skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Isnt the purpose of a Dyson sphere to keep all Energy inside?

No, because that would be both impossible (see "black body radiation") and useless. The purpose is to use all energy produced by the star. But "using" energy doesn't mean it's gone (see conservation of energy) or that you have to trap it. What it really means is you want to use the low entropy inherent in a concentrated source of energy to perform work.
Yeah, this is my experience too. You should always attempt to use the language of where you are except in France. They would rather you spoke English than butchered their language. I usually keep it to please and thank you in french as a result. Although I did once use my high school french to ask where the swimming pool was once and had a bit of trouble deciphering the response I got (in french). So swimming pools and libraries and please and thank you :)
I can't fault the detectorists for wanting to be involved, it would be a real shame to discover something like this and then just hand it straight off to someone else the second things started to get interesting. A lot of these people are very passionate about history, any potential financial incentive might just be a secondary consideration.
AFAIK the US does not ever invalidate old dollar bills. They're just withdrawn from circulation, i.e. banks return them to the Fed in exchange for new bills.
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The weird thing is that while modern-style mathematics with lots of display maths is supposedly to be less dependent on subtleties of text (as opposed to the arguments of old-style topology books like Munkres, which use display equations a lot less and pack a lot of oomph into dense paragraphs with inlined symbols). But mathematical terminology actually changes a lot -- it's enough to open a page in Wikipedia and switch languages to see.

A "field" in the algebraic sense (the real numbers are a "complete ordered field") in portuguese is corpo, but vector fields are campos. And both in Portuguese and French, manifolds and algebraic varieties are the same word (variedades/varietés).

Maybe if one starts graphing these separations and collisions across many languages some structure emerges -- obviously no one mixes up algebraic fields with physics fields, but the manifold/variety collision hints at some historical commonality that matters for expressive power at the level of a Grothendieck trying to say something sweeping about the entire landscape of mathematics.
The many spectrums of Alzheimer's?
Speech. I learned I'm really good at speeches.
front/end is easy, the nuggets just bump in to each other. Sides I guess are done by having more elasticity where the corners shall be. This way the filled tube naturally expands to be square.

I now think I know the how, but why? They stack it? You could stack cylinder shapes...
She’ll have to go exchange her francs for Euros or Krona first anyway. Unless you’re going to send her to Switzerland for the morning’s bread...
Would be cool if it also explained what some of these services were.
Neat! Maybe you could add a line or two to describe what each product was? For example I'd never heard about Sidewiki, Google Jaiku or Google Catalogs. It seems fitting that a tombstone would mention not just the date of death but also a bit about who they were and what they did.
very cool find. archeologists also destroy a lot of evidence, and if they find anything that doesn't fit rpevious findings often either ignore it or are highly skeptical, which is why i assume he hd some trouble to convince this was an actual find, and had to ... dig a little deeper :D
> Does anybody else find this kind of response patronizing?

Yes, though not at all for the reasons you stated. The canned suicide hotline/cheery bullshit/"you can talk to me if you're sad!1!" is absolutely awful, and not usually what a depressed person talking about their depression on the internet needs to hear. It shuts down the conversation in a way that no one can reasonably argue with, and gets the well meaning asshole who copy pasted a few phone numbers into a text box a bunch of internet points, and little else.
love this. super cool design
Paralyzed Individuals Operate Tablet with Brain Implant
That's half-right, I think. The question is, when using a command like "change until" or "change forward", i.e. 'ct' or 'cf', what will the effect be?

In the case of 'ct', you're going to delete up until the letter, whereas in 'cf', it will include the letter you're targetting.
Hight-carb here refers to carb-protein ratio, not high-calorie diet.
the most nutritionally dense foods in the world are carbs. I know people love to oversimplify and demonize entire macronutrients, but not all carbs/proteins/fats are good/bad. Many carbs are bad due to heavy processing and added sugars/fats, many are good such as fruits and vegetables.
Jones day. Largest parnership in the world iirc.
It's comparable to go, maybe a bit slower. In comparison to DMD or LDC, rustc feels like endlessly grinding. I haven't used GDC.
There is plenty of work going on along these line:

1. Numenta.com : founded by Jeff Hawkins of Palm Fame

2. Vicarious.com : founded by Dileep George a Numenta alumnus.

3. Joshua Tanenbaum's work at MIT.

4. Eric Horvitz at MSR

Also Check out Pentti Kanerva work into sparse models of human brain.
What annoys me the most is that they have the right ideas (Waves, Helpouts), but they lack conviction.
The most ridicoulous example is when they introduced wireless charging, then removed it, and then added it back when Apple finally added it themselves.

They also sometimes lack imaginations, namely cancelling Reader instead of morphing it into some sort of G+. That plus AMP would have given FB a run for their money.
What's the glycemic index of the carbs?

