skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was quite the tarantula enthusiast at one time, and also sent and received a lot of spiders in the mail. I once had an Aphonopelma species - a desert dwelling tarantula - arrive completely frozen solid when the shipper said it would have heat packs (and was only a 1 day trip from AZ).

I'll skip the boring part of the story, but it thawed, and lived.
Interesting. A coworker just told me it's impossible to get people's private messages. He was wrong.
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If there were aliens, we would have known with clear proof. If they are there, they are light years ahead and behind in technology and no need for crappy radio signal.
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Crtl + f "bubble" => 17 matches

Since no one mentioned it yet - deflation.

The total amount of bitcoins is limited. Although the last bitcoin has not yet been mined, the available amount of bitcoin has stabilized, because the bitcoin-mining-process has slowed down and is in parity with the bitcoin-got-lost-process.
Place the blame squarely at the feet of vendors like Qualcomm - they won't update the BSPs.
You probably meant "algebraic data types" :)
What are some best resource for learning node?
Would the people who down-vote care to explain why they support unbounded population growth ? That would be great.
We need to teach the real world, to everyone, all of the time
I agree that container orchestrations seem very young. I'd like to see an abstraction at a higher level and be able to define I'd like these machines to run these containers and scale when under load in this specific way.

The platform should take care of all the difficult parts of getting containers talking, provisioning servers and setting up load balancers etc.

That is the dream of docker I think and after setting up swarm they are closest but it still feels both too close the underlying infrastructure (terraform etc.) or not clear how to automate the discovery and so on.
the issue is that Linus works at LF which are sponsored by big companies(intel, etc), whose focus is on non-embedded devices, framebuffer is extremely useful for low end embedded products that have no GPU and does not need one either, there are more low-end-embedded-graphic-devices than intel/PC/data-center machines
With electric motors it optimizes differently. Torque is expensive while individual motors are cheap. Distributed propulsion makes a lot more sense.

Let's say you have one 2 MW rotor disk. Rotors are tip speed limited. Let's make it have an angular velocity a. Torque would need to be 2 MW / a.

Having four 0.5 MW disks would have same tip speed but half the span so double the angular velocity and thus each would need torque of only 0.5 MW / (2 x a). Torque dropped to one eighth, and the motor became lighter!

Now, at the one end you have a traditional helicopter with one to a few main rotors, high torque, cyclic and collective pitch in each (because torque is slow to change).

At the other end you have a huge amount of small thrusters that are directly connected to their own motor and thrust is varied by electric means.

In between you have things like intermediate number of thrusters / rotors having maybe a simple gear and/or collective pitch control.
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USPS is great for destroying both packages and the vague idea that packages just teleport to their destination.
What about not using a micro at all? Just an EPROM (burned by the camera) and a circuit to pass the image to the screen, using a clock signal to switch between images. The images would be encoded not in a regular format but essentially as a sequence of direct screen signals.
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...the assumption being that the risks are separate. This is clearly false - you are not rolling dice here, the probabilities of the same disaster at geographically "close" cities are linked.
Yeah, this should be pretty clear from the parent post talking about the TI-89. It's almost impressive how little effort actually goes into preventing cheating. It's basically honor system + harsh threats
Democracy Dies in Darkness.
I often meet people that has a secret identity because a former boyfriend/girlfriend threatens them. They never know about apps harvesting their contacts and connecting them to common friends until their ex suddenly shows up again.

This mindset of "If you havent done anything bad you dont have to worry" is so sad and ignorant of others situation.
WikiLeaks suffers a DNS poisoning attack; The Guardian claims they were “hacked”
Open source does not mean you are free to distribute the code, necessarily. It literally just means that the code is available for inspection. Paid-for open source software isn't a new thing.

You're thinking of _free_ open source software. While I'm not a huge FOSS-head, there is a distinct difference between "_free_ and open source" and just "open source". It's all in the licensing.

I could, in theory, write a license that says, basically, you can't distribute my source code, but you can look at it, compile it, and even alter it to fit your needs. In fact, a lot of licenses on older software projects allowed for exactly that.

I could also release a license that says that you can only redistribute my code if you haven't purchased it, but if you have purchased it, you're not allowed to redistribute it. Pointless? Yeah, probably. But that's still a valid license.

Anything goes, as long as you can come up with the proper legalese to put in the license.

