skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a big difference between promoting your Etsy fountain pens store and promoting the fountain pen you're making and selling, though.

I think the author is the latter, while the type of promo you're talking about is usually the former.
On Launching the New Xbox and the Future of Games
I wonder why he chose to use a discrete TTL gate for the ALU's nor gate instead of just another 74HC series IC.
"one of". It's unlikely to be bigger than NYPL, which has 92 locations to QPL's 62.
Data leaving their network is going to be more expensive for them.

I also have cable through them and got rid of all of our cable boxes. This was because they noticed I wasn't using them and they contacted me about that. They have a really simple way to return hardware now - https://xfinity.com/returns

Now I just stream my cable to my TVs via the Roku app (my TVs are mainly TCLs, which have Roku built in) and that isn't counted against my cap. As a customer of theirs that has saved me ~$60 a month and my TV usage doesn't get counted against my data cap. That $60 basically covers the cost of uncapped service. This seems to be a pretty good deal to me.
This looks super-rough, and some of the screen look dubiously useful, but a more polished 4 screen variant of this could be pretty great.
Hey, I'm a web developer and designer. I spent the last six years contracting, and just in the last three years I've 5x'd my rate actually. I'm writing a book about it:

https://devcareer.elliotbonneville.com/

If you shoot me your email I'll send you the entire manuscript so far. Also would love to hop on a call and just tell you everything I'm going to put in it -- looking for feedback on the content.
Seems like a 17" laptop with some iPads attached to the sides for extending screens onto would work fine too.
That is perfectly, perfectly believable. He was never interested in being accountable to others. As Steve Wozniak said, "He had very, very, very negative sides and he didn't seem to care what other people felt."
Being ignorant of Earth law does not mean one cannot break Earth law.
Is the internet of money America's to lose?
I didn't know that until Comcast told me about it. The first time you go over the cap they tell you about it.
We've encountered huge performance problems using TypeScript with the styled-components library. Something about how that library is typed results in multi-second delays before the VSCode intellisense updates on any file in our project. It's absolutely agonising.
3k Years of Processed Food
The Ketogenic Diet: A Detailed Beginner’s Guide to Keto
This guy really is something:

> I looked at rock type (Sandstone), color (red and white - no black streaks like found on higher cliffs in Utah), shape (more rounded indicating a more exposed area and erosion), the texture of the canyon floor (flat rock vs sloped indicating higher up in a watershed with infrequent water), and the larger cliff/mesa in the upper background of one of the photos. I took all that and lined it up with the flight time and flight path of the helicopter - earlier in the morning taking off from Monticello, UT and flying almost directly north before going off radar (usually indicating it dropped below radar scan altitude. From there, I know I am looking for a south/east facing canyon with rounded red/white rock, most likely close to the base of a larger cliff/mesa, most likely closer to the top of a watershed, and with a suitable flat area for an AS350 helicopter to land. Took about 30 minutes of random checks around the Green River/Colorado River junction before finding similar terrain. From there it took another 15 minutes to find the exact canyon. Yes... I'm a freak.

https://old.reddit.com/r/geoguessr/comments/jzw628/help_me_f...
> In Toronto, we have an island downtown with homes on 100y leases that cannot be re-sold at market rates, but also cannot be willed to heirs, and that has a pretty transparent waiting list system, which still gets periodic criticism as corrupt.

Except that your “lease” can continue to your spouse or children:

> Those rules, laid out in a provincial statute that’s been in place for the past 25 years, state that specific houses on the island can only be transferred to a spouse or child.

https://torontosun.com/news/local-news/man-fighting-toronto-...
I'm from Hungary, my first car was 7 years old when I bought it, I used it for 10 years, my second car was 6 years old when I bought it and used it for 7 years. I don't see any valid reason for buying a new gas/diesel car, even if it's a cheap one. Now that I have enough money I feel that I can do something for the environment (and my lungs), that's why I'm buying a new electric car, otherwise I would go for a used gas car again.
On the other hand, the same tools email me once a week with a breakdown of what I've done.

