skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think Microsoft had the right idea—it was the killer app for CD-ROMs—though it turned out that the internet would only make it a temporary success story.

It was a killer app for CD-ROM, but for the title of the killer app I'd say DeLorme's "Street Atlas USA" had at least an equal claim.
Missing Encarta? What do you think of Hyper-G? bring it back?
I too missed Encarta and it reminded me of this article from Byte Magazine in 1995:

A product featured called Hyper-G, a "hypermedia navigation system".

Have you heard of it?

It mentions "flying over" the information landscape and using VRML to describe 3d scenes.

https://much.isds.tugraz.at/projects/hyper-g/11.htm/
In the US, the problem is most of our large media is owned and operated by large corporations with a few (usually right-wing leaning) owning individuals. These corporations are also the defacto power behind our government (see $ spent on lobbyists, campaign donations, Citizens United, etc). Unfortunately these media sources aren’t going to be effected by this new policy.

But they could be! The same organizations that Twitter is using to define “state run media organizations” also keep track of US media corporation ownerships and could be tracked against ones that are attempting to slant public discourse via story selection, etc.
Jake Knapp, a designer that started his career on Encarta, gave a huge nod to the product journey in his Design Sprint talk in london a while back.

https://vimeo.com/233941079
The BBC isn’t ‘tax-payer funded’, it’s funded by the license fee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_licensing_in_the_Un...
Yeah, but these consumer ISPs self-inflicted the ratio imbalance. They literally don't let their customers upload at the same speed they download at; of course their peering ratios are going to be imbalanced.

I checked several of the largest ASNs and several smaller NYC-area ISPs on peeringdb and they are all "No" to the ratio requirement. Google doesn't care. Amazon doesn't care. Cloudflare doesn't care. There's half the Internet.

Demanding money to peer with Netflix is just trying to charge customers twice because they can. It's not normal, conventional, or good for the Internet. Netflix might be able to pay, but will your startup be able to pay? Probably not. And that's not the future we want.
It seems unreasonable to restrict the term propaganda to government since any organization can produce propaganda, i.e. "information, especially of a biased or misleading nature, used to promote a political cause or point of view."
Indeed.

"If I have to pay nearly as much or more attention to the use of this software than it saves me, it is by definition worthless."

Intellisense in VS/Resharper went through a nice period a few years back where it was smart enough to match what was meant, fast enough that it didn't (usually) drop keypresses, and (crucially) stupid enough that typing the same thing twice would get the same results. Sadly, all of the above have been lost in the hail of features...

Context sensitivity is not always a good thing in a tool. Muscle memory wins.
The law definitely doesn't, otherwise it would be illegal to do things like donate to charity as a corporation. If all shareholders get together and vote unanimously to take all the money in the corporation and give it away, then they can totally do that. If the law mandated maximizing shareholder returns then shareholders would no longer be free to instruct the entity they own to do what they want it to if it conflicts with increasing profits
Ctrl+F "Enron" - I was surprised not to see it mentioned with respect to blackouts in the US. They had a huge role in California's blackouts in 2000-01. [0]

The story of Enron is fascinating, and there's a great documentary on it, "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room". [1]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron#California's_deregulatio...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_th...
Oh, it all sounds fine, but why wouldn't it? The foxes always make a compelling case for why they're the ones to guard the henhouse.
I'd say for most web content, minimal JS gives the best experience. With all the integration and UI improvements browsers have gone through the past ten years, all most content needs is some CSS to add a theme and some minor readability tweaks, except if there's some interactive animation that add value to the content on the web page. You don't even need JS for videos or audio anymore, it's all there in the browser.

It's sad how most websites these days are fully-featured web applications. Take this blog page by Google. A simple web page with some pictures loading over 300kB of Javascript libraries and tooling. And this isn't even an exception. It's sad, really, and a waste of readers' bandwidth.
More like a government has the power to shutdown all except their own ideas from the internet.
I was confused about this part too, but that link does have this:

> This policy will not apply to taxpayer-funded entities, including independent public broadcasters.

