skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Then you get a "weighted Voronoi diagram," haha.

If the weights are multiplicative, the edges between adjacent cells become circular arcs. It looks cool, but it's much more difficult to generate and analyze. For instance, the region belonging to a generating point is no longer guaranteed to be convex, and may even have holes or be in multiple disconnected pieces.

Weighted Voronoi diagrams show up sometimes in multi-agent systems where agents have different speeds, e.g. pursuit-evasion problems, or in facility placement (where to build a new store/warehouse, etc).
> but would it have helped the spectre situation in any way?

Presumably a compiler could put cache-lookups and/or cache-waits in non-predictably (perhaps choosing to do so when it suspects a cache-miss anyway).
Microsoft did a lot of shit to warrant their anti-trust suit. The browser thing was one bit.

How about how they spent $1 billion to market IE (a free product) in order to cut into a potential (though indirect) competitor's product (Netscape). Netscape's browser was reaching the point (as early as this was in the WWW days) of being a potential host for cross-platform software applications. This terrified MS as it would eliminate a lot of their foothold in the business market, in particular.

How about how when Compaq and others wanted to sell non-Windows OSes, Microsoft threatened them with increased Windows licensing fees. They had access to OEM rates which meant they could participate in the cut-throat and very low margin PC business. Without those rates, they would have to raise their prices. Even an extra $100-200 would price them above their competitors. This was done to eliminate the OS competition (or constrain it).

What has Apple done that is equivalent to these actions? And how has Apple's (minority) marketshare enabled them to do these things?
Microsoft, an ICE Tech Partner, 'Dismayed' by Child Separation Policy
Who's arguing the app store inhibits handset competition? Did you even read the article?

The argument is that Apple chokes app developers ON THE APP STORE. The existence of other handset manufactures is irrelevant
you're already running nginx, so you should be able to add naxsi (https://github.com/nbs-system/naxsi)
Most people are going agile software development wrong
You are absolutely correct, from now on I will call soccer "Chuk-ku" because that's what it's called somewhere else.
> this will blow apart nearly any app store model out there.
But on OSX you have an app store and you can side load applications, so you can have them both.
I have not the K380, but a K480. Its bluetooth implementation interferes with Wi-Fi at home. Periodically, once every few minutes, the device with which the keyboard is being used experiences a stall in its Wi-Fi connection. While I don't see this behavior in various hotspots around town, I also haven't seen the behavior from other bluetooth gear, including other keyboards. Changing the Wi-Fi channel doesn't fix the issue. Aside from that, the keyboard has a poor feel for typing, and feels cheaply made. E.g if you grasp it in both hands and give it a squeeze, the poorly fitted plastic case squeaks. I think the keys are the same as in the K380 [evidently not]. The only selling feature of the 480 is that you can switch the BT connection among three devices with a physical three-way switch. And you can stick a tablet and one, perhaps two phones into it at the same time, having them all stand up.
Video competition certainly exists already [0]. But I agree that copyright terms are trending in the wrong direction.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_hosting_services
From the Latin word "catena", meaning "chain", which is also the source for the name of the catenary curve.
an incredible way to force you to focus. need to dedicate five minutes to breaking through that block here you go!
> This case seemed a pretty cut and dry bug in pre-release software.

In this case it was actually hardware—the button used to manually trigger the device (instead of saying “okay google”). Seems weird that Google managed to screw up a button, but i doubt it was malicious.
The real problem is when the task is no longer doable by Humans. Then the AIs have taken over and we can't turn them off. Imagine what happens when the AIs run our cars and food production, security, etc. We will be unable to turn them off and they will be unaccountable except to the people who set their policy which will be mired no doubt in layers of deep obscurity.
That's not true at all.

You are absolutely allowed to put up a sign are your store that says "we only accept bottle caps as payment".

Legal tender is only regarding DEBTS. It does not force you to accept pennies at your grocery store.

You can turn down USD for payment all you like.
Look for better/more efficient ways to do your current tasks. There's likely a lot of boilerplate you have to create, a lot of process to follow for every client. Does it have to be this way? Can it be automated or optimized? Maybe there is an opportunity to apply a new interesting framework or programming language you always wanted to learn. Maybe there is an opportunity to create a library that can be useful to you in other projects or to other people in your company.
If you are using Rails, this is a nice guardrail: https://github.com/ankane/strong_migrations

Even if you aren't on Rails or don't want to use the gem, it is still nice a checklist.
For an alternative take on Ada Lovelace (the mother of programming) and her relationship with Charles Babbage (the father of computing), check out Sydney Padua's awesome graphic novel: "The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage" [0]. Steampunk romance with difference engines and a guest appearance from Isembard Kingdom Brunel ("You look like you need an Engineer"). It's not as serious as the OP, but I love it, especially Babbage's "War on Error".

