skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can still find those types of sites if you want.

You can. And I made that point myself. The issue is the signal to noise ratio and the way search engines rank sites. Finding those gems I described above have become harder than it used to (in my personal opinion)

> less corruption

I very much disagree that there’s less corruption now the web has taken off. Or at least if there is, I disagree it’s directly related to stuff getting published on the web.

> email and IM connecting people around the world like never before

Email and IM have existed long before the web (decades before in emails case), nevermind being available around the period of the early web that we were talking about.

> just focusing on negatives like fab, Twitter, etc creates a very one dimensional picture

I totally agree.

The reason it was written that as was because I wanted to offer a counterbalance to the previous post rather than a balanced and impartial commentary. However you’re right that the reality is somewhere between the two arguments.

> I actually thing that’s a bad thing

I think you’ve completely misunderstood my point because you’re arguing the same point I made with using language that suggests I was opposed to those points you’re making.

Also you seem to be confusing “web” with “internet” in some of your previous remarks and also suggesting I’m totally against the web in its entirety; neither of those points are true (in fact I’m very much pro-web)
Does anyone have details on the "speculation" tax? Do any other regions use similar taxes?
No all hand done
Horowitz and Hill, duh.

Or Peskin and Schroeder if you still need the information from H&H
It is painful where I live on the typical UHF/VHF bands. And even worse if anybody doesn't lie and say they're using a Kenwood/Yaesu/ICOM and instead makes the enormous mistake of mentioning they're working the repeater with a Baofeng.
Subscriptions are the real scam, because one pays a lot more for what turns out to be marginal improvements in very simple software. Wtf would one subscribe to a todo app or a text editor?

When paying for major version upgrades, it's very clear what one is paying for.
But should we be deprived of our instinct? Should we not get to apply our own personal ethics to our lives in the future, for the greater good? Its not a welcome encroachment on free will, even if it may be net positive from an objective view, removing the sense of agencey from humanity may end up hurting us worse.
>Why, necessarily, must human value be remitted by a central authority and its inherent fickleness?

If human worth (I use "worth" because I detest the economism of "value") depends on abilities, there must be some way to collapse the qualitative differences in abilities down to quantitative values, to say that one person is worth more than another means that there is something within them that we can compare, separate from their concrete abilities but abstracted away. In the same way that 20 yards of linen exchange for one coat, although they are qualitatively different, there is a mechanism which allows them to be exchanged.

The translation function must be defined somewhere, but I will admit that it need not be defined by the State, assuming we're not also discussing the notion of rights and justice in relation to abilities. Perhaps I should have said "(subjective ones imposed by an authority, either the authority of the State or the authority of the market)". In my view, the authority of capital is just as pernicious (if not moreso in some circumstances) as the authority of the state.

>why does belief in predetermined value, cause a belief that the State should suddenly take charge of measuring value and doling out its consequences?

I said it "very easily leads to", I didn't mean to say it's a necessity. However law is based on principles, and if the times replace the principle of equality with the principle of pre-determined worth then the laws will surely reflect that.

>How does believing that people's potential wealth is predetermined, change things?

We weren't talking about wealth, we were talking about the worth of a person. I do not mean that in economic terms. Mental and physical abilities are useful for much more than producing things of economic value, and for the great majority of human history they haven't been directed to producing things of economic value.

> different and diverse abilities to produce economic value; and as a result they come to possess diverse quantities of wealth

The qualitative diversity of abilities is not logically linked to the quantitative amount of wealth.
Yes, we switched to media. Easier to distribute.

I was on a flight and noticed a large number of modern war movies produced in China. They were quite like American "Blackhawk down" or "12 strong". Clearly meant to demonstrate the professionalism and ingenuity of their army vs the rest of the world.
perhaps I wasn't clear.

I completed all of the courses for the major, with the exception of CS101, introduction to computer programming. I took many classes that ostensibly had a prerequisite on CS101, including additional nonrequired courses that could have easily been substituted for CS101. Nonetheless, as you say, it was "necessary for [me] to actually complete the major" by going back after taking CS4xx to complete CS101. Was this a required part of the major? yes. Was it a valuable part to be required without exception? Maybe, but I tend to not think so.

> I don't see anything in your response about success

"Not graduating" is a pretty clear way in my mind to "not succeed." I indicated that compliance to authority in my experience was necessary for graduation, which implies that it was necessary for success, does it not?

> graduating at or near the top of your class

ok?
Historically, stock appreciation made a big difference too. (Google doubled in the last five years and quadrupled in the last ten.) Though you can't count on that going forward.
I asked a friend who works for a government agency what that agency does. He replied by saying that like any good bureaucracy, it's first just was to perpetuate itself. I found that both sad and amusing.
It's definitely just a tool, and not a magic bullet. I too think it's a pretty good tool for the kind of enterprise talked about in the OP though.

