skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if this will prompt the USA to import more products from El Salvador to reduce the size of the remittances sector and thereby lessen the reason people use Bitcoin in the first place.

Before anyone tells the Salvadorians to export more products... they do... and they do it by working in a country that exports to El Salvador.
They did promise that, though. One lie leads to infinite more.
> Who's going to police the feature branches to ensure the merges are cleaned up and rebased prior to merge to main?

Do what you like in your own branch. Nobody cares.

In the case of a high quality maintained project, such as the Linux kernel, it's when you propose to merge something that it gets policed. The reviewers and maintainers won't let in any PR that doesn't meet quality standards; for large PRs that means a sequence of high quality commits.

> Of course, my repos use squash merge, so I'd never get that complaint.

If you're saying you squash merge into your own repo prior to submitting the merged result as a PR to a repo maintained by others, that works. That _is_ a form of cleaning up prior to upstream merge. As long as it passes review upstream that's fine, even with the Linux kernel.

If you are squash merging into your own repo and there's no upstream, you're obviously free to run your project however you like.

Squash merges make sense when the merged PR is full of junk that should be deleted, as you described.

But in that case, if you have reviewers in the loop, I would argue you are proposing junk for them to review which you will delete afterwards, and that encourages lower quality, more superficial reviews. Why not just squash it down before the pre-merge review instead, if that's what you're proposing to merge anyway?

In a high quality, heavily reviewed project like Linux kernel, a PR has carefully curated commits to assist the review, show each step makes sense, and allow cherry-picking, bisecting and reversion later. That's more useful to the project. It'd be a waste to throw that knowledge away with a squash merge as soon as the reviewers have gone through it.
Take it as concrete examples if you want, but the sentence was meant to demonstrate the scale of things and how they might impact governmental decisions, which gives heavy weight to a lot of things, but not as much as you might expect to human rights issues and national values.
Internet backbone
Jovial, ESPOL/NEWP, PL/I, PL/S, BLISS and a couple of others did exist and were in active use outside Bell Labs.

Even Multics actual history was only a failure from Bell Labs perspective, as they went on and were even considered more secure in a DoD security assessment.

Even IBM did all their RISC research in PL.8, before deciding to create what would be AIX, as by then it was all about UNIX workstation market.

Had AT&T been allowed to sell UNIX from day one at the same price as competing OSes, I bet C wouldn't be around.
I can't say I "love" it, however there is no viable alternative.
I think it's odd that you think it's odd that I have a strong opinion. Brexit is equivalent to MAGAtry in the US. A populist, nativist, authoritarian movement, favoring strongmen over institutions.

Are you sure it's not you who's in the dark about what Brexit represents, about how it fits among similar movements throughout history, and about what the ongoing list of catastrophic consequences will be, as itemized by a host of analysts, scientists, and economists? [1]

I think maybe you're trying to pin me as a political tribalist with your union question? I don't have a political tribe, and I don't care about unions. I believe in evidence-based policy, wherever that policy points, irrespective of surrounding political narratives. I believe in a rational-legal political model grounded in the veil of ignorance.

Can you tell me how authoritarianism relates to populism?

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predicted_impact_of_Brexit
Let's presume you're right and this is why the channel was legitimately deleted.

Was there a warning? Was there some communication with the owner saying "Hey, what you're doing violates or Ts&Cs"? It seems like if there was, the owner would be tweeting that he disagrees with the deletion rather that completely not understanding why it happened.

Putting more humans in the loop would be more expensive, but it would help end these puzzling situations where creators don't know why they've been told to stop creating.
If you might remember a somewhat recent controversy when they tried to remove race in the eGFR (kidney effectiveness, sorta) calculations. This was not done for performance reasons, or to find a better measure. The impetus was the idea that it was racist, never mind the performance or benefit to black patients.
I would go for 'tech-enabled' company. Simple as that.

