skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well UK doesn’t have the same free speech laws rights as the US so it’s much more risky to protest, especially in London these days.
Yeah, that’s what my teachers said too. “Millions of years. End of conversation. Put your hand down, son.”

It always seemed a little dismissive of the potential of our now very complex organisms to use feedback if only purely random mutations were at play.

Instead of random mutations full stop, how about informed best guess mutations targeted at potentially stressed areas of the body.
The Google Keep Chrome extension is a handy way to save articles that I want to read later.
I ordered a snickerdoodle ~3 years ago now. It's been changed and delayed a lot and I'm still waiting to have mine ship. I'm still excited for it though, people that have gotten theirs seem to really like them.

A list like this should only include things that are in stock to ship when you order.
Interesting. Nowadays I manage only three TXT files: one for bookmarks, one for notes and one for calendar/todos. Less is definitely more but having just one file is too extreme.

I 'tree shake' them agressively to be always under ~2K lines and keep them maintainable.
Was leaving Denver and the TSA guys had a dog going up and down the line and one agent was making the "smoking" hand sign to the other one for each passenger he pulled off to get swabbed. They damn well definitely were looking for people taking home weed.
I've never understood why the precautionary principle gets so much circulation. Followed to its logical conclusion, it prohibits experimentation and technological progress, since nothing can really be proven safe before it's tried.

The idea that we should not "muck with things we don't understand" is anti-technology, anti-progress, and anti-human.
> Someone probably write this same thing about news papers when they were a recent invention. Television also.

Well, I don't think television or the news paper is a good place to debate either. They do however give people more than 30 seconds to think about their responses.
Also, the ability to have tabs and put the tab bar vertically down the left-hand side of the terminal, but readably: https://imgur.com/a/6qGxNTu This is the thing that I really have to have in a terminal, because I use too many terminal tabs to keep track otherwise: the tabs have to stay readable, and there has to be room for 30-40 of them when I'm working.

On linux, few terminals support this, and the only one that seemed really usable was roxterm, which was increasingly difficult to install as of Ubuntu 17.10 when I last tried, due to the ROX collection being abandoned. It looks like there's new activity in a github repo this year, but I haven't tried it.

I built a very minimal side-tabs plugin for Zeit Hyper, but updates broke it so regularly that I gave up (the plugin was never great, anyway, and avoiding collisions with other tab-affecting plugins was difficult).

There are several other terminals on linux that claim to support side-tabs, but they all have some issue or another (my "favorite" is when they "support" side-tabs by literally rotating the tab bar so that the text of the bar is sideways, distorted, and still shrinks as more tabs are used, which defeats the point of using side-tabs in the first place!).
It's just a harmless joke. https://twitter.com/RyanFMandelbaum/status/10229322346203504...
Mu uses the QScintilla editor from https://pypi.org/project/QScintilla/, which is GPLv3.
The self cleaning cycle on an electric oven is close to 1000 degrees, and can be used to cook pizza:

http://staff.washington.edu/freitz/pizza/clean_cycle_pizza.h...
Daycare in the US routinely starts at 3 months. You don't have to take a long unpaid leave before daycare starts.
Great resource, previously on HN:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7601506

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9692499
That is a very reductionist view. You can ignore lots of factors and make up a simple equation with the only ones that help your case. Europe has better quality of life now. Europe has fewer endangered species and didn't care about the environment back then but progressed. Hence, if we don't care about endangered species, life everywhere in the world will be better. Well, among lot of other things Europe didn't care about things like human rights either back then, should we stop caring about that too?
This is the equivalent of picking and choosing words in an article and making up your own sentences.

Surely there are things like latitudinal gradients of biodiversity, historical context of the same European countries colonizing and stealing wealth from all these other countries not too long ago. And, of course there's also the fact that European quality of life is perhaps better now, in 2018, move the needle back or forth by like few hundred years (that's a microsecond in scale of ecology) and see how things change.
There is a style of pizza native to America which has dished sides and filling.
There's another argument: For aesthetics. It's nice to have variety, we like diverse environments more than the alternative, and we want to preserve the beauty of the natural world as much as possible.
“Choose a polynomial p(x) with non-negative integer coefficients”

I think you want to say positive there, or mathematicians will exploit the fact that common definitions (examples: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polynomial#Definition, http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Polynomial.html) of polynomial allow coefficients to be zero, making, for example, x + 1 (a polynomial of degree 1) different from 0 x² + x + 1 (a polynomial of degree 2)

Reason for that choice is that it makes the set of polynomials of degree n closed under addition and subtraction)
Couple anecdotal points:

- Used to have to sleep problems - mainly just my mind racing with all the (stress of) things I had to do. The symptoms were trouble sleeping and/or waking in the middle of the night with instant thoughts of projects, task lists.

