skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, and usually when someone launders money the goal is _to_ pay tax on it. That way it looks like legitimate income.
Or using a language that supports AOT/JIT from the get go, which most likely will avoid the need of any rewrite.
Still only works with simple 1 handed gestures.
Oh. Good to know, thanks. I see that there are `end` tokens, but since I don't know which tokens they correspond to, it's still hard too read.
There are new apps that are not based on chromium [1].

[1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/pages/download
Using every other day = use one day, then not use it the day after.

Using once every two days = use one day, then not use it the day after.

Perhaps you meant "once every three days", i.e. use it one day, then not use it for two days?
>Am I reading page 43 right? The cost of the battery in the Volt is currently $12,300? That's almost exactly 90% of the selling price of my new ICE vehicle!

Yup, and it's why falling battery costs are such a big deal for the EV industry. It's worth thinking about the battery as a pre-payment for fuel; it's very expensive up front, but it substantially reduces your cost per mile for the life of the car.

Q: What's the projected lifespan of the battery pack in a Volt?

The Bolt's battery pack has an 8 year/100,000 mile warranty, with a maximum capacity loss of 40% during that period. Data from Nissan Leaf owners suggests a capacity loss of about 20% over five years, while Tesla Model S owners have reported much lower capacity loss - sometimes as little as 10% after 150,000 miles. Pack longevity has been increasing due to better cell chemistry and improved thermal management, but only time will tell how well the Bolt's batteries age.

Nissan offer a refurbishment program for the Leaf, which will restore the pack to its original rated capacity for $2,850; I would expect most manufacturers to follow suit. Battery pack refurbishment is also available from a number of third-party providers. Given the excellent durability of the rest of the powertrain due to the very small number of moving parts, EVs may prove to be surprisingly durable - with a battery refurbishment after 10 years, an EV may give 20 years of good service. The Nissan Leaf has fairly high depreciation due to the poor initial range of earlier models, but Teslas seem to be holding their value fairly well.
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My early smartphones (Samsung Instinct, Note 2, Note 5) seemed to be more durable and I never needed a case. I never cracked a screen until Samsung introduced curved screens. My Galaxy 6 Edge and 7 Edge both shattered in the corner after a mild drop. So my Note 7, Galaxy 8, and Note 9 have all had screen protector and spigen cases
It was about 4m before the war. Is not about 3.6 Considering that today’s living arrangements (sqft per person) is quite different (larger) than 80 years ago, I am not sure this is working argument.
I try to use a tanning bed a couple times a week in winter.
Spoon theory is a attractive concept, but it appears to be largely based on the ego depletion hypothesis. And that one hasn't held up very well now that scientists have attempted to reproduce the original experiments. So I'm skeptical whether it's of much practical use.
It's not that simple, as most things in reality never are. For example, "Spoiler alert: They rewrote Basecamp from scratch and it turned out great. It took around a year, and new signups doubled immediately following the release of Basecamp 2."

https://medium.com/@herbcaudill/lessons-from-6-software-rewr...
Agreed. But having encryption at rest on your stored email would be a decent feature.

Now it looks like if FastMail added that, they could be compelled by the government to break it anyway, without notifying the user.
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There are plenty of tanning (UVB) lights at all different wattages available for purchase.

I think the problem is the visible light output tends to be harsh, and the bulbs are highly inefficient, they are exensive, and they don’t last very long either.

So there would be a lot of problems to solve, not the least of which is the cultural issue you raise of scaremongering around UVB exposure in the first place.
Imho, terms like "software rot" and "bit rot" are simply disingenuous attempts to blame the software for a malfunction that is caused by changes in the environment of the software.
AWS China is ran by a in-country 3rd party Chinese entity. Similar structure to what the above describes - a separate, but related entity.
Yet Smalltalk, Common Lisp, Dylan managed to do it.

Do you want to break all assumptions a Smalltalk JIT managed to reach about a live object?

Just send it a become: message.
Yes there will still be fear sometimes, but the point of the compiler is to help people to be fearless sometimes.

The halting problem does not need to be solved, since no program in practice runs forever. In some of the environments like C we don't have a way to specify finite things, where cases would be enumerable and safety guaranteed. To be fearless sometimes greatly reduces the mental workload of programmers and people who read other people's code.
What scares me most about gmail is the fear that one day an algorithm will decide I'm doing something wrong and terminate my account and no prospect of appealing the decision.
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Next time you are on a plane, see how many people sneeze just after the plane lands.
You're confusing the feel of doing math in your head with it being applied to describe something, which is abstract. A mathematical model isn't the thing itself.
Thanks for sharing your insight. I am not able to access your app in my country. Do you have some country restriction to it?
Disabled != data changes hands.
I am on google’s grandfathered free tier for my domain. Recently it has gotten annoying with new google products since they have to be supported by g-suite for you to use them. So I recently was shopping around for a new host. Basically I’m a non-business user who is probably in your target market.

