skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My colleagues and I used to get these "nut letters" occasionally even as unknown grad students. They were quite a treat to read: the human imagination is a marvel, and curiosity knows no bounds. If they'd taken slightly different paths than they had, some probably would have even been with my colleagues reading those letters instead of writing them.
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That’s been a thing from a lot of companies for past Minis (e.g. https://www.newertech.com/products/ministack_classic.php ); I see no reason why it won’t happen again.
I would go so far as to argue that Kotlin is the JVM's real equivalent to C#. The syntax is different, but language semantics are much more similar.
>Sure, but that doesn't make it a sound policy for real political discourse.

I can't see why not.

>Or did it simply fuel a growing narrative of censorship and persecution which is driving the counter-PC culture and electing people like Trump?

No. And besides, on the logic that it might make people angry or convinced of their delusional views therefore we shouldn't do it is very poor reasoning.

>because these changes can and do have negative externalities.

In the same way that naive tolerance does?

>had the majority of the country not been sympathetic to Nazi principles, then Nazis wouldn't have gotten elected?

No.

"Only one thing could have broken our movement – if the adversary had understood its principle and from the first day had smashed with extreme brutality the nucleus of our new movement." (A Hitler at the 1933 Nuremberg Nazi Party rally)

"If our opponents had been clever, considering that political weapons were so unevenly distributed, they could have undoubtedly found ways and opportunities to make our success impossible." (J Goebbels, 1934)

"If the enemy had known how weak we were, it would probably have reduced us to jelly. It would have crushed in blood the very beginning of our work" (J Goebbels, 1934)

>Tolerance is justified by the recognition that all people have intrinsic value ala Kant

Not in democratic society; can you point me to which Kantian thinkers (including Kant himself!) whose thought formed the basis of any modern state? Tolerance as we know it emerged only with the emergence of widespread democracy after the French revolution beginning in Western Europe and the American revolution in the New World. Both republics founded on democracy (and therefore tolerance), not a Kantian maxim. As Marcuse said in 1965,

"Moreover, in endlessly dragging debates over the media, the stupid opinion is treated with the same respect as the intelligent one, the misinformed may talk as long as the informed, and propaganda rides along with education, truth with falsehood. This pure toleration of sense and nonsense is justified by the democratic argument that nobody, neither group nor individual, is in possession of the truth and capable of defining what is right and wrong, good and bad. Therefore, all contesting opinions must be submitted to 'the people' for its deliberation and choice. But I have already suggested that the democratic argument implies a necessary condition, namely, that the people must be capable of deliberating and choosing on the basis of knowledge, that they must have access to authentic information, and that, on this. basis, their evaluation must be the result of autonomous thought."

>The only time violence is justified is in response to violence.

I disagree, and as I said earlier, it's no crime to disagree with liberal dogma like this. But if we must go this route, what does violence say of structural violence, for instance?
> What the hell are USPS smoking?

Whatever it is, there is a lot of it about.
Very interesting project. I think you should probably mention the tech stack details in the front page. Does seem to take a lot of work to redefine all the types from the existing services (unless I'm missing something). Given a rest service output, can't some of these things be auto generated ?
That's an interesting thought. It it's true, it seems to have some implications:

* Whoever is running the simulation cares about whether we're looking.

* They had a good reason for going with quantum mechanics rather than something that would be easier to simulate.

I know some people would say that's because they're interested in simulating conscious life and quantum mechanics is essential for consciousness. However, I find it very implausible that quantum mechanics is essential for consciousness so I'd prefer a different hypothesis for why they went with a difficult-to-simulate physics in their simulated universe. Any ideas?
Maybe we need it, but we're definitely too dumb to use it safely.
Here is the direct link: IdeaLogoDomain.com
Cells have a rather limited set of manufacturing processes.

Mycoplasma mycoides only has 525 genes and we can cut tha down to 473 and end up with something that self replicates. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/04.... (I find it amusing how breathless they talk about the fact their where some unknowns in that list rather amusing.)
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Security Concerns aside. The informed delivery service is great. I've been using it for a little over a year now. They began inserting ads into the Informed Delivery Email. Senders must place some sort of barcode that is then read by the USPS scanner. It's nice to see our postal service trying to close the gap on their (net) loss.
I have seen marshal show up in the bowels of gems where one wouldnt expect it, and most users obviously aren’t digging through gem sources.
TiDB: Sistributed HTAP database compatible with the MySQL protocol
> that simulating quantum mechanics is so computationally expensive that it isn’t done unless we’re looking at it

This is a common misconception. It's more difficult to simulate a quantum system than a classical system. To simulate a classic system you have to simulate one posible state. To simulate a quantum system you must simulate all possible path.

