skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So now we are judging what is useful to the entire phone using population by what is useful to you personally?
Was Hitler Exclaiming “Heil Hitler ” Himself When Saluting? (Answer: No)
Thanks I'll look into this, and better examples. :)
I agree but unfortunately in my experience the opposite is true in Texas - newer construction usually has thinner walls with less dampening between dwellings. Windows are usually fine though.
Seems like they could greatly reduce fraud by using RFID stickers to authenticate manufacturer-authorized products.
This was an assigned project, so the idea / implementation was not my own.
The dev / architecture is something I use on most projects I work with though.
We can fix this with blockchain and Rust, right?
I grew up sleeping with a humidifier first in my room and then just some kind of noisy fan. Nowadays I use a Marpac sound machine, like you see in doctors offices sometimes. Kind of a quirky habit but silence feels so... deafening.
Maybe if someone gets a counterfeit copy of “Art of the Deal” the government will shut Amazon down.
Nuclear waste - rather than a non-issue - is a giant issue.

Bigger issue than global warming? It seems that's what environmentalists think.
Yes but sometimes even for companies in their position they say enough is enough to the losses and choose to let them go into administration instead. I'd say its unlikely SoftBank will choose this but it is an option for them.
> What does blocking "on Spotify" mean?

Detecting and blocking those apps from accessing the Spotify servers.

> They're dealt with in the same way, by getting legitimate app stores such as Apple's to take down the pirate apps

Those are modified versions of the official app, violating its copyright. That's not the same thing as blocking a third-party app because it doesn't work the way Spotify likes.

In other words, the app itself is being pirated. That's a completely separate issue from "Spotify Premium features for free".

> Writing about piracy, as TorrentFreak or a Medium blog might do, is not the same as piracy itself. The former is journalism, protected by free speech; the latter is not.

Sure. I thought you were talking about third party apps, since your second paragraph was about third party apps... A pirated official app is piracy itself. A third party app is not piracy.
Eh, magic cards have independent value from the company, and MtG sells them at a fixed price to consumers.

If you want a decentralized TON, get all the investors together and launch a genesis block with the open source code. That’s basically what EOS did.
Literally no phone is suitable for the entire phone population so I am not sure what the point of this comment is. For me and likely many other phone users, uber is not an essential app.
Charts show the key gender gaps that spike Africa’s poverty challenge
And if you use the computer extensively and live in a country where electricity is expensive, you could also be paying for that inefficiency in your utility bill.
> 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.

Yes. Compared with this book, the one semester course "Foundations of Optimization" I took was better balanced and usually deeper.

> I want to say this could be a good handbook

I see it as best as a handbook. So, e.g., if hear about some topic X, want to know more, and find a treatment in this book, then give the book a shot but don't take the book too seriously as the balanced view of an expert.

> advise readers to consult texts written by experts in each subfield to get a sense of what topics are important and what are not.

Yes. And not just for "a sense" but for the actual content. E.g., I would go to some of the books in my professional library for the numerical analysis, linear programming, non-linear programming, regression analysis, Hilbert space, exterior algebra, abstract algebra, Lagrangian techniques, etc. And in the table of contents I didn't see anything on network flows which, considering what else is in that book, is a curious omission.

But, again, in summary, if want to know about topic X that is in the book, then likely give the book a shot, at least for a few minutes.

