skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nature isn't commonly held to work in mysterious ways; it's generally held that nature is knowable.

Being able to travel faster than light, or send messages faster than light, would not involve objects popping in and out of existence. That's not even a particularly well-formed concept. You and everything else you know are already moving through time and space, and the rules for how that happens also suggest that if you bend the geometry of the universe sufficiently, you can move to a place in less time than it would take for light to cross it. If you then return, you can end up arriving at your origin before you left it. Relativity does not allow the universe to spontaneously warp itself into the kind of pretzel which would allow for things to travel instantaneously back in time, and if it did, the effects on anything else nearby would likely be catastrophic beyond ready imagination.

Much of your speculation is rooted in misunderstanding. It's more difficult to explain things because your conceptions don't map well to the actual physics. There's a series on YouTube by PBS called Space Time, which I would strongly recommend as an accessible guide to relativity and physics in general.
"Tagged" PDF files allow text extraction. Tagged PDF is often required for accessibility. Screen readers for the blind should be able to extract the text. This is possible with Tagged PDF. PDF/A-1a and PDF/A-1b are tagged PDF and required PDF formats in some governments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf#Logical_structure_and_acce...
Hosting the World Cup: Is It Worth It?
Which paper? OPs, or the one about T-cells that you posted?
Illuminatis ?
For the fermentation aficionados.

People's Republic of Fermentation.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDfUp9XK6kA176NN76_4v...
A CA is just an expensive machine to sign names for money. But, it is an expensive machine. For stupid petty mistakes like issuing Microsoft.com they just rap knuckles but for mis signing a bank.. there are expensive assets to seize. (Edit: no, I know it's a bad metaphor but a big entity to sue.)

That said, i think ev certs are bogus and most id checks to issue a certificate are bogus. It's a giant circle jerk. you
Ask HN: What Are Your Thoughts on Dev/Test/Prod Network and Resource Isolation?
I’ve worked with and seen many approaches to keeping dev/test/prod environments isolated, characterized largely by the extent to which they prioritize explicit change control and security over usability. The three principal ones that come to mind are:

1. Keep dev/test/prod isolated via VLAN/physically separate networks, and VPN into each network independently. Every network gets its own (isolated) LDAP directory/DNS/VPN, all IPs are static, and address space is 1-1 between environments. Changes/deployments are scripted, and promoted from one environment to the next by disconnecting from/connecting to specific networks. Even simple stuff like adding a user to LDAP must go through said pipeline.

2. Give each environment within a network its own subnet. Apply firewall/routing rules such that "common" subnets are globally reachable, but environments are not. Share LDAP/DNS/VPN connectivity between environments. Keep IP addresses static, but don't overlap address space (aka foos-appserver-dev and foo-appserver-test get unique IPs and entries in LDAP). CI/CD runs on hosts in the globally reachable address space, and (delta firewall rules/HBAC) everything is reachable from a VPN gateway.

3. Don't isolate at all, but rely on tagging/service discovery to target hosts when performing actions/making configuration changes.

Option 1) is the most secure/least footgun prone, but painful to work with at times. Option 3) is great for things like blue-green deployments, but doesn't do much in the other departments. Any thoughts on how to handle common resources (e.g. LDAP directory/DNS entries, IP address space) across environments? An ideal solution for us looks like a more developer friendly/higher change velocity version of option 1).
See my comment above [1]. He could just use other creative photos (that he could also create himself), copy them using his technique and you would consider him a genius (i.e. he can create a Picasso-like image with his own style and simply copies the photo he creates). But I think even then you may not consider it genius because genius in the area of arts is highly subjective and you may not want to give him this status. Because it's so highly subjective, what you consider genius says more about you than about him.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17549741
I have a Windows/Linux desktop and a Macbook, both personal. Also and Android phone. If you truly have ample storage you can also use Dropbox as a way of syncing between OSes on the same machine, in a VM or on separate partitions. Duplicates a bunch of data, but you don't have to mess with mounting and differing file systems and everything.
Voting Machine Vendor Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
>So you need to manage your ambition about politics

A polite way of saying "don't be that jerk that goes to someone else's home/town/county/state/country just to tell them what they're doing wrong" which really shouldn't be that hard to do if you're distracted by all the other touristy things you should be doing.

