skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> What’s most going to be remembered of our culture in 5000 years?

There is a good chance that computers will have an uninterrupted existence for the next 5000 years, and we’ll be remembered for creating the first network with 1billion+ users, similarly to how the Romans are remembered for their roads and aqueducts. This is a particularly exciting case because large amounts of data we generate could survive!

In the case that history is largely forgotten, similarly to how we have a heavy fog around knowledge of society 5000 years ago, I can imagine future archeologicists being very surprised to find large piles of fissionable materials. This has the potential to be very sensational in future pop culture.
Thats a major positive score from me.
IMO L-Theanine is more effective than coffee in terms of focus, though it doesn't keep you awake if that's what you're looking for. It's naturally available in green tea. But there are pills for it, which are really cheap, compared to coffee.
Google: Bringing more transparency to the Indian Elections 2019
Perhaps it's also a language thing?

In my native language, Kangaroos are closely associated with Australia, but New Zealanders are never called Kiwis.
For one thing it means that one person (e.g. Angela Merkel) doesn't get to unilaterally determine UKs immigration levels any longer.
I have a Pi-hole and use uBlock; when I turn off uBlock and use the Pi-hole alone, a ton of ads still seem to come through. This is with the default blocklists (StevenBlack, MalwareDomains, sysctl.org, zeustracker.abuse.ch; about 8 total). Maybe I'm not adding enough lists, but "out of the box" it doesn't seem to cut it.
I noticed the same thing. The front page is so boring it feels like a regular stores website. I don't know about the rest of their users but I don't come to ebay to buy sunglasses or phones. I'm looking for that obscure adapter that no store in the country sells. Or that game I used to play that has long since gone out of production. I can still find that stuff but there is no way to just casually look around at the interesting bits, you have to search for it.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/google-reportedly-allows-third-...
Hopefully this means support for a better unlocking mechanism, too.

When I wanted to unlock my iPhone, I was able to go to my carrier's website, pay a small fee and have it be unlocked over-the-air. I wanted to do a similar thing to a Galaxy S6 Edge that I got from them before selling it and I was notified by their site that I will have to physically take it to a store to have it unlocked there. I did that and all they did was come up with loads of surcharges and BS hoops to jump through -- essentially saying that getting that phone unlocked would cost me like 6-8x as much as the iPhone for made-up reasons.
I think you know what I'm gonna say. No, it's not "lying". Stop using that word, or look up the definition already. Use a better word like "negligence".
Nobody talked about forcing Nvidia to open up their IP. Their product is just bad from the driver point of view, and we don't want to buy it.

Also, I don't think that someone is bad for making use of crappy laws such as IP laws, but I don't think we want to have that discussion here.
See Reverb.com for an example of eBay done better, for music gear: https://reverb.com/
I used this before I switched to Pi-hole. It worked quite well in combintion hosts file + uBlock origin + uMatrix. One thing though, more and more sites now serve ads and content from the same domain, meaning if you block ads at DNS level you'll block the content too.
If you can get 10k grassroots users, you can make the argument for raising capital to scale the company through marketing. If you can't get any grassroots users by giving away the product for free and you need to pay to acquire them it might not be a great idea to raise capital.
Bastian is not a friend of mine. We have never met together. We have never spoken together. We have perhaps only exchanged some words by written in the last five years. And I have only spent something like 30 dollars with his company in the last five years. When I saw he was happy to be there, I decided by myself to share my opinion about Kirby3 here. I tried to be as honest as possible not waiting any reward of any sort. I was not thanked for my contribution here by Bastian or someone from his team. I am now 58 and I write code since I was 14, at the time of the first programmable calculators. Usually I don't write comments on this kind of forum because I prefer to invest my time building solutions. I only did this time because I think that Kirby3 and the team behind this solution are worth it. That's all! :-)
> Looking at things from the opposite perspective, I'm personally frustrated by the cross-platform personal backup options. Currently, I'm using Duplicity or some variant, but I find it a bit of and as a result my backup schedule is rather sporadic.

It's funny you mention backups -- the similarity is not a coincidence, as many of the problems we have in container images are related to problems the backup community had in the past. As for a backup tool recommendation, I use restic[1] which is quite neat.

[1]: https://restic.net/
As if survival weren't enough of a hurdle

You have to get by on the blood of a turtle
When I was first starting my game development career back in 2014, I read a very impactful article by Rami Ismail about the value of creating one game a week -- the idea being that by finishing a large number of small projects, you gain valuable experience that you might not get by working for a year on a single larger game and potentially never finishing it.

I started building one game a week in April 2014 and did this for about 6-8 weeks. It was the most enjoyable, creatively satisfying project I've ever worked on -- brainstorming a new idea each week and witnessing very tangible progress from an essentially blank project on Monday to an actual playable game on the following Sunday was a magical feeling.

