skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh wow, I know one of the patent attorneys who worked for the law firm that helped Royal Jongbloed way back when they created this format! It feels like a lifetime ago, and since the original patent[0] was filed in 2006 that is kind of true, I guess.

> Jongbloed, which was founded in 1862 as a bookshop and later became a Bible printer, created the flipback format in 2009, and quickly realized there was a wide audience for compact, portable books.

> But getting English flipback editions of Mr. Green’s books proved endlessly complicated. Jongbloed is currently the only printer in the world that makes them, using ultrathin but durable paper from a mill in a village in Finland.

So from what my friend told me back then, Jongbloed was a fairly small printer, and struggling with ever-decreasing Bible sales (the Netherlands has gotten more secular over the generations). They knew they couldn't compete with the big printing companies because of economies of scale, but unlike them, they had the technology and skills to print on ultra-thin paper, because that was the traditional way they printed their Bibles. So they decided to try and create a new niche for themselves based on this edge, and came up with the sideways, one-handed pocket idea.

Based on all the software patent horror stories I hear, I guess that in the Netherlands it takes more effort to patent things - basically, the US patent office defers checking the validity of the patent to whomever challenges it in court, whereas the Netherlands patent office does not. It's the combination of printing on ultra-fine Bible paper with a sideways pocket is ultimately what got them the patent.

I remember my friend being really excited about it. Haven't spoken to him in ages, but we originally studied physics and switched careers. He told me he loved being a patent attorney because it boils down to writing out ideas in a really exact language, which basically meant he gets to be a technical consultant for people with novel, interesting ideas that he would have never taught of himself.

[0] https://patents.google.com/patent/NL1032073C2/en?q=Jongbloed...
Author here: I run another site and I noticed that session recording tools, although super useful suffer from an information overload issue. When I tried to use other tools such as HotJar or FullStory I could only look at a small amount of examples before I was overwhelmed by sessions.

That's what inspired my team and I to build Asgard, but I wanted to share some simple techniques that could be applied to existing FullStory data.
That's not quite the same thing. He went there to find people who would be the type that go to events like this.

If you want to compare apples-to-apples, your friend would have been invited to Burning Man as part of the process of investing in his company (with it being implied that it is in their best interest to attend).
your comments is exactly what the article is about. Fault finding becomes a second nature for engineers/programmers.
I definitely agree you should add more documentation to how the word vector model(s) is generated. Also you may want to have a set of models that the user can choose from. For example, Wikipedia is good for a general language use case. But something more technical, such as finance, SEC filings are a better data source.
Agreed, even though I also appreciate the ones with visual art styles very much.

My favorite ASCII roguelike is probably Brogue (available for Mac OS X, Windows and Linux): https://sites.google.com/site/broguegame/
Welcome to HN! Normally this isn't the kind of post that HN encourages (try to stick to stuff that gratifies the intellectual curiosity of the community as per https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html )

Astrophysics relies on a lot of general physics, so many undergrad textbooks on these topics will be relevant to you. Most textbooks you could want are available on the Genesis Library at http://libgen.io Thermodynamics and mechanics (especially orbital mechanics) will be important. Choosing a good textbook is important, reviews on stackexchange and other googleable things will help you decide what you want.

It seems like most of your exposure to astrophysics has been fairly "popular science" stuff without loads of maths. Fun to hear about, but sort of surface level. For better or worse astrophysics is a LOT of math. You'll need strong calculus and algebra skills to really understand most of it. Hopefully I don't sound like a pedantic internet prick, I just don't know how old or educated you are. If you'd like to study astrophysics as a science, it might be worth taking a degree in it.
Sorry, but yes you can. Watch:

"Hey guys, ES6 and Node have their problems, so we ratified a new standard that fixes all their shortcomings and bugs. Download it today and start your new project in a few mins".

Or:

"Hey guys, I know the whole point of keeping source code is for the next guy, but check out how I totally obfuscated, er wrote, this complicated algorithm I'm .5 lines of code"
This is what I have in my mind: green with a black top. Like the staedler but with green instead of blue.
https://discountoffice.nl/productImages/8/large/Q640366-1.jp...
Growing up in India, all the pencils I used were red and black striped made by Nataraj. I remember seeing yellow pencils in western movies though.

https://cwpencils.com/collections/nataraj/products/621-hb-pe...
YouTube’s Push to Counter Toxic Videos with ‘Good’ Creators
Fark yeah. I'd give real money to get my 9th grade book bag back! HP 11C scientific calculator, drafting supplies including a bunch of mechanical pencils and fancy erasers, and a copy of the HHGTTG. Pure nostalgia right there.
Oops. My bad. Sorry.
This is exactly what a Chinese nation-state backed shill or spy would say tho.
Since we got on a bit of a Dune tangent here, I wanted to say that one of the most interesting topics (and this is more in the later books of the series) is that the ultimate "weapon" is being an unknown quantity in a universe dominated by a prescient god-king who sees all paths. The idea of "no-ships" and other places where you couldn't been "seen" seems very similar to dropping off of social media or trying to escape from the permanent record of your activities online, etc.

