skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> consumers seem to think it’s all about cable shape.

As others have noted, the Thunderbolt/USB landscape is pretty confusing.
> Afterwards, you will start to see the shell as a glorious, essential element of our civilization, worth of respect and deserving our careful attention.

Nah.

There should be (probably is) a term for the phenomenon/trope where you can take something that was not carefully designed in the first place (like basically all of Unix) and then down the line you can hyper-analyze the hell out of certain bits of it and wax poetic about the few elegant bits that are inevitably there (even BASIC will work, yes) - while conveniently ignoring the whole is still a steaming pile. Lord knows that's what happened with "Unix" starting in the 90s, and Javascript in the 2000s.
It is also useful for some other interesting use cases. For example I have done what I call "initram shims" to give me a way to enter FDE passwords on remote systems during boot.
Latest Coronavirus R0 estimate: from 3.30 to 5.47
There was almost 10 year gap I think from the last SkyLab mission to the first flight of the shuttle,when Americans had no capsule available for manned missions.
Maybe THAT is the problem, having multiple accounts isn't really a thing they like at Facebook's HQ :)
Prettier Logging with Rich
As a heads-up, this means that if the best product isn't available on Amazon and the other site isn't willing to pay a commission to them, then you won't hear about it.

An example of that is nextdesk: https://www.reddit.com/r/StandingDesk/comments/69npx4/drama_...
Unfortunately no support for the Apple Watch, though.
That's the magic of displayport for you. It won't do that on HDMI, except with active converted from DP to HDMI :)
i remember driving by LA Fresh Poultry during the peta protest (mostly because of the crazy rooster on the top of the building). it was a small number of people but a big enough protest that cars were backing up on the road, which made me wonder what it was and the purpose of the protest.

(multi-)cultural peculiarities like this makes what might be an otherwise impersonal city a little more friendly and interesting. i have bookmarked the real chicken house, mnetioned in the article, to try one of these days.
Explanation of the "Bozo bit" reference, for those who haven't read McCarthy's book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bozo_bit#Dismissing_a_person_a...
The developing experience I don't agree with. I find Android Studio (being essentially IntelliJ) so much better than xcode. I only use the built in emulator for smaller projects but what do you dislike about it?

The things I miss in xcode are mainly command clicking everywhere to easily find call sites and follow application logic. xcode also feels less snappy. When I used it last you could not refactor swift code but I think that's been added now?
There are sources of error in wind tunnel testing too.
Better to be dirt poor with courts judgements than be dirt poor with judgments--and a 20 year jail sentence.

Either way she is broke and even if she has 50 lawyers in the civil case, she might still lose. So she's playing it smart.
It seems every time Google ruins the user experience for its products, the reason is money. I guess that sounds obvious by now.

For example, the the size of the skip button on YouTube ads on Android changed so it only has the width of the seconds counter instead of including the "Skip in N" text. Before you could keep pressing the button before the timer ran out without triggering the ad, if you were impatient, but now you have to be careful not to accidentally click on the ad since the button is so small.

Why? Because it results in more accidental clicks, if so many people have the habit of tapping it over and over. Which means more money. At the expense of user frustration or worry over clicking it unintentionally.

Look at Dropbox's redesign. They slapped a bunch of completely useless collaboration tools that have nothing to do with my singular use case for Dropbox: syncing files. And that's because, as they say, syncing is a feature, not a product, so they probably had no choice to find new ways to "keep growing" and making revenue or simply die out. Because they can't afford otherwise. But Dropbox was the one company with the capital to fine-tune their algorithm so it "just worked" across network instability and numerous system configurations (until they dropped support for everything until ext4 on Linux at least), so that's what so many people used.

I believe that if the only goal was to develop a program to sync files across devices, then everyone at Dropbox would have declared all the extra features unnecessary. But people have to eat.

