skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sorry for being too Western. I think of Lychee's something as a rarity and a delicacy but I can find them in Chinatown.

When I was in mainland China, near Guangzhou, I remember a woman trying to sell me lychees by the pound -- or whatever unit of measure -- if only I could understand the price she had wanted.

If I understand correctly, these are children from impoverished regions, who only eat Lychees? and they get a type of food poisoning?
Calstrs Says It Can No Longer Earn 7.5%
>...and quite the most secure operating system ever devised.

What are they smoking over there at the economist? Perhaps they meant "the most secure iteration of Windows yet".
AWS reserved marketplace?

Security wise it's no different than any other instance; specific machines aren't associated with the party who originally reserved the capacity in any way.
ballots in Florida had "hanging chad"

To clarify, those were not machine punched, they were pre-perforated with the appropriate hole to be punched by the user, using a stylus, via a printed template that contained the card (holes not referenced directly).

We still use the same mechanism in Silicon Valley, sad to say.
VLC, Blender and Krita are not small applications. For the past decade these applications have been plagued by inconsistent, outdated and broken packaging. The distribution level cadence of one stable release every 2 years versus modern app cadence of an important release every few weeks leads to a neverending clash. Releasing with Appimage is not laziness, it's an escape from a Sisyphean task.
There's still plenty of reason to use discontinued components in DIY. And that reason is the form of the component's package.

This is a problem for me when building high end audio circuits. A lot of the modern components are only available in surface mount forms. I find this with matched transistor packages. Like a matched quad. There are modern components, like AD's MAT14 [1], but if you are building your own circuits and using through hole components your ONLY choice is discontinued components. They simply are not made in a through hole package anymore.

At some point I'll be forced to move to surface mount, but at the moment getting old components is a lot easier. And those old components are as good as the new ones. Just different packages.

If anyone knows of a modern precision matched quad like the MAT14, but in a traditional package, please reply with the component!

[1] http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-...
Also, because the entire OP was ripped from Reddit right down to the title without any accreditation given.
When you set up Win10, it asks whether you want to use Cortana. What's the problem if you say no? Don't use it.
> Snaps are just glorified Mac app bundles.

AppImages even more so then. For the end user though either are simpler and allow people to get up to date versions of their apps, which is difficult when using shared libraries. Plus Snaps are also cross-distro which saves a lot of work for authors.
Forgive my confusion, I'm asking about the op article, titled: "How Do Israel’s Tech Firms Do Business in Saudi Arabia? Very Quietly"
I didn't find a link to the wolves of Tel Aviv article there or any mention of it. Is it directly related to the op article or just a generally related case of an Israeli / Arab Tech related business?
It seems in first look at your comment (without reading the op post) that this is the op's main topic. The op post talk about Cyber Security and other more relatively positive engagement.
It's good in any case to see other aspects to the same story so thanks for sharing
To be fair most papers are written for readers that have the exact same viewpoint and specialty. So they are incredibly difficult to parse for people in the same field but a different sub specialty.

I think many more papers would be read if authors invested more time in learning how to write.
For anyone else who was confused who Snap are, they do Snapchat (it wasn't immediately obvious to me.)
The benchmarks I've seen don't really point to DX12 as being an optimization.
So we can stake the punishment on subjective limits on required sleep?

Blood alcohol provides a quantifiable measure of impairment. Sleep trackers don't even come close to measuring sleep well enough to provide a single number to use with a threshold.
Well with this agreement in place I reckon it would. I was a bit skeptical before.
Perhaps, but I find it very easy to interact with various webservices. We use powershell to call API methods on our load balancers, change AWS configuration, change DNS records and a variety of other things.
(March 2010, and apparently not updated to reflect subsequent research.)

It's a bit ironic that Lyle misspelled anecdote.
Twitter OP here. I know the thread's been flagged, but for anyone who finds the thread: he's OK.

https://dennisforbes.ca/index.php/2017/02/02/update/
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I've been a fan of SQLite for nearly two decades now! use it all the time on my Win32 apps for recording things like local log files and other things that don't require multi user access. I recall even building a simple local network full text search engine for legal documents for a law firm using SQLite with their FTS3 extension once.

