skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
By this time, “Silicon Valley” had become shorthand for an entire industry that was concentrated in Santa Clara County but had outposts in cities like Seattle, where Amazon had set up shop. The “continuing irony,” O’Mara writes, lay in the fact that “some of those most enriched by the new-style military-industrial complex were also some of the tech industry’s most outspoken critics of big government.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/books/review/the-code-mar...

Numerous other examples can be found. The meaning is often implicit, e.g.,

"Silicon Valley Needs Regulation"

This includes my own cohort of Silicon Valley professionals. A recent Stanford study involving nearly 700 “elite technology entrepreneurs”

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/opinion/silicon-valley-re...

"Silicon Valley Learns Washington’s Language (and Vice Versa)"

Big Tech’s presence in the capital is unmistakable, and its interests intersect with more and more issues, says David McCabe, a tech policy reporter.

Discussion is of Google and Facebook (both in the geographical Silicon Valley), but also:

All eyes are on Amazon and, more specifically, on its second headquarters in Northern Virginia.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/04/technology/personaltech/s...
That is, "Silicon Valley" is "elite technology entrepreneurs".

The notion that the only portion of the tech sector which requires regulation is that bounded within Santa Clara County, or Santa Clara - San Mateo, or the SF-OAK-SJ MSA, is clearly absurd.

Tim Harford at the BBC:

"Silicon Valley stands for cutting-edge technology, bold ideas that change the world."

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-49742270?intlink_from_url=...

etc., etc., etc.
I’m in a bit of an uncanny valley.

My Leaf’s functionality is so tied up in the dash unit that it can’t realistically be replaced without losing access to critical functions. Ironically, the very lowest end model is the only one that can have it’s head unit replaced - and I’d have bought one except it mandates leasing the battery which wasn’t for me.

Not everyone can replace their head unit and most used econoboxes do not have head units anywhere close to recent enough to support either platform.
I am using asciinema there: https://github.com/turtlequeue/quickstart-js

I think it makes sense in this case because one terminal "speaks" to another.
I agree with your assessment about plain text - do you think there is a good way to present this kind of workflow using plain text?
It's funny reading comments from Americans on the perceived lack of value of a college degree. I've never heard this nonsense repeated in any other country on the planet.

Then again, I don't think any other country on the planet shackles its young to such huge levels of debt in the name of education. Is there a 'fox and the grapes'-type situation going on, where people are hating on something they can't have?

Having a Bachelor's degree or higher means that you're less likely to be unemployed, you earn more money, you have better health outcomes, you're more involved in your children's education, and perhaps most importantly, society benefits from your education.

And the people who say "I don't have a degree and I make $150k per year at Google"? You're a statistical anomaly. The average salary for a high school graduate is $37k per year. (https://smartschoolsusa.org/blog/the-average-salary-by-educa...)
Cheerios (or some similarly nibbleable vittle). Eat one unit at a time, and space it out at minute intervals or so. That completely solved my mtg / conference / lecture narcolepsy problem.
I have played with hash tries in the past for determinism/dynamism compared to hash tables. I think they're an excellent choice for integer sets, where you can use a reversible hash function to losslessly randomize the elements (I use the same idea in the integer hash table I linked above). If I didn't need graceful resizing, though, I would use either Cleary hash tables or bucketized cuckoo tables for this application.
these numbers looks oddly familiar to me, almost like they were copied from a Hardware Unboxed youtube video

Edit: I'm an idiot the author is a guy from Hardware Unboxed so obviously the numbers are familiar
The scripting interface and stored actions actually remind me more of Shockwave then Flash. I bring it up because while Shockwave was simpler to use in some ways, it also couldn't compete with Flash in terms of broader flexibility.
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I love reading reactions to things posted on HN
GitHub is considering opening subsidiary in China amid US sanctions concerns
But a college degree is suppose to be far more than learning how to study and some minor industry exposure which is the vast majority of what it is being used for. It means people are paying for 90% fluff they don't want or need at exorbitant rates to overcome an invisible wall. Numerous classes I myself took and needed credit for to work towards a degree, while entertaining and informative, ultimately ended up as no more than what I could of obtained by reading a decent book on the subject myself. And it cost me a damn pretty penny.

