skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow very cool, I think it's super rare to get to work on a compiler for money, kudos! Can you tell us who the company was ?

And was this a Perl to x86/x64 compiler ?
Why not use Azure? Seems like it's more readily understood than GCP by Teams admins.

I'd be interested in this wiki content showing up in other products within the suite.
Hammers and screwdrivers are generally used for completely different purposes. When loosening a screw a screwdriver is the correct tool. You need to know which screwdriver to use and how to use it appropriately. A hammer is generally for compeltely different purposes.

Excel is more similar to the screwdriver. It can be a fine tool for managing data. You just need to know when to select it as the proper tool to do so and then how to use it properly to do so.
I think the example's last visualization is confusing.

The timeline is {date1, date2, date3, date4}. Let's say you have 2 periods, date1 - date3, and date2 - date4. Period 1 can be represented as {date1, date2, date3}. Period 2 can be {date2, date3, date4}.

Am I understanding this correctly?
yes, there were more vending machines:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vending-machines-snack...
these people are idiots
The state is just trying to get away with murder and they will if people don't protest this.
Just curious, any guess why it doesn't come with the latest Ubuntu and Python pre-installed?
Civilizing the Marketplace of Ideas (2013)
Curious: What would happen if they did make changes? Who would enforce it?
Yes, I have a suspicion they have an edge node in my city.
Reader View clears it up.
Not that simple? The corporations are collected data from people that offer it - facebook etc is a sign-up service. It's voluntary.

Sure we need some rules about what's reasonable to record. In fact, we're getting them. But reigning in corporations is harder than making a rule. Because there's money at stake, it's hard to get a ravenous corporation to change behavior with a little fine or whatever.

So sure, I'm on the side of privacy, as should have been obvious. But not sure I can fix this, sorry.
We have a nationwide vending machine brand, with 900 employees for 27'000 machines and full or partial service options.
Can't believe people think Apple is wrong here. You're arguing your ideals instead of looking at this case like the contract dispute that it is.
I assume what you built looks safe, and I absolutely don't wish any harm upon you. Still, why does a setup like this make me think of the contraption Thomas Midgley (the inventor of lead additives for petrol and CFCs) built?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley_Jr.#Later_life_...
It won't kill anyone, but it shouldn't be necessary to buy a computer to manage your books. Like I said, a lot of people don't have a computer anymore.
What can't be solved by software (or marketing?), someone will solve with hardware[0]!

[0]: http://adafruit.com/qtpy
I think Tikhon's point about figuring out how to show that you're offering the benefit is key.

If my salary is $200k, it's clear what that means, and I can be pretty confident that there won't be weird social games to get me to actually accept less this pay period. (There's an argument that income tax is an example of this, but that doesn't vary in unpredictable ways between positions.)
A swivel-less hard chair forces one to find the right position to sit up IMO. Chair height, distance to keyboard, desk height, they all play a role too. But comfy chairs are not good in the long run
Yup, just buy a cheap Chromebook (maybe used) and save many hours of labor/setup and quite possibly even some money.
You're not the only one. That's what first came to my mind when I saw this.
I needed text-form fallback for LaTeX formulas for my Primer on Bezier Curves[1] and after trying AsciiTeX, CATDVI, tex2mail, tex4h, and even pandoc, only tex2mail seemed to yield an even remotely sensible result.

However, that's stretching things a little: it's sensible in the same way that Windows 98 is the hot new OS to use... it's kinda dated for use in 2020, to say the least =)

I found someone's site where they talked about having updated tex2mail to work with Unicode, but running their code literally did nothing, so I figured I'd hit up the original source on CTAN and see if I could just update it to output something a little more modern, myself.

The result is certainly decent enough to use for fallback/embedded code comments, and in order to make it easier for anyone else who might find this useful I've hosted it on github so if anyone uses it and needs something fixed, that's at least possible now.

