skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A New Yorker article on American small talk is discussed here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12031975
Not sure what you mean by "the West" but here in Western Europe we have have lots of protection for old buildings.

In the UK they're referred to as "Listed Buildings" and are protected by law.

We also have a strong heritage cultures e.g. things like classic car clubs, historical farm displays, etc.

I can't comment on Japanese homes but I can tell you it would be pretty easy to find examples of a 500-1000 year old houses or pubs still in daily use through out the UK .

It used to be the case that Japanese cars were bought new with vehicles exported after only a few years of use, although I believe that this has lessened somewhat now.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_used_vehicle_exportin...
Wouldn’t an iOS 2 app be 32-bit, which was deprecated with iOS 11?
I'm skeptical as we've seen with folks like the Kushners plenty of folks will build some fancy high end / highly profitable development "near" places that could use some improvement.... but they don't really help anyone in those zones.
Companies legally prohibit 3rd party repair as it affects their IP. There are a lot of companies that void all warranties if you try a 3rd party / DIY repair. I've had first-hand experiences with Apple and Samsung in India. There are lots of other companies, see - https://repair.org/industries/main/

Coming back to your situation, a magnetron might not be patented but that could just be one of the many components that renders a microwave non-functional and a lot of those other components might be patented. A microwave repair shop cannot possibly be profitable if it only fixes magnetron issues. It would want to fix most, if not all, issues with customers' microwaves. But it can't as companies legally prohibit 3rd party repairs. Sure, people still reverse engineer and fix things by themselves but these laws are major blockers for 3rd party repair markets to flourish. Despite the laws, there are pockets where this still occurs (e.g. China). And should the ban on 3rd party repair be lifted, it's going to be a different ball game and opportunities could bring us a lot more big businesses like iFixit.
I’ve always loved this concept. I made this back in the day, kind of relevant. https://www.launchclock.co
Is there a setting to change this in firefox?
> The Finnish don’t believe in talking bullshit

How quaint!
I love the weekly iOS newsletter https://ios-goodies.com/
Funnily enough, I had a meeting with Nick a few months ago (about Brexit) and he mentioned being out in SV as part of work his organisation was doing. I suspect that may have not been the full truth..

His organisation, Open Europe, employed 6 people. I wonder if they will follow him to FB.

For what it's worth, given his domain expertise (particularly the EU), I think it is a fantastic hire.
I just don't understand how this is possible. The only way to implement Dijkstra's algorithm in less than O(|V|^2) time is using a min-heap. In practice it might be rare to use heaps over ordered sets but it is one of the first tree structures I was taught in my data structures course.
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Hi guys,

Pretty simple question, just trying to find some pointers as to how others would approach this, maybe there's some ideas I could use.

I'll be in NYC for one week, mostly pleasure, just visiting the city. However, being a .NET dev working as a contractor in my home country, I'd really like to take advantage of meeting with people/companies so I can find clients that would be willing to hire me as a near-shore resource.

How would you approach this problem on short notice? Any ideas?

Thanks
Why should one need an IT education in order to communicate over the web? Computing is used by literally billions of people.

I much prefer modern forums to usenet. And I'm sitting on a whole bunch of CS degrees.
The clue is in the name. It is the British Broadcasting Corporation, not the American Broadcasting Corporation. The article is written for a British target audience, quite possibly by British journalists - therefore British terms will be used.

Just like an American publication will use American terms, even if doing a British based story.
Thanks for the pointer, it looks quite cool! We will check it out in more detail in the next days!
> startups have tremendously high variance. Most startups are st. There's a few of them that are really exceptional, and if you land at an exceptional one, you can do really well. If you randomly pick something, you'll probably have a bad time.

Great words of wisdom. How does one find a great one though? Even for YC with their expertise and experience, most of the startups they fund are not great.
It seems to be that the background colour value is set to `rgb(1,1,1,0.65)` and is missing the alpha channel in the attribute.

I made an identical page using `rgba(1,1,1,0.65)` and it looks better on iOS.

https://countdownto.xyz/c/jnfztcj0

This seems to be only a WebKit issue, you can produce the same results on desktop Safari. Other browser engines must detect when an alpha channel value is used with an `rgb` CSS attribute and update that attribute to `rgba` accordingly as an assumed fix.
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If you can write down the Turing machine for anything, then a person with pencil and paper can simulate its execution. That direction doesn't appear to be the way to go. Despite the generality of what I wrote above, the only feasible counterexample would be one that people can do on paper but a Turing machine somehow can't.
We don't know how to scale those [1]. It's very easy to specify a simple sorting function in Idris/Java with JML and prove it correct. It's a whole other matter to specify the global properties of an entire system, and verify them all the way down to the small bits of code. Various code synthesis tools are even more limited, as they tend to rely heavily on fragile automated reasoning tools like SMT solvers, although both are orders of magnitude away from being able to handle real applications that I think that comparing them to one another is a bit beside the point.

