skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm really excited about Godot. I started using it and saw the limits of the 3d stuff that is there right now but I'm excited to start using it when really good 3d animation libraries become available which seem to be lacking at the moment.
What makes you say this? How do you know what Facebook is doing with the whatsapp data?
My home laptop is a 2011 Asus ultrabook. I've upgraded to an SSD and installed more RAM, and it works fine. In fact, it's more than fine - the CPU benchmarks are only ~10% less than the 2016 XPS13 I'm using at work. I have to put up with a relatively poor monitor and the occasional spinning fan, but otherwise it works fine.

I'm vaguely considering upgrading for a 5 year old Lenovo with a higher resolution screen. PCs really haven't changed much recently!
It's also interesting to hear that the CouchSurfing community still exists. 10 years ago I had friends that used it a lot but left because it got flooded with guys trying to get laid. If it returned to what it was, that'd be pretty cool.
I hope this would be the advert where a newspaper repeatedly unfolded to cover an entire city, backed by some funky brass.

The linked ad is much more worthy, but I've always wanted to see the other one again.
I don’t think it’s ad hominem if it’s all completely true, and relevant to the subject at hand. “Consider the source” is different from, “dismiss this, because of the source.” It’s an article that makes a good point, but it’s also good to realize that the author is not reliable, so it would pay to do further research, check claims made, and quotes cited.
You might be thinking of one of two things:

1. Wash sale rules (where buying a substantially identical security within 30 days before or after a sale-for-a-loss disallows the loss)

2. Section 1031 exchanges
> The points are valid

Some of them are. There is certainly an endgame challenge in 4x games, but real world civilizations don’t really fall at the pace needed for the comparison to make sense.

Rome is still the center or one of the largest world religions today for instance.
I find it curios that the article is calling the 'blockchain people' to save the world from Facebook when the blockchain is a public ledger.
The whole point of social media is making that information available to people, though.
Okay, so I tried it, and I'm going to say, "not easily".

Started from base FreeBSD install, installed gcc and gmake, pulled down a tarball from kernel.org. Did a `gmake x86_64_defconfig` to get started. First problem: FreeBSD calls it "amd64", Linux calls it "ia86". Exported ARCH=ia86 and retried. It gets further now but appears to blow break trying to build some .S files (FreeBSD uses as from GNU binutils, but it's like a decade old). I couldn't figure out how to fix, so gave up:)

I suspect it would work in a Linux jail, though, since that's a GNU userland with a Linux ABI from the kernel. Didn't try, though.

I also won't speak to whether it would work on netbsd/openbsd/etc.
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The reason I mentioned US specifically was because VC funding to support hyper growth was historically & (still is) way more common there than elsewhere in the world(Western Europe specifically). A condition which seems to almost mandate the grow fast at all costs mentality.

It doesn't preclude anywhere else in the world from being lax about security.
I also have worked for multiple small/mid companies in Western Europe and, anecdotally for me, data & thoughts to security are held in much higher regard.
Leave one out cross validation (LOOCV) in machine learning
Ahh the good old CounterStrike quick exit! If you were lucky you could alt-tab back in, but you'd have a big mouse arrow where your reticle used to be :D

I ended up coding a utility (in VS6!) to disable the windows key when you launched the game.
Yes, regulation is great until you see that the companies to be regulated help create the regulations. Then the regulations become enough so that the regulated can stay in power and new entrants can't enter the market because of costs.

Turns out nothing is simple.
A good approximation is high quality drinking chocolate (not hot chocolate). Melted very dark chocolate with a minimum of sugar and milk or cream added. You can find it at fancy chocolate places.
Probably less than you think. Heat loss or intrusion from the environment is linear in the difference between the environmental temperature and the interior temperature. Since it is cooler at night, it will generally be less expensive to turn down the temperature at night. Even in Florida, the average low in August is 72F. There's not much of a difference between this and 68F, so your AC will not have to work very hard to keep the house cool in the evening.

