skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> it's not very different than the surveillance that the NSA is performing

Here's one obvious way: the Norks "Viewer" app shows you what they've collected on you which is itself a form of control (though it could be used to hunt for blind spots). The NSA doesn't really want you to know what they know or how they learnt it.
Are you joking? We couldn't even have this conversation on North Korean devices. As bad as the NSA might be, this is on a completely different level.
It really depends on how you work. I can think of a couple cases that are pretty slim.

1, ssh + tmux, or something along those lines. If your stuff is all on a remote machine, and you're proficient with the command line tools, you can do a ton of stuff over a very thin pipe. 30k would be more than enough, but latency can be frustrating because the local echo.

2, Local dev with local docs. Something like IntelliJ and all the code lookups pointed at local javadoc. With the right setup your network use is pretty much just git fetches and pushes.

When you start pulling down VMs or pushing containers, things kinda fall apart.

It's worth thinking about how to slim down that network connection. Being able to work remotely with a real thin connection like that opens up a lot of opportunities. One example might be a funeral. Going home for a couple weeks vs a day or two of bereavement can be, well, nice. Obviously that kind of thing depends on your employer.
I've posted this elsewhere, but it's relevant here too. The problem that's affecting ESPN is the same problem that's affecting newspapers and the same root cause that's behind reality TV, and buzzfeed and the like. The issue is the advertising model and the cost of creating content.

A number of people here complain about ESPN swapping to talking heads and opinions. The reason for doing this is because it's significantly cheaper to have people give opinions (everyone has an opinion) than the costs of doing journalism. ESPN isn't swapping to these shows because they have worse ratings, comparatively they get higher ratings.

Everyone talking about he glory days of the 90s and ESPN. That time is in the past. People turn to the internet for sports updates and scores, as well as highlight reels.

Ultimately, it's a failure in the "advertising model" of paying for content. As long as content creators are paid a roughly flat fee per viewer, their only incentives are to get more viewers and cut costs. Previously the market was inefficient enough to sustain it, but now that there are alternatives the inevitable is happening in all areas of content creation. Moving to cheap to produce, easy to digest low substance, high viewership content.

Imaging you were running a restaurant, and you couldn't charge a customer per meal. You only received a small flat rate for the number of customers who ate there. You're not going to run a top end steak house where your payment doesn't even cover the materials. You're gonna run a mcdonalds. Get as many people in there for as cheap as possible. You have no choice, the money doesn't support an intimate fine dining experience.

The that the same thing happening in all aspects of content creation. The market is becoming efficient, and the only way to survive is low cost production. Fast-food of content.
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Personalized subscription in sports is infeasible because of how TV broadcast contracts are setup. Take the example of the Premier League. When Sky or NBC pay for PL broadcast rights, they do it for the entire league and the Premier League divides the money equally to all the 20 teams. By the way, this equal division is a recent change and IIRC the Spanish League only started doing this in the last couple of years.

Now let's say I want to subscribe to only Manchester United content on NBC. Man United and the other top clubs are extremely popular globally. So this means the broadcast contract has to be tailored to each team and the more popular the team is, the higher the contract value for that team. Now this means clubs don't get equal money and if they don't, the smaller clubs will never be able to compete with the top clubs. This is the exact reason why TV money is now divided equally in England. So we're back to square one if we were to implement this.
This is actually something I'm super conscious about. I travel to visit my parents somewhat often, and I work a few days remotely when I do. I've had a bit of luck rotating through a few spots. If I feel like I've exhausted those, I'll post up in a larger chain like a Starbucks — I feel somewhat less guilty when I know I'm not taking up a seat in a locally owned business. Most places will pull decaf espresso shots or have pastries of some sort, so I'm not just drinking coffee all day.

Aside: If anyone wants to swap coffee shop recommendations in Pittsburgh, feel free to send me a message.
Having never eaten at two Chinese restaurants with even remotely the same food, I find that hard to swallow. At least in my part of the eastern US, Chinese food quality varies wildly.
If you follow the PAC12, SlingTV has the PAC12 networks as an add-on package
> We will make the code to reproduce these results publicly available

I'm excited about this trend, it makes it easier for everyday software engineers to tinker around with cutting edge tools.

