skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 1947 anti-trust lawsuit was settled by the 1956 consent decree which forced AT&T to exit all businesses not related to providing a national telecommunications network and which also required royalty-free licensing of all patents. For example, the Westrex sound recording business for movie production was sold to Litton.

This undoubtedly reduced any appetite for deploying any customer premises recording devices which would be similar to recording technology used for entertainment purposes. In fact, telephone answering machines became popular only after the development of low cost Phillips cassette recording technology driven by entertainment markets.

Note also that the gating of technology into the Bell System from Bell Laboratories via Western Electric was by design. Bell Labs was set up independently of and funded by AT&T Headquarters and Western Electric. This allowed Bell Labs to research (AT&T) and develop (WECo) technologies independently of short term business needs in order to prevent the Bell Operating Company regulated monopolies from stagnating, and it also prevented the system from being disrupted by short term engineering hacks. What were wanted were big innovations, thoughtfully applied.
All these years later, that finally explains why only one person in my company was authorized to use that machine. Keith, you lucky bastard.
Event-Based Asynchronous Programming with Non-Blocking IO
The ten minute mark is to get an ad when the video ends.
On Ethernet, there are a couple of different folks that have successfully bit banged 10mbit Ethernet with an AVR. That would be a pretty good way to learn. Though 10mbit is Manchester encoded...nothing faster is. Also, watch out for POE. One example: http://www.pa3fwm.nl/projects/avreth/
I also found Asmongold this way and did catch a couple of his streams. The big draw on twitch is community/participation. That's not my thing so I didn't stick around. I'd be interested to know conversion rates, but I have no doubt there are enough people who go from discovery via YouTube to Twitch subscriber that it makes it worth it.
Yoga Effects on Brain Health: A Systematic Review of the Current Literature
So, the higher carbohydrate and salt content in restaurant style Ramen increases the chance of stroke.

I make Ramen at home about twice a week and double the vegetables and halve the noodles in Ramen recipes. After reading this article, I am going to try to reduce sodium also.
The main conceptual novelty that modern machine learning brings is the addition of computational complexity in the mix: from information theory's question

what is learnable?

to

what is learnable in
poly-time?

(or similar resource constraints). This was pioneered, as far as I am aware, in Valiant's A Theory of the Learnable (please correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not an ML/AI historian). Interestingly, we see a similar evolution of Shannon's thinking about cryptography (what is secure information theoretically, i.e. against computationally unbounded adversaries?) to: what is safe against a poly-time restricted adversary?
the disastrous CyberTruck, though, which subjectively almost everyone hates

Your hate for it is subjective.

Whether almost everyone shares your opinion is objective.
Well, even earlier private entrepreneurs were running the London Penny Post (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Penny_Post) before it got nationalized as a cash cow for the government (and divers other reasons).
Easy to maintain secure cite.

When you have OpenBSD with content in read only mounted disk, that's a solid setup.
Yes, the second-long pause was on the 32bit version, i do not remember noticing this in the 64bit SE version but i only bought that last week and my PC is in transit as i moved places so i haven't had enough time to see how that works. I have an SSD and relatively powerful computer though. In any case, my point is that it doesn't really matter as it doesn't affect anything and you'll notice pauses and performance hiccups way worse than 1ms not only in Skyrim, but in pretty much every high demanding game out there. Especially in open world games (hence the Skyrim reference) where the engines loads and unloads stuff all the time and there isn't a single point where you can have resources "settled". So that 1ms, if it happens rarely enough it wont be noticed by pretty much anyone.

The issue with GCs isn't really that 1ms, the issue is that some GCs (which sadly includes most known ones - like those in Java and C# - but not all GCs) do not provide any form of control beyond mere suggestions. For example last time i checked running System.gc() in Java doesn't really do a full GC run, so you cannot guarantee that by the time gc() returns you'll have all unused memory gone and placing that call between area/level loads in games (where the user expects some sort of delay anyway) doesn't help you much. Similarly you can't just "turn off" the GC until a later point (or until some specified failsafe threshold is reached) so you can't turn off the GC during normal levels and turn it on between level loads and/or when the player opens any inventory/menu/whatever screen (where again a tiny delay will be mostly unnoticed and/or ignored and often can be masked by the UI design) to clean up any garbage.

