skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I recently watched a 1979 James Burke history show which was commemorating the 10 year anniversary of the moon landings. I was too young when this show was produced to really remember this time period clearly. This made me think about the timeline of the space age and just how short it was. That crowning moment was only about 15 years after the first satellite or 25 years after the end of WW2, when jet engines were barely known to the world.

For someone like Gibson, that period was their childhood. They can be forgiven for assuming it would continue to rapidly expand. In the early 1980s, we had the space shuttles going up like clockwork and MTV was using film clips of those big moon rockets as part of their station-identification clips. By and large, people still thought of space as present and future tense. People didn't really understand it as a demonstration of massive budget redirection and military-industrial might, and that nothing had really been done to solve the physics and make space travel a consumer possibility with low marginal cost.

To me, Gibson's later works try to correct that mistake. His focus shifts ever more towards the information flows, power brokers, and large-scale consumerism. He turns away from the military and space age set pieces. He treats weapons more as artifacts and surplus of a bygone era, just as this big nation-state technology must have seemed to him relics of his past.
> Clients had multi-year contracts in some cases.

I wonder how much Twitter is going to pay on top of the acquisition cost of what I can only imagine constitutes breach of contract with all of these companies. (If it doesn't, why even bother having a contract with a duration?)
If you don't believe in someone robbing your house, or killing your family, should you just shrug your shoulders and move somewhere else?
But why would a judge not go, "No, Twitter, you clearly acquired the company. Just because you broke it into pieces, and then picked up all those pieces does not mean that you didn't acquire the company."
My Privacy Badger was blocking design.google.com
He's arguing that gp's opinion is, in fact, grounded in his opening question's exemplary ignorance.
> Because XBL centralized the online gaming experience

Gamespy and Steam's multiplayer system already did that for free.

> a lot of benefits were realized including centralizing your multiplayer experience (community and content)

Again, same thing.

> not having to maintain multiple subscriptions for different game services

I never needed to ever, except for MMOs, which I was still required to pay for on XBL at the time.

> That is and was worth the premium

No it wasn't, the fact you had to play multiplayer hosted on your own console, hosted on your own internet connection, by software you already bought is ridiculous. They offered "free updates", community features and other services completely free. But, multiplayer, the only thing most of us wanted and none of this "value add", you had to pay.
How is it similar?
It’s the same culture that sends tidal waves of students to American universities to earn Ph.Ds, and because of our piss-poor immigration system, most of them have to go back home with all of that valuable education and use it in China or India or wherever instead of the USA.
New Study: Rewarding Good Teachers and Firing Bad Ones Accomplishes Nothing
Chef just uses Ruby.
Can someone explain why a warrant under the federal Stored Communications Act is easier to obtain?
https://synapse.ai/ or https://doc.ai or https://enigma.co/ or ...

all have (or will have) the capacity for doing this
I suppose it's not completely flat because some elements have subtle shadows, and some weirdly raise when pressed. It was strongly influenced by the flat themes from Microsoft (Metro/Modern) and Apple. It's more minimalist with low contrast and gratuitous spacing.
It would be nice if this spread beyond the US. Although it's kind of hard to imagine workers having any voice in countries like Russia or China.
> I mean, small wonder. Look at what was being done in the conservative name recently: separated kids in cages. That’s a hard legacy to justify.

A result of the Flores Settlement[1] from 1997 which came about under Clinton and Reno in response to the practice of keeping children in general population detention. So not really a conservative legacy...

It's a double edged sword -- separating children from their families, but also from the creeps[2].

[1] https://youthlaw.org/case/flores-v-reno/
[2] https://www.vox.com/2018/6/20/17484546/executive-order-famil...
That should never be the case, and any jurisdiction that allows such is wrong.
A Short Guide to Using Python for Data Analysis in Experimental Physics
I get more than $2.50 a seat value for Java, that is sure.
The myth of revealed preference for suburbs
Yes, and the individuals fail in that context (i.e., the driver is at fault), but the greater failure is the management decision to put the system in the wild and create serious risk other unuspecting and more importantly, un-consenting, people.

Anything less is skapegoating and letting the managers get away with manslaughter (in this case).

The whole lot needs to be prosecuted, not only the driver (who also should not get let off)
The Growing Economic Inequility in Europe by Every Region
I find in annoying as an embedded engineer that “embedded” now mean phones which are more powerful than the PCs most of used relatively recently.

Embedded to me means 8-32bit micros for real devices. Not PCs that happen to fit in your pocket.

200kB is out for even a fairly serious cortex M4.
And there's the 'cohort normalization' distinction right there. My crowd doesn't do that.
Police: Uber driver was streaming Hulu just before fatal self-driving car crash
I don't give up and I own my shit, not sure what the contradiction is here. That poem could be better, how about Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note:

And now, each night I count the stars,
And each night I get the same number.
And when they will not come to be counted,
I count the holes they leave.
Same argument for Google’s VP9. It has TONS of users because of YouTube.

