skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Avengers: Endgame brought in $2.7 billion and is the highest grossing film of all time. Only 5 films ever have broken $2 billion.

> Phantom of the Opera the musical has made $6 billion, blowing Avengers out of the water. Wicked the musical has grossed $3 billion, more than any movie ever made. Same for Mamma Mia!.

> In the UK, more people watched The X Factor than Star Wars: The Force Awakens. The book Diary of a Wimpy Kid sold over a million copies in its latest installment.

> Yet none of those things enter conversations about cultural affinity in the same way movies do.

The first metric you mention is not the right one for discussing cultural impact. You'd want to compare number of tickets sold for Phantom of the Opera to number of tickets sold for Avengers: Endgame.

Weirdly, you go on to make the correct comparison for The X Factor.

I'm not convinced that popular video games haven't made their way into the conversations about cultural significance.
Canada Post is resetting passwords for online accounts
Dear Devs, please stop using Medium for your contents
Having a hard time to reading without the annoying popup for your sign up, please, let me know which other platforms do you use?
It does, thanks for the tip. It does seem to allow even finer grained configuration of what to block or allow so I will definitely take a look.
I have always used ctr-c. I didn't even really know escape was an option, so I never had to adapt.
USB-C headphones? Why not throw in a real 3.5 mm port? For me it's not just about having to use a dongle: USB-C doesn't provide a reliable enough connection for a wearable device.
I probably misused the "across the spectrum" idiom. What I meant is that it would make developers much happier than USB-C and it would make consumers much happier than USB 3. My idea was that it's a more wholesome situation than content consumer and frustrated developer.
>Think of microcode like a firmware for your computer’s CPU. Microcode translates the instructions the CPU receives into the physical, circuit-level operations that happen inside the CPU. In other words, an updated microcode can send different instructions to the circuits inside the CPU. This can prevent certain Spectre attacks by changing the way the CPU functions. Microcode updates can also fix bugs and other errors, without requiring complete replacement of CPU hardware.
And in the evening they were exhausted by physical labour. If they still didn't feel like sleeping, they could read the a candle lit bible.
If you can social engineer yourself around 2FA it's not a proper 2FA setup.
"The well grounded Rubyist" is a fantastic book to learn Ruby. Right balance of theory and practice. Easy to read and still offers a lot of depth about the internals of Ruby.
I'm going to want a source on this claim.

While mobile keyboards are "alright" for messaging where you can get away with errors, they're not the kind of thing you want to be using for prolonged periods, ie. writing documents or long emails. They're slow, error prone, and tiring because of the unnatural thumb movements.

For any significant amount of typing and where accuracy is needed (a single letter wrong is more understandable than being replace with a similar dictionary word), keyboards are still preferred.
How do the microcode upgrades get delivered? Do people have to manually install them, or do Intel have some way to force a microcode update over the Internet?
This looks interesting. On editors in general - if I'm working with an interpreted language, what I need from a code editor is:

- decent autocomplete and inline documentation

- good REPL which can send a block of code to the interpreter and preserve state so I can work interactively

- to have a variable inspector

- to work with plain text files

RStudio has been by far the best IDE ticking all the boxes for me. Still haven't found anything that comes close for Python - RStudio's support for Python simply isn't reliable, VSCode's Python extension has a bad REPL, Jupyter doesn't use plain text, Spyder's REPL isn't great either, PyCharm's scientific mode isn't free, I gave up on setting up Emacs several times because of how frustrating the whole process was. Any suggestions?
I mostly agree with this: http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html

And I think an argument could be made that being more competitive on all those points would be easier outside the EU.

I suspect you would disagree with Paul's essay/the goals he outlined, and that's fine. My point is that if you did agree with his essay, you might see that Brexit could also open opportunities.
As soon as you deal with env variables, need to support zsh and various shells, it quickly devolves into a hot mess.
>Eventually he became the architect by virtue of operating in isolation, where we couldn't discuss his decisions.

I had opportunity to see some projects that went in the wrong direction by bad architectural decisions resulting from an opposite behaviour. Every architectural decision would be made based on everyone's input where most junior people's opinions would weight the same as most experienced. In the end decisions were made primarily based on how simple the solution appears and not based on its suitability for performance, future extensibility, maintainability etc.
eclipse + pydev?
Interesting list, just learned about OE Classic (Outlook Express remake). Too bad it seems that it is the only alternative to the discontinued software in that list.
OP from twitter here. I'll take the blame for the click-baity-ness, but I was really shocked and this was in real-time in my defense.

