skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
She was rumoured to be in favour of leaving...
Please, check this information. it makes sense
> Maybe this means web-scale sites like Amazon's marketplace aren't viable

But the market is driving more and more money/resources to those companies/services.

Let alone Amazon/Youtube/Google are very different businesses, you can say Google has non-existent customer support, but at least for consumers, so far my experience with Amazon is more positive than negative.
Or, as CGP Grey puts it "bigger army diplomacy"
I'm dual-national English/Australian.

As an Australian, wtf are we doing with a monarchy? Makes no sense, it's just a holdover from the colonial past, bring on the republic immediately. (Anecdotally, the general consensus amongst my peers is that the Queen's death will be the trigger for this - no-one wants King Charles again).

As an Englishman - it's too deeply part of our culture to remove just like that. What would we replace it with? A President? How would that be different from the Prime Minister? It's not obvious how it would work, and it's not clear what we'd gain from that (except not having King Charles again). Who would the military swear loyalty to? How do we transfer hundreds of years of strong tradition into a new structure without breaking things? I know that smart people have thought of good answers to all these questions, but they're not part of the public awareness, they haven't had time to steep into the public conciousness (unlike republican ideas in Australia, which are pretty well-formed and accepted).
Woah, it is that old! Been some time. Now I feel old.
This would be incredible on Trello!
I just read the part about the name binding and its ... totally bonkers. Sorry, but I have no other words for this:

> The implementation may choose to either make persistent bindings for those partial matches or not. User code including a match statement should not rely on the bindings being made for a failed match, but also shouldn't assume that variables are unchanged by a failed match. This part of the behavior is left intentionally unspecified so different implementations can add optimizations, and to prevent introducing semantic restrictions that could limit the extensibility of this feature.

That's basically dynamic scoping instead of lexical scoping only inside the match blocks and only for pattern variables. Who in their right mind comes up with a design like that? That's the javascript route! I get it that proper binding would have been difficult but if language design is too difficult, you should stop and not go one like you don't care about the consequences! This decision will waste thousands of developer hours when searching bugs!
On the other hand:
The dean of Saône-et-Loire, vaccinated on January 27, dies 5 days later
https://fr.theepochtimes.com/doyenne-de-saone-loire-vaccinee...

DUH!
interesting acquisition
VISA wouldn't exist without banks. It wouldn't exist without the whole hierarchy of contracts and licenses that allow transactions across borders. Bitcoin has all of that solved by the protocol itself, so yes, comparing VISA to Bitcoin is very much skewed, VISA is doing just a very small part of what Bitcoin can do. Maybe comparing Lightning Network to VISA would be a bit better, but still not completely fair, because lightning is independent of central authorities.

But the second important point of the article is that the sources who say that "Bitcoin has an energy problem" usually come to that conclusion by taking average electricity price and multiplying it by total Bitcoin network hashrate. They (intentionally?) omit the fact that Bitcoin mining is by design just barely profitable. The difficulty rebalances itself according to the Bitcoin price, energy price and number of miners. That means that for the miner mining bitcoin was probably the better alternative use for that energy in that particular situation. If it wasn't, other people would have used the energy for something else (more needed/more profitable/..) and the miner would be priced out of the market - and that would be totally ok for the Bitcoin network, that's the design.

Yet another point is that currently the mining is still subsidized by the issuance of new Bitcoins, which is still higher than the transaction fees. But that will soon stop being the case, quite likely within the next 4 years. When miners are motivated primarily by fees, then the economic pressure will force them to reject small-fee transactions and that will move Bitcoin on-chain transactions to similar position as the international fiat settlements. Coffee will be paid with lightning, on-chain will settle big blocks of transactions worth millions of dollars, where a $100 fee is no problem, and the overall energy use of the whole network won't rise any more - exactly as designed.
Zero-days under active exploit are keeping Windows users busy
The cynic in me says that you have identified why big tech companies spend so much money funding GPT and similar research:

Soon, your appeal will be replied to by an AI, too. That way, most people will have the impression that they were reconsidered by a human and found in fault, which will likely make a large percentage of them give up. We're stonewalling real humans by building fake humans :(

And that means GPT could possibly reduce support costs for Amazon.
As some journalists have noted: the 'fever' shows up mostly below the imaginary line you get if you connect the cities of Alkmaar and Zwolle. That is, there is no 'fever' in the province of Fryslân (or Frisia in English) where the event is held and treasured most dearly.