Edit: I know this is gonna get down-voted because it's not "nice" but it's true. You shouldn't go to where someone else lives and tell them they suck or they're doing it wrong and expect to be treated nicely.
> Shortly after the money was flown to Baghdad, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt began their economic blockade of Qatar. They still accuse Qatar of having a "long history" of financing "terrorism".
> something that Grandma got off of a Crisco tin

Related – "The Dirty Secret of ‘Secret Family Recipes’" on HN a few months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16534495
How about:

https://dlang.org

or

https://nim-lang.org
I've always thought that a novel approach would be a social media company in a cooperative structure - where the employees and users are also part owners and would have a say in some of the decision making, as well as sharing in the profits being generated from the information published by the users.

This is probably a non-trivial thing to do correctly, but after reading The Dictators Handbook I think that the power structure contributes significantly to behavior and think a social network structured more similarly to the Green Bay Packers operate would create a better system than Facebook.
Apart from this being the first post on the whole blog:

"Many adults and professionals assume that because of an individuals age, they are incapable of completing such tasks."

You can't sign contracts at age 18, you can't even have a business bank account. Your parents will have to shoulder all that work and all the responsibilities. So you can't found 12 startups in 12 months at age 15, you can just ask your parents nicely to do it for you.
Obviously it is faster than grep... which is "linear search"! Compare it instead to some "hashing search" to see how good or fast it really is. For example, take SQLite's Full Text Search as reference.

Imho, there is no point in such a custom solution: it is too limited and too simplified for real general uses.
It's really annoying that Microsoft's precision drivers work with the vast majority of recent Synaptics touchpads and yet vendors keep shipping this hardware with the terrible Synaptics drivers. You can manually install the precision drivers on these machines but then Windows Update will often 'helpfully' decide to revert back to the manufacturer drivers.
A crawler that beats bot detection [Tor][IP rotation][Python]
Ok, but how do you find out the puzzle url, getting from hackmit.org ?
>Things that doesn't seem to exist in any of the common cryptocurrencies

Lightning (layer 2 on top of Bitcoin) seem to be fitting the bill pretty well at this point.
You may find this arstechnica home office exposed article useful. It's kinda dated now, but you can see pictures plus a short blurb from folks who work at home in a remote office set up. It's part of a bigger series they run, including a "chairstechnica" in the article as a link.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/11/where-and-how-do-ars...
The data is in the order it came in from OSMNames.

http://osmnames.org/download/

When there's two elements with the same name (e.g. Geneva), the first result is the most common (the city I was born, not the town in the US).
Plutonium is missing
The ability to parse is one of the things that differentiates "power programmers" from people just hooking things together. If you wish to be one of the former, it is on the Must Study list.

It is true that many, perhaps even most programmers can go their entire career without having to face the problem of writing their own code to take a text file and view it as a tree of tokens. This is even more true than ever with so many off-the-shelf serialization options, meaning that creating your own new one had better have a really, really darned good justification to it. But if you conceptualize a parser as "a thing that receives a stream of low level, primitive inputs and needs to extract sensible state information and know when constraints have been violated"... ah, now that sounds pretty useful, right? And very modern as we continue our inevitable marches towards viewing the world in terms of event streams rather than blobs of completed input that we can take in all at once. The generalized parsing problem of taking a stream of primitives and extracting higher level meaning from them is as relevant as ever, if not more relevant.
>AppleScript because it has so many APIs.

