skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was in a Microcenter over the holidays, and was pleasantly surprised by the variety of things they stock. And the pricing was unexpectedly, for me at least, the same as or better than NewEgg on the items I checked.

Best of all, they weren't pushy and hostile when I refused to give my phone number, a pleasant change from years back.
Rebuilding Plato's Academy? – The Good Men Project
Sorry i meant anything when it came to Pascal, not in general. Many of the features found in Delphi 1 can also be found in other languages like Smalltalk (in fact sometimes i wonder if the reason of the massive changes between BP7 and Delphi 1 is Anders learning Smalltalk in-between :-P).

About objects, i agree that the two systems are weird and IMO it is made even worse with the introduction of 'advanced records' in Free Pascal and recent Delphis which also act as objects-except-not-really.

IMO the 'object' types should have been extended with the new stuff and have 'class' just be syntax sugar for 'pointer to object' and 'record' be just a synonym for 'object' for backwards compatibility (so that everything is really an 'object' - it is "Object Pascal" after all :-P).

I do not know how Delphi handles this nowadays but in Free Pascal 'class' has the most advanced features but must always be heap allocated (meaning you can't embed them in other compound types or allocate them on the stack), 'object' has a lot of the 'class' and/or 'record' functionality but arbitrarily missing some (e.g. support for management operators, so you can't have RAII-like objects) and 'record' (after explicitly enabling support for advanced records) does have more functionality available (e.g. management operators) but does not support inheritance.

You can work around it (e.g. put all your data of an object inside an advanced record with management operators and then put that record inside the object so that you can write code that does any cleanup when the object is declared on the stack and goes out of scope) but it can be annoying - and maddening when you work on the compiler itself and notice that all these compound data structures are implemented internally the same way and the compiler explicitly disables support for some!
As a GitLab / Docker user, testing pipelines is definitely a major pain point in my devops process. Cool stuff!
The RTX cards are going for 2-3x retail on the secondary market, without bundle restrictions they'd be instantly scalped. It's a temporary situation that benefits both CC and normal customers.
> If you live in the US, and you don't see white supremacy, I encourage you to pay attention to what non-white people have to say about their experiences.

That's like saying: "Q is everywhere and if you don't think so, I encourage you to listen to some Q supporters."

I encourage you to maybe focus on your worldview that monomaniacally reduces the entire world to an arena of skin color - never qualifying things, unable to contextualize.

Frankly, anti-racism is fundamentalism.

We traditionally called people that think in those terms: racists.
I still don't see it. The link you shared is for creating ad-hoc tunnels with provisioned trusted parties.

I want to have incoming and outgoing UDP from a particular process/container reachable externally, but routed through a different peer. Maybe I wasn't clear, but I'm talking about public, unathenticated and untrusted P2P networks.

I've looksed over their repos and documentation and see nothing (apart from general "anything is possible" marketing handwaving) indicating it's less work than on any other topology/protocol.
Isn't blocking all third party cookies still better after all?
LMAO how is that “ruling with an iron fist”? You got that person fired! And no, I am a programmer who does not work in HR.

Nobody is saying HR is infallible. But a mistake like “HR had a silly policy around hiring” is not as bad for an organization as “the director of engineering got drunk, harassed an intern, and threatened to fire her if she complained.”
That sounds like something software can automate away entirely.
Well, as always, there's the theory, and then there's the practice.

The 100 HP law has been removed around 2016 because the EU said it was it against free trade in the block. I'm not really sure how that works and if a vehicle must only comply with EU regulations in order to be sold in any and every country. As a biker, I'm happy it was removed. It was just silly and useless. A 100 HP bike, even a heavy one like a Hayabusa is powerful enough to give you a bad day if you have no idea what you're doing [0].

