skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought the purpose of meditation was ultimately loss of ego, gaining perspective and understanding of our endless yet futile cravings and desires.

It’s pretty funny that we have adopted it as a tool for self improvement. If I meditate I can work harder, have less stress and better output! The reality is If you step into meditation wondering what personal gains you will get out of it you are already failing in a way.
Time zones in the US are a matter for the sovereign states, not the federal government.

There already exists at least one US member state that doesn’t practice DST: Arizona.
Voting by mail is an abomination that goes entirely against the idea of a secret ballot, allowing voter coercion, and sometimes even voting fraud. There is a reason most democracies don't do it.
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Because that still doesn't solve the problem of having to know the local offset to know if a proposed time is reasonable for them, for say a meeting.

It also makes it easier to talk to others, if they say "6pm" you think "dinner time" or "just off work" without having to know the location of the person, at the time they're talking about, which may not even be where they are.
I pay for a physical newspaper on saturday. I have access to the web version for the rest of the week, but I don't read it at all. It's slightly related, but I think that there is something deeply unaesthetic with reading news on a tablet.
Here is the standard answer to your question: https://qntm.org/abolish

The tldr; is that humans still operate more or less on the cycle of the sun
I think it has nothing to do with Democracy. Frankly, central authority should make this kind of stuff easier because a central entity can take into consideration all of the bureaucracies and do what needs to be done.

In Democracies, pushing through such changes has to be a nightmare - so many competing interests, populism, you have to find the right legislative window, legislation is burdened with irrelevant stuff, bureaucracies are resistant to change etc..
I'm really curious how many people win each pioneer round. I haven't been able to find that information. That's actually the only thing keeping me from participating again (I did the first one and I enjoyed it).

Also your terms of service don't say users are limited to a single account, so could someone create an account for each of their projects?
Why do you say that? Yes, $75M poses liquidity issues, but that doesn't mean that a smaller amount is easier. I'd wager that a smaller portfolio is harder because you can't diversify to mitigate your risk.
One limitation is that although "int" can be sub-typed, such a variable cannot directly index a slice.
Apparently it's a 32-socket system with Xeon Platinum 8180s in each socket. There's an article from Anandtech[0] in response to the blog post:

[0]: https://www.anandtech.com/show/13522/896-xeon-cores-in-one-p...
I don’t recall seeing this level of skepticism levied in the recent positive article about Tesla’s recent quarter finances. Maybe it’s just that people who are rabidly pro-Tesla have decided to dress up their conspiracy theories and victim complexes in the guise of skepticism.
> And yes, I know the last bit is perverse

They would rather have it dealt with quietly in a court room than have a breach of the peace. In this case its your neighbors being protected not the defendant.
There could be someone with intent, feeding news stories to the media in order to shape broader trends. Maybe not even feeding them directly, just seeding a range of topics hoping some of them catch fire, or just slow down Tesla by splitting their attention.
When I said "errors" I didn't only mean bugs. I mean failing to have a counted vote that's the same as what the voter intended.

The method I like most is paper ballots with optical scanners, which the general public can understand. Random audits for confirmation, yes, the general public can understand. Recounts, and hand recounts, yes, the general public can understand.
Can't we keep the link with solar noon?

Morocco should be on UTC, most of the cities fit neatly in that timezone. They could have made this decision on Monday
Wow, this is pretty cool! I've seen some art installations that work through a similar concept: this is one of the more memorable ones: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-GR9IVjU54

I built a similar (but less cool) project that builds these kinds of shapes out of a bunch of dots: https://jse.li/s-h-a-n-p-e-s/frontend/
The breakage you describe in A) shouldn't happen according to the proposal. The compiler for toolchain version X+1 should still be able to compile code that is language version X.
In most places "straight ticket" voting is more popular with some segments of the population than others. That leads to all kinds of shenanigans.
This is funny to read. Kids stuff has been getting tamer and tamer over the years. Check out the early 2Oth Century Disney cartoons, the original Popeye, etc.
Could it be that you're not getting the amount/quality of sleep you got before your kid was born?
Yes definitely enterprise but maybe you can get it as an add on by paying a bit extra. I used it a while ago so sorry can't remember the billing details.
> You can run your own DoH server that blocks tracking domains

