skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Dark matter doesn't physically interact with itself or regular matter, so it doesn't "clump" the way regular matter does. A particle of dark matter will fall towards the Sun or Earth, but it doesn't stop when it gets there - it just carries right on through, with just as much energy as it had before. We expect there to be a dark matter "wind" passing through the solar system at galactic speeds, so it doesn't stick around.

But! There may be seasonal variations in the amount of dark matter reaching Earth due to a solar "lensing" effect. Attempts have been made to find this signal, and an annual modulation has been found, but the debate as to its cause is ongoing.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/194107/is-dark-m...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DAMA/NaI

https://www.quantamagazine.org/trouble-detected-in-infamous-...
Actually, in the USA, very few financial advisors have a fiduciary duty to their clients.
That's not how a superseding indictment works! A superseding indictment charges more (or different) crimes than the original indictment. The process for obtaining the indictments in the first place is the same.
Yup, exactly which is why the rates for capital gains are reduced. If you make the capital gains high enough the reward you get for taking the risk won't be high enough.

I think it has a bigger deterrence effect with non-capital gains income. Once you start getting in the higher income tax brackets, it isn't really worth it to put in more hours for additional income when 50% of it is taken in income tax off the top. That's how I look at it at least.
Just tried on iPhone X. It didn't disable FaceID.
I would advise looking at hardware in other FAANG companies. Think hardware is increasingly a differentiator both on the server side and on the client. Saying this as someone who builds data analysis tools and has started looking at what it would take to build accelerators. With Moores law coming to an end I think we will see a hardware renaissance in the coming years, think you are very well placed to capitalize on that.
People are happy when the company succeeds but few people in a large company think they personally have much influence on the stock price.

But you can act as if this were the case and it looks good, so sometimes you might be well-rewarded.
I'm more concerned about things like drones filming police activity being shot out of the sky, because they were "threatening".
Even scientists communicating directly to the public is what I'm talking about rather a journalism major not understanding physics.
Doesn’t work on my iPhone 7+.
C++ gigs
Maryland based software engineer looking for C++ freelance gigs. Does anyone have any advice on finding such opportunities?
I guess it depends on what you mean by application processors. There are a lot of low cost Bluetooth chips out there that run the application logic of the device.
Deep Learning: The “Why” Question
At least part of the reason for having an ABI is that it enables exposing functions written in Rust to code written in other languages. In practice, most languages are unlikely to add support for a Rust-exclusive ABI, so the most convenient choice is to stay compatible with C.
Speed Design of Digitally Controlled Power Converters
Could it be antimatter? Ie are we sure through direct observation that antimatter reacts with light the same way matter does? I know antimatter has been made in laboratories, but plenty of phenomena act differently outside of the lab.

(I’m pretty sure we’re sure dark matter isn’t antimatter, but just the same, worth the thought when 5/6th of the universe is unexplainable.)
“What Is It Like to Be a Bat?”
On the other hand, in the UK: "Under s. 4 of the Bail Act 1976, on each occasion that a person is brought before a court accused of an offence, or remanded after conviction for enquiries or a report, he must be granted bail without condition, if none of the exceptions to bail apply."

https://www.cps.gov.uk/legal-guidance/bail

Charging an arm and a leg to receive bail doesn't seem like it's serving any useful purpose?
That’s because back then their results weren’t optimized for engagement.
> However, it is also how humans work - we want to advantage our inner group over other groups.

This is too broad. Is it really so? I believe that we don't want to disadvantage ourselves relative to other groups. But that we want to gain advantage at somebody's else expense - not sure.
And that's what I get for relying on "blind as a bat" folklore without checking it.

Thank you.

I must now ascertain the veracity of the “as poor as a church mouse” trope.
unc0ver jailbreak for iOS 11.0 – 11.4b3
Well, that's given me some insight into bay area dev pay! I've never even heard of anything near those levels in the UK except for contractors.
> The one thing I am positive about is that is provides evidence that wealth is actually a positive influence on education ... maybe it will help people who value education above all support pro-wealth policies like lower tax.

I think a valid take away would also be "we should break this relationship such that everyone gets education, regardless of wealth and background".

That seems easier to educate more people than to make more people wealthy.

> maybe it will help people who value education above all support pro-wealth policies like lower tax

I value education very much. I want to see a significantly higher tax-rate because I think it improves the quality of education for those worse off.

I don't think this article changes my view in the least. Our public school system is disgustingly bad in poor neighbourhoods, and I would argue that no small part of wealthy kids going to college is because their parents put them into better schools, either by living in more affluent areas with better public school systems, or by paying for private school.

I would much rather see higher tax-rates with that money allocated to the public school system to reduce the disparity between the public schools in poor and rich areas.
There were agrarian rebellions in ancient China, such as the Red Eyebrow Rebellion. If the burden on farmers was too great, these things could happen.

