skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
495GPa... doesn't seem so bad...

Standard atmospheric pressure ~= 100Pa

So they increased the pressure in that chamber by 4.95billion times.

And then they hypothesise that the hydrogen metal could be stable at room temperature.

Oh. My. Days.
Can anyone please help me understand where this can be put to use? Few comments have already mentioned some stuff vaguely. Any concrete example will really help.
with this level of dereliction of journalistic integrity they should suffer greatly. they were looking to bring down a public University if not more.

When you put it all on the table you damn well need to be sure on the bet you are taking
Unsurprisingly it's Clinton.
I find the recommendation to leave the cost limit alone strange. The problem is this is a global limit, shared by all autovacuum workers. The default (200) means all workers combined should not do more than 8 MB/s reads or 4 MB/s writes, which on current hardware are rather low limits. Increasing the number of workers is good, but the total autovacuum throughput does not change - there will be more workers but they'll go slower.

Also a note regarding the delay - the resolution really depends on hardware. Some timers have only 10ms resolution, for example.
Wow that is actually a brilliant idea. Would you ever consider making an android version?
So here's what he/she said:

> "Why some places are corrupt and others aren't is poorly understood magic of some sort. One fairly decent guess is something like "cultural factors" - Danish bureaucrats aren't corrupt because they expect that other non-corrupt Danes would punish them for it."

How did you make the leap from 'cultural factors' to "immigrants are inherently prone to corruption based on their country of origin."?

There is nothing about inherent inclinations. The point - one I have firsthand experience with - is that the institutions the West have ("they expect that other non-corrupt Danes would punish them for it") are lacking in many parts of the world.The reason for this are complex - something the OP alludes to - but culture definitely plays a part.

Why my taxi driver gets hustled for bribes at gunpoint when in Nigeria but not in Laos, or why a lost wallet was handed in at a Kyoto train station but not in my hometown is more a matter of culture than of chance.

We can have that discussion without crying racist.
I made this because I (a Swede) was tired of converting every measurement in american recipes to metric. The code is over here: https://github.com/Dexterminator/imperimetric. More information about supported units and other things is on the about page: http://www.imperimetric.com/#/about.
It's really not definable in 2 sentences, there are so many different forms this can take. In essence it's where rather than a capitalist system of a small minority directing the production based off the market, it's the workers directing the production based off of mutual cooperation across industries (note this doesn't mean no market, there are market socialist economies e.g. mutualism). That's it in very broad strokes but by no means an all encompassing definition, especially as the form this co-operation takes is left out of this discussion, and that is a very big part of it.
There's a $cache action where you can store any JSON object into cache associated with the current url and reuse it later https://jasonette.github.io/documentation/actions/#cache-vs-...

Also there's an undocumented mode called "offline", where the JSON loads from the server once and after that it always loads from the initially fetched JSON stored locally. You just need to set "head": {"offline": "true}

Hope this answers the question!
> Why not get involved with any of the thriving, vivid, fascinating projects that work in ways that are decentralized, noncapitalist, and nonconsumerist?

There are indeed some great projects and I also have some ideas myself and I do try to work on them every now and then but like I said, I've come to believe that the root of the problem is not the lack of "better" technology. I think no amount of coding will fix the problems I perceive. It's the other way around; once the issues are fixed, society will make better use of technology.

> The picture of the world as a "slave society" is polarized, exaggerated, and paralyzing. We aren't slaves just because most of your friends use Facebook.

It's not just facebook. Our technological landscape is simply a reflection of the misguided values our society holds. It's the lack of critical thinking, the drive for individual gain as opposed to cooperation, unjustified social hierarchies, the daily struggle of survival through wage labour, the concentration of power, etc AND the heavy propaganda fueling it all. You can't just code a way out of this, people have tried and failed.
How does DNA prove a sexual encounter is rape vs consensual?
It actually is. Capitalism is defined by the ownership of private property and individuals selling their labor to these owners in the form of a wage/salary, whereas socialism is where private property has been abolished for some form of common ownership. They are mutually exclusive. Social democracies aren't socialist, they're strong welfare in a capitalist system.
Thank you! I had no idea documentation would be this hard. As a wise man said, I learned that open source project is "1% inspiration and 99% documentation" :)
Show HN: Cloud Commander orthodox web file manager with console and editor
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Emacs, Dynamic Modules, and Joysticks
Yeah, there are a lot of maybes in here. But on the other hand, that would most probably cause me and a whole lot of people to answer maybe on pretty much all questions. This is more interesting, and makes you think about the question more.
That's only true if party A and party B agree on every decision, in which case you simply have two parties, "AB" and C.

