skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was very curious what was causing the non-antialiasing, it was fun.

And you can repro :) cool. Makes a lot of sense you can't see it on retina.

Interesting FF bug you hit. CSS3 GPU-accelerated animations are incredibly complex... heh, adding the rule fixed Firefox ~57, but now Chrome 68 is glitching out because the rule is there. I wonder if Google realizes yet. Ponders complexity of creating minimal testcase, versus waiting for someone else to notice :P
Telegram's client is FLOSS. Get it on f-droid. Telegram has always had its own push service, so it works with out microg or google services installed.

The telegram service itself is non-free, but it can be used with only free software
PepsiCo Is Acquiring SodaStream for $3.2B
That course of action would imply that they can get another job that pays a living wage.
Looks like some idiots lost their parents money to a cult. Could this be understood as change for the better?
I would change

„Core believes that Satoshi expected anyone transacting on the network to run their own full node to validate each blocks“

to

„Core believes that Satoshi expected anyone transacting on the network to BE ABLE TO run their own full node to validate each blocks (without needing a supercomputer or anything near that)“

But actually even this is not right. Bitcoin Core devs are taking distance to the words satoshi said... at least when necessary... they correctly say that time has passed and they try to do what‘s best for the project from todays point of view (mostly it is the same anyway, but they don‘t try to argue with „satoshi said this“... of course it happens now and then because many people work on bitcoin core, but these are not arguments with which you win the fight/consens)
Anybody who has ever served in a military will tell you just how absurd the Stanford experiment is. People in the military wear uniforms with rank and responsibility that is visibly apparent. Yet, these behaviors don't exist.

I can vaguely remember my time in Army basic training which was somewhat like a prison environment with captives. Even in extreme cases the behaviors of the Stanford experiment are absent. Drill sergeants who are artificially made to be mean and are visibly separated by rank and uniform aren't like the guards in the experiment. Some of the privates who display criminal-like behaviors don't behave like the prisoners in the experiment.

Perhaps the experiment cannot be reproduced because it simply doesn't represent human behavior. Perhaps people are more rational than that even when forced to behave in ways suggestive of the experiment.
Improving performance of Phoronix benchmarks on POWER9
- Google Maps

Never used it on mine phone. Try OSMand
You could argue that people look for an authority figure that lets them do the "bad" things they want to do.
I'm aware of this research - it's a culture shift but it's not an immutable law of gravity. You need customers to start demanding this - it won't happen top down with restaurants.
What's it like to work at our AWS Managed Services team?
Can't fall to mention that biological collections are routinely treated and coated with poisons to deter rodents and insects, so, even if they come from edible species, aren't edible in itself.

This means that in a post-apocaliptic scenery you coulnd't just go to a museum and eat safely a butterfly collection or an herbarium, not matter how hungry you are. Would be also really silly to save uncoated valuable seeds in the fortress of solitude when the first human finding it would need to consume the seeds just to stay alive and be able to return home with the seeds. If not done yet, we should probably store an alternative source of food and fat in the same place to be eaten by the future scouts before allowing them to enter in the real collection.
While I fully support taxing the crap out of cars, Singapore and the USA are hardly comparable. It's the third most densely populated country on earth, and you can walk the circumference of the entire island in about a day. Not even factoring in the comprehensive public transit..
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Considering ... done. Comparison with other countries says: Not reversed.
"...take advantage of the processing power of multicore processors"

Step 1: stop using Python.

"You can have a second core when you know how to use one"

Now don't get me wrong, Python is a perfectly fine language for lots of things, but not for taking optimal advantage of the CPU.

https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...

Relative performance compared to C is somewhere between an order of magnitude or two slower. Considering how much harder and more error-prone multi-core is, maybe first try a fast sequential solution.
Thanks for the info on ΔΣ converters. It connects several things I knew about.

Now I need to study up on the area of computation that clover lives in.
> If each LISP team is using their own DSL

Lisp already comes with several different 'DSL' built-in:

* object-system CLOS
* format strings with control structures
* LOOP

If one programs in a language with flexible syntax, then a programmer has to learn how to deal with that:

* what a the basic language extension patterns?
* how can one debug it?
* what a typical pitfalls?
* what is good design?
* how to document them?
* how to present syntax errors to the user?

Language extension suddenly is a developer activity and not a language designer activity.

Much of the stuff in the Java-world, which has used DSLs with different syntax (like being based on XML), can be done directly in Lisp.

A Lisp team will need to learn how to deal with that. There are Lisp code-bases which have been maintained for decades.
Even the SBCL compiler, which is written in Lisp, has its roots in code from the 80s (the Python compiler of CMUCL - unrelated to the later language Python).

Macros make things more complex, but the fear that macros make team programming or development of long-living code impossible is just wrong.
"But it's just to drive on." = "Det är bara att köra på."

