skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's one definition of "legacy". The other is "oh shit, this stuff isn't supported any more and is now a liability".

Which is a problem, because the longer you're unaware, the more the liability and unknown unknowns grow. Eventually, the liability and cost to replace are huge/bigger than it being an asset. The problem just gets harder; especially if you ignore it until it goes horribly wrong. See a comment above [0] for how this could happen.

Responsible, senior devs should be able to provide some guidance to the business at what point the system or sub-system is on that liability vs asset curve. "Not cool any more" isn't that kind of advice.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24769695
> They said "with Location History off, the places you go are no longer stored" and then did it anyways.

I would just apply Hanlon's razor here. It most likely was a bug or oversight, if it had been some malicious evil scheme, I would assume more care would have been taken so that people don't find out.

Now, coming to the question of why do they even store it for opted in users?

Aside from potential ad relevance, I think it is simply because they power a lot of their features with context and they get better with data.

For example, if you search cheesecake on Google, the answer likely will be either a recipe or a restaurant. A restaurant search will likely be helped by data about previous visits and current location. A recipe search will be helped by past search result clicks and again location.

Do they really need to store this to serve search results? I don't think so. DDG works without them, but then again DDG performs very poor for queries like this which can be helped with context.

Note: I don't know how any of this exactly works, so these are just my assumptions.
To save $40 in resale value 2 years from now
You must not have seen Ars Technica before.
Massachusetts sends out a voting guide: Massachusetts Information for Voters. It's the red cover brochure.

If you look at the Against side of Question 1, the largest paragraph is from Jane Doe, the MA Coalition Against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence.

Jane Doe, Inc. has retracted their support, but it was too late for the brochure to be updated.
Yeah, that concerns me.

My left pocket loadout is a small carbon fiber clip, with cards and cash, and my phone. Been that way for five years and I have no intention of ever changing it.

I'm skipping this year, mostly because I want the Max camera and the regular form factor, but also to get some field data on whether this newfangled mag connector scrambles cards.

On the one hand, they're prominently featuring an accessory which clips your cards to the magnet itself. On the other hand, they build that accessory, and they don't build my clip, which offers no magnetic flux protection whatsoever.
But "only" 30 years old. net.micro.apple (1983-1986) was reorganized to comp.sys.apple (1986-1990) which was reorganized to comp.sys.apple2.

comp.arch (1986-) easily has 10 times as much present day activity.
Fine, Google. Then I'm going to cancel the collab account I haven't used in months. Take THAT!
An important part about usegroups is that it is from an era of dial-in connections.

One can dial into your ISP, sync News (fetch new messages in groups one is subscribed to and send messages) and then go offline and read/answer the messages without paying per minute and without blocking ports for other dial-in customers.

This also worked between different news servers in distinct networks with unreliable connections.

For the how paid: In some regions it was part of the things a "good" ISP had to offer their clients. Also back in the days™ large parts of the internet was run on machines in some university labs.
"They already have lightning charging capabilities in their bedroom, in their car": The issue is not about the lightning end of things. It is the other end. I'm an iPhone user since 2007. Not having a USB-A_to_lightning solution in the box is super inconvenient. It would have cost Apple $2 to either include a split USB-C/USB-A cable or a small USB-A_to_USB-C adapter.
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Sure, I'm not saying everything has to make sense, but buddy here was claiming that 国 had cleaner etymology than 國, and to me it seems like one of these is indirect, and the other is very direct.
It may help to think about who can sue whom. Generally only a copyright owner can sue an infringer. A license operates as a defense against a claim of infringement. If a licensee fails to meet a condition, then the license is invalid.

So, in the case of the project owner who (1) starts out owning all of the rights to the project, (2) incorporates code licensed from a contributor and, (3) distributes the combination, the only person who could possibly sue the project owner for copyright infringement is the contributor. The claim would only pertain to the contributor's code, because that is the only part he owns the copyright to. The project owner/defendant would raise the license as a defense and the key question would shift to whether the owner/defendant violated any of the conditions of the license.

