skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Also, although people often praise the architecture of the NT-based line, I think 3.x and the rest of the DOS-based Windows were far more impressive; while NT is very much a "traditional" OS, 3.x and 9x are in some ways far more similar to a bare-metal hypervisor.

This fact becomes very apparent when one tries to write drivers for the latter OSs, wherein you write a user-mode library that basically behaves as if it's accessing the hardware "directly" as an old DOS application would, and then write a "virtual device driver" to virtualise/multiplex the hardware among multiple "virtual machines".

There's admittedly far less protection than in the NT world where all applications' (and DOS ones are run in an emulator) access to hardware needs to pass through the kernel, but the thin and permissive virtualisation layer --- where applications can essentially access the hardware directly if not "trapped" by virtual device drivers --- makes for amazingly low resource usage and high performance. A DOS application running in 3.x/9x can interact directly with the hardware and the only overhead is that of V86 mode, comparable to the full x86 vitualisation extensions (AMD-V/VT-x) introduced much later.
What about students that want to avoid crowded lecture halls but have in person study groups with a few friends? This authoritarian action is extremely heavy handed and forecloses the possibilities that genuine students might have to protect themselves, educate themselves and others, and help protect society.
Games in AU have been censored games before,
South park stick of truth is kinda funny https://youtu.be/6-IBNXuhfi0?t=29
There's a lot you can do outside if it's not sunbathing weather. https://falklandsoutdoors.com/tours
> To be clear even before Trump students have not been eligible for a visa for online study.

There have been concessions made throughout the pandemic, to alleviate its impact on citizens and businesses. It's true that this was forbidden before, but there's a choice made in every enforcement action.

International students are a boon to the country. It costs good money to provide their education, and keeping them around afterward brings value not just in rent, but their very contributions to our society.
Arrrrrgh oxygen is a chemical, everything is made of chemicals.
Expected value encompasses all the things you value, not just money.
As others have pointed out, that's called a light box, not a carousel. And while light boxes are not in principle bad UI, they are often poorly implemented.

On many pages, clicking a thumbnail opens a light box that adds so much margin "for design considerations" that the image ends up actually shrinking. Drives me nuts every time. I think twitter recently fixed this. Only took them a few years to notice, yay!
That's not true, if the school is using a hybrid model students can take more courses online.
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/sevp-modifies-temporary-ex...
Clicked on the video to see AMERICAN MEGATRENDS INC. and wasn’t disappointed, ya freakin patriot!
On boring websites, yea. But on Steam, I have definitely bought games after scrolling through that carousel.
Isn't both Social Security and Medicare paid for by their own specific taxes though (and the trust fund if it exists in case of SS)?
I'm on mobile, and honestly the only problem I found with the carousel here is that it's actually too small; full screen height would be better. (This may be an issue with my use of Materialistic, some css and js don't work well with it)

On mobile, whether the article is long or not, it's nice being able to quickly scroll back to a section of text to find something you read previously; if there's 25 pictures in the way, that gets obnoxious quickly, and I'm more likely to just leave.

Having a carousel means the user can see all the pictures (used to good effect with overviews and varying levels of detail/zoom/cutout); scroll horizontally (or tap icons, but scrolling would be better) for more images and vertically for more text. A way to improve this one would be to make it an embed that can enlarge itself to take up the full screen and restyle itself vertically or horizontally; I know I've seen this functionality somewhere, possibly a php image hosting script.
The US is 'looking at' banning TikTok and other Chinese social media apps
What region? This thread is the first I've heard of it too.
The other comment regarding latency/throughput is a good place to start because those can often be in contention.

But bandwidth is not quite the same as throughput either, so I'll answer your question genuinely. Bandwidth typically refers to the actual channel capacity for a single link. Maybe that's your PCIe lane, your wifi channel or your HDRadio channel. The bandwidth is often measured as the spectral width of the channel in frequency. But those channels include some coding for error detection or compression.