The article says

> complex carbohydrates derived from starch, and casein protein

"Complex" probably means a pretty low glycemic index.

But what does that mean to me at the grocery store?

It's sad how we don't make glycemic index easier for people via nutrition facts.

For example, eating 100g of cauliflower carbs is a lot better than 100g of refined sugar. But, by looking at the nutrition facts I see "both are 100g of carbs."

Edit: fix high to low as pointed out by child comment.
The alternative is cash in the wallet, not having to go to immediately withdraw as that is obviously also down. That is, using cash regularly.

It doesn't even have to be a total credit card blackout, like it has happened a few times in Denmark in recent years. It can be minor fuckups, like your bank accidentally cancelling your card, or shutting it down due to something they consider fradulent activity.

I have seen at least 2 total payment blackouts in the past few years here in Denmark (a virtually cashless society, with very strict laws limiting cash use), have 12 credit cards at home from back when my bank thought I wanted a new one every month (with each sent card cancelling my current one, without notice, before I got the replacement), and friends have had their card cancelled without notice due to undescribed "potentially fradulent activity". It of course takes weeks to get a new one, and during this period you cannot even use an ATM.

All of these are simple errors that will happen again, and again, and again. They shouldn't leave you unable to make trades from your own wealth. You shouldn't rely on others to be able to manage what you own.

Cash isn't inconvenient with electronic cash counting registers. It's fast, simple, and it works regardless of external factors. Oh, and fewer people tracing your every step in this world is nice.
What about Google Goggles?
Me too, I hate reading technical docs in spanish. I wouldn't have translated the web whatsoever.
Yep, had to switch to Brave on my Android phone too because Firefox was killing my battery.
Run Emacs in Evil mode or similar and you get modal editing inside a special editor mode. If anything, Emacs is an extra-modal editor. :)
Its music. It does not have to be about words
Huntsville, Alabama.
Can Virtual Reality Change Your Mind?
> once the junior dev is trained, they will leave.

But this is exactly not how it works. The only job I stayed 3 years where I had gaps, told them in advance, and learned.

Where would you rather stay: the job where there is no learning curve or where you can learn something new?

I think the reason is that decision makers want to minimize all their risk, being okay if the employees manage a fair amount of all the risk.
Rise their pay when they become competent
He certainly didn't give up. He seems tenacious. And that seems the right thing to have been done.

> "I knew the importance of them straight away," said Mr Smith who has been prospecting for around 30 years.

> "It was just instinct. I'd read all about chariot burials and just wished it could have been me, so finding this has been a privilege."

The area has a long Celtic history. For readers unfamiliar perhaps with the UK or this part of the UK, some context: the stones in Stonehenge [0] were sourced from the Preseli Hills [1] several hundred kilometers away (in the part of Wales this site is).

Pembrokeshire is beautiful, and somewhat rugged. Rolling hills meet sandy beaches, equally meeting treacherous cliffs. As a child, I remember frequently climbing to the peak of an iron age settlement in the morning, sort-of mixing-in with the sheep left to roam there, then after lunch, a quite long walk down to the sandy beaches it overlooked. Trying to catch shrimp in the sandy pools the escaping tide left.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonehenge
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preseli_Hills
Ask HN: All I want for Christmas is a Linux phone
Has anyone tried or is anyone currently using a Linux-based operating system such as Plasma Mobile or Ubuntu Touch?

Based off of articles like this https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/linux-smartphone-operating-systems/ the best one, to me, looks like Plasma Mobile (which requires a Nexus 5).

Is anyone using a Linux-based mobile operating system? Do you have any advice?
Looks great! I recently tried to make something similar where one could simultaneously sketch on a tablet and on a laptop - https://onthesamepage.online/about
Gmail: at its peak it had 1.2 billion users. The product management team was replaced with [people who unfortunately are not qualified to hold their position.] (I imagine), and they thought it's a good idea to replace the desktop version with an unusable one that took literally 15 seconds to 1 minute to open, would not load completely, hung on searches for mail, reported actions as finished that did not make it across the network, and was slow as unusable. Later the team thought it was a good idea to simply blindly cc people on mail who it thought might be interested in seeing mail you're sending (previously only a suggestion, which was fine), such as cc-ing your boss when you send your resume/CV somewhere (since you cc your boss on lots of things) while hiding the fact that it was doing so, not reporting the mail as sent while actually sending it, and other shenanigans. It also thought security wasn't important anymore and would link accounts that had nothing to do with each other, so that you could just access anyone's inbox. it would replace some text you sent with different text based on machine learning. just an all around shambles. after people realized that they werne't getting what they signed up for, they started looking at different providers for the first time in 15 years. R.I.P. Gmail. The service was finally shuttered in 2020 after an exodus of nearly 90% of its users.

just kidding. Hey Google: [terminate] all your GMail product managers because they're [not qualified or able to perform in their current position] and ruining it for everyone. You know you can just [terminate people who are not performing adequately in their position], right?

