skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think I follow the argument about presidents vs. prime ministers. Empirically, the UK does have a strong two-party system, so to the extent that they're a comparable case (i.e. setting aside minor things like the history leading to SNP and Sinn Fein), that's a point against your argument.

In the US, we do in fact have parties that are dramatically different across state lines at the state level. This is changing a bit in the last few years, but it used to be only at the national level that the parties were internally homogenous. And even in Congress, except on the hot-button issues, there is some diversity across delegations from different states. Elizabeth Warren and Doug Jones are not the same.

The problem is, if you go to a prime minister (e.g., if Speaker of the House got the powers of the President), then the individual state elections effectively become the national election. Imagine that there are no parties, but you and your friends have a few billion dollars to throw around, and want to make sure that the Prime Speaker is Nancy Pelosi. You'll do that by supporting politicians who would vote for her (donating, but also organizing get-out-the-vote drives, etc. - campaign finance laws can't prevent this). If anyone new wants to enter politics, they'll want to take advantage of your machine, which means that if they're on the fence about a policy they'll default to agreeing with you to make sure you pick them, and oops now you've reinvented parties. It's just an inevitable consequence of two facts put together: (1) FPTP voting, and (2) campaign organization having economies of scale, both in terms of money and in terms of voter attention span.
People believe it looks expensive.
Thanks!

Yeah sorry, I used an instruction (last array element access with the a [-1] syntax) that was added on bash version >= 4.1 and macOS uses by default 3.2.
What you described is exactly what happened when you tried to execute the `search_alias` function on the macOS terminal.

Anyway, I just fixed it, check latest release :)
Then something blows on their face and they are completely lost, because they don't know what powers their code or the boilerplate magic that they generate to pretend to be Java for the JVM.

I have seen a couple of those guys, where I get called to sort out their problems.
Not Apple, but for accessory (esp. webcam) vendors virtual classes surge is definitely an opportunity.
Hi! Author here. If you hover over the individual bars, it will give you more detail like start/end month and total lifespan.
Tegra the chipset is supported by Nvidia, but even then they are not a paragon of cooperation with the Linux community. They have their own non-mainlined driver, while the mainlined one (tegra) is done by someone else.

They did contribute somewhat to the "tegra" driver at least.
> Like Pinot, Elasticsearch is a JVM-based database, and as such, does not support joins and its query execution runs at a higher memory cost.

What does the JVM have to do with joins?
> In practice it means that there exists JS VMs that outperform all of Ruby, Python, PHP, Perl, and almost all other dynamic programming language interpreter/VM out there.

Except for the various Lisp flavors that have really high speed implementations.
On The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/sep/14/tiktok-by...

On Reuters:
https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-autos/europe-br...
I think we as humanity will just keep on denying this is happening or that something can be done about it, until in a few (?) decades we'll agree that we're f*cked and that it is all to late and we must blame the people of the past for getting us there. That way we are never personally responsible, but can always look at someone else/some other time.
You cant play cubicle chess if you don’t have any pawns.
Before the thing came along we were starting to see shops popup in the UK selling loose items. You could take your containers and fill them with milk, rice, washing up liquid, etc. Some of the supermarkets have started experimenting with it.
The DG Nova in its day was a workhorse mini-computer. I worked with Bob McClure (Unidot) and built an "optimizing" C compiler that had surprisingly good performance. We ended up re-organizing the code generated so we could take advantage of the short offset and indirect addressing of the machine without adding extra instructions. Likewise, we used an unusual approach to managing stack frame addressing which was well suited to the DG Nova addressing.

The DG Nova hadware was simple largely because it was built in TTL and the ALU was a 74181. In the mid-1960's the final project in the logic design course was to design a DG Nova machine using TTL.
Moving industry offshore not only simply moved emissions around, it made things worse by adding aviation and shipping.

And to make things even worse, emissions from aviation and shipping are not attributed to any specific country. Talk about creative accounting.
It was one of the first sites I used even when I was learning the basics of Illustrator and InDesign techniques about 12 years ago. I still get their newsletter and check the site every so often, particularly when it comes to CSS techniques (as well as css-tricks).
Years ago I was switching my father from DOS to Windows. He was resisting learning about the computer. Not because he was stupid, he has a PhD from Harvard. He was busy trying to consolidate his understanding of 1000 years of English literature and move the field forward. He needed the computer to write with, and was willing to learn how to do that. Everything else was a distraction.
Anti-pattern: Jira as a (cross-team) communication tool
No idea why you were down voted. You are 100% correct.
Now with it on HN front page you have to think up something different.
U.S. Customs at JFK Seizes Counterfeit Apple Airpod Earbuds
Adam Curtis is a brilliant film maker. "Hypernormalisation" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fny99f8amM) and "Bitter Lake" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84P4dzow1Bw) are well worth watching too.
> TikTok was already going all in

"All in": What is the guarantee that their entire infrastructure will be on Google Cloud? You are assuming a lot about how their backend infrastructure is structured.

