skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, though some companies (finance normally) give 5+ weeks on top of bank holidays and very very few employers make you take bank holidays.
They are using the CPU. This (https://github.com/Bhargav1912/test_1/pull/2/files) is one the PRs abusing the GitHub actions. It looks like they are mining turtlecoin.
Not public domain, but 1 copy available for reference like in a library.
Quite possible.

I've never seen a perfectly clean dataset of any significant size. Big datasets have all sorts of weirdness unless there was an extraordinary effort to keep them pristine.
> how many wars did communist china started, compared to the US?

China's very prolific in using soldiers, to kill people, in the national interest. Similarly, the US and China both engage in large scale violence to promote their culture. A difference is that China's actions are performed within their borders (more or less) and are not as highly publicized.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_issues_in_China,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Falun_Gong,
etc
It does not need to be worse than the nazis to be considered bad. What kind of a ridiculous argument is that ?
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FTA:

> The greenback’s share slid to 59% in the fourth quarter, from 60.5% in the third, declining for three straight quarters. Its share in 1995 was 58%.
That's not quite true. Copyright is in the Constitution, controlled by the States.
At least in Germany we have 30 days without including public holidays.
I have used Linux exclusively at home for years. Recently, I was very impressed with antiX Linux. Runs like the blazes on minimal hardware and highly configurable. For those used to a more busy desktop there's Ubuntu Mate or Lubuntu. A minimum version of Ubuntu, but not as minimum as antiX Linux.

https://antixlinux.com/
https://ubuntu-mate.org/
https://lubuntu.net/
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It does, because the hardware support for OpenGL 4.1 got broken due to ideology.
The West’s Crisis of Academic Freedom
Try soundflower for mac. I think JACK audio also works on Mac/Win.

> "Just Works" is a useless subjective specifier.

I'd say a good usable mail client, a readily available video editor, sound recording software and office suite are more important than an advanced audio mixer.

> sound playing from multiple devices at the same time

This seems like a very niche use case. Along the lines of the usual nerdy response of linux being able to compile gcc or run vim and why would anyone use their computer for anything else.
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It took me a while to find out the description of this proof of space-time (and check whether it's satire or not), so to save you time here's the gist of it:

From the whitepaper:

Loosely speaking, the PoST consists of two phases: an initialization phase (executed once), in which miners “commit” to the data that fills the space S , and an execution phase (executed repeatedly), in which miners prove that they are still storing the data. The time component of the spacetime resource is the elapsed time between successive proofs—if the interval between initialization (or the previous execution phase) and the latest execution phase is T, this proves the miner expended S · T spacetime.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/18I9GPebWqgpvusI1kMnAB9nayBb...
Yes. It’s 28 days, but employers aren’t required to give public holidays off. 25 + bank holidays is fairly common in my experience, which ends up being more than 28 days.
No need to play with permissions of the socket, because you ‘just’ use a socket that gives permission to everyone.
Are pubic holidays guaranteed on top of that? The UK allowance includes pubic holidays but very few employers make you take them.
The interesting part of the great strike hypothesis is the question if such even is required for an earth like planet to be tricky earth like - lots of liquid water and an active core capable of sustaining a magnetic field over billions of years.

If this would be the only way that true earth like planets actually form this might make earth even rarer and could mean that most earth size planets within the habitable zone of their host star that aren’t relatively young could be just barren wastelands incapable of supporting life as we know it.
So, did US recent military interventions improved life of the local people?

I really see no benefit of creating a new iron curtain.
Rather the contrary.

And collective punishments usually just tighten the collective bonds. So the best way to unite the chinese people behind their government would be the "free" world uniting against china.

How did the sowjet union fall? By trade embargos?

Or that its people were finally fed up with it?
what makes you think testosterone has an impact on the female orgasm?
Stoping exchanges and institutional holding would pretty much kill it.
A treaty is national law, that by convention, matches other nation's laws.

There is no world government, only peer government's guns and bombs.
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Great question, I'm just reading the article and noticed he's so convinced that the rates will go up in this case, that he used the words "almost certainly". Maybe a deeper look at his works can explain his conviction.
China was involved in regional conflicts like helping north korea in the korean war, one of the bloodiest wars in recent history. They were also helping the communist party in Vietnam both against the French and the US.
I agree. I don't see too many post with this problem.

@OP: Do you have a few recent examples?
If I hold the shutter down and flick the power switch on, it immediately takes a picture, if I flick back and forth it keeps taking pictures. There seems to be something like a 0.2 s delay between the click of the power switch and the clack of the shutter. That's more than the normal shutter lag (around ~50 ms for most DSLRs), but not much. If I do it two-handed I get around 2 fps out of the camera.

