skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TIL

"Currently, the time zone used within Xinjiang is roughly split along the ethnic divide, with most ethnic Han population in the area following Beijing Time, and most ethnic Uyghur population as well as population of some other ethnics in the area following Xinjiang Time."

I guess we see plenty of other units of measurement get tied up with identity (eg miles and ounces in the UK), shouldn't be surprising that it happens with time zones.
Re (2): SML/NJ has a similar scheme to dump a heap image to get an executable.
That must be one fast compiler.
This is a wonderful movie and one anyone interested in the stories and fate of Assange, Manning and Snowden will appreciate.
Also, many laptops have non-replaceable batteries, and a significant percentage fail in 24-30 months.
My mind was blown with the "visual IntelliSense" demo.

Having a UI component library where you can get a visual preview of what the element looks like while you key up/down through autocomplete options seems drastic for development velocity.

What can't you do with VSCode these days? I hope we continue to see a trend of innovative IDE features like this.
I didn't get that vibe at all. To me Taibbi sounds like someone like me: a resident of the Democratic party who is willing to criticize the ends as well as the means of both parties.
This sort of conviction is not looked upon very highly by our "free" society.
I mean... this is obviously incorrect?
They just added it to a recent release, so you can now add a webview based view to the sidebar or panel [0].

[0] https://code.visualstudio.com/updates/v1_50#_webview-views
At risk of extreme naivety, why do failed real estate investments merit Fed support and attention? I thought they were just for maintaining a sound dollar and liquidity and the financial system, not charity for real estate kings.
I was just starting to think about whether I'm ready to move from Macbook only to iMac + iPad pro
They made copies of the hard drive in the laptop? As a software engineer I can assure you that that it is very easy to make copies of a hard drive and I expect that a computer repair guy would know how.

> He had been a senator in Delaware, but no longer lived there at the time.

The Bidens have multiple houses in Delaware. There are many pictures leaked from Hunter's laptop that have Delaware in the geocode. If you want to be weird about it you can go look up the Biden family's social media accounts (still up) and see pictures of them at their houses in Delaware.

It really sounds like you just don't want to believe this. Very cult like behavior.
My water cooler is noisy at the fan end. How do you evade that?
If your point is that the originators of the Biden story are shocked and confused that it's being suppressed in an opaque tech cooperating agreement, they shouldn't be: the story is being suppressed because it's at best illegally obtained data, and at worst deliberately falsified; and in either case, it's now being used by bad actors in an attempt to manipulate the results of the election. There's no mystery here: Twitter is being very clear about why this story is blocked.
This Year's Arctic Sea Ice Is Failing to Form, Raising a ‘Red Flag’
This assumes that manager productivity is positively correlated with their reports' productivity.
Title from a parallel universe where it wasn't sponsored:

"You don't need a blockchain, you just need to pick one of Postgres, MySQL or SQLite"
Your implication is that Twitter and Facebook are human beings, and I think a majority of people would contest that idea.

What I am saying is that the authors of the bill of rights did not intend for a person's human rights to go away the moment they are persecuted by an entity other than the United States federal government.
You can revoke the keys as a user, it’s just that the system has to trust the Microsoft CA out of the box. If you have purchased a device with Secure Boot capability (including a motherboard), it trusts Microsoft’s CA (since it would be extremely confusing for 99% of users if Windows wouldn’t boot without trusting a key).

My Ryzen board trusted Microsoft out of the box, it has to if they want to pass Windows logo certification. You can check yours here: https://partner.microsoft.com/en-us/dashboard/hardware/searc...
Wikipedia mentions carpenter bees are quite capable. Which probably explains how my neighbor's gets pollinated. I know it's certainly not by hand.
Same article from yesterday's thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24870552
To be fair, I'm pretty sure that's a pretty common sentiment around HN.
Desktop + ultralight laptop + 4G (5G?) modem for remote access and I get the best of both.
Have they finally worked out Thrust and fuel that works in space without air (combustion) ?

Also to travel to other planets you would need to work out

- Anti Gravity system

- Radition shielding

- Reclying Water

- Growing food without gravity or artifcal gravity
(Aquaponics ?)

- Recyling air

- Non tradational fuel sources

- Long Distance Radio commication without stations/repeaters
I still have my "Los Angeles Amiga Users' Group" shirts.
Try looking deeply into almost any specific condition - let's take heart disease. Cholesterol, for instance - is it bad? Is it necessary? Do you need a certain amount or does the amount not matter so long as you have the correct ratio of fats? Why are some people perfectly healthy with cholesterol numbers off the roof, and others can have atherosclerosis with cholesterol numbers off the charts low? Will reducing cholesterol for that second person help them? Hurt them?