If you're concerned about energy usage, it's by far more important to tolerate higher temps during the day than during the night. Conversely, in the winter, you can afford to warm your house up a little more during the day, but if you want to sip energy, you need to set the lowest acceptable temperature at night.

You can optimize this further by putting a minisplit or a window unit in your bedroom. If your bedroom is small compared to your dwelling, you can save some serious energy this way. Generally speaking, the cost of climate control will scale in the surface area of the climate controlled volume, and obviously a single bedroom has much lower surface area with the environment than the whole house. This is also why it takes so much less energy to control the climate of a given apartment unit than a house of the same square footage.
I wonder if this will extend to space industry. I could totally see a large lattice of shipping container knuckles and shafts being created for structural integrity, shipping container sized modules taking over for a spot as they get delivered. Just disconnect the knuckles for a single container worth's lattice, slide out the sized bit of lattice, slide in a shipping container and connect.
Unity releases C# source code
> Silicon Valley Has Failed to Protect Our Data.

They are joking, right? FB was never about protecting data, it was always about profiting from selling it.
Making Slides
http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797610387613

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-wealth-reduce...

I'm not a sociologist, so I won't try to explain it, but that should give you a start. I can't find the article that used my exact explanation, but the rich are consistently shown to be worse at empathizing with others
It is fuzzy but only if you measure decency on a spectrum rather than black and white -- for some there is a fine line and for others the line is nine miles wide. Not only that but there is a difference between intended usage and actual usage.

Miley Cyrus may have no qualms about posting nudes of herself on her Twitter account and protect her expression via artistic license but sexual puritans will argue that anything that inflames the sense is deserving of censorship.

Given this data, recalibrating our vision of porn would require recalibrating our vision of sexuality in generally -- is a public expression of sexuality something that most people can tolerate? As it is now, that answer is no.
I don't think graphical fidelity is a good argument for any engine today. People are making movies with Unity[1] and Godot has demonstrated[2] all the bells and whistles you could want at least if you intend to target consumer PCs that exist today.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXI0l3yqBrA
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XptlVErsL-o

At least for anyone developing a video game right now, unless you know of specific rendering techniques you need that Unreal has that the others don't, there is nothing you can really come up with that one can do the others cannot.

That being said, I'd imagine in a benchmark of GDNative vs Unity vs Unreal Unreal would probably win, Epic has way more than enough cashflow to throw tons of engineers on optimization that Godot just doesn't have. It wouldn't be an orders of magnitude difference, though - we are talking optimization of already tight render loops, and Godot benefits highly from having a tiny renderer.
Thanks for your support, Justin! Oni wouldn't be here without the awesome work you've done:)

Neovim has been a joy to build on - fast, performant, and stable. Great example of a high-quality OSS project!
The 2010 Census: Will your answers stay private? (2010)
Now if you guys would get to...

1. ... allow to specify somehow a size of TAB symbol per user or per project (or per review), so we might be able to review Go code normally, without plugins or custom CSS for the browser (8 char default is making code a lot harder to review,especially side-by-side). Yes, there were at least 3 different tickets opened about it the last time I have checked. No, the answer "we going to have .editorconfig support one day" or "good suggestion, maybe one day" are not making it after 2+ years, sorry)

2. ... filename not being hidden by icons would be so awesome in knowing which Java file with 200 char filepath I am trying to review without copying filename to clipboard, and looking at it in VS Code. Wrapping icons is ok, I don't care where is "copy file name" button is located that much.

3. ... have some file patterns rules about what files I would like to have collapsed by default. And while we are at it, add what files to display with ignore-space diff, and which do not, so I will not start every review with the same magic mouse triple click with full reloads of 15 files in between.

Sorry for the rant, code reviews is one of my main responsibilities and this just drives me nuts every day.
Almost all of it. Musl AFAIK strongly sticks to the standard. It is one of the biggest things holding back wider adoption.

