skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amazing stuff. At Leeds university in the computer sciences department in the 1980s we had a Head of Department who was in laser physics/photonics. I am ashamed to admit we (some of us) were not very nice about this, I think we completely failed to see the critical importance of laser physics and photonics to future computing outcomes.

I think the delay between the work, and the Nobel is very odd. I think well before the 2000s anyone in the field would have known the import of the work.

The science museum in London had a very nice display of the concepts using a clear lucite rod with a bend, and a light at one end. It was remarkably well done with all kinds of cute museum tricks to 'show' the bent light inside the pipe. I think the modernisation they did in the 90s or later got rid of this kind of thing, which is a damn shame.
If you want to tap into French po-mo stuff, the more relevant reference here is probably Lyotard's metanarratives.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metanarrative
The case below isn't a prosecution, but a deportation of a Salvadoran slave. Forced to serve terrorists under threat of death = material support for terrorism. One of the experts consulted in the preparation of the article appears to have speculated that Yezidis would be treated similarly, but I can't find an actual example of that yet.

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/09/immigration-terrorism-pr...
Im not super into drones but 250 grams seems incredibly and excessively light. Sure, you can buy drones that aren't that much heavier than which could in unusual circumstance be a little dangerous, but if someone was to build some cheap DIY drone at home from parts im not sure how successful they would be making such a tiny model and lightweight model. 250 grams is almost half the weight of a baseball which could easily be going faster than such a tiny drone.
I think the autopilot scenario listed is the most likely adoption path to autonomous trucks in the short term. I think the proponents of this technology are very optimistic about the adoption timescale. I also see almost no adoption in local trucking in the near future.

The platooning mechanism may see more use outside of North America, maybe in the LTL fields here - but it would be a pretty disruptive change in the way that freight is sent and routed compared to current use.
> awkwardly trying to switch between tabs without Alt + Tab.

Ctrl+Tab? (is it Cmd+Tab on the Mac?) Shortcuts like that are a big part of how I use the browser.
Or it redirects you to https:// yöurbank .com/, and you see the green padlock and think nothing more of it.

Edit: made HN not mangle the link.
I mean, that's literally the same thing CF is doing here. No upsell, stable prices (at cost) and obviously no coupon codes.
I guess there's a difference between "head of a large public company" and "founder of a large public company".

His track record at the latter speaks for itself. But the fact that someone who founded a company isn't necessarily the best person to run it long term is uncomfortable. Especially on a website like this one, with so many aspiring founders.
Marijuana
It's not so black and white.

The biography of Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance goes into more detail for those curious. It's based on hundreds of hours of interviews with Elon and those close to him — including family, friends, co-workers, etc. And Elon wasn't allowed to read it until it was published.
Hmm, that seems to completely turn off all location. So I don't know why google would seemingly still know your location.
That's funny, I want Coinbase to fail to be too big. Subtle difference.
Bracing for the Vanilla Boom
It's just crappy wording on my part. I was unsure if Tekton was also Taiwanese so I omitted country of origin on the first two. To clarify:

Gearwrench, Tekton and some Williams wrenches: Asia-made, reasonably priced, more than adequate for hobbyist use.

Wright and some Williams wrenches: US-made, more expensive but cheaper and more available than Snap-on, marketed towards industrial applications instead of professional mechanics.
It’s not that we’re not eager, it’s that it’s harder in a systems language and historically there’s been limitations in LLVM.

We will sometimes optimize for TCO, that issue is that we can’t guarantee it just yet.
Show HN: A todo list app with infinite subtasks and pomodoro (iOS)
> You literally follow them around all day and get a taste of what they do.

And then you go home while they stay behind on call...
> It certainly has major shortcomings, and consequently being used very little, right now

Its use is low because it is still in the testing phase and there are purposefully few mainnet clients.

> There is absolutely no scientific evidence that big blocks don't work.

