skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
European JSCs (inc. equivalent) have a codified requirement of returning shareholder dividend at least once in 5 years. Is there a similar codified law in the US requiring public companies to return profit every quarter?
That's exactly how we constructed a parabola, as an envelope out of straight line segments. Always looked like a curved 3D geo, but was it? Nah
It might not be that they believe they are the smartest person in the room. It might be that all the cognitive distortions, particularly the 7th one that you bring up, might be precisely because they are, generally speaking, the smartest person in the room.

And it might be because they are, in fact, the smartest sort of people, that they get the most done.

We are of course, only sampling smart people who get stuff done. Smart people who do not get things done tend to be astoundingly good at being unproductive.
Microsoft once already failed to promote a mobile OS which was ten times better than Android, why would they be successful with shitty Android fork...
strangely after spending huge chunks of my youth playing games i find it really hard to get into them these days, this year the only game ive played to any real degree is Slay The Spire
Adobe is working on Photoshop for iPad
> This is the big deal.

I'd argue that the whole modern western political system came out of advertising (as first allowed by the printing press). That was a big deal ...
EU Public Consultation on summertime arrangements
No, just the opposite: we fire (i.e. not re-elect) people with power for being assholes whenever we can, even if they’re perefect at their jobs otherwise and their attitude isn’t actually hurting anybody (including the people they are asshholes toward—usually those people got to where they were in life, proposing horrible ideas like they do over and over and over again, by being completely immune and oblivious to criticism.)

Hypothesis: governments and other such bodies could be a lot better-run if we just had to choose the least charismatic/diplomatic qualified person possible, because then that lack of charisma would prevent them from swaying us with anything besides facts; and then, later, nothing they could do could make anyone like them any less than they already do, so they wouldn’t have to worry about maintaining their image getting in the way of doing their job.

(What would you call that—a direct technocracy?)
Creating a new language for low memory apps is... probably not the right approach. Google does have an initiative to improve the experience on very limited resource devices though, it's called Android Go.

https://developer.android.com/google-play/guides/android-go-...
what? it's plain text, you could read it with notepad.
> No network, so no lookup of business names, but Here maps offline with street addresses did better than Google Maps online.

I haven't used Here Maps so I'm not sure what it's like, but at least using OSMand I do have lookup of business names. Furthermore, I've been planning a trip recently and found out that Wikivoyage actually offers GPX files next to at least the articles on the places I'm going, containing the addresses and descriptions of places of interest. I loaded them into OSMand, and it's a pretty great experience.
Huge iceberg threatens tiny Greenland village
Hypothesis Testing I: Prerequisites
Through rings bolted to the wall.
same, and also PlainTasks, which is the only tofo list working for me:

https://github.com/aziz/PlainTasks
It appears to be brighter because LED parts occupy a different spectrum. Sodium lamps only light up in a very narrow orange spectrum of light (you can't even tell colors under sodium lights). This spectrum is great under photopic vision (ie Daytime Vision) but terrible under nighttime vision. (~0.8 relative brightness vs ~0.1 brightness)

LED lights used for street illumination use a part of the spectrum that is much more visible during both day and night vision.

There is of course also a tradeoff because making a lamp more visible and thus allow safer driving, it will disrupt the circadian rhythm much greater.

It is certainly possible that the illumination is exactly the same but the wavelength of light outputted is different and you're much more sensitive to it.
Yes, though dividends are taxed differently and usually share price rather than dividend issuance is linked to performance related options/bonuses for management. I think these two things create an artificial preference for share buybacks, and sometimes can influence short term gain seeking (management financial incentives especially are not always aligned with 5-10+ year time span).

I think a board seat for employee representative is one way - I'm interested in broader direct democracy type approaches of corporate governance. Blockchain and DAOs feel like an interesting match for this, since many types of corporate activity - bookkeeping, shares (tokens) and token holder voting can be done on the blockchain. We are exploring this with https://Aragon.one
Fear of a Meltdown
I would imply “human” when “states” are mentioned. My issue is I was expecting an article about world’s population (not much interested in US domestical problems).
I think you described my workflow exactly.
Speech Intellegibility in Naval Aircraft Radios (1972) [pdf]
I didn't know this detail about Mycroft. I suppose it's something you do when you try to run a company.

From Almond's website:
> Almond is free software, and is available on Github. You can download, distribute or modify Almond as you see fit.
As a vim user, I too only use plain-text. My general writtings are organized in folders, within a single git repo. Project specific writtings are within one file within that project's repo. I always call it notes.txt, and then when I'm within a project, to open notes it's always the same operation (`:e notes.txt` or equivalent). I also have a notes.txt in my general writtings repo. It's by far the biggest file in the repo, where I keep information that can be useful in the future. In most files, especially the bigger ones, I keep to the structure of date stamping a day's entries. For that I use a vim abbreviation. That's 1 line of code and that's the only custom code that my "system" needs.

