skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This kind of story is fairly normal in my 40-year existence. USPS has a strong culture to deliver the mail, come hell or high water. Sometimes old mail gets found, and they deliver it anyway, because that's the principled thing to do.

Of course, USPS has been politicized to an unreasonable degree, so folks are reading it in that context.
Reading Woz's talking about hand-assembling his 6502 code reminded me of my own practice which was the same. I would write out programs on graph paper with columns for the physical address, any labels and space for what the code would assemble to to the left of my actual assembler code. I would drop down to the monitor to hand-enter the hex code I would hand-generate. When you're working under constraints like this, you tend to be very careful in your coding. There's a part of me that still thinks in terms of the Apple ][ architecture when thinking about how a program works.
I hope it does, but I think the trend has already been going on for a while. I just hope that trend speeds up.
May I strongly suggest an alternative that just might scratch that itch?

Try the Through the Ages game app in your Android (possibly Apple?) device. Matches last one hour with single player (or knowleadgeable multiplayers) and you still get the civ-building feeling.

While it was, and is, originally a boardgame by a renowned author I find that it translates beautifully to a digital platform.

No finnicky moving pieces, automatic accounting, automatic randomization, automatic rule accountability... it all benefits greatly!

Thr strong points of the port, to me, are the good interface they came up with; the strong AI (seriously - I play this as a single player game 99% of the time. And I lose a lot.) and a great tutorial.

(Not affiliated to the folks who made it in any way. Just a 5-star review)
The problem is that if you're infected you can spread the disease before you start feeling sick.

And, again, how does it hurt you to wear a mask? If it can lower the chance of some people dying isn't it worth it?
Anti Post office propaganda?
I can answer this question from my own perspective, at least. CPUs with integrated graphics are not as fast as standalone historically. Compare say, a ryzen 3600 to a 3400G.

Passmark below:

3400G: 9425

3600: 17850

for fun

1600: 12444
He wants EDN...
see also Wired article: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24431381
Ask HN: How to Transition to Remote Work
Hi everyone, I am a long, long time lurker of HN and have a bit of dilemma.

I have always worked onsite, the traditional way..

So, I have been approached by a really great previous boss and he's asked if id like to come to work for he's new company. The package is fantastic and the work is really right up my street. I really could ask for anything more so I am seriously considering it. It is a great opportunity.

I am in the UK and have been working from home since march so I feel like I am ready to at-least try and see how it goes, I am sure if I absolutely hate I could find another place, maybe even go back to my current place if we leave on good terms (which I am sure we would)

So my question to all HN: Have you transitioned to remote work? if so, how was it? what was hard? what was unexpected?

Any insights or anything really would be super helpful!

Thanks!
Musketeers are good for defense not offense. They can beat earlier tech units like Longbowmen, and that's it.
A stack of trebuchets and knights or macemen beats a stack of musketeers, subject to levels, bonuses, HP and tile bonuses.

And I disagree, the strategy does not really revolve around death stacks.

You can win a game without a conflict if you are good at diplomacy and you do not share borders with aggressive civs. You can turn aggressive civs against each other by asking them to declare war in exchange for things.

In fact one of the hardest AIs to bear is Gandhi, a leader that is rather peaceful, because the India civ has 2x speed workers, which given them a massive advantage in the beginning.

Civ 4 is a 2005 game and the graphics are very good for its time. In fact the graphics still look OK today.
godoc is not go doc
The coronavirus may have reached Los Angeles by Christmas
> I have the impression that some content is not accessible (linked?) from the side bar in the docs page but only through links from content pages.

That may be true, but we have hundreds of content pages in the new docs. It's a bit unmanageable to have them all in a sidebar.

Not sure what we can do about search results and content on other sites, either, other than encouraging contributions to our wiki so people can find things easier.
"High level languages considered harmful. ASM already does all these things."

Abstraction layers are fundamental to software development, and not a bad thing.
This feels on-brand after they used their S-1 to complain about Silicon Valley "elites."

