skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have proof that much less fiber than was paid for was laid down. I've linked it before, here's a few different links if you can't be bothered to click on the previous one:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5...

https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/ATT-Takes-Billions-in-FC...
I want the image and text swapped for some reason though — image on right, text on left.
Your response to an assertion that an image is outright doctored is to post a quote from a senior U.N. environmental official?
The climate scientists that have spent years studying these issues and are making the dire predictions already know the answers to these issues. If you want to know the answers you could read their blogs and papers and textbooks.
"Great artists ship" - Steve Jobs (apocryphal?)

It's better to ship and start iterating than to sit around and refine without sufficient real world feedback.
Yes, totally understood. I am just thinking in line with a different response that this could be an easy way to prove if they’re still snooping - not a guarantee that they aren’t.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this.

Sony: I haven't used them but considered buying one until I read about the restriction to PDFs.

Onyx: I bought the Boox Note and so far it's the best e-reader I owned. The refresh rate is good enough to use some Android apps but I don't really need them as I use the device for reading and annotating / note-taking.

Remarkable: I didn't buy it because of the strange file format support and though it runs on linux it appears to be even more locked than the Onyx.

Amazon: No comments on this other than "nice for reading certain formats".

Surface: Has no eInk - I think it can't be compared to the other devices.

That is true so I think we just have to wait for this device to be invented some years from now.
This is kinda where VMware is going with project pacific & vSphere integrated containers; containers running as individual VMs on a hypervisor. I wonder if we will see others following the same pattern?

I’m not sure what the drawbacks might be though
I'm no expert in real estate, residential or commercial, so I don't really see the big appeal of WeWork. Are there that many independent contractors and very small companies that need office space, currently don't have it, and would otherwise work at home?

I can see renting out some space for an afternoon, a full day, or even up to a week if you're needing to meet with clients, but WeWork seems to be banking on very small teams that have no where else to work. Their spaces look nice but again unless you're really meeting with clients it seems like office space like they provide is largely a waste of money.

Obviously there's something I'm missing because Softbank feels different.
No it is not this simple.

The damage already done has a very long tail.

Thermal expansion will continue to increase sea level rise for hundreds of years even if we stop emitting co2 now [0].

We need to think about mitigation of the impact of future climate change in addition to addressing the root cause.

[0] https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-chan...
> programming languages becoming closer to spoken languages

One word: AppleScript
A carbon tax or carbon dividend could include payouts for planting & maintaining trees, and it would increase the price tag of excessive consumerism.
That's tough. I think it's becoming more and more true these days; but I very much disagree if we look at a long story of best-in-class UX that truly set the tone for the entire industry and beyond.

Apple used to be much, much more than marketing; in fact the very smugness of their image and marketing comes from their unprecedented domination over computer-user satisfaction, superior design language that contributed as much to art as it did to tech, and so on and so forth. Even typography, one of Job's first huge intuitions and success, is a true user's benefit well beyond the looks.

I'm particularly harsh with Apple these days when I criticize their choices (UX, UI, manufacturing quality, product design, pricing, whatever), but that's because I hold one of the world's biggest company to much higher standards than what they're currently outputting; and I did not set those standards — they did for themselves over their own history. That has been their true gift to the world.
The average wage of a SWE in an area could be the bottom decile of wages at a “big tech” co like Uber. That’s what I’m saying.
That’s a terrible metric. You want to deter vehicles that use a lot of fuel disproportionately to the cargo they’re carrying — not just punish heavy vehicles.
Nice, the video addresses myths such as:
"Climate Change -- Isn't it natural?"

Made by a former geologist, science journalists for 25 years.
Depends very much in where and via which device you spend your time online and if you’re a creator or consumer.
Unnecessary Complexity (2016)
A poem about counter-revolutionary state repression leading to genocide was warning you about... revolutionaries. Got it.
From everything I've read and researched on this topic, it seems that self-help content is the winner. Does anyone know other types of content published by people, as opposed by organized entities, that have provided nice financial rewards similar to those identified in this article? History, politics, travel are some of the topics that come to mind.
If a carbon fee system grants transferable credits for sequestering ambient carbon, then it would pay for that too.
We call it a sting operation, not a thought crime.
> QM is easy to describe.

That's easy for you to say!
The escape sequence is terminal specific. urxvt is likely different from xterm in this regard.
Revealing the Top Selling Items on eBay 2019
Neither one interprets the sequence, but cat will print the file unfiltered to stdout, and stdout is processed by your terminal, and then the terminal will interpret it. less filters before printing to the terminal.
Interesting points - like the comparison to mobile phone numbers. You’d think that an open account system could provide even more visibility - because you’re not just posting on a closed network.

