skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The datawire folks put on some good conferences. It bothers me that their thing, which is deployed at the edge of the network, is named the same as a famous pattern that involves service colocation[1].

I kind of hope their thing never catches on so I don't have to untangle which one people are referring to. Although sidecar seems to have taken off in the kube context. So maybe I'm all set.

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/patterns...
Yet 77% of Americans have a smartphone. (Not a cell phone. A more expensive smartphone.)

This is a self-induced injury. Financial education should be mandatory, and started in elementary school.
Turning the tables on Nigerian email scammers
Really cool. My dad used to make me go around to teachers before a big meteor shower with documentation as to why this year's shower was "gonna be the big one" and me being out of school the next day should be an excused abcense.

That translates to at least ten summers of one night a year under the stars during a shower. Your story reminded me of a time when what must have been a school bus of space dust burned across the entire sky in front of our scout troop. Thanks Dad. Space is crazy.
That seems like waaay to much to extrapolate from a single photo who's exact circumstances we don't know about. Maybe he just spotted his ex and wanted to look superior. Maybe he's just raising his arm in order to scratch his ear, which was itching real bad.
A better quality metric might be emerging if so, instead of the usual # of butts in a seat, or hours per student.
James Clapper is strong evidence of the point: "don't lie" laws are predominantly used against the (non-powerful) innocent because the difficulty of proving anything means the executors of the law have too much impunity. If Clapper had gotten convicted, it would have been reasonable to suggest that the law worked. As it stands it doesn't work, but it still introduces the risk of abuse. The head of the NSA and Joe Nobody should be under the same laws. It's not practical to prove that someone is lying as opposed to making a mistake if they are careful in their wording (and have good legal counsel), so there is only one thing left to do.

If congressional perjury laws were repealed, the only effect would be making the level of scrutiny that is necessary now obvious (in addition to protecting people from false accusations.) In a world where disingenuous speech can accomplish everything lying can, laws against lying are winking security theatre.
It's not that I see it as a good outcome. It's that the people who would have to be convinced by this sci-fi that DRM is a problem might well see it as a good outcome. People who are likely to read it the way you describe don't need to be convinced that DRM is a bad idea.
I'm currently below that threshold. But I could choose to expand my business, maybe hire a few people and create some jobs and productive economic output. But if you are going to tax me heavily for that then no, I'll probably just stick to what I am doing and not bother.
That’s what they are claiming up front. It’s a $100B project, at minimum.
$19B for a new signaling system? A true "sweeping overhall" will include a hell of a lot more than that. There was a times article a few weeks ago that sketched out a much more ambitious overhall, and pegged the price at $100B, which still sounded low to me.

I'm a subway commuter, I really love the subway system, and my emotions want to invest in it. And we should plan big. I think the greater NYC area could double or triple in population as the world grows and be more stimulating and productive than it's ever been. I guess my honest question is whether the subways are a prerequisite for that outcome, or if more WeWorks, satellite offices, telecommuting and suburban financial centers are more sane.
Yours was the compiler I used to learn C++ in 2003. Thank you!
Looks to me like the body of the letter was printed onto paper pre-printed with the letterhead, but that the paper was fed through the printer at an angle.

My guess is someone then said "eh, good enough, I can't be bothered going to get more letterhead paper out of the box to feed into the bypass tray, then going to re-print the document from my computer", and took the letter to Senator Wyden for signature. He then signed, and the signed letter was scanned for preservation as a digital record.
Promether
> I don't understand why you would ever want this to be a desktop app.

Perhaps because the vast majority of people in the world have no interest in figuring out web hosting so they can read some news articles. That doesn't seem like a viable way to "bring back RSS".
How easy is it to deploy those changes then?
Repetition is the key. It's very difficult, at first, to consistently throw a ball in the same way. It's also difficult to do it in the same way with both hands (right to left, left to right). Once you master the simple action of throwing the ball consistently from either hand, throwing 2, and then 3 balls at a time is much easier.

When you can juggle you won't ever look at your hands, you just look at the space in front of your eyes and your hands will be where they need to be.

I can juggle 3 balls quite well, but I can not for the life of me juggle 4 (different pattern) or 5 (same pattern as 3, more balls). 4 is extraordinarily difficult for me. I approach it by separately juggling 2 balls in each hand (no ball swaps hands), but my left hand betrays me!
What should I do if I only buy Xecuter SX OS?
I only want to buy a Xecuter SX OS not the Xecuter SX Pro, what should I do?

http://sky-3ds.com/blog/12-questions-you-will-be-asking-about-xecuter-sx-pro-and-xecuter-sx-os/
> What I am saying is meant in the context of the non-steady-state collapsing sphere

That doesn't change my comment. The spacetime exterior to the collapsing sphere is still Schwarzschild, by Birkhoff's Theorem, and therefore has the same properties as the spacetime around a steady-state black hole.

