on some screens where that's around 50 nits too bright for that (ahem LG).
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At least for me, the short forms are hilarious and obnoxious. I can get an understanding of what 3840x2400 could mean in terms of aspect ratio and pixel density. But WQUXGA? I have to look that up.
> Disclaimer: I'm a sim game enthusiast and don't play any titles where the game designer can just change the gameplay mechanics and UI to work on screens with a low PPD.

I'm sorry but that sounds like pure snobbery. With the same PC running the game, and only changing the display, any game can be adapted to anything by changing gameplay mechanics and UI.
I'll repeat a comment I made on Reddit:

I was scanning the page trying to understand how you were doing positional tracking. Took me a while to realise that's what you mean by "Experimental room-scaling"

I'd suggest that this isn't the best wording. Call it "positional tracking" or "6DOF" or something.

The whole "room scale" thing was confusing at the start and isn't used much nowadays (Is seated 6DOF VR "room scale"? It's ambiguous and irrelevent for most purposes)

I'd also say that I think most people assume that being SteamVR compatibile implies having 6DOF tracking of head and hands. Most software simply won't work unless you have this. How experimental is experimental?
REDGPU is now an official Valve contractor
Very excited to try this, I've registered.
I cannot run it at the moment as it requires 10.15 or later. I am running Mojave and not planning to upgrade before Big Sur.
Why on earth would it be a good idea to classify highly important policy decisions that affects the rights of everyone?
Or Gnus.

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The ability to debug at a system level never goes away. I’m finding that the lessons I learned 20 years ago remain relevant, only the tools to gather and analyze the data have changed.
Yeah Cisco's FC products were pretty buggy. I preferred Brocade.

FC is solid generally once you've got it running, the protocol kinda ensures that.
Go has a bigger tooling problem. Build systems are hard, and Go has decided it doesn't want to be hard so it's ignored anything other than the "happy path". I wish other Go dependency tools still existed.
I really like the rain/thunder sounds, and the the drops on the window is pretty cool.

The background image is a bit too blurred and weird stuff happens when resizing the window to something that will fit in the corner of the screen.

It would be nice if there were a few different pictures to pick from.
I don't know... I don't think there's a strong business case or CSO case for ditching Amazon for ties to yhe US gov't.

What are the realistic odds that someone internally at Amazon is going to break into your instances to look at your data if you're just a regular business?

If you're in a German cloud, those risks are probably higher since your business has local competition, and if you're self-hosting, then your overall security risks are even higher.

This seems like a emotional choice, not based on realistic business or security sense.
The games that you are allowed to sideload are written with UWP, which is not what official XBox games use.

UWP runs in a sandbox castrated XBox environment.

> For games development, Xbox One, like other games consoles, is a specialized piece of hardware that requires a specific hardware-based development kit to access its full potential. If you are working on a game that requires access to the maximum potential of the Xbox One hardware, consider registering with the ID@Xbox program to get access to an Xbox One development kit.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/xbox-apps/syste...
I'm here for this. Zapier is super overpriced and IFTTT is hampered by its attempted "ease of use". As an individual, I need something in between, which hopefully IFTTT Pro is/will become.

The 3-applet limit is weak, though.
> The same sort of thing can be said for Remote Desktop. If you're using a version of Windows that includes it, it is wonderful to use because it is just there.

Doesn't every Windows include it? I can't remember the last time I used a version of Windows that didn't have it, it must have been 20 years ago.
>" It's not the ninties anymore... You can't hook something up to the internet, chuck it in your closet, forget about it for five years, and expect zero issues"

Ouch! This is just too bad. I suggest we go back.
1080p on 14" is high DPI. It's just not 250+ DPI high.
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Yes, I thought of it immediately. I've even officiated a funeral and tried to do the best I could to really actually speak for the dead. It was an experience.
I commented on the same problem. I am very eager to upgrade to Big Sur but I absolutely do not intend to run Catalina yet, so I'll stick to Mojave (10.14) for now.
I was working on a blood test startup when Theranos imploded. We spoke with a number of their top people about working with us. The truth was that while some of the Theranos team had valuable skills/connections (e.g. getting the devices deployed into retail), the entire saga had tainted their reputations and made it so difficult to raise capital for a legit device (we did two tests while Theranos claimed to do over 200 tests) to the point we couldn’t engage with any of them.
> Surrendering essential logistical infrastructure, ...

When all that happened, you can bet it wasn't as publicly visible as Alexander joining their board.
Python for the Absolute Beginner was very easy. Each chapter introduced a new concept (Ex: strings, variables, lists, iteration, branching, dictionaries, functions, file I/O, classes...etc) with a little text game (Ex: hangman). The writing is laid back and interesting. Once I read this I was able to start writing my own code with a little help using StackOverflow and it's been terrific for my career. There is no mathematical or computer science jargon to weigh you down. That can always come later. At this point programming is hard enough, but this book shows you all the building blocks and gives you some practice assembling things together.
One interesting thing I noticed is that this project ALSO doesn't seem to have a controller. You can't really play SteamVR games without at least one! (Issue #50)

You can grab a Samsung VR for very cheap, put a phone on it and do VirtualDesktop magic, but you are still gonna struggle without controllers. Same for Google Cardboard and other similar projects.

There's some very cheap controllers you can get, with base stations for tracking like the Nolo-Home, but they are still quite behind the tracking precision and latency of some "top-of-the-shelf" headsets.

It's an interesting idea and I hope the developments on it go forward, specially since the recent Facebook/Oculus announcement.
System resources for UWP apps and games on Xbox One
Can you explain to me your flippant mentality towards censorship? Is it just that you don't think that censorship will eat at your "team" over time, simply because your "team" is in a position to censor and hide frank and open discussion of topics, or is there something else going on?

I find it rather concerning that we have what appears to be a new generation of totally oblivious people stunted by the fear of hearing something that is not their favorite thing to hear. It simply does not end well … for ANYONE.
A kind of similar xkcd diagram of Earth's Land Mammals by Weight https://xkcd.com/1338/ - there's hardly any wild animals, comparatively.
> If someone is going faster than the speed limit they are breaking the law.

In some (many?) jurisdictions, posted speed limits are not absolute limits but are rather evidence for the judiciary to consider when deciding whether the driver was operating a motor vehicle faster than what was reasonable and proper. (Faster than reasonable and proper being the actual law that has possibly been broken.)

Removing judicial discretion in favor of zero-tolerance laws is a step in the wrong direction I believe.
This map suggests that Pompeii was well-connected by a major road to Salernum via Nuceria Alfaterna (Nocera), which is not surprising, given that Pompeii is between Salernum and Neapolis' metropolitan area on the north of the bay. The highest point on the pass is just 200m, at Cava Di' Tirreni, which is beyond Nuceria.

As Nuceria is closer, and on a flatter route, than even the death-trap of Herculaneum (2hr 40min vs. 3hr 10min, according to Google walking directions), let alone safety in Neapolis, this might well have been the last chance of escape.

http://www.naplesldm.com/romancampania.JPG
And the evidence for these considerations is what?