skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apparently manufacturing glass uses way more resources/energy and has a much bigger carbon footprint. (No source at hand, sorry.) It also weighs more so is more expensive to transport. Plastic is good for some things, no doubt about that.
I agree with you completely. I miss the days when every website felt like its own solar system, separated by light-years of empty space from all the others. Who you were and what you did on one site had nothing to do with your life on another site unless you went out of your way to make it. When you made a friend somewhere you put them on your instant messenger list and actually talked to them, as opposed to just adding another name to your giant pile of useless Facebook friends. The modern net feels like an endless series of stages with everyone putting on their own show to an uncaring audience instead of real communities. When everything on a website was hosted by the website. I miss when my bookmarks folder had four dozen websites in it that I visited almost every day, instead of five. I used to get news about my interests from ten different sites, now it's just two. I used to get porn from half a dozen places, now it's one. Used to talk to people on five different platforms, now it's maybe two. Used to read over two dozen web comics, now it's just one.
That page should include links to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_flag
DDoS Attack on Mobile Apps – How to Stay Safe?
The WTF part seems useful. E.g.

type quaternion float[4];

quaternion SLERP = {1.0, 0, 0, 0};
Their washrooms are usually better than most.

And they’re the only chain restaurant/café whose employees don’t appear clinically depressed at every location.

I hope it’s because they’re actually happy.
sorry, but no mercy for this kind of pseudoscience nonsense.
ok, you are probably correct.

BT music from my iPhone to my car stereo sounds bad. There I cant verify what codec or bitrate is used, but clearly is a difference when comparing to a music file played from an SD card reader on the dashboard.

I also have a pair of Sony bluetooth headphones that I use with my MacBook, here the sound is awful, until I use a BT utility to choose aptX instead, that they also supports, but SBC is default selected anyway.
Sounds like planned guerrilla marketing.
Why would the census count citizens? We already know how many citizens we got, every US citizen has documentation on their existence. If you don't exist on paper already, you aren't a citizen as far as the US government is concerned. The census is for one thing, counting the number of people actually living in each area and the very basics of what conditions they live in. Being a citizen doesn't change whether you exist or not.
If I want to watch any of the new Star Trek series I’m going to have to bite the bullet and subscribe to CBS. For starters.

Netflix is another given. Do these content channels even release shows on Blu ray and iTunes a year later like they used to?
A thread pulled together here by a helpful Twitter user, since Dr. Epstein doesn't know how to use Twitter properly:

https://twitter.com/QuillnInk1776/status/1163950407569330176

I got my news about this from the horse's mouth, I'd been following the guy's work before Hillary threw him under the bus. This is not a "biased right wing" story, it is a true story.

> No idea what you're talking about. People that don't get their news from biased right wing sources are not usually up to date with the endless Hillary pseudo scandals.

Frankly, how dare you cast those aspersions on me? Take that back. You can't just go calling people cynical, bad-faith actors because they've said something you aren't willing to look in to.

I really do miss the left who were willing to consider that maybe, just maybe, a politician who receives significant monetary and material support from a particular major corporation, is willing to go to bat for that corporation in spite of the facts.

It is no crime for you to be fond of Hillary Clinton, the Doctor himself is, despite what she's done to him this week.

However, not every criticism of her actions is pseudo-something; sometimes it's just something.
I don't agree you have a point. You try to make a point and accuse it of being naive, but once your point was totally refuted you still insist on it by resorting to demeaning accusations such as "naive" and "simpleminded" even though you acknowledge your accusations are baseless and wrong.
Canadien income tax law lets you give 2 tax-free gifts of up to $500 value. Can’t be cash.

So, smart employers will celebrate the new year and some other random holiday with $500 in gift cards.
True, but it is not the way the problem was created. It is a part, but nothing compared to the conscious choice of installing chrome or signing up for gmail etc. The massive adoption of google products was not achieved the way you describe. To be clear, i agree with you. What you describe, is true and indicative of the situation. But I just want to point that individual action can solve the problem just as it was the main drive that created it
I really wish the cyberpunk novels I read in my youth would stop becoming reality. Especially Distraction by Bruce Sterling comes to mind. It’s just so crazy that political entities run false campaigns, and that the impact of these campaigns is so profound.

