skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wish you would not refer to arguments that you disagree with as tropes, it's a thought terminating cliché. Clinton ran on "America is already great" and Biden is running on a "return to normality" ticket under which "nothing will fundamentally change." The Clintons were the center of the DLC, who assassinated the candidacy of Jessie Jackson to bring on an era in which the Democrats would "End Welfare As We Know It," sign the crime bill, and deregulate everything. Biden got into politics as a New England Dixiecrat, of the kind that was extremely popular around Boston when white children there were threatened with being exposed to black children in school. His VP is a prosecutor who bragged about jailing the parents of truant children. Both supported the Iraq War. Biden championed the crime bill that was passed under a Clinton administration.

Yes, they wouldn't be conservative for Saudi Arabia, but they would both continue to closely ally us with the Saudis and aid them in murdering Yemenis.

> center as "median voter in the country being discussed

Both Biden and Clinton, issue by issue, are well to the right of the median US citizen. It's pretty dishonest to restrict the people allowed to have their opinions considered to the people who thought that the distinction between Republican and Democratic administrations was important, when the argument being made is about whether both candidates are conservative. The median eligible voter is barely more likely to vote than not.

I know typing this is a waste of time.
They should be banned.

The vast majority of them drive completely irresponsibly. They go at least twice as fast as the bikes on the bike lanes so they're constantly going in the middle of the lane into oncoming traffic. I've lost track of how many times I've had to swerve on my bike because someone comes right towards me.

The Netherlands does not actually have bike lanes. It has shared moped/scooter/bike lanes.
I get it that you’re indie and running web services from home?
If you’re willing to share, I’d love to see what kind of apps (that aren’t “super critical”) one can from a cabinet from home.
Good for you. But society has rules and laws, and Tesla is indeed responsible for failures in design or manufacturing. As evidenced by hundreds of lawsuits of other manufacturers, for a century.
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Kudos for keeping it off that long, that's incredible.

WRT the diet drinks, I know they're bad. I found I can get some pretty bad migraines if I drink them too often. I try to keep it for once or twice on the weekends though, as a small treat. But I'll try cutting them out completely and see what happens.
From Editor to IDE
I can imagine the day dad tossed the keys to the car because in USA that is at age 16 while say drinking age is 21; so it comes first, as an earlier sign of recognition of becoming an adult. Its like a nod of responsibility. Here, you are allowed both when you are considered an adult (18). That's post high school. Students get to travel for free with public transport (either throughout the week or in the weekend, they have to pick either). How nice is that? Its great, unless you live in a rural area. Instead, kids here get proud when they get their first scooter (at age 16 when still at high school).

What you say about car freedom for rural life, sure. I wasn't on about rural life though. I don't know how good the public transport is in American cities (it is very good in Amsterdam, but also perhaps even better in say Berlin).

I'm curious about that (didn't get to use it when I was in USA). I would guess that someone who lives in New York City who doesn't own a car can rent one if they go to say Pennsylvania. But my guess would be, like in Amsterdam, they don't need one when they reside in New York City.
decentralization doesn’t work without a centralized tool. Torrents are nothing more than a clever idea without The Pirate Bay & similar, Bitcoin is worth nothing without the exchanges.
I moved to mailbox.org.
Interesting thought. It would definitely call bluff on these bully tactics by GitHub.

GitHub's deplorable behavior might very well be illegal, but fat chance of anyone dragging the company to court over it, considering how much that would cost and the amount of lawyers that Microsoft would put on such a case.

Yet again a tech company making up their own laws and (so far) getting away with it. One might wonder, if anything ever substantially changed in the Wild West.
Interesting, but somewhat incomplete analysis IMO.

If you are running a billion + dollar budget for compute spending, you’re surely going to negotiate pricing with your vendor, and while that won’t bring things to parity, it will bring them much closer together.

If you are spending this kind of money, you’re likely doing a lot to get your workloads into some reasonably geographically aligned areas, and if you’re peering with other services, they tend to be running on AWS, which means choosing another provider can significantly increase those latency costs.

While we’re on the subject of bandwidth, what do you think data transfer pricing will be between your other cloud provider and this high compute instance you picked up on the cheap? Odds are they will more than negate your cost savings, and again at a latency cost.

Let’s say you really want to save huge amounts of money though. The easy answer is probably in moving to a spot instance targeted architecture where you can typically buy the same server from AWS for less than 20 percent of the on demand price. You can always fall back to on demand when they are not available.
Unfortunately there is zero enforcement. Either there would have to be a massive amount of police controlling how people drive, or they have to be banned.
This is the post I needed to start cutting out Google as much as possible. Not because I want to go 100% Google free but having too many Google services means that you are more likely to inadvertently violate one of their terms.

