skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "Dick was a bad prose writer" meme is fairly undeserved, in my opinion. He was, if anything, quite inconsistent in that regard, and also capable of fantastically good, searing prose at times.

The almost theatrically pulpy Ubik, for example, contains something of his finest writing (unlike much of what he wrote, it nails a certain unnerving combination of slapstick drollness and outright creepiness). Sure, some of his prose is a bit creaky, exposing his pulp roots, but not consistently so.

His writing matured once he slowed down in the late 1960s, and Flow My Tears and A Scanner Darkly both contain some damn fine writing. His essays, lectures, letters and the Exegesis also showed him to be a very good writer.
Frankly I don't understand why grocery stores don't just sell undenatured purified food-grade ethanol. There's plenty of supply, and if people could be taught how to use it, there would be tonnes of demand. This isn't the 19th century, we all have running water to mix our ethanol with if we want "straight" vodka.
Tesla Semi spotted driving on public roads
Car Manufacturers Are Tracking Millions of Cars
You could try the Mars trilogy.
So are there no new markets? Is everything just a more efficient way of doing things?

I would say Microsoft found a new market, so did Facebook and Google.
Amazon is efficiency, so is Uber, and Tesla.

So there are new markets.
OK, we've s/modern//'d the title above.
I wonder how much supposed wasted time ends up shaping the person that regrets it.
> A good kind of story arc i've seen recently

That sounds intruiging, indeed. May I ask for some example(s)?
My favourite bit of the Vice video [0]:

"Here's a beautiful vegetable lasagne [ready meal] for you and the chef has foraged these delights on top [packaged salad]; they're just a beautiful little garnish. They're quite particular to you guys tonight. Namaste"

[0] https://video.vice.com/en_us/video/oobah-butler-i-made-my-sh...
I've been walking ~60km per week for a few years now to/from work and I enjoy it immensely - listening to music, talking on the phone, taking pictures, people watching... oh, and programming in my head ! Can't imagine going back to driving.
I don't see why you disagree. Beyond asserting that my statement isn't true, you seem to be merely paraphrasing what I wrote in a more euphemistic way.

My former boss was laid off because he didn't "correctly" handle the conflict we're talking about. I think we're in agreement about what correctly means - being loyal to the company, or people who have power over you, rather than your subordinates.
We solved this by actually enabling P2P user accounts that secure the data and permissions through cryptographic signatures! https://hackernoon.com/so-you-want-to-build-a-p2p-twitter-wi...

This means the servers themselves can't even middleman the data.
Neuroscientists Put the Dubious Theory of ‘Phrenology’ Through Rigorous Testing
http://www.aplusdev.org/

Which includes maybe the (greatest;worst;most horrifying) header file:
https://github.com/PlanetAPL/a-plus/blob/master/src/a/arthur...
"I didn't do any one main thing, but I thought of a lot of things first, inspired a lot of people and coined a lot of words that people use, invented a few things not well known, and kept telling people about a great new world that I thought was coming"

Thanks for that link, most interesting.
Stream all the things – O'Reilly Media
Cool idea. Unfortunately I expect a cease-and-desist letter in a few moments.
Would be great as a chrome extension
J technically meets the description I listed above (APL that can be written on a QWERTY keyboard) but as another commenter here it looks like line noise rather than a modern programming language. I get that people like it, I was hoping for something that was more approachable to conventional “curly brace languages” developers. If J is the best today then I think I’m still waiting for the language I’m hoping for.
Speaking of, I was quite disappointed with the new "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" show, now on Amazon. They are decidedly not faithful to the short stories they're based on, and in several cases choose a conclusion that is diametrically opposite to what PKD intended.

In "Impossible Planet" they go for a weirdly romantic ending that is the opposite of the story, and turns it into some kind of wish fulfillment fantasy.

"Autofac" starts great, but then introduces a twist that makes no sense. Dick's story is extremely dark (taking the automatic, unstoppable factory idea to its logical next step), and the final ending essentially makes the whole premise pointless, turning a smart comment on runaway consumerism and automation into a cheap thriller about love conquering all.

Film adaptations have generally been unable to make something faithful to PKD. I just wish someone would have the balls to do it, because it could be fantastic.
Are there third parties which will upgrade soldered SSDs in Apple devices?
I noticed that too: Tolkien is about good-vs-evil; Game of Thrones is aristocrats being awful to each other. I would read Tolkien to my kids but not Martin. FWIW
One must wonder what Russia might have become if it had combined its engineering prowess with an economic system that encouraged and supported innovation.
GPUVM Discrete GPU Code for AMDKFD, Radeon Compute Could Be Ready for Linux 4.17
Please don't post unsubstantive comments to HN, even when other people are idiots. Especially then.
Terraform manages infrastructure; if you also want to manage the installed software in a declarative and reproducible way consider NixOps (based on Nix/ NixOS): http://container-solutions.com/step-towards-future-configura...
> Will they add memory permission management to speculative execution?