So after releasing my first commercial game this past summer, I decided that as soon as I could fit it into my schedule I was going to spend some time working on a new one game a week project.

I'm going to be starting it in February and I'm so incredibly beyond excited!! I will be posting about it closer to the start date, but if this kind of thing interests you, please feel free to reach out -- I'm hoping some other people might join in and make games during the same time period. I'll be starting work on my week 1 game on Monday, Feb. 11th.

Link to Rami's original article: https://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RamiIsmail/20140226/211807/G...
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I am by no means an expert, but I find this article to be very superficial, and not very useful for people new to this in terms of learning the core concepts. For instance there is no mention of the Interpreter, Visitor and Composite GoF design patterns, which are crucial to doing functional programming in OO languages. If you are curious about this, it is very well explained in some of the lectures (10, 11, 13, 14, 15) of the OCW MIT course "Elements of Software Construction" 2008 version [1].

For a much more in depth and accurate discussion of the trade offs between functional and OO programming, I recommend the book "Concepts, Techniques, Models of Computer Programming". For instance, this book explains the technique of Impedance Matching to deal with programs where different components have different degrees of what the article's author (very losely) calls "purity".

[1] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu...
Trump Offered NASA Unlimited Funding to Go to Mars in His First Term
Thanks. It's not easy to find information like this. How did you find it?
I created something similar in my PHP typechecker, powered by annotations: https://getpsalm.org/r/d882a4bb45
If that is a myth, it is older than Youtube.

Unfortunately, unless we invent time travel or discover an important find, it is anyone's guess as if what you wrote (the established history as written by British archeologists) is correct.... it merely is the most popular theory at the moment.
For example, why is it not easy to add an "onClick" event handler method to a particular button in a Java GUI?

Lack of pointers. An event reference is a double pointer: to the method and to the object that is "self" or "this" for the execution of the event handler. Since they refused to have pointers in the language, they devised that convoluted solution.
Not to mention the UK won't be in the hook for part of the bailout. Sounds good to me.
I used to run AdWords regularly. I knew I'd be onto something when I almost broke even. Sometimes I'd be in the hole a bit and that was fine. If I broke even on first attempt, I knew I had a winner. This was affiliate marketing btw. Once I broke even, it was a matter of tweaking, refining, testing and more refining until you're in the green.

That being said, I think it's obvious that I totally disagree with the author. You should run ads. Absolutely. If you get a paid customer right away, that in itself is a much stronger indicator than someone signing up for a freemium product. I find this article carefully crafted to to be somewhat controversial, perhaps on purpose so it reaches the front page of HN. Mission accomplished. Congrats!
Well, these guys have implanted LEDs and other electronics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grindhouse_Wetware
They call it magic jack for a reason
So, basically greedy investors want eBay to ruin what's cool and useful about it... that it's not Amazon and not quite AliBaba either. Perhaps if they carefully tested expanding into less cool arenas like freight-forwarding, freight in general or delivery (merge with FedEx)... that might keep the capitalists at bay.
I used eBay for buying expensive IT equipment (routers, IO accelerator cards) that quickly lose their value, as well as buying rare collectable items (coins, car parts for my old Audi).

After reading the headline, my first thought was I will have to use AliExpress, but with collectables it's going to be harder. It's a sad reading, because there's always been room for department stores and for antique stores.
No, they were trying to rope in even non eurozone member states.
Can't find the video, but I believe he's specifically from Edinburgh, as there are many variants of Scottish accents.
> This assumes that there is agreement on what the UI experience should be. Navigation patterns, menu bars, keyboard shortcuts, touch gestures..

We had that for a while.

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

And most DEs even implemented it to some extent. But they didn't converge as a result of that.
Yeah, and millions of people in the world don’t have running water or any kind of heat in their homes, and those homes don’t have any insulation. And those homes might not even have three walls, much less four.

Just because millions of people might live in abject poverty doesn’t mean that I should aspire to doing so.
I once built an evolutionary algorithm to evolve the neural network of a virtual robot. When I saved to disk and tried to rerun it produced a different result. Turns out the performance of the network was sensitive to floating point precision errors. I added some slight noise to the input values which made it much more robust.
These days with stuff like MSYS2 readily available, it's not really as alien as one might think.
Lol? How? Yahoo and AOL seem to be perfectly happy riding into the non-innovation sunset with Verizon.
I think the issue is that many people use eBay less than sites like Amazon or AliExpress where you're out to pick a product - I used to use ebay quite often for buying things like phone cases and electronics components directly from China.

Now I choose AliExpress when I want it cheaper and Amazon when I want it faster. eBay has lost a lot of marketshare in this space - yes, there's business in auctioning collectibles and second hand stuff, but it's much smaller than that direct purchase market and they'd likely have to scale back the site in some respects.
Khronos learned too late that the world has moved on and the community wanted to use something else other than C to program their GPGPUs.

