skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, I was really just facetiously pointing out that computer code is a mass noun, so we are all used to talking about _some_ computer code, but not so much _a_ computer code.

But... Thanks for the bump!
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> IMHO nobody (including and especially members of the establishment) seriously believes Snowden or Assange are actually Russian spies, really.

If there was a Trump pardon, I guarantee every major news outlet would bring up their Russian connections and Twitter would lose its mind. What people "seriously believes" changes rapidly.
It's also in the tutor, lesson 1.2

But there's actually nothing special about vimtutor here: all it does is write a temporary file and then open it in vim.
> we send each user a Jailbroken iPhone with the Beeper app installed which bridges to iMessage

Huh, I wonder how this is sustainable. I assume there is a greater cost than 10 bucks a month for this option? I wouldn't want to be the one managing the logistical effort of that!
Most defog is just a soap film, and many divers including myself just use baby shampoo diluted in water. Store-bought defog is expensive and doesn't really work any better.

However, when diving you leave your defog wet (hence the baby shampoo so your eyes don't get irritated) after a quick dunk in water to rise off the excess. A coating that dries will be very different, although I am sure they sell it somewhere!

I've heard of people using Rain-X on their masks, but never tried that before. Maybe it'll work on glasses too!
> I don't think it's ignorant, it's just another framework of looking at the world. Consider a chessboard that's in the middle of a game.

Chess is an abstract turn-based zero-sum discrete 1-on-1 board game with perfect information sharing. In other words, it's completely different from real life in every possible aspect, and thus any drawn parallel is likely to be worthless. Real life is not Chess.
I know Visual Basic gets a bad rap, but as a learning language it had an interesting feature, `Option Base`. By putting `Option Base` in a module, it changed how the indexing of arrays worked. It defaulted to 0, but for some applications (and also, when you're first learning), 1 can be convenient.

Of course, there are problems with this in a professional setting, such as how do you enforce uniformity across modules, and what happens if you copy code from one module that's Base 0 to one that's Base 1 and vice versa. But when I was first learning how to program, it was helpful to me to have a language that allowed for some choice.

In the meantime, 23 years of programming have led me to believe that index base 0 makes sense. For many applications it's moot, because we should be using higher level functions (like map and reduce) for processing lists. In every other application (such as working with data on a grid), dealing with offsets does make things easier.

Perhaps the convention is arbitrary. But, lots of industries have arbitrary conventions that we all agree on just to aid communication, and I disagree with the original author that the term "groupthink" applies in this situation.
Also it's strange for a minor auth provider to promote "major auth provider". Seems that would drive away potential customers.
I'd argue that most people never comment on the actual article because it is as generic as "new battery technology could double electric cars autonomy". Claims are very cheap these days and these articles have very little substance to them.
Actually it would help to grow the business. Especially there is regulatory uncertainty regarding what I'm doing in my country. Saw already few companies in a similar area liquidated themselves and moved away. Maybe they just wanted to save taxes, but I highly doubt it.

I'm not in this area. But here is some example what could theoretically happen: You're starting a twitter clone and the Government says you are responsible for every post on your platform. You get sued and you are done.
Right now this wouldn't kill me since I could always move on. But it could cost a lot and possible give a huge setback.
I thought the idea that there are gazillions of advanced aliens has been pretty much disproven by the fermi paradox.

If there are gazillion, at least one out of all the diversity out there should have already colonized the entire galaxy and evidence should be plentiful.
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I'm not an expert but it looks like a scam. And what is your opinion about cryptoart in general.
I’m surprised by your answer. You’re literally reacting but ignoring the rhetorical aspects of my question and its implications. I guess it’s a way to drop the discussion
I fear Kotlin might go a similar route as Groovy. That said, Groovy never got so much traction, so maybe not, but Kotlin definitely seems to be losing its momentum thanks to Java's fast progress.
so the answer is: yes this reduces security over signal for both myself and whomever i’m chatting with. due to this, seems like a questionable choice to include signal.
“Higher” indicates an ordering. How do you rank civilizations? If we replace “higher” with “more advanced“ it’s still not an obvious thing.
Big Time.
I think finding space jellyfish would also be a monumental discovery.
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Except that you should not do this, unless you're wearing disposable gloves, which you throw away immediately after.
Jim Bridenstine: “... Ad astra.” [video]
It's critically important that my office doesn't burn down, but that's not my business's core competence.
Agree 100%. What always struck me most about it was the sheer ambition of it - not just the raw scale of the drama, not just setting things up in Season 1 that wouldn't pay off until the very end of Season 5 (if Michael O'Hare hadn't needed to be written out), but getting compelling long-term character arcs (especially for Londo and G'Kar) into small-screen SF for the first time.

