skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, I'm not a mathematician (or a physicist), but this seems... dubious...
Like... what?:

> Moreover, a better terminology for the so-called real numbers is "random numbers", as their series of bits are truly random

0.5 is a real number. Its series of bits is not random at all. sqrt(2) is also a real number, and its digits looks sort-of random, but they're not really: they're exactly the sequence of digits that forms a number that, when squared, equals 2. You can easily develop very simple formulas or programs to generate them, so in a "Kolmogorov complexity" sense, it's not random at all. Point is: the concept of "having random digits" is in NO way intrinsic to "being a real number". I guess what he meant to say was "non-computable numbers"? So he's saying "in a finite volume, there can't be non-computable numbers"... or something?

Again: not a mathematician or a physicist, but this comes off as pretty crank:y to me. I would love to be corrected.
Not realistic at all.
Plume is turning home Wi-Fi into a subscription service
I'm convinced most of this pricing is aimed at businesses.
"Since a finite volume of space can't contain more than a finite amount of information"

Is that perfectly clear? Not so, to me.
It is, but you need to give up more and allow information to travel faster than light speed.

It's local hidden variables that are a problem.
And get the USB and Ethernet onto separate buses
Yes, this is the opinion of an independent organisation. To quote Wikipedia:
"Cancer Research UK's work is almost entirely funded by the public. It raises money through donations, legacies, community fundraising, events, retail and corporate partnerships. Over 40,000 people are regular volunteers"

Don't you see the possibility here that this organisation receives money from pro-diary individuals?

Also, I wasn't alluding to BST. Milk contains growth hormones naturally, because calves half to gain an absurdly amount of weight in a short time. We don't need to grow so fast as humans.
> they'd probably be livid that a widespread outage had been caused by something like this

Widespread outage is exactly what something like chaos monkey is intended to help prevent. Even if this were chaos monkey induced (seems very unlikely), they've gained far more stability by having it than they would have lost in a single outage
Many people rehearse difficult conversations beforehand. Would that approach help?
"Even techies are having a hard time figuring out how to disrupt the naming convention of corporate email."

This article is a painful joke. I wish it was satire. Maybe it is and its soo dry, that it's actually hilarious.

..."The growing pains usually set in when startups reach 25 to 50 employees, as names begin to overlap, according to Josh Walter, who has designed email services for companies for the past eight years." I want that job, creating email address standards for startups.
A cold shower in the morning. It is quick, cheap, easy on the skin, wakes you up and makes you feel like a champion.
Trump Lobbied for Peace by Showing Kim Jong-Un a Fake Movie Trailer on an iPad
> For human installations, "astronaut with a broom" ticks all the necessary boxes.

First chore of the day for the future children of Martian farmers.
Here's an alternative article from CNBC since the linked article is having trouble loading: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/12/netflix-down-streaming-servi...
> As unsatisfying as it is, the current best solution seems to be not to care about privacy most of the time, and then take privacy seriously when you do. Whonix is excellent for this.

No offense, but advice like this is useless. It reduces to, "someone I don't know thinks the average person with no special risk factors should think this way about their personal privacy based on who knows what priors."

Different people have different reactions to risk, have different actual exposures to risks, different competencies, and different tolerances for the hassles of opsec. And potential future risks of data slopping about are unknown.

There is no such thing as a "best solution" when talking about this.
I bought some sugru thinking it'd be useful but by the time I wanted to repair with it, it had been too long and it had hardened...

If you have kids it might make more sense but otherwise, I think it's a difficult sell given the cost
Or Microsoft's stock price took a dive? Analogies are fun!
I wasn't alluding to BST. Milk contains growth hormones naturally, because calves half to gain an absurdly amount of weight in a short time. We don't need to grow so fast as humans.
It is meaningful here, though. If Gates started showing indications that he was primarily going to pick up pennies from now on, that'd have important implications and questions raised.
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Yeah, coffee is crazy expensive when you look at how much shops charge you for a drink. It costs about $1.33 per day for the 20oz of coffee I make for my wife and I. Really not bad considering if we were to both go out and buy a coffee everyday it would be around $10.
This seems like basically the same principle as dropout from neural networks.