Also ancient Chinese had lots of philosophies and schools of thought.
It does.

Eyes closed, or even eyes looking away, and it just doesn't unlock in my experience.

The best advice if you think you're about to be stopped and have a digital device confiscated is to shut it down, requiring a passcode to open.
Bikeshed: spec preprocessor
Firefox on Wayland will be default in Fedora 30
Looking at the website it almost looks like FaaS + Ruby
They still list IoT and automotive as areas they are going to continue to develop. Bluetooth is such a large part of their business and fits into these areas, so I fail to see how they would leave that space. My comment is that they actually are very competitive in that area and I would not exclude them from new product development.
Thanks. "has started looking at what it would take to build accelerators" Do you mean HW accelerators?
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Nicer places can charge more. It's just what when push comes to shove people aren't going to move 5 hours away for nice finishes. They will how ever put up with cheap counter tops if it means being 1 block from the metro. The over riding factor as other have pointed out is space and location. everything else doesn't really move the needle when you are looking at markets with very high prices.
I'm not sure what "should" has to do with it! Complicated cases are complicated. Simple cases aren't.

I think directionally most people on HN already agree with you about cash bail. I certainly believe it should be done away with.
That’s kind of the point of the grand jury. It’s an investigative body. Grand juries are typically convened when investigations reach critical mass, and are then used to issue subpoenas for additional information, leading to an indictment, which then leaves to arrest and trial.

Grand juries are often used for a single charge, but can also be used to supervise a lengthy investigation with multiple charges and multiple defendants (like the ones used by Robert Mueller in his investigations of Russian election interference).
I am lucky in that I am very good with names and faces. I don't know why but I can meet someone once for a brief conversation and remember key points (job, family, where they are from, etc) of the conversation without having to try and still recall that information many years later.

The strangest example of this is when I was in a coffee shop in London a couple of years ago and instantly recognised a man in the queue with me as someone I met in an airport over 10 years ago and had a 5 minute (max) conversation with. I remembered his name, that he had a new born son and his sons name, that the birth had been stressful and he was going to take longer off than his planned two weeks so his wife could recover, that he worked in bio-pharmacy research and a few other details.

Needless to say he was pretty shocked and clearly didn't remember me (because why would you?!) but we ended up chatting in the queue again and he was amazed I could remember so much detail from an airport conversation. This isn't the only time it has happened either. It happens more often than I realised until my wife pointed out my "freak super power". I don't think I have ever thought of this person after meeting them either. At least not consciously. Yet when I saw his face in that Costa coffee shop it was like an HD video started playing in my head of when we met in Charles de Gaulle all those years ago. The brain is an amazing thing.

Now if only I could channel this "super power" (freakish as it may be) for good rather than just being the person friends and family look to when they say "Ohh I recognise that person, what other film/tv show have they been in?" as I always seem to know the answer.
When I first installed vscode, I assumed this was the case and yep, there it was buried in preferences. Disable all of it, including automatic updates. When you want to update, uninstall and install again fresh. Then disable again. Repeat.
It doesn't require one. If you compile for a bare metal microcontroller, for example, you're probably running zero C code in your firmware image, so the only "ABI" that matters is how the hardware sets up register state at reset and for interrupts. Usually interrupt handlers are written in assembly anyway, but there's at one platform where someone modified the Rust compiler with a custom calling convention to allow writing interrupt handlers directly in Rust. [1] However, if you do have any assembly code in your project (for interrupt handlers or anything else), and it needs to call Rust or be called by it (likely), then you do want to mark the call (on Rust's end) as using the "C" ABI – simply because it is well-defined, while the Rust ABI is intentionally undefined. For now.

Well-defined by what, you ask? Well, by whatever ABI or ABIs LLVM has been taught about for that architecture. The details of each ABI are baked into LLVM's source code, but often there's more than one ABI available for a given architecture, with different origins, and the compiler provides a flag to choose between them. There are also various customization options. Normally, the choice of OS determines the proper values for all those options, but if you're writing your own OS… you can set whatever you want. Of course, you could also define an ABI from scratch, if you feel like hacking up LLVM to support it.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/43392404
Heyyy, makers!

Super excited to launch this here.

As we know it’s simply not enough to build something people want.

Talking to people is the hardest part for most of us.

My experiment:

Phone-called to +370 US companies and kept pitching my stuff until it's
- easy to digest
- easy to remember and to share with others

The goal of the experiment was to test whether pitching to hundreds of (different) people and answering their both smart and dumb questions ^_^ makes my pitch better...