As others have said, your pricing is unpredictable and hard to compute. As I’m evaluating you with competitors, I’m not going to invest the time. In my experience, when a company makes it hard to know what you’re actually going to end up paying, you usually end up paying more than you want (see: Verizon).

From a business perspective, it seems to me your value proposition is that you are striving to be the cheapest email provider. I think you should consider the kind of customer this attracts. The sort of person who thinks a few dollars a month per email address is too expensive is going to be high maintenance. If you want this to be sustainable, I think you need a different angle. Consider that all these other email providers basically charge around the same amount. That isn’t an accident. I don’t know the email business, but I assume it needs a certain margin to actually be sustainable and these guys have landed in the right ballpark.

If you’re looking for business customers, then your pricing is basically rounding error compared to the other guys. It’s not materially different enough to matter for a business of any reasonable size to be worth having as a customer. In fact, the lack of predictability is a major deterrent. Businesses need to create budgets and every variable cost adds to the complexity of the forecast.
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Can anyone comment on good/bad domain extensions? Ie, aren't some domain extensions bound by odd nation specific rules? Namely, the ones that represent countries that we like.

I have a `.la` but I'm unsure if I want to put my email behind it. Thoughts?
I was told that TV would turn my eyes square as a child, looking forward to having it proved by science so I can smugly announce that I've known all along.

Wait, no, it doesn't work like that.
Software rot definitely hits projects of multiple sizes, you do get better over time programming though so there is always room for improvement.
At the highest level of taxes (>38 080€), in Belgium 100€ would result in a net of:

- ~37€ if the self-employment is not subject to VAT (less than 25.000€ per year as self-employed)

- ~30.7€ if subject to VAT

(100€ / 1.21) [VAT] * (1 - 0.21) [Social contributions] * (1 - 0.53) [Federal tax 50% + local tax 50% * 6%]
Know which of these deals specifically with the differences between amateur and titled players?
If you're talking about Intel ME, just use AMD or ARM.
And webkit itself was based on khtml, too
A very informative & useful post. Thanks.
"Laziness" - non-explanation word is not an explanation.
It is impossible to ever handle concurrency completely at the compiler level. We can handle them at the runtime level (via things like transactional semantics and timewarps), though the overhead can be great.
According to her Twitter that gig at Microsoft already ended.
> I think stating that there's a "hard problem of consciousness," which is not explained by self-awareness, is begging the question. We just kind of assume that there's something inherently special about qualia, raise them on a pedestal, and claim that they are unique to humans.

Merely asserting the existence of self-awareness or describing how self-awareness arises doesn't address any of the questions raised by qualia, even if they are an illusion.
Their usefulness is very restricted.

What we want instead is:

- general concurrency

- access to any (garbage collected) JS variable/object from any thread.

- a garbage collector that works across all threads.

- no global locking of threads by the runtime system
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/agency/
This.

If you are going to go through the effort to compromise key developers, you probably are going to have a team of people grinding on it for him. Eventually you come to him and say "modify this function in this way, and if you get caught, this is your story". Said story would be near perfectly defensible - and at worst case he/she can feign a typo/error and graciously accept someone calling it out and fixing it. Then they just wait a while and attempt again sometime.
Why? Fastmail always complied with warrants to get your data, so nothing changes because if this law. If you want to hide something, encrypt your e-mails before they reach Fastmail (and do the same regardless of provider you use, why trust anyone?)
I think a lot of people, including myself, could get a lot out of streaming what we do even if another person never watches at all. Because we have to talk about our decisions, focus on a task, and just keep going as if we have an audience.
The main issue you'll face on trying to run old 32bit Windows 95 applications on modern 64bit Windows 10 is that the installers often are 16bit and 64bit Windows do not support 16bit applications (which was actually technically possible, at least for protected mode 16bit applications which is the majority of them, as shown by Wine being able to run almost all 16bit programs under 64bit Linux).

Once you go past that hurdle though (and it is often very easy to do that since almost all of them tend to use InstallShield and there are workarounds for it... or in some cases, you can just copy the files manually :-P) the applications themselves tend to run just fine. For example here is Visual Studio 6 running on my Win10 machine (with a demo from DirectX 7 SDK) [0] - all i had to do was to edit an .ini file to disable the Java VM setup. Similarly here is Borland C++ 5 compiling my C engine [1] - BC5 works just fine (and i actually use it very often since it compiles the code instantly and offers an ok debugger). Outside of compilers, here is Wally [2], a texture editor/painter/manager for Quake, Quake 2 and similar games - the program is from around 1998 but works perfectly fine in Windows 10.

