skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is your computer on while you're not using it? Most people don't do that.
Leaving aside everything else, how is that even relevant? Even cheap laptops have 8gigs of ram these days, most have 16. Considering the browser is becoming the de-facto single application used at all for most people, what else would they need their ram for?
Paneer is also exact word for home made cheese in Punjabi language. Not a new one.
I will never understand people who are afraid of the unknown.
It's ok when more companies switch over to linux aswel you'll start to see ordinary users more accepting of ditching windows 10.. MS has turned windows into complete garbage.
Everything is great in this post except ksql license.
In my local Indian store it is in the same Aisle as Tea, Sugar, Salt, Cooking Oil.
I encountered so many people like you in the early to mid 2000s, IE6 or bust.

15 years later and we're stuck with old corporate sites that require IE6 and activex.
As other have said urgent care isn't everywhere and closes so it's not entirely by choice that people wind up in the emergency room for non emergency things. Beyond that it's hard to know sometimes what's emergency and what isn't until you have a doctor look at what's happening.
I like the piece of mind that when I send or receive 0.001 BTC, it's final.

You've been steering this towards your crypto=bad hobby horse. But if your point is that you wouldn't "bank your life" on something, we can agree. I wouldn't "bank my life" on anything, like hoping I catch a recurring payment on my debit statement that I 100% canceled.
You might be interested in Pilot Wave Theory. It tries to reconcile wave/particle duality by claiming there is a real physical particle at all times in an attempt to get around the strange idea of everything being a probablistic wavefunction (the Copenhagen interpretation).

It explains some things pretty intuitively (double slit experiment), but from what I can tell it becomes too convoluted for other things.

Mass can be related to energy with E=mc^2, and you can get some idea of its relation to wavelength and wave collisions.

I think a smallest wavelength is unlikely, because it would put an upper bound on energy. The only side-effect of increasing the energy density (ie a lot of energy in a small space, like a very low-wavelength photon) is the formation of a black hole. I think the question of whether photons (massless) can form them is one of those quantum-gravity issues that are awaiting a theory.
> partly, I think, because most people positioned to author a maths textbook want to use latex; and most people who are able to develop a web app aren't positioned to author a maths textbook

Luckily we have interactive notebooks (like Jupyter) and MathJax for LaTeX. You can have all the beauty of LaTeX typesetting in your browser and make it highly pedagogical with interactive computation.
Going by this logic, is there a limit to how extortionate drug pricing can get? After all, some fraction will go towards R&D!
From the WireGuard homepage:

> WireGuard is not yet complete. You should not rely on this code. It has not undergone proper degrees of security auditing and the protocol is still subject to change. We're working toward a stable 1.0 release, but that time has not yet come.

I agree that WireGuard will be great when it's done. Is there something I'm missing?
When societies began moving on, philosophically, from dogmatic religions and into the current era of empiricism, we lost the ability to put death in context. Empiricism tells us that when you die, there is nothing, and the objectively rational thing to do is whatever it takes to live as long as possible. Empirical thought patterns tend towards extremes. What society needs to do, and possibly is in the process of doing, is recognizing empiricism as an incomplete model of reality. Hopefully that will lead us back towards a healthier relationship with our mortality.
I haven't been in the developer industry for too long, but excepting the haskell community, I would say that the way CS tends to treat math is as guardrails, as in, "you can't do that because of the halting theorem". "you might be butting up against computational complexity if you try doing it this way". "reconstruction of this data shard is impossible because you don't have enough points to determine the equation".