Downvoters: So Nvidia, Intel, AMD, TSMC are not technology companies?
As a counterexample, the tech and design behind remote controls was, for a decade or more, abysmal.

I am willing to bet that this had zero impact on cable subscriptions.
I'm still investigating possible solutions.

I also want to do some routing on a gigabit link, so the RPI doesn't scratch that itch. I'm also not comfortable with the various horror stories I've heard about SD cards dying in Pis (although I've run one with home assistant for several years with no issues).

I'd also like to avoid running external drives, the goal being to have a self-contained unit. I'd rather have a larger unit instead of multiple small ones that require cabling (mostly for esthetic reasons) and various dongles.
You know what both Rushton and Jensen were incredibly controversial figures, right? Perhaps not on the same level as Lynn and Vanhanen, but close.
That's only one thing, overall there are way too much oil leaks and plastic in oceans, so it's silly to say things are better. Then there are things that are hidden like https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-environmental-disast...

and https://v.redd.it/ayd4itr1kqg71

Marine life halved in few decades
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/marine-wil...
The weird thing is- it could be a scam that is not actually a scam. If they have somehow acquired the legal right to use the author's name to release books, they don't need to swindle the ghost writers- they would probably be able to actually sell a decent number of books. The victim of the scam would be the author and her publishing company.
and WinUI apps are applications, and - as said - OOP is used by them, see e.g. the reference architecture guide
> IVM is as useful as eating dirt in relation to COVID, until proven otherwise with studies

Um. No. IVM is useful or not useful regardless of whether studies have been done.

Studies are useful for finding out whether it is useful, but they do not affect the result.

If people take it now and then it turns out it's a miracle cure that halts ageing the people taking it now will have benefited. If instead it actually causes incurable cancer in five years the people taking it now are in the shitter. These things are true or false regardless of whether we know them and regardless of whether we got that knowledge from formal studies.
There are multiple OTT content providers in India, many with "popular" content, but their tech is bad ( to be accurate), so is the experience of watching shows on them.

Look at it from that lens, and Netflix is a tech company.
Responding to the question "what are the long-lived, stable democracies?" by giving an answer that has "pauses for getting raided and split up and ruled by our strong neighbors" misses the point of the question. Also, your Wikipedia cite has this gem:

> Particularly in the late 17th and 18th centuries, the political instability from the elections led numerous political writers to suggest major changes to the system

That doesn't sound very stable?
I was thinking the same, but you said it better.

How many "non-tech companies" are non-tech companies simply because they're too disfunctional to use technology effectively? Think of your bank with its shitty password rules, only offering 2FA using SMS, and no useful APIs; that's a non-tech company. They either aren't aware of their lackluster technology, or are unable to organize themselves well enough to improve it.
A history of MI was more frequent among recent cannabis users (n = 61 of 4610, 1.3%) relative to nonusers (n = 240 of 28 563 [0.8%], adjusted odds ratio [OR] 2.07, 95% CI 1.12–3.82).

One point three percent. Someone tell Willy Nelson before its too late.
Also, prior to BFS, in the earlier beta builds of BeOS, the file system was much more database like, but it ended up having performance issues (IIRC), so in a later version, they replaced it with BFS.
> The general argument of the Bell Curve, that people from different parts of the world have wildly different distributions on many different attributes, is (or ought to be) completely non-controversial

It is.

None of the controversy over the book is about that orbital-level view.
It is a technical term. See former article 603 cp (italian penal code).
Tripwire boss steps down over support for Texas abortion law
Both of them are tech companies. One in battery and AI/ML self driving software, the other in supply chain management.
Laptops are definitely trending in the same direction as smart phones, I will not contest that. However my main point is that it's all much more standardized. Booting the system to the point you can prompt the user to connect to the internet and download more drivers is much easier on x86.

Qualcomm having "stable" bindings is a choice they've made. There is nothing forcing them to do that. The point is that they could not do that, because they know all images built for their phones will be specialized.