I’m happy YouTube is fighting back, but at the same time I can’t help but wonder if our social media platforms are really geared to fight it. With so many hours of video uploaded, it seems impossible to regulate. I imagine that they are trying their best, but aren’t SEO people showing us every day, that it’s fairly easy to game the system? The worst part is the apparent lack of consequences. Does the Chinese government really care 210 of their propaganda channels were shut down?
However thanks for not using referral/affiliate links. :)
https://www.youtube.com/user/CCTVNEWSbeijing/videos

There are armies of weird looking accounts posting and upvoting obsessively in odd, non-organic patterns. Someone is obviously running a massive sockpuppet army.
Thats pretty odd to specify Electors who would vote then. Could have just said tally up the votes into EC votes and then the same man in a funny wig would still be dispatched to report in. Seems a pretty stupid convoluted way to go about it if what you're saying is correct
A Necessary Step for Safe AI
Minor note, the word you're looking for here is "cue", not "queue".
A ryzen 2300X has 256KB of instruction cache, that's 4x64 KiB 4-way set associative. How can you hope to fill that?

I've personally ran gentoo on a 4.2GHz i3-530 as well as a 4.5GHz FX-4350. From kernel to firefox, I only gained performance going from -O2 to -Ofast. I have no hopes of considerable cache misses on a modern CPU.
Is libspotify dead now? There used to be e.g. a Clementine plugin which worked pretty well.
I still disagree with most of what he says. It worries me that he might try to impose "Uncle Bob's one true way" of doing Clojure on newcomers (and he has very good reach into the OO community)
Thermal Desorption Spectroscopy
Stop with the conspiracy theories
You can opt out of personalization industry wide with Adchoices.
The official VMware take, at least while we were there, was that the vmkernel itself was a binary only kernel module loaded by the Console OS's Linux kernel, and as such was no different than the binary-only Nvidia driver. This was a bit sketchy, since the vmkernel linked in a different version of the GPL'd drivers in question than the ones in the Console OS, but you know, close enough.

Of course, when ESXi shipped without a console OS, but with a vmklinux and GPL'd drivers, a new take was needed.
I want to second that (also a guitarist with almost zero time on hands). There are so many books, and now apps that help practice, but I don’t know any tools that have helped me keep on track.
Interesting! I assume because the literal is being coerced to be the size of the variable? After all:

foo[3] == (void *)((usize)foo + (usize)(3 * sizeof(*foo)))
Did you mean

typedef float quaternion[4];

?

That's not a VLA.
The Roman army was repeatedly able to achieve victory against hordes 10 times their size. Tactics and organization can work really well.

The battle of Thermopylae is an even more extreme example of this.
Ever tried Factorio?
I like that idea.

A related idea I had would be to try to create and popularize tools that distribute holistic and objective information about what's actually happening in the world. There are two broad categories: GIS-type information such as military deployment, resource production, transportation, and consumption, and first-hand political reporting.

I'm going to interject here my own theory about war which is that it is almost always about power in general, territorial control, and resource control, but is almost never sold that way. Because it involves mass killing, war must be sold on a moral basis. However, as I said, war is not about morals, its about power and control. So it is necessary to find a moral justification for war. This is usually fabricated to one degree or another and promoted as propaganda.

But anyway back to this tool. I think we need a decentralized platform for reporting and aggregating resource information. Ideally there could also be a nice 3d interface like a globe displaying the information. Of course this would be a monumental effort. And also it would be nice to have a neutral ground for first-hand reporting that would give the perspectives of people in all different areas and groups simultaneously.
I assume that's because:

- The specific tactics should be kept secret

- logistics has a huge role in a WW2-era thinking that still dominates western military thinking

- logistics likely needs a lot of peacetime attention and investment
It for sure would help with those SPA websites that get their DOM fully generated by JS. A web extension that saves the current DOM tree as HTML would perhaps do a better job, especially when it comes to resources which require some web-based authentication.
Wasn’t that the idea behind Metal Gear Solid? Prioritising stealth over conflict?
I'm attempting to build a service that provides all that, plus music and books. Basically all media that can be delivered digitally, but has been sold physically.

