skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The noise level seems to be rising everywhere. I can't think of anything other than fine dining where I live that isn't obnoxiously loud at all times. The frustration is that you just don't have a choice these days.

I particularly despise live music (restaurant can't even try to adjust volume there), which all of the establishments in my area are competing to have as often as possible.
If you like pharma piracy, and dystopian science fiction, you may also like Annalee Newitz's novel _Autonomous_ https://www.torforgeblog.com/2017/11/15/read-the-first-four-...
The vacuum was filled, thanks to them. Now, an official solution is being presented. Why is there a problem?
Shockwave had more technical capabilities (such as better 3d) but was slower to load. Flash was initially designed as a animated image replacement, kinda like moving svg.

At least one person I know made movies in flash but rendered them down to gif to save loading time.
“It is in Apple’s DNA that technology alone is not enough—it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the results that make our heart sing.”

- Steve Jobs
> A Microsoft account is not about SaaS.

Sure it is; Microsoft is very heavily invested in a SaaS model now. Of course, some of it is SaaS that is locally installed or at least has a substantial locally installed component, but it's still a SaaS model as opposed to a physical media with attached no-interaction perpetual license model.
Strange, then, that they would bury more useful sites in their search results in favor of their own competing products.
My conversation with two of my professors pretty much sealed my future as far as getting away from a history PhD. I did a Master's, and I'm glad I tried it, but when I asked the two profs I was closest with whether it was worth continuing with all of the negative things I had read and experienced, they both gave a very clear "we aren't supposed to say this, but get the fuck out while you still can." It's really unfortunate. I love history, I love teaching, but the market is just a meat grinder these days. A few years after I had quit, I was working for the back office at a bank doing anti-fraud work. A guy who had been a sociology professor for about fifteen years had just left academia to join us. I asked him, "Do you miss it?" He said, "I miss the idea of it, but that's not what it is." It's a shame, but there you go.
only use your own domain if you want everything tied to your real name
Using Daala Intra Frames for Still Picture Coding [pdf]
How Goop’s Haters Made Gwyneth Paltrow’s Company Worth $250M
I guess you’re being downvoted because it’s not “tens of billions of dollars” at all!

More like $574 billion dollars in FY2016.

https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/total-medicaid-...
What the ‘Blood Moon’ Lunar Eclipse Looked Like
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Original_Chip_Set#Paula

https://bel.fi/alankila/modguide/interpolate.txt

N.b. the Mixxx method [using libmodplug] renders the modules as a regular stereo track in memory, so no subtrack muting/etc.
You might first want to delve into the realms of classroom lectures, and become familiar with the Software development life cycle(SDLC). That should act as a guide of some sort. Where you might stop at each point of the process and conduct further research. Simply, put each step in the SDLC process branches off to other aspects/fields in Software development industry. Not to avoid your question, but there are many ways of being introduced to software development.

-Happy Coding!
You sound like the kind of person that does nothing but make the world a worse place.
Shut up you sjw
Take out taxes, transportation, entertainment, medical expenses, etc. Living off of savings for emergencies is inherently not sustainable. Setting aside retirement entirely.
That's a great question. There's never really been any likelihood of the operators of .com, .net, etc. going out of business, but a lot of these new TLDs very well could, and many were bought by smaller parties that aren't your Amazons or Googles.

Does ICANN have a plan for transition for failed TLDs? It's not unrealistic to suggest the owners of .space or something could just go belly up.
I think the issue is that Russ should have clearly told the dep people that if the showstopper issues are not handled, then he will seek for some other solution, e.g. build one by himself.

However, what happened was that he told the dep people "I will build a dep tool myself to understand more on the problem details", which implies "after I understand more, I will come back to you and discuss more", but not "after I build the tool myself, I will just integrate my version into the official tool". For this part, Russ was not executing his own words, or at least delivered the wrong impressions. Maybe this result should be already well expected based on Russ's personality or how the golang team did stuff in the past, but many programmers are not that politically awareing..

It is not the technical result that the "vgo" solution kills "dep" saddens dep people. It is rather the form of communication: "vgo" stabs "dep" in the back, by emerging suddenly out of Russ's pocket, and essentially claims immediate victory using the power of the Go core team. When the vgo posts are out, and the vgo proposal is posted (and it is not really bad technically), there is really no effective way for the rest of the community to reject it.

Russ could have kept his words by going back to the dep people and told them about what he learned from writing "vgo", and then move forward with integrating "vgo" if a consensus cannot be reached. Eventually, Russ might just be able to get the same technical results as today anyways (but maybe with larger communication overhead).

What the dep people essentially says here is that, if Russ really wants, they can also implement exactly "vgo" from "dep", but they never got the chance.
I traveled to Egypt during a short lull in the revolution (early 2011) and couldn't get over the state of tourism then - I can't imagine how desperate it's gotten nowadays.

