skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are certain spoke counts which have non trivial aerodynamic advantage. But going less than, I think it around 12? has greatly diminishing returns. Zipp had some good data on this years ago.
It's not the poor who got the mcmansions.... it's the not-rich. Big difference.
Good question. There are limits on the max query execution time (30 minutes) and the number of parallel queries that can be executed at the same time.

There is a separate page about service limits here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/service-limits....
Mars’s buried secrets: What NASA’s InSight lander is searching for
> deeply sensitive to people thinking they're poor and in need of assistance

Exactly. A gift card is appreciation. Cash is pity.
Yes, it also applies on server architectures that derive from Skylake (aka SKX), and I've tested it there. However, it is probably of less utility there since currently all Skylake server architectures support AVX-512, which lets you load an entire 64-byte cache line in a single load, and SKX can do these at a rate of about 1 per cycle - so you can already do better than the technique described here simply by using AVX-512.

As I mentioned near the end of the wiki page, this might still be useful in scenarios where you don't want to use AVX-512 for some reason.
I would expect them to have problems over time with the wood-metal joints, since they respond to heat/humidity changes differently. This is often a problem with musical instruments.
Plus the vast majority of websites don't need to even adhere to it. They could literally have a pop up that says "we don't care about GDPR".
http://mynoise.net is probably the best thing that has happened to my programming career.

I always hated working in open offices and used to play the same white noise over and over again.

With myNoise, every day is different... sometimes I "visit" a Japanese shrine... sometimes I'm on a ship in the middle of a storm... other times, I'm in the middle of suburb living memory lane while listening to the birds and lawnmowers driving around...

The best part of the site is how you can customize every single generators. On the generator pages, there's user testimonials with little heart icons. When you click the icon, it loads the exact preset that the person leaving the review had customized. The site is endless with possibilities.

Stéphane, the developer, has a Slack channel going for the premium users (donation based) and is super friendly to requests.

I'm probably one of the site's top fans and I can't recommend it enough.
You can choose the specific one you like from the “More Music” page on the website.
Just want to second (or third, or fourth) this sentiment about the SE. That's what I use, and I don't feel inclined to upgrade any time soon.
I have an embedded system, I have C and Lua and size is a major issue. This really looks interesting to me, maybe I can fit it, and then run have custom Lua parsers for different protocols.

Libpcap is probably the biggest issue, it’s pretty large in our world.

I had a quick look through tcpkit, it seems to make some odd decisions. For example latency stats is done in C. Why isn’t this a generic Lua plugin? I want latency, but the buckets are all wrong in my world, my latency starts at 300ms, and increases. Why isn’t this in Lua and easily tweakable.

Plus, is I can do latency stats then I can start doing some really interesting things I care about. For example bandwidth use, average packet size, etc etc.

(Oh, and why Lua 5.2? 5.3 has ints, which is nice when dealing with numbers)
We're going to have to disagree that forcing countless companies to review things, many of which were unnecessary, and planting notions is really doing much. It actually seems very easy to overstate those benefits. It also seems equally easy to ignore the costs.
I (and I'm sure many others on HN) would love to learn more about this when possible.
Ask Fabrice Bellard to write tdc after tcc [1] :-)

[1] https://bellard.org/tcc/
agreed that argument doesn't make any sense. EU countries were severely weakened post-war, to the point that they are unable to wage war today (plus they rank lowest in the world in "i would fight for my country"). The whole "Peace" argument wasn't even brought up in the 90's anymore, EU was all about mixing cultures and having fun during Erasmus programmes. The argument has been revived recently, but i m not sure anyone is buying it. Besides, any kind of such danger is from outside EU. E.g. greece , cyprus and finland. In the case of Greece and cyprus, the presence of US, NATO and UK navy bases are what guarantees peace.
Well, Dread Lord sounds like a cool badge to get.
To save lives??