I use and run a lot of old applications for Windows and generally i almost never have issues getting them to work in Windows 10.

One notable exception is games (of which i also have A LOT of older titles) that have a combination of DirectX abuse and memory bugs that in 9x weren't noticed due to looser checking. My go-to solution is to drop dgVoodoo2's dlls in the game folder and run RTSS to limit the framerate at 60fps - this solves 99% of the issues.

Interestingly (but expectedly, considering the issues mentioned in the article) the situation is reversed with Linux. I tried recently to play several older game demos (i have around 30 of them) made for Linux around late 90s, early 2000s. Most of them worked fine (after installing a missing .so or two and an OSS-to-ALSA bridge), with the main exception being Shogo which relied on Gtk1 that i just couldn't figure out how to make work in Debian (which doesn't ship Gtk1 at all).

This last part is what reverses the situation for Linux: older applications relying on older versions of Gtk, Qt, etc just do not work at all and often you can't just grab the older .so files and drop them in, as they have big webs of dependencies that often go outside just libraries (like scripts, data files, etc). Which is also why i really dislike both Qt and Gtk - the former, being a C++ API, cannot guarantee a stable ABI even if they wanted to, while the latter being written in C could provide a stable ABI but the developers just don't care at all about stability.

Ironic that the most stable (API-wise) and backwards compatible desktop tech in Linux is Wine.

[0] https://i.imgur.com/Qz4GoJk.png
[1] https://i.imgur.com/M6TXWFu.png
[2] https://i.imgur.com/ggX9Ybq.png
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> The gut-reaction to such a title is to think the writer is saying "depression doesn't exist" or "schizophrenia doesn't exist" or "manic depressives are lying."

Even at the more generous level of “mental illness is different from physical illness” it is wrong, and dangerously so.

> The word "illness" should be used to represent a cause-- and resolving the cause should cure the illness.

This has never been what “illness” means; illness (both in general and in specific named instances) is often recognized and identified long before causes.

> The conditions which we call mental illness don't have a knowable cause.

They don't usually have a known cause. That they don't have knowable cause is an unwarranted conclusion. Plenty of physical illness don't have known mechanisms, and most of those that do were noticed and given names as illnesses before (sometimes centuries before) the mechanism was identified. This doesn't mean they don't generally have knowable causes, as is evident from the ones whose causes were later learned.

> Illnesses should be hypothetically curable.

That doesn't even remotely follow. Having a know cause doesn't imply curability because causes are not necessarily reversible.

> I think often the hacker news crowd forgets how ill-informed most of the world is

True. It's easy to forget that many people do not even realize that pattern matching on symptoms is how much diagnosis of physical illness is done, and that even where causes are known it's often not worthwhile (and sometimes not practical) to actually test for them directly.
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Auto glass must be somehow different, because in Florida, you can surely get "some color" on your skin on a long drive and the sun beating in through the window.
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to encourage merchants to do so minimal checks on the credit cards (like implementing 3d secure for example).
You will also love this twitter thread: https://twitter.com/drmegafauna/status/1088716741700710401
There was a post here a little while ago about a google service (I think it was 'locky') that the SREs would deliberately disable if they had over-met their SLA.
This forced the developers of dependent systems to handle outages correctly.
I'm not sure how I feel about this argument in light of article 13 of the EU's new copyright directive. Legislators also have a responsibility to make laws that are reasonable and possible to obey.

It is possible for companies to obey the Cloud Act, but as far as I can see, only by choosing between operating in the US and operating in the EU. If that's considered unreasonable, then it's a bad law.
OP would still likely be fixing their problem though, right? That article says it is the sun exposure itself that has a positive effect, and vitamin D is the byproduct.

To be clear, that's a really useful article, just want to clarify that your intent is indeed to explain why vitamin D wouldn't work but a UVB lamp would.
Hi @zulko, these are great points and thank you for this feedback. We will make sure to address these on our website asap.
How does Occam's Razor apply here?

You have evidence that some matter (yourself) experiences its existence. The simplest hypothesis that explains this is that all matter experiences its existence. Any hypothesis that posits that SOME matter experiences its existence and other matter does not requires two different kinds of matter (conscious and not) and a mechanism to switch between the two. Seems that hypothesis requires a lot more assumptions.
Which video call services have you used? My experience has had me use these:

Slack
Webex
Teams
Zoom
Skype

Of those, Slack and Teams both cut out at seemingly random times. The others, though, were generally reliable.
This! I completely agree! Also who cares if the solutions are online? If the professors want to use the book in classrooms then they should come up with their own exercises instead of basically stealing the book's questions.

