skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Does Adguard work better/differently to justify the cost?

I can't comment on better as I haven't used either of those products in anger or recently, but Adguard installs itself as a system app, not a browser plugin, and it just works. It's become a standard install on new computers when I set them up. The only side effect I see of an average day is some pages taking a second or two longer before the first paint, presumably due to the quantity of ads removed.

For where I am, the cost of an evergreen licence for a single seat is less than an hour of work, it looks after itself, and I only see ads in Tor. Well worth the $.
Adversários Bolados?
It's an article about Rust, why wouldn't people be talking about Rust in the comments?
In my humble opinion, there are two problems to e-mail, and they are already solved in a product such as gmail.
- Searching through the data works very well with gmail. I can retrieve all mails relevant to a topic very well.
- Displaying conversation in an easy to read way.

I think it is nice to make very elaborate products, but simple technology, such as e-mail, is extremely powerful, as it is universal.

A slight comment: I usually look at the cost of the service for 3 years (the average time, say, I keep a laptop or smartphone). $5 or $10 per month is $150 to $300 for 3 years. That is quite a lot.
I know it goes against the merits of the site, but it would be great if there was a fallback option to output CSS for browsers that do not support grids.
> Ad blocker extensions are a major security risk

This is only true in the sense that an all-purpose browser is "a major security risk". That is to say, it's not true in any coherent sense.

Yes, the ad blocker needs to be trustworthy, and there are a variety of approaches for furthering that goal.

> Adblocker extensions need full access to all network traffic and all it takes is a single person's account or machine to be compromised to get access to millions of browsers.

Again, you could say the same about the browser itself. Even if it were infeasible for extension developers to implement more security safeguards, that would be a flaw in the Chrome Web Store, not in the concept of web extensions.
Van Halen's rider and how it can help improve software development
from a safety perspective, std::optional is not much different than std::unique_ptr. both will happily allow you to invoke UB if you don't explicitly check for validity.
> very good programmers who know the language well and what they’re doing

And never make a mistake.

Honestly, it's probably just because I'm not good enough, but I prefer to use my focus on improving the functionality of my code instead of ensuring any change I make is correct.

I've successfully maintained some 100k lines C++ code in the past. I would rather avoid that in the future.
You can easily pay ~42% (yes, contributions included) and still not be considered rich.
Staying within 1 to 2 days a week commute to the office range keeps you from getting a 10-20% pay cut maybe?
A trivial "backspace to go back" extension needs access to all sites. Fraudsters buy semi-popular extensions and load them up with tracking and link rewriting malware, unhindered by Google.

Their continued "refinement" of the core ad blocker APIs while all these abuses and deficiencies go unaddressed is extremely suspicious.
This is the best explanation I have seen :

https://youtu.be/uX7VpTqXJhY
Having also intermittent sleeping problems (and as a person who'd prefer to not use sleeping pills/drugs etc) I think I'll do more exercise then :)
The KEF-11 for the LSI11-23 was optional, though best bought at the same time. Given the price of the chip, plugging one in tended to be a bit of a ceremonial affair.
To save people the click: this isn't a study or professional poll, it's effectively just a twitter poll that someone put up and then a partisan website is now broadcasting around without adding information to the story. There's no telling what partisan makeup the sample was for instance or what age groups they were from or even if they got a representative swath of tech workers.

I wouldn't draw any conclusions from it and would caution people against confirmation bias (the article's tag-line is literally "as expected")
The courses generated a passive income, but they taught another topic (programming)
Big Dog's Backyard Ultra
That would have only been true had he also been attacked by murder hornets.
> Both Westerners and overtly Western things were referred to as bata-kusai, "kusai" being Japanese for "stink."

Although that is a literal meaning, -kusai functions as a suffix which creates an adjective from a noun indicating that something has the quality of that noun, and that the quality is undesirable. In this role, it doesn't indicate a smell.

It basically means "-like" or "-ish", with a negative slant.

