skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The people collecting now paid in at 6-10%, I'm paying out to them at 15%. They also paid no health insurance premiums on the come up, I've paid them since I was 22 without needing to use them. Also made it illegal to not pay into the fraud for a bit.

Evil ol' bastards.
They can fuck off and die already.
Thanks, I meant "Quest 2" - I only kept my Oculus Go for 1 week, then gave it to my grandson. I get a lot of value from my Oculus Quest which I bought last year.
I understand the general sentiment here, and don't disagree. But I think ultimately this is about dollars.

There is a LOT of money in the government defense sector. AWS is in an excellent position to capture a lot of that money, but their primary competitor in this space, Microsoft, has been preventing a complete domination and monopoly by Amazon.

With Alexander on the board, this will ultimately lead to different/better insights for how Amazon positions itself in this government sector. Alexander can bring a ton of value, just with his contacts and networking alone, let alone the insight into how security and data operations work in the intelligence community.

Ultimately, this isn't a step towards more government surveillance. The government can't coerce Amazon any more with Alexander on the board or not; the rules are still the same. This is fundamentally about Amazon's desire to get in on the lucrative big dollar contracts that would otherwise end up going to traditional defense contractors like Lockheed, Boeing, Northrop.
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It would become a failure if the problems are not going to be addressed. Discovering problems is why one runs tests after all.
Probably YT algorithm fall into a local maximum where it detected that X is enraging enough, then creators notice that the X is popular and they start putting more X, then the algorithm is putting more weight behind X and you are now stuck here.
Luckily we were able to discuss it further and clear up some of the confusion.

> The problem with the argument is, well, why doesn't this apply to everything? Massive changes happen all the time in the world, and anything could be a disaster if our only standard for "could" is lack of knowledge that it won't be. If someone said "we need to focus our global efforts on stone-faced office buildings, because humanity might go extinct if we keep building so many all-glass ones", we'd demand more than a lack of evidence.

I can't think of any comparible examples where human activity is known to be causing massive problems... Various forms of pollution maybe? But I would argue for action there too.
I must say that python3.8 does a better job detecting not awaited awaitables.

Anyway,asyncio it's not new to python, the stdlib still has asyncore in it. There are still awesome web servers around (threaded) but using "asyncio" on the main thread. ZServer, medusa (look at what powers supervisor for example).

The file io thing it's still a pain, but same happens on node side.. but seems there is in the way something that will fix it.
> which i think is pretty unusual these days.

You have absolutely no basis for thinking this.
It sounds like you’re making excuses for the world as it is. The OP is right though.

These aren’t things we have to live with just because Steven Pinker said the world is better off now than before... We are in control of our environment to a certain extent and have the capability of transforming it into something other than an isle of cheap meats under florescent lighting. We are capable of ending systemic violence and homelessness, since they are things we collectively allow to exist each day. We can get rid of cars and build more beautiful cities!
>But, for someone outside USA or China; there's absolutely no difference between U.S. tech or Chinese Tech w.r.t Privacy, what U.S. does privately, China does openly and that's not limited to just spying.

Maybe for someone outside the US and China who doesn't travel and never intends on traveling. On the flip side if you ever plan on visiting either country there is a pacific-ocean sized gap in what you'll face visiting the two countries. I can't recall the last time someone was "disappeared" for criticizing Trump on twitter. The same can't be said for those who criticize Xi on Weibo.
It’s not preventable without harming other people as a result. My point was about unsustainable measures and that is definitely true. Sure, try to prevent getting COVID, but if that involves to harm other people, which it currently does, then you have zero support from me. If people die then at least they should die because of how nature intended us to die, which is from old age and becoming unhealthy. People should not die from being young and hungry which is exactly what the current response to COVID does.
> They could be in a phased array

So could any other type of antenna, basically. It doesn't have to be a dipole, though.

> or in the center of a parabolic reflector

Based on the images, that's not what happens here

> There is no possible way to increase on efficiency in a passive antenna.

That is absolute horseshit. Large dipole arrays will suffer from high mutual coupling which could drastically reduce performance (depending on design choices). Different antenna types might be more suitable for different scenarios, but that's why I would like EmRod to explain their choices.

Furthermore, a rectenna gives you DC power out, but why would EmRod want this?
Yah I replied to you. :P
>Large binaries are slow binaries.

