skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading that Amazon review of "The Story About Ping" shortly after it was published. Still a classic to this day. Excerpt: ...The Story About Ping has earned a place on my bookshelf, right between Stevens' Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment, and my dog-eared copy of Dante's seminal work on MS Windows, Inferno. Who can read that passage on the Windows API ("Obscure, profound it was, and nebulous, So that by fixing on its depths my sight -- Nothing whatever I discerned therein."), without shaking their head with deep understanding. But I digress.

I still laugh reading it--truly satire at its finest.
Invest wisely
Please don't use quotation marks to make it look like you're quoting someone when you're not. That's not fair to the other person.
Ya know the Pintle injector that Merlin engines use came from the Apollo program.

Just one example why I consider the Apollo program to be one of our greater achievements.

But SpaceX has done a lot on their own too. I'm just glad to be alive to see this.
I think this article missed a huge reason for the race to the bottom, and that's internet advertising. Articles are not written for "engagement" (per se), they're written to make the publishers money. I think nobody is actually expecting anyone to click an advertisement (at least not on purpose), but getting people to view the article, and therefore view the ad, is likely the website's primary source of income.

And as more and more ads are viewed and not clicked, (there's probably some adtech term for this) the price per view is going to go down, which will encourage more clickbait, which will drive the value of an impression down, etc.

The article struck me as a bit weird, it complains about yellow journalism, but it doesn't really dig into why it's happening. It just declares that shitty articles are written for the metrics, and leaves it at that. As if "metrics" had any intrinsic value. The mapping of metrics to money, as done by internet advertisements, is the actual problem.

While engagement is certainly a way to get more people to view more ads, it's but a tool and symptom of the system it's a part of, not the genesis of it.
Does it matter? The point is that fax isn't inherently a great idea for confidential info.

There's also the issue that many fax endpoints that are fax to email gateways. Or fax to non https website gateways.

Edit: Nobody is arguing for using email instead of fax. The argument is to use something better. Like paypal or stripe instead of full cc info + cvv2 on a piece of paper.
Stack Overflow Unveils the Next Steps in Computer Security
Is there a reason why you can't do that yourself? It looks like you get image data access; plug in any old barcode reading library and you're golden.
Except, it would be nice to keep a few of the (recent) older kernels, in case things go awry with the new update.
The chicken analogy of startups - Broiler vs country startups.
- FLAVOR:ALL VERSIONS
- HEADLINE:SIMPLE SHORTCUT IN DESKTOP, AS WINDOWS
- DESCRIPTION:ANY PROGRAM, RIGHT CLICK, SEND TO DESKTOP

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- FLAVOR:ALL VERSIONS
- HEADLINE: LAUNCHER OPTIONAL AT BOTTOM OR LEFT SIDE
- DESCRIPTION: WITH SIMPLE MOUSE DRAG, AS WINDOWS

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- FLAVOR:ALL VERSIONS
- HEADLINE: SHOW DESKTOP BUTTON IN LAUNCHER
- DESCRIPTION: AT RIGHT BORDER OF LAUNCHER, WITHOUT ANY PADDING. JUST AS WINDOWS 10. ITS VERY FUNCIONAL.

THANKS!!!!
Unfortunately, due to bloating, we perform more than double the number of computations.
On windows I can chance the scroll speed so its one line per tick, on ubuntu its stuck at 3 lines per tick. I have a logitech 'spinny wheel' and this makes it very frustrating as the screen zooms by and I lose precision.
> companies are desperate for more good people

Not desperate enough to give the recent college grads a raise, apparently
I think a more useful solution is to move away from a binary "up/down" vote to a system which gives multiple options with differing meanings to each.

Agree, useful/helpful, disagree, not relevant, spam, illegal, inflammatory, etc...

Then you can apply different weights to different votes and maybe even allow people to sort by the different values. Even some "dark" UI patterns might work well like completely ignoring some values (like disagree) and leave them there as a way for some to express that without having it change anything.