It really is a fantastic series. The first book is amazing and stands on its own, but it really is rewarding to read the entire series (that Frank Herbert wrote, not the new crap his son puts out).
>Do you believe nobody at SpaceX, or their direct competitors, has thought about it?

It doesn't matter if they've thought about it. You can think all you want about something but ole Private Murphy operates in the real world not on paper when he sets about mucking stuff up. They're talking about launching 11,925 satellites. That's nearly 10 times the current number of orbiting satellites.
is there a range of unicode vaginas, you know, for, erm, balance?
I know plenty of productive programmers who aren't even computer science majors, and just work in Javascript and Python.

And I also know people who code in Rust and Haskell, and can never meet a deadline.

Theoretical chops doesn't make a good programmer. Knowing that immutability is a good thing and abandoning the imperative style, or even being comfortable with a functional style, isn't a prerequisite to being productive in most organizations.
Reflect – true face swap
Is this a bot or what? I find it hard to believe that people actually believe that if you smoke pots you will only engage in Banal activities. Unbelievable.

Don't all you nerds live in Cali anyway so wtf is HN's issue with pot?
> Instead focus on impressing your users (if your users are developers, I wish you luck).

Funnily enough I think everyone's impressed with Jetbrains. I rarely meet devs who don't like their tools. Or Kotlin.
Now, what are the chances of similar 5 teens stop using weed for health/mental problems?

Probably good with actual education that makes sure folks know the actual risks and what sorts of things to look out for. We should do this in a better manner than we do with alcohol now. We should be very careful not to lie to folks lest folks cast aside all that we try to teach.

A few folks won't listen, just like a few folks will eat peanuts nonetheless.
For anyone interested in more information about the history and tensions behind the project, the Offshore podcast (a podcast that examines race and identity relations in Hawaii) produced very good season on the TMT[0]. Mauna Kea is sacred and the promises and ownership disputes over building on the mountain is an issue that should not be overlooked.

[0] http://feeds.civilbeat.org/civilbeatoffshore
The same "obvious reasons" apply to the light sail. Your biases are just prevent you from seeing the logical implication.
Ouch, this is really bad.
I am a very very fat guy trying to eat properly and it’s excruciating, even after 5 weeks away from most of my daily life. Damned if I haven’t toyed briefly and desperately with the idea of some kind of pharmaceutical intervention. But my lifelong policy with drugs has always been if I can’t even handle Mountain Dew Throwback, I won’t have a chance with speed or coke or pot
Same in South Africa. No yellow pencils here: most are red and black striped.
While Slack is the most popular forum, there's also Clojureverse.org, which aims to be a more threaded and permanent repository of Clojure discussions and knowledge.
Or maybe rephrase to "if you're looking for praise..." as i think it may be misplaced to expect it in mass unless you have had tons of user testing/feedback and iterations to move it that way. Opinion is just consensus anyway and sometimes having a niche of people that love what you do is all that matters. In this case in particular, python on the web isn't necessary well liked in mass from the beginning so you are starting an uphill climb.
Art is important, but having a rewarding, fun gameplay loop is more important.

Nailing that in a rogue-like is really, really hard. What does 'rewarding' mean? Your character getting stronger? Your player gaining mastery over the game? How do you square that with perma-death? Do you allow level-scumming? If not, how do you not put the player in an unwinnable position (too frequently)?

I am pretty sure I could learn how to do good pixel art, with a few months of training. I am pretty sure I could not strike gold with a cohesive set of compelling, fun roguelike gameplay mechanics in that period of time. (In the way that games like Dwarf Fortress, Minecraft, Angband, FTL, or Nethack (I despise Nethack) struck gold.)
Broadening the Appeal of Distributed NVM-Express Storage
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/06/09/spy-vs-spy-3

Everyone is standing on the shoulders of someone else.
There is a pretty good subreddit for things that are done really well but, in the end, are really stupid. So there are places for this kinda stuff. A forum for just JS might actually get more out of the Python in JS project, but I come here for news on tech that I might actually use in my day to day job NOT for fun projects that have little use.
I used to work at Nortel Networks along with 130,000 other people. Nortel went bankrupt and now everyone who used to work there is fighting for their pensions. Apparently a major contributor to their downfall was all of the IP being stolen and sensitive information about deals going down otherwise exfiltrated by Huawei[1]

People need to get serious about protecting the privacy of their communications and data. Nobody cares until it is too late. Seems like this kind of event might be the incentive people need to make the extra effort to use products that encrypt their data in rest and in motion.