Also, in some countries, there are way more than 3 factions (over a dozen in Belgium and the Netherlands), making it less likely that the same subset of parties will find itself in agreement every time.

The effect of having that many factions is that the majority part of parliament will always take the minority opinion into account because they know that, in the next vote, they may be part of that minority.

Of course, that is not a guarantee; I think it is part of a nation's culture. Other countries may value the short-term "let's win this vote" way above the longer term "we have to live in this country together".

That certainly seems the case in the USA, where "in four years time, we might end up with the shorter straw." doesn't seem to play a big role in politics (?anymore?)
The good news is that the Pi question is up near the top of the list at 87%.

After an hour on HN there are 44k responses in so far. Here is a summary sorted the percentage that agree/answered "yes".

23%	Is gold valuable to them?

25%	Do they eat aliens (i.e cannibalism)?

25%	Can they time travel?

29%	Do they have political parties?

31%	Do they use base 10 maths?

31%	Do they have compulsory taxation?

32%	Do they have a United Nations?

34%	Are there countries?

35%	Do they have elections?

37%	Do they have mobile phones?

38%	Do they have insurance?

40%	Do they have slavery?

40%	Is there unemployment?

41%	Do they have brands?

41%	Is there advertising?

42%	Do they have poverty?

43%	Do they use money?

44%	Do they have religion?

45%	Is there a world leader?

45%	Do they have double helix DNA?

48%	Do they have private property?

52%	Do they have corruption?

53%	Do they wear clothes?

54%	Is there theft?

54%	Is there a market for second hand goods?

55%	Do they have pills/oral medicine?

56%	Do they have male & female?

58%	Are there jails/prisons?

58%	Do they eat animals?

60%	Do they have pets?

60%	Do they have shops?

61%	Do they have governments with authority over individuals?

62%	Do they have wars?

62%	Do they have judges or courts to adjudicate disputes?

64%	Do they use recreational drugs?

65%	Do they have police?

65%	Are there roads?

67%	Do they practice euthanasia?

68%	Do they have electronic computers?

69%	Have they developed Artificial Intelligence?

69%	Do they have fiction (books and movies)?

71%	Do they live in multistory buildings?

71%	Do they know about and agree with our periodic table of the elements?

72%	Do they have a sewage system?

73%	Do they know about and agree with the theory of relativity?

73%	Do they sleep?

73%	Do they have doctors and hospitals?

74%	Do they have something like cement/concrete?

75%	Do they have space travel?

78%	Do they eat plants?

82%	Do they grow old and die?

84%	Do they have standardised weights and measures?

84%	Do they have eyes?

85%	Do they have something like the internet?

87%	Do aliens know about Pi?

88%	Are there cities?

89%	Do they eat?

89%	Do they have reading and writing?

92%	Are there animals and plants (other than the aliens)?
Cartoon Laws of Physics
I started with S1E1, quit watching it halfway, and have written it off. Should I reconsider?
there are still other ways (like Xamarin) where the actual building could be done on an old mac mini or similar.
Looks great :)

Only thing I am missing is a „quality indicator“. I buy a lot of themes on TF and I usually just sort by „best sellers“ and then look at ratings and number of comments (aka number of problems). Thinking behind this is simply: more downloads --> more feedback --> more fixes --> better product.
I guess I'm not as far along as the OP is, but I can definitely feel myself getting there.

The meaningless Internet bullshit used to be meaningless, but mean a lot to me; the big news would be a 2% drop in Firefox users or something and everyone would lose their minds. Now, the meaningless Internet bullshit is some site with no vowels and no revenue selling for twenty billion dollars, and it actually means something because twenty billion dollars is a lot of money in the real world; for a sense of perspective, read this [0] and realize that twenty billion dollars could supply all of those things yearly for _a decade_. And yes, I know that 15 years ago there was a bubble too, but it was a lot smaller. In 1999 there was barely north of ten billion total invested in software by VCs.

I don't know exactly when it was, but at some point I went from excitedly tracking the latest versions of distros, googling "shareware" and installing whatever I could find, getting wrapped up in flamewars, formatting my hard drive every week (and it was a hard drive, not an SSD; in 2010, the price of a 120gb SSD dropped from $420 to $230.)

I think that point was systemd. Six years ago, the initial version was released. That was 2010, and things seemed different. No way I would accept a complex, huge init system on MY carefully tuned $distro_of_the_week.