One could make an Arrested Development episode where George Sr. and Lucille hear about this concept and decide to apply it to their children.

(Edit: the Arrested Development <-> Netflix tie in didn't even occur to me until after writing the comment.)
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Even with a tariff on panels, the cost of a solar installation, with incentives, is still significantly cheaper than grid electricity.

With federal and state incentives, my panels work out to about 4-5 cents a kilowatt hour. Normally I'd pay about 17 cents a kilowatt hour.

(This makes running a space heater cost about as much as running a natural gas furnace.)

Furthermore, my panels are financed with a fixed-rate loan instead of tied to market price of energy. That means the cost will never go up, but instead go to zero at the end of the loan.
My biggest complaint about it is that it expires! I bought a 5 pack because I had an immediate use and it worked amazingly well.

6 months later I again had a need for it and I went to grab one of the 4 remaining packs and they were all dried out and hard. I flipped them over and there was an expiration date that had passed!

This is the type of product I want to keep on the shelf for when I need it, not something I want to purchase on demand. Also it's expensive.
Boxing? As in punches thrown at your head? Can't imagine that's safe for someone who had LASIK since the chance of corneal flap damage would be quite high.
What does NK get out of it? Just curious.
I distinctly remember a high school gym class where they made all the kids without glasses wear safety goggles during some sport. My friend and I were the only ones who didn’t look ridiculous because we got to keep our glasses. ;) Luckily nothing happened then, but one time in university I was playing racquetball with a friend and the ball hit me right in the eye. I still worr glasses at the time and all it did was pop the lens out.
Author here. A list of beliefs about programming that I maintain are misconceptions.
As Greg Plitt (one of my childhood motivators, may he R.I.P.) said:

The only exercises that don't make you better are the one that you don't do.

I always have this in my mind, it's been more than 5 years since I heard this.
If the availability of the pi zero W is any indication I expect trouble ahead. Trying to buy the zero W in bulk through channels is practically impossible, and the vendors sell them only in kit bundles at many times MSRP at 10$.
I wish they'd pushed harder to become a key part of the Maker scene .. I really wonder what a 3D-printer that used Sugru as its base material would be like. Probably prohibitively expensive in comparison with the ABS materials, but then again .. maybe they could have carved a niche in that segment that pushed their value higher.

One thing is for sure, after seeing it adorning various devices and appliances around the scene for a few years, I've come to associate it with "ghetto hackers" who don't have the druthers to just 3d-print replacement parts themselves. It always amuses me to have this thought - its a bloody expensive material, all things considering.

The one thing I consider it really excels at, also, is preserving peoples fingerprints...
1. You should tax what you want less of.

2. Tax should be evenly distributed

If you want jobs, don't tax jobs.

Amazon may be a large employer, but its not the only employer. Everyone should be taxed in proportion.

What they should tax is land use per sf of lot (not sf of the building).

Now people who use a lot of land, or who use the land inefficiently, pay the penalty.

It should also apply equally to everyone who uses the land from large private home owners to small bookstore and cafe owners.

I know there is property tax on the value of the property, but that is a different incentive (to build cheap). This is the incentive to use the space efficiently. So use some amount per sf of lot (say $0.5? I don't know how much that would raise).
A gas turbine and a diesel engine are two completely different things. The only thing they share is that they are internal combustion engines.

A gas turbine is basically a jet engine.
No. Graal is huge, one of the biggest of all VM runtimes.

Gluon had the complete opposite goal. lua would be an idea for a small BEAM engine. It would also be much faster.
Employees aren't friends and really shouldn't be. Maybe you've had a bad experience with some founders, they certainly are just as varied as people, but the role itself is anything but easy.
"the benchmark was designed to repeatedly parse an in-memory byte slice (not the hard drive), thus IO contention is unlikely here"

You could still be getting IO contention from the RAM system. RAM is not uniformly fast; certain access patterns are much faster than others.