You mean the commands you can use on apps like iTunes, Finder, Photos, etc.? Those are not AppleScript-specific per se (AFAIK there used to be an option to write Automator scripts in JS). You'd need the Linux/Gnome/KDE equivalent of the Open Scripting Architecture ( https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Ap... ) with active participation from app developers. Sounds like a huge overtaking.
another great read abouth Ikthuil:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-be...
Killuminatis?
The pH test reads 6 however, which is out of the safe range afaik.
Since moving to the UK I've found that insurers here have SO much more legalese in their contracts. It's really hard to figure out what they actually cover ("two-fifths of fuck all").

My top "Gold" level travel insurance doesn't even cover my phone getting stolen while overseas.
> I would rather see a nationalized service

And how is that going to help with the OP problem, I wonder?

Gov't says your business ain't what we like, payment can't happen, business is dead.
>> If there is still potential for growth, it is irrational to declare profits; by doing so you're foregoing the opportunity for bigger revenues (and gross profits) in the future and leaving the way open for a hungrier competitor.

Dropbox, being a public traded company, must declare their financials. If they wanted to keep their financials a secret, they should have stayed private.

However, I don't get why you see growth (or potential growth) is tied to profit declaration. Can you explain a bit more? TIA.
In-Place Construction for std::any, std::variant and std::optional, C++17
You were the one expressing in absolutes.
You would not be preserving anything, you'd be stomping on a culture. Old and lesser known languages are rarely well researched. You're lucky if you have morphosyntax written down.

But the moment you start using existing language in a new context, you get into issues. You've got words and whole concepts missing that you have to add to something that's more or less complete.

Dothraki needs horse-related words. You need to be able to express certain social concepts that are unique to this fantasy culture.

So you set up to build this words and phrases. You derive phonotactics of a real language and patch it with your stuff. Now you've got new language based on an existing one. So you didn't preserve anything. And if I were a user of the originl lang, I'd be upset you appropriated and twisted it.
Sealand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principality_of_Sealand
I can collaborate about HTTP/2. Even my blog, with about 10 requests and 500KB (mostly images), I noticed a clear improvement (~200-500ms quicker load) by upgrading from HTTP/1.1 to HTTP/2, and doing nothing else.
Reference:
GAATTC

Variants:
Cell 1: TAATTC
Cell 2: GTATTC
Cell 3: GATTTC
Cell 4: GAAGTC
Cell 5: GAATGC
Cell 6: GAATTT
Cell 7: GAATTC
Cell 8: GAATTC

7/8 cells contain the reference nucleotide at any given site. Ie, 12.5% of cells contain an indel wherever you look.

For six cells, 1/6 nucleotides differ from the reference sequence (16.7% per base indel rate). For two cells, there is no difference (0 % per base indel rate).

Even though 12.5% of cells contain an indel at any given site, no single cell contains 12.5% indels. There is no reason the two values should be the same.
Valiant effort, I don't understand why the community is responding so toxic. Rather than assuming that growth will lead to this social network becoming the next corrupted Facebook, why don't we focus on the unique aspects that make this open-sourced network worthwhile to begin with?

Security - Privacy - Customisability - Compatibility with status quo. We can all agree that we lost faith in the monstrosity that Facebook has become, it doesn't mean that we can't place faith in other technology to produce a different outcome.
Is there a book full of this type of stuff that would be useful with young children?
I was especially annoyed by the "*" pointing to a footnote in the problem description, where you then had to scroll over the spoilers to read the footnote
> Item 2: You're mentioning Thinkpads. Try a touchpad on OS X, then come back. The difference is enormous. You can actually use the GUI without a mouse and without being annoyed, it's the only laptop/OS combination where that works.