Do you mean your own dns server which will be accessible to (anyone on) the public internet?
Maybe? The recent numbers looked really good, so they might be out of the woods. Assuming they can keep the numbers up, and assuming the numbers weren’t the result of accounting tricks, I’d say it’s looking good for Tesla paying off their debts next year. If the numbers were massaged though, or if they aren’t maintained, they could be in trouble. Well have a better idea when independent analysis of the quarter comes out, and a much better idea when they start paying off their debts in 2019. I’d be cautiously optimistic personally, but not shocked if it turns out badly either.
That's not how you get to the top of HN.
I'm commenting on the pain points specifically being addressed in Go v2, so I feel it's appropriate to talk about the alternatives here. I also tried to focus on specifics.
2.5 GB will give you terrible picture quality for a Bluray. Even streaming from Amazon or Netflix will be 5-6 GB for a two hour movie, and those are usually just passable.
Ask HN: How does this website know I'm in incognito mode?
When I try to view this page [1] in incognito mode it says, "You must exit incognito mode to read the content". How does it know I'm in incognito mode?

[1] https://www.technologyreview.com/s/429438/dear-everyone-teaching-programming-youre-doing-it-wrong/
What does "intentional" mean when this equipment is used over and over and the problem never gets fixed?
'Peaker pointed out that the GCC optimization involved in the factorial example is actually quite brittle: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15698924
See, this guy gets it. Now if we could only talk the rest of the world into it...
> That said, paper ballots and hand counting are the answer for secure and accurate vote counts

Hand counts aren't particularly accurate. Change that to paper ballots counted by optical scanners with some clever ballot design using cryptographic techniques to allow voters to verify that their vote was included correctly in the count and to allow independent third party auditing of the results, and then you have a secure and accurate system.

One way to do that is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scantegrity
I wouldn't put Dragon Fire in the same camp as Mask of Eternity at all. Dragon Fire is very much a QFG game, with almost all the same feel and some great moments. Mask of Eternity has almost literally nothing to do with KQ. I recommend you try Dragon Fire, actually, it's a lot of fun.
Why would you tell people that the recent libraries require nightly, when you admit that you haven't even looked at the library ecosystem in the past year? I honestly don't get the motivation that would make you want to come here just to post lies about a programming language.
Beijing is the transliteration preferred by Chinese authorities [1], not just “a foreign spelling”.

[1] https://www.economist.com/johnson/2010/11/11/beijing-or-peki...
The roads that you can parallel park at in the Southwest are the vast exception in my experience. If you did that just about anywhere in my town you’d be towed, as a nicer option for the authorities to choose.
And how would you handle concurrent updates and transactions?

The registry is a database. There is a reason we use Postgres instead of flat files, and it is not people overdesigning things for review time.

And again, if you think the registry maps 1-1 to the file system you don't understand it. And that's fine. Just don't hate it because of that.
Variable-length integer encoding library using a little-endian representation
I agree with you that consumerism is at least one of the important issues, which is why generic "tech is bad and scary" articles are still a form of Luddism. It's not addressing the actual issue, as you said. You're sort of making this either/or case rather than a connected whole.

Your kid is eventually going to have a communication device. You have to embrace the dangers of that and teach them about the issues they'll face and the compromises they'll have to make when using it. That doesn't mean you disable Netflix, but that does mean you can teach them about how the internet works, how companies make money off advertising and data, and that there are still ways to protect themselves to reduce risks. Your 2nd paragraph is all things I cover with my kids.

