skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you can own both sides of a conflict then your profit potential is huge.

This is pretty much impossible unless you're a government or a corporate with government-sized revenue and tendrils into government.

Wasn't the Iran-contra thing funded by selling crack to poor, predominantly African-American neighbourhoods in the US? Selling out their own citizens for foreign policy, or is that conspiracy theory?
It would come "from the back of the van". If there is a demand and supply vacuum (product not available at a price majority of people who wants it can afford), then you'll find brave people wanting to make extra money on the side and simply dealing these.
More pictures and a map: https://www.estunlar.fo/en/about-the-tunnels/the-eysturoy-tu...

It's amazing they did this in four years for $160mil while here in Hawaii our elevated rail broke ground in 2011, is going to cost between $9 and $13 billion, and is expected to be completed in 2033. Please send the construction team over here next...
Tracking U.S. behavioral health service utilization during Covid-19
This is not a consequence of a conservative government (which isn't a correct description of VVD-led cabinets), but of the (ever so slow) realization that drug-associated crime is spiralling.
The more common the name, the more important the project. Even more so if it reuses the name of an existing project.
If you're an i3 veteran there is little if any advantage to switch. I was turned off by Regoliths' key bindings which deviate from vanilla i3.Regolith does have some nice features like parsing your config to display a helpful key map.
“ Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 50 units.”?
Knowing how to implement sort does not mean you can't do higher complexity things. These are not the basics of programming, I think. Someone the other day refused my candidacy just because I was unable to comment more broadly on the abstractions used in C# async library, which is completely off the point. If you need to do some tweaking on async, you go to microsoft or google and find it out. Most of the time you just need working knowledge of how to use async await and a few other things.
These pictures are rederings though.
Almost everything posted on the Internet is just an ad in one form or another
One piece of advice I’ve found valuable is to write in books. On successive reference it has surprised me what I had thought first time through, and it doesn’t take me out of the book to make the note.

It did take a while to get over the feeling of sacrilege of the book, but it has been useful.
Yeah I had a skim of the submitted page only and this stuff is common sense to anyone who has studied to get good grades from age 14 onwards. However this sort of article might be useful to someone who struggled at high school and wants to give learning another shot.
The lockdown looks quite effective in France [1]. I believe they have started at the beginning of November.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/
To "kludge together a bunch of disparate terminal programs" is not conceptually different than "kludge together a bunch of disparate elisp functions". Some of us live inside the command line, some of us live inside emacs, most of us live inside a web browser.
What Is Functional Testing? Complete Guide with Types, Tools, and Techniques
Functional testing is a type of software testing that checks software for consistency with project requirements. A QA engineer verifies every software function during functional testing, providing corresponding input, and checking if the outcome complies with the specification. It is an extensive and time-intensive type of software testing.
Why do you think the simulators, if there be such, are limited to classical computers? Why do you think they have limits of any kind?

It is impossible in principle to have any evidence about simulationism. All knowledge about everything from logic up is from inside the simulation. Just accept that it's an epistemological tarpit and give up.
China to expand weather modification program to cover area larger than India
Its public, theres no deception
Articles like this should start with at least some reason we should think the author is actually in a position to give advice on this subject.

Reading a bunch of popular bestseller self help books doesn't actually teach you anything, even if you read 5000 of them.
You don't name any sources for your dubious claims.
> Setting a HTTPS-connect proxy (I use Zap) is a 2 minute process on a desktop that lets you strip SSL easily.

Not if the app uses certificate pinning, ships its own version of a SSL library and uses code-signing and obfuscation to prevent you messing around with it.

As for the walled garden part: I agree with the general sentiment, but on the other hand I also see the lengths malware authors go to gather data from people. There really is no one-fits-all solution here, because anything that allows the user to intercept and monitor SSL communication can automatically be used by an attacker! :(
These are typically seen as tricks for embedded programming. But they have (at least) another useful application.

Years ago I was messing around with SAT-based bounded model checking of C programs that I was crafting. Many of these tricks allow you to remove branches/loops from your program, which is great because you end up with a smaller SAT formula, which (usually) can be solved faster.
No, that's not grammar checking, but spelling mistakes that turn out to be real words!

If you misspelled "college" as "collage", or you misspelled "three" as "tree" the word you typed incorrectly happens to be an actual word itself!
Correcting these types of errors is called "real word spelling correction".

Real-word spelling errors are words in a text that, although correctly spelled words in
the dictionary, are not the words that the writer intended

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/221628953_Real-Word...

And even if there are several approaches evaluated, the problem is far from solved.
Unattach: Free space by removing attachments from Gmail
No understanding yet, but it's a step in that general direction.
The change is driven by drugs-associated crime. This has increased a lot.