Here in the province people are resigned to the event not happening this year, due to a lack of decent ice and Covid. There will be plenty of skating this weekend, but nothing on the scale of the Elfstedentocht.

And indeed, the brandishing of this event by the populist leaders of the two farright political parties in the Netherlands as something that absolutely must go on if the ice does shape up, leaves a sour taste in many a Frisian's mouth. (Source: I'm a born and bred Frisian living there.)
4 gbit connections are now available in most metro areas :)
Age Of Empires 2: Lords Of The West review
Not one reference to stoicism?
Political pressure will be enormous if the conditions are right in a week or so. With elections happening in a month or so, it's unlikely the rules won't change as political pressure mounts. You have to imagine covid being secondary to this news item in the Netherlands between now and when this decision needs to happen.

The flip side is that for 10-15 centimeters of ice to happen over a 200km route, the freezing temperatures have to hold for quite a bit more time (a week plus). Current predictions are not inconsistent with that but of course a lot can happen in that time. That being said; it's been quite a while since we've seen these kinds of temperatures hold for this long.
It's not worth the risk. The organising committee has ruled out the event happening this year because of Covid and the risk of creating a super-spreader event.
This is very dystopian. Don’t say the bad word, the machines are listening.
Well, that is the difference between the rule of law (there are tribunals for deciding whether the police are breaking the law or not) and the rule of incorporated companies: you are screwed if they decide it...
You can boil paradigms down into whatever you like.

What you say I think and feel is not an accurate representation of what I think and feel. It is an indication of what you think and feel.
1) if you want to keep the session, why do you use a session cleaner?
2) how hoften do you install new extensions?
Is this really a problem?
If Amazon removes a product for wrong claims, Amazon pays the damages times N. A court, quick judgement, low or no expenses for the merchant. Apply to every jurisdiction Amazon works in.

Then Amazon would be wary of automatic bans.

Of course this must apply to every site like Amazon.
4% of the world's population

Economy size to defense spending is probably more a relevant ratio than population. 23% of the world economy, 38% of defense spending.

Defense spending is near all time lows. It didn't collapse the country in the 50s when it hit 11.3% of GDP. It didn't collapse the country in the 60s when it hit 8.6%. It didn't collapse the economy in the 80's when it hit 5.7%. We at sitting just over 3% now. If really you are worried that 3.4% going to cause the country to collapse, you can rest easy.

https://cdn.factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/DoD-GDP-chart.png
The question isn’t whether people would visit, but rather do they visit more because of the queen’s existence. That is, would be worth a billion rather than billions
You seem to overestimate the resources Canonical had on Ubuntu, and especially on Ubuntu Desktop.

But you seem to have been already decided that they did it because they are mean, so I don't think it makes sense to continue the discussion.
A bit sad that they gave up on Mercurial, if they really think is better for their needs; although having used Subversion, Mercurial, Bazaar, git, ...; I kind of like when it is just git. Not because is better or I like it better, but switching between tools in this case was PITA because of the subtle differences of almost the same commands.

> And the way that most people personally like using git is via GitHub.

I don't get it. In which way? I use GH for pull requests, may be issues? There's a lot more of my git day to day than that. I don't think you really use git via GH.
I never used Trello, what would make this great there?
Shouldn't be too hard to implement!
Was going to make the same comment. Gallwey does a better and more thorough job of articulating what is going on here.
I get the feeling that using 3 for pi, is mostly beneficial when speed and volume/throughput is more important than precision.

