skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s funny... I have, sort of. A place I used to work at had a bunch of old serial devices connected to the internet via Ethernet-serial gateways. To query them, we connected over Telnet (heh). The original devices had a CLI, and the polling was done by sending a series of keystrokes to the devices. Each keystroke was one byte, and was wrapped in an entire TCP packet (~40 bytes, if I recall).

We were blowing through our 1MB (yes...) SIM cards quite quickly, and it was 98% just packet overhead. I can only imagine what it would have been like over http.
I disagree. It's the responsibility of each worker to maintain the skills they need to be valuable in the modern economy.

Our government should help the unemployed, but paying them off "until they reached retirement age" means that the people who are still employed are paying for them to do nothing.
Great how it started with framing the problem (and coming up with a name for it!) then went the product decision-making and how you landed at making a game

It could easily have been “we wanted to increase engagement so we made a game here’s the link” but this is 10x better
0wikipedia's servers are set up to accept requests for wikipedia.org?
> People were, essentially, sold an investment asset with the implication that it was going up

Isn't that how all investment assets are sold?

> the seller not disclosing & misrepresenting the fact that they intended to glut the market and thereby drive down the price

I mean, the seller wasn't trying to crash the price. They just had a bunch of medallions to offload. It doesn't seem like it's incumbent upon a seller to inform the market that it has other medallions to sell. Certainly no other financial markets work this way.

> It's technically not securities fraud, but it has a similar flavor, so I wouldn't characterize this as a market working as intended.

It really doesn't, though. This is how all markets work. Nobody informs buyers of AAPL stock that they are trying to sell a billion dollars worth. They sell little chunks at a time to minimize their impact. That's just good order execution.
I have seen things like this. A showroom of defects and mistakes is proof that your quality control system is catching them. It is a statement of professionalism.
How can I short this?

Matt Levine suggested WeWork was a kind of short on the VC bubble. I guess that if there was a way to short it directly, I wouldn't be the only contra-investor.

Disclaimer: I've been on the sidelines of a government funded VC failure in Christchurch, NZ. Lots of puff, little output.
Amlogic HDMI Boot Dongle
Can't you get lesser quality chips from a different manufacturer for cheaper?
DevSec-project takes part in Hacktoberfest 2019
Eh, obviously?
I know you're using "money shot" as slang for "key take-away" or tl:dr but it's origin is intertwined with porn - you might want to re-consider keeping it as a goto phrase online and in the real.
That one got both a software penalty (flamewar detector) and a moderator penalty (similar). But there have been so many submissions about this that it seems there's a community interest in discussing it that is more than just latest-routine-outrage. So we rolled back the clock on this one and put it in the second-chance pool (described at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11662380). Not sure if that was a good idea or not.
What I don't get by reading the article is the link between (not) receiving funding from university and not being allowed to play on campus.
Using Multiple Inferencing Chips in Neural Networks
no but 50 different lookalikes from china are.
Our family had one of these too. I remember it as being better and longer lasting than any toaster I've had since.

And it lasted a loong time - 30 years or so.
I thought Canada had sales tax rebates based on income to smooth out some of the regressiveness?[1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonized_sales_tax#Individua...
A go binary to do the same thing would be at least 50MB. ;-)
Really fascinating and creative approach! I wonder why this kind of thing hasn't been tried as commonly before or is as widespread today.
Vocal minority, perhaps.

They got carried away with their own cleverness and forgot about the real world, shit happens.

The good news is they realized and and realigned with the community, which is awesome.
What you're describing has nothing to do with the OpenGL standard but of graphics drivers (OpenGL implementations).
Do you have plans to implement any of the other engagement features you mentioned? I’d be curious to see what worked best.
Fantastic! Really well done. Would you mind switching it to Vue though?
Automate Redux
The odds of winning the minimum $38 MM payout in California are 1 in 42 million. The odds of a smaller payout are orders of magnitude higher. And you can play twice a week, instead of having to wait a minimum of 1 year between potential payouts. You're also allowed to buy other lottery tickets in that period of time.

