skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yup - long running and very repetitive processes are the best fit for PyPy. If you have a slow but short-lived process then PyPy is not going to improve things for you.
Sorry I wasn’t trying to be a dick, all software has bugs, just thought people might want to know before they try it. Thanks for fixing it.
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Yes. Data only sims are just like your regular simcards except you pay to NOT make any calls from it. The rest everything works the same from a technical point of view.
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There is still some place for using theoretical predictions to guide experiments. For example, I have developed a rune that may be used to cast Fireball - it consists of three triangles carved in to a very expensive gold-titanium laminate. If that test fails, I suppose we also ought to try four triangles, a triangle and a circle, the word 'fireball' engraved on the perimeter of a hexagon, three triangles engraved onto a momentum-nonconserving cone...

More seriously, there was a good reason to strongly suspect that the EM drive wouldn't overturn physics: we have probed electromagnetic interactions at energy densities far higher (gamma ray scattering) and far lower (radio telescopes) and everything in-between, and they all seem to be points on a continuous surface defined by Maxwell's equations applied to quantum mechanics. A working EM drive would actually be very close to the magic rune I described above: a wildly noncontinuous point where the laws of physics became massively different for one particular arrangement of matter, and then go right back to normal if you step in any direction around it.
It's well known that humans vividly hallucinate sounds - specifically overtones - that aren't really there; given specific sound (harmonic frequency) combinations.

It may be that how well you are able to "hear" (hallucinate) overtones is involved in this effect. Moving into the bathroom changed what I heard, and extra reflection of sound would alter overtone perception. I interpret that as (rather weak) evidence for the hypothesis.
Serious question: Can anyone pronounce a compound name that long in practice/conversation? Is there a specific naming rule?
Awesome, thanks for the reply.

So if someone had a cockroach or ant connectome the Nengo simulator could, in theory, be used to simulate a population of them connected to some virtual environment?
> helping to retain people in public service

Another bad side effect.
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> new people in a horror game completely forget that they even have the option of taking the headset off.

Or closing their eyes. Something they would do for a movie when there is an uncomfortable segment.
I used to get ocular migraines a couple of times a year, but I haven't one in over four years since getting on a wheat and yeast-free diet. I started the diet to try and fix an autoimmune disease. It worked perfectly and also got rid of migraines as a bonus. I spent some time trying to find out why and I think the reason is simple, although I'm nowhere close to being a biologist. It might work like this: 1) Migraines and are known to be caused by inflammation. 2) Yeast is known to cause an inflammatory response in humans via innate immune system (dectin-1, mannose receptors). 3) Yeast beta-glucans (that trigger immune response via dectin-1) can pass through the intestines. Therefore, eating yeast contributes to migraines.
We've had a few thousand nukes, many secured with the password 0000, lying around for a few decades now in a dozen countries, and that hasn't materialized. For some reason, we seem to be much better at imagining ridiculous scenarios for terrorists than they are at implementing them.
You only need pseudo hands
https://sean-bradley.github.io/GrabVR/

And a teleporter
https://sean-bradley.github.io/TeleportVR/
Exactly this sort of thing is something to watch out for with sociopaths or whatever the personality classification is called for this type of person.

The reason they do this is to shake you up and monitor your reaction. I don’t think they know why they do it exactly - it’s just a button they found they can press and they happen to have a gift that enables them to parse the response and from that response extrapolate which kind of abuse they can subject you to to make you dance.

I don’t know what the approproate response to the question would be other than a straightforward dry yes or no without lifting an eyebrow, but that would probably be hard without some sort of training as the questions come out of the blue and even the smallest discomfort you might feel will be picked up by the person.
I just posted a lot more stuff about pie menus here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17098179

It's the 30 year anniversary of CHI’88 (May 15–19, 1988), where Jack Callahan, Ben Shneiderman, Mark Weiser and I (Don Hopkins) presented our paper “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”. We found pie menus to be about 15% faster and with a significantly lower error rate than linear menus!
So I've written up a 30 year retrospective:

This article will discuss the history of what’s happened with pie menus over the last 30 years (and more), present both good and bad examples, including ideas half baked, experiments performed, problems discovered, solutions attempted, alternatives explored, progress made, software freed, products shipped, as well as setbacks and impediments to their widespread adoption.

