skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, for sure. The larger issues are all the issues that come with being in a poor, inner-city school where there are no real examples of how doing well in school could actually help one's life. Where gangs, violence, and going to prison or jail is assumed to be normal. I had students confused by the idea I've never been arrested and where all the adults in their family (including grandparents) are members of gangs. At this particular school, 4% would go onto any post secondary education. Less than 1% would attain a four year degree. The (majority of) students and their families had zero buy in for school meaning much of anything.
> naive life expectancy statistics

Yes, we all know about that. You're getting too hung up on me saying "lifespans increase." Forget that I said that. Imagine I instead said, "we are optimizing for health in old age more than the ancients did."

> the relative importance of avoiding cumulative damage like radiation has not increased either

It wasn't important at all back then because they didn't know about it.

Do you want to die in agony in your 70s from metastasized skin cancer, or peacefully in your sleep at 80?

My point is that propagation of the species, old age, and rampant melanoma can all exist simultaneously - so what people did in the past re: sun exposure isn't necessarily good advice for us today.
Alternately, Microsoft could step in with the various service layers they developed for Windows Phone.

If they were to open source alternatives to Google's Play Services and give developers a low or no cost app distribution method, I could imagine them doing a lot of business hosting instances of those service layers on Azure.

Developers get lower costs and Microsoft picks up more cloud share.
Tangential anecdote: I supported a product recently that had a password generator feature that admins could use to create a “random” password for a new user account. The password would be emailed to the user (the admin never saw it). The generator used a wordlist file that the developers must have grabbed from an online dictionary. It was about 10k words and contained MANY offensive ones. Pretty much any obscenity you could imagine and more. It was obvious no one had sanitized it.

I filed a bug a couple years ago but it still isn’t fixed. Luckily it’s a seldom used feature, and I haven’t seen anyone affected yet.
Small Airlander Q&A:

https://www.hybridairvehicles.com/downloads/download/Airland...
Smalltalk is three things in one. It is a language; it embodies a language design idea; and it is an operating system.

Learning Smalltalk gives you three things:

1. An understanding of Smalltalk, the language. This is least essential. It's also the kind of thing you can pick up in a single 30-minute session. The language is tiny and simple.

2. An understanding of the design idea, uniformly object-oriented programming. This is crucial and will connect with other styles of programming including Actor-based and pure-functional. This is something you will never get from Java, which is not a uniformly object-oriented language.

3. An understanding of a completely different and (these days) unusual way of designing an operating system. An object-oriented operating system, to boot. The IDE, the debugger, and the other tooling all integrates to give a level of manageability in many ways far superior to e.g. Unix or Windows.

After a while, you may find yourself discovering subtle things about the interplay between the three aspects of Smalltalk that you can then apply in your own designs. For example, Smalltalk is a "dynamic" language, but the way classes and methods are arranged is very rigid, giving a lot of static structure to the system organisation. This static structure is what unlocks the powerful tooling, and is what simplifies the programmer's mental model to make the system understandable. Comparable OO and almost-OO languages, such as Python, have a more "dynamic" system organisation, making it harder to write tools for automatically manipulating Python systems and making it harder for programmers to understand how Python code, data, state, and processes come together to form a running program image.
Lambda School – interesting model, only pay for lessons when you get a tech job
I’ve also been working on something similar for the past couple of years.

https://vocabifyapp.com/

Vocabify is a tool to help you remember the words you come across. It uses a basic implementation of spaced repetition to help you remember the words and phrases you add.

Having Polar sync with Anki is an interesting idea, thinking about it now, I might have been able to get further with my own tool by leveraging Anki as well. Food for thought.
Perhaps nobody would see this, as the thread is already dead, but... :) I managed to include description of your algorithm and updated results, including procedures by aqrit: http://0x80.pl/notesen/2019-01-05-avx512vbmi-remove-spaces.h...

BTW: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=88798
What I was replying to:

"Yeah, iPhone sales are below expectations, but Apple's struggling? Hyperbole remains..."

The complaint was specifically the article's characterization that Apple is "struggling".

First sentence of the article: "As Apple struggles with sluggish iPhone sales and a falling stock price..."

falling-stock-price
I think I would start with the easiest one, which is whether or not you feel like you're in the right job. Just make a list of what you like about your job and what you don't like. If the dislike category is large, you need to ask yourself some more questions. Are you likely to find employment elsewhere in your field without all those cons? This may require some research. If not, are there other fields of work that may be better suited to your preferences? Again, got to do some research here.

I'm just going to ignore the laziness point since I don't really like that word. You can dislike an activity and avoid it, that doesn't make you lazy. If you need to still do something regardless of whether you like it or not, you need to change how you think about that activity or find a way to enjoy it, otherwise you're just needlessly torturing yourself. Or you just avoid thinking about how much you dislike something and just do it instead. Either way, saying someone is lazy carries both a negative judgement and a lack of insight, so this word I think is best avoided. If you feel you're being "lazy", best to try to understand why you're avoiding what you think you should be doing and fix it.

