skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if in modern times, now that labor is so much more expensive than bricks, it would still be economical. Building a brick wall costs (here in Western Europe) around e40/m2 in labor, and e25 in material for a cheap brick. So building this crinkle crankle style would only have to add about 50% in building time. I think building this is much slower than that though - I don't even know how I'd go about it, other than with a laser level, which would be really inconvenient (compared to using a string like is normally done). Then again, it would be inconvenient and frustrating, but would it be slow ?
Intel has cared a lot about things like JS performance so may want to directly observe what js is being run.

I recall that being a big challenge when I worked on browsers - it’s very difficult to see what users actually encounter beyond “top X website” lists, which are of questionable value.
Show HN: 400-Line Binance CryptoCurrency Bot
The Money Maker Machine - Monker

This was a hobby project of myself to create the simplest Cryptocurrency bot possible. It was written in Python, operates on Binance, and stores all logging and trading information into a MongoDB database. The trading strategy is extremely simple:

- Assume that crypto prices will fluctuate, but eventually be restored to its original quote
- Buy small quantities every time the price falls below a threshold, keeping track of the amount purchased and the price payed
- Sell those exact quantities when the price is above what was payed for it

It was a lot of fun developing it, and I guess I made something around 3 dollars before shutting it down. It is my first contribution to opensource world, and I hope others can benefit from it :)
Give it to 'em, man. Real engineers maintain their mission-critical systems by running their obsolete software on obsolete budget consumer PCs.
8* year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Bridge
Agreed. In my experience so far, the frequency and severity of delays on Amtrak between NY and DC are on par with the frequency and severity of delays on I-95.
Agree. Is Knob Creek a place from history, a place from a video game, a place from a movie, a place entirely made up?
Exploring the Network Information API
I work in Manufacturing IT, I can confirm that there is considerable legacy equipment. Thing is, these machines typically cost more than a house, some as much as $2.5M+ dollars. Would you demo your house and rebuild in 20 years because of a leaky roof? These machines are mortgaged the same way, the bank secures the asset. They will work for 20+ years if you maintain them, and continue to produce.
Having banks have an API is far different than telling Apple to share access to how the interface with those APIs. If anything it probably is a push by state actors who hope their intelligence services can use the hooks to circumvent the security Apple and even Android users have from their devices. Apple is not preventing you from using a bank or accessing your funds in that bank, they are just offering up a new secure means to do so. Your bank still has to play along. Now if Apple was exclusive then we would have an issue

So by this logic, anyone who has a device which supports NFC payments and can load an app from a third party must allow access to methods the hardware performs the handshake/connection? So why not just say all parts of the phone must be fully exposed, why not demand that apps can make the phone calls?

I have two major issues with these demands. First being it simply is more likely a means for state actors to have more opportunities for back doors violating the trust people put into their devices.

the second is what is to prevent every damn bank and store from demanding you only use their app because you know that will happen.
> (ی vs ي)

Arabic has both, but they're pronounced differently from Farsi. (ي) is a (y) sound (like seed) whereas (ی) is either an (a) sound (like bat) or an (ay) sound (like may).
>The amount of congestion is approximately equal to the amount of congestion the average person using the infrastructure is willing to accept, so making it less congested just means more people use the infrastructure until the limit is reached again.

This is true only for places where there is more latent demand for transit than physical space to build it (e.g., a lot of big cities without good transit alternatives).

It is not a law of physics. You could go to a small town in North Dakota and build more roadway than can ever be used and, in doing so, permanently remove gridlock.

Efficient tunneling would let you do this in three dimensions, so it would expand the types of places you could do this.
This article touches on this very point. I think I even found it here on HN, a few months ago.

https://petapixel.com/2019/07/22/photographers-instagrammers...
From doing a quick Google, it looks like Intel have been sneaking this software onto people's computers bundled with stuff like drivers, and some people have been having serious trouble actually uninstalling it: https://www.tenforums.com/customization/113108-inquiry-about...
Completely off-topic, but I discovered the existence of the <details> HTML tag [1] with this page.

