skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A minimal laptop bag (Tomtoc). Switching from the big Swissgear backpack forced me to stop lugging multiple devices, dongles, keyboards, etc. Better for my back and better for my focus.

A (under $50 refurb) Apple Magic Keyboard 2. I was always struggling with muscle memory on different keyboard layouts so having something that's 95% identical to my MBP keyboard helped a lot.

Linode $5/month servers. Couldn't be happier with them as a place to park all those little sites for friends and side projects, mostly running Wordpress.
Good point. I noticed that too. At least web pages are made so that the content is re-flown [seems like the whole point], so it doesn't look like shit. It seems like [many?] PDFs place each character separately so if the actually used font is different from the one used during creation, the result will look very messy.
I didn't say anything that would imply that. However, if gut microbes, who act in their self interest, do cause cravings, then cravings cannot be used to determine what your body needs.
> any system that effectively allows decentralized peer-to-peer transmission of money

Congratulations! You've just described cash.
The insanity is that we built a system that cultivates and breeds extreme greed at any price, and then hope that the reigns to keep it under control will be forever flawless.

It means the protectors need to be eternally on top, while a single victory of the beast can destroy the world.
Why is the compiler being single pass related to correctness?
From the US and Canadian governments. That's why I said "in the US and Canada".
I think chrisco255 is saying Basis and DAI aren't one of the stablecoins backed by actual fiat. I believe there are 4 sorts of stablecoins:

- Ones backed by fiat, or allegedly backed by fiat[0].

- Ones backed by commodities, e.g. the organisation that issues the UK's coinage (The Royal Mint) was looking at issuing RMG tokens backed by their gold reserves[1] (they've since stopped work on this even though it is still listed on their web site).

- Ones backed by other crypto assets, e.g. Maker DAO's DAI depends on ETH as its collateral.

- Ones not backed by any external asset outside of its own system, e.g. Basis.

The algorithms for the last class are particularly interesting in that they essentially have to model what a central bank does. I'd be interested to find out why Basis has failed. Is it just that they were unable to comply with US regulations? Or is it that the algorithm itself wasn't viable?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18493093

[1] https://www.royalmint.com/invest/bullion/digital-gold/
We do have actual proof of TAO and who used it. Actual evidence which could be used in for example a trial. A high likelihood attribution isnt evidence. There is a limit to how sure you can be with attributions of cyber attacks.

This is directly from the rant you posted.

"Attribution is a good example of doing true intelligence analysis; there are no certainties"

>Why do you feel the need to have a strong opinion about it?

A lot of people try to use attribution as something it isnt is, as evidence. There is no reason to muddy the water and use the misrepresentation of attributions for political means. This nonsense gives the entire field a bad rep. Its intelligence analysis and not forensics.

I find it a bit rich to call others ignorant, when your argument consists of nothing more then the assertion that your counterpart is wrong and unnamed experts would agree with you.
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I remember going to Los Angeles in 2006 and having to wardrive and set up camp behind a Chinese restaurant to get free WiFi.
>Nerds applying Vulcan-style logic to such claims just confuse matters more.

I don't see Snopes doing that, though. I see them making an argument based on evidence and (in the specific case related the linked article) not even making an absolute claim about it at the end.

The people applying "Vulcan-style logic" are those who dismiss sites like Snopes out of hand as being politically biased, or propagandist, and therefore entirely useless.
Moby popularized this myth but re-steeping tea does nothing to reduce a tea's caffeine.
ON customer lifetime value in ecommerce
Same here. I think it might be a SF exposure thing: if you don’t read much of it, the book may seem better, but if you’re used to SF with big ideas, there’s so many so much better written novels out there that I don’t get the hype.
People have been circulating photographs of potential threats to their security guards since photography became ubiquitous. This is just an additional tool.

> Let's say Hillary has a talk but she doesn't want hecklers. Or Cheney, same thing. That would be unfortunate use of this tech.

Why? Your right to free speech is not a right to prevent others from exercising their right to free speech, and that's exactly what a heckler is doing. Your rights end where others' begin.

The purpose of free speech is to not stifle the free exchange of ideas and arguments, and "shut up," is not a particularly novel or valuable contribution to any conversation. and therefore does not deserve the same level of protection as an actual argument or idea.
Blender and any other programs that truly embody customizable. A power user adapts a UI to their own needs instead of adapting to the program, in my opinion.
Kind of OT and kind of gross, but that did make me LOL. Thanks!
Not when you need images, and if you need to display 3D data you are required to actually serve textures over a server.
Sometimes Credit Default Swaps Are Things of Beauty
Has FaunaDB Cracked the Code for Global Transactionality?
The price of a PS3 and Blu-ray player was approximately identical (here, for basically the whole lifetime of a PS3), except a PS3 could do much, much more. There are of course good reasons for why this was the case but from a consumer standpoint it's always seemed hilariously weird to buy a Blu-ray player.
For me it's completely the other way around. Coke has always given me anxiety and palpitations, coffee just makes me feel good. Club Mate (mate tea) is somewhere in between, I used to feel jittery and almost sick from it but now it makes me feel great (however the high caffeine is noticeable).
The benefits of a diverse mix of resources for deep decarbonization
Can you convert the `useSubscription` example from the "diamond problem" section so we can compare "before" and "after"?

