skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really I'm responding to you and the GP, but based on the article:

> Gartner estimates that worldwide PC shipments grew 1.4 percent to 62.1 million units in Q2 2018. The top five vendors were Lenovo, HP, Dell, Apple, and Acer.

Apple is part of the market increase.

MacRumors highlighted Apple's numbers from the same report. They grew 3% YoY: https://www.macrumors.com/2018/07/12/mac-shipments-up-in-q2-...
Also the venerable https://stackedit.io/.
Also the new GitBook https://docs.gitbook.com/v2-changes/feature-highlights#unifi...

I'm sure there are a few more markdown "WYSIWYM" I'm forgetting...

To build your own see also https://simplemde.com/. Basically CodeMirror is friendly to mixed-font syntax highlighting.

Also yours truly https://mathdown.net
> Society can't expect the value of labor to remain the same if you double the supply by adding women to it.

This sounds funny if you think about it.

Women fought a long time for emancipation which also means they have the same obligations w.r.t work and other activities.

Now they work and the market corrected itself to account for the new labor supply. In the end: No one won except companies. Sounds like a bad deal in general.

- - -

I don't think that emancipation is bad. I think it's a good thing and necessary for social progress. But I think it's hilarious that good intentions can have these unwanted consequences. I don't want to offend anyone, but I'm too cynical to not laugh about it.
I appreciate the work Linus has done a great deal. Clearly he's a gifted individual, but he does come across a bit aggressive in his communication at times! It can be funny, but also somewhat offensive.

"... and a black star for being stupid"
Same, but with Amazon, I've been on hold on the chat now for at least half an hour. The rep can't say if the order will be cancelled if I press the cancel button myself. It will never be delivered, that's for sure. Amazon's delivery service simply doesn't even attempt delivery. I'm pretty sure this kind of experience is hard to replicate simply because it's so bad. Even cancelling an order is hellish nowadays requiring a supervisor. What a shitty fucking company. And worse, it's the only place to buy a ton of stuff.
Number of hot car deaths nearly double number of lightning fatalities this year
I assume it's theoretically possible to ghost render and and execute tracking scripts in a sandbox? Just need some browser support ...
> found a obscure, uncommon use case where OSM works better.

Isn't that the entire point of open source technologies? If a platform is open source, then you can make whatever custom changes you personally need and make it work for your particularly scenario.

Downloadable maps, archivable maps, platform independent maps, faster loading maps, more accurate maps, more niche data centric maps, and fail-safe maps are all examples of maps that a particular person needs in a particular setting at a particular time.

It is not software for the masses, just software for the massive number of little things you could possibly need.
Citrine 0.8 has been released
Why Every Comnpany should automate
The scripts these user detect that you've blocked the ad load. So, there are now adblock lists that block the block detectors. So, there are not adblock detector block detectors. It's an arms race.
It's already a thing. In node you by default have a WebAssembly object giving you access to the necessary features.

Here's an example (untested, just found it via Google) https://gist.github.com/kanaka/3c9caf38bc4da2ecec38f41ba24b7...
Which can't be downloaded in many places. I assume it has something to do with their licenses but, outside the US, I have run into a number of situations where I couldn't download an area.

ADDED: I always download the OSM data into Maps.me on my iPhone before I travel internationally. If nothing else, it's a useful backup.
That's interesting and sad at the same time.
If you really want this and do not have to be bothered about portability, just write a kernel module and load it.
It will be about 40-60 lines of code.
I had not considered that planning cities like this
was meant to be community-hostile, but I can easily
see how this is meant to breed a dependence on
corporate solutions.

Could you elaborate on this?

I guess the angle I don't see answered is why would you need 'corporate solutions' say home surveillance solutions, private security solutions and other security & theft deterrence apparatus and solutions if you didn't have any hostile communities to be begin with?

Was this ever studied in the American or non-North American context? Are European cities and towns seeing a new found need for these things now, that were practically unheard of a few decades ago?
Did I miss an announcement where those other competing browsers offered a solution that consumed no additional RAM?