This is the advantage of quantum computers. With the hardware for only N qbits, you can calculate 2^N states (for some very specific problems that are quantum-computer-friendly).
Other World Computing (OWC) actually sells a device called a miniStack which is essentially that. An external enclosure the same form factor and design as the (last-generation) Mini. It's still uses an older USB 3 connection though, no daisy-chaining.
The examples in the first half of this article are supposed to be sarcastic, right? EmbedSocial is the first one to show any semblance of information, and even then it doesn't say what it does.
Thank you for taking a look at the sources.

Salt grain status: taken.
Ideal solution would be small secure enclave storage for keys then user-upgradable main storage encrypted with those keys.
Curious as to which 10Gb Ethernet controller is being used, no mention in the teardown. Anyone know?
I would not call Azure managed services mature across the board. Some of them are excellent, others are broken in weird little ways.

The web portal is the best example, you can't use that with just one browser. Some things only works in Chrome, others are only broken in Chrome.
Polar Decomposition and SVD
Ten years ago they were busy making billions producing what the market wanted to buy, as was their duty to the shareholders.
In this list we also have D and Swift. Good on yr mem, general purpose-y (Go is not a GP lang), quite popular.
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Hi all,

I built www.yamq.io because I was frustrated with popular message queue providers' lack of flexibility around scheduling delayed messages.

YAMQ allows you to schedule delivery of arbitrary messages to a webhook at a specified time in the future. You schedule messages using HTTP.
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But it's on a station (LBC) that has strong centre/left presenters too, such as James O'Brien. The whole station is a bit too much like Outrage Central for me tbh, but at least it's fairly balanced outrage.
An article with some pictures:

https://www.ringodaigaku.com/ringo_blog/english/2018/02/02/1...
You get a little more than just VS with that subscription... Access to dev/test pricing in azure and all the software to test on is huge. Plus whatever else...
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I have a sports car with both. Many racers add buttons by adding switches and relays to the ABS circuit, but many modern cars go into Safe-mode when you do such hackery. My scion helpfully disabled power steering when abs went out for some godforsaken reason. For the average driver, removing it would be a manuver in futility and libablity for the manufacturer.
Yes. VS Code is probably the easy button to get started. With a few plugins, it's ready to write, build, and debug C# projects.

I haven't built any production code in VS Code or .Net Core yet, but have started analysis for converting legacy .Net applications. I've also had interns doing some prototype work in .Net Core using VS Code, both on Macs and PCs. So far, so good.

I also used VS Code to do some React development. That worked out well also.

At this point, I'm hoping to get the legacy solutions converted in the next year or two, ditch my MSDN subscription, and move to VS Code full-time. Right now, I'm on a Mac, and running VS in VMWare.
Although pilots then have to deal with exactly the same failures as the automation, and their success rate in those situations is hit and miss at best. It is possible that suitably advanced automation would perform better than a pilot at dealing with complex failures, but that just doesn't exist yet. The design just reverts to pilot control when it hits unusual edge cases.

Also, perhaps we need addittional sensor types that do not rely on direct air flow to work.
Utah man dies from rabies, the first in the state since 1944
Isn't rationality the principle of GIGO, though? Let's say I have a garbage idea, but my methods for acheiving it are rationally constructed - isn't this even a little problematic? Surely me must judge not only the means (and ignore any aspect of the goal) but to look and examine whether the goal is a good too.

But if your claim is that rationality is independent of culture (which, as I've already noted, is rubbish, since the idea of what is rational and irrational changes with cultural zeitgeist, unless you have some claim to objective rationality which I don't) then we can't use a static methods of rationality to judge the goodness of a particular goal, which is obviously context-dependent. So if not rationality, then what? I suggest critical thinking in place.
Honestly, people still using the getter and setter argument in 2018 as a reason to pick a language should not be taken seriously.

Indeed Java has more boilerplate, but honestly I've never been bothered by it (as you can generate most within your IDE) and because its explicitly written down it can make code more readable.

And Java also has lambda's.
You sound to me like you think you're sarcastically saying something that's just so obviously false that it constitutes a devastating argument against the entire idea of constructive mathematics, but whether the reals "exist" depends a lot on your definition of "exist" and is still an ongoing debate for some definitions of "exist" that are relevant, even without bring constructive mathematics into it. And it's not that hard to draw a perfectly conventional mathematician into an interesting discussion about whether the real numbers deserve to be as fundamental as they are when we can't point to any of them. That is, it isn't just that we can't "construct" them for some definition of construct, but we can't even identify them for any definition of "identify".