From the moment we left our hotel room we were incessantly harassed by vendors hawking everything from taxis to fake artifacts. Sometimes there would be a dozen of them surrounding my family stopping us from moving.

I have a very thick skin having traveled widely, but it got to a point where we couldn't wait to get out of Egypt!
> How about: No comments on shared content. Only comments on content you generate yourself. ?

> Full

I understand all of the words but I can't figure out how to read this.

What are you getting at here?
I want to live my life like this.
Of course it's more complicated. The relative cost of doing those things is much higher today (it's labor intensive and labor is a lot more expensive today), and the alternatives (wireless) are much cheaper than running wire.
>I'm happy to be proven wrong that a Googler has accomplished such a task. As I stated in two of these comments: There appears to be no place to report an ad on Google Search. Can you explain where this feature is, because I've explicitly looked for it many times.

As far as I know, there should be a "send feedback" button on the bottom of pretty much any page. It could be used for something like this, although I have no idea how long resolution would take in that case.

There's also this form[1], which I found by Googling "report bad Google ad" (its accessible via the first result). This is essentially what I did.

[1]:https://support.google.com/google-ads/troubleshooter/4578507...
It's mostly a sign of typing English on a German keyboard that automatically produces „fancy quotes‟. They work similarly on Chinese or Japanese keyboards, but it's harder to accidentally use them to write English text with wrong 「fancy quotes」, because switching the layout is mandatory for those. Personally I do switch between German and English keyboards to type in those languages, but I guess most people don't bother.
I provided a single counter-example to invalidate your claim that WWII-era aircraft required strength that is unreasonable to expect from a woman.

The burden of proof is still on you.

> Sorry I don't have anything specific.

Thank you, that concludes the argument.
Congestion fees are usually levied on all road users. The 2017 New York City congestion charge would have been levied essentially as a bridge toll.

The problem is, this affects poor people disproportionately. Your starbucks barista in Manhattan likely does not live in Manhattan. As a cool map by citylab[1] shows, people in low-rent areas that work in Manhattan overwhelmingly drive. Save some miracle involving housing prices, it's hard to levy a consumption-based tax that isn't regressive based on income.

Really, the best solution here would be provide alternatives that suck less than driving 2 hours in New York City traffic - then people would stop driving all on their own.

[1] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2016/09/manhattan-com...
Agree with this recommendation! The ones I have came with a case that attaches to my keychain, so I always have them available nearby and don't have to worry about forgetting them. They're also useful when walking past construction noise.
You sound like the kind of busybody who thinks they know what's best for everyone, and will stop at nothing to make everyone kowtow to your good intentions, until you're too old and frail to even enjoy the results of your good deeds.
I do understand some of the reasons behind the web community’s rejection of flash over the past decade and a half — security and accessibility issues, closed standards, etc. However Flash and Shockwawe technology enabled smooth interactive graphics on 90’s and 00’s desktop hardware, in packages that are friendly for 56kbps dialup connections. Nothing compares to it, still to this day — web platform tech still horribly underperforms and is only now capable of what flash could do a decade ago. We could also blame Apple and Smartphones and Yourube for its demise, but I feel like we haven’t moved forward in terms of quality shareable interactive media since Flash.
I think intel tried to go too deep at once thinking it had time to do so and now that others are reducing the distance bit by bit it looks like they're late
How funny that someone taking the holier-than-thou approach cannot even use the right punctuation.
Hm, that was supposed to be the total count, not for single speakers.

Checking for myself my information seems to have been wrong. As we say here, I take everything back and claim the opposite.. That will teach me not to check my facts I hope.
Nor does Armenian or Bengali. But English does. Gender does not affect grammar in English (cf French where conjugation depends on grammar), but it is actually a gendered language with three genders. Almost all nouns are neuter but many animate pronouns can be masculine, feminine, or neuter (people or animals can be referred to as "he", "she", or "it"/"they"). Some inanimate pronouns can also be gendered. For example, ships are often female; you might say something like "she's a beauty" when talking about a boat. There are also a handful of gendered nouns. For example, "actor" and "actress" are masculine and feminine nouns.
As everyone knows, the costs of a humanities degree (or any degree) has been increasing much faster than inflation - while at the same time, the earnings potential of a humanities degree has dropped. Student loan debt and high housing costs are shackling a generation of college graduates.

Undergraduate tuition and fees at the author's university total nearly $50,000 a year - and that's without counting food, textbooks, rent, etc. Even with help from financial aid, that is a huge amount of money (largely paid for by non-dischargeable debt) to spend on a degree that doesn't provide significant new career prospects.
This is a good thing. People are being more expressive, which means they're being more playful, which means more creativity, which is needed with the way simple jobs are being automated. Also music. It's too bad for people who are annoyed by it, but oh well, there's no way to please everyone, and enough damage has been done by being too strict with anti-smoking regulation so I hope they can understand why people aren't in a rush to protect peoples' sensibilities. Same with the emotional support animals.
It’s so strange to read this. Where I live, Charter Spectrum is virtually celebrated as awesome. My bill for internet has barely increased at all over the past 10 years but on multiple occasions they have contacted me to upgrade my service for free. Even replaced my cable modem at one point.