Anyway, in your example the drug is still a monopoly in the US and EU and is likely to be profitable, is it not? Is there an epidemic of pharmaceutical companies going out of business because they can’t assert their IP effectively? Or are they making record profits? But I see your point.

My point is that while sure, that defrays the ability to completely monopolize an innovation, complete monopolization is not necessary to justify invention or development.

For the first example, a company would develop that because they are needed for supercomputers or higher performance for some application. If China wants to make them cheaper, great, it means we can do that application cheaper.

This seems to just be a debate about patents and IP in general. I doubt we can cover much new ground there.
Not to mention, I think I've read that flight attendants are _prohibited_ from receiving cash tips, on pain of termination, non-cash gifts are presumably acceptable (I've heard of quite favorable treatment being lavished on passengers who show up with fresh baked goodies for the cabin crew)
The reason is that they've completely fixed Bluetooth. They just work. My Bluetooth mouse sometimes fails to connect. The Bluetooth in my old car was always flaky. The Bluetooth in my non-Apple headphones sometimes connects and sometimes refuses. I don't own a Bluetooth device that works like the Airpods do.

The Airpods always just work.

They've completely integrated it. You open the case and you see that they've connected with a nice image right on screen. You want to switch them from your phone to your iPad? You select them on the iPad and they just connect. Every single time. Without exception.

No other Bluetooth device even enters into the conversation for me until they just work like the Airpods do. Nothing outweighs that for me. Sound quality doesn't. Shape or comfort in-ear doesn't outweigh it. The price of entry is that you have to make the Bluetooth just work.

The reason Apple gets the kind of praise that you seem to despise is that they figure out how to make things just work. And for a certain type of customer, that outweighs literally any other concern. You can respond all day about this spec or that spec or this or that performance test or "objective sound quality data."

But it has to just work.
Professional level riders are absolutely certain they can feel the difference between deep carbon wheels vs aluminum when they test them.

Then if you disguise the wheels such that they cannot tell which is which, they are completely unable to discern them.

The same is true with frame types typically believed to be vastly different. A professional triathlete and ex cat 1 road racer I know was sure he could tell the difference between Cervelo's comfort, round tube frame (The R series) and their aerodynamic frame (the S series).

He devised a helmet with an obscuring screen so he could test the two in blind fashion, and he was unable to discern which was which, by riding them.

Its all just nonsense, really, imho. There are dozens of examples like these I've seen through the years. People with high degrees of expertise, certain of these feeling differences, blind them, and they can't tell.
"hydroformed tubes"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WpGsJKVhZY

Thank you. I kinda always wondered how bike frames were made. This is really cool.
Your idea that these laborers are victims of "homeless crack addicts manipulatively employing the victim narrative" is such an extreme miscalculation that I wonder if you even looking at the data honestly.

The amount of money that actually goes to homeless people is extremely low, and most of those meager funds are used to give them food and temporary shelter so they don't literally die outside. And even then, the amount of taxes that "low wage laborers" earn is slim. Why can't those with vast excessive wealth give some of it to services that can rehabilitate the homeless, or create unskilled or low skill jobs that pay enough to keep people indoors?

If a homeless addict is smoking crack outside, what he needs is a shelter that can rehabilitate him, get him off drugs and get him employed somewhere where he can make meaningful contributions and connections to his society. Services like these barely exist, and are in desperate need of the money that we for some reason insist on giving to the wealthiest mega billionaires who keep it in offshore accounts and refuse to give to the people they are directly responsible for putting on the streets via critically unsustainable low wages.

To assume that the homeless are homeless because of "responsibility and consequence" is to totally ignore any systemic circumstance outside of their control that may have led them to become homeless or jobless in the first place.
Elon Musk's love for weed sparks NASA SpaceX investigation
I have a S7 as well. What phone would you suggest to be better for games? I travel quite a bit for work and while I admit I was quite skeptical of games on the go I now find in them quite a bit of enjoyment.
> "Do you want a medal?" one woman quipped.