In the FP communities, I do sometimes see people overoptimize for TCO. Your datastructure is never going to be more than 10-100 deep. Don't worry about it. Just write the most legible recursive algorithm, not the most performant.
It's probably for the best that they search for a new audience. Trying to appeal to an aging fan-base that will have less time for games is not a great financial decision.
Show HN: Package Diff: compare two versions of a published NPM package
Time to write one! They are fun little coding projects (I've written three, one in Lua, one in Python/Tkinter, and one in Golang). A lot of the people in the shell communities I am a part of (all of which offer Gopher hosting) roll their own. The protocol is just so simple and easy to work with. :)
Container tabs don't require new windows for that cookie/account separation.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/containers
So much in here, so many topics, so many interesting insights. This quote hit me the hardest:

"Where I grew up, no one would ever walk by a person collapsed on the side of the street on their way to work and not do something about it. I hope I never get used to the fact that that happens in San Francisco."

I have a lot of thoughts about attitudes and politics that bubble up as I think about that, but I think I'll just let it stand here in the comments. Read (or listen, I almost forgot that's an option here too) the whole interview, it's pretty thought provoking.
In terms of the way it works, cash is very much not the correct analogy, too.

Transaction wise, cash transactions happen both live and physically, meaning you have some means to make sure the counterparty honors their part of transaction. Electronic cash systems involve third party to coerce the counterparty or refund you. In Bitcoin world, apart from hopes and dreams and magical reputation, there is literally no way to stop the counterparty shoving you their Prodeum. Bitcoin removes the trusted third party of electronic cash, but fails to introduce physical measures of physical cash.

Bitcoin transactions are hardly even transactions, more like throwing money into numbered bin and hoping for the best. To be fair, the system has not gone down the drain once some form of market formed, so the hopes mostly did not backfire. The absence of full transactions in my opinion (I may be wrong, though) means Bitcoin IOUs cannot exist and with that whole financial products market, for better or worse.

Loss wise, cash is either in your posession or not and a lot of times can be recovered when lost. Stolen private keys can remain dormant for indefinite amount of time until they are actually used to move coins to a different address. With cash that one has in their immediate possession it would be immediately obvious if someone tries to take them away. If physical cash bills got sticky, you have taken an extra bill, dropped it on a counter and noticed your mistake, then you can still take back the extra bill. If you have transferred too much/many coins, then it's SFYL. Forgetting a wallet with physical cash somewhere can be SFYL, can still be recoverable if no one took possession of it. Losing access to private keys is permanent SFYL.
I will never understand anyone who would randomly pick a mushroom from the forest floor and start nibbling on it.
The reliability of sqlite3 is not in question, the reliability of the system running it is. When running in any of the cloud providers you will get systems that briefly lose network connection or just go away. Sometimes with notification, sometimes without. You will have down time if you don't plan for HA. So the question is whether it is worth the complexity trade off for that period of downtime or how many 9s do you need in your SLA.
Why is the hard disk drive C on Windows computers?
There's a platitude I've heard in social work circles, the Liberal's Lament: "Last guys don't finish nice." Those who are most in need of support seem to end up being the ones who apparently deserve it the least.

On the other hand, I've met a fair number of "successful" individuals from "better", more culturally matching backgrounds who have many, most, or all of the failings you mention. Frequently, they receive no significant downsides to their behavior apparently because they fit-in to the culture.

I suspect that merely perceiving those problems in some cases and not others is an example of the homophily they describe: "I think that a lot of people, on some level what they think they’re doing when they sponsor young co-workers is spotting talent—they called it “talent-mapping” in the accounting firm we studied. But a lot of people we talked to were also able to reflect and say, “Part of why I was excited about that person, probably, is because they reminded me of a younger version of myself.” The word we use in sociology is homophily—people like people who are like themselves."

On the other, other hand, it's possible those problems are effects rather than causes, effects of the higher level of stress that those who don't fit in naturally face. "For a lot of people from poor and working-class or lower-middle-class backgrounds, being in these environments felt like you had to put on a performance all day. They didn’t feel at home and comfortable in their work environment—even people who had been quite successful, who had gotten toward the top of their occupations." (Certainly, my "fuck it" threshold goes down when I'm having to deal with stress from other sides, unrelated to the problem at hand.)

