skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The position that time is not a localized phenomenon is preposterous. Given the observations of relativity and the effect that local gravitational force has on passage of time, and more recent experiment and theory about time actually arising as an effect of quantum entanglement (https://arxiv.org/abs/1310.4691), to presume in the context of such a big, extremely-theoretical idea that time is not local is plain nuts.

It's not so hard to imagine that the rules of relativity are imposed and that outside of that imposition, they don't exist or are discontinuous to some degree. Indeed, it doesn't even take any imagination if one considers the theories and research related to what I linked above.

So personally I'd dismiss the conclusion given its predication on this idea. To me, time not being local is the controversial position.
Hah, not a word about subprime mortgages
Blowing Out Birthday Candles Increases Bacteria on Cake, New Study Says
> off-hours crew

That's a funny way to spell "employee".
I'm not the person you're replying to (and I've never tried kava) but Erowid is usually a good resource for things like this: https://erowid.org/plants/kava/
Most of the people on that page hadn't read the document.
I see empathy is on the list of unmaintained software - it replaced pidgin (which is still maintained), and is now itself maintained.

Maybe the lesson on that one is to work more with external apps instead of replacing them.
He also doesn't sound very excited about the name, but "it was already hard enough to settle on this name" is reasonable enough I guess. I wonder what they would have come up with without the self-imposed constraint to sound like a derivative of OpenOffice.
Not if they caused death and disease due to the extra bad gases that they released--probably can be proven statistically. If you grab a gun and kill someone you get at probably life.

So, fine them a a company and jail those responsible starting at the top.
There Have Always Existed People Who’ve Simply Wanted to Be Alone
> var body = document.getElementsByTagName("body")[0];

You can just use document.body.

I also suggest to use a data URL instead. E.g. "data:," is an empty plain text file, which, as you can imagine, won't be interpreted as a valid image.

let image = new Image();
image.onerror = () => {
console.log(image.width); // 0 -> headless
};
document.body.appendChild(image);
image.src = 'data:,';

> In case of a vanilla Chrome, the image has a width and height that depends on the zoom of the browser

The zoom doesn't affect this. It's always in CSS "pixels".
Well said; the other project involving NATS from the Rapidloop team (gRPC over NATS essentially) mentions some benefits as they see it which are what you've pointed out: https://github.com/rapidloop/nrpc
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/11763836/Wealthy-pare...

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/occupy-...

Data disagrees.
Original article (with interesting comments) https://web.archive.org/web/20070715031943/http://battelleme...
Is it as simple as returning the IP address from the incoming TCP/IP message? If so, damn, why don't I have this kind of ideas! :)

Edit: it seems so - https://github.com/rdegges/ipify-api/blob/master/api/get_ip....
To provide a concrete example, I use Bitcoin where I don't trust a provider to not charge me again in the future.

Some banks give you some tools to protect against this case like generating debit card numbers with an exact balance on it. But Bitcoin generalizes over the case.

Your comment is the sort of all-or-nothing mentality that I don't understand. I look at banking institutions vs cryptocurrencies as different options just like credit cards vs cash: I want to be able to choose, and I don't want to be limited to one single solution.

It's kinda of like the decision between an iPad vs a techie's laptop. I think the most common cases (e.g. my parents' needs) are best served by an iPad or a banking institution, but it's dangerous when someone begins telling me that I don't need such a powerful laptop.

All too often I see cryptocurrencies dismissed with the condescending implication that nobody is capable of evaluating the trade-offs.
After so many decades in this industry nothing surprises me at all. Security is usually an afterthought that barely warrants spending more that a token amount. I once did a contract at a public university and found the app that every department used to verify with the state that money was appropriately spent used incrementing id's in the url and used GET to handle the delete button. I wound up fixing it for them on the way out (after weeks of telling me it wasn't a concern). A simple command line script would have deleted the entire database leaving the university with no budget for the upcoming year. Another place I worked kept production passwords in the code repository; when I complained they told me they passed their audits every year so it didn't matter. HIPAA company in the US no less.
Where is the repo? I can't seem to find any info on the site or Google.
"Computer Science is the post-Turing decline in the study of formal systems."
Well I think the implication that we can't understand/comprehend these things is itself frustrating and also wrong. Why does one assume that the scale of the universe and the scale of that street you refer to are any different? In both cases you are experiencing and considering an estimation of potentially infinite space at an almost metaphorical level as it relates to your experience, plans, and actions.

Indeed, you can consider the universe as this thing which is maybe boundless and has so much stuff and might go on forever but for some reason you think it's any harder than realizing that the street may be infinite in space as well, by virtue of continuous subdivision. Before trying to dive in on any estimate of the smallest thing, do remember that smart people once thought atoms were the smallest thing, and then particles, and so on. And remember that the street itself, even just the stretch you're concerned about, is composed of a ludicrously large number of the "smallest" things we current are aware of.