Was that intentional?
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Vietnam Going Solar After Nuclear Power Plants Shelved
Some "life science" companies, in particular pharmaceutical, can extend the life of their patents by 5 years in some jurisdictions (at least here in Europe). This is called a Supplementary Protection Certificate [0] and is subject to certain conditions (e.g. clinical trials took a long time).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supplementary_protection_certi...

EDIT: typo
Most likely if you had no names on the list and the teacher came back and had heard noises from outside the door you would receive the punishment
Wow this covers a lot of my job, and is really concise and well written.

This might be the best link ever posted to HN for me. Thank you.
Idk the exact answer, but I doubt the reason is "researchers don't understand the statistics." It is some "how the sausage is made" reason, most likely.

For example: researchers have the budget/resources to to a preliminary study. They use the interesting results of this study to secure funding for a larger sample size study.

Btw, a small sample size study isn't useless necessarily. You can refine methodology, with less on the line. You can also (more or less) validly exclude certain conclusions, to avoid wasting resources on a wider study.

The problem is with pop science headlines, like it is in any other journalistic field. I think it's less of a problem though, than many think. Publishing in the popular press needs to be understood as "academics working on X" not "X has been proven."
Nintendo puts video game history at risk
Would you be happier if people switched to some other language for their cloud functions? Node is not that important.
Nope, BitTorrent, Inc. is just as scummy as its new owners. Both of the proprietary(!) clients it distributes, BitTorrent and uTorrent, are loaded with adware and other garbage. The inventor of the open-source BitTorrent protocol we all know and love, Bram Cohen[0], already left the company late last year to start another company, Chia.Network[1], which is yet another cryptocurrency company.

[0]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bram_Cohen
[1]https://chia.net
Struct in Ruby
I've seen plenty of C code examples that made disclaimers about forgoing error handling. That said, I can't think of any off the bat.
The world's first floating farm making waves in Rotterdam
This is awesome.

But it has no pictures! And the font is so tiny :( my eyes can read it, but my brain's getting scared by the walls of text.

What I'd love to see is photos of the various modules, and then further photos of all the insides.

--

Probably the thing I want the most - as crazy as this probably sounds - is a character ROM dump. I like fonts from old things :/

I recently learned that the bit of avionics with the weird keyboard in it that's typically found in "large" aircraft is called a Control Display Unit, or CDU. (Here's a random 747 cockpit with two shown facing upwards: http://flic.kr/p/aFRHt4). I did an image search for CDU font, and promptly had one of those times I immediately hit the jackpot: http://sigmatechnica.com/lynx-helecopter-cdu-semi-teardown/ has a 2048x1536 photo of someone who randomly got a CDU from a Lynx helicopter off eBay to poke at, and took a bunch of photos of everything they could make it do, including the font-self test!

That's the kind of thing I wish I had, but for random industrial equipment - and, sure, the space shuttle. (Know where I can find ROMs for old avionics? lol)

For the VT220 font-rendering geeks, the CRT in the mentioned CDU (no model info :( ) happens to be mounted vertically.
They did not, which is why this "course" illustrates taking advantage of multiple cores via multiprocessing without mentioning the GIL at all. Which is a little misleading if you think about it.

Also, by having the introductory chapter be about "functional programming" (which incidentally Python does not do well), he completely bypasses the serious issue of shared state.

Which goes to show that parallelism in Python is more like a gimmick than a real-world solution since it doesn't let you do in-process shared-memory processing via threads in parallel which is so important for many applications. In my case, the vast majority of the time I do not want to farm workers out to different operating system processes and deal with serialization and communication, but this is the only way for Python code to take advantage of multiple cores [1].

[1] Another way is to write a module in C and have Python code call into it on a new thread and release the GIL while doing so, but of course this is even worse pain-wise than doing it with multiprocessing and you end up writing/compiling C.
Yeah, I was wondering why HN needed dungeon masters.
What kind of job do you do? My vague guess is NASA historian or tour guide.
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For some reason osmand is unusably slow on my phone (30+s to render). I use "Maps" from f-droid.
It might not be a good fit. I just see HN as a way to gather nerds, have them talk about news, and somewhat funnel them into YC recruitment.

It doesn't seem to be designed as a community, more like a bazaar.
I do vaguely remember "good kings" and "bad kings" ... some kids were forgiving and more than fair, and others were vindictive. So not everyone gravitated towards tyranny and some did report "nothing happened" more or less.
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The Rational Rejection of Security Advice by Users[pdf]
The shitty UX will probably be the reason when I cancel my subscription one day.

You're a billion dollar company and your web player has problems getting the focus right.

