skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can remember at my first job (which was a long way away from the Exchange / central office).

The carrier signal was a little weak and I had to whistle the correct tone down the line to get the other end to pickup :-)

We also when we had a project that used modems for remote data collection our electronics shop modified (technically illegal) the modems with adjustable gain
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I've been thinking about this a lot lately.

Foucault was prescient about the sorts of harms panopticon would cause, and the metaphor is still an informative one. In particular, it was an insightful as to psychology under uncertain surveillance. But people are still calling it hyperbole when in fact we surpassed it years ago.

Panopticon had vulnerabilities: a brief or infrequent transgression could go uncaught, and an uncaught transgression could never be recovered. The current situation is that active surveillance can be applied algorithmically to everyone, and 100% of past data can be retained for later analysis. That's utterly unprecedented, and I don't think we've really done much to grapple with what it's going to mean.
That's just it, maybe it is time to put it back into the hands of the end-user? You don't need to ask the user for every field, just an override for fields that have autocomplete=off. Add a simple mark for "Autocomplete was turned off on this site for this field" where clicking it overrides. You could add similar marks for fields with onpaste handlers to deactivate them.
Ah, interesting, I thought the ESP32 had the same layout as the ESP8266 (processor + flash storage) so I got confused. I guess the ESP8266 storage is embedded in the chip. Very nice breakout, I'll have to look around for a 864 MHz one.
In the 50s, everyone knew by the year 2000 everyone would have a rocket car, because technology was progressing so fast. Turns out the most advanced aeronautical tech peaked in the 70s, and we just stopped giving a shit about advancing it past that point. We're only now bringing back supersonic transatlantic flights, 14 years after we stopped them because it turned out it was expensive.

When people talk about AI, they don't talk realistically, they talk theoretically. Just look at trains. New York City subways have been trying to modernize their switching system for 25 years. Estimates show as long as 50 more years just to finish upgrading existing tracks. Are the people that are upgrading the track going to get replaced before then? Not likely.

Even if all practical common sense is thrown aside and you imagine a Jetsons world where robots have taken over most jobs, there will be new jobs, because we will have new industries built on top of the automated ones. We just invent new jobs, the same way we invented them for a technology industry that did not even remotely exist 50 years ago.

All of this AI hype also depends on the status quo, and in all likelihood our society won't even be remotely the same in 40 years. Estimations like these depend on the US maintaining its hegemonic dominance over global trade. How the hell is it going to do that if its deficit grows exponentially and it can barely fund its federal budget every few months? Is Silicon Valley going to keep pumping out new technology once the unlimited tap of VC money dries up? Can the industry withstand a collapse of the current regime of super-consolidated monopolies? Will bare-bones politics end up poisoning and strip-mining the land we currently overburden for a few genetically modified crops, reducing economic output to fracking protected wilderness for oil and gas and white collar work in a paltry few cities on the coasts?

Who knows, but assuming robots will take all our jobs in 40 years sounds like extremely magical thinking.
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Please STOP using tufte fonts for everything that's displayed on a web site. No exception ever.

These fonts are only available on Apple OS. They will render poorly on everything else, making the text hard to read and killing your readership.

You don't need to believe me, just ask any web designer recommending tufte fonts what operating system he's using? You'll quickly realize that they're all on apple.

Tufte (1942 - present) did a lot of work on typesetting for printing books, sadly his work was never adapted or ported to computers.
I'm working on a few things.

1.) a web analytics tool written in Elixir. I'm not sure if it will be used by anybody or if it will even make money if it is used but it is something that is helping me learn the OTP more as this is mostly backend service work and not a phoenix app. This will include status monitoring of links and resources to alert to any 404's as well as will include site analytics such as traffic but in a way that will prevent the need for putting up the cookie warning on your site.

2.) Job site for COBOL jobs. I'm waiting on approval from Indeed to gain access to their API to help monetize the site as well as provide much better information regarding the jobs.

3.) A self-published e-book on design patterns in C#
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I have seen many computer programmers express their distaste in traditional math notations. I have an opposite opinion, probably because I majored in physics as an undergraduate. Whenever I read/write source codes with heavy math formulas, I feel lost in a sea of verbosity. While the unambiguity renders the trees clearer, the verbosity blinds me from the forest. I always have to step back and write in the traditional form to understand.