I.e - doing 100 problems with Pi = 3 probably doesn't even require a calculator, whereas doing the same problems with a decimal approximation will require students to pull out their calculators, and therefore students can do more problems in a shorter time, using pi = 3. This would certainly make sense in countries where rote learning is the king, and students are pretty much churning through problems.

Or, it could be that the vast majority of people will never need the use of an accurate pi value, and it's more beneficial to make them remember some easy value like 3, rather than a confusing decimal or fraction. The people that are going to use pi in any serious manner, will obviously know its value and derivation.
I'm all for progress but... Why?

What possible use could an end user have for a 4gbit connect? The router alone is going to set you back a few hundred bucks.
Bay area has okay internet, but nothing outstanding. Gigabit is unavailable in most areas, even in Google headquarter land (Mountain View).
It is a great show that I agree on, but, as I pointed out in another comment is not totally accurate and some parts are likely to be just fiction (thinking in particular of certain conversations).

I think the only way to get a better picture is to read a lot of different books on the subject.
Musk's Bitcoin bet fuels gains in companies already invested
By the way, the arrangement you suggest is called "notice and notice" (by contrast with "notice and takedown").

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notice_and_notice
Thanks for the info, ha!
What will be SDL's official GitHub repo? The article had no link. Seems like an important item to include. https://github.com/libsdl is an unofficial mirror and github.com/sdl/ is something unrelated.
Isn't starlink for people in 3rd world countries found in Africa, Asia and the Midwest?

This chap is living in North Hollywood, he should expect a cheap/fast wired connection in 2021.
Port a tiny tiny bit of the ASN.1 parsing to Rust
Sorry, I don‘t buy your last argument. You could argue the opposite:

When a person desires change, they either want it for their personal gain, or have seen the shortcomings of the current system and want change to get rid of them. Yet no system is perfect, and most changes have some tradeoff. When a person desires that matters stay the same, they are either profiting from the current state, or believe that the current system is better thought-out than it might seem at first glance, and are like this for a good reason.

This line of thought is based on Chesterton‘s fence [1].
Of course, a well thought-out change is still a good thing, and not all reasons for the current system are sensible. I count myself as a progressive as well, but it is not as clear-cut as you make it out to be.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._K._Chesterton#Chesterton'...
The cost of changing the status quo is, for me, not worth the benefit.

There are any number of wrongs that can be corrected. Is “abolishing the monarchy” the best use of the limited budget for societal change?

And is it worth, on top of that, the risks of unintended consequences?

I’d feel similar being implored to surgically remove my appendix and tailbone.
I did a prototype for that idea back in the J2ME days when the first phones came out that had accelerometers. It works surprisingly well, provided you have lots of data (multiple cars driving through the same route to average out any random fluctuations due to driving style etc).

There were two issues:
1) It was way too early for this idea as the devices that had the HW for it were rather rare
2) I had no killer app that would entice people to install and run the app. There were no app-taxi companies at the time and just telling people that "please download and open that app when you are driving to help the local municipality fix the roads" wasn't really going to fly

I'd still love to work on that idea though.. one day :)
Largely agree, but I've found distilling complex requirements down to a simple implementation takes effort, and sometimes longer than the more circuitous route.

A coarse rule of thumb from a few decades of my own experience in software development is that version 1 will be quick, dirty and (in retrospect) naive. Version 2 will improve it with what you learned the first time around. And version 3 tends to be the clean, solid, polished winner. I've learned to expect and encourage refactoring to arrive at this point.
> educate your users that the "Junk" and "Trashcan" buttons are two very different things.

we have 97% reputation on sendgrid, and the only mail we send are a) customer requested password reset and b) customer requested notification for completed workflow jobs.

I don't know who that 3% is, but it is enough to get sometime filtered and I don't think we can ever win this
And with Locus maps you can use OpenAndroMaps [1] as a map source.