> was ready to go all in on with Google until Donald reiterated, publicly, his demand that the US "get a cut" of any deal

Define "all in". For me, all in is when the entire company gets bought out by Google.

> his friends/himself profiting are likely synonymous. His personal interest and the national interest are the same, in his mind.

Again, unsubstantiated claims a.k.a conspiracy theory.

The fact is that his net worth has actually fallen drastically: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-08-14/trump-s-n...

If his motive is enriching himself/friends that should reflect in his/friends net worth.
Hefur 1.0 BitTorrent Tracker adds support to BitTorrent version 2
I'm a bit of a typography buff, so just chiming in to say that there is nothing inherently wrong with ligatures in PDF!

As far as I understand, PDFs can be generated such that ligatures can be correctly cut'n'pasted from most PDF readers. I have seen PDFs where ligatures in links (ending in ”.fi”) cause problems, and I believe that's just an incorrectly generated PDF; ligatures done wrong.

Considering that PDF a programming language designed to draw stuff on paper, going backwards from the program back to clean data is not something that one should expect to always work.
Android 10 is so full of usability bugs. It always makes me think! I still cannot use my phone in a semi-automatic pattern after months. There are always notifications that cannot be dismissed, smartlock working randomly, etc.

Take AndroidAuto: the order of the icons always changes on the front screen. That is so stupid I have no words for it!!!

Google Drive: you have to scroll up to the top so that new items appear at the bottom of the list.

And so on ...
Google Cloud doesn't charge for egress to Google Drive as well. If you use GCP to transfer files to Google Drive via rclone, then you can download them elsewhere without any charges.
Thats not contested. That doesn't mean its wrong to disagree with and not support the way apple does things.
Has anyone?
Softbank paid $32B for ARM in 2016.

A 25% gain over a horizon of four years is not bad for your average investment -- but this isn't an average investment.

First, compared to the SP500, this underperforms over the same horizon (even compared to end of 2019 rather than the inflated prices right now).

Second, ARM's sector (semiconductors) has performed far, far better in that time. The PHOX (Philadelphia Semiconductor Index) doubled in the same time period.

And looking at AMD and NVIDIA, it feels as if ARM would have been in a position to benefit from the surrounding euphoria.

On the other hand, unless I'm misremembering, ARM back then was already considered massively overvalued precisely because it was such a prime takeover target, so perhaps its the $32B that are throwing me off here.
A house is physical property.

A phone holds intellectual property and digital information, perhaps belonging to other people. It's complex.

The comparison is overly simplified, I think.

For example, as soon as you subscribe to corporate email, your device is considered "managed" and can be remote wiped. I was surprised not to see this in the article.
Theoretically they do. Practically I couldn't even get an account last time I tried (a few months ago). It would attempt to charge my credit card a 1 dollar "check the payment is working fee" and fail (even though the charge was going through successfully).
> Itanium was an excellent idea that needed investment in compilers.

ISTR that Intel & HP spent well over a $billion on VLIW compiler R&D, with crickets to show for it all.

How much are you suggesting should be spent this time for a markedly different result?
And oil companies will double down on their lobbying to increase oil production and consumption since we're screwed anyways.
oops, sorry.
"Biomass" plants aka wood furnaces with a bit more marketing serve a political purpose. Renewables have an intermitence problem which will require a huge storage and peak load infrastructure solution to address it.

Until that problem is solved the "Biomass" wood furnaces and "Natural" Gas power plants serve the political purpose of allowing politicians to claim that they are ditching 'dirty' coal and 'dangerous' nuclear, those solutions will probably still create less CO2 emissions but they are by no means "green" or "eco" anything.

The problem with renewables is not power production but Power intermitence. Offshore wind farms can help but the scale of power that we consume will need a much deeper ground-breaking technical solution or a vastly greater power consumption reduction from consumers and industry, or both.
New technique promises less expensive, quickly-made optical fibers
If you are into movies, I recommend watching BURNED: Are trees the new coal? https://youtu.be/REXEs2bronM
I think an element of it is that you can have unambiguous questions with SQL, which taken to the extreme do fall into gotcha territory.

I was an interviewer for a business analyst & data science team recently and we needed to hire several analysts & data-scientists who had strong SQL skills because 90% of the data manipulation/processing used SQL. I was definitely aware that this limits who we hire, but we were very short-staffed and needed people so it was easiest for us to hire people who had a good understanding of SQL. That said, we did not care about syntax subtleties, just more if could you generally answer questions using SQL.

