skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's more a question of the number of new comers, and their desire to integrate into the community versus their desire to change it to be like their place of origin.

How will a non Christian “integrate” into rural America and “share their values”, by converting to Christianity? How will either a gay couple or an interracial couple “integrate” where some Christians think their “lifestyle” is a sin?

https://www.newsweek.com/20-percent-america-thinks-interraci...

But if you are a really lucky minority like I was and went to a predominately White Christian conservative school and knew the music, the hobbies, and “integrated” well enough you might get the reward of “not being like most Black people” or “being really articulate”. But still, don’t try to date our daughter.

As far as your article that says just the opposite of what you intended.

When you walk out here in the central park, if it’s a warm day, they’re sitting around on benches out here. I mean, it’s like Europe. They don’t stay in their apartments. They come out in the street, and they sit around and talk, and it’s all in Spanish.

They aren’t doing anything illegal. They are speaking to each other in their native language but it makes other people uncomfortable.

I don’t speak a foreign language, but I’m pretty good at “code switching”. I speak a lot differently when I’m at work where a lot of my coworkers are non native English speakers - I don’t use a lot of colloquialism, I speak slower, and I don’t reference a lot of pop references from 10 years ago. I also speak differently when I am back home - I am not as attentive about not letting my southern accent out.

When I am around my Black friends who are all professional software developers who live in the burbs, the last thing I am concerned about is “integrating” into my surroundings.
Local caches fulfil that need just as well. Otherwise cloud products would not have been as successful as they are.
When Art Imitating Life Is Utterly Effective
The UEFI payload would work on Linux systems, yes. But the delivery system described would not.
It's Samantha Bee. That's her name.
Jeff came up with Goal Oriented Action Planning for F.E.A.R, which notably moved away from the traditional game AI practice of putting all your actor logic in a giant case/if-else state machine.
Marketing types lie compulsively. They can't help themselves.
> if Batman is in the public domain I'll be able to have a Batwoman. Having a female version of a character isn't per-se a copyright violation just because that path's been taken before.

I think you're making a legal argument, and I have no idea if your interpretation is what the court has already decided/will decide.
> The opposite actually. Allowing exports gives a market to that glut, keeping prices in the US higher.

Then why are gasoline prices nearly 9% lower than they were last year this time? [1] That's 9% directly into American's pocketbooks.

The glut I'm speaking of is the one in the world markets.

If US producers have a bigger market, they will produce more oil, which results in, well, more oil.

More oil produced from the US will require less oil produced from elsewhere to balance (in the world markets), or there will be a glut.

1. https://ycharts.com/indicators/gas_price
I would welcome you as opposing counsel because I would mop the floor with you. It's well-established that children can be and are consumers. In fact, both the FTC and CPSC have special regulations applicable to advertising and products for consumers under the age 12.

Could you be convinced to take over for opposing counsel on my current docket? I would be most appreciative.
> I, myself, just use xsel on the clipboard and pipe it automatically to translate-shell

You can do SHELL-COMMAND-ON-REGION (M-|) and get the output in the echo area.
Pedantic. They can't use the force of law to remove the videos. But you knew exactly what I meant.
It's as if the post-conflict civilian deaths are a useful side-effect. Monstrous
Military technology is a wide and pretty vague term. A lot of technology is implicitly dual use. A nice example of an unexpected military use case for a completely innocent looking technology was a work that explored potential weak spots in a proposed tank design by using real time 3d graphics and order independent transparency in particular to estimate armor strength against attacks from different directions. Originally, OIT was developed for games and 3d data visualizations.

