skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As someone whose major was in economics, let me warn you that most of what you learn in ECON 101 is not directly applied as policy in the real world. It is not that the concepts are incorrect per se, they aren't, but they are rough approximations, with a lot of assumptions that are not necessarily true in the real world.
Econ 101 thinking is generally a good starting point to understand the economics effect of policy, but it is far, far from being complete.
> "Never start a fight, but if one starts, don't lose."

That's really good motto. Don't lose doesn't mean win, just make sure to show you are not a victim and they will have to pay some price for fucking with you.
People love to complain about airlines, but when it comes to buying the ticket, they always choose the cheapest one, even if it was no carry-on luggage, or a place to stretch your feet.
It's why I pick Uber over a taxi. How is that irrelevant to this discussion?
It very easy to strongly dislike a game. In fact I've even felt angry if I'm playing a game which doesn't feel fair. Most games are designed to stimulate an emotive response because if they didn't then most people might find them rather dull. Unfortunately sometimes that response can be negative (how many times have you read about people throwing their controllers across the room in rage?). The key is identifying negative responses and stopping. If a particularly game is known for annoying me then I'd of course stop playing it and describe it as something I legitimately hate. That strikes me as an appropriate use of the term "hate".
Any reason why is that? It doesn't make sense that you have to pay for defending yourself after the judge said you were innocent. You can just sue for nothing whoever you don't like and has less money than you.
How do you ensure competition when Big Tech can (and do) literally buy any and all potential competition? I'd say this is the biggest issue we have, and it doesn't seem like anybody is addressing it. After seeing countless interesting startups be bought up by Facebook or Google, it's time legislation was introduced to limit what Big Tech can do to distort the market with their obscene amounts of money.

Interoperability would be fantastic, but utterly pointless if they can just buy up somebody who's plugging into their API and gaining significant popularity.
Peter Thiel's Stanford Course on Startups
I left $5000+ worth of camera equipment in an uber once.

They went 40 mins out of their way to return it and tried to refuse the money I offered them for their trouble.

This would have absolutely not happened with a cab.
this is from 2015 and not really any work on it has been done since.
Most of these deaths are from pollution, not from climate. But the climate alarmists don't care for the real environmental issue of our time, being busy chasing the benign gas CO2. This shows that the climate hysteria is a movement aimed at socio-political changes, not environmental ones.
That is what Forensic economics is all about.
Russia Steps Up Efforts to Shield Its Hackers from Extradition to U.S.
Microsoft's New Edge Browser Logo Looks NSFW to Me
Based on information I've found in article [0] pfSense had problems with reaching 1 Gbps but it seems disabling hardware offloading significantly increases throughput [1] (940 Mbps).

[0]: https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2c0-ipfire-throughp...

[1]: https://teklager.se/en/knowledge-base/apu2-1-gigabit-through...
You need to add an asterisk after wdt:P279, otherwise the query only finds instances of direct subclasses of Q38723. On the other hand, I didn't think to filter only for those that have an associated website. (See sibling comment.)

Modifying your query, I get 563 results: https://query.wikidata.org/#SELECT%20DISTINCT%20%3Fschool%20...

Conclusion: it depends on how you count.
Yes, I teach at a small Liberal Arts school in the US and this is not a correct characterization of what happens here, either. (On the other hand, I went to a state university and there is some truth to it in that context, modified of course by the fact that individual instructors may take a different approach.)
Reminds me of that time when they fixed a buffer overflow in the ancient Office Equation Editor by manually patching the binary because they lost the source code:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/microsoft-patches-eq...
> Bar none, what I most want to see as an interviewer is someone's own code on GitHub. But I can count on one hand the number of times I've ever seen that after 10 years of hiring :-(

I would also love to see my own code on GitHub (well, perhaps another platform but anyway). Unfortunately having a full time job as a software developer leaves too little time & energy for my own projects, and work stuff at my current place will probably never land on GitHub. :-(
True but that was not my point. I meant in documentation and details of everyday activity of certain people. But granted such small details might also be forgotten completely.
> And the `utf8` encoding, that does not fully support UTF-8 looks like it’ll stay around forever. ಠ_ಠ

No, it looks like the exact opposite. As the MySQL documentation clearly states:

> The utf8mb3 character set is deprecated and will be removed in a future MySQL release. Please use utf8mb4 instead. Although utf8 is currently an alias for utf8mb3, at some point utf8 will become a reference to utf8mb4. To avoid ambiguity about the meaning of utf8, consider specifying utf8mb4 explicitly for character set references instead of utf8.
Often the problem isn't phrased as "please implement algorithm X", but "solve this business related problem that requires use of algorithm X". The expected answer is the same, though...you're supposed to implement algorithm X.