"No, convenience trumps all"

No, this is not what we should teach our kids. Compromises may be acceptable, but that doesn't mean convenience trumps all. One other avenue to explore is how our government can and should do more to make it harder for companies to abuse people in the name of convenience. That's not something that they do a good job of now, but hey, better education for people is part of the point we're discussing. Luddites don't even know the right questions to ask.

"There is no responsible way to "teach" consumer technology"

I disagree, but also don't think we have a choice. Either you learn better ways to teach your kids about tech, or you'll continue to have a system that abuses tech.

"This is just common sense, it applies to everything."

Tech risks are not common sense though outside Silicon Valley. I agree some of the tech problems are more about consumerism, in general, but there are plenty of issues that aren't just that. Avoiding tech won't stop those particular issues.

"And as you write, the former is inevitable, but then so is a lack of privacy, and so are the bad habits that are inherent to consumer technology."

There will always be risks and compromises with interacting with tech. Going back to my sex-ed analogy, there are also risks with sex, but we learn to wear condoms and practice safe sex to minimize those risks. This idea that we can't teach safer risk mitigation strategies for tech also is silly: ad blockers, privacy blockers, better password and identity management, how and when to share personal information, government and legal interventions. All of these are things that affect tech use and should be taught.
Its an English phrase common in America. Read around these google results to get a better idea:

https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&ei=KJXTW4...
And Tempest too - just isn't the same without the dial/paddle!
I don't understand why it is so hard to add enums for example, Golang authors are fiercely defiant to adding many small essential features. I understand that they worship the statement "simple is beautiful", but they took the statement to a whole another unprecedentedly stupid level. And even after all the resistance towards generics, dependency management and error handling, they are trying to fix them very late and probably not through a good way

[Edit] whoa! until 4 minutes ago this comment was +6 and now it's -1, I am sure these are purely uncoordinated downvotes, sums up the hostility in the Golang community towards any kind of improvement or even the slightest shred of criticism, even though I use Golang heavily and I don't actually hate it, I really don't understand this hostility everywhere online (github, HN, reddit, etc...)

[Edit2] mass downvotes, still ZERO explanation. Typical golang "fans"
> QT = UI library.

Where do you fit Qt's support for networking, SQL databases, standard directory structures, multithreading, etc... ?
My only critic about SICP is the fondness for arithmetic/analysis in problem sets. For EE it's obviously normal. For pure programming it's an unnecessary requirement/burden (unless you love maths). HtDP is better in that regard.
I believe the essence is this: The computer creates some number of pieces, from which a human selects the one that is shown.

Brian Eno quote about a related field: music "The great benefit of computer sequencers is that they remove the issue of skill, and replace it with the issue of judgement"
> The obstacle being ego.

Ah. Well. At least I now understand what you mean. Though I've found deflating the egos of every person in a discussion to be a difficult task. Telling a person getting a hostile reception to get their ego out of the way tends to come across a lot like telling someone to take the licks they deserve, complete with generally being discarded out of hand. Telling a person who feels righteous anger to deflate their ego tends to be seen as telling them their feelings aren't valid.

It's definitely possible for it to work! But I've rarely seen it accomplished.

> Well you can help yourself out by not wasting an enormous amount of energy and craftsmanship around... whatever it is you are doing.

Trying to understand you, establishing myself as someone who isn't your enemy, so we could have an actual discussion. And maybe help you understand the people you appear to viscerally despise as human beings with wants and needs and desires and goals and communities, just like the ones you love and wish to protect so that we can work towards what's best for everyone.

I'm sorry we couldn't have that discussion. I felt like it could have been productive for everyone. Have a wonderful day!
Interesting - for symbolic differentiation I imagine it's about code-manipulation rules for e.g. calculus' product rule, chain rule etc.?
البطل المسلم حبيب نورماغوميدوف يسحق المتوحش كونور
Web-access to 100 miles of hd-maps for robots-ar-routing
The original commenter's HN profile links to his LI account here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nomadicengineer/ . He states that he lives in Turkey currently, but spent a lot of time in the US. Most famously, the commenter was the only sysadmin for frickin' Napster! Wow! So, yeah, he's legit!

