skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That would be very interesting. I am pretty naive on the topic but one thing to keep in mind is that the force of martian wind is nothing like on earth as the atmosphere is around 1% as dense as ours. For reference, the winds in the Martian was one of the big literary devices used to help the story along but I don't think could actually happen
Aren't they pretty mild despite this, thanks to the very low density of the atmosphere?
There's a product called kinetic sand that I thought this was about:

https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B019K8KIUY/ref=mp_s_a_1_3?ie=...

It's not the same for people who haven't read it.
I use a single 4k screen. Most Chromebooks have no problem with this. I have not tried dual 4k screens, however I think a Pixelbook is capable of this.

One thing I've discovered is that much screen real estate is overkill for me, and I'm more productive with less.
>And it's not really a matter of people doing bad things, it's simply the general public voting for what they like. It doesn't have to be political at all; maybe people just tend to like songs that are culturally close them.

Voting isn't just by popular vote, though.

Each country has a jury which allocates half of the votes and the other half are allocated based on televoting.
That sounds like you given up. Don't let your brittle spirit deter others.
The hardware of every chromebook I know is enough to run a terminal emulator and a browser. You can install a gnu/linux distribution on most x86 based chromebooks. Gnu/linux is arguably better suited for "serious" development, so I don't understand the premise in the question.
I use a x220 because it has a better keyboard. I'm limited to USB2 but honestly I never use them except for my mouse and iOS devices, which are limited to USB2 speeds anyway. But I'm able to hook it up to dual external 1080p monitors. Cost me less than US$100.
Look no further than Bitcoin. Without knowing a combination of cyber security, computer science, economics, law, and incentive modelling Bitcoin could have been the thing that cost you tens of thousands of dollars or could have made you hundreds of thousands or millions.

It's so obvious that information and understanding is directly tied to wealth. The growing gini coefficient within developed countries as partially attributable to the information super highway that's enabling the intelligent to hyper charge their mental models of the world with a just in time information delivery system to boot.

The whole system is speeding up for the top 5%. Focussing on the cost shrouds the true takeaway. The money is all on the growth side and the intellectually impoverished are getting left behind.
> That was only dreamed up by right wing media to justify continued racist criminal justice policies.

From Slate, a left-wing publication:

> Well, in 1973, in New York, many black activists pushed for drug laws, and in the ’80s many black activists pushed for punitive crime policies and supported aspects of Ronald Reagan’s war on drugs. When Reagan signed the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 into law, the one that created the crack-cocaine disparity, Charlie Rangel was onstage with him. And at the time they pushed this because they thought previous policies were not doing the job and that they needed to get tougher on the drug problem in urban communities. And as the drug problem worsened, many of them continued to push for more punitive policies and more aggressive policing.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/crime/2016/0...
No. It is a blockchain, but is not distributed or mined. Firmware is built and signed with the signature of the previous build as part of the artifacts. This, in addition with a constraint that the timestamp can never move backwards, means builds must have a valid timeline and it becomes very difficult to hijack the publishing system.

Imagine you want to revert firmware for legitimate reasons. As the originator of the firmware, you could revert the source code and have a new build spawn that produces a valid artifact. With our system and with the typical system, this is possible.

Now imagine you are an attacker who wants to release an older firmware version, which potentially contains a vulnerability. You have access to the publishing system, but not the build system or signing key. With our system this is impossible, as consumers will not allow moving backwards to an older build. With the typical system, any signed firmware blob can be released at any time, meaning an older version can be made available without having to rebuild.

Our build system utilizes a firmware signing hardware device connected to the build server over serial with a strict protocol to ensure that leaking the key is not possible, even if the build server is compromised. In addition, the key is destroyed if this firmware signing device loses power (it does have a battery backup, but it disconnects if the case is opened), and we must deploy a new key in that event through software upgrades on client machines.
The NASA Jet Propulsion Lab continues to excel at technology innovation in support of science.

Make bounce landing work on another planet.
Make powered landing on another planet routine.
Make remove vehicle operations on another planet routine.
Make soft landing with a rocket sky crane routine.
Drinking water reduces blood viscosity too. Or so I've been told.
I suffer from gout; there's a lot of theories about giving blood to help lower uric acid levels. Some people claim releif from symptoms after donating. In theory, it sounds plausable...

"Studies have shown that iron acts like a catalysis for the crystallization of uric acid. So if your iron serum levels are lower it will keep the uric acid in your blood longer to give your kidneys more time to remove it from your system."

https://www.reddit.com/r/gout/comments/70l8vp/reducing_uric_...
Counterpoint here, XPS 13 user, hate it. Worst coil whine I've heard on anything, fan sounds like it's catching, WiFi on Ubuntu very unreliable. Trackpad is atrocious.