If we let go of this idea that at our own size, things are just some number of things that we can reason about (since that's clearly false, do you reason about the billions of living organisms in your own body right now? Could you?) then we can start to realize that smaller or bigger, we're merely consider a continuum at different scales and it's perfectly reasonable for the human mind to do so, it does so every day all the time.
I think the anti-modern layout has become too much of a cultural shibboleth at this point, people cherish any feature they feel will drive away casual users and preserve the intellectual purity of the community. PG once mentioned that he wasn't concerned with such trivial things, which makes updating the design difficult without sparking a minor revolt among the userbase, especially if such an update causes the site to look or feel more like Reddit, which it likely would.

Plus, bear in mind that HN doesn't separate its logic from layout in templates, unless it deviates wildly from the original Arc forum code, so redesigning the layout around, say, lists as opposed to tables may be more complicated than it would be on another site.

But on the plus side, since i've been here at least, the expired links bug has been fixed, shadowbanning is community-reversible, Show HN is a thing, users can hide and favorite threads, and there's thread folding. Those are all definite improvements to the user experience.

I agree with you that the text could be more readable - a site meant for intellectual and technical discussion should be encouraging long-form comments, not discouraging it (as it does by fading the text for non-link post) but it does seem that the staff have been improving what they can, when they can get around to it.
Are you saying that this is the start of a "white male rebellion" inside silicon valley?
That post is 12 hours old, the comment with the link was posted 30min ago.
Step 1: get a private pilot certificate.
> This is a common misconception among folks who don't cycle. Cyclists are actually safer on the street.

Heard this a thousand times and I don't buy it for a second. The speed differential between cyclists and pedestrians is an order of magnitude different than the speed differential between cyclists and cars. And the argument about driveways and intersections falls 100% flat on it's face if you use the incredibly basic assumption that cyclists should (a) use crosswalks and (b) shoulder check when crossing driveways.
Spend some time not doing anything: sit on a chair, close your eyes, and let your brain do its thing. Try not to focus on any thought. Some people would call it meditating, I call it letting go. In this world where we're always distracted, it forces onto me some boredom, during which my brain very often comes with unexpected answers to problems I've been working on lately.

In my case, I also often get hindsight into what I should be doing, and often end up doing things good for me, instead of things I've been asked to do (makes me do for me, instead of doing what others want me to do).
Funny, I've got several Linux systems and the limiting factor to uptime is power outages.
About the author: https://lisafeldmanbarrett.com/about/
Doesnt really answer my question. Who are these "people in apache" who cannot see like LibreOffice is more mature product? Well, what does "people in apache" mean?
The existence of sexism and the existence of sex-specific biases in interests are not mutually exclusive. Also note that biological biases does not mean behavior is hard-wired, nurture (societal influence) and nature can both play a role at different weights.

If such a natural bias exists and all and sexism is eliminated then there will still be a gender gap among the employees. And forms of affirmative action that aim for 50:50 balance will either have to attract an unusually large number of above-average talent for that specific gender (this strategy can only work locally but not globally) or will result in equally-talented people being disfavored based on their gender.

And if there is an assumption that the gender gap is caused by sexism but it is also arises due to natural biases then some people may feel slandered as sexists when they're already acting as gender-neutral as possible. This can breed resentment when you (or your group as a whole) get blamed for something that you're not causing.

Disclaimler, this post contains little original thought, most arguments are stolen from https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-...
I think this is similar to an approach I saw in code from 1990s written in c++.
I can't tell if this is satire. We're well into Poe's Law territory here.
Use of anything that is suddenly in convenience-like stores usually goes up.
The key phrases are recognisable though. It's not "bizinger" and "habroodled" and "snerts" - it's "vulnerable", and "security issue", and "data protection", and "safety". These aren't alien or strange terms, they're simply words you don't want to hear about your product.

When a manufacturer issues a safety recall, you don't need to understand things like the necessary gap between mains voltage and 12V in a transformer, or the biological reaction of a high levels of insecticide in an egg, you simply need to recognise a safety warning from an industry professional.

The issue in these cases isn't that the people in charge don't recognise technical terms, it's that they wilfully ignore the voices of caution, warning them about safety issues. In many industries, that lands them in court.
And he won't get the maximum fine.
Sheriff’s Dept suspected of sharing info with ICE about potential non-citizens
I cannot resist picking nits: shouldn't it be: "... when I opened it today it was half lead?"
That's a really interesting question. If something is indirectly observable (you can observe/measure its effect), does that make it observable or not?

