skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing that struck me when I read Boswell’s Life of Johnson more than twenty years ago is how strange Johnson seems to have been in person yet how strongly he was admired and loved—at least in Boswell’s telling—by people who knew him. Boswell mentions his “oddities of manner, and uncouth gesticulations” [0]. Macaulay goes into more detail: “His grimaces, his gestures, his mutterings, sometimes diverted and sometimes terrified people who did not know him. At a dinner table he would, in a fit of absence, stoop down and twitch off a lady's shoe. He would amaze a drawing-room by suddenly ejaculating a clause of the Lord’s Prayer. He would conceive an unintelligible aversion to a particular alley, and perform a great circuit rather than see the hateful place. He would set his heart on touching every post in the streets through which he walked. If by any chance he missed a post, he would go back a hundred yards and repair the omission. Under the influence of his disease, his senses became morbidly torpid, and his imagination morbidly active. At one time he would stand poring on the town clock without being able to tell the hour. At another, he would distinctly hear his mother, who was many miles off, calling him by his name.” [1]

I wonder if a person today with a similar mental illness would be accepted and respected in society as Johnson was.

[0] https://archive.org/details/lifesamueljohns10boswgoog/page/n...

[1] https://www.gutenberg.org/files/42971/42971-h/42971-h.htm#Pa...

Edit: “how strange he seems to have been” -> “how strange Johnson seems to have been”
only if lower iq correlated with longevity. Also success compounds. You want faster compounding.
From a security perspective, ChromeOS bothers me because it has a much shorter software support lifecycle than the hardware lifespan.

We have ChromeOS devices out there are perfectly able to run the latest ChromeOS in terms of specs but aren't supported anymore by Google because of an arbitrary time-based EOL and therefore will either be browsing the web unpatched or thrown away.

Whereas any other x86 computer from the last 12+ years or so can have up-to-date Windows or Linux put on it.

Another step on our march to disposable everything.
Amazon S3 Backup
After an initial full backup, you can choose to perform incremental backups to send only new data to Amazon S3. This way you get faster and smaller backups and save on cloud storage costs. Backup to Amazon S3 simplifies the management of daily backups of terabytes of data that can be accessed at any time and from anywhere.
Because of strife with 99% claim. If the pull time took 39.9min (and thus build took 0.1min = 6sec) then a 99% decrease in pull time would result in 99% decrease of total time and you would get 30sec total time in the end. (Rounding to 0 decimal places).

Not that any of this is important for the article to be interesting. In a previous job we had to fight long pull times and we quickly created a git repo for CI that would sit on a machine next to the CI server and would periodically pull from GitHub to avoid the CI to do pulls over Internet.
The US government gets a veto over the acts of its foreign military enemies.

I don't see this as a Zoom issue. Have any other US-operating companies hosted this person?
This is unfortunately not true for health data. There is an exemption for those that those can be collected for research purposes if a member entity legalize that. That is the case in Germany for people who are not privately insured. Their health data is centrally collected for research purposes.
Evaluating a Search System in Jina v0.7
Why not the other way around? Drill into the earths core and simply dump it there.
A leader of the organization.
Isn't this incredibly easy to solve with tiny external rechargeable batteries?
Pretty much this. With 5 Mbps down on ADSL, you can expect 300 to 500 kbps up. It can be hard to remote connect home under those conditions.
Lokomotive is an open-source, easy to use and secure Kubernetes distribution
Matt "No Collusion, No Collusion" Taibi comes out in favour of publishing obvious disinfo campaign?

Colour me shocked.
> This whole article is about a US company enforcing US rules.

Not really. GitLab is an international entity regardless of where it is registered, because it presumes to be a platform for (some forms of) interaction and information sharing for people in many countries. It is implicitly agreed between users and the entity behind the website that it is accessible and usable by everyone.

> Why should one country not allowed etc.

It is not about "allowing", in the sense that I'm not in control of the US and what it does, we are discussing what is morally acceptable. And it is not morally acceptable for individual states to disrupt people's lives using the aspects of inter-dependency of people, groups and organizations across state boundaries - except according to norms which are accepted and defensible at the global level.
> tried with Firefox and 500Mbps of upload capacity

That should have been 500 kbps
> I disabled nginx on the server and installed Caddy instead.

