skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really happy to see this in a major journal. Simultaneous sharing of code and data necessary to replicate a result should be the minimum expectation for journal publication.
Aren't you concerned about getting locked out of an email account and not having a local backup? Or even Fastmail having a serious issue and losing data?
What does lobbying have to do with whether or not an organization is a union? The Chamber of Commerce obviously isn't a union.
Oh man, that's cool and everything, but IMHO the concept of "final" or "sealed" (popularized by Java I think and cargo-culted by C#) is an anti-pattern.

A simple proof of how this makes certain use cases impossible is: imagine you want to do reactive programming by watching for when a class variable changes and then running a function to handle that event. The simplest way to do this in something like C# is to create a child class and override the getter/setter for the variable. Then pass that child class to any method that accepts the base class. But if it's sealed you can't do that.

To make matters worse, many developers don't understand that if you want to use final/sealed, then you need to provide an interface for your class. That allows users to write their own classes that implement that interface, but still be drop-in replacements for the original classes. If your class is sealed, and you don't write an interface, then there is simply no way to do reactive programming with your class.

A workaround is to manually write an interface for the class (in situations that allow that). But even if you get that working, your code is no longer future-proof, because the burden of updating the interface falls on you instead of the original author.

A better solution would be to provide an automatically-generated interface for all classes at the language level (something like MyClass::interface). Then additional methods to extend that interface, if desired. Sadly/shockingly, I'm not aware of any language that does that.

Now this wouldn't seem to be all that important, but it hit me when I was trying to write a Unity library. I want to be notified when classes like GameObject and Mesh change, so that I can perform additional functionality (like updating metadata associated with the class instance). But since those classes are sealed, there is simply no way to do that:

https://forum.unity.com/threads/detect-changes-to-sealed-cla...

When a language makes an opinionated decision blocking the user from implementing a common use case like this, it becomes a toy language. I lost weeks trying to find a workaround in Unity before being forced to give up. So I'm saddened to see Scala make the mistake of adopting a conceptual flaw in the name of an implementation detail like performance.

If someone has a workaround for the Unity example I gave, maybe using components or MeshFilter or something, I'd love to hear it. Please don't respond with explanations of inheritance vs composition, because I've already heard them.
curses specifically is majorly antithetical to how powershell and by extension Windows/server has decided to evolve. infact text-based UI is the reason CMD.exe cannot and will not ever be improved.

munging anything around with text very much not the Windows way. For better or worse.
It might have. Unions are political forces. You get a few thousand people calling and screaming at politicians and news outlets to create a negative stink about it, maybe the company looks at other ways to make themselves more financially healthy. I'm not saying it would, just that it could. That's a big part of the appeal of a union, having a group of people with diverse backgrounds and experiences able to bring those backgrounds to the table to help in fights against management.
All working fine here
A Raspberry Pi is extreme, but again, I’m not talking about a few block size doublings. “Visa scale” is on the order of 1000x Bitcoin’s current capacity.

The other argument I’m familiar with is longer block propagation times lead to more orphan blocks, which is a centralization pressure.

EDIT: responding to your edits:

> layer 2 payment solution which essentially will force transactions to route through centralized middlemen

1. Layer 2 solutions aren’t necessarily centralized

2. Even if they are all centralized I don’t believe it’s worth sacrificing decentralization in the base layer to support small payments
wait do they not have legos and foozball? what about free lunch???
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25861998
For enriching the model, a few ideas for discriminating failure drives:

Some hard drives have a vibration sensor(s) in them - i wonder if a daemon could sample throughout the day and dump a summarisation of the data when the daily SMART data dump is being generated.

The drives report temperature via SMART, i wonder if anything meaningful can be extracted from the temperature differential between the HDD’s sensor and a chassis temp sensor?

I wonder if more discrimination by manufacturing detail (date of mfr, which factory etc) could help?

I was going to suggest drive supply voltages but those are hard to compare across chassis - calibration of voltage measuring circuitry in PSUs isn’t too hot for the millivolt differences you’d want to measure - the differences would be so small to be lost in the inaccuracies between boards. Also many PSUs lack a method to query their measurements.

Fascinating study and excellent writeup. I have zero ML background but i really enjoyed this.
> People make all kinds of mistakes, sometimes very costly mistakes.

For example, pizza-Bitcoin guy. The stories always talk about how he traded 10,000 Bitcoins for two pizzas. That's only a small part of the story, what actually happened is drastically worse. He sold several times that many Bitcoins in other low-value transactions at the same time (some straight up for cash) and did the pizza trade more than once.

