skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Previous discussion on this topic: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7616566
Even more recent: https://youtu.be/vacjOrVqesM?list=RD7Oq-ClZ8Gbs&t=299

From the series Mars (2006) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4939064/.
It’s chilling reading the words of a well spoken mass murderer.
Last time I gave a partial donation I was told it would be unused.

It would be nice if they could deliver the blood to researchers but there might be challenges regarding the chain of custody, or donor history/privacy. Partial donations are probably rare enough not to try overcoming those challenges.
I grew up on Paul Simon. In high school when my peers were listening to Snoop Dog and Guns N’ Roses, I found myself attracted to the multi-cultural percusson and deep stories on Rhythm of the Saints. Same but different for Graceland.

To this day, I wonder why my tastes were so different. Maybe there is just something nerdy about the music. Of course, my dad listening to the whole Simon back catalog played a part.

Anyone else have a similar interest?
I love how Apple is finally shooting itself in the foot by the atrocious repairability of their devices. The keyboard in the A1706/7/8 MBP is extremely time-consuming to replace because you need to get your dremel tool out and undo an umpteen of tiny bolts and then replace them with tiny screws as this video demonstrates: https://youtu.be/YMueATtTcQg?t=879

In previous models, you could at least simply rip the keyboard out like this (which was of course an imposition as well): https://youtu.be/2PyhbiwUkE0?t=1229

Imagine if the keyboard was simply screwed on in the first place. The keyboard plate would maybe need to be 1 mm thicker, making the entire device thicker by as much, but an AASP worker could simply replace the thing in a 5 minute job (instead of 2 hours, i.e. never).

PS: Could someone vouch me. HN thinks I'm a bot.
(Disclaimer: I’m into phonetics but not a dialect expert.)

I imagine it would be a blend of his probable native language in Benin, Yoruba, with the English of 1860s Alabama, Older Southern American English[1]. My best guess for the sound would be to listen to a Beninese speaker of English[2] and imagine it with more of what’s now considered an old-fashioned sophisticated Southern accent, and perhaps less French influence. The closest living relative would probably be African American Vernacular English[3].

It’s important to note that the features of the transcription hint at both his and her accent: she was transcribing the sounds as best she knew how to make someone with her accent pronounce them as he did.

Transcribing his pronunciation of “what” as “whut”, for example, points to the fact that “what” was likely pronounced with [ɑ] in her accent, rhyming with “cot”, but he pronounced it more or less as we do now, rhyming with “cut”. Transcribing “like” as “lak” implies he had /aɪ/ glide weakening (to “ah”, as in “ah do declayuh”) where she didn’t, at least in some contexts—“my” is still transcribed as such, not “ma”. It’s also likely that he didn’t diphthongise vowels, so he’d pronounce “maybe” as something like /meːbi/ instead of /meɪbi/. “Can’t” as “cain” suggests he rhymed it with “cane”, like some AAVE speakers now. And so on.

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

[2]: http://www.dialectsarchive.com/benin-1

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_Vernacular_En...
The French well earned their reputation as running the most barbaric slave plantations in Caribbean history in Haiti, where they explicitly instituted a race based society, where the color of a persons skin determined their social value. You have no idea what you’re talking about.
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Ask HN: How does one start an open source project like VLC
or any open source project like MongoDB, Docker and the likes.
There are multiple points of view. As for me, I'm fine with Lightning: mechanically it's the best connector I've ever seen. But moving "everything" to USB-C means that exactly ZERO of my USB devices are pluggable into the new laptops.

Also, please don't start with the "but somebody needs to move the world forward" narrative. Move the world all you want, but don't hold me hostage. And "moving the world forward" does not require dropping existing USB connectors.

