skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's a bit different when a friend, who has wealth and power, asks you if you want to invest in something. He doesn't need your money. Snapchat likely didn't need that 15k from the school. They could have gotten it elsewhere.
A lot of people choose wireless even for stationary machines because you don't have to bother running the cable.
Dammit. I've been using Amazon Smile to donate to a small non-profit. It's obscure enough that I was surprised to find it listed as an option, but given that it was there, I just assumed that they would get the money set aside for them.

Is Amazon doing the same thing (withholding donations from charities that don't register for their service)? Is there any way to check?
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Is the NOAA the only entity that could provide this data?

Nobody is suggesting forcing people to leave, but there are people that knowingly live in places that are drastically more dangerous just like there are a ton of people that decide to not take responsibility for their own health which creates a burden on everyone. I'm just suggesting that those local governments should take more responsibility. Or people pay extra for insurance. Some areas are so risky you can't even buy insurance to protect your home. So maybe those states should come up with a strategy rather than let the whole country pay.
> I commend this but also frown at it for being so brazen. If such a tool was used for the opposite reasons (spotting crime and reporting it to police), then perhaps the tool might stand a chance

That's like commending a hammer murderer for his swing technique, but frowning on him for practicing on skulls instead of nails.
I very rarely write macros despite having written thousands of lines of Rust, but they are super useful on occasion. Often in Rust something that you might have used preprocessor macro tricks to do in C can be done without macros at all. At other times, Rust macros will let you do things that would be impossible to express in C.
I love this.

Here's another visualisation, using a soccer ball and American football pitches. It includes "planet 9", which is a staggering distance away.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pR5VJo5ifdE
Can't speak for anyone else, but that was not my problem.
There's one in Zürich, too; the Planetenweg:

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetenweg_Uetliberg

It's the same scale, 1:10^9, and is about seven and a half kilometres long. Each station has a model of the planet, to scale. The sun is a big yellow ball on a post. The gas giants are small balls. The rocky planets are little flecks of material encased in plastic...

There are two Plutos, marking the summer and winter extremes.
My company's also been using 1.9 alphas for months, have maybe encountered a minor bug or two, but very few & nothing major.
I agree with your point that objectivity does not exist. Any scientific observation is ultimately a subjective experience. It is only replication of an experiment by others that leads the scientific community to (temporarily) accept it as fact. My point is that there is no reason why we can't apply the scientific method to the subjective experience of our own minds as well.
Can someone help me understand why prefixes used in UTF-8 jump from "0" to "110", "1110", "11110" and so on? Why is "10" missing?
I completely missed the excitement of being downvoted, sadly! You're probably right, though I find saying anything negative about remote work on HN tends also to get a less than stellar reception.
I use F6F6EF to make it "invisible".

Though currently with: https://userstyles.org/styles/71445/better-hacker-news-desig... makeing it visible again :) but I like the colors now
> So on that note, do you have any brands/manufacturers/chipsets that you see as particularly good in terms of being a client?

As a client, the Intel wifi hardware works quite well, as does the software stack on top of it (at least on Linux). It helps that they're the ones who've written a fair bit of the wifi stack itself.
Exactly the app I was looking for, purchased within 15min of playing with it. When context switching between multiple projects, it's amazing to be able to create a "space" for each one.
I'm in love with the Switch! Form factor on point that feels like the culmination of experiments coming from 3DS, Wii U and Wii. My son has been playing the new Zelda non-stop, it's that fun and deep.

It's a much harder Zelda game, feels somewhat like Dark Souls in the combat department. I died at least 5 times an hour due to overwhelming enemies. It's a blast!

One thing I love about the Switch is that even if my controllers get busted I can just buy another pair of joycons. With the Wii U it was really stressful to remind the kids to be careful because you have to send in the gamepad for repairs.
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Directivity is great for open-space p2p links, but indoors it's much less useful as walls scatter 2.4GHz with aplomb.

There's also the small matter that a dipole is already close to the ERP limit set by the FCC, so most directional antenna setups are not legal
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I can back up this claim of Razer appalling customer support. They just flat out don't care.
Well I'm not sure how automatic payment adjustment would work - seems easy to defraud.

Petitioning the court for an adjustment is a fairly low cost approach; both partners' 1040s in the US / T4s in Canada would be compared on a rolling average or similar formula to adjust the payments. Self representing for this isn't out of the ordinary, if costs need to be saved.
Why the hell would you buy a dog from a puppymill pet store in the first place, when there are thousands of shelter dogs, not to mention people giving away litters on Craigslist and the like?

