skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Putting aside the discussion regarding productivity, there is a case where I have found execution time to matter. Scaling an application which uses an unsharded database. The long transaction durations and number of connctions were bottlenecking db throughput. The particular app was a Ruby/Rails monolith.
How I Convinced Our CTO to Switch from CoffeeScript to ES6
Basically after the merger with Compaq in 2001, HP lost interest in their calculators. They still technically sell them, but they aren't advertised to any degree. Obviously since the advent of the smartphone the need for dedicated calculators is lessened, but as you say, the haptic feedback is nice and TI seems to be still selling a lot of calculators.
EXPOSE?
heh, I might have just left the phone going, that 22.50 an hour was coming from somehwere...
Certain religious groups in the past (and maybe present) did hold very similar views. E.g. remember not having curtains on windows, etc.
This is the highest-impact format with which one can consume news, though. Magazines are great, but lots of people are just looking for a quick shot of the current news. This sort of UI is ideal for that need.

This is exactly why the Drudge Report has stayed relevant for 20 years.
The Academic Ideologies That Are Dividing America
Yeah, I find the view of "equality" here to be weirdly specific. He seems to mean equality of allocation of goodies, and he seems to think that if it isn't the only thing people want, then they don't want it at all.

Sure, I don't want a hellscape where everybody is equally miserable when compared with a well-off world where most people are happy and some people are miserable. But if I have to choose between an equal hellscape and a hellscape where some people are merely miserable and others are extra-screwed, then I'm going to pick the equal hellscape. I want both happiness and equality.

The biggest omission to me here, though, seems to be completely ignoring power. Economic equality is tightly bound with the distribution of power. Powerful people have an easier time getting rich; rich people have more power across many dimensions. People signal their power and status through economic expenditure.

Somehow, though, the word "power" doesn't even come up here. Maybe the thing people "really" want (if that framing isn't entirely broken) is equality of power. That shouldn't be a surprise in that America had a whole revolution about that, and then a civil war to boot.
You're playing on the details, this could be rephrased like the previous sentence:

"your freedom of speech ends where the freedom of speech of others begins"
A GREAT calculator. I wrote a portable forth which I use for hex conversion which I still use frequently.
And a fault was found! The original proof, as published, is incorrect. The error and the fix was published in "A revision of the proof of the Kepler conjecture" (2009). https://arxiv.org/abs/0902.0350

Note that we now actually know there is no more fault, because formalization is complete.
Will Mastodon continue to be compatible with GNU social as well?
Cryptography for Cryptocurrency talk (covers Ethereum and Bitcoin)
Rise of Blockchain and ICO – Part 1
I can recommend https://cor.ax which is similar to this
Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio Spreads His Gospel of ‘Radical Transparency’
With all the discussion of meritocracy and how it doesn't actually exist, at most I can believe some people want fairness.
I love that excerpt since it was classic Pournelle: included a nice extra bit of detail that showed he was "in the know" yet was not actually true (RMS was never a grad student). He used to boast he was part of Reagan's "Kitchen Cabinet" of space advisors, and talked about their EOB meetings -- but i knew folks on the NSC technical advisory committee and it was nothing like he described.

I never let on that the person he "knew" online and the person he knew offline were the same me.
And considering the state of the web I doubt there was any punishment at all.
Perhaps some PETA volunteers will allow themselves to be infected in order to save the parasites?
I apologise that despise was a little harsh for what I was hurriedly trying to say but the very uncompressed idea is that IF the belief "a man's hard work alone determines my respect of them" is a fairly common justification of income from work AND income without work exists THEN people earning income without work goes very much against that belief that only hard work earns approval. The 'respect' part was intended to mean 'respect exclusively' like as might be exemplified in the particularly intense conviction some might have against 'lazy poor people living handouts', as well as the rich living off of capital gains. This black-and-white perspective belongs a fairly vocal minority.

Although people who sanctify work do elevate it to a question of toil, why wouldn't gambling (of any kind) just be a really expensive (albeit fairly toil-free) side-gig? No matter how different their hopes are from what is statistically likely, nor compelling the possibility that the lottery ticket could actually be a kind of masquerading windfall, the thinking isn't "this is my investment vehicle" but more "if I 'try hard enough' [by buying enough to win] I will eventually succeed."
Niche? Most every Mastodon instance I've joined has been more like clique, almost the exact opposite of an open social thing.
Are we backing the wrong ideas?
> These [sic] credit information don't give much benefit to Americans, it gives benefits to businesses

Americans own, work at and consume the products of businesses. If there is a class American law generally holds above investors, in terms of protection, it's consumers.

