skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, I didn't know Japan was also on NTSC. That explains the way PAL turned out. I found a reference on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinitron

"The decoder inside the UK-sold Sony color Trinitron sets ... had an NTSC decoder adapted for PAL. ... Any phase errors could then be compensated for by using a tint control knob on the front of the set, normally unneeded on a PAL set". Presumably also applied in other PAL countries too, or they entered those markets a little later.

TV's to choose in 1979 were probably British Ferguson, Dutch Philips, and German Grundig. In 1989, replace Ferguson (I think they were taken over sometime in the 80s) with Sony. Philips were the most likely to innovate and bring out new ideas, like Laserdisc (with MCA) or V2000 video recorders, that was best quality of the three, and first format to leave the market.

I also only started being aware in the 70s. Portable Radios seems a very similar picture to the US - Sony was here, but no one really had the market. So plenty from Philips, Braun - with that iconic design that gave the iPod design, Brother at the more expensive end, along with lots of cheaper makes from both Europe and Japan. ITT was about the only non-professional US make I can remember with much presence here. There's bound to be one I missed. Short wave was Grundig and Philips for the hobbyists, with a few from Brother.

Brother are still going, and doing quite well in DAB radios, especially with models that are digital versions of 50s and 60s successes. Tannoy is the common generic term for a PA system here, they moved into home audio and speakers. They're long bought out into a group making hifi and speakers, along with Quad and Wharfedale. German Dual are still around, and were one of the mid range but quality audio and turntable makers of late 70s and early 80s. Now I think just expensive turntables after a buyout or failure or two.

Walkman was, of course, huge. I think that and the ghetto blaster fashion pushed all the Japanese brands right to the front of the market in the early 80s. Even though the boombox was also a Philips idea they were never the most desired brand. Philips kept their reputation for TV though, with some of the best late-CRT models.

So Japan and Sony race ahead, Sony's former mixed reputation being thoroughly forgotten, and in the process completely transformed the market. Few of the older brands could keep up. All the Japanese makes became a success - Pioneer, Sanyo, Sharp, Aiwa, Marantz, Panasonic/Technics, Hitachi etc, even though one or two weren't very good yet! Then Sony upped the stakes with the remarkable pro Walkman models - that few could respond well to.

Japan ended up taking the reputations for just about everything except high-end hifi and notably speakers - where they struggled, but even there they made some inroads. Several Japanese brands started designing and making speakers in Europe or using Wharfedale or Tannoy. I think Panasonic/Technics and Denon may still.

I'm sure I forgot a few bits of the timeline. :)
Interesting and probably doable!
My understanding is box sizes are sometimes selected for packing a container or truck so there are no gaps. Not saying we shouldn't reduce waste but cardboard is one of the most recycled products.
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Could be! For some time after graduation, I used to have an account on Ohio State's undergrad (Solaris) CS system. I was in the `guest` group, for a reason I didn't really understand (my degree was a CS&E degree). Since then they've switched to using OSU's central password auth, so I doubt it works anymore.

But it could also be that someone wants to keep your account active!
Yeah, you have to verify the number through an independent system.
Did anything really come out of this since 2017? Genuine question, just haven't seen any news around.
Reason as a guidance for beliefs makes perfect sense - they are the constraints for what is possible. When it comes to actions it is the how and not the why.

It isn't wrong to use it in that way as a source of some beliefs. That you won't be able to build a skyscraper just by drawing blueprints is reason.

However it doesn't include the motivations - only how they may be served or if the goals and outcomes are out of alignment.
Get them an iPad.
The people seeing the adds aren't the consumer, they are the commodity. The value of an ad isn't just in selling a product. Ad networks are great at collecting behavioral data. That data is quickly becoming more valuable than the products in the ads.

If I click on an ad for funeral services I might buy something but probably won't. But I may have just confirmed that a close relative just died. That factoid is worth something to a great many people beyond the local funeral parlor who paid for the ad. I should expect real estate agents and quack financial advisers to be knocking on my door by the end of the day.
Disney copying Netflix makes it just harder for the customers. The whole Netflix subscription business model should die. When content distribution is commodity as you say, the only service they provide is easy payment.

Disney, Netflix, Amazon, HBO, Spotify etc. divide content between them and if you want to watch four shows, listen a music and read an ebook, you may have to subscribe 7 or more content delivery system.

People should be able to pay for the individual series or even episodes. The only reason why you need to create account to consume content is to make payment easier.
setting aside the emotional aspects of mourning your friend and taking some time to clear your heads.

What did you do when he was sick, or on vacation?

Practically speaking this is no different than an extended vacation.
This is asserted without any evidence.

What makes you believe this to be true?

