skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The difficulty of communicating from deep space spurred the development of error correcting codes. In particular, Concatenated codes [1] were developed for the Voyager program in 1977.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concatenated_error_correction_...
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If they arent behind on process tech, then they arent using it properly. The numbers are there. All techs aside, AMD is building competative chips at lower pricepoints. Intel has to pull the rabbit from the hat if it wants to stay in the spotlight.
I get the desire to avoid cryptocurrency in general but as a technology it is a good fit (quite possibly the only fit, I'm not sure what other decentralized payment systems are out there) for what they want to achieve.

There has been discussion on whether they accept other forms of payment[0] (probably lots and lots of times), and supposedly they'll take PRs. Maybe someone should write an external payment API that really just acts like a dummy "blockchain" and works off of human verifications (along with some sort of trust score).

That, or someone could theoretically create a blockchain that did nothing but validate payments on other platforms (I have no idea how it would work but it seems possible), so a payment on the imaginary blockchain would equal a confirmed payment on some payment platform with sufficient API support.

[EDIT]- found another thread[1]

[0]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/2lddjy/besides_...

[1]: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenBazaar/comments/531vui/openbaza...
Can someone help me Grok how the 3D printed Neural Networks back propagate? As I am trying to go through the paper they describe it as a pure optical approach, but what adjusts the refraction elements during the learning process?
The preminent hypothesis for the end of the dinosaurs before the Alverezes found the meteoric Iridium layer 40 years ago was large volcanos in India poisoned the planets ecosystem.

Some geologists hold that dino extinction was caused by multiple factors including a meteor, volcanos, and a preceding general decline of the genus.
A good book on the subject is Hot Earth Dreams: https://smile.amazon.com/Hot-Earth-Dreams-climate-happens/dp...

Frank Landis did a ton of research to try to find the best comparable models of what's happening, what's about to happen, and the book is still extremely easy to read (well analogized) despite trying to get to hard science answers for most of it.
Reverse mortgages are fine, but I think a lot of people are cashing out their equity earlier with no means to make their mortgage payments once their income is reduced.
"Amazon is successful not because they underpay employees or evade local sales taxes"

What? That's a very large part of why they're successful.
New trends in fashion: Hoodies, sunglasses, camouflage face paint.

Second option, can a camera sensor be damaged by laser pointer?

I have no hope for legal restrictions, it will always be defeated by 'security' arguments.
Ooooh is this a subthread for ranting about public education in a America? Cause I come from a family of teachers and I have WORDS!

In a little school district in Texas, we can't use the word "adaptation" in our cellular biology section.

Recent history textbooks use strange language around black slaves that seems to imply they were "workers," rather than, you know, slaves.

Eh. I'll stop. I gave up on teaching ages ago, but my mom still gets drummed up in front of the principal at least monthly for some bullshit. Most recently because the students have a shared box of basic supplies at their little desk pods (scissors and markers), and some mom demanded her son be allowed to use his own supplies because she didn't want him using the "Communist supplies." Verbatim quote. She thought it would teach him the values of communism. Obviously my mom told her to fuck off in no uncertain terms, so stern meeting with the principal for July...
They were planning a synergistic business model to market other businesses when you go to the movies. We hope you enjoyed your movie. Stop by Paulys Pizza next door for $2 slices.
You mean Murder, Inc?

There are mobs of all races, ethnic groups.

Although I can't speak specifically to the points mentioned by Jones, all those sources you cite are suspect.
To call Hippocrates "white" is to be deeply ignorant of the history of racial divisions in societies -- which is forgivable for the average person, but not in someone making a specific argument about racial divisions.
Man-Made Viruses – We Are the Guinea-Pigs
Possibly, but more likely it would be more cost effective to actually subsidize the energy of the rest of the world so that they don’t emit carbon in the first place.
Surprised nobody has mentioned HyperCard - https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/05/25-years-of-hypercar...

There was a very compelling vision for the web, by Doug Engelbart and others in the 60's and 70's. Unfortunately, because of the computing culture's attitude of forgetting even the recent history / understanding what foundational work was done (like real scientific fields do!), the web folks didn't have a lot that context.

