skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Subsequent to '56, the prior transistor patents were royalty free, as were all Bell System patents prior to '56. Patents subsequent to '56 had to be licensed on a "reasonable" and "non-discriminatory" basis. So the patent output of Bell Labs was largely useful only for internal Bell System use, for leverage in cross-licensing agreement, and for a minimal royalty revenue compared with the value of the patents to other industries.

Long distance and local service are not really different markets from a customer point of view, at least no one thinks of them as such today. All calls have become flat-rate nationwide. They were different markets from a supplier point of view for a couple decades, since long distance required analog frequency division microwave transmission equipment that had to be engineered end-to-end and switching systems able to translate NPA and NNX into trunk group selections. The latter was expensive and distinguished "toll" from "local" switching systems. However, by the time of the breakup, digital fiber optics and large memory computer-controlled switches already were making those supplier distinctions rapidly obsolete.
> Please note that we have weekends/8h work day/ban on child labour and also still have the super rich. They never left.

Some didn't leave.

There's a reason why Singapore has the highest concentration of millionaires in the world, and it's not because of their school system.

I'm not saying that all will leave, or even that most will, but some will.
> I would love devolved power and decentralization to actually work, but we need better, more honest theory on how to make it good, and less blind faith that centralization and monopolization will fail because that bad and "the arc of history bends towards justice".

I mean come on. The only way you will get to that theory is if you have brave people who try (maybe that's self serving), and if you aren't at least questioning the narrative of "the only way forward is through the state", especially when there is (increasingly sporadic, anecdotal) evidence to the contrary, then you are tacitly discouraging people to try.
Stop metric madness!
Would randomly generating the session key instead of hashing client IP and other properties satisfy GDPR’s requirement of no PII?

The definition in GDPR Art. 4 reads: [1]

> ‘personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person;

[1]: https://gdpr-info.eu/art-4-gdpr/

My intuition is that a randomly generated session key could not be tied back to the identity of a natural person, as long as client IP, user agent, etc., are also excluded from the analytics data.
Yeah, this wouldn’t surprise me, and it’s not super uncommon. Similar things happened with Cisco and Meraki, though I’ve heard over time that’s started to erode.
Except any reasonable proposal for a wealth tax typically leaves the first 5-10 million untouched and marginally taxes amounts larger than that. If you have $10 million in the bank, you're not just a "saver" or "refraining from consumption".
Patterns of recreational cannabis use in New Zealand and their consequences
There are so many anti features in windows. They seem to change all the time and depend on what version of windows you have but the main ones are forced updates that can't be done while you use the computer, MS teams poping up and nagging you to sign up when you never installed or use it, adverts in the start menu, dark patterns in the setup page making it tricky to not register a microsoft account. And whatever flavour of the month anti feature windows includes.

Its getting slightly better with the the new WSL but its still not as good as OSX and linux.
This is the sort of thing that may not be evil by intent, just stupid - but definetly is evil by the consequences.
The RPG metaphor is beautiful and fertile and has already helped me to give a different perspective over my life.
You soon realize also that _you_ are the programmer of the game: within some constraints, lot of rules can change and make life more fun.
That sounds really neat. If you manage to dig any photos or documentation send it over!
It is from my own experience. But it looks like inference is a bit faster on CPU: https://medium.com/huggingface/benchmarking-transformers-pyt...
I agree that people lack opportunities and that's a failure of the system, but I think the problem isn't limited capital. I think the problem is the monopoly on land ownership. If there was land freely available, people would happily use it to generate wages, wealth, etc. Obviously land is a limited resource and we can't always just have more "freely available", but a land value tax could remove the monopoly and create new opportunity for development that's otherwise hindered.

I just read Progress and Poverty by Henry George and he makes this point very clearly. I highly recommend giving this book a read if you haven't yet.
Initials seem pretty common around here, I've known a few Johns who go by JW JP JK etc. Never gave it much thought but after your comment I realise they are all Johns!
3-2-1 backup is not crazy and also is an IT standard.
I know of several companies auto listing thousands of foreign manufactured goods on Etsy. I don't know how prevalent this is, but I know not everything there is handmade nor is it all from small individual sellers.
> that doesn't mean that we invented inflation on purpose as some kind of social engineering tool.

We didn't invent inflation, but we absolutely do set a target inflation rate as a social engineering tool. And the reason that deflation is considered "worse" is because it lets people keep equity in unproductive assets instead of liquidating it and moving the money into more productive assets.
In my head shuffle only makes sense for things of small duration (like songs).

I don't think the concept makes sense at all when it could play something that is 2 hours long.

