skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hooked for how long?

There are lots of reasons why you can't use VR for long.

physical: (wearing the equivalent of a helmet with short cables)

timing: it requires that you can switch off your real life environment for a long time - not good for working hours

controls: Sometimes in my nightmares i want to speak or move but can't, thats how it feels when trying to do things in VR.
The semantic web. It spawned an entire generation of academic study, but aside from assuring job security for researchers hasn't amounted to anything beyond their ivory towers.
What's wrong with "if (check) unlock()" ? x)
Can relate (minus meeting Wim): when going to the spa, I alternate between sauna and submerging in ice water for 60-90 seconds. My BPM goes from 150 to ~35 in that time. Climbing out of the cold water and laying down on the chair induces such calm in my mind... Have to do this more often.

Also makes me feel warm in cold weather.
Yes, although the new instruction set in ARMv8 removes several of the things that made programming in 'classic' ARM assembly such fun on the Acorn, such as the free barrel shifter on most arithmetic ops, conditional execution on all instructions and fast multiple loads/stores with groups of registers. These have gone for various reasons; the fully-flexible barrel shifter is awkward at high frequencies with deep pipelines, the conditional execution flags became a waste of opcode space as branch prediction improved and the load/store multiples required microcode on modern implementations and so increased complexity.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15716704
I'm based in the southern UK right now, and a place I am leaving today is looking for C folks. They seem open to contracts. The work is not that interesting, being mostly small pieces of maintenance. The money is OK though.

If that's interesting, reply in the positive here and I'll ping you the details of the company and the agency I've been working through. They have a bunch of people from around Europe, and AFAICT one travels in from Germany each week.
Model x is enough for all of that.
> One can only hope Brexit doesn't make German a virtual necessity to deal with the EU in the long term.

The EU has had more than twenty official languages for many years, I don't think it is likely at all that this will suddenly change to one language. I also don't think there is any chance for English being removed, since it is the most widely understood language in the union (the UK being a member or not has no relevance to that).
http://unigram.me/ is in dark mode by default. :)
Because they already have enough on their plate and are worse off for the distraction?
That's the answer. What's the question ?
>In that environment a traditional debugger, at least in my experience, isn't super useful, because it models a single-stepped

I'm pretty sure the question was about debugger to be used during development.
they actually did the same thing with postgres open 2017. customers were begging them to offer postgresql on azure, so they did.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15702422
Not at all scientifically done.
Agreed. If only we could fix the non-phonetic spelling...
This goes into what I commented on another response, which is that it happens to us all whenever we're in a group setting where we specifically are the minority.

When I'm the one aligned with the power position, and I see someone in the minority position be bullied or intimidated, I believe it's my obligation to defend them and call out the ones doing the act. Luckily, I've been blessed to be the recipient of others do the same for me when I've been in the socially weaker position.

But yeah, most people don't, out of agreement, ignorance or general weasely desire to fit in, and it's hard not to be angry or resentful I'm those situations.

Just remember they're all thinking primarily of themselves, but we all don't have to :)
When a rear tire blew on my campervan, in addition to having to replace the tire, the blowout caused many thousands of Euros worth of damage to the bodywork.
one is a real car however, the other a rendering. I don't expect figures to change drastically from the brochure, but still.
Yeah, but I'm not sure if I would have become a programmer if "real" computers only targeted the professional market, while you had much cheaper appliances that solved the needs of my parent. Will a single mother be able to afford the difference just so her child can geek out? Turning computing into a privilege of the upper middle class doesn't appeal to me.
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Wow, 200k for a car is pretty expensive.
I was never about security.
They use FOMO to create a daily habit.
When you post, people see it and react quickly, which further strengthens the addiction.
Transflective LCDs are another tech that didn't go anywhere. It lets you use LCDs outdoors by reflecting the natural light, which solves the problems of color and video. There were even models with solar cells embedded, so not only you get longer battery life but recharge in the sun.
Actually, Ireland chose Gaelic as their official language, and I think the same thing is true for Cyprus and Malta. So, when the UK leaves, there could be no member with English as its official language (the UK is still part of the EU until 2019).
Sounds really good on paper but the production is scheduled for 2020, so it’s unfair to compare it to the cars currently on the market. No other manufacturers announce cars so far ahead so it seems at least partly like a hype for Tesla investors. Acceleration is just one part of what makes a great sports car. And how is the acceleration past 100 mph? That’s the traditional weakness of electric cars and it matters more on the track. How about its weight, brakes, turning, steering feel, grip, suspension, weight distribution (it should be quite good), downforce? Will the battery last for a full track day? Of course sound has always been a very important part of what made sports cars exhilarating to drive and Tesla can’t compete there. And the design and brand matter too. Ferrari and Lamborghini don’t make $40k cars (or even $100k cars).
Peer-to-peer file sharing.

