skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
it is a mistake to think that this happens due to a singular driving factor.
In fact, such situation happens due to a large compounded number of "it's not my problem" and a lack of incentives to actually care.

So I'm saying this is not caused by some insitutional entity doing something, but rather, by many of them not doing certain things (usually to reduce cost).
AMP is a lot like how I was browsing the web on my phone before the iPhone came out. Opera Mini’s servers would proxy every single page I visited and fetch and pre-compile it before sending it compressed to my phone. It was way more performant than trying to render the page natively on my crappy phone. (That’s why the iPhone was so unique, it was the first phone that could natively render websites really well). Sure, there were a lot less security and privacy concerns back then, but I think the majority of users simply don’t care as long as it works.
GitHub Audio (2016)
Via radio signals. It’d still require a ship flying there though, but that wouldn’t have to be built to support life.
5G was going to unite the world–instead it’s tearing us apart
I appreciate your rather lengthy rebuttal to my rather trivial retort.
I think CATIA V4 (CAD software) was big on SGI - at least that's what I used an Indy for back in the day. I believe V4 didn't run on the PC, so you needed a workstation anyway. Don't know if one can find a copy anywhere but I think it would be fun to use it again. It was solid software with a good UI, quite different from CATIA V5 which (also) ran on the PC and had a very colorful and noisy UI.

EDIT: After googling SGI workstation models I think what I used was actually most likely an O2[1]. Great design, I remembered its distinct look even after so many years.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_O2
Good points but you should differentiate between generics and novel therapies that make up for the 190B USD in EU sales.
All this does is rapidly devaluate the google.com domain. Not a bad thing per-se.
I wrote this tool to help us manage many users in MySQL v5.7. We can whitelist and blacklist specific tables and columns in a declarative way across many users and have those privileges automatically update after migrations. Thought it might be useful for others. Happy to answer any questions!
> they are an accessibility nightmare (as we have seen on the web).

Audio is an accessibility nightmare for people who can't see, text is an accessibility nightmare for people who can't see or people who can't read, German is an accessibility nightmare for people who can't speak German.

At some point we have to accept that not every way something is presented is going to be equally accessible by every person, but the solution isn't to just decide we should jettison a rich form of communication because there is a small subset that can't fully benefit from it. Even books that are expected to be used by people who can see all the images usually describe the purpose of the image, what it is illustrating, and why it was included.
What are the most interesting domino effects in history?
Thanks for these numbers!
After a brief search and glance at the citations, leading to "Supplying Washington's Army" by Erna Risch (written for the US Army Center of Military History), then to the original Washington Papers, here is the original letter from Knox to Washington: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mgw3f.003/?sp=2

It has been transcribed here: https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Washington/99-01-02-...

>Of the Articles of subsistence bread is the most essential, and yet of this we have been the most deficient, arising from the want of some general invariable system to govern the whole Army. In the field, all the troops receive flour of the Commissary. Some regiments have soldiers who are bakers and are permitted by the commanding officer to go to some neighbouring house, with other soldiers as their assistants, to bake for the regiment. These bakers receive the flour from the soldiers and return them a pound of bread for a pound of flour, by which means the bakers make a neat profit to themselves of 30 per cent in flour; and often times more, as they put as great a proportion of water as they please, there being no person whose duty it is to superintend them. This flour the bakers sell to the country people in the vicinity of the Camp, to the infinite damage of the public, or occupy public waggons, when the camp happens to move, to carry it away to a better market. Last year at Tappan, one or two soldiers who baked for part of one of the regiments of Artillery, consisting of not more than 250 or 300 men, saved such a stock on hand of the profits of baking for a short time, as to be able, on an Emergency to lend the Commissary of the Park, a sufficiency to issue one thousand rations for eight days.

>In other regiments the soldiers are permitted to carry their flour into the country and endeavour to exchange it for bread. This is always done to a disadvantage. besides, it is a pretence for straggling, and affords opportunities to plunder and maraud. Others again make a kind of bread which they bake on stones, this, besides being unpleasant is very unhealthy.

So the problem was not that soldiers were so annoyed at eating fire cake that they behaved poorly, but that allowing any soldier to his sell ration of flour gave frequent opportunity to leave camp and engage in distracted (or unscrupulous) countryside wandering.