Today? I'm 100% in support of systemd. It makes my life easier. I have zero desire to tweak a complex mess of init scripts. And sure, I run Arch Linux, but that's mostly because it Just Works (tm) and I'm used to Linux. If someone gives me a Windows box, I won't lecture them on how they're contributing to the downfall of humanity, I'll take the damn machine and write the code they're paying me to write. I shudder at the thought of googling "shareware" and just randomly installing programs, and it looks like I'm not the only one; it seems that trend died... yep, around 2010. [1]

I no longer give friends USB drives of "cool software", and if they gave me one I'd think it's a strange joke. I no longer read stuff like WinSuperSite; I'm sure Paul Thurrott is still churning out the same quality content as always but I have no interest in reading about the latest features of whatever.

[0] https://www.cardonationwizard.com/blog/2011/07/01/unicef-usa...

[1] https://www.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&q=shareware

[edit] Turns out WinSuperSite is gone. Or, technically it's there but it's not Paul. "SuperSite Windows is the top online destination for business technology professionals who buy, manage and use technology to drive business"... wow, that's depressing. The old URLs even 404. :(
The PrimitiveTechnology videos are such an incredible example of the wonders the internet provides. Here you have a guy making such interesting, engrossing videos, uploaded for free and accessible to all. The series is worthy of being on the BBC.

I wonder if there are any companies who spot this sort of content with the aim of getting in on tv screens.
Have they stopped removing menus from everything?
No, some countries use referendums for lots of things, like Switzerland. Including quite small things like whether or not to build new tunnels.

Simple majority has the advantage that it's fair. If you're going to start claiming that decisions that will "profoundly impact everyone" need higher than majority you're just going down the road to totalitarianism. Anyone can claim a decision they think they're on the losing side of is too important to leave to majority decision making. Then it's just about ramping up the threshold until you win.
Ask HN: Are Apple employees forbidden from commenting online?
I assume plenty of employees at Apple read HN. But I've never seen a post about Apple that gets commentary from its employees in the same way a post about google might. Often when someone posts a critical review of a company, a representative will drop into the comments. But that seems to never happen with Apple. Why?
Well it depends on my workload. The setup above on GCE had a stable load of X thousand jobs per minute, then burst loads up to 100x for short times. So for me it made sense to have a 24/7 celery cluster for the base load and add and remove nodes for the variable node. There was never a point shutting down the cluster made sense.
> If you say "John is foo" you tend to create the impression that John will always and has always been foo.

Interestingly in Spanish and Portuguese there are two verbs of "to be": "ser" and "estar". These have different meanings: ser ist mostly used for persistent states of being, while estar is mostly used for something that is only temporarily as it is, but could be different the next time.
Is there any way to import an existing visual studio project/solution into this?
> This is a relatively new problem, finding "happiness". It only becomes a problem after basic needs are met, food, roof over your head, steady income, low debt, healthy. People in the past had very little time to prioritize "happiness" against basic survival

I don't think this is really true except in times of turmoil or famine. Reading history you find plenty of people who are unconcerned about meeting their basic needs and who had a lot of free time.

This goes for lots of agricultural societies, for many hunter-gatherer societies, and even some more 'advanced' societies, though you do generally start getting class issues there.

People imagine the past as some kind of eternal, miserable struggle for existence - it wasn't like that. There were definitely bad times, bad times we can hardly even imagine today - but it wasn't the norm. Most people got along fine most of the time and often even had more free time than we do. When people are trapped in a perpetual, miserable struggle for existence - that's when you end up with revolutions and war.
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Significant relaxation of federal power is the only way USA and Europe can be politically stable over the long run, but good luck getting people to let go of the idea of federalism.
I would like to know too.

I have some weird interests that I guarantee puts people to sleep (watch repair, horology), but I'm a weirdo.

I have a feeling your interests might interest a lot of us?

As to myself, I'm tired of computers, and the Internet--it all peaked, for myself, around 2008. I wont say why because everyone got so pious, for Very good reasons.

I do miss the plethora of information people were scanning, or uploading back then.
Cool idea. But I'm wondering if this is allowed in the App Store?
God forbid society should invest in the interests of small minorities occasionally to win their support for the majority interest?
Google's investment arm has quietly invested in Snapchat
Build swift projects on a remote machine within Xcode
The best argument against rule by 'experts' is the USSR's attempt to have academic and intellectual 'experts' set 21 million prices before the New Economic Policy.
Nearly everyone has smartphones, even the most privacy-conscious people. Until we find an alternative to the current devices, which have a mic/camera/gps that could be turned on remotely, I don't think we will be able to combat the invasion of privacy
Yes. Keep in mind though that the - perhaps historically, perhaps still - most widely used kind of UML diagram - the class diagram - is just one component of UML.

Other than for explaining particular design patterns I don't find class diagrams all that useful, certainly not for giving you a complete picture of a system that consists of more than a handful of classes.

