skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Almost twenty years ago now I had an "aha" moment about QM courtesy of John Preskill (http://www.theory.caltech.edu/people/preskill/) that made it all come together for me: entanglement and measurement are the same physical phenomenon. Once you understand that, everything else makes perfect sense, and QM is no more difficult to understand than relativity. See:

http://www.flownet.com/ron/QM.pdf

for the writeup I did at the time. There's also a Google tech talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEaecUuEqfc

It's dismaying to me that even 20 years later QM is still presented as a deep mystery. It's not.
> U.S. investors include Apple, Dell, Kingston Technology and Seagate Technology
I did use the phrase "objectively worse". I see no substantiation for that yet. Also, this depends a lot on what they were looking for when they voted. I can easily say one of these: I do/don't like the outcome. However, I find it difficult to say: "they collectively chose incorrectly".

I do, however, agree that in general a population deserves whatever it is that they voted for.
"But I do feel that I have become wiser over the years. Or I have become less unwise over the years, however you want to put it" - love this.

Also, this article does seem to point out that it's ok if by 25 yrs of age you're not a self-made billionaire
No, it's the consequence of merging two vastly different economies too fast. When the wall came down, most progressives in East Germany (i.e. those called "dissidents" by the Socialists) argued for a confederation of both German states with the longterm target of reunification. The West German government forced a quick reunification in order for their own companies to buy up the useful assets of East German economy via the Treuhandanstalt [1].

It's basically the same problem that you have inside the European Union today: Vastly different economies have been forced into a common currency without a political framework that pushes for a harmonic integration of the constituent economies, resulting in the industry sector of relatively underdeveloped economies like Greece to be utterly crushed by the German industry, degrading them to a source of cheap labor for German (or rather: multinational) corporations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treuhandanstalt
The Unfair Competition
> I fully 100% support people [...] and their right to privacy. [...] So for now, they can have my data.

Unfortunately, these are conflicting goals. It is not enough not to tag photos.

For example, if you use Gmail, they have your address book, hence they have names and emails of other people.

Or, if you publish photos of a group of people, and Google/FB/etc. have working face recognition, they know these people are connected with you (and with each other), and at which time and location you all came together.

But imagine they don't even get that from you. If they know private information from yourself, you are training their system to extract that information from others, too. For example, if you are homosexual then you tech them how to recognize homosexuals. If you are heterosexuals, you teach them how to better distinguish homosexuals from heterosexuals. Same for other types of private information.

It is impossible to show everything from oneself, and at the same time respect the privacy of vulnerable people nearby oneself.
What is the added value of things not looking like C?
Nonsense, Youtube and Netflix offer two completely different services.
I think that what people are missing is the premise of acceptable level of exploitation.

In the U.S., there is no limit on this. The violence of poverty is completely overlooked as is the incredibly uneven playing field.

The healthcare industry is set to extract maximum profit with minimum service and people who cannot afford the premiums are left without care options/face bankruptcy.

This is just one of the many forces increasing income inequality.

Similarly, education is expensive not because it costs that much but because it is set to maximize profits.

I’d say that dentists making 150k is less of an issue than the fast food workers making 1/8 of that with minimum wage which has not increased in decades and a house median cost is above 600k-1m.

Human beings are not seen as having dignity or value beyond the exploitable.
Maybe we just too lazy to find out how bad some idea is. LOL
In the browser you can always reload the page which presumably does the same thing (full sync).

Already did that twice today in Evernote.
Ask HN: Please review my portfolio site
Two weeks after starting to learn HTML and CSS, this is my personal site. I would love some feedback on the CSS, UI, and Design.

Portfolio images are placeholders.
Please also test responsiveness and mobile performance.
Thank you!
URL: https://weilisdesign.000webhostapp.com/
clickable link: https://weilisdesign.000webhostapp.com/
"Previously preoccupied mostly by sex and alcohol during the long two months of the school vacation, our youth were bloated with testosterone and boosted by a huge surge in political consciousness" - just brilliant

Seems that if you actually would do this in a 1st world country, it could be beneficial for the society (but horrible for the economy)
DNA surgery on embryos removes disease
You can relate this with Young Brash Jobs vs Old Mature Jobs who made better choices!
I agree: there are no rules in a language.

The baseline is to try to produce something that can be understood by your public, so try to stick to whatever convention they are used to, or come up with new ways that they can make a sense of.

But I won't even call that a "rule".
I get numerous requests to my (macOS) computer for ntpd to connect to shady subnets when I'm connected to a particular commercial VPN:

https://twitter.com/petecooper/status/911946604759977984

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DKficrvW4AA1Hxm.jpg:large

Numerous hosts across numerous networks, perhaps two or three an hour.

