skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What I mean is that waste heat is equivalent to decoherence. If you use superconductors to do work, then they are no longer superconducting - that work introduces resistance. To do otherwise would violate conservation of energy.

I'm not sure how to make it more clear, but decoherence happens because some energy / information is transmitted into the environment. That loss of information is why superpositions collapse.

Maybe the confusion is what I mean by superconducting - I mean zero resistance circuits. It's not about what it's made of.
It'd be interesting to go into more details:

- what if it's e-ink?

- what if it's paginantes rather than scrolled?

- what if there are multiple screens?

- what if it's a very large screen?

Etc.

There must à factor that matters most than others
Robert Scoble and Me
Your last point is important. The author seems to assume that the priests are honest and trying to do the right thing. Given human nature, I have trouble believing that a person with unilateral decision making authority over the fate of another always does the right thing. Far more likely, as you suggest, that he punishes those he does not like (out group members, didnt pay him enough, etc)
Whilst the headline is technically accurate for the 448 incidents noted, the article doesn't really back up its claims that this is a much more widespread problem.
It doesn't seem to say that you can't ask a person what they wish to be paid, right? A recruiter can ask the company their range, ask the employee what they're looking for (not what they were paid before) and match the two.
What would it even mean for “science” to have failed? Science is just testing your assumptions against reality to gain knowledge.

If you mean the academic institution of, uh, Big Science or whatever you’d call it—sure, it has failed in its current incarnation to impose the rigour for reproducibility, and incentive toward reproduction. But academic institutional cultures evolve in response to noticing problems like that. Like software evolves in response to discovering vulnerabilities. A given institutional culture (like a given piece of software) won’t have the same vulnerability twice; if Big Science is still having crises 1000 years from now, they will be new and different crises.
"We must not allow a mineshaft gap!"
A more poetic cinematic exploration of that topic if Verdens Undergang, best watched accompanied by a good orchestra
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_the_World_%281916_f...

Sorry, if humanity allows it to come as far as requiring mineshafting for pure self-inflicted ecological overexploitation, it does not deserve survival.
Thunderbolt is developed by Intel.

As for Apple products, it's available on the desktop (using Intel CPU's/chipsets) but not compatible with their iOS devices. So it's far from "universal" given that iOS devices are an overwhelming majority of their sales.

My intuition is that USB-C standards will eventually replace most Thunderbolt interfaces (e.g. for eGPUs etc.)
Hey, Piotrek Koszuliński from CKEditor here.

As a matter of fact, we're involved in the W3C's Editing Task Force since the beginning. Me and Fred (the author of the blog post) were on the first meeting in Berlin back in 2014 and I've been in Paris the year after. Unfortunately, since then many meetings were held outside Europe and they were also concerned with more technical parts of the spec(s) to which it's harder for us to contribute. However, we still try to contribute as much as we can... but I have to say it's tough.

The problem is that this topic is vast and extremely complicated. Rich-text editing itself is complicated, but when you start considering all the languages (e.g. RTL mixed with LTR, IME), different types of devices and interaction models (software keyboards, block selection on touch devices), different OSes, clipboard, context menus, accessibility (!!), and what else is there, then you just want to quit.

In 2014 we believed in the contentEditable=minimal approach where contentEditable was just meant to provide an input/output layer. Even most of the browser people (all that I can remember) were positive about the idea. We were meant to get a cancellable `beforeinput` event and more reliable Selection and Range APIs. 3 years later and things moved forward (the event is available in some browsers), but so many topics are still open that it's hard to say what's the ETA for all of this.

For example, recently it turned out that IME is a bigger blocker than we thought. Android implements IME APIs in such a way which makes cancelling `beforeinput` impossible to handle on their side.

Simultaneously, there's a recurring idea to drop contentEditable completely and implement a completely new set of APIs. If you'd analyse how many APIs we're talking about you'd welcome contentEditable with open hands. I'm slowly starting accepting the fact that contentEditable needs to be replaced one day and that contentEditable=minimal approach may not be fully feasible, but I expect that we're talking here about next 10 years or more. There's no middle road here – either all the APIs are implemented and stable or contentEditable remains our only weapon.