IMO a GC that gives you such control and takes 100ms is way more useful for games than a GC that give you no control and takes 1ms.
The Pirate Bay is trialing high-quality video streaming
And what a disaster Airbnb and Uber have been for the cities they have invaded. That’s why people legislate against them.
One thing he forgot to mention is that SO has for some time been following a similar trend as Wikipedia. Namely, that there are a number of established "gatekeepers" who guard their realm of influence jealously, shutting down questions and answers that threaten their supremacy or their sense of aesthetics or affect an internal political order. It gets so infuriating that I've mostly stopped participating. And yes, I do know that this only exacerbates the problem, because when the good people leave, the bad people only strengthen their stranglehold...
Sound waves used to separate microplastics from laundry wastewater
Spark and do some data engineering projects on my own. I want to transfer to BI and that's part of their job to maintain data pipelines. Plus it's further from business which is a huge advantage to me. Going to spend rest of my career life figuring out how to stay as far from core business as possible while still making enough money.
Maybe? I don't know if there's defined behaviour JS wise for a "click" event not following a "mouseover" though.
The demo doesn't work very well for me, most of the alt combinations don't seem to do anything (alt+escape to activate works though, luckily). Might need to install the extension to try it out after all.

So far I like the precise scrolling with j/k, going up and down with G/g, jumping to a point of interest (link, image) with f, focusing input boxes with i, and yanking (copying) the focused link (or the page's url if nothing is focused) with y. The parts that work in the live demo, work really nicely.

Personally I have "search when typing" enabled in Firefox which enables navigation like this: https://preview.redd.it/jial7j6lbppz.gif?width=1024&format=m... It isn't as mouse-free as this extension aims to be, but it goes a long way already with no extensions and only a tiny learning curve (to learn some tricks like searching for the text next to a button or field and hitting (shift+)tab). For example, I typically upvote HN comments by typing part of the person's username, shift+tab+tab, enter. Looking for my own post is typically just typing the word "edit".

(Firefox 71, Linux)
Replying to the dead comment: you're probably right about León, but López comes from Lope (as in De Vega).
> There was also a general lack of compassion on the part of many, many users.

Well put. This is what I've experienced with most of the stackoverflow communities. It WAS definitely better previously.

But I'm experiencing some trouble asking questions in certain tags where moderators are easily closing down or downvoting the question. Even I saw the person who answered my question replied in the thread that he/she doesn't understand why is it getting downvoted. People just don't stay on point. Neither do they refrain from their cocksure way of replying.

What the author says about the scope of the question is not there with answers or comments.
The problem seems to be the lack of evidence about his death.
I've made non-trivial numerical errors on my tax returns and the CRA just calls me up and asks, "did you mean X?"

It's absurd to punish someone because the formatting was wrong.
worked there, run by a bunch of bunker creatures who care only and solely about their pensions.
I know your feeling.

I was there too and I left cause mods were more interested about my english than about my answer - mostly correct.

SO beccame one big egoistic mess.
> The decision said it was "cruel and unusual punishment" to enforce rules that stop homeless people from camping in public places when they have no place else to go.

Even NPR summarized the decision inaccurately. The decision was that because sleep - not camping, but sleep - is a biological necessity, there must be a practical way for homeless people to obtain it.

If that method isn’t shelters (because they’re full or inaccessible), then there needs to be places and/or times when sleeping is allowed and practical. The justices explicitly noted that this doesn’t mean municipalities can’t enact and enforce significant restrictions on when, where, and how (for example, no multi-day camping or no erecting structures) this can happen, including when no shelter beds are available. There needs to be a viable way to obtain sleep, though, whatever that way is.

https://sccinsight.com/2019/04/08/what-the-9th-circuit-actua... has an excellent unbiased explanation, though the core part of the decision is not that long. Here’s the footnote which explicitly carved out this stuff:

> Naturally, our holding does not cover individuals who do have access to adequate temporary shelter, whether because they have the means to pay for it or because it is realistically available to them for free, but who choose not to use it. Nor do we suggest that a jurisdiction with insufficient shelter can never criminalize the act of sleeping outside. Even where shelter is unavailable, an ordinance prohibiting sitting, lying, or sleeping outside at particular times or in particular locations might well be constitutionally permissible. See Jones, 444 F.3d at 1123. So, too, might an ordinance barring the obstruction of public rights of way or the erection of certain structures. Whether some other ordinance is consistent with the Eighth Amendment will depend, as here, on whether it punishes a person for lacking the means to live out the “universal and unavoidable consequences of being human” in the way the ordinance prescribes.
I assume this might be an unpopular opinion, but shouldn't these programs be evaluated on some metric of success rather than their racial selection?

If the software is accurate at picking choices that match the set goals, then it would seem that: the software is doing its job and is 'blameless', the racism is on the side of those that set the goals and/or the people claiming 'racism' because a person of a given skin colour was selected.

If it could be shown that there's low success in the software, yet it's relied on despite racial bias, then I would think few rational people could argue against its removal. (edit: s/for/against)

Edit: I suppose that I'm asking for better auditing of the results vs the desired outcomes. Race seems like a red-herring until it's shown that the metrics support poor performance of these systems.
SO intentionally made the site peak.

