skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a 1st gen "Magic Trackpad" that works great with my hackintosh. Maybe there's special hardware in a MacBook, but the OS seems to be able to work without it.
Sun-Synchronous orbits. Earth observing satellites like them, they're good when launched from high altitude, and a lot of the newspace smallsat market is in earth-obs with modern optics and processing.

A sun-sync orbit keeps the satellite in the sun (out of Earth's shadow) and typically peels a whole pass of the planet every few days, IIRC.

(also Polar orbits, but there are fewer of those)
With hot sauces, there's a very distinct flavor difference between Tabasco, Crystal, Frank's, etc. not to mention there's regional affiliation to what hot sauce you use.

Additionally, I think a lot of "traditional" recipes in the US which were passed down in families came from advertising in the 40s/50s/60s, so they specifically call for "Hellman's Mayonnaise" or "Toll House Chocolate Chips" or "Heinz 57" or whatever.
Clearly, you're not a Simpsons fan.
I think you're right that this is just pandering. You need to be near the equator to launch rockets effectively (checkout this pdf from NASA that explains how they use the Earth's rotation to gather momentum: https://www.nasa.gov/pdf/142825main_Bobsled_Launch.pdf).

So yeah, nobody is going to do any space flight from Northern anything.
You have to see things from the hunter's point of view. If your strength lies in endurance, you'll hunt the Usain Bolt equivalent.

There's obviously no data, but I would bet any of the top 10000 long distance women runners outruns Usain Bolt in their category. Regarding persitence hunting, it's prohbably easier for humans to hunt cheetas* than to hunt horses.

*https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-24953910
Old rule : if something is bad then it'll be reported as "Scottish" but if good then the headline will be "British".
You seem to assume there's going to be working ATC after they brexit Eurocontrol.
I'm on a latitude 7480 at work. Clunky keyboard, clumsy trackpad, dim screen.
Themes, Epics, and the Art of Writing User Stories
I suppose if I lived closer, I'd be alarmed by the prospect of radioactive wolves roaming the countryside. From a safe distance, this is the coolest thing I've read this week.
When the considering current currency value of Turkish liras against $, it's most delicious and cheap breakfast in the world.
Tell me about it :P

Since a physically-based ray tracer involves a lot of different theory and math, it can be quite interesting even if your not in it for the actual ray tracing. For example there's sampling low-discrepancy sequences, kd-trees and other bounding volumes, color representation and conversion etc.
Agreed. Hyper-realism, while impressive to look at, is not really all that difficult to achieve mechanically (relatively, of course).

Even if the finishing wasn't done by an adult, I don't think it's the mark of genius. Artistic genius is about synthesizing multiple styles and histories and creating something novel, or re-presenting something old and tired in a new way.

If this is the sole work of the kid, he has a great eye and fantastic mechanical abilities - but 'once in a lifetime genius' may be overselling it just a bit.
That was a tongue-in-cheek comment about revolutions etc
DDR4 dimm read throughput is about 20GB/s per dimm. PCIe 3.1 x4 is 16GB/s. I feel very comfortable claiming that these optane dimms will not reach 20GB/s of sustained performance.

The advantage here being latency (and thus single queue throughput)
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Look at everyone in these replies pretending to be race blind. If this kid was Asian, you'd just go "eh, Asian prodigies" and not give it any further attention.
I'm a big fan of the Distraction Pieces podcast with Scroobius Pip.

http://www.scroobiuspip.co.uk/distraction-pieces-podcast/

You probably won't get much from it if you're not a UK resident, but I find him to be a great host, despite his issues with stuttering. I highly recommend the Matt Willis episode.