Alan Kay, in many of his talks, has discussed how the browser should really be more like an operating system kernel. The web is a mess and we can still build interesting things with lots of hacking & engineering, but it's fallen short of the original vision. And now we're locked into the tooling we've built.
Part of the problem is that no one really knows where the money goes. So we wouldn't really know if he had a charity jet purchased by the company.

Charity can be used to cover a lot of things: dinners, galas, trips, vehicles, lucrative jobs, etc.
Unfortunate lack of PS/2 keyboards in those tests, but the other article linked from there (and discussed here before):

https://danluu.com/input-lag/

...shows that the keyboard latency is actually a significant part of input lag.
And when they did, miners rightly evacuated the area until the canary's cause of death could be confirmed.
Good on you for electing it. Uninsured coverage should almost always be taken at the max policy limit offered.
The BFS (spaceship, i.e. second stage) is supposedly going to have enough performance to make orbit on its own as an SSTO, with a tiny payload. It probably won’t ever be used that way, though.
Excellent work! I've been using Thundirbird for years now and enjoy all its features.

The only thing that it lacks is the native support of Tray, I just use the discontinued extension FireTray.

Anyway, just checked the new version and installed it, it looks fresh and nice, great job!
Yes. Most people who experiance modern war never see a battle. Soldiers battle. For the other 90% of the population, war is suffering, deprivation and fear.
"If you write out the basic facts of trees, but framed as technology, it sounds like impossible sci-fi nonsense. Self-replicating, solar-powered machines that synthesize carbon dioxide and rainwater into oxygen and sturdy building materials on a planetary scale." - @CryptoNature
Apple at $1Trillion: The Missing Theory
Craigslist is more like 4chan imo, a list of pre-determined boards. Also, craigslist is based on locality of the seller & in person meet-ups.

This project would let users create small buy & sell communities around anything from fashion trends (e.g. streetwear, coachella, grunge, etc...) to weird hobbies (collectibles, watches, vintage maps/globes, etc...)
I thought Boston and NY traded back and forth for #2. But looking at the latest MoneyTree report, it doesn't look that way at all (https://www.pwc.com/us/en/moneytree-report/MoneyTree%20Repor...)

Now that MT splits out SF and SV differently, you can see a secular split: the (mostly) consumer-facing online businesses in SF (5.6B) and NY (2.8B) take in a lot more money than the more technology-oriented businesses of SV (3.9B) and BOS (3B). I assume that's due to risk profile; wonder what the return rate is?
How do you rank tweets? Does Twitter API allows to sort by threads size?

I actually wrote a small extension to collect comments from HN and Reddit using their search API, and it's very useful for me.

https://imgur.com/a/vWy5NaP
I think it would be really good to finally take a solid stance on creating a path to deal with payments made outside the platform.

It seems like it could just be generalized and tied into the reputation system[0]. Basically just let users claim they've paid and let buyers claim they've received payment through whatever outside-platform method.

[0]: https://www.openbazaar.org/blog/decentralized-reputation-in-...
Yes, I'm not convinced either. They are neither startups nor appear to be competing hard. Jet.com was probably only good challenger which ran for sometime but I dont know what's their status now.
Has anyone had trouble accessing gmail from thunderbird in the last few weeks? Both my work and personal accounts have been intermittently syncing and I have no idea if this is a thunderbird problem or something i have to change in my gmail settings.
I've seen icons out in the wild of container-ish shapes (box, etc) with an arrow pointing into the container. Seems to work well enough.
The Mythical Brown Windsor Soup
Migrate from Shopify to WooCommerce
Security in plaintext: use Shielded VMs to harden your GCP workloads
The point is that these companies have immense control over the economy and speech. They should be as neutral as possible, otherwise it will be a tug of war to control them just like everything else in society is becoming.

