skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think they're arguing against monarchy because of the ceremonial ruler. The problem seems to lie within the Prime Minister who essentially replaced the king. It's no longer hereditary, but the position seems to have very absolute powers and just a few checks/balances. That level of power is impossible to gather in European republics, they don't view the prime minister as a ruler, it's merely a manager of ministers who are each focused on managing one aspect of the state, also with very limited power, and each minister has a non-political counterpart who's actually in charge of running the ministry itself according to law.
Indeed, I have 3 copies of my wordpress site.

The main one, where people update content.

Then there's a backup that gets auto restored every morning (with appropiate sed etc to change URLS), which is suitable for developing and testing any code changes

The third is one which is manually restored from the backup, and suitable for longer term experiments, how best to organise pages, etc.
Truly pure water becomes quite acidic quickly, I don’t think your water is as pure as you believe.

(For the chemistry here, pure water will absorb CO2, making H2CO3, then splitting into two H+ and a CO3(2-) ions. Since this process release H+ ions, truly pure water becomes acidic on exposure to air.
https://www.sepa.org.uk/about-us/cyber-attack/ is the page from the agency about the ransomware event
What It's Like to Quarantine in a Free New York City Hotel Room
I'm so glad that DD now has the status=progress option. Still not widely known.
I use virtualenv all the time, its great.

Yet no matter how much I try to educate users some of them still feel entitled to use the system Python and I find it disheartening to try to suppport those people.
If you think that the absolute magnitude of energy use of any particular application (bitcoin, Pixar movies, cosmetic surgery, whatever) has any bearing on the discussion, then you have completely misunderstood all of it.
Standups allow you to see blockers before they are there just by having a bigger picture of what’s happening.
800k? are you insane? even if everything else is automated and you have 800K devices at your fingertip ready to go, the simple amount of time to lift CD, open player tray / insert CD / close tray is in decades!.

Let's say you do this 8 hours per day for 5 days. The above series of movements can take around 30 seconds. That's 400k minutes which results in 400k / 40 hours == 10k weeks. At 50 weeks per year (only 2 weeks vacation each year) that still results in 200 years!!. Even if you do one CD every second this result in 200 years / 30 ==~7 years.
This is such a bad faith take. Individuals identified as violating federal law and proscecuted as such isn't a process that can happen via a single happenstance picture.

I also draw no distinction between "non violent folk” and "domestic insurgency"
> Social contact is essential to the development of one's career.

Agreed, except the biggest movers for my career have been social contacts made outside of work.

People incorrectly keep thinking about remote work only in a pandemic sense. Remote work doesn't mean zero social contact, it means more control over the social contact you have.
I agree, it's a big loss to discourse when a useful word loses its specificity and there's nothing else to take its place. That's why I am one of those who would to fight to keep the "correct" meaning of "disinterested".

I think it's important to distinguish between words like that and other entries in the article's list that are just trite figures of speech, and it won't hurt anyone if they shift meanings or even fall out of use altogether.
Measure startup time of different programming languages
There are modern iOS games written in Delphi last time I looked around.

I've been spending a little time with ActiveOberon, which might look familiar to a Pascal user. It's an interesting language and environment. Reminds me of Smalltalk the way the platform works (or Pharo for a modern Smalltalk environment), except you absolutely can create more "native" binaries for your environment with it.

ActiveOberon might be one of the first places async/.await style concurrency was implemented. It definitely predates Rust by a bit.

The Fox compiler is an interesting beast too! They're still working on the language. The tip of their SVN tree has enhancements over the language report that was published in 2019
http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/news/2

Now there's ternary conditionals, functors (per C++, not Category Theory) etc.

Last update to the repo was 11 days ago. It's very much alive it seems :-)
I mean I think you can get a workable setup, it just seems really clunky to me. Like you cobble together some solution out of pip, docker, venv, and if you're jumping into someone else's project you better hope they documented it (wait I have to call `source` on which file?).

It's a far cry from being able to download any git repo and call `cargo build`/`cargo run` or `npm install`/`npm run` with confidence that it's just going to work.
Yeah, there's some fairly difficult (and somewhat expensive) training and testing involved in being a HGV driver. As I understand it, one of the ways the EU helped Eastern European truckers outcompete local ones is that they could use their own countries' HGV licenses to do deliveries that were entirely within the UK and didn't have to go to the hassle and expense of getting a UK one. (Wouldn't be surprised if there was something of a race to the bottom in licensing too.)
Just because you had a bad experience with something, doesn't mean that this experience of yours is applicable to others.