I think if Facebook was just an account system or just a discovery mechanism, then it could be amazing. It just sucks that every network tries to do it all - and in a closed way.
Tor Browser 9.0
I guess my view is that it's easier (and has fewer negative side effects) to get people to care about others by expanding their ingroup than by making them care about their outgroup.
> "It's about Nazis getting rid of their political enemies, not about revolutionaries purging their own ranks."

"Revolutionary" is a word I would reserve for people I agree with, but it should be noted that the Nazis purged their own ranks. "Political enemies" and "their own ranks" are not even remotely mutually exclusive. Rather, the later is a subset of the former.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

(Note also that poet in question was originally a Nazi, until he realized he'd be targeted by them too.)
Unless you have a war chest behind you getting a patent is a huge gamble especially when your invention becomes successful. When it does those with a war chest jump in and use the PTAB to invalid your patent. You can even hear judges on Shark Tank like Damon John say/ponder on the show is a patent worth getting as he notes the PTAB issue.

Further, Google and it's ilk changed the game in their favor when they lined the pockets of congressmen/women to change the law from first to invent(those with money) to first to file(the true inventors with little resources/power).
The ocean sucks out carbon. It's a carbon sponge, not an emitter. The ocean is absorbing about 30% of our emissions currently, however that may soon drop [1]

Hope that helps! I'm a bit puzzled you know all those terms but apparently don't have the tools to find answers. Try googling that stuff and see what academic papers you find!

[1] https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/03/oceans-do-us-a-huge-s...
And it completely falls apart sometime. GIFs actually work but try browsing Reddit’s video alternative to GIFs anywhere outside of the reddit office and it struggles to even play for a second.

We have engineers replacing tech that works with their half baked barley functioning versions that lose all the benefits of sharing and remixability of a GIF file.
Yeah, this is classic neural network hype. I wish there were a way to automatically copy-paste my usual comment on trusting the MIT Tech Review, and especially its Emerging Technologies column, whenever such a link is submitted.
I think the opposite is happening.

The tax ensures that any app developer has costs to recover. It thus drives them to do so in ways that reduce quality. At the same time it pushes away the hobbyists who may have decided to develop non-monetized versions of an app at higher quality.

(look at kids apps as example)
Any links to additional sources of data about what sells the best on eBay are welcome...
I wonder how this attempt differs from Julia, such seems to be one of the more mature languages in the typed/efficient numerical computing space.
It writes about Model 3's gross margins improving over time, but it looks like Model Y will be the real winner with its improved wiring and the huge body press machine if it works.

We'll see how much of Model Y's technology will be backported to Model 3.
This ignores the fact that the resources to sequester carbon simply do not exist at the required scale.
Does it really matter whether the CO2 is natural or man made? It seems fairly clear climate change & more frequent extreme weather events are not a good thing for us.

In Colorado, for years the state government spent a lot of time and money trying to show that China was the reason we couldn't meet Federal air quality standards. It was a moronic exercise- no matter who is responsible for the ozone, we are the ones breathing it. Skip the blame game and get to fixing it.
Let me rephrase that: Cops _in the USA_ are almost never held liable for abuses of power including outright murders.

This is unheard of in other first world countries, especially in Europe. I'm American but I've lived in England, Germany, Sweden and Switzerland where the cops are really polite civil servants. In the UK, cops don't even carry guns.

The current state of affairs in the US, including rapid militarization of police, is a harbinger of things to come.
This article is less about GIFs being animated memes today and more about being the standard (at one time) way to send images between computers.
Public transport investment is probably a more efficient investment than either and avoids subsidizing only white collar positions that tend to be high income in the first place.

The problem isn't what a segment of the population is doing it's that everyone needs a car to get around.
It’s called cloaking. Spider gets one page, visitor gets a different one.
Ask HN: What useful things are not taught as much as they should be?
Realized I know zilch about law. It was never in my curriculum. Never needed it but it'd probably be useful. Many things would fit that category (taxes, life planning, etc) hence this post.
That's exactly the solution advocated by many climate scientists, economists, and some current candidates for president. An organization lobbying for it is https://citizensclimatelobby.org/
the first theme exposed here (fairies/elves/fair folk are scary) is core to a few Discworld novels, mainly "Lords and Ladies", which includes this wonderful bit

> Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They project glamour. Elves are enchanting. They weave enchantment. Elves are terrific. They beget terror. The thing about words is that meanings can twist just like a snake, and if you want to find snakes look for them behind words that have changed their meaning. No one ever said elves are nice. Elves are bad.
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Docker is convenient. You can just download the docker binary and type "docker run postgres" and have a container running Postgres. What's the equivalent for FreeBSD jails?
This happened because docker, in addition to an isolation system, also bundled a user friendly interface to a per-app persistent filesystem. No matter how many people sing the praises of isolation and security to Docker, I will continue to suspect that almost all of its adopters use it because packaging software with dependencies is hard, poorly understood, terribly tooled (looking at you, Python), and even more poorly executed in the vast majority of projects and companies.