And they are doing it again with Vulkan. With a large majority looking for higher level wrappers instead of dealing directly with its APIs and increasing number of extensions.
Don't. You're better off drinking coffee than not. It's good for you!
Their front page should be just a search box.
I agree with you and I would like to point out if the 16th century Catholic church had used the same process they would have concluded that Copernicus was 'fake news'.

It's a hard problem.
Photoshop works great with it. I used it for years before switching to Gimp.
Completely agree — the team certainly seems to get a lot of stuff on the front page of HN, with (IMO) lower average quality than most front-page blog posts.
The city of London has been going for hundreds of years. It thrived before the EU, it will thrive after.
Jesus, don't take painkillers...but definitely do things that increase dopamine etc the days following. Read that as you will.
tcpdump -i any -vv -nn -w - | strings. And let’s of course not forget sysdig. I believe they have a Mac version
A good general rule:

If you are planning on providing the functionality in the future please refrain from deprecating the existing mechanism until your replacement is fully complete.

Early access may fly on Steam but in the real world your careless management of the refactoring process is wasting the time of your peers.
Not unlike the deer in North America. Deer management practices are largely driven by auto insurance industry lobbying.
Maybe that signals they need to work on site UX and AI to present useful purchases in a more consistent buying experience than an atomized encyclopedia galactica that drowns the user in a paradox of choice?
15 years ago, I would visit ebay multiple times a day. I bought or sold something an average of once a week. Over time I used it less and less because it became a marketplace for cheap mass market consumer goods instead of an amazing bazaar. Part of the fun was not knowing what you'd find if you kept looking a little bit longer.

These days I have to look up my password when I log in. When I do and search for, say, "arduino", I get 85 different Chinese vendors selling what appears to be the identical product for prices that are lower than the cost of just the CPU chip that is on it.

I'm not saying it was better or worse, just different, and not what I loved about it a decade ago. But I'm in my 50s, and not the younger target demographic they think they can capture.
Bayer manages.

Monsanto sues

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seL4 https://sel4.systems/
Show HN: Prepare Note Cards for a Speech (IOS app integrated with Apple Watch)
Original title: A series of unfortunate accidents with genital piercings.
I guess I have to explain the joke: https://io9.gizmodo.com/what-did-charles-darwin-put-in-his-m...

He famously had 30+ galapagos tortoises on the HMS beagle but he and the crew ate all of them before they got back because they were so delicious.
You know - I agree with this article. Thank you for your thoughtful response.

I understand and agree that 24bits is enough for human perception. But something else is happening in MP3 encoding. Some sort of assumptions about human perception of dynamic range that are inaccurate. I am not expert enough to know precisely where. But I generally understand compression and I am an "audiophile".

Nothing in the article stands out as false to me. But I cannot help but believe it might be missing something.
Xorg works in WSL, it just doesn't have any backing graphics driver to actually render anything. But if you install XRDP, you can connect to your Linux desktop using the usual Windows remote desktop client.

But yes, there are better options. You can run Xming or other X server and configure it yourself. Or you can buy X410 in the app store, and then the only configuration needed is DISPLAY=:0 in your shell.

https://token2shell.com/x410/
The problem is, "nothing but trouble" describes both genuinely problematic employees, and those that simply push back against toxic cultures or bad management. If you were already disillusioned, it's possible that it really was a bad atmosphere, and they were just less shy about calling a spade a spade.

I've also noticed that people tend to measure whether someone looks busy, not whether they're producing results. Some people will just start writing code, and they get called "productive". Others nip off for 2 hours to think it over and sketch out architectural diagrams, and then finish the whole task in half the time - but they're the ones that get called lazy because they weren't at their desk.
Not to the rigor seL4 has, with multiple-levels of verification.
I guess this is what they've needed to do to scale their revenue. A quick google search shows that eBay did about $9B in the US last year whereas Heritage Auctions, one of the premier auction sites for high-end collectibles and luxury items, only did about $900M in revenue. So there's plenty of money to be made peddling generic bullshit.
They've been considered a pest for as long as I've been alive, and when I was younger we used to shoot them all the time on our properties.

They're delicious.
I think it also had the clocks, memory settings, thermal thresholds and other hardware tuning parameters. So opening the firmware may also lead to many many fried boards.

Also, if the core enablement and configuration is done in the firmware, some vendors may find themselves in a hard position, since they may be selling crippled GPUs as lower spec cards.

Last, but not the least if folks enable faulty CUs in their cards and see the faults, they may create some (albeit unjustified) noise in "teh internets", which will return as bad press.

