skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm with you. Inequality seems to be baked into the natural world. Look at power law distributions and the preferential attachment model as one of the ways they arise. There is mathematics to suggest the notion of inequality is a fundamental part of life.

The Polya process is another thing that comes to mind. In that model, if you were picked in the past then you are more likely to be picked in the future. That's the classic competitive exclusion "rich get richer" at work.

But here's the equalizer:
Every distribution of possible outcomes under the Polya process has an equal probability of happening.

That strikes me as very interesting. Basically, if you were to run history forwards from the same starting point again and again, in some of those iterations your life would turn out significanty better than others. So, there is equality for everyone in that sense, but on a case-by-case basis it's more of a better luck next time.
Once online shopping with 2 hour delivery becomes more ubiquitous it's going the be harder to be a brick and mortar store
One of the "more" things many other services provide is far better privacy. European law is much more protective of human rights than American (where Fastmail hosts its servers and emails are "business records") or Australian (where Fastmail is located and where even warrant canaries are illegal).
Modern computers aren't really based on the Turing machine idea any more than they're based on the Lambda calculus, and I think it's questionable that the early computers were intentionally modelled on it.
If the design were more minimalist, they would be easier to counterfeit.
Thanks that's great to hear! Would you mind updating your readme and website to reflect that? It would be a shame if anyone were to rely on this for anything critical as-is.
The title should be fixed, it’s for using a provider you met through Wag.
I don't remember anymore where I read this, but that people start revolting when the pain gets too much is a myth.

The problem seems that you can ease people into becoming too weak before they realize that they need to do something.
I like

https://text.npr.org/

for this as well.
Is PG even involved with HN anymore? He hasn't posted on his account in four years.
> His work shortened the WW2 by at least 2 years.

If the Reich had lasted longer, they would have gotten the nuke rather than Japan.
> You might be living in a bubble, fifty quid is much less than $100 and I see those notes all the time.

In nearly 40 years I can't think I've ever seen a £50 note, let alone spent one. €50 notes, sure, but Europe is backwards - I saw a €200 note once when buying a ferry ticket

> Getting currency exchanged before a trip? They give huge bills.

1990 called and wants its features back. I haven't been to an airport yet that didn't have an ATM. With the exception of the U.S. I rarely spend cash when I travel anyway.

> Buying a used phone or furniture from Craigslist? Are you going to pay with 100 twenties?

I can't imagine ever wanting to spend $2000 in cash. I had a builder do some work and it was about £800, a simple bank transfer and job done.

> New ATMs even ask you the breakdown of bill sizes you are want.

Do they? I haven't used an ATM since May (and that was in Hong Kong). Now that is unusual - most people do use cash, but then most people are more likely to want £5 notes from an ATM than £50.

Now the UK isn't as cashless as say China, but Cash is certainly not the norm - especially for anyone under the age of 60
No more than people who are saying the opposite is true.

We should use objective measures. There are tangible real world ramifications for the effects of robbery. People who get offended at nudity suffer some mild discomfort at best.

We should be basing our legal system accordingly.

For instance, what about people who delight in receiving unsolicited nudes? This law is imposing its universal moral pronouncements on them.
This certainly wouldn't be legally binding in Germany, is that actually different in the US?
Best buy was much worse off a few years ago. The company and the stores are in much better shape these days, they hired a CEO that did many improvements.
> According to our current theoretical frameworks, human memory is best understood as processes of reconstruction, rather than one of reproduction. That is to say that remembering an event is less like replaying a mental recording and more like composing a story.

I appreciate the appearance of that oft-omitted qualifier, 'according to current theories'. Also, this reminds me of one of those ideas that came in a package with giant robots...

"In the words of Schwarzwald, who is closest to the truth: Imagination and memory are but one thing, which for diverse considerations hath diverse names."
It's just not polished.
Hey cool — I use a very similar practice of writing up notes in Markdown. Although I haven't published them, this is inspiring me to do so!

One thing I do differently - I read the book through first, making highlights and shorthand notes anywhere I see something interesting. I do a faster, second read-through at my computer with the Kindle annotations and the text editor side-by-side. As you said, doing it at the same time slows things down tremendously, and I found that it sapped my momentum and I got fewer books read overall. Do you experience the opposite, or is it something you learned to work through?
> how are you going to compete with companies that can compensate employees 2x what you can in fully liquid comp?

In addition to lottery tickets, I would argue that for some people the answer is easier: purpose, people, and autonomy.

At all of the bigger companies with the great, guaranteed pay, you are also one of many, quite likely a cog in a giant machine. By offering someone a real, visible impact on direction, outcomes, and even a purpose beyond steady (high) income, you can get some folks to join. Others will join just to be part of a small, hopefully excellent team or having autonomy. In a company of 5000, only 500 are in the top 10%, and you might work with very few. It's much easier for everyone to be good when you're a small team (I like the pg rowing analogy here).
Interesting, I like the withdrawn notes page

https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/banknotes/withdrawn-banknote...
Have You Seen Any Nazi Uranium?
> if we can drive down our per capita environmental impact.

