skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Australia being an island has little bearing on this. It's not like the Covid situation in the USA is because of infected people crossing the border illegally: it happened because of legal travel.

Trump's so-called China ban was a farce. It didn't stop USA residents from flying into the USA, it didn't even stop the immediate family of residents from flying to the USA.

Australia closed all travel from China initially and later from everywhere else in the world. There's plenty of room for criticism as they also stopped Australians from returning home, but the results are tough to argue with.
I grew up without it and I think my brain is wired to recognize visual structure instead of colors.

Switching it off is the first I do.
A large part of the expense on the cars is import tariffs and shipping/freight expense. Upkeep on a German car in Germany is substantially less expensive.
IMHO the original WinDbg UI was perfectly fine with the exception of a few small oddities; the new one is pointless trendchasing.
Summary: be antifragile.
Lol. Gotta make sure the proletariat doesn't get into the communist party.
Another option is to leave your will to the smartest HN comment from the following year. It would set off a tough race
That’s because it can’t be carried out in many places, not because they haven’t been sentenced.
I use H, M, L to move the cursor to the top, middle and bottom of the screen, and ctrl-f and ctr-b to scroll half a page, which drags the cursor along for the ride if it would otherwise be offscreen.
In the context of the sentence (contrasting the banality of the roles the murders tried to take with the crime) it didn't seem political at all:

"In three years, Mrs. Rodríguez captured nearly every living member of the crew that had abducted her daughter for ransom, a rogues’ gallery of criminals who tried to start new lives — as a born-again Christian, a taxi driver, a car salesman, a babysitter."
All of that looks like it can be very interesting, unfortunately I can't read it.
C is a great language for pub quizzes, because so many think mastering K&R C book is all it takes.
What is method scoring? I’ve never heard that term in VM/compilers and my Google-fu is failing me.
Centos is Dead is Keycloak next?
I use free42 on my phone, have been tempted to get DM42 for ages, but not sure I can justify it. It'd be nice to have a little 4 function RPN calculator for my desk that is cheap enough for me to allow it to stay there.
> Well, as the Venona project cables declassified in 1995 show, the State Department didn't just contain intellectuals that were pro-Soviet: it contained actual Soviet agents in contact with the USSR.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day.

1) Communist didn't automatically mean spy. And spy didn't automatically mean communist. In fact, most of our worst breaches weren't "communists".

2) The problem isn't just saying: "We have spies." It's finding real evidence on them.

The primary problem is finding real spies--and McCarthy had absolutely zero useful evidence to that end. If anything, he made it easier for the spies by kicking up so much cover.

So, McCarthy destroyed a lot of people ... destroyed civil liberties across the board ... and provided nothing useful to actually root out the real threats.

And this assumes that McCarthy was doing this to find actual spies and not for political gain. An assumption which I do not at all credit McCarthy with.
Once we moved a database to cloud, because we were told it would be cheaper, since we would only pay for the space we actually used.

It also meant that whenever the data size increased, however slightly, the invoice also increased, and managers started investigating whether this increase of data size was truly necessary. Sometimes even when then data size didn't change, managers kept asking whether it could be further decreased.

Making the billing proportional to X means that X will become a political topic. Choose your X carefully!
I guess one question is if you can tell the difference. Without reading the book from the youtuber, how would you know you wouldn't like it and it's not just prejudices getting in the way of you giving it a chance? If we can't tell then I'm not sure whether the site being able to makes any difference.
Unless you have to toggle an MSR, of course…
That's very unusual! I like it! You should definitely do a raspberry pi radio with such feature and sold it on etsy or somewhere.
> riding on sidewalks and crosswalks

> riding in lanes with moving cars

where are they supposed to ride?
In fair turn I would say you are assuming if enough people are “screwed” they become interested in learning instead of turning to violence or some other sort of retribution.
It doesn’t change your point, but miscarriages are still very common. I feel I have to say this because there is some stigma associated with them. But they really are not that rare, and often completely independent of the woman’s behaviour (i.e. it happens also often to healthy women who do everything correctly, not only drunkards or junkies).
I'll have to try turning my back, I bet that will work.
I tried both ends of the spectrum.

