skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>* Macbook takes relatively forever to come back from sleep; thinkpad is practically immediate.

Waking up from sleep has been nice and fast in Linux for a while, but I have to say that regardless of all the frustrations I've found using OS X over the last year, waking from sleep isn't one of them. It has been nice and fast every time.

>* Macbook wireless constantly has issues connecting, to the point of having to turn off wireless and back on multiple times (this occurs often).

I've found wireless to be a really bizarre experience on OS X. If there are two networks it can connect to in range, it doesn't seem to pay much attention to the strength of the signal, and it always seems to overstate how strong the signal is (that may feed into the former).

I can be sitting in the same room as another wireless endpoint, and it'll choose the one furthest away from it, where wireless strength is pretty low, and constantly suffer communication problems. I've made it a point now to go check which wifi it has connected to.
Pretty much textbook science from animal models. Stress wrecks havoc on typical brain functions including memory, learning, attention, even decision making.
Yeah, it's a sealed thing, almost as thin as a macbook, not only would I be voiding my warranty, I don't have the first clue of where to begin. And I'll have to buy a new HDD. Also, it's a hybrid thing, 8gig ssd and 1TB hdd. So not sure if drivers will screw with it.
The cost of the physical helium in rocketry is going to remain negligible for a long time. The total cost of materials in a modern rocket is something like 1/2 of a percent of the cost of a launch, and I'm confident saying Helium is a tiny fraction of that. It doesn't matter if it goes up in price by a few orders of magnitudes. We are also still producing it in large quantities (natural gas often contains a lot of helium, which we extract). Rocket's also use a tiny amount of helium percentage wise, simply because there are so few rocket launches.

However even if we did somehow run out of Helium entirely, once SpaceX switches to Methane fuel (as they plan to do for the ITS) they won't need it anymore. Currently it's used to pressurize the tanks, but Methane does that for itself. It would mean speeding up development of 'small' methane launch vehicles presumably, but that's it.
In cryptography, "zero knowledge" means something very different than "service providers cannot access cleartext data".

> In cryptography, a zero-knowledge proof or zero-knowledge protocol is a method by which one party (the prover) can prove to another party (the verifier) that a given statement is true, without conveying any information apart from the fact that the statement is indeed true.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

z.cash is a zero knowledge system and has a good definition of it on its FAQ:

> Zero knowledge proofs are a scientific breakthrough in the field of cryptography: they allow you to prove knowledge of some facts about hidden information without revealing that information. The property of allowing both verifiability and privacy of data makes for a strong use case in all kinds of transactions, and we’re integrating this concept into a block chain for encrypting the sender address, the recipient address, and the amount. A block chain that encrypts transaction data (making it private) and lacks zero-knowledge proofs also lacks the assurance that all the transactions are valid. This is because the nodes in the network can’t determine whether the sender really had that money or whether they previously sent it to someone else, or never had it in the first place. The encrypted data becomes unverifiable by network nodes.

source: https://z.cash/support/faq.html?page=0
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Most cities seem to love tourism, to the point that it's considered an industry and has its own advertising.

Tourists pay sales tax and indirectly pay other taxes through businesses that cater to tourists.
Then it should also be noted that you really shouldn't use telnet to interact with HTTP or SMTP either. Telnet has issues if you send control characters, which wouldn't be used for either protocol, but might exist in embedded data you might want to send or receive. Just use netcat.
I suspect it's mostly cargo-cult thing.

JWT itself, however, is a signed-JSON format with detached signature which is very useful well beyond access token use-case.

JWT as access token at large scale will require frequent key rotation so inability to revoke becomes a problem but it's not a show stopper because one can work around it using various tactics such as bloom filter I mentioned above.
Yea, but next time is about 2020 so there is time to fix it.
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> potentially-giant bill for the birth

It boggles my mind that we consider the US a first-world country when I read things like this.

Also not sure I agree about the breastfeeding being so bad. Sure, it's a bit of a chore, but most mothers I know (including my wife) found it to be a positive experience that increases attachment.

And the leaving the house/car part I also don't follow. You have one more person to dress and one more item of luggage to carry; it's hardly an exponential increase.

Otherwise I agree, esp. about stress if kid has serious health issues. (We have two kids, aged 1.5 and 4).
Please die?
> I don't actually know how much my plan is per month. It's not clearly listed anywhere I can find.

The amount you pay every pay period, to your insurance plan and to your health savings account (if applicable), really ought to be on your pay stub. If you're paid electronically your company probably makes that available to you somehow via pdf.
No, that's called end-to-end or client-side encryption. Zero-knowledge is a property of a certain class of methods that allow one party to prove to another that a certain statement is true, without revealing anything else about it.
The term "zero knowledge" has a specific technical meaning in cryptography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-knowledge_proof

Passing encrypted data through a storage device isn't a "zero-knowledge protocol" in a cryptographic sense, it's just normal cryptography.
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>maybe some of the (torrent database) information would be infringing copyright.

