skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And that would also check if the cable complies with the specification.
if that worries you, I wouldn't look under the covers of almost any database you run, nor network stack you have.

Graphics card drivers are WAY out. File systems too.

Julia offers as much safety as most languages. You would be hard pressed to find a language which doesn't let you pull something like this.

Julia wouldn't solve the 2 languages problem if there was a lot of things you would have to drop back to C to do....
More in-depth info available at https://zh.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:中文维基百科的繁简、地区词处理#转换技术
I was diagnosed with an early stage Keratoconus a few months ago. It appears that rubbing your eyes is one of the main factors[1].

The lack of warning about it is quite concerning as I learned how bad rubbing your eyes was when I got the diagnostic.

[1] https://www.gatinel.com/en/recherche-formation/keratocone-2/...
Chinese phone makers now dominate both world's largest and 2nd largest markets
> Apparently QM is not a real theory, and just a placeholder until we can work something out properly. Irk!

There is no QM theory. There are interpretations (like the Copenhagen interpretation). We don't know the truth as of yet. (which is exactly what Hawking has been trying: creating a unified physics between QM and General relativity).
Only people under heavy Non Disclosure Agreement could assert that any of the competiting company is leading/behind in terms of R&D. An no such people would be foolish enough to comment about that publicly. Big money and strategic informations are at stack.

Conversely if any company brag about it’s leading mastery without delivering this should be considered as a PR stunt until proven otherwise.
I am actually not sure how widely this blocklist is used, I just randomly stumbled upon it (via https://github.com/tootcafe/blocked-instances).
We use DL at my company. It's used to help and suggest the people in data input what some of the inputs should be. It's been getting better over time as it collects more data points.

Apart from that, I'm also personally responsible for implementing DL for data anomaly detection.

So yes, ML/DL is very much over-hyped right now, but it has real world tangible benefits. It is being used in multiple fields and I believe will grow quite fast.
100% agreed. It was incredibly liberating to move from Babel with its byzantine level of configuration and plugins to "just run tsc". So much easier to reckon with - Typescript is Typescript is Typescript.
Also on numberphile: https://youtu.be/1MtEUErz7Gg
AFAIK, mpv calls youtube-dl internally.
Changed the title. Don't know how to replace the link. Thanks for pointing out.
Some sites, like Time.com, prerendered parts of their text antialiased to an image.
A lot of compagnies do basically an externalisation of ml: they are providing the team the compagny would build if they had to do the job themselves.

Usually their website is buzzwordy but they are not necearily too much vocal because they find their customers through direct contact. And they do have customers... theres a real market

In healthcare there are not ao much killer application yet in ai/ml and its true that a lot are running on investor funds, but in my opinion this will change soon.
If you are on twitter, his fans come talk to you. If you are on your couch watching television, they don’t. You know this.
Honestly, I sort of respect the move. This Russia stuff doesn’t seem to be actually going anywhere and is getting to be a bit silly.
Ask HN: Any options for medium term accomodation in London?
Hi,
I need a 3 month accommodation in London, do you know any cool, hacker friendly service that provides that? Most co-living and letting contracts that I've seen/found require a longer commitment (typically 1yr or 6 months). Airbnb and similia are ofc a solution but wanted to see if this community knows any alternatives
Trivial inconveniences.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/reitXJgJXFzKpdKyd/beware-tri...

There was a joke in one of Stephen Hawking's book that each equation included in the text cuts the number of readers by half. In a similar fashion, you can imagine that each extra step you need to get to the information will cut the number of occasions you do so by half. If you want the system to benefit you daily, in many areas, it has to be as simple and seamless as possible.
Many streets have these things called 'lamp posts', into which electricity is being supplied. All you need to do is work out how to bill it.
> Galileo

Nobody is interested in having a machine discover the theory behind parabolic trajectories. That was solved science 400 years ago.

What is interesting, is having a machine that can estimate a parabolic trajectory, not deductively, but inductively, based only on visual observation, for a variety of different shaped and sized objects. The way a human does.

Galileo was a great scientist, and discovered many natural laws relating to motion, but that wouldn’t have made him a great dodgeball player.
SGI famously converted one of their Crimsons (which was a commercial failure) into a fridge and beer tap...
Not every country is like this, there are lots of countries with lots of overcapacity built into their electricity network.

Regarding charging points, there's no need to have a quick charge point for personal use. An electric car can be charged overnight.
Here in Germany, the local cement factory offers this on top of daylight saving time
This would still mean that (the deeper the dependency tree) updates take longer to trickle down to your project, and to spread across the whole ecosystem. Not everyone will have these tools set up, and they will still cause a delay since it's a waterfall - one maintainer merges the PR days after it gets raised, then they release a new version maybe a week or month later, then PRs for that package get raised, and so on.
As the writer of an application I like the power of short-cutting that path if needed for an important update of a transitive dependency by simply telling my package manager to update the lockfile, vs having to wait for the update to trickle through the chain of dependencies.

