skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apart from privacy, I also went that route because hardly ever looked at all tha data GA or (the thing formerly known as) Piwik collect, at least beyond bare counts.

I care about hits per page (ideally by humans, unique or not), the time it takes to generate the page server side, and how long it takes until the DOM is finished loading. I throw that into buckets, i.e I have hourly counts for the last few weeks, daily counts for the last few months, and so on; the only stuff that will be kept "forever" are yearly counts. I still rarely look at it, but at least now it takes up little space.
Now if we taxed SUVs properly so that people buy cars that weigh as much as a 90s commuter car, but have a 2019 engine in them...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defense_industry_of_Russia

I don't own an S-400 but they seem to do ok.

"Russia's defense industry employs 2.5 – 3 million people and accounts for 20% of all manufacturing jobs in Russia"
I’ve always loved django, and graphene isn’t half bad for GraphQl in python, but it’s getting harder and harder to deny how useful JavaScript is becoming compared to python.

An Apollo/yoga graphql setup with node and prismsa is just really, really productive.

There is also the advantage of sharing environment between front and backend, I mean, there are just so many hours, it’s hard to keep up with two major languages and their communities (two and a half if you’re using typescript).
The imperial system is not good for construction. Try measuring a 2x4 sometime.

It's just an established convention. And it sucks.
About USD6.33/gal, or AUD$2.3/l for diesel, about the same now that gasoline, though there was larger price difference in the past which lead a lot of people to get a diesel car, so these folks have been hit hard. It's about twice the price as here in Canada.
You're just familiar with it - as somebody who has grown up with the metric system, I feel exactly the same affection about it, and to me imperial units feel stupid, unworkable and old fashioned.

I think this is the biggest problem with metric/imperial arguments - most of it is actually based on emotional attachment deep down.
It’s totally false.
Model 3 sales are about 15 times greater than leaf sales in the last months.
What are you talking about? Latin America and Africa have had non stop foreign intervention since the 16th century. Rich angry neighbours / foreign interventions have always created huge amounts of corruption and instability and are the root cause of many of these countries problems.

You also seem to be implying that African and Latin American people are just naturally more corrupt than the inhabitants of other nations which is a kinda bizarre theory.
Definitely not without side effects. Loss of pain sensation in parts of the body (such as the knee) can be really scary and potentially lead to permanent damage if the pain feedback loop doesn’t report that it’s being twisted or stressed.
Don't stop there, there is a push for Decentralized Planned Economies. ( https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Decentralized_planning_(economic... )
I'm inclined to agree. The design is fine, functionally, but there's a certain harmony missing from it and most Linux desktops (even elementaryOS') that makes them feel like using toys rather than proper desktops.

Mind you, I say that as a macOS user (although I did run Linux full-time for a good six years in a past life), and I'm sure many a Linux user will call the macOS interface toy-like to their eyes.

Even though all I see, whether in the old screenshots are the current, are misaligned and seemingly randomly-sized icons, ugly text rendering, and an unclear design vision, I'll still say that the typical defaults still do a pretty good job considering that no Linux distro with mass appeal has yet shipped with a forced theme to make everything just right because, after all, such a distro would never gain mass appeal to start with.

Not with the Linux users who know they're running Linux, at least. I think this is what Ubuntu and elementaryOS are trying to establish: Linuxes for people who don't know what Linux is. That gives some freedom for forcing good, consistent design — but not until there's enough "first party" software to make the rest of the Linux application ecosystem irrelevant.

I don't think that'll happen until Ubuntu or elementaryOS bring about killer apps, something like iLife for Linux. Beautiful, works exceedingly well, and designed for ordinary people rather than fellow developers. A reason to develop for that one distro rather than the whole Linux ecosystem, so far not yet forthcoming.
I forget who I emailed. I got a response that they’d look into it but a month later nothing.
Not sure I understand your use case but does this help?

https://github.com/mozilla/sops
For those interested in more, there was a Discover magazine article on this topic ("How Bad Luck and Bad Networking Cost Douglas Prasher a Nobel Prize") in 2011, covered in HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8640177 .