As a former Amsterdam resident, another thing that has increased a lot is drugs-tourism. It's a class of tourism no Amsterdammer is happy about (except the coffeeshopowners). The Amsterdam center is basically a no-go zone for many residents, it suffers from the usual European inner-city-tourism-blight, with a significant share of drunk and high tourists sprinkled on top. The city of Amsterdam already stopped their advertising campaign last year and wanted to improve the 'quality' of the tourists it is attracting: less poor backpacking weed-seekers, and more middle-class and rich-class art-seekers.
I am shopping for a laptop in this category. The first thing I look for is whether the touchpad has physical buttons. With every clickpad I've ever used, the chance of "misclick" is too high (and that my hands can't know if it thinks I clicked). And the impact of a misclick is too problematic especially on the modern web.

My XPS 15 lets you choose tap-click or physical click-down of the pad, but to push the touchpad requires so much force that it's painful. So I have to use tap-click and it is a daily frustration. My MBP's touchpad is not so bad until I need to drag something, I've noticed I avoid interactions such as resizing that I do all the time with a mouse or a touchpad that has dedicated buttons.

I know I'm in the minority but I don't even understand why we moved away from separated buttons, because I find them a joy to use.
Your brain takes decisions based on synthetically produced images? Then maybe you shouldn't drive on LSD ;)
This vs browsers especially notes like for ease of sharing ?
In the version 1 the dependencies are not cached. They will be cached in the upcoming version
> Also it doesn't seem like they have a bunch of factories and much of production going on.

What’s this got to do with anything?
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PythonStacks – The categorized Python library – index
Tolkien actually wrote "Elf-Latin" in an early draft. It's kind of transparent. It got dropped when he dropped all references to the real world as a policy.
wouldn't it be nice to have something worth defending with that F-35?
>but not "le es"

First of all it's a verb with -ik ending so you can't write "es", the root lexical word is "esik".

Second you never use anything like "le es" because generaly you always have to
use the verb and prefix together ("leesett", "leesik" etc.) unless you use a commanding form ("ess le") or a modal verb ("le akart esni, "le fog esni" etc.)

"le es" is strictly wrong because it's the wrong verb (should be "esik") and you have to write together ("leesik") so obviously a spellchecker picks that up.
The resilience of American restaurant chains
As well as org-roam for Emacs! https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam
Funny to see the article mention "Sia" without a surname, so I assumed it was the famous "Sia" (singer).
A question: instead of redownloading the same resources again and again, can we achieve privacy by adding delay between requesting a resource and providing it? It could be the same amount of time it took downloading it the first time or some randomized value. It won't speed up pages, but at least will save from bandwidth and data caps.
How We Built It: Spotify Lite, One Year Later
I'm usually the first one to sneer in disbelief at super users who 'go nuclear' and disable the likes of javascript and images when browsing the web, but lately, I've been experimenting with having custom fonts disabled (that is, fonts I don't have locally), and it feels to me that page loads are much faster, and in some case more readable (pages feel 'cleaner'?).

The only issues I've come across so far is when a site uses font symbols, but overall, I've been pleasantly surprised.
Sadly, electric vehicles emit significantly more tire and brake dust than internal combustion vehicles due to the heavy weight of their batteries.
Blank page, both directly on the browser, and on outline.com. Anyone have a version that works?
In April, more than half of infections in Germany happened in nursing homes and hospitals. Also, iirc it was very unevenly spread across regions (also consider that often it was superspreader events that drove up the numbers, it was not a even distribution across the whole population). That makes me suspicious of the paper, as there may be many confounding variables, and small sample sizes. People may also have started using maskes or other measures before the government mandate, especially the professionals in nursing homes and hospitals.
Listening Suggestions? Some Constraints
Collective HN Wisdom,

Currently I am spending 8-10 hours in or around my car as a UPS personal vehicle driver during peak holiday season. I would like to put this time to productive use by identifying audio material that could further my understanding of full-stack development and improve my chances of landing a position as an associate level developer.

Please note that there are some constraints given my job requirements. Namely, for me safety is number one. This means that any material must be audio only and cannot have overtly distracting or disruptive noise. (It can be a video but I won't be able to watch it.)

Ideally it should not so complex that I would lose the thread as I go make stops. I will be playing this on a cell phone in my pocket at a conversational volume. Ideally looking for something along the lines of talk radio or lectures.

My current knowledge of development centers around Java and Angular. I am just shy of passing the Java OCA exam, about 50% of the way to getting my AWS-SAA-CO2 cert, and an intermediate/advanced Angular dev who has worked through core concepts like security, reactive programming, and testing. I've also completed a number of courses on Docker at Linux Academy.

I am not opposed to paying for something worthwhile.