I can't recall any another browser maker introducing a change as encompassing as the Chrome Meltdown and Spectre fix.
I'm aware but I'm just not convinced the analogy fits.
https://maps.me/download/ (free for iOS and Android) let's you download countries for offline use. Includes search and car navigation. Based on OpenStreetMap data.
Unfortunately, device minor numbers don't go high enough to support /dev/U+1F4A9, which is an infinite stream of ...
Run a browser without adblock in virtual or headless setup with JS on (so that they can e.g. measure size of loaded images) with custom extension that will in read-only way (all code has to be in anonymous function so that it doesn't leak global variables, no changes to dom, no timers or intervals) extract articles and send them somehow out of this virtual so that you can read them. Extracting code would have to be tailor made for each site. IMHO doable. Alternative is copy paste article title to the Google and find news outlet that doesn't block the adblock.
There are a few interesting thing about corner stores.

The first is that almost none of them are owned by white Americans anymore. For whatever reason, almost every store, even out in the boondocks is owned by a person of Indian or Arab nationality. The Fox News fans will say it’s because of tax exemptions rigged in their favor (I’m sure thats untrue), some will say it’s the work ethic, some will say they’re the only people brave enough to work at a store in a bad neighborhood. I’m sure it’s a combination of the three.

Second, in the sketchy areas of bad neighborhoods, they are epicenters of crime. Gambling, drug dealing, selling stolen merchandise, drive by shootings, illegal purchasing of SNAP benefits... the stores are the first place the cops go when investigating crimes.

They basically poison the surrounding neighborhood with drugs and alcohol, I’m no Puritan but I could see it make sense to limit how many of these stores you should allow in your town.
> Probably the best UX of any map apps

Except for the ads, which I consider to be pretty terrible UX compared to not having any ads.

I'd be willing to pay to avoid any ads in HERE Maps.
If I am lost on an island, the last thing I want is google to decide by itself that my data is too old and my expired maps should be deleted for my own good.
I am glad Linux chooses pragmatism over what I call 'aesthetic engineering', where new interfaces and abstractions do not buy anything.
I prefer the "everything is a computer" API. (Which happens to be Alan Kay's model of object oriented programming as message passing.)

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/4659...

>"I thought of objects being like biological cells and/or individual computers on a network, only able to communicate with messages (so messaging came at the very beginning -- it took a while to see how to do messaging in a programming language efficiently enough to be useful)." -Alan Kay

NeFS -- aka NFS 3.0 -- used a PostScript interpreter as the file system API.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17061967
It’s worse: they introduced ambiguous numbers.

(-; They should have done what computers do when they learn their clock runs fast: instead of turning the clock back, they let it run slow for a while. So, No. 51,753 shouldn’t have been followed by No. 51,254, but by No. 51,753.9, then 51,754.8, etc. to reach the right number in 5,000 editions, or 51,753.5 to catch up in 1,000 editions ;-)
I generally favor Google Maps for the things they care about--like major roads, directions, etc. But, while not perfect, I find OSM is far more likely to have things like hiking trails and other types of features that are apparently not on Goggle's list of things it actually cares about.
The version in f-droid provides anything free, which the version in google play does not.

This app is excellent. I'll probably donate. I would be totallly comfortable with doing this if they made their UI free, making osmand a completely free software.

I which I could use it on a regular computer, or if a web service provided something similar to what we get with osmand, the experience of its offline search included.

Next step would be mapillary providing a free app to contribute to their database or osmand providing a way to do it.
Diversity and segregation are two different things. If you had a city that was 100.0% Vietnamese then there would be no "segregation" within that city but it also isn't particularly diverse. And adding an equal number of Hawaiians wouldn't reduce the diversity even if there was 100% segregation between them.

Moreover, if you can bisect Asians into Japanese and Koreans etc. then you can bisect whites into Irish and German, Latinos into Colombians and Venezuelans, blacks into Jamaicans and Haitians etc. And if you're going to play that game then why aren't the racially segregated areas still internally diverse in the same way? Certainly they are as much as the countries that consist almost entirely of that category of people are.
Elon Musk has new entrenched group to add to list of enemies: Cabbies
> There is no upside to using more memory.

