skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The US has always suffered from an extremely politicised administrative body, the extreme powers given to the president are an example of this, but in many other ways there is a lack of administrative independence as well, you can just look at all the diplomatic vanity appointments of the administration.

In pretty much every other functioning democracy diplomats and heads of agencies are trained, in the US these posts get handed out like candy to however throws the president an election party.
DECSYSTEM-20 is closer to a proper mainframe. It was at least 6x faster than VAX-11/780 on a benchmark I tried in ~1987. Also TOPS-20 was the bomb!

http://gordonbell.azurewebsites.net/cgb%20files/evolution%20...

Sadly it was an anachronistic 36-bit machine with no future..
https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=california+blood+sample+res...
I tried doing body weight workouts during the lockdown and it all felt extremely unsatisfying and ersatz after being used to my normal strength workouts. I also struggled not to lose muscle mass that had taken me a long time to build up.
There’s a saying among lifters that the heaviest weight is the gym door.

When you’re feeling depressed or lazy, just showing up at the gym can kick start an upward spiral.
Just in case the info is useful for anybody, there are some other ways around this if you're willing to go to the trouble of re-titling the vehicle into a trust or LLC. But due to vehicle history records it's still hit-or-miss.
The idea is for laser crosslinks between satellites. Light travels about 30% slower in fiber than in a vacuum.
That also sounds like the "folks that invaded" had a narrative they expected to fulfill.
Kindle's connectivity was really pushing the boundaries at the time, this would be on a whole different planet.
Or policy writers copy n pasted something off web.

In my Mega Tech corp, we have security team that has created hodge podge of conflicting policies. For example, they ask some applications to be internal network only and other are accessible via web. But they can never provide their reasoning and get annoyed when we ask any details.

The worst part is that some of their policies directly contradict with each other. For example, policy is to never run as root inside docker container but then there are some applications provided by them that runs as root in docker. And every time you use it, you have to remind them that these are their apps or else they will ask you to stop running it as root.

Finally, I had pleasure of talking with one of their Security and Compliance expert. They could not even knew how to list file perms in Linux, and other a lot of basic ideas. This person clearly had memorized interview questions but had clearly no understanding of those concepts.

Only way to hide their incompetence is act elite and don't explain their reasoning.
It is a healthy hobbie. By the way, also cleans you mind. I do run long distances, but with the current situation I am no longer able to run outside they way I wanted. So I started going to gyms, and yes, probable they should not be working, but it keeps me mentally sane.
"Lift a heavy stone"? That's a joke, right?

Barbells and dumbbells are appropriately ergonomic (handles, balance, etc.) and won't ruin your back if you use proper technique. Lifting a heavy stone is a recipe for injuring yourself severely.

People need specific indoor gym equipment if they lift, which is a very valid form of exercise. Or, you know, if it's raining or thunderstorming or a humid 100°F outside.

And bodyweight exercises only get you so far, even if you're doing one-handed or one-legged versions.

You can't just dismiss the fitness routines people have spent years choosing and refining and getting better at. The fact that you seriously suggest lifting a heavy stone demonstrates you don't seem to know much about safe fitness at all.
That depends on the numerator:

lim_{x->1+} (x^2-1)/(x-1) == 2

Of course ideally evaluating this particular formula for x == 0 would give 0/0 which IEEE FP defines as NaN, but you could also get a non-zero finite number divided by zero due to rounding for x ≅ 1 and then the default result of +Infinity would be very far from the correct answer. Any situation where you might come close to a 0/0 or ∞/∞ term requires very careful consideration since there is very little separation between a NaN result and ±Infinity.
For a lot of people serious about the gym, they are way past just getting any workout in. They are very specific about what workout, what machine, what day of the week, etc.. Just switching to running is like telling some backend architecture programmer to just switch to Photoshop; to an outsider they're both tech on computers..But in the bubble we all know it's world's of difference.
Acting normally during a mass hysteria sets a good example.
This is a really interesting use case! Screenshots of your book look great.

I'd just started looking into the existing tools like those you mentioned for e-book authoring and it's quickly gotten overwhelming. From what you've described, I'm interested in looking into puppeteer as an alternative workflow.
> Can you even buy those any more? I looked into it and there's nothing of quality available.

Yes, you can buy large monitors or commercial displays. They might not be “TVs” because they don't have built-in tuners, but if you are getting content through an external network-connected device on an HDMI port, who cares about a built-in tuner?
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All valid points. Much appreciated.

I was coming from a position of "Why would MS remove anything instead of redirecting it to themselves", but failed to consider that they would be adding things themselves to prevent other tracking.
Your argument assumes that selling data is bad. What supports your position?