Oh is that all?

Like my Gammy said, “If ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas.” And if you gave my Gammy immortality, she would’ve just smoked more cigs and played more nickel slots.
For twitter you can disable JS and it will fallback to a ""degraded"" (a.k.a. Much faster & usable) experience.
Amen. It’s the most pleasant site I use every day. Even Google search is beginning to slow down to a crawl in some hours (and Google used to be blazing fast).
I imagine lots of towns are 6 hours or more from State U Medical Center
Looking at the bottom of the JS file [1], it looks like OP already started working on a genetic algorithm for this. I don't have time right now, but for anyone who's curious to try, you can just call

myRPG.parseKeyPress({keyCode: 40})

replacing keyCode with the respective key's code, to automate moves. The global variable "dead" should tell you if you've failed, and "score.innerText" should tell you how well you've done :-)

1. https://smitop.com/square-game/rpg.js
Theres a big difference between a brilliant protocol and a safe implementation. It's clear from the other comments that the implementation does not live up to their expectation, but what about the theoretical algorithm?
Jesus. I wonder how that was allowed to happen.

I was gonna ask how to other people in the plane avoided being ejected and dropped too, but apparently the Viking was set up so the rear seats could eject independently of the front seats; this was so the plane could be recovered if the rear crew ejected in a situation that the pilots, with their greater awareness and control, felt was still survivable. If either of the pilots pulled the ejection handle, though, all four seats would be ejected. I guess there were two people in the front, and the kid was alone in the back.

So I guess it could have been worse. I hesitate to use the word "lucky," though...
I wouldn't blame Amazon at all. Long before they had any impact on my tech buying habits I had already switched entirely to Newegg. Newegg was the best place to shop for computer components by far during the 2000s. They had the perfect mix of good selection, good community (ie. high quality reviews), great return policy, etc. It was only after they added 'partners' and were bought out that they started going down hill.
Maybe this help with: https://github.com/x3dom/x3dom

As I heard it's based on explicit DOMs.

Have anyone tried X3DOM?
There's no way this is going to hold up in any kind of court. A 50-100$ fine might have flown under the radar, but 1000$ is enough incentive for taking this to a small claims court.
The US needs some updating as well - see the kerfuffle about trying to get Harriet Tubman on the $20, which Trump nixed, because racism. He wanted to put her on a reissued $2 bill, but I'm not sure there's an appetite for that. Symbolism matters in this case, and Trump is clueless.

I still like this concept from a while back:

https://kottke.org/10/08/us-dollar-redesign

Replacing GW with Obama might be a bit contentious, but the rest of it seems solid.
There is lite.cnn.io as well.

I wish there were more.
The description says "the compilation builds a version of the NanoLog library that is non-portable, even between compilations of the same application". They also mention that a decompressor application also gets built and can be used to reconstitute a human-readable version of the log file. My question is, is the decompressor application also tightly coupled to a particular compilation? It sounds like the answer is yes, but I'd really like to be wrong about that.

That would really suck for cases where you want to store old log files for later use. You'd have to also store a copy of the decompressor program that corresponds to each log file. Or you'd have to convert to human-readable format before storing the log files, which loses a number of the benefits of the binary log format (compact size, faster to parse).
I find large companies like Gearbox using crowdfunding sites like Fig to be... suspicious.
There was no risk of retaliation when McArthur demanded the use nuclear weapons in Korea. Truman turned him down and sacked him anyways.

Fuchs was like almost every other soviet spy in WW2 and post-war / pre-cold war action - a useful idiot who refused to believe the reports at the end of the war of the mass wave or rape and pillage that the Soviets unleashed on Germany, or the political terror that Stalin unleashed. This was understandable, given that spreading such information (until Khrushchev legendary denunciation of Stalin after his death) was a great way to kill your career, and/or your life.

There was a unbelievable amount of naivete among the atomic scientsts, that worked across all different parts of the political spectrum. Many were openly talking about a government that would replace democratically elected institutions with a technocracy where only the informed civil servents would make centrally planned decisions for the good of all mankind. Many bought the idea that the USSR’s actions in Europe were justified because it was the only path to true communism. Many became the monsters that they fought - willing to justify anything to roll back fascism and later communism.

Regardless, the idea that Fuchs was only moved by a rational actor theory is very hard to support.
I liked his post. He discovered something similar to my own discovery that I reflected on below. Although the write does not highlight the journaling technique, it is invaluable to rationalize.

https://medium.com/hackernoon/the-manager-stew-dd59cd653728

I am still trying to figure out proper structure, right now it's still time based. I have found patterns forming in journaling:

1. Always write it out. Typing is good, however with writing I remember better and it sticks longer. Having a large stack of pocket moleskins has weight I cannot seem to fully describe.