1. Remove Google Analytics and Adsense. Especially Adsense seems high risk.

2. Remove free apps from Play Store

3. Stop uploading public videos on YouTube

4. Stop sharing files through Google Drive

5. Use only my own domain for emails that are forwarded to Gmail.

6 Stop storing passwords in Chrome.

Only reason I want to keep Google is for Gmail, calendar, Nest Thermostats, Nest Doorbell.

Photos are already backed up in Apple Photos in addition to Google Photos.
"It's possible that "many" firms do this, but given AWS' growth numbers that would imply they don't really spend meaningful amounts to begin with."

I could spend a million EUR a year on AWS without the need for most of the services of AWS?

But it YMMV and 1M EUR/y is not meaningful, perhaps we differ there.
> That is, the cars being traded in were going to get scrapped soon in any case.

Would not that make this subsidy no more than a "windfall gain", then? I.e. it makes little to no difference and people are just happy to pocket the extra money.

> The main effect of the subsidy is to move people to greener alternatives, rather than finding another car.

An ebike/escooter is quite different from a car so I have my doubt that people will change their purchasing decisions base on a small-ish cash bonus: If I need a car I will still buy a car but if I was already thinking of buying an ebike/escooter than obviously I like the windfall as a bonus. Or maybe I'll buy an ebike with the subsidy cash in addition to buying a new car...
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I don't think anyone is being distracted by blurred hair or hands. If your coworkers don't feel comfortable even turning on the camera, it shouldn't matter to you. Aside from edge cases like a modelling agency looking for fresh faces, you have zero right to demand how people choose to potray themselves in a VC call.
> you can't drive these on bike paths

But everyone does.
Buy a domain name.
How would three months be enough? This is a year long pandemic, at least.

More realistically would be a minimum of nine months of strict lockdown if you want it to actually be worth doing.

Now you're talking $2 trillion or more, because that level of economic damage would prove far worse than the 2008 crisis. $8 trillion in the US, at a minimum. For one pandemic, for part of one year. To do that would be insane.

Germany could afford it in theory, and it'd be a helluva price to pay for a slightly above average pandemic (1918-1920 laughs at this pandemic so far). Planning to do the same thing in another 10 or 20 years when the next global pandemic hits? How do you plan to pay for the next great recession? Shall we pretend that nothing else bad will happen in the next decade or two and spend our brains out on this one pandemic? There is a reckoning coming from the shortsighted economic choices that have been made in Europe and the US over the past 20 years.
Out of curiosity, do you have any insight about how this works when applied to other mechanisms and tools?

YouTube-dl has a lot of use cases, among which are the downloading of potentially copyrighted works, in a way which seems similar in my mind to the way a VCR has a lot of use cases including, possibly, the recording of TV shows in violation of a license.

Why are VCRs permissible to distribute but not this software?
You didn't buy the music. You bought a license to use it and they revoked the license. At least that's how I've been made to understand how "buying" digital content works.
There is no good data to prove either statement. You could def prove that for some large scale onprem for a given type of problem is cheeper than the cloud.
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Yeah, but have you seen them reverse a binary tree on the whiteboard?
TLDR: dude ate less (careful tracking with no cheating) and got some strength training in. Strict discipline and doing some work actually generalizes.
That's why I'm talking about 10yr old computers (or maybe even older)
If you see the blog I have mentioned a step
git clone https://github.com/saiyam1814/waypoint-demo.git

this is the code I have used
If you're on Windows, "Digital Level Meter" is an absolute gem: https://www.darkwooddesigns.co.uk/pc2/meters.html

I did donate a contribution to say thank you.
I have a pretty modest machine and zoom wins hands-down. It also "just works." I've had trouble getting non-technical people on hangouts/meet/whatever they call it today. Zoom "just works," and they've been responsive to peoples' concerns.

Zoom is the verb now.
People have cars for all sorts of reasons. To the degree this program works, some good will have been done. And it is likely to sway some who had not considered the options yet. Especially with the subsidy.

Sad the article doesn't report anything about changes in e-bike use etc. Just that people are applying for and taking taking the money. Of course they are.
https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/456523-donald-trumps...

https://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/456523-donald-trumps...

I don't believe he is a racist. He has strong opinions and no fear of hiding them. That is actually a huge draw for people voting for him.

Accusations of racism are mostly political play.

I don't really see how it is self-evident though. What do you think makes him racist? The Obama stuff could be seen as that but I am unsure if it is racism or craziness, but I would tend to think the latter to be more correct.
File descriptor passing has been a common technique used in privilege separated design, used quite extensively in OpenBSD software. Other notable examples include Google's Chrome browser. It's quite telling how it's not mentioned once in this article.

Combined with OS security features like pledge(2) on OpenBSD, which has separate sendfd/recvfd promises, and unveil(2), an unprivileged process can have its access to the filesytem and other system attack surfaces (system calls, ioctls) removed completely or restricted and only be able to act on file descriptors passed by a privileged parent.