Edit: in the context of the CA DMV releasing data under the DPPA law.
I started a bodyweight routine (the Reddit recommended routine) in March and have had awesome results so far. It can be daunting to get started but you can do full body workouts if you buy a set of rings and a pull up bar. I eventually put a bar up in my garage but I was able to start working out with one of the basic door mounted bars at first. So you really can get started with very minimal upfront equipment costs.

I could probably target my leg muscles more effectively at a nice gym with barbells, but after 5 months, I'm still working through bodyweight based progressions for deadlifts and squats, so I don't feel like I've plateaued yet. I've made big progress too. When I started I could barely do a single pull-up and now I'm up to 3 sets of 6 per workout. Similar story for pushups, I can crank out 20-30 of those now no problem, where I struggled to hit 5 before.

The ease with which you can get fit at home has been one of the pleasant surprises of this pandemic.
My only complaint about it is it doesn’t use WKWebView, but something else to render web content. This means that any site I open in Narwhal does not use my content blockers and is thus an ad and tracker infested slow as molasses experience.
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They support web notifications in safari in the desktop. Whatever annoyances would be caused on mobile are also present there. I am convinced the only reason we don’t have push notifications on mobile safari is because it would enable people to write pwa’s instead of apps.
Fiction:

- The Expanse series. Long but easy read. Great science fiction. I'm on book 5 so far.

Non-fiction:

- Bullshit Jobs. Even if you don't agree with the Author's premise in the end I think this book is thought provoking and worth reading.

- Dying for a Paycheck. This book explores how work affects our health.
what about "monitors"? i'm not sure if the specs are the same league - i'm guessing monitors are priced at sizes vastly different than TVs - but surely they don't come with android TV
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Feels like they could have a bunch of decoders and make a guess at what my next channel will probably be and keep a few streams ready to go.
Apple updated Maps earlier this year to include more visual details. AFAICT it's still US-only.

https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2020/01/apple-delivers-a-new-...
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Not responding to this, just using the example. It can be easily argued that adding AV software to (some) servers increase their surface attack and reduce their security (leaving alone performance and other AV issues).
Sixth cranial nerve issue. I can keep eyes aligned, but is extremely difficult and painful if cranial pressure is high.

Reducing pressure resolves the issue.

Both eyes are very healthy.

At worse it’s +24 diapors, -1 power.

When pressure is good it’s 0-2 diapors +3power.

For awhile it was -6 diapors.

At this point I have glasses for much of the range.

Temple pain tells me when it’s time to switch glasses.

Avoiding caffeine and other stimulants helps.

Taking a Diamox will drop pressure in a couple of hours.
I didn't attend J-school, but that sounds like a questionable practice ethically. A person has a right to be anonymous, but it should be noted they are anonymous. Making up a name for someone without disclosing that fact is questionable.
Microsoft has consistently been in the top three companies by market cap — whereas Netflix is basically nowhere to be found — but I guess FAAMG just isn’t as cool!
I learned from working in marketing is you have to let go of your biases and assumptions about user behavior. In the beginning I found myself constantly thinking "why would anyone in their right mind click on this ad", but we know people click on ads. Most of us in tech are very different from your typical internet user at large.

We have to assume that smart people are working at Reddit, that they have tested the living crap out of this model, and have found it to be optimal.
Unfortunately, they have an audited policy of not hiring sarcastic people.
Related, I really don't understand why gyms in my city haven't turned to renting out their equipment. I know people that bought dumbbells, over paid, and picked from really limited inventory. Meanwhile, the gym a block away has a giant pile of weights not being used, and has basically no revenue right now.
Very interesting tool. You're absolutely right that I wouldn't spend my innovation tokens on it. Congratulations for your work !
All the business reasons:

- on desktop adblockers are prevelant. On mobile not.

- on desktop you can't send push notifications thus keeping engagement up.

- Getting into the habit of using mobile apps gets engagement up.
I was about to write exactly that! I think it dates me.
Two points stand out to me.

It can be very hard to keep the same high quality of workouts without going to a specific facility and training with the guidance and motivation from peers. Not to be rude, your suggestions sound like ideas from someone who doesn't really work out much. Pull up on a tree branch? Lift a heavy stone?

Everyone's risk profile is different. I work in statistics and data, so I certainly have a different understand that gives me a more realistic perspective on the dangers.
> Going to the gym is a ritual for many people

A thing that is very important about rituals is that there are almost always triggers of when the ritual should be performed. Often that trigger involves being in a specific place.

For exercise, that trigger is going to the gym.

For work, that trigger is going to the office

For religion, that trigger is going to the church / temple / etc.

When you deprive people of the ability to be in the correct place, then their trigger is blocked and their rituals don't happen.

Yes, you could retool your rituals (work from home is the biggest example of this), but for many things, the motivation or desire just isn't there.

The spaces are too important to the ritual itself.

