skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. For trying to explain riding a bike, that just shows the difficulty in describing how to coordinate and move your body parts. A software engineer can clearly explain why the code looks good, which is then clearly understood by anyone who has basic technical understanding. Implying this is some abstract phenomenon that you “just feel” sounds like witchcraft.

2. This Shane Parrish guy seems to be a practitioner hence he’s explaining the mental models to us. Or at least he’s relaying the information from folks like Charlie Munger, but the point is we are getting useful information that originated from practitioners.

3. Yes they are useful as guard rails for practice. I wouldn’t say that’s the only thing they’re good for, but even if that were true, I’d say that provides decent value.
Plastic backlash: what's behind our sudden rage – and will it make a difference?
Same here, custom hosted website.
Properly made "web application" doesn't have to break the web. It can be curled, links work, back button works, etc. You just don't get any interactivity (besides links) without javascript, but it still works as browseable site (rendered server-side). You can have the cake & eat it.

(I'm not saying that every application should behave like that. Often the extra work is not worth it. But a public, content-heavy site should behave like that, whether it was single-page app or tradiotionally implemented.)
Stephen Hawking's final book suggests time travel may one day be possible
Many people and organizations still do. In some parts of the USA, if you hire someone to dig a well on your property, they don’t dig until someone with a divining rod tells them where.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/nov/21/uk-water-fi...
That's easy. Concentration of looted wealth in a region and regional internal trade with barriers for external entities. Why do you think there are so many voices against WTO? It challenges the status quo built by force.
I’ve been using openvpn on iOS for about a year, and this 1.1.1.1 app for a day now, and I can guarantee that most of the connectivity issues described are not true. [edit: for me, of course. sorry, didn't mean to discredit parent comment like that. just wanted to add my perspective.]

- it automatically switches networks, both to and from WiFi

- it does not disconnect when switching

- the 1.1.1.1 app does not make anything more spotty or unreliable; it’s just DNS. Openvpn yes, but this app clearly not.

As for the battery issue: could very well be true, I have no idea how to test it.

The difference between this app and an actual VPN are clear from using it.
I’ve got about a dozen ESP8266 dev boards, but they are not in the same league as this. ESP8266 is just a WiFi-enabled MCU. Getting any kind of video output or even keyboard input from it is a hack, and forget about it running Linux.
The 90 Gulf War and the 82 Falklands almost certainly gave that view to Blair in the UK, as he commented along those lines in his early career. Even from the bombings early in the Balkans crisis. The political benefits of winning a short, just war seemed clear.

Which no doubt explained some of his enthusiasm for getting involved in the second Gulf War and the appalling state Iraq has been left in.

Choosing which wars are the short and just ones isn't so easy.
What about building an ethical hacking company that hacks these routers, closes the holes and then shows a warning to the user?

This would quickly bypass any resources hackers have anyway, and could work closely with the governments IFF the hacking is purely ethical.

The amount of inefficiency due to these devices being freely available to the user should be a huge money-saver.
You know these labels on cigarettes that state the smoke contains at least 253 toxic chemicals? The smoke from other plants of course contains at least about 200 of the same chemicals.
thanks for sharing radiooooo.com ! this is AMAZING !
I was tempted to post that joke, but decided against it. Still, you've got my upvote.
don't allow commercial TV (they only watch Netflix or ABC Kids app

How are Netflix and ABC Kids not "commercial"?

Even PBS is "commercial", given the growing practice of underwriter ads.
How does it replicate all the data on disk or flash while maintaining the write latency of DRAM?

I'm thinking there must be a delay during which loss of power will result in loss of data that was acknowledged as written. Is this something that RAMCloud overcomes in a novel way, or is the answer simply that the data is replicated across many nodes?

How about the problem of raw bandwidth? If you keep sending writes to a node that exceeds the bandwidth of the persistent storage medium but is well within the capabilities of DRAM, the storage medium will never be able to catch up even if we allow a generous delay. Maybe this is a non-issue right now because you can't send more than a few dozen Gbps over the network anyway, and we just need to hope that flash performance will improve faster than 100GbE goes mainstream.
I'm baffled that virtue signaling and openly blasting politics is still so widespread in companies and organizations. I have a huge "shit list" of those who I see guilty enough to not want any business. Unfortunately especially in the tech market there's a huge number of "guilty" parties.

Politics should not be a part of what companies and (to a lesser extend) organizations do, out of self-interest alone.
I used to have a recipe for cookies I called "15 minute cookies" because you could be eating them 15 minutes after you thought of making them - yes, including mixing, preheating oven, cooking - which was always an irresistible thought. Sadly I lost the recipe, must find it again! Really, it's so easy to make cookies (far easier than bread), you should try. And you can add whatever special ingredients you like.. Experimenting is fun.
OSC installs new Pitzer Cluster
John Adams is fighting a giant snake.

http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko11/bunko11_a0380/...

