skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That’s a fair point. I forgot about the various errors packages in Go. I’ve been writing more Rust lately.
You forgot to mention transfer costs. It is only free within Amazon's VPC. You even pay for transfer between AWS regions (and transfer to CloudFront).
Red and blue functions are a good thing
By avoiding effect aware functions a language hobbles engineers and makes programs sloppier than they could be.
I read "Harriet the Spy" as a child, then re-read it 2 years ago to my own kids, and I couldn't shake the thought, as I read it, that this was a portrait of a girl with autism before autism was really understood, or at least widely known as a diagnosis.

Here is a blog post by an autistic woman that goes into detail about why Harriet is pretty clearly on the autism spectrum:

https://cllynch.com/harriet-the-spy-is-autistic/

To be honest, this realization made it harder for me to enjoy the book as an adult, because it's hard to watch her life spiral out of control, knowing that if the people around her better understood autism, some of that pain might have been avoided.
I'm aware that there is not strong evidence of a global deterrent effect. However, if we are looking to offset something like 1 death every four years, the magnitude of a countervailing effect could be small enough to be lost in the 'noise' of the existing research studies, but still be larger than the .25 annual deaths that it's being measured against.

I would also point out that looking at state-level differences in death penalty policies isn't as likely to pick up changes in attitudes among criminals. If the federal government outlawed the death penalty, there would be much broader awareness of the change (and therefore more likelihood of a change in criminal behavior).
*github, not google my bad
Is the OP's install missing a bunch of MIME entries or something? I can't reproduce the examples given for xdg-mime on Fedora 34, e.g.

$ xdg-mime query filetype file.docx
application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.wordprocessingml.document
$ xdg-mime query filetype file.xls
application/vnd.ms-excel
Instructions haven't kept up w/ washing machines and detergents.

> "Front-loaders and high-efficiency top-loaders run normal cycles 10 percent cooler than agitator washers, and the 'warm' wash temperature in the U.S. has declined by 15 degrees over the past 15 years," says Tracey Long, communications manager for P&G's fabric care products in North America. “Traditional detergent enzymes can be sluggish in cold water so we worked to create a mix of surfactants and enzymes that deliver cleaning performance in cold water across all product lines," says Long.

> Consumer Reports’ past tests found detergents have gotten much better at putting enzymes to work in removing dirt and stains at lower water temperatures, and are less effective at higher temperatures.

Source: Consumer Reports, "Don't Bother Using Hot Water to Wash Your Laundry: Consumer Reports' experts say cold water can get the job done", https://www.consumerreports.org/washing-machines/dont-bother...

If you want to sanitize anything, just use some bleach. It's harsh on fabric, but so is hot water, and the bleach will do a much better job. (FYI, I don't have any whites at all.)
Not relevant? Do you somehow imagine that how things were done in the past doesn't affect "how they're structured and operate today"?
You can have structure without centralization - see for example federated systems like email. However, the lack of a centralized authority comes with its own issues - see for example federated systems like email.
Show HN: Detective Ninja: make a simple webpage with your kid
Mako Hill covered this in his essay entitled "Free Software needs Free Tools":

https://mako.cc/writing/hill-free_tools.html
even 14k feet feels seriously noticeable and unsettling.
Now we have a legitimate use case for the Y combinator.

What's next? A full implementation of scheme? Common lisp?
Storj DCS–Decentralized Cloud Storage for Developers
Neat looking, but I've already been playing this "game" IRL for the past couple of decades; I really don't feel like grinding all over again from scratch.
Because normal mobile plans are usually billed after services are rendered, they will send you to collections if you stop paying, whatever the reason.

