skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My concern with USB-C is lint. My iPhone’s Lightning port regularly collects pocket lint, which I fish out with a toothpick. That’s easy to do.

(I notice the lint in there because the Lightning cable doesn’t quite snap in all the way; each time I’ve pushed it in, I’m compressing the lint up at the back of the port, and eventually it gets too much and prevents a solid connection. Only happens about once a year, but it happens.)

Looking at a USB-C port, there’s still space for lint but much less space to get in and remove it. Can anyone with a USB-C phone share their experience?
I get the impression that the spotlight and bad press gave them a huge boost in sales despite basically flat year-over-year users. OTOH, when everyone's talking about how your ads can elect governments, it s a huge compliment.
Are you in London? I’ll buy them.

I need them for computational chemistry hobby of mine
When you see a hammer lying around, do you think of the things that could be built or the things that could be destroyed?
Last activity on github was 3 years ago. Seems the project is dead.
A Green Light for Waymo’s Driverless Testing in California
Blac China to visit Nigeria
Agree,the Lego games are (mostly) great.

Thanks for the tip! Didn't know about common sense media and it's exactly what I was looking for!
Discussed at the time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3145080
An Octopus Farm would certainly be an interesting concept.
The title of this submission was different when I made my previous comment. Something about aliens or extraterrestrial intelligence.
If we keep voting up all these hard right people we'll all be using screwdrivers to maintain Gilead soon enough.
Slight correction: the short story published as "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale," not "Total Recall".
This one is particularly tricky:

https://crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/civil-war-soldiers-disabled-...

A left-handed penmanship contest for soldiers who lost their right arms and were relearning to write. Some of them are remarkably good considering, but some are barely legible.
I get cable internet for $55/mo with no cable packages at all.

It's certainly overpriced for what it is, but it's still much, much cheaper than a complete package, which is easily twice that figure.
I dived in the barrier reef a decade ago. Soooooo much life everywhere I looked. In a single dive you’d see so many animals you couldn’t keep track of. It was just the most amazing experience I’ve had. Like I was in another plant.

I dived recently, it wasn’t the same. It’s like I went from a 8K Oled plasma to a CRT monitor.

I’m just really sad my kids will never get the same experience.

May be we are cancer to the planet after all.
My expectation is that any ARM laptop/desktop made by Apple would include some form of x86 emulation, just like they used during their PPC-x86 and 68k-PPC transitions.
Ask HN: Would one be able to succeed in compsci if they are illiterate in math?
How is a CRISPR trial on a terminal patient any different than another experimental medical trial on that same terminal patient?
how easy is it? It floats, so it only fills a room from the top down... and if you fall over unconscious, you're automatically moving to a part of the room with more oxygen. it would have to displace all of the air in a room in order to suffocate someone, no?
I can't plan for every contingency. I'm not sure anyone can.

But nurturing a network of family and friends, keeping reasonable savings, maintaining modest expenses, and having more than one set of valuable skills covers a lot of possibilities. These have come in handy already, and I'm sure they will again.

I would say yes.
Correct, I finally got tired of playing games with Comcast and I actually pay them more now for 250Mbps internet ($95) than I would for a TV+250Mbps bundle (I think the latter would have been $10/mo cheaper, at least for a year..)
Previous gen didn't, so I doubt the new gen does.
I think "who left that hammer there?"
Hydrogen is no more explosive than other flammable gasses when mixed with ambient air. To get the explosive effect, you need to mix it with oxygen in the right proportion (2:1, molecule-wise) and not have any filler gas such as nitrogen.
Good insight, thanks, I only see his public stuff which is generally pretty good, but I assumed he would put more quantitative/exclusive analysis in his subscriber stuff
Oxygen monitors are standard practice when you have MRI machines and Helium cooling. I would like to assume that this monitoring was in place and it never raised any flags? https://www.pureairemonitoring.com/helium-mri-rooms-around-w...

The air’s usual O2 concentration is ~20.5% and it looks like safety monitors trigger at 19.5% and 18%: https://www.pureairemonitoring.com/all-categories-gas-monito...