I haven't given much thought to the details, but it seems like this could help on the surface.

I feel like a major problem would be getting people to actually vote. It's already hard enough IMO and I frequently forget to vote on comments which I very much enjoyed and we're very relevant (like your own until this moment), and needing to have many options to choose from and possibly multiple steps would make that bar even higher which means less votes overall. Also getting across the meaning of what each vote really is meant to represent would be tough as well...
So basically a bunch of classist bullshit.
It's worth considering whether there is some flaw with windows multi dpi scaling such that apps don't use it. Firefox and Chrome have scaled properly on Mac for years now, while even Windows 10 ships with first party apps that don't scale right. (E.g. device manager.)
And What is "anti-globalist"? Paul Samuelson's paper shows that the simple models free trade and globalism are based on are both incorrect and especially not all sunshine and flowers for the USA:

"Where Ricardo and Mill Rebut and Confirm Arguments of Mainstream Economists Supporting Globalization"
by Paul A. Samuelson

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~noy/362texts/samuelson.pdf

from the paper:

"Act II, however, deals some weighty blows against economists’ oversimple complacencies about globalization. It shifts focus to a new and different kind of Chinese technical innovation. In Act II, China’s progress takes place (by imitation or home ingenuity or . . . ) in good 1, in which the United States has previously had a comparative advantage. (High I.Q. secondary school graduates in South Dakota, who had been receiving from my New York Bank wages one-and-a-half times the U.S. minimum wage for handling phone calls about my credit card, have been laid off since 1990; a Bombay outsourcing unit has come to handle my inquiries. Their Bombay wage rate falls far short of South Dakota’s, but in India their wage far exceeds what their uncles and aunts used to earn.) What does Ricardo-Mill arithmetic tell us about realistic U.S. long-run effects from such outsourcings? In Act II, the new Ricardian productivities imply that, this invention abroad that gives to China some of the comparative advantage that had belonged to the United States can induce for the United States permanent lost per capita real income—an Act II
loss even equal to all of Act I(a)’s 100 percent gain over autarky. And, mind well, this would not be a short run impact effect. Ceteris paribus it can be a permanent hurt."

That phrase, "...an Act II loss even equal to all of Act I(a)’s 100 percent gain... " is haunting.
It seems like it actually isn't, though this was my first thought too: https://techcrunch.com/2017/03/31/twilio-now-lets-developers...

(I'm glad 1st April is a Saturday this year so I can mostly not be near a computer for it to avoid the intensely twee irritation of it all.)
> Upvoting something is not bad, but it becomes bad if every upvote is not based on an expressable reason beyond I agree, support, etc. with no valid reasoning.

But that could just end up being a lot of noise, and it doesn't really address the social/psychological "content" creation problem the article focuses on. I usually want to read actual good things, not why someone thought something was good.
I think beyond photoshop - more like the ability to seamlessly insert or "imagine" situations that never occurred in real life. For instance, imagine if you could feed in a ton of images of person A - then a ton of images of porn - then have the system imagine a porn scene.

...or a drug-usage scene.

...or any other thing you could think up. It's even possible this could be pushed into a generated movie. You could even work the "voices" in (have the person say virtually anything you want, nearly perfectly, synched perfectly with the facial expressions/movements/body language).

There's a lot of scary, yet interesting possibilities here!

Hmm - think of the possibilities for CGI effects? Rather than having to build a 3D model, just have the software imagine the scene (I know - much easier said than done - but I think the possibility is there, now).

Another idea: Could this kind of software take a movie or still image, and "imagine" a three-d model from it? I don't see why not...

...and yes, I understand this software as being a particular form of a neural network, and that for any of this it takes massive compute power in the form of multiple-GPU time and a ton of memory - and likely isn't yet in the realm of doing it yourself at home except in simpler examples - which might still take days or weeks to train, and a good amount of time to render; I just want to indicate that I have a certain minor level of understanding of what this software is about and that I don't believe for a second that it is a basic "photoshop" filtering system.
Globalization (perhaps not actual globalism) has lead to billions of people being lifted out of abject poverty. They have not become middle class consumerists themselves, but globalization has lifted them out of abject poverty.

