skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likely because there are publications that are SO slanted, agenda-based and poorly sourced it's more important to note.
The significance of 512 bytes is that it is the standard sector size for a PC storage device (the size seen by software; newer hard drives have 4KB physical sectors, but can still be addressed as if they had 512B "logical" sectors), and a traditional BIOS reads the first sector of the boot device into memory and jumps to it in order to begin the OS part of the boot process. A normal OS bootsector would then find and load the next part of the OS, which may involve things like understanding FAT or NTFS filesystems; here's a (rather enthusiastic) analysis of many boot sectors from different versions of DOS and Windows:

https://thestarman.pcministry.com/asm/mbr/index.html

Writing a tiny program that lets you modify memory, and more importantly execute it, is the first step in the "bootstrap pilgrimage" to creating your own environment and eventually OS, but this one seems deliberately limited; nonetheless, starting with this, one can use it to create the next stage of the bootstrap, 512 bytes at a time.
What's very good? The book or the review? grin
I'm not necessarily ashamed about anything. Although I am disturbed at how hot I get about some seriously evil stuff. But at least not by abusive child porn, which only saddens and angers me. Even the child model bullshit. There's lots of that on Freenet.

And yes, I am perhaps too curious.

However, I definitely wouldn't want anything beyond mainstream porn linked to my meatspace identity. Because I don't want to risk rotting in prison for ~five years, and getting permanent probation. But by using VPNs and Tor, I need not be overly constrained by those risks.
The JioPhone can run WhatsApp, but it isn't pre-installed.

For that reason, I'd imagine 90% of Jiophone users in India would install at least one third party app.

However, they would get this from the JioStore, not from the KaiOS store: https://faq.whatsapp.com/en/kaios/26000183/?category=5245235

So if the majority of KaiOS users are using carrier-branded phones with carrier-branded app stores, maybe the developer story for 'vanilla' KaiOS isn't as important.
I agree, especially on iPad, a bezel is a necessary place to rest a thumb to hold the device
Yes, honeycomb is great. It's one of those "I wish I had more bigger projects, just so I could use this more" services. Other APMs / logging systems are just not really comparable.

It does cost a bit more though :-)
Smriti is correct Sanskrit of Pali 'Sati'. The 'Sati' you are talking about is a different thing. This 'Sati' is related to mindfulness.
Hilarious to see you wispering this comment into the hurricane force winds of techies leaving Mac for these very reasons.
Men are politically, economically, and socially dominant in pretty much every society on Earth, though there are a few where that has been reduced so that women are near parity.

Advocating for “Men’s rights” pretty much anywhere on Earth is like advocating for “White rights” or “Christisn rights” in the USA (and, in fact, there's substantial overlap between those groups.)
"Observation" in quantum mechanics is not "people looking at stuff" though.

Here is a good video on quantum misconceptions [1]. Just ignore the part about the boxes. "Nobody understands the Alice and Bob analogy" (Richard Feynman)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7v5NtV8v6I
Always try to limit the scope of variables. Use local scope. And also functions within functions. The nice part when limiting scope is that you never have to scroll or look elsewhere in order to understand what a piece of code does.
Docker as a technology is ubiquitous, but the tech landscape is littered with money losing companies trying to profit off of open source software.

Docker is just as much in danger of being clobbered by the cloud providers as ElasticCo, Mongo and all of the other open source companies. AWS is making money off of us running Docker. Docker itself is not making any money from us.
Litigation finance is de rigueur these days. It's unusual that they've affirmatively stated they're funding it, but it's not unusual for there to be a funder and it's becoming more common for details to emerge in discovery about who the funder is and what the details of the funding arrangement are. It's possible that Longford issued a press release because they know or suspect it'll come out in discovery and want to get out ahead of the issue.

