skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Admittedly I haven't researched it that well, but I'm curious how often they would have to aim their sensors at the sun to receive from a neighboring satellite. I'd have to assume those links would need to be subtracted from the system, which could slightly drive up latency around sun up and sun down for a part of the planet.
> providing excellent gaming experience ... not polluted by the games-as-service and free-to-play monetization mindsets as badly as other platforms.

But why does this have to do with draconian lock-down rules? Presumably, allowing homebrew code is not gonna affect the above at all.
Sure we do, we have the laws of physics. HughesNet has geostationary satellites. They orbit at ~22,200 miles up. Assuming speed of light, it's going to take ~120ms per hop. There's a minimum of 4 hops (you -> satellite -> ground station -> satellite -> you), or 480ms.

And that's assuming perfect conditions and ignoring the rest of the normal latency encountered online. It's physically impossible to have a latency lower than ~480ms with geostationary satellites.
That Colorado baker didn't want to effectively participate in their wedding ceremony which he was opposed to and couldn't stand behind with his conscience. He was happy to sell them other things. So it wasn't because they were gay, but because they wanted to use his service to do something he didn't like. I'm sure if they got their straight friend to go back and order on their behalf he would still have refused if he knew what it was for. I think it's very much the same as your description of a forum owner not wanting to enable some activity he finds disgusting and appalling.

On social networks, the other users can block the people they don't like or not enter the offensive group. But being personally offended isn't really why people want banning. If that were the case, they'd be quite happy with optional personal filters. It would be even better because they could tune their own filter to suit their personal tastes. But nobody is calling for that because what they really want is to prevent 3rd parties from being influenced by ideas that they don't agree with. In a bar, you can't just mute somebody who's shouting so that's where the analogy fails.
What "tax dollars" are we talking about here? It's a private system.
> computed the solution using the GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library (GMP).

Great job. Kudos.
Probability of injury/death is one of the guideline criteria of the system but depending on where you live is not actually followed
I feel like I read news in a way other people don't. Maybe I'm wrong? Here's the lessons I take:

* Prices are crazy in the City. Lesson: don't try moving to the Bay area without $1-2M in cash on hand.

* Student loans are predatory. Lesson: avoid student loans. Study hard, get scholarships if it's obvious that you can, and otherwise plan for community college for the first couple of years. No one cares where you did English 101.

* Government research grants are shrinking. Lesson: don't waste time seek research support from the government. There are plenty of other folks looking for ways to spend their money. My job is to show them a way.

The most valuable things you have are time and health. Focus on conserving those.
VPNs Should Be IPv6-Enabled
I'm curious what the right course of action would have been. You mentioned that they held events, but that wasn't good enough. If you noticed people were working side by side and not engaging, what were you doing to help break that cycle?
I looked for a way to install Wiktionary within the Dictionary app, similar to installing Webster’s Dictionary as described in this post. I found an Apple Stack Exchange question “How to add wiktionary as a source to the default dictionary.app?” at https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/122494/21473, but some comments say that the suggested program conversion DictUnifier runs forever without finishing, so there may not be an easy method currently. I did find another program PyGlossary that might serve as a substitute, but I haven’t tried it.
"You read a lot. We like that." meh!
Sure it was. That's why it allows multiple user accounts with a number of privilege levels, and gives each user a separate directory tree for storing documents etc.
Putting aside the EC fine, operating expenses grew 19.2% year-on-year while revenue only grew 16.7% year-on-year. This is clearly not sustainable - if it continues expect to see some belt-tightening at Google.
I wonder what it would look like to put this in wasm and draw it to a full screen canvas, circumventing the dom entirely. I wonder if there would be any benefits.
WSJ takes huge legal risks in order to provide honest, ground-breaking reporting that makes society better. They were responsible, for example, for the Theranos exposé.
The elements don't have to themselves be meaningful for their ordering to be meaningful.
Tokyo's Underground Discharge Channel
std::map<GUID, ...> requires an ordering without caring about the meaning (or lack thereof) of said ordering.
> There is no hard rule that all charts must have an axis at zero

Of course, but the charts are a vehicle to show casing data, and this specific one intentionally misleads viewers. I'm not sure if it was due to ill-intention or ignorance, but charts like that go against everything charts are for in the first place.
The title of the chart says "Google Ad Revenue Growth Slows". If it's about growth then the chart isn't really deceptive.
On the point of simplicity, much pain has been described here about running Jenkins - https://www.cloudbees.com/products/cloudbees-jenkins-distrib... is hopefully a better way to handle that.

On kubernetes - imagine if that was already managed for you, all the powerful things that can be done on top vs your self (preview apps, owasp vulnerability testing, progressive delivery - all without writing a pipeline - this is stuff that can be done.