BTW, I'd like to take this occasion to mention Johannes Wilm from Fidus Writer who's leading the Editing Task Force's work. Without him the whole thing would die sooner or later. We can all give feedback, but someone needs to lead the work and process feedback from all the involved parties.
When people say they make 140 stock, you mean you got stock options worth $140k and if you don't have to spend a penny to cash it out outside of taxes?
Windows is better and more efficient than it ever was, thanks to many improvements since Windows 8.

https://np.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/74xc2z/windows_an...

Most default Windows apps are UWP with Fluent Design now, and more are migrating towards that since they have major advantages that you won't find on Mac and most Linux distros

https://np.reddit.com/r/Windows10/comments/75lgti/announcing...

Also, your other points mostly contain misinformation.
Cassandra 3.11.1 Released
Ouch. This can be a dealbreaker for me.
Can self-improving AI predict behaviors in emergent environments? Will they?
The killer feature you should add is support for hosting an API, for trial usage. The escrow service would affirm that the trial API endpoint was produced by hosting a container on a given instance size.

The client then knows that the solution works and is runnable. The integration onus is then on the client, because the software has passed inspection before delivery.
> I was split between using Emacs and Vim for last 2 years

You're going to have to pick a side. You can't be an atheist that dabbles in Catholicism.
I’d expect the conditioning to be subconscious. Doesn’t matter the computer is locked down. Your brain sees a computer, which triggers a multitasking, distraction-rich mode.
So I wanted to have a look at the studies they did. One would cost me $36 dollar to see, the other $42 for 24 hour access and $102 for 30 days access.

tl;dr you don't want me to read your research.
Most likely not, and you risk disruption of underground water flows by injecting huge amounts of concrete into the ground...
Here's my kids doing their bit to protect the biomass in my back yard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukZA4Y7usQk

But in all seriousness, yes.. lawns are evil. Created in Victorian Britain to demonstrate wealth.. "look at me, I can afford to have un-productive land". I try to minimise them as much as possible on my 1.5 acre lot. Veggie gardens, mushroom logs, wetland and lots of dead wood as in the video

That all said, I keep a couple of hives, this might be the last year. For the last couple of year my otherwise very healthy hives have collapsed around this very time of year, I just noticed one wasn't doing well all of a sudden.

Roughly when everyone is putting stuff on their lawns for winter, especially the golf course a 1/4 mile away. I know correlation is not causation but it's an unusual time for hives to fail, they've been working all summer building up and it is this point that they are their strongest.

Frankly, my feeling has been for a while that we, as a species, are at the end of our golden age.
If that is painful, you should have automated it. I don't even know how many certs I have ATM (maybe 20 or 30 or so), because it's so easy to add new domains. I described my setup here: https://blog.bethselamin.de/posts/how-i-run-certbot.html
Skip this article (which hilariously tries to rename and redefine a hash properties) and play with this instead: https://anders.com/blockchain/
What if there isn't any other app (Whatsapp, Slack, Facebook, ...) running next to it :)
Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 Released
I tend to agree with your sentiment, but

> this would never

From experience, I now pause and consider twice any statement I make using never. You know, I thought Facebook would never become dominant using such a one-size-fits-all interface where I can't even choose a theme or even my color, let alone which elements to be displayed and in which order (I keep thinking their UI is ugly to this day, if this was our 'home' it feels it looks like a housing project on internet to me). Or back in 2010 when I bought an iPhone 4 and later an iPad 2, I thought Apple would never keep iOS so dumbed down compared to OSX (e.g. "Smart" features, a great first step into intuitive automation, the real graal of computers imho, lest one thinks it's OK to become a robot and click/tap thirty times to perform thirty times the same operation).

So... yeah, I don't know. Everything says you're right today, but with just the right tools/apps, a good Linux distro tailored to popular phones could reach the same level of popularity than, say, iPhones (currently ~10% of the market, roughly one in ten Android phones).
Predicting Political Bias with Python
The part you are overlooking are the contributions that OEMs stop doing, because thanks clang they no longer have to.

