skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The story of Tom Waits before Kathleen. Post Kathleen Tom Waits became the alternative music darling. His entire oeuvre deserves a serious listen but I recommend starting with Rain Dogs. And don’t hesitate to watch Buster Scruggs. Tom Waits is a treasure.
Directory specific history... Probably my most useful profile addition.

https://github.com/wolfwoolford/dish
Washington State Wants to Stop Theft of Mile 420 Signs. Its Solution? Mile 419.9
A search engine for only pages catered by an individual and not a company would be very cool. The first PageRank patent recently expired[1], so one could use the early Google methods for setting up such a thing. I thought early google was great and much better than today's.
I’m all in favor of abolishing tipping culture from the US but that’s not something you can expect a single restaurant to accomplish on their own. Given the reality of US culture I think this is a good compromise for now. It’s much more honest then pretending that the restaurant isn’t expecting a 20% tip on every order.
That's the first mention I have seen on HN of primenet :-)

I used to work for the UK tymnet system (80:BTG174) and Logging on from home via a 110 baud text portable terminal to kick off a map reduce billing run on all the Telecom Gold (tymnet) 15 or 16 Primes was interesting.
I agree that 90% of people do not need that, but there is a scale between 1 machine and 1 million machines.

It is not just IOPS but latency. Some of my production servers are connected one-to-one by crossover cable, in clusters with as many extra nics as needed (say 3 machines: 2 extra nics per machine) just to shave that little extra overhead of going through a router as yes, it matters in some applications!
Having just spent a bit of time on this today[0], I realized there is one seat (NC district 9) that's still not set due to fraud allegations. Could be that's what they're referring to.

[0] Just threw this together to start playing with hosting using S3: http://howoldiscongress.com/ (Yes, I know that's absurd precision. wip and all.)
Hehe I liked the 'lcoate' one on this page too, same idea. It might be super-useful to have a function that, if command not found and if there's an anagram of what you typed that is a command, asks if you meant that instead, y/n? (That would make computers seem a lot more intelligent!)
But in most Western Europe, you've got health coverage, unemployment and also retirement is included. Plus cheap and good public transit so you don't have to pay for a ca
> figuring out how to pay him more without having him lose access to different low-income programs for which he currently qualifies

Wow, the charitable impulses here are overwhelming. You'll pay him more, as long as it doesn't lift him out of poverty. Wow. Wow.

If you want more staff, pay staff more. This easy equation has been understood for thousands of years but business owners find it difficult to comprehend when it is their business.
In the pre-web world email, FTP (or going back further Kermit), Usenet and for some IRC was the Internet for most users. For many who weren't directly connected, things like UUCP (Unix-to-Unix Copy) was used to batch transfer email and Usenet feeds in the middle of the night. Anonymity was the norm. Plaintext passwords (telnet/FTP) in transit... when passwords were even used.[1] Everything was standards-based and mostly text-based. Text based UIs... even the GUIs on high-end (for the time) desktops were just wrappers around text. Manually maintained host files in the pre-DNS world. No advertising.[1] No user tracking. Server logs were considered chaff and discarded after a couple of months if there were no security/server issues to investigate. Slow... yet felt more responsive since getting 2k of text only took a bit over 2k of data transfer rather than the 500k+ it takes on many pages today with their Javascript/CSS/etc payloads. While primitive, to someone tech savvy who grew up with tech in the last 10 years it probably wouldn't feel completely alien... just spartan and antiquated.

[1] It's really hard to convey this but because the community was so much smaller back then bad behavior could and would get you banned from the few key service providers, servers available and/or shunned by other users. So if you wanted to be online you generally behaved semi-decently or you were gone. It was not uncommon for complete a-holes to be killfile-d by many on Usenet effectively rendering them invisible. Spamming people's email would get you filtered (sometimes at the server level) and, again, rendered you invisible. If none of that worked, complaints would pile up with your service provider (while you could be anonymous, your provider often wasn't in the form of mail/Usenet headers) and depending on how bad it was they (often your school or employer for most) would have no problem terminating your access. The rise of AOL really marked the beginning of the end of these norms... (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)
Just because the median apartment is not affordable doesn't mean there isn't affordable housing. Half of all people have apartments that are cheaper than the median.
The Puzzle of Proto-Elamite (2013)
Amoebas Are Smarter Than They Appear
Real Story Behind the Havana Embassy Mystery
I can speak of the internet in 94. It was pretty inaccessible and/or unknown by most people. Most people paid like 20 a month for walled garden services like aol/compserve/prodigy which had no internet access only access to their internal services. Real internet access when it was available to me near Boston was like $30 a month for 20 hours (dialup) or you could get a shell account unlimited for $20 a month. Needless to say I had a shell account for awhile so IRC, muds, lynx, etc.. Lots more memories but I gotta go, maybe later :P
Do you mean encoding the lucene queries as JSON objects into the ES endpoints, or do you mean the actual lucene syntax (as would be surfaced by kibana et al)?
Restaurant owner: "everyone walking past my door is paid so much in salary that I can't raise my prices"

