skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> [RAM Doubler 2] reclaims unused memory in application partitions, then compresses memory it can’t reclaim ... [it then uses] disk swapping ... as its final strategy
Just look at many schools!

I am regularly stunned at what young people are having to put up with.

Recently, while in Missouri, I enquired about the many boxes with red and blue blinking lights. Each is a monitoring station. Police are dispatched when the watchers see a reason.

Now, she is in London speaking? First, good for her. Second, in the photo, I see a woman getting past some harsh life events. She looks better. I do not mean passing, or beauty. I do mean as a person who is comfortable with how they present. I hope that means she is growing past the trauma.

London has a ton of the same monitoring. I have a friend there who does closed circuit systems.

Anyone from the UK want to compare and contrast?

I have only made brief visits. What are the deeper similarities?
Of course these days you could have a Raspberry Pi in a corner of the laptop case and the rest of it filled with whatever contraband, and still present a "working" computer to the security screener.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply disapproval, it was basically an idle thought since I see that replacement pretty commonly
Cool, I understand it's more important to get an MVP up and running before applying optimisations. It's good to know that it's on your radar though :)

Thanks for answering my question, and best of luck with Hyperfiddle!
If I read your link correctly, retroactivity, at least by what your article is addressing, is an ability held by the federal government, and only the government. And moreover, its about updating the rules and validity of the patent.

Im not sure its relevancy to retroactive creation of patents in this context. I agree it was interesting though.
wat? YT video is just a mp4 file on "someone elses computer "
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The earth isn't the thing buying stuff. It's people.

Once population count goes stagnant or starts to decline then a lot of investment models will have problems.
There is already a pull request and it looks promising!

https://github.com/facebook/create-react-app/pull/4837
If you look back far enough, nearly every on-land government still extant today has a history of violence; be it that they conquered the land they inhabit, that they invaded their neighbors so that they might not be themselves invaded, that they were established due to their predecessors being violently overthrown, and so on.

Governments really suck.
What is the status of Flow in the JS ecosystem?
Heads up, seems folks aren't having great luck with the Lime SDR for ham applications. Some comments in here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15301982 and here explaining why - https://www.reddit.com/r/LimeSDR/comments/71q2qk/thread_on_h...

A counterpoint in the comments here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u2KK49sJ3L0

caveat emptor i guess, good luck!
Not completely true. I was randomly selected for a TCMP audit. My tax professional is hoping to keep my compliance cost under $2500, but makes no promises.

That's for a reasonably typical (and by no means aggressive tax positioned) MFJ + 2 kids return.
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If the naked mole rat does not age in terms of negative consequences of age, what makes them die at 30?
Haven't seen any business school professors chime in yet, so as one I'll do so: Increasingly, what "elite" undergraduate schools offer at the graduate level is less valuable than what research universities offer. The best professors are sequestered in individual labs or in large research universities, not in schools valued for ratings that are focused on undergraduates. The best educations are provided by people who understand learning and make themselves available to assist in the process - nothing about Harvard, Wharton, Tuck, etc. is better suited than University of California, University of Texas, NYU, many other state universities to perform those tasks. Furthermore, and it might deserve an entirely separate post, but many of the best professors in business are being bought up by Asian business schools. I think the net result is the American business school experience is both more valuable in terms of the topics covered and less valuable in terms of the educational experience than it once was.
National sovereignty, which historically simplifies to war-time allegiance. This is a common classification for governments of nation-states imposing travel restrictions. Are you asking if it's justified?
I’d be astounded if they did. Random acquisitions aren’t generally Amazon’s style, and there isn’t a big strategic story behind them buying Hashicorp that I can see.
If you don't feel the need to add another dependency, why would you do so?
Or you can read the large text that says "Test a new way to play" and calibrate your expectations.
I remember seeing RAM Doubler 2 on the shelf at Egghead Software... AND BUYING IT.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egghead_Software
This like many "this is the future of weaponry" articles doesn't say what specific this is to fix. There is no problem it is trying to solve it seems like. It is designed to be different without a clear overarching purpose. What is the purpose of having a 4 barrels? This was touched on but never fully examined or defined. I feel like this is slated to just disappear into the annals of "weapons that solved no problem".
Next up is Netgear? New home router with K8s!
Most US companies should be, but you'd be better to directly ask the companies that you'd be interested in working for.
TrueCrypt/VeraCrypt can do this for you with the intention that the existence of a hidden partition is plausibly deniable unless the correct key is provided. The only downside to this is gross inefficiency, you may only be able to get 20GB useful space out of a 500GB disc.
Ram doublers of the mid-90s were usually expensive hype. The most famous case is that of SoftRam which didn’t even try to do anything but just reported fake numbers. It was called placebo ware by some magazines. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM
GeForce now has been great for me
They are independent, so you could read two blog posts, one for Babel 7 https://babeljs.io/docs/en/v7-migration and one for TS https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/typescript/2018/08/27/types...
A quick side note - NYU is private (and generally seen as elite at the undergrad level, with the price tag to match), not a state university. The state schools in New York are the SUNY (State University of New York) system outside of the city, and the CUNY (City University of New York) system inside the city.
Wow, it's so great that everyone stopped committing tax fraud voluntarily after they cut the budget to the IRS!
Make sure the zip disk has the click of death.
It is true that housing prices in urban areas have risen astronomically in many regions of the world, and while we may well see a correction, I wonder if these these areas have simply become way more valuable than they used to be.