Mr. Halligan, how was Napster back in those days? Like, do you have a blog about that time period?
Filesystems can support transactions. In fact, NTFS does [0] already.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transactional_NTFS
Not the original poster, but Merriam Webster gives a sense 2b to dubious:

questionable or suspect as to true nature or quality
the practice is of dubious legality
Isn't that grunt work usually a launch pad or part of the practice of becoming a lawyer? If so, how will future lawyers train to learn as well? Likewise I wonder how does this similarly impact education for medical professions.
Queinnec Lisp in small pièces explicitely argues that learning eval helps you model all dynlangs.
I enjoyed your comment. I agree with your reasons, though I don't think they are complete. I am not an expert on academia and I don't claim to be, so I have no solutions. I can just see the parallels and the general mechanisms.

I think Nassim Taleb does the best jobs at explaining the general mechanism of the problem: https://medium.com/incerto/an-expert-called-lindy-fdb30f146e...
“Easier” means nothing. All those checks and balances you despise, will often produce transition plans that are much more respectful of the overall system - precisely because an authority cannot steamroll arbitrary changes that might harm this or that legitimate interest.

Efficiency and correctness are not the same thing.
His settlement with the SEC over his "funding secured" tweet required Tesla to put in place a system to monitor Musk's tweeting.

Given that, the SEC is less likely to give leeway for further over-optimistic tweets.
Now, I know what you are saying and I’m all for Musk and SpaceX but... it’s a bit funny to think of rocket launches as a buisness where over promising and under delivering makes sense!
People around here understood what this was about very well. It was not a misunderstanding.
That's a surprisingly stupid statement to read on here.
Why is that important to you? Never once have I cared that solar noon is not 12:00.
There are plenty of issues with 'fill in the bubble' type ballots. Bubbles partially filled in, filled in then crossed out with another bubble filled in, etc...
Ask HN: VPS provider in Novosibirsk with fast ping to Japan?
Basically our server needs low latency to both London and Tokyo. I have been told RETN has some fiber that will go over Asia and there is at least one physical cable.

We don't need a lot of compute. I am wondering if there is a VPS provider in Siberia that would be hooked into this RETN or another overland fiber such that packets would take the more direct route to Japan. The one VPS provider I have tried is sending through data through Europe which is the wrong way.

Or if necessary would it be adequate to colocate in a RETN PoP in Novosibirsk?

Someone said we need to build our own network involving BGP routers or something. Seems unlikely to me that everyone that wants to avoid unnecessary planetary traversal from Russia to Japan is building their own network.

Thanks for any ideas.
Homeless Women Are the Sexual Assault Survivors No One Talks About
When all planes were grounded after 9/11, scientists collected some really interesting data on how airplane contrails effect the weather. (It's more than you'd expect.) https://globalnews.ca/news/2934513/empty-skies-after-911-set...
NetBSD: 57!
I don’t know about medication, but CBT should work on N
This was one of my favorite things about living in Arizona. Leaving work when it's dark out is no fun.
No mention of gavin woods' sloppy code resulting in 150,000 ether worth of investor funds being lost forever after the polkadot ico?
I tried on multiple occasions to understand Quaternions, but I never found the time to get them. It was like a personal mental block. I also bought into some of the pedagogical FUD surrounding quaternions and understood there were controversies surrounding James Clerk Maxwell's use of them.

In my search I by chance came across a book on "Geometric Algebra" -- or Clifford Algebra. It just so happens that Quaternions form a sub-algebra of the three-dimensional Clifford Algebra.

If you can get complex numbers, you can get Clifford Algebra in 2D. You can then go to Clifford Algebra in 3D.

I believe you can learn enough Clifford Algebra to "get" Quaternions in well under 20 hours, but also have a tool that generalises rotations to higher-dimensional vector spaces.

