skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be clear, the customer of AZ in this case is the UK government, and I don't think we know what conditions they put into their contract with AZ.

The customers of AZ in this case are the UK and many foreign governments. They each have their own contracts. Some of the details have been made public, others have not.

It's been widely reported that the UK has a guarantee of 100M doses supplied before AZ starts exports, which seems pretty clear. Given the UK government's other actions, not least in apparently pushing Oxford to work with AZ in the first place, it seems not only plausible but likely that they did consider the potential risks you mentioned and incorporate safeguards into the contract accordingly.

We've seen a slightly redacted version of the EU contract, and their claims about AZ's level of commitments are at best debatable. It's also worth noting that the EU contract includes specific conditions relating to early doses and manufacture in EU-based facilities, with explicit distinctions being made about when that term does (or, by implication, doesn't) include UK-based facilities. The EU has conveniently ignored those aspects of its contract while criticising AZ for the delays.

Unfortunately a lot of people will take the side of AZ in such a dispute even if the EU's interpretation is correct, especially if that correctness is determined by an EU court.

Why is that unfortunate? The way the EU is trying to bully others to cover for its own mistakes here is very disappointing and a horrible precedent would be set if the EU actually tried to follow through on its threats. As the submitted article mentions, it would probably also be an act of self-harm by the EU to do so, not just for the long-term political and diplomatic damage it would do, but also because other nations affected including the UK might be in a position to retaliate directly if they chose to do so.
Heaps more time with the kids :)

Also started doing some woodwork and more of the cooking!
> If you don't need the capacity, set aside 30% of the drive in a partition you won't use, then use blkdiscard to erase it.

I assume this is the recommended method for over-provisioning nowadays?

I've no idea where -- as it's been several years ago now -- but I can recall recommendations to use the HPA for this. I have no way to know, for certain, whether it actually helps but that's what I used to do (setting ~25% of the drive aside in the HPA). Anecdotally, I've yet to have such an SSD die on me, although I'm not exactly torturing them either.
Strike breaking has been dealt with before, it's not an intractable problem. If nothing else, it's difficult to fire workers for striking.

Eventually most of those scab graduates could be part of the union as well. If there are 80+h to be worked, united workers could push for 2+ 40h jobs.
Not saying you're wrong, but isn't Qualcomm an American company?
Probably more of a want-to-want. I have a few days of motivation and then succumb to procrastination when I realize (surprise) that nothing is easy and it's all hard work.
"People are trying to do things better, I'll say they aren't and not provide a single option that's better" aka "I'll complain about stuff and not do a single thing to improve it".

What a contribution.
Typical flame bait website.
> These "best cases" are hand-tuned for the domain by algorithm experts - right?

Correct. It is arguably more than just "hand-tuned". The algorithm I mentioned, LKH, was entirely designed for TSP, and I'm not aware of it being applicable to much else.

> How big is the performance jump from generic z3 or whatever?

For TSP, an enormous jump. Certainly more than 3 orders of magnitude.
So do you work 20 hours total per week (2.5*8) or do you actually work more hours per workday to make up for it?
I don’t know, if I were writing my thesis on a machine, I’d very much want to know where it’s stored, and not just trust the awesomeness.
TBTK – Second Quantization for C++
I think they fixed those issue with the latest version. I just checked and I'm running 3.14.1 on iOS and 3.13 on Mac and they're both getting updates regularly.

Hush looks excellent. Thanks for the tip.
Yup, Emacs switched to Jansson[0] for JSON parsing. Since LSP uses JSON a lot, this means big performance improvements there.

Also seconding "native-comp" branch. It's technically experimental, but in practice it's pretty much stable. I've been running on it daily for the past 6+ months, with zero problems.

The way it works is, it uses GCC (libgccjit) to compile Emacs Lisp down to native (vs. the EL bytecode Emacs normally uses) on the fly, and then replaces the byte-compiled function with its native-compiled version. It does it transparently, across all elisp code you use - built-in and thrid party alike. What you get is a huge performance boost, and occasional messages that something gets compiled, when you run some new elisp for the first time.

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[0] - https://digip.org/jansson/
Another way to write this: do not make changes to something that you do not understand. Assume the original authors are not entirely stupid and may have had a reason to do what they did.
Working with my colleagues face-to-face for the first time in a long time.

During the pandemic, I started a new job at a company that refurbishes and sells second hand cars online. I spent the first 4 months doing the new normal, working from home. I thought everything was ticking along fine, but I accepted an opportunity to go to one of our refurbishment sites to see things actually happening and do a bit of strategic thinking with two colleagues in the 3rd-dimension.

