skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Space:1999 is Great! It's a perfect piece of 1970s silly Sci-Fi. None of the stories hold up in a science/physics sort of way, but they ARE fun to watch.

If you can't bring yourself to watch it properly, at least hunt down a good copy of the opening episode (It's been released on Blu-ray I think) and watch that. I promise you'll fall in love with the 'Eagle' spaceships.

Also, it's a Gerry Anderson production, so if you liked any of his puppetry shows (Thunderbirds, Fireball XL5, Captain Scarlet etc.) you'll probably enjoy Space:1999.
SF seems more common in the past, is it not? A quick search seems to concur.
> A community of like-minded nerds :)

Like minded nerds? No. I disagree[0]. :)

[0] https://xkcd.com/309/
I don't want conversations. I want information. If the info is already missing in a web page I fail to see how a virtual salesperson saying "well, I don't know" is going to sell better.

Case in point: I'm cleaning up a house to live in and we need a new kitchen sink. The problem is there was already one there so we want to buy a replacement that is bigger than the current cut out in the counter and also fits nicely with the pipe installation.

Searching for a sink online has been a nightmare: if there are schematics (which are often missing) there is always some key information left out like the depth of the bowl.

This includes the king of online retail: Amazon lists package size and nothing else. When was the last time the package size influenced your purchase?

Buying in person hasn't been much better and the prices are almost double! At least I can bring my measuring tape and do the schematics myself, though I still hate getting pitched by salespeople that often know much less than me after a 20-min online research.

In the end we're going for the cheapest one that has a reasonable return policy. Who cares about the more expensive ones if, for all I know, the only difference is their aesthetics?

This is such a common pattern I started dreading buying online. I'm tired of hunting for the specs on Google. That's the shop's only job!

IMHO the article is nothing more than an advertisement for the author's business. Maybe he's sure of the paradigm shift but I'm definitely not because an actually useful conversational assistant requires both competence, effort and, more importantly, exposes the seller to risks (official information = contractual obligation, which is IMHO the reason you will not get the answers IRL or via customer support either).
It seems like this gets to the heart of why we have a two party system (and why it might be eventually inevitable) with all the current issues divided more or less neatly down the middle. The system has been going for so long, and become so "efficient," that it has settled into two roughly evenly sized groups of people, because any significant imbalance implies a "superweapon" developing.

If we say roughly half the country is of the Foo party and half Bar:

If half the Foo party decided they had a problem with the other half and decided to split into their own group, there'd be roughly a quarter of the country in each of those two split parties. But then half would still be Bar, and would completely dominate the government. So despite whatever differences the Foo/1 and Foo/2 party have, it's not worth splitting their identities over, because their differences with Bar are still larger, even if only slightly.

Kind of obvious if you think about it, but rarely articulated as well as SSC does.
WiFi is unsuitable for the task, and won't stop VoIP. In reality, it's the noise the train makes that stops people from calling inside the tunnels.
This (printf of an undefined value) is a good example. Thank you!

Most of the time, MemorySanitizer is used with instrumented libc++ and sometimes even libc, which allows to catch most of the cases (including printf), as the data ends up in conditional branches.

Still, your point is very valid.
Tidal forces result from the difference in the strength of gravity at different sides of a body. Because we are so far away from the Sun, it does not exert any (significant) tidal force on us or the Moon. Moreover, the amount of tidal force exerting by the Sun is not affected by the distance the Moon orbits at [0]. In contrast, the moon is close enough to the Earth that those tidal forces are significant, and would drive the Roche disintegration. (They are also what drive the tides, the moons current orbital changes, and why many moons are tidally locked).

[0] Technically, a smaller orbit will make the tidal force exerted by the Sun slightly more constant.
I’ve assumed the trend away from high content websites was driven by the need for responsive, phone friendly sites. There is so little screen real estate available, that design considerations lead to these websites that are a big pretty picture, with a little bit of marketing fluff text.
DEF CON Founder in Beijing Finalizing the Agreements for DEF CON China [Beta]
A secret on the ocean floor
https://is.gd/JB9Ilr
I still think this term is ridiculous.

You still haven't given any indication that you underand the weight of the term "lynching". If you'd like to, maybe start with this slim book, which I found sobering: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0933121180

The only example I can think of where someone lost their job due to a donation was Brendan Eich, whose political cause was changing the constitution to strip a civil right from LGBT people. You are worried about the effect on his family, but he was literally trying to harm hundreds of thousands of LGBT families, and the LGBT families at Mozilla were very reasonably afraid of more direct harm.) Why are you concerned about only one kind of family?