Similar to the dependence between the linux kernel and GCC. Clang should work but linux also has the 'GNUisms' so deep there a big project called LLVMlinux to correct it.
Dear general public, welcome to the advertising industry. This is standard practice that's been going on for decades.

Doesn't mean we can't change how things are done. It'll be an interesting public discourse now that some light is being shined on these practices.
Competition does not exist when companies get so large they own the whole market.
There is also support for Python via GDNative: https://godotengine.org/article/beta-release-python-support
You’re a little off base there. You can in fact make your own chocolate bars at home http://chocolatealchemy.com/

Not an ad, just an anecdote that you don’t have to travel far for raw cocao.
> Can I use any price from any exchange that day?

You should use the fair market value.
Nope. This 'self is the standard' way of GNU software is one reason I'm not a big fan of GNU.

https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...
Shameless self-promotion: also take a look at https://github.com/u-root/u-root :)

(The gokrazy and u-root people all work at Google, I just contacted them to see if we can help each other. Not a competing project.)
You don't need a brokerage to sell stocks either (assuming you actually hold the stock certificates) but you're still responsible for reporting to the IRS your capital gains

It's magical thinking on the part of people selling digital assets that somehow the tax codes of any country don't apply to them
Tell me about it. I am an Erlang programmer and I am currently learning OCaml... It's extremely hard to find OCaml topics, as Google bombards me with Erlang results.

This certainly was not like this 10 years ago.
It's really hard to find large companies that you can continue to like. I'm always floored by how companies like Google start out as the underdog with everybody rooting for them and then as soon as the big bucks come in they start behaving just as bad or even worse than whatever they replaced. There's something fundamentally wrong here, it shouldn't be the rule that companies become like that but the exception.
This is very similar to what’s known as a body scan meditation, which, if performed at bedtime, will usually knock me right out after focusing on just a couple of body parts (you start from the toes of the left foot on up to the head—I’m usually out before getting to the left knee).
I've tried this trick as well before, but it does not work all the time for me. Maybe I am just not disciplined enough in refocusing my attention to breathing. I discovered this trick when I was reading "Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind" where parts of the book teaches about proper meditation.

I already have sleeping problems before, as I like to be occupied with something before going to bed at 11 or 12 pm. Normally, I would either program, write a blog or a chapter, or read an interesting book that I have been putting off for a while. My problem then was sleeping for only 6 hours, and I wanted to sleep 7.5 ~ 8 hours.

So I decided to switch it, by sleeping earlier (8 am) and doing these other things after I wake up at 4 am. This only worsened, as now I am having issues falling asleep. Tricks that I tried that worked only initially were counting, listening to music, having a hot shower, meditation, etc.

The first time I tried counting, I fell asleep before the count of 10, but on the second night, I was still awake past 30 and getting worried as it getting higher and higher and I am not asleep yet. So I changed it on the third night by repeating "one" until I fall asleep. That worked, but the following night, it was not as effective, as my thoughts just drifted on what happened during the day.

I've tried listening to music. Norah Jones' songs really worked for me for a few nights, but afterwards, the songs became a distraction, as I am now just listening to them and waiting for sleep to fall for hours.

I've tried to clear my head of racing thoughts, but after the thoughts are gone, I hear something like bubbles popping inside my head, which carry on endlessly and keeps me awake. Same with taking hot showers.

Later on I learned that my sleep problems is due to timing, since starting sleep at 8pm is within the "forbidden zone". It also does not help that my gym time is from 5 PM to 7 PM and have dinner afterwards.

I've move my bed time to 9 ~ 10 PM but my sleeping problems persisted. I think it has now become akin to performance anxiety.

I've tried 4-7-8 technique last night, but I find myself gasping for breath trying to hold it for 7 counts, plus the swooshing sound on 8 counts is too distracting when I exhale.