EDIT: I get it, some people support OSI's definitions, some FSF's, and apparently sharing the opinion of one has angered the supporters of the other. A lot of this is subjective, and I know that. I'd appreciate it if you discussed and voted accordingly.
This may be able to reduce systomps, but i sincerely doubt that it can heal scared neuronal tissues, where the pressure wave induced micro-bleeding.
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Did he say that before or after the US gov bailed out Wall Street?
>we've truly lost the fascinating view of the cloudless night sky

We haven't truly lost anything, unless you're unwilling to travel for an hour or two away from light pollution. The sky is still there and you can still see it.
> have to lose for making Windows open source and requiring people to pay to use win32 apps?

Surely, if Windows is open source, we can port Wine to it and run all the win32 executables we want? Wine already runs old Windows programs better than Windows does.
I would have thought they would require fly attendants.
Up to a point. To continue the bandwidth analogy, having a buffer is cheap - unless the input link fills it faster than the output link can handle, for a prolonged period. The buffer gives you some extra time for processing, but when it fills, you are back to step 1.
What would they do? Sell handsets with a years-old Android, of course. Experience shows that the average customer doesn't give a shit about Android versions.
isn't the point then, Rayton is a cry for help from Bill Nye? as in, he wants the world's best experts on silicon and solar to come together and work 24/7 on this problem.
Lol. That is not going to happen. When I was working on a project that required access to the Windows source code, the security hoops I had to jump through were ridiculous. Can't see them abandoning all that nice security machinery.
The longer I go in computing, the more I see that Stallman was, and is right.

Last month, I joined the FSF. I find that great parts of my livelihood are thanks in part to his efforts in computing, law, and rights.
Sure thing, sorry. Just see a lot of things which probably shouldn't be here, but I suppose I should just flag and move on.
What's worse is once you've lost those short term gains, you can't actually back out since it'll actually cost you search result placements. AMP's a really shady move by Google.
~12 light-meters for our non-metrically challenge friends.
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If you can look at, but not redistribute, freely, it is called 'shared source'.
Open Source really is about free redistribution. And the difference to Free Software is mostly about the stance on community and lock-in.
The fun thing is how much code can be used from Windows in Wine.
Breastfeeding makes it harder for women to escape traditional gender roles at home (dads can get up in the middle of the night to feed the baby a bottle, but can't breastfeed; pumping isn't much easier than just breastfeeding). It also makes it more difficult when mothers return to work. It's also just inconvenient and unpleasant for a lot of women.

Obviously, before anyone makes that sacrifice, it makes a lot of sense to study whether it has any corresponding benefits.
This looks like a typical DNS cache poisoning attack[1], which takes advantage of insecure DNS caching servers. Users of those caching servers will be sent to the wrong IP, so it is a successful attack of sorts. But there isn't much the target website can do to prevent it.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_spoofing
That, and the fact it then isn't newsworthy.

A single data point isn't science. It -might- be news, if it was a super recent data point (though, obviously, requires peer review and replication). This is neither.
No, it really doesn't. Windows has had backwards compatibility as a huge priority for a long time, often to their detriment. You can literally update a machine from Windows 3.1 to windows 10, and programs written for Windows 3.1 will still work.[1]

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPnehDhGa14

EDIT: TO be clear, this is a video of upgrading to Windows 7, and there is a direct upgrade path to 10 from 7. Also, as per another user's reply, this doesn't hold true for 64-bit. However, that doesn't change the fact that Wine doesn't and really can't run win32 better than win32 does.
1 Crore = 10,000,000 in India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore
Can you recommend a website exchange I can create an account and get started?
The only problem I have with zsh is it is sloooooow. Using prezto for a powerline with git repo status.

Trying to enter a huge repo like Emacs source.... it crawls to a halt.
I kind of hoped there could be a Miles Davis one shaped like a 3D head blowing a trumpet, for example.

Or that Weird Al would release ones shaped like (a cartoonish version of) himself with the headphone plug located between his butt cheeks.
It's not being forced on anybody. You can buy the model with the function keys. You can also buy another laptop from another manufacturer.
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You are forgetting the network effect.

Even if the average person doesn't need MS Office for their own work, there will always be this one prof that emails homework assignments in MS Word format, or the accountant that sends you an Excel Workbook to fill, etc.

Yes, if you're a programmer you can probably get away without Office. But for many people who collaborate with others, having a copy of Word / Excel / Powrpoint is still pretty much essential.