Pizza guy likely traded a minimum of 50,000 Bitcoins for less than a few hundred dollars of value. That's $1.6 billion presently at 50k.
I wouldn't rule them out either. AMD survived some very bad years. It's not impossible for a company to shrink, trim the fat and grow again. However, having known people who worked at Intel, it's not just a question of lack of innovation, they had some very smart engineers, but it seemed like the culture there was very toxic. Lots of unhealthy internal competition, bureaucracy, infighting, etc. I think that they need to improve their internal culture first, in order for the company to make a real comeback. If anything, I think their recent losses are a serious wake up call. I hope they make the right decisions, because the hardware industry needs competition.
> There were, on average, 500 million tweets posted per day last year.

How many of them had photos and were reported as crime?
You can get it directly from data stored in the BSV blockchain:

https://bico.media/42d44c395904e6743f67011b4198d8bcc07de21c6...
Not a podcast or a book but the Cryptopia documentary gives a pretty good overview of what has been happening in the cryptocurrency space in the past few years.
> The British approach is more appropriately labeled not as a separation of powers, but a fusion of powers [0] - probably the strongest example of such a government currently around today.

The Westminster system subordinates the executive branch to the legislative, but keeps the judicial branch independent.

(In the past, the judicial branch in the UK was not completely separated from the legislative and executive, due to the judicial roles of the House of Lords and the Lord Chancellor, but that all changed in 2005. And other Westminster system countries such as Canada or Australia didn't have that issue.)
Sure! Presumably you're volunteering to track down the current rights holders for all code derived from third parties and will negotiate the relicensing of their contributions?
Actually, Qt is also accessible (more or less) on all the desktop platforms, so that's another option.
DeLorean considering all-electric reboot
The City Walls painting on the front page is captivating (e.g., what are the kids doing with the sled, playing, chores?). I spent a while admiring it. But I am having trouble finding any information on it.
If you main point was that women (in general) don't use income when considering partners, and it is primarily men (in general) who tie their social relationship value to income, then I think this is fundamental premise for the discussion.

I think there is some truth to both sides. There is a time in the not so distant past where female involvement in the labor pool and earnings was a fraction of what it is now, and men were judged by women and others on their ability to provide for a financially stable family.

Cultural values are evolving, but I personally think this is still on the minds of many, and deeply ingrained in our culture. Female earnings have grown, but the ability to support a family with a single income have diminished. I think that being unemployed or low earning is still an unattractive attribute, but not insurmountable.

Something that the earlier poster failed to cover, that I think could be more significant is the impact of a educational divide on the ability to find common interests and beliefs. The worldview, interests, and exposure to broad ideas that come with education have a profound impact on the ability of individuals to form and maintain relationships.
I was taken aback, but not very surprisingly, when I was asked which church I visit in an Uber ride in Dallas several years ago. Religion (specifically Christian baptist or evangelical denominations) is massive here.
> it should be blatantly obvious that the Twitter representative did not know or agree that the person in the video was a minor.

They were given government id. This point is invalid.
extremely blessed post, thanks for saying what many men can't say out loud

#DicksOutForHarambe
They had 30M paying users at end of Q3 (up from 20M 9 months earlier). That includes both Premium and Music subscribers, but given the pricing structure it is hard to imagine who would pay for just Music. In terms of all users, 1.5 years ago they said 2B monthly active users.

On one hand, that sounds miserable. Only 1% of the users are paying! On the other hand, a Premium subscriber is an order of magnitude more profitable. The ads run rate seems to be about $20B/year, and subscriptions behind at just a factor of 5 at about $4B/year.

(The $20B is a hard number from the Q3 earnings, $4B is back of the envelope. It's hard to say just how e.g. regional pricing if affecting it, or how the family plans are counted.)
Adam Back? The guy who said we should use "tabs" instead of Bitcoin while we waited for Lightning Network to be finished?

I'm not kidding, here's the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHc81OL_hk4&feature=youtu.be...
No one listened when I said Prop 22 is going to backfire hard. Bet the 1900 jobs are in California alone.
Fair enough, and gotcha. Thanks.
The use of lambda is becoming somewhat of a smell in Python in general. PSF's own black code formatter will complain about using it and pretty much always says to just use a def instead
How do you selectively turn off this functionality for websites that don't work with such blocking?
I schedule my friendships like I schedule my meetings
Headers are irrelevant. We're talking about .winmd files.
I'm a Fastmail user and I've been pretty happy with my mutt + mbsync / msmtp setup on macOS. It's nice to have a local copy of your mail at all times.
When you say it gives you more flexibility do you mind if I ask what do you mean?