One may ask if domestic as well as foreign/alien (international) companies could pay the locals more... but at some point, paying the locals more disincentivizes globalization (it is no longer a competitive advantage with respect to the home country workforce).
Yes, in servers, because of high core counts and demanding "big data" applications.
I also really liked the Ukiyo-e outputs. I wish they would release full-resolutions at some point!
I'm also a parent, and I am of the opinion that being a teenager doesn't mean you should have your computer hacked to be monitored like this. There's all kinds of legitimate admin tools you can use to monitor their activity. If they deliberately circumvent them, physically take the computer away. Turning on a webcam surreptitiously to monitor them is not cool.
My understanding is that holding a fax copy of a contract with a signature is as good in court as holding the contract itself.

But holding a PDF of same is not.
موعد مباراة الأهلى والداخلية السبت 1-4-2017 والقنوات الناقلة
FLAVOR Ubuntu Desktop

HEADLINE Switching to <anything but Unity> as main desktop environment

DESCRIPTION Unity is the number one reason I hear people turning away from GNU/Linux in general: Ubuntu is more or less the de facto first install, and invariably the ones that go through with a standard Ubuntu install turn back to Windows because they could not get used to the UI. Not that the conversion rate is 100% for when I do manage to convince someone to use Linux Mint with Cinnamon, but I don't hear UI complaints.

Lots of people I talk to use Cinnamon or a tiling window manager, and nobody I ever talk to prefers Unity (even if they are okay with using it).
Purism are working on a phone that should meet most of these requirements. Honestly, with such strict expectations, no smartphone will ever satisfy your needs.
it's amazing that phaxio have gotten away with such high prices for so long.
> food-delivery

So it's easier/cheaper for a restaurant to have a dedicated phone line for faxing (plus fax and supplies) than connect a printer to a PC?

Is this because someone needs to actually print incoming emails or orders? And if yes, is there an opportunity for some kind of software solution that would always print what it receives, with no human intervention?
What about these examples is indicative of damning bias on the NYTs part? And what are the countervailing data sources that you're cross referencing against to know that they're being misleading?
I'm really sorry that you feel that way.

I'm enthralled with the discussion, reading every single response :-)

Ubuntu is among the world's largest community driven open source projects, and we're delighted to have feedback from the forward-thinking HackerNews community here!

Cheers,
:-Dustin
Yep, you nailed it. Number going up; quality number holding steady. Probably people going into it for $ with no passion for it.
> they reject all scientific evidence for climate change

I stumbled across this earlier in the week (http://climatecommunication.yale.edu/visualizations-data/yco...) and found it interesting to see the difference in answers under "BELIEFS" (scroll past the map).

70% agree "Global warming is happening"

53% agree "Global warming is caused mostly by human activity"

49% agree that "Most scientists think global warming is happening"

71% strongly agree that they "Trust climate scientists"

What struck me the most was gap between the credibility of climate scientists and the two more heavily politicized topics of whether humans are driving climate change and whether there is agreement by scientists on it happening. How can ~ 70% of people agree it is happening and trust the scientists but only ~50% believe the outcome of the research?!
The app store is Apple's way of selling out access to their customers, it just happens to be to developers instead of advertisers.

I use Android and iOS so I don't have a horse in the race, but it's disengenous to claim that Apple's business model makes it any more your device than Apple's.
OopsI think I scanned a malware
Yeah, I can understand the appeal of implementing your own, but MIPS itself is very small. There are also a lot of good resources on it, and the spec fits on one page : http://www.mrc.uidaho.edu/mrc/people/jff/digital/MIPSir.html
Which is logical if you consider likes and reshares as the goal of sharing the story: sheer volume makes it impossible for me to evaluate each post in my Facebook feed in depth, so even if we assumed that people would actually read the article before liking, they are much more likely to read one with a good headline. A good hook is more important than good content (from the viewpoint of getting lots of reactions).