If you put enough shoe-box-sized impediments in the way of the best hurdler, you can make them fall down.
I agree. News is supposed to be presented in an unbiased way, but virtually every source now heavily injects some spin with each article.

It's a shame, really. But I'm very glad Lara Logan is speaking out. It will cost her, but by raising awareness of the issue maybe things can start to improve.
I find this one to be more palatable, and it being powershell exposes the user to the actual commands that update and change the active hours:

https://github.com/Maimer/update-active-hours
I got bitten recently by haproxy using the '!' prefix on .gitignore lines to negate previous lines. This resulted in ag silently not searching any of the code base at all. So if you're implementing .gitignore support, you may want to consider at worst bailing on files with this syntax (and perhaps other syntax that is not supported)

ag bug: https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/1233
For sure and this is my point. Not that reducing pharmaceutical costs is bad, just that it isn't a free lunch.
Firefox is super slow compared to Chrome. Are you joking? Sure, chose free software, but don't make up lies like this.
If you're going to do the salt water test, only use a glass of water, not a bucket. It takes quite a bit of salt to make the density of the salt water higher than most dice.
Multicursor editing (https://www.jetbrains.com/help/rider/Multicursor.html) is something one usually doesn't find via menu items or stumble upon.
A brilliant quote from a Harvard Law School Negotiation Paper on the same topic:

"Instead, try to fgure out what pay category someone with your education and experience would receive, then build a case for a salary at the high end of that range. If an interviewer asks you to name your price, how should you respond? In their book 3-D Negotiation (Harvard Business School Press, 2006), Lax and James Sebenius recommend making a “non-ofer ofer,” or a statement that could anchor the discussion in your favor without seeming extreme. Suppose your research suggests that you would mostly likely fall into the $70,000 to $80,000 pay range, but the next-highest category seems within reach. Rather than saying, “I think I deserve $80,000,” consider saying, “Correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve heard that people like me typically earn $80,000 to $90,000.” Notice that this statement is not a demand. Yet due to the powerful impact of the $80,000-to-$90,000 “anchor”—a reference point that may or may not be relevant to the discussion—it could very well steer the numbers toward your upper goal"
Ruby is one of the languages on the roadmap, but it's not super high-priority right now, mostly because we haven't seen a lot of interest. If you have a specific project/use case in mind I'd be interested to hear more about it.
There is no excuse for being lazy. If people are dumb, let them pay for it.
Here's a simple version of a file find command utility, written in D, minimal features, may be useful for beginners to D:

Command line D utility - find files matching a pattern under a directory:

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/2016/10/command-line-d-utility-f...

The D stdlib's dirEntries() function makes the job easy, for a basic one like this.
The unknown is the source of everything good and bad, useful and useless. It evokes fear and hope.
This was the reason I was given from a dev on the edge team. Do with that what you will.
>The word 'embedded' is not well defined, but if you use it on things with 1GB of RAM, what do you call a PIC with 1K?

_very_ embedded
At the risk of winding up on someone's enemies list here, let me make a suggestion: "keeping track of astroturfers" is the last thing you want to do.

Trolls, shills, false flaggers, etc. are a problem in just about any online forum. But they don't win by posting. They win by convincing you to look at a thread with suspicion and assume malice, by encouraging an atmosphere of paranoia that has a chilling effect on discourse, and by leading you away from honest discussion with fruitless tangential arguments that poison the well and get threads flagged.

The site guidelines already provide what I think is a decent strategy. Assume good faith on the part of a commenter, and respond to the strongest possible interpretation of their argument (steelman, don't strawman.) If after a response or two, it seems like someone isn't arguing in good faith... then just ignore them. Fold the thread and move on with life. If they're being uncivil or outright malicious, flag them.
I really liked the juxtaposition of the "Technology is Incredible" guy from Pallet Town in the original Red/Blue/Green versus Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu.