I would also argue consumers benefit from our credit rating agency system, shitty as it is--it allows more people to get cheaper credit faster and more easily than if we had to establish trust at every commercial interaction.
Ask HN: What does HN think of our idea for expectant first time parents?
There's no shortage of information about pregnancy out there, but it's scattered and of varying quality. My wife and I recently had a baby and both of us are in healthcare, but good, high quality information was surprisingly difficult to come by especially in one concentrated, trustworthy source. It got to the point of me looking up obstetrics textbooks to have specific questions answered.

For the pregnant and new parents in the group - What do you think of an online subscription service where pregnant women and first time parents can access videos from leading OB's, midwives, anesthesiologists, and nurses on pregnancy, what changes during pregnancy, what to expect during delivery, how an epidural is done and the science behind it, what happens during a c-section, drugs used during labor, etc.

There are definitely books out there, but especially when you have full time jobs it's hard to read a lot of good quality books. Throw in the time to do research on what books to trust, and we were frustrated. Not everyone has the time, inclination, or ability to read an obstetrics textbook to get the "Correct" answer (which by the way there are several "major" textbooks and they actually vary amongst themselves in the details of certain things)

This would be a subscription service (because after the baby is born or you're on to the next baby, you don't really necessarily need the info). Our goal is that if you keep up with the content by the end of your pregnancy you should have a great understnading of what's happening, and feel very comfortable with the pregnancy and the whole delivery process.

What do you think of this idea? It would take a lot of work and effort to ensure complete peer-review of the information and getting access to true experts, in addition to translating accurately to the layperson, and having a well designed website. Honest feedback and criticism appreciated!
I used to make shopping once a week. Since some food doesn't last very long I would plan my meals according to the kind of food. For example on the shopping day I would usually eat fresh fish.
Some meat would go to refrigetator for short term consumption, some to the freezer to be used later.
Fruit and vegetables are more tricky, since in my opinion the lose a lot if you freeze them. You can though try to get less ripened fruits, in order to consume them in later days.

In any case, according to what my American friends told me, in their case most probably it is because they don't buy much fresh food at all.
UB comes with high-level languages. "main" is not specified in the high-level language, but by the OS. You write some machine code, give it the name "main" and the OS jumps to that location and starts executing. One should adhere to the "C calling convention" (managing the stack correctly) if that code is expected to behave within the system.

But "main is not a function" does not produce undefined behavior.
Does implementing ActivityPub mean identities can be portable across servers now?
Yeah. Additionally:

The article presents this as some weird thing due to it being a species not normal for humans. My college biology professor said that where they end up in the body has to do with how you get exposed. If you are exposed through the usual route, they end up in the usual places. If you get exposed some other way, she told us it can be worse, they can end up in places like the brain.

I don't know how to google a citation backing that up (I tried). But I remember my professor specifically mentioning they can end up in the brain.
Coded letter by 17th Century nun is translated using software from dark web
My upvote was only for the first sentence.

Web infrastructure is not broken, it's just being abused. That abuse leads to some pretty incredible technology though.
> "Canada is showing signs they might do it, which will trigger a landslide, but at the moment that's only speculation."

Speculation? The federal government of Canada has passed a law to legalize cannabis as on July 1st, 2018. Implementation is left to the provinces, who can set target prices, who/how will sell it, how much it will be taxed, etc, but the law also explicitly allows shipping cannabis through the post across provinces, as a way to go around any restriction a province might impose. The effects are already very present on the stock market. This will have a very big impact on the US, one can suspect the same as the end of alcohol prohibition in the 30s (where Canada played an important role).
I'm actually very pro-formalization and mechanical verification -- both for mathematics and computer science. $HOBBYPROJECT involves automated theorem proving, while I'm trying to convince $DAYJOB to adopt some formal methods.

I was just pointing out that the person got flagged for commenting that "witness and dump" isn't actually very useful for mathematics as a field, except as a signal that we should investigate a topic further. But in the case of the ABC conjecture, we already have plenty of incentive to investigate.

I think mathematics and science have a lot of learn from computer science in terms of managing large models, proofs, etc -- and that we'll get a lot of automatic tools. That will all be really great.

