skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
fwiw, upgrading to x64 windows killed 16-bit support, I think? But as far as I know that was due to architectural limitations as much as it was an intentional choice. It's still impressive that 16-bit stuff kept working on x86 windows basically forever.
Raymond has always made it very clear that this is his personal blog and that it's not official by any measure.
This is beautiful and I only wish I'd found it sooner; thank you for sharing:)
> Today. But maybe not tomorrow. India, Vietnam, Brazil, and a dozen other countries are more than willing to take on that production. Heck, most of Apple's contractors in China (think Foxconn) already have manufacturing in other countries.

That isn't an easy thing to do and it certainly wouldn't give Tim Cook any leverage. It would take them probably a decade to fully move their pipeline out of China and even if they did it, it would be very capital intensive so even if it was cheaper it would take quite some time to recoup those costs (and I'm not really convinced it would be cheaper overall but that's a separate exercise).
I've found a lot more software startups and SaaS companies using this method lately.

When I actually am interested enough to talk to their salespeople (and they're straightforward enough with me) they've told me it helps them target whales more easily.

They can charge a lot more to a huge Enterprise and adjust lower for SMBs.
If only it ran on Linux... I hate having to reboot to Windows to edit photos.
It's the same choice you have when deciding whether or not to implement end to end encryption. If you intentionally cripple the security of your system, I don't entirely buy it when you blame the government for serving unjust warrants against your system. You made it so they could do that, and either assumed they wouldn't or thought that was the best option.
Sure. So English has some words which start with "gi-" which have hard 'g's ('gift', 'give', 'girl', 'giggle') and some which have soft 'g's ('giant', 'giraffe', 'gibber', 'ginger'), so both pronunciations are actually reasonable in English for the orthographic form 'GIF'.
Coming from the math side, I don't really get this. Isn't all of the latency introduced by the learning side of things? Shouldn't the answer side be entirely decoupled from the learning, and simply be plugging data into an equation with a bunch of constant parameters (with values discovered by your learning system, updated at a less than realtime frequency)?
I don't have a solution, but you may find this of interest: I was snooping around on AirBnB with my network analyzer. (I like to quasi-reverse-engineer sites). I noticed that if you hit the site with Chrome/FF, you get served webp images; if you hit the site with IE, you get served JPEGs.

It would be really great if there was an on-the-fly conversion library -- basically, reference the image once and let the run-time deliver up the right image type. What I don't like about that is that I generally shy away from doing any sort of "if then" based on browsers' user-agent-string.Edit/Update: I don't like that that because it got us all into a lot of trouble during the Browser Wars[0] and is now generally considered bad practice. [1]

This might get me some downvotes... but hold my beer and watch this: I wonder if there is a javascript solution? Maybe you serve up the webp images, always, and write your own jquery plug-in that converts the webp to jpeg in memory and then writes it to an HTML5 canvas, but only if it's safari/IE?

[0] https://youtu.be/yRkQOw1uRrw?t=164

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Browser_de...
Is it? It's not like if you lose your job when you're on an H1B they send you to the suicide booth. You just end up back in your old country, but with a much better resume. Yes, life is harder than it was in the United States, but you start again.

Well, depends on what you're going back to. Say it's China, and you morally disagree with a lot more of the Chinese tech industry's politics than you do the US's. Is it worth taking the one particular stand here to lose the long game?

Obviously I'm specifically crafting counterexamples, but the point I'm trying to get across is that it's not purely a matter of courage of conviction.

In your case, good for you - you went further than most would. I would not have held that particular line. If that was the choice I would have to make, I would start to look for a new job at that moment, not to quit.
This response seems very pedantic. If you are the owner of the device and know the admin password, you are the admin regardless of what user account you're using.
Okja ?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3967856/
I agree! But a person or business choosing whether to take on more debt is going to rely on just the cold calculus of income and outgoings?