For the record, the treatment plan my cardiologist put me on was explained as "all these things seem correlated with not having heart attacks so we'll just do them all and hope it helps you".
Drones can’t fit through my excluders.
Every so often I put a frame
from the brood boxes above the excluder. Old frames or ones with lots of drone cells. I have to check back in a few days to let the drones out or they die and block the excluder. Workers try to pull them though and jam them in the holes.

I’m currently using some nice American made excluders and they are really nice. They are made of wire and are quite quite rigid.
Prominent examples disagree with you. Gmail for example. They even allow accounts! Now maybe Google wants to argue that Gmail qualifies for the personal communication tools exception. But wait, GitHub doesn't block Iranian IPs either! They allow free accounts as well! Call in the feds!

Is there any government guidance or legal precedent that says IP blocking is required? There is not.

Any evidence that the government warned companies privately? And is this the way things are done in the US? Private threats while the citizenry at large is left on the dark about what the law requires?

A Gitlab executive facing prison time over failure to block Iranian IPs would be unjust even with clear guidance, on the import of the offense alone. But given the lack of legal clarity, this would be banana republic stuff. One of my main points here is, Americans should not accept such a state of affairs.

It's bad enough that there is so much over compliance, it's disappointing to see people running to normalize the idea that fear of jail time in the face of legal uncertainty is a way to run a country.
In Haskell's defense, they meant to do that.
Correct, it is ad hominem, which is appropriate in a discussion about the respectability of a journalist institution, which this is.
This is sarcastic, right? Regardless of whether nuclear is safe or not, the name still rubs me the wrong way, in the same way that "PATRIOT act" or "clean coal" does.
>> that new thing which doesn't work in so many cases it's laughable, even after 11 years.

I've been using Wayland for years now and it works great. The one and only thing I use X for is OBS studio because they're still working out the window capture stuff, which BTW mean poking the right hole through security that X doesnt even have.

Most the things that don't work well on Wayland are old junk.
As someone living in NYC, his explanation of how NYC's tax revenue is heavily dependent on hugely inflated real estate valuations was pretty scary.

Here's the WSJ article he was referring to: https://archive.is/QjPNf
"(in 1904) The French Ministry of Education asked these researchers to develop a test that would allow for distinguishing mentally retarded children from normally intelligent, but lazy children." -- Binet developed it out of an earlier concept of 'mental age', the average ability level of a child aged so many years and months.
If you are right then it would by indicated by some data I could read, yes? Show me anything which indicates that the net domestic migration out of SF (proper or metro area) has increased during 2020.
I don't see an interactive cluster diagram, but those search results are actually pretty good.

Thanks for this. I'll flip it to my default search for a while and see how it goes.
iPad (with keyboard and mouse/trackpad/touch) can be a thin client to Windows, Mac and Linux desktops.
The standard for X was very low in the past. It's unfair to compare wayland with X, when you compare X to alternatives we had back in the 90s.

It took the X window system 30-ish years to get where it is today. Wayland only had 11 years, yet it is already better than X in many aspects.
> Both the government and private companies can censor stuff. But private companies are a little bit scarier. They have no constitution to answer to. They’re not elected. They have no constituents or voters. All of the protections we’ve built up to protect against government tyranny don’t exist for corporate tyranny.

- Aaron Swartz
The central component of the American Dream is that, once you're rich, the government will do everything in its power to make sure you remain rich.
This is the same company doing the Micro Modular Reactor ? amazing
What's crazy to me is how insanely overspec'd mobile devices are for what they deliver. If you went back in time and told 1999 me the following:

I'll give you a computer with the following:

* 256GB of solid-state storage

* 6 CPUs @ 3+GHz

* 8GB of RAM

* Weighs only 200 grams

* Battery-powered, lasts 5+ hours

* 1440 x 3168 resolution display

I would have been absolutely gobsmacked. Such a machine absolutely outclasses every desktop up into the early 2010s!

And then you would tell me that it's mostly used to shitpost on reddit and Twitter and would be completely useless as a development machine, and the manufactures would do everything to make it impossible to put what software I want on it...and also it would spy on me everywhere I went in order to sell me garbage...

We took a wrong turn somewhere, didn't we?
Would you say the same if, next year, the official investigation founds that he is guilty?
This is something he does in all of his recent political writing, to the point that I had to go and search for articles where he’s unambiguous about his political stances. Even after finding those, I never quite felt like I’m looking at the same political reality as him, and ended up unsubscribing. I’m sympathetic to the substance of his writing, so maybe that’s just what non-partisan writing looks like and it’s too strange to read in this media environment? I don’t know, but if anyone has more thoughts on this, then I’d like to hear them.
Signals and Threads: a tech podcast from Jane Street
Note that Github does not block Iranian IPs, nor Iranian accounts.
13. I use my desktop as a portable to replace my gym membership.
While not as much as Mozilla, most reports saying it's still 10-20% of their profit, which isn't insignificant.
If you're running multithreaded build jobs with ninja and have many cores then maybe?
If it doesn't matter that it's 'just the default' why is the DoJ so upset about Google paying to be the default?

