skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>A subjective observer can never be ‘dead’ from their own perspective.

As a former boxer who has been "knocked out", I have always speculated that feeling is akin to what death would "feel like" (that is, nothing at all). When you are knocked out (as aside from asleep) you have no experience. You don't dream, you don't feel has though time has passed - you don't feel anything. One second you are awake and aware and the next second you wake up lying on the ground (or don't wake up at all, if you are dead). It feels like an instant, no matter how long you actually been knocked out for. This makes it different than sleeping and simply not remembering your dreams upon waking.
Can anyone close to the Xerox/Fujifilm situation comment on why this matters/doesn't matter/is relevant?
my washing machine has 2 hookups. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCy-N_qAZ8I
I personally don't like relying on my browser for notifications. I like having native apps because usually fine tuning notifications for them is easier in that respect, things that while I imagine are possible through the web browser, probably aren't going to be done on a web app. It's also just an organizational thing since I don't like to have a list of a bunch of tabs, but having a handful of apps isn't too bad to navigate through.

Just because there's been a lot of progress in making web apps do things that were more natural for native apps, doesn't mean that it's the best way to go about something.

I get the wish for more support for web apps, though. I just switched over from a near 4-year-old phone that was replete with security updates and other un-removable stuff in the storage which prevented me from having a lot of apps installed (especially as so many insist on a large footprint in internal storage), so I increasingly used my web browser to access things. After the switch, though, you can bet I downloaded a bunch of apps I had deleted.
Well, "appeal to consequences of belief" is a logical fallacy. But yes, of course it's possible that inaccurate views of the world can actually bring about better outcomes than accurate ones
Here is a small example:

Strings (written right to left):

-----101
--100101
-----010
--100010

Mask:

00111010

Table:

Index Contents
0000 -----101
0001 -----010
0010 -----101
0011 -----010
0100 -----101
0101 -----010
0110 -----101
0111 -----010
1000 --100101
1001 --100010
1010 -----101
1011 -----010
1100 -----101
1101 -----010
1110 -----101
1111 -----010

Suppose the input is --101101

After the mask, the result is 00101000

After the compress, the result is 1010

Table index 1010 has -----101, so it's a hit. with string 101.

Now Suppose the input is --100101

After the mask, the result is 00100000

After the compress, the result is 1000

Table index 1000 has --100101, so it's a hit. with string 100101.
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thanks, final question if you don't mind. :) do you know how much the average trenching job costs or how long it takes (order of magnitude)? $10K and days, $100K and weeks, or ...?

thanks again for sharing your knowledge.
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They do? Where do you live? I've never seen such a machine in the US. At most they give a bit of a boost to already hot water.
What is that difference exactly?
It's completely true.

The term to google is "Parallax Occlusion Mapping," which was used for several extremely impressive (for the time) GPU demos in 2004.

EDIT: https://developer.amd.com/wordpress/media/2012/10/I3D2006-Ta...
I thought this article was going to be about slack
I posit that it's the wording.

Keeping using either "The ISO 8601 week-based year" or "ISO year" is enough to keep people confused whenever they read or hear it. The reasoning is simply: do we want "international standard year"? -- hell yeah!

We all pattern match, so "ISO" and "year" match too much of what we want, so we wouldn't even try to doubt our decision to use it!

The proper wording is: don't ever use a word "year" in this case, keep calling the number just a "special G number":

"%G -- the very special G number used only when creating week-of-the-year calendars, see NOTES"

Then in NOTES it would have to be again elaborated that the number obtained by G is a very special number used only for week-of-the-year calendars as specified in a specific ISO standard in this case meaningful only for week-of-the-year calendars and nothing else, and even then, that there are other week-of-the-year calendar standards that do the calculation differently from that ISO specification, and that all this doesn't have anything to do with ISO standard date formatting! And never should this number be referred to as "year". Just a "G number for week-of-the-year." Write that it is "often, but sometimes definitely not the same as the year number."

That's in the line for "easy things should be easy (and obvious) and hard things less easy, especially if the hard thing is for almost all of the uses the wrong thing.

But we all know that a lot of man pages are often both completely precise but at the same time almost useless:

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial/2015-March...

"generates a random man page for a made-up
git command... more or less indistinguishable from the official docs"

Of course the approach (being precise while remaining useless) is much older and much more universal than that specific tool and specific pages at some point in time.
Well, in these modern times, we call any mechanism which allocates scarce (ergo valuable) resources, an "economy".

Thus, the "economic" in "economic value" is actually redundant.

And if something has no value, to anyone ... what importance could it have?

(except perhaps in the history books, e.g. the now-bloodstained clothes that Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria wore when he was assassinated)

This seems rather elementary/tautological/Econ-101 to me.
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Alexa on your apple watch – worth releasing? [video]
> Private industry generously rewards innovation.