Here is the main article, and some other related articles:

Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective. By Don Hopkins, Ground Up Software, May 15, 2018. Take a Look and Feel Free!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/pie-menus-936fed383ff1
Contract provision that survives bankruptcy, Tesla needs the cash or there may not be a Tesla in two years.
It's even worse because they are using one medium to infer the needs of another medium. It's more like saying "From a couple of decades of reading science fiction books, I know all a science fiction movie needs".
This is exactly why PyPy blew both Cannoli and CPython away in the microbenchmarks used for analysis. As I've said elsewhere, the focus was on comparing Cannoli (unoptimized) to Cannoli (optimized) and not a direct comparison to CPython or PyPy. However, the microbenchmarks were running iterations of 1-10 million, giving the JIT plenty of time to find beneficial traces in the PyPy interpreter.
30 seconds isn't nearly long enough for 95 a decibel noise to permanently hurt your ears. Even at 100dB permanent damage take on the order of minutes, not seconds. At 90 dB it's measured in hours. Your BART ride isn't hurting you.
You can't block fire exits at small stores or large ones I see no reason to adopt your suggestions.
Is safety a real concern here? I would have never viewed Kinder Eggs as dangerous in any way.

I haven't found a single case of a child getting hurt in Germany. Only news reports about them being unhealthy (big surprise).
We could witness the great filter firsthand
> I'm not sure you do, since you admitted to really being at least part sysadmin, earlier :)

Hah!

I wish I could remember which talk it was. Bryan Cantrill had a good line about DevOps in one of his talks (I think it was this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30jNsCVLpAE). The gist was "you can say you're DevOps, but when the shit hits the fan, you're either going to be Dev or Ops. If you're a Dev, you're going to want to debug the problem before rebooting the failed machine. If you're Ops, you're going to want to reboot the machine as fast as you can to get it back up." Through that lens, I'm definitely pretty far over on the Dev spectrum; when something goes catastrophically wrong and someone reboots a box to "solve the problem", my first reaction is "YOU FUCKER YOU BURNED THE CORPSE"

It's such a tricky thing all around. Looking back at what I wrote earlier, I also realize that in some ways I'm facilitating the ignorance. I've got a really nice Consul and Nomad setup for the team, so they can pretty much just toss .wars and Docker containers at the cluster and they'll automatically get scheduled somewhere with spare capacity. The load balancer, the database cluster, all of the service discovery and job scheduling stuff... they've never had to get in and set any of that up. Maybe it's time to do more mentoring...

Anyway, thanks for getting me thinking. I've been a little bit grouchy lately about all of the recent experiences of people not knowing how the stuff they build actually runs. You've been a great mirror for some self-reflection :)

Edit: also, bare metal rocks.
Was that an accident, or was it on purpose because centralized systems are easier to monitor/censor?
>this guy sees the law and runs off without even trying to become compliant

This guy quite clearly states that he doesn't have resources to become compliant, while it is too risky to make a mistake here.

There are fans of GDPR on this website, who prefer to ignore the fact that the compliance has its cost, and added to that still unknown risks of practical interpretation of legislation which also have their cost. But these are real life things.
Sounds like you're in favour of something that can never be done in a fashion that you demand. So how can you be in favour of it?
One of the most under-appreciated problems regarding the "soundness" of blockchain tokens is that they are trivial to create and so everyone does so. A given blockchain token is only nominally distinct from a potential fork of itself that literally creates blockchain money out of thin air.