False. Loop unrolling is always faster.
Does it really matter for gaming?
Bladerunner 2049 was completely bifurcated.

I thought the first half was magnificent. The scene with Ryan Gosling having the intimate moment with the hologram made me weep, it was so sad because that’s all he could get.

The movie became terrible once Harrison Ford was introduced and kept diving. Everything about it was horrible. The scene in the water looked like a sound stage. Absolutely terrible.
> I never once had a browser crash on me in the nineties.

IE5-6 were a crashfest.
Someone should take care of it, but doesn't seem like a trivial problem.. btw, I also will be so happy to be able to reuse part of twisted core on asyncio services :)
I guess you could say I'm wanting more enforcement/prosecution, not necessarily more physical police presence. One could make the case that the reason more policing was advocated/promoted in the first place and grew to this level was because we had a problem of enforcement and conviction.

Better and more automated enforcement might reduce the amount of police we want/need and the amount of police interactions we have as well. The quicker we get there, the quicker we can actually decide which laws are non-sense and perhaps just require fines instead of physical jail time.

Imagine a hypothetical perfect scenario whereby we have a non-corruptible AI that watches security-camera footage that is next to ubiquitous in public areas. Suppose it has really good facial recognition capabilities too and can clearly detect + see who committed an assault/rape/murder. Have a bit of "manual" vetting by prosecutors (add double-blind + other steps to prevent bias) before proceeding, and voila you have N-amount less need of having police patrolling around to "deal" with this specific crime that can be automatically picked up.

Even being able to automatically pick up on a murder/assault/rape happening and automatically and immediately dispatching police can save lives, so many lives. Just this simple scenario is one that should be so powerful to convince people of the benefits, yet hypothetical "big brother", "privacy" and "potential abuse" counter-arguments are somehow more important than peoples' lives.
IMO it would also be perfectly fine if Facebook wasn't running any EU servers, was solely a US company, all use by EU users intrinsically sent data to the US, and were protected (or not) by US law. That would actually be the "borderless Internet". But that is not how they've set things up.
Sending you kind wishes!
We have up to 1Gbps 4G speeds in the city centre. But I just got 68 Mbps on the iPhone indoors (via fast.com).

The wifi router is just the cheap one that the ISP gave us. When I went next to it just now, it reached 330Mbps (also on fast.com via the iPhone's wifi).

Why main complaint is the latency of the wifi when we are in a different part of the flat, ie through a wall. I suspect there might be some packet loss and then tcp adds a few round-trips to resend packages and the congestion control reduces the amount of data sent or something like that.
Remember when 99% of laptops priced around $800 or lower were automatically doomed with a 1024x768 screen - and to get a higher resolution you'd be paying at least 300-400 more?

Yeeks.
This is a fantastic explanation ookdatnog. Thank you -- if you have a blog would post this up! More people should see this :)
Depends largely on the state of code caches, microcode and bus structure. Loop unrolling can be the worst thing you can do, on some architectures.

See, the hardware folks have listened in on the compiler people and their problems. They've done things like identify loops and rewritten them in microcode for optimization. If a short loop can fit entirely within the CPU code buffer, speed goes way up. Unroll the loop and blow the CPU code buffer, defeat the optimization and lose all that.
> There's no way I would give that up and go to something with more reasonable defaults but which is much more limited in customization capabilities and which lacks a Lisp ecosystem which has been improved by thousands of people for many decades.

You do know that there is a middle ground, right? Emacs itself could come with reasonable defaults.

You'd still be able to customize it (after all, you probably did) and all the newbies wouldn't have to read about 80's computing arcana to figure out how to split a window.
There is a transliteration of the Voynich text at [1]. I have no way to judge how complete or accurate it is, but it appears to be a useful piece of work.

[1] http://www.voynich.nu/transcr.html
Or potentially aria-role="presentation"

aria-hidden="true" will make the element completely invisible to the screen reader software, whereas setting aria-role will tell the screen reader "hey there is something here but it's job is purely aesthetic", and then the screen reader can determine what it wants to do with it.
I think the instrumenting and generator stuff gets disproportionate attention. For me by far the biggest win from spec has been with parsing. This completely changes how you'd write a library that takes a data structure and parses it into something meaningful (for example, what hiccup does for html or what honeysql does for sql).