I'm also amused by the "oh, in a year or so every device will have switched to USB-C" narrative. Guess what, it's quite likely that my JTAG programmers, logic analyzers, USB microscopes, USB ports on oscilloscopes, 3dconnexion spacemouse, label printer, sheet-fed scanner, barcode scanners, and at least 20 kinds of development boards will NOT switch to USB-C anytime soon, and most of them quite likely never will (ever tried routing a USB-C connector on a 2-layer board?). Oh, and I wrote that list just by looking around me, I probably have even more devices.
They are in labour courts (assuming the USA) and at Tribunals in the UK - and a mistake in procedure is an automatic loss for employer side.
not too off topic: I've been reading "The Worst Journey in the World" - fascinating!

also, to help with the general mood I bought a bottle of this whisky: https://www.whiskyshop.com/shackleton

cheers!
Anyone know what this means for non-US residents? We're in Canada and my partners 12" Macbook keyboard has failed 3 times, requiring the complete replacement of her Macbook once and the whole top-case twice. Which caused plenty of downtime for repairs, usually weeks at a time. Now she's experiencing small problems for the 4th time.

Maybe if it succeeds someone can create a class-action in Canadian courts...
Right, good point. Sort of a chicken-or-egg situation.

Also, this reminds me of Paul Graham's famous essay, Beating the Averages [1], about why and how he and his co-founders used Lisp at their startup Viaweb, which was later acquired by Yahoo! for ~40 million USD, IIRC.

[1] http://paulgraham.com/avg.html

I think it was this essay, along with his other one about the first summer school for founders (which later became Y Combinator), that attracted the attention of a lot of developers (some of whom later became successful YC applicants) and helped both YC and HN take off.
Ooh, thanks, this is just what I've been looking for.
None of that matters if you can't type
The lightning connector licensing revenue they get from 3rd parties for being "Made for iPhone/iPad/iPod" etc
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I had to pay ~$700 for a repair of my work MacBook Pro 15" because I tried to fix the problem by removing the key cap and cleaning under it.

My current work computer is old MacBook Pro. My personal one is Dell XPS 13" and if nothing happens to their design, my next work computer likely will be Dell Precision 15".
Why do you think it's a good idea?

My Magsafe has been yanked out at least hundreds of times. I think it is a fantastic solution and I really do not understand what is "better" about the USB-C connector?
MSN Messenger.

It was light-years ahead of its time and super fun. Microsoft should revive it to compete with modern messenger apps (cough cough... whatsapp ... cough cough).

Now, my memories might be biased because I was a teenager at the time, but I remember it to be extremely configurable and highly interactive. Paired with some useful cloud service (some of which microsoft is already offering, like outlook/live) something very nice could come out.
If I recall correctly there are some conditions where diet will have such effects, but they depend on genetics and random bad luck. So I call mostly bullshit. The body will not burn muscle, at least in a healthy human, unless near death due to starvation. The body can however adapt to what you eat and get better at converting to energy with the help of bacteria. The muscles hold water, fuel and fat, so they will look smaller when all is depleted.
Are you saying that they are selling the 2015 on the Apple website? Could you show me where? I couldn't find it on their website.
Ask HN: SaaS tools for managing Startup activities?
Hi all,

I am working with a co-founder and we have a flurry of activities going on. I was looking at project management SaaS (such as Asana) but I am not sure - there are so many out there. We are a hardware startup with a bunch of chaos in terms of materials, design, prototypes, manufacturing schedules, supply chain, logistics, etc.

We are currently using Dropbox Paper to make lists but it is getting out of control. How can we organize our selves with clear priorities, dependences and schedules for tasks?

Any suggestions appreciated! :)
Kind of a tortured analogy, if you ask me. Not everything is absolute, sure — but I think this is.
The fact that the keys occasionally stop working is a problem.

The bigger problem is that this can't be fixed in stores, and it takes 13 days to get your computer back once you ship it to Apple.
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> You can do load balancing and all the other things k8s does

Nomad can do many of the things that k8s does, and even some things that k8s can't, but it does not do all the things that k8s does. For example, nomad doesn't have network policies.

Also, just to approach the base level of functionality and security in k8s you need to setup consul as well and bootstrap all the tls stuff, and at that point it's not much more work to get k8s going.

