skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for giving me the terminology - I think I do see why it's hard mathematically, I just struggle to understand that graphically, it seems so obvious on paper - looking by cases at how many existing regions a necessarily new colour touches.

But, I understand and trust the mapping of the problem to a graph, so perhaps if I see why the problem is hard on a graph that should be enough for me.

But my reasoning was along the lines (but now in my newfound terminology) of:

K1 - trivially 1 colour needed. K2 - 2.

If we add another region on the map, we either have K3 or K1,2. In the latter case the third region/vertex need only be different to the one it touches, but K3 clearly needs 3 colours.

Adding the fourth region is similar, and again K4 clearly needs 4.

The fifth region touches at most 3 others, since K5 is non-planar. Thus, it can take the colour of the untouched region.

That's not very formal, but why isn't proof by induction easy from there? i.e. if we can't build a map that ever requires a fifth colour, then it can't be that there exists a map which requires more than four?
I think this is it -- he had control. Once others are free to intrude into your space, injecting distraction, all is lost.
I have worked on a floor in the break out area next to customer service agents (30-40) which were on the phone the whole day long. That can be really distractive. I was always happy I could work from home on Friday's. But a consultant's life I guess
NYT is spending money to publish this article... that would explains why they are all going to bankrupt /s

NYT sure is spending money, but it is ultimately making money by publishing this article, or else they woudldn't do it. They are making more money by making it more sensational.

FedEx would spends money to responds, ironically, they would have to spends it most probably to NYT. NYT will again spends money to publish that full page ads, sure, but they are making money by publishing it, or else they wouldn't do it either.

They aren't on equal footing. NYT makes money with that article.
> All FreeBSD scripts I encountered use posix shell.

Defaults matter, and it's helpful when the default shell for command-line use matches the shell used for scripting, because people often do scripting on the command line.
To be clear, I believe burkaman agrees with you. The post they responded to said that FedEx "is not disputing the facts." burkaman pointed out the part of FedEx's statement where they do just that - except, as you correctly point out, FedEx never says which facts.
Did you spend time brib..lobbying local councilmen to give you that exemption?

Edit: more to the point, what makes you identify as Fedex?
That’s not acceptable. They take money from a credit card and make no effort to explain why? That’s not ok.
Real holograms don't project from the surface either. Sci-fi "holograms" are a different thing. Please let's remember that holograms are an existing technology and have nothing do to with sci-fi 3D open-air projections.
Likewise. I've worked almost exclusively out of cafes for the past twenty years. I find it akin to white noise.
Counterexample:

1. Hello!
2. Three-way handshake.
3. Authentication.
4. Please reboot.
GOTO 1
20 meters a day is 4 km/year assuming you only work weekdays. (This is a bit faster than average, but not unreasonable). In your city you only need a pit every 4km, which is a lot easier to find, you don't have to be exact (in fact you don't want to be because you probably need more crew to pull them out at the end of the tunnel), so you can find an outdated building to buy for cheap someplace along the route. Or you can do a two year dig with 8km access holes. Don't forget that you need a station someplace in the city - your large hole to get the machine out in the middle of the city should be planned where you need the largest station anyway.

Of course for mountains and large water bodies you are correct. The English channel left some TBMs in the middle so they could get done faster - at much higher expense.
FreeBSD wouldn't select a default shell that uses the GPL, but using a simple POSIX shell as the default would make sense.
Behold Mystical Photographs Taken Inside Musical Instruments
GC is a means not an ends and we shouldn't be attached to it. We should focus on developing languages that allow the compiler to statically assess and infer lifetimes then we don't need a giant for loop over all of active memory. The value GC provides is it gives the developer an escape-rope from an insufficiently expressive language. If that solution involves some form of GC so be it, but the goal should not be to preserve GC but rather to improve the efficiency of the final product without substantially impacting developer ergonomics.
One may wonder the same about many professions like primary/secondary teaching.

