skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does Unicode make this any better?

Let's say Matrix supports custom emoji, and it wants to interoperate with Discord.

Does representing those user-added emoji as custom Unicode entries instead of plain text make it easier or harder to interop with Discord?
Rome Total War (the original) is one of the most fun and replayable games out there. It's also still got a massive modding community, that have expanded the base game in enormous ways - the Rome Total Realism[1] and Europa Barbarorum[2] mods are very well done, if you want to go for a bigger and more historically accurate experience.

The successor Medieval 2 is arguably the high point of the entire series.

Rome 2 Total War was sadly not nearly as good; it may be playable at this point, but I was very disappointed with it.

[1] http://www.twcenter.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?26-Rome-Tota...

[2] https://www.europabarbarorum.com/EB1/
Thank you for sharing. Baffling that they don't get more national traction.
> With all the hate social media gets for example, imagine a life without them again.

I can imagine that easily. I know others differ, but is all social media went away tomorrow, my life would be none the poorer for it.
Proving what I’ve always said, that bicycles are the chimpanzees of the transportation world.

But yea, the overall idea here that this guy had the ANY IDEA of what the internet would/could become when he worked on it is ridiculous. It doesn’t make his opinion worth too much other than for a clickbait headline.
>They develop technology that they think will solve a problem, rather than first identifying and understanding the problem and then thinking creatively about how to solve it.

Can you hear the creaking sound as cryptocurrency startups shift uneasily in their chairs?
A ton of money has been dumped into automated long haul trucking already. I think you're just not aware as to what type of work is being donee.
>A person in Nigeria can teach themselves Hindu, just from pure curiosity and no budget

Again, these are poor examples. It's not terribly easy to learn a language for free using just the internet. Everything is freemium and it's only getting worse. It's arguably easier to go to your local library and use their resources.

Many people have this idea that some things would be impossible if not for the internet, but that definitely isn't the case.
Is Lisp opinionated about side-effects? Maybe Clojure is, but have you looked at Common Lisp or Emacs? I can't think of a less-opinionated-about-side-effects application than Emacs.
Internet only allowed us to witness another iteration of implemention of the nasty methods already employed by nations, corporations and other entities to assert their power over the general population; information hiding, secrecy, isolationism, monopolies, weaponization of information, denial of anonymity etc.

The original intent of internet was to establish a honest and open platform for information sharing, and for me (personally at least) the development so far has only convinced me that most establishments out there are utterly incompatible with those values.
Would sooner recommend adjusting the CSS
I think the argument around it reeks of dishonesty, really. People arguing against political ads or speech on Facebook are often skirting around the main elephantine problem of democracy: most people are disinterested or maliciously misinformed (as in, when presented with facts, they'll double down on their misinformation).

In order to solve this whole kerfuffle, we'll have to tackle that head-on. That people are misinformed, disinterested, and downright apathetic. You can ban political ads on Facebook tomorrow, and it won't solve those fundamental problems. It's just kicking the can down the road.
In theory, so could Intel.
I can't believe `pdsh` isn't mentioned. Dead simple "run this command via ssh on these hosts" program
> I suspect very strongly that "new types of products available" has nothing to do with lifting people out of poverty

Your suspicion is wrong. GDP per capita has increased significantly in emerging markets where cheap labor creates these "new types of products", with China being the prominent example

> I don't even know if fewer people are "in poverty" now than pre-internet or not!

That is a well known fact, you'll just have to google it.

> I am gonna want some analysis based on actual numbers of some kind that shows the internet did those things

There are countless analyses on the benefits of globalization which was enabled in part by the advance of near-instantaneous telecommunication
Works great in those cities, doesn't work for the rest of the world. Everyone else is sprawled out.
shell scripts (if those count ;))
Green Bank and the local town is a really cool place. It's a shame to see that some people are giving up on the attitude that's helped protect the telescope's ability to perform amazing science.

My undergrad work used some data from that telescope, and I've spent a few different weeks out on site at various times.

The article mentions the use of diesel vehicles, but neglects to mention that the presence of control electronics is making it harder and harder for the facility to use modern diesel vehicles as the radios, ECUs, and in many newer vehicles even the ignition system radiates vast (relatively speaking) amounts of unwanted radio. When I was there a decade ago, they were lamenting the loss of a couple late-60's or 70's model diesel trucks (see this short article from autoblog with images https://www.autoblog.com/2014/04/24/national-radio-astronomy...) that were just beyond further repair at that point.

I was friends with some summer interns out at GBT during late 2000s, and they mentioned how the student housing at the time didn't have computers, as it was in direct line-of-site of the telescope and the building wasn't shielded well enough. So they had a notepad on the fridge which was for "consulting the oracle" the next day. If the group had a question that required research/google, it was jotted down and they took turns looking it up the next day and emailing the group with the collected answers.

