skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Forget about StartPage:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21371577

Startpage is now owned by an advertising company (reddit.com)

182 points by rahuldottech 10 months ago | 82 comments
> or to perform “impossible” operations, like division by 1.

This looks like a mistake.
It's not acceptable. I don't understand how it's not widely known, nor how it's gone seven years without a fix.

I wouldn't go so far as to say Time Machine/Time Capsule is useless, but it does have this severe sharp edge. So you need to have a plan for storing/migrating your passwords separately from the Local Items keychain.

Me, I took this as an excuse to switch to Firefox as my primary browser, and then I used one of those AppleScripts to migrate all my old passwords (thankfully, I still had my old computer).
There are some reasons for chosing OpenBSD, and it does make a quite capable desktop. It still lacks the "just works" approach of Linux distributions like Mint, and the performance of lean distros like Debian.

That being said, OpenBSD has an excellent installer, amazing docs, and I did run it as a desktop for a while. Went back to Linux because I wanted to play Dwarf Fortress natively of all things. Things don't neccesarily work better with Linux, but I definitely spend less time tinkering now. Which could be a good or a bad thing depending on whom you ask.
Sadly, I don't think it's even possible to buy consumer SLC drives these days.
I’m surprised I did not see a discussion of whether such behavior can be considered unethical. In my own simplified view, there is a dishonesty in the behavior described. Building strategies in pursuit of self-interest rather than developing a product, helping people grow their skills, and, as someone in the comments mentioned, doing it all without saying it.. feels unethical to me. I personally find a lot of solace in the fact that unethical people live in fear of having their positions be compromised or attacked. Is the money trade-off worth it, this fearful, insecure life?
This is awesome! will check it out
All in vain, down the drain!
I think you are loosing a lot of potential customers by forcing everyone to commit up front.
Rather interestingly, despite obviously having a bank of large capacitors and conspicuous advertising of power loss protection, the firmware on that drive identifies it to the host system as having a volatile write cache.
The problem with an email loop is it has no visibility to newcomers.

If you create a channel for a particular topic, then when someone new joins the team, you can point them to that channel to catch up.
Amnesty International to halt India operations
Preceding comment like this with OT goes a long way.
I run a russian-english/russian-german Open Data dictionary, https://openrussian.org
The look was superficial, sure: For someone moving from Win2K to XP, this was not the main frustration, but a easily recognizable sign for the myriad other issues (note: original XP, XPsp2 was the release that should have been).

(We did some printing. In the range of 1M pages/workstation. It...worked...on XP. Eventually.)
Sweden didn't deter people from going to the hospitals. That's what happened in places like the UK, where the government literally told people to "protect the NHS", and the UK has consequently had one of the highest death rates in Europe.

but Swedden still had much more people killed than their twin country Norway.

So what? Zero deaths was not ever a goal of lockdowns, and cannot have been because there's no logical way to get from that policy to that outcome. You've done what lockdown advocates always do when Sweden comes up: not just shift the goalposts but move them entirely out of the field.

At any rate, Norway may simply have not had the disease spread through the population yet, or they may have just got lucky - seasonal flu always hits some countries and not others for unexplained reasons. It doesn't ultimately matter. Sweden disproved epidemiological models, and thus the actions taken on their basis were not justified.

As for physicians, luckily the opinion of a doctor here or there is not sufficient to change actual data or observed reality. Fortunately most doctors are sensible: there are plenty who have been outspoken against lockdown precisely because it emptied the hospitals and clinics leaving them with a huge backlog of patients who they could have saved but now cannot.
Even more, the ultimate geek will run those Sierra and Lucasarts games on ScummVM (or DOSBox) using Roland MT-32 emulation for enhanced music! (research on forums or Youtube). Pretty neat
A DuckDuckGo feature I’d love to see is for multiple bangs to open new browser tabs, e.g.

hoverboard !as !gs !target !walmart

would open separate tabs of “hoverboard” results from Amazon Smile, Google Shopping, Target.com, and Walmart.com.
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The question then is why lockdowns were based on this model? Sweden demonstrated that it wasn't needed. Why are we still listening to Neil Ferguson when his track record is absolutely abysmal?
Renkel are you behind this?
It's cool, but looks like a clone to me (i.e. APIs)..
To be fair, map/filter wasn't so popular like now when C# 3.0 (released in 2008) was designed.
Wow it is amazing! You have to try it!
Web APIs for Dual Screen and Foldable Devices
We use pm2 to deploy Node.js code. I like this mostly due to it's capistrano style process. Also rollback is much easier.

https://pm2.io/docs/runtime/guide/easy-deploy-with-ssh/
>- It's as annoyingly verbose as Java is; I just get lost looking at all the tags (the namespaces don't help)

I guess if you take the effort to make it as annoyingly verbose it is, but in regards to namespaces for example Joe English's email on the psychopathologies of namespace usage http://www.flightlab.com/~joe/sgml/sanity.txt if followed for best practices also has the side effect of reducing much potential verbosity.
> a disastrous episode with DropBox while travelling in foreign countries nearly a decade ago

What was that? They cut your access because you logged from a different IP?
I'll believe it when I see it. What does "easier" even mean? That it requires 4 steps instead of 5?
Love the concept. Been looking for couchsurfing for remote work for a while now. Would love to try it out as travel restrictions ease up.
This thing where you are supposed to take satisfaction from looking at a "chain" of repeated tasks on your calendar and feeling so bad for "breaking" the streak that you'll keep doing it. There are quite a few out there.