"concurrency is a big win when IO is a bottleneck : keep processing dozens of things while some of them are waiting for data from network or hdd."

Concurrency is a win when IO is a bottleneck on a single task. Once you've got enough tasks running that all your IO is used up, adding more may not only fail to speed things up, but may slow things down. I'm speaking of situations where you've used up your IO. The tasks you're benchmarking are so easy per-byte that I think there's a good chance you used up your IO, which at this level of optimization, must include a concept of memory as IO.

I think you'd be helped by stepping down another layer from the Go VM and thinking more about how the hardware itself works regardless of what code you are running on it. Go can't make the hardware do anything it couldn't physically do, and I'm getting a sense you deeply understand those limits.
Same here. Netflix on the other hand is perfectly fine.
It's possible that executes would think that way but only because they are not too technical.
Every company should have a chaos monkey to make sure stability is at the top of the list always.
Fresher service workers, by default
FreePascal is about that.

TP 5.5 with objects was a really clunky object system though (designed by Apple, IIRC). Object slicing by default. Vtable pointer added on definition of first virtual method in object hierarchy, like C++. And to invoke a constructor on a new heap-allocated object, you had to pass it as an argument to New(), with this weird syntax - "New(myObjPtr, Init(...))". Delphi's object system was far superior.

See some examples: http://collaboration.cmc.ec.gc.ca/science/rpn/biblio/ddj/Web...
> You want your own take on git? Go ahead, you explicitly have the four freedoms to do so, but don't muddy the waters by calling it git if you don't represent the project.

That was the original intent of the policy and not what I have issue with, but it goes much further than that, see my other comments for details.

Keeping this relevant: GitPub is not trying to replace git obviously.
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> I don't think our current societies' rush to outlaw everything that's unhealthy if used immoderately is a particular high ideal. If weed was introduced into our lives today, it would be made illegal, and it was, and nothing good came out of that. The fact that we'd probably outlaw sugar tells us more about the quality of our political systems than it does about sugar, in my opinion.

No one suggested outlawing anything.

> As long as you burn it off again through physical work, sugar isn't terribly bad for you. It's when you consume hundreds of calories more than you burn every day sustained that the wheels come off.

There are (at least) some adverse effects:

https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(18)31606-4/ful...
The outage happened last night.
These poll taxes are the worst form of taxes. 100% regressive.
The Trump-Kim summit is overshadowing a big moment for Taiwan
The DB can do much more than simple queries, you can use stored procedures for any custom business logic, you can even use PL/Python in them.

See https://postgrest.org/en/v5.0/api.html#stored-procedures for more details.
White House source distills a Trump Doctrine, and it has a swear word in it
Sure, but that's up to the employee to decide. Forget startups, why does anyone work for any of the other thousands of companies out there then? It's just not as simple as some money metric, and either way the market will correct for it, as this entire thread shows.
I would bet we'll see a version with an integrated SIM card, hopping on the IoT-anywhere train. Twilio was a big first mover with their Twilio mobile service, and I can see people deploying rPi's and the like to more out-of-home applications.
I'm probably doing it wrong but the first thing I think of is "better do that on a busy street, hopefully there's someone that knows to bind off my wrist or something[0]"

Do I need to imagine that I'll bleed out alone, with everyone walking past me as if I don't exist?

Because 1. I don't like that exercise and 2. it mostly makes me consider to what extent I'm currently surrounding myself with people that dis-compassionate an whether I should move ...