There was a time when Napster, Kazaa, eMule were king. The content industry fought against it, but developers came up with decentralized solutions like DHTs or supernodes.

I was convinced the next step would be friend-of-a-friend sharing. You only share files with your direct friends. But they can pass on these files automatically, so their friends can get the files, too. The friends of your friend don't know that the file is originally coming from you, it is completely transparent. The goal is to not let anybody you don't trust know what you are down- or uploading.

I would piggyback on the social graph of existing networks to get started. I actually had a prototype of the friend discovery code, based on XMPP (using custom stanzas). You login with your credentials, and it shows you all your friends that are using the same app. It worked with GTalk, Facebook Messenger, and Skype (via Skype API). One nice feature was that this worked without getting an API key from Facebook etc., or having a central server. I was so pissed when they all changed their APIs to make this impossible. It felt like a conspiracy to stop this use case.

I still think if somebody pulled this off, it might work, and it would be pretty distruptive (in the good and the bad sense of the word). It would be the last word in the debate between "data wants to be free, change society to enable what technology promises" and "data has to be a commodity, restrict technology because in capitalism we can't feed artists otherwise".
pytest.benchmark really needs to default to a smaller width of it's stats, those stats are really just meant to be used in a terminal..
Whether or not folks in the shop find them useful seems to mainly depend on whether they want to put up with CAD packages in their hobby.
Though if GNU did actually run a music service, would it be as good as this?

http://freemusicarchive.org/
From Wikipedia's F1 page [0]:

> The 2016 F1 cars have a power-to-weight ratio of 1,400 hp/t (1.05 kW/kg). Theoretically this would allow the car to reach 100 km/h (62 mph) in less than 1 second. However the massive power cannot be converted to motion at low speeds due to traction loss and the usual figure is 2.5 seconds to reach 100 km/h (62 mph)

Even adjusting for 60 mph = 2.4s, I don't see how the traction of the Tesla is better.

Formula-E cars are doing 0-62 it in 3s [1]:

> An average Formula E car has a power of at least 250 horsepower (190 kW). The car is able to accelerate from 0–100 km/h (0–62 mph) in 3 seconds, with a maximum speed of 225 km/h (140 mph)

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_One_car#Acceleration

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formula_E#Car
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As someone who only briefly dipped their toes into the semantic web topic, I found Googles' Knowledge Vault[0] to be a very interesting approach to the problem of "everybody lies".

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knowledge_Vault
Boston Dynamics Robot Does Backflips
Qualified at running a company into bankruptcy?
0 - Already added Duck Duck Go
1 - Added.
2 - Seems it's that it just dim the brightness so wouldn't add it :b
3 - Yes very odd :)
Is this site open-source? Would be nice to be able to send PRs for new dark mode apps. :)
Your comment made everybody in the office laugh
> I've developed decades of training and muscle memory sitting on the left side of the car.

Have you considered what portion of said training and muscle memory was directly attributable to compensating for cabin asymmetry?
We do exactly that at Depfu (for Ruby): https://depfu.com/blog/2017/09/28/depfu-now-flags-security-u...