I believe allthingsliberty.com made a mistake in their article. It seems to me that the cut bakers took in the "give 1 pound flour, get 1 pound bread" trade was understood by everyone as a form of payment. In other words, I presume a soldier could choose to make their own flatbread (time-consuming, poor quality, tedious), or they could give their flour ration to the baker and get back a smaller portion of higher-quality food for less trouble. I would be surprised if it was deception, as I cannot imagine mass theft and sale of flour going unpunished by commanders (and by fellow soldiers, particularly during lean times). Though it's possible there is some other primary source that indicate otherwise.
I also use the win10 openssh. Sometimes it is not so great at terminal emulation in a way that a Unix environment will expect. For example I get frequent weird behaviors running vi. Maybe could be fixed with TERM or termcap but putty "just works".

Also I haven't seemed to be able to get ssh-agent working there. Maybe just need to look into it more.
Yes, I think the parent is a /metajoke/ as you call it :) However, there are 3 threads around that miss the original author is poking fun there. I'd like to stress the structure of these 3 paragraphs:

The first is that, [serious things with a reference] they think of the weather and fail to take account of other things, such as the fact that California is full of tedious hippies.
The second, [serious things with a reference] [after a breakup] we’ll decide we never liked the person anyway.
The third [serious things with a reference]. In other words, last night’s party was never as good as you think it was.

Given my HN karma, I won't dare end this comment with an attempt at being humorous. It would be akin to a HN suicide.
Putty doesn’t implement 256 colors properly which is why there is so much eye bleating blue.
The techniques are not classified, although LE fought tooth and nails to keep details out of court cases for years. IMO, the state doesn't have the right to even keep it non-public.
Where does the energy to accelerate the sun at 1g come from?...
It's not just the app stores. Facebook used to call it "friendly fraud" when they billed someone thousands because an obfuscated transaction occurred each time a kid pressed a button.

> One deposition shows Facebook employees were reluctant to reduce this "friendly fraud" because it would likely also reduce the company's overall revenue.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2019/01/25/facebook-tu...
This is how I am approaching one of my app framework projects. HTTP is the delivery vehicle, but I only utilize a very small subset of the various full APIs (HTTP/HTML/JS/CSS) in order to deliver the framework's functionality. One of my objectives is for the framework to support a wider range of browsers than most modern websites are able to handle today. If vendors like Apple and Google begin fully-embracing things like PWA, I could wind up in a really good position regarding this approach.
Get rid of Google?
Awesome tool! It's like Chaos Monkey for your ACID database. I am kind of hoping it could steer conversation into making DBs more "idiot proof". Pushing some code (or making a "manual data fix") that in rare conditions inadvertently locks the production database is no fun.
I once saw a show on iceberg cave diving. It was similar to regular underwater cave diving except that the “cave” can shift and flip while you’re inside it.
The issue with your arugment is that you are looking at it from a "cost" perspective only. Companies have a lot more problems to worry about. Local laws, regulations, is everyone cut out to be able to work remote ? etc etc. In the US, you also have to deal with shit load of laws state wise. For most companies that don't have the pockets of FAAANgs or well funded companies, it is just not viable to go "fully remote anywhere". It sounds exciting but logistically it is not that simple.

Also, you cannot just assume that just because the company decided to cut salaries by 40%, everyone will be excited to pack their bags and move to say "Kansas" or "Idaho" or wherever in the world. Not everyone wants to be a nomad. Lot of us like the stability of a home, a city where we live and have made friends/family and many other reasons. If that was the case, I am sure a lot more people would be moving out of NYC/LA/SF already. Not the case.

I say this as a small bootstrapped founder who has team members in 3 countries and we are only 15 or so. Remote teams are NOT easy. Not at all. I personally would love everyone to be able to work together in 1 office and call it a day. Yes, I am all up for flexibility to work remotely if needed from time to time. I just don't want to deal with the hassles I explained in my first paragraph.

Finally, lets say that we do look at it purely from a cost perspective. On an average, a "good enough" engineer in India will always be at least 10x cheaper than a good enough engineer ANYWHERE in America. It is just the facts of how the global world is. Don't compete on cost. You cannot beat that. Compete on other things.
>>persecution of people who either look or do something different from their own.

Who is being persecuted now?

The Cancel Culture is much more a modern corollary to witch hunts than anything conservatives are doing.

Conservatives exhibit witch-hunting tendencies to some extent, in relation to liberals, where they promote unhinged conspiracy theories about them trying to subjucate the masses.

But these conservatism inspired forms of persecution are much less pronounced than something like Cancel Culture, as they are not being perpetrated by people who control the commanding heights of the cultural landscape.
> A big element here is that the free market is being choked out.