Helium makes up less than 0.0005% of air naturally. I’m guessing that increasing He concentration 1000 times to 0.5%, for example, is enough to cause problems for iPhones, but not enough to trigger the alarm or pose any danger to people.
But they still claim that TLS provides proper forward secrecy, which is of course is true for a passive attacker, but not for a malicious server.
October 21 post-incident analysis
I like the fact that there's a little competition.

Personally, I tried btrfs as a root filesystem for a couple years. It definitely had weird gotchas like running out of inode space pretty frequently when making use of snapshots. A few years back I also ran into a problem with a bunch of zero length files (race between writing metadata and content?)

I switched this year and I found zfs to much more user friendly and reliable, although setting up zfs on a root on ubuntu is still a manual process.
I have not had cable or satellite since 2008 and I do not miss it. Amazon prime has tons of free stuff. Have a Netflix account. Have a proxy that lets me watch things like the BBC (hey BBC, you could make money if you allowed an online subscription for those not in the UK - I did pay for a TV pieces BTW as my address is register to a friend in the UK). There is also iTunes for things. Have Kodi with my local collection of DVDs ripped.

What is missing is a roll up service. I want an application that has a list of my services and then presents me a uniform search box for all them! That would rock. Thought about writing one but it would just get shutdown for violation of the terms of service. Also a Kodi plunging for Amazon, NetFlix and XM would rock at some point.
> The energy, land, and water required to produce 1 lb of beef is several times greater than

It also tastes several times greater, and in exchange is several times more expensive.

> Not saying we need to stop eating beef completely, but...

Funny, every time an activist says "we", I understand "everybody else". Pro tip: you do not make friends by telling people how to live their lives.
Yeah but the definition of 'urban' the census uses and the layman's conception of 'urban' are totally different. Take for example - how many urban areas do you think are in Kansas? Really go ahead take a guess. It's 78 (including 5 areas that cross borders). Somehow I don't think Sabetha, KS is going to strike many people as 'urban.'

Here, click around: https://www.google.com/maps/@39.9079984,-95.8056799,3a,75y,7...

You'll see what I mean.
Getting people to Mars has come a long way since Werner von Braun wrote "The Mars Project" (https://www.wlym.com/archive/oakland/docs/MarsProject.pdf) in 1953. Zubrin writes a good case.
Any security hardware using this oscillator would be at risk too. I can see the Mission Impossible plot to use it to attack a security systems and IP cameras if they used those chips.
By compsci do you mean "computer science research" or commercial development? Math is serious business in CS research. But, in the field, serious math is how programmers do things that seem like magic to other programmers because most programmers aren't actually that good at math.
Agreed. Every time I try to return equipment to comcast, they ship me another unit because "we noticed you have cable TV service, but no cable box on your account!"

But you know damn well if I ever lose that box in my attic, some day they're coming after me.

I finally gave in and pay more per month for internet-only just so i don't have to store their damn box in my attic and I'm not inflating their TV subscriber numbers.
Lua is a good example of an open source project that is not an "open collaboration", isn't it.
Laser technique may open door to more efficient clean fuels
I completely agree. I used to be a heavy xmonad user, but I've had to be on macOS for work the past few years. I've found emacs to be a suitable substitute for a tiling window manager for the majority of my use cases and then have macOS for the creature comforts part. I've been test driving KDE Plasma recently at home, and it's quite nice these days. I wouldn't call it fast compared to other linux desktop environments, but it's pretty snappy compared to the KDE I tried five years ago. It was pretty simple to get it looking and feeling similar to my mac environment, and then emacs is always emacs. I do wish there was a more modern feeling TWM, but for now I like having something family/friends/coworkers can comfortably navigate when the need arises.
Yes, I edit 12000x12000 Photoshop images in real-time on my TRS-80 Model 4 every day. Kids these days.
No, that's not enough. I can provide examples in a non-public venue.
When I saw X1, it looked nice, and now Comcast is pushing the Plume pods (or something that looks like them) as repeaters. They're doing generally slick things with individual device blocking and such. That is to say, offering services that are actually harder to do on your own.