So, while the firmware is good for research and educational purposes, it's also a Pandora's box IMHO.
The worst part of this is it's not replaceable. I have a mid-2011 MBP still running in great condition. Its flaw is the HDD SATA flex cable that is prone to break which is replaceable and available on Amazon.
Show HN: I made a terrible spell checker in Go
Sorry, that's beyond my knowledge.
> ... not very useful for people new to this in terms of learning the core concepts

> For a much more in depth and accurate discussion of the trade offs between functional and OO programming, I recommend the book

think of it as a short and in-depth exploration of functional programming practices by an imperative programming luminary.
Eh, people will resist levers of control. Even levers with good intentions.

People seek a payoff. Even if you have some interconnect, that forces patterns of use, why are they crawling through your pipes?
It's simple really: people are happy to pay $ for software that kinda works most of the time as long as it (most of the time) solves the problem they want solved. Always follow the money!
Instagram Is a Toxic Place – British Model, Jordan Dunn Says
In history only the kings could turn themselves into idols. The process is the same. Now it is democratized. Any management company can turn an ordinary person into an idol. People believe that these are idols. From the video where she cries as she explained what happened to her we see that she is normal human being. All rulers, all pharaoh, all kings, all prophets and all gods are manufactured the same way.
Damn caught, lol
“too much of the internet was open to abuse. MeWe, he claimed in 2016, would give “the power of the internet back to the people”

It is comical when it’s implied that the majority of people on the internet aren’t responsible for this stuff
If you use modern NLP you can embed tags into vectors and then just use dot product between query and targets to rank them. There's even a fast library for that in Python called 'annoy'. It is capable of relating any query to any tag.
This anti-science stance is one based on fear, and that's not how society advances. Nothing should be banned from experiment and testing in controlled labs. Banning things preemptively out of fear is a sorry display of hubris. We do not know what technologies will be good or bad until we research and try them.
English probably, but I've had horse meat in France. And Italy, so it's not just Eastern Europe.
Firefox UI feels like it was left behind. When I open up Firefox I feel like I've stepped into last decade. I realize this is just a personal opinion but it's strong enough to keep me from using FF. I was also super irritated with their default tab that shows all of the links you visited. I prefer my porn not showing every time I open a new tab. Features like this one, even if easy to disable should be opt in, not opt out. Any company that enables an opt out feature by default will get the boot unless no alternative exists. I know, it's harsh, but I vote with my usage and with my money.
DHS issues emergency directive after wave of government DNS hijacking
The uBlock maintainer specifically says that uBlock Origin and uMatrix use a different matching algorithm than the declarativeNetRequest.

The title isn't at all hyperbolic. You don't deprecate such important functionality without laying out a full plan for replacement.

Unless there is no such plan and in reality you want to screw uBlock Origin, which I might say is the most aggressive ad blocker available, and isn't owned by a company in bed with the ads industry, like AdBlock Plus.
Isn't this literally indicative of the economy as a whole? The entire middle is being hollowed out. You've got to go high or go low, which is the same segregation we've seen in terms of wages.

Makes sense to me.
Oh yeah? Where's that? Please provide a single source.
> You need a hierarchy to manage a file system.

I find this a strange assertion after several paragraphs which vociferously assert hierarchies are redundant in the virtual space. In fact, OS/400 is a 'single-level' store using objects, so it has even been shown in practice that you do not need filesystems to build a useful OS, if I am not mistaken.

Am I mistaken?
Natives where peaceful. Land belongs to the great spirit. They were conquered by the invaders..
Tonga facing 'absolute disaster' after internet cable blackout
Agreed with this. If you don't have a room, it's worth it to rent out a small office somewhere. Or find a co-working space.
You mean, how long until the olympic records stop being important to society? There are many things that were made obsolete by technology. Exerting human strength for sport may be made obsolete, and that wouldn't be a bad thing.
And the nickname "Ple" is pronounced "Pun"!
That is now one of my favorite essays. Thanks for posting.

It does amuse me how much this framing of problems happens. Both in the annoying cases of arm chair quarterbacks, and in the cases of folks that take on problems previously thought of as too difficult.
I see what you mean, but I don't think I gave away too much of the plot. The back of the book itself provides all those same details, other than the word "Moon" which is revealed in the first sentence of the book.

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/515blU3eIzL...
What is the limit on the number of rules you can give to Safari? Gorhill mentions a limit of 30K and EasyList alone has more than 40K rules.
Wow! That is insane. About to self-publish a novel about driverless cars. Can you point me to your blog or other resources on this?
Also, somehow "Terra Nullius" only gets applied after the fact.

I imagine violently chasing off the owner of a deer lease to convert it to more efficient use would not be smiled upon. Even though deer hunting is exactly what Native Americans were doing with the land originally.

And building housing on someone else's golf-course or occupying and building on a long empty city lot you don't own are both unimaginably illegal.