There’s definitely something real about too much colours; the archetypal example of colouring our human language tokens by type (verbs, nouns, etc) making no sense sure rings home after a while.

But I found very much use of “colour”+ themeing for two things:

- comments vs code, one toned down vs the other, ideally swappable with a hotkey

- delimited content such as strings. It sure saves a lot of time when you get an imbalanced delimiter nested in a forest and the whole of your file changes colour starting near the imbalance.

I’m very much of the opinion that a lot of syntax highlighting is just dumbed down token matching and badly designed (if at all designed), when it should be much smarter in alerting you of inconsistencies, and putting relevant content forward.

+ by colour I don’t necessarily mean literally in colour, bold or italics can serve well.
Science fiction books build mental resilience in young readers
Seems like the US Gov went all in on O365 and is now paying dearly for it.

Maybe trusting Microsoft with the keys to your kingdom is a bad idea.
The Common Lisp Condition System Book Review
I'm not sure if you are being sarcastic. If you have been investing for a while, you'll know that the official numbers are a scam. TIPS pay less than 0.1% yearly. If you have been paying your bills, shopping for a house, or buying new stuff; you should know that real inflation is probably in the 5-25% range depending where you live.

Heck, even in this crisis house prices can't get down. The world economy is inflating like crazy.
I got pretty convincing looking results by pasting individual lines into Google Translate.
> To compete, you really do have to cut minimum wage.

Minimum wage workers do not think they are making too much money, also there are a lot more of them then you.
You can build bazel for arm M1, here is my binary
https://github.com/erwincoumans/bazel/releases/tag/bazel-3.7...
Who would be trusted to design and procure the hardware for such a device?
> I'm paranoid enough that I'll always reject these MFA prompts and then start the login cycle manually, but most people would just peck the button like a trained bird.
Similarly, I've run scripts before that needed 6 MFA prompts to complete (don't ask). I ran the script once and it asked 7 times... uh-oh. Is this an Azure bug, or a hacker from China? How could I possibly know?! The information is not provided to me!

I'm just glad I'm not the only one who sees this as a problem.
(OP here) i think thats great! :)

i guess I was asking this because I've never worked at Google and wondered about any downsides - e.g. distraction (the 20% project would seem to be the "cool" project, which makes the 80% boring) or politics (could be anything from jockeying for position on a hot 20% project or something else I can't even imagine because humans are petty)
Don't forget another type (of which I count myself among): those who think "proof of work" cryptocurrencies are an environmental disaster. Recent estimates place the energy used to mine Bitcoins at around the same as the entire energy use of Switzerland[1] and as each new generation of miner is created the previous generations become mountains of e-waste.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-48853230
Less fat in OS layers, thus reducing the total resources per image.
I wouldn't have shorted the market based on that but I've not been sanguine about the US economy since then. Financial engineering, not productivity[1], has really been the driver of our economy...

[1] https://voxeu.org/article/industry-anatomy-transatlantic-pro...
The point is, what Urbit is trying to do is create a new hierarchy while talking shit about the existing hierarchy. This is no different from how the French revolution participants overthrew the government, just to form their own toxic regime that was worse than before.

> Yarvin actually does not believe that. His whole project is more about not resisting the inevitable, which is that humans will organize in hierarchies no matter what. So it’s better to not pretend otherwise and just be honest.