I'm not claiming they won't, only that they by necessity sacrifice some level of decentralization, because they require more resources.

> What's unscientific is claiming that the LN can act as a substitute for on-chain transactions when it's an unproven experimental technology.

What I mean to say is that I think the approach that Core is taking to scaling is a more scientific route. I think lots of people support bigger blocks because it seems obvious and makes sense at first glance, but so do a lot of things that aren't good. The core approach is a classical computer science acknowledgement of scarce resources and the creative implementation of technology to get around them.

> It's about the original scaling that plan Satoshi published. Bitcoin's original adopters were told that Bitcoin would be able to match Visa's throughput by scaling on-chain.

I don't know why this is particularly significant. If you think it can do that, go do it. But if the same feature set is essentially maintained (or even improved, in the case of Lightning), then I don't know why we'd stick to what Satoshi originally published. What's the actual reason we should?

> That was the experiment they signed up for.

I mean I consider myself to be a relatively early adopter and that's not what I signed up for. I signed up for a decentralized system of financial sovereignty. Payments is a part of that, but if the system isn't decentralized, it doesn't matter. So I appreciate the core emphasis on that part, and from my perspective layer 2 has many enhancements and is a great upgrade. I don't know why I'd cling to on-chain scaling specifically. It's like adamantly supporting combustion engines in the new age of renewables and electric motors.
"Mistake". "Imperfect knowledge". "Cognitive Bias".
Rust also has the issue of having three kinds of self, and those differences matter.
It was years ago and I can't remember the details, but I remember I used some registrar's domain-name-availability widget and somehow the name had been "reserved" (not registered) in a way that meant they would change me more money, and I was somehow able to find some other thing that showed the reservation had happened right around the moment I searched.

I'm sorry I can't give better details, but I remember clearly the sense of "Now that's pretty fishy..."
Thanks for the source. Still, I'm getting mixed signals from that article, I guess he did what he did and regretted it? Have they taken steps to prevent something like that from happening again?
BTDTBTTS. I know the overachiever psyche a bit too well. Last female unit spoke five languages and was serious about opera and poetry. Personally, I much prefer females of the English or business depts to most engineers or scientists... sorry most of HN, I work and live better with wilder ones. I'll turn my enginerding creds in at the door.

Anywho, It's a dangerous topic to compare men to women, the SJWs love to make an example out of anyone with external genetalia that's not in a protected group with something usually of the form "it's men keeping women down with bias, assumptions and force." This is usually followed by statements of equality (literal, numeric group parity) rather than equity (parity for the individual's particular needs and desires).

If the idea is to push girls into computer science at every opportunity whom don't want to, while simultaneously short-changing boys, that seems unfair.

I can see not assuming stereotypes about anyone. Boys want to cook or knit, girls want to code, weld or rebuild engines, very cool... whomever can do whatever, all Kosher and good.

What about the absence of boys to girls ratio in academia? You never hear that talked about by feminsts (except maybe Camille Paglia)... maybe because the majority of modern feminism is inherently sexist. Gasp! Slay the unbeliever!

Anyhow, I hope more boys and girls try coding, machining, robotics, chemistry, physics, painting, baking and so on and do it if they want to, rather than being hearded into it like one more multitalented, performing-monkey "prodigy" class like piano, tap, violin, etc.
That's mostly a function of the general slowdown in the hardware cycle (for most applications).

I have both a Mac and a PC laptop of that vintage and they're both still perfectly suitable for anything short of current gaming or other extreme tasks.
Leona Helmsley, Federal Prisoner #15113-054.

Michael Milken.
>Should appear to be a quarter the size of the moon to the naked eye at 300

The moon is illuminated by the sun, so not really a fair comparison. Take a drone and paint it the color of the sky and it's going to be a lot more difficult than “a quarter the size of the moon” would imply. A drone can also fly much higher than 300 feet, and it's not a solid object.

