skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh. Truthfully, what I'm most excited about right now is being able to start a worker in less time than it takes to make an internet request. When you can do that you get magical autoscaling and it becomes just as cheap to run it in hundreds of places as one. As long has you have to invest ~100ms of CPU to get one of these VMs running I'm not sure it will have quite the same economics.
This.

But not on iOS, they had to pay.
Parallax Landscape Scenes Built Entirely with CSS and HTML
Fonts look pretty bad on my monitors at work in some apps (putty is giving me grief at the moment). x1080 is pretty common native, and is not too far off from 768.

The right font matters a lot to me. I like thin sans serif...always looking for a font that resembles what I saw on an old Apollo workstation (if I recall correctly, and I probably don’t).

Source Code Pro seems to be the best I’ve found, but I can’t get it to look right in putty.
I think with the App Engine Standard generation 2 runtimes you don't have to write to their sandbox anymore. It still has to be one of their supported languages though, instead of any arbitrary server.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/introducing-app-e...
In July 1997, I was temporarily unemployed and in the unemployed doldrums. I remember watching the day by day updates on Mars Pathfinder. Matt Golombek was the Pathfinder lead and face on TV (CSPAN?). He's a bit presuming but he quickly became my geek hero. Good to see that he's a lead on InSight, twenty years later.
I think the OP meant “make their last tuition payment to the university”, in other words, they’ve fully taken on the debt of education and are about to graduate.
Apple in Violation of Their Own License?
So you'll model the features. Then what?

Counting n-grams will tell you nothing useful, unless the language is Quecuha, and a dialect that is well known, at that. But if it is such a dialect, why are we not any closer to understanding it? You don't need machine learning for that, or even a computer; it helps, but the work can be done by hand (see The Golden Bug: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gold-Bug).

For khipu that are clearly not narrative, i.e. include mostly numerical, plus some other, possibly literary information, it would be even harder to pull off. You'd have to understand words out of context, including names etc.

At best you might end up modelling the structure of an unintelligible language- like I think was done for the Voynich manuscript. You'd still not be any closer to undestanding it.
Dallas median wage is $63.8k in 2016, median home prices closer to $230 to $250 depending on which town (some significantly higher). That is about 4x income, following your heuristic we should expect the median to fall a bit?
No, you're just wrong.

Corporate groups are ultimately made up of individuals. When Apple or any other company pushes a particular policy, that decision is taken by one of more individuals in that company – people who decided that this was a thing that they wanted to do. There are many reasons that they might decide to do those things – positive PR is definitely an influencing factor on that, but so is the substantial effect of individuals promoting ideas that they think are right.

You portray this as an internal group at Apple is sitting around with a discussion along the lines of "Well, our sales are slipping – how can we boost our image? Let's have a developer event for women" – as if that ever happened or even makes sense.

Corporations are not benevolent and do not have the public's best interests at heart. This does not mean that they are incapable of positive actions independent of the effect that they might have on sales.

And indeed Apple should probably be paying more in tax. I agree with that – but it doesn't affect whether the action in question is a "PR move" or not.
Remember the ifstream
> I disable font smoothing on my machines.

Why?
PLC Bug Hunt: A Team Building Activity
Designers are on the payroll, and feel like they have to be doing something...
No, I don't disagree.

Now - back to my question?
VC's always say that. I'm sure some do more than superficial due diligence, sometimes, but honestly I don't really believe them, at least not in the early stages. For companies at those stages I wouldn't be surprised if more than cursory DD had a negative ROI anyways.
> but they've alienated so many people to find their own path when they don't include the adapter.

Have they stopped including it? My latest iPhone is an iPhone X and it certainly came with the adapter, as well as the 7 I had before it.
They made it free on iOS too one year before they were acquired by Facebook: https://www.wired.co.uk/article/whatsapp-on-ios-now-free
My questions are:

1. What's the value of a wireless connection to a device you'll be touching when you use it anyway?

2. Assuming you value "no cord tangles" so highly that you're willing to put up with Bluetooth, charging your headphones, risking dropping your AirPods down a storm drain, etc, why can't the rest of us just have the jack as an option? Nobody's saying "remove Bluetooth."

