skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Catting a file will your terminal make interpret escape codes in the file.

For instance:

$ echo -e "\033]0;${USER} is an unfriendly person\007" > test-file.txt

Then, many days later:

$ cat test-file.txt

will change your terminal title.

With less, you _can_ interpret escape codes, but usually you don't, and I consider this the correct default.
change the number of doors to 100 and the reasoning is obvious.
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> To think with all that money we could build better infrastructure and denser housing.

Ha! This one made me laugh. In America nobody will let you build either of those things anymore. At least not where they are needed.
Wow, talk about a 180° turn in just a few years!
I agree that Bezos's/ Wash Post disposition relative to the anti-President coup, likely had to be important consideration.

As I noted, 10s of millions of tax payers consider Washington Post is not a newspaper, but a propaganda agent actively involved in to the coup attempt against a constitutionally elected President of US.

Just chucking it of to 'president does not like a news paper' -- is diluting the tremendous affects these things have on the well-being of the country and its citizens, and, (given US position in the world stage) , on the rest of the world.

Additionally, anti-president spying and evidence manufacturing was, in part, orchestrated by leaking to these 'newspapers' and then referencing the generated articles as 'potential evidence' that warrants the investigation.

(eg, leaking the dossier [1] and other fabrications through news organizations )

Some think the anti-president coup attempt in US, is good for the country and for the world.

Some do not.

That probably, defines a big part of person's view, where they stand on awarding contract to AWS vs MS.

(Unless there is tremendous technical evidence that MSs offer will not be competent compared to AWS, or that financial burden on tax budget will be enormously different)

[1] https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/fisa-memo-scarier-wat...
given how bad most interviews are, do you really want to pass on a good job just because you didn't like their interview style?

ok, sure, given how unusual the idea of boardgames is, you don't risk much, but if i were to apply that same approach to interviews with trivia questions then i'd probably not find a job.

an interview would have to be outright offensive before i'd walk away. or i would have to be skeptical of that job already for other reasons and i just needed an excuse to drop it (the last straw sort of thing).

e.g. i can understand not wanting to go to a bar, but what's wrong with boardgames?
Summary of 5 links: 2 projects cancelled due to NIMBY, 1 project being appealed due to NIMBY, 1 project cancelled due to ecological concerns (unclear if just NIMBY), 1 irrelevant link.

fredericksburg.com - application cancelled - "He, like other neighbors of the project and another larger one south of Stevensburg, have consistently expressed concerns about impact to their property values ... Orye said he didn’t think solar fit anywhere in Culpeper County, emphasizing its rich historic resources related to the Civil War and early American history."

lakegastongazette-observer.com "Opponents of the project ... turned out in droves at last week’s community meeting", "Many residents expressed concerns about the project’s effects on the ecology and their view", "the commission’s reasons for the denial were fivefold. They said the proposed facility develops more than 500 acres, is removing more than 1,100 acres of agricultural property from production, is proposed to be located in a populated residential area, is located on real estate that is located on the Virginia Scenic Byway and that setbacks and buffers on the proposed project do not adequately address the need to visually block the project from the view of its neighbors"

richmond.com - "a solar project that had significant community opposition", "plans to build a solar energy farm on 1090 acres of a 2998 acre property", "400 acres of the project would [become] a conservation easement" , "The planning commission determined that the proposed use is not in accord with recommendations made in the 2010 Long-Range Comprehensive Plan, in particular since part of the project would fall into the area designated Priority Conservation Area and Protected Land.", "Among the citizen comments that were made, most were in stringent opposition because of the negative ecological impact the project would have on protected wetlands in the area, the only remaining wildlife corridor connecting the James and Appomattox rivers, and on rare and endangered species."

starexponent.com - "Culpeper County will consider placing a cap on 'utility scale solar sprawl' equal to the amount of the renewable energy its residents could actually consume.", "In October, the board approved the county’s first-ever solar farm on 1,000 acres near Stevensburg to the dismay of neighbors, who have since filed a civil suit in the matter asking the circuit court to reverse the approval."

www.pecva.org - looks like last link just shows planning details and doesn't show opposition.
>The new guidelines also emphasise the need for a diverse mix of public transportation options, including light rail, buses, and subways.

Not surprising at all, but I didn't know what they mentioned next:

>Although China [...] is working to build over 7,000km of new subway lines in cities across the country by 2020

As somebody living in the U.S. this has me absolutely floored. I'm feeling some extreme transit envy.
To be fair to cyclists, them hittibg someone is orders of magnitude less dangerous than a car doing so.

Bycicles are very light, narrow and slow so it's odd that as a society we expect them to follow rules designed for fast, heavy and wide vehicles.
no it doesn't, I just got a quote for solar, 4.KW ~$7k. A new roof would cost about $10k
All stocks are below their all-time high almost all of the time. Compare to IPO price instead.
"abusive language" is such a generic term.

