skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of thing makes sense in Manhattan. Manhattan is relatively tiny, and it is dense, and there is workable public transit. A subway system with stations every quarter mile or less does wonders.

It just doesn't extrapolate to anywhere else in the country particularly well. Even Boston is a shit-show without cars, and that is another dense, old, East Coast city with legacy public transit, albeit much less well designed.

It's a complete non-starter most places.
It maybe be cheaper to pay him out then to fight him in court.
You don't need to cash out. Just build a life where you can take sabbaticals often. That's what I've done. It let me raise both my kids, one to college age, one almost there, on my own.
As far as I know a "character" is a number in a character set. "A character is a character because it's a character" doesn't make any sense, at least not in the context of a programming language. A character is a character because it maps to a letter or glyph, and that requires a specific encoding.

The Bel spec contains the following:

2. chars

A list of all characters. Its elements are of the form (c . b), where
c is a character and b is its binary representation in the form of a
string of \1 and \0 characters.

In other words, even in Bel a character is still a "number" in a character set encoding. The "binary representation" isn't mentioned as being a specific encoding, which means it's assumed to be UTF08 or ASCII.

Also, Bel does have numbers, apparently implemented as pairs. Go figure.
Can confirm. I was doing flash game development when flash "died." One of the guys I worked with created the Flex compiler. He told me Adobe had a seriously bad combination of brain drain and code ossification. The motto on the flash team was "don't break the internet."

For years, they were terrified of making any changes, especially ones that might break backward compatibility. This lack of ability to change anything meant their brightest never stuck around very long. This only made those who were left even more terrified to make any changes because the institutional knowledge was gone. It's a vicious cycle.

By the time they realized they had to make serious changes and started work on stage3d, they didn't have the expertise necessary to pull it off.
Ask HN: Why Is HN Obsessed with WeWork?
You can create encrypted git repos, very nice
Unity is not a particularly lightweight thing, and flash wasn't just for games. Its main use was animations / banners and video .

> If you were to give people the same flash games now, they'd find them ridiculously lame.

Some of the most popular social games are like farmville, or some poker games. those are really equivalent of flash
It'd be nice if some of the airplanes scattered around the wreck could be raised and preserved.
WASM will eventually catch up to the glory days of Flash and far surpass them. It will be amazing.
> I wrote my best lines of code high, drunk, and listening to Led Zeppelin.

I just don't find writing code a "write drunk, edit sober" task. It's just not an art in that way.
Yes, they certainly have their own supply chain issues, but at least they still tightly control it.

Even if product quality might vary (or even different items under the same upc), the product is never (ime) misrepresented, and I've never had any concern about getting a counterfeit.

Expecting 100% consistency.... Thats probably going to be a disappointment.
That's the one! This early stuff gives me chills man - I'm so into it. Pioneers of a new era =)
Not of SoftBank, but of WeWork (looked it up: chairman of the board, holding lots of shares). If SoftBank wants free reign to "fix" WeWork as they think is best, they need to buy him out or otherwise convince him that it's in his best interest to let them.

EDIT: not majority of shares/voting power, he gave that up when stepping down
Flash developers were responsible for a lot of heinous interface experiences that informed every rule of good UI and resource efficiency.
Most phone apps don't actually have any real purpose other than time wasting. The primary useful functions of a phone are the camera, phone calls, IM, navigation, and calendar. Almost all of these functions can be done on this OS other than maybe IM depending on what you do so I would call this functional.

You would probably find your days more productive and enjoyable if your phone didn't support the general garbage people install.
It was fake. The USB-C connector didn't even sit flush with the port and wiggled around.
Aren't Android One devices even better (including some Nokias)?
I couldn't stand the lack of bookmarking, history, back and forward buttons, the use of sounds and music, and lack of ability to view source.
Stop leaks in what process? Fracking or oil and natural gas production?

Do you have some evidence that more methane is being released into the atmosphere during the weeks of fracking than during the years of production?
Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan all have their own ISO 3166 codes and users there are unlikely to accidentally set the region to CN, since the difference between simplified and traditional characters is quite obvious.
I tried installing PMOS 5 on a nexus 5 and it seemed a long long way away from being usable.
Not sure on how recent but I picked it up about a year ago. Looked into the Celeron ones and although they're impressive I decided to go with something that's a bit beefier due to how many containers I planned to run/experiment with =)
I have also noticed a decline of book quality since a few years ago. I'm not a frequent buyer but I noticed that two books that I purchased were either not clearly cut or have ALL characters badly printed. Both were purchased directly from Amazon.