[0] http://sydneypadua.com/2dgoggles/the-book/
I started my own company as a 'lifestyle business' not a Unicorn-moonshot. This means I make a consistent healthy profit which I get to bring home, I make my own hours so I can take a day to see my kid's play or go rock climbing with my friends. But this business will never attract VC funding or grow to a billion dollars.

I also took up rock-climbing at the age of 46, loved it and now spend as much time as I can trad-climbing up in the mountains. This keeps me healthy strong and sane.

At 24 you seem like a kid to me. The difference between our ages is larger than your age. If you're feeling an existential crisis now what the hell are you going to do when you're 50?

Relax. You're not knocking on death's-door. It's a marathon not a sprint. You have no idea what great things and big challenges are ahead of you.

Make a bucket-list and start living. I recently found my old bucket-list from my 20s and am happily surprised at how many things I've done from the list: scuba-diving, having a family, starting my own company, making a million etc.
Forge.AI – Veracity: Models, Methods, and Morals
I once pursued a memex solution like you describe and found that a simple static website generator worked well, but was high friction. You had to format notes, move files around, link images, etc.

My experience was that the collection of knowledge didn't produce many valuable insights or actionable results on it's own. I often found myself hoarding information, and creating a large backlog of things to process.

Summarization, linking, and contextualization are valuable, but then you have to do something to make that effort worthwhile, something that adds value to your life.

The more difficult part of this toolchain for me, was actually slowing down and thinking deeply about problems and connections. This required a disciplined habit of writing in a distraction-free environment (offline).

Once I realized the value of slowing things down, developing habits of reading (paper) books, and spending several hours a week writing and thinking, this diminished the value of having a fully featured knowledge tool chain for me.

I keep text files in a simple directory structure, and use cmd+t and project search in Sublime Text to find things.

That said, I'm still interested in a solution to this problem, since I spent no small amount of time is search of the grail.
I hate to be the one, but the reason I can't embrace crypto? The wealth distribution is even worse than fiat currency. It's horrible.

it's no long about the 1% it's more about the .0001%.

How many women have crypto?
How many colored folks have crypto?
How many people in all of Africa have crypto?

I've had conversations where some don't believe this is a problem. I'm not convinced. You can come up with a new XYZ crypto and the issue is that the distribution never gets to be fair. The haves end up always having much more than the havenots.
You don't feel that Path of Exile is a spiritual successor?

Disclaimer, I'm a big fan of PoE. I've always heard it described as the true sequel to Diablo II. Plus it's free to play, and not pay to win. In my opinion those are huge bonuses to an already great game.
is there anything similar for haproxy?
What is the ER going to do about the fact that you can't afford a prescription or treatment/surgery from a specialist? Their job is pretty much to stop you from dying right now and direct you to another doctor when you're stable.

You can also present insurance upfront but same difference I suppose. A world where you didn't have to pay upfront would make care even more expensive because doctor's offices have to essentially become banks.
Running Government as a Business
Trump has directed the US military to establish a new sixth branch: Space Force
>now you have mentioned that we already have the AFSC. Doesn't this seem a bit circular to you?

I said it's hard to define what nebulous and expensive means. I don't think AFSC's mission isn't anymore nebulous and expensive than a whole host of other commands.

>operating spacecraft

Operating spacecraft is indeed a grandiose term for maintaining satellites.
Your second and third paragraphs.
I've gone through about 6 coding interviews in my life and I failed one. I've given hundreds of interviews, many at some of the biggest companies.

Here's the thing. There aren't that many different kinds of problems that you'll be asked to solve. The recipe for 80%+ of the interview problems I ever see is this:

1. You have a data structure (tree/array/matrix/graph/string) that may have some special properties (sorted? directed? etc?)

2. You solve one of a few classes of problems:
* Find an optimal <blah> (shortest path, highest value node, longest subsequence, etc)
* Mutate the output in some interesting way based on the values

3. You do that using some other data structure (Queue, Stack, Hash, Heap) or technique (dynamic programming, recursion, etc) for efficiency.

There's probably also a brute force solution you should be able to implement and that shouldn't take too long to do.

My point is, these interviews should be easy for a good candidate because the fundamental problem space for a typical question isn't huge and there's tons of places to practice online. For most interview problems, you should be able to say "Oh! I recognize the general shape, I can apply a few primitive patterns together and get a solution that's basically correct, and maybe I'll have to tweak it a bit to optimize it later".

Instead, I tend to get candidates with 15 years of experience who think they're so hot but somehow can't implement a trivial depth-first search. I don't want to spend the whole interview on trivial coding problems. I want you to finish that part in 15 minutes so we can spend the rest of the time on interesting topics and technologies.
There are many simple microcontroller architectures with only one register, usually called A (accumulator) or W (work register). You just need to constantly load memory to and from the register, nothing weird in that. Sometimes they will call their memory locations registers, in which case they have lots of registers - the terminology gets quite unclear when everything is on the same chip anyways.