I was surprised that I could unfold these questions at all with Javascript disabled. Usually, I am stuck with this kind of pages.

Please webmasters, use <details> for your FAQs if you want foldable questions.

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/de...
They're also doing it for 1151, which is more recent.
All but the oldest of children lack the ability to drive themselves places. That's not flexible, convenient, or practical.
Ask to the providers, not the customers.
Ask HN: Where do you store third party non-public technical documentation?
What’s the best practice on storing non-public technical documentation which your application uses? Right now it’s within our email inboxes and private repo’s readme. My best idea is the readme or a Dropbox folder. Thanks!
Also _Against a Dark Background_ by Iain M. Banks. It describes a very, very old civilization with no stars close enough to even think about interstellar travel.
> Surely Intel’s engineers can browse the web themselves to find out what kinds of websites and JavaScript exists

They wouldn't have access to the frequency of visits, an important factor.

> There’s no great reason why they would need to begin collecting data on each of their users.

I've given you one above.

Also, it's not "each of their users", it's those voluntarily agreeing to submit this information (as opposed to "you need to install X to unlock feature Y", and installing an executable.
> The subject is Amtrak which doesn't cover the intracity use case.

This is how I and many other commuters use Amtrak. They even provide "last mile" bus tickets with your fare.
My first guess for MI was mental illness, so this is very much less annoying.
Case in point: McLaren uses a special Compaq laptop from 1992 to service old F1's. Why? Well, the car was made in 1992, and so was the ECU.

https://jalopnik.com/this-ancient-laptop-is-the-only-key-to-...
While this type of wall mainly exists in England and the Netherlands, it is amusing how the English Wikipedia's main arguments are about saving bricks and possible military advantages, while the Dutch Wikipedia tell these walls are meant to protect fruit from weather conditions. The fruit would typically be planted at the south side. One of the ideas is that the bricks both protect against wind and keep giving some warmth after the sun has disappeared.
>> As I've seen it said, Erlang is Smalltalk done right.

I was just listening to this today morning, where I heard Joe mention in the podcast something similar on those lines (though I believe he even mentioned about prolog+concurrency was wat led to Erlang and Plex)

https://softwareengineeringdaily.com/2015/11/02/erlang-with-...
Yes, but presumably they want to know what type of JS is being run.

The characteristics (memory access, numeric operations, etc) are complex and simply saying “make all of it fast” isn’t helpful - presumably intel is trying to make their chips faster at everything in general, but if they find that there are a few particular bottlenecks maybe they could allocate more resources/surface area to those particular instructions, etc
Not so obvious that it isn't.

How many hours are spent stuck in traffic? How much loss is that to society.

Perhaps people would start moving closer along the rail lines, now that frees up land from sprawl. Etc. The same rail line could carry goods (fewer trucks on the road). The rail line could be electrified, now pollution will be down and so on.

Billions of dollars is not all that expensive. The US is a rich country. First time realized this when I saw a small town with 30K population easily built a new high school for 150 million USD - compared to that, the "billions" does not sound all that big if it reconfigures the economy at that extent.
Looking-glass was just a peculiar literary term for a mirror in the 1800s. A reflective glass you would look at.
By that definition there is no meaning to the word "now". If I'm five feet away from you, it takes time for light to travel between us.

Snark aside, using the phrase "now" to describe an in-motion event that is observed over 29000 light years is misleading and should rather say "is now observed as 29000 light years away".
If you're living in Tenpenny tower you've also more than likely nuked Megaton as well, which is pretty damn ridiculous considering saving Megaton gets you a house. I'd say save Megaton, and let the ghouls kill everyone in Tenpenny if possible, that'd be sweet justice. Sadly I havent let the ghouls in yet.
That’s what park+ride is for — drive to a subway or train station at the edge of the city, leave your car there, and use transit in the city.
If they care so much about javascript performance why wouldn't they just add opcodes for js specific behavior like how ARM did?
Uh... 60mph is ~27m/s. Are you saying that drivers need to accelerate to 60mph in half a minute in order to be comfortable?
But according to the press release you will be empowered by giving them access to this information :D
Hmm.. discovered couple of books, but not sure whether everyone would agree to this list.

