skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Spending nearly $80,000,000.00 on lawyers didn't seem to explain to the court or FTC that the settlement should have been higher than mere dollars per person so I'm not sure how spending e.g. $800,000,000.00 on lawyers is supposed to result in anything beyond even less making it out to actual compensation.

It's not like there was some busy public defender that didn't have time to think "gee, these people deserve more than a couple bucks and the company is probably going to make money off this 'fine' once the yearly renewal kicks in for those that opted for the coverage how can we argue a stronger deal" there was a high end team that made bank on a deal they knew they were the only ones making real money on regardless of what the deal was.
Print MOAR money!

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MYAGM2JPM189S
"And when you sign up, we'll ask for a credit card. And if you don't cancel the free protection, we'll start billing you for it soon enough."
> Humans didn't evolve in Italy

Some of them did; some of them didn't. When did humans stop evolving?
There were several Burroughs APL systems. As I remember, the first was done by Larry Breed at Stanford for the Burroughs 220. A B5500 implementation described in the report cited here was done at the University of Washington by Gary Kildall and others. The B6500 implementation, an amazing multilevel factored interpreter system done by Jim Ryan is the creme de la creme of APL implementations.
I maintain a separate website for my sole proprietorship that is fairly tiny made with MkDocs. I have a blog running on ikiwiki. The sole proprietorship’s Facebook page mostly points you back to one of those two sites. There is a tiny amount of JavaScript on the MkDocs site but it is manageable.

Living in rural Ohio with flaky cable broadband means uBlock stays almost permanently on. I’m sure high engagement ads are nice things. Waiting a couple minutes for them to load makes for a poor user experience out here on the fringe of the qualitative digital divide.
Good point about Q-1. I never looked at optimizing parameters when writing up the GCM.

A quick empirical check shows a small improvement for Q-1, but the claim that it comes in under 1% from the minimum seems to be based on an unusual definition of the minimum. nullc gives it as log2(eM), but the real minimum is simply log2(M), in which case the unary terminator alone imposes a 5% penalty at M=2^20.

It may still be possible to optimize the parameters further, but the gain would be perhaps a tenth of a bit per item.
I feel weirdly vindicated that I didn't bother making a claim.
And some have almost no healthy issues. But the average is overall cheaper costs, which is what we're discussing.
Hey y'all let's bring it down. We're all on the same team. The rule of law and liberty team. The 'we're better than divide and conquer' team.
I wish proton would also let me use photoshop, and illustrator so I can completely ditch windows
We use docker compose to stand up our micro services. If there's an order you really need, and you can't get around it, try netcat (nc) to knock on the port in a loop until it gets a successful response.
> could not keep track of more than 150 ships at a time without malfunctioning, according to Navy investigators. The Navy’s solution? Sailors were told to delete tracked ships before the total hit the magic number

> “Usually when we have a fault with that system,” Sanchez said, “their resolution is to reboot the system.”

Of course it is.

Software is going to kill us all.
Do different headsets work very differently in terms of software requirements? I have the Valve Index and it works fine under Ubuntu (both for native and for Wine/Proton games).
Something incredibly depressing about this. How to churn out a torrent of shallow content to add to the flood.
Don't people more or less stop producing economic value at age 60 on average?
I see what you're saying, and while I personally don't consume much alcohol, I'm not convinced its sale is unethical. I think there's a difference that makes tobacco addiction more problematic: The large majority of smokers are addicted, but only a small proportion of alcohol drinkers are.
This link has been submitted 8 times.

It has taken 7 months to get to the front page.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19846868

That's like 1.5 Apollo 8s
Exactly my experience! This is especially true for people who are into street photography. I've come full circle and I find myself looking for the sharpest picture across the whole frame.

Aesthetics aside, I think the reason we reach out for bokeh first is that it's an easy way to isolate subjects and obscure clutter. That gives your photography an instant boost. A lot easier than using composition, timing, and relying on luck.
Even if porn destroys you slowly, doesn't mean it's enough to justify that porn has to be banned.

