skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes. I use IRC to chat, to roleplay, to interact with people and the like. Basically, I both can't and won't use Discord (too much Google reliance - the client program is in unheaded Chrome). So I use IRC.
"Hunting LeRoux" - the book is already being turned into a film by Michael Mann[0]

His story is more than interesting enough for an entire film without the Satoshi connection

[0] https://www.latimes.com/books/la-ca-jc-evan-ratliff-elaine-s...
And notice that just to discuss these questions, even to start, we make a LOT of assumptions about space, time, dimensions, etc. that as far as we know are particular to our experience. The assumption that these hold outside our universe -- that there is even space out there anything like the space we experience -- is laughable. It's nearly as absurd as assuming that ET has two arms, legs, eyes, and ears and then discussing height, weight, and hair color!
The Failings of Financial Centralization
I apologize! I've always called it Terminus... I only just now realized that's not how it's spelled. I honestly mean no offense. I've just always read it as Terminus. Termius isn't a bad name, I just read it as Terminus. Huh. Now I feel bad, because people constantly mispronounce my company's name and I have to correct them.
In this case, the BIOS'es contribution is fairly light:

- video mode change (int 10h, ah=0)

- RTC clock read (int 1ah, ah=0)

- keyboard read (int 16h, ah=0 and ah=1)

I am not familiar with Atari 2600 programming, but on the devices of that class:

video mode change would be at most few outb's, or omitted altogether if multiple video modes are not supported

"RTC clock" would be a loop waiting for VSYNC, likely less then a dozen operators

keyboard/joystick will be a simple "inb" at the core. It may, however, require debouncing, making it the most complex ops.

So in total, this game is amazingly light on the IBM BIOS services. In my estimation, porting it to BIOS-less 8080 system will only increase the size by 100 bytes at most.
A dog sounds cool.
Not directly GCS-related, but there was a big Youtube TV outage during the World Cup of last year (I think it was during semi-finals?). Google did apologize, but they only offered a free week of Youtube TV, which they implemented by charging me a week later than usual. I didn't feel compensated at all (it was a pretty important game that I missed!)
Durham Pathfinder Free-School: Self-Directed Learning
Consumer Reports Starts Digital Lab
To make a big difference you need to be social and political.

Going vegetarian makes a tiny difference. Tirelessly badgering everyone you know until 10 of them go vegetarian makes a difference 10 times as big.

Convincing 10 or 50 people to call their senators/reps about putting a price on carbon could have an impact an order of magnitude larger.

Lawmakers listen to their constituents when there is sufficient unity of thought among the constituency. And it has to be regular people that cultivate that unity of thought, through constant discussion of the problems and solutions with everyone they know.

...Now I just need to start to practice what I'm preaching...
I'm allergic to paywalls.

While I can't fault their capitalism, life is just too short. There isn't ANY lack of diversion elsewhere, for example, here.
I'm under the impression that with the heat death, such a large vacuum would create the massive quantum states which would lend to a new big bang. Would that not also be infinite time?
Amazon also had press this week about drone delivery.

Quite a presumption that announcing specific developments today is a singular sign of a big tech company’s vision.

In a carefully oriented company, I think drips of vision are hidden in every executive interview and minor product release.

You only get major, obvious vision-level clarity once in a very long while.
And both are effectively impossible for many people in the world.

His advice is meant to be applicable for people who aren't lucky enough to have either of those options.

The option to invest in income-generating assets over costly status-signalling devices is available to far more people in the world.

E.g. https://www.kiva.org/about/impact/success-stories
If your problem is simple enough for solving with SA (let's face it, most problems are), there is really no gain on using GA.

Genetic algorithms beat simulated annealing when different dimensions of your solution interact strongly and unpredictably, SA and gradient searches completely fail at those cases.
In the same boat.

The icing on the cake was they disapproved one of the ads due to the destination URL not loading.. which was in itself surprising, because everything outside of the affected region was running fine.
I used a genetic algorithm to evolve the evaluation function that I used to win this programming contest:

http://dinsights.com/POTM/LOAPS/finals.php

The game's scoring system was based on Lines of Action but added an alternative goal which was to win by points. So in order to play this game well a bot had to balance progress towards one of the goals with the need to make sure the opponent didn't get too far ahead in the other goal. My program was the output of a genetic algorithm that learned a remarkably good balance between these two sometimes competing goals. Before I used the genetic algorithm I spent a lot of time hand tuning the evaluation function and actually came up with a quite good result that I was unable to improve on. When I ran the genetic algorithm I was thrilled to discover that the genetic algorithm's output totally crushed my hand tuned output.