I keep wondering if the limitless pursuit of capital growth is worth the downsides. It can give us things like Dropbox, but ultimately Dropbox is not worth the hassle for me anymore due to the bloat. As a naive question, will there ever be point where we've had enough growing?
Cosmic say detector? Offline storage? Salt is pretty stable, maybe glassified radioactive waste?
Modern Turkey is indeed built on sound "enlightenment-ideas-based". This doesn't mean it will continue to be so. The current regime works hard to change these principles.
The fact that these principles are challenged in democracies world over should bother us. This is not the same as it ever was, it's a real threat for the liberties and rights humanity managed to bootstrap for it's individuals.
We are watching the erosion of them in realtime. It's a slow process that's easy to miss or get used to. But, I believe we should be wary.
Ah yes, the classic "But who will think of the shareholders?!?!11" argument, good point.

Frankly, yes, regulations should exist to serve consumers not companies.
The binder mechanism including the binder rings were plastic:

https://tedium.imgix.net/2018/01/ktyhjn3jkmcetsgini69.jpg
For some context, this project is from one of the leading research groups in high-performance main-memory OLAP databases. Neumann’s 2011 paper, in particular, basically invented the modern push-driven operator-collapsing approach to query compilation.
Yes those kinds of errors are extremely common... In fact 2 days ago I was visiting a well-known company in SF, and someone mentioned the reason for an aborted Python 3 rollout:
a database contained utf-16 surrogate pairs mis-encoded in utf-8.

To me this is the same problem I had with HTML and DOM mentioned on the other thread (which I will reply to!).

The analogy is

HTML files : DOM :: string data :: Python strings.

I've long had a rant about "models/abstraction vs. reality", which is basically: Reality always wins :) The DOM is an overabstraction of HTML to the point of causing bugs and performance degradation; ditto for Python strings and "real world" textual data. I'd rather solve "honest problems" than self-inflicted problems caused by the wrong abstraction.

A lot of software is basically "undoing" problems caused by other software, not addressing something in the application domain. PEP 383 and 540 seem to be clear instances of that. (And note that I said Python is an amazing achievement in the appendix of this post, which is simultaneously true :) )
Is that the same as

H'=-\sum _{i=1}^{R}p_{i}\ln p_{i}

as per https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_index#Shannon_index

With a log base e for nits (or natural digits) and a log base 2 for bits (or binary digits) as per _a mathematical theory of communication_ (Shannon 1948)?
I really hope “just-so story” isn’t going to be the new thought-terminating cliché we see everywhere.
It was your idea! Plus, give that there's never been a hit Battletech game it seems to hold up quite nicely.
OnePlus, LG, and Xiaomi are all included under 'intuitive'. (Though Samsung appears to not be?)
fyi a quick way to see this is with systemd-analyze

systemd-analyze plot > bootplot.svg

systemd-analyze critical-chain

systemd-analyze blame
If your kid wants to frolicking around in the woods in bear country, it would be reasonable for you to tell him to watch his back. Or go with him and watch his back yourself. Or if neither could be managed, you should tell him to stay inside. What's not reasonable is calling for the extermination of bears to turn nature into a sanitized Disneyland experience safe for unattended young children.

Mapping this analogy back to cats, you should either tell your cat to watch his back, watch your cat's back yourself, or keep your cat indoors. Really though, just do the last one. If your son hunted the north american songbirds your cat kills, he'd be a felon. If you want your cat to be happy, buy some cat toys.
> I wrote 3 years ago about this ...

> But I realize that, in the best case, this will take decades. That's OK ...

Wow. I’ve never really thought about how much time and dedication is put into the languages and tools I’m surrounded by. Thank you for what you’re doing, Andy. You’re honestly an inspiration!
The cellulose pulp tanks were made by Bertrams. They were in Edinburgh and I walked past their boiler making metalworks factory in Sciennes Rd (Marchmont) going to school in the sixties before it closed. It's flats now.
The vast proportion of the 5 million left before the outbreak - for a holiday. Not because of the outbreak.
It’s a pun, as explained in TFA. It simultaneously means “a swedish tiger” and “a swede is quiet”, a pun that doesn’t translate to foxes.
Yes, that had crossed my mind.

But, to be clear, I don't have multiple accounts. As noted in my explanation, I had one account twice under a previous email address.