(And I'll note that if his career has been harmed, it's hard to measure. He's the CEO of a company with $42m in funding, which doesn't sound like death to me.)

Your taxonomy is also suspicious. The problem is not people having opinions; it's them acting upon them. And make no mistake, political speech is action. The whole point of it is to change society. That's why we protect it so fiercely under law: its enormous power to shape democracy for the better.

More than that, your dudgeon here is anti-freedom. If people don't want to work with Eich, who are you to tell them that they have to? He gets his freedom of speech; they get their freedom of association. If you don't like that, you get to exercise your rights to speech and association.

Of course, if you really wanted to pursue that, you'd have to end at-will employment. It would be an interesting world where nobody would be fired for a political opinion. But it would require absolutely massive government intervention in employment, so I doubt you'd find many conservative backers.
Cat de sfinti au fost Constantin si Elena?
I’m equal parts fascinated and concerned about this sort of thing. It’s incredible what science is capable of while, at the same time, I wonder if there are adequate limits on such advances. These researchers seem to be responsible (limiting the growth to a certain number of days, applying for permission to extend that limit in the future etc.) but I have a feeling that somewhere there is a scientist whose professional ethics are a little less robust.
It would require reading data out of the OBD2 - greatly useful, but a Bluetooth dongle needs to be installed in the engine, first. Hence, quite rare: https://github.com/osmandapp/Osmand/issues/3204
Sure. But also remember that many successful people came from humble backgrounds and achieved what they did mostly by working their fucking asses off to make the most of their abilities.

Effort is something that is readily apparent in professional sports. Many talented players wash out in the NFL because of lack of effort. Compare that with Jerry Rice, considered to be the greatest wide receiver of all time:

Rice is also remembered for his work ethic and dedication to the game. In his 20 NFL seasons, Rice missed only 17 regular season games, 14 of them in the 1997 season, and the other 3 in the strike-shortened season of 1987. His 303 games are by far the most ever played by an NFL wide receiver. In addition to staying on the field, his work ethic showed in his dedication to conditioning and running precise routes, with coach Dennis Green calling him "the best route runner I've ever seen." One of the best known examples of his dedication and ethic may be "The Hill", a long and steep hill in Edgewood County Park & Natural Preserve, that is "two and a half miles up". Rice would sprint across the hill literally every day to improve his abilities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Rice
You can restrict access to content with on-disk encryption, and grant or revoke access with public key crypto. There is a lot of new tooling and infrastructure to create, but the crypto building blocks remain the same.
> roads in Japan have no meaning.

I've never been to Japan. Can you elaborate?
That's what he said -- "decentralized application starter" Or, are you being pedantic ;)?

But, I agree, it may have been more concise to just use shorthand.
I’m fed up of these “dog learns to speak” miracle stories when it comes to startups.

No wonder it’s a dysfunctional society if it selects for the most lunatics when it comes to change-makers.

Another rich weirdo on Twitter is complaining about people not “compelled enough” to quit their day job to work on their startup (in USA, which means no more health insurance for you and your family, if you have one.)

What kind of crazy, self harming culture is this? It’s not even Darwinian when it suggests to take huge disastrous gambles to chase rare unicorns!

I tell you, it’s this shit that’s holding back humanity. How many are just locked back into uncomfortable routines because of this barrier?

Is it perhaps the signature of a conservative society, when change requires grotesque sacrifice stories and is controlled by a small elite of gatekeepers?
Good advice.
>the low level hard science

The science is pretty basic. CaCO3 powder made into a paste form provides a source of calcium and alkalinity - protecting the teeth from acid created by bacteria. The rest is marketing. The effective way to deliver flouride is a higher concentration that only touches your teeth, which is how it is used at the dentist after a cleaning.

If toothpaste's success was based on utility there would be brands offering probiotic paste that colonizes your mouth and uses glucose with out making biofilms or having acid as an end product of metabolism. Then you wouldn't even really need to constantly brush your teeth or buy more toothpaste. The maximum utility product would cost a lot to develop and ruin the business model.
I find myself disagreeing with you. You are right about this being driven by interaction, and humans needing to see that something is happening. But even if your application responds with "processing request", you have - at best - reset the timer.

If it takes longer than one second from the reset for the data to be shown, the user is again entering the "is this slow or broken?" time band.

The Nielsen thresholds appear to be fundamental to human nature, and I would be surprised if we have somehow managed to teach humanity to be less impatient over the past few decades. If anything, the dopamine-hit fueled online systems have taught the users to expect even more immediate feedback.
Lunar tides would stop, but wouldn't Earth still have solar tides, causing bulges on the area of Earth closes to the Sun and on the opposite side?