After my program won the contest with an undefeated 74-0-0 record the author of one of the best Lines of Action computer programs in the world played his program against mine. If the organizer of the programming contest had chosen just a slightly different scoring system that was biased a little more towards the Lines of Action goal, then my program would probably lose against the Lines of Action program. The author played two games of his program against my program. Both games ended with his program thinking it won by Lines of Action rules and my program thinking it won by the tweaked contest rules! This suggests that the organizer of the contest had done a particularly good job of balancing the different goals of the game. (No, this paragraph is about the organizer's game design and has nothing to do with the question of genetic algorithms. I just thought it was an interesting side note.)

I really have no idea of whether gradient descent optimization methods would have been better or not. But this was an area where genetic algorithms worked very well.
I agree with a lot of his points, and I would do well to embrace them.

When he gets into diving people into “makers or takers” that’s an arrogant and ugly way to look at the world. Because “taker” has a perjorative element.

People are not one thing. Maybe I’m biased by living in the US but most people I know try to be a positive member of society, even if they lack wealth.

Perhaps you could apply the “taker” label to the severely disabled, or to pathological criminals. If ones criteria is net contribution to the worlds wealth.
Ripe because the current system is inefficient and stacked toward the power players. Robinhood has a lot of users because retail investors are desperate to invest money for a profit. The banks underwriting the deals scoop up all the best opportunities before it ever filters down to normal people. With the oppressive regulations on new banks that won’t change any time soon.
i still don't get that argument. target audience of Waze is people who have cars and drive it around. people don't open up waze to get a taxi, they open it up to start driving.
Boston Dynamics’ cool-yet-terrifying robot Spot is about to go on sale
The only way to get SLA credits is requesting it. This is very disappointing.

SLA CREDITS

If you believe your paid application experienced an SLA violation
as a result of this incident, please populate the SLA credit request:
https://support.google.com/cloud/contact/cloud_platform_sla
Seems like the issue is having enough cushion so that your lifestyle is well below your means, so you can invest very conservatively without having to worry about your circumstances changing.

Of course, this can be accomplished by either dramatically increasing your assets, or by dramatically decreasing your expenditures.
Without Nuclear power the US is going to move backwards on greenhouse gas goals. Right now nuclear makes up 18% of US electricity generation and renewables make up 6%. Almost all those nuclear plants are scheduled for decommission in the next 15 years. So even if we quadruple renewable energy generation greenhouse gas emissions won’t go down.
They were, they made a lot of money betting against the housing market while simultaneously selling the products they were shorting. But many banks were insolvent and would have toppled after Lehman if the government hadn’t stepped in, and operating in an environment where their partners were gone would’ve made things much more difficult for Goldman and JP Morgan. It’s not nonsense.
I've been trying to think of a way to popularize digital signatures so when a video is purporting to be a CSPAN clip, you could check that the authorship is really CSPAN, but this always relies on trusting your sources, and who's to say CSPAN won't get hacked? Maybe they already were. [1]

I like your idea, it reminds me of something I stumbled upon reading about the 60Hz hum of AC electricity.

"...this side effect has resulted in its use as a forensic tool. When a recording is made that captures audio near an AC appliance or socket, the hum is also incidentally recorded. The peaks of the hum repeat every AC cycle (every 20 ms for 50 Hz AC, or every 16.67 ms for 60 Hz AC). Any edit of the audio that is not a multiplication of the time between the peaks will distort the regularity, introducing a phase shift. A continuous wavelet transform analysis will show discontinuities that may tell if the audio has been cut."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/12/business/media/cspan-russ...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utility_frequency#Audible_nois...
Variety of Transparent Displays Exhibited at Sid 2019
Ask HN: Personal Database Tool?
I'm looking for a tool where I can dump content (images, notes, quotes, names of movies), tag each item with multiple tags ("book" "completed" "5 stars"), and then search for the content by tag ("show me all books I tagged with 5 stars"). Is there a good tool I can use for this?
I just hate their stupid shitty name.

Joyent.

What an awful fucking name.

It's like the word you'd use to describe the sensation of injecting dish soap into your urethra.
You’re quibbling about language I think. It sounds like to you, depenence means an incessant need. Like a chemical dependency.

But that’s not implied by dependence. It just means you depend on that person for that thing sometimes. It means life would be tough if they stopped providing it. It doesn’t mean you would fall apart or become unable to function.

Certainly there are things people want to depend on their partner for and things they don’t. But none of it is universal. It’s totally individual. Someone might want to be financially self sufficient. Another person would feel totally safe bringing $0 to the relationship. Neither is a bad choice, it depends on whether that’s something you’re comfortable depending on your partner for, and whether they’re comfortable dependably providing it.
Game Theory: The Strategy of Conflict, by Schelling.

Microeconomics is useful, but behavioral economics would be where I'd spend more time. It's a cross between econ and psych.
I have to say, I don't like the name and confused it just like the other people.