I'm assuming it will get resolved, as the errata suggests by shoving lots of 0x2c segment overrides to re-align those jumps.

The price won't be 0, but will definitely less than the very extreme 20% edge case I stumbled upon.

I'm more "worried" or annoyed by older binaries that will never get updated. But hey... (；⌣̀_⌣́)
Flip phones are also smaller when folded, so they are more pocketable. That alone is more important for me than most considerations.
I'd give anything for a "moral"/"nice-guy" AGI that could replace my Dota 2 team mates and opponents.
The latency to human user is what matters. If I get an answer in under 100ms as a user 99% of the time, I don’t care whether 100 or 100K times per day someone else hits that 1% worst case.
We asked 2020 Democratic candidates 6 key questions on climate change
I wonder if it'll start making sense to ship different binaries for Intel CPUs.
It's distribution specific, but generally it gets loaded at every boot. It's not permanent. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Microcode
This but it'll be $2000
Or a Philip K Dick novel that's so weird and prescient, nobody's been able to figure out how to make a movie from it.

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

http://mxmossman.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-three-stigmata-of-...

>The Perky Pat Layouts itself is an interesting concept. Here's Dick, in the early 60's, coming up with the idea for virtual worlds. I mean, Second Life and other virtual worlds are just a mapping of the Perky Pat Layouts onto cyberspace. Today Facebook acts like the PP Layouts, taking people's minds off toil and work and letting them engage others in a shared virtual hallucination -- you're not actually physically with your friends, and they might not even be your friends.

>Dick’s description of the Can-D experience is essentially a description of virtual sex:

>“Her husband -- or his wife or both of them or everyone in the entire hovel -- could show up while he and Fran were in the state of translation. And their two bodies would be seated at proper distance one from the other; no wrong-doing could be observed, however prurient the observers were. Legally this had been ruled on: no co-habitation could be proved, and legal experts among the ruling UN authorities on Mars and the other colonies had tried -- and failed. While translated one could commit incest, murder, anything, and it remained from a juridicial standpoint a mere fantasy, an impotent wish only.”

>Another character says “when we chew Can-D and leave our bodies we die. And by dying we lose the weight of -- ... Sin.”
> My life was way less monotonous when I was a teenager. The most monotonous period started when I had children.

I'm not surprised. Childhood became serious business in the last couple of decades, children have all of their time structured and are working for their CV seconds after going through their mother's vagina.

I watch in horror the life of my friends who have children. It's an endless grind of extra-curricular activities and soul-crushing corporatized birthday "parties".

> Before factory like schooling, I guess we mean feudalism and traditional farm households, teenagers were not free at all by any meaningful definition of that word. No one was.

This is the kind of History we learn in high school in the west, but the reality was quite different. People where much freer in many senses, for example most of their time was not dictated by someone else.

I am not saying that we should go back to more primitive ways of living, but it is absolutely not a binary choice between modernity and feudalism, and there are ways in which we regressed.

> How far exactly in history do you want to go?

I want to go forward, not backwards. To do that, it is important to see our overarching History as a species in context, at different time scales and so on.

Modernity is horrible in many ways, I am an idealist and I believe that we can do better. If we are sufficiently smart and open-minded.
Is this related to:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21534232

Or do we have two bugs being fixed at the same time?
Prank video? Satire at most. Did you even watch it?
I think pros should be able to embrace new things. I use emacs and vim for about 70% of what I do and I never use the fn keys. ESC is remapped to caps as well so I'd have preferred a macro key or something instead that I can customise as I please (there is probably some software for that out on the net somewhere anyway but I like native stuff) like define app/global specific keystroke patterns (e.g. you define it as cmd-s so you can use it to save or something) .

The touchbar for sure is lacking something, not sure what though. I agree with apple that the fn row could be utilised better so I applaud them for trying something, not sure if the touchbar is the right way though but should apple stick with it and keep going in the right direction again I will for sure customise the hell out of the touchbar.
I am skeptical that he will succeed, but I am happy that he will try. Carmack is smart, and we need smart people to try hard things.
Here’s one that does so using roman numerals:

http://static.offd.es/numerals/

It’s unsurprisingly easy to implement
To my understanding, no. I was referencing tweets from one of their iOS engineering leads during and after the SwiftUI announcement. He was specifically talking about doing an API compatible re-implementation for older iOS versions.
Exactly what I thought for my first use case as a person who is not proeficient with pandas.
Why the announcement? Is it to protect Oculus/FB so it doesn't look like he's bailing out of VR?