Probably.

> Is that even possible?

That's how AMD does it, so yes. Simply refusing to return a result from memory before the permissions are checked is a good solution to Meltdown. Might be a little slower in some situations, but it shouldn't be terrible.

> Will they move away from speculative execution? Is it possible to have a performant processor without it?

No and no.

Spectre 2 can be fixed by storing more bits in BTB tags, including the PCID and possibly some id to distinguish between VMs. If they don't want to do that, they can fix the issue with somewhat more of a performance penalty by introducing a fast operation to clear the BTB, which would be used when switching between privilege levels.

> Will the fixes "just work" or will they require changes in software? In compilers?

Spectre 1 cannot be fixed, and the only solution is to accept that branches cannot be used as security boundaries.
This is not a technological challenge, but a management one. Why would a product built to expand social graphs delete nodes that further it's size? Not gonna happen. Ever.
I think the changing light overall is the best part - both the midnight sun and the blue light during polar night.

There are ofcourse a number of pictures - but one place to start for the curious is this group with (mostly) amateur photos from Troms in Norway:

https://m.facebook.com/groups/349495561863890/

I've recently moved back to Tromsø - and the light is still just as fascinating.
I value a doctor's ability to filter the search results. I Google technical problems all the time, what would my clients say? But it's my ability to score the answers and (hopefully) sift through the chaff that makes my time valuable, not whether or not I use Google.

We lament unrealistic conditions in white board interviews without Google, but have surprising double standards when it comes to medical professionals.
I don't know law, but the mechanical turk term precedes amazon's use of it.
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Thanks for clarifying. I had assumed it was all a big scam but didn't know exactly how it worked.
I very frequently do data tasks as bash command lines and do so within an org-mode code block. So, at least with org-mode, notebook computing and data processing in the shell are not mutually exclusive.

EDIT: Also I should note that notebooks are not the only (or in my opinion best) way to present a reproducible analysis.
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>inspired by Vi/Vim

Ok. I'm interested!
> Derived from the Latin monstrum, the word usually connotes something wrong or evil; a monster is generally morally objectionable, physically or psychologically hideous, or a freak of nature.

~ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monster

I have to disagree. The word "monster" is used for things worse than beasts, "something wrong or evil".
What evidence is there that they are actually competitive with the other cities and not just throw into the mix in an attempt to extract concessions from the US federal government in addition to the local governments?
> at basically no point does he do anything really morally reprehensible

not explicitly, no, but just consider the scale of the two death stars and how many people must have been on board at the time of their destruction. we can assume that it was military personnel only on the first one and therefore "fair game", but hundreds of thousands if not millions of people still died by Luke's hand.

the second death star had not yet finished construction at the time of the battle, so there were almost certainly construction workers still on board, and many of them may have been civilians. this time it was not directly Luke that killed them, but he seems to support his friends wholeheartedly in their plan.

I'm not trying to argue that the rebellion is actually the evil side here, but when you look past the surface it is hardly black and white.
For what it's worth, here's my take: turning off social media is far and away more "zen" than having it, no matter how infrequently you use it. Being unplugged from that culture has helped me spend more time thinking about and doing things that have lasting impact on my life. Like learning and building. In my experience, caring about staying up to date on pop culture keeps people from actually doing things they say they want to do.
> I say “toy” because that’s obviously incredibly insecure.

I trust postgres row-level access control a lot more than a php script with dbowner access to the db - so I think this depends a lot on which db, and what "direct access" means...
Funny how people are different; my experience is the exact opposite - summers are tolerable once you've got yourself a decent set of blinds. Just.

Winters? Love it.

The polar night is eerily beautiful; much of it isn't pitch black, but rather blue-ish, thanks to refraction in the atmosphere - we get lots and lots of twilight hours!

Also, there is something soothing (to this guy, anyway) about the relative quiet outside - snow mutes much noise, birds don't chirp as much, most people spend more time indoors...

Summer? Well, at times it is convenient to have, say, a barbecue at two AM while working on your tan - but mostly I've found the midnight sun to be an annoyance more than a bonus.

