skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dave Jones of EEVBlog has a nice series of videos talking to Richard Stephenson, Operations Supervisor at the DSN's Canberra site.

How To Contact The Voyager 2 Probe:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzRP1qdwPKw&list=PLdytWBxFfp...

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rCrfQUcXDI&list=PLdytWBxFfp...

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP_hleOXTaU&list=PLdytWBxFfp...

(the playlist is a mess, and videos are unordered)

There are also a couple of Behinde the Scenes videos.
What helps me most is to focus on the steps. This invisible force you describe is nothing that prevents you from doing anything (based on my experience, I can't know how you perceive it), but a step you want to skip, but are not able to.

You mentioned you have a strong urge to get up since everything is settled. Maybe this could be the invisible force?

You think (based on general believe how things should be done) that you need to get up since everything is fine, because that's what people do, right? Things are settled and you want to chase your dreams, thus this is what you need to do now, right? What else should you do?

You may stress yourself subconsciously which puts you in a vicious circle. If that could be the case, do something you enjoy, instead of chasing something.

But again, this is based on my experience, so I share my view, not telling you what the right thing is. I can't know.
>If Kindle doesn't adopt a given technology, it won't be commercially viable in the US.

For the people who don't buy their e-books from amazon, I think the market is quite competitive. I mean, if you are reading PDFs, unless you like really small type or spending a lot of effort converting, you are going to buy one of the myriad A4 sized e-readers from various vendors. Most of the gutenberg readers I know use an off-brand e-reader if they buy new.

>With no competitive market place for e-reader products, consumers buy whatever good enough technology Amazon sells.

I own a handful of high-end e-readers, many of which run android. How come none of those android devices, for instance, my A4 sized Sony e-reader, run the amazon app available in the play store?

I suspect that it's mostly that the Sony, in spite of being a much better reader for PDFs than my oasis, is simply not a better device for reading books that are formatted for the kindle.

(I'm not saying that there isn't a problem... I'm just saying that the monopoly is almost entirely in the convenience of the kindle book store. Agreements with publishers. And I am claiming that there is much competition for the (much smaller) market for e-readers for content outside the amazon kindle e-book ecosystem)
That thread from Jackie was nothing but tying datapoints, worn cliches of the big bad ccp, and conjecture. They have cut SSH before and tracked down 'subversive' elements but can't shut down someone who stands out in any crowd? Doesn't add up. I likely bet they figure she is good PR for Shenzen/China
>Today nobody learning biology or medicine begins with Darwin, Galen, or Hippocrates.

They should. Not to get the technical details, but to understand the spirit and the spiritual adventure that got them their fancy degrees and labs. And also to not be uncultivated technocrats.

>But economics and philosophy still expect their neophytes to read with care the scrolls of ancient dead white men as if their words had been written on clay tablets by the gods.

The fact they were "white men" doesn't mean anything, except if you're racist. Or anti-racist racist, which is also fashionable.

I'm as anti-colonialism as they come, but in Europe and the US the majority of the population ethnicity-wise and the founders were also "white" so why would they study something else? Those "white men" built their culture. In Africa and Asia, they can (and do) study their own people on those matters (e.g. Confucius, Lao Tse, Zuo Qiuming for China, and so on).

Besides, Philosophy, like literature is not some path towards "progress", as it's not a technical endeavour. It's a collection of ways of thinking about society, culture, ontology, ethics, politics, and so on. Those complement each other, they don't obsolete them. And often the best discoveries come earlier, rather than later. At worst, the philosophy of an era might not fit the cultural fashions of another. But that doesn't make the philosophy obsolete (and those fashions would change themselves with time).