I'm in the US and generally my employment has been at will, either of us are free to end the arrangement at any time. Having a specific date where that arrangement ends doesn't seem to be more flexible, if I wanted to leave in a month I would just give my notice and leave.

I'm in the same position as you career wise and I often get offers to join contract roles and they are very unappealing to me. When I do the math on the benefits I'd lose out on and the additional taxes, rarely are these offers competitive let alone when I factor in the greater volatility inherent in the arrangement and the lack of unemployment benefits. Also in my experience the recruiters pushing the contract roles are the most desperate and aggressive, that doesn't lead me to believe these roles are all that high quality.
I bought Intel stock when I heard they hired Gelsinger.

While all this is a good news, microarchitecture is not the bottleneck for Intel.
At least now there are guys in charge who are only one level away from the real problem and used to talking to them.

Intel failed in foundry business.

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Intel FY 2020 results just came out

Revenue up 9%
Gross margin 56.0%
Operating margin 30.4%
This is a very real problem. I have been a YouTube Premium subscriber for years, but am now considering cancelling because every popular channel has started embedding their own ads in videos. It's the smaller creators who end up suffering for it.
Jobs aren't useless, but a job can produce net negative value. Consider other politically mandated jobs like gas station attendants in Oregon. These sorts of jobs (and the government guaranteeing a job for everyone) are downright dystopian - and further still, I can't imagine the path to a healthy society.
you should probably stop attacking people based off the person you think they probably are, and instead address the comments they actually make.
I only see black. Some people do so.
I remember getting Windows 95 on the Internet, not having a browser, but having the command line FTP client built in and FTPing to cdrom.com to download a copy of Netscape so as to be able to get browsing.
And my comment got censored for just pointing out the historical truth, in order to expose the hypocrisy of the situation.
And yet you can explain Adam Back/Bitcoin Core/Blockstream's actions much more simply as them being insidious actors that wanted to take over the Bitcoin project in order to promulgate propaganda supporting ridiculously high transaction fees so that they could establish a for-profit company to extract the delta between how high the fees are and how low they need to be for bitcoin to actually be usable.

Sending a message from Satoshi's e-mail is very obviously not proof of identity. Satoshi needs to move coins or sign a message. That's the only acceptable proof.

You claim Adam Back is compromised because the things he writes and does are so contrary to Satoshi and what he believed in that it's the only explanation that would make a universe where Back is Satoshi make sense. I much prefer to believe (with better evidence, btw) that Back is just not Satoshi. Boom, no logical contradictions to resolve.
Didn't they remove the JavaScript WinRT projection?

The docs[1] describing how to call a WinRT component from JS say: Universal Windows Platform (UWP) projects are not supported in Visual Studio 2019. See JavaScript and TypeScript in Visual Studio 2019. To follow along with this section, we recommend that you use Visual Studio 2017. See JavaScript in Visual Studio 2017.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/uwp/winrt-component...
I think of all software projects like this.

I view the Instagram purchase as the most correct example. 30 employees and bought out for 1 billion.

I know so many investors and founders that are shy of certain dollar figures solely because there aren’t like 1000 people involved or some other arbitrary number of employees or personnel. Compared to the most accurate question “can I make a return on this amount of money, and what are those probabilities”.

Obviously there also are founders and investors that do ask the most accurate question, and they grow in number.

It does aggravate me to see this other slower moving culture with irrelevant perceptions of reality based on how many employees a company has. It seems rooted in a prosperity philosophy, where wealth accumulation is granted by compliance with morality, and high employment numbers satisfy that morality. And its like, wow how many times does that have to be disproven to those people, aren't they adults?
Does this also work with the new manifest v3? Noticed that blocks remote code / iframes etc..
> 90s

The paradigm of sending text in and out of pipes is ~20 years older than that.
Suppose the NYPost has an axe to grind and went looking for a lawsuit that makes twitter look bad... so what? The lawsuit exists as they claim. That wouldn't mean they're lying, it would only mean they have a different idea of what constitutes news worthiness than you. That wouldn't make it disinformation. Virtually every sentence in the article contains some variation of "the suit alleges." That the suit alleges these things does seem to be hard fact. I see no disinformation here.
ah yes that's an option too, I now realize I'm conditioned from what early comics I read in thinking that when one time travels the time machine stays where it is, but that has not to be necessarily the case
You do have to maintain features, fix security issues, refactor surfaces get smaller, even unused - bitrotting code generates at least some work.
Is there any meaningful difference between a ftp server and a http server with directory listing enabled?
Although right now the math is rather different - you can easily remain living in NJ with all your nice local things while switching employers to someone in CA - most people are hiring fully remote people though you may be required to work west coast hours.

