skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The HyperCard Users Guide was good, but it was after my uncle loaned me his copies of "The Complete Hypercard Handbook"[0] and "HyperTalk 2.0 The Book" that I really got obsessed. I was 9 years old and reading these thick tomes cover to cover, and building test stacks for each obscure function. The code examples were full of jokes that were way over my head but I loved it nontheless (or maybe that's part of why I did love it).

https://archive.org/details/The_Complete_HyperCard_Handbook
That's really no excuse for USB-IF's terrible versioning scheme.

"SuperSpeed" is useless in terms of branding because even technical users, much less your average consumer, have no idea what that means. Is "SuperSpeed" faster than "High Speed" or "Full Speed"? (Answer: "Full Speed" < "High Speed" < "SuperSpeed".)

"20 Gbps USB" is better than "USB 3.2 Gen 2x2", sure, but that's not exactly a high bar. It just means USB has failed so badly with version numbers that people would rather just quote a spec figure.

Wishing for everyone to switch over to "SuperSpeed" and "SuperSpeed+" will not make it so. Fact is, both users and manufacturers are accustomed to "USB 3.0", "USB 3.1", etc. And it's not hard to see why people prefer simple version numbers as opposed to meaningless labels.

USB-IF should have simply released USB 3.1 and USB 3.2 without this ridiculous business of retroactively renaming older versions.
To be fair, that was at 7:30pm, the tail end of traffic and after the busses switch to a reduced schedule. I'd be curious to see those results at 5:30pm.

I suspect the car would still be faster though.
Trying to be just mildly sarcastic here, but do you think this will be a case of "you're holding it wrong"?

I know where the attenaes are placed versus where your hand is placed can block signal. But is this a similar case, or just a limitation of the tech? I mean 5G uses higher wavelengths, which inherently penetrate weeker into structures, etc. So: what's the problem? I only briefly studied antennae theory in college and have never practiced in theory, so I hope its viewed as an honest question.
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http://mywikibiz.com/Top_10_Reasons_Not_to_Donate_to_Wikiped...
"Over the past few years, he and others have found that medium-size groups of animals or humans are optimal for decision-making"

As someone intrigued by the mechanics of politics, this really struck home. Autocracies are bad for a variety of reasons - and so too are true democracies (where everybody can vote on many issues...see the CA ballot initiative chaos in public policy).

Representative democracy strikes this "goldilocks" balance with fewer actors than full representation, but far more than a restrictive oligarchy.
The grid wants a dedicated supply, so you have to store it in something first, as the dynamo hooked up to the rotor varies.

Wind speed, power load nearby, wind forecast, storage capacity ...

Should I engage the alternator now, even if it's spinning? Could that use up more energy than if I let it spin on a flywheel and engage later?

Also repairs. What should I fix, and when? Does it make sense just to keep it offline in the winter when consumption is low? Then you get all the pricing data available.

It's also looking for variables not known. Perhaps there's a bad actor, and for whatever reason, when he's there, losses occur.
Ironically, I haven't bought off Amazon for years, and have never left a review.

I've been seeing all of these posts about gamafication of Amazon reviews and don't understand why Amazon just don't limit the reviews on a product to people who've actually purchased it from Amazon?

Ironically, I came across a small eligibility requirement, (but otherwise seems to allow reviews by anyone for anything):

> To contribute to Customer features (for example, Customer Reviews, Customer Answers, Idea Lists) or to follow other contributors, you must have spent at least $50 on Amazon.com using a valid credit or debit card in the past 12 months. Promotional discounts don't qualify towards the $50 minimum.

Amazon's clearly able to disallow reviews unless you've bought it from them. They're also big enough to add incentives to people who have purchases (eg. maybe 1-5% of product value that goes toward future purchases), to encourage reviews. They could even gamify the 1-5% based upon the "I've found this helpful" response, encouraging quality reviews.

