skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's like most things, buy the literal cheapest item you can and it'll probably be shit. Buy something in the lower middle of the price range and it'll probably serve you well for most uses. With bikes, that's probably $300-600.
To save you the read: in web terms, the API is e.g. Stripe and the ABI is HTTP.
> Are there others out there? Yes. And they're like us.

By the time we managed to meet them again, there would be no reason to expect them to be like us.

> If you want a really interesting setting for a game/book, imagine a major regression on Earth (standard post-apocalypse trope), and the colonists finally find a way to visit again...

This is a regular feature of Motie civilization in the series beginning with The Mote in God's Eye.
Did you just read the first few items and comment? How is building a global satellite network enabling internet access to everyone on earth boring or a "rich-white-guy problem"? Or A/C for the developing world?
Yeah, the potential better be hampered.
How do Intel and AMD manage to make their own drivers mostly open-source, then?
Or maybe we're starting to act like a real profession, adopting the idea of "continuing education" they have in every other field from law to dietetics?

Just a thought
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Actual doogiePIM user here: I've been using this app for the the last four months and it really does do everything Chris promises it does - its amazingly stable and adaptable for being developed by one talented individual. Hardly a day goes by I don't discover a new feature which has helped me migrate certain workflows into one, local platform allowing me to replace Word, Google Calendar, and Mint to name just a few (I keep everything on my Surface with occasional backups off site).

While doogiePIM is billed as a personal information manager (PIM) I actually use it more as a Personal Knowledge Manager (PKM), which is especially conducive due to the built in Chromium browser, so I don't have to keep switching between multiple apps like Chrome (which I no longer trust), Notion, or some other Productivity program. Talking with the OP he is extremely responsive and open to suggestions that would make doogiePIM more functional and customizable.

As a longtime HN lurker I've noticed that for years individuals have longed for a centrally managed information program and I feel strongly that this is the only one that fits that bill:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8806950

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8270759

It was actually this topic that exposed me to HN in the first place.

I am not in any way affiliated with the OP but I am a believer in that the program delivers. That and the fact that it's a local app gives me peace of mind.
That 20% was in the slave economy of the south. The north did not have slaves, and the middle class was in the north.
Exactly. Remember Intel ME is a great utility and has some awesome abilities. The issue that people have is not the fact there is a CPU running another CPU that looks after the main one. It's that it's closed source and has remote control capabilities that can not be controlled by the user.

If Intel would just allow an owner to build and flash their own Intel ME version using their own private/public keys then no one would have an issue with that. It's the fact it's a secret closed system that has full control to monitor everything you do, and can not be fully disabled.
"soft" mechanisms to remove unemployed people from the labour pool have been used for a long time, to reduce the visible statistics on the rate of unemployment. It leads people to talk about other measures like the rate of under-employment, the number of people seeking work, the number of people in part time work who seek full time work.

But, since many people choose this life to get work:life balance outcomes it shouldn't be assumed all freelance and self-employed are there for nefarious reasons. Just, that quite a few of them are, because there aren't good alternatives.

"I won't give you a job as a bricklayer but I will subcontract to you if you form your own company" for instance...
My favourite thing my Ubuntu machine does is that when you wake it from sleep, it shows you the desktop as it was when you put it to sleep for a fraction of a second, then flickers a few times while it puts up a lock screen, then shows two login dialogs stacked on top of each other, one larger than the other.
California Looks to Pass Rudimentary IoT Security Legislation
This is a particularly irritating example of Betteridge's law of headlines. We already were aware of objects that may have been perturbed by planet X, and discovering another doesn't make a qualitative difference that I can see.
> what can we do to eliminate the need for insurance?

You can't eliminate the need for insurance. As long as there is risk in the world, there will be the need to insure against it.

> Air conditioning: A problem easily solved by getting people to live in better climates.

Yup, let's move billions of impoverished people living in
tropical countries to cooler climates up north. Maybe we can fit them all in Denmark.

> Some of this list seems silly and easily dismissed as "because physics". Electric aircraft don't make sense and I doubt they ever will.

Elon Musk seems to disagree. And so do all these folks: https://techcrunch.com/2018/07/08/the-electric-aircraft-is-t...

It's so easy to be an armchair critic and be dismissive of other people's ideas. The only difference is, some people break down large problems step by step and overcome obstacles for over a decade to solve them.
Grumble grumble...

Procrastination ensues
Yeah, sure. Mommy bloggers is just a group prone to coplmparing, oneupmanship, and being “perfect”. Not all of them of course, but it is a thing. Just call them hyper-perfectionist parent bloggers
Where would this health assistant get its data?
> specializes in using optical tweezers for single-molecule biophysics research.

