skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have dual 28" 4K monitors on my desk and can look to any corner just by moving my eyeballs. I would reorient my head when focusing on a window for an extended period, but not for quick checks to read notifications or bits of text scrolling by in a shell or chat window.

I use a side by side in landscape orientation, so a 7680x2160 desktop. I think this is about ideal width and dot-pitch for me. Higher resolution in the same field of view would be wasteful as the pixels are already too small to see individually unless they are high contrast. I still prefer mild RGB sub-pixel anti-aliasing on fonts in this setting. A wider field of view would also be useless for desktop tasks since I would not be able to comfortably scan it all. While I wouldn't mind a taller field of view, I don't have the budget nor tolerance to stack monitors vertically nor to switch to an array of portrait orientation monitors.

VR will not give me any screen "real estate" unless it has incredibly high resolution and wide field of view or has solved eye-tracking and zero-latency foveal rendering. I am not interested in turning my head constantly to shift a high resolution porthole around a blurry overview or (worse) a blinkered black void.

Because of the gap between monitors, I sit slightly offset and favor the right half of the left monitor for transient tasks. I keep chat and email windows open on the far left and tend to open a browser or editor on the left half (or two thirds) of the right monitor, while opening reference materials like PDFs in the rightmost extreme.

I do have traditional virtual desktops where a hot-key press can shift my displays to show any one quadrant of a logical 15360x4320 desktop. This is a holdover from my days on a single, lower resolution screen. I find that I use it far less frequently now, as I can indeed use the large visible area to organize things related windows spatially. I use it mostly for mode-switching between different sets of windows which may keep the same arrangement for weeks at a time. For example, one quadrant is my code-editing and communication space and another is a deployment/test suite/log-following space. I have room to open other reference materials or sample data around my code editing, and conversely room for other SSH shells and state-spelunking tools around my test and log windows.
You must be Welsh? As Hobbes said - not of the dark ages, but the countrymen of my father - nasty, brutish and short. :)
Although I go with the Everett interpretation (which I like to think of as the "universal wave function" interpretation because it is really just a minimalist theory assuming that the laws of wavefunction evolution always apply), and the many worlds aspect is just a byproduct of the fact that a wave function left to its own devices would decohere into a bunch of practically non-interacting "worlds".

It should be noted, however, that the Everett interpretation does have one issue: it's not clear why probabilities should work the way they do. There are different approaches to deriving the laws of probabilities under Everettian physics, but things very easily get metaphysical once you try to go down that road.

As you point out, the Bohm Interpretation works as a single world interpretation, although it relies on reifying particles embedded in waves to essentially select a single world, which is rather ad-hoc. However, it does give us the probabilities for free, assuming any reasonable initial setup for the particles.
EU to scrap lawsuit against Ireland after Apple pays back taxes
Maybe it's the perfect place to cheat on your wife with a dude? I've never looked into their site, but maybe it is in practice a gay hookup place?

Or maybe the bots are so good they should just sell those as a service? Why bother chatting with a real woman when the bot experience is better? As I say this, why isn't it a thing already? Chatbot hookers. It has to be a thing already. The interactive experience for a fraction of the price. Or do camgirls set the price floor too low to make this viable?

It seems like our NLP AIs should be advanced enough to make a pretty compelling chatbots by now. People were fooled by Eliza 40 years ago. A lot of porn is pretty formulaic too, so getting the common case right shouldn't be that hard.
I worked for Ticketmaster back in the early 2000s and helped build an auction platform for them. Some artists did use it for the highest quality seats, and a few even did it for the entire venue, but many artists were afraid of it because they felt like they would then be the responsible party for 'squeezing' their fans. Perhaps the idea that they would get the money along with other people running the event, as opposed to scalpers didn't resonate. I wasn't around when the platform was decommissioned so I can't say for sure all the factors at play but, for sure many artists didn't like the idea.
This is an old investing strategy summarized by Rothschild in the anecdote, "The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets." I think that maxim captures the crass greed of the strategy.
I don't care if someone does 10-15 MPH over on a highway. However doing 40 MPH in a 25 MPH zone could have fatal consequences for pedestrians, bicyclists and scooter riders. That should not be open to "local interpretation," that's one of the reasons America's roads are much more dangerous than European roads. Speed, stop light and stop sign cameras should be placed in areas of high and/or recent injury areas to ensure that people who don't have 2 tons of metal protecting them can use the streets safely.
A Mysterious Pulsar Is Sending Strange Emissions Really Far into Space
I’m well aware. It’s just a bad concept. Knowing that something behaves as a function invocation is extremely important. The idea that this knowledge should not have consequences for the mental model of the caller is a bad idea. Setting up a design that achieves this (where, from the caller’s perspective, attributes vs side-effectful argumentless methods appear the same) results in a bad design.