The answer is that lots of humans like that sort of work.
One thing about rendering to a bitmap is that it is more robust over time. Look how much code is in the browser to support older styles of html. Smart endpoints dumb pipes, prevents ossification. The browser tries to be far too smart for its own good and ends up making a mediocre job of everything while being hugely complex (as outlined by parent above)
Sorry, not trying to spread FUD but is nobody worried about the fact that new findings [1] have put a questionmark behind the safety of bluetooth headphones?
I use my QC35 only in wired mode nowadays anymore.

[1] https://qz.com/1572885/the-truth-behind-claims-airpods-cause...
I know it's not about actual colours, I did say it was off-topic. :)

Re proving any, I replied to a sibling comment. What I was imagining was the inverse - proving that you can't construct one that requires a fifth.
Are you blaming the media for getting people what they want?

As long as people demand the click-bait only the ones that provide such content will survive. Let's thank our luck that it is not Infowars style clickbait, so some resemblance of sanity still remains.

FWIW the Panama papers have had a noticeable impact, especially where it matters most, clawing money back

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_Papers
Also mentioned in another thread:

https://github.com/GoogleChromeLabs/carlo
I know one very large corporation that uses it. I think that is the general pattern of it, that big companies who are very interested in not telling you what they use, use it.

You probably can get the case studies from http://www.cincomsmalltalk.com/main/
This device complies with part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and (2) this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation.
V8 Torque (language in which V8 builtins are written)
>> you need impeccible sources

No problem: just hire Fusion GPS to write a "dossier". A source so "impeccible" that you can write about it for years in spite of there being not a shred of truth in it.
My takeaway from this: If you live in new construction (owner, or renter), buy new furniture in the spring/fall when you can leave the windows open. Same for paint.
Boeing's 737 no longer world's most popular airplane
SQLite: 2050

https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html
I have an Awair and two Foobots, they're basically completely unreliable and the software for them is pretty bad.

I've been tempted to get the purple sensors because at least the purple map seems reliable (so maybe their stuff is better?).
California. I have a standing request with the sheriff’s Dept to arrest upon trespassing. At least give a warning. But every time they say that we should give them a week’s warning. The old group leaves and another group comes in. They have a hierarchy and a leader.

Once the deputy told me that he didn’t know this one, but the other one was actually nicer. I was like..speechless. They have dogs! Small yappy dogs and big ones. They run around unleashed and barking their heads off. I used to volunteer at shelters and I am not afraid of them..I know how to handle animals, but my workers won’t come anymore.

It’s absolutely ridiculous..you just have to step back and wonder if this is all real. But it is. Sometimes LEOs are instructed not to disturb them because they have homeless liaisons and should only go through them. That’s why they ask for a week’s grace period. I don’t care..I just want them gone.

In the beginning, the deputy shamed me and told me curtly that it’s not a crime to be homeless. After three something years and noting that nothing is slowing them down, he softened and suggested to complain that their activities are a fire hazard(this is Sonoma county and close to Santa Rosa/Napa Area fires a few years ago) ..and that would actually get other people involved...and that could be effective. I don’t think they have any power. They can only act after a crime has been committed. But even that is not possible when the advocates area are involved, I think.

At this point, I don’t care anymore. I am not ashamed to admit that this has caused me multiple panic attacks but I now realize that my losses are less if I don’t Farm. So I have taken a break. It’s throwing good money after bad to create deterrents. Nothing can be done. It’s a waiting game.
Quick and Dirty EDA with Pandas
> because nobody has done it well
I believe Qt licensed LGPL + commercial and is quite successful at it
It's not like they took them to court or threaten them.

They called them on a public debate.
Newspapers have had paid subscriptions with ads for a hundred years.

