skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I used to use Apollo workstations in the late 1980's (probably around 1988). I used to have a DN3000 on my desk with a massive CRT monitor.

They were pretty heavily used in my company for CAE work, designing printed circuit boards, schematics and later VLSI design. We moved from software called "Racal Redac Visula" to Mentor Graphics at some point.

They were indeed well ahead of their time. I could open a "pad" in the window manager from any machine in the network. The pad was like a infinite text shell, but it was quite elaborate. You could also open up a UNIX shell within the same environment. At the time, I don't think there were many other graphics-rich workstations which were as comprehensive and focussed on computer-aided engineering.

Apollo was acquired by HP after I stopped using them, and ultimately Mentor Graphics software was likely ported to other systems like commodity PC's and Sun Workstations.
Twitter!? That cesspool is full of bots and trolls.
blue j. Ah the joys of java.......
Could the next computer virus be one which repeatedly adds together 1111111 and 1111111 and wears out the wires that do carries, since they were only designed for typical adding, not worst-case carrying on every operation.
She beat the game of insuring flights, what's wrong about it to have police arrest her? She played fair, rules were set by those companies.
As a complete outsider to US reality, to me looking in, it seems like there is a real issue of training regarding de-escalating techniques.

US police forces seem to have a very short training which, as far as I understand is not centrally vetted by any federal organism? And considering the short training time it seems to be mostly focused on tactical and firearm training.

Compare that with European forces and you see a completely different reality. In Europe the police is generally seen as peace-keepers, force is absolutely a last resort (probably not so true for crowd control units but certainly true for daily policing).
You haven't given us any information about what you are trying to achieve: Voice calls? Video? Surveillance proof?

You haven't given us any information about what they have access to: Phones? Laptops? Desktops?

You haven't given us any information about what software they run: Android? MacOS? Linux? Windows?

You haven't given us any information about what you've considered and rejected: WhatsApp? Zoom? Facebook Rooms? Messenger?

What are your constraints?

I don't have an answer, but information like this seems an absolute minimum to let people help you.
Anyone thinks this is just a US issue is mistaken. This is what power does if you really challenge it. The friendly face disappears pretty quick.
Interesting, I never learned pascal, I started by learning PHP what php I can really well, I've been studying JS for a year now, where I learned NodeJS, NextJS, React, VueJS and Preact.
I guess the part where she used 20 fake identities to hide her tracks is illegal?
The EU cookie laws were well-meaning, but have had the unintended consequence of making the web more annoying, more difficult to use, and more fragmented. We shouldn’t have to resort to ad blockers just to make the web usable again.

The solution? Cookie consent should be a built-in feature of browsers and http, not something that is reimplemented in a slightly different way by every single website.

Your browser should pop up a standardised cookie consent request when you browse a new site, and enforce your selection as part of its security policy. If you choose to block all cookies (ie: private browsing mode) then the cookie consent request wouldn’t need to appear at all.
I live in Berlin.
Police gets indicted for drawing a gun, let alone use it.
And that’s the way it should be.
Not all incidents are the same, but so is the feeling of being above any law that Us police officers enjoy and enforce
Not sure if you read the article. She was using multiple identities to take out policies, which in anyone's juristiction is fraud.
This research is flawed as they have no way of telling what's the ratio of scantly-clad vs. dressed is in the entire collection of Instagram.

It could be that there's just a higher ratio of these types of images.
The Liberty Scam
Creating fake identities is playing fair? In which country?
Blue J? Can you explain?
This is the time ramp up waste, we must exit that market instead, by law if necessary.
We should reject PoW algorithms as generally destructive. When I say destructive, I mean they cause more global harm than they purport to alleviate.

PoW should have been set aside as soon as it was generally understood that the network's energy consumption might be unbounded.
Binary math tricks: shifting to divide by ten ain't easy
Yeah, sounds like she broke a few laws RE identity and falsifying information about some of the cancellations.

Nothing wrong about finding an informational edge over the insurance companies.
Yes. One of the main problem of OpenSSL is how messy is the API itself.

There is a pretty good talk about it by the libreSSL guys on that [1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd_dyRbE4AA
Indeed, the Plan9 ecosystem itself (including its Linux port, plan9port) is heavily built around GUI and a mouse.

Sam alone, however, can be compiled for command line only, without X11 support under Linux. This has been done in the 9base package:

https://git.suckless.org/9base/file/sam/Makefile.html

https://tools.suckless.org/9base/

There is also an updated Linux version of Sam alone, without any other P9 tools. I suppose this should also be trivial to build without X11 support:

https://github.com/deadpixi/sam/
I'm typing this from a ~6 year old laptop (used as a desktop OFC) for example. My phone is ~5 years old (unbelievable, I know). When it fails in a few years I'll happily buy a "new" ~4 year old refurbished phone again.