People thought that the internet would make location irrelevant, but it seems that the opposite has happened. I can think of many armchair theories as to why, but it's not a simple question to answer.
Yes, good point. These were great to watch
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You seem to be confusing “highway” with the much narrower term “freeway”.
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There was a similar program for windows but it actually did nothing and was taken down for fraud.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoftRAM
It seems like a no-brainer if you are not coming a position where your main ideology is that rich people shouldn't have to pay taxes.
Cut them off unless they upgrade, their upstream probably has that option in the agreement anyways. Ptsn should just die. The
technicians and customer service are so incompetent that every day I had to call to get a line disabled at the switch because it got re-enabled. After a hundred days in a row I finally just shorted the damn line and problem solved.
Seventeen (!) years later, in 2013, memory compression became part of OS X Mavericks. And they refer to Connectix RAM Doubler.

https://www.cnet.com/news/memory-compression-brings-ram-doub...
We were hiding the games you wanted behind games you didn't until we got enough allowance.
This issue has been discussed extensively and AFAIK no good solutions have appeared. (There are a bunch of "proof of mempool" type proposals that sound good but have a bunch of gotchas.)

Scaled across a large mining pool, removing these extra cycles removes a non-trivial overhead.

This isn't really true; the cost of building a non-empty block is a rounding error compared to the cost of doing the mining because the mining is exactly the same regardless of the contents of the block.
There is no way you are taxed 30% by the IRS and can be considered middle class.
I do a lot of "creative" work in Excel too. Finance/business stuff where the shape of the problem itself is ill-defined. It's a whiteboard, not a "programming language" -- nothing that isn't visible will ever happen; nothing is programmed.

----

I had to write codes for my dissertation in Matlab because that's what my advisor knew. Matlab is popular in research because so many ideas are already whiteboarded in matrix formalisms. I feel like Python is like this, but for object-oriented programming: rewriting my dissertation codes in Python gives me uglier code because of numpy, but it's easier to package it in such a way that it can be reused and extended. (I.e. it's not its mathematical nature, it's "parameterizable encapsulation". This is even better seen in something like Flask).

I think you're saying that Python isn't great at procedural programming. I disagree -- the syntax is simple and it's there -- it's just that not a lot of relevant open source projects rely on a procedural style. Contrast: Python isn't great at functional programming; it's very hard to express ideas like functors and monads.
FYI it's against the guidelines to suggest a commenter hasn't read the article. You can make the same point without being insulting or presumptuous in that way.
Oh man!

