skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is a concept as old as Ancient Rome itself -- bread and circuses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

Superficial means of appeasement, distractions, diversions, or the mere satisfaction of the immediate, shallow requirements of a populace. These things have been a staple of peace since time immemorial.

> This phrase originates from Rome in Satire X of the Roman satirical poet Juvenal (circa A.D. 100). In context, the Latin panem et circenses (bread and circuses) identifies the only remaining cares of a Roman populace which no longer cares for its historical birthright of political involvement. Here Juvenal displays his contempt for the declining heroism of contemporary Romans, using a range of different themes including lust for power and desire for old age to illustrate his argument.[5] Roman politicians passed laws in 140 B.C. to keep the votes of poorer citizens, by introducing a grain dole: giving out cheap food and entertainment, "bread and circuses", became the most effective way to rise to power.

Humanity generally waxes and wanes between bread and circuses and political involvement. One could feasibly say they are diametrically opposed, but suffice to say it should to be clear that the pendulum has swung from the former to the latter and it will be difficult to reverse it forcefully.
Mercurial did a lot of work to reduce startup time via its demandimport module.

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/file/tip/hgdemandimpor...

Basically, it's a lazy loading of all imports. You can write `import foo` but it won't actually be imported until you do `foo.whatever()`.

It's a crutch, and it's true that hg still pays the overall startup cost of Python. However, even with "45 times slower than git", the situation is not so dire:

jordi@chloe:~$ time hg --version
Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 4.2.2)
(see https://mercurial-scm.org for more information)

Copyright (C) 2005-2017 Matt Mackall and others
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

real	0m0.096s
user	0m0.084s
sys	0m0.008s

jordi@chloe:~$ time git --version
git version 2.1.4

real	0m0.001s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

I really can barely perceive a difference between 0.096s and 0.001s. Since it really is a one-time startup cost, it's not like we can even say that this difference accumulates and that hg is overall 45 times slower than git.

Pierre-Yves also has an interesting talk about all of the tricks that have to go into hg in order to make it fast with Python. There's stuff like doing `method = object.method; method()` instead of doing `object.method()` over and over again to avoid paying the cost of method lookup and so forth:

https://2015.pycon.ca/en/schedule/53/
As someone from Perth... you are being severely underpaid.
Could you bribe someone to avoid imprisonment for trial in US courts for health or safety reasons?

I don't think the DOJ will necessarily honor that unless you have some kind of health condition and evidence the foreign court is refusing to hear about it.. I don't think anyone in the cases I referenced made medical arguments before bribing officials.
The article says the cost in Bangladesh is 22 cents.

That is surely close enough, after taking into account transport and lead time, that factories in Bangladesh should be worried.
And if you have an evil twin?
It becomes less clearly undeniable once we separate Google into its constituent parts, though.

Is search a utility? How about email? Webmaster tools for SEM? WiFi thermostats?

It seems unfair to blanket classify Google's offerings as utilities, if many of their products and services are just also-rans.

Again, the concentration of power and the strong competitive position of Google can be problems in themselves, whether or not the products are utilities.
9. Hard Reboot

10. DFU mode
Not answering your main question, but the video shows relatively small buildings because that's what Berlin looks like[1]. High rise towers are not very common there.

[1] https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Berlin_P...
I highly recommend that anyone using a headless browser that may access outside sources employ something like this to run the headless browser in an external environment, in this case AWS Lambda: https://github.com/justengland/phantom-lambda-template

I used this approach for a project at a previous company and not only did it keep the potentially unsafe external code execution isolated from the rest of the stack, but it also proved to be fantastically scalable because of the ability to have AWS Lambda running many headless browsers in parallel compared to trying to scale something like this out on your own hardware.
anyone know if the part time projects are too time consuming to do with a full time job?
It seems like early PhD work often involves working at a critical piece that's often overlooked: learning the social landscape of academics (and maybe figuring out what kind of academic they want to be).
Ruby's idea of a hash where the keys are colon symbols seems to really strike a sweet spot here— it's fast and storage-efficient like a tuple, but has the flexibility of a dict.
I have an iPhone 4(not as my main device) and the home button is not very responsive on the newest OS. Your point is valid but in my experience the device is laggy when you update even when it has a home button.
How is it better? TopTal pays 3-5 times less and differentiates rates by country where contractor resides.
What is the chance of this thing passing?
> Not sure what your definition of bribe is

lol
> I feel there is a conspiratorial aspect to the anti-pomo movement

Keep in mind that at least the Sokal prank wasn't an attack on pomo per se. It was an inkling and subsequent confirmation that pomo editors could not tell the difference between highly technical jargon that drives home a larger theoretical point, on the one hand, and highly technical jargon engineered specifically to serve no purpose whatsoever.