[1] https://pomax.github.io/bezierinfo
That's on the right track, but it's not very helpful if the company is shutting down and out of money anyway.
Putting aside the issue of whether or not Excel is suitable. Excel has a column limit of 16,384 columns. Could this mean they are storing each person as a column? That seems a pretty strange way of recording this data. Or have they gone 16,000 over the 1,048,576 row limit?
Yeah, it's pretty mind boggling... Amazing that it "works". And I think debugging single-threaded code can be hard. ;-)
Phones are equally always-listening.

They respond to "Hey Siri" or "Hey Google".

There is absolutely zero difference between a phone and a smart speaker in this regard.

I don't know why you think anything would be more detectable on a phone.
In the context of legal system like we have in the US, where police are required to obtain a warrant and provide sufficient evidence to a court, I see no problem with this. We've been doing it with cell phone data for decades now. I'm all for data privacy, but in the event of a crime being committed we need to allow every tool available to find the truth. This can exonerate innocent people just as easily as it can convict.
I use it as a term for "just-started company hoping to validate business model then grow". Not just "VC funded company looking to grow exponentially".

E.g. wikipedia

"startups refer to new businesses that intend to grow large beyond the solo founder"

I don't mind that definition. But I also wouldn't call my company not a startup if it doesn't want VC funding or doesn't hope to grow more than linearly/organically.
Zoom Phone Service Degraded
Could you please provide a guide or directions on how to do it for a Samsung or an iPhone cellphone?
Removing the second CSI Camera Connector is what immediately killed it for my use case :(
If you're into precision, personally I think the story of the Michelson interferometer used to "disprove" cosmic aether is probably my favorite. There is also with the creation of the first high quality diffraction gratings (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Joseph_Grayson and Rowland at JHU).

The Michelson interferometer was incredibly sensitive for its day but required heroic efforts to use: it was deep in a subbasement, floating on a pool of mercury, and was routinely unusable during the day due to horse and carriage deliveries a few buildings over. My friend who was a physics major at Princeton said they built one in a day for their physics lab (these days, vibration isolation tables and alignable optics are far, far easier).
GPU RAM Drive:Create a Virtual Drive Backed by GPU RAM
The article yada-yada's over all the things that require constant electricity.

What about garage startups?

What about people who need some sort of pager charged? (Emergency responders, including troubleshooters for companies)

What about disabled people, plagued by anxiety, PTSD or Alzheimers?

What about the absolutly ridiciously look the country implementing this first would have from the rest of the world?

Who decides whose "usecase" for continous electricity is "important enough"?

I get a feeling that the article wants to stretch the Overton window for attention purposes, but forgoes all sense in the process...
That's a TOS, not something you need to worry about for personal use.
Anything that is not mass produced, needs to have a small size or weight and needs 3D graphics or computer vision. For instance, imagine a bike rental startup that wants to do traffic sign recognition integrated in their vehicles.
Russia’s Fancy Bear hackers likely penetrated a federal agency
Not an expert on distributed systems, but I'd want it to be as de-centralized as possible (it is significantly now, but there are choke-points like SSL and DNS authorities). I'd want no government or corporation to be able to control anything about anything on it. It would be like the before time, when Facebook hadn't come along and caused governments and corporations to take interest in controlling it.
I built a similar little machine a couple years ago, mostly for storing my big archived files, being a borg backup target for my other machines, and subsequently mirroring said backups offsite with rclone.

I went for a Chenbro SR301 case (I don't know what's changed in the still-available SR301 Plus model) + modest commodity parts over the HP or Supermicro turnkey boxes in a similar form-factor mostly because it takes standard components (mini-ITX boards, ATX PSU, standard fans... nothing I couldn't overnight from any major vendor for cheap) for easy replacement. It was also a little cheaper.

I did btrfs "RAID10" instead of RAID. Hardware RAID is always a hassle, btrfs is in-kernel, and it has all the nice modern data integrity features (two spindle rule, I have a timer that scrubs it periodically for to verify checksums, etc.) - I've been really pleased with that except for the lack of good automated monitoring/notification tools for btrfs.