For instance "ao" refers to the blue/green color and also to an unripe state of plants or immature state. "aokusai" refers to a raw vegetable taste or smell, like cut grass, or something unripe for consumption; also to an inexperienced person, greenhorn.

"inakakusai": unsophisticated hick, country bumpkin.

"mendoukusai": troublesome, bothersome.

"usokusai": seemingly false, contrived, questionable. ("uso" -> lie).

"oshiroikusai": (it. smelling of face powder) coquettish.
If CBDC issuance coincides with banning physical cash, what makes you think that they won't enforce capital controls on alternative currencies?
It makes no sense to say that ID.3 is a more reasonable competitor to Zoe or e-208 when the wheelbase difference to those cars is bigger than to Model 3 (+~18cm to Zoe, +~22cm to e-208, -~11cm to Model 3). Unfortunately there seems to be no info about passenger volume because then we could actually compare it to lets say EPA size rating etc. Even going by regular car terms the 208 competitor is VW Polo while ID.3 is bigger than Golf...
This site is just an ad for a book.
Vintage Photos Show What Moscow Looked Like in the 1950s
Are you sure your grip on reality is so tight that you can judge the state of another man’s head?

What happens on C-SPAN is a lot of posturing for the camera. The real negotiations, if they happen at all, happen between the Speaker, the President pro Tempe, the President and whoever the party whips have to cajole on that vote. That part doesn’t happen on the floors of the House and the Senate anymore because nothing hits the floors without the Speaker or the President pro Tempe signing off on it, and they’ll sign off on something even if they know it has no chance of passing just to try and score points with the base.
I have used openkb for a while.

Its fast, lightweight and MIT licensed.

https://github.com/mrvautin/openKB
4. Chromium is open-source, while Chrome is not.
This seems like a purposely obtuse hit on California by someone with a political axe to grind. Before the pandemic and global recession which has blown up State and Federal budgets everywhere, California was running a huge budget surplus and saving up billions of dollars in a rainy-day fund.

Deeply red Georgia is also facing a major budget shortfall but you don't see article like this from right-wing commentors lamenting the series of tax cuts passed in recent years.
They are buying customers, and will typically fade out the European IPRs in lieu of American. The innovations are most of the time American, they're just buying companies to speed up the scaling.
I cold emailed the CEO with the description of the project I wanted to do. Had no prior connection, got access within two days.
I use Airpods on my Samsung Phone. You don't need an iPhone to enjoy the best aspects of airpods.
Good couple of years ago when I decided to give Hetzner a shot, they sent me... a papper contract by post, and then... asked to sign a copy and send back. That was the last time I've ever dealt with them.
I have been using OpenBSD the past few months/weeks on less common architectures (loongson and macppc). It’s taught me a lot and will enjoy updating to the new release!
Damn the plot is thickening
What if the fact checkers are the website itself? How do you even stand a chance then? The bias is then forced making it look more legitimate.
Are these proposed central bank “digital currencies” anything more than a centralised or federalised database of who-owns-how-many?

And if so, how does that differ from what we have now? That is, in a European country, I have an account with my bank, and my bank has an account with the central bank (or the two interact in some other way).

My understanding of the current system is limited, I merely know some large portion of the issued currency today is without physical representation.
Pre-COVID, California was a model of fiscal responsibility.
Egypt has managed to plant trees in the desert using wastewater
Police get access to people told to self-isolate by NHS test and trace
If one was inclined to get a 30 year fixed mortgage (sounds insane, but people do that), $850/mo will get you a house in Cottonwood Heights, not a bad neighborhood at all.