I am still looking for a technique that will work every time. I think I should have a log of my sleeping habits and what worked and what didn't and what things I did preceding the sleep. I'm considering purchasing a sleep tracker like Dreem just to automate sleep quality logging, and see if I could come up with something that works for me.
Would be interesting to see if we could compile Neovim via WebAssembly... If that's the case, it would certainly be feasible to run Oni in the browser with a few (minor) tweaks. The UI layer is react-based and would be trivial to run in a browser.

Interesting project that did something similiar for Vim: https://github.com/coolwanglu/vim.js/
Zazen is just one form of meditation. According to The Mind Illuminated[1], some traditions (eg. shamanic) cultivate dullness as a source of visions.

[1] http://themindilluminated.com/
like the metric system

which is to say, i think momentum is the issue
I find there are two ways you can go with a cold shower.

One is to really tense up and to fight the feelings of cold. I don't think this is too beneficial. The other is to really relax and embrace the cold. Taking deep breaths and focusing the mind inwards allows you to accept the cold for what it is. It takes a little practice, but once you are in that zone the shower becomes rejuvenating and relaxing at the same time and really helps shake off the day and get me in the zone for sleep.
If you like this, Jordan Mechner did a great series of journals about the making of Prince of Persia which you can buy in book form and I think also read for free on archive.org
I have a high altitude balloon+electronics education project and it is very fun. We were using our pocket money. It can get expensive really quickly was very hard to raise money for this kind of stuff. We spend about $300 per launch (not including transportation) given we retrieve the payload successfully. If we don't, it is going to be $1.5k per launch for a latex weather balloon. There is a lot of risks involved in the process.

With that in mind, I think being able to launch a hunk of metal to 2k ft with just $20k is actually really quite impressive. I don't care if he raised money for the flat earth cause or any other scandalous cause, I think he did a legitimately impressive engineering feat, risked his life for it, raised money for it, didn't hurt or rob nobody. I am thoroughly entertained by this guy. Anyone with an iota of a brain will quickly realize this is just a comedy sketch, but as they say, a fool and his money are soon parted. If they didn't give money to this guy, they would have given their money to another stupid cause. And if anyone decides to give their money to any flat earth cause, I'd rather see they give money to this one.

With that in mind, I don't think I would go so far as going on the radio saying stupid shit just to raise money for my hobby project. But then, the world rewards people with crazy ideas and crazy execution plans when they work. Clearly, this is one of the instances when an unlikely funny idea actually worked. If I knew about this earlier, I would have chipped in some of my money just because it's so hilarious (and I can see many people would do that too).
It's called syndication. You still own your stuff and still get the exposure.

Very little risk.
I think The Onion already said it better:

["Find The Thing You're Most Passionate About, Then Do It On Nights And Weekends For The Rest Of Your Life"](https://www.theonion.com/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionat...)
Code to print both the Stern-Brocot tree and the Calkin-Wilf tree, using the algorithm in that paper:

def fractions():
a,b,c,d = 1,0,0,1
while True:
yield a,b,c,d
if a == 1 and b == 0 and d == 1:
a,b,c,d = 1,c+1,0,1
else:
j = (c+d-1)//(a+b)
k = 2*j+1
a,b,c,d = k*a-c,k*b-d,a,b

g = fractions()
for i in range(100):
a,b,c,d = g.next()
print "%d/%d %d/%d"%(c+d,a+b,a+c,b+d)
yes, it’s important to look at the invisible actors as well. Facebook and google are front line brands in your face. We have to remember the invisible trackers and ISPs as well, sometimes much worse because they are not scrutinized and cooperate more with government.
"I just heard a bunch of swearing when I was on hold!"
Historically, I had the classic problem of instinctively holding on to some stream of thought which I subconsciously felt the need to unwind before I would let dream consciousness take over.

