skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first point is valid IMHO in a way. Like a lot of small towns in Massachusetts, Charlemont uses an open town meeting style of government, which means all residents have a vote in determining how the town is run.

I would personally believe that if there are issues with quality of service or price or whatnot, this governance style allows for a much better opportunity of addressing issues. Versus being run by a very large monopoly that honestly may not care that much about the ongoing needs of a 1200 population town (read: small revenue source) in the future.

A competitive environment would be better if possible, but failing that, I personally would take a municipal broadband system with a good degree of accountability built into the town governance over an oligopoly.
I've shared this before, but it's worth sharing again: Andrew Norman Wilon's Workers Leaving the Googleplex from 2011[0]. It's a performance piece (he used to do this live) retelling his experience as an intern at Google, and why he was fired.

(In the live version I saw he drew parallels to Brave New World, which felt quite apt)

[0] http://www.andrewnormanwilson.com/WorkersGoogleplex.html
The police aren't running the municipal ISP? There's no sense in lumping all "government" into one bucket.
The Three Body Problem had some flashy ideas (like controlling the CMBR, and building a computer the size of a proton), but I didn't really feel like it had much depth. It had none of the great social commentary that you often get in sci-fi, and I thought the characters were kind of two-dimensional. Overall it just didn't really do it for me.
Can someone recommend me more articles like this? Skeptical of new startups. I am a college student in Europe and I would love one day to start a startup, but I am afraid I missed the good window for starting one, and that the era is sadly over. (Internet is old, mobile 10 years old, I am AI sceptic)

Some interesting articles connected:
https://news.crunchbase.com/news/venture-capital-peaked/
http://reactionwheel.net/2015/10/the-deployment-age.html
I don't believe anything Intel says in a press report until I see the actual product. We have been lied to and mislead too many times.
The good news is that you apparently fixed it already at "I hate everything", which is still a number of commits before trying to recite the Macarena from memory.

A good rule/guideline for commit messages should not only help us writing perfect messages when we would otherwise write merely good ones, but also scale down to encourage mediocre messages when we completely stopped caring. "rerere ISSUE-123 there is no hope"
Conducting polls can be quite misleading.
Remember the last US presidency election polls? They were totally inaccurate*
Hedge funds could have lost a lot of money on this one.

*: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/31/upshot/a-2016-review-why-...
It’s not just expected - the servers are not making a living wage without it.
Can someone add a link to this ^ comment from the Wikipedia entry for "Straw Man"?
Why is it that I can't even read the first sentence before being pestered with a "sign up for our..." May I have some time to evaluate you offering so I can make an informed choice?
Because it doesn't always work. I had someone try to get me fired because she came into my office and said "do you have a minute?" and I said (because I was legitimately busy with something important) "No".

She was enraged that I didn't drop everything I was doing to listen to whatever problem she had, and went to complain to my manager, blithering about rudeness, and me not being a "team player".

Since my manger was the one who had assigned me the important work, he told her in polite manager-speak that I had done the right thing and that she should try again later if she still needed my help.
Intel’s 10nm Gen 11 Graphics Detailed – 1 TFLOPs of Power and Landing in 2019
I have a similar problem sometimes.

When I'm in Japan, Google seems to try hard to give me results localized to Japan.

When I'm in the United States and need to get information about something in Japan, it can't cope with the fact that I'm not in Japan. Where Google thinks I am (even with location tracking turned off) is paramount. Even if I search google.co.jp, I get American results.
> It's developed the first 3D chip architecture that allows logic chips -- things like the CPU and graphics -- to be stacked together.

So, they just have a theoretical architecture, is that it ?
Sure, these exist, but that's not really the same line of business.

You have your technical consulting firm and general IT contractors that sell services to companies whose main competence is not software developers. Then you have contractors go on-site, develop some software, and go back once the project is over.