On another tangent, I've heard from some people out that way they're starting to run into some problems with people claiming to be "Electro-sensitive" seeking refuge in the town, then causing hell with the local population and in some cases even trying to blame the observatory for "transmitting". (note this claim is all hear-say from friends who worked there or know people who worked there)
> The process of creating a simple web site has gotten much much more complex as scripting languages have changed.

If your site requires any scripting at all, it's not a "simple web site".
What's wrong with employees trying to influence what they're working with?
What politician runs a campaign on telling the truth? Virtually none. Those that try get buried fast.

If we don’t demand candidates themselves tell the truth, how can we ask ads to be truthful from those same campaigns.

In any case it’d be tilting at windmills.
fwiw, this has happened to me a few times with fresh twitter accounts. In my experience, if you care enough and have the time, you will probably be able to get support to unblock your account without handing over your phone number.

I'm not saying this to defend twitter, this is definitely some aggressive, disingenuous behavior.
I Brazil I just see Mi Bands. Apple watches are just for who wants to display they have money.
When I see projects on Github using the Stale Bot to automatically close issues, I don't bother looking any further. There is something so incredibly infuriating about having an issue closed automatically - when I know it is still a problem but no one has had time to look at it yet. It reminds me very much of the MSDN community threads where the accepted answer is "reinstall Windows and see if that fixes it" with hundreds of replies after that indicate it did not help.
FWIW, and to their credit, iZotope and NI sent out emails to all customers before Catalina was released to the public clearly warning them not to upgrade yet.
Rare Earth Battle Begins
It's worth it to us, as a society, to cut into Facebook's development velocity for this.

Of course they're pushing back for cost reasons–That's "the bottom line"–but I doubt if it were easy they'd have done it "for free." Businesses, in my experience and observation, won't lift a finger they don't have to. The "right thing" doesn't merit a mention, let alone an allocation, unless it's coerced by the public, or by employees.
If you look at some other stories, specifically "Text Rendering Hates You" and "Text Editing Hates You Too", working with non-English languages in text is tough, and it gets harder the farther from English you're working with.

Considering ethnicity is the only way to prioritize issues like that.
Right.

The technical issues are what went wrong, how to protect the net itself from those who would damage and abuse it. Those we seek to improve.

The people side will come with time. If anything perhaps it opens people eyes to just how many people who do not fit within the idealized society many expect or want to be part of. People will learn limits, learn about others, and eventually it will even out.

What it did right is free people from most every government out there and now those governments are fighting back. When you can now see for your self what conditions are elsewhere you are much harder to manipulate which means loss of control. It also shows that no matter how good you thought your government is/was there is room for improvement and their is a dark side. They will seek to divide us, make us fear others all with the promise that if we just let them take control of information again all will be right. Some do it at the point of a gun while others use a TV ad.

Simply put, mommy and daddy were wrong, that were no monsters, not real ones, but there are, they are us.
Is there no agreed upon way to write those letters with an English keyboard? I know for example in German

ä -> ae

ö -> oe

ü -> ue

At least that is what I was taught. When writing Spanish some of my friends have replaced ñ with gn as in Italian or ny as in Catalan.
It's 2016.

In 2008 and 2012 social media advertising was lauded as essentially "just another tool in the war chest to deploy on the campaign battleground". How that we've seen how things can go ... not as planned, people are looking for an out. And that's okay. Two things can be true: it was a new and interesting approach in 2008/2012 but now we've had enough of it and think there needs to be a correction. I still reread this[1] from time to time to remind myself how much things have changed. The article is spot on, but not in the way that the author I'm sure expected. All of these predictions came true, it just wasn't the utopia they bargained for.

>The John McCain campaign, for example, originally said that Governor Sarah Palin opposed the so-called bridge to nowhere in Alaska, Ms. Huffington said. “Online there was an absolutely obsessive campaign to prove that wrong,” she said, and eventually the campaign stopped repeating it.
>“In 2004, trust me, they would have gone on repeating it, because the echo chamber would not have been as facile,” Ms. Huffington said.

>“There will be a lot of collateral damage coming to grips with the fact that we’re in a reality TV series, ‘Politics 24/7,’” Mr. Newsom said.
>That’s a good thing, Mr. Trippi said. “This medium demands authenticity, and television for the most part demanded fake. Authenticity is something politicians haven’t been used to.”

>“When Congress refuses to go with his agenda, it’s not going to be just the president” they oppose, Mr. Trippi said. It will be the president and his huge virtual network of citizens.

