skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it stupid? Apple made 8x more profit than Amazon and 2.4x more profit than Microsoft.

It deserves to be worth more and still has the lowest P/E ratio of all major tech companies (5.7x lower than AMZN).

If you think something is undervalued, buy it.
The DOJ blocked the T-Mobile-ATT merger a few years back. That turned out to be really good for consumers as T-Mobile afterward introduced a lot of really nice initiatives.
For my commercial MEL training, most of the time was spent on assymetric thrust handling due to a single powerplant failure. When both are working, or neither are working, the plane handles about the same as a single engine.

When one engine fails, while you've lost 50% horsepower, you've lost more like 90% of excess horsepower which is what you need to accelerate and to climb. And assymmetric thrust is dangerous at slow airspeed. You must react exactly correctly and quickly. Failure on takeoff roll means an immediate abort. Failure at takeoff with runway remaining means cutting power and landing on what remains. Failure once airborne and you must quickly identify the failed engine, apply full opposite rudder (toward the good engine), if you don't do this while in a full power low airspeed climb the airplane will absolutely roll over. Many accidents are the result of continuing when they should have aborted, and being anemic or slow with corrective rudder.

Turbine powered airplanes are way different, they have a lot more excess thrust available so powerplant failure is not dire. They have so much more power that they will still easily accelerate to a safe single engine takeoff speed and climb away for a circle to land, which is safer than aborting after certain speeds that smaller twins won't get to on takeoff. That's all part of the computation for "balanced field length".
Obvious solution: we designate one half of the planet as reserved for astronomy. The earth rotates, providing an opportunity to see everything. Then the people who want to look up can move to that half of the world, and the people who want to look down can move to their half.
You don't need to reach all the legs, although that is best. Grabbing the body is also an option; the launch crawler/pad thing does this. That first example would probably not be hydraulic. If it were though, and it leaked, that isn't any worse than the total-loss (intentional leak) hydraulic system that operates the grid fins on the Falcon 9.

The rocket blast isn't anything special for heavy equipment that is some distance away. Note the containers sitting on the ship. They are fine.

Grabbing can happen a minute after the engines stop, so telemetry isn't a problem.
This is probably the most convincing line of argument against as-yet unsubstantiated claims by the US that Huawei is an arm of the Chinese government. It's probably a distraction--the folks doing the actual research within the US's TLAs almost certainly include some highly competent people--but the leadership have practically set themselves up for this sort of ad hominem-yet-accurate attack.
That would have gotten in the way of making wild generalizations about what Developers & BAs do.
Rest in peace, sir.

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They need to combine interest and people. I want to follow or hide hashtags by people.

I want to follow science person’s science tweets and hide science person’s politics tweets.

You can force people to tag their tweets by letting us only follow their tags.

Science person’s profile can show top followed tags of Science person.

#science followed by 100

#politics followed by 5
I'm not willingly giving up any information by being in a public space, because I don't have any choice about being in public spaces. Any information people gain about me is being taken, not given freely.

> I don't think going online is an optional activity either.

I think that can be debated, but let's say you're right: that just reinforces my point.

My essential point is that the "public space" argument isn't terribly meaningful. Actual consent can only be given in the absence of coercion. If being surveilled is a requirement in order to simply function as a human being, then consent doesn't enter into it.

And, in my view, all of the arguments about privacy and spying hinge on the issue of consent. If data is being gathered about me without my consent, then I'm being spied on.
As far as I know the "inmates" haven't even had a trial, so why would the executive branch have a right to enact punishment?
Function of Beauty Review
I changed careers via a coding boot camp. I have highly mixed feelings about how coding boot camps are sold, and run, but I think for some people such short term training could be a sort of new future for trade schools.

This could be particularly useful if we're entering an age of sudden disruption as far as jobs and career paths goes where a career that once was might be gone (or greatly diminished) tomorrow. Provided business are willing to recognize and hire those people.
Only 10 Boston Dynamics spot robots can pull a heavy truck
No. The gross structure of an atom is only determined by the electrostatic interaction between the charge of the electrons and of the protons in the nucleus. The interaction between the magnetic moments of the electrons and of the nucleus (which is due to both protons and neutrons) leads to hyperfine structure on a much smaller energy scale.
SRE + On Call Dev Engineer.

Basically SRE takes the page - if they can't troubleshoot it or restore it to normal service, then the on call engineer gets called.

In our case, we're still small enough that one on call engineer has to take the load regardless of feature/product.

The exception is the aforementioned Rust code base which calls myself or the other engineer. But this is because it's not running on our infra - it's running on customer boxes so that's a different support story.

Re:

> How do you respond to emergencies when your people don't own projects or code bases? Who gets woken up at midnight? The person responsible for the latest release? Wouldn't that discourage people from deploying new releases?