But I've written a fair bit of object detection code though, and I'm certain a decent camera could do it fairly accurately.

False positives are the problem though. Birds, airplanes (farther away), insects (closer to the camera), clouds. All of those things are much more common than drones and so even a very small false positive percentage is going to cause this system to be completely unreliable.

That’s all without even mentioning licensed drones. How will the system handle not sounding the alarm when it detects a licensed drone? All drones will have transponders I assume? So now the camera needs a radio, and access to a national database of transponder codes.

Assuming drones become more popular how does the camera know which transponder code belongs to which drone? Signal strength? This will be different depending on environment. Signal direction? You need multiple receivers for this.

How do you stop a drone from emulating another drone’s transponder code? A challenge response system with a public/private key pair?

And the most important question yet. What do you do when you spot an unauthorized drone? If a cop spots a car he can chase it.

Does each camera have an interceptor drone?

How does the interceptor drone bring down the unauthorized drone without causing any collateral damage? What happens if there are multiple unauthorized drones in an area? How do you trace the unauthorized drone back to the owner? Unlike a car, the operator isn't in the vehicle.

Do you just allow the cameras to hand off monitoring to other nearby cameras until it lands and send cops to deal with it? How do you build a camera network with enough cameras to provide continuous monitoring, taking into account trees and buildings.

All of that just to say yeah it’s possible, but it’s a lot harder and a lot more expensive than it seems. Much too hard and much too expensive to feasible anytime soon. Unless drones prove to be a lot more popular and effective than truck, car, and suitcase bombs, than I think they will, no one is going to pay for all of this.

That’s not to say that we won’t have more licensing and registration for drones, but I don’t think it’s going to prove very enforceable or very effective at anything more than reducing the number of nuisance complaints. Maybe it’s worth it just to do that, but I’d need to see real data first.

That's also not to say that some kind of automated drone defense won't almost certainly become more popular in very specific high security areas like the White House.
Except, you know, he didn't found Tesla.
I find it tremendously helpful to move the function out of the flow of logic so it is modularized. When I read scala or haskell code where as soon as you see map or filter or something you know you’re gonna get some crazy anonymous function to follow, I get sad because it’s a miserable and confusing way to write code instead of pulling the function out into a separate definition with documentation, and then having the map or filter part be extremely concise using only predefined functions.
Porkbun is also wholesale except they add a few cents
Either that or Elon refused the deal the lawyers crafted and is going against their advice. It's not like he never makes rash decisions.
So this is how I die...

Worth it. ;-P
I bet if hn made everyone verify their accounts ~90% would be fake...the amount of anti-tesla astroturfing in this thread is unreal..
How YouTube Star Taryn, 300 Token Holders, and AI Created a Blockchain Anthem
This paper is a pretty good introduction to CRDTs:

https://hal.inria.fr/file/index/docid/397981/filename/RR-695...

Eventual consistency is a powerful idea that allows you to work around the challenges of keeping data in sync across a distributed platform, but has historically required significant effort on the part of developers to implement (and is easy to get wrong).

Lasp is an attempt to solve that problem.
The website is fancy, but I believe https://github.com/CovenantSQL/CovenantSQL/tree/develop/rpc is way better “distributed private networking”
If I give you a 3 billion dollar investment, it's not hard to create a billion dollar company with that.
The new Reddit site is a major offender. After about 5 pages worth of scrolling FF becomes janky (takes Chrome about 10 pages, but i'm off Chrome now). Once the jank sets in closing the tab leads to a UI lockup as FF presumably tries to unload all the garbage in memory.

At least they still have old.reddit to fall back to.
It is a pity the human mind can become a dark abyss.

Be careful indulging thoughts of revenge. They will subside with time, but then decades later you find yourself in a dark place again and all those re-enforced feelings will bubble up again.

Thoughts of revenge are detrimental to success. You aren't guaranteed to be successful no matter how hard you try, but you certainly can't be successful if you ruminate on revenge.