It has its purpose and people should be free to choose.
Please don’t be a Wikipedia warrior, read the whole article and related links as well, get the information correct first. Ziaur Rehman tried to change secularism as fundamental tenet of constitution in Bangladesh, which is restored by Bangladesh’s Supreme Court [1].

Hope India’s Supreme Court can stand up to this current government’s religious dictatorship and uphold India’s secularism. At present they are postponing it until Jan 22, let’s see.

[1] https://zeenews.india.com/news/south-asia/bangladeshs-court-...
don't need infinite scrolling if the end of the page has a huge button that says "more"
I am curious, how it wasn't already known to people working at these vape manufacturing companies?
Very smart. Even if Apple only take a small bite out of carriers it is still a huge amount of money. They could end up being Netflix to Verizon and AT&Ts blockbuster.
I've been amazed with what proton can do and how well it runs. A number of games run very well, and performance is generally very good.

But I'm planning a new SFF build and I'm trying to figure out how to get two gpus in an ITX build. VFIO is still the best option to me for gaming on Linux.

Several nights ago I signed up for the origin pass. Reading on Lutris it worked relatively well with Battle field and others. Single player only, not worried about online. First night was fine. Then next day BF1 forced an update. The game no longer worked. Then origin updated, that stopped working.

I just bought the new Resident Evil 2 remake, which had a gold proton db rating. Booted it got past the intro then it crashed. It was a documented issues, but none of the fixes I saw worked.

I don't game in long stints any more. I use it to relieve the stress. Every couple of days in maybe thirty to forty minutes spurts as a break. Essentially today I spent the time I wanted to take a break debugging a game issue.

This is not in a negative manner to the developers. Either open source or the game companies. Just there are fringe issues / edge cases. With VFIO I just have an external VM that does one thing and encounters little issues. I trade continual trouble shooting, for an initial troubleshooting phase.
This article was an excellent read. Like other commenters, it reminded me of Clemens Szyperski's "Component Software" book. While a component model of software production has succeeded in some niches, it has (so far) failed to become a central organising principle for large scale software production. The article suggests that new micropayment mechanisms such as blockchain might enable Brad Cox's vision of pay-as-you-use software components. But I think this misses the point. I would argue that software differs from physical goods in important ways that make it a poor fit for this model. In particular, software is cheap to modify, evolve and customise, but expensive to specify independent of implementation (cf. Refactoring, Agile processes versus ISO Standards Development.)

One issue that Szyperski's book examined was the composition model (i.e. object model: COM, CORBA, JavaBeans, etc) used for defining interfaces between software components and how those interfaces can be composed. The idea of standardizing interfaces and composition mechanisms does not get so much attention today. It seems that things are currently balkanized into language communities, each doing their own thing.

The industrial manufacturing concept of "interchangeable components" comprises of two things: (1) standardized specifications, (2) multiple independent manufacturers who are able to independently implement specifications. We do have this kind of practice in, for example, the specification and implementation of the C++ standard library. But that's not how most software is developed, and it is commonly held that it is not how most software should be developed. On the other hand, we do have "component reuse" in the form of software libraries -- but the interfaces are unique and idiosyncratic to each library, not standardised, and there is usually a single "manufacturer".
Most migrants are not running from lawless nations. Fact.

A large number of deported migrants are not running from any nation at all - many of them were raised from a young age in the country that will deport them once they become adults. They have known nowhere else; it is cruel and arguably immoral to send those somewhere else.

Some of them will be surprised, as they won't know they were from somewhere else.

Another large number are people from different countries who simply fell in love and want to be together in spite of law preventing them from doing so legally. It is cruel and arguably immoral to prevent them from being together.

A third large class are not breaking any law at all, it is the authorities breaking the law by not applying their own rules correctly or consistently. See also "deport first, appeal later" legal systems, where of course you can't really appeal once deported as it is impractical to do so.