[insert some kind of subjective disclaimer about what living in a “nice” ‘hood in a place like that is worth here]
If you add a `uniform vec3 mousePrevFrame` that tracks the previous mouse position, you can get smoother drawing in main() by replacing your distance function in the line `float dist = distance(mouse.xy, gl_FragCoord.xy)` with a custom

distanceToLine(mousePrevFrame.xy, mouse.xy, gl_FragCoord.xy)

defined as

float distanceToLine(vec2 p1, vec2 p2, vec2 p0) {
float d12 = distance(p1, p2);
if (d12 == 0) {
return distance(p1, p0);
}
return abs((p2.y - p1.y) * p0.x - (p2.x - p1.x) * p0.y + p2.x * p1.y - p2.y * p1.x) / d12;
}
To Prevent Election Catastrophe We Need Open Data
I am not aware of this. What happened?
Almost every major banks has its own startup incubator project that functions as a type of lead investor that directs the mariage of its children into these incestual relationships. This tends to skew the market towards serving the needs of its host company instead of looking at a market as a hole.

A bigger issue IMO, is that the EU can't grow business that grow a cloud business and instead thinks it can just will this into being.

I think I know what they want to do, define the economic relationships between companies and standardise them in RDF and other semantic web standards. Dunno maybe even set internal prices for memory, processing and network utilisation sort of like LIBOR does for intra-bank lending.
>"What happens if the file has been deleted between the directory listing and the open?"

Did author even know that one can check stream state or have it throw exception. It is a very poor attempt at pissing contest.
There's a huge difference between the government and private organizations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(PPP)
My forearms get tight when I'm stressed or sleep deprived. I have one of those large "thumper" massagers (like the "Hangsun Handheld Neck Back Massager" on Amazon). When you use them, find the sore spot in your muscle very close to your elbow. Work that out with the massager.
What kind of risk-taker are you: Maximax, Minimin, or Minimax?
In go, starting a function with a capital letter means something.
The Daily Dropout – Student founded startups from the top colleges, weekly
Royal Meteorological Society’s Weather Photographer of the Year 2020 Awards
Does the expanded code take longer to compile than the equivalent handwritten code? Is it just the expansion itself that takes a long time?

In the latter case, maybe cargo needs an intermediate macro-expansion cache (instead of just a crate-level build cache)
If you look at section 2 of bill S.2658[0], you will see that the bill only applies to "Large Communications Platform Providers". You bank is not that. Spotify and Netflix are not that. The bill doesn't apply to them. And note that the current threshold is 100M monthly active users in the United States*. A third of the population using the communications platform monthly. Relevant passage of section 2:

(7) LARGE COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORM.—The term “large communications platform” means a product or service provided by a communications provider that—

(A) generates income, directly or indirectly, from the collection, processing, sale, or sharing of user data; and

(B) has more than 100,000,000 monthly active users in the United States.

---

Original bill text:
[0] https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/265...
And is this rainy-day fund working? I am seeing that the human feces pickup-patrol in SF is costing taxpayers up to $184k each and SF is becoming an even worse homeless-friendly dump with California's extreme liberal policies.
Long term we got pension issues, but yes in fact, our previous governor was great at cutting back spending and was very fiscally responsible. https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2018/dec/18/jerry-brow...
Technically true (only). Amazon are devoid of ethics but we know that already.
Notation is standard across the world. I think it's set by the World Meteorological Organization.
As much as I don't like many aspects of CA government and politics, this feels like a weird attack. I cannot comment on exact specifics but a lot of those salaries don't seem super outrageous when you look at the areas they serve. Thats part of the problem going on right now no? How can you expect to hire public servants when you cannot even pay them enough to live in the areas they are serving?
Big internal market might be a part of it. But at least for China, investors do take some crazy bets. I know if many that are pretty head scratching. But in the end, it just takes a few of these crazy bets working out.
I really hope that works for already functioning small business, because I did write and apply everywhere I could.

I have a British friend who would work with me on this idea of an appliance reuse/recycling factory in NRW (because it's the closest state to the best suppliers from FR/DE/BE/NL). We've done the research, there's little competition and we could be profitable within a year.

To summarize the idea: take broken/used/returned electronics like washers, fridges, dishwashers, dryers, TVs, laptops, smartphones. Fix whatever can be fixed and sell as refurbished, break down the rest and sell for parts and scrap.