People complain that’s a standard and Apple needs to support it.

No difference.

But as others have said, MS is supporting HEIF on Windows too.
I’m curious as to what’s next for conservatives who reject human cruelty and actually care about their fellow citizens, country, and human beings.

I'm curious what the next act for leftist ideology is, since various forms of it (mostly communism) were responsible for the most human misery in all of human history in just one century.
I hate email and according to the 3000+ messages in my inbox I don't bother to even read them anymore. I prefer slack instead of a hodgepodge of various software.
Does Apple still prohibit any form of downloaded code or scripting or did they finally ease that?
So this is an example of how to use Bootstrap Material Design in different web frameworks? Why use Bootstrap Material Design instead of the Google supported Material Component library that works in any framework and without the added noise of class="foo"? https://github.com/material-components/material-components-w...
> * colors are too bright and saturated * Low text-vs-background contrast: white letters on bright yellow-orange for example * Font strokes are way too thin which is especially bad compounded with dark-ish gray on light-ish gray low contrast

if only there some some sort of style sheet which was easily modifiable so that its changes cascaded down into every selector you had a problem with.

making such a system seems like a lot of work, it would be even better if someone already placed the selectors, configured it to reposition them on desktop and mobile, and released all that work for free
Which might also indicate that good politics are a part of her job as well.

You don't want to tell the contractors who aren't trying to rip you off "I need to stand here and stare at you so that you don't cheat me/steal anything", but if you're always around to help "pick out windows" or "choose drapes", you can keep an eye on things without being too obvious about it.
Lemme just underline this. Google engineers come from all over the world, and Google products are built to serve people all over the world. The Googlers opposed to Maven believe that building software that enables one government to enact (more) drone strikes against civilians in other countries is contrary to the mission of making people's lives better.

Preemptive lazy answers for lazy replies:
Companies only exist to increase stockholder value: Some of us hold ourselves to a higher standard.

Improved drone efficiency is better for everyone: hahahaha.
The Linux kernel TLS support does the same.
AFIAK, Pigs already "pass" the mirror test -- but yes, the "sniff" test would be interesting too.
> burger flipping is just about the least desirable type of work available.

It's not even close, which is why it is easy to keep burger flipping jobs find without high wages even when unemployment is relatively low.

> This has been said countless times, but it's worth noting that although there are very few blacksmiths or peat cutters today, somehow we are still pretty close to full employment.

Because “full employment” is a decreasing-over-time share of the population that is actually working (and an even smaller decreasing share actually self-sufficient from work, as a large portion of the working population is dependent on public aid.)

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it is a problem that people point to “near full employment” with advancing automation as an excuse to argue against the continued advance of social support structures necessary to make the declining share of the population working (and also the declining share self-sufficient from work) both nearly “full employment” and anywhere close to tolerate conditions.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17372773
This was at my peak anxiety point after having hallucinations the night before, taken by a nurse before I was to see everyone my psychiatrist. Resting normally
and not anxious or having a panic attack I rest around 70-85.
I think it's quite related to the curiosity about the decision mix in this Sup Ct case. But congratulations for Interneting today. You were needlessly crass from a safe distance. Hooray!
How many thousands of employees, including executive roles, does a company need before it is an international company?
> that they have no control over

Per the article, they did at least have long-term contracts locked in with Smyte. That's not the same as control over the feature, obviously, but plenty of companies do business on the strength of contracts instead of vertically integrating their entire product.

Obviously we don't have many details yet, but I think there's a real difference between simply using a third party API that works for the moment, and buying a service from a third party. If Twitter/Smyte simply broke contract with all their existing customers, that's very much their responsibility.
minimalist, like craigslist
Penn and Teller (of all people) actually covered the recycling situation in detail some years back, so in spite of the fact that I myself am a conscientious recycler I know that a lot of this is probably wasted effort. But in my situation it effectively doubles my weekly waste disposal capacity, which I've used to great effect over the years.

BTW, our local recycler doesn't require a lot of effort on our part, nor do they have a lot of restrictions on what we try to recycle. No food scraps, no plastic bags, and no styrofoam, but that's about it. Also no washing, no label removing, and no sorting on our part.

Penn & Teller Bullshit! - (2-05) - 205 - Recycling

https://vimeo.com/216389085
this is literally at the top of the front page already... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17374440
This is one of those instances in which I think employees (developers) and companies working with Twitter need to have a "never forget" attitude. I actually know someone personally at Twitter corp dev (the group that usually manages M&A activity) and I hope that individual was not involved here, as it would be pretty out of character.
Oh interesting, thanks, the previous Netgear ones were not. Yeah, I imagine it produces a fair bit of heat.