The Z6 mirrorless which I also have is noticeably slower. I'd say around ~1.5 seconds from the power switch to the shutter. From the noises it makes I'm guessing it is doing something with the IBIS in that extra time, which the DSLR does not have.

Power-up (remove battery, move power switch to "on" position, insert battery, observe time until meter (DSLR) or EVF (mirrorless) turns on) takes both of these around 1.5-2 seconds.

Edit: Old film Nikons also had pretty clever "power management". For example, on the Nikon FE the meter circuit is switched on and off automatically with the advance lever: If the advance lever is flush with the body, the cameras is off and the shutter is locked. Moving it to the shooting position (where it sticks about a centimeter out) the meter is powered and the shutter is unlocked. Even while advancing the film the meter is powered off. Very clever. Batteries last forever in it.
That is exactly what they should do, but the fact that a majority of voting shares are held by 2 managers makes the company have a huge conflict of interest that favors growing more and more rather than pulling cash out.
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I went to Japan in the 90s. The amount of leftover Nazi symbols (carved everywhere, marked on city maps where old depots were, etc) and casual use of Nazi references in literature was shocking.
What I would like to add is: bluetooth support and sound stuff. It feels like it's still an afterthought in the community and is still flaky at best.

I think the main problem with linux on desktops shows quite perfectly in this thread. Good UX? Nah, why would we? Invest your own time, fiddle around until you settle on a mediocre and cumbersome solution.

I've been using Arch for over 13 years now and over 10 years of MacBooks with a short break. It feels like the problems are still the same. Though the X auto configuration got way better.

I love (especially) Arch though, but not the experience of using it on a day-to-day basis. I always miss pacman on macs, but I miss the UX on arch.
I like this app, but you really need to be able to play/pause from any of the tabs. If you're all the way over on the end it can take several seconds to get back to a screen with media controls. This becomes a problem if you need to quickly pause, such as when someone walks up and begins talking to you.

Overall I really love the power user features but the UI on foobar2000 is much better. Only having two tabs and always knowing how many presses of the Back button it takes to close the app is good. Having Artist/Title/Folder/Playlist/etc be buttons on one screen is faster than scrolling through separate tabs for each.
You mean it shuffled money around from the federal budget into the pockets of American companies. The money does stay in the US for the most part (well, and even that which they sent in containers probably didn't disappear into Iraqi pockets).
Author here.
I created Breathly a couple of years ago, mostly as an exercise while also trying to ship something useful.
It's a minimalistic free and open-source app for daily relaxation and breath training.

There are no ads, no in-app purchases, and no trackers in Breathly.

Breathly is available in the Google Play Store and in the Apple App Store:

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mmazzarolo...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/breathly/id1454852966

F-Droid (Android): https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.mmazzarolo.breathly/

Breathly is an open-source app built with React-Native. You can find its source code on GitHub (https://github.com/mmazzarolo/breathly-app).

Feedback is welcomed!
Well, it's a long and difficult discussion with cons and pros for both sides. I think it does say a lot that women who choose not to have children risk getting harassed, ridiculed, ostracised etc. I read some days ago that more and more women publicly acknowledge that they regret having children (super taboo) which is a healthy sign IMO (though maybe not so for the children).

I know you aren't totally serious on the eating dogfood but if we only followed our wants and needs we would all be like in the Disney movie Wall-e, stuffing our face and masturbating all the time. Learning not to be a slave to one's needs ("needs") is healthy. I don't see how this is different with children. We have humans enough and definitely enough children who needs a home. Maybe a simulated child will be a thing in the future.
Exactly, training the employee going under a bus scenario.
My disabled aunt went regularly to Lourdes in France for some hopeful cure.

Once, at the moment to leave to the train station, the cat was nowhere to be found.
Heartbroken she left her there, and took the train.

9 months later a dirty and skinny white cat stood in front of her door in the very north of France.
The cat crossed the whole country!
AP Says It Experienced Unprecedented Cyber “Attacks” During 2020 Election
Cortana is basically dead. Microsoft has finally acknowledged her unpopularity. You can disable it easily in Windows. I went over my privacy settings with a fine-toothed comb. Haven't seen an ad or Candy Crush since the first few minutes of a new install. Uninstalled OneDrive since I don't use it and it's one of the bigger offenders for unwanted advertising.

Many, if not most, of Windows annoyances can be blocked without 3rd party software. It follows the usual Windows tradition of first look for a well hidden setting in Control Panel / Settings. If it's not there, look in Group Policy. And as a last resort, there's always a registry edit that can be done.