Seems simple? That's because it is, at least the basic idea. The hard parts are securing suppliers and selling everything for a profit. But we believe it can be done, because there's a huge market for refurbs, and especially spare parts.

There's a myriad of small repair shops all over EU that are starved for parts. I used to get them for cheap from my previous employer and sell them at a profit. I never had enough parts to satisfy the demand.

The UK has several big companies and a whole lot of small ones. Mainland EU is lacking, there's a few big recyclers in the Netherlands, everywhere else it's just small companies that don't seem to aim for scale.

I could publish the business plan if anyone's interested. At this point, I don't care if it's me or anyone else who does it. But it has to aim for scale, it's a must have for the environment.
Check his other articles. He simply takes the reports and adds the same title for many states.

It’s honest but disingenuous journalism.
On one hand, this doesn’t bother me much. California is very expensive and wages are very high - these two things are related. In general I think public employees making wages comparable to private sector is a good thing.

On the other hand, if all the city staff people had to live on $67k/yr (the median household income in CA), then perhaps we would make more progress addressing the cost of living.
I don’t understand what’s wrong with paying teachers and city managers well. Especially in a county like Santa Clara, the cost of housing is driven up by tech, so of course salaries are higher.

This strikes me as an attempt to nationalize the issue, since these numbers are more eye-popping in the rest of the country.
Linux security modules, always good to have. AppArmor, SELinux, Smack, and TOMOYO are good examples.
Right, I get that. My question is what other forms did they mean? One could use indentation. Basically yaml. That is notoriously bad for copy paste between files, though.

Edit: I see you made the same point in another post. I'm calling that portability of the code, though not sure that is the best term.
Not sure if facetious, but this appears generally true on the face of it. They had a $21B surplus last year, and COVID has decimated state tax incomes across the board. Post-COVID, it should be expected that they'll be just fine. I agree with GP that this just feels like a hit piece.
As a PDP-11 assembly programmer who migrated to C, this one has caught me out too because it does 'feel' a very natural explanation. Possibly it's because both products came from the ideas that were in circulation at the time - or maybe it's that PDP-11 assembly programmers who moved to C found it easy (given pointers with pre/post-increment/decrement addressing is baked into the instruction set).
Given that this is a 16-bit computer (rather than, say, an 18-bit one), why are they describing things in octal rather than hex...?
Russians spread fake news over Oxford coronavirus vaccine
This brings back great memories.

UCSD Pascal, TECO/KED, learning Dibol.... I learned on an 11/23 running RT-11, VT100, dual RL02s (oh, yeah). I never did learn anything serious about the O/S.

Our high school had an ancient PDP-8 we used DEC Basic on.
> but to the simple fact that it's "C++ without baggage".

That's how I've always viewed it. Or rather a better replacement for C++.
Solar Panels are inexpensive but the installation is still incredibly expensive. Unless you can install them yourself, installation can be several times the cost of the panels.

What a game changer if you could just by a large carpet roll of panels and roll out in the backyard or float it on a pond/lake, eliminating installation cost.

Maybe some day...
This is a very timely article as an annual event called Stoic Week begins on Monday. It is online and free to attend, so if Stoicism piques your interest you should consider participating, I am.

https://learn.modernstoicism.com/p/stoic-week

Also, Stockdale's original article quoted in this article is well worth a read. This is a PDF link.

https://www.usna.edu/Ethics/_files/documents/Stoicism2.pdf
Costs, use Google Translate: https://www.mtvuutiset.fi/artikkeli/koronavilkkuun-on-varatt...

Share of population that downloaded it - Your article only talk about the first 24 hours. See for instance this article that says 1.8 milloin a month and a half ago: https://mobiili.fi/2020/09/08/koronavilkun-lataukset-yli-18-...

That's beginning to be half of the relevant population in a country of 6 million, when you take out kids and people in old folks' homes.
That's a really bad example, because the cost of the pandemic alone for the German government was forecasted as 1500 billion EUR [1].