Oh, but these only have two 10Gb ports, I was looking at 8 port 10Gb switches eg Netgear XS508M which still has a fan. It peaks at 40W.
How Blockchain Will Disrupt Business
Do you mean you agree? Do you mean the statement is possibly self-defeating? Do you mean you noticed the typo? Do you mean…?
In this context, I took "full stop" to mean "end of discussion." As if to dismiss all dissenting opinions and stifle further discussion.

As for the telegraph use, I'm aware of that. I have a background in amateur radio and in college a crusty old engineer taught me morse code to communicate over the maintenance department's secret building-to-building campus telegraph network.
Which Colonial Oppression you are talking vis-a-vis Post World War II US Navy ?
In the absolute worst case of frames that are on opposite ends of the disk and compressed to 20MB each, you're still spending less than 20% of your time seeking.

When you take random-access and make the data chunks big enough, it becomes sequential-access. Raw 8k footage is above this threshold.
I suck at front end design, but I personally would pay money for a Bootstrap-type setup based on Apple HIG. In my (admittedly biased) opinion, Apple Human Interface Guidelines seem like common sense. I am speaking from the perspective of someone who has a web application that has “normal” people as their primary user and thus have spent countless hours providing support for simple things that might seem obvious to the more technically literate. Let’s not insult users, but let’s not assume they’re all web natives either.
You are equating your kids' reaction to your code to scientists who have spent their whole life doing science on a topic.

Why does everyone have such strong opinions about biology in particular, there's never doubts about what the physicists say but everyone's an evolutionary biologists
duplicate, please check before submitting https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17364899
Empirically, interesting usage of the word. What exactly are you arguing for? We can be objective but we have access to a rich and beautiful subjectivity. It's interesting in all these "measurable" behaviors there is no room for measuring an individual's suffering, which is quite real, but it seems those making the decisions are far removed from it.
Well it would expand the library surface, so now they have yet more code to maintain and they have to maintain a function with confusing and inconsistent naming forever. I think they made the right call here personally and the simplicity and stability is part of the appeal of the language.
This incident reminds of a post Nicholas Carr wrote. We are offloading critical activities to automation but at critical times human expertise is needed to resolve dangerous situations. The driver put too much confidence in the automation and watched a TV show on her phone.
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Twitter is the one responsible now.
Automattic (Wordpress) has acquired Atavist
The "legal soap-opera material" demonstrated his background check had missed something, and wound up in the nominee withdrawing his nomination. Single-handedly torpedoing a SCOTUS nomination seems like pretty meaningful reporting.

Expecting journalists to have second degrees in law isn't a reasonable standard, if for no other reason than the financial burden it'd inflict on an already fairly low paid profession. (Hell, many lawyers struggle with their law school loans.) Chances are she's cultivated plenty of legal minds to help with analysis - perhaps even one or more of the justices themselves.
The driver is at fault.
George Friedman does :)

https://worldview.stratfor.com/article/george-friedman-space...
I’m less liberal than many, but I’m curious how the conservative movement feels issues like climate change and clean oceans and clean air, or even net neutrality ought to be dealt with, if not by govt regulation. Or is the line of thinking that only those rich enough to buy face masks, and have climate controlled mansions with private beaches may enjoy those things.. Maybe this is entirely orthogonal to this thread, so maybe there could be a separate HN thread just for this discussion? I welcome your suggestion and am wholly on board but I really don’t think individually emailing you is the most productive method to have, what is in fact, a wide ranging discussion with multiple participants.
> sort of subterranean for obvious reasons

It's not obvious to me. What I see is the pedantic cynical rhetorical appeal to victimization, which makes me think they are a movement of propaganda techniques and not ideas. (And victimization is an incredible claim for a political group that controls both houses of the Congress, the White House, the Supreme Court, and in ~33 of 50 states the entire legislature and executive branch. And they have two leading news outlets, Fox and the WSJ, as their mouthpieces.) My impression is that they don't care about truth or outcomes or even conservatism (as they support Trump, who violates many of their loudly proclaimed principles), only power, and that they have no moral restraint; lies and manipulation are favored tools.

I'd be interested in conservative ideas, but I've found no source for those.
Gluon -http://marwes.github.io/2018/06/19/gluon-0.8.html
The US occupied Iraq for over a decade, and installed a new government. The US spent a little time in the Balkans and Somalia and then gave up. There's a difference.
> We had a 3 years contract with them and they just disappeared overnight. No communication at all, they just turned their servers off

Hmm, is the new owner not bound by that contract?
Just like all those people that screwed them over by depending on 3rd party CPUs instead of creating their own?
Sincere question: How is Skype not a near-real time async messaging system? What features is it missing that 'a messaging system should have'?
The Origins of WEIRD Psychology
The inverse of all this surveillance is using CRM for everyday things. I can often tell when someone (recruiter, SaaS sales, dentist, etc) calls me because they have an alert in their CRM that the contact is cooling. Is it insincere? No, that's the depth of our relationship. So long as they aren't pretending to be zealously enthusiastic in that weirdly corporate, millennial zombie cheerleader way, I will deal with them.