And, honestly, I think that after the pandemic companies are going to have a lot of trouble trying to pull employees back into in-office full time work.
Would you mind sharing why you prefer to be a contractor?
There is quote from Mick Jagger who said:

> … it is a massive change and it does alter the fact that people don’t make as much money out of records. But I have a take on that – people only made money out of records for a very, very small time. When The Rolling Stones started out, we didn’t make any money out of records because record companies wouldn’t pay you! They didn’t pay anyone! Then, there was a small period from 1970 to 1997, where people did get paid, and they got paid very handsomely and everyone made money. But now that period has gone. So if you look at the history of recorded music from 1900 to now, there was a 25 year period where artists did very well, but the rest of the time they didn’t.
One reason is explained right at the beginning of the video.
He was 6 weeks in Cannes when he got elected as new FSB chief. In Cannes he certainly visited Kashoggis villa, which is extremely similar to Putin's palace. https://www.francisyork.com/blog/palais-venitien

He only mixed in some Dresden castle bits and the St Petersburg Erimitage. It's mere representationto invite guests and show off.

The more private villa on the left down the first vinery is more likely his personal residence. It has a much better view, is not too that ugly and broken down by mold, and looks like a modern villa as in Italy, France, Dresden or the US.
Well, now that QA is a mature process and people expect tests on every single thing, it's more "expensive" to keep a feature around, as you have to keep on testing it.
Keep in mind that after Prop 22 in California, some grocery chains (Vons, Albertsons) are replacing their employees with contractors:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/01/06/vons-albe...
I always found it funny how, in human language, when we say "or" we actually mean XOR, and had to invent "and/or" to be clear when we mean OR...
Yes, it sounds like he was forced to make actual child porn...because he shared nudes. And THAT was so unacceptable to society that he felt forced to pay the blackmail.

Oh yeah, I almost forgot about the other stuff I hear about, like teenagers getting charged with child porn for sending dick picks, or rape charges because 2 16-year olds had (consenting) sex.

All of this is insane, and if not for the systemic insanity around sex in America, this kid would not have been coercable.
Gemini says hello!
I have tested this also. I have found Calendar reminders drive “conversion” or increased likelihood of attendance by both parties.

Just like work meetings.
What exactly needs to be stored once the certificate is created and published in the hash tree? It seems like the kind of data that possibly needn't be stored at all or onto something like Glacier for archival.
> A treaty is supposed to be ratified by the Senate with a 2/3 majority.

A treaty under international law can be any of the following in US law (in roughly descending order of the force of the agreement in domestic law):

1. A treaty.

2. A “Congressional-executive agreement” under which the executive makes an agreement supported by statutory authority, or

3. A “sole executive agreement” under which the executive makes an agreement, and then seeks to apply it through statutory and other executive authority even though the agreement itself is not specifically authorized.

IIRC, the legal theory of the Obama Administration was that Paris was within the scope of authorized international agreements under the Clean Air Act and/or other environmental laws, and thus they treated it as a Congressional-Executive Agreement; as such, the underlying statutory authority remaining in place, Biden would as free to rejoin without Senate ratification or additional Congressional action as Obama was to join in the first place.
Thank you, this looks interesting indeed
FTP has some interesting features not found in straight HTTP such as charset conversion and my favorite the HOST command. HOST was the escape valve for commands you needed run that weren't implemented in the FTP protocol itself. I'm sure it's a terrible vulnerability now but it was fun to use and see what you could make a remote machine do.
All those extensions are also available on Brave (and all Chromium derivatives), and the browser themselves are always faster than Firefox.
Tbh I’ve kinda drifted from programming more and more. I can’t escape it, but I find myself much more interested in other things nowadays. Over the past year that’s been a handful of more physical side, as you note. Notably over the past year I’ve become fascinated by lasers and other applications of light and RF. Unfortunately the things that make me weak at programming make working with these things near impossible. Not to mention the cost of tools involved. It was pretty common to come up with a cool project idea and find hardware that would make my like 100X easier only to find that its not sold to consumers and if it is its way outside of anything I could afford.

The most practical think I’ve turned to is retro networking. It still involves some programming as a lot of this stuff needs hacks to make it work together these days, but I try to avoid it when possible.
SMT is easier to program.

Walking a single linked-list is nothing; A garbage collector walks lots of them that tend to fan out for a bit.
I did something similar and opted to solely use Fastmail's web client.

For backup, I regularly run isync on my home server: https://isync.sourceforge.io/
Killer feature indeed. I just wish the same thing existed for phone numbers.