Regarding Moore's law, there's only so many possible shrinks left to go. Once we hit that wall the incentive to be on the latest node is significantly reduced. Combine that with associated lifetime reductions and I think larger nodes might even end up preferable in many cases.
Turbo Pascal 3 for DOS was the first thing that could be called an IDE that I used, but not the first programming environment.
Good video, thanks. It briefly mentions the idea of pumped seawater storage. Is that really any different from using freshwater, other than location?
Unitary Patent: Germany is ignoring Brexit, EU law, its Court and Italians
Total sidenote but someone should start a cryptocurrency that is proof of Storage-space(does that exist?), where you have to allocate space to mirror the content of the Internet Archive. Is there a way that could work? (I know almost nothing about cryptocurrency)
No subdirectories for notes, everything is flat. I have three directories: zettel for the Zettel, Daten for the data, and Kasten for software/scripts.

Zettel are named as follows: z{%Y%m%d%H%M%S}_{slugified title}.md

Tags are formatted as +{hyphenated tag name}.

Scripts parse all the Zettel, construct a bipartite graph of tags and Zettel, and populate tables in the index with lists of Zettel under each tag, a visualisation of the graph, various other meta statistics etc.

The point (for me) of my Zettelkasten is that through links and tags, the structure of the notes is emergent rather than dictated a priori.
That's fine but considering NCIS is the most watched TV show of 2019 I'm sure it holds as a reference for "mainstream".

Edit: I know downvote edits are frowned up but... I need to ask: why are people downvoting this? Do you not think NCIS is good example of a mainstream show?
I mean novel relative to Java/C#.

Of the features you mentioned:

- guard is consistent with the priority Swift puts on explicit null handling. An optional is never transformed implicitly into a value. I actually think this is a very good thing and makes Swift easy to reason about in practice, even if it occasionally adds a bit of boilerplate.

- variadic generics are a hole in the language, I agree with you completely there.

- as far as the `some` keyword, existential types are also a concept in Rust and for good reason. With a powerful type system like these languages have, it's a distinction which has to be made in some cases. How would a better type system solve this problem?

- How would the compiler replace `callAsFunction`? Also the inclusion of callable types is consistent with the design philosophy of Swift to allow the user to express interfaces in which ever way he sees fit.

Honestly your criticisms read like you're trying to find fault with the language without making the minimum effort to understand why these features might have been designed the way they are.
People look at the present and feel like that's all that's there. You don't look at a 2-year old and say he barely makes any intelligible sounds yet.
Interesting! I wish I had started programming so early!
I can see your point. From my perspective, the "let's collect it because what if I need it later" mindset is not wrong at all times, but I think we're selectively blind to those 95% in which case it's a miss (i.e. in our case, you'd download an ebook and forget you even have it in like a week).

In ebooks, this doesn't really create a bad outcome, but I think this mindset can manifest in other aspects of our lives as well and that's where it's very much less desirable.

It was just an offtopic remark uttered with no judgement, but it's something I've been sensitive in my own attitude.
From 1990.
https://www.bluej.org/ it a shitty ide that i used for my first programming course at uni. It is only good for learning programing
This is a good explanation of how things work and things haven't changed much in the past 5 years. What changes the most is the amount of data and computing power ("compute") that are used in training neural nets.

Architectures are also tweaked slightly although they continue to be largely based on the two architectures that started the current deep neural net boom, Long-Short Term Memory Networks (LSTMs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which are largely used for natural language processing and machine vision respectively.

Every once in a while there is a bit of excitement about results that come out of adding a new parameter which is then given a fancy name like "attention" and generates much breathless copy about how neural nets will soon become as intelligent as a dog/ your three year old/ your personal assitant etc. Usually though it's not clear whether these new parameters or architectural tweaks are really responsible for the success of the proposed techniques and when one looks at the field as a whole it becomes more and more apparent that the most successful work is backed by the most data and the most computing power.

To slightly er tweak your prediction, I think what'll happen is that, indeed, like you say, there will be libraries and APIs and so on (well, there already are) but all these will be controlled by large companies that can afford the ground work. So, I don't expect small outfits, research teams at universities or tiny startups, to make a big difference. Academia is fast losing the ability to produce work that beats the state-of-the-art anyway (that's from personal comms with other researches). So in terms of academia perhaps we should expect a shift away from neural nets, to something that's easier to do research on.
To make it a bit easier to distinguish, zsh seems to display the indicator with inverted fg/bg colors.
This emulator prioritizes accuracy, not fancy graphical options, that's why they lack this kind of features.
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> My daughter and I made a site to explore the photos from the ISS

Since you didn't just write "we made a site" but instead choose to explicitly state your daughter's part in it, you sparked some interest. How was she involved?