In the past, this required a lot of very ugly parsing code and manual error-checking. With spec, you write specs and call s/conform. If it failed, you get a nice error, especially if you pair it with expound. If it succeeded, you get a destructured value that is really easy to pull data out of. I've done this in a half dozen different libraries and i'm pretty sure i wouldn't have even written them without spec.
Apple makes sure an app cannot get data outside its sandbox without your permission, but it has no control over what the app does with its own data. For example, I've backed up and synced data with a server on iOS apps without needing any special permission from Apple or infringing AppStore policies.

What you're describing here is not really related to the App Store policies but your trust on the Apple apps themselves.
The article hints at it:

> [Mindy] Mechanic is an expert on the psychosocial consequences of trauma, with a focus on violence against women, and often provides expert testimony in cases involving “interpersonal violence,” according to her faculty profile on the school’s website.
We now have 400 paying subscribers
It took us 364 days to reach the first 100 subscribers, and we've now gone from 100 to 400 in 120 days. We went from 300 to 400 subscribers in 15 days. Crazy and unbelievable! Thank you all for your support!

Here's what we added to the product over the last month:

Better neural translation engine. We replaced the cheaper and more outdated machine translation provider with a more up to date and more expensive neural machine translator. The result: +50% in translation quality at no cost increase to our users.

Better Glossary and Trademark consistency. This online tool allows website owners to instruct machine translators to pre-translate their reserved words such as Trademarks and Company names in the same way in every language. This way there will be no funny mistranslations or inconsistencies.

Many other minor changes such as WordPress 5.5 support, but fixes as described in our changelog.
Well, I'm glad I live in a saner jurisdiction.
Producing the same amount of power using coal has even worse toll on the ecosystem.
> The result is dismal, we dread using it because it’s very unreliable, and it costs double or triple what GCP costs.

I'll be honest - you guys need to find a new technology partner then. Creating a private cloud that's reliable and offers the basic services that the major providers have is not difficult in 2020. Some of the aaS stuff can get tricky but is still entirely do-able.

Regardless, if they found a way to make your infrastructure MORE expensive than the public clouds they either have no idea how to negotiate or are really, really bad at their jobs. The public cloud is a lot of things - but cheap isn't one of them.
It sounds like they only took the premise of The Metamorphosis and didn't try to apply the themes to the gameplay.
Yes, there are many GUI Emacs fans on #emacs, and one of them obviously happened to set up this bot message. But not everyone agrees that GUI Emacs is better.

Though terminals definitely have their quirks and limitations, they have some advantages over GUI Emacs.

For example, I have my Emacs configuration geared towards terminal use, and use it from within tmux. Because of this I never have to fear losing my Emacs session because X froze or crashed (which has happened from time to time). I can also use Emacs configured the way I like it even before X has started, and on remote systems without X (for which I don't like to use TRAMP mode because it also has the potential to freeze up).

By running Emacs in a terminal under tmux, I also don't have to mentally context-switch between the terminal and a separate GUI Emacs session. I have not been satisfied with any of Emacs' terminal modes, tough I have heard that libvterm is a lot better, so I might give it another go, though even if it's great at terminal emulation there are some other issues with running a terminal from within Emacs which may be insurmountable[1]... which leads me to the next point...

With Emacs running under tmux in a terminal rather than the other way around, I never have to fear losing all of my terminal sessions when Emacs freezes or crashes (which has also happened from time to time). By contrast, tmux is super stable, and I've never once had it freeze or crash, so I can 100% rely on it to keep my terminal sessions running no matter what.

[1] - Running a terminal under Emacs (even if it's a proper terminal like libvterm) has the issue of conflicting keybindings. I already have both Emacs keybindings and tmux keybindings that I have to make sure don't conflict, but if I add to those keybindings for any app I happen to run under a terminal under Emacs then there are bound to be way more conflicts. Of course, it's possible to require some extra keystroke to be pressed before sending on a raw keystroke to the terminal app, but that's just too painful for me to bother with except maybe under special circumstances. In the general case I prefer to have my shells running directly under tmux than in an Emacs terminal.
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Colloquially, “high DPI” has a fairly specific meaning: it means “designed to be used with a scaling factor of at least 2 (and definitely uncomfortable to use below a scaling factor of 1.5)”. 1920×1080 on 14″ does not meet this definition.