Are you familiar with Jonathan Whiting? If not, have a look, please:

https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

https://jonathanwhiting.com/

As far as I am concerned, he made everything on his own and had his success with it.
On Linux, I've used https://github.com/rhofour/evdi-vnc to make a secondary screen that you can connect to with any VNC client.
Agreed, I found it really hard to get good roles 5 years ago. Then I worked on some cool shiny stuff - in general I dont like microservices, k8s, React/JS but it opens a whole new world of jobs.
How Do You Define Electric Field, Voltage, and Current?
There's a pretty strong argument that guys isn't a fully gender neutral term. For example, I think most people would read "I have dated a lot of guys" as meaning "men". Or perhaps take for example the title of the 1950 musical "Guys and Dolls". It seems that "guys" is just undergoing the same treatment that has largely happened with "men"; certainly there are people who would argue that "all men are created equal" does in fact include women, but it seems like saying "women are a kind of man" reinforces the assumption that male is the default. Would people be as charitable if I were to state "all women are created equal"? That "men are a kind of women"?

Also the fields which concern these issues are sociolinguistics and the sociology of language, for anyone who is curious.
> [The thing that was said] is [description] and you should feel ashamed.

This is replying to the argument, and not calling names. You're right that the latter part was unnecessary, though.
The difficulties you mentioned seem naive at best. Throwing a cache in front of a high traffic site is common sense these days and not really stack-specific; keeping up with security updates is hard with any stack (npm package upgrades can be quite the nightmare); installing... have fun docker composing your app with a mysql image, I guess?

IMHO, this isn't that fair of a characterization of WordPress in the first place, considering that the alternatives that the GP mentioned don't come close to doing half of what WordPress can do. I could similarly sing praises about how static site generators are so much easier to maintain as a developer than next.js + whatever you cobbled up to handle data persistence, CMS auth, admin UI, SEO, domain specific logic (drafting, theming, social media integration, etc), but again, it's very much an apples vs oranges comparison.
I don't really see that. Working very hard in the UK pays very little, less than most second cities in the US, and it generally requires living in or near London with one of the highest costs in the world.

The general problem with the UK is that it has the expectations of being treated according to its legacy. It expects the world to keep throwing away money on financial services in London, because?! As part of the EU, if they switched to Euro, that could have made a little sense.

I think the US also spent the last two decades going into that legacy rut where it expects it can sell high priced information while becoming increasingly disconnected from the actual places information is used. The US is quite lucky to have had some industrial restart thanks to greater automation.
They also work great as low-powered servers for open source services. I have a pi on my network that only uses a few watts of power, but it acts as a DNS proxy, voice chat server, media server, web server, and it holds my git repos.
So now we're right done here in the depths of grievance politics. That's where I thought we'd get to. That's what I was talking about above.

Let me surprise you: I don't really disagree about the North getting a rough time. I'd argue about some definitions and whether that excuses crashing the rest of the country in revenge. But whatever.

Here is the thing though: why do you think that makes you special?

I am in Dagenham in East London. We were dock workers. Then the docks shut or went containerized and electric so there were no jobs and a lot of poverty.

Westminster, less than 50 miles away did nothing for us.

Ford came and opened a plant here because we were willing to work. They became the major employer.

Then they shut.

Central government again did nothing for us.

So we went up into London, got jobs in insurance. We had to start at the bottom. We had to spend a lot of money and time on overpriced trains. We had to retrain, office work is nothing like assembly lines.

Tell me I'm wrong.

When a load of that offshored, we jumped to finance.

Right now, they're building crossrail near me. The first investment we've had in a century.

I don't doubt the North has had it hard. But so had the South. I agree Westminster is a bunch of toffs with no interest in the lives of real people. But I'm as much of a real person as you.

The only difference here is we know no White Knight is coming to save us. Given the last 1000 years of history, I don't know why the North keeps thinking that the likes of Boris and Farage are "on their side". It's especially amazing to me that you call me and elite (first person in my family to go to uni, born and raised in one of Europe's most deprived areas, no inheritance coming for me) and not them?

Your comment on immigrants underlines my point: immigrants getting on and working hard is exactly the sort of thing people who don't want to get on and work hard find maddening.

Are you now ready to go to those fields and do that work? Or will you continue waiting for Westminster to save you?

I've been quite blunt with you here. Its not because I don't like you. It's not because I think I'll win something. Its because this is where we are. Whether I like it or not, we're in this together now. The North, like everyone else, will need to get on and go. If you don't think the North got the investment it needed before, it won't get it now, so there is no point waiting. Its go time.

This is the horrible truth that Farage and Bojo will never speak aloud. They'll keep lying and telling you it's the Europeans, the immigrants, the elite, the educated, the benefit claimants, and whoever else.

Now tell me I'm wrong.
That's like saying we should just work different hours. Boom simple solution, just need to get 20 other people on board to work nights instead of days.
hey.com is the latest one that is on mysql.
> started to get massively applied around 1947

Ok but that's not when it was invented, which is what you said.
Do any of the tools mentioned in the title support audio and/or multi-session disc formats? AFAIK dd is not suitable for these purposes (although the original author mentions they wish to create ISO images so presumably they only care about single session data).