More related to the issue at hand, limiting was very easy to circumvent and practically impossible to verify without putting the bike on a dyno. Older, non fuel injected models only had some kind of mechanical limiting for admission. My bike was limited by the ECU which is trivial to swap. Actually in my particular case it's a bit more involved since the coded key is tied to the ECU, so you'd have to also change the key. The ECU is just a black box with a bunch of connectors. It doesn't say anything as to what it does.

It's more or less the same issue with mufflers. They're pretty trivial to change and even if they're sold as street legal, it's very easy to remove a capsule to "open" it up.

However, this is much easier to control than the ECU mapping. Just put out a mic and measure the sound level. Is it above the value in the registration? It's illegal. Done.

But I think it's just much easier to enforce speed limits. Just set up a speed camera and take pictures of the guys passing by. You don't even have to stop them. And, as a bonus, it counts as "doing something" for traffic safety.

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[0] One good thing in France (and maybe the whole EU, now) is that getting a motorcycle license is not as easy as the car license. But in traffic stats, motorcycles are usually counted in the category of "2 wheelers" (which actually includes some trikes). The issue here is that not everyone has an actual motorcycle license. And, related to the power issue, it would seem that "inappropriate speed" was a factor in more accidents involving small bikes (those not requiring the full motorcycle license) than bigger ones. Below is a (2008) study showing that:

* "small bikers" are more often the cause of the accident than "big" ones.

* big bikes, when the cause of the accident was a "loss of control", were on average going 15 km/h above the posted speed limit. Pretty much any 100 HP motorcycle can go above 145 km/h (highway speed limit is 130).

http://www.fema-online.eu/riderscan/IMG/pdf/in_depth_-_franc...
What a pity. Down here even the regular grocery stores will have Kerrygold (grass fed Irish butter), and the fancy gourmet stores will have imports from Iceland and France and Belgium and New Zealand as well. My favorite is Isigny Ste Mere.
I think with the Emotion Engine (PS2) and Cell (PS3) Sony got a bit obsessed with things like vector coprocessors that are theoretically very powerful, but basically require a programmer to meditate under a waterfall for 5 years to actually master. I don't think they had a reputation for providing the best support libraries etc. either.

Of course Xbox and Gamecube also released at least a year later than the PS2, and graphics tech was moving fast at the time, so that was an advantage for them as well.
Germany convicts Syrian regime officer of crimes against humanity
I've been told a couple of times that Tesla have an off menu option for no network connectivity but I have no idea if this is true or too what degree.
This was a very interesting read. I have seen many of these arguments posted before, even on HN, but I have never seen so many of them combined into one piece before.

I have seen the claims about Boeing upper-level being "taken-over" by Mcdonnell Douglas upper-level many times before in many places, yet I haven't ever actually seen any evidence for it. Even in the linked article, there is none. Is it myth or fact? Genuinely curios. I think that that deserves it's own story to be honest, since it seems to be quite the straight line between grubby MD upper-levels -> Boeing "take-over" -> SLS + other marred projects.

Regardless, for me the article instills a strong sense of helplessness by it's account of a virtually invincible cabal of senators and lobbyists. It makes me think "If Jim Bridenstein had to back down from cancelling it, how else are we able to?"

As one of the comments say, I really do hope that this gets retweeted by Scott Manley, Tim Dodd, or Elon, in ascending order of preference.
What about symbicort (budesonide + Formoterol)?

What about salmeterol + fluticasone?

I know the answers are not there in the article, but do you suppose that the results would be same / similar?
Agreed that there is room for improvement, but the Nim community is working on some promising web projects. Prologue framework, Norm (orm), and Karax (FE framework) are all great examples of how Nim can excel in the web environment.
From what I've read in the past, Auto GCAS computes a 5G recovery pull. Speculation was that the pilot came to consciousness at some point during the recovery and applied some extra input to hit 9Gs.
New diredctor's plans for Pompeii's archaeological park
I hope they offer my friend a unicycling gig since I recommended him for this skill. He has no idea how to unicycle.
The Decline of Computers as a General Purpose Technology
> I really don't understand why Apple is apparently incapable of making these laptops use standard, replaceable m.2 NVMe SSDs.