I note gitlab is mentioned a lot here: they noted this power as well (see auto devops) and have started building things on top of kubernetes too.
Nice! I think you could have used pg COPY .. CSV[0] plus a CREATE TABLE .. AS to avoid the custom python script and do the importing with only SQL.

Also, as others have mentioned you can generate the st_asmvt format directly from pg. This plus PostgREST binary output[1] can get you a way to query your table directly through a REST API.

[0]:https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-copy.html

[1]:http://postgrest.org/en/v5.2/api.html#binary-output
Progress doesn't happen in a straight line. The last President, who was elected as a reaction to the one before him, attempted to remove Andrew Jackson from the $20 bill. The current President, who was also elected as a response to his predecessor, put Jackson's portrait in the Oval Office to make liberals mad.

...but the reaction to the current backlash will likely end with Andrew Jackson removed from our currency and the Oval Office.

The fact that most people acknowledge that what was done to Native Americans was bad is at least some small progress.
Amazon and Facebook both announced advertising growth rates greater than 30% this week, so no, we are not at peak advertising.
Homebrew isn't great but having to manually remove and reinstall all macports every os upgrade, having to deal with messed up dependencies and debugging failed compiling errors manually, and having macports libraries conflict with other mac software and making it crash was just too much. I need at best a few tools provided by these package managers and I don't want to spend hours messing around with their configurations. I just want them to work. Brew used to have issues for me but the last couple of years it's been the least buggy experience. That's all that matters. I don't give a fuck if it uses sudo or not, where they store files, or even if I have to disable system protection. All that is simply irrelevant. I just want things to work so I can get my actual work done. That is what makes a package manager better and that's why brew these days is much better than macports.
I guess, but, all the same, I see a world of difference between a topical test, designed by a teacher, to measure your understanding of what they just taught you, and these standardized tests that have become so common.

For one, the latter are often bullshit, as TFA points out. For two, they measure all sorts of stuff aside from actual proficiency. If nothing else, unless they took all the same classes - literally the same classes - throughout their school careers to date, no two kids got the same education. As anyone who's got the vaguest training in science can tell you, that kind of uncontrolled variability in your population will destroy any validity your measure might have. And lastly, so often these standardized tests really do have hacky questions put together with hack procedures. For my part, I distinctly remember completely stumping an IQ test proctor when I was a kid (yeah, I had helicopter parents). I had 5 cards, each showing a house, with the sun and shadows in different positions. I was supposed to put them in the correct order. So, naturally, my first move was to ask if the pictures showed the north or south side of the house.

There's no standardized test that measures the kinds of reasoning skills that really matter in life, such as the kind you'd use to make an educated guess that a question is being asked by the kind of people who would assume, unwittingly, that east is always on the right hand side.
Or for it just to become a theme park for the ultra-wealthy. Other cities have struggled with this as well, see Venice for example.
That’s great, but I’m sure any effort to share the full contents of all recordings will just be hunted to the absolute ends of the earth, as is the fashion when anyone tries to democratize the sharing of media files.

How fucking dare you?

Trying to do anything other than create a streaming service that captures analytics and permits advertisement injections, and eavesdrops by default, to infer political persuasions? Good luck with that. The weapons used against you will inflict a slow and miserable demise.

First, you’ll be labeled a child pornographer. Second, you’ll be branded a thief. Third, you’ll be tried before a jury of your peers. And last, you’ll have your hands cut off, and your face skinned, in a soccer stadium, for thousands to watch on the jumbotron, and millions to watch live via satellite.

That’s what you get for being a piece of shit that tries to share files, peer to peer, on the internet.

File sharing pirates deserve to have every female member of their family raped in front of them, and then used as wet nurses after they start lactating from the forced abortions.
/second Nix on OSX. In addition to your reasons, it doesn't depend on the Mac community for growth and support as Homebrew and MacPorts do. Regardless how many OS X users use it, its bread and butter is NixOS and the Linux server community.
I don't see a real problem here.

"who thinks he's my manager and talks in a way like he knows everything"

If other person's thinking and talking irritates you - the best way is not to respond. Ignore and he moves on.

If you eager to convince him that his way of thinking is not the right one - i think you got a bigger problem.
Color me skeptical that Starlink will reach its theoretical maximum capabilities, or that it is competitive with 5G. I'm fine with fiber until then. It's affordable in most of the world. The problem of broadband monopolies in the US is not going to be resolved by a new privately-owned technology. We should hold local politicians' feet to the fire, not throw money at new tech from a monorail salesman.
> 1995

Minor nitpick: 1988 to 1993, depending on what you consider 'irc'. (1988 for irc1, 1993 for the standardization of ircII that still defines irc today, 1992 if you consider the efnet/undernet fork to be the birth of true irc).
... Or show the difference more clearly. It's about visual dynamic range. Nothing wrong with it. Maybe the problem is people assuming that every x and y axes always start at 0.
We're looking at growth of growth. It's a second order derivative, and it's inherently noisy. You can derive much conclusion from it.
I’ve always get off about Homebrew, but never put words to it. Many of the comments here seem to mirror my feelings.