This may not be a problem in Go, where projects don't have that many dependencies and dependency trees are usually very flat, i.e. dependencies don't often have subdependencies¹. But in the JS ecosystem an average application has thousands of dependencies, many levels deep (as it's super common for libraries to have many subdependencies), so the effect on the ecosystem would be huge. And if there are more old versions around, that creates more maintenance effort for maintainers (you cannot avoid this with policies no matter how hard you try, proved empirically by having been an open source maintainer of many projects).

¹As to why this is, I think it is partly because Go dependency management has been so bad - you can't really depend on other packages in your library if there is no standard way to declare them. Better and more standardized dependency management will likely also make people rely on dependencies more (especially in libraries, so the tree will become deeper). But it's also some culture in Go I've observed that I've heard being described as "copy+paste oriented programming". Go is more verbose than other languages and people don't have a problem with duplicating code that much. And the Go standard library is enough for most use cases - on the other side, native JS APIs are notoriously bad (especially historically with browser differences etc), so relying on libraries for everything is completely natural (you're weird if you don't).
At this point I feel JS won't have to evolve much unless some useful feature needs JS itself to be extended but let AltJS take care of usability and just concentrate on rock solidness, performance and portability between runtimes and developers can just use whatever shiny new version they want to use that runs on old but battled tested runtime without waiting for the whole internet to upgrade.
Yes, exactly. Which is why they get other countries to spy on US people. And other countries to get the US to spy on their people. Five eyes.
Is my spam filter allowed to push that button?
On May 1, 1899, La Jamais Contente was the first car to break the 100kph barrier. It was an electric car. Competition was fierce to gain the Paris market which was fond of electric cars due to their numerous advantages. This was a tipping point though, and gasoline won during the early 20th century because road infrastructure allowed for long haul trips and electric cars couldn't make it, as well as the ease of operation, reliability, general comfort (vibrations, noise, fumes) and cost of ICE cars significantly improving.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Jamais_Contente

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_electric_vehicl...
Was that intervention or just results of WW2? Recent examples? Why doesn’t US free DPRK now that USSR gone and it is weaker than ever?
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I feel the need to also mention your OS that isn't CP/M, but does run on TI calculators: KnightOS[0].

It's fantastic, and fairly featured, and caused no end of issues at the school where I was sysadmin'ing. The kids wrote some damn good programs and games on it. (Mostly with kpy).

[0] http://www.knightos.org/
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It is about $425,000 in inflation adjusted dollars. If we adjust it to the real estate prices then even more.

This price is no wonder considering the amount of the silicon it contains.

What I do wonder is what would be the performance of the same amount of the silicon today.
Mistreated Brazilian coffee workers turn to international community for help
By some informal measures, Metafilter has stupidly high S/N ratios.
> TypeScript was released in 2012, I wouldn't call a 4 year old tool an early release.

Goddamn time travelers, stop messing with chronology!
Chances are the network isn’t used at full capacity, so if people are willing to charge their cars outside peak hours (e.g, between midnight 7 AM, we wouldn’t need 50% more, network wise.
You don't think they plan on building any more??
It used to be the river was a fun place to hang out. Then more people started dumping their sewage into the river. At first it wasn't so bad, but over time it got worse. Finally, one turd became the last straw, so I looked for another river. Even worse! That's it. No more rivers for me. Nosiree Bob!
Hmm...the Ford Model T wasn't exactly the first car with a combustion engine. Credit to that generally goes to Carl Benz, who got his patent in 1886.

There were earlier self-propelled vehicles.
I have a slightly newer Infinite Reality R10000 sitting beside my desk here in Phnom Penh. A professor in Berkeley gave it to us and somehow we managed to get it to this side of the world. It uses enough power to run an apartment block and yes it is noisy. I will eventually gut it and install a six node linux cluster inside.

I used these boxes in Hong Kong in the early 90's, then later in Japan in the late 90's for a number of projects and I was still using an Indy as my main desktop until 2001.

SGI created hardware that almost took your breath away, you knew you were seeing a future that not many people had the privilege to see back then in person. To me, having the box sitting next to me every day, with "infinite reality" label on the top reminds me of those days when anything seemed possible and all of it was magical. I miss that sense of wonder and infinite possibilities...
Electric cars tend to use lots of light plastic because there's less need to dampen noise and vibrations, due to the lack of a combustion engine. Plastic is lighter. I suppose bikes are the same.