Because if they did that, users would be able to replace them.
MicroStrategy Acquires Additional 19,452 Bitcoins for $1.026B
No, he is right. Employers demand cookie cutter education and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that if everyone gets their cookie cutter education, earns money and then pays for their kids liberal arts education. We are at a point where everyone gets access to college but not everyone can actually support themselves. This is why the first generation of students has to maximize economic gains above everything else. Once the economy is doing well your kids will be able to pursue their dreams, or you can just go back to college yourself.
Thank you for sharing your interpretation.

For avoidance of doubt, this is the twist:

Inhaled budesonide regimen enhances serotonin- and arachidonic acid-induced platelet aggregation [via the 5-HT2A serotonin receptor?] – https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01991227

Edit: In the light of downvotes - which I receive with kindness and in good spirits - then - again purely for avoidance of doubt - I want to confirm that this is the message.
I always thought that HR was the most important department. Since humans are the most important resource, then the department that makes sure those resources are safe, secure, not abused, properly vetted, happy, etc., would be the most important. I imagine if I was ever the CEO of a big company that I would be working very closely with HR to make surr we hiring the right people, not abusing them (mostly through bad managers or policies), paying them well, good benefits, and the right incentives.

Maybe HR is an underutilized or badly utilized department in certain places. I dont know. Just thoughts I been having about HR.

EDIT: I'm not saying that companies are using HR successfully. I am saying that this is my view at how HR can be (and should be) used successfully. It all stems from the realization that humans are a company's most important resource. Accepting that conjecture, having good HR (how ever way you define that) is extremely important.
I've already tried stopping and reducing my medication. All that does is end up with me being hospitalised. I don't have mild asthma, I have chronic asthma. That's not the kind of thing you can heal with breathing techniques.
This always struck me as really unfair. If you're taking projects that bring you <$500, you probably really need that money and 20% is a large chunk of it.
I dont really see a problem with that. While ugly as hell visually, it's stupid simple to find out what went wrong and fix it. Over abstraction and fancy technique doesn't automatically equate to reliability and performance. Why over complicate something just to inflate your own ego and be a show off to people who are not the end user putting their life in the hands of the software?
Sales guy here- turns out programming’s easier than I thought!
They were just about becoming obsolete when I was in infant/junior school but even so, playing Chuckie Egg and using that drawing turtle (when available) really left an impression. Played around with BASIC (as much as an 8 year old can) and then got a bug for it. Few years later got a 286 donated by my mum and dad (yay qbasic), then a few years later some thing called linux came out which opened up a new horizon all together.

I then had the pleasure of working in R&D at the beeb for a few years where I got briefly involved testing the microbit for thermal dissipation and usage with different USB cable lengths (it was a colleague how kicked off the project, amongst several others, who also pushed the idea).

Here's to the Micro! Who knows what computing will look like in 40 years but I can guarantee they'll be an emulator running BBC Micro code ;)
Interesting catch-22 if you won't listen to somebody telling you about their mistake because they admit it was a mistake.

"I don't trust anyone who stopped using Python to give me their opinion on Python"
It’s based on some estimate of sustainable consumption, i.e. the earth can sustainably support everyone if their average footprint is “1 earth.” Any higher level of consumption is unsustainable. I’ve seen multiple variations on this concept, so you’d likely have to consult their specific methodologies to figure out how they determine what is sustainable.
I moved from Atlanta (where there were two Microcenter stores) to the LA/SFV (where there are 0 unless you count Tustin which is too damn far away), so you’ve caught my attention about the car modding community as being a replacement as hobby electronics source. Any suggestions for stores like that here?
I have been to All Electronics which is nice, but it’s one rung below what I need on the technology ladder.
If you could use heuristics to discard automation such as search engine indexing and open graph lookups, then the limit is probably fine. I'm not sure I'm a fan of the pricing model in general though.