Because people with a math background, rather than those with a CS background, dominate the field of math, the notation is unlikely to change ever.
"best viewed with" followed by your query (ex: "best viewed with" dragons) gets you lots of great old results in a regular search engine. It will grab any sites that said "best viewed with truetype fonts", "best viewed with Netscape" et cetera from the internet's heyday.
How will crypto apps make money?
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Frondo is 100% correct. No food truck is spending $1000 on a website to outsider and no food truck is spending $1000 a month on a retainer and no food truck is spending $25k/mo on a tracking software.

Watch the Great Food Truck race. Those are the margin. Those are the $$ amounts. It is hand to mouth.
Mine (PasswordSafe) doesn't, and it's probably not the only one.
>The chips were made popular by NodeMCU which uses Lua, but you can easily run Arduino or write plain C on the same hardware.

I'm pretty sure that its the work done to make these into $3 wifi arduinos that is what made them popular. That's why wemos literally sells one that is shaped like, and has the same header spacing as, an arduino uno.
I'm also seeing broken/missing CSS on Debian/FF 56.0.2.
This is a discussion about "addEventListener" not "scrollTo".

The article has nothing to do with scroll jacking other than the fact that all JavaScript events are listened to via "addEventListener".
I think this article is worth to activate JavaScript.
>If you correct for the income & wealth levels of the international district and match them to american districts with similar levels, you have similar academic results. There's no gap.

Most well-off American school districts do not teach even their honors students integral calculus and linear algebra by the end of high school. Valedictorians in those districts haven't usually learned that much.

Most of those kids in Palo Alto with anxiety problems over academic competition will not learn that much math in high school. It's just not done in formal school curricula. Some people might get it through taking college courses early or joining "math clubs", but no large mass of students will get it through their curriculum -- let alone the full population capable of it.

Money is being left on the table here because Americans think that real rigor comes from suffering, and anyone inadequate for the extreme suffering and boredom of secondary-school level "slow" learning is obviously inadequate to go ahead and do real work.
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If you want tickets to fix, join a digital agency. Ask what kind of clients they nurture. Media is good. You want to work making NBC apps for Android. Things like that. You will reach millions.

Such a change might bring a different type of stress. The feeling that you're helping lobotomize a generation with mindless entertainment instead of helping cure cancer. Also, the tickets.
Oona is one impressive female.
It's based on Debian, and the main problem with Debian and systemd is that systemd dependencies have spread everywhere, and it's really hard to install any systemd alternative without accidentally pulling in systemd, too.

I know because I tried to do that for quite some time before I had to give up, and switched to Devuan.

So if AntiX in any way similar to Devuan, you probably can use any of the init-alternatives you'd like.
Game developers are similarly employing psychologists to maximize addictiveness of gambling in games targeted and children and teens in the form of "loot boxes", and due to lack of regulation, they are allowed to use even more scummy techniques that the gambling industry had long been prohibited from using, in order to more effectively squeeze money out of players.
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Regarding 3): most benchmarks I've seen quote 2-7% difference in IPC to Intel. I wouldn't call that low/mid-range. Am I misunderstanding something?
Yes, it does. Provide input, expect output, send to maintenance dept. when errors occur.
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It looks like they've started, but no meaty arguments for and against over here yet.
There is no adjective or other qualifier in the original comment. You're reading it in.

If you need more clarity, see the same commenter's "JS is a pox on the web" comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15636056
Fine, I'll call out that it's good.

I mean honestly you should have seen the writing on the wall with user-scalable: it inhibited the user from doing something they wanted to do, it hurt accessibility, it made websites imperceptibly inconsistent, and there isn't a good way of asking the user if they would like to disable zoom.
I just spent some time working with Eto.Forms (based upon your recommendation, thanks!). It looks pretty nice and seems straight-forward. I also appreciate that it officially supports F# in addition to the regular C# and VB.NET.

Unfortunately, it doesn't support .NET Core/Standard yet. The lead dev, Curtis Wensley (@cwensley), is currently working on supporting it and said that he hopes to have to completed in time for the Eto 2.4 release, per their Gitter chat (https://gitter.im/picoe/Eto?at=59d65ab4177fb9fe7e41ff9e).

Another interesting detail is that Avalonia seems to be using Eto's parser implementation. And Eto is (will?) using AvaloniaUI's (the parent of Avalonia) monomac implementation.
Democrats added antitrust to their 2018 platform. It's a bit milquetoast and avoids mentioning the big players but it appears to be a start. It'll be interesting to see whether it's a throwaway or if they might do something with it.
ObDilbert: http://dilbert.com/strip/1995-11-13

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> does assumption on how things "should" be (in a highly subjective way)

They claim they are making these decisions based on user data which I have no reason to doubt.

> and breaks the web.

