skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The OP appears to be talking about just mapping demographic datasets, plenty of software does that today and isn't accused of being racist.

The issue you linked to seems different. I agree that the headline is hysterical, but the patent mentions, among other sensible ideas, that it would plot paths factoring in demographic data. Which is just plain weird when you already have crime data available.
While Sweden has no oil production, they do export refined oil products.
Norton GoBack [1]

I remember this software runs before the OS and allows you to revert the enter HDD in a different time. It can even fix the OS if it stopped working for some reason. I thought it was pretty cool. Anybody know if similar tools exists?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GoBack
Given the (apparent) ethical black hole that is the current for-profit prison system, I’d be very worried what they might do to (instead of for) inmates to discourage recidivism.
There is the Tap[1] which is not only a chord keyboard, but a really neat piece of wearable hardware.

[1] https://www.tapwithus.com/
I almost added this comment, I wasn’t expecting anyone else to say it. Shake was so awesome before Apple killed it. I clung to my old working copy for many many years, until it wouldn’t run anymore.

I never ever understood what the plan for Shake was supposed to be, did you? I remember hearing rumors it would turn into something bigger and better in a different Apple product, but it doensn’t seem like anything ever materialized.
Linux Scheduler Scalability
No, because that land could be be reforested if it weren't kept for the cattle.
Is no one going to mention Pebble? It's the only smartwatch I've ever wanted, and I was so sad that it got bought and died right when I had enough money to spend some on a smart watch. It just had the perfect combo of good design, long battery life, and usability.
>Instead of making the famous mountain of butter (beside a lake of milk) they now pay famers not to farm, which has its own oddities.

Crazy world we live in, where being (over-)efficient has to be subsidized. There may be a thing such as being too efficient for our own good. Also, the efficiency as measured, only relates to money / profits / maximizing use of resources in industrial (including food) production, and often does not take a holistic view, which should include sustainability of resources, quality of life (not just economic standard of living) and sustainability of the planet.

I had read E. F. Schumacher's book "Small is Beautiful" when a teenager, when I was more into these sorts of things (did organic vegetable gardening and dairy farming, used a biogas plant, etc.), before I got into the software field full-time. I still recommend his ideas and book about appropriate technology to interested people - the concepts and principles have not changed, though technologies have evolved, and a hybrid model may be needed:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._F._Schumacher

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

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

>Including discouraging of re-wilding I think, as the land has to be plausibly farm-able to get the cash.

Yes, re-wilding is a good idea.

>This aside, it's worth knowing that developed countries typically throw away much less food than developing ones. Basically because Tesco is much better at logistics than a million guys trying to drive into Delhi. I don't have the link to hand but there was a nice comparison US vs Mexico on this somewhere.

Possibly. I do know that plenty of waste happens in India too. In fact, Schumacher's ideas are very much suited to and applicable to developing countries. IIRC he was influenced by Mahatma Gandhi some, and Gandhi also had done significant work in this area, in practice, not just talking about it, either - including hugely encouraging Indian people to do naturopathy, nature cure, small scale industry work like traditional means of spinning and weaving for khadi (a great hand-made Indian cotton textile), etc. We still have Khadi & Village Industries Emporiums here, where one can buy clothing made of khadi:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khadi#History

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

http://www.kvic.org.in/kvicres/index.php
Qov – The terminal presentation tool
Why doesn't Microsoft just open-source the windows phone OS as an android alternative ?
What about a tax for citations? Or a tax for reading! Why can't we pass some more copyright legislation?
I saw the Intel AI post on this but what I don’t get is I thought HE was still too slow for these sorts of use cases? Are they just throwing mind boggling amounts of computer power at it?
Isn’t it basically restore points?
Where the graphs in graph networks come from – a mathematician's answer
DeepFreeze https://www.faronics.com/products/deep-freeze
It's a selfish attitude, but certainly a more realistic one for most people. Look at it this way: You enjoy eating meat, and aren't interested in giving that up for the benefit of others just like others aren't willing to give up their desire to have children for your benefit.
In addition to crude type mentioned here, there are relative price differentials to take advantage of due to the local storage/transport constraints. For example, US oil may become cheaper because there is so much shale production growth there. Likewise, because Canada liberals continuously block pipelines, Canadian oil fell into the single digits last month.