One more point: For students who want careers in academic research, one reason, likely the most important reason, to study such advanced and specialized topics is as an introduction to some promising streams of research. Well, I'd try to avoid using this book much for that goal and, instead, look for better material from better sources.
They're not fairly consistent, its a genuine misunderstanding of the system that they have to be. UK has a bit of nuclear, a lot of gas and biomass plant, some very useful pumped hydro and sizable interconnects to trade electricity with Europe. Everything is adjusted to match generation to demand. Generation is dynamic - Demand is dynamic. There is no panic when demand or generation changes, its handled.
Generally, it's because the manufacturer is honest and not interested in scamming people, but the middlemen are.
Eventful GHC
User-configurable does sound like a good option, hopefully something we can integrate into the site soon
Are chargers made anywhere else? Even with official chargers (i.e. that came with the new laptop/phone) I don't think I've ever seen a charger that wasn't "Made in China".
How Mercedes-Benz Sets the Bar for Style and Innovation
With the end of flash came the end of the intro splash page.
The Sheldon Conjecture (Too Late for Problems with a Point)
I loved flash games, the only thing I couldn’t stand was the lack of ability to scale the gaming window on most sites, so you’re playing through,what, 320x320, or something so small...

I also hated the anti-flash tech crowd in Silicon Valley. One person I knew ‘Jason’ would get violently angry about flash...

And he was so vehemently opposed to flash, that regardless of his arguments against, he just made himself look like an ass.

Think BOFH or typical NetworkNazi against flash... but he couldn’t succinctly state “why” other than “it’s a piece of shit”. - fuck that guy. (And the other guy who wanted to fight me when I said that apple was going to go to intel based procs...)

Flash was GREAT (from a creative) aside from “give me a bigger damn game screen!”
I don't see why you could not do exactly the same thing with MS Word, or even a properly exported PDF.

And, the added benefit is that it is searchable and can be re-rendered in different formats.

But even if sending obtuse oversized bitmaps to be handled on a tablet did happen to be the best solution, that is really not the point. Her class is not about optimizing itself. Her class is about educating students. Not just about science, but about what goes into collecting data, collaborating, and submitting it in an accessible format.

I think that a high school graduate should be able to understand how to take some arbitrary files, bundle them together in a zip file, and email them to someone. I really don't think this is too much to ask of some aspiring pre-STEM students. And if she bent over backwards to use snapchat and accept assignments in the form of a bunch of screenshots, I think she would be doing them a disservice.
> Fry's Electronics ....

Oh my gosh, I was in my local Fry's last week, and the store was in such bad shape.

It was mid-afternoon on a Saturday, and there were only a dozen cars in the parking lot. So I thought that was strange right off the bat.

We go in, and so many shelves were empty. I wanted to get a new PC power supply, and they had hardly any stock.

We went to a Microcenter later, and it was still a going concern. Chatted with a sales guy who actually seemed to know the products. I think it is the last decent computer store in the area.
tbh Adobe killed Flash after it bought it from Macromedia.
Back by Popular Demand
What are ‘deepfakes’ and how they might be dangerous
Get a second/dedicated freezer.

Juice the limes; mince the onions in a cuisinart. Freeze in 1-4 cup restaurant style containers you can get at any restaurant supply store.

We also bbq 3 racks of ribs, 4 whole chickens, 2 3-pack chicken breasts (about a dozen breasts), 3 packs of chicken legs, and 12 pork chops at once one day every 3-4 months. Use a big spice mix from Costco. Everything is usually organic (pork is often not organic though...butcher told us there simply are not enough organic pork producers in the US.)

We sometimes invite friends and split the finished goods. Drink Costco craft beers and premium wine during prep and bbqing. (It helps to have 2 large grills).

Wrap dinner sized portions for your family size in foil (also sold at Costco of course) label with a sharpie and freeze. Dinners ready for months!
Makes sense. Do you mean deep-dive topic pages on specific events such as the syrian civil war, for example?
It's growing because it's happening in a higher and higher percentage of my orders. Plus based on public knowledge of the issue. 4 or 5 years ago, it took serious searching to find other people talking about it. The last 2 years, it's become fairly well known. And is now common.

Some problematic products, I've ordered a couple dozen times and never gotten a genuine product.

>in the same box?

Yes, multiple times, although probably less than 10. And a couple were supposed single seller items. Didn't matter.

(One case initially got my account flagged and couldn't buy anything else until I sent pictures for proof. One of the only times I've ever had Amazon call me.)

