skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's interesting.

I co-founded a consumer loan business in the UK back when Consumer Credit Licences were administered by the Office of Fair Trading. The regulations seemed reasonable and not overly-onerous. But I can understand that, even if the corresponding regulations in the US are no more complex than those in the UK, having to register with and deal with 50 different regulators might be 10x or 20x the effort of dealing with just one regulator.
It is magnitudes simpler to hire an American, immigration laws make sure of it. Any employer will readily hire qualified American candidates, they’re just fully aware that those qualified candidates won’t happen through this local newspaper channel for this kind of job. Americans who would apply to that specific ad would only do so to run interference, hence keeping their wording irrelevant.

Why wouldn’t a qualified American candidate run interference then? One reason: most candidates for this kind of job are educated enough to be aware that the economy and the job market are not fixed-sum, so a foreigner being hired today doesn’t meaningfully change their own odds at being hired tomorrow. It’s kinda like saying that new graduates entering the workforce take jobs away from people in the workforce, when factually an economy grows with more people in it.
As an iOS user since late 2008 I recently tried to use GarageBand on my iPhone 8+ - it was such a non-intuitive nightmare.

(Actually, I just wanted to create a custom ringtone out of an song fragment. It was the most epic fail I've ever had on a macOS and an iOS device).
Nitpicking but am I the only one who hates "serve" being used in strange contexts? IMHO to serve is to send something over a network. If it's all happening locally, the verb should be "load" because it's just taking a file and loading it into a browser at that point.
Don't you think taxi companies captured a lot of the regulators in many cities, though? (this was my impression), and act monopolistically?

why are you basically OK with legal enforcement of the status quo to the point that you want a company to be unable to float its alternative model? I really don't get it.
> Does anyone know a more interactive json tool? With, for example, auto-completion?

https://github.com/antonmedv/fx

It just uses JS for the query language and can be hooked in to bash completion.

Personally I don't get on with jq, because I don't feel that plinking with JSON is something that warrants memorising a bespoke language.
Naval patents of far fetched sounding room temperature superconductors and similar things may indeed be part of a disinformation campaign, but that does not mean the sightings of tic-tac shaped objects and other radar and pilot observed anomalies are part of the campaign as well.

What could be the case is that the observed tic-tac UFO's are real alien craft, about which word is now leaking out, but the US military is now using the confusion surrounding them for their own purposes. Hey, why not use the confusion for our own advantage.
I usually spend an hour or two for free with the client, unless I feel they are not serious about it. If I assess studing the project will take more time, I give them a flat rate for it. It's my job to assess how long it will take, then use my daily rate to give the total.

I always include an escape clause in the contract in case they forgot to mention something very important that change drastically the price.

I also never quote the entire project, only the first deliverables. Then roll incrementally from that.

Most contractors around me are well paid, it's not a big deal to not be accurate at the begining. We adjust on the way.
Many insights to be made by this comment. One that is easily missed is how hard it is to fight against the existing ecosystem/assumptions. I've found that a lot of people either don't, or make a point of challenging everything. A strategy they've worked fairly well for me so far is to challenge one(!) assumption after a lot of careful analysis, and then try to adapt to the ecosystem as best as possible. Most revolutionary things are not made in one big bang, but in many incremental steps. They only look like big bangs in hindsight.

Even the nuclear bomb was fairly incremental, with truly a big bang in the end.... (pun intended ;)
How did you afford taking off years of work to develop this? Did you have a lot of capital / runway? Low cost of living?

Kudos for this extremely well polished project. This is the dream many of us have but can't or won't embark upon. This is very inspirational.
This post sorely lacks evidence for its big first claim:

> I've seen a similar pattern in many different fields: even though lots of people have worked hard in the field, only a small fraction of the space of possibilities has been explored, because they've all worked on similar things.