Documentation I wrote at the time, more about the backup scheme than the machine at https://pappp.net/?p=1627
I'm still using that setup, eventually I'll need to swap some discs as capacities increase, but that machine has required zero fucking around since it was set up.
apparently "everything secretly judges [you]" ;)
About the name: Feluda is a famous detective character [1] created by the director Satyajit Ray [2]:

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feluda

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satyajit_Ray
They 'take out' users for much less.

obviously in a non-educated manner, or on a personal preference basis ?! appears so, yes. i still try figure out what happened to my account i can't login with all of a sudden

whatever, it's not transparent and not even possible to figure out if, for instance, one got banned when eg l/p reset appears to work [emails sent, new pw chosen] but still one can't login [at login it keeps shouting : 'password incorrect']

where to go, what to do ? their >help< lets one circle in a way more dumb dull manner than opting for self-mummyfication journey on the shortest Moebius band imaginable
What's the author proposing? That we voluntarily abstain from using electricity during certain times, or the government shut down electricity usage to households during certain times? The former is the equivalent of the government telling people to "turn down your thermostat" or "don't drive SUVs". That's basically useless because most people don't care. The latter wouldn't work because most people place high value on continuous electricity, so such a proposal will be political suicide. In the unlikely event that such a proposal does get implemented, most people will either run their own generators or power storage systems (as evidenced by PaulHoule's comment), which will be much less efficient than a large scale solution and therefore be a net-negative.
Slightly pedantic comment here, but in economic theory, even in a perfectly competitive market, profits never drop to zero. Profits need to be high enough that owners of an enterprise don't decide to do something else with their time and money.
These businesses may not make enough in profits to attract venture capital, but that doesn't mean they aren't more lucrative to the people running them than their other options.
NVidia don't see the point. There are a few forum threads where NV respond "why do you even want that" or "you can get ubuntu 20.xx from a third party".
I once did weeks of work trying to unpack what my employer meant by the term "customer" - if your customers are large companies with hundreds of legal entities and hundreds of locations across the world things can get pretty complex pretty fast e.g. does "never two contracts running at the same time" mean that you can't have a contract with a subsidiary and another separate subsidiary of the same parent (which might make sense for credit checking purposes)? What about subsidiaries in different countries? What about partly owned subsidiaries...
This is indeed user incompetence, but so far every news source quoted the official PR and said it was an "Excel Problem".

Microsoft PR was caught unprepared - I wonder how they'll re-spin it in the next few days (and for the first time that I can recall, a Microsoft product was wrongly blamed...)

Pay attention, how every time there's a Windows virus or worm, it's a "Computer Virus", but in the (extremely rare) occasions where Linux or MacOS is involved, it's attributed to that system. I don't think that's a coincidence, CMV.
And how is this any different than what has happened with high-school athletics over the same time-frame?

Parents regularly now spend thousands (tens of thousands!) of dollars on elite athlete training for 5th-8th graders in order to make the varsity team once they hit high-school. In my state (MN) it's not unheard of to rent an apartment in a desirable (aka good athletic) school district to play for that team.

My sister was an elite athlete and spent a few post college years at a specialized training academy. Multiple professional athletes trained here in the off-season.

She had multiple classes of middle school children to run training sessions with. Some of these middle schoolers even paid for 1 one 1 training with her for even more money.

Replace "Admission test" with "varsity tryouts" and you have basically the same system, with the same gamesmanship and money being spent.
I’m not sure what you refer to as early dawn, but here in the Midwest all Dunkin’ Donuts and many Starbucks are open at 5am.