> "Do you mean a man rather than a child Brent? It comes across as a man rather than a woman and I'm sure you don't believe that women can't choose their clothes and hair!" the academic tweeted.

As difficult as it must be to live with Down's Syndrome, I feel so much more pity towards the kind of people who gets pleasure criticizing the mentally disabled on the internet.
Me neither. There are a bunch of core design decisions baked deep into Twitter that all encourage users to be confrontational and produce drive-by snark. I’m not sure how you remove those design decisions without turning Twitter into something that’s no longer Twitter.
WikiTribune is handing the keys to its users (after laying off its journalists)
I'm not even sure if they knew he was disabled. I think it was more a reflex to call people out for perceived wrongs.
> As we all know, stiffer tires (higher pressure) is faster.

This is not correct. Optimum speed comes are optimum pressure, which is usually quite a bit lower than most cyclists imagine. Going too high results in worse rolling resistance, AND worse handling AND worse comfort.

As a ballpack figure for a road bike, a 25c tire will usually have optimum rolling resistance at around 90-100psi for typical male rider mass and road surfaces.

And the faster, better handling tires also have less rolling resistance, but less durability.
Facebook appeals Cambridge Analytica fine
When I'm working on a side project, I always prefer to do something that hasn't been done before, even if it's just a small improvement. I wouldn't criticize your chess app, and that sounds like a great learning experience. But even if the goal is to learn something new, I'd prefer to end up with a project that is useful or interesting, and might even make some money. In other words, I only want to build something if I can write a blog post about it and Hacker News might find it interesting. (And there's plenty of ways to make a chess app interesting - using a different programming paradigm, machine learning, AR, building a chess engine in VHDL for an FPGA, etc.)

> Why do people learn to play songs on the piano that millions before them have learned?

I honestly asked myself that same question when I was a teenager, and I decided to quit piano lessons. It felt like a waste of time and a useless skill now that we have MIDI and self-playing pianos. So I switched to jazz and improvisation, and tried to compose my own music (although I'm not very good.) But I enjoy the creativity a lot more than playing songs from sheet music.
> Traders cannot make a profit if they don't manipulate the price.

Traders aren't the only reason prices move.
Clearly a wide spread crop failure would also increase grain prices.
You can still make money as a trader if you do a better job at predicting such events than others.
Or he could try paying his taxes.
You have to blind yourself when testing. The human mind just can't handle perception!
> "Our coordinate system" is not shared by anyone

General relativity provides a toolset for a complete transformation from "our coordinate system" to any other: a diffeomorphism between coordinates, and laws of physics written in generally covariant form and obeying some constraint equations for values on any three-dimensional submanifold.

If the supernova's matter is that of the standard model of particle physics, you get everything after the comma in the previous paragraph.

So any two observers of the supernova have a straightforward mechanism for relating observations against their idiosyncratic choice (or choices, they aren't restricted to just one!) of system of coordinates. The actual observables are independent of the choice of coordinate systems.

You'll find (mathematical) proofs of this in discussions of the initial value problem in General Relativity; (physical) evidence is the same as that from astrophysical tests of General Relativity.

As a practical matter, realistic observers will only measure a tiny subset of the total observables of the supernova, and different observers will measure a different subset, even if they use precisely the same system of coordinates. Obscuration by dust or distance is not caused by the coordinates in which one expresses distance or the size of dust particles.

> There is no "the actual supernova". That's the whole point of relativity.