I think it varies a lot between models.
That is one strange whataboutism. Why would you ask that here unless you want to change the conversation to something else, something that suits the corporations more? Net neutrality is more important than autoplaying videos, without it you won't be able to decide what you autoplay.
I haven’t had a single false positive. I get 1-2 false negatives per week but haven’t found an iOS call blocker which had comparable or better accuracy.

That’ll probably require fixing the broken design of the telephone system.
I couldn't stand anymore the stream of mistakes that macOS had become so I had installed ChromeOS as main OS on MacBook Pro.

This is excellent combination. Mac is still superior hardware wise and ChromeOS is really nice graphical environment for web browsing, HBO Go, Spotify, YouTube, Google Play Music, Google Photos, Google Drive, Inbox etc.
Anyway most of the time I spent inside terminal - crouton - Debian stretch - Vim - gcloud.

I am enjoying the screen real estate of Mac's Retina display, touchpad, keyboard, battery life etc. On the other hand I am free from half-baked Apple software...

I have a backup ChromeOS install on at least 6 years old x230. I have also wiped out Windows and installed ChromeOS on my Mom's i3 Lenovo laptop.

So far so good..
Also worth pointing out there is a cap on the number of votes you can make (maximum 20), and a time limit of 10 - 15 minutes during which you're able to vote. So no one can vote without paying, but they can't spend more than $8 USD on votes either. (In Australia, a vote costs 55c, about 40c US.)

Of course there's people who can try buying SIM cards & running bots, but in theory that's what the PwC vote auditing and Digame's systems are meant to detect & block.
We're way past the point where you need to guard your laptop with your life because you'll lose everything, as he puts it. Anyone who isn't already backed up to at least 1 cloud service is stuck in the last decade.
Alternative title: "Man at end of his career realises value of lawyers"
the full transcript of the trial of Joseph Brodsky:

http://soviethistory.msu.edu/1954-2/whats-a-woman-to-think/w...

so absurd and surreal at times it's hard to believe it's not fiction

---

Grudinina: The difference between a parasite and a starting-out poet is that the parasite eats but does not work, while the poet works but may not always eat.

Judge: The court does not appreciate that remark. In our country, a man earns according to his work.
That's Moore's law in action over the longer term. A device like the iPad back when the HP-35 was introduced would have been (1) impossible to make and (2) would have cost millions of $ given the number of transistors in the device (besides the fact that the internet is what makes an iPad useful).

You really can't compare those numbers, yes, the HP was a consumer device, but the manufacturer of any consumer device back then would have been happy to sell in those numbers.

The good news is now it can be yours for under $2 if you already have an iPhone:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/rpn-35-sd/id956224485?mt=8
In reality those environments are not "the same". You have all sorts of libraries that are compiled and set up specifically for your system, and those differences add up.

With Cloud 9 everything is on an EC2 instance with Linux, exactly the same platform as I will deploy in production.
and even if you don't, using a slow machine is still not a great experience.

Opening a shell, reloading a page, switching tabs, running git pull, decompressing an archive, linting, building etc.

All these things will take noticably longer to the point of being frustrating on a low-end machine.
> It appears the artist is currently working on a tabletop consumer version

That's good to hear!

I wish the article covered how the machine works underneath. How many of us here, right now, are trying to reverse engineer it, or figure out how to build our own?
Hypervisor layer aside, I'm not so sure this is the case anymore. Homebrew is pretty good these days. Even running a setup like dozens of Docker containers with a local k8s cluster in Docker for Mac works pretty well. I feel like any friction in between Linux vs Mac dev has become negligible.

The only day to say exception to this is Docker for Mac's power usage.
I don't dispute the War on Drugs is founded in partisanship and racism. However, it is worth pointing out that it was supported by many, including those from the communities most negatively impacted.

Folks need to stop trying to repaint it as this purely right-wing racist conspiracy and attempting to wield it as some type of political cudgel. We need reform, badly, and attempting to turn this into a wedge is bullshit partisan politics.
New reactors are plagued by huge, hundreds of percent cost and schedule overruns, over originally expensive plans. See the current EPR projects.
Replacing the hardware and restoring your environment is expensive and time consuming, sometimes prohibitively so. Let's say you're on a road trip through Mexico...

Also backing up a Macbook to the cloud is a lot of data, and Apple doesn't have an adequate solution for this. I was using Backblaze. Their restore method is mailing a USB drive.

Unless you have a local backup, which is not practical while traveling, restoring from backup is non-trivial.
This seems like an awfully important cause! Why are they sitting and hoping someone will do it selflessly? That is risky, I feel.

Why not instead have, say, the government or a charity pay someone with this profile 100k a year to go donate blood once a week?

Yes, hopefully someone would just do it, but it does feel like the upside is strong enough that investing some money would be worthwhile. Hell, I hate needles with a passion but I would sign up for donating weekly for the rest of my life for 100k a year, I am sure orhers would as well.