https://abovethelaw.com/2019/07/3-thoughts-on-the-future-of-...
Turns out I need to read the Infinite Jest.
Autoplaying a series makes sense. Autoplaying videos as one scrolls down the cnn website causing the site to take hours to load is foolish.
This article is a bit dated. AFIK the latest in web scraping legality is LinkedIn vs. HiQ, where HiQ was scraping public LinkedIn profiles. LinkedIn issued a C&D under CFAA, but HiQ received an injunction that allowed it to continue scraping. This was supposed to be tried in the Ninth Circuit court over a year ago, but not sure what happened

https://www.eff.org/cases/hiq-v-linkedin
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Owning a Franchise
I'm interested in owning a profitable franchise for the long term. I think, I've enough capital (up to 500k) to own such a franchise. I'd however prefer to run this business passively, as I'd like to continue my lucrative career as a software engineer in big tech. I'm expecting to hear advice to use the money to pay off debt or buy a home. So, I'd like to point out that all debt is paid off and I own a home (condo). I'd also like to point out that I've looked into low cost index fund investments as an option. So, this request for advice is strictly for franchising.
I'd be interested to hear about experiences owning, running or passively running a franchise. Any stories related to the topic are welcome as well.

Thank you!
That's far enough to send email[1]. It's incredible the kind of distances that they've been able to demonstrate with LoRa, even with the low data rates it means that wireless sensors it monitoring can be done with small batteries and solar charging almost indefinitely. Weather stations and farms are perfect for this kind of thing.

[1] https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html
My practice took off after reading Dr John Yates (Culadasa) "The Mind Illuminated". He is well versed in Pali texts and I believe he was a professor of neuroscience at Univ of Arizona.

I wish I could read the original Suttas in Pali but my language command is almost non-existent. So I have to rely on English translations by monks like Bhikku Bodhi and Bhikku Analayo.
I built recruiting tech for 4 years, and I'll say this is likely a winner of an idea IF you don't go to the VC route and instead make it a personal business.

What will be (very) hard:
- Finding candidates at the right time. CAC on this can be insane. You have to solve your top of funnel somehow -- specific ads on coding practice websites might help, or partnerships. This won't scale very well beyond tech at all, but in tech you could theoretically pull it off w/ ~50-100 candidates per week. And that's a sweet personal business right there.
- Scale recruiting business model, whether $/intro or % salary/hire.
- Getting companies to move fast enough and counseling candidates to not just pull the trigger on their first offer. You might see a selection bias here, though, which is good.

What will be easy:
- Most recruiting platforms struggle because they have to filter our a bunch of under-performing candidates. Here, you filter upfront. No offer? Don't apply.
> An even better service would be to have something like Netflix, but for news. I could pay $X/month and have access to a variety of news sources. Ideally, those news sources would be paid according to their popularity and accuracy, and I would have a simple bill every month to pay instead of several.

You sort of described Apple News+
What makes you say that Pinterest is doomed?

In my anecdotal experience it seems like every suburban mom curates several boards near-obsessively.
But it does matter what's being built if it's the wrong thing(s) for the wrong century. We're spending more and more, yet are less and less safe.

The MIC makes out well. The rest of us less so __and__ we get to pay the MIC's tab.
A difficulty ranking approach to personalization in E-learning
Also see the Temporary Containers extension.
That makes sense, "left" trimming rtl text could be confusing.
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I don't see the reason. Please explain.
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> rounds for the Zumwalt will never be made

You can look at this as an example of how bad things are, or how good things are. For those who don't know, the Zumwalt class of destroyers is equipped with a special 155mm gun that can fire projectiles up to 160 km [1]. This gun can only fire a certain type of rounds that were produced and tested, but they turned out to be much more expensive than initially projected (by a factor of about 25, from $35k to $900k) [2]. The Navy decided to cancel the order, and to pivot [3].

"The Navy announced in February in budget justification documents that it intended to integrate Raytheon’s SM-6 missile and was changing the mission from a land-attack platform to a ship killer.

In testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee’s seapower subcommittee, Vice Adm. Bill Merz told senators that the slow development of the AGS prompted the change. [...]

The Navy has moved ahead with a plan to add SM-6 on to Zumwalt, which allows the Navy to engage surface targets and extremely long ranges among other missions.

In August, the Navy shot down a medium-range ballistic missile target with the SM-6, which uses a fragmenting explosion near its target as the kill mechanism."

In Silicon Valley people generally appreciate a good pivot, so some people may appreciate this one too.

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

[2]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Range_Land_Attack_Project...

[3] https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2018/04/19/advanced-gun-sy...
Stock values aren't only about earnings. Amazon continues to be a growth bet, and their low earnings are because their income has historically been reinvested productively to access new markets. A quick google shows their 2018 revenue was up 31% over 2017, which was up 31% over 2016, which was up 27% over 2015. You don't buy Amazon for a share of the amount they're making today, you buy them for a share of the much bigger company they'll be tomorrow.

Apple, on the other hand, sells boutique products into a rapidly commoditizing market, and is having a terrible time with growth right now (the numbers today show less than 1% revenue growth). So profit is the only reason to buy AAPL right now. And the profits? Down almost 13%.
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When are we going to stop expecting exponential growth though? Or should the exponential growth just continue indefinitely? Is there no value in having a nice S-curve, ending up as one of the most profitable companies in history, and then just staying insanely profitable for a long time in a sustainable way?
>>> The depressing reality is that the current Conservative Party in the UK is stuffed to the rafters with nasty politicians just like her.

Give me a single example of a western country with a right wing party that isn't stuffed to the rafters with slimy arseholes. Why is it so taboo to just fucking say it. Conservatives are wrong. Their entire ideology is just wrong.

Edit: I know this is going to get downvoted because I am generalizing and being a bit stupid. But it would be nice if someone rebutted me properly too.
Honestly, 3/4 of what I like in programming languages are Mathy. Monoidal arithmetics (+) = 0, (+ 1 2 3 ...), Orthogonality~ , reasonable ..

Everytime I had to stray away from this my brain hurt.
Elon Musk has 3 (SpaceX, Tesla, the Boring Company).

Jack Dorsey has 2 (Square, Twitter).

Steve Jobs was CEO of both Apple and Pixar.
HIV vaccine nears clinical trial following new findings
Looks like a custom glyph atlas cache based on top of FreeType [0].

These days I would use HarfBuzz/stb_truetype [1] for a lightweight thing. Use FreeType if you need something even fancier.

[0] https://git.blender.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi/blender.git/blob/H...
[1] like https://gist.github.com/rygorous/6f2779a451d2040371e3acb79e1...
Identical twins have different fingerprints. Though they may look superficially similar, they would definitely be different enough that it is extremely unlikely to be able to unlock each other's phones.
Pretty sure the ninth published what's now the controlling opinion in the circuit. YMMV in other circuits.

EDIT: Yep. hiQ Labs, Inc. v. LinkedIn Corp., 273 F. Supp. 3d 1099 (N.D. Cal. 2017)

"In summary, the balance of hardships tips sharply in hiQ’s favor. hiQ has demonstrated there are serious questions on the merits. In particular, the Court is doubtful that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act may be invoked by LinkedIn to punish hiQ for accessing publicly available data; the broad interpretation of the CFAA advocated by LinkedIn, if adopted, could profoundly impact open access to the Internet, a result that Congress could not have intended when it enacted the CFAA over three decades ago. Furthermore, hiQ has raised serious questions as to whether LinkedIn, in blocking hiQ’s access to public data, possibly as a means of limiting competition, violates state law."
A good point. Sweet-expressions might be an example of such a language implemented as a Lisp reader macro, in fact.

https://dwheeler.com/readable/sweet-expressions.html
If search engines hadn't started scraping the web back in the 90s, imagine the outcry if you tried to start a search engine today. You would instantly be sued into oblivion. Copyright, trademark, TOS violations, etc. Nothing remotely similar to a modern search engine would ever be allowed to start if it wasn't grandfathered in by the time people started getting serious about law enforcement on the internet.