Britain's BBC, Canada's CBC, and the US PBS should be covered by that.

Actually, what's to stop China from making their news agency tax-payer funded to take advantage of this exception?
Winston-Salem, NC has a coffee shop "providing meaningful, enriching employment to individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities (IDD)."

https://www.mojicoffee.org/
FB doesn't want to be a content police, behind the principal of freedom of speech. They're instead looking at metadata that reveals that it's fake and attempting to pursue an agenda. I am certainly no FB apologist, but I think the language of 'coordinated inauthentic behavior' is a really smart one that well defines the problem.
I loved Encarta (it must have been 1997 or so?)! I must have watched that double split experiment animation on quantum mechanics dozens of times! It felt like looking the Universe into its soul... It may even have contributed to me becoming a scientist.

Edit: Found the movie!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQnhqqISBSA
This is scary & ridiculous... we have to deal with #fakebooks now as well as #fakenews?
Look up the "Little Ice Age" and the "Great Famine of 1315–1317"

Then consider what adapting to climate change could mean.
It's the same underlying mechanism for generators as for futures: they are stackless coroutines. All the space they need for local variables is allocated ahead of time.

In my experience, the fact that they are stackless is not at all obvious when you're coding with them. Rust makes working with them really simple and intuitive.
> Since when are american corporations the arbiters of accurate, international, and political, information?

They're not and that's not what this story is about.

These accounts were banned for violating Twitter's platform manipulation policy by spamming, co-ordinating activity across multiple accounts, creating fake accounts, mis-attributing their activity and evading bans.

An individual from Hong Kong or China is free to post exactly what these accounts tweeted.
Spencer (the neo-nazi), not Jones (the conspiracy theorist slash propagandist), is the one who loves Russia and who Jack is friendly with.

Spencer is still active on Twitter where he still posts white supremacy stuff.
If I got this correct, you're saying strong can be compared to weak and static can be compared to dynamic. So there is no such thing as strong vs static typing comparison.
That has been a huge thing outside of Japan for hundreds of years already.
I was super impressed to find that PayPal supports TOTP now, as the the brokerage Robinhood. Everyone else is still doing proprietary tokens, sms, or good looks for MFA. Tumblr had TOTP first but go PayPal, they get a pat on the back for doing something right.
Amazon Redshift Cluster Recommendations – Measure and Improve Data SLAs
You should read the linked article.
It's the controller and the reserved/backup flash. SSD have a powerful ARM CPU running and optimizing memory cell wear and replacing these on the fly with the reserve.

SD cards doesn't have that mostly for cost and size constraint.
same. and also thought that i broke it.

btw never saw 500 from G before, usually just timeouts during outages
Always the first thing I do on any new system. Caps lock is the most useless key in the most prime real estate.
Look on the bright side, you got two out of three right :D
I think the ethics on this is quite clear. PRC is not trying to share their ideas in a fair manner. Rather, they are trying to shape and manipulate beliefs by distorting the amount of support there is for their preferred take. It's next level propaganda.

If not for the fact that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of bots are being coordinated to create an illusion of weight for some consensus, things would indeed be murkier. As it is, the PRC is currently acting disingenuously.
Or just use a resistive digitizer above the screen and make anything with a tip a stylus, so they can be disposable and replaceable like pens.
Life Became an Endless, Terrible Competition
The global gag on free speech is tightening
>reputable public domain copies would be available at reasonable prices

so I read a lot. Mostly on the kindle. Lots of public domain classics; I love Conrad and Melville.

I'm also pretty happy to kick in ten or fifteen bucks to avoid spending time finding the best formatted/least incorrect copy, even if the book is public domain.

but you know what? when I buy public domain e-books, there's so much crap mixed in that is worse than gutenberg that I often end up going with Gutenberg first these days, if my favorite publishing houses don't have a copy.