Unless it's a show dog, or breed stock, paying that much to buy, let alone lease, a dog is ludicrous.
Of course. I personally prefer learning by copying from examples rather than reasoning through reference documentation. But that doesn't mean you need a tool to generate examples. All you need is a small list of "this is how Docker Compose declares X, this is how K8s does it". Compose's surface area is much smaller than K8s, so it doesn't require a lot of examples.
Where do you guys go to find logical commentary on political articles now that HN is flagging everything political?
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What security measures do you use to prevent someone from knocking a connected user off and redirecting them so they reconnect to an evil twin AP?
An actual Porsche notebook would never come with Windows preinstalled. They'd build something awesome on top of BSD.
It outputs 4k resolution no matter what, AFAIK. But yes, the Android TV games in general are not that demanding, so it's not a huge challenge. But they look stellar.
How to cheat at 20 questions: instead of picking a single thing to be the answer, keep a set of things in mind. As you answer the yes-or-no questions, prune the set so everything in it still satisfies all the questions. If your set has more than one element at the end, pick an answer nobody guessed.

I thought of this when my kids were little but don't think I ever pulled it on them.
> Your example of Khrushchev might have worked out differently with blowhards on both sides.

Which there were (on the US side, some in the admin wanted to bomb Cuba to shreds), but were overridden. Because leaders have skin in the game in a way advisors don't. It's something to call for total destruction as an advisor, and another thing to be the man in charge, where the decision, responsibility, and blame all lie on you. Human psychology saves the day.
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That's how it works if the country you're in has a no-double-taxation treaty with the US, and what's included/how it's calculated depends on how the treaty works. Many do not. [1]

If you live in a country without a tax treaty, like the Bahamas for instance, you must pay both taxes separately with no offsets/credits. [2] IANATA though so always worth double-checking with this kind of money on the line. My experience with this is moving to the US from Canada, so I dealt with both tax treaty income and dual-status returns.

[1] http://www.rumbaklaw.com/resources-and-tools/us-federal-tax-...

[2] https://www.irs.gov/individuals/international-taxpayers/tax-...
Just recently had to deal with Unicode line-breaking (aka word wrapping) in JS (Canvas).

I love that Unicode is very nicely and strictly defining it, but god damn is it a complicated beast.

http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/
I think we need to be realistic... lonliness is an emerging problem around the world. In the UK they're worried about lonely pensioners, in Japan it's lonely young people, in the US it's just... lonely people. We're spending more time than ever talking at each other online, while isolating ourselves from the kind of real contact that would fulfill our more basic needs.

We are animals after all.
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The Evergreen Aviation Museum has something like this, in the main outdoor area between the buildings.

https://www.evergreenmuseum.org/
Ok, so where does Dennett's view lead that is in anyway more interesting?!
The price drop was quite significantly after the merger. I am not sure of the timeline but it probably wasn't until 2000 or so. And by that time J2EE had taken the market it would have had.
I once opted out. The only problem is it takes 10x longer to get out of the scanner.

I had to wait for a guy to come. He then explained that he'll touch my groin area. Then he proceeded to basically soft rape me. It felt very uncomfortable. Took me total of 5 minutes.

I got a feeling they want to make people so uncomfortable they don't opt-out.

I had no idea about TSA tax. America is a really weird country. It's so war and military driven it baffles me.
There is no better tool I know :) Especially with the nice export function.
Wow, I'm sure that person who mis entered the command will never, ever, ever, do it again.
I agree that our subjective experience is an "illusion" (or more accurately, a construct) rather than an accurate representation of our environment. Furthermore, this is fairly easy to prove.

On the other hand, if consciousness is the property of having a subjective experience of existence, it is silly to call consciousness an illusion. An illusion is something that appears to exist, but actually does not. The very fact that we are able to perceive the "illusion" contradicts the implication of the statement.
I would recommend reading books instead of blogs if you really want to understand this stuff.

O'Reilly's "802.11n: A Survival Guide" is fairly OK.

If you read German, I highly recommend "Wireless LANs" by author Jörg Rech.
Actually, the art in this case imitated this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PN-vUaawaF8
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>MARCH 9, 2017 ISSUE

That's from the future!
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You're right, of course. My point is literary grade is not an invariant, it changes with time and culture and the historical events of a given community. There are so many cases of artists being considered shit one period, good another century, then shit again, indifferent or even canonic for a while. What exactly should data science train for a universal literary / not literary classifier then? Or unsupervised learning for clustering what? HN is full of bright minds, so I'm sure a formula might be reasonably suggested, but that's not the point of literature as a form of its own, like maths or music.
> rather than the length of the rendered string

Do unicode strings really have a rendered length?

https://eev.ee/blog/2015/09/12/dark-corners-of-unicode/#comb...

