skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Which country do you live in? In the south of Europe we center the day (lunch) around 13:00 to 15:00 so if Earth axis would be perpendicular to its orbit (always 12 hours of light) we would pick sunrise at 8 and sunset at 20. With DST we have sunrise at 5 and sunset at 21 in June. A double or triple DST would suit us better. If we stop using DST in Europe I hope that my country moves at least one time zone to the east.
Ripple and Stellar are completely centralized. It's simply a web of trust. If one of your peers that have given you “trust”, such as a bank in which you have an account, decides they want to freeze your funds and prevent you from spending your money on the Ripple network, they can do so. With Bitcoin, this can't be done.
Simply, Great!!
Is it fuzzy though? My concern was more about ES being able to handle "approximate" matches; where as I assume Postgres would be limited to regex-like matches.
No you don't. Run them in compatibility mode. You often need to do that anyway. A _lot_ changed between PC-DOS 1 and Windows 10. It's ridiculous that this didn't.
The presumption that nothing can ever be done, whether right or wrong, is at the very least, discouraging.
No note-taking thread could be complete without someone mentioning Emacs and org-mode, so let's be done with this already.

Comparing this app to Emacs/org-mode, I'd say that the core benefit of this app is collaboration. For single-person use, org-mode blows everything out of the water, being faster to use, much more feature-packed, and having better integration with programming languages (e.g. allowing to run code straight from your notes, in any language you've already set your Emacs up to work with, and have such random blocks of code in the notes exchange data). But there's no proper way of collaborating with this setup - both because lack of structure (org-mode notes are just plaintext files), and the near-impossibility to convince your co-workers to use Emacs if they aren't already.

Still, don't treat it as a negative comment, Emacs users are set for life and aren't really your target audience :). If anything, take a look at org-mode and see if you can steal some ideas.
They're old school. Would take years to do real engineering there and not filling out paperwork.
I ran those numbers: 51.08 million square miles / (4 ft * 8 ft) = 44.5 trillion.

Estimates are for 100 billion humans have ever lived, plus (currently) 255 human births per minute (and falling) = 331,017 years
Don't be sorry. I didn't mean to be discouraging, if that's the case. You did say a WIP, but often people like to see and evaluate that, especially for implementations of languages. A slightly more informative title would get you more feedback - along the lines of WIP spec, or Nirvana - new language project idea. Good luck on Nirvana, post again soon!
Being a nerd, I’m surprised you didn't go with ORCS.SYS ;-)

(Unless, in your dialect, you don’t pronounce 'orcs'and 'aux' in exactly the same way, as I do)
The BBC has a charter that mandates they serve the people of Britain. Its implementation is complex, but overall it is necessary to allow for more than just market forces.
Physical switch could be made INSIDE the laptop and would be automatically pressed by the lid itself - when the lid is closed. No sensors needed. No chip needed. When lid is closed - mic is disconnected. When opened - mic is connected... User does not need to do anything else then closing the lid...
I'm not sure if you were serious, but I actually think completely getting rid of timezones is not that crazy of an idea. It would take some getting used to, but naively I don't think it'd be any harder than say, switching to metric in the US.

That is, I like the idea in principle, but I know it'll never happen.
That explains why their boosters fall away in such a beautiful cross pattern, they push the nose of the booster away from the core while the booster is still burning.
>"I ended up dropping out of high school when I was racing cars because I was making so much money."[3] "I started seeing how far I could push the rules. One of the things I built was a traction control system for my race car. I built a single-board 6502 computer (wire-wrap) and I measured the front-wheel spin by putting a hall sensor on it, and I measured the engine RPM." "I had a rev limiter in the car and it would just tell the rev limiter you're over-revving if the back tires were spinning more than the front tires." "Then, I started dominating, just completely dominating.

Sounds a lot like cheating......disruption
Yeah the mixup of MVC layers is terrible and anything beyond a hard reload data has many edge cases.
What’s up with light having a helical shape and dna as well?
I wonder what percentage of those are not rigged.
While this kind of commodity products might not make huge profits, it might still be a huge provider of low to mid class jobs.
> it was considered crass to put your dead relatives in an ecologically-responsible plain wooden box.

The Jewish religion requires plain boxes, to show that by death everyone is equal, rich and poor.

It's actually preferable to have no box at all (because it slows decomposition), but US laws prevent that. So a plain wooden box with nothing that doesn't decompose is used.
This is campaign nonsense. It's a partisan bill sponsored by the minority party, not a serious proposal.
People who know him agree that he is one of the greatest sci-fi writers ever, but he's not nearly as well known as Asimov, Clarke or Heinlein.
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Looks like it was taken down from the front page. Any reason for that?

Edit: looks like it was just because the score, not any shadowbanning. The article can be really abrasive for many and being in denial about the topic of climate change and potential upcoming societal collapse is the easier way.

