skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a word replacer extension I used a few years ago to implement XKCD's entire list of suggested replacements, to my great amusement. Due to my predisposition I consider great amusement to be of tremendous benefit to my well-being.
I do agree. You're in a much better position than your competitors: easier for you to win on the delivery market in the FR than, say, for Carrefour or Auchan to solve it.
(which they have attempted to solve for the last 10 years with varying degrees of success)
Also Netlify for static sites
>Another challenge came in the form of the electronic wiring — most cables would melt from exposure to heat radiation at such close proximity to the Sun. To solve this problem, the team grew sapphire crystal tubes to suspend the wiring, and made the wires from niobium.

are these wires on the outside of the spacecraft? but what about the silicon of all the electronic stuff that this thing must be keeping? The cooling surface would also get a bit hot (it would always get some more energy at some rate), so how does the coolant transmit any heat away from the probe?
So it's the responsibility of smart investors to bail out dumb investors?
As a child of the early 90's, I've never heard of this guy. So yes.
See the golemn, walk and talk,
for to the perchment, spark and life was given,
see the slave, stumble and fall,
who once was bright and driven.
https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive (currently I package the original project by @skillion, but this fork is better maintained...)
It's grounded in MacGyver!
This just sounds like a horrible scary idea. What happens if I change something in a repo on multiple machines - a OneDrive merge conflict inside .git sounds like a nightmare.
'snide, sarcastic, and condescending' was not just the authors view, but the way involved scientists view theories of each other. So it's unfair to blame the article for that, which is an article about a scientist and not science in general.
Apple doesn't allow other browser engines than WebKit in its App Store, so Chrome on iOS uses WebKit, not Blink, and the problem is probably actually WebKit-specific.
IBM also released the source for the BIOS - it’s still copyrighted.
Interesting. That seems to be the front page in RSS form.
My brother and I spent about 6 months in 2012 to make a game with unity3d to hit into the app store craze and we bombed pretty badly. The game had good looks, editors, customization, but lacked good game play. We basically sat down one day and said wouldn't it be cool if we made a game similar to an old arcade but with newer graphics and started to work on it. I think the most ironic thing about our efforts was that we weren't really gamers ourselves. I'm glad we did it though because we did use unity3d and C# knowledge for other things besides games (I guess we were pretty lucky). We didn't even make a single penny from our game. It was pretty depressing. Going for years on a project that you might not make a single penny on sounds terrifying.
I wonder if people will just create a different account for every game and just sell the account :D.

And I don't see PC games being any different than console ones. Most games still have physical copies that can be resold, or am I missing what you meant? Physical copies still have plenty of life in them with games ballooning to triple digit GBs and most of the world being stuck on slow internet.
Please forgive my ignorance, but does it compile to a binary and can it be targeted to a different platform than the current one? eg. Can I make for OSX, Windows, Android, etc?

The best documentation I can find is this article, but it seems a bit spartan on how-to: https://medium.com/@sdanisch/compiling-julia-binaries-ddd6d4...
works great, thanks.
What makes you think they aren't lying?
>My understanding is "5G" is really what "4G LTE" was originally planned as.

It is not. 5G, NR mmWave are entirely new and has nothing to do with the original 4G vision, which was the 1Gbps Speed. Those are already supported with the latest LTE standard 3GPP Rel 14. Qualcomm and Intel both have modem support 2Gbps / 1.6 Gbps Speed.
Also, one important thing that is missing in the article, the fire in question in Sweden, was (partially) on a large training range for the Army that had been in uses since the 60's, which made it easy to go ahead and test dropping a bomb on the fire.
Was I the only person hoping this article would go into the daoist concept of immortality and its meeting with modern day sciences understanding of physiology?
There is a huge structural issue when investors of all asset classes believe the central government will bail them out. It happens to a vastly lesser degree elsewhere. We saw the folly of it in the US in 2008.
PS: Similar product evaluations exist for a lot of components from the Z80 series, including the CPU. But only on paper, because they haven't been scanned: http://smithsonianchips.si.edu/ice/s3.htm
Maybe you can convince the National Museum of American History's archivists to scan more of them.
> My use of "simply" wasn't expressing the idea that the details of running such a business are trivial, but that it's an everyday thing that's been invented and not some speculative or impossible or unbelievable thing.

Even so, what you propose doesn't quite exist, and my point was that this is because it isn't simple, or, if you will, that your use of "simply" was dismissive of the Devil that's in the details.

Annuities and even perpetuities exist, but even characterizing them as an "everyday thing" is borderline misleading. An annuity is a common instrument for retirement. Otherwise, not so much.

For your proposed use-case of turning long-term returns into short-term ones, for any investor that comes asking, they don't exist at all, AFAIK.