The effect on me is typically to increase my self-loathing when inevitably the chain breaks, and the feeling of "oh no, doing it all again will take so long!" discourages from picking myself up.
This argument is my pet pieve. Whether it's about companies, governments, statistics, public debate: when you're dealing with large numbers of users/clients/citizens, a percent is still going to be a giant number of people! New Yorks population is also under a percent of the US total but were not shutting down any service over it! Large groups have large numbers of outliers! We support the blind and people in wheelchairs not because they're numerous enough, but because we care about including them.

This is statistical illiteracy that even smart people continuously use. It is absolutely wrong!
Yes, they were called “home economics classes” (or “home ec” for short). They were snobbishly looked down upon by anyone college bound when I went to high school, which is unfortunate.

They literally taught sewing, cooking, balancing a checkbook and budgeting, child care, basic auto mechanics, and some welding iirc. These are all super useful life skills and the sad part is that all of us brilliant geniuses that went on to college never got the equivalent covered.
It may be a bit of both, but indeed from anecdotal evidence starting a company in the UK and in the Netherlands: A lot of things are set up with less thrust in the UK. As a simple example in the Netherlands if you reclaim VAT as a company tax services just gives you the money and checks later (obviously you need to give it back if it wasn't correct). In the UK you'll need to show invoices, proof etc before HMRC pays you.

Similar for insurance, car insurance in many European countries is done in 1 minute online just an update to a database. In the UK you need a sticker on your car, people that check the stickers etc.
> you only have one system copy of any given library

This is clearly not true. Libraries are versioned and one can have unlimited versions installed. Applications can link to the most specific or most generic version desired.
That's the kind of non-answer that you posted before. Without context, blah blah blah. Fine, put them in a context that doesn't make them misandry. You can't because they are.

As for you being a white man and thinking it's true, Obama and Biden are men and also obviously think it's true - or calculate that it's politically beneficial to say it. It's still hating men: yes Dorothy, men can be misandrists. Plenty of irrational people in the world.
Nothing of what you said helps on the issue of job training. The undergrad program in the US is designed to be broad, because this is what the wealthy classes of the 19th century and early 20th century wanted in order to distinguish themselves from the poor. This is not ideal for people who need the university degree to get into the job market.
I interviewed at Uber a few year ago, pre-IPO (bullet dodged!). Their pitch, from a senior VP, was all about self-driving, even though I wasn't even looking at a self-driving role. But at the time, it struck me as a complete farce that this company that made its success by replacing cab drivers, was trying to convince me that it's actual success would come from them cracking a problem they hadn't cracked, which no one had cracked, which was not even close to being proven feasible.

Somehow they felt that they would simply "be the world's transportation" (their stated goal) based on a completely unproven technology.
it works for me using right click and drag the object on the left to the canvas. I am using firefox on mac.
> Try as hard as possible to avoid meetings

Yes, but

> use textual IM instead

...please no, first try to figure out if you really need someone else's input at all to make a decision and after that if that input is needed immediately, if yes you should have requested that information a few days ago already. If no, send an email and don't expect an answer before the next workday. Otherwise you just interrupted someone else's work the same way a meeting would, and that should be reserved for emergencies.
A bit further back, there was the IT worker who secretly outsourced his own work: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21043693
It reminds me of the old Eureqa software [1], which I used almost 10 years ago in some research work. It got bought out by a company and kind of shut down, so it's nice to see alternatives. Since then some good packages like gplearn have emerged [2], what are you offering that it cannot do?

As a side note if I were you I would be a lot more selective about what you put in your blog, because your post on the inadequacy of neural networks is a bit embarrassing, and paints a pretty bad picture of your own tool.

[1] https://www.creativemachineslab.com/eureqa.html

[2] https://gplearn.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
So how are you defining Utopia?

What makes us reach the singularity that creates Utopia at the expense of people being miserable?

Not a lot of money and self-respect in working min wage/dead end jobs. Plenty of people out on the streets who can’t even get a job.

