skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, we have Bitcoin Cash and Ethereum and a thousand other coins that work just fine.
Excellent news I need a desalinator for my boat and this should bring down there ridiculess costs, can't wait to see the production model.
This will revolutionize fresh water production for many dry third world countries and make a lot of revenue for Britain
Not vaccinating your children isn't selfish, it's the opposite because they are at greater risk of contracting disease.
At first, I thought this was the neighborhood near me with cobblestone streets and small houses near me. Glad to see it’s not and that lovely neighborhood is still unknown and unspoilt.

Won’t list it here, it’s in the 19th. ;-)
Yup, I agree, and that's a smart move by these international cos.

The average Indian street food in Mumbai for 1 person is half a dollar.
>The UK's NHS seems to be a better system to compare to ;-) I lived there for 2 years and was really surprised at what the NHS covers.

The caveat is all of the stuff that the NHS won't cover. The service is largely free at the point of use, but there has always been some element of rationing which has drastically increased in recent years due to Conservative government cuts.

Mental health gets the short end of the stick in this respect - it represents 23% of the disease burden but only 13% of NHS spending. Most patients with a mental health condition will never see a psychiatrist and receive no more than six half-hour sessions of psychotherapy. If esketamine does prove to be effective, the NHS is exceedingly unlikely to offer it to more than a handful of patients until the patent expires.

https://www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/resource/rationing-in-the-n...
Blaming a website (I don't use Instagram and I am not a fan of it) for people's generally shitty behavior is stretching it, don't you think? It is absolutely possible to travel respectfully (one can't avoid the plane ride, other than that, sure) - respecting the local people, landmarks, wildlife etc. But many travelers lack this basic decency and common sense - even if Instagram died today, these people would continue to behave the same.
Well, if you don't like dogs or other pets make your choice - go to another pet unfriendly office. Just like with allergy, if you're allergic to peanuts - stay away from them. Of course it will limit your choices and it will be hard to avoid cross-contaminations in public food chains. And it will also hurt your sense of justice - your zone of comfort will be much smaller comparing to others, that's unjust, isn't it? But that's life.
Sealed up for 50 years after it was discovered is one of the greatest gifts to modern archeology ever. I can't fathom the loss of truly insightful historical knowledge that would have been lost if it was tampered with 50 years ago. What a hero to the future of humanity in understanding our past.
I read a really good blog the other day which I can't find any more. Its gist was that society, but particularly schools, are a lot less tolerant of 'quirks' than they used to be.

Nowadays if a child is fidgety and energetic people (teachers, psychiatrists etc) want to get them tested for ADHD and put them on ritalin to fix the 'problem', whereas previously we'd just view it as a quirk and make sure that kid had some time to tire themselves out.

I'm not sure why we're less tolerant now, my guess is an overworked education system and teachers (in the UK anyway). It's harder to just ignore quirks when you've massive class sizes.
VSCode version 1.31 in January 2019 included a security update to address this issue.

The following is a more direct link with pertinent info: https://portal.msrc.microsoft.com/en-US/security-guidance/ad...

The heart of it is: "To exploit this vulnerability, an attacker would need to convince a target to clone a repository and open it in Visual Studio Code. Attacker-specified code would execute when the target opened the integrated terminal."
If only they hadn't tried to cut it down to 16 bits near the start, we could have avoided a lot of the partial support that emojis expose.
You don't know what you are talking about. You may get "whacked" for different reasons by the mafia, not owning them any money or having anything to do with them. It's not really a profit only oriented business. Money is just part of the game. Some people do things just because they can, not for financial gain.
Wouldn't sealing it up another 50 years even better? We don't know which much better technologies we have in 50 years
>This policy of allowing dog is pushed by a majority that cannot understand that some of us simply don't like dogs at all.

Should we also ban roses, because some people don't like them? How about no meat at the workplace because it could bother vegans?

There has to be some kind of compromise by everyone if people want to share a place. Be it accepting that some people love dogs, hate roses,....

At the end, if the majority likes something, you are on the losing end in a shared environment at least (as bad as that sounds). One could also argue it is rather selfish that you want a shared environment to suit your needs only.

If something bothers you that much then you have to somehow find a compromise. Maybe you can sit away from the dog owner coworkers or something or create "dog areas" and "no-dog areas." (Another compromise, like I mentioned).
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I have a few friends interested in learning web development to solve some need for their respective business or academic pursuits. They are both late 20s or early 30s, non-technical but smart and competent within their domains.