(Full disclosure - I am not born and raised in the Arctic, I just sort of stumbled into a couple of summers and winter seasons in various places up north (from 68 to 79 degrees latitude); the locals are overwhelmingly in favour of summer!)
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Let's make Soviets great again!
Granted it appears the number of people to live so long is only a few hundred. And if halving each subsequent year, not a huge sample size.
> What libertarians deny is reality itself.

Please keep generic ideological bickering off HN. It's always the same, therefore never interesting in the local sense of the word.

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Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Data Providers
Maybe accupuncture, in this case, operates in the same area as horse whispering, exercising trust by engaging awareness and attenuating hostility. Operant conditioning has lots of animal applications.

They can’t subject them to tranquilizers for weeks, and the pain leaves the injured animals restless, so they have to be dealt with, while fully lucid and agitated by their injuries. Familiarizing wild animals with being handled, even while in pain, and for the purpose of carrying out possibly painful procedures, has a unique set of problems to solve.
None of the other browsere seems to support it, so there's that.

On the other hand, "never say never", right? :)
> Universalism is a powerful tool, it can create a society like the US, which has many faults and sins to be sure, but is the only society in history to elect a member of, what was very recently, a slave class to its highest political office. Universal also has its dark side in things like the fascisms of the early 20tj century.

Haiti, the second republic in the Americas, elected people who had been slaves. For example, Faustin Soulouque, born into slavery in Petit-Goâve in 1782, elected President of Haiti in 1847 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faustin_Soulouque . He then became Emperor of Haiti.

What do you mean by "Universalism"? Is it "focused around ... the doctrine that every human soul will ultimately be reconciled to God because of divine love and mercy"? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universalism

Because I struggled and failed to see the connection between the German and Italian fascist movements movements and the American Universalism of the late 1700s.

Those fascist groups were driven be nationalism. You can see that in the names. Partito Nazionale Fascista, ("National Fascist Party") was rooted in Italian nationalism. Nationalsozialismus ("National Socialism" or "Nazi") was positioned as alternative to international socialism. In "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer", the "Volk" means ethnic Germans.

I think internationalism, expressed for example in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Internationale , is closer to what I think you might mean by Universalism than ethnic nationalism.
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You absolutely have to remap the caps-lock key to your control key... it's so vital. It unlocks a whole paradise of hotkeys that are easily accessible.

I meant to include it in my original post but I can't edit it now.
The above is my understanding of the situation too (based on E.A. Burtt's 'The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science', in my case).

Additionally, in Kuhn's book, there is an abstract argument in addition to many examples. Copernicus is one example—and a good one because of its clarity via the whole epicycle vs ellipse 'refactor'—but not the only one).
I recently saw a video from a family member where she had taken the time to shoot a short video for every day of 2017. They struck me as different than the selfies that we have all come to know. She was sometimes the subject of the video but often she appeared to take care to do it when she was with friends and family.

To me this sort of video journaling is appealing. There is almost zero effort to get started and you can capture so much of an experience in just a short clip. Honestly surprised it's not more popular.

As for the Google Clips I would love if the device was on a rolling 30 second video capture so that you could click a button and capture the last 30 seconds of footage. I have heard of devices existing for audio but never video.
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I like thin devices and use an iPhone without a case for that very reason. However, as I said noting stops me from repairing an iPhone which IMO is great.

Glue does not allow for thinner devices, non removable batteries do but that's a different thing. It sometimes saves fractions of a cent for the manufacture and that's about it. Now, if we want to make an exception for anything under 200$ I would say that's reasonable, but past that point most people want at least the option to try and have something fixed.
The author makes the assumption that some buyers will pick the higher rated seller. This can certainly happen, but almost everyone buys from whichever seller Amazon puts in the buy box and so this would lead to virtually zero sales. However the buy box does not always list the cheapest price. Amazon uses seller rating as a large portion of the decision of who gets that buy box. By having a better seller rating and a higher price, Amazon will sometimes give you the buy box and you will get the sale. So in the end this method works not because the buyer is shrewd with regards to seller ratings, but because Amazon doesn't always suggest the lowest price. If you always want the best price you need to click through to look at all sellers.
That is of course to implicitly accept that the criticism is in fact valid. It is rebutted later on the page, below the letter, with an argument that, in a modern form, would be something akin to You would reasonably expect a visiting professor teaching Web design to complain about the lack of a WWW browser.
Dave Arnold has a spiel about how the best vodka he’s had was diluted potable lab ethanol.
Interesting, I’m doing the same but using WWVB 60khz radio signal for my time source
The U.S. Gets Less Subway for Its Money Than Its Peers
You assert that "a good manager puts the organization first", but first does not mean "ahead of individuals". So what is it ahead of, if not individual interests?
Most research is funded by companies wanting to make money in the long run. This is the point I was trying to get across; thanks for letting me clarify this point :)
Is there a good way to get this onto an e-reader, am I missing something obvious?
That is disgusting as a non-C++ programmer
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Lack of options or awareness is the normal 'advantage'.