Where the license is the GPL, one of the conditions is partially affected by the "preferred form" definition of source code. The court would look at what the owner/defendant did and whether he met that condition. Importantly, the condition and "preferred form" definition would only be considered in relation to the plaintiff's code; the owner/defendant's code wouldn't be relevant.

Regarding the contributor's code being "inseparable", that will not be the case for one very simple reason: If the contributor sues the project owner, then he must identify which portion of the code he is suing about. If he can't do that or can't show ownership of it, then he will lose.
R2D2 desktop chat bot replaced my daily paper fact of the day rip calendar and it was Beep boop straight too the moon after that ...

Now good ole R2 takes care of the beep beep boop while I learn via ecstasy mostly ...

NYC is great for ecstasy learning

Your learning method seems dry
the thing that caught my eye was that there was only 1 bedroom upstairs, so where do the kids sleep?
Nope, it doesn’t work. It ask you to uncover your face
They’re well on their way: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/...
You misunderstand the objection. The fact that you didn't expand on your definition of simultaneity suggests that you're missing a lot of background here. There are many ways that physics could appear to violate causality with collapse without actually sending information faster than light (e.g. how most of the multiverse theories work).
It was pretty cool, back then, to get up to date, in-depth bike race results from Europe instead of waiting for the magazine to show up a month after the fact.
would you prefer that only centralized data warehouses like Officially Sanctioned Dealerships have access to this data instead? That seems worse.
I think it very much would be, yes.

If relevant policy-makers want to speak to me privately I'd be happy to but I had an instance of symptoms that 8+ well-recognized doctors at Stanford were unable to diagnose for a half a year, but a dietician that spoke to me was able to give me an answer to in about 10 minutes that seemed to solve my problem over a period of a few weeks after I started followed their advice.
Propaganda, censorship, and surveillance are all attributes of monopoly
> Unless you are printing these photos, the iphone's cameras are more than adequate for posting online.

Everyone says this until they see photos of the same event from a dedicated camera with a large optical path.
But they are designed to make all the employees have homocidal thoughts towards each other ...

Am I right ?
Put it on something magnetic. It sticks to whatever it sits on. I put it on my pc chassis.
Yep. I took the cut to move back from Seattle to Toronto many years ago.

But you know what? I'm not living in America. I'm not living in America in the clusterfuck that is 2020.

I consider it money well spent.
Who says they use the internet for the evidence?

Maybe they have infiltrated the organization who did the attack.

Maybe they were warned by some other nation who had done so.

Maybe they were listening in on the C&C traffic.

Maybe they were tipped off by Russia itself.

Maybe the attackers were sloppy fools.

There are tons of avenues how this could have played out, which would be sensitive to reveal in detail.
To be fair, we could say you 'cherry picked' by selecting the 20 year mark. It's just as cherry picked as picking the peak: it's a discrete moment in time, compared to the present, in either case.
Yes. It's outside the WWW. Originally, it was outside the Internet.

The basic concept is simply copying and forwarding email-like messages, grouped into a hierarchical set of newsgroup feeds. A host would subscribe to other hosts, and would allow other hosts to subscribe to their own feeds. And then just push/pull this through the network.

Originally, this was done all with shell scripts dialing up remote hosts by modem and copying compressed datasets nightly. This developed into a full suite of protocols called UUCP. Later, Internet protocols like the Network News Transfer Protocol started carrying some, then all, of the traffic.

In principle, it is unregistered, unpaid, and decentralized. You start exchanging with someone else who has the newsgroups you want to send and receive.

