skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That kind of stuff comes up every so often. I heard rumors in the early 2000s about Microsoft implementing a version of Office that was more commandline oriented (this was when people were getting sick of their "smart" menubar, before the ribbon interface).
I think this may be modeling the map as distance per radian, which doesn't really work.
You can't even copy and paste the building's name to do a google search
Interestingly, while the site (which is great BTW – thanks for the link!) features all kind of minor UIs in 2001, the major status screens, which can bee seen in various places and scenes, are not covered in any way. (Again!)
If you have a security model and a virtual machine, you already have, haven't you? Browsers are in a meaningful way already operating systems. (This is not an original thought).
The funny thing about this is I think I get where you are coming from, but also think all of your examples are at best problematic.

Wikipedia is a reasonable replacement for an encyclopedia - which remains a terrible replacement for a library.

Simulations are never a replacement for what they simulate. At best this can be a great supplement to more concrete learning - at worst they replace it with facile misunderstanding.

Finally - while students absolutely should be able to leverage the vast amount of information we have available, a lot of it is misleading or just intentionally wrong. We should be working hard now on figuring out how to give kids tools to evaluate and analyse this. Raw information is easier than ever to put your hands on, but that's never been particularly useful by itself.

So absolutely, let's leverage technology But lets not pretend that we have viable replacements (yet?) for what we don't. A vital skill to teach these days is the ability to sanity check whatever you are reading on line against reality and multiple sources. If you don't become somewhat sophisticated about navigating this sea o f information, you will be taken advantage of. That is one thing we should be concentrating on teaching - real skills, not parroting the first thing you find on Wikipedia. Nobody learns those on screens alone.

The facts you came away from an education with have never been the point. The point is to learn how to learn, how to test new ideas, how to verify information, etc.
So is that what happened? Somebody got a hold of one of the developers' private SSH keys, and cracked the encryption?
And National Parks are an incredibly popular destination for foreign visitors https://www.ustravel.org/press/study-more-overseas-visitors-...
I am not familiar with Node or npm. Is there something specific to Node's package system that requires running untrusted code?
It is strange that XLM isn't included when it was included in the release of 5 coins that they may support in the future.
I totally agree with this article and if the author is reading this comment, please do one about touch based interfaces. I am sick and tired of touch interfaces in Cars, home appliances and laptop screens. I want a billion knobs and switches. About the only place they make sense is an hand held phone.

Every designer needs to read this article. I am just so angry at what is being taught in graphic design schools and the sheer incompetence that graduates from UX/UI courses.
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And Harley Davidsons. I especially like the ones that like to ride in large groups through state parks. I honestly think most Americans just have no appreciation for quiet. There’s not a day of the week there aren’t leaf blowers heard in my neighborhood. :-(
Because this is a new vulnerability.

Does PRET even still work? I'd be surprised if the vulnerabilities that allow PRET to work haven't been patched.
Yeah, I was just trying to add a reason that the OP's proposal wasn't workable.
I'm not going to disagree with this, at least not concerning the typical POWER i box. But for the higher-end boxes at least (the ones that can handle 16 LPARS or more - or at least they could back in the day), I expect that there's considerable redundancy built-in. I doubt it's to the level of a higher-end zSeries, though.

It's been a long time now since I've managed hardware so I don't really know what the current situation is. But I happen to have ready access to a hardware document from around 2008 (the last time that I worked with such large system), and it lists a whole slew of RAS features that were copied from the mainframe. I expect that if I tracked down the corresponding document for a current high-end system that it would list even more.

That said, it was generally my experience that the whole platform family (low end to high end, new systems and old) was just rock-solid reliable - not at all like "The server crashed again - time to reboot it!" situation I usually found on the Wintel side of things. Plus stuff like malware was practically unheard of. And I've worked on systems that at any given moment might have thousands of users on them, and maybe tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of jobs. From an operational perspective this might not have necessarily been the best idea, for a variety of reasons, but at least the system could handle it easily. And much like mainframes, unexpected outages were basically unheard of - if they ever happened they were extraordinary, jaw-dropping events. I'm not claiming the platform was/is perfect, though.
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Thanks for this. I will happily check out your tool, but what are some of the other solutions in this area?
I grew up reading BYTE and Your Computer

https://archive.org/details/yourcomputer_magazine
I like to think about the length of the outside of a circle. It's only when you use a line with a beginning and end in the shape of a circle that you can measure it. The idea can be extended to 3D with a spiral staircase that has no beginning and end. The steps of the staircase cannot be measured until you give it limits.
100% it's a great experience, especially for those cold winters.
Because it's likely cheaper, faster, and easier than investing in proper disposal techniques.
Then don't subsidize recycling and let the market sort out which is cheaper.
I don't but I suspect such a business model would flourish. Does anyone have a link to their hiring page?
Discord too.
How much time before you started to adapt and not eat on Tue/Thu ?

kudos for your fasting and thanks for the comment
> Sure, oridnals are interesting, but in the context of explaining infinity to kids transfinite induction is probably not the easiest thing to throw into the fun basket. Even first-year undergrads often have to learn regular induction!