The law is not as clear cut as people imagine it to be. In many cases the text of the law is less important than precedent and established practice.
Because Apple says so.

"By enabling Location Services for your devices, you agree and consent to the transmission, collection, maintenance, processing, and use of your location data and location search queries by Apple and its partners and licensees to provide and improve location-based and road traffic-based products and services."

It will also send your location to Apple when no app is requesting your location:

"If Location Services is on, your iPhone will periodically send the geo-tagged locations of nearby Wi-Fi hotspots and cell towers in an anonymous and encrypted form to Apple, to be used for augmenting this crowd-sourced database of Wi-Fi hotspot and cell tower locations."

Unlike on Android, you cannot get your location without sending this data to Apple:

"To use features such as these, you must enable Location Services on your iPhone"

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207056
I don’t think there has to be something else. They had $2.18 per share in profit this quarter. Presumably some of that could be used to up the dividend if they really wanted.
> Google will only include your content in their search results if the user can see your content.

That's not true for the WSJ.
Good point. If B was just happening all the time, then a B would always happen after A. Have to make sure the inverse is true.

Though if B happens all the time, but also A causes B. Then there's really no way to establish causation.

"The Channel four studio has electrical sensors that will trip and broadcast the simpsons either at 5pm or when I turn on my TV at 5pm."
Yes, having everyone happy is likely the best long-term policy.

Pressuring a bit on the suckers that got to cling to their jobs still looks like a good short-term policy, especially if the higher-up executing it is also not very happy but is clinging to the job.

That is, the best org is where everyone is level 4 or 5 on the "Tribal leadership" scale [1], but a lot of orgs are at level 2 at the lowest rungs.

[1]: https://emergentbydesign.com/2012/06/28/a-step-by-step-guide...
There will always be relative poverty. In other words if we "solved poverty" and there were no more hungry people without health insurance sleeping in the streets, you would still have people who had less than others around them.

But we can try to solve absolute poverty. We can try to make sure everyone has medical coverage, adequate nutrition etc.

An important element of that is we need to design systems where having less than others doesn't close doors in your face and become a trap you can't escape. (I don't think UBI accomplishes that.)
They tend to be somewhat upscale in terms of ingredients, employee training, overall experience, etc.

That's not to say that Burger King or McDonald's couldn't do better. I don't really have enough experience with them as a customer or anything else to have a real opinion. But I suspect that, if Burger King were to try to improve their experience in a way that forced them to raise prices by 25% they'd lose a lot of business from people basically just looking for the cheapest burger.

See also the experience of JC Penney and Ron Johnson. A lot of people are pretty much in the position where they have to shop on price.
Ping is how I found a compromised server once in a large, poorly wired server rack. The sys admins were out and the supervisor did not know anything about the server room (nor did I... the security guy) so he pinged the infected box from a laptop while I went behind the rack and unplugged each machine one at a time.... found it after a dozen or so cables. How about now? Yep, that's the one.
The cost produce something is sunk already. If everyone watches (birdbox) and talks about it can get more people to subscribe.

The more you watch the more likely you are satified. They won't make new content for you because you watch more. They know you will watch a variety of shows and will watch some less known content.