Anyone want to step in with some examples? Without them, the thrust of the essay seems to be: "If only other people understood what problems are worth working on! Especially in the well-studied areas of essays, Lisp, and venture funding! Too bad they do not. Well, goodbye."
I guess, if you define "success" as "managing to borrow money"...
If you're still wondering how to get the icon labels back on your tablet, one way is to install a third-party home screen app. (Unlike on iOS, on Android the "desktop" is just another app. If you don't like the one your device comes with, you can download a replacement on the Google Play Store.)

Apps like this are usually called "launchers". Personally, I've used and liked Nova Launcher, an app that tries to be like the default Android launcher but with more settings to customize everything: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.teslacoils...
Pressing hard on a UI element, like an app icon[0], tweet, etc will show certain actions. On the newer models without a pressure-sensing screen, you can hold the UI icon for about a second to perform the same thing.

0: https://imgur.com/a/wOTDT3s
That's really cool. What resources did you use to learn it?
Now due to the auto-hiding scrollbar and no cut-off list items to the bottom, people have no idea that scrolling vertically is possible

https://tyler.io/perfectly-cropped/

But at least we've rotated the problem by 90 degrees :P
> AND consumed a huge amount of compute resources of ourselves and partners

Wow, I'm interested to know more here! How much bot/scraper traffic was there that it cost you big on compute?
> Yes, but not when talking about cyber-things.

Yes, precisely there.

> Generally, we only enter the realm of security of the information leak is secret or unintentional, neither of which is the case here.

So, you are telling me the user is intending the information leak? I'm not sure I understand: You say it's not a security matter if the "leak" is intentional. But then, if a user is transmitting information intentionally ... why would you call that a leak?

Or do you mean the leak is intended by Google or whoever and that is why it's not a security problem?! But then, what if a hacker intentionally installs a back door on your system and uses that to leak your information ... then that wouldn't be a security problem either, would it? Or is that where the "secret" part comes in, and it would only be a security problem if the hacker didn't tell you that they stole all your data?
Is anyone going to answer my questions?

Amateur radio operators seem to be actively opposed to welcoming new people. I'll have to keep that in mind when I tell others about it.
Carrier Wave in Wired Data Networks
Genetic Neural Networks in Golang
I agree. 10.7 was when I left the Mac platform. Sometimes I miss os x 10.6 but I'm not a fan of anything past that.
For sure. My wife and I rented for a few years and bought our house this summer. We've done a lot better job meeting people. A lot of people just kind of want to be left alone and you've got to be able to take that in stride and move on to saying hi to the next neighbours.
Why is this post "flagged" (originally flagged | deleted)? The NatGeo article refers to a Nature article on climate change and tipping points:

[2019-11-27] Climate tipping points -- too risky to bet against. The growing threat of abrupt and irreversible climate changes must compel political and economic action on emissions.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-03595-0

"Politicians, economists and even some natural scientists have tended to assume that tipping points in the Earth system [Lenton TM et al. (2008) "Tipping elements in the Earth's climate system." Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA. 105: 1786-1793. https://www.pnas.org/content/105/6/1786] -- such as the loss of the Amazon rainforest or the West Antarctic ice sheet -- are of low probability and little understood. Yet evidence is mounting that these events could be more likely than was thought, have high impacts and are interconnected across different biophysical systems, potentially committing the world to long-term irreversible changes.

"Here we summarize evidence on the threat of exceeding tipping points, identify knowledge gaps and suggest how these should be plugged. We explore the effects of such large-scale changes, how quickly they might unfold and whether we still have any control over them.

"In our view, the consideration of tipping points helps to define that we are in a climate emergency and strengthens this year's chorus of calls for urgent climate action -- from schoolchildren to scientists, cities and countries. ..."
For those interested in JSON as a command line protocol, I think it's interesting to see how Andreas Kling has integrated it into his Serenity OS project. While the project is aesthetically retro, its architecture is forward-facing, and the usage of JSON for the representation of such data as the process tree is, I think, an interesting take on old Unix ideas.
'arcfide completed his thesis just the other day! It was really interesting. Have you read it?
EuroBSDcon 2019 Keynote by Patricia Aas: Embedded Ethics (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfNIiitVFtc / slides: https://www.slideshare.net/PatriciaAas/embedded-ethics-eurob...)