The slow button press is how I feel about DirecTV. I could simply never use it because I find the 1 second delay absolutely intolerable.
I know some Gordon Bell finalists have used these tensor cores for a dramatic speedup. As far as I know, there isn't any QCD code yet. NVIDIA has a small team of developers who write libraries to make QCD screamingly fast https://github.com/lattice/quda/ ; I don't know if/where the tensor cores may be most effectively leveraged.
Or Alibaba or Aliexpress. If you're actually going to wait for a china boat to showup with your stuff 3 months later, don't pay the Amazon premium, go as directly to the source as you can.
It’s called nominative determinism
Just a note on the T2: it's a variant of the A10, more specifically, it's basically an A10 running a custom operating system (BridgeOS) and with the high performance cores disabled. There might be other modifications, but it isn't the kind of thing I would hold up as a triumphant piece of Mac-specific engineering. Not that it is a bad piece of silicon, just repurposed silicon isn't the sort of thing I would put stock in when it comes to the importance of the Mac to Apple.

The TouchBar was a good example though, even if it didn't receive the warmest reception on the market, it is still a good piece of Mac-specific engineering.
> Helium is a 'noble element', check the Periodic Table and tell me how Helium gets to be part of a molecule. Unless a lot has changed since I was at school then you aren't going to get a lot of helium 'molecules'. It just doesn't work like that

Yeah, well maybe they don't tell you all the details and special cases in school...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_gas_compound
Slightly off topic, Comcast actually stole my mom's modem that she bought from amazon! What happened is most likely the modem she bought was supposed to be returned to comcast by another customer, but that person instead just put it up for sale on amazon. Every so often a charge for a box rental would show up on her bill, she would go to the store in person to show them the receipt, get a refund and the charges would stop. Then 3 months went by and the charge appeared on the bill again. This went on for a year and a half. No one in customer service could help and at the end they said the only solution is just give us the modem and buy another one.

Apparently in order to deal with stolen modems, comcast simply charges whatever customer has that modem regardless of whether or not the modem itself was supposed to be returned by another customer but never was. That is one hell of a way to get your stolen modem's back. Can you imagine if you went to the golf course and had your own clubs which you bought on amazon, but the course charged you for club rental every time you went, until they demand you hand over your clubs, and force you to buy another set to be allowed to play?

That is how comcast harassed my mom for a year and a half, stole her modem, and tried to charge her rent for a different customers box.
> Have you ever watched a grown up learning to swim, bike or ice-skate?

I’m a Level 2 CASI certified snowboard instructor. I taught hundreds of adult beginners over the years. I myself started as a never-ever when I was 35.

Season starting soon, come up (I’m at Vancouver/Grouse) it’s awesome!
Multi-story building. The floor could be, given enough gas, under.
Electronic parts also get helium exposure on the launch pad in a rocket. I know for example there can be helium sensitivity issues on gyros for CubeSats.
With regards to a roll up service, this is something I want too. The best approximation I've seen is the media search on Roku. You can search for a movie or TV show and it will show you which Roku channels offer that content. It's of course not as seamless as a real roll up service could be, but I thought I'd suggest it. On your phone/tablet, you may appreciate the "Just Watch" app which lets you search the providers you select.

FWIW I used to swear by Roku but then they started randomly adding channels to my screen. This was basically a paid ad, if you were a service provider you can pay Roku to force your channel onto the device. Once that started I chucked all my Roku devices.
The base 12-inch model is $999.

The Pencil ($129) and Smart Keyboard Folio ($199) are not included.

At $1,327, how does it compare specs-wise with the new 13" MacBook Air?
I don't know why this factual comment would be voted down. It is functionality built into the OS to produce mouse cursor motion.