I believe that how take into account how secure they feel in their job, whether everyone else seems to be panicking about the economy, housing fomo, etc.
I would imagine all Earth-like planets in the Magellan's clouds would be thoroughly cooked.
The meat-eating utilitarian vegetarian tries to pick meat from larger animals over smaller animals. Since you get more meat per unit of pain inflicted.

So Beef > Pork > Chicken. But if pigs can be bred to be as big as cows that helps a lot!
Yes Mainland China generally uses ANSI or ISO but Taiwanese keyboards usually have labels for bopomofo and Cangjie[0] while having the same physical layout as a US keyboard.

[0] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Standard_Taiwanese_K...
Fall Put the Brakes on Many Automaker Gains
Tiger came out 14 years ago. Dashboard has barely seen any investment since then. Calling it a "fundamental part of the OS" makes me think you're trolling. This isn't the least bit surprising.

(And I'm sure a 3rd party replacement will pop up, if there are enough frustrated users).
And that’s been true for premium TV like HBO forever where movies would be in heavy rotation for a few months and then not available.
It drives me nuts that you need 10k rep to view deleted questions. I can't see your second question because I only have ~3k reputation.

I don't understand why it's a privilege in the first place. What's so dangerous about allowing me to read a 'bad' question?
As a suffix 'tych' (pronounced 'tic') refers to multiple related/connected things ... tables, leaves, panels, works ... (diptych, triptych, polyptych). EG 'triptych' "derives from the Greek adjective τρίπτυχον 'triptukhon' ('three-fold')".

'Ptychography' was coined by crystallographers in 1972. Wikipedia has more on the origin.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptychography
The TRS-80 was... not built for ruggedness and durability. At least not if you had a system with any peripherals; the cables were notoriously flaky, to the point that the problems are on record in the Wikipedia page, as an explanation for the "Trash-80" sobriquet. (I recall at the time seeing aftermarket recommendations for expensive cables and doing things like wrapping components in tinfoil to try to get some extra RF shielding.)
Mapquest sold for undisclosed amount “not material enough to file paperwork”
Realistically, that's what will happen, and thank God for piracy.
Forth is the ideal language for bootstrapping a cobbled-together computer from whatever scraps you can find. Forth gives you a shell, an assembler, a disassembler, and a rich, extensible programming language in a few kilobytes. You can peek or poke hardware interactively, or use the REPL as a calculator. Forth-style assemblers also make cross-compilation very practical.

If I was tasked with bootstrapping a post-apocalyptic computer from junk, a hard copy of a well-commented Forth implementation would be a welcome assistance.
The third wave sounds pretty similar to the way schools (and many other organizations) often work anyway: strict enforcement of social status and arbitrary rules, strict codes for speech, dress, and behavior, encouragement of informers, public shaming and punishment, and an overall emphasis on groupthink and compliance.
Yet another reason I'm reluctant to upgrade to Windows 10. Too many buttons and toggles to turn off to arrive at a PC that functions the way I expect it to, and an update mechanism that's likely turning new ones on faster than I can spot them.
For the cities that aren't as mild and flat as Amsterdam, putting the pedestrians and bicycles undergound would make more sense.
Even in central Texas, normal American street names get constantly mispronounced by turn-by-turn
> enjoy the all torque all the time driving of an electric drivetrain.

Tesla's don't have "torque all the time", they have exceptionally high torque at low RPM relative to their ICE counterparts.

But lacking multiple gear ratios, their acceleration diminishes substantially with speed, for lack of torque at high RPMs.

Out of curiosity, are you holding any TSLA stock?
Whatever else anyone thinks of this brouhaha, I'd say that this answer is extremely useful: https://meta.stackexchange.com/a/334294
US government adds Face++, Sensetime, Hikvision, others to trade blacklist [pdf]
Eh, some of those are embedded, kt is a server like Redis or memcached. Kt was good enough for cloudflare, if that's enough of an endorsement.
I'm still holding back from upgrading my hardware (my 2013 Macbook Pro is still going strong with no maintenance required). For one, the butterfly keyboard issues have really put me off the newer laptops. It seems like everyone I know has a key that doesn't work properly anymore. I also like having plenty of ports without buying an adaptor and carrying one around with me.
"Ignore" is likely an exaggeration. It sounds like many of these audio companies have tested the betas. People have reported many, many emails over the past week pleading for them not to upgrade yet. I would think that anyone with experience in pro audio would be very careful about any upgrades.