1: https://www.afr.com/technology/web/security/how-chinese-hack....

I made this comment earlier on a story about China POPs in Canada and USA nefariously re-routing traffic through China Telecom networks but that story was marked as a dupe by the time I made my comment so no discussion ensued.
I am a huge opposer of legalization, because I've seen what pot has done to people I care about. I would point out that solution to the negatives of prohibition is not legalization, but decriminalization. The issue with legalization is that it removes the stigma with trying it, which means we get more users than otherwise.

We can maintain the very correct statements that drugs are bad and that all possible care should be made to remove it's availability and discourage it's use, but treat it as a social problem, not a crime. Let's continue to shut down drug dealers, who grow, import, and spread the crud around, but no longer penalize users. Offer them treatment, help them find better means, rather than throwing them in jail.
It was invented long ago. Section sewn or case binding allows a book to lay flat. It is considerably more expensive than other methods, though.
What I Learned About Hiring While at Uber
Ask HN: Is ProtonMail.com down?
Cancer is my worst fear and has also killed so many of my family and loved ones. It's a slow painful death where you get progressively weaker. I really do hope there is some light at the end of the tunnel there.
China doesn't do that:
https://www.businessinsider.com/how-china-found-cia-spies-le...
Can't find the details now, but there were cases before of AVs using VirusTotal for getting their answers if they lacked any info / signatures for a binary. Could be what happened here, so they're not really independent.

Edit: this describes the issue - https://mma.prnewswire.com/media/727967/VirusTotal_and_the_C...
When was it that the NSA was caught stealing lists of clients from Embraer and giving them to Boeing? I can't remember if it was 2015 or 2016...
Segway was supposed to change the world. Two decades later, it just might
It was "Don't be evil." and they dropped it a while ago. At least they're being honest by omission.
"Word2vec for anything" is where we want to get to. Right now we only support images and text, but you can see the other data types on our roadmap at https://www.basilica.ai/available-embeddings/ .
Are you finding a fault in his comment? If so, are you doing it just because you are a programmer? /s
Health Benefits of Ginger – Treatment of Different Disease from Ginger
I could be wrong, but I think it means 'spare' as in 'singular' or 'loose', not as in 'replacement' or 'extra'.
Of course, that's the entire point. Without prohibition they are innocent. With prohibition they are criminals. That is why prohibition is dramatically worse. People who are not a threat to society are imputed as criminals, losing their life to jailtime and a permanent criminal record.
Reason and OCaml are the same language
And people was aangry when Apple deleted 2 songs to some guy.
A steamroller is a steamroller; if all we have are steamrollers, then the only protection that $good has, is might. And I think most would agree that might shouldn't make right. That's why it's important to move away from needing global consensus on questions of law. Maybe even multiple courts could compete for customers in the same geographical areas. (But apparently the nonexistence of a monopoly in the dispute-resolution market - such a monopoly being the definition of "government" - is sacrilegious to most.)
Definitely not just US. I'm from Lithuania and these were the pencils we all used [0]. That was around 1992 and later, so could have been a relic from Soviets.

Only in later years green ones appeared and yellow with black stripes.

[0] - https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/z/lead-pencil-isolated-white-b...
From the google one:

> The environment also contains a TV for which the agent has the remote control. There is a limited number of channels (each with a distinct show)... even if the order of shows appearing on the screen is random and unpredictable, all those shows are already in memory!

So in google's "Curiosity and Procrastination in Reinforcement Learning" they could not handle a TV with pure noise (snow) as it could not remember all that noise.
Okay, my other link turned out not to be London-specific, sorry about that, so by that metric it now looks like they're on a par, which is good news, as they didn't use to be, by my recollection.

Certainly the comparative salary for the same tech-related position in London vs places like Zurich, NY, SF, etc seems lower, but I don't have data to support that which I can publicly share, so I guess I can't prove that point.

I'd suggest that if you feel there aren't enough people even at very junior levels, then maybe there's a problem and we should look at why not enough people are in the industry. If there are plenty of junior or poorly skilled people but not enough highly skilled people, then it's more likely that you aren't paying enough (or aren't advertising in the right ways to find them). My perception is that it's the latter, but I don't really have anything beyond my own experience to support that.
It's down for me. Getting this message on the login page: "ProtonMail cannot be reached right now, please try again later."
Exactly, and I was responding to the fact that I never fear refactoring my Clojure code.