Not everyone contributes back to LLVM thanks license.

Just like the *BSD hardly see the same contribution from all those embedded devices, as Linux enjoys.
one of the tables in the article mentions something called "word2tensor" but google doesn't throw up anything

except this tweet which seems to be from a conference
https://twitter.com/ic/status/756918600846356480?lang=en

does anyone have any info about it?
Priests are as close as it gets to professional liars, why would they tell the truth at all unless it served their interests?
Depends a bit on how small you can get a chromebook. After all, the smallest tablets are in the 7-8" screen range, while most chromebooks i have seen are 10"+.
It would be interesting to learn if it is a casual dependency or correlation also with respect to these factors
In a perfect world manufacturers would give out this information, but it's understandable that they wouldn't (this doesn't mean that I don't think they should, but I know why they wouldn't). The issue is with "locked" bootloaders–the manufacturer is going through extra effort to make sure you can't run another operating system on your phone. This is inexcusable since it's not just a passive lack of helpfulness, it's an intent to make sure you can't have full control of your phone.
Docker grows to >8GB. I have 13GB free, 486GB used. My free space fluctuates by as much as 20GB depending on how much RAM I'm using. (And by "I'm" I mean "Chrome.")

I've never felt the need to install docker on my local dev environment. It's great for production, and I'm sure it's great for people who can afford the disk space. But when space became tight, Docker was the first to get the axe. I haven't missed it yet.
Because the effort to make it possible is non-zero, while the userbase which would actually use it is close to zero. In my experience of enterprise software development, anything that costs more than 0 and is not essential is just not getting done, because....well, why would it be?
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I was primarily addressing parent re: the classification of security vs. commodity. I agree with you 100% that the danger lays with the investor and it falls under the designation of a 'security' without a doubt[0].

And again, you're right - the SEC doesn't take kindly to unregulated capital raising. (There's a reason why the designation of 'accredited investor[2]' had capital requirements to begin with-- to be legally invest in an ICO, or any block-chain based currency, you have to either have a net worth of >1MM or an earned income of >200k (>300k if filing with a spouse) for the last two years.) Investor safety isn't really what we're discussing here though, so much as which federal agency has regulatory control.

I was going to basically say what JumpCrisscross said, but he beat me to the punch[3]. Until we see some federal case law to set precedent, it's anyones game.

==

[0] "On July 25, 2017, the SEC issued a Report of Investigation under Section 21(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934... determining that DAO Tokens were securities."

[1] https://www.sec.gov/oiea/investor-alerts-and-bulletins/ib_co...

[2] https://investor.gov/additional-resources/news-alerts/alerts...

[3] After clicking on his profile, it was all made clear, haha
One thing that never clicked with me before is that the blockchain is really just a historical ledger, its not actually referenced in real time. When you send a transaction out on the network, nobody is actually validating it against the blockchain. Instead every node is expected to process the blockchain to produce a realtime database called the UXTO which provides a fast lookup to tell you if coins can be spent or not. So the blockchain is a history or transactions, while the UXTO is a statement of all current balances.

So while the BTC blockchain is 137 GB in size, the UXTO is only 2.7 GB which easily fits in memory.
Worth noting that Uber's licence to operate in the UK is issued to a UK registered company.
FWIW, KDE 5 has supported fractional scaling since ... as far back as I can remember.
The closest to a "generic" smartphone is probably the Mediatek reference platform(s), indeed found in various Chinese smartphones. Except for presence/absence of certain peripherals like sensors, those tend to be almost identical in hardware and software. Source is unfortunately not officially available but occasionally leaked along with (extensive) documentation, and there's a small community of developers who work on these cheap devices. As a bonus, they also tend to have a completely unlocked-by-default bootloader.