Of course, most of this differential is eaten up by transport middlemen, so this isn't much of a good thing for the consumer still.
Strongly agree with this. I got a WP service when WP7 came out and it was a revelation compared to Android. Not just the way it looked, but the hubs concept just made a ton of sense. Future releases ruined both, sadly.

I'd like to believe that in the world of progressive web apps Windows Phone would have had a higher chance of success. Firefox phone tried the same and failed, but with the backing of a huge company like MS... you never know.
Many old FreeHand users have moved to Affinity Designer. You should try it, it is available for Mac and Windows.
Then it will be her maxims like "family is legalized prostitution" (literally, the same quote from either Lenin or Trotsky and her,) statement on "setting man free from men" and on and on and on with her equating any social process to material/financial interaction. No wonder, some reasonably suggest that she might have been an actual cryptocommunist as the "objectivism" she birthed is strikingly similar to whatever rationalisations communist regimes around the world made for their existence.

The biggest selling point that second world country regimes had for the masses was the material abundance out of nowhere, second to "liberation" of common men from moral norms and duties.

Back in twenties, the unwashed masses did genuinely believe that they are instating the communist system for their own rational self interest
What a brilliant piece of software. I had an artist friend who used it years after its discontinuation. I need to investigate whether it runs under Wine.
This needs the orginal module. How would you get that?
Been using the cloud native version for about a year now, and I'm debating if I should renew. What are you using now if not YNAB?
Most of it doesn't go to any single use. Only 36% of US corn production goes to livestock feed. 40% to ethanol production. And while people like to complain about the caloric inefficiency of animals vs plants, the reality is that chicken being fed corn produces 5 million calories per acre, the same calories per acre as wheat. Almost all plant crops produce fewer calories per acre than that. For some reason nobody seems to be demanding that we stop eating wheat, nevermind things like lettuce, spinach, broccoli, onions, tomatoes, etc, that produce far fewer calories per acre.
Great selection, great article. The only one I find missing would be the GPU of Nvidia's 8800 graphics card, I belive it was the first GPU that could be used for GPGPU. (Correct me if I'm wrong).
This is a pretty a uncompellling example.

Without citing Huawei specifically, consider some government backed company with tons of cash no practically no IP.

I bet we could go from you and me in a garage, to a pretty high performance ARM compatible SOC in not that many years.

How? First think of how far you can get just by buying everything ARM has to offer including licensing all IP options and technical consulting service options. Instant prettty decent reference implementation.

In parallel we’ve hired 1,000 engineers and scientists to start working on improvements and novel ideas, let by a team on the the best architects on the planet we can woo away by offering each 7 or 8 figure contracts, unlimited first class air travel for family and friends, whatever is necessary based on strategic value.

Competently managed that would provide high probability of a pretty fast ARM chip.

The problem? You can’t win and sustain competitive advantage with just that. It’s performance balanced with so many other factors including power, effificency, overall effecrivenesss of your SOC for given applications etc.

Besides the enormous challenge of all things adding up at once to win, there’s also no guarantee we’d end up with any especially huge amount of novell IP, not just stuff licensed from someone else, that would allow this win advantage to be comfortably sustained for any susbstantial period of time.

They have a lot of smart people doing some interesting stuff, but that particular example I wouldn’t consider very threatening, even if other examples do exist the better make the point.
Opera's Presto engine. I quite miss it.
Magic Cap from General Magic. What a lovely, odd little operating system.

I read an article saying there was an effort to get it open sourced after General Magic folded, but unfortunately all their IP fell into the Sarlacc-like maw of Intellectual Ventures.

