skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And there are plenty of other proxies to choose from.

My point is, you can’t just put content online and expect to put restrictions on how I send the HTTP requests for it on my side. And if you think you can well I’ll do my best to prove you wrong.

Edit: I totally agree that the data they’re giving me is their property and I merely have a license to use it. I’m not advocating for copyright infringement or anything like that. But if the license allows me to use the content for X purpose, then the way I request the content (whether through a browser or a scraper) shouldn’t matter.
You don't think that people should be rewarded for risking their time and capital on an eventually-successful niche technology, versus people who haven't risked anything, or contributed anything?

Bitcoin isn't magic beans, it has been successful due to these people that you're (implicitly) chastising.
Most terrible things are done by "normal" people.

Putting them into mutually exclusive categories is an attempt to hide from the discomfort of that idea and is ultimately counter-productive.
Cunei form also had moveable type. Afaik most was still handwritten though.
There are hundreds of thousands yet untranslated cunei form tablets in museums and maybe many more that never made it through time.

From "Moveable type" wikipedia:

"Seals and stamps may have been precursors to movable type. The uneven spacing of the impressions on brick stamps found in the Mesopotamian cities of Uruk and Larsa, dating from the 2nd millennium BC, has been conjectured by some archaeologists as evidence that the stamps were made using movable type."

Just to provide some perspective
This works well for me too :) Specifically when I am going to sleep. Recently, I spent a couple of days working on "tight paving/tiles" problem from Knuth's Christmas Lecture ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxQw4CdxLr8 ) and surprised myself when I managed to exhaustively enumerate all valid arrangements(around 40 I think) for some small configuration while lying on the bed at night, something that I never thought I could do without a pen and paper.
I don’t know about your situation, save what you have written here. I’m sure there are many aspects of your existence I won’t understand.

You say you’re not sad, angry or self-harming, however reading your post does give me pause to think that you may be in these states.

Is this a thought experiment? Do you have a plan? Do you have a date or time set?

If you do, please talk with someone about it.
If we are leveling our critical analysis and skepticism to the extreme I would say that all these studies are never settled and the World Happiness Report does not invalidate findings of the other study.

> there is a trend which suggests Americans are growing less happy each year. So maybe in the interim of 4 years the world.

So are you saying that Amricans = World? Please (for example) go to Spain and look about how happiness works differently than America.
I can't speak for MySQL, but I suspect the Postgres compression you're referring to is TOAST (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/static/storage-toast...).

Its sweet spot is for much larger rows. In fact, it only kicks in for rows whose content is larger than the page size (2KB or so), so it doesn't trigger for this case, where the average row size is about 120 bytes (and only 80 bytes of that is content).

I bet you could build the DB, stop Postgres, move its data dir to a squashfs filesystem, and then start Postgres in read-only mode for a huge space savings with minimal query cost, though.

Hmm, in fact, it'd be easy to do that with the SQLite DB since it's just a single file. I might give that a shot.
Why Amazon is the winner of the Supreme Court sales tax ruling
One of the worst articles I have ever seen.
Seriously go has 43k stars?
Either I’m missing something or software development commoditisation is much more extensive that I’d have thought possible...
How many billions have been raised during ICOs now? 10 billion? 20 billion? This has been seamlessly and safely accomplished via blockchain.
I appreciate your perspective.

I've seen allegations that Kremlin-backed interference went as far as organizing opposing protests from afar. If this is true, would you consider it to fall under "lobbying" or would you say a line has been crossed?

Re. 4, OP said that the interference was unproven. The extent to which the US has interfered with other elections is a separate discussion worth having, but it's not the issue here.
Exactly. Anything that needs even very minimal human interaction like pressing a "y" key is not automated at all. It is very common to see in the corporate environment that scripts needs some editing in b/w to be done during its running with editor which can be easily automated using sed.
Depending on your classification of "startup", there is a massive amount of (illegal, of course) drug distributors using blockchain-based cryptocurrencies to conduct their business.
> Reflect on successes. You've solved lots of problems. Some of them were even hard problems!

Good advice. Trying to learn something new, staring at a blank page or a list of requirements that you don't understand, it's easy to get into the impostor syndrome doldrums of "this is so hard, I must just be too dumb to do it".

You see the wall, right in front of you, and you wonder how to get over it. But the fact that your path has even led you up to the wall is a strong indication that you can figure it out. If you understand the problem well enough to see just how difficult it is, you're already on your way to solving it. That doesn't mean it will be easy, of course. But possible.
In Helsinki, I'm seeing (on Telia 4G) the Finland region quickest at 50ms and the rest >60ms. Similarily on DNA cable, the Finland region is quickest at 42ms and the rest >55ms.

Perhaps they peer with (some of) the ISPs but not (yet) with other DCs?