https://www.slashdata.co/blog/2013/05/the-mediatek-phenomeno...
Does it still maintain phone functionality (sms, calling, data)?
Because it never was about justice in the first place. Think of it as keeping score and looking tough.
Because the alternatives are worse.
Ask HN: Most efficient mono/multithreaded algorithms examples?
I'm looking for algotithms example which mainstream monothreaded implemantation vastly overpower multithreaded attempt vice versa. I would like to study why so and if there is some pattern to know before if you shold go multi or mono.
There's a bunch of plugins like that, here's a couple of the most popular ones:

- https://github.com/prabirshrestha/asyncomplete.vim

- https://github.com/lifepillar/vim-mucomplete

- https://github.com/roxma/nvim-completion-manager

- https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe
In addition to tptacek's comment, we already know a bunch of ways where the RSA primes would be weak. And we don't check for them when generating RSA primes because they have almost no chance of occurring.
Because that doesn't share memory.
Surely that gets(sbrk(0)) will not work since sbrk(0) returns a pointer to unmapped memory. Maybe you wanted sbrk(BUFSIZ)?
Ubuntu 17.10 Now Available to Download, This Is What's New – OMG Ubuntu
#harambe
Xerox and AT&T were true outliers. And I would name IBM before Microsoft.

Still, as far as I know, neither MS nor IBM funds truly basic research without considering some kind of potential return.

On the other hand, the NSF doesn't consider ROI at all because it's funded by us taxpayers.
Discovery of 500km lunar cave raises hopes for human colonisation of the moon
Why the Taj Mahal is at the center of India's cultural wars
Galen Erso.
Jeez man. They want to do something extra cool and you shit on them for not openly supporting old devices. Nobody is stopping you from rooting your device and installing whatever you want on it.
Could also be 'Thank you for showing your interest in Samsung for the Galaxy project'?
And doctors and lawyers, and everyone else on average too.

And while average pay is higher in America than in any other large (i.e. necessarily general purpose) economy, I'm specifically pointing out that performance/merit reward is greater in America.
> they're working on better docs which should help out quite a bit.

That'd be great, because I currently can't find a niche where Rust is so much better than Python that I won't just fall back to that, impeding my Rust progress.

> IIRC someone is working on the ESP stuff...

That's what I heard too, but progress seems stalled. Hopefully, in the end, it'll be easy to run on the ESP, but the biggest problem is the ecosystem (which is also much of the reason why I don't use micropython all the time). There are so many libraries for the Arduino framework that C is hard to escape.
How to: Test a web crawler with RSpec
Guidelines on writing a Philosophy Paper
The issue list [1] shows a very short list of minor patches. Cutting a release is more than patches - testing and packaging is a lot of work. However, I do wonder at the motivation for this release, since the wider OSS world has been advocating LO and deprecating AOO for some time.

[1] https://bz.apache.org/ooo/buglist.cgi?list_id=233429&query_f...
We move at the start of the year to a house in the country here in Scotland that is pretty much surrounded by farmland and I've been amazed at the amount of insect life in our garden - particularly the amount of bees and butterflies.

However, because the area round us is rather hilly it is all low intensity cattle and sheep rearing. It's probably at least 15 kms (mostly over sea) to the nearest arable farming - who are presumably the heaviest users of insecticides.
Yeah, but you need the actual programs, and when I last looked termux didn't build packages that use X and didn't include the libraries to compile them yourself (or at least I couldn't find them)
> How could an ordeal-administering priest make boiling water innocuous to an innocent defendant’s flesh? By making sure that it wasn’t actually boiling.

I had no idea that this kind of things was actually staged. Should I understand that even the priests did not actually believe in God's influence in this, and that instead they used the whole thing as a psychological trick?

If so, that says a lot about religion in general.
Backroom battle imperils $230M cryptocurrency venture Tezos
Until USB-C it doesn't carry analog audio.