Windows had a lot of great disc software in the 90s/00s which would handle just about any disc format one would encounter, e.g. Alcohol 120%, CloneCD, Disc Juggler. Some of these were capable of backing up the various protections of the time such as SecureROM and Starforce.

dd is a powerful tool but I often find it the "wrong" tool, e.g. is it desired to clone a 2GB partition layout to a 128GB usb stick for a live CD and have to manually edit my partition tables myself?
> yes, people need social interaction, but that doesn't have to come from coworkers

Yeah, I think people keep conflating remote work with pandemic remote work. Pandemic remote work sucks. I miss going to coffee shops, 10am Jiu-Jitsu, and going to matinees with friends. I'm ready to get back to pre-pandemic remote work.
Can you tell me which chips are produced in PRC? (Not Tawain and TSMC)
As with all things, there's a time, place, and situation where it can be more suitable or less suitable.

Several of my employers issue staff with noise cancelling headphones on day one on the job. The employee is supposed to make the suitable judgement call on when they're suitable (needing a few hours of uninterrupted concentration) and when they're not.

The alternative is giving people offices so they can actually isolate, or understanding that people who operate on 'maker time' will not be productive with regular interruptions.
Forget containers. The actual "right" way to manage python dependencies in a project is Poetry. It's very solid and super reliable and uses virtualenvs internally.

Pipenv could have been it but it never got far.
Cell tower needs to know timing advance [1] (how long it takes for the signal to travel between the tower and the handset) to make sure signals from different handsets do not overlap.

Once you know which tower the phone is connected to, coordinates of that tower, antenna pattern, and distance (from timing advance and speed of light), you can calculate approximate cell phone location.

You get more data if the phone moves or propagation changes and phone changes towers. In urban environment with many towers location obtained this way can be very precise. Not as good as GPS, but good enough to within a block.

This is a simplification. Real systems also use signal strength, take into account multipath propagation, and apply some filtering from physical constraints (how fast a cell phone can move).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timing_advance
Your body has several devices to filter out non-digestible matter of different sizes. Once filtered - they get stuck, mechanically, for lack of a better term.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per-_and_polyfluoroalkyl_subst...
Little warning for anyone reading these comments:

100% of the criticism will be by devs with little or no experience with WordPress.

It's almost an in-joke to hate on WordPress at this point.
Don't know if it can help but... If it's Audio CDs the problem is kinda solved in that you can make sure you extract a bit-perfect copy by verifying the checksum with the checksums of other people who extracted the same CD. Even though the Audio CD format tried to make it "hard" to rip in a bit-perfect way, it's done precisely like that since years and years.

There's a community of people ripping Audio CD to flac file and making sure all their rips are bit-perfect.

I've ripped my own collection and used, as far as I remember, "whipper" on Fedora Linux (for whatever reason I couldn't make that software work on Debian back then). After ripping a track/CD the software would automatically verify the checksum with an online DB of rips.

You say you can't use proprietary solution: as far as I know there are several free rippers on Linux and the online DB of checksum isn't proprietary either (?).

In case you rip with an error, it's near impossible that someone else who ripped the CD would have read exactly the same error and end up with the same checksum.

Now: for all the audio CDs I tried there was at least one other person who had already ripped it but it's not always the case. For example I've read about some collection of classical music CDs coming in pack of 300 CDs (!) and nobody had bothered, at home, to rip them / to share the checksum.

But it can already help for all the "common" CDs you own.
> “ I'm fine with using the term "frail little minds" for people with real-world levels of TDD zealotry.”

This is disgusting behavior on your part. You should be ashamed. Even more so for the mental gymnastics you’ve written in this spastic and bizarre comment to defend and endorse using flippantly insulting language.

The level of intellectual dishonesty in what you say is just staggering. Absolutely shambolic on your part.
There is no word to describe Jack Daniel's, and Laphroaig without including all other alcoholic drinks because Jack Daniel's, and Laphroaig are alcoholic drinks.
Amazon is a bad example, because they already have processes in place to pay the VAT and customs fees and include them in the amount you pay up front - at least when the items come from Amazon warehouses - which they originally used when shipping from places like the US. This isn't exactly a new problem, it's more or less just extending the same rules that apply to sales to and from the rest of the world to a few more countries. (Not that you'd likely know any of this from the coverage in the UK press - they've all got a bit of an axe to grind over Brexit and it shows.)
I've always used

cdrdao read-cd --read-raw

to backup CD/DVDs, along with toc2cue and bchunk to convert to .iso.

I have no idea if the resulting iso is "more accurate" than using dd - but they've always worked, even from CDs with copy protection and obscure file systems (old mac CDs).
> bona fide racists from David Duke to Charles Murray, without including xenophobes, bigots, and people with strong unconscious prejudge.