Qualcomm may use PCIe for one off peripherals, but it is not the bus used for most peripherals.
Precisely. Also I think I'm being downvoted by people misinterpreting my use of "usually" as "in every single case without exception". But anecdotally, nearly every time I've seen the whataboutism response it has been in that context I described - someone trying to dismiss a legitimate criticism by deploying what they think is a sort of cheat code.
> I'd guess aluminum mirrors in space would stay reflective for many decades.

How long stuff lasts is an interesting point I has not considered. More UV, micro-meteors, even the question of what light pressure does to the orbits over a few years, given the large surface area to mass ratio. I don’t know how similar or different conditions are in the ISS orbit versus any other.

That aside, I think optical mirrors are going to be the least acceptable with regard to security/defence types, as that’s the easiest to be surreptitiously modified into a death ray, just because all the elements are physically smaller. With RF you can at least make it so any modifications are ridiculously obvious, even if you still have to care about malicious combination of multiple systems.

But on the Moon? Not only will we probably only need at most a handful, the fact that the Earth-Moon distance is much larger than most orbits considered for space-based solar power means even a maliciously retargeted combination of system would be much less of a threat.
Is that what’s happening? Because it seems like they’re still funding an awful lot of flops to find a couple of successes.
The happiness/income debunking here is flawed. The use of logarithm for the graph axis to give the perspective of a linear relationship is flawed - it's also responding to a mis-summary of the research.

Also note that the graph axis for income tops out at around.. about that 75k/year figure. Whoops.

It should also be noted that 75k figure is a median, it changes based on cost of living.
Awk is not really very good at reading complex CSVs (as defined in RFC-4180), where newlines (record separators) can appear within quoted strings. It can be done, but sometimes it's tricky.

The PHP fgetcsv function has been more convenient when I have had more exotic examples.

If the CSV is simple, awk remains a very good tool.
Kind of interesting to note how celebrities were routinely used to sell many brands of personal computers in the early 1980s, including Commodore (Vic 20). The ads for the 64 don't do that, which was almost unusual.

Anyone remember William Shatner selling Vic 20's?

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/593419688400760080/

- Bill Bixby sold Radio Shack computers.

- Bill Cosby sold TI computers.

- "Charlie Chaplin" sold IBM computers.

- Alan Alda sold Ataris.

Here's more:

https://www.pcmag.com/news/11-celebs-who-tried-to-sell-you-p...
Death count is relatively objective. There is some fudge factor for whether somebody died “from” COVID vs “with” COVID but other than that it’s cut and dry.

That is a big advantage over comparing case numbers, which depend heavily on testing, or long COVID which there’s not even a hard definition of.
Remember when WeWork (oops I mean just We) pretended to be a tech company instead of an office space leasing company?
I appreciate the study calls out that most cannabis is smoked, and it may be general smoke inhalation driving these results rather than an inherent property of cannabis
When smoking at least 4 times a month.
>>Money printing is a hidden tax that hits especially hard on those that don't have a lot of savings

Wouldn't inflation hurt people with a lot of cash savings, the most?

Also, Wouldn't people with a lot of debt welcome inflation. Don't poor people tend to have the most amount of debt relative to their networth?

Isn't their a student debt crisis, that can be helped out by inflation.

The only people I really see getting hurt by inflation are those hoarding cash, which there is a ton of ways to put that money to work. You can buy fractional stocks for less then a dollar.

I haven't ever heard anyone say cash is good store of value, so when coiners present this argument it feels like a real strawman.

The dollars value comes from its predictability, unless some catastrophe happen affecting food supply,I know next year food will be about the same as it is right now. I have no idea how much bitcoin it will cost could be 10x or could be 10%, this makes it hard to plan and hard to run an economy.
I wonder if and when this will be FIPS 140-2 compliant
> at least raspbian is very close to stock debian.