I'm really reluctant to purchase any $50+ technical books from Amazon nowadays. I mean it does have some decent discount but the probability to get a low quality book is too high.

Ironically, third party second-hand book sellers (listed on Amazon), especially the ones with many sales, seem to be quite decent and I have yet to encounter one bad case.
> If I try to view this from a non-technical persons viewpoint, this shift has been transformative, really. Most folks don't care if their data has been transcoded a million times as long as its still useful and easily accessible.

Until they try to print their photos for the family album and discover that pictures taken by their high-end camera or an expensive iPhone were degraded by successive transcodings to the point they look like garbage in print, and at that point there's no way to fix it.

> This has protected a ton of businesses and users from being at the mercy of their IT team.

And put them at the mercy of third-party vendors. It's a trade-off, but having a local IT team has its benefits.
WeWork Planned a Residential Utopia. It Hasn’t Turned Out That Way
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Why is it different? That sounds like it could be exactly what mariomariomario described.
that misses the point. If its slow and laggy, user is not going to use it and laptops are going to become portable heaters. This is exactly what webRTC does

> obviously it's going to improve over time

When? webrtc is like 10 years old. How long we have to wait to go back to 1999?
From the tweets by the authors, the current situation is the bad seller is amazon.com. This is apparently not a commingling problem. Amazon is sourcing illegal counterfeit products directly.
I think it's more likely that people don't know or think about updates.
For a look at just how hands on early motoring was, check out this article about Kipling and cars (he was an enthusiastic "early adopter"): http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_steamtactics_kipearly.htm
Reading this really does sound like the early days of computing (or as I imagine from reading about it).
The earth is 1 trillion km^3 in volume. I don't get your problem with using 0.00000000003% (that 1000 year estimate of waste from earlier in the thread) of that to store nuclear waste so that we can stop pumping 32.5 billion tons of CO2 into the air every year.
Honestly, that's a fireable offense. Who knows what untold damage that kind of ignorant mentality has caused to the company codebase.
I think you have jumped to a conclusion here: blood doping isn't about drugs.
Yes, because enough content hosts absolutely refuse to make their content available without DRM, and enough users are willing to switch browsers to one that will show that content, that even Mozilla finally gave in after years of fighting against it. In the end they were afraid that they'd lose enough users that they wouldn't be able to continue the project any more. https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...
>There's this phenomena where anything invented before you turn 10 is just part of the natural order of things, anything between 10 and 30 is a great new opportunity that you might be able to make a career in, and anything invented over 30 is a threat to the natural order of things that must be resisted at all costs.

As a 26 year old working in the tech industry, I see lots of newer tech around that I'd say is threatening, and I have for several years now. Though I suppose I'm probably in the minority. :)

The trend of technology today seems to be towards more centralized ownership of everything we interact with, when the platform providers can get away with it.

20 years ago you would buy a book and it was yours. You obviously still can now, but if you buy an ebook from Amazon, they can take it back from you. (Or if you poorly chose to buy an ebook from Microsoft... well, they all stopped working recently.)

IBM, though never a bastion of openness, had a very detailed repair manual[0] for the original IBM PC. Sure, modern machines don't have nearly as many user-serviceable parts, but in many cases today you'll find legal and technological barriers to repair in place of even the most basic of repair manuals.

It's a trend that's hard to fight, and opting out means sacrificing a lot of convenience, but I try all the same.

[0] http://classiccomputers.info/down/IBM/IBM_PC_5150/IBM_5150_H...
The Tubbs Fire was probably not caused by PG&E equipment.

You're right, and if you take a look at what I wrote I did not mention the Tubbs Fire. Plenty of folks have died at the hands of PG&E, and I mistakenly added a link to it however.
Their people could get arrested while vacationing here.
USDA.gov Backlinks to Adult Sites
I was looking to see how some websites get .gov backlinks - most are legit, but for usda.gov I noticed a few adult sites.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LI0ouRcTxHrWF67s6KZxCpKq74aBavCu/view?usp=sharing

On a scale from 1-10, how much does this impact an adult site's organic rankings?
In my experience Flutter does make getting a simple mobile app running quickly easy. It's not a drag and drop experience but the programming model is such that it doesn't take much code to get something interesting.
Typical modern American house has at least 3 bathrooms: downstairs, upstairs master bedroom for parents, upstairs shared for kids. Downstairs ”in-law” room with private bathroom or washer/dryer closet with toilet gives you fourth.
> Flash sites were to my knowledge static layouts, the very opposite of responsive design. That is a big industry shift that Flash never made.