This is exactly what bothers me the most. You say "just be honest", but are they? Like I mentioned, all they're trying to do is break down the existing hierarchy and create a new one, while being the aristocrats of the new order. If they were truly honest to themselves, they wouldn't sell the idea of sovereignty, because for the most people it would be no different. They would be ruled by these urbit real estate owners. In fact it's worse than Facebook because at least Facebook can be regulated by the government (as it's about to be done soon) if it abuses its power too much, whereas the whole premise of something like Urbit is that even the government cannot mess with the Urbit land owners. Talking about honesty and neglecting to address these issues is the ultimate dishonestly and hypocrisy. At the end of the day, what they and the urbit real estate owners want is for Urbit to go to moon and they make tons of easy money.
Shut up, Steve.

(Great article btw! As always.)
How do your buttons interact with your app? Does the car expose an API or something?
That’s a good point and one I had thought of afterwards. That being said, I have to imagine there is some kind of perimeter established, which cloud providers would exist within (at least the FedRAMP accredited segments).

Then again, I have seen crazier things and sometimes government takes quite a while to catch up with technology implementations.
> Why is the idea of government regulation of fitness for purpose the "least efficient" answer.

Government requires thousands (literally) of people and political will in order to move any solution forward. In terms of cost and time, it is substantially less efficient than independent entities.

An independent entity could theoretically start immediately, with a small team, and focus explicitly on the stated goals of the team.

> Apple shouldn't be getting plaudits for making privacy a unique selling proposition.

Absolutely agree. The average citizen has no idea how hard they're being exploited.

> Privacy should be a right, the control of my personal information should be mine and consent to have it should be able to be withdrawn at any time.

Also agree, but the government has shown they have an interest in making that not happen. The ties between 3 letter agencies and large tech companies are just the tip of that iceberg.
The question isn't so much whether "else" is used at all, but rather whether it's used as a conjunction. That's why the article author mentioned "or else": here "or" is the conjunction, so that proves "else" isn't fulfilling that role. In this example you gave:

> What else do you want to do?

"else" is acting like a noun rather than a conjunction (compare with "what activity do you want to do?).
The difference is that when a cyclist is rude and selfish, it might put you in a bad mood for the rest of the morning. When a driver is rude and selfish, cyclists can die.

I'm so sick of this "but cyclists are mean too!" whataboutism in every thread of this nature.
Ahimsa in Jainism
I like the sounds of this; thank you for sharing!
Those 20% at a startup can be where one fixes everything they wanted to but was never given the time.

It's impossible at a company if you haven't built your main product yet so I'm not sure how it could work at a startup.
Because they dismissed it, and missed out on returns greater than ANY YCOMBINATOR angel investment in their 1000+ bets as a company.

Imagine feeling like the smartest person in class who missed out on getting rich from Internet money.
The link below is on historical gas prices. Also include a link on US dollar to Euro. Depending on the state we are currently at about 2.50 and have been over 3.50. The dollar menu going to 5 because of a 10% or 20% drop in currency doesn't seem likely. We, and also other countries, can have fairly big currency changes without much internal inflation or deflation(can depend on country size). A number of countries have actually deliberately devalued their currency in order to encourage growth. The question that is more interesting is can we lose high productively jobs(manufacturing...) and still keep high standards of living. The data indicates we cannot.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/204740/retail-price-of-g...

https://www.macrotrends.net/2548/euro-dollar-exchange-rate-h...
Why doesn't people run the simple BLAS/LAPACK benchmark for comparison? Isn't this one the benchmark for the speed of the processor?
A lot of things were correlated then that aren’t always / normally. Bonds, stocks, gold... basically everything was sold to move into dollars. That doesn’t mean that those assets are all correlated over the long haul.
I imagine it refers to the comparison of argument types to find the best match among overloaded methods with the same arity. e.g. when the machine has got "void foo(java.lang.Object)" and "void foo(java.lang.Number)" to choose from.
It's extremely unclear what you think Angell was arguing for and what you think he was wrong about.

"The Great Illusion" argued that economic integration made war unlikely. He was wrong in that he hadn't realized how much people wanted something that went against their interests.