Pasher made it to the Nobel Prize ceremony as a guest of Chalfie and Tsien "who not only invited the Prashers but paid for their airfare and hotel."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Prasher adds "Chalfie and Tsien were awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for work that they publicly acknowledged was substantially based on the work of Douglas Prasher, and through their efforts and those of others, Douglas Prasher returned to scientific research work in June 2010. ... working for Streamline Automation in Huntsville until December 2011, and then from 2012 to 2015 in Tsien's lab at the University of California in San Diego."
i had no issues with the hardware on T500, t460s, 230x, 270x.
The imperial system is terrible for cooking, in my experience as a home cook and baker.

Measuring dry goods by volume instead of by weight? Good luck ever getting consistent results.

Base 10 math is the most intuitive for humans. Fractions are an abomination.
Although El chapo is a criminal, it should not be up to the US to judge him. The drug trade is an american problem, it doesn't really matter if people from other countries are smuggling in drugs.

Also, El chapo might have operatives inside the US.

It should be whatever country El Chapo is building his drug trade in, who should take care of him. And if the country is corrupt, the US cannot be everywhere to help everybody.
You comment on HN threads about measurement systems. You are not normal. None of us here are.
That's a common problem I had too, I often have to modify install scripts because of it
"residents living within 2 miles of the laboratory are 60% more likely to be diagnosed with certain cancers compared to residents living 5 miles from the laboratory."

This new housing development is a mere 1300 ft away:

https://www.kbhome.com/new-homes-los-angeles-and-ventura/arr...
A nice article that actually shows a value to introspection in brain research.
Anatomy of the UEFI Boot Sequence on the Intel Galileo
It's a taxpayer subsidy to the military-industrial complex. That some of that money ends up in the pockets of workers is a sad reality that cannot yet be avoided, but it's hardly "the reason".

That would imply a level of care that is completely incompatible with a lot of things. Take the use of low-IQ troops in Vietnam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J2VwFDV4-g

But the defense budget is so people can "put food on their family"? It doesn't even begin to add up.
> You can break elementaryOS' nice graphics just by putting it into sleep mode and waking it up again...

Definitely this, unfortunately. elementaryOS 0.4.1 Loki was fairly stable for me, but then I installed 5 / Juno, and now the machine often locks up with a completely black screen, except for a handful of items visible where the top menu bar usually is. It seems to occur when it wakes from a sleep mode (though this is on a Parallels virtual machine). The only solution is to reboot and lose whatever you were working on.

elementaryOS is great and the first Linux I've really enjoyed using (I'm normally a Mac user, the kind who uses software by Panic). But it still has so far to go. It's also worrying that you can't upgrade from 0.4.1 to 5. Even with all of Microsoft's disasters with updates, they've still managed to let you upgrade from one version of Windows to the next one.
It is appalling for cooking. Don't get me started on the shitshow of using "cups" to measure weight.
If you haven't noticed 90% of people are running windows which is quite frankly ugly by default. Further it was pretty hard to get people to give up fisher price windows xp. It's probably accurate to say that most people aren't terribly concerned with aesthetics as much as functionality.

That said steps to achieve a relatively consistent look.

Open your configuration app and configure your gtk theme to something that looks nice. If you don't have one you can install lxappearance which is from lxde and has minimal deps so you can easily install it in a minimal environment.

Install qt4-config if you have any old qt4 apps. Set it to use gtk+ style for qt4 aps.

If you use newer qt apps install qt5ct and select gtk style.

In 5 minutes you will have a relatively consistent look.

A few notes.

- Its increasingly likely you have zero qt4 apps and could probably skip that part and not care

- qt5ct actually lets you set a custom stylesheet and or colors if you want more manual control but this is hardly required.

