skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You inspired me to calculate the total amount of human experience, ever. I arrived at a figure of about 2.7 trillion years, ten times as many years as there are stars in the Milky way. In seconds it's 10^20 - 0.1% of all the stars in the entire universe.

I can't even comprehend the scale.
It seems to try to be responsive..but doesn't work. Somehow that is more annoying.
Also never played the original, but made it to the end with 4/5 people and a score of 7k. I feel like the difficulty likely isn't the same
I remember differently, but I don't want to pull up the source right now.

I did check some of the sources, but was not able to find the one I remember which had statistics on it.

The xerox FAQ to it does lead me to consider that I might be confusing this with some other incident though, as they claim that Scanning is the only thing that is affected.
Codec2 might be patent-free, but Codec2 with a WaveNet decoder isn't because WaveNet (convolutional neural networks for generating audio sequence data) is patented: https://patents.justia.com/patent/20180075343
I am speaking as a German. Sure, larger businesses used proper ISDN, but your uncle/mom didn't. The best you could hope for there was only DECT compression, aka ADPCM 4bit/8kHz.
NASA Science Directorate, which operates Mars rovers and sends planetary probes, is mission driven. NASA human spaceflight is a jobs program (it invents make work in order to excuse spending money) that is fatally afraid of taking on a project they might fail at, because that might endanger the spigot of endless government money for all the pet technologies (for the people inside NASA) and jobs in districts (for the funders in congress).

See this talk by Dan Rasky (inventor of PICA heatshield) for a perspective from the inside:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3gzwMJWa5w

See almost any talk by Robert Zubrin for a perspective from outside, for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaNKtIY6JpQ
Not sure about what is wrong about an article from 2014. It is not talking about the last JavaScript implementation or AI achievement.
Infrastructure as a Motorcycle
The degree matters a lot. Many have never had a serious breach
There's a series on transistors that covers this. There's basically no mechanical process since everything is done via etching and litho. Leads to the results you see.
I assume the usual wideband codecs used with VoLTE.
You rightly point out that income disparity metrics can be manipulated, but changing the calculation (eg by ignoring Bezos) does nothing to change the actual disparity, it just makes it harder to detect... So what exactly is your point?
It's about pineapples.
Non paywalled mirror

http://archive.is/sRijg
Isnt that how the Facebook/Google/Msft works right now with visa sponsorship and their remote hiring/working policies?

My friend working for Google moved later to Paris, France because she could and is still working for Google in France, I think companies like Facebook (in Ireland and certain European countries) or Google (literally everywhere in Europe) or even IBM (IBM has quite a few major offices in Asia, not sure why) already practice open border policies as part of a much wider remote working policy and have people from different countries working in different countries (aka somebody Spanish working in US while someone from US working in Ireland for example).
it's because you load a huge 2.4 MB JS file, and your web server is configured terribly so gzip is off so it really is 2.4 MB.
whether or not Ted Nelson's vision for personal computing has been achieved.

If you listen to one of Ted's recent videos, you'll find the answer in the weeping and gnashing of teeth. (The dumbing down of what could-have-been.)
That's a huge difference. I assume different sources did use quite different measures:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty#Measuring_poverty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_threshold
Repos of major distributions tend to keep security updates current. I can go to the source repo if I want the latest-and-greatest. And running a couple of releases behind is something I quite like to do, because bugs.
If you ever visit Chichen Itza, you can see murals depicting their ceremonies. One of them shows how two teams would compete in some kind of sport involving hoops and balls, and the leader of the winning team would be sacrificed.

And everyone involved thought this was awesome, because it was a great honour something something the gods something sacrifice for your people something.

With our modern sensibilities and rationality, it's absolutely mindboggling.
TL;DR (extended):

All should use Firefox Quantum! because the forks get slower security updates, are based on older codebases, and don't offer much that can't easily be configured. If you need NSAPI plugins use Firefox ESR.

Similarly for Chromium forks.
I highly recommend Annarasumanara as an example webtoon that takes full advantage of the vertical format:

https://www.webtoons.com/en/drama/annarasumanara/ep-1/viewer...
I'm fine with 2.

It seems to be the case already.
> restrict their access to welfare benefits

This is a libertarian pipe-dream that will never happen in the current political climate. They envision free movement and no welfare/safety-net (for at least alien immigrants). Even if that is federal policy, states and cities will pick up the slack.

The rest? Just another way to end up with millions of undocumented/illegal immigrants (like we have currently with impossible standards to meet for legal immigration). Can't force someone to pay "extra taxes" if they are working under the table for slave wages.