While I think those types of classes should still exist, they shouldn't be used as an artificial financial and time barrier to getting a decent job.
If you can't beat em, join em.

I am not sure of the details, but if you can make a Shopify plugin which others can use you could make some money out of it.
Ah, thanks for clearing that up, I was unaware. How is the traffic blocked by default? Firewall layer?
Chrome, Firefox and similar on iOS are just skins on top of Safari. This is only true on iOS not on MacOS.
Distributed offsite redundant backup. (1, 2, 3 of backups)
I remember the incoming call interference being being a thing in 2G times (late 90s, early 00s), but I haven't experienced it in a very long time. Do digital protocols cause less interference (possibly due to frequency hopping or just running on different frequencies)?

edit: 2G was also digital.
> How often do you find yourself reminiscing by going back through a messaging log?

Are you kidding? All the time!

Most commonly by first reminiscing and then searching out the appropriate part of the message log.
Maybe the fact that they copy-pasted someone else's content. Someone worked hard on this article and that person is not properly credited for that work.

Oh, and stealing ad revenue from the original creator.
Id honestly be happy with a headband attached the headrest that would stop my head from dropping when I fall asleep.

The cushions on either side only work if the seat is very reclined, else you just keep slipping forward.
Despite being the ever pessimistic type, can't agree with this article, and am not sure if the author even agrees with himself.

There's plenty of things to be encouraged by: my tech-illiterate family were harping on to me about the wonders of adblocking the other day. More eyes than ever are focused on cryptography thanks to the fairly maligned rise of cryptocurrency. Privacy invasions as a default, internet of shit as the cheapest product, ever-intrusive T&C's. It's bad yes, but more people than ever are fighting against privacy invasions, more people than ever are aware of it.
Crypto-war II is right upon our doorstep and I think the cypherpunks actually have legions of people from all walks of life, with all various sorts of power behind them this time around.

We'll get through it.
Simple Fake HTTP Requests ️
It is an easy filter for job applicants, who are also likely in debt and desperate for stable work. If they had or could get a decent job in their field of study they wouldn't be applying for factory work unless they were an automation specialist.
I use pngcrush, jpegtran, and gifsicle
This is not surveillance, this is just another channel crawler.
You can issue a DMCA takedown to their host.
> that seems an abuse of big-O notation

Formally it's amortized O(1) time and pessimistic O(n) time.

It's not abuse - many algorithms and data structures have different performance in average and worst case - for example quicksort is O(n log n) but in worst case it's O(n^2). People just ignore the worst case unless worst-case guarantees are especially important for their system.
Thanks, I had to read at least until the 4th paragraph to get any useful information.
> I agree that finding out why the repository is huge seems worthwhile. I think it's been growing lately which means it might eventually get to an unsustainable size.

Exactly. It's 1.9 GB on your machine, whereas on a plain home-use computer it's less than 50 MB, i.e 40 times smaller. Something produces all that data there, what is that, and what's that that's being stored?
I wrote an L-systems implementation in Common Lisp as part of a thesis around 2002. The software, thesis and some raytraced images are still available at my old university home page: http://www.ii.uib.no/~knute/lsystems/llisp.html

If anyone plans to test the software: I haven't run it in ages, and I suspect that the OpenGL bindings will be tricky to get working today. The rest of the code hopefully still works.
That's certainly a major narrative, and the one which SV companies (and their very well-compensated PR engines) are promoting.

The Techlash, dating to about 2017 (see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platform_economy#Post_2017_bac..., I also consider Tim Bray's "You Might be Evil" blog post from September 2017 a watershed, https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2017/09/20/Tech-is-E...), is one of the occasional reversals in popular sentiment for technology and innovation.