However, the much more common occurrence is variance over separate orders.
What a blast from the past! The first game in the linked archive (Davidson's Zoo Keeper) was my GF's (at the time) first project at Davidson. Firefox under Linux had no trouble rendering it (sound included)!
These are comparative measures - you can make public transit better and faster by making driving expensive and worse, even if public transit doesn't improve.
I you apply membership revenue to operating costs, then all the profit comes from margins on sales.
Agree. They also move items around. So you can’t just zoom to the one item you need, you have to go hunt.
Years ago, I tried using ghostcript to set the attributes of a webpage PDF so that it is like 8k pixels tall and had no linebreaks, but Preview.app would just render it as a single page really zoomed out, and I would have to zoom all the way in. Does it function better now?
You just explained the same problem of waste in the petroleum economy.

Which one is worse?

Nuclear has one destabilizing factor: proliferation. Climate change will kill us more effectively however.
The key phrase is “perceived as being generous” by doing so. All the better if the firm’s reputation would be poor otherwise. Nothing keeps a Glassdoor profile cleaner than paying departing employees well, attached to a gag-rule barring them from disparaging comments.
Thanks! Currently for our MVP just AP News, which we're getting from here: https://newsapi.org/. We're working on perfecting the site with one or two news sources first before expanding to more options. Definitely a good point about articles changing/ getting updated, something we'll be looking into how to address going forward.
Oh I see. That is where I got confused then.
My 2c: learn the methods deeply, pick up the frameworks as needed. Knowing PyTorch or TF well won't make you a good data scientist or statistician.

YMMV
That's the great thing with Dosbox though, it means a consistent experience for what was probably the least consistent consumer gaming platform.
Corporate office cancelled our core server hardware line. I saw the pallets of moving boxes come into the office the night before.

I took the opportunity to upload all of my work to the company servers and close out what tickets I could. Came into work the next day in a suit, trying to maintain some semblance of class.

Hardware development got reduced 66%, myself included.

Saw it coming in the nebulous sense, but the layoffs happened about 6 months before I was ready, since I wanted the last product release on my resume.

Took me almost a year before I found stable employment again. 1/10 would not repeat the experience.
Making is allowed in Bhutan: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobacco_Control_Act_of_Bhuta...

“Smoking areas are permitted in non-public areas of hotels (i.e., smoking floors or smoking rooms) at the discretion of the patron.”

The Holy See banned selling tobacco, but not smoking it. Considering the countries size it had minimal impact. The odd situation was prior to this it had much lower prices so people where buying them inside the Vatican for others. Which created something of a moral hazard.
I dunno about majority internal vs shoplifting but I saw a Kroger internal report once that ~2% revenues lost annually to “loss”. It was not broken down by category, but it was the preface to a 4 hour presentation on employee loss prevention techniques, so I’m connecting dots...
The code [1] along, with this explanation [2] does seem to show that it only happens for devices with the country code set to CN.

[1]: https://github.com/Igalia/webkit/blob/9777baa3db09cad7ed5b2c...
[2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21242628
To all the people that help make this happen: you are truly the heroes the world needs right now. A thousand thanks.
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As do 99% of bicycle manufacturers producing CF frames - the expertise and manufacturing base are primarily in Taiwan, and everyone from Trek to Canyon are sourcing from the same few people. There are some boutique brands still doing lugged carbon builds that may be assembled in the USA with the AL components manufacturer here as well, but they'll be more expensive and worse performing models for the crowd who hasn't moved on from their "steel is real" phase.
I have very vague memories of a game where you played... I think it was a barbarian? I remember the weapon could be upgraded but I don't remember how! The graphics looked basic even for the time.

Any ideas?
Yeah, sorry, those reasons make total sense. But,

> The thought of how pleasant Manhattan would become if only cabs + busses + delivery trucks + ambulances were allowed makes me almost too happy.

was the part that made no sense. Cabs are at least as noisy
and air-quality-deficient as other cars, and there will be a lot more of them if other cars are banned from some large part of Manhattan.