I'm technical but on the DevOps side of things, and they've asked me for advice on where to start. I built a few landing pages for side projects recently, but overall my knowledge of current frontend/web stacks is pretty limited.

For the web developers here, where would you recommend someone start if they want to learn the basics of a modern web stack? If you learned web development recently, did you find a particular course especially helpful?
This is outstanding -- although in lieu of Yet Another New Programming Language (YANPL), I would suggest simply having developers learn the concepts and apply them no matter what environment they're in. This should be part of any developer's education.

I have some good friends, smart people who know a lot more about good programming than I ever will, who keep saying things like "OO and FP are just different flavors. It's all the same"

That's both true and dangerously incomplete. Pure FP takes you places like this essay. Yeah you can make all of this happen in OO, but it sucks. And if you want to code at scale you gotta know exactly how much it sucks and what to do about it.

ADD: My biggest critique of this essay is that the people who need to understand it most will be put off by the terminology. I have no way to fix that, but it still sucks.
For example multiple values for the same keyword argument are not allowed in funcall so you can't "update" default arguments with a dict of arguments that need to be changed.
before i found karabiner so long ago i was considering returning my macbookpro coz the switch was driving my productivity down(i would mentally go "fuck macOS" everytime i tried to copy something)
posted this already yesterday, identical URL and title. I don't understand why my submission got demoted and this one is at the front https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19309329
I agree that a "voting" mechanism sounds all wrong, not only for the reason you said.

In the scenario described, where we have some neurons coming ultimately from the hand and sense of touch, and others coming ultimately from the eye and sense of vision, and they disagree about what they're perceiving, they're not voting! First of all, it might be better described as a "negotiation", and in fairness I think their theory does envisage this (but they do use the term "vote", albeit in scare quotes).

Second, what this theory misses (as does a lot of recent work which takes neural networks as a jumping-off point) is the transition from sensory/sub-cognitive processing up to conscious/cognitive processing. If my hand feels a cat and my eye sees a coffee cup, then I'll consciously notice the contradiction and gather more evidence.
This is sad and funny, do you have a source for it by the way?
In Spain, and I prefer having the light in the evening and I kind of appreciate the fact we are in the "wrong" timezone.
i like barcelona. it's no Tokyo or Hawaii, but it's nice. unfortunately it's quite backwards in a lot of things.

as an outsider that wanted to spend money over there (even tried buying a house) i found a number of things that felt extremely regressive. there's no Uber, but dirty old corrupt taxis are allowed. old shops selling trinkets that are waiting to be put out to pasture at most corners. fines against airbnb. and very rude locals that refuse to speak in english.

barcelona was once a nice city to visit. but no-one knew how to handle being a famous city. other places knew what to do. barcelona didn't. so today you've got locals harassing the very people that bring value to the city. all cheered by populist and anti-capitalist politicians.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jun/25/tourists-go-h...
'Tourists go home, refugees welcome'

sums it up.

edit: haven't visited Barcelona for the past 4 years. I will visit again, once the locals change their attitude. until then there are infinitely better places to visit.
In fact, sound waves literally means moving matter! Transporting mass along the wave propagation is a whole different thing. It depends on the matter that is moving/vibrating. While the propagation of kinetic energy through a medium cannot have mass, the mean mass transport through a closed surface should equal zero. However, if they've discovered that it, in fact, isn't - then it's a big deal.
Mostly scholars. But even if nobody at all would be using it currently, the explicit goal of Unicode is to support all scripts. Unicode is meant to make all other text encodings obsolete so the world never has to think about text encodings again (which mostly worked so far). That goal can only be reached/maintained if every script anyone might plausibly want to use is contained in Unicode.
With billions at stake it’s pretty much guaranteed.

Like the old saying goes when you extort someone make sure it won’t be cheaper to kill you than to pay you.

I think what is amazing is that people show up to fight at all, I don’t think most people can comprehend just how much power a billion dollars can buy you not to mention a multiple of that.
I think the exact changes that he (or his agents) made are kind of immaterial - ultimately, it seems, he tried to implement too large a change too suddenly, and it failed.