I’ve gone from 15 to 30 to 60 to 100 and I’m currently at 200. There’s probably been two outages during that entire time period.

I see so many people in other parts of the country complaining about their providers and it makes me realize how good we have it here. ATT is still terrible though.
> Instead of seeking a broader understanding of the world and a greater ability to question and think critically about it

I would argue that education in Math, Physics, Science, Engineering, etc, give you this ability far better than humanities do.
But doing acoustics right, it turns out, can be really expensive.

Mitigating the kind of noise restaurants can create isn't expensive. There's an off the shelf engineered solution that's been around for almost 70 years. Acoustic ceiling tiles. Restaurants are loud because acoustic ceiling tiles are out of fashion even though significantly less expensive than hard surfaces and exposed building services+structure if painted.[1] Though carpeting and upholstery help, acoustic treatment of the ceiling is the first line of noise mitigation. [2]

[1]: Among the most costly finishes are services and structures fabricated to aesthetic criteria.

[2]: The stylistic trend away from acoustic ceiling tile, carpets, and upholstery further erodes acoustic privacy in open offices.
> Occasionally, Chinese intelligence activities in San Francisco burst into plain view. Consider the story—and it is an incredible one, also told here for the first time—of the 2008 Olympic Torch Run.

> ...

> Most brazenly, said former intelligence agents, Chinese officials bussed in 6,000-8,000 J-Visa holding students—threatening them with the loss of Chinese government funding—from across California to disrupt Falun Gong, Tibetan, Uighur and pro-democracy protesters. (They even provided these students with a box lunch.) “I’m not sure they would have pulled out these stops in any other city, but San Francisco is special” to China, said a former senior U.S. official.

It's wild, but the same thing happened in Canberra, Australia. The CCP organised thousands of Chinese students to support Beijing and counter-protest pro-Tibet protesters.
Making an OpenSource GPS is technically challenging. For an idea of what is involved see: http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm

Here are some other similar projects:
http://sdrgps.blogspot.com/
https://github.com/hahnpv/gr-gps
https://github.com/hahnpv/SoftGNSS

Personally I would rather buy a $10 modules off eBay or a Chinese website which provides the GPS data in a standard NMEA serial stream.
The essential problem here seems to be that the FDA approval process for medicine laboratories is impractically severe and probably represents an instance of regulatory capture.

While this is cool, it doesn't seem to generate attention in a way that could fix the underlying problem, except by dint of people who already know about it. Legislators are infamously subject to undue influence from medical companies that want to protect their oligopolies. A better hacking initiative might work to expose and excoriate those pharmaceutical and medical device companies which have abused the right to lobby in order to generate profits.
I suppose nobody really invents anything in-house in one sense. You reuse the hardware, the OS, the drivers, the network, cloud storage, IDE, source-control, JIRA, a programming language, several libraries, databases, at least one framework, and on top of all that you may have some sprinkles that are "your application."

I think the question is always, how smart an engineer can you be to reuse the maximal amount possible to deliver a good experience quickly.
Ok thanks, I suppose that makes sense. I guess the Amiga didn't have a lot of room for that. Though i've heard it was one of the best multimedia computers of it's time. I've always thought digital audio was cool. Especially stuff from back then with limits hardware had.
$185k is the price for your own TLD? That sounds super cheap. I would have expected millions.
Rescale Is Hiring Senior Front End Engineers in San Francisco
Used to work in the space. The long answer is complicated, and to be truthful I don't remember half of it, but the short answer is... EBERO. Essentially, someone else will take the TLD from you. What happens long term if the new operator doesn't want it, I don't quite know.
Interestingly, two of the dead TLDs (.sapo, .meo) were owned by the same Portuguese ISP/media company — both tied to specific brands, neither of which really justified a TLD
The “Learning Knights” of Bell Telephone
Yes, I would be making a better bet on someone from an industry forum that does a good job at maintaining civility over someone from a website that creates outrage for profit. In my experience, folks here are more open-minded than the average. Facebook has virtually nothing to do with such qualities. I would have more trust in an HN user, despite the fact that people are flawed.
"So, what are you gonna use it for?"
"IDK, minecraft server probably."
Let's Encrypt works in China, but not the best due to many older Android phones, Windows XP, and general love for IE (I can even see 7-8 sometimes) and QQ browser with also in less recent version does not support SNI.
Just goes to show.
Twitter does have voting - so I’m not sure what your point is.
> Save some miracle involving housing prices, it's hard to levy a consumption-based tax that isn't regressive based on income.