But he learned that lesson well: "From the mid-1930s, Angell actively campaigned for collective international opposition to the aggressive policies of Germany, Italy, and Japan. He went to the United States in 1940 to lecture in favour of American support for Britain in World War II"[1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Angell
Lisp Books
(OP here) thanks for the response!

so the tricky question is - why stop at 20% - why not 40% - or 80%? could you make a case for that?
Some of scarce will become not so scarce as their availability limited by energy. Other will increase in price as they're limited by other factors. Same way as with inflation.

If you do not like it you're always free to by gold or whatever resource does not depreciate long term.
> > so what's going to stop someone coming along and saying "Hey, $X a share, I'll liquidate the BTC and hand it back to investors" when BTC has it's next dip?

> Maybe the fact that he has 72% of the voting rights and can basically do whatever he wants.

And even if he didn't, this move is the perfect poison pill to prevent an hostile takeover: with the company massively leveraged on BTC, who'll be foolish enough to follow someone who's basically suggesting to realize the loss on the books? And while hoping this very action doesn't tank the company? It's an heroic assumption when debts remains to be serviced (ie, clear liquidity issues, that could crash stock price)

It could go to the point that not even whatever assets may remain would be enough to distribute anything at all to creditors! (ie, bankrupcy)

That IMHO is more concerning to any investor that trading at a discount vs the assets.

1980s style corporate raiding is 40 years old, so by now you must expect owner/founders to know a thing or two about poison pills!

Anyway, it's indeed a bold move, but the assets generate cash flow, and with 72% ownership, it strikes me as the RIGHT move IF the owner want to keep some liquidity handy for whatever project, without falling pray to inflation.

With 72% he can already can do what the hell he wants. He could distribute this as profit to himself but as a billionaire, does he really needs that cash RIGHT NOW? While we're expecting up to 40% inflation when the velocity of money rises back?

It's simpler to just keep the company coffer filled until a good use comes by - if only because there will be no need to bother with the TLAs like the SEC to issue bonds, and also because while parked, all that remains shielded from most taxes.

As a billionaire, it's just his form of edging, while also having a lifestyle business.
I'm happy to see that I'm not the only one who does this. I also enable the find the cursor feature because with multiple monitors I tend to squint to hunt for it otherwise.
I don’t know about you but the alarm I’m hearing is that Kaiserslautern needs its own hacker news meet-up :-)
> only to discover the diff is literally null.

Note that you can save the trouble of running diff by watching for the message "Buffer contents equals file contents." Only when they're different, you'll want to write the file to another place and diff it.

What bugs me a lot is that, even if the contents are equal, it doesn't cleanup the swap file... is there maybe a command for that so I don't have to go back to my terminal, manually remove .<filename>.swp, and open up vim again?
They also invented the fake "crime" of "jay" walking. Note that "jay" is a slur for "insane".

Note that "jaydriving" is not a crime.
Things get funny at the right perspective. Our lives are too short, living on a pale blue dot of a space rock floating on some galaxy we dont even know much of.

At that scale you realize how insignificant we are and how pointless it is to be petty about taking things too personally instead of finding resolve and cherishing our short-lived lives lol
relevant:
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=Nata...
If we had used a challenge approach we could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives globally. Most of the time it took to develop the vaccines was government red tape (only some of which is reasonable at all). You won't find very many people that want to have that conversation however, they just stick their head in the sand and hide from it. It's morally revolting and evil that the US didn't utilize a challenge trial and move far faster on the vaccines.

They talk about how fast this vaccine was delivered. We could have done it a lot faster. An incredible number of lives and livelihoods could have been saved.

Take 1,000 diverse volunteers from the US military, start an isolated challenge trial (if something very unexpected happens, they're contained). Then expand it after those first thousand show success. Done in half the time that this took. We'll send those soldiers to die in pointless foreign wars, and then we won't do something so obvious as this to actually save American lives. The US would have had as many volunteers as you could handle for a challenge trial, hundreds of thousands of volunteers would have been trivial to get.
You are quite correct - I am comparing multiple programs running in different vms - which is the very very common situation almost every single company finds themselves in simply because there is too much software out there today.