And when it’s capitalised, High DPI, as it was in the parent comment, it’s definitely referring to this definition.

Back in the days when 1366×768 and 1280×800 were common sorts of resolutions and 1920×1080 was the highest available (that is, before Apple’s Retina displays), perhaps you could have said 1920×1080 was “high DPI”, but people didn’t use the term “high DPI” back then. And certainly not “High DPI”.
The elephant in the room is (non-free) drivers/compilers

You can lose 90% of theoretical performance due to code quality and (especially in a laptop) thermals.
> *Anmerkung der Redaktion: In einer früheren Fassung hieß es, der Bund habe wegen vermeintlicher Kapazitätsprobleme der Mobilfunknetze und aus Datenschutzgründen Abstand von einem Cell-Broadcast-System genommen. Das Bundesamt für Bevölkerungsschutz und Katastrophenhilfe hat diese Antwort nachträglich korrigiert

They basically revoked this comment about capacity. The new reason is that mobile service providers don't offer this type of broadcast in Germany and that it's checked whether this can be implemented in the future.
Having also learned in passing about various historical soaps and that phone mounted ring lighting is a thing, so far the funniest "areyouok" to me has been the one chock full of inscrutable foreigners wearing their culture's traditional outfits to perform folkloric rituals that ethnographers say date back to the Warring Ranchers period:

https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzE4NTMyNjkyNA==.html

(I hope those CBP arena ads are PSAs, not paid placement.)

Seemingly all but syntactically unrelated:
https://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMzcxNjAwNDgyNA==.html
Engineering new biomes for fun is different than having to do it every year or you die.

What do you do when seasonal heat makes Pakistan and India uninhabitable for large parts of the year? We're not prepared for that kind of migration, we didn't even deal with Syria well.

Farming and other activities often require decades to truly show a profit. When rainfall patterns are changing on short timescales, you will not be able to plan for food production given the underlying churn in fertile locations.
I'm an engineering manager with 10 reports.

What's worked for me is 1-on-1 meetings with each team member each week. We set strategy for high level goals (e.g. a quarterly software release), measure progress, and I let them know about work other folks are doing that is related. I trust them to use slack/email/phone to get the work the done, and I don't closely monitor those channels.

Doing 1-on-1s is a lot of meetings, but I don't think as a manager you can avoid that work and still move effectively towards a larger common goal. Eventually though, a lot of people learn to execute more complex and valuable work, they get promoted, and then we meet less. But then there's hiring. The cycle continues.

I'd be interested to know how folks who have 2 layers of reports learned to work effectively with that size setup.
Same here. Everything is much cleaner than 40 years back. Less garbage everywhere, cleaner water you can actually eat the fish out of or swim in.

There has been lots of progress.
Of course we deserve to be OK. Every species* deserves to be OK and every species fights to be OK. We have a lot of work to do to make sure we don't ruin our "host," but the fact that we are aware of the problem already--to me--says a lot about our desire to give up some comforts for a greater good. I think as a species we're always just doing the best we think we (collectively) can do at any given time. Some individuals will do better than others, but I think on average we are improving.

* except mosquitoes
That’s fair. I don’t have a decent explanation supporting why REST is a meaningful concept. Rather, I focused on the other questions that could be answered by the dissertation.

The choice to create an API in this fashion, without RPC and other things mixed in, is up to the developer. Others have commented on this with their arguments.
My son is now 26 and I wonder if the environment will make it to the end of his life. I hope it does. And I hope, that lacking any substantive change in how humans behave, that he and his GF opt out of kids, because I'm certain they would live to see the world fall apart (probably not end in a literal sense, but it's going to get ugly).
https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protectio...

> You may not rely on silence, inactivity, default settings, pre-ticked boxes or your general terms and conditions, or seek to take advantage of inertia, inattention or default bias in any other way. All of these methods also involve ambiguity – and for consent to be valid it must be both unambiguous and affirmative. It must be clear that the individual deliberately and actively chose to consent
From what I read here:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/57489844/how-does-readio...

IORef does not allow a value to mutate, it allows a pointer to a value to mutate.

Am I correct?

Does the ST Monad work in the same way? or does it truly allow values to be updated in place?