Let me highlight again that the question isn't whether they are useful, or a mathematically valid construction; there are all kinds of other mathematically valid constructions far stranger than the "reals". The question is whether they deserve such a fundamental place in mathematics and education. I do recall even in high school that truly understanding the real numbers even at that level was definitely a dividing point for the advanced math class; there are some who really got the quirks, and there are some who never really did and just parroted their way through the tests wondering how the question of "numbers" got so complicated... and it was still a very partial and somewhat ad-hoc introduction to the topic ("Dedekind" doesn't come up, etc.) just enough to try to motivate limits.
CrazyEgg is a real product? I thought it was a mock-up with the vaguest description possible. I clearly do not understand this article.
Ha this is great! Will try this out soon
You can forward someone else's mail too. Just go to the post office, fill out the form, and drop it in the mailbox. There's no verification, though there is notification at both the old and the new address. Not to mention it's a crime to do that.
Personally I’d turn off my electronics, grab some books and go hiking in the wilderness. At least for a couple weeks. You may never get a chance to be this “unplugged” again.
VW has already shown pre-production models, and the timeline is 2020. There's more info on the VW website:
https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/electric-hybrid/id

The VW ID supposedly has up to 372 mile range according to that site.
So, they shouldn't try to use identifying information to track down people committing crimes?
I signed up earlier this year and the validation required answering several multiple choice questions with data from my credit report such as mortgage, car loan, etc.

I also received a postcard confirming that Informed Delivery had been activated for my postal address.
A related question: if China builds battery factories, surely they would also build car factories to use those batteries. What would be the impact on Western car manufacturers? Would software increasingly become the key differentiator between car manufacturers?
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Because if you buy something you have a right to know what you're buying.

Just like I have the right to know what is in the sausages I bought for lunch, I should have the right to know what is in the .exe I bought to run my accounting system
Thanks!

> Does seem to take a lot of work to redefine all the types from the existing services (unless I'm missing something).

The goal is to keep this type of rework minimal-to-none, by leveraging the type data that's already there. In typed languages, if the contracts are well typed, then you're already 90% of the way there.

> Given a rest service output, can't some of these things be auto generated ?

Exactly. For example, Vyne can work with a plain old swagger file, which many services already have. From there, it's a little additional metadata to identify ID's etc.

However, the idea is that getting Vyne working should be much less code than the alternative - which is to write the integration code manually. Also, getting Vyne going is a one-off cost, which should remain robust as the surrounding services change their APIs.
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thanks! let me know if i can improve it
Of course, but then how could you charge 2-3x for storage upgrades that way?

Edit: wow, really struck a nerve there. I take it back, Apple is in no way motivated to massively overcharge for storage upgrades.
Could you share how much your bill is a month, vs how much the unlimited is? Or point me to a site with that info?

I'm curious on what the pricing differences are.
This. I default to FaceTime audio calls over direct phone calls with fellow iPhone owners. Crystal-clear every time. T-Mobile call quality is completely awful.
> Like how is it in the interest of handset manufacturers to let you have a general purpose computer that could run unsigned (by them) code?

Perhaps naïvely, I imagine that selling me hardware is in their interest. Is control of what runs on the hardware they manufacture really worth more than selling that hardware more widely? Granted, there aren’t a whole lot of us who want to run our own OSes, but we do exist. How much money do the manufacturers make by maintaining control?

Or do they keep it because of contracts (perhaps like HDMI or other copyright-monopoly-enforcing standards) requiring them to prevent users from owning their hardware?
re: 32bit land, You should look into MDB_VL32 in mdb.master as other posters have suggested.

If any single commit takes multiple seconds, you've probably written too much data in a single transaction. Above about 512MB it starts preemptively flushing intermediate pages out, to keep the in-RAM footprint limited. Some of those intermediate pages will need to be read back in if your transactions are hitting all over the DB. This is where the main slowdown comes.
Many say that this is precisely why automotive companies have been postponing the move to electric. A lot of the reason for major auto companies existence is that it used to take sophisticated multi-billion dollar organizations to design and manufacture high quality ICE engines.

Overall, "anyone can make an electric car" is bad for the incumbents. China has hundreds of electric car companies turning out surprisingly decent vehicles that are probably good enough for most of the world. The vacuum company Dyson is getting into electric cars.

Everything but the powertrain (including almost all of the safety technology from seats and airbags to sensors and driver assistance) is available from suppliers, so it really isn't out of the question for more new brands to disrupt the industry.
Against software development
It would be nicer for Congress to not impose capricious retirement funding requirements, artificially making them look unprofitable.
It is a very good metric.