Debian supports the Raspberry Pi, best to avoid Raspbian.

https://raspi.debian.net/
> prompt the USA to import more products from El Salvador to reduce the size of the remittances sector and thereby lessen the reason people use Bitcoin

Who in America would benefit from fighting this? Crypto is a real industry. It’s more profitable for the financial sector than similar activity in U.S. dollars. And the Fed doesn’t thoroughly love that it has to take international factors into account when its political mandate is purely domestic.

There is the interventionist foreign policy elite, but they aren’t on strong footing right now. The claim that the U.S. is hellbent on preserving the primacy of the U.S. dollar is largely a myth.
I dont think governments work that way
I'll gladly take this risk considering cannabis preserves my sanity and keeps me away from the trough of sorrow.
>preliminary investigation

>local authority

>no clear evidence

This doesn't seem like a definite statement of something we know to be wrong in hindsight?
Starlink, Internet from Space, Precarious Future of Broadband in Rural America
>> Ultimately any company that makes money is not a tech company because pure technology on its own does not make a business.

What is Microsoft then? What is Apple?

Google I can accept as some kind of service provider and advertising company that uses a lot of tech. Amazon as well.
Is it weird that you sound proud about this? Is there something noble about doing work that makes lives harder for hobbyists trying to preserve video games for the future, and has nearly zero impact on the actual sales of the game at release?
This is the first time I heard of acab. If anything thanks for the laughs. It's a hilarious acronym, I was expecting something highbrow like apartheid government claims.
Eh, as a user Netflix original content is a large part of why I still have a subscription.

I used Netflix back when it was mailing me DVDs, and loved the online streaming back in the halcyon days when it seemed like they had everything.

Then came the dark days when content owners began pulling their IP from Netflix and scattering it all over the internet behind a dozen different options that offered them more money or control, and Netflix was a barren wasteland without anything that caught my eye; my queue was a variety of B-tier series that I tried a few episodes of and gave up on.

So I canceled my subscription, for several years. It didn't matter what their UX or uptime was or how smooth their video codecs, they didn't have enough content I wanted to watch.

Then I came back for the original content -- I forget which series first made me sign back up; House of Cards? -- and while I watch licensed content on Netflix from time to time, at least half of what I watch is produced by Netflix.
>Pretty sure the magic is that you turn on the device and you can immediately type code.

Lots of microcomputers back in the C64's time worked this way. So there's more to it than that. I think it's popularity now is based only on that it was popular in long ago. Why it was so successful long ago, is likely a combination of a lot of factors.
The problem with these benchmarks is they measure the bandwidth you can push through an established tls connection. Try to build 2000 new tls connections a seconds (yes many are still active and dont need to be restarted) that is what is the really slow part. Not sending the data over already established channels.
> If you have more than you could possibly ever need then why would you choose to risk that?

Because you don't simply do it for the stuff. You do it for the brain juices which are released when you win.

Bill Gates biggest wins happened in the late 80s and 90s.

His brain should compel him to do better than that to release those elusive juices once again.

The only way to do so is having even bigger wins than the ones in the 80s and 90s

> Failed project

The entrepreneur's failed project is the worker dream job where you get paid for doing nothing.

Kinda like the influencers hired by Bloomberg in his 2020 campaign. Nobody was checking if they were really doing the job and they just pocketed the money.
Traditionally, when people in the US want to reduce remittances, they just campaign to expel the immigrants making the remittances.
I think I heard someone describe Netflix as a logging company that occasionally streams videos.
> Coming back to TV, there’s an irony here in the fact that the tech industry has spent decades wanting to get into the living room, get into TV, break up the cable bundle and move TV from scheduled linear to on-demand, and yet now that it’s happening, it’s happening in the TV industry, not the tech industry.

I don’t see the irony. This seems to be a circular definition of “TV industry”. The technological breakthroughs (cable, satellite, streaming, mobile) that completely change TV don’t count as “tech industry”. Silicon Valley startups Netflix and Apple somehow don’t count, neither does Amazon, and YouTube doesn’t even get mentioned.