The bitcoin-cash fork is a perfect example of how blockchain tokens can be trivially summoned out of the void with identical properties to the parent token which spontaneously "creates value" when the sum total value of the fork and the parent exceeds the value of the parent pre-fork. What this tells us is that blockchain markets are very inefficient and the vast majority of money in the system has near zero understanding of the intrinsic properties that underpin the token's ability to even exist as a thing that can be traded on an exchange. Once the market is saturated with an understanding of how these tokens are actually infinitely abundant and not at all scarce as we know it, we are going to see a catastrophic correction.
It's sad if it's unwanted. But some of these are stories of people for whom the only sadness is the societal pressure they feel to 'get it over with'.

I think waiting (if you can and want to) can be a beautiful thing, and it makes eventual sex both more meaningful and more enjoyable.
seems that pbs has a new one on Noethers theorem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04ERSb06dOg
Redis flash, memcached with its external storage shim, ScyllaDB, Aerospike, RocksDB, EVCache for Netflix perhaps...there's a bunch of em
Here's an example (It is through geofencing, and I read my parent comment as a bit misleading. Sorry about that.): https://www.locationsmart.com/solutions/proximity
LifeLeaf, the first smartwatch to non-invasively monitor glucose, preps launch
Steve Jobs had poor enough taste to say that pie menus suck! ;)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17098179

It's the 30 year anniversary of CHI’88 (May 15–19, 1988), where Jack Callahan, Ben Shneiderman, Mark Weiser and I (Don Hopkins) presented our paper “An Empirical Comparison of Pie vs. Linear Menus”. We found pie menus to be about 15% faster and with a significantly lower error rate than linear menus!
So I've written up a 30 year retrospective:

This article will discuss the history of what’s happened with pie menus over the last 30 years (and more), present both good and bad examples, including ideas half baked, experiments performed, problems discovered, solutions attempted, alternatives explored, progress made, software freed, products shipped, as well as setbacks and impediments to their widespread adoption.

Here is the main article, and some other related articles:

Pie Menus: A 30 Year Retrospective. By Don Hopkins, Ground Up Software, May 15, 2018. Take a Look and Feel Free!

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/pie-menus-936fed383ff1

Steve Jobs Thought Pie Menus Sucked
“That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat! That sucks!”

On October 25, 1988, I gave Steve Jobs a demo of pie menus, NeWS, UniPress Emacs and HyperTIES at the Educom conference in Washington DC. His reaction was to jump up and down, point at the screen, and yell “That sucks! That sucks! Wow, that’s neat! That sucks!”

I tried explaining how we’d performed an experiment proving pie menus were faster than linear menus, but he insisted the liner menus in NeXT Step were the best possible menus ever.

But who was I to rain on his parade, two weeks after the first release of NeXT Step 0.8? (Up to that time, it was the most hyped piece of vaporware ever, and doubters were wearing t-shirts saying “NeVR Step”!) Even after he went back to Apple, Steve Jobs never took a bite of Apple Pie Menus, the forbidden fruit. There’s no accounting for taste!
The general use of experiments in science (as opposed to a Homo Erectus experimenting with rock types when making hammers) is to test what we think we know, to see if it's really so. IIRC the "inventor" of the Emdrive had a theory of his own to go by that led him to his device. We probably agree that it's the use of theory to preempt and prevent any experimentation that is pernicious.

(reply to below comment)
While not all experiments are equal, there's no right answer, and plenty of room for good and bad luck. The marketplace of ideas ensures enough variety that we don't miss toooo much (maybe.) Yet very often, it's those with the most eccentric and false ideas, such as Keplar, who stumble onto the right path because at least they're looking where nobody else is, for correlations no-one else thought to! So my bias is toward the most novel experiments that are still extremely likely to fail, as I think you agree.

Just this week I was reading up on the Stern-Gerlach Magnet experiment, which discovered spin; something the experimenters absolutely weren't looking for. The idiots (or recipients of blind luck) win a lot of rounds in science, 'cause they're at least trying something genuinely new.