But those aren't red badges in the sense we're talking about. We're talking about a company whose core competence is software development taking on contractors as members in existing software dev teams. The companies employing these contractors tend to be more like shell companies then technical consulting firms, and most of the training given to the contractor is the same as that given to FTEs, by the host company, since they have to work on the same code base and contractors and FTEs need to be in lock-step.
> Why don't restaurant owners increase the food prices and pay servers a fair wage?

A lot of good waiters make more with tips. A "fair wage" from the restaurant owner's perspective would be a bit less than how much they pay a line cooks (~$14/hr). A waiter at a semi-popular restaurant can make much more than this because the customer doesn't know fair value of their work and usually overcompensates. Waiters can also cheat on taxes a bit when people tip in cash.
Doesn't it follow that if you're able to evade the plain meaning of the law, then the law as written (or its enforcement) is ineffective, or "bad"?
Not necessarily, it could be handled in the MMU, we are after all discussing about kernel support.
https://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/McKinsey/Industries/Financi...

From what I can tell in the report 16% is account liquidity. The rest is actually transfers and maintenance
I need to keep an old IBM Thinkpad alive with WinXP for its internal modem for the express purpose of... maintaining the DoorKing entry gate in our neighborhood.

The gate installer charges $350 to make remote changes to the gate programming otherwise. It has to be updated at least twice a year because daylight savings (which the 'dorking' as I like to call it don't do).

It still manages to connect at 28.8 over my voip line at home, but just barely.

edit: turns out to be xp not win7!!
And then there are the Gilbert Strange lectures[4] on Youtube.

That should be "Gilbert Strang". Derp.
That is how you short a publicly traded stock. The mechanics of the shorting in the Big Short is actually a lot different. It is done with credit default swaps which you can basically think of as an insurance policy. The difference is that it is on a financial asset instead of on a physical asset and you also don't need to actually own the asset you are insuring. Like buying insurance on a car you don't own (you can't actually do this). Pay the premiums and if the car crashes you get the value of the car in cash.
What's the motivation of sharedholders to lend shares?
I'm inclined to agree with you. There's literally no new information in this article except that new number.
According to post #5 in this Lemon 64 thread[1], sound cards or TV amplifiers may invert signals from tape. I have actually just tried it when running recorded tapes in emulators but it has proved useful in cases when non-inverted tapes have failed to load.

[1] https://www.lemon64.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=45206
Chaff has always been a short term phenomenon - it settles, so how do you make it neutrally dense or even lighter than air so it will not settle.
The key is related to the aluminum coated Mylar balloons - make them as light as air, Helium diffuses out quickly
but if you use hydrogen you can create a chaff machine that uses two sheets of plastic, one coated with very thin aluminum. trap helium or hydrogen between them, then laminate and separate them into tiny tubes with neutral density so the residence time in air is quite a few hours with Hydrogen, lots less with helium. You can make it in advance, but popped popcorn fills a plane quickly, but unpopped corn allows you to mobilize more chaff in the plane.
This would be a good method to fox radar guided missiles, or radar satellite surveys or launches. These short straws of Mylar would have the needed aerial residence time and could even be made to rise, loiter and then fall with the right choice of gasses (mixed hydrogen and helium allows a rise, followed by a fall as the helium diffuses out) - saves helium as well
Meta:

NamePros tech admin here. This hammered our servers so hard that we actually uncovered a fairly obscure bug in Nginx's FastCGI caching. It's gone unnoticed for years, including during rigorous load testing.
would you settle for a black project researching new radar evasion and confusion techniques? Seems like a legit purpose and something companies and governments will be actively researching. This kind of research would be under nda / top secret or black project just depending on what entity would do it.
You Can't Win by Jack Black - autobiography of a small-time safecracker in the late 19th and early 20th century. Long enough ago for everything in life to be different, not long enough ago for everything in life to be incomprehensible.
I use DDG most of the time.