While not strictly a podcast, I'm a huge fan of Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee. In similar vein, he does a great job of interviewing fellow comedians, and makes episodes with people you might not like very enjoyable.
Why a Private WebRTC Video Chat App Is Better for Business Than Skype
One of Larry Niven's 'Draco Tavern' short stories has the economics of interstellar traveling sales-aliens as its plot device. I don't recall the name.
I am the same. I don't use touchpad at all on my Thinkpad. Give me a laptop without one but with better keyboard or at least speaker above it any day. Other than being quick to point to things nipple is amazing for scrolling. This is something Mac can't get close to, especially if you need to scroll a lot.
This looks really cool. I spent a few weeks last year trying to build my first programming language, but I kept getting bogged down by parsing and eventually gave up.
Right. Lying to users is one thing; growth must be prioritized or the business might fail so lying to customers is excusable. But, lying to honorable(i.e. wealthy and charitable) investors is morally corrupt.
when using powertop on my MBP 2014 I can get 7-8 hours of battery.
Best Uber Clone – Taxi App Like Uber – Develop Your Own Taxi App
Uber got challenges around the world. In South America and Europe is once again the main actor (damn centralism). Taxis vs Uber.

Why an Uber Clone?
Imagine the following: You got an open source app that does exactly what Uber Clone does and can be used by all taxis in Chile. This way it will solve the main problems with the current way of taking a taxi. You will know the route, the price, the person who drives, will send you a message when the taxi is ready and it's possible to make the payment with your credit card.

Why a Libre and Open Source App?
By using Alikeapps GIO Taxi app, the world would be a better place. Other countries can use the technology and improve it. Imagine if all countries that have troubles with Uber allocate some funds to developing an open source Uber clone. Everyone that wants to improve its local public transport could easily implement a solution, not only for taxis but for all kinds of transportation. Example: A rural area that only has a single bus all day. Now the people that use that bus could benefit knowing when the bus will arrive or if it got some problems.

How?
It must be created an open source global non-profit organization like Mozilla https://www.mozilla.org/es-ES/ where the focus is creating better ways of connecting the people to public transportation by making open source and libre apps that rivals in quality with Uber clone and friends.

Conclusion
South America or Europe should make the first move in making an open source Uber clone. Other countries could fund this application by donating money to the global non-profit organization.

A better public transportation is possible if all the countries unite and create an open source alternative.

Check out the complete product page on www.alikeapps.com - Uber Clone Script.
Those causes might be misled, though, is what he's trying to say. As in those positions likely would not have passed because there would have been more accurate representation. Do you think it's fair for a small group of people to legislate over 40 million?
I'm not sure to which key you want to remap esc to, but if it is to any of Command, Option, Control, fn or Caps Lock, you can do that from the Keyboard Preferences: https://i.imgur.com/whzlIW9.png
Hope it's more successful than "Spaceport America".... a fascinating day trip, if you're in the area, but I can't help but feel sorry for the NM taxpayers who were persuaded to contribute.
What about this? https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/04/africa/nigerian-boy-paint...
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>are you actually familiar with China's infrastructure development practices?

Yes, somewhat. They've poured lots of money into it over decades to catch up to the developed world. They're not likely there yet.

A simple example: they're close to the same area as the US, around 4 times the population, yet they have around 2/3 as much road miles. They make less electricity per capita than the US. They have less than half as many miles of train infrastructure than the US. If you look at all sorts of metrics for how much per capita that they have compared to the US (or any first world county), they still lag.

So if they want to get to first world levels in many of these areas, they still need to create more infrastructure.

As such, they might still get more benefit for certain infrastructure projects than the US.

>Meanwhile the US is notorious for crumbling infrastructure...

... among people in the US that complain without understanding how the rest of the world fares. In world rankings the US does very well on quality of infrastructure [1,2].

[1] https://lpi.worldbank.org/international/global?order=Infrast...

[2] http://www3.weforum.org/docs/GCR2016-2017/05FullReport/TheGl...
Really I'd recommend reading chapter 1 of The Wages of Destruction. The book is really on the economics of WWII but it summarizes the modern consensus on the Great Depression as a starting point and since it fits everything into one chapter ends up being very readable. Mostly it was contagious deflation mediated by the gold standard with gold hording causing deflation causing more hoarding. Countries on the silver standard like China were essentially unaffected. Countries that went off the gold standard early like the UK or Japan recovered early. The Wikipedia article is mostly a history of how economists' understanding of the Great Depression has changed over the decades rather than a description of where it stands now but it works pretty well.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression#Mainstream_ex...