And for the data-scientist role there was a lot more than just SQL but it was a useful check.
Congrats, this is a beautiful website. Very well made. I love it.
The spec isn't, but you can make accessible PDFs. https://www.adobe.com/accessibility/pdf/pdf-accessibility-ov...

Accessible PDFs are also more easily machine readable.
Cool. I'm happy enough with it all, so that's me sorted.
The timing of the Fukushima nuclear disaster was so unfortunate.
> Oracle Corp. has spent five years and billions of dollars getting really good at following people around the internet. Six acquisitions reportedly totaling at least $3 billion since 2014

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-06/oracle-di...
Tracks 2.5.0 Released
Wow, but that cost - it's not a small thing to transition ISA, and don't forget that this transition is one of the simpler ones (more registers, fairly few devices). The risks of transitioning everything away from arm would be much greater.

I guess they have some ISA flexibility (which is remarkable). But not much; each transition was still a very special set of circumstances and a huge hurdle, I'm sure.
That's what work profiles are for. I'm fine with my company nuking the work profile on my phone. It fulfills infosec requirements while still respecting my ownership over my own device.
Communicating badly and then acting smug when you’re misunderstood is not cleverness.

— https://xkcd.com/169/
> Why not add the missing features you need to Pinephone? It just requires writing software.

No, it does not "just" require writing software.

- Potentially writing software and reverse engineering will allow me to message people on their required messaging platforms. Matrix is getting there. Maemo on Nokia N900 was excellent at this, but that was a different time; messaging has become more complicated since then.

But, though I'm a fine software engineer, it is not feasible to write software to provide all the features I defined as essential in a modern phone:

- No amount of writing software will allow me to access my bank account, which requires an Android or iOS app on an unjailbroken device to the best of my knowledge. No, a web browser does not work, it must be the app (crazy but true). Yes I could reverse engineer and crack the existing app to port it, but that would be foolish given the application.

As I said, I would love to be proven wrong on this.

Obviously I could switch banks, although that's not without its own difficulties and arguably if I have to switch banks, the new device doesn't meet my definition of a modern phone.

The problem is not a software-writing problem.

This is what I meant by Microsoft couldn't do it. Even though Windows phone was pretty good, it wasn't enough to be pretty good. It needed the essential apps that only 3rd parties could write, and not enough 3rd parties decided to write them. That was not in Microsofts locus of control, just as it isn't in mine.

Eventually things may change, if Pinephone and its relatives become more popular or if fashions change. But not at the moment. At the moment, if I got one I would need to carry two devices. (I had two Nokia N900s btw, I'm no stranger to open source phones.)
> Nobody wants to live there.

Nobody besides everyone I know... I (nor my friends or family) would never want to live in or close to a city. Let alone in a suburb; if in a city then the center.

But you are right; still, to pay a 2m mortgage, you do not need to be a millionaire. And for 2m I see nice stuff in Vienna.

> catch why cheap homes are cheap.

I live in such a home in southern eu and for me there is no catch. Huge garden, swimming pool, large villa for 130k. Always sunny, nature, no polution. Just not close (40min drive; probably faster than a lot of suburb-center commutes though) to a city, that’s a benefit, not a catch.
I thought they look funny (although not ugly) when they first came out. But other designs (e.g. round blob sticking out of earholes) are even worse, and convinience outweighs visibility.
The article is better than this discussion, quite sad. Anyways as with any huge societal shift, some people will be fit for this, and have been waiting for it for quite a long time, and others are ... not.
Moving things offshore can in some cases result in lower emissions.

For instance, it can be that the UK buying produce from warmer countries is lower emissions in total, because to grow much of it in the UK would require heated+lit greenhouses.
dune analytics gets close if i get what you are asking. they use rebase as the BI tool.
If by events you mean logs from eth ancillary services, that would be interesting to watch and hard to get.
Seven, billions, ups.

I play (tabletop) RPGs online, we use a simple, free rule system (Tiny Six) and any time that I have to copypaste a specific paragraph of the rules in chat I always discover that there are missing characters (so I have to reread the block and fix it, ... in the end it would be faster to just read it aloud in voice).

Same might happen with scene or room descriptions taken from modules etc.
Bacteria should rejoy: friends in Mars & Venus, possibly Titan!
Why are you unable to merge your changes upstream?
I'm not doubting TikTok's own value, I'm questioning the assertion that owning TikTok will have reputational benefits for Oracle as a cloud hosting provider.
What is the catch here? That seems good enough to run most things on.
> 1. I think many public sector organizations in Europe lack basic knowledge of FOSS and have IT managers that don't even know what it is.

Confirmed. Source: I teach these topics in University, including in post graduate courses for public officials, and most of the students don't have a clue of what OSS means (the whole words), and don't even realize why the F matters. I usually explain what source code is, and from there all they way down to that F.

