skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Only one person using one device is allowed to add to the log. Each entry contains the hash of the entry before it (including that entry's field where it contains the previous hash, etc.). If you add entries that have a conflicting ordering, you're assumed to be a bad actor and get blocked by the network.

If you want to have multiple devices or multiple people editing the same data, you need to give them all a separate log and use some kind of CRDT system to combine them
https://smartcdn.prod.postmedia.digital/montrealgazette/wp-c...
> I’m not sure why I thought XHTML was completely dead in this way. Something’s niggling at the back of my mind, but I can’t place it.

Browsers were always non-validating XML processors. Maybe you're thinking about the Well-formedness constraints? These constraints check if an XML document follows the XML metasyntax and any XML processor is required to fail [1] on errors in these contraints. And browsers do that.

[1] https://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#sec-conforman...

In practice most well-formedness violations were nesting errors like missing start or end tags, common when generating XML via text concatenation or templates, which in the dark times a lot of people do, even when they shouldn't . [2] That's why the HTML5 parsing algorithm is so complex and almost unimplementable. It's the ambition for error correction: It tries to generate a DOM out of any well-formed and unwell-formed documents.

[2] https://hsivonen.fi/producing-xml/#nottext
We have reached peak-COVID, now an announced death is accompanied by "( not COVID related)".

I have never read anything by him, still RIP.
I agree with your premise but I don't think you're using the correct terms here. "Complex" and "complicated" are synonyms as far as I can tell.

What you're describing sounds like "essential complexity" vs. "accidental complexity." See "No Silver Bullet."

Sorry, this is pedantic, but using the incorrect terms adds accidental complexity to a topic that is already essentially complex. ;)
> Or typing only Q because you didn't hit the : and accidentally entering ex mode.

I'm not certain this is different (because I don't use either deliberately) but I'm forever hitting q (not even trying to quit) and entering some kind of macro recording mode.

I think the only reason I haven't yet disabled it like you suggest (after doing it for years now) is that... Well 'some kind of macro recording' does sound like it might be pretty useful if I bothered to learn to use it!
"I have three Pokémons. They can read and write." cf: I have three Pokémons that can read and write.

Now, thanks to what I can only describe as the implicit vagaries of English, the bounding (three) might now imply that I have three ... or more Pokémons! To make that sentence precise: I have three Pokémons and they can read and write. Here I am substituting and for a full stop (period.) When I deployed "that" I managed to muddy the waters.

Mapping logical and Boolean operators to grammatical constructs is tricky and should not be taken lightly. Best to consider them separately. AND is not and (except when it is!)

Be careful out there kids.
The thing is, Goodreads always felt like a feature. They failed to build a business, let alone one that should take VC (and hence be required to generate venture-scale returns). And my guess is the only way they could have generated the right returns is to move down the sales funnel, which is a direct threat to Amazon's business. Making the subsequent behavior inevitable.

It feels like there are a couple very nice small (not necessarily lifestyle, but not vc) businesses in that space.

I'm aware of https://readng.co and https://bingebooks.com
Do you have a source for this? Never heard about it
I used to deal with that on my commute in Oakland and I spent a long time exploring and looking at maps and end up going about 3/4mi extra to avoid sharrows on larger roads and take the side streets. Takes longer but I feel much safer. Don't like getting sideswiped (happened twice) and screamed at (few times).
It was and still is part of our culture.
You might be interested in the history of the "Stop Murdering Our Children" campaign. It had a massive impact on the development of the Netherlands. In the 60s, automobile-pedestrian deaths were higher per capita than in the usa. It wasn't always a bike mecca.

https://www.dutchreach.org/car-child-murder-protests-safer-n...
semantics..users can and do choose to Flag comments because they disagree —not because they are considered inappropriate for the site
She stalked her daughters killers across Mexico, one by one
They absolutely do. In northern climates where there is snow and ice on the roads for 3+ months out of the year, a car MFG will GLADLY sell you a vehicle with sport/summer tires. If you try driving with those in the winter: at best you'll get stuck, at worst you'll slide through the first intersection you come to and die in a fiery crash.

Just about every business will have options that are a perfectly reasonable choice in some circumstances and really, really stupid in others.
One thing I don't understand:

> The COVID-19 pandemic hit in early 2020, which halted global trade and contributed (along with a structural oil oversupply issue) to a collapse in oil prices. The dollar quickly spiked, foreigners began outright selling Treasuries and other US assets to get dollars

Earlier on the article explains that in the petrodollar system, foreigners need dollars to buy oil. If they can now buy oil for less dollars, then why do they want to get more dollars?
Serious question, can someone who downvoted the parent comment please explain why? This sounds in line with what I've heard about treatment of African Americans by the US medical system, so I would love to hear if there is evidence to say this is wrong.
Thanks, I didn't know about putting everything on one line. I've updated the post to include this tip.