I just don't get it. Have I missed something?
I don't, but it seemed to work. YMMV.
The name is Wikimedia Commons rn, they want to drop part of it. I'm just saying drop commons instead of media.
Somebody is overcharging you on this one. I installed it on my Raspberry Pi B from like 2012. I installed Raspbian, input a small one liner and it was installed.
Launch HN: Torre Signals – Build a following you'd like to work with, get alerts
Hi HN! I'm Alexander Torrenegra, founder of Torre, I've previously co-founded two platforms that successfully match talent with gigs on certain verticals. At Torre, we're using that experience to try and make it work for all kinds of jobs and gigs, for free.

Torre has shipped multiple products in the past two years, today I'd like to introduce you to Torre Signals: http://torre.co/signals

Most jobs are fulfilled through referrals (55%+). Yet, the process remains as manual today as it was 100 years ago. It probably plays out something like this: you tell some of your colleagues about your new job opening and ask them whether they know anyone suitable for the position. They do their best to come up with potential candidates. If you’re lucky, they provide you with a couple of names and offer intros. You then send an intro request for each of those mentioned and hope for the best.

The all-too-common process described above is not only manual but also dreadfully inaccurate. Given our limited memory as human beings, it’s unlikely that either of you would remember most of the professionals you’ve met. Most people who may be a fantastically good fit for the position will never even be aware of the job opening.

With Torre Signals you can do two things:

- Keep a list of people you’d like to work with and let them know you’re interested. We call this a signal, and

- Build a following of professionals who want to work with you (or your organization). In other words, let people signal you.

When a person has signaled you or your organization:

- They will be notified of relevant opportunities you post.

- When you search for talent, you’ll notice they signaled you.

- Your signals (both sent and received) are only visible to people you have signaled and those you've authorized to help them find talent.

Any feedback and ideas from the HN community on our mission are highly appreciated!
All of this naming doesn't matter anyway, because everybody will use USB-C cables. And, as we all know, these can support (or not) almost any combination of anything (thunderbolt, video, various power combinations, USB in all its incarnations, etc) and there is no way to tell what will work by looking at the cable or socket you are plugging into.

In other words, it's a crapshoot anyway, so who cares? We'll just keep plugging until something sort-of works.

(do I sound crushed by the mind-boggling trans-galactic humongousness of the borderless expanse of human (and especially commitee) stupidity?)
monoprice.com used to be better for cables and stuff like that... haven't use them in a while though..
Dog o'ded?
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Less and less plastic is being recycled every year in the USA.
Honest question. How are street cars better than busses?

They put one in near me recently, and all I could think is that compared to a bus it cost a ton more money, took forever to build, and can't be rerouted in case of an issue. Additionally, it doesn't even bypass traffic so it's not any faster.

Why not just buy a few busses to run the exact route they built the street car on instead ?
The video of the small airfield on that page is awesome!

Reminds me of Gibraltar Airport: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58jaCJ5i9hU
If we are talking about maintenance costs, sure trucks should pay their share, but congestion (the reason to build additional roads) is caused
primarily by passenger cars.
In search of ET: Fear of what’s out there causes split among space scientists
I used to find Twitter a really great outlet for my brain when I needed a 60 second break from a task, and no more. I kept my feed fairly sparse, and tweets were so short, so I could glance at my timeline without worrying about getting lost and losing track of time.

They have since slowly killed this value, by changing how the timeline is ordered, increased character limit, etc.
I remember reading that as blood sugar drops, the body releases adrenaline which causes the release of glucose into the blood stream.

I wonder if that is what happens to cause wakefulness?
So I work for a distributor, and we've been discussing improving our up and cross sell abilities, due to the nature of our customer and product many of the products we distribute are deliberately not sold on Amazon, by and large I feel my company could use this without fear.
The FDA should only inspect contaminated meat.
First selling most perishable items online is difficult, but to believe home meals are doomed is shortsighted. The market exists otherwise because not everybody wants to play Gordon Ramsey every night. These companies are mostly doing everything themselves when in many cases they should partner with local grocery store chains and create branded meal plans. It's no different than the flower industry, where you partner with local florists who build your bouquet and deliver it under a national brand. It's extremely tough to deliver flower bouquets from a central fulfillment facility, been there did that.