To put things in perspective, of the dozens of people I know who joined startups, almost all of them felt the stock wasn't worth it.
In addition to the great benefits which this article discusses, exercise has also been proven to greatly reduce the risk of depression and Alzheimer's.

My personal opinion is that the 2 best things you can do to improve your own intelligence are to constantly challenge yourself to keep learning, and to exercise daily.

More info:
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/depression/in...
https://www.alz.org/alzheimers-dementia/research_progress/pr...
Disney’s New York Stream Factory
My main experience is with Romania where any such project of encouraging incorporating, giving grants, etc are just excuses at spending money, badly. I would make these illegal. Perhaps other governments are better at managing money.

Maybe even in a place where things don't work very well the state can still manufacture startups because these companies will get the red carpet from every other institution. They are not representative of the overall economy.
Is data validation and permissions/authorization easy to do client-side?

That was my main concern when I was looking into firebase a while back. Just wondering if the situation has improved.
Discussion around the matching bullish take: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21053405
War profiteers make money not by looting enemy cities, stealing their land, and selling their women into slavery, but from their own government spending.
Orange County, CA. I would actually prefer San Diego if you are looking but my folks live close by.
Acute and chronic stress causes, among other things, increased risk for high blood pressure and holds key roles of inflammation and the immune system. Cortisol is even involved in increasing cholesterol. Stress management is a very real part of any heart disease recovery.

For diabetes: https://spectrum.diabetesjournals.org/content/18/2/121 and https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1425110

Stress has a major effects on metabolic activity, weight gains, effects hormones and is generally a problem in managing glucose levels. Stress management a key part of diabetics health plan.

In general there is few things as deadly to a human as chronic stress and that is what a lot of studies in longevity shows.
Pro rata [1] is pretty standard [edit: at least in early stage startups], so investors typically have the option to maintain their level of ownership by putting money into the round. Everyone else gets diluted. I think in practice investors only get diluted if they actually want to. I'm not sure how often pro rata is extended to founders, but I would guess it's pretty common.

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2017/09/13/how-pro-rata-works-in-vent...
Japan always had a culture of excellence, they put their heart and soul into their jobs. They also don’t see any job as irrelevant or secondary class.

That’s why even executives will clean up their desks and offices, something Americans wouldn’t even know how to start.

Deming might have introduced electronics but the quality was always about the religious way they tackle their jobs.
Yes! In the article, we mentioned that we were considering collectible avatars to include into the game.

Some out-of-the-box ideas include extending our Spotify integration to audio channels so people can collaboratively play music together.
Pretty sure it doesn't stack up to Amplify + AppSync: https://aws-amplify.github.io/docs/cli-toolchain/graphql#aut...
The timesheets have to be digitally signed, printed out, and faxed. Because sanity is totally optional.
I don't read it as saying it's literally worthless. Large payouts happen rarely enough that if you want what most people want, you should make the decision for reasons other than maximizing your worth. Assume it's $0 for decision making purposes, and be pleasantly surprised if it isn't. (read literally, this would be an oxymoron)
Linus personally has really strong opinions about breaking userspace, but the Gnu/Linux distributions do not. Heck, when I installed Inkscape from the Debian 10 repositories, copy and paste wasn't working because they decided to remove python-uniconverter due to bugs.
don’t forget active denigration of anything but so-called “real jobs.” though i suppose denial and anger are the first two stages of grief
So, a cable television franchise has special protections enumerated in state and federal law.

They use this as a guise to provide internet, while only being responsible for the tv portion.

