skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is the same model, just semantics. Either way they are increasing the price of the product by some amount and decreasing it when you leave a review.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Sasson

> Steven Sasson invented the first self-contained digital camera at Eastman Kodak in 1975.
A database of retro and 8 bit computers would be cool too.
Neat. I (occasionally) use emacs in a trivial node.js-as-compositor stack on a Lenovo Explorer on linux. With a 7px font, a pixel-aligned window, no temporal supersampling (because low fps on an old laptop's integrated graphics), and WMR's handwave 500px-ish diameter pixels-not-blurred-together region, it's bearable, but far from competitive with a 1080p laptop screen. With subpixel rendering (Explorer has normal non-PenTile subpixels), a 5px font is ok (but not in emacs), but only across say 300px.

With better lenses and a better panel, an HMD might be competitive. But it's not perceived to be market, and there's pervasive confusion about the (minimal) GPU and (slow) fps needed. And there's only limited diy infrastructure.

But I enjoyed live-coding a vr environment (hot loading three.js and react.) At least with desktop mirroring, to flip-up to screen when the world broke.

Perhaps https://pharojs.github.io/ ? Croquet Project, Open Cobalt, and OpenQwaq are all dead, and 3dicc seems to have gone closed-source commercial. Ah, ST - feels like the 1980's all over again. :/ But https://github.com/ronsaldo/woden looks alive. And someone apparently hacked a bridge to Unreal. I wonder what else is out there?
Are you suggesting that you'd have surgery without a nurse, surgeon, or anesthesiologist? And that you shouldn't expect to have to pay for equipment used in your surgery?1
Next year we may see the first models without a
steering wheel or a brake pedal—there goes the
option of asking the driver (passenger?) to take
over.

This is bad news for everyone. This is the network effect exploitatively writ large, such that, surely you can prevent yourself from being inside such a thing, but as a lone individual, without laws in place to ban such a thing, you, your children, your family, your friends are all endangered by a blameless force that everyone can simply shrug at, and point to statistics claiming that there is even just an incremental improvement over ordinary human performance.

You can stop yourself from posting selfies on social media, under your real name. You cannot stop other people from taking pictures, which your acquaintances discover and tag with your real name.

This is kind of horrific. At least as horrific, or moreso than, current traffic statistics, because the moral hazard in play is abysmally worse.

There was an effective arms race that took shape with SUVs and road rage in the late 1990's. I think something similar will take shape, as self driving cars ramp up. It may surprise some, to find that a self driving incident won't be accepted as blameless, glitchy software errors. Owners may see themselves villified directly, for things a car they chose to own, had subsequently carried out.

I think there are three turns of consequence to a botched self driving car deployment.

One: some will choose harm the legal owner as an individual, lawfully or lawlessly.

Two: others will harm dealerships, mostly through sabotage.

Three: overt action against the manufacturers. At all levels, and not limited to ordinary civil disobedience.

These consequences are nothing to be sniffed at. Aviation shows us that spotty disasters don't result in civil unrest, but with a human in the loop survival was incentivized. Automotive deployments like this will be a fire and forget scenario, and the corporations loosing the reigns, have a demostrable history of neglect. I wonder if they anticipate, in the rush to market, just how severely the general public might react to finding their roads on the receiving end of software glitches that kill their firends and relatives like deer?
Amused that the article calls heavy water "a hydrogen-rich substance". As far as I'm aware it has exactly the same amount of hydrogen as regular water, by definition.

Presumably the author was going for "neutron-rich" but misremembered.
I'm pretty uninformed on the subject, but I am interested to hear why an adjacency matrix is chosen over an adjacency list when it is sparse. My basic data structures and algorithms class would lead me to believe that an adjacency list would be better. Is this due to the nature of how the database is constructed?
I liked that video, too. Kay suggested that there is a very long list of human universals, that almost all of them can be translated into a human need or want, and that very few had yet been mined for their business potential. I went looking for the list when I first watched that video:

http://willsull.net/resources/HumanUniversals.pdf

https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/afc6/be60ad8e6995e98dc77093...
No catchall?
Right, I just wondered about getting 0.00000000001 instead of 0 or the like, but that doesn't seem to happen with modest integer inputs.
Sounds like Linux-class bugs (e.g. KDE copy/paste not working correctly sometimes[0]).

