skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been sort of half-assed working on a novel about a post-tech future (100+ years after apocalypse), where a handful of people retained some technology by virtue of having stored information about it in a manner that survived and a tradition of scavenging and trading and a sort of religion based on maintaining it in a working state. So, this is a fun read and thought experiment, even if an 8-bit computer is probably not my highest priority when thinking of "when the shit hits the fan, as seems more likely today than it did five years ago, what do I want to have in my survival kit?"

One of the questions I keep coming back to for such a scenario, and still haven't come up with a great answer for, is how does someone living in a world without the ability to manufacture a computer still have computers that work 100+ years after the last one was made? Even manufacturing transistors without modern methods is non-trivial. Will a Z80 last 100+ years? I mean, maybe, if it's kept dry and not exposed to anything corrosive. I've got a Commodore 64 that's ~40 years old and still works...so, 100 years seems reachable, but there have to be extenuating circumstances to get to that "post-tech" world (though I guess in a post apocalyptic world, the value of computers would be seen as minimal for a few years while survival is the only concern, so just forgetting could be enough).
It's a very interesting place - the people are welcoming and friendly (well YMMV, but if you are willing to listen and understand the local challenges and culture - then you will have a good time).

Food security is a challenge for people who do live here, due to the general high-costs. Interesting fact - at one point in time, Amazon Prime shipping to Iqaluit was 2-3 times the national average for Canada (and that probably increased with their purchase of Whole Foods - items, which may be most expensive through Amazon for the rest of Canada can often be cheaper than purchased 'locally') - https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/iqaluit-amazon-prime-1....

The landscape is beautiful (personally, I am a sucker for mountainous/rocky terrain and ocean) - it is above the Arctic circle, so - no trees! The weather is currently really nice - a little rainy today, but no snow - the big freeze hasn't happened yet. Myself, I find that even during winter months, the cold is not unworkable - as technically the local climate is considered a polar desert zone, so the reduced humidity helps.

Myself, I don't live here - but I do come up every 2-3 months, primarily working on Microsoft-stack products and technologies.

Most often, one gets here from a flight from Ottawa - almost 3-hours in duration. (And hey... you still get a hot meal in-flight!) However, it is possible that you might fly in from another territory or community - during the summer there are some flights to/from Greenland.

All data/communications connectivity currently occurs over satellite connections (your flight lands, your phone connects to a local "LTE" network, but that is then bridged back over satellite automatically - no extra charges ;-)) - this can be challenging during weather events, heavy rain, snow or fog can often interfere.

There are plans for undersea fiber, but that will take a few years - the upcoming newer LEO satellite networks will bridge the gap until that arrives.
Introduction to Artificial Neural Networks (For Astronomy)
> When you are reading a text on your phone, you hold the screen at a certain distance from your eyeballs, but when you look at a computer screen—you tend to be further from it to read comfortably. The larger the distance between a retina and the Retina (pun intended), the larger the size of a “CSS pixel” will be.

That is terribly wrong. Actually it just opposite: as further you move your eyes from screen as smaller that "CSS pixel".

Yet the whole idea of that "CSS pixel" is terribly flawed:

> The trickiest one is a so-called CSS pixel, which is described as a unit of length, which roughly corresponds to the width or height of a single dot that can be comfortably seen by the human eye without strain.

"comfortably seen" is an "average temperature of patients in a hospital" - makes no reasonable value at all for particular me.

CSS pixel is exactly this: a 1/96 inch square measured on surface of the screen.
Inside Microsoft, there's a whole database of geopolitically-sensitive issues that have been accrued over the years. You can see all sorts of border disputes and differences in language that you had to take into account when working on global products.

On a related note, now you have movies with different scenes in China.

https://www.syfy.com/syfywire/the_extra_looper_scenes_y

https://kotaku.com/why-many-in-china-hate-iron-man-3s-chines...
I have been programming in Perl since the mid 90s. I still use it every day but in more modern sense with Moo.

