skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Provider of last resort / "I can do it better"; the argument is generally that private healthcare can do things better/faster/cheaper. So then why not let the infrastructure that serves the active military provide care? Or training for doctors beyond what civilian residency programs provide?
> If the all three measurements of X are smaller than all three measurements of Y, you have X < Y with 95% confidence.

On a multitasking system, you should use the fastest benchmark run (assuming you're running the same code on the same data in all cases, and if you're not then you're not really benchmarking). This will be the one that is least influenced by any other processing going on.
Just a polite reminder that using "butthurt" to mean "resentful"or "angry" paints a picture that is often homophobic and nearly always making light of rape. In my opinion, we should try not to normalize its use any further.
And AOE2!

Yea, it's great to be able to play these great RTS classics again on modern systems!
Windows Store apps are (relatively) sandboxed, and go through an approval process. For the average user, it is generally safe to let them know they can install anything they want off of it. This isn't true of most other places on the Internet, including some more poorly managed walled gardens. I've done a lot of support for senior citizens, and when they're looking for say, a card game, the Windows Store is fantastic.

I use probably about a dozen Windows Store apps with some regularity, though being in IT and dev, I obviously use a lot of apps outside of it as well. But while I rarely will install a traditional app from a no-name developer for fear it might do bad things to my system, I am pretty willing to try new UWP apps.

That's the key perk for someone just starting out/trying to make a living off small software offerings. The sandboxing offers a stand-in for trustworthiness. And of course, you don't have to stand up your own licensing servers, pay for bandwidth from downloads, etc.
Insofar as it's absolutely not what Nike does at all, I suppose you could call it "wrong", yes.
IDK, eating has served me quite well ;)

I think developing a love for reading is really important. I'm not a big reader, but I can usually finish 20+ books a year, half of which are beneficial beyond enjoyment.
Very exciting, but this is very very slow on my x220 compared to xwayland -- running swaywm.
Au contraire. I've seen it first hand several times in my immediate family.
This is good news! I wonder how Ozone on Wayland is going nowadays, as it would be nice to have both Firefox and Chrome booting in Wayland by default.
Yes, I’ve heard they’re prone to gross generalizations out there, and that’s pretty intolerable.
Because it’s become politicized? Well, tech has become incredibly politicized in the last few years. And Assange and WikiLeaks are both political and have played politics.
> I'm pretty sure that you and I both agree that we shouldn't refer to someone else's hard work in that way.

I only said they're not large changes. small != worthless.
I actually don't think this is true. Many computer science students are not only looking for morality in companies but also excitement. Also it's not 250K. Big Tech might give advantage of like +15K. Also, the work is not nearly as exciting. It's safe and cushy, but as a person in their 20s out of college, safe and cushy isn't fun.
Mostly, but not always. Patagonia seems to genuinely follow their mission statement:

"Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis."

https://www.patagonia.com/company-info.html
Doom and Quake where sold as Shareware. Also, Ambrosia Software was flush with cash for a while there in the late 90s and early 00s.
(Jordan from Standard here)

This is a fair initial take, and we should clarify why we think we're improving the social experience. A big part of why Lyft or Uber feels different than taking a cab is that there's no transactional portion of your interaction with the driver. Get into the car, chat a bit, say goodbye, and be on your way. By removing transactional mechanics you can focus on the human element. If you look at the Amazon Go stores, or the Standard Store, you see a similar effect. You walk in, and rather than immediately seeing bulky machines manned by people with the sole intent of transacting, instead you see people walking around chatting and helping you find what you need. They're not there to take your money, they're there to help you, exclusively. That changes the nature of the interaction, and is the experience we're trying to deliver across retail.
Define work
Because you're a complete and total idiot and that comment just proved it.
A stable camera component in iOS,which can help quickly build audio&video module
They would have brand recognition, but it might be of the negative kind. Whereas Ubuntu is a venerable known brand.

Besides, I just suggested one potentil buyer, I want to hear who else besides boring answers like Google.
I'm pretty sure that the previous methods were imperfect, so it wasn't simply that we wanted a "simpler" method, but one that would stand the test of time.
You have to understand most of the above poster(s) are either:

1. Too far gone from reality such that they actually believe this made up drivel they repeat constantly.

2. are of the type who are so privileged to say to these downtrodden men: "Let them eat cake"

I'm going to go with #2 as that is what most of these "feminists" are. They might even write an ironic article calling higher suicide rate amongst men a problem of patriarchy. Reading these comments you realize they have no self awareness.
I'm guessing you've never driven through California.

https://sports.yahoo.com/barbershop-owner-apologizes-says-no...