Lastly, if you're depressed or burnt out, there will be some obvious signs. You'll be tired, have a hard time focusing, you may have muscle aches or headaches all the time. You may see nothing positive in your future and may ruminate excessively about your perceived shortcomings or problems. You may also find it difficult or impossible to react emotionally to things (e.g. being excited or sad). Basically, you'll feel terrible all the time.
Consider wireless charging.
Ask HN: What was the Internet like before corporations got their hands on it?
What was the Internet like in its purest form? Was it mainly information sharing, and if so, how reliable was the information?
Black Hole Evolution Traced Out with Loop Quantum Gravity
'Anderson and co have found evidence of an entirely counterintuitive phenomenon in which skill levels play the opposite role, so that skillful players are more likely to make an error than their lower-ranked counterparts.'

I would to see more how the study was done because i highly doubt this could be possible.
It can be the case that in high ranked games the oponent will put you in harder spots, and errors will comes.
But by definition, better players take better decisions Ev average.

An interesting study will be a list of leaks the population usually have.

For exemple in pkker before solvers, people with a very strong hand on flop, lets say straight draw+ flush draw, when the board turn bad for them, they are way more likely to call a bet on river, because they hand was so strong on flop.
Solver will show is a bad call because you block possible bluffs opponent could have (flush and straight draws) so his value range is bigger.
I don't agree. Every instance of the tech press using their one weapon, language, to do what they've always done — lazily yet consistently spell the doom of so-and-so company — is always worth a mention. Ignoring one symptom of a cold doesn't make the cold go away.
Straws and plastic bags get all the heat, but they are actually a pretty small proportion of plastic produced and littered. Straws are like .001% of plastic in the ocean, vs. 50% for discarded fishing equipment.

Those "flimsy" plastic bags in particular have a ~65% re-use rate in the US, whereas the heavy duty "reusable" bags often take far more plastic and energy to product, so you have to re-use them at far higher rates than the flimsy ones to make up for the cost to produce them.

40% of shoppers who have those bags forget them, so there's a world where we are actually producing more plastic and incurring food born illness from people not washing out their re-usable bags.

People not even trying to recycle is a huge pet peeve of mine, but I think the plastic bag bans tend to be kind of stupid. Nevermind that now people have to buy garbage liners instead of just re-using the bags.

https://reason.com/archives/2015/09/01/plastic-bags-are-good...

I would like to see something to get the soda industry back to aluminum, but even moving to glass the costs of it all are not very easy to track, because the significantly higher impact on energy required to move glass in bulk vs. plastic.

One good move you can make is do things like purchase bar-form soaps and shampoos for your bathroom… but ultimately we've got to get people off of K-Cups and buying so much plastic bottled water when they can just re-fill something, or bring your own container to a coffee shop.

And maybe give up on 2-day shipping from Amazon, or try to bulk-ship your order instead of placing a new one for every item you think of 30 minutes apart…

The closest solution will probably come from some kind of plastic-consuming bio engineering, or energy-harvesting incinerators like in parts of Europe and Africa: https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/21/africa/reppie-waste-to-energy...

That, and maybe move away from the "big blue bin" which has made people think they can just throw anything in there which has had the unintended consequence of causing recycling to cost much more and have way more contaminants.
Status. Being part of the cool kids with their airdrop and animojis that the proles can't use.
Worse is better is worse is better is worse is...
The vast, vast majority of people who buy new phones don't care about security. They buy them because they're the "new shiny thing."
You could just as well use pass [1] or something on a USB stick.

[1] https://www.passwordstore.org/
More like if the problem doesn't fit our mental models we're likely to fall into a cognitive tunnel where we depend on a familiar process for an unfamiliar problem.
Yeah, that's a good book, but as you noted it falls under teaching a language, not so much teaching how to think.
So how long is the world's longest aircraft?
Modern people spend so little time thinking about death that they often are incensed when they hear stories like these. For example, graveyard real estate is at a premium. More people die than can be fit in them. When you die, your corpse lies in the ground for a few years up to a decade at best. Then the gravedigger digs up your remains, put them in the trash and the next corpse is put in the hole. This is why grave digging requires a strong stomach -- it is far from certain that the corpse has fully decomposed. The trash is hopefully incinerated, providing energy for the living. Literally from Dust to Dust.

