skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great! I've been working on something like this as well (an automatic tracker for various body movements). Would love to have a chat about how you've accomplished this.
Theoretically, maybe it doesn't but practically, it has terrible consequences, especially in countries where human rights aren't a thing anyway, it will lead to dystopian concepts. I would suggest to read up on eugenics a bitZ
In my head, I can easily imagine a model combining all of the above (except, perhaps, weight and a very large lens). Which criteria do think are incompatible?
I suspect this is as culturally determined as the differing American, European, and Japanese attitudes to rebuilding buildings. European cities typically retain medieval street layout and as many buildings from that time as possible, sometimes even rebuilding to the original style after destructive events. Whereas Japanese houses have a ~30 year lifespan and are routinely rebuilt. And I'm looking up the hill at a castle that accreted between the 12th and 17th centuries.

Just as the street layout will outlive the buildings, APIs tend to be extremely durable and intolerant of destructive rewrites. Consider the Python transition.
For starters...

>Electricity cost, which you mention, over time ends up being a small fractional cost, little different than the existing transaction fees. As each coin is not mined over and over again, per unit of activity the electricity cost of each coin plunges over time (eventually becoming insignificant given N years).

That's not true. Because in order to spend the transaction, it must be mined again. The amount of electricity cost of each coin doesn't plunge, it increases with each transaction, and stays the same if the "coin" doesn't move. At a point in the future no new bitcoin will be created, and at that time the only incentive to mine will be transaction fees which will pay for the electricity cost of the continued mining for validating transactions. It's not an insignificant cost, it's the only significant cost.

>When you seek to utilize Bitcoin, all instances involving value swapping.

By that definition all physical mining doesn't create any value, since people are just "swapping" their currency for whatever you dug out of the ground. And please don't say that it's different because it's "physical".

You seem to be hung up on the "swapping" aspect, which I never said was the "value add" of bitcoin, it's not, you are correct that simply trading bitcoin doesn't add anything of value. But transacting bitcoin does, it provides the value of enabling trustless transactions quickly and without any "gatekeeper".

Edit: I think I just realized the problem. Your definitions only make sense if you mine the coin once, then trade it off the blockchain forever (as in physically or virtually sending the bitcoin keys to someone else in return for some kind of good or service). That's not how most people use bitcoin, and doing it that way removes all of the benefits and "value add" that I talk about, and indeed is just a store of value at that point. So you are correct, but if you transact bitcoin in the blockchain, suddenly it becomes something more than a store of value, it provides value. It provides security, trustless transactions, immutable history, and more.
Whenever I read biographies of a successful I bring my feet back to the ground by watching this clip of Nelson "Big Head" Bighetti from Silicon Valley:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKjNT6JpF7o

The case in point for luck being confused for skill.
I had a question, the author states:

>"The PCID (Processor-Context ID) feature on x86-64 works much like the more generic ASID (Address Space IDs)"

Is ASID the RISC instruction that accomplishes the same thing that PCID does on x86 then?
Just a suspicion?

We all realize this is a fiction, right? Poe's law is in effect and with some of the comments I'm unsure if people are taking it seriously, or if it's one group laugh and inside joke. I am baffled that this story is topping HN.

I have to cite Captain Disillusion's most recent video-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5EDORs8Jkk

(he is awesome, as an aside)

These fictions were once a fun ruse, but the power of the internet has made them much more damaging because there are an enormous number of people who actually believe the nonsense. I just discovered this weekend that my neighbour is a flat Earther, for instance.
Yes, but if the Telegram app/platform was the only place I could conduct commerce using their money, I'm still screwed, unless a "secondary" marketplace emerges where you can use it. In which case, why not use Bitcoin or Eth to begin with? (Genuine question.)
I read the whole site but I have no idea what this is supposed to be used for. Could you give some example use cases?
Yes. But those words don’t come for free, they could be much more expensive than writing the code itself, it’s like trying to teach something rather than just doing it.
Large lenses ("pilot" glasses) are usually not especially curved, I believe that is suboptimal and mostly done for looks for historical reasons. (At some point, an optician told me that was the case and that the optimal shape would be spherical to optimize distance from the eye.)
I sometimes describe programming as a one-way hash operation on requirements. A lot of information and context gets lost when writing software, and I haven't seen a workable solution to that problem yet.
This is not Open Source
Cold sourcing: hire someone you don't know
I was drinking Fri-Sat-Sun with the intent of being drunk each time. It was enough to regularly make bad choices and have regrets, so probably on the fringe at least of it being a problem.

Cardio, roughly 60-90mins per day at high intensity, on average 4-5 days a week. I've noticed that a big mood boost happens after about an hour in -- endorphin release maybe.
Excellent feedback, and very true.. new user onboarding isn't as good as it should be. It's for non-technical users too, and I'll need to find a way to communicate to them as well.