Transitivit would say yes. If A implies B and B implies C then A implies C. That is, if you can observe A and that implies B, then you can observe B. Which makes it observable, no?
Somehow I am having hard time imagining a single-celled, synthetically created, non-water-based, sterile human being...

I am not sure I understand the drive to redefine life beyond the life as we know it (i.e. what it actually is, as a fact), the drive that leaves one in what can only be seen as the domain of fiction at best (and pseudo-science at worst).
This Shadowy Company Is Flying Spy Planes Over US Cities
Phoronix likes the clicks?
Yeah but a few cars here or there with lower NOx emission won't make a difference, not for the next 10-20 years given car life times.

What needs to be done is creating an efficient replacement for private transportation: public transportation which is actually worth the name, connects to shopping locations and especially also available during night times and on weekends/holidays as this is usually what keeps city people from discarding their cars.
The only restriction I'm aware is that you can't downvote the direct replies to your own comments. Right now, I can downvote your original comment, but not your reply to mine.
Presumably into the sea. Is that a problem or is it a non event?
Indeed. Same article also covers shared-shaft elevators, exactly as I described.
Out of curiosity, where in SF? I'd be interested to see one.
Well you see, brand-new account created to hide from those scary terrible lefties who'd obviously ruin you otherwise, the probability that the distribution we observe today matches the "natural" distribution is, how shall I put this, very low.

Now you might ask how I know this, and the answer is simple: open society-wide legally-endorsed discrimination is a thing within living memory here in the US, and a thing that is the present-day situation in quite a few parts of the world. It is simply unreasonable to expect that all consequences of it have been perfectly eliminated by now in order to justify "but women didn't hunt wooly mammoths back in the day, so their brains evolved different from men" as an explanation for why women are underrepresented in tech compared to the general population.
Full disclosure - I work for Teamwork.com, but I use the Teamwork Projects[1] free plan for a few of my side projects and haven't found an easier alternative, you can adjust the "lightweightness" per project and just turn off stuff you don't use, then again I am more familiar with it than other tools so of course it will be more straightforward to me.

[1] https://www.teamwork.com/project-management-software
This article is from 2010. The "designer"* loses credibility for not having a date on his blog post (at least the boarding cards have that).

*Using a bigger typeface is "design"?!
And most people in that post had not seen the document. They were commenting on the biased reporting from an article, who themselves got a biased interpretation from an employee. That's 2-3 levels of indirection there.
I quit software after about a decade of experience. The passion was gone and I could only argue that MeteorJS (or other hyped tech of the week) was not ready for our production use. But kids will be kids and the rockstars started using my age to shame me to leave, which worked. Using rails for our next services was apparently just too old school. This is the dark side of software development that rarely is mentioned.
I'm not sure. Maybe it's because they're not really supporting it all that well. The hole_birth data loss bug is still not fixed in 16.04 LTS.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/zfs-linux/+bug/160...

This is a major data loss issue with some workflows and it's pretty significant that Canonical hasn't backported it.
I called that well ahead of time.

https://jacquesmattheij.com/volkswagen-and-the-blame-the-eng...

Funny how much pushback that got back then.
You were looking for an used car then, in which case your number makes far more sense.

New petrol cars are widely available, but they aren't just as popular as diesels, so there aren't many of them on the secondary market.
Thanks. Just to clarify, I believe that if someone posts code snippets like this, purporting to do thing X by doing roundabout and overly simplistic thing Y, you really have to own it and assume tons of responsibility for misleading fellow developers who may be unaware of possible edge cases. When somebody copy-pastes a quick solution and it doesn't work for literally everybody, that translates to real people getting a bad deal when they hit your bugs, something we should all as responsible developers seek to avoid.

And yeah, I will not waste time being tactful when describing this situation, because I have seen it before and it kind of sucks.
That is not how the distinction between tortious and criminal offenses works.
It's perfectly all right to say that there are statistical differences between the average biological man and the average biological woman.

The problem is to then assume a gigantic pile of facts not in evidence (that the differences observed are 100% biological with no cultural influence whatsoever, that they conclusively explain gender disparities in many fields, etc. etc.) and accuse anyone who disagrees with you of being one of those terrible mean lefties who will unperson you for speaking the truth.

Generally, this type of person lasts up until the moment blind interviews become widespread.
Google also has an interest in making an undetectable bot - for their search engine. Undetectable in the sense that GoogleBot should see the exact same page that humans see. They have been using chromium based code, at least on certain sites, for a while now. I wonder if this person is damaging his rankings with these techniques...