Companies don't want to say you can repair it when it breaks because that implies it will break.
Here’s Elon Musk’s $600 Boring Company Flamethrower
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I felt like gambling today so I wasted a lot of money in this project and in ethercraft.

I doubt they will pay off. If anything IF they're going to succeed the buy-in has to drastically be lowered. But what the heck. As I said. Felt like gambling away my money today.

If you guys really care about non-scheme projects, look into lockchain. They're a booking website with a blockchain technology implementation.
Yes I do have an interest in the project. Less than I gambled away today though. It's worth a look. I pormise.
> In a Song of Ice and Fire there are no good guys or bad guys.

You say that, but then...

> The only “Evil” characters are sadists, and there are quite a few.

Sounds like bad guys to me.

> People have lamented the Game of Thrones show has gone down hill after passing the books. I argue that is because the narrative has shifted to a war against the White Walkers, a clearly malevolent force.

But it hasn't shifted. The story (in both the books and film) has always (from the first page of the first book and the first scene of the show) been about what people do in the face of that force, as its threat became more manifest.
Thank you very much for the contribution. The decentralized web projects sound really exciting and it's awesome to see support from Mozilla.

However, I find the concept of the scheme whitelist pretty strange in context of WebExtensions.

Of course it makes sense that http:, https:, data:, blob:, etc should be off-limits for extensions. But on the other hand, I'd think that the primary use-case of registering protocol handlers in extensions is to handle existing links - something that the ext+/web+ rule seems to be particularly designed to disallow.

Apparently, the actual handler whitelist for WebExtensions can be found at [1]. It looks pretty... arbitrary?

For example, it's amazing to see that magnet: irc:, ssh: and gopher: are on there, but then why not ftp:, ws: or even steam:? There could be some useful extensions intercepting those as well.

Likewise, while the inclusion of scuttlebutt, ipfs etc is very good news, what makes them eligible now that didn't make them earlier?

Generally, I'd like to know by what process is that whitelist managed and what are the criteria to get on there.

(I understand it's derived from the official HTML5 whitelist [2]. To be honest, that one looks even more arbitrary - but of course has different security considerations, as it defines an API for the open web. The two lists also seem to have some differences, as e.g. gopher: isn't on the HTML5 whitelist while openpgp4fpr: is not on the extensions list.)

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Add-ons/WebExtensions/ma...

[2] https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/system-state.html#cus...
This might be the first Chrome OS tablet
Marketing. People want notionally imperial Russian vodkas like Smirnoff and frou-frou pseudo-French brands like Grey Goose, not Costco "undenatured purified food-grade alcohol".
Acupuncture is placebo given all the available evidence.
Mobile web apps are finally becoming an alternative to native apps
We add new fields (or redesign existing protos) very sporadically. We also don't have fully automated process to deal with a change in a proto within all projects so by using new versions we can signal to the developers that they should eventually adopt it. We are actively using 5 languages that have to deal with the changes, so we found it easier overall to do it this way.
That “he was a virgin” thing was largely rumored because he never married and didn’t have known long term relationships with women.

He did of course have lots of long term relationships with men, including living with several. But claiming he wasn’t a virgin because of this would have been considered very odd at the time.

At the end of the day, it’s impossible to know what his love life was like from our point in history, but I’m skeptical he was some otherworldly aesthetic.

He certainly had passions outside of science, such as finance & religion.
Who cares what a McAfee product says?
Guidelines for a “JavaScript bullshit free” development
Lesion network localization of criminal behavior
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I don't have very good memory, so sadly i can give only two examples. A shorter one is Little Witch Academia. A longer one (it'll take a month at least to get to the impactful parts) is the main story quest line of Final Fantasy 14. I think Steins;Gate also went in that direction, and out of these three would be the most HN-mainstream-compatible i expect.
Keep Your Head Up: How Smartphone Addiction Kills Manners and Moods
Request a woman scientist (women's voices in public sphere)
Self funding amounts and seed funding amounts are generally at least an order of magnitude different, sometimes two. It doesn't really make sense to draw an equivalency between them.

For example, I started my company with 20k of savings. It's not uncommon for seed rounds to be in the 2M and up range now.
I read posts like this and it's just so clear to me why we're so fucked.
Doesn’t Python also have some pretty strict whitespace requirements?