As for showing line numbers, I'm often doing this to read logs on a remote VM. In those scenarios, having easy access to where you are in the file is really helpful.
Takes a whole stroke off your shell game!
A related thing I'd love to see take off is companies offering log-based interactions instead of HTTP APIs only. Some apps are such a poor fit for HTTP that you end up with a convoluted mess of web-hooks as soon as some elements of async appear. Obviously, these web-hook contraptions are always home-grown and offer nothing near what you get with a proper log system.
I’m unsure if anyone in the US actually has policies that go so low either.

The minimums might get thrown around a lot to convince you to help sell you under-insured insurance coverage.

But you always do need to worry about completely uninsured motorists.

Depending on your province, it’s gotten a lot harder to claim much for soft injuries or even income replacement if you’re injured in an MVA.
There exist roads that have vision off into the horizon where there is no one else, or that "someone else" is miles away.

edit: made it nicer
And if you arent RPCing into a random Russian computer 5 minutes after browsing darknet markets, what are you doing aside from being discriminated against by captcha’s all day?

I would not trust any declaration of “state sponsored hack” and it is a distinction that doesn't really matter but causes more harm than good
OSv has preemptive multi-tasking. Unikernels are more about having your application run in kernelspace, and recognizing that in distributed computing contexts, individual computers tend to be only doing one thing, and having them doing other things reduces efficiency and decreases complexity.
One things I've noticed about building software is that the most appropriate contours of the problem space often only become clear with hindsight.

Even if you start off with the best intentions about not putting in too many features it won't always help.

This is why the second mover can also have an advantage in some areas. If they recognize the appropriate contours they can avoid the crufty features and more directly and effectively tackle the main problem.
> I am looking for 14 days quoted in the parent comment and not finding it.

2 to 6 days incubation time is not "long".

> I am sympathetic to the idea but being overconfident

It's not being overconfident: it's what the currently available data says. The largest contact tracing study I am aware of, in India, reported that the largest cause of spread were superspreading events.
Thanks, I've edited the post to mention about putting everything in one lien.
I find it odd that you would use the short version of a command in a config file. Brevity is important when you are doing repetitive tasks. In a config file (or code), clarity is more important that brevity. I know you could argue that you know VI so well that you know these commands off the top of your head.. even so, it's particularly pointless to list them this way in a blog where you have to turn around and explain them anyhow.
Around here, we're not supposed to be in them at all, except when we're making a turn.

https://nybc.net/education/bike-law/2-uncategorised/68-a-sum...

I see people swerving into them, all the time, to get around other cars. That's a Bozo no-no.
Yet...

1970 $1 is equal in purchasing power to $6.71 today. There is no indication from the Fed that this is going to turn around. With the rate the Fed is pumping out dollars, runnaway inflation is a near certainty.
Or maybe some solid likely illegal spying on employees.
"Who do you think spies are: priests, saints and martyrs? They’re a squalid procession of vain fools, traitors, too, yes; pansies, sadists and drunkards, people who play cowboys and Indians to brighten their rotten lives. Do you think they sit like monks in London balancing the rights and wrongs?" -The Spy Who Came In From The Cold

He belongs in that small pantheon of genre writers who transcend their chosen subject and ascend into the high literary. Tolkien with Fantasy. Clarke with Sci-Fi. Chandler with Crime. Lovecraft with the Supernatural.

Some of the old BBC adaptations are extant via YouTube ;)
I’m sorry you had these experiences. I too got hit twice, but no major damage other than totaling my bike.

The reason why I have little sympathy for these types of stories is that I witness cyclists being assholes every day I drive. Stuff like running lights and stop signs, changing lanes with no signals, riding on sidewalks and crosswalks, riding in lanes with moving cars, etc etc.

I understand that in the US bike environments are really unsafe, but I don’t think that routine not obeying traffic laws or conventions is the way to go.
I don't think this is really a UK-specific issue - it presumably would have come out in this way whoever approved it first (if it was actually a vaccine reaction).