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EDIT: this was flagged while going up and down and up and down in points. I've now replaced the parts in brackets with neutral language, previously it was expressed strongly and colloquially.
Is there no way back, where upstart companies can make hit games and become mega stars, like iD in the 90s?

Is the resources required to make a hit PC game too high today for an upstart to succeed, or is it just big gaming houses controlling the distribution channels?
Aw man, I don't have a mouse or trackball with me today. The trackpad sucks for drawing.

I wish there was something I could do in freehand drawing interfaces that assumed mouse-button-down and let me just drag.
> if they find anything that doesn't fit rpevious findings often either ignore it or are highly skeptical\

If they find something that doesn't fit previous findings, they publish on it and get tenure.
Link is blocked at work by McAfee Web gateway

Url category is pornography
Is this how Godwin's law ends?
> The explanation you were replying to was more digestible than yours.

The analogy presented is fairly accurate and easy to understand. GGGGGP talks about loops of inverters and continuous refreshing, the latter of which is invented terminology.

> The circuit is bistable which means that the system has two states in which, once reached, it will remain until some energy is expended to change that.

> Imagine it like two valleys with a hill between. Rolling a ball from the OFF valley to the ON valley requires some energy. If it's not enough the ball rolls back into the valley it's currently in.
Google Map Maker: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Map_Maker
My math is terrible, what can I read to understand this book?
Probably, but this leads down the rabbit hole on "what counts as discontinued". There's probably plenty that got killed internally before seeing a public user. Some on the Wikipedia list were more like features within a product (e.g. Latitude), some of them just morphed into products directly (e.g. real-time search, I think), and some of them were not really in a 'launched' state (e.g. Image Swirl).
In places like britain, or egypt, artifacts are literally everywhere. You cannot put a shovel in without hitting something. So, like it or not, history and science are not always the primary concern. Farmers want thier fields back asap. Teams need to move fast, often with only a single season of actual digging.
In that case the first C compiler also didn't compile C.
> There is only so much impact I can make in this position

I'm reminded of this talk :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hER0Qp6QJNU
around the 8m30 mark is the pertinent point, but worth to watch before that to get where his point is coming from.
The film Das Leben Der Anderen (The Lives of Others) [1] is an incredible view into this world. I highly recommend it.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTSdhmTJDyY
Interesting. I always tend to think cursor is on top of character, not before or after it.
The Murderbot series by Martha Wells
Probably will end up like AOL, and AIM. Operating for many years after it's demise.
I have yet to see one of the new bills that were introduced 2015, i.e. I haven't seen (or used) cash since before 2015.
Maybe. I don't know. Your comment simply caught my "is that so?" filter. I'm going to have to go learn more. Thank you.
^ this. the fact that some people can be pre-IPO yet hire mostly students who work for nothing, get all pissy when people ask for a raise for staying past 5 consistently, and to boot, writing fake glassdoor reviews because you can't hire actual engineers anymore due to the bad rep you built.

I don't know what kind of people would entrust their companies HR data to an organization run like a sweat shop.

When you walk in and see mostly Asian workforce, head for the exit. I've seen consistently again and again, immigrant hires who are used to working 8am~10pm in their country now bringing the same fucked up neo-confucian work ethics.

God I hate Vancouver. What irritates me is that criminals and drug dealers who have successfully laundered their money through the real estate are now venture capitalists, now seeing their net worth explode. Did time for moving drugs? Hey now you are a CEO of a crypto company. Used to be a serial killer for a gang? Now investing in local startups, calls himself VC lol.

I hate this corrupt ass backward world sometimes. I've lost faith. No. Fuck this, this isn't why I came to Canada, to be a glorified white collar slave. Sure as shit not going to be blue collar so what does that leave me? When society rewards and protects criminals and punishes those who play by the rules out of humane morals? What does this leave me with?
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There are some quick easy things hotels can do.

They can sell only small quantities of medication commonly used in suicide attempts.

They can make it harder to access the rooftop of buildings.

They can put small signs giving contact details for a suicide prevention organisation in key places.

These aren't going to end suicide, but they do help reduce the numbers.
Yeah, what's up with Gmail not loading lately (in Firefox). Opening a mail takes ages, and often it's not marked as read when I return later.
> If you believe that is the case, then why not spend a couple weeks learning XYZ, so that the next time you need XYZ you can say you know it?

Because there are many things to learn and it doesn't make sense to learn everything just to get to the first interview at any company.

As a developer it makes sense to do one or two small projects with any framework just to see how it is, but that doesn't count as knowing the framework.
I don't think they're describing Baader-Meinhof illusion, instead it sound like the phenomenon I know as "Feynman's grandmother" whereby we credit a coincidence with a degree of magic because we fail to notice the frequency compared to non-coincidences.