To have baseline UX awareness is crucial for every developer on any team that sets out to build a great product, just like any effective designer has to be aware of physical limitations of his design space (for example speed of light, bandwidth)

If your UX designers job is to point out that responsive UI is indeed important for your product, he is not actually doing UX design and you are likely in deep trouble.
LSD is quite the opposite of addictive. Its showing very promising results for stopping addiction.
Just because other aircraft can to this today does not mean "a modern airliner can". No modern airliner currently has the capability to make remote controlled flights.
Military drones sometimes fail to do these things correctly, but it doesn't really matter because they are drones.
I'm not really sure how to answer this.

Sure.

That's not actually how "identity theft" affects people for the most part.

The case of the police turning up at your door or some sort of court summons because a fake "TazeTSchnitzel" performed fraud is pretty rare.

What actually happens is some opaque credit score thing whereby you just find interacting with the system harder because someone else fucked up.

For example, an agency deciding that because fake "TazeT" managed to get a phone contract and didn't pay it, real "TazeT" must be a layabout and not pay his bills.

Or an account of yours has the password reset because someone sent in a photo of your ID gained from some database leak from a nightclub.

All of this comes about because of inaccurate linking of accounts. There are trivial ways of determining actual linkage, for example if I send money from account A to account B under the same name and it goes uncontested, it's the same identity.

Using stuff like photographs of bits of paper or things sent in the mail as proof is completely asinine. I get mail from half of my street because my postman is underpaid and can't be arsed.
I’m a bit confused about the functions always being continuous. Step functions being ill-defined makes sense, but how about modulos? f(x) = x mod 1 should be trivially discontinuous. I should also be able to contruct the set of integers Z (using the unit 1 and succession operator) and identify the largest integer that is smaller than x by intersecting [x-1, x) with Z. Do I need to show the intersection always contain only one element?
They do decide back and forth, and where I worked the cycle was in large part driven by the dynamics between what features the market wanted (safety classification being an interesting one - this inherently pushes towards dedicated MCUs) and how well a single MCU offering at that moment in time could handle all the features wanted.

Of course, by the time the thing is designed, components are sourced and so on, the pendulum might have well have swung the other way.
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"I think you'll be willing to admit that SV's interest in China is the good old capitalistic rule "rational actors will make deals that most benefit them" coupled with the fact that publicly traded businesses are generally targeted at profit for shareholders."

I'm not. Personally I think helping a leftwing authoritarian society is actually something that the SV leadership is interested in doing, because it is something they want for the US as well, and they want in at the top. I don't feel this is a very big leap from the demonstrated political proclivities of the area, what people say, or the actions being taken.

"Thus the left blaming the right for not coming to the party on regulations that would stop or regulate this."

Actually, if you want to fall back to "I blame the other people over there for not stopping us from doing this!", I'll take it. It's a silly argument but I'll take the premise it's based on without question. It's still you doing it. And I say "you" not necessarily as "greycol" personally, but because this is HN and the line workers actually doing this work are indeed here. And 95%+ of them are on the left.
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In a justice system that actually does what ours pretends to do that isn't my problem at all. I'm innocent until proven guilty, and if other people accept insecure methods of authentification that shouldn't be my problem.

Or put another way: if a burgler spraypaints the words "wongarsu was here" on the walls after relieving a house of its valuables the police may want to hear my side; but it isn't my problem because those words prove nothing.
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I wouldn't be surprised if it's also used by loss protection to make sure you stand in one place on the way in, and on the way out, as a way of making sure they get a clean camera shot of you.

Loss Prevention will have cameras and sometimes plain clothes folks wandering around the store, and if they suspect you're up to something they can zoom in and follow you. Adding a step prior to exiting where your receipt is checked adds one more chance to confirm bad behavior, and gives LP time to zoom in on your cart and your face.
I had no idea about eurkea
Yet Tesla is often criticized for attempting to disrupt the electric car market. They're too small; it takes years and billions to make a car line; they're too expensive. They can't get volume from suppliers to get a good price. And on and on.

How could others have it easier then? Maybe because those Chinese cars could never be on a road in the West, because they're dangerous and untested?
I had a similar situation, I just ran, hit the gym, dated and learned Clojure. Great times take me back.
This is not a valid argument for the BBC being an objective broadcasting organisation. One side can rightfully claim bias and then the other side can over-sensitively claim bias the other way because the BBC isn't 100% presenting it's view. The BBC could still be much more biased towards one side.
GM made an electric car. People liked it. For whatever reason GM decided to stop selling them and crushed all the cars. Mainly because the laws changed saying they didn't have to lower emissions.Also gas was super cheap. There is a great doc called who killed the electic car.
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