But, perhaps you could do something with the capitalization of the name to make it more obvious:

"termiUS"

You could accentuate that effect with using a larger font for the last two letters.

Seems like one of the benefits is synchronization, so emphasizing US fits. And then you don't lose your hard fought Google ranking.

But, in any case, it's a great product and good luck!
How to Work with Subprocesses in Scala
Every day, for nearly 20 years. I won't stop until it's gone. Social networks come and go... IRC has outlasted all of 'em.
That’s an interesting anecdote because most wealth building strategies don’t really discuss the value and cost of networking.
The number of games on this list surprised me. Kudos to all these developers!
Good vs. Bad: How Brands Win with Authentic Storytelling (and Lose Without It)
Response to bobthechef:

If nothing can account for its own existence, how then do we come to the concept of God?

If every existence must have a preceding cause, and the thread were followed long enough, ultimately there could be no prime cause unless cause were cyclical, a loop so to speak.

In the case it's not cyclical but linear at some point "cause" ceases to exist and existence is an intrinsic property of the object, ("the thing without cause"). Why then should we suppose that point is some abstract level above the manifest universe? In other words, if we accept "God" (i.e objects can be without cause) then we have accepted that there need not necessarily be a proceeding cause to existence and the universe is as good a starting place as any.
"and there doesn't seem to be any kind of strong integration between vs.com and ms teams"

Is Teams the bastard stepchild of Microsoft? I haven't used Teams, but I recall reading a personal account probably 6 years ago about what working on Google+ was like. Every time something integrated to it, it was a mess and dragged the other products down. Word got around and groups actively avoided the Google+ team and were scrambling for justification as to why they shouldn't get integrated.

0 chance I could find the comment now, but it stuck with me all these years.
It is pretty hard to be optimistic about this whole mess sometimes, but then on the other hand, just as negativity and hate spreads so quickly, might it be possible for positivity and love to do the same, some day? I think so.

Oh ya I love that picture, was trying to find it not that long ago with no luck. It does a brilliant job communicating how powerful propaganda can be.
I probably should have been clear, I meant that the slack hype train has been joined by discord, even though it is essentially the same, it has just been marketed differently.
Anthropocene
Slack = Electron = over 1 GB of RAM.
We buy support.
I dislike Open Core as it tends to be unclear where features go in the future, and the pricing is usually insane.
At my workplace we need to be on-prem so SaaS is out.
We often pay for support we don't really need, in order to fund open source projects.
Compiled, it is 512 bytes. The com file is for running out side of the boot sector afaik.
You would think so, but then again you might be wrong. Better to be safe than sorry, no? I expected DO to make the backups I was paying them for and they didn't. Luckily I was making my own backups at the same time. Turns out my backups worked and theirs didn't. If I had just trusted them, I'd be out of business just like the dead company in question.

I'm not sure what's so confusing about "don't trust your vendors" but I've had to make this exact same reply way too many times.

Don't trust your vendors!
> Honestly all advertising targeted to children should be banned

When it comes to TV, some countries like Sweden and Norway do this. It seems the legislation hasn't caught up to the Internet though, and it may be difficult when the content comes from abroad.
Not here in Australia unfortunately - the government and coal execs are all best mates.
The fun part of the 2600 is that it doesn't have any real graphics hardware. You produce the graphics scanline by scanline racing the beam. That's the main reason the graphics look the way they do, there's no memory for a frame buffer or even a single scanline unless you dedicate it yourself.

EDIT: Here's the wikipedia article on the topic, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_Interface_Adaptor
DO has a startup program called Hatch: https://www.digitalocean.com/hatch/

That is the starting place for many folks.
Don't have kids. Reduce the global population to a sustainable level where everybody has access to more resources in terms of healthcare and opportunities instead of having half the population barely survive on scraps. Put a price on carbon. Include the price of carbon emissions in every product sold in supermarkets.
Possibly one of the most intriguing ideas I've ever heard is that there is no difference between "true" in the sense of "1+1=2" and "true" in the sense of "polar bears exist". The universe isn't described by the mathematics we have constructed to explain it, it is that mathematics.

In that sense, the question of what happened before our universe is similar to the question of what happened before 1+1=2... sort of a strange thing to ask. Our universe exists because it is a coherent tautology.

Of course, like all metaphysical posturing it's almost certainly impossible to ever know. But I find the elegance of the idea appealing.

Edit: I believe I was thinking of Max Tegmark's mathematical universe hypothesis, but also a little of David Lewis's modal realism:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_universe_hypothes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_realism
That's not a bad point - you gotta beat them before you change them.
Yeah, wow. Can't remember the last time I had to deal with unwanted cigarette smoke.