Because the primary thing that diatinguishes them is eloquence when they talk and iq. The rest is largely the same.
That's very condescending. I'm asking because I don't see why my colleagues would be any better than they are if they were black, brown, jewish, muslim, female in various combinations, maybe I hold my colleaguestoo high?
Systemic fluoride is completely superfluous if you've already got topical fluoride.

https://www.ada.org/en/member-center/oral-health-topics/fluo...
Please elaborate on this security check and let’s discuss. Have you heard of chrome extensions extending your gmail on the desktop browser? How do you think they operate?

https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/15259/worst-cas...
For reference, Starbucks is closing 300 stores in Canada

https://www.cbc.ca/news/starbucks-closures-1.5871231
Yep, every couple of years I need to use dd. Never knew of an alternative to sda.
And half of Britain and anyone with half a brain.
PFAs get absorbed into the human body, stay there without being broken down and can cause harm.

https://www.epa.gov/pfas/basic-information-pfas
Godiva hadn't been belgian for over a decade. For something I - as a belgian - would consider and is available worldwide, I'd go with Neuhaus.
ADT technician added himself to accounts to facilitate voyeurism
I used to cat dd into "pv" : )
Build What They Want
Sotbank holds massive investment in China. For instance Softbank own 25% of Alibaba (this 25% are way more valuable than ARM). So yes they do have a large power over Softbank not complying to their decision.
In my experience, most people have just as much possibility of slacking off at the office than at home. We have colleagues to chat with, phones and even tablets with internet connectivity…

The main difference between employees and contractors are incentives. The contractor's goal is to get paid the most over the longest period of time. They don't care about your company's bottom line, they care about theirs, and the 2 aren't automatically aligned. The employees are more or less paid a fixed amount a month, their incentive is to stay around and get raises.

I've been working with contractors for years, and you absolutely need employees to ensure the contractor's output is aligned with the interest of the company, at all times and in detail.
It hard to see the greatness in having someone else impose who your friends should be and where you should sit for about 50% of your awaken hours.

Then we have the added stress from places with open space/cubicle with poor sound isolation, people walking behind you, and constant interruption for which you have zero control over. Young 20-something Me could only really manage that with a corner chair and with headphones that blasted music so loud that people on the other side of the room complained.

I could however imagine a situation where I would enjoy the situation if given enough changes. If I were the group leader and decided who I worked with then the first problem goes mostly away. If the work I did was mostly social then the problem of noises and interruptions goes mostly away, and I might even want it to be a open space plan so I can walk around and stand behind my employees and check what they are doing. Doing that remotely would be much harder.
Imagine you get a new phone with a new phone number, and you have a problem because some people still contact you on your old number. So instead of getting everyone to use the same number, you hire someone to take both of your phones and forward you the messages from each one.

Yes at some level it solves your problem, but it adds a lot of complexity which doesn't need to exist. Also now depend on someone in the middle who takes effort to manage, and might not do exactly what you want.
Please. Those studies are a joke. Imo those competitors will go down the drain just like google is doing right now. Time will tell which one of us is right. ;)
Is it 2010 Again?
I want to stress the (unfairly loosely defined) "these kinds of projects" there.

There is nothing wrong with SQLite as such and in many situation it is perfect for the task. For a backend service that may need to scale, have availability requirements, is going to be run in a clustered or distributed environment, etc, it is not suitable. For one, you suddenly need to couple physical location of persisted data with usage of the same. Running it on networked filesystems is not supported.

Yes, there are some caveats there and ways to work around it but it's a square-peg-round-hole kind of situation.

For mobile or desktop apps, data jobs that can't be parallelized, local or light-weight analytics, embedded, it's great (though I do think many times it's used where something like leveldb or rocksdb would have been more appropriate but w/e).

I'm sure there are other use-cases in both "great choice" and "terrible choice" I saw in the wild and can't recall.

For something like gitea - it depends on the hosting environment,. requirements and scale. Obv for you it is not a pain-point, for me it absolutely is.

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I really appreciate when project give the user the choice, like they do here!

ORMs are not the devil and can afford flexibility without having to spend time implementing for each supported backend specifically, if performance isn't critical enough that DB-specific optimizations are needed.

IMO for a project that is going to be self-hosted by a wide range of users, it's often premature optimization to make the v1 tied to a specific DB.
I can think of no worse owner of ARM in this industry, with the possible exception of Qualcomm.

If NVidia indeed wants to have a real foothold in the CPU space, we would all be much better off if they went the RISC-V route.
While I also find the timeline totally reasonable, I think most "I don't have the time" complaints are probably less about being able to finish it in time, and more about wanting to spend time doing something other than rewriting otherwise finished or stable code to satisfy a backwards-incompatible change.