Slightly different alloy = slightly different string theory?
I am sorry if I formalized it too general. Like you say, it is purely focused on the law system and unrestricted capitalism, which as an individual you either use or not.

Sociopath is a tough word, but in the original non insulting meaning of deviation from the common society, I think the word is right.
I think that’s unfair; the Ghost.io post from a day or so ago is a good reminder of just how much harder it is to do things when you have to make them work in a decentralized fashion. Decentralization makes everything harder.

Doesn’t mean it’s the wrong thing to do! :)
Kids used to be cheap farm labor who eventually became your retirement plan. Now that nobody has land, child labor is forbidden, and "free-range parenting" is all but negligence, parenthood is a nearly unaffordable hobby.
> They tend to involve the car driving straight into a large stationary object, in situations where a much cheaper car with a basic automatic emergency braking system (AEB) would refuse to collide and would just stop

Would it?

https://www.wired.com/story/tesla-autopilot-why-crash-radar/

> Volvo's semi-autonomous system, Pilot Assist, has the same shortcoming. Say the car in front of the Volvo changes lanes or turns off the road, leaving nothing between the Volvo and a stopped car. "Pilot Assist will ignore the stationary vehicle and instead accelerate to the stored speed," Volvo's manual reads, meaning the cruise speed the driver punched in. "The driver must then intervene and apply the brakes.” In other words, your Volvo won't brake to avoid hitting a stopped car that suddenly appears up ahead. It might even accelerate towards it.

> The same is true for any car currently equipped with adaptive cruise control, or automated emergency braking. It sounds like a glaring flaw, the kind of horrible mistake engineers race to eliminate. Nope. These systems are designed to ignore static obstacles because otherwise, they couldn't work at all.

> “You always have to make a balance between braking when it’s not really needed, and not braking when it is needed,” says Erik Coelingh, head of new technologies at Zenuity, a partnership between Volvo and Autoliv formed to develop driver assistance technologies and self-driving cars. He's talking about false positives. On the highway, slamming the brakes for no reason can be as dangerous as not stopping when you need to.
That was kinda the point of this whole thing though. This wasn't a software project for me, this was a community project. I have no interest in developing a forum, but I do have interest in participating in one.

From what I can tell so far, what we setup seems to be working fine. If we hit a wall, I'll search out the next most practical option.
The makers of Twitterrific (desktop Mac app) have confirmed the pricing per 3rd-party user and that they likely can't continue:

"It’s looking like it won’t be financially possible for us to afford the new account activity API from twitter."

"Many of you have done the math and seen it would be about $12/user/month for notifications - but don’t forget that in order to do a subscription we’d have to cover Apple’s 30% overhead and make enough for us to pay for food and shelter. So, uh… yeah."

"This isn’t a “wow that’s kind of expensive” situation. This is “deathblow expensive” situation."

[1] https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996785022886608896

[2] https://twitter.com/BigZaphod/status/996831340740972549
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Blockchain's only use seems to be in money:

https://medium.com/@jimmysong/why-blockchain-is-hard-60416ea...

In a sense, current conceptions of blockchain are trying to do the impossible. They want the security of a decentralized system with the control of a centralized one. The desire is the best of both worlds, but what they end up getting is the worst of both worlds. You get the costs and difficulty of a decentralized system with the failure modes of a centralized one.
Need help
I transferred $320 in bit coin to easy coin on the dark site. and it wont let me make a transfer but my money is still in my wallet can someone get to it if i provide log in details Ill pay $100 please please email me at sanders1980sanders@gmail.com
I've heard all too many stories about people get their Google accounts locked out, sometimes for unrelated events on other Google products/services, and having no recourse unless they happen to know a Google employee who can champion their cause internally: Google offers no customer support to Gmail users, and help forums are often of little use.

IMHO, email is the most important service you have. Every other service you use is tied to it, and your email is more often than not the master key to your entire online identity. You'd be shocked how many other accounts you have that you may just not be able to recover if your email account disappears.