Built a few iOS app with it as the data store too. Love the 'zero configuration' install. From memory I've even used DOS batch files to manipulate data on SQLite...
Could you expand on the idea of viral sacredness?
Yeah, it's not really a surprise that VR benefits patients undergoing surgery. What would you rather see during an operation? A sterile room with surgeons roaming around you, or a virtual calming environment?
HM-2 on bass is really good. If my memory serves, Kevin Shields used the HM-2 on bass on some My Bloody Valentine tracks.
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In Star Trek, humans are also very much the new kids on the block. When we were first discovering warp drive, the Vulcans were already regular interstellar travelers, and a lot of our technology was thanks to them. From various indications, many of the other races encountered in Star Trek have been spacefaring for a long time, whereas humans are relatively recent upstarts.

Arguably in both Star Trek and Mass Effect, humans came from being relative newcomers to becoming legendary leaders and saviors of the universe.
They'll run into Magnuson-Moss if they try.
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That effect drives me nuts too; but it seems to bother a minority of people. I've always assumed/guessed it's in the order of 50–100Hz; the 500–1000Hz mentioned may be fast enough to appear continuous to sensitive humans and maybe fish...
Well, here's some data from a decent number of Tesla Model S in the wild:

https://survey.pluginamerica.org/model-s/charts.php

I'd say it looks like they behave rather well in general.
Mouse speed IS power user stuff. Poll the general populace, what percent actually know about mouse pointer speed or that you can adjust it.

back in 2002 I went around bumping everyone's screen resolution from vga in college because it hurt my sole. at least 20% of people got pissed at me for "fucking up their settings". Almost all eventually came back and said "I can't read my whole doc, show me that thing again."

Point being they didn't even know it was broke or that they could change it. Thus you have iOS where apple's defaults are the whole OS and literally millions upon millions of people are completely happy with it.
Well, grandma overseas does enjoy a chat...
> In what percentage of serious skiing accidents would a helmet help. Or is it merely one of those "precautionary principle" things: why take a chance?

I'm not quiet sure about the percentage, but I'm certain wearing a helmet does lessen the chances a bit. The problem really is that the majority of ski injuries are not exactly what we imagine - it's pretty natural to imagine smashing our skulls on a rock or on some ice, it's very graphic too, I'm not saying they don't exist, but I can tell you that spine/cervical injuries are way more common. In addition to avalanches of course where the helmet isn't particularly useful, another frequent (and graphic!) one is beeing traversed by a tree branch :P

Just to be clear, I'm not saying helmets are useless tho, but I note that may give a false sense of security.
Same with Babylon 5, Robotech and probably most sci fi. Humans being the dominant force just doesn't make for a good story.
Most expensive, $8,500. Not sure if it was worth it yet, time will tell. I would certainly pay lots for a domain though again. I bought and sold them as a business, I'm comfortable with paying a premium for a good domain.
I love Hacker News, where a random person can tell a company their $2 billion plan on infrastructure is "a really bad move" with authority
When I was young I was always told not to eat too much otherwise I'd get sick. I always thought it was some old folklore or old wives tale. I asked my dad tonight what he knows about eating too much lychee in regards of getting sick. Off that bat he told me it messed up your sugar level and you can die.

He said he knew it when he was young. I was amazed that my dad, as an impoverished and uneducated boy in China would know this. A lot of people easily discount Traditional Chinese Medicine as anecdote, but somethings should be investigated scientifically (I'm not going to get in an argument here about TCM, but those are my thoughts).

He also mentioned if you soak lychee in salt water you can eat more of it - I would be curious what the scientific backing is, if there is any at all.
Would be great if they implement Brackets Live preview mode.
FINRA takes a hard look at usefulness of Blockchain
Have had issues with the WiFi slowing down when the bluetooth is turned on in combination with location services; have ended up fixing it by toggling between turning off the bluetooth or the location services. The WiFi driver itself goes off randomly if I use my laptop for a long time.

The disk usage is incredibly high for atleast 10 minutes after startup; tried turning search on and off, cortana on and off, nothing works.

What's more annoying is the fact that there are no official troubleshooting guidelines for this issued by Microsoft. You end up visiting a bunch of sites and very randomly trying out myriad methods to get it working.
Interesting, flipping Bach's Prelude in C Minor gives it a more major sound.