I guess Windows has lost its advantage of perceived quality.

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/9a7k2i/psa_on_kde_ne...
"WIRTZ: It seems to me that the political situation for STALIN has changed completely now.

WEIZSÄCKER: I hope so. STALIN certainly has not got it yet. If the Americans and the
British were good Imperialists they would attack STALIN with the thing tomorrow, but they
won't do that, they will use it as a political weapon. Of course that is good, but the result will
be a peace which will last until the Russians have it, and then there is bound to be war"

That is a pretty great summary of the potential dangers of the Cold War, also interesting in the context of the US pulling out of the nuclear arms deal with Russia today.
I hope someday it can work with modern hardware.

When I read the headline I was expecting some benchmark tests related to it.

Imagine a world where you could just change your kernel via `pacman -R linux && pacman -S hurd` and have a good fallback should ever linux not be a desirable option, or at least to have some competition.

Having a free microkernel implementation retrocompatible with linux would give enough user data to settle the monolytical vs. microkernel debate, who knows which niche applications would it be ideal for? Mission critical software, realtime processing, embedded software, small reliable image containers, a fresh bench for new OS developments?

There's also the social aspect of how linux is currently developed, what would happen without Linus strong leadership? I am sure there's a very capable team there, but sometimes only technical proficiency is not enough. Would a fragmented leadership handle the NSA's attempted breaches as well? Having a separate project that can handle the same applications would be good in my opinion.

Bonus points for getting rid of that (GNU[+-/])?Linux bullshit.
How The Koenigsegg Regera Hits 248 MPH Without A Gearbox (2015)
macOS is yet another example where, despite X being present and mature at the time Apple decided how they would render stuff, they went their own way with yet another successful non-network-first design.
I'm still hoping for a system that can evaluate the quality of a codebase given certain parameters and assign an average rank automatically.
But aren't movies rendered to the screen?

My understanding is most smartphones at least have hardware decoding for H264.
I accept your rebuke!
Except there's still competition. If renting becomes $200/wk more expensive, then sharing a room, or living with family, or move out of the area (to somewhere that still has BI but less constrained housing) becomes $200/wk more appealing and that'll make the difference for some people. Rents would probably rise, but not the full $200.
Link for the lazy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=id1WShzzMCQ
in fact this is the primary reasons why I want to learn French, Russian, German ;)

reading the masters, is never a waste.
> or search by brand name and even than the real ones are usually on page 2 with page one featuring the same crap from China

So he does search for specific brands and is still stymied by Amazon ranking algorithms.
> YCombinator Startup School heavily emphasizes leaving your day job and committing 100%.

Is this true? I am participating in startup school now and nobody has encouraged me to quit my job.
and your solution to these adversarial patients that are willing to lie is to... ask a second question?
> This is well done, thanks for sharing.

Thanks!

> It uses more of the page, though, if I get rid of the "float: left" on .frame and change min-width for textarea elements to 100%.

I think I started that way; this felt better to me. That said, I'm not really a UI guy. More than happy to look at PRs :)
Fans of the nuclear industry doesn't like to columnize the costs of 'externalities'.

For one, they rarely mention the amount of US government subsidies ($hundreds of billions) poured into getting the early plants up and running. For another, the unwillingness of insurers to take an interest in those operations.

When Rocky Flats spilled a little Pu dust into the Denver suburbs, they just raised the 'safe' exposure by a factor of 10. Easy peasy.
yes, but do the numbers....

how many of you are there? People in that stage of learning Linux where they google the 5 most common things people get wrong?