But I'm also pretty sure Github is going to do that soon, it's an obvious next step.
In Denmark we have a government body litteraly called the "salary guarantee foundation" (well obviously it is named in danish), which pays salaries (including those you are entitled to after you are fired) up to 160K DKK (so around 21500 EUR).

That foundation then goes first in queue in the bankrupcy claims (but often doesn't get anything)....

But the salary up to that point is safe for the employee... no matter if the company has any assets or not..

(EDIT): oh yeah, and we have state funded health care too...
Yeah, it could drive more people to want to purchase Tesla cars but since they have production bottlenecks it's not the best of times to do so.
Yes, but with the UK gone there will be less nagging from the french :)
The cars this model competes with are at least as expensive, if not more.
I used this https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dark-void-minimali... for making chrome theme black. It added a chrome extension.

Now I can't find the extension in my chrome://extensions. Anyone else facing this?
Holidays on the moon never got the traction I was hoping for.
Then why did they drop Mobile?
Go to Africa then, you have a lot of market there.
FastMail added a Dark Mode this week :)

(Settings → General & Preferences → Theme → Dark)
there are 2 ways for that. I would go for changing the pronounciation rather than the writing
I see HN on that list, but I don't see how I can switch to the dark side.
Offtopic unfortunately, but i've been looking long time for a simulator of IoT and electronic devices, for home automation. I'd like to simulate the hardware, so i can focus on the development

Any advice?
Instagram has a slick, easy to use, minimalist ui. Fotolog.com looks messy in comparison.
EU will like these huge windshields, because of the pedestrian safety.

"Contrary to passenger cars, there are currently no direct vision requirements for trucks. Direct vision – what you can see with your own eyes – has a number of benefits compared to indirect vision (mirrors and camera’s). To measure direct vision the Commission should use a standardised methodology."

Very nice summary on truck blindspots : https://www.transportenvironment.org/sites/te/files/publicat...
Interactive digital TV.

back when digital TV launched in the UK during late 1998, the major platofrm (Sky, ONdigital, Telewest and ntl) were all hyping up their interactive services.

Sky's service was called Open.... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open....) and you could order pizza, email, go shopping, dating, betting etc. Sky were so convinced it was going to be a money spinner they gave away all the boxes for free.

The underlying technology was also used to add interactively to TV shows. For example you could choose the camera angle in some football games and the BBC made a documentary about dinosaurs that worked like a multimedia CD-ROM.

Most of these services lasted less than five years, the services were sluggish, the proprietary tech didn't help and in any case the web did it better.

I didn't think the shopping/commercial side would succeed, but I was convinced there would be a huge market for interactive TV. Nope, there wasn't.
So, how would you make people believe they took a cold shower without it actually happening? :-)
Employment status, Uber and control
Forget cold calling, start smart calling (my quota crashing inside sales hack)
I am wondering if the long-term solution is going to be that SQL Management Studio goes away, in favor of SQL Operations Studio and possibly some other graphical tools for more specialized things like data warehousing etc. The more good next-generation cross-platform tooling that MS roll out, the more it sort of grates to have to flip back into a Windows system for that one specific thing.
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Given that the Model S 85 kw battery is 1,200 lb, how on earth will this thing corner?
What's the axle pressure compared to traditional semis?

Semis are going to be less and less popular in the EU when more countries add fees for distance driven which is proportional to wear, which is twice for a semi compared to a non-semi.
It's already there working 24 hours a day in many makers home. Why isn't it taking the world faster ? This is a classic chicken and egg problem which is being solved daily via the market invisible hands.
As a maker, what reduced my printing usage a few years back was the cost of the filament (which is now cheaper but can still be reduced by a 10x factor), and the noise of the machine (which can be made now noiseless).
As a user, what hold me back is that the use cases aren't so numerous in a world where everything is factory made. But as soon as you decide to customize your environment, it becomes the missing component which allows you to adapt two objects together.
As a 3d-designer, software wasn't really made for 3d printing. But now with OpenSCAD, objects can be made from source code, making any hobby programmer vastly more productive for the most current usage of 3d printing than an expert 3d-designer.
on nice! time to upgrade my twitter
I am certain we could easily create this using websockets and p2p browser data streams... whos coming with me? Crowd fund me and i will release a prototype
Laravel and Docker, Zero Config with Vessel
I wouldn't want to get alert quickly in the morning.