EDIT: A while ago Krugman had a very good piece trying to explain how deflation can cause problems. Different sorts of economists often disagree about whether its interest rates or aggregate quantities or expectation traps or whatever that's the most important aspect of tight or loose money but they all agree that these things are real and meaningful and generally explain depressions. http://www.slate.com/articles/business/the_dismal_science/19...
Try it and see if it works?
CSS weight and complexity statistics for any website
Not to worry, we take our revenge with every game of football England plays by supporting the opposing team.
OS X by default lets you rebind the capslock key to esc :)
This subject fascinates me. I've seen a couple of documentaries, but if anyone has more recommendations, please do share! Great post, by the way!
This is being funded by the UK government. Why wouldn't it be described as British?

If it was being built in East Anglia, Wales or Northern Ireland I would expect the same.
I feel that a disproportionate attention goes towards the chronological age of young achievers. Suppose he's had 3 years of intensive practice. I'd like to live in a world where a 50 year old, who has spent 3 years practising, get the same amount of praise.

IMO, this whole 'Look at what this 15 year old can do!' needs to change to 'Look at what 4 years of practice can get you'.
Hawaiian Asteroid-Warning Telescope Passes Key Test
Actually just look at the controls in this paper:

Fig 1b: 0.31%
Fig 3b: 1.12%
Fig 4b: 0.18%
Svalbard is a bit tricky - while it is part of Norway (which itself is part of the ESA), it has military restrictions, and other countries can operate commercially from there.

There is a (suborbital) rocket launch facility there to study aurora etc, but it's limited to 4 launches per year.

Greenland could be a good site -- I believe they are still a member of ESA through Denmark, so Qaanaaq would be a great place for polar launches, weather and access permitting.
I run all of my browsers (including mobile) with all 3rd party scripts blocked by default. Most sites that you care to casually consume will work without issue. Anything that uses a payment provider or google to login needs 2 greylist rules (which are mind-numbingly simple to click on once).

I can set it up for people that don't understand what they are doing (and I have) and they will not notice anything in almost every case.

As such, I conclude that this generalisation is grossly overstated and you probably haven't tried it to see if what you are saying is correct.
Oh, didn't think of that possibility, makes sense.
I like Dropbox but I think they now focus more on enterprise and forgot individual users which led them to where they are today.

First is the price. If you need more space than the free option provides, the cheapest upgrade is $100/year. The competition is about $25/year. The $100 doesn't even contain basic features like full text search when searching your Dropbox folder in the browser. You need to pay more for that.
I'm sure most companies don't mind paying the extra cost for a better service, but individual users are much more likely to go with the significantly cheaper option even if that means inferior product.

I totally understand that for the big tech companies it's easier to lower prices and even lose money to gain market share. Dropbox will need to find a way to fight back.
Show HN: Practical use for JavaScript's .padStart()
If it's being funded by the UK government, shouldn't it be "The UK is building a spaceport"?
I think this strategy of medium is not good for the people who are communicating via medium and for those who do not want to spend money for an article.Moreover the medium claims that the subscription fee is given as royalty to the original authors of the articles.Why don't they make it free to all?
Maybe I'm not as sensitive to the differences, but after using Macbooks since 2009, I recently picked up a 13" Dell Inspiron 7000. I put Ubuntu (Mate) on it first thing, and was actually surprised how well the trackpad worked. I was fully prepared for it to be horrible, but it's really not.

Maybe I got lucky with this purchase? Maybe the driver isn't so bad? I don't know. I have experienced awful trackpads from other models, so I'm not immune to the effects of a bad one. But, this has been smooth sailing so far.
It's way safer to assume that everyone DOES have a racial bias. That's what our best methods and data support.
The buyer of your MacBook may be dangerous.