Unfortunately it might be an uphill battle because Disney just won a huge lawsuit against VidAngel, who was providing a similar service. They are still fighting, and I think I'm different enough that I could survive even if they don't.
I knew I was going to write readline, and I knew I was going to write it as a library. I wrote the vast majority of it on a weekend after I had a working shell. POSIX was mostly me telling David Korn that just because he had created a shitty user interface feature, we shouldn't be required to make that part of the specification.
With debt from marriage, are you talking about the costs of a wedding, or taking on debt from your wife or something else?
I don't like to think of it as compile-time trees. It basically only allows you to construct complicated structures but doesn't allow you to examine them at compile time (that would require constexpr functions in C++; can't be done in C). It's honestly not a very impressive feature.
Interestingly, the Google Wave team was lead by the founders of Where2 - the company they acquired and turned into Google Maps.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_Rasmussen_(software_devel...
I've tested and used all of these. Emby was a slightly different Plex with several weakneses and some strengths. It was free, now its fremium like Plex. None of the others have native applications for both android and iOS. Infuse is nice if you have an all iOS ecosystem.

update - Kodi has an iOS application if you have a jailbroken an iPhone with iOS 8.
I haven't heard of "tentative definitions" before. Couldn't you just replace it with a regular declaration i.e.

extern foo n1, n2;

Is there any benefit of tentative definitions over this?
If you're interested in the logistics and manufacturing side of things then Hearts of Iron 4 does a wonderful job of managing this aspect of war yet still being accessible. The resources you have available and can keep available, starting industrial capacity, the timing of production changes can all have a massive effect. Other areas of the game unfortunately let it down.
The 1989 Buick Reatta had a CRT touchscreen computer to replace the knobs for A/C, fan speed, radio and stuff. It added no value to the experience, was prone to malfunctioning and, subsequently, wasn't very popular. (More: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buick_Reatta)

Form will always follow function to some extent. I'm not saying screens are inherently a bad thing in cars, but screens that mimic a physical button instead of, well, physical buttons? That's just stupid.
Thank you very much! I shall have a look. I'm thinking of moving servers and setting everything up from scratch in order to modernize all my services and remove legacy cruft. I will definitely consider opensmtpd.
This guide is intended for orienteering maps. When using them you will usually be running with the map folded up so it is only partially visible.

A much recommended activity by the way. Your local orienteering club will probably have open runs every weekend where everyone can just show up.
This exactly the kind of Bot problem which another HN post was talking about, the user patwalls recently boasted on reddit/twitter about automating reddit submissions & gaining a boatload of views & is doing the same to HN with clickbait metric laden titles of obscure stuff.
K8s was written by a hopeful public cloud giant to cut off the dominant public cloud giant in the container orchestration space.

It shouldn't be surprising that it is very oriented around VMs hosted and manged by public cloud providers. Bare metal is at best an afterthought, and at worst explicitly disadvantaged.
Something made of straws comes to mind.
Will the 100 m dash survive the car?
"Some" people, arguably. Nothing beats email for an easily-referenceable, structured and local/distributed system of record. Slack requires an always-on connection. Catching up on conversations after a lengthy break is far, far easier using email.

Slack is also disruptive in a way that email isn't. Slack demands attention, which breaks concentration on other tasks. Email can be dealt with at the recipient's leisure.
This isn't "google owning" their failures, but this:

https://gcemetery.co

at least memorialises them...
If you really want to do a practical hands on deep dive in Graphics: I would strong recommend [1].