So doing this neatly will require a little more work than just voiding the card on file.
AirStrike – crack WPA-2 handshakes with distributed client-server architecture
Nothing is forever, but Google Fi has been available for 6 years now.
There's OpenSimplex by Kurt Spencer. I made a port of his original java implementation to C a few years ago.

https://github.com/smcameron/open-simplex-noise-in-c

Edit:

Here's the original: https://github.com/KdotJPG/OpenSimplex2
People dread Haskell because Hello World uses monads.
Yeah, and that damn visa application process! Always getting in the way of crossing the border.
I honestly don't see a problem with using file extensions to detect file type. Windows gets a lot of shit from Linux users for this but I don't know why.
It may be worth noting that in most countries a contract essentially is established by the consensus of wills by the parties involved. An error in objecto ("I didn't mean the thing I accidentally said or listed") is a legitimate excuse and nullifies a contract. (The consensus didn't exist and thus the contract had never been established in the first place).

(This is also a reason why marketplaces, where things "just happen", are, let's say, complicated, as they do not adhere to this legal tradition.)
Might be possible to destroy the beeper.
Let me know if I can help with anything - there's a parts list on the blog post. The easiest way to do it is just to tape a camera onto a piece of wood or the side of a plastic container. From there you can get more creative with wood and other tools, but you may need to do that part.
Interlock (Engineering)
Covid-19: Delhi hospitals run out of oxygen supplies
As someone who grew up in Toronto, moved to Ottawa for University, and returned to the GTA for work, the thing that makes Toronto (especially the neighbourhood where I grew up) feel like home is a combination of deep familiarity with the city, a diverse set of memories of happy times untainted by adversary danger that are geographically rooted here, a strong sense of familiarity with assistive services, and (at least memories of) a strong social network.

In my case, being engaged with church was probably the most successful driver of these things. I'm in a very different place in terms of metaphysical beliefs now than I was growing up, but I can't deny the strong network effects of regularly meeting with a group of people that seek ostensibly compatible goals of self-improvement through empathy, service, and self-congratulation.
Oh definitely -- I'm not detecting cynicism in you and maybe it's the wrong choice of word. I'm more feeling a sense of disappointment in what you're saying being true. It's tragic, in truth.
We're downvoting you, not because it "hits too close to home", but because we think you're full of baloney. Don't take the downvotes as confirmation that you're right, because they're not.
Fedora 34 is as bleeding edge desktop as it can be.

Maybe you have more recent xdg-utils version?

I run 1.1.3 here.
> you are extremely wrong

Can you point to evidence suggesting this? Not trying to be adversarial, just genuinely curious since almost everyone in this thread is just exchanging anecdata.
I think the problem is that the Canadian wireless market is so messed up. While there are nominally more than two competitors, given that Bell and Telus share a network it's really just two providers. Plus, countries that have large rural areas to cover tend to have higher wireless prices in general.

It's hard for someone like Google to offer the same pricing for Canadian service given the poor market conditions there.
I used Verizon Prepaid for a while, but ended up getting annoyed at the lower prioritization. Even in a somewhat busy shopping area my data would barely function, let alone any sort of large event. If Visible is anything like that, I wouldn’t probably recommend it. I ended up joining a friend’s Verizon postpaid family. It’s more expensive, but I’m willing to pay it for reliable service.

I’m not sure I’ve ever used 22GB in a month, but throttling to 256k is awful.
Yes, for example this week I had to uncover a bug why a backend was occasionally delivering duplicated database rows to a frontend, in code I hadn't written. I couldn't replicate the problem in test, or in dev, it was only in prod and stage (because the data in stage and prod was the right shape to trigger a UB wontfix in the postgres query optimizer).

Rust would not be friendly towards producing a RCA on this issue.
> Pretty much any federal agency you have heard of has an investigative dept that employs federal special agents. These are law enforcement roles with the same training, authority, and responsibilities as investigative agents in the FBI, etc.

Maybe worth noting that USPIS is older than the FBI. It's the oldest federal law enforcement agency.
Am I the only one who read the title and was immediately reminded of http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/?

(Is the title a deliberate call to that site, or something even older?)
Whether you use babel or not is irrelevant: you'll be running it at the end of your build chain, while writing modern JS.