I think of innovation as a pipeline starting from scientific insights, to engineering advances, to improvements in the consumer experience. If research communities continue to borrow more ideas from open source culture, it could really improve the speed of that pipeline.
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Their purpose isn't to stop people mooching their wifi though. Their purpose is to have a totally different atmosphere by discouraging people from using their cafe as an office.
People always say this as if the people running ESPN don't see their own ratings numbers or aren't professional television producers. They see that shows like First Take, Around the Horn, and Pardon the Interruption get higher ratings than NFL Live or Baseball Tonight. The in depth stuff simply doesn't attract viewers. Almost no one cares about what strategy decisions lead to the Minnesota Twin's winning the 28th game of a 162 game season outside of Minnesota and the people who do care have already watched the game, read a recap of it, seen the highlights on Twitter, or found some other quicker way to get the information they wanted about the game. The reason ESPN has been shifting to a "TMZ with sports" focus is because that is the only thing outside of live sport that has consistently been garnering them viewers for the last decade plus.
Personally I just can't get used to using a slow web app. I much prefer working in a native editor or IDE (like TeXStudio). I still use Sharelatex in a pinch, when I'm another machine or something, but I breathe a sigh of relief when I'm back on a native app.
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Biggest issue with libraries that you cannot hear people talking. This might be a good or a bad thing depending on you. I really like working from coffee shops especially because of the noise (and random eavesdropping).
They could have made the chip a lot smaller (= cheaper to produce). For the period they actually achieved, they could have gotten away with a 16-bit LFSR, requiring half the die area for that function (which looks like it was quite significant).
I never saw your place when I hung out in New Paltz (almost every weekend in 2009-2010), but it would have been cool to see a tech scene get established. I miss that city.
It also defeats the very purpose of a Chromebook, which is practically bulletproof, worry-free security.

If you really need a full-fledged Unix system (as I do), IMO it's best to run that on dedicated hardware and SSH in from a secure Chromebook. But I'm not sure what a student like the parent's daughter would gain from putting their Chromebook into developer mode, aside from a newfound susceptibility to malware.
Heh, the same day I copied my music from my old rockbox'd iriver H20 to a an old Samsung S4 I will use as a media player.
The old H20 was great, but as the battery life fell below 1 hour it was just too much of hassle. Maybe there will be a rockbox vm/app someday.
LaTeX I feel is going the way of HTML as a intermediate layer language that is not to be meant to be read/written by humans. Like others in this thread I much prefer writing in Markdown and then using something like Pandoc to convert to Latex.
That's...exactly what they're doing?
The word order "All that gli[t]ters is not gold" is taken from Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice), so that gives it quite a bit of staying power in English.
Umm, so what other connotation or inference could there be to the phrase "zero sum game?"

What he's really saying, in a roundabout fashion, is that the economy and trade are zero sum and that Obama and Krugman are (respectively) wrong.

I'd say Wolff is the one who's wrong. But he does agree with Trump.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14229820
I think initially when a coffee shop starts out they want those who stick around for a long time in order to show they are a busy place and attract more customers. But once they grow to be busy enough they longer care about those customers who stick around for a long time.

Also how would the economics of a Workshop Cafe work? How much would the hourly cost be to get a table?
Go occasionally, do your own thing most of the time.
Sure, there is room for a better latex, it's not like it's the tool to end all tools. But nobody has managed to produce an alternative so far...

By the way, try the option [H] on floats, it forces it to stay in the position it is in the code, instead of letting TeX rearrange it to minimise wasted space.
This is a legit issue. In L.A. here you see it all over. Like 1 in 4 coffeeshops has removed plugs and wifi.
It's especially pertinent here because homeless people will buy a coffee for a couple bucks and stay all day on their phone or cheap tablet just watching movies and surfing the web.
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This is a legit issue. In L.A. here you see it all over. Like 1 in 4 coffeeshops has removed plugs and wifi.
It's especially pertinent here because homeless people will buy a coffee for a couple bucks and stay all day on their phone or cheap tablet just watching movies and surfing the web.

It's like what's the contract between the purchaser and the business owner.
If I bought a coffee for 2 bucks am I entitled to take up a table all day?
"...All of the major sports offer streaming of pretty much every game a fan of a specific sport could want..."

Only they don't. If you think about it...

whenever you want to stream from the web... you generally have to enter your TV provider credentials. So if you don't have cable, you can't stream a lot of those games.
I think your conflating math as all-descriptive of all properties. It's unfortunately not. Mathematics describes patterns, not procedures. You started thinking in code, because you started thinking about problems as procedures, not patterns.
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Yes, but in common discussion, noone when talking about OOP is referring to inheritence-less OOP. No common programming language uses it, few to no programmers practice it. OOP/w inheritance is the default item being discussed.
Too often wasting time in an endless youtube/HN/reddit loop takes away from a real break you could be enjoying fully instead of being in guilty limbo.

Everyone needs breaks, so factor these into your plan and commit to them fully, planned breaks can be enjoyed without guilt.
Well truth be told, I think that's a more powerful mechanism of control because it provides an illusion of privacy and control to the user.

As horrible as it is, the censorship provides a means of protection for the end user. In the US we just let people access things, and then prosecute/persecute, them accordingly.