I think that technology that can be used to protect people, especially civilians, should be developed. I know that I personally draw the line at weapoms platforms and weapon systems. You may develop and build them with the best intentions in mind ("we're at peace and this system is only a necessary deterrent"), but recent history tells me that once these systems are built and sold, they will be used by someone, somewhere to shoot at other people. Even the oh so pacifist Germany sells a lot of weapons and I think every type of weapon system sold to another country by Germany since the second world war has seen some action.
This would be much more friendly and "2019-ish" if all the text in those diagrams were searchable.
The 2018 Free Thought Awards
Not the entire earth, just most of the continental landmass. Places that were Permian oceans retain their fossil record, for example.
Ask HN: What's the next big tech hype?
So we currently have a front-page story about blockchain hype being over (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18795274), and Ars Technica wrote about the autonomous-driving hype falling apart.

With two hypes now entering the Trough of Disillusionment, I wonder what's going to be the next buzzword.

Please don't suggest AI/ML. Only future hypes, or beginning hypes.
Ok, we've changed that above.
> "More than a million Russian-made PFM-1 land mines—the most common butterfly type, possibly inspired by similar U.S. weapons deployed during the Vietnam War"

Possibly? Why is this article softballing? The Russian version of the mine is a DIRECT ripoff of the American version. They look EXACTLY the same.

Here is a BLU-43, the American version: http://www.big-ordnance.com/subs/BLU43OD.jpg

Here is a PFM-1, the Russian version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PFM-1#/media/File:Russische_Sc...

It's the same damn mine! There is no "possibly" about this. The author didn't lie but he's damn sure being dishonest. The article never even mentions the BLU-43 by name, which would allow more readers to look it up and decide for themselves.
Yuval Noah Harari Is Worried About Our Souls
It depends on what you mean by “generated”. Sure, in that scenario some people made money off of bitcoin. But did it actually generate anything of value?

Properly conceived, currency is a proxy for genuine economic value. Bitcoin mining generates nothing but bitcoins, which then are valuable because... other people say they’re valuable? I fail to see how this differs from a pyramid scheme.
I am from Quebec, so this what I know. The link says you can't and ask media to stop doing it. It also says that the train engineer union could keep his name because it existed before the law.
It's always different when you do it isn't it?
OpenSCAD: Software for creating solid 3D CAD objects
Older versions of BBEdit and TextWrangler used to be able to open enormous files (larger than entire system RAM) while remaining incredibly performant. I don't know how they did it, but it was magical and a killer feature.

Unfortunately, that stopped being the case since they refactored the text display UI somewhere around version 9.
They’re still trademarked
Netflix Drops ZX Spectrum Homebrew Title Nohzdyve
Let's also remember "regulatory backlash" can mean something that threatens the personal safety and freedom of a company's employees in that country.

When talking about censorship in these places, we should consider the ethical ramifications of possibly getting someone 'disappeared' for non-compliance.
Ok, we changed the URL from https://threatpost.com/uefi-rootkit-sednit/140420/.

Looks like this work was discussed a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18090651
What would you offer as a solution?
First, the site for the font isn't itself a screenplay; there's no reason for it to be set in Courier. Second, setting the site in a neutral typeface draws attention to the Courier font in the callouts.
Re-inventing floating point format would be missing the point (edit: i honestly did not see that pun sorry).. floating point formats cannot represent all of the rational numbers that a fraction could using the equivalent bits e.g 1/10 can be represented in base 10 decimals but not in base 2 float (where it has a repeating significand much like 1/3 in base 10), which becomes a problem when doing further math on it, try: 1/10 + 2/10).

Both methods result in "holes" bellow zero (necessarily of course), but they do not fit inside each other. However within a limited set of operations, rational numbers (within a capable format, and with necessary operators) have some interesting properties over floating point math that makes them desirable, i.e not loosing precision (unless overflow due to encountering large primes), and they are less expensive (built on integer math).

What he did do, is make a rational number bit format (floating bar) which stores everything as fractions, it's quite elegant really and anyone familiar with IEEE754 will see the similarities.
Le this. SA will be fine as long as SA is backed up by the countries who's soft power effectively blankets general public opinion.
I get reader mode in iPad, so the problem may be because of iPhone form factor, not mobile safari.
Since https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18800547 is high on the front page, it would be better to post this link as a comment in that thread.
When it comes to computer based user interfaces, I think the problem might be that they start to "look dated" after a while, even if they are perfectly good.