2. The more I write, the more I realize that threads/channels of thought are working on different things continuously.

3. TODO's naturally form. Write them down as they come has serious potential for getting things done. Keep checkmarks and reflect back after some time. Watch for patterns.

4. Rating myself on how I feel personally and professionally daily has lead to some deep discoveries.

5. Letting people know exactly how many days you've been at your job (yes, writing down the number of days since starting on each entry) has interesting side effects in conversations.
I also use Fastmail to host my calendar and contacts - next to my email. I enjoy the web interface and lI especially like that the iOS integration just works.
yes, to the "goverment of venezuela", not to civilians, also it has a license specific to avoid what is happening: https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/sanctions/Programs/...

the date of both documents is the same
Yes, the “studio” terminology also seems a slightly awkward fit here. There were some good points made, but I’m not sure it’s the best analogy.
Free trial, then $1.99 a month.
It's an interesting design in how it straddles between old and new rendering pipelines. It's effectively allowing the definition of 3D sprites that can be posed, imaged, tweaked and placed with the first half done eagerly and the latter on-demand during frame output. As pointed out, the challenge would be determining how complex a scene can be produced per frame and staying under the limit as there doesn't seem to be a way of varying frames/sec.
Cees Bassa on Twitter: An analysis of U.S. spy satellite capabilities
I wish they would update the line-height to something more reasonable. ~1.5x font size would be go a long way in paragraph readability. Other than that, it's fast and stable. About all I require from a forum.

Edit: All my lovely responders, I appreciate the feedback, but I don't want to install addons/mods/hacks to fix line-height.
A few years before the Ferranti Mark 1, Turing was involved with the programs for the Mark 1's predecessor: Baby (1948) [1], the worlds first stored-program computer, which as you mentioned was based on his Turing Machine (1936).

I learned about Turing as part of Baby's and the Mark 1s history first before any wartime efforts as I did my BSc at the University of Manchester. Also only later would I realise the honour of Tom Kilburn handing me my degree when I graduated and having nice chat with as well.

* [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Baby#First_programs
I spent the last 20 years thinking it was for “resource” — and now I can’t even remember why I thought that.
How to Really Listen to Music
Show HN: Making pro weather data free for Hurricane Dorian
I have added OpenZones to Flowx, my Android weather app[0]. OpenZones are regions covering disaster zones where all the pro data in the app is freely available.

I have created an 1200km diameter OpenZone over Florida with Hurricane Dorian approaching. So if you add Florida to the app, you can view radar, NOAA's GFS, NAM and HRRR models, CMC GDPS and RDPS models, and the DWD (Germany) ICON model. There are also predicted hurricane tracks from the NOAA and CMC ensemble models which I find extremely valuable to predict the possible paths of Dorian. This YouTube video[1] shows an example of the hurricane tracks.

The reasoning behind OpenZones is that meteorological organizations solve weather simulations and release data to the public with the aim to reduce damage, injury and fatalities. It's only right to support this purpose and open up all data in disaster zones.

The idea for OpenZones came from the fires (Camp Fire) in California last year. I was part way through adding HRRR smoke simulation data to Flowx when a user asked if I could release the smoke data early for the California fires. I did so in the free version of the app and then rolled it into the pro version after the fires.

Sorry there is no Apple version of the app.

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enzuredigital.weatherbomb

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5do7dYfYfQ
> Number of times I have had the problem of "email not working for some reason" since switching to gmail ~20 years ago: zero.

This is incorrect. By using Gmail you've lost several legitimate incoming emails due to their horrendous spam filtering. It's just hard to be aware of the emails you've never seen, so you think nothing ever failed.

In addition, if you are relying on @gmail addresses, you run the catastrophic risk of permanently losing access to your email with no-one to call for help. There's so many instances of this happening that you can't even call them isolated instances. All it takes is for Google's ML algorithms to think that you have violated their T&C somehow. And poof! Everything is gone.
Brick and mortal shops for almost all categories of goods will have a hard time competing with the breadth of products, convenience and the price that web shops will be able to offer.

The consequences of this, together with the rise of remote work will most probably affect the process of urbanization itself to the extent that it will even have a 'revolution' name of its own, like the preceding 'agricultural', ' industrial', 'internet' etc.
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college kills creativity. think about thousands of people studying for the same position, same books, same knowledge..

anyone thinks about robots?
How much equity is enough to make sense though? Why is the current status quo not enough but 2x of it is? Ata series B startup, 2xing grants might mean typical equity compensation is worth $50k over 4 years instead of $25k (at the companies current valuation based on their last funding round, which seems like the only way you can really value it).

