skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Accepted answer:

> This looks very much as if the units may have been converted to obtain the desired result. Indeed the different conversion factors but similar result in your second link increase the likelihood that there may cognitive bias involved

> For example, your distance conversions lead to 1 yojan being 29.2608 kilometres. Compare this with Wikipedia's 12–15 km and your second link's 9.09 miles (about 14.5 km)

> Similarly on time, your calculation gives 202,500 nimishas (twinklings of the eye) in a day-night while Wikipedia quotes Manusmṛti to give 486,000 and your second link gives 409,050

> Both references reach the same result by different conversion factors, which implies they're both biased and unreliable.
Except for the part where they don't have to pay a shift manager and the lunch rush never ends.
Microsoft needs to jettison more legacy so they can move faster.

Move faster to where?
I've heard there are signs in the elevators imploring employees to stay past 4 o'clock and enjoy the downtown amenities because everyone leaves at 4 and the downtown congestion gets pretty bad.

I know engineers at Amazon, many of them work very comfortable hours.
This is exactly what is already done! On Earth at least. Radio telescopes around the world observe (mostly) quasars to perform geodesy. This is the main method used to measure the Earth Orientation Parameters which is need for keeping GPS/GNSS calibrated.

With it, you can measure distances of several thousand km with a precision on the order of a few millimetres. The problem is that it's really expensive compared to GPS: at each site you need a reasonably size telescope, atomic clock, some serious storage, and a way to ship all the data to a central cluster.
My point is that computers are most certainly not making paper irrelevant. If anything, there's more paper now than ever.
Relevant, alternate implementation for C and C++:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/
Wouldn't low dose antibiotics be more likely to create antibiotic resistant bacteria than high dose?
could you elaborate? the only one i know of is IOTA , and it has many severe issues.
>So Windows 10 is the only version not yet in extended support.

Given that MS has said they're moving away from major version numbers, it's not in any way misleading. Windows 10 will continue to get incremental updates into the indefinite future. MS has intimated it may be the last major version ever, although that's not a hard commitment.
Why not link to the original article?

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/windowsitpro/2018/02/01/...
Thanks for the advice. The problem is I haven't bought a nintendo device since the super, so I had no idea what I was doing. Looking back the DS might have been better for him. The Switch just looked like so much fun.
> Streaming of computer screens is quite different compared to real life footage. UIs contain very shallow gradients (thus you want 10bit+), lots of flat areas which are easy to entropy-encode without any frequency domain quantization at all...

Well, you can get pretty good results with h.264 without B-frames. Modern composited desktops have caused traditional changed block (RLE, LZ) lossless codecs to perform badly.

> font rendering engines use subpixel anti-aliasing so you want 4:4:4 chroma

I think you can just gradually stream more (chroma) bits to stationary areas containing high detail (frequency) information, like text. In other words, tunable bit allocation between motion and stationary detail.

No matter what, there's no way to know what's the subpixel layout on the receiving end. Luckily Retina/HiDPI displays are increasingly lessening importance of subpixel rendering.
This project is awesome. Do you know if there's a way to bundle up something like a python or PHP script so it runs standalone without needing the runtimes on the target system?
The Simon Tatham version [1] is great because the puzzle generator eliminates situations that requires random guesses.

1) https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ (scroll down to "Mines")
If you've ever worked in such an environment, good workers welcome such measurement tools. So often slackers can befriend management and push off work on others without detection. It is very difficult to monitor performance in a fair and equitable manner without taking into account nepotism, racism, etc.
Sure:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2018/01/09/adobe-e...

Amazon is definitely working on improving this.

“Alexa, what are my deals?”

https://www.amazon.com/b?node=16924225011

Sounds like they will be investing significantly more into Alexa:

http://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-ceo-jeff-bezos-says-al...
Just a small nit, most of those are FSK but PSK31 and it's variants are actually Phase Shift Keying[1] which is pretty cool in its own right. Rather than changing frequency it's a shift of phases when combined with a 90' signal(often called quadrature, hence I/Q signal you see in SDRs) you can encode more than one bit per symbol.

Either way it's pretty cool stuff.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phase-shift_keying
Start a political party and fix it.
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To be honest, I would have been much more surprised if they'd spent time and money to support older versions as well. I mean, Win 7 mainstream support ended at the end of 2014 I think with extended support to end in January 2020.

Conclusion: entirely legitimate business decision?
The article (though it's very poorly written and unclear) seemd to suggest that this only applies to the standalone purchase installs, not the (usually, identical) installable versions included in Office 365 subscriptions.
> "Microsoft abuses it's monopoly position with Office to support it's Windows Monopoly."