I completely agree that any book with exercises without solutions is completely useless. I didn't even have access to professors or any teaching assistants even DURING my undergraduate years. So the assumption that you can discuss the questions with your professor doesn't even hold water.
> How do you explain the obesity epidemics which is a very recent phenomenon, if not through perverse market forces?

- Extremely high levels of food security in developed nations. It's hard to get fat when food isn't available.

- Related, nutritionally-questionable food products that were used to achieve this food security (primarily mass-preserved and processed foods).

- A transition from jobs requiring large amounts of physical labor to those that require little or none.

That's just what I can think of off the top of my head. Like most societal problems, the causes are myriad and complex.
Tangent: are we witnessing the beginning of a new design trend? I feel like every app & website that’s popped up recently is designed in something like a “modern” version of an 8-bit/retro aesthetic. (Hence the terminal-purple & courier font here, but many more examples abound).
I'm not sure I understand the argument, why is the halting problem even important here? Surely a compiler can split loops into ones that halt so they only run a little bit at a time. But you don't necessarily need a compiler for that, OS can help too and, for example, invoke a signal handler from which you can stop currently running actor. Actors can be safely stopped, destroyed, preempted, etc. without breaking other actors.
I think perhaps you're misunderstanding the hard problem. The hard problem is about why "experience" exists at all, why perceptions have a qualitative character that appears to be impossible capture using a third-party objective description, eg. a scientific or mathematical description.

Think about it: every way you would describe a subjective experience seems to eventually rely on a first-person statement at some point. The obvious way to resolve this is to deny that first-person perspectives actually exist, that they are an illusion, despite the fact that we can apparently directly observe their existence. So before we can accept this argument, we need an explanation for how this actually works. It's not something you can just hand-wave away.
To be specific, it was 5 years between Netscape Communicator 4.7 (1997) and Mozilla 1.0 (2002)
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"Your system not breaking doesn’t mean it works and is a solid design." - an interesting read on a similar topic, currently on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19244063
"The total cost of the whole experiment from the equipment to the boards to AWS EC2 was easily less than $1000. The majority of that cost was in the Rigol osciloscope (for debugging) ($400) and the ChipWhisperer Lite ($300).

In a world where software attacks are getting harder and harder to pull off and companies are protecting more and more of their software with hardware security, it seems like a huge oversight that the hardware is not protected as well."
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Electric mopeds/bikes aren’t that great either, at least for pedestrians. I’ve almost been creamed a few times by one silently coming up in me in Beijing. They should at least hum or something. And they definitely shouldn’t be on the side walk doing 30km/h.
No it doesn't. Therefore the quotes around 'known'.
Let us split the smugness down the middle.
There's a great Applied Science video on the various light absorption properties for various materials here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwsHRrDYu5o
> All observers will agree that Alice throws a ball which Bill later catches

I think this needs qualification.

If I am stood directly behind Alice or Bill then it is possible I never see the interaction at all even though I am an observer, just as if I hold a two identical pencils together and look at them from the correct angle I observe only a single pencil.

The important thing is in all cases, observers "see" space-time interactions as the geodesic of the event projected on to their own observational frame.

Through that projection it is possible to lose degrees of freedom which can be space-time etc.

It's through this projection that HUP emerges since if in the observational frame the time dimension is limited, the projected time axis of the event tends toward zero.
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I liked the Better Explained books, particularly for Calculus, as it really explained the "why"

For Linear Algebra, "Linear Algebra Done Right" -- way better than my college lin alg course.

For "general mathematics", I like books that read almost like novels to really grasp the "why" of mathematics, so these are more to embellish your general understanding of "what is the point" type questions -- so things here like Euclid's Window come to mind, and "An Imaginary Tale: The story of square root minus one" will help explain complex numbers in more detail than you ever cared. Reading about the history of mathematics and the writings of some of the greats, like Rene Descartes, Lehonard Euler, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Issac Newton (the amazing thing is all these greats lived within a century of each other)
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Even in 1985, the things that a child could produce in BASIC weren't "interesting". Children in that era could make a few dots appear on the screen, or make a prompt that asked questions and responded, or maybe draw some interesting procedural graphics. It's not much when you compare it to games like The Bard's Tale, Ultima IV, or King's Quest II. But it was enough, because programming was by itself an interesting puzzle to solve.

It's not the result that's interesting, it's the process of programming.
I use Scaleway to host a personal Nextcloud [1] instance. I haven't had any issues with them thus far and their instances are pretty darn cheap.

[1] https://nextcloud.com/about/
>linux problems on the desktop
>Linux is administered by ssh

Right... on desktops, Windows is far worse with updates as far as breaking things goes. We have to deactivate the internet on Windows 10 machines so the updates don't break everything.

Microsoft do not care about breaking stuff with their updates at all. Ubuntu is the stellar opposite.