The flat fad is just a new coat of paint to make things look fresh and new. When the flat fad has run its course, they'll put on another fresh coat of paint.

That's my guess, anyway.
Gadgets: the hardest thing to make now is a profit
It's python after all, so why not?
for static semantic html its stable. but for dynamic web sites with JavaScript there can be breaking changes. it can get tricky when you do hacky stuff in order to support all platform and older browsers.
Sure, I like how the top level menus are still there - edit, view, etc, but File has been replaced with some weird badge up in the corner. That's just dumb, there is no user-centric explanation whatsoever.
I'm pretty sure a lot more than that one show is censored in Saudi Arabia..
Many countries are suffering from a shortage of teachers. Yet in spite of this, salaries aren't rising. This isn't really explained by simple "supply and demand".
With a strip of red gel overlay for the radar at the top.

http://videogamehistory.wikia.com/wiki/Battlezone
ISS crew have more tasks than time, and typically undersleep.
They dropped in-app subscriptions on Android as well in May 2018. But why?

Unless I’m mistaken, the Google Play Developer Policy allows you to use a different payments provider, such as Stripe, in a case like Netflix or Spotify’s:

> Developers […] must use Google Play In-app Billing as the method of payment, except for the following cases: […] Payment is for digital content that may be consumed outside of the app itself […]

Source: https://play.google.com/intl/en/about/monetization-ads/

At least in the past, Skype has been doing exactly that, for example.
> We don't have to deny them to anybody. Just to ask that those other countries it give them to their citizens, not having us give them to them.

Well clearly the girl in Congo is born into a country that is not able/willing to grant her all the freedoms that Anderson is championing. We can blame Congo for her predicament all we want, but that doesn't change the fact that she's being deprived of the freedoms that we have the ability to grant. So why should we not grant her those freedoms?

The whole point of foundational moral philosophies is that they should be applied universally. I'm very suspicious of moral philosophies that are applicable only to your in-group, and not your out-group. If the philosophy is so sound, why shouldn't it be applied towards everyone?

At which point you find yourself inventing a whole other moral philosophy, in order to explain why XYZ people should be in your in-group and ABC people should not. And yet another moral philosophy which determines what is right/wrong when interacting with those in your out-group. And then another moral philosophy which explains why you need 3 different disparate moral philosophies, instead of just applying one of them universally.
I was one of the original beta Mac developers, back in '83. Before the Mac was released. The idea then was to visually duplicate real world interfaces, and I gotta say they are easier for everyone, across the board, to grasp. Still, to this day, there are many people who do not use computers on an hourly basis, and they certainly do not get familiar with flat interfaces. However, the much maligned over-done interfaces are grasped immediately. Imagine that. It is because the software operates to mimic a real world item that person of many is familiar using already, without software. It is as if the entire reason for the UI is being missed by modern UI "experts" because duplicating real world objects and their innate feedback is too boring, or something. Imagine it as a stepping stone to n augmented reality where you are mimicking real world items, if you must. Real world mimicry is intuitive, and that is hands down easier. I don't need a study.
> Italy alone used to be a dozen+ independent city states. Divided the world 200 ways seems like a lot unless you look at how much it's been divided historically. And in comparison, that's extremely centralized.

What's interesting is to consider that while the world is very centralized in the sense you described, "day-to-day" operations are even more decentralized than ever. That is, (very generally speaking) order is established and maintained, and people go about their lives without huge, burdensome micro-management from "above" in the important aspects of their daily life.

It probably turns out that the most consequential decision-making affecting the modern person's daily life is happening very locally in the social & spatial/temporal sense. So, in that way, authority is effectively decentralized.
Funny you mention that. I have a friend who works as a 'think up interesting new products' person for one of Australia's big 4 banks. On their list of stuff to try is some way of centrally managing your subscriptions for you.