Not really. Older versions of Office are not going to stop working. For many users, Office suites from the 90s are still sufficient for their uses.
The Sinclair ZX80 worked like that. As a result of which if you pressed a key the video would blank.
Looks cool but really should mention early on that it doesn't use SDL or OpenGL to render the game but uses a specific feature of iTerm2 to render a series of images in the terminal, on other terminals it just shows a black screen.
It seems a strange notion to restore nature with advancements in technology. Restore it to what, how it was before technology?

It is a nice thought, I guess, but it won't be Nature. It will be Nature: Restored. That is, something else.
Simplest (not easiest) personal solution is to not eat meat (or any animal products)
That was much more informative than I expected. Thanks!
This is awesome, and something I was doing as well for fun! Go's image package has some pretty nice primitives. One thing I think would make this even simpler is you could simply sequence the individual sprites using image.NewRGBA and simply setting the Pix slice to the values to draw the appropriate images, then you can avoid going to the os at all!
> It enables humans to organise and transact without any central authority for the first time.

Didn't that already happen before we even had central authorities?
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The legislators intended that via a complex web of shell companies obscuring ultimate ownership no taxes would be owed? I call shenanigans.
It takes certain developments in shipbuilding to cross oceans reliably, particularly the need to build ships that can take storms and high waves well. Crossing the North Atlantic without a keeled ship is a good way to guarantee shipwreck.

There's no habitation of intermediate island hopping points that one might expect from transoceanic-capable cultures before European exploration: islands like the Falklands, Bermuda, Azores, Iceland. It's plausible that isolated, shipwrecked people drifted to land via oceanic currents, but that's not the kind of contact posited.

Viking precolumbian contact is confirmed. Polynesian contact is suspected, but the only evidence for this is the sweet potato, and there is a maddening lack of cultural, linguistic, or archaeological evidence to back this up. Pretty much every other hypothesis tends to be rooted in individual misunderstanding of evidence, very loose artistic correspondence ("this image from <insert culture here> totally looks like <insert other culture here>. CONTACT CONFIRMED!"), nationalistic priority claims (particularly of the discovery of Grand Banks, and Chinese claims to have gotten to the Americas before Columbus), or outright fraud.
Not really. During the peaks of economic cycles, yes, we believe that we're on top of the world. But for most of the time, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age

You can't get stuff like MAGA without this psychological factor.
It does not.

Certain frameworks will encourage more of its use (such as with passing functions-as-props in React), but Javascript itself can support multiple paradigms, with the `this` keyword supporting only some of its messiest parts.
Any plans to make JavaScript (the standard) strictly typed? (I know about TypeScript, etc.)
Good link, although the article claims colistin is being used as a growth promoter, ie fed to healthy animals, not to "to treat intestinal infections" as in Europe.
>good workers welcome such measurement tools.

I find that hard to believe, at least a full time monitoring wrist band. Good workers like metrics, but of course, every metric can be gamed. They aren't as valuable as you might think they are.
In Europe, it's used to treat sick large animals, which are very expensive to replace. (Cows cost over a thousand dollars) In India, it is fed to 100% of healthy chickens to make them grow faster, because their immune systems don't have to deal with bacteria anymore, and so more energy goes into growth. The number of reproducing bacteria being exposed to antibiotics, (and therefore with a chance to develop immunity) is orders of magnitude higher with what Indians are doing than with what Europeans are doing.
I always wondered what the assist mode is. I think I will give that a try. I've noticed that he has fun just hanging out in the city and jumping around messing with things. So I have no regrets with Mario. The Pokemon however was a huge bust, because it wasn't cheap. It looks like a great game for an older kid. But he bought it with his Christmas money because he likes Pokemon, and then we started it and I can barely figure out everything that is going on with it.
PayPal is the whole reason I stopped selling on eBay 15 or so years ago.

I use PayPal as a buyer, I would NEVER use them as a seller.
Its still lacking some core features that make jupyter easier to use. I went through the tutorials and 10 min earthquake videos.

There's no shortcut for deleting items on the "help" section. No WYISWYG editor for that either. So if you want to delete a bulletpoint you accidentally made, it just shows up as "undefined"

There's not a way to bind your own hotkeys. Some of default hotkeys get overridden by my own set of hotkeys, so this isn't too helpful

I'm not a big fan of the UI/UX. I see where its going, collapsing items you don't want to see. But this gets rather tedious to always do everytime. There should be a default setting that lets you bind whether pins are defaulted or not.
Indeed, still using office 2007
Weird.. In a time when people are extra tuned to the relationship between technology and society and whether just because we can build something, should we (information bubbles, etc), it's strange that Alphabet would pick someone so out of touch with their impact to the long tail of humanity.

At least that's the impression I got of Hennessey from Malcolm Gladwell's podcast http://revisionisthistory.com/episodes/06-my-little-hundred-...
> No worries; folks won't be judged or measured as robots. Not an issue.