A fourth class are people for whom the law is simply arcane and insane. For example people deported because one of their bank accounts dipped briefly below some threshold for a moment and there is an arcane rule saying it is not allowed. Or for not having long held a class of insurance that nobody knew about until one day people were being told to leave for not having it, and nobody can say how to obtain it anyway. Or for correcting a minor error caused by their accountant in their tax return, as encouraged by the authorities, and then being labelled a terrorist and threat to nations all over the world due to abusive misapplication of "bad character" law that wasn't created to be used that way.

And then there is the fact that nations of laws change their laws from time to time. Causing people who were once legally entitled to permanent residency to become unwelcome overnight.
Nuclear fission was discovered on December 17, 1938. It was first used in warfare on August 6, 1945, 2,424 days later.
What Are the Top 10 Frustrations for Web Developers? Lessons from MDN's Web DNA
That sounds sarcastic? But a kg is a ridiculous number of chips.

Let's look at a very big chip, 3cm a side. Once you thin it to 500nm, the volume is .45 cubic millimeters. Since Ruthenium has a density of 12.2, it would take 5.5 milligrams to make a version of the chip that was solid Ruthenium all the way through. That's 4.4 cents.
Even adjusted for inflation, the U.S. federal budget is far, far larger than it was in the 1960s. So much so that even though NASA's budget is now less than 0.5% of the federal budget, NASA still spends roughly enough money in a decade to pay for the Apollo program. I've seen various figures for the cost of the Apollo program, ranging from $150 to $290 billion (adjusted to current dollars). In the last decade, NASA spent over $200 B.
I can at least understand Facebook (that I'm on), the NYTimes (that I'm not on), or the twenty other big sites being paywalls, even if I hate it.

But random newspaper from random little place telling to subscribe to their meager content after three articles? What do they really think? I mean, even if I subscribed to my own local news paper in my own little burge, am I really going to be going to the trouble of logging on and so-forth?

All the paywalls seem more like excuses publisher make for their failings than anything they could reasonably expect to make money from. It's a lot like scholarly sites charging $25/article. My guess 0% percent of visitor pay this. It's not a price people, it's a price to justify other bullshit.
The end says you can disable the exploitable feature because you probably don't use it anyway.

That sounds like it is not a big deal.
IDK if you need it for production (in which case this may not suit you completely), but Wine can install CC 2018 at the moment: https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iI....

Should just be double-click the installer and run, hypothetically. 2019 works if it is cracked (although that is obviously not suitable for real-world use).
Did not know about it, so just checked +20 different versions/translations[1] of the said verse in the bible, and scripture could not have been sharper and clearer on several points;

- men who had sex with another men

- should be killed

- they deserve it

Would you point me to a source/insight maybe?

Else I will believe, that this is too, as I have witnessed countless times personally, nothing but an apologetic approach to horrors religious scripture in modern age.

1: https://biblehub.com/leviticus/20-13.htm
I drive the freeways just to go a few miles most days, and tens of thousands in a few years. Carbon be damned, I can't thank highways enough for the life they enabled. When teleportation comes along I'll firmly recant and hope this comment has disappeared, but until then I'm in debt to the national arteries I benefit from today.
“The development of Git began on 3 April 2005. Torvalds announced the project on 6 April; it became self-hosting as of 7 April.” [1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git#History
San Francinsco's city government is completely incompetent and the city itself has devolved into a disgusting cesspool.

But if you live in the city, you don't mention this. Instead, you loudly proclaim at every opportunity that San Francisco is best city in the world, and you express your pity for the poor schmucks who are forced to live anywhere else.

The crime, the drug addicts, the homelessness, the mental illness, the broken car windows, the absurd cost of living, the blighted neighborhoods, the pervasive human misery, the garbage, the heroin needles, the human feces -- this is to be considered part of San Francisco's urban charm. Anyone who acknowledges how bad the situation has become should be ostracized, downvoted, or told to move to Walnut Creek.