The concern seems to be more of wasted time developing on a moving target. Often people report battery issues after major releases, people are reporting weird hangs after waking from sleep. Audio stuff is real-time in an OS that cannot guarantee it. Accommodating these things is a large undertaking and I'm sure there's gambling going on about what Apple will fix and what you can rewrite before Apple decides to ship.
And in my case the backdoor (Cosiloon) wouldn't do anything if the tablet was in China (don't remember how it detected the country, maybe by IP address or language).
We already have: Clavel et al. (2013) Echoes of multiple outbursts of Sagittarius A[star] revealed by Chandra.[0] Here's the abstract:

> The relatively rapid spatial and temporal variability of the X-ray radiation from some molecular clouds near the Galactic center shows that this emission component is due to the reflection of X-rays generated by a source that was luminous in the past, most likely the central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A[star]. Studying the evolution of the molecular cloud reflection features is therefore a key element to reconstruct Sgr A[star]'s past activity. The aim of the present work is to study this emission on small angular scales in order to characterize the source outburst on short time scales. We use Chandra high-resolution data collected from 1999 to 2011 to study the most rapid variations detected so far, those of clouds between 5' and 20' from Sgr A[star] towards positive longitudes. Our systematic spectral-imaging analysis of the reflection emission, notably of the Fe Kalpha line at 6.4 keV and its associated 4-8 keV continuum, allows us to characterize the variations down to 15" angular scale and 1-year time scale. We reveal for the first time abrupt variations of few years only and in particular a short peaked emission, with a factor of 10 increase followed by a comparable decrease, that propagates along the dense filaments of the Bridge cloud. This 2-year peaked feature contrasts with the slower 10-year linear variations we reveal in all the other molecular structures of the region. Based on column density constraints, we argue that these two different behaviors are unlikely to be due to the same illuminating event. The variations are likely due to a highly variable active phase of Sgr A[star] sometime within the past few hundred years, characterized by at least two luminous outbursts of a few-year time scale and during which the Sgr A[star] luminosity went up to at least 10^39 erg/s.

0) https://arxiv.org/abs/1307.3954

Edit: Older image: https://www.chandra.harvard.edu/photo/2007/gcle/
Maybe we can bring it back as a gray net that the normies in their silos don't know about and will be content to ignore?
Circle K to install EV chargers in service stations
Why not what? Why do I think I'd not get along with this kind of person? Yes, that absolutely is my personal opinion; what would make you expect otherwise?

(I mainly included that parenthetical as a signal to the kinds of people on HN who would likely consider my post, without it, as some sort of support for China's denial of Taiwan's existence, which is absolutely not the case.)
true, but as said below, I was a bit green at that time.

what we did have was that we would remember a song not by its full path which could be like 256 bytes long, but by only 8 bytes, so when we read in an playlist, we would convert each file path into these 8 bytes and use them to retrieve the tracks later. that made parsing playlists "slow". Rockbox did access the playlist as a file, so they would only resolve the path when the next song was needed, but then they had the time and leasure to write a Posix like file API whereas we moved in a hurry and used a much more primitive block based approach. this was also born out of the fact that our design initially had only 128k of RAM and a larger SDRAM for buffering while the drive is off was only added later...
Wish there were a video; I don't use Alexa
Thanks, but near miss :) I moved cities to start my masters, so my chapter of living in karlsruhe (where I moved for my bachelors) is closed, especially since I won't be coming back. I have not done everything I've wanted, stayed longer than I've thought and left some things unfinished. If only there would be more time, but your twenties unfortunatly don't have more years in them than the other decades. I probably wouldn't have started my masters yet but instead take a break and do something crazy. Like move to berlin, try to survive as a DJ and maybe get into producing music. Maybe study some philosophy. I feel like some opportunities just rush by and some doors just slowly but steadily close. And you have to decide for one, maybe two.
Thank you EpicBlackCrayon! I hope is useful.
It depends.