I've wondered what exactly would be gained by resetting a clock to a different time – this is a useful article.
Amazon S3 point in time restore
Yeah, sorry for the confusion. The placeholders and the compact style (no gutters) were added in the homepage for puerly aesthetic purposes, but these things take a lot of bytes without really adding functionnality, so we decided to not count them in the most golfed code. You can see a version with labels and localStorage persistence at the bottom of the page though. But thanks for your edit!
Definitely Fastest and Zero Allocation JSON Serializer for C#
> Assignment as an expression is bug-prone

Can be fixed without syntax change other than returning void.

> The precedence for the binary operators is wonky

But that's the precedence everyone is accustomed with. D enhance this by forbidding some non-parenthesized dangerous expressions.

> Optional braces in if statements make the grammar ambiguous and is also bug prone (the infamous Apple goto bug)

I've definately seen such bugs.

> The type-declaration syntax is convoluted and people need tools like cdecl to understand the more tricky ones.

This is fixed in languages that still feel C-like in syntax.

> The cast syntax is ambiguous and resolving this ambiguity relies on adding dirty hacks to the lexer to tell the parser about type names.

Yup.
Southwest airlines website unavailable outside of the US for months
Rust also has this issue, unless you fully validate every single pointer coming out of unsafe blocks.
That isn't an argument for removing options or a "simpler" UI (which is usually a euphemism for "inflexible", "fewer features/capabilities"). Yes, non-technical people are often reluctant to experiment due to fears about breaking something. The solution to this problem is to have very clear boundaries around anything that actually does cause irreversible changes (or other "important" actions) while designing the rest of the UI in a way that emphasizes - explicitly, if necessary - that everything is ephemeral.

Having a very clear boundary between "safe for experimentation" and anything permanent/important is the most important part. People will learn to experiment if you explain that nothing will be saved until they press the visually distinct "Save Changes") button. When relevant, explain they can use the clearly marked "reload"/"reset" button to return to the original ("fixed") version, so they have a reason to feal safe experimenting.

"Magic"/"DWIM" interfaces and functionally overloaded UI features undermine confidence that experimenting is "safe", because they are hard to predict.
Haha ;)
I'm always confused by comments like these - they seem almost intentionally misleading, but of course it could also be just a mistake while quickly scanning an article.
I agree that almost all medical providers that take insurance do not compete on price.

However, even for medical services that insurance doesn't cover or cash only practices, people are terrible consumers. One of the biggest problems I see is that people have no idea on how to judge a physician and take price as a proxy for quality. For example, I found out my doctor did a medical treatment (not covered by insurance) for $150. Three other doctors quoted me $750-1150. One quoted $3500. When I told my friends about this bargain they all looked at me like I was insane. When I told my other healthcare providers, they went "Who? Oh, I know him. He does that? For $150? Really?! I'll have to go see him."

With dentistry, there's often total annual payment caps on insurance and a lot isn't covered. When I managed a call center I was astounded by how much the agents paid for dental work. They would just literally see dentist referral ad on TV, go to that dentist, and then when quoted $6k, would just go "ok" and agree. Of course, I also saw many of these people pay thousands above sticker on cars with no shortage (Nissan Altima).
It won't, this is accounted for in the spec; cf. "pivot dates" (IIRC).
I was perhaps hyperbolic, after all I remember the domain name to access the network application, but I'm a programmer and I only do it for a limited number of applications. Otherwise I use one of the applications I remember to find the ones that are not among my most frequently used. In this way it calls into question the whole killer app thing of having a domain name, because in most cases you need something sitting between you and the domain name that gives you the right domain name for what you want loaded.
I see your point now, thanks. Still personally think that this makes people more "stiff" and more "false", so to speak, which I personally don't like. Maybe it's a cultural thing (I live in Eastern Europe, am in my mid-30s now).
This is quite specific to US English, for example "Top Ten Tips" number 2 about quotation marks. As Robert Bringhurst says in The Elements of Typographic Style:

Most North American editors like their commas and periods inside the raised
commas, "like this;" but their colons and semicolons outside. Many
British editors prefer to put all punctuation outside, with the milk
and the cat.
I think part of the explanation is cultural changes over time. The EU is very much a symbol of internationalism/globalism, even if localised into a continental context, while Brexit is a nationalistic rebellion against it. Nationalism was more popular/accepted in the past (especially so for British nationalism), so older people tend to be more sympathetic to nationalism, and hence more likely to support Brexit. Whereas, I think the popular culture is moving away from nationalism and towards internationalism/globalism instead. (Not universally – subgroups like the alt right are moving in the other direction, but they are a minority.) Part of that move is no doubt due to the Internet, which helps people see themselves as part of one planet by interacting with people in other countries on a regular basis. Teenagers watching YouTube are just as likely to watch videos from other countries as their own (provided they understand the language), which is accelerating the process of global unification of popular culture which the media and entertainment industries had already begun. But these sorts of cultural changes always effect the younger people the most, whereas older people are more likely to retain cultural outlooks prevalent when they were younger. The young are naturally a leading indicator of social and cultural change, the old a trailing indicator of it.