This is Amazon we're talking about... their warehouse workers are already "judged or measured as robots."

An efficiency metric based on tracking a worker's hand movements within standardized axes of freedom is totally something they would do if they felt there was money to be made.
Then what was your comment about?

The head comment was someone complaining that the US is going to shut.

The reply was that people would be leaving the country if things were looking bad because "Nothing prevents from moving to a different country."

The reply to that was, well, no, actually lots of things prevent people from just leaving the country and finding a new one, which makes that metric a very poor one for. Ensuring diaatisfaction.

And your comment was meant to rebut what exactly?
Research by the Centre for Science and Environment revealed that 70% of the milk sold in India is adulterated [1]. Unfortunately, there are little or no checks by the government agencies and businesses continues to sell adulterated products. People sell milk prepared out of refined oil and detergents. It has been covered widely [2], but the practice continues unabated.

It becomes hard to trust those selling organic stuff (milk, vegetables or chicken) as they are practically willing to supply as much quantity as one wants to procure.

Even vegetables sold in India are dangerous [3].

[1] http://www.cseindia.org/content/adulterated-milk-what-indian...

[2] https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2012/01/10/most-indian-m...

[3] https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/City/Lucknow/Veggies-on-...
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As someone who is just learning Go, this is a really cool bite-size project to read and learn from.

Very cool!
> Morality is allways individual action, as we are all individuals.

We are all individuals, but we're also very much social animals, and morality is a social matter. You're not born into the world knowing right from wrong, you learn it from others. When individuals make moral choices, they do so in a social context.
I think the measure of anything like this is whether you as "the boss" are willing to wear one too and make that data available to those work for you without restrictions. If you're willing to do that then OK - let's try this thing and see what happens.
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Of course they will. Do you even capitalism?
I often see debates here about how tech workers should or shouldn’t organize because they’re too highly paid, etc. But what if they organized to protect something more simple, like warehouse workers fundamental humanity?

I understand that people have had different experiences working on the tech side of Amazon, some great, some terrible. And yet I would hope that we can all look at this and say “this isn’t something I’d want for myself, my family, or my friends. This isn’t how you should treat people.”

Amazon is more likely to respond to people on the AWS team pushing pack in a concerted fashion than the warehouse workers they’ve already shown themselves to see as disposable
I've now also posted the vacancy to the Dutch government's official job board. You can find more details there: https://www.werkenvoornederland.nl/vacatures/detail/forensic...
Perhaps more interesting is the question of to what extent will it only work with Office 365
Bernie Meyers of IBM once told me that he believed FPGA would be the future of Moore's law. he felt strongly that they provided a performance and flexibility tradeoff that made them ideal for using in virtually all servers as coprocessors for certain functions. The fact that the FPGA code can be audited was a plus as well.
By completely vegetarian do you mean vegan? Because if you've come this far but still consume dairy or eggs, you might consider how the milked cow or egg laying chicken still lives a horrible life and eventually is slaughtered, too.

Edit: I'm vegan, for some of the above reasons, but also for other reasons.
But really... will they?

If this technology was used to find the bottom 10% of workers and correct their behavior or fire them, it would probably be fine.

But there are people who ARE able to maintain almost perfect efficiency for huge lengths of time. Everyone will be measured and everyone will be expected to preform. People in the "normal" range will be made to feel inadequate. Everyone will be getting prescriptions for ADHD meds to compete with the top performers. The top performers will then feel pressured to get the same medications in order to maintain their advantage.

This technology could put a lot of pressure on the system. And it could lead to people eliminating small breaks that might be necessary to maintain their mental health. I guess time will tell. I'm hoping companies use the idea responsibly and think about the long term incentives they create. But that doesn't seem likely.
Neither will help you if you for example pick up a resistant strain while for example in hospital.
I disagree with the overall thesis here-- that somehow abstracting away all the randomness of minesweeper makes it less "mechanical." Oftentimes, 1 square's outcome is less likely or even much less likely then another. Even better, sometimes 2 outcomes will be equally plausible, but 1 of them might be expected to reveal more information or to reduce entropy more. After playing enough, most plays become ingrained in you and mechanical-- the problem solving element comes in comparing probabilities.
The beauty of windows is that the newest version of windows runs the oldest programs. Not the other way around.
Perhaps there are signs of knapping on the pieces? I would surmise such signs may not be obvious to a layman, but may be to an archaeologist.
VSCode live pair-programming
How Does the Boss’s Pay Compare to the Rank and File?
Meanwhile in the free/open source world, LibreOffice works about anywhere and LaTeX works on my old chrooted chromebook, allowing me to write all my university stuff on a ~$300 computer.
I have used go in an embedded application (raspberrypi) in a soft realtime manner controlling and LCD over I2C and staying under a 1.5ms looptime. The hardest part is to undo all the things the kernel does and get access to memory so you can do memory based io, but luckily the go stdlib has everything you need to make it happen.
1. Unlike with other languages, the value of the "this" object depends on the context in which it was called