Of course, Google announces itself as GoogleBot. It wouldn't surprise me if they did a second stealthy crawl to detect cloaking. (But I think they are honest when they say they don't, and just throw cheap human labor at it instead by having people browse suspect sites.)
Do you believe its possible for a computer, more specifically an Artificial General Intelligence, to be "alive" (if one such thing ever gets built)?
GPL does not mean that the company has to provide a github repo. Strictly seen, the sources should be provided in case a user requests the them. (IANAL)

But I agree, it doesn't feel very "open source"
I doubt any of the "many" people that say that programming is more mathematically rigorous than mathematics are mathematicians. For mathematicians rigor is about proof and they would never say that a discipline that usually does not involve writing proofs is more rigorous than mathematics.

Maybe these people mean that formally verified programming is more rigorous than mathematics. That seems reasonable, but it is a tiny part of programming, isn't it?

(Computer science, on the other hand, particularly the subfield affectionately called "theory", is typically mathematically rigorous.)
NATS is just a message broker, and runs wherever Go runs. The limitations are in this project. It's a 105-line proof of concept, clearly the author didn't bother making it portable.
I am polyamorous. One of the frequent questions I get asked is how big of a problem is jealousy. It's a red herring because it usually is not a problem. But early on doing this you learn the difference between jealousy (I don't want my partner doing that with that person), and envy (I want my partner to do that with me). The two have very different fixes.
What if a stable exotic location exist, where chemisty is able to form boolean processes.. is that live, if it computes and thinks, and is still just a huge state machine.
> People, however, tend to forget the old but gold adage: "Form follows Functionality". I mean, this talented designer ventured into poking fun of the work of other people without even taking the time to understand the problem, the proposed solution, and the constraints that were/are in place.

Can you list actual problems with the proposed solution? What is the function of a boarding pass? It has 3 users:

* Computers - they don't care much about the layout as long as all the information is there. See the comment about "CUTE".

* Humans who work at airports (security, boarding crew, flight attendants) - they too want to be able to parse them quickly. They'll easily adapt to every layout because after a single day they'll have seen a few hundred boarding passes with the same layout.

* The passenger - they want to be able to parse it quickly. I don't know how often I was looking for a specific information on my boarding pass and actually had to read all of the damn thing to find it. I fly with various airlines and I am the only one who cannot be reprogrammed or trained by looking at a few hundred passes. So I'd say the most important/constraining function is to be understood by the passenger.

The article spells out the problem the redesign tries to address: So I stared at it for a while. Rubbed my eyes, then stared at it some more. It was like someone put on a blindfold, drank a fifth of whiskey, spun around 100 times, got kicked in the face by a mule (the person who designed this definitely has a mule living with them inside their house) and then just started puking numbers and letters onto the boarding pass at random (yes, I realize that a human didn't lay this out, if a human had, judging by the train-wreck of design, they would have surely used papyrus). There was nothing given size or color importance over anything else, it was a mess.

The only problem I have with most of the redesigns proposed is the amount of ink used - I'd prefer a design that takes environmental impact into account because those boarding passes have to be printed, then are used once and thrown away.

> Yes, his design is infinitely more good looking. But did the designer took into consideration how applicable is it in the real world, with real logistics and real business scenarios? No. Of course he didn't.

Again, can you list actual problems?
I would certainly say programmers are not doing constructive math because most programmers' programs don't at all resemble any sort of rigorous proof. In fact, most professional, non-computer-scientist programmers write programs that are hacked up things that "work good enough".
To be fair, they will die prematurely where it is not specified just how prematurely that will be.
> In reality, helmets are not worth the trouble.

Who are you to say that? Most of my cycling is to and from work, on my own bike. Wearing a helmet costs me nothing in the way of inconvenience. I simply leave the helmet on the bike when I park it at home and at work (both secure locations).

Who are you to issue some blatant proclamation that "in reality" this isn't worth the nonexistent trouble?
There was an article just yesterday on HN about such a creature, with a decentralized nervous system:

> Ctenophores have no brain or central nervous system, but instead have a nerve net (rather like a cobweb) that forms a ring round the mouth and is densest near structures such as the comb rows, pharynx, tentacles (if present) and the sensory complex furthest from the mouth
...
Ctenophore nerve cells and nervous system evolved separately from other animals and have a different biochemistry.
I was a cyclist for many years and stayed to the sidewalk as much as possible. As you said , must fatalities occur when a car traveling at a high rate of speed rear ends a bicyclist. I'd rather deal with the non fatal accidents that happen on the sidewalk then potentially fatal accidents on the street.

People fly by you in their car, inches away, while on the street on a regular basis, and you have no control over this. On a sidewalk, I have to be more observant, but more accidents there will be avoidable if I am paying attention.
If you cant win on the market, just hold the market hostage.

Capitalism must only be clean and pure, and free of goverment influence if it suits us- else we suit them.
Pi fm_transmitter: use Raspberry Pi as a FM transmitter