And unlike with Physics, where you can use some random textbook to learn that f=ma without reading Newton, in Philosophy the full wording and context matters as well. What you're left with when you distill it is like Cliff Notes to War and Peace as opposed to the book itself (or "Functional programming for dummies in 24 hours" book as opposed to the "SICP" to use a CS inspired example).
Wouldn't it also be used to coat pacemakers etc specifically because the body can't break it down? Having teflon around a pacemaker is a different thing than it accumulating in random places in the body.
Why some people think they're smart when they're NOT
> it doesn't hurt to if you deviate from your own rules sometimes

This is very true and valid, my concern was/is more that peer pressure was resulting in someone feeling like that have to drink. People should be free to do whatever they like with their own self. Including not drinking if they don't want to.
In every article about quantum computers I have a hard time distinguishing what's reality and what's pure fiction, or simply put journalists who don't understand what they're writing about.
Given you've chosen to editorialize the title (which HN asks you not to do), it seems you agree with the spammers position. Could you explain?

For me, the spamwave was the first I heard of it, so freenode doesn't appear to be very successful in the "promoting" the supposedly do, and the delivery method makes the criticism fairly hard to take seriously without looking into it much: Why should I listen to them?
do you know of an e-ink device that runs a fairly standard and up-to-date (google play store compatible) version of android? such a thing would be pretty useful for me.
I wasn't saying "don't use Vue", I was saying there are good reasons to use a view layer library, and I used "VDOM" as a relevant example specifically because Vue implements one.

And two way data bindings are the best way to make a code base inscrutable. I'll put it another way. Wise developers avoid two way data bindings.
I disapprove of what Sarah Jeong says, but I will defend her right to say it
McDonald's in Patong, Thailand has no toilet (we went there last night). Not sure if lack of toilet is common here, but it wouldn't surprise me.
That's exactly the problem. She knew she had to be very careful what and how to say to get western exposure without waking any sleeping dogs in China. She requested there is absolutely no mentions or suggestions about gender equality, sexual orientation, relationship issues in the article. Vice still included this, defending it as being just vague hints being no big deal while Naomi says it's already too dangerous. I think if in doubt one should definitely leave the judgement to the person taking the risk.
There's evidence that the answer was yes: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2923799/Did-a...

(Article links to original study but link is bad)
For those who are on mobile:

https://www.outline.com/hvF3cS
Is this a culture clash? In my part of the world my post would have been considered perfectly acceptable and civil. Have you ever watched a British debate? We don't all pretend to like each other and put on a false overly agreeable facade. We're allowed to disagree with people and it's great.
Favioli: Replace blank tab icons with unique per-domain emoji to stay productive
I suggested he time things himself. Why isn't that a good enough mechanism of exploration?
My acceptance of my own slow thinking has terrified me no end my whole career: terrified of interviews, on the spot tests and of selling (especially when dismissals are based on incorrect or flawed understanding). I always go home to brutalise myself with "Ah, I should have said this in response". Too late!

I've always attributed my slowness to my breathing - or more precisely, my incorrect method of breathing. I mostly breathe from the chest instead of, as recommended, from below the rib cage, and more from the belly.
I guess I am going to enjoy another episode of Kickstarter crap
I have to agree. Even if you believe everything Vice says, and assume that Wu is deranged or whatever, the story still starts with Vice setting out to do a piece on someone they're supposedly sympathetic to, and ends with them getting Wu's livelihood taken away and Wu believing they've put her in danger.
I always read them on any site. I want to know even about racism and muppets talking shit, rather than be surprised when it appears in real life. And usually it's just real people, living real comments, from their own viewpoints.
It's also GPLv3
> A higher supply of cheaper labour does contribute to the reduced pay but by far the biggest influence is the stagnation of wages over those 3 decades.

This only applies to low skilled, replaceable jobs and certainly not the high skilled ones. Because eventually there is a demand for better employees (which naturally comes with experience and skills) which leads to higher wages and wage growth. Look at what's happening in SV.
The earth will have moved from its original position, so you'd probably need to catch photons that were shot off on 'paths' that will intersect your future position, which may not necessarily be photons that were 180-degree reversed.
All the west needs to do to get higher wages is significantly restrict immigration. Most western countries are at sub-replacement fertility.