Read more here https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pitch-again
Your comment approximately matches my experience, and thank you for taking the time to do a bit of calculating. Upvoted.
The package they are using “vscode-extension-telemetry” actually does use the global setting. https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode-extension-telemetry/blob...
Third-party extensions can read that setting too so they can respect the global choice.
OK, combination of what you wrote being understood as cash + house + retirement (which is what you wrote) and not understanding pay levels over there! Still the idea to me of earning enough after taxes in the UK to have £100k/year spare is fanciful.
Why would you be asking what someone's last name is, especially by asking "what's your name again?"
The fact that blind people make decisions based on active echolocation without realizing that's what they're doing is IMO one of the great arguments against the idea that we're particularly knowledgeable about our own conscious thought processes.

How Well Do We Know Our Own Conscious Experience? The Case of Human Echolocation by Eric Schwitzgebel and Michael S. Gordon

http://www.faculty.ucr.edu/~eschwitz/SchwitzAbs/Echo.htm

been obsessed with this paper since it came out.
Coincidentally, I watched this last week and found it highly informative, entertaining.
And will lose one more Ally , Threatening and implementing a sanction to a country like India would surely ruin a growing relationship.
It really isnt hard to measure employee engagement. It's actually incredibly easy. Managers just tend to not like the results and quite frankly are ill equipped and unwilling to put the consistent ongoing work in.

Most managers shouldn't be managers. If writing reports is your top priority you have failed miserably at your job, but will probably be promoted
What happens if you use uint8_t in a C program on XAP? Does the compiler emulate 8-bit values using 16-bit fields or is there simply no support for such a type?

FWIW, https://www.cambridgeconsultants.com/xap claims support for 8-bit datatypes, but offers further documentation only by email.
I’d file a bug. This is almost certainly not intentional.
It's pretty absolute. A password should be secret. Your face/fingerprints are not secret. It is right there for anyone to see.
How do you feel about the patent for compact discs? James Russell invented the technology along with prototypes but never put it into production first-hand, electing instead to license the technology to other companies. There's no debating that companies profited handsomely from putting this technology into the consumer market. It built off prior work (LaserDisc) and the patent holder was a non-practicing entity (as someone else pointed out in this thread).
Bicycles and e-bikes are great. Would love to have a high powered e-bikes/very small e-motorcycle that could go on the freeway (ie., be able to cross the bay bridge. Have yet to see such a thing is America.
Indeed, modern science is based on lots of prior knowledge. I like to remember that we could still be very wrong about how everything works. That’s what the missing 5/6ths of unexplainable behavior tells us, for one. For two, I hope (personally) that we are wrong about many things. Our current theories lead to some very bleak realities.

But, ultimately, it’s important to not become skeptical to the point of tearing down progress. It’s one thing to keep an open mind and consider other options. It’s all too easy for bad actors to sell snake oil as a product of the unknown or unexplainable - or even just attack and destroy progress.
well it's always the conflict between what are our instincts and what we renounce in the name of civilization. The dramatic illustration is just that powerful people can just use violence to get food from other people, it's natural, but we have created laws against it.

Do we want meritocracy because it is an enlightened value or do we want to follow the instinct of having our genes spread as far and wide as possible. That's the kind of societal dialog politics is made for.
I don't know that Google was ever the thing to find them. Various curated lists and word-of-mouth were how they spread. But yeah, the signal-to-noise ratio is pretty terrible now for anything that isn't a ho-hum "conventional" query. On the other hand, the sheer volume of information has to count for something. You can reach a greater breadth and depth for directed learning online than in the 90's where it was mostly undirected novelty.
I'm confused. An entire paragraph scraped from a ZDNet article [0] states:

>>In a conversation, Erich Andersen, Microsoft's corporate vice president and chief intellectual property (IP) counsel -- that is, Microsoft top patent person -- added: We "pledge our entire patent portfolio to the Linux system. That's not just the Linux kernel, but other packages built on it."

And I note "entire patent portfolio" to the Linux system. Wouldn't that then include the exfat related patents?

[0] https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-open-sources-its-ent... (apologies for the autoplay video.)
You rent a botnet like Luminati. All of them residential IP, since that is provided by the Hola "free" "VPN".
Interesting. Makes sense - the jetstream has enough of an effect that it's worth it to go a little out of the way, just to have an eastward component to your vector, Victor.

Found this kinda cool site... what came next will shock you! Just kidding, not affiliated with them:

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SIA21

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/SIA22
Genome Hackers Show No One’s DNA Is Anonymous Anymore
I think that the properties of antimatter are pretty well established to be identical to that of matter. For instance, the light spectrum of antihydrogen is known to be exactly the same as ordinary hydrogen. I don't think many (any?) researchers are looking at antimatter as an option for dark matter.

(Also, I always thought of antimatter as an abstract thing that gets made in the lab and that was cool ... But we use it for practical things every day. For instance, PET scanners in medicine produce positrons and watch the annihilations inside your body. Astoundingly cool to me.)
Who ever wrote this article spelled Colombia wrong 4 times
All bigger institutions certainly do. I have worked for quite a few.
Forbes Releases Inaugural Top Women in Tech List in Honor of Ada Lovelace Day
It is absolutely so.