You could allow income-based discounts, either retroactively by refund (with receipts + tax return) or prospectively (if you have pre-registered accounts) or by a combination (e.g., if your income for the year qualified you for a higher discount than the advance registration info indicated, you can file for a refund.)

This is obviously potentially operationally more expensive in the general case, but for a congestion charge you are going to want to push people to personal accounts and toll tags anyway to minimize toll delays, so most of the infrastructure will already be there to support both prospective and retrospective discounts.
Overall the gTLDs are a good thing because some of them will become legitimized alternatives to .com for consumers, and thus weaken the power of domain squatters.
I would kill for 100mbps for $80/mo. I'm paying twice that for 10mbps in rural Nevada with a WISP.
Futile is much too strong of a word. I'm a white male, got a PhD in history, and ended up getting a good TT job in my first year on the market. Was I lucky? Undoubtedly. But some of the pessimism about history phds really is unwarranted in my view, for the reason the author mentions toward the end. I think the field has a strong future personally. It is just looking like the 80s through '00s was an enrollment high point. Doesn't mean there are no jobs left, or good work isn't being done.

On the other hand, I fully concede that, for my history and CS dual major students, I'd agree that it's be a bad idea to get a PhD in history if you have the skills and inclination to get a CS degree or a job at FB/Google/etc instead.
What exactly is the relevance of the $10 billion number? Charter ran large losses every quarter for more than a decade prior to the merger: https://ycharts.com/companies/CHTR/net_income_ttm. Does that affect your view that its recent profit should be "redirect[ed] toward public benefit"? What exactly is the limit to that principle? What other companies should have their profits "redirect[ed] toward the public benefit?" What criteria do you use to decide?
thanks for sharing, it seriously is amazing
Just want to second this. I regularly have comments downvoted with no substantive pushback in comment form.
> One item that confuses me is the community-based editing which lends me to not wanting to touch it out of fear I'll cross someone (like Wikipedia).

This is what drove me away 7 years ago (actually crossing someone, not just the fear). It's interesting to hear that this is still a relevant concern today.

> store it as my own private overlay but I don't see how.

I would expect this is possible with the right software, but it may mean actually keeping a synced, private copy of the entire OSM database, which could get cumbersome.

You might also check if there have been any projects that have succeeded in doing some kind of dynamic/living fork and what technology they use.
Taxes on $18,000 is $800 in usa. Entertainment we just do for free through torrenting and walking.

Medical expenses, well, we live in the Usa. You just find a way to skate by until you don't. Obviously the political solution needs to be "Medicare for all", but I don't have the power to fight the multi billion dollar insurance lobby :)

Living off of savings is sustainable if you have $50,000 saved and only $1,000 a year in excess spending.

I currently make $50,000 a year. But, I usually get laid off, because I am precariously employed. So, after taxes, I usually only take home about $25,000 a year.

I would be much happier with a guaranteed $17,000 a year instead.
Israeli Embedded AI Deep Learning Processor Startup Hailo Targets Japan& S.Korea
The vast majority of country names in Chinese do not contain 国 but are rather purely phonetic transcriptions. Only a handful of countries have 国 in the common name.
This fact keeps getting more and more exaggerated as time goes on.

Yes, intel's 10nm absolutely smashes Samsung, GF and TSMC's 10nm processes. Yes Intel's 10nm should be very competitive/comparable with Samsung/GF/TSMC's 7nm processes. But all of the Intel 10nm metrics are slightly worse than the 7nm processes its now competing with.

To cherrypick one metric as an example -

* TSMC 10nm sram bitcell size: 0.042 µm²
* Intel 10nm sram bitcell size: 0.031 µm²
* TSMC 7nm sram bitcell size: 0.027 µm²
Code signing is not an issue, it is a feature. You can think of it as a way to programmatically check that the executable has not been modified since released by the developer.

FOSS sites often recommend that a downloader check the hash of a downloaded file against one provided, never seeming to realize that if an attacker can replace a .iso file that there is a high likelihood that they can modify the MD5 hash shown to match their modified file.

Code signing prevents this.

Code signing is a good thing.
Having moved from Europe, I can agree that people in California are incredibly loud. Most conversations are normal, but people seem to always want to react with exaggerated laughs, or exaggerated replies for some reasons. (yes, the stereotypical "OOOH MY GOOOOOOOOOD")
I wonder how it feels to work updates for software that nobody is using and has no future. That's got to suck.
There are other distros out there, I'd take Debian or OpenSuse over Ubuntu any day. Switching audio outputs from HDMI to analog and vice versa isn't a nightmare in normal Gnome (its usually 2 clicks), but it looks like Ubuntu has heavily modified Gnome to match their theme, and perhaps their modified Settings panel didn't bother to include that.