Not sure what you think Utopia is, but I fail to see how another century of a hard world that hurts people gets us there.
Surely this calculation is incomplete without considering depreciation. Also, it makes sense to consider a portion of the cost of the insurance, maintenance, etc. towards the vehicle cost.
A woman approaches Yves Saint Laurent, "Oh Yves, I must have a unique hat for tonights' gala".

The master seats her, grabs a bunch of ribbons and proceeds to drape her hair in what turns out to be an extremely nice and harmonic creation, and all that in the space of 30 minutes.

The woman is ecstatic: "Oh Yves, I knew you would come through, how much do I owe you?"

"That will be 10,000 Francs"

"10,000 Francs? For 30 minutes?"

Without a word the couturier unwinds the ribbons, spools them up nicely and hands the spools to the lady. "The ribbon you get for free.".
This kind of noise on a laptop isn't normal. You may benefit from disassembling the laptop, removing any dust you find and reapplying thermal paste on the CPU.

There are countless tutorial on YT, even if you don't find your specific laptop model it will be close enough.
India is way too different with any other modern society. Things in there can't become a global trend, and the global trend won't affect them.
From the study: (TRE = time-restricted eating)

> There was a significant decrease in weight in the TRE (−0.94 kg; 95% CI, −1.68 to −0.20; P = .01)
"why are they spending so much time on guillotine web sites"?
Tridactyl can't use the bookmarks suggested above but you can do something similar with `:set searchurls.hn https://hn.algolia.com/?q=%s`.
It's too easy to produce some abhorrent XML if you don't put much thought into it, straight from tables and objects. And then people are surprised that what they see is revolting, hard to work with and reason about.
These posts are absurd, it's like we aren't speaking the same language. How did you get like this?

Sexism means discrimination on the basis of sex. Stating the next SC justice isn't allowed to be a man is sexism. That is undeniably a correct statement.

Now, you believe sexism against men is justified. You should own that and just admit you're deeply sexist, you're engaging in misandry and female supremacy and you're happy about that. Don't try and alter the English language to pretend that isn't your position: own it.

But I don't know if you will be able to, as you're not only distorting the language around the word sexism. Biden isn't "pointing out" a lack of representation. He isn't a passive observer merely remarking on a phenomenon. He's stated very clearly that he should be the guy to pick and he will not pick a man or a white person under any circumstances. That's not "pointing out" - it's active sexual discrimination against men and whites.

Again, own it if you like. Say you're a sexist and you think it's justified, you wish it weren't illegal because men should lose by default. But don't try and claim that statements like "men are better than women" isn't sexism.
The Apple/Epic hearing about this very issue had the judge say several times that they don't really see a big issue. So waiting for your regulators to do anything is very optimistic.
College in Germany is significantly cheaper.
Wouldn't your now-self want that too? I sure would.
How do you align that with minimum wage if some people just take too much time for their assigned task? How do you make sure this isn't becoming a race to the bottom, where people are getting more and more efficient, but are being paid less and less?
It won't sublimate if it is always in the shade/in a cold region. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Phase_diagram_of_water..... At martian surface pressures (close to 0) it needs to be warmer than ~ -60C to sublimate. Interestingly that's roughly the average temperature measured by rovers. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Mars#Temperature
> For ages I've wanted DuckDuckGo to add a "!copy" bang, which acts like the "!" operator (automatically navigates to the first search result) but instead of going to the page, it copies the link to my clipboard.

Why? I'm seriously curious about cases in which any of these can be useful.
Just heard something on the radio saying mass tourism in my country started only during the 1930s. Almost a century later, (before the virus) the blue-collar working class was taking at least a week or two of their vacations in places such as Bali or the Maldives. So you're probably right: Zweig was probably speaking from an upper middle-class perspective, not far removed from the roughly 2% of the then-upper class.
Thought the recycling-is-bad article guy declared peak oil to be false? https://www.city-journal.org/needless-panic-over-disposable-...
Pretty much all of those apps can be disabled which is equivalent to uninstalled for every practical purpose. Same as iOS as well.

(The difference is that APK is part of the RO partition which cannot be modified so that's the part that can't be cleaned up.)
Also you can use !wfr, !wit, !wde for the French, Italian or German version of Wikipedia.

The same goes for Amazon: !a, !afr, !ade, and so on...
fwiw, that’s exactly how my fvwm2 setup works. you need an explicit key-chord to raise a window that has focus. or you need to click on the title-bar. also, realized that monitors are getting wider than taller, so vertical real estate is precious, so title-bars are on the ‘left’ side of windows. which seem to work well for me...
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If the flu had no pre-existing immunity and 8x the mortality rate along with unknown side effects lasting months/years, then yes, exactly like the flu.
Quite often it just doesn't matter that much. It's a matter of 'taste', as are so many things that are 'designed'. And yes you'll make mistakes a few times. The correct response to those mistakes is to take them as learning opportunities and not dwell on them, instead of blaming and trying to replace the tools.