No doubt The Economist could care less if migrants pay taxes, for them they pay their way solely by providing cheap labor to businesses.
That's a good point. The die in the SOIC package (the one that costs 15 cents) probably is smaller? Which means it might also have a different layout.
ive got into the us on an O1 and now have a EB1 green card. i also founded a fairly big agency in Denmark hiring people from around the world so yeah I would say i have experience :)
There's no link I think, but I'm fascinated by the windcatcher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windcatcher

The specific trick here appears to be that you connect a qanat (underground canal, which routes water from the water table at a higher elevation to the surface at a lower elevation) to the bottom of the structure, and a wind catcher to the top, with its opening facing away from the prevailing direction of wind. Wind blowing past the tower causes a pressure drop near the opening, which draws in air from the other end of the qanat, which is cooler because it's underground / next to water.
Cutting and diverting an operating Victorian sewer main [video]
One area's net immigration is another area's brain drain.

Look around your own country and ask if the movement to the richer areas has helped the areas the people come from, or the all the people that were there in the first place or even really those that did the moving.

We keep recreating the slums of 1840s Manchester with every cycle and still we never learn.

Never take open borders arguments from anybody with a lock on their front door. Free movement is essentially the privatisation of borders for the benefit of the rich. You can have a border if you can afford to purchase enough land, put a fence up and hire the heavies to keep the riffraff out. Everybody else gets to fight it out in the mud pool.
Thank you for the rescue of Sourceforge. It still has a lot of goodwill, and the rescue is restoring more.
If God in Genesis really wanted the sacrifice to happen, he wouldn't have stopped Abraham before it happened. Hebrews chapter 11 has a more detailed explanation of what was happening there in Genesis 22. You can't understand the story until you understand the whole context of what and who Isaac was supposed to be. It was never about child sacrifice, and it's countered by many comments by the same that child sacrifice is bad.

Besides that, this is getting off-topic as to the point that it was likely a widespread thing in the world.
anyone mind giving a tl;dr version of this article? I find the text really strenuous to look at.
1979

Even 10 years later. In the mid-80s (by which time BYTE magazine was as big as a Sears catalog) I wrote a piece on the approach of the PC era and offered it to a smaller (100K) town's newspaper editor. His response: 'That's kind of a nitch product isn't it?'

The bigger newspapers were already moving completely to computers, but such facts hadn't really reached such guys.
You aren't going to wire 36 panels in series. The largest off grid pv charge controllers handle strings of up to 1000VDC. You create strings of a certain size and then start paralleling.

I don't think this setup uses microinvertersb because it is highly inefficient to charge a battery bank by first having ac power, convert to DC, them back to AC to run loads.

I highly doubt the person who was shocked was shocked from the DC side, more likely they touched an exposed 120v 15/20a circuit on the AC load side.
theres no quota on an O visa and you have L visas and a bunch of others on top of H1B plus the lottery plus 11 million illegal immigrants living and often working here even paying taxes. I can assure you IAm not kidding and that you should learn a little about just how open the US is compared to the EU.
Yes respectful always. Just that it means different things for different people. The are calls and requests that may thrill the unemployed also annoy the employed.
Ignoring other issues, this will have rather poor power usage, which is especially relevant given how many people listen to podcasts on mobile devices.
How did it go though? I've seen a large number of politically charged statements about it, but little actual fact (I've done some research, and would appreciate a competent citation)
I liked the movie, but if there was a moral it was no more than the standard-issue Frankenstein fearmongering: "if you meddle in God's domain, or study that which man was not meant to know, awful things will happen." It certainly makes for fun adventures, but I'm not sure it's praiseworthy on its own.
It’s exactly what was meant as you need to do shift+open to install unsigned apps which doesn’t add much if anything.
My point is that most of where we are today can be attributed to the post war advantage and not any specific policy decision. We are increasingly losing ground to China in terms of output and GDP growth and losing out massively to Europe in terms of quality of life.
Private business was just one of several examples I gave to illustrate principles which hold across a wide range of scales of human organization.

It is straightforward to verify that they don't stop holding at nation-scale. A good place to start is Lee Kuan Yew, who's both one of the only leaders in history to preside over the entire transition from Third World to First World for millions of people, and an architect of what's currently the most open immigration policy among Chinese-majority states. Singapore is a multicultural place whose government is widely acknowledged to have one of the best technocratic track records in the world, and they spent considerable effort on trying to get immigration policy right, iterating through alternatives while deliberately taking a popularity hit; what were their conclusions?

Or what are the odds, under your stated worldview, that two of the closest things to actual open borders existing in 2018 are
(i) the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard, which lets almost anyone stay as long as they can support themselves ...but ranges from 74 to 81 degrees N latitude, and
(ii) the United Arab Emirates, which has more than five times as many expats as actual citizens, the largest number from India ...but ruthlessly maintains a two-tiered society, where even people who were born in the UAE and have lived there their entire lives are exceedingly unlikely to be granted citizenship unless they are Arab?