(Side note: I hate people who use Google Docs for their presentations. "Oops, I guess I shouldn't have pressed the back button". "Sorry for the delay, the presentation should load any minute now". "Could everyone please turn off Wifi on their phones so the speaker can open his presentation!")
No, just not commonly used; getters and setters aren't terribly useful in a language that allows such easy direct modification of objects (as opposed to say Java)
This appears to be a new edition/refactoring/redesign of the previous version of Software Foundations. I haven't had much time to look through it but it looks like there is new material (volume 3?) (EDIT: found a hosted copy of the old version, at least for now: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/current/toc.html)

The previous version was hosted at http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/sf which now redirects to here.

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This book is very good for self-study. It teaches you Coq, a formal proof assistant/language. Formally-verified programs can be extracted from these proofs into languages like Haskell and OCaml.
That theorem, being about when every user provides a complete ranking, does not apply in this case.
Why does the government need to place restrictions on where people build? If I build a house without flood insurance and it gets washed away, it's my loss - why does the government care?

Because the cost ends up showing up in other ways. Maybe it costs more due to social safety nets needing to take care of those who lose their houses without the means to replace them. Maybe it means an increase in crime as those who lost homes/stuff get desperate if they can't recover from such a loss financially.
> Now, if you spring for the base model you get a worse battery

Except you don't get a worse battery, that's the crazy part. The base/cheaper model gets the better battery than the expensive model.

The lower-end 13-inch base MacBook Pro gets a 54.5w/hr battery, and only drives one screen. The higher-end 13-inch touchbar MacBook Pro only gets a 49.2w/hr battery, and has to drive two screens. - https://www.apple.com/macbook-pro/specs/ Presumably the TouchBar takes up enough space that they had to reduce the battery size to compensate.

So, not only do you have a touch bar you (probably) don't want, wasting battery life you'd rather keep, you also have smaller total battery capacity too. The lineup goes out of it's way to double-punish the more expensive product.
>> On one hand they're trying to be this tech savvy state by bringing in Apple and Google data centers

Which does little if anything. You want Apple and Google offices and manufacturing. Corporate datacenters don't really bring anything to your town/state. Regular datacenters that are open to other companies do.
> The big issue with this is the – afterwards you always know better – completely stupid decision of Torvalds to never support a stable API for kernel modules, or drivers.

It's not stupid. APIs need to change eventually. Even famously backwards-compatible Windows has its fair share of API changes. And when public APIs change, you can either drop support for the old one (thereby also dropping support for old hardware), or provide a compatibility mapping from the old to the new API (if that is even possible).

Linus knows that he does not have the manpower to do either. All he can realistically do is only support the current API, and require devs who change the API to update all usages inside the kernel source tree when doing so.
With water? Unlikely. Water doesn't just drop and disappear on the same spot in the middle of nowhere, it tends to move downstream, into places that are in the middle of somewhere - as we have seen with the Mississippi watershed: first Out In Nowhere, IN, then ORCS, then Lake Ponchartrain. A 500y water event in nowhere land would still propagate; the speed of water release from the drop point (sorry for not using the correct jargon) would mean the difference between a 10y event downstream or a 500y event on the go.
Yes! Its high time. Need read-only, specific groups only, read only a public profile. Of course that will be the end of these find your friends feature.
stylometry of just bitcoin source code could at least establish if there was one author or multiple.
No movie needed, I think.
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1. Agreed it's a horrible design. Luckily you can turn tabs off and go back to a normal inbox.

3. This IMO is good design and you can expand all (although I almost never need to do so myself).
Japanese sweets, especially chocolate, taste like they have less sugar to me. They might be the same, but you could be better off with them than others.
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I wonder if it makes sense to create a new uri scheme for local https access. Something along the lines of locals://<ip>, which would receive different treatment by browsers.
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Every time US healthcare comes up the insane cost and relative poor quality is mentioned, it is met with "hmmm citation needed?" like it's not been covered to death already, then the citations are then generally ignored (like here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15136962). I do not understand why people are so defensive of such a plainly awful system
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Probability 101 begins with a qualifier: "Assuming independent events..."

This can mean two things:
a) a set of events that is evidently possible, but increasingly improbable
b) events that are not independent
Quirky, but thumbs up!
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It just sounds funnily anthropomorphic that a queen bee is permitted an entourage, or a royal guard.
>If you do care about it, maybe you should be complaining much more about all of the corporations that are "Delaware" corporations to avoid state taxes instead of being corporations where they're actually located.

I fully support corporations and individuals who exercise their capacity to do business elsewhere to save money.