I also agree with the OP (and you) that forced rotation of leadership is a great idea, for a variety of reasons.

But to be sure, starting a small retail business and succeeding is hard no matter what. And starting a _collective_ enterprise is hard no matter what too (for different 'political' reasons, even if it has no budget).
Yes. Just google for stuff like 95 CRI or high CRI bulbs. They are a bit more expensive than normal bulbs though. Some examples of good ones:
https://www.waveformlighting.com/home-residential
https://www.mueller-licht.de/
And surprisingly IKEA Ledare bulbs are pretty good too (although not as good as the ones above)
Not only that, Windows 10 requires multiple reboots during the OS upgrade, then it still requires some processing on the first user log-in after the upgrade.

I have no idea how MS implemented the OS upgrade process this bad.
Yellow Pages may have been good for finding local services of various types, but it was also useful for retrieving the entire password database for offline inspection. Sun eventually improved their online presence and security, and renamed Yellow Pages to Network Information Services after losing a lawsuit by British Telecom.

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

Jordan Hubbard has YP to thank for the infamous "rwall incident" of 1987:

https://everything2.com/title/Jordan+K.+Hubbard
The process absolutely involves skill and intelligence and most of it is not tedious. Doing a few sample questions, trying to solve a quadratic is not 'tedious', for example. Neither is coding your first little program.
That's only really useful in key exchange scenarios (DH/ECDH). A lot of implementations use RSA or similar to directly encrypt packets of information, though it's generally not recommended for reasons such as this.
Seconded. I am very careful to make sure that I don't spend money unexpectedly in apps, and it can be pretty difficult. I'm all for any guidelines or regulations that make knowing when I'm going to be charged more explicit.
I fear we understand genetics only relatively better than we understand phrenology...
I eventually discovered lynx as well (or maybe it was elinks that I used first?) which ended up being a pretty big help in these situations.

But yeah, it definitely was a scary way of doing things. I spent pretty much an entire summer repeatedly screwing up my Debian machine and having to reinstall before I understood enough things to be slightly less dangerous. (Running "ed" by accident was memorably awful... Good luck figuring out how to quit out of ed if you're brand new to Linux.) Luckily I kept my important stuff on a separate hard drive which I left unplugged in situations like these. My main drive just contained my windows and linux partitions, and I would be damned if I was going to reboot into to windows to look things up. :-D
If you like stuff like this I recommend searching "FUI" on Pinterest[0]. It gives you some great ideas, and people have already created awesome boards[1].

[0]: https://www.pinterest.com/search/pins/?q=fui

[1]: https://www.pinterest.com/akupunkturgurke/fui/
It's a corporation. "limited liability" is part of the basic idea of a corporation, right?

The _board_ will be individually liable for gross negligence or criminal malfeasance, same as any corporate board. The members are no more liable than shareholders in any other corporation, ie virtually none. (Beyond losing their equity completely, of course).
Perhaps, but the answer to this is the platform having support for the correct model. Right now the only way for the developer to get paid in the iOS App Store is to do what Omnifocus (among many others) has done. If Apple's purchase model had evolved from its beginnings in 99¢ flashlight apps, the customers wouldn't have to be confused.
RFC8484:DNS Queries Over HTTPS (DoH)
I’m annoyed about 1Blocker coming out with 1Blocker X a couple weeks after I bought the app. And now, even though 1Blocker works fine, they updated it to spam me anytime I open it with adverts about their new program. I understand it costs money to develop but I literally just paid them.
Dutch company gives 9 Syrian refugees a job: None return after first week
I don't think it's this. It's more like they got bullied into this by the media, Apple and the tech community.

For years people sang about the many vulnerability of Windows at every turn. IOS spat out new features at a steady pace.

On the other hand, MS had to support the ever growing list of Windows versions and their incompatibilities - slowing down their rate of development.

The tech community was singing the praise of Lean and MVP.

Everyone loved to shit on IE for holding back the web. While praising Chrome for being chrome - having only one version to support.

And somewhere along the line, Google got the bright idea to remove the ability to disable Chrome's automatic update.

Add all these factors and more that I didn't mention and you'll see how MS came to the forced update decision.

Lest I forget, Nadella saw how he could fire Microsoft testers, reduce expenses and raise stock price with a forced update stroke. Irresistible.
>> It will last a decade.

As long as you're not adding any unnecessary additional load to it, I don't see why it wouldn't last even longer than a decade.
Op here. Thank you for creating mio! Your project clearly deserves the attention. I just found it and thought it would belong here. A lot of people seem to share that opinion :)

I am sure this won't be the last top HN post about one of your projects.

Perfect is the enemy of good.
> It turns out that, sometimes, leaders who have dedicated their lives to problem X really do know better than people who have succeeded in the business world.