The biggest programs ever written and verified with deductive proofs -- be it dependently typed languages or any verification based on deduction, correspond at most to ~10,000 LOC of C, taken years of work by academic experts, and had to be significantly simplified to make proofs easier (i.e., they had to use only the simplest data structures, etc.). In contrast, business applications are 2-3 orders of magnitude bigger.

[1]: And when I say "we don't know" I mean that it is possible that some time in the next 2-5 decades we may be able to do something, but it's also possible that there are fundamental complexity limitations that mean that this particular path will never lead to something similar to what we may imagine it could.
As a Finn, I've always found this story quite amusing. An American comes to visit a Finnish university and tells about his first meetings there:

https://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1...
Can you recommend any particular tutorial or resource for getting a music production setup like yours going in Linux? Last time I tried was in 2014 and I couldn’t figure out (or find documentation at my level on) wiring JACK up.
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Your job is whatever you agreed to when accepting that job.

Some companies require managers to aid in the technical development of employees, some don't. Some provide a lot of latitude in how that's done, some don't.
Encoding a decision table is the boring, easy, part, even if you do it in assembly. But that's not what the post is about. It's about the hard part, which is figuring out what the decisions should be. In many, many cases (most cases I would say), writing the code is the easiest, least interesting part of developing software.
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The system is the sum of the parts.

Once, while investigating the cause of occasional bursts of static in audio, I eventually narrowed it down to misconfigured pull-down resistors on the ADC data lines. (Okay, not quite silicon.)

EEC memory, a not uncommon upgrade for servers, guards against data corruptions due to thermal noise (a silicon-level concern), among other things.

Okay, it's rare that the lowest levels will affect most projects, but without a little bit of understanding, some bugs can be impossible to even fathom.
It isn’t a climate thing. The further north you go through Finland, up to where the cold season lasts much longer than in the south, the more talkative people become. Northerners may not have smalltalk interactions with strangers, but they are more talkative among themselves than people in southern Finland.
I've experienced 2 through 5 first-hand when I joined a startup

It was shocking for me to witness critical technical decisions being made within a couple of minutes _research_ i.e. reading a blog post
What was the title?
That's very interesting, and will give me a lot to think about. Thanks !

The trick is pretty much what I already do for inspiration, wether it's for apps (very time consuming) or writing, and it's a great one.
What I don't understand is if you can train a final layer on the reservoir's random representation, why is this better than just training the final layer on your data directly? I assume the answer has something to do with dimensionality reduction?
Enter the implicate (folded) order of the holoverse ("holographic universe"), which Bohm (among others) developed and supported.

See the non-local, higher-ordering properties of true holograms and eg. this mixed fluid experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpJ-kGII074

More on all this in Michael Talbot's amazing book "Holographic Universe": https://wikischool.org/book/holographic_universe
Having a queen and a ridiculously nationalist political parties has to be the most embarrassing parts of being British.

I think Boris Johnson does quite a splendid job in the British embarrassment department.
>Neighborhood association bylaws...

HOAs and the people who subject themselves to them are a self selecting group who want that kind of stuff. In some wealthy suburbs the town government functions basically like a HOA trying to maintain property values by keeping the "wrong" people out and keeping the "wrong" kind of development from happening. However, local governments mostly don't concern themselves with this level of micromanagement, it's the exception not the rule.

Caring about "unsightly" things is universal to rich busybodies worldwide. It's not about freedom, it's about doing things that inconvenience poor people so they don't move to your neighborhood.

For every horror story about an American HOA there's an equivilent

>Land of the free where you can shoot a person that enters your garden

Outside some very specific circumstances shooting someone who is on your property is likely to put you behind bars regardless of what state you do it in.
> but at a bare minimum the specification should be machine readable.

I don't think it's the bare minimum, as an informal specification is far better than none at all, but I agree that a formal specification is better -- at least in the more complicated cases -- as it forces precision and also allows the use of tools that could check it in various ways.
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In romanian, a more isolated romance language, "mancare" means food and "a manca" is to eat.
I casually browsed a few of them and from what I found is that aromatherapy works for some people mainly in mild cases of anxiety, not for pain relief. Some articles:

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gps.1688

"In summary, lavender is effective as an adjunctive therapy in alleviating agitated behaviours in Chinese patients with dementia."