Of course one can use this exact argument to stave off any change ever...
I think it’s still pretty common; there are plenty of compounding pharmacies in my city. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compounding
The budget for the highway system is managed by the Highway Trust Fund. The trust fund had been solvent until 2008, but has since needed additional funding to meet outlays. Prior to that the system had been working as outlined in the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1956. So yes the taxpayer has been subsidizing the highways for the last 12 years.

So the system is broken, but it has a simple fix, just raise the gas tax. We haven't done that since 1993 and it isn't indexed to inflation. This is something that should have been fixed years ago, but alas I don't control congress.

If you want to go even further and discuss the environmental impact, again the solution is more taxes.
I’ve always just seen it as a form of bundling, with the really premium stuff locked behind the postgraduate DLC.
Just a coincidence, or Amazon got inspired by Fujitsu with its truedentity for Palmsecure?

https://www.fujitsu.com/ro/solutions/business-technology/sec...
Yeah you basically never close the response, right? Just keep appending! Chat is a good use case for it.

Maybe with CSS these days you could make only the last child of a div visible, and have constant updates with no need for JS.

Anyway. I quite like this idea of no JS. I know he said it would be evil to serve ads using MJPEG, but I'd probably prefer it if my page had less JS on it.
How many fundamental features and product will Google continue to pull before people stop relying on them?
Problem is XML is extremely frequently used to represent such types (probably even more so than it's used to represent marked up text). And it's not very good at it.
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While I understand your point, there is a level of oppressive surveillance here that is unwarranted and unneeded.

It shouldn’t be difficult to track the performance of the employee with metrics that are actually specific to the task they are hired to do (Number of listings/sales).

Taking screenshots, tracking keystrokes and mouse movement? It’s extreme, and doesn’t even relate to the work they’re doing in a direct way. You might be able to see them slacking off, but it doesn’t tell you the quality of the work.
Yes, this kind of invasive surveillance would not be allowed and could end up in the company being fined huged sums
The actor model doesn't prevent "semantic" deadlocks that are caused by circular dependencies. It's kinda like reference counting which also doesn't handle cycles. In practice it doesn't matter and when it matters you have already saved enough brain cells that you can think about the tricky parts in isolation.

However, memory corruption via manual memory management and deadlocks via manual locking are commonly caused by simple and innocent programming mistakes and basically something one has to live with on a day to day basis.
IANAL, but it might be worth pointing out that this depends entirely on the contract. In my contry there are two basic types of work contracts: One that is about the work where the quality of the result is the deciding factor and the time spent is irrelevant (within given constraints, e.g. milestones or due dates). The other one is explicitly about the hours spent working, regardless of the actual outcome (also within given contraints).
If you need both performance and a small core (and not a superscalar one, because there are small superscalar cores).
I will definitely not recommend you to use a RISC-V, RISC-V is not designed for that at all.

You should rather turn towards some VLIW architecture (and RISC-V is not compatible with VLIW architecture)
You will also gain in predictability.
This comment doesn't seem grounded in reality.

In Europe it is far more common to have 1.5-2 year masters degrees (half a year saved by overloading) followed by a 3-4 year PhD. It is almost a universal truth that a PhD shouldn't take less than 3 years unless there are exceptional circumstances.

I honestly can't believe any credible university is turning bachelor degree students into doctors within 3 years. Would love to see an example.
The core of this is of course the response header "Content-Type: multipart/x-mixed-replace" which in theory lets the server push updated chunks of any content type (although apparently only images in Chrome since 2013 [1]).

While it's a crude and handy way to update some content after the initial load without JS, it was also widely used with JS before Web Sockets - to push messages to clients with less latency than XHR polling.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multipart/x-mixed-replace#Mixe...
I wonder how much the person who makes up all these amusing anecdotes about famous people having to quibble about their payment rate gets paid. Probably not enough.
Thanks for that! Dr John :-) has an excellent read-through the main points of the paper at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8Ks9fUh2k8.
Yes, the study looks very good. The number of patients (76) is not large, hence "pilot". Other than that - solid evidence, as good as it gets.
Fwiw, in England/UK, there is a permanent recommendation to supplement Vitamin D b/c of endemic deficiency, given out by the public health bodies: Public Health England (PHE) (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-publishes-new-advice-...) and NICE (https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ph56). This is not strictly Covid-19 related, it predates it.
I understand earlier in the year NICE urgent review of available evidence found the evidence wanting: of low quality and insufficient (https://www.gov.uk/government/news/insufficient-evidence-for...). I wonder if they will re-review in light of more evidence put forward recently.
Given the balance of likely costs of intervention (Vitamin D is safe, cheap, prior knowledge that good portion of population are deficient, prior knowledge it helps in respiratory illness) versus not (major pandemic) if I were a temporary benevolent dictator, would institute a mass public supplementation programme.