I have found it immensely advantageous to use monospace for writting and note keeping, because I can structure the writting with indentation. So my writtings are trees, I branch them similarly to how you punctuate text in English. That's very efficient for technical writting and notes, but also for ponderings and essays. It let's you drop many non-content words, because the indentation provides for sentence-glue with visual punctuation and walks you through the "thought tree". With prose it's not easy to see the structure from a glance, you only see it's biggest features. With lists, you are constrained to the point where the medium is not expressive enough for anything beyond a grocery list. With loose-form trees, you get the benefit of visual structure, text-efficiency and expressiveness. Code editors, like vim, are good for this, because they know how to wrap indented text.

Example of such notes. They're not in English, but you can see the structure. It's a week of entries on a project: https://hastebin.com/raw/gurexecubi
Ots the $$ per capita in (un/underrefined) exports that does it. Oil was cheap pre-50s and us has a big population. I can't be bothered to look up the figure but i bet it was much smaller than Norway's $$/capita figure.
Also the case where for the original asker it really was was an XY instance, but now the top google result for "how do I fill a bathtub using a hosepipe?" goes to a Stack Overflow page full of people refusing to answer the question.
Let’s Play SuperTuxKart on Linux
I've been using OneNote (Windows 10 app) so far with a surface pro device. It really is great, though I'll have to research how exportable the notes are (print to PDF is... Difficult)

I for one trust Microsoft to provide me software to access my notes and cut me off, but nothing is too big to fall, so I'm thinking about switching to markdown + images scribbled with my pen.
Sadly, there's so much of it in Britain[1] that we allow some of it to be destroyed. See, for example, this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11094744#11098678

[1] The article is about Ireland, not Britain.
I think the real crux of the issue was the pre-agreement to use the enemy generals postal system as a means of distributing vital information.
You Google “shoes”, You land on a shoe manufacturers site, said site has either ad’s or user tracking software from Tech Gaint A (Note: Tech Giant A isn’t Google, intact they are arch rivals). TGA sets a cookie on your browser with a UID and makes a note about you having some interest in shoes. Anyway, these are not the shoes you are looking for so you back out and search some more.

The next day you visit “All Sports News” (or something) and they serve ads from TGA. TGA’s ad see’s the UID cookie, checks your profile and shows you an ad for shoes.

So yeah you go, how a news site could serve you ads about something you searched for on Google (or any other search engine) without that search engine selling you out.

Not saying Google are “Holier than thou”, yeah they have their own ad network and will profile what you search and serve you ads based on your search unless you opt-out of everything. Just saying it’s possible that Google didn’t sell them out.
This is not a language feature. We are talking about Dalvik here.

Low memory optimization means switching from a copying collector to a simple mark & sweep collector.
It's entirely up to the vendor to configure that JVM collector. Nokia does so I believe.

SW bloat in apps and bad config tunings for autocompletion and other user configs also lead to bad UI responses on low-powered phones.
Google is partially doing the right thing by providing all the frameworks by itself leading to reduced bloat. You just use the default library, in shared memory.
But a problem is of course Google removing the interpreter, costing a lot of discspace and memory.
Navigation for public transit makes a huge difference. Hours every day are saved because of it. And you can "sidetrack" out of your plan thanks to that, while you couldn't do it if you left your bus map at home, or if there were deviations.
We are trying to build something similar to CT-scan; except it’s a 1-man team so it’s been a longer journey:

https://code.fb.com/developer-tools/mobile-performance-tooli...

We run functional UI tests with a performance tracer wired up- we already had them setup by feature teams so it was easy to get started. Instead of a Zookeeper scheduler, it’s just Jenkins.

Right now we’ve been able to catch 2-3% relative regressions in things like startup, opening a Google Maps view etc which is pretty good. It was easy to setup and then hard to optimize the variance down so we could get a strong signal.

We’re hiring if any of this is interesting, it’s Golang/San Francisco/Full-Time.
Can you share the steps you took to build with brew?
> I don’t see how the insurers have any leverage to make the non-profits meet there goals. That means that they will probably only pick non-profits with a very good reputation. But then the donors could just give 100% to the non-profit.

Isn't it now the investors that will make sure non-profits reach their goals? They will theoretically only invest in things that they will expect to meet their goals, so that donors actually pay them back. So donors just have to decide which non-profit's goals they want to support, and then investors help them achieve those goals.

So if I understand it correctly, the primary advantage of this method should be that it helps well-performing non-profits to raise funds. And if a non-profit is high-risk but also high-value (in terms of what donors consider important to the world), they will have to donate more for investors to actually invest - but at least they'll know that they will only have to pay that if the non-profit actually achieves its goals.