Sure there is. Most complex systems can trade-off between memory usage and CPU. With more memory, the garbage collector doesn't have to work as hard, caches stay warm, etc.

> You don't know what a given system has for memory,

Chrome knows how much memory is available on your system, and it adapts its own memory usage based on this.

V8 is designed to push the garbage collector harder when memory usage is tighter -- reducing usage at the cost of JavaScript running a little slower.

I believe Chrome is also capable of freezing entire background tab states and saving them to disk, to be restored later when you go back to the tab. But there's no reason for it to do that if you have plenty of RAM to spare.
People with a great deal of political power who are heavily armed and nearly no public or civil accountability? Yes, it's reasonable to fear people in such a position. History and common sense are both instructive on their likely actions.
I'm not convinced this will happen everyplace else.

SF has a unique business environment. It's hard to imagine much more of America becoming this way.
New USCIS Policy Will Carry Harsh Consequences for Applicants
Everything is a file... except processes (you can't just delete a process), network interfaces (try setting an IP address with a write() or ioctl()), and plenty of other things. Unix never had "everything is a file" as its mantra, and Torvalds never introduced it.
> 3. How do we solve this problem

It's actually very simple: ban politics from social media.
Not that it's going to happen.
If you're interested in advanced layout transformations in Julia, I talked about this a bit here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uecdcADM3hY&t=1658s

As for your in place map example, here's how that's written in julia:
https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CuArrays.jl/blob/98e32e055e96fe7...

Of course you may say that's cheating because it shifts the problem to the much more general broadcast machinery, but the implementation of that is not particularly tricky either.
https://github.com/JuliaGPU/CuArrays.jl/blob/23c4c737a31aff9...

This code works with any multi-dimensional array, independent of layout considerations, though you may of course want to specialize based on layout for performance. Note also that this the code is slightly more general than the one in your example, because it handles arrays that do not have efficient linear indexing.
Why would you block by that? I've worked places that intentionally did use the catch-all, mostly against misspellings.
> Whats if I receive NTA after my H1B extension has been denied?

> Earlier, if the H1B extension was denied, an H1b worker could have left USA on its own. But, now, if the NTA is issued by USCIS for you, you have the obligation to stay in US and appear in immigration court proceedings. Or at-least hire a lawyer and appear in court on your behalf if you decide to leave the US.

>NTA issued and you depart US and fail to appear in immigration court?

>A simple H1B visa extension can lead to NTA and you may have left US without any issue. But, if NTA is issued and you have left USA, you will most probably fail to appear for your deportation case proceedings. This failure to appear, in turn, will lead to issuance of forceful deportation order against you. Failure to appear also carries a 5 year ban on re-entry to US! This ‘deportation order‘ will certainly be a cause of concern for all future US visa applications.

https://www.am22tech.com/h1b-extension-denial-deportation-us...
> It’s not that online advertising is inherently good or bad

That's definitely an opinion one is entitled to.
So far only proprietary and not shared. https://maps.me/download/ has it (not in the offline mode obviously), mapbox does. Collecting the data requires to have 1000s of users sending their position and speed and OpenStreetMaps usual target audience is rather tracking-averse.
ترجمه و ترانسلیت متن تخصصی عمومی و ادبی انگلیسی and آموزش
If it only glows after exposure to light it isn't radium.

CMOS sensors can detect gamma particles. If you have an android phone there's an app that actually works (assuming you follow the calibration steps properly)[1]. Apparently Radium mostly emits alpha particles so I'm not sure how effective this would be.

If you are thinking about buying an actual geiger counter make sure to get one with a working probe assembly. A lot of surplus geiger counters are sold without the probe assembly with is the expensive part and the thing that wears out[2]. The probe assembly also needs to be properly calibrated.

[1]: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rdklein.ra...

[2]: https://www.amazon.com/Atomic-Adventures-Islands-Forgotten-I...
It now uses Intel's HAXM on Windows to increase performance tremendously. It also allows for the saving of snapshots to launch the emulator almost instantly.
Do you have some docs wrt Pi3 setup (or - there's no "setup" other than installing Router7?)
Google makes it trivial to download maps for offline use, I have multiple states downloaded in Maps.

