skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm actually in your camp :). Reading SotNM wasn't so much more interesting for me and I'd exactly same thought why this book is so much talked about. May be its clever title? The thing is that I've seen this story played out few times over during my career and I invariably leave feeling "ok, so what's new? I could have written that book too.". May be its my lesser ability to appreciate art and leaning too much on consuming just facts. On the other hand I found Showstoppers amazing, gripping and very informative. The scale is very different and that kind of landscape isn't experienced by everyone frequently.
Australian Court Fines Hotelier $3M for “Managing” TripAdvisor Reviews
Tesla countersued by 'whistleblower' it accused of sabotage and shooting threat
IIRC weren't the Twitter length changes only applied to languages that weren't benefiting from the more "dense" encodings.

Meaning languages like Chinese and Japanese are still at the old limit.
>A better comparison would be writing a novel that people would pay to read, and completing a marathon so quickly that people would pay you to do it.

It's not merely a case of writing something that someone would pay to read, but writing something that someone would read at all. That's a considerably lower hurdle, but one that many authors never vault. Every day, the slush piles of publishers swell with lovingly-crafted novels that will, in all likelihood, never be read by anyone.

The parallel I might draw is with a singer so dreadfully tone deaf that their neighbours lodge a complaint, or a comedian so bad that they are booed off stage at an open-mic night. Most first-time novelists are precisely that awful - their work is not merely of insufficient quality to attract a paying audience, but actively repellent. Few budding authors are prepared for that level of disappointment.
But wasn’t the Steele dossier used to get a FISA warrant to spy on the campaign, after the original request was denied?

Politicizing the intelligence apparatus would be highly disturbing, even moreso than when the Obama administration apparently used the IRS to target political opponents [1] like the tea party.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
>using up all our non-renewable water

What are you talking about? Places in the midwest and eastern part of the west that get plenty of rainfall every year?
Lots of great ideas here and this is a long shot but you could try to engage the placebo effect. Go get some bullshit homeopathic “medicine” as a pseudo-treatment for your fear. The great thing about the placebo effect is that it works even when you’re aware you’re being treated by a placebo.
Ubiquitous surveillance is the last thing we need, just the next step in turning the US into an authoritarian nightmare. I don't know who would want to live in a world where robo-cars would call the cops on you for jaywalking or minor non-dangerous traffic violations.

On a side note, the Google Play Services running in the background on most smartphones have already been mapping traffic hotspots and measuring business patronage by time of day.
Depending on your age and what exactly you count, probably around 5ish.

Maybe he's from Brazil? Maybe he's 76+ years old? If so, then I think there were 5 "ish" 1000x devaluations in that single country in his lifetime.

I never lived in Brazil but knew people who did. Some quick checking Wiki for dates, I probably missed some devaluations?:

1942 cruzeiro replaces real at 1000x

1967 new cruzeiro replaces old at 1000x

1986 cruzado replaces second cruzeiro at 1000x

1989 cruzado novo replaces cruzado at 1000x

1993 cruzeiro real replaces cruzado at 1000x

Pick another random country in Latin America and you probably see the same thing.
Trump to propose 25 percent tariff on $200B of Chinese imports
The full size SD card slot is important to photo/videographers, a market that Apple seems to be taking for granted recently. The range of "professional" users that the Macbook Pro is actually appealing to seems to be getting narrower and narrower over time.
You know what they say, there is no such thing as bad press.
“Emojis in commit messages”

God help us all.
That's a result of them buying Plum Creek. Also the decline of the paper industry making the kind of vertical integration that Boise and Meade and International Paper and others formerly engaged in less useful.
What is the tradeoff/downside to namespaces?

Other than their being cumbersome, but that is upfront, so I don't see the Faustian-ness there.
In what sense would safety be such a high priority for a high performance string library? I found this blog post was good at illustrating why undefined...similar to unsafe...operations exist https://nullprogram.com/blog/2018/07/20/
Well ancient and pristinely preserved do not really usually go together... but Villa Papyri, near Pompeii, almost gets you there.
The villa's name derives from the discovery of its library, the only surviving library from the Graeco-Roman world that exists in its entirety.
It contains over 1,800 papyrus scrolls.
The scrolls are coarbonized and rolled up, but each scroll gets very slowly unrolled, read, studied and preserved in the National Library in Naples.
With the use of new technologies the analysis of the scrolls is becoming faster and allowing the recover more and more of the works. It’s possible to go visit both the ruins of the villa and the scrolls.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Villa_of_the_Papyri
I think this author has the misconception that people only write to be successful, others, like you, write for their own reasons.