A key design goal is that creating a custom Hook is easy. You should be able to literally copy paste part of your component (e.g. a bunch of useState calls and some event handlers) and call it a day.

I'm struggling to see how what you're suggesting could be easy for the end user but maybe I'm missing something.
Monitoring CrateDB on Kubernetes with Prometheus and Grafana
Git your SQL together with a query library
From that perspective, one way of looking at these tax breaks is as a rebate of government time & money saved by dealing with a single entity (vs 10 or 50 for the same sized economic impact).
Interesting! If you were doing this today, would you still use your tool or are there other better ways to test?
Facebook and Google would garner a lot more goodwill with me if they just offered some sort of option to subscribe out of ads on their networks.
Imagine telling this to a developer with 10 years of experience versus one with 1 year of experience that you've contracted to do the same job. It's no different. There's so much more to the story of the server than "the same amount of work". Most servers that work in a place selling $400 bottles of wine have a lot more knowledge, service quality, expertise, etc. than you'd find elsewhere.

If you don't want to participate in the culture, don't go to places you would be upset doing so.
Being so enthusiastic as to exagerrate ends up taking away from it.

If you "have to" assume anyone who notices that "has to get angry about people celebrating women too enthusiastically" you're just pre-emptively calling a modicum of attention and seriousness misogyny. Allow for other possiblities, like confidence in one's own not being a misogynist, that can give a person the freedom to criticize such overdoing which ends up taking away.
I agree with you if "pipeline" has the narrower meaning I think you're using. In a more general sense, though, I use a Mac all the time in my software dev "pipeline", but I'm much more careful these days to strenuously avoid using anything on the Mac that I couldn't take with me to the next platform (which won't be iOS) once Apple courageously removes enough usefulness from new Macs that I give up and move on.
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'secrets are base64 encoded at rest' means exactly what it says: a secret value is encoded using base64 in the Secret object 'document' that's stored in etcd. It doesn't say anything about at-rest encryption, and the Kubernetes community is well aware base64 doesn't provide any such guarantees.

However, if you want at-rest encryption (of data stored in etcd), we got you covered, if wanted way beyond only encrypting Secret objects! Some pointers:

- https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/encrypt-...

- https://kubernetes.io/docs/tasks/administer-cluster/kms-prov...
The best place I've seen for in-depth training articles it the Advanced Fitness subreddit,

https://old.reddit.com/r/AdvancedFitness/
It's really hard to imagine a text editor that works on a printing terminal, yet most computers come with one. Windows probably still has edlin.com and every Unix has ed, after all, "ed is the standard editor".
Don’t Worry About Deepfakes. Worry About Why People Fall for Them
> The other interpretation is that the experiment shows that collapse of potential fields into manifest reality is individual for each observer

General Relativity makes sense because our interpretation of a phenomenon is distorted in a mathematically reversible way which is localized to the observer.

If it were to be proven that a given wave function could collapse into two distinct quantum states simultaneously depending on the state of the observer, it would basically throw a wrench into the entire system.
I would like HTML files to mostly replace pdf documents. However, they lack a couple things:

* A way to save back form data. I believe google is working on a js api to access local files (given a few conditions).
* A way to bundle the html with every js script, ressource, css, etc, in one file, without making a huge mess.

If you had a tar.gz with an index.html inside, and the browser was to transparently allow r/w access to the archive contents from contained js scripts, this could solve a lot of use cases (heck, even "electron" apps could be replace by this). One exception being printed documents (postscript), at which pdf is quite good.
I think that’s the core problem, too: it works fine for well-defined needs in mature categories — things like buying printers or renting office space, where all of the options are usually capable of doing the job to at least a basic level. Large organizations have tons of experience muddling through that process and it’s tempting to think that software is similar, especially because many vendors are will to perjure themselves saying so.

The problem was accepting that custom software doesn’t work in the same way and reconciling the huge differences in how much customization people request versus what they are willing to pay.
http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/catalog/102728582

> the Redactron system could facilitate automatic composition and printing of over 300 semi-personalized letters a day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_processor_(electronic_dev...

> Evelyn Berezin invented a Selectric-based word processor in 1969, and founded the Redactron Corporation to market the $8,000 machine.

In a word, yup.
You can run any current through the LED. (well, up to a point :D) It's one way to regulate the brightness. I'm not sure what "modeled as constant current" really means when talking about a passive device.