Your examples of the type safety can all be mimicked with spec in Clojure. Granted spec is opt-in (but I'm guessing so is some of the more detailed type safety attributes you are talking about like NonEmpty).

Anyhow, to each their own and one persons experience isn't likely to be the same as the others so I'd encourage everyone to try out many languages. Some languages click with people more than others do so it's always worthwhile to experiment.
I implemented zstd compression in btrfs/squashfs, and work on upstream zstd.

* Btrfs compression is multithreaded, and can use up to the number of cores available on the system.
* Compression might not help speed on SSDs, but it should help reduce the burn rate, if you care about that.
* My intern wrote a patch to add compression level support to zstd in btrfs [1]. It should be merged upstream soon.
* Slightly off topic, but grub will soon understand btrfs compressed with zstd.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-btrfs/20181031181108.289340-1-...
I'm pretty sure “natural polished” pencils could make a major comeback. Dare I say for the hipsters? Could add an environmental spin on it as well.
Then you pay a little more than budget hosting and go to a darknet market for friendly-to-everything hosts, or you go tor with the site, or skip the domain and use the direct IP.

Yes all of these can be ultimate censored, but someone can walk up to you and forcefully hold their hand over your mouth too.
How's your setup? Do you sit hunched over at a laptop? Do you use a monitor but look down at it?

But in general: proper posture, foam rolling, mobility exercises.
You're conflating two different statistics:

US spending per pupil is $12,300

Finland spending per pupil is $9,800

https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/pdf/coe_cmd.pdf

If you want to look at per capita spending, the article says the US spends about 668 billion, divided by a population of 321 million, you get about $2080 per capita.

So if you're calculating it that way, the US actually spends _less_ per capita than Finland.
I'm struggling to find again a c++ implementation of this I saw on github a while back. Does HN the hive mind remember?
I guess I'm not cultured for not knowing about all the rappers and actors who seem to make up 90% of the list.

I did have a good laugh at Jared Kushner being listed as an "investor".
Still, it is very hard to make developers pay for software.

So on a different level, perhaps it is hard to impress developers.
FWIW, in Perl 6, keys to so-called "object hashes" can be objects without them being stringified. See https://docs.perl6.org/language/hashmap#index-entry-object_h...
On the log-in page I'm getting:
503 Service Unavailable
No server is available to handle this request.
> Unless you've been under a rock, you know what Burning Man is, and what goes on there.

Or unless you are smart and know exactly what you're doing. She brought her mom and conservative clothes. Now there is both a witness if he decides to do anything more and him having to explain the background of his new employee getting there ... along with her mom.

It was a pretty good tactical move. Granted he ended staying as a director for all those years. And I think that tells us quite a bit about Google's values and culture.

I remember really wanting to work at Google. I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole these days.
I generally agree that HN commenters tend not to get impressed by things.

That said, I don't agree with this:

>The Google search engine brings in $billions each year, and is one of the most important software projects in history, but I guarantee there are developers at Google right now complaining about how crappy the core code base is.

You can appreciate the performance of the Google search engine at scale, while still being annoyed by how crappy the core code base is. (I have zero knowledge of what the codebase is actually like, but I would guess that like most legacy code written in a legacy language without algebraic data types, it's probably a bit of a mess at this point).
You can do similar things with spec for Clojure. As I stated in another response that is opt-in obviously so it requires more discipline perhaps but it is definitely available.
https://protonstatus.com/

Just went all red.

"Some systems are experiencing major issues"
It's the consumable part of the pencil. Cheaper than buying the pencil holder again.
Especially with this genre, you can make a great game with basically zero art.

My favorite rogue-like, Hoplite, originally came with pretty basic tiles. Then after it took off, newer tiles were made.

The game mechanics were so good though that I'd love that game regardless of whether the art is "great".
I find Curve to be more innovative because it is a debit card that links back to any debit or credit card. You can only carry one card, use your real credit cards in places that only accept debit. Plus - a fancy app and real time tracking for all your old bank cards. It's most of the upside from Monzo with your choice of cards.
Btrfs already supports multithreaded compression and decompression. Each 128 KB block is (de)compressed with a single thread, but multiple blocks can be (de)compressed in parallel.

The zstd CLI supports multithreaded compression with the flag `-T <num-threads>`.
Is there a roguelike engine?
I wouldn't be surprised if the min speed what a simple way to say that their systems do not support congested urban environment, starting, and navigating.

Basically, without a min speed people would try to use the car as a fully autonomous one: Get on the car, turn Autopilot on, wait for the car to drive itself.