(It is more complicated in that a lot of younger people can be positive about globalist/internationalist institutions such as the EU and the UN over nation-states, yet also often quite sympathetic to separatist nationalisms such as those of Scotland, Catalonia, the Basque country, Kosovo, Palestine, Kurdistan, Tibet, West Papua, etc. To some extent that seems contradictory, and the idealist tendency of the young to support the underdog may explain that contradiction; on the other hand, to support regional nationalisms can be in a way anti-nationalistic, in that supporting smaller nationalisms against larger ones (e.g. Scottish nationalism against British nationalism, Basque/Catalan nationalism against Spanish nationalism) can be seen as consistent with a broader anti-nationalist outlook–one can foresee a future for Europe in which the existing nation-states are sucked away simultaneously in both directions, upward by the growth in power of the EU and downward by devolutionist and secessionist movements (that are hopeful that the structures of the EU might make their devolutionist or secessionist projects easier and more successful.))
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Million dollar homepage is nothing compared to this one hundred billion dollar homepage
People over look his (and his companies) contribution to photography. even an indirect impact was felt in the world of image processing with the Lenna image, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenna . Playboy pushed how people were photographed to new levels.

He was willing to publish what others were not; see The Crooked Man; hired some of the best writers in the industry, and went on to start careers of writers. His pushing the boundaries of free speech are very important to where we are today. his support of women's and gay rights are often overlooked as well.

he shaped society back in a day before internet and to an extent that may be greater than some internet and tech giants of today
This is going to give me actual nightmares. Not only database cleanups, but there are quite a few automated backup cycling scripts which would happily throw out terabytes of data this way...
I had this bug on Google Drive a few months ago, as I recall the solution was to unlink-relink my account.
Precisely what the Rosenhan experiment revealed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosenhan_experiment
I live in the Netherlands, and have been trying to access the southwest airlines website for months.
I've always failed at this, and the website simply blurts out:

Access Denied
You don't have permission to access "http://www.southwest.com/" on this server.
Reference #18.93643e17.1506590830.9a2c74

I've contacted customer support, and had this brief exchange:

"Well thank you for following up with us! Are you trying to access our website outside of the U.S. by chance? ^Emilia

Yes, i am in the Netherlands. Why would that make any difference?

We've been made aware that some Customers outside of North America are experiencing trouble with http://Southwest.com, and we are working hard to resolve this issue. In the meantime, we'd be happy to help you phone at 1-800-435-9792. While we are unable to book reservations through social media, if you have any questions, we're also happy to help with those through here. ^Emilia
"
I'm not sure where you got the idea that "control over emotions" equals "not displaying emotions". I'd say it rather equals "not acting on emotions".

Situation: You are angry at a person.

- Control over emotion: You tell them you're angry and why.

- Lack of control: You punch them in the face.

Situation: You see a person in need of help.

- Control over emotion: You allocate reasonable amounts of resources to help them.

- Lack of control: You drop everything and spend all resources availabel to help them.

Anecdata time. The later situation was comically obvious a month or so ago in Sweden. We have a group of people (supposedly) from Afghanistan that may or may not get deported. They are protesting in our capital, and the protest had been going on for some time. A high profile lawyer raises some money (amounting to a couple of thousand dollars) in order to support these people. He goes to where the protesters are assembled. The first person he speaks to, he feels so sorry for that he decides just to give her the entire sum of money he has raised, and be done with it.

I'd argue that (apart from committing borderline fraud), this person displayed an unreasonable lack of control over his "love and tenderness". He spent a fairly large amount of money that could have been used to help a large group of people on a single individual on the spur of the moment.

Having emotions is not wrong. Showing them is not wrong either. Letting them get the best of you (i.e. lacking control over them) often is.
How Important Are Qualifications to Modern Technology Jobs?
How Tattoodo Uses AI to Help You Find Your Next Tattoo
MarineTraffic.com, though without the cargo manifests.
I think I see what you're meaning, but this code actually generates all the cells (<input onfocus=... onblur=... id=...>). You can execute it in a JS console and it'll work fine.
HandmadeCon 2016 – History of Software Texture Mapping in Games
Up to. Ancient diets are extremely environment dependent and variable. One week a tribe could be 100% nuts and berries, only for next week to be 100% meat, because tribe stumbled upon migratory herd of animals.

