skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, got it. Thanks for mentioning growing up elsewhere; that helps. Yes, one of the problems with America's current racial status quo is that white people really don't want to talk about it. If you're interested in learning more about that dynamic, I strongly recommend this recent book: https://www.amazon.com/White-Fragility-People-About-Racism/d...

The same author gave a great talk about the book: smart, funny, and very informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45ey4jgoxeU

I do agree that people are racially distinct, but only if people are trained from an early age to treat those specific racial as significant. In Africa there are 27 major ethnic groups; to Africans those are visually distinct. To Americans, they're all just "black". The category of "white" is similarly artificial. [1] The boundaries of "white" have varied greatly over the years. So yes, I agree Americans will quickly classify somebody by race, but it's not primarily a visual difference, but one of specific cultural training.

I am saying that "special" treatment is not at issue here. The treatment was not just special; it was somewhere between suspicious and hostile. One of my colleagues there was just short of 7 feet tall. He was visually distinct but read as white. He often got treated differently, but never suspiciously. I doubt a white dude in a wheelchair would have gotten the third degree; my expectation is that people would immediately open the door for him.

As to calculus in high school, I know plenty of people who are programmers without it. I certainly have never used calculus while coding, so it doesn't make a practical difference.

As to how you can help, I think the best things to do are a) learn about America's history here, b) learn what present-day social structures help continue the diminished-but-still-ongoing oppression, and c) talking about them frankly. As somebody who didn't grow up here, you'll be able to see and talk about these things in a way that white people will listen to. Good books include Loewen's "Sundown Towns", Ijeoma Iluo's latest book, and Julie Lythcott-Haims recent memoir.

I hope that helps!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_White_People
Fairly sure my parents old TomTom navigation thing had that option too.
At least the Go Gopher/Glenda are kinda minimal
There's a huge difference between "faking it" and "frauding it".

Lying that you are providing a real service or being overtly oblivious about logical obvious outcomes of sunny day scenarios... that's way shady.
I figured perhaps there were untracked wolves bordering the tracked ones, so the green pack may not have it the worst.
Google docs but private. (So back when it was private which I assume it was at some point)
‘Yellow Vests’ Descend on Paris as Police Arrest Over 700 and Fire Tear Gas
If you want them to get billon dollar fines then send just two messages: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18633090
Why is it disingenuous? Trump can barely make plans minute to minute, never mind day to day or year to year. If he wasn't insulated by his inherited wealth he'd either be a homeless bum or in jail.

When has Trump ever contributed to a detailed industrial or economic strategy for the US?

That's never been his job. His job has always been to be the dummy in the window display, while the shop behind him is sold off and looted.
Kernel quality control, or the lack thereof
Mostly game engines I enjoyed. The Escape Velocity Engine for one, though clones exist. The Tiberian Sun/Red Alert 2 engine is this crazy mix of voxels, dynamic lighting, height-mapped terrain all in a fundamentally 2d environment which is really cool. I would have loved to read Starcraft's source code, but I imagine that'll never happen now with Remastered.
I use Wordfence and always thought it was good. But good to know that a lot of others find value in it too. Btw, looks like wordfence is getting killed with all the traffic from HN. Hopefully the increased sales will make it up to them :)
Ok great! Next problem: how do we make sure everyone on Earth owns a garage?
Since Engelbarts death in 2013 or even the 40th anniversary of the great demo, there is a diverse group of people who for most of the time were unclear whether the human system side or the tool system side should get focus and come first, but in anticipation and preparation of the 50th anniversary, it got more practical and several separate, individual demos were created and will be demoed in a separate event today and during breaks between the celebrations tomorrow. They're listed here:

- https://thedemoat50.org/symposium/demos/

Some of the history can be found here:

- https://www.youtube.com/user/frodehegland/playlists (Future of Text playlists, 2014 is on Vimeo)
- https://ualr.edu/jdberleant/URLtable-DB.html
- https://soundcloud.com/samhahn/tracks
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQw8OcRQ0Ws&list=PLYbSlBxcChOJ4KV2XIyR9oydfGzbvm1ai
- https://doug-50.info/journal/
- https://jrnl.global/journal/

There's more, spread all over the place.
That's why free education is important. It's crazy that people would go to prison on purpose to get it.
Zenbe, the email system that made me using email again.
Use this one https://rakudo.org
I am trying to revive a free version of this for the web, but I only vaguely remember it - I just remember I really liked it. Give it a try and send me suggestions at jeff@reportmill.com if you remember more:

http://reportmill.com/rmc/

I've only been working on it for a month, and I particularly don't have the data entry working well yet, but it's coming along.
No you don't get it: FR is a sensor, it is not authoritative, and was never intended to be by anyone other than science fiction authors. FR simply helps sift through many faces to help locate. A human still needs to be in the loop, or you are misusing the system. Lead developer of a leading enterprise FR system speaking.
Not abuse to the cat, abuse to everything outdoors. They are an invasive species.
Man I miss Brief. I even used it on OS/2. I wish Embarcadero would bring it back. The way you could split Windows amazing. And fast. The column based operations were great when maniplulating input files. VSCODE et al are OK but it can’t compete with character mode.
There's a reason that it's called penitentiary. It's because you're supposed to repent and show penance. It's meant to rehabilitate and return people to society after they have not only intellectually understood and apologized for their actions, but actually successfully modified their behavior to become a successful member of society.