Google Maps experience with offline downloaded maps is 100% quality and absolutely not "sub-par" or "frustrating".
Solving Windows 10 Remote Desktop HiDPI pixel scaling issues
It's not an analogy, it's a file interface to memory.
I'm not sure why it has to be either/or. I use Google Maps routinely for traffic routing among other things. I also routinely use OSM to have offline maps when traveling, for hiking, and various other things.
They'd probably run a suite of microbenchmarks in the sandbox and use that performance profile to fingerprint you. That might be an improvement over the status quo, but I think the basic rule is that if you let tracking scripts phone home, you lose.
An interesting thread in this story is the "pay to play" nature of the businesses that people were getting conned in. My only exposure to that business has been in small time music performances, and I instinctively steer clear. In my world of regular tech-industry employment and (for that matter) as a freelance musician the "opportunity" to front my own money in return for a job would be an instant red flag and polite no-thanks response.
Well, maybe even too much effort:

> Our findings add to the existing evidence that single-source sponsorship is associated with outcomes that favor the sponsors’ products
I think the question is: Has anyone observed it being exploited for actual malicious purposes?

Sure, it's easy to say "of course it has happened, why wouldn't it have?", but it would be really interesting to know how it is actually being used.
I did some of this at Hellasgården, Stockholm in January this year. The rising sun makes for a spooky video: https://youtu.be/WdmCIC2Hoks

After learning more about this, I would only go with other people now.

Bonus video: https://youtu.be/eGdvQVoQOUQ
Not with current technology because all ad blocking does is blocking hosts. So a site can tell if parts of the code have loaded/executed or not. In order to go completely stealth you'd have to let the page load everything and then just don't show it. But that's way more complicated and besides a bit pointless because part of the reason for ad blocking is to make sites load faster by removing all that bloatware. That, or we move ad blocking out of the browser and into the OS where sites have absolutely no access whatsoever.
The point isn't that everything is a file; it's that you can treat everything like a file.

Of course the abstraction maps varying degrees of well, but it also simplifies the hell out of the lion's share of the ways we interact with computers, and serves as a foundation for the rest.
You can also open `<(yes '\007')` or something, or use `mkfifo` if you don't want to rely on bash.

Not as fun as a kernel module, though :-)
'Free but Not Free': Zimbabwe's Amateur Filmmakers Turn a Lens on Their Country
I use Maps.me, it's OSM based offline maps. Pretty often they're better than Google maps when I just want to look at a map and see different paths and so on, I rarely use Google maps to look up businesses, which seems to be their main focus. And it's a great security to always have maps available regardless of network connectivity.

https://maps.me/download/
It's very different than Evernote, but my favorite note taking app is Dynalist. I have all my todos, goals, plans, and sundry ideas there.
Hi David! Thank you for your thorough response. I appreciate it. And I understand why one would choose to cover as much breadth as you do. I don’t think there’s an easy way to cover all the basics without feeling like a survey, but keeping track of core concepts across applications was what helped me understand how they were connected.
Intel to Acquire eASIC: Lower Cost ASICs in FPGA Design Time
Cognitive Distortions of People Who Get Stuff Done (2012) [pdf]
You can't fix everything at once. Whataboutism, etc.
If I had my way you'd be able to define new kernel modules by downloading a few lines of PostScript. ;) Ok, JavaScript these days. But you know what I mean.
Yes and no. If it turned out the evidence is really obvious, it actually might spur new developments without the problems of the older technology.
The problem with a fixed criteria of p < 0.05 for statistically significant results is that it is only useful if each experiment measures only one thing and all the studies are published.

I remember an study of a few year ago where they had

* rats and mice -> x2
* male/female/both -> x2 (or x3)
* three level of radiation -> x3
* two or three types of cancer -> x2 (or x3)

So the report has at least 2x2x3x2=24 results. There is a high probability that by chance one of them gets a p<0.05.