And when I can see how many people liked what I shared, that seems like a reasonable metric to optimize what to share
Educational use is definitely interesting. That's largely how I've become an expert at security myself, because there is so much security related information & resources available under the disclaimer of "educational purposes only".

However I do think that there are some interesting corner cases. Looking at extreme cases, what about selling nuclear bombs for educational purposes? There are certainly scientific tests that could be done with the bomb and humanity would be better off for having done it. However I think that selling nuclear bombs without restrictions, or launching the sale campaign in the middle of Raqqa would lead to undesirable results.

This leads me to belive that we as a global society certainly aren't ready for every tool to be available unrestricted for educational purposes. What's more, I don't think we're even ready for every tutorial to be available unrestricted, because the cross section of people who can follow the tutorial and also want to end civilization as we know it is still too numerous.

I also don't like censorship or the idea of hindering scientific progress. I would definitely like to progress towards a world where nuclear bombs can be sold at WalMart and nobody would cause problems with them.

We're not there yet and I'm not sure how exactly we can even get there. Until we do, as much as I hate to say it, even educational purposes will have to be sacrificed for the greater good. Where exactly we draw the line is a tough nut to crack and I personally don't hold a strong opinion of a specific line yet.
You don't think a downvote function could also be a good way to say "I disagree but have nothing more to add and I don't want to clutter the conversation"?

I suppose it could be argued that in that situation a comment explaining a downvote (that you agree with) would already exist, and that an upvote on that comment would serve a similar purpose to downvoting the comment it disagrees with.

There are plenty of times I disagree with a comment that don't deserve a response, however. Less frequent here on HN, but trolls trolling within the rules (to preclude moderation-based solutions) are an easy example of something that'd actually be better to downvote without a comment.
You don't have to use all the legacy stuff. See: https://autotools.io/whosafraid.html. You choose what tests you want to run. No need to check if you have unistd.h if you don't care about that.

As a rewrite using the same user interface but a completely different developer interface, there is mklove (https://github.com/edenhill/mklove). However, this just covers autoconf: you don't get the flexibility of automake. Also, I don't know how complete it is.

A rewrite just to speed up things a little is a bit useless. Autotools are not that slow. And if a rewrite was done, it would be a shame to keep the horrible syntax. What needs to be kept is
The "X11 is full of security issues" is full if FUD, IME. Like, they say true-but-irrelevant-and-misleading statements like "any program running in an X11 server can view/alter any other program in the same X11 server, and Wayland fixes this" - this irrelevant because common security of practice, IIRC, is to run nested X11 servers and give each program its own.

X11 also has a whole lot of commonly-used security/sandboxing extensions, but these are ignored in lieu of comparing vanilla X11 with vanilla Wayland, and pointing out that only the latter does security properly.

Meanwhile, Wayland forces monolithic design, in requiring the panel, hotkey daemon, WM, etc to be built into the compositor. Essentially, each Wayland compositor is its own DE (not its own WM, despite common misconception).

I want to see X11 die, but Wayland has some serious failures as an X11 replacement.
Something similar happened to me last year. Instead of just relaxing or taking time off, I used those 6 months to work on my life :) Most of the time I would advise people to keep the wheel rolling: use the momentum to turn your idea into reality. Taking too much time off can make it difficult to get back into it. Of course, if you need a break then take it, but keep momentum in mind...
So his years as a business executive count for nothing?
Fair enough :) I see what you're getting st, thanks for sharing your thoughts.
Is Medium Replacing Twitter?
Maybe cause there are not many good ones.

It used to be, in engineering school, 2/3 flunked out or changed majors. Even with the remaining 1/3, there are the C/D students. I'd only want to hire the A/B students.

I think people are figuring out engineering is a lot tougher than the "making stuff".
Better data would dramatically improve this situation:

- Statistical data on who is homeless and why
- Data on how a given person's homeless life tends to proceed over time
- Data from homeless people on how they view their lives + their "satisfaction" (whether they are mentally ill or not"
- Data that attempts to predict health / satisfaction in the future from past circumstances

I'm sure some exists... but I don't hear much about it.