Culturally, our engineering team doesn't really tolerate "not deploying". That's not to say that you're being measured by number of deploys like some sort of perverse "IBM Lines of Code" metric - but you're expected to be deploying code as it's ready via PR + Tests.

It's not a perfect system but we've tried pretty hard during hiring to select folks that are well aligned with how we think about this. No one gets to own their space and no one is immune from rolling their sleeves up and figuring it out. If that isn't someone's thing, we try to find that out during the interview because it doesn't fly internally with the team.
It does say: from central Europe. Who themselves came from around north of the Caucasus Yamnaya/Maykop (not in article)
Interesting. I have precisely zero intuition for the scale of five atoms!
It does, at least Zork runs, see http://blog.zarfhome.com/2019/04/all-of-infocoms-game-source... and https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/pull/38990
Middle Earth from Space
"... AI is political. ..."
Amazing gymnastics around this one.

"An antifascist AI is a project based on solidarity, mutual aid and collective care."

So... A fascist anti-fascist?

"... there's no comprehension or even common sense."

Sums up this article.
“User engagement” on social media platforms in 2019 is a proxy for “triggering users emotional responses and luring them into internet arguments”

Min maxed “user engagement” is almost certainly a net negative for society at large
There’s no way for us to know if that was better for consumers than a merger.
Maybe next "semester"! :) I love the misleading URL - those particle physicists have a sense of humor.
I'm a bit confused on what you're saying is different than that.

CoH stopped selling their product, they stopped supporting it. They have no intention of ever supporting it again. To release the source would involve no lost sales, as they do not intend to sell it again.

I absolutely say that while they intend on supporting the product in any way (even just maintenance mode), it's theirs, but once they stop using it completely and have no future intentions to ever again sell it, there's no harm in releasing it. Once the work is no longer being used by the artist, with the artist having no desire to ever use it again, why not release it?
In this instance its not all identical content though. In this example, each bike has three cameras, along with a dozen or so camera angles around the track. Users can pick and choose a lot of those different views and combine a hybrid view of their own personal choosing.

Of course, this could also be accomplished with DTV tuners, but there's a much higher probability of users having a 5G chipset on their phone than having a DTV tuner capable of tuning to multiple channels and an antenna.
If you are "woke", and have been following several "conspiracy theories" (as I did), you're simply aware that most so-called "conspiracy theories" are in fact truths they want to hide from us.

"5G will destroy our DNA." is one of them. It's much more likely to be true than false...
That’s discord.
What you said is ok, and it's fine if that's the default. What people complain about is that you can't opt-out of the algorithmic timeline.
What-Happened-with-Demonoid-and-Deimos
Apple to expand its London empire with Knightsbridge shop
They're probably not related, but I was thinking of the thing that SpaceX and another company are planning for satellite internet. I've heard that it would use the same centimeter wavelengths, probably for bandwidth reasons among others. I assumed that they were likely the same thing if they were both operating in the same frequency range.
Speaking as a partisan of Detroit, who has never heard an ICP song, I must intervene to mention that Faygo is never “soda”. It’s “pop”, thank you very much.
Ah, yes, the extradition treaty that allows the US to request the UK to remove a refugee from an embassy to be sent to the country from which he was granted refugee status for.

I forgot that one.

Or maybe it has to do with the IMF granting a huge loan package to Ecuador just before they removed his refugee status.

But nah, it isn't that, it's probably because the US improved on human rights violations in the time he was given refugee status until today. That would make sense at least as an argument, even if it ignores the reality as reported by amnesty international.

Or do you mean that the US doesn't violate human rights and therefore no one could ever get a refugee status from US corruption?
The "sparkle setting" resets if you haven't been on Twitter Web for a while, even if you always keep up with Twitter on mobile.

I use Twitter Web so infrequently that whenever I open it, it has always changed back to the "Top Tweets" view.
But what if most people like it? I have to say I think it makes a lot of sense. If a high number of people I follow like something, you might want to show it to me too.
Can you give an example where you would use dependent types?
There are some people it will work for. I believe that too.

It is the much larger set of people who see the implications. And who see average Joe bag of doughnuts will already have had plenty of Pepsi impressions, if not Pepsi itself.

Driving some spurious sales with night sky pollution is not something to be rewarded.
So, you're saying it did affect apple more than qualcomm then?
Infrastructure can be wired, but it is also extremely costly. Just ask Google the costs of trenching up city streets to lay new cable. True, new infrastructure could be built to handle this new cabling requirement, but then we're at the same place we're at now with such tasks being prohibitively expensive for anything currently deployed.
Google vs. Facebook vs. Microsoft – Compare Eng Manager Levels Across Companies
Boston Dynamics Spot robots pull a truck
Have you looked at Octave?

https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
> apparently owned by an Afghani pop artist

Afghani pop artists who own mansions in Vancouver is a really small category.
Nonprofit? A service that does what you likely desire would cost in the eight digits a year to provide for the whole world.
The change I see happening now is that many of the jobs people are hoping to “skill up” to are themselves being automated out of existence.