No, coarsely, there is a 4d-worldtube along which one finds a WR star, a supernova of type Ib or Ic, and a remnant. Or more finely, there are worldtubes for large numbers of particles that are bound together gravitationally and through standard-model interactions into these more macroscopic objects. In some compact region of spacetime a collection of these particles is best described as the start of a Ib or Ic supernova; their worldtubes diverge (possibly spectacularly) elsewhere in spacetime. Or, if you like, we take a roughly 4-cylindrical section through the spacetime-filling fields of the standard model such that somewhere in that 4-cylinder the excitations of the fields are best described as the start of a Ib or Ic supernova. Really, it doesn't matter, because we know mathematically how to relate each of these descriptions, and have a good idea about why we might choose one description over another when asking various questions. That is the whole point of relativity.
Iain M. Banks the Culture novels are wonderful, there are 9 of them. Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth universe and the new one Salvation are great. My favorite in the last 10 years or so is The Passage by Justin Cronin, when I started reading it felt like I was reading early Stephen King. He is the best writer of the above, and the story is compelling. There are two more books in The Passage trilogy.

Amazon is making a show from the first of the Culture novels (which is the fastest moving SciFi book I've ever read) and Fox fxx is putting The Passage on TV in Jan. I recommend reading it before it comes out on TV since they are rearranging the timeline on TV.
This is such a valid and even-keeled compromise. I'm sure you'll get absolutely no traction lol
Yep. Although it was github with the t-shirts… :-)
I dunno. I think a $2bn endowment that hands out $200mm/yr to those who are most in need is pretty damned cool.

Hopefully it's the beginning of what's to come.

The thing to keep in mind is that the guy has $infinity and his company has infinity success. Neither have to continue as they have already won. What will define the legacy is what is done with the accumulated wealth, this seems to be a good first step.

... and yes, the PR is important. Maybe it will encourage more wealthy people to give back, in substantial ways even.

I don't see the value in sneering at philanthropy... ever.
Late GDR's video game culture and it's surveillance by the Stasi [German]
It's rare to see a fork that's NOT aluminum. Even "carbon forks" are typically aluminum forks covered in carbon.

Source : I've shortened a lot of forks.
I don't understand why drivers can't charge different rates.
I don't know. Extreme proposals have a history in EU. the gdpr is extreme in its measures, and it was written by a green leftist. yet it passed

The bigger question is: Who asked for this?
Renowned hacker 'tessa88' identity revealed, Hacker a Russian
> I feel immoral for being so successful on the stock market!!!! I just couldn't help it, my program was TOO successful

Next time you want to covertly brag in a thread about regret, at least make the moral dilemma believable.
>What I find particularly suspect is the idea that "intelligence" is like CPU speed, in that any sufficiently smart entity can emulate less intelligent beings (like its human creators) no matter how different their mental architecture.

>With no way to define intelligence (except just pointing to ourselves), we don't even know if it's a quantity that can be maximized. For all we know, human-level intelligence could be a tradeoff. Maybe any entity significantly smarter than a human being would be crippled by existential despair, or spend all its time in Buddha-like contemplation.

Glad to see this articulated here, this is one of the many problems I have with this topic.
You know what else "just works"? Wired headphones. We're talking wired vs wireless not wireless vs non-apple wireless here, so this is a pretty silly angle to discuss.
Observability at Scale: Building Uber’s Alerting Ecosystem
I'm largely in the same boat. Have you considered a pay-as-you-go plan with an MVNO? I use H20 wireless [0], with an iPhone SE, and it can be pretty cheap.

[0] https://www.h2owirelessnow.com/mainControl.php?page=planMin
The OP's point is:

1. The "superintelligence" crowd are capable of making very convincing arguments which he simply cannot refute on their own terms (I guess he'd say your example is one of them)

2. Since he can't refute them, if he engages with them, he will probably end up accepting them

3. However other groups exist which a) present equally-convincing (to the OP) arguments; and b) believe in a future which contradicts that espoused by the superintelligence crowd

4. With multiple sets of equally-convincing arguments leading to contradictory outcomes, it is not rational to accept any one set.