One of the key things I get at FastMail is real, human support. I would strongly discourage entrusting your email account to anyone who doesn't have good customer service, and generally, that is something you do have to pay for.

This is also why I feel owning your own domain and using it for your email address is so key: Even if I were to have an issue with FastMail, I could always redirect my email address to a different provider, and regain access to my services.
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PayPal buys credit card reader startup iZettle for $2.2B
Still unavailable. How about adding Cloudfront in front of the webserver?
HackerNews has sophisticated anti-ringvoting protections, and as dang has explained many times in the past, these or other moderation systems and policies are not relaxed for YC companies; if they were, the community would lose all trust in HN [1].

Also, alleging astroturfing or shilling is explicitly against the guidelines [2]. The right thing to do if you suspect this is flag the post and email the moderators - hn@ycombinator.com.

There's a far more innocent and likely reason why Stripe gets lots of exposure here: they're in the most successful handful of companies to emerge in the past few years anywhere in the world, and people like learning about what successful companies do.

Which is not to say that it's not boring to see the same kind of content over and over, but again, the right approach is to flag and move on, not allege underhanded conduct without any evidence.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=dang%20pg%20chair&sort=byPopul...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
If you do that then facebook and the other privacy terrorists will happily create 20000 little companies that they outsource their scum to. Also, a very small company with tens of thousands of datasets can still do terrible damage to people.
the gist of the vulnerability was an expectation that nobody would ever find their origins if they had some crazy hostname:

"asuhdfo8a7ys8dfas.website.com" type of setup. In front of this origin they had a server that did auth and auth only. If your auth worked at the edge, the request was sent to origin. The problem is I found a specific input that caused an error dumping a stack trace that contained the origin hostname. I took the original request and replayed it directly at the origin. To my surprise the response was the same as going through the auth server. Then I changed the user id some integer that wasn't mine and got information back. Then I quit playing with it and sent an email.

This leaves me in a weird spot because I was fuzzing them looking for details when I was fully aware they did not have a bug bounty program. Why did I do this? Because I was using the app myself, I'm a security guy, and had read about a cool exploit with the uber app. It only took about 5 minutes of setting up burp proxy for my phone with ssl and 5 more minutes of auditing to find an input that dumped the stack trace.
In the absence of fixing that problem, let’s not pile on and make it even harder for non-wealthy Californians.
Binary PDUs can be tricky to send between operators - especially when those operators are in different countries. Often you will find that the PDU messages simply disappear. Internally within an operator network there shouldn’t be any problem usually.

That is probably why twilio doesn’t support it.
Shun him you say? Shun Gates for what he did to Apple, Netscape etc etc. Shun Googlers for what they're doing to competitors, shun Larry for suing about Java....and so on. Will anyone knowledgeable be left?
Is Tesla Putting Other Drivers in Danger
All of Reddit was Postgres on raided EBS up till I left in 2011 and I think still is today but I kinda hope not.

It’s totally safe to use local storage if you build it right. But those raided EBSs caused a lot of problems. In short, when one gets slow the whole volume gets slow because software raid isn’t hardware raid.

The main advantage of RDS is that they take care of the mundane redundancy for you.
> Meanwhile, many of the tasks that seem most basic to us humans—like running over rough terrain or interpreting body language—are all but impossible for the machines of today and the foreseeable future.

I don't think the author ever ran over rough terrain, that's all but a basic task. And for the interpreting body language, that fails as soon as you get to a different culture or just to a different animal.
The author is vastly overestimating human capabilities.
Spotted the bot!
This was posted today, but was flagged & removed without discussion. I'm reposting to encourage discussion, not censorship, about an important stigma that exists in our society.
My response was to the last part that there's an environment where Javascript can run but Rust can't. I agree that C/C++ targets are a strict superset but I'll posit that for all the architectures that matter it's the same surface area at which point the calculation for which to use is about ease-of-use, correctness, etc.