Then supply and demand will do its thing.
Ask HN: What are the most interesting emerging fields in computer science?
Hey HN,

What do you think is the most interesting emerging field in Computer Science? I'm interested in PHD areas, industry work, and movements in free software.
Fake products? Only AI can save us now
Look at pre-commit.com, this had lots of supported hooks including preventing secrets being added
The API does not give the bots extra information compared to a human player. The micro- and reaction time edge is also being dulled to being more human-like. They still have superhuman team fight execution though.

"We’ve increased the reaction time of OpenAI Five from 80ms to 200ms. This reaction time is much closer to human level, though we haven’t seen evidence of changes in gameplay as OpenAI Five’s strength comes more from teamwork and coordination than reflexes."
My god how dare you come here with your 'sense of humor'.

Please be more sensitive to those around you less abled.
SpiderOak removes its warrant canary
Oh wow, well that's a bit of a change :)
>Can you give one example of a technological development that was successfully suppressed in a sustainable way?

Lisp and Smalltalk.
https://github.com/usefathom/fathom
Yes it's a bit scary wondering where it will end (except to say I wouldn't mind if all our summers here were like this one.)
Decentralized Identifiers – DIDs
> People have this fear that GMO trees will take over the world, but these are containment genes that make taking over the world essentially impossible,

It's also a convenient run-around for laws that allow you to cultivate whatever plant you own. I'm not entirely sure if many countries have those laws but I know that at least the netherlands has them.

It's basically DRM for trees.
>Ukraine had 3rd largest world nuclear arsenal before they gave them up.

Only because it was one part of the USSR though.

Besides, where were those people crying for Ukraine when the democratically elected government of the country was overthrown by the riots of a rag-tag coalition that included bona-fide neo-nazis (with swastikas et all)?
I used Windows full time until ten years ago. Like many it was my first introduction to computers. I switched to Linux and never looked back even once. I've had to use Windows at work for the last 9 months and it's been an awful experience the whole time. Nothing has changed.

If there was no option for a free operating system I would stop using computers in an instant. I won't go back. Ever.
It does seem as if when it rains it rains heavier than it used to.
That's a team-wide failure to understand business value.
#TCM Bank: website misconfiguration exposed applicant data for 16 months
That's not theft.
I'm saying that cooperation between buyers and sellers is something that goes on since time immemorial not some big conspiracy with unknown motivations...
No they cant.

After talking to many people over many years - its getting increasing clear that we cannot afford to stop our economic systems.

Even meager impacts of these systems result in huge shocks to the political systems which result in politicians getting un-elected.

This means that the people talking about actual change will never get the floor - the requirements are too high- profit margins will take too much of a hit, GDP growth will become anemic and wage growth will be stunted.

The things we need, are too expensive, and its FAR too cheap to just abuse the commons, than to let people know the actual full price of the cheap and convenient goods we use.
Most of the content of this blog post is promotional content for the cryptocurrency scheme, the actual "denial" of involvement takes up probably less than 10% of the text.

The author of the blog post is heavily involved in the cryptocurrency scheme she is promoting. (Which makes sense, given it's her employer behind it!)

Andrew Lee (Christels boss at LTM), who controls a majority of the votes for freenode is one of the people behind handshake.

I think it's fair to say freenode has been co-opted, after all, since the acquisition, they've suddenly started posting promotional materials for a cryptocurrency scheme operated by their new owners.

It's odd they couldn't find a staff member who isn't involved in the handshake cryptocurrency scheme to write this blog post.

Any FOSS projects affiliated with freenode should be seriously concerned about this.
Given that she discusses that in the article, I'd say everyone should form their own opinion on that.
> My current savings would only last about 2 months, far too short for the 5 years of residency to get citizenship there.