Any spending that would make the pandemic become a fraction less severe is probably a net win. So if you have to chose between 60m EUR offer and a 95% chance of success of all features and in time delivery and another offer of 10m EUR and 90%, what should you choose? Why be thrifty at this point?

My question is rather why didn't they went out to spend more? So many more things that could have been added: public places check-ins (e.g. When visiting restaurants), more interfaces for laboratory to upload data, manual meeting log, collaborations with other countries...

[1] https://www.zeit.de/politik/deutschland/2020-10/coronavirus-...
It is after the compiler has accepted it with no warnings or errors.
It's a bit bizarre that they didn't even link to their own paper from the github repo
Or maybe, at that salary, you would get not much of a good talent pool in the long run.
Public (especially the state and municipal) employees in the US earn quite a lot of money. In an NJ town right across Manhattan, I know a town council man could make $150K/year. He has been on the council for like only a few years (like 2-3 years top), but before then he was running all kinds of political stuff in the city (once an assistant of the then mayor, for example). I can't help but imagine corruption when I saw how much he earns and how much property tax we have to pay in this town.

P.S. I got to learn his income because I am on the board of a co-op where he tried to buy an apartment (his secondary dwelling) at and we run his background check and income/finance capability.
Mine is directly next to my workstation.
Yeah, you could, but Intel doesn't sell good MIMO cards for parallel access. I think at most they sell 2x2 ones? What is out there that has more and also has an open source driver with up to date firmware (if it's open - even better).
Most of the cited employees are managers in high cost areas.

130k in Fremont doesn’t actually go very far. You can’t buy a house, and are at the bounds for an entry level engineer.

300k for a high level manager in most of these areas is low. Especially if comparing to private industry.

The pension question is concerning long term since private industry doesn’t offer this.
If you're more into coffee and are on more of a budget, the Ninja 12-cup makes an excellent cup of coffee. Combine that with Eight-oclock whole bean Columbian Coffee and any cheap grinder. I prefer this to any coffee-shop coffee.
Through just a cursory reading of who's getting P-P-P-PAID,

- 109,627 teachers and school administrators.

- 66,403 college and university employees.

- 62,204 State of California employees – including a nurse.

- 45,718 city and town employees: including 1,420 municipal administrators and employees who out-earned the California governor – the highest paid state governor ($202,000).

Notably we have teachers, college and uni employees (not sure of the % of admin vs educators here), and state employees (not sure of the admin vs essential workers here as well, whatever the definition of essential)

And they name-and-shame some of these employees as well.

What's the matter here? Bloated admin costing money? or competition costing money? The article attributes it to both.

So why shouldn't the gov. workers get paid? Singapore does that (but they actually have a functional gov.).

But paying gov/school/college workers well has got to be a good thing! Incentivizing them/others to strive to do a better job/game whatever metric to get that job, which cannot be entirely corrupt.

There's a nurse in there well.

California does not seem to be in trouble because of these people who are highly paid.

California is grasping to find a patsy to blame.
This at least looks like a hopeless initiative of German media company and Spanish telecom without EU money involved.
Pure insanity. Cali is under intense pressure. People are leaving the state.
Ya know, it looks completely feasible to convert the basic design into a 64-bit system with 32-bit instructions.
The post that this is responding to was discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24805717
Living in the EU and working as a consultant for some time, I could not agree more. In 2020 when every major company and gov agency uses cloud computing there are still many companies in Germany who refuse to do so because of security. I mean nothing concrete or factual, just "because of security concerns". The same companies have weekly security breaches that they are not even aware of always, sometimes customers notify them. There is still a heavy management focus in the EU, the kind of the manager is always right, no matter what happens. I could go on and on but when I hear about 10B spent (wasted) on a giant EU cloud I always envision these smart managers sitting in a room and doing white boarding session without a single solitary clue what is going on outside in the word. It is going to be the most expensive shitshow in the history of the EU. Popcorn is ready.
Open Source to preserve stable climate, energy supply and natural resources