> they neglect an explanation why the collapsing star should ever reach a steady state

Are you familiar with the "no hair" theorems for black holes? They are the explanation.
> You really think the "populists" who want to "tax the rich" are going to stop At the 1%?

Yep.

Most people are perfectly capable of distinguishing between a middle class 2 bedroom house and someone who owns 15 vacation homes, a private jet, and private islands.

The real question is whether or not middle class people will punch down and behave as if no one can distinguish between a multi billionaire and and a normal middle class person or whether the middle class will refuse to let the billionaires put all of the stress on the middle class.
3D Printed Robot Cat Learns to Walk with Machine Learning
Read this book and tell me America is a free market: https://www.amazon.com/Framers-Coup-Making-United-Constituti...

In short:

1. A big chunk of the issues leading to today's constitution were tax and debt relief measures being instituted by the states in response to populist movements.

2. The framers were mostly very wealthy and biased toward preservation of capital.

3. Many of the measures instituted in the constitution were designed to preserve wealthy Americans' property (slaves, for instance). Populist debt relief efforts made this an especially high priority.

4. The only way to get the states to ratify the constitution was to concede many populist goals (state legislators were largely very wealthy as well, and apparently stubbornly pessimistic about the constitution despite its immediate necessity).

The book goes into great detail on the reasoning and compromises made to create the constitution. I think you will find that politics rigidly define the operation of our markets.

I get where you're coming from but you have some insufficient assumptions about the context in which this particular complex system operates.
If you feel like looking at your self may be unsafe for you then it probably is.
How to decide which features to add, keep, and kill to avoid “Experience Rot”
The fundamental ideas of Sikhism , Jainism and Buddism are not equivalent and Dharma in in each of these religions means aderence to their idea of the righteous way.These ideas are distinct and practitioner of these religions would dissmiss your theory of unified dharma. There are several Sikh scholars that I know of who could help you with your understanding of Sikhism and how it is different from Hinduism. However, a visit to a Sikh temple would be a better idea.

>>idea of Hinduism is nonexistent
This assertion is breathtakingly arrogant . Granted that Hinduism does not fit neatly within the traditional Judeo Christian definition of religions but this is absurdly ignorant. The Brits and the Portugese tried tried very hard to erase Hinduism and failed.( The Portugese went so far to claim Hindus dont have souls -- but that is a discussions for another day). Please note that I do not speak for Hinduism but your assertions are too absurd to ignore.

To give you an analogy -- you are saying the idea of apples is nonexistent. There are RoyalDelicious, Gala, Honeycrisp etc etc, -- but there is no apple .

My initial objection was to crpto snake-oil salesmen using eastern sounding names to disguise their snake oil and sadly they will succeed until this baloon pops.
> Ray tracing WILL DEFINITELY fully take over rasterization once hardware capable of doing it is commoditized.

That's not what this demo is about, and what you wish for is decades away at best. DirectX realtime raytracing relies upon a rasterization step to estimate the light for most of the objects on the screen.

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/directx/2018/03/19/announci...

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> Not needing to perform all those hacks to approximate what offline renderers can do.

The Gooseberry benchmark (Blender's hardest test) takes 35 minutes to render on my 16-core / 32-thread Threadripper 1950x, while GPUs simply crash because literally one frame of animation requires 12GB of RAM (far more than whats available on commodity GPUs).

Offline renderers are about 5-orders of magnitude too slow for realtime and about 1-order of magnitude of RAM usage too large for conventional ~2GB or 4GB GPUs.

We're at the stage where SOME simplified raytracing effects can replace SOME aspects of the rasterization pipeline, and only if you buy 4x Tesla V100 (Ohhh... that's more expensive. $8k+ per Tesla V100 == $32,000 on GPUs alone). Furthermore, there were only ~1 to ~2 rays per pixel. All the ray-tracing effects were processed through a neural-network to denoise, and they also average those rays through history (so this technique only works on slow-moving objects).

That's what this demo represents. A LOT of compromises, but hey, they achieved a very low-end realtime raytracer and integrated it into a standard rasterization pipeline to provide mirroring and ambient occlusion.

Its an impressive feat for sure. But we're no where near reproducing movie-quality / offline quality in realtime (~64 or ~1000 rays per pixel).
My answer would be to remember that subways serve a purpose beyond just commuting to work; they provide a means to travel easily across a city for recreation, leisure, and cultural activities too.