You can't simultaneously argue that being the default is irrelevant and that it's bad to pay to be the default.
> That they would continue to support the CCP’s interests under a banner of “operating within the laws of the country” is not a surprise.

It seems that China actually supports Palestine[1]. Why does banning this talk align with CCP's interests?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China%E2%80%93Palestine_relati...
The Fed does a lot of macroeconomic modeling and forecasting, so their analysts being interested in the effects of the pandemic on particular sectors of the economy doesn't sound particularly unusual (I have no insight in the the particular circumstances referenced in the parent comment of course).
Also different from nuclear pulse rockets [6], where you throw an atomic bomb out the back and use the blast wave to push you forward. And repeat the process a couple hundred times.

[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_pulse_propulsion
Wants “open laptops” but won’t pay for them, dismissing efforts by Purism as “overpriced.” I can’t take this seriously.
This definitely doesn't sound like a consequence of adding extra supply to the market in desirable downtown locations.
I've been to HOA meetings where they talk about fines as "revenue" as if they should be maximizing that "revenue". Disgusting.
Solar panels only outperform a human when the sun is shining. From the article:

"But what if skies remained gray for many days in a row? Rather than trying to purchase enough battery storage to cover all reasonable eventualities, I decided that my backup source of electricity needed a backup itself, one that I could use to charge that battery during times when my photovoltaic panels won’t function"

As a primary source of energy a cycle generator doesn't make a lot of sense. But as an on demand source to cover occasional periods of low solar generation it's a great hack.
> X was built for a world that never was.

No. This is the thinking of people who can't see the utility of a use case they never personally use. It's the thinking of people who believe that "ssh -X" is "obsolete" because RDP exists, or that window managers can become obsolete because the fashion has moved on. X works, it's worked for decades, and saying that it's never worked doesn't negate that.
I wish it used Result and Option types. Checking if err != nil constantly feels off
It's hard for me to think about how else to measure manager productivity. Managers don't usually submit code themselves.
> That's an unnecessarily abrasive view: the Wayland protocol designers do not hate power users. But allowing programs to constantly take in arbitrary input & output information in the background, as well as simulate arbitrary input to other programs, is an obvious and glaring security flaw. Unfortunately, that forbids general-purpose screenshotting and key-rebinding programs - but there is no sensible middle ground.

Of course there's a middle ground: require special permission for programs that wish to do those things. For example, macOS has permission prompts for "[Application] would like to record this computer's screen." and "[Application] would like to control this computer using accessibility features."
My top score was 210 after I figured out not to run through the middle.
There's a severe double standard here given that Twitter has allowed worse than that, which was the whole point of the article: that the decision making is opaque, arbitrary, and probably coordinated.
Thanks for elaborating, for others. Yes, the residents enable the squalor and I have no better solutions to offer them, but I am able perceive that the collective opinion of the residents is a byproduct of a largely apathetic transient population that masquerades as a progressive movement, while not needing to live with the results.

I can recognize that it is incapable of creating a more collaborative and sanitary urban environment, and that's just not worth paying for.
Functors, Applicatives, and Monads in Pictures (In Elm)(2018)
Let's not delude ourselves into thinking that DDG has even a percent of a percent of Google's brand recognition. The fact that we are even discussing this shows what sort of a bubble we are in. The vast vast majority of users in the real world don't know or care about DDG.

No matter what your opinion of the company, Google's brand reputation is well earned and pervasive, and it started and was built from scratch, as opposed to DDG which basically stuck its own logo on Bing's API.
Fast compilation was one of the main reasons Golang was invented.

The gradual accumulation of #include clauses in C programs scales very badly. A large distributed compilation system was created in Google to handle the slow compilation. One reason is you never know if some #include is actually needed.

In Golang unused dependencies are a compile-time error. The generated object file includes type information for all related import dependencies in binary format. This speeds up the compilation significantly.
yes. you are surely more correct that covid has had zero effect on net domestic migration out of SF.

a simple google search shows figures. there are lots. rent data is the simplest.
I'm sorry you had a bad experience. My first Samaritans call wasn't exactly a breeze either (a lot of uhuh, sure, yeah).

I will say -- these phone lines are staffed by human beings. Even with the best of intentions, they're just that, humans. They wont always get it right.

But, when they do, it can be life changing.