Also inversion is a fairly common technique in writing developments so some fugues will sound quite similar.
Can Foreign Governments Launch Malware Attacks on America Without Consequences?
Carmack didn't write any of the code that Zenimax claimed was derived from what he'd written at id. He hasn't done any work on the PC side at all.

That's one of many messed up things about this case. When Zenimax sued Oculus they assumed Carmack had been working as part of the existing Oculus team, but he'd actually started up an entirely separate project, working with Samsung on mobile VR, it just hadn't been announced yet.

That caused problems for Zenimax, and the list of misappropriated trade secrets shrank to seven software features that the expert witness was certain had been copied, whereas it was originally "all software and all hardware except the display and lenses."

Another witness with actual expertise in VR quickly established that none of the seven features were even trade secrets.
It is amazing to me how loyalty is this unrealistic expectation in the US job market. I still believe paying a salary every month is a risk for any employer and I appreciate that. The abundance of opportunities in a free market is a poor reason for letting go of important things like loyalty, gratefulness.
The white paper (.pdf) ::

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Calling Powershell incredibly verbose is about the same as calling C# incredibly verbose.

Sure, perhaps they're not as compact as some of the incredibly information-dense perl scripts that people come up with.

I'd wager though that it's easier to understand what a random powershell script is doing than a random perl or bash script that pipes output throgh a dozen utilities.
My memory of early 2000s is different. Commercial games gave up on software rendering with PS2, ubiquitous 3D cards on PC and Microsoft paying everyone who agreed to develop for the Xbox. Graphics programming in games then was not much different than now. It was about giving good tools to artists and designers and not about doing "cool fx". Though I cannot speak for the whole industry, obviously, just what I've experienced.

> it was also a dumb choice for a name

Blame Steve Jobs and his Renderman :) At the time consumer GPUs with shaders came out it's been long established term for any code processing graphics data during rendering.

>Either way, at some point (late 200X's?) professional game industry blew past the demoscene in production level. It did happen. I always thought it was the Hollywood movie level budgets (because those exploded too, in that era, didn't they?), but there might have been other factors.

I remember in mid 90s some demo-groups claimed to work on actual games ("Into the shadows" guys said it's a prototype for the game they had been writing) and even on hardware (Pyramid3D lol) but I don't think anything noticeable came out. Remedy Entertainment is, probably, the most successful exit from the demoscene and it never set the bar for the AAA industry. The difference between demos and games is the difference between dancing and fighting. You move your body in both cases but with dancing you are fine as long as you pull some cool moves, while in fighting you actually need to survive and harm your opponent as much as possible. Same as in games you need to draw what the artists want and in demos you can draw anything as long as it's cool. There was never a sensible competition between the two. I imagine game programmers suck at making demos just as much as democoders suck at making games :)
Lawsuit claims Apple forced users to iOS 7 by breaking FaceTime
If you are using C#, why not use Visual Studio?
Maybe I'm just a sick fuck, but I really enjoyed watching when they tore open my big toe a bit to remove an ingrown nail. If I recall correctly, they even put up a barrier so I wouldn't be able to see, but I asked them to take it down.

I also like watching the needle go in when they draw blood or give me a shot.
This kind of process is akin to clinical hypnosis (which falls within the realm of anesthesia, not surgery). Anesthesiologists have had the opportunity to specialize in clinical hypnosis for a few years now. However, the cost-effectiveness is difficult to demonstrate, because it requires staff to be totally involved in it, so you can no longer roam several ORs at once.
I guess this is where VR comes in...
I love HN, but it really is bittersweet for me.

One one hand you have some really interesting and intelligent people talking about complex issues. Issues I would either fail to know about, understand, or realize the gravity of without their insight.

On the other hand, being on here is almost abusive: for those of us who aren't in the before mentioned group, hanging around here is akin to being an inner city kid from Harlem going to MIT studying physics. "You might be good, but you're not going to know what hit you." Needless to say, inferiority complex ad nauseum.
Honestly I never bought any DLC for my first run through either. Maybe my completionist tendencies and 100% paragon with no crew deaths meant I got lucky...
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LTSB seems better Windows for my needs. Curious though, can't we just wire trace the telemetry connects and drop their name resolution some how?
(Don't know the equivalent of /etc/hosts in Windows)
I'm not sure how usurping this is an 'exploit'. It's used as a heuristic to save battery life.

and if you're trying to run down a user's battery I can think of better ways.
Running Executables on MacOS from Memory
Bird Sounds
January Month in Review: Indie Hackers
Love to be corrected on this, but everything I have seen involves a registry hack
MIT’s new AI understands the hardest part of human language
Snaps are Canonical's choice for "cross distro" package management that they are trying to force on everyone else. They came out of nowhere and it doesn't play well with other distros.