> The engineering elite of Silicon Valley may know more than most about building software. But they do not know more about how society should be organized or what justice requires.

Presumably Denver elites know what justice requires.
I'm saying that someone needs to know what they are doing, and check up on them when something goes wrong. That person is the sysadmin.

If you don't know who the sysadmin is, it's you.
Not interested. I don't want `while true; do sleep 1000;tar czf Backups.tar.gz ~ && rsync Backups.tar.gz backup-server:~/ && notify "Backups done"; done`, I want Dropbox.

Docker is great stuff. Don't know how they're going to make money but I'm happy the tech exists.
Not only that, but you can say "Docker" now and people know what you're talking about. If you say "namespaces and cgroups and chroot and btrfs" you're going to have to spend a lot more time explaining exactly what it is that you're doing (unless you just say "I'm doing Docker 'by hand'").
Glad you made it out ok.
This reads a lot like a "how docker works under the hood" blog post, from the perspective of somebody who could have written the tool but didn't (read: not your typical docker user even back then), and dressed up with the then-popular "considered harmful" meme. It completely misses the point that docker unified these concepts in a way that made it accessible to people to whom `man 7 namespaces` is completely unreadable and uninteresting until they have some working "but why" motivation and experience.

Over almost 10 years of experience, I've learned 10x more due to tools like docker where first it made things accessible and useful, which drives me to learn more about how things work, to the point where _eventually_ I might have learned enough to write my own toy docker clone. None of that would have happened if I didn't find the tech interesting, which wouldn't have happened if it hadn't allowed me to run a few databases easily, without port conflicts, without more than a few commands and a pretty basic understanding of linux I had at that point.

Accessibility is the gateway to understanding. And try not to forget how you got to wherever you are, while also realizing that others may have different easier paths thanks to technology paved by those who did have the understanding you might already have.
I haven't tried it, but there's also this one for wlroots-based compositors (eg. sway):
https://github.com/any1/wayvnc
> In windowed mode, I can either have scrollbars to view a subsection, or I can scale the window. Doing the right thing, changing the size of the remote desktop when the local window is resized, isn't an option because that is set at connection time.

Side note: if the server is running Windows 8.1 or later (or the equivalent server versions, Server 2012 R2 or later), this isn't the case any more-- RDP sessions can be resized freely at any time.

Naturally, the built-in RDP client that comes with Windows doesn't support this (because, of course, why would it?), but the UWP Remote Desktop app in the Windows Store does (as does the current Mac client).
Epic already had standing to sue from the $300 million in Fortnite IAP fees Apple has collected.
Privacybadger drew my attention to

googleads.g.doubleclick.net

static.doubleclick.net

fonts.gstatic.com

cc.swiftype.com

www.youtube.com

snap.licdn.com
>We should and do have a massive investment in non-PWRs, for current baseload replacement, right?

Like what? Because I'm seeing Germany sign massive multi-decade contracts for natural gas, at the same time as they are investing in wind energy.

>At some point you have to ask if there was an obvious nuclear solution, why nobody picked up the dollar bill on the ground.

We know why. Nuclear energy is highly regulated and therefore very expensive to build. But we know it works. There's also a dedicated anti-nuclear lobby that does spread anti-nuke FUD.

By the same measure, given how 'cheap' renewables are (I've heard for the last decade that renewables are cheaper than almost anything out there), why aren't renewables powering any economy? Maybe price isn't the issue with renewables. Maybe they just can't do the job.

