skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a stack of X220s and parts which should last me the rest of my career, or at least until someone makes another laptop with an actual keyboard and a non crippled CPU.

Main thing that worries me is the bios, but coreboot seems to work.

It's funny the one I bought new direct from Lenovo in 2011 is still fine, but I was able to upgrade doubling the core count and getting USB3 by assembling out of I7 parts.
If your company doesn't hire more than 50% of all developers in the world at random, then this is probably true.
What happens if say EU were to pass a law that no data stored in EU data centered be shared with non-EU countries ? In such case no company can obey both laws. How will this be handled ?
Actually, it unfortunately doesn't work if the drift gets worse over time -- so far, it only works with constant drift. Maybe fixing constant 1st derivative drift is the next step!
That's actually not obviously safe at all, you are now basing your recent stands if behavior that in your own estimation is not desired. This creates a really weird incentive structure for legislators and regulators alike.
My earnings are my business, not yours. My neighbors don’t need to know either.
Another, probably slightly more relevant, reason is that the average income in Berlin is significantly lower than other major German cities.
Do you honestly believe that hogs are destroying the environment of Texas?

If so, then I guess we have different definitions of “destroying the environment.” Some damaged farmland, a few possible fishkills, and some erosion are blips on the radar compared to the damage done by industrial farming, suburban sprawl, oil companies, etc.

I guess it is nice to have a scapegoat though — or in this case a scape-hog.
> This fundamentally cannot exist. Any "universal" system would drift for observers on different planets.

I hear this argument a lot for why we cannot have a universal time standard but it's a weird cyclic argument because it suggests the measurement of time has to be constant while acknowledging that time is relative. So why can't we have a measurement that is also relative?

For example it could be n "ticks" where mass and speed is at a predefined value and allow for decimal points to account for people travelling faster (for example). This means people's life expectancy (for example) could not be measured in "ticks" because "ticks" is used for time synchronisation rather than measuring the passage of time and those who are only interested in the passage of time can use local time zones just like we do now with UTC for keeping equipment synchronised but local time zones for scheduling our human lives.
Seriously? Do you know what the earth has seen? How climate has been in the past? What we have survived? We are here because we are the culmination of an unbroken line of winners. But it seems your line is about to end because you seem to see it so much better than all your predecessors. This truly is the end time, wat a coincidence you will live to see it.
Plato History: Remembering the Future
This seems right. Apart from store PoS systems I haven't seen a tablet in years and my desktop is 5 years old without any signs of needing replacement. I think it might last another 5 years.
I had never used SD cards as much as I have used them since working with RPis, at the same time I have never felt less sure about their reliability. I don't think I feel comfortable using them as a secondary storage in my laptop. Does anyone else share this reliability concern?
2010 thinkpad t410s, alas the screen hinges have broken so I don't take it on the road as much as I'd like.

Works fine with ubuntu 1604
Not really surprising. Hard to imagine a more cut and dried way he could've violated his settlement than lying about production rates.

At least this time he tweeted outside of market hours.
Sort of ironically given the linked article's subject, Starbucks used to take music very seriously, to the point of selling CDs in store, setting up CD burning kiosks, and even running their own record label in partnership with jazz/folk label Concord. (There were even standalone Hear Music stores for a few brief years.)

https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2015/02/st...
fine, or don't!
> Oat milk is really yet another industrial corn product. The caloric content isn't cloudy stuff squeezed into water, it's fructose from corn.

This is just factually untrue. Here's the ingredients for the most popular oat milk brands, found from a Google search:

1. Oatly: Oat base (water, oats 10%), rapeseed oil, calcium carbonate, calcium phosphates, iodised salt, vitamins (D2, riboflavin and B12).