Oof, being a one-man show is taxing. Thanks so much for your feedback, I've added a task in Teamwork to get on this!
I have a follow-on article about maintainability taking shape, still in the notes phase.
Not exactly sure what it is, but I really like this presentation format.

Thank you, have been trying to motivate myself to switch to ack/ag for a while. This seems like it might be what I needed.
"Unreadable" in this whole discussion should be taken as meaning "requires effort that the reader is not willing to expend", not an absolute. There are very few things that are impossible to read at all, even the notoriously and deliberately unintelligible stunt languages like INTERCAL and brainfk.
I think the main reason for the initial focus on calculus in intro QM is more to do with making sure you have a solid grasp of the ugly, complicated, hard way of doing things before diving into the more elegant, easy way (once armed with an appreciation of all the whacky machinery under the simplified proverbial hood). I recall my intro classical mechanics had a similar approach on a few topics, and my professor explicitly said this was the reason for it. That and the elegant way is generally more abstract, and it's important to have the foundation the abstraction was built on first.

The link you posted looks interesting and fun to read, I'm looking forward to going through it after work. Thank you!
> Because the profit made by "curing people" is actually done by keeping others from curing people, via aggressive patenting

It’s not like the treatment was just out there until AbbVie monopolized it. Chron’s disease was medically characterized in 1932. Anyone could’ve come along and developed this treatment and gave it away for free or cheaper.

> lobbying against legislation that would make prices reason able...

That just begs the question of what’s “reasonable.” What single payer does is create a monopsony (single buyer situation). Obviously it lowers prices, that’s what monopsonies do. But like it’s counterpart, the monopoly, it’s economically inefficient.
Runtastic Push-Ups on iOS counts pushups either with touch input (nose touches screen) or the proximity sensor (you get close enough but your nose doesn’t quite hit the screen).
Damn paywalls!
What if everybody starts making their coins, Amazon, Facebook, Chinese companies, etc. Suddenly it sounds like I'll end up paying tx fees to convert coins. Doesn't sound very good... And what currency should I get my salary in?
Definitely! You're right, the homepage doesn't explain as well as it should.

All use cases boil down to two scenarios:

1. Creators want to sell a digital thing, but don't want to give up 30% to 50% in fees. Digital things could be: ebooks, a font, PSD templates, WordPress plugins, etc.

2. Creators want to take advantage of Git integration (fantastic for selling software, ebooks, etc)
Might be ok as long as the virtual company is independently owned. Nothing stops them from selling the same function to other companies also.

That being said, I havent completely thought through this strategy - it might require additional regulation to work or there might be a better approach altogether.
It depends on your scale, take this weekend for example and it's absolutely not deflationary according to your definition, and there is no guarantee that it will continue in either direction.
Python's PEP 20 utilizes this view on simple v complex, and also covers the idea of complicated.

> Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.

I've stuck by those two lines of PEP 20 since I learned about them. The object is to write simple code, but it's okay to write complex code if your goal is to avoid complicated (unreadable) code.
At a certain point it seems like the main benefit of all restrictive diets is just that they exclude junk and force the dieter to cook at home.

If you can't eat Snickers, and you can't buy high sugar-salt-fat restaurant food (which often comes in massive portions), you'll probably eat a smaller amount of more nutritious food. Which is great, but there's no real need to pursue arcane diet restrictions to get there. And in some cases, like 'alkaline' diets, you can quickly get into real trouble with nutrient deficiency just because the food pool is so small.

As I recall, The Blonde Vegan (a popular food blogger) managed to end up seriously malnourished off a diet that initially made her feel healthy and energetic. Just as you say, the productive step was "eat less crap", and the counterproductive step was "eat only these 10 foods".
Call me when AbbVie is listed with Roche, Novartis, Pfizer or GlaxoSmithKline as one of the big pharmaceutical multinationals. A relatively small company having a blockbuster success and returning huge dividends to shareholders is why people are willing to invest in biotech/pharmaceutical startups at all. Every biotech startup formed around one drug that gets serious funding burns at minimum a decade of man years and at the beginning most of those man years are going to be researchers with doctorates. Absolutely nothing gets to market with that little investment and most of these companies fail.

The point about the pharmaceutical sector’s profit margins is about the sector more than it is individual companies. Minnows that make supernormal profits expand and as they expand their profit margins decline because they use up the most profitable opportunities and move on to less profitable ones until there’s nothing left. This last bit never actually happens because things change fast and general equilibrium is never reached but that’s the tendency. Large profit margins attract competitors and in the meantime allow those enjoying them to grow.