Let's be generous and say 1 million. That seems reasonable. It's certainly more than 100,000 and less than 10 million.

Let's be more generous and say that all these people search for this once a week.

At $1 per 1000 pageviews (the generous estimate) that caps income at $1K/week maximum.

That's a nice side-project, if it captures 100% of all the traffic and manage to monetise it (I'd like to see the percentages of Linux users/admins who also install an adblocker; I suspect it's high).

I do this all the time... "I want a service that does X". But I'm not typical, so the market always ends up being small. The standard startup advice of "solve a problem you have yourself" doesn't work for me. I call it my "Kardashian Problem": I don't understand why anyone would ever spend any time paying the Kardashians any attention whatsoever. This is clearly my problem, because the Kardashians are very popular, and the bajillions of people who do pay them attention seem very OK with it. So I am clearly not a very good judge of the market and should not trust my instincts about what will sell well.
I think this is either an over-reaction or a bit disgenuine. I was careful not to suggest (and certainly not argue) their research be dismissed for any ad-hominem reason.

The fact that they are members of some brand-new academic* unit that claims to be "for the Advancement of Free Enterprise Education" suggests that there's some non-zero chance they knew the conclusion about public spending on education before they started.

I raised a small set of facts without making any claim/appeal/accusation of anything sensational or conspiratorial.

If researchers at the Colloquium for the Advancement of Drink Your Damn Milk publish a study concluding you should drink your damn milk, it's reasonable to weight their conclusions accordingly until you see how others with more domain knowledge assess them.
> used the legendary Fujifilm's Fujichrome Velvia 50 film

Velvia was the reason I found a Fuji developer studio in the first place - all cameras would take 35mm, but find a location which would develop it was a challenge of its own.

I'm not a big film photo geek (probably under 100 rolls over a decade), but once you found someone who could push/pull develop your colour film, that makes the choice of film sticky.

Came for the contrasts, stayed for the contrast fix-ups - once I found a place which did Velvia 50 & Ilford 50, that's all I bought.
Because one does not measure the quality of health care by the amount of time spent waiting for non-critical treatments such as hip replacements or breast reduction surgery, which is the only thing that your numbers are vaguely consistent with across about 10 different sources I've looked at by this point.

I challenge you to find a second source that is both consistent with your article, and breaks down the waiting times by type of treatment, including treatments that do not need follow ups with specialists.
It still is kilometres ahead.
Well, this is a terrible and misleading article, but then, most of them are.

Tuberculosis drug helps reduces A1C scores 10-20% for small n doesn't make a good headline I suppose.
Thank you for your example of programming-as-teaching vs programming-as-carpentry. Do you know of or maybe you've written something more in depth showing in detail examples how to build something using programming-as-teaching vs programming-as-carpentry?
GitHub does not equal git; the reason I’m paused is because I use Github’s issue queues to organize my OSS work. Much easier than self hosting an issue repository/bug tracker. I am still able to do all my work, run new containers, etc., but GitHub is more tied into business processes than actual code (which is what causes the pain during these outages).
First half, yes.

Second half, no. That's pretty disturbing territory being leapt into, and sets a very bad precedent.
I'm not sure how LTSB could have prevented this at all. Ironically, 1809 was a LTSB release, so if you were upgrading from 1607 LTSB (to get WSL working, for example), you would also be exposed to this bug.
Arguably, it's actually Amazon's search algorithms that are to blame. Those have been known for a long time to be sub-par, now, at least since 2012 (when I worked there).

If you search for a brand name, products without that brand name anywhere should just not show up, period. (I suppose an exception is if you just don't have it, kind of like when Netflix shows "shows related to" when they don't have what you're actually looking for.)
Giving Open-Source Projects Life After a Developer's Death
Yes there are very good reasons for hierarchy.

Stability of the group being the main one (i.e. preventing it from splintering). Who ever is at the top of the hierarchy is expected to resolve the battles/differences unfolding at the lower levels to keep it stable especially when it is in competition with another hierarchy.