With the above said-- I'd still prefer to be in the US to the DPRK any day of the week, month, year, or century.
I did this too. Not only did it teach my kid the scientific method (and keep me on my toes) but apparently he considers it a positive experience.

It helped that I had read The Wasp Factory before becoming a parent.
Why not use LLVM?
Are you imagining that people who would be forced to live in tenements simply poof out of existence because the tenements are not built?

They live 10-15 people to a 2-bedroom apartment.

They live in buildings not meant to be dwellings, off the books, out of reach of building inspectors and fire code (see: Oakland Ghost Ship).

They live (and piss and shit and shoot up and overdose) on the street, the public transit system, the library, the parks.

None of these things are safe, sanitary, or livable, and the negative externalities to the public are enormous.

It's a maddening fallacy when talking about housing construction that you can prevent prevent poverty (or tech workers, for that matter) from existing by prohibiting the kind of housing that you think poor people (or techies) would live in.
Indeed, I program with syntax coloring disabled for this reason.
Can you give me an example where an array would be more beneficial than having another table with {id, name}? I personally have never found a use for them.
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Yeah, New Paltz is a really special place.

We were open from 2010-2012.
I've gotten better support out of the Postgres mailing list than I have our of any commercial contract.
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>It would be nice if a universal 'model+dataset+weights' sharing service would spring into being.

I've asked for this multiple times and yet every time someone comes out of the woodwork saying it's been done or that nobody would use it.

People usually link to the Caffe model zoos or something like this (potentially unsafe according to Chrome) https://www.gradientzoo.com/
I love workshop Cafe. I used to go quite often. I frequented Third Workplace, but unfortunately, they shut down.
That's the biggest reason I don't like working at coffee shops. I almost always work from home, but sometimes I realize I haven't left the house in days and need a change of scenery.
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That's what I do in ACM-ICPC when I use C++! :-)
Ah, apparently that work was re-invented a decade later:

Some of the world’s earliest disc recordings, dating from the late 1880’s, exist today only as pictures in books or magazines. The discs themselves were lost long ago, leaving little hope that their sounds could ever be heard again.

But sound media historian Patrick Feaster has developed a method for extracting sound from these prints, bringing to life rare audio content thought lost to history. Feaster, who works for the campus Media Preservation Initiative, discovered one such print in an 1890 German periodical housed in the stacks at Indiana University Bloomington’s Wells Library. It represents the oldest gramophone-type recording available anywhere for listening today — the earliest audible ancestor of all of the world’s vintage vinyl. By “playing” the inked spiral, we can again hear the voice of gramophone inventor Emile Berliner reciting the poem Der Handschuh by Friedrich Schiller.

https://mediapreservation.wordpress.com/2012/06/20/extractin...
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KJI was pushed (by the famine). KJU actually likes the idea of growing a parallel market based economy. He could just as easily have decided to clamp down on it.
Good point.

For anyone who doesn't know about the EQ curve on records, it's basically a big bass cut and a big treble boost. Bass causes huge wobbles in the groove so it's cut, and treble is hard to pick up, so it's boosted. Then you just do the reverse on playback.

Also a good point that there's nothing on the Voyager record instructions about this...
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Globalization is Zero-Sum
It's not that jobs are more fulfilling than anything else. It's that people lack opportunities. Especially if you're young, don't have a college degree and don't live in a big city. Unskilled jobs doesn't necessarily grant you independence nor a way to work your way up. Yet, higher education is still seen as a privilege rather than a necessity. What you end up with is exactly this sort of "inefficiencies".
Why what I am doing is not freshly squeezed? What is it then?

Not a native English speaker, so trying to understand the difference​.
The article of this HN already cover that (plus the others that the original post also point)...

But because this is about someone coming from a more traditional RDBMS (like oracle, sql server, sybase) it will note that some or most of the features of PG are not different from something like them.

Also, PG was from the start more focused in be robust, instead of MySql that was focused in be fast (at the cost of being robust). PG is a better fit for more traditional workloads from years now.

And the careful, well-thought, solid development, feature implementation and release discipline is clearly very professional, to match the ones from commercial vendors.

PG is not just good for startups and enthusiasts, but solid enough to be recommended to most companies with total confidence.
Do you have access to the dprk's intranet, or how would you know?
Right, I have an OG SanDisk Clip, very good sound quality. I do miss my brick-sized 20 GB Creative Zen Touch (AWESOME sound quality!), except I can't find a compatible charger for it.

Happy to see RockBox still under development!
Can you go into more detail please? I am very much against authoritarianism and the state as a whole, though I am in favour of certain modes of social organisation some consider unorthodox.

I think we should educate each generation on the influence of power on people, the benefits and drawbacks of democracy, care for one's fellow man, the societal structure of capitalism, among other things.