A combination of targeted AI and good old-fashioned process automation are going to put a lot of white collar workers out of work; including software developers at the lower end of the skill curve.
Make a twitter list. This is exactly what lists do.
The original TweetDeck was an Adobe AIR application. Twitter bought it, and then rewrote it as a website. So it could be argued that they built it.

There were alternatives before such as Seesmic, no idea how they work now, if they still do.
It doesn't say if that's quarterly or annual EPS. But, given that there are 1.2Bn Qualcomm shares it would maybe indicate the "one time payment" is in the 2.5Bn ballpark?
Boston Dynamics’ Spot Toughens Up, Hauls a Truck
vine grape apple melon where/are all just words for 'fruit' at some stage / in some dialect.
arcfide has claimed on several occasions that non-programmers take to APL quite easily, and can read and collaborate on it with a programmer, be talked through it directly, in a way they can't/won't do for mainstream languages.

I find this such an unlikely sounding claim that I want to reject it without consideration, or at least assume that he's only talking to a very restricted subset of engineering non-programmers.

APL is decades old and very much a business language by origin in IBM System 360, there ought to be decades of people's experience with this on both sides to back it up or refute it - programmer and non-programmer. Is there?
I rarely watch movies on Netflix — moreso documentaries and series. But the endless browsing is becoming real when I want movie. Not sure whether I am being very picky, or the overall quality of the film inventory is average.
It's surely one of those things that's very, very fussy to assemble but relatively easy to verify.

Someone built their own rope memory reader (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WquhaobDqLU) to access data stored in the Apollo modules.

Assembling core memory is a lot easier, there's a very simple pattern, and verifying that it works correctly isn't that hard either.

This is like weaving a complicated rug with many colors and a single-color rug.
Very possible. People go where they think the right path is / they might like. I'm not sure anyone has proven to predict what the right path is yet.
Unfortunately, the density of people who don't want towers "too close to me" means we need bigger towers farther apart.
Wow, that was totally unexpected! Thinking back (circa 2013), I wonder what video quality lessons he got out of that particular set-up. From what I recall, we had something awful:

1) Presenter computer plugged into some sort of video capture hub, connected to computer A with video capture card that would composite camera video with slides.
2) Separate computer B running remote desktop into that computer to broadcast to the web.
3) Another computer C, also with remote desktop, connected to the projectors.
Important point.
Can you explain which part, in your opinion, is facepalm worthy?

In your example conversation, the developer starts off by demonstrating that they are not good at thinking through how long things take them, by giving an impossibly optimistic estimate. Even the PM, whose job is not to figure out how to build stuff or how long building stuff takes, knows the estimate is wrong, and pushes back on it, pointing out dependencies the Dev appears to not have considered.

The dev comes back with another estimate, also provided on the spot, without actually thinking through all the tasks, problems, and potential ways to streamline / accelerate. The PM, having just had the dev's lack of thorough thinking with regards to complexity estimation amply demonstrated, asks the Dev to think more carefully, a third time.

Are we facepalming at the dev who can't be bothered to actually consider what it will take to get the thing done, or the PM who for some reason accepts the 3rd estimate, even though the dev appears to just be randomly generating numbers? Both?
Yeah, and I am tiger proof.
A bit of a mirror version of people's assumption that southerners in the United States all talk with a drawl and wear cowboy hats.
They recently created (maybe not completely rolled out yet?) bookmarks, which work the way favourites did back in the day (but they are private).
Yes but T-Mobile ATT is not the same as T-Mobile Sprint. letting number 3 and 4 merge is not the same as letting a top 2 eat a smaller competitor. Compared to, say, Disney-Fox this is not so dangerous for consumers most likely.
Octave is more a replacement for MATLAB than Mathematica.
Not really. China's attempts to build those kinds of airplanes had been largely unsuccessful so far, and it doesn't look promising. Only the Europeans have been succesful. Airbus is the only one to fear. But that doesn't fit the current Anti-China narrative.
They both won, that's the point of a deal.
Until the release Thursday, it was not. As of the last release, it now is. This was probably written before that was available generally.
So essentially you want you want an app that lets you pick a couple multicast groups to add yourself to, and then displays them in this "hybrid view of their choosing".

It's the same as what the app is currently doing, just with multicast groups instead of singlecast. And by doing so, you reduce the network load by N/M, where N is the number of users and M is the number of streams each user runs on average.

Don't get me wrong, I understand that this probably isn't currently implemented, but that's the kind of thing we should be looking at, before we decide to screw up weather forecasting and radioastronomy so that you can see your NAAAYYSSSCARR.