Nomad is pretty cool, and is rapidly catching up to k8s, it will be interesting to see what happens in the long run.
Bandwidth is only expensive when you're a small consumer, or when you buy at places like AWS.
Mostly because their monitors very rarely have issues. I've personally deployed/managed probably over a thousand Dell ultrasharp monitors and over the course of nearly ten years, I've only seen one go bad. And I do remember it was not easy getting it replaced, a relative ordeal compared to ProSupport on the PC. Their PC support is seriously unmatched, I tell everyone to get the Pro support and accidental coverage for laptops, I have many stories of Dell asking no questions and sending brand new replacements. My favorite is the 3k precision laptop that fell off a crane and we sent back essentially a box of whatever was left and two days later had an exact replacement.
And I think 3 in Java's? public, class and static.
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Custom loss functions are under appreciated by a lot of people new to the field. Good to see a writeup on it, especially one with nice charts and an example on real data.
And what about typing speed? I feel that I type slower on the new MBP than on older models.
You should. Teardowns on ordinary things is appealing and informative.

I suspect more people than you think would find all that compelling.
Maybe. But the question wasn’t about the advantages of k8s over other containerization systems.
It’s about 1% the density of earths atmosphere. The craft would have to be light and have large blades, but that doesn’t seem impossible. The light atmosphere means huge blades could still spin fast without issue. It’s not easy but this is NASA we’re talking about. They made a sky crane to drop a Mini Cooper sized rover on Mars before.
On my third New-gen 13" Macbook Pro, can confirm it's the worst laptop i've owned in 10+ years
Doesn't really matter.
But I'd pick Github.
Github's familiar to more Devs. It's hard to find people using Gitlab but haven't used Github but the vice versa is fewer than few.
It somewhat amuses me to think that "forced CamelCasing of abbreviations" is a thing outside of code. I wonder where it began.

(Personally, I find it irritating and more annoying to read, both in prose and in code.)
IMO, Ive has no counterweight in the company and drives design based on random whims.

Why premium laptops are sold for years with defective keyboards is a mystery likely rooted in hubris.
Very interesting that this doesn't seem to lean on any existing compiler toolchains - it all appears hand written from compiler through cpu generation.

I wonder how the results compare to something like TCE http://tce.cs.tut.fi/ which takes advantage of the LLVM ecosystem.

Given the lack even of advanced c-compiler optimizations and the inherent drawbacks of FPGAs, can this even beat the power or speed performance of a software implementation running on e.g. a modern ARM core?
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I'd love to read this page, but my subconscious won't allow me to follow a link with that title.
I mean, this isn't exactly a new idea. If you go back to the Roman occupation of the British isles and the slaughter of it's peoples and the enslavement of the Judaic peoples and the Christian cults, based on Judaism. Hitler named his movement the third reich, meaning empire, modeling it after the Roman empire because he was a delusional nutbag but, again, unoriginal. But subjugation or slaughter of different races/tribes/peoples is certainly not a modern white person invention. The Romani have been singled out, more recently, I guess, if you want (they used to be more commonly known as Gypsies, but this is an Eastern European slur, so I've been told).

The whole "colonialism is to blame" is a new argument, to me, though. I do hear a lot more of these, "the past was a utopia, and modernity has screwed things up" statements of late and I can't figure out how..... maybe that wasn't your intention and I totally misread your statement. I apologize if that's the case.
See also https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23632-how-to-test-wei... and https://motls.blogspot.de/2017/11/weinsteins-view-on-quanta-...
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I'm cross-compiling, meaning I'm not compiling on ARM. ;)

It might be helpful though for 64 bit ARM, but my target architecture is 32 bit and because I need webengine I suspect that it will not compile on a 32 bit platform. The problem is that the linker requires more memory than can be addressed in a 32 bit address space for linking chrome/webengine.