Like the iPod itself, it's not a question of new functionality, but better usability/popularity of existing functionality. The revolutionary aspect was that you could just drop an iPod into the dock and it would start playing your music through the dock's speakers, while also charging. This didn't require the dock to be "smart", it was analog audio.
The time, labor and money spent for unity in the end went to waste.
Once again I'm sorry for the lack of reply. Back in I.2013 our team was much smaller and we were overloaded with post release stuff shortly after launching CKEditor 4.0.0. So lots of emails were left unattended :(
Tade0 (buongiorno!) was right that at that time we were not looking for junior developers, but ofc the lack of reply was a mistake on my side.
The Linux Device Tree infrastructure was created as a hardware description for hardware that cannot describe itself at runtime, which is mostly ARM SoCs. However that only works when hardware drivers are wired up to the device tree infrastrucure instead of being fully hardcoded. Given the usual bare minimum investment in software by most embedded hardware vendors, many/most drivers probably aren't.

Given a set of hardware with the same instruction set and drivers with full device tree support, one can now create one kernel for the whole set.
> the kernel needs to be tailored to the specific phone

Out of interest, would it be possible to operate an ARM SoC system like a generic x86 system, if drivers were upstreamed? Or is there too much SoC specific code?
I'm not sure that hard work is an essential to success, indeed I think that hard work can sometimes be dangerous - focusing too hard on a goal can result in missing serendipitous opportunities.

But otherwise good stuff.
Sounds lovely, but what is the net connection like? (asking as someone who needs it for work)
A light-hearted post about a completely evil method of "correctly" finding fact. A whisker away from apologetics for torture.

The final paragraph is particularly bonkers:

> "In practice, it might not have mattered whether ordeals were truly God’s judgments or instead the judgments of clever legal systems that leveraged criminal defendants’ incentives to correctly find fact. For, in either case, the result was the same: improved criminal justice, thanks to God."

It's a facile analysis indeed that posits that this setup is either "clever", might "correctly find fact", or might lead to "improved criminal justice".
Using cgroups to limit I/O
I agree with the other posters. College is a great option. I've never met a person who regretted education and now is a great time in your life to do it.
It's definitely preemptive rather than cooperative. Ruby/Puma is actually using one OS thread per Ruby thread, so when one hits a DB call and blocks on sync IO, it releases the GVL and another Ruby thread can proceed. There's a timer thread Ruby runs and pre-empts each thread to schedule them.
Just bought a Dex Station. If Emacs runs well enough then it will be a lifesaver.
Ask HN: How you train your brain to focus?
‘It’s able to create knowledge itself’: Google unveils AI that learns on its own
The priests might have convinced themselves that the 'holes' in the system were the wordly vehicle through which God would show his will. Which, by the author's logic, is actually the point.
Can you explain how they are getting in your way?
It's possible for you to unlock the bootloader on your phone to run a custom kernel?

What is the catch? That they've put development effort into supporting newer phones.
Such is the nature of trying new stuff. Fairly often it fails and the effort is at least partially wasted.
Thunderbolt 3 carries DP1.2, Display Port alt mode for USB-C carries 1.4. As long as your needs can be handled by 1.2 you will be alright.
As far as I understood, the module isn't launching threads at import time. On the contrary, the problem is that since pg is linked against macOS's Kerberos and LDAP frameworks, as soon as the Objective-C runtime realizes that NSPlaceholderDictionary initialize method was called after fork(), it crashes:

One of the rules that Apple defined is that you may not call Foundation class initializers after forking.
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>democratically elect representatives who will distribute it for them...

good thing we live in a "republic". This line smacks of wanton theft. The poor should have a reason to be "given" money other than just being "poor" (as the standard reasoning with 'wealth distributors'), similarly, the rich should have a good reason to have their money stolen other than just being "rich".

Bezos BUILT something, Oprah BUILT something. Just because they're rich and you're not doesn't mean you deserve to be. This country (USA) - at least in theory - is about equal OPPORTUNITY - NOT "Equal Outcome".

Life Isn't FAIR. Stop trying to make everyone equal when they clearly aren't. Some people put in more work, have better ideas, better skills, attention to details, and follow through, while others do not.

You may never steal directly from your neighbor or friend, but voting for the government to do it is the same thing.