I still hope that it's not the case with the submission.

Join us over at r/collapse, interesting discussion is happening about this topics there.
​The day computer security turned real: The Morris Worm turns 30
That's the meme, but it's not true. Look at Trump's abuse of tax law, just to pick a popular example. Or Hollywood accounting, a classic example.
If you feel the current search needs improvement, you might be happy to discover it's being worked on:

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsexperience/2018/10/24/annou...

Refer to the Enhanced Mode for Search Indexer section of that page.
Right, this is just an election gimmick.
> It's not just that your token loader might be called twice, if you call this from two different threads you're fully in undefined behavior.

This is addressed in the article, and a resolution is provided.

> It's even more confusing because some things are properly atomic (reference counts, manipulation of value types like arrays)

Modifying an array is not atomic, AFAIK. You cannot safely do this concurrently.
There is another short term problem that has to be resolved before we get to EV cars in Europe. The E.U. car market is in a bit of a holding pattern due to Brexit. This is cramping the style of the European manufacturers even if they have no components coming from little Britain, no manufacturing plant there and no customers there. You would think companies like FCA (Fiat) or Mercedes would be exempt but they are not.

I am an evangelist when it comes to EV cars however I don't think that everyone is so keen, particularly in the cynical UK. Relatively speaking Americans are falling over themselves to buy Tesla cars, Tesla being a great American success story, even with Elon Musk upsetting people in his own special way and the prices being so high.

With the European brands there are tells, if VW come out with a new car there is nobody asking where the EV version is. Same with other makes, that is just not on most people's radar, exhaust note matters more. I think it is a sad state of affairs. There are promises that they will be fully electric/hybrid by such and such a date and then they launch a 'G-Wagen' type behemoth with a monster ICE engine in it. It is like they are hooked on heroin and promise they will give up next week.

China is showing leadership and it is about their domestic market and having cleaner cities. You can't get permits to drive an ICE car into some cities now, unless you live there and already have an ICE car then your only option is EV. That is fantastic. The Chinese know that they really will be conquering the world with their EV cars. We may mock their cars as not being crash worthy and rip-offs of European designs but we said that about the Japanese and their sub-compact cars. And the Koreans. It is not rocket science, just poach the design team from another company and get styling from an Italian specialist - Italdesign, Pininfarina, there are plenty of good ones.

The Chinese cars I am looking forward to seeing are the basic electric cars. When you have a quiet car with no gearbox or vibrations there is no need to make up for having an ICE with cupholders galore, speakers galore, carpets galore and other cruft. People in China have cottoned on to this already through buying second cars - EV cars - to enter the city with. They find that they don't really need that 'luxury' car after all.

Once these things enter the EU market the European marques will be doomed, maybe with a few exceptions. The Nissan Leaf/Renault Zoe is a product that is going somewhere but consumers are not that interested apart from evangelists. I also doubt that the insistence on 500 km range will be lasting forever - range anxiety. In China you can have 50 mile range and with a supercapacitor that can be achieved with far less batteries. Anything further just hop on a plane. Can't do this in Europe where it takes four hours to get in and out the airport.

The European makes and the European customers had their chance and they blew it. Tough. I look forward to the 5 year plan of China and a flood of Chinese EV Volvos coming over to Europe to be totally taken up by millenials with kids, leaving fuddy duddy ICE addicts to grow old and die off.
Similarly interested in the way you see status.

The way I see it, the lowest point may have been the 60s, then it briefly rose in the 80s to "wizards", continued to rise 'till the early 2000s, and now is in sharp decline, as everyone and their dog is now a software developer.
The trivial solution would be a LED + resistor just wired across the mic's power rails.
That is deeply disturbing. I'd be fine with cremation or decomposing naturally but there is no way I would ever want a loved one to be buried that way.
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She did, she founded Technical Illusions with a fellow Valve employee when they were fired from Valve. It was a AR bid. They raised millions of dollars but eventually shut down.
Or, more likely I'm home, a huge provider for robotics line production suppliers
> Building electric cars in China makes sense for companies because that's where most customers are

Why are there less customers in Europe or US?
It depends very much on which country you are from. US/UK seem to have burial plots forever. Many European countries have a rental/lease system where you get the plot for 30-50 years, and that can be extended if wanted by the family/estate/descendants, or the plot is re-used.
Why have the control go through a sophisticated programmable chip and not just use a simple transistor/relay directly connected to the sensor?
...assuming you never had children?
I see plenty of public outrage directed at the neo-nazis, but none directed at the communists, yet the communists seem an even greater threat to our country given what they've done in the 20th century. Especially if they are taking over one half of our government. At least the media is quick to point out the nazis on the right, and it is the rare oddball who actually supports them. At the very least our media and universities should give the communist threat equal time as the nazi threat.
I really think scientists should speak up more about the situation. They'll be accused of "alarmism" by right wing media in any case. But they should be much more political and emphatic on necessity of swift action. Because what we've been doing so far isn't working. Emissions aren't being cut. We're still going almost full speed to a very bleak natural future.