Breaks crap websites that are broken already from performance and usability perspective.

I personally think this is exactly what is needed to make the web better as a whole.

Individual developers working for individual companies are rarely if ever thinking about the good of their users, except in a very narrow profit motivated sense, and never thinking about the good of the ecosystem as a whole.

Google is also "breaking the web" by not auto playing videos, not allowing alerts in one tab to block the entire browser, etc. Those all seem like good things to me.
I like the look of Tufte CSS. I used it for my personal website, with some changes – http://mplewis.com
Yeah it wasn't much fun was it :)
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We track usage share of search engines. We do not have Qwant detection at this point, but what I can see:

- Out of 7972 sites, 561 have received at least one referral from Qwant.

We will need to explore this further to get usable numbers.
I always wanted to know this. But by the time I was old enough to understand it, dialup was out of my life.
There's a substantive difference between "simple" and "just happens". It's why my BT headphones sit in a drawer, while I gladly anticipate paying 16x as much for AirPods (and no, the money isn't freely available). The error mode for "simple" is "hard", while the error mode for "just happens" is "simple".
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This ties interestingly to the news about Bitcoin power usage from last week: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywbbpm/bitcoin-mi...

The beauty of Bitcoin is an inherently-trustworthy transaction structure without the need for a central authority or trust between parties. The cost is exactly what you describe - trust is replaced by a massive expenditure of work to independently verify everything. It's an interesting microcosm of what's happening throughout society in general.
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Same here - I usually avoid multiplayer games altogether but this weekend I discovered VR poker and was utterly immersed - am playing in my first tournament tonight!
Yes, yes, we all understand that Scihub is thumbing the nose at copyright. On the other hand, how is the nation served by scientific journals held behind excessive paywalls? What Elsevier are really doing is using public resources to keep their income going. That can't be correct either.
There will be a shake out, no doubt. The more valuable question to ask and answer is "which" cryptos will survive and thrive and "when" will this bubble burst?
So we're going to have a great firewall of America now? Wow.
Interestingly, the deflation that happened recently in ICOs and Alt currencies seems to have boosted Bitcoin price (as the % share of bitcoin jumped)

While a bubble burst will affect most of the crypto, I wonder if crypto-currencies will survive the effects differently.
That would still be fine if OpenCL was similarly-performing on Intel/AMD and a 1st class citizen of various Deep Learning frameworks. OpenCL is just an afterthought there sadly.
Do you think if JS weren't available advertisers and marketers wouldn't try everything to shake some $ off your pocket? You would be pissed the same way.

Also if it weren't JS, would it make a difference if the bullshit is created by lisp, java or erlang?
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That's a good point but even a total surveillance system has limits of actionability. Any given response system or mechanism is going to have limits of attention that it can apply to actual and justifiably observed behaviour. That is, if the goal is to identify, and reduce, negative behaviours, then whatever it is that your policing mechanism is can only act on some n cases in any given period of time.

The problem is that reducing negative behaviours in a just fashion is not the only, or even the most likely, possible dynamic for such a system. In a tyrannical regime (political, social, economic: this is not strictly related to politics), there's a great deal of power and control to be had by acting arbitrarily, without predictability, and without recourse, at any given time.

Take the example given in Paths of Glory, a 1957 film telling the story of the (arbitrary) execution of three French soldiers who had refused to undertake suicidal attacks in the trench warfare of World War I. The process draws on the ancient tradition of decimation, which is the arbitrary killing of one in ten of ones own troops* in order to instill on the remainder the consequences of failure to follow command.

The real risk of global surveillance is that it provides either the justification for, or the plausibility of justification for, arbitrary prosecution of any given individual at any given time.

That's an absolutely despotic state.
Bitcoin is (or aims to become) digital gold. It is a possibility to store 'gold' in a way that you don't have to trust anyone to store it for you, and can only be stealed from you if somebody knows your private key. Even if you are skeptical about the whole crypto industry, I suggest you to consider that at least the above alone have tremendous value.

EOS is not a money though. It is a trustless high-throughput decentralized execution environment or 'decentralized trustless cloud' so to say. It is an amazing project from technical point of view, (when your cloud application runs, it is run on 21 block producer clusters independently which are voted by stakeholders). And I find it antiintellectual to downvote somebody that speaks positively about this project, while serious and honest debate about it is very rare on the net. (I understand you did not downvote me). Whether it is a good investment, is a tougher question that is why it is not my biggest investment as I mentioned.