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/gps.473

"Post hoc analysis suggested that at this time of day the AM consistently reduced motor behaviour when compared with CA (p = 0.05). This provides preliminary evidence of a measurable sedative effect of aromatherapy massage on dementia within a robust scientific paradigm."

* https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S152695230...

"Our results suggest that aromatherapy-massage might be an effective intervention for postpartum mothers to improve physical and mental status and to facilitate mother-infant interaction."

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1365-2648....

"There were no statistically significant differences in the physiological stress indicators or observed or reported behaviour of patients' ability to cope following any of the three interventions However, those patients who received aromatherapy reported significantly greater improvement in their mood and perceived levels of anxiety They also felt less anxious and more positive immediately following the therapy, although this effect was not sustained or cumulative"

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1046/j.1440-1819....

"These results indicate that in chronic hemodialysis patients hiba oil is an effective, non‐invasive means for the treatment of depression and anxiety, and that lavender alleviates anxiety."

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ptr.26500303...

"Although the overall number of supervening infections and their characteristics were not modified by the treatment, the frequency of relapse at least appears to have been significantly lowered in the group receiving treatment compared to the group receiving placebo."

* https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/smi.1402

"These findings suggest that peppermint aroma may be useful for relieving stress. "

* https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11695-007-9170-7

"Our results suggest that lavender aromatherapy can be used to reduce the demand for opioids in the immediate postoperative period."
After 10 years of work you still can't do much useful unless you run X and shim it with XWayland. "Stable" is a strange descriptor given this context.
I think I fit both of those. When I start working with something I just want to throw something together and get it working learning as i go. I believe you never fully understand what you need to build until you've tried it.

But then I like to step back, read up on the underlying components and rebuild from scratch making sure i understand every possible flow.
Historically, in British English, 1,000,000,000,000, i.e. one million million, or 1012 (ten to the twelfth power), as defined on the long scale. This is one thousand times larger than the short scale billion, and equivalent to the short scale trillion.

Check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_and_short_scales for more
While this may be the "first evidence" in the sense of measurements of brain activity, swifts apparently sleeping at 10,000 feet were directly observed 100 years ago: https://www.rspb.org.uk/globalassets/downloads/documents/con...
How would you do this? Firstly, flow isn't really something you plan, it's more like, you get working on something and oh my god, it's 5:30 already? Where'd the day go?

Second, you can't just move meetings around, in my experience. Once something is scheduled, it calcifies; it's too much work coordinating time zones and schedules, and if you push something up, most people that were planning on it being later will be even more unprepared to discuss than usual.
Why not just "Solomon, writing under the pen name 'Ecclesiastes', said..."?

Saying "the man" and then following up with "the fellow with the name" emphasies that who he was is less important than what he said; the fact that it's Solomon, writing Ecclesiastes (two names widely recognised in the Western canon) serve to emphasise this. EVEN THOUGH it's written by someone famous in a famous book, what he wrote is STILL more important than who he was. That is part of the meaning here. There's another level to it, as well; the author is well aware that he's out on a limb here and his jovial tone makes it clear that he's not taking himself too seriously.

Stripping it down to just "Solomon, writing under the pen name 'Ecclesiastes', said..." changes the meaning.

I suppose he could have explicitly said "Here are some words written by the famous person Solomon in the famous book Ecclesiastes, but the words are more important than who he was and the book he wrote, and I'm telling you this because it makes it clear how much more important the words are than the origin of them, but don't take me too seriously on this folks!" but that seems clunky.
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> If you're thinking about joining a startup, how do you tell if the founders are like Larry and Sergey or if they're an Elizabeth Holmes?
Right, that's the worst combination: smart and full of st. I think you have to interview them a little bit. Ask hard questions and see if they give direct, insightful answers, or if they're evasive and dismissive.

What are some examples of "hard questions" that we can ask?
I was unable to find one. Right now the only way seems to be to patch nss.
In my community it is against the rules and deemed unsightly
I really like your comparison. It's really on point.

Thanks for taking the time and for your kind words !
I railed aganinst Red Hat and Fedora for years, then gave in to peer pressure eventually - it's been an extremely pleasant and productive experience.
> When emperise gives way to nations, minorities suffer.