Entering country: buy Macbook and SSD/RAM.

Leaving country: remove/hammer old SSD/RAM, install new, and sell.
It would be enough to have excellent touchpad support on one model (or chipset). We could just buy that one. At least the old Linux users were once used to buy hardware that matches their OS.
I mean, you can consider the cost of making a language like this as part of marketing. It's getting thousands of people online to talk about the show.
I can't image it could have a worse environmental impact that the (fairly) nearby military firing ranges south of Cape Wrath - I don't think we are exactly short of boggy mooreland in Scotland!
Need some feedback from you lovely people
I'd love to see more popular processors with high core count, even if at the cost of single thread performance. When even a phone CPU has 8 cores, being able to use the parallelism on the stuff we normally don't use it would improve life for everyone.

And, with high core counts, we can start playing with things like dedicating cores (and their L1 caches) to single tasks, kind of specializing them as we do with mainframes.
Determining the timing on an asynchronous CPU is nearly impossible. Especially as you start to scale the cores on the die. There's a very good reason why Profs. try to steer students away from them.

From a commercial perspective, I'd imagine finding customers who want the CPU, as-is, off the shelf would be rare. But, making adjustments to the inherently fragile design is going to be expensive and time consuming. Even if the customer has deep pockets they probably won't be willing to wait 1 year for a tape out.

http://inst.cs.berkeley.edu/~cs150/sp09/Lecture/lec29-async....
I'm an interested product manager and UI/UX designer. I left my last full-time gig in SF to work on my own SaaS too. My details are in my profile if you're interested.
Spaceport construction and operation looks like a great business model! It's essentially leasing the land and providing all ancillary safety services. For which you can charge a fee per rocket launch. A market that is certain to experience explosive growth in coming decades. Florida coast alone is planning two new spaceports, as well as major upgrades to existing facilities.
If it is a problem of life and death, just dont forget your reusable straws. My girlfriend is diabetic and you dont see her going out without insulin... Also you can buy new straws in a lot of places for a small amount of money while insulin is really expensive to just buy more when you forget it at home.
Polar orbits.
I also did before I got used to the Macbook touchpad. Now the trackpoint is a last resort or if I'm just typing mostly.
According to one site I ran into (https://www.ancient.eu/article/1033/beer-in-ancient-egypt/), Egyptian beer was classified by strength or flavor. The typical "everyday" Egyptian beer would be roughly the same as typical sessionable beer today, 3-4%. Higher strength beers definitely existed, particularly for religious festivals or ceremonies.

The article unfortunately didn't go into details, but this makes sense to me. It is actually pretty easy to make a strong mead (a more ancient alcoholic beverage than beer, and also present in Egypt) and a few references indicate that Egyptians fortified beer with honey or dates sometimes (which would serve mostly to increase ABV, in addition to adding a little flavor). (https://www.homebrewersassociation.org/zymurgy/pharaoh-ale-b...). So they certainly were capable of brewing stronger stuff; I have doubts that they went for the low-intoxicant "session beer" all the time.
Hrm, really cool but what is the licensing?
Let me phrase this another way.

If a predictive model is only predicting data about it's own model, it's going to be self proving.

There is still a giant space of everything else. And the more ones thoughts become consumed with models of prediction, the easier it is to ignore the space of everything else.

But I guess simple, boring language describing the phenomona isn't interesting enough.

