skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Where Zuck's "2 simple ideas" will take us, Micheal Crichton already told us even before Facebook existed -

"I think cyberspace means the end of our species. It means the end of innovation. This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behaviour. We innovate new behaviour to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That's the effect of mass media - it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity"

Zuckerberg will go down in history as the guy who helped that process along the way.
It's not West; it's Anglo and Puritan. Germany isn't afraid of sex.
The goal is probably using drones for delivery where there are no roads.

My guess is the existing delivery infrastructure in most of the US is too effective to allow drones to succeed here (yet). Someday that will change, but I expect drone delivery to grow fastest where roads and other distribution infrastructure aren’t available (which may include remote areas of the US). Once the tech is proven, it’ll return to displace incumbent tech.
I simply do not believe anyone will end up facing criminal charges over this, which “criminal negligence” very strongly implies. And even if someone somehow ended up facing criminal charges I seriously doubt it'd be over killing people as suggested by yummypaint.

Careers have ended over lesser personal attacks, I’d watch out if I were you.
Wait. Is that for serious? Kids in the US don't learn to read in school??

I'm scanning that article and I'm being aghast.

There's a bar graph that mentions 4th and 8th grade, what ages do these grades roughly correspond to? Not that it really matters because the percentages are roughly equal, meaning they didn't improve their reading skill in 4 years. Guess that answers my first question.

Guys you need to fix this. Education is the future, there's literally no better place to dump money and resources on.
I like this idea but I know the NIMBYism+cronyism of the SF city council will screw it up.
That’s … not a bug.

A buggy assertion would be one that fires when the input is correct.

Assertions aren’t formal verifiers or replacements for a test suite.
Levels vary . If you are a star you'll have in-store signings and ad campaigns. Standard deals wouldn't have much support but that could change if things go well. Generally they can aid but not for the vast majority. They do not have the same reach you do with your niche subgroup so any marketing is more general and not targeted. You end up paying for the marketing anyhow if you are lucky to receive it.
> I'll be implementing the modern H.265 protocol used by videogame streaming companies

Are you sure that's the right solution?

Remote desktop is able to render sharp fonts because its sending a lot of desktop contextual information over the wire, as opposed to just doing a dump "capture the screen, encode it, and send" like the videogame streaming systems do.

In a videogame, you can get away with small fringes on things (compression artifacts) but it would be quite jarring in your text editor.

I've actually ran into this with the NX protocol (NoMachine) before, and it's one of the main reasons I went away from it.
Yi cameras are quite cheap but good quality (xiaomi is behind that company I think). There is a custom firmware you can load that will enable ftp and ssh so you can grab the recordings from your home server and push them wherever you want, bypassing the need to use their cloud.
Unfortunately it looks like the game fails with an error in Safari if you eat food :(
dude... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VPfZ_XzisU

we could be in for some serious shit
Will using those make a measurable difference to the game?
Mozilla WebThings is pretty cool. The gateway software runs on a Pi. They have their own open protocol over wifi or you can use ie. a ZigBee adapter. I've played with it and I think it has a lot of potential.
Apple locked NSFW off Tumblr via it's App Store lockdown.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90304153/seven-weeks-after-nsfw-...
You can serve VS Code up with a web server and use it with anything that has a browser.
Maybe negligent, probably shitty, certainly easy to criticize. But how do you go straight from there to "killing people with criminal negligence"?
Why is it that web pages extolling the virtues of paintings are always illustrated by small low resolution photographs?
I think the source of this issue is as recent as the industrial age. People grow up wanting to be "Managers". We grew up watching our parents have a skill and working at a corporation, but then looking for that promotion to become a Manager. Somewhere along the line people are like, why don't I skip the whole working my ass off part and just hack resources together and manage it (Especially with the rise of the startup life). We lost the notion that there is a value to hard work, that there is a value to failing and picking yourself up. This is further compounded by the corruption we see in our governments, societies and money markets where people move around shares and numbers on excel sheets and become millionaires. It feeds further into the idea that people who work hard or develop a skill are losers
The Quiet Ones (2012)
It was released as a serial. Think of it as a long series of shorter works.
Excellent article, thanks for posting.
It's bizarre that porn kills things that seem to only die when the porn leaves, and the most successful non porn content is softcore porn.
I have been running Cloud Shell on the google cloud console app on iOS. Only your home folder persists but you can set up a custom cloud shell environment with docker to add your favorite tools.

Its pretty good for coding on the go (with vim) but for multiple terminals you might be better off using screen or tmux. I can even deploy on the command line because of gcloud and gsutil cli toolchains.
Why open source is critical to innovation in science (2018) [video]
https://kfbk.iheart.com/featured/sacramentos-latest-news/con...

