skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> r/DataHoarder

To be honest, 99% of the posts there are about building your own NAS.

And I don't fully agree with the "we can't have nice things" narrative in the Google Photos case. How bad was Google hurt by the actions of these few "power users"? Before that, how much did they profit by driving out competition with their "unlimited" plan? (Which, by the way, was neatly integrated and advertised into their own mobile OS...)
I agree, cgdb is great. I've added some small things I want to my fork of cgdb for navigating windows etc.
There is a whole industry on fixing Apple's product. Simply because they refuse to admit any of its mistakes ( Especially on the Mac ). And refuse to fix any of its hardware. Literally all repair cost in Apple Store are there to show how it would be better if you just buy a new one. Hence the repair rate ( from Apple's perspective ) are exceptionally low, and the 3rd party repairing industry has been thriving because of it.
> I disagree that or is ambiguous

There are examples of inclusive “or” in natural language. When the waiter asks: “Would you like cream or sugar?”, it’s not meant to imply that you should pick only one; it’s fine to answer “both” (example from: https://divisbyzero.com/2009/09/27/is-or-an-inclusive-or-or-... ).
I think you could say, well into the 20th century, for Latin in school education.

And also I have heard that there was considerable amounts of literature being produced in Latin even into the 18th and 19th centuries, so much for being a dead language, if new serious literature is being produced in it even 1000s of years after its heyday.

May be it is true for Classical Greek as well. The famous orthodox hymn Agni Parthene was written only in the late 19th century.
Examples of games developed by a single developer?
I dabbled in gamedev in college and have been working as an engineer for the past 15 years. I am interested in building a game as a hobby / side project. I was wondering if anyone here could give me examples of simple yet fun games that would help with inspiration.

One example I can think of off the top of my head would be A Dark Room[1] But I'm not looking to copy it.

Anyone have any examples?

1. https://adarkroom.doublespeakgames.com/
Looks like a by the book anti competitive behavior.
How can gold and bitcoin keep up with economic growth?

Rewarding hodl is a negative feature for a currency!
"Gracious,giving angels"?!

Obviously, you've never driven in London before.
Passkb: How to reliably and securely bypass password paste blocking
I think the 2010s model of “just build it to be acquired by the industry giant” was a mistake, and is officially dead. You can’t expect to sell to the giants anymore, because they can’t expect to be allowed to buy everything that could grow to be a threat. It’s time to come up with a new model (maybe even a return to the 1990s model of small IPOs and mini-consolidation into a crop of strong mid-tier players, rather than giants).
Not an executive, but a middle manager etc that said:

"paying $2-10k+ to add an International Standard Book Accessory Number field to their software will never get approved for a bookmark that works as a compass, or a promotional Harry Potter bookend set."

Tough to disagree.
Yeah, if I was a shareholder I'd be upset as well at their plan to borrow money and purchase a highly volatile asset at its historical peak price. Plus, if I was a shareholder who did think that Bitcoin was an asset worth investing in, I'd rather do it with my own money and reap all the rewards than let a tech company do it and get the watered down returns (after they pay all their bonuses and everything).
No life would be possible in a universe filled with spam, not even for aliens.
It just sounds like a simplification of "if a then b, in all other cases c"
International law? And, also, just "law".

One of the better developments of last few decades is that national borders are, for the most part, no longer subject to violent change. That's due to territory simply losing importance: raw materials are insignificant, economically, compared to the fruits of intellectual labor. Borders have also become much more porous: the conflict in Northern Ireland, for example, lost much of its significance when it became commonplace to commute across the border every day.

Then, a once-mighty nation took the lead in establishing what's called the "rule-based international order": You may conquer some territory with your oh-so-mighty territory. But whatcha gonna do with it when nobody is going to reconise it and you can't sell anything produced there in international markets?