Maybe a patreon or a gofundme or something?
Is it more reasonable because it's white folks, or because we've evolved our understanding?
To piggy back off this, different news outlets have their own set of rules. For example, CNET (I think) wouldn't use upper case past 4 characters Example: NASA, Nascar
I've generally found most generic laptops super loud when they heat up. Or they have poor fit and finish or ugly screens.
I unsubscribed for almost all junk mail without any problem (save for spam, but that's different matter)...
Whonow – A “Malicious” DNS Server for Executing DNS Rebinding Attacks on Th
I use a 2015 Chromebook Pixel.

- Stand up an Amazon WorkSpace and RDP to it for Windows work
- Use Android apps
- Install Ubuntu using crouton

That's pretty much it. Use it all day every day.
The only advantage that the chromebook is going to have is being optimized to run on arm. Otherwise switching to any standard flavor of Linux would be a much better bet for a dev.
It's a disorganized sentence containing two separate notions. One is that having fewer red cells can reduce the viscosity of blood so it doesn't clot as readily, which is good for sedentary people. The other is that bleeding will reduce the overall age of red cells and thus reduce the amount of unusable methemoglobin, containing oxidized iron. Iron (II) is in hemoglobin, Iron (III) is in methemoglobin.
Air Force deployed drone to AF to catch terrorists planting roadside bombs
> Mind sharing a link to your blog (if it's still active)? Thanks :)

It seems to be there: https://www.brentozar.com/blog/

Bam. Inbound marketing seems to go well, a HNer just linked to the blog by inspecting the HN profile the consultant put on HN ... ;)
The article doesn't say whether they will or not.
Monopoly is perhaps one of the most widely played and popular board games in the World

Which is itself, perhaps, an example of this effect at work. Monopoly is boring to play and contains very little engaging gameplay [1]; a winner quickly emerges and the game then becomes a long grind in which everyone just wants it to be over. There are so many board games that are simply better and more fun in every way, yet time after time someone pulls out a Monopoly set for no good reason other than it has some kind of unfair, unjustified mindshare advantage.

[1] If one plays by the actual rules, it's thankfully over a lot faster, but everyone seems to play by rules that force it into a long, painful endgame.
> What do you mean? H-index applies to individual researchers.

H-index is also applied and calculated to publications (Journal h-index). IMHO It fits better to the multidisciplinary nature of the journals than other impact factors.

>some reserachers need the prestige factor. But

In academia things like Nobel price, Abel price, Turing price are signals of significance for those not in the field. They are usually received very late in career.

If you have several publications in Nature, the prestige level approaches those awards and you get the prestige when you are still active researcher. You get tenure or funding for research group. The value can be measured in millions.
But why not just use VMWare with Linux locally?
> Development doesn't require any more CPU than word processing

Please tell that to my local k8s cluster.
Not having read the article, I am sure that they already did. Nothing gets sent beyond Earth's orbit without having gone through as much testing as is humanly possible on Earth. The cost of failure on Earth is several orders of magnitude less expensive than the cost of failure elsewhere.

I would guess that sending a test helicopter along with another rover would be to do a feasibility test for larger flight-based probes in the future. Test it now with a small helicopter, and you use 10-20 pounds of payload in order to do better wind and atmospheric studies. On the other hand, if you send a probe that uses flight as its primary mode of transportation, and some unknown unknown causes it to fail, you've scrapped the entire mission.
15 years ago I wrote Python code for a living. Then about 9 years of Java. The last four years was exclusively Python. I'm never going back to Java, it has nothing I want.
You’d have to find such a person first. From the article, there were a unique set of circumstances that doctors don’t even truly understand that led to his blood having these properties.
1) This seems like a very arbitrary distinction. Is there any hard evidence that yelling is only effective in training people to "physically dominate others"? In the absence of such evidence, we should default towards consistency

2) Your point here is that it's ok to engage in yelling if the decision was made "deliberately" and "by design"? I don't think we as a society should be micromanaging the internal working of a private organisation to that extent. We should be regulating organizations by their behaviors and outcomes, not their thought processes.

Lest anyone misunderstands me, I certainly do not advocate for yelling and belittling behavior. I don't think it makes for a productive workplace, and I would never want to work in one. But I do think there's an inconsistency wrt the wide latitude we give the armed forces. To the extent that such inconsistency is acceptable, I'm curious as to why.

Edit: Another example that just came to my mind, was many athletic coaches in sports like soccer. Specifically, the "greatest football manager ever", Alex Ferguson.

https://www.givemesport.com/1251440-sir-alex-ferguson-used-t...

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/2016/01/29/how-cristian...
My XPS 13 (second gen) had much better battery life with (what sounds) similar usage.

- you have a recent kernel? Also, 4.17 should bring battery-related improvements

- did you install TLP[0]?