In fact I think it's a duty of anyone with a basic scientific education to try and inform about the basic scary consequences (highlighted in this article) and propagate this information to their vicinity. Most people I talk to have no idea of the breadth of consequences. And then the second step is using democracy and voting specifically on candidates that are fighting to address the issue -- not only on national level but whatever level you can get (county,city,state).

Finally if massive change isn't detected in a few years (I'm skeptical) the higher organizations (UN, UNSC, etc.) need to start aggressively punishing emissions on a global level. Something like a mandatory carbon tax on every country seems like a good start.
Perhaps they became aware of an attempt to attack the microphone in this way.
I would liken any status in software to superstardom in sports. If you're in demand for exactly the right thing, all the doors open. But if your real calling is something with no extant "pro league", you are viewed as a hobbyist without relevant skills.

Knowing 6502 assembly was a pretty sweet skillset, back in the day.
Pay attention: (hard won realizations)

Politics is advocacy. Debate, in the more formal, rational sense, is a subset of advocacy.

Advocacy has three pillars and they are:

Reason, the rational.

Emotion, the feels, essentially.

Character, the reputable, our nature, worthiness.

Effective advocacy incorporates all three, ideally. It can be effective with less, depending on the state of the advocacy targets.

A simple example is desperate people. They are not entirely rational, because they are in pain, need. Strong emotional and character advocacy will be extremely potent.

"You hurt because bad people" or, "those other people."

"You deserve because X is the right thing to do."

One area where rationality can fail is when how people value things differs from otherwise rational norms. A great many entirely rational arguments centered on market based solutions as primary policy fail because they assume people to be rational actors in posession of sufficient information, time and energy to make optimal choices. The reality varies considerably, and people value things differently enough to make the "optimal" choice a more complex space than is understood and intended as an artifact of said policy.

While we intend and desire to see politics as some objective debate, the reality is one of advocacy and influence being applied to actualize desires and preferences as much as it may be for a common, public good, or promotion of the general welfare.

Money in politics exacerbates all that.

Finally, and due to variances in what people value and why, the idea of there being "right" answers does not align with the reality being answers ranging from poor to excellent.

People, particularly struggling people, want to end their struggles far more than they want to, say reduce global poverty, for example. And their lives, loves, desires all count when it comes to votes, and other political activity and expression.

The single most important thing we can do, whether we are rationalists or not, is seek better understanding of others.

That leads to effective advocacy, and it can lead to just, effective, human policy. It may not be optimal. Very large numbers of humans will not care so long as their struggles do not exceed that level where they find the idea of change more compelling than exercizing their options are. (If they have options, or understand those they do have.)

Humans are not machines, nor computers. They feel stuff and they trust some people, despise others, and it all counts no matter how painful and complicated that is.

Politics boils down to a sell job. Getting what you personally want can happen with money and or a compelling vision for others to also want what you want.

There are really no objective right answers. Ideologies are reasoning tools, not laws, like physics.

There are only choices and outcomes.
Yes. How else but to discriminate would you discern to hire one employee over another?

Assuming they have roughly equivalent experience and backgrounds. It comes down to how well you might get along working with someone. Every office has a culture, and working where you and the company are a bad fit sucks a lot. It usually means sticking it out for a few months just to see if it settles down, or that things get better. Then starting the whole interview process all over again. I'd much rather self-eliminate or be eliminated quickly. Hell it's often after several interviews that you just get a bad feeling, or are dropped from the other side.

It's ALL descrimination. That doesn't mean they are descriminating by a protected class (gender, sexuality, race, etc). If everyone in the office went out for drinks every night at the end of the day, working into the evening, I wouldn't be comfortable with that. Once in a while, sure. It really depends on specifics, that doesn't mean it's inherently bad.
It seems to be reversed or less related in software. As programmers went from curiosity to wizards (high-status), their salaries went up, but these days coders are dime a dozen, but the salaries are still high due to what seems to be a combination of adtech boom and demand still outpacing supply.

Anecdotal, but the way I sampled the status question is this: 15 years ago, when I told someone I can code, I was seen as some sort of genius. Fast-forward couple of years, and the exchange started to go like this:

"What do you do?"

"I'm a software developer."