But there are proofs that are basically just brute-forcing a solution for which we have no higher-level understanding, and those don't really add much by way of knowledge to mathematics. At the point that those are all we can generate for "big" problems, we may be in trouble.
https://twitter.com/SarahJamieLewis/status/90518526170057932...
Love it, now Yahoo!'s disasterous bloated website needs it but it's mostly clickbait anyway but attests load clickbait faster
The article "This is what South Florida looks like now" kinda loses its purpose here
Equifax Lobbied to Kill Rule Protecting Victims of Data Breaches
They've already spent a ton and bought probably 1M square feet in New York. I know it's expensive as hell, but I don't how that slows them down at all. It's the default first choice for any big business on the east coast.
You probably want the "HTML5 Autoplay" Chrome extension which stops the overwhelming majority of these. It was a problem on Bloomberg as well as CNN, but now you'll see the window spin for a second and then stop.
We have too many things that are felonies. A proper punishment would be to clean up all their mess and pay a fine.

"Should be a serious felony," is how we got into the police state we are approaching. Just because it's emotionally distasteful to uglify nature doesn't mean it warrants years in prison, never being able to work again, and never being able to vote again.
Right, where RPN really shines is in more complex operations where other calculators need parenthesis to group sub-operations, whereas you can just push stuff up the stack, and it in turn can be rolled, swapped… definitely a nerds' tool of choice
I've been thinking about introducing a similar alternative to my webpage, but in order to support terminal browsers or IE
Why Total Addressable Market (TAM) Doesn’t Matter to Me
I don't think he disagrees with the fact that parasites cause extreme suffering, nor that ending this suffering is a good thing.

Rather, I think his point is that there's a hidden cost to the loss of biodiversity that ridding the world of parasites entails. Moreover, his point is that ethical analyses (such as the one you present) tend to minimize the extreme complexity of biological systems, and that therefore the conclusions of such analyses should be viewed suspiciously.
Google owns one of them, so there's that distinction...
Moderators didn't touch this post. Its rank was affected by user flags and the overheated-discussion detector.
AltaVista had a full set of boolean operators, so you could search for [Foo AND (Bar OR Baz) AND NOT Quux], which I still miss. Google appeared just when AltaVista ‘graduated’ from a showpiece for the Alpha to trying to make money and therefore turned to crap.
Is anybody actually proposing a giant red reset button? Because that seems like a particularly egregious straw man to me.

Parents being good to their children is great. Parents sacrificing for their children is great. Keep doing it. But when what is given to child A comes at the expense of child B, then that is not so great.

As an individual, definitely please do focus on your children. But when we're talking about how we design society, we have to look at all the children.
Yes, telling me the call was costing them at least 22.50 an hour would incentivise me to stay on the call for as long as possible.
Good on Tesla for doing what's good for these specific customers than worry about their corporate image. If they continue to act on the users' behalf these events which may tarnish other companies will have no negative impact.
Don't be evil: Google’s soft power to regime change
The article linked at the top of this thread discusses the need for different identifiers in different information contexts (education, health, tax, etc.).

Many education institutions 20 years ago used SSNs as a unique identifier for students. On the first day of class, the only way to determine if a body present in a class was actually enrolled was to confirm SSN.

Confirming identity in an education context is crucial in the first few weeks of class because being officially enrolled in a course affects student loans, work study, graduation paperwork, health insurance, etc. Additionally, many educational institutions have a policy that students not present for a class's first X meetings will be dropped from the course, a mechanism which allows students physically present to enroll in enrollment-capped courses (especially important for required courses).

One of the most straightforward ways educators had of verifying that a body was in fact who that body said he or she was--was to ask for SSN because many educational institutions used SSNs as unique identifiers (but not necessarily verifiers).

In other words, asking for verifying information enabled the educator to complete the institution's academic mission and to facilitate the educational needs of students.

It is not the fault of educators that financial institutions also use SSNs as both means of identification and verification.

As "clueless" as an educator might have been, he or she might be partially absolved for requesting PII in the context of educational bureaucracy. Granted, it would be better if each information context had unique identifiers that are not SSNs since SSNs are used by financial institutions.

EDIT: readability, grammar, clarity.
Drug for 'Neglected' Chagas Disease Gains FDA Approval Amid Price Worries
I wonder how 2000 servers can host 800.000 users. It means that, on average, a server can host 400 users. I really appreciate this project for several reasons, but it (sadly) looks like a waste of resources with these numbers.
remember when rss was going to give us this?
[1 3 Enter 3 + 4 Enter 2 × ÷] is 10 button presses for RPN.