Right, but this will help you get there legally first, which gets you through the first hurdle. Then you obviously need to find a job there.
> But people only want to use centralized services.

That's not true. "People" don't care whether the service is centralised or decentralised. They just want the practical benefits of something that looks like a centralised service.
> While working through Peter Shirley’s Ray Tracing in One Weekend (http://in1weekend.blogspot.com/2016/01/ray-tracing-in-one-we...)

Which is where that method was used.
"Serious quantum computers are finally here."

What does "serious" mean in this context? Do we actually have usable, serious quantum computers?
> Researchers were able to interview 53 McRefugees

> McRefugees

Well, that's an interesting term..
Yes it is difficult. Under current conditions AI has access to much more data than humans. So it is unfair battle, it would be fair comparison if AI was programmed in such a way to have more of an analogue input of data similar to human eyes looking at a monitor and also analogue input of actions similar to human pressing keyboard keys which is much more inefficient as AI just calling internal functions to execute actions.
Decentralisation is hard because people crave power. As long as people crave power, people will build centralised systems of control.
Why would Unity use Filament? They have a PBR solution that works for them and is in active development. OTOY's OctaneRenderer is an unbiased path tracer. It's not comparable to Filament, two different use cases.
Dota is a bit different from other esports such as SC2, in that it leans much more on game-sense and decision making than twitch skills[1]. Nevertheless, OpenAI dulled the reaction time artificially to be more human-like. It makes sense if the goal is to make a sophisticated strategic/gamesense AI, and not one that wins by just executing better.

[1] For an entertaining case-study, check out Day[9]'s learns DotA2 series.
> Most people use products, not protocols.

Except e-mail and HTTP.

> We need a more product-oriented approach.

I think this is how we landed in the current situation. Instead of protocols (IRC, XMPP), you get products (Slack, Hipchat), which are walled gardens. I wish there was a way to incentivize companies to stick to shared protocols, instead of creating their own.
It sounds like that technique doesn't quite recover the audio though, just a portion of it:

While this audio reconstruction wasn’t as faithful as that with the high-speed camera, it may still be good enough to identify the gender of a speaker in a room; the number of speakers; and even, given accurate enough information about the acoustic properties of speakers’ voices, their identities.

Saying it may still be good enough pretty strongly implies that the quality is quite low.
Wikipedia is as fine as any place to link.
Thank you for the source. I'll read it!

> we were hired to do a study, and having knowledge about the subject is better than having no knowledge".

Haha. That's absolutely true.
Introduction of the blockchain consensus mechanism
I found a survey about Mastodon:

https://medium.com/@cassolotl/a-mastodon-survey-ac74948765c7

It says the main reason for not joining / abandoning is lack of friends. And also hard to use which doesn't help pulling in more people, so no friends, then a downward spiral.

Is there a way out?
Immigration is significantly restricted; just take a look at the procedural requirements for yourself.
Great to see those ideas discussed! It is a little strange, however, that Ted Nelsons ideas around Xanadu and its link representations aren't even mentioned.

https://youtu.be/hMKy52Intac?t=1m44s
> Split horizon was always a bad hack, there has always been alternatives.

I always see this repeated as a mantra, but never it's rationale. No company is going to advertise their internal infrastructure needlessly. There's no upside in the world knowing that your _kdc._tcp.company.com is 192.168.10.20; but there are downsides.

> DoH could be used on the default DNS servers too, there is value of encrypted DNS on LAN as well.

Sure, but hardcoding or statically-configuring the value is not the way. LANs need to have their DHCP tags respected. If one of them is "use this URL for DoH-server", that's fine.
That's exactly why I love 4chan. It has an uncensored rawness of what people really think and what goes on in their minds. Feels so refreshing when they don't hold up their masks of social acceptable thought filtering.
Webpack 4 course – part six. Increasing development experience
Blockchain technology is definitely the hottest topic of this year. I am interested in how it works and how it can improve different industries.
Recently I read a wonderful review paper about some of the problems engineers faced with early space communication.