But for dev related stuff I use Google, results are simply better
What this means is that they use 400 sources for things like Instant Answers and other widgets but Yahoo and Bing for all their organic search results.

So, the DuckDuckBot that you cited doesn't contribute to DDG's organic results?

90% of what Google returns to me is Wikipedia, IMDB, and other verticals anyway, so it's not that much different IME.
Is the only difference between Heroku and Serverless is that I pay for Heroku while the app is idle and that I have great debugging tools on heroku?

Please help me understand why I would choose Serverless over heroku
Forgive the oversimplification, but you borrow from someone who owns the stock. They lend it because they collect fees/interest when you borrow it.
I went ahead and tried anyways and got this error:

> Request has been terminated Possible causes: the network is offline, Origin is not allowed by Access-Control-Allow-Origin, the page is being unloaded, etc.

For such an AFAIK unknown blog, they really are making it difficult to get new readers.
Intel Unveils ‘Foveros’, a New Way to 3D Stack Chips with an Active Interposer
Pollsters normally have a good idea what answer their customer wants to hear. Those who deliver that answer get more business.
In retrospective I wish I had read more this year.

- The Art of Community: Building the New Age of Participation

- Foundation series (Foundation, 2nd Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Foundations Edge, Foundation and Earth)

- Three Body Problem (trilogy)

- Artemis
Mind sharing some screenshot/archive links? I have no idea how to use 4chan
Political polling is a tiny percentage of their business; they mostly do market research for corporates.

Every few years, polls get verified against reality at the ballot box. If you're running a polling company, would you want to sell your market research as the company whose polls were some way off the votes they'd just seen counted because you were trying to influence the electorate?
Gender isn't really sufficiently explaining anything, really. At least not in this case.

The more precise question including gender is: Why does HN (and programmers in general) care about Ada but not Evelyn?

At least one possible, and better, answer might be: she didn't actually create things programmers cared about (Word vs Vim? Vim is by far the fan-favorite tool, for people who care about such things), and the only people who would care about who created what software, outside of historians.. is (hobbyist/hacker) programmers. And airplane reservation systems.. not only is that not something you'd expect the HN to like, it's something you could expect them to hate dealing with (and more particularly, writing).

Ada on the other hand computed in general, and we already know that programmers like computing.

The interest in one producer versus another seems far better explained by, well, the subject of their production; regardless of its notability.
Because it sows division amongst subcultures of the US that dont subscribe to the tipping culture. You have people in the lowest socioeconomic classes validating their disdain for some minorities because they don't tip, instead of affecting change to wage system itself, this is a useful distraction for people in higher socioeconomic classes.

In places like Miami where English comprehension is very low, mandatory gratuity is added with a further line item for tipping

Disparate hospitality minimum wage excecptions across the country exacerbates the level of research and discretion needed to adequately consider tipping. With some places paying a seperate lower minimum wage to restuarant workers and some places like California (where over 10% of the country lives) having normalized minimum wages but the same compulsory guilt driven tipping expectations.
Care to explain what you find is objectionable about this?

I love stuff like this. Finance is an art.
Chinese hi-tech researchers ‘told not to travel to US unless it’s essential’
Nice job on the app! I'm reminded of https://750words.com/ that I discovered years ago.
It's the Matrix. Enter if you dare. -Morpheus
The REPL is a really different way to develop software. Jupyter was grown from IPython, a really great REPL. I prefer it to Jupyter. I always start a console connected to my notebook executing the magic %qtconsole
Dorothy L. Sayers, perhaps.
http://i.imgur.com/tTc9cKQ.gif
> public entity at federal level

> without the misaligned incentives of the big corporate companies

There's plenty of misaligned incentives at any Nth level of government. They're just more diverse. Some are political instead of financial.
Why the downvote? Isn't this comment bringing good critic?
This.

JIRA has been around over 15 years and definitely supported other workflows before it supported Agile ones specifically.

To me, it has felt in need of a complete rewrite for probably half of that time.