Docker gives you a very simple way to not think about that (at least until your massive container that bundles ancient versions of a dozen different CVE-filled libraries bites you in the ass down the road).

It's not novel. It's not even particularly elegant. But Docker users don't want elegance; most of them just don't want to think about how to configure a production environment to work like their development environment, so we get the old joke: "It works on my machine!" "Then we'll ship your machine"...and so we got docker.
bash/zsh: for f in *.log; do mv "$f" "${f/%log/bak}"; done

a bit more generic, `for` loops and parameter expansion are good to know for proficiency, and also I dislike typing curly braces.
H1B data only lists base salary. Bonus, RSUs and other perquisites are never included unless part of base.

You can safely multiply by 2 the salary number there and still you are not likely to exceed the post-tax salary listed in that database.
Has the double slit experiment been done and verified in a vacuum? I'm able to produce the superficial results with a simple neon laser, but it always struck me that outside a vacuum, there is a lot available to skew those results.
That it is circumventable using an existing hole they have to patch

Now there is incentive
Actually GIFs were originally mainly for still image transfer — that they had more than 5 frames of animation is a recent phenomenon due to rising data transfer rates.

All this pop culture stuff comes over a decade from when the GIF was invented.
Giving incentive to patch an existing circumvention of their own UI
Grief is not enough. We must open our doors as well as our hearts – John Sentamu
Hah, thankfully I refreshed. Was about to post something similar.

No need for xargs, awk or find
Why not do a slow rollout, starting at maybe 5% of product. Then you can catch and fix deficiencies without compromising your entire production line, and ratchet up to 10, 15, ... 100% as you gain confidence in the model?
So, Newtonian physics is an approximation for certain wave shapes/magnitudes?
There's a fair bit of annoyance possible with GIFs, a fact I exploited when Google+ decided to:

1. Allow animations in the "Hero" user profile image.

2. Make that image permanently fixed to the top of the screen on the profile page.

3. As users increased window size to see more text and less hero, the image would scale to as much as 3/4 of the screen.

4. The hero was included on the "hover card" for users and would show up in all kinds of locations throughout the service. I still have that collection....

I spent an hour or so researching "annoying gifs", and settled on a rapid red-green-blue stroboscopic rotation. I don't know the cycle time, but it was probably a few times per second.

Google eventually relented. Well, they eventually shitcanned the whole site, but that's another story.

Trying to find animated images that weren't mind-bendingly annoying to me is how I ended up with the "space alien cat" image and avatar. The original had a rotating set of astronomical images in the glasses, I eventually applied the Crab Nebula as a static fill (tried the Cat's Eye, but ironically, it didn't work particularly well). That's the hero I use at several sites (Ello, Mastodon), and is the inspiration to the avatar I use as well.

Later at another site at which gratuitous annoying gif use was prevalent, I found a few static-but-apparently-moving optical illusion images, again to make the point that annoying images are annoying. The point was somehow missed by that crowd. That site also died.

TL;DR: animated gifs and even static images can be plenty annoying.
You fact-checked a meme. That's more befitting Snopes[1] than serious HN discussion.

Thus my joking response - mirroring your post's form & logic, and yet arriving at the opposite result. Essentially me lampooning your position "factually wrong but morally right"[2], as the (UN environmental official's) quote turned out to be factually wrong.

I will stick to the "> The fact that we are seeing the same headlines for many years now should have been an obvious giveaway" part tho.

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[1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-fact-checker-declares-war-on-...

[2] https://babylonbee.com/news/snopes-introduces-new-factually-...
> You need docker to handle the DNS, routing, port forwarding etc.

If you do IPv6, there is no need for all of these layers of IPv4 overlay network crap.
The test shows reasonable doubt of your innocence.
I don’t know that it matters, but it’s clearly a screenshot of an email, not a tweet.
> From far away, Windows and Fuchsia are very similar, but Windows have to contend with decades of code compatibility needs even if they want to start shoving everything into a locked down app)

DOS and such were designed around everything on the device being shared, with conflicts resolved at the application layer. Windows was built to maintain some (even ideological) compatibility with that world, while adding some of the benefits of separation and sharing (for example, moving away from the world where every piece of a job could crash/co-opt/exfiltrate the entire device).