Firstly, there is a difference in feel between touchpads on different macbooks. I loved the one on my old Air, whereas the current touchpads on Pros don't really feel right to me. Maybe that's why I am not disappointed by Thinkpads? Drivers are not as good, but calling Lenovo's touchpads unusable would be an exaggeration.
as core count goes up the number of tasks that can be sped up starts to shrink, because memory access and throughput become more and more of a limiter. That is why you tend to see huge l3 caches on the big core cpus, it helps but it can still be a challenge to load up all 32 cores and get any speedup, for many workloads. l3 cache is not THAT much faster than ram.

that is why I tend to eye the ~6 core machines for desktop use, higher single core mhz on them
Librem 5 progress report #15
Looks neat! Is HTTPS support in the works?
Coming from a game programming background - before clicking the link I was expecting a VFX "bloom filter" effect on a visual commit graph where "light sources" are exaggerated and seem to "glow".
If it works and you got used to it, it is so great on the integrated display. I got so used to not leaving the home row, I get annoyed when I have to use the arrow keys.

My X220 nipple unfortunately became a little unreliable. Needs calibration often (auto moving cursor) and sometimes one direction works better than others. It's annoying, especially since the touchpad is just unusable.

Any suggestions? Hardware or software issue? Would a new rubber nipple hood thingy help?
Wikileak was pretty darn happy they found Bitcoin to get out of the clutches of the USG.

As for Lighthing, I think you're singing its demise a little too early.

They are also not the only way to scaling and ease-of-use.
I don't see how a first generation product with similar performance and superior latency to a mature technology (nand) that took decades to develop has no substance. The second generation of Optane is coming out this year and it's going to be an order of magnitude better. It's just a matter of time until nand is obsolete.
GPS messages are not cryptographically signed so of course they can be spoofed. Who designed these things?
Yes, it would be a huge undertaking. I've already rewritten my own apps for offline maps, calendar, notes, and I plan to write contacts and iTunes too. When there's a standard API comparable to Apple Events/OSA within those core apps, I'd hope to have enough leverage to persuade other app developers to accept pull requests.
I couldn't easily pull up any screenshots, but I've been a video encoder for some years and I can tell you that psy-rd (the x264 option to add film grain) does wonders in terms of grain fidelity.

The problem with matching the grain perfectly without the randomization is that it drives the bitrate crazy. A movie with 99% fidelity grain and 0 psy-rd will have a bitrate of 30mbps+.

If you use psy-rd though, you can get to 99% fidely grain at closer to 20mbps. The two screenshots will be visually indistinguishable, even when you are rapidly switching between the source and encode, even though you know that the grain is being randomly generated you can't tell.

If I get a chance later today I'll drop some comparison screenshots for a film encode that used a lot of psy-rd, I think the results will surprise you.
Jupiter has 10 more moons we didn't know about – and they're weird
This is why government by royal families doesn't work. When the state and the family are the same thing, the inevitable family crisis become a national crisis. A billion-dollar ransom that then sparks a trade war? This is a group of families fighting a petty grudge match against a background of slight religious differences, reminiscent of the worst of the Tudors.
> Our current rough estimate for shipment of the development boards is August 2018 but stay tuned for a more detailed blog post on the subject.

The original shipping date was June 2018. I guess it's not a huge delay for a hardware project.
React JS- an introduction
I really liked part 2. All that non-stop fighting of hordes of ninja super soldiers, and that final battle with the bad guy.

I took those movies so seriously as a kid.
At this point I don't trust the sunny promises of any for-profit that wants me to give them my data. Data is the new oil. If an organization can get it and legally profit from it, be assured that they will.
Can confirm. Dell's nipples are unusable. Nothing like the Thinkpad ones.
> It would slow down if they pointed a hot air blower at it.

Ah! Made my day :D
EU agrees on data deal with Japan
Slackware was a good gateway drug to the BSDs. That was certainly the path I took. The simplicity of the BSDs is really a nice feature. Slackware was for all intents and purposes a BSD with a weird kernel and userland. The simplicity of Slackware was a result of following BSD conventions mostly.
The Netherlands also have it, sort of.