In practice, both in the past and now, you subscribe, usually commercially, to one of the services with the bandwidth and storage to host a reasonable portion of Usenet. ISPs often provided NNTP Usenet service into the early 2000s, along with SMTP/POP for email.
Because you're ruining it for everyone. You're the guy that goes into the bathroom at a rest stop (in Europe, where you pay to use them), smears feces all over the wall, then proclaims "It's a public bathroom that I paid good money to enter, they didn't say what was and wasn't acceptable behavior in the bathroom".

The fact that they didn't explicitly tell you not to store 8PB of data on a service that costs $12/mo doesn't preclude you using COMMON SENSE. "But nobody told me" stopped being an excuse when you were in preschool.
Does anyone know what it's called when the argument is of the form:

∀x. P(x)

x

Therefore, P(x)

Is P(x) "trivially true" in this case?

This tends to come up in some political arguments (e.g. about systemic bias where everything can be seen as influenced by that bias).
How fast you ask?

Why it’s an inverse square law! Like gravity. 1/r^2.
They explain it here in this paragraph:

>“AI” is best understood as a political and social ideology rather than as a basket of algorithms. The core of the ideology is that a suite of technologies, designed by a small technical elite, can and should become autonomous from and eventually replace, rather than complement, not just individual humans but much of humanity. Given that any such replacement is a mirage, this ideology has strong resonances with other historical ideologies, such as technocracy and central-planning-based forms of socialism, which viewed as desirable or inevitable the replacement of most human judgement/agency with systems created by a small technical elite. It is thus not all that surprising that the Chinese Communist Party would find AI to be a welcome technological formulation of its own ideology.
This usage is infrequent to the point of complete redundancy, it's based on a dodgy translation and feels ill fitting, the alternative "circular argument" is making a much better job of it anyway, all of which begs the question: is there anything wrong with re-employing the phrase somewhere else where it seems to work nicely?
Right, but if you accept outside contributions, and those contributors give you their changes under the AGPL as well, you cannot relicense their work under terms other than the AGPL.

You can get around this by requiring copyright assignment from all contributors, or by making contributors sign an agreement that allows you to do what you want to do.
That’s extremely routine procedure for any trial. When there’s an u explained illness the trial is halted to investigate if it is linked to the vaccine or not.

If it isn’t, the trial resumes.
Oh boy, thank God people my age don't have to worry about the incredibly embarrassing things we did, or embarrassing fanfiction we wrote, preserved publicly forever.

Gen Z, woooooo. Woo.

I'm doomed.
Could these be used as conference room speakerphones/mics?
Considering that the HomePod non-mini doesn’t do any on-device language processing, I don’t see a need for that much power.
Hello neighbor - I bought my first house in Ballard this February myself.

For SF / SV readers: Ballard is a hip Seattle neighborhood, somewhat like Hayes Valley but also near a beach and bike paths. My house is new construction and walking distance to everything. I paid list price.
It's not just useful for tiny platforms. Consider the erlang virtual machine, which has something like 11 custom allocators internally, for different performance characteristics.
That’s fair but I think it’s a different argument when you have five (5!) kids. A minivan is hardly a luxury item at that point.
I just went from "wtf is an address sanitizer" to "what's the difference between this and valgrind" to an ASAN acolyte in about 1 minute.

http://btorpey.github.io/blog/2014/03/27/using-clangs-addres...

Article mentions JVM noise, but my actual experience is with python noise. Good riddance; this is going into my CI test suite today.
Lower sales tax receipts could also imply people are spending less due to lockdowns and fear of catching the virus.
Exactly this. A streamer's audience is only "their" audience the way that say the audience for Game of Thrones was "their" audience. It's a very, very long tail.

Other outfits can probably injure Twitch by poaching key stars, but it's not a path to success for these rival services. The absolute most they can achieve is kill off Twitch, at which point it's as likely the piles of small creators just do Youtube, rather than figuring out tooling and financials for your new live service instead.

And if your plan is "Aha, we'll kill Youtube too" well you'd better be loaded for bear 'cos that platform is not messing around and the people behind it aren't going to run out of money any time soon.
So they have caught something(s) on infrared/FLIR, which is passive reception, the same for visual/optical, yes?