Please if you own a gun, then find a friend with a safe and give it to them. Liquidate all your cryptocurrency so you don't hire a hitman. Don't let this brief period destroy your entire future.

There are people whose children were murdered in front of them by a Nazi soldier and never got "violent revenge" and went on to live fulfilling honorable lives. Is your injustice anywhere near as bad ? Please find the strength to find a way to get through this without resorting to violence.
It looks harsher when you know the person and empathize with them.
Exactly. It’s called a stop loss. A spike in the wrong direction can be very costly to shorts.
Yes, so something changed, and it wasn't the stock market.
A: because the last guy who knew how it works left three months ago

Q: why am I re-writing this mission critical thing wishing I had a time machine?
It has a lot of potential but the apps included with Mojave feel way too iOS-like and out of place in macOS. Hopefully it gets better integration before they open this up to developers.
Remins one of Atlas Shrugged.
> At least it's better than Electron, I guess. It seems ridiculous that Apple wouldn't put up the resources to implement these apps properly on macOS

From people with experience in both, UIKit is better designed than AppKit. Apple sees this and I think it's pretty clear their intent is for UIKit to supersede AppKit on macOS. One day.

Apple unfortunately shipped what is effectively the alpha version to the public.
>Everything should be encrypted and authenticated through PKI when using any website that accepts login details.

Yes, everything SHOULD be like this. I should be able to trust my neighbors and leave my doors unlocked as well, and I should be able to have faith in my elected officials. And yet...

The other issue is that you can connect to a website that implements HTTPS correctly, and still be borked if that site doesn't implement HSTS properly - there are tools that implement HTTPS downgrading on Kali.

>I still don't understand how this device could steal login details...Whenever I visit a website with an expired certificate, for example, Chrome gives me a big red warning banner before allowing me to continue to the site.

The problem comes when your corrupted router messes with DNS and sends you to https://evil.chase.com, which has a pixel perfect mock up of a chase bank login screen, and a perfectly valid cert.
Am I overreacting by seriously considering starting the process of migrating from gmail? It's not this singular incident of course, but just the continued pattern of behavior from Google for the last couple years. I really have lost all faith in them respecting their users.
People could have done those things decades ago with model planes too and it hasn't been a problem. I don't see why we should expect or regulate against such improbable events now. Awareness of existing laws would solve most of the current problems. If someone is illegally flying a drone in a secure area like around the pentagon, the answer is incredibly simple, shoot or knock it down. Hell I don't see why they don't do that around airports either if it is suppose to be such a problem, a foam dart would take down 99% of hobby drones and birdshot could do the rest.
Watchdog finds powerful Pegasus smartphone spy tool in 45 countries
It's probably safe to assume Google reads all your emails and can probably target advertising off it one way or another. We can probably thank GDPR for forcing companies to disclose what they know about you.
> From people with experience in both, UIKit is better designed than AppKit.

Debatable. AppKit might have a bunch of legacy cruft, but it also has some truly beautiful things like bindings, or how certain interface controls work. It's a much more mature framework.
“The bastion of hope that was WhatsApp is gone.“

There’s no technical barrier to building the same thing from scratch....
They were research grants. The idea behind a grant is that you don't get anything aside from the "knowledge" gleaned from the research.
This is the United States congee we're talking about here their are no simple solutions /s
> SQL based systems became accidentally synonymous with the “relational model” as it actually mostly gets in the way of implementing the relational model

Please explain?

What makes SQL bad a relational databases, and what is better?
> the purging of big-block voices from the subreddit was unethical

I don't know why. It clearly became a distraction at some point, and so the mods took a side and enforced it. I don't think that's unethical. A specific private sub is under no moral obligation to allow every opinion to be heard. It's intentionally a curated space.

> When this purge happened, pro-fork posts were overwhelmingly popular

Sort of, but this is also kind of what I mean by "populist" movement, and why I don't feel bad about this "purge".