It constantly shows that for the previous 28 days I have had zero quiet days: in other words every single day I have used email/chat/etc. outside of my assigned working hours (which is picked up from my in office hours from Outlook).

This is something to shove back to bosses to prove that you are overworked and/or overcommitting.
What counts as an original in this context? Would another unauthorized art piece of a different type in the same protected land be an original? Would a metal monolith in a different park count as an original for that park? Would a unauthorized art piece of a different type in a different park be an original? What if one of these originals was 100' high?

If you allow the original but remove a 2nd and it is goverment land, are you opening yourself up to legal issues regarding the 1st amendment.
Let's be honest: every comic artist is hoping to be a commercial success, at least once. To fund their other interests if nothing else.

Even Dilbert was a calculated commercial invention, leveraged for all it was worth?
No, because it has been done before by much less powerful institutions.
Working from home giving rise to insidious trend – time theft by employees
I think people are cool with self promotion if you do it in a tasteful manner. They may not even think of it as self promotion.

People resent stuff like: "Special offer just today buy 2 pens and get 11% off!!"

But they do like stuff like: "How we designed the Fountilator"
This might become the work-from-home version of "looking busy doing nothing".
That's the point. The government can compel you as they please under threat of harsh criminal punishment.
For example, did you know it's illegal to lie to an FBI agent? Think of how many things could easily be misconstrued as lies in a normal conversation. Introduce yourself to an FBI field agent as a "Jim" when your given name is actually "James"? You've just committed a crime punishable by up to a year in prison.
The point is that some metrics are useful tools, and that some managers are tools.

To be more specific about metrics, something that measures what your users care about, or is beneficial to your company is actually useful. Sometimes the most important metric is a zero or one, which is did you ship? Measuring commit frequency seems intrinsically useless.
Just wait until you see the italic reply button
> In Spore the video game you send down a monolith to upgrade a planet. I found this to be a very tasteful tidbit that paid homage to Kubrick.

There is a similar game mechanism in Will Wright's 1990 title SimEarth.
The problem is that even if we do everything you propose - rapidly deploy renewable energy tech, replace natural furnaces with heat pumps after the furnaces break, quickly transition to EVs, etc. - the best we can hope for is only 1.5 degrees C warming.

Perfect behavior from here on out is not enough to prevent significant warming. There is simply too much carbon in the atmosphere and too many carbon emitting machines in use today that will emit until they reach end of life. They acknowledge this in the IPCC reports and have already baked in aggressive use of carbon capture technology in order to meet the 1.5 C target.

Simply put, we need to continue to invest in carbon capture technology. This includes direct air capture, remediating soil to retain more carbon, preventing deforestation, etc. If we do not do this, we are going to blow past the 1.5 degree C mark.
That's also in SimEarth, from 1990. Given both games were designed by Will Wright, perhaps not a surprise!
Especially during a global pandemic when schools and business are forced to being digital. I wouldn't hate this so much if it was 5TB, that is at least targeted at top 1% abusers.
How someone found it:

"I looked at rock type (Sandstone), color (red and white - no black streaks like found on higher cliffs in Utah), shape (more rounded indicating a more exposed area and erosion), the texture of the canyon floor (flat rock vs sloped indicating higher up in a watershed with infrequent water), and the larger cliff/mesa in the upper background of one of the photos. I took all that and lined it up with the flight time and flight path of the helicopter - earlier in the morning taking off from Monticello, UT and flying almost directly north before going off radar (usually indicating it dropped below radar scan altitude. From there, I know I am looking for a south/east facing canyon with rounded red/white rock, most likely close to the base of a larger cliff/mesa, most likely closer to the top of a watershed, and with a suitable flat area for an AS350 helicopter to land. Took about 30 minutes of random checks around the Green River/Colorado River junction before finding similar terrain. From there it took another 15 minutes to find the exact canyon. Yes... I'm a freak."