The Moon would still be passing over those bulges twice a lunar month. Wouldn't that continue to slowly modify its orbit?
I grossly overestimated my chances of getting on a computer this weekend. To the extent that I didn't. :(

So, I didn't get a video made. My humble apologies.

Rather than just leave this hanging with no response, I'll still try and get a video while at the office this week. In the meantime, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEcobuYr5wg shows a much more impressive example than what I was planning. This one actually shows "live coding" with a webpage. I was just going to show how the help system and some basic debugging in emacs works.
Write an article about decentralization, post it on Medium. I feel like I am being trolled.
The component system was more OO than COM, called SOM and even allowed for metaclasses.

IBM was the only company, after Lucid, that played with using a Smalltalk like development environment for C++ on OS/2, but it required too much resources.
I've used scaleway for a while for small projects. And lately, every single instance size shows out of stock. I shut down and instance and couldn't start it back up due to their being no available instances. Not exactly confidence inspiring.
In 2011-2013, HN gave me the necessary understanding of business, enough that I confidently quit my employer and created my own online app. I call HN my « rogue MBA »:

- Major: Patrick McKenzie

- Minors: Non-factual knowledge, just a deep understanding of what is to be expected when managing a business, good and bad patterns, dozens of failure reports from other startups, why seed money isn’t necessarily a good thing and the mere existence of bootstrapping, HN gave me an intuition that is hard to describe but lead me to success.

- And with HN I have a better source of news than IT journalism, which is often 1 step behind, has their own interpretation and doesn’t have multiple points of view like the comment section on HN.

I spent 2 years reading before my first comment, because I didn’t feel legitimate commenting before creating my own startup. Now I’m a CEO ;) Thank you HN.
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> If your laptop is HP, if you actually send e-mails from time to time, if you still use IRC and Freenode (or heaven forbid, EFnet) - dinosaur.

I work at a FAANG company and while most people use mac, email is still without competition and irc is still somewhat used but on the decline since our company is so big we now have our own in house tool that works better.
You might like the book Axiomatic. It's a collection of short stories by Greg Egan, and one of them has a plot involving Chiral humans.
People here know offhand what they weigh in pounds, and the packaging on food lists macronutrient content in grams. The article could've listed g/kg as well, but for a US audience g/lb isn't particularly wacky.
HN told me that the world is larger than I thought and that I don't know that much about it.
This is a great point that put into words something that I've thought about before.

When you look at negative news coverage of some group, it almost always focuses on some fringe caricature of what that group actually believes in. For example, BLM's coverage in the conservative media sought to paint them as "black racists" due to pictures/comments/videos portraying a small number of BLM supporters in that light. Note that the Russians are aware of this tactic because they ran several BLM-related twitter accounts that they would occasionally use to this effect (although that's more of a false-flag).

This can be used to frightening effects. A lot of alt-right recruiting spaces (tumblrinaction, /pol/, cringeanarchy, the_donald, KotakuInAction, breitbart, Drudge Report) deliberately focus on a caricature of "leftists" and liberals that is designed to make relatively-rational people feel disgusted and alienated by what they feel the "left" or liberals represent. It's way easier to discredit people in favor of "forced diversity", or unattractive people with weird colored hair who identify as different animals, than it is to discredit actual champions of equal rights or transgender(fixed!) people.
There is an inferred "Speaking as a German", so the author is a letting me know they're German.

But also as you pointed out it makes no sense for them to assume I'm German, but it does make sense if they are German. So I'd just assume the version that makes sense.
Deep Learning for DNA Synthesis
Just finished this book last week actually. Though it was interesting and helpful to identify what habits are really are and how to change.
> The result: except for some geeks people have decided that they prefer the C# syntax and it seems to me that Microsoft thus slowly tries to fade out VB.net.

Not really, VB.NET enjoys much more MS love than F#.

Just check the tooling and documentation at MSDN, or the set of languages supported for UWP development.
Interesting you have jblow on there, as I just was watching his programming stream on twitch yesterday and he said he doesn't really come to HN much anymore. His reasoning was basically that he wanted a place where programmers were working on harder things (basically CRUD web devs).

I think he is missing a lot of content on here if that's his true opinion. I think you can find all sorts of varying levels of depths on a vast amount of technical issues.
I’m not trying to be facetious I honestly appreciate someone responding, but I don’t see how that single statement is a rebuttal to a multi faceted case that I made in my comment.

I’m actually not sure where I imply they have spare capacity, but if you mean in reference to the zero-rating hypothetical (ie. they have spare capacity if they use zero rating to fill it) the idea is the data usage of the services is several orders of magnitude above what normal data usage is, and with zero rating there’s often a trade off, like reduced resolution on video. They could decrease the price of the data, but not enough to make the full quality usages economical for most people.
To be fair, the speed of a free photon is c but when the photon is interacting it may not make sense to keep talking about its intrinsic speed.