If you've had to do administration for it, or have had to dive into more complex configurations, it definitely feels like it's more baggage than product.
More details please. :-) This sounds like it deserves a full article.
They are paid, of course.
What is “most countries?”
I can how that would be abused, as in: go duck yourself

Edit: somebody beat me to it.
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No, the majority of employees in a work unit make that determination. Majority will overrides the individual's contracting rights. And it is not in people's best interest to undermine the free market. It totally impoverishes people. Laws robbing people of their freedom make society poorer. The US would still have a manufacturing base if it weren't for laws subordinating employers to unions.
Show HN: An aggregate article platform for readers
You pay the person you borrow the stock from a fee.
I believe you pay them some small sum for it, so you could call it ‘renting’ the stocks for a short while.
I'm wondering whether a webapp environment such as Chrome OS would be that niche (with a couple of commits in their issue tracker to enable x32).

Hardware is typically a price sensitive netbook contrained by RAM and with a low powered x86-64 CPU, so that 13% performance increase might be noticeable.

The software is a design that is inherently multiprocess for security reasons (where every webapp is essentially a browser tab running in its own sandbox).
I think the point of Quillette is to balance between radical left wing media and radical right wing media. It's a refreshing drop of libertarianism in the world of media that is extremely biased either to the left or to the right.

Certainly for the people on the left it's not leftist enough and for people on the right it's Trump-hating traitors.
> Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy: A classic. The Judge.

I actually started this while on vacation but took a break to read something else. I'm tempted to continue.
Interesting, I love modern journalism.

Why doesn't the tanker have better lighting at the back of the ship? It seems to only be easily visible on the front-side from far away. Although I'm not trained to be able to spot a dark ship against the horizon it looked pretty challenging using the night view.
I'm kind of shocked that you'd openly admit to this kind of behavior. You're lobbying for the public to foot the bill for public infrastructure to be used solely by private entities, then intentionally introducing inefficiencies by leasing usage out to said private entities. I'm guessing after customers pay more taxes and still have the same internet bill, you'll then lobby that public internet is a failure and advocate for divestment for some massive discount that will be happily picked up by whatever local monopoly is extorting citizens. Truly disgusting.
Better than Reuters? I'm not sure about that...
Anti-Phishing Protection for Nucleus Vision [pdf]
As a counterpoint, I found "Accelerate" to be just ok. It is essentially a rehash of all the popular software and methodology best practices blog posts and articles we've all read in the last 15 years. This is disappointing because I expect a book to dig deeper and present new information. The main value is in the surveys measuring the improvements that organizations experienced from these practices.
What I learned from getting deported twice and building 2 successful businesses
First result for me.

Since Google results almost always vary by geographic location, according to the bottom of the page, Google thinks I'm in "Bernalillo County, New Mexico."

I have no idea where that is. I haven't been to New Mexico in close to 20 years. I'm currently almost 1,000 miles away from New Mexico.

Good jorb, Google.
That command set is still in use! I was working with it just last week to control an LTE module.
You get paid for providing the shares.

So if I had one million shares and thought the stock was going to go up, I could make some extra cash by lending it to people and making them pay me for the right.
The problem I see with companies selling private polls, is there's an incentive to release less accurate public polls. Why give away the good info for free, when the more accurate info is worth tons of money? A company wouldn't necessarily need to falsify the polling data, just poll less rigorously to produce a misleading result. Could current oversight prove that they were being intentionally misleading? Producing private results which counter the public results would make for very good business.
Gonna guess a bias to entrepreneurs who are actively trying to cash in on externalities and opportunities for arbitrage, etc.
People Are Road Raging at Waymo’s Self-Driving Cars
That word is "googol". Google is nothing. It's a play on words we've gotten used to like DuckDuckGo.
Agreed. Not to mention the fact that companies do this to protect themselves from what happened to Microsoft [0], not out of some evil desire to create an underclass of workers.