I had a relative who once wrote a book about her life, honestly the book was not very good (both the writing style and content), and largely "sold" (or was given away to) only to family (despite her paying for a book run out of her own pocket and shopping it around to bookstores on her own)

Yet she was immensely proud of her book, which she spent years of her life on. As well she should be, while the book didn't meet any commercial success, it had been a longtime goal for her and she told her story to people who otherwise wouldn't have know about it.
It sounds like my Lenovo or other Tier 1 products. Okay it may be great, but what modern laptop isn't?

> running Fedora Workstation as my preferred main OS rather than Ubuntu.

Yuck!
This reminds me a bit of the science of nanoinformatics as described in one of the Expanse novellas (The Vital Abyss):

"A thought experiment from my first course in the program: Take a bar of metal and put a single notch in it. The two lengths thus defined have a relationship that can be expressed as the ratio between them. In theory, therefore, any rational number can be expressed with a single mark on a bar of metal. Using a simple alphabetic code, a mark that calculated to a ratio of.12152205 could be read as 12-15-22-05, or “l-o-v-e.” The complete plays of Shakespeare could be written in a single mark, if it were possible to measure accurately enough. Or the machine language expression of the most advanced expert systems, though by then the notch might be small enough that Planck’s constant got in the way. How massive amounts of information could be expressed in and retrieved from infinitesimal objects was the driving concern of my college years."

Pure fiction at this point, but it would be an interesting experiment to encode data into objects that could be expressed using the mathematical ratio of their shapes or sizes.
The Web was becoming unbearable until I started browsing with all CSS and JS off by default (using umatrix and 50,000 lines in my hosts file). It's an amazing improvement. If I can't read something, I enable some CSS and change the defaults for that site. Firefox reader mode helps. I also disable all CSS animation with Stylus.
For my next job I plan on going full Uber + public transit for transport. Uber to the bus terminal and take a nice relaxed bus ride to downtown Seattle dropping me off directly next to my job. I did the math and at 8$ per ride my monthly expense should be 8$ * twice per day * 20 days per months = $320, well below the cost of ownership for a vehicle.

Maybe they thought about it and came to the conclusion it's worth it. In my case it's surplus, not a cost.
Context matters and in context the term is decidedly male. The article Wikipedia credits with coining the term has this to say:

> The Berniebro is not every Bernie Sanders supporter. Sanders’s support skews young, but not particularly male. The Berniebro is male, though. Very male.

> The Berniebro is someone you may only have encountered if you’re somewhat similar to him: white; well-educated; middle-class (or, delicately, “upper middle-class”); and aware of NPR podcasts and jangly bearded bands.

Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/10/here-co...
3.6x the population in 3x the space.

1.2bn vs 325m people.

10m square km vs 30m square km
Very excited about the WireGuard being mainlined in the kernel, it's a pity that the window for a patchset for 4.19 is already closed. But while I'm fine with the wireguard-dkms dynamic module on Linux desktop/server systems, I'm especially looking forward to the merge into Android/AOSP asap, that's my main pain point.
Yes! I think a lot of people miss the water part. The land will not grow a lot of the plants we eat or large trees without irrigation. However cows and other animals can eat the scrub that grows there naturally so it makes some sense to raise cattle in these areas. It'd be interesting to see that pasture range broken out a bit more (feed lots, open grazing land, etc.). That said, I'm all for lowering our overall meat consumption. The amount of land for cattle and land for food for cattle is huge.
What does your second paragraph mean regarding an explanation?
I wish they could do a magsafe/USB-C combo - love both shame they couldnt make a USB-C on either side somehow do magsafe too.
I'm not sure how much difference there will be between autonomous ride hailing and autonomous public transit.

Surely you'll have "Uber Pool" for these services, basically from the outset. Some may pay a premium to give their kids a safe ride alone, etc. etc., but pooling rides makes complete sense.

Also, in my experience, school busses are somewhat a thing of the past. Parents line up for blocks dropping kids off, acting as individual chauffeurs.

I agree it will increase trip demand, but it could also easily decrease demand for parking in busy areas.

Long-term, it's easy to imagine that autonomous vehicles could provide much higher passenger throughput for a given road-area. Without human drivers to worry about, they only need narrow lanes, could talk to each other and draft, etc.
Does this library crash like in your example though? There's a difference between "not having Unicode-specific features" and "failing when given Unicode input".
The better the comedic payoff, the flimsier the alignment with reality needs to be.

As a corollary though - the stronger the alignment with reality, the better the comedic payoff - all other things being equal.
Yeah, the only reason to not do it is if I suspect some weird robbery heist is underway. In which case my only real option is to just stand there anyway...
Most grazing land was not cleared by people. It's just land that people graze their cattle on. Most of it is plains, and was never heavily forested. Also, when grass is eaten it absorbs much more carbon dioxide, so the grazing of the cattle is beneficial. Are you suggesting a better use of the land is for humans to plant a bunch of trees on it?
Good answer. Have an upvote.

