skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Here's a part of the answer. They surround themselves with the trappings of power. They know how to "speak" the nonverbal language of power, how to do it well, and they never fail to do it.

That is probably some huge fraction of it, right there.
> Unfortunately, the (software) patent system does not distinguish between people actually innovating and rent-seekers. Patents very explicitly give their owners broad rights to shut down any use of their patented inventions through injunctions.

That's sometimes the case for software patents in general, but not for patents tied to a standard like MPEG-G, where the point is to get people to pay for being compatible. I've looked at a couple of the MPEG-G patents, and if you're infringing the MPEG-G patent it's probably because you're actually using MPEG-G without paying for it, not because you happened to independently recreate the same thing.
This is not the substantive commentary we're here for, so could you please not?
Feedly, works pretty well for my use case (I heavily rely on the iOS app since I tend to read news while on the go).
Thanks for the info, this will be really useful. :)
Reminds me of the Stupid Watergate "series" (2 episodes) from John Oliver's Last Week Tonight:

1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVFdsl29s_Q

2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOVPStnVgvU
Thanks for pointing that out - it's something I wouldn't need in production but logging is always useful for debugging.
Don't see how this will work without checking for control characters, surrogates and chars above 0x10000 (try 𝄞 for instance)
This is an old argument, covering well-trod ground.

Somewhere in the ocean there's an island with only one colony of ants.

In that colony, there's a little ant-Enrico Fermi, doing little ant-things, writing in little ant-journals, wondering little ant-thoughts, including "Where are they?"

You have to bring a great amount of hubris to bear on this problem to reach any kind of conclusions. After all, we only have an example of one Earth, with one species of humans on it. I'm not sure we'd know what an alien was if one were standing next to us (metaphorically, perhaps actually). We have no common frame of reference to reason about such things. The best we can do is string together a lot of terms representing concepts through multiplication. This gives us the unsurprising result that lots of things multiplied by each other tend to get either really large or really small really quickly.

The question Fermi asked was a truly profound one. It was profound because it points the finger back at us, asking just what do we really know about the entirety of universe we live in?

It's a great question. We will be fortunate to see little tiny pieces of the answer in our lifetimes.
> It’s not bad everywhere. Houston, the fourth-most-populous city in the nation, has cut its homeless population in half since 2011, in part by creating more housing for them. That’s dampened the effect of rising rents, Zillow found.

This seems like a quick and practical solution that would provide effective assistance while more nuanced factors like mental health are debated about. Why aren't more cities increasing the housing supply given the obvious benefits of doing so?
Das Kapital
I have watched a few of his videos through my partner being a bit lonely without a job since we started living in a new country without knowing anyone.

He does a great job of being conversational and mostly positive. It definitely gives lonely people a boost.

Plus he took a chance at the right time and to paraphrase Peter Thiel “why compete with the herd and try to squeeze through a tiny window? Just walk around and go through the large gate no one has noticed or thought glamorous enough”.

The world is littered with pretty good videographers, Casey is a pretty good one that walked through the big YouTube gate instead. Now their are countless sheep following suit.
No, if you're a news organization you can't say things because you believe it. That's the point.
> This is just provably false

Utah is not an example that proves anything. It's a fairly unusual area when talking about this problem. Utah's entire population is less than Los Angeles.

The claim that 91% of Utah's homeless population was abated is somewhat suspicious, given the remaining 14k would mean they had a previous 155k+ - which outstrips the homeless count of most major cities (including Los Angeles). This is not as cut an dry as "make more housing" because that isn't demonstrated. Certainly not with numbers that are all over the place.
You can't just throw a house at someone and expect everything to be alright. You need to give these people support to return to functioning lives. A lot of those free houses would end up trashed.
That's fine - non-quantitative (a.k.a. "gut") reasoning is a valid and useful cognitive tool (in certain contexts), in fact.