With their map styles [2] OpenAndroMaps are IMO the best hiking maps you can get. They even added very precise elevation data from LIDAR scans recently.

[1] https://www.openandromaps.org/en

[2] https://www.openandromaps.org/en/legend/elevate-mountain-hik...
For the current development see here
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/845120/0b7608296003edfc/

No silly overflow, MINOR will be clamped at 255.
Protection from jail perhaps, not from ostracization.
I am one of those early Bitcoin adopters who was turned off by energy consumption.

Crypto is cool in a theoretical sense but ugly in practical sense.

I mined a bit of BTC in 2011 and LTC in 2013 but when my colleagues started buying ASICs in 2017 boom I could not in good faith join them because of energy concerns. (incidentally buying ASICs is a losing proposition unless you get early access)

The problem is that if BTC goes to say 500k the incentives for power (ab)use get even more perverse.

POW is just like Adtech and HFT. Some Adtech and some HFT might be okay but at some point it becomes an arms race no one can win.
Where is Oliver Cromwell.
That was the case in the UK from 2010-2015. It's called a minority government.

Various factions horse trade until some coalition of parties has a majority, and then they rule as coalition. Members of both the Conservatives and Liberal-Democrats had cabinet seats.

The main downside to this sort of process is that sometimes negotiations take a long time. Belgium spent nearly two years bickering over forming their coalition in 2010.
Tialaramex, your PKI history analysis is a treasure of Hacker News!
Silly question for a missing piece of info: is the customer in this case paying for high speed internet (fiber I guess ?) and not receiving it, or is the provider just not selling a desired speed yet ?

To put it mindly, Internet Providers (as most 20th century telcos, I suppose) have a reputation for being untrustworthy, but in this case it's not clear if it's malvolence or incompetence.
> Nah, I’ll store value from burning energy, as clean as you can please

The fact that you seem to be saying this unironically really demonstrates the utter insanity of Bitcoin if you ask me.

There is no value without social consensus. Even with Bitcoin. It tries its best to create an illusion that it’s otherwise, but it’s becoming clear that it’s failing.

I mean, it’s fundamentally worse with Bitcoin and other PoW cryptocurrencies (maybe PoS too, I haven’t thought much about that) than with other currencies.

Most other currencies are closely tied to the value of real physical value. Most of it is created as debt with some kind of property or resource as collateral.

With Bitcoin, you’re actively extracting value from the currency. You’ve got early miners caching out huge sums, mining is constantly funneling money out to ASICs, electricity and salaries. Most of the market cap of Bitcoin is extracted value, not stored value. It seems even Tether which was supposed to do the opposite might have been a scam to pump Bitcoin and extract value as well.

Bitcoin is a destructor of value, not a store of value. People are paying to have their money burned up in mining facilities by wasting electricity, with a few lucky individuals caching out of its Ponzi-like scheme. It’s collective insanity.
Sure, this is why nobody is visiting the Versailles or the Winter Palace.
I definitely think The Guardian’s headline is easily better:

“Texas lawyer, trapped by cat filter on Zoom call, informs judge he is not a cat”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/09/texas-lawyer...
Just hours ago, I had posts shadow removed from r/nba, ya sports. All well within rules, but not acceptable for whatever reason, and that's their right(maybe should only be for staff not sub mods though to shadow,) but it sucks. Makes a platform even if it's the only game in town pretty unusable. When I commented in said thread that they were shadow banning many comments, I got the 2 day ban :) I've commented before here, that shadow banning is very underhanded even if effective and especially infuriating when your content is fine which are most of my experiences. So then at some point you have to wonder about what even gets out vs what all is mined, and used however. Just populate the platforms fully with bots and marketeers I guess and let them talk amongst themselves. Maybe we can give those bots and marketers the right to vote as an extension of corporate personhood. The interesting thing is how you have zero recourse, not to say you should or have any right, but you were likely in the middle a discussion with another person/people and you are now to look the fool with removed content and no ability to respond. Shady business, but luckily sports in this case.
That is a cool project, thanks for sharing!
And parliaments aren't? It's not actually clear to me which is better or worse over the long term.