While we’re on the topic of failed, over-ambitious mobile OS’s, Newton OS would be great too.
I miss google reader because it was simply lists and lists of news. Not these new readers that love to extract an image from the article and use it to cover quarter of the screen(exaggerating here). Then 4 more articles on the next page. Then so on. Google reader was perfect for skimming through 100 pieces of news in a short amount of time and just click the articles you want to read in a new tab and done.

Any new reader I’ve tried fails to understand this. They go for complexity and glamour. They need a mode for just simple long list of headlines and not waste any screen space.

Edit: context
yeah, as a ham i was pretty interested in what he had to say, but that's the point where i said "fuck this noize", skimmed a few more paragraphs to confirm suspicions, and wandered off.
I have read stories about now famous startups and some of them did quite questionable things which they eventually corrected. they could easily have gone the other way.
I do miss Windows Phone. The animated tiles meant that a lot of the time you didn't need to switch to the app to get the info you needed (weather conditions, how the market is doing, etc.)

And it was fast I really dislike the pointless animations that iOS and Android go through - since the icons in Windows Phone were rectangles the few animations it did have were quick because they didn't have to worry about clipping arbitrary regions.
I've been using this pattern for over a decade. It's less useful now than it was in the past.

I really miss Google's "Discussion" search filter.
QGIS is free/open source and can do a lot of this type of stuff too. More like ArcGIS than MapPoint.
No. But I think many of our filters are bogus. Some of these are easy: "Did you complete a traditional four-year CS degree at <highly respected university>?" should be considered downright obscene as a front-line filtering function. It robs your team of great talent, and destroys any attempt to hire diverse candidates. And by "diverse" I mean invaluable team members who will bring fresh perspective to your problems, your understanding of your users, and more. There have always been many "alternative" paths into computing, now moreso than ever.

A concrete example: A place I interviewed in my last search uses pair programming extensively in their day-to-day (and have lovely twinned monitor/keyboard hardware setups to support this!) They use that in their tech interviews as well. You and a candidate sit and talk about code. It's a lovely experience, and far more grounded in the work than just about any whiteboard interview.

Pair-programming isn't the takeaway here. It's that this org built an interview model which was virtually identical to their actual working model.
irfanview should be adequate, .. wine on ubuntu
Which is why UNIX shells are a poor man's REPL quite far from what a Xerox inspired user/developer interaction aspired to achieve.

Pipe based interactions work properly only across CLI based applications, and even then the applications need to be explicitly written to accept and parse the data.

PowerShell or other Xerox inspired shells don't need kernel support to achieve their workflows.
>Windows Phone

In a similar vein, Palm webOS. I still maintain that it was several years ahead of its time with the whole "mobile apps using javascript" Enyo framework.
It would be cool if the UX designs of old software were archived somewhere.
If you run ZFS, you can use ZFS snapshots.
Indeed that's the point, not being a producer of oil by extraction.
> Dogma and ideology are even worse. They provide us with the answers, and put boundaries around our thinking. Ignoring the dogma invites ridicule, or even punishment. I suspect that's why more ideological societies are less innovative.

Is it still permissible to say this? (asking as an earnest question) This was once a core tenet of silicon valley but somehow the opposite has happened and I’m not sure you can even say this anymore
Truecrypt.

But even if it comes back now, I would have a hard time trusting it.
Yes, but not with the capabilities that their graphical sucessors brought into the computing world.

You surely could not display inline structured data and interact with it graphically on an IBM 704 teletype.
Aesthetics and the Human Factor in Programming (1972)
edit.exe

I think Windows 10 needs to have a standard text editor in the console.
although its no pebble, the amazfit bip is the closest contender available today
Apple buys Platoon, a startup that helps indie musicians get discovered
ZFS, Btrfs, etc. essentially provide that with filesystem snapshots; LVM snapshots probably also works for that. Not sure whether any easy tooling around it exists though.
Facebook Well Aware That Tracking Contacts Is Creepy
Net Neutrality will definitely become politicized because it's a war between layers of the value chain: carriers vs. Google.

Carriers are enormously powerful and influential so there will be a war.