This isn't likely unless they're hosting the cover images instead of distributing them with the torrents. iirc, wcd used a separate domain to host cover images to be viewed when browsing the site.
I think the canonical reason is that it is a fractal of bad design: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/
Sleep is physiologically the recovery from stress. Two sides of the same physiological coin - the autonomic nervous system. Sadly, there's little work on how stress affects sleep and vice versa. Typically they've been separate academic or clinical labs.
It looks like this may be a winner: AEX-QCA9880-NX

Except maybe they explicitly removed linux support:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-wireless/msg110852.html

I can't find a hardware rev number on on the amazon page (was 1.0 ever sold to the public?). Also, the amazon page says it is for engineering samples only / contact vendor before ordering. Hmm.
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I run linux mostly because I want to be able to use the machine in whatever way I like. MacOS is designed around "You use it this way", and tries to keep you away from the warts by kind-of enforcing that position.

One of the most ridiculous examples of "You must do it our way" is the inability to remap mouse buttons (or even support buttons on a mouse with more than left, right and scroll.) MacOS would rather you use gestures on the magic mouse (that thing is an ergonomic nightmare). To be able to support extra buttons, you have to pay for software from the app store, e.g. USB Overdrive.
My understanding is it effectively reduces launch costs by ~25% by getting ~30% more mass to LEO. Really if it increases risks of failure by less than 10% it's probably worth it for unmanned rockets.

PS: High launch costs set up a cost escalation as satellites are so expencive they can't fail. Which means launches need a really high success rate. If you could get 10,000kg to LEO for say 1 million but had a 40% failure rate you would see a very different approach with much lower overall costs.
"Grow meat in a lab" is missing a whole lot of middle steps, technologically.

Fakemeat is getting better every year, and synthetic heme and lab-grown protein promise meaty liquids that can be mixed into the veg-based solids to make even more convincing fakemeat in the future.

We may never get to the true "rib eye steak grown in lab" but there's a lot of middle-ground we can still cover.
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New helium is generated by alpha decay, and it comes up in natural gas wells that happen to be located in areas with natural radioactivity.
As to that last paragraph, some specific quotes from the article:

"Airbnb has also bowed to pressure over planning concerns in residential areas, by agreeing to help enforce annual rental limits. But consumer protection is another emerging issue. David Weston, chairman of the Bed and Breakfast Association, criticises Airbnb for not ensuring compliance with fire regulations. “I think the public assumes some sort of checking if you are booking with a big global brand,” he adds.

"By contrast, members of his association with as few as three letting bedrooms have been required to install fully wired fire alarms and fire doors. “We have had instances of people having to spend thousands of pounds,” he says. “It is extremely galling to find that fast-growing competitors are not complying with anything.”

[...]

"Airbnb rejects criticism of its fire safety measures, saying the Chief Fire Officers Association has confirmed that the advice it offers hosts is proportionate to the requirements of a family home. It encourages hosts to install safety features and, for a limited period, has offered a single free smoke/carbon monoxide detector — although it does not oblige hosts to fit smoke alarms. Its website says hosts have the option to fill out a safety card detailing emergency exit routes and locations of fire extinguishers, but this is not compulsory."

"Proportionate to the requirements of a family home" and "the option to fill out a safety card" do not thrill me as someone who has been run out of a room by a hotel fire.
While, overall, I enjoyed reading this post, I feel that this statement -

> 1 in 10 dollars of income produced in this country is paid out to the richest 1% without them having to work for it.

is misleading. I think this type of attitude makes it more difficult to find common ground. Yes, that income is not produced through recent work, but it is produced as a bi-product of previous work.

The issue is that once a person accumulates enough wealth, the difficulty to generate value falls while the opportunities to do so rise.
Based on the current configuration: No OCSP stapling and no elliptic curve key exchange.

Also your setup suffers from TLS version intolerance, which by itself isn't a performance issue, but it is a hint that you're using a badly written TLS stack.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=junglee.com&s...
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It has a user definable order of preference across all SSIDs which you can tweak in network preferences.
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> I wonder how OCaml and Haskell managed to keep implementers active.

Members of that community could probably comment better than I, but it doesn't hurt that Microsoft Research supported two core Haskell team members and Inria has supported core OCaml work for most of the lifetimes of the projects. Their better corporate focus has also meant that as some fabulously enlightented BigCos took dependencies on them (most notably Standard Chartered for Haskell & Jane Street for OCaml), they've both hired core developers and supported the communities. I should add that these have been fantastic for the PL community in general and specifically ICFP funding & attendance!

For as much as the members of any one community might have differences of opinion with the choices of the others, success of any benefit us all. Even if we do grumble occasionally with the "can't get into ICFP this year unless you're in language {X}!" comments, where X was Scheme, then ML, then Haskell... :-)

> people are not really prototyping the new ideas

Yeah, John's group plus Matthew Fluet and a little bit of myself are trying to clean up Manticore enough to do a "final" release and journal paper, and that is kinda taking up a lot of our extra cycles. Several other folks have either retired or moved on to new areas (security, compiler verification, etc.).

I think that if we could find some places where the new ideas intersected with interesting novel (read: fundable) research topics, there'd be some additional energy into implementation work around them. Right now, certainly, stuff exists, at best, in private forks of (typically) MLton.