[0]: https://www.reuters.com/article/businesspropicks-us-findlaw-...
I think Google tried blind hiring and it turned out that blind hiring is racist because it doesn't give sufficient weight to diversity. So I personally also don't know how to improve this further.
Yeah, and that's what, a fraction of a percent of the contractors? They're not who we're talking about right now.
Is It Possible to Have a Company with No Office Politics?
Or Vivaldi (https://vivaldi.com), which has many such quality of life improvements over both Chrome and Firefox.
You should run for Mayor, I believe in you.
Well that's on DuckDuckGo. They could make it more obvious if they wanted. Interestingly, when searching duck, DuckDuckGo went from 2nd to 1st.
Are you sure the VPS ISP won’t see the destination IP of the softether tunnel? (My real pc)
I knew that they won’t for sure see what’s inside that tunnel but what about the destination?
> Children of Blood and Bone: Really good and gripping. Listened to the audiobook of this one and it keeps you on your toes.

The most-liked review on the Goodreads page said to avoid this book like the plague. What makes this so good?
Usually people don't go to an exchange directly to buy stocks, they go to a broker-dealer: that's who lends the stock out to short.

Fees to short certain stocks can be quite high, so even if the stock dips it's possible to lose money.
It probably does. It'll take me a while to dig through the source to find the cause, but preliminary evidence suggests that fastcgi_cache_key doesn't handle $cookie_* variables correctly. If the cookie doesn't exist, it seems to result in a unique key every time. (Edit: The workaround is to assign the $cookie_* variable to another variable and then use that in fastcgi_cache_key.)

If anyone is curious what sort of increase in traffic you should expect from a link to your site appearing on HN, we're getting about 230 additional backend requests per second--that doesn't include anything cached by Cloudflare. You can monitor it in realtime here: https://www.nameprosstatus.com/
Nice collusion we have in here. Not that I trusted DDG to begin with.
The level of bluntness one would need to get through to the typical blowhard described here is higher than many people are comfortable exercising except as a last-resort, bridges-burning nuclear option.

Certainly in the UK we'd tolerate all sorts of social torture before dreaming of "causing a fuss", although I appreciate OP is in the US!
My interpretation is that day-to-day human experience is focused on things that are a small subset (range) of all possible scales, and the same applies to time: we don't live a billion years, nor can we perceive a difference of 0.000001 seconds. We have no direct "sense" of really small things nor really big things, and have no sense of really old things and really frequent/fast things.
Hey Google, What’s the Point of Silicon Valley’s Tech Hearings?
Generally it's from brokers who are holding it on account, and they agree to lend it for a fee and some collateral.

There may be problems finding someone to lend thinly traded stock. Or you can take out a short position and not be able to buy it back at sensible prices: this results in a "short squeeze". https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen/short-sellers-...

It is possible to lose more money than you invest with short selling, so be careful.
Not sure I agree with this. The background color is still indicative, for example you can see how much more populated the rural areas in the eastern US are compared to the west, by the shades of white to brown over large areas.
Partially, but also just to indicate what they perceive to be the real damage from his actions, so that in the future people can evaluate if their personal vendettas are worth the harm they cause. (Of course I see the irony given recent history at the company, but future deterrence is a large motivator for many lawsuits).
>Water, sewer, gas, electricity, and internet infrastructure should be owned by taxpayers.

We'll have the same situation we do with police departments where they're basically impossible to punish for wrongdoing because you're just punishing taxpayers by proxy.
What about that sentence makes it seem theoretical?

I would read the article, but the site refuses to load any text if javascript is disabled, so tough luck for engadget.
That doesn't mean it has poor fundamentals, the internet also had paltry usage in the bbs days, and cryptocurrencies technologically are even earlier than that.

A lot of people think 10 years is long enough but the road from arpanet to the www was multiple decades. Just because the hype hit faster doesn't mean we won't get as far as the internet did.