3. What about the value of loose coupling and backward and forward compatibility? Given a couple adapters, I can plug my current iPod into a 1970s stereo, or plug a record player into my car stereo, and instantly have them working. Brand and device age are irrelevant. BlueTooth compatibility isn't guaranteed between two devices made today.
Ahead or not is subjective. As a USA citizen, I will bite and try not to show too much bias.

1) Simple cost/benefit. The EU has very little to lose and very much to gain by making rules favoring internet users. The US has very little to gain and very much to lose by making rules harming internet companies.

2) Trust. Europeans trust their governments to do good for them compared to internet companies. Americans trust their governments to do worse to them compared to internet companies. It's quite possible both are right. Similarly, Europeans implicitly trust this is not the beginning of a slippery slope of internet legislation whereas Americans very much fear that giving lawmakers an inch encourages them to take a mile. Same goes for willingness to repeal.

3) Enforcement. Europeans know, based on previous incarnations and regulator statements, that enforcement will be lax and/or subjective and/or limited in scope. Americans fear large-scoped laws since they expect enforcement and court battles once on the books.

4) Perceived harm. Europeans see many more harms from these internet companies than do Americans (HN notwithstanding). Americans simply don't believe tracking and data collection of public data is that big of a deal, especially for the tradeoff they get in services they or others choose to use. It's apathy, not ignorance as many here would have you believe.

5) Scope. Kinda the same as trust, Europeans aren't bothered by large-scoped legislation against businesses and Americans are. I suspect you'll see transparency/disclosure requirements one day in very limited form, but I doubt it'll become so expansive as allowing user requests, requiring certain forms/figureheads, and forcing businesses to do business with the user after opting out of tracking.

6) Freedoms. Europeans see a clear separation between consumers and companies wrt freedoms. Americans see companies, especially small ones, as just collections of citizens. Small business and entrepreneur compliance burdens are very much considered by American lawmakers on new law areas like the open internet.

There are exceptions to all of this of course, but I gather these are the general climate differences.
A quite interesting question of language.

English seems to disambiguate between blacksmith, smith and farrier, while German (to my knowledge) only knows Schmied ("smith") and Hufschmied ("hoof smith").
Linaro has an ARMv8 cloud, too: https://connect.linaro.cloud
Also, "research" is a low bar unfortunately, with the amount of low-quality (or no-quality) papers being written.
I'm totally there for you on "sedan" and other throwback words.

I'm 48, so I read the Hardy Boys books mostly in the mid to late 70s. That whole era seemed to be stuck in time; lots of pop culture sort of pushed as "current" was clearly from at least 10 to 20 years before, but even as a kid it was pretty clear there was a disconnect. The Hardys never watched TV, for example. They used terms like "jalopy" and "sedan". Etc.

I assume the mismatch was partly because of the rapid societal changes that took root starting in the 60s, plus a sort of refusal to acknowledge those by the generation just ahead of the boomers that were really still in fundamental control through the 80s.
AWS Firecracker Open Source: Secure and Fast MicroVM for Serverless Computing
There are other benefits to using FW 3.30[1] over 3.2 wrt hardware support and features actually working (ie- IOMMU, PCI reset, ACS, etc).

[1] https://www.asrock.com/MB/AMD/X399%20Taichi/index.asp#BIOS
> 1) And by doing this we create even more e-waste!

You could say that about anything new.

> 2) I do _not_ want wireless headphones!

Good for you, no-one is forcing you to use them.

All I have ever done in this comment thread is argue against the idea that removing the headphone jack has zero benefits for anyone. And yet I'm getting piled on by people basically accusing me of trying to force everyone to go wireless.

