skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for sharing your story. If you want to dig deeper into the "why" I would recommend researching spectrum analyzers and how to use them to characterize electromagnetic interference. Example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctynv2klT6Q
You could ask a friend to generate plots for you of the emissions of your laptop, PS2, and the DVD player then figure out if there are specific frequencies that may be causing you problems.

If you are feeling brave you could purchase an RF signal generator and a wideband antenna, and generate pure signals at different frequencies and see which ones cause you problems. A regular function generator may be a cheaper method too as I'm inclined to believe any fields that may be affecting you would be under 1MHz.

It would also be interesting to investigate whether alternating electric fields or magnetic fields affect you more.
The Chinese language great for puns not only because so many characters sound the same, with tons of idioms understood nationwide. Because the language is character based, abbreviations of words are made of full characters and may have their own meanings. As someone graduating from the department of computer science, the most classic joke is to shorten the name of the department into "whorehouse". (计算机学院 ji4 suan4 ji1 xue2 yuan4 => 计院 ji4 yuan4 ~ 妓院 ji4 yuan4)
This page seems to imply that you can tell if your glasses are safe by seeing whether they block out all but the brightest lights (direct sun or perhaps a LED flashlight).

But another page from the AAS seems to say you only get a negative result: if you can see anything other than a very bright light through the glasses, they're unsafe. But that doesn't imply the inverse, that if you can't, they're safe, because of UV protection. https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/iso-certification

Can anyone confirm if I've understood that correctly?
The claim is that it's #2.
Life has no clocks. It, as a set of processes, has phases, which happen follow the phases of the environment and use these phases to maintenance and repair.

There is no such thing as time, so Nature and evolution does not have any clock or counters. Life does not work the way we conditioned to think as observers. It cannot use abstract mental concerts which does not exist at molecular or cellular level. Cells do message passing and explicit pattern matching. No clocks or counters.
I was hoping the comment section would be a bit more witty! Was looking forward to a few groans
companies too.
What goes around comes around. Amazon has been turning a blind eye to counterfeit products for a long time, it's been getting worse, not better. And now that they got a clue this particular fraud could CAUSE WIDESPREAD BLINDNESS, they have to take responsibility for their own cesspool.
Another vote that both of these are great books - richly informative, classics of history of computing/technology. I own hardcover 1st editions of both.
Have you been following any of the research on gut bacteria? I'd be curious to hear your thoughts/feelings as to how that might also tie into things, or not.
Once we are on completely renewable energy, something like this should be completely sustainable, no? (Once we get to that point)
This is likely how Zuck will run for President. Using the vast network of Facebook to find, influence, and manipulate voters. IMO Russia couldn't hold a candle to the damage the full force of Facebook could do to our electoral process.
Interesting enough they considered implementing feng shui in Ch09-Architecture.pdf.

Feng Shui Analysis
TBD.
> If I complain that evangelical christians as a demographic make it tougher to achieve comprehensive abortion rights, does that mean I think we should disenfranchise them?

No. But that's not a full parallel.

Consider the Treaty of Paris, signed in 1783, when American Christians were first recognized by their former rulers to have their own state.

If, in 1798 during the Franco-American war, a prominent British person had written: "since 1783, negotiating alongside American Protestants - a group notoriously difficult for England - has severely limited our ability to colonize and trade across the globe"

Then he too might find some critics at his doorstep. Probably some supporters as well, but England didn't have the strength for another war with America. However innocent, that comment wouldn't have been mainstream. Understandably so, in my opinion.
Yup, many times I have needed to blast misbehaving text with "Clear Formatting" or delete it entirely and recreate it.
Here's a page from the book in case you're curious: https://i.warosu.org/data/lit/img/0085/59/1475081841319.jpg

It's like American Psycho, only non-ironically.
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The /r/webdev thread (https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/comments/6stdcj/http_error_c...) remained quite respectful actually, afaik there were no real hostile remarks directed towards Mark Nottingham within it. In fact, it's ironic - the very comment I'm replying to is probably more distasteful and antagonistic than anything that could be found in the Reddit thread.
This. Even before the collapse of email as a writing medium, it was never a life-critical system.
The existing government absolutely does not write the protocols. Rather the ecosystem around the protocols (or more accurately maybe something like versioned semantic modules) becomes a new paradigm that supercedes traditional government.

How or whether that type of thing comes into existence is obviously extremely challenging and isn't determined.

I believe that useful governments will support some structures that enable these types of systems, but must not be allowed to directly control them -- we have too much evidence of how poorly that works out. That will be the remaining utility that allows the existence of traditional government, until these new systems are fully deployed.