> So the “length” of ... characters depends ... on the display font
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It is a critique of the criticism of the review. If the review is wrong and Dennett's point is really just the standard materialistic worldview plus the trivial observation that consciousness evolved according to Darwin's laws, then it is really trifling.
"The laws on the books still exist for a good reason."

That's... optimistic. Many laws were put in place to benefit other (incumbent) businesses, or in reaction to conditions that no longer hold, or due to ideas proven false or at least no longer fashionable.

That's not necessarily good reason to break the law (though sometimes it is), but anyone shold feel free to lobby for removal or change of a law.
Interesting. I don't think the most middle class Americans would go for this, they like their "perks", and...if they did this, I'm not confident that individual policy premiums would fall like they should.
Same here, about $2,000 they claim I owe them because they stupidly decided to refund money to an obvious scammer. Luckily I had already withdrawn the money. This happened when I was 15 and since then I am banned for life from Paypal - every time I tried opening up a new account they would eventually ban me. However during the last 15 years I have started multiple successful businesses and used alternatives like Stripe instead of Paypal and they are missing out on literally hundreds of thousands of dollars in fees.
America is a lobby driven govt. Some corporation will make big bucks on Something, they'll legally bribe (donations) to pass it through.
I often type without looking while walking. It's pretty accurate apart from the occasional autocorrect mistake, which can only improve with time.

And voice dictation is very accurate these days, and probably faster than most people type.
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Not OP, but of course physics. Not that this is necessarily the ultimate answer, there may as well be yet another layer, a layer explaining why physics is the way it is. But strictly speaking that would probably still be physics. This is of course also pretty dangerous, one easily ends up with an infinity of layers, each trying to explain the layer above.

It ultimately comes down to questions like why is there anything at all. But those seem way out of reach at the moment and maybe they will remain forever. Being part of what you are trying to study may obstruct your view in an unsurmountable way.
You might make the case for a stochastic simulation, but given how easy it is to produce analytically intractable equations, and the fundamental limits of logical systems demonstrated by Godel's incompleteness theorems, I highly doubt math is anything more than a clever method for approximating the universe.
Amazing that stayed playing with an entire triangle cut out of it.
Honestly, the only real use I have for dongles is USB hard drives and displays, but for that case I can just get usb-c to usb-micro-3 cable and a usb-c to DisplayPort cable and I'm back into the same situation as before.
Some people are more equal than other people.
Do you really think the person you are replying to doesn't know that already? I think you can take it as given that most people here know the difference between MHz and mHz and are perfectly capable of realising it is a typo.
> judge people by what they do, solely by what they do. Never by what they say.

Who the hell says that? You should absolutely judge people by what they say.
I have the same opinion amout that market segment, but bear in mind that the 3310 costs twice as much as the cheapest mobile phones; considering this, the lack of 3G (/4G,...) could be considered a significant omission.

I had to buy a cheap phone, and to be precise, the 3310 costs 3 times the cheapest (an Alcatel).
That title is a lot less fun if you're standing in front of a whiteboard and someone is judging your answer.
Another little know fact is that you can go through this map just by holding Right arrow.
If you want to go to the quantum physics end of things, play the classic game, with a twist. The "it" person leaves the room while everyone else decides on the object. Instead however, they agree that no one will have any idea of what the object actually is, and they are free to answer the questions however they want, but with the following rule: each answer must remain consistent with all previous answers.
Ha-ha-ha. Exactly.

Illusion of WHO?

Anything that can have illusions is a consciousness.
How many developers actually need >16gb for normal work? They exist for sure, but I would posit that its only some vanishingly small portion in practice.
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"10" is used as a prefix for the bytes after the first. This gives it the self-synchronization property if it somehow ends up in the middle of a sequence. See the first table in this Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
In case you didn't see, I mentioned there is a way to do this right now:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13791945
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How is that an innovation?!

Materialists have been asserting since forever that consciousness arises from the brain and that the brain evolved according to Darwin's laws. What is new in Dennett's viewpoint?
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For American Jews, I think the stereotype is that they are rich and well connected.
I wonder if anyone thought of making a distributed operating system where 1-2 million people could all run a NINTENDO console or something else extremely primitive - but in way that they KNOW no one is pulling any shenanigans.

Can you imagine how cool it would be if a million or, say, a hundred million people joined forces to do what a $60 mobile phone can do?

