skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> That's an interesting question. In the late 90s, IBM had a competition in the same S/390 architecture, with Fujitsu and Hitachi mainframes. These could compete with IBM on price, so I don't think this would be a problem. It's hard to discern cause and effect here - maybe mainframes are expensive because IBM held to them and eventually became a monopoly.

I'm sure those were still really expensive though.

IIRC, IBM made a big investment to migrate to a 64-bit architecture, but none of its competitors in the mainframe space wanted to do the same.
In Win9x, if you move the cursor to the lower left corner of the screen, then left click, the cursor actually jumps to the Start button.

Instead of making the click target extend to the corner, MS chose to move the cursor a few pixels when a click happens in that little corner.
> By this point I would (maybe) pay a monthly subscription for a really good websearch like google circa 2005-2010

UI changes and new features aside, the web is just so much more adversarial nowadays. It's no wonder so much rubbish floats to the top of Google because the reality it's drowning out all the other content.

If you had the source code for 2005 Google it would be objectively worse today than it was then.
The catheter thing: I remember watching him be interviewed, and they brought up that event and the catheter. He literally took the bag of piss that was strapped to his leg and started squirting it around in response. Yeah, he’s the real deal lol
Yes! This is how I got my start in design. So many Photoshop tutorials that started with Render Clouds. Haha!
I love having commentary like that around, but I prefer to keep it in either the commit message or (more frequently) in the issue thread linked to from the commit. That way I can use as much space as I like for it and the timestamps make it clear that it's historical commentary, not a description of how the code works right now.
>instead of just buying so many of them in different shapes and leaving them in a drawer packed to the brim with notebooks.

That was me until I started bullet journaling. My notebook becomes whatever I need at the time. Todo list, calendar, journal. Flexibility with structure.
Also, the US dollar being the defacto reserve currency and it currently being incredibly cheap helps quite a lot.
The US is basically the only country being able to borrow directly against natural resources (which it has plenty off, especially compared to the EU).
Did you ever remap any keys? Can't imagine what it would be like without setting `caps lock` as `control`.
> If your argument is that "displaying" the received transmission is the issue, then Google has done nothing wrong, because the BSSID/GPS database is not "displayed" to any human beings -- the entire system is automated, much like the CSMA and DFS/TPC technologies of wifi itself. Personally I think that is a weak argument since it would make it legally questionable to use a debugger on a device that operates in an explicitly unlicensed part of the radio spectrum.

This seems like a plausible argument to me. Google use similar arguments with, say, Gmail: their algorithms can read your mail and use what they learn to show you ads, but individual engineers can't, even for debugging purposes.
> Covid chance of death in general population (Deaths / US population):

100 - (600000/350 million) = 99.9982857143% survival rate

> "Currently, no coronavirus vaccine is fully approved by the FDA, but three were given emergency use authorization by the agency"

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/coronavirus/are-covid-vaccin...

> The demand on our healthcare infrastructure is potentially crippling, as we've seen
Completely false. Not a single hospital was crippled.

Most of what you said is false information and the idea of a 'having my bell rung' appears to be a subtle violent threat!

Such a rational critical thinking person you seem to be and the others like you!

Best wishes sweetie!
My ability to focus since getting medication is night and day. This is true even when I’m off medication because I’ve been able to do the work to gain mental clarity I’d not been able to do before.
It's unfair to change the verb from use to build.
Shameless plug, but if you like note-taking on index cards but are still looking for a slightly more digital solution to the problem, we've[1] built an online note-taking platform that is based around digital markdown note-cards, which is a bit different from most other digital solutions which are usually document or bullet-list based. I realize that many on HN want to "own" their data a little more than you typically expect of a cloud-platform, but you owning your notes is very important to us which is why we've spelled it out in our T&Cs[2] and why we have a publicly-accessible API[3] for maximum flexibility.

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Well, perhaps they find the virtual life more compelling than the real one...

The problem is sustainability.

A virtual life cannot sustain itself indefinitely, and is not very robust. If money runs out or a tragedy occurs, it will be a scramble to get a job and interact in the real world. A virtual life does not contribute to society (if we mean a purely passive virtual life), and if people start adopting it en masse we'd be in trouble.

As far as I can see, we could simply try create a virtual life (or any kind of activity) that both is sustainable, and gives an interesting, engrossing life experience.
It’s time to replace the 737, says industry leader
That then makes the code non-linear, which IMO makes it a lot less readable in most circumstances.
That is good, only North Korea will know how to kill us all...
A close watch on these methods is needed, if only to be able to detect anyone who attampts it by input monitoring.
Lina Khan, Big Tech Critic, Will Lead the FTC
If I'm spending that kind of money on a teenager, not putting it all into one easily lose-able device is a value-add of it's own.
Good to know. As I mentioned, I'm not privy to the details of early Amazon.