Some are bringing up points on wealth and for me that feels like it stems from envy which is also pretty ugly. I postulate that striping the royals of wealth will make no one here materially better off.
Wow, that platform moving does seem painfully slow!
Actively Exploited Windows Kernel EoP Bug Allows Takeover
No it’s not because it’s none obvious and requires a fair amount of boilerplate code. Both of which are usually idioms Python normally tries to avoid.

I guarantee you this will trip up a lot of developers who are either learning the language for the first time or who Python isn’t their primary language.

Worse still, the kind of bugs this will lead to is valid code with unexpected pattern matching, which is a lot harder to debug than invalid code which gets kicked out with a compiler error.
In addition to the flaws mentioned by the other commenters (whole word only, no regexes), Github will only search the master branch of a repo, which makes it useless for my two most common tasks "where did this code used to be used" and "does this unmerged PR manage to remove all of the references to this code in its refactor (incl. in comments/etc)"

EDIT: Unfortunately, it seems like search doesn't work at all on this site, which is a shame. (at least, when I tried to do it on https://github1s.com/rails/rails it failed)
The point of copyright is to offer a limited monopoly to encourage making risky things. If you can't or don't want to monetize it, then you don't need the monopoly, and it's unlikely that such a scheme would stifle innovation.

I can't imagine someone saying, "I want to work on this idea, but I won't because I know it won't be profitable for many years".
I have zero faith that regulation here will realistically have any effect other than inching Amazon a bit closer to being a quasi-state service, and I also have zero faith in that improving customer service at all.
No copyright broken if the music is filtered out prior to upload to a public platform.

At the same time, deliberately playing music while conducting an activity that entails conversational interchange is clearly a ploy to prevent that which I understand to be (perhaps incorrectly) a lawful activity in the US.

https://www.dmlp.org/legal-guide/recording-police-officers-a...
Because it often finds security issues in our code: see the graph at the end of the blog post.

If opensource, this fuzzer could be used against our users...

AFAIK, Mozilla doesn't sell any software!
The current situation https://www.friescheijsbond.frl/schaatskaart

Blue = water or ice <15cm

Green = ice >15cm
Men are 2-3x as likely to die as women but I don't think anyone's going to prioritize them.
Why do you care so much about what other people believe? It's like you are trying to justify religious persecution.
More likely the secretary
>Algorithms are not even close to substituting for human customer service, human moderation, and human judgment.

And that's by design. They don't want to talk to you and help you. You're going to buy there anyway and we all know it.
I want renewals to avoid abandonment and I also want most copyrights to expire quickly. I think a fee structure could be found that gets most copyrights to expire quickly without discouraging innovation.
Do you have a proof of that? I think that it might be the opposite.
A search for "trial" found pictures of motorcycles.
A search for "trial -motorcycle" found pictures of motorcycles.
A search for "criminal trial" found pictures of kittens.
I'm 30 minutes north of Sacramento and can only get 2.5 Mbps from AT&T :/

Most of the time, I choose to use my cell phone as a hotspot in order to reliability video chat for work.

We are a 10 minute walk away from I-80, where there is plenty of underground fiber pulls...

We pay $60/month... Yay, AT&T!
> realize a competitor is obviously trying to take down our listings?

Classic Amazon, competitor most likely has financial link to Amazon, even might be their puppet company.
Yes, seems in 1929 and 1963 as well.

https://www.zg.ch/behoerden/staatskanzlei/staatsarchiv/publi...

Here’s a funny old video from the Bodensee (Lake Constance):
https://youtu.be/FX6HrNxYdd4
So surely, it will never make money. :(