If I was to give a "gut" estimate for the overall deterioration of the subway service in recent years, though -- I'd peg it at closer to 30 or 40 percent than merely 20.
It is a really annoying read. If there is really something to FEP you certainly won't find it on this article. If you can't explain something so that a ten year old can understand it, you don't really know it. According to this article no one really knows FEP. But the worst of it is the subjectivity of Friston's approach. He likes routine. He gets all out of sorts if his regular activity is disrupted. He doesn't like surprise, so he concludes the answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything is avoiding surprise. Very self serving. Well guess what, there are plenty of people (and other organisms too!) that like surprises! And they do quite well, thank you. With out an appreciation and actual inclination to seek out surprises the drive to exploration would be snuffed out. Without that drive new habitats and opportunities are left untapped and wasted. It's fine that he doesn't like surprises. That doesn't make it a good basis for AI consciousness or to explain living creatures in general.
If you believe that changes to society can only be made through government action: yes, everything is political. If you reject that assumption, you may think differently.
The main cause of hum in both tube and solid state amps are ground loops that pick up the 50/60hz signal of nearby AC appliances and wiring. These can be caused by grounding problems in the amp, the instrument, or even the cables.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground_loop_(electricity)
From what I have read, Utah's ability to pull that off is tied to the strong influence of the Mormon church there and its institutions. So it's probably not readily replicable in other US states.
I think a lot of folks don't realize most real and hard science is done with radio waves. The tech is often associated with antiquated devices for music and news of erras by gone, but scientifically speaking, radio waves are pretty high tech. Electromagnetic Radiation has it's own brand problems though. We really new words not associated with early use cases.
Klavarskribo music notation
I'm not the person you're directly replying to but I'm the guy who originally asked the question at the top level, and I can say your needs right now are far bigger than mine. Right now my 5-container Dokku host has 4GB of RAM with 2 CPUs, but we're expecting to ramp up quickly.

It's good to hear your input as I expect to be a similar size to you in a year or two. Far from irrelevant. I'll have to look into it.
> ... rely on near/far vision systems developed by Intermec and other companies to read a code the size of a postage stamp from up to 150 meters away.

Does anyone know of these super long range scanners (e.g, 150 m)?

Looking through Honeywell's products, the Granit 1280i [1] claims 16.5 m, which is impressive but not the 150 m mentioned above. I'm curious how aiming is even possible with what I would assume to be an incredibly narrow field of view.

[1]: https://www.honeywellaidc.com/products/barcode-scanners/indu...
I've updated it to use a hashtable and the tests run quite a lot faster
>Dealing with everything else (mental health issues, drug addiction, etc.) can be dealt with separately, and will be vastly easier without having the fundamental problem of homelessness.

But you can turn this around as well: just move "homelessness" to the list, and mark something else as fundamental:

>Dealing with everything else (mental health issues, homelessness, etc.) can be dealt with separately, and will be vastly easier without having the fundamental problem of drug addiction.
Rebar makes buildings a lot stronger, but also has the unfortunate property of rusting. That makes it less strong and expands it, damaging other parts of the structure. It also is more or less everywhere.

Also, modern buildings often are designed for a given economical lifetime. If you order a structure that can be maintained for 50 years at $1M a year, that’s what you will get. You likely can keep it standing for centuries, but at ever-increasing maintenance costs.

On the other hand, we are building so much that, statistically, something will be standing thousands of years from now.
An article I read awhile ago addressed an interesting correlation between transistor process size, the physical size of the dram module and the expected failure rates.

"As transistor sizes have shrunk, they have required less and less electrical charge to represent a logical bit. So the likelihood that one bit will "flip" from 0 to 1 (or 1 to 0) when struck by an energetic particle has been increasing. This has been partially offset by the fact that as the transistors have gotten smaller they have become smaller targets so the rate at which they are struck has decreased.