Yes, data management isn't free, and there are severe challenges related to that. But we have technologies that give us hope that we can find better ways to do data management than just letting Facebook or Google track everything we click on and store them in their own data centers.
Cached version: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:P1Yw34...
'Production quality' things spontaneously catch fire these days, too.

http://www.theclever.com/20-dangerous-cars-with-the-highest-...
Where can I get paid to help build things like this?
Slightly off topic, but this just came to mind. If there's a placebo effect for positive results, it stands to reason there's also one that disables known/established remedies.

Point being, not all things will work for people all the time, but there is an element of "unknown" in everyone.
From the bottom of the Capsule github page [1]: " HAMTs already feature efficient lookup, insert, and delete operations, however due to their tree-based nature their memory footprints and the runtime performance of iteration and equality checking lag behind array-based counterparts.

We introduce CHAMP (Compressed Hash-Array Mapped Prefix-tree), an evolutionary improvement over HAMTs. The new design increases the overall performance of immutable sets and maps. Furthermore, its resulting general purpose design increases cache locality and features a canonical representation."

1 - https://github.com/usethesource/capsule
I'm curious, since you have experience supporting both Hugo and Jekyll: which would you recommend?

Say I have a personal blog I've been maintaining for 15 years in BlogMaster 3000 for Windows 95, and now I want to make it modern and static and use forestry.io to handle the editing and publishing parts. Are there significant differences in terms of capabilities or ease of use depending on which static blog engine is used for the build step?
Use an old floppy disk to see the eclipse. I'm serious

It seems opaque, but it is transparent enough to see the sun
The bulk of adventure games use the 'single cursor' control scheme these days; Daaedalic is not the first.
I am providing examples why the American system is worse in a European legal context.

You don't want CCs either. CCs solve security by having someone simply pay for every time a fuckup happens, instead of using cryptography to prevent them in the first place.
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You can think it terrible if you'd like. Ultimately, it doesn't make a difference to me one way or another, as I was hoping to expose you to a different perspective that doesn't cut you off from thousands of years of shared cultural experiences, not win internet points. But, whatever, you do you.
> Where did I do that?

Here: "while laying out a flawed biological argument for why "women are not well suited for engineering" is not going to go down smoothly"

Do you actually not realize that's what he said? Since we're on HN, I bet you wouldn't make such a sloppy mistake of imprecision if the topic was something other than gender/race/sexuality.
Magnesium might help improve the tinnitus. It probably won't entirely stop it, but anecdotal reports suggest it may help. If you are magnesium deficient, you are probably also calcium deficient. You may also need vitamins D and K to help properly absorb the calcium.
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To be honest, it isn't that impressive unless you see the totality, in which case you need no glasses. Completely worth the trip out of the way if you can go see it.
This story just keeps getting more alarming. When will someone do something to save our species? Is that question too unsophisticated?
Tips for academic writing [pdf]
Functional Reactive Game Programming (live game coding at 17:35)
The same thing happens to me, it has stopped me from getting into arguments on the Internet, because I know that I won't be able to express my thoughts clearly enough to convince anyone.
> The grave accent and the diaeresis are the only diacritics native to Modern English (apart from diacritics used in loanwords, such as the acute accent, the cedilla, or the tilde). The use of both, however, is considered to be largely archaic.
They know they'll see you soon because they're not issuing refunds, they're giving you a balance credit at the big river instead.
Interestingly, free software development often pays off in the best interest of the developers. In terms of networking with other developers and building a resume which leads to real jobs with real pay. Not to mention the value of real world developer experience.

Be thankful, yep - but as someone with a background in OSS, I'm quite happy with the intangible dividends it's already paid.
Adapting tools and lessons from distributed systems for merely concurrent code
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That's not really something I could test readily at home. Additionally, the light bulb test is what the local news was saying is a good quick and dirty test to check for counterfeits. I obviously can't certify them. https://eclipse.aas.org/eye-safety/iso-certification

E1: I'll probably end up getting new ones; I guess you're right.

E2: Because everyone cares about my saga, of course, the seller appears to have sold blatantly fraudulent ones as well. Apparently lowes has certified ones, so I'm going to pop in there tomorrow.

E3: in classic "pay attention to me" style, but also in the hopes of helping someone else out: https://www.eclipseglasses.com/pages/safety my glasses look like the counterfeit version listed on the mfg website.
The wording of the statement tells you the entire problem.

"The customer purchased a counterfeit item!"

Actually, no. The customer purchased an authentic item but Amazon shipped the customer a counterfeit item. Guess whose responsibility that is?
> When you say "evangelicals make reproductive rights more challenging", you're not directly alluding to a franchise those people won within living memory.

Pretty sure us Americans feel pretty strongly about freedom from England :-). Pilgrims and Puritans formed the roots of increased religious freedom in America, which led to other freedoms, etc.
Maybe things are getting better these days (?), but at various points throughout its history, anyone could update your WordPress site from their phone in China.
An additional complication is that generation and load aren't evenly distributed in a typical energy grid. This can create "traffic jams" that aren't reflected in a typical residential electric bill but something utilities and large business get to deal with.