Notice that so many newspapers are going out of business but the NYT is not.
Political violence in Colombia after the 2016 peace agreement
Anyone seen analysis or similar data for noise pollution?
640 km is about 2 hours of non stop high speed rail travel.
The article/blog post simply stops after a certain point? I feel a bit left hanging
It’s not necessarily assuming bad faith to realise the existence of the context which leads to the selection and writing of the articles at the New York Times, or Fox News, or Buzzfeed, or Xinhua, or any other outlet.
Small offices with a few people, preferably with junior-senior pairing. I'm a junior in an office with a senior, and being near someone who knows our systems well is invaluable to me, and has helped me onboard much much faster.
I am going to disagree with this simply because it's talking about the stack, not the language.

As a Haskell developer who uses a much more complex stack than provided in the article, and seen too many "there aren't enough basic Haskell web stack tutorials!" posts here and there, I would say the library choices here fit that bill perfectly.

That said, once the adventerous non-Haskell user builds a basic application using this stack, they will then run into the brick wall of using a language which you are calling "complex", I would argue "different", and realizing there are a lot of new things they need to learn to actually be productive in it.
That's their GAAP taxes. If you instead look at cash taxes paid it's significantly lower on average:

Period Cash Taxes Paid ($mm)
May-31-2010 43
May-31-2011 387
May-31-2012 257
May-31-2013 468
May-31-2014 766
May-31-2015 1113
May-31-2016 991
May-31-2017 377
May-31-2018 189
May-31-2019 371
Aug-31-2019 324
Solution to Iran Internet Shutdown
It has now been 48 hours since #Iran implemented a near-total internet shutdown following hours of partial blackouts amid widespread protests. There aren't many ways left for the people in Iran to get their news and communicate. Toosheh satellite filecasting is one of the few viable and working solutions currently that people in Iran are using to receive other anti-censorship tools, news updates, video, sately tips and international responses.

Toosheh is technically a satellite datacasting service. We transcode any digital data into a .TS/MPEG4 format and broadcast it over our satellite channel on YahSat over Iran and the Middle East.

Viewers of the Toosheh channel can record the broadcasting video and use Toosheh extractor on their android phone or PC to extract the transmitted content out of the recorded video. They do not need any DVB card or any extra equipment to use the service. It's free, secure, untraceable, and most importantly the ONLY way to send digital files in case of total Internet Shutdown.

Toosheh is sending over 5Gigabytes of data over 2 hours.

Toosheh extractor software could also be used to browse a package of blocked websites that are blocked in Iran i.e. BBC, Radio Farda, etc..

Using Toosheh application people can locally share the content with others over WiFi.

More here: https://www.cnet.com/features/in-iran-bypassing-online-censors-with-satellite-tv/
Unplayable at times, magical in others: Stadia’s dream is still in the clouds
Google Stadia Review: The Best of Cloud Gaming Is Still a Beta
Rare Genetic Variants Associated with Sudden Cardiac Death in Adults
Yes, in general I'd agree with the sentiment that Google trends more toward trying to show you "popular" content and changing your search to fit that, rather than the other way around.

With the amount of stuff that gets shoved into Google search bars worldwide, it's easy to believe that kind of strategy is broadly beneficial, but it does lead to frustration when you're being precise with a query and you're overridden.
It's more than a semantic difference. Buying user data means you are purchasing data. That is not what is happening here.

When you purchase data, it can be remixed and resold, can be used outside the original terms of service agreed to between FB/Google and their users. This is difficult to enforce agreed upon protections, and is a troubling issue (e.g. Cambridge Analytica had user data they used in a "clearly wrong" manner -- a problem that AFAIK was from 3 years ago and has since been shut down).

Buying access to the users means an advertiser is purchasing the ability to put a message in front of the user. This data is covered by user agreements, and is much harder for third parties to use in a "clearly wrong" manner. This data must be deleted at the request of the user, and can be (relatively) easily deleted by going to the original source (a key distinction -- it's very hard to delete data that has been sold and resold).

It is important to use the correct description of what is happening. On FB, you're not "buying an audience" so much as "defining an audience to reach". You don't get to hold the user data in a csv; you get to put messages in front of groups of people. You don't possess the data -- you have access to use it through a user interface provided by FB/Google.