Edit: preferably via Priestly, Orwell, Wilde, Bernard Shaw and H.G Wells :)
Powerwall 2 is only 14kwh at 270lbs for $5500, or about $400 per kwh. You must mean the power pack 2 which cost 80k.

Musk wants $100/kwh cost from the Gigafactory, but market is currently above $300.

Semi tractors only weigh 15-20k lbs your talking a battery that weighs as much as the tractor. 300 gallons of diesel is 2000 lbs and the engine and transmission is about 3000 lbs. it would be at least 10k heavier which reduce carrying capacity since gross is capped at 88,000 lbs total not to mention space.
> I am talking about a made-up phrase, coined more than seventy years ago by John von Neumann – zero-sum game

> I shall now explain to you exactly what “zero-sum game” means in several thousand well-chosen words.

... several thousand words of dubious quality ...

> Under these very restrictive and special conditions – a two person game with a finite set of outcomes in which the players have strictly opposed preferences for compound lotteries of the outcomes – it is possible fairly easily to show that the sum of the utilities assigned by the two players to any outcome or lottery of outcomes will sum to 1.

> In particular, no game or game-like situation with three or more players can be a zero-sum game.

Bullcrap.

Just because von Neumann used "zero-sum game" to describe his conclusions about a certain 2-player game doesn't grant permanent monopoly of the phrase to that exact situation.

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I shall now explain to you exactly what “zero-sum game” means in several well-chosen words: A zero-sum game is one in which summation of utility among participants is fixed, regardless of choices made.

(The definition exists despite that fact that -- like everything else in economics -- utility aggregatation or utility itself are controversial concepts.)
Are you saying it seriously or sarcastically? Either way, it's currently a niche thing that seems to work for those using it but also poses challenges that people keep working on. Like many other techs. It's certainly not dead if we're talking about model-driven development of embedded where there's more vendors and tools over time.
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Ironically, it is no longer possible to listen to the audio in that webpage.
Eating an apple is messy? And if you don't have time to take a minute or so to eat and apple, you are way too busy and you need to change your life style.
"This is not contradictory. People mostly use massively distributed software, made by a relatively tiny number of people. Developers generally work on custom software, that has zero or one customer."

It's not free until it's unencumbered by copyright or patents. I don't trust that in the least in the U.S.. Maybe in some other places. Here, anything you produce and use might get you in trouble. That doesn't feel Free. ;)
What you are describing sort of goes against the tenets of LaTeX. You aren't supposed to worry about formatting, just content. You have to explicitly tell it when you want to deviate from the template. In terms of placing figures, you just have to write \begin{figure}[h!].

I've never really had a problem with the error messages or packages personally.
Many years ago when I did my math homework in LaTeX I never wrote raw LaTeX, instead I used LyX (www.lyx.org). It's basically your standard document editor with a GUI equation editor. If you're not obsessed with all the LaTeX layout stuff it's great for just typing up stuff with equations and making it look nice.
In fairness, the low-end $200 laptops have emmc storage, which isn't what consumers think of as SSD. Yes it is solid state and faster than a hard drive. But it's not typical SSD performance like you get on the $400+ laptops.
> Microsoft realised their mistake and came out with Windows 10, which works well across both tablets and desktops/laptops. Apple seem to have doubled-down. The future looks prettier for the former.

Do you use Windows 10 on tablets? Because compared to iOS I find it very touch unfriendly and fidgety. I use it because I develop for the 3 eco systems, but Windows I for one cannot really use it without for anything useful without a mouse. I do not have that issue with iOS or Android.
That's the thing - as far as I can see, there was a disagreement, they forked, both forks peacefully coexist and hold significant value (ETC is worth more today than it was before the fork).

There is no civil war with DDoS attacks, mud-slinging, exploiting vulnerabilities in clients to crash the clients of the 'wrong' side, not even a "majority hash power kills weaker chain".
That commenter doesn't have access to that country's internet. The commenter does have access to many of the rest. That supports the commenter's point already.
Sure, but you're the guy who writes the library that I use because I have no clue what the hell you just said! It'd be downright dangerous if I hand-roll anything like it.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14232499
Although in the originl he used the word "glister".
They've been growing with their current model ($2/hr/seat). I was in SF recently (used to live there, don't anymore..) but whenever I am in town I go there even when having a nice office to go to. Granted - I don't know all of their economics but they definitely charge a bit for food but I find the atmosphere great enough to pay for that.
It has certainly gotten better, to say it is beautiful is a stretch.

Seems invariably, someone doesn't realize which is the old and which the new. So, when someone finally "accepts" the changes, something if getting lost. Worse, the folks that never accept and just keep passing the review docs.

And heaven help you if you want to preview style or layout changes.

(And please don't take it as this being fixed by other toolchains. Not my intent.)