I wonder how a somehow simpler config syntax (Caddyfile) compares to a simpler maintenance system (apt).
You don't need to print money. The measures of injecting money for consumption never work. There are too many precedents, the best, I think, is Argentina, which uses the Keynesian method of injecting money to generate consumption, creating brutal annual inflation and putting the country into recession every 2 years. If you really want to improve people's quality of life, you have to encourage investment, saving and deregulating things so that prices fall, and investment strategies change and focus where it would really give money.
Defining type policies during runtime in Apollo
I dont have this problem with LCDs...
Take a look at Connection Machine Lisp (http://diyhpl.us/~bryan/papers2/paperbot/25aa007a093cd69bbf0...)
How about https://yudkowsky.net/rational/the-simple-truth/
yea, mobile devices are limited by the ammount of thermal energy they can dissipate. most laptop cooling systems top out at around 30W, anything more is peak load or charging.

my i7-6600u idles at around 3W
> The real question is, why bother renting in SF when any of the surrounding cities are cheaper?

Because the pandemic-related shutdowns are temporary (though of course there will be lasting effects), and rents are 30% off their highs, with many landlords throwing free months and other incentives at people to get them to rent.

Sure, if you need/want to save some money over the span of the next 8-12 months, moving out might be a good idea, but if you want to live in the city, you're going to move back eventually, and moving itself isn't free. I think that's a thing that people seem to be missing: posts like yours seem to suggest that the only or main reason people live in SF is because their jobs are there and they want a short commute. That's... just not the case for many, many people.

I think there are valid arguments for leaving, valid arguments for staying, and valid arguments for moving in. But it depends on each person's individual situation and wants and needs.
Starshoesstarshoes
اقوى الخصومات الى عملاء موقعنا على اسعار بوط فلات و عالى و غير ذلك من مختلف منتجات الموقع العالية الجودة
Well, just look the evidence: Venezuela, Argentina, Spain, etc.
I do a similar thing so I don't have to store sensitive data on a VPS. The sensitive data is used to compute non-sensitive results that I'm happy to go via a VPS.
If you are on AT&T u-verse you can just assign a part of your IPv6 subnet (which appears to be static) to your RPi and disable the firewall to that host. Then you can accept incoming connections on ports 80, 22 and even 25 (for 25 I had to send a chat message in my AT&t account and it was opened the same day). Then you can have a full IPv6 web server at no additional cost to the price of your u-verse home internet.
To what standard should security be increased? Should we introduce legislation requiring companies to spend some percentage of their turnover on data security? Or should we require compliance with an ISO standard? Or just put companies on the hook for all breach-related costs?

As you can imagine, for the legislator, this is quite a headache. The insurance idea is appealing because it lets the market price the risk, and introduces a mechanism that can adapt to changing conditions. What mechanism do you propose to induce companies to fix their security?
> it would be cool if we could generate them from more readable syntax

There are a few options out there; maybe take a look at Sweet Expressions? Some Lisp implementations have native support for different syntax, but the nice thing about these formats (which are essentially just serialisations of concrete syntax trees) is that we can convert them into the expected format automatically, e.g. using a pre-processor.

I have a go-to page on my blog for discussions involving s-expressions, including links to various alternative syntaxen: http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2017-08-29-s_expressions.html
There's also this, pre order now available

https://fusionretrobooks.com/products/the-story-of-the-commo...
Yeah i always believed it was some kind of lone evil ai that lives through search results.
In what ways are they “light years” ahead of the competition?
Worth noting that DNI Ratcliffe is the most unqualified DNI to be appointed (and only managed to get appointed on his second try by a minority), is a Trump loyalist, lied in his bio (disqualifying, I'd say) and appears to follow QAnon (but that could be for work purposes.)

The zerohedge URL is truncated and consequently doesn't work.

> And here's the NYPost article itself, excerpts included:

Show us the DKIM headers and let us verify the authenticity, then we'll talk about the content of the emails.
I would assume that office buildings aren't set up with gas lines running all over them, so likely these retrofits will include electric ranges and stoves.

There's still a fire danger, of course, with any kind of cooking, but at least there shouldn't be open flames all over the place.
OP's solution sound good enough for their needs.

Solutions can always be improved, but it's not always worth doing that.
Exactly. What kinds of businesses tend to win?

Businesses which benefit Google and Google insiders. That means big corporations which Google has long term advertising deals with, VC-backed startups which Google plans to acquire at a discount and other businesses which have a connection to Google insiders (startup of the project manager's friend, ...). I'm not suggesting that they tweak the algorithm to benefit specific websites (they probably don't), but they tweak it to favor certain characteristics which, on the whole, benefit Google and Google insiders. Don't forget that Google employees are not a representative sample of the population by any measure.

What kinds of businesses tend to lose?

Businesses that are not affiliated with Google or Google insiders. Independent projects.