I was thinking that if I wanted every critic of mine to shut up I could say I identify as a female and then get them all banned for misgendering me if they ever referred to me as he/him :P
I agree.

Though the duality comes from the measurements. We are literally measuring kenenitc vs potential energy. The reference frames are completely different. One is when an object is at rest "particle" and the other is when the object is in motion "wave"

That's the reason for the entire uncertainty principal!

What if we took two properties that weren't intrinsically link?
I'm not saying anything about whether it is true or not.

I'm saying there is a completely different class of reasoning between talking about how the two-slit experiment might not be mysterious, and describing the use of the scientific method to validate it, versus attributing the obscurity of a result to a systemic bias problem in science.

I completely accept that science has human bias problems... The community is made of people, after all. I personally subscribe to the idea that it is systemically sexist.

So I do not argue that there is a bias, I only state that the transition from one kind of discussion to the other was jarring in this post.

I waled away from the article not sure if it was primarily about a theory I hadn't heard of, with a footnote about why I hadn't heard of it, or if it was primarily about a systemic coverup of a theory, with some introductory material about the theory presented to understand why it would be covered up by the establishment.

One can say, "Why not both?" But truly, good writing has a focus, and an essay really doesn't have a lot of room to stray too far from a single, primary message.

It could be that one good essay is about how the grand mystery isn't that mysterious, and another good essay is about how Science with a capital S is biased towards the mysterious and inscrutable.

It wouldn't take much editing for this essay to be transformed into either of those. And perhaps this is a matter of taste, but I would prefer one of those essays to this one.

But that being said, whatever else I might think about its focus, I'm glad it introduced me to something intriguing about the two-slit experiment!
> It's a common acronym...

Thanks! Learned something new today.
Sure, but there are tradeoffs to consider: JSON may be difficult and inconvenient to use for human interaction, but on the other hand it's also really slow for machine reading and writing. Plus you have the added bonus of it being an inefficient use of bandwidth.
Poor people benefit when less energy is generated from fossil fuels.
I think this illustrates one of the preconceptions this challenge is meant to work against. Namely, people think of coordinate bashing as "computational" and purely synthetic/geometric solutions as "insightful". But there's no reason that a computer would find the second way more difficult. After all, synthetic geometry is just another system of rules, like ordinary algebra.

Us humans might fall back on coordinate bashing, but that's just because we have a lot of practice with the rules of algebra. To a computer, one rule set is as good as any other. What we call geometric insight boils down to pattern matching configurations to previously seen ones, combined with search in the space of possible moves, both of which computers can do.
Git is a CLI, lazygit is a TUI
> Algorithmic censorship has become the new norm. If you have opinions outside the Overton window you will be silently penalized on Twitter, FB, etc, and your posts will silently not appear. You have to go along with the tribe that you've been gerrymandered into or else you'll be silenced.

Algorithmic censorship, and demand for it, is the problem. However, that has nothing to do with Overton windows. The issue is the prioritization of recall over all else. Various groups (e.g., popular outcry, Legal) demand that as much actual abusive content as possible be flagged and suppressed or removed. In their view, falsely flagging content is acceptable collateral damage as long as the real bad stuff gets caught as well.

The precision in classification isn't there to enforce an Overton window even if that was the goal.
Softbank has been basically existing off the one bet that they made back in 2000. They still own 1/3 of Alibaba
A digital subscription to either of them is $1 a week. I think that's actually pretty reasonable.
Texas is a slight net beneficiary of federal largess. Quick googling found this table. Couldn't find more recent numbers, though another article says as of 2019, Texas now ranks #25. So middle of the pack.

https://taxfoundation.org/federal-taxes-paid-vs-federal-spen...
Most interesting mathematics mistake? (2009)
Wikpedia has you covered: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text-based_user_interface ;)
More of a historic curiosity these days, the legal reasons to avoid GIFs 20 years ago don't exist anymore, the LZW patents have expired.

That being said, PNG always had much stronger compression, in addition to supporting 24- and 32-bit color. Nowadays, we even have WebP that usually compresses better than PNG, and compresses far, far better than animated GIF. Animated GIF is a pretty ugly hack to the format, very inefficient for many common kinds of animations (or full-blown video as it's often used now); I've found that animated WebP can produce files around 10% the size of GIFs.
I expect KSP will finally get a real N-body simulator! My mun orbit insertion will be even harder!
I may be misunderstanding but it seems like most of your comment completely ignores batteries?
Jaron points out that it is precisely free services and information intersected with the profit motive that pushes businesses models based on advertising, tracking, and manipulation to be the most viable.

Also, I don't believe that getting something for free is "getting paid".
> Except they have vastly different histories (look up IBM's VM) and uses and underlying technologies.