Plus view numbers are important for awards and privately they share with producers to encourage them to sell new content/partner up. No matter how much you pay artists still want the world to see what they created.
As a yard worker, In some ways I feel sorry for NewportNews Shipyard.
These elevators are designs the Navy brought to them.
Not something they designed.
They built it to spec and it did not work.
Now the blame game.
As someone above noted, The Navy did not even build a land based prototype. Now whose fault is this mess?
I had thought it would be the catapult system that failed.
Instead it is too powerful and they are still tuning it.
They are worried about the stress on the nose gear. Some birds are still restricted in weight last I heard.
v76? I think i missed about 50 versions...
When we redline, assign schools without regard to quality, hassle folks for petty infractions to pump revenue, sieze assets without due process, limit entrepreneurship with onerous licensing requirements, and imprison poor folks at higher rates you end up with a perpetual underclass.
FWIW, Ikea manufactures their own bulbs.
> A very large number of would-be content creators (not just Instagram, either - YouTubers also) want the higher image quality, dynamic range, optical zoom, interchangeable lenses,

I also agree with you.

It seems that the most appealing features of modern DSLRs,
except fast autofocus, are hidden behind 90s interfaces with multi-button setups and so on.

Additionally, modern DSLRs must have appstore-like capabilities built into the camera (rather than into a phone device that attaches to camera).

This is where Nikon/Sony/Cannon/Panasonic/Olympus/Pentax(or whoever their new owners are) -- really need to come together with some standard API/interfaces.

I am somewhat disappointing that Samsung with their NX line exited the market, they had some interesting features that I would like to see licensed-for-free to other makers -- like lens based controls.

There is so much of unexplored UI real-state on the cameras, and opportunity for standardization -- that's is so sad to see complete lack of innovation from the dSLR makers.

I do not think vanilla mobile OSes are right platform for the camera... (because of the UIs).

If anything, I suspect these companies have the people (or could get them), but they have to change their culture across marketing/support/software engineering areas.
Not just how they do business, but how they hire.

A somewhat separate example: companies like Panasonic, while excelling at device engineering and manufacturing seem to be completely and utterly incompetent when building phone apps that control their own devices (in this example talking about home security products).
LSF FTW! :)

Great to see the SatNOGS network going from strength to strength!
Once VR gets to a certain point, and the resolution becomes so undeniably crisp, we'll want things exactly like this. You can already do this on Windows with Virtual Desktop Streamer and a companion application for either the Go or the Quest (paid application). If you can touch type, it's very easy to strap on the Quest and use it as your primary monitor. Having had this experience, I'm guessing that we're only one or two generations of hardware away from this being a normal way of computing. You know, provided smartphones, tablets, and otherwise proprietary operating systems don't take over first, Brother Oculus included.
You could just turn it off in the settings.
Luckily, Asians are typically of smaller frame.
Not to forget that immediately on being appointed Home Secretary she was accused of breaking the ministerial code yet again, in May! It's currently the only significant point under the Home Secretary section of her Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priti_Patel#Home_Secretary:_Ju...

Most of the reasonable and moderate members of the Tory party are on the back benches, leaving or about ready to retire. The old, reasonable, one nation Tory party is dead as a dodo.
And take the escape key off the TouchBar. I hit it all the time by accident. I really wanted to give the TouchBar a fair shake but after two months I still think it’s beyond useless.
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> Is there no value in having a nice S-curve, ending up as one of the most profitable companies in history, and then just staying insanely profitable for a long time in a sustainable way?

Not to investors that want a quick ROI quarter-over-quarter on that share price.
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I believe Windows 95 has trouble with CPUs that are too fast and needs to be patched to handle it.

I think I also read somewhere that older Windows (and some other operating systems) don't handle modern TCP/IP very well. A TCP session start with window size 9 and ECN bits, for example. And I believe there's more timing problems with networking as well, because no one believed in gigabit Ethernet back in the day.
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> You get more than 9 - that's too much, I hope your compensation is superb (i.e. well above average).

At FAANG, the number is most definitely less than 9. Combine this with the freakishly high compensation, and this looks like the best deal one could predicably get on Earth.
Blaming those without power for the way The System has tilted the game against them is Orwellian.

Poverty is not a choice (any more than drug addiction is a choice). But we prefer to blame the victims because it's easier than looking in the mirror and accepting our role in the mess.
So why do they need bulk spying capacity for targeted spying?

The argument makes no sense.