"Designed for Speed - Hosting applications in the new region can improve latencies by up to 65% for end-users in the Nordics and by up to 88% for end-users in Eastern Europe, compared to hosting them in the previously closest region." https://cloud.google.com/about/locations/finland/
Eventually the wireless charger of the next iPhone (the one without any external connection) and watch will be USB powered.
Peter Hofmann: “A decentralized web is good: All projects have moved”
That's due to their cutting-edge recording technology:
https://youtu.be/BvQ571eAOZE
If you don't want me to scrape it, don't put it on the (public) internet. Simple as that.
Indeed. The SRBs are a stupid idea. Someone must build a decent rocket factory in the same congressional district so that NASA can make safe rockets.

It makes sense if refueling is just filling them with fuel in an automated way (think a giant extrusion device printing layers of fuel inside a rotating empty rocket). That way, the cost of flying a rocket becomes downtime+fuel.
How much is an astronaut's life worth?
I've never really understood the outrage over this point either - in my country, at least.

I could appreciate the criticism if we were discussing livestock in the Sahara or Golf courses in Nevada - but when its aimed at grass-reared cows or chickens in Britain, one of the rainiest places on Earth* , it doesn't compute for me.

* only a slight exaggeration
spaCy excels here. English, German, Portuguese, and more.
> Nobody is doubting that "Russian interference" exists

Well, I for one doubt it.

The reason being that I have listened to the words that the Russian President had to say on the matter, as translated by a Youtuber (Inessa S) who gets a few quid from Patreon subscribers rather than as filtered into soundbites by Western media who get a few quid from the arms-trade.

Sometimes you have to listen to what people say and the explanations that they provide for their behaviour. Sometimes listening may involve reading subtitles. Listening is different to assuming and going along with what other people tell you to think.

The Russian President is an extremely smart thinker and as he saw it, even if meddling was possible, this would not help matters further down the road. Russian reputation in the wider international community would be undermined whatever the outcome had interference gone on. This would undermine whomever they 'interfered with' to get elected. This is the key reason why there was no 'interference'.

Although nobody including the Russian President knew the outcome of the U.S. election until it happened, it was clear to people in Moscow that Trump suited the mood of the times and that he did have genuine and popular support despite the many obnoxious things he said and had done. It was also clear to them that Trump and 37% of Republican voters had a lot of respect for the Russian President whilst that Clinton woman was a hater towards Russia.

So, coming from a nation that is better at chess, the Russian President really had no incentive to meddle. To believe otherwise is foolish thinking and to misunderstand the multi-lateral world based on the rule of law that Moscow wants for the world.

There is no 'they influenced it a bit', Moscow stayed out of it, neutral. The shoe is actually on the other foot when you go down the rabbit hole of what 'Cambridge Analytica' was all about.
Choosing a JavaScript Framework in 2018
It's surprising that we still don't have a simple, sustainable and uncomplicated model for developers to earn a living selling their open source product. The Patreon approach is not sustainable in the long-term.

I once posted the following scenario for comment: it's a made-up scenario for a developer who wants to support themselves with their open source product. Is it an unrealistic or unreasonable scenario?

I have an open source product. It will forever be open source. You are free to evaluate the software for as long as you need to [or add a limit if you prefer e.g. 90 days].

If you are a business, you must pay a fee to use the software if you wish to continue using it after evaluation. You won't get extra features for paying the fee: there are no closed-sourced extensions available for additional cost. Payment of the software fee ensures continued development of the software. There is no tracking of software usage - we rely on your goodwill to pay for the software if you use it for your business.

If you are an open source developer who would like to make a full-time living from your open source project or product, does a licence that covers this scenario appeal to you?
Actually 32bit float is such a logarithmic format.
[Serious question] Does your prior art invalidate the patent?
I think you are ignoring the time to PR part.
EB1 current processing time is 8 month (and you have to have 1 mil) the requirements are very strict
You can buy a 500K property in Cyprus/Portugal etc and become resident (latvia 250K)without any requirement to run a business or hire people etc.
Cmon H1B is done once a year and there is lottery with 50% chance of wining (spouse can not work)
E visa are business visas and only for people from treaty trader countries plus they do not convert to PR
L visas you have to work for the subsidiary for 1 year there is a limit on L visa length
In Czcech Republic, Estonia etc. you need 10K to get residency through business and there are no requirements to hire people etc.
Hah! That is incredibly endearing. I've also had friends remark (more joking than serious) that if you happen to glance at a clock that reads 11:11 to make a wish because it's lucky.