Given that every developed country has much lower per capita and per GDP costs, and pretty much none have more of a free market in health than the US, I'm pretty sure that's not the problem driving US prices high. I get that free market fundamentalism is one of the most influential religions in the US, but it's popularity doesn't make it contentions true any more than the popularity of Christian fundamentalism does for young earth creationism.
PuTTY also works with telnet and serial ports. I'll never stop using it.
I should have qualified what I said with 'in the enterprise GIS world' or something similar. I'm talking about numerous occasions I've had organisations say they want to use OSM but then complain about the quality, as if (as someone advising them about geospatial) it's something I have control over!
Don't be so quick to dismiss all of this as "racism+orientalism". There is, indeed, a fair degree of that.

But there are parallels to the situation with Japan in the late 80s to early 90s when everybody thought that Japan was going to own America (purchasing it piece by piece and/or out-innovating American companies).

I don't understand the dynamics here well enough to say how justified any of the arguments are. But we've been down a similar road before, and it's not just racism.
> their own AMP cache

I'm confused, you make it sound like a free CDN is somehow a bad thing. You do realize people actually pay money to have their content on a CDN. I don't think Bing makes money on their AMP cache, and doubt they would want or even allow Google to link to content on their AMP cache...

The point of AMP cache is for Google (and Bing) to waste money making content faster for their users, in the hope that the user will then spend more time on search so they see more ads. The cache itself has nothing to do with the monopoly, and the fact that Bing can use AMP at all (since its open source) to get the same benefits actually shows the exact opposite.
> Now all information belongs to a single category, and it all pours through a single channel.

It may not be relevant to the article but I think context collapse is a good way of describing the issues with online meetings. In a conference room you can sit next to people who share your interests or who you feel comfortable with. You may whisper in someone's ear about something that is relevant to the current discussion. You can direct your attention at someone by physically turning towards them and use the volume of your voice and body language to control who is consuming your vocal and physical channels of information.

That is just to say the problem that information channels are being condensed is not limited to social media. I think a lot of the points from the article about information competitiveness and trivialization can apply to other areas where information channels are collapsing. Also let me know if you can think of any other examples.
This https://www.dropbox.com/s/s3tzbree2ddjnar/Screenshot%202020-... is the password manager I see in chrome, and I see no way to delete more than one at a time, or to select more than one at a time.
I assume by "Canc" you mean the DEL key? Regardless, there's no way to multiple-select items.
Because it’s in the kernel you aren’t exposed to all the knobs. There are hundreds of parameters controlling Linux tcp behavior. Even experts overlook some aspects. Hoisting this up into your application makes it visible. Why should there be a system parameter that limits the accept backlog of your server, silently? It makes no sense.
It’s also a bit unsettling that, despite the very blunt message of the sign, the Grim Reaper is summoning you to proceed.
I agree, see my other comment - it's some organisations that have an expectation of OSM that is unreasonable.
>Seeing this question asked makes me sad.

Me too, Irix, XFS (The Redhat std FS) and so much more was made by SGI.
This might be a silly recommendation, but "Higher Algebra" by Hall and Knight was brilliant for me when I was around 15 or so.
AI can be copied and all its state transmitted, this is actually one of the biggest gamechangers towards human brains.

Suppose you have a real AI inhabiting a robot here on earth, it would only require to copy the AI, transmit it and boot up the AI on compatible robotics hardware on the new planet.

This would be the equivalent of transporting your brain into a cloned body.
Pharmacies, PBMs and insurance companies being owned by the same group is all an effect of consolidation.

Source: worked for an independent specialty pharmacy that was purchased by a PBM that in turn merged with a major national insurer
This is not correct. Anyone can host AMP. See, for example, amp.cnn.com. Google hosts AMP content for its customers who elect to use that service. It’s not a nefarious plot.
Regarding [1], the article quotes production costs of USD 50/MWh for renewables, and USD 100/MWh for coal (graph 3).

You/[1] is saying that with storage costs of USD 150,000 per MWh, renewables can be competitive? It doesn't compute, unless I misunderstand something.
I see where you are going, but what if my website is updated?Is the archive at address _myurl_ invalidated, or is there a new address where it can be found? I am thinking of reproducible URLs for academic references or qualified procedures, for example, which might or might not matter in the intended use case.

Could there be net-neutrality-like questions in all this as well?
> Do you have different lanes for people who walk at different speeds?