Contrary to claims that nothing like open borders has ever been tried, the existence of cases like this make it abundantly clear that this area of policy space has already been subject to substantial exploration. And every surviving result has an obvious and unusual force that does something similar to what traditional immigration controls accomplish in most countries, such as Svalbard's -40C winters. This is, to put it mildly, not a likely result if traditional immigration controls no longer have a useful function.
How much do consumers pay in Bezos tax for goods on Amazon? i.e, if the site simply let consumers buy from Chinese manufacturers (which, in the end, is what much of Amazon is) without the fee to the owners of the marketplace (i.e, "Bezos Tax), how much cheaper would it be?
I think this illustrates the unfair advantage pretty well: https://www.amazon.com/s/&field-keywords=batteries
Well written. Totally agreed. There is systematic underestimation of culture migration along with all its goods and bads in these articles. No one digs into why the country became what it is.
OLE embedding and OpenDoc utterly failing has been one of my great frustrations in the computer field. I should be able to have a universal document format with intelligent encapsulated data that I can manipulate in flexible ways.

Excel is almost there as a standalone island, but I should be able to embed Excel's intelligence in all my documents.
It is notable that the first four were working on fundamental mathematics.

I have reason to believe that's specifically hazardous.
There is a bug in a code listing in the article:

val exclaimed = strings.map { it + "!" }

Should be

val exclaimed = plain.map { it + "!" }
> 6 million Jews, gypsies, leftists, and homosexuals.

It was worse than that. The total number of holocaust victims was about 17 million, the Jews were just the biggest group at around 6 million.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holocaust_victims
I use Opus on my phone all the time. I was in a place where internet was really expensive, so I'd download and convert things on a Linux server.

In conjunction with youtube-dl I could listen to pretty much anything I wanted, using almost no data.

These days I use it mostly for audiobooks, if storage is limited.
>This is challenging because you have to track the reputation of each individual vendor and users have proven unable to even consistently download the software from the right page let alone judge individuals vendors track record.

There was a pattern where articles about nasty android apps would always include some idiotic line about "Security experts say do not install apps you don't trust."

Who the hell knows anything about the apps they even trust, for all you know they sold out to malware companies yesterday.... there's no way to know.

Let alone that would also mean you never try any new software...

I HATE that line.
I've found that FreeIPA tends to be a fantastic replacement: https://www.freeipa.org/

If you're using Red Hat/Fedora GNOME desktops, you can pair that with Fleet Commander to set up desktop policy: https://fleet-commander.org/

At some point soon, I expect it to work for SUSE and Mageia systems, too.

I currently run this on a Fedora Server setup to pair with some Fedora Workstations I manage.
Delays in the Mars program do happen. MSL and its Curiosity rover had a delay of one launch window (18 months): http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/20081204-msl-laun...

This is small compared to some other delays, of course.

(Perhaps this forgetting illustrates the point of the article.)
Some kids started hacking game companies and finding ways to cheat and download pre-release versions of games. This turned into a business, they got were thrill seeking and coveted more money, and got caught.
The HK New Towns all evolved in this direction as well, to the point that sustainable local industry as envisioned in the initial New Town concept tends to be reduced in favor of bigger rail links to Kowloon and the island.
One of the most frustrating parts of Win10 is the update scheduling. You can request that an update be delayed, but the OS does not always honor the request as specified (settings - update & security - windows update - active hours).

In Win10 Pro, you can postpone an update for max 35 days (windows update - advanced options - pause updates), but never indefinitely. If a pending update will break your machine (and you know because you already had to uninstall it), there's nothing you can do; it will install in five weeks no matter what. It's a timebomb.

Adding insult to injury is that these are primarily "feature" updates, and the features are for Microsoft's benefit. The April 2018 update enabled "Timeline" in the Task View (Win + Tab). All session activity is now shared with Microsoft by default. It must be disabled in Settings - Security & Privacy - Activity Sharing... so I disable all the new less-privacy things I don't want, and there are a lot of them... a week later, they are all switched on again, without notification or consent, after a subsequent Tuesday update.

And this is the reboot I can't postpone, on the OS I purchased. It's part Heller, part Kafka.
And what makes u think that people who come acustomed to those values and cultures will auddenly change when broight to rich countries?
https://dominiccummings.files.wordpress.com/2017/02/201702-e... claims to outline why Apollo-era NASA was effective in this way and offer lessons for people today. I don't know anything about it myself.
It'd be useful to filter by whether methods mutate.
How about no.