Just as an example, 'Guns Germs and Steel' (1997) is absent.
Oh, yeah, thanks for asking! Reasons I had to cancel Metabase deployments.

https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/4387 opened this issue on Feb 15, 2017

https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/2052 opened this issue on Feb 29, 2016

https://github.com/metabase/metabase/issues/6741 opened this issue on Jan 22, 2018
Is this codec scenario plausible, that something so significant would be broadly adopted and Intel would need user usage data to decide whether to support it?
From where I sit it appears the FSF has come up with a particular definiton of "free" and opposes anyone using the term "free software" if their meaning of free differs from what the FSF desires. Maybe the term "FSF free" should be used when that is the intent rather than trying to corral the term "free software" itself.
Tattoo artists and trinket-makers already do something similar with the Egyptian hieroglyph uniliterals. It's not complete gibberish, but most names would be better written in other ways.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Ancient_Egy...
Don't they already have access to all my infos already, thanks to the Intel Management Engine? /S
"It's not a bug, it's a feature."
Which is a great example of why we should be taxing cars more to reflect all of their externalities. There probably shouldn't be three car families.
So now that’s how we carve out “monopoly”? So in that case are the console makers monopolies? Does Apple also have a “monopoly” on music services that work on HomePods? Phones that take complete advantage of AirPods Pro? Should that be regulated too? Should we go after Apple because Google’s and Amazon’s voice assistants don’t work on the Apple Watch and the AirPods since Apple has a “monopoly on voice assistants that work on those devices?”
ARM added a few opcodes for JS. Seems like this is a solved problem.
The Cheat is showing something on a Laserdisc!

Everything is better on a Laserdisc!

Whatever happened to the Laserdisc?

Laserdisc!

I saw that demo too, though it was in a store and I don't remember a JP scene being used. Bose were always shite at accurate sound reproduction, but great at making things sound good. And nothing noise-cancels like a pair of QuietComforts.
TFA mentions that Dutch engineers brought over to reclaim bits of Suffolk from the sea introduced the walls.
Could the Ancient Greeks/Romans Have Discovered Universal Computation?
Just had a quick check, some web page will fail the click event(mouse click won't do anything).

on the other hand I have been using novnc to do similar things for my own testing purposes(running chrome inside chrome remotely), it worked very well for me so far.
Apple's complaints were predictable. If we let them, they'll also argue that hair loss or bad weather endanger the security of financial transactions.
I answered for a sub space of all the possible problems that can be solved with LOOP and EXIT which lend themselves to a much better structured approach.

Also, you were jumping to FOR loops over arrays. But instead the sentinel values are much better suited for linked lists.

What a programming language allows shapes how you program in it. The Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis is probably much more true with programming languages than natural languages.

One of Wirth's mantras is "don't show me your code, show me your data structures and I'll immediately know if your code is any good".

There are certainly moments when I would like to have certain programming constructs. But then I have to solve the problem in another way.