This seems to be a popular notion in some "western" thought but runs counter to many other intellectual and spiritual traditions.
Where did Disney get all this delivery cred? They do seem to be taking their time and they've been gobbling things up and certainly have the content. Aren't they just an old media company though? I remember when Disney Channel was a pay channel with relatively bunk content; like it had some original stuff and then like ancient re-runs for the Mickey Mouse club and once fairly rarely they'd play a classic Disney movie. Tons of commercials too and they had like special "early access" adverts for the big next movie and toys and things like that.

Maybe it's a different company now but I'll ask, with all their content: the disney stuff, star wars, marvel, fox, etc.. If they put it all on Disney+ at $7 a month, are they not leaving money on the table? I can't imagine there won't be up-selling or limited availability of certain media properties or something. The author is right, if it's all there at $7 and the app is great and they are bold and aggressive, then I would think Prime and Netflix, etc. will be in a bit of trouble. On the other hand, if Disney acts like they always have then I expect there to be like 10% good stuff, an advertising machine for whatever movie is next in the pipe and then just some bunk filler content.
> Condos are getting built in huge numbers; they all get bought immediately, and for the most part, they’re all lived in.

The article made it sound like Toronto doesn't have an oversupply, at best they may have reduced latent demand.
When you graduated how familiar were you with Twitter Bootstrap, X popular framework (Rails / Laravel / Django), any experience using Vue or React?

My brother graduated 4 years ago (he's a stock boy now) with a degree in Digital Design and Development (Flash, PHP, JS, CSS, Adobe CS), he leans more frontend/graphics but never once was taught anything about CSS frameworks or bootstrap. I'm self-taught laravel dev since 2013, I've used vue, jquery, bootstrap, vuetify, bulma, tailwinds, on frontend even though backend is my strong suit.

I think the point I'm getting at is bootcamps teach exactly what companies need in terms of frameworks and 'hot ticket' skills. You could be a kick ass java developer after you graduate college but if you've never used Spring or Clojure or some other Java framework you're just useless to most companies.

Bootcamps also do quite a bit of bridge building with companies/recruiters to keep their job placements high, where most colleges wipe their hands after you get your diploma and it's on your own good graces that you find your first gig... 2-3 years in it gets way easier though.
Don't forget about memory barriers. Otherwise your driver will fail on other CPU architectures.

Just because it works on x86, doesn't mean it works on ARM, MIPS, POWER or RISC-V. CPUs other than x86 can reorder stores with other stores and loads with other loads. It can cause the CPU to do the store that starts DMA before the stores that set up length and address are done!

Or just use C11 or C++11 memory model. Although those are still not available in too many cases, curse of having to use an ancient compiler...
The point, as we've made clear to Juan Picado and other recipients like Kir Belevich of SVGO (https://twitter.com/deepsweet/status/1120290773625450501) is a token of appreciation. We don't want to create any pressure on the developers' part to continue development.

To prevent the project from dropping off, the key developers would need to be hired to work on the project. The scale of donation O($100K/yr) is much larger than the cost of just paying npmjs.
We're arguing over semantics here. Most people interpret a "fallacy" as something one should refrain from. Ie, "appeal-to-authority is a fallacy, therefore we should refrain from it during the course of any discussion".

I'm making the point that often times, appealing to authority is most likely to produce the correct answer.
What's the difference vs Greenkeeper?
I don't think anyone can claim one way _or the other_ on this issue. Once you live in a place that is being used in some part to park mainland Chinese money, like I currently _do_, you really start to wonder why there aren't readily available statistics on this problem.
Unless I've very strong incentives to answer, I usually put people who dare sending me an email with only “Hello?” or “ping” in it in my “least urgency queue”, if not directly in my spam folder.
My recipe is AdBlocks + automated updates enabled + firewall enabled + desktop shortcut for web browser + regular antimalware check.

Regarding phishing, I set them up with a GMail account and their filter is quite good against this.

So far, not anything bad happened, some minor malware were installed through malicious web browser extensions, but no financial damage or identity theft.
By default mtr will do reverse DNS lookups on all hops. Several of the traces I ran showed the route to nextdns's /24 transiting over NTT and from the DNS name you can figure out where each router is.
Bwahahaha

As others have mentioned they do more harm than good in large populations. They're a pest because we would all die from the diseases they carry.