u/Bear__Fucker
It’s probably been 15 years since I looked in detail at a formal treatment of statistical mechanics, so maybe this is well-trodden territory, but... has anyone formalized the idea that the second law can be interpreted as a general inability of computer programs to predict one another? I’m also channeling Wolfram here, but I’m not sure if he ever expressed it exactly this way. But the thing I’m imagining would be: set up some (preferably discrete) dynamical system, and then another different kind of system that you fit variationally to the first. The claim would be that the mutual information between state variables of the second and the first will always gradually decrease — unless they are the exactly the same family, in which case the fit rediscovers the exact dynamics and the two systems are identical. So intuitively, the second law would correspond to the claim that different families of programs cannot accurately simulate each other for very long. In the special case of a coarse graining, this should give you the more familiar story about entropy and the ‘gap’ between macrostates and microstates, but the real story is a more general one than that and is an empirical fact about the “computational universe”, with physics a special case.
As a thought experiment, imagine there was a base metal as scarce as gold but with the following properties:

– boring grey in colour

– not a good conductor of electricity

– not particularly strong, but not ductile or easily malleable either

– not useful for any practical or ornamental purpose

and one special, magical property:

– can be transported over a communications channel

If it somehow acquired any value at all for whatever reason, then anyone wanting to transfer wealth over a long distance could buy some, transmit it, and have the recipient sell it.

-Satoshi Nakamoto, August 2010
> yes; a forum for computer enthusiasts filled with people enthusiastic about computers.... what has this place come to indeed

Oh sure, there's 0 difference between proprietary black box software and free/libre open source... give me a break.

Tech's Great-Man theory has society idolizing Silicon Valley monopolizers:

"In the movie Steve Jobs, a character asks, “So how come 10 times in a day I read ‘Steve Jobs is a genius?’” The great man reputation that envelops Jobs is just part of a larger mythology of the role that Silicon Valley, and indeed the entire U.S. private sector, has played in technology innovation. We idolize tech entrepreneurs like Jobs, and credit them for most of the growth in our economy. But University of Sussex economist Mariana Mazzucato, who has just published a new U.S. edition of her book, The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths, makes a timely argument that it is the government, not venture capitalists and tech visionaries, that have been heroic.

“Every major technological change in recent years traces most of its funding back to the state,” says Mazzucato. Even “early stage” private-sector VCs come in much later, after the big breakthroughs have been made. For example, she notes, “The National Institutes of Health have spent almost a trillion dollars since their founding on the research that created both the pharmaceutical and the biotech sectors–with venture capitalists only entering biotech once the red carpet was laid down in the 1980s. We pretend that the government was at best just in the background creating the basic conditions (skills, infrastructure, basic science). But the truth is that the involvement required massive risk taking along the entire innovation chain: basic research, applied research and early stage financing of companies themselves.” The Silicon Valley VC model, which has typically dictated that financiers exit within 5 years or so, simply isn’t patient enough to create game changing innovation." [1]

[1] https://time.com/4089171/mariana-mazzucato/
"Sideros" (roughly) is iron in Greek.

Monosider?
Germany also had huge problems getting fuel for anything, really. They used a lot of horses for artillery. Building a huge number of tanks may not have worked out for them. When they couldn't reach Soviet oil fields, it was over.
This is speaking of entropy and states of gasses.

Isn't there some generalization of entropy, such that even when sentient life-forms tried their damnedest, or even in black-holes, entropy must always trend up? Or was that a mischaracterization?
Without being a lawyer, this sounds like a privacy lawsuit waiting to happen.

Did this take place in the US? Could you share more details about the work, and the "why" that drove it?
Sandler can play serious roles very well, check out Uncut Gems
Ah yeah, you gotta check bootloader lock status before buying. That's something that frosts me too, and it's why I pretty much only buy from OnePlus or Google.