If I have one major gripe about the show, it's the way it was constantly padded out with filler eps at a time when JMS's ability to get the core storylines finished was still in doubt. The threat to S5 and resulting hasty rearrangement of S4 meant that the final season didn't hit with the weight it could have done; it felt like an afterthought rather than a climax.
Both of them can't be trusted the same way, at least if you are not American. If you are american ok, you have a government similar to CCP to defend you. Me? my government "willingly" shutdown open source projects to use Microsoft services. CCP never did something similar, so yeah, Microsoft can be worse than CCP in many ways.
He was sworn in about 12 minutes before 12pm, is it normal to be that early?
Just like how you've been brainwashed by the TV into thinking the "others" are evil, trump people are brainwashed into thinking you hate them and want them dead.

Both sides see themselves as the victim and the others as the attacker.

>Why is it always on us to be nice to people who hate us and want us dead?

Do you see how this is perpetuating the problem?
Tradeoffs noted in the article:

With no mention about how sound travels through the device (maybe through the cloth lining at the back), I’m guessing the wearer would have to constantly be on the verge of a shouting match in order to be heard. Even though it looks relatively easy to take off, I’m sorry for the folks out there who suffer from the regular runny nose.

To that I offer that this device will be a greenhouse in the summer.
I don't see anything in this article that's specific to auth. Why not entitle the blog post "Why outsource?".

The points made in the article seem equally applicable to any piece of a software service. It effectively boils down to this first line of the Maintainability section:

> There are trade-offs here
This looks nice, but $10 a month is a tough sell for me (I use only two of the supported platforms everyday, with about 20 messages total in a day, on average).

Also, why does the site ask for an email address to get started? An explanation of why along with the on boarding process would be useful.

That aside, the Meet Our Team section on the homepage shows “This is some text inside of a div block.” on the right. Is this an oversight or is it some inside joke?
Nah, you just like risk.
With my cloth mask, I pull it up under my glasses, and let me glasses hold the seal. Just make sure your mask is big enough to still cover your face after you pull it up this high.
That is only a concern for medical grade masks. Most masks that people wear are to slow down the air, not filter the air.
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> The Apple Silicon chips are one of the first desktop chips that are a heterogeneous design with distinct performance and efficiency cores. We’re revising much of our core threading and thread pooling architecture to handle the distinction better, improve efficiency, and eventually be able to schedule less performance-critical tasks on the efficiency cores.

I found this bit interesting. Likely more prevalent in mobile apps, but perhaps shifting desktop code to Big.Little approach and using core affinity will result in a lot less wasted energy.
Vice President Kamala Harris Makes History as She Steps in to Office
Flow-based programming is cool, until the flow starts altering the flow.
Well Netflix has to have been running at multiples of their regular bandwidth the last year, and at least anecdotally my experience has been flawless, and I haven't read about any widespread issues with Netflix streaming.

It certainly seems the free market was able to deal with it.

One thing I'm really happy with is how the FCC ran the $9.2 billion auction for the RDOF (Rural Digital Opportunity Fund) subsidies. Although I don't have hard numbers, my impression is that the USF (Universal Service Fund) is a typical government boondoggle, and the RDOF auction format was a pretty innovative way to distribute the funds.

For a minute there it looked like they would try to exclude SpaceX from bidding in the high bandwidth / low latency tier, but ultimately they went with taking a chance on their unproven tech and they were able to win $885 million in subsidies.
The thing is, many more people are using phone and tablets, than Windows and many more people are using Windows, than Macs and many more people are using Macs, than desktop Linuxes and many more people are using desktop Linuxes, than desktop BSDs. So the anecdata goes against your mountain of anecdata that goes against a world of anecdata from people using those platforms.
I used to use an app for this called IM+ in the early days of iOS, looks like they're still around: https://www.plus.im
Your doing it right then.

Learning to see the world in different ways is one of the most amazing things about Art.

Spend 3 hours on a negative space drawing, then walking outside is very trippy. It’s like finding out you were color blind your whole life.
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Hah!, The headline triggered my automatic counting of letters and segments looking for prime number cribs as well. Have so far resisted the urge to check pixel dimensions on images, stego fingerprints, hidden rune thumbnails, exif data, but what happens if I xor these images together...