Same thing with tombstones which are recycled all the time. All larger cemeteries have huge stacks of stones waiting to get crushed into gravel. I cannot say if the practice in Communist countries specifically targeted Jewish cemeteries and if it was therefore antisemitic. Now whether the antisemitic part is not scrubbing the stones clean from inscriptions. Perhaps a large number of Jewish cemeteries were derelict due to the dwindling number of communities and it was easier to take stones from these?
previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18499712
“So happy to see this happening. Victims of delusion spreading cults, currently have no chance at suing for permanent psychological damage they suffer or suffered as a result of the negative variables instilled into a mind when on the topic of a deity. Specifically how victims are indoctrinated at an early age and where if they happen to be LGBT it’s an early life sentence of being in Hell. May even end in suicide for the victims like some individuals I’ve known. The charade built by charlatans need to have some deterrents to fear like the other monsters in society.” Good point
You are not wrong, but I think the 'test results' in the example refer to medical testing for a serious disease, and not a school test.
>a web site that has a test you can take

Yay, 60 points!
Apple makes their money from services, not hardware. Declining new iPhone sales would only be a problem if people left the ecosystem to buy Android phones.
How I’m dealing with my third mid-life crisis
for those that remember 90s tech.. it was a Very Big Issue that Apple created The Apple Store where all software must be purchased (online). Lots of smaller companies made money selling software for Macintosh in various ways.. because they ran their own store, you know, the ones that determine and hold the profit margins on sales? It was not-at-all decided that the one mothership company should run the only store, and to REQUIRE users to purchase software there?

The phone ecosystem has since become FAR more dollars per month than Mac software ever was in its entirety, and the norms of the phone market are not the norms of the desktop market. Massive centralization is ordinary with the phones.. meaning centralized control.

There is nothing ordinary about the way citizens and phones and markets are working .. this is new territory.. without commenting on the article, I take the headline as a comment on the (highly controversial) Apple Store. Evolving past that Apple company store is news.
Where did OP say they were making large prints? Who does that these days?

And for what it's worth, I made a photo book from Google photos with pictures all taken from the pixel 2. It looked great.
Out of curiosity —- have you looked at using Postgresql’s full text search functionality to implement your search engine (e.g. [1])? If so, what do you get out of the combination of Postgres + Elasticsearch that you chose it over just the Postgres full text search?

[1] http://rachbelaid.com/postgres-full-text-search-is-good-enou...
So Conway's Law then?
Please don’t. I get that every time a programmer solves a puzzle they then want to turn that into an interview question, but those usually have no correlation to work performance, and having to solve problems in a physical space sure isn’t fair to folks who have disabilities that make that difficult but could still work fine behind a desk.
Architects seem better paid with less stress.
It’s a state by state thing, They are effectively unenforceable in Colorado for most workers but they are still a fairly standard piece of boilerplate. They really don’t need to be to make most workers’ lives difficult, just the threat of a law suit might be enough to encourage someone to change jobs
Which seems to be something Apple is starting to expand upon, with Apple Music now available on Android and Amazon Echo, as well as iTunes and AirPlay coming natively to Samsung TVs

https://www.cnet.com/g00/news/apple-itunes-airplay-2-coming-...
my bad - yes, I meant the Harvard CS50 course.
Thanks for MITx 6.002 and DartmouthX C Programming with Linux - The DarmouthX one would be a good second course if the interest still continues.
They already did started that with their Android launcher; Arrow. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft....)

It'a also why they're updating Windows 10 steadily to support integrating with Android deeply as well.

Not to mention they've working on their Linux subsystem for Windows (WSL), cross-platform services and apps like VSC, buying Github, Xamarin, etc), and also porting/improving macOS apps like Visual Studio and Office on macOS.

Microsoft's cash cow is now their services and why they're turning previous Windows and Office cash cows into subscription services. I suspect they plan to do an overall Microsoft service; get Windows, Office, OneDrive, and Surface for a monthly price.

Which is what I suspect Apple will do as well as Google; all of them will do software+hardware bundle subscription service. Imagine paying 100$ a month to get latest hardware and software all the time.
i'm making a generalization of how the mass majority of consumers behave.

Most people are not apple fanatics.
Most people do not need to purchase the movie and value "portability" of such digital format. Most movies are not worthy of repeat views, esp at different locations.
Most people do not differentiate that much between HD and 4K when watching at home, on a setup that is not a home theatre.
Got a Xiaomi Redmi Note 5 a few months ago for around $180 and couldn't be happier. Big screen, crazy battery that lasts 2 days on heavy use, fingerprint unlock, fast and quite sleek look. I've even dropped it quite a bit (not cover, no screen protector) and not a scratch on the screen.

What do people actually get for getting something at 5x the price? Notchless design, maybe better camera, and can't really think of anything else.

Phones IMO are transitioning from a functional item to a status item (maybe similar to watches). At least that's the angle I'd be taking if I was a high end phone manufacturer...
> The plan calls for “retranslating and annotating” the Bible, to find commonalities with socialism and establish a “correct understanding” of the text.