But no active reflections from some radar somewhere?

I think this is just a massive PsyOp, consisting of at least two invisible BEAMS of whatever, sweeping the skies like searchlights tightly synchronized, making the air glow where they meet.

And gazillions of newsbots chasing the next headline, like cats hunting the dot of a laserpointer...
If they just threw some sawdust on it...

We have been and continue to be so stupid.

(The thing that gets me is that refrigerators open like cabinets rather than chests of drawers.)
"Assuming the conclusion" has a clear meaning distinct from "non-sequitur."

"Non-sequitur" evaluates a statement's relationship to a previous statement.

"Assuming the conclusion" evaluates a statement on its own.
There's collateral damage from the drug trade. I'm not arguing one way or another in terms of legality. All I can say is with absolute certainty is that the drug market has competition for clients and space, and if you look at shootings in NYC and Chicago, you'll find the majority of them gang-related. Gangs compete over territory and profit, just as you'd expect them to.

These are not intersectionally-educated feminists in coffeeshops distributing sustainably-sourced organic heroin at cost, here.

There's no 'lesson to be learned' from observing a drug transaction or living next to a drug corner, which is impled by your statement of knowing about society's failures.
What?
i've been doing wireless local backups for years
It supports the same sources as the big one, including airplay

https://www.apple.com/homepod-mini/specs/ (Audio Sources)
MA resident here -- I'm voting yes on this ballot question for the exact reason why farmers seek older farm tractors and machines. The more shops that have access to data, the more competition there will be, which is a good thing.
The trouble is most animals are not raised outdoors. You need to find a good source to get a decent price on grass fed beef/lamb.
Blip-ity bloop beep beep money !

Zoom ! More money ! Print it R2

Beep beep beep ... be boop boop beep ... this is machine comprehensible don’t hate human

More money !

You are all trolls and sheep
In this case the linked list will actually be lower latency, as you'll only be touching two locations: the root and the node itself while with the queue you'll have an additional hop through it.

And yes, of course you would allocate your nodes from a linear contiguous (but possibly chunked) fix size bump allocator first.
Not only was it outside of the WWW, it predated the existence of the WWW by a good 15 years.
Assuming they haven’t long ago given up on any kind of corporate PR points.
It's not absolutely unknown: "With this ring, I thee wed" from the Book of Common Prayer marriage service seems to me to be SOV (with an adverbial bit in advance), though it's definitely archaic. I imagine it features a bit in poetry too.
the way apple works is you'll have to adjust your life around their products, not the other way around; so.. bluetooth? to answer your question
Absolutely legendary. I tip my hat to Facebook
> You can't define inflation as you want.

You can; whether that's useful or not depends on the definition and context of use.

> Inflation is an government official indicator with a very clear meaning.

No, its not. Inflation is a broad concept (well, actually, a set of different and interrelated broad concepts) with a number of different official government measures. The most common US government measure of price inflation, the most common kind people talk about, is the all items CPI-U (Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers.) But there are lots of other inflation measures, including official government ones used for important purposes, like the CPI-W (Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage Earners and Clerical Workers) which is used as the basis for Social Security COLAs. And also frequently cited is the CPI-U for all items excluding food and energy. There are also CPIs for other populations, CPIs for other categories of goods and services, PPIs (Producer Price Indexes), ECI (Employment Cost Index), and others. All of these are official government price inflation measures.

There are also official government measures of money supply, which equivalently are measures of monetary inflation. And there are a whole bunch of those, not just one.
D3 is not an answer for most people, since you have to be a front-end expert on css, svg, js, dom and d3 - quite a project for somebody who just wants to make a plot.

Most people end up using an end-user focused layer on top of D3.

Or they just say "forget it" and use high-level packages including google charts (these are rendered browser-side) or highcharts (paid.)