What is the difference between a cognitive model that 'predicts' it's own behavior, and a premonition, when none of the data has anything to do with anything besides thinking about thinking?
Or maybe "The UK government is paying a US based company to build a spaceport in Scotland"?
Every time I use my gf's Mac I am instantly annoyed by the touchpad. Yeah, it's better than the one on my Thinkpad but there I use the nipple which is faster, more precise and quicker to reach also I can scroll around using a button under my thump + nipple. Mac lacking page-up/page-down keys is annoying if you need to do a lot of scrolling/coming back to keyboard/scrolling.
This was being looked at long before brexit. eg https://www.gov.uk/government/news/government-paves-way-for-...
Preditors prey relationships are far from perfect. What's missed is locally things can get out of whack, but both preditors and prey move around. Further the vast majority of species have died out, and that trend shows no sign of stopping.
Did Qatar pay a billion dollar ransom?
Vulkan vs. OpenGL Performance for Linux Games
I would rather see a nationalized service, maybe offered through postal banking, for fee-free instant money transfer. Banking, for such basic purposes, should be treated as a utility. It isn't sexy, it isn't flash, it's roads for money. Nothing more.
I always theorised there was some extra-auditory or human-inaudible cues in Ubese (Boushh) that filled in the gaps. After all, the only individuals responding directly were non-human: Jabba (who probably could understand, but choose to use C-3PO for egomaniacal and/or ceremonial reasons) and of course old Goldenrod himself.

Hey, my linguistics degree had to be good for something.
>Canada

See this CBC Marketplace piece on travel health insurance.

https://youtu.be/G08phgECt3I

Basically, from what I recall, those medical forms are impossible to fill out correctly and they are used to deny claims.
And forecasting models of thinking influences future thinking. But it might just be your thinking it influences, and not everyone else, and that's tunnel vision.
"The deals were announced at the Farnborough Air Show"

Just a coincidence of timing Farnborough is often used for this kind of announcement.
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Comments seen here are the worst knee jerk reactions. Massive skepticism without doing any research whatsoever. You can easily go to google and find out he was with Macron. Why would a French President seek to be part of a ploy to deceive anyone about a young artist drawing him live would be beyond belief.

Second is the reactions downplaying what he can do. Seriously, it doesn't matter what you think another person could do. "Have any kid at age 6 and they could achieve this." It is hard enough to get motivation from failing many times to do something. How many of your personal or even business projects have panned out?

And some of you wonder why another commenter pointed out geographic bias as the source of the negativity? Whatever your negativity, it is disgusting.
> can't kill anything

Unlike a large drone fully powered up hitting an unsuspecting person.
That's a non sequitor that assumes a premise that can't be proven correct without assuming it's correct before it can be proven.
Territorial animals often starve to death when the prey migrates to a new pasture.
Absolutely no. I never liked the macbook touchpad. I tried using it a couple times. It really felt like they had to shoehorn every action into a gesture to the point where a lot of them felt extremely cumbersome. For example it took me a few tries until I managed to tile windows.

I'm using a regular non-luxury laptop. I'm mostly using it with a mouse because the trackpad goes off every now and then( it's a hardware issue). But when it works it's fine. Cursor tracking is good with no artificial accel etc( meaning it goes exactly where I ask it to go), two finger scrolling works... The only complain is that pinch to zoom doesn't work and that the default button arrangement is a bit cumbersome.
> But why would agriculture have developed, if people were't cooking the stuff?

This was my intuition as well. And IIRC, wheat was naturally plentiful in at least some parts of the fertile crescent, such that people could bake bread without needing to farm it. In such places, heavy grinding stones and other artifacts were found which suggested that people had settled (they were far too heavy to be picked up and moved from place to place) because the region was so abundant.
Because AMD came out with innovation with their incredible Threadripper while Intel was going to keep dishing out about 10% faster cpus per year and maximize profits.

They have gotten greedy and lazy without any competition.
Well, the language is extended as needed, so it's still making up foreign words as you go. They just have to fit into the language properly.
your comment is really interesting to me, but i’m not familiar enough with tls to understand what is impossible with adding usage of async/await on this codebase. Could you give a specific example on the kind of problem it will run into ? (a function from this project for example)
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Definitely the Charisma book first. Helps with basic stuff, like dealing with anxiety and learning to be able to just be present in social situations. After you've gotten better at those things the How to make friends book becomes a lot more useful.
Worked out OK for the Autonomy founders as well, according to HP.
For example, you become injured or sick and all of a sudden you can't catch those edible items.
Most movies do this. See: http://www.storyboardsinc.com/news/archives/2274