I've failed these sort of interviews by suggesting I'd rather find a well tested library and use it than implement the algorithm on my own. What's the point really.
You're absolutely right this should not be a clause in our ToS. I've just removed it and notified all repository owners of the change.

There was a misunderstanding of what 'Content' entailed on my part–it was meant to encompass anything without a license already attached in order to grant us rights to distribute unlicensed software. Our ToS should have been more specific, I apologize.
>It's not really clear to me what the purpose of the program is, but it doesn't appear to even try to challenge the students or introduce them to more interesting/meaningful curriculum.

Its purpose is to maintain the deception that the education system is designed to educate, rather than the daycare-disguised-as-education function it actually serves.

Fortunately for educators and parents, even gifted kids are still easy targets for the "we can't do anything else, so give them a token raise, a fancy title, and stick them in a room [maybe with others like them] so everyone else can get back to work" thing that quite a few organizations currently do. It's one thing to accept this when you have some idea of how much you as a person are worth; it's quite another to accept this when you're a child and have no idea that this is merely a token gesture (even though you may have your suspicions, you'll generally lack the opportunity to do something about it even if you're capable of acknowledging it).

And every adult that interacts with these kids all know (on a subconscious level) but will refuse to remedy this knowledge gap when they see it for pragmatic reasons- teachers and administrators don't want their job to become harder and/or don't have time, and parents desire obedience and subordination from their kids and/or don't have time/money to allow limit-pushing.

You may be in a unique position to remedy this; if you are I highly recommend you take advantage of it.
It depends what you're describing as algorithm heavy. Do you have any examples?

I've seen people arguing you shouldn't have to know how a linked list, hash table or binary tree work. I think every programmer should know these ones. I think having to describe how quicksort works is getting too much, but knowing e.g. some search tree and graph algorithms might be appropriate depending on your domain.
Funny. Microsoft Works getting discontinued, and Microsoft Office being unable to open Works documents is what pushed me toward OpenOffice (which could open Works Word Processor documents, mostly without issue), since all of my family's documents were in Works Word Processor. Years later, Microsoft finally came out with an importer for Word, but there's still no migration path to anything for Works Database.
Yes, some demographics have it worse than others but that's a totally separate variable of the equation though. A rising tide lifts all boats. Not bettering the system because a particular group/groups will not do better relative to some other group even though both groups do better relative to their past position is foolish. This is true for systemic improvements in general, not specific to education.
IIRC, the accurate statement is that Win95 wasn't pure 32-bit.

In Win9x/Me, the core of the OS (the VMM) is 32-bit (which was true even in Windows 3.x in 386 Enhanced mode.) But, some other parts of the OS remained 16-bit code, and 32-bit apps will sometimes end up invoking 16-bit code via thunks when calling OS APIs.

By contrast, NT-based Windows, a 32-bit app will never invoke any 16-bit code. The only scenario in which 16-bit code would ever run would be when running a legacy 16-bit app.

(Someone please correct me if I'm remembering this wrong.)
Thanks for noticing and fixing my bug!
Airlines - the food was terrible and the portions too small

People have shown that they value the hard product most - being able to get from A to B fast.

That is optimal. If we increase service people that could afford air travel will decrease. Maybe a good thing for the planet ... but not according to the people being priced out.

First class is extinct beast - since business started to have full flats, there is just no reason to fly first.
I am reminded of the South Seas Traiding Company.
You understand that the Salt Lake Tribune has traditionally been dedicated to being critical of the Mormon church? Right?
How much time does it take to read through the millions of lines of code?
The New Microsoft Office – One App to Rule Them All
Because Microsoft could have bought every startup in the early 2000s and yet..., it didn’t happen.

Also there’s something called innovators dilemma. Where someone like Blockbuster could have bought Netflix, but why would they do that when clearly renting VHS is making boatloads of money?
I always wonder how long it would take humanity to relearn certain things if some cataclysm would happen. And I don’t even mean the latest inventions in semiconductor industry. But things like metal, glass and woodworking. Crafts that took ages to evolve.
https://nomoregoogle.com/ was discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18078030
Facebook Libra Is Architecturally Unsound
Can somebody please create a Babbage-style infinite scroll interface?
how can you be craving so much to pay twice for donuts?

It’s a cultural thing. For example if you are an American cop then being seen with a donut in your hand is part of the image, just as much as the badge and the gun. People will gladly pay a premium in many ways to portray a particular image, the entire fashion industry relies on it.
> just some professor's opinion

A professor who is, say, in an economics department is a person whose opinions on economics have some value. Of course people build up different reputations over time so YMMV, but I'm personally interested in reflecting on what Schiller has to say about the subject.
An issue not talked about enough if the type of regulation.

Think about plumbing and electrical systems. There is a great amount of interoperability within a region which enables competition. We mostly can't imagine having to have your appliances coupled to the company where all the parts for the electric wiring in your home are from. Things are interoperable.