- firefox is really stupid about drawing website elements with dark text on a dark background when run with a dark theme. You can run individual gtk apps with a different theme like so

env GTK_THEME=Adwaita:light firefox

you can copy your firefox desktop file to ~/.local/share/applications and edit the command to ensure that this works properly automatically.

Chrome somehow figures out that a dark theme doesn't mean you want to draw webpages differently so I consider this a firefox bug that mozilla wontfix.

In a perfect world someone would create a single useful gui to configure qt4 plasma gtk2 gtk3 apps which only had settings that would effect all of the above consistently and required no tweaking.

In reality land most people don't care including those shipping distros can probably ship with or arrange a reasonable look with minimal fuss.
These are problems you actually pretty much never have in actual precision manufacturing in metric... Most general machining is done to a tolerance of +/- 0.1 - what does half a millimetre have to do with anything?

As for building, that's mostly just rounded to the millimetre, centimetres aren't usually ever used.
In the UK we have a phrase for government departments who issue statements like this: “Ministry of the Bleedin’ Obvious”
You are part of the vocal, online minority that doesn't look at Mint and cringe because it looks so amateur and dated.

I have used macOS for 10 years[1] and I always had the same feeling about Windows 7. The icons looked ugly, apps were all over the place UI-wise. The directory structure is impenetrable for a non-expert. Etc. With Windows 8 and 10 things are even worse, discoverability is hard in the super-flat new interface, Win32 applications or universal apps look out of place (depending which one you like), and even for Windows' own settings, things are scattered between Win32 and universal applications.

The Windows UI mess doesn't drive Windows users away, so I do not see why some misaligned icons or text would drive users away from e.g. Mint. There are other reasons why people do not use Linux, but I don't think this is it (outside some niche groups, such as designers). Death by a thousand paper cuts is why most people will stop using Linux after trying.

[1] Though I am now using Linux again the majority of my time.
Tao te Ching. If you like that there's also the Art of War and Book of Five Rings.
Show HN: Markdownbin.com Write markdown and get a link
You write markdown and get a rendered url.

Wanted to do a project with minimal features but still something that can be used, that takes me through php development (composer, Slim Framework), server setup (DO) and deployment (using a pre-receive git hook). Markdownbin is the result.
Great work! Thank you!

At the moment it seems that a lot of NixOS users (including me) prefer a keyboard-centric window manager to a full desktop environment, but obviously (well I think it's obvious, anyway) there's a place for Pantheon on NixOS too. A big place, I should think.
What in this context does "help the desktop forward" mean?
That’s an interesting apporoach. Maybe next time I have lower-back pain, I’d wrap habanero peppers around my back.
When people say they resent having to learn another language, I wonder if it's really the language they don't want to learn or another set of libraries and frameworks. I mean, that's fair enough, the wheel only wants reinventing so many times.

Windows has Windows Forms, WPF, and UWP; macOS has Cocoa; and Linux has … well, a lot of things, each with their own quirks, and not all of them with bindings into every language a developer might want to use.
Beyond cars getting more efficient, a lot of cities have also dramatically reduced their share of trips made by car.

Paris reduced car mode share by 45% since 1990: https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2018/01/the-automotiv...
Specifically if the lens is too good one gets aliasing which cannot be removed through software.

The pixel 3 hardware requires this super zoom method at all times, or the output will be aliased.
the linux desktop landscape has really changed. Ubuntu is no longer the cool os for the newbies with the rise of manjaro,mint,solus,elementary
I didn't say "being extremely competitive and taking personal pride in being the best", I said "having to be the best". If you ignore all that, including "cheating to overpower people better than you", of course it makes no sense, but that's of your own making.

If you want me to elaborate on something that you asked, and nothing something I made up, then ask me about something I said, not something you made up.
The Story of the Engineers Who Shaped the World’s Most Powerful Chip Machines
(I wish I could edit; I feel I should to clarify, I didn't do any of the Pantheon work, I just noticed the PR a while back and thought of it. I'm not sure I have the skills for that sort of thing yet.)
My use case is just encrypting some database credentials instead of storing them as plaintext environment variables.
A burst of 150 raw frames all within 1 second even the top end slr's can't do, mostly because they don't have enough RAM to store all those raw frames, and because sd cards aren't fast enough.