Additionally, the FCC has specific rules which exempt cable modems from regulation at the municipal level, which is why you see fiber convert back to DOCSIS to attach a cable model at the end.
Eh, not really. I could be risk-taking but self aware enough to know I am a far better engineer than businessperson. I'd join a company and dive into an experimental projects that might fail or get me a huge bonus. Or I might....join a startup!
I was trying to talk in laymen terms, not everyone knows poker lingo. Exactly, either Postle has superhuman mind reading skills or he gets info from outside. It's not certain whether he knows exact hands, maybe it is just "AHEAD/BEHIND" which can be really easy to pass along.
My gas bill. Paying them electronically involves a third-party, which charges a fee. It's easier for me to simply write a check. That's 12 checks a year.

The same goes for my real estate taxes, which have a 2.2% convenience fee, as well as a transaction fee. That's four checks a year.
“Being healthy is healthy... more at 11”
Wikipedia disagrees with you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_shot
Hmmm

https://www.agriland.ie/farming-news/revealed-factory-feedlo...
life-long learning - worth mentioning the work by well known CMU researchers:

Tom Mitchell, Never-ending learning (2015): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/pubs/NELL_aaai15.pdf

Sebastian Thrun, Life-long learning (1995) https://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub1/thrun_sebastian_1995_1...

Also this seminar at Stanford on Lifelong Machine Learning(2013): https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~eeaton/AAAI-SSS13-LML/#Schedule
Elon Musk’s plan for sending people to Mars is probably a suicide mission
Because most people on this forum live in a bubble when it comes to computer literacy and the average population is really, really bad at it, you won't get them into coding when they're already failing at tasks you'd need for a basic white-collar job.

Telling blue-collar workers to learn to code is in their analogy like telling them to be rocket-scientists. If they could, they probably wouldn't be blue-collar in the first place.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21037674
They also mention in another post that four different contractors gave up on migrating it, three targeting Cocoa and one Qt. Maybe the codebase is brittle and hard to work with and not really worth the effort.
Modular click chemistry libraries: functional screens using diazotizing reagent
L4 starts at 2-5 years out of school, and ends 5-30years out of school.
Not quite. The article claims that the health of various organs affect each other. Is it really so obvious that cardiovascular health improves the brain?
I can't speak to Apple specifically, but a refund request and a chargeback are different things. If you receive an unexpected charge, you may request a chargeback without even realizing what is happening. It's not exactly incumbent upon you to spend time with a CS rep. trying to work out why they charged you for something they shouldn't have. The most common cases I've heard are around compromised accounts, regardless of which party was responsible.
This was a developer that didn't even bother moving to Cocoa yet
> Conservative as in resistant to change

...but this article is about them making a change to their marching band rather than leaving it be as it has been for years?
"We" are makers of Xabber, a popular XMPP client for Android. It had gotten a bit stale lately: a few years ago we figured out that XMPP improvement should start on the server-side, so we diverted all our resources towards creating a set of protocol and implementation it on a server, an alpha version of which was released last month, it has a built-in an insanely great web version of Xabber, which likely offers the best XMPP UX ever, on any platform. We also plan to release an iOS version of Xabber soon - this month or next.

Our protocols are public, and we plan to submit them to XSF, once we're done translating them from our native language. Hopefully, these XEPs would be supported one day by other clients. We believe they are crucial for XMPP future.
The startup can get you hired at bigcorp at a higher level than if you joined and crawled up the ladder. This is never mentioned when discussing comp comparisons.
Bizarre Eocene dasyatoid batomorph reveals new, extinct body plan for stingrays
I'm pretty sure a lot of the "improvements" in price attributed to international trade over the last ~4 decades have more to do with the lowest end of the current product range simply not existing before, i.e. the worst versions of a product are worse (and cheaper) than the worst version that was available decades ago. Those products take over—for reasons that may include consumers legitimately preferring them but also probably includes difficulty consumers have finding reliable information about products other than price—and the nicer version that used to be the norm might actually get more expensive as new market segments develop and production scale drops.
This reads as if there could be an alternative title: “Multi-story city buildings should include stairs.”
Ent · an Entity Framework for Go
AltStore – Alternative App Store for the iPhone
Sort of yeah. Your cardiovascular system provides oxygen to your brain, which, it needs to function properly. A weak cardiovascular system provides less oxygnated blood and has to work harder than a stronger healthier one to get the same amount of oxygen to the brain. When your brain is deprived of oxygen, your thinking quality decreases.
CATV originally meant community antenna television, and was a ‘shared’ coaxial line that allowed multiple users to share an antenna in order to receive over the air broadcasts.