If it's MS vs. Amazon ... well it's not one industry vs. the other.

But I agree it could turn into a pop culture war.
It's not a matter of "search for simplicity"; the grammar is just inherently ambiguous without some sort of token in this position. let was taken from OCaml, where a lot of inspiration from Rust came from.

(As a reader, it's also really nice to be able to see "there's a new variable being created here" at a glance. Ambiguity is a human problem as well as a computer problem.)
No. They have good lawyers who advise them not to, and they follow that advice do they can stay billionaires.
I recently read a book about a man from the UK who went to China in the 80’s. He partnered with a US company to start investing heavily in China (mostly manufacturing). It is interesting because (aside from the regulation) it reads very much like this article (up to the paywall).

The book is: Mr China by Tim Clissold
Try the Amazfit BIP, it’s similar (e ink screen), cheaper ($69) but does lack a bit on software / integrations side
Hypercard. A much, much better implementation of programmable hypertext than our current browser/javascript paradigm.
I find that UFW is more of a pain than its worth when it comes to simple rules everybody needs like "block everything, allow this handful of ports", mostly because the syntax is too english-like and so it's easier to get confused how you're supposed to write the rule.

It also spews a bunch of chains all over iptables, making it harder to understand when you actually need to use it directly for something more advanced like mangling.
What would be more interesting, in your view?
It’s not still a thing?
As noted in another comment, AbiWord is pretty close.
Fmv was a factor in my teenage gaming years. Lacking suitable bandwidth and the fact at the time those videos were a pointless waste of time, the pirated copies without it was nice. I didn't grow up poor, I could have actually bought the game. But a pirated copy that removed those videos was a better experience.

I am not a heavy gamer but I really don't want to go through the 10 minutes of intros and bullshit me backstory, I simply want to play damn game. I want to skateboard, or play an adventure, shoot villians. I don't want to watch videos. If I can't start actually playing the game in less then 30 seconds, I'm probably not going to actually ever play it.

On topic: The modern remake of Myst is visually stunning.
When I was a kid I used to make walking Lego models using Lego pneumatic elements and pneumatic logic to synchronize movement. My experiments eventually culminated in a (extremely slow) Rubik's cube manipulator which used a couple of first generation Mindstorm RCXs to "solve" the cube by reversing the shuffling stage.
I can't think of a modern reader which doesn't have a view like this. Just a few examples: The Old Reader, Inoreader, Feedly all do.
Lotus Notes. Easy to put together multi user databases with multiple views, security levels, authorization, and signatures.
No guns, better healthcare, and legal weed.
Of course the win.ini (and system.ini) became a mess. They should be in a folder, with each application having their own file with their own settings. And reading the file and then CLOSING IT so others could to stuff to it.
The conceptual targets are printing a chair sized object from granular material in 30 seconds, and a 2 story concrete house in 1 hour, so 10,000 is a very rough "shock marketing number", but yeah.
FWIW, a sin wave is usually a sign of a simple threshold based controller, not a PID loop (or if it is a PID loop, it's very poorly tuned). A well tuned pid loop will not exhibit any periodic tendencies, though I would expect that it would exhibit changes as the filament extrusion is stopped and started.
Boring Company tunnel under LA will now open on Dec. 18
I like how it instantly has the discuss in HN link and it's on the front page :)

Bézier curves seemed to me a bit weird too, but this video made it crystal clear:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXECQRlmIaE
What are you using to fetch the pages? Something like CasperJS/PhantomJS? If the banners are images or iframes from an external domain you should be able to traverse the DOM and locate them this way. You would have to have a list of ad providers domains to look for and you might miss some.
My Dad used Money 99 for years until he wasn't able to run it any longer. He switched to gnucash and seems to like it well enough.
The Extreme Daylight Savings Time of World War II
I put a harness on my rescue every day before feeding him for the first few months so he's totally fine with it as an adult.