So I can totally see why people would want to go to the gym even if they weren't supposed to.
It doesn't make any sense though

If Apple bough Italy they wouldn't have enough money to make it work

Italy needs two trillions/year to go on, Apple only owns a fraction of that to spend.

That's why it is a worthless comparison.

A more apt comparison is

Apple is valued 2T at 260 billions of revenues in 2019

The total amount of Italian wealth is around 11T at ~2T year of output
I'm sure that if they found that touchscreen users are worse at this task, they'd have little difficulty declaring this detrimental to their everyday life.
Thanks, that makes way more sense.
It's a bit ironic that the author works for VMWare, since VMWare Workstation is completely unusable[0] with Linux 5.8 with no ETA to fix in sight.

[0]: https://communities.vmware.com/thread/638457
Keywords to google for those interested: well-conditioned [matrix or function], gimbal lock, wrist flip.

There are some cool videos of wrist flips online, and I’ve heard of a pickup truck being thrown by an articulated arm on a factory floor due to it.

Sounds worth the precaution, given the right context!
> A logo is the main ingredient of a brand book. Gingersauce uses it to generate the palette, fonts, the entire style of the guideline.

I don't understand this part. Is it automatic or it is done manually by one of the employees of gingersauce? I guess the palette can be extracted automatically, but choosing a font automatically seams to be more difficult.
Ah, this is a nice point, it does work for the number of edge pieces. In this case (3x3x...x3) every piece but one is an edge piece!

More generally, with k pieces on a side, there are k^N pieces total, and (k-2)^N internal pieces, so in the limit, the ratio of internal to total is (1-2/k)^N -> e^{-2N/k}.

So if the number of dimensions gets to be bigger the grid size, almost all pieces are "edge" (i.e. outer) pieces. Even if N=k/2, something like 70% of the pieces are edge pieces.
Just nitpicking, but devices that run the BEAM, not Linux, don't know what is the state of the project, but the GRiSP board runs erlang in the metal.
There are states that have outsourced some DMV operations to private companies. I have lived in one of these places. The results are often not great.
Yes! And as a general rule, it's safe to assume their marketing department isn't interested in that issue. Marketing departments can't help but market themselves too, and if BS numbers make them look good even to the detriment of the company, it's almost a sure bet you'll see them do that.
> A better question would be whether the expected value of all future cash flows has doubled. Evidently, a lot of people seem to think so. (Whether these people are rational is whole another question)

It's rather than all other investments are worse, not that this one is real.
FCC rules seem fairly hardline, and they absolutely can be, but in general they are not. Buildout rules generally are given on all licenses (I work with licenses for 2.5ghz spectrum) and if you fail to build out on the timeline you asked for initially, you can usually get the FCC to reissue a license. The only time when it is actually a threat is if there are other interests actively looking and applying to use the same spectrum jurisdiction who are capable of successfully building out before you.
You're coming from the perspective of someone who is still getting newbie gains. If your goal is to be reasonably fit and healthy, you're on the right track.

But some people have been going to the gym for decades and take it very seriously as a hobby. Losing access to the gym will set them back years.
Here's why I think this is actually good.

I used to be regular surfer of reddit's nsfw subreddit and also lurked around randnsfw for quite a bit of time.

The simple idea that being able to open incognito and browse indulge in porn and erase all (I mean most, uhh ahem) traces of your browsing activity is quite soul destroying in my opinion.

The upside of this limitation even though it is extremely annoying is it stops (to an extent) this mindless indulgence.

It actually made me be less addicted to reddit and the dark and wild usage pattern.
I don't know if it's just me but Google Maps usability has declined a lot in the last two years.

Before it was just so easy to look up something, set the route and go. Now it seems that there are a lot of unnecessary steps and information. Also there's a baffling bias toward showing directions instead of launching the live navigation view.

They are trying so hard to make it look and work like Yelp that the overall "job to be done" of the application which is navigation has almost become a non first class citizen in the app.

But even with all that, the thing that I hate the most about Google Maps these days is that somehow the "keep map up north" setting never stays off. I don't know what I'm doing but that setting gets enabled without me intervening. And that makes navigation in a car so hard and dangerous. I always have to open the settings in the middle of a trip to turn it off.
Another couple of machines from 1977 [1]:

Cromemco Z-2: 8-bit Z80 @ 4 MHz, maximum 256 kB RAM (bank-switched in a 64 kB address space), 0.007 Whetstone MIPS - $4695

VAX-11/780: 32-bit VAX @ 5 MHz, maximum 8 MB RAM, 0.476 Whetstone MIPS - $241,255

In a similar same format (benchmark from [2]):

IBM 3033: ?-bit ? @ 17 MHz, maximum 8 MB RAM, 4.70 Whetstone MIPS - $70,400/mo!