Fuck rust.
Yep. Not viable for people like that unless and until an exchange has the same protections and guarantees they expect from a traditional bank.
How to Build a Tornado (2015)
Stress of poverty is only one form of stress, of which there are many: I'm almost 47, I've suffered poverty but also infidelity, a stroke, the loss of my dad and rejection from family.

Maybe you think poverty is "easy to fix", with money... but you can choose to take control of all forms of stress instead, and get prepared for worse than poverty.
Because of course everyone carries a stock of washers, in case of drips happening in the middle of the night.

And of course you can shut down the water to the faucet at a moments notice, without disturbing anyone.

And the replacements never fail, so it's perfectly fine to start such a project during non business hours, because you'll never have to keep the water off for hours or a weekend waiting for stores to open so you can get the parts you need.

And obviously everyone has time to do such a project the moment the drips start, because that's the highest priority.
NIST Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures
How having 11 million illegal immigrants is being open :)?
In Ireland it would take 2 month to get work visa that becomes PR after 2 years. L1 is only for transfers anyone that can qualify for US O visa are welcome anywhere in the world.
> 1.) CGI has getting astonishingly good relative to what people were used to seeing

Wasn't the first one done with animatronics and costumes?
I have very serious doubts about that.
That's not always true.
Delegation: Assign Roles Not Tasks
Tradition mostly, I think. The old idea that a boss should be paid more than the people they manage, because they won't be respected if they earn less.
awesome - I enjoyed reading up on your work! stuff like this makes me wonder if variable fonts will become a popular method for animating certain things on the web (maybe in the context of UI kits like font awesome, ionicons, etc).

it still kind of blows my mind how quickly we all moved to abandon adobe flash once HTML became viable. I'm not a fan of the attack surface that flash presents, but in retrospect, especially thinking about the hardware I was using 15 years ago, it almost seems like advanced alien technology when contrasted with the state of vector animation on the web today.
> Plenty of studies around long term intelligence of children learning second languages early on....

This in itself may be a myth:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/debate-rages-over...
Sure they did. Adoption rate was about 30%, possibly even higher at it's peak.

DECT codec is useless if it's transmitted through analog lines, as it gets converted to standard 3.4k-Hz quality anyway. Except for in-house calls of course.
Supply and demand. They spend all day in meetings gathering requirements, fighting to fund their staff, keeping their staff from being dragged off onto other projects. Few can do it well.
> When people ask me about my life’s ambitions, I often joke that my goal is to become independently wealthy so that I can afford to get some work done. Mainly that’s about being able to do things without having to explain them first, so that the finished product can be the explanation. I think this will be a major labor saving improvement.

Honestly this is so good. I feel exactly the same.
You can't tell people anything (2004)
145 is 99.8650032777% (SD scale of 15 points) sorry for rounding up.

Even universities that select for higher IQ are not considerably higher than the normal upper limit look at the ACT IQ correlation study that was linked here or the Carson study.

There are 472,489 people in the US which have an IQ of 145 or higher when you count for the portion of those who will be students say age 18-35 you get about 100,000 now spread those around the best 50 schools in the country and you still get a pretty low percentage even if all of them enroll into higher education.
According to my grandpa, who was a plumber his whole life, it's impossible to use tape to fix a leak.
Responsibility, managers are expected to keep the project on track and held accountable it its not
While you're at it, might as well pick up your vegetables straight from the farm, your clothes straight from the factory, and eat your food straight from the restaurant kitchen top?

It's value added service that brings convenience.
I'm impressed that you're both familiar with the rhetoric roots of the term
Shadow IT goes back a long way!
OK lets compare the process for Ireland, Poland, Germany to US. Especially time to PR.
I'm not sure how difficult it would be to find them, but the old Reading Rainbow used to have a lot of visits of this kind, and so did Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood (though I watched less of that and can't remember how frequently it happened).

If you can find them somewhere, hopefully she'd get a kick out of them. :)
First place for you to start to answer that question is to see how much it costs to sell on Amazon. https://services.amazon.com/selling/pricing.html
Does anyone have a good reference on how analog is done on logic processes, specifically the bits that have to interface off the chip, like gpio, lvds, and serdes. I'd much appreciate it.

There's something I once encountered, but can't find the reference to, that suggested a kind of "digital-analog" process whereby voltage levels were replaced by timing measurement (?) due to the limits of feature size in analog design. I'm not in the field so forgive my ignorance.
Definitely possible if you start low and have potential. I've gotten promoted or raises every 6-9 mo for the last 4 years (since starting my first job). "Your young with little experience..." >>> "Oh wow you're actually good at things! Have a promotion."
Largely. But what CGI it did use was very good for the time (and even today), and represented something if a watershed moment.
I wouldn’t even have to—they volunteered, and even paid the money for the DNA test themselves.