I could not find anything on the site itself.
How about the term "unauthenticated", which is well understood for HTTP requests?
> If I go to my local library and the librarian says "Actually don't bother checking this out, I'll just photocopy the whole book for you and you can keep it," I'm not sure I'd call that a library

The NEL lendings still expire after 2 weeks using the same DRM as before, it’s not the same as downloading a free copy for life.
In that case we could just match by the CSS rules' content - i.e. match all elements that have style X, Y, Z applied to them. That kind of arms race would be over real quick.
Depends on the insurance, delaying a flight might mean a lot - like missing events/meetings/connecting flights, etc.
Isn't this a legitimate trading strategy in financial circles

Contracts like credit default swaps pay out if some organisation fails to meet their (debt) obligations
> She played fair, rules were set by those companies.

She assumed she could win in a crooked game by playing fair and by the rules? This is China, the CCP own everything, and having someone take 'advantage' of a seemingly cunning and thoughtful hedging system is actually quite ingenious, but consider the follow:

> But once the flight is delayed, Li said she would make use of one of the insurance company rules that did not require the insured themselves to apply for compensation, and proceed to get compensation from the company.

Traders make the same bets all day by shorting stocks and currencies, but if you try this with the CCP I'd be surprised if this woman not only had all her money and property stolen from her, but she ended up in some labor camp in the South to appease the 'great leader' and was forced to make some forced apology that was subject to the same 1984 style two minutes of Hate.
It's unclear, but it sounds like there's insurance available in China that will simply pay you money if your flight is delayed by a certain amount of time. The amount you get paid is not tied to the cost of the ticket it's simply a feature of the contract, so obviously there's a trade-off there with a profitability = Insurance Payout * Probability of Delay - Flight Cost
Do you have any examples of socio-political bias relevant to the discussion at hand?
Show HN: Press “Paint” if you like what you see, or “No” if you don't
Dead-simple sharable shop lists with real-time updates
Everything is connected to everything. If you have riots everywhere then people, including police, are on the edge.

Also, are you suggesting that the riots are peaceful?
Well, insurance is just gambling with extra steps. Usually, you bet on something bad happening like your house getting burgled or your flight getting delayed, and the insurance company takes you up on that bet.

In a very abstract way there's not much difference between this and betting on sports.
Alt-D. I have this shortcut so well ingrained in my head that duckduckgo is nearly broken for me. They have a single shortcut alt+d that searches for results from the same domain. This is enabled by default, so if you use ddg as your default, it can't be disabled for private browsing mode (I use private browsing mode to avoid opening a full browser session with extensions and saved tabs/windows).

Anyone who captures keyboard shortcuts in the browser using function keys like Ctrl/alt (outside of applications like games, rich text entry, and software like Google apps) needs to rethink the way their website works. This includes squarespace(?) intercepting ESC, and websites that do server-side searching. Worse yet, when I press Ctrl+f, I want to search the current page for a word, not search your website. (I saw this recently, and it was only made worse because you couldn't actually dismiss the search overlay without reloading the page)
> The EU cookie laws were well-meaning

Road to hell is paved with good intentions. The EUssr is on a trajectory to making the world a much worse place in many regards...
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How to easily rename Git master branch to main
She got greedy!
Sounds like we're completely agreed.
I was never interested in Java, but I'll see it!
Mine was a single, blank screen with a prompt and flashing cursor on a Tandy Model I.

Not sure you'd call it an IDE ...
> What matters is how the true number compares to the total number of interactions and if that ratio is acceptable to society.

I think it’s pretty clear at this point that the communities directly impacted by this behavior find the abuse unacceptable no matter how muddied the “but maybe there isn’t enough abuse yet.” crowd wants to dilute the issue.

And honestly, I live a fairly cushy life, and I find the officers in my city to be stand-offish and aggressive, I can only imagine how utterly horrified Id be if they behaved the way we’re seeing. There is no way anyone in my community would have been as patient if we were subjected to the same level of treatment.

And also, it’s probably important to point out, it isn’t only the physical abuse, the day to day attitude of an overbearing police force can drastically impact your own day to day quality of life.
OK, but let's contrast `greg_douchette thread` TGDs #1 and #2. #1 shows a woman wanding around holding a sign. A mounted policeman rides up behind her and just rides right over her. There's enough context to see that it's obviously completely unprovoked, and that either the officer did it on purpose, or there was criminal negligence in his training of how to handle a horse (and/or the training of the horse on how to avoid trampling people).

Now take for example `greg_douchette thread` TGD #2. That shows the instant that a man with a shirt that says "NYPD" on the back shoves a woman onto the ground. Obviously that was pretty violent.

EDIT: I more or less retract the analysis below; more information here:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/09/nyregion/nypd-officer-vin...

Leaving my original post for posterity / discussion.