But this happens in a lot of languages. Be it C, Ruby, Javascript, or Oberon (whatever version).
Unsupported by the usual suspects, that's why.
What about warrants? The police can get a warrant to look inside your walls. You can’t do that with encryption.
Headline is fully substantiated and I also see that 1151 support (as in boards made just a few years ago) are having their BIOS/UEFI downloads nixed as well. I just tried updating my board with my 7th gen i3. No downloads when I knew one existed before (I refused to get it because everything currently just works.)
Bingo. I think a flat touchscreen is something of a cop-out. If I'm driving at 80kph or higher I don't want to have to look at a screen, I want to feel for a knob.
... because Ouigo is super cheap. They're following the same model as low-cost airlines: the tickets are cheap, but you pay for everything else (baggage, access to charging sockets, etc.).
oh, the "quickening" in the highlander movies makes some more sense now too, thanks.
You're likely right, it's probably not very economical nowadays. Especially given the wider range of materials than be used to build a wall or fence.
The issue is that the compatibility and styling (animations etc.) are not fully supported or available. This should have been standardised much earlier, alas here we are with a half-assed solution to a very common pattern.
The GPL has always been criticized for its definition of distribution, which allows companies to host SaaS offerings of GPL software without having to make their modifications available.

Hosting a GPL-licensed server and receiving network activity does not constitute distribution, which is why the AGPL exists.
Salary and Occupation: An Interactive Visualization
They are disappearing and it gracefully degrades, I think we should not care in most cases now :-)

edit: and I guess a JS shim can be used if it really matters.
You beat me to it :)

Yes this is too bad. Great feature.
So if you have 7 people living in a 250m^2 house is that worse than 1 person living in a 100m^2 house? Should they pay much higher property taxes?
The Equality of Esperanto
> employee turnover is - not surprisingly - high

Is it? From a quick search, I cannot find any academic papers that support this claim. However, I see some news articles that claim this.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0735648X.2011.63...

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/104398621140589...

This paper mentions "turnover intentions", which seems broadly defined in the methodologies.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11896-010-9066-7
Any time I've had to lead a team in the past few years, I've always done two things first (bottom-up):

* Get to know the people in the team, learn the overall vibe of the group, and how happy everyone is.

* Get the know the people above the team, their motivations for hiring you, and the tangible outcome of your hiring. You say "quality", but what does that mean? Is quality currently low? Do they feel that they could be doing more in certain areas?

From there, I would typically work to integrate myself into the team before introducing any changes. If the average person has been there for 2-3 years they've got a lot of business knowledge that I won't have. In my experience, most teams have a strong opinion of what they want to do to improve processes, but there is a business reason as to why they've not implemented those improvements.

The last time I led a team, I wanted total transparency, so we came up with an internal list of improvements and we focused on incremental and manual improvements to processes. Most of the time I wasn't even the person making the changes - I was picking up the slack so someone else could do the work, or do something they've wanted to do for months. Our processes improved over time, and as a result delivery improved dramatically. This introduced its own problems, but in the grand scheme of things the problems were nothing compared to before.

All I expect from a manager is honesty and consistency in feedback, so when I've been in those shoes I've tried to be as honest as possible, and to be as transparent as possible when my message isn't consistent with what I've said before.
> In the US we don't have contact-less payment cards though

Oh?

https://creditcards.chase.com/contactless-credit-cards
How does the cafe staff avoid getting high as heck? Or is getting high from second hand marihuana smoke not a thing?
I remember the K8, Almost every gamer I knew had one. Everybody was rooting for AMD at the time. They were the king. Dual core, 64bit support, almost double the IPC of Intel, lower power than Intel, and more stable. The frequencies weren't as high. My 2.6Ghz Athlon 64 3700+ demolished many Intel CPU's. And then I remember when Core2Duo became a thing like you said. Completely ruined AMD in every benchmark. I believe that Intel had switched their architecture over to what was Pentium Mobile at the time and refactored it. Prescott was optimized for frequency, but the IPC was terrible, as was the heat. We had 4GHZ CPU's back in 2004.
Bose QC 35 ii is not worth the money. They are overpriced and have bunch of problems:

* QA seems lacking. Our whole team has company sponsored QC 35 ii's and one came as DOA, couple of them have suffered the same fate within a year
* Noice-cancellation is good. It's so good that I can't keep it fully on for more than 15 minutes and the lower cancellation level leaks more sound. Maybe personal problem but annoying still
* Audio quality through bluetooth is lacking. The integrated amp doesn't have the oomph for the elements and the sound sounds a bit muddy
* AQ problem can be remedied with the provided cable which is short. And what's the point of wireless headphones if it lacks on that side?
* In the plane I have bunch of other stuff with me so I don't want to reserve so much of space for the headphones

I like my own AKG NC60 sound quality, size and the noise cancellation is usually enough (although not so all encompassing as the Bose's) but AKG's problem is really bad mechanic quality. With even lightweight usage they end up breaking badly, so I'm going to need to buy a ned headphones and for that I'm looking forward for Sennheiser's and Sony's. Stay away from AKG and Bose ;)
Woah, I was using the checkbox CSS hack to do exactly this, I had no idea there was an actual element for this.
I guess you can always hack something in Javascript if you wish to have animations, which is always better than to go with an implementation in full Javascript.
It's so obvious to many of us that 'think of the children' is a disingenuous argument, that it's difficult to articulate a counter-argument which would be emotionally valid to someone for whom this is not obvious. Here is my attempt:

Someone whose child has been kidnapped, would sacrifice a great deal to get them back. A lot of the things which we hold dear, our dignity, privacy, democracy, even rule of law - would pale into insignificance to against the loss of a loved one. But for that very reason, we should not look to victims for a standard of how much the police can override our civil rights. The standard of 'what the police can demand from honest citizens' cannot be 'what a mother would sacrifice for her child'.
AI? This is not AI. HE would say
How To – Literally – Sound More Confident and Persuasive
As a counter, I'd suggest that given the sheer volume of quality books produced in the last quarter-century, choosing only 50 of them is going to be an exercise in subjectivity.
154: Docker, Unicorn Project, KubeCon, Helm 3, Adidas DevOps Framework, and More
Right?? Bose is fine but Sennheiser makes fantastic stuff. I have the PXC 550s and they are excellent. Well worth it, especially now you can get them for ~$200.
I’d imagine a proper ventilation system, similar to a cigar lounge, should be fine.
> Because there are too many clients with a wide range of supported/unsupported features. The only solution out there that supports cross platform JINGLE is AstraChat, which is closed source and commercial, but they lack OMEMO and Carbons.

So why won't somebody just make a great XMPP client with all the features, make it closed-source and commercial and earn money from it? They could make 3 versions: enterprise with some enterprise features (like CRM/LDAP integration etc), standard and adware - I would gladly buy the second or use the first if the ads were unintrusive and not personalized with my personal data like messages text or contacts.

People make instant messengers, why does everybody have to invent their own protocol? Is XMPP actually so hard to implement?
Dictators Rising Globally
Harsh!
Rain gear does a pretty fantastic job of keeping you dry in the rain. And, needless to say, it's significantly cheaper than a car.
"Ghetto blaster" has unpleasant racial connotations. It's the kind of term you'd expect your white boomer parents to throw around, as they shake their heads in looming fear that their neighborhood might degentrify. "Boom box" is considered more racially neutral so you will hear it more in the USA.
What's the selection criteria?
Well, as this only concerns their own motherboards, there is no more hardware to buy from them[1], so I really don't think that's it.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21513556
Edit: so they need to know every URL I access because they what to improve GPU or their drivers?
A couple additions I would suggest (keeping with the theme of non-fiction interesting to the general reader, not industry-specific works):

* Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling - Ross King

* The Invention of Air - Steven Johnson

* The Silk Roads: A New History of the World - Peter Frankopan

Other suggestions?
It seems like you could buy this data anonymously from ISP or the Cloudflares of the world without infringing on privacy.
Adventures in Optical Character Recognition (OCR): Recommendations and Stuff
And how long until the installer for some "partner" software enrolls me in this program without my knowledge? (Or only explained deep in some EULA nobody will read...)
<details> are quite handy for github comments. (Yes, they work!)