These arise from time to time, and are not generally irrational. The Luddite movement, the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist–Modernist_contr...), numerous examples in Bernhard J. Sterns' excellent "Resistances to the Adoption of Technological Innovations" (1937) (https://archive.org/details/technologicaltre1937unitrich/pag..., retyped as Markdown: https://pastebin.com/raw/Bapu75is), various back-to-land movements (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-to-the-land_movement), notably the 1960s-70s commune movement in the US, and others.
If you avoid bread, pasta, rice and potatoes in favor to beans, peas, lentils and vegetables, the after lunch energy dip is much less pronounced. You also tend not be hungry in the middle of the afternoon.
And exactly because of that it makes the book useful to read, so that you can notice and identify sociopathic techniques, and decide how to deal with them. I feel the same way about certain sales books I've read, being conscious of the techniques takes away much of the power those techniques have, and allows you to make rational decisions without being swayed.
For those interested, Starbucks publishes caffeine content of all their drinks, which makes a nice baseline for comparison.

A 'tall' filter coffee, which IIRC is 16oz in the US, is 229mg, about equivalent to 3 single espresso shots (page 4 of the link below).

https://globalassets.starbucks.com/assets/E3DA4F2E01A148DD88...
Divergence from the upstream isn't a marker for or against quality, as Debian chooses to define it.
Man, I get where you are coming from, and good for you all your success. But your opinion is so extremely narrow it doesn't mean much for most of the world. You might step out of your IT bubble from time to time, real world and real people are much bigger spectrum than you seemingly understand.

Reasons are more than I can cover in one post - gatekeeping is real, very super real in most well paid jobs. Nobody hires new accountants, managers, electricians, architects, any kind of engineers, and many more without school. Nobody is going to give them expertise coming from job required to grow. Not all jobs are learnable just from online tutorials and books. You don't want to have your house built by guy who aced some online architecture test but has no degree, do you.

You were lucky and seemingly very talented. That is great, but not a usable advice for maybe 95% of the folks. I don't like how things are, but currently they are like that all around the world and there is no change coming soon.
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Those are some wild assumptions. You're discussing an entirely different topic about cameras and privacy that I never mentioned.

It doesn't make my post a mistake for not accounting for every last thought you had about a different conversation. And if you need it to be clear, by over-engineered I do consider these unnecessary and unwanted.
If the start of crystallization is sufficiently difficult, growth begins with only one random grain and when the other grains start growing, a significant time later, they find themselves shut off by previous growth.
How about advising me on how to develop this further? I am looking for people like you :-) - those who like animations and have some experience in Shockwave / Flash. If interested please shoot me an email leisenming AT protonmail DOTcom
There was another post on HN a little while back calling into question the use of stents at all versus drug therapy. Is this the same condition?
Trust isn't binary, but progressive (2004)
The ARM 7 is a pretty good processor, so it can get a lot done on 16 MHz. Quite a bit more than what an x86 of similar clock speed ever could.
I thought it's becasue of spinning disks or tapes.
the same country that in practice owns the seas with the "freedom of navigation".
The Public Square was much better served by forums and BBSs that came before them. Now that corporations have taken over the Public Square, they have become beholden to those who complain the most. Amazingly, South Park predicted a lot of this with their Cartoon Wars episode[1] in that bowing to pressure from one group, means bowing to pressure from all Groups.

Previously the web was thousands of independent forums and sites with their own rules. They were small enough and diffuse enough that you couldn't bring a large amount of pressure to force a forum or site to change. Now, everything is owned by a small number of companies that this is a feasible approach to silencing opponents.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon_Wars_Part_I
> Yes, it opens up a lot of possibilities for us today, but there is a hunch we're still trying to wave with hand-made wings instead of inventing a plane. One that will leave behind all these shutters, apertures, and Bayer filters.

> The beauty of the situation is that we can't even imagine today what it's going to be.