Will the transition work? Yes it will because we are at a point where no one individual or org has the power to dominate the network anymore. The network has grown orders of magnitude larger than any single hierarchy within it. And the pressure on each hierarchy to NOT splinter away is huge.

Just watch the guys at the top being overwhelmed. The 2008 financial crisis showed what happens when the network is threatened. It just pushes people to keep the larger network intact. It doesn't matter what their job titles are or where they individually stand in the hierarchy.

Same pressure you will see coming to bear on one Genghis Khan type character after another try to wrestle for overall control or disconnect to maintain control. Things will keep blowing up in their faces with all kinds of unintended and unpredictable consequences. Look at Facebooks fakenews response from 2 years ago to today. Look at whats happening with Brexit pushback. Look at Iran and North Korea not wanting to be isolated. Look at China realizing the impact of a trade war. Look at Saudi feeling the pressure to change. Look at Google unable to get its own employees to build a Chinese search engine.

All these are signs the guys at the top of all these hierarchies are struggling to get their hierarchies to do what they want because these hierarchies are now part of a much much larger network. And the only way they maintain its stability is to keep that network intact.

At these scales we aren't operating like a troupe of chimps or a pride of lions anymore with alphas. We resemble more a shoal of fish or a wildebeest herd. There is no central leadership.

And thats not a bad thing if you have ever seen a bunch of murmurating starlings. It will take some time for the Genghis Khan types to get with the programme though, at a cost to lot of people at the bottom of the food chain.
Super interesting. I saw you mentioned the headaches that came with merge requests. Did you having the same problem with separate prod, staging, test, and dev repos via a forking git workflow?
My dad owned a late 60s Ford Cortina, 1600cc push rod engine, which probably made 100hp on a good day. If you look at it's 1959 predecessor it was about 1000cc and made 39hp.

That Cortina also was a POS.

'Some' 1950's and 1960's American cars weren't POS. Everything else was. I don't think until the Japanese automakers efforts at world domination in the 1970's did you see high quality reliable ordinary cars.
Why is the AWS pricing calculator so horrible?
https://calculator.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html

<rant>
It is embarrassingly bad. It looks like it was released in 1997 and hasn't been updated since. It is missing calculators for several AWS services. The UX is painful. I mean even the list of services in the left navigation panel is in some indiscernible order. You have to either manually look through it or Ctrl+F to find what you're looking for.

This is the thing that customers use BEFORE deciding to invest in your platform. Why not invest 1-2 development weeks and clean it up?

It's mind-boggling to me. I've heard some speculate that it's because AWS wants to obscure the true cost, but I lean towards Hanlon's razor.

By contrast, Azure's calculator is fucking amazing. Or at least it looks like it was designed this decade, functions for all of Azure's service offerings, and provides a way to find the service you're interested in quickly. What an engineering marvel.

I honestly can't believe Microsoft isn't using this directly when selling to businesses deciding between the platforms. Any reasonable layperson who knows nothing of either platform would look at these two tools and think that AWS's tooling is shit (they wouldn't be TOTALLY wrong, but still).

You have teams upon teams building the coolest shit on the planet across so many AWS products. That this piece of garbage is the first thing many potential customers see is a travesty. Get your shit together, AWS. </rant>
I imagine people in the US would too, if different states spoke different languages. According to Google, all of europe is only double the population of just USA.
I've been visiting HN for quite a few years now, but somehow this is my first encounter of a topic on Pharo. The language seems interesting to me, so I am glad it was posted today.
This 512-Year-Old Greenland Shark Is the Oldest Living Vertebrate on the Planet
CD-ROM, CD-R, CD-RW, Books of Red, Blue, Purple, Beige, Orange, Scarlet
I am really curious if this would actually work. I also think if you trust a reviewer and it turns out they are a bad reviewer than your trust rating should lower. (you turned out to be a bad reviewer reviewer)