It's also rather surprising to me (as a relative layman) that this wasn't picked up during safety trials. I get anaphylactic reactions to some food and medicines and carry an EpiPen. There are a few vaccines which have been counterindicated for me due to this so I have always thought it's a relatively well-known potential side effect from at least some vaccines (and other medicines of course). As such I would have expected it to be looked/checked for during safety trials.
Usually communist party members in your company in China isn't a big secret, it's pretty much public info because the top 10% elite usually get invited and are allowed into the party. Also the desks of communist party members in the company will usually have communist party emblems and chinese flags indicating their status as a Communist Party member, it's not taboo to do so. Most top companies will gather top job candidates which will include communist party members who work as lawyers, developers, etc (aka normal jobs) and they will list their CCP membership on their resumes. So this is more doxxing I would say as the vast majority of communist party members working at a company are regular people.

Source on Communist Party entrance process: https://daily.jstor.org/communist-party-of-china/
Oh wow I had no idea that it looks so bad on Firefox. Thanks for pointing it out, I will look for a fix.

Edit: fixed by removing "Apple Color Emoji" from the list. Thanks!
Can't you also auto-save when losing focus?
Can someone give us a review how the 20% rule works/worked at Google? What I've read has always been second hand. Not directly from a Googler. I suspect that at the very least the 20% gives high employees a way to decompress for a bit by working on projects they love rather than ones that they have to do.
In fact, I think your idea is better, and I’ll probably switch to doing that some day, just in case one of these files turns out to save me.

Edit: Hmmm. I’ll have to think some more about it. Anyway, glad you found my witeup useful.
It seems to me that those taking the position that the minimum wage should be lowered/abolished and those taking the opposite position are both accepting the premise that absent the minimum wage, wages would fall. Is there any real-world basis for that premise?

From basic supply and demand:

1. a downward pressure on wages emerges from workers competing with workers (competition among suppliers of labor)

2. an upward pressure on wages emerges from employers competing with employers (competition among consumers of labor)

And, ceteris paribus, some equilibrium wages emerge.

The minimum wage ostensibly exists to interfere with #1 (though usually framed as protecting workers from employers), assuming the minimum wage is set above the would-be equilibrium wage.

But what if the minimum wage is set below the would-be equilibrium wage? Perhaps the minimum wage instead serves to interfere with #2 by allowing a point of collusion among employers, and thereby keep wages artificially low.

Is anyone aware of any research on this?
I agree, and I'm still very thankful for DDG. Would gladly pay to have someone take me even further.
Really? So is it a myth that 20% time is dead at Google Cloud? Or are you one of the folks who doesn't consider Google Cloud to be Google?
Absolutely it is.
That is uninspiring... is totally fine to have long shell scripts, and in itself, is no easier nor harder than any other language.

Worth noting that shell is a programing environment (not language) so is highly dependent on the tools you are using or gluing together to accomplish something.
Well how else are they going to get the money out of all of those accounts they locked for no good reason?
Very interesting, I don't think I've ever talked to someone who would choose to disable syntax highlighting. Do the colors actively annoy you or is it just that you don't care?
I do have weak reading glasses and notice that changing focus between near and far is anything but instant.

I have noticed another thing though. Sometimes the text/images are sharp but doubled-imaged a small fraction of a character apart. Part of this is likely due to extra muscle effort to maintain focus. Another part is that the degree of this effect is variable. I have drastically cut down my caffeine intake as it was getting out of hand during WFH. Since reduction in consumption and sometimes choosing tea or decaf, I've noticed much less of the double-imaging and don't reach for the low-magnification (1.0) reading glasses as often.

Btw, does anyone use very weak reading glasses? I was thinking about getting something lower than 1.0 (say 0.75). Drugstores only seem to stock 1.25+ and I can find 1.0 at dollar stores, online I could probably order 0.75 to try.

Edit: a completely different theory is that taking Beat Saber fitness breaks made my weak eye less lazy since depth perception is a good part of the game.
And then we only enforce it on people we don't like and can use it as an excuse and everyone will go "yeah, well, I mean, it is a law, after all. They should have known better. Everyone gets caught eventually."
This is why I love love love Gmail and Google Photos. The search engine is so powerful.

I search "driveway" and get all the photos my wife and I ever took that shows our driveway. Ah yes the cracks are getting worse.

I search email for "driveway repair" and find that old recommendation from a friend despite the word driveway having never been mentioned.

I don't need a sorting system. I need a big pile of all my data ever with a fantastic search engine.

I'd prefer if it wasn't google.
I've never been to any place that felt safer for lane sharing than Norway. You have very considerate and careful drivers, if I may generalize a bit.
It also doesn't help that the H1N1 vaccines came too late to do much good: while Pandermix was just one of many vaccines, and the only one I'm aware of known to cause problems, in most places they hardly made a difference because infections had already peaked by the time they were distributed widely. Eg here in Canada, I've seen estimates that vaccines reduced H1N1 deaths by about 5% at best. H1N1 still infected around 20-30% of the entire world population, and Canada was no different. A significant % of people were already immune, so natural herd immunity is the main thing that stopped it.