The misconception that Scott received her wealth in divorce court is extremely common. I don't have high expectations for our media at the moment (cough) but they could have done a better job with this for sure.
Staffing is a pipeline problem: a good ratio might not help a particular issue, but you'll never be able to address those issues without it.
I didn't have a feel for what the word 'spirituality' meant until I left organized religion and began the working-it-out for myself. Its relatable and understandable when I see how often people mistake the two, since we're nearly all raised into confusion by confused people.
Do you also read through every function call (at least the first time you encounter a given function)?
I would definitely say that glasses are a great comparison.
How are you handling the fact that it seems like none of the computational geometry algorithms parallelize?

Even something as fundamental as line segment intersection doesn't seem to have any good parallel algorithms.
The book I am using and liking right now is How to Draw: Sketch and Draw Anything, Anywhere with This Inspiring and Practical Handbook, by Jake Spicer
So somehow the ethics change based on the severity of the crime they are suspected of?
if you know a name (or name fragment), real property owners can be found in county assessor websites in the US.
The animations are a bit sluggish. I kept missing clicks on tiles that were finishing animations from a previous turn. Maybe I was playing faster than I should have been but it made things somewhat confusing.
Historical options data, trading signal, intraday (1-min) data, eod data, etc.
Shorting is a more time consuming investment approach. You need high conviction to open a PUT without owning a CALL or the stock as well.

One thing I have learned is that a SPAC or any company with a low stock price may have low liquidity, particularly for longer-dated options. This risks making a short position dramatically less profitable. So SPACs end up not being the gold mine for shorts that you might expect.

For me a short position is not about speculating but instead about being strategically "long volatility". Which means you can actually make money when the rest of your stocks (which are "short volatility") are tanking and provide a better return for your portfolio. So I now try to always have PUTs open (along with CALLs that balance each other out).

Don't buy your short position with margin: that introduces short volatility to what should be a long volatility position.
> We also will stop publishing stories driven mainly by a particularly embarrassing mugshot, nor will we publish such mugshots solely because of the appearance of the accused.

Bravo!
Ouch, why on earth did that cost so much? That's an order of magnitude above what I'd expect.

I get the appeal, but I still have unused function keys. (I'm using.. off the top of my head, F1-5.)
Discussed (barely) at the time (of the article):

Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3710624 - March 2012 (2 comments)

Also related: Others?

The CIA's Quest for Mind Control: Torture, LSD and a 'Poisoner in Chief' - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25182099 - Nov 2020 (174 comments)

The CIA's Secret Quest For Mind Control - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20938279 - Sept 2019 (120 comments)

The CIA’s human experiments with mind control (2017) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22976846 - April 2020 (48 comments)
The iPad Pro is a device that definitely can edit video, but I really only use it as a last resort. For me it has never been a question of power, but a question of comfort: the M1 could be the fastest CPU in the world, but what do I care when I can't run 32 bit software on it! And then there's the ergonomics... unless you're using a mouse/keyboard with the iPad, it's an insufferable experience: even then, it's not a given that your NLE of choice will even support keyboard shortcuts, and then we're back around to square one again...
The Air Force would show movies to the GIs in WW2. My dad said the best part of the movies were the snarky comments by other GIs during the show.
Linus Tech Tips has his personal rig in a 3u (?) rack mounted case in his attic. It can and has been done!
The forefather of NFTs.
And then you find it and you remember the sentence: “Everything that can fail, will fail”.
You can get the latest A5000 GPU's on the pro-grade workstation laptops.

You could Quadro cards on laptops for a long time. They're just the super thick stupid expensive models usually.
They really mean "governments that uphold the rule of law and apply it equally to all"
I find that very hard to believe. Who can honestly say they were never wrecked by a bad flu and coughed up a lung for a week or two? Certainly I have been, and everybody in my family has been, and I've certainly seen friends and coworkers sick as hell before too. Most people know what it feels like to be very ill.

If anything, the fevers, coughs and congestion caused by covid 19 are fairly mild, even though covid is quite lethal. That's why you have people who are dying of covid but think they aren't very sick, or even think the virus isn't real at all.
Agreed.

This is the big study, a city wide screening in Wuhan found not a single documented case:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19802-w

And beyond that this is a meta-analysis of 54 studies showing near 0 presymptomatic/asymptomatic rate:

https://alachuachronicle.com/university-of-florida-researche...
And then you had like ps 3 and the effect in the next step required version 4 or something
I know this is an unpopular opinion, but I don't see constructive criticism as a "flow of negativity."
Or Apple could stop ripping off their customers and we could just be comfortable paying them a reasonable amount of money for a reasonable amount of storage.