There's been enough regression in these efforts in recent years. No matter how grating it may be to see criminals getting away, it comes nowhere close to being significant enough to go back to might-is-right.
Increased Social Media Use Linked to Developing Depression, Research Finds
Looks really cool and has quite similar goals to IncludeOS[0]. Stripping the hell out of images can only be a good thing.

[0] https://www.includeos.org/
You're telling me that Rachel Carson was a CIA asset? That Murrow's withering criticism of McCarthy was somehow a plot by US intelligence? That a German newspaper was coordinating with spooks to expose Mossack Fonseca? I find that orders of magnitude harder to believe than that they were good people dedicated to the truth.
It would be interesting to compare compilation speeds with Delphi. On a 2020 laptop I7 9900) with 16 GB of ram, I can compile a 1.3 million LOC Delphi program in 11 seconds. That's the 32-bit XE7, the 64-bit takes typically 25 seconds.

There are some of us who still work in Delphi. (Yes I know its not Freepascal)
The coin is made of silver. That's totally different than American currency, which has no intrinsic value.
Adding your data to yet another proprietary archive doesn’t sound like much of a solution..
Just one of those things that no one really questions the existence of. It, like the semicolon, always has been and will be.

Good work digging through these historic esoteric languages. Wikipedia states McCarthy of Lisp fame invented it so many of the evangelists here likely know the conclusion here.
Value sitting on dollars or government bonds is being devaluated.

Not all value can be invested in the present, thus people want to invest in the future (savings theory).

If governments do not offer fiat money or bonds as savings vehicle, assets like Gold or Bitcoin will inevitable soar.

MicroStrategy, and others, understand the situation and want to get in early to make multiply their actual savings.
> As of October 2013, the United States had the highest prison population rate in the world, housing 716 people for every 100,000 people in the national population. 14 At the same time, Norway housed only seventy-two people in prison for every 100,000 people in the national population, a rate almost one tenth of the United States.

[...]

> A comparative look at recidivism in the two countries reveals no better numbers for the United States. In the United States, an average of nine million prisoners are released back into the community each year. 48 Unfortunately, “about two-thirds (67.8%) of released prisoners were arrested for a new crime within 3 years, and three-quarters (76.6%) were arrested within 5 years.” 49 Over a five-year study of state prisoners released in thirty states, almost 1.2 million arrests occurred, and 16.1% of these arrests were attributable to released prisoners. 50 Norway, on the other hand, has the lowest reoffending rate of all the Nordic countries; about one-fifth of ex-prisoners reoffend within two years of release, contrasted with a rate of 24–31% for other Nordic countries. 51 Comparing the United States’ 67.8% to Norway’s approximately twenty percent paints a bleak picture for the United States.
Similar restrictions in the U.K. with signs. CCTV signs are usually up for commercial companies, but residential wise it isn’t enforced, and from the local Facebook group people seem shocked at the very idea recording te street and posting pictures of troublemakers is illegal.

I was disappointed by the number of people with them when I went door knocking for the election last year.

The police actually advised me to get one for my grandmother who has been suffering from door to door scammers.
Derek Parfit's Teleporter Paradox
It's actually worth $343 million now (he paid $175M earlier this year)

Here is a table of all publicly available Bitcoin holdings as of December 12th: https://www.kevinrooke.com/bitcoin
I love this. Thanks you!
Oat milk, perhaps. Let's try not to increase the pressure on soy production.
>You know what else can do calculations? The smartphones and computers that practically every student has access to.

Not very well, for educational purposes.

The experience of calculating the inverse tan of a number and returning the result in degrees is beautiful on a Casio scientific calculator; not so on iPhone's default calculator (reverse Polish) or a Google search (awkward to execute at all).

It's distracting from the educational point whenever you have to first figure out how to do the calculation on a student's particular choice of app.

Caveat: I'd usually recommend a scientific calculator for most educational purposes, not a graphing calculator; Desmos.com is great for graphing.