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2

https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2

A skeleton example of a common style for OpenBSD privsep daemons, which uses 3 processes

https://github.com/krwesterback/newdctl

https://github.com/krwesterback/newd

This uses OpenBSD's imsg(3) API, an abstraction around the underlying Unix sendmsg/SCM_RIGHTS functionality, along with other IPC abstractions.

https://man.openbsd.org/imsg_init.3

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/compat/imsg.c

https://github.com/tmux/tmux/blob/master/compat/imsg.h
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...or blocked someone due to SJW?
Every infrastructure is as secure as you configure it to be without bugs. Not that AWS doesn't allow for secure infastructure and you're basement is secure by default, but as a consultant I see clients when I ask them about security saying "We're secure because we use AWS.".
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There’s nothing stopping you from writing your own downloader too. It’s not about making video downloads impossible, they are probably gunning to disrupt the development of the project so it would not be able to keep up with the changes of the video websites, make it painful to use, thus eventually insignificant.
You can create your own TPB by just crawling the DHT network for torrents and downloading the torrent metadata from active peers. In fact I did this once as a fun weekend project.

Also you pretty much gave a counterexample to your own argument by bringing up TPB.

The "people with guns" would love nothing more than for it to go away, yet here we are - 17 years and counting.
The alleged "circumvention code" is just a JavaScript interpreter.
Ah, so maybe V2 will have the USB port located on the right.
Just tried to share it through Facebook Messenger as well and got the same message. Truly creepy.
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No one has been fired for choosing AWS.
I highly doubt that you could flip the majority of either dominat party into a third party. For a third party to have a chance, you would need individuals from both dominat parties to switch. I say this because most people see their party affiliation as part of their identity and a switch may create substantial cognitive dissonance. Also factor in the combative nature of politics and people won't leave their party if they know it means the opposition party would be more likely to win. It's similar to how many people see this election and the prior election as a choice for the lesser of two evils - it's not about winning, but about the other side not winning.

The way I explain my view on the election is that it is a choice between a shit sandwich and a shit sandwich without the bread. Which one is which depends on the topic/policy that matters most to each voter, but they are both terrible choices.
My laptop has a mute button with a status led - an absolute godsend this year.
The bigger problem here even if you want to maintain your anti regulation stance is that a Google lockout prevents the user from acquiring the data that is rightfully theirs. If a lockout included something like a 90 or 120 day sunset period where you had read only export, even a harsh termination could at least be defensible.
I love the experience on Fastmail personally, but you have checked all the boxes to protect yourself if A. You have recent Takeouts or sync of your inbox and B. People know to reach you via the address on your own domain, which you can repoint to a new service if necessary.

If you're doing these two things, you're effectively protected from this issue, even if you use Gmail. Of course, it won't necessarily help you with losses from other Google services you might be cut out of. For an Android user, for instance, there's no real way around potentially losing every app you've ever bought on Google Play.
I worked at a job that had a multi year contract with a hosting company. We paid eight figures annually to lease MIPS on a mainframe.

That’s vendor lock in. AWS “lock in” isn’t, it’s “I could terminate for convenience any day I wanted to, but the ROI isn’t there”.
I've ordered one, it arrives tomorrow, and until I read your comment I had overlooked the book.

When I was younger, I was lucky enough to have an Amiga Commodore 500+, and I read all the included literature cover to cover, over and over again. I have a lot to thank those manuals for!

EDIT: It's available for free online as a PDF, https://magpi.raspberrypi.org/books/beginners-guide-4th-ed
Same as the Labour party in the UK, and the Labor party in Australia. While the politicians might be socialist, the parties are definitely centre-left neo-liberal.
It depends. Do you see losing weight as a purely physical phenomenon, or do you see it as one that's heavily influenced by psychology and other such factors? The actual physical act of losing weight i.e. reducing one's mass needs to be distinguished, in my opinion, from all the factors that actually go into that. If it turns out that in response to hunger that your brain secretes a hormone that makes you much more hungry than the average, the psychological aspect of losing weight has been compromised, even while the physical laws stay the same.
Thanks! It is actually no effort, because the change to fresh foods away from processed foods and sugars makes me feel constantly sated, instead of cycling between hungry and full.
Don't forget to NOT store email server logs either. ;) Otherwise this exercise is kinda pointless.
Disclaimer: happy customer of FM for 8 years.

The single time I needed support from them, I was replied by a person that understood my problem and while they didn't fix it (it was a feature request) it was added to their backlog.

The suggestion appeared live like a year after and was contacted saying it was available in case I still wanted to use it.