Side note: it blows my mind each time I’m in California and I have to drive forty five minutes or more to find a Dunkin’.
Forgot the most important one - power it by using power cable that came with it and the 5V _2A_ adapter. It will kernel panic at random places if you power it from the USB port.
This depends on where you live.
Knowledge of 3000 characters in Chinese is enough to read about 99% of text. Many words use two characters. Then there are Chengyu which are generally 4 characters and are derived from an old story. 850 characters would definitely be enough to communicate, and word creation by combining characters together is more flexible than English. Since every character can be a word, it's a little trickier to define what 850 words would mean, as 850 characters gets you thousands more words.
> So no, these devices are not "spying on you".

- False positives for smart speakers aren't zero, the 3rd-party contractor controversies from a while back should have already killed this myth.

- Most normal people probably aren't thinking about the implications of sending requests to 3rd parties when they set up these devices in their kid's rooms, and the marketing of the devices doesn't make any of that risk clear.

- Most normal people outside of HN probably aren't even fully aware of the fact that their recordings are stored for this long.

And even if it doesn't technically fall under the banner of "spying", it still has privacy implications, and we should be working to educate both technical and nontechnical people about what those privacy implications are; otherwise they won't be able to make informed choices about what level of risk they feel comfortable taking on.

Nontechnical people do not have the instincts or training to think about how device information can be stored, who can recover it, and how that information can be chained together and used against them. It is unambiguously good for publications like Wired to educate them about those risks.
The obvious corollary to this is that if a clear narcissist is hired near the top of your organization, it’s time to polish your resume and head towards the door if you can. Chances are you’ll want to leave sooner or later if all the things described in this article happen, and it’s better to spend more of your time in a more pleasant organization not led by a narcissist.
I run the barrel adapter off a power bank just fine
Used PCIe Fiber card or cloud-something like Tarsnap or Backblaze?

BTW: For Tape it's REALLY important to have a steady Dataflow, too slow like USB is a big NONO, you NEED something like SAS/SATA or Fibre. The tape can but should not stop and wait for new data to be written.

EDIT: Well then look at LTO5 (double cap)...LTO6 is probably still too expensive.
What's even more dystopian is mandated, invasive, mind-altering surgery. As far as 'my body, my choice' goes, there's little difference between that and the forced sterilization China used to mandate.
Mercurial's evolve extension has fold, which is similar to squash. However, it still has all the individual commits if you wish to examine them - they're just "hidden" and the usual commands (logs, etc) will show just the squashed commit.
Interesting first link, thanks.

Though I'm not impressed with the thread-local storage errors argument, as it's just an argument against low quality implementations.

In a good implemention of fibers or green threads, TLS APIs should be replaced by fiber-local storage using the same APIs and fast access method, and FLS doesn't have those errors.

Perhaps there's another argument against FLS, but the TLS errors argument should have considered FLS rather than leaving it implied that there's no solution.
“ping”, it’s in the spec ;)
The latter is called rolling brownouts and happens regularly in countries like the Philippines where corrupt government officials grant power distribution monopolies to foreign companies.
But it was also psychological. Maybe he didn't touch the peg enough.
Use —first-parents and you get a log of only the merge commits themselves, a flat log
Anecdotally, some messages seem to be failing to send.
How to manage your data the way you manage code
Alrighty, what design philosophy would you apply to get millions of animated, individual objects to interact with an astonishingly high and constant tick rate on everything down to absolutely shitbox-laptops? Because that is what Factorio does!
Also interesting for Mac mini and iMac

Magic Trackpad is $129

https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MJ2R2LL/A/magic-trackpad-...
The question is insufficiently phrased for a meaningful answer. What are the criteria for judging how "advanced" a language is?

Different answers can be given based on, for example: how long it's been in use/development; range of vocabulary; population of speakers; how closely it can express logic with mathematical exactness; the wealth of metaphors, or commonly known parables/stories as part of the language; the consistency of grammatical rules, and lack of exceptions; ease of learning, how long an average person takes to become fluent; simpler to read/write/speak, or the opposite, how complex it is.