They wanted no duplicates, and only a single unique question/answer thread. But technology moves forward and there was never only one way to solve most issues anyway.

What we have today is e.g. JavaScript question/answers that pre-date ES6, are high in google search rankings, and also largely bad. People can reply with ES6 solutions to 6+ year old problems, but there's little rep' benefit so few do.

Ultimately SO is a "question/answer" site that's super hostile to new questions and most "answers" will just be a mod close/re-point to the "dupe." Plus they want questions so generic that they are rarely helpful to the question asker themselves.
right only the big startups who fund major lobbying can do that
As I read the article which hit a lot of my favorite stretches of measure and the assumptions underlying inference I couldn't help but notice the only instance of "trans" is transcendence in a footnote.

One can't help but wonder how do you factor the generational recursion these traits have. We know how much some of these are due to our environmental exposure, and how we are socially trained.

Transgender people are in the crux of this colossal attempt to define personality by measure, and yet I literally do not see us mentioned even once. I'd like to know where a set of my cohort follow in this D measure from their assigned gender to their expression. Are nonbinaries truly in the middle?

What does this distance look like in settings where traits are conditionally measured? E.G. how do highly empathetic men compare to highly empathetic women?

These questions are salient to me because I am in the early stages of transition myself and I find articles like this always lacking key details to sate my curiosity.
Climate talks end with hard feelings, few results and new doubts about unity
Native speaker here, I had no idea what the title meant at all until I looked at the article. It just would not fit into my head. Kind of like a crash blossom or something.
Sadly, you might have a very good point here.
To be fair VCS before that sucked pretty badly.
A lot of those points are iffy, and the politics one is dumb, but the last one strikes me as just flat-out wrong. Brutalist buildings aren't festooned with exposed connectors either. It's all buried inside the concrete.
I'm not a native speaker, but I found it easy to understand. (I haven't even opened the article yet, but I am fairly sure it's about people who are Jewish in secret.)

It helps, if you are vaguely familiar with the history in question.
Thomas Philippon argues a large factor is that the USA gave up on having free markets.

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674237544:

”a leading economist argues that many key problems of the American economy are due not to the flaws of capitalism or the inevitabilities of globalization but to the concentration of corporate power. By lobbying against competition, the biggest firms drive profits higher while depressing wages and limiting opportunities for investment, innovation, and growth.

Why are cell-phone plans so much more expensive in the United States than in Europe? It seems a simple question. But the search for an answer took Thomas Philippon on an unexpected journey through some of the most complex and hotly debated issues in modern economics. Ultimately he reached his surprising conclusion: American markets, once a model for the world, are giving up on healthy competition. Sector after economic sector is more concentrated than it was twenty years ago, dominated by fewer and bigger players who lobby politicians aggressively to protect and expand their profit margins. Across the country, this drives up prices while driving down investment, productivity, growth, and wages, resulting in more inequality. Meanwhile, Europe—long dismissed for competitive sclerosis and weak antitrust—is beating America at its own game.

Philippon, one of the world’s leading economists, did not expect these conclusions in the age of Silicon Valley start-ups and millennial millionaires. But the data from his cutting-edge research proved undeniable. In this compelling tale of economic detective work, we follow him as he works out the basic facts and consequences of industry concentration in the U.S. and Europe, shows how lobbying and campaign contributions have defanged antitrust regulators, and considers what all this means for free trade, technology, and innovation. For the sake of ordinary Americans, he concludes, government needs to return to what it once did best: keeping the playing field level for competition. It’s time to make American markets great—and free—again.”

I know this is controversial, so I looked for negative reviews on this book. I can’t find a convincing one.

https://www.amazon.com/Great-Reversal-America-Gave-Markets/d... has 13 reviews, all 5 stars, and positive.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44326237-the-great-rever... has mostly 4 and 5 ratings, with a single one-star review, but that doesn’t say more than “rated it”.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/has-america-gone-sof... is the best critique I could find to critique it, which basically says “Is he right? We can’t tell”.
If you can accurately calculate the vast implications of the price of energy, I might listen to you. There are things where the price doesn't say a lot of things. It's true for energy since it's a very long term investment, which also has implications on infrastructure.

Generally it's pretty complicated to evaluate the public interest, and I don't think you can put a price tag on public interest.

It doesn't change the fact that nuclear is always better. It's just that private funding doesn't like it because it's a very long term investment.
Wasn't there a death certificate? The problem I have is that I smell mob mentality of being perfectly okay to impinge upon rights because their own mental model of justice allows it.
Un érudit musulman a eu l'idée de l'évolution 1000 ans avant Darwin
Fear of tomorrow is just your fear of yourself
We use double buffering to avoid flickering, but still we have to clear the back buffers.
What if the thing provides maximum value only when it's free? Monetizing via advertising implies losing the speech the advertisers don't approve of. If we had discussion forums that didn't allow free accounts to post, we'd lose the speech of people who can't or won't pay.