The article points to the value of data, by indicating that compiling a consistent history (across service providers) of a homeless person's history can make it very clear when someone is in the (extreme) case that they are not going to take good care of themselves in the future.

The (wonderful) discussion on this post goes through all the complexity of balancing respecting autonomy with promoting well-being. But even the best comments are anecdotes. I don't know if the greater evil (today) would be a) allowing people to destroy themselves or b) imprisoning them in a bureaucracy.

Understanding with data (top down overall + longitudinally) could give a sense for where the common cases are, and what cases we consider are very rare.

In criminal justice, we imprison innocent people. It sucks, and we will try to minimize it, attempting to "let 10 guilty people go free vs. convicting one innocent" But we don't go so far as to imprison almost no one.

By analogy, with better data, I would feel more empowered to have an opinion of what direction to push in here.
When you say that it is deterministic, do you win or do you lose the game?

If you always win with the same game, then instead of AI, we are rather talking about AS (Artificial Stupidity).
> A re-flowering perhaps, looking at the trend's rise since 2014 - but certainly not as popular as it was around 2005-2006.

FWIW, that chart doesn't correlate with any measurements of podcasting popularity (e.g. downloads, research) that I'm aware of.

For example, Edison Research notes that general familiarity with the term "podcasting" has gone up 22% with Americans in the last two years. Saturday Night Live's satire of Serial is an example of how podcasting has broken into mainstream awareness in a way that it definitely had not even three years ago.
Very widely used in health care and insurance industries.
All the eFax providers have been doing this.
> The functions listed above are not mainstream use cases for legitimate software.

Who decides what is "legitimate" software? Do you want to live in a world where you have to get the government's approval before writing code?

How could a feature be "mainstream" if it isn't included in software? Should we have arrested Steve Jobs for the Macintosh because GUI wasn't "mainstream" when it came out?
Care to share it? Maybe it could help others...
You are aware Steam distributes rootkits, yes?

If you use it, you are just as "guilty" as the logic used in the OP.
I'll try to do both sides justice although I'm sure there are people representing either side that could correct me on many aspects...

I think of 'globalist' as being something of a perjorative/having at least a slight negative connotation. It describes a perspective where all humans are part of a global community/family. You could contrast it with 'nationalism' (which has it's own negative connotations--the two sides provide derision against each other) in which nations should be independent and sovereign.

Critics of globalism argue that it centralizes too much control, planning, finances and government, leaving locals with less autonomy. Nationalists are not fans of e.g., the United Nations, the World Trade Organization, etc.

Critics of nationalism argue that international cooperation brings many benefits and that nationalists are merely racist or xenophobic. It's harder to list organizations that globalists are not a fan of because most nations have at least one nationalist movement. Brexit would be a good example in the Anglosphere.
tCL is very much a round trip latency not just sequential access. If you want sequential access 4 times you can pay for tCL once. https://www.altera.com/ja_JP/pdfs/literature/hb/external-mem...

DDR is not really setup for random access, because it's setup for talking to L2/L3 cache not registers. tRAS ~= tCL + tRCD + tRP which kind of but not exactly exactly what you want for random access.
> But they last forever.

At least until the next earthquake, which is a real possibility in much of the US. Light frame houses survive earthquakes pretty well. The brick chimneys on them don't.

> Houses here are routinely hundreds of years old where in the US the approach seems to be to knock down the wooden houses and build them again before they get that old.

Well, yes and no. The US isn't that old. There weren't a lot of homes here hundreds of years ago so obviously there aren't a lot of 200-year old homes now. But yes, there's also a fair bit of demolishing of 50-year old homes.
On the face of it, it's a very scary proposal. The energy density of hydrocarbon fuels is high, and they are well understood. A comparable battery, on the other hand - it sounds like a fire hazard the size of a planeload of Samsung phones.