[1 3 + 3 = ÷ 4 ÷ 2 =] is also 10 button presses, and how I would have entered it on an infix $10 TI-30XA during an exam. (At least, it's how I would have entered it if the figures weren't so small.) You could argue that it's cheating to "cook" the input beforehand so that the '4×2' divisor becomes two '4' and '2' divisors, but then you would have to ignore that RPN requires its own pre-cooked input (and that of the two, the RPN form is the one that relies on a more extensive cook).
Cisticercosis is one those poop-transmitted diseases. It can be prevented by giving everyone access to good sanitation and also ensuring that crops aren't irrigated with contaminated water.
I'm all in with Google. All my business email and services are as a paying G-Suite customer. I have my business email pull in email from all my other non-biz accounts.

The experience as a paying Google customer seems to eliminate the oft-repeated complaints people have about Google.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I get technical support, with a real person, should I need it. (and I've needed it) The experience was fantastic. YMMV, of course.

I keep a backup copy of my email, off of Google infra, should any of the worst-case scenarios take place.

It's orthogonal to this discussion, but if I could do all of my coding from a Chromebook, the experience would be complete. I've had issues in the last 24 hours with both a Mac, and a Windows machine and it was Chromebook to the rescue. It just doesn't have the same level of functionality, as you already well know.
This could actually be a cool idea. It seems like the Fulton Market boom flopped and all the real estate went to condos and luxury apartments. Moving a major tech hub into the loop could have some interesting outcomes like balancing the opportunities for people who don't have easy access to the near north and west sides.
Agreed, it is one of those irrational triggers for me where I go from fine to furious in maximum reaction time. Just imagining it happening gets my blood pressure up.

How about a chrome extension where you can put domains on a time-based blacklist for offenses against your sensibilities.

So if you go to CNN and they autoplay an ad, you can blacklist them for 1 week - Should you forget or carelessly click one of their links, this pops an interstitial page that reminds you of their offenses and gives you the opportunity to rescind your request for a page view.

Additionally there is an opt-in for you to report the offenses to a central service for public scrutiny/shaming... thoughts?
That's architecture-specific. On some machines there is indeed a separate "execute-only" segment in the ELF file. But on many architectures (x86) there has historically been no hardware support for that, and for compatibility reasons the standard linker output still maintains the same scheme.
It's interesting to me to see shifting viewpoints around this. I've been building the Bloomberg Terminal for a long time, and to both users and programmers coming from the web ecosystem, there is often an immediate (somewhat) negative reaction as to why anyone (really any business, not person) would pay so much money for what the software provides. But once in a while, when you see something like this come along, you see viewpoints specifically pertaining to news and what everyone wishes they had was clean text-and-basic-photos delivery of relevant news without any ad-, web-, tracking-, social- bloat of the modern <insert any news corporation> website. That is specifically what businesses are paying for, and it is just one feature; what they get for their money is much larger than just one or a dozen news sites. They get something on the order of 100k feeds (e.g. WSJ is 1 feed) in dozens of languages from around the globe in all their text-only glory. So yeah, it could look like a throwback from another era. Or, alternatively, it could be exactly what everyone wants :)
I agree. I don't see the point of the article -- it basically says "we should discuss the rich some more" and nothing much else; I can't find any constructive or productive conclusion in the article.

And I strongly disagree with the premise that the rich want to BS themselves via euphemisms or hiding their income and thus they'll remove some imaginary stain. I am sure some of them do that, but what the author misses is that many people who worked hard and/or inherited a ton of money aren't scumbags and are actually down-to-earth. And as you pointed out, they also don't want to paint a target on themselves. I don't want people knocking on my door begging for money (relatives I haven't seen in 15+ years already do that, damn it), or having an increased advertisement exposure (gods, please no!), or having people trying to hack my website, invoicing system or whatever. I am much better off living with my loved people and my money and chilling and enjoying life instead of constantly working to tighten security from every direction I am likely to be attacked from. No, thanks!

I have been gradually improving my financial life by working hard and picking my battles and now that I can freely order two copies of the so-called iPhone X (or Pro, we still don't know the moniker) without feeling much pressure... I honestly am much more judgemental on how do I spent money.

The fact that you have money and you worked for them to me automatically means you learn the value of money and don't want to just throw them in a black hole.

(For what it's worth though, I wouldn't feel guilty in front of a house-maid... I'd either raise her wage by 50% or so and in doing so would make sure that person remains loyal to me as long as she wants that kind of career for herself... or I would discuss it once with my wife, we'd conclude we shouldn't increase wages based on vague guilt feelings, and be done with that topic forever.)
> "main" is not specified in the high-level language, but by the OS. You write some machine code, give it the name "main" and the OS jumps to that location

main() is specified by C. The OS as such doesn't know or care about main. Headers in the binary executable specify where the OS should begin execution, and this is rarely in main.
Can I see your script that plumbs volume level to ipfw rules?