More significantly, the current generation of 16-nanometer circuits have a 3D architecture that replaced the previous 2D architecture and has proven to be significantly less susceptible to SEUs. Although this improvement has been offset by the increase in the number of transistors in each chip, the failure rate at the chip level has also dropped slightly. However, the increase in the total number of transistors being used in new electronic systems has meant that the SEU failure rate at the device level has continued to rise."

[1] https://phys.org/news/2017-02-particles-outer-space-wreaking...
> It’s not bad everywhere. Houston, the fourth-most-populous city in the nation, has cut its homeless population in half since 2011, in part by creating more housing for them. That’s dampened the effect of rising rents, Zillow found.

It's not just intuition, there's evidence to support it. I think building more housing is the quickest and more bipartisan solution, since tax and spending changes are magnets for political drama.
Sure, I was a part of the huge Sydney protest, carrying a poster listing the names of about a dozen chemical weapons the US had sold to Iraq, under the title "Where did Saddam get his weapons?"

I was talking about size of the story. (e.g. If the US kills 3,000 people in a far-off country, no biggie. However, 9/11 was a huge story.) The Australian media was largely, as usual around those times the US is preparing to invade somewhere or mid-doing it, echoing mainstream US TV opinion. Well, a lot of those US shows are shown here too. There was a lot of soul searching in the US about the extremely troubling Abu Ghraib scandal, which went on for some time, and left some kind of permanent mark. The protests were covered when they happened, but I don't think they produced the same moral....pseudo-crisis at all, and quickly disappeared. They could be ignored.
The corruption back then was staggering. LBJ had attorneys flying money in briefcases back to Texas. Plus the fig leaf if his wife’s radio station purchase, which attracted all sorts of advertising from folks looking for favors.
Will Lockheed Martin Change the World with Its New Fusion Reactor?
> NYC subway fares are insanely cheap compared to the rest of the (developed) world. $2.75 single for any distance is incredibly low.

Europe isn't the only "developed world," mate. My morning commute in Hong Kong (which is roughly the same distance as Brooklyn to the LES or, say, King's Cross to Paddington) costs around $0.50. I can go all the way to mainland China for ~$3.00.

$2.75 is roughly the maximum fare in Tokyo (where an unlimited day pass can be had for $5.25), and $3.00 in Seoul will take you 145 kilometers away.
Literally the first definition of "guy" is "a man". "Guy" is only gender neutral when you're referring to a group of people.
Yes, and most people are not aware that there are multiple barcode standards, even with 1D barcodes. Ask anyone what the difference is between Interleaved 2of5, Code 39, Code128, UPC/EAN, PostNet, etc. and they'll be hard-pressed to identify any of the distinguishing characteristics that are immediately obvious to the trained eye.
The science fiction writer Vernor Vinge was prescient. In his novels one of the nicknames for the intra-galactic inter-net is "the web of 1000 lies".
> UFO‐spotters, Raelian cultists, and self‐certified alien abductees notwithstanding, humans have, to date, seen no sign of any extraterrestrial intelligent civilization. [...] If large telescopes, NASA satellites, and omplicated mathematical data analysis are involved, it becomes harder for outside observers to mistake the work for the ramblings of UFO‐nuts and other crackpots.

The author makes it clear that for a serious scholar "UFOs" can a priori only be a subject of ridicule.
Stock Market’s Slide Is Flashing a Warning About the Economy
Elon Musk's marijuana puff prompts safety review from NASA
Sorry, I can't help much with the dev board side of things. I mostly work on sw these days, and the fpgas we use at work are some of the largest you can buy (stratix 10). I can ask around at work if that would help.
I had this exact idea about a year ago: https://github.com/lf94/blots

Basically: cheap consumer printers suck. Don't bother.
White guy comes and teaches backward Indians what the right way of doing things. Right? I mean can't this monkey shut up and not make shitty political statements wherever he goes?
Show HN: A new type of CV for the connected world – RemoteCV
Forrester Research[1] is a competitive alternative to Gartner but I think the OP is asking about research firms in general, not specifically Gartner.