And there is a bait-and-switch going on. Anytime you hear about some nation powered fully by renewables it's always Hydro (Hydro and Geothermal are great and better than nuclear ... but only if you have the geography for it)
Auto playing audio and video is annoying period.
Because they don't break on any other day.
Epic already had standing to sue from the $300 million in Fortnite IAP fees Apple has collected. They already "suffered harm", they did not need to do anything further in order to sue.
I think I would use this if I were writing a cpu emulator in Ruby (which I wouldn't). It mirrors assembly, but I'm not sure that's a good thing.
But “age is 42” is a statement/Boolean, not a mutation. “Let age be 42” is more natural, but doesn’t sound well on reassignments (“let age now be 42”?)
Ignoring the obvious wrong doing there is an element of bias at play here:

>microcap securities

If you want to trade non-mainstream stuff at decent rates IB is the main game in town. Which naturally makes them home for a more eclectic crowd.

You can't go to your local community bank and say you want to buy shares in the maker of Cyberpunk 2077...on the Warsaw exchange. IB you can.

Different risk profile...and that exposure comes with fkups
Thank you! Works on my 2014 Mac Mini to HP 25f monitor os X 10.13.6.

Did not work through an HDMI switcher but works fine when directly connected.
No one actually causes the death of someone else by not covering up an "obscene" part of their body.

And, as in the case of Typhoid Mary, people have been deprived of their liberty for being a threat to public health.

So I wouldn't be too sure about the courts siding with the anti-maskers.
You're confusing resolution and virtual image size.

Virtual image size of an immersive display system (video headsets) is the equivalent of the diagonal of a standard scren.

Virtual image size is typically quantified by the Field of View (FOV), and is typically expressed as an angle your eye closes with the diagonal edges of the virtual image. Pretty much what you describe.

Another way people express virtual image size is by saying e.g. "a screen with a diagonal of X cm (in) at a distance of Y m (ft)". This may seem more intuitive at first, but problem with that is you can use different combinations of X and Y to express the same virtual image size. This is why FOV is a far superior way to quantify virtual image size.
Apple: Tiny World
This change seems to have made its way upstream into Webkit (or perhaps went downstream to Chrome? Who knows, probably the former though). It's really nice to have the zoom setting preserved on visits rather than on tabs. I'm also fond of the two finger double tap on the trackpad to zoom into a narrow column of text on a website (I assume Chrome also supports this) which is my primary mode of reading a lot of websites.
Japanese-born canned coffee is conquering America
ROFL!
Congrats and thanks for your work on Caddy!

Great news that apilayer wants to keep it open source, and even better news that you can be less stressed and be happier about your work.
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Novel Attention Condensers Enable Deep Recognition Networks on Edge Devices
If we go to the level of one time a cop did a bad thing with this tool then yeah everything will be abused. I'm more interested in cases where the police as a organization abused CCTV.
Edge Classic Still Provides the Best Battery Life
Also putting dozens of emojis in a Twitter handle. A screen reader has to read them all before the actual tweet is read. It's even worse with the new, politically correct emoji containing skin tones, as they're much more verbose, and the sighted don't even notice the difference. Sad face, light skin tone, sad face, light skin tone, sad face, light skin tone.

There's also the problem of Emoji misuse, for example, using , pronounced as "globe showing americas", as the emoji for Earth.
This is very much a research technique and not an operational kind of thing.
Was it considered... (resisting the urge) overused in 2016 as well? Where is the cutoff date in your opinion?
That’s a good policy indeed. Thanks for the suggestion, I’ll try to do the same. Sometimes the discussions have some interesting bits, but there usually is a lot of smugness and finger pointing.
Alacritty-cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator
Remember the USPS is rumored to have recently dismantled hundreds of sorting machines. Entirely possible that some old mail was jammed in there somehow.