Ultimately what matters most is what kind of throughput the channel can deliver. This is the metric that is often measured in bytes or bits per second. A one gigabit Ethernet card is intended to deliver one gigabit/sec of throughput with the Ethernet channel coding. So if you hooked up a test device to your NIC it should be able to drive frames through an otherwise unoccupied channel at one gigabit/sec. But to keep the example interesting, end-users would generally measure throughput with all the added layers of coding and protocol provided by a network stack. The term "bandwidth" is much more nebulous when someone uses it to describe traffic spanning various buses and network media. I'd take context clues and assume that this usage of the term is somewhat like throughput. Though perhaps you could consider the independent physical channels as a single logical one and extrapolate some kind of conceptual bandwidth?

Sorry, starting to ramble a bit at the end there but I think you may get the gist.
I read it. No hard data presented save for a couple of findings. Key aspect of the message: following the precautionary principle. I can expect governments to act on that, but not scientists.

I'd have expected an appeal to study more on that instead. The precautionary principle is absolutely not scientific.
You both obviously do not do front-end development.
Interesting. Why does every other flywheel on the market have a vertical axis (that is, normal to the surface of the Earth, regardless of the place it is installed)?

I was thinking more about the fatigue of the shaft.
The problem with multiple dispatch is that by looking at

`fn(a, b, c)`

you really don't know which code it is running unless you know the types of `a`, `b`, and `c` which can't be exhaustively enumerated at the point of the writing the code or reading the code given that someone could use `fn` with totally different types.

This makes Julia readable, but as the code base grows, it can become unwieldly as well.

You really need `@which fn(a,b,c)` with known `a`, `b`, and `c` to see which function it is running.
In fact, there is also a type `enat` in mathlib. However, have `x/y` be a term of a type that is not the type of `x` and `y` comes with it's own sets of problems. It doesn't compose as smoothly as homogeneous division.
Clearly. But it's not as if demanding equity rights along side a debt financing is unprecedented. Certainly, it is a damn sight more precedented than the Fed buying corporate bonds!
Seatgoat: Easy Space Planning
How to Hire a CTO for a Startup?
Interesting, Talos seems to be about avoiding using CPUs like x86/ARM with the built-in priveleged blobs/firmware?

https://www.raptorcs.com/content/base/faq.html
I think we'll have to consider the possibility that ICE are not out to help anyone really.
Silicon Valley VC says Ghislaine Maxwell attended an investor party in 2011
There were actually a few times where it was a sensible buy. Right after they got the Model 3 production line going, for starters. Right now it's being forced up by the stupendously large amount of money being injected into the stock market, which can't go on forever no matter what Tesla does.

Not saying I'd bet against them, mind you. The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent, as they say. And even so it's probably not too bad a bet if you could hold it for 20+ years, but it's going to dive before it rises again.
I realize this is a technology forum, so it's popular to think about it in a very laser-focused kind of way where technology is neutral, and it's only the WAY that people use it is a problem, but over and over in society we have seen that this is simply not true.

Nuclear fission is politically and ethically neutral. An atomic bomb isn't.

A hunting rifle is politically and ethically neutral. A fully automatic assault rifle isn't.

A search engine is politically and ethically neutral. The way that Palantir packages and presents it and the use cases it optimizes for isn't.

Now, I realize that there are a million different grey areas and exceptions with all these subjects. You can murder people with a chef's knife, after all. I'm certainly not out here claiming that if something CAN be misused it should be banned.

I'm not even necessarily saying that something shouldn't be built OPTIMIZED for a particular use that some would consider unethical. There is always the very excellent argument that technology can't be repressed, and if you don't build "the thing", someone else will. You can't put the genie back in the bottle.

But we all know that there are lines that are too far. I don't want to jump straight to Godwin's Law, but I would say we as society universally agree that it was indefensible for corporations to provide tools and technology to facilitate the holocaust and any form of genocide.