California is a lot more Red than you think.. I've seen tons of Confederate flags here (which doesn't even make sense).
> I doubt you are actually helping friends at FB find new jobs

I did.

> it's much more likely that you are short FB

I don’t own a single share, nor am I short a single share, of any public company. I play in private companies’ equities and debts. That’s my day job, and it (along with super-safe bonds) are where I put my money. You may be confusing bankers with fund managers.

> you should spend some time thinking about what contributions you investment banker types are making to society

I think about this frequently. Many bankers waste their oxygen. But I don’t think I do.

At best, someone at Facebook might do something I strive to—help bring something new to the world that is good and wouldn’t have otherwise existed. At worst, I lose money. (Never fun, but by legal requirement I can only lose the money of those with very much of it.) At worst, Facebook prompts violent atrocities.
A most simple iOS bridge for communication between Obj-C and JavaScript
Assange should hand the site over to Anonymous, just in case.
Don’t knock it till you try it.
I'm wondering if you have honestly ever been seriously ill or injured.

Because no one is going to haggle properly when they're in unimaginable pain, or when their options are the local far more expensive doctor vs another that's hundreds of miles away, or when the illness is time critical.

People need to stop thinking that somehow price transparency will solve problems that arise from mostly unpredictable circumstances.
This only has 512MB it seems, which is odd because the other models have 1GB.

I didn't know stores sold Pi competitors with 4GB RAM. Do you know of any with pcie and 4+GB RAM? I'd love to have a board with enough SATA and RAM for a decent ZFS setup, and I think I can get a pcie expansion board with SATA to work.
That’s a really awesome idea. Also, maybe a few of the performance boosts in the final combination are mutualistic, but if measured independently would not make a difference.
Just like every Bloomberg article, this is clickbait. Going down 16% in after hours trading is not unusual and words like "Plunge" and "Lackluster" are clearly designed to invoke an emotional response.

I don't understand how articles from this garbage site keep making it to the front page.
Just curious, are you running the development version of sway 1.0, or the older stable 0.15?
I was in Oklahoma for several years of my childhood. Would not recommend for anyone who isn’t a white Christian. Granted, I was in Stillwater, but OKC and Tulsa are only a little better.
I mean this with all possible sincerity, but what gives you the impression that Tulsa would be an exciting place to be? I’ve never been to Tulsa, but my grandfather is from the state. My impression is that outside of OKC and maybe Tulsa, Oklahoma is basically a burnt out husk of a state.
High power RF transmitters are still a notable realm of tubes.
That’s exactly what it is. Thet’re trying to build local business. Do to lack of general development, they have not attracted larger businesses.
I've built a small tool that I distributed as "free for personal use, contact me for a commercial license", without technical enforcement, not even a nag screen.

I made one (1) sale, despite receiving e-mails from several people thanking me that they're happily using it at work, and that sale was to a company who wanted customization, and only ended up actually paying the invoice when they asked for another round of customization and I pointed out that they haven't paid their last invoice.

Donationware does not work for companies, I think - the bureaucracy required to make money move from the company to you will keep people from doing it even if they think you deserve it. If it is labelled as voluntary instead of a legally required license fee, it will also be hard to make it happen.

If you're targeting companies, and want to do a shareware model, you should:

* Make it easy to buy (with credit card etc.), but also provide a contact for volume licensing. If you're lucky, this allows employees to pay you for your software without having to go through approvals.

* Make it hard to use permanently without buying (beyond just a nag screen, e.g. blocking the save feature once an expiration time is reached)

Your goal isn't to convince someone to pay for the software. Your goal is to convince the person sitting in front of the computer that dealing with the bureaucracy to pay you is easier than not dealing with it, and if given the choice between a nag screen and the bureaucracy, the nag screen is easier to deal with.
Other than ADS systems, and the audio and microwave ovens mentioned in the article:

- Huge-ass klystrons used to drive particle accelerators (which themselves can be thought of as the largest vacuum tubes ever made)

- High-power transmitting tubes used in radio and TV broadcasting

- TWTs are still used for some satellite communication work, both on the ground and onboard the space vehicles

- There's still no solid-state substitute for X-ray tubes. Hard to find a semiconductor with a 50,000-volt band gap

- Cesium-beam tubes used for timekeeping (as well as masers used for the same purpose, for that matter), although entire atoms are emitted in those sorts of tubes rather than just electrons

If you don't count fluorescent lamps as "vacuum tubes," those are about all the remaining applications I can think of.
How would you compare his reporting to the likes of CNN and FOX?
Although interesting, the article doesn’t relate to predicting things that haven’t happened yet, just things that aren’t known yet.

