skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> No longer? When was there ever? What was the system providing a roof over your head in the 30's or 40's? Or for that matter 1830's? Religion?

Yes, family and religion. I don't think American society was ever as multi-generational as in Asia or Europe. But, yes, AFAIU back then it was much more common for immediate and even distant families to live under the same roof, long-term or temporarily. Grandpa or Uncle Charlie too old to live alone after being widowed? Move him into your guest room. No hand-wringing negotiation required; no serious disruption to lifestyle.

My grandfather rented his basement to his best friend for years until the friend married, and then the two couples were best friends. It wasn't that the friend had fell on hard times or was wanting for anything; it was just because people back then demanded less personal space and were more comfortable living near or with each other. These days moving into your friends basement is practically a moral failing. I guess maybe because as society has become more diverse we have fewer signals to different in-group people from out-group people; we've been reduced to relying on independence and wealth as the most important markers of people's character.
The point is that this is a positive use of centralized private ownership

The only real rebuttal would therefore be negative uses of centralized private ownership
Yea that's what confuses me. Is he even legally allowed to sell this stuff? Should he even still have that stuff?! This gets into sketchy legal ground.

I wish he had contacted the German company he claims currently owns the rights and just asked if he could post it all up for free. It's not like it's going to hurt sales on platforms like GoG if they still have it up. He's already gotten some of the rights back for LSL1 at least when he did that remake (which honestly isn't all that great). He could have posted all the code and then sold the originals too; so it's in the commons and one person gets to be a collector and everyone wins.

So .. EA doesn't own this? I thought Sierra was owned by EA (or got bought by some company that got bought by EA). I know The LSL rights went to some other company for a bit who produced the two PC/PlayStation Larry games (the university and movie one. Honestly I liked the University one; don't know why people hated on it. It was funny).
I looked at a Fusion a few years ago before deciding to buy an Accord. There was a $10K price differential in favor of the Honda. This was mainly because all American sedans at the same price point had far lower reliability scores and were much smaller cars. There were no "American" sedans other than the Fusion worth considering for reliability and non-shoebox size. The third factor was resale value.

I simply got more for my money buying the Honda. I wasn't the least bit interested in an SUV or pickup truck.
There's a small time news guy named Tim Pool that I enjoy watching on YT. He has taken to silly things like saying "items which move projectiles at very rapid speeds" instead of "gun" when presenting a news story because the Google AI automatically demonetizes his news stories if the voice recognition hears the word "gun." He has to do this for any potentially controversial words.
> above all it is primarily a consequence, not a cause

It absolutely is a cause, of many things, including more poverty. In the US, the largest determiner of a child's future socioeconomic status is her parent's wealth.

Whether a disease model is the best one to use is arguable, but blanket denial that poverty is a primary cause of much social disruption, dysfunction, and lack of economic achievement is just nonsense.
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It's probably something on the VHF frequency which you can pick up via a cheap $15-20 RTL-SDR. If it was installed that long ago there's a good chance it runs on something really simple like DTMF tones.

Something like the 433Mhz ISM band parsing can give you an idea of what's possible[1].

[1] https://www.rtl-sdr.com/tag/rtl_433/
@this_vid
since the new tariffs are being imposed on imports to the US from China, i wonder if we might see a reversal in the direction of this process at some point. i mean, could we start to see large numbers of US residents and other travelers visiting China and bringing back merchandise for resale in the US?
Well no, he says in the post he doesn't own the IP. The winner could post it, but it'd probably have to be as a torrent or from a country that won't enforce the IP/copyright.
> If your neighbor is breaking the law or violating the terms of their lease, complain to the city or to the property owner. Why are you dragging this platform into it?

So maybe the right solution is simply calling the police?
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Yes, that makes more sense, I probably assumed incorrectly.
That's why our nuclear weapons run on floppy disks...
Was it misleading? I was just trying to understand if Win32 used WTF-16 everywhere (and some strings mostly happened to be valid UTF-16), or if there was some place where it used UTF instead.
This looks really impressive!

What size of dataset (rows, columns) is Tabulator able to handle well?

For huge datasets, what options are available to partially display, paginate, or progressively load data?
Thanks for the idea. I ha(d)ve hours to bill...
For Tabulator the virtual DOM is essential. if you try and load 10,000 rows into a table either the browser will slow down and become almost unusable or crash entirely.

For large data sets it makes the table work regardless of the number of rows
It guarantees that all replications will report state in sync with each other on search, not that the last reported state is the actual current state of the index.
I imagine chrisco255 means nobody in his family.
This is cool, but selfishly speaking, the area I'd really like to see Airbnb sink their teeth into is the apartment rental market. I've rented a few long-term (~3 month) sublets on Airbnb, and the process was light years better than dealing with landlords.