I just used google cloud.
On Mars, gravity + thin air would likely limit the usefulness. But you're spot-on with Venus. Blimps would be great there. Hell, there were articles floating a couple of years ago suggesting you could park blimp on Venus above the corrosive layers of atmosphere, and conditions there could actually support a small base that would extract necessary resources from the atmosphere, and where humans would only need light shielding (+ breathing apparatus). I'm not saying building a cloud city on Venus is a good idea now, but I do think a long-duration mission to study the atmosphere would be, as data from Venus is also useful for studying climate change on Earth.
why not both ?
I know, you’re right of course.

It’s kinda like all those “we rewrote our Ruby app in Go and it’s 1000x faster so Go is awesome” articles. Containerisation is good for those things, but it’s still possible that Kubernetes is an excessively complex solution to the problem!
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The article says that "Weinstein plans to put a manuscript on the Arxiv preprint server", but as far as I can tell, he hasn't done so yet. Hard for anyone to really evaluate it unless he takes that step.
Space tourism
Is anyone else bothered by the unit switching this guy is doing?

> On the traverse of Antarctica we were trying to cover 1,850km. After the first week, we had only done a few miles total and then had to climb 3,000m onto the high polar plateau.

That's 3 distance units in two sentences where 1 unit would suffice with almost no changes ("a few miles" is approximately identical to "a few kilometers").
this: $WORK

Maybe the most concise statement I've seen on the meaning of employment in our times. ..really reminds me of PG's refragmentation essay http://paulgraham.com/re.html
My advice: for less drama, stick to ones with Intel graphics only. I've seen people have great luck with the Thinkpad T and X series and Dell XPS 13.

I use a Dell XPS 15 with a Dell TB16 dock but I'm not sure I would recommend this configuration to everyone: The machine and dock are very picky about what kernel I run, and I can't get the combo working correctly with suspend/resume on Ubuntu 18.04 (sticking with 17.10+kernel 4.15.18 for now). WiFi also needs to be manually reconnected every hour or so.
I recently got mine replaced under warranty (CMD key was broken!) and was told $280 when I asked what the cost would be otherwise. It's still extortionate. Part number 605-02931 for 13" 2016 MBP.

Interestingly, when I searched for that number, I learned Twitter OCRs images you post: https://www.google.com/search?q=605-02931+macbook
Just to add a detail that might be relevant to this audience. Eric Weinstein is currently the managing director of Thiel Capital.
Apple touchpads are still the only ones I can stand to use.
It was worth the click to get to the article's embedded link to this article about the "Grand Tack" https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/jupiter-destroyer...
I haven't had a key fail on my 2017 yet, but the keys are all over the place in terms of how they feel. The delete key works but feels like not actuating properly. The spacebar is awful.
They could just design the system in such a way that it does not push for overconsumption to begin with. The whole thing is set up the way a drug pusher can only dream about and then they go and make these token efforts to stop the addiction.

The same happens here in NL with casinos, only the government is supposed to run them because they are so concerned for our well being and the potential for gambling addiction, but I've never seen them refuse someone gambling the childrens college fund away in a single evening.
For those curious, DiscoverDev is a fully static site hosted on Netlify. It's all handcrafted vanilla HTML and CSS. (The first site I've ever developed, zero design experience, so nothing fancy). Zero lines of Javascript as well :)

1. I've written my own crawler+parser which parses selected blogs and publications and then displays new articles to me in a chronological manner in a GUI.

2. I select the articles myself, and tag them.

3. Then a script sees all the selected articles and generates a JSON file.

4. I've written my own static site generator which consumes this JSON and spits out the updated website and RSS.

5. I push the changes to my git repo.

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> They might not have, because it might just fall out of the sky. It's built to overcome Mars' gravity, not Earth's.

A video has them flying that thing inside a pressure chamber without payload, so at least in this configuration it has enough power to overcome Earth's gravity. Probably wouldn't lift off on Earth with the payload, though.
> “we examined the cognitive function of farmers over the planting cycle. We found that the same farmer shows diminished cognitive performance before harvest, when poor, as compared with after harvest, when rich.”