> No, it's not meant to be different. "Outperformance" can mean performance relative to a given benchmark

Fair enough. I was going off the understanding that the benchmark had to, itself, perform, which inflation does not (unlike, e.g., the S&P500, which describes actual performing assets).

> Right now in the US, maybe it's not happening.

Since the context is long-term, "right now" would need to be at least the past 3 decades, so that's an extraordinary "maybe" requiring extraordinary evidence.

> But look at Japan and what's happened to investment returns and inflation in the last 30 years

Japan's overall economic situation appears to be reflected in the Nikkei 225 returns (losses), so consistent with my thesis there, too.

> I'm not promoting, say, gold, or bitcoin, or whatever alternative.

And that's the crux of the issue. None of those examples have much opportunity to produce anything or create additional wealth, whereas companies do. More common alternatives are bonds, which are either another form of capturing the output of companies (including non-publically-traded ones) or of taxes (which, arguably, captures labor output, to the extent that it's income/payroll tax). True alternatives would need to be assets that could do the same, such as land (agriculture, mining).
I would recommend normal online trainings (which you can do without pressure), getting some good books and have the discipline to stick with it.

MOOCs are trendy but hard to keep up with if anything uncertain popups up in your life, or you can't keep up because you don't have the skills yet etc.

MOOCs in it's current form are not particularly interesting unless, or even sustainable for the large audience it's been appealing to --- unless you're a student or someone with plenty of time.
People rarely take the time to understand what you're trying to say these days. They're also very misinformed and take it personally when they think you're attacking their "core values". In this case I think it's because I was highlighting some downsides of the practical implementation of capitalism. Or maybe criticizing anything related to capitalism makes me a communist? Who knows...

Very few people actually understand what capitalism or communism are or what they were supposed to be, beyond what quick consumption TV or internet media tells them. Also very few people accept to change their opinions as the facts change. They'd rather fight it.

Good for them I guess... some things really are bliss.
I heard a tale - but can't find an online reference - for the first Compaq PC BIOS containing a bit that said 'Not (C) IBM' in order to pass some software checks searching for the strings '(C) IBM' being present at certain specific BIOS addresses.
There are edge cases where it is possible. My employer sells Automated Valet Parking [0] where the video cameras of the garage are used to steer the vehicle. Of course, this is a well controlled space where you can ensure connectivity and the car will drive slowly so you can ensure safety.

I don't believe safe real time and 5G cellular networks can be combined at reasonable scale. The latency is enough for some use cases, but reliability/connectivity/safety is not enough. So we still agree here.

[0] https://www.bosch-mobility-solutions.com/en/highlights/autom...
Author here: When talking to an investor you are only a "sales rep" to some degree. You are the owner of a company looking to raise funding by selling a certain percentage of shares, so much is true - but the mindset is more one of finding the right partner.

Given a promising enough vision and execution there's no shortage of interested VCs and the challenge is in picking the right one for the long term. All VCs offer money, but many offer value beyond that. As the VC(s) you'll choose will hold a significant stake including board seats and voting rights you'll want someone with a deep enough understanding of your industry, technology, market, sales or operational model.

Even if we were talking about selling to a customer here I would argue that one's better off providing long-term value (and forfeiting a deal if one can't) than just catering for any buzzword-driven expectation and watch the whole edifice crumble a few months down the line
what about the primitive gibberish of eastern culture...
>the burn of "hey, I just wasted my 20s working on some project that didn't really go anywhere" is an incredibly painful pill to swallow, and perhaps something you never fully come to terms with.

But it's a thousand times less painful to swallow than the one that goes "I never tried to live my dreams".

It's a thousand times better to try and fail than to never try at all. THAT is what life is all about.
Built in bright/dark interfaces, same as low blue modes are just convenience customizations which help people adjust screen to work habits - night work etc. They give real health benefits in my own experience.
However I still wait for a killer e-ink laptop to please my eyes in any light settings.
The SE/30 was a remarkable machine. My mother used hers for many years.
That's a pretty kit and that was a very large amount of work, congratulations on seeing it through. I suspect there is a larger market for a more complete offering, so maybe tackle a graphics board next?