Couldn't he just have said "I'm taking some time off" and then make an announcement when there's something to announce, ie. "So here's some progress I've made on AGI"
> Workers have the right to organize with other workers and advocate for change in their working conditions without retribution from the company.

You're misrepresenting the facts. The newspiece states that the activists were fired for tracking and doxxing colleagues that they seemed reactionaries. This sort of abuse is hardly defensible.
You may be interested in the significance of the repo's "aggressive militarized snake smoking a pipe" avatar.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazilian_Expeditionary_Force#...

(Avatar here: https://github.com/vyapp)
Even better, top of the line iPhone 11 Pro Max 512GB is still cheaper at $1449
Here's a cryptic Intel whitepaper: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/pr...
Pigeons have been trained in pathology imaging for breast cancer

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal...
I recieved the following email from "Canada Post" <donotreply-nepasrepondre@notifications.canadapost-postescanada.ca>

Canada Post password reset for online accounts (ref. OCT 2019)

Canada Post is resetting passwords for all online customer accounts, starting on October 16, 2019.

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We have been able to determine that login and password credentials stolen in external privacy breaches unrelated to Canada Post were used to access individual Canada Post accounts. This is possible when users reuse their credentials on several websites for convenience or to avoid having to remember different passwords.

Based on our investigation, we do not believe your information has been compromised, but we are requiring that you reset your password.

What you need to do

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* To change your password, click the button at the bottom of this email. Enter your user name to start the process of resetting your password with the new requirements.

* Alternatively, you can visit canadapost.ca, click "Sign in" the top right-hand corner of the homepage and then select "Forgot Password."

* If you use the Canada Post or epost mobile app, please sign out and log back in once you have reset your password at canadapost.ca.

While this is not a breach of the Canada Post network, we understand our obligation to our customers and all Canadians to keep their information safe. We will be reviewing our policies and procedures to determine how we can continue to improve the security of our online platforms.

If you have any questions, please call our Customer Care team at 1-877-376-1212. Please use reference number OCT 2019 to help us direct your call.

Thank you.

I really wish that they would not send out an email with a link to all account holders to have their passwords reset. They just gave the phishers an easy win. I wonder how many accounts will be compromised after this blunder? An email informing people to go to the home page and select "Forgot Password", but without providing any link would have been a better choice.

dustfinger.
Americanisms. Like how European reality shows are starting to bleep expletives when that's complete unnecessary here.
I always had to carry spare batteries for my Symbian devices, no way did they last a couple of days under regular use. Same with my Sony Ericsson J2ME phones. Running stuff like IRC, streaming radio, bluetooth headphones, really sucked down the battery.
This form factor but two screens with minimal break for half the price, sign me in!
From what I gathered off of several HN comments of Uber insiders, the size of their engineering team is actually more likely to be one of the causes for bad engineering decisions. They seem to have too many engineers running around for too little actual work to be done, which results in those engineers coming up with stuff to do to keep them busy (and of course to ensure they appear to be busy and worth their money to their superiors).

One of the best ways to create yourself some work is to not choose an already-proven path to a solution, but invent a new one just for the sake of inventing a new one.
Of course that's not how this kind of doing is justified - the justification is usually "the proven path does not scale to our needs" or "by using a special approach adapted to our needs we can be more efficient" or "the proven path is too complex, we can get by with something simpler and easier to maintain". Which might actually all be proper justifications, it's just that you should have some hard proof for these statements, like benchmark results of a comparison of different approaches. That part often gets skipped, which is actually ironic, because doing extensive evaluation and benchmarking and implementing different approaches first before choosing one for production actually serves quite well to create even more work to do.
I was thinking more along the lines of neural connections, and you probably sitting in some comfy chair physically while roaming in your mind.

You know, however sci-fi "solves" VR. I agree with your sentiment, current "let's put displays on a headset" approach seems way too old school to me. A 20th century (flawed) solution to a true 21st century problem (much more than elec. tech it's bio-extension, very rich cognitive interface).
The “No Man's Sky” Archaeology Project
> They're illegal now because of politics and political activism.

The point is that expecting the law to be upholded is hardly a political act. It's basic rule of law.
If you're on Linux, you may need to install a package to get µcode updates. The Arch Wiki has a particularly informative article on the subject:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode
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I disagree that this is any better, because terms can be so wide as to not have any meaning

E.g. i was blocked from facebook rencently and all it said is "you are inelligible, refer to our terms", but reading through them doesn't help at all
Crushing this thing is actual an achievement
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21533746
For Arch Linux, see:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microcode
> Three in five hiring managers have admitted that the skills shortage has worsened over the last year.