With the age of the Internet I’d be surprised if a tactic like this would have any affect. There will be so many websites pointing out where things were changed. The Chinese government can try to block all of these sites and access to the original content but information is hard to contain.

> “What really makes the government nervous is Christianity’s claim to universal rights and values.”

That this wouldn’t be a common truth sounds radical as someone who has lived in the US my whole life and takes this world view for granted.
Hidden information? I made it crystal clear what the car was.

https://imgur.com/a/NQuVomI
Unions protesting a prospective policy is the same signal as as a behemoth suing a small startup that encroaches their space: they know vouchers would wreck their monopoly more than anyone else, so they need to stop it before it begins.

If you are unsure if vouchers are a good policy, that unions protest so hard against them should put you at ease that they work.
It’s rather simple. Abusers are conscious of what they’re doing. They think if they abuse their child during the week they’re more likely to get caught because the effects of the abuse (physical and emotional) are still fresh the next day. If they do the abusing on Friday night, by Monday they think they have much less likelihood of getting caught.

This may actually work a few times. But eventually they go too far.
Wow, that is one high effort stalker / troll / ???wtf
Why is this an important distinction though? Zeppelins still need to be full anyway in order to float, so why does it matter that they keep their shape when not full?
> it did make me think about the saying, if everyone is a dick, you're probably the dick.

And if you're calling 80% of the people you meet smart?

There's a huge difference between "everyone" and "a significant fraction".
Great article. The thing's grounding system is lustworthy:

The Sylmar grounding system is a line of 24 silicon-iron alloy electrodes submerged in the Pacific Ocean at Will Rogers State Beach[4] suspended in concrete enclosures about one meter above the ocean floor.

The grounding system at Celilo consists of 1,067 cast iron anodes buried in a two-foot trench of petroleum coke, which behaves as an electrode, arranged in a ring of 2.02 mi (3,250.87 m) circumference at Rice Flats (near Rice, Oregon), which is 6.6 mi (10.6 km) SSE of Celilo.
Apple really needs to double down on Siri and take voice interaction to the next level. Part of this means that apple really needs to get its own knowledge/sematic web solution.

The new Google interactive radar thing is neat. Apple needs to figure that out.

That the iphone/ipad can be a bigger compute device with external attachments could be a bigger development then we think (like the Samsung dock thing).. People don't buy laptops in the same sense anymore and that will help justify higher prices.

The Apple upgrade rent/lease program is basically a way to get higher prices over time.

Apple should have its own MVNO.
Perhaps the life forms with long-term success have learned that it is not prudent to broadcast your location; the smaller the chance of other civilisations knowing about your existence the better.
It would be great if this achieved API parity with ES. Being able to swap out parts of the ELK stack would make tools like kibana even more powerful.
Apple's resurgence was built moreso on great hardware than software, due to Jobs philosophy and the nature of hardware this naturally led to a more vertical / walled garden approach.

The next "big thing" in tech is trending to be AI powered voice assistants, an assistant is more of a horizontal play as you'd need it to be compatible with many different devices and services. With the PC and phone markets mature, what differentiates Apple from it's competition? Especially when the gulf in quality is getting smaller and smaller?
Yes, while we need to fix the privilege issues and add proper user segmentation, we don't ever intend to aim at being a server OS.
Pacific DC Intertie
AFAIK, it's not. Biological brains are rate encoded (very difficult to efficiently emulate in a Von Neumann machine) and still plenty mysterious. The last time I checked, sea cucumber nervous systems which are literally only a few neurons, are difficult to emulate.

There is something called Moravec's paradox -stuff which is hard for smart people to do, say, playing chess, is reasonably easy for computers to do. Stuff like controlling musculatures and involving perception and mobility are really hard for computers to do (as the autonomous vehicle people are finding out).

I dunno if bug brains will be conscious, but they'll be able to do things easier than an intel chip.
Plan9? But it's still ahead of its time. I think it would be quite hard to port something like Haiku UI to such a platform. POSIX is fine.
Is it not obvious that certain industrial interests want to make software development easy and common, simply to reduce the cost of labor? and cynically, to encourage that, inflate the perception of riches therein?
Probably because an actual neuron has a lot more functional complexity than a simulated neuron.
“In 1975, the pet rock sold 1.5 million units at $3.95 a pop. And even though it was a fad that lasted only 6 months, it made the inventor, Gary Dahl, a millionaire overnight.”

https://growthlab.com/the-pet-rock-how-to-make-big-money-fro...
Haiku implements ASLR but there are ways to disable it. They are undocumented private APIs, though.

mmap on a fixed address should work just fine, unless the address is outside the normal range or in an already mapped region, which seems to be a problem on 32-bit systems. I think there are some emulators we have ports of which already use MAP_FIXED quite a bit.