For example--I've avoided credit cards and loans in the past because I've been lucky enough to have sufficient savings and wanted to keep things simple. This means I have a sparse credit history. I've always had a steady income though, and have rented for many years without ever being so much as a single day late on a payment. Despite this, I get treated like I'm from outer space just because I haven't needed to put myself into debt.

It's just such an utterly stupid evaluation criteria. I'm provably a great tenant, but can easily get passed over in favor of someone who has a much worse record, but keeps their credit score high. With Airbnb, I am judged by my actual relevant track record--a lessor can see that again and again I fulfill my obligations and make a good impression. And of course, there's more accountability on the other side too since tenants can leave reviews.

There's just so much inefficiency they could clean up here.
Exit node, sure, but hosting a regular node should not pose any threat.
That's not a bug, that's the point.

"Single sign on" means "contact centralised provider with identifying information plus site browsed".

The explicit desire here is to stop that tracking.

Tracking _is_ single sign on with the "sign on" being invisible to the user.
> extort wealth until they’re forced back into absolute poverty — which there are signs of happening.

~~It is hardly sufficient to simply say that this outrageous claim requires enormous proof. Please, show me the billionaires who have been forced in to poverty by social program. Please.~~

Edit: I was misreading the above in exactly the wrong direction, wealth-wise.

There is indeed quite a bit of evidence that the economic system, as a whole, is evolving to extract every single dollar of wealth from the lower classes, primarily transferring it to the top class. Health care (especially end-of-life), education, and wage stagnation vs productivity gains are the prime examples.
Bigger brains are smarter, but not by much
The garbage is super annoying. Please stop. Human scripts are O(N), too bad. You can build indices (must, for large documents), but you can't really avoid this being O(N).

And we're not even talking about normalization.

People get upset about these things and blame Unicode, but the problems are not with Unicode -- they are semantics problems with our scripts that Unicode deals with about as well as can be hoped for.

The only thing I'd remove from Unicode is pre-compositions and the associated normal forms NFC and NFKC. But note that that wouldn't remove the need for normalization.
With existing zoning regs, I'm not sure pre-fab at scale will help.
Politicians are swearing more than ever before
Many countries certainly consider higher education a basic right.... of course those countries don't have loans for education.
How is a constant cycle of medication any different from using common antidepressants like SSRIs? Sure, it would be great if we could cure depression without drugs, but if that isn't possible, obviously medication is important for those people to be able to live good lives.
I've heard that carbonation in some drinks acts as a more efficient alcohol delivery system, so mixing heavily carbonated drinks (beer) with higher proof ones (liquor) will maximize absorption and potentially lead to a stronger intoxication / hangover.
iMessage?

Nah, but most probably by Messenger or WhatsApp, Telegram maybe...
I'm using serverless-python-requirements (see the specific example https://github.com/UnitedIncome/serverless-python-requiremen...) - it uploads the libs zipped and unzips them on first invocation in the handler.
Why I lost $42,500 making a VR game
That matters only if you pay someone else for machine time. If you own a decent 3D printer, you just leave it on and occasionally fix whatever issue is messing up the ongoing print.
> Every feature of Spectrum is now free.

Let's just pretend we're confused.
> If developers demand that the tools they use are better built, then the market will deliver tools/frameworks/etc... that are secure from the start.

This is never going to happen because what is considered secure in one place is not considered secure in another place.

> "Good" coding has become "good enough" coding, and the problem exists from the bottom of the stack to the top.

Because it is about risk management, not about absolutes. It is absolutely irrelevant that a smart samsung TV that I have in my office has garbage security because it is used as one thing and one thing only - dumb 48" HDMI monitor not connected to wireless network. Its Wifi antenna connector has been cut. It matches my risk profile.
Education is a basic need. Inequality in access to education is an accelerator and maintainer of inequality.
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Anyone know of a good alternative for group chat that doesn't tie your account to your phone#?

My friends and I were joking about going back to icq since web.icq.com still works.
That is the site theme, it is a specific theme for the site.

each theme is contained in its own CSS file, you simply include the CSS file for the theme of your choice.

Configuring themes for your table is covered extensively in the documentation along with examples of each theme in use:
http://tabulator.info/docs/4.1/theme
As a newb to PCB design this is dead on. I had to resort to using Circuitmaker (free Altium with a 2 private project limit) to feel confident doing my first few boards.

Circuitmaker uses octopart libraries and maintains its own footprint libraries. When any user creates a footprint in a public project it becomes part of the public (git-based) library for the part.

I get it that some designers want to do all their own footprints and make everything their own, but for someone getting ramped up having easily accessible parts libraries dramatically reduces the amount of tangential knowledge one must have to make usable PCBs.