Unix (Multics, CTSS, ITSS, etc) was built to enable a world where multiple jobs (not processes; even then lots of jobs were multi-process) and multiple people could share the device. Threads, jails, cgroups, etc were added to move to a world where sharing wasn’t entirely cooperative and trusting. VMs, containers, and hypervisors are on the recent end of that same movement, along with wasm and JS sandboxing.

In the end, it’s a balancing act between performance (speed, power, cost) versus safety, often starting from different points. Exo-, uni-, and library-kernels are similar efforts that haven’t (yet?) caught on, but there’s a pretty clear direction of movement towards the strongest isolation that our (currently quite flawed) hardware can afford.
Telegraph owners to put newspapers up for sale
And regarding ncdu, there are static binaries for Linux. Just put them in a folder and use them.
Trickle-down (aka Supply-side) economics...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trickle-down_economics

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It's this kind of thinking that unearths the bugs
It's an e-mail in Apple Mail, not a tweet. Agreed on the Hallmark card-level advise.
Which criticisms are you referring to?
Studies today seem like the internet, you can find anything you look for. Publish or perish.

The effectiveness or efficiency of carbon capture at present isn't the point. It's to develop the technology and means of running it for environmental benefit. Only once it's effective would we choose to run it on a large scale. And employing both alternative energy and carbon capture is the best course of action.
The entire point of a carbon credit system would be to produce the funding to develop those resources.
Not to defend policing in general, but shouldn’t this community recognize the recursive set of tradeoffs here?

Tests can rarely be both sensitive and specific. This test might have more Type I errors so it doesn’t commit Type II.

Likewise, a police officer is in the same dilemma. Are you really not going to arrest even though the test you were told to use came up positive?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensitivity_and_specificity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_I_and_type_II_errors
If you had a climate science PhD, you'd be better able to judge. Until then, a good overview of the scientific evidence for manmade climate change is in Hansen's Storms of My Grandchildren.

The fact that climate is not especially stable is precisely the problem.
Sure, it’s fine if these networks exist - I understand that people like Twitter and identify with it, even if I can’t fathom it. It’s just that they all close themselves off to interoperating with the Web.

I’m not trying to make a strict decentralization argument either - it’s just this draconian closedness to the larger network. (At least we’ve been able to hang on to email - imagine if we had separate email networks!) RSS and REST were great advances - and then our good open protocols stopped or something. Thank you for reading and responding, though.
> What many don’t realize is that the double slit experiment (with particles), proposed by Feynman in 1963, was for decades only a thought experiment. Finally, in 2013, it was successfully performed with electrons. It’s easy to see why it took so long: the slits were 62 billionths of a meter apart.

Who is this clown? I did the two slit experiment using a CRT (aka using electrons) in undergrad experimental physics class in the late 80s, and unless I had some amazing experience, I'm pretty sure every undergraduate physics major does the same thing. The '37 Nobel in physics was awarded more or less for doing this in the 1920s after de Broglie said it would be there.
The only thing suffix trees have in common with B-tries that I can see is that they're both non-binary trees.

A B-tree stores whole keys in the nodes, not fragments of values. And a B-tree tries to self-balance, so there's a lot of leeway for what keys get pushed up to the root node. B-trees split and merge nodes based on the number of items in them, trying to achieve a certain fill factor.

A suffix tree, on the other hand, is storing fragments of the values, and I believe (but have not bothered to prove) that there is one and only one minimal and valid way to organize the tree for a given set of data. Suffix trees add children when the data mandate that they do in order to remain correct, not just in order to make room.
This really is the cherry on top. Thanks to the influence of a centralized tech giant whose services are invaluable to WSJ, and who indexes the open web, we can get equal access to WSJ's centralized resources that they wanted to pretend were open, when it came to Google crawlers.
Unkept in check, "follow your heart" as a commanding principle is for sure a straight road to much sadness. The heart (emotion) is there to guide us, not lead us, because the heart has no brain of its own. Don't mistake the language of your body (mere feedback) for the direction of your will (forward in time, a decision of personal growth).
> The DOM has won for the view layer too

As a front-end dev, I'm not entirely sure I agree with that. The DOM has some annoying performance limitations, and I'd love to be able to use something better for rendering. I think what the DOM has shown, is that cross-platform and the ability to easily do custom look and feel are crucial.
This doesn't move files in subdirectories? Or am I missing something?
That the climate is changing is not a complex question. The impacts are less known, but an unstable climate seems net negative for the average person on Earth.

Heat wave deaths in Serbia and Canada: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/07/02/climate-chang...

https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/climate-change-canada-1.4...
Yeah, it's a time capsule, sure, but a wonderful one. Just this part alone had me rolling: "Actually, they're going to draw on them with red markers -- setting fires in public places is against the law in California."

I'm not that well-versed in the matter, is WebP already supported widely? I mean, not just on desktop and advanced smartphones?