[0] http://linrunner.de/en/tlp/docs/tlp-linux-advanced-power-man...
My MBP runs linux, as does the MBP of every other developer at my office (there are also 2 dells running linux).
I really wish I had read this a year ago when I was struggling with cross-compiling Qt for the RaspberryPi and instead natively built it which took 3 days.
And to indicate the size of popularity, Eurovision gets ratings of 182 Million viewers [1], which is roughly equal with the 172 Million who watch the Superbowl [2]

[1] https://eurovision.tv/story/Eurovision-2017-reaches-more-tha...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_television_ratings
Cleaning up Docker
Not that with Pascal you'd never had dangling pointers, double-free errors, uninitialized memory access, or smashed stack.

Security-wise, Pascal offered vastly more sane strings (counter-prefixed, not null-terminated) and built-in support for access index checking and value range checking (at a constant runtime cost).
My guess is that they test it in chambers with lowered air pressure and composition to match 100k feet?
My guess is that Ian Anderson’s making up a new backstory is probably what fueled the obsession.
It has become more or less accepted (at least in Scandinavia) that small children crying is just a form of misbehavior that shouldn't be given any attention. Coming from South Europe, I found that very strange. But they've become as good at reading a child's cues as they themselves are at socializing.
It's a little difficult. If you have type O blood the American Red Cross will bug you incessantly when you're able to donate again. While it's nice to be in demand, it's still annoying. You can ask them to knock it off but there's no option for once a month reminders.
I have the Dell XPS 13 9350, bought used. When doing standard programming stuff (firefox + sublime + spotify, no CPU intensive tasks), I usually get around 8 hours of battery, so in practice it's never a problem.
Do you have any pictures or write up about your van fit-up that you’d be willing to share? This sounds interesting!
And even more so when a country manages to break that collusion and win despite the odds that are against them
But the "tier" is just lower priced compared to other Apple products, not lower priced compared to competitors.

The average selling price of an Android phone is $202 (https://www.statista.com/statistics/309472/global-average-se...). That's still $150 less than the cheapest iPhone.

The average selling price of a tablet is still much less than the lowest cost iPad.

Apple doesn't sell iPods anymore except the iPod in name only iPod Touch.

Apple only has about 12% world wide market share in smart phones.
Any chance you've considered getting a Chromebook Pro or Pixelbook? I've been eyeballing one to give Chromebooks for dev another shot as an alternate machine. I'm currently trying to determine between the two if the Pixelbook is worth the ~2x price tag.
However, this is a thing you can do with a for loop. Why cripple it artificially? Isn't this also introducing a bias?
No, the XPSs don't have replaceable batteries either. The XPS 13 is a very tiny notebook/subnotebook, yet with full-size keyboard and all the performance of a larger notebook (it's very noticeably faster than my 2012 MacMini which also has an i7).

I guess battery mileage is mostly a function of the O/S and drivers, and your power settings and what you actually do on the notebook.
Actually, the assumption that paying people will result in more blood is perhaps more problematic. The research seems to indicate that people actually like to donate. Although, work is ongoing.

http://freakonomics.com/2013/06/05/is-paying-for-blood-a-goo...

Quote:

The position and guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO) and several national blood collection agencies for nearly 40 years have been based on the view that offering economic incentives to blood donors is detrimental to the quantity and safety of the blood supply. The guidelines suggest that blood should be obtained from unpaid volunteers only.

However, whether economic incentives positively or negatively affect blood donations (and other prosocial activities) has remained the subject of debate since the positions were established.

Evidence consistent with the WHO position came originally from uncontrolled studies using nonrandom samples and, subsequently, from surveys and laboratory studies indicating that economic incentives can “crowd out” (decrease) intrinsic motivations to donate and can attract “worse” donors.
Very cool. They were trying to get NASA to allow them to send it when I worked at JPL a few years ago. NASA is very nervous about anything messing up the main focus of the mission.
The bags contain a specific amount of anticoagulant and require 450ml blood. There's about 90ml blood per kg body weight, so a 50kg person has 4500ml. It's safe to donate 10%. The cutoff in the US is actually 110lbs (50kg).
Link to the underlying press release [0] which has slightly more info than the BBC article. There is a bit more background about the project at [1], with some key points being:

"The helicopter uses counter-rotating coaxial rotors about 1.1 m in diameter. Its payload will be a high resolution downward-looking camera for navigation, landing, and science surveying of the terrain, and a communication system to relay data to the 2020 Mars rover. The inconsistent Mars magnetic field precludes the use of a compass for navigation, so it would require a solar tracker camera integrated to JPL's visual inertial navigation system. Some additional inputs might include gyros, visual odometry, tilt sensors, altimeter, and hazard detectors. It would use solar panels to recharge its batteries."

[0] https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/mars-helicopter-to-fly-on...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NASA_Mars_Helicopter_Scout