I'm definitely going to try this out. I am a big fan of Circuitmaker but obviously using something that is 100% open source is a big benefit.
It's a fantasy.

Enough gear isn't networked or has fallbacks. C2 on the other hand, I'm less sure of. The French were so disturbed that they hacked the computers used by very senior people in the American military that they told the Americans so they would secure it better.

Far more likely is that both sides (other than Trump himself, maybe) know to default to standing down and absorbing the first blow then retaliate, if needed.
> No poor person should be expected to subsidize the comfort of the higher classes via their desperation.

Why do you think sweatshops exist?
It also depends on the context of where you live, I do believe in some countries there is no grace period, in which case this doesn't really work as well and you would be right to say it's not cheap at all!
Fantastic read. The scale of the problem escalates so suddenly, I always love how ambitious the scope of his stories are.
I hope you get the help you need.
It's not an attitude - I agree wholeheartedly with what you're saying.

It's what I see when I look out of my window. That is to say, how I think the economy actually works.

Basically no-one with a meaningful amount of capital takes low end jobs, because they don't have to.

They can sit, read, wait, research, calmly consider, study, and find a way out.

They have negotiating power (which is more than just telling a prospective boss a higher number - it's walking away, doing something else entirely, not even showing up to begin with).

Poor people can't do that, which is why they take jobs that barely pay subsistence. They have no other choice and need to take the job that pays them _now_ with the skills they have _now_.

Fundamentally this is why learning to spend less than you earn is probably the most important thing anyone can ever do. If you ever spend all of your money and have no access to credit, your freedom essentially disappears as you're forced to do almost anything someone with money tells you (legal or not).
Comfort is subjective. I had a Jetta and found it very comfortable, though most people would have thought it too firm or even harsh.
The only thing I still use Hangouts for is ongoing big group chats with old groups of friends (e.g. little convo every couple weeks), because:

1) Everyone's got a Gmail tab open during the day so they'll see it eventually but it doesn't bother them immediately like SMS and they don't need to install anything. (Literally no other service my friends have in common, e.g. some have Slack and some use Facebook but definitely not everyone.)

2) Group SMS is still a mess -- when you start one with a new group of friends (e.g. classmates) it just shows as random phone numbers for everyone, nobody has names until you create contacts for all of them, and there are still always mysterious problems like some messages only going between iPhones, messages being duplicated and triplicated, etc...

So if this is true, I guess my old chat groups will just... die... oh well. Maybe we'll go back to e-mail, but it doesn't feel as fun.
People cannot buy a phone outright. It's that bad. We're literally financing a $500-1000 device because they can't take the hit up front. Now I'm sure most people here could swing a phone tomorrow if they needed to say theirs was stolen, but you gotta think about how many people just can't. How about tires, there are places to rent tires. Financing a car? Common. 8 payments to put two front tires on your car? Seems insane, but for a lot of people in America it's either that or you keep the donut on for a few more months.
Check out 1.8 to 1.9 MHz this weekend actually starting right now.
https://wire.com/ should work if your friends are willing to move.
I paid ~$200 with no insurance whatsoever.
Google's behavior with its messaging platforms really boggles my mind. There's always more to a story sure, and certainly more to why google keeps jumping around - or perhaps flopping around is a better term here. But honestly, one would think whatever behind-the-scene reasons would have settled down by now, eh?

I think google should simply take the plunge and adopt matrix as their messaging protocol. The protocol provides messaging and telephony. Since - much like email - matrix is federated, google could even pair matrix server hosting with their G Suite products. Basically google would be an organization's email, docs, and now matrix/messaging server provider (in addition to the other services included in g suite)...I'm not the biggest fan of google (nor g suite), but i do acknowledge that so many organizations depend on google for their g suite platform. Also, leveraging - and contributing to the greater matrix.org effort - the matrix platform would show the world that google is still happy to collaborate on open source efforts.

...Or, maybe i'm thinking too altruistically?
Try one of the Altium tools some time (they have a free one now afaik). Those are more "Photoshop weird" (any really complex software takes some time to grok) rather than "AutoCAD in 1995 weird" (a DOS ui dragged kicking and screaming into Windows).
Current graduates face higher unemployment rates and lower salaries. I graduated into strong economy and nearly sure job. I had it better.
I feel like one should remove the plank from their own eye before trying to remove the sliver from another's.
Maybe we should build a tool that makes this easier for landlords.
Some interesting answers here, but why not just put:

Senior RoleTitle - Last 9 Years

Fortune 500 Finance Company

- Worked on projects related to fieldA

- Broad general statement of work1

- Broad general statement of work2
> It's fine to use something like plain old strchr to search for a { or a < in a UTF-8 string.

Correct.

> only get really important when you want to print the string.