Given how fast COVID-19 appears to be spreading even in places with strict lockdown, I won't be surprised if it turns out that vaccines don't actually make much difference with it either.
Survivorship bias could be at play. I'm a fan of 20% time. Though I think we'd need more data than some anecdotes to draw broad conclusions.
As discussed in the article, the point is to quickly set up vim on fresh linux installations (e.g. virtual machines). For the vim on your own pc, you would likely use the full version, in addition to whatever extra config you prefer.
It was directly annexed into Russia during the war when the various states didn’t exist in a meaningful way, and was ethnically cleansed.

The other territories vary... iirc Crimea was subject to a treaty in the 90s, etc. End of
The day the relative power imbalances and international interest tend to rule the day.
Macros are really nice, you can automate transforming several lines of text with them. The Vim plugin in Intellij supports them. Worth learning IMHO.
assuming the slime mould has standard unconstrained biological reproduction properties (over the time of the experiment) isn't the space/resource complexity here O(2^t)?
This was about 6-9 months ago and I didn’t lead the postmortem, so to be honest I don’t recall how we determined that.

However anecdotal, the user who was compromised is aware enough not to re-enter their credentials outside URL schemes that match our password manager database, and they wouldnt have entered anything.

“Oh but how can you trust the user, they clicked a bad link?!”... again this email came from a very reputable vendor who we email with regularly, and the link would have been completely normal for a Monday morning in Q1 2020.

I also think part of our reasoning for why the credentials were not re-used was because all the sessions seemed to be headless chrome sessions, but no logins.

I’m not a data security expert, but in my best summary, it seemed they:
- Had a “virus” that spread really well. I’m assuming they had two kinds of users. Spreaders, and targets. Our employee was a spreader, sending this bug out to his/our network. Once the targets were hit, they’d be selected out of the spreader pool (so the hackers could remain undetected).
- The hack relied upon identifying ,mutually high volume (trusted) email senders.
- The hack had something to do with leveraging the platform of Notion.io. Unsure if there is a bug on that platform which was also being abused, or if they just have a good system for hosting phishing pages.
- The user’s authenticated sessions seemed to be hijacked and replicated across the globe in headless chrome browsers, which appeared to renew the session until the hack ended.
It's related to Qvault, the password manager written by someone who keeps making very fundamental mistakes about cryptography in their blog.
Push notifications on iOS are delivered through Apple's servers, so that makes sense.
If the pedestrian seems oblivious that's one thing, but if the pedestrian is staring you in the eyes and is broadcasting 'what the fuck are you doing?!?' body language and gestures, I don't see much excuse.
I'd say that the simplest answer is to have a no-fault program for anyone involved in an accident like they do in New Zealand.

https://www.acc.co.nz/
Apparently it was but that doesn't justify the harassment described in the article. Hate mail and stuff like that. I guess people got too emotional and both parties ended up with a bad taste in their mouths.
Not at Google Cloud
> Now, from the experience we do have, ~30% inflation like in the 70s is the best we can hope for

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FPCPITOTLZGUSA

You are now outright lying.
That's "else" used as an adverb, not a conjunction. Author is talking about the latter.
Yeah, that's the KYC for you. For all they know your account can be a part of a money-laundering scheme.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_your_customer
What makes you think the way people are being grouped together due to being visually different are the same factors that dictate the largest differences in efficacy between people?
To be clear: this is 9 kids in 10 years. It's very difficult to do more than that intentionally, especially in an era where miscarriages are fairly common.
The Walking Transplant Trope

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WalkingTransplan...
Console #31: Hoppscotch, Stimulus, and Dahlias
And quite often the philosophy doesn't line up with reality. The OSI layers have little relation to how networking actually works and it would be next to impossible to replace some of those layers.
John Le Carré, Best-Selling Author of Cold War Thrillers, Is Dead at 89
I don't really think so. Most programming tasks can be done with a 2010 year-model computer. In machine engineering etc. you need expensive equipment.
You certainly are able to load fonts on a self signed app, don't know where you got that information from.
Fernuni is a public/government university. The big thing is that you get a UNIVERSITY degree that is recognized in Germany. This may have implications, e.g. doing a MS after a BS there or getting a University degree after you attended a poly-technical college, both entitles you to better career options in the public service.

They have also several other niches. E.g patent lawyers are getting trained there after their STEM degrees.

AMA
> and have 20%ed the entire time I've been there on: grpc-go, Drive, and Go tools (gopls, etc).

All Google related projects.