You still haven't found a decent way -other than notification and email spam- to remind users when the series they're watching start a new season. Like, keep them in the user's list, but apply an "inactive/watched" filter so they don't mess up the list of currently running and unwatched series?
Just bought a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 because of the flourishing custom ROM developer scene just to flash a Google-less AOSP Android P ROM in the next month.

Yes, there might be backdoors in the hardware itself, but at least I minimise any threat factor to myself in this regard, even if only through software.

Beside, minimalist functionalism is raison d'etre of the Unix Way, isn't it?
What kinds of companies do you work for and what kind of teams?
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I’ve seen some writer change their article titles a few times after publishing — I would guess they’re trying to A/B test or just indecisive.
That wasn't the one I meant, but this one has also bugged me a lot!
Oh, that looks familiar. But I still can’t tell if that was a good thing in terms of social experience or just a misuse of our behavior. Neither is it clear if a teacher knew what s/he doing or was just lazy.

I usually refrained from these activities, but most interesting was that physics teacher took few well-learning people from our class and suggested to create homeworks and then evaluate everyone’s success on it (scores were official). Social heat raised pretty quickly and two of us refrained from that openly. The punishment was that we went to the passive group. Obviously we got A’s, since we were good in physics. For a few that seemed like an act of heroism. Though it wasn’t really – we should have say fck it from the beginning.

Another case was that a teacher who knew me personally asked me to watch for another problematic class. I was around 16 back then and it was somewhat clear that once someone’s name is on the list, I couldn’t prevent them from doing anything. Nobody did make it there, but it was a pretty hard game of authority leverages and group behavior. I wasn’t much stressed, but... it is interesting experience since in a school you rarely have tasks that have no clear answer. 2+2 is 4, F is ma, but there is no answer to what you do with people to make them
obey the rules. (edit: grammar)

Thanks for making me remember all that! (And for leaving that neverending zimbardo/milgram discussion at the bottom)
Extinct tech you forgot existed
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Show HN: CommitTasks – Combine Git and todo list
I think every coder does their own lane. One front end, one back end, one Android, one infra, one UI/UX, and so on.

The second hire in a lane is usually a manager-tester-QA, whose primary role is communicating with the other lanes. Communication is awfully distracting and time consuming, but often a bottleneck as well.

Also most code starts off a bit hacky. That's the way it should be. It gets refactored once it's confirmed that the feature is needed.
>>Is the United States really willing to go to war with China over this? I don't think so. Are Thailand, Vietnam, Japan, South Korea, the Philippines willing to go to war with China? China's desire for Ta

As a non US citizen. What's this whole war obsession US people have?

For a fraction of US's war expenses in Afghanistan and Middle East, China is building a state of the art economic network system(Silk Route) across the Eurasia and Africa. Making the co-operation across countries very easy.

Trading and trade ties aren't exactly unethical or evil.

I think it will do the US foreign policy a great deal of good if it didn't have a 'our way or the highway' attitude all the time.
A friend of mine in my UNSW class was in this experiment ( 1973/4), and he told me afterwards that he always knew he could leave at any time. Of course, other Psych departments ( especially Skinner ) did not like social Psych, to put it mildly, and visa versa.
why not re-write the workshop for python3 and require python2 users to wear the pain downgrade brings?
It's always seemed weird to me as well. Let's say you go to the doctor for something like strep throat. You get a prescription for an antibiotic. Doctors offices don't carry drugs, so you take this prescription to a pharmacy to fill it. The pharmacy is a third party that isn't affiliated with the doctor's office. Only doctors can write prescriptions, and as far as I'm aware only pharmacists can fill them. Pharmacists aren't allowed to write prescriptions, even if it's something trivial.

On the insurance side, it's a nightmare. The doctor probably charges your insurance $200 for the office visit. Your insurance has a negotiated rate with the doctor's office for $150. You have a coinsurance of 50% if you've met your deductible, so assuming you haven't hit your max out of pocket for the year you pay $75. If you haven't met your deductible (some arbitrary amount you have to pay on top of paying for insurance) you pay $150. If you have hit this max out of pocket number, you'd pay 0. The $50 goes into the void. My employers insurance is something like a $1000 deductible / $5000 max out of pocket / 75% coinsurance.

When you get the prescription filled, well, I have no idea how this insane process works. Last time I needed antibiotics the receipt had a "before insurance" amount of $50 with an actual cost to me of $4. I have no idea where the $46 went or what my insurance actually paid.
> They were providing all content they could get their hands on

No, they weren't. Even Wwith DVDs, they had selection criteria. Though, sure, until streaming—and until streaming got competitive—breadth was a bigger selling point than it is now.
It would be nice if you could paste package-lock file for private repos.
There's plenty of writen testimonies from former gulag prisoners and plenty of them say that hunger subsides after few days of not eating. You just become incredibly lethargic, but as long as you are given water, you won't actually die for weeks - people were thrown in isolation cells for weeks without food and have survived.
The task of FLOSS authors creating clients for walled gardens like Spotify always seems like a bit of own goal to me, tbh.