Re: “Profiteering”

According to the theory of neoclassical economics, anti-price gouging laws prevent allocative efficiency. Allocative efficiency refers to when prices function properly, markets tend to allocate resources to their most valued uses. In turn those who value the good the most (and not just the wealthiest) will be willing to pay a higher price than those who do not value the good as much.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Price_gouging
honestly... i am so confused on what exactly this product and/or service does from the 5 second scan of the landing page. I really believe you need to make it more clear about exactly what you do and how it can help.
This is closer to the root of the problem than saying code is unreadable... the information isn't lost because of the code being produced, it's lost because the developer leaves. Documentation won't work because requirements change faster than they can be documented. I don't know a solution other than just trying to convince that developer not to leave.
Given that he didn't know what we know now about LSD (that it's not going to kill you or cause brain damage), his experience was probably a lot more terrifying than the usual bad trip. Not being able to remind yourself that you're safe and that the drug's effects will wear off would make it a lot more scary.
KDE had a full 3D Real Time Strategy Game, but it was abandoned ten years ago
For some of these things we don’t have much choice, because the encoding is part of some lower-level API (file system, OpenGL, CLI), which usually don’t accept arbitrary encoding. They accept only one, and unless you want to waste time converting, you better use that exact encoding.

Other stuff like IDs, shaders before GL 4.2, and many text protocols aren’t Unicode at all.

For configs I usually use UTF-8 myself, because I don’t like writing parsers for custom formats and just use XML, and any standard-compliant parser supports all of them.
I've mostly seen the term in regards to game design i.e. a game having a steep learning curve means that it's hard to get into because it requires the player to have a lot of understanding about the game's mechanics before the player is able to realize his/her intentions inside the game with predictable outcomes.

In that context having a "not so steep" learning curve can help players ease into a vast, previously unknown, ruleset much easier by introducing it piece by piece, instead of literally overwhelming the player by throwing all of it at him/her at once.
That's probably people pissed off that they have to learn their mother tongue, english, and hindi to get around in india.
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The xdcbt instruction was a custom addition for the 360s CPU so vanilla PowerPC chips shouldn't be affected by this.
> There exist markets that you can put your money in and make more than inflation reliably

No, there don't. Even holding U.S. Treasuries is riskier than holding cash.

> bitcoin as it currently stands isn't going to cause a massive collapse of the economy

Nobody is saying that. What it has done is cause a collapse of the Bitcoin economy, i.e. the markets for real goods and services denominated in Bitcoin. If you think Bitcoin will go up 50% next week, you aren't going to use it to buy a cup of coffee. You'll use U.S. dollars, which will be worth a little less (albeit, probably, imperceptibly so) by then [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
I couldn't try it because there is no space near my webcam that I can nock out some pushups but I did set the alarm to see.

But it looks like a great idea!

It might not work for people in a co-living relationship. My wife would kill me if that alarm sound went off for more than 20 seconds (I get up before her).

What about React helps make this project easier than say vanilla Javascript? I would live to see a writeup on how it is made.

Also, random idea, think it'd be fun to be able to replace that alarm sound with the whooping sound from Rogue One.
I think you mean Emirates, which has over a 100 of them with nearly all routes via Dubai - there a few 5th freedoms too such as BKK-HKG. Etihad only have a handful of A380 and operate from Abu Dhabi.
I bought the switch for my 6 year old son for Christmas, his first console, because it was geared for younger kids and had these controls. 
Unfortunately
 it seems most of the games are really still aimed at 10+, so I've had to start playing the games with him.
If you're talking new planes you're way off with those prices.

The cheapest 737 went for an average price of 80.6M $. That's average and not the list price, which is higher. The most expensive Boeing offering was the 777-9 with an average price of 400M. [1]

The Airbus prices I found with a brief search are from 2013 and range from 83.9M$ for the 319 (I didn't count the 318, since I've never ever seen it in operation) to 403.9M$ (A380-800).

140 million is pretty far away from getting you any new widebody plane from those companies.

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/273941/prices-of-boeing-...

[2] http://www.airbus.com/newsroom/press-releases/en/2013/01/new...
But I think it is also clear that the theoretical buyer of every last share of Apple stock does not end up with a company "worth" $900 billion (it's current market cap). That metric and measurement of value just vanishes if there is no market any more. How you measure its "worth" from now on is completely arbitrary and debatable.

Say he owns them all and then starts an auction for one share every day. Could you still take the price of that one share per day to determine a total value of the company?

That is not in opposition of your argument. (Crypto)currencies are vastly different to stock in an established and profitable company. But also f.e. Uber stock is very different from Apple stock.
> tokens in Forth are always separated by spaces, like words.

So are arguments in LISP, but they still call them arguments.

'Word' was already taken by the processor folks, and we already had function/procedure/subroutine.

> "Function" would be inaccurate because they are not mathematical functions but procedures or "subroutines"

Sure, C functions aren't pure mathematical functions either. So? Function/procedure/subroutine are standard terminology. It's not all that confusing that a Haskell function doesn't behave the same way a C function does.