Adobe Flex did data-driven responsive design just fine. It was the popular framework before es5 and html5 made it obsolete.
After 25+ years as a SWE in the SV, I realize that layoffs are a part of business as usual. Some companies do it regularly while hiring at the same time (often abroad these days), some do it more often than others, but whenever there is a hiccup, the easiest way to demonstrate "leadership" is to let some folks go. I've survived many "restructurings" on the inside (true, morale suffers, especially when the procedure is botched), and a few times being a part of it. It wasn't hard for me to find another job earlier in my career.

Now, having worked for more than a dozen years at the same Co., and being over 50, I found that getting a job is much, much more difficult. Finally, after _many_ months of actively interviewing, I've landed a position. The funniest part is, after a few short months the entire department has been laid-off. So I'm back on the hunt - only now it's even harder for some reason. I suspect that my last work experience is triggering some ATS filter.

Thankfully, I was able to save a few bucks earlier. Meanwhile, taking classes, playing with Leetcode, etc. "Nothing personal, strictly business" as they say.
This may be UK specific, but as Vice chair of the New Digital division of Prospect the quick version is:

Recongnition is where a union has a formal agreement to negotiate collectively either by mutual agreement or via the legal process (similar to the us system)

However unions will still represent members individually I have done so in the past.

The union that has the majority of technology workers who are union members is Prospect - this is tech in the widest sense.
Seeing that 80%+ of iOS users update to the latest OS within the first 3 months according to Apple’s charts, why would you think that if Android users could update they wouldn’t?
I have. He was ... a person of generally questionable life choices. Great developer and a true pleasure to work with though.
Costco is seldom cheapest, but you can be confident that it will at least be competitive and they only sell quality products.

If you enjoy shopping around and comparing pricing, it's not the best option. But if you just want to buy a product and know you won't be ripped off, you can shop there and never have to think about it. That allows people who don't enjoy shopping to save a lot of time and mental energy.
The lesson from CAHSR is that the California government was too incompetent to be able to handle something that many governments around the world handle just fine.

How do you get incompetence from being sued at every turn by people trying to micromanage the CAHSR project? The trump approach of ruling by fiat doesn't work in the real world.
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Actually here's a imgur image: https://imgur.com/a/j9YjClB
The majority of their properties are very new so losing money is expected. If older properties are making money and new properties will eventually turn into older properties then they are, potentially, fine.
Trump didn’t derail the project as originally envisioned. He tried to kill it after the governor declared that the project that had originally been pitched to the federal government had become infeasable.

So what you're saying is that trump is trying to kill CAHSR? Got it.
The title is interesting because it purports to cover the areas of math relevant to CS and ML. So I took at a look at the topics covered, and my impression is that they were chosen by a generalist mathematician rather a specialist in each of the areas -- in optimization for instance, some of the topics would not be developed or weighted in quite in this fashion in a state-of-the-art course. Other subtopics serve purely theoretical interests -- either too theoretical or lack sufficient depth to be useful to the practitioner or the earnest researcher. I fear this may mislead some into thinking that the topics proposed are the primary ones in each area of study -- I would be wary of using this a trunk of a semantic tree to build knowledge on.

There seems to a lack of mathematical unification in the work except perhaps these were a collection of topics that were of interest to the author(s).

I want to say this could be a good handbook, but handbooks (e.g. engineering handbooks) are usually collections of pieces written by specialists in each subfield. I suspect that by attempting to cover such a large chunk of the mathematical landscape, some things may have been lost in the treatment (except in topics that the authors are specialists in). Still, it is a good effort and I congratulate the authors on the ambitious attempt but would advise readers to consult texts written by experts in each subfield to get a sense of what topics are important and what are not.
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Link to the tweet that claims Amazon are themselves buying counterfeits from suppliers? Are you sure you’re not misunderstanding the situation re: comingling?

It’s precisely because of commingling that, just because you buy a book “Shipped From and Sold By Amazon” you have no guarantee that the book they ship to you was actually bought and entered into their inventory by them. Their books and every other “fulfilled by Amazon” sellers’ are treated as completely fungible by their fulfilment centres.

“Ships From and Sold by Amazon” doesn’t really mean anything re: the actual book you receive, which could easily be one that came into their system from Bob’s Big Store of Counterfeit Bullshit.
Nope, that's an older version than http://math.mit.edu/~dspivak/CT4S.pdf . The date you see under the title is the date when the file was last compiled (which is done automatically by arXiv every once in a while), because arXiv is still too stupid to redefine \today when compiling files. The date in grey on the left margin of page 1 is the right one.

The proper new version has been published by MIT press in 2014 and can be downloaded from the usual places where books can be downloaded.
> Not a bad thing, but once I learned some of those basics, I no longer had fun toying around with animations and creating, and instead spent my time writing classes and functions. It became a lot harder to 'hack' things together, and, for me, less fun.