People are lazy, nothing changes there anytime soon. Yet these are the same people who drop $75 for dinner a few times a week like it's no big deal yet will compare that to a meal subscription like it's a ripoff. The audience is out there, just a matter of finding them.
Samsung Galaxy S10: First Exynos 9820 vs. Snapdragon 855 Scores
Nginx 1.15.9
This. We have this in Minneapolis / St Paul. It just _works_. We're rolling it out on most of the highways. I wish we had it on _all_ lanes on all highways already, because what is the point of having a 60mph road if most of the time you are barely going 20mph, or trip lengths are otherwise completely unpredictable?

There is a concept in economics called spontaneous order. Once the cost of congestion becomes apparent through the price mechanism, then society can reconfigure itself to adapt to it. But you have to have the price mechanism first. People will say, what about this, what about that. It doesn't matter. People will figure it out and adapt, but you need to implement congestion pricing right now, because practically every medium size or larger city in America has terrible traffic congestion problems. Importantly, you cannot set a price ceiling (like Houston did at $8), as it will not work effectively because it will not allow the price mechanism to work and will cause a shortage of road capacity and you end up with no material change.

Changes in laws and zoning and public transit will occur. Given a little bit of time, the emergence of various kinds of social order from a combination of self-interested individuals will occur.
Better rolling resistance and electric powered without battery nonsense. However they are in close competition with trolley-buses (rubber wheeled electric vehicles powered from overhead lines, as seen in Seattle.)

(And unlike buses they don't have a "low class" reputation that prevents middle class snobs from using them!)
I think the drama is mostly about the fact that there is no way to tell what a cable (or a port) "supports" by looking at it.
BTW, it wasn't PoK that was attacked. It was Pakistan.
DWRITE is very extensible so you can always implement an IDWriteTextRenderer and do all the magic staff in it.

Link: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/directwrite...
I'll never forget learning basic HyperCard usage in Computer Class in seventh grade... in 2005. My public middle school had just got brand new shiny white iMacs... which they used exclusively to run the Classic Mac (or whatever it was called) emulator, so we could learn HyperCard and use some ancient monochrome typing tutor.

I was always annoyed that "Computer Class" was taught like this--having students follow step-by-step instructions to the letter to "learn" how to use ancient software with almost zero room for creativity or exploration. Trying to "color outside the lines" and use any of these tools for anything other than the explicit purpose of the curriculum was forbidden. I remember recognizing that HyperCard seemed like an old cross between HTML and PowerPoint, and I really wanted to try making a game with it... but my teacher wouldn't allow it. "Computer Class" basically always felt like we were being rigidly instructed how to do the menial white-collar office work of a decade prior, instead of allowing us to unlock our creativity and explore all the cool stuff this fancy new technology could actually do.

I often got the vibe that these teachers really didn't know how to do literally anything with the computers they were teaching us to use, outside of exactly what they were teaching us how to do... and they were afraid that we'd figure out how to use the computers better than them.

What do kids in middle-class public middle schools learn in "Computer Class" these days? Is it still just typing, basic Office use, and HTML4? What's a "Computer Class" like now that everyone carries one around in their pocket at all times?
>>For the first time in history, there now exists a substrate upon which AGI can manifest

We don't have any revolutionary substrate in the pipeline other than silicon in the next 10 years. A 50-100 years? maybe.
Write games, not engines (2007)
Paywalled, but the first part sounds more like a list of epic success with its storefront in a quite competitive space.
What was said on that tweet, that made SEC angry was, already mentioned in the Tesla earning - therefore is a public knowledge. This tweeter thread has a screenshot of the transcript.
https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1100215984713957376

Later Elon called SEC out on their lack of due diligence. "SEC forgot to read Tesla earnings transcript, which clearly states 350k to 500k. How embarrassing … " Source: https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1100215984713957376
The specification is USB3.2. Gen1, Gen2, Gen2x2 are modes.
The USB3.2 spec is more than just the speeds. It can include protocol updates and errata.
Reminds me of the time when Bitcoin was first posted to Hacker News and only got 5 upvotes and 3 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=599852
Thanks for the clarification I see your angle now.