The phenomenon plays out something like this: If you recall all the times you read something, and the subsequent article has no unexpected relationship in key concepts then you'll see it's just a normal statistical occurrence rather than something spooky and notable.
He didn't dig very far - only as far as he needed to show what it was - and left most of it for the archaeologists to dig, if you read the article
Whoever wins this "blockchain all the refugees!1!" RFP from UNHCR is going to regret it: https://www.unhcr.org/admin/sts/5be980924/request-proposals-...
Many Swedish bank branches (most at this point?) don't have any cash.
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Looks to me that in USA there is no incentive for healthy lifestyle at all: if you can pay (for the insurance), the healthcare provider does anything regardless your condition or costs. In government-funded health care the idea is to maximize results in the whole population. For example the surgery of fat person is so risky and expensive that it is not worth it, you can save 10 normal persons while the fatty tries to lose some weight. People know that and that is why you rarely see those Texas-style lumbering mounds of flesh in Stockholm.
And, it's mentionned, multiple times, in the article: it's the Datel device.
Definitely France, and quite possibly this is a law ratified into EU law.
For example, if a French company wants to hire a specific American (or any non EU citizen) person, they need to prove that the position is unfillable in France, and then unfillable in Europe.
The leads to incredibly obscure job adverts as explained in this thread ..
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>what's up with Gmail not loading lately

I just wrote you what's up:

>The product management team was replaced with people [who unfortunately are not qualified to hold their position.] (I imagine)

I also wrote the solution:

>Hey Google: : [terminate] all your GMail product managers because they're [not qualified or able to perform in their current position] and ruining it for everyone. You know you can just [terminate people who are not performing adequately in their position], right?

It's rare that a fix like this is so easy and decisive. So easy. I'm absolutely serious.

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I've edited the comment for more neutral language (previously it was colloquial.)
I mean nothing written here isn't already covered more thoroughly in undergraduate economics curricula.

However those don't conflict with my point that there is nothing preventing a firm and the sum of their users from having strictly aligned goals in the context of their relationship.

Competition simply means that there could be other firms who may be able to align their goals with users goals more tightly, and run the other firm out of business. Much more to be probed here, like consistency, short and long term goals and desire/goal uncertainty on the part of the user and firm. None of those seem to be intractable issues.
Cold comfort to some, but I think there's at least one real advantage that the addict or anyone with an acknowledged mental disorder or personal problem has: addressing this is a path to enormous self-realisation and growth. By comparison, most people are sleepwalking through life.
Increase their salaries to fair market rates as they improve. Stop being a cheap bastard.
On desktop it's triggered when hovering over the tombstone.
Perhaps I could find a way to transform
imports into script statements in the exported file

Uhh no! That would be even more hidden magic. The beauty of your platform really shines when there is no hidden process. When the user can transparently see what happens.

There really is no difference between Vue and React in this regard. The React demo without a server side toolchain looks like this:

https://frontarm.com/demoboard/?id=2e5ca405-b011-4d00-988d-2...
I've built a team from trained-up junior devs, and it was great, I would recommend this route for anyone building a team.

BUT... you have to have people who can train and teach as well as code. There are personality traits that don't align with this. The typical "aspy Dave" stereotype of a rockstar programmer is not good at this.

So you have to align the entire team from day 1 as being a training environment as well as a software excellence environment. It's not easy to do. We lost a few people because of it.

However, the loyalty generated was incredible. We tended not to lose people because they knew they could learn more with us than they could elsewhere. Our retention was fantastic, despite the overwhelming opinion than new trainees leave as soon as they can get better salaries elsewhere.

But then, we hired for people who were hungry to learn and create. Less graduate programmers thinking they knew it all, more college dropouts who loved coding but couldn't stand academia. The best coder I trained on this team (in fact, the best coder I trained ever) was a girl who taught herself coding while getting off heroin in a Glasgow slum. I doubt any "normal" dev shop would have even interviewed her, but she was really good.

Oh, and we were too small to have an HR department. When we grew big enough, they definitely got in the way. I had to more or less fight them off over every position we hired for, because they didn't understand anything about coding, IT or creativity, and would just look for relevant experience in a similar field.
That may happen sometimes, but there's also examples of findings that contradict popular hypotheses and the person who found it gets their career destroyed and labelled as a "crank" and a "fraud" rather than getting tenure.
multitail, a powerful tail replacement with highlighting, split panes and comfortable buffer search. mostly used in long running tmux sessions.

for example, u could pipe in tcpdump output to analyze dump in realtime
I'm not suggesting, I am stating as fact.
Makes sense. Car audio designers already create sounds in cars to make up for the lack of them. Doors don't make much sound anymore naturally, but they've been designed to keep making sound when they close. And road noise is simulated or piped through the speakers. There's no reason that would stop with terrestrial vehicles.