I think the good-looking, premium electric motorbikes will come. Their limiting factor has been battery density (which makes it difficult to build a bike with good range), and weight distribution (you cannot put the battery too high or the bike will be very unstable).
India’s Cash Ban Failed to Create a Bank Savings Culture
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We're in NYC area, but we run a hacker friendly accomodation in a 2 bedroom apartment. Everything is brand new and very clean, the area is quiet, 1hr by train to downtown, and has gigabit internet. You can choose a private or shared room with just one other person.

For someone who wants to stay longer than 29 days, there's a few options and the price changes accordingly:

Pay us in cash with no receipt = cheapest price, stay as long as you like (about $600 a month paid daily or weekly). This is a gray area in our county right now as to how much rights you have. Basically, if we ask you to leave, you have to leave.

Pay us digitally = about $950 a month. This is because of taxes and subletting laws in our state. If you stay longer than one month, even though we havent offered you a lease, the state forces us to offer you one. If we call the cops to kick you out, they won't kick you out.

For reference, our apartment is $2000 a month with utilities and internet included, so $950 is slightly less than the price of a full bedroom.

Most airbnbs charge way way more than this. We are saving money by screening roommates (completely legal in our county) for factors we feel will protect us from financial and physical harm. And downtown manhattan, a 2 bedroom is like $4400 a month lol.

Anyway, good luck with your search! These are the factors that are influencing your search.

Ask friends of friends for who has open rooms :)
It's come to a time that discriminating MS was an old thing.
You're completely right that there is nothing revolutionary about viewing a point in spacetime as a point (x,y,z,t) in 4 dimensions. If that was what special relativity was about then it would be very boring!

The x,y,z directions are connected to each other, because the x direction can be rotated into the y direction by rotating in the xy-plane. What special relativity is about is that the t direction can be rotated into the x direction by "rotating" in the tx-plane. Rotating in the tx-plane is acceleration in the x direction. That's what causes all the weird relativistic effects such as time dilation and length contraction when you accelerate objects. Creatures that don't intuitively understand that the x and y directions form a whole could come up with a similar theory: if you rotate an object in the xy-plane it gets x-dilated and y-contracted. The only mathematical difference between a rotation in the xy-plane and a rotation in the tx-plane is a minus sign in the formula for rotation. So the t direction is not exactly like the x,y,z directions, but the only difference is that terms involving t^2 get a minus sign. For example, the squared distance in 3D is x^2 + y^2 + z^2, but the squared "distance" in the weird 4D spacetime geometry is x^2 + y^2 + z^2 - t^2.
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You are user spacing it wrong.
Same here, as a security consultant reading Golang is always a pleasure. I'm pretty sure that the strongest codebases I've seen were in Golang just because of how easy it is for everyone to read the code and actually spend time looking for logic bugs instead of trying to understand what is happening.

Developers love to be able to write their magical code and their clever abstractions and often forget that their code is paying the price by becoming less clear and less readable. From a security perspective that's a huge loss.

I know that people with the right security mindset will do the right thing, and have more code where it improves clarity, or have slower code when it makes it easier to understand what is being done. But unfortunately that's a tiny minority of developers.
> The only way India can develop its own companies is by creating an artificial scarcity thru regulation.

Programmers that don't work at tech companies work somewhere else, investors that don't invest in tech companies invest in something else. So it's wrong to say that just because a country doesn't have any tech companies it's poorer, and that protectionism for tech companies will make it richer. (This insight, and the ideology it refutes - mercantilism - are 200 years old[1].)

> I see quite often asked Why does Europe not have tech giants? The easy answer is that they already exist and there is no way that small start-ups can fight them.

Germany alone has SoundCloud and SAP.

[1]: http://bastiat.org/en/twisatwins.html
Bruv, look into BetterTouchTool to only enable the touchbar input by using a modification key like fn being pressed first. Still displays info but doesn’t respond without the modifier. It’ll remove at least some if your frustration.
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>I did a one meal a day plan. Lasted maybe 6 months. Reason I stopped was I started working nights and the combo of 4 hours of sleep and no food just made me a person you didn't want to be around.

So why didn't you just shift the meal time?
> This might be a basis on which to prioritize criticism

Maybe if the language was unsuccessful then yes. But given the popularity in f Go it's fair to say the concerns of its existing user base should take precedence over those that may not use the language regardless.

> certainly the criticisms of those who use a language are more important to those managing it than the complaints of those who don't use it -- but it's not a reasonable basis on which to disqualify criticism.

But as this topic has demonstrated, those concerns haven't been disqualified out if hand either.