Now while that is the intent, it does not mean it has not been corrupted. My main point is your idea of learning a skill is 100% what the Bible encourages. Not the punishment. Let he who has not sinned cast the first stone and all that.

Perhaps it's time to return these institutions to their proper purpose by actually discussing what we think should be a crime, and what we think the consequences should be from the ground up.

Good luck with that though when we can't even decide if the other side is evil or not.
> Personally I do the 3 pocket pat down every time. Left, right, back. Keys, phone, wallet.

Sometimes I'll do this while I'm using my phone, and momentarily freak out because my phone pocket is empty.
This is pretty cool.

This looks like it'll be useful for my work. Is 4bytes.directory the only source of function signatures?
Atmosfair Airline Index 2018 [pdf]
The same concerns could motivate the opposite view. Doesn't ethical responsibility compel those with the most educational resources to raise as many creative and productive members of society as they can?

Fears of Malthusian overpopulation were quelled by a series of agricultural revolutions. Fears of peak oil turned out to be based on outmoded projections and technologies. Fears of worsening global war and nuclear apocalypse did not take into account massive increases in prosperity and political changes.

In every case human ingenuity has surmounted existential threats. The world is not going to die, it is going through change within the bounds of many climate shifts that came before (albeit more rapidly). We need more minds working on problems, not less.
Perhaps they are trying to sway public mentality to be more accepting of a more modest lifestyle, but...

Most of what is viewed as "The American Dream" was indeed an unsustainable and overinflated dream, built on debt and fraud.

But yeah, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. (At least, relative to each other.) That's kind of the point of technology. But all the while, the baseline the poor live at does rise quite a bit above what had come before.

Our parents and grandparents may have been able to buy a house, but it was half the size (or less) of what most people would consider to be a resonably sized house today. And their houses weren't packed with appliances and gizmos for every need.

They may have been able to buy a car, but it would have lacked so many features and required so much maintenance, for a company to produce such a car today would be considered negligent to the point of being worthless.

They may have had pensions, but those pensions were built on debt and lies, and today we're seeing the pensions have very little to actually back them up. (In other words, they really didn't really have legit pensions.)

They may have been able to afford kids, but they didn't spend hardly anything on them compared to what people today seem to think they "have to" spend on their kids.

They may have been able to retire, but part of that was larger communities and several generations living very near each other or even in the same house. There was no expensive health care because the healthcare industry had very little to offer anyone. There was no huge retirement community expenses because granny lived with the family and everyone chipped in to take care of her.

They may have been able to get a job, but only half the population was able to get a job. And no, most of the jobs didn't have benefits.

Overall, my point is many people have an overblown perspective of how good the past is or what normal is supposed to be. Today's standards of living may be seing stagnation - or even a bit of a backslide - but I don't think it's all that worrisome or oppressive in the grand scheme of things. Rather, our expectations what standards of living "should" be are a bit unrealistic.

You may see this and claim that I've drunked thE Kool-Aid or something and been brainwashed by this article and simialr media. I would counter that I think you've been brainwashed by movies, TV, and Facebook into thinking everyone is supposed to have respectable homes, solid jobs with bennies, and financial security. Very few people ever actually have that kind of life.
This is too simplistic. The item might have variations (such as crude oil) which leads to different choices on import vs. export. The geographic source and destination might be important (well might be close to foreign refinery and vice versa). The method of shipment might matter (ship, rail car pipeline). The previous contracts and obligations might matter and so on
Logic Gates Under (Air) Pressure: https://hackaday.com/2017/08/19/logic-gates-under-air-pressu...
Thanks, that is really interesting. It is hard to believe that pdep/ext alone could result in a 10x throughput improvement - but I acknowledge it is possible since that is one very slow to emulate instruction in the general case, and if you needed exactly that...

It actually isn't clear to me exactly what Intel was targeting with that pair of instructions, but they sure is useful in all sorts of scenarios.