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But I've seen that same scene from a different video (sorry don't have he link to hand), and it raises a lot of questions for me. The person wearing the shirt doesn't have any other equipment on -- no helmet, no belt or walkie-talkie or anything. He's not standing side-to-side with a bunch of police facing off against protesters. There's a long stream of people mixed together, meandering in the same direction. Is this actually a protest? Is the guy in question on duty, or is he just trying to get home like everyone else?

And from the other video you can see that just before the incident, the woman was walking backwards in front of the guy. My best guess is that the guy was off-duty (or trying to get off-duty), just walking somewhere, and that the woman came up to him and was verbally harassing him. Eventually he got fed up and shoved her out of his way; but because he's huge and she's tiny, he shoved her about 5x harder than necessary, causing her injury.

These to me are very different things. In the first we have a man who is clearly on duty, doing something clearly dangerous, to someone who is clearly doing something peaceful and constitutionally protected. In the second, we have a man who may not be on duty, having someone harassing him to his face, and responding in a way that isn't obviously going to cause her injury.

But you wouldn't be able to tell any of that that from the video linked in this spreadsheet. So that makes me question -- of the 700 videos listed, how many are like #1 and how many are like #2? Maybe a lot of people don't care, but I do.
The rationale for Brazil was explicitly the same one in the dead comment.

But yeah, that's pretty radical what you're saying too. Maybe it's fair that you should only compare the richest nation on earth with much poorer developing nations with a short track record of democracy. Not sure I'd agree.
You analogy is incorrect as it would mean that she would buy the insurance when the flight is officially delayed. Here she is making a prediction, which may or may not be correct. It is exactly the same as when you are buying option or contract on the stock market. Here the issue is that the insurance company has a fixed premium which not based on the likelihood of delay. This is completely on the insurance side. Otherwise the stock market will have big issue if you apply the same analogy.
This new clause is in effect a blanket one to not pay anything... if you pay for an insurance you have the conviction that the flight might be delayed... otherwise there would be no point to buy it....
> Can't find the source, but of these only about 47 were un-armed and most of those involved protecting someone else from a physical attack.

This is wrong.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed lists 1ists at least 104 unarmed black people alone killed by police in 2015.

I went though the first 20, and maybe 8 could have been accidents (one was hit by a car) or otherwise explained (2 pointed toy guns at police).
On top of all other siblings say about reading the article/identity fraud. Similar behavior might be considered insurance fraud - esp. since she had information leading her to the decision. Insurance fraud is a crime under a lot of jurisdictions too.
Didn't know about this event, very interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CzechTek#CzechTek_2005
Lots of reasons why you might want more local though. My local airport is more than 10km away (but there are other monitoring stations). Pilots and controllers assume some uncertainty because even within the airport perimeter there will be temperature and wind variation, but they will be in-calibration which is the main advantage. Controllers often rely on pilots to make reports if conditions differ to what the airport is recording, so it's not always considered the absolute truth.

At home, for example: more accurate irrigation control based on local rainfall, greenhouse control, microclimate variations (which can be significant if you live in a hilly or mountainous region), observatory control for astronomers etc. There are lots of reasons why your local conditions could vary considerably from the airport, but you do need to put some effort into enclosures to avoid biases from solar radiation. You can also add other sensors like buried temperature sensors to monitor the soil, cloud cover, etc.

Microclimate is significant. If you live in a city, you'll likely have urban heating effects. If you live up a hill, you will have significantly different measurements to an airport in a valley. Anyone who's been hiking knows that you absolutely need local observations to assess conditions (eg from a hut). Though this is more for illustration, if you're hiking there are normally special weather services for common routes (Austria has a nice site for this I think).

The Met Office runs an API where you can contribute your own measurements [1]. Sites are rated based on quality of instrumentation - note that the gold standard here could be a calibrated mercury thermometer in a Stephenson screen, nothing special. Calibration is key.

These simple weather stations can also be used indoors as cheap multi room thermometers. You can pair them with air quality, gas and particulate sensors. Also a nice exercise in mesh/multi sensor networking.

[1] https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/
Filecoin certainly needs that. I'm not sure if Filecoin has it yet.
Uh buddy the same thing happens here if you manage to find a loophole that makes you rich, you're a criminal.
I think you managed to miss the point: the async chef is doing other stuff necessary to fulfill a single order when he can, i.e., while the potatoes are boiling. The sync chef has to wait for the potatoes to boil, only when those are done can he start to fry the beef.

The sync chef doesn't occupy the frying pan when he's boiling potatoes, so in some sense he only really does as much as he can. Having hundreds of sync chefs would likely be more efficient in terms of order volume, _but not order latency._
Xirsys and Twilio offer affordable plug-and-play TURN/STUN options, I can recommend them both.
I wonder how she predicted so accurately which flights would be delayed.
While the similarity is that the Robinhood and Amazon losses were UI novelties which were both promptly resolved.

And you are missing that brokers routinely settle for much lower amounts in bad trades.