When predicting things that haven’t happened yet, a publicized “certain” prediction will inevitably influence the actual probability in an unpredictable way.
They don't need to.
They can advertise to other members of your household, friends or any associates who they have linked that profile to.

Also you could be targeted on any site in their Advertising Network.
In those cases they don't need specifics, just a profile/persona they can target or crosslink your browser fingerprint from like buttons and pixel tracking with a FaceBook user with the same IP address.
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/323628/etymology...
Usually mission statements are crafted to align incentives between employees and customers (or users, if the product you sell to customers is users' attention). The company's mission should focus on what the customer is trying to achieve with the company's product. As the company works toward that mission, customers accomplish their goals, they become dependent upon the product, they fork over lots of money, and the company's revenues rise naturally.

Where this fails is when a company actually achieves its mission. At that point, its original mission is taken for granted, but all of the negative consequences of that mission are suddenly on everyone's mind.

For example, Microsoft's original mission was "A computer on every desk, all running Microsoft software." Throughout the 80s and early 90s, that meant making MS-DOS and Windows easier to use, making Office handle more of the tasks needed for a modern office, and getting distribution deals so that all of these came pre-loaded. Customers benefitted from the increasing computerization, they forked over lots of money, Bill Gates became the richest man on earth. But after around 1998, Microsoft basically succeeded in that, people already had a computer on their desk running Microsoft software, and the biggest problem on their minds was that Microsoft had a stranglehold on PC software and was unfairly killing off new innovations in software.

Google's initial mission statement was "Organize the world's information and make it universally accessible and useful." When search sucked, email sucked, online maps weren't a thing, finding a book meant going to a library, finding an academic paper meant forking over hundreds to Elsevier, and "web browser" meant IE6, this was a huge service to humanity. But then around 2010, they succeeded at all of these, the baseline became "I can find anything I want now", and the huge questions were what kind of information does Google have on us and what sort of nefarious purposes could they use it for?

Facebook's mission was "Make the world a more open and connected place." The world is now a more open and connected place. The result is that people are routinely put in contact with folks whose views they find abhorrent, and that you can influence an election from the other side of the world, and that Facebook has all our personal data. While the world was still cut off from each other, everyone was happy to sign up; now that we're all on one big social network, they're miserable.

Once the mission statement is no longer a problem that needs solving, then the bullshit starts. Without an actual reason for the company to exist or for anyone to do the work they're ostensibly doing, people fall back on "Well, might as well make as much money as we can."
I don't think this holds up. Who leaks information to a journalist and doesn't have some kind of motive for doing so?

Wikileaks actually changes the game on malicious leaks because it won't publish the typical "a high ranking source who wishes not to be named claims that ___" rubbish. Instead, it forces the source to provide the full context of the leak in the form of complete documents.

Think about how much mischief a high ranking official could cause by leaking selective or misleading tidbits to reporters... FWIW it happens all the time for obviously political reasons.

For typical journalists, the relationship with those high ranking sources is a major form of career capital, and so the journalist must accept whatever tidbits are offered, and is incentivized to present them as requested by the source.

In the normal press, leaks are used as propaganda by government officials all the time and journalists play along happily, not caring that they are often spreading propaganda in the form of off the record comments.

WL operates at an entirely different level and demands that sources not engage in mischief and supply the source material in its entirety so that the material can be judged on its own merits.
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Both Carmacks had themselves each a Ferrari before they put out Doom. “Commander Keen” bought those Ferraris.

Though I'm sure it was always a game of chance like everywhere in business.
IMHO, a town has one main street with the majority of businesses on that street. Don't believe any of the bullshit you read about Austin, it's not a town now and it wasn't a town even back in the 1970's.
Sandboxing is a useful property, but do Desktop Bridge apps even get sandboxing? If not it calls the whole thing into question. Android has an app store with mandatory sandboxing and you can't always trust it, even Apple with probably the most strict rules and review process have had some incidents.

I would like sandboxing in general, but as a feature of Windows Store it's definitely not enough to win me personally over.

I still remain unconvinced of the prominence of Windows Store and if I were to sell an app today I would guess mobile is the way to go followed by probably Steam or Mac App Store.