But yeah, I absolutely push modern JS out to prod, because our demongraphic is very much nowhere near 2.5% - our actual number for IE users is 0.4%, for all versions of IE combined (just IE11 would be 0.2%). Even Samsung's browser ("Samsung has a browser?") drives four times as much traffic as all version of IE combined.

IE use has properly died down ever since Microsoft themselves started making sure folks weren't using it anymore. And they really don't want you to use internet explorer: Windows hasn't had IE set as default browser for years now. It comes bundled with Windows 10, sure, and IE11's EOL is contractually tied to the Windows 10 EOL, sure, but Microsoft is working damn hard to make sure you're on Edge instead.

If you have to support IE, because you have a target demographic that for whatever reason is forced into IE use, then sure: roll whatever code you need. But if you're developing for the current web landscape: no, IE is not your concern anymore.
"When our Corps goes in as guards over the mail, that mail must be delivered," wrote Secretary of the Navy Edwin Denby. "Or there must be a Marine dead at the post of duty. There can be no compromise."

https://www.military.com/off-duty/2020/08/25/intense-rules-u...

The mail is serious business.
It seems like the court basically enslaved him.
What Do You Call a Bunch of Black Holes: A Crush? A Scream?
At the relatively low heights ingenuity is flying at, a single point LIDAR rangefinder aimed straight down would also be well suited to maintaining a certain altitude.
If I understood that correctly, "chose to remain" because if he didn't, he would lose his claim for wages for the time he was stuck on the ship. That's a fair amount of money.
Egypt is about to be dried out. Ethopia is building a dam on the Blue Nile and will have the ability to fully control how much water reaches Egypt.

It seems that the lack of compassion that Egypt has for its neighbors will be repaid in kind.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Ethiopian_Renaissance_Da...
What is this registry?
Turns out, cloth masks are barely effective (2% reduction in case growth after 100 days!). They should have kept their original stance.

https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/70/wr/mm7010e3.htm
I'm not surprised they have inspectors. I'm surprised they think that social media surveillance is within their purview.

I hope their inspectors continue to investigate mail theft, mail fraud, and other things related to the physical delivery of mail. But I don't want them shifting into digital snooping that is totally unrelated to mail.
Thank you for pointing this out- as individual stories our experiences are anecdotal but combined they paint a different picture. I was hesitant at first when I ordered mine and expected to have problems as others did.

I should also point out that I use an XPS 9570.
That's a great whataboutism.

None of your points are wrong, none of your conclusions are wrong, yet your comment still derails and detracts from GP's well stated point. Don't do this.
You're right in that home is also a question of identity and belonging. It's just that while I would say that I am fairly well adjusted to Toronto (heck I started playing hockey on a frozen pond this past winter), there's always going to be this "vacuum" of sorts (just from the virtue of not having had any roots here whatsoever) that keeps me from feeling like I can say I am from here. Its a question of making peace with it, is all :)
I am very reluctant talk to strangers (not afraid, just fell awkward and that I am interrupting). I've admired people who can just comfortably pull that off.

Luckily for my kid he naturally has this ability and enjoys it. Dunno how!
What is M?
The common parent is "Lambda: The Ultimate Imperative" (1976) https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/5790/AIM-353....
Student Sues Proctorio for Using DMCA Takedowns to Remove Critical Tweets
Wow, that recursive example is a nightmare. I can't imagine being the person that's asked to debug what's going wrong here a few years down the line.
When this kind of force is only deployed against a specific political demographic, yes it's a bad thing. BLM protestors get shock troops, tear gas, black vans and drones, while pro-Trump insurgents get treated like gentlemen, and get to take selfies with the police who should be arresting them.

It's pretty clear this was more about intimidation than law enforcement.
I believe you design special fuses on the chip that can be "blown" with a laser after testing and before putting the silicon in the protective packaging.
Well, he said to "not be too eager". I don't believe there were many instances of Gandalf and the crew chosing to seek out death in bloodlust? I guess it's all subjective, since you could argue they could have gone more out of their way to avoid more deaths.