A bit of a tangent, but uh, just clicking around I found this wonderful bit of old ragtime: https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200035783/

Twelfth Street Rag

Imperial Marimba Band (instrumentalist)

1 sound disc : analog, 78 rpm, mono. ; 10 in.

Edison, 1920, monographic.
The thing is, even if you spend $1.00 to bring in $1.01, you're still bringing in money with 1% efficiency. If you didn't care about fairness and justice at all, that would be horrible economics.
The point is that more enforcement deters tax evasion so effectively that it saves money, so there's no sound fiscal reason to cut the budget for tax enforcement. The entire point of slashing the budget is to make it easier to commit tax fraud.
No, it was the usual right wing noise machine at work. More than 100 left-leaning groups were investigated as well. And what is completely ignored is that the root of it was a spike in PACs claiming to be charity organizations in order to hide their donor lists.
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Ha. I wasn't really schooling him, just ribbing him. He knows damn well he could run circles around me in JavaScript.
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Had a fantastic example of this recently. I called my bank, for some reason they weren't able to connect me to the department I needed immediately, so I arranged to have them call me back when they were able to reach them. Little later, as expected, the bank call me back - same person I spoke to earlier, so I'm satisfied that it's the bank. She routes my call through to the department we needed to reach. That's where things get surreal, because that department isn't set up to have an outgoing call routed to them, so they decide they need to authenticate me.

The method they choose to do that, though, is to ask me for a phone number to which they can send an authentication code. I give them the phone number I'm using - the one they called me on. They ask if I want a text or a voice call. Tempting though it would be to put them on hold while I accept the voice call with the security code, I opt for the text message. Phone buzzes, I read out the number, and they seem happy with the result.

I really hope that when they asked me for a phone number they verified it against a list of known numbers associated with the account, but... it really wasn't clear in the context of the interaction.
RAM Doublers for Windows were expensive hype.

Because of the way that classic MacOS (mis)managed memory, you (as in the user) had to specify how much memory was allocated to each program before you ran it and the memory had to be contiguous. It was easy to end up in a situation where you had plenty of free RAM but it was fragmented and you had to quit programs to free up enough RAM.

RAM Doubler for the Mac helped alleviate that by “doubling” the amount of RAM the system saw and then managing the memory by a combination of allocating memory dynamically in the “System” partition and compressing memory.

Another benefit of RAM Doubler for the PPC was that it could enable virtual memory (ie the modern nomenclature not just “disk swapping”) without allocating as much space on the disk.
Have not read the paper I assume that if you had a large enough mole rat population you would observe some of them to live beyond 30.
A surprisingly fun read.
Not overly experienced with this, but years ago we used to add honeypot email addresses to our databases for a super simple & cheap way to at least get an idea of whether data had been exfiltrated. If you add a new email once a month you can get some 'timing' info, and then could start comparing against logs.
"The best professors are sequestered in individual labs or in large research universities"

I don't think this applies to most MBA subjects, as least as much as it does the others. It's a highly applied and contemporary discipline, perhaps one of the least theoretical.

My best Finance prof, for example, who taught us Private Equity / VC, had personal relationships with so many of the best funds. He spends a lot of time in the field, staying in tune with trends in the industry. He was able to bring in really bright minds from the field, and it always made for the most engaging material.

Even advanced corporate finance with all the cases like Volkswagen and their amazing currency trading activities ... it's all very much the real world material.
There is an eight core 3.0GHz Intel Xeon, 32GB RAM, 2TB drive for $300.00[1] on eBay.

Curious if you install SSD disks in RAID? Then it might actually be a pretty decent home server.

[1] - https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eight-Core-Apple-Xserve-Server-3-0G...
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What we're judging isn't whether we should do it because it's profitable, but how plausible claims are that we needed to cut the budget because "everyone is tightening their belts." A look at the numbers shows that explanation will not wash.
The authors address this this to some degree in the Discussion. See the para beginning "Indeed, naked mole-rat mortality was less consistent with a typical Gompertz model of hazard than it was with an exponential decay model, with a constant probability of decay (death) defining a species’ half-life."
Exclusivity increases value; had he created exclusivity attached to the propertt that did not exist when he bought the property, it would have greatly enhanced its resale value, increasing his return on investment.