It's actually easier, I think, for me to find quality e-books of books that are still under copyright.

I mean, this is mostly me complaining about amazon and how they aren't really serving my needs even when I'm begging them to take more of my money... but it's also a point that finding reputable public domain copies is awful hard.

For those of my taste looking... my favorite publishing house for that sort of thing is Melville house publishing; but they have something of a limited selection of public domain reprints. (they do have their 'art of the novella' series, which comes out in the cutest little paperbacks. And their kindle formatting is consistently good.)

on the other hand gutenberg formatting isn't great, but it's consistently not terrible, which is more than I can say for a lot of the dreck you find in the kindle store. And a lot of people have a different time/money equation, and sometimes books under copyright aren't available on the kindle at all and paper copies can get pricy (and are way harder to read, for me at least) so certainly public domain is a good thing that should be preserved. I'm just saying, it's not a panacea when it comes to badly-done e-books
That's not quite what Chomsky says...

> The concentration of wealth and enhancement of corporate power translate automatically to decline of democracy. Research in academic political science has revealed that a large majority of voters are literally disenfranchised, in that their own representatives pay no attention to their wishes but listen to the voices of the donor class. It is furthermore well established that elections are pretty much bought: electability, hence policy, is predictable with remarkable precision from the single variable of campaign spending, both for the executive and Congress.

https://truthout.org/articles/noam-chomsky-moral-depravity-d...

Most Americans are politically disenfranchised and political decisions are often made counter to what the majority want and vote for, in favour of elite and corporate interests.

It's pretty amazing to claim corporations are signalling some kind of unity and/or support of the general public based on this PR piece, while their money, lobbying, and power are doing the exact opposite.
Nice to have some light relief and to see that the world outside tech is just as sketchy as inside. I loved the original expose on Noka, FWIW.
I was thinking the real-world version of keeping it under the mattress would be in a savings account, which would be encouraged by high interest rates.

I'm confused as to why investing (I assume in the stock market) "improves the productivity of labor, allows more goods to be produced at lower cost, and ultimately benefits everyone" - that money we invest in buying stocks, after the stock is initially bought from the business, is just shuffling chips around a table, it doesn't seem to be doing anything for anyone. Am I off base? How does a company see a direct benefit from already sold stocks?
Certainly not. Just like every place on earth, Africa had its share of problems. But that didn't warrant the damage slavery and colonialism did - the effects of which are still rippling through the very fabric of the continent today.
Simple Rules for Web Forms
If they did, you'd mistakenly get a Rolling Stones T-shirt with the tongue and lips logo.
I just go straight to https://www.thriftbooks.com/ generally. I imagine it's the same source.
In fairness to Facebook (which is a phrase I never thought I'd type) Whatsapp's Signal-derived end-to-end encryption was implemented almost a year after Facebook bought it.

Of course, there's still the flaw of backups to Google Drive being unencrypted. But fortunately that's not the default setting.
I think the phrase "crocodile tears" was developed specifically for situations like this. Viva la revolucion.
It wouldn't be long before Free Software advocates develop a Mouth™ alternative called OpenMouth.
Same issue on Firefox 68.0.2
Why would a sense of beauty be related to natural truth? Well, say that everyone is born with a randomly assigned set of aesthetic preferences. The people whose aesthetic preferences just so happen to align with a theory that's about to be discovered will be more likely to guess at it in advance, and they will have lots of career success once experiments confirm those guesses. This selects after the fact for people whose aesthetic preferences are luckily aligned with future discoveries. Anyone who prefers the aesthetics of bad theories over good ones will either waste their time or switch to a different field, and nobody will care what they thought was beautiful at the time.

In the end, when it comes time to vote on which theories are beautiful, the theorists who thought that the best theories were beautiful will say "I always thought it was beautiful," and everyone will listen to them because their randomly assigned bias towards the good theories would have led them to respected positions. The ones who always disliked the good theories will not be around, or will have a less respected voice.