I am curious, how do you find clients who need Perl programmers?
macOS 10.15 Catalina: The Art Technica Review
> Campbell is opposed to the reform that would restrict her ability to utilize SEPA appeals in the future.

I suspect a lot of supporters of this change would be willing to drop it in exchange for somehow banning her personally from having anything to do with any future appeals.
I've got two pretty nice food halls within a short walk, but I don't ever go there unless I'm in a group that just can't agree on where to eat. Unlike the place in the article, the vendors at these places seem to have their own hours, but that really hasn't felt like a bad thing since there are always other options when a place is closed. And I think they do have some things that make them attractive.

Pros:

- Groups can eat out together without having to deal with splitting bills on venmo

- Many vendors had established local food trucks before setting up shop, so if I'm craving my favorite curry truck, I don't have to track them down on Twitter and drive to them.

- Kid friendly (dog friendly too), so I can take my family members who have children and know they have plenty of options, even for kids who are picky eaters.

- it's fun to be able to mix little bits of cuisines for a meal (nachos appetizer from Mexican place and sushi entree)

Cons:

- The seating situation is the wild west. Food comes out at drastically different times, so usually one person has to hold a table, which can get awkward as there never seem to be enough tables

- prices tend to be high

- Very loud atmosphere every time I've been there, often filled with teenagers (probably because it's a place a group can gather and hang out without everyone spending money)

I think the problem with the management described in the article can be fixed. I also think there's a big potential for the vendors to run something like this as a co-op.
All teslas come with Autopilot I believe
That was an interesting result from the original Netflix challenge.

First of all it turned out that the winner wasn't actually all that useful for various reasons such as computational intensity.

But, more interestingly, it also turned out that the goals of the model--"best" recommendations--isn't actually the goal of Netflix at all which is much more interested in customer retention and similar metrics. The two things may be correlated but they're certainly not the same thing.

I don't remember all the details but I thought it was a really good insight at the time.
Thanks for getting back to me, I’d make it clearer it’s a series given the title.

Specifically relating to the mood and confidence calendar idea, what benefits have you experienced?
Redesigning Enterprise Resource Planning for the Circular Economy
revelant google searches give me an ancient Greek/Roman diety and an insulin pump.
what's so offensive about those?
Those are issues about treating people humanely and as equals.

This issue boils down to whether people have to work 8 vs. 9 hours for a certain amount of pay, with some paperwork issues piled on top. It matters but there aren't any human rights involved in any meaningful way. The law isn't inherently invalid.
> In a way it's a good thing that China is revealing its petulant nature to the world.

It's probably somewhat risky strategically, but they likely realize they're now strong enough to do such things with absolute impunity, and it will make their eventual victory that much sweeter.
Are workers compensated in proportion to the length of their commute? Is the company able to tell workers how to manage their commute?
Wow, so what does this imply? Is this a coup d'état or just a _request_ for Stallman to cede part of his leadership to more people?
I can only speak for myself, but Larry Niven's wonderfully imaginative stories have influenced my thinking more than any president ever did.
SeeSnap – Photos plus Data = Changing the World
I am a JW. Personally, I wont accept anything that I know of having been derived from blood. That would include the artificial blood mentioned here as it is so-derived (AFAIKT it has red blood cells and platelets).

But, already existing blood volumizers are normally sufficient to save a person who suffered extreme blood loss; restoration of flow is more important than restoration of all the blood contents.
How eight pixels cost Microsoft millions (2004)
The Few Startups with Female Founders Raise More Venture Cash
He quit the FSF and MIT. GNU is not the same thing as the FSF, despite their close ties. He has ascertained he still maintains a leadership role in GNU, and he has quite a contingency of devoted followers who think this is all a witch hunt against him.
I encourage everyone who has not done so to have a closer look at Taiwan's history.