There is much value in providing the means for citizens to enjoy the breadth of opportunities their city provides, rather than making it difficult for them to leave their immediate neighbourhood.
How many NVidia-only features do you use? Nvidia today are just as evil as MS was 20 years ago, they just don't have the market share Microsoft did, so no one notices how unbearably evil and unnecessarily proprietary and exclusionary they are. Just like MS was.
Hi, I'm the new account rep for the services you have with us. You have 0 services with us? I'm the account rep for all of them! Perhaps you'd like to expand your service suite?
American Express is not a bank, and BB&T isn't a particularly big one (though they'll possibly cross this line soon). Apple Inc. has more assets than BB&T.
Some people prefer skim milk because they grew up on a farm, and the milk was always skimmed in order to produce cream/butter.
"FBI: Federal Bureau of Investigation, aka the Downtown Gang.
Very good at breaking up used car rings. Kind of confused
on anything more complicated. Fun to jerk with. Not fun
when they jerk back."

From Stratfor's leaked Glossary of Useful, Baffling and Strange Intelligence Terms [1]

[1] https://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/The_Stratfor_Glossary_of_Usefu...
Call for SegWit adoption grows stronger – Can wallets ignore it?
It's like AOL. The old customers stay until they die, and the new customers-to-be stop showing up.
Same here! 11 year old me got Turbo C++ as a birthday gift. Once I learned the language, I was frustrated at how Microsoft and Borland and everyone tried to lock you into their ecosystem. MinGW was an option but Digital Mars was the bee's knees. A big stepping stone to my eventual career.
Most of the code is written in an old-fashioned style, but rather than redo that, it's more productive to convert to D, and then into a modern style.

I'm not sure what exactly you have in mind for "modern style", but I found the code as it is to be quite readable and a breath of fresh air from a lot of other code I've heard referred to as "modern" (which seems to mostly mean laboriously long identifiers, excessive amounts of abstraction, and CamelCaseScreamingAtYouEverywhere.)
"A decade after the global financial crisis tipped the United States into a recession..."

should read:

A decade after the global financial cluster f#ck - orchestrated by irresponsibility and negligence on the past of the United States government, and its puppet master, Wall Street - politely refereed to as a recession..."
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I prefer skim milk in coffee because fat doesn't mix well. I also don't like sugar in my coffee, but that's an independent matter.
a lot of languages have migrations available, that help manage the state of the database. in addition, postgres allows for you to ALTER or REPLACE functions and triggers, just like you'd ALTER a table.

these in combination make it very easy to manage and deploy.
Why pick on student loans and not mortgages? The home interest tax deduction is a much, much bigger subsidy, with rather worse externalities ("housing crisis" vs. "a bunch of 20-somethings with worthless degrees).
I do not believe this. Even when I was flat broke starving I could always scrape up 400 somewhere and that was decades ago. Credit cards, friends and family, pawn shops. There's a way. This is a VERY misleading headline.
Fires of Kuwait [35:52]
I have gotten a coffee based hot drink and been repelled by the oily blobs floating on it, because nothing emulsifies them. There are generally multiple reasons for any given preference.
Are you familiar with the phrase, “shooting the shit”? That’s all we do in the comments here. You shouldn’t take them seriously.
I'm curious why the source files I randomly picked to skim over all had this at the top:

* Compiler implementation of the
* $(LINK2 http://www.dlang.org, D programming language).
All true/correct.

It is worth considering that some DoD systems only have whitelisted CAs installed to limit the ability for an adversary to MitM. For example a DoD laptop used in a foreign country, you don't want the foreign government to be able to issue a certificate for a DoD property using their CA (or pressure/steal a commercial CA's signing certificate).
Don't account for cost overruns, you only make it worse. See Hofstadter's law: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law
> I don't understand why you would ever want this to be a desktop app.

I thought you were going to say that it needs to be a website+mobile app for maximum adoption, and I was ready to say that you have a point but full-weight desktop apps still have their place. Then I looked up FreshRSS, and it's an aggregator that you host yourself?

Any answer to the question "how can we get more regular users to adopt a service" that starts "first, they all need to install Apache..." is very doomed.
The skytrain has never had drivers. Its first section was completed in 1986. "The signalling technology used on all three SkyTrain lines to run trains automatically was originally developed by Alcatel, and loaded from a 3.5" diskette."
Housing has collateral, the house and land it sits on.

A useless degree has zero value and can’t be resold to cover the dollars lost to unrepaid student loans.
That's page 37, section 2 of the Oracle sales playbook.
You understand that Apple uses Googles infrastructure to provide services, right?
I've also been a happy user of NewsBlur since then. I use the paid option ($36/year), which gives you unlimited RSS feeds. There's also a free option that gives you up to 64 feeds.

They have both a web app and mobile (iOS/Android) apps.
Nearly Half of You Reading This Have Bullshit Jobs
> As a commuter knowing you only have to wait a max (n)minutes as opposed to max 2(n) can be the difference between deciding to take a train or using some other means of transport

Agreed. In my mind, the most important step to make is to increase frequency to the point where passengers think of trains in terms of frequency of arrivals, not by a specific timetable.