There's a lesson in Akhenaten's history for many areas of many sectors - not least the tech sector.
Because, even to take the simplest case of just considering workplaces and schools, unless all workplaces and all schools shift their hours by the same amount on the same day--along with all the transportation systems associated with them--they'll be out of sync when some change and some don't. And, even if you assume that such perfect synchronization is possible and perfectly communicated (by everyone having different summer and non-summer hours), why not just make the change centrally instead?
Timing and luck. It is more important though that a good link eventually gets the exposure it deserves.
What about energy savings ? (genuinely curious)
You can sandbox things without locking down the entire device. These devices all have an MMU, after all.

Android doesn't even try.
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Maybe not wired differently. It could be that they've gained knowledge and experience that makes this seem normal/safe.
Hmm, they did include that block for encoding arbitrary bitmap images. (U+2800)
Maya mia!
Made me think. I know that against my conscious stated desires I am far too aware of race to say I am indifferent to race which makes it very hard to believe I am completely un-racist. Seems analogous to the specific case here.
I have the downloaded files if you want to reach me at my email address in my profile, I can upload them to mega or something
Actually the closer you get to the poles the less you benefit from DST. At the poles you get 6 months of daylight and 6 months of night no matter what. The same at the equator, 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night (this doesn't take into account the inclination of Earth's axis, but you got the idea.) The places that benefit most from DST are the ones in between, especially around 45 degrees latitude.

Then there are cultural factors, like those countries that like to spend their day time between 9 AM to midnight. It's easier to change the time on the clock than the minds of millions of people. For example, in my country there is a saying that only hens have dinner at 6 PM. It's not socially acceptable to get into a restaurant before 8 PM, friends will laugh at you if you suggest doing so. It's best to have dinner 9 or 10 PM, unless you're a tourist with different habits.
It's like that quote attributed to Steinbeck - "Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."
Then there's this - https://www.asiatimes.com/2019/03/article/its-mig-21-versus-... - that says:

> "But denials notwithstanding, the evidence seems increasingly compelling against Pakistan’s denial."
Gravitational waves resonate at audio frequencies [1], but I am not aware of any findings on that wrt light.

However, you can convert light into sound through the photoacoustic effect [2], and curiously enough, you can recover sound from images through light [3].

[1] Listen to the sound of the kilonova -- the Gravitational Waves Announcement Chirp https://www.ligo.org/science/GW-Inspiral.php

https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-you-can-hear-gravi...

[2] Converting sunlight into audible sound by means of the photoacoustic effect: The Heliophone [pdf] https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/80794107.pdf

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

[3] Veritasium: Can You Recover Sound From Images? [video] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUzB0L0mSCI

See the research Abe Davis is doing on visual vibration analysis: http://abedavis.com
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I think overloading + so that a + b != b + a is problematic.

I know this is the case for strings and lists, but those cases are very well established.
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dict.merge(d, ...) and dict.diff(d, ...) are more expressive and have a cleaner semantic.

overloading arithmetic ops for string, list or dict ops might only look elegant at first sight, but discrimination needs to be done at runtime, slowing down the most important arithmetic ops, and do not help much the casual code reader.
It also cannot be used in normal python code as older python will fail, only in special internal code.

normal method names can be provided by external modules, so they are backwards compatible and will find more widely adoption.
Study or not, I feel great after sleeping in on Saturday mornings. I look forward to it all week. Sensational studies like this come out all the time, usually don’t hold up over time and peer review. Wish people would get so excited over shorter work weeks.
Not just Unicode, but Unicode characters outside of the Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP).

At the very least it is a pleasant unintended consequence. A decade ago support for characters outside of the BMP was hairy (certainly possibly though in PDF's with LaTeX via XeLaTeX), and something you would use if you dabbled in the obscure glyphs contained in it; now it is standard.
So much better! Overloading addition for something that behaves differently is not good.
It's nothing too special, we collect positional information from several devices and feed it into Tile38 which then processes the geofences and delivers the enter/exit/inside notifications trough webhooks.

It's been rock-solid and easy to work with.
Hilariously, the graph has peaks on new years. Presumably "Happy New Years" tweets are deemed quite happy.
sponge[1] is very useful in this scenario. The output file is written only when the `thing | thing | thing` finishes successfully.

[1]: https://linux.die.net/man/1/sponge
In Edinburgh, during the miners strike in the seventies we went to double summer time. In winter when it's bloody dark in the morning I found it credible a time shift helps. In summer when it's 11pm and bright outsides I find it credible a time shift helps.