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I guess you can say that the typical American doesn't know about computers in the `00s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ

But no one watches NCIS to get accurate depictions of hackers. People watch NCIS to get entertained. Pop-culture in general doesn't actually CARE how things work, its entertainment value, NOT accuracy.
You should probably review the MSDS for the specific filament you're working with. The first one I looked up [1] contains 1,4-Dioxane [2]. In my experience any time you heat up plastic you're risking exposure to dangerous VOCs. It doesn't matter if most of the molecules were derived from corn.

There are plenty of things labeled "non-toxic" which, when heated, produce toxic fumes. Pretty much every children's toy in existence is toxic to breathe when melted.

[1] https://images.makerbot.com/support/production/SDS-000002ENA...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1,4-Dioxane
> > The language is insprired by HLSL, the dominant shading language for graphics app developers.

> sorry wat ? https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=glsl,hlsl

Pretty much all "big" game engines use HLSL (or their own custom variant of HLSL) for shader authoring and cross-compile to platform-specific shader languages.

The problem with GLSL is that there are many versions that are completely incompatible to each other for no apparent reason. The GLSL used in WebGL is incompatible with the GLSL used for desktop GL, it's even incompatible with WebGL2. GLSL for OpenGL 2 is incompatible with the GLSL for OpenGL 3. There are different versions of HLSL too, but the compatibility between different versions of D3D and HLSL is better.

Apart from that GLSL and HLSL are similar enough in spirit that using one or the other as a blueprint for a new language doesn't really matter.

> And since Windows ... don’t support Vulkan

Vulkan is not supported by Microsoft, it's only supported on Win32 (not UWP) through 3rd party drivers. Having a browser API rely on 3rd party drivers is a bad idea (same with OpenGL on Windows, and that's the reason why WebGL implementations on Windows run on top of D3D).
Thanks for the details :)
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I hear you, but I also don't want any palm oil in my food. What happened to just using butter, lard, sunflower and olive oil? Just don't eat too much of it and it's not a problem.
But it's right there in the Terms of Service box! The pilot probably just clicked right through it without reading.
What is the best time tracking app for you?
Non-negative matrix factorization for recommendation systems
Given the odds of these people inventing a huge solution to a hard problem in a publishing vacuum (I am not aware of papers coming out that fundamentally solve this, for example) I think it is pretty safe to assume it's subject to the same limitations all such systems are subject to. Loss of power leads to loss of data. Commonly mitigated as you already state.
BlackRock shelves unexplainable AI liquidity models
You could of course try for some adequate ventilation and an enclosure instead of just ignoring the issue.
Actually Signal (and 95% of the Android app ecosystem) works almost perfectly with microg in place of Google Play Services. Using microg to use Signal does require that you allow Signal to connect to Google's "cloud messaging" push notification infrastructure, but in addition to Signal not actually sending any content through this infrastructure (as mentioned by the sibling poster), it apparently replaces all the data that is normally hoovered up by Google Play Services and attached to the requests sent using that infrastructure, so that you are sending almost nothing. I should emphasize I'm just regurgitating the claims made by microg developers, and I haven't done any research into the truthiness of these claims. But I will say that microg is hyper-focused on privacy (perhaps obviously), and this is an important issue to the entire userbase, and these kinds of things can't be done inadvertently or by default. The microg backend is extremely explicit with plenty of warnings indicating what it's doing and when and most importantly, giving you an opportunity to cancel the action after you've initiated it, but prior to it being executed.
I still feel like if UFOs really were able to one: fly here and two: mess with us, they would just kill us off and take our planet. Or enslave us.

It's what we would probably end up doing.
> We also know that MK ULTRA and programs very similar to it, have been continued to present day.

Do we though?

People assume so, because it fits a paranoid narrative that allows them to "mind control" people, but I'm not aware of any actual proof that MK ULTRA or "programs very similar to it" continue to the present day. As far as I know the program was a failure, like experiments in remote viewing and attempts to surgically implant microphones into stray cats hoping they would wander next to the Soviets.
and who will make microsoft support whlsl? w3c?
(serious question)

I'm not against new standards, but I'd rather stick with something already adopted. Vulkan seems better than metal (proprietary). And I really don't have enough experience with HLSL and GLSL but they seemed fine both.
Also broken everywhere else in the site for me: you never get back to where you were*
, even on a “static” page full of links.