Even 5G is going to get eaten up under certain types of load, so it makes much more sense to look at ways to reduce traffic, the easiest of which is broadcasting rather than singlecast.
It's defined in verbs.zil.

https://github.com/historicalsource/hitchhikersguide/blob/d7...
More like shouldn't the government have prevented 5G from licensing the spectrum in the first place?
Aw man. I've used them all through school. We were taught to, since like 2nd grade? Cool stuff.
Do you mean if you don't have a 4K TV and streaming device? Or if your bandwidth isn't enough? I'm not sure how they downsample their Dolby Vision streams, since my TV definitely switched over into Dolby Vision. I suppose the Netflix app may be able to stream lower resolution versions still with the Dolby Vision metadata.
It's also a way to deflate a bubble before it reaches its tipping point. Vancouver homes being a good investment, outside of some actual economic activity bringing more money into the region, was just a self-perpetuating cycle. When it would have popped/when it pops, it will screw over many local homeowners too who were unfortunate enough to buy at a price that would then put them underwater
I think the article was written in a bigger archeological context in which relative genetic homogeneity was established for within the Mesolithic,Neolithic and Chalcolithic periods.
Working on compilers, SOA to me means "Struct Of Arrays", which is a data layout format that is much more amenable to vector or GPU code than the "Array of Structs" representation that languages tend to guide you to implementing.
Too late to edit, but early estimates on the repair costs are actually $8 billion.

The roof that burned was called the Forest because it was made from 13,000 whole oak trees (the number varies depending on source) spanning 52 acres of forest.
Depends what you want to do, how you want to communicate, do you broadcast / mesh, uni/bi directional, etc. It's a "how long is a piece of string" situation.

From cheap, slow, long range deployments like LoRa (100 devices sending tens of bytes) to satellite broadcast (any number of synchronised devices), and a few things in between.
> HTTPS is not easy to set up unless you happen to be using a system that does it automatically via LetsEncrypt, which is fairly rare. And I don't know how you think you can use HTTPS without a certificate.

What I meant is that you can use a self-signed certificate, which is takes seconds go create. Some server software will even do it for you if I remember correctly. If this is too had for someone to implement, then they really have no business building web apps.

In a world where unencrypted connections are scary and an encrypted but self-signed connection is treated like HTTP connections currently are(not scary), it only makes sense for people to support HTTPS. There's nothing inherently hard about implementing an HTTPS service beyond one extra initial step.

Beyond that, there's LetsEncrypt, and services like AWS will take care of creating signed certificates for you; I imagine they aren't the only infrastructure host that does this.
Or, if you prefer, a tourist.
“I hate Blonald Blumpf” is not a substantive or insightful comment.
Did it really die though? It seem to live on well enough in enterprise. Less popular now that Microservices are back in fashion, but still lurking around waiting for the pendulum to swing back in 2-8 years when we have had enough of microservices (again).

At least we improve on the paradigms on each iteration. Maybe one day one day both of them will be good enough to let us swing toward something new.
That's true, and it is a reason that free software with a public VCS history is really the gold standard.

I've worked with enough non-commercial but restrictively licensed academic software that I'm willing to forgive commercial vendors for similar transgressions, so long as there is full source available to licensees.

Though I admittedly steer clear of restrictively licensed code when at all possible now. I gave up on GAMESS and switched to really open quantum chemistry software because I tired of not having any revision history in the source tarballs, and of having to re-agree to the license every time I wanted an updated version. Also because I want to build software that can be installed in a fully scripted headless manner, and a "fill out the license agreement" step precludes that.
Note that those boxes are not the original boxes. I’d have to research to figure out timelines but basically Infocom games came out in all sorts of shapes and sizes of which Starcross may have been the most elaborate. But at some point they standardized on the standard box form factor because of the demands of retailers.

I remember them as being called text adventures but as your link says they officially shifted to IF at some point.
Given the whole thing with Global Warming, I think this question already has an answer.
The Infocom brand and creative team outlived their failed business software division, but couldn't survive the tension of being acquired by a games company that wanted to churn out more content. It's possible the company regarding the games division as a side project to raise seed money rather than a cash cow actually indirectly helped the creative side...

(Either way, I think it'd have struggled to survive the emergence of story-driven games with good graphics. There's plenty of comparatively well-written and user-friendly modern IF which only reaches niche audiences despite it being freely available and publicised across the internet )
> ... a letter from NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross requesting that it be delayed. FCC Chairman Ajit Pai rejected the request ...

Ajit Pai strikes again!
The article was clearly careful to attribute this to "DoJ staff". Barr is new to the job, quite busy with (heh) other business at the moment, and the antitrust division is hardly going to be near the top of any AG's priority list.

Add to that the Journal's current editorial bent and I read this as an attempt to get Barr's attention to overrule the bureaucrats, frankly.