In open energy markets like those in California and Texas there's things called "Locational Marginal Pricing" and "Congestion Revenue Rights" to deal with this.
-The only money no one can take away from you, even states. Protection from governments like Greece

except hackers, if they get their hands on your wallet.
Quick links (lab feature) in Gmail is retiring
As I understand it, doesn't really matter what seller you buy from. Amazon says "The supplies all said these are the same item, so they're interchangeable" and they treat all the inventory the same regardless of who it came from.

Maybe legit sellers that aren't "fulfilled by Amazon" are safer because they ship it themselves?
That's a pretty common practice in the Mfg industry. Makes lot tracking simpler.
Is there a scenario where people end up there?
This is a starry-eyed blog post. I like it, and I miss not having more of these. We need more starry-eyed dreamers because they get good things done.

I just spent some time with the Debian crew at the last Debconf here in Mtl. I've always liked their attitude and I love their operating system -- and so does everyone else who has ever created a Debian derivative. Others at Debconf felt the same. Bradley Kuhn even said something like what a breath of fresh air it was to not have to apologise for being a free software supporter. I love how organic Debian is and how the conference was perfectly run with livestreaming and IRC bots keeping us abreast of the next event. These polychromatically-haired dreamers know how to get things done.

So, it's good to see that the starry-eyed blog posts haven't stopped.
And it's probably every bit as safe as those fake glasses. Don't do this!
I’ve used crappy compilers where there’s essentially no optimisation, and moderately complex expressions produce absurd code, so if you want reasonable output, you end up writing the assembly you want in the notation of the higher-level language, like:

/* a = (b * 2) + 1 */

a = b; /* mov a, b */
a <<= 1; /* shl a, 1 */
a |= 1; /* or a, 1 */
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It is not a review. It is an introduction or tutorial.
you can run the javascript client in the server, that is what http://hyperfiddle.net/ does

For example, server side rendering. Though Hyperfiddle is a bit more sophisticated than that.
Ask HN: Are you concerned about AI?
Elon Musk says that if you aren't concerned, you should be. If you are concerned, why? If not, then why not?
After a quick look at the code (I'm probably missing subtleties):

The "state" array stores the state of the cells in the life simulation in the lowest bit of each int in the array. The rest of the bits are used to store the count of the current generation for that cell.

Each thread can then examine cells independently and determine whether there's enough information in the cell's neighbours (taking generations into account) to update the cell's state (and increment the generation).

The trick is that even though the threads could be reading and writing the same cells at the same time, they will only ever write the same thing and so it doesn't matter.
A viable safe test would be a clear (unfrosted) incandescent or halogen bulb on a rheostat. Glasses on, bulb off, turn up the brightness somewhat slowly. You should be able to look directly at the filament comfortably if you have good glasses. If you have fakes, as long as you ramp up brightness slow enough, your natural response to squint will kick in before you wreck your retinas.

You definitely do not want to test this on the sun.
I have no inside information but from my vantage point it looks like benchmark just wanted to get out but under isn't ready for an IPO. Maybe Travis isn't a good guy but I can't see how benchmark is any better.

Also I think Google did bring in adults: notably Eric Schmidt.
Thanks for the tip. I found a post [0] describing genetic algorithms for circuit design that helped clarify the process. Coincidentally, the circuit described has a component that does nothing.

[0] http://hforsten.com/evolutionary-algorithms-and-analog-elect...
TLDR; If you care about build times, Hugo. Otherwise, Jekyll.

For instance, we had a user who had a Jekyll site with 2000 pages. It took Jekyll about 5 mins to compile/build it. After migrating to Hugo it took < 1 second to build.

If you don't care about build times, Jekyll has a great community, plugins, and IMO, superior templating syntax (liquid).
The Monica Lam sections in the second edition of the Dragon Book are out of this world good. Also, she's an excellent lecturer.

Muchnick's book is still quite good.

A second semester compiler class is rarely taught and so everyone tries to squeeze too much into one semester. I almost wish they broke it in two and allowed students to take either half. LL(1) parsing isn't a prerequisite to static single assignment.
Right, and that's a truly killer feature if you happen to need it.

Hugo doesn't address that problem at all, nor do Jekyll, which I currently use, and the other similar tools I've looked at.

However, the missing step there (of rendering the static site and publishing it) seems well suited to being done "in the cloud" then on the client device where the posting/editing/typo.

If you have a machine or VM on the Internet to use, this is not difficult to set up for yourself (any computer-proficient user with a little time can do it).

But doing that is also nowhere near as trivial as WordPress makes it (any person at all can do it).
That's only for sellers that opt in to commingling. Plenty of sellers don't.
Amazon is de-facto a monopoly. The "invisible hand" does not apply here.
... which is why the comment said, "lazy editing".