I'm not trying to debate on this, pretty sure we're just reasoning about facts we both agree on here.

I was aiming for a more general stance but if were talking about web servers there is one thing we might disagree on being the net benefit of non blocking in that specific scenario.

Let me see if I can explain, the individual requests may contain a lot of slow blocking io but these are handled async with a thread per request at the server level. So the request and internal blocking is limited to the request only (ignoring thread pool limits.)

While it may be that non blocking might produce more performant request level handling in some cases most or at least a substantial amount of web request logic is very dependent on chaining those blocking io one after the other, e.g. get thing modify, return.

In blocking you execute and reason about sequentially in non blocking you reason about with callbacks or syntactic sugar around promises specifically because sequential programming is easier to reason about.

The point of difference being that in non blocking you have a lot of overhead in the event loop and in the implementation, all to produce sequentially executing code that doesn't block other requests.

This is sort of why me and a few colleagues came to the conclusion PHP is still pretty damn decent for web stuff.

Non blocking is great for concurrency where it actually results in parallelism but if it doesn't then there isn't much gain other than gained complexity.

All this needs to be taken with a grain of salt. Node has Async await for a reason, and I've seen a few different implementations of non blocking php as well.

The choice really comes down to which style you find your self benefiting from on the regular.

Bleh that needs about three rounds of editing before it makes sense, something I don't have time for. Sorry for the ramble!
> Let’s build tunnels under the mountain passes to add more connections into Hollywood so people have better access than winding canyon roads.

This is an interesting idea. I just measured it out, and assuming you could build a straight tunnel to bypass the canyon at the 405, it would be 5.3 miles.

To bypass Laurel Canyon would be a 3.0 mile tunnel.

Coldwater bypass would be 4.1 miles.

So the question is, do we the technology to build tunnels that long and deep (all of those are about 1000 feet). And is it a good idea to build a 1000 foot deep tunnel in an area known for earthquakes?
He talked about it at Railsconf 2009, as well. I remember that was the first time I installed it.
Yes lower frequency. There is a big jump in implementing a 10G PHY vs a 5G PHY
Congratulations, you have re-discovered Searle's Chinese Room argument.
That looks incredibly dystopian.
Unisoc bought Spreadtrum a few years ago and Spreadtrum has been in the modem business since 2010 with its 3/4G modems doing ok in many medrange to low end smartphones, e.g. Samsung J1, Samsung Z series.
Interesting. What cities/countries do you operate in? I couldn't see this listed on the page or in the FAQs.
IANAL, but I think you are allowed to respond “in kind” to an assault, or attempted crime against you.

For example, if someone points a gun at you, you are legally allowed to draw your own weapon. The response was “in kind”, i.e. the same level of force. It’s different if someone pointed a gun at you, then you pointed one back at them, they ran, and you shot them in the back. In this scenario, it would be retaliation, and you could be criminally prosecuted for that.
Oldschool ravers - powered by another Alphabet.
One of the really bad branding issues / borderline scams I have dealt with is devices saying USB 3 compatible when what they mean is usb 2 but it happens to work with usb 3 ports using usb 2.
And Ezra jumps right in and writes the Ruby driver just from that post with almost no traction

Ezra was one of the good guys
Would less tumbling make it easier for a skilled thrower to control the outcome?
That's right. I think you should start working on solving that right away.
Ah, thanks. Either way, a feature much more difficult in the Linux world, unfortunately.
If you're such a screwup that even your union wants you gone, you'll lose your job, period. Whether it's public or private doesn't matter. Very often the job of a union rep or union legal counsel is to ensure a soft landing. Source: interned with a police union's legal counsel.