Also, studies with a positive result have a higher chance of been published, because the researchers are not interested in publishing boring studies without a positive result so they don't write it, and the journals are not interested in publishing boring studies without a positive result so they don't approve it. (And I'm ignoring intentional fraud and p hacking ...)

Anyway, perhaps the researchers sponsored by the telephone companies/manufacters just publish all their studies and the independent researches publish only the interesting studies. This is why in certain areas it is mandatory to register the experiments before they start, to ensure (reduce) there is no publication bias.

In particle physics it's too easy to do experiments, filtering and analysis, so they use a criteria of 5 sigmas to call it a discovery. This is roughly p<0.0000003, because if they use p<0.05 you would get every month a announcement of a new particle and a few month later the retraction.

For experiments with mice/rats it's impossible to ask for p<0.0000003 because you will need trillions of rats, but remember that p<0.05 is just an arbitrary threshold.
It depends.

* First I would like to read the EULA very carefully.

* I would like to know what happens to my memories after company holding them goes bankrupt.

* How the memories are kept secret from unauthorized use.

* What about things like changes in laws or political situations. Even if you are considered individual with full rights inside computer, if physical people decide they don't recognize your rights, you are screwed royally.
> you can't just delete a process

Kill? Possibly kill -9?
Same, I think the file 'abstraction' is only valid for data flow. But whenever you have system components represented as files, you end up with a bunch of side API bolted (kinda like ioctl in linux).

Plan 9 had a different view IIRC, something like everything has a protocol.
Somewhat similar. I have a multiple generations old iPhone in a waterproof Otterbox case and I mostly use it for various GPS and mapping apps. I do have to remember to keep it charged--its battery life isn't what it was--but at a minimum, it's a useful backup to have.
Yes, you are correct. This is mitigation for Spectre (v1/2/4) but not Meltdown.
> If you squint a bit, macros and built-ins are similar in structure to functions

Because they have a parenthesis in front and back and the operator as first element. Macros then implement complex code structures between those:

(foo a b)

and then

(let ((a 10)
b)
(declare (type (integer 0 100) b)
(type number a))
(declare (optimize (speed 3))
(declare (special a b)
(dynamic-extent a))
(prog ()
start
(setf b (+ a 10))
(go end)
end)
(the integer (+ a a b)))

Now remove the parentheses. Looks like a program in a typical language.

Macro forms have lots of internal structure. For an extreme example check the syntax definition of the LOOP macro. Two pages of EBNF syntax declaration. That there are an opening parentheses and a closing one does not suddenly remove the syntax:

loop for i from 1 below 10 by 2
and
for j from 2 upto 50 by 3
when foo(i, j)
collect i into is and j into js and i * j into ps
when bar(i) > baz (j)
return list(is, js, ps)

or the Lisp version:

(loop for i from 1 below 10 by 2
and
for j from 2 upto 50 by 3
when (foo i j)
collect i into is and j into js and (* i j) into ps
when (> (bar i) (> baz j))
return (list is js ps))

Does it LOOK like it has less syntax? Not really.

> lisp syntax is still relatively trivial compared to most languages

Not really. Check out the concept of a code walker in Lisp. That's a tool which understands Lisp syntax and can walk over Lisp code and do transformations.

Here is one:

https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/cl-walker/cl-walker/tree/mast...

Mildly complex... complexity comes in, because Lisp has built-in syntax transformations via macros.
I did mention ad blocking in the essay. In general, the current economy is fundamentally based on extracting more dollars from "consumers".
Anyone providing service on top of OpenStreetMap can or ideally should host/render stuff on own mirror server.
However for small uses I recommend utilising simple reverse proxy caching e.g. with nginx. Here is snippet of nginx config from my geo side-project: https://pastebin.com/brTQ68nw
When people talk about diversity, the diversity they want is typically cultural, but race and culture are strongly correlated. There aren't a lot of ethnic Africans who are culturally Japanese or ethnic Europeans who are culturally African American.

Which means there aren't a lot of people of any race who are culturally Japanese in Africa or culturally African American in Europe.