I am deeply convinced that one, if not the the most, worrying problem of our times is a general lack of proper education in all levels of societies, except for a small portion of the population.
This is one of the main reasons I have migrated to Rust for most new projects to be honest. I've been a big fan of Swift for years in terms of the balance it strikes between expressiveness and safety/correctness. But the way that function builders and property wrappers were somewhat hamfistedly jammed into the language to support SwiftUI has been a big turnoff. Previous iterations seemed like they had a very clear intentionality and priority around preserving the clarity of the language, but I'm less confident about the direction the language is currently taking in that respect.

Also the relative fragility of large swift projects with multiple dependencies has been a recurring frustration. It's been refreshing to work with Cargo, and not have to worry about doing surgery on a project every time a language update is released.
Utopia for Realists
It really goes to show the psychological game China is playing and winning. Establish a brand and people won't even think that you might be violating IP. Actually Western companies are just as guilty of shameless appropriation and getting away with it by having more clout and better lawyers than the people who invented them.
Technology choices during hyper growth
There is also the possibility of a constitution convention, where many amendments could be proposed and adopted in a short period.

I think most people consider this a very risky move.
Related documentary about how modern technologies aid archaeology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpK8fpqPJT0
Native for what platform? Are you on Windows, MacOS, Linux, BSD, iOS, iPadOS, Android, etc. ?
I actually never heard the word "curry" used to describe those dishes until I started living in foreign countries. In casual Hindi conversation they would just be called by the individual item's name; especially because most Indian dishes are named literally after their primary ingredients [1]. The closest generic word for them is probably sabzi (literally "vegetables"), but I'm not sure what you'd use for non-vegetarian curries and if there's a generic word that encompasses both veg and non-veg curries.

[1]: Palak paneer = palak (spinach) + paneer (cottage cheese); chana masala = chana (garbanzo beans) + masala (spice); matar paneer = matar (peas) + paneer; aloo gobi = aloo (potato) + gobi (cauliflower); and so on.
> is even more socio-economic stratifying.

Is there data to suggest that? Public schools are generally very good about providing a variety of extra-curricular activities to keep students focused upon athletic and scholarly activities outside the classroom if the student is willing to participate. Contrast those tax funded and faculty lead activities to private tutors and rigorous SAT practice that is almost exclusively limited to families with the personal financies to afford such.

> It largely feels like an excuse to lower the competitive bar to manage the demographics

I can certainly empathize with that. Wealthy households had an advantage with private tutors and timely dedicated/forced test preparation activities. Now that advantage has evaporated so that wealthy students are now less exclusively advantaged, or in other words the bar of entry has lowered to wider availability.
ByteDance won't sell TikTok U.S. operations to Oracle or Microsoft: CGTN
This was from 2018...
Exactly. Apple’s strategy here is very clear:

Offer customers iOS apps and games on the next MacBook as a straight swap for Boot Camp and Parallels. Once they’ve moved everyone over to their own chips and brought back Rosetta and U/Bs they’re essentially free to replace whatever they like at the architecture level.

In their reveal I noticed that they only mentioned ARM binaries running in virtual environments. It makes sense if you don’t want to commit to supporting GNU tools natively on your devices (as it would mean sticking with an established ISA)
> PS: I believe (also need to test) that on models with T2 chip you can boot linux but you can't access the internal SSD then. This is really one of those things where I'd want to see an override.

Thats a bummer if true, I'm still kicking around on a 2013 MBP thats been a really reliable work machine for a long time now but I've been considering a replacement soon.
Is there a good library for decoding the object tree in a PDF document?
Blockchain Media and Social Media Companies to Know
Yeah, you don't need to be a millionaire for a 2m mortgage but you need at least a six figure salary which is nearly unattainable here, especially as an expat.

Yeah, you have swimming pools, but if you live in the cheap areas in Austria that you pointed out you compromise with underfunded infrastructure and public services(shit internet, shit infrastructure, shit schools for your kids without good teachers, almost no doctors, too far from the nearest hospital with specialists, etc.).

Do you know why? Because all good doctors and teachers move to or next to cities with opportunities, not in the middle of nowhere. That's why nobody wants to live there.
You'd also need to account for the time it'd take to set up and learn to use a Wacom tablet though, which is likely longer than the time it'd take to tape a pencil and a CD to a laptop. This just shows the Wacom tablet is even more expensive.
Ehm I think the lecturer, by their own account must be a Gen X. As an GenX myself I can confirm this attitude - everything’s wrong, everyone has a price - is typical of our hatch. For some reason, maybe TINA, the social traumas of the ‘80s we unwittingly absorbed, or the repression during the NoGlobal protests (Genova G8), turned us into these Grungy, navel-grazing, it-won’t-matter-anyway beat-downs.

We are the last generation that grew up expecting education to fulfill our mission, only to realize it was just a way to keep us off the unemployment stats, while the market just wants good janitors.