If you buy a hack-friendly phone though, I've found it to be fairly easy to do, although I've always used CLI tools, so if someone (like non-techy friends) were to do it they'd probably be put off by the CLI.
I've seen so many really complex real-time recommendation pipelines that could be replaced by a simple weighted click-rate style algorithm.

The application of ML and data science in this industry is quite hilariously bad, really.
The games are usually compressed, but you can very easily find yourself downloading over 100 gigs for a single game in a month.

A big trend in games these days what is called "live" or "service" games. These are games that are having new content added on a regular schedule (monthly, or sometimes weekly). This means its not unusual to get updates that range in size from 20-60 gigs for a single game in a month. If you play a lot of games or have kids that play different games, you can very easily be burning 200-400 GBs of data a month just keeping your games up to date.
métallon is probably the most analogous word to líthos. unfortunately "monometal" just sounds kinda dumb.
While technically a private institution, NYPL is chartered by New York State, many of its buildings are publicly owned, and the mayor, council speaker, and comptroller each appoint a representative to the board.
Adam Sandler can actually act e.g. Punch Drunk Love and Uncut Gems
That and there are laws that never go away, like not spitting on the sidewalk or not chewing gum on a Sunday.
Does anyone remember the monolith that showed up in Seattle in 2001? It moved around a bit, including to a swampy island in the middle of green lake.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seattle_Monolith
Due to my age when I watched UHF I had not seen many of the movies that it referenced: Conan the Barbarian, Rambo, Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Close Encounters - only over time did I come to appreciate it.
> you’re probably never going to observe entropy going down in your life

Except when you tidy up your room.
Looks nice! I wish it would be part of the Setapp subscription :)
Come on now. This headline is so dumb. Both things are true:

1) Garfield is meant to make money.

2) Garfield is meant to be funny and the vast majority of people find it funny.
Also felt the e-mail was trying very hard to make sense. I'd say yes, all devices opt-in, also upcoming ones. Unless you happen to read about the feature and act on it to opt-out. Or maybe the newer devices have it mentioned in the terms, which, as we all know, would be the ultimate move. The opt-out setting for it hasn't appeared yet, and will likely appear quietly sometime in the future when everybody's forgotten about it.
I've had a 1TB monthly cap here in Minnesota for several years now. Luckily I live alone and I rarely hit the cap, and they give me one "courtesy" month a year where I can exceed the cap without penalty. Sad to see them rolling it out to more states, that must mean it has been a "success" for them. I'd love to switch away from Comcast but the only other option for me is significantly slower DSL.
I've been on HN for a while and I have never noticed either of these. Huh.

But now I know the secret
Wait why is this reply button italic, but others are not? Mind. Blown.
Blackrota Golang Backdoor Packs Heavy Obfuscation Punch
My only issue with this is that it introduces the possibility for human error. It’s rare, but if the returned object fits more than one type (say, a superclass vs concrete class instance) the incorrect one could be selected and the code still compile. Is this even a valid concern?

The only time I see manual type annotation cause problems consistently is with React.FC<Props>: (props: T). People don’t always remember to provide their props interface as the generic, and instead directly annotate the props argument of the function. This is a subtle issue that breaks the “magic” props added by React (like children), leading to people adding their own children definitions to their props interfaces d’oh
Too late it's been found [1].

[1] https://www.google.com/maps/place/38°20'35.2%22N+109°39'58.5...
Makes sense as FB hyper optimizes for engagement. That said I wonder how the data is structured in their DB, how messy it is, how complicated a post can I make to foil their parsing.

There was a rumor back in college when we cared about social clout that the handful of people you see on the Friends list on your profile are the people who most recently/frequently check your profile (i.e., viewing someone's profile is already an interaction metric for FB). This trained me to not visit other people's profiles. To this day (when that list is just "most recent friends added"), I visit profiles very rarely and only if there is really something I want to check.