Sure, but do you really have to explain that?

When I imagine introducing kids to ordinals, like the OP talks about, I'm assuming it's basically taking the approach in, say, John Baez's blog posts on large countable ordinals[1].

[1] https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/large-counta... https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/07/04/large-counta... https://johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/large-counta...

> Any examples that you could introduce to a kid who just asked you "What is infinity?" - genuinely curious.

Hm, maybe not. Maybe some of the classic examples of weird things that can happen with transfinite-time processes... but explaining any of that might be hard. And also that might not really be the right time to introduce people to discontinuity.

Really like I said I was basically thinking of the approach above, without application. I think it stands on its own pretty well, it's fun, you can play around with it -- it's basically the "is too, times infinity+1!" game except formalized (so it kind of comes naturally out of something kids already try to do) -- and the questions have actual answers.
Give us the fresh water per acre the Dutch have and Australia would have been a second US in the 20th century already.

250 million. There's more to how many people a country can support than what you can see on a map. That's as ignorant as looking at Antarctica and saying "Yes, they can support 200 million people there, just look at the Netherlands."
Only problem was that Thunderbird insisted on opening the linked page via its internal gecko copy rather than being able to pass it on to a full browser...
Agreed, I don't have to, old habits die hard.

I guess I will just set up a development VM (as @pas suggested) instead of remote development though, so thank you to both of you.
You're right, even more so like 10 or more years ago when it actually became relatively known.

I used to install Google Earth on my all machines
Maybe. These things often take longer that it looks like they will.
Talk Python has a podcast with an interview of the Nuitka developer
https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/172/nuitka-a-full-python...
One shouldn't constrain development, once the genie is out of the bottle someone will develop it, whatever it is.

These considerations should be taken into account when technology is used, sometimes by policy makers in government.

There's no way industry will police itself, they've proven time and again that profit is far more important that humans.
You're assuming that all fidelity customers are competent investors, when in fact many (most?) of them are customers of fidelity only because fidelity is the custodian for their company retirement plans. Many (most?) of these folks had no idea why a ER > 1.0% was not good for them, but now that the word is out, this could easily be a gimmick to convince more folks to choose fidelity for servicing retirement plans and investments. So, 1) pick trendy topic among casual (retirement) investors, 2) blow competition out of water by offering it for free to get their attention, 3) gain trust and additional business from casual investors

My employer uses fidelity for retirement plans (so I'm a customer, whether I like it or not), and I'm bombarded by emails/communications very regularly to sign up for various services from fidelity for 'planning for my future'. These services ultimately cost a lot of money. Many of my coworkers have signed up.
I'd love to have such a feature in RightMove or Zillow, to be able to search properties within say 30 minutes drive from work, instead of just faffing around in Google maps trying to guesstimate.
Well, obviously, the shortest program that outputs "0" is "0". And the shortest program that outputs "1" is "1". We're only interested in the general case, not specific cases.

Sometimes I think this distinction between "general" and "specific" is as deep as the whole idea of uncomputability. When someone says "arbitrary Turing machine" it is very difficult for a layman to wrap their head around what this means. No wonder: I'm using the word "arbitrary", which means "random", which means... uncomputable.
Agreed, Jerry Pournelle’’s Chaos Manor was always great.
I honestly prefer text, at least for technical stuff, over a video. The videos often end up spending 10 minutes when all i want is some quick specs or a bullet point list.
Will the interpretation depend on the country until someone raises the case to the highest court? Do we have to check the precedent of all European countries?
People buried at Stonehenge may have come from as far away as Wales
I didn't know I could read news by looking at Facebook and Twitter. Seriously, RSS doesn't need to die but there's someone trying to kill it.
I like this article. In the future everyone will be "a developer", and apps that are developer centric will go mainstream - at least that's my prediction.
Points 4 and 8 also combine here. The new "green" garbage trucks the vendor in my city has begun using are so INCREDIBLY loud. Even just the engine noise from them. The PTO and gearbox noise is just atrocious, tons of turbo noise, tons of just weird mid frequency resonant whining. They're some of the loudest trucks i've ever heard, and are basically as loud as monster trucks or straight pipe hot rods. I'm completely not exaggerating that they're multiple harley davidson loud, and at a more annoying frequency.