[1]https://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/07/how-obamas-interne...
If newspapers only had one publication, then it would be valid.

As it happens: Facebook allows tailored, targeted advertising that leaves no trace. So lies on the platform are especially damaging because they cannot be disseminated.

And additionally it's a single platform, seemingly a single voice, so they have much more social responsibility than a fragmented assortment of publications which have different views and opinions.

-- Newspapers tend to have a lot of actual story, and the stories themselves are subject to certain laws regarding truth. The ads themselves are rarely political, usually it's the stories that are.
> Why should management have all the say

Because being an employee means you are expected to have a subordinate relationship with your employer in exchange for a money. Even in countries with strong worker protections, questioning management decisions that are completely unrelated to work conditions or legal matters is 100% ground for getting legally fired.

Now if it was the "culture" encouraged by management then I'm all for it, if it is done with the employer's blessing there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. In some businesses it's perfect acceptable to discuss partisan politics at work, wedge issues, and employees can voice their opinions as to who the business should have as a client or not...
I don't think we can make that statement yet. What we can say is that there is a huge amount of bloat in current technology companies along with huge perceived competition for employees, so many employees feel they are worth more than they are.

Most boom industries go through this. Then you get bad times, the fat gets trimmed, and a couple of lay offs later the employees realize that they are indeed fungible. Add a couple decades of maturity and they get a much more realistic view of work rather than "work is my life, and my life is work".

And sure, there may be a handful of essential staff, but the odds that you are a political activist masquerading as an employee while also being essential are nearly zero.
I think it's obvious they were not asserting a professional legal opinion when they say "free speech and paid speech are not the same thing".

It's disingenuous of you to tell them to "hit the streets", I think that's basically what they're doing at their place of employment that has a significant impact on our elections. I'm not sure what more you want from them.
That sounds really cool! Even if they might not be edible.
Automation might end most unskilled jobs in 10 years (1961)
Its almost like most of us still remember life without the internet let alone social media.

I just personally stopped. I use reddit sometimes but otherwise I have been much happier for it.
Also somewhat ironic that the author mentions the internet was created/funded by the military as part of a program to keep up with the Russians technologically during the Cold War, then goes on to complain about Stuxnet and nation states using the internet for cyber warfare like they were never even involved in the first place.
Your post misunderstands the fact that the Supreme Court's interpretation was brand new case law. They did in fact "make it up" when they claimed the constitution said something many, if not most Americans, would state it does not.

But more importantly your post misunderstands the fact that "free speech" for purposes of the constitution has nothing to do with free speech for purposes of running a social media site or free speech for any other purpose.
I would argue that cars once moving do pose an intrinsic danger. Driving is really dangerous, you are basically driving a mobile weapon. And not just dangerous for you but for your surroundings, similar to firearms. Sure, its always a question of how they are handled, but if you own a gun or drive a car, you are, at least at some level, a danger to your environment. Even if its just a driver having a stroke and crashing into a crowd or a gun owner having a muscle spasm at the wrong time.
I don't see a lot of homeless people with cellphones. How would they even charge them?
Library Internet seems like a better solution.
Most of the examples in this article are more of "Do things that don't scale", to solve problems as they arise and not "Forget about the Technology".

If you are a Tech startup, do not forget the technology.
If the problem they're solving is harder than "just" launching satellites into space, then that doesn't bode well for their chances of success.

Just launching stuff into orbit, or attempting that, has swallowed many companies in failure.
> Lisp, for example, is very opinionated when it comes to things like side-effects

Ermm...no, it's not. Functional programming languages do tend to do that, but most lisps aren't functional--certainly, it's not a defining characteristic of the language family.

> C doesn't impose any of these restrictions, largely by virtue of being low-level, and moreover, it should be possible to implement whatever data transforms are implemented in any of those other languages in C as well. The inverse is not the case, so I would argue that C is more permissive than any of those languages.

1. Turing equivalence.

2. Because it's so close to the hardware, c inherits the opinions of all the major ISA designers.
How long from release does it usually take to start seeing released chips in new laptops?

I seem to remember reading about a January launch (i.e. CES as you say) with shipping laptops expected towards the end of Q1 2020.

Vega vs Navi: IS there any solid information on which of the two it will use?

I don't think there's any solid information; watchers seemed to interpret recently added device IDs in Windows and Linux drivers as belonging to Vega-based APUs with new video engines backported from Navi. Whether that's Renoir or another APU line remains to be seen. There's also rumours that the next batch of APUs might just be a Zen+ die shrink to 7nm rather than a full upgrade to Zen 2.