It became the highlight of my year to date. I had more impact, influence, experienced clarity and had useful collaboration on that day than I have done in a long while. It was like night and day. I never thought I'd say it, but I can't wait to get back to working face-to-face.
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My list is which may be not quite cheap though:
1. wireless headset: not to big do it does not cover you head while on the video call, but big enough and comfy so you can listen to music and hear some bass.

2. wireless charger for you phone so you dont have to plug the wire everytime you return from kitchen
It might be easier to understand what you're actually saying if it didn't seem like you were being deliberately vague and hand-wavish just to sound sophisticated.
Problem: our customers don’t get exposed to our special offers often enough but they do spend time checking their bills.

Let’s stop sending paper bills because ads on there are too easy to ignore and make a labyrinthine app where the bill can be eventually accessed if users know the menu cheat code which will change regularly.

Did the guidelines mean you should solve a problem of the users or the company?
> Shame more manufacturers don't make that type of drive

Now that Micron has apparently called it quits, it's a shame no manufacturers make that type of drive!
I would guess (from very little practical experience in this area) that you probably want to use "100%" for the main text, because, like you say, that's the user's preference and depends on things like how far away the user is from the screen and how good the user's eyesight is, which cannot be determined other than by asking the user. However, using "200%" unconditionally doesn't sound like a great idea because that might lead to lines with far too few characters in them. If you have a user who cannot read the text unless the font is so large that you only have about 20 characters across the width of the screen then you probably don't ever want to double the font size. (That might be a visually impaired user, but it could also be appropriate for a relatively small screen mounted in a public place.)
This was interesting but it reads like it's only an introduction. What does the title mean? How are we outgrowing software if every company is a software company? Where are the important questions if not in software?
Command? Manage? Lead – my view on managing teams
Thanks for the link, interesting!
Double-bonus, 32 is also the word count of poem plus title (sans author name).
I’m British, and I lived in London for 6-7 years. It is not safe to assume that. Central London is incredibly diverse.
Precisely that.

This isn't refactoring per-se it is focusing on the cosmetics of the code at the expense of functionality. There are many other reasons why an inlined image may have been appropriate and the author overruled all possible concerns by going for replacing a large block of 'ugly red' by a smaller block 'pretty green', which is a very bad reason to make a change in functionality, especially without understanding what is going on.
For what cost?
I'm beginning to acknowledge my abuse too. I lost a lot of friends because the man is always blamed by default in any kind of conflict. Most men think women are not capable of abuse until it happens to them. And if it does happen it can take years to acknowledge what happened and pride kicks in so most men never talk about it which further contributes to the lack of awareness. Add to that the fact nobody truly cares even if you do tell them. So you end up seeking support from other men who do get it in forbidden online communities and called a "misogynist". It's a vicious cycle.

But for me this is only about inner peace, not convincing others to feel sorry for me. I've found Stoicism which has greatly improved my life. Even though I have a partner who loves me, I understand that one should never rely on another for happiness. I've begun to do all the things I love doing again. Computers, electronics, programming, cycling. All these things that stopped during my recovery while I hopelessly sought someone to fill a void they couldn't possibly fill.
Search results were boosted based on usage, but the performance benefits of infinite scroll outweighed the use case
> A criminal complaint by the Justice Department details a string of investments that Jones made in the spring of 2017, mostly through an unnamed conspirator’s account, based on phony insider info provided by the undercover fed. That summer, the relationship would flip: Jones told the undercover agent on July 25 what an unnamed company's earnings would be, investing $5,000 on his behalf. Two days later, the numbers came out. They were identical.

You know what? I'm getting a bit tired of things that smell an awful lot like entrapment. Way too many things where you have a law enforcement official seemingly start an interaction, and the "actual crime" only happening later in the sequencing.

I'm not going to shed too many tears at people getting arrested for like... fake insider trading or whatever. But there's a lot of stories of people getting put away for really nasty stuff where the details make it _extremely probable_ that the undercover agent was extremely important in moving things forward.

I feel like there needs to be some stronger requirements before pulling off these kinds of schemes, instead of LEO seemingly trying to fill some quota by going out hunting for people to fall into these traps.
Isn't this something that was addressed already years ago by SELinux, even before Android? Personally I prefer to not use it since I don't find it very user friendly but Fedora seems to have it activated by default.
Don't you miss having the same keyboard shortcuts across programs?

Or the tiny things, like, does backspace at the beginning of text delete one space, back to the nearest indentation (e.g. 4 spaces) or back to the beginning of the line?

Moving between sublime on MacOS and VSCode on windows is death by a thousand needles to me. I can only imagine what moving between 3-4 editors must be like.
There is some overlap and there are a lot of differences. One point of overlap is that Nix makes it easy to install packages that are newer than your os. For example, you could run NixOS 20.09 or Ubuntu 16.04 and have the latest Handbrake or youtube-dl.

