skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, the Thinkpads seem like the best Windows laptops. If I used Windows, it would be an X1. Don't much care for the carbon fibre body (love the aluminum of the MacBooks) but the weight is excellent on those.
There's a pretty good book on the origins and consequences of the car culture called, not surprisingly, "The Car Culture by James J. Flink.

It was written in 1975 so doesn't speculate on the future of self driving vehicles but part of what made that book interesting is it took an oil shock to really get some attention on the problems.

(let's not forget that one enormous benefit of automobiles was that they cleaned up the cities which used to be full of horse manure. Of course we know now that they pollute in other, destructive, ways).
Please don't post personal attacks here; they contribute nothing to the discussion.
I think I found another bug of some kind. For "Demonic trade 1B", I got the following, but black shouldn't have artifact destroyers.

Demonic Trade {1}{B} (common)

Sorcery

Buyback {2}

Destroy target artifact.
FishStore is a new ingestion and storage layer for flexible- and fixed-schema datasets. It allows you to dynamically register complex predicates over the data, to define interesting subsets of the data. Such predicates are called PSFs (for predicated subset functions).

FishStore performs partial parsing of the ingested data (based on active PSFs) in a fast, parallel, and micro-batched manner, and hash indexes records for subsequent fast PSF-based retrieval. To accomplish its goals, FishStore leverages and extends the FASTER hash key-value store, and uses an unmodified parser interface for fast parsing (we use simdjson in many of our examples).

FishStore is being open-sourced as a research prototype, by researchers from Microsoft Research and the University of Utah. You can read more about the concepts behind FishStore in the SIGMOD 2019 research paper. Note that the research paper uses Mison as its parser, whereas this open-source release of FishStore provides a generic parser interface model, with simdjson as an out-of-the-box example.

You are more than welcome and try it and give us some feedback!
The decision on risk/benefit can be handled only by parents and doctors, not some bureaucrats or hn commenters who do not know enough about the context. "Hey, you are going to be deaf, because someone decided that 10% increased chance of cancer in 50 years is too serious" is not much better than your example, especially considering that in 50 years cancer will most likely be treatable anyway. (for context https://futurism.com/five-couples-crispr-babies-avoid-deafne...)
If you’re comfortable with JavaScript and Chrome DevTools you could create a Snippet [1] that deletes an entry from the page if the link matches the undesirable domains. You’d have to run it manually though which would probably get tedious depending on how frequently you visit HN.

[1] https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/java...

Disclosure: DevTools docs guy
The rapid changing from VCR -> DVD -> Blueray -> digital meant their industry was able to resell their product over and over. This produced a golden age and created a ridiculous amount of money. Their golden age is over.

In the very near future what used to be the movie/tv industry will be significantly smaller.
I mean, ability to do those things isn't really endemic to "the ability to travel" is it? More like a function of how your area is setup whether or not you need to travel far to do these things or just leisurely amble over.
Not exactly relevant, but their account (sharkmp4 on TPB) also uploaded files that they are very unlikely to have had a license to distribute (to add veracity to the entrapment), not only their films.
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When it comes to the "Air" name it's more of a brand recognition thing than anything else.

The 12" MacBook was launched after the Air but did not replace it. I'm not sure why the MacBook was just named "MacBook" but it is what it is, people just didn't really make the extra dollar tradeoff and the Air was a best seller. Especially at launch, the MacBook was quite a bit more expensive than the Air.

I suspect the Air's slightly larger size and cost-optimized design won out over the more expensive, slower MacBook.

Perhaps Apple intended to eventually replace the Air with the MacBook but for whatever reason it just didn't happen.
Surprisingly, people follow attractive people because they want to see photos of attractive people and not because they wonder what tea they drink
I wish more books were written/rewritten this way. I haven't read the post so far, perhaps it's a little bit too short to fit all the interesting stuff from the book, but I am pretty sure at least 80% (if not 99%) of books are at least 80% water.