The side games are where all the cutting-edge development happens. Someone comes up with an idea, and builds a prototype. If it works well, it gets integrated into the main-line games.

Pokemon Snap tested, "can we render a pokemon in 3D". Pokemon Stadium I and II tested "can we do a 3D battle system". Eventually these made their way into the 3DS titles. More recently, the catching mechanics in Niantic's Pokemon Go made their way into the main-line Let's Go Eevee/Pikachu.
Me too. Listened to a podcast recently where they were talking about things like, "once you know what a monoid is, you start seeing them everywhere". I've tried to express these benefits to coworkers recently. Leveraging ideas from math allows you to take advantage of many decades of research and provides a structural foundation that's substantially more robust than things you might find in the gang of four book or other "design pattern" resources. I think there's still a lot of opportunity to bring these ideas to the masses in the way that Evan Czaplicki
, the author of Elm, is trying to do. The challenge in doing so seems to be finding the right level of abstraction to expose people to with the goal of maximizing benefit while simultaneously minimizing the prerequisite knowledge you're requiring folks to take on to participate.
300$ seems to be a magic threshold for the Tesla stock price. I have been watching this for a while and each time there are any major news the price rises or falls it will eventually go back slightly above 300$. Really interesting.
Also, related, a bunch of D command-line utilities, again may be good for beginners to learn a bit from:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18338952
I believe that the use of nuclear weapons in the current battles would be tactical and for demonstration purposes. It makes more sense not to immediately nuke the opponents big city.
There are always risks with shared harware, known and unknown veunerabilities in the hypervisor or hardware. All the recent intel stuff, row hammer, etc.

The interesting question comes when people start implementing hardware hypervisors and what is the risk profile there.

Security, at the end of the day, isn't about what is secure and what isn't. If you want to be secure, don't get on the internet. Everything else is a exercise in risk tradeoffs and mitigation.

If I was doing anything with PII, cc#'s or any other data I never want to touch I wouldn't use shared hardware without hard thought on it.
Hmm? My queues and stacks are >100 deep.

My graph traversals are >100 deep.

My recursive calculations are >100deep

Dynamic programming wouldn't be relevant if non-tail recursion was always good enough in practice.
Harvey Dent said it best "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"
Thanks for the reply. I always anticipated Rust being a good fit for a daemon like tool. Not having to install a separate runtime and have things statically linked is a nice benefit. I know it's not the only language that is capable of this but being able to leverage the other bits of Rust helps with productivity as well.
Harvey Dent put it best- "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"
the problem is not the update per se. it is the content. Which completely surprises you after the reboot!

Windows always peak at some new version and then goes downhill when changes are introduced for no good reason. 95/98, then 98+IE6 all over the place (even the desktop wallpaper!). XP, then vista. 8.1, then 10...

Now, after windows 10, the downgrades are incremental!

For example, surface tablet without a keyboard. When you wake the device the touchpad keyboard was always there. After some update, you have to touch the PIN input box to get a keyboard. And sometimes it doesn't show up. You have to lock and unlock the screen and then touch the pin input again. And that is just a very minimal example. Another example is that the first updates completely removed the windows 8.1 window theme, which was perfect for touch based systems. Another one i recall, an update removed the landscape/portrait toggle button and replaced it with a "lock screen rotation" one, that doesn't work in all orientations!
"practical" is highly debated.
> they should be held with a trustworthy entity that can properly secure them, like a bank

No such entity exists.
> I was referring to the Accreditation Council for Graudate Medical Examination being staffed by doctors

They aren't anything like a union and don't control funding for residency slots, so if that's what you were referring to, it doesn't justify your claim.