One thing to keep in mind about police officers and similarly situated government employees is that maintaining credibility as a court witness is a fundamental requirement of the position. A police officer who's credibility can be easily attacked on the stand has substantially diminished capacity to perform their duties. Part-and-parcel of being any kind of law enforcement officer is testifying to collected evidence on the witness stand.

While the government technically can't retaliate directly for not testifying against yourself in an administrative hearing, failure to be fully forthcoming in such an investigation demonstrates a lack of candor which in turn could be used to impeach you as a witness. If the government has evidence of lack of candor and sufficient motivation to get rid of you, you better start searching for a new job.
About 1 in 57 according to the random statistic generator app someone posted years ago that I'm still using multiple times a day.

Super stoked the developer finally released the "output as odds" feature (though my favorite output setting is definitely still "matter-of-fact tone with a hint of strained patience").
Tcl was the first language used. I laughed, but only because I've developed in Tcl and it has its time and place. Though I don't remember how to do an if statement in Tcl off the top of my head. Update: ok, its squiggly brackets; that's right.
* Deno, or something like it. This general idea of software that interacts with the internet but interacts little with the host OS by default.

* RISC-V, and a general open source hardware revolution.

* Augmented Reality. I don't see VR going anywhere. AR has broader practical applications.

* Voice UI. I think this still counts as niche. The general interaction model at the beginning of the movie Her seems highly plausible to me. Not so much the AGI.

* Desktop/mobile OS convergence. This seems inevitable. The convenience factor is too high and why would the average Joe keep forking out for 2 or 3 computers when they can have 1 that does everything.

* Software formal verification. This is long overdue and we can't continue to be this irresponsible.

* Cryptocurrency, or something like it. I think the need is there, but the current implementation leaves much to be desired.

* Processors with many cores. We're already up to 18 or so on desktop processors. But I expect many more.

* FPGA. I'm less sure about this. 10 years might be to soon. But if your computer was just full of FPGA's and companies could sell you digital hardware through an app store without having to actually manufacture anything, I'm sure they would love it.
Are the products immune to being cloned and white-labelled by Amazon?
A lot of people are saying "k/v store", but I think there's an alternate definition which I've stolen from aphyr: A shared heap.

If you have a cluster of machines operating on a dataset, you can store that dataset in redis to get high performance reads and writes. In the simple case of a cache, it's a key value store. But other complex cases exist: A priority queue, an atomic transaction log, a lock server, and more.

It supports lua so if the data structure and operations you need doesn't exist you can generally build it yourself.
You would've thought OP posting to HN should've considered security backlash. Unfortunately, damage is done for me too.
I'm not seeing a data engineer role by title or description in the angelist site linked to at the bottom of that post, is that the right spot?

Is remote (Texas) viable?
Ha! At least once a week I tell the family "the wifi/internet will be wonky for a bit". Luckily we have unlimited LTE so my wife just switches to that until I'm done.
Max 32-bit signed int is (1<<31)-1 . Twice that is 1<<32-2.

Max 32-bit unsigned int is (1<<32)-1.

Therefore, if 'low' and 'high' are non-negative 32-bit signed integers, it is impossible for their sum, when the values are first cast to 32-bit unsigned integers, to produce a carry.
Yes, from what I understand, the casino edge is required to be extremely precise. Returning too much money to gamblers is penalized just as harshly as returning too little.

This is why casinos like you to gamble more, regardless of what form, because their edge is fixed by regulators. Only by increasing volume can they increase returns.
i'd find it more compelling if they'd base it on the tech they used circa 2004-2008. it's been years since their recommendations were valuable.
if those rails were built, those ghettos would be gentrified so quick.
Although weight may still have some validity in terms of making you feel full and satisfied.