The same engineer might be able to get a grant of $400k or more over 4 years at a FAANG company. It’s just hard to compete period, and there’s really just not enough equity to go around at a level that would be competitive.

So I guess I come to a different conclusion than you, more equity to employees would be great and cover some of the gap but I think the only real solution is Bay Area startups need to start raising bigger rounds so they can pay market rate for the area, which is now set by the big companies and is insanely high as a result of the housing crisis.

Or, don’t start a startup in the insanity that is California (or if you do, hire remote only).
If I recall correctly, when an employer signs up with a headhunter service to bring resumes, you're also agreeing to a 1 year term of exclusivity. Often resumes are shared without a name or other basic identifying information until you agree to meet with them. If you end up hiring them anytime from then to 1 year out, you pay the headhunter their fee. Seems fair, only because the headhunter needs to make a buck.

Based on neighborhood traffic on Nextdoor and Facebook, dog walking is still a "hire your neighbor's kid" market, and Wag seems to be trying to elevate it to the gig economy where dogs are walked by those that need to put food on their own table.

Headhunters don't profit forever from every job they connect their clients with, and it seems Wag is trying to get away with changing those rules.
As a counter to this, my local Micro Center is absolutely booming. I built a fast gaming machine earlier this year, and found all of my desired components in-stock there, with no compromises. Their prices were identical to the lowest prices online, and they offer price match anyway. All of my Ubiquiti stuff I got there as well. They have an expanding hobbyist electronics section that consumed the old physical software/gaming space. They have other great hobbyist stuff like retro gaming and drones. I've just taken it for granted, not realizing that many people consider Micro Center a PC builder "Mecca".[0]

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/search?q=micro+center&...
But are we ready for this yet!?
Considering his sexual orientation, when it's only 2019!?
> I began cleaning it regularly.

How often?

Interesting possibility: Perhaps that provided just enough exercise for your hands, as suggested by others.
That may affect people buying onesey twosey bits off AliExpress, but that stuff is still available on amazon from resellers who buy and ship it stateside to a fulfillment warehouse in bulk.
Recently built similar stuff. Even using same __rdtsc() for time.
I didn't require any preprocessing. Instead, I require the strings come from readonly section of a module, and logging pointer values. Also logging into circular buffer in shared memory instead of file, as I was only interested in knowing what the app did immediately before a rare crash which takes hours to reproduce.
I'm not familiar with British bank notes, but from a quick Google query, they do look pretty ugly. However, I would assume that the image in the article looks more like the cover of a Powerpoint presentation than the actual note design itself.
If Iran had the military advantage that the US currently presents, how much restraint could you expect? And yet the US chose not to retaliate against Iran this June because any retaliation would likely kill people - that killing people over the loss of a machine wasn't appropriate.
It's worse, apparently they also try to charge the walker (=contractor).

Which is a wholly different bowl of trouble. Charging the pet owner is anti-competitive unenforceable nonsense, charging the pet walker means a lawsuit for back pay and taxes given the obvious misclassification as contractors.
I'm just imagining one of the wag investors asking "What's to stop your walker who lives nearby the dog's owner, just doing the walk independently with the person they've built trust with?"

And the answer is "you have a shitty business model and this should have killed it years ago"
For FB

https://mbasic.facebook.com/home.php
New domains and new IPs are penalized heavily by most services' spam filters.

My guess is that a lot of people try it, have poor delivery rates, and abandon the effort before they have enough time to develop decent domain & IP reputations.

I've been running my own personal mail servers since 1995, on my current IP addresses since ~2016. If I add a new domain to my configuration, it takes 1-2 weeks before Gmail will reliably accept mail from it. Once I wait that out, delivery is mostly flawless.
CreaturePack: High Performance 2D WebGL Character Animation with WebAssembly
You can save the money and retire early with the body of a middle aged vs old person.
In the related paper[1], this paragraph (5.1.2) strongly suggests that the decompressor is non-portable as well:

> NanoLog performs best when there is little dynamic information in the log message. This is reflected by staticString, a static message, in the throughput benchmark. Here, NanoLog only needs to output about 3-4 bytes per log message due to its compaction and static extraction techniques.

1: https://www.usenix.org/conference/atc18/presentation/yang-st...
I white-listed popsci.com and 2o7.net and the content stayed up.

The sites where the content flashes and then disappears are the ones that annoy me the most. Then I know you're capable of showing me the content with my current settings, you're just too incompetent or don't want to.
I've been going to Microcenter in cambridge MA for years. They've got a decent selection (If you need it they'll likely have something that fits the bill) and decent prices.

They're always changing though: they had a console video game section for a while, now thats hobby computers (rasbery pi and co). They had a camera section, but thats gone. Computer books, gone. So they seem to be paying attention and a few years back they finaly went to a one line checkout (still takes too long, but its better).