skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Have you considered the fact that practically everyone who commits these kinds of crimes had similar things done to them; often as children, often by relatives?

The connection between child abuse and adult criminality has been studied with twin studies. Genetic confounding plays the starring role.

> But pretending that some are evil

Try again. You're pretending there aren't evil, broken people out there.
Common orbits are solutions to the two body problem, but Shane Ross has a few videos on youtube about chaotic solutions to the three body problem, allowing objects to move in very complex orbits with very little fuel. This has been used for a few missions as I understand it, the math is WAY above my head, but the video is still quite watchable with lots of cool orbit animations:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwHDEB1VS_0
In at least some states, they are.
> Not everything hits mass market in a 5 years timeframe... in the short term it may seem we have a slow rate of adoption of new technologies, but if you take a step back you can see the rate is fabulous. Graphene, batteries, solar cells and before them, transistors, nuclear power, etc. may take a while to hit the market, when they hit it they hit it hard.

Most of those older comparisons still aren't flattering to graphene. We're nearly 15 years away from Geim and Novoselov's Sellotape trick now. 14 years after the first working laser in 1960 (though the first maser was in '53 and apparently the first paper was '51) the first supermarket barcode scanner was in operation, while Xerox PARC already had a working laser printer system. The first transistor was late 1947: the first consumer transistor radio was 1954 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regency_TR-1 , and the US military had been using transistors well before that. Calder Hill nuclear power station (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sellafield ) opened in 1956, about 14 years after the Manhattan Project and Chicago Pile-1.
Typically Alzheimer’s diagnoses are given with extreme reluctance, it changes how every person that interacts with that patient will view their condition, prognosis and treatment options.

I think that has more to do with the extended time frame than the actual ability of family and medical providers to see changes in a patient cognition and abilities.
Shell Oil exclusively employs disabled people in India
Old, like 50-60.
They prototyped it in pico8 and rewrote it for the commercial release. Pico8 is wonderful, but it’s designed for proof of concepts, not commercial game dev.
Network effects are too powerful. If they’re smart, they’ll make small changes over a long time, only ever upsetting a minority at once, and so the users stay. That’s Facebook to me, other things to other people.
> Its structure also allowed for automated refactoring at a semantic level (objects knew who their callers were)

It isn't quite as magical as that. It's somewhat better than most dynamic languages when refactoring and probably had the first refactoring browser. There were versions where you can run scoped refactoring like restricting method renames to within a class hierarchy or package.

But refactoring doesn't magically work.
I am an iphone/MBP user for past few years and currently using iphone 7/MBP 2018. While apple products and quality is superior, i dont see any improvements in iphone XS compared to my current phone.

1. Camera quality is not really that differentiating factor to spend 1200$

2. 99.9% usage doesn’t require higher cpu

If apple continues to play premium game without game changing features, soon it will be staginated

Regarding MBP, they screwed beautiful piece in the latest iteration
Apple is one of the worst companies when it comes to lock-in these days.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18806930
Thanks for this PDF
Nah this guy is right.

Tesla has that product reality distortion field much like Apple has. Would've made a great purchase.
> It sounds like the fault is how you reached your performance goals rather than asm.js itself.

The properties of asm.js make it inherently less efficient than Wasm.
> A properly designed EV battery will easily last over 10 years and over 100,000 miles

The probem for me is, that's on the young end of the sort of cars I'm interested in buying. The newest car I own is a 13 years old Honda that has 190,000 miles.
Promising new Alzheimer’s treatment unexpectedly found in old antibiotic
I am well aware of the difference, my point is that Apple is unevenly great. They have hits and misses, they do brilliant things with the supply chain... And they have some clunkers.

It’s not JUST AirPods.
5 Trends That Will Dominate Web Development Domain in 2019 and Beyond
My understanding is that with newer kernels, Singularity no longer requires setuid and is truly unprivileged.
It's hi-res for a playstation 1.

substantive content: new horizons uses a modified MIPS R3000 CPU (ok, not the PSX's GPU, and not used for everything on NH, but) https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/15/7551365/playstation-cpu-p...
Could someone add interesting insights to between-the-lines of Tim Cook message?
It's as sustainable if the infrastructure can support it, which they seem to be doing fine.

Honestly, this doom and gloom with the overpopulation pseudoscience is getting old just like the anti vaxxers.
This may be interesting to people. AAPL currently has a 3.38% share in the S&P 500 (VOO, SPY, etc) and a cool 9.72% share in the tech heavy NASDAQ 100 index (QQQ). Should be quite a volatile morning for QQQ.
If you can’t see improvements between the XS and the 7, I’m very surprised.

However I do agree with the general point. The differences are getting less and less significant, and we buy new devices only when they make a meaningful difference to our lives.
Yet, somehow BMW successfully sells new cars with minor changes every year. Eventually in the premium market it's less about the upgrade vs simply having a new device.

The question is what peoples upgrade cycles will look like. IMO an average around 4 years is probably about right for cellphones.
Yeah, a 50% solution is definitely better than nothing (but you'd still need to be very careful since a mistake could still fry your transmission).
I don't know, to me, this sounds like one of the more subtle examples of the kinds of mistakes that lead to security failures. Like, it might be an almost archetypical example of the "all bugs are security vulnerabilities" hypothesis. They got code execution from expm1!

But if you believe that this is an example of wanton abuse at Google, you can trade on that belief, and in a sense put your money where your mouth is, because this is a whole class of potential bugs, not just one bug; the same pattern will recur for other places where the v8 typer is wrong about the possible results of functions. Go do a sweep! If you find one, the value of the resulting bug might be pretty decent.
Except that the state of the art has evolved to bounding volume hierarchies, which are both easier to handle and more performant. I won't recommend implementing BSP or kd-trees because they have many more corner cases and numerical issues.
What's the difference between "Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation" and "Smalltalk-80: The Language"? The latter is more recent (1989 vs 1983) and seems to be a "second edition," but it's shorter (608 vs 714 pages). Did they drop a chapter or something?
Actually its mainly a coworking space with a blue bottle in the building as well. I got open seating just $3 an hour. Has louder areas or you can reserve quieter spaces/meeting rooms.
You’re correct. I wouldn’t hold out much hope for the tax being imposed and lasting though.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jan/02/justin-trudeau...

> Doug Ford, Ontario’s premier, has repeatedly called carbon pricing “the worst tax ever” and at least five provinces have banded together to fight the tax in the courts, a battle legal experts believe they will lose.

> Along with their provincial counterparts, the federal Conservatives have pledged to repeal any carbon taxes, with Scheer dismissing the policy as an “election gimmick”. This fight comes amid reports that Canada is not on pace to meet its 2030 climate goals.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_tax

> In the 2008 Canadian federal election, a carbon tax proposed by Liberal Party leader Stéphane Dion, known as the Green Shift, became a central issue in the campaign. It would have been revenue-neutral, with increased taxation on carbon being balanced by tax cuts for individual citizens. However, it proved to be unpopular and contributed to the defeat of Liberal Party with its worst share of the popular vote since Confederation.
I don't think this is nihilism, I think this is just a rhetorical device to keep yourself grounded and stay rolling with the punches.
How is this site legal? (mysterybrand.net)
How is a site like this legal? The U.S. has strict guidelines for online gambling, yet these sites pop up and scam many people (They say you can win a $250 million dollar mansion that is actually listed on Zillow).

H3H3 made a video calling out the site and its promoters, you can watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ewyEF3Wd9M.
You do need root to build, however, though there are build services out there.
I had the privilege of being an undergrad in Jeff’s class in the late 90s. IIRC, it was his first year teaching. On the last day of class he received a standing ovation. The average grade on the final exam was ~50%. And yet he received a standing ovation. He’s that good.
I actually quite like a lot of the software, but about two years ago I started a job where I needed to run windows, and I needed some 3d muscle (A GTX1060). A widows laptop was literately half the price of a mac laptop of a similar speed.

Well, that's when I found out how locked into the mac ecosystem I was. It was very painful to switch back to windows. Even my keyboard shortcut muscle memory was difficult to overcome.
What do you want them to do, make the device unusable?

Look they could have been more transparent about it and gave the user a heads up but I see it as a super reasonable response. I think people would rather have a phone that's slower than one that crashes at 29% battery.
AWS actually made an interesting product, a distributed ledger that's 'trustless' as long as you trust Amazon, but with none of the overhead of blockchain so at least it's efficient

I think Ethereum is going big places, but the AWS ledger solution is probably also going to be good for smaller industries where competitors don't trust each other, they want a database that's shared, and they all might trust Amazon enough to control it (eg if they're all using AWS anyway)

(https://aws.amazon.com/qldb/)
Doing nothing, Sewers backing up and death by cholera is preferable?
20% loss on AAPL is in order. However crowd’s sentiment is quite pessimistic.

No bull market ended with crowd being pessimistic.

IMHO smart money are gaming news outlets to score few upcoming wins at the expense of average investor
Yes they asked for too much and demand increased as my income levels grew so watch out for this behaviour. I would say decide what you want to share and keep the boundaries clear.

I don't mind giving at all. It's getting fooled part which pinches.
"other people having different values than you" makes it sound like the value of ETH is purely a matter of personal opinion. It is, however, possible to fundamentally misprice an asset. I think OP is arguing that the ultimate real-world utility of ETH is not accurately reflected by its price.
Is this a real problem or a razors in apples problem?
Apple blames China as it cuts forecast
I’m in the same boat and would rather have a small phone. Using 6 plus right now and holding phone against hip sitting down just to type with one hand. Far from ideal.
Welcome to the Year of Subscale
I enjoyed that book. I think another key point is it wasn't just uprisings, back in the day people literally fled to the hills out of the city to avoid their debts.

Not only did this lead to bands of outlaws roaming the countryside (and eventually posing a risk to the cities), it meant that cities lost a sizable part of their labour force and were unable to function as well.

Hence jubilees to let off steam and forgive all debt, welcoming people back into the cities every 7 years or so.
My first job involved using COBOL to read and write various files; it was amazingly easy. Now I have to read and write files using C/Java/Python,etc; always have to Google to remember how to do the simplest file i/o and parsing.
I know it doesn't apply to most HN readers, but iPhone pricing has really gotten out of reach to most of the world. Doesn't seem surprising that sales have begun to stagnate.
My subtext is that gains from moving state from the server to the client are often swamped by the first serverside database round trip that has to be done to service requests. So, you see ActiveRecord Rails applications using JWT, and it's like: the benefits of "statelessness" are not rationally why this got deployed.
The problem is almost none of real good chinese shippers will spot you a 100 item sample. Worse, you might get the sample from some sketch sellers then not get a bigger delivery.

It is a jungle out there.

And the flat cost of dead load storage is bad and similar enough for both cases.
...because this story presumes that 5G support is somehow vital to mobile phones. It isn’t.

...

But the important question to ask here is why that speed difference matters for mobile phone users? It doesn’t. 5G is no killer app.

———-

Stopped reading at this point.

1) based on quotes from various providers, one big benefit of 5G is in bandwidth. I don’t personally know how (beyond less time to download something opens up bandwidth for other devices quicker), but that’d seem to be a big deal. The whole network saturation issues I hear about (T-Mobile is great in my area and I’ve never experienced throttling issues or the like, but I’ve heard stories).

2) What other killer feature can a phone have at this point? I’ll give credit to phones that flip out into tablet like displays, but I think just about any truly compelling innovation is pretty done in these devices.

3) Anecdote time. I live in a neighborhood where we spent 5 years fighting a provider that maintained an exclusive easement over TV/Internet. This provider’s speed was 10Mbps on a great day and their peak hours were, per their support staff, “between 4pm and 1am” where you were lucky to get Facebook to load (and people sharing pictures/video which seems to be the big use case was a painful experience to be on the receiving end of). Finally, we got out of it and while waiting for Spectrum to lay their infrastructure, I was using T-Mobile’s International Plus add-on as a hotspot for desktop, laptop and TVs and it was fantastic (relative to what we had). Mobile LTE/5G could very easily serve those in similar situations and if infrastructure is in place, rural areas.

I’m of the mind that I won’t buy a 5G device until the infrastructure is there so I’m okay with what I read to a point, but it seemed like a case of making a myriad excuses after a point and tired of it quickly.
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> Last April, a Chinese space station, the Tiangong-1, fell to earth after officials lost communication with it.

As discussed previously on HN, this was not an accident, but a planned deorbiting of an obsolete testbed. The loss of comms was not intended, but it happened three years after the last mission there and two years after the designed lifespan of the station.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15479891

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiangong-1
I wonder if the use of a lighter than air lifting body would aleviate much of the noise problems with these drones.
Obviously there are problems with speed so the use would be limited to deliveries that are less urgent ensuring your fast food does not get cold enroute.
I don't understand this question. I don't think it's very common in real-world applications to deliberately trade confidentiality for extra availability, though negligently and subtextually making that trade is endemic to our industry.
But most of the energy consumption is in the work, not the proof.
What sorts of things do you model with OpenSCAD?

I love the "WYSIWYM" paradigm for the lack of surprises. You know what you can and can't change without having to mess things up, and you know what you need to come back to and adjust manually if you break things. And since there's no hidden state, you never find yourself wanting to just CTRL+Z back to the last "good" state, without knowing why.

But all that said, I really wouldn't know where to start modeling something like this in OpenSCAD.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/BTXktw5yJfw/maxresdefault.jpg
But if decentralization doesn't matter, then what's the point of these technologies? One can build these things much, much more efficiently if centralization is fine. Financial exchanges have been doing that for years. E.g., if you look at the LMAX approach, they can hit TPS rates something like 1,000,000 times faster than common blockchains: https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html
It's a hammer and nails. /s
> "Apple innovates like no other company on earth, and we are not taking our foot off the gas."

Apple has indeed accomplished many things since Jobs handed over the reins, but delivering a new, innovative compelling product line is not one of them. If they finally deliver on the Apple Car or some as yet unknown new product, they might finally fully move out of the shadow of Jobs' final tenure.

If not, they will find their existing product lines eaten away by relentless, industry commoditization. Having to bump profit margins on the iPhone X was their first serious stumble -- only to be rectified, if they can deliver a new, compelling product line in the next 1 to 2 years.
For me it went:

iPhone 5c was a cheap and performant phone with a good ecosystem.

Apple made everything worse through updates, bloat, and price increases.

My phone became so impossibly slow that I bought the cheapest but also nicest walmart phone I could on a whim (LG Zone4).

It's been so amazingly performant for just $100 that I would never, ever consider buying an expensive phone again, ESPECIALLY not one from Apple!!
This guy Bitcoins.
FreeCAD is nowhere close to the quality level of Fusion.

Sketch-Up and OpenSCAD are just very different from Fusion.

The closest cloud competitor is OnShape: starts at $1500 per year - only free option is public storage.

https://www.onshape.com/cad-pricing
My GPA 12 years ago when I finished was 3.5 I think. There about anyway. I figured you were referring more to the length of time you were out of school, not your GPA.

My mortgage is far north of $390, haha. I don't have or need a car though. I lease out my parking spot for $150/month or more. If I go and get accepted I'll have either work pay or try and see about scholarship or something. My brother and best friend got free rides through their master and Phd.
See now, I'm like everybody else. I don't care about privacy.

What I do care about is being manipulated. I don't want to be persuaded to buy stuff I don't want or need.

Google can know everything about me, but I don't want the ads thanks very much.

Oh, and I want a news feed of things that are actually important, not what some algorithm thinks I want to see.
I recently went into their Palo Alto store to check out their sunglasses. When I asked if they have anti-reflective coating, I was told that they were polarized, which is better. I pointed out that there is no tradeoff between anti-reflective coating (which is applied to the back of lenses) and polarization, and the salesperson parroted the same line without seeming to understand that she was missing the point. Anti-reflective coating is especially important for glasses shaped like theirs, which have minimal 'wrap' and therefore can reflect a lot of light from behind you directly into your eyes.
It's the ironic twist at the heart of crypto: a centralized system built on implicit trust and community standards is actually required to build a functioning economy. Participating in any particular blockchain is only as valuable as the community around it. So while forking is always an option, a fork will only be worth following if comes with a functional community with agreed-upon standards.

So you can (try to) decentralize the process of verifying that everyone is playing fair (whatever that means in your system), but so long as you all want to trade with each other, you must have a centralized authority of some sort, to decide what "playing fair" means.
What's to say all of those are mutually exclusive? Chicago can want nice things and still have bribery, graft, political favors and nepotism (you missed that one).
I don't think a growing population is Chicago's biggest worry right now
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-ch...
AAPL is down 30.3% in the last 3 months (before tomorrow's plunge!). The market sniffed this one out a while ago.
Somewhat related, rootless docker and kubernetes https://github.com/rootless-containers/usernetes
I think the centralisation issue with most cryptocurrencies is quite interesting. Almost all of them have a generally accepted organization that controls their development. This organization can make large-scale changes but controversial ones usually lead to breakaway forks. Theoretically these forks could be more valuable than the one controlled by the organization. In practice if a fork wants to be successful it's going to need its own organization.
I actually haven't met many being a scientific programmer in a science with little need for programming. So, I guess I'm the most talented. I was at my best in my 40's, but at 72 I'm still very good, but slow.
i think these early diagnostic techniques are a necessary brick on the road to curing AD. by the time people are showing clinical symptoms the disease has already progressed and has been doing so for decades. treatments that slow progression will be more effective if administered earlier on in the progression.
WRT stock price and valuation, the current pricing generally assumes a much more frequent upgrade cycle, so even if this makes more practical sense, it means that AAPL will lose a lot of value in the transition; their transition to offering more in services is a sign that their hardware innovation has probably reached a relative maximum.
It's pretty common. Based on radar data about 10-15% of Near Earth asteroids (larger than 200 meters) are contact binaries (or contact-binary shaped at least). We don't have enough data on main belt asteroids, trojan asteroids, and especially TNOs/KBOs to say what the percentages look like for those populations but it's a fair likelihood that the proportions are at least as high if not higher among KBOs.
My favorite analytics tool was Mint from Shaun Inman.
The issue wasn't lowered overall capacity but lowered peak performance. During basic usage when the CPU is mostly idle (reading email and whatnot) the peak current draw was fine and the battery could handle it. But if the CPU suddenly peaks to full usage (load a heavy web page), the battery can't deliver the instant amount of current and the phone browns-out and shuts off.

Temperature also effects the performance of the battery so if you're out in the snow it could handle less than being indoors in the heat.

That's why the CPU throttling worked. It kept the CPU from pulling too much power in one instant, and then the battery lasted fine all they way down to 1%
I don't think BMW has nearly doubled their prices over the span of a few years.
serious question - does the V8 team do property checking?