A true stack machine does not have any registers, so that would be 0.
You could try crunchbase.com - has more info about financing
SWIFT charges pennies (well, eurocents) per message. The fees you’re referring to are imposed by the institutions on either end of the transaction.
Back in 2009 I put several hundred hours into the diablo 2 mod called Median, which turned into Median XL. Should you ever want a successor to Diablo 2 this was it. The craft that went into this by its original author BrotherLaz was exceptional, who was outstanding at creating content within the games restrictive modding mechanisms. The balance of all the content was just so finely tuned; BrotherLaz really had an instinct for this stuff and the effort really showed. Whenever we complained about anything on the forums BrotherLaz wouldn't just give in to the whining; instead disappearing for a few days and coming back with a complete solution that nobody saw coming, whether that was an overhaul of a whole skill tree or something way out from left field, as if there was a whole room of experienced game designers behind workshopping every idea. But there wasn't. And every time we would all love the mod even more.

BrotherLaz went on to operate under the pseudonym Enai Siaion on Skyrim mods (including the very popular Apolocypse spellmod) but I've no idea what he/she has worked on since then. A content creater to watch out for.
I played Magic briefly as a teen and the thing that bothered me the most was how mana worked and the tendency to either get mana flooded or mana screwed. I even played a custom format with friends where you separated your deck and your mana into two decks and drew one from each every turn. It made the game much more enjoyable and consistent.
If you want to relive the dial-up days, cap out your phone's data plan till it busts you down to 2G speeds. Now it's 48K :D

I recall it was pretty easy for people to just friend each other on MySpace. And to a lesser extent Facebook, but most people treat FB like a digital rolodex of IRL personal contacts and were more hesitant to just add any randoms to their friend list.

The only way you can get to be part of a community that feels intimate is where it is niche and hasn't become part of the internet mainstream. Forums centered around highly popular web figures are often very big.

But you can still find good forums. Forums that are built around very specific interests are more intimate and it's more conducive to comfortably talking to strangers and develop online friendships.

Also, this is just from my very casual observation, but forums built around interests that are not typically associated with more mainstream geek culture or tech culture, that are not privy to highly polarizing social views seem to have the air and attitude of the older internet.

Some example topics for such communities may be bird watching, crocheting, trade jobs like plumbing or modding/tuning for very specific older cars. These have a different demographic (usually skew older) and attitude towards conversation with strangers than the demographics that attract more people on topics such as gaming computers, comic books, anime, etc.
I witnessed a car crash on a local highway yesterday morning. I called 911, but couldn't recall immediately if I was on the eastbound side of the highway or the westbound. With exits only every few miles, that could have been really unfortunate.
So you want most of the work to happen for free? I really hope your product fails. This is even worse than mechanical turk.
There's also bitchute.com and d.tube as credible youtube alternatives.
Would not suggest you use that phrase again. One device restricted to one store is a market. Just not the whole market.
It's led to the recent trend of stapling the effect you actually want onto a creature with appropriate-stats-for-effect-level. Crucible of Worlds is a 3 mana effect. As a creature, it should be green. It should therefore cost 2G. A 2G creature is reasonable at 2/3. Therefore, Ramunap Excavator is appropriate.

My modern deck plays entirely creatures, and entirely humans. It has duress, thorn of amethyst, nevermore, and into the roil main, with the option of getting disenchant, rule of law, and electroylze out of the side... as humans. It's effectively made spells obsolete, since the spell you want is probably a creature now.
Exactly. You have to donate money or time in ways that maximize your exposure to the in-group you are targeting, which would be the police officers, teachers, school administrators, etc. If you want deference, you need to get involved in ways that make their lives easier or better because that warm fuzzy feeling they'll have when they see or hear your name is very powerful and subliminal.

For example, I live in LA and the 90s were very tough for police all across the state after the Rodney King riots. I was buddies with one of the guys heading up reform in the LAPD after the riots so I "donated" a thousand bucks to have him come out for a weekend and teach the basics of community policing to my underfunded local PD - something that I felt was important anyway because of the wealth inequality in my town. The department didn't have it in their budget to hire him themselves but they did have state money for overtime for police training so not only did every officer get training but they got paid extra to do it. Since my name was dropped multiple times as the sponsor of the training, all of the officers in the department knew who I was and associated my name with someone who supports the department in concrete ways (even if years later, they couldn't remember why!). It also didn't hurt that the training opened their eyes to new strategies at a time when tensions between police and civilians were boiling over.