I much enjoy the pleasant and unique slowness of the mornings and I wish to wake up slow, get up slow, and enjoy my breakfast slow and let the energy gradually rush back into my body for the day ahead. Looking from my perspective, a cold shower in the morning sounds like one of the worst ways to make your life more miserable.

But on the other hand cold water seems to be otherwise beneficial. For example, winter swimming is generally recognised to aid in numerous ways, both physiologically and mentally. I sometimes dip into the cold pool (4-6 C) for a minute at the swimming hall and it feels great afterwards. But that's at a time when I'm up and moving already. Doing that in the morning would be just as punishing than a cold shower.
Intel Coffee Lake and Cannonlake Thermal Support in Linux 4.15 – Phoronix
Easiest way to do a remote sudo
Because obviously it wasn't so to prepare for the war in Iraq? I suggest reading the articles from 2003, I think a lot of them are still online.
Williams-Sonoma is buying a 3-D imaging and augmented reality startup
A foreshadowing of this is that while industrial robots can do impressive work, they do this in a very specific set of constraints:

- they are very expensive in relation to consumer income

- they are complex to program

- generally specialized: more or less general purpose frames (like your typical 5 axis arm) with special single-purpose tools mounted to them

- safety architecture is generally: total enclosure, no human access/interaction during operation, if not totally enclosed usually with light curtains or very stringent requirements.

A general-purpose helper bot looks like a completely different beast from this angle.
More like the "we don't want a 10gb git repo" crowd to be honest.

Checking in not only your code, but your entire history of every dependency and every change within that dependency graph is an amazingly bad idea when frontend apps often have 600mb+ of dependencies that change somewhat frequently, and git keeps a version of every file in its history.
Oracle issues emergency patches for JOLTANDBLEED flaws
Cold emails are spammy no matter how good the deal is.

Fifteen years ago you might have got away with a well targeted message but that well has been poisoned now. If you send me unsolicited mail I'm going to assume you aren't the sort of people I want to work with.
It’s basically 80% doll’s house, 20% brothel, where everyone pays rent.

The idea isn’t terrible, but the implementation had some horrific flaws, and Linden Labs became notorious for infuriating users.

SL might have taken off if both servers and clients were fully open-sourced, and LL had concentrated on building a global system for connecting open servers together.

I strongly suspect someone will rediscover the idea 5-10 years from now, do it properly, and replace today’s web.
I'm not familiar with Rust libraries, but I would guess it's just counting code points and not characters, so strictly speaking both are cheating.

I would love to see people showing how to do simple string processing, like counting characters in proper grapheme cluster level in their favorite programming language.
I don't think kids are going to be lusting after an SUV the way we used to lust after the Lamborghini Countach. This, on the other hand, is lust-worthy.
From official statements here and there, and especially the "Adpocalypse" happening this year, I doesn't look like they are profitable even now.

Sometimes I think the only thing keeping Youtube alive as a Google product is that the internet would rip them to shreds if they were to shut it down.
try reinstalling it?
Kaduna Teachers Disengagement: Fayose and El-Rufai Attack Each Other
Well Dell clearly doesn't have their shipping logistics down. I'm sure if you bought a Dell via Amazon Prime, it would arrive next day.
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Leap motion.

I bought one used just three months after rollout - should have seen this as a red flag back then.

The user experience was great - for the first 30 minutes. After that the pain related to holding the hand in the air was becoming to annoying to ignore.

Switching between this and the mouse/touchpad proved to be a great optimum though.