As if pointing out that some people have different wants from theirs is somehow denying their wants. It's an amazing lack of perspective.

Is it that hard to accept that someone else has a different view from your own, and that them expressing it is not the same as trying to force it upon you?
Why are you sitting on your phone, in the first place?
No you're just wrong.

Corporations are made up of people, but they are not people and do not act as individuals.

Also yes conversations like "Well, our sales are slipping – how can we boost our image? Let's have a developer event for women" actually do happen all the time and it doesn't have to be women, it can be anything to help get PR like holidays or awareness months.
Just created a new instance. Processor speed is 2297 MHz. lscpu result:

ubuntu@ip-172-31-15-145:~$ lscpu
Architecture: aarch64
Byte Order: Little Endian
CPU(s): 1
On-line CPU(s) list: 0
Thread(s) per core: 1
Core(s) per socket: 1
Socket(s): 1
NUMA node(s): 1
Vendor ID: ARM
Model: 3
Model name: Cortex-A72
Stepping: r0p3
BogoMIPS: 166.66
L1d cache: 32K
L1i cache: 48K
L2 cache: 2048K
The Supreme Court is pretty famous for acknowledging in affirmative action cases, that sometimes to actually effect equality in society, temporary, special rules need to be implemented to cure past systematic discriminations that were codified into law.

You are not wrong it is discrimination/reverse discrimination, at least the courts admit that much.
Yeah, it's all for freedom of movement at shows.

Even though wireless transmitters have gotten a lot better than previous times (in the 1980s one of the Spinal Tap spoofs was getting radio interference in their wireless guitar system if I recall correctly), now using similar frequency bands wi-fi does with proprietary protocols from what I see (definitely not Bluetooth!)... you still see reviews of reliability problems in some circumstances. You'd definitely want to carry around a standard guitar cable as a backup if you have one.
I believe GP is implying that they don't deserve to make money from a copyright-free asset.
“...while services make up 69% of national consumer spending...”

69% seems like a huge number considering that many people that I know can’t afford most services. What is the definition of a ‘service’? And, did he possibly mean all services, not just consumer services?
Currently, I have a friend (and in addition family & romantic relationships, a small number, maybe a total of 5 people I really care about). These "inner circle" relationships are the best use of my time I have ever found. However I have basically no interest in the "get to know you" small talk people engage in at parties or hobby groups. I don't like pretending or seeing other people pretend, so I never manage to actually make friends the normal way. All my platonic friends have come to me during a time of crisis where they were somewhat vulnerable and I was somewhat restless and it causes a sort of break where all kinds of things not normally allowed by polite society become possible, and that makes them interesting to me and they become my friend. (This is not a problem with family relationships because all families have dysfunction, and it's not a problem with romantic relationships because sex is great at generating intimacy and letting people off their masks.)

Is there a way to meet people (that doesn't involve sex, drugs or joining the army) where you can find out essential things about what they fear, want, etc in 1-5 encounters or do you have to put up with months of pointless lying if you want friends?
The Concept Creep of ‘Emotional Labor' (2018)
Google recently open-sourced Gvisor, which although implemented differently solves a similar problem. Possibly Amazon wants to encourage other vendors to build integrations with Firecracker rather than Gvisor.

https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/open-sourcing-gvi...
Absolutely, I was just saying that a lot of effort is already put into pattern analysis for videos so that licensing partners can be pleased. It's not like it's technically impossible. The real reason is that Google doesn't have the incentive because it simply doesn't care about its users' happiness. It merely wants to lock them in. What other service will people migrate to when they are annoyed by YouTube?

Right.
You may be thinking of "Supreme", a brand that makes money off of scarcity. The ridiculous line comes from very limited supply and insane resale value of their clothing.
Man, I wish I had this kind of genius. Not that it's virtuous or not, but just that you had the option available to you because you knew it.
I can see your perspective here, but I think that's an effect, but not the Apple strategy. Particularly given that they "just happened" to release magical wireless earbuds at the same time!