Microkernels over time have also employed vastly different technologies. All the "differences" you note are "intended system design/interaction", which frankly isn't meaningful. For instance:

> By contrast, hypervisors virtualize and emulate hardware at various levels of abstraction. This involves providing some of the same things that microkernels do (eg memory isolation, scheduling), but people interact with hypervisors in very different ways than they interact with microkernels.

Who cares how they interact with it? A microkernel is defined by the sorts of abstractions it provides and the isolation properties those abstractions entail. Hypervisors are effectively less expressive microkernels.
Hey, thanks! I only just learned that the scrollable area exists thanks to this comment.
@robbya - Really enjoyed your visualization, time-lined interactive visualations like these are great!

Quick suggestion: You mention "Venture Makr" at the end but dont provide any way to capture my email and no way to be notified of Venture Makr's launch.
Or, more likely, they were being intentionally vague to keep the details secret.
Can I borrow your crystal ball that tells you where the lows and highs of a stock are please?
You can check my website, which I linked above, for several papers and a dissertation.

I'm not talking about any of "my" "theories" at all, I'm just describing a bit of what has been done in the past century by thousands of smart and dedicated people.
> solar needs the grid to be even close to viable

This was true 20 years ago and will be laughable 20 years from now.

> The only power generators that can do that are ones that burn fossil fuels.

Fossil fuel generators do NOT ramp up and down quickly. BTM and FTM battery storage solutions ramp up and down faster and are rapidly becoming cheaper and more environmentally friendly alternatives.

> energy use in building panels and the number of rare earth materials each one needs, the problems with recycling them, and their land-use requirements and the environmental impact of that.

Every one of these supposed drawbacks of solar also apply to generating power with fossil fuel.

Fracking causes earthquakes in Oklahoma and wastelands in southeast New Mexico. Mountaintop removal for coal has probably permanently destroyed parts of PA, WV, VA, and KY. I won't argue that the issues you bring up aren't bad, they just lack context. In my view, human addiction to electricity is bad in all forms, but fossil fuels are clearly worse.
You must contend with politics working for USG at any level for any department/agency. There are plenty of very nasty, bitter politics within each of the intelligence agencies, as well as, across the larger intelligence community (IC). These are massive organizations with very large budgets. Because these battles occur in classified settings, they are not visible to the public. I highly doubt that AWS hasn't had to content with a myriad of political battles within CIA, not the least of which being, groups within the CIA who remain skeptical about "cloud" and trusting a third-party with their data.
Am I the only one who would feel wrong using this?
WSJ deserves our money looking at quality of the articles.
…and the job might have been done (might because the first person in the chain may never have intended to do the killing himself. The intermediates may just be brokers needed to move from the circles of rich Chinese to the circles of killers)

Of course, offering too much also runs the risk of “Chinese Whispers” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_whispers) the initial message “Foo will pay $X to kill bar” could end up as “bar will pay $x to kill Foo”.
Voter turnout’s low because we live in an oligarchy where only special interests are represented, votes don’t matter (even when they’re not suppressed), and the will of the people isn’t heard in our chambers and halls of governance.

That’s why 65 million people vote for Clinton and we end up with Trump despite 3 million less votes.

It’s why pluralities of Americans support things like assault weapons bans but Mitch McConnell won’t even bring bills to the floor.

It’s why we get extreme gerrymandering in states like N. Carolina, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania.

The country is being hollowed out from within, the middle class is in steady decline, and our once great institutions are being privatized and sold off to the highest bidder.

It’s Milton Friedman and his Chicago boys wet dream and it’s only possible when the people aren’t represented and it’s going to have terrible repercussions in the United States just like it did in every other place that forced it upon its citizens.

We need to get rid of undemocratic institutions like the electoral college and Senate, expand the number of reps in the House of Representatives, drastically reduce the amount of money in politics, root out corruption, and make voting easier to access.

Unfortunately the Republican party wants none of those to pass in a system they can only continue to game further to win.

It’s a pretty depressing reality.
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> with all that money we could build better infrastructure

The amount of incentives spent by the US government for electric cars in the last 8 years is maybe $6bn.

So that might buy a new span of the Bay Bridge.
No? Because I live in one of those shitty parts of the country and since minimum wage laws still apply here turns out that saving £5k for a mortgage deposit isn't as impossible as saving £50k down in London is.
Scary simulations of all-out war between China and the US
Sounds like applying a Wikipedia-esque model to social media? I like it.
Both AT&T syntax and lack of assembly blocks, it is like UNIX devs love doing stuff the hard way.
This is like the crime version of those "software contractors" who farm the actual work out to an offshore team.
> Once you've hired a hitman, the outcome is basically out of your control.