Also, cf. "Going Postal" by Terry Pratchett.
Great link. The scientist Kevin Knight that did much of the cracking has written about Voynich as well: https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W11-1511.pdf
The most widely used transliteration, by Takahashi into EVA, is mentioned on that page, which is on Rene Zandbergen's web site. There was no intention of making EVA phonetically accurate, as we don't know how, if at all, the Voynich Manuscript text was supposed to be pronounced. However, it is reasonably pronounceable. You can find Takahashi's EVA transliteration at http://www.voynich.com/pages/PagesH.txt
Palantir didn't start this trend, covid-19 did. It forced remote working and then many realized that it can actually work really well. And the accountants started looking at how much money can be saved on leases.
> paperwork that should be automated

It’s very difficult to automate SARs. In part due to them requiring a compliance officer personally signing off on their validity.
I would suspect brand too makes a difference in whether people will give away their email address.
That's not generally how it works. Although it's possible, I promise you professional photographers shooting in RAW are setting their white balance well ahead of importing the files into any photo editing software. You're not going to set up studio strobes, or go do some landscape photography in the evening and just completely ignore your image settings. That's a terribly inefficient workflow. If you want to get a preview of what your image actually looks like in camera, that's just part of the process.

This is probably especially true for people like photojournalist, who shoot thousands of photos in a session and don't want to spend hours processing them afterward.

What about shooting in mixed light, where you have different color light sources inside and outside of a room? Do you think photographers are just saying "meh, this looks fine purple, I'll fix it in post"... or are they trying to capture the scene as close to accurate as possible (perhaps biasing exposure to compensate for limits in highlight or shadow detail capture)

Edit:
Bonus points: some photographers actually shoot in jpeg purposely to better emulate the experience of shooting color slide film. Is it a flex? Most likely. Are they demanding from themselves that photography remain a skill? Yeah! It's a skill. People take pictures, not cameras... and contrary to that statement I'm a firm believer that better cameras take better pictures.
I haven’t used it as it, but Interactive Brokers is something like 10-100x cheaper if you need to wire cash from US to your country when compared with Transferwise and such.
>R language also has a similar way of doing this 42 -> age.

Ah yes, the R language, a model of clarity, beauty and lightness in the world of programming languages. Truly an example to follow.

(And it's not like anyone ever uses that "feature" in the R world either.)
In the Search of Product/Market Fit for Social Healthcare App
Interesting point. Anecdotally I had a brown friend walk out of my house in SF late one night, walk to the end of the block, and then get detained by police for supposedly stalking/threatening a women. Would have been trivial to prove they had the wrong guy if there were cameras readily available.
I find that it takes device into account very interesting. What does me using an iPhone XS vs a Samsung Note vs a generic cheap Android phone say about me? I wonder if ends up being a proxy for income, age, or gender...
As a heavy Nginix user could someone shed some light on why Caddy is a better alternative? Serious replies only, please.
Right?
Nothing better than having a lategame make it or break it wonder sabotaged 1 turn away from completion by cave people that you smashed to bits two and a half thousand years ago because they have been accumulating espionage points against you since the dawn of history

/rant

In all fairness I feel like there is a core of a very interesting mechanic there. It just doesn't gel with the fun stuff that is the rest of thr game.

And don't get me started on spawning a Great Spy instead of a Great Engineer or Scientist...
Can you mix left assignments, right assignments, and assignments in expressions all in one statement? That will be great for obfuscating code.
Yes: pseudorandom.com

As far as I can tell, it has not mattered for hiring managers or recruiters. But I also don't really share it with them. It's not intended to be used for promotion. I'm only planning to write one or two articles a year.
Which now makes me wonder what the data behind the hex is.

09 00 ba 8a b6 f7 42 c8 8f d0 aa 8e bf f5 99 b6 5a f2 42 26
Oc 92 25 4a 14 2f 6d fc ee e7 c3 f3 e7 19 82 a0 14 6f dc 7b
Oc b8 0e 11 e7 5d c5 0d a0 19 bb 97 32 79 13 11 d2 af 8e fc
Oc ee 29 af c6 8d 3c 59 9f 73 23 ab f6 58 22 ae aa fd 30 c5
0e f5 fO d1 1f 31 00 ec 6d e6 7d 53 a9 36 2a 8d Of 46 8e 48
10 76 20 ee ac 87 af 7b 2a ec 85 f8 b9 88 43 60 78 6S a6 ea
13 b8 b8 93 d8 62 25 c2 d2 f4 c7 e4 7a ad 2d lb a6 00 b7 36
1f ca 1c 43 cf 5f c3 5b 7d 3f da 2a 41 6f 6b fb 05 ed ff cc

Putting it into hex to ascii converters doesn't yield anything useful.