I believe this video is about this project:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCe0I3RJajY

If you want to go the 'soft' route of emulation then there is this:

http://www.hampa.ch/pce/download.html
Five Things Entrepreneurs Must Keep in Mind When Fundraising
This should probably be a Hacker News submission in its own right.
A Comprehensive Guide to Authenticating to AWS on the Command Line
That wasn't a barrel roll. Even Tex didn't really know what to call it. Sort of a floating aileron roll.
A bunch of topics are covered in this paper:

* interactive programming in Lisp
* residential systems with managed source
* structure editing
* domain specific languages
* programming methodology
* programmable/extensible software
* embedded languages
* patching code by advising (before and after...)
and more

This paper is also included in the book 'Interactive Programming Environments', 1984, Barstow/Shrobe/Sandewall
Yes, and others who study forams have looked at the same evidence and come to different conclusions. Someone's inferences are not following the same logic as others, and the most parsimonious explanation is that it's this person -- who I understand has become somewhat notorious -- not the rest of the scientific community.
For a while nautilus had this, I believe it was referred to as "spacial mode". It wasn't popular and eventually it was dropped. Which was a shame because as a former Mac user I was really excited by the idea. I think though that I have a much different relationship with my files and folders across a dozen computers these days than I did back when I only had one Mac desktop... if nothing else there are a lot more of them and in a way I guess I feel less "ownership" of my storage. And so I am less interested in keeping things nearly organized. And modern operating systems have much better search features which means that careful file organization is less important too.
Not only games cause such effects on their creators. Any piece of craft-ware does pretty much the same. I'm an enterprise software creator/publisher and sometimes I have to go through the very same lows and highs described in the article.

Doing a product is hard. Much harder that you might initially think.
There's a project called wifibroadcast (https://befinitiv.wordpress.com/wifibroadcast-analog-like-tr...) that allows to pipe data between two WiFi nodes in monitor mode so there's no need for association.
Application Safety and Correctness Cannot Be Offloaded to Istio/Any Service Mesh
Interview with Badiucao, Chinese political cartoonist, and rights activist
Any reason why they're using water for cooling? There's no other liquid with lower density and perhaps better thermal properties?

I imagined they would try to save weight in some places if it allows them more freedom in others. Although I have no idea how much water is used in the first place so it might be a moot point.
Why do you have such a strong emotional hostility towards cryonics?

First off, you don't understand how cryonics work, from the organizations to the procedure. It is not freezing, but vitrification, as anti-freeze is essentially pumped into the circulatory system to avoid the damage from icing you mentioned (toxicity of the anti-freeze is another problem).

It may or may not work, but it is purely based in physical phenomena. Tissues, organs and simple organisms have been lowered to cryogenic temperature and then brought back, and extending that process to humans is not irrational. Animal brains have been vitrified and the structure of the connectome was still intact.

The alternative to cryonics is for your brain to rot or be incinerated. Are you saying that the chances of reviving or reconstructing a well preserved, vitrified brain is the same as a pile of ashes? If so, that seems the more irrational point of view.
Here's a write up of the chilly reception this recently received on the python-ideas mailing list: https://lwn.net/Articles/760993/
>This all has to happen without any human intervention, so the central computer software has been programmed and extensively tested to make sure all corrections can be made on the fly.

I'd love to get some deeper insight into how NASA writes and tests software, I can only guess it's a million miles from how most of us work. Anyone know of any good talks, articles from engineers there?
Progressive Delivery, a History…. Condensed
We agree that a probability is a ratio, right? In order to make sense of what a ratio means, we must know what the numerator and the denominator mean. From what I gather, Bayesians say probability is a degree of certainty, so a subjective belief. Okay, but in their calculations, mathematically, it's still a ratio. So what are the terms in this ratio? This is what I'm saying. They don't say it. If you say that these terms are "subjective likelihoods", then you have to provide a definition for this, because it isn't clear at all what a "likelihood" is.
I suspect the reasons that XML ultimately lost are:

1. You could represent it as a nested structure of your language's standard lists & maps, which you already know the API of, which you could directly operate on. For dynamic languages, this is much faster to stick a prototype together, even if it bites you in the ass eventually. But by the stage, you've already chosen JSON.

2. It was less characters to manually type.

3. Particular uses of XML were extremely verbose. The S in SOAP stood for Simple, which looks ironic in retrospect.

4. In a time when payloads didn't routinely use compression, the closing tags could be a noticeable increase in size.

5. The vast majority of communication that now uses JSON didn't benefit significantly from XPath (people prefer to navigate data structures using their language features, not a generic API), namespaces, DTDs, XML Schema etc.

In about that order.

You could argue that much of this is superficial, and it is, but the industry has shown time and again that lowering the barrier to entry, even in ways that make little difference in the long run, usually wins out.
Real-Time Grass and Other Procedural Objects on Terrain (2015)
Yes, this PEP looks like it is trying to turn Python into Ruby where the ? suffix is common for a function that returns a bool. Also weird syntactic magic that you can't really figure out, you have to be told about. I wonder if the original author of the PEP is a "rubyist".

Of course in Python [] is False and in Ruby it's true...
Another article today (although actually an interview from 1998) with more focus on his work & what it's about:

https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2018/08/vs-naipau...