Is that too much to ask?
Right, I’m extremely add and get euphoria. I also feel a lot of the people who treat this as “my medication” types (they’re common) should realize the worst thing about adderall is that it makes you happy doing stupid menial stuff
I'm not quite sure I follow; isn't the whole point of turtle graphics to not have to think about Cartesian coordinates, but rather in terms of "move that far" and "turn that much" (at least initially)?

Or do you mean the other way around, as in, you start with an image of the end result in your head that's defined in terms of coordinates, and then you had to write the move/turn code that achieves that? I can see how that would be quite frustrating; but if you are already thinking in coordinates throughout, then you don't need the "turtle" part anymore - but you can still do graphics.
The End of Paper
Flaming logo... spinning logo...
"deregulation" needn't mean actual deregulation. It can be an excuse for corruption just as much as any other initiative.
This all assumes that without Google this would not happen. But I fail to see why is this so. Linux happened without single corporation controlling it.
Should my 'why' comment go further than a Jira number?
Past related threads:

ShadyURL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24579931 - Sept 2020 (5 comments)

Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening (2010) - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16791029 - April 2018 (68 comments)

ShadyURL - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11572679 - April 2016 (2 comments)

Shady URL: Don't just shorten your URL, make it suspicious and frightening. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1134868 - Feb 2010 (21 comments)
Maybe they just liked the tune. A lot of people don't think very deeply about what a song means anyway. I remember that the high school senior class that graduated a year before mine had Brick in the Wall as their class song. Played at their graduation while walking out and everything. I don't think any of the administration had a clue what the song was about until it became a big talking points after graduation.
Also mentioned in an earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27517126
When I see Linux advocacy from those days it's so amusing to me in retrospect: In this case, Linux 2.0 now, with Tux dropping onto an old Windows 95 style logo. I remember GNU/Linux advocacy in that era as based around free software ideas, but when I look back at that time, there was actually a lot of ironic(?) superiority.
I haven't explored the total number of masks that could be pulled out of this setup, but it probably is around 8. I don't need that many, because I need to keep the number of colours low because of the 1-bit target display, and the tony size of my sprites (30x30px). So once I got enough to cater for black and white and another for a dither pattern I stopped there. I could easily get one more, but I've not needed it so far. https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman/status/139613198879333171...
At school level? Only so much.

Some school districts are now having a measure of success with having ONE school but tracking the kids into "accelerated" or "regular" programs and elevating the resources for both.

There was a whole podcast about it: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/23/podcasts/nice-white-paren...

This happened as a result of a large-enough number of well-to-do parents no longer being able to get their kids into very desirable and academically rigorous city-wide schools, so they effectively "took over" a neighborhood public/charter school by participating VERY HEAVILY in the PTA, the school's funding, and getting deeply involved with the ALL the kids, teachers and administration.

From what I can tell, it required a very uncomfortable and ongoing dialog about race and class. Not every school in every big city can do this, IMHO, but AFAICT it lead to better outcomes for all the students, including the at-risk students.
Libraries are an exception. Here, from the article, talking about Javadoc.

> These comments may be useful for API:s exposed externally, but in an application where you have access to all the source code, they are mostly useless.
The article hints that (ostensibly) the reason the policy only applies to minor crimes is that they often do not hear back on what happened with minor cases. Presumably, high-profile cases will receive lots of follow-up attention, including naming the suspects found innocent.

Again, ostensibly.
There's nothing absurd about it, you're just looking for something to get mad about.

Your reference to the so-called Apple Tax makes that perfectly clear.

What I actually said is that I, personally, find it fabulous for video editing. I made it clear that I'm an amateur who doesn't make heavy use of any advanced features, and furthermore said that I'm sure that the daughter made the right choice for her.

You blew into my mentions getting mad about price tags, which I never mentioned. Your assertion that someone can get better performance than the M1 for $1K including two large monitors (high DPI?) is something I'd need to see backed up, because quite frankly I don't believe you.

The one thing I'm quite confident of is that the iPad is superior for drawing to a PC and Wacom tablet, because I've used both. I'm quite confident from your pugnacious and unpleasant reply that you haven't used an iPad for either video editing or drawing.
I only just now realized that weather icon isn’t malware. Thanks for letting me know.
More likely FLoC will place you in a cohort also full of other AdNauseam users.
Thanks! I did think about numeric indicators but didn't want to introduce too much complexity. Would also take away from the fun if players had to check the numbers for many cells each turn.