I deleted it because I was best known online as Michele in California and I left California and discontinued going by Michele, which is my actual middle name. I resumed going by Doreen, my first name.

My previous account listed me as Michele. While it is actually my name, so is Doreen. Among other things, I felt simply starting over made more sense than trying to deal with their real name policy and explain that both names are actually my real name, etc.

I never used Facebook that much. I never had a lot of contacts on Facebook. I'm baffled as to why they have so much of an issue with me starting an account under the name and email address I'm using currently online.
Design patents serve a useful purpose though.

Companies should be encouraged to innovate on a design and arrive at their own implementation. Otherwise you would see large companies simply duplicate en masse the works of smaller ones.

Utility patents like "slide to unlock" are obviously more about protecting an idea by patenting the most common implementation. But again in this case it was trivial to workaround since we've seen many unique phone unlock mechanisms come from the Android ecosystem.
Konami has two new Silent Hill games in development
Funny enough, Portal 2 takes place in an old Michigan salt mine
Companies aren't people, and people will always be more important than an abstraction. So let's reduce the abstraction here a bit.

80,000 Apple employees.

~330,171,224 residents of the United States of America.

330,171,224
- 80,000
------------
330,091,224

Would you say that 330,091,224 is more than 80,000?

I would.

And really, optimizing for the rights of the consumer helps everyone, including all Apple employees. And this helps the producer, too, because it allows them to ignore software patents as well.

Software patents weren't for the good of anyone but executives and legislators when legislators first forced them on everyone against the protests of software devs everywhere decades ago, they aren't suddenly for the good of the common man, now, either.
You can get a lot of that smoothness by going to developer settings (on your Android phone) and setting animation speed to 0.75x or even 0.5x; When I still used Android that was the first thing I did and it instantly made Android feel much smoother.
Ohh I see, thank you!
I had no idea what this meant.

Here's a tweet that clarifies it a bit.

JustSayin
@NowUpdateMe
Replying to
@nCOV19
What it means is that every one carrier can infect between 3 and 5 other people. This is a very dangerous R0.

https://mobile.twitter.com/NowUpdateMe/status/12215433216270...
>> I'm not an expert, but some people are are panicking and buying surgical masks (borderline useless)

Please stop spreading this misinformation, particularly if you are not an expert.
> NoScript detected a potential Cross-Site Scripting attack

> from https://edge.bigthink.com to https://js.stripe.com.

> Suspicious data:

> (URL) https://js.stripe.com/v3/elements-inner-card-212...b40.html#...

WTF is that about?

Setup for "Join Premium"?

But why talk to Stripe in advance?

Edit: Hey, I apologize for going off topic.

But I'm just a little surprised that a site would want to trigger XSS warnings. And why they'd risk it.
Exploiting Kobe and Retrying His Past Is Destructive to All Who Grieve Today
The Disasters of War
The scientific applications are endless!
Intel may have ostensibly handed the standard over to USB IF but all of the reference designs you'd use to implement a Thunderbolt dock are behind NDAs and unavailable [1] unless you get lucky, have an existing relationship, or have the volume to get their attention.

[1] https://thunderbolttechnology.net/developer-application
Not quite. The formula you gave is the more general one, the previous one assumes that all microstates are equally likely. Given that assumption they are equivalent though.
* Some links and sharp comments here: https://lobste.rs/s/16djrz/type_safeness_shell#c_gtmqcl*

> "I gave up on PowerShell when I found out that the return value of a function is the console output."

The reason its return values are like that, is that the PowerShell developers copied the behaviour from Unix shells. Cat a file in bash, in a function, assign the result of the function call to a variable, the variable contains the "console output". (Although PowerShell has a pipeline output and separate "console" outputs as separate streams, so this reason for giving up makes no sense - the function could write verbose or informational console output and return something else through the pipeline, as the return value. (They aren't console outputs because PowerShell can be run with no console, e.g. remotely or as an automation engine)).

> It’s like they the cargo-culted a bunch of bad design decisions like the -eq operator without understanding that syntax isn’t why people use shell.