A sad day. It seems to me that his themes of displacement, and cultural mismatches & how they affect people, keep becoming more important. We do a lot of shouting about these issues now, in the Western world in 2018 I mean; but he was never shouting, just digging into people's varied stories, and especially their disappointments, and trying to make sense of them.
How do tools affect culture?
Indeed, edge computing for some is the answer for „privacy”. Nowadays the native or mobile app, although running locally will still not even launch without the internet because of the subscription licensing model, and one has no reason to believe the support and marketing that „all data stays locally”, unless one degugged the network traffic with wireshark or similar tool... and it might change with any version upgrade.
I like that advertising mascots were mentioned, like the Geico lizard. I also think software tools like standard Adobe illustrator tend toward a cartoon infantile look. Probably as a side effect for the need to make things vector scalable. It tends toward a flat big shape paradigm.

It also could be that companies like the idea of the customers as dependant upon the product, and infantilization fosters dependancy
Deep Web Search Engines to Explore the Hidden Internet
https://corporate-rebels.com and https://search.firstround.com
Seeking alpha is saying irrational things about the economy
Higher Quality 2D Text Rendering (2013)
Here's an article about it I read a while back, interesting read: https://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff
this project has been around for a while, see also some interesting comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13427360
I'm a big B5 fan, but you have to admit there's an awful lot of filler in there.

(Also, it definitely wasn't what GP was referring to, since B5 didn't vary its runtime appreciably.)
Gunicorn, the thundering herd and other concurrency programming challenges
The problem is that anything that changes the number of voters is going to change election outcomes, and both sides think they know in advance the direction of the change. Thus rather than making it a "non-issue", any movement toward or away from universal ID is correctly perceived to have disparate partisan impact. This doesn't mean it's impossible, but makes it much more likely to be opposed by side who thinks it will hurt them politically.

A change to the situation will likely involve either one side getting sufficiently far ahead to be able to change the rules further toward their advantage, or will involve a change in the perception such that both sides think that the same change will be to their side's benefit. But since these decisions are made on a state-by-state basis, any change will likely be incremental rather than all at once.
> redundant for the browser (XML DOM!)

I don't quite get this part.

Both HTML & XML cater for DOM models. I think this is & was appropriate.

Browsers had support for executing XSL stylesheets because it made sense for a lot of use cases.
Possibly! But I'm curious as to these connections - could you expand?
I increasingly see this in films as well, with fewer films properly wrapping things up so that there’s space left for a sequel or twelve.
The Translucent File Service (1988) [pdf]
The article's video described this
Came here for this. Leaving satisfied.

Also, I can appreciate how some might feel like we are in a "fat client" world again and in some cases I am sure we are - it will depend on who is wielding the hammer as to whether it is used "properly" or the "most efficiently". I love how the modern cloud allows us to deploy computational power to the source of the data - if we so choose/need to.
He has a lot of competition.
Building Night Vision Goggles for $100 with Raspberry Pi
Machine Learning Can Identify the Authors of Anonymous Code
Basically because I haven’t looked that much into Tailwind yet. Maybe I should do so.
Texas A&M, represent!
Reset Password Links Are a Security Failure
Can you not relieve some of these stressors with more automated testing?
In Germany and many other countries the counting of the paper ballots is public. Anyone can watch and make sure that everything is counted correctly.
http://earthsky.org/space/heat-shield-parker-solar-probe

It appears the heat shield is a carbon sheet sandwich. At first I was guessing some form of tungsten-carbine, but that is the traditional material of NASA heat shields.

> Why is the solar wind a breeze closer to the sun but a supersonic torrent farther away? Why is the corona itself millions of degrees hotter than the surface?

I suspect the answer to all those questions is simply gravity, but it will be nice to verify such things with data.
Sure, that’s the trade off, and for me I’d rather take the risk of a few really bad series or writers burning everything to ground. The alternative I see is a sea of highly polished but ultimately bland TV.

For every Doctor Who, being slowly driven into the ground by hubris, you’re going to get something like Detectorists, where the writing team had the good sense (and because theirs only really two of them, the power) to decide to end while it was good.
Antialiased 2D Grid, Marker, and Arrow Shaders (2014)
Ask HN: Any honest accounts of the environment in GAFA when they had 10-100 ppl?
Not when they were just starting/ not when they were already successful - the time in the middle.

Also, not just focussed on GAFA -- other unicorns/long lasting cos. would also be useful.
That was the direction the comet took when it first moved through. If you click on the dropdown menu in the top left, you can show all meteor showers at once. They are all in planes.
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17569741
"that you have provided" is very vague. I don't voluntarily provide Google with much information but I'm sure they know a lot about me.

Also it doesn't protect non-personal entities such as companies.