I'm uncertain about learning Python on a calculator, then. There are potential educational advantages to having this on a calculator: I definitely think this is worth it for Casio to experiment with. I personally learned a lot on a programmable calculator. It's mobile and likely saves you from a difficult set up process and identifying and installing a suitable IDE that works consistently across student devices (I'd say repl.it does a good job in this space)
The pandemic has had two impacts on the economy:

1) A decline in consumption across the board due to loss of income and certainty for future;

2) A shift of consumption from the "traditional physical" businesses to virtual or remote or delivery businesses.

So the end result is that some niches of economy are harmed very much and some niches of economy are not suffering at all or even having a boom, as the change in habits is a very large impact.

And the key aspect that explains this apparent disconnect is that most of the "losers" of economy are not traded in the stock market and most of the "winners" are.

If your local cinema goes bankrupt and people switch to Netflix instead, the stock market cares only about the latter. If you buy less stuff in your local corner store and have Amazon deliveries instead, the stock market sees only the Amazon's growth in revenue and ignores the loss of revenue of the non-publicly-traded store. If a company rents less office space and instead invests in various services and software for remote work, the owner of that now-empty commercial space isn't publicly traded but the service/software providers are. Etc.
I’ll argue this article isn’t worth your click or your time.

A handful of companies who sell oral hygiene products paid for research which claims mouthwash “could potentially help” (that’s a lot of hand-waving) against COVID-19. But only “certain types of mouthwash and toothpaste”, mind you, so better go out and buy those.

> But based on tests so far they can’t definitively say how long the benefit would last or what impact coughing would have. That makes it hard to judge how useful oral-hygiene products could be in curbing transmission.

> (…)

> Johnson & Johnson, owner of Listerine, said lab-based findings about oral-care products and the virus, while high quality, aren’t sufficient to advocate the use of mouthwash as a prevention measure.

So the article has zero value apart from furthering profits for those companies, based on unsubstantiated claims made by the companies themselves, with a lot of asterisks to allow them to deny any wrongdoing while keeping the profits.

What’s surprising to me is that the author seems to be aware of this, considering the sarcastic title. Yet they opted to write and publish it all the same.
As of 2020 Bitcoin can almost-instantly be used as an interest bearing and yield producing asset, which is what "productive" means in this context.

There are both centralized custodial options as well as decentralized permissionless but custodial options, as well as decentralized permissionless noncustodial options. And yes, the yield is risk adjusted.
One interesting thought that occurs to me is that a mid-1970s vintage HP-35 would still be a perfectly good calculator for a typical engineer. (Leaving aside battery life because of the LED display.) That's not true of a lot of electronics of the era, especially any digital electronics.

(Amps etc. would be another example if you stick to purely analog inputs, but that's not digital.)
This was 100 years ago and that was not an outside the norm view back then.
It’s on the anti-clockwise part when the limit drops from 70 to 50 round the bend. I got caught at 60, showing how little attention I was paying to the speed limit (I was preoccupied with the tailgater)
Wasn't meant to be a contradiction, I just found the numbers on the web site and thought I'd throw them in.

BTW, I never knew, but they run an efficient operation, it seems.

My Alma Mater, the University of Stuttgart, has 23k students, 5.3k staff, including 265 professors. They run on an annual budget of 536 million Euros.

(All numbers from Wikipedia)

The FernUni has 76k students (3x), 1.3k staff (1/3), including 90 professors (1/3), on an annual budget of 90 million Euros (1/6).
Have you ever consider that 1m gap is a product of speed limits? If we didn't have such limits, dedicated cycle lanes set apart from roads would become the norm imo.

Its not uncommon for cheap inadequate safety measures to supplant real ones.
> Other strongly typed functional languages such as OCaml exist, but many aspects are not nearly as mature.

Did he mean "statically typed"?
Yes, and the inventor of the language eventually removed ELSE from his dialects, amusingly. These days he says that his code has very few conditional statements.

I think the tactic strategy to achieve this is to confine conditional branches in a few well chosen words.