No idea how they'd pull it off – do you have to set up relationships with every provider, globally?! – but it's certainly an interesting idea. The number of subscriptions we have is only going in one direction.
Years ago during the Soviet-Afghan War there was a lot of American media asserting that the Soviets had very evilly designed the mines specifically to look like toys with the design intent being to maim children. Few if any ever mentioned that the Soviets had stolen an American mine design (which the American media rarely if ever leveled criticism against.)

>"In stark contrast to the lack of public commentary on the Dragontooth system, the subsequent Soviet analogue, the PFM-1, spurred a lot of controversy after being used in Afghanistan during the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, being a key element leading to the International Campaign to Ban Landmines.[citation needed]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BLU-43_Dragontooth#Overview

To answer your question more directly, the (official) design intent for the BLU-43 was to create an antipersonnel mine that could be deployed from aircraft without requiring parachutes. To that end, they designed it to be similar to maple seeds (the sort that flutter through the air when falling.) It's doubtful that they considered the possibility that the mines would be perceived as toys, although it should probably be noted that children also like to play with maple seeds...
But will we blast some Foo Fighters or Smashing Pumpkins in the car during rush hour traffic and jam like nobody's watching?

Absolutely.

....brb digging out my iPod heh
It is an especially bitter irony of history that only the necessities of wars and conflicts provided the resources to make certain leaps in tevhnological progress. Wartime economy allocates resources where they would never be directed in peaceful times.

We all look back at the Apollo program with a kind of a nostalgic sorrow because many of its achievements have not been surpassed yet. We would be capable if we put the resources into a worthy successor project. But the truth is that Apollo was a cold war project intended as a propaganda campaign against the Soviets. It would never have happened without that conflict (including the Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan wars).
"Thank you, next"
Nobody would have ever heard of, nor care about Mickey Mouse if it weren’t for that evil Disney corporation. Those corporations often fund and create the very IP you want to copy. If someone creates something, it’s weird that people feel entitled to it.
Sally Rooney Gets in Your Head
Generally agree except for the last sentence. What if the false negative is Elon Musk? Netscape could have hired him, but they passed. You can always fire a bad hire. You can’t reinterview Musk when you realize your mistake.
Like many, I really appreciate the role that BBEdit has played on the Mac. There's just one thing about it that really gets on my nerves, and that's the fact that auto-indent... doesn't.
Is the end of Netflix's golden age in sight?
>the ethical ramifications of possibly getting someone 'disappeared' for non-compliance...

Given recent events vis-a-vis Saudi Arabia, I'm pretty sure that something a whole lot worse than being 'disappeared' happens to you. I hear the authorities there are not above using chainsaws to resolve the differences they might have with you.
When it was first disclosed, all the major hotel chains went to Onity with a huge "what the fuck?" and got discounts or free hardware. Then Onity closed up shop entirely; the name still exists in UTC, but the original Onity just ... ceased to exist.
I just made specimen paragraphs in Courier, Courier New, Courier Prime and Prime Code, and Cousine[1]. I believe I much prefer the latter, for code and editing. Also, despite looking beefier, Cousine text takes exactly the same horizontal width as the Couriers do at the same nominal point size.

[1] https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Cousine
Farmers and Ranchers Are Completely Screwed by American Healthcare (2017)
> I don't know the history, but I've long wondered if it was because digital Courier was based on the (thin) metal typewriter letterforms, rather than the letters set to paper which would presumably have (thicker) bleed.