Without all those raw images, you won't be able to do this kind of postprocessing after the fact.
Time is so mysterious and it may not even be a constant rate. I think the universe could be doing calculations while paused for a non-fixed period and resume for a millisecond until pausing again. Observing how every living thing is able to stay in sync to function normally is interesting. I only once had the experience where time felt like it was slower than normal and was with using cannabis. I still doubt if it really happened.
And I bet there are still some people that haven’t seen the XKCD...
Perhaps atleast some of the python visualization libs are built upon Matplotlib. I do feel that Matplotlib is kind of unintutive, trying in some ways to emulate Matlab, which isn't an elegant system to start with. For people directly using python without any prior experience with matlab, that is unnecessary baggage.

Also 3d plotting and graphing needs much more features. Trying to plot vectors in 3d, I found things are still very rudimentary. Even for surfaces, if you want to plot an ellipsoid, for eg, you need to reformulate the surface in polar form, then only matplotlib is able to generate it, were as Mathematica can generate surfaces from Cartesian expressions.
Any chances of adding Fast.ai courses?
1/3 of a metre is 333mm, which is generally precise enough for construction.
The diesel price is about €1.48/L in France. Taxes make up about 60% of that. I think that's what the commenter above was asking.
IBM DAISY: Dynamically Architected Instruction Set from Yorktown
Google online products are pretty much blocked in China.

This is on-device software though, so probably not an issue.
Theranos should be a case study of how not to, for a long time to come in tech firms - especially, those dealing with real-life humans in the healthcare arena.
Tom Scott did an excellent video on this. https://youtu.be/CcZdwX4noCE
It's common knowledge here; in the UK I was taught it in two classes at school: Science and Cooking.

We are taught to use the scales for measuring ingredients - and thanks to this trick you can weigh water (and milk) and vegetable oil (using 5-10% less) if you don't have a measuring jug.
Just what people need, more physical distractions in the office!
I am not sure, to be honest. I know that they have a lot of people signing up. I think invitation bumps up you place in the waiting line.
On the other hand the elementary OS screenshot has the designer’s disease of using poor contrast text - grey on white? Yuk.
Yes, but that is being funded by the sale of oil to Europe .

>Around 70% of Russia’s oil production is sold in Europe. Each time we fill our tanks, we are sending about €7 to Russia. This analysis details how rising oil demand in Europe has funded increases in Russian military expenditure over the last decade.

https://www.transportenvironment.org/publications/how-europe...
Salary Negotiation Done Right
Most local delivery is done using scooters (cheep) not cars(expensive).

There is so much online shopping that distribution centers are roughly every 10km so you go back to base get a load and a new battery. Same for food.

The difference is there isn't really a car charging network here like in the US. Most of the charging here is just using normal sockets or at home. I charge my batteries overnight twice a week. There are a number of charging points in the public garage but it is still slow charging.

So not good enough for a taxi going all over the city but good enough for delivery.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17478489
Mr. Big (Police procedure)
We just report it to the degree (high of 34 tomorrow, 32 the next day). That's really plenty of resolution for non-scientific measurement.
I'm not aware of any such pattern among HN moderators.
True. But this is for chronic pain. Especially for pain that's caused by damage that's not expected to heal. So if you have constant knee pain, so bad that you can't stand up, the risk of further knee damage is arguably not such a major issue.

However, I can see how this could be misused. People could put themselves at risk for serious injury, in order to get back to work sooner. It's rather the norm for professional athletes, sadly enough. And for many others who do manual labor.

So in such circumstances, it could be horrible. But for those with chronic pain, perhaps a blessing.
Anyone tried installing this on a MacBook? I've got an older Pro that keeps running Kernel at 60%+ of CPU - apparently just one of those bugs that MacOS has that "just work" like that.

