skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"CPU cycles" is not a very good metric, in my view.

However, the brain is indeed much more efficient when comparing energy consumption considering that it uses only about 20W or power.
Safari removes “Do Not Track” signal because it was a way to track people
Haiku still exists, and is actually really good now. I was running it for a while.
Bosnia’s unusual candy-making ritual
It's like a real-life version of Tad Williams' "Otherland". Except for the epilogue of the latter. Not considering the plot, of course, but the setting.
And it's good that I have a private office and not a cubicle.
That's a good point. When we learn from the dead, we often learn what NOT to do and how NOT to behave.

Domain-specific history is full of examples of people who started out being silenced, struggled hard to be heard, and then changed their professions. Why didn't Franklin get the Nobel Prize along with Watson and Crick? The kind of history teaching I propose can lay out those examples. It's called "lived experience" history, not "birth dates of heroes" history.
Thanks for the tip, I didn’t think of that! I need to use Homebrew from two different users, too. Definitely going to try this.
The article does clearly mention it (and has links to videos of games that used it)

> PC Speaker can be turned in a DAC either by disabling timer count then enabling/disabling sound output, which makes it a very basic 1-bit DAC, or by using sound channel of the PIT to generate short pulses of variable width (PWM) at carrier frequency set by the timer interrupt, which effectively gives a much better 6-bit DAC.
I agree with not "computer-morphizing" the brain, but I think hardware still applies well enough. Is there a specific reason you think it doesn't apply out of curiosity? I mean, are you just trying to avoid the "duality of hardware and software"?
Android Phones Can Get Hacked Just by Looking at a PNG Image
In pretty sure Facebook, Google, and Youtube peddling advertising to kids ranks higher on the “insidious” scale than payday lending. Talk about taking advantage of people without capacity to make rational decisions.
Same here, but only if it doesn't need > 3.5 amp PSU.
re: "The email address I use for Facebook was created only for Facebook. I have never given it out to anyone else, ever. The inbox for that account only contains emails from Facebook."

Per the book "Chaos Monkeys", as well as others sources I would presume since, that single signal is not a "unique key". There are plenty of other ways being used to tie you to your devices (plural! as in, you're a known / constant as you move from phone to laptop to tablet, and so on.)

Mind you, neither is new, but Dragnet Nation and Chaos Monkeys are both insightful, and if you take your privacy and liberty serious frightening.

https://www.antoniogarciamartinez.com/chaos-monkeys/

http://juliaangwin.com/dragnet-nation-available-now/

Of the two, CM is the written to be more entertaining.
Of course not. It's not a binary choice.
I think Haiku's current status supports the "Near Death" assertion.
I think 2015 was the year that Node started getting popular on the backend at the expense of some of the JVM technologies, but Clojure fortunately runs well on that platform too.
technomorphizing maybe? it's definitely something we do.
This off-topic post is akin to "we have homeless people, so no resources should be allocated to space flight".

The energies invested in developing HTTP successor protocols are not being deprived from efforts to stifle Google from ruining the concept of the web browser as a _user_ agent.
I disagree.

If you're trying to measure a target 1cm across from 1 mile away with a ruler and a squint anything you say is not only likely wrong, but woefully deceptive.

My view is that this shouldn't even be attempted because it just generates superstitious theories. Psychology is the skinner box pidegon.

There's a fallacy here that's hard to pin down clearly but roughly: to measure inaccurately isnt to measure approximately. Its to measure totally in error.

The errors in social psychology are not just "second decimal place", they're angels pushing stars.
LibreOffice 6.2 Released with NotebookBar UI
> You either quit or you're complicit. It's pretty straightforward actually.

Not all people have that option.

Developers execute. They can't deny a boss his request based on opinions. These things are okay for the one and not okay for someone else.

The boss is paid to be responsible
Malls and shopping centres are really struggling, as they are in the US. If you're a mall with a number of vacant units, you may be more than willing to lease a unit to an interesting business at a cheap rate; an empty unit earns you nothing and makes the overall retail experience less attractive.

Raspberry Pi is the kind of product that could really benefit from a quality retail experience. I suspect there are a lot of parents who might have heard of Raspberry Pi, but don't really know what it's all about and don't have the confidence to buy a kit and try it out with their kids. If you've sold someone a Raspberry Pi and given them good advice on how to use it, you're substantially more likely to go on to sell them a robot kit or a 3d printer or a bunch of Adafruit goodies.
> I wonder if they get a good return on the investment.

On just sales income it seems doubtful.

But in the end the Raspberry Pi Foundation is a non-profit whose goal is to get kids interested in programming, and give them the hardware they can experiment on without worrying about breaking your parents' or school computer. Sales to "hackers" is just a side business.

An event space / showroom can help with that mission for kids and parents who might not buy online and get started on their own.
"Every single time somethings come up, in the JS word, they try to repeat one of the mistakes from the past and completely ignore everyone else solutions and experience."