Brief article, has link to a PDF with 12 actual pictures in various counties.
A let down by the NASA administration who testified to Congress that there was no point to it without the composite tanks. Even though the alternative Al-Li tanks already being designed were better by every relevant engineering metric. The X-33 could have launched but the funding was pulled.
You can build your own plane... in the usa it doesn't even have to be from a kit. They just have to pass engineering inspections and categories.
This is the correct answer. When the next recession hits and google panics and dumps all this crap overboard, the builder is left holding the bag.
Or, you know, human brains being systematically bad at a specific kind of timekeeping that they've never evolutionary-historically had a reason to be good at?

T+0: decision is made and brain waves change

T+?ms: decision is reported to sensory systems and associated with a wall-clock time.
We are at kind of reaching climax here, it's going to get harder to collect anymore thing. With the gesture recognition SOLI chips, they managed to introduce what is technically a sexual performance monitor in the android phone near your bed, without even an ounce of resistance from the public.

Every advertiser and surveillance wet dream is now achieved.

There is no other term than total victory for the post-privacy world. It is time to surrender without conditions before they leverage their knowledge of our declining interests in our wives or of our extra-marital adventures.

(edit:There is still time to avoid blood and tears)
Anyone else worried about the noise pollution that will result from widespread drone delivery services and “flying cars”? I’m thinking the pushback won’t happen until there’s enough penetration that wealthy interest groups will make it impossible to rollback. I can envision a future where we’re all just stuck with a loud constant hum from drones overhead.
Most of that was an absurd overvaluation followed by smothering to death by titan of industry Marisa Mayer, who can always be relied on to lose a billion dollars if there's $10milliom in it for her.
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd Passed Away
I like spending some extra effort on my Git commits (really, typing a message like this doesn't take that long, compared to the amount of time spent doing the change in the commit). It's just a shame that both GitLab and GitHub do not render Markdown in the body of the commit messages, and present them like actual prose rather than a wall of monospaced text.
It’s ambition. If you don’t have it, you won’t get it.
If the four hours are spent coding and the rest of the day thoughts around those structures are experienced and expanded on then mastery is possible.

8 hours a day with meetings, emails, phone calls and shoulder taps mastery is almost impossible.
If they were genuinely motivated by safety concerns, they would take line maintenance and brush removal seriously.

They don't.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/pg-e-knew-for-years-its-lines-c...
Music Theory for Musicians and Normal People
> Currently using Windows 10 Servers on user-dedicated EC2 instances, so costs are bundled in, but once I get into a multi-tenant setup and cost optimization I'll see what I can work out with Microsoft.

Good luck, but note that you are competing with Microsoft (who offers Azure Virtual Desktops), so they aren't likely to want to work out a favorable (for you) deal.
Santa Maria Novella is a large "complex" comprising both the church and monastery (and the museum) see:

https://www.smn.it/en/

https://www.smn.it/en/opera-santa-maria-novella/

http://museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/en/smn/visitamuseo...

A part of it (the so-called monastero nuovo or "new monastery" on the side of the station) has been for almost 100 years rented to the Carabinieri that had there a School for Officers, that recently moved so that the buildings were returned to the city:

http://museicivicifiorentini.comune.fi.it/export/sites/musei...
SQL Server prior to 2019 stores unicode data in UCS-2 (UTF-16 analog, rougly).
SQL Server 2019 supports UTF-8.
If a bad enough erathquake hit the network would probably malfunction or overload due to distress and "are you OK" calls. I guess there is need for satelite or some long wave RF system.
https://youtu.be/FX3uOQiZs0A

Birds attack drones, especially large birds of prey
Was this written in response to my post? Did it seem like I think my experience has been ruined in some way?

Yes, and yes, it reads as "I was engaged until Internet Point Chasing Dweebs came along and took my fun away. Cool - sarcastically said, not cool at all, I'm smarting and resent the change. I guess I was a fool to think it would last and rationalise that it was a plan I should have seen and then chastise myself for not seeing it; I will pick myself up and get over it while pretending I'm not bothered at all, and leave those idiots to their stupid trivial JavaScript".

I can't find anyplace on the website where you could talk to another person in a way that could conceivable use a personal pronoun

Monica Cellio particularly is involved in Workplace.stackexchange a site where people post interpersonal questions about their workplace, and there are many comments and replies on posts and answers which have references such as "In Alice's reply, she focuses on the legal side, but I'd like to draw attention to power dynamic between blah blah", or "I'm not sure this applies, OP said she is in Canada which has different expectations about blah blah", and often with regular posters discussing the question in amongst comments and their replies.