Just work through this book and you are set. There is a a LOT of demand and short supply for good 3D graphics programmers. I would say it should be either Media or Graphics; both may be an overkill! Good luck.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00LAMQYF2/
And I trust Gumby's memory almost to a fault :-) I had already written a version of Emacs for the Apple ][ and Apple //e called Amacs in 1983 or so. I loved Emacs and Zmacs, and wanted to build software that had that clarity of architecture. So I knew I wanted readline to have as much of the feature set of a genuine editor as made sense.

I think Gumby was instrumental in talking to me about making a reasonable API for the completion part of readline. But I wrote a lot of code in the late 80s. And I wanted to use command line editing and completion in GDB, because we didn't have it. And I thought that was idiotic.
Alibaba Postpones Hong Kong Listing as Protests Roil Markets
> Google needs to own its failures. It can't ship anything new or innovative.

K8s? BigQuery? Chrome (in particular v8)?

> Wave? dead.

Wasn't Wave effectively a tech preview for collaboration technology central to Docs and Sheets?

Whether or not that's the case, aren't Docs and Sheets counterexamples to your argument?

> Google Cloud? Sorry... everyone's on AWS or Azure.

AWS and Azure have together (as of Q4 2018) a bit less than 50% of the public cloud market, hardly “everyone”. Proportionately, Google is closer to Azure than Azure is to AWS, and has a higher growth rate than any of the other major public clouds, bigger or smaller. [0] AWS has first mover advantage, Azure has leveraging Microsoft’s preexisting deep penetration into enterprise. But Google's gaining on them, anyway.

[0] https://www.canalys.com/newsroom/cloud-market-share-q4-2018-...
Blame XMLHttpRequest, Flash, JS, and embedded video. It doesn't make sense to archive a document when the necessary interactive content elements will essentially fail when opened offline.
Sweet idea! I would especially like to be able to capture videos and pictures too.

I suspect for saving videos, a good approach would be some sort of proxy + headless browser combination, where the proxy is responsible for saving a copy of all data the browser requests for.

Thoughts?
If you can get to an aviation museum that lets you inside a fighter plane cockpit the variety of buttons and levers is a real delight. Because they’re designed for a pilot who might be flying supersonic inverted with a Russkie on his 6 every single switch is of a slightly different position or type so they can be distinguished by feel. Dieter Rams would barf but the functionality is perfect.

Also, sitting in a fighter plane cockpit will make you realize how cramped and uncomfortable it is. Not nearly as glamorous as the movies make it seem.
It's a critical factor for the United part of the USA and the fact that we're a republic.

Population isn't everything. We have states like Alaska, Hawaii and Wyoming which are national treasures with low populations.
The first thing to know about rlwrap is that rlwrap is awesome.
Amazon Forecast Is Now Generally Available
Especially fans of Pokémon who aren't fans of Game Freak, lately.
If you remember the title of the post, do you mind sharing it?
Careprost 3ml Bimatoprost Eye Drop: Best Price Online $11/Bottle
Well it's the official state apparatus with 1.2 billion viewers with 10x the viewership of BBC.

There's tons of ways you can criticize it but sockpuppetry is probably not the best one to go for.
New Photos Reveal Extensive Decay of the Titanic
World’s first link layer protocol brings quantum internet closer to a reality
I prefer to set the cursor shape ;)

https://stackoverflow.com/a/42107711/52817
At stage 0 it is immediately taken for granted that there is a sense of self, an identity. This is a very bold leap and his entiry theory builds on this.
https://sonarr.tv.
Sounds to me like you want it to be a different product than it is.

I would recommend memset to look at Field Notes[1] for inspiration. They do an amazing job of turning simple ruled notebooks into something desirable.

Some suggestions:

- Make the cover look nicer and more inspiring (like Field Notes), not just plain white paper.

- Find someone who is good at drawing sheet music by hand, to show some really beautiful examples of the product in use for your shop. Again, inspiration.

- The site says you “pored over every detail”. I think you can tell that story better (again, think Field Notes).