Me: Think about what you just said.
Not Always Ivan Pope (who was in the same class as some of the BYA) was involved in setting up Cyberia and some of the early zines.
Well, this inspired me to install ScummVM, install this pack, and finally beat Kings Quest VII Chapter 1. It was the first game I ever had as a kid, and I never was able to get past one of the puzzles. The audio sounds great!
MIT Is Pouring Resources into Commercializing Fusion Power
Ooh. I got a HiSeq 2000 for a six pack of beer. Can’t wait to try to hack it!
Anthropomorphization is bad. Reminds me group selection studies, where scientists expected animals to self regulate and reduce amount of breeding in bad conditions, while in fact it just caused cannibalism.
Wow, submitting a paper to an editor/reviewer is considered human research thus ethical board approval is required:

> McLellan asked Boghossian to reveal any evidence that he had received approval from the university’s institutional review board for research involving both human and animal behavior.

> The review board also determined that the hoax project met the definition for human-subjects research because it involved interacting with journal editors and reviewers. Any research involving human subjects (even duped journal editors, apparently) needs IRB approval first, according to university policy.

So from now on, writing a CS paper on a new sorting algorithm will require ethical board approval.
Truncate the $PWD to ¼ of the terminal width and put the result into the command prompt:

# truncate the $PWD
function cut_pwd
{
newPWD="${PWD/#$HOME/\~}"
local pwdmaxlen=$((${COLUMNS:-80}/4))
if [ ${#newPWD} -gt $pwdmaxlen ]
then
newPWD=".+${newPWD: -$pwdmaxlen}"
fi
}

PROMPT_COMMAND=cut_pwd
PS1="\h:\${newPWD} \\$ "
Not badgers?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badgers_(animation)
How does that work exactly with the massive surplus the state is running? [1] couple those Donna be used to fill this gap?

[1] https://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2018/dec/18...
Wonderful samples. None of the instruments are neglected; the standard is consistently high. And I'm happy to have clarity on the terms of use. So many (for example, Shan's Soundfont) have no stated license or provenance.

I'll be loading this into juicysfplugin[0] (my free, cross-platform soundfont synth) for a play.

[0] https://github.com/Birch-san/juicysfplugin
Scott Galloway, a marketing professor, and an interesting guy, thing that it is the main factor, even after high school.
So how could WW2 have been avoided?
I'm a big fan of Turkey and Greece home made food. Where I live, one such meal, and if I bring the family, would cost up to 10% of my monthly salary as an engineer with 20 years of experience. The chef at the restaurant earn more then I do.
Rebuilding older machines using the hand scraping method [video]
Apparently the university is accusing Boghossian of unethical research involving human subjects, and those human subjects are the journal editors who published the nonsense articles he submitted.

It's one of the most transparent excuses for a witch hunt and rigged trial I've ever seen.
There's no breaking point, just ever-increasing inequality as an inevitable consequence of structural factors. Feudalism persisted for centuries, and it can again.
OK, but that still doesn't explain why "me too" food should outcompete ethnic/specialty/niche food when workers at both kinds of establishment (not to mention the establishments themselves) are paying the exact same rent. Perhaps when eating at a restaurant gets so expensive, people opt to trade off food quality rather than e.g. doing less of it in the first place, or whatever else.
How can we provide support?
I hope some day we invent Tricorder as well!
Boroughs aren't allowed to permit development that would make any of the Thames path private. The path isn't always the riverbank but close enough.
re : intentionally creating complications : Yes indeed -- Petrosian was also [in]famous for doing this. It's also a great way to win on time in blitz / bullet.

Silman has spoken / written about the little-discussed but non-negligible role that chance / stochastic processes have in the outcome of chess games. In one of his books [I think the recent edition of 'Reassess You Chess'], he ballparks chance at something like 10% of the total factors influencing outcome.
Since when can you send logs (not just time series) to Influx? That would certainly be news to me, as a huge TICK stack user.
It doesn't have to remove every truck from I5 to be a huge win, either. Like I said, I5 is packed with trucks 24/7.
> Would like to try my hand at building something like that myself, but X on top of being phased out is a strange beast to learn and there’s practically no material on writing something for Wayland.

You should look up the work of Sir_Cmpwn (aka Drew DeVault), specifically the wlroots project and his excellent writeup: https://drewdevault.com/2018/07/29/Wayland-shells.html
Star trek communicators and ipads!
Further reading: https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/cauldron2018?action=AttachFile&do=g...