I would much rather help a friend or group of friends do well as opposed to randoms or people I don't like. First, I like my friends and want them to be happy (and am going to be the one who hears about it when they aren't), so I have a vested interest in helping them achieve happiness and success whereas I have a weak interest in the happiness and success of randoms as we have no relationship. Second, if I can help my friends become happy and successful, they become better able to help me become happy and successful (by pooling resources, providing advice, providing introductions, creating mutually beneficial opportunities, creating happiness by spending time with me, providing trust and facilitating vulnerability, providing capital or expertise etc). This sets up a positive feedback loop and creates strong ROI for my efforts. I get net negative ROI from helping a random (assuming no relationship will develop and I expend time or funds) so it's far less likely that I will use my scarce time and resources to do it.

The entire world runs on relationships, favors, and reputation.
You should check out the Frankfurt school if you haven’t, Horkheimer, Adorno, Marcuse, et al.

They were fierce critics of the very sort of reductive and restrictive societal tendencies you’re arguing against here. Positivism is indeed poisonous, a beneficial poison in some ways, but poison nonetheless. Unfortunately, while some things have improved, a lot of the problems such thinkers diagnosed and fought against in the 40s-60s have gotten more severe—the technical edifice determines the lives of the human beings more than ever, and the possibility of alternatives that would increase freedom and not reduce human experience to subtle manipulation and organization by algorithmic and prescribed modes of behavior seems more and more distant.
I have my browser setup to block the recommended videos column on Youtube and it's a lot more enjoyable/useful to me. I'm not really sure what you're trying to say.
Wow. Just tried this on my 6S (iOS 11). When asked from the lock screen, I was required to enter my passcode to unlock afterward.
It seems to be caused entirely by `scroll-behavior: smooth;` on the `html` element.

Try add that style to this (HN) comments page. Same problem.

Seems like the vim addons aren't dealing with browsers' implementations of that style. Whoops.

For the addon I use (Vimium-FF), it appears to have been already reported and fixed: https://github.com/philc/vimium/pull/3111 but not yet published to AMO.
So What Exactly Is Vlad Zamfir’s Blockchain Sharding PoC Doing?
I know a lot of people don’t like things like this, but also remember not all data collection is malicious. If you look at what they actually collect it’s not pulling a bunch of personal info. They collect usage, perf and errors. As a product manager (not for vsc or MS) I use this type of telemetry all the time to make priorization decisions. It’s a balance, but my hunch is the team at MS uses this info exclusively to make the product better.

Of course, you should always be able to disable this sort of collection.
When Microsoft bought GitHub I didn’t think about GitHub Enterprise revenue. I thought about all of the language package managers that use GitHub’s APIs for downloading repos.
ARM is a great example, thank you for pointing it out. Wasn't aware they didn't manufacture anything themselves but the benefit of their utility is pretty obvious.
> E.g., they describe modifying the page cache to write-through small modifications to file data, rather than dirtying the entire page and writing it back later (a form of write amplification).

Considering that all the storage on the market now has sectors at least as large as a 4k page, this isn't actually reducing write amplification. At most, in some cases it might save a tiny bit of bus traffic.
The GPL and BSD licenses aren’t symmetric. Nobody warns about something being BSD licensed because you can freely incorporate a BSD licensed library into any project without changing the license of the resulting project. But the reverse is not true - if you embed GPL software in a BSD project (or commercial project), the resulting work must be licensed under the GPL.

I prefer all the opensource software I write to use a BSD style license, because I want to retain the ability to use any of my opensource work in commercial projects. GPL warnings like this are useful for me - it’s good to know that I can’t use this library in any of my projects (at least until they change the license).
VanMoof, bike with anti thief system
Crying about the environment when talking about anything is ludicrous. Do you not poop? Do you not eat? Do you not consume in a modern society? Should we not play games anymore? Should we not watch movies? Find something else to cry about.
A word of advice to the emp. eng. peeps:

Just cut all the BS.

Give emps. some PS.

Watch emp. eng. n biz soar.

The stock mkt. will roar.

- VR

[PS = Profit Sharing ]
I suspect they'd rig it as some elaborate "opt-out" process.

I recall at my university, circa 2000, you could theoretically get back the fee that paid for the student council services, but you had to go to some random room in the middle of the day to claim it and it was USD1/semester. Meanwhile the much larger gym fee was not refundable.
Put it that way, it makes more sense. Thanks for taking the time.
I am paying 52% income tax rate in the upper bracket. I doesn't stop me from trying to increase my income.

Clarification - I am not making any claims as to whether I support this tax level or not. I am just saying it doesn't discourage me from trying to get ahead.
How do you know that's not a cultural norm you learned? Blanket pronunciations on human nature tell me more about you than anyone else.