The reason why people at Google don't acknowledge that this is happening is because the harm is literally being inflicted on those businesses which are in Google's blind spots so they don't even see the problems... Except on rare occasions when they are shocked to realize that 50% of the population voted for Trump.
It was the first language that was taught in computer science at the University of Copenhagen until around 2015, then they changed that language to F#/

Judging from the activity on Stack Exchange, it seems to be pretty dead. Maybe a few universities around the world still teach it? It can't be more than I handful I guess.
https://stackoverflow.com/tags/sml/topusers
And TRUTH is suppressed in the name of trust/loyalty/discipline/patriotism/sedition/job/national security/intellectual property

https://yts.mx/movies/citizenfour-2014
Hey Rush,

very impressive work! Do you know how much it would cost to self host on a cloud provider per month? (operating costs of the underlying infrastructure without running any job)
I am very interested in trying this out and filled out the form. Would love to talk to you about how you came up with the product and how much work it was and such. Please drop me a line if you have some time :)
Cheers
I suggest you refrain from making such hyperbolized false equivalencies if you want people to seriously consider your perspective. People can empathize with your frustrations around the seeming lack of agency available to individuals in some democratic countries (in the US especially) without you comparing it to some authoritarian country.
How to Use React Context
Ok, I'll ask the obvious question: why did setting the branches option to master not already do this?

EDIT

https://www.jenkins.io/doc/pipeline/steps/workflow-scm-step/ makes it sounds like the branches option specifies which branches to monitor for changes, after which all branches are fetched. This still seems like a counter-intuitive design that doesn't fit the most common cases.
Thanks so much for this tip! I just made this change and some of my tests are now much faster. Here's the result for one of the affected tests (averaged across 5 runs):

Before: 1.39 seconds

After: 0.62 seconds

I have this default line in config/initializers/devise.rb:

config.stretches = Rails.env.test? ? 1 : 11

So hashing user passwords was already very fast. But I'm also manually calling BCrypt in some other places, so these calls are now much faster as well.
But since you're not starting them up before you're in orbit, if the launch would fail it wouldn't be particularly radioactive. Sure, uranium is a toxic heavy metal, like many other heavy elements like lead, but not very radioactive.

Also, since they're using 20% enriched fuel and not 90%+ like Peewee/Kiwi, I guess the fuel design is somewhat different although there certainly are similarities.
Please don't do this. We don't need Twitter any worse than it is already.
What would Conan use for videoconferencing instead if Zoom didn't pay?
This works best in main(), while library functions can just return errors upwards to it.
Can we not do the thing where we pick an organization from an article and then bring up the most generic complaint you can about it in a way that is entirely irrelevant to the post? We get it, you don't like Pinterest showing up in search results, nobody does. But this has absolutely nothing to do with the article other than it being pattern matching on the word "Pinterest", which is about the least informative comment you can make aside from outright trolling or spam. There are threads that come up from time to time where such comments would be appropriate, if not particularly substantive.
I think in reality it would just be mass libel...
Privacy; keep data local, without exposing your residential IP.
It's what she has been doing for 50 years consecutively.
She is still an active member of the organization and has not repudiated their ongoing use of violence.
RIAA doesn't need standing to report on criminal activity. §1201 provides for criminal penalties for trafficking in circumventing measures. They're telling GitHub/Microsoft "This is your last chance before we call the US Attorney and file charges against you for distributing piracy tools." And the US Attorney will almost certainly lend an ear to the RIA-fucking-A.
Sounds awful - I think this was one of the highest-rated 'niggles' of laptop design in one of the review sites, a really poor perspective looking up at people.
Or if the laptop is on a stand, possibly just showing the top of your head.
Alternative title: "How one line of code made our build time 100x what it should have been"
I am very pleased with Webpack, but it definitely shows its roots as a specifically javascript bundler with other formats hacked on top. For instance, while one can have a `.css` file or `.html` file as an entry point, Webpack will nevertheless output a `.js` file with the same name for every entrypoint.

I will be keeping my eye on Rome
Curious, what's the difference between the aspect ratios, in your experience? I've been using 16:9s for a long time now. Off the top of my head, I'd say that 16:9 favours entertainment uses, while a "taller" aspect ratio would favour text-heavy tasks. I use a one-window-at-a-time approach when programming, so screen specifics have relatively little effect on me.
They don't pay employees based on what their expenses are. They pay employees based on what alternative employers would be willing to pay them.

Someone in SF can get high offers from companies in that area, so you have to match to get him.
I certainly hope so, I don't wish this either.

A lot of that optimism that makes SF vibrant is driven by the immigrant population [1].

The exodus that OP prefers, if it comes to pass will be lot more them than the 2nd-3rd gen residents

[1] immigrants to San Fran, or California or the U.S.
I just uploaded a plaintext diff between Pinochet's original 1980 edition and the latest ratified Lagos version (updated August 2020 for the plebiscite). Quite interesting to follow the changes. The git tracking also has the 2005 version. Sorry for the Spanish.

https://github.com/pbleyer/ConstitucionDeChile/blob/master/C...