...
> The beam will instantly ignite paper, and will cause damage to...

Curious, it appears that you guys use a highly focused beam on small particles, like 1 W focused into a diffraction limited spot, right?

How come the bio-molecules that you're manipulating with this light don't just "burn up"? Is it because they're mostly transparent at that wavelength? Or you're only exciting a marker molecule that is stuck to them?
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There's also the possibility of swatting[1]. There are videos online of people streaming when suddenly their home is broken into by officers, rifle in hand, yelling at them to get on the ground.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatting
"federated databases" is not low hanging fruit, its CAP theorem decision time. If he means that he wants the interconnection logic to let him pick which two, and how to homegenise the glue between competing implementations, well yes, that would be nice, but it doesn't "remove" problems from CAP, it probably adds a useful layer of indirection which then incurrs its own asynchronous, transactional, complete, sequenced problem-set.

I feel that its jeremiah like, but it is probably time-machine and cure-for-cancer stuff. You get bits of it.
OK, I'll not-silently disagree (though I didn't downvote you).

The right can be either small- or big-government. (Cynically, the party of the "right", the Republicans, is big-government when in power and small-government when out of power.) But I see very little on the left that is small-government - certainly not the Democratic Party, and not much outside it. (I suppose at least some of the anarchists can be considered left, but as far as I can tell they are a very small group.)
Wasn't OSX originally a fork of FreeBSD? Parts of it may have been replaced over time, but I would think that a large portion is still written in C.
And Porsche built prototype tanks, other German companies did bad stuff. Lets not forget IBM.

Life sucks, WWII sucked, all of my family, women and men served, but I love Porsches and I will continue to own them.
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On x86, push/pop have dedicated hardware optimizations known as the stack engine which perform most of the rsp increments/decrements and passes those offsets into the decoder, instead of using executions slots on them. push/pop are also much smaller than the corresponding mov/add instructions.

It's much more optimal to use a series of push/pops for smaller operations like saving registers before a call than to manually adjust and store onto the stack.

While technically this is still incrementing/decrementing a register and storing, the amount of isa/hardware support for such things clearly demonstrates that the x86 isa and modern x86 hardware gives special treatment to the stack.
> In practice that just means that those with inherited wealth expend some of it on building a personal myth of being self-made independent of their family legacy.

This happens a fair bit in the UK. Due to the media's obsession with entrepreneurs, we see the wealthy gambling a bit of family wealth on a series of startup ideas that are clearly not made for the reality we inhabit but sound snappy and fin-techy (blockchain for banks, with no understanding of banks).

> Obviously, no parallel equivalent exists in the other end of the economic scale.

If you take away the spending of money bit, there is an equivalent at the other end of the economic scale.

There exists some person with inherited wealth that builds a personal myth of their inherited wealth not being responsible for their current wealth.

There exists some person in inherited poverty that builds a personal myth of their inherited poverty not being responsible for their current poverty.

The latter does happen.
Don’t forget the importance of Microsoft’s approval, that carries a lot of weight.
But C never set out to be what it is today. It was a long time before anyone thought a spec was worth writing. For a language with the stated design goals of Rust, a specification and alternative implementations should be priority #1. You can't eliminate undefined behavior if you don't define any!
That's my setup since some years. It's one of the options during Fedora's installation, I think that Ubuntu allows that too (and likely others).
Not the OP, but I think what he means is that mommy-bloggers provide a very visible, high-bar point of comparison. Many of these mommy-blogs (though certainly not all) show perfect lives, perfect activities, perfectly photogenic children, perfect this and perfect that.

The reality is that (especially early) parenthood is very harsh, and very hard to do alone -- doing it while achieving this "perfect life" as displayed on these blogs is basically impossible for working parents, but it's portrayed as being easy.

Naturally, many mothers feel that their own efforts fall far short in comparison, and feel like they're failing their children as a result. As a new dad, I can tell you this is one of the biggest fears and one of the most painful feelings I have ever experienced.

Could there be similar daddy-bloggers with daddy-blogs showing perfect daddy lives? Absolutely. But somehow it's not very prevalent.
Everything is a catastrophic problem to someone. Sensationalism is about the worst way to communicate this, and is likely why so many refuse to believe. The reality of climate change is that we're trading inhospitable poles for an inhospitable equator.