The very creation of those empires was a violent subjugation of nations through carnage and pillaging. But who cares about their suffering that lasted for centuries as long as we have muh multi-ethnic caliphate, right?
I don’t think so. Heaps are a bread-and-butter data structure typically covered in an undergraduate Data Structures course and then used in an undergraduate introductory Algorithms course.

I’d expect someone to know heaps the same way I’d expect them to know about hashmaps or quicksort.
Thank you! Your comment made me realize I definitely spend too much time on HN...
It will accelerate corrosion and rust. Modern, higher end machines are probably going to use stainless for all the affected parts but I wouldn't risk it on an expensive newer machine. Older machines are more likely to have non-stainless parts and if you've got an older machines you probably don't want to accelerate its demise.
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No, he's onto something. Don't let popular understanding and terminology blind you, what we're looking at here is the shift from war as the primary driver of polity creation to what we now call popular sovereignty. This shift would have taken hundreds of years and Christianity would have been a huge driver.

Agrarian empires like the Roman one were absolutely massive, juggernauts that just couldn't be stopped. Yet the Middle Ages were a period of small, warring nations, with comparatively much smaller empires arising. Warfare slowly civilized to the point where the common people barely felt the sting.

The peace of Westphalia took place in 1648, creating the notion of an international system law that was bigger than the individual agreements penned between states.

The Napoleonic France of the 1800s represented a sharp break from this world, almost a repeat of the old juggernauts.

What caused empire to stop working and the polities to get ever smaller? I think the answer belongs in what your parent was getting at, people coalesced into ethnic communities and just wouldn't participate in the building of empire anymore. So existing empires broke up and nation-states arose.
Still, I imagine it's better to read your culture's canon of thought only than none at all. Obviously you're not going to get a diverse perspective on life that way, but you might get a perspective that isn't totally informed by id or media.
Furthermore, there are a ton of users that don't know what the GDPR is and wouldn't give a shit if they did; they are just sick of clicking out of a spammy cookie popup on every website they go to.
I'll definitely read that, thank you ! For those interested, it somehow is hosted as a pdf by duke https://sites.duke.edu/niou/files/2014/07/WilliamsJosephM199...
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A point that's not been discussed in the Ubuntu vs Debian discussion here is the difference in communities. A major reason I prefer Ubuntu - ok specifically Kubuntu - is because I find the community around it warm, welcoming, positive, encouraging and inclusive, whereas I found the Debian-user email list cantankerous to say the least. I'm glad there's a place for the kinds of posters out there in the world, but it's not for me. Horses for courses, as we say in the UK. Linux isn't just a bunch of software that I can use, but a community which I am a part of.
There is a setting (security.ssl.disable_session_identifiers). You have to add it yourself, it's not in about:config by default. See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=967977
> most governments seem corrupt

And a single company effectively functioning as a government (minus democratic accountability) would be better? Free markets only solve that problem through competition, which precludes the kind of centralization the GP was advocating.
Despite recieving enormous amounts of backlash and criticism from the tech comunity every release Canonical is the one company making Linux desktops available for less technical people and I applaud them for doing so!

Rocking the latest LTS here, and Ubuntu server on my homeserver. Wish them all the luck!
Not at all, OS X/iOS, Windows, ChromeOS and Android is where money is for anyone that wants to sell desktop/laptop/mobile software.

And the fact that Linux kernel is at the bottom layer of ChromeOS and Android is only an implementation detail to app developers.
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I would have loved to have this in my previous job. I estimate I was in meetings about 20 hours per week, of which 8 hours were actually useful. Glad I'm not in that situation anymore! Nice project.
He's not saying it won't work, he's saying it doesn't exist yet, so talking about it as if it does is a bit silly.
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> "Let's get rid of CAs!" Sounds great. "Let's replace the CAs with a less accountable set of companies and governments that are harder to punish for bad behavior" doesn't sound so great. But thats what DANE is.

The common counter-point is that, because nearly every CA does domain validation, the owners of the DNS keys are already capable of getting arbitrary certs. Therefore, DANE does not give DNS key owners more power; all it does is take out the CA's as a potential failure point.
And really, as long as a cert attests that "You are talking to the owner of this domain" the power over certs is always going to lie with those who control the DNS system.

A possible response is that just taking power from the CA's but leaving power with the DNS key owners is not good enough. This does make some sense. It is not entirely clear to me how we will take this power from the DNS system though. The best bet are CT-logs, which will allow after-the-fact detection of any falsely issued certs. Notably though, attribution between CA's and the DNS system isn't solved here. Perhaps if CA's store the relevant signed DNS response, we could attribute the attack to the DNS system.
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