A large difference it that Flatpak also attempts to sandbox applications, which Nix doesn't (it only sandboxes builds). Though it might be easier to sandbox applications using Nix than traditional package managers, since all dependencies are made explicit.
Some of this could be fixed very easily by employers by widening their range of office hours. Commuting times grow exponentially when everyone has to do it at the same time.

When I was commuting in a car, the exact same path would take me 45m to an hour at peak time, and 15m off-peak. Just by pushing forward the starting time by about an hour, I saved loads of time and aggravation. This applies to public-transport commuters too: the experience of squeezing into an overcrowded carriage where you could die standing vs sitting comfortably and reading a book in a mid-morning train, is night and day.

Employers should just agree that the actual hours where absolute overlap is required, are about 5-6 per day. Leave people free to attach the remaining 2-3 at whichever end they prefer, or even do them from home (so you commute calmly and then just end the day from home). It won’t solve everything (schools remain obtuse bottlenecks with their inflexible schedules) but it would go a long way towards removing stress from commuting.
>sequential reads up to 7GB/s are pushing the limits of the PCIe 4.0 x4 interface

edit: corrected below
Yeah, I wouldn't touch defadvice itself. We can talk about reminding elisp developers to use it only as a last resort, but ultimately, it is a very important feature, that lets you make modules cooperate even if they don't want to.
Ah well, thanks for humouring me. Good thing those query optimisers do the right thing on occasion.
> You're still supposed to put locks on your doors

Locks are for honest people.

> to impliment preventative security measures for them

That's not a job of the state. The job of the state is to punish (cyber)criminals. And it's not the harshness of the punishment that matters, it's the inevitability.
I should add: our app also works with pen and paper (and just about any other background/utensil). Some of us are tutors and use the app by simply pointing a webcam at a notebook.

Thanks to all of you who've already tried the beta. Thanks in advance to anyone else willing to give it a go. If you have questions/feedback hit me up at 'marcin at sharetheboard.com'
The code density of x86 is not particular great.
They look very interesting.

Could you share some resources on how to get into this?
>micro-B being the most common.

I guess that is me sticking to Apple for long. I thought most Android devices has been on USB-C for 5 years?
What we call a turbocharger today has two turbines in it - one that is spun by the exhaust gasses and a second one that compresses the incoming air. These two turbines are directly connected.

If you look at super chargers they're all some kind of pump driven by the mechanical energy directly from the crank. If this pump was a turbine, then you'd have a crankshaft driven turbine super charger.

So this is half of a modern turbocharger (the compressor) being driven by the crank rather than the exhaust gasses.
>While I think it's cool shouldn't they spend their resources on the desktop engine?

Browser-based games are a perfectly legitimate platform, and tend to have fewer clicks than desktop package distributions. Namely, one click.

Hell, there's nothing stopping this from replacing HTML5/flash games.
One of the targets is webassembly, and the engine is written in the Godot engine. I'm not surprised that they could do this: it's a completely natural outcome from how Godot already works. I doubt it took unusual commitment of resources to do.
So if you have an 8hr work day does that mean your time left to work underflows and the company has to do an hour of work for you?
Tinkering with machines always keeps me happy, and has kept me sane over the past year. Specifically antique clocks and watches, and older sports cars, but any old machine will keep me busy. Neighbor gave me a broken snow blower and I spent a fun weekend ripping it apart and getting it running again, just in time for a big snow storm to play in. And I've got an old typewriter that I've been saving for a rainy day too.
The M.2 interface only supports up to four lanes of PCIe.
Considering a lot of their work is sourced from abroad, this is very ironic (in the Morrissette sense).
which is to say, trusted sources over technical solutions

This does not solve the problem where your a PDF reader from a trusted repository happens to have a zero day exploit. When it is exploited, the attacker could have access to all your files, since there are no further limitations unless you bubblewrap or firejail the application yourself.

Since sandboxing is one of the goals of Flatpak, the exploit would be limited to the sandbox (if sandboxing was enabled for the PDF reader).
NVMe (fake) hardware RAID is not as common as SATA
My new born son.

Remote working allowed me to spend time with him in his early month. And this is priceless.
> The sandbox is STILL a lie

No it is not. If sandboxed means no access to filesystem, sure it would be, but that is not the only definition of sandboxed, that is not the definition of that under which flatpak said they would operate, that is not the definition of sandboxed under which other things operate.

If you want them to use a different definition of sandboxed, by all means submit an issue making the case, but you don't even make it here. You just ignore that and then proceed to act as if your definition is the only reasonable one. And if that was the case the very least you can do is find a reference for your definition.