Still trying to figure out the best way to show that information.
Sure, just like there's girls flocking to become prostitutes in parts of Thailand, and Bangladeshi to become construction workers in Qatar. Not because of desperation, no, out of free will in search for great jobs, they're not slaves you see... The way you completely miss this point and imply we should compare today's construction standards to that of the past and look at the past favourably due to all the potential efficiencies in taking shortcuts on labour conditions ("after all, desperate immigrant impoverished workers showed up freely, it must not be a problem) makes me glad you're not driving public policy today. I'm sure you're just as eager to give up your own comfy labour conditions for the sake of the project. I'm quite done arguing with someone who's not discussing in good faith.
Their thought process: "It's only oppression when it happens to me, otherwise it's just my freedom of choice"
I’ve seen it a fair amount in cyber security, especially if you are attacking or leveraging things that the company sells or promotes. Does it work? Anecdotally yes, but that’s not something I would bank on when releasing content that I feel needs a disclaimer.

Realistically, if someone wants to release something questionable, it’s preferable to work with the company prior to releasing it to find the verbiage they want used (similar to how many google GitHub repositories state they aren’t official Google products) and to understand if you will end up in hot water.
Exploring Alternative Operating Systems: Building Inferno Disk Images
What packages do you use for email?
I’m not sure about the privacy part, but they do have very good success with AWS, which I’m sure includes loads and loads of network code.
From the article:

> This policy of not identifying suspects by name applies to minor crime briefs. We will continue to identify suspects by name in stories on significant crimes, such as murder, that would merit ongoing news coverage. In these cases, naming a suspect may be important for public safety reasons. These guidelines also do not include stories about active searches for fugitives.
> we now will no longer name suspects in brief stories about minor crimes in which there is little chance AP will provide coverage beyond the initial arrest .... We will continue to identify suspects by name in stories on significant crimes, such as murder, that would merit ongoing news coverage. In these cases, naming a suspect may be important for public safety reasons. These guidelines also do not include stories about active searches for fugitives.

The article suggests major crimes typically receive follow up articles, hopefully including whether a suspect was acquitted.
Their excuse for this is that more severe crimes are more likely to have follow up news articles indicating if the suspect was charged, found guilty, whatever.

This change is an important one to make and signals at least a recognition of the issues involved and a desire to do better. Hopefully the tides continue to shift in this same direction and fewer peoples lives will be ruined by their worst decisions or by simply being at the wrong place at the wrong time.
Unlike Geocities, that site is a masterful work of design! (And the wayback machine links are broken today due to a planned power outage.)
Getting burned once in a two year time span triples your risk of developing melanoma compared to not getting burned at all. That base level obviously depends on your genetics.
> why should the government intercede to take that away from them

Because Apple is the new Standard Oil. We've decided that too much power and control in one vertically and horizontally integrated company is bad for consumers, bad for business, and bad for the health of our capitalist enterprise.

Under Apple's thumb it's much harder to launch a new product and be profitable. Apple takes too much and demands unreasonable things.

Apple is the face of computing today. They've installed themselves as the troll on the bridge. They need to be reminded that this is not the correct or healthy role for them to play and that there are plenty of other opportunities for them to pursue.

Microsoft post-DOJ emerged a healthier company. Apple will too.
There are two basic immune systems: innate and adaptive. In some cases the innate immune system clears the infection before the adaptive immune system produces detectible levels of antibodies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innate_immune_system?wprov=sfl...
I built an $800 budget PC 7 years ago, it beats my M1 Macbook Air in Blender renders by about 20%
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> So from the perspective of someone who has to actually install, use and frequently update a dozen of Android apps, it is much easier to stick to only using such which do not want internet access instead of constantly having to read a very large amount of changelogs because all software you use is hooked up to the internet.

Even offline-only apps might gain online capabilities. You need to read the changelogs nevertheless.

In the case of Joplin, AFAIR it is offline first when you start it. As it supports various sync options you have to configure one before it will start syncing over the net.

I think the risk of Joplin getting a sync option that is activated by default is about the same as an offline app getting online features.
By empowering anyone to make free use of what is clearly public. Private company building a service to show streetscape around world should be no different than me publishing photography I took around the city in my blog.
They explain in the article that such minor stories rarely get follow-up, so you'll never hear if they get exonerated / found innocent. Whereas if, say, Bill Gates gets arrested, they'll be a lot more likely to post updates and further clarifying information.

Just from personal intuition, I'd also expect that a lot of sources would be name-dropping "Bill Gates got arrested" even if the AP tried to keep it quiet, so there's less value.
I find an issue link only works if e is a good enough comment alongside it (ie. Attempting to eliminate this mutex is bug prone, see <link> for archiyectures and their problems).
Lol.

This isn't rhetoric, this is lived experience. No character assassination required - the character in question has assassinated themselves
It's also not Google who controls re-targeting lists. At least on Facebook, retailers can easily tell this ad not to be shown to you after you paid.