The problem when going outdoors is he just squats in the grass and meows; very happy to go back inside.
I had a Lumia 920 for years. More than being fast, it felt fast. The animations were placed to make all the load times consistent. When you get used to a specific timing, the device always feels right.
Growing vegetables in greenhouses can be done very efficiently. The Wageningen University researched high-tech greenhouses in Riyad (Saudi Arabia) and found that it only required 5 liter fresh water per kg tomatoes, compared to 168 liters in a low-tech greenhouse [1]. This is possible using a closed system that recycles the water that evaporates in the greenhouse. The low-tech example is a plastic tunnel without such facilities (the most commonly used type of Greenhouse in the Middle East). The yield per square meter was also 50% higher for the high-tech greenhouse compared to the low-tech greenhouse.

[1] https://www.wur.nl/nl/nieuws/Nieuwe-onderzoekskas-in-Riyad-m... (in Dutch only)
UK oil production during the last five years has been a quarter of what it was during the 80’s and 90’s.
Hmm, interesting. TMTOWTDI is great for a small (one person) script, and One Way is better for a large (multi person) code base? That seems very plausible.
Modify an ad-blocker to instead of blocking highlight ads?
Pebble - still the best smart watch at the moment. I don't want my watch tracking me, I want a long battery life and I want it to be subtle.

This is one of the few times I actually watched better technology fail. Crushed by a few poor business decisions.
Science and Technology links (December 8th 2018)
The Shifting Funding Landscape
Python uses its own allocator for small sizes (below 512 bytes if I remember correctly). I've had a similar problem to yours. See https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3698 and the followup
https://glandium.org/blog/?p=3723 . I have a glibc bug open about the issue https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23416 .
Note that there is KaiOS -- popular in India and Brazil but under the radar on HN because it's currently mostly aimed at feature phones. It's based on FireFox OS (hence probably closer to PalmOS than Windows Phone): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KaiOS
I ported a FoxPro app to VFP in 2012. I had worked on the original one in DOS and ported it to FP for Windows around '96-97, so I knew the IDE's pretty well. But by that point I couldn't stand anything but Emacs. So I got xbase-mode (and patched it a bit), and just automated the project build.

There was 100+ screens so I had to do some bulk processing on those SPR's. But I used WebViews for any new stuff, and that was much better (though it was basically IE7).

Yeah I owe Rick Strahl so many beers for his blog.

http://www.budgetbuilder.com/

Second time this has come up this morning. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18635799
http://modernperlbooks.com/books/modern_perl/chapter_01.html
Neglecting evaporation, it's a lot closer to Yen Chin Ong's results (and those he cites, especially Christodoulou and Rovelli [2]) than most of the comments throughout this discussion, in that with a careful choice of time coordinate a spacelike spherical sector of a Schwarzschild black hole could evolve roughly similarly.

Of course, one has enormous freedom to choose spacelike hypersurfaces through a Schwarzschild black hole, so such a result is not especially interesting without some sort of uniqueness proof for the idea, and I don't think that's achievable. (cf [2]).

I'm also not sure this is what GP has in mind.

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[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1503.08245 (§ 2)
(simpler overview:
https://www.kth.se/profile/ycong/page/the-interior-volumes-o... )

[2] https://arxiv.org/abs/1411.2854 (§ IV)
I share your sentiments. With regards to Genera, have you seen this?

https://static.loomcom.com/genera/genera-install.html
It will never be able to simulate encrypted RTL - so any design using vendor IP is out (so lots of Xilinx cores, for example). It is a cycle simulator (not a delta time simulator), so no back annotated timing is possible. It does not support mixed language simulation (I know, it is a Verilog simulator, but you don't always get to choose what language a vendor supplies IP in). So that's just to start.

Writing C++ to toggle clocks then force the simulator to re-evaluate everything is terrible (opinion). The primary tutorials I've found are Dan Gisselquest's (ZipCpu) and (iirc) he recommends running your testbench in a delta simulator as well, to make sure it's giving you what you expect. So it isn't much of a "standalone" tool.

All that said, it seems like it could be useful - it wasn't in my case, but ymmv.