If I were you, I'd look into smart caching, traditional (high and scaling) bandwidth limits, and instead applying tier limits on updates/edits/data pulls. More user friendly, more generous for smaller projects and slightly less open for exploits. In the current model (with no heuristics), you could shut down one of your customers in 5 min just using curl.
BlockHammer: Preventing RowHammer at Low Cost
Adding Charts to Django with Chart.js
Can only speak for AWS.

Don't do it, Amazon's whole shtick is having such opaque and illogical and convoluted pricing that you just throw your hands up and let it go.
Book Review: “This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends”
Another question: do you have any numbers on the performance hit using cproxy? (I have no intuition for how cgroups performs here.)
But then ISO Pascal is not 50 years old, far from it.

The Pascal from 50 years ago was not that great in practice.
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Thats not really your/our call to make though is it?

Even if shes not aware, the only way to find out is to find her and hold the magnifying glass of internet dickery over her.

And all for what? because someone remembered her and thought "I wonder what shes doing, lets get obsessed, I bet its a conspiracy"

its just not worth the heartache.
I cannot make sense of your second paragraph. It's either badly written, badly argumented or both.

I'll try again. If the metaphor you're choosing is a company losing their clients, then your argument is wrong, because what happens is that the competitor(s) fills the void and the system balances itself.

Why would that not happen in the scenario parent comment proposed? What rule prohibits it?
30 day timeout? I'm getting pretty fed up of re-logging into websites already over the last couple of years.

Users having to log in to a website 12 times a year, or 13 times in a bad year, is a price worth paying to improve privacy and security across the internet.
If you have more available time later, I would advise you read on if you have genuine curiosity about the subject.

Not all articles are soundbites, or have to be. The SLS is certainly not a subject that is well-summarized by one either, given it's many facets.
we handle CSS at component level, this means that you can add custom css for every element or "section" (UI block) in the site but not at site level. If you import your custom component it can have its own CSS. We don't support adding CSS at site level yet, but so far users didn't ask for it too often.
The Pascal critics may like

"Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language"
by Brian W. Kernighan, April 2, 1981
http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/bwk-on-pasc...
Thanks. So far it actually looks like Firefox is somewhat heavy on writes.
the department that makes sure those resources are safe, secure, not abused, properly vetted, happy

You have a very strange idea of what a HR department does. Its job is to protect management from workers, and that's it. "HR is not your friend" is a common saying for a reason.
Yeah I get that. GNOME is a horrible big software. I would not count is as "basic desktop", because it is so big, buggy and dependencies are out of control. Basic desktop, I mean something like Xfce, with modular components and minimal dependencies so the desktop system is simple and unixy. You would still have the option to install GNOME on such a system, if only GNOME developers made a canonical version of GNOME that would be modular, and would install on any clean Linux system with Xorg or Wayland.
Wow that's quite dense. I've lead Engineering teams for some time and can appreciate the idea of having predefined times for people to start .

See, there are several processes that
Was just looking at NFTs last week, and what I do know about the art market is it provides a high volatility, potentially high value, portable asset with an opaque market that is great for moving money around, and worst case acts as a volatility hedge.

Are NFT's effectively cryptocurrency mixers? If I've got $100k in bitcoin it doesn't matter where I move it from an audit perspective because it's going to be on the blockchain, whereas if I buy an NFT, I have an asset of that notional value assigned to an arbitrary anonymous wallet of my choice after paying the art owner.
Vision AI and Deep Learning explained simply
In 2011 you could mine about 0.5 to 1 Bitcoin per day with a gaming computer.
HCQ might still be useful if administered with zinc, that's been the working theory since the beginning but has been lost in the madness. There's at least one study to that effect, which incidentally goes to great lengths to hide the fact that they are using HCQ to boost intracellular zinc concentration. Zinc has been known to slow viral replication, so that makes people deficient in it more vulnerable.
Cute thought but it's never going to happen. Hitler was a moron who kept prodding the Allies with invasions that were creeping ever closer West. At that point, the third Reich had become an existential threat to the Allies. They would have never went to war over the plight of some Jews and other hated minorities.