That said I have no idea if this would. Seems those 87k people mentioned above would just trust each other to raise their trust ratings.
The best way I know right now is to follow authors people trust like TJ or Sindre Sorhus, or to check on lists like https://bestofjs.org/

Which is a shame and shouldn't be happening, since newer authors (such as myself) are heavily disadvantaged from this method.
Except not every patient can be fixed. Doctors would be incentivized not to take on really sick patients or those with mystery illnesses.
Plus, bike shop employees are usually very passionate and genuinely interested in your best interest, at least around here, which is not the norm with other businesses. If you're happy with your bicycle, you'll keep using it, and that's more business.
From Prime Numbers to Nuclear Physics and Beyond (2013)
WSL is one of the features which has seen major improvement from the updates in the past 12 months.
Maybe not platform per se, but through your domain. There's a huge power in that (as gatekeeper of content). It means department's have no choice but to adhere to the standards and recommendations.

The exemplar projects in the Australian system were discontinued after the second round, and were really just lip-service -- at the end of the day, even the exemplar projects were at the mercy of internal Departmental IT operations who ultimately decided what went on to their Departmental domains.
"Recently" was — conservatively — thirty or forty years ago.
Having had to work on a locked down linux (stupid corporate rules) system for the last couple of months the dedication to user freedom sounds enticing: https://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/community/weblogs/ArneBab/... . As a user being able to install packages without root and start my own services and mount network drives without root would make my life a lot easier.
Two things: First, he covered that by saying searching by brand still had his "real" search results on page 2. Second, maybe you're super young, but Amazon used to be "good stuff", not just "hey, let's compete with eBay, on their level." What if you actually don't know the difference between "good" arrows and "bad" arrows? It used to be that Amazon had already made that call for you.

Amazon used to be the place you bought from without effort. "Of course Amazon's going to give me the best item for the best price" was the ubiquitous mindset.

Now the Amazon brand name is garbage (to me). Their prices are so mercurial you can't rely on them being even "average" and odds are they're even predatory (since it's just some random guy setting his selling price, not amazon nor MSRP).

"Fool and His Money" capitalism rules the Amazon Marketplace.

It's the worst part of eBay without the low expectations and transparency.
Except when sellers game the system and flood it with fake reviews, it’s pretty strongly suggestive that this isn’t a grassroots shift in consumer preferences.

Relatedly, if someone else can make a business out of helping your customers sort out fake reviews on your site, like Fakespot has, it pretty clearly means either there’s something wrong with your site or you don’t care about the sham reviews because they still drive business for you.
I think they could have. Most people need a car to get from A to B. They take the cheapest one in most cases.
Kodak was larger than the entire digital camera industry currently is, by almost 3x, $31 billion[1] in 1993 dollars which is 31 billion in 54 billion in 2018 dollars[2].

The entire digital camera industry was worth about 18 billion in 2017[3]

Even if they captured 100% of the market (which would have been basically completely impossible), it would have been a massive disaster for them as a company, and to the hundreds of thousands of people they employed in photo processing.

[1] https://www.photosecrets.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-kodak

[2] http://www.in2013dollars.com/1993-dollars-in-2018?amount=310...

[3] https://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/4514578/digital-c...
You don't normally need to trust their judgement as long as they aren't straight up lying. As long as they are making an attempt at being truthful, you just have to try to evaluate their review from their perspective.

E.g, Janet says product X works really well and she loves it, but you know she likes them with a certain feature that you don't like. therefore you should stay away because the product probably has that feature you don't like
I imagine automatic reputation building for socket puppets will be right next on the market after such change.

People used to pay a premium for people that got out of their way and found the actually good stuff. Nowadays it's just more lucrative to build some trust and use it to defraud people as soon as possible.

I don't know where this path leads, but it's not looking nice.
You're just not working and trying hard enough to get your ideas off the ground. It's s vast amount of work.

Yoda knows:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_tYQRP4QWM
I wonder if you preserved the design, had higher tolerance parts, and better QA during production, would you then have a competitive product?
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