But, your answer implicitly assumes the total elimination of human drivers and their replacement by autonomous vehicles. This strikes me as unlikely.
Both of the public transit systems I use on a regular basis sell me monthly unlimited-use passes.
There definitely were Roman public libraries.

Plinus reports that Pollio built the first public library in Rome around 30 BC. He was a patron of Virgil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaius_Asinius_Pollio_(consul_4...
While this is sad, if the scientific journals end up paying the authors, it won’t be 35$ anymore, it will be more(which I am happy to pay). The publishers I am sure won’t be taking a pay cut though!
That’s an issue with windows, not the laptop. I’m happy enough with the Dell XPS and Linux that I have bought 3.
There two books that people rarely talk about so these are hidden gems:

* Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire

* Barbarians Led by Bill Gates

You really have to get past the title of second book. It's not really about bashing Microsoft or Gates but account of thirteen-year Microsoft veteran Marlin Eller that you perhaps never heard of. That makes this book all the more interesting and give real insight on how things were at lower levels in early days.
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Add more power and have the roads charge the car like in F-Zero
I wouldn’t be all that surprised if the future of “personal” computing on non-phone devices (eg next 10-20 years) ends up looking like the Microsoft era, but with ChromeOS laptops in place of Windows, iPad/future large format iOS devices in the position of the Mac. I see a huge generation of kids in the US quite literally growing up with Chromebooks, it will be interesting to see if they keep using the platform as adults. The ease of switching device with ChromeOS is pretty remarkable really, the truest realisation of “the network is the computer” we’ve seen.

It’s pretty clear Apple don’t care hugely about losing marketshare in education as their recent still pretty expensive edu focused “cheap iPad” shows. They will enjoy what they always did, quality computing products for a small marketshare who are happy to pay high margins for it, leaving the other PC manufacturers to bloody battle over minuscule margins and hard to differentiate product.
I'd love to see some docs/examples around supporting pluggable brokers; Faust looks like exactly what I want from a python stream processor, but for various technical and operational reasons it would be nice to be able to provide a RabbitMQ/AMQP broker.
It's a satirical pun. "More economic" - "more economic what?"
Good to know.

Agree that if there was a body with representation from all major engines, this could be good.

I personally don’t want my content to be served in such a way that requires me to use a specific analytics product though. Would be ok with it if log access was part of the standard.
I don't doubt that it is actually cheaper in your case and that you planned it. That's not how the article frames it in this specific case though.
Not only that, but if they don't eat, they starve.
Check out Arithmetic Coding: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arithmetic_coding
Your scientific society sounds bad, and essentially has morphed in to a publishing company.

Seriously, a society should not be funded by publication fees.

Personally I think it would be better for the societies to stay small and be funded by membership fees or grant funding (as part of out reach other activities, meetings etc on grants).

If you find it through publishing you can’t really complain about the rent seeking behavior of journals...
The Yale rare books library[0] is a beautiful, amazing building to walk around in. Most of the books are off-limits for fear of damaging them, I think. (This is what originally sprang to my mind when I read the title of this article.)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beinecke_Rare_Book_%26_Manuscr...
Great post. Just to emphasize this point:

> nobody can entirely get into the head of a missing person and judge with any certainty whether one direction or another is better during a search.

Let's say a group gets separated during a hike, and Bob goes missing. No one noticed for a little while. Bob doesn't have a map but is fairly capable in the outdoors.

Your group sends a couple people back to the last place he was seen. It's a nice straightforward search area. Bob isn't there. Now we need to widen the search area.

Bob might have followed a steam - and in the couple of hours it took to get back to where he was last seen, he may have gone a couple miles.

Or he might have tried to get to a high point to look around. The nearest likely hill is a mile away, but there's another option in the other direction.

Or maybe Bob retraced his steps and is headed back on the trail you all came in on together.

All of a sudden your search area is 15 square miles, and with each potential decision with every passing hour, it gets wider.

You could put complete trust in his abilities and just wait for him to self rescue, but what if he gets hurt? What if he doesn't show up in a couple days?

Wouldn't it have been great if Bob had hugged a tree?
I wear Etymotic Noise-Isolating Earphones in my ears (they are real earplugs with a small hole in the middle through which sound is piped), then I put Bose noise cancelling headphones over my ears, and then I play a rainfall noise through the Nose-Isolating Earphones. This multi-layer approach this works very well for me. The rainfall noise is not distracting to me the way music can be.

I have excellent hearing, and it's impossible for me to solve this problem with a completely passive or noise cancelling approach. Ears will increase their sensitivity until they are able to hear something.

Etymotic Noise-Isolating Earphones:
https://www.amazon.com/Etymotic-Research-Noise-Isolating-Ear...