IMO, the most plausible explanation for the whole affair was that this was the whole point of his buying the property, applying what he saw as a legal hack that would allow him to convert the property into a much more valuable one and resell it.
Nowadays your laptop would go through an X-ray machine with improved explosives detection.
Hey

Any email we could send over the resumes?
I think his point is that it was already well known by 2017 and didn't have to struggle to distinguish itself in the current market, because it had built momentum and interest.
I was writing video games back then, and we needed to make frequent drops to our publisher via burned cd-roms and Fedex (thankfully, the airport was nearby, so our late night pushes would make it out).

we were burning on one of those Yamaha burners, but on a Mac instead of a pentium - in our case, we would optimize the external scsi drive that held our game, and still hope we could get a clean burn before the last Fedex drop.

we did manage to find some cheaper cd-r's though, when we bought in bulk.

I still remember buying my own first burner, which was just over $500 at the time, I ended up mostly using it for backups.

anyways, thanks for the memories!
Hey that isn't the really impressive, but I did the same thing with DOS configuration files with only using software that came with DOS. I played a game that required 12 megs of RAM and I had 8. I used drivespace to compress the drive and smartdrive to create diskcache. The dos extender of the game automatically swapped to the disk, when there wasn't enough ram. With my set up, the game swapped, then drivespace compressed the data and smartdrive cached the data, and it never hit the disk during a combat anymore and became playable.
Ask HN: Is there a Google for searching website source code?
If a website was referencing a JS file at https://evil.com/keylog.js, how could I see how many other sites this is embedded in?
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https://www.elsevier.com/books/book-series/handbook-of-clini... ( There are 161 volumes )

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> “I can think of many armchair theories as to why, but it's not a simple question to answer.”

My guess: tools that make it easier to live wherever you want disproportionately benefit the places people most want to live.
I actually remember pirating this from Hotline:

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

Which was another strange Mac app from that era.
> Get it too late (once you reach senior management or about a decade of managerial experience), and you don't really need it anymore. Your real-life experiences have already exceeded what an MBA has to offer.

Is this generally true? Just curious. So as a person in a senior management position, if I read a good selection of books or watch a bunch of videos, would that make me on part with an MBA education?
There were some powerful utilities on the old Mac OS. Sometimes, it was a deal with the devil, like TimesTwo. It did the same thing but for harddrives. It often corrupted the darned things though... Ah, what we used to do to get another 4 MBs of RAM and 80 MBs of storage.
Netflix is planning a choose-your-own-adventure episode of ‘Black Mirror’
Justified paragraphs are never justified. Proper typesetting has zero hyphenation and always obeys the inter-word space specified by the font designer.
Congrats Quinn and company! I hope there's not too much of my code lurking in there =)
Simple solution. Set up remote desktop and also travel with a burner phone.
Same problem space to my mind: applying math to the real world in some meaningful, useful fashion.
Compelling telcos to do that is the regulator's job.

Not sure about the US, but in most of the rest of the world regulators come up with new rules and regulations requiring some form of network upgrade all the time – SLAs, connectivity and routing requirements, legal interception, data residency, etc.

And telcos have no other way but to spend billions to protect some monopoly or enable more surveillance power for the governments. It's a matter of priorities, really.
Have you evaluated compression algorithms that support custom dictionaries, like zstd? You could generate a compression dictionary for each domain, or just for those above a certain size.
Why has Apple/Android not added the ability to reject (or at least send directly to voice mail) all calls outside of contacts, and make this the default setting?

Seems like this would solve almost all of these problems.
This would cause me to turn around at the border and cancel my reservations. I won’t be going to New Zealand either. And yes, I am aware the USA treats incoming visitors just as badly.