Apple doesn't need to own the whole wireless vertical, but they are adept at cross selling within the product line.
If you review the history, most of the cities of Japan had been bombed heavily using incendiary weapons by that point, creating devastating fires and leaving large swathes of them in ruin. Do you imagine that there were no injured there who were in equal pain?
No, it didn't report anything.

After cycling to the shop and buying a couple TB disks to make extra backups before messing with headers, I created new superblocks (you can tell `mdadm --create` to pick up existing data).

I then repeated the repairing and subsequent re-deletion by the mainboard on boot around 10 times, in order to ensure it's reproducible before I post on their forums.

I did not spot it outputting any kind of message about it.
It's not about the additional cost of a few extra dollars.

It's a matter of practicality and convenience.

I don't want to have to worry about remembering the phone, the charger, the earbuds AND a dongle. In my opinion it's simply one concern too many for basic functionality. Functionality we used to have.
Google Workers Protest Plans for Censored Search in China
How are you finding it? I've been looking for an alternative registrar - currently with 123-Reg in the UK, and would like to find a reputable, tech-savvy, UK alternative (but at least CF has a UK office).
Show HN: Doka.js – A vanilla JavaScript image editor
Could it be linked to the "Fear Of Missing Out" as well?
It still boggles me that Jira tickets with small bug fixes to real problems confirmed by other members of Cognitect have never been merged, due to Rich’s time. Simple fixes to core functions that make the language more stable for edge cases without breaking design or backwards compatibility. Fixes that the Jira threads reveal others at Cognitect support patching and for which patches have already been written. Tiny fixes with little code involved. I understand being conservative on new features but isn’t it in everyone’s interest, including Rich and Cognitect’s, to fix actual bugs?

The answer tends to be that if the bug doesn’t affect Rich personally then it does not get attention. That doesn’t seem healthy for the language.
>, percent ownership of fully-diluted shares is the key metric.

We are talking about different things.

I was talking about "dilution" as a verb/action that describes a _change_ from a starting % of ownership to a lesser % of ownership. The post I responded to was talking about dilution events.

Employees cannot realistically make calculated strategies around dilution _events_ because they are not on the board-of-directors and can't veto the founders to not accept additional round of funding. In any case, whether the employee's shares experience 1, 3, or 4 dilution events is not something people typically care about. What they want to really know is if they get wealthier.

On the other hand, if an employee is offered a # of shares as an incentive to accept a job, then yes, it's good to know if that means 0.10% or 0.05% ownership. It's smart to know if an employee is getting typical equity percentages in the industry that's commensurate with the role and timeline of the startup. (Some examples.[1]) However, that's a metric at a particular point in time and it's not a "dilution event" from the perspective of the employee.

[1] https://www.holloway.com/g/equity-compensation#_there_are_no...
Introducting: On the Case Music
There are a lot of good looking permissively licenced fonts as well. Often these are licenced under the SIL Open Font License (OFL).
Macs are much less so these days. The numerous security constraints that have evolved over time make running insecure software, or even a lot of third party software, a bit of a pain in the arse.
They don’t need to know your precise location, but, for $ome rea$on, they reportedly ¢olle¢t it anyway and $hare it with third partie$: [1]

1: https://www.zdnet.com/article/us-cell-carriers-selling-acces...
Tether reopens account verification and direct redemption of fiat
Thanks for letting us know about this great "sharing" site :-)

Lot's of garbage in it, but it also has some interesting docs. I'm more interested on the technical details of it. How it works internally for scrapping, text extraction, indexing, random users creation and uploading of stuff and so on.

I understand the privacy and copyright infringement concerns, but it's not like they've hacked into those other sites and uploaded their files. They're using existing and "open for everyone" pages. Also the estimates for revenue are highly exaggerated IMHO. Sure they're making some €€€, but not in the millions range :-)

On a final note, how is this vastly different from, let's say, https://www.scribd.com ?
I clicked mainly because the clickbaitiness of the headline annoyed me and I wanted to inform myself a bit before complaining about it. The NYT rewarded me by telling me I have one less free article this month. That annoyed me even more so I hit back.