The situation is markedly different from Hong Kong.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiwan#Republic_of_China_rule
> We, the undersigned GNU maintainers and developers, … [18 signatures]

Does anyone happen to of know what fraction of GNU maintainers those 18 names represent? Does this represent a majority of GNU maintainers or a small fraction?
fuck the GNU project. I no longer can take it seriously after the events that have occurred. Disgusting bunch of people.
> I think most people on Hacker-News would know that Taiwan exists

I frequently come across, in America, people who are genuinely surprised that Taiwan is a sovereign state.
How do you prove how long you've held an asset, so the appropriate inflation adjustment can be done?
Sounds like a startup idea.
The series predicted its own demise. A lot of the show's critical focus was on the mistake of TV networks focusing on on-demand demographics (ratings) data to mid-season cancel shows for slight drops (leading to a shorter attention span). It's considered among the first shows canceled due to a short but predictable drop in its ratings, mid-season. A fad show lost to a short attention span (that didn't see the depth below the surface memes).
> Pick any CEO in the top-100 corporations.

The top is about 3.5 millions people. Being one of the top-100 CEOs is very, very different from being a random one percenter.
No problem, the cost of defending the suit plus the cost of potentially more audit means it will just cost more to run the IRS the subsequent year.

If only they could be bankrupted, now we'd be talking. Except they can't cause, like the rest of the government, they get to suck on the teat of infinite yield: people's taxes.
No, according to this article, the 1% continue to pay a larger percent of their income. It is only once you move into the 1% of the 1% that the rate again decreases.
> I have yet to see a physical keyboard

The custom keycap business is booming. It shouldn't be too hard to make a batch of physical keyboards and then a software map to support it. There was just a story last month about some guys standardizing the writing for an African language, including getting its own Unicode set finally, and the Microsoft guys helping to to support it.
Is it because of the consistency guarantees you can get from single threaded operation?

Because it seems like this guarantees that. It mostly parallelizes the command parsing and networking side. The actual core hash table is guarded by a global lock, so you could still get all those single-threaded guarantees.
A small fraction. But an important one. These are some of the biggest names in GNU, like Emacs, libc, gcc, gdb and gpg.
What about all those services like public education, roads, the military, police force, federally funded research, societal stability and so on that government provides which enabled those wealthy people to gain and maintain their wealth to begin with.

And what services did Donald Trump Jr and Ivanka Trump provide the world, or all the other heirs and heiresses of vast fortunes who earned it by virtue of being the scion of someone who actually accomplished something -- or maybe the offspring of the offspring of someone who actually accomplished something?
Taiwan No Longer Exists in iOS?
One aspect of what can be found in the NYT article is a graph that shows the people at the very top of the income pyramid paying a 70% tax rate in 1950. However, there's a nominal tax rate versus what someone actually winds up paying after various deductions an loopholes. An earlier study by the same authors of this latest publication that the NYT is citing indicates that those in the top 1% were paying around 40% in 1950. Based on that, I find the claim that those at the very top paid 70% in 1950 to be highly doubtful. Am I right about this? Well, I guess I'll have to wait a week for this latest book to be published, or until the NYT issues a correction. The earlier study from these same authors, which was cited in the link I posted above, can be found at:

https://academic.oup.com/qje/article/133/2/553/4430651/
Well it’s depends. On desktop OS plain text file method has limitations, for example on macOS it may not work if the name is too long and it ignores leading 0 for conversion which is super annoying. Then there are third party middleware like Open Vanilla which are more customizable and finally there is the solution of using native frameworks which is hellish.

On mobile OS, at least on iOS, developing a keyboard means also creating the layout keyboard and managing its state, so it’s a bit more work than a single mapping text file.

> I can’t find any Inuktitut keyboards on the play Store

I found my next side project haha. I need one for another app I planned to do.
Not really...

You only mentioned IIHS but the Model 3 has been consistent globally on safety test results (Cherry picking?).. Along with NHSTA and IIS in the U.S.