I think we all love our phones - it's this amazing silent revolution that's happened where ubiquitous computing has already happened (at least in the first world)

I understand you likely want specific features from the services you list but for others, if they were generics, this is the best either FLOSS or if not available, De-Googled list I could compile:

///Music

Mp3s

Spotify (closed source with a downloader on FDroid)

I'm not aware of any open source clients for the streaming services. Some friends use Youtube-dl on a pc and send then files across.

///Maps

OpenStreetMaps (edit: meant OSMAnd)

Maps

///Messaging

Signal

Silence (Secure SMS text messaging)

Telegram (On FDroid - again haven't checked with MicroG)

Whatsapp (Closed Source with a downloader on FDroid, although I haven't tested it with MicroG)

///Sygic car navigation

I don't think there's much hope for this one...

(edit: sorry for the horrible layout)
Vivaldi makes its extensions to Chromium's GN tool available on GitHub
Trying to parse your suggested reversal. Do you mean "health care in most civilized countries costs half of what it does here system is the reason it is government-owned in those places"?

Leaving aside from the fact that very few countries have wholly-government owned health care - this formulation doesn't make sense.

Or is it the line about gouging you are referring to?

Can you explain a bit more clearly what your point is? I haven't woken up enough yet to decipher your comment.
> make you wonder how many successful writers/producers of pop music come from Sweden.

A metric fuckton: https://tobyskinner.net/2017/06/11/the-great-swedish-pop-mac...

The book "The Song Machine" also talks about it.
> "Now I don’t know what they do to teach English to Swedish children, but whatever it is, anybody can see they do an excellent job."

Stop. Dubbing. Media.

I'm a big lover of cinema and every time I visit France, Germany or Spain they ruin classic movies by doing this shit. Just imagine the poor director who worked many hours to coach the actors to deliver a moving, terrific performance that hits just the right notes watch how people with a completely different culture and language botch it. Why do this? Everyone has an incentive to learn English if you stop with this, especially children.
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> We aren't there yet in genetics, nor do we really want to be.

Why not? Interdisciplinary, quantitative biology is the future of biology, and computers make this kind of work so much easier for the same reason that they make the work of physicists easier. More and more, it seems my colleagues without at least rudimentary programming skills are being left in the dust.
Can we add javascript to the title? It is a bit misleading without it.
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I’d second this. I’m 25, have a broken back and still don’t have much pain in my lower back vs. what GP described. I’ve been doing the computer all day thing for about the same amount of time. If it’s a quality of life thing, get it checked out!
> Did they ever fix the global interpreter lock? Sort of a show stopper with doing stuff concurrently in python.

It means threas-based parallelism of pure-python code is unavailable; concurrency is just fine on Python.
Indeed. I believe the latest full-FLOSS device is Samsung Galaxy S3 with free WiFi driver, but it's not too bad since the latest laptop with no blobs using LibreBoot is 2008-era Thinkpad X200 isn't it? Similat generation of hardware, yet mobile telephony has come so far compared to laptops...
I think that's taking it a bit out of context. He just means not to extend it past an optimum for no purpose than extending life. Someone at 14 or 40 has a lot of potential ahead of them. Someone at 76, probably not so much.
The same history applies to ps [1] which was introduced in 3rd Edition Unix.

[1] http://man.cat-v.org/unix-6th/1/ps
They're working on that, contributions for C++ and Ruby have apparently already been received: https://medium.com/open-collective/open-collective-august-20...
There is the Anbox[0] which looks promising.

[0]https://github.com/anbox/anbox
> Java 5 was 2004 which brought with it a collections rework and a lot of improvements with not everything needing to be synchronized

Actually, the collections rework with not everything needing to be synchronized already came in Java 1.2 in 1998.
> but if you don’t use flagship devices,

then get a Nexus 5, 50-60 USD on eBay, half of that on Craigslist if you have the stomach for CL. It still rocks.
Author is calling it now, for bragging rights in 2027.

edit - judging by the downvotes this comment is accruing it would appear Hackernews believes my cynicism is unfounded, which is quite nice.
affiliate/ads. Nothing too fancy yet, we are starting to look at what else we could do.
"Now if there are any major ABBA psychopaths reading this, I know what you’re thinking [...]"

The choice of the word 'psychopath' is rather ironic given the context (whole article's narrative). The writer meant the word 'fan' or a synonym of that.
Exactly. Not all technical mentoring is about software engineering; many of the problems junior employees face are regarding soft skills that they need to get their job done. While you might understand what to do if you're blocked internally, or if you're waiting on third party software, or if you get feedback that you don't understand on a code review, these are - new - problems to a lot of people getting started in the workplace, that many try and fail to solve on their own.