Because, sometimes you need to worry less about the gritty details of the tech and take a step back and look at the bigger picture.
tldr; Everything.
As long as we miss SI unit for the "hard to use" attribute we will have to fall back to user opinions and debates - and potential randomly constructed half cooked polls.

The opinions and debates are not looking well for Apple though.
I believe this was mentioned by Alan Kay as one of the programming books he recommended.
I'm not sure how your second sentence follows from your first. Advertisers have long distanced themselves from toxic mediums. Once the tide turns on the definition of toxic the platforms may fall in line. I believe Twitter moved in that direction with banning political ads.
It's really hard to see other flying objects when you're flying. Any pilot can confirm this. It can even be hard to see something within a mile! But at 20 miles, good luck finding it. Better to just trust the instruments.
This study says the Flynn effect has been reversing for starting in the birth year 1975.

https://www.pnas.org/content/115/26/6674
> Even the smartest, most imaginative people are surprisingly conservative when deciding what to work on. People who would never dream of being fashionable in any other way get sucked into working on fashionable problems.

This makes no sense. The concepts of "conservative" and "fashionable" are almost polar opposites. Becoming a musician or an actor is fashionable and the dream of many. But it won't bring any money to most people who choose that career. It's no conservative choice. Instead, it's conservative to go into STEM, law or finance. But those fields are "boring". The pattern repeats inside a field as well. It's conservative to be a cobol coder or a DOS expert, and you'll certainly make money. But it's not fashionable. How come you aren't building a cryptocurrency using self driving car that has a drone port on the roof! It results in the woke fields being overrun with very smart and capable people and capital, while tons of fields that use slightly outdated stuff are ripe for harvest but nobody is around to do it.
Damn OS VIP
> you have to do something like what docx and odf do: XML definition+resources in zip container ... which now look a lot like PDF.

Only superficially. .docx and .odt are single files as PDF is, but the contents of those files are very different. A PDF document is designed around the assumption of printed pages with a fixed layout. Yes, tagged PDF has been retrofitted onto the base PDF format for accessibility, but most PDFs that I've seen in the wild do not use this extra feature.

To understand why starting with a PDF and converting to HTML is a bad idea, try any PDF-to-HTML converter you can find; there's the pdftohtml utility included with Xpdf and Poppler, but any of the commercial alternatives are not a lot better. Once you learn more about how PDF works, you'll understand why PDF to HTML conversion can't be very good.
You know what I hate? I hate the fact that every time I open an app (most of which I use relatively rarely), I get a bunch of popups trying to introduce me to a variety of features I never needed in the first place. That goes beyond iOS, but also websites including Slack.

E.g. Why does iOS, instead of silently allowing me to use it's new version, feeds me this gamified introduction to "what's new in 13.x.y.z?".

What I want is a piece of software that doesn't change. Or when it changes, it doesn't notify me of it - it just keeps working until I find enough time to actually go on my own journey of discovery.

I am not-so-subtly exhausted by every single half-capable developer spoon-feeding me their "new features". I've downloaded your app because of the features it _had_ - I mostly don't care about what you add later on.
‘Amazon’s Choice’ Isn’t the Endorsement It Appears
TLDR: "a method and an application for producing publications in a variety of formats—EPUB 3, Mobi/KF8, static website, PDF, and XML file, which can be imported into InDesign for print layouts—from a single source that consists of [Markdown] files and other assets." https://github.com/triplecanopy/b-ber
When I read the HIGs -- whether long ago on the Mac or Amiga, or later OSX it made sense, and the rationale for why something was some way made sense. It was actually quite easy to code something to fit, as the rules were clear, simple and (mostly) logical. There felt like an internal consistency that has slowly eroded over the last decade. Mainly thanks to phones.