While BMW's crash avoidance systems also failed miserably while the Model 3 aced it the test because of the superior auto emergency braking:

https://twitter.com/tesla_truth/status/1160779803349282818

Tesla Model 3 awarded 5-star ANCAP safety rating in Australia

https://thedriven.io/2019/07/30/tesla-model-3-awarded-5-star...

Model 3 earns 5-Star Safety Rating from Euro NCAP | Tesla

https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-3-earns-5-star-safety-ratin...
Yellowstone National Park’s Sound and Video Libraries
Lets say you save $10,000 and invest it in a stock. It then goes up to $20,000. You are happy to pay taxes on that amount even though next year it might go back down again?
One case where you probably can't is for image uploads. You might think it would be nice to allow a user to upload a svg for their avatar or something.

But SVG can embed javascript which can lead to XSS: https://hackerone.com/reports/148853
Larry vs. Jeff: An Epic Battle Who Controls Salesforce, Coming at Dreamforce
I understand this is a personal matter but I will not accept anything that I know of having been derived from blood.
https://www.kingoapp.com/android-root/devices.htm , I think there will be a few orders of magnitude more devices laying around that are easily jail broken than z80s.
I pay 35% of my net income in taxes, so that the rich don't have to!
Honestly, it could go both ways. It can also be a comforting thought that the world isn't sinister and corrupt, and that people who think it is must have psychological problems. :)

Same disclaimer applies.
TI calculator. Old school game boy.
The peculiar bathroom habits of westerners
Pushing back on China trade is the one and probably only thing I agree with Trump on, and I've wondered if getting rid of Clinton and the TPP wasn't actually worth tolerating Trump being an ass for four years.

All I know is that I'm glad the TPP is dead and I'll be happy if nobody with the last names Clinton or Bush ever sits in the White House again.

I say this as someone who leans more toward the 'woke' side of the present culture wars.
Experiments on Mars cost way more, and small mistakes are likely to destroy the whole colony. Anything we can learn on Earth is much easier to learn here.
I suppose you could interpret it that way. It reads to me more like a statement of values, going forward.
> Why would you hold an investment for 55 years that isn't beating inflation?

The point is that the inflation is getting taxed also. Say inflation is at 2 percent per year over the period, and it's appreciating at 2 percent more than that annually. Then when you pay taxes, the "capital gain" amount includes both the real appreciation and the inflation. So in this example, half of the putative "gain" is actually inflation.
Apple stood up to the US government's requests to decrypt devices but capitulated to China's request to remove an image of another country's flag.

This is scarey.
Always this same comment when anyone points the finger at China.
> see it as a path of least resistance to getting subsidized at the expense of the rich.

If making the tax code more progressive is equivalent to "subsidizing the poor at the expense of the rich", does that mean you're saying the current regressive tax laws subsidize the rich at the expense of the poor?

If so, flipping that sounds entirely reasonable to me.
Yeah this is a key issue. People often think that a Flat-tax rate is regressive because of consumer habits, but what you care the most of all is tax-consumption and tax-benefit, even more than nominal contributions.

A billionarie made with defense contracts and state expenditures deserves a moral argument. But so does a lowly government employee that provides net negative value and collects a paycheck everymonth.
I think there's two types of dead:

1. Dead as in hasn't received an update in years.

2. Dead as in very few people use it for new greenfield projects.
Technologies and competitor features are still not available on the iPhone
I'm a SFH owner in Capitol Hill, and I have 3-4 bus routes options that get me to downtown in ~30 minutes. Subways are cool(!), but not always necessary.

I think there's a balance to be had with high density versus SFH neighborhoods. One example I think is worth considering, do we want to be knocking down turn-of-the-century craftsman and tudor homes? They can bring a ton of character to a neighborhood. In cases where that happens, the 3-story cookie cutter townhomnes or cheap construction material apartments take their place and look outdated in less than a decade.
You are right.