Putting it into a frequency analysis tool [0] doesn't give any special patterns either. 8 bytes are present 3 times, 25 bytes 2 times, and 86 bytes 1 time (total 160 bytes). I inputted a 160 long sequence from hexdumping urandom and I got 5 bytes present 3 times, 27 bytes 2 times, 91 bytes 1 time. Not a statistician but it seems pretty close.

[0]: https://www.dcode.fr/frequency-analysis
Epic already had standing to sue from the $300 million in Fortnite IAP fees Apple has collected. They can already show harm and can sue to get those fees back. They did not need to do anything else.
If the sequence of symbols was completely random (biased only by a human desire to make it look like a language, and human inability to be perfectly random) wouldn't that show up in a statistical analysis?

According to [0], "A long succession of (actually pretty good) past statistical studies has revealed that Voynichese has an abundance of mechanisms that give it internal structure, not only in terms of letter adjacency and within words generally, but also within lines, paragraphs, and pages."

Whatever process generated that structure, it seems like it required more work than is necessary to achieve the aim you suggest the writer(s) had.

[0] https://ciphermysteries.com/2016/01/21/voynich-statistics-an...
Surreal Orange Skies, Colors of Mars Day in San Francisco Bay Area
Citi names the first woman to lead a major US bank
I wish the recommendation algorithm had knobs users could manipulate. eg

- show me things that have < 20 views

- reduce the weight of popular channels

- don't send me into a political content feedback loop

- prefer to show me short videos

- show me something wildly outside my tastes every now and then

I just got the Youtube Music app and it had very crude music recommendation options. You have to pick from a pre-selected list of artists. If you click on an artist, it adds another row of tangentially-related artists, but only sometimes.

Suppose you like electronic music, but only niche electronic music. Basically you have to click on Daft Punk, and hope it gives you something closer to what you like, leap-frogging towards e.g. Actress.

It doesn't even let you just type in what you like.., music that you know is already available on Youtube. If I had to guess, that's probably because of stupid copyright shit, but if that's the case, then why can I listen to the probably-violating-the-TOS music in the app if I just search for it myself?? Makes no sense...
Twitter plans for the worst with new election misinformation policy
You need Windows 10 Pro to enable Hyper-V and/or WSL2.

Nothing to do with the BIOS, because now pretty much every CPU has the VT-x extension.
The main reason for me why YouTube is out of choice is too many Ads interruptions and absence of Portrait mode video support. Even Telegram supports Vertical videos - you can zoom into any horizontal video, and I can move that window so that I can watch full screen on my phone.
It seems Ardan Labs changed the url to https://www.ardanlabs.com/news/2020/08/caddy-server-acquired...
Do you have to adapt spec definition to core.match somehow? Is there a resource to read more how to use them together?
As a math grad student in 1980, I took out a student loan for $3,000 (equal to my annual stipend) to buy an Apple II computer. (Eventually, computation established my career, just not on this machine.)

I recall making a "shift key mod" within days, that no doubt voided my warranty. It wasn't the mod described in this article. I recall some card that gave me 80 columns, Pascal, and increased my memory from 48K to 64K. I believe that my shift key mod involved cutting a single trace? In any case it worked. Various out-of-school friends learned computers on this machine, and changed careers. I learned the low memory locations like the back of my hand, and wrote crude Pascal programs, while my "real" code was in the relatively young C language on a Unix timesharing machine. That all changed when I bought one of the first Mac 128K's. Manx Aztec C!
Russian hackers target US election again – Microsoft
Sigh, FINRA isn't an agency. It's a private company.
According to Google employees, this goes through the cloud, so can be much, much better, while sacrificing responsiveness, which is crucial for a normal screen reader.