[1] https://go.forrester.com/
That looks really interesting. I've never used any high-level languages, though, so I can't comment. Most of the fpga developers I know somewhat despise those higher-level languages since you lose a lot of the control you have writing the HDL. They also tend to take up a lot more resources in terms of gates and memory, but things may have gotten better.
Living in Amsterdam, it is very rare to encounter homeless people or panhandlers. It wasn't always this way -- so I really credit the policy designers. They build these really cute social housing centers for a range of subsidized apartments -- and always include a petting zoo in the middle because, I guess, it saves money in the end. Doing nothing is way more expensive.
Understood, I just haven't kept up with Polymer, or that much with the VDOM features in the browser, just know that a lot of those featers have started landing cross browser, and assumed that Polymer was keeping up.

I do think that if not Polymer specifically, something similar will win in the end eventually... probably something between React and Polymer. Of course Polymer will be a better model working with HTTP2 features and js modules. It'll likely come down to who gets the tooling stories worked out, or if the browsers themselves catch up first.
Just because someone is frequently an asshole doesn't mean they're an asshole 100% of the time.
This was the motivation behind what I tried to make: https://github.com/lf94/blots
Virality seems to be correlated with things that evoke emotions. Breaking expectations can trigger emotions such as awe, shock, curiosity and anger. Other things go viral too, such as things that make us laugh or make us feel happy. To focus on just breaking expectations is missing the point.
Roads have a marginal cost near zero.
I agree with most of what you state, but the prohibition of AI is impossible. How could you stop nations from researching it secretly? How could you stop the Amazons and Baidus?
I see some sort of assumption in your comment that I should be bonding with people I work with -- and by "bonding" I mean stepping outside the of work relationships. I don't aim for that. If it happens naturally, I welcome it. But I don't actively pursue it.

But your assumptions are mostly false: I've actively brainstormed and planned with people in voice-only sessions -- and they rarely exceeded 25-30 minutes. And that went on and on for the 1-year contract, every week or two, and only once did we have trouble getting a message across.

Building trust can take anywhere from 2 to 8 weeks if you are a down-to-earth productive programmer -- which I am. Not sure where your multi-year idea of building trust comes from?

I am not attacking you. But I can't stand behind this very widely believed legend that face-to-face trumps everything. That's provably false in literally half my work relationships during my 17-year-long career.

When people have common vision and are working honestly for the interests of their employer -- and are professionals -- things go pretty smoothly and the machine gets oiled fast.
I think John Bell discovered his revolutionary Bell's theorems of quantum mechanics in a similar way.

I can't find it now in a quick search, but I remember reading that he thought every physicist should devote something like 10% of their time thinking about the foundations of physics/quantum mechanics. (What would he do with 100% of his time?)
its generous for me to say I'm an org-mode power user or whatever. My lists are fairly basic and this VSC one covers those basics.

I can't see a lot of people who use emacs for other things switching away.

This is the one I'm using --

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=tootone....
But containers and cloud don't necessarily go together.

It took me barely five minutes to convince my boss we shouldn't move everything to the cloud — a quick estimate on the AWS calculator was enough.

But he's still keen to try Kubernetes. I think we can improve our deployment process (currently custom scripts) and introduce genuine load balancing, but there's a big increase in complexity. The custom scripts aren't very long, I suspect we'll need at least the same amount of configuration for Kubernetes, plus we add Kubernetes itself.

He's hoping for more ops understanding/interest from developers, and which is probably reasonable, but at the cost of less understanding of the whole system from the ops staff. I think there's some CV-driven-development too.

Step 1 will have to be us documenting what we expect to achieve from Kubernetes, and how we will measure achievement.
In the late 1980s I attended a talk at a political gathering in San Francisco. The speaker asked the audience members to think about the scores of homeless people they saw walking to the event. The speaker then made a statement that I'll never forget:

"This is what a modern depression looks like."