IT also doesn't know how long I have to sit and watch something. It might be half an hour, it might be 2 hours or more.

I'd actually like an option to filter based on duration. I've got half an hour and I want funny, Go.

Netflix recommendations are mostly terrible as well. I don't see this feature working well at all.
Last I checked, WWI and WWII didn't take place nor start in the US. Keep reaching.
I've had this same experience. After all the pestering and offers of cash to remove my 3 star review, I lowered it to 1 star.
Starting a startup is sort of like having kids. It's a tremendous responsibility, not something you should do because of burnout.

You don't actually have creative freedom. Your freedom is limited to what makes money right away, or what pleases investors. If you meet an angel who wants blockchain, you better get to work on that chain.

Maybe freelancing is the way to go, or working at a startup.

But if you want to start a startup because it's on your bucket list, then go ahead. Make sure you have some runway. Recession is a great time to start companies, because a lot of really smart people will be looking for jobs, and you'll be contributing more to society by creating them.
has worked extensively with FreeBSD's portsnap

To be more precise, I wrote FreeBSD's portsnap. (Also, freebsd-update.)
I suggest keeping fun out of work, if you can. It could cause you to suck at work. It could be he has to work so much because he does more than work, at work.
There are interesting ongoings in array language-world.

People who do things are recognizing this.

...
Agreed that people shouldn't have twisted his words, and agreed that his comments were, at least from a very technical read, not inappropriate.

To be honest you've changed my mind a bit here & I'm a bit more on RMS's side now. Agreed that a witch-hunt was in progress, which caught some "actual witches" and lots of others along the way.

But from an optics perspective, ffs why would you defend an Epstein associate & fellow-traveller at that point in time. I mean he's dead, he's not going to be hurt by the accusations at that point. ️ oh well.
Good suggestion! It is safe and, in fact, Coca Cola ran a toxicology test less than a year ago and said there are no possible long-term side effects. Moreover, a study in 1974 fed rats 30,000x what a human would normally eat daily and found no side effects across multiple generations!!!

It is approved in Europe and Asia. In the US, however, due to dirty sabotage in the 70's by sugar and aspartame companies, the FDA decided to approve it as a food additive and not food. One company is working on that approval now though.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02786....
Divide your digital space as much as possible. I have work Slack on my mobile device, but not on my personal laptop, for example. I also use different email clients for work email and personal email, so that when I check personal email I'm not tempted to handle a work thing.
Jordan Peterson was given a medically induced coma for 8 days, not 8 months, in January of this year, according to his daughter.[1]

[1] https://nationalpost.com/news/the-doctors-here-have-the-guts...
Jones in the Fast Lane is one the most late 80s early 90s aesthetic games ever. The color palette, especially.
This will probably be when I stop using my Oculus. When I first got my Rift I was super excited about the technology and it generally did not disappoint! I have never been much of a gamer but love the idea of VR. I, however, deleted my facebook account back in 2012 when I realized that it did not contribute anything to my life. Over the years I have had to make the decision between not being able to use a product or creating a facebook account just to use them. Most of those products were mobile apps that required facebook logins. I have always chosen to not use the products and will do so again.
$300? Damn, why did I just buy a new one for $600 :(

EDIT: Oh, it's $399 retail in the US. Damn Europe.
To be fair, in my case, I did not. I actually received one as a gift last Christmas. I never got around to setting it up (still in packaging). I was planning on trying it out when I had some free time. Now I have a useless device that I can’t even return since I refuse to create a Facebook account.
it's supposed to be a broad index representative of most if not all publicly traded industries. tech is heavily represented because it's become the largest sector as far as total market cap goes.

there are equal weighted index that trade - it's not nearly as recovered as the market cap weighted one but recovered significantly nonetheless. energy, transports, utilities, and certain retail companies have been doing well.
Anyone care to guess how long before this happens to Instagram and/or Whatsapp accounts? Could be a year or could be 5 years -- it's not if, just when.
A million bucks is nothing to sneeze at, it's upper middle class. And that's the cutoff - many are in 8 figures.

Without Amazon and Microsoft and their billionaires, Seattle wouldn't be the wealthy city that it is. Not even close, and that wealth has filtered out all over the area. For example, there are all Paul Allen's initiatives and developments in the area, and that's only a tiny bit of what has happened.

Be careful what you wish for in getting rid of billionaires. A lot of very nice things we all have will go away with them.
So what do you actually (want to) do in regards to measuring shadow traffic? The blog post tries to convince the reader they should care about shadow traffic and then handwaves away existing solutions, but "we're developing a solution" is as concrete as the post gets as to why I should turn to parse.ly. Now you say "the team is trying to come up with ways to at least quantify shadow traffic at an aggregate level", so it appears that you don't even have a solution yet.