Also you realize that there's an entire "bring these giants to task over fake news" thing happening right now whereupon we will demand the likes of Google and Facebook take editorial control over content, when the majority of people will only get what comes out of those filters. This is inherently wildly dangerous and absolutely censorship.

Delisted by Google = a company effectively does not exist, the same goes for most things online, and that is the natural next step once some of the giants start to take stricter control. People will only demand more and more things they don't like be removed.
Thank you for the insight. I tried to do some research before my post but exact details of what the New Hampshire / Boston breakdown are is a little hard to find.
In the US we've been having this "debate" and talking about the "war" since at least the late 1970s. Even that long ago it was nearly impossible in our country to garner the political will to fight climate change.

Our question now is, how do we best stall the inevitable? But the political will is still sorely lacking. The idea of a globally effective Paris Accord with teeth is laughable.

From the NYT Magazine: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/08/01/magazine/clim...?

The scientists knew the consequences of warming: "When, at Charney’s request, Hansen programmed his model to consider a future of doubled carbon dioxide, it predicted a temperature increase of four degrees Celsius. That was twice as much warming as the prediction made by the most prominent climate modeler, Syukuro Manabe, whose government lab at Princeton was the first to model the greenhouse effect. The difference between the two predictions — between warming of two degrees Celsius and four degrees Celsius — was the difference between damaged coral reefs and no reefs whatsoever, between thinning forests and forests enveloped by desert, between catastrophe and chaos."

When the dire climate forecasts were established science, the foremost American scientists, senators, industry representatives, etc met to discuss what to do about it. They started their conference - in 1980 - with this:

“We might start out with an emotional question,” proposed Thomas Waltz, an economist at the National Climate Program. “The question is fundamental to being a human being: Do we care?”

This provoked huffy consternation. “In caring or not caring,” said John Laurmann, a Stanford engineer, “I would think the main thing is the timing.” It was not an emotional question, in other words, but an economic one: How much did we value the future?

We have less time than we realize, said an M.I.T. nuclear engineer named David Rose, who studied how civilizations responded to large technological crises. “People leave their problems until the 11th hour, the 59th minute,” he said. “And then: ‘Eloi, Eloi, Lama Sabachthani?’ ” — “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?” It was a promising beginning, Pomerance thought. Urgent, detailed, cleareyed. The attendees seemed to share a sincere interest in finding solutions. They agreed that some kind of international treaty would ultimately be needed to keep atmospheric carbon dioxide at a safe level. But nobody could agree on what that level was."
Mint and a host of other financial dashboard products allow you to plug-in account credentials and see balances in one place.
Tell HN: Four completely free classes from Lambda  School (YC S17) begin tonight
Hey HN,

I'm the co-founder of Lambda School - a school that trains people to be software engineers in live online classes. We're launching three completely free classes tonight (yes, free as in beer).

Intros to:

Full-Stack Web Development: https://lambdaschool.com/courses/cs/web/101/

iOS Development: https://lambdaschool.com/courses/cs/ios/101/

Android Development: https://lambdaschool.com/courses/cs/android/intro/

UX Design: https://lambdaschool.com/courses/ui-ux/intro/

All are taught by absolutely expert instructors. For iOS you'll need a Mac and Xcode, for Android you'll need to download Android Studio, for Web Development you'll need a browser, for Android you'll need a free trial of Sketch.

The classes will be livestreamed and we'll invite you into a Slack workspace where we have help standing by if you have questions. Generally they follow the format of 45-60 minutes for a lecture/introduction to a topic, 90 minutes of project work-time (again, help available as needed), then a small group standup with a TA to review what was learned, make sure any questions are covered, etc.

If you can't attend live you can still get access self-paced, but of course we can't guarantee we'll have people standing by 24/7 to help you.

Anyway, just thought this might be helpful. Cheers!
PowerPC as a trademark is, but given that modern Power ISA implements almost all of it and then some, the architecture is hardly "gone."

There's still a lot of Power chips in the embedded space and high end server hardware, and there are also boutique systems like the modern Amiga (mostly embedded chips) and the Talos II (POWER9).
Yes, ~this post~ HN front page news about Nile is what prompted me to ask the question.
You just cherry-picked a phrase from my statement and missed an average Vietnamese rice farmer part.