From the beginning it was as if no package managers had ever existed and they were solving packaging problems for the first time ever and ignoring not just the other Mac package managers but other package managers in general.

Then there’s the smattering of cutesy names for internal concepts: bottles and casks and tapping.

Popularity of Homebrew skyrocketed, though.

Meanwhile, MacPorts is better than ever.
Vancouver got housing prices to drop by about 20% by taxing foreign investors. https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/15/vancouver-average-h...
The banding was definitely the issue for me. I don’t know enough about these codecs, but could this be a specific issue with HBO’s encoding process, rather than simply nitrate? I would think that sections of video could be encoded with different bitrates, allocating more bits to scenes with low overall contrast to avoid banding. Or heck, if it’s possible, even trade resolution for reduced banding, I suspect that would have resulted in a far less atrocious image.
Dupicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19768012
When I worked for Gumby and Ian, messing around with indentation instead of working was a firing offense.
> In the late two-thousands, at a party in the Mission District

Do people refer to the first decade of this century as "the two thousands"?
Anything to do with several possible answers and assessing how they lay out different solutions, their trade off and work towards a pragmatic and incremental solution.
Not much without international media backlash and terrible pr it seems.
It's not that it's poorly thought out, it's that speech-to-text is just ok, and deriving meaning from even perfect text is hard.
FWIW, it's actually possible to determine driver vs passenger side of the car based off accelerometer data (even in pocket). I actually prototyped an app that used accelerometer data to detect phone usage while driving, and that came up during my investigative research. Sadly, my company never followed through on plans to file patents and develop it (this was back in 2012).

The data and interpretations are pretty cool though. We came up with signatures for texting, talking (both phone to ear and holding in hand for speaker), and a few other common activities.

Not saying they are doing anything like this, just that it is possible.
I'm not so sure.

Youtube: By what measure are they undermonetizing Youtube? They show ads (sometimes several per video and on banners over the
vide), they have premium content that you have to pay for, they're branching into livestreaming with tips and subscriptions. They're running to into issues with big brand advertisers because they can't guarantee that their Tide ad won't play over some weird child exploitation video or conspiracy theory.

Maps/Waze: Definitely room for additional monetization here. However, it's tough to balance diminished utility against revenue. If I search for Arby and it gives me results for Taco Bell and Burger King, I'm going to get frustrated and give up. Do that too many times and I learn that Maps/Waze doesn't work and try to find another app.

Gmail: Google has actually rolled back some monetization there. For example, they turned off keyword scanning in 2017[0]. I think they run into a creepiness wall if they aggressively try to monetize.

Google has always stood out because they've offered products with tremendous _value_ where value is defined as providing a lot of utility for a low price. The fact that Gmail is free and highly functional is what differentiates it from Hotmail or Outlook. In the early days of Maps, it wasn't better than a dedicated Garmin unit but it sure was a lot cheaper (It's since become a market leader in terms of quality). Google Voice, Google Photos, Youtube, GSuite all have similar stories. If Google starts to decrease the value of their products by either decreasing quality (cost) or increasing price, then they potentially lose their differentiation.

Long term I'm bullish on G. Their bets on Self Driving, AI, and life sciences are particularly attractive. They've announced some medical stuff around early cancer detection via computer vision; depending on how it develops it could be extremely lucrative (catching cancer before humans do, or even with better accuracy than humans is worth billions). Self Driving will be self-evidently valuable over the next ten years and it seems like Google is a (if not the) leader of the pack in terms of research. Brain/AI is more open ended, but you only need one or two transformational successes in this area to revolutionize industries. There's absolutely no guarantee of success (in fact I think the odds are long) but if anyone is positioning themselves to achieve these long tail outcomes, it's Google.

However, the street doesn't think long term. They want alpha, full stop. If you're not performing like clockwork, there's an ocean of other schmuck companies happy to take the street's money. Nature of the beast I'm afraid. Short-termism is built into the system.

(non)disclosure: Neither I nor any close family members work for Google. I have no Google stock other than any that may be held as part of a run of the mill index fund.

[0]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/23/technology/gmail-ads.html
> Prices are crazy in the City. Lesson: don't try moving to the Bay area without $1-2M in cash on hand.

This is not a reasonable expectation for 99% of the people in the country. If your answer to the housing crisis is “be rich”, you’re not thinking of solutions. Should only millionaires be able to live in San Francisco?
It is a good book. Here's a copy/paste from the wikipedia article about the author's previous book, also set in a dystopian post-environmental-disaster environment.