In light of that, presenting "existing analytics services like parse.ly" as one of three solutions on "how to measure shadow traffic" seems borderline disingenuous. If you can do it, why not say so plain and clear? If you can't do it, why do you mention yourself as a solution? Or is it only other services like parse.ly that can do it?

It also rubs me the wrong way how both the blog post and your comment has an undertone of "it would be better if users didn't have as much tracking protection". Just take the framing of your last sentence as an example...
> it does not matter if the personal data is hashed or encrypted

That sounds odd. If there is no way to go back from the hash to the data it is no different from a random string of letters and numbers.
I don't get this complaint? The leverage for R&D is vastly higher now than ever before: You leave Zuckerberg in his dorm room and you get Facebook. You leave Larry and Sergey in a garage and you get Google. You leave Steve Jobs and Jony Ives together and you get dozens of products in Apple.

The money in vs money out in research has never been more absurdly positive in human history.

This is why companies aren't investing in R&D, because they don't need to do as much as they used to, because a little goes a lot farther.
Arguably, the activity does not always correlate with user happiness.

I don't want to be because of actively using the software. I want to be happy because the software solves some kind of problem, efficiently. There is fine difference.

Games: make me happy through the act of using them.

Accounting software: I don't want to be forced to use it constantly. My idea of happiness would be to get it done with as little effort on my part, as infrequently as possible.

Extreme example: LinkedIn requiring users to log in every month or be prioritized down in searches. That would increase how frequently users log in but I doubt anybody would agree that this would improve user happiness.
Never trust your acquirer farther than you can throw them
> Calculating the trajectory to account for gravity would be problematic.

Couldn't you just make every fuel pellet a powered spacecraft just a tiny engine? It could adjust its velocity when it drifts off course. That would add some weight, but a small ion engine might fit the bill. The engine could of course be disposed of to save weight once its captured by the larger ship.

The whole process could be safer if the rocket just keeps some extra fuel in case it doesn't manage to collect say every 10th pellet.
The long party is whoever currently owns the property that is being sold short. It would be essentially a leverage tool for property owners. As a property owner you already enjoy a cash flow stream in the form of rent (could be implicit if you live in the property), you'd get a second stream from the short seller.

The only fuzzy part in this scheme is when does the short seller finally get paid. It would probably require some kind of a foreclosure on the property (otherwise the property owner would have to lock up a significant amount of some other collateral), putting a cap on the short sale profits.

This is kind of how reverse mortgages work. There the bank (or some other financial company) plays the role of the short seller, while the retiree is the long. The short side payout happens at death.
Other people can tip you off to their plans, and you can arrest them with a backpack full of knives. That’s pretty reasonable suspicion that they were about to commit an act of terrorism.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/27/armed-police-wes...
A car-sized asteroid made the closest Earth flyby a space rock has ever survived
The volumes of units are high enough I think this is north of 'too small sample size for statistical validity' So the question in my mind is, how significant is the variance in the failure rates?

Is this underlying manufacturing error tolerances, or is this shipping/deployment effects, or is this .. Aliens?
You kidding me? Physical infrastructure is absolutely central to the issue. Demand to live in SF skyrocketed but the city responded by resisting any expansion of its housing stock. To claim that doesn’t have an impact on the affordability in the city, which in turn affects whether or not people can afford to live in a home there, is madness.
Why laptops are sold out, and what to do
Thank you for removing GDPR mentions, but mostly for building this in the first place!

It looks really nice.
Time to forget global tipping points (2013)
> Xlib will block on a reply by default

> Error handling is particularly gnarly in Xlib;

I don't think anyone strongly objects to the consensus that Xlib is a bad binding of the X protocol for these reasons. But libxcb has been usable for quite some time by now.
:-)

I don't have an issue with unwashed masses. But many people do so I would absolutely see that as a benefit. Especially apparent during COVID times.

But the idea is to see beyond "self driving cars".

If you jump in a car and just wait for your arrival, why not jump into a car-like cabin and let the transport network figure out the most efficient way to get you from A-B. Including use of rail where that works. Why not flights too?

Obviously this is fantasy stuff, but we're talking about fantasy cities here of which transport is a big part.