I agree with the sentiment so just out of curiosity: what are these existing solutions that people should look at and take lessons from?
Started my own mobile app company. B2C is a rough market but I love not dealing with customers, sales people, etc. I do hope to shift into some B2B webapps instead.

Also now working on another startup with friends roughly my age and have a couple other startups as options there if I wanted to take on more.

My specialty is pretty much being a jack of all trades and being able to learn new ones quickly. In some ways it sucks because there isn't any one stack that I eat, sleep, and breathe, but on a typical day I do some golang backend, js/html/webgl frontend, obj-c iOS, maybe some python, linux sysadmin, and some graphic design. The benefit is that it means not needing to go find and hire/contract another resource.

Keep learning new things. I know many people my age that spend 10+ years on a single tech stack and never really learned anything new. Then suddenly they're out of work and realize the demand for C99 on Solaris isn't that high. Go to Meetups, conferences, webinars. Take on side projects. Mentor students.

It helps that I look a bit younger than my age. I honestly probably get more discrimination due to my weight. Working on that, but if you can maintain your fitness and the appearance of boundless energy, it overcomes a good bit of age.
It depends on your needs, maybe try the SaaS app https://kumu.io/ or https://graphcommons.com/
It is the difference between personal data and sensitive data, I'm not expert of the subject, but on this article https://gdpr-info.eu/art-9-gdpr/ they say

> Paragraph 1 shall not apply if one of the following applies: the data subject has given explicit consent to the processing of those personal data for one or more specified purposes

But I was talking about third party that collect information, not the website itself, I was only working on third party so I don't know what websites are allowed to do
It can require that, but only when it uses USB3.0-PD.
Well, it's not an easy problem. I've been working on user interfaces for around 14 years, in several languages and platforms.

React is the first time I feel like we've actually hit something good. It's still not fully there, but it's the closest it has felt to that so far.

State management is messy, that's clearly an area where the problem still hasn't been solved. The main issue is that state means too much really. There's your (typically) main source of truth: the database. Then your server may maintain some state (although nowadays this is not common, thankfully). Then there's the frontend app state, which loads from the server/db, and may or may not staty up to date.

On top of this you have temporary frontend state (unsaved changes), and finally pure UI state (hovering things, "show more"... )

Managing all of this is extremely difficult. Graphql with the appropriate frontend library for example is revolutionary in some ways, but a major difference in backend architecture, which isn't easy to reason about (fine grained entitlements, mutations & side effects such as notification emails, report generation.. are not easy)

Anyway, my point is that I understand your frustration with how everything's outdated too quickly, and how in the past we had stable frameworks or languages. But I feel the reason is that we are actually in a transition period, and making a lot of progress really fast. Hopefully the outcome of these messy years is a Standard™ way to define a UI, it's state, and it's interactions with an API, in an e2e type-safe, testable manner. One can dream right?
Google and Waze Must Stop Sharing Drunken-Driving Checkpoints, NYPD Demand
We spend too much money trying to protect things that don't take much time or effort to make.
I Hope it's more of games workshop type affair. You're just not going to have useful staff that know about this equipment long term operating a shop floor. You can barely get anyone that knows much about a phone beyond the box from phone specialists.
Ah but the conjecture isn't about what happens “on average” or for a “random set” of integers. It's about what is forced to happen in every possible case. (In the “random” case there are probably very few or no duplicates anyway, as both a+b=c+d and ab=cd will be unlikely for completely random integers — note that they say d is exactly a+b-c or ab/c respectively — the conjecture is about limiting what you could possibly arrange to happen, non-randomly.)

Basically, when you take integers like {1, 2, 3, 4} or {1, 3, 5, 7} (so that there are additive relations between them) (e.g. small integers), there tends to be a lot of duplicates in the addition table. But if you take integers like {1, 2, 4, 8} or {1, 3, 9, 27} (so that there are multiplicative relations between them) (e.g. very similar prime factorizations), there tend to be a lot of duplicates in the multiplication table. In other words, it's very easy to create sets with either lots of duplicates in the addition table or lots of duplicates in the multiplication table.

The conjecture is not about which kind of set is more common (so it doesn't matter even if it's true that there are a lot “more” arithmetic progressions than geometric ones, in whatever sense), but rather says there is no way you can create a set with both sorts of collisions — it's saying that if a set has many additive coincidences it can't have many multiplicative coincidences and vice-versa.
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Consideration: Facebook Pixel is still tracking you across the web, so it's easy to correlate other accounts from other companies to your account; not to mention that other services are probably consuming the Facebook Pixel service. They can build their own databases, referencing your Facebook correlation information, and share that back to Facebook.