I often cringe when I see non-education folks trying to tackle the problem of education in classroms by "automating" or pushing video courses. Solving the issue of education is far more than what's IN the classroom (Here in Jersey we had Abbot districts which gave more to low income schools, it's failed). While supplies are a big problem, more is to do with environment. Having done teaching in a low income district (every single prospective teacher should do this) and an upper middle-class district the difference was stark. I had kids in 1st grade who could not even tie shoes or zipper jackets, let alone have a pencil.
"...while his app offered real value -- unlike many of the other apps caught in this App Store review change..."

Does anyone else find this comment as highly dubious and scummy as I do? Because it definitely feels to me like Mr. Koetsier isn't reporting objectively about a user-focused policy change, but rather just telling us that he's upset because his friend's subscription scam didn't work out thanks to Apple actually policing its Store in the users' favor.
As one more comment, because I've made the same mistake in the past, it is often a bad idea to use the length in the initialization vector of a general purpose hash because it means you can't make an incremental version of the hashing algorithm e.g. a stream of data of unknown size. This is a trivial change but it has side effects in how you pad partial blocks.

If the length is not part of the initialization vector, then the padding vector for partial blocks should vary as a function of partial data length. Otherwise it is trivial to create collisions by having partial blocks of different sizes that mimic the padding vector. Fixing this can be as easy as using _mm_set1_epi8(partial_length) as your padding vector.
I wonder what a culture centered around non-violent communication might lead to, since it was developed to address issues with gangs.
One of the cause is that Windows by default does not allow you to remove or replace opened files. So to update anything you have to close all applications holding an handle to it.
Objections from sibling comments aside, roughly ‘everyone’ who has compared coffees for taste feels Starbucks is ‘overroasted’.

Curious then why Starbucks doesn’t adjust.

Is it something in the scale manufacturing, such as, more margin for error in the overroasted side, so taste will be the same signature burnt at every Starbucks in the world?

Is it that their market is former fast food coffee drinkers used to bland and burnt drips from McDonalds who will try a Starbucks, find it so ‘robust’ (ahem) as to be obvious, and that’s the end of the experimentation?

There has to be a data driven reason.
Lots of updates include security updates. You're saying I should choose to be less secure so I don't have to pay for an app? That's asinine.
Windows Update and Telemetry made me switch from a Windows 10 + VMWare setup to a Linux + KVM setup for my desktop. The new setup has its flaws, but it works much better than Windows overall. Windows Update is terrible.
Well there’s a simple response to that... don’t upgrade. No one is forcing you to.
I had a really authoritarian teacher that insisted to learn whatever I wanted and show 2 months later what I made. I learned iOS programming and sold an iphone app in that course and got a 90% grade.

I had another really authoritarian teacher that insisted to follow the book by the letter. I got a 75% grade, I was sad I was aiming for 55% as a signal to say that he was a terrible authoritarian.

Clearly authoritarian teachers should be the former, not the latter. However, some of my classmates begged to differ the exact opposite.

Interestinglt enough, these are all true stories. I wish they were hypothetical.
I created a system that can beat the stock market. Have been testing it for a long period of time and it works. I worked on configuring it better to notice corrections and be adaptable for different portfolio sizes. When the $SPY took a dip this time from $292 to $270, it was really accurate and people with all kinds of account sizes would have been able to take advantage. Now to market my service more.

Waiting for $SPY to crack $275.20 for more puts.

www.marketgodfathers.com
Scanning for breached accounts with k-Anonymity
Very well put sir! I'll carry 'the photo and the negative' analogy with me for the rest of my life.
She has a restaurant opening near me next spring. I suspect it will do very well.
Now here’s a guy who’s going to be eaten by a Tyrannosaur some day.
You are defending Microsoft's decision to force updates, but as the title says, what drives users away is not that decision but its implementation.
Android’s new multitasking is terrible and should be changed back
You might be interested in his blog on the same subject a few days ago:
https://lemire.me/blog/2018/10/16/validating-utf-8-bytes-jav...
This thing is really impressive. Never thought I'd see music visualizations (which seem to have gone the way of the dodo) running at 144Hz on my Linux box. I remember the first versions of this, you've made a lot of progress! Your visualizations are really interesting to look at, and they don't have the aliasing artifacts that most visualizations of the time had, I like it.

One thing that doesn't seem to work correctly is importing a whole album: The songs are added out of order, even if the file names sort in the correct order, and the tags are present.
>Trust journalists with a good track record

Do these journalists work for large mainstream media corporations that are all owned by a shockingly small number of partisans, by any chance?
Why not cryptographically sign videos from officials?
Eh, I do see his point though. I've been in a similar situation myself due to a transfer once in the past where, due to university requirements, I had to take a module that I was uh, "overqualified" for to fulfill major requirements.