This is a unfounded assertion, not a fact.

A more correct statement would probably be: private industry sometimes generously rewards some innovation, as long as that innovation can be captured, monopolized, and monetized.

There are many innovations, both realized and that one can imagine, that would absolutely not be rewarded but would be nonetheless hugely significant in health and well-being.

As example, consider the whole “Is curing patients a sustainable business model?” question raised by a Goldman Sachs analyst. [1]

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/11/goldman-asks-is-curing-patie...
I actually think your version presents a more accessible view of the true extent of the reclamations! It's a very intuitive and immediate view of the effects, rather than clicking layers on and off.
From parent, "they don't even have a battery". Maybe my definition is off, but doesn't that mean passive? I.e., requires an antenna to activate it via an RF discharge, and then with that minimal charge it broadcasts back its identifier.
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You forgot a few steps..

0.1) Convince every single library author to open source their code.

0.2) Convince them to submit (and maintain) the package across all Linux distributions.

And many more..

Oh, and hope you don't depend on a specific package version, because you might run into dependency hell on Linux..

Everything is "easy" when you re-define the problems as non-problems for your particular use case.
Can you explain how healthcare is a moribound industry?
30 minutes seems a little extreme. I guess it would sensibly turn itself off.

If you really want that you could have a special "warming" mode.
That totally depends on your setup. But in my case, I keep a container of 90% isopropyl alcohol on my desk to wipe away my keyboard, mouse, laptop surface, desk, etc. regularly. It certainly seems easier than having some service take it away for a day or even a few hours.
I suppose its inevitable that we dissect the lives and actions of "great" people like Steve Jobs. The fact is that no one is perfect, and those who usually accomplish great things have fascinating lives and personality flaws. At the end of the day, you take the good with the bad, its a package deal, and call it Human.
Two old tech companies want to merge. An activist investor blocked this, figuring there is more to be made milking the technology on the way down. This can happen in software too.
I'm honestly doubting this, it seems outright insane to not take into the external costs of plastic (lasts forever) compared to fabric or paper.

Where are you getting this from?
The entire post reminded me of the book. Very similar in tone.
>I don't quite understand what they're saying here

Basically that Congress is able to pass a federal law to prevent sports gambling but does not have the power to force states to pass and enforce state laws against sports gambling.

>but they can't restrict what laws states pass?

Restricing a state from passing a law is quite different from federally mandating a state to pass a law.
Good to know! I'm pretty sure I've only encountered self-heating cold-water-in machines here in Europe.
Aren't telegrams already "e"?
TBH I have never been impressed by any technical recruiter I've met.

You know what is impressive about (at least some) technical recruiters I've met? Despite not knowing much about tech, they can pull down $300K/yr (and this is not in SF or NYC).
They're opinionated because they're designed to be used by large teams building large software for a corporation.

In these environments, you usually end up with an opinion anyway, so they built it right in, so people could skip the debate stage.
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This was funny a few years ago. Parroting it any time someone mentions the cloud is just meme crap. This isn't reddit.
unless she's peddling bleach and avoiding top-loading HE machines, she didn't make a very compelling case for anything else....so I think it's fair not to lump this article into the category of website you're describing.
Recently had the opportunity to tour the Sima powerplant [s]. They have an installation showing a broken turbine, somehow a stone got in that was big enough to jam up the turbine, leading to the single-cast steel contraption bending and ripping. Thankfully they managed to cut off the water before catastrophic damage occurred (to the installation/people).

The explanation is all the more mesmerising for being held next to two such beasts going full tilt just under the floor.

You can't see the damage in this picture (from a Google search), but you get a feel for the size (some of the "hands" were bent and broken before the emergency shut-off). The black shape in the back is one of the two operating turbines:

https://cdn.discover-the-world.co.uk/images/education/norway...

This one looks to be taken earlier, seems one of the pieces that were torn off is on the floor:

https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/08/61/60/b0/...

Anyway, this isn't a flywheel - it's "just" a turbine.

[s] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sima_Hydroelectric_Power_Sta...
Sometimes you get lucky and the tooltip works on Android (tap and hold), but in my experience not terribly many apps support this.
How To Become Convincing
Eh, I’d say most Christian icons are not at all understandable without learning. After all, they’re mostly just portraits of people (Jesus, Mary, saints, etc.) looking at the camera, rather than depicting any particular event in their lives, let alone trying to provide a broader explanation of why they’re important or worth venerating. Apparently there was an elaborate system of symbolism, especially in the Eastern Orthodox tradition, with everything from specific colors of clothing to hand gestures having various meanings – but you have to already know those meanings in order to understand the symbols.
That's not what the actual Dunning-Kruger effect is. See https://www.talyarkoni.org/blog/2010/07/07/what-the-dunning-... for an explanation of why this is wrong and what Dunning and Kruger actually found.
You fundamentally misunderstand PoS. There is no social trust involved. It will work entirely through economic incentivization, including 'group penalization' when enough validators are offline/byzantine at the same time in the case of Casper. Read more here and try to fully understand this document before you make blanket statements like 'PoS won't work': https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Proof-of-Stake-FAQ
Look at the whole paragraph -

"The company has just launched a mobile phone app that pairs the chip with the phone’s GPS, enabling the implantee’s location to be tracked (...) Could he ever see the company using GPS to track its chipped employees? “No,” he says. “There’s no reason to.”