Plus all the smokers I know (not many left!) smoke outside like considerate, normal human beings so there's no way anybody would be forced to really encounter their smoke.
This is incorrect. See the stochastic schroedinger equation. A quantum system will stay pure under measurement as long as the measurement process is completely efficient.
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> If the third party sold a copy of MS Windows using Square's services/software/platform, could Square even in theory be sued by Microsoft for copyright infringement?

If Square was knowingly engaged in the distribution of Microsoft's software against Microsoft's license terms, absolutely. (EDIT: Well, I'm assuming they're helping distribute it, might be "conspiracy to commit copyright infringement" otherwise?)

> So AGPL isn't something special.

Correct...ish. I'm sure piracy, if not explicitly against the ToS, will get you kicked off too. The closest the AGPL gets to being special is the nebulous situation we find debated throughout this HN discussion tree - is it legal for Square to distribute? It's reasonable that customers might think so. It's reasonable that square's lawyers might think not.

But you've pointed out that even that isn't unique to the AGPLv3 specifically - so why call it out, specifically? My wild uneducated guess - a customer used AGPLv3 software, Square became aware of it somehow (license review team? or perhaps someone tried to exercise AGPLv3 rights and requested server code?), and eventually involves their Lawyer. Lawyer then looks into the specific case of their customer using specific software, reads the license of said software (AGPLv3), and becomes nervous about Square's possible legal exposure.

After the awkward conversation with their customer (possibly much like the discussion in this HN thread as to if Square would/wouldn't be knowingly facilitating AGPLv3 license violations by not sharing their own code, and thus legally liable), Square settles the matter by banning the specific license outright, possibly after giving them a chance to move away from AGPLv3 software first since it wasn't strictly against the ToS, and then explicitly adds it to the ban list for the benifit of customers and customer service who probably weren't privy to whatever lengthy private discussions might've been had with that one specific customer.
Hello HN! I designed this app to let hoteliers manage their housekeeping tasks remotely on any device after I saw a lot of them still relying on word of mouth for it. By simply asking the housekeeper use the app on his/her device, the owner or the manager can automate housekeeping tasks. Reports can be delivered daily on any device and logs can be maintained per room with photos to go back in time and see why the customer complained about rooms being dirty on TripAdvisor and other review sites like Yelp.
Traveling with Stadia would be difficult imo. They already mentioned it's going to be pretty brutal experience on 4G while 5G should be good (but is barely available at all). However every hotel WiFi I have experienced is generally abysmal. So not sure how you are planning on streaming this service seamlessly on the go.
That's a cynical way of putting it. This kind of approach, repeated over many permutations until I have various arrangements of shapes available in muscle memory, makes for good mileage, relative to many other ways that one could practice drawing. It isn't the "only" technique, it just presents one more option.

And it is difficult to get beyond "trace these shapes" and start using abstractions of structure and proportion as a way of seeing. It's the same barrier that happens in gaining technique on a musical instrument: you can pick out some notes at the beginning, but if you want to feel really comfortable and have the fluidity to sight read or improvise, you have to start drilling scales. But once you have those skills available and try to compose, the problem is with having a stagnant reportoire, and then music theory drills gradually become more important.

But most kids do get stuck after learning a few songs.
Technically they’re both at the gym, but they’re probably doing mostly non-overlapping activities in separate spaces. (Which is a shame because building muscle mass is an often overlooked way to lose weight)
It's also possible that the com file is just being padded because of the way they work, statically loaded into a specific 64kb segment of ram, limiting their size to 64kb. The assembler might just be padding it to zero out the rest of the segment, even though it isn't needed.
I don't think the frequencies these satellite ISPs are using is conducive to directly interacting with a phone. The antenna/receiver unit for Starlink will be the size of a pizza box according to SpaceX. Physics limits how much you can shrink the antenna (due to the wavelength).
This article honestly read like something out of a bullshit self-help book. There's a lot of tidbits in there that sort of ignore the reality for most people and how one small injury, accident etc can spiral out of control and bankrupt someone, at least in America. But reading this part especially stood out to me

> We all know people who are consistently pessimistic, who will shoot down everything. Everyone in their life has the helpful critical guy, right? He thinks he’s being helpful, but he’s actually being critical, and he’s a downer on everything.

> That person will not only never do anything great in their lives, they’ll prevent other people around them from doing something great. They think their job is to shoot holes in things. And it’s okay to shoot holes in things as long as you come up with a solution.

This is silicon valley in a nutshell. Silicon valley needs more pessimists, people that understand the problems with all the nonsense they push in attempt to solve problems while exploiting people along the way. It needs people that are willing to question people and tell them to stop doing things that are fucked up. Because these companies don't think about what will happen if they fuck up and break things.
Now we need cameras that watermark (using steganography) original videos so they can be authenticated and a blockchain solution for registering originals. Video sharing sites will need to process all their uploads to check for modifications and serve the original file (not re-encoded) as well, for third party checking.