I see this a lot with Named Principles and Design Patterns. They have Capitalized Names and Entries on Wikipedia so people believe they are Pragmatically Successful and Deserve Respect.

But they are usually just junk. Things like Liskov, all kinds of nominal design patterns, mischaracterizations of least astonishment, etc.

A good heuristic is to ignore all that garbage and just use common sense.
> Citron Research said it remains short on Tilray, calling the stock’s surge “beyond comprehension” in a Tweet Wednesday.

and

> Tilray jumped as much 55 percent to in New York Wednesday to $240, giving it a value of more than $20 billion, higher than American Airlines Group Inc

Q2 revenue up just a touch from Q1, but losses have doubled. Of course this could be growth spending.

Up 60% today, which is absurd.
Where in history has there been a system that didn't either 1) Result in rich and poor or 2) Result in oppression by force? Egalitarianism doesn't scale past around 450 people without the introduction of some form of hierarchy.

It takes compassion and faith in truth, in sufficiently large doses, to challenge such systems.

Principles can be used to challenge such systems from within. The overall history of the United States is a good example of this. Also, the history of the past several years is a testament to what happens when principles are forgotten in favor of feelings.
Teleological thinking and IQ aren't particular correlated. It is possible to believe in god across all levels of IQ. Atheists tend to have a lower capacity for teleological thinking. Scientism, as opposed to science in the strict sense, is basically a religion with rational and irrational proponents.
Using the parenthesis actually gives different behavior. That’s, I suppose, why this syntax exists at all.
Great benchmarking results. Good to know more about Striim.
It was cheaper to buy an entire 'season pass' for the local theater (~8 shows? Including Hamilton) than to buy a single Hamilton ticket. Just crazy.
How do staffing agencies hire IT engineers?
Intel microcode updates are encrypted and signed.
You don't. Symbian EKA2 platforms (eg. S60 3rd edition and later) used to run baseband as userspace threads on same core as user applications. I would not be that surprised if that was main enabler for Nokia E51/52, ie. full-featured smartphone in executive-phone form factor (small and in the first place thin candy-bar).
It's "Something about poorly designed, object-oriented systems."

1. compound adjectives are hyphenated, except when the first world ends in 'ly.'
2. two adjectives, should have comma, similar to 'big, green systems.'
Every country has its own culture, social acknowledge. You can't understand Chinese's respect for privacy, just like Chinese can't understand American's obsession with guns.
Show HN: Remote work stickers
I work at a similar sized company. It depends. If you ran a query on any of the schemas that have access to security and compliance sensitive data back in 2013 I can probably tell you what it returned (sans any PII, obviously we don't log stuff that would have compliance implications if we logged it) but I'd have to go digging in backups to find it.
I miss the early 90s and 2000s when governments were still struggling to understand what the internet was, rather than trying to control it.
> If you knew a way to take a random bad performing school in the country, and bring its students educational outcomes to above national average, you'd make lots of money contracting out consulting to local government.

Converting them to boarding schools and essentially cut off contact with the rest of the world may work. It would also be both really expensive and creepy, reminiscent of the times when native American children were forced to attend English-only schools away from their families.
So you've never heard this before or won't comment here?
Atlassian is indeed broader then just BitBucket and a better comparison. GitLab does a broader offering than Atlassian by including things like packaging, monitoring, and security. And GitLab is a single application instead of a suite of tools with different data models.
It's a 6 lane highway, the speed limit is 55, and everyone is going 75, including police officers. That's an indication the speed limit is unreasonably slow.

Re: I-270 Maryland
For the past year and a half, I have been building Moonlight while traveling as a digital nomad. Moonlight helps companies add trusted freelancers to their teams. As a remote worker myself, I believe that remote is the future - but that we have work to do in educating others about how it works. We may not have an office or working hours, but we still have work to do!

We made this fun set of illustrations to spread the culture of remote work. If you’ve ditched the open office for a coffee shop or your couch - we have you (and your laptop) covered.
I've seen managers talk big talk about fighting for us when otherwise not the case behind closed doors. I wouldn't trust any one person in a highly political organisation, be it Manager or top brass.
Let me know when Hu starts claiming grieving parents are crisis actors and selling unproven diet treatments.
Is there a meaningful difference when the latter buys it from the former? Or when the latter can easily force it from the former?
If "measurement" is an undefined and unscientific term, what is the scientific definition of "branching" in the multiple-words interpretation?

Edit: the most significant problem with the MWI, apart from the "creepy" metaphysical aspects, is the meaning and quantification of probabilities. In particular being able to derive Born's rule, which works so well in practice.
Read the article, saw no mention of DeLaunay or Voronoi ! How can that have been overlooked?
Uh...no.