As a pedestrian (which is every day), I've never felt as threatened by cars as I did when I was driving a rental in NYC, which happened only a couple times.
If you liked this story, and haven't yet checked out Jordan Mechner's journals from the mid-80's when he developed Prince of Persia, I highly recommend that you do: https://www.jordanmechner.com/backstage/journals/
Sure. The code is a mess of scripts and initial work on a web interface. It is not currently in a form to release. It began as just an aid to help myself understand what I was studying. To get a sense of the "road map".

I collected the data in a spreadsheet for each text. The columns were "Id, Type, Name, Chapter, Description, Dependencies". Id is the margin reference from the textbook, Type is one of theorem, definition, corollary, etc., Name is for named theorems or definitions, Dependencies is a comma separated list of Ids.

I then had a small Python script that built up a NetworkX [1] representation. Initially I was using Cytoscape [2] to explore the graphs, but then started work on a web interface using dagre-d3 for automated graph layout [3]. This example [4] is very similar to the types of layouts it produced.

I found that a large textbook quickly grows into a big hairy ball, and that it is only useful if you are able to collapse and/or hide nodes intelligently. I.e. show the chapter dependency structure, or look at the sub-DAG involving a selection of nodes. I only got a little way into doing this when I got moved on to other distractions. Shazaam for bird song, or something like that...

[1] https://networkx.github.io/
[2] https://cytoscape.org/
[3] https://github.com/dagrejs/dagre-d3
[4] http://cs.brown.edu/people/jcmace/d3/graph.html?id=small.jso...
What's the ugly part? The article talks about successful and unsuccessful GoFundMe campaigns. Is the ugly part that some deplorables got millions from other deplorables?

I deem the title click bait.
Sounds like a great potential SaaS offering
In so many ways, the dream of computing died with flash.
Kuo: iPhone SE 2 Launching in Q1 2020 with A13 at $399 Price
Breaking the Zuck Buck
The CD ROM problem is interesting - a lot of my favorites were playing around with full motion video back then. We complained about load times even locally and scoffed at the idea discs would ever replace cartridges in consoles.

Might be just the problem that >Gbps internet was searching for.
Is there any way we can stay "updated" on this? I'd be really interested in seeing this!
Not a backyard foundry but this guy is attempting to make a "tangible" RISC-V CPU using "As few programmable chips as possible." he wants to use MSI and LSI chips " so things like buffers, flip flops, and so on. "

More details: http://www.halfbakedmaker.org/blog/lmarv1-1

YouTube playlist
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEeZWGE3PwbansoxKjjMK...
Firefox on iOS simply won’t show me Twitter any more, even in private mode. Always says “something went wrong,” no matter how many times I reload. Oh well, didn’t need it anyway.
Agree, I do.

I feel like the "White Savior Inferiority Complex" quote might explain a bit.
I was replying to the part about whether "you could actually use this as a main phone quite easily."

Some users might "need" Snapchat and Instagram (if we really stretch the meaning of "need"), but not 99% of them. A person who is willing to use old phones is probably more likely to not use those apps. I'm sure that many people wouldn't use them if it made their old phones work better. People who want those other kinds of entertainment apps can still spend money on new phones if they want.
No, it should not. But what if you try some SQL injection to do something nasty?

The modern law system distinguishes between result and intent.
I mean, you've described just about everything from Castle of the Winds to Skyrim (well, maybe not if the graphics were basic.)

If you think of any more of the description, there's a subreddit that's specifically about helping people find obscure games they kinda remember: https://www.reddit.com/r/tipofmyjoystick/
Another good predictor of lawsuit success is what the law says, and in this case it's pretty clear Telegram is in the wrong.
Pita?
Not currently. I would certainly ShowHN if I ever develop it to such a point, but I honestly wouldn't say that this is likely.