* 64bit processes usually can't load 32bit modules, only a 64bit OS can (true for Linux and Windows, I'm not sure if it's true for x86 overall). There's a pretty good chance that only a 32bit CrossOver could load 32bit modules.

* Has 32bit support been stripped from the kernel, or has it only been stripped from the installed dynamic libraries? I'd wager that it's stripped from, or partially stripped from, the kernel. Even if Catalina allows 64bit processes to load 32bit modules, the kernel would have to support it.

There's a one in four chance your scenario is supported. CrossOver definitely couldn't magically voodoo a 32bit module into a 64bit one, as it's impossible to determine if a register/address is a 32bit integer or pointer; if it doesn't work today, it will probably never work.

I'm not sure if macOS supports IOMMU, but an external GPU with a VM might be your saving grace here.
Unicomp makes (modifies?) Model-M type keybaords that are Mac-ish; I've got a Command and Option Key, the F keys do the same thing as the ones on the Mac (change volume, brightness, etc.). I love it.

Tell, me, how do you connect your Model-M to the Mac? I bought this from Unicomp because IIRC just adding a USB adapter to the three Model-M's in my closet didn't work out.
What's your point? If my house goes up by 100k in a year, in most US states, my property taxes would rise accordingly, whether or not I realized the true value of the home. Housing is a poor analogy as stocks are treated better than housing in this situation.

(California is not one of those states, due to Proposition 13, which is also very controversial and is argued to be one of the causes of California's rising housing costs)

When it comes to "if the rich are being taxed enough", you bring up a good point - if my home rises in value I pay more - however Buffet makes several billion in paper gains, and his taxes are largely unchanged.
The whole "unrecognised country" nonsense should begone. Everybody knows Taiwan is a distinct country (and does a reasonable job of being a decent country for the people living in it, it obviously is a better country than a number of completely recognized ones) yet it still has "limited recognition". How about recognizing the facts rather than virtual reality of politicians' imagination? Banning an entire country is bullshit.
I’ll add another angle. Cars enable social mobility, particularly for people of color, who as a group make less money than white and Asian people and are less likely to be able to afford the skyrocketing price of housing near reliable transit. One of the biggest demographic trends of the last couple of decades—more significant than young white people moving back into cities, which Citylab spends a lot of ink writing about—is people of color moving to the suburbs or car-dependent southern cities: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/02/02/census....

Here in the DC area, while DC gentrifies and pushes out middle class people and families with kids, the predominantly African American suburbs of PG County are growing. The same thing is happening on the other side of DC in Fairfax county and Arlington county with Hispanic families. For these folks, cars enable a huge increase in quality of life that would be foreclosed otherwise. (My cousin, whose family immigrated here from Bangladesh, grew up in a small apartment in Queens. I remember visiting back in the 1990s and think it looked post-apocalyptic. Now, her parents have a nice house in Long Island. They’d never be able to afford anything like that near a subway station.)

I don’t think this is intrinsic to societies generally. There are lots of reasons why housing prices are out of control in US cities, and lots of reasons why people of color are underrepresented in the kinds of professions, such as programming, that enable people to afford housing near transit. But that is what it is. Until we fix those problems, urbanist snobbery will have problematic race and class undertones.
I don't think that cheap tablet had any certification, but it had Google Play.
Indeed. I'm a west coast resident, and I've only visited NYC a handful of times, but last time I was there with my family, I rode cabs about as much as subway: in my limited experience, subway in Manhattan works well if you're moving on north-south axis, but not so well on east-west axis. When you're going east-west in Manhattan, you have to spend 15-20 minutes walking more often than not, which is usually not that bad, unless it's 95 degrees outside, and your children are miserable: spending 20 minutes in air conditioned cab then is much preferrable to spending 15 minutes walking in that circumstance. In that scenario, cabs also win often with subway, especially on short routes, since you can move 4 people with a single cab fare, while you have to pay 4 times the fare when you take the subway.
Could be, but when the new OS updates every 12 months they can either dedicate a whole chunk of their time updating to the new version, or make it work good on a version that's still going to be supported for 3 or 4 years so they can focus on bug fixes and updates.