Just like when driving, if there is enough space, different lanes should form to accommodate different walking speeds. If the sidewalk is too narrow, it's okay to pass, but don't interfere with the other direction of traffic, and don't prevent others from passing you.
Isn't it just an extra click? Click one, it highlights the whole thing, click a second time and you see the full URL with the protocol.
And dont forget Jurassic park:

http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html
True, that's even more expensive though cause you need to cary the full spectrum of educational and healthcare institutions onboard
If the expected use case is to spend a long time reading a document with no images, is that much of an issue?
> only a challenge of propulsion

Also a challenge of ablation. At any reasonable fraction of c your spacecraft has a serious erosion problem.
Maybe it passed into Oblivion ;)
Just create servers that consume AccessibleHTML, and then adulterate it into fancy regular HTTP/HTML for consumption by most UAs (or, optionally, leave it alone for consumption by UAs that send a `X-Rendering-Policy: AccessibleHTML` header. Either way you can still get at the "real" AccessibleHTML source by sending `Cache-Control: no-transform`.) Think of these as "AccessibleWeb to RegularWeb gateways"—except they'd be deployed as reverse-proxies, so RegularWeb users wouldn't have to know they were there.

This is similar to the driving motivation behind RSS: it was supposed to be something for simple static sites to put up, such that gateways could then poll it, before turning around and doing something more technologically-complex to actually deliver the events, like using WebHooks, or sending emails, or doing whatever PuSH does.
Canada has been closed since March 21 and only one Mexican state closed their border with Arizona. Just FYI.
Initially U.S cities were built according to a grid plan (grids being the most efficient means of urban planning at the time). This also made public transport easier. Grids however do not work well for cars. In response to increasing car ownership, T junctions were introduced to improve flow of traffic. The car also made it possible for people to live far from their place of work, thus the popularisation of suburbs. Other countries followed suit.
Particles also don't care so much about how quickly they stop...
>1. Using your phone as an actual phone (i.e., an audio only conversation with the thing held to your ear, or with a headset).

As a side note, the thing held to one's ear has become an issue, it is not the first time, lately, that I see people absentmindedly getting off the sidewalk to cross the road (of course not on zebra crossings or with a green light at an intersection) while holding a (large) phone to their ear thus covering with the phone and/or their hand the side from which the traffic comes, i.e. zeroing the possibility to see an incoming vehicle.

Beside the distraction caused by the conversation, it is dangerous as they have their peripheral view completely blocked.
Yes, any conversion incurs a loss. The point is that hydrogen introduces additional conversions, because it must first be produced, and then converted to something useful.
https://digdeeper.neocities.org/ghost/email.html#ProtonMail
>It will take a concerted effort by a nation state.

It will take a concerted effort by our species. Just as you go on to say that solving aging would require multinational support, why would you limit interstellar travel to a single nation?

The fastest way for us to become space voyagers would be for us to receive that signal from somewhere near Vega that tells us how to build the machine to take us places.
Wow, 36% carried no lights at all? I've only been cenote diving but can't imagine doing it without a light.
Because without patents and exclusivity, the return on the massive R&D involved doesn't exist. Naturally that removes the incentive for R&D (in the market as it exists today.)
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Hi. I'm Craig. I'm a senior analyst developer with over two decades of experience of a wide range of full life-cycle software projects. I'm a full-stack developer, but I focus principally on back-end development and architecture, building distributed business systems mostly using CQRS & Event Sourcing techniques.

I work primarily, but not exclusively, with Microsoft technologies and the .NET / .NET Core frameworks, leading complex and challenging enterprise software development projects to successfully deliver robust, secure, scalable and efficient software solutions that produce genuine and quantifiable business value and frequently exceed client expectations.

Throughout my career I've built web, desktop, server and embedded software and am just as accomplished at designing and developing a single use website for a dozen local users as I am a global distributed micro-services infrastructure supporting millions. I've helped numerous businesses of varying sizes in varying industries get their technology investment right and I can do the same for you.

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I've noticed that Mountain Dew no longer lists brominated vegetable oil on the list of ingredients.
Why pointless? Assuming real AI are incorporated into our economy this would be a classic case of comparative advantage.

They could operate mining facilities on these planets and live to see the profits of a big mineral haul back to earth.
I wrote an ncurses-based gemini and gopher client a while ago: https://github.com/jansc/ncgopher I really like the gemini protocol because of its simplicity and its text-based nature. Spending most days in a terminal, text consumption is so much easier with a gemini client then e.g. lynx for webpages (which won't work 99% of the time).
If you want to start at the very beginning, look into SIGSALY.

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