Of course, the challenge then is how to properly set the goals and how to objectively measure whether they're achieved.
I think you completely missed the point of the article. Microtargeting was used to create a completely alternative view of around a single person. That's not "speaking to me one on one"; that's gaslighting.
It does, another commenter posted the same person's explanation. But, the idea is that it doesn't matter how much GPE is released, it matters what the velocity of the projectile at release is. If the trebuchet can't move then the weight starts to slow down before all it's GPE is used up. When it can move, it coincides with the time that the projectile is at maximum velocity.
Yeah, and when Linus gets put to pasture and betrization [] becomes mandatory, we can all stop laughing. Probably laughing won't be allowed either, anyway, too aggressive.

[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_from_the_Stars
/e/, the phone for people who want to hide their ecchi, but let people know that they're into 2d.

If you don't know, /e/ is 4chan's ecchi board. Ecchi is softcore japanese cartoon porn.
You can "fix" this loophole by adding a criteria that you eventually capture the city.
I tried every note-taking and distraction-free writing tool there was - Evernote, iA Writer, ByWord etc.. never stuck with one for more than a few months.

Then I found Ulysses. I love the indexing of all the notes within folders, and the simplicity of the app.

I'm not a huge fan of the painfully slow pace of updates, especially when they're charging a subscription fee. The app is great though.

The problem with Notion is that on iOS it's a web-app, so it feels terrible to use. It white-screens while it reloads whenever you do any navigation, and doesn't support multi-tasking on iPad.
There are over 150 million tablets shipped every year:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/276635/market-share-held...

I personally love my iPad and I’m on my 3rd one. I do wish it could replace my laptop. The Microsoft Surface seems to be doing well too. I’m considering getting the next generation.

Anyway, the narrative you’re spinning on tablets isn’t accurate.

As for smart speakers, I’ve had an Alexa for 6 months.

You’ve probably underestimated them too. For $30-$50, these little devices, while limited, are useful. Music, timers, limited shopping, weather, and random searches, ... it gets used daily.
I think what he means is a certain "frestyle potential" of those activities, basically creating complexity based on a limited set of rules, rules you make up yourself, which then work in tandem with the procedural aspects of the activity and determine the limits of complexity.

While this is true for many real world activities, Lisp seems to be an outlier there, because most other programming languages don't allow you to change the underlying rules.
Dependency Injection + ServiceLocator Pattern and Unit Testing in Swif
If there is no ice on the lake, how about water motocross. With a dirt bike, not an aquabike/waterjet. https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10298809 (finnish text).
This is why I appreciate data and numbers. Otherwise discussions devolve to anecdotes, guessing and hyperbole. Sometimes this is enough, but when there's controversy, data/numbers are ideal place to start.
And how successful these organizations and people are, compared to Linux?
Ah, ok, so just the good, old "brain memory" technology :)
Projectile velocity is a function of power rather than energy alone because you only have so much time to accelerate it.
Let's briefly imagine the world where this thinking is taken to its logical conclusion.

So business thought, why bother with drilling, let's invent Modern Art Affixer, because that's what people really want to do.

(That we can vendor-lock them in this is just an added benefit.)

Then I need a screen mounted on a wall. I can't use Modern Art Affixer, and it's something not common for regular consumers to do, but fortunately there are some (appropriately more expensive) Screen Affixing services that mostly service other businesses.

Then I want to hang a DYI piece of equipment I made and I'm shit out of luck, because individuals doing DIY hardware are too small a market to justify dedicated products.

Coming back from this nightmare - the point is, what happened with the concept of technology empowering people? That is, giving them means to solve their own problems, instead of trying to sell a ready-made solution to arbitrarily specific problem? It's not that I mind very specific solutions - but without more general, empowering technology, we'd be limited to only solving specific problems that affect large enough amount of people to justify a business around it. I worry this already starts happening at the intersection of hardware and software (e.g. most IoT products can be seen as solving overly specific problems to vendor-lock people).

So big thanks to all businesses that keep assuming that what consumers really need are standard-sized drills.
How is this 'giving up'? Sounds like a good solution without being locked in to me.
It's also applicable for blocking ads on mobile phones too. They use too much bandwith and CPU, collectively.
Don Johnson Was Stopped at the Switzerland-Germany Border with $8B (2014)
But he did get a runtime failure. Imagine this wasn't about adding a function, but changing an existing function that is being called from 23 different locations in a 100kloc codebase, and that it contains some tricky condition logic so that a bug might only be triggered in 5% of the calls. Without exhaustive unit tests, a type error potentially would not show up until all those call sites had been executed with the specific arguments required to trigger the bug. His point was that in a statically typed language, this would all be detected at compile time.
Apple Notes is great. The only feature I wish it had is markdown or an easy way to make code blocks, but all of its other features make up for missing it.