3. does it matter that one of my wrists actually has a huge scar, that's grown with me from when I was 4 years old, jumped off a couch and smashed my tiny right wrist into a glass on the table? I managed to miss both my artery and my tendons, ... or I wouldn't be typing this :D
Just look at the size of candy bars. When I was a kid the candy bars were at Max half the size of what i see now in stores. Same for ice cream scoops. They are a full meal today.
This is a good goal to strive for, but it's far from the present reality. Bad information is abundant enough as it is. There's no reason to exacerbate the problem with poor framing and inadequate sourcing.
You've been downvoted but I laughed because this is exactly the inner monologue I have whenever I try to start a Dreaded Task.

"I don't know where to start! Well, I could start with document A, but then I'd need some information from document B, which requires document C, but I can't do C until I've done A -- oh no, a loop! I can't see how to get round this at all; maybe my head will be clearer tomorrow. Time for a break.

(NB the "loops" often aren't really 100% circular, but seem insurmountable in my head; this is the point where talking to someone is invaluable, if I can get past the usually correct suspicion I'm going to sound stupid for making a big deal about a block which seems totally trivial and non-blocking when I try to put it into words)

...Also, didn't I already work on document B? But I can't remember where I got to, or where I put my notes, or what they mean..."

I do suspect I might have AD(H)D but I live in a country where adult ADHD is not really recognised, so I guess I'll have to do the best I can using some of the good tips posted here instead.
I used to use the Jawbone UP because it had the best REM sleep tracking. I bought up a ton of old ones when they closed down because they don't last.

I use the fitbit now. The sleep tracking has caught up.

The link between REM and mood/clarity is very strong in my case.
I think you should expand on why you think so. Here are my reasons:

1. This is a global outage. Net Neutrality is down in US only.

2. The pattern of failure is not consistent with American ISPs past attempts. They've wanted to make Netflix less attractive compared to their services, not outright broken. Subtlety is better because outright breakage brings too much attention.
You can trivially get a 30 minute commute just within SF. I imagine other expensive cities are similar. Living within a few minutes of work is a real luxury for all but remote workers.
I think this exposes the problem with crowdfunding investments. Most people aren't savvy enough to perform proper due diligence, or don't have the risk tolerance. (Edit) Or don't have the time needed to do the kind of due diligence needed to invest in this kind of a company.

On the other hand, crowdfunding products, which essentially is a pre-order, is something I love. It's well within my risk tolerance and due diligence.
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but everyone's gonna get rich, so who cares
Didn't realise it expires [sigh]. The rest of my packets are probably useless then.

That said, I happily repaired a macbook charger at both ends, so the 10 or so quid I spent on it works out far cheaper than a £60 charger.
Yep, that was a rather bad typo. 15,825 us. No excuse, except I shouldn't post in the wee hours of the morning ;-) I'm not really arguing about measured latency but you have to apply a best-case cost as you cannot measure certain parts of hidden infrastructure than you can't touch. You do know 1000 bits on a 1Mbps line will take "at least" 1000 microseconds.

Even your kernel bypass driver on a SolarFlare still takes at least 40us on 4000 bits from a 100Mbps KRX UDP feed in those older days, as that is simply the best case time on the wire.

True on nanoseconds being the common measure today.
There are specific laws against poll taxes. I suspect they knew they were in for a lengthy legal battle that they’d lose.
Raspberry Pi is for hacking. It's not really a commercial platform. You can technically use it as such, but it's more cost-effective to design your own boards at that point.
Can you point me to some stretching resources? I've struggled with lower back and neck pain for a while. I try to stretch but I'm never sure what I do is helping.
> I was basically relegated to preparing all my food from scratch.

I don't see a problem with this. It's not hard and doesn't have to be too time consuming if you prepare things in bulk. You can listen to music or the radio while doing it. I find it quite relaxing.

> It made trying to find a snack incredibly difficult

Don't snack. That would solve so many problems that people have with diets. I eat two meals every day. Between meals I do not eat. By eating I mean opening my mouth and inserting things into it. I honestly think some people just don't realise how much they eat by snacking. I get hungry every day but that's fine. I look forward to my next meal. Don't snack when you're hungry. Just look foward to your next meal.
Their competitor, Libre Computer, has mused that given their investment in the graphics stack, they might be headed in the GPGPU / AI direction. Think Raspberry Pis that you can cluster together for deep learning, or individual boards that kids can tinker with to learn about AI. The blog post also predicted the 3B+ fairly exactly:

https://libre.computer/2017/12/06/raspberry-pi-3x-raspberry-...