I respect that you may feel FB/Google holding these user data is unethical. Other people feel the exchange is perfectly fine. Regardless, using precise language is important to not muddy the waters, especially in such a tendentious debate.
I did discover one minor bit of non-portability.

To show the 10 most recent firewall log entries, the dashboard runs `clog filter.log | tail -10r` (`tail -10r` is the equivalent of `tail -10 | tac`). It would be nice to instead just run `clog -f filter.log` (open filter.log in follow mode, just like `tail -f`), leave it open across dashboard refresh iterations, and maintain an in-memory buffer of the 10 most recent entries for display. It would presumably be more efficient.

However this requires the ability to do a non-blocking read of the command output, which requires `PROCINFO["read_timeout"]`, which is gawk-specific and not available on FreeBSD's default awk.

I don't mind it too much, because repeatedly doing `clog -f | tail -10r` doesn't use that much CPU to be concerned about anyway. Though I may investigate Perl to see if it's possible there.
I have one of the smaller versions of the Looking Glass and it's genuinely like looking into the future. It's a remarkable thing to see live. My main complaint is the low resolution (4k divided into 45 layers).

Bigger size and bigger resolution is a great step up here - I hope they get to continue in that direction!
With anything to do with the brain (from sociology to physiatry and right through behavioral economics), we're really still deep in the dark ages. We know basically nothing and the fields themselves seem to be more about styles than objective truth or repeatability. Generously I assume that's because making measurements and doing experiments is as hard today as it was for scientists in the 10th century...
Arrogant much? In a single reply with multiple errors. VN is a hero.
I'm incredibly lucky to have a small shared office with an officemate who doesn't mind my Kailh Box Jade keyboard. There's enough ambient sound from the ancient furnace that it almost sounds like a pleasant ASMR video on most days.
Sourcetrail, interactive source explorer, is now free and open-source
I'd have gone for "can't use perl, that's obsolete (uses awk instead)" which is kind of ironic if you remember the days of a2p. As it is, a combination of sh/awk will do the job, but is likely slower and less flexible than doing it in perl because this is exactly the sort of job perl was designed for, back in the day.
Yes, especially at a time when they were quite nonchalant about safety.
It's a feature on credit cards. Merchants in good standing can get updates on your new credit card. This should keep failed transactions to a minimum; for example, your electricity bill won't bounce if you got a new credit card and forgot to update your billing info.

What Amazon should be doing is letting you cancel an Amazon account if you know what credit card information it's using, like the author of this blog tried to do. The flaw is if your credit card info is leaked and someone cancels your Amazon account. But I see that as vastly superior to just having a random unauthorized Amazon account somewhere out there with your leaked credit card info in it making unauthorized purchases.
I enjoy the "Epstein didn't kill himself" meme as it encompasses both ideas.

Popular, he was murdered to be silenced from his handlers.

Unpopular, he is still alive and living somewhere in secret.

However if the meme was changed a little bit, even to "Who killed Epstein?" that would omit the 2nd more unpopular theory altogether.
I don't think it's physically possible to make a wall like this that's more than one brick thick (without using an absurd amount of mortar).
Pillars of Great Brands (Apple, Nike, & Disney)
Shell scripts are usually interoreted by the interpreter defined in the shebang and /bin/sh is a posix sh.
Hmm - is there a good summary of this argument I could read? I torrented many years ago and it always felt like stealing and still does. Seems more or less equivalent to shoplifting to me from a moral standpoint, would be curious to read into this!