2. From what I can tell, VS Code DOESN'T solve it. It only autocompletes the "this" object under certain circumstances

(I could be wrong on this last point, since I haven't played around with it first hand)
The IPv6 shutoff is for clients first because NAT is a solution only for v6 client to v4 server; the way it works is you send packets to an IPv6 address that has an IPv4 address stuffed into 4 convenient bytes, and the NAT gateway installs a mapping for that communication. This doesn't work the other way around, because there's no way to address the IPv6 internet endpoints in an IPv4 packet to set up that initial mapping.

Generally the limitation is more about infrastructure (including private in-home routers) than about endpoint devices; Windows, OSX, iOS, Android, and Linux have all supported IPv6 for years.
> I really think this is an important distinction to make [...] they require two different solutions.

Agreed. The problem, and the source of the frustration, is that your average poster on hacker news (or average human being on earth) has 0% influence on either of the solutions. It is the mega rich who hold all the power, who have the resources, energy, and clout to play these games.

It doesn't really matter how you distinguish evasion and avoidance, both are driven by the same motivations, and where the line separating the two stands in any given jurisdiction is defined less by the qualities of the actual actions, and more by how much the rich have managed to encode into law vs. how safe they feel openly breaking it.
New features, fewer bugs, increased profitability... that is, towards the goals of pretty much any (software) company.
Just curious, what kind of work do you do now?
Is it just me or does this sound like they're using the wristbands as a way to build up a better dataset to further optimize their warehouse robots?

Externalities notwithstanding, these jobs surely won't exist in the very near future, right?
Gah to think of all the times I managed to fail to persuade people because I have short hair :)

To me it is a mix of feeling that spending money on cutting my hair is wasteful, spending time to go to a hairdresser is wasteful and so on. It's just a maintenance chore. And I don't feel it has ever caused me to perform subpar in my job or to have people take my arguments less serious. But I can see that form some people this might be the case.

In a way this is a luxury that men can afford themselves, if a woman would go to work with a very short hair it would immediately count as some statement rather than being efficient.
Is this true even with classes defined with the "class" keyword? I just tried it and I can't access fields without "this."
They're entitled to make whatever business decisions they like, but of course those of us who don't want anything to do with Windows 10 won't now buy their new product in this case, so only time will tell whether the business decision has the effect they're hoping for. Microsoft's strategy under Nadella seems to be shifting towards the extremes of enterprise-scale customers and lightweight home users at the expense of the SMEs and power users in between, so this decision seems consistent with their recent pattern.
Could you elaborate on that? I've never heard the term and Googling isn't being helpful.

https://www.google.com/search?q="faith+routing"+bitcoin

https://www.google.com/search?q="faith+routing"+cryptocurren...
Did you originally wanted to reply to my comment?

Anyway, what I see right now is, more and more food companies in germany are voluntarily adding in more and more transparency about the production chain. Because people are more conscious about it and more likely to buy things, which seems more ethical than the alternative.
And if they cheat, well, there are still things like investigative journalism and whistleblowing .. so most companies would not dare, I believe.
High Frequency Trading. They have been on the rise for last couple of years.
My personal solution has been to give up all animal products.
...and since you wrote straightforward code not relying on obscure platform-specific technicalities, even if you wanted to port it later, the port of the filesystem code was just a few #ifdef's away.
Adyen is crazy with the reserves. It's the sole reason we went with Stripe over Adyen.
There are a lot of pre-mined coins such as Ripple (XRP) and some are going to move to PoS (Proof of Stake) model instead of PoW (Proof of work, basically mining). Ethereum being one.

There are also plenty of PoS coins out there, although not yet commonly used, but people are aware of the problem and working to fix it.
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Type cast every step of the way? Methinks you are either doing something wrong or dealing with unstructured json.
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What's the difference between having a camera recording you for 1 hour a workday, in 8 blocks of 7-8 minutes, and having a camera recording your entire workday, or even a single hour with no breaks?
Countries can't have it both ways. You can't hate legal avoidance, while at the same time trying to steal tax revenue from your neighbour with similar tax incentives.
My biggest takeaway from that link was the sidebar:

> THERE WILL BE MORE PLASTIC THAN FISH IN THE SEA BY 2050

Think about the size of the oceans. How much plastic we're dumping in them and how much fish we're taking out. I can't tell which surprises me the most.

Where to implement reducing pollution? Since programs aren't exclusive and may reinforce each other, I'd answer all places. Is there a place we want more garbage?