I hope you are going to summarize the rest of the books of the same author and go on to other nonfiction authors perhaps. I would read such a blog regularly.
We will be testing the sources of olivine for nickel, and as posted upstream, we have potential solutions for phytomining the olivine reserves for nickel with nickel hyper-accumulating plants, and then burning plants, retrieving the nickel ore and using the proceeds it to further fund operations...
I can't speak to how well-backed their reserves are but the idea of a "wildcat bank" [0] almost certainly comes to mind whenever somebody mentions tether.

Everything old is new again.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildcat_banking
"Struct of Arrays", to be contrasted with "Array of Structs", because in Java it's actually "Array of pointers to Struct". In languages where "Array of Structs" is actually possible, the decision of which to use is less clear-cut and depends on how big the Struct is, what the access patterns are like, and whether you're trying to perform SIMD operations on multiple Structs at once.
Unless those commitments are in the form of formal contracts, written down, then I would not place a great deal of faith in them. Unless they have legal obligations to abide by them, then IBM don't need to keep them.
he didn't snitch until it was his own neck/balls in the noose. He's not a whistle blower who saw the error of his ways and tried for redemption. To get less than 1/2 the recommended sentence seems like a pretty sweet deal. His lawyer sounds like a real grease ball as well.
Awesome, sounds promising then! Thanks
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disclaimer: I work at Gravity Payments AMA.

Stripe is an aggregator, which means they collect all payments and distribute to their clientele. This is why merchant processors like Square and Stripe can often get their customers up and running more quickly. Lower underwriting requirements = less regulation on the merchant. The level of risk is higher so they have to charge higher rates to cover their losses of fraud.

Gravity Payments is an Independent Sales Organization (ISO) which means they underwrite each merchant and "approve" each merchant account with their backend processor. This equals less fraud and more flexible pricing.

We do offer integrations and also have an online product that can process ecomm transactions for developer usage.
> It's a monopolistic move to bully companies into handing over Google their content.

That's nonsensical. Google already has their content.

If anything, AMP is a democratizing technology. If you want your articles in Apple News, you have to integrate with Apple. Same with Facebook Instant Articles. With AMP, you don't have to integrate directly with anybody. Just publish AMP pages from using standard HTTP, and every link aggregator that implements an AMP cache (including Bing, Baidu, Yandex, Yahoo Japan, etc.) will be able to instantly load your pages for users. If I start my own link aggregator, I don't need to have the clout of a Facebook, Apple, or Google to get publishers to enable instant loading from my site — I can cache the AMP pages they have already published.

It's the same as publishing bus routes according to Google Maps's standard feed format (https://developers.google.com/transit/gtfs/) . I publish once in that format, and not only do my bus routes show up better in Google, but they also show up in all other mapping applications that ingest that format, without me having to do any integration with them.
> It turns out that not waiting 5 minutes for your order kinda leaves out the whole experience of talking to the barista, getting that smile at 6am when you're not feeling it yourself, and the personal experience of the hand crafted beverage.

I'm pretty sure you're in minority wanting this though. I absolutely dread getting too personal with my barista, to the point that I start going to another place if they recognize me. If I could choose I would not exchange a single word with them. Even saying what I want is too much.
There's easier and less risky ways to make a few grand with a rollback though.

The kind of Orwellian things society would need to do to prevent these kinds of crimes of opportunity would cost far more than the crimes themselves cost anyway.
It's possible to get otherwise ethical people to write unethical code by telling them that "it's to make the Web faster" and "it's 'open'" (even if it isn't truly open technology). It also seems like parts of Google are starting to rot from group think.
It looks neat but I wish it had physics calculations - I want to be able to write something like

10m * 1000kg * 9.8m/s^2 in kWh

and see a correct result
Since getting a Mac I've been finding that there's a whole market of mac only apps and I get the sense that it's just choosing your demographic: people who buy macs are more likely to pay for software.
I find it funny that people blame other people for climate change. facts are, most of the pollution comes from industries, and only the powerful CEO s and country leaders have the power to stop the incoming disaster, while everyone else is powerless.
In Atlanta we had one of our main highways collapse, I85. It was the exit after my place. Everyone adjusted and it actually forced people to ride the train. The train stations had to borrow parking spaces from businesses and schools.