I am not saying that ICE or certain US police forces are comparable to Nazi Germany's organizations. But there is a spectrum. And somewhere on that spectrum there is a line. And the line needs to be incorporated and considered from a humanistic point of view - one of global ethics. (vs. national ethics such as "If the US does it it's not illegal/unethical").

And from that standpoint, myself, and many others, think Palantir's ethics and chosen way of business is way over where we draw the line.
> Since March, I've been 100% Instacart...

I'm not sure what your circumstance is (you might be at-risk for covid-19 complications), but I think a lot of people have been doing the same thing, and I wonder if the risk of going to the grocery store is really so high that it's worth stressing over. Edit: I don't mean go be stupid about it, but between the time you're in the store, people keeping apart and wearing masks, and the lack of news about grocery store outbreaks, it doesn't seem that risky to me.
This must be done in the interest of national security.
So do cellphones
For most people I know (including me) tinkering like that dies down when you get an IT job. After spending 40h+ per week dealing with stupid computers, you rarely have enough motivation to do it again at home, as a hobby. You just want stuff to work.

But the tinkering urge isn't gone. I highly recommend finding different hobby, that can satisfy that itch. Gardening, woodworking, cars, motorcycles, 3d printing, etc. You can spend many hours doing "useless" things there, and have tons of fun.

For me, for example, I used to get happiness from spending 20h of my time to get Linux running on some old HW, worth $5. Now I get similar rush from spending 20h trying to build something from wood, that ends up costing me way more and looking more crappy that picking it up at the store.
I found that wikipedia current events has a great signal to noise ratio: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Current_events

I used https://www.to-rss.xyz/wikipedia/current_events/ to make it a RSS feed.
And one of the wires is even coiled!
In the investing world they call it a bubble.
> For one, you don't get charged for data in or out.

On the other hand, it appears to be $0.62/GB for storage, as compared to $0.10/GB on Amazon. And a comparable system would appear to be anywhere from 1.5x to 2x as expensive (even just vs on-demand pricing, let alone spot), and AFAICT billed by the hour rather than by the second.
They must still take an in person class, and risk having their visa revoked if not. That's just not about being in the US, you can't be a foreign student at a US university without a visa. You'd have to take academic leave until you can have it reapproved.
False. If we used only meaningless symbols like “A”, “B”, etc. for names, then it would be true. But if I have a method named “addItemToCart”, then I know what it ought to do. If it does NOT in fact add the item to the cart, then I’ve found a bug. It’s true that a short method name might not capture all of the subtleties, but usually the variable names within the method can give you an idea of what the intent of the programmer is as well. Obviously there are still things you should write comments for, but really well-thought-out names can get you surprisingly far.
I've often found Carousels do a good job when there is repetitive information,

E.g. testimonials - you got one big testimonials but you also have a dozen more and you don't want to fill up your page with just that.. so you use a carousel.
I've yet to read any Rand works but I'm guessing John Galt would prefer the institute survive or perish on its own merits, independent of aid from the state.
In the case of:

“... government ‘help’ to business is just as disastrous as government persecution, and that the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.”

vs.

"Rational self-interest"

The winner is, clearly, rational self-interest.
Is it possible you were on the H-1B when transferring the visa between employers wasn't easy? It's gotten better in the past 10 years (and worse again in the past 4). I've switched jobs 4 times, gotten a nice raise every single time.
This sounds like where I’m trying to get my business to be at (I’m leading the on-premise to cloud strategy). PPP to us has also been a lifesaver since our on-premise sales have been nonexistent since March and our cloud offerings can’t sustain the business at all. If we were where your company is at now, we’d rest a lot easier.