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22955814

[2] http://www.roylongbottom.org.uk/whetstone.htm
The worst part about mobile apps is it destroys tabbed browsing.
Even with all the stimulus and lowered lending rates, today's PE ratios were dwarfed by the dot-com bubble. We're at 31, max was 44.

https://www.multpl.com/shiller-pe
Whoa this seems incredibly cool and useful.
> Not predicting all outcomes to 100% does not mean mankind cannot predict vastly widespread outcomes with very high liklihood....with very good error bounds and certainty.

Here you are 100% wrong, if a black swan happens we won't know until it might be too late. This is what 99% of scientists and academics fail to understand. It's quite sad really.
In the limit of very large puzzles, N/5 is right.

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What percentage of the market for phones come with physical keyboards? I know some cling to the idea but I think the technology has progressed far enough to mostly eclipse it in every practical way, certain holdouts not withstanding, and the market reflects that.
Oddly enough, I really was able to get broad swathes of genres and broaden my horizons through 4chan’s /mu/ essentials lists: https://4chanmusic.fandom.com/wiki/Essential_Charts

I didn’t really consider myself a music buff from the listening perspective until I had worked through several of those. Despite the 4chan moniker, they are really good genre introductions and have excellent selections.
I'm wary of calls to privatize government services, for the obvious rent seeking and erosion of rights that ensues. But this could be a good way to get some innovation in this space. For example, I would love an eink license plate that rotated its contents every few minutes, and could only be linked to my longstanding identity through a database with a cryptographic audit trail.
Hi, Martin from Quell here. Thanks for the kind words! Our own experiences with Wii Boxing have definitely been a touchstone for us; although we're developing a game with a completely different setting and style, I can say that I personally really enjoyed Wii Boxing for how it let you just pick it up and fight with your friends. For this reason, we're definitely working on a PvP mode!

We'd also love to see this used in gyms and fitness classes, and have been gathering insights from local gyms around London on how best to do this. Despite dealing with their own difficulties as a result of Covid-19, they provided some great insights that helped us to shape the product into something that we feel is compelling and effective, even to committed fitness folk.
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This goes both ways: if an embarrassing security vulnerability is found in a system library, your users will be safe due to static linking.

Both sides are fair points and it depends on a plethora of other factors which should be chosen for any given project.
This seems incredibly dangerous. Are the speakeasy gyms requiring negative COVID tests? Are they doing temperature screenings upon entry? How diligently are they sanitizing equipment? How well ventilated are these various areas?

Why are people ignoring all of these risks, what kind of threat model do they have?
You shouldn't be doing pullups on tree branches, no matter how sturdy they look. I know someone who was seriously injured while using a seemingly healthy tree branch to exercise.

A 6x6 area can be hard to find. In my apartment, getting that requires moving two bulky pieces of furniture.
Somewhat related, kindergartners cannot sit upright all day and do not have the wrist strength to learn writing anymore. Many 5 year olds cannot grasp a pencil with their thumb and forefingers. They hold it more like a three year old, in a full hand grasp. Also, by mid-day the children cannot sit up any longer and tend to slump over in the chairs, laying against the table. These are not sleep deprived teens, they're usually full of energy at that age. The teachers told us that the first few months of kinder include an exercise regimen of core and wrist strength building just so they can sit up and hold a pencil. For instance, one of the exercises is a modified "cat cow" position (familiar to yogis).

Screen time is leading to more than attention differences, it appears it leads to physiological differences as well.
Did the "shutdown normal gym" mean that patrons would be violating whatever policies forced the gym to shutdown in the first place?

If so, that really bothers me. Any excess contagion would endanger everyone, not just the gym users. Please consider reporting the details to the appropriate authorities.

EDIT: If someone is inclined to downvote this comment, I'd be very grateful for a clarification why (comment or DM). I'm trying to address some problems in my communication style, and I can't always infer how I could have done better.
This smells of untrue American exceptionalism. Being a very well traveled person with a spouse from a developing country that we travel to often, I would expect so-called “poorer” countries to do better on nearly all of those metrics you list (the exception being median net worth, unless you correct for cost of living in which case California lags behind on all metrics listed).
I can't back this up, but I've read stories on Reddit of smart TVs actively scanning for open access points and connecting anyway.

There seem to be a lot of dark patterns in this product space.
Well tone is hard to convey over this medium but you saw fit to hijack this thread and push whatever adgeda you have about gun control.
its about incentives. The DMV is slow because it has a government enforced monopoly. What's the motivation to be better? At least we have an option. The US isn't different. Its just accepted more readily elsewhere.
I've never seen an ad on HN. They must be really hard to spot.
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It would have been before DPPA.

However social engineers have no problem getting information. And private investigators are easy for anyone to hire. I doubt that the DPPA will slow a dedicated stalker much.