I have used many other options, but Notes works best.
D is more like an improved C++ with GC.

The type system is quite similar to C++'s one, just that the language has better support for meta-programming, modules, packages and explicit notion of unsafe code (system in D speak).

Code generation at compile time is done via compile time code execution, templates or plain replacement.

It has a GC, but like all GC enabled systems programming languages, has mechanisms to control its execution, forbid its use in performance critical sections (@nogc attribute) or just manually allocate memory via stack, globals or plain OS calls.
I am an avid traveler currently traveling South-East-Asia. One of the most favorite tools used by travelers is an Android app Maps.me, that is based on Openstreet maps. You can download any Country or region and have it for offline use, only need a GPS connection.

There are some practical caveats in using it though:
-If You are planning a ride by car, the estimated time for Your journey most likely be way (waaaaayyy) off. Especially in Asian countries that are less covered. It can show 3 hours in a journey that is 8 hours without traffic.
-some areas are completely not covered (I mean at all)

But for bigger cities it's pretty good in coverage
Unless you can produce a very strong source that those solutions are now considered universally to be true, I don't think you can say that to be definitely so.

Firstly, looking at the actual henge, though the defence hypothesis is strong, there are several henges throughout the UK that lack the defensive structuring, but still take the right form, making it at least partly unlikely. Secondly, they seem to have been built away from population areas. Whilst a strong theory, it hasn't solved those problems, and so other solutions hold equal weight.

Secondly, the celestial clock theory is actually fairly weak. Only about half of the henges featuring large stonework actually line up with astronomical events, even when modeled for the timelines we think they were put in place for. Some might be reasoned to track stars, some mountains, and so on. It doesn't quite fit, especially as their north-offsets are very consistent.

You have some theories, which are popular theories, but so far as I'm aware, there are other equally popular theories held by the people in the field, and this isn't considered to be 'solved'.
If you want to use Tk as a GUI, you can do that with any Common Lisp via LTk (https://www.cliki.net/ltk).
Taking part in research that asks about risk of suicide lowers that risk
The full title is way too long for HN: The benefits and risks of asking research participants about suicide: A meta-analysis of the impact of exposure to suicide-related content - ScienceDirect
There are no locks in doors at all. There is a single mechanism physically connecting the doors together, so that neither can be opened, and that can only be engaged and disengaged from the inside.
> with encryption.

That has been accounted for.

" [Eve] does not, however, get to open the enveloped message."

> timeouts and defaults it can be

These time-outs and defaults would have to be negotiated between the generals over the postal system and wouldn't help them.

> as seen by many the distributed systems on the Internet

Those would have implemented a form of fault-tolerance for the more general "Byzantine Generals Problem."
Zim (http://zim-wiki.org)
Cool idea - too bad they used plotly, can’t see the plots!
all your '*' are good points, right ?
They may never get a chance to convert the visiter into a customer again. Personally I’ve noted in my head sites that for example give no option to disable tracking cookies. So now when I see news articles from such domains I don’t even bother clicking.

Bit of a silly analogy but think about it like a brick and mortar store getting pissed off at you for not looking at the display company X are paying them for.

If they can not prove that enough customers are interacting with the display though sales or information requests they won’t be able to sell the space for as much next time. So the B&M has an incentive to get you to engage with the display and you just walk right on past it... Shame on you...

So you manager of the store says that you can not browse the rest of his store until you agree to looking at the display.

Dunno about you but I wouldn’t want to visit that store again.

My point is instead of trying to turn them into customers you are turning them away at the front door without given them a chance to become customers. Sure some (most) won’t actually buy anything and just browse around but putting up such a barrier will make sure they won’t become a customer.
Naively, I'd think a simple lever could do that, but it becomes a materials science problem: with no constraints on the length of the lever lenght, and no constraints in the density of the counterweight, you should be able to achieve any velocity, right? Well, up to where relativistic effects become an impediment, of course. The question is, is it possible to create such materials as this would require?

As you can probably guess, I'm not a physicist. Maybe someone with expertise can chime in here.
So, India is actually close to stabilizing its population and far from exploding, and this has been achieved without a draconian one-child policy or coercive contraception

I believe you can say the emergency, and the coerced contraception were irrelevant, but can you really say they didn't happen?

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/543.html

What is the authors intented meaning?
Because they're different approaches. I would expect the "shitty" fork to be able to run Android apps, something that WP wasn't able to do, so developers had to support yet another platform for little gain.

If MS forked Android, made it snappy while keeping it compatible with existing apps, and if they did their marketing correctly I could see this carving a small but profitable (for some value of profitable) niche.
Pen and paper
Sure, but if money is not an issue, why not get them a phone with more memory?
There is FSNotes.

brew cask install fsnotes

https://github.com/glushchenko/fsnotes