So, let's say you have a Facebook account and go to "Mom & POP Shop, Inc. dot com". If "Mom & POP Shop, Inc. dot com" implements Facebook Pixel (or has a way to consume it) and you buy something from them, giving your phone number, address, etc., then your other information is automatically correlatable just by those two points of data.

The fact that 1,147 other companies have your information tells me that there was probably an intermediary advertising company between "Mom & POP Shop, Inc. dot com" and Facebook, so that intermediary could sell your information to anyone and everyone and, once it's on the "advertising market", it's ripe for correlation from other companies - Amazon, Google, Microsoft, etc.

All that's need is at least one, consistent, correlatable point of data - say your mac address or your browser's established fingerprint and you're "fair game" for targeting on the "advertising market". (Insert Bill Hicks' reference to Marketing and Advertising[1] here.)

[1] - https://youtu.be/9h9wStdPkQY
How so? It has an active community and has loads of important POSIX/Linux applications ported. There was a talk at FOSDEM about it only last weekend.
Maybe if you have never spent any time in the military.

Would it be ok for me to say that Theranos failed because of stupidity because halons razor? All i know is the company failed and i don't have time to read any articles so aren't i justified in saying it was stupidity not malice?
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What's a Gallon?
I lived in Belgrade for a month in Summer 2016. You're right it was pretty cheap, but I still think $1000 would be cutting it close. I think I spent $600 on an Airbnb for a month, and probably close to $400 going out / on food etc. But yeah... Belgrade is really cheap if you want to live affordably. I bought a steak for $3!

The important thing to note is that for a foreigner it will definitely be more expensive. You're likely on a short-term lease, you need to travel home periodically, you don't know anyone in the country to get roommates, etc.
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> The EEA is comprised of the EU and EFTA countries.

Not quite. It doesn't include CH

> At this moment the future relationship between the EU and UK is not defined: as other people mentioned, if it ends up with a deal with keeps the UK in the single market, and subject to EU laws, there is no reason why it shouldn't be allowed to keep using the .eu domain.

Sure, just ensure that .eu is part of the deal.

However as it stands the UK parliament does not want to agree any sort of withdrawal agreement, let alone a future trade deal.
TLDR: "it is comparing apples and oranges"
Gravity's Rainbow, Thomas Pynchon, has a plotline involving hunting for a rogue lightbulb that has lasted too long.
Thanks a lot! I did miss something new ;)
A natural language processing toolkit that I wrote in Common Lisp about 15 years ago and converted to Ruby about 10 years ago. A simplified version in Haskell is in my Haskell book and a simpler version is also in my Common Lisp book - all the book code is on github https://github.com/mark-watson?tab=repositories
> Years after pondering this article, I felt I had figured it out: psychology is secretly the study of particular subset of 18 to 21 year old American women.

There are many analogs of that in Computer science too. For example in computer vision, CIFAR-10 is a de facto standard for measuring performance. A set of 60k 32x32 images. Good results on that data set doesn't necessarily translate well into real-world performance. But what can you do? Gathering huge data sets and having humans annotate them is incredibly expensive.

Another ml example is music recognition. There are several state-of-the-art methods for detecting notes in music. So one Chinese researcher tried to apply them for Jingju music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJsTl342RhI. The results were... less than stellar.
Germany Tells Facebook to Stop Combining Users’ Data Without Consent
A beautiful heart warming read that moved me to tears, thx for sharing! I sent it to a few family members who struggle to understand the appeal of video games.
Show HN: Drupal on AWS interactive architecture diagram
I think that's definitely one way of looking at it. Planet [1] kinda pioneered this idea as "Agile Aerospace" [2]. When I visited the Planet HQ in SF, I remember having lunch with a bunch of their Doves (flight hardware) lying on the table next to me :P That was sorta unthinkable 20 years ago.

There's definitely a changing attitude towards what can be launched into space. The "cheap" satellites are not going to necessarily achieve the extreme performance needed for some missions, but by being more commercial, there's a new wave of missions that target specific, market-driven use-cases, and they don't all need the latest/greatest/fanciest tech.

Additionally, the orbit you fly in affects this conversation a lot. For Low Earth Orbit <1000 km, I'm confident that the market is going to be dominated by commodity hardware, except for flagship missions perhaps.

Higher altitudes require greater reliability due to radiation and are just more expensive orbits to get to. So I think it's going to take a little longer. Having said that, there are a bunch of companies tackling the higher orbits, like SpaceX with Starlink [3], and even YC alum Astranis [4] in GEO.

The way I like to think of it is that the space sector is maturing from a craft to a profession, and with that, commoditization offers a clear path towards scalability.

[1] https://www.planet.com

[2] https://www.planet.com/company/approach

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(satellite_constellat...

[4] https://www.astranis.com
> Not sure about the firing squad... people make mistakes, I can certainly see how she was focused on trying to avoid a collision and forgot to sound the alarm. There must have been at least 5 other people on the bridge who could have done it as well.