You especially shouldn't be critical if you run a tech startup in the city, since you need a continual supply of young, impressionable employees to buy into the hype and move here.

But once you move just outside the city perimeter, then you can afford to be a obliquely critical of the city's slow bus lane construction.
It's not really illustrative to call it a "whole country's economy". Liberia has the same population as LA but only one third of one percent of the GDP. So of course it's not going to be able to afford the protections that a typical country can.
More like everything is seen from the viewpoint of react. I've seen people lump in frameworks like angular and vue with react while comparing them in a way that don't make sense for the first two.
I would argue that CERN like mega-projects are just as technical as agriculture.
I guess I am an outlier. You should learn both languages and any other you encounter. Learning a programming language (after the first few) is not particularly difficult. Each language gives some small insight into how a program (or programs) can be structured. It pays to learn a few assembly languages as well to learn how abstract programs can be mapped onto hardware. Focusing on a particular language to enable career growth is not rational behavior.
How is this different than photolithography?
That's much more personal than a Wikipedia page, so we'll switch to that from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Peddle. Thanks!

(Beware the pop up chat windows though.)
I was willing to read the article with an open mind. After 10 paragraphs of preamble and nary a fact in sight, I gave up. Get to the effing point already.
Same here. I used to live in Jacksonville Florida and routinely used the I-95 to get around the city. What's funny is I'd always envision "warping" when getting on the highway, because inner city traffic speed is ~45 mph, and then it'd instantly jump to 80+ mph on the highway.
These, I suspect were most likely made in some guy's kitchen.
So how fast does this happen?

Taking a hit from a friends vape of unknown origin and substance still cool? Or is that insta KO
Yes, any additional domain you request to has a non-negligible chance of killing the entire connection. To GP, noticing that one request works once from a server (not a home or mobile connection) really means nothing. Every ISP has different and constantly changing failure modes.
I kind of hoped that Ember would ditch Handlebars for templating and move towards something a bit nicer. I find Handlebars syntax to be quite annoying and tedious to write. Kudos to the Ember team for persisting with the framework, I know LinkedIn is using it (and learned in this thread that Intercom is as well).

If this latest Ember release excites people, I highly recommend that people check out what the Aurelia team have been working on with Aurelia 2 https://aurelia.io/blog/2019/10/31/aurelia-vnext-2019-fall-u.... I have always seen Aurelia being similar to Ember, except the syntax is cleaner (especially templating) and is conventions based. There are a lot of similarities between the two.

One thing that Aurelia are doing in Aurelia 2 is an option to shake it down to a tiny app. The problem with frameworks like Angular, Ember and Aurelia 1 is they ship a lot of code to the browser and startup time can be quite slow. In Aurelia 2 they're working on quite a nice and promising AOT compiler. I really wish the Ember team would focus on bundle size, what I have seen with Octane, the bundles are huge.

My money is on Aurelia 2 when it launches in 2020, so it is nice to see Ember firing back as well, great timing given the recent State of JS survey yielded people are really frustrated with Angular.
Lockyer v. Reynolds demonstrates companies targeting children is considered a significant issue. Vaping seems to be sidestepping those regulations and actively targeting young teens.

Further, alcohol has a drinking age of 21 making it somewhat harder for young teens to regularly access. Vaping on the other hand becomes a regular habit due to easy access.
US Spaceforce.mil Goes Live
Sentence 1: Amazon is probably the largest cloud services company in the world.

Probably? Back button where art thou.
"Small. Fast. Reliable.
Choose any three." -- https://sqlite.org/index.html
$3B, 300-Acre City for the Homeless
That says "the project", not the app/business/company.
Aurelia is a framework that didn't rewrite their API's to try and become Reactish either. They have been over in their own lane, while Vue seemingly becomes React Lite.
those tests there are not using current stuff. The glimmer VM has had loads of perf improvements since those versions.

something else to keep in mind is that both the glimmer and ember benchmarks in that test are full framework-level apps. Not just the view layer. This is largely what impacts the startup time and memory usage.
I can't punish freeways enough for the life they've enabled. The closest thing you will get to teleportation in your lifetime is moving to a city. Maybe you cannot get from one side of the world to another in a minute, but you certainly can walk down the street to get anything you need in a minute or two in good major cities.
sicilian is basically arab anyways.
The process of running wires in the US is a massive uphill battle of regulations and monopolies.