Also, you can actually do this by donating a little bit to a lot of things but it has to be strategic. For example, a few members of the Booster Club and I have an ongoing scholarship at my local high school where we throw in $250 per donor per student for textbooks for anyone whose parents didn't go to college. Since my town is very wealthy, the number of students who qualify for this scholarship is minimal (a few thousand a year split between 4 people) but it is a guaranteed scholarship to anyone who qualifies so every teacher and administrator knows about the scholarship and who the donors are. Since we are explicit about the money going towards textbooks, it also sounds like a lot more than it really is because people think of the scholarship in the narrow context of textbook costs instead of overall graduation cost.
I built this about 6 years ago with Lloyd's of London as the underwriter for medical evacuation and search & rescue services. We were way to early for smartphone market, but the GEOS response team behind FindMeSpot.com can be contracted by anyone. http://www.geosworldwide.com/

The challenge for any private company is that the solution needs to be completely integrated into both the device and behavioral patterns need to be re-learned. For most people (in the US), calling 9-11 has been engrained since they were a child. In a moment of panic, it's the first or second reaction... not loading a 3rd party app. While not impossible, convincing Apple or Google to let you own "SOS+" capabilities would be a tall order...

Spot has succeed in the adventure market by owning the device and behavior change being easy to manage with no cell service. Just about everyone I know who has a mountain home, sailboat, or frequently travels to remote places – has purchased Spot.

If I was a VC, I would be interested in a roll-up strategy... GEOS and Spot aren't the only solutions.
Gillette Razor Blades are not a monopoly. They are simply part of a product which is in a highly competitive market.

Talking about a monopoly within an ecosystem misses what a monopoly means in economic terms. It's a question of consumer choice and leverage.
I've got a pair of 36x36 Duluth Trading flex firehose work pants that have finally worn out after 2.5 years. They were worn almost every day.
The wrong lesson seems to be "Intel tried to foist something on the market that it didn't want, and AMD listened to the public."

Usually by the desktop gaming crowd, who can't define VLIW or discuss the relative merits of different microarchitecture choices.

On (A) and (B), I'll forgive Intel (and HP). Circa-1990, I can see it being much more debatable if making hardware (ILP) or software (VLIW) smarter were a more reliable path to performance. Especially with the market being smaller & more centralized (commercial compilers galore!).

I mean, hell, AMD made the same wrong call circa-2011 in their GPU arch, no? Thus one of the reasons they ceded ML to the simpler SIMD design Nvida used which was more amenable to creating, e.g., something like CUDA? (correct me if I'm wrong)

On (C), my impression was that bank switching and PAE were poorly supported by Windows at the desktop level. Which essentially made it a non-starter for the primary computer market at the time.
Who is involved from archive.org?
The Society of the Spectacle, 1967 (Wikipedia)
>It started out being close to the metal but now it's an abstraction that can mislead you if you think processors are literally working the way x86 assembly describes.

Well, the fact that we were able to abstract it out into an ISA, and still make progress would indicate that it isn't holding us back!

>And surely the whole spectre issue could be lessened if we could be less reliant on CPUs having to guess what to keep in cache, which code paths are most likely, etc?

Why would consumers purchase CPUs that performed worse? The only reason to use branch prediction is because it works and is a huge benefit.
As far as keyboards go, I don't have a current favorite but I only use keyboards with an 84 key layout [1].

The 84 key layout keeps all of the important keys from the standard 10-keyless layout (home, page up, page down, arrows, etc) but it puts them in a single row on the right side of the keyboard.

I find that a 10-keyless keyboard is too wide, which requires me to put my mouse farther to my right than I like it. The 84 key lets me keep my mouse where I want it without losing important keys.

[1] https://i.imgur.com/0TEi1.jpg?1
> It used to piss me off a little bit, given how hard I have had to work to get to this stage

ha, as if the vast majority will ever make close to 800k a year.
Today's music charts are already basically Spotify/Apple/YouTube streams.

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2018/06/kanye-west-ye-album-domin...
One new tactic: I walk our dog at approximately 8:30 every night. I used to be mildly annoyed by this, treating it as a chore to do before I could get back home slink into my chair, and enjoy the rest of the evening.

I recently purchased a pair of Airpods, and having high-quality USB headphones on me at all times has changed the way I think about phone calls. I have a list of about 12 people (parents, brother, long-time friends that live in different cities now), that I'll call randomly during that walk. If they pick up, great. If not, I just go to the next one. At this point, most of them know that I may just call them while walking the dog, and that they're under no obligation to pick up.

The end result is 2-3 times a week, I spend 30+ minutes nurturing a relationship with someone who is important to me, but who I don't see face-to-face often. And my dog gets a longer walk because of it.
Using Firefox I was unable to submit my message after I typed it in the input box. Hitting enter and clicking the send icon didn't do anything.
YouTube is down
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