Many thanks for any considerate wisdom about making the best out of this situation. I would also love to hear from other drivers out there who still want to keep learning, but must focus on safe driving and package running first.
Are people actually following the measures? If no one ever meets more than one other person per day, it's astounding if the number of cases is still rising.
New Programmable OTP Token Protectimus Flex Released: A Key Fob Style TOTP Token
There's been comments here and elsewhere for a while saying that Intel's remuneration policy (i.e. salaries and benefits) have been uncompetitive and between that and the culture some of the best people have left (a number of them to Apple) so the answer's pretty obvious.

Throw money at it - find the best and brightest people and stuff their mouths with gold to have them solve whatever problems Intel's still having with 10nm and beyond as quickly as possible and with honest timelines to when that'll happen (not "oh it'll totally work this quarter").

Intel blowing the lead they had on semiconductor process technology is an existential threat, especially if it's blocking them getting out improvements in IPC (i.e. see what AMD are doing) also, so it's impossible to overstate how important this should be to Intel's senior leadership (by which I mean if it's not solved real soon, the shareholders ought to be removing them from post).
What’s a good budget to get it done?
Your comments regarding contamination do not sound plausible to me. If you're infected, of course your mask will also be contaminated by SARS-CoV2, but you hopefully will not distribute as much of it around you as you would without the mask. If you're not infected, the only way to contaminate the mask with SARS-CoV2 is to be exposed to infected people exhaling it. And in that case it's better for your mask to become contaminated than to inhale it unfiltered.

As for the "announcement effect", I did start wearing a mask when the mandatory mask policy was announced, before it became actually active in the following week. And I wasn't the only one that did that, so some announcement effect is very plausible to me.
That is a very recurrent topic in HN first page, but it is, for me, the first time it was perfectly summarized:

"For the moment, then, experience seems to count for nothing: it's all about how much time you can spend on Leetcode."
Problem is it is not mac or w10. Get a device setup ... may still try as lots of those around.
What about a pair-programming session? Even having failed some pair-programming interviews, I've felt at least like it was a fair assessment. It's an equal time investment between myself and the company, working on something pertinent to what I would be doing, in a realistic environment.

Contrast to whiteboard interviews where I've been assessed on how to calculate the number of moves of a knight on a chessboard given position X to position Y on a whiteboard in front of three people as a front-end developer. Contrast to take-home interviews which basically function as a way for the interviewing company to save on time and money by putting the whole time-investment on the interviewee.
I've read your comment 3 times, and I'm still not exactly sure what you are suggesting, or what the purported benefit is? (it's probably my poor interpretation, but I'd appreciate if you wouldn't mind expanding :)
Please. Neither the original article nor my comment where about interviews asking to implement a breadth first search. That's a different topic.

This was about him having to learn C# since it wasn't really around 20 years ago. And having to polish up Python cause it was very different 20 years ago. And other programming practices. You definitely need to stay up to date on the stuff that's relevant to your job. Not because of interviews, but because .. it's your job. If you prepare for an interview and notice that's what's holding you back, then you definitely started to grow complaceny in your job. And maybe your environment made you become that way, then it's not a good environment.

If you are up to date on this, then writing a BFS from scratch or debugging a null pointer issue or even json will be a piece of cake. Interview questions are an excuse to have a technical conversation, not to see if you remember some algo from school.
> As a single counterpoint, we've been taxing cigarettes a ton for several decades. Smoking rates have gone down, but only extremely slowly. It took decades. So if you consider partially solving an issue after several decades "efficient", then yeah, taxes are efficient.

Economists usually take into account that people also get utility out of eg using plastic straws or smoking cigarettes. They are by and large not a very judgy lot.

Taxes just make it so that the private cost-benefit decision can take into account (ie 'internalize') the costs to the public.

Your examples of screws is great to illustrate this! We don't ban the discarding of screws, and it would be somewhat silly to do so.

> For the last point, I'd definitely want to see examples where taxes are more efficient than bans. Everything I've seen and read (and I like to read a lot), points the other way around.

What are you reading? I am talking about efficiency in the same sense as it's used in economics. And taxes being more efficient than bans is pretty much Econ 101. But I can dig up some links, if you want to.
Is there anyone who was so influential for icon design that they could be called the Dieter Rams of icons by the way?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieter_Rams
What I really cannot understand is how someone who works on ethics can think that revealing names of anonymous reviewer is OK?

Why would they need those names anyway? I'm also unable to think of any reason they might need the identities of the reviewers.
Makes sense now that cross-site resources can't be shared (previously your Google Font loaded on another site, which is downloaded into your local cache could be used, but it seems like that isn't possible anymore).
> People throw trash everywhere. You'll see trash on Mount Everest, you'll see it in a random forest in Eastern Europe.