Maybe the CEO just meant -he- wouldn't ever use that, but to my mind the question makes more sense as asking "Hey, do you plan on putting a GPS on the chip" rather than "Hey, do you plan on actually using this functionality you just built out". But I may just be misunderstanding. That said, the level of technical knowledge of mainstream reporting has...generally not been the best.
Also, our own perception of time depends on this "block universe where nothing moves" changing and enabling some synapses and chemical reactions in our brains. Hence, a change in this block could take an "eternity" (of real time, if there were such a thing) and we would only notice it as an infinitesimal moment.
as an aside to your second point, there's a fascinating area of study looking at why much byzantine iconography stayed away from things like Pieta and representations of a suffering/crucified Christ, and stayed much more focused on other themes. Turns out, it correlates relatively well with "where the plague wasn't."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
What the Dunning-Kruger effect is and isn’t
Of these, I always found "Yelp" pretty self-evident, at least if you've read many reviews there.

From Webster's: "a sharp shrill bark or cry (as of a dog or turkey)"[0]

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/yelp
I have no clue why you'd build an app on Twitter's API anymore. I get it from their perspective (they want to control the ecosystem completely), however they've made it clear they don't care about anyone developing on them. Which is sad, since they only exist thanks to their early community of developers.

I can't believe they killed off their MacOS Twitter app, told people to use third-party apps, and now are effectively killing them off too.

(All this being said... Twitter is ripe for abuse, and locking down their API is probably one of the best ways to fix this)
Highly recommend shellcheck[1]. There is a SublimeLinter plugin[2] that automatically checks your shell scripts as you code them. It generally makes best practice suggestions including quoting.

[1] https://github.com/koalaman/shellcheck

[2] https://github.com/SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter-shellcheck
> sweat, rolling around, and close contact

Though germs are a concern, body odor is a very practical reason to always train with clean clothes, and for some people it requires enforcement through peer pressure.
Is it true that most of Silicon Valley runs on CentOS?
I started out in the IT industry as the sole tech support guy for an ISP in Oklahoma City in 1995. I eventually built it into a department of about 20 people answering phones and emails, then I eventually moved into sysadmin.

It was great when the goal was "solve the customer's problems and get them online".

When they hired an official "Customer Support Manager", it started being all about metrics and went downhill. "How many calls are you taking an hour" vs "how many problems did you solve".

I hear that one of the large hosting providers here in town even does screenshots of everyone's desktops every 30 seconds to a minute. That's insane. My employer, on the other hand, doesn't care what you're doing in another window as long as it's not illegal and you get your job done.
I still use bash a lot though, it's just handy, with lua and python you will have to deal with various of its packages sooner or later, for bash it is just one binary and you get 90% scripting tasks covered, zero dependencies.
I am really surprised so many people are stuck on Android One. I doubt any of the people here use an Android One phone. And those who own an Android One phone AND potentially can get confused between the names, do they even care what Android or OS is running on their phones? I feel people who are specifically looking to buy an Android One phone are savvy enough to know the difference.

Disc: Googler.
I started to use third-party twitter clients exclusively because of the annoying timeline manipulation. Now this.
Is there any other way around other than quitting twitter ?
Quite a few people don't have enough skills to freelance. Either because they don't have that one skill in high demand, or they lack the drive to network and sell themselves. These people will just become miserable trying to make a living without a steady employer.
I always love learning about performance and how this low level stuff works. Is there a book that people recommend for this type of stuff?
As someone currently fostering a batch of kittens with stomach bugs... I'm going to go home and burn all of my clothes now.
If psychiatrists generally frown upon diagnosing people who are not their patients, as a non-expert, I would be fairly careful in labeling now deceased people based on anecdotal data. Especially if I was not familiar with the person. Jobs had obvious pathological facets in his interactions with other people - but inventing labels on top of the anecdotes really does not add value in any way.

Mr. Hintjens was not a psychiatric expert either. That he wrote a book on the subject, is not entirely to his credit. As such, he could have just described "predatory behavior".