It's like they can now have a consistent operator style which doesn't clash with > and >> and < and | and &, and allows non-math operators like -contains and -match and -f string formatting. I've not seen anyone who wants -equ to be == explain what they'd do with -ieq and -ceq (case insensitive forced, and case sensitive) variants. A mess of inconsistent operators would be even worse, and `-` allows tab completion, which is a bonus.

What none of the comments there address is PowerShell as an extension language - the Active Directory Administrative Center GUI is built on a PowerShell backend. When you are a point-and-clicky Windows Admin doing things in the GUI, you can show "Windows PowerShell History" pane and that shows you the PowerShell commands to run to do the same thing you just did, because that's what it did internally[1]. Any C# (or other .Net language) can load the PowerShell automation dll and run PowerShell commands through it. Any Enterprise C# developers could expose the behaviour of their tools to PowerShell scripting by making a simple C# class with a few attributes. The (perfectly valid) complaints about exit codes and piping binary data from .exe to .exe slightly miss the mountain for obsessing over the pebbles. What PowerShell is to a Windows ecosystem, is like Linux people missing what Remote Desktop is by saying "just use VNC", or what Active Directory is by saying "just use Kerberos and an LDAP directory". It's not just the top three bullet points of what it does, it's how it connects into Windows world.

[1] https://biztechmagazine.com/sites/default/files/tiny-uploads... - random google result, but imagine you're a 20 year Windows admin dragging yourself towards scripting, and on one side Linux users are mocking you, and on the other side Microsoft is giving you human-friendly tools you can click through and then copy the script code out for next time. Imagine you're a competent scripter and just don't know your way around which cmdlets do what, and what parameters they can take.
speech recogniztion model filed are quite big
I remember Firebird called "serverless" sometime around 2006, in the same meaning that SQLite uses. It was pretty common terminology for RDBMS.
The convenience of the location is great. Lots of salt is needed to deice all the roads in the Detroit/Michigan area.
The main purpose of the salt there is for deicing. Saves a bunch on transport costs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_salt_mine
> How would you make your statement work for a specific dysphoria and not every other dysphorias?

You seem to be implying that making the statement not work for other dysphorias would be desirable; what caused you to reach that conclusion?
While hindsight is 20/20, most of their stuff he is talking about was visible to see , it is just that because VCs were putting money we all thought they must have done due diligence better than us armchair commentators, same with Wework .

Ultimately until shit hits the fan, everyone would naturally trust the guy backing his belief with cash better than anyone else‘s analysis.

If there was market to short startups perhaps it could be different
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Is it wrong for me to be happy?
Yes, take a look at the appendix for my realization about Python from 1991. The comments about Clang and LLVM are also related -- with the Linux kernel and distros and distros in the early stages of migration 15-20 years later.

But to clarify, I don't want implementing Oil to take decades :) I was talking more about adoption. Mass adoption will take decades, just as bash actually wasn't that popular until 15 years ago, but it's also 30 years old. The adoption curve is very long just as it was for Linux, Python, sqlite, etc.

A major reason I write the blog is so that if I decide to stop working on Oil, future maintainers can pick up the knowledge. But I'm also saying it will be embarrassing if I quit before Oil replaces bash for my own use cases. Replacing bash for other people will take a lot longer.