In your case, just ddg for "plot directed graph networks" and see what comes up. But for 99% of people, the answer in't D3.

I ended up using google charts with svg hooks - the resulting code is not a lot different than D3.
> The sale hugely benefits an American company, Amazon, with the profits going to ARDC who will likely be biased in benefiting or providing preferential treatment to the American amateur radio community by virtue of themselves being an American company, and despite claims that the sold IPs were unallocated and unused they were in fact partially allocated and used by Europeans.

Yep, HAMNET[1] had to renumber parts of their network, which isn't a lot of fun when your routers are on antenna towers.

ARDC is funding only US entities at this time: https://www.ampr.org/giving/

[1]: https://hamnetdb.net
Think something like Reddit + Bittorrent.

Slight difference -- there would be no main "front page," -- only individual self-hosted hubs that could choose which "subreddits" (newsgroups) they would carry.
How does rust help fix bugs in a C++ code base?
I'm not sure what you mean by "recovery path" or "partially executed the protocol before the crash." Paxos has specific terminology for each of the phases. Can you be more precise?
I think this ship has sailed. When even FAANGs start doing full time remote who would be crazy enough to go back to on-site only?
Is the World Getting Safer?
What English might look like with all the non-Germanic vocabulary removed
Hz are metric system (well, both, but identical, Hz are 1/s). It's a typo.
Anecdotally, McKinsey and other consulting people are/were pretty obsessed with it. At least those are the only ones I ever heard using it in a normal human conversation. At first I was terribly confused talking to people referring to themselves and others with what sounded like bad passwords. But it fits the general cult like behavior.
The logical fallacy of "begging the question" is essentially "A because A" although the two propositions are usually worded in a way that obfuscates their identity. For example "opium makes you sleep because it's soporific," where "soporific" is a fancy way of saying "makes you sleep."

In colloquial speech, the phrase "begging the question" is often not used to refer to the logical fallacy but rather the more literal translation of "makes you ask."
> I generally default to MIT/Apache2 unless I have a reason to do otherwise, out of consideration for employees at Google or other corps who may want to participate in my project.

That's kinda a sad state of affairs that you're allowing corporate policy (of companies that you don't work for) to effectively dictate your licensing strategy. Not saying you're wrong to do so (it's your project; you know best), but the overall gist of it feels a little dystopian.

Ultimately Google is applying pressure -- even if unintentionally -- to the community at large: "use a license we're happy with, or you'll have a smaller pool of contributors"[0].

If AGPL was a majority license for projects like these, then Google would likely have no choice but to allow contributions to AGPL projects.

[0] Note that that's different from an individual deciding (for whatever reason) that they don't want to contribute to projects that use certain licenses (which is fine!). Google's policy forces an unreasonable restriction on their employees that their employees may not agree with, but can't argue with because of the employer-employee power imbalance.
archive.org has various usenet archives. Some of the data is there, it's just not conveniently organized or searchable or viewable.

eg:

https://archive.org/details/usenet
Well I just noticed that fully one percent of these posts are in alt.atheism. I wonder how much this influence by UI design and lexical ordering alone. I bet alt.atheism was always on the first page when you just wanted to flip through groups.
You can use HomePods as dedicated outputs for your Apple TV 4th gen or newer. Can also work alongside your amp.

Also, as stated in earlier comments, you’ll be able to use AirPlay to stream anything from your NAS via an iOS/Mac device.

The only feature you’ll lose is the ability to say “hey Siri, play song x”

AirPlay is lossless, too.
I have a couple of Echo devices, predominantly I use them for lighting control, alarms, timers, speakers for music and podcasts when cooking, paging out messages
round the house rather than yelling down the stairs. My six year old son has picked up that he can use them to call me despite not having a phone of his own, so I also occasionally get calls when out and about asking for urgent Zelda help.
So she wants to get the money and appear as being on the good side? I have no sympathy for her.