As for digital money: Do we need a decentralized trustless money and payment network? There can be a debate about it, but I think, yes. There is a lot of competition in this space, and there is a possibility that because of network effects only one of them will become mainstream. I think DASH is the one that has the biggest potential to achieve this.
Thanks for the kind words.i will definitely reach out to you .
Probably not, as it would have been rapidly rediscovered. Particle physics is a large and active field of research.
The worrying thing is that now there's a single point of failure: Elbakyan. She has the power to cut off anyone she wants to, and she did it in the past to some Russian university that dared criticize her.
i agree in total todays web is better, but today its so closed, and we lost a lot as well.

- excite chat was better than anything we have today, irc chat remains awesome.

- on social networks of yore, you could actually meet new people. you could search for new people and expand your circle to people completely outside it. I believe its against facebooks TOS to try and connect to someone you dont know. i know my account was banned for 3 days because someone declined with 'they dont know me'.

- youtube sucks for viewing songs. like really sucks. you have commercials MID SONG. one time I had a playlist play a 15 minute long commercial. FIFTEEN MINUTES. half the songs in my playlist end up getting removed, and It doesnt tell me the song it use to be. so if i find a song i really like, add it to a play list and it gets removed, i completely forget about it. song lost. if you are going to compare songs, youtube losses hands down. napster / audogalaxy / was far superior. youtube is still great for watching a cat jump in a box, after watching a minute long commercial of course.

- google search is great, its superior to alt vista, which is why i switched from alt vista to google when it came out. but google gets stuck, if it cant give you want you want in the first 5 hits, it basically cant do it ever. you have to change search strategies. alt vista was bad, but the content was diverse. you could still find gems 5 'nexts' in. google also gets locked in on what it knows about me. sometimes i have to search in incognito mode to find what i want.

the 1990s web experiences was not just about how well content was delivered to you. you could chat a person you never met with a simple ASL. maybe you continued talking after the first day, maybe you didnt, but it was fun and you met new people all the time. people dont want to meet new people anymore.

people dont email or contact eachother anymore. before people would put effort into staying in touch. i remember checking emails with excitement. now even though you can talk to your network at any day, because you are always connected people dont. and its just a 'hey whats up'. people dont write long responses saying how their day was, and how their cat got locked int a closet, etc.

edit: i forgot to say the original digg was awesome, and in may ways better. also, I think most of us are comparing the web from 1998 - 2006, not the late 90s.
First of all I 100% wholeheartedly agree with the message of this post. However I have a minor quibble:

> Chrome broke half of user websites, the ones that were relying on touch/scroll events being cancellable

Either I badly misunderstood or the author is asserting that 50% of all websites rely on touch/scroll events being cancellable. That's inflated by at least 100x. Exaggeration is doing no favors here; the rest of the article is pretty rational despite it being clear that the author is pissed off, but this one sentence undermines it.

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Unrelatedly:

> We really don't have more than anecdote (and our metrics) on the "support" side, and no precise way to quantify the breakage. I'd love to have a more quantifiable way to make these sorts of trade offs.

(Emphasis mine.)

Wow. So they're breaking backwards compatibility in a standardized web API with no plan for how to measure the fallout? That's not very nice.
Bubbles are everywhere, one you probably never heard of is called humanity, yes our species.

One significant fuel of blockchain tech is the distrust in the current financial systems. If central bankers and governments could regain trust there is a probable chance of a bust.
Tcl/Tk has been able to do this for a long time:

http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/bitmover/lm/gui-config/gui.html
Arduino-compatible layer is useful when you don't want to setup real IDE or your own build system for native toolchain. For ease of development it does not buy you that much over straight C for anything remotely non-trivial. On the other hand many small MCUs can run RTOSes with somewhat POSIX-ish APIs (particularly notable in this space is ESPxx, for which the official toolchain is port of FreeRTOS and probably nobody uses it as bare hardware)
https://meet.google.com/

Although, it's not very good in Chrome either :)
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YC, the VCs with ethics only when it is at the expense of others.
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> "Those components, scientists have found, are called quarks."

Does anyone proof read anymore?
This is a course in progress. I think he's forgotten to add the most recent videos to the playlist but they're on the channel. Slides, code and references here:

http://phontron.com/class/nn4nlp2017/schedule.html
I fear for when the system doesn't allow it.

"Sorry, I can't do that on this computer" shouldn't be a thing. But it already is.
Android user with Airpods. Magical syncing doesn't do anything on Android. It's the battery life, ear comfort, and the fact that the case is designed so well. There isn't a single set of wireless headphones that does the same thing as the Airpods.