Both Android and iPhone have internal inconsistencies along with hidden features that annoy or are gratuitously clever, often added in the yearly fit of featuritis and change for yearly change's sake. Windows and MacOS want to move further away from the desktop metaphor to phone+.

End result is I think just about everything - laptop, phone, tablet, stereo in the car :) is getting worse for usability. Peak on each was half a dozen versions back.

I am old, but I kind of hoped for more. :)
Or just press Ctrl-W?
Even more confusing for non US people is the fact that the word stem of liberal, libre, literally means free. Freedom loving right wingers harking on liberals does not make any sense seen this way.
Do they even read the HIG themselves anymore? The latest iOS is a shit-show and full of inconsistencies between iPhone, iPad, and whatever you think would be considered “common sense”.
> Go get your crazy wizbang UI interfaces on Linux. There are plenty there.

And here I am, using Window Maker, utterly unchanged for decades, older than the distro I use.
A good deal of what ends up in my notebooks are just random thoughts I’ve had. Ideas for stuff to make, questions I want answered about everything from some pedantic programming thing to the meaning of life. These little insights help me construct larger patterns of thoughts.
Question: Could today's SDR (Software Defined Radio) -- be used to implement all/part of yesterday's wired Ethernet, like 1990's 802.3i 10BASE-T: 10 Mbit/s (1.25 MB/s) over twisted pair, or if not that, then something earlier, like 1983's 10BASE5: 10 Mbit/s (1.25 MB/s) over thick coax?

(Reference: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_802.3)

I'm talking about connecting the SDR RF output -- directly to the twisted pair or thick coax.

Yes, you'd need to additionally understand how Ethernet encodes data over the underlying signal, but could SDR be used to implement the underlying signal?

Why or why not would this work?

If it would, then what are some additional things to be aware of?
Still, I was annoyed at it being a floating header, covering up the bottom few lines.

I’m confused the vast majority of “mobile optimized” sites don’t even have anyone look at the site in landscape mode.
My mom must feel this lonely during the holidays . Simply brutal.
Typing this on my SE. Only thing that makes me remotely interested in newer models is the improved camera abilities. Not sure it’s worth it to give up the form factor and affordances.

Also gonna hang out on iOS 12 for as long as possible if what I’ve heard about text selection for 13 is true.
I.e. it never really mattered. My girlfriend still swears by it tho.
While PDF is supposed to be an open standard I'm noticing more and more functionality in PDF files that isn't supported by readers who implement the open standard. I have project right now to find out why Adobe and Chrome are so different and, though it's obvious to me, the loss of functionality because Chrome doesn't support certain things must be explained to those to whom it is not so obvious.
If it's running an http server locally and your browser is making requests to it, it's definitely serving. Not sure how "loading" could be a better word unless you're explaining it to someone nontechnical. Surely a nitpick is supposed to be more pedantic, not less?
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A line of `jq` to turn any .json into a set of xpaths.

https://github.com/TomConlin/json2xpath
Most of his essays have that wise old man who has seen the world kind of vibe to them. If anybody else writes the same things without the success he has had it will be ridiculous to read.

I don't think anybody who reads his essays is looking for any scientific report based on facts. They are looking for some sort of confirmation that they are not crazy when they have similar thoughts.
> HTML actually really sucks as a portable document standard without some extra semantic definition and a container format.

You're probably looking for the WARC [0] ISO standard. Widely supported and used. Including by the UK [1].

WARC is simple enough that tools to create or extract from it are dime a dozen.

As for the incredibly complicated rendering engines to look at the extracted HTML when you want, then even links doesn't struggle to render the content.

[0] https://www.loc.gov/preservation/digital/formats/fdd/fdd0002...