While competition of this type promotes a race to the bottom it's the good kind of race to the bottom. Government is like an operating system in that it should do it's job as efficiently as possible. Every resource spent doing it's job is one that people society can't use to do what they want to do.

If for example the state doesn't want people businesses registering their fleets out of state then they should make the cost of doing so in-state competitive with the cost + hassle of doing it out of state.
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Facebook messenger does this as well, yet most people aren't aware of it, nor do they consent. There definitely should be much finer grain controls over this type of thing. Imagine how violated people would feel if they had to have someone take pictures of their address book (back when they were physical) just to enter the mall, yet this occurs every day and most are unaware.
I'd say the conditions you listed are wholly acceptable, lack of milk, psychological concerns etc. I fully support women who choose to formula feed.

I've found though that most people push formula more than anything. My partner and I have just had our first baby, she's fully breastfed and barely a day goes by where people ask whether we're supplementing with formula as breast milk does not contain the right or enough nutrition for them.

I side with breast milk first and and foremost if it's a viable option as I'm less inclined to believe large formula manufactures such as Nestle really have the best of interests.
no.. you're assuming that other species develop technology at a similar rate, and that our current progress will continue at the same rate. Both are things we don't know.

There may be hard limits that stop development of technology past a certain point. Like Moore's law coming to an end, but one day we may not have any viable alternatives.
This is why middle management exists -- to insulate working groups from hard-and-fast commitments and timelines. They do this by using their professional experience and understanding of the capability of their teams to know what overall product to promise under what kind of timeline.

I don't know about many companies with 50 or more people where the CEO "does agile" personally, for instance.
There are many different kinds of ketchup. Japanese ketchup is less sweet, and tastes like it has more tomato in it for example.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

> Publications like NYT, WSJ, the Economist, and the New Yorker have paywalls that leave ways for readers to work around them. Such stories are OK to post to Hacker News. Yes, the workarounds are a nuisance, but the loss of many substantive articles would be worse. In the future, when someone doesn't understand this, please politely direct them to this thread or to HN's FAQ [1], which now makes this explicit.
I've played some of the popular DS games on a smartphone with a minuscule second screen and I barely touched it. Most of its uses felt forced
I feel a lot of the purpose of jargon in academia is simply to avoid disagreements. It's easy to agree with a metaphor, because you can interpret it however you like.
This.

Every time you see a trailer registered in Maine there's a very good chance that it was registered there to skirt high registration prices and onerous requirements in it's own state. Maine's making money because other states are such a pain to deal with that people would rather skirt the law.

Google "NH state liquor store" for another good example.
Ardent creationists are not just people with strange beliefs. They are people who have built their lives around promoting and defending harmfully bad ideas.

If you have evidence that debating them helps, I look forward to seeing it. But from what I've seen, a credible person sharing a stage with a loon elevates the loon. Treating nonsense as sense devalues sense.
https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

> Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. When you flag something, please don't also comment that you did.
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>The work of Karl Popper suggests than human knowledge also progresses in an evolutionary manner, by conjecture and refutation.

Human knowledge in general might, but I'm talking about how humans take action and shape the world around them vs how evolution does.

Conjecture and refutation are not like random mutations -- that's just the "survival of the fittest" part of evolution, which is not the actual mechanism and which applies to everything (after all, anything that survives is fitter that what didn't).
It's a big and very active business.

In 2009 alone, doctors implanted ~225,000 pacemakers in the US: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21707667

Germany had the highest reported rate of new implants for any country in the study, at almost 1/1000 just in 2009. In the US that would be 300,000 per year just in new devices, and based on the study's aggregate reporting we could guess another 1/3 for replacement devices - 400,000 new devices per year as a high guess.

There's probably better info in the article but I don't have journal access and don't want to spend $6 to get it for this article.
Since no relationship is expected to last more than a few years these modern days, perhaps people should be educated to choose better their boy/girlfriends in view of what will happen after the breakup.
Probably with one or more ex-Apple employees hired the poaching goes so much easier.
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The elephant in the room is that humanities have zero predictive power

Are they meant to? I don't read Tolstoy or play the piano because I think it will enable me to predict the future.
Because there was some huge breakthrough since eliminating threading issues?

(If you answer just use Erlang, CSP or any other variation, well, my point exactly).
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Monero is the -only- option that offers fungible currency. Monero Research Lab is actively employing full time PHD researchers to asses and improve where needed the strength of the underlying crypto and the implementation thereof. Zcash is not an acceptable substitute, as is the common opinion- I mention this only because you say "monero is on of a few options".