skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember the PCjr felt considerably slower than the 5150 (PC) and also had a terrible keyboard, however it was innovative to use infrared to make it wireless. It also had cartridge slots and a small catalog of (mostly) games that came on them, but in practice there was no benefit to that.

The biggest problem I saw with Tandy was partial incompatibility with certain popular software.
This goes together nicely with the Aestivation Hypothesis (https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.03394).

If a civilisation puts itself on hold for a trillion years, just waiting around doing nothing, then when it wakes up the universe is much colder and it can do computations 10^30 times more efficiently. If the civilization consists of minds running on computers then they've increased their own lifespans by the same factor.
So would the light from those stars also be moving outward faster than the speed of light?
No, they had trouble because of they way they forced PC manufactures to ship IE instead of Netscape.

Also, they had practical monopoly. Apple doesn't
Alex Miller wrote a few days ago on this very topic: https://clojureverse.org/t/improving-error-messages-in-cloju...
They'll probably wonder why all the fragments they find seem to indicate we preferred damaging technologies over benign.

Then like archaeologists everywhere will conclude it was of religious significance.
Dutch Muslim Political Party Staffer Wishes Cancer on ‘Filthy Jews’
I'd never heard of this before. I had read that it is possible for infection from the face and upper jaw to track to the the brain, so maybe there is some venous return from the face via the brain.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danger_triangle_of_the_face
> They lost control of their own currency.

Germany lost it, too. If it worked for Germany, why not trying to learn from their experience rather than keeping complaining?
Double Dabble (ft. Prof. Brailsford)
The object is bound together by electromagnetic forces, and the local group is bound together by gravity. These forces are much stronger than the expansion of the universe (cosmological constant), but the expansion of the universe manifests as a tiny tiny outward pressure term (too small for us to detect). It makes every atom/orbit a little bigger by changing the equilibrium point, but they don't to grow in size because the force isn't increasing.

If the cosmological constant were much larger than it is, atoms would have never formed at all.
So are prepaid credit cards - the type you do not register. They can theoretically be hacked, but so can your bank account.

And it depends on what you are buying. Most stores have cameras. There are a slew of transactions that require ID as well. You generally need to show some sort of ID to get your cash as well - few employers will pay in cash. Major cash purchases are sometimes either refused or require ID and forms to finish.

And you are simply out of luck if you happen to lose it somehow. It can get damaged to the point of being worthless as well.
There is also qwant.com which is in Europe.

Somewhat strangely, when I use Qwant, I often get better results than Google. This is of course anecdotical evidence and I do not use Qwant all the time (creature of habit, and so on).
While a bit clickbaity it had some important points. I do like the first paragraph asking, if you're a web dev and you're not growing what is the point of still being there?

If you aren't communicating with people in your business sure it will be rough trying to solve cross-departmental problems. But I think what should've been focused on was the size of the company they are talking about. I could work at a company of 500 people and never need to know what Bob in Department X does because someone else gives everything that I do to Bob, eliminating extra variables and seeing problems that aren't there to possibly screw things up. Maybe it should've been expanded on to really dive deeper into specifics.

On the other hand, this would be really well written for smaller companies, of course if they were really the small group that I imagine would take something away from this and they all don't know what each other are working on, it's probably already doomed already.
A Web Tool That Lets People Choose Their Own ‘Sources of Truth’
This defeats the purpose of having someone know the answers to repeated questions. Rotating the role ends up with a lot of overhead and some increased turnover as a few people really hate this.
How we use Clojure at King to write a game engine editor
But there is already a group of people with a bias holding the purse strings. Their bias is towards profitability in every single undertaking they support. If they were replaced with planners - and let's leave aside the question of whether this is practically achievable - we could dispense with that bias. The planners would have their own biases, of course, but it is not clear to me that their biases are worse than the current ones. I suspect they might be better.

You seem to be using the phrase "no skin in the game" to mean "no exposure to financial risk". I would argue for a more expansive definition. A planner, as a member of society, does have skin in the game, as they have in interest in the overall proper functioning of that society and the happiness of its members.

And by "work out" you seem to mean "generate a desired level of financial return". I'm sure you can see how once you free yourself from that definition, the range of things it might seem worthwhile taking a punt on grows much larger. If Johnny wants to spend his life building pasta looms for preparing elaborate lasagnes, the potential upside is probably not very apparent, but the downside is small too and can be justified as an investment in making the society a more interesting place where people can pursue their niche interests.
400 years is nothing. I mean, climate change is real and could be very damaging, but what aside from that and war - why do you think we’ll be living amongst ruins? That seems overly pessimistic to me.
Teefax – A community teletext service
Thats a pretty pessimistic view to have when we live in an era of ongoing progress in almost every area.
Space is expanding, pushing all the stuff in the universe apart. But "pushing" is not really the right word, because the objects aren't actually being accelerated.