That said, I don't believe Tolkien was ever totally comfortable with his treatment of orcs, he just never reconciled his morals and personal narratives with his desire to tell faerie tales and myths, where "evil goblins" are just part of the landscape. No sources for that, though, I just recall reading it somewhere, perhaps in his son's writings...
M is the language of Power Query.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/powerquery-m/
I think Google Fi will stick around because it really doesn't sound that good. I don't mean that it sounds bad or anything. It's just that a 22GB plan for $30/mo on a family plan isn't a deal. I can get $25 from Visible/Verizon and it's actually unlimited. I can get $30 (or $26 for 4 lines) from T-Mobile with 50GB of premium data and then unlimited deprioritized data rather than 256kbps throttled data.

I can see it lasting simply because they are charging a lot of money for it.
It can pause and ask you to temporarily attach another hard disk. Could be infinite as long as one can afford buying disks.
p needs to be prime because...?
> you state that you still require evidence to "believe or even seriously consider" my hypothetical scenario. why is that the case? again, do you think it's more likely that everyone at every hospital in the US acted 100% honestly & altruistically in this regard? when it comes to the individual, it's "innocent until proven guilty," of course. but when looking at large numbers of unconnected individuals making discrete decisions, from positions of power, with billions of dollars on the line... why do you assume "uncorrupt until proven corrupt?"

Again, I never claimed that there has been zero corruption, that is your strawman. What requires evidence is that corruption is the reason for large numbers of reported covid deaths, in the face of the obvious alternative explanation, which is that it's substantially more contagious and more deadly than the flu.

If I started from the assumption that if someone has a motive to do something nefarious then they probably did it, and then had to work to disprove it, that would be corrosive to all human relations. How could you even function in society under that worldview?
I have a 3 year old that loves talking to strangers. She misses people so much, and I'm really worried about how the quarantine is affecting her.
I think this is probably selection effects rather than language features. Easier languages disproportionately attract weaker programmers.
Confluent Announces Confidential Submission of Draft for Proposed IPO
Types and creator codes were stored in the file system, not in resource forks.

What was stored in a resource fork (of each application) was the declaration “I am [four byte creator code]; I can open these [four byte file types]. That’s the information that the Finder built its databases from (https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&stor...)

That easily could have been moved into the file proper (as AppleSingle (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleSingle_and_AppleDouble_fo...) did, but another (and IMO better for this purpose) option would have been to move that info into a special code segment in the data fork (in Unix parlor; old-style Mac OS programs stored their code in code segments in the resource fork)

Also, I think Mac OS still uses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uniform_Type_Identifier, which are an improvement over file types and creator codes (you can, for example, express the fact that every html file is a text file with it)
Most organizations I have seen already only have a couple people who can actually make and edit the advanced sheets used by the org and lots of people who use those sheets with a very, very rudimentary knowledge of Excel to generally get their jobs done.

I don't really see the addition of new advanced functionality changing that paradigm.
"snapstore was a minimalist example of a "store" for snaps, but is not compatible with the current snapd implementation. As a result I have removed the contents here to avoid further confusion."
People forget that spying on citizens by the post office goes back hundreds of years. This doesn't make it in any way acceptable, but people shouldn't act surprised that post offices spy on citizens when it's an activity that's baked into the service from the very early days.

https://pasttenseblog.wordpress.com/2019/09/03/today-in-lond...

> The Post office was of central importance to this surveillance. The ‘Secret Office’ – an arm of what was basically a secret service, dedicated to opening post to discover plots against the government – was formed around 1653 under Cromwell’s post-Civil War republican Protectorate; but it proved so handy, the Office was continued after the restoration of the monarchy.

[...]

> Morland also recorded what he saw as the basic function of his devices and of surveillance in general: “a skilful prince ought to make a watch tower of his general post office… and there place such careful sentinels as that, by their care and diligence, he may have a constant view of all that passes.”