Even the most basic case of a database talking to an app server typically runs in more than one vm if for no other reason that it is easier to manage and easier to isolate performance issues, however, there are obviously many many other reasons as well - does it shard? does it replicate? Most websites aren't exposed to the world directly - they sit behind a load balancer because a single app can't take the entire load.

Most companies I know have workloads that don't just span one virtual machine - they span tens or hundreds or thousands or in the case of the hyperscalers hundreds of thousands. Most of the container users out there live on virtual machines! I can't keep emphasizing this point enough.

I'm not arguing for the hobbyist at home. I'm arguing for the companies that on the low end spend tens of thousands of dollars a month on cloud infrastructure. Just as a case point - Lyft alone was spending something like $80M a year on cloud infrastructure.

One of the key unikernel questions is that we don't live in the 1990s anymore - Zeus the database server doesn't live on the same server as Mars the webserver anymore. Multi-process/single-server architecture makes absolutely no sense in the 2020s.

It's almost 2021. Things have changed. Our operating systems much change too.
Unrelated, but I want to appreciate how clean and easy-to-navigate Tom MacWright’s website is. I tried to emulate that feel on my own website, but I don’t think I got very close.
> in common use it is understood to be plural

What I said is correct. Prior to about 4-5 years ago you did not find people using they in the singular, hence "in common use".
Sure, but if you ask for A, B and C and someone asks "what else?" then they mean "what about things that aren't A, B or C?" It's still the same basic meaning, set complement, but about things rather than logical states.
Like scooble mentioned, you can add \C to the front of the search to force it to be case sensitive.
But why would it go down in USD in the demand increases?
Thats just cruel lol
AppKit apps can and do interact with POSIX APIs all the time. Apple can't just pull the rug out from under them like Google might do with Android apps, for example.
I was confused about this for a long time. In the UK liability coverage seems to be intended to pay for the harm, so my last UK insurance had 12M GBP of cover if I remember correctly (and after that limits were removed I believe). In the US it is intended to cover your net worth so if you are sued you don't lose anything so when I first moved here and opted for $1Mn they told me I was over insured.
If socialist policies are going to be implemented successfully in the U.S., they need to be implemented by people who can tell the difference between Denmark and Venezuela. Sen. Sanders, while otherwise seemingly intelligent, cannot.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/newsroom/must-read/close-the-...
I have seen OSGi projects achieve negative complexity savings, while chewing up decades of senior man-years, for example.

I'm not surprised; that and a lot of the Java "culture" in general seems to revolve around creating solutions to problems which are either self-inflicted or don't actually exist in practice, ultimately being oriented towards extracting the most (personal) profit for a given task. In other words: why make simple solutions when more complex ones will allow developers to spend more time and thus be paid more for the solution? When questioned, they can always point to an answer laced with popular buzzwords like "maintainability", "reusability", "extensibility", etc.
> in common use it is understood to be plural

Nothing in what you wrote contradicts what I stated. The man on the street thinks they is plural, and nearly all writing treats it that way. Historical examples excepted.
Tried to edit the link to remove the www portion. HN didnt let me.
I must admit I'm a little stymied by your claim that " the Democrats did their absolute best to cancel the results of the 2016 election." Their actions -- if they do indeed rise to the level of "cancel[ing] the results of the... election" pale in comparison to the shenanigans we're witnessing now. Can you please be more specific? I'm against any attempt at overturning elections, and I'm not aware of any such acts by any of the Democratic officials I voted for or follow closely. EDIT: hopefully you remember how quickly Clinton conceded, and how that still has not happened this year. There's evil to see anywhere you look hard enough, but it's a fairly simple task to weigh them.