Please feel free to run with it youself!
Ditto for fish in Hawaii. We tried both a local “fresh off the boat” market and Costco on the same trip and Costco was definitely higher quality for local caught fish.

Same for salmon and halibut in Anchorage, Alaska.
Google pointed me here: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/9481...
Manifest.ly is designed for this workflow - https://www.manifest.ly/
I've never been in a position where I could financially justify being out of work for 6 months. Even if I theoretically have the savings to do it, growing up poor and intermittently homeless I just can't fathom the idea of spending that savings to live on when I could otherwise be working. When I've been laid off I treat getting my next job as my full time job, and I will spend 8-10 hours a day, seven days a week, either interviewing, networking, or researching companies I might like to work for.

Most recently I took about 6 weeks off between accepting my new job and actually starting it, and even that was extremely stressful on me. I spent most of it being certain that something bad was going to happen and I'd show up on my first day to find out that the job had evaporated.

Ultimately, I think people have different risk tolerances and dispositions for how they handle being out of work- but for everyone who's not independently wealthy it's going to be stressful. When your ability to survive is fully dependent on working, the knowledge of how capriciously it can be removed can be terrifying.
There are privacy improvements.
Lego Recreations of National Instruments Hardware
Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRTfhkiAqPw from Brian Will, where he dissects 4 different code examples. I think one of the examples is also some Java code from Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin.
That is literally the title of the post.
Sure, but that is in no way preferable to a format that scales natively.
> You can buy gifts for people and have them shipped without knowing the address, because the recipient just inputs it after recieving the notification.

Dang, I wish I could do that.
Hey look everybody, AMP is part of a foundation now so it's totally not a power-grab by Google to control more aspects of the web.

We just want everyone's mobile sites to be faster. The only solution of course was to make a restricted subset of rules you have to follow to be AMP-compliant. Don't worry, we'll eventually enable more functionality for certain partner websites, because they've proven to give the best AMP-approved experiences.

Isn't that great - that Google will decide what functionality is allowed for your mobile users? Oh did I say Google? I meant the foundation, yes it's the foundation running things now.
My personal manifesto as a developer and entrepreneur
Listing Grams on exchanges — to skin the retail suckers . . .

which essentially is just what is done with IPO's in the stock market, quite legally and unethically, big institutions buy, they pump it up, then dump it on the retail suckers at the height, then the bottom falls out.
Steno itself in the general sense is not predictive but rather phonetic. You can create your own custom macros/variable-names/code-blocks to your dictionary for things that are common in your workflow as you go. If you already use some sort of predictive typing system such as sentence/phrase autocomplete you could probably just assign a macro for accepting the autocomplete suggestion.
I've been asked to consult on a number of programs used for scientific research or environmental modeling.

In one case a science student was expected to work on a C++ simulation for his dissertation. The existing code base had been written by other grad students from previous years. It was clear that no one involved had any experience with C++ and it wasn't going to be possible for him to do a good job with the existing source code. Fortunately, in this case, the C++ based simulation was eventually dropped.

Another time a team of professional civil engineers couldn't understand why their model was able to make predictions that perfectly matched their experimental data. It predicted a poorly understood physical phenomena (algae blooms) so perfectly that they asked me for help. In a couple of minutes I was able to explain to them how they had overfitted the model to the small sample of experimental data and that the model likely had no predictive value at all.

I was asked once to debug a large program used to understand the dynamics of floods. The program contained some of the worst coding practices I've ever seen. For example, the same global variables were reused for completely different purposes in different parts of the program, sometimes X2DDRATE meant one thing and later on some paths it contained a completely different kind of measurement with entirely different units. This was done in an effort to "save memory" by not having too many variables.

A different ecological model I helped repair needed to compute the integral of a function at one point and used the following method: pretend the function was a straight line so that the integral could be computed as the area of a triangle. The function was a simple, uncomplicated exponential, something that a high school math student could integrate exactly.