Given that mobile CPUs and SFF business desktop systems with integrated graphics are where the volume markets are these days, it seems a little odd that AMD lags their APUs behind the standalone desktop and server CPUs so much. The next desktop APUs are only expected mid 2020. I can only assume they are still battling idle power draw issues (especially if Zen 2's PCIe 4.0 is hard to swap out for more the power efficient PCIe 3.0) or that the integration of CPU and GPU via Infinity Fabric is difficult to pull off in practice.
You know we truly live in amazing times when our society can support a large class of people so far removed from the need to produce and transport physical goods that they can imagine a scenario in which the ability to do so using machines rather than armies of peasants, slaves, and pack animals is some kind of perversion.
Sorry you are feeling this pain. I came across this youtube channel of a chiropractor in Texas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_dLOl66n2g. Guy is amazing and has helped a lot of people who were in so much pain even while walking into his office these people were suffering and almost immobile and after a visit they felt much better. Watch some of his videos.
Go and Python, keeping an eye on Nim and V
Guess no discussion of War elephants can be complete without their use by Porus in war against Alexander's Indian campaign - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Hydaspes
The problem of a planned economy is the economic calculation problem and lack of a mechanism for decision making (i.e. prices). Mises and Hayek laid this out VERY clearly, as early as 1922. The planner cannot possibly know enough to make the right decisions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_calculation_problem
The number of people in extreme poverty globally have dropped roughly 650m since 1990. Some part of that is probably due to the internet though I'm not sure you could say how much exactly. (Our World in Data graph https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/04/Extreme-Poverty-p...)
4 kids will fit easily in a minivan or large SUV. Lots of families manage that.
Speeding is not an essential element there.

You could be driving 30 on a bog standard road, a child could trip and fall under your car, and bam.
Yes, it shouldn't be 'breadwinner' any more, but 'rentwinner' or somesuch.

People needing to go to food banks is because they have no money left after paying rent, utilities etc., not because food is expensive.
Voted down? It's happened to me twice. Explain yourself (fat chance).
Throughout history, it has been difficult and divisive to decide what ads are "political", or even "electoral" or "partisan".

Remember when the ONDCP spent billions of dollars on "anti-drug" ads (including millions for a single super bowl spot)?

These were paid for by taxpayer dollars and ostensibly a public-health message. But we all realized that they were political and meant to defend an unpopular government policy by conjoining it with another slightly more popular policy (the "war on terrorism" as it was still called in 2002).

So what ads are "political" and what ads aren't?

Imagine as a baseline that we say that any ad for a candidate, paid for by a campaign, is political.

Well, then, how about an ad for a candidate for paid for a Super PAC? Still political probably, right?

OK, well, how about an ad depicting a particular policy outcome, ("Build the wall today!"), encouraging people to join a political action committee. Still political?

How about an ad from a 527 that says "We need medicare for all. Please donate if you agree."? How about an ad from a 501(c)(4) that says "Help support independent drug research."?

Where do you draw the line?
>With all the hate social media gets for example, imagine a life without them again.

Easy, that's my life right now

>I say this as someone who hardly uses it but knows that it is there if I want to communicate with someone I care about. Do you really want to send physical letters again ? Yes they have their charm and nostalgia but I am not willing to trade the convenience of internet for something worse or outdated.

That all fits in the original, "utopian" if you want, view of the internet espoused in the article. You can do that with email, IMs like IRC, personal webpages. Facebook-style social media, with its surveillance, addictiveness, toxic feedback loops, is irrelevant to this task.
The Lisp machines were contemporaneous with Unix, as were Wirth's Pascal based systems, the Burroughs with its bound checks, Algol 68.

Dont get me wrong: C gets the job done. It's successful in a wide number of domains, and I do like using it. But its success was not inevitable and involved a lot of external and soft factors.
It's not clear to me how the correction of a cultural nature is being smug. The poster in question even admitted it was a "small nit", but it's still useful information for both the poster, and other readers.
Zero-terminated strings are part of c.

"asdf" // c string literal, terminated by a 0
It's not hard to think of the average user, though. Just imagine a version of yourself that doesn't enjoy learning technical minutiae to solve a problem.

I agree though it is hard for developers to find useful problems to solve. I too tend to get distracted from solving real-world problems when I find a technical problem that's interesting enough. There's a whole world of technical complexity which is easy to get lost in, and I start to care less about the real world problems that relate to it.
Do you have a link to that?

Anecdotally, I'm using two Ryzen 3000 systems right now (a 3900X and a 3200U) and both are working just fine.
It also doesn't benefit them in any way to do so. AMD doesn't make any products that compete directly with anything they make, and is their primary provider of dedicated Macintosh graphics hardware.
No John Wick reference? So disappointed...
"All our inventions are but improved means to an unimproved end." (Thoreau)