Yes, this will be painful to those who have to adapt or relocate. But it is a form of NIMBYism.
I'm thinking through API crosslinking with fitness trackers, apple health kit, and maybe 23 and me
Scientific Methods in Computer Science (2005) [pdf]
It's shorthand for "the ABI relevant to the current context", which is entirely reasonable.
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Been working as a developer for a few years now, mostly as a php developer professionally, doing OOP type safe php7.1 along with modern JS tool chains though use of component based JS has only been in my spare time. I do Java and Kotlin in my spare time for backends, though I am writing a php framework. I'm really big into foreign culture and language, as well as education in general. I'm looking to relocate to Seattle as most of my friends have and the climate suits me, though more than anything I need to get out of the midwest and bible belt.
> Freelancers are competing not just within their town, not just with in their state, but are completing globally, and there's just huge global pressures on the amount that they can earn...

bingo. for a piece of work that can be well specified, separated out from the main workflow and then farmed out, it's natural, in today's world, for the customer to open the field globally. a little too natural.

so, the US freelancer is left asking the question: how can I compete with wages set at the global standard of living, including currency exchange differences?

there doesn't seem to be a good answer.
Ask HN: Is there a Google like search for internal documents and knowledge?
Data distillery?
Many programmers who automate portions of their workload will use the extra time they gain to place bugs in the systems. When those systems fail, they quickly fix them and look like a savior. If they are on after-hours standby, they make extra money from the callouts. They thus reduce the stress in their own jobs, but increase the stress in other peoples jobs.
Thanks for that clarification.
These are good questions! You might consider taking them to a forum where you'll get a more rigorous answer though. :D

Fully classically, the field lines point to the sources; they get "stuck" to the horizon as the source crosses. To a naive outside distant observer for whom the horizon subtends a small angle of the sky, so does each source. When thinking about collapsing charged matter forming a new black hole, substitute a spherically symmetric shell and shrink its area, while keeping the charge and mass constant and uniformly distributed on the shell -- the electric field and gravitational field outside the shell then both follow gauss-laws, so even without a horizon, observers outside the shell at a large distance (such that the shell looks virtually pointlike) cannot get the full information about the shell using only local measurements, including whether the shell is inside or outside a horizon.

Semiclassically, one can use virtual photons which aren't as restricted as real matter, especially in that the black hole horizon is not necessarily a trapping surface for them. Typically one sets up the black hole as a background that has already determined the relevant quantum fields, and then introduces a test particle onto that background. If the test particle radiates a photon, the black hole will only react once the photon enters the horizon; unless and until that happens, the background is kept constant. (Hawking introduces negative energy particles in his formalism precisely to keep the background always constant.) Changing the background is tricky, but never involves real particles crossing from the interior of the horizon to the exterior.

> we would have as much/little reason to declare any other conservation also holds

Sure, no-hair as a theorem (rather than as a principle) only tells you that given classical vacuum, Maxwell's electromagnetism (in tensor form), and an eternal black hole metric, spacetime and all its contents are totally determined everywhere by a small handful of parameters. As a principle it suggests that perturbing that setup (e.g. by adding a source outside the horizon) does not lead to wildly inaccurate results.

I'm sorry that I don't understand what it is that you're asking in your second-last paragraph. There is a body of literature on black hole "mining" (it's a common thought-experiment when trying to distinguish between general relativity an alternative theory, especially a quantum one) that maybe touches on what you're curious about.
CarryBible.com - linking the wealth of resources on the Bible to the passages they reference and making them searchable in a pleasant Bible app - allowing the community to gather around the Bible in a clever way that minimises theological flame wars.

Currently were looking for react native devs and pwa devs. Strongly preferable to be able to move out to our offices in Australia, but willing to look at remote if you're the right fit.
> OP doesn't even mention the real advantage to introducing Haskell.

Yes, he does - contrary to the non-technical political motives you outlined - he outlines the importance of a strong type system for maintenance and refactoring—A property much harder to achieve in something like python.

I think your own experience of having some difficulty bringing your previous skills to bear on the language is not so uncommon—This is why mentors are so important.
I'm not seeing where I claimed that California doesn't have many black people. I recognize it does, but as of 2010 57% of all black Americans live in the Southern US, and trends keep showing that number is only growing. Heck, black millenials in particular, the people who are of the age to contribute the most to the workforce in the next few decades are disproportionately moving to the south, from all regions[1].

To reiterate, my main point is still that it impossible to have a number of black people in tech that is even close to being representative of the overall population of black people in the US without including the southern US in the tech workforce.