When most people think of a Depression, the image that comes to mind is black-and-white photos of mobs of people standing in bread lines.

What if 1930s-style depressions are no longer possible? Central banks intervene in every crisis no matter how small, handing out freebies to banks and financial institutions. However, these groups can only spend so much money on themselves. A little gets spent on frivolous crap like vacations, boats, and watches, a lot gets spent on ridiculous startup ideas and other terrible speculations, and the vast majority gets parked in the stock and bond markets where it grows and grows with each new infusion of fake money.

What if modern central banking has made a repeat of the Great Depression impossible?

Consider the possibility that the US has been in the modern equivalent of a Depression since the 1980s. It doesn't feel like a Depression because most people have housing and jobs, and GDP goes up. But focusing on these metrics ignores three very annoying pieces of information:

1. wages have been flat for many years

2. inflation for essential goods/services (housing, health care, child care) has outpaces inflation year after year

3. the homeless problem just keeps getting worse
You can market a 2.75 to $3 fare increase on the convenience of not receiving change.

It’s nearly insignificant.

But I agree with the lead comment. Public transport should be seen as an enabler, and should be made free, or affordable, in order to maximise the benefits.

We spend how much on roads? All from tax payers, and some people don’t own a car. Yet the idea of paying for public transport out of taxes seems to grate some people.
Are... are there people who don't? :O

I haven't ever really worked on Mainframe as such, but I _am_ in the IBM/ERP world, and, well, a program Abends, that's just what it does when it goes South.
Not even sure what else to call it - failed? Errorred out? ...Segfaulted its guts on the ground? :->

(edit: I suppose I should also fess up that we call virtual machines "LPARs" and physical machines "frames" :P )
To whom does you friend have to pay kickbacks, and how much are those?
According to leading economists, the elite Hollywood stars, sports stars, politicians and Silicon Valley elites can all solve this by donating roughly 10% of their wealth, nothing more, nothing less.
But they won't. Instead they polarize the masses by continuing this cancer.
Save money
Wouldn't really help -- the biggest result would be that vendors would have less of a reason to release things under the GPL.
I take issue with your thesis. Every day, I ride to work on the Metro Expo line, which was built on time (actually early) and only delayed opening because a private company couldn't get its shit together and build the rail cars on time.

I'll make the case that, as a nation, we're doing fine with the ability to deliver civil infrastructure projects on time and on budget, and to manage them once they are operational, in those regions where they actually care about their infrastructure. See, e.g., LA Metro, Denver's metro, Cleveland's RTA, our utilities grid post-Enron. These are all things done at a scale and density that have been equaled or exceeded only by authoritarian states.
So why are you posting old news when all this was already taken care off?
Thanks Andrew Cuomo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but the standard model makes no prediction for the masses of any of the fundamental particles. To my knowledge, they are all input parameters. It might put certain bounds on them, but in the end they are all not predicted by the standard model itself.

This is seen as one of the big issues with the standard model, that it does not actually explain a lot of the characteristics of the fundamental particles like their couplings and masses.
Actually, I somehow followed the GPs error: both my post above and the post it responds to use “polyandry” incorrectly, what is described by it is actually “polygyny”. “Polyandry” is relationship with one woman and two or more men.
Perhaps we need a new religion.
Except that most of the wear and tear on our roads isn't caused by people's cars. People pay much more than their fair share of road maintenance via gas taxes etc than the industries that cause the most damage to the roads.

Semis cause 1,400x more wear than cars [1].

[1] https://www.lrrb.org/pdf/201432.pdf
> give people housing.

The population of the tent city in Santa Ana california was an unmitigated disaster for those who took the vouchers and residents. That did not work because the population of people living on the street in Southern California are doing it by choice (be it for the freedom to do drugs, mental illness or other defect). People who want help, generally don't get turned away in high income areas - every single church in the wealthiest areas, have a program and members willing to help those in need.