Everyone will adjust. On the first day it will be a disaster if it’s unexpected.
Maybe start Monday at noon and leave at noon on Friday?

It is hard to run a B2B business without people around all 5 days.
4 day workweek is a wild goose chase. There is no consensus about which of 5 workdays to drop to get there, which means that people will lose the precious time slots that can be used by individuals to get together at the same time as a group.

The alternative route of reducing the duration of each workday with the 5 workday week isn't much different from what we have today: some end up working longer hours, some work the bare minimum number of hours they are required. Enforcing shorter days means that the gap between the hard workers and those who are just showing up for the hours will increase even further, increasing performance gaps in the workplace and unfairly punishing dedication and productivity.
Also Facebook.

It’s because media companies used to control all the information and opinion. Now they’re losing that power to big tech. They are mad. But ultimately they will lose, for better or for worse.
Will the results of the investigation and analysis be publicly available?
Good breakdown. But I don't understand why any company thinks it is ethical to ever listen/record/send home data from -inside- a home. There are a plethora of public, or semi public places they could use to obtain real conversation(think of a subway, restaurants, DMV, etc). Set up a booth and let people talk to it. Using real speech from within someone's private quarters is disturbing IMO.
Yeah, in my culture / location we call them "people that have to go through extra obstacles".
"Welcome to PHY 4509, Classical Electromagnetism. You should not be here, this school is too expensive. If you would like to discuss transferring, you can find me in my office Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 11AM. This message will repeat in thirty seconds."
If you want to push your app's wallet (for cash-flow, loyalty, interest margin), you could offer additional reward bonuses for larger reloads.

i.e. a $10 reload gets no bonus, but a $30+ reload gets an extra dollar in rewards.

Presumably you've already seen the CUPS coffee app, but check it out if you haven't. They're dead as a company now from what I can tell, but they had a very streamlined experience. They even tried a fixed price model where each vendor would receive a fixed payment for each cup users redeemed and users would subscribe to a plan with a certain number of cups a month.
As with any data study, it always helps to read the fine print. This is how they measure engagement rate: "The firm measures engagement with a like follower ratio or the average number of likes on each Instagram post compared to the number of followers."

Thus engagement rate could be decreasing, but that doesn't say anything about the total average engagement of Instagram posts, which might be increasing. Possible reasons engagement rate is decreasing (but overall engagement rising):

1) The people who followed your brand in the early stages are your most enthusiastic fans and most likely to engage with your posts. Followers that hop on the bandwagon are less likely to engage, thus lowering your engagement rate. In effect, over time, your follower count will increase, but new followers will increase the denominator (number of followers) but won't increase the numerator (engagement).

2) Perhaps, there's been a rise in automated followers. Thus, your follower count has been increasing but most of it are bots, thus your engagement rate is decreasing.

3) Perhaps Instagram might be pushing more people to follow brands they don't want to engage with. Whether it's through algorithmic recommendations, or more ads that tell you to follow a brand.
I'm sitting here laughing like how can they report a profit, excluding some costs? what? Thanks for pointing this out
LinkedIn appears to be having issues right now too.
This class of argument is incredibly common (e.g. Pinboard criticizing the NYT piece on ad trackers for having ad trackers itself) and is incredibly counter-productive. It's the equivalent of smarmy relatives commenting "oh yeah? well you're still on it" if you complain about Facebook on Facebook.