For instance if you have a word SORT that sorts the top pair on the stack, which has to have a branch:

: SORT 2DUP < IF SWAP THEN ;

then you can build "if-less" MIN, MAX and ABS:

: MIN SORT NIP ;

: MAX SORT DROP ;

: ABS 0 SORT SWAP - ;
and yet the credit market gobbled it all up! om nom

shareholders can and should do whatever they want, that is the point of being so forthcoming

"I want to do X" => market agrees or market disagrees => X does or doesn't happen
Exactly - Bitcoin is not a safe place to store cash as others in this thread are arguing. It's certainly not anywhere close to as safe as the US Dollar. It's well within possibility that Bitcoin will drop 80% over the next 6 months.
> The neat thing is that any foreigner can study any subject at any University in Germany for free.

This statement is not true. It is the case though that many if not most public German universities have costs that run in the very low thousands i.e. 1-5k for total degree costs.

However, there are some drawbacks to the way this system works. For one, you will be hard pressed to find online degree offerings or continuing studies options from public Universities (i.e. these types of low costs offerings) that allow you to continue your education while working fulltime. Most of these come from private institutions or specific programs which have higher costs typically running in the 10k+ cost range area.

Its great if you are a student graduating from high school and going to university - you won't be burdened with high costs. However, the public system largely still neglects (this lone University being the only example in all of Germany which I am aware of) many other situations where people might want to further their education.

We do have something called Volkshochschulen, which is in some ways similar to Junior Colleges in the United States and provides some level of extended studies at a public level, but anyway, I won't go into details, suffice it to say the systems don't translate one-to-one onto each other and there are cons with our system as well.
Doesn't that imply that if one can fit an NN in a line of code, then it's not programming?

That seems like a weird distinction to make.
I think the killer feature is the separation of IO and pure & mutable functions. Pure functions are easy to reason about, easy to test, have predictable performance and are well suited for concurrent applications. IO is crucial for a useful application but it forces you to sacrifice some guarantees.

What I like about Haskell development is that the compiler enforces this separation, so when things misbehave you can just focus on the IO components. I think this would fit well into the paradigm rust had for marking variables as "mutable".
Be sure to also check out Unikraft, a Unikernel SDK [0]!

[0]: https://github.com/unikraft/unikraft
I think it's a matter of time before we see all sorts of small home appliances that replace their DC power bricks with USB.
A Christmas Tautology
Which is why getting a battery replacement after a few years is actually a very decent deal because you are getting back a half brand new MacBook.

Although the repairing quality of Apple Store has gone downhill in recent years, the attention and care they used to put though during repair are no longer there.
Petty concepts that have never stopped the US Government before. /s
Would you mind helping me understand your idea better, then? I gleaned my (mistaken) assumption from your Capabilities Digest:

> The principle of least privilege is the solution to this whole mess, but it has to be applied from the kernel all the way up the stack. This is a lot of forking work to do.[0]

[0]: http://capabilitiesdigest.blogspot.com/2015/10/the-root-caus...
If you didn't know, that was attempted quite a number of times.
> Still, accessing the slot does not require a dictionary lookup, as it would for an ordinary instance attribute, which was the main point I was trying to make.

I'm sorry but mapping a string (slot name) to an index [in an overdynamic language like Python] does require a dictionary lookup. It's just this dictionary is located in the class, not in each instance.

> The way CPython does this, if you can call it an "optimization"

The usual way to optimize lookups-by-name in dynamic languages is using (inline) caches. AFAIK, CPython now does that too.
I don't think anyone here is interested in debating the merits of Citizen's from first principles. Suffice it to say that your reasoning is not the one the court chose, so I don't know where you're going with this.