In any case, I feel objections to what you said should come from a “better” QED description and not from a “lower-level” classical description.
Only Spectre. AMD and arm are not vulnerable to meltdown.
And those things make OS/2 stand out how exactly?

I'm under the impression OS/2 wasn't an attractive OS until 3.0 came along.
To the developer, decentralization can be a benefit, or an annoying implementation hassle.

To the customer it is at best a feature. 99.99% of DNS or email users probably have no idea it's distributed and don't want to know.

Look at the marketing around the cloud: I'm pretty sure that 99.9999% of people who use the term never read its original use in the early TCP-Internet papers and RFC and no idea what the term really meant.
$5/month is rather minimal, IMO. I was happy with Prgmr @ their $20/month service level.

Customer service is supposedly minimal with them, in accordance with their motto: "We don't assume you are stupid", but were helpful the few times I needed it. A bit slow maybe, but problem solved well within a week. (Turns out Rsync.net's ssh console has limited bash commands available, so Prgmr's wiki instructions to dd my disk there didn't work)

https://billing.prgmr.com/index.php/order/main/packages/xen/...
Don't mistake "Cryptonetworks" as being decentralized.

If you follow this history of previous popular open source decentralized software projects, you can see how easily a few participants can manipulate the entire ecosystem with no accountability.

Censorship, astroturfing, manipulative code and backdoors... negligence or malicious plausible deniability.

How do you hold bad actors accountable in decentralized networks?

Vote?

With money? (Hash power is simply a mask for existing capital)

Vote with (pseudo)anonymous accounts? ... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_attack

Vote with points earned though early adoption?

Vote by being on the team of developers?
> When he needed a shower, Peck — who was 35 at the time — would drive to his parents' home, which happened to be nearby.

Why didn't he then just live with his parents for the 3 months? He still could have go there to get that 'invaluable knowledge'. Nice outcome but the story feels a bit like click-bait...
You’re only committing one fallacy, contextomy. Half of your comment is answered by sentences following the things you quoted. The other half is building a strawman that only works if you ignore everything following the quoted section.
That article reads like one long logical fallacy and a whole heap of handwaving.

It contrasts cathedral style development practices against blockchain, neatly attributing open-source, collaborative development solely to blockchain technologies.

The very first section makes no sense - in the first era of the internet, decentralised protocols allowed companies like yahoo and google to win out while centralised entities like AOL diminished? So presumably AOL rose to prominence in era zero? And everything before that was in era negative one?

There are so many bizarre, unevidenced claims thrown in... This is pure evangelism.
I'm English and I've been sunburnt lots, I seem literally incapable of pre-planning against it. Doesn't need to be Spanish beeches though. I'm thinking of the English style tourist who wants his egg and chips wherever he is.
Nice man congrats! You're livin' the dream :)
2 jobs
A bad habit.
I don't have such a thing. Eventually they all turn into reddit, populated by kids and amateurs and unemployed wannabe programmers. So they are all for skimming only.

The last great place to go was Stack Overflow but it, too, is now overrun by redditors and other amateurs and I no longer help out there even though I'm in the upper three percent. There is one forum I still go to but the past year has shown an erosion there as it has become popular among the non-elite tech group.

There are some mailing lists which are exclusive but sparsely visited unfortunately. Same with IRC. So its better to be good at Googling and gleaning fact over fiction, not finding a good forum.

The same is true of "news". There is no good source for news anymore and you have to do your own vetting, something news editors used to do but no more.
Azul's should be faster as they use x86_64 PCID.
Ask HN: How are you securing your home network?
Eventually we'll get to LaaS, where instead of having to find, test, and integrate libraries, you type in some natural language like "send an email", and pop down a guaranteed-compatible-for-X-years, 100% uptime, edge-case-handled function that automatically bills per execution directly to your FaaS account, no registration or invoicing required.
Yes I'd put it something like a floppy disk for save. It might not be true but it gets the point across.

Never-the-less I respect a good nitpick and I didn't know the article so for me it's a welcome reply
ES2018: Rest/Spread Properties
I guess the "weak men" correspond to examples of the "selection form" of a straw man argument. However, I still think the "weak men" analogy may be useful. A lot of real-world cases where I consider "weak men" to be used aren't in arguments per se, but rather in how media frames and covers issues - it's what I would otherwise call "curation bias." In fact I think it's really a combination between confirmation bias and extrapolating very anecdotal evidence to large groups of people.