Samuel Morland was interesting and has some early computing devices.

https://history-computer.com/samuel-morland/

https://history-computer.com/samuel-morland-biography-histor...

https://www.headstuff.org/culture/history/terrible-people-fr...

One of the links talks about letters sealed in the Spanish manner.

https://regencyredingote.wordpress.com/2012/11/16/sealing-wa...

> It was then that the superior qualities of the new "Spanish" wax came to be highly valued. The basic formula of this new sealing compound was a blend of shellac, mastic, turpentine, chalk or gypsum, and a coloring agent, to which essential oils and/or fragrant balsams might be added to facilitate melting and impart a pleasant fragrance. This "sealing wax" could be melted to a thick viscous fluid which would readily and firmly adhere to the parchment or paper on which it was placed. While warm, it would take a clear impression of any seal that was pressed in to it. It would remain solid, even in the heat of summer, and was flexible enough to remain intact while affixed to the document on which it had been placed. However, it was extremely difficult to remove a seal made of this material and replace it after the contents of the sealed document had been read. This compound was more brittle than beeswax so it could be easily broken, thus providing clear evidence of tampering. Even if the seal could be removed unbroken, any attempt to re-affix a seal was nearly impossible, since, with such a low melting point, the image which had been impressed into it would loose its crispness, if not melt completely, if additional hot wax was used to re-attach it, yet another sign of tampering.
Egypt definitely has fault here, but the company that owns the ship could have gotten the ship out of there if they cared about him at all. Yes, it might have been expensive, but I would expect a US based company to have rescued him within weeks of this situation starting, not years.
Perhaps it is a hack to route around federal laws - the USPS could have exceptions (or grandfathered laws) that give it more leeway than other departments?
It wasn't meant to be snarky, though I can see how it could be seen that way. I still can't find any data to back up your claim though so yet again I ask that you share it instead of just claiming that is how it is.
Before parenting I taught math and science for nearly a decade. The two role-models among many I find inspiring are Ray Bradbury and Octavia Butler, two authors from the USA who credit public libraries for a significant portion of their education. Tax-supported public libraries continue to be a valuable resource in my life, including professional development. So many other people that I’ll never meet or be otherwise directly influenced by also benefit from public libraries, and speaking out about it aligns with the efforts of these two writers.

Most teachers I know have people they look up to and from whom they find humility and inspiration.
Once I told my friend ja.red was available for $9, and after he bought it they told him it was a mistake and reversed the transaction.
Do people really know all this stuff or do they know like 25% of it and get lucky where the interviewer ask the 25% they know?
I have been doing data work for 3 years and software for 3 years before that and I only know less then 25% of this. I have probably learned less the 10% of this on the job.
Even if salmon wasn't traditionally consumed in sushi by the Japanese, wouldn't the later reversal indicate that, even in Japan, there is such a thing as sushi-grade salmon?
Platforms Like Canvas Play Fast and Loose with Students’ Data
I think ICANN?
Trade isn’t zero sum.
I tend to find the overuse of the word hero bothers me, but I don’t know what other word would describe people like this.
The "data slower" is 256kbps: https://support.google.com/fi/answer/9462101?hl=en. It's not just "slower" like going from 50Mbps to 10Mbps because you're a lower priority. It's like going back in time 10-15 years.
https://archive.is/hEoUL
Do others also find it strange that the postal service has their own police force?
If I turn the corner on my mail route and see an angry mob down the block, I turn around? It's not like people don't have eyes anymore.
GPT-3 is not even close to a minimal and coherent text adventure made with Inform6 from a novice, even if it's written by a non-native English speaker.

Those networks didn't match "Detective", a crappy story written by a 12yo.
If you look at the die shots (wafer shots?), you'll notice small holes a few millimeters across spaced roughly at reticle spacing. Those are drilled holes to allow through-wafer liquid cooling. With liquid cooling not just around but through the wafer, the temperature differential is minimized.