It's plausible some tribes didn't eat humans, while others ate humans after wars or on predefined occasion. Like e.g. when important person dies, or moon is full, or there isn't anything else to eat.
Hey, thanks!
Would you like me to write a commented version of that code?
A lot of black magic is still hidden in every line :)
Blockchain-like ID may mean end of paper birth certificates
Internet Explorer can be exploited to read what you type in the URL bar
This sounds suspiciously like an ad...
The social structure shift is really not about preference, it is about collective power and violence. Although people may prefer the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, the neighbor farm-based civilization will conquer and enslave them.

It is also the same for technology/AI. They may not improve our quality of life, but they allow more powerful armies that would defeat those who resist them.

It's sad but it's true.
A New Electric Vehicle Sharing Startup Has Quietly Launched in Santa Monica
I think you're underestimating just how reliant all but the most trivial firms are on reliable communications for even basic operations, and just how many of those communications touch the internet at some level. Sibling comment mentions "just in time" supply chains, even "once a month" supply chains would collapse because nobody would know what to load in the trucks, and nobody would know which drivers were supposed to go where. I would not assume that government benefits payments would work unaffected, and especially not that you could "call the state for voice auths" (that sounds like something that involves VOIP and an outsourced datacenter).

Ironically, the big banks and credit card clearing houses and the electronic payments they facilitate would probably be among the least affected, because they still largely run on in-house mainframes and dedicated lines. Assuming that the POTS telephone network still work, the last generation of credit card terminals (dial-up) might actually still work.
> "an ant on your northern leg"

That looks exactly like my google maps' navigator. "Head north" it says, like I have any idea where the north is
Top 6 UI Trends Emerging in 2017
I'm about ad "anti-big-corn" as it gets, but this HFCS propaganda has got to end. It's literally just sugar. Too much sugar makes you sick. The fact that HFCS is liquid and cheap means you can put it in more food, but at the end of the day it just comes down to the fact that "too much sugar is bad."
If you want something similar for GitHub, you can probably combine GitHub + Travis.

You can set things up so Travis has a bunch of encrypted variables and can push to your github.
Since the article goes into this, a couple things about selling into large companies:

- The amount that they will try to squeeze you and give you the runaround is highly dependent on the personalities and the resources of the team that you’re selling to; it’s not generally consistent across the entire company, unless you’re dealing with a central purchasing department (hopefully you’re not, except for processing your PO). Of course, it also depends on the amount of value that your product provides compared to their current or potential internal solutions, as well as your competitors.

- Getting paid promptly is much easier if you write your contract with milestones and require receipt of payment for a previous milestone before work on the next milestone begins. Invoice in advance so the “net 30” expires on the day you want to be paid, or demand “due upon receipt” terms.
But where the real magic happens is that you can still build them, even if you cannot read them, if they are required as (direct or indirect) dependencies of your code.
Problem is that when these hints push you in the wrong direction

One of the examples there was a Chinese character being drawn as something like a 2. The character looks nothing like a 2
Slightly off-topic: I advise all fellow hackers ignore MS-authored opensource due to attitude like like that:
https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/3093
https://github.com/dotnet/cli/issues/6086
> There are no words for this slush-like substance that falls from the sky, sometimes as small clumps but other times in clumps large enough that you can hear them hit the ground.

That sounds like what we call "räntä" in Finland, which, according to Wikipedia, is called "sleet" in Commonwealth countries.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rain_and_snow_mixed#Terminolog...
I think it can also be situational as well - you can obviously be freer with emotions with close friends then at work.

(46, English)
Exactly; you are referring to survivorship bias -

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias
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Yes, please! It doesn't have to be a visible button, the scroll hard past the top of the list gesture is fine. Just show a spinner until you actually received a server response. I hate opening a weather app just to see the weather from last time I opened it. Even the most perfect sync code will not work when my internet connection is broken. I'd rather find out so I can fix it than look at old data.

Btw, why does the web Gmail refresh button not actually load new emails unless I press it twice?
I had mostly been to physio's, but, I had had an MRI too..just to make sure.
Actually, I believe the blog post was better as an introduction to Wallaroo.
Ask HN: How do you handle Appstore IPv6 rejection?
There are.

One thing you need to do is to check out if you have roof access and rights to put something on it. Depending on the situation you have with your flat, you could already have all that's needed to be able to put antennas on the roof! For instance, in my country (Poland), being an owner of a flat gives you rights to access the roof and put some small stuff on it.

If you happen to be renting, or otherwise can't use the roof, then you still probably can put a smaller antenna on your window or balcony.

The general principle is this: the higher you can put your antennas, the better.