Like you said, our customers who are on our subscription model ended up paying eventually, but things got a little scary in March and April when PPP was still uncertain.
It is baity and trite to point out, for the Nth time, that an institution is taking advantage of a federal program which, while they may not have chosen for it to exist, they will be paying for in taxes.
Also sometimes called 'spidey sense'. You don't know how you know, but your subconscious synthesizes the idea somehow.
Any idea what this quote means?

> In the Phoenician alphabet the letter stood for a species of breathing, as vowels were not represented in the Semitic alphabets.

What exactly is a _species of breathing_?
Note that this FORCES Int students to come back to the US and attend at least some in person classes. Having your student visa revoked doesn't just mean you can't be in the US, you just can't be a student at a US institution without that visa.

So it's more than just bad time zones.
As my other reply here notes, the thin (and permissive) virtualisation layer means that badly written applications could crash the system, but I blame that on the applications more than anything else; too bad that most people seemed to think MS was to blame, when DOS had even less protection. I used 98se as my daily OS until well into the Vista era (at which point I gradually switched into XP), and it was definitely not the "reboot multiple times a day" that some others have experienced, but then again, I also wasn't in the habit of running lots of low-quality applications either. Uptimes of over a month weren't uncommon, and were usually brought to an end more often than not due to myself doing something stupid with the application I was writing.

(In fact, I've experienced far more trouble of various sorts with a recent new machine that runs Win10.)
>He secretly funded a lawsuit against gawker which was pretty shady of him.

You can't be serious. In a court of law, Gawker was found to be (extremely) wrong, and outing people ain't cool.

It was anything but shady.
Context missing from the article is that this has Randian precedent: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/ayn-rand-social-security/

(I have no opinion on it all since I’m on a two week ‘having an opinion on stuff’ vacation, just mildly interesting context)
Yes, discussed in 2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13264191

and sundry comments: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

Since every ideology has an answer for everything, there isn't much interesting to discuss about it.
I enjoyed going through these as a kid in the 60s.
It's definitely a mixed metaphor. It still works, though. Wallpaper is paper used to decorate a wall; in this case the wall is a vertical desk.
As someone who could have collected quite a bit of money from this program but didn't need it, this really ticks me off. You're not supposed to apply for the loan/grant unless you are expecting to lay people off.
Let's me guess, makes it harder to figure out what I need to know to make a decision for my well being, but is modern, new and improved. HOW DID I GUESS ? When do we grow up
Expect universities to fight this hard. Fees from international students make up a huge portion of their budget.
>> You can do a quick test before boarding an international flight

Just curious, how do anticipate this working from a business point of view? If boarding is denied due to a positive test, does the passenger get a refund? If that's the case, won't airlines overbook significantly more than they do today, which in turn will probably increase chaos? On the other hand, if tickets are non-refundable, who would gamble on purchasing an expensive ticket and then be subject to losing it due to a semi-inaccurate test?
My tactic during quarantine has been to order larger quantities of produce and then find recipes suitable for what I receive. I've also been trending towards root vegetables and citrus over other forms of produce, because the variability doesn't have as much impact on my cooking. All that said, you're absolutely right. When you are trying to make something specific you need just the right ingredients and the difference between two tomatoes or different apples can be critically important.
Steve Jobs' biological father was an immigrant. So were Eduardo Saverin and Sergey Brin.
It sounds like you're in an environment that expects progress and creates a culture of "up or out". This isn't rare, and that situational awareness is a part of your information gathering to work out a response.

If this is truly the case, and staying in that role would be discomforting socially and professionally, then that's a useful framing. You can decide to use the appropriate time in that role to work out:

- what's the next move (up or out)
- what value can be gained with the time remaining (it's now a mission!)
- what are the potential moves if one takes their career in their own hands versus the org's preference for progress

I've been in exactly this situation. I got some "lucky" bumps up the corporate ladder early in my corporate career, which had the unintended consequence of maintaining that momentum and corporate expectation, while being fast tracked into this kinds of "leapfrog" roles.