It's not so baseless either. Of course this might be some bias or another working but there was a time I fell behind certain commitments to a Dev Group I was helping organize and poof, the friends list on my profile started to show my co-organizers. Felt like they were checking on me, on why I'm behind my stuff, why I was taking time to echo replies. I was just busy; sorry it happens. :)
> It is worth pointing out that this strategy can likely overfit on the data that you have used for training: when you change the track, your car may not behave as good as before. In other words: the coefficients are only good for that specific track(s).

More generally, I think this approach is only suited to "static" courses, which only matter in contrived demos. Any real use of a steering algorithm requires reacting to conditions that can't be predicted a priori; e.g. if you have to avoid collisions with other cars, and one car is controlled by a human player, every run is effectively a different track and overfitting like this would not be an option.
No, it definitely has a particular demographic skew. This is important to companies targeting a specific customer profile. Reddit is not a place I want my products associated with right now.
Yup! Among other type definition problems. The types are very poorly maintained.

I’m planning to give Emotion a try as it has the same ‘styled’ api.
According to the specs, this 12KG laptop gets 28 minutes at full power on batteries >_<

And it's not allowed on airplanes..
This is how I imagine Bad Place would torture Steve Jobs, with Bad Jony Ive bringing a version of this prototype to every other meeting to get feedback.
Oh, praise be our generous, forgiving corporate masters. bows down
Thanks, I'd looked through the ToS, but didn't see the "guidelines".

Seems odd to have an API for bots but ban 3rd party clients!
I checked, the entire setting isn't showing for me yet on iOS 14, in the UK (no app update available either yet). If they leave it off by default, question will be what'll happen with newer devices, and if they can sneak this through with a terms agreement.
New WAPDropper malware abuses Android devices for WAP fraud
Yeah, I had the same problem, kind of made me switch to Tailwind, actually. The places where I used dynamic rules based on props were replaced with dynamic classes.
I was amazed that my 5 y/o GPU is still selling for half it's original price. I was considering buying a second one for Crossfire, but maybe selling it is a better idea.
That's true here on HN, too.

One thing about Reddit is that the addition of images allows a lot leeway for self promotion by brands.
I get that, but I'd prefer games that tell a story rather than cause angst whilst they siphon your wallet. Played LoL quite a lot and haven't learnt a thing from it :(
Where is the dividing line between you and the world?
Ask HN: Do you drive stick shift?
P.S: how can I conduct a poll here?
One of my favorite assignments in college was building a little ALU in Logisim :)
That’s the kind of strategy that I would expect to find in an article titled “How to use Reddit to get your first users”.
> I don't mind if anyone forks this and takes all politics out. Or even put your own politics in.

Solid move. In your expression, others are empowered to also express themselves.
Wow this is getting a lot of PR. I've seen this article on the on so many news sites now. It's funny, but front page news? Seems of all the random things that go on, this was picked as special for some reason. Just interesting how some things you wouldn't expect rise to the top.
Siri isn't the best but it's far from the worst - Bixby owns that category by a mile.
Autocorrect is fine for me in iOS 14. But Machine learning can also lead to regressions or edge cases. Here a fun rant about autocorrect in iOS 13:

https://www.smh.com.au/technology/iphone-autocorrect-driving...

The good:

> Machine learning has enabled the iPhone to correctly predict oddly spelt suburb names like Prahran and Woolloomooloo, to read the screen of an article and guess the surname or product I'm about to Google, and to suggest the spelling Bryan over Brian, because the former is a close friend.

The ugly:

> For at least two years now, my iPhone has insisted on autocorrecting Sydney to SYDNEY, every single time I type the word. After weeks of troubleshooting that included resetting the keyboard and uninstalling any transit apps I thought might be to blame, I realized the culprit.
I have a few hundred contacts on my phone from a previous employer, all with UNSW SYDNEY as their address.

What should happen here with a few _hundred_ entries of "SYDNEY"? I guess it should be unlearned after the user entered a few times (once? two times?) by hand "Sydney" and user entered text privileged over other text corpora (even dictionaries?). But then you have other problems again like autocorrect learning potentially wrong spelling idiosyncrasies of the user.