I have obsessive compulsive disorder, so unfortunately these cosmic peccadillos really throw my brain for a loop!
That would be Joe Rogan. Link to the podcast is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwaWilO_Pig.
I hate those scrollbars with a passion, and every time I copy over my configuration to get rid of them, I find it no longer works. I'm old and don't have my bifocals yet: don't make me squint for the scrollbars.
Inkscape for graphics. Text editor for animations. svgo to optimize.
Curious question: what makes/made more money?
Hal 9000 is alive in NY
Have anyone tried the App? What do you think about it?
In EU fewer because they actually let people settle. There was about 1 mil iligal workers from Ukraine alone but now poland is handing out visas even to unskilled workers so people mostly enter EU legally
The interviewee cites [Robert] Bakker [0] as a gateway author into science, but doesn't actually mention Bakker's excellent 1986 book, 'The Dinosaur Heresies' which promoted the idea that many dinosaurs were agile, smart and warm blooded. Bakker had been publishing on this concept since the mid-1970s. Jurassic Park may have helped with popularisation, but it was Bakker and his co-researchers who started the modernisation.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_T._Bakker
Unfortunately, there are very few movie adaptations of books where this isn't the case. You gotta let it go. I eventually did over the Jason Bourne series. How can they make a whole series of movies based on a series of books where the main antagonist doesn't even exist in the movies and the girlfriend dies at the beginning of the second movie instead of becoming the wife that keeps him human and gripped on reality?

Eventually... Just gotta let it go. :(
>The single biggest indicator of future student success is how many of the parents at the school are married with only one working parent. I.e the parents with the most free time to help their kids.

Or - just for the record - it depends on the kind of job the parents have, nowadays it is more rare, but to give you a single datapoint, I was raised by my both working parents, but both were artisans, they had an independent (each their own) laboratory/atelier, so, bar the time I was at school, most of the time I spent with the one or the other on their workplace, even if they were working they were right there, ready to assist in case of issues with homework or only to answer the odd question/doubt.

Besides the help they gave me with school, I learned a lot from them by simply being with them, including dedication to work.

I am forever grateful to my parents for the patience and dedication thay had for me.

There is a big difference when compared to two working parents (with a job as employee) as they cannot - even if they would want to - spend much time with their sons but also (I know a couple of examples) families where only one of the parents is working but the other one is nonetheless not interested in the kids' education, in the belief that the school should supply everything related to education.
Sure but who needs those?
In a way, just not in the traditional filesystem sense; e.g., jail, chroot.

Pledge allows a program to 'promise' which calls it is expected to make. For example, a program promising only to use 'stdio', will SIGABORT if you try to open a socket, fork, exec, or anything not part of the stdio group (as defined by pledge)

https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2
Correct me if I am wrong - it looks like you rely for context on a new testament book written by an unknown author over a thousand years latter.
Because it's essentially a lie. As revealed by your formulation "just say" -- your experience is no different if everything in your possession is 'owned' by you and illegal to modify, or if they change their mind and "just say" everything in your possession that matters with regard to this isn't really 'owned' by you at all. It's not a step forward, it leaves you in exactly the same position. If it is insane, then "just saying" something doesn't make it more sane.

My concern is the experience of not having control over our equipment (not a good experience or way to live), not a semantic technicality.
I think there are three separate issues here. There's the existential, which we all must work out on our own. Then there's political strategy, which "behave until you don't" seems like a good maxim for. Then there's historiography, which is who we collectively decide is a historical or noteworthy figure, in which case, boosting the signals of people like Claudette Colvin can become it's own kind of sociopolitical strategy, and a good one!
Oh, their enemies must have had WMDs. So it was fine.
And how, if all the menu bars are gone, can these GTK3 apps still waste more screen real estate than when they used GTK2?
Criticisms of gentrification in America lack force, while its benefits go unsung
Rebooting AI: Postulates
re: learning how to pronounce foreign words via exaggeration—a friend told me that pronouncing Japanese words in the most racist way possible actually earned him nods from his teacher.
Having a modular desktop environment kind of loses its purpose if a module (theme, extension) can bring the entire user session down.

Just this week, me upgrading a GNOME extension resulted in the user session completely crashing, getting me back to the login screen, and making me lose about half an hour of work.

Now, of course, I could put the blame on the sole developer that developed that specific extension (one of the preinstalled ones in Ubuntu now), but I don't. I blame GNOME that a botched extension update lead to the entire session crashing, instead of doing something normal (like reverting to the previous version and showing "update failed").
I find Jsonnet incredibly useful to generate JSON while following a structured "don't repeat yourself" paradigm. It's a very good basis for a software application configuration system. It enables me to define a JSON schema which is most suitable for consumption by software while not forcing humans to slog through that in order to author the configuration. Adding some function and structure tooling in a little Jsonnet library helps humans write very expressive documents that can be compiled down to the repetitive and exhaustive JSON level.
Ask HN: What's stopping YC from publishing locations of their startups?
See for yourself here: http://www.ycombinator.com/companies
Fair enough. I was going off the linked article in which he generates html in Go. Tcl/tk is cool, but wouldn't you have to import it just like bootstrap?
I think a lot of the impact can be recreated, with the appropriate score: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk
If I divide my adult life up into my relationships, my observations....