"Oh cool. Like my boyfriend and my brother."
This idea is a plot device in Greg Bear's 'Darwin's Radio'.
Good yarn and it dates OK.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/64923.Darwin_s_Radio
These deaths took place 5+ years ago, sharing information about a mutual border/former border seems more likely.
Microsoft working on Sysinternals for Linux
Scrolling even on desktop was janky for me, and it was hard to center the paragraphs that were supposed to overlay the maps.
Macbooks can't even hibernate to a complete shutdown. If you remove the battery, you can't cut out the power supply without the laptop rebooting. I.e. the ‘sleep‘ has the hardware running, waiting to pick up where the system left off.
Yeah would second that. Diaspora and Quantum Thief are both amazing in very different ways.
APA Survey: Generation Z Stressed About Social Issues but Least Likely to Vote
too easy to fix if it breaks
I'm also curious if IBM's POWER9 architecture is effected. They actually do 4-way SMT.
...just dreaming

I'd love to have storing PDFs (with searching), storing web pages as images and as text (integrated with my browser), writing notes with markdown, latex, asciidoc, adding links. All that should run locally (as it is my data) with an online integration on a website, so people can edit the data as well. Also teams, projects, content versioning, online conflicts resolution (if more people edited the same file), categories, tagging... Configuring a custom pipeline e.g. to build a pdf from my markdown/latex sources.

Additionally a nice keyboard-UI, so I don't need to click all day, as it slows me down terribly.

I'd happily pay for this.
Replayed later no, but a naive TOTP implementation will likely allow you to reuse an code more than once as long as you log in within the 30-second x N-lookback window.
>Bad forecasts aren’t lies, they’re mistakes.

What if the weatherman knows there's going to be a massive shitstorm tomorrow, but decides to tell everyone that it's going to be clear and sunny?
LD_PRELOAD is not respected for setuid binaries, right? So why do we need a special case here?
Why would that be more likely to fail than the lid-closed sensor which they are currently using for this application?
That makes sense but my personal experience is that I was able to obtain substantially more scholarship dollars post-starting college vs anything offered off of high school credentials. I graduated high school at the top of my class (< 1%) and had strong but not super competitive test scores. I went to a public state school so perhaps different for others.
Egan IMHO works better in short stories than novels; he's at his best when everything serves to illustrate a single idea. Unstable Orbits in the Space of Lies is still one of my all-time faves.

Haven't tried 3BP. Haven't even heard of Quantum Thief, but that sounds fun; I might look it out.

One classic I keep meaning to reread is Olaf Stapledon's Star Maker. Never surpassed in scope, and you've got to hand it to someone who predicted teledildonics in 1937.
This article matches my experience exactly. Some companies will hire a “data scientist” on pedigree. They will be low on skills and high on charisma. The engineers are burdened with implementing the ideas as well as shoulder the failure of the algorithms. “You spent the last few months implementing algorithms and none worked?”. Very little blame will go to the data scientist. In tons of cases data scientists are more like product managers.
Or, you know, they could use a chip that they're already putting into the device (like the T2) and not have to use additional components. Same end result without the extra parts.
Nice article. It came to a few conclusions I came before: buffering token requests in a queue once the first request has been kicked off and using named threads for things that need to happen off main but in-order.

I can follow some of the critiques here but implementing both solutions really makes things a lot better than doing without.
A great book, one of the best sci-fi books of the 21st century perhaps. And its worth noting that its all online at that page because he released it as Creative Commons - Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5

I've set my latest novel free under the usual Creative Commons license ...

I do this only partly to add data to the ongoing get-rich-by-giving-your-stuff-away experiment. The other reason is that a lot of people seem to be having trouble actually finding the book in brick-and-mortar stores. All the buzz in the world is worth jack-shit if the product isn't readily available.

So check it out and go wild. And when your eyes start to fall out from phosphor burn, consider buying an old-fashioned paper version. There should be enough to go around before long: I'm told Blindsight's going into second printing.

https://boingboing.net/2006/12/11/peter-watts-blindsig.html
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Malware doesn't have access to the T2. Presumably, the T2 is configurable separately from the rest of the hardware or anything else the system would have access to.
So your OS is always a bloated superset of its entire history?
> This is addressed in the article, and a resolution is provided.

"Undefined state" is the language used in the article, and has no precise technical definition. The article suggests to me simply that a method might be called twice, and makes no mention of your bank account being emptied or demons flying out of your nose, which is the consequence of undefined behavior you should expect.

> Modifying an array is not atomic, AFAIK. You cannot safely do this concurrently.

I'm happy to correct errors (I'm not a Swift expert), but I'm going on the basis of copy-on-write semantics and the fact that `isUniquelyReferenced` seems to be implemented atomically - this is stated fairly clearly on the official Apple blog at https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=10 , but that might be out of date.
Ask HN: Have you built apps with Vue and Rails? Any opinions/learnings?
I'm working on a site that'll have 3 components: backend, admin, and a frontend in vue. I'm building this in Rails and Vue and I'm having trouble deciding if I want to treat the frontend and the backend/admin as fully separate applications, or if I want to build vue in the rails app (using a vue gem).

Have you build an app using vue and rails together, and do you have any thoughts or opinions?