Sidenote: it feels like you're more likely to get annoying ad supported software from app stores too. Even the built-in solitaire is ad-ridden!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentiveness
> The US is in a very weird spot right now with Democratic norms sliding. Once we exit this weird period and US Government returns to normal, lets see how the NYT's stock price fares then.

I don't think the US Government will ever return to what it used to be pre-Trump, and I think its a good thing. One thing we've seen is just how brittle our Republic really is; how much we rely on so many people doing the right thing. I suspect the new wave of younger Congresspersons, who campaigned in an environment with a completely undemocratic and vile POTUS, will be deeply suspicious of unchecked Presidential authority. And I would argue that's a good thing.
Oh this sounds good for people who play videogames.

They've been milking consumers for over 2 years and they try to continue doing it with the latest GPU iteration.

Hopefully this means that people is no that stupid and they are not to purchase whatever they release at those prices.
So it's illegal to peep inside your neighbors' windows, but automating this on a mass scale is patentable?

Tangent: Now I'm curious if criminals can patent methods for committing crimes. There's a whole science to pick-pocketing, I'd love to read clever pick-pocketing technique patents if they exist!
The only characters not allowed in a filename on Linux are 0x00 (the null byte) and '/'. It's perfectly valid to have '~' in it.

You may be confused because your shell expands it to the value of $HOME -- which you can prevent by putting it inside single quotes.

aaron@aspire5742:~$ echo hi > 'foo~bar.txt'
aaron@aspire5742:~$ ls -l *.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 aaron aaron 3 Nov 16 03:20 foo~bar.txt
aaron@aspire5742:~$ cat 'foo~bar.txt'
hi
aaron@aspire5742:~$
C. Schafmeister “Lessons Learned Implementing Common Lisp with LLVM
The Netflix app is fantastic you can download stuff for offline viewing on any laptop with Windows 10. Now I can take all my shows with me on a laptop anywhere!
I wholeheartedly agree. I just don't see the US doing this though. Without laws to back them up and have a level playing field, there are no rights. I find it incredibly sad that other countries are now protected to a greater extend than the US, but we lack the political and social will to do actually anything meaningful about it. I think it's also generally easier to pass something like this (GDPR) in the EU where they don't have corporations nearly as large as FAANG (MS too). If a large part of their economy was based on companies that were using data the way FAANGM is, I'm not sure it would be been possible for them to pass. That's just a gut feeling based on no real data.
IIRC there were two different Traveler entries in different years, and they changed the rules in between to fix the problems the first win had revealed. After the second win they said they'd cancel the tournament if he entered again.
Like college, health care seems better spent outside the US.
Isn't that laptop from like 6 years ago?

I'd imagine your GPU is very much considered legacy.
If you work at Facebook and you build this shit, just know that if anyone knows what you do, they'll hate you for it.
If the software screws up and the item count is incorrect in the favor of the customer (ie, charged for 3 rather than 4+ widgets), who eats the cost?

Have you hired sleight of hand artists to field test the machines? I’d be very impressed if a determined actor could not fool a set of overhead cameras.
iPhones today are roughly the same price as top Androids, and are not running Ad company spyware.
I first heard about spaced repetition and Anki from some "Best Study Habits" listicle a few years ago and it has had a profound impact on my ability to retain information.
Leakers always have motivations. That's why reporters need to not take their leaks at face value, and do reporting to expand on the information they receive.
For this to work, you have to live in Tulsa.
You don't need to go nearly that far at all. Let's go back in time.. ah.. server-side includes[1]! Problem solved, and we didn't need anything more than a web server.

Being able to do this client side with no code? Yeah, would be nice :)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_Side_Includes
master branch of wlroots + sway (I update nearly ever hour). Sway is the most exciting thing going on right now.

Sway is really fast, I don't think the slowness is a problem with sway. I am wondering if my x220's Intel card is just too slow. I will try shortly on a much faster system.
As a programmer it still never would have occurred to me to interpret it that way, but maybe I'm not typical. If your random library doesn't have a choose function, it's easy enough to just shuffle a list and take the first 20.
Well, it's gonna happen anyway. About as much point worrying about it as the heat death of the universe. Best to enjoy yourself today and strive to make the world a better place.
I've been playing with emacs org mode, and it's nice. I use Orgzly on my phone and have my devices sync with Syncthing and it has been mostly okay.

I'm still finding a rhythm (I'm a vim person), but it seems to be really useful. I like that it can handle scheduled things and automatically make notifications for me on my phone. I also like that it's just a text file, but has a ton of features that most text-based organization systems lack.
Why your startups needs a sales ninja (and not too early)
The goalposts have successfully been moved.