I thought I was the last person who learned Python in 2003, but no, it turns out that several million people were still yet to hear of it :)
No, it doesn’t. Your comment was fine. If your comment was a “just-so story” then the first two paragraphs of the linked article are also a “just-so story”. I see no evidence that the scientists were using guaranteed purebreed wolves, if there even is such a thing alive today. During the evolution of dogs, surely wolves in general were constantly having their gene pools contaminated by genes from stray dogs. That could easily explain why some wolf pups would exhibit traces of dog-specific behavior. Oops, and now I’ve just told a “just-so story”. Maybe it’s safer if we turn off our brains and never comment again.
Right, but the incubation period is 14 days, so many people left who were infected but didn't realize it.
How does that make it OK for the feds to steal the money? It’s kind of dumb to walk around with a $1000 phone and a $4000 laptop as well.
Well, I don't think anyone in the prison has pulled off a heist as big as his.
I think that was a going theory for a while but was later proven wrong.
Pretty much all dBase derivatives had both file-based and record-based locking, that was specifically designed to work in a networked environment with file shares (although NetWare was much more common than NetBIOS back in the day). RLOCK() was the function you had to use for records.
I don't know if it requires training, but here's a red fox playing fetch: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EchdjzFO-7U
Or 'the number of possible microstates (internal configurations) that amount to a given macrostate'
Thanks for that, (I missed the comment in the article), because my skeptic-o-meter was maxing out. You can see the machining marks on the electrodes. There's even screws to be seen in the photo, which makes the 'atom' about the size of a largish dust particle, using a rough guess.
I like what appears here to be an overhead-electric system catenary system:

https://www.gannett-cdn.com/presto/2020/01/20/PDTN/dd7f14d1-...
It’s more accurate to say you probably shouldn’t be applying any operations to sRGB values directly. They’re non-linearly “compressed” and most operations assume they’re working in a linear space.

Of course, if you want, you can figure out the equivalent “chain rule” of your operation, but realistically sRGB also mostly exists to compress colors into 8-bits per channel which doesn’t allow for great manipulation. Fun fact: this is why LRBni had a “load 8-bit as sRGB and upconvert to linear floating point”.
Civil asset forfeiture, or legalised theft by the government.

It's not right, it's not ok, but tragically it continues to be legal.
It is the same exact thing.
That's fantastic work and the demo is very well done. Thanks for sharing it. You obviously put a lot of hard work into it. Feels super polished.
What Will Happen in 2020
Can anyone in the space expand on why it's increasingly rare to see people using/building on Sphinx[0]? Do people avoid it simply because of an impression that it won't be good enough compared to deep learning driven approaches?

[0]: https://cmusphinx.github.io/
How does "region locking" work with Twitter content? Don't have you to control the content to lock it to a certain region via GeoIP or similar?
it requires hundreds of hours of speech data to make any difference, at least for a context-free asr. and gpu-powered high-end hardware, and several days for training.

training an asr model is totally different requirement than using it as a client
We at croit.io use it to boot all systems in our environment. Debian uses a better live-boot than most other distributions with Dracut (only half the ram required).

After more then 10 years of PXE booting most systems, I personally can definitely say it is rock solid, reduce maintenance times, and makes scaling simple.
Here's a real example: https://gopher.tildeverse.org/sdf.org/0/users/dbucklin/posts...
I saw it long ago so I'm not sure, but it was probably from this:

https://www.chinasmack.com/shanghainese-netizen-finds-fake-c...
how does one read "log #{microstates}"? Is it simply "log of the number of microstates"?
On my HP Spectre dual-boot Windows 10 / Fedora Workstation 31, it's roughly 6s and 12s respectively.
Food delivery apps incorrectly display restaurants that don't deliver
Why do they upshift when throttle is decreased? Wouldn’t it make more sense to downshift since the driver is probably about to brake?
If they could, and if it beneficial to them, it's safe to bet that they have filed. Unless it's Cousin Vinny LLP
I'm very interested in this project, because I have a student researching what good options there are for Python Game Dev at the CS1 level. We used Arcade[1] this past Fall, and things didn't go very well (I'm not sold on Pyglet, and there was a lot of small "What??" issues with Arcade's design itself). Pygame Zero is a very appealing choice, but suffers from its design around global state - which is something I spend most of the semester railing against. The authors gave me a good explanation for why[2], but it still is a deal-breaker for an introductory-level university course for CS majors.

At this point, we're leaning towards making our own library to satisfy our purposes. We're still looking at other options though - hey, if you have one, feel free to suggest it :)

[1] http://arcade.academy/

[2] https://github.com/lordmauve/pgzero/issues/174
Same here. One of my cats will do that if given the chance. All of them know where the laser is kept, and order breaks down whenever I touch that drawer.
My current cats won't, but I've had cats in the past that enjoyed playing fetch.