There is popular material available on psychopathy and socipathy written by subject matter experts. For example "The Psychopath Inside: A Neuroscientist's Personal Journey into the Dark Side of the Brain" by James Fallon is written by a neuroscientist who accidentally discovers he is a psychopath.
On this very forum I had Alan Kay politely tell me I was a fool, and I thought it was great. I bragged to my developer friends, who also agreed that it was great. And that I was, indeed, a fool.
"I had a Nexus phone on Fi that -- while I was holding it in my hand texting -- it went black and never turned on again, for no reason. I assumed the battery died -- even though the UI displayed that I had most of my battery still. No, it completely bricked. Coincidentally and non-conspiratorially, it might've been ~2 weeks after my 1-year warranty expired. But after the whole iPhone planned obsolescence thing, I was skeptical."

I had the same exact issue with my Pixel XL. I did buy it used, so yeah I know.
I just set the phone down, it looked like it froze and rebooted, but the screen just turned off and that was it. That was a month after the warranty expired. I'm on my second one, so we'll see how this goes.
Dishwashers typically do this, but generally not clothes washing machines.
The commenter above has a point. For someone who doesn’t know what mastodon is, your comment is indistinguishable from link spam.

It's not "regurgitating info", if no one ever visits the link because you didn't provide any context or information (like spam).

Please at least provide a short blurb, or some info. Just dropping a link isn’t going to be very effective. See my other comment [1] for an example.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17069429
If you were a graph, which would you be?

More seriously: do people think that any questions that require anything more than DFS, BFS, and/or Dijkstra are reasonable to ask for most general software engineering positions? (I appreciate specific positions might expect more)

Of course, trees are graphs too, and there are loads of tree questions --- I guess I'd narrow my response down to questions regarding general graphs and not just trees.
> What economic interest does Ford have to disclose the problem if the deaths are cheaper than fixing it?

If people read the news, some nonzero amount equal to the amount of lost Pinto sales. If the competition has been crash-tested and the Pinto isn't, then Ford was already continually losing money by losing the "non-cheapskate" market segment.

> Under your scheme, how do consumers who wish to avoid death by fire learn of these defects?

Read the news, be mechanical engineers, prefer products that have been given favorable ratings by independent crash-test firms, or start an independent crash-test firm.

(No, I have no idea whether crash-testing was already a thing when the Pinto came out. Regardless, such things are, generally-speaking, how one solves these information problems.)
The reason you can't do that is because you would no longer have a stream based protocol which is one of the core requirements of TCP.

Really there's no up-side to doing it that way with UDP already existing and tons of downsides in changing an existing protocol in such a fundamental way.
The icons are used as elements to tell stories, because people already learned what the icons mean. No one intuitively knows that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior.

> millions of dollars on research to design important icons that will be completely intuitive for hundreds or thousands of years.

And the results of that research is that conclusion that such icons are impossible to create.
https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/ten-thousand-years/

> Nobody wants to tell some future human, "Oh, sorry you sank into a 4,000-year-old pool of radioactive sludge and died. You should have "learned" it was dangerous ahead of time. At least you "discovered" what it means, now that you're dead."

Of course not. They tell some future human: "I'm glad you stayed out of that pool. It's great that you learned what the skull+crossbones
icon meant during your childhoold."
> POSIX mandates /bin/sh

Nope. On the contrary, it says: Applications should note that the standard PATH to the shell cannot be assumed to be either /bin/sh or /usr/bin/sh

Source: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/utilities/sh....

A pedantically-compliant shell script should not have shebang at all.
It might well be useful. You'll get challenged a lot less if people fear you and your power. But that doesn't mean it's necessary, or even that it's not counterproductive to greater success. Even in the post, Carmack alludes to a couple battle he lost with Steve where Carmack's view was eventually vindicated.

By the way, you criticize the previous commenter's assertion, but you haven't provided any rationale on why they might be mistaken.
Lenovo hypes up an all-screen (no, really) flagship smartphone
Cool anecdotes. I wonder who he stole them from.
Make sure to review the "Known Issues" for both CentOS 7.5 Known [0] and RHEL 7.5 [1].

[0]: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS7.1804?ac...

[1]: https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterp...
I think one thing not yet discussed much here is that state authorized gambling is generally akin to a regressive tax, that is the state gets the benefits of new funds, but mainly from the poor, not from the rich.
if you need arrays use mksh - https://www.mirbsd.org/mksh.htm - if you need complex scripting with small footprint and standard compliance avoid bash and use mksh.
I live in USA, where we don't have 100-year-old churches, and not in Philadelphia.

I have lots of bells -- on my door and in my phone, for example. I have no idea what they look like, though.
From the author of "Russian roulette: how to probably not die", "Staying healthy with fast food" and "Self-immolation for dummies".

If you need safety don't use Bash.
I find that interesting b/c I have a few friends who work at large banks in the finance side of things.

They would not describe their work culture as laid back.
Right OK. I was waiting for someone to let me know on this. You made good points and I'm sorry posting the same thing number of times.