Real development of bitcoin happens on the mailing lists and on github. Everyone is free to contribute and that never changed.

r/bitcoin is just a place for people with opinions, mostly people who don't contribute, to air their mostly uneducated points of view.

If the split had support, it would have happened economically. There's no reason that r/bitcoin specifically would be the bottleneck to such a change. There is so much real estate on the internet, ideas truly have no restriction. If the voices on r/bitcoin at the time represented real node votes, the nodes would have switched. I don't see how being blocked on r/bitcoin would have prevented that.

> and absent the intervention of the moderators to restrict advocacy of Gavin's hard fork efforts, the hard fork would have gone through with majority support.

I just don't buy it. There are too many other outlets.

> The closing of debate on /r/bitcoin was a betrayal of everyone who entrusted its mods to oversee one of the community's most important communication channels.

r/bitcoin was never one of the community's most important communication channels. I'm sorry, but it's _reddit_. As stated above, important communication channels include but are not limited to slack groups, IRC, mailing lists, github, twitter, etc. r/bitcoin was never "important," it was (and still is) the pop magazine of crypto, like everything else on reddit.

I would go so far to say that the outcry over reddit specifically, instead of over all those other resources, sort of reveals the type of person who is hyping the big-blocker narrative. If it were a lot of developers or contributors, the important channels would have seen a surge of such support, too.

But it was mostly armchair economists who don't hang out in the actual development streams. They think reddit is where everything happens.

> transactions on L2 aren't Bitcoin transactions

Yes they are. They're just deferred, aggregated transactions over payment channels which are essentially compressed and broadcast at channel closure.
Google reads all Gmail messages, presumably for targeted advertising. In this case it looks like they're giving folks a UI to look at (some of) what they're gathering.
> From people with experience in both, UIKit is better designed than AppKit.

Can you expand on this? I haven't done iOS development, so I'd be interested in what ways people consider UIKit superior. Although it wouldn't surprise me, since it came much later than AppKit and they had hindsight when designing it.
I don’t buy that Apple products or Apple as a company is worse off in any measurable way. I’m sure the there are some people who dislike decisions that happened after Jobs, but Apple and their products seem to be doing fine.
In the less governed areas there is not a "jail to go to" it's basically gang rivalry, gang ascension, descension, internal struggle for control, expanding into rival territory, etc., etc. The gangs are in full control. There is little state presence and the one that could be is often corrupted by gangs...
Yeesh, don't tell me that. I just spent the weekend under a set of 6-ton Craftsman jack stands.

Although, what's the point in offering a warranty that will outlive the company?
Great work, I have Stared your project, so what's the difference between u and bigchain?
That's not the problem.

It's more the scenario that the country to which the company, or it's officers, belong/reside in, may take a disliking to their customers (perhaps for unlawful acts), and because the company is seen to own the domain, and either won't or can't hand over the details of the end customer, the company could be liable for those things.

Even if the company obeys every lawful direction on cancelling/handing over domains and whatever customer details they have - they may be seen as facilitating unlawful behavior, and so that in and of itself can be an unlawful act.
I found this article worthless, pretentiously worthless at that (WMDs? Really?). Stories augment the human experience of reality, as do social constructs, as does language, but I am too dumb to understand why that's news. What is the point he is trying to argue? That there are seven AR Pikachus dancing in the head of every philosopher?
I was shocked when I stumbled on this. All of my purchases, have been scraped from my emails, including every line item, where I purchased these items from and so on. If they are scraping this from my emails without my permission, what else are they scraping? What else does Google know about me? If everything in my emails is scraped by Google it is possible that they know more about me than I do about myself. Very scary. How will this be misused in the future? Who will have access to this in the future?
This sounds equally applicable to pgAdmin 4, or indeed any Electron app on a Linux desktop.
Holy shit! It's something to think you know, it's another to see...