I don’t disagree with that but I think it needs to be in the larger context of Adobe being bad at almost everything related to platform support. Their APIs were not well-considered; consistency happened at other companies; the tools were expensive, poorly designed, buggy, and basically unsupported (“The Flash IDE crashes when I do X”. 10 months pass. “Pay $800 for the upgrade and let us know if that fixes it ”), and performance/battery impacts always lagged behind the native alternatives — all of which sucked the fun out of the creative process as you had to take time away for pure drudgery working around Adobe’s slacking.

If at any time they’d invested 10% more on quality and basic software engineering they wouldn’t have had all of their customers looking for alternatives. As we saw, that can be more profitable for a short period but catches up hard.
syncthing, sublime text and marktext would be my favourites, but you can get them on every other platform so I don't really think of them as Linux apps

some of my fav linux only apps would lutris for managing your steam and gog library from a single gui

neofetch is a nice way to get a fancy readout of your system specs
https://github.com/dylanaraps/neofetch

also just reading about ansible the last few days and i can see that becoming an instant fav for quickly setting up my computers. if I can get my head around it that is
Author Q&A on the Book Software Estimation Without Guessing
I would also argue that #2 was already being said 7 years ago. Further, growth is not always constant growth, let alone exponential growth. It may plateau, and then grow again further down the track after other problems (eg storage) are solved.
"this film features the song "Daisy" sung by a computer, a plot point that would feature heavily in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey."

The mentioned Bell Labs film is apparently from 1968, but it seems that the Daisy song inspired Clarke already in 1962 and 2001 was already made before that film and released in April 1968:

https://kottke.org/06/04/hal-daisy-2001

"In 1962, Arthur C. Clarke was touring Bell Labs when he heard a demonstration of a song sung by an IBM 704 computer programmed by physicist John L. Kelly. The song, the first ever performed by a computer, was called “Daisy Bell”, more commonly known as “Bicycle Built for Two” or “Daisy, Daisy”."
I'm sure. It's just become so normal to doubt every aspect of a product, that it's strange to have some element of consistency.

Of course the label of origin still isn't likely to match what was on the product page. But that's almost a plus in helping to ID fakes.
The business press is obsessed with WeWork. That is, there is a story about it almost every week in Bloomberg Businessweek and The Economist. So it is always on my mind.

I see television news at the gym, I know CNN and Fox News are obsessed with president Trump. "Big 3" network news is more "fair and balanced" in that they add a story about puppies now and then -- and yes, they send reporters into the field and not have to warn viewers with an ALERT whenever the camera leaves the studio. They have things to talk about that are not WeWork.

CNBC probably talks about WeWork more.
Banning the sale of != banning the thing itself.

If the goal was a massive reduction, not total elimination, I think it would work.

Would many people really go to the black market to get sugary Coke when the supermarket has shelves of Diet Coke available?
> Amazon knows which seller sent in the inventory for every order, so they know to punish the right seller when a complaint comes in.

Huuuuge citation needed.

It’s precisely because of comingling that they don’t have the ability to do this: they put multiple sellers goods, including their own, in the same storage bins, provided they have the same UPC. By what means do you suggest they can distinguish Seller A’s widget in Bin 37624 from Seller B’s? They do not appear to attach any additional tracking stickers to their goods.

And they do not have a formal system for complaining about counterfeit goods. They don’t even offer it as a distinct option on returns — probably quite purposefully. All you can do is request a return for some vaguely-related reason and manually add a note about it being counterfeit. They’re clearly not attempting to automate identification of bad goods, let alone removal of bad actors.
Thank you. I've received some of those too, a small package of pencils for example shipped from China, and I agree those are probably that scam. The key is that the product is of incredibly low value.

This doesn't match though the higher value items, costing dozens to low hundreds of dollars, which I've inexplicably received, and which seem to be related to random things I've done recently that are unique. Those shipments I feel reasonably are bizarre and unusual and otherwise reasonable explanations of scams just don't explain them.
Because the personal loans were made by JP Morgan and they are probably making SoftBank do this so they help secure the $3 billion in debt. I imagine the that the plan will involve wiping out Neumann. His properties will probably all be liquidated and then SoftBank will pay off what remains.
Because SoftBank wants additional control of the company. In order to get that, they need more stock. Stock than Neumann owns. So they'll pay him for it.
It's worse than that...they provide a reload button even that does absolutely nothing, requiring you to manually reload the page. With all the money they've spent on engineering, it's mystifying why their system is such a dumpster fire.