With junk like this it's easy to see the appeal of wireless:

https://www.tennessean.com/story/money/2017/11/22/judge-rule...

https://m.slashdot.org/story/313165
I just discovered Nitter as pointed out by danShumway in this thread. Thanks, Dan!

https://github.com/zedeus/nitter
This seems like a nice example of shipping something you are embarrassed of, like Reid Hoffman says.
I installed PoP!_OS on my laptop with a gtx 1050. It booted first try, I installed Steam and was able to run every single game that I like in my library without issues, including some with weird launchers (Warframe...).

I play a ton of video games and have wanted this for so long. It is an option. I am backing up everything off my Windows desktop via Syncthing as I'm typing this for a seamless switch to Linux.
How many people do you think retire at 60 today? At what age do you think you're going to retire yourself? Your question is either senseless or stupid. What does "producing economic value" even means?
100kb is an ideal right now. Many apps will have more than that in just CSS.
Per peave: Christmas did not do anything.

I sure wish this writing form would see less use.
Team 6502 has a memorial as well: https://www.team6502.org/
I don't think 5 star general is a rank anymore. There is also one 6 star, George Washington, General of the Armies.

As far as branches, the Merchant Marines falls under the DoD as well. IIRC, it had the highest casualty rate of any of the branches in WWII.
Some silcilian have North African or Greek as mixture.
I totally get your sentiment about it forcing reform. What would replace it though?

Risk assessment is a valid concern for lenders. Diligent payers should be rewarded.
> I honestly, no bullshit, wish the hackers had simply released the entire dataset. Just drop kicked it into the the public domain.

A lot of systems that leverage data behind walled gardens, collected from the masses and for the benefit of the few could also have the same approach. A couple of high profile "leaks" come to mind…
Nitpick. The 6502 was $25. The 6501 was $20.

The 6501 was almost the same thing as the 6502. However it was more-or-less pin compatible with the Motorola 6800 while the 6502 wasn't. The 6501 never became popular because

a) Motorola objected

b) the 6501 needed two-phase non-overlapping 5V rail-to-rail clocks, so it needed external clock generator circuitry, while the 6502 had a single TTL compatible clock input.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOS_Technology_6502#Introducin...
I agree. Paged results can be used instead. However, what might be good is a new kind of HTTP range request, and possibly some way to programmatically delimit each result in a HTML document.
And this is why we need Javascript in certain webpages! :-) Great!
Sad day. Thanks Chuck, and friends, for all the fun and the start to great careers.

I think I am going to fire up my Apple 2 and reminisce.
Is he claiming that the people involved weren't experts? It doesn't seem that way to me.

I think it's just the opposite – he's demonstrating how much rapid progress can be made when you cut the red tape and get the right people working at full capacity.

He then contrasts this with the municipal government of San Francisco, which operates under a different set of principles. Namely: maximize red tape, use unqualified people, and exert minimal effort, all while lighting money on fire because you have an enormous annual budget and no accountability.
As a non-military background person - don't these trivial "tribe comparisons" equate in sillyness to the "my sports team is better than your sports team" comparisons?

Each branch has specific strengths, personalities, weaknesses, and best of breed jobs to be done.
It was a good theory. Get users to install a lightweight version of the web-app via "Add to Home Screen". This removes a huge amount of friction that App Stores have...

However in practice it was extremely unpopular as majority of users don't want to install a PWA app, without looking at the app's rating and reviews on some kind of app store.

In my experience PWA's have just become an annoying popup that annoying sites use to plant themselves on your device...