Now it is a legislative construct, used to bypass consumer protections.
So the moon stirred the biosoup in a way only an earthmoon sized moon could? And then life formed?
> -542 before it was locked. That's incredible.

You're right, I just want to point out for those that aren't aware, this is on stack exchange's meta site. The rules for voting are different, downvotes are more likely than on stack overflow.
It's unrealistic for middle age blue collar workers in America to learn Spanish/Russian/Mandarin/Japanese, assuming that they have no prior experience or exposure to these languages. Learning a natural language is a lot harder than learning a programming language.
Thor’s Stone, Thurstaston Common
I see very few “drivers of economy”. This site is a testament to the concentration of wealth and high paying work in very few places. I say the US needs a governmental works program for literally every locality. Something to drive infrastructure through the last mile everywhere. Everyone having decent (doesn’t have to be “great”) pay would curb many societal ills.

One option is remote work for governmental programs. It may even need to include a counter propaganda system similar in numbers to what other governments are employing to prop up internet trolls.
The most relevant paragraph in the entire article comes (almost) at the very end:

"Dr. Repple says he and his colleagues are planning experiments to test whether and how various exercise programs affect fitness and the brain in people of different ages."

The reported study just documented correlations, so it gives no indication whatsoever on whether there are any causal effects at all.
I love when my watch tells me to go out for a walk at 11:30 at night in the middle of a thunderstorm.
Just open multiple windows in electron and you're there!
Very interesting story.

Totally unrelated, but when I was 20 I witnessed a friend of mine hit a curb while riding his crotch rocket at over 110mph. He flew for a good 75 to 100 feet in the air and landed on very-long (uncut) damp grass. Concrete surrounded the small portion of grass (located between the sidewalk and the parking lot). Anyways, he was knocked out, life-flighted, and I thought he was surely dead. He ended up with nothing more than a bruised rib, released 12 hours later. Oh, and a totaled motorcycle + life-flight bill :).

When the cops came to try to gather evidence of street racing or other type activities we pulled the routine of "yeah we didn't see what happened - was looking the other way unfortunately, officer". He had suffered enough for that episode.
Seems like there should be a better way.
Why in hindsight? It was a compat layer for essentially adapting OS 8/9 software for OSX.

It was deprecated in 2012. In 2017 with High Sierra they announced that carbon apps would require changes to work at all.
Happy Anniversary! :)
Unless DEA hasn't bothered to update their website, they still require prescriptions for scheduled drugs to be on paper or via fax. If they actually cared about security (which they don't; nobody in the US government does with the possible exception of the NRC) they'd only allow electronic prescriptions signed by an accredited CA.
We could have a social safety net, but if the reporting and polls are to be believed, many of those in these collapsing industries have tended to vote for those trying really hard to dismantle what social safety nets we have. Let alone implement new ones. I imagine that is because candidates promised to save their jobs. But no one thought to ask, “what happens if they don’t?”
> The fact is, you claimed X11 with Gtk/Qt wasn't "sane", because sane platforms like win32 "will still remain around even if it wont get updates as doing otherwise".

"...as doing otherwise will break all the applications that rely on that tech that people bought and rely on". Do not remove the important bit.

Also i wasn't only referring to Win32 as Win32 does get updates, though they are minimal.

> Gtk2 and Qt4 are still around and up-to-date packages are available for all major distros.