It's really amazing how fast things moved back then. From 1954 to 1962 they went from using the moon as a relay satellite to having Telstar in orbit, which was capable of live trans-atlantic TV broadcasts.

The paper was featured on Fermat's Library, it's a great read -> https://fermatslibrary.com/s/satellite-communication---an-ov...
Repeated by the editor of Make and then he went back on his repetition of those theories on it once he realized the B.S. wouldn't fly.

Let's restate what the allegations were here.. for others who might not know. Essentially the allegations were that someone like Naomi couldn't possibly be a skilled maker and that she must have someone else making her creations. Nothing more than internet hearsay. Especially when she's willing to do maker stuff in front of anyone who's willing to show up.

I don't think I've ever seen someone say "That guy surely didn't make that, his wife must have"
Stanford’s Robert Sapolsky Demystifies Depression
There's a kernel of truth in that premise, in that centralization enables better usability by making things within a centralized system consistent, and thus interoperable.

When you let people run away with their creative freedom, you get the Web. That is, nothing talks to anything else in any reasonable way.
Check the full dissertation, they are.

https://www.reinterpretcast.com/pdfs/savage-j-dissertation-2...
It’s neat to look at, for example, Voyager and see the antenna azimuth track in real-time to compensate for Earth rotation.
I find myself nodding a lot while reading this because I can relate to this. I just don't have the bandwidth to process information for quick responses.
pgadmin's UX is pretty bad though, definitely on macos - lots of default OS specific keybinds that don't work, basic editing features that are missing, etc.
Did you read the article? It's paragraphs 6 and 7.
Thanks for the info! Enlightening and indeed.. worrying.
For How long can you use you phone in direct sunlight? Mine is readable when it sets itself to full brightness, but that will eat away the battery really fast. A transreflective screen will use less battery in direct sunlight.
> curved shapes are from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_page_866

No? Even this very Wikipedia article says CP866 inherited the box-drawing characters from CP437 (and I bet that wasn't the first character set that had them).
You have to pay much more to rent the apartment containing the bed?
If one forces a person to to talk freely in a backyard instead of of the main street, one is censoring him since no one can hear him any more. That is happening when Apple pushes Alex Jones out of iTunes.
DIY How to Make Beautiful Rakhi at Home – Silly Kids
Sounds like we can achieve this with a browser plugin, not sure we need a whole new web just yet:)
She has a "long history of very racist tweets" in the same sense that BurningCycles has a long history of writing "I am a misogynist", i. e.: if you wilfully ignore context.

...but the linked article, and the NYT's statement, already said as much in rather easy-to-understand terms. Which makes me suspect that their further explanation of "bad faith" might also be relevant here.
Even in the highest brightness on a recent AMOLED phone, if the sun is shining on it directly (i.e. sun is over your shoulder), you can't see the contents of the screen, in large part due to the reflection on the very shiny screen (which needs to be shiny for maximum brightness). In these circumstances you need to position your phone into your shadow (maybe you do this instinctively and don't notice)

And that says nothing of the battery consumption (pixel qi tech switches off the backlight in 'outdoor' mode so power draw is even less)
When you first start out someone gives you an email address. Your ISP, Your employer, Microsoft, Google (push)

When you first start out with Mastodon, you have to find a server on your own and hope it's not going to disappear on you in the distant future (pull)

The mainstream doesn't do pull. I haven't verified but I imagine sites such as Twitter didn't take off until they started pushing accounts through advertising and word of mouth suggestion (upload your contacts, invite your friends!). Facebook pushed accounts on people in by limiting who could sign up until a certain demand threshold was reached so that when the next wave of potential users look at it, they have an account pushed on them by peer pressure as their friends were already there

Leave the decentralised aspects to us nerds. To get it properly going you're gonna need a way to push accounts on people