Not like my life depends on a karma point; this is simply puzzling.
Another scary practice is venting natural gas indoors. Most of the time it's fine, but sometimes you get a catastrophic explosion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjxBtwl8-Tc
(The US Chemical Safety Board has a bunch of interesting videos.)
I said 'for this scenario', I suppose I should have been more clear. In my post I go on to list ways to change the scenario so it does fit the fitness function. I do agree the fitness function is probably correct, but the rest of the implementation doesn't match it.
That sounds way more complicated (expensive) than using a minimalist signature to identify cancerous cells.
Definitely will be looking there when I get the opportunity
Not all of them, e.g. 9007199254740993 can't be represented in a double precision format (what javascript uses)

For single precision floats you start having issues representing integers as low as 16777217
Cute, but way too slow to be fun.
Unless there's another pair of SODIMM slots hidden somewhere out of view, that'd be because the 64GB configuration requires a pair of 32GB DDR4 SODIMMs. These were only announced by manufacturers earlier this year, and aren't even available at most retailers yet.
I'd be interesting in understanding your usecase better. Can you send me an email? ben@kaggle.com
What I don't get is why these conversations try to pretend that "best practice" is a single point, making huge implicit assumptions about the skill level and practices of the host organizations... Things which almost always have larger force multipliers than the wider space of "what options for this (theoretically) exist in wider industry".

If I have a team of apes slapping keyboards that know Perl and don't understand finer points of OS/servers/state-management very much and see JS as form of evil, then yeah... I'm going to have an MPA where everything complicated happens in a CGI Perl backend that gets wiped clean between every request and probably hand-roll a little bit of turbolinks for them so they don't have to in the spots that will benefit from that.

If I have a team consisting of a single perfect crystalline entity that exists out of time and can pluck the correct solution out of the set of all possible solutions and just start banging out source files in alphabetical order, but BA is staffed by two-headed barbarian ettins that change their mind mid-sentence and can't produce static documentation then we're going to have to account for that least common denominator when it comes to our project management style -- super-iterative... maybe kanban, crystal boy banging out a set of feature branches and staging environments for them with big demos meetings of "so.. kinda like this?"
Yes, even if we just switched to pure lottery for traveling, we'll have a privileged class of people who win that lottery and get to travel somewhere they like. However, this inequality is at least independently distributed from other forms of inequality. To me that's already an improvement. There's also lots of other areas where I think competition could be entirely eliminated. Take healthcare, there's basically no need for that to be a competitive system.
Yup, it seems like you can game it by looking for the easiest one and waiting till the very end to hit it.
The last proposal I saw floated involved sites sending a header to opt in to SharedArrayBuffer and the browser ensuring that all successful loads such a site does are done with CORS enabled. That ensures that such a site only has access to data that is either same-origin or explicitly shared by the other sites it's pulling data from, so there's no point in doing a spectre attack to start with.
well, 2.1 isn't an integer.
So your process is limited to the resources of a node right? And coordinating data between jobs is via a shared file system or network messaging between nodes?
Carbonating at Home
I recently bought wireless headphones. I have a small collection is wired headphones.

Given that Apple, Google and reportedly Samsung have done away with it, and everyone still buys their phones, you have to ask yourself, how long will you hold out?
Because you don't modify the genetics of terminal, living adults, you want to modify the genetics of single-cell healthy zygotes (who will, you hope, later develop into healthy adults).
If helium is small enough to get in a watertight phone, it is certainly small enough to dissipate in a probably not so watertight building.
Every aluminum Macbook makes your palms sweaty, the aluminum body is designed to shed heat. Even a charging iPhone can get very hot just browsing HN. I don't think Apple has ever produced a machine that runs cool to the touch.
My phones seem to eat cables, at the rate of about one a year, per device, but the ports last the lifetime of the device - which is a huge improvement over microusb.
At Oculus they still have John Carmack - I think that matters a lot more than the kickstarter founder they had that left.
Dark forests wouldn't waste a round-trip. They'd shoot first. This probe isn't aimed at Earth directly.
One Degree (YC W14 Nonprofit) Is Hiring a Software Engineer
In the west, the lower classes are more likely to use screens too much when young, while the higher classes are restricting their kids' screen time (which hopefully leads to them doing more with their hands).
One can only hope that those software devs who create applications for both ecosystems don't leave for greener pastures, taking their software with them...
Rpitx: RF Transmitter for Raspberry Pi
I feel like the bar is constantly being raised. Which messengers provide cover traffic? To my knowledge it is only pond, which has been discontinued. Pond was limited to text at about 5kB/s. Sustained connections is not suitable for mobile phones, and unless you sustain a data flow or introduce random delays correlation attacks will always be possible.