You could use the same logic to excuse storing passwords in plain text instead of hashes.
"secret"
That’s actually the point, when you omit the parentheses the behavior changes, instead of interpolating the string and passing that to the function, the parts of the string get passed in instead.
I really enjoyed Flex and look back at it fondly, when I tried Angular 1 it felt like the first thing on the JS/HTML side that could come close to matching the productivity of Flex (albeit with no helpful IDE). It was good enough to whip out a MVP demo in 48 hours. I've mostly been out of UI development since, occasionally extending stuff written in a NIH corporate framework or some Backbone things. Occasional experiments with the ClojureScript tooling (Reagent-based) seem like the next way forward that maybe the rest of the world can use in another 5+ years.
How are you preparing for a future of work requiring constant reinvention?
You wrote "Point." - did you mean "Period."?
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How could it possibly not be abused to gain power? What checks and balances are there? Out of all the past data points we have throughout history, which one points to governments with unchecked power not abusing it? And is there any more powerful example of unchecked power than an unelected state single party government who can monitor every action of every individual and unvoice/unperson them with the click of a button?
Just postgreSQL queries.
> Imagine I am a remote worker who does contract work. I have never met my employer.

In your example, how did the remote worker discover the employer?
GPU hardware acceleration has nothing to do with video decode. (Okay, the hardware is often on the same physical silicon die, but they're separate things in software.)

There is literally no support yet for any unix video decode APIs in Firefox. No VA-API, no VDPAU, no V4L2, no nothing.

Here's the bug for VAAPI: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1210727

There's a bounty for it: https://www.bountysource.com/issues/55506502-add-va-api-hard...
Well, I really dislike the Caesar salad, for obvious reasons stated above.

But maybe an explanation for its success is that it's fried chicken with dip "disguised as a salad". The salad in the caesar salad is just to pretend it's healthy.

Also the name kind of rules
Maybe not right at least. Hmmm...

I don't think Quaker Oats branding harms the Society of Friends.

Though TBH I don't know how to evaluate the "power" of these two groups.
Can you please post the link to the reviews so we don't have to slog through all the comments?
Many scholars and futurists are envisioning a world where one’s ability to work will require constant transformation, retraining, and reinvention. How are you preparing yourself? How are you retraining, reinventing, and working to remain flexible as things move ever faster?
Yes, this is about open-source firmware vs OEM (e.g. Lenovo) closed-source firmware.
Why would Bird do that? They're a scooter company.
It may not be like that now. I suspect these kinds of places/experiences will become rarer and rarer: the democratisation of travel is, I think in many ways, a good thing (especially in a world where equality is prized), but it also has downsides, such as the fact that everywhere and everything becomes commercialised and oversubscribed.
The Opus ambisonics stuff is cool, I think it would be interesting to use ambisonics for emitters in 3D environments, but I have no idea how computationally complex this would need to be before it produced good effects.

Inverse ambisonic recording (i.e. measuring emitted sound from outside the focal point, rather than attempting to record from the focal point) is considerably easier than real ambisonic recording.
I went into this article skeptical (due to the title, ZDNet, and how often unreasonable Windows 10 complaints get posted) but this one seems legitimate.

The WaitList.dat really does seem like a legitimate threat to security and privacy. I don't currently have a touch device to test the including Powershell script, but I'd be interested to hear what others find.

I actually understand why Microsoft is recording this information (since it helps them understand the user's sentence structure/words, to make recognition more accurate) but it is also a huge treasure trove of personal information that many wouldn't have been aware of.

I wonder if there is a way to store this information more securely?
How are they going to figure out what works for them? Vote for the individual who best represents their views? How exactly to individuals even get a say in "what works for them"?
So something in the riverbed failed now, but that didn't seem to be an issue for the previous bridge that was there for ~50 years.

I can't reject the possibility, but that seems oddly timed.
>No Evil Corp. Just me.

I would remove this, any company would hesitate to buy a service from a single guy.
Did that time ever really exist?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Export_of_cryptography_from_th...

I also remember writing some (naive) crypto tools as a kid and I had to report it to permit re-export from the US.

Also, the DMCA is from the nineties:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_A...
You're making quite an assumption with your use of the phrase "fair market price". In this case the market price isn't fair.

It's pretty eady to solve this. Require ID for ticket purchases, and prevent resale except through authorised channels at face value.
Same on macOS + Firefox
Thanks! I see you also contributed this as an issue https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/33422 and we plan to make this in the next 4-7 releases. Many of our users have a self-managed installation that is behind the firewall so for them this is less relevant. But we understand the urgency. And of course it would be even quicker if someone can contribute this functionality.
> Given how frequently they ran out of 65,000 tickets for <enter_any_big_ticket_event> within seconds (which would pop up under resale with > 200% markup minutes later), glad this is out in the open.