And what happens if you hire a hitman and by accident he kills 20 people instead of 1 person? [1]

[1] Say some poison or even he just goes berzerk with the gun or weapon.
Huh. I guess this is what passes as journalism in 2019.
You can walk out whenever you want against medical advice. This is different from being discharged, which is when a doctor says "you're probably ok to go home" and fills out some paperwork to that effect.
the main problem probably is that board games and work have different objectives.

i play board games to have a good time and not to win, but i write code to solve a problem. so if i am being cooperative in a game then that doesn't tell you how i will react to your code in a code review, or how i'll take your criticism to my patch that i happen to believe is the best solution to the problem.
Just like with other taxes: brackets, rebates, credits paired with subsidies and investment.
Check out AC Transit Transbay Bus routes and live near one of those in Alameda/Oakland/Berkeley.

Here in north oakland I have a 45 minute commute with a seat every day on the bus.
Right. But you can with Signal. Not only does the app already work that way, but it’s also open source.
There is no technical panacea, but containers are a useful abstraction. Containers bring back the original intent of the unix process/user security model, allowing you to scope each process to have it's own 'private' filesystem to get around the broken way executables are built, packaged, and linked.

This doesn't save you if you do dumb things, like have open ports that allow administrative access that are exposed to the rest of your (potentially malicious) system. They do force you to think about some of the questions, though, like "Where is my data stored and how do other tools interact with it?"

Most of the problems that people complain containers don't solve are ones that are open ended, and have no definite solution.
China's 2019 coal imports set to rise more than 10%: analysts
>People are willing to pay for things they want if there's real value for them

Are you suggesting there is a way to make people pay to use these platforms? If you are, I call BS.

How are you going to get 2 billion people to pay enough for social media use, that those payments can cover the costs of planet wide network and infrastructure supporting 2 billion people?
Amazing! One piece of feedback, if author stops by:

One the first linked project:
https://prior.co.jp/discover/en/hospitality

The scroll controls the flow, but it doesn't respect OS setting. I am using "inverted" scrolling (aka Windows style) on a Mac, but the site only works with the default Mac style scrolling. Something to watch out for :)
Deploying a hypervisor on top of a hypervisor (eg: a public cloud) usually makes very little sense so I don't see that as a trend. However, outside of the valley bubble many large sectors of the economy do not use public clouds (such as banking, health, defense) so hypervisors typically in the form of ESX is still very much a thing and now that we are seeing tighter integration with things like unikernels that is where the 'comeback' is coming from. I would almost go as far to say that it's becoming hip not to be using public cloud today.

Deploying a unikernel on top of commodity cloud is very achievable and easy today - I know because I'm involved with https://ops.city . I'd argue it's ridiculously easier than trying to deploy a container, clearly way safer and even faster and easier than using something like terraform.

I do very much agree with your impedance mismatch re: unix model thought though.
As always in big tech, you're damned if you do and damned if you don't.
If someone tried to infer anything about my marriage from observing some of the games of Settlers of Catan that my wife and I have played together, I suspect that their conclusions would be hilariously wrong.

(Given the way that some of the games of Catan we've played with other couples have gone, she and I have joked about whether Catan has ever lead to a divorce.)
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You can just pint the link to your own server. That will tell you Facebook IP at the very least.
Roaming prices are the equivalent of scamming tourists, I don’t think there’s any body that can prevent it internally unfortunately, it’s just somehow acceptable for companies to shake down travelers for stupid amounts of money.
I have a sneaking suspicion this has a lot to do with business finding a “market niche” more so than reasonable engineering.

They wrap it in semantics they know from marketing physical products, and hey the general public is ignorant...poorly informed ...I mean cool with it... give the people what they say they want when we decide what’s available in the first place... I mean what fits our business niche.

If that feels a bit circular, human society is a bit circular.

I’ve become convinced we’re doomed as so many cannot see the difference between objective physical reality and metaphor/analogy. Even a lot of educated people struggle with the emotional dissonance despite getting through the homework.

Aristotle and scores of other philosophers wrote of it too. The concern being if the general public knew there really weren’t Gods on the mountain, they’d be pretty fucking pissed. So we’ll conveniently “let them have” their myths and legends.
> IMO, the optimal attitude for society would be if everyone was "left-wing" (generous, forgiving,...) toward others/out-groups and "right-wing" (demanding, requesting responsibility,...) toward yourself/in-group.

That's rather odd, because if anything I'd say the opposite is best - you can trust your ingroup to have similar values to you, and thus can afford to forgive them/be generous without being taken advantage of. On the other hand, outgroups WON'T share your values, and being more generous to them than to the ingroup is just self destructive.

And I would have thought both of those were common sense, too.
Alt(Option)-e in fish does the same.
> Well I don't believe that's what he intended.

Agreed. Remember he started by saying the double slit experiment has been performed on much larger molecules at this point. People who come across this will go "wait a second?!" and question what they've been told.