> You don't need to be at least 30, but since most new doctors are that old, I assume there's a reason that's stopping them from becoming doctors earlier

Most choose separate undergrad and medical programs (not B.S./M.D. programs), and on average are entering those programs later than four years after a high-school graduation at 18 — mean age for starting med school is 24. [0]

But, in any case, you've now shifted to a claim about averages from one about minimuns, and the bulk of the issue you are pointing to occurs before entering medical school, so the fixes would need to be in secondary and undergraduate education; people starting medical education at 24 aren't going to be doctors at 24 (the ideal you contrastes the US to) unless you give them a medical license just for signing up, which is probably not a beneficial reform.

[0] https://www.usnews.com/education/blogs/medical-school-admiss...
A Yukaghir girl writes a love letter
It's not just the billing that sucks. It's also the care, or lack thereof, in the health care system.

I remember taking my friend to a Dr. visit when he had a brain tumor. The parking was confusing, with signs threatening fines of hundreds of dollars for parking anywhere near the building(this was at UCSD in La Jolla). This was at a cancer center, where you'd expect they'd prioritize access for patients. He went in for an eye exam, and the doctor was getting extremely agitated because my friend had problems communicating and performing a few tasks as quickly as the doctor wanted. Very few people in the hospitals seemed equipped to handle someone who had problems seeing, walking and communicating.
Wait until it annoys your wife. Instant atmosphere.
The cans are almost never reused, instead they're recycled as the metal is too expensive to throw away and easier to render clean than almost every plastic.

It requires a lot of energy though to clean and melt. This recycling aluminum is not exactly green.
I used this for a simple implementation of Conway's Game of Life: https://turdnagel.com/cells/
At one point Firefox's growth stopped or slowed considerably. Without Chrome I doubt many would've migrated away from Internet Explorer.
I'm pretty cynical about the "Chrome Experiments" project. Google never explicitly claimed that only Chrome can run those Experiments properly, but that was the clear implication.
Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans
They already did upgrade SuperSpeed. Twice.

> USB-IF’s recommended nomenclature for consumers is “SuperSpeed USB” for 5Gbps products, “SuperSpeed USB 10Gbps” for 10Gbps products and “SuperSpeed USB 20Gbps” for 20Gbps products
I'm strangely reminded of the British intelligence services in the '30s, '40s, and '50s: they explicitly chose people who came from the "right" backgrounds and ended up with people like Kim Philby (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Philby).
TinkerPop is a graph database. This is an infrastructure testing system. The likelihood of confusion between those two use cases is comparable to the likelihood of confusion with a movie or a car. You have a trademark, that's awesome. Even McDonalds trademark, which is one of the broadest, is scoped.
Will this solve the problem of my linter running Babel and its hundred plugins completely destroying my CPU just so I can get access to spreads?
Win 10 Pro -> Start -> Search -> "firewall" -> "allow an app through Windows Firewall" -> "Change settings" -> uncheck apps and features to disallow access to internet.

I turn nearly everything off. ... Check again and find various apps are allowed. (especially after a Windows Update, but seeming at random as well) WTF.

This is bad security.

In the past week the following apps became re-enabled in Windows Defender Firewall: "Xbox Game bar", "Windows Maps", "Windows Calculator", "Movies & TV", "MSN Weather", "Microsoft People", "Groove Music".
> how bad the search is for launching apps (I know some people are going to chime in and say search is fine, but if you have a lot of apps installed, it can be laughably bad)

I think the variation in experiences is the variation of people with Cortana on. With Cortana on, I've never had a bad experience with app search in Windows 10. Using machines (such as work laptop) with Cortana off there are some very weird moments where search just stalls out that it shouldn't.

I think there are two trends that should help:

1) In Insider builds for the upcoming 19H1 release (round about March) they split app/local-machine search from Cortana UX again, and it's getting a lot more standalone testing because of that. (Pushing Cortana back more to the core voice search / assistant focus.)

2) Microsoft is in the early stages of the process of a big Bing "Enterprise" / "Cortana for Business" push. That may also help reduce some of the search differences between consumer uses of Windows and enterprise uses of Windows.
That's very cool!

It looks like that API doesn't exist on macOS, though... :-(