They are very smart over there, and the NYT didn't get where it is thanks to short term thinking. Surely they have thought about what a bad experience clickbait is and how much it damages their brand.
>I just don't get the benefit of bluetooth in most situations.

Aside from exercise, there isn't one.

OTOH, as you note, there are a large number of serious drawbacks -- battery failures being the biggest and most obvious. The other thing is that, heretofore, you could rely on a dumb audio jack if you wanted to play music with almost any device. Now you're limited to things with Bluetooth, and you have to extend some amount of trust in making that connection.

I use almost exclusively higher-end headphones -- say, $300 and up. Bluetooth has effectively zero presence in that market. There's a reason for this.

I also own AirPods, but their job is about 60% gym and 40% conversations. For serious listening, I reach for the Grados or the Etymotics or the Sennheisers.
Not exactly. That is, you can't pass it directly to a function that takes a String, but if we made the inner string public, we could extract it with two characters. If we don't want to make it public, we can write an accessor as well, etc.
Flatmap-stream compromised, Angular and C. failing builds
You are right, unwisely I commented before finishing it (it's a long document). I offer my excuses.

I found specially damaging for the Syrian version the point 24 and 26 in the annex II:
"The Syrian Arab Republic informed the Mechanism that the pilot had later been shot down and was missing in action. "

"During a briefing given by the Syrian Arab Republic to the Mechanism in Damascus, a representative of the Syrian Arab Air Force stated that no aircraft of the Air Force had attacked Khan Shaykhun on 4 April 2017. This contradicted the public statement made by the Government [..]"
Because if you're not using a retina-type display, it can make text look blurry and out of focus. I'm nearsighted but take my glasses off at computers, and the blurriness is an unconscious cue to move my head closer to bring things into focus, which is futile with fonts that are born blurry.

I also personally like the look of well-hinted screen fonts.
What programming languages are you familiar with already?
At least they didn't just think of killing them like here in Chile.
FWIW, I've found many people new to programming expect something like types, even though they don't have the vocabulary for it yet. It really just depends on the individual.
Hi! Developer here, I've build Doka over the past months as an extension to FilePond.js. When I was half way I decided it would be better as a standalone editor. It's super fast, can crop, resize, rotate, and flip images (also SVGs).
Tangentially, I was just wondering what the time investment is for mail as opposed to plate armor. Plate needs to be individually fitted, which I'm sure is time-consuming, but mail takes ages to attach and (ideally) weld or rivet each individual link. On the other hand, practically anyone can turn wire into passable mail with a bit of practice, so it could be farmed out to apprentices and assistants; it's not difficult, just laborious. Plate presumably demanded the more valuable time of a fully-trained smith.
BI Dashboards for Pharmaceuticals
Fascinating strategy.
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Partially budget, but partially because I prefer not to have to deal with syncing them. I know there are tools to help, and I also keep all of my configs in a nice dot file setup. It's relatively painless switching to my travel laptop. Nevertheless, I'd still have to change some things. Syncing won't keep app versions in sync, syncing won't keep all my system files in sync. I'd have to work entirely in synced directories, else I miss random files (like ~/Downloads, I'd have to sync that, or perhaps miss a download one day at work), etc.

It's something I do semi frequently currently and it's totally do-able, but there's enough friction that I'd rather not ever worry about it. Hell, I'd rather not have a travel laptop either, but as mentioned I don't want my high end machine to be taken with me.
That's getting very philosophical. If a tree breaks a regulation in the forest and no agency is around to issue a fine, was it a violation?
I always found this satisfying in a strange way, especially on technical videos. Perhaps it raises my confidence even more on a video if time is taken to correct a statement inline with the time it is being said.