The reality is that the parent poster is homeless because of people like us, who moved to Seattle, to work for 5x the prevailing wage, and have pulled up the cost of housing across the board.
The IRS can audit everyones tax returns via automated algorithms, it is just that those kind of audits are very effective on simple tax returns and very not effective on complicated ones.
They are also the cochroach equivalent of a processor, tough as hell, functional on a ropey power supply and can be used to make a simple 8 bit machine with very few ancillary chips - the reason they ended up in the sinclair zx's.
The inanity of the comparison knows no end... If you think Tesla and Amazon are similar businesses in any way, I have a short-term, tech-enabled, real-estate company to sell you, too.
> The U.S. and others have sold their soul to the devil for $299 flat screen tvs.

This seems to suggest the populace is at fault, wanting and buying cheap gadgets no matter what the consequences are?

In truth, I think most people are simply unaware of the many problems caused both by consumerism, and the moral spinelessness of pretty much all large corporations and how that is brought about by market forces. Even in politics I'd say that there is, besides some malfeasance, also limited understanding of complicated issues. (Remember the congressman asking Zuckerberg how Facebook made any money?)
If it was 100% artificial, I would absolutely accept it, personally. But it would have to be not in any way derived from blood.
1) Slowing is happening and at some point you run out of atoms

2) Usually people mean all of CMOS scaling (ie Dennard Scaling) when they refer to "Moore's law ". Exponential increase in power density is low key useless...
Long Tien Nguyen and Alan Kay's Cuneiform Tablets seem relevant: https://archive.org/details/tr2015004_cuneiform
I didn't know TOEFL was so devious as to make all their test scenarios concern non-binary people or people of indeterminate gender, but then demand you discuss them without also explaining your pronoun choices.

Wait, that doesn't happen. At all.

This is non-issue.
It's an unfortunate down side to poverty to fee like you're being paid too much, but that's just how capitalism works. You shouldn't feel bad if you operate in an ethical manner, and help people with your wealth. Life is also funny in the sense that you can make a bunch of money one year, and then be broke the next, so save money and space for health care... It's not greed, it's survival.

If you weren't making the money, there's always a ton of people that would kill you to be in that place... What you do with the wealth is what will either bolster or hurt your confidence in life.

If you ever feel like you are being paid too much, you can always donate to those that are in need.
Emacs is about the only cross-platform environment I can think of that makes Electron look efficient ;)
Because that's, like, what they want you to think man. :)
What’s new in Apple iOS 13: major updates to apps, Dark Mode, all-new Photos tab
https://hatchingalpha.com/how-to-prepare-for-the-2020-recess...
In China, Tim Cook's name is Xi Jinping.
How would refusing to use requested pronouns be avoiding? In what way could what I said be interpreted to mean refusal?

It's not clear if speaking in passive voice will be acceptable on SE come October 10th.
Non-sustainable business model or no, it is _the_ thing right now. I found this snippet interesting from the article
"When an elderly woman went missing, these four 'junior detectives' sprang into action and saved the day"

"Logan said the group of friends were excited and happy to have found the woman safe.

"We had a party in my tree house eating goldfish and watching TikToks to celebrate," said Makenna."
That seems like a very good argument for taxing wealth.
I had been thinking about similar projects myself. I figure that experience with the z80, 68000, and the 6502 would give someone a platform for hacking for at least the next century. There are some dozens of 68000-like chips in a single car. I/O is as simple as LEDs and toggle switches for the bare necessities, such as bootstrapping other I/O options. Worked for the Altair 8800. From there one could implement morse-like momentary switch input. In these (possibly far-fetched) scenarios, going back to things like ticker tape and printers would make a decent amount of sense. Perhaps spools of wire could be used as "tape" for programs and data, as wire recorders existed before plastic tapes were available. I love seeing how home fabrication is developing, with people making simple silicon in their garage, but there is value to a basic tool chain that doesn't require as much sophistication and supply chains. I truly hope we don't live to see such a world, as the suffering would be immense. That said, I have no idea how complex supply chains can be expected to persist without fossil fuels.