Try harder with the FUD.
It is also possible the other party is just down... I can think of 3 or 4 people I feel closest to in the world but I haven't replied to an SMS message from a couple months ago
> nearly 100% of the searches I make have zero

Google has pretty much eaten all advertising they can eat, there is no more to eat no matter how many ads they add. They can pretty much set the prices of their ads arbitrarily high since they have control over both advertisers and publishers.

> financial services did not make the the list of exemplars

Yeah, from the outside , SV currently seems to be Finance #2: greed is good, morals are for losers, grow fast and gtfo mentality
I smell that the same is going on now with Microsoft embracing Linux?

Integrate, extend, extinguish.
The spirit is still there outside the USA, but especially developers from Europe catch on to the fact that their free labor is exploited by U.S. Foundation and Council members, who build their careers on the work of others.

This is not "ideological flamewar", it is a fact that international contributions are monetized and governed in America.
I don't hate you :). You have a good point.

But in my experience, it's a wash. I've wasted a lot of time customizing my Emacs over the years, but I also wrought a lot of time savings out of it, which compound over time.

It's also a part of a bigger discussion about automation and developing support tools. The popular opinion is, better not spend time on it[0], but I feel that we tend to err too much on the side of doing things the hard way and waiting until someone on the Internet develops just the tool we need.

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See https://xkcd.com/974/, https://xkcd.com/1205/ and https://xkcd.com/1319/ for the common arguments.
Ethereum is the dominant platform for NFTs, and everything else (e.g. tokens, DeFi, etc).

The one notable exception is NBA Top Shot, which is an NFT collection that uses the Flow blockchain.
Yeh, +1 to that - have been experimenting with generative art as the basis to my printmaking, and would love to see some more on this..
Well, compared with 3" microdrive it is a lot! :)
Not guaranteed tho.

I have a Ryzen 2600 with an Asus B450-Plus motherboard, and recently tried to upgrade to 3200MHz DDR4 (from 2666MHz) - I used the DRAM calculator (which is quite confusing TBH), but no matter I tried, it wouldn't even boot at anything higher than 2666MHz @CL16. A bit disappointing, but I still ended up with more RAM overall, so not a disaster.
Some database benchs at storagereview:
https://www.storagereview.com/review/wd_black-sn850-nvme-pci...
Civilization VI Built on Webflow
What the 'Atlanta Spa Worker Killings' Tell Us About America Today
I worked for him at INA as a researcher and IT guy while a student at Texas A&M in the 1990s and helped design and build INA's first computer-based system for tracking and tagging artifacts and photographs. We had a couple of early Nikon Coolscans and had interns feed those all day long to scan what had to be hundreds of thousands of negatives and slides...they still hadn't finished by the time I left a couple of years later. Dr. Bass had great stories to tell and I always liked hearing about his adventures. RIP.
The quote comes from page 6 of the Seattle Weekly article. Perhaps you missed it.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121026013653/http://www.seattl...
Would have never thought about the default first argument.

In fact it never occurred to me that you could use a default argument that is not towards the end of the arguments.

Also I'm not surprised he uses the pipe format when compositing a query because I tried with the macro format and never succeeded to make it work.
And we already have roadmap for PCIe 5.0 SSD. So sometime in 2022/2023 we get DDR5, PCIe 5.0 and may be an SSD that reads up to 15GB/s.

( And still no roadmap of Affordable 10Gbps Ethernet, even 5Gbps would have been acceptable. But looks like we will only get 2.5Gbps as replacement. )
Oh, Privoxy. Must've been 20 years since I used that. But, can it block certain elements with certain IDs? And do I have to disable DoH to make it work?
Anything that helps the web export progress sounds like a good idea to me, I think there’s a lot of potential in that feature.

Being able to play game demos in the browser before installing the full version if you like it would be nice.

But for developers themselves I think it would be really cool to see the output of the tutorial you’re following before you start. It would be pretty motivating to see what’s coming and I think it could help get across some of the concepts which can be difficult in game dev.
CryptoPunks are Ethereum-based. I think someone cloned them into TRON and Binance Smart Chain.
so if you use the 500GB drive and download e.g. 1TB of torrents per day, the write endurance predicts your drive will last less than a year, on average
Versioning Change for Godot 3.x
Sure. The plotter I've bought is the AxiDraw SE/A3[1]. There is an Inkscape plugin so you can easily plot SVG graphics. I generate the SVG graphics using small JavaScript programs. Thats already it.
Here[2] is a more detailed resource list to dig into the topic

[1]https://shop.evilmadscientist.com/productsmenu/908
[2]https://project-awesome.org/beardicus/awesome-plotters
I've used it a few years back for a bit. It's essentially CodeBlocks. So much so, it makes you wonder why it exists. It even uses Scintilla and wxWidget like CodeBlocks.

My guess is someone wanted to make a modern reimplementation of CodeBlocks. I don't see why they didn't fork it instead.