That's my theory for how the word "beauty" gets preferentially assigned to good (as in true) theories. One implication of this theory would be that even though claims of beauty tend to align with known-true theories, they aren't useful for telling in advance which theories are going to be true: the people whose preferences have randomly attached them to the bad theories today won't be silenced until the experiments come out.
> Proprietary software has NO public eyes on it, zero

If that were true, security flaws would never be found in proprietary software by outsiders. And they are, so it's not true. Eyes have less visibility into the codebase, but people are looking and do find flaws.

> How many undisclosed vulns does your vendor have? You'll never know.

How many undisclosed vulns does RedHat, Canonical, or Mozilla have in their FLOSS software? You'll never know.

> Of course FLOSS has bugs, it's software, and ALL software has bugs.

Then "many eyes makes bugs shallow" is at least partly debunked and your "ANY eyes make bugs shallow" is debunked completely - otherwise the original developers would see every bug, in FLOSS and proprietary software.

> In the FLOSS case you know what everyone else knows

There may be bugs which nobody knows about. The claim "many eyes make bugs shallow" suggests that open source software has more eyes on the code, and that having more eyes on the code is all it takes to reduce bugs. OpenSSL turned out to have very few eyes on the code, and it wouldn't be too surprising if codebases with many eyes on them had the developers focused on the bits they were developing and not looking for security flaws.
Here's an interesting aspect to the source of flouride of which most people are unaware:

https://origins.osu.edu/article/toxic-treatment-fluorides-tr...
The process used by the Internet Archive and Google for digitizing books is nondestructive; the Archive open-sourced the plans for their "Scribe" book-scanning machine, and others have made downloadable plans for laser-cuttable versions. It's slower than running a destroyed book through a sheeet-fed scanner (typically you get on the order of ten two-page scans per minute), but it's suitable even for rare books.
Ask HN: What do you do for barber/salon appointments?
1. How many times do you have to wait for more than 5 min for a hair cut when you walk into the salon/barber? (Never/occasionally/always?)
2. How many times you have to call more then two different salons to check their availability, price, if your favorite one isn't available?
3. How many time do you feel rushed in to make it to a beauty service appointment?
You're seriously considering paying part-time employees less per hour than full-time employees? Am I really reading that right?
Financial tools such as devaluing their currency as a tool in maintaining a non-reciprocal trading relationship demonstrates the challenges in working with China. If your marital partner or friend did the same you would probably be unhappy with them. For instance, giving you equal conditions in my market assume that you will do the same in yours and that you will not unfairly subsidize your businesses through market restrictions as well as financial instruments such as currency manipulation.
Remember the downside: Knowledge sharing and communication.

Think of a company going from 1 to 2 people. You go from the entire app in 1 persons head, to having to communicate and talk about decisions. There is a reason solo founders can do some really good things.

Now imagine going from 5 to 10 people. The communication web of the two are different. 4 possible communication points vs 9.

What about meetings and discussions? Are people working the same days? Does it take 3 days to get your PR reviewed because X and Y are not in on Mondays or Tuesdays?

All of this is not so say this is a bad idea. Maybe it's great. Just things to think about. I think it can have some good upsides, but it can also lead to some very negative things.
Returning to this, I did the calculations and here is the margin of error for each group: 11%, 9%, 9%. Their common error (the overlapping region of area) is the interval 87.79-104.95. The IQ scores from each group (94.91, 96.29, 96.47) are well within that margin of error. If you perform a t-test on 3-Ca vs. 3-placibo you'll see that the difference is not statistically significant.

How is this study concluding these results? What math are they using?
I was randomly looking up prehistoric musical instruments the other day and I couldn't help but want to see the instruments and watch a video of them being played. It was not available on Wikipedia.
> These days, kids watch SpaceX landing reusable rockets live on their phones.