Imagine submitting a large patch to the Linux kernel that references various files and line numbers but makes no additions or subtractions to any of those files. If you could feed such a patch all the way up the chain and get Linus to accept it, you'd have a pretty good argument that something is fundamentally wrong with then intellectual endeavor of Linux kernel development.
Show HN: Markov's Incubator – A startup pitch generator
What generally happens to most wild plants during the summer? Most of them can survive a few dry spells.
MIAB installs OS updates automatically and the Admin tools alert you when updates have been installed and prompts you to restart the server. You can configure it to auto install updates to the MIAB install, or not. I've set mine up to not install them. This allows me to make a snapshot before installing them in case they break something.

The biggest downside I've run into with MIAB running on DigitalOcean is being being blacklisted by AOL. Other services like Gmail and Outlook might send emails to a users spam folder until they mark them as "Not spam". It took me a bit of fine tuning on my end to get my "Spam Score" down to less than a point or two but that was really a good exercise to go though.

There were other benefits I hadn't considered though, like the built-in DNS server that comes with MIAB. I ended up moving the DNS records for most of my sites over to it. And it manages SSL certs automatically for domains running on it, or that use its DNS server.

It was time consuming to get it set up right though. I went through the process 3 times before I began to understand what was needed.
Agreed; 'Raising Steam' made me so sad I couldn't finish it (I thought it was a much better story when titled 'Making Money', and even better when it was called 'Going Postal').
Google's NetPAC is kinda amazing, as a thing, I'm still stunned our political system allows something that just straight up feels like money laundering. (From a "we need to route this money through someone else so it is legal" standpoint.) This isn't a thing unique to Google, it's just a thing that amazes me is considered okay.

Corporations can't directly give money to candidates, but Google pays it's employees, who 'donate' it to NetPAC, which is a Google-controlled entity which can give money to candidates.
There's no way it's going on the power button. It was an absurd idea that someone threw out there and people just keep repeating it. The surface is far too small, and such a mechanism way too complicated for the space available.
The article also talks about "killer whales" and their teeth, but Orcas aren't whales. They're dolphins (or more specifically, they belong to the porpoise group of mammals).
Some people use this whole incident, which was an important one, as a support for arguments that attempt to diminish the importance of the humanities, or tout how 'the sciences' are superior. While I appreciate what Sokal did, I think it leads many people to draw hasty and value-laden conclusions which are otherwise unwarranted.

If anything the whole experiment points to the incommensurate nature (Kuhn) of discourses and the multiple levels at which degrees of incommensurability can occur.

The trendy and monistic nature of postmodern theories in the humanities is not an issue that has been ignored within the humanities either, and furthermore the problems of jargon, sycophantic behavior, and dogmatism that arise in the application of postmodern theory are problems for (ostensibly) all theories. A literary theorist from Yale, Quigley, has an excellent book on this subject and attempts to offer some means of resolution to the issues (see: Quigley Theoretical Inquiry).

The sciences are slightly more immune because while they diverge they have a shared ancestry and methodological base in mathematics (or, if you would, the 'scientific method' which is a highly problematic, over-general, and reductive term).

The sciences are also plagued with issues in academia. For instance, negative results, which are instrumentally important to the progression of science as conceived in our current model of what constitutes the scientific, are pretty much completely dissuaded and suppressed by the current academic apparatus--positive discoveries, not elimination of hypotheses, are sexy--that's what pulls in the money, that's what people want to read, but negative results that help us further narrow the field of inquiry are just as important, if not more so.

I think the whole Sokal thing was important--but I always think it's necessary to bear the banner for the humanities to an extent when this is brought up, as its easy to fall into notions that the humanities as an entire field of inquiry is sort of baloney or shaky or unstable. It definitely is unstable--but that doesn't make it worthless or unimportant...I think postmodernist theories and their application will probably go down in history as an important transitional period away from structuralism and other forms of analysis, but it's incredibly clear that they are not very sustainable means of inquiry going forward.
It should be "I say this _as_ a linguist..."
https://data.giss.nasa.gov/
The National Centers for Environmental Information are probably a good place to start. Collection of links to data can be found here: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/quick-links. Alternatively there are some collected sets available here (which may be a little cleaner/ have some metatdata annotation): https://public.enigma.com/search/climate.
I can confirm several people have had luck doing this (not us though :-( )
It would be cool if mozilla and google would standatalize the headless API and command line flags as llvm and gcc has done, so you would perform headless cross browser testing.
I have noob questions about what you've written here. I apologize for asking them here but you seem like you think clearly and know what your are talking about.

If you are in case 3, then is that when NoSQL allegedly starts paying off? If so, is the payoff in actual performance or just not having to write SQL?