I figured out a nice trick to fix this. I close my eyes and visualize myself in an absurd, impossible fantasy scenario. It's amazing how quickly you will let dream consciousness kick in, when you subconsciously know you're giving it a job it's actually good at.
Recovering commit after Git reset --hard
You weren't kidding about D. It looks like just this week someone released some D bindings for Godot. Exciting! I really like D, and I am curious to try gamedev in D.

https://code.dlang.org/packages/godot-d
GDPR is a rare area where I see as many positive and negative opinions on it in communities such as HN. Will be interesting to see how this develops with further fallout from the Facebook story, and with GDPR actually coming up to the deadline for implementation in May
It was funny to me seeing so many people recommend less robust, less tested static site generators than Jekyll.
When I fall asleep I know exactly when I'm going to go off quick - and when I'll stay awake.

Learning something new of a physical nature (new sport or physical game). That helps. I can see my mind wander and drift quickly.

You just have to let go of mind concentration and you'll drift off. Now if I can figure out how to FORCE the drift then I'll be good.

When I can't sleep - my mind is stuck on one thing or another. Like the brain isn't lubricated.

Sometimes low level pain just perceptible (normally not enough to warrant a pill) enough to keep you awake.

Delayed onset muscle soreness can keep me up as well - but not exercising can keep me up too.
that's indeed scary, but I saw no way out, but I will do the followings:

1. remove my rarely used facebook account.
2. remove twitter account.
3. remove gmail, use outlook email instead, probably host my own email.
4. for private messenger, use 'signal' app instead.
5. use vpn more.

There are more stuff I could not remove though, e.g., my Amazon account, ebay and paypal, etc, also my account and posts at HN, hi I can not even remove my posts not to mention my account at HN, will HN sell me someday or is it doing this already?

The only solution I see, is that paying for all those services: pay for twitter, facebook, gmail etc, so they do not need your personal info to profit? of those they need supervise, means if they still violate my privacy after I paid, sue them to hell.
TLDR: Civilization should be more roguelike. Or maybe that’s what Dwarf Fortress already is.
people still need to pay for ads
> Here's my manuscript, please put it in book stores nationwide.

I suppose you heard about a company named Amazon. This is basically one of the services they offer for years, if you're OK with selling an e-book.

If your audience prefers dead trees, print-on-demand offers are also numerous.

The problem, as usual, is to make the existence of your book known to potential readers, and this is done by... advertising. And you want it to be targeted unless you enjoy burning money on spamming innocent disinterested people.
Apple's business model is unlike Facebook's business model in that it does not make money from ad targeting.

Facebook's business model is unlike Apple's business model in that it does not make money from sending 12-year-olds into cobalt mines.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2017/11/industry-gian...
> The technique I use is to work on my "novel". I guess my mind knows I've been "working" on it for over twenty years, it's not important.

Not sure if you meant for this to be funny, but I laughed out loud at this because i do the exact same thing. I too can fall asleep within two minutes anytime, anywhere, while "working" on my "novel".

The trick is to never go to sleep with the actual intent of going to sleep. You go to sleep with the mentality of finally, some time for myself to just lie here and work on this project in my head. I work on fleshing out my little fantasy/sci-fi world or solving problems related to my pet programming project. I drift off seamlessly within minutes.

Attempting too hard to sleep is self-defeating; ironically, the stress of actively trying to sleep will prevent you from doing just that.
Oh, that looks useful. Thanks!
Do you use any external C# dlls? I use NewtonSoft's Json.NET, MessagePack, ShaderForge and a few C/C++ dlls. I think it should be pretty straightforward for simple projects without any of these dependencies. I've had good luck with upgrading to newer versions of Unity in the past, but this time I got a ton of errors.
> I think it would be very easy to con them, and probably they get conned a lot of the time.

“Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half.” John Wanamaker

Advertisers are used to this.
Don't let the few responses/upvotes discourage you. The question comes up almost every week (similarly "what service would you pay $10 or more per month for?"). I think it's better to listen in on non-technical forums or FB groups. E.g. dentists, logistics companies, construction, researchers. A friend recently started an app for pharmacies.
Unfortunately no. Last I worked on it it was pretty heavily integrated with their mobile maps application (https://code.facebook.com/posts/504406169737284/instrumentin...) and there wasn't any plan on open sourcing.
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