That is precisely why. Courier New was digitised off an IBM Selectric typeball, and they didn't correct for the ink bleed which the typeball was designed for.
The carmax experience isn't too far off from this. Carmax specializes in used cars. However, most of their used cars are 3-5 years old. I've always used them as a starting point when I'm not sure which make or model I want for my next car.
That looks super interesting. I am not convinced a subaru hatchback will come close to replacing ur minivan, probably a good way to try for a few months.
Cant they determinate the point in time when the air of the hole started acting as a thrust vector?
I recall playing a monochrome version as well. Maybe there was an edition with cheaper hardware?
So a priority should be to maximize how interesting our interstellar mission artifacts are to unlikely alien discoverers?

The probe itself is interesting enough, and there are many reasons to be reserved about how much self-describing information we voluntarily share with completely unknown aliens.

I personally find comfort in knowing there's nearly zero possibility of anything intelligent finding voyager intact.
I didn’t like the host or the questions at all. I feel as if had they just put all the scientists in a room and speak about whatever they felt like talking about, it would have been richer, more human, and more enlightening
They've made it clear that .NET Framework will be supported for many, many years. It just won't be getting as many new features. The point of the discussion here is about depreciating and removing and breaking existing tech, which will almost certainly not happen with .NET anything. Note that even VBScript still gets security updates. It's unimaginable that anything targeting .NET Framework will break (short of a bug) for at least a decade, and probably much longer.
I cant use any other than Luculent
http://eastfarthing.com/luculent
(thanks Andrew Kensler).

Finding the Best Programming Font
http://webagility.com/posts/finding-the-best-programming-fon...
XR. AR and VR already have the stench of death, people have no idea what MR is, but business executives might think they need an XR strategy or they will miss out.

5G. Carriers would be happy to sell you 100x more data, but you would have to pay 100x as much.
I am afraid you are mistaken about Hollywood. Powerful Weinstein, until the downfall, was a massive contributor to Democrats. Most of the top agencies are led by people who donate millions to almost exclusively Democrat candidates. Wrong or right, it’s indisputable that Hollywood industries are overwhelmingly left or left leaning. For every Clint Eastwood, I can give you 25 Stephen Spielbergs.
It's a good thing that with Blue Origin, Amazon can deliver new drills everywhere.
UEFI is perhaps the single most egregious pile of garbage ever concieved by humans. I don't think it's possible to overstate how awful it truly is.

Here's how BIOS works: basically, the computer loads the first 512 bytes of disk into memory and jumps to it. The OS takes over from there and does whatever it needs to, like bootstrapping stage 2 and loading the kernel from the filesystem. The spec[0] is 46 pages long and you are granted the rights to reproduce, distribute, and implement it free of charge.

Want to know how UEFI works? The spec[1] is a 2,899 page PDF which you have to pay to use in any way, including writing an implementation.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20110715081320/http://www.phoeni...

[1] https://uefi.org/specifications

Every copy of this specification should be found and burned. The ashes should be buried deep in a dark place and the earth above salted. Anyone who thinks this is the first rootkit made for it is completely insane. This thing was probably explicitly designed with rootkits in mind.
Careful reading would have shown I was talking about the courier MTA, and used mailserver only to distinguish it from the other meanings of courier. I made no claim that mailservers are not common.

I'm well aware of dovecot and postfix. And also sendmail and cucipop. Some things are more common now than than they were in the past, and vice versa.
IQ is largely a pseudoscientific swindle
>Global opinion matters...

Not so sure about this?

Reality is, MBS can do whatever he wants, global opinion or no global opinion. That's been made pretty clear recently.

I mean really, who's gonna stop him?
we did this as well. It was super useful for legit purposes as well as a RAT
> The most disturbing evidence here is the drift mark before the hole among the other bit tap marks. It implies the person drilling it did not have mental focus.

It is possible the drilling was done well away from line of sight, say somebody drilling near the top of the capsule while standing on the acceleration couch after the stack was erected. Tough to control a drill when your arms are near full extension.
Thanks for explaining this. I was having trouble to understand what was the concrete problem this font was trying to solve. That makes a lot of sense. Especially the standardization of text length to determine actual playtime.
Could have been masonry.