I am not talking about the Vietnamese living in Saigon under American protection. I am talking about the villagers who faced the brunt of American bombs and napalm. To them, the argument that Americans are here to protect democracy was pretty much nonsense.

Don't forget that prior to American involvement, Vietnam was a French colony. We can debate the whole day whether the Americans were imperialists or not, but the French practiced textbook definition of imperialism in Vietnam. The Americans entered Vietnam at a time of heightened anti-colonialism. Whether American actions were good or bad is another matter, but to most Vietnamese, it was again a foreign entity fighting war on their soil. The fact that North Vietnamese were communists doesn't help much because ultimately they were Vietnamese fighting for their own land.
“Bad Habits” (2018)
We know who gets to decide - the owners of the communications platform and those who influence them. If Apple wanted to be more inclusive in the decision making, they could choose to do so.
I do volunteer trail maintenance on the Pacific Crest Trail with the PCTA. It's a great way to get outside and do some physical labor for those of us who sit in a cube 40+ hours per week. You also get to see and camp in some of the most beautiful parts of the country and work with a whole host of other volunteers who have been extremely pleasant to the last in my experience.

Bonus: For those who want to be very involved, you can get First Aid/CPR, chainsaw or crosscut sawyer, crew leader training/certification for 'free'. So long as you pay it back by utilizing those skills on work parties. Some groups also run a trail steward program where you can 'adopt' a section of the trail to maintain over time.
Censorship at its finest!
Actually, no. An insurance that doesn't make a profit will eventually go broke. That's a mathematical fact (see "Law of iterated logarithm").
Get into therapy my friend, it will help in all aspects of life. It's not just for people who have mental illness or severe trauma. It's for all of us who have life experience that is unprocessed. I think it would be valuable for you if you went in to explore the roots of what interests you and what your underlying motivations are.
A public variant of the software comes bundled with the Arc programming language installation. The version that runs on HN has non-public modifications, but looking at this should give a decent idea of what's going on:

https://github.com/arclanguage/anarki/blob/master/lib/news.a...
Most people overclock RAM using XMP settings and hit 3200 MT/s easily (which also overclocks the infinity fabric).

I've seen some people hit 3466MT/s on higher-end more expensive RAM on AMD's 12nm stuffs (Ryzen 2). So that's probably the practical limit.

3200 MT/s on Hynix dies is probably a reasonable expectation.
Had a job interview recently where the company wanted me to redesign their complex system (presumably to work acceptably) on the spot.

First thought was "I'll have the answer in six months," when the problems are really understood. No offer on that one, haha.
Who are “we”? The US? I’m pretty optimistic about the US actually, at least for the next administration. I worry more about getting big cuts from China/India/Indonesia/Bangladesh/...
1. I'm not sure - 20 years ago maybe?

2. No, not anymore, in the current situation emission reduction is about reducing the future consequences, not about preventing them. The current accumulated greenhouse gases are sufficient to continue warming for some time even if we didn't emit anything starting today, and also there are two positive feedback loops started already - methane emissions from melting permafrost and increased Arctic sunlight absorption because there's more dark water and less reflective ice.

3. Maybe - it likely could help, but it'd need a lot of investment and we're not ready to even start

4. Yes, probably.

5. Only if we had a magical source of massive icecubes, but we don't.

6. Depends on your viewpoint - if humans get eliminated, then after a few million years there might be more biodiversity, that may count as a benefit to some.
Trump admin asks Supreme Court to re-kill already-dead net neutrality rules
I see a lot of people saying that $10 for 3 movies/month still sounds like a pretty good deal. It might be, but there are loads of other issues that make it more expensive and less useable:

- They recently added surcharges for what they call "peak pricing". When I looked at showtimes a couple Sundays ago, every showing after 10:00am had a $6-$8 surcharge.