There's also actual discussion forums (Slack-style web chatrooms) e.g. https://chat.stackoverflow.com/ which is where long comment chains get moderator-moved to for more realtime he-said/she-said discussions. I believe many chatrooms per stackexchange sub-site.

Plus moderator private chat / moderator to company chat.

As I said, my best guess is that there's a meta discussion forum someplace that moderators can use.

There is a meta site for every StackExchange site, yes. e.g. https://meta.superuser.com/ for SuperUser, and then there's meta.stackexchange.com for an overall meta-meta site.
> The browsers haven't "started implementing some layout tools" --- they literally did it, en masse, in 2017.

Fun fact: Grid support in Blink and WebKit were added by the same people. https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/2017/03/16/css-grid-layout-is...
There’s an ongoing migration of ubiquiti video hardware to “unifi protect” which requires their hardware NVR (cloud key gen2+) to run. Of course remote access is possible, but you can’t self host the new software (at least for now).
But now I have to go find the issue in a completely separate system, rather than just look at the commit message.

It’s added complexity, which is something we strive to remove from our code.
What If We Paid Off the Debt? The Secret Government Report (2011)
It's certainly unprofessional.
LTTng 2.11.0 “Lafontaine” Released
> The friars were supportive of restoration efforts on Nelli’s “Last Supper,” but they didn’t want to permanently release it from their refectory. “They saw it as part of their day-to-day life and were very concerned that I and other art historians and officials would want to remove it from their dining room,” Nelson recalls of the monks’ attitude when he saw the painting in the 1990s. “Which is exactly what happened.”
Device drivers seem to be the main issue for IoT gateways. That being said, I have been really impressed with Arcus, the open sourced Lowes IoT platform (formerly known as Iris).

ZigBee & Z-Wave work out of the box, very broad device support, writing templates for new devices is pretty straightforward.
The only way to get notification of an earhquake in time is a prediction system.
If you're only interested in scrolling through images, Imgur offers a much better user interface for that. can browse with just the arrow keys.
Fire Blankets to Be Used in Protecting Buildings Fires
> Have you tried filtering thousands of stored procedures that don't follow naming convention and are riddled with bugs?!

No. I was thinking about something like a greenfield project, small or medium size. Where about 100 stored procedures are all named nicely and 2-3 developers working on the project fully understand what they are doing with them :)
Thoma Bravo makes $3.9B offer to acquire security firm Sophos
Sharing an address isn't uncommon. I don't think there's a big risk that a Google account would be locked because another account at the same address had been.
You can do a lot to mitigate road noise by physically blocking it. That’s not so easy with air traffic.
> Teachers can't bear to carry that load themselves.

So I'm gonna make the assumption that "teacher" still somewhat means the same thing in the US, and that they must be teaching the kids something.

What in goodness sake are they teaching the children if not how to read? Isn't that the very first thing you should be teaching them after kindergarten?

If there is ONE thing a kid could learn in school. Wouldn't you pick how to read over literally anything else?

The second thing would imho be math. But on that point people may say geography and history are also important and I can't really disagree cause I happen to be good at math and shamefully bad at the other two.
See the Real Cape Town: The Insider’s Guide
Netgear, TP-Link, Linksys, D-Link and most other router vendors run 4 to 6 year old branches of OpenWRT on their products.
What a cruel world!
Weird, because I agree with the general sentiment, yet with C++ I feel you have to learn most of the language if you want to be productive with it...
I was worried about this too. I recently got a newest gen DJI drone, and was self conscious about flying it for this very reason.

Turns out, with the quiet propellers installed it disappears into the urban background hum when it's 30m up in the air. I've also flown it in uninhabited wilderness (national park, two days hike to nearest anything) and even there it's about 80-100.

Add any horizontal distance and you will find it very hard to locate the drone after looking down at the controller (at least until you get better at flying it and develop better spatial awareness).
Now would that be my neighbors who drive a dirtbike around their property for 6 hours a day, or the neighbors who tie their dog up outside at night and let it bark constantly at 2am?
Amazon's drivers probably could deliver to your locker if Amazon didn't relentlessly surveil and pressure them to do things as fast as possible.
Actually Postgres is one of the few databases that does use the os disk caching. But then shared_buffers is another cache layer on top of the os cache.
Game Maker's Toolkit did a great video this week on Pac-Man

https://youtu.be/S4RHbnBkyh0

There's a lot we take for granted these days which were relatively innovative and unique in Pac-Man, such as the clever AI, and also it's one of the first instances of a video game mascot. Well worth a watch.
Note that they meant that they have a new algorithm for their game and not a new algorithm for the world, so don't shit on them for no reason. For all we know they could have already read the papers you mentioned. They even mentioned that this was an old technique in the blog:

> Pathfinding is an old problem, and so there are many techniques for improving pathfinding. Some of these techniques fall into the category of hierarchical pathfinding
> If society decided that reading and writing should be taught in school, then it would be taught in school and the system would be designed such that teachers would easily handle it.