> The only other non-standard instructions with similar value are the AES intrinsics

If I can ask, what are the interesting uses outside of encryption? The main use I am aware of is as a handy fast and high-quality hash function implemented in hardware (and you don't need all the rounds when you are just after quality, and not adversarial collision resistance).
Microsoft Encarta
Hey a relative article. The wife and I have been walking both of our cats on leashes daily for 10 years. They love it, and importantly, it fulfills them - they sleep better, they are happier, they have less anxiety. Warning though: once you start, every day they will be demanding it.
Hypercard

Harpoon (game)

Drop.io

Quickkeys
FR is not out of reach for ordinary people. The algorithm of choice by the NSA is available as a cost of about $1200 per seat, and it only needs an ordinary PC to operate. This is no longer rocket science...
invisible backplane

Sounds like romanticized wish fulfillment. You want it to be true, so maybe it is?

On the one hand, we know there’s lots of spare empty space within an ordinary atom. We can take a known fact and build on that fact, to inform ourselves of possible details for observed phenomenon. The volume and behavior of degenerate matter represents hypothetical concepts that could be tested.

On the other hand, we have unknown unknowns and maybe we can hijack these blindspots and stuff ideas we like inside these cubby holes, even though there’s no way to test for such possibilities, but let’s formulate an untestable hypothesis because we think multiverses and wormholes and reality simulations are cool?
I have two cats but I keep them in for their health and the local wildlife, cats are prolific hunters and will kill even when we'll fed.

Decimating the local wildlife isn't a good thing.

Also indoor cats live healthier longer lives so there is that as well :)
extremely long fart noise
The 'war tubas' we used to spot warplanes before radar
If the second type is occurring, the company is screwed, and the employee is screwed a anyway. Without the leaker it is very rare for the company to come out and say

"Oh ya, our profit at all costs behavior is immoral"

all on their own.
Thanks for the update. I'll admit to not reading the guidelines closely until now, but since they don't actually outline a list of websites considered 'non-original', this does essentially mean that HN can apparently shift comments you make for any arbitrary URL to another, and you have no way to know beforehand.

Sorry, I don't mean to sound irritable, but attaching my comments to an article I didn't intend is way too close to putting words in my mouth.
You're right. Telemetry doesn't have to be a dirty word.

Your colleagues have ensured it will be for the next decade, though, I'm afraid.
This sounds similar to HP's $100k+ solution. There's another similar attempt I've read about recently. It's a form of stereolithography resin printing.

Instead of multiple needles in a granular material it's using multiple fast-aiming lasers pointing into a tank of UV-setting resin. The lasers shoot through a tank of translucent resin from multiple angles and where he beams intersect there's enough energy to set the resin without setting the surrounding bulk of it. A bigger array of lasers means more points can be set at once.

Normal SLA/DLP resin 3D printers already work a plane at a time, drawing up through a tank and having lasers hit that layer right at the surface. A bigger array of lasers means each layer gets set faster up to the limit of the resin's minimum cure time.

Most professional and some high end hobby 3D printers aren't FFD/FMD any longer. Resin, metal sintering, and other alternatives are leaving fused filament to the hobbyists. There's no reason sintering couldn't use more lasers, speeding things up to a practical limit of the metal's time to cool.

Personally, although it's still mostly hobbyist size and speed, I just recently backed a ceramic extrusion printer. It can use a variety of cheap and readily available materials to create heat-resistant, durable, food-safe items. Items can be smoothed and some details added before firing.

For your solution, have you considered a two-part epoxy as an alternate to granules and glues for finer resolution?
Twenty years of open source Erlang
data toolbar is a modified version of chrome, it includes visual workflow selector method, content grabbing, automated tasking, and exporting/importing workflows as xml documents.

I used it to auto-renew craigslist ads at a company I used to work for.
It's not the fact that it's complex that's the problem, it's the fact that it is adversarial. Not in a "survival of the fittest" kind of way but in a "we have to exterminate this other group/ideology because it is a perceived long term threat to us" kind of way. Or, as a substitute in polite society, "it doesn't how much we have together, as long as I'm guaranteed to have more than you."
FAR Manager is really great, you should give it a try: https://www.farmanager.com/screenshots.php?l=en
Furthermore, when people are shocked and go "what did he just say?! whatever will he say next??", that doesn't make his supporters defensive, it makes them proud. That is, proud of Trump pissing off the people they are sick of being ignored by. I don't mean to paint all Trump supporters with one brush, but I remember when he said stuff like how he could shoot someone in broad daylight and his supporters wouldn't mind... I was instantly reminded of things Hannah Arendt had written about the Nazis. I'm sorry to "Godwin it" like this, but it's important IMO:

> To them, violence, power, cruelty, were the supreme capacities of men who had definitely lost their place in the universe and were much too proud to long for a power theory that would safely bring them back and reintegrate them into the world. They were satisfied with blind partisanship in anything that respectable society had banned, regardless of theory or content, and they elevated cruelty to a major virtue because it contradicted society’s humanitarian and liberal hypocrisy.