The NYT chose to publish this in full. They bear responsibility for what they choose to put on their pages.
You're letting your modern biases color how you view Tacitus' writings. Most people educated in the last ~hundred years or so were taught "history" as you understand it - an impartial account of the facts of an actual event or person. This view of history is actually pretty recent, and it's widely understood that ancient historians did _not_ practice what we would consider the modern discipline of history. For example, Herodotus is considered the historian ne plus ultra of the ancient world, but he still wrote about lots of weird shit like zombies and races of headless people.

It's not so much that modern historians think Tacitus was too "biased" to "record history accurately"; they read his works critically because they know he wasn't really even trying to record history accurately in the way we think about doing that today.

EDIT: Another good example of ancient versus modern history is Pericles' Funeral Oration, as related to us by Thucydides:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericles%27_Funeral_Oration
Thucydides probably edited the speech heavily (even by adding or removing content), and may have even combined multiple different speeches to create what we know as the speech. A modern historian would most likely blanch at the thought of doing this, but Thucydides was fine with it because he wasn't even trying to relay an impartial and 100% accurate account of the events of the Peloponnesian War (as a modern historian would).
He was 103 when the photograph was taken, it's amazing he looks like he's maybe in his 70's.
What happens to the originally tolerant people? Do they convert or are they coerced/suppressed/killed/etc.?
Also, in the case of a rebroadcast it need not be delayed by more than something on the order of a microsecond or so.

That only works if the spoofer is very close by.

One microsecond is 1000 feet. (Recall the "Grace Hopper nanosecond" as a start.) So, if the spoofing signal rebroadcast originates 5 miles away, that's 26 microseconds of delay right there.

If the receiver has some sort of out-of-channel time reference that is accurate to nanosecond levels I suppose that could be used as a check, but that sort of thing takes an atomic clock and doesn't fit in a wristwatch.

You're way off in your accuracy estimate.

Oven controlled crystal oscillators have been around for at least 50 years. Probably a lot more. And they're dirt cheap. All they are is some temperature stabilization around an ordinary crystal oscillator. Quoting from the (always highly accurate) :) Wikipedia:

The short term frequency stability of OCXOs is typically 1x10−12 over a few seconds, while the long term stability is limited to around 1x10−8 (10 ppb) per year by aging of the crystal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_oven#Accuracy

An OCXO isn't practical in a tiny drone or a wristwatch, but it's highly practical in any military instrument that weighs more than a few pounds.
I have a similar problem whenever I cross between multiple countries in Europe and encounter the first motorway toll in a new country. No matter how hard I try as I approach the toll I always greet/thank the person in the booth with the language of the country I've just left rather than the language of the new country (happened to me again last month driving from Portugal through Spain and in to France). My mind just goes blank. Seconds after pulling away the word/phrase I wanted pops in to my head - it infuriates me!
I'd say about 50-60% of the electronic items I buy from amazon end up being counterfeit. For this reason, I avoid amazon unless it's unimportant stuff.
Then why point to that as a "problem" in the first place.

I agree that including more constituent groups in a democracy makes its administration more complex. But that doesn't make it impossible, and it definitely doesn't make the whole worse-off.

I guess I disagree with Thiel that it makes our system, "capitalist democracy", impossible. We're living it. It's complicated -- but when has government ever been simple in history?

I find his claims of libertarianism as being free from the typical struggles of politics to be extremely out of touch.

Being wealthy can free you from politics, until you start to get interested in it, and then you're in the thick of it just like everyone else.

Also, his "humble" suggestion that others call his projects "utopian", is simply exactly what political candidates say. "I can build your future, just give me your support". I dread the day the public swallows this lie from the likes of Thiel or Musk. It'll be worse than 2017.
Something amusing happened to me the other day. I'm Italian but at this point, I think and speak in English 99.99% of the time.

When I first moved to an English speaking country, I went to McDonald's and didn't know the word for "napkin", so I gestured my way out of it. (I also asked for mayo for my fries, but that's another story.)

The other day it took me a few seconds to remember the Italian word "tovagliolo" which translates to, you guessed it, napkin. It had a certain "things have come full circle" feel to it. :)
It'd be cool if I could make a small botnet that would influence companies to make the kind of stuff I actually wanted to buy.
No - we have only a very basic understanding of how the brain works, have no idea what consciousness even is, and know little about human intelligence.

The only thing I can think of is there's a sinister agenda pushing these constant fear-mongering stories about how we're all going to die from AI. Show me a neural net that even comes close to doing anything resembling original, organized thought and I might take these warnings more seriously.
This IEEE Spectrum article [1] from 2010 made me aware of the SESAME project at the time and tells the story of what the researchers went through to get it started.

[1] "SESAME Synchrotron's Battle for Light" http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/astrophysics/sesame-synch...
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