Instead, new space is being created between all objects. This can cause the distance between two objects to increase "faster" than the speed of light, without either of the objects actually moving.
Warp drive solves a plot problem, it doesn't do anything to mitigate violating causality.
For more information:

* https://techradar.com/news/internet/how-teletext-and-ceefax-...

* https://blog.adafruit.com/2017/01/13/teefax-reviving-teletex...

* https://github.com/peterkvt80/vbit2/wiki
The onion network is fast becoming the only network.
10%? Try a bank; at least in the US I've never been charged, and for how often those jars fill up it's worth a Saturday drive to the bank once or twice a year.

I also admittedly rarely use cash.
It's not like entropy will halt in that time. Worrying about efficiency of each individual calculation is a little ridiculous when you are wasting billions of years for the ambient temperature to drop.
Do not underestimate the ability of juries to be swayed by impressive sounding claims. Nor their ability to be swayed, and dismiss clear mitigations, by one dominant or eloquent individual.

"Our facial recognition has over 90% accuracy" from the prosecution's expert can easily become "clearly guilty" in the jury room.
Not at all, because you have to justify the financial upside of your venture and then the investors decide if the return they expect fits within the parameters they have already agreed on for managing their portfolio.

It is more akin to applying for a grant or residency as an artist or for research funding as a scientist. You still have to argue why there is some upside to the work you intend to undertake, but the upside may not be in the form of profit for the investor.
The article mentions Teefax only briefly.

* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17430660

Others in this discussion have mentioned that this is not the situation outwith the U.K.. The headlined article only discusses the U.K.. For a slightly less parochial view:

* http://radios-tv.co.uk/Pembers/Teletext/index.html#After
>Other location, I have yet to hear a case where Apple's Data is better then Google.

Given the locked-in nature of iOS and proprietary integrations, Apple Maps doesn't have to be better than Google, it doesn't even have to be as good as Google. It just has to be okay.
thats pretty accurate as far as current technology goes, but then again with a few additional centuries of research we never know what we end up achieving.
Scikit-learn user guide (2017) [pdf]
No. In fact, if two objects are far enough apart, then the amount of new space created between them will be so great that light will never be able to travel between them. Neither object will ever be able to see the other.
No. It's color shifted though.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relativistic_Doppler_effect
The declining Indo US relations
> it wasn't at all licensed

Is there any information that it was even possible to "license" a small game written in BASIC which appeared in various printed forms and various versions rewritten by various people?
It’s not ironic at all, I’ve read about this discourse about data privacy for at least 10 years, nothing has changed for the better since then, quite the contrary. I for one take active steps in combating it (I very rarely use my CC for purchases, I buy almost nothing online etc), it’s tiring to be lectured on privacy by people who act one way and say a totally different thing.
If you have desperately poor people who struggle to afford life's basics I don't know in what meaningful sense it's a "post-scarcity" society.
Even in a trillion years, a star won't burn up so much of its energy that less than 10^-30 of it remains. So the wait is worth it.
No, it's more than so it could also be 79%. But, I don't think it's clear if they count Google as the competitor or each app separately.
1. Quantum computing is the most powerful model of computation we have based on currently known physics---in the sense that anything more powerful would need to be based on new physics. From the standpoint of theoretical computer science, a biological computer is "just" a different way to implement classical computation, typically with very slow speed but very enormous parallelism. It might someday have practical advantages, but unless we're totally mistaken about biology, it's not going to solve any problems efficiently that are outside BPP (i.e., classical probabilistic polynomial time). For that you need a quantum computer.

2. Yes, if quantum computing is successful, I imagine that might be good for the careers of many of the people involved in quantum computing.

3. Regarding D-Wave, there's this weird tendency to get fixated on words and definitions (but is it "really" QC or "really" analog?) even after you've explained the reality of the situation. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17426023 for my current summary.

Again, I'm skeptical that analog computers will ever be able to solve any problems outside BPP---for that I think you need a QC. (I.e., if not for quantum mechanics, I would have believed in the Extended Church-Turing Thesis. :-) ) Whether analog computers will ever again compete with digital ones on the constant factors, leaving aside the asymptotics, for problems that people actually care about, is a harder and more complicated question to which I don't know the answer.
Fast GIF Parsing on the Web with WASM and Wuffs
In general, AI connected to the cameras can be made to do both. This one seems to just do people. Once the system is in place, expansion of use is much easier.
> Do you think there won't be poor people in a post-scarcity society?