-- Hannah Arendt

Ignore the cruelty and all that -- but having lost ones place in the universe? Check, I'd even say that applies to all of us in a way, and for some people it's very painful, unfair and demeaning. I think they're in parts correct to feel betrayed and angry; because it's not all "just the inevitable result of progress", or "how the world changed" -- without hustlers causing pain for personal gain we'd probably have even more progress, with nobody just outright left in the ditch. The trouble is when that turns into blind partisanship with something that makes "respectable" society turns its nose up, but doesn't actually solve those problems, even makes them worse.

And then society has literally no response for 2 years and counting than to turn its nose up some more, while sweeping under the rug how insane it was to let Clinton instead of Sanders run against Trump, without skipping a beat. Because hey, at least it's not being or supporting Trump, right? So while I don't know what will come after Trump, I know that if this continues, whatever comes next will be worse, simply because what is going on is more of what "caused Trump" if you will.
Solar or nuclear primarily generates electricity, which little oil is used for. They also have problems with supply/demand load balancing, and there isn't a good storage solution for that yet. Lastly, oil products have energy density that batteries are barely starting to be capable of. Tesla is just getting started, but the world will still need jet fuel.
If you're not aware, a modded version of Halo 3 was released by a mod team on PC, although Microsoft is not happy about it:

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2018/04/21/halo-online-retu...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1sxYvpNNlY
Not only this is not recent, it has nothing to do with politics or ideology, at all.

No-go zones have been used all over the world for decades.
All one needs to do it wear a hat with a blinky LED light, or a illuminated eyeglass frames: the cameras try to compensate for the bright, and cause your face to have degraded color / illumination space. This will kill almost all FR algorithms because it destroys the image inside the camera before the FR algorithm can begin.
Ask HN: How to locate ads on websites programmatically?
Let's say if i want to screenshot the ad banners which appear on the website. How can i do this?

The challenge is the determine what is a banner programmatically.

What technology can be used for this?
Likewise in Victoria, BC, Canada. I have no excuse not to eat ethically and sustainably because the options are never more than a short walk or drive away.

Not all people have this luxury though. On one hand, I have to make the choice to eat ethically but also spend more money. When I lived up north, options were a lot more scarce, and the average income was a lot lower. The community I lived in heavily relied on the cheapest options available.
I don’t think there was as much of a difference to the person living in Rome at that time, what with disease and starvation and lack of geographic mobility and hostile invaders.

And I might be wrong, but the worst predictions I’ve seen seem to be things that would lower the population of the world by billions, but wouldn’t make it utterly uninhabitable for those who remain (other than something like all out nuclear war).

I don’t think the comparison is disingenuous at all.

I think that if sea level rises and forests turn to deserts and oceans acidify and the population of the world declines by 90%, we’ll hope that the people who are left still try to thrive. And hopefully do better the next time around.
I used picass for one thing and one thing only: image organization.

I could point it to a directory and it would read all the images. It wouldn’t copy them to it’s database, it wouldn’t try to change their format. It would simply read them as fast as I’ve ever seen and show me what’s in that directory. Then it would keep the directory hierarchy in place. I haven’t been able to find anything similar. I search for a similar piece of software every now and then but nothing shows up. Lightroom is close but it’s god awfully slow. I just loved how fast Picasa.

I actually did some cleaning on my computer last night and found the last Picasa dmg. Maybe I run it and see if it still works.
I gave the paper a full read through last night.

Essentially this is a language agnostic framework for building data processing systems that are highly-avalible, distributed, topologically static (no dynamic scaling), and features exactly once processing.

You define a message handler that will always produce the same output sequence given the same input sequence and the framework provides delivery, serialization, buffering, durability and transparent recovery. They even provide a nice way of wrapping non deterministic behavior so that you can seamlessly continue even if you fail in the middle of processing a message.

That being said, the really are sloppy with their performance numbers, the comparison to gRPC isn't really fair at all due to their dynamic batching. And the code examples in the paper have some really silly errors.

But the paper is still a great introduction to reliable stream processing and basic strategies for delivering exactly once delivery.

Also, there is some interesting code that the paper glosses over in this repo: https://github.com/Microsoft/CRA
"Plus, the average Chinese doesn't necessarily share the concerns of western observers, they have had a different culture and values of their own for millennia, and a state that wasn't entirely different than their current."

I call rubbish.

Corruption is corruption and nobody ever accepts it as 'part of our historical culture'.

Having a corrupt government official take your home because they want to build a mall is pretty much Universally bad.

Being thrown in a concentration camp because of your religion not something anyone wants.

Having to bribe officials to get where you want is not something anyone wants.

Being told how many children you can and cannot have is not something anyone would rather live with.

I accept that people will accept differing levels of surveillance etc. - but in the end there are universal issues here.