Money quote:

> We expect the Raspberry Pi 4 to be based on a new Broadcom SoC based on Cortex-A55 built on < 28nm fabrication process. We can call this BCM2839 and it will feature the much alluded to VC5 GPU and a new form factor. Since that hardware is more than two years away, it is difficult to predict the direction of the industry and thus the exact specifications. We expect such a Raspberry Pi 4 board to utilize dual 32-bit LPDDR3 or LPDDR4 to cope with the bandwidth requirements of OpenCL and neural network acceleration. The exact release date for such a specimen can vary dramatically depending on Broadcom’s tapeout schedule. It should be relatively soon if the Raspberry Pi Foundation expects to release hardware in 2019.
Hopefully it will become more open and less reliant on binary blobs.
I use this stuff from 3M that is absolutely vile-smelling but delivers the same results as Sugur, for about 1/5th the cost. It comes in these little rolls, with an inner core material and an outer material, which somehow manage to co-exist on the shelf without curing, until you remove the end-caps which expose both layers to oxygen, somehow setting off the curing process .. you then smoosh it together, so it becomes this ultra-disgusting smelling blob, then apply it where necessary. Within a few hours, its like, rock-solid. I've fixed countless things with the batch I bought a year ago, and its still good after living in the fridge ...
Depends on the jurisdiction. Where I live, the employer has an implicit exclusive license to the IP produced by their employees. In theory, employees can even rescind that license but will need to compensate the business (in practice I don't think that's actually possible, the monetary damages to the employer would be ridiculous).
You should think about listening to audio books during your daily commute. I do this and I enjoy it a lot.
It's a (somewhat dated, probably) copyediting rule of thumb that a written paragraph has about 100-200 words in it. This would be in a writing style you might see in a novel or an essay. For online writing, perhaps more like 50-100. Even that might be long for the style of writing where each sentence is its own paragraph, supposedly for impact or whatever. Not sure you can really call it "paragraphs" when each one is only a sentence.

For reference, the above paragraph is 78 words long.
> 1958 is when men had the best wage to rent ratio, and that helped create families and have children.

I don't think it is necessarily the current state, but our view of future prospects that may matter more. I wonder if there are yearly studies of people's outlook on employment prospects/etc broken down by age. Having children is a future oriented endeavor. Your current situation absolutely matters, but I think your outlook on future prospects is the driving factor. I suspect it is so for women too. If you think your purchasing power, ability to own a home, etc in the future is diminishing, it would affect both the male and female positions on whether to have or the number of kids to raise.
It was useful for a few things, but much too expensive. £7 for three sachets. For comparison an epoxy sachet is less than a pound and lasts forever.

I think Sugru might have even put the price down - I remember them being even more expensive.
Bloody hell Wired.

Blu Tack was invented in Leicester, and Bostik still make it there. It's reusable and doesn't set or cure, though it deteriorates a bit after a decade in a drawer. Can repair pretty much nothing, but handy for sticking posters to walls. :)

Sugru is/was a silicone putty that cures after a few minutes in air, and expires in a few months in the packet. Seemed terrible value for money based on the tiny packet I bought so I'd never buy again.

At least with two part putties you can keep plenty in a drawer, for years, they don't cure until you've mixed them and cost a fraction of Sugru.

Edit: Well this provoked quite the discussion. If you're looking for repair putty the two main UK brands I know are: Araldite (Now a US brand, mainly DIY and automotive, also epoxy adhesives), and Milliput.com (Epoxy modelling clay, perfect for repairs to plastics, steel etc. Comes in a few grades and colours), with shelf life in decades. Milliput are Welsh. :)