(e.g. slide 22)
That may be, but good luck running a business that relies on all of your staff deeming 4 hours of daily commuting reasonable.
Mind uploading predictions are fascinating (Edmond Hamilton, 1936; Isaac Asimov, 1956, 1957; Arthur C. Clarke, 1956; Bertil Mårtensson, 1968).

Also predictions about automating boring and mundane human tasks:

Waldemar Kaempffert, 1950: "When Jane Dobson cleans house she simply turns the hose on everything... After the water has run down a drain in the middle of the floor (later concealed by a rug of synthetic fiber) Jane turns on a blast of hot air and dries everything."

"With the advent of frozen foods in the shape of bricks, cooking as an art is only a memory in the minds of old-people. A few die-hards still broil a chicken or roast a leg of lamb, but <by using ingredients in frozen bricks> Jane Dobson can serve a steak in less than three minutes, and an elaborate multi-course meal never takes more than half an hour to prepare.

"discarded linens and underwear are recycled and turned into candy."

Isaac Asimov, 1964: "Gadgetry will continue to relieve mankind of tedious jobs. Kitchen units will be devised that will prepare 'automeals,' heating water and converting it to coffee; toasting bread; frying, poaching or scrambling eggs, grilling bacon, and so on."
It's impressive how the writers and designers of this piece have worked together to produce something that goes beyond what's possible in a static medium like paper.

From what I understand of the history of the motion picture, the earliest directors basically filmed stage plays. It wasn't until directors like Griffith and Eisenstein edited movies in new ways -- creating a film grammar that we take for granted today -- that the medium reached its full potential.

We're a couple of decades into the Web, but I think we haven't yet found our Griffith and Eisenstein.
Is it hard to make the soundfont as wave tables instead? Samples are so large!
How We Think, by John Dewey (1910)
Google blocks popular call recording apps
Giving programmers what they want, or what they ask for
I generally read the verbiage... especially regarding non-competes and IP assignment. If it only regards poaching and work done for the employer, I'll sign.. if it includes work I do on my own, or working for a competitor for an unreasonable time-frame, I decline or strike out the offending lines.
Best Internet of Things Development Starter Kit
Great news after the crash last year - I currently work in Cardington and can see the sheds (never hangers) from work.
I wasn't that big into anime but I used to love Evangelion (I still do) after it aired on television here in Australia around 97/98 some of the first web pages I can remember visiting were fan pages for that series. The X Files was other big thing I use to look up online. I was pretty much obsessed with that TV show when I was a kid.

>The ads weren't bad it was banners and it blinks or slide across like marquee html tag.

I can definitely remember ads getting worse and worse. At first they weren't bad but by 1999 or so it was pretty horrendous popup ads were massively prevalent. I can remember needing to run a separate pop up blocker app before browsers started building blockers in.

HTML blink tags were definitely a thing there were some eye bleeding websites using blink.

Trying to use search engines for researching high school projects was a pain you'd need to use 5 or 6 different search engines - Lycos, Infoseek, Metacrawler, Yahoo etc and each search would give you different results you'd be lucky if 30% of results were relevant to your topic. Dial up was so slow as well (at least at my school) it often wasn't worth the time to try using internet for researching assignments. It wasn't until I started university and found out about online journals that it really became a useful research tool.

Plugins used to be a big thing stuff like Real Player, Shockwave, java applets etc I'm pretty sure at some point Flash basically killed all these but for a while it was kind of a wildwest. Video online was almost never worth it. It would take forever to download half the time you wouldn't have the right codec to play it and quality was generally so terrible it was borderline unwatchable - everything looked like one giant pixel.

I can remember being introduced to Slashdot it was the site for a while I was a pretty late comer and it was huge in the late 90's I used to check it multiple times a day.
what was the monitoring solution at the end, where were BQ results going to?
Returning the Bay Area to a quaint, sleepy place isn’t making them feel pain, it’s giving them exactly what they want.
It's coming to a head, finally. These academic dogmatists are being dragged out into the sunlight to be disinfected.

As usual, Steven Pinker sums it up best:

> "Criticism and open debate are the lifeblood of academia; they are what differentiate universities from organs of dogma and propaganda," Pinker wrote. "If scholars feel they have been subject to unfair criticism, they should explain why they think the critic is wrong. It should be beneath them to try to punish and silence him."
vi-style line-editing

set -o vi

emacs-style line-editing

set -o emacs
>Such behavior, they wrote, hurts the reputations of the university as well as honest scholars who work there. "Worse yet, it jeopardizes the students’ reputations, as their degrees in the process may become devalued."