From Google, on the other hand, I never got a human reply to any issue. The one that pissed me off the most was that my location history pre-2015 disappeared for some reason and I was using it to geotag old photos. No response, no acknowledging of the issue, nothing.
Not necessarily. Static IP and PTR records improve the "credibility" factor, but it's not required. I'm running mine on the dynamic IP provided by the ISP, without PTR. Despite the warnings I get from the mail scanning tools, I can send mail to Gmail, Yahoo and the other major providers.
The guitar Elvis played on is worth millions. The exact same replica is worth thousands.
First of all, the average car does not need 40 kWh every day. The average driver in the USA drives 13,500 miles per year (far more than the average driver in the UK/Europe!)

That's about 37 miles per day, so about 12.5 kWh per night on average at ~3 miles per kWh. And remember, those who are driving long distance are probably going to be using fast chargers on-route, so their domestic charging demand will be lower.

Secondly, even if they did need 40 kWh every night, that only equates to 4 kW over a 10 hour charging cycle. Easily manageable by avoiding the typical late afternoon / early evening peaks. Most grids have a lot of spare capacity between, say, 9PM and 7AM.
This is beautiful, and it really has the vibe of the 80s home computers on which I learned how to program. What those computers also had, though, was that they immediately booted to a programming interface and a small but well defined set of capabilities explorable through coding. Wanted to do calculations? Code. Wanted to do graphics? Simple enough, but also required coding. Sound, same. You wanted to load a program or a game? You had to use the command line for that too!

Does a similar system exist today? Something you can boot a computer to and it immediately provides a kids friendly, interpreted programming environment with the ability to do graphics and sounds- but nothing else? That would be the perfect companion to this machine.
Like the touch bar...
I had this happen to me once, though at a smaller scale.

I solved it by signing up to one of the bigger paid Google services (just a free trial) and using the phone contact they gave me to have my account restored.

I don't know if they would work if you're completely shut down like in this case, or if things have changed over the last years.
> I found small amount of grated parmigiano reggiano on top makes it incredibly enjoyable.

Thanks for the tip, maqp. I'll try that!
The whitewashing of this guy is the big issue. He can do no wrong, that supporters don't contort the evidence (and their own good sense) to struggle to reinterpret him as 'ok'.

You want to understand, read outside your bubble. Not extremist view, just speeches and responses to direct questions and whatnot.

Some reports may seem extremist because of the shocking response they have to our potus. It's a normal reaction to a fundamentally troubling character that's somehow in power. Somehow its not honest for them to speak out like that, while the candidate gets every benefit of the doubt?

I suggest using those contortionist skills, to understand outrage and shock at the spectacle of an incoherent, largely immoral money-grabber in the White House.
> It's the company you keep...

... is a very common saying in actually racist groups that think themselves above others.

Alternatively it can also be the language you speak...
that gives you away.
The email address itself is what's irreplaceable for me because it's tied into my identity at this point.

The other soft stuff is fairly trivially backed up and not locked in to any vendor. The devices would need to be replaced, which would be annoying mainly due to cost but would have no long term impact beyond that.

I get your point, but losing my email address would be orders of magnitude more painful for me than those other things.
Of course they did. Who wouldn't fight for a huge moat around their business? :)

Number portability also helped unlocked competition between providers.
Then how about using the social media functions of GH, and keeping the source elsewhere (to the extent possible)?
Isn’t Moore’s law a doubling (of density) every two years?
I think Trumps has many flaws and it is true that there is some white washing. I do think his strong opinions can be a source of much bigotry.

But he is judgmental about everyone and I don't think it is connected to race.

His voters specifically let him say controversial stuff. They like it if it hits sensibilities of his political enemies since it signals his voters that the others just think themselves to be exalted above the allegedly less sophisticated members of society.
This study seems to be quite badly designed. The only two "conspiracy theories" being analyzed are the disbelief in climate change and the distrust of officialdom (which includes media and politicians). Scientists disagree with each other on many topics, so distrusting them doesn't cross the line of conspiracy theory. Media, on both sides of the political spectrum, is quite biased and low quality these days; so distrusting the media is also quite reasonable.

Not to mention, both topics, and especially the climate change, has a huge political connotation. So the answers of people would often be merely a reflection of their political beliefs.

Why not pick the real, obvious, non-political conspiracy theories? Like 9/11 didn't happen; people didn't land on the Moon; earth is flat; etc?
Where? Can you show me the code?
Back then, you have to count Austria-Hungary, the British Empire, the French and Russia as major powers, Germany being among them as well. The US became a major power only after WW1 and they used their economic power.
The "Rendering Effects" section describes it in some detail: "Once segmentation is complete, we use OpenGL shaders for video processing and effect rendering" and some info on what that covers. (OpenGL parts runs on GPU)
http://archive.is/onFhz
Why? You can churn sha256 hashes pretty quickly. There are probably less email addresses out there than there are passwords.
I was surprised to learn this too!

Looks like they were only married for around 8 years (1957 to 1965), so they divorced before he was really famous. Maybe that's why it's not more widely known?