2. Califia: Oatmilk (Water, Oats), Sunflower Oil, Minerals (Dipotassium Phosphate, Calcium Carbonate, Tricalcium Phosphate), Sea Salt

3. Pacific Foods: WATER, OATS, OAT BRAN, CONTAINS 1% OR LESS OF: GELLAN GUM, SEA SALT, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, VITAMIN D2. *ORGANIC

4. Silk Oat Yeah: Oatmilk (Filtered Water, Oat Extract), 2% or less of: Sunflower Oil, Vitamin and Mineral Blend (Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B12), Malt Extract, Dipotassium Phosphate, Gellan Gum, Sea Salt, Sunflower Lecithin, Locust Bean Gum, Ascorbic Acid (to protect freshness).

None of these have corn syrup or added fructose.
My main concern is that spoon theory might help to create and reinforce self-limiting beliefs. Most people are stronger and more resilient than they think, even if they have a chronic illness or a disability. We all have limits, but it's dangerous to think about those limits as hard and fixed.

I'm reminded of Ludwig Guttmann, who founded the Paralympic Games and revolutionised the care of people with spinal cord injuries. Prior to Guttmann, the received wisdom was that paraplegics would inevitably die within a few years from a variety of complications; the standard treatment was simply palliative. Guttmann realised that paraplegics could live long, active and meaningful lives with the right programme of physical and psychological rehabilitation. His approach was tough bordering on brutal, but it saved and transformed thousands of lives.

I worry that spoon theory nudges us back towards old attitudes to chronic illness and disability that define people in terms of their limits rather than their abilities. We can't pretend that everyone has the same opportunities and capabilities, but it doesn't help anyone to think of ability as a finite resource that is continually depleted. We all have the opportunity to develop and grow.
Do you know of the latest ARB version ever released? When did Arthur die? I had no idea that he did :( The last ARB version that I saw was 7.60 but it did not have PETSCII Color Graphics yet at that version.
All commands (implemented in the TCODE?.ASM files) call PARSE_FILE_DESCRIPTOR (defined in MISC.ASM) which just calls MakeFcb (defined in FCB.ASM) that does the star parsing. See lines 127-133, CX contains the remainder of characters not parsed, if it is star the rest of the characters are replaced with ?s, so a FOO<star>.E<star> (...HN eats the stars) would become FOO?????.E?? (the subroutine MUSTGETWORD "under" MakeFcb does the actual replacing for each part, once for the filename and once for the extension - see the calls to it and how the CX is set up for the lengths).

MS-DOS 1.25 does pattern matching mostly the same way [0]. The code is a bit simpler as it doesn't have the crazy macro stuff that MS-DOS 2.0 code has, but if you look a bit around the files, you'll see that it is mostly the same code just moved around and split in several files. The file scan works again in almost the same way, reading each directory entry one by one and doing the pattern matching after the fact.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS/blob/master/v1.25/source...
Sugar was ubiquitous in the middle ages ! I think not
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.

And the GDPR.

And the proposals to force payment service providers to report or even automatically collect and remit taxes that the EU decides are due.

I'm not fan of the US government's invasions of privacy, but it is the height of hypocrisy for the EU in 2019 to complain about a foreign government attempting to enforce its laws extra-territorially.
Sapolsky - Biology of Human Behavior 25 lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNnIGh9g6fA&list=PL848F2368C...

It's accessible to laymen, no prior knowledge needed. It covers so many different fields and levels of knowledge ("buckets" Sapolsky calls them), different ways of explaining human behaviour. By the signals in their brain, or the hormones in their blood, or what happened that day, or their childhood, or their genes, or evolution of humans etc. Also looks at other animals. A lot of touching/funny/inspiring/poignant stories about scientists in the field(s). Sapolsky is an amazing lecturer/raconteur.

Hamming - Learning to Learn 32 lectures https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AD4b-52jtos&list=PL2FF649D0C...