Sure, they're trapped inside the system, but they're trying to change it!! And that certainly deserves our respect. At least it deserves better than knee-jerk "gotchas".
Yes, I have the DDR4 version. I wouldn't have thought it would matter much for a desktop usage.
Keyboard interaction on the Apple II is entirely CPU-dependent, memory-mapped, and works like this: when a key is pressed, the ASCII code of the character is put at $C000, with the high bit set (a consequence of this is that there is no way for the computer to know that you pushed the shift key, for instance, or to tell the difference between typing Return or typing Control-M). Your program is responsible for checking $C000 from time to time. When the high bit is set, you read the character and access memory location $C010, which clears the $C000 high bit. Interrupts are not used at all, despite the 6502 supporting them, probably because disk and cassette IO is similarly done under CPU control with tight timing tolerances, and getting an interrupt in the middle of writing data would wreak havoc.

Details on page 16 of http://www.classiccmp.org/cini/pdf/Apple/Apple%20II%20Refere...

An exception is the "Reset" key which is hard-wired to the reset pin of the 6502. On early Apple II models, pushing "Reset", which is located just above Return, had disastrous consequences. People used to put a washer under the Reset key to make it harder to push by accident. Magazines published a simple hardware mod that required Control to be held at the same time as Reset, and later versions of the Apple II came with the mod built-in.

The Apple IIe keyboard adds two "apple" keys on both sides of the space bar which are dealt with in a completely different way, and are mapped to the same locations as the two joystick/paddle buttons. This was useful for playing games which required repetitive button-mashing, as it is easier to type a key quickly than to push a joystick button quickly. Since I was used to controlling the joystick with one hand and pushing a key on the keyboard with another hand, I had no problem adapting to early Macintosh software that required shift-click, option-click and command-click to overcome the limitation of a one-button mouse.

"The Macintosh mouse has four buttons, it's just that three of them are on the keyboard."
Can you imagine how valuable voice data could be if it could be mined to show what products, politics, opinions are being discussed in the real world?

Can you imagine how valuable your voice data would be to a marketing campaign which you didn't even know you had participated in?

Can you imagine how much valuable information is contained in the vocal enunciation of A/B testing? Every little "hmmm" or "how do I go backwards?" or "what does this button do?" that people don't even realize they're saying.

Can you imagine how much that violates someone's privacy?
Even if this is actually feasible and does not have negative environmental impacts, I don't see countries implementing it on their beaches where a lot of tourism is located.

For example in Mexico Riviera Maya, Cancún, Holbox, etc, the main selling point are the white beaches and turquoise sea.
Great feedback!

1. Will be updating it. It used to be a landing page, and after we launched the MVP few days ago, just managed to update the link.

2. That's a great idea! We've got a public roadmap for ourselves: https://app.getshipit.com/r/PaZrwULQxD, that might be one of the few projects to show during the signup.

3. Interesting, as very brief user-testing showed the opposite, so I made a mistake by extrapolating that to a much wider audience.
I don't have any data to back this up, but I have been watching TV for many, many years. It seems to me that we have two types of television series...

1) A show that was carefully written over the course of several years and had a pretty large budget when the first season of the show was finally made. These have a good first season and maybe an okay second season but often flounder in their second season.

2) A series that maybe had a good idea and a decently written pilot but not much more on the books in terms of time investment, often having a smaller budget. These shows might have a pretty poor first season with some good episodes here and there, perhaps the cast starts to show some real chemistry as their characters begin to get fleshed out towards the end of that season. The second season only gets better as everyone has a better handle on what is working.

It could be argued in both cases that more seasons are worth the gamble. In practice, though, more shows just get worse. I can't fault Netflix for leaning towards early cancellation, that seems like the obvious safe bet.
I actually don’t think it’s clear at all that IG influencers make money at all. I imagine that it’s similar to Twitch or Youtube - you have a very small 0.1% minority at the top making most of the income and everyone else scrapes by.
I for sure haven't mastered CORS.