Optical phased arrays of nanoantennas?
It is probably because of the immense costs of many US colleges. I wouldn't consider my college years wasted if I wasn't saddled with tens of thousands of dollars of debt from it, and im not even one of the worst off.
Why products are shutdown? The case of Verizon and Yahoo Groups
It's so bad I sent it to all my friends.
Yes, the project is disingenuous. It claims there is a bug but really it is just functioning as designed.
Agreed. The giggling-schoolboy attitude whenever sex is mentioned just has to die.
> The child consequently develops antisocial behavior disorders and shoots up a classroom full of children

School-shootings are such a big problem in Quebec and Scandinavian countries where childcare is subsidized. They must be caused by the evils of subsidized childcare.
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You must not only avoid sugar but also food mostly composed of starch such as bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, and favor beans, peas, lentils and vegetables.

Starch in processed food is hydrolysed into sugar very fast: it actually starts in the mouth where saliva contains amylase.
They're visually nice, but misleading from an interaction design perspective. A hover state should mean that clicking the mouse will perform an action. Here, the hover region is larger than the active region. The mouse cursor is the only way to tell whether you're really in the active region or not.
What it’s like to visit Riyadh, alone, for Formula E
Or maybe because it makes about as much sense as worrying about converting kilometers into AUs without reference.
Uploading ascii equivalents is a great idea! I usually do that, so I can later reconvert if needed.

Can you tell me if your text browser/Braille reader works well with https://github.com/csdvrx/pg_csdvrx/blob/master/pg_csdvrx.tt... ?

This is my latest recording. I removed color and unicode to be more accessible but I still have some Ansi.
Keeping an eye on cryptocurrency scammer channels?
Stop worrying about waking up the kids with your noise, and they'll soon learn it's normal (even comforting) and sleep right through it.
but merge sort is not in-place (at least not any remotely practical variant); heap sort is simple, in-place and O(n log n), although it is not a stable sort as merge sort.
Sorry I don't recall the name, but I was in Sapporo, and the taxi was an odd shape compared to the others. Like a black hatchback with a sliding side door that opened automatically, unlike the Toyota Crowns I normally saw.

Similar to this, if not perhaps exactly this: http://hokkaidotaxi.com/category/sapporo-taxi-cab/
Some pictures would help. Most airline seats I have used for the last few years have had wings - how are these different?
It's annoying that they wont tell us the context of why they prefer it, I'm assuming it's due to the interference I've seen in my own life.

However it could just as easily be spectrum oversaturation, so if 10% of passengers disobey there's no issue, but if 100% of passengers disobey then they have to start restricting phones on planes.

Air travel feels draconian enough, I'm willing to just comply, since this compliance benefits my battery-life anyway I'm not going to split hairs. I would like to bring water with me though.
Somebody somewhere has to buy a new car. Europe is not devoid of car loans. https://www.ft.com/content/8b6607de-6304-11e7-91a7-502f7ee26...

(Yes, I'm a secondhand car person myself, but heavy car commuters tend to buy new or even lease because the quality of car affects the quality of life for hours a day)
> xnu supports priority inheritance through "turnstiles"

Do you have any information on how long this "turnstiles" feature has been available? [1] I was aware that the userspace pthread libraries implement but ignore PTHREAD_PRIO_INHERIT, but wasn't aware that the underlying implementation gave priority inheritance semantics.

Update: Looks like the "turnstiles" feature may have its origins in Solaris. [2]

[1] This link would suggest as of Mac OS 10.14: http://newosxbook.com/articles/12-10.14.html

[2] http://sunsite.uakom.sk/sunworldonline/swol-08-1999/swol-08-...
Come on, they have both kinds of ideologies in colleges: Socialist and communist
http://claytonschwartz.blogspot.com/2008/11/final-words-upon...
I dunno, interstellar masers don't have mirrors. Kind of like a one shot pass through the lasing medium.
This should be read as a kind of "contrarian advice" i.e. advice designed not to be taken too literally but to counteract common wisdom that is often accepted uncritically. Common wisdom is of course "you should read more".