I'm afraid this particular objection paints a rather damning picture - any critique of the field may be criticized under similar grounds. One who would make such a complaint has left the path of science.

(Interestingly, the concession that it is damaging to reputations actually lends support to the thesis)
The concept of information asymmetry doesn't apply at all to year of car (buyer and seller agree on that fact based on title and VIN) and largely doesn't apply to mileage

That's exactly my point. The apparent information asymmetry regarding the overall "goodness" of the used car, is mediated by the presence of strong signals about that goodness, which are available to all parties. Note that I'm not saying they eliminate the overall asymmetry, just that they reduce it.
If I write a paper on a fake sorting algorithm and submit it to a real journal to see if it gets approved, it's not really a stretch to call that human subjects research.
I have tried this and it feels nice but I don't want to use git from the command line. I like magit or otherwise fork-app. I didn't find a way to use the bare repo with any of them in an easy way, so I gave up. I use stow now. It alright, but I'll change it in an instant if I found a way to use my tools with a bare git repo.
I'll just mention https://composingprograms.com a take on sicp mostly in python. A bit of scheme is used in the latter half for doing meta circular evaluator.
There are hard limits on the supply of skilled labor. Less on the supply of semi-skilled labor. The situation implies that some people will substitute less-skilled cooks for skilled ones. Hence the overall quality of SF restaurants will decline but restaurants will continue to exist - those dining out will simply choose the best of a less-good collection.
Aren't both of those E2EE? And even if they weren't, wouldn't TLS be sufficient for China to not have the capability to do anything?
Android is a mess
It’s not just luck. It’s also the unacknowledged support of your peers. I’ve had two bosses that were process nerds to the point of wanting to write a book, and neither of them, once they tried to condense their findings down, wanted to credit the teamwork aspects and other human factors (I’m big on human factors).

When you like people, or just your team, you plaster over their mistakes. If you try to reduce the whole thing to something cynical, people just want to watch you crash and burn. Which is I think where you see the problem with reproducing results. You get a certain number of people who just want to turn the screws another two clicks instead of creating a better work environment where more gets done.
Leonardo Da Vinci predicted helicopters and tanks.

What's the line between predicting and inventing?
Somehow, the rewriting of history bothers me more than one person being bigoted.

"Dr Watson's son, Rufus, has since said his father was in a nursing home after a car crash in October. He said the scientist's awareness of his surroundings were "very minimal" and rejected the notion he was a "bigot"
Gradle Kotlin DSL 1.0 (2018)
This article was a bit scattered over the various sources of issues (high living costs, low labor pool (leading to high salaries and high turnover), reduced high-skilled chefs, high taxation, complaints about customer base with some nativism thrown in); figured I'd try simplifying it.

On the labor side, there's enough labor competition to drive salaries of line cooks to $50k/year. That's about $38k post-tax, which even after spending spending $19k/year in rent (split a two bedroom maybe 40 min from downtown) leaves $19k. Not great, but mind you the average line cook in the US is pulling $30k/year pre-tax (24k post-tax) -- the COL difference is pretty much compensated for.

Where things break down badly is with older, more experienced workers that have/might have families (e.g. the cook with 4 kids in the intro paragraph). Space comes at a premium in the Bay Area and if they prefer to not be crammed in to a small place, the salary an experienced worker can make isn't going to cut it to cover the desired marginal living space.

The final piece in the puzzle is that the desired salary multiple of these experienced workers (over entry-level ones) is higher than their productivity gains. That is, if the experienced cook needs twice as much take-home ($110k pre-tax) as the entry-level one (due to family needs), unfortunately, there is insufficient customer demand to pay 2.2x as much for food for this higher quality. (but mind you much more base demand in SF than elsewhere!). Result is that experienced folks move to areas where housing costs (per-sq feet) are lower as a percent of salary.

Net effect might be that the dominant strategy for someone in the restaurant business is to start out in SF but later move to a somewhat lower COL area. With such a strong economic incentive, restaurant composition will likewise follow; city policies, etc. are likely secondary.
It's actually pretty easy to omit <body> (and <head>), so you don't gain anything from this anyway, either.
The grievance studies community very quickly pivoted to the 'but it was unethical!' line in the wake of the hoax - it's a shame but not at all surprising that they aren't interested in attacking the root cause.
Nintendo is great for that. I don’t game much, but Nintendo seems to have a different take on gaming than others. They’ve always valued game play and being innovative over hardware performance or price increases.
This is the person that wrote "A Manual for Creating Atheists" which contains a questioning technique that has been called "Street Epistemology".

Could the hoax investigation be a punishment for the Manual?
Haha, yes imagine stuffing up the firewall rules on this one.

"Bob, the intern fat fingered the port number, how do you feel about a bit of a sight-seeing trip?"