But she was the CO no? Maybe im wrong but isn't it the CO's job to lead? Not just expect the grunts to step and be a leader?
Having wrestled with the ~ and {} spaghetti of a Spray routing module... for worse
British Home Stores was founded by Americans! That's why it's called a 'store'.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19101156
Twitter Banning People for Telling Laid-Off Journalists to Learn to Code
>Starting February 28th, Facebook’s “Why am I seeing this?” button in the drop-down menu of feed posts will reveal more than the brand that paid for the ad, some biographical details they targeted and if they’d uploaded your contact info. Facebook will start to show when your contact info was uploaded, if it was by the brand or one of their agency/developer partners and when access was shared between partners. A Facebook spokesperson tells me the goal is to keep giving people a better understanding of how advertisers use their information.

This is great and all but what about the people who don't have a Facebook account, which Facebook is still keep tracking of (e.g.: Facebook Pixel)?
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My disagreement is something this article half-acknowledges:

> The brain has the potential for a petaflop per second of processing power. However, the measured performance of conscious processing is only about 50 bits per second.

Why assume that either training or playing Go involves only conscious decision making? Anything that we call “common sense”, “gut feeling”, “aesthetically pleasing” etc. is something we can’t (or cannot easily) generate a conscious rationale for.

Of course, that’s doesn’t mean humans don’t beat computers at all; last I checked, humans can make acceptable quality inferences from far fewer examples than an A.I.
Considering they can't even seem to have their radars working most of the time. I have a feeling UX might be low on the priority list for them.
Sweep the problem under the rug. Delay everything by the highest latency. Let everyone suffer equally!
(this is what bluetooth audio does)
I guess I'm still in a minority who likes Redux.
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Nice list, I agree with it, but I don't think it can be the full story.

Why? None of the above are specific to software, if
the above was the full story, why would the US not also dominate the
world in e.g. Autos, Chemistry, Electronics, Batteries
etc? There must be other factors. Maybe first-mover advantage, maybe software benefits more from centralisation, from economies of scale than other industries? Other suggestions?
I definitely worry about this, I've had this phone number for almost 20 years now.
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Traditionally (in the UK), it was reserved for large, varied shops like department stores. However, the American usage to mean any shop has certainly been spreading in business-speak for a fair while.

From the OED (the entry has not been updated recently):

> Chiefly N. Amer. and elsewhere outside the U.K. In early use, a shop on a large scale, and dealing in a great variety of articles (see quot. 18082). Now, equivalent to the British use of shop n. 3.

> The use of the word in this sense has not become common in the U.K. except in Comb., as chain store n. at chain n. Compounds 3, department store n. at department n. 5 (see under the first elements), store detective n. at Compounds 1d(a), in which it still refers to a large shop.
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It also appears to apply to Australian citizens living abroad, potentially making dual-citizens into covert actors.
This is by far the highest quality media I've ever consumed in my life. He is amazingly hard working and skilled.
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Please, please spread this message to all of your friends. Maybe they would all leave and I could have my beautiful city back again, without hearing the word "bro" every 3 seconds.
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Weirdly, I have a lot of the same ones: Maseratti of Scottsdale, Mini of Freeport, Sunrise Ford NoHo, etc.
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Thanks, going to try this on my walk to work today.
There’s a strong ethical case for wearing leather and fur
Why in the world do you want to use the standard library only? This is what Pandas was designed for, with optimized C code.

What are you doing which is different from something like:

totals = []
for line in open(filename, "rb"):
fields = line.split()
totals.append(fields[2]) # or whatever
totals.sort()
... do something ..

or using collections.Counter()

with open(filename, "rb") as f:
c = collections.Counter(line.split()[2] for line in f)
print(c.most_common(10))
> I don't think Racket was the first language to come up with this.

Racket's parameters are just dynamically scoped variables. Most Lisps have them. The older Lisps actually predate lexically scoped variables and had dynamically scoped variables exclusively! Emacs Lisp is not even that old and only had dynamic scope until relatively recently.
True, but is there any point to Haiku now that the Linux PREEMPT_RT patchset is just around the corner and will probably give us soft-realtime capabilities on a par with the old 16-bit computer OS's (Amiga, Atari ST, etc.) and with BeOS/Haiku itself? Sure, the default UIs (GNOME-Shell, Plasma) are nothing to write home about from a performance POV, but lightweight alternatives do exist and are still highly usable. I find that LXDE or Xfce are no trouble at all even on hardware that's a decade old or perhaps more (the one thing they don't really address is touch-screen focused use, where GNOME itself has a big, if serendipitous, headstart).
> but in that case the investor-employees will expect higher salaries than they would receive as mere employees elsewhere.

Is that necessarily so? They can just as well decide that being in control of their work justifies a lower wage than market rate. After all, it’s their business.