Well, a lot of that is because more and more tickets are sold during presales (passworded or not, such as Amex presales). Sometimes there's less than 10% of inventory available on the regular sale. Sometimes there's more, but they hold back a few thousand to drop on the market to sell later.

The majority of stuff you see on Stubhub within minutes might have been listed on Stubhub for a day or two, or been primed to be pushed to stubhub at that moment for a day or two, since they were bought previously.

It's not hard to get access to most presales. If you have an Amex, you're already qualified for one of the earliest presales they have on most events. Same for Citi for some venues. Other than that, you can sign up for fan clubs to get passwords, or just search around.

> Presale went live at 10:00 AM on February 10th (for shows in Sept) and they ran out of tickets at 10:01 AM, are you kidding me?

Alternatively to what I said above, sometimes very little is released in a presale. It's a crap shoot, and depends on the tour strategy.

Yes, brokers will buy. Sometimes they over-buy too, and you can get tickets cheaper (this can be fairly common, actually). I'll tell you this, regardless of what this article says, Ticketmaster is always rolling out new mechanisms to make it easier for fans and harder for brokers. Recently they started using new queue systems for some sales, and a new ticket buying interface, as well as much more complicated bot detection heuristics.

Ticketmaster has multiple divisions. The secondary market division (TM+, their new Point of Sale offering) might not necessarily want brokers excluded, but the rest of the company must put a lot of engineering effort into it, given what I've seen. That they don't go seeking out accounts makes sense to me, because there are legitimate reasons to buy a lot of tickets (corporate bonus gifts, a concierge service, etc), and inaccurately targeting one of those will cause a lot of trouble, and maybe even a court case (if I was a concierge service with a few hundred tickets in their system, and they cancelled them all, I would consider a lawsuit because they've had my money for months and been able to capitalize on it, and if the alternative is a crippled business...)

> The whole experience was mind numbing.Can't wait for Amazon tickets to disrupt this space and drive 'em out.

It's a market, with supply and demand. If you think a new entrant will change anything, I'm sorry, but I think it's unlikely. There's already multiple ticketing companies, Ticketmaster is just the largest. AXS ticketing does some large venues as well.
Sometimes people have interests other than or in addition to maximizing revenue.
I use AT&T too. It was spotty but much better yesterday. I suppose it just needed some combination of reboot/toggle to work again.
The Basecamp Way
Ever want to skip a song on your iphone while driving? You know basically where the buttons are, but not exactly and since there is no feedback you cant tell if you are hitting a button, or just empty screen. With feedback you could allow the user to drag their finger around until they located a button based on the feedback.
Someone please explain this: Revenues in 2017: ~$21M, loss: $7.5M

But, market cap: $27B

Why?
In my experience it's fairly common to not have to work much overtime even on a salary. It's just a few certain types of industries and certain types of positions where this is heavily abused.
The template strings feature is not a just "shorthand syntax", it allows you to do things that were not possible before (see [1])

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
My company uses GitLab and I think the CI is fantastic, especially compared to Jenkins, Travis, Circle, etc. It's very easy to setup, incorporated into the rest of our workflows, intuitive, reliable, powerful. I have a few complaints but i see they are on the upcoming roadmap.

Overall, all my devs are quite happy with GitLab!
By your definition, wearing a wig and sunglasses to get away with shoplifting is a "clever exploit." Refusing to put license plates on your car so you cannot be identified for breaking the law is antisocial criminal activity.
I mean artists are free to reserve discounted tickets for fans and sell them fcfs but they would be intentionally losing money by doing so. Sometimes this is a good choice because you don't want to make your fans mad.

It's just a system where people are incented to pay the most they're willing to. Pay before your price and you lose money, pay after your price and you risk the show being sold out.
yeah, tossing, I've done it a bunch, and it's true that the thousand islands dressing with chicken salad does work.

Frisee without any dressing though, I don't know how you manage. It tickles the tonsils in all the most unpleasant ways.
I think it would be a business mistake for them to prioritize this feature over others.
"I do not want to live in a world where my car is artificially limited to 15mph in a 15 zone."

15 - 20mph is a pretty significant speed limit. At that speed a car - pedestrian collision is highly unlikely to be fatal. Much faster and the chances of a fatality increase quickly.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vision_Zero

I would really like to see 20mph speed limits become much more common and strictly enforced. There's no reason we need to risk killing people just to get someplace faster.
I'm certain I wouldn't considering I've spent my entire career in cancer diagnostics and finance.

This is a completely reversible mistake and no one was harmed in any way (feelings don't count). Let's not go off the rails and start making Therac-25 like comparisons. This isn't some abstract problem; the issue is well defined, so let's stay within the realm of reason.
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