I really want to install another OS, but both Ubuntu and Fedora can't see the available partition space, and can't find a wireless driver.

Given that Elementary OS is advertising itself as a replacement for MacOS, has anyone tried it and got anywhere with it?
> linux is a world where mainstream distributions still release with horrible UI experiences

I disagree, recent Gnome versions from the last few years have been amazing. Nearly on par with Elementary.
I feel almost the same lol. Without looking at my "smart" thermometer (is set at 24), I know what temperature is in the house. If it's 23,9 i'm already cold and I have to put something on. But if it's 24,1 I can stay with my shirt on.
Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C (2nd Edition) is an incredibly deep look at the cutting edge of computer graphics technology as it stood in the late 1980s.

It's full of beautiful renderings and diagrams, covers the core algorithms of 2D and 3D graphics, introduces the mathematics required, and many other related subjects such as user interface design.

Apparently there is a 3rd edition from 2013 which looks at modern GPU-based rendering, though I don't own a copy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_Graphics:_Principles_...
Please define "make all the difference".
You can buy patches that contain capsicum. Or more old-school, ointments.
Source available somewhere? Would love to take a look. If not... could you explain the bit fields approach a bit more please? Thanks
Loon balloons are helium, and helium gas is famously hard to contain, so eventually leaks out and the balloon comes down.

I don't see any way to make a balloon stay up forever unless you have a particle accelerator to manufacture new helium to make up for leakage...
> In our resting states, we do not rest.

It's funny how language shapes our thinking. The word rest has a bias towards related words such as inactivity and being passive. Hard to change that now! Imagine a culture/language where we would say "time travel" instead of "rest"! It would completely change how we look at resting..

I need to go time travel a bit now :)
Semi related note: reading the book "The Sleep Book" which details an insomnia solution that basically involves a method to stop needing to pursue/chase/long for sleep, was the thing that cured my insomnia.
Yes - they have a much lower ceiling. But if you want controllable altitude, that's what you need.
Most unikernels are written in type safe languages, as such the type system plays the role of a MMU.
> I also think that F is seriously superior to C.

Yeah, no. You're just suffering from Stockholm Syndrome or being thinly ironic.

People have absolutely no problem associating numbers to temperature sensations in C. And actually people can objectively feel temperature differences from around 2C/5F so in that way C is superior to F, 1F difference is meaningless.
The new generations in Europe bother less and less to get a driver’s license. Most of my friends don’t have one. Public transport is that good.
I’ve studied both. They are totally different books. The 2nd edition is the “Art of Computer Programming” for computer graphics. The 3rd edition is a fantastic overview of GPU based graphics libraries (the fundamentals not the APIs). Which is to say, they have almost nothing in common.
while glucose-detecting lens are cooler and would be very convenient, there seems to be breath analyzing devices development which does show very good promise - i.e. the acetone in breath seems to be an established correlate and the work seems mostly about building convenient device (for people who don't already have a dog performing such a service :) and for that work the product development power of Google money i think would help very much.
Just last week someone on our project was drawing a sequence diagram for an interaction between lambda calls on a cloud provider.

UML is pretty much in use on the enterprise space.
Gooby: The ultimate infinite Plex media server using a VPS and Cloud service
Venting does not work. For a given altitude, there is no amount of helium which will make your craft stable unless the volume of your craft is non-linear with pressure (usually done by having something that stretches to a limit, and then cannot stretch further)
If you use appropriate units, sure. Height of people is commonly measured in centimetres, not metres. Yes, one can easily estimate 150, 155, 160 etc. to within ten centimetres or so.
Isn't elementary OS basically based on Ubuntu with a few ui tweaks?
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html
And people stay in (inner) cities longer. Before, people had kids earlier and they moved to the suburbs when they had kids. Now they have kids later and more and more stay in the city even after having kids.
With all due respect, that screenshot you linked looks straight out of 2008.