A horrible excuse of a web site – but perhaps that still makes for a good web app. I couldn't tell and don't know if I'd want to.

* edit for clarification: this includes position on previous page
Exactly - and I feel it's an important distinction to make in this context and the wider environment of manufactured outrage.

Clearcast say the same: "The concerns of Clearcast and the broadcasters do not extend to the content or message of the ad, i.e. Clearcast does not consider the ad itself to be political."

The advert itself carries an important, but easy to gloss over, message.

They're exceptionally fortunate to now have a "Plan B" media maelstrom to help them cut through...
> no one watches a movie because it's made by Aardman

That's exactly why we took the kids to Chicken Run, having seen no trailer.
Ask HN: How to learn to play piano? (kids and adults)
I'm looking for software, setup, ideas of how to learn to play piano in efficient way. For kids and adults.

Is there any software which may help to learn to play notes on the piano? I imagine that you could connect piano keyboard via MIDI interface and the software would present note which you are supposed to play. Then another note, and then revise the notes already learnt (in a Anki way/algorithm). Or maybe there is other, simpler/more efficient way?
jsonq provides simple, elegant and fast ODM like API to query JSON document
The Raft Consensus Algorithm (https://raft.github.io/) was born out of this project
> How does YouTube enables me to to make sure that kids are protected?

It doesn't. I don't know why this expectation exists; youtube has not shown itself to be trustworthy in this sort of thing. Clearly an alternative needs to be used, like downloading youtube videos beforehand or using something else entirely.
Hybrid Cloud as Alternative to “Pure” Cloud Computing
Is this sarcasm...? Producing a 10-20 minute wine tasting video 2x weekly sounds both enjoyable and easy for people who like wine.
Much appreciated, thanks!
> a country not within the 14 eyes

I hadn't heard that term; in case anyone else hadn't, this page explains it pretty well:

https://restoreprivacy.com/5-eyes-9-eyes-14-eyes/
I disagree with the pseudo-scientific stance Greenpeace and other similar organizations have about nuclear power, but saying they're to blame for our use of palm oils for biofuels is ridiculous.

Sure they campaigned against nuclear, but that doesn't mean they approve of whatever other means the EU has been using as an alternative, as they themselves say on their website[1].

I'm sure if they got their way we wouldn't have nuclear or "bad" biofuels, and would just be paying a higher tax rate to scale up our sustainable energy production. That the EU has been dropping nuclear power without that investment in sustainable energy isn't Greenpeace's fault.

1. https://www.greenpeace.org/archive-eu-unit/en/campaigns/Clim...
The war was extended for a sound byte. The elite Powers that Be let these young men continue to kill each other for a cute quote for the history books:

“And on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, the guns fell silent.”

Shameful.
The Dow (actually, the Dow Jones Industrial Average) only represents 30 stocks, without emphasizing tech.
>But wouldn't an intelligent species capable of inter-galactic travel have some of the Federation style rules to obey? Don't interfere with a less intelligent civilization for fear of disruption or whatever?

Even in the fictional universe of Star Trek, most intelligent civilizations couldn't care less about the prime directive, and even the Federation disregards it when it's convenient.

There's no reason to assume that aliens in real life should necessarily conform to a modern human moral ideal about "non-interference with primitive cultures" just because they're intelligent.
I'd be surprised if this was the case. Typically redundancy like this is handled by having A and B systems on commercial aircraft. In the case of flight instruments this is usually divided by pilot and co-pilot systems. They have a separate AHRS (Attitude and Heading system) and their flight instruments show data from each system independently.

If you watch a cockpit video of an airliner taking off you will usually hear the co-pilot announce "80 knots" and the pilot reply "cross-checked". What they are doing is checking that their air-sensor data agrees (within a reasonable margin) for the most critical information at that stage of flight (since takeoff speed is very important with the modern wing shape on an airliner).

Similarly they have A and B autopilot systems which are driven independently by two AHRS units (except in special cases like during auto-land where both systems are operational).

Which is all to say that I think they likely have two separate AoA sensors. Although, perhaps being an optional element the failure of one doesn't automatically trigger a AHRS disagree message.
in a hypothetical scenario where all consumer goods sold via amazon, will amazon be able to get whatever price they want ? the answer is no, because consumer do not have infinite money to pay for it, monopoly or not. ( i.e. will all consumer goods produce via amazon, sold via amazon, and all people living doing job at amazon, works ? )

so on the side note, is there economic simulator, that can simulate such scenario ?
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I guess the sign isn't enough, I also need to explain the joke...
WHLSL is primarily relevant for the browser. So if Microsoft adds WebGPU support to their browser, they'll add a WHLSL compiler to it.