Print, split into fixed-length pieces, render, layout, typeset — GUI apps do that a lot with their strings.

Even web browser do, probably that’s why JavaScript strings are UTF-16 despite web in general is mostly UTF-8, see section 6.1.4 “The String Type” on page 67: http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST...
As the numerous comments here and the documentation states, the refresh flag on your insert/update will ensure that changed data in that request is consistent for queries after.

Where did you get the behavior you described? Are you sure you're not confusing this for the separate refresh command itself? That is not attached to any particular insert/update.
I would argue that disabling screen functions while the car is moving is more of a safety hazard than not doing so. Unpredictable interfaces are distracting. Would you rather drive next to me while I reach over and adjust the bass on my car stereo or while I spend a few minutes screwing with my car stereo only to learn that I cannot adjust the bass while the car is moving? In many cars, I could simply ask my passenger to adjust the bass. But in my car I will need to pull over on the side of the freeway to adjust the bass and then merge back into traffic from a dead stop. It's a safety feature.
So what does this mean for Google Voice and Google Fi users? All my SMS runs through Hangouts.
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A common misconception! It's actually the science of the color cyan, but people kept mispronouncing "Cyantology". ;)
Well in the case of an nmda receptor antagonist, the harm can be pretty high. For example, alchohol is an nmda receptor antagonist and is considered to have one of the highest social costs of any drugs.
Car companies absolutely quantify risks and make decisions based on it. It is still more about bottom line than safety. When a version of a car fails some tests, they will estimate the cost of a recall versus the cost of a lawsuit. Whichever is smaller wins.
This is still the case and nothing indicates that things have changed.

Index funds have two main benefits:

* Lower cost,

* Never miss a new trend. At any moment only handful of stocks are responsible for disproportionate growth and index funds catch them all.
See matrix.org. Matrix is the protocol, but there are numerous server and client implementations, with riot.im being the most popular client and matrix.org being the most popular server.
The Bolt is still $30,000 after tax credits. That's not what most people would call "affordable." It's a car I'd consider, with some reservations, but not at that price.
CraSSh - Cross-browser DoS relying on CSS var() and calc()
wow, those pictures bring to mind the film depiction of the mines of moria in terms of scale and regularity
People associate TOR with unsavory activity because TOR is used for unsavory activity. Running an exit node on a link you care about is insanity.

The main reason I have never run an exit node is fear that some overzealous LEO trying to make a name for himself is going to trace an IP off of a kiddie porn or drug market to my house and send in SWAT to break all of my windows and tie me up in court for months before deciding that charging me as an accomplice probably won't work this time because I didn't opt for the public defender.
As pointed out elsewhere, you are wrong because UTF-16 'characters' can still be comprised of compounded elements. (Base character plus additional composition elements to create a final character.)

In simple terms, you can't just treat it as an array to index to any given character.

There's also all the detriments that still apply. (Including UTF-16LE / UTF-16BE, BOM, not being able to concatenate two valid string sequences (blind) and always have a valid result, etc.)

You're also incorrect, or at least not correctly describing the search operation.

The assumption about finding specific characters (for example, command flags) in a string or array of strings is also... complicated.

As an example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halfwidth_and_fullwidth_forms

For /command/ flags the half and full width equivalent characters might want to be 'folded' back over the traditional ASCII namespace.

Sometimes a specific loss of precision can be desirable.
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"It should also strive to measure how secure people feel". So now were basing poverty on feelings. I can't even say how ridiculous this sounds.
Probably the same way any other prefab homes building company does.
I don't like it neither. This is horrible.

I tried Bob Marley's "Is This Love" and a bunch of others, and they are nausea invoking experiences. The constant back and forth stereo panning is just disturbing.

It probably makes a big pile of cash to the uploaders though since it's easy to do and sounds peculiar.

This idea would be so much better if the instruments were split out to individual tracks and each track would be panned to certain point in space and kept there.
It's very interesting that the most impactful and potentially revolutionary psychiatric drugs currently in trials are both illegal recreational drugs, MDMA and Ketamine.

I do wonder how many regular users of these drugs are (consciously or subconsciously) self-medicating, vs. purely using hedonistically. Although I can imagine the line is quite blurry.

Scott Alexander has talked about these drugs from a psychiatrist's perspective; his article on Ketamine gives a lot more technical speculation about its mode of action, plus links to academic papers, for anyone that's interested in digging more:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/08/ketamine-an-update/
I love how authentic the all the pictures look. True hackers :)
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I met a band from Australia that bought new equipment in the usa for their tour, shipped it back home, and sold it for a profit when they got back.
Thanks for the info. When 3D printing started to blow up I brushed it off due to the plastic waste I would produce. I need to look into it again it seems.