If you want a nice-from-first-principals approach to package management for desktop apps, Flatpak is the shit: it uses a Git-like distribution system that's specifically built for operating system size snapshots. You get to pick your underlying distribution (or roll your own) and the sandboxing mechanism just wraps around secomp-bfp so it stacks well with SELinux or AppArmor or whatever.

But now we are going to have yet-another-bifurcation of OSS solutions: RPM vs DEB, KDE vs GNOME, Wayland vs Mir.

Canonical, stop trying to be Apple, please.
A lot of times the "magic" is in the variance... the subtle things like drifting resistance values with temperature. Digital never does that right.
Hogwash. There are effects that analogue clearly destroys digital on. And the main one is distortion.

Digital is much more suited to time based effects. Analogue to harmonic distortion based effects.

You can keep your ADC/MCU/DAC distortion pedal. But if you are ever wondering why your guitar distortion sounds crap, this is it. But maybe you think it's fine. Anything sounds great with cotton-ears.

And tube amps only being for nostalgia? I wan't you to take your guitar, your digital distortion pedal and your digital amplifier and go to a rehearsal room with another guitarist who uses analogue distortion and a tube amp. Turn them both up loud. Jam together. Compare the tones. Compare the nature of how your amplifiers respond to your tone.

Sitting in your bedroom playing by yourself will never convince you of the short comings of your digital rig.
According to the article and Berkeley's statement it was 100+ people, acting and attacking in a well-organized manner, not just a few people who got excited in the spur of the moment.
Will MySpace exist in 5 years?
Apple will start initial manufacturing operations in Bengaluru
I disagree. Using a stencil and paste with a cheap toaster oven is easier to make high quality boards than with PTH and an iron. It's fast and almost always comes out great.
Considering doing something similar while we add a graph database for relationships between users in addition to Postgres. The consistency checks between the two databases can get messy. How long did you test to make sure no niche case fell through the cracks?
Yes, the restore process checks in daily; alarms are thrown if it doesn't check in.

MySQL is also pretty good about not starting if the data is corrupted for whatever reason. The process not starting is a pretty obvious alarm, too.

Checks are cheap. Better to automate your logic and invest in good monitoring and automation.
A good package management system is a very important part of a Linux distro. What's much harder to achieve is a large and well maintained collection of up to date packages. You can have the best tools in the world but if they aren't backed up by well maintained packages then those tools are pretty use less.

This is why Debian has dominated Linux distros for decades. Debian's apt-get is a good package management system. Not perfect, not the best, but good. But, no one can compete with Debian for quality and quantity of well maintained packages.

Only time will tell if any of these next-gen package managers will succeed.
The octopart.com Common Parts Library is a good place to start if you are looking for a generic part...

https://octopart.com/common-parts-library
Some surgeries can even take place without local anesthetics using only hypnosis (thyroidectomy, for example). I will however readily admit that opiates are often liberally used as an adjunct to hypnosis, and that cases where hypnosis works well enough to withhold anesthetic drugs are not that common.
These days I'm mainly playing through my PC (Decent USB interface for input, my stereo via a good DAC for output).

I've got a decent tube combo amp, but it's just easier and more flexible to do it digitally. I mostly run S-Gear, which I find has by _far_ the best amp modeling, it's the only VST that really gets moderate overdrive right.
being partially sarcastic: who could stand 8? as much as you hate the features you have to turn off... 8 was much much worse. 8.1 also really bad. 10 is like 7 that works way better. I also really like my work win10 where corp it has stripped all of the garbage for me, except that stupid "welcome" screen, which you used to be able to skip by task managering. Hello! I know windows is ready to go... I know you love your FTUE, did you think about your 92UE? :)
I don't have a source for this handy and I can't look at the moment, so I could be misinformed, but I'm pretty sure I've heard in many different places that the current fuel taxes in the US don't even come close to covering road maintenance costs.

I wonder if some kind of weight + mileage tax would work better?