I've gotten like stabbing ear pain from being near one of these accelerating hard.
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These are the newly considered coins. If you look at the "full list" at the bottom of the post you will see XLM (and ADA) are shown.
Just because a file as the extension .php doesn't mean it is. Facebook has liekly moved a lot of things around and rewritten a lot, but wanted to keep the same URL paths.
XLM was "premined" (instantly generated for free) and distributed to the established "wealthy" userbase in an effort to get them to tell outsiders to buy in.

It's like some evolution of Multi-Level-Marketing meets penny stock.
I'm sure you can find alternative apps.
I haven’t been recruited that way but I have been contacted this way. I don’t have any experience with this process besides that.

Why wouldn’t you go through a VC firm? I think it seems fine, but then again I’ve never been through the entire process.
Until traffic drops off and you can correlate usernames (someone tweeting/commenting/whatever about this service) with a narrow selection of maps that were recently made.

Or even under HN traffic, if someone mentions to have used it, you now have a few hundred or maybe thousand potential locations for a username instead of the entire western world (and even that is an assumption that could be wrong). If you're serious about this, and if the username seriously tries to stay anonymous (as a bunch of people here do), this does have an impact.
There's already plenty. I'm sure Pale Moon will keep RSS intact just as they're choosing to stay with the XUL-based extensions platform.
It's also been great for one-off grabbing of a resource from an RSS feed when you don't want to subscribe -- nor use the embedded players sites have been increasingly pointing users towards on their web pages.
>Maybe Google can also flip the globe "upside-down" for all users "below" the equator.

I must be the only weirdo who wants the opposite: equator up. South-up in the Northern hemisphere and north-up in the Southern hemisphere.

Why? Because I want the Sun at the top of the screen (or more accurately, the sunny side of buildings/hills/anything).
I eat lunch and it still only takes 15 minutes :D
It's the rediscovery of mIRC like interaction workflows.
Sure, or really just bury the method call/descriptor as an arg. It's not that much different than annotations.
Repost, no? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17673402
Not sure why you're mad but Firefox doesn't exactly consist of 10 files.
It's so strange to me that this is acceptable for the NYT given what has been coming out. More old tweets keep surfacing.. https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/450398906698842...
https://mobile.twitter.com/sarahjeong/status/937858435361542...
I can't remember my voting, been pretty active today, and the last few actually, but did I downvote you?

I normally don't do that if a comment is worth responding to.

If you got a downvote, it wasn't from me.

EDIT: just checked. Downvote was mine. Sorry for this comment claiming I didn't.

Still, your prognostications are all just as much hogwash as everyone else'. Whether you guys are right, or wrong, is all a matter of luck. It truly is whether you want to believe that or not.
I don't know about Play Store policies, but Apple's App Store definitely doesn't allow the app listing or the app itself to link to an external site for subscriptions or payment methods. See <https://gizmodo.com/5761383/apples-new-subscription-model-is... (I couldn't find a better reference after doing a quick search.)
If something is free, you are the product being sold...
I hate it because every approaching standing meeting feels like an approaching "rejustify your existence" checkin.

Even if I'm not going to be judged out loud in this meeting, I'm going to have to explain myself. I have a problem in front of me that I'm working to solve. Maybe I decided to do some reading about possible ways to solve it. Maybe I decided to learn one of the tools that I'll probably use in the course of solving it. Maybe I'll try a particular approach.

Whatever I decided to do yesterday, I have to decide how to frame it and describe it today. I can practically hear another engineer or manager thinking "why didn't you just X" where X is some simple thing involving less time and thought than what I did. And I don't want to have that conversation with them right now. I am still in the middle of it.

I want to be able to say in a few days, "Here's a solution! It meets the requirements and in a really elegant way if I do say so!" I live for that. I want the freedom and flexibility to get to that point without being probed every day about how I'm getting there. I used to do that, before scrums and standups took over the programming world, and it was great. Having a daily checkin robs me of that latitude.

I'll gladly pick someone's brain if I want their input or feel stuck. But if I want to think outside the box a bit, a daily checkin can feel like a pretty short leash.
I think we should also put culture/group back into the equation.

Instead of being bored on a couch watching channels, spend time with people gathering fruits and making your own meals as a fun thing to do. It may first feel dull at first but I think it's a good blend of social, physical and nutritional health.
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I’m not sure if that is true. Anyways, during their dictatorships they were heavily supported by the USA.
>Recent case decisions have flipped the script for small companies targeted by patent trolls.

It would be interesting to see examples of this. What were the outcomes of these cases and how did judges reach those decisions? Many thanks for your time.
This is the crux, isn't it? We might even say it was dead when they named it RSS. That wasn't consumer friendly enough.