Pet rats and street rats are very different, and even more different are rats in wild nature. City rats are disgusting by nature because we humans can't help but pollute and litter for some reason. So when you see a city rat think about all of the trash you've seen in the city now imagine that's the diet that rat eats. Congrats you now have the knowledge as to why most of everyone doesn't want them around.
Discord is huge in gaming/pc enthusiasts. Oh, and you use VS Code in your stream. I wonder what those two are written in...
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Good troll
> I'm not extremely familiar with the letter of the law, but if it doesn't specify that you need 2FA/email

The Regulation doesn't mandate specific technical implementations anywhere; it leaves that to the industry, which is the expert in that regard. But on the subject of the Right of Access it does explicitly say:

"The controller should use all reasonable measures to verify the identity of a data subject who requests access, in particular in the context of online services and online identifiers"

It seems to me that not using 2FA/email means they haven't used all reasonable measures to verify the identity.
Can't say I'm enthused to see your algorithmic estimation of my 'mood' for the past year offered as a commodity.
Disney has a following and Neflix has a following so that says to me that customers will pick one or the other or both there is room for both. The idea that one has to beat the other is good for completion but does not mean that one has to go out of business. I see it as a big plus since now they both have to compete for customers. Yeah for us.
Hi HN, OP here

Feel free to ask me any questions about the library

It's been a very interesting project so far

Andrew
recent (4 days ago) discussion of the aquisition: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19989631
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I would guess not, given how the article notes later on that "cp" has no recursion flag:

> Imagine how many separate Unix commands have the TreeWalking built into them... RefactorMercilessly.

And suggests the following shell script instead:

#!/bin/rc
switch ($#*) {
case 2 @{ cd $1 && tar c . } | @{ cd $2 && tar x }
case * echo usage: dircp from to >[1=2]
}

Which is horrifying (how would you ever figure out what " $#* " means?), even without the context of the article's own dislike and distrust of system customization:

> The wide variety of superusers allowed each of them to inflict their style guidelines on the structure of the file system... Now where did that @#!$ superuser put gcc or perl or ...

So what's going to happen here? Every time someone wants to list or copy or search or whatever recursively, they're going to have to either write their own potentially buggy variation on this script, or use someone else's. Is there a convention for where they put that script? Every time someone deploys a new Plan9 box, they're probably going to remember that this was a problem before and provide some kind of script like this. Now where did that @#!$ sysadmin put it?

The solution to the repeated code problem is a library, not stripping critical functionality from core system utilities and burdening users with unnecessary complexity. Why is this 40 year old operating system making me so angry!? I should get out more.
I would just make a written checklist of hard "no" items and list porn on it. If they call with a problem, ask "Were you clicking on a hard no item?" and don't get into whether or not it was porn.

If they call frequently because their computer is a giant mess of malware, eventually tell them they need to educate themselves because your efforts to keep them safe are proving insufficient.

If you honest to God can find no means to tell your parents that porn is a really big problem with regards to technical safety online, then I suggest you wash your hands of this issue and tell them you are wholly unqualified to help them and maybe point them to some resources to help them sort it out themselves. Hopefully, buried somewhere in those resources is the fact that porn is a problem.

Otherwise you are doing more harm than good by giving them the illusion of assistance when the real message is "Sorry, I can't actually protect you because it might involve admitting my parents, who probably did the wild thing to get me, might still have a sexuality." If that's the answer, don't pretend to help. Just refer them elsewhere to someone willing to have that conversation.

I will add that you need to know porn is an issue even if you don't consume it. Advising them that porn is a problem doesn't actually presume they consume it. I had to do a hard shut down of a laptop because I was moderating a forum and someone posted a porn link. I wanted to do my due diligence and not just assume. It opened a zillion popups and locked my computer up.
My comment was referring to his 'human supremacist' comment. I don't recall saying I want rats running around everywhere, did I?
Actually, rats' involvement in the spread of the Black Plague is under question.

https://www.history.com/news/rats-didnt-spread-the-black-dea...

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/rats-plague-blac...

https://www.sciencealert.com/black-death-plague-spread-human...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2...
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Ask HN: Can I room with YC startups?
Might be out there, but I will be interning as a Product Designer at an established, Series C company this summer in Silicon Valley from June to September. However, I think I'm going to miss being around startup people having previously been a founder. I'm not aware of any hacker houses so I am putting this out there to see if any YC S19 companies have extra spots for roommates. I'd pay market rent and work full time during the week, but it'd be nice to be around some cool startup people.

On the weekends, I like to read, go outdoors, bike, and hang out with friends. I cook once in a while to meal prep for the week, and I have a car.

Also open to moonlighting with startups.

hi -at- chenandrew.com
> in this case could've been written far better to provide data protection without entrenching the major players even further.

Could it? How?
I didn't say anything about 'liberals'. Why are you trying to put words in my mouth?
You don't have to agree that's the beauty of democracy and consensus. A majority of us agree that declaring rats as pets and not a protected species is a good thing. We don't need another bubonic plague and your ideals will only bring us closer to that.
Language design is its own thing with its own body of knowledge and experience. Of course, often times new languages were designed by those who could engineer their compilers and interpreted, leading to lots of mistakes that would be more apparent to a seasoned language designer.
Perhaps the actual "artwork" is the auction itself, and we are all unwitting participants. Or it's just someone hoping to make some easy money.
I wish we could do away with the clickbait nonsense headline editorializing.
thanks for the input!
I didn't knew the gumption traps term, nice to have a word for it.
How did you choose when to ship? What it a time limit -one week and it's done no matter what-, or did you lower your expectations and went ahead as soon as you had the basics working?
This sterilist point of view is not prevalent around the world. In many places, humans live alongside and in harmony with other animals, without trying to exterminate everything that moves.