Personally I like reading very much and some time ago I started reading a lot of non-fiction of the kind listed in the article. It is a nice feeling when you like to do something and common wisdom encourages you to do more of it. But then I noticed that I don't get much out of these books other than a modicum of entertainment and some superficial erudition. So I stopped wasting my time. Now if I just want to read, I read fiction - it is more entertaining and honest.

In my opinion proper reading of a non-fiction book is a slow process when you try to really understand the ideas, criticize them and apply them in real life and it really blurs the line between reading and doing. A good rule of thumb is that some artifact (at the very least it may be some book notes) should appear as a result of this process. But it is very easy to fall back to "just reading" - reading a science textbook but not doing the problems, reading a software engineering book without writing any code, reading a business book without operating a business. If you do that, all you are doing is reading a fairly boring fiction book.
Yep! You don't get asked or consent to anything either, it just happens. Pretty untoward.
> For the record, Firefox has built-in anti tracker which is enabled by default and they do that on all platforms

Firefox's anti-tracking protection doesn't block google analytics by default. They only block "third party" cookies - which in practice translates as: Google's competition.

The fox knows better than to bite the hand that feeds it.
I cannot reconcile the number of Australian frequent flyers who love to talk about how MEL is so much better than SYD with the ceilings of MEL T1.

Yes, yes, I know, it's all about how you don't need to catch a bus to get from T1 to T2... but I'll always dislike MEL T1 more than dealing with SYD.
Hehe. Sounds a lot like those "we retired at 30!" folks you hear about every so often.

No, you didn't, you put away enough to enable you to make a career switch to lifestyle-blogging and speech-giving, which you're making a ton of cash with.

It's great you found a way to do what you enjoy, but it's not retirement, you're still working for money.
> [...] the combination of which allows market actors to determine how much of my consumer surplus they can extract in every sense

That would only be possible if the online stores could perfectly discriminate users based on price. Which happens to some extent (booking flights is a popular example) but is difficult to pull off and also illegal in most countries. You are not allowed to make personal discounts for each customer for example. Better and stricter legislation to prevent these kinds of personalized discounts would be pretty straightforward to implement if it were a major concern.
Can you explain what you mean by trashy? Sentences like that barely register to me. Seems odd that to me it caused such a reaction.
Possibly but images like this an be misleading. As the article on the floating roundabout points out it's not all that high above ground, the junction itself is below ground level. The cars are in fact doing most of the vertical movement.

The floating roundabout does have the disadvantage that you need a bigger height difference to allow the cars to pass below it.
> This could be the worst idea ever. Have cameras pointed at every flyer for the duration of the flight, for the incredibly minor benefit of stopping your movie

This seems to be uniform across all surveillance technology. The purported convenience is so laughably minor that it's almost a parody.

Like Alexa - people are willing to have a Big Brother-esque speaker inside their homes for the convenience of playing some music? Is that all it takes?
I think I must be one of those people. I wouldn't even know where to start to "invest 10% of my income favourably in stuff I understand." What does that mean? Examples?
Not impossible, although it does seem to turn up on people's reading lists from this millenium and indeed, this decade.
> The idea is to own assets that generate cash.

I read this book when I was younger, keenly interested in how he managed to bootstrap himself into enough capital to really get started investing.

I was rather disappointed that his actual approach, when he got to it, was to snipe mortgage foreclosure auctions and then immediately flip the houses for instant profit. Maybe it's legal but this seems scummy as hell to me. I'd be happy if it turned out to be fiction.
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Coherent radiation in all directions usually isn't something that one imagines when hearing 'LASER'.
FWIW, the Singaporean government actively tries to encourage "Good English" rather than Singlish, much to the dismay of many.

The Malaysian government doesn't do quite the same type of attempts at social engineering as the Singaporeans, so you don't see quite as many official denunciations of Manglish.

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