If anything I simplify leds as maintaining a "constant voltage", no matter the current I send through them (in the right direction). Just like other diodes.

> it's easier to regulate the I component of P=I*V for consistency than it is the V portion.

I understand, and we're on the same page. But it doesn't change the fact that almost no led strips do this. You can iron out over individual LED differences by putting 3-4 in the series, and regulate the current using a resistor.

In fact, most of the LED indicators you'll see are driven like this. LED + resistor [+ optionally PWM or multiplexing].

Only for power LEDs you'll usually see anything more complicated invlving DC/DC CC switching power supplies.
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> Other people you might respect have tasted C++ and bailed on it (eg Linus Torvalds.)

Sorry, Linus didn't say anything compelling against C++. He explained very clearly why C++ didn't fit with his own personal way to work, and that's fair.But his message did never contain anything more than this!
Does anyone have any more info about the expansion in Seattle? I'm wondering if they are going to get more space in the same building or are looking to move.
As my old business partner used to say "All you need now is a disco ball"
As others have said, you can perfectly well use (most of) std without exceptions.

Turning off exceptions is very common among C++ teams, depending on the industry they’re in.

In general, you can (and should) pick a subset of language features. C++ is infamous for that.
Let me this fix for you too: don’t merge master into featur branches. What kind of insanity is that?
Revolut got a banking licence
It's not a global object—it's an instance of the object for the component you're using. The whole thing's a terrible OOP system in a language that already has a built-in mediocre OOP system, which terrible OOP system is, in the end, just a(n inefficient) pass-through to same built-in mediocre OOP system.

The posters here wondering why you can't name them are on to something. I assume it's because then it'd be too obvious that's what they're doing, and whoever's paying people on that team (I really hope it's not more than one person, it's not hard work, but it probably is) might notice and make them stop, and maybe the React team at FB would even shrink in size, and we can't have that.

I'm not sure what other explanation there could be for such comically-wasteful sandcastle building. I assume it's a combination of individual incentives to work on something not-difficult but flashy and prominent, with project incentives to never need fewer people than they currently have.
Yes, anyone can. There's one every year. Best get there some 20 min before as the hall tends to fill up.
As a non-American I'm a bit baffled. Does this mean hemp was previously illegal?

In most of Europe cannabis is illegal but you can get hemp-infused drinks and food (though I personally don't care much for the taste), even energy drinks. Not to mention hemp-based textiles.

In Germany growing hemp is illegal for private individuals but commercial growers can cultivate it if they exceed a certain minimum plantation size. Sadly growing it for scientific use (rather than sourcing it from a large-scale grower) also requires official permission.
Searched the Chinese term for glyphosate, absolutely no information on this limit on either Google News[0] or Baidu News[1].

[0] https://www.google.com/search?q=%E8%8D%89%E7%94%98%E8%86%A6&...

[1] http://news.baidu.com/ns?word=%E8%8D%89%E7%94%98%E8%86%A6&tn...

Edit: another commenter elliekelly has linked an old source for WTO filing from April 2018, which is for 107 pesticides, including glyphosate.

https://docs.wto.org/dol2fe/Pages/FE_Search/FE_S_S009-DP.asp...

https://members.wto.org/crnattachments/2018/SPS/CHN/18_0894_...
Yep, some of us are still able to remember how it feels like or know people that experimented it in first hand.
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The Ellsberg Paradox and the ambiguity and complexity of decision-making
DO is great, I like it very much for personal project. But it's worth give a try Google cloud as it will remind me there is a cutting edge cloud service there, just in case I will need them someday.
How to write to data platforms like Tableau using Spark
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Introducing Lightning Web Components
> While working with the PDF format I sometimes get the impression that this complexity is what Adobe wants. As a result, Adobe Reader is the only viewer that implements the entire spec and can handle all (or most) quirks.

While that certainly does play in Adobe's favor, the complexity of the spec. is also what occurs when over time new features, some never even envisioned by the original creators, are bolted on to keep the whole "relevant" and/or to add new "features" to keep the 'thing' from becoming obsolete.

We can certainly argue whether the addition of different features was worth the complexity increase, but simply taking an existing system and bolting on the latest "hotness" to use to add to the checklist of "why one should upgrade" features also produces similar levels of complexity.

So some of the complexity increase is merely the fact that the pdf spec. has been evolved to do things it was likely never designed to do in the first place.
Anecdotally, my neighbor is in her early 80s and has lived a very sheltered life.

Recently she did a memory test and nearly aced it (28/30). Since then my typically... well, clueless... neighbor has taken an interest in learning how to use stuff like her TV, stereo, talking about better ways to do things around the yard, etc.

Even with my own mother, the true benefit of puzzles is not that its exercising her brain or making her smarter, but its the confidence that goes along with being successful in these things. I think that goes a long way, even though it may be just a step above sugar pills.

For me, I play Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection (mobile) every day. I have a cycle I go through. If I'm having a bad day, a good win at Galaxies gets me back into the 'you can do this' mindset.

[1] https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/
How is orchestration done with LXD instead of Kubernetes?
My impression is that glyphosate is safe, but that the inactive ingredients, which are loosely regulated, are carcinogenic in some formulations of the herbicide. Of course, Monsanto won't admit this and open themselves up to lawsuits.

If there's a lesson to be learned here, it's that the United States needs stronger protections against the use of potentially dangerous inactive ingredients
Honestly, it's possible to make VM windows show up as if they were normal programs, or you could just do things like Chrome-level internal sandboxing. There's no reason this has to be clunky.
The #kidtech movement: a zero-data architecture for children’s apps and sites
Owner of a late 2013 15" MBP here. I never been eager to upgrade to new mac version too.

> Some time ago I was forced to upgrade to Sierra

Until about a month ago I ran Sierra - which worked fine and in 2 years didn't crash my mpb once.

Then I had to compile a few ios apps for work, and since xcode was outdated on Sierra, I had to upgrade to High Sierra. High Sierra kept crashing on me. Several coworkers also had this experience and suggested to upgrade to Mojave.

Meanwhile Apple also kept pushing to upgrade to Mojave via an os notification they showed a few times a day. So I sadly ran the "upgrade" to find out the system was much less stable than before. No I see why. Sadly my GFX-750 isn't supported.

For me this is the end of the line on macs. Newer MBPs have broken keyboard that Apple refuses to fix, and are really expensive to the old hardware they come with. And apparently you cannot even expect a >$3500 MBP to outlive 5 years because Apple breaks it with their software patches.

I'll have to buy a new laptop because I cannot even connect a proper external monitor anymore. Obviously it won't apple product. I'm thinking to go System76.
Yeah honestly I completely forgot about it till I went to buy something from Amazon and saw their banners everywhere (UK). Got a decent enough discount on the item I wanted but not going to remember it next year either.
We have proof that too many watertight compartments were open to the sea, that alone doomed the ship, the coal fire is an also ran.
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/sustainable-pulse/

The linked source is literally fabricated news and has no place on HN. The people upvoting this should stick to Alex Jones message boards.
Not at all, there are several other ways:

- Error flag in the class (not a good solution, though, as others have noted)

- Factory function that returns a smart pointer, or null on error.

- Just ensure your constructor never fails. (This probably means aborting on allocation failure. In practice that’s usually fine, depending on application.)
I believe it was TCEC season 13 which put GPU engines in disadvantage due to overheating, it was also the first season with GPUs. Right now there is TCEC season 14 in progress, did I miss anything?
Thanks! I'm not sure if you're involved in the Phippy project at all, but the way it's worded sounds to me a lot like the author believes that encoding == encryption, and I'd maybe consider just dropping that line entirely.

I suspect that it doesn't really matter to users at all what form of encoding you use to store data.
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I'm really unhappy that Homebrew twists user's arms to update to the latest version of OSX. I'm glad that I waited a year before I updated to High Sierra, seeing as how there were APFS file corruption bugs, and a default root login bug!

We need to stop being so enamored with Apple, and treat them with the same skepticism as Microsoft.

Several people in my office have been bitten by the Mojave bug and are now regretting it. You should wait at least six months to update OSX.
there's no reason to hold any stablecoin other than speculation (is it really really worth an equivalent fiat unit) or temporal liquidity. This whole concept of a stablecoin is fallacy unless you think it might serve some liquidity or velocity purpose.
Indent with four spaces:

function remac {
sudo /System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/Apple80211.framework/Resources/airport -z
sudo ifconfig en0 ether $(openssl rand -hex 6 | sed 's/\(..\)/\1:/g; s/.$//')
sudo networksetup -detectnewhardware
echo $(ifconfig en0 | grep ether)
}

EDIT: Two spaces is enough.
Isn't async in f# considerably less efficient than in c#?
lol, that's what I did, somehow I didn't get any results.

Maybe a typo, thanks for the heads up :)
There is a significant difference between the following two statements:

1) Cravings cannot be used to determine what your body needs with 100% accuracy because some of them might be caused by gut microbes.

2) Cravings should still be taken into account because most probably only a small percentage will come from cravings.

I understood you were referring to the first in your previous comment, so apologies if that was not the case.

Either way, the only research that I know of pertaining to this topic is that some yeast (IIRC candida) can trigger carbohydrate cravings. That is something you should probably never listen to, even if they are physiological. Note that I have a strong bias here as I adhere to a no-fiber ketogenic diet.
I think there used to be an official port of Adobe Reader to Android. Probably discontinued now, but it was a thing.