> And to point a criticism back: sometimes it feels like some of Go's loudest defenders don't choose to offer the discussion much beyond that response ("you're not really using it because if you were you'd see that the pain point you're describing is imaginary or not that bad or has plans to make plans to be fixed").

I disagree that happens. In my first post I made the arguement about language stability (not breaking things). Others have made the arguement of simplicity and/or readability as well. I think the real issue is some people don't consider those good enough reasons so dismiss the counterarguments out if hand. Which is obviously an opinion you're entitled to but you have to remember that it's the stability and simplicity that has made Go popular in the first place so those points actually do matter to a great many of us.

The thing is, there is already C#, Java, Rust, C++, and a great many other languages out there that have rich ecosystems and expressive semantics, Go has gone in a different direction by being a boring language. This direction clearly divides people though.
> NPM specially assumes that "patch versions are safer to update than minor or major version".

I don't see where that assumption is baked into npm - the creator of a package declares the dependency constraints, so they are the ones making the choice which versions can be trusted well to work. You could pin all dependencies but then users would need to download tons of duplicate dependencies because of slight version differences everywhere. So it's a tradeoff, but the user makes it, not npm.
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That's a very weak excuse, especially when there are tons of money to be made building that infrastructure.
At least add them on function return types and annotate types on common objects so that you don't have objects lingering with wrong property name/type or redundant properties that would be confusing to review.

It helps to create a type reference for your database schema, so you don't try to insert something weird or insert with missing columns.
It gets even weirder. The laws of physics are time reversible as far as we know. Very basically, it means that if you froze our universe and reversed all the velocities of the elementary particles, and then restarted the simulation again, it would be as if time was running backward. In other words, the computer program that simulates our universe forward in time is the same as the computer program that simulates our universe backward in time. This makes the fact that we remember the past and not the future even weirder: if the laws of physics are identical forward or backward in time, then how come the future doesn't affect our memory like the past does?

The theory that tries to explain why we nevertheless only remember the past is called thermodynamics. It has to do with how the universe started out in a very orderly state. If you start the simulation in an orderly state it's likely to become less orderly as you run the simulation. Whether you run time forward or backward doesn't matter: in both directions it will get less orderly. According to thermodynamics that's why we remember the past and not the future. If god had started the simulation with time running backward we'd still have the same experience: we experience the past as whatever direction is toward the more orderly state.
I wonder if it's worth migrating from Flow to TypeScript?

Flow has been great, but I've just tried to update to the latest version and I'm dealing with a flood of indecipherable errors, especially from the react-dnd library. Looks like no-one is really maintaining the flow types so I'm on my own, and I don't even know where to start.

I also haven't been able to track down some errors, like "Cannot read property 'foo' of undefined". Flow thinks that this variable can never be undefined, and I have no idea how it's happening. It might even be a bug in Immutable.js, but I have no idea.

So if TypeScript is more popular and has a bigger community, then maybe it's worth migrating just so I can get more help with these issues. And maybe TypeScript will catch more cases as well.
If I've interpreted the article correctly, this is to try and duplicate the effect of cross linking, which is a preventative step that isn't useful once your keratoconus has stopped developing. If I've interpreted right, if you're past your early twenties this probably isn't relevant to you
Can you name one chinese software company that is as internationally successful as SoundCloud or SAP?
From the foreword: "In October 2014, Sweden became the first country in the world to launch a feminist foreign policy. This means applying a systematic gender equality perspective throughout the whole foreign policy agenda."

"This handbook should be a resource for international work relating to gender equality and all women’s and girls’ full enjoyment of human rights." ....

"These analyses should have an intersectional perspective and should take into account the fact that women and girls, men and boys are not homogeneous groups but have different identities, needs, influence and living conditions."

Those make sense to me. I'm getting sick of the effect of foreign policies which prioritize business and trade.
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>our body can't adapt to a new pattern--evolution is a slow process that requires many thousands of years.
Humans have many adaptations to the 'modern' diet, consisting of large quantities of farmed animals products and cereal grains. Lactose tolerance is one of several well-known examples. In some cases these have only come about in the last 200-300 generations.

200-300 is 6000 years (assuming 30 years per generation), so that's already consistent with the parent's "many thousands of years".

Besides that, we've changed our nutrition and its ingredients more in the last 50 years that we had in the last 20000 years. Adaptation takes much more than that (if it's not even harder to adapt to an ever changing list of factory-produced BS substances that weren't ever co-evolved along with humans, but on some food chemist's and big food corporation's whim).

>Pre-modern humans did one thing very differently to what we do today: when they wanted to eat, they had to move and work to get their food.

Not really. Hunter gatherers are said to have been able to gather food for several days in a few hours in a single day.