Sequence diagrams, state diagrams, use case diagrams, basically anything that involves or describes activities: I think those are tremendously useful.
I don't think you went off-topic at all. The article says "avoid judgement of a particular thing, since it will become outdated in future". E-prime says "now you can't make such judgements because I have taken away your tool of doing so". I think they have the same goal.

(I wrote this comment in E-prime :)
As a person who used to make their living completely off the msft stack and now is completely off it - I'd redo that headline to say every action of Ballmer's probably helped break his relationship with Gates - yes, Gate's Microsoft was very predatory and could be a very bad actor, but Ballmer's entire achievement was to help drive non-msft solutions to dominance and leave Nadella in a Sisyphean role -
Thanks for writing this. I can completely relate.

I noticed this when I got my first job, some ten years ago. Back then, I was hacking on Maemo like crazy. I moderated newsgroups, I contributed code to anything I could, in any language that would let me.

I loved my new job. I worked anywhere between 40 and 140 hours, depending on how much work or stress there was. Very quickly, this started eating away at my ability to contribute and participate in the communities I loved and adored.

After some time, I even struggled with becoming a troll against those very communities.

Fast forward some time, and I still haven't found a way to produce software as a hobby. Sometimes I'll get a burst of energy, and manage to architect, document and write a few thousand lines of code over the course of a few weeks, but it's definitely not sustainable.
1920x1080 is the typical resolution of 1080p Full HD, is that you mean?
The US Presidential elections are a curious thing, they're hardly about policies because presidents can't simply enact whatever laws they want. They aren't general elections as other countries have. Voters are basically selecting a figurehead who has some power, but not enough to really reshape the country as they see fit.

Given the relative pointlessness of the process is it surprising that it turns into a beauty/uglyness contest?
See previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12800995

There are various other properties of Bus1 that make it better than all other alternatives, but obviously relying on it makes your program non-portable. IPC is a mess on POSIX systems.
I gave my opinion on this a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12323999#12324494

tl;dr it makes money, will make a lot more, they're going to support it.
> "Having moved to California from Iowa, I can totally understand how Californians value diversity and equality (not necessarily equal opportunity) above all else. But where I'm from, people value equal opportunity and hard work. It's very hard to see the merit in one culture, being from the other."

How is diversity diametrically opposed to equal opportunity and hard work? From what I can see you can have all of the above without any issues.
For comparaison, Ruby 3 is gonna introduce a pretty big breaking change (frozen string literals) but they already shipped a way to optional enable it by-file (magic comment) and globally to the ruby interpreter (just a parameter) so that all the libraries and projects can slowly fix it in a compatible manner (often just calling .dup is enough).

So that's when it's time for Ruby 3 the transition will be pretty painless.

More info: https://wyeworks.com/blog/2015/12/1/immutable-strings-in-rub...

(Frozen string literals allows strings to be in memory only once and not having to reallocate each time, so a pretty big memory and cpu optimization)

(Also for instance rubocop already recommends adding the magic comment to all ruby files)
When to use STDERR instead of STDOUT
>Capitalism solves this problem with bankruptcy & business failure. People whose beliefs are shown to be false lose their businesses and are forced to work for other people whose decisions turned out well.

And how often does this work in real life?
Isn't that a bit like "is" vs. "is being"?
I'm 35 and in good balance and desire for life. I want to share that you too should:

- read your Marcus Aurelius

- listen to some Alan Watts

- you are not alone, or the first person to get existential, many before you did and many after you will. Detach from anything technology from time to time, and spend some serious time reading about who people think they are, and what all this is about.
> drug trafficking, which is violent (selling something that physically hurts people).

Only if selling sugar, rifles or skateboards is violent.
Yeah this reminded me of Opera Unite as well. It's not that similar really though. As I understand it:

Opera Unite was an isolated platform with prebuilt apps by Opera and custom apps you could download from an app store. FlyWeb is an API exposed to any web page.

Opera Unite gave you a public URL that was an Opera server reverse proxying to your local machine so you could share files, chat, etc. with your friends online. FlyWeb just publishes multicast DNS (Bonjour/Avahi/Zeroconf/etc.) service discovery records to your local network.
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Ehmmm, the support for Sierra is on progress.

macOS Sierra support status

Karabiner does not work on macOS Sierra at the moment.

We are developing Karabiner-Elements which provides simple key modification for macOS Sierra at first.
(Karabiner-Elements works well on macOS Sierra. We are working on fixing several remaining issues.)

We'll start updating for the full featured Karabiner for Sierra after Karabiner-Elements is completed.

https://github.com/tekezo/Karabiner-Elements