The punchline is I chose to leave that industry and join another (a certain major open source software company), taking an enormous pay cut and lifestyle change. Which unlocked not only a lot of happy productivity doing good and meaningful work, but gave me the freedom to ultimately start my own company and have a larger impact... with a LOT less corporate performance art.

The "up or out" process isn't a bad thing. It's just a thing. How you choose to use or interact with it is discomforting, scary, and challenging, but ultimately is just another thing you have total agency over. Good luck, this sounds like a great life transition wrapped in the appearance of a socially awkward obstacle. You'll do great.
We will welcome these students in our Canadian universities.
I got it explained quite simply by: digital signatures is by law not valid in court.

Which would explain the paper use. Don’t know if it’s still true though.

Usually things that seem inefficient boils down to law in the end.
I'd argue this is different on mobile compared to the web.

It's pretty common in mobile onboarding flows to use a carousel like UI. It's much easier to swipe on a carousel-like UI and it's enough of a common design pattern there that people are used to it.
I find it hilarious that Thiel is a fan of Tolkien, yet he seems to embody Saruman's ideology (if not worse), while Tolkien's philosophy is more of Gandalf's. Tolkien was generally against technology, but especially against something so easily abusable (if not abused already) by malevolent power.
Historias de terror reales – monitor de bebes – EP. 4
Duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23751931

@dang can you merge this?
Obviously a system can define a symbol like "/" as whatever it wants to. But then it isn't what many mathematicians would expect.

The Metamath Proof Explorer defines "/" so it only has a value if the denominator is a nonzero complex number:
http://us.metamath.org/mpeuni/df-div.html

You can argue if that is better, but that is a possible choice.
My favorite story from this site is a fantasy advice column--Sophie Wereley's "Unconventional Advice for the Discerning Reader":
https://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/modern-fantasy/sophi...

I also liked barry charman's robot love story, "Upgrades":
https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/robots-and-c...

And Shae Davidson's "10 Reasons Aliens Just Can't Get Enough of This Small West Virginia Town":
https://dailysciencefiction.com/science-fiction/aliens/shae-...
Haha. Really ? Pay them.
They are supposed to be need based. You have to certify that "current economic uncertainty makes this loan request necessary to support the ongoing operations of the Applicant."
Hey, a chacun sa vérité.

I do miss the Italian deli that closed. It’s not that we don’t frequent the corner markets and farmers markets either! And again, the delivery we get is a small local butcher, and I imagine once things open up we’ll visit when we have time.

I think of online as replacing just the droll half, or when times in a pinch. The pantry items, milk. It saves time for trips to my favorite deli. No more DFW-commencement-speech Safeway coupon rush hour traffic jams. More time for the farmers market!

You sound like a nostalgic grandpa pining for the good old days that are passing, but to be honest, if anything the online half has opened up a lot of room for fun excursions in the real world. I share the hope that local businesses thrive as well. The Asian fish market ladies certainly know me better than before. One not need replace the other, but the optionality has made things dramatically better for me, at least.
Academic acceleration in gifted youth: a 35-year longitudinal study
> they were successfully convinced their situation was a special exception. Gaslighting can really distort reality for some people

I mean, every rule does have exceptions. People are wired to think that way, because that's how it is. So manipulation can work by triggering that frame of mind.
Hello, this isn't Reddit, and ad hominem attacks are not welcome here.
Dr. Fauci Made the Coronavirus Pandemic Worse by Lying About Masks
> Surely [hour glasses] were already mostly decorative when the first hourglass computer icons were developed

I was a toddler when these icons were created, but I can think of two notable exceptions: egg timers (which my family still used when I was a kid) and board game timers (the canonical example of which, in my mind, is the one that used to ship with Boggle).
Same here - in the 80s. As a kid growing up on the east coast in a conservative culture, it really shaped my perspective of my worldview on the "internet", computing, permaculture, sustainability, and counter culture.

Thank you Stewart Brand.