That's true, but doesn't mean much. Just like for poisons, dosage is important.
One dozen != 100.
Germany is seeing a flattening curve right now after the last countys have enforced masks in the workplace.

Are you implying the measures are to purposefully infect risk groups?
I am just surprised that the origin of an article which such a title is not blog.google.com for once.
He wrote that: save bandwith and data caps.

He would lose performance but win more privacy.
Look at the Q&a what is the significance ... other than the communist did it 1 year after google ?
It's infuriating to see so much web tech being discarded created during the 90s and 00s in good faith, just because the web was subverted into an app delivery platform (in this case, shared caches were obsoleted by timing attacks) and the arms race for ever more crap to counter the negative effects, insufficiently. The web may now be a platform to lock-in and enslave users; just isn't anymore a recommendable place for sharing documents, reach out, and inspiration. We didn't need that; we had plenty of app platforms already.

Edit: you can still serve Google-commissioned fonts directly from your domain of course, and CDNs were always a bit fishy
Pair-programming session building a small "feature" that's relevant to what you do for a living. It's almost like a mutual assessment between two engineers in a real-world scenario.
Believe me, I know how Rosetta works. You don't need to quote Wikipedia at me ;)

Rosetta absolutely is an emulator, which has traditionally referred to taking code from one CPU architecture and making it run on another (in contrast with taking a binary of the same architecture but running it in another environment, which is often called a "compatibility layer" or in Apple's terms a "simulator", or the hardware-assisted version of this which is virtualization). There are many ways to write the part of an emulator that mimics another CPU; the simplest is an interpreter loop, but there's ahead-of-time and just-in-time code generation techniques as well. Dynamic binary translation is quite simple, as your quote mentions; Rosetta 2 instead achieves its performance through a combination of static binary translation to a form amenable to its runtime. Things that it cannot translate go through a fairly advanced optimizing JIT that goes way beyond what a dynarec would typically do.
Have you tried something like uMatrix? If you use it in the denylisting mode, it doesn't seem to impact much on my web browsing experience. By default it is in allowlist mode, which means it's speedy to open pages, but you run into trouble quite quickly. I really can't stand browsing the web without it.
I never understood why browsers don't ship with more fonts, especially Chrome.
So you know, this is neither satire, nor a toy. I made this, a serious project.
It's Soviet Union in miniature.
This is based on trying to prevent profiling based on which fonts or versions of things are precached by behaving as if they are not cached, when in reality serving a local file with a simulated delay.
There is this tried-and-true extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/decentraleyes...

LocalCDN seems to be a fork of it, why should we be using it when it has so few users?
Mainly for performance reasons I've recently gone from using hosted/local Google Fonts to just calling the system ones (some variant of `-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Segoe UI,Roboto,Oxygen,Ubuntu,Cantarell,Open Sans,Helvetica Neue`).
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The reason why Google Fonts is so popular and provided through countless of CMS, plugins and hosted site builders is because it's super easy to embed.
Then you'll probably love some of these, particularly the early War of the Ring set in 2450 and featuring a fellowship that includes both Saruman and Smeagol.

http://www.oocities.org/davidbofinger/ame.htm
TBH, I think that most experts who didn't see this coming were simply in denial.

Disqualifying benchmarks because... it's mobile?

Disregarding performance and cooling differences with an iPad because... it's an iPad?

They all sound like excuses to disregard the obvious results. Synthetic benchmarks can lack fine grained precision. They might be bad at determining who's on top when there's a very small gap. But they provide valid results for determining if two products are in the same LEAGUE.

Sure, I an iPad could't run Linux, gcc or StarCraft,, but that's mostly an ecosystem issue, not a hardware performance one.

We've seen this coming for years now. Both the big obvious signs, and the little signs, like Apple continuously unifying code and APIs across platforms.
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I think you're probably right, but my experience (Sway on Arch) has been nothing other than pretty excellent.

It supports fractional scaling and different scales for different attached screens.. You have to tell the system you want it (`swaymsg 'output <x> scale 1.5'`) but it works.
In Jena there were about one dozend(?) infected people when masks were introduced.

Already wrong, the very article shows that Jena had about 145 verified cases in April 6. And test availability was absolute shit in March/April. It still isn't much better now, but from the relation of cases and deaths in the first and current second wave[0], we can infer that current testing is about 3 times that of April.

Actual cases therefore were at least about 450 in April 6, if we generously assume everyone who is positive gets tested right now. Jena only has a population of 110k BTW.

[0] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/germany/
>China says

>China says

>China says

Yeah, so, you can actually read the internal leaks from Xi’s speeches and not post planted CCP propaganda. Thanks.

Here’s just a sample.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Document_Number_Nine

Question: is Taiwan its own sovereign state? Certainly feels that way every time I’m there for work.