For now. But as i already wrote several distros like Debian (and thus any that depend on it) and Arch are planning on removing it (just like they did Qt3, Qt2, etc). I already wrote that, why are you responding as if i didn't already addressed the issue here?

> And your last paragraph sounds like you don't really know what you want. Do you want old applications to run exactly as is (which is solved by bundled dependencies), or do you want their developers to update them forever for decades and decades (which is solved by abandoning old toolkits)?

It only sounds like i don't know what i want because you see only "which is solved by bundled dependencies" and "which is solved by abandoning old toolkits" as the only possible solutions. I didn't brought those up because they are the only possible solutions, i brought those up to explain why they are bad solutions (something i'm not going to repeat, i already wrote that).

Another solution, which i have repeated multiple times, is for the libraries to not break backwards compatibility. If the libraries do not break backwards compatibility then you can simply link against them dynamically, rely on them being there and provided by the OS (or at least ask for them and expect the OS to be able to provide them) and you wont need to bundle anything (the library is provided by the OS) nor worry about breakage (the application will keep working because the library wont break).

I mean, it isn't rocket science, it isn't dreamland, it is something already happening in both Windows and Linux to an extent. On Windows is the USER32.DLL et al, on Linux is the C library, libX11, libGL, etc. What i'm saying is to extend this to the libraries that also provide a full UI, not just the lowest levels.

> Finally, none of this even touches the fact that your "sane" win32 platform has incompatibilities too and there are many, many old win32 apps that doesn't run in modern versions of Windows.

Yes, there are incompatibilities but Windows is still trying to be backwards compatible and for the most part it succeeds in doing so. I have a lot of older software that work perfectly fine under Windows 10, either by themselves or via minor tweaks. Any incompatibilities that are the aren't because Windows developers didn't try, it is despite their efforts.

On the other hand incompatibilities with Gtk, Qt and now macOS are there because their developers explicitly and intentionally decided to break their APIs. They do not even try (Qt would have a hard time due to it being a C++ API, but Gtk has no excuse).
Install NES Emulators and Alternative iOS Apps with AltStore
My toaster growing up was a wedding present, for my grandparents. It still works.
Thanks! Not sure - but I really think more communication and collaboration products should try out more out-of-the-box engagement features like games.
Probably cheaper to localise.

Rather than having to do X front panels, you just put all localisation data in a config file and be done with it.

And yes, I would much prefer actual pushbuttons.
My last apartment complex was the same way. They looked at allowing people to pay electronically; but, that would mean passing on the credit card charge to residents. The first apartment complex I lived in, which allowed you to pay by credit card, charged 3.3% to do so.

If I save $40 by writing a check, I'll write a check.
The West Is Open for Dirty Business
Good luck getting most of the crowd here to understand this perspective. I applaud your attempt at encouraging people to stop and think about things, but most people here seem to have grown up well protected from difficult things and think that if they try hard enough all pain and struggle can be removed from the path of humans through time.

I just finished my chicken slaughter for the season; it being fall up in the Northern Hemisphere. I did my best to make sure the chickens didn't suffer too much, but killing is not a perfect science. I do know that they were really well taken care of compared to the wild birds around us for the last three months.

I would never wish Guinea worm on anyone. I have first-hand experience with worm-based parisites and the pain/suffering they bring. It's awful. But life is a cycle, and belief in eradication of anything as a solution to suffering is, I believe, evil in it's truest sense.
Here's another 64-byte demo by the same hacker.

https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=78044

I saw it discussed on Lobsters.

https://lobste.rs/s/lpnlyd/tiny_64_bytes_ms_dos_ray_tracer
Google is just AltaVista with a slightly better algorithm. It wasn't the first search engine nor the first to offer ads on search or on the web. It just won the market and it was just as inevitable as Uber is. I even know a guy who was analyzing backlinks to rank search results before Google's PageRank paper.

I do not know the context of Ford.
Good for you, but other people want their computers to do work for them with the applications they want to use.