- Melatonin didn't help me much. Maybe their effect was too subtle on me - maybe I was using the wrong dose as mentioned in the post.

- Magnesium Glycinate pills before sleep were a massive help in falling asleep and staying asleep. The only way I can describe its effects is helping me "control my brain waves". Sounds a bit non-technical but the effect is quite subtle . The idea to take these supplements were from previous discussions on HN.

- Recently got a newborn baby - first child. These things will do more to knock you sleep cycle out whack than anything else I've experienced. Coincidentally, falling asleep and staying asleep is easier than ever. You just end up getting woken up by a tiny crying human at seemingly random times.
Boot Camp works fine today. What improvements do you believe would be necessary to make it valuable to you?
Emojis are mistake and added too soon. We end up with standard that is full of short lived symbols from 2000-2025 that were once in a fashion and new generations of people will abandon them for something else when the culture changes.

Adding new stuff (excluding old languages) to Unicode should have a delay, at least 20-25 years from proposal to the standard (roughly a generation).

In the meantime it's possible to insert emoji into text as :), smiley, -smiley-, smiley.jpg, ::smiley:: or whatever you want and the system you use is free to change it into a picture.
Epigenetics has been known about and studied for probably two decades at this point; as SimbaOnSteroids said, the real news here is the previously unknown role of the epididymis in changing the epigenetic cargo of sperm.
> Honestly, sometimes is seems like smokers are treated as a leperous sub-class (I'm not a smoker myself, just an observation).

That's because these f are blowing stinking odours in everybody's faces and clothes. Yes, even outside. I strongly defend that my right to fresh air trumps their right to smoke and annoy a whole terrace.
44 - Learned how to use a 4.25 inch grinder to strip apart a safe that I can't move. I now realize that padlocks are just there to keep the honest people honest.
This is one of the big reasons to me. It’s similar to the mass use of GMOs argument, in that in toying with nature, we don’t fully understand or know what consequences there might be, some of which might not show up until a generation later
I always get the impression Amazon doesn't care about customers until they complain, and then they are suddenly very nice.

Why not add some obvious QA features like:
- reporting fake reviews
- reporting fake/misleading listings
- reporting fake reviewers
- reporting listings where the product has been changed for something else

Many other glaringly obvious issues:
- vastly different products listed on the same page (to gather more reviews & sales = better ranking)
- shipping cost > item cost
- sellers promising a refund for a good review (especially to those that complain)
- fake 'only 1 left in stock' listings
- always-on-sale listings
- ...

Also while I'm complaining, as a frequent Amazon shopper there are a few missing filter/search options, in particular:
- listing age
- not deliverable to your address/country (frequent issue I have with cross-border shopping)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180729140144/https://www.newne...
Engineers: we can do X and finish in two weeks, or we can take a shortcut and finish in one week, but the code will be tightly coupled to this particular quirk of OpenGL.

Manager: take the shortcut :)

... repeat this for 15 years ...
Why should it? The environment is there for the benefit of humanity. When preserving it helps people, preserve it. When it doesn't, don't. It makes no sense to value ecological responsibility in itself divorced from human interests.
Mitochondrial replacement – 3 biological parents, 1 child and a controversy
To understand how galaxies formed we need your help
I don't have a good answer, but if I were to restart the internal dialogue now, it would be: if I were to die tomorrow, would I be ok with this? I remind myself that every human is statistically insignificant, meaning, I could achieve the highest success and still be forgotten within a few years, decades, or centuries later: life has been around for billions of years, humans for a couple hundred thousand (still debatable). In short, my purpose could end tomorrow, or I can fulfill my purpose and never get recognized for it. If this is the case, why set goals and be ambitious?

What's been motivating me recently is the thought of all the people who ever cared about me. Would making all these people proud when I achieve my goals be enough to push me further?

I haven't figured out the personal part, but learning more about the potential of computers has been inspiring. To be able to understand and contribute to their advancement has made me excited.
For the next Apple keynote, Tim Cook is gonna be shirtless and ripped.
Modern Li-Ion can operate at 0-45c in "fast charge" and there are even higher ranges being developed, there is a huge difference between 10-40 and 0-45 as far as suitable environmental locations go.

Li-Ion can be charged at 0c or even below in some cases, with Vanadium Redox you get crystallization at 10c and the battery stops working it's not like Li-Ion where you lose some charge and you need to charge at a lower current and the charging it self will bring back the inner temp of your battery pack to fast/full charge levels.
You gotta read the novel to get it. I did search for a quote, but Google didn't have one. I could explain, but that would be a major plot giveaway. Let's just say that GCC-driven wildfires are a major problem then, and that they need lots of energy to pump sulfates into the stratosphere.
Still just as, if not more lethal due to high frequency AC
EduBlocks: Transition to Python the easy way
Hey,

My name is Josh and I am 14 and created https://edublocks.org . Which is a tool to help kids go from Scratch to Python the easy way.