At longer wait times, you plan around getting to the station early, hoping the train isn't late, hoping it's not too overcrowded, etc., each of which is a mental barrier to taking the train.

At shorter wait times, all of these concerns disappear because "oh well, there's another one in 3 minutes".
That's the old saw, but has anyone every successfully sued over an Oracle problem?
Doing that basically destroyed Winamp.
I experimented once with trying to brew a drink by running hot water through ground cacao beans. It produced a red liquid that looked kind of like tea, and had a very pronounced unsweetened chocolate flavor. The main difficulty was that cacao beans have much more fat (I guess) in them than coffee beans, so tend to clog up your filter.
I wonder if it was the 1998 Leonids. I got about 25 people from my college dorm to drive to the beach that night. It was the night of the fireballs. Another great memory.
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Yes - at some of the stations the people directing the trains only know when it has left a station, and when it gets to the next one. Some of it is still controlled with vacuum tubes and switchboards. The person featured in this video ruffled quite a few feathers when it was released: https://youtu.be/Mjx3S3UjmnA
There's a fine line between internet nonsense and science.
A Raft implementation in Rust
The sky is falling!!

(repeat until something negative happens then claim prescience. rinse and repeat)
I mean, if you want to support that kind of view, you could certainly just purge anything more than 10 articles old or whatever from the RSS feed from your inbox.

We probably just use these things differently though. Like, if a product I'm interested in gets reviewed I want to see that -- I don't want to have to go search the website later because maybe it was reviewed but I wasn't hovering over my RSS feed the hour or two it was the top story.

Basically, it completely replaces the website's front page for me, and if I have to go there I've failed.
Not sure why you’re down voted. That’s a critical part of the answer.
or discharged in bankruptcy... a student loan is repackaged indentured servitude
A Survey of Nymph: A C Like Language
The problems are potentially even worse, because unfinished degrees are even more useless than abandoned houses. Nothing can be repossessed, so the consequence of defaulting more often than accounted for in the actuarials is a complete collapse with not even depreciated assets to repossess.
thanks to fractional reserves most banks dont have any money
Are Clusters Races?
Weird, I've read in the news multiple times that these cameras "accidentally" caught some sort of criminal. From people wanted by the Dutch IRS to people "running from youth services". They were particularly proud of catching those people running from youth services when they ran unannounced, and before they hit the border.

You see, apparently youth services has a problem that once across the border all the "crimes" like having a teacher pissed off and report you to youth services or having your parents divorce, which according to the Dutch should lead to a child's incarceration are not actually crimes once you cross the border. You see, they feel the need to increase the safety feeling of children with divorced parents, by having the police violently (search on youtube) abduct them, then dumping them locked up in a "group", ie. a set of adults who don't care about them at all (not professionals, of course, those are expensive. No, the normal people they come in contact with come without so much as a high school degree), with total and complete power over them. But then night comes, and those adults abandon the group entirely, so the kids are totally at the mercy of older kids or just the more violent kids in said group. Needless to say, the rate at which rapes and sexual assaults happen in this environment is "somewhat" higher than in normal society. Oh and why does the Dutch state do this ? To make the child feel safe ! Sadly, that's not a joke.

Sadly, if you were a lawyer, you are now to advise that if you're trying to keep kids away from those services, you need to either rent a car (not sure if they surveil that yet), or you need to physically assault the police (you laugh, but that's exactly what immigrant communities are doing in Rotterdam and that's (granted, a small part of) the reason why they're doing it. The alternative in some cases is giving up their kids to these monsters. Again the government responds, not, of course, by fixing their own problem).

Because of these sorts of things, most of the neighboring countries have become appalled at this behavior and refuse to cooperate in all but the worst cases, so naturally they're fixing it : the fix for that problem is employing high pressure tactics to get other police forces to cooperate and mass-surveillance on their own people.

They are actually proud of this. Seriously.
He built a startup right after graduation. 5 years later, it’s in 8 countries
> Hyperapp is Elm for the rest of us.

Curious who you think Elm is for?
Thanks for this. It's great.
Heh, that's largely Spolsky's "Smart companies try to commoditize their products’ complements."

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/strategy-letter-v/
I'm surprised that the psychosocial intervention was as effective as it was, however I expected the nutrition arm of the trial to fare better. I guess interacting with intelligent and engaging adults as a child really has long-term developmental benefits.
Where Is the Charismatic Technology? According to Peter Thiel
Is this any better? (PDF).

http://thejns.org/doi/pdf/10.3171/2018.2.SPINE171443?downloa...
The Wayback Machine Is Deleting Evidence of Malware Sold to Stalkers