The general idea was certainly sound. But as much as publishers offered it they were never comfortable (read: in favor of) so much of their contented being consimed without a visit, or at the very least without any analytics. Total feed subscribers just wasn't good enough.
"I've never paid a fee for domestic money movement (EFTs) so I wonder what that refers to."

It might be for wire transfers, which are same-day money transfers.
Hold on, you’re ascribing a lack of dystopias because you don’t see one right now. That’s because laws have been passed to restrict that possibility. The public debate has been conducted on a lot of technologies that could have lead us to a dystopia yet you’re ignoring them totally because dystopia never materialized?

- police state actions and encouragement: entirely possible, especially now that we’ve all got location trackers that also contain our innermost thoughts in the form of our text messages, yet using all of that info against us is totally illegal.

- subliminal messaging & propaganda: never more possible than right now with our totally connected lifestyles, yet totally illegal.

And on and on. Just because the worst hasn’t happened doesn’t mean it wouldnt happen if left unchecked.

Also, Nobel thought he’d created the most explosive substance that would ever be possible, with hindsight we know that TNT wasn’t that but nukes absolutely are; and his conclusion was correct in the context that nukes are the next step up from TNT: with such powerful weapons, battlefield wars between those who hold nukes have effectively ended. (Proxy wars notwithstanding, if those countries had nukes they wouldn’t be used as pawns in a proxy war.)
Maybe I didn't do a good job getting this across, but I don't care that much about losing these specific Firefox features.

I really want new users to be able to discover features like RSS/Atom feeds. Live bookmarks can definitely go to the grave in my mind, but I hope Mozilla will focus in the future on web features that help advocate the federated web.
Not really, I think there's a broad consensus that excessive disinfecting across society now has negative rather than positive effects.

Bacteria can plausibly develop resistance to just about anything so gratuitously adding antibacterials to the environment is pretty inherently bad - use them when and only when needed (antibiotics in meat being another problem example).

Also, it seems there's a threshold below which a lack-of-exposure to bacteria and other immune-vectors is actually bad for a person - by preventing the immune system from acting normally.
This looks amazing, honestly. I can't believe that such tools are now given away for free and open source. I remember Unity was stuck with a very old version of C# (due to Mono licensing issues), Xenko looks to be C# 7.0 from the ground up, amazing.
I'm a Brit. I grew up watching Doctor Who (Tom Baker and on). It never occurred to me as a child that Daleks can't climb stairs. Besides the Cybermen have legs and are pretty unpleasant as well.

One evening, you'll leave your Roomba happily running around in the living room, downstairs, and wake up to it bumping into a leg on your bed ... upstairs. I'll fear your Roomba for you: I've seen what happened to Skaros.
I would start with the guiding principle that read-only decoding is more important than annotation or editing; non-patent encumbered formats should be the first priority (and in Firefox, perhaps the only formats supported); and formats that exist and are in use currently are more important than historical document formats. I don't think this is egregiously bad mission creep for a browser.
It's much cheaper to make an incorrect statement and let people correct you for free, then edit the article! ;)
If you're interested in good UI design read Jef Raskin, "Humane Interface"[1].

You should also study the Oberon OS. You would have to read up[2] on it to use it[3], but it's a high point of UI elegance that has never been equaled since. (Specifically the base system plus the "Gadgets" UI extensions.)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Humane_Interface

[2] http://www.projectoberon.com/

[3] Live in-browser Oberon system from original source code, via JS emulator for the underlying RISC CPU: https://schierlm.github.io/OberonEmulator/

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And if you want to read a book that fell through a wormhole from thirty years in the future read: "Computers as Theatre" by Brenda Laurel.
I did update the code. thank you
I think you hearing an alt-right dog whistle is exactly the Western-centric attitude I was referring to.

> Which is odd because most immigrants to Japan are Asian, and not likely to disturb their "cultural homogeneity" much

If you think there's no racial tension between native Japanese and Korean/Chinese immigrants I have some news for you.
I did not claim that, please read more carefully.
https://www.osnews.com/story/6282
Even more relevant - the Sci-Fi Interfaces blog, which analyzes various science-fictional interfaces in movies from an actual UI/UX standpoint.

https://scifiinterfaces.com/category/ghost-in-the-shell-1995...
Although I agree that over 90% is less effective (and your explanation is clearer than mine [1]), do you have a reference for 70% (and is it w/w or v/v?) is the most effective?

Last I read up on it, I found the number to be closer to the European hospital standard of 85%, although I don't have the reference in my bookmarks, nor do I recall if it was reflect of scientific consensus, if one even exists on the topic.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17684070
Wow. ~$1k/100ah for those babies. Dang.