Phase 1 - 20s. Graduated from college, moved from my small city to a larger metro area, went through some physical issues while at the same time trying to establish my career. It was a lonely time. I had one or two female friends who I would hang out with occasionally but they were both in the “friend zone” (one by mutual choice and one no shared attraction).

Phase 2: late 20s, early 30s. Got married just because I was lonely and all of the warning signs were there before we got married. It was an equally lonely marriage, with no love and I started spending a lot of time pursuing working side hobbies to ignore the problem.

Phase 3: early to mid 30s. Divorced. I had a more active social life, lots of friends, fun hobbies, no serious relationships. It was better and more fulfilling than the first time around but still there was something missing coming to a big house in the evening and being alone.

Phase 4a - mid 30s to 40. Started dating my now wife. Our marriage was really on the rocks. We were both older, set in our ways and dealing with the financial repercussions of our former marriages and in my case, my failed real estate side business. It wasn’t lonely but it was unstable.

Phase 4b. We both worked out our former issues and as we got through our previous financial issues things are a lot less stressful. We have what I consider a pretty good marriage.

I don’t care what anyone says. Having money solves a lot of issues. There are a lot more “ands” than “ors” - we don’t have to argue about doing this or that - we can do both.

It’s scary, but I can’t imagine having a fulfilling life without being able to come home and having someone to share my life, my victories, my defeats, and just share life with.
"The left usually bemoans the lack of investment in historically non-white neighbourhoods, white flight from city centres and economic segregation. Yet gentrification straightforwardly reverses each of those regrettable trends."

"Poor residents living in New York’s gentrifying neighbourhoods during the 1990s were actually less likely to move than poor residents of non-gentrifying areas."
Could you elaborate on "a contact"?

Are you using Codec2 over radio?
It was already released in 2010 as the Pandora, which is the predecessor to the Pyra.
Maybe nobody has asked for that yet? http://www.ycombinator.com/contact/
> Note that I'm not counting food shortages caused by active or recent warfare in either case,

Surely the Ethiopian famine and the Cambodian famine could be disregarded if you applied this rule consistently.

And the Bengal famine is arguably something caused by a Western democracy that wasn't directly a result of the wartime conditions.
"Pokora had long been aware that his misdeeds had angered some powerful interests, and not just within the gaming industry; in the course of seeking out all things Xbox, he and his associates had wormed into American military networks too. But in those early hours after his arrest, Pokora had no clue just how much legal wrath he’d brought upon his head: For eight months he’d been under sealed indictment for conspiring to steal as much as $1 billion worth of intellectual property, and federal prosecutors were intent on making him the first foreign hacker to be convicted for the theft of American trade secrets. Several of his friends and colleagues would end up being pulled into the vortex of trouble he’d helped create; one would become an informant, one would become a fugitive, and one would end up dead."
I know the difference, used G722. On mobile its G722.2, a totally different codec, but with the same ~7KHz range.

But there were some companies that advertised a lower frequency range as "HD".
It's right in the OP

For example, their server ran on five (not four, not six, five) Fujitsu A60 minicomputers, and became hopelessly bogged down after about 80 concurrent users. We were never able to get a clear picture of why. We asked lots of questions and they’d try to answer them, but none of the explanations made any sense that we could puzzle out. They were trying to tell us, you see, but you can’t tell people anything.
I wrote a book.

I have a site called http://www.correlated.org that generates funny statistics based on user-submitted data.

After several years of running it, I got a book deal. It was part of a two-part deal that also involved my other (more successful) book "Experimenting With Babies."

For the Correlated book, I wrote a bunch of code involving some seriously gnarly SQL queries and some Natural Language Generation tools, and it basically spat out the book.

There was, of course, extra manual effort needed, but the code got me about 80% there.

Here's a little more about the book:

http://www.correlated.org/book.html
> Let’s be honest: security in IT is just like security in the physical world.

No, it is completely different: In the internet

- the culprit can be anywhere in the world

- the computer/network, where the attack comes from is usually just a node in a botnet

- So you do not have to just deal with the judicial system of your own country, but with any possible judicial system in the world.

- You can hardly ever find out, where the real origin of the attack is - so you cannot even know which judicial system you have to call to.
There is a reason why the principle people being xdg-app/flatpak are from the Gnome camp. It is basically their band-aid for a self-inflicted wound, while blaming the distros...
If there are no consequences, there is no prohibition.
Until Rumsfeld started waving the cancel wand and ruined some plans.
This is how I imagine an intelligent car would sound if it figured out how to produce speech through the antigravity engine.

Edit: oh sweet there's intonation too. Were these all made manually?
I find this profoundly unlikely.