China on the other hand manufactures much of the world's consumer goods and has strong trade ties with dozens of nations. It has also never invaded Europe and shows no sign of having any intention of doing so. It also has a large enough army and nuclear armament to completely flatten any European country that chooses to break from NATO and try to pick a fight with it by itself.

NATO nations sell arms and political support to countries like Saudi Arabia and Israel so clearly morality is not a priority here. The real reason why they keep political pressure on China is because it's a rival to the USA and it's (at least in it's own eyes) communist - which is worse than stoning women and gay people to death, and bombing children hospitals and practising apartheid in the eyes of Washington D.C.
Not sure I believe that a company with 1200 employees has no centralized IT.
PSA: HP Warranty on laptops does not cover ejected keys
“Why would you spend $5,000 on an MP4?"

That's the $64k question. Who, exactly, is buying rare digital art? It doesn't seem to be traditional collectors, dealers or major institutions. But the same contingent of crypto "whales" speculating in alt-coin assets. A simple bot could even be employed to track auction prices and automate trades. In a sense its not dissimilar to inter-market dealing among art galleries. Without the actual physical objects.

Beeple's Opus

https://www.christies.com/features/Monumental-collage-by-Bee...
Clearink does not rely on the foreground pigment particles coming to "rest" at a fixed position relative to the background pigment, ie: achieving a stable state. Instead they rely on driving the field for as long as the foreground is needed. As soon as it decays, the background pigment instantly rises back to the internally reflecting top plane. This allows the display to achieve much faster speeds since the pigments can be optimized for speed rather than stability.
Right you say that, but I swear this view is some kind of really fucking weird Americanism that y'all take as gospel truth.

I've interacted with HR teams at a couple of jobs in the UK. These interactions have been fine. They have been there as the contact people to make sure I get paid for my work, that I can access my benefits, and that I am subject to the procedures and processes that I'm entitled to.

They are paid by the company and therefore they of course work for the company – and part of that job is ensuring compliance. But this is the same as e.g. a security officer, or a health and safety officer, or any number of other roles the involve running companies correctly and in accordance with best practices in a way that can benefit both company and staff. It's not an "either-or" situation!
All hail our new Microcenter overlords
Youtube is the absolute worst media consumption/discovery UI in the universe.

They couldn't make it more user-hostile if they tried. (Maybe being hostile is the point? TBH I don't know the real monetization strategy behind Youtube, maybe hostility pays here.)
Out of curiosity, what does your diet look like?
I only fired them because they had been doing this to other hiring managers without my knowledge for months. So they had been ruling with an iron fist against what was best for the company.

This was at a time when the company was growing customer base by 100% every few months and we needed people ASAP. HR decided it was marginally easier for them if everyone started on the 1st, harming productivity of value-add departments.

Making your life marginally better at the expense of company growth is ruling with an iron fist. Every department needs to be willing to do what it takes to sustain growth.

> “the director of engineering got drunk, harassed an intern, and threatened to fire her if she complained.”

It’s unclear to me how HR is any different from the CEO here. If any employee at my company experienced sexual harassment I would expect them to come to me, and said Director would be out the door within minutes. No need for HR there. If anything they’re just another hoop the victim has to jump through.
This is the way to go, go to university so you can earn money. Once money is no longer a problem, focus on all your other life goals. That could involve getting the education that you really want and as long as you can afford it that's perfectly acceptable.

However, many people are not in your situation. They have to work hard to get a good job and if they pick the wrong degree they will have to work even harder in the future. The education itself is not the problem, it's the unsustainable nature of getting a loan for a degree that does not empower you to pay the loan back.