The answer also depends on the user, their skills, use cases, and context. Someone may use a language in an "advanced" way, to think/express elaborate thoughts, in poetry, or in science. Another may use the same language to grunt rude and nonsensical insults.

Is a pair of pliers more advanced than a hammer? Is Picasso more advanced than Matisse? Surely a computer is more advanced than a rock, but when you need to open a coconut, the latter is a superior tool.
language evolves. How the creator of a word pronounced a thing is irrelevant. Witness essentially every word in the English dictionary. None (possibly literally) of them are pronounced as they originally were (frequently not spelled as they originally were either) unless they are _very_ new.

the "correct" pronunciation is whatever the community decides, despite what we may individually think of it.

As such "jif" is decidedly _not_ the "correct" pronunciation because essentially the entire community says "gif"

"jif" would be the "archaic" pronunciation. Technically valid, but not used by anyone except for hold-outs and people who refuse to accept modern pronunciation standards.
That was the exact quote we received (and paid) from redcloveradvisors.com. We had one other quote that was in the same range.
There is a very big difference between what I may say over the phone and what I might say in my home. When on the phone everything I say is with the knowledge that someone (the receiver) is listening. In my home I make no such assumptions.

Furthermore, who will be making sure whatever conservation has been overheard is simply not a tv show, radio broadcast, or even the neighbor having an argument in their garden ?

While various governments have been busy assuring us that they’ve always had this possibility, they’re lying. They’ve had the possibility to do surveillance, but never retroactive. The ability to sift through not only what you’re going to say, but also what you’ve said in the past X months before you became a suspect is quite new.

Anything you say can and will be used against you, possibly in a court of law...
I found https://stripe.com/docs/currencies#minimum-and-maximum-charg... which suggest minimum charge amount is $0.50.

[edit] And the transaction costs $0.30 per charge https://stripe.com/pricing
There's a ton of difference. My phone is not always listening -- its voice controls aren't enabled, and even if they were enabled they would be hidden behind a button press.

Sure, somebody could hack my phone and take over the microphone, but that's a very different threat model than "this AI might misinterpret a random sound as a command and start uploading my conversations to the phone."

To the extent that normal people leave their phones in always-listening mode, we should be educating them about the privacy implications of that as well.
Ok...fun to see how the "common good" types often blatantly argue/devolve into authoritarianism...
Anecdata, but some people do listen. My grandmother still keeps her thermostat at 65 - explicitly because Jimmy Carter asked her to in 1977.

I think institutional appeals from a conservation and energy-independence mindset can work on some people, though they are surely ignored by many more.
Is underage drinking a problem in Japan? Genuinely curious, I know salarymen feel obligated to drink with their bosses but have never heard about unruly drunk Japanese teenagers
cough bed sores
I completely agree with your position, but putting that phrase in quotes as you did implies that it is a quote from the article. That phrase appears nowhere in the article, even though the sentiment is certainly there.
> gov didn't like it

I'm very curious about this part. Could you elaborate?
Anne Currie Discusses Cloud Providers and the Environmental Impact of Software
It’s very easy to install any version of Python using pyenv. I would be careful not to change the system Python in 16.04 because it will probably mess up apt.
There is a vein of hatred for homeless people running throughout our country. Worse, they are not allowed to vote or recieve a lot of state support because they lack domiciliary. Politicians have no reason to view them as anything but a problem. Supporting homeless people in anything than a "Get rid of the problem" way is often political suicide.

(1) https://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/fortitude-shelter-r...

(2) https://gothamist.com/news/angry-upper-west-siders-wanted-ho...

(3) https://jerseydigs.com/homeless-shelter-denied-apartments-co...

(4) https://www.kcur.org/community/2019-11-25/church-sues-lenexa...

(5) https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/11/voting-can-be-h...
As someone who, due to disability, needs an assistive device this is asking me to give up the ability to participate in society, and probably an early grave.
Yeah but I’m guessing most people commenting don’t know how. It’s:

git revert -m 1 <commit>

Or something