These days kids type "space" into the YouTube app on their phone and end up watching videos telling them that the earth is actually flat.
> Now with Amazon fulfilling for other shippers

They've been doing this for years. That's what Fulfilled By Amazon is. And no, they don't reliably check product authenticity.
Sometimes it is, depends on the main articles
Sounds pretty anecdotal. Can you back up this claim?
What about matrix addition?
> Recently Jackie Chan and Liu Yifei are a couple of higher profile individuals have expressed support for the mainland

Yeah I wouldn't want to get arrested for "tax fraud" either, especially if I was listed in the Panama Papers like Chan was.

But granted, it could also just be the actual crank opinion of the guy from a cheesy fighting movie about crooked cops in LA or something and why should I care? HK's government gives special powers to the wealthy and entitled and that's a big part of the problem with their democracy. Obviously the wealthy and entitled are by-and-large going to advocate for maintaining that status quo, just like they do here for our less codified version.
Ha. Who knows? Perhaps they will invent a remarkably efficient way of creating vfx. Maybe they'll design the next generation of processors to help them out. Maybe they'll build a content sharing system that makes sense for their environment. Maybe they'll do things we can't imagine.

Who knows?
Because the ultimate goal of the site is not to serve you news. If it was, it'd just be an FTP server or a CDN. The site exists to track you and sell advertising space, end of story.
I thought HN is a venue for advanced to highly advanced topics?
True, but only if they hold an monopoly. If there's a competitor, customers would switch to the cheapest option and they'd lose all their bushiness. If they're a monopoly, well... you're already hosed because they could also infinitely raise prices and there's nothing you can do.
> it's beyond anything in this physical universe

Your way of thinking leads to dualism, which has been proven to be a bad approach to the problem of consciousness. Dualism doesn't explain anything, just moves the problem outside of the 'material' realm into fantasy lala-land.
> Literally every CEO would laugh at this statement in the privacy of their office, while they engineer stock manipulation to trigger their stock options and retire in 5 years.

It's coming from (see the members) presumably the most secure and profitable corporations out there. While perhaps some have issue most are not anywhere near the 'every man for himself' thinking that gets companies into trouble.

Look there are many things a super profitable corporation can do to enhance their image in the eyes of employees and customers.

But the truth is if you are going to take an airline flight or buy a dishwasher most consumers (or most business customers if a business sale) will not decide based on values such as this.

Ditto for most stock investors. They will go for the best return not the best company values. And you know if you need someone to operate on your brain or a Physician very generally you want the best results not someone with the best personal values.
There’s no census of independent art, and what is available to me is on the recommendation sidebar of various video sites, so I disagree, but acknowledge we live in different echo chambers.
Ah, interesting, hadn't read it like that; just another instance of meaningless corporate double-speak. I guess they think unlimited political donations aren't going to do the job this time. I hope they're right, and I hope the progressives are able to take them to task.
Reminds me of this paper in Nature from some time back. Especially, the Euler's identity graph from the paper is pretty amazing.
https://www.nature.com/news/equations-are-art-inside-a-mathe...
A couple of weeks since he heard of them. Which is the only thing that matters in 2019. And they will stop once he stops hearing about them.
Downtown Apartment Building Cleared of Tenants to Open Short-Term Rental Hotel
Hey, I have a few questions if you don't mind
I am working 30 hour work week. I recently switched jobs and I consider myself a strong candidate.

In nearly all of my interviews, as soon as I mentioned wishing to work 30 hours (because I want to have time to sharpen my skills in my other 10 hours, which I always sold as a positive feedback loop which helps me be more knowlegable at work), the HR admin/recruiter would go all deer in the headlights, promise to check and get back to me and promptly ghost me.

Luckily I found a place where the CTO appreciated my reasoning. I am just wondering whether my approach was incorrect or whether reduced hours is just really unheard of where I am (southern EU)