I mean, society could also decide that houses shouldn't have roofs, but then they wouldn't be houses would they.

The word for "school where you don't learn to read" in the rest of the educated world is "daycare".
I don't know about you, but I don't want cars flying over my backyard either.
Google should have bought Wyze or Iris by Lowes, the Nest Protect offerings are very underwhelming (no motion detectors, the door sensors don't double as temperature sensors like most Z-Wave sensors).
I get 4 snakes, can control one, the rest remain stationary. It will then also show circle-food thingies that jump around, but always of a color that's not mine.

I suspect that's not how it is supposed to play, no? Using Mobile Safari.
International Repair Day
Sounds like the broken windows theory in action.
As supporting technologies improve and materials science marches on, fringe technologies can sometimes leap quite suddenly into the mainstream. For example: the Stirling-cycle engine. It was a suboptimal technology compared to steam and IC engines for nearly 200 years, until Sweden found a use for it in their Gotland-class submarines. As it turns out, subs built with free-piston Stirling engines can run even more silently than their nuclear-powered competitors:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland-class_submarine
You read a chapter. Then you read another chapter. Repeat as long as you manage to keep interest.

Worm is an awesome tale that have mostly destroyed other stories about super heroes for me.
The laws should be agnostic to whether the technology is emerging or traditional. For example, parking private property on public space should need to be done responsibly whether it's part of a WiFi connected emerging technology startup or not.

And the laws should restrict only the offending behaviour, not all behavior subject to approval.

Centralized permissioning is a terrible way to structure an industry:

1. It encourages rent-seeking by those in and close to the regulatory-body/political-leadership. It's not a coincidence that the region of the US that has seen the fastest income growth over theast 40 years is the suburbs of Washington D.C. and that the wealthiest counties in the US surround Washington DC. The phenomenon of the revolving door between government and highly regulated private industries is a manifestation of rent seeking.

2. It does an enormous amount of collateral damage in the form of onerous barriers to embarking on entirely responsible business initiatives.

3. It reduces accountability for regulators by flipping the burden of proof to the party facing restrictions, and wanting them to be lifted, instead of the regulator wanting to impose the restriction.
I wanted to make a tiny routing program, read a few papers but they're too advanced. I'd like some basics :)
Remy: Horrifying Tweets Resurface
Rent Needs to Decrease
Or the wider EEA, which is also subject to GDPR.
Uniforms aren't necessarily bad, especially if the classes are diverse income-wise.
Was thinking in context of gated voices, background noise etc. Think it’s actually push to talk, so I’m not right on reflection.
Well run power distribution do not start fires.

There are standards for how close tree limbs can be to a power line. PG&E asked for money to meet those standards. PG&E accepted that money. Then PG&E didn't meet those standards.

Sure acts of god, environmental changes, and other unusual issues start fires. However California has been hot and dry periodically and the existing standards provide good protection... it's just that PG&E is not meeting them.
Only some people love to do that. Many others hate it when it happens.
I stayed at the hotel there several years ago: 1 night in a regular room and 1 night in the suite. If you stay, I highly recommend splurging on the suite so you can experience more of the design elements and have a chance to soak them in.

One interesting aspect of the design is that electrical outlets were far more plentiful than was standard at the time of construction in the 1950s, but IIRC Wright had already spec'd those out in the original design from the 1920s. If you stay in the suite you get to experience how convenient this is, convenient even compared to modern construction, rather than simply being told about it during a walk-through tour. (The regular rooms are too small to have many outlets.)

The Arts Center shop also sold a nice range of reproductions, like garden sculptures. You could probably find them (the authentic reproductions) elsewhere, but probably not all together like that; you can't know what to look for if you haven't seen it available.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21235238
Bitcoin, Ethereum and Ripple Display More Stability in Q3 2019 – ExoAlpha Report
To make it legal.
It is time to stop having a white color background on internet sites, it is very aggressive for the eyes, instead, a sepia color would be much better.
I'll have a side of facts to go with your speculations, please.

I don't necessarily disagree, but you can really form any number of arguments and reach wildly different conclusions (try it, for a few you don't like). Without evidence (not anecdotes) to prefer one over the other, you're really biasing yourself to how you feel the world ought to work.
It takes as long as it takes, how long you'd like it to take is a thought you can change. If you change your thought to want it to take as long as it actually takes, it stops being tedious?