I think if there are you can't really call it one. America is the richest country on Earth so if it's just about how you theoretically could have a society free of want if you totally reconfigured who has what then I guess we're on the cusp too! Great news!

I genuinely have no idea what you think a post-scarcity society is.
The Due Diligence Mindset You Need to Win
I'd say it's expected, from what I see the version is in "ANSI" C. I can compile it as-is (without renaming anything) with gcc and it runs, it just warns that "register i" etc. are treated as integers, which is what they were intended to be anyway.
Are there any apps that perform searches on multiple search engines and combine the results?
Something wrong with that site. Crashed my browser.
I am shocked by this as I find myself mostly able to remember the moments when I took a photo... like, I went to a wedding last week, and I have a really strong memory of most of the photos I took even though I have not yet looked at any of them. I would have assumed the process of paying careful attention to a scene with the goal of capturing "the perfect moment" makes that moment itself special and unique, not just from your analysis and critique but also simply from how it forces that moment to be separate from the continuous stream of time over which your interest would previously had have to have been spread.
Someone please correct the title of this post. It does not reflect the actual document's title (or content).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_Emde_Boas_tree
In what way would the world be improved if we did know what name they called themselves? Let's assume it was. There is a cost to preserving all this information. Time, resources, space, etc. If you preserved everything every human ever said throughout all of history, that collection of information would now be so ludicrously vast that it is difficult to imagine finding anything within it that you're actually looking for. And what have you given up for this effort? We try to preserve what we think is important, and sometimes we are wrong, but that's ok. Things don't have to be perfect.

Accepting mortality is important for a lot of reasons I find difficult to explain properly. It's a matter of shared context being the basis for communication and the requirement for a whole lot of concepts to have to be understood by both of us, and referenced by the same words, to convey actual understanding. It is difficult, for instance, to separate the topic of mortality from the discussion of the conception of self. I will attempt an explaination regardless.

Knowing, and accepting that your end is inevitable is important context for how you choose to interact with the world. Let's try a thought experiment: There's a version of the world you want to live in, and there's alternatively a version in which you don't, right? Since you will someday die anyway, it makes no sense to survive at the cost of moving the world towards the version that you don't want to live in. If you don't accept that the end is inevitable, you can justify such acts anyway because you'll always be able to move the world the other direction later, just as soon as the current existential threat is dealt with. Only, of course, there are always more existential threats, whether real or imagined.

Many atrocities were and are committed in the name of survival, whether of an individual's physical self, or one of their shared memetic selves like culture or society, their genetic self embodied in their children, or sometimes even more raw memetic concepts. That's the "rational" way of interacting with the world. You have a goal (survival of some conception of self), and you do anything to achieve that goal, because rational approaches do not accept failure as an outcome. Accepting mortality is recognizing that the goal is ultimately unachievable, and because of that, there are potentially things of greater value than survival. You don't have to survive, failure to achieve that goal is an acceptable outcome, and you can choose to interact with the world differently.
I'm assuming the pun was intentional, but well played regardless. Not least because a sting operation would seem like a sensible option.
> Often, the techy person would avoid explaining on what he’s about to do and would go straightforward to promising a delivery date, avoiding any kind of knowledge sharing whatsoever. A very bad way to go.

I dunno, most of the time they don’t want to know how I’m going to do it just if I can and when it will be completed by.

I’ve written up action plans, flow charts, lengthy posts. Most go unread apart from myself. So I use this just for myself, if the client wants to look at them they can but by default these days such thins are written for me and the other techies to read not the client.

I had a “explain by default” setting for a while, turns out most didn’t want it explained and I was just wasting both their time and mine. Most of the time they would humour me and let me ramble on (which I do), some would let me know to stfu and just get it done. If they want a deep down explanation I’ll always be willing to give it, it’s just I don’t force it down anyone’s neck by default.

Now for answering “how did you fix it” with “MAGIC!!!” I agree but you should answer with one or two sentences about what was broken and how you fixed it and allow them / invite them to follow up if they would like a more detailed explanation.
Man charged with threatening to kill Ajit Pai’s family over Net Neutrality
Here is the text: https://www.congress.gov/115/bills/hr1865/BILLS-115hr1865enr...

FOSTA does make it explicitly illegal to operate a web site "with the intent to promote or facilitate the
prostitution of another person" ... but that is not new. It has always been illegal to intentionally promote prostitution.

The EFF said the same thing arguing against FOSTA: that there was no need for a new criminal statute because existing criminal statutes already covered the same conduct.

The substantive change with FOSTA is: "CIVIL RECOVERY.—Any person injured by reason of a violation of section 2421A(b) may recover damages and reasonable attorneys’ fees in an action before any appropriate United States district court."