The noise app that I use:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/mynoise/id813099896?mt=8
So you think we should be able to pack in more humans, and have then eat soy? There are other models, like Joel Salatin's farming techniques, to provide sustainable and healthy animal products.
56 million acres are Indian reservations and should probably be marked as such.
Last time I listened to that it was a panicked pilot asking Miami Center for a new heading because they were sending us through a thunderstorm. Not really comforting.
I'm a big Utah fan but always limited by being there with a rental car. This spot looks amazing:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bk63o62gzUm/?taken-by=desertdefe...
Congestion pricing.
Unfortunately the methanogens in a cow’s gut mean that they’re an environmental disaster. I’ve read about seaweed being used to curb their, um, “output” yet unless thst comes into widespread use the state of affairs is grim. Grazing isn’t beneficial, it’s just a way to turn sequestered carbon into methane-belching cattle. Either we need to rapidly enact means to reduce those emissions with dietary additives, or we need to reduce the number of cattle.

Here’s a look at carbon sequestration in ecosystems in the Western US:

https://pubs.usgs.gov/pp/1797/pdf/pp1797_Chapter1.pdf

You can see that sagebrush and other hardy species, while not trees fit for lumber, can do the job better than cows belching away.

This paper focuses on the UK, but is still full of relevant info.

http://publications.naturalengland.org.uk/file/1438141
Perl isn't doing any decompression. The data is just stored in base64 encoding.
Google's self driving car's are quite well known. The "Waymo" name is not.
I use both the F-keys and Home, End, Insert, Delete, PgUp, and PgDown on my laptop. The two use cases can co-exist, but it seems Apple doesn't want to bother appealing to those who want both.
Bad comparison, Moby Dick never tracked your activity across the web and sold your data to advertisers.
Hey there, creator of the library here. Strangely enough my initial post about this on HN received no attention, but better late than never!

If any of you have some questions or feedback, I would be delighted to hear it.
It's not compressed. It's run length encoding which is an encoding, not compression.
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There is a book that attempts to piece together the ownership of the Lennon/McCartney/Harrison/Starr catalog called Beatles Songs(appropriately). It uses anecdotes, interviews, guesswork and black magic in order to attribute song ownership to the respective Beatle. From reading that book, spending 5 years immersed in a Beatles rabbit hole, and some other ways only legal in a few states I can say that a beatles song will mostly be sung by the main writer of the song. The major exception is the songs written for Ringo. The period around Rubber Soul is where things get murky as they were starting to assert themselves as individual songwriters and giving criticism/notes to each others songs. Where early beatles songs would have been a Lennon/McCartney writing collaboration of varying amounts, at that point John was the creative force of the band and wrote most of the original works. As Paul came into his own and started asserting his creativity, songs would be a collaboration after they were written. Paul was more of a producer with a great "feel" on how to make a song. From what I remember from the book Beatles songs, the author attributes the bulk of the song to Lennon, and gives partial credit to Paul. I think this seems about right. This song strikes me as something John wrote and was "punched up" by Paul. Coming from each writers perspective, they probably feel that they were more responsible. John may have written the song, but I seem to remember that Paul wrote the melody line on guitar, which is the main idea of the song.

I know people try to put each Beatle into a box and I they had their indulgent tendencies. However, I think they were really just 4 people that when put together were able to make music that few others could. Each of them has a moment where they are the weird, sappy, schmaltzy, psychedelic or rock n roll song writer. Its a lesson that I feel could also be applied to management when building a team. Find your "beatles". People that when you put them together create better output than each of them could alone.
> high density San Francisco (city roads)

Please, San Francisco is hardly a city.
Chicken, egg, resource or harbor.
>> The fact that I got 5 years out of my last MBP was totally amazing.

No, it's not.

A 15" _2011_ Macbook Pro with a quad core i7 is still more than usable today.

If you bought a Macbook Pro with a powerful CPU (i.e., CPU model not ending with a U), you should easily get 10 years out of it.*

[edit] * At least until Apple decides not to support it with OS upgrades, but you can always run the latest Windows on it. And Windows generally runs faster in Boot Camp on Macbook Pros than OSX does natively.
He said “how to square a triangle”.
I would argue that ignoring or evading the distinction between earning your money and it being handed to you or just taking it from someone is the height of the impractical.

> Why would a stipend not count as income?

For the purposes of the IRS perhaps it does count as "taxable income" per the IRS code but that is not what we are talking about here. There are only three possible cases regarding money you receive; you earn it through voluntary trade of goods or services with others, you take money from others without their consent, i.e. theft or you receive a voluntary gift from others for reasons and standards determined by the giver, i.e. charity. That is it.

UBI tries to obfuscate these important moral distinctions.
Probably in the Vatican archives...