- Some showtimes just aren't available. After seeing all those surcharges, I tried again the next day. There were no extra fees, but the showings between 6pm and 8pm were not shown in the app. And this was for non-blockbusters that have been out for 2-4 weeks.

- Their CEO has said (in a way that hasn't really been communicated to users) that they're no longer going to offer tickets for new mainstream movies. It's not at all clear which movies will be included.

- The service has gone down a couple times in the last couple of weeks because they ran out of money to pay for tickets. There's no way to know ahead of time if the app will actually work when you get to the theater (and you can't buy tickets before then unless you go to the theater earlier on the same day).

So, it's not $10/month for 3 movies. It's $10/month for 3 movies, excluding new films, with likely surcharges on weekends and many convenient showtimes blacked out. Also, sometimes it doesn't work.
Yes, of course, you totally right, i need rss feed (https://github.com/recoilme/tgram/issues/10) json - api and many other things.. I work on this project around six month - and this post - i don't know how to say it..
It's very hard to stay motivated in silence..
I want to find more contributors/early adopters.
It's also a fairly interesting read, for that matter.
Go-set type-safe sets for Go, generics in practice
Go-set is a type-safe, zero-allocation set implementation for Go.

https://github.com/scylladb/go-set

At Scylla we are long time users of https://github.com/fatih/set and after it’s discontinuation we wanted to still use it. We therefore created an enhanced clone with a typesafe API and high performance.

We like generics a lot so we used the Google tool “go_generics” from the gVisor [1] code base to generate the concrete implementations. Most of the simple language builtin types are supported.

If you enjoy go-set come work with us, we are hiring Go Developers. Learn more at https://www.scylladb.com/company/careers/

[1] https://github.com/google/gvisor/tree/master/tools/go_generics
> What's the plan for an Uber driver when they get old?

Save a minimum of $5500/year or 10% of your annual salary. Whichever is greater (up to your cap).
Or you could rip all of this BS out and just integrate with existing, non-decentralized payment processors, and avoid alienating all non-technical users in the process.
I got it, thank you. Will get back with my thoughts on the interface.

Edit: Looks decent for an unfinished/early stage project. I especially love how you can browse without requiring JavaScript. I feel this should be a hit among minimalism enthusiasts, like the readers of Zen Habits[0], for example.

[0] https://zenhabits.net/
Your comment is very misleading. Reading what you linked to, creator has the (extremely legitimate) concern of users relying on closed source implementations of WireGuard. Which is not at all the same as "clients he didn't have a hand in making"
I had to go look up pictures of actual bikes to confirm what (I think) is wrong with the lead picture.

I also wonder how I would have done in the blind.
China's Elon Musk is suspected of stealing a professor's invisibility technology
> effective action is to greatly reduce the number of births worldwide.

Unbelievable.
You must spend a lot of time on the Peninsula where everything is always nice and sunny. Good for you.

Some of us prefer a non-fixed outlook and an intellectual curiosity which sometimes involves wading through unsavory content. Also known as the real world. Please do not try to stifle my choices.

( In abstract, away from gov/private entity debate )
> For the people who don't buy their e-books from amazon, I think the market is quite competitive.

And tiny. Amazon has by far the largest in the US market, from numbers I just googled and haven't verified, Amazon is 83% of ebook sales in the US, and probably and even larger % if your consider "ebooks read on a digital paper device".

Hardware technologies cost hundreds of millions to develop, and years of active sales to refine and bring prices down. Amazon has a "good enough" tech in their Kindles, so the market is stagnating, outside of some cool stuff like Remarkable, which isn't a new display tech stack, nor are their sales numbers going to support development of new techs.
Then make the calculations based on cost like the NHS does and not by age. I totally agree that we should be wary of paying 100s of thousands for some cancer cures.

But we shouldn't tell old people "you are useless therefore go somewhere and die". It's hard to imagine but most of the young people here will also get old one day. And they won't be wealthy enough to pay health costs out of pocket.
This is one thing I really notice about the UK. Lots of people here think featureless green fields == nature, which is a shame.
Oh, so like memory diamonds, with hydrogen instead of carbon.