Interoperability in this sense is good for competition and people. It's also a regulation type that's mostly not talked about.

If big tech is going to be regulated it should be no surprise that their lobbyists work to have regulation that is more likely to benefit them.

There is a type of regulation that could be very useful that's not getting enough airtime.
The tech industry has fundamentally changed since the early 2000s though. Microsoft was primarily interested in extinguishing competition. The new culture for the past 10ish years has been to assimilate. It's not an isolated case. There are too many examples to count. Are you arguing that FB/Google/etc haven't been on a crazy buying spree for years now because ... Microsoft didn't do the same thing 20 years ago? Or because Blockbuster didn't do it 25 years ago? We see the current tech giants doing it right now, probably learning from said mistakes in missing the boat.
Thanks, I gathered as much about RISCV, but my question was maybe more basic, kind of eli5 of why would someone would use RISC for an application over x86 or ARM, what level of task requires or benefits from a reduced instruction set chip. I noticed alot of video games have used it.
Have there been any good epistemological studies on the impact of instant messaging and social media? I keep thinking of the book “Amusing Ourselves to Death” and wondering what the authors would have thought of smart phones and micro-burst communication tools like SMS, Twitter, and FB. Clearly it emphasizes the importance of the Sound Bite over fully exploring and developing ideas but I’m hopeful that the medium of podcasting, especially long-form interview podcasts like the Joe Rogan Show, could start to swing things back the other way.
My mistake, you are right in that the same language appears in v2.

My point is that the op commented:

> No part of the GPL, as far as I'm aware, requires distribution to anyone who isn't a customer.

...and I am agreeing to this position, against fuzzyh. Specifically "anyone" != "any third party" != "any third party... unless you've abided by a) or b), which don't require distribution to 'anyone' either."
I think he doesn't quite "close the loop" on how this proposal would work. Requiring open API access doesn't just create competition. It gives that competition a bit of an advantage, in the sense that the platform would still have to bear the considerable cost of providing the base infrastructure - storage, user management, at least some privacy enforcement, etc. This is, I suppose, to offset other advantages that the platform would unavoidably retain.

Is it fair? Would it work? I'd have to think about that some more, but I think the cost factor is a necessary part of those analyses.
I dunno, either we lurch from crisis to crisis and possibly end up with an ungovernable world, or look at implementing something like a one child policy in countries with very high population growth (or pressuring them to do so by preventing them from exporting population).

Certainly move the discourse beyond ... so well population is going up, nothing can be done about it.
In Xinjiang, China stages prayers, street scenes for visiting delegations
100% agree. In all my years of coding and other people I know you literally never need to implement an algorithm yourself or do anything that is already provided by a library/framework. Knowing alrogithms/data structures is only ever useful for interviews and nothing else. On daily basis you just make classes and basic CRUD operations and mostly design rather than any hardcore logic let alone algorithm... Interviews are unrealistic.
Are you suggesting untrustworthyness in foreign politics is something intrinsic to the American democracy? Other countries can be relied upon, in spite of them holding general elections.
My LaTeX files from 1994 still compile, too.
The Ham-Handed, Money-Driven Mangling of Sports Illustrated and Deadspin
Open source is cool and here's how to start (and get paid)
This is just a research paper on onion routing.

To get started with onion routing that's currently in use I'd check out the Tor FAQ [0].

[0]: https://2019.www.torproject.org/docs/faq.html.en
> You need a high-level understanding of these concepts, sure, but don't get bogged down in details when they don't matter.

I think we agree then. I don't think understanding sorting algorithm is super important (usually you don't do much in terms of configuring or choosing these when coding), but people should have a high-level understanding of the differences between e.g. dictionary data structures as you need to know which trade-offs to pick when using these as part of a library.
Hm, if you were using 32bit applications and 32bit drivers then you wouldn't touch 16bit code (unless of course you did so explicitly).

However there were commonly used built-in dos utilities that were 16bit so if you called out to any of those then obviously you would invoke 16bit code.
Since I started to work for big tech myself this is what I tell people most of the time: Stop thinking about complaints, start thinking about solutions to problems that everybody has. That is where the power of big tech comes from. I mean, facebook knows all our social contacts because it's the best way to communicate over long distances and having different live situations. Gmail can learn how we write and think because it's the best and most flexible mail client out there. Google and Apple can spy on us via smart phones because these devices have gave us so many opportunities like navigation, translation, communication, photos etc.

Start building a better future and you can be part of defining what it will look like. Doesn't even have to be a competitor. Employees inside the big tech companies also have more push towards their personal goals than people outside.
It was still possible to use "real mode" (16-bit DOS) device drivers with Win95. [1] I believe there was a 32-bit kernel running on top of this 16-bit foundation, but it was definitely a hybrid arrangement. User space processes definitely ran in 32-bit "protected mode", and 16-bit legacy processes ran in their own protected address space when run from inside Win95 - with the 32-bit OS kernel taking the place of what would normally have been the interplay of BIOS and DOS, handling the interrupts routinely generated by 16-bit DOS software for making what we would now call syscalls.