This is absolutely the future. No doubt about it. No one can ever conceivably come up with a paradigm as cool as this level of redundancy. And on top of all of this, it even works. (Not as designed, because 51% of miners may be controlled by one entity, but in practice it totally works.)
That is at least a contentious point of view. It would probably require some form of Platonism to be true and that seems pretty hard to defend.
kinda like https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when
You obviously are not a divorced male with children. The alimony and child support laws were laid down in an era where there was an almost insurmountable financial disincentive to leave an abusive relationship. Therefore the courts purposefully favor the woman. Divorce is unfair by design. However circumstances have changed so men have some right to complain now.

Two things could change this, the advent of male birth control, and men realizing that legal marriage is an unfair contract.

The former would give men outsized control over when to have a baby and that choice can be made without signaling intent (less obvious than a condom). This is the advantage a woman has now. She can choose when to have a baby without signaling intent, and can even change her mind after the fact.

The latter gives a man no reason to marry a woman much less the beloved mother of his children except to appease her nagging. As female agency increases males will be less and less willing to risk the exposure of legal marriage and children when they will be left footing the bill. A hypergamous wife (AWALT) with equal or more agency than you is a risky proposition.
>"We’d be surrounded by this stuff that our minds weren’t built to understand."

It is interesting to compare this to what was believed during the dawn of the scientific revolution, eg Isaac Newton's attitude (that the universe was built for humans to understand it). Both positions are speculative, but asserted as facts in their time with far reaching effects.
Ask HN: StackOverflow-esque chat bots or humans answering questions?
Wondering if chat bots answering tech/ programming related Questions be better than the conventional Q&A forum.
I used this for developing an audio recognizer (https://github.com/trishume/PopClick) and it was incredibly cool and useful.

You can write your own recognition and analysis plugins pretty easily and then overlay those on the spectrogram so you get a sense of what your program is doing and why it is going wrong. I don't think I could have ever successfully gotten a recognizer working if I hadn't found Sonic Visualiser. It's awesome.
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/utf-8-history.txt:

"Below are the guidelines that were used in defining the UCS
transformation format:
[...]
6) It should be possible to find the start of a character efficiently starting from an arbitrary location in a byte stream."

If they used "10" as a marker for "this is the start of a two-byte sequence", it could not have been used for "this is a byte in a multi-byte sequence, but not the first one"
One caveat: Bitcoin doesn't choose longest chain by the number of blocks but rather the difficulty, see https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Difficulty
Additionally, 110xxxxx tells you that the character is two bytes, 1110xxxx three bytes, and 11110xxx four bytes, i.e., number of bytes in number = leading 1 count.
Like compound interest, constant acceleration is powerful. 10/m/s/s gets you to 30,000 m/s in 3,000s. That's .1c in less than an hour. The energy required is mv^2, m being the mass of your vehicle, and you can annihilate anti-matter to get, theoretically, Mc^2 of energy out of it. That means you can get to .1c with M=mv^2/c^2=.1^2 or 1% of your vehicle mass of anti-matter. That's a small enough number to leave a lot of wiggle room.

(Much smaller, and more realistic, accelerations are possible over longer periods of time, but require using the use of relativistic equations of motion.)
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I'm starting to feel more and more that the ability of median wealth families to live in a home (apartment, or house, rented, or owned) as a nuclear family was just a blip in the post-war, manufacturing-heavy US.

For most of human existence, multiple generations and cousins &ct. living together was fairly common, and it's rapidly looking like we may have to go back to that. You already see this for the working-poor in coastal California; I don't know if this trend continues inland as housing becomes less expensive.
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Real blockchains do have a blockheader.prevHash field to indicate that the previous block is the one satisfying

HASH(prevheader) == blockheader.prevHash

This one actually adds a blockheader.hash field and instead compares

prevheader.hash == blockheader.prevHash

Naive indeed:-)
I wouldn't be so sure. You can go pretty far without knowing what a MHz really means.

Edit: I've it megahertz written more as mhz than MHZ.
Thank you for your kind comment.
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Perhaps we should start adding the middle name like the media does w/ murderers. It could become a badge of dishonor for CEOs that kill companies while taking crazy pay.

Marrisa Ann Mayer / MAM may not have dealt the final blow to the already injured Yahoo but she added a few stab wounds and drew from the dwindling fortunes of an elderly Yahoo.
First person evidence obviously does exist (unless I'm responding to a philosophical zombie), the problem is that it is cannot be verified by an outside observer. I suppose you could say that something only becomes evidence when externally verified, but my response to that is that you have no way of knowing if that external verification is real or just a figment of your imagination, so that external verification doesn't really get you anywhere.
This is the report I was waiting for:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2017-the-le...