I think your 'less useful the further to the pole you are' line may be the inside the arctic circle story. I definitely think summertime made sense in the Edinburgh from personal experience. I now live in Brisbane around 600k of the tropic of Capricorn and it makes no sense at all, except economically because the southern state neighbour (NSW) does summertime, as does Victoria and Tasmania both significantly further towards the pole.
There is a conter proposal to use classmethod like this from another core developer.
> children, the poor, and people of color or with disabilities—pay the steepest price

I can see why disabled people, children and poor people are paying for this but how is "people of color" relevant here?
That is NOT what is stated, which is:

>Although I am being shown a bunch of accounts to choose from, I am unable to get photos from Google Photos to show on my tv. Not even my own.

The tweet (like almost any similar tweet in my limited understanding) is not clear and void of actual "proper" descriptions of the issue, but it seems like the issue is with "random" images appearing in the "ambient mode screensaver" (whatever it is):

>Private @googlephotos of strangers are being shown to me in the ambient mode screensaver.
The dog isn't going to lay there all day, just like the child isn't.

And you're obviously thinking of a smaller dog and roomier office than I am, if that dog isn't still getting in the way.
No, that's exactly what the monkeys learned to discriminate. After a few weeks they pass monkey-specific colour-blindness tests, which wild-type monkeys cannot.

I don't think you are born with different wiring to the three different kinds of cones, your brain just learns to lump all the red ones together, so that a red object stays the same colour in different parts of your visual field. The claim is that the monkeys learned which of the previously-identical cones now had a new colour.
Better comparison might be Seiko / Grand Seiko, considerably cheaper than a Rolex for the same quality of watch.
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Is this available outside the US? the first link returns a 403, the second contains no code... ?
My office is in the same building as BitDefender. I casually talked to some of the guys and they do use IDA Pro in their malware research department.

They mostly hire their researchers straight out of college if they have high C proficiency and train them internally to use IDA Pro.

I know my comment isn't exactly what you asked, but I hope it clears some light.
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Just a local hearsay, but as a somebody who dealt with China for entire career, I can say that it does happen
Emojis started being included in Unicode because they were already in the text encodings used by Japenese SMS. Multi-kb glyphs wouldn't exactly fly in SMS.
I submit that it should: http://baldi.me/blog/emoji-in-sql
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>And you're obviously thinking of a smaller dog and roomier office than I am, if that dog isn't still getting in the way.

Except, you know, I have a big dog and he does exactly that. Laying on his bed all day.
I'm used to be with tourists here and most of my friends here are from other countries and we are all the time speaking in English and doing these "touristy things". It never happened to me or my friends. Can I ask where did that happen?
More specifically, scripts and glyphs that have documented and valid use cases. If you made up a script today, you would have to start using it first (and gain acceptance of it in some community) before it would be eligible for inclusion in the Unicode standard. A good example is the power symbol (⏻, Unicode 9.0). The proposal for it neatly documented that it was in wide use already — in manuals in particular.

Emoji are a slightly different beast though. Those seem to get included based on projected use cases.
The Big Dig in Boston was originally estimated to cost $8 billion.

No, $6 billion in 2006 dollars ($2.8 billion in 1982) per Wikipedia.

It ultimately ended up costing $22 billion

$24 billion, according to the Boston Globe (10 July 2012), yielding a nice, round 300% in overruns.

At the end of the day? It was an awesome project.

Seriously! It's so nice when your "$6 billion" project gets $8.55 million in Federal funds that the locals don't even have to pay for.

The Big Dig cost almost triple what the entire Panama Canal project did (adjusted for inflation). There's nothing to be proud of there.
When I say catch up on sleep, I simply mean I finally feel more rested. It was never meant to be taken literally. I wish all these people "debunking" it would understand that.
Or, you know, the author knows his stuff and is deservedly condescending in an industry of trends and cargo cults.

As in arts and politics, some curmudgeons are needed in every field, if not for anything else, to show that there's another way than the mainstream.

(They don't have to be perfectly right either -- it's having a strong perspective that counts, nobody is 100% right anyway).
> Spain has a weirdly skewed solar noon anyway...

That's because they're mostly in the wrong timezone, they should be on Western European time like the UK and Portugal. Interestingly enough the reason for that is Hitler :)
And the Maya didn't have LED headlamps with lithium-ion batteries, either.

They went in there with torches.
Personal transportation is wildly popular because it has greatly increased the freedom people have. Any activity that is as widespread is going to have its downsides.
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