I know you said that you could just use the NoSQL features of the relational DB. If you really truely know for certain that you will never need to join your data, then isn't using an entire relational DB software package a lot more overhead?
It seems to me a crime to tell a young, vibrant person "don't get too excited" and manage their expectations for life way down.

Same as you'll never get me to give up delicious food by handing me a bottle of Soylent.
> Google is undeniably important to people. And mainly because they've squeezed themselves into every part of our online lives. Facebook is less so, though it has become a platform that many businesses rely on.

But both of these are free. I don't see how comparing these to the expense of early electric power makes sense. Title II classification for ISPs is currently under threat and surprisingly not the focus of this article.

In fact, the article doesn't mention net neutrality or title II classification once. It is odd that it discusses "platform" monopolies without mentioning "broadband" monopolies.

Facebook and Google only charge fees if you want to advertise through them. And, it is pretty cheap unless you're trying to control a nationwide or worldwide narrative.
>You seem to forget that maths and physics are meant to describe reality, not be reality.

So why describe reality with an ideal and infinities and not based on fixed/arbitrary precision but limited math?
Outlier with regards to what? It was an exposure of the extreme discontent bubbling under the surface in America. If anything, it was completely rational. The election did not happen in a vacuum and it was not random. I personally believe that it was just the start of things to come in America and shows cracks in the status quo.
how much will the human labor cost per shirt be once these automatic t-shirt machines are moved to Bangladesh?
Nice project, it makes Berlin appear like a progressive, nice place to live. But actually it has so many problems that should be solved first before even thinking about things like this. For instance total failure to integrate the Muslim minority, increasing racism against Jews (Men usually wear a baseball-cap over the Kippah in public due to fear of being beaten up), prices that double each 7-10 years while salaries stay the same and an angry lower-middle class that thinks Politicians don't understand anything.
How YouTube perfected the feed
Seems like there are better uses for this technology than making sneakers.

Could we activate electrostatic adhesion on tires to enhance road grip when braking? Can we use it for climbing walls? Walking in 0 G?
Barsort – a number sorting project gone haywire
Trump was:

Anti globalization in all of its manifestations (immigration, tariffs, taxes, trade)

That was what he ran on. How can you say he was pro corporation?
Is It Better to Hire Freelancers or Outsource Your Software Development?
I can't edit the subject to make it a Show HN post. The edit option is not available.
>There is no imaginary requirement to have a direct counterpart in the physical world, in "matter/energy".

No, but there's no requirement that the useful/only way to do math is with "platonic" / ideal math objects either.
Yes. You still have to pay attention, but there's not as much pressure and fewer startling surprises.
React: Componentes, bibliotecas y herramientas
Afaik, us senators can't. Their campaigns can.
By any chance would it be this site?

https://realtimebitcoin.info
https://www.geekwire.com/2011/target-finally-parts-ways-amaz...

I remember when the new Target website launched, and they had a 'Credits' page on the website (or a press release?) that listed over 50 partners that made the launch possible, kinda crazy and not surprising that the website failed on launch day.

Additionally, Target partnered with a popular designer to launch their product line on the same day to celebrate the new website, adding insult to injury with a huge traffic spike.

Their inexperience in operating a retail website was painfully obvious. For example, the search results were accurate when really you want to optimize for the customer experience and not accuracy - the first couple pages of search results for an item were all the right items but also all out of stock, so it looked like a very empty store as you clicked through page after page of unavailable items. The search results should have sorted in-stock items to the top by default.
Turns out the headshot matters. Yes, it's superficial -- but there will be people evaluating if you have the right 'look' for the team, even for non-public facing roles.

Here are some quick tips >https://digital-photography-school.com/how-to-take-the-perfe...
That chart is interesting, but I'm not sure how to interpret it.

I think the authors are suggesting, "people are not being paid in line with what they produce."

I think the chart may show something else, which is "an increasing amount of work is being automated (and goods are produced by no one in particular), and this benefits owners rather than workers."

If I make widgets and you build a robotic cog factory, why should my wages go up?
Or you can limit the percentage of funds you can get from certain types of entities in order to reduce or prevent dependence. My current employer (a research no profit) has this limitation in its basic rules
Daenerys (Game of Thrones) would start advising startups
Yes irrespective of that blocking the real estate, I've seen a lot of people using it for the first most belief that the power button's life extends since used less and then proximity of the on-screen button is relatively closer than the power button. Even people use it to activate siri rather than home button.
>Show me a macroscopic system that exhibits true wave-particle duality and can be used as an analogy for quantum systems, then I'll take it seriously.

With the "true" in that sentence, we might be dealing with some moving goalposts, but this[0] is a well-known classical system which behaves similarly to a Bohmian description of QM and also exhibits interference, etc, on double-slit experiments.