I believe much of this was already in place with Windows 3.1(1)'s 386 enhanced mode and Win32s, although from memory Windows 95 moved far more device drivers into the 32-bit kernel. Presumably this was enabled by not having to be able to end the windowing session and quit back to DOS without rebooting.

[1] I seem to remember CD-ROM drive controller drivers being particularly common culprits in this regard, with virtual mode device drivers often being unavailable, so you had to use real mode drivers in config.sys even on Win9x. Yes, back in the day of single-, double-, and quad-speed CD-ROM drives, you typically had an ISA card with a custom controller that then connected to the CD-ROM drive via an "I can't believe it's not IDE" ribbon cable. Only later did we get ATAPI and hard drives and optical drives could use the same controller and bus. (Sound cards often had an on-board CD-ROM drive controller and ribbon cable connector around that time.)
> How do you ensure competition when Big Tech can (and do) literally buy any and all potential competition?

Don't let them. While a breakup would run into all sorts of complicated problems, banning new acquisitions would be relatively straightforward.
Am I the only one that doesn't like this about Microsoft products?
The way desktop content is consumed hasn't changed much in 20 years though. Ok we now have OOXML instead of DOC but the layout of the content and even editors to some extent hasn't changed much. This is why PDFs still open. GIFs, BMPs, JPEGs, etc still work fine etc. Granted there will be a problem with older and/or more esoteric proprietary formats but that's a risk people should weigh up when using less common software and saving files from them.

In my opinion the biggest short term threat we have at the moment isn't the popular document file formats (though that is a long term threat) but content posted exclusively online. Web standards are constantly evolving and any given website would have a multitude of files -- many of which wouldn't even be hosted on the same domain as the HTML endpoint, which itself is most likely dynamically generated. Plus our local copies of web content is just a temporary cache that routinely gets flushed so once it disappears from the web it's likely gone for good (web archive aside).

I'll be more worried about classic file formats when computing undergoes it's next paradigm shift away from personal computing (arguably that's already started happening with smart phones and cloud computing).
Since when is an outline (and not a good one at that) of a single sperm NSFW ?

And besides I am not really seeing it even after it was pointed out.
Mm yeah. Personally I go also for the storyline since I read the comics too.

What I meant was more "people don't go to see a masterpiece of storyling but a masterpiece of entertainement / action / CGI". Marvel movies are like cartoons to me and it's totally respectable.
> Wikis work that way, where the payload of each page is a flat text sequence with simple markup.
That depends on the wiki. The most well known - MediaWiki - uses traditional DB like MySQL or Postgres.

They still persist each page as a self-contained single flat text field, though. For the wiki model, it doesn't matter how it is stored in the hard drive, but that you get atomic nodes of content. If the node is a text file, you get the benefit of accessing such content through the file system and a text editor instead of a DBMS. That's invaluable for accessing content from a collection of multiple devices, operating systems and alternative applications, i.e. the use case for personal information.

> And your app does not know files changed so it can't selectively update the indexes/metadata.

Why would the app not know that files are changed? Any development environment nowadays may check for touched files and re-parses them on the fly, for example for instant preview of web pages.
Well technically...

you left out an important word after "offer":

> a written offer, valid for at least three ...

So it's not just requiring an offer be made, it's requiring a offer being made which is valid (with certain conditions)

If you make an offer you have no intention of honouring, surely that's not a valid offer?
d.tube, bitchute and other p2p are natural replacements for youtube

i use yandex for image search
I agree. But I haven't seen anybody push this forward as possible policy anywhere. There's no discussion about it anywhere that I've seen.
It seems increasingly unwise to actually have a human 'driving' these things but I guess the human needs to be there for the world record to count.

edit: video from inside while driving
https://youtu.be/kZQBUt3ST4Q?t=253
"Change" by Graeme Maxton [1]. I read it recently and highly recommend it to non-scientists. It gives you an accessible forecast of the next 50 to 100 years, based on scientific research.

[1] https://www.graememaxton.com/gpm/2018/03/30/change/
I'm sure there will be some that will use any article on the opinion page that criticizes the government to use this to fight the non-profit status. After all, if there is one thing that stands out in the political landscape at the moment it is that the government is at war with those segments of the media that are critical of it.
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24...
It still sounds pretty bad, like doubling the current population or close to that in 100 years. If not 100, make it 150 or 200 it's still not much on historical terms.

With modern medicine, modern agriculture and the tendency to reduce warfare around the world, there is no reason to believe the growth will stop, by the contrary.