K, no more internet today.
But what if you have newborns or an exhausting family? Figuring out how to do all of this oneself on top of all of that is pretty stressful.
plenty of people don't choose or choose under a kind of duress (religious guilt)
The downvoters are thrashing a straw man. Obviously nobody believes you're supposed to recreate society every 20 years ex nihilo. What I'm arguing is that the case for reading history has been overstated. Specifically, I was reacting to the claim that, "Human behavior seems to be notoriously consistent across centuries." I agree. It is. Human beings react to the same emotions and incentives they always have and there's no library big enough to change that.

This is like arguing about whether dieting "works." On the one hand, obviously, yes, it works. There's no credible debate about the efficacy of calorie restriction for losing weight. It simply works. On the other hand, most human beings can't actually follow a diet, so, no, it doesn't actually work, for any reasonable definition of "works."

Reading history is probably a lot like that.
I think we know that Mitch would have blocked every Biden appointment if the Dems hadn't won Georgia. Waiting 2/4/6/8 years to resolve a deadlock isn't a great idea. The checks and balances in the Senate were ignored by Mitch to get things done, rather than compromise.

Since Congress makes its own rules, and 51/49 is enough to change a rule ('the nuclear option'), supermajority would have to be a constitutional amendment... And then 45% would be enough to halt government. I guarantee you this would then happen regularly.

Other systems have mechanisms to force elections if deadlocks are persistent. Of course, you also need mandatory voting, PTO for voting, full franchise, etc and that isn't going to happen in America while this Supreme Court lasts.
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CIA operatives don't lie for political gain purposes?
There's plenty enough KN95 masks that the message can be to use them.
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It is a pain, but ultimately the users suffer. Dev time goes to this nonsense, and it also forces the game to literally run slower, especially for server side validating things like inventory.

No one should be releasing tools for the express purpose of simplifying the process of making these hacks. It has no real upside, and hurts a lot of people for no reason.
The core of the FBP principles are the holy grail of true componentized function architecture.

Instead of losing yourself in ever more complex syntax convolutions as has happened in a lot of functional programming, you make the components (even long running stateful ones) self contained with ports for data input and output as the sole means of communicating with them, over buffered channels to allow asynchronous computation, and most importantly keep the network definition separate.

Just this idea in itself is just brilliant. Hats off to
Mr Morrison for that!

It allows to decouple complex software into reusable components, without clever FP syntax.

(Though, FP is perfect for implementing the components themselves. It just doesn't really scale all too well for whole program architecture, in my experience).

One point to note: The visual component of many fbp systems is completely optional, as is the idea of using novel DSLs. You can as well define your networks and components in pure code. See GoFlow https://github.com/trustmaster/goflow) and my own little experiment FlowBase (https://flowbase.org) for examples of that, in Go.

I successfully built a rather complex little app to convert from Semantic web RDF format to (semantic) mediawiki XML dump format, in two weeks straight, of linear development time: for each component (of ca 7), implement, test, go to the next component (See: https://github.com/rdfio/rdf2smw)

The same implementation in procedural PHP took months, and still doesn't have all bugs and strange behaviours filed out.
I'm definitely not the target audience for this, but I can't help wonder: Why introduce a new turing-complete language, instead of building on top of an existing language suitable for "gluing things together"? Python and Lua come to my mind.
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It is also a concern for people whose glasses fog up.
To be clear, I don't think that democratic vote should silence people. But I do think that people should have the option to stand & be accounted for, and one of the most important places to do that is in supporting, refusing, or outright censoring others. Government never had the option before of letting us chip in, letting us voice our support or distaste or alarm. Particularly the popular, the famous, those given the megaphone: they should be subject, real-time, regularly, to our accounts. And hopefully, our own accounts over time help us better determine who we were, where we were right, where we were wrong. So we can correct the record, keep becoming more perfect selves, as we try to head & govern towards our more perfect worlds.
> and goring it’s own ox, ie harming the thing that those principles are attempting to protect

Do you have any references for that idiom? I'm finding surprisingly little with Google, except for a handful of hits that confirm it's not a neologism.
I don't believe this helps, at all. If anything it makes things worse, because it lets congress off the hook, and that's exactly what happens in the US - lots of congressional powers are abrogated to the executive, which is essentially a monarchy that hasn't devolved into a dictatorship simply because of tradition and popular unease at that route - but it's really unsafe.

The real protection here is that a simple majority can't throw out the minorities voice entirely. But that doesn't require the separation of the executive to achieve, it merely requires either a supermajority, and/or a differently composed senate (which doesn't need to be unrepresentative either, the differing election schedule would suffice, and it doesn't even need a veto - an election-cycle delay would be enough).