I don't quite agree with his overall conclusion that university education is pure compliance off of this one gripe though. Moreover, I do believe that many universities allow you to bypass certain module via a test / some other demonstration.
goddamn it, I just spent a fair amount of time getting xxhash to work.. now I need to reevaluate lol
Speaking of deleting data, why does Windows leave so much post-update garbage?
Intel, Micron May Officially Part Ways on 3D XPoint Memory Tech Soon (Updated)
> Frankly on windows this is AFAIK a mostly-unheard-of technique. No one does mapping.

Really? Most larger (Windows) codebases I know of use memory mapping.
> The Windows Update system is engineered so that individual updates can be selected/deselected without affecting the ability to install other updates.

This could be me being completely ignorant of the details, but doesn't Linux have the same thing? I can individually apply package updates, even mess with dependencies -- but my computer updates quickly and doesn't require multiple restarts during the process. Usually, unless I'm updating the kernel itself, I don't even need to restart.

What are they doing that's even more granular than Linux's update process?
Did anyone else notice the tag line at the bottom of the site? "Cast. Play. Sell"

Has it always been that? If not, does this signal a new direction for the winamp product that includes a streaming service?
Windows Update is based on packages, which can be installed or not installed and depend on other packages and also conflict with packages. Unlike Linux packages, these packages act more like ... patches, I guess. I think Windows Update spends most of its CPU time on building and solving a big dependency graph.
If we believe something to be true, it's because we believe it reflects how things are.

If I believe it is true that the world is flat then someone may reasonable ask what the basis is for that belief.

Give me an example of a belief with no basis at all.
I put these lights through the house.

https://ausmalltech.com.au/products/yeelight-smart-led-ceili...
We are working on Doqume (http://doqume.com)

It is an enterprise search engine which departs from traditional keyword-based search in order to provide an easier way to run complex, semantic queries on huge collections of text documents.

Why it's cool: image a pharmaceutical research task, where you need to find all documents mentioning drugs that interact with a specific class of diseases. In a normal setting, you would need to first research which drugs satisfy your condition and then either build a boolean OR query or probably query them one by one. Doqume saves you this hassle, because it allows to express conditions like "drugs that interact with infectious disease" with a simple user interface. As a result, you can get both the items that match your conditions (i.e., in the example, all the drugs that we know interact with the class of diseases that you specified) and the documents that match the query (e.g., recent research articles mentioning those items). The approach is not specific to pharma and you can easily build queries that span across several domains (e.g., "cities with more than 1M inhabitants", "USA companies with more than X employees", "singers who are born in Chicago", etc...).

If you want to give it a try you can see a demo with this query building capability at http://doqume.com/search.html
Will Tech Leave Detroit in the Dust?
I don't think it will have much effect.

Non-violent communication practicing communities find their own ways to split into fractions -- for it's the clash of egos, ideas, aims, and private interests that create conflict, and those won't disappear by decision or fiat to avoid them.
Because updates can be rolled back. At least, in theory.
I know the conversation is around University... but tedium seemed to be a hallmark, maybe the keystone, of the public schools I attended.
> "Frankly on windows this is AFAIK a mostly-unheard-of technique. No one does mapping."

Unheared by you.

In a world consumed by Electron apps and Javascript, lots of people couldn't care any less about performant IPC, sharing data across processes, and multiprocessing in general.
Except that the error function is not differentiable.
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Microsoft actually stopped offering invidiual updates two years ago, citing high complexity and slow update scan times as problems. Instead, they moved to monthly rollup patches that supersede all previous updates.

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/Windows-for-IT-Pros-M...
I'm starting a home school center of sorts with my wife and looking into establishing it as a 501.d apostolic community because it's the only non-profit classification we found that doesn't require some kind of structure.

We prefer to play with decentralized voluntary forms of organization. Would love to get in touch with your friend, especially since we're trying to do things using a "give what you can that we need" business model.
Pretty predictable result when you decide your company no longer needstesters because companies like facebook don’t have them.
Eh, why Pandora's box? It's true I didn't give tons of details though.

...Is there any other option than Linux for a server OS? Like, practically? I know there are a bunch of others but speaking about everyday classic needs... is there really a choice?

Budget -- I never did mind paying $1000 instead of $150 but it has to be worth it. I don't want to sheepishly buy the latest and greatest, especially after seeing many times in my programming career how a very modest machine (when properly tuned) can be a very decent server that can last you all the way until you need rented dedicated servers in several data centers.

(Example: I gave up on the idea of an OpenVPN server on an RPi 3 after making a research on the expected bandwidth. It would be too small.)

Thanks for the recommendations! Writing them down (not joking).
Is it using an SSD? Your graphics card is irrelevant. Most of your processor is irrelevant. If you use Windows 10 on a classic hard drive, you're going to have a bad time.