I also have an issue with the implied definition of “commodity”. I think a commodity needs fungibility and availability. So storage is now a commodity, but large scale streaming is not. You can’t order a Netflix scale infrastructure on the market.
They mention precision bit then actually gave the example that if all inputs were exactly 0 that it gave differing results of +0 vs -0. Presumably the game checked the sign of the result and hit an error recovery codepath if it was negative.

That's not really something that unlimited precision would avoid, but also not something that "real" arithmetic suffers from since real arithmetic doesn't have -0 and +0 as distinguishable concepts.
In this year's elections, many of the pro-regime candidates are registered as having no party affiliation because of the very bad ratings of United Russia party.

Also, the authorities don't care about people voting confidently at all, quite the opposite.

It's mandated by law though to list candidates' previous names if changed, which is done in this case. But you have to be aware of this spoiler strategy to notice, which most people aren't.
> "We are X. We have the resources to do anything."

Management will say this and in the next breath say that we either don't have headcount to alleviate an understaffed team or we don't have budget to retain some amazing engineer that they want to see how long they can underpay before they leave. I've lost track of the number of times I've told management about how import it is to retain certain individuals and how they absolutely should make sure those people are happy with everything within management's control, and then they ignored those warnings and then the talent left. These losses happen slowly and then suddenly when enough of the remaining talent looks around and realize that most of the good engineers have abandoned ship.
GCC doesn't do modern Objective-C, only what they got from NeXT days.
As a country where remittances make up roughly 20% of the GDP, and with remittance fees as high as 20% or more, this could boost GDP by 4-5%. Not surprising to see them be the first to do this. Others will likely follow.
Maybe I missed it in all the kerfuffle, but what was the crime that was allegedly committed by the French climate activist that required ProtonVPN to comply with this request for IP information?
Full Self Driving is a much less honest name that people should be legitimately upset about.

But I see article after article pick on specifically the "Tesla Autopilot" name which I always found strange.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA0l1JXhLaI&t=19s
> The box was good, the UI was good, the truck-rolls were good, and the customer service and experience were good.

What UI? Back when Sky launched the box would show you the channel number you where tuned to via LEDS over the channel selection buttons and/or via a simple OSD like you would get on any other TV with a OSD displaying channel numbers.

The best UI you got was went something wasn't "working" (be it because you didn't have the auth or because something went wrong) and the OSD told you it couldn't decrypt a channel / to insert your viewing card.

It wasn't until the launch of digital I would say it gained an UI.

Granted the truck rolls and the customer service was decent from what I recall. I don't recall any major issues. (and the UI on the digital boxes wasn't bad when it came out and have been added to since, no idea what the Q boxes are like as I cord cut a fair few years ago.).
What about companies that use tech to make tech and that people buy to incorporate into their tech? GitLab, Atlassian, 1Password and others. No physical products, just tech for your tech so you can make more tech.
Ah... I completely misunderstood what you were saying.

Is Tesla using silicon carbide chips in their inverters? While not as small as the ones the CEO is showing off, they're significantly smaller than what Ford and Nissan are using.
Japan steps up self-driving to revive rural areas and aid older population
Hulu is technically quite good and Criterion is a failing service (< 100k subs)--but regardless, technical evaluations need to be made relative to missing would-be subscribers and expectations relative to library size, market size, brand value and marketing budget.
Tesla is an engineering based company. GM is a MBA based company.

It isn't that Tesla has no MBAs on staff or the GM has no engineers on staff. But a culture that leverages engineering culture can iterate and reinvent itself and include new technologies faster than one who is focused on management metrics.

I'm not saying that MBAs are bad, there are plenty of companies that went way to heavy on hiring engineers and went bankrupt before their business plan was viable.
Isn't Netflix the largest server of video in the world? I imagine they have truly massive technical challenges and innovate on those challenges.