Just because Apple can bump out a new OS version once a year doesn't mind these app developers have the same bandwidth to keep up the chase. They have plenty of other priorities.
Why does CC need to do this, but Office 365 and G Suite don't?
The definition of vegetarian stretches ever further.

I guess you could just strike that word without changing your meaning.
Maybe it doesn't have to be, but I haven't seen anywhere that seems to get it right. Sure, if I could shop at 3am, the convenience and speed would be real, but at 3pm it becomes hindrance.

TL;DR driving would be lovely but for the other vehicles. :)

> limited to 25 MPH in the US

I'm more thinking of traffic calming such that there is planting and chicanes to ensure no line of sight, equal priority, and drivers naturally tend to dawdle at 10 or 15mph along like they might if driving through a town pedestrianised high street.

A city centre night out or shopping trip is far nicer when the streets have been pedestrianised, and there's no traffic except the odd service vehicle and public transport. Sitting outside with a coffee is much more pleasant without the taste of fumes.

> Highways and arterials are not where children

No they're not, but you have to get to them, which is where a lot of problems arise. At that point I may as well get to the railway station instead of the highway. Except thanks to lobbying and politics, that's comparatively neglected, so not as appealing as it should be.
Adobe customers also had a choice to purchase an uncrippled alternative.
Maybe they could call it Konfabulator.
I recently had PayPal disable my merchant account because I logged in funny (I was on a trip and something was tripped because of the different login region), and now this news. The world has become way too centralized, we should start favoring the old models (pay for something and use it forever, no phoning home, etc).

Luckily, there are some great alternatives in this particular space (Affinity Photo, DaVinci Resolve, etc), and others (e.g. GOG for games). Hopefully, if we support those monetization models, others will follow suit.

Coincidentally, since I'm not sure I'll be able to ever get my PayPal account back (I can't prove the physical address since the company hasn't been there for a while), does anyone know of a good cryptocurrency payment processor?
Their stock quadrupled since doing so, though.

You might be proposing a bigger rebellion against capitalism than just illegally selling to Venezuela :)
Heck, mine can't even handle "Legoland". It pronounces it as "LeGOland"
>"The ability to buy and sell labor" is not really part of Marx's definition of capitalism

It absolutely is, and that's part of what distinguishes the capitalist mode of production from any other. Marx speaks of the "double freedom" workers under capitalism must have. Liberal property relations are what allows capitalism to survive, and free trade in labour is its precondition.
I know, my point is that performance is rarely the need. Usability and useful APIs are more important which Redis excels at.

Cloudflare stopped using KT because it wasn't much else other than simple and fast, and was missing a lot of other features.
Density is solving itself. If you live on the hill then you must have noticed the incredible explosion of massive apartment buildings and condos going up across the city. Note how it's concentrated in centers of commerce, and that's totally great. It reduces your (burdensome? I guess?) 30 minute walk, makes housing cheaper, and doesn't impede on those with the means to afford a century old work of art; they absolutely can be and to deny so is delusional, go walk east of Volunteer Park and see for yourself.

A diverse spectrum of zoning is important, but we also have a diverse free market that doesn't all want high-rise condos and apartments absolutely everywhere. Some people want a beautiful neighborhood, lots of space, privacy, proximity to the city, and have the means to get that, so that's what they will pursue. You should be okay with that because it's part of the same system that allows high-rise condos along the city's arteries.

My only point of contention against the apartments/condos themselves is the incredibly cheap materials and trendy designs that will look terrible in a decade's time. Look back on other periods of housing like the 70's Brady Bunch-style ranch houses to see how other trendy houses have aged.

> Capital Hill

With an "o", not an "a".