There are other options, like action/operation/method/event/verb/functor/transform. That Forth is stack-oriented doesn't really justify inventing a new term, to me at least.

Fun fact: the Factor programming language also uses 'word'.
> There is no discernible move to a "point to point" model in commercial aviation. That's a myth straight from Boeing's marketing department.

But one doesn't have to just take Boeing's word for it. One can see the trend in the actual real-world routes. For example, you have Norwegian Airlines recently offering direct nonstop service from Oslo Norway to Orlando Florida on the 787.[1] Both Oslo and Orlando would be considered 2nd-tier population cities and that lower demand point-to-point route is made possible by the newer smaller planes.

Before the ETOPS[2] rule changes, an airline had to use the 4-engine jumbo jets to get Norwegians in Europe to Disney World in America. To architect such a route, the airline would choose a prominent "gateway" city in Europe with a superhub such as London Heathrow LHR, or Paris France, or Frankfurt Germany. They then pick a gateway city in USA with a hub such as New York JFK or Atlanta Georgia. The route would then be something like Oslo-to-London-to-NewYork-to-Orlando. That type of hub-&-spoke route was what Airbus was counting on and it didn't happen. The Norwegian Airlines p2p route of Oslo-to-Orlando is a "lost sale" of an Airbus A380.

>suffered from the tripple whammy of 9/11,

But Airbus made their overly optimistic prediction of 1200 orders for the A380 in 2005 which was 4 years after 9/11 2001.

[1] https://www.bizjournals.com/orlando/blog/2015/03/norwegian-s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS
A Dell XPS 15 is a good bet. You can run Windows and/or Linux on it. At a minimum, get the SSD. Technically you can get by with 8 Gb of RAM, but 16 Gb would also handle whatever else you want to do with the laptop. Likewise, whatever else you want to do with the laptop would determine whether you want to go with an i5 or i7 processor.

If you want to do any Mac OS or iOS development then the same concerns apply but now you'll be looking at a MacBook Air/Standard/Pro.
Airlines decide on their 777 interiors and entertainment centers, so your experience on a Delta 777 will be very different from an air Singapore one. The 777 was a huge advance in composites, which were continued in the 787. My gf at the time dad worked on the plane and was very proud of it.

The 737 has been updated many times and Boeing hasn’t seen the need to introduce a completely new narrow body. It is still very successful, so I guess they are right. In contrast, the 767 was dying and needed replacing by the 787, it couldn’t be updated.

The 747 is still in production and is very successful in freight and other applications. It isn’t going away anytime soon.
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> With that definition - it's absolutely correct to say that the code should be as simple as possible.

Yet, it is humans who need to read it. This is the end goal.

If you rewrite the code to satisfy a theoretical objective criteria of simplicity, but end up with something that people reading the code find harder to read, then you have failed.

It's the same when you design a UI.
To add to your point, the article states that Telegram will try to retain a 52% stake in its economy to control it.

"Telegram will The white paper also makes clear that four percent of the supply of Grams (200 million Grams) will be reserved for Telegram’s development team with a four-year vesting period. Telegram also plans to retain “at least 52 percent” of the entire supply of the Grams cryptocurrency to protect it from speculative trading and maintain flexibility. The remaining 44 percent will be sold in both the public and private sale.

The currency will be listed on external exchanges and used inside the Telegram app."
That's a good point. It assumes they don't control the miners, and don't demand "registration" to participate, which would void anonymity. It still sounds like they could use an existing coin though, no?
> Performance, maybe?

Performance for running race detector (debug) binaries? Are you worried slower code hides a race?

I can't think of a reason to ship or use race detector compiled binaries in production. Or do you have something in mind?
Why would they disable ECC support for the APU version?
Honestly, I didn't find REAMDE to be worth the time. Re-reading Cryptonomicon would be time better spent.
Ask HN: What would you teach to an intern at your company?
So, a new person has joined our team as an intern and I am tasked to be his mentor. Management has explicitly stated that he is here to learn and not to handle tickets. What would you teach to a young software engineer professional?
There is a difference between reading legacy code without empathy (sympathy? pretty sure it's empathy) and calling code equivalent of Macbeth as unreadable when Cliff's Notes would do...
Hi Colin, with verifiable I mean that I don't need to make a screen-recording of me going on Random.org and get the number. I want something which can be checked and verified by anyone, some sort of "true" unique random number, the national lottery could be one because anyone could open a newspaper/browser and check it, it would be really hard for me to fake it.
Right. Developers are the real resource/investment and all code rots. At least for now.
His concern was directed at the magic comments though. I don't understand why they didn't just create new syntax for pragmas since they're already parsing something. e.g.
#noescape

# could be treated as syntactic sugar for //go: until v2 if they want
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> Stop saying this. It's filling your arteries with plaque.

Source for this? In my opinion this is outdated thinking and new studies have shown the opposite.