Fair enough on busing though, seems there is a lot of inconclusive data floating around. First hand though, I went to an extremely diverse high school for 3 years (about equal parts white, black, and hispanic students) and a not diverse HS for one (90%+ white, in a different county) and there's no doubt that the on-campus environment was less toxic towards people of all races at the diverse one. I never once heard a white person throw out a racially insensitive term just to be "edgy" when half of that person's friends and classmates would actually notice and be offended. It happened way too often at the other school though.

[1]https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/08/opinion/sunday/racism-is-...

> A report released last year by the New York City comptroller, Scott Stringer, found that between 2000 and 2014 about 61 percent of millennials moving to New York were white, while only 9 percent of 18- to 29-year olds moving into the city were black.

> Nationally, almost 82,000 black millennials migrated south in 2014, according to an analysis of census data done independently by Artem Gulish, a senior analyst at the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown. Forty percent of these black transplants came from the Northeast, 37 percent from the Midwest and 23 percent from the West. Black millennials from abroad are more likely to settle in the South.
http://www.coyoteblog.com/coyote_blog/2018/10/amazons-15-min...

Summary: the raise in Amazon's wages isn't just something that happened. It's part of a lobbying push for a higher legal minimum wage. Amazon's outsized profits-per-employee, compared to other retailers, mean that raising the minimum wage will hammer competitors.
"The weakness of "security through obscurity" is so well known as to be obvious. Yet major hardware manufacturers, citing the need to protect intellectual property, often require a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) before allowing access to technical documentation. "

I believe the actual reason for "security through obscurity" is that it's a delay tactic used against well-funded adversaries.

There's an inherent problem in security. A company, existing in the private sector, could never hope to overcome the infinite resources of a nation state. It's literally, mathematically, financially impossible.

A nation state could even apply a rule like, if they know a particular technology was developed by roughly 500 engineers at some company, a nation state could employ 5x the number of engineers used; simply as a rule. So in this case, they could employ 2500 security researchers to overcome some security problem.
In my experience you cannot tar amd and nvidia with the same brush regarding linux drivers. I have been running fedora with a nvidia card for a couple of years. The open drivers have been unusable for me. Crashing the system at random - often mid installing the proprietary drivers, corrupting the display server (I got quite handy with dnf history rollback). The proprietary drivers have been made mush easier to install the last releases. But the same machine with windows gave way better performance.

I recently bought an amd card. I just pop'ed in the card, booted the machine and the mesa drivers included with fedora worked without a hitch. The only thing I had to do was install vulkan to play f1 2017, other than that it has been plug'n'play with good performance.
HN's own Algolia?

https://www.algolia.com/
> We make a great living

Assuming "we" are all engineers. There's no reference to role in the article or comment you're replying to, so I don't think that can be assumed. There are plenty of low wage jobs at startups.
I think that 'clearing its orbit' standard won't survive. Say we find an earth-sized object out there past pluto, or say a jupiter-sized object around another star, the fact that their orbits are full of other tiny objects won't matter. If it is big enough, the other technicalities will fall away.

A rogue planet orbiting a galactic core, or massive BH, would still be called a planet despite in no way clearing its orbit of anything.
Hi Mobermek,

I run a business that invests in climate change related solutions, particularly in the agricultural space. I deal with these issues on a day-to-day basis and I’ve had to develop some psychological coping mechanisms - because the reality is scary, the climate system is complex, and we don’t have much time to avoid serious equilibrium shifts. I have children, and in many ways I feel more concerned for them than I do myself. Anyway, these are my coping mechanisms:
1. Realise that your climate anxiety may be generalized anxiety fixating on climate. Right now, for most of us, climate shocks are less a threat than many other risks in our daily lives.
2. Our civilization will ultimately fail at some point, and so will humanity. In the greatest expanse is time, the sun will die and life on earth will cease. Beginnings and endings are in the natural order of things. It’s useful to me to see the bigger picture.
3. That said, whilst we are in the race of our lives, there is huge focus on renewable energy technologies and also climate adaptation measures. In the next 10 years we may turn the beast around, and we also might turn up technologies that are revolutionary. Don’t discount this possibility.
4. As an ultimate backstop, buy some fertile land and know that you and your family can retreat there if need be.

I hope the above is useful. If you can see a counselor, then do.
> Why can’t I manage waste pickup from an app?

Spoken like someone who never lived in an apartment complex?

Sure, if you have a house and the garbage truck comes along, you might influence this, although I don't see what's there to manage. I don't see garbage pickup as highly inefficient.
I see this where I live, in the city you have paper and organics extra, cans and glass if you're a good citizen and very maybe plastic - whereas on the countryside your town might mandate you separate into 6 bins. But if you have a house you probably have the space for 6 separate bins, I surely don't.
Always nice to see updates on what research is being done at Calico.