I'm also quite sure there will be translation tools to translate WHLSL to HLSL, GLSL and MetalSL (probably going through SPIRV as IR, see for instance https://github.com/KhronosGroup/SPIRV-Cross)
True but arguably due to very specific favourable circumstances for the RU side. This stands in stark contrast with the ongoing war in Eastern Ukraine. Like WW1, this is a war of attrition, but perhaps less intense.
Scammer Safemarkets won’t stop
I’ve found success in trying to provide value in every interaction. I stopped spending so much energy focusing on how I interact, and instead shifted my focus to better understand someone else and empathize more. It leads to better conversations and people reach out to me, no networking drudgery needed.
Here's one :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfSIC8jwbQs
Beware of Bigotry (how my conference talk got cancelled)
Now everyone has a smartphone maybe they're looking down instead of up.
The Consistency of Arithmetic [pdf]
Calling RAMCloud "new" seems a bit disingenuous since the first paper came out around 7 years ago.

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2043560
Ask HN: How to (re-)motivate myself to work on side projects?
I've been working in the industry for nearly 10 years, and before that I'd been programming for another 10 years. A lot of my skill I attribute to having worked on side projects - nothing has really been successful, but working on side projects allowed me to learn new things and explore new ways of working. And most of all, I found it a pretty fun way to spend spare time.

That was up until a year or two ago. Three years ago I got married, and so my spare time has been reduced, but even when I have spare time now, I feel really unmotivated to work on side projects. I'd rather play computer games or watch TV (by myself, not necessarily with my SO, in case you thought that might be why).

I'm getting rather frustrated by it, as there are lots of new technologies and things I'd like to try. I even have a side project that has been mildly successful with a few paying customers, and with more effort I believe it could provide a substantial amount of my income. Other ideas I have are projects that won't necessarily make money, but are useful enough that I could justify the time spent building them.

But alas, I just don't feel motivated to work on any side projects outside of work. Over the last two years I've gone from working remotely pretty stress free, to working in an office with a lot of stress and overtime, and back to working remotely, so it's not an issue with my day job taking all my energy.

Any ideas?
I'm amazed by how far off-base they have managed to make this. The recommendations are bizarrely inaccurate.

1)it says that my (black) text doesn't have sufficient contrast against my (white) background.
2)It says that my page could benefit from having more of its resources served by http 2 (more than 100% presumably).
3)It says that links should have a name (this is not supported by html5)
4)It says my (100% valid) robots.txt file is not valid
5)it says my 100% no javascript static webpage which isn't a PWA should return a 200 when offline. Not sure how they think I should do that.
>Lawrence Lessig's book

Which book, please? Thank you.
Let me put out a theory filled with tinfoil hats, based on what I read on social media (Reddit/HN): (Disclaimer: I am not an American and I do not live in the USA. I have no horse in this rat race)

Amount of Russian Hacking in US Elections is directly proportional to the amount the elections go to the favor of the Republicans/Others.

Democrats won the house, so no Russian meddling happened. Had the republicans somehow managed to win the house, the democrats would have declared war on Russia by now.

It's both funny and sad to see USA behaving like the entire country is on LSD.
Not comprehending. Sorry. I've always been a simple bear who struggles with word problems.

Is your notion similar to optimal matchmaking, score voting, other...?

If you ever illustrate this, please post a Show HN.

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FWIW:

I use various voting systems to expedite team decision making problems. So I'm always curious about new algorithms, strategies.

For examples, use approval voting for triage (prioritization), use roman evaluation for go/no-go (releases).

Less talk (debate), more vote.
Biosphere 2 to breed supercorals strong enough to survive swiftly changing seas
One of the best things that happened to my entrepreneurial career was realizing that I wasn't cut out for every aspect of the entrepreneurial career. It took a failed startup to realize the things I don't do well. So now I offload them to others. And I'm so much happier for it.
but my assumption is that if the podcast is being served from a creator owned RSS, then it's harder for advertiser to know who downloaded it, if they actually did, if they listened to it. The design of 'podcast' (here's my RSS feed of MP3s) was never designed with advertising in mind.

The RSS feed is self hosted, but most of the time the actually mp3 download is from a third party host like lybsyn where you can at least get an unbiased source of downloads.

Besides, almost all podcast advertising is direct action and there is usually a coupon code you use to signal the advertiser where you came from.
If the refresh token is only being used for authentication and expires in a reasonable time for the application then you would not need prior consent so you would not need a banner. You would still have to explicitly disclose what you are doing on some sort of easy to find cookie policy page.

Some good discussion here:

* http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
The Flawed History of Graphical User Interfaces – Member Feature Stories