> And here’s the kicker: “This cannot be explained by differences in time available, nutrition, or work effort. Nor can it be explained with stress.”
It's extremely easy to wire up a USB-C connector to any legacy USB controller, at least by my reading of the relevant specs. https://imgur.com/a/tL5lDZ5 is what you need logically (I think).
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I manage software development teams. I spend my days in video meetings, writing emails, reviewing code (sometimes writing it on side projects to keep current) and writing documents. I type 120 WPM and live and die by my keyboard. Most of the time I am using an external keyboard but when I travel or work flexibly away from my house, it's all on the butterfly keyboard. After a year, several keys were useless, - enter ;, j and e. They would stick and repeat the character too much, or not recognize a hit at all. Like a good Apple fan boy I always purchase Apple care so I was able to send it in for repair but being without a machine for three days was a non-starter. So, I ordered a Lenovo T480S, installed Linux and prepared an environment for when my MBP 2016 touchbar unit went back to Apple. My MBP has been back from Apple for two months now and I have yet to boot it.... The keyboard on this Lenovo is ridiculously great-- it's amazing to be able to work again :) And, its not just me we've had 4 MBP Touchbar retinas have keys fail around the 9mos to 1yr mark. One 3 of them, Apple gave us grief as if it was standard "wear and tear." Uh, ya, these $4K aluminum rigs are going to be around dust, and humans have hair ... and... well its on you to make a more resilient key switch Apple... As for me, sticking with Lenovo box from here on out.
I've had the MacBook Pro (Touch Bar) for almost a year now at work, and honestly haven't been too bothered about the ports.

I leave a HyperDrive[0] on my desk to connect my screens and power and very really need to plug anything else in. I use a wireless trackpad and keyboard, wireless headphones.

What else do you need to plug in? I have unlimited cloud storage, all my code is in GitHub, photos in Google Photos. iPhone backs up to iCloud and Google Photos.

If I do need to connect something, I have USB ports on my HyperDrive, but I just never use them. I charge my devices with a wall charger so they can charge if I'm in meetings etc. and get more power from there anyway.

[0] - https://www.hypershop.com/products/hyperdrive-duo-hub-for-us...
They sell the 15" "Late 2015" model: https://www.apple.com/shop/buy-mac/macbook-pro?product=MJLQ2...
Interesting points.

>It's more remarkable with Allegro since they charge royalties on top of the licensing with customers still buying their stuff.

Do you mean that (apart from the licensing) they also charge a percentage of the revenue or profits that their customers make from products they develop using Allegro's products?
He was on JRE podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMzjEaNFbAk
Imagine how much energy it would take to keep about 200lbs of water at about 98F degrees all the time when it is -40F outside.

That's what your body is doing 24 hours a day. It takes a LOT of energy to do that. Quite frankly I think it's incredible that stuff like this is even possible.
You’re misconstruing the basis of the study. Cause is not interchangeable with parameter.

The focus and context of the study was poverty, not stress. One done on stress might provide some relative material, and be useful, but your assumption is a bit irresponsible.
I install nothing because the node.js package of debian is always outdated (and I don't use npm).

I download the precompiled binary (from here https://nodejs.org/dist/) and put it in my working directory.

The node binary is statically linked to its libs (standalone).
> As for me, I'm fine with Lightning

I'd have expected Lightning to remain but the other end of the cable should've either switched to USB-C or some sort of adapter been included in the box.

As things stand you could walk into an Apple Store, spend the better part of four thousand pounds on a MBP and an iPhone X, and get home to find out that you can't plug one into the other without Apple wanting to take another £35 for a USB-C to Lightning cable (obviously other cables are available but that's beside the point).

That's absolute madness and destroys the idea that Apple hardware exists within any sort of ecosystem.
Peter Attia is a doctor who has a lot of really good and detailed information on his site.

The video on the page provides a detailed look at how the body breaks down glucose and fat for energy:

https://peterattiamd.com/introduction-to-superstarch-part-i/
Arabs are considered white according to U.S. law, but a "visible minority" according to Canadian law. So yes, they're out on the fringe of the radial category of whiteness.