Would be interesting if some rich benefactor randomly decided to run such a community.
I think that is expected to be generally known, pokémon fan or not.
When your video is longer than 10 minutes you can place ads manually wherever you want and increase the total number of ads in the video.
Sunday Poetry: Stefan Zweig's “Royal Game”
Thanks yeah that's the name
As a general rule that is particularily effective when dealing with government is that it is always easier to ask forgiveness than it is to ask permission.

Government officials will always choose the easiest path forward - and that is almost always inaction.
Why people with kids is shocked about the energy and times it takes, shocks me.

Kids are not something everyone should get. I would go so far to say, most people shouldn't get kids, and yet most get them for a personal reason, as it is something which life itself is intended for.

Don't get kids just because you can. Get them only if you really want to show them the love and the size of the world.

And we don't need anymore people in the world, so before you go ego and get kids, take care of someone elses heritage. Please
This has been my experience with pretty much any bureaucracy, regardless of locale.

It doesn't have to be this way.

I incorporated my first company in Chicago, and was stunned with how helpful the bureaucrats were.

Yes, it was a little complex, especially in the years before "startups" were a thing, and you could do stuff online. But each department I had to work with had people who would sit me down at their desk and explain what they did, why I should care, and how to fill out the forms properly.

Maybe the difference is that back then, you were expected to form a company in person, and not do everything online all by yourself and be an expert from day one.

A massive thanks to the Illinois Department of Revenue people in the basement of the Thompson Center for all their openness and hand-holding.

(In spite of all this, I still moved the company to another state a few years later because of Chicago + Illinois taxes and corruption.)
> No-one seems to get drunk, there's no violence or shouting

That’s ... not my experience. I felt really safe in Berlin, even outside during the night in the middle of the city, but people definitely get drunk in bars and in public, really a lot by my standards. And with that you have the unavoidable shouting, random acts of violence, property damage. I enjoy Berlin but the place really has an alcohol issue IMHO.
Loved both frases. Will add them to my own. Mine is: "having kids is as beautiful as it is hard. And it's the most beautiful thing in the world".

My mom always says "the older the children, the harder the problems". Which is also true and quite counter intuitive. You might think that the harder years are when kids are young and demanding, but us humans turn into quite complex beings :)
Note that I blamed the mass migration towards Europe on the Americans, not the mess in the region.

For the mess in the region I would have blamed the Brits first and then the Ottoman empire and the French a distant second and third. But that was not the question here.

We have had that mess for a hundred years now without millions of refugees trying to flee to Europe.
I second this. Very fun and many interesting ideas.
You can apparently opt-out. On mobile but I think it was in one of their blog posts.
What You Can Learn by Studying Design Maturity Models
The follow-up CS244 Advanced Networking doesn't appear to touch IPv6 either. I looked at the assignments and papers and didn't see anything.
http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs244/
I actually love RStudio for what it does. In general I'm a huge CL advocate; RStudio is basically the only time I'd rather use an IDE than the terminal. Looking at data, code, and plots simultaneously is easy - I haven't found anything as elegant for Python, including pycharm.

Yes the language itself has problems. It's 1-indexed for God's sake! But if you stick to what it's good at (dplyr, ggplot2), you can get a lot of mileage. What Linus Torvalds said about C++ programmers probably applies doubly to R programmers - so yea comments are going to be sparse. And if you venture far from its core competence of data, you're gonna have a bad time. But overall Hadly Wickham and the tidyverse are driving the ecosystem forward, and R has found a great niche between python scripting and Excel/Matlab
In C that's hard to to do in general, because people do pointer arithmetic, and they sometimes abuse that pointers often come aligned (eg 3 byte aligned), so they re-use the extra two bits for various flags and mask them out before de-referencing.

But compare https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19182779
One could look to the rules around trademark. If two things share the same name, but not the same market, they both keep the name. Humans can be relied on to literally coordinate an offering using a mark and market.
I run KDE on my personal desktop and we have the system tray icons.

Now if I could figure out Mac style copy and paste it would be just about perfect.
Ahh well if we gonna focus on the numbers only. You are right. But then people should shut up about all this environmental and economical crisis. My numbers are fine screw you if your numbers are bad. Why should that be my problem?
practical DSLs

Isn't embedding a "practical DSLs" another toy compiler?

Except that with a DSL, you have to worry about gnarly but not-so-interesting problems like what happens to my syntax (given by a CFG) when I add another syntax (another CFG)? Are the combined CFGs ambiguous etc?

Keep things simple!
Uou are assuming the forms have meaningful purpose.

The reality is that the bureaucrats just don't wantT more startups and so they use excuses to obstruct them.