Incidentally, from memory, all sliding-into-dictatorship democracies I can think of did so behind a strong "executive". Empirically at least that would suggest that simply not having such a strong executive sounds like a sound protection against despotism. Intuitively, that would suggest that it's pretty hard to rally a country behind a dictatorship that originates in congress; a powerful figurehead matters. Finally, I'm not really sure to what extent a constitution really can or should protect against popular despotism - at best it can delay the process; but part of the point of democracy is self-rule; and taking away that rule to avoid despotism also takes it away for other reform - and it's not really going to work anyhow, because if enough people want to dump the laws, they will, even if the letter of the law begs to differ.
No, a blockchain is an immutable ledger, you can't equate a blockchain to an API. That would be like comparing an apple to a car.

Lots of blockchain tech (defi) use various API's in their own ecosystems, some private, and some public like Chainlink's oracle system.
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The anti-aging industry in its entirety, for starters. The vast majority of alternative medicine. The fashion industry is manipulative, the list goes on. Advertising is almost always manipulative -- tailored ads all the more. The ways in which consumers are manipulated are as innovative as they are plentiful: https://news.wsu.edu/2012/11/26/wsu-researchers-tie-simple-s....

And you're either plain ignorant or blinded by ideology if you really needed all those examples.
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I don't want clear masks. I want styleized helmets with voice changers.
It has all of the same features as the Cloud version, including unlimited Enterprise Connections (SAML and OIDC) for free.

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Forget about the mocking of people that want to protect themselves, why on earth would people mock someone that wants to protect others?

Normal masks don't protect the wearer much at all according to tests done in Denmark on 3000 people. However it might lower the spreading if done right. But that was harder to test with a control group offcourse.
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Yes, lockdown gives them the power to be little totalitarian.
As a bit of a self taught sysadmin who only touches Ubuntu/Debian based systems due there ubiquity, could someone explain the benefits of using RHEL?
Great shows though TNG doesn’t hit its stride until the third season. Don’t give up early. The main problem is too many episodes per season; several are “phoned in” per season.

I loved watching the remastered version on Netflix, it looked better than new.

Second on the Babylon 5 recommendations, it is one of the best sci fi shows ever. Was hooked
I you want to learn vim movements quickly, start using a browser plugin with vim keybindings like VimFX it Vimium. Stop using the mouse to browse the internet. You'll get hours of practice doing something you'd do anyway. The muscle memory will be there when you open vim. Also, turn off arrow keys in vim. Vim is keyboard and home row centric, all else follows. Also doing dojo exercises like on commandlinefu.cim helps.
My (issue?) with vim is that I've been using it so long, all day every day, that I can't remember any of the commands - I only have muscle memory.

If someone asks me how to do something, I have no idea, I have to physically pretend like I'm doing it on a keyboard to figure out the command.
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> as humanly possible

There’s some post-colonial baggage to unpack there.
Yes, but you could strictly limit which extensions had that permission, make it a site specific permission, etc. Auto disabling an extension that changes to require that permission would be a start.
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I wonder what they're doing about sound. Most of us have already had the experience of shouting at a retail employee through plexiglass, now imagine that plexi is an inch in front of your nose permanently. Not only are people going to have trouble hearing you, but your own voice is going to get concave-dish-bounced directly back into your own ears... I suspect it'll be very unpleasant.
I've run it inside a container and not experienced tremendous issues with RAM or CPU usage, but this is for very few auth calls per day.

Also, I needed to apply some not-obvious environment / config changes to make it work behind HTTPS and inside a container without /dev/random being remounted.
I am reading a book right now, "Designing your life". It brought one good point that we don't know what we will want in 5 years or even what we want in 5 minutes.

Instead think in terms of a project where you will design multiple prototypes. You need to choose one of the prototype and move forward. Let market (your internal state) decide if choice was correct or not. And if it wasn't, design more prototypes while you are still selling the current one.
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Maybe. Certainly people within Apple would have thought about Linux for this. But Apple would need to provide some form of mechanism for unlocked bootloaders anyway to facilitate kernel/driver developers and security researchers, so I'm pretty sure other OSes is not the main reason they do this.

It does work out for Apple in the end. Their current standard 10 years' support will look quite short now Moore's law is dead and their hardware has barely any moving parts. But they'll shush some complaints if up to date third party OSes are available in 2030.
Prime Minister of Singapore shares his C++ code for Sudoku solver (2015)
> by telling them the price is USD$70,000,000.00

There's a W C Fields joke that ends, "Madame, we've already established what sort of woman you are, now we're just haggling over price."
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