Telemetry is one of the annoyances which is trickier. I've seen methods which can be used without 3rd party software, but I personally just gave up since the most basic level doesn't send much data. And I use a Start Menu replacement since there's no other way of getting the old Start back.
As far as I'm aware you're right about the geolocation devices. This is a great podcast about a guy working on Project ICARUS, where they're working on tracking thousands and thousands of animals with small geolocation devices so we have much better data to work from - https://www.bigbiology.org/season-2#episode43. From what I recall the idea of tracking butterflies was something they were working on but hadn't cracked yet. I think it was towards the end of the podcast, but I'd recommend the whole thing.
If the argument is, opposing trade-embargo with china means also opposing trade embargo with nazis - then I think it is valid to point out the historic faults with that argument.
I think it could be solved by requiring maintainers to kick off the CI job for every PR coming from a first-time contributor manually. I would not be annoyed by this provided that regular contributors don’t have to go through this. I think GH can further reduce the impact of this by not applying the limitation to first-time contributors who have lots of followers, forks, PR reviews, commits in the last year.

Also, edits to the CI script could be made suspect. I never had a first-time contributor on my projects start by making changes to the CI pipeline.

I am pretty sure smart folks at GH thought of this and just deliberating whether to introduce such a breaking flow to maintainers.
Very similar story here. I was in undergrad back then and worked in a part-time job with the high energy physics dept (we built front-end detector electronics for particle detectors at CERN, Fermilan, SNO, etc).

One of the guys on our team had great relations with the major electronics distributors and always had well stocked lab. One day, mid 90’s, we saw he got a sample of few of these brand new Blue LED’s.

My coworker and I snuck into his lab after he left and wired one of them up.

It’s hard to describe what it was like to see this bright deep blue compared to only the red, yellow, and green LED’s that existed until that point. It was so cool to look at.
> Does that mean that, because it's so fast and low-effort, you use it as a complete replacement of a native app you'd use otherwise?

In my case, yes. It’s the only way I ever look at images, and I often use it to have a quick look at scripts or text/data files (try it on a CSV and it’ll show as a table!). It’s also convenient for design files, whose apps are incredibly slow to launch. With Alfred[1] you can even preview URLs directly.

Finally, QuickLook shines when you have file formats for which you don’t have an editor (e.g. you may need to view a Photoshop or Word document once in a while). It allows you to view them faster than in the editing application, for free, without having to install or configure anything.

Unlike the swath of people who are singing praises to Preview, I rarely touch it and mostly resort to QuickLook, even for PDFs.

> And then just for files you're just consuming, or does it also work for editing?

It works (at least) to edit images like Preview (annotate, rotate, crop).

[1]: https://www.alfredapp.com
I do love Forth for the building a dictionary by solving the small problems building a vocabulary to solve the whole problem. The bottom up building of capability is amazing to get over the feeling of being overwhelmed by the problem.
When I lived in an apartment in New York City, I had an indoor cat. One day I was talking to my neighbor with the door open and the cat peeked her head out, sniffing around. She was a stereotypical fraidy cat, always scared of everything, so when she walked out the door, I knew she wouldn't go far, especially when she walked up the stairs outside my apartment. I few minutes later I hear her meowing like crazy. I went up a flight of stairs to find her standing in front of the same exact door as mine, one flight up, meowing to get in.
At a past job we used LEDs for lighting for machine vision and that's precisely what we did to make them more diffuse.
I always thought that foreign languages are like programming languages- you don’t really know what you don’t know until you do formal study.

People that aren’t classically trained in either are usually easy to identify by those that are.
https://chia.net also does this. I guess the guy that designed bittorrent also designed this one.
Thing is crypto already has huge negative impacts and I'm yet to see any utility that would even remotely compare. It seems like the ultimate buble hype market for people to speculate on and sell bullshit stories.

I have seen no proof that it solves anything the proponents have been touting for 5+ years now - just examples of increases in negative externalities.

Using money online has an obvious utility.
oh no, we want this value to be parsed as a string, so we need to put quotes around it. the humanity!
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Borrowing is subject to supply and demand. If people are buying substitutes for dollar-denominated debt, they're not buying dollar-denominated debt, or they're buying less of it. The price paid for the bond goes down, so the rate goes up.

Yes, there's a Federal Reserve too, and they can bid up the price of bonds and buy as many as they want, but it's functionally equivalent to printing money, so it becomes a question of how badly they overshoot their inflation target, and that influences demand as well.
Ethereum is working to address a lot of those points. When it switches to Proof of Stake (beacon chain is already live), energy costs will drop significantly (talking < 100 watts / node)... Just doing minimum to process blocks, no wasteful mining.

That means network has to pay less in block reward under PoS, so inflation drops to 1% or less.

Eip-1559 upgrade this summer will also start "burning" a portion of fees. Estimates have this around 0.5% - 1.5% deflation.

Combine those features together, and Ethereum should have long term issuance at around 0% indefinitely, while still paying for validators to secure it.