Git repo at https://github.com/pbleyer/ConstitucionDeChile
Routify – Routes for Svelte, automated by your file structure
I find it ironic that the author has chosen to delegate the management of his blog to Medium. Isn't this exactly the approach that he thinks is wrong-headed? For example, he gets to write a post (the task) but Medium decides how and where to present it who is permitted to read it.
In a simple example like the author provided maybe is not that obvious but try to imagine an example with a more complex nested syntax and maybe some threading or function composition in it.

If you have to modify the behaviour of a specific block of code you only need to edit that structure and your block won't get messy neither requiere special syntax.

As you say, If your "!" transaltes to an expression in your language and you are already writting pure functions that compose niceley then I agree that the benefit would be at a syntax level only, the homogeneity of treating all code (macros or runtime) equally.
The worse experience is when you have found a dead link that contains useful information that exists only as Pinterest snapshot while doing a web search...
Perhaps you should advocate to change the US law against foreign terrorists.
> It's literally designed to download content from sites that don't allow downloads.

You can't simultaneously offer a video for people to watch and still "not allow downloads". What you actually mean is that they do not explicitly offer a downloading feature. That's true, but that's what the tool is for and it's not in itself illegal.
Gaia-X: A Federated Data Instructure for Europe
The constitution as it was written allows for amendments. The 13th and 19th Amendments outlawed slavery and gave women the right to vote, respectively.
No one seems to have pointed it out, so I'll mention that Aaron was clearly paraphrasing Noam Chomsky there. The point about government being partially limited by constitutions and elections while private companies are not is one that Chomsky has been repeating for decades, and the phrase "corporate tyranny" is very much Chomsky's. This is in keeping with his left-libertarian view that workplaces should operate democratically.

It's not that Aaron was plagiarizing—the quote is from a documentary interview (https://www.reddit.com/r/aaronswartz/comments/dpo2ot/both_th...). In that context it's not common to make attributions and the editors would probably have cut it out in any case.
Adobe has dominated the visual design software field for decades, but in recent years they missed the boat for UI/UX design and I would say that Sketch and Figma dominate 'mindshare' among designers for app design. Although Adobe XD doesn't share the same 'mindshare', the dominance of Adobe in the industry means that there is still interest in the product.

Will this Adobe XD update broaden the usage of the app? Only time will tell. It's nice to see alternatives to Adobe apps though.

It does appear that Adobe is in the unusual position of playing catch-up in this field for once. (Another example of Adobe catching-up is on the iPad where Procreate has leapt over Adobe to dominate the digital painting app space.)
You can still find it cached at http://web-old.archive.org/web/20200721063326/https://about....

That said, the resource will become more and more obsolete as the time goes on.
The Beam Marches Forward
It's not hyperbole, and we do live in authoritarian countries across most of the "Western" world. If you question the Leftist narrative in a public manner you will lose your professional job. If you tweet facts that the Left does not like, it will be deleted (and possibly result in the aforementioned termination of your employment). We don't presently have camps, but we absolutely have an undocumented social credit system.
Seems like there's a lot of hostility towards the title, which might be considered the engineering blog equivalent of clickbait. If the authors are around, the post was quite informative and interesting to read, but I'm sure it would have been much more palatable with a more descriptive title.

But back on topic: does anyone have any insight into when git fetches things, and what it chooses to grab? It is just "when we were writing git we chose these things as being useful to have a 'please update things before running this command' implicitly run before them"? For example, git pull seems to run a fetch for you, etc.
The 13th, 19th and 2nd amendments exist in the constitution, as written:

13th: Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

19th: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.

Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.

2nd: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Any political and / or legal discussion should start with at least a vague understanding of that document. All our laws and institutions are founded with it.
It is form over function.

This works for simpler libraries and templates, obviously, but once the function becomes less trivial, it should really be going into a separate source file.

Readability and manageability aspects aside, keeping implementation in a header causes all dependencies of that implementation to be pulled into your code as well. Including the heavy platform-specific stuff. If I need to do some string conversion, I really don't care for the implementation sneaking in <windows.h> into my sources just so that it can call WideCharToMultiByte.
More discussed 2.5 years ago [1] when it's still just a page at https://amandaghassaei.com/ (check out his other great works).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16374575
The Prolongation of Life: Optimistic Studies by Élie Metchnikoff (1908)
People stream 4k60 with no problem from the internet but you think rdp is laggy/artifacty on a LAN? Pretty sure rdp works lossless with no problem whatsoever.
An Introduction to Riot OS and Real-Time Operating Systems
> youtube-dl isn't just a user facing tool

it sure is on my end
The Cyber Threat Equation: Overcoming the Biggest Hurdle Facing Today’s SoCs
Distribyted: Torrent client with on-demand file downloading as a filesystem