I'd previously had a topic I just couldn't understand in Fourier Transforms. I just never really got the point until one day it clicked. And when it did, it was no problem to me. That said, I never found any of the videos particularly useful before I understood. Likewise, I still don't find any of the quaternion videos too useful.

I found some course notes to be useful [0]. I then worked through "Linear and Geometric Algebra" by Alan MacDonald.

In short, don't give up. You can come to understand things by the most indirect of paths and your understanding will be all the better for it.

One hard-learnt tip if you do choose to go down this less-travelled route: Many expressions in GA can be simplified into wedge and dot products. I was needlessly writing down the algebraic expressions only to find they expanded back into these. So learn how to manipulate products early on and you'll save yourself from multi-page algebraic expressions.

[0] http://geometry.mrao.cam.ac.uk/2015/10/geometric-algebra-201...
One might say that they're all implementations of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-expression s.

My point, though, was that while the proponents of Lisp define Lisp one way (by the things only Lisp can do due to e.g. homoiconicity), the opponents of Lisp (like the author was, coming into the course) define Lisp by the set of features that make Lisp "not a Real Programmer†'s programming language"—i.e. the set of things that make them not want to use it.

† http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/R/Real-Programmer.html

My assertion was, from these opponents' perspectives, there are very few languages left for "Real Programmers"; most modern languages have inherited nearly all of those horribly convenient Lisp-isms. Heck—modern CPUs are so good at pointer-chasing, they may as well be Lisp Machines!
Surely people would just start using some sort of utility that tells them 'people in X are usually awake between these hours'. It replaces an existing problem with a slightly different problem but the net gain is you remove all the annoying edge cases people currently have to deal with when converting between time zones. For example, no longer being confused about how long your flight lasts that traverses time zones.
I'm amazed that was the extent of it.
This document is in fact not about the features in Go 2, but rather on the migration path between two languages, whose features are (in the piece) an abstraction. Please don't start language wars.
Your timezone does not dictate how dark your evenings are. The days have exactly the same amount of daylight regardless of what numbers you choose to label the hours with.
The car doesn't require touching the screen to operate it.

The nav / media controls do, but those can be voice operated, too. And a lot of the media controls work from the steering wheel knobs (play pause skip back etc.), also.

EDIT: And all Teslas can have their climate control turned on remotely by the app / API, and can be safely warmed up even in an enclosed space (since there are no fumes).
You can still do this in C, with the same implementation Lisp uses under the hood. C being C, there is a bit of syntax boilerplate. I also omitted some details which may have been relevant at the time such as ensuring no cast from function pointers to data pointers (not hard to handle, but makes the code a bit longer).

#include<stdio.h>
#define DX 0.0001
typedef double (*function)(double);
typedef double (*closure_body)(void*, double);
struct deriv_env { function f; };
struct closure { void* env; closure_body body; };
#define CALL(c, x) ((c)->body((c)->env, (x)))
double deriv_body(void *env, double x) {
function f = (deriv_env *)env->f;
return (f(x + DX) - f(x)) / DX;
}
void deriv(function f, struct closure *out) {
out->env = (void *)f;
out->body = deriv_body;
}
double cube(double x) { return x * x * x; }

int main(void) {
struct closure cube_deriv;
deriv(&cube, &cube_deriv);

printf("%f\n", CALL(&cube_deriv, 2.));
printf("%f\n", CALL(&cube_deriv, 3.));
printf("%f\n", CALL(&cube_deriv, 4.));

return 0;
}
https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/iot
Funnily, I am the Turk in this conversation. I asked because I just found it weird. Not questioning anyone's entitlement^^
This has in fact nothing to do with the story itself.
Right. And in the paper-plus-optical-scan system, the receipt is the thing the voter directly marked. No machine between voter and ballot, no different thing to check.
This is a nice experiment ! There are a few people starting to hack around with WebRender. There are already Limn, Azul, Stylish, etc...it would be nice if we joined forces in developing one good UI framework powered by WebRender.