Let me know your thoughts.

Josh
> Instead of producing 2000 widgets, we produce only 1800 and fire one worker.

Do we?

As we're seeing with oil extraction, the actual thing we do seems to be "hire scientists, come up with new ways to extract, and start a brand new sector of the industry".
It really is mind blowing how spam has transisitioned from email to reviews on everything online. I wonder what laws apply in terms of having fraudulent reviews on something and it is considered advertising. I assume laws would have to be changed.

[https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/media-resources/truth-advert...]
Politicians’ views aren’t immutable. They decide on policy by figuring out what will best help them, and their party, win elections.

I’m not talking about a single race. I’m talking about the whole system. Over time, politicians’ views are shaped by the voters. If you show up to vote, you’ll be part of that process. If you don’t, you won’t, and you shouldn’t then be surprised when none of the people running for office share your views.
I might do that. I backed up all my gmail using a third party tool last year so it is possible, but my issue is more that I have so many profiles tied to that gmail address that losing it would be a nightmare. If they started charging for gmail tomorrow I would just have to pay whatever it was because it would take weeks to change the address across all my accounts
Cobol developer shortage is a myth. We’ve had 1000s laid off here over the past 10-15 years due to offshoring.
Would it be a bad slope for them to go down?

PS: I can't tell, because I have no idea what people see in Twitter in the first place.
It’s difficult to believe even Apple themselves care about Mac these days. So, difficult to blame vendors for not caring, either.
Me either. I wanted the full, exact windows phone start screen and I did not get that
One of better videos of this type. Anyone know what's the music from background? Hair raising.
> A carbon atom is 0.3 nm in diameter, so only about 3.3 million can fit in 1 mm.

Sure, but about 70 quintillion of them fit in 1 mm^3.
In Europe/Belgium there is but as you mentioned it people don't realise the dangers and basically think the government wants to prevent them from having fun.

A lot of misinformation too (eg: "it's okay,above a certain threshold the ears close themselves, that's why you feel a bit deaf for a day or two after a concert).
So what if something took a million years to evolve? It doesn't follow that this long timeline ought to create any sense of obligation, moral or otherwise, by itself. We don't owe anything to non-sentient organisms.
> given sufficient transport capabilities

I feel like that is fairly big thing here. In practice power grid capacity is very much finite.
Wow. Did not know that. Here you aren’t recommended to leave kids until 12months, and the norm is 18. I suppose that will also happen in the US - that is, if you can afford it you stay home until 12-18 months (or longer). This of course leads to kids to more well off people getting more time with their parents than poorer kids. That would be an almost impossible situation to support politically here, so the solution is to ensure even the poorest kids get the minimum 12 month full time parenting, through tax funded parental leave
Why does "not being too visible" matter ?

(I know, loaded question :)
That simply disables Secure Boot, which is not what sanlyx wants because you don't get the security benefit of replacing the manufacturer provided PK and/or KEK with your own so that only images you signed will boot.
Nice guide.

cd ~ command goes to home directory though, not root.

I wish someone showed me the UNIX operating system introduction by Kernighan et al before anything else. It can be found in AT&T arhives: https://youtu.be/tc4ROCJYbm0
Regarding urbanization, I think that argument works in the other direction: by living in cities (particularly dense ones), we can leave much more space to undisturbed Nature, including those endangered species. It's rural life that is spread out over everything and everywhere.
Total macOS marketshare is irrelevant. The vast majority of Windows home and office PCs are never going to install Alias. A better question is what's the relative marketshare in the 3D content creation and video production space? There I think you'll find Macs doing a lot better (or at least they were when Apple actually had a pro machine people wanted).
Ada also has decimal fixed point built in, without the overheads the author is worried about. But I agree with the author of that built-in easy and efficient support of decimal arithmetic is not so common.
You seem to be operating on some unstated assumptions: one, that basic money management skills are just something that everyone should be expected to have, and two, that two stable full-time jobs make enough money for anyone to live comfortably on with those basic money management skills.

First of all, I think it's worth noting that basic money management skills are no longer part of any curriculum with broad acceptance in America. They used to be taught in home economics classes, but those have been pared down to the bone in some places, outright eliminated in others. So expecting Americans to have basic money management skills at this point is, while not exactly unrealistic, at least not something that should be considered the obvious default.

Secondly, there are plenty of places where a two-income household, with both earners making significantly above minimum wage, will still be just squeaking by, particularly in places with very high housing costs. That's not even taking into account other all-too-common situations, like large medical debts, or burdensome student loans.