This is also partly caused by Brexit... If you're in the EU you might think twice before moving to the UK, not knowing what your status is going to be in a few months.
The context was this quote:

> intelligence is mostly about getting through the next 10-30 seconds of life without screwing up

In this context horses don't plan or have much capacity for shared learning, at least not as far as I know.

Quote: “This study indicates that horses do not learn from seeing another horse performing a particular spatial task, which is in line with most other findings from social learning experiments,”

https://thehorse.com/16967/navigating-barriers-can-horses-wa...
I remember Comic Chat well. It was almost universally hated because many users would connect to normal IRC servers and Comic Chat sent it's own code (to describe the character expressions etc) which would flood the channel.

Comic Chat was even less popular online than mIRC users who posted coloured messages.

Even at the time I felt it was a great idea if only it played nicer with regular IRC networks+. Ironically it's one of the few occasions when Microsoft supported an open protocol by default when actually a propitiatory network might have made more sense.

+ actually that's possibly a lie because at that time I was writing my own IRC clients and bots and was well into the "l33t g33k" culture. So I might have hated Comic Chat just because of MS prejudices
I've had a Sharp Zaurus C760 running Linux; beautiful machine. This reminds me of it.
Thank you for the context and new resources to learn from.
My apologies then; I thought you sounded like one of these gold standard fanatics that are all over.

I couldn't find the essay on the web, but it's in the book https://www.amazon.com/Praise-Idleness-Other-Essays/dp/00430... which is well worth reading.
Simulator technology is now good enough that you can do quite realistic worlds.

It is nowhere near good enough to avoid running into Moravec’s Paradox like a brick wall as soon as you try and apply it outside the simulator.
What are the monetary theories?
Configure HAProxy with PostgreSQL using built-in pgsql-check
Anker. They're consistently reliable, and accessories are their whole business, so a problem would hurt their reputation a lot more than one of the big hardware companies.
It would be great to see what Carmack could contribute to Cyc, not just his own common sense (which would be great too), but deep rich useful interesting applications of commonsense knowledge (including but not just games).

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonsense_knowledge_(artific...
So when/where did we branch out from the evolutionary-preferred routine? When were the teenagers waking up late during the day?
UK target to start cancer treatment after urgent referral not hit since 2015
Thanks for your advise. I think it is an advantage to learn about different ways to look at a problem. Thankfully there are a lot of ways to look at problems when working in the software business.
Mysteries behind interstellar buckyballs finally answered
I loved Comic Chat because I was 12 years old. I couldn't figure out what "lol" meant and it was really funny seeing the characters saying it with just a blank facial expression lol
Being that I’m currently taking part in a 6 month peer learning course as an adult I can thoroughly recommend it to anyone interested in continuing learning beyond school.

It tends to be that peoples learning goals are often less academic though and touch on more personal aspects of them selves and the world around them.

Here the organisation I’m participating through: https://www.enrolyourself.com/
The captain lays out his selection of the airfield, runway and approach procedure fairly succinctly in the PDF, and the limited but stable control he had over the aircraft.
Some stigmas are well deserved.
I’d imagine the author of the article would also describe the agrarian lifestyle as highly unnatural. The “preindustrial” societies described therein sound a lot like hunter-gatherer societies to me.

These are the societies which set rites of passage into adulthood that coincide with puberty. Teens are then considered full fledged adults who can marry and are expected to work and participate in community decision-making.

In a hunter-gatherer society there’s not much need to wake up early. Everyone’s circadian rhythms tend to be set by the sun, with no artificial light apart from firelight. Since teens can marry, there’s nothing stopping them from staying up later to have sex. But other than that, they’ll wake up when the sun naturally wakes them up.
Modern CPUs are more like VMs. The actual architecture is totally different from x86 and just pretending to be x86 to the outside world. X86 instructions get translated to the native instruction set of the CPU which is more or less "secret". This makes it very easy to patch issues with the CPU through microcode, as seen in this case.
Since Tao's Erdos number is 2, the 3 physicists are now a 3, at most :)
Secretive from whom? I'd kind of hope that as people get richer it gets harder to hide vast sums from the tax authorities and the antiterrorism investigators, but that appears not to be the case.
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First thing I do is disabling autocorrect. It introduces more errors than it fixes. Also it's changing a correct word in language A to another correct word in language B. But I need the language A word.
Pretty much all movie/TV content comes out of:

Disney

Comcast

AT&T

Amazon

Apple

Netflix

CBS

Sony

Fox Corp

It’s a get big or get crushed world right now. Of the latter 4, I wonder who Microsoft/Google/Verizon/Facebook will buy.