Before prostitutes couldn't sue a pimp because they were engaged in illegal activity (same reason a drug user can't sue a drug dealer). Criminalizing prostitution creates a legal immunity for pimps.

FOSTA changes that and now anyone who gets pimped on any of these escort sites can sue the owners. That is what will put them out of business. Not any police action.

A lot of liars out there spreading false info about how this is "bad for sex workers" ... but pimps are good at lying so that should be no surprise.
What we can do in this day and age to find relevant information fast? Use another search engine? If yes which one?
"Loaded dice ", I have not heard that before... Is it same as Biased dice
Does pushing the ‘walk’ button help you cross the street faster?
Yes. But it won’t change a thing for the big companies: they don’t make those low-volume (and low effort!) chips.
The Tesla/PGE project is estimated to be up to 1GW of storage.
A stretch indeed but interesting to think about nonetheless:

10,000 years in the future is the premise of Frank Herbert‘s Dune.

The novel (or rather the series) depicts a mankind that on one hand in some ways has evolved way beyond humanity’s current capabilities.

On the other hand, society has devolved into a feudal state.

Some technologies are shunned and outlawed for their destructive potential, most notably nuclear weapons and “thinking machines” (there’s some room for interpretation if this just means AI or computers in general), which have been replaced by “mentats” (basically human computers).
Amazon,H&M, other multinationals pressing to soften Indian state's plastic ban - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-india-plastic-ban/amazon-...
> Google's purpose seems to have changed from helping people find the most useful information, to funelling people to information that Google wants them to find on a particular topic

This statement needs examples to stand.
How are people paying for coffee (or anything else for that matters) in Venezuela? I doubt many people carry bagd full of cash, especially if, as written in TFA, bank withdrawals are very limited.
Very nice. A few years back I wrote http://mariocraft.club/ for fun (Super Mario in Javascript). Allows you to build your own levels. Very basic and unfinished but people love building levels.

If anyone has interest in picking up the project, and auto-generating the levels, ping me.
? Author writing here, I didn't even include this link above. The wiki links are just provided for convenience for the interested user, most things were derived from studying scala/java sources
Creating a realiable and scalable redirect server with Docker and Mocha tests
Once in an interview a senior designer walked in on my interview. They were introduced. Hung out for a minute. Wrote something on the whiteboard, then left. My interview ended, I was left in the room for a minute and I stared at that frackn whiteboard wondering what that was about.

I didn't get the job, but I had to assume this was something that senior designer was into--something they cared about, something they used, a skill they wanted to manage, a subject they wanted to discuss.

User ItsMe000001 says he was asked about a 'right join', choked during the interview, was still hired, and later became the go to guy for writing queries.

If a question is in the interview, it's relevant to someone in some way unless it's a psychological mind-frack test.

So the question would be, Who was also hired, and later had their head flipped?
> But this doesn't seem to account for the site being completely delisted from Google on such searches as "polygraph" and "lie detector."

It's not delisted, it's just not on the first page as other users also reported and I just verified myself.

With every change of the ranking algorithm there's a bunch of sites going up or down and nobody can tell you the exact reason why - it's easy to just call it censorship but in reality it's probably something else. Like the top comment already explained that your site markup has a bunch of missing information that makes it hard for search engines to properly scrape you.
The idea that humanity won't ever travel even to the nearest star is pure fiction.

Anyone who thinks otherwise just fails to grasp exponential growth. They are so large as to be beyond understanding.
Metadata defines what is the content, the sections and the titles. A blob of text is worthless without context.
By that metric most of the universe fights against entropy. Stars form from clouds of hydrogen, planetary systems from dust, structure is born from formlessness. The stars grow, they consume, they mature, and then they die. Never once did they fight entropy except on a local scale. As I said, the math is pretty clear on this.

We put priority on benefits we can realize. Short term benefits are easier to realize, and decisions made in the moment, absent malicious intent, make sense in the moment. Hindsight, as they say, is 20/20. We make a prediction now what will be important later, sometimes we are right, sometimes we are wrong. Perfection is impossible, and even if it weren't, it would not be worth the cost of trying to attain it.
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FastMail is pretty excellent, particularly if you like running mail off your own domains with Gmail-style wildcard address support and really fancy DNS. You get what you pay for.
Yes! Reading tip for the the pessimist: https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...
My vote is still with the brain in a jar (or something close to it). Fewer resources, less area, and much of the life support equipment could be shared between many individuals. There's reason to believe it would extend lifespans as well, provided that an entirely virtual life could be made worth living.

I honestly think we'll achieve this long before we're able to properly or effectively simulate a brain with computers of any kind.