This is not a conclusion which sits well with tech people, because they like to assume they are capable of engaging with each set of arguments and deciding on the most likely set. OP's point is that because each group is really good at making these arguments, it's easy to get this decision-making process wrong. I think that's a pretty great point, but it requires accepting the fact that you may be less than perfect at picking apart 'superingelligence' arguments and premises.
The article was pretty clear about the first case, but it was unclear about the second. But yes, "call out culture" is tedious and ugly and narcissistic. Some people feel the need to correct anything that can be perceived as unorthodox to their political views, especially when it clearly wasn't meant as a political comment in the first place.
One day, you will understand, what behavior what Heydrich called "laughing beasts" really means. Meanwhile, have a good time.
It looks like the "Oath" brand is going away, and they're going to use "Verizon Media Group": https://www.theverge.com/2018/11/5/18064172/verizon-oath-med...
> many alpha geeks are talking about deleting their Facebook

What the fuck is an alpha geek?

> However I'm very very cynical that this would even have an effect

It has a very definite effect on you (i.e. the person who stops using it). That's the whole point.

> the rest of the users will just continue on as if nothing happened.

And that's their choice. Yes, it's a scummy company run by a guy with less human qualities than Data from star trek, but it's their choice to make stupid decisions.

> because they have petabytes of user data that Google don't have.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

It's hilarious and sad that you think Google doesn't have a ridiculous amount of personal information about people.

> Into a shared queue that anyone from Google to Apple, etc could access.

Apple expressly take steps to not rely on user data for their business model, even releasing less-featured products and services if necessary (e.g. early versions of Photos.app didn't sync recognised face data via iCloud, newer versions do this peer to peer, to some extent).

The sort of Data Google makes money from, isn't the sort of thing anyone would willingly share with them if it was made clear what they're sharing.
This is all so complicated, and reminds me of the joy of doing incremental development in Common Lisp with Emacs and SLIME. Edit-Compile-Run-Repeat cycles feel comparably archaic and slow compared to the much, much shorter and faster EditFunction-RunFunction cycles.
It's a great movie, but I wouldn't depend on it alone for a fact like that.

The Lives of Others, another serious and moving film, shows the protagonist solo-monitoring a dissident in order to not report the latter's dissidence. The Stasi required its spies to work in pairs to plug that specific vulnerability. This was crucial to the plot and gave people a false idea of what resistance to a then-modern tyranny is like. (Disclaimer: actual East German dissidents have approved of the movie, while I'm just a guy with an opinion.)
It would just be my assumption that the latest generation with the fastest processors would be best for games I guess. I'm not sure, I actually acted in another thread what the latest phones with the new fastest processors do with all that power as I'm just a 'typical' user that doesn't really push things. I assume games would take advantage of this extra power.
Interesting that the trading strategies have a shelf life, and they're basically trying to keep him in court / jail until they deem those strategies no longer valuable.
Isn't that because if you gain from the financial system, you are no longer poor?
Farebox recovery ratio is not a measure of net profit, it is a measure of operating profit specifically for transit assets, with only fares counting as revenues. In other words, the MTR's subway lines are profitable entirely by themselves. The real estate profits are just a cherry on top.
I just want to be able to have multiple, suspendible desktop sessions with different apps running and/or installed and different files available. Ideally I should be able to kick up more than one at a time to let them exchange data. Preferably without having to run a full VM per session. Bonus points if I can ship them between physical machines, though I know that's a long shot.

That's more interesting to me than individually-containerized applications. I want to have per-project and/or per-task-group desktop sessions that are right where I left them when I spin them back up, within reason. That's the one big "killer feature" I feel lacking in every modern desktop OS I use.
When you visit a U.S. newspaper (forget which one) you're greeted with a page. That page has a text blob which reads something like this: "We value your personal data, and so, because of GDPR we can't show you our content until we figure out how to show it in Europe".

Which is funny. Because they clearly don't care about personal data if you're in the U.S.

Hopefully in a few years (and hopefully a few multi-million dollar lawsuits later) the industry will learn to actually value my personal data and choices.
As problems pile up, Mark Zuckerberg stands his ground