The famous "You and your research" is one lecture in this, but every one of them is fascinating. History of computers, AI, codes, n-space, digital filters etc etc. Mainly it's great seeing how his mind works, his thinking style. (I've since read a few of his books, and I love how they're soaked with practical experience, in the same way these talks are. It's all stuff he's lived.)
You don't need an astronomically old civilization for it to have galaxy-wide impact. Already a "few" million years should be enough to colonize a dead-except-for-you galaxy.
Well, yeah. Why should all the money Facebook makes from slipping ads into every conversation they can only go to SF techies? These people are doing a pretty important job for Facebook and yet they're getting paid close to minimum wage, with a highly Taylorist environment that barely gives them time to go pee, let alone to take a break and calm down after seeing something really horrible.
Yes, the second link is essentially what "FindFirst" calls. A few lines below is the meat for "FindNext".
Dear god. Listening to that first link all the way through was a poor decision. It won't go away!

How do marketers come up with such reliably earwormy stuff? Are there papers I can go read about this?
I totally agree. I tend to phrase it a bit differently: "If you need to know how long it will take before deciding if it is important enough, then it is likely not important enough."

Another kind of corollary: "If the business will go under if we don't get this done by X, then we probably need a new business plan, not faster development".

These are rules of thumb and there are definite places where they don't hold, but I've found it genuinely useful to consider when the inevitable tough questions start to get asked.
Last time I looked, the hardware mitigations were almost exactly as expensive as the software ones.
Absolutely. I avoid places that are dead silent because I don't really want some random employee listening to everything I say.
So instead of a database with 100k direct connections you have some intermediate service with 100k direct connections.

Why can't it just be built into the database so you don't have another layer to deploy and manage ?
Ideas are fine, but action is important.

Some kind of tool to surface the most pressing problems, list the current best solutions, then allow users to enlist in implementing the solutions in their life and tracking them with friends might make an impact.

That could be an open source platform, with volunteer coders, curators, and donators for server and other costs.
The Auto Show of the Future Is Already Here
> You can even take it a step further and use an older browser that doesn't support the modern features you're complaining about.

> HTML3 still works great in modern browsers, but the people making the sites want to use modern features.

I'm not disagreeing with your point, but I disagree with words like "modern" and "older".

The most "modern" browser that I'm aware of (not counting the myriad Webkit/Gecko skins) is EWW, which was first released in 2013. It's now a built-in feature of Emacs, a reasonably widely used piece of software. I think this fits the parent's desire for a readable hypertext renderer.

In contrast, Google Chrome dates from 2008. If we include that in our definition of "modern" then I think we should include Netsurf (first stable release in 2007), which is a full graphical browser but might still be acceptable to the parent. If we call Firefox "modern" then I'd say it includes everything back to Netscape Navigator.

If we're instead talking about maintained and up-to-date browsers then w3m, Links and lynx have all had releases in 2019. Again, those are readable hypertext systems like the parent describes.

We might consider "modern" to mean implementing certain Web standards; yet that seems precisely against the nature of this discussion. Plus, many of those described above have support for e.g. HTML5, certain ECMAScript standards, etc.

In contrast, "older" browsers would presumably include bloat like Internet Explorer's support for ActiveX and VBScript; and the IRC client + WYSIWYG editor + mail reader + news reader from Netscape/Mozilla/SeaMonkey. Precisely against what the parent asked for.
That's in Switzerland.

Switzerland is not exactly a standard part of Europe: it's not in the EU, it's much more capitalist than the rest of Europe and certainly not a country that's following the current downward socialist path to Venezuela-style hell many other European countries are on.

If anything Switzerland is closer in spirit to the US than most other European countries.
Engineers create prototype computer-on-a-chip
That maybe a typical way for PostgreSQL but many other databases don't need a connection pooler.
Google researchers say software alone can’t mitigate Spectre chip flaws
> The plant milk phenomenon is all about allowing massive agribusiness to take over a big product category that has remained regional.