1: https://fieldnotesbrand.com/
Interestingly enough, neither of these libraries are as objectively as good as readline. For example, they do not implement a true kill ring. They aren't macro programmable. I find it almost amusing that the authors were too lazy to actually reimplement all of the extremely well documented behavior in libreadline and libhistory.
Similar work: “CurviSlicer: Slightly curved slicing for 3-axis printers” presented at this year’s SIGGRAPH
https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02120033/document
No mention of trigraphs? They are one of my favourite obscure C language features that I've never used.

Excerpt from GCC man page:

Trigraph: ??( ??) ??< ??> ??= ??/ ??' ??! ??-
Replacement: [ ] { } # \ ^ | ~

Missing backslash on your keyboard? No problem, just type ??/ instead.
Everything is easier on a large display: navigation, browsing through music/podcasts, changing settings. Speed and range are really the only "gauges" you need and take up very little real estate. Doesn't make much sense to have multiple small screens you have to glance around at. Just makes everything more difficult
Still, it implies C fails, because you don't get POSIX on all available platforms.

I think the definition is meaningless. Rust spends huge amount of resources to test itself and its surrounding ecosystem on tier 1 platforms.

I'm fairly certain regex from c++ std will run like crap, if at all on something with 4MB of RAM.
Genuine exchange of views and information should be protected. However these where not genuine people. It just like stopping someone who is trying to sell magic crystals that cure cancer.
> Don't support the credit card oligarchy.

I 100% agree. The problem is that the credit industry exists (obviously) to make money for creditors. Their profit comes from a.) vender fees (that often just result in higher product costs), b.) fees to people who aren't stable enough to pay their balances before fees kick in.

Either way, the credit industry introduces a middle man that a.) artificially inflates costs to goods and survices and b.) financially burdens those who can least afford it.

Sure, credit serves a purpose to bridge a financial gap, like say buying a house, but I go in to that loan agreement knowing how much I'm going to pay for that service. Credit cards, on the other hand are just shady societal life siphons.
I never tried a Model 3, but I test-drove a Model S, and I was pleasantly surprised by the touch screen and controls. They are - by far - the best in the auto industry.

But they're still not as good as physical buttons, because they are impossible to control without looking at them.
The person you're replying to specifically mentioned console games. Consoles have a (very) capacity (given the size of the average game), there are benefits to having physical copies of the games rather than digital.
I wonder if this is a trail run for many of these companies for the
US presidential election.
Most consoles that allow for downloading games have an option for external storage. My switch has a 256 or 512 gig SD card. Xbox and Playstation allow for USB hard drives.
it's freaking annoying when the cute name is used without the number.

same with ubuntu.

when you see in the docs "you need at least ubuntu bluehedgehog"

... wtf is that? a 10yr old version? or the one after the current testing one? who freaking knows? now you have to search it up.

if they used "42-bluehedgehog" you would instantly know if that is after "41-dwarfgirafe".
To be fair, Google did a really bad job of explaining what Wave _actually was_ when it was launched, which was not helped by the naughties tech-tradition of being "invitation only".

Had they simply said it was a cool chat application and given everybody access then it may well have caught on.
"cut buffer" is actually "kill ring"

C-u only does that by default so that readline wouldn't confuse *nix users.
Can you elaborate? You can't win while appealing to "virtually no one". In cases where the national popular vote didn't win - we're talking about a few % points of a difference.
A great example at how computers affect chess commentary is the currently ongoing tournament in St. Louis. On youtube, the game is broadcast by people using an engine to evaluate the position they're looking at, and on twitch, two grandmasters are providing commentary without an engine. The youtube stream can be easier to follow, but it takes some of the drama out when the story appears to be "look at this guy, missing the best move when he's #4 in the world, how could this happen?" for every game. On the other hand, the grandmasters' commentary might be closer to what the players are actually thinking (what would be deemed "human moves"), but sometimes even they aren't sure what exactly is going on.

https://www.youtube.com/user/STLChessClub
https://www.twitch.tv/stlchessclub