Signal could probably force TOR connectivity (forcing websockets for those connections), which would conceal the sender even more, but would not stop correlation attacks.

This also wasn't made to stop correlation attacks. This is a measure to reduce metadata being stored on the server. Messages stored on the server won't have a "from" label that can be read by the server.
Cool stuff.
Check out Quantum Pilot where the enemies literally mirror your previously recorded actions. Steam / Android / iOS
Facebook Open-Sources QNNPACK Kernel Library
On a side note, does anyone know if anything special was used to create the descriptive images in this blog post? They look great and describe connections between related regions really well.

Eg https://blog.github.com/assets/img/2018-10-25-oct21-post-inc...
Linksys Smart WiFi Setup
Cook is motivated by making his hill of beans as big as possible, rather than by being a super-cool dude who is the envy of other super-cool dudes. So I fully expect lease-with-no-chance-to-own to become the business model for some of the Apple range.

At least - Apple will try it. But I don't think it's going to fly.

Part of the Apple Magic[tm] is conspicuous display of ownership. Rent-to-wear won't have the same cachet.
Actually we've met once, but it wasn't on Grouse. I'll keep the open invitation 'till it's relevant.
One of the dangerous things about hydrogen is its wide flammability range: from 4% to 75% concentration of hydrogen in air. Hydrogen will detonate in concentrations between 18% and 59%. In comparison, gasoline has a surprisingly small flammability range of 1.4% to 7.6%.
I have found the position of my finger in relation to a touchscreen has a substantially weaker correlation with successfully pressing the button I want than the position of the thread in relation to a needle's eye has with successfully threading the needle.
Doesn't PyCharm provide IntelliSense?
Consider a game like Splatoon where you shoot ink, would that be close enough to your chocolate example? If so, it is a very successful game
Multi-actuator drives are also coming in the next few years:

https://blog.seagate.com/craftsman-ship/multi-actuator-techn...

That will close the performance gap a bit too I suspect. I have to wonder about power consumption though.
Don't think about the wiring in your neighborhood then
It's great to see how open they are about what happened and how it got fixed. I also appreciate the decision to prioritise data integrity over site usability too.

Looks like Github could be OK after the Microsoft acquisition.
Very nice! I have added your project to Awesome Humane Tech [0], in the Mindfulness section. Thank you!

[0] https://github.com/engagingspaces/awesome-humane-tech
> Looking at a USB-C port, there’s still space for lint but much less space to get in and remove it. Can anyone with a USB-C phone share their experience?

You anticipated my experience exactly. My iPhone 6 got lint impacted as much as my Pixel, but it was a lot easier to fix the iPhone. Lightning does seem to require a more solid connection. USB-C will work longer with a "partial connection", which really just means I'm going to wait longer to clean it out.

Edit: I've never gotten any lint inside any of my USB-C cables though. Looking at the cable in front of me, it would be a bitch to clean out.
After a bit of thought remembered the recent episode where they fired their old-timers, that's a negative.
Verdant – Versioning in Jupyter Notebook/Lab
If you keep posting unsubstantive comments, especially off-topic political flamebait, we're going to end up banning your account. We've had to ask you multiple times already.
Databases are the core of a digital business. The opportunity cost of losing data is huge. Customers won't blindly trust a product with their data until they understand the pricing. Nobody is putting this DB into production on a 30-day free trial with no pricing info.

CockroachDB focuses a lot on showing technical users that they can trust the product. If they want to make money, then they need to become a trustworthy vendor, too.