Once you have "transport as a service" that is as good as cars(door-to-door), you can then design cities with more walking spaces in mind too. For those inclined to mingle with the unwashed masses. :-P
Pretty much. However the biggest change is the capability per kilogram that can be packed into a satellite now. Today a 3U cubesat weighing roughly 20kg can take thousands of images, process them locally to manage for weather effects and orbital skew, and then transmit them to a single ground station several times a day.

The first spy satellites weighed tons and literally dropped film canisters back into space to re-enter and be recovered by aircraft or helicopters which would then take the film to a laboratory to be developed[1]. Typically, a satellite would take a few weeks to both stabilize in the environment in space, calibrate its optics, take some test photos for analysis, re-calibrate based on those results, and then be ready to go.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corona_(satellite)
What do you have to look forward to after work?

I have no problem getting up a few hours before work, going for a walk, and then working on one of my projects, and then working on them again after work. I'm not suggesting this.

However, what I'm suggesting is you have things to look forward to aside from work.

Also, a lot of people use constant work as a way to procrastinate from taking care of important things in your life, like relationships or self improvement. It can feel like meeting that next PR before 8pm is moving you forward, but it probably isn't.
We don't care what the Irish do. Is that part of England?

- Sorry but couldn't help but take a mini revenge on HN. One of you Irish pals got pretty racist in a bar and told me "We dont really care about India". Yeah FU Irish mofo.
You're confused.

We're talking about multi-millionaires, often in the tens of millions, and more.

No-one is saying that regular Joe's with $800 in their savings account should be penalized for just letting them sit.
So, it doesn’t pass the sniff test....

It’s the responsibility of the blogger to communicate clearly. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Very interesting. Sorry to hear about that. What is very interesting about lemon juice is that even though it is acidic, when your body processes it it becomes basic.

Lemon juice is literally the ideal example. Check out all my demos starting at #2. You can eat the lemons straight up and they taste like the best lemonade you've ever had.

No health risks besides maybe consuming too much acid in one sitting (but seems like that is doctor's orders for you). Coca Cola ran a study in November 2019 and showed no long term side effects neither to your taste buds nor to your body.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S02786....
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IE11 wasn't actually that bad. I had less problems than it with Safari (although that was a while ago and I presume development has slowed). Even better you could download test VMs so unlike Safari I could fix bugs without spending over $1k on hardware.

I agree that IE was awful for web developers for quite a while, but I think that has passed. At this point I think shifting more control to Google is not worth the "pain" of having another decent browser around.
Thanks for the rec, I'll check it out.

I have the Ken Forkish book. I'm not his biggest fan based on personal interactions, though I'm honest enough to admit he makes amazing bread. But I pretty clearly need to start with something a little more low key.
Async Views in Django 3.1
> There's a reason why Singapore has the highest concentration of millionaires in the world, and it's not because of their school system.

No, it's because it's a city-state, and millionaires tend to be urban, so comparison with countries with lower urbanization is misleading. New York City (which has a population not much larger, so it's a community of roughly comparable scale that, like Singapore, is 100% urban) has a notably higher concentration of millionaires than Singapore does. (1 in ~8.4 compared to Singapore's 1 in ~20.)
Those 3-M machine don't have enough system memory to render every window to an off-screen pixmap and then compose all the windows onto the framebuffer. Each window (even those entirely occluded by other windows) might need up to 1MB of RAM for the pixmap (for a full-screen window on an 8-bit display).

So the solution (which isn't needed anymore) is to render everything directly to the framebuffer. That means you only need num_pixels * bit_depth worth of bits on the X server, but it also means that the X server has to discard the contents of any part of part of a window that you can't see (i.e., the parts that are occluded by other windows "on top").

So when the user moves or closes a window (and reveals another window below), you don't have data for the newly-visible pixels. That's why X has a mechanism to keep track of which areas become un-occluded, and notify the client that it need those pixels again.

Wayland and Mir are born in a world that generally doesn't have those constraints. We have dozens of GB of system ram, and GB of graphics memory today. Even a $25 Raspberry Pi has gigabytes of memory. So it's no problem to give 50 MB of system memory to every window (or, heck, even GPU memory) for use as an HDR+alpha 4k pixmap, and then compose those on the GPU (without using any system memory bandwidth). The application can just write to the pixmap whenever it feels like it, and let the compositor handle the rest.

Even back in the mid-1990's (so, 10 years after X), low-end SGIs and Suns with 24 bit graphics often shipped with a little as 64MB of system memory. Composing off-screen pixmaps becomes a less-obvious architectural choice when each large window costs you almost 1/20th of your system memory. By the time you open your mail, browser, terminal emulator, a couple "real" applications, and the desktop background, you're spending 1/3rd of your memory on pixmaps.