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[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1401.4356.pdf
As a BI professional I am both offended and secretly delighted at your post. Don't tell everyone where the good work is!
I was going to say that I thought the banks had already vetoed facial recognition for payments such as Apple Pay but it seems Lloyds (UK) are trialling account login using it which isn't that far off.
Call of duty•worst gameplay ever
>Post-euclidean geometers did not claim that Euclid was wrong, but if the article is to be believed, this guy is saying everyone else is wrong, apparently with arguments that are sketchy at best.

When everybody else believed that euclidean geometry was the only one possible, someone that insisted otherwise would also be labelled a crank (and he would be right in calling others wrong).
“Hey Cortana, open Alexa” is bad UX. The “open” voice command feels like we are stuck in some former computer era. If there are multiple assistants on a device, each one should be triggered by their own keyword. I should be able to say “Alexa, …” and “Cortana, …”.
Actually Western Europe is in serious trouble. This argument isnt worth having if we cant agree on that.
Have you tried Freshbooks before? I reckon they are one of the easier tools out there.
Does the NFC sensor work through the phone like that?
Here's a compilation of links to get you started:
https://tamino.wordpress.com/climate-data-links/

Climate science is a big subject and you should start by understanding the basics of the subject. Spencer Weart's history of climate science is a good place to start:
https://history.aip.org/climate/index.htm

Also, I see many people with strong statistics/engineering backgrounds analyzing climate data and coming to wrong conclusions because they never bothered to learn the physics. Don't be those people.
You may give a positive sign, there are other reviewers who will give it a negative sign.

Interesting. What would be the rational behind assigning a negative weight to that? I have a hard time seeing that point of view. I'd think that, at worst, the presence of MOOC(s) on a resume would be neutral.
This struck me as funny because "a sentence loaded with terms specific to a field" probably is too wordy.

Although it may be appropriate given the context and target audience.

I get what you are saying though.
I think you are missing the best aspects of namedtuple. The positional properties are there to ease interaction with other APIs. The vast majority of access should be through `.member`
Maybe this site?

https://digiconomist.net/bitcoin-energy-consumption
Off topic: @pbsd your comment history is amazing for quality, topics covered and so forth, it's a shame you have no "about" section in the HN account, I bet many people would be glad to be able to follow your Blog / Twitter / whatever. I also respect people that don't want exposure, so take this just as an appreciation comment in case you don't like the suggestion.
You still need your finger on the sensor when it actually triggers - difficult when the device you're interacting with isn't expecting a finger but a flat card.
Oh hey, it's that comic. Was wondering what it was.

However, as accurate as it is for the overly ambitious (an old saying I had about the social media part was that 'millionaires are overrepresented on the internet'), I feel it (and a lot of people online in general) are a bit confused about how many young people/generation Y folks/millenials/whatever else are super ambitious.

Because I don't think the large majority of young people are all as ambitious as the media likes to make out. I feel a large percentage of them are pretty content with a comfortable life in the suburbs with 2.5 kids and a dog. They're either happy with their decently well yet convenient job or would be quite happy to get one so long as it pays for a beer or two at the weekend.

What I do think is that the 'super ambitious' image is itself filtered by most writers working in a tech or media bubble. Of course they think younger generations are incredibly ambitious and not happy with anything less than being millionaires; they're working in industries where those who go into them have that mindset.

Just keep in mind there still are a decent amount of people who just want to have an enjoyable life with a steady paycheck rather than to gamble everything on the hopes of becoming the next Mark Zuckerberg.
Wow. Really, really impressive. How far back did BIOSes do this - has it always been done?(!)

I can completely understand it being a struggle now. At some point was I thinking of getting into tinkering with DDR3/4 on FPGAs (to play with some video capture ideas), but I'm beginning to not look forward to it... heheh
Future of Wearable Healthcare: Going Way Beyond Smartwatches and Fitness Trackers
"Keep Calm and Continue Sacrificing Your Young To Mammon"
Bill Gates, as noted in your linked article, is against aggressively raising the minimum wage.

As with Warren Buffett, he is in favor of raising the income tax credit rather than the minimum wage. It's a radically better solution for improving wages in the near-term. A too-high minimum wage artificially cuts off the supply of who a business can hire, based on what someone's labor is worth to said business (they have to be able to afford the cost of the labor). An increased income tax credit, paid for via higher taxes on the top ~1/3 income bracket, avoids the problem of pricing low skilled labor out of the market and enables businesses to hire a lot more people whose labor isn't yet worth eg $10 or $15 / hour.

Taxing productivity is an extraordinarily bad idea. It's up there with taxing every search result or trying to slow down computing productivity by abusively taxing cloud computing or smartphone & PC usage.