It started of as a 30% capital gains tax, but at some point the government was like: "Math is hard, let's pretend 4% return on capital." and we effectively ended up with a 1.2% wealth tax.

In the last few years they realized that wealthier people have a higher return on capital and the effective wealth tax is more progressive with an effective wealth tax of ~1.6% at the highest bracket.
I see. Maybe I’m too much of a pessimist, but I imagine most products would need custom server-side business logic, and that business logic would also need to talk to the database. So I guess you could put your own GraphQL server in the middle and just proxy some queries to Hasura and answer others with your own custom code.

But if you’re already building a separate GraphQL server with database integration, the business case for HGE is weakened, since you might as well build the same logic in the other system.
Except there are plenty of 'loopholes'.

1. Superpacs.

2. DNC Fund. (Automatically went to clinton in many cases, so it was another bucket of cash for her campaign. It should've been split evenly in the primary between her and other primary runners.

3. Promises. 'Hey larry, when you're out of congress, let us know if you want to work for our Posh lobby firm. Comfy pay and benefits'.

4. There own interests. Cheney / Haliburton. Anything about Trump.

5. Hillary Victory fund raised: $523.6M -- how many did state parties get of that?

6. There's a lot of ways to hide money. What about speaking engagements.. or other ways to 'pay' the candidate, so they can use their 'own' (but recently acquired) cash on hand? How much do the Clintons or Trumps receive to do a speaking engagement?

I don't know the answer to get rid of all corruption, but how is it that ISP's were able to give money to politicians who voted against net neutrality? INAL but here's a list:

https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/29/15100620/congress-fcc-isp...

Example: Grassley, Chuck : $135,125.

Obviously they can give money, and do to move their political aims. To say they don't means you're living under a box. Maybe if they give it outside an election term when they're not running for office? That money from ISP's should be illegal, but it isn't.
App.co – The Universal Dapp Store
"So I went into the series with the intent to work every single problem. That turned out to be unrealistically ambitious" <-- that's how I felt about the book "Concrete Math". As an undergrad, I took Concrete Math as an elective. I could have taken is Pass/Fail (in which it wouldn't have counted towards my GPA), but I took it as a graded class. Fascinating stuff, and I really enjoyed it (still have the book on my shelf), but that class bloodied me up.
My local neighbourhood police goes around visiting "difficult" households, mental patients that can still live at home, elderly in particular situations, addicts, checking up on "problematic" households that have been in contact with the law. I followed their stories about this aspect of their job on Twitter. They usually can't do anything much, in sad situations, but they do keep an eye out. Similarly they helped me out when my apartment burned down. Or when the corner shop got robbed, comforted the customer that had a knife held to his throat, and the owner. So they actually do care.

Certain parts of the social security administration (or equivalent) also care. They want to help people, that's what it's for. It depends on where you end up, if your case fits like a cog in the bureaucracy, that's what you'll get, it's efficient. But it's a social safety net for a reason, what else do the people do, whose jobs it is to guide people around and make sure they arrive at the right part of the bureaucracy, if not care?

There could be even more care, but when I see the homeless in other countries, how many are on the streets for no other reason than mental health, I think we're doing pretty good. I always judge a society by how they treat those who are the worst off. Lifting that very lowest rung, that is the only real progress in a society.

Oh you know another funny thing, your example about post offices? You probably remember those heart-warming stories of a grand-child addressing a drawing to "granpa" and the post office somehow figuring out where it should go (and similar stories). That kinda stopped when the postal service got privatised into multiple competing businesses. The delivery guy that belongs to the now-privatised previously-government postal service still has a pretty good idea who lives in the street, whether I have new neighbours, makes a (very short) chat. The delivery people of other delivery services, that have always been private, do not.

I'm sorry but in my experience everything points that government regulated services and the like inherently allow their clerks to care more than a private business.

I just imagined what it would be like if the local neighbourhood police got privatised. Brrr.