You don't need plant milk for that. For proof just see Fairlife, the Coca-Cola Company's attempt to turn milk into a branded good.
I have a ticket open with them for a couple of weeks now due to them not supporting MFA with my bank. My bank requires the token code after the password and TurboTax tries to replay the password and token code twice. I feel like a financial institution shouldn’t be tripped up by enterprise secretary that they assuredly have in house too.
DVD Screensaver
While I do agree that land is different, sometimes I think the problem is that people see it as such. When housing markets rise people get rich, just like they do with e.g. stocks. The lack of affordability is a factor of inequality, and especially inequality in opportunities. That is why moving to a smaller cities isn't a solution for most people, because the problem is with opportunities which are appearing in cities and disappearing most everywhere else.
> The Starbucks I frequent often (a kiosk at Glasgow (Scotland) Central Train Station) seem to have their own music on their phones or something.

In the United States, a venue can be fined for playing music without a license. An acquaintance of mine has a restaurant and was sued for playing music that was unlicensed.
Most people who work in well funded ML labs in the industry have phds.
Speed relative to what?
So you didn't understand what I said? CSP is not unsafe. What is your point of quoting if you don't even understand what I said?
Moronic politicians way out of their depth. I would love to see Silicon Valley shut its shop in California and move to Nevada/Texas etc.

These moochers and sucked enough blood from Tech companies and deserve to be left with the cart dragging hobos with perfect income equality.
This sounds really interesting. What does the “solve” stage look like for various issues?
You need heredity, differential reproduction and selection. We really just need to start with a single case of a self-replicating system. Hard yes, but with countless trials running in parallel for millions of years it seems intuitively possible
That's the behavior of an enlightened psychopath who has realized how useful good will is. Facebook-the-company is an unenlightened psychopath who just wants money and power and doesn't care what anyone thinks about it.
Assessing Google Translate for Medical Translations
Pulsar seemed like a good idea but seems it has some difficulties.

Due to their small size, pulsars are relatively weak radio sources. Therefore, the largest radio telescopes in the world are usually needed to observe them. As we have seen, pulsars emit their largest intensity at low radio frequencies around 400 MHz. In particular at such frequencies, however, the pulses suffer from propagation effects when they travel to Earth through the interstellar medium. [0]

[0http://www.jb.man.ac.uk/distance/frontiers/pulsars/section4....
>> Silicon is inferior to chemical energy.

I assume if I power the silicon with batteries it's going to stop being inferior?
In practice, the syncing was never reliable enough for most users

I wonder if that's why iDisk went away. Wasn't it based on WebDAV?
Streaming bitrates are absolutely horrible. Many times streaming movies look like they were painted with big glops of finger-paint instead of a high quality picture.
> Recent-ish (10.7 and later) versions

10.7 (Lion) came out nearly 8 years ago. That's the sort of difference in time between windows 3.1 and windows XP
The only ones hurt here are Australians who wants to get books printed in China. I didn't say censorship was not hurting anyone.
I'm not familiar with Tara Brach, but I don't think your comparison is doing her much good.
Can I ask the pub to stop giving me hearing damage?
I have a Moto G4 with no protection. I've dropped it a few times on broken/jagged concrete over the past year. I've also fallen sleep on a chair, dropped it and kicked it on waking up. It slid across the tiled floor screen-down until it got wedged under a door. It's got a few scratches on the screen, but you can't see them while it's on. The only minor annoyance is feeling a scratch as my nail slides over the screen, but that's about it.

Well, also a piece of the volume buttons (which is plastic) broke an fell off, but it's such a small piece, it doesn't really affect its use.

Important to note is that the G4 uses Gorilla Glass for its screen, so that's really why I dared to put no protection.

It may also be that part of the reason it's held up so well is that I've many times been able to break its fall with my foot.

It's been very comfortable, and has held far better than I expected considering all the abuse I given it. I have no regrets.
Not all that related, but we found an exploit in Blackboard (the "virtual learning platform") by smuggling null bytes (0x00) via. their WebDAV protocol.

This made it possible to hijack other accounts, including our professors'. So we hacked our own grades and then reported it.