What would you use instead of that? Suppose you're doing something like client-side Blazor that calls to a WebAPI project. How can you improve security by restricting the origin of access requests when your client is open to the public?
This is why they need to be pushed into having lofty goals like reducing traffic/emissions, improving public health and so on. And then they should be held to those goals, forcing them to take risks and spend.

What I hear all the time with programs like this (where politicians almost have the opposite problem) is basically this type of (slightly made up) media dialog:
“won’t it be dangerous to force children to ride bikes from age one?”

“Yes, but if we are to meet the emission goals by 2025 we have no choice”.

To be clear, think it’s good that politicians are more afraid of being seen as having done too little, than they are afraid of being liable for their actions.
He also explains SuperCollider's quirks that might confuse a beginner as they come up, in a way that doesn't overwhelm.
(recap)

1999 - we collect 4 things

2019 - we collect everything about you
This is absolutely true. Why, I myself am a member of no less than 8 conspiracies that I know of. Of course, I can't tell you any further details; that would defeat the point of a conspiracy after all.

The problem is that I keep forgetting the secret handshakes. One of these days, I'm going to leave my thumb out rather than in and someone's going to shank me with a shiv. Or shiv me with a shank; I can't remember how that goes either.
I always appreciate non-shouty clarifications of misunderstandings, combined with charitable interpretations of others' motives and knowledge. Thank you!
Lockheed is a big employer in my area. I know people who work 9 hour days and they get every other Friday off. Half the staff takes one Friday and half the other.

Planning is key here. No one is saying the whole office needs off on the same day.
It would not be hard to run a B2B business for 4 days if most businesses had a 4 day work week. That's what the author is arguing for, right?
Success equals no serious complaints:

https://www.denhaag.nl/nl/in-de-stad/verkeer-en-vervoer/fiet...

"Als er na 3 maanden geen ernstige bezwaren zijn van bewoners, dan wordt de vlonder weggehaald en vervangen door fietsbeugels die blijven staan" which translates to "Should there not be any serious complaints within 3 months the platform will be removed and replaced with permanent cycle parking"
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Guitar:

- Pete Thorn - amazing guy, although no lessons, he shows various effects and stuff!

- Ben Eller - His lesson about vibrato is a must-watch

- Rick Beato - Just plain amazing

- Adam Neely - If you want to delve REALLY deep into music theory
The defendant's name is "John Steele" - I assume they were able to crack this case when they realized the copyright lawyer was also the star of all the allegedly infringed upon porno films
Fun fact, the number of billionaires currently in prison is about what you’d expect statistically.
I don't think people will be very receptive to the desolate hellscape that will be the world if we don't do drastic things to mitigate climate change.

I am not saying that this is the solution though.
DeepMind’s StarCraft II agent will play anonymously on battle.net
Why can't we stagger which 4 days people work for fuller coverage?
The Stripe outage that occurred bc of a deleted DB index was particularly interesting.

Someone deleted an index before the replacement was live due to a process error. This had cascading effects across the system and caused a large % of API requests to timeout. It's such a pedestrian problem but had an enormous impact.
That + basic research would be my goto. It would definitely be helpful, I agree.

I just wanted to show OP that the scale of the problem isn't something oligarchs can "easily" solve.
I admit I've only ever taken cursory glances at Cryptol, but it's never seemed like a replacement for the sort of low-level programming described in the article. If anything, it goes the opposite way - its Haskell base inherits one of Haskell's flaws, namely that it can be difficult to understand the runtime/performance implications of Haskell code without careful analysis.

Cryptol's README describes it as a sort of standardization/prototyping language.

That said, I don't know these things for sure, and I'd love to be corrected if I'm wrong.
Oh, interesting! Thank you.
Or work construction.
Not only that, but people still buy computers even though the Nazis used IBM computers to help them perpetuate the Holocaust. Surely you shouldn't use computers if the NAZIS used computers!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust