skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently got an s9 and there's a whole button I can't use because it is bound to the "Launch Bixby" function. I'm not exactly sure what Bixby is or does, some sort of voice control (but I already have google now?), but it requires me to have a samsung account to use, which I don't want/need.

So, unused button. Wish I could bind it to camera or something, no such luck.
Off topic, but the wording of your sentence amusingly sounds like the book was written by the person that founded the wife of Amazon.
For the sake of other species it's probably beneficial for humans to go extinct.

In practice I think Earth will first become less hospitable to humans. The ones that survive will be those who can consume fewer resources. Maybe this partial human extinction will be enough to at least slow climate change.
R Talsorian Games' Cyberpunk 2.0.2.0 is a nice retro (think William Gibson Neuromancer) game.

https://talsorianstore.com/collections/cyberpunk

But if I were to recommend a single (set of) games, it would be the classic World of Darkness games, like Mage: the Ascension 20th anniversary Ed:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/149562

For a game with some interesting mechanics, you might enjoy Underground:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/m/product/2873

And for something... Different, we've had a lot of fun with Microscope:

http://www.lamemage.com/microscope/
Shut up, he explained.
Stories I’ve heard are more like $3-5k on that big house they inherited changes to $20-30k on that down-sized house they moved into — that is, a 4x-10x increase, not just 2x.

What shocks me most is when I hear this story and learn that the downsizers (not always old) is shocked by their tax bill — they don’t know about prop 13 and no one told them!
it took me like 6-7 months to go vegan, it was hard for me to give up omelettes and cheese. but one day, I woke up and just didn't want to eat it anymore.

Start to have vegan meals once a day. then 3x a week. slowly your taste buds change and then you don't want it anymore
Not trying to be snarky, but what value does an internal cryptocurrency add over a good database? Or put another way, why do you think they haven't moved from SFTP to a database and why do you think a cryptocurrency would meet those demands better?
> Even if the generator was in a small trailer

This has been done; but the small trailer also adds significant friction and aerodynamic drag. It also adds complexity in driving and maintenance.
Maybe... In most cases western colonialism didn't end because of resistance, but because the west decided it didn't like colonialism.
Actively searching in some cases and simply waiting and hoping in other cases
>I'm reminded of a Quora answer by a guy who loved fighting, one phrase he used stuck out at me. "Great fighters have to kind of like getting hit."

Floyd Mayweather disputes this.
>Some people seem to think every place should be equally affordable to everyone and I do not understand that. Perhaps you can explain

Is there something obvious I'm missing here? This seems to be a salient point. Why should it cost the same to live by the beach in California vs. being in a rural area in Wyoming?
Admit it - you were tilting your monitor!
When I was a child, a school teacher showed me this hoax video of flying penguins: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dfWzp7rYR4.

Unfortunately, for a brief period of my childhood, I was under the assumption that penguins could indeed fly. By the time I had uncovered my teacher's subterfuge, I had already made a fool of myself by publicly positing that such penguins existed.

Admittedly, my teacher was only playing a prank on me -- but ever since that incident I have been distrustful of penguins. I genuinely hope that one day I can overcome this irrational view and appreciate the flightless birds.
so cool!

maybe dumb question - where's the link to the source code? adding that to the actual page would be great.
One ludicrous nitpick: the logo doesn't show anything hexyl, that's 1,2,3,5-tetramethylbenzene. If it was a functional group, it might be 3,4,5-trimethylbenzyl or something like that.

Hexyl would look like:

R
\/\/\/
How we know the oldest person who ever lived wasn’t faking her age
RocksDB GUI
FastoNoSQL is the GUI admin tool for RocksDB databases.
I suggest to go to www.brokenbrain.com where Dr Mark Hyman explains which root causes lead to mental disorders and how to fix it.
Danish children acquire language skills at slower pace than six other languages (including Swedish which is in the same language sub-family): http://cphpost.dk/life-in-denmark/the-danish-languages-irrit...

Is there also a conspiracy by the Danish "elites" to deliberately keep the language's phonological complexity so there's a "higher barrier of entry" to become an "intellectual"?

Without using profanities, I'd just say that summary is absolute NONSENSE.
I hope nobody thinks these shots are somewhat representative of the country, even when they were taken(70's and 80's). At first glance I thought they were taken in the early 60's at most.

(Yeah, I know the "hidden" it's in the title itself and should warn about generalizing what's being shown, but still).
Don't use default smartphone firmwares, don't buy smartphones you can't install a custom firmware to.
This word "luck" is used quite often yet every time I see it applied it there is always someone who "seizes opportunity when it comes and does what it takes to succeed"

I suppose it is easier to write and also easier to dismiss other people doing something you simply don't want to put in the effort to do so or are too scared to do.

of course this is just my observation
True.

Probably especially true if you're sitting in sub-saharan Africa.
Strongly agreed. I don't even think I could work for a startup funded by Khosla Ventures.
Germany relaxes ban on Nazi symbols in video games (2018)
FYI the code is visible with "view source."

How old is your brother? Has he programmed before? The code doesn't look like what someone with no programming experience could do in a week (unless perhaps working from a similar example as a starting point).
>No different to how I'd rent a van if I was trying to move a sofa.

That's true. But, for a lot of people, long weekend roadtrips are a lot more common than moving sofas. There's quite a bit of friction associated with driving to a rental place on a Friday, parking your car someplace, driving the rental home, packing it up, and then doing the process in reverse during the rental place's business hours.
Please tell me what you mean by aether, as rigorously as you can, and then I can give you an answer to the question which seems to be bedevilling you.

Meanwhile I can guess at what you're asking:

The Standard Model (a QFT) has interacting quantum fields obeying purely local dynamics. The behaviour "here-and-now" depends on the field-values "here". It does not depend on field-values "now" but far from "here". Moreover, the Standard Model is Lorentz-invariant, meaning its laws hold in any inertial frame of reference, thus the scare quotes in the previous sentence.

The luminiferous aether that Michelson & Morley were looking to measure was motivated by finding a single special (and universal, or at least covering the whole solar system) inertial frame of reference in which Maxwell's equations hold exactly. No such frame exists; there is a huge democracy of inertial frames in which relativistic electrodynamics is exact in the classical limit. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preferred_frame )
He hasn't learned about arrays yet : every element of the game is its own global variable. But this is something I would love to implement with him !
The question is, how do these people avoid vengeful followers of the former cartel bosses?
LMDB GUI
FastoNoSQL is the GUI admin tool for LMDB databases.
These offers would be competing against 80-20 offers though. For the past several years in the Bay Area, it's been hard to buy even with an 80-20 because there are other buyers that put more cash down (and sometimes 100% cash).
And they can spend money on transit and healthcare instead of paying for defense.
Source code:
https://github.com/S-poony/Ultra-Square-Catcher-USC-

It’s canvas based.
Interesting choice as a starting point of a learning path.
I hate this because blockchain is bad
https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08928

https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.08930

https://physicsworld.com/a/our-universe-has-antimatter-partn...
Almost everything we have is open for you to examine (including the code, obviously). If you're not willing or able to do that: yes, you have to trust us (like you do with pretty much all software and infrastructure you don't personally control).
Org mode can render equations in line. It's got the easy-reading benefits of lyx but it's all plain text. Then easily compile to latex or pdf. By far my favorite way to do writing.
How long will it be until people realize cryptocurrency is a problem?
It’s pretty doable to find over-night accommodation, you just kind of need an approximate idea in the morning about the town/city where you’re going to spend the night. I’ve managed to find same-day bed-and-breakfast stays in cities like Salzburg and Trieste at reasonable prices. And driving in Europe is pretty great. Seeing the Alps, the Lago Maggiore and the Adriatic Sea on the same day is quite the nice feeling.
European's charging network infrastructure is probably more fragmented whereas in the U.S. there is only a few dominant ones: ChargePoint, EVgo and Tesla. Both can have iOS Passbook / Wallet integration so that you don't need a physical RFID card but rather a digital pass, pair with a NFC-capable phone, physical ID cards are eliminated.

There are a lot of reason the charging infrastructure market is fragmented, mostly due to it's the early days of EV-lution where market consolidation hasn't fully played out yet. Also building charging stations is a capital-heavy business since it involves the land lease/purchase as well as construction/equipments (DC fast charging stations are very expensive, the higher the power the more expensive)/installation (permits etc)/maintenance. A friend of mine spent his own money to install a ChargePoint 50kw DCFC at his restaurant, it ended up costing an upward of $50k - at $2/kwh charging rate, he would barely break even in 3 years.
I think enough people are waking up to the idiocy of Prop 13 now that it has a good chance of being repealed. It's being voted on in November 2020.
> until battery swap technology is ubiquitous

A simpler way forward is to have faster chargers. The Porsche Taycan and (later on) the Audi e-Tron GT are based on an 800-volt architecture which can charge to 80% in 20 minutes from a 350 kW charger:

https://electrek.co/2018/07/30/porsche-taycan-all-electric-p...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/samabuelsamid/2018/11/28/audi-e...

The 350 kW chargers are being built out now:

https://electrek.co/2018/12/06/electrify-america-first-350kw...

And Porsche is also working on a 450 kW charger for even faster charging:

https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1120457_porsche-already...

Diversity of charging options will also help. The Audi e-Tron GT and Volkswagen's I.D. cars and vans will support wireless inductive charging at 11 kW:

https://www.autoblog.com/2018/11/28/audi-e-tron-gt-concept-e...

https://jalopnik.com/the-fascinating-engineering-behind-vws-...

The Volkswagen ID Buzz Cargo van will also have a solar panel on the roof (though it won't give you much additional range):

http://newsroom.vw.com/vehicles/volkswagen-i-d-buzz-cargo-th...
No it's not. There are plenty of places where it's either neutral or positive outside of China. Russia for one is neutral. Other authoritarian governments would view it as positive/neutral.

The salient point is that people here have rose tinted glasses when it comes to the negative effects of American military actions since the Spanish–American War. For the vast majority of the world, America, China, two sides of the same coin. Just another foreign government telling them what to do and taking things from them under the veneer of helping them.
It signifies that either a foreigner or recent immigrant, or perhaps a dyslectic or anyone who would like it to appear as if a foreigner or recent immigrant or a dyslectic wrote the note.
Test your code performance
Show HN: FireSQL – Query Cloud Firestore using SQL syntax
> I have a petrol car that I fill up completely whenever I am at a petrol station, why should someone not do this for an electric car?

Because of the time requirements? Plenty of users don't always fill their petrol cars due to time or budget constraints.

Importantly, ICE cars also have eccentricities not all users know about, such as running low on gas often prevents the fuel pump from adequate cooling.

And the 80% rule is true of mobile phones as well.
Why is this so enjoyable
We know that Trump or X billionaire is rich enough to pay ~ $11 Million in ransom, even though no one has seen his taxes. Now is their wife worth that much...? :) They'd have to act as if they care either way
Not at all. Once milk is turned into cheese, it's not really possible to turn it back, or into other dairy products
With due respect, South Africa returned to majority rule / democracy when the apartheid government willingly stepped down. If they had not decided too, it is very probable that they would still be in power today. The odds of a China with its multi decades long plans and wealth stepping away from territory they have taken under their wing is very slim. China is being smart about it, using wealth (loans) and technology to build an economic foothold instead of strength. Once they are in though I could see it transitioning to something else in the long term.
> What is everyday use? Surely a writing system should be capable of more than "Hello, my name is Knolax?". If a proposed new writing system was incapable of representing Shakespeare in any comprehensible way, would it be suitable for English?

Sorry I edited on you, but what I meant was a phonetic system could be used in all ways contemporary spoken Mandarin is currently used without getting too tripped up by homophones.

There would obviously be difficulties when dealing with very old texts, but I think such difficulties are inevitable regardless of the language as the changes pile up. Something will be lost unless you spend the appropriate effort learning the state of language as it existed when the text originally written.

> I realize now that you consider Classical Chinese as a seperate language from Modern Chinese. I and most Chinese speakers would probably disagree, but I don't think that's a line that can be drawn without a lot of nitpicking from both of us.

Yeah.
The greatest challenge to overcome is disbelief that you can do something.

Heroes have a place, precisely because they inspire.

I get what you're saying, but in any system having an aspirational role model is a benefit!
Google recognizes this issue, which is part of the drive behind bringing Android One to the high-end phone market. This is a branding designation that Google sells to OEMs that requires them to drop almost all bloatware:

> Android One is a series of smartphones that run the unmodified Android operating system. It is a hardware and software technical standard created by Google intended to provide a consistent user experience and improved security through frequent updates and Google Play Protect. Android One was launched in 2014 and focused on entry-level devices for emerging markets, but later evolved into Google's principal mobile program.

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

I have an LG G7 One (the Android-One version of the LG G7), and I'm very pleased with it.
Ask HN: How to get an electic company to got HTTPS?
I have had several frustrating exchanges with my local utility http://www.btes.net/ over their lack of https. How does one get a company like this to listen to sound advice?
For the demo its in an emulator but he says the real version works 1 in 8 or 1 in 80 times. Is he lying?
So both China and the US should adopt newspeak?
I'm from the UK, but lived in Saudi for a bit and we'd often shop at a local American base where I was introduced to the individually wrapped plastic orange cheese.

I bought a pack of 10 slices out of nostalgia this summer to go on burgers but where no brie, Stilton, etc survived Christmas there are still orange slices of plastic cheese in the fridge. I couldn't manage the whole pack and no one else would touch them!
marp looks great, but I just tried to use it and the $size directive does nothing, there are no docs on how to write themes (which is the first thing I want to do, customize the layout) and generally looks underdocumented.

It's too bad, because these tools are fantastically useful, but it doesn't look like any one managed to gather enough adoption to get critical mass around it.
Oh man, I wish more comments started like yours. “Hey Vince” sounds nice and respectful, and, even personal on an anonymous platform
I'd only consider a device in 2019 that has really strong LineageOS support. The OEM will never support the phone for more than a few years, but well cared for devices (especially with replacable, if not easily removable, batteries) can last a decade or more.
Just in case if you thinking to download these links

import re
import requests

from bs4 import BeautifulSoup

def download_file(download_url, name):
#create response object
r = requests.get(download_url, stream = True)

#download started
with open("repo" + name, 'wb') as f:
for chunk in r.iter_content(chunk_size = 1024*1024):
if chunk:
f.write(chunk)

html = requests.get("https://getpolarized.io/2019/01/08/top-pdfs-of-2018-hackerne...)
soup = BeautifulSoup(html.content)
sAll = soup.findAll("a")

for href in sAll:
if(href.has_attr('href')):
link = href['href']
if(link.find(".pdf") > 0):
print(link)
last_index = link.rindex("/")
name = link[last_index + 1:]
print(name)
try:
download_file(link, name)
except:
print("error downloading " + link )
BMW i3 range extender does exactly this.
Designing neural networks through neuroevolution
Data: CrossFit Membership Prices in the US and World
> This word "luck" is used quite often yet every time I see it applied it there is always someone who "seizes opportunity when it comes and does what it takes to succeed"

Of course you do, that's called survivorship bias: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias

You see the one person who tried to seize the opportunity and succeeded, because by succeeding they became famous. You don't see all the people who tried just as hard to seize the opportunity and failed, because by failing they remained obscure.
>SF's saving grace is its VC ecosystem and network effect between existing talent.

And pretty much perfect year long weather matched with world class outdoor activities within driving distance. I don't think the cost of housing in the Bay Area is going down anytime soon. People figured out it's a desirable place to live and are willing to spend more to live there.
Thanks for the heads up. I have no idea why either, but I appreciate knowing.
Does iOS not support 3rd party dialer and SMS apps?
> The Hong Kong opera school is described as indentured servitude.

Which is considered by many to be a form of human trafficking.

My own family history has a lot to do with indentured servitude. If you watch Korean historical dramas, you'll find the condition described as being a "servant" but at other times, the same condition will be described as being a "slave."

In terms of being signed up as minors, exactly how do you draw the line? I went to a boarding school where they didn't let us off school grounds without getting leave.

Just because you signed a contract doesn't mean you shouldn't be able to get out of it. I'm not entirely certain where to draw the line.

How about physical coercion? Did 19 year old Jackie Chan consider himself a slave? Was he kept in a place through physical coercion and torture? Did he dream of jailbreaking himself out of his barracks and wire-cutting the fence and running to freedom while being chased by guards prepared to main or shoot him? Or was he thinking of it as working through a contractual debt?

The line should be firmly held at physical coercion. As always, there will be people who skirt the lines by coming up with things that have the same effect, but which are "technically not coercion."
What is love? ...and other interesting philosophical questions.

Also: Baby don't hurt me! Baby don't hurt me, no more!
Agreed, but from what I've been reading/hearing, the primary concern is "can FB track me even if the app is disabled?" These are non-technical people who don't trust FB. It's a valid question.
To some degree not watching t.v, youtube, and netflix has been very rewarding for me. The consumer culture that has permuated the world really gets tiring after awhile. Just relaxing, meditating, or praying is a lot more calming for me personally than constantly reading or watching something.
At that point might as well just rent an gasoline engine car.
I would understand if the clock was connecting to a dedicated service to sync the time, but the clock app is just an interface where I can set alarms, use stopwatch etc. The system time is managed (and synced) at the Android OS level and so there is no need for apps to connect to the internet, nor for it to have updates.

For the finder app, the index should be local. There is no way I want my apps, documents and file metadata to be sent to some samsung server to be indexed so that I can do a local search -- that would provide no value and it's also features that I've never asked for as a user.

The calls from most of these apps (especially samsung apps) to facebook servers also serve no purpose other than to try and datamine. I understand there may be cases where telemetry is valuable, but it's unacceptable to have apps (in many cases that haven't been opened) to try and connect to a remote server behind the scenes, especially when you cannot remove them easily.
Yet at the same time, as an individual criminal there is no incentive to actually return the person or even keep them alive once payment has been recieved
Yes, cryptocurrency is clearly to blame for kidnappings. It's not like we ever had kidnappings before Bitcoin.
They have one, it didn't motivate me before I won it (I didn't think I had a chance to) nor after (it turns out the pleasure from winning such prize is less than the pleasure from somebody being spared mental suffering because I helped with their workload).

Honestly those things are different person to person. A lot of people are better motivated by cash prizes, whether or not they're public and known in advance. For some people motivation is feeling like they have the ability to do something, so they're more motivated by being sent to trainings or given more authority or a junior person to train. And some people are like me, and just want to hear thank you.

Anyway, managers don't have the right sense of that stuff. If you feel you must reward your employees into doing more stuff for you, then go all the way and implement operant conditioning. If you want your employees to have a well-deserved vacation at the end of a big project that made you $5M and them $0, make it for everyone. And if you just want people to feel recognized, leave them enough time at work or outside it to form real-life relationships with individual humans who will. You can't scale gratitude.
@hjek, as @dockimbel noted, and we have never concealed, Red was bootstrapped using Rebol. Doc's stats break things down pretty well, but there's another point to be made. Red is ~95% Rebol compatible. This is a very important detail, and proved that Red could be used to self host in the future. When the need to self-host becomes important, it can be done relatively easily, and with confidence.

Is that a fair and accurate assessment?