I'm always grateful for the kind Samaritans lady who stayed on the phone for over an hour one night.
XX. Cannot sit with my desktop in bed :)
Good question. The answer is yes. Aside from the factual basis (or lack thereof) of the information in question, there's the question of how it's been used. Giuliani, obviously the bad actor of this story, has been sitting on this laptop for a year. If he wanted to have a serious discussion about Biden's alleged impropriety, he should have released it early. At this point in the election cycle, it's a blatant attempt to grab a news cycle and force voters to a bad decision before the dust has settled.

I support a total blackout of political stories in the run-up to an election.

[Edit: rephrase to clarify that my position would not change.]
X works for me on systems with multi-month uptimes (dictated by software updates that have nothing to do with X) and networking windows over the Internet, something RDP (and, to the best of my knowledge, Wayland) is incapable of. Meanwhile, Wayland doesn't run the software I want to run and doesn't run on the hardware I own.
To my knowledge, services hosted on AWS are not blocked in Iran.

Also, if that were the case, literally have the internet would cease to function w/o VPN, which should give pause to those who would shrug off such a policy.
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Thank me later
It's frustrating to me (as a UEFI engineer) to see and read the fear-mongering on blogs like these. Much of what I do is focused on open-sourcing and making the industry as a whole better.

I tend to side with others in the thread that the "end of general purpose computing" isn't a result of manufacturers pushing in a direction but rather following consumers. The percentage of computer scientists, programmers, and enthusiasts that consider the openness of their hardware a deal breaker grow smaller each year. For the rest of the population, they can find something that's general enough for their use cases.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for opening hardware up and making it transparent. But until we as general consumers (not just the fine folks of Hacker News) care enough to let that sway our buying decisions, this trend is going to continue.

There will always be general hardware. It's just going to get more expensive.
The most important parameter of an engine like that is velocity of particles emitted as reaction mass (translate to specific impulse). Thermal rocket is going to loose to well designed electric one. Electric rocket can propel ions to huge velocities basically functioning as a small particle accelerator.
The issues currently are ability to get enough thrust (density of the particle stream) and preventing materials from decaying due to energetic particles.
Thermal rocket will be limited to very small, thermal velocities.
I find it really arrogant to claim "this software does everything I need, so it should never change", while in reality you are but an infinitesimally small part of the user base said software has to support.

Sure, all the software can stay where they are if all the developers had to serve is you. But that is just not the reality.
You can totally write code on an iPad. There are plenty of JavaScript environments, not to mention Pythonista.

Swift playgrounds will actually run quite large codebases with a little fiddling around.

You can trivially get a robust Linux command line with Blink and a free tier Google compute instance.

I agree there is no XCode.
I just built a new Windows gaming machine. Windows came on a DVD. I had to make a quick trip to Walmart to get a USB DVD drive. :-)
Ransomware disables Georgia county election database
You could say that about lots of news that FB and Twitter allow. If FB and Twitter are strictly blocking unverified news then they would have also blocked things like the NYT tax return story. You also wade into some hairy territory of who is verifying news, and why.

Facebook and Twitter are effectively acting as editors for select news organizations.
https://www.cyclinganalytics.com/blog/2018/06/how-does-your-...
Also outlaw Western Union, gift cards, game items, and all the remaining ways to transfer value internationally.

Then, maybe, you could think about going after the actual hackers, exploit sellers, designers and implementers of insecure systems, ...

But first ban Bitcoin.
I see a lot of long form medium articles these days. It’s not that they don’t exist. They are just very bad.
But the DOJ isn't missing anything, it's the Times that's missing them, as someone (literally named someone) pointed out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24889252
Could you shoot me an email? I’m always on the lookout for pandoc freelancers.
"Curious, I plugged it in again and the fire started again"

This reminds me of an old joke: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammerHumor/comments/46sere/a_p...
Not only do I control the weather, but the stock market, too. If I buy a stock, it goes down. If I sell it, it goes up.

Every time.

Fortunately, after about 6 weeks or so, the market forgets I did a transaction, and things start moving my way. I'm forced to be a long term investor.
That's a really long way of trying to justify unfairness under some arbitrary criteria.

If Twitter's policy is to surpress under some criteria (e.g. data illegally obtained), and they're not doing so every single time (they don't), then they're unfair on the arbitrary application of that criteria.
Tower seems better for more advanced tasks, but I've been doing most of my git tasks in VSCode for a while.
>> Cannot say Wayland works smoothly on my triple-monitor setup.

How does X work on that setup?
Some of the largest investors in commercial real estate are private equity and other investment funds that invest on behalf of the largest pension funds in the US. A commercial real estate blood bath could also result in a blood bath for the elderly and those who will retire in the near future. But also it could set off a chain reaction.