(I'm assuming this is not the "oh I actually pay and I just want to watch it on an unsupported device" argument)
That's really unfortunate. If this type of brand-reliant search ranking continues it will only accelerate the centralization of the web toward big entities.
Steve Jobs has been dead for over 8 years.
>DuckDuckGo would not return that URL when searching for, say, freebsd man netstat

!man netstat
I read it as the browser should just be a VM. It's low level. Then the objects that run in the VM provide the features. This solves a lot of problems. The browser is slowly evolving to do this anyway with js, then wasm (reality is proving Kay right) but the underlying high levelness of it makes it a mess. A VM is more flexible and robust and at the same time simpler than a browser
I don't know you, but in every lecture in college that was done in a room with no air flow, I got distracted every five minutes or so. If the proportion of C02 had a cognitive effect that I could feel, then I wouldn't be surprised if other kinds of contaminants do the same.
>If you take high taxes to the extreme (eg. eliminate all billionaires like Bernie Sanders recommends), you get closer to communism which hasn't done as well.

At the height of the American war effort, the top tax bracket exceeded 90% of individual income[1] this dramatically decreased inequality and established the modern middle class. It was also arguably the most stable and prosperous time for families, with most able to sustain with a single-income earner.

Bernie Sanders suggests that we respond to the ongoing climate crisis with a similar level of world-war scale effort with the hopes of averting even worse, more destabilizing effects.

1. https://www.urban.org/research/publication/how-federal-incom...
> I'd go farther and say that it is disheartening. It also seems to be completely aligned with the post-modernist way of evaluating/describing the world.

Nothing to do with post modernism, it's a version of Marxism that is compatible with capitalism. Post modernists can't be ideologues by definition. Intersectionality is very much an ideology. People who believe that don't ask question, they do finger pointing and public shaming to try to change and control public discourse. It's very reminiscent of the soviet union era, except it doesn't come from the state but a group of people that hold a certain power of influence, ironically.
About one-third of container ships traffic is managed using Gemstone database. JP Morgan, Lifeware, Lam research and others use Smalltalk. A lot of smaller companies use Seaside (web framework). There is Moose platform for software and data analysis etc. Pharo itself is a big open-source project.
It’s like musical chair..groups come and squat..they leave and the others come in..they leave behind mountains of trash.

There was one..who left me a note and asked me if he could pay for the damage done to the fence of a truck that backed into my chain link fence...and that’s because I noted down the license plate number of his visitor. And then he paid me in crates of beer. I didn’t even touch it...I honestly didn’t know what to do...it was in my packaging shed. Someone had stolen that too a few days later.
Eating at your desk is a pain point of mine. Why not go to the canteen?
cheap tunneling is still orders of magnitude more expensive than surface lots.

Self driving cars can skip parking lots only if we vastly more tunnels. There is only so much space in 3d.
I think a simple web stack should aspire to the simplicity of the PHP stack, twenty years ago:

1) Create a directory "foo" on your server

2) Make a file called "bar.php" in that directory

3) Write "Hello World!" in the file

4) Open http://localhost/foo/bar.php in the browser and see "Hello World!"

Lines of code or configuration so far: zero.

5) Add some actual code to bar.php

6) Reload the page and see the result

Number of steps to rebuild or restart: zero.

Then you can add templating, routing, logging, testing, anything. I'm not married to the PHP language, it's a mess. But the idea of keeping simple things simple is very important, and from what I see of today's developers, that idea has been utterly forgotten. Memory-holed. It's astonishing, I can barely believe that it happened.

EDIT: Sorry, I just said this offhand and didn't mean to hijack the discussion. Feel free to downvote, so something more on-topic gets on top.
You're strawmanning with an ominous "government committee", implying the situation requires deep analysis. But really, vendors are deliberately preventing interoperability with competing products through technical means such as digital restrictions management. If they stopped doing that, there would be no argument.

After an item is sold to a user, that item shouldn't be working to undermine the interests of its owner. Those interests include being a market participant for other products to use with it. If giving a user the option to eg change a data source or trust authority would be too much of a mandate for specific development, then manufacturers can just fall back to releasing the basic documentation that would allow straightforward re-implementation.

> Should every website and every web service also have a publicly accessible API?

Sure, why not? Anything a user can do, a program representing the user should be able to do. The alternative is computational disenfranchisement.