It's a feedback mechanism too... If usage goes down, burn drops, supply inflates slightly, stimulating use, increasing burn again.

The idea is to make an elastic self-securing system.

I don't understand where the pyramid scheme is in that... The money being paid out to validators will by nature barely cover costs (otherwise more people will validate, reducing margins to match). Since anyone can join, and the network punishes correlated misbehavior, that incentivizes decentralization and wide disbursement of block rewards.

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In the case of topic here, spare CPU cycles will no longer be valuable to exploit under PoS. The valuble qualities will be availability and uptime... Which won't be had by exploring in-broswer mining scripts, or CI exploits.
To be honest I find it amazing people are still questioning the growth of China and its capability of innovation. For all the years I have been following China, it has always been the same: China's economic numbers are exaggerated, just about to collapse, yeah sure they can make that gadget but can they make this gadget?

Why is that? I think it says more about us in the west.
The article seems to boils down to: a lot of proprietary software I like on the Mac doesn’t exist on Linux
TextEdit is a wealth of problems it seems.
Maybe he lied on the vaccination
They are not guaranteed if they land on a weekend, you just have a normal weekend where you cannot shop :)
Plastics and possibly endocrine disruptors in pesticides.
No, they are describing a lens that can change the effective focus for different regions of the image, so that you can get multiple parts in focus at the same time.
There are no light field tricks here.
Always thought that camera lenses the way they are, are the already obsolete technology. I mean we can fit billions of transistors on a fingernail, but we need this mechanical contraption to zoom things? I think this invention is still not it, but I am glad the tech in that space is finally going somewhere. Don't get me wrong, I love lenses but it feels like using something from a last century, even though it was just made.
Yeah I found out you can combine two videos in QuickTime by dragging one into the other. Amazing but I had to Google it
Agreed, KDE is great. The default theme is somewhat disappointing but once configured, it beats OSX and Windows hands down. It's extremely configurable.

I also wouldn't mind Ubuntu/Gnome but I encountered some touchpad issues with my new HP laptop and I didn't want to fiddle too much with the Ubuntu drivers and internals. Kubuntu was just more configurable including the touchpad driver.
I think it is so much better because it's not just teaching a language but a philosophy of programming.
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Discuss medications with your doctor. If an over-the-counter medication doesn't do the trick, a prescription one might. Use store-bought and prescription medication as directed. Straying from the instructions could cause more harm than good. At the very least, it will be ineffective, resulting in a waste of both effort and money.

When you have eczema, some of the worst symptoms are itchy, dry skin. If you want to stay away from itching and dryness, you should apply some moisturizers. Moisturizers don't actually add hydration to skin. A good moisturizer that is applied on a regular basis will lock in moisture and natural body oils. When used, moisturizers will help prevent dry, cracked skin.
Looks like a CLI version of Workflowy (https://workflowy.com) to me.
I’m curious what you mean by this:

> For instance, it's easier to automate tasks with shell scripts in Linux than to attempt the same with osascript.

macOS is a Unix, so you can obviously automate it via shell scripts. `osascript` is just an additional option?
What do think of implicit member access (C++, Java, C#) vs explicit (python, javascript)? Is there a concrete argument one way or the other?

I feel like I prefer explicit

self.member = value
this.member = value

vs implicit

member = value

But clearly C++/Java/C# people are happy with implicit ... though many of them try to make it explicit by using a naming convention.
Ever heard of hypertension ? Its also a cause of stroke.

Hypertension is worse than hypotension.
I think I also remember something like that. It might have been an interface between silicon oil and a saline solution that was deformed by applying an electric field.
This is a good article. Enjoyed it. It makes me think that maybe the nanotechnology promises of the 90's will really happen. At least the microscopic bots fixing illness part.
"""He had received Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against the coronavirus early this year."""

Hmmmm
As soon as China or potentially the EU says "I don't care if we run a trade deficit." the dollar's hegemony will go away.

Or alternatively it'll go away when people in the US decide they'd be happier with Yuan or Euros in their pocket then stuff in their house.

I have no clue when either of those situations will arise though.
Thanks for the additional information.
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> "which is literally the Luddite stance."

"The Luddites were an early 19th century radical group which destroyed textile machinery as a form of protest. The group was protesting against the use of machinery in a "fraudulent and deceitful manner" to get around standard labour practices."

That's not "because they thought textile machinery was too dangerous to keep around" or "because they hate technology".
Do miners heavily rely on crush instructions? Then it could perhaps be possible to reduce the performance of these instructions 100-fold, making mining useless but other code still run.
This shouldn't be unexpected. Vaccines don't provide 100% protection, so the only potentially notable thing here is just that it's the president of Argentina. Speculation about the effectiveness of the Russian vaccine based on this is pointless because it's a sample size of 1.