Sterilistic societies create many problems, including environmental, health, and psychological.
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One of the difficulties of keeping seniors safe on the Web is that that even "the good guys" are doing dumb and harmful things (e.g., government office gratuitously running dotcom cross-site trackers on gov't sites, or outsourcing parts of site to companies that sell out private data), and "the good guys" companies are often outright some of the most insidious exploiters.

Two of the barriers are:

1. Most people of all ages don't actually understand the technology, and instead mimic their peers (and do things like people they know tell them to do, like install a particular thing to see photos). Both young and old people make much the same mistakes here.

2. Older people might come from times&places with different ideas of respectability and sense of duty. They probably can't even imagine the accepted sociopathy within the tech industry. Daughter/son went to work for that nice company that does the right thing, and surely they're keeping an eye on things (not systematically reading people's private messages, monitoring every page everyone reads and thing they do, and encouraging bad security practices that set up openings for other kinds of exploiters).
Honestly consider having them offline.
I have the same problem and my only solution is me being their proxy for internet. When they need something "online" like movie o buying something, they ask me.

Today most thing happen via a browser instead of programs and it's basically impossible to secure.

Consider using a tablet/smartphone instead of a computer.
Apps are a little better than website in term of being "safe". By using something like privacy guard (feature of lineageos) and disabling the browser and email you can keep reasonably safe.

That's what i did. Bought them a tablet, install what they needed (netflix, amazon etc...) and a app for remote control, like teamviewer, disabled browser and playstore, and basicaly everything else.
For anything else they call me.

It's not amazing but it work.

Desktop computer are, for me, a lost cause.
Edit: Looks like the slides had an inaccuracy (see replies). Huh, looks like I learned something today :)

I think a good way of summarizing volatile is this slide from my parallel architectures class [1]:

> Class exercise: describe everything that might occur during the
> execution of this statement
> volatile int x = 10
>
> 1. Write to memory
>
> Now describe everything that might occur during the execution of
> this statement
> int x = 10
>
> 1. Virtual address to physical address conversion (TLB lookup)
> 2. TLB miss
> 3. TLB update (might involve OS)
> 4. OS may need to swap in page to get the appropriate page
> table (load from disk to physical address)
> 5. Cache lookup (tag check)
> 6. Determine line not in cache (need to generate BusRdX)
> 7. Arbitrate for bus
> 8. Win bus, place address, command on bus
> 9. All caches perform snoop (e.g., invalidate their local
> copies of the relevant line)
> 10. Another cache or memory decides it must respond (let’s
> assume it’s memory)
> 11. Memory request sent to memory controller
> 12. Memory controller is itself a scheduler
> 13. Memory controller checks active row in DRAM row buffer.
> (May > need to activate new DRAM row. Let’s assume it does.)
> 14. DRAM reads values into row buffer
> 15. Memory arbitrates for data bus
> 16. Memory wins bus
> 17. Memory puts data on bus
> 18. Requesting cache grabs data, updates cache line and tags,
> moves line into exclusive state
> 19. Processor is notified data exists
> 20. Instruction proceeds
> * This list is certainly not complete, it’s just
> what I came up with off the top of my head.

It's also worth mentioning that this assumes a uniprocessor model, so out-of-order execution is still possible which leads to complications in any sort of multithreaded or networked system (See #5, 6, 7, 8 in the OP article).

I think a lot of the confusion stems from the illusion that a uniprocessor + in-order execution model implies to programmers who have never dealt with system-level code. I think in the future, performant software will require a bit more understanding of the underlying hardware on the part of your average software developer -- especially when you care about any sort of parallelism. It doesn't help that almost all common CS curriculum ignores parallelism until the 3rd year or more.

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~418/lectures/12_snoopimpl.pdf - the last 2 slides
in germany it would've been in favor of clicker heroes.
basically clicker heroes has a trademark in two countries. another company registered a trademark in their country and COPIED the game. this is basically extremly problematic.
germany takes both copyright and trademark extremly serious and usually you can't register a trademark if it is also internationally recognized.
For all but the most complex, or assembly-optimized, or just poorly written software, supporting 64-bit should be no more than a recompile. When I started producing 64-bit versions of my iOS apps, at first I didn’t even know it happened because Xcode just did it for me. Any yes, they included C and C++, and 3rd party code. It took zero hours to support. It was almost too automatic for comfort.
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