To me, for airline and other staff to address me by my first name is like being addressed as "Comrade," where only a counter-revolutionary could object to being addressed as a comrade, and would clearly require that I be marked as what I can only assume to be a problematic opportunity, and scheduled for enhanced scrutiny.

The horses of dystopia have already left the barn, it's just a matter of how you choose to live out your remainder of it.

"Ok?"
I'm baffled if this wasn't already the case. Surely the entire point of signing a long-term contract (as opposed to just paying by the 'unit' used) is to protect against exactly this kind of outcome? I know it doesn't always happen, but it seems like most rapid "hire and shutter" moves hit either consumer-facing services or B2B stuff like analytics that isn't production critical.

I had assumed Twitter was going to be paying out a bunch of breach-of-contract penalties, because this is basically what contracts are for. Is there a standard way around this?
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It’s more complicated than that, though. Disney is more than willing to raise prices, but this is something a bit different.
You seem to be conflating an act and a photo. There are first-hand reports from members of Congress who have verified that what the poster above described is taking place.
>It seems every "how to do Slack right" post emphasizes that you shouldn't use Slack as a chat service.

Maybe other posts devolve to that but this post is different. The common repeating pattern he's pointing out is others misusing it for low-quality communication and suggesting some settings to get some sanity back.

It's similar to previous advice about old technologies that others misuse where you had to counteract it with tactics to gain productivty. E.g. Phones - turn off ringer and manage voice mail. Email - set automatic category/priority/junk filters.
We don't even have data about our own behaviour. Someone should build a self-hosted personal Google Analytics equivalent. RescueTime comes the closest, I think. There was https://connectordb.io/ but the project seems dormant now.
Unions almost invariably require government regulated support, because collective anything rarely stands on its own before people defect.

I think that's a general good feature of the free market. Collusion is hard until you get down to only a few providers of a service. (In this case, labor.)

The real problem here is that employees generally have no power, because they have no flexibility. We have a nationwide, intergenerational case of people living paycheck to paycheck when even modest savings would've lead to fantastic wealthbuilding. In short, we wouldn't need unions if employees had a BATNA.

This is a financial education problem. But it's one that could be temporarily solved by susbsidizing a BATNA for workers, rather than enforcing labor laws that lead directly to inefficiency.
It is interesting the JPEG CFP pdf note JPEG2000 as being widely successful, when it is barely used outside certain domain. And it names JPEG2000 being royalty free, but on Wikipedia they mention they problem of patents. And it is only free for baseline ( Whatever that means )
Micron and other DRAM producers were losing money due to DRAM gluts two years ago. That discouraged capacity investment and, as many insiders had predicted, it led to eventually higher price today.

Sure, you got bargain at their expense two years ago and now everyone is complaining about the higher cost of DRAM today. But that still doesn't justify IP theft.
> We keep seeing these arguments about how burdensome warrants are, but judges routinely rubber stamp every warrant request that comes across their desk.

Warrant applications getting denied may be rare in most jurisdictions, but that doesn't mean they are rubber stamped: what probable cause requires in common circumstances being well established by precedent and practice, there is little incentive for law enforcement to waste their own, and judges‘, time on a invalid applications.
Foreign affairs is one of the few enumerated central/Federal powers, so I don't understand your point.
Ötzi the Iceman spent his last days trying to repair his tools
John Preskill on Quantum Computing
A single lane road.

As opposed to a two lane road with traffic flowing in either direction.
>but people can always choose (i.e. get woke) to intentionally conform or to defy norms. Intentionally feed data

And future algorithms will detect it. Not enough of the population will do it. At best you'll be classified as a deviant and you might have difficulty getting apartments or loans. At worst, well, maybe the first with their back against the wall when the corporate takeover comes.
>Requiring a warrant is an extremely low bar to pass. Yet somehow law enforcement has been moving away from even that cursory glance since 9/11.

Because without a warrant requirement they can request vast troves of data, to be stored indefinitely.
Dyon https://github.com/PistonDevelopers/dyon

(Interesting and very easy to modify, maybe not "production ready")
Is there some kind of sunlight shortage on Earth? Why would this be necessary?
Does anyone know if and how this would affect cellphone companies who sell location data to data brokers?

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-verizon-location-data-...

You practically can't opt of this or are often unaware given the complexity of an average app's TOS.