My point was simply the wording above: the court CHOSE to issue a very broad decision in Citizen's, just as it chose NOT to issue one here. And the reason is just simple desire and not any kind of principle. The court wanted to, and that's as far as it goes. You see the same skew in logic in arguments about Roe, where the same people (like you) who think Citizen's is fine for throwing out huge regulatory areas based on a novel reading of the constitution suddenly think it's "judicial activism" to find a right to medical privacy in the due process clause.
I think you missed that the speed limit would affect uploads after transferring 500G _per month_, not total? So in a year you would be able to store 6 terabytes. This would probably work out fine, because e.g. typical use of cloud storage is probably backups, and the first uploads are the largest.

I think some networks have operated in the way you want: you get full speed to some specified limit, and after that you are throttled (significantly). That works out fine to use the complete limit. On the other hand if you do want to use 15G, it's easier to do, when the block gets charged automatically.

I think it would be very hard to have a lawsuit about this if the contract includes these details.
Activity of an Idle PC Windows10 versus OpenBSD
So succinctly, the bear case for crypto is Tether gets shut down by USA (or international treaty) and then any hard cash left in crypto markets after that is slowly drained by miners paying electric bills? (Ignoring 51% attack and attack by hostile tax policy.)
That's what HP did. The "serious products for serious people" division became Agilent.
Novasaur Retrocomputer
But they didn't get a chance to do what they want, the CEO (and I would presume the board...hopefully) made this decision to drastically reduce shareholder value on their own.
If you squint hard enough, deep learning can be seen as programming. A computer (human) is used to train a model (write and compile a program). The generated model (compiled program) is then used for inference (ran) on target machine with new input data.
Curious if you include right-wing personalities who try and get "progressives" or "liberals" fired from their jobs in the great group of Cancellers, you may be interested in the doctrine of the preferred first speaker.
ARM Cortex-A72 fetch and branch processing
"thee" is the dative (and later accusative) inflected form of "thou", the second person singular pronoun.

In your sentence above "Read" is the imperative form of the verb. The subject is elided since it's implicitly second person (singular or plural) (as imperative is used to give orders to people you're talking to) and if it wasn't elided it would have been in nominative case. Middle english had an ending -(e)th to form a plural second person imperative.

"Learn the grammar of past and present languages, else you'll attract pedants from the intertubes"
Windows (2003 ish) task manager source code Review by its original author
I don't think we're quite there yet, but it conjures up modern-day videos of people being accused of white supremacy and told that the evidence for it is the fact that they don't see it. I wish I was joking. This[0] was posted recently on one of my hyper-progressive acquaintances Instagram. Does it not have a similar level of paranoia as when people chased witches or communists?

0. https://i.imgur.com/0mzw6D8.png
Personally I do think it's fine and I don't think that a technology having warts (which is essentially a given for any reasonably complex software) indicates a need for a rewrite. The rewrite will have warts too, just like sysvinit had warts.
Maybe. On the other hand, "andernfalls" is a bit long as a keyword.
The question boils down to, do people trust China (and its renminbi) or the US (and its dollar) more? Even if China is greatly involved in commodities, or has an ever-growing GDP, the political forces concerning the administration of the currency are a factor.
And if you put a comma in, then it reverts it to exclusive or: “Would you like cream, or sugar?” This may depend on locale, however; I’m speaking of Australian English, and it’s possible that in some locales there may be a verbal cue to indicate the exclusive or but that it wouldn’t be spelled in any way. (As it stands, you could still have a pause before the “or” permitting inclusive or with two inqusitive portions: “Would you like cream? Or sugar?”)

This is a large part of why I dislike prescribed Oxford comma, because it undermines this legitimate use of a comma to alter the semantics.
JavaScript without a doubt. It will enable you to do front-end work which is more beginner friendly and also can be used for the backend as well with node.
> this lone University being the only example in all of Germany which I am aware of

Yes indeed this is the only state run distance-learning university, but I'd argue that you only really need one such institution. After all, you can study from anywhere :). They have regional centers in many German towns, but for most courses you only need to be there for the exams at the end of the semester, so you can also study hours away from the next regional center.

And it's quite successful. By number of enrolled students, it's the largest university of Germany at 77k, with the runner up having only 56k students.