Anyway I successfully used it for my master's thesis to precisely place a few microphones in space, but after that I stopped using it altogether - too few useful applications to bother.
>I find it dumb, frankly.

I find your comment rather ignorant. It's entirely possible that the scenarios can in some way coexist. I'd also argue that for 2001 and The Matrix, technological danger is not the main subject.
> No other manufacturers announce cars so far ahead

Surely, you're joking? Virtually every carmaker has announced a whole bunch of electric cars for 2020-2021 (without giving nearly as many details or demoing the cars already). And that's discounting their "concept cars".
Oh yeah but it's still a claim that needs documenting - especially in a distinctly anti-Apple rant.
There is a theory that humans co evolved with gut worms, and only very recently live without them; certain body functions improve when worms are present: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effects_of_parasitic_worms_o...
Reality of programmer's English skill in non-English-speaking countries?
Understanding Hinton’s Capsule Networks. Part II: How Capsules Work
English Central attempts the conversation bot but it is fairly terrible. Competition would be welcome.
It's easy to criticise this from a visual glance but you have to remember that proper error handling in any language is hard work and often produces ugly code where you need to account for multiple edge cases - many of which aren't serious enough to cause an exception but would still break the program's logic. All Go does is group these conditions into a standard interface.

Furthermore, because Go does unify these conditions, I've found it effective for handling a whole array of differing edge cases that I might have otherwise overlooked. In that regard I've anecdotally found it more effective than most of the habits you see in other languages (I can't say all languages because I haven't used every language out there, but I have developed in excess of a dozen different programming languages over the last 30 years).

In short, in Go error handling becomes a first class citizen rather than a byproduct you begrudgingly need to check for.

Also while it might not be to everyone's tastes, adding "if err != nil {" really does add practically nothing to your overall dev time in real terms.

But I'm not here to advocate one method of error handling over another, nor to try and convince anyone to use Go who might not have otherwise. Obviously you can see I get a little frustrated when people judge it purely on face value but that's because I have spent some time with the language and found it to be surprisingly effective at delivering a stable product.
3DO. I was not "convinced it would take the world by storm" but I really liked the idea of a console standard that anyone could manufacture, all compatible with each other. The PC equivalent for consoles. Too bad it did not work out (and there are many reasons why it did not, but that's not the place here to discuss it).
Open source is a necessary but not sufficient criterion.

Leaving aside the issue of user-replacable signing keys if some kind of measured boot system is in use, and availability of documentation so you can replace the firmware if you want, which isn't really UEFI's fault, there's other issues with UEFI as well. Such as:

- Why does it take 8 minutes to boot a UEFI server vs. 17 seconds with NERF? Minnich's opinion is that it's the braindead way UEFI initializes stuff. E.g. if thingy A needs thingy B, it will initialize thingy B regardless of whether it has already been initialized, etc.. Leading to a combinatorial explosion. Whereas Linux builds a dependency tree and initializes each thing only once, in the correct order.

- UEFI option ROM's apparently mostly contain x86-64 code and not UEFI byte code. Some clever guys at SUSE had managed to work around that on aarch64 by using qemu to run the option ROM's, and since the x86-64 and aarch64 data structure layouts are more or less the same (endianness, alignment etc.) they could share the memory space. I mean, it's an awesomely clever hack, but do we really want a Frankenstein thing like this be the bright future we're striving for?

- UEFI is amazingly complicated. Say if you want to load the kernel over HTTPS, you need a TCP stack, HTTP, TLS etc. Sure, Linux is also complicated, but I'm sure Linux is 1000x more battle tested than the UEFI stack. And, if you're going to run Linux anyway, you're not increasing the attack surface by running Linux as your firmware & boot loader. And, if you're using booting Linux from the rom flash, you can use Linux native drivers to access the NIC, storage, USB, whatever and don't need the kind of hacks mentioned above on non-x86.

Sure, using Linux as firmware & boot loader might be politically untenable to some proprietary OS vendors. But so what? Let them solve their own problems!