"But they should just move!" you cry.
"They should have known better than to go to college!" you cry.
(...I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt that you wouldn't say they should know better than to get cancer or some similar costly illness, but Poe's Law applies here.)

Moving, when you cannot easily save up money, is, at best, highly impractical. It costs mental energy that you probably lack if you are stressed from worrying about your poor financial situation, in addition to the time costs of finding someplace to move to that fits your needs better than where you are now, and the obvious financial costs of hiring movers and potentially putting a down payment on a house, depending on whether you're trying to buy or rent.

College has been sold to every generation in America for some time now as not merely the way to better your situation, but to many as the only way to get a stable job—or even to be a worthwhile person, depending on your (parents') social circles. Just within the past decade or two has the country started to turn around and say, "But we're going to make you pay through the nose for it. For the rest of your life. So if you aren't already wealthy, you better not go for a degree that can't get you six figures within 5 years of graduation!"

So...yeah, assumptions. They're a bitch, and they lead to an awful lot of the kind of moralistic labor-theory-of-value crap that keeps us in this terrible situation, instead of working together to find a way to make it better.
Thank you!

The rational for deciding features is three-fold:

* A positive answer to, "is it going to make it easy for a beginner to write, execute and change code?" is the first requirement (we check this with user research -- I've observed lessons, code clubs and other beginner-related activities as well as interviewed teachers and learners to find out how they react).

* Alternatively, we checked the features the Raspberry Pi Foundation had feedback about. For instance, the zoom in/out buttons were one of the most requested features from teachers in feedback to the RPi education team. When I demoed this to teachers for the first time there were gasps of amazement (which made me smile, given what a simple / easy to implement feature this is). This is extraordinarily useful in a classroom situation and for learners who may have a visual impairment (such as older learners with bad eyesight... a group I had never initially thought would want to learn... but hey... I rather like the idea of Granny coding Python). ;-)

* Can we demonstrate an obvious progression from Mu's (simple) implementation to a similar feature in an editor to which the user is likely to graduate? For example, the visual debugger is very simple, but looks similar enough to a "proper" debugger in a professional IDE that a beginner graduating to such an environment won't feel out of their depth.

Once a feature is "in" a lot of time and effort is spent making it as simple yet useful as possible. This is likely to be the first time someone will have used such a feature and we need to ensure that the intention is clear, the use is obvious and the outcome useful from the perspective of the learner/teacher.

We also have a "rule of three" when it comes to "nice to have" features... if three people independently ask for something we try to implement it (a good example being toggling on/off of commenting).
Completely agreeing on the dangers of CCTV. They even say in the article that the efficiency of the system is quite disputed: most crime footage will rot in a database. In general i would always be wary of an approach to security which tries to capture exhaustive information about something:

* there can and will be some form of misuse, even indirect: anti-terrorist laws in france being used to harass activists--ecologists and other; implies making things centralized which defeats security (like TLS PKI)
* costs a lot of money to get a pile of mostly useless data
* someone will throw some big data/machine learning at it and this gets dangerous because we start to base our police (and justice) on opaque statistical tools

Yet seeing that they use people instead of machines to do this job makes me a bit less angry.
"The environment is there for the benefit of humanity"

I don't agree with that. Humans are just one participant in the environment and we should respect the others.
What particular quirk of OpenGL does Alias depend on?
As the poster mentioned, being blind to costs creates bad incentives that are bad for what you are trying to protect.
Thanks for the link! This is indeed very interesting. Cheers.
You're arguing the broken windows fallacy. Every economic inefficiency --- every forced deviation from what people would prefer to produce --- has a cost. Those scientists, if not working around misguided resource extraction bans, could have worked on something even more beneficial.
> Either the limitation is there, or it isn't.

Well, if you can compose multiple Twitter messages into a long one, the limitation is kind of just half there.
Yes, it is. In the rest of the world it's called a pizza because that's what it is.
I agree with your last sentence (although mining cadmium might be useful, I do not know) and this is also related to your second argument.

What is worth being protected ?

IMO life and diversity (except e.g. harmful mosquitoes) and health and wealth and not fossil fuel related jobs.

Investment in science and progress should be promoted.

Removal of poverty should be promoted.

Not foolish austerity and protection of harmful activities and traditions.
How an ex-cop rigged McDonald's Monopoly game and stole millions
But it sure detects the damned hair tie I forgot in my back pocket, and that’s the REAL threat they are protecting us from - elastic bands....
As a married man with 4 sisters (and I just asked my wife and she agrees) it’s my experience that women, on the whole, take an order of magnitude more selfies than men. I don’t think it would be uncommonn to look on a phone and see that there will be hundreds of photos in front of a mirror. That doesn’t mean that a whole lot of men aren’t taking selfies.