Blog post here: https://bustbyte.no/blog/how-we-hacked-blackboard-and-change...
My wife managed a department at a craft store and one day their sound system broke. She said that was worse than the repetitive music. Retail spaces are not designed for good acoustics and that music really drowns out a lot of even more nuisance sounds.
You are just confusing your primary/secondary role categories with their first/second car purchase categories. As you even said yourself, the first car for a household usually addresses all needs, not just primary needs.
I'm still waiting for the day there is an automatic synchronizer for the video and audio tracks in VLC. It's so frustrating trying to find the right offset when they get out of sync.
> "Why do you think some folk are drawn to habitually view such content?"

It's paradoxically unusual but at the same time incredibly relatable. Everybody dies, so there will be broad spectrum curiosity for the subject, inhibited only by natural squeamishness.

Years ago when highschools still had shop classes, the teacher showed my class a binder full of color photographs of what a lathe accident looks like. The lesson was that lathes aren't toys. I'd never seen anything like those pictures before. They were disgusting, and fascinating. Probably psychologically damaging, but not as damaging as getting caught in a lathe. Did I mention the pictures were fascinating? For most people, seeing that sort of thing is rare. Some people are drawn to novelty, particularly when they can relate to it. Very little in life is as relatable as death; death is even more universally relatable than eating.

Is the suppression of squeamishness a form of mental illness, or a form of psychological damage? I think it definitely can be. But I'm far from convinced it necessarily is.
https://www.imrbatteries.com/sanyo-ncr18650ga-3500mah-10a-fl...

note these are really not the best cells for general use, they're the best for UAV applications where Wh/kg is really important. These have a rather limited cycle life compared to lower capacity batteries in the 3000mAh range, which are rated at 5A to 8A discharge, that will not suffer as much amp-hour-capacity degradation after 400-500 cycles.
The authors indicate the blueprints were already present but the multicellular expression stopped being optional in their evolved population:

The ability of wild-type C. reinhardtii to form palmelloids suggests that the founding population in our experiment already possessed a toolkit for producing multicellular structures. However, while the palmelloid condition is expressed facultatively in wild-type C. reinhardtii, the strains that evolved in our experiment are obligately multicellular.

Maybe I'm not familiar with how this term is used in biology but given the above it seems the "de novo" claim in the paper title is a little sensationalist.
If the universe exists for eternity, and in approximately the same form, then even very small odds may approach near certainty.
During a week in 2013 I setup http://sabre.io/ to work with storage backed by S3, I think it was about 40 lines of PHP to add user authentication and the S3 storage plugin. It's so seductive since every file manager on every main GUI OS has some support for WebDAV, and you'd think "what could go wrong?" with just file I/O over HTTP... Some months later I even tried setting something up for my old high school teacher for his CS students to copy files over and receive results back, alas the district network policies got in the way and I'm not sure if it was ever resolved.
I've recently came across oatpp c++ web framework https://oatpp.io/.
It has nice code-gen features for endpoint parameters mapping, and http client. As well as swagger-ui integration.
Tried to play with example projects looks nifty.
A rail system in the U.S. has to compete with a very robust airport system and a very robust interstate system. You can argue what you will about whether Americans should drive as much as they do, but the old saying about bringing a horse to water applies here. If SF <-> LA flights are $100-$200 round trip at 1.5 hours (+ 1-2 hours at the airport). It's a 8 hour bus ride for like $30-50. A train that was gonna take 5+ hours has to compete for the middle market.
I still have a reaction to the Proclaimers 500 Miles, because my boss at my bookstore job played that virtually every shift. Or Garth Brooks. I go to the bathroom or excuse myself from the room when either comes on.
> doing a calendar look-up for the time on Mars isn't as neat

This is actually not that a big deal, in many countries, like Afghanistan and Iran, people observe 3 different calendars for different purposes and they all drift from each other! That is, 1st Jan (Georgian) is not always 24th Jaddi/Dey (Afghan/Iranian - Solar) nor 7th of 7th Jumada i-ula (Lunar/Islamic)..

So people use calendars that look like this for each day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumi_calendar#/media/File:1911...