[1] https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pronom/fmt/289
"Fashionable Solutions" are major problems. An actor with lack of experience solves a challenge (a challenge coming from of a million+ times solved problem) not with a proven solution, but with a fashionable one (one that currently has some mindshare and good PR). the research most of the time is looking at alternatives that try to solve the similar thing in the same fashionable way. therefore no real research was done.

an example: a fashionable solution for a static webpage is a fashionable static site builder, a unfashionable solution is an HTML page.
Any potential adversaries are smart enough to realize that if the US military had really invented a fundamental breakthrough they wouldn't be spending a fortune on the B-21 program.
Login with re-captcha, and banning of accounts that are obviously scraping could be quite effective I guess.
It may be fashionable and overused, but I don't think we can talk about the cloud as if it was still something new and unknown. By now I think one can already do an informed decision on which to use for a particular problem.
Me too. Focusing on digital services was, and remains, one of the few things the UK government has got right in recent years, IMHO - and excelled at.
The Quest for Runware [pdf]
We’ve just had the best decade in human history
You make a good point and yes, it seems that other governments would do very good to eject U.S. products from their governments too. Both Russia and China are working on just that. China is pushing Microsoft Windows out as much as possible, even in civilian computers.

Every government is looking to angle what they can from other governments. If I were in charge of a government it would be the approach I'd take.
Why not both? Wasn't the point of the PDF/A ISO standard to
use it for archiving? I always felt PDF is better for content like this than HTML which can change dynamically

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A

VeraPDF also exist for PDF/A validation https://github.com/verapdf
At least the Mac needs a few things.

- a low power mode

- a restricted data mode

- a modern scripting interface , basically port Workflows to the Mac
Ah, thanks. What a terrible abuse of terminology.
That's hilarious! Somebody probably had a lot of fun coming up with and testing that idea.
> Apple hasn't fundamentally changed the UI on iOS or OSX since the initial releases

A whole lot of design department got insulted just now! Seeing their focus in product design almost the whole Apple! :)

Jokes apart even I - design/visuals/very-cool-new-feature-wow agnostic - can see serious changes. Changes that are f*ing up my workflow and user experience!!
What I meant by "attack surface" here is probably a lot narrower than what you're used to. I'm using it to focus on the code size concern. I was trying to visualize it in terms of "how many opportunities do you have to try to break the system" (as surface area) versus "what can you actually do once you've made the first breach" (as volume), and didn't fully coherently rewrite the explanation to excise the surface area/volume distinction I originally made.
I think here by conservative he means doing what everybody else is doing. Risk averse. Following the mainstream. Going into COBOL May have been a conservative choice 40 years ago, but not anymore. The conservative choice is to go with the herd.
"Ideas that diverged too much from the existing successful tech had a huge obstacle in their way: they had to recreate all of the existing solutions in their new model.”

You’re so right! There are great examples of companies that preserved the existing ecosystem of solutions (Facebook with PHP, Microsoft with C++, Google with Java and C++, maybe also Amazon with Perl 5 and C++).

There are also great examples of successful companies that in a certain sense did or had to do things in an entirely new model (WhatsApp with the Open Telecom Platform, F5 Networks with their data center FPGA-powered hardware load balancers, Tesla and SpaceX, and so on).

There are also great examples of companies that did both, where they preserved an existing ecosystem but also added another ecosystem on top to fix flaws (NeXT Computer with Smalltalk and C, Stripe with the modern version of that as Ruby and Go, Twitter with Ruby and Java, so on).

Microsoft is the best example of a company that can succeed even with what seems like a crazy choice. Almost everything being written in C++ sounds insane to the point of being business suicidal, but they worked hard enough to make it work. If Microsoft can succeed in the ways that they have with C++, and if Facebook could succeed for as long as they did with PHP, and Instagram can allegedly succeed with Django[1], then anyone can succeed with anything as long as you can endure the stress that a seemingly peculiar decision might cause you. And those standard ecosystems that they chose all had immense benefits, they just also had some pretty immense weaknesses as well (Powering 500 million daily users primarily with Python scripts?? That just seems pretty crazy to me, if it’s true).

[1]Still very unclear about how much Python actually powers the web services behind Instagram. <https://instagram-engineering.com/tagged/python>.
I really love sidecar.