The work won the 2010 Nebula Award[3], the Campbell Memorial Award[4], and the 2010 Hugo Award (tied with The City & the City by China Miéville for the Hugo Award), both for best novel.[5] This book also won the 2010 Compton Crook Award and the 2010 Locus Award for best first novel.
On the one hand I feel Hemingway was being sincere when he said/wrote this quote. On the other hand, part of me feels he was saying this just to be provocative.

Also, I'm not sure anyone has ever told me "Actually..." when I've explained what I thought I read. If this was a teacher/professor of yours he/she did you a huge disservice.

I can think of two reasons (I'm sure there are more) for why artists say what they want to say indirectly.

1) Things tend to stick in our brains the more we have to work to gain that knowledge. If someone imparts knowledge to you and you take it in passively this knowledge tends not to stick around in our brains as well as if you had to struggle to acquire this knowledge.

2) Many times in our history what an artist said or wrote could get that artist killed. As a result, they tended to mask the true meaning of their message using allegory and/or metaphor.
I couldn’t find the pricing without signing up
>many important routes will have significantly lower latency than any feasible terrestrial system.

Neutrinos brah.
Robotics is hard because hardware is hard. Add software complexity to it and it grows to a monster. Rather than shutting down, i’d have hoped them to be acquired by someone else with deeper funds.
... but not in the direction you'd think. Mobile has been great for the advertising duopoly that is Google/FB.
Check out ULID, lex-sort by time built in. It's super cool
What about passengers? My phone is always asking me if I’m driving for example when I’m trying to use Waze as a passenger
I'm with most of your points, but "bigger roads" stands out to me. Is there a need for bigger roads anywhere in the city?
I would say that most of the city has pretty big roads already, if anything I'd like to see road slimming, or turning two lane roads into 3 lanes with dedicated bus lanes or segregated bike lanes.
GUIDs are not meaningless by design, only v4 is.
Binary search is a cheap way of getting an O(log n) .contains() without the additional logic of proper AVL/RedBlack trees (or hashmaps). If you need to check whether an element is a member of a set many times, the once-off O(n log n) setup cost is no worse than any other trees (it is worse than hashmaps but those have other downsides).
Despite the dripping holier-than-thou tone of your post, I believe it is you who are misinformed:

> Financial charts commonly don't start at 0%, e.g. look at any stock chart ever.

Which is why those types of charts usually are line charts, or candlestick charts. The only reason to do a chart like this as a bar chart is to deliberately overemphasize the size of the difference between the quarters. A bar chart with a non-zero baseline is a horrible way to display this kind of data.

> This is to maximize clarity of differences, otherwise a lot of financial charts would have very small differences on top of very long bars, which would be much harder to read

Well, using a chart with a zeroed axis seems to work just fine for the very next chart in the article.
Nice! Thanks. The rss query string is a neat trick. Didn't know about that.

They've even blocked outline.com now...
It isn't all that silly an idea that there is information encoded into the work that the creator didn't intend to be there.

Some of the best literature works with characters rather than plot. I can easily see how an author trying to work accurately with characters based on generic memories of how someone should behave would actually leave a lot of evidence for interpretations they didn't expect.

Author's intent is important, but sometimes even the author will stand up and say their not quite sure what their characters would do in a given situation.
Because it is not just a Bay Are problem, they are merely the furthest ahead. It is a U.S. problem where an ever larger percentage of income goes to literal rent. To the detriment of the rest of the economy.

You will note rents also increase by similar percentages in communities with essentially no limit on development. And they also increase in places with shrinking populations.

In fact, in every city with reasonable employment possibilities, housing costs significantly outpace wage increases.

Large rental organizations are able to coordinate on an unprecedented level and no longer feel any threat from legislative intervention. Threats that held them in check through the last half of the 20th century. So rents will rise to their historical levels requiring multi families per unit.

By all means repeal prop 13 and move zoning decisions to the state level, it might slow the rise for a few quarters. But whether ideologically unacceptable or not, nothing is going to work except large scale intervention and aggressive price setting.
I sympathize with those concerns. But yet there were many desperately poor people during the Dust Bowl / Great Depression era who somehow managed to migrate across the country in search of a better life. Why were they able to do it?
> We hope others, especially our competitors, will adopt these methods, which enhance understanding while slowing research.

:)
Do you have any proof that Myspace was killed by advertising? Also, there's very little in common between Myspace and Google.
Better than "the naughts" or "the dub dubs" is it not? What do you call it?
Isn't part of the reason they are so dominate in all these areas due to the fact that their product is high-quality and free? Once they start monetizing and either perceived quality goes down or price goes up, competition may be able to move in.
IME the solution for "not have to fudge with Linux for getting work done at work" has been simply to use Debian + ohmyzsh + i3wm. It has never broken for me in day-to-day use as Fedora had.
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