skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
something that learns your interests and customizes to your tastes

I have grave misgivings about that sort of thing. This approach is what leads to the Google and Facebook "filter bubbles" [1]. What I need is something that exposes me to different viewpoints, opposing viewpoints, presented in convincing ways to challenge me and help me to grow as a person. What I want is to learn about new ideas that would never have occurred to me before.

Traditional schools, much maligned, try to expose kids to books and other media they never would've bothered with otherwise. Yeah, kids for the most part reject this stuff and slog through until graduation, but some don't! Some kids find a new passion for Mozart or Shakespeare or calculus for that matter. Maybe we can predict interest in those subjects before exposing people to them, but I'm not confident about it. There are outliers everywhere and it's not fair to leave them out in the cold.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
The new phones have some cool and interesting features, but i just love the SE. I bought 2 as back ups the last time they were on sale.
>He contends that there likely isn't a sentient civilization within about a billion light years of us because the signature of Dyson spheres would be unmistabkable and unmissable.

I guess the human civilization doesn't count as "sentient" because we don't have a Dyson sphere yet...

Also how "unmissable" is a dyson sphere? Do we have the means to survey every single star within one billion light year radius? Hell, we know neutron stars are real, same for blackholes, but does that mean we observed every single one of them and didn't miss a single one?
Does the $249 price require a specific contract? All of them say “unlocked” so presumably they’re the same phone.
Tail calls _are_ iteration, just expressed as a function.
Some people, myself included, prefer this iPhone. Rumor is they shut down all their production of them, and these are the lasts ones.
I don't think it's the same or even near to nazi Germany, but if you listen to any in depth lectures on the raise of NSDAP, or development of political propaganda at the time, you'll find interesting parallels to the current times, like the use of a new form of mass communication media to further political agenda (radio, then - social networks now), or insistence of some people to "let them have power, they'll just discredit themselves, and the problem will solve itself by that way".
Have these guys even played games? The gamer subculture is totally different than corporate google culture. What will their response be to “gamer gate 2.0” ?

Video games are currently the opiate to the underclass of single men. Instead of loitering the streets unemployed and in gangs, men are now isolated and playing at home. The video game is the “digital street” of these hordes of men. Historically, these men were the ones to start revolutions or just cause trouble.

Google will face a huge backlash if they mishandle the community aspect of side of gaming, and as we all know, Google can’t do social.
Why do they keep doing this? Making available in a small batch, selling out, make available another small batch, sell out, etc.
Surprise! It doesn't work on Chrome mobile.
The one thing that Apple does well is prolonged support for their phones. I switched away from Android phones because I got sick of buying the latest flagships only to have them lose software, hardware, and security support 12-24 months after release.

The new iPhones don't appeal to me, but I'm satisfied knowing I can get a few more years out of my SE. I got my battery replaced 4 months ago after owning it for two years and its been running like new since on the latest version of iOS.
Congress Too Wants to Recognize Israel’s Illegal Annexation of the Syrian Golan
Wasabi is even cheaper ATM, the main drawback for DO and Wasabi being the minimum $5/month, otherwise they charge per use like AWS S3 and have some API compatibility.

https://wasabi.com/pricing/
It's interesting that the very things that attracted the author to Clojure was what kept me from moving to it from Python.

I enjoyed the syntax. Loved the immutability. However, I wasn't able to understand the structure of program data at a glance even when reading my own code. The reliance on lists and maps everywhere meant that the structure of data was encoded in the code of the functions that created it and sometimes you had to go several functions deep just to understand the bit you wanted.

In Python if I'm returning a tuple that's more than 2 or 3 elements long, I know that it's time for, at the very least, a namedtuple because I've had to deal with code in the past that has mysterious 5-tuples etc that just becomes too tiring to deal with.

To be clear, big collections in Python aren't a problem as long as the type of the contained data remains uniform.
This is a refurbished one.

I don't get why people still buy SE when you have a multitude of better phones from other companies, say Samsung or OnePlus.
The A590 was a drive that plugged on the left side of the A500. It usually came with a 20MB SCSI disk inside...

There was no room in the A500 for a 3.5" drive. Later, the A1200 and A600 had a built-in IDE controller and an internal bay, but for a 2.5" disk.
Basic Income Advocate Andrew Yang Is a Contender for the Democratic Nomination
How much capital does Uber have left?

My understanding was that they only had a few billion dollars left and were burning > 1B a quarter.

And they are still not profitable right?

On what basis exactly are they going to IPO? What's the angle for buying shares of a company that is losing so much money?
Dyson spoke of "swarms", not spheres. The sphere came earlier in scifi. The dyson swarm was a network of solar collectors orbiting a star, a far more practicable structure than the hollow sphere concept. We are babystepping towards this. We have probes out there blocking, harvesting, a tiny fraction of our star's energy already.
$249 is still a little overpriced considering alternative options, especially with a refurb/used iPhone 7 going for really cheap. As in, like, $160 on Ebay and more expensive for refurbs and new ones.

But hey, that's how they get rid of extra inventory. Not sure why it was delisted in the first place and not just put there, but that's their prerogative.
iOS and not android. There are reasons to stick with one platform over the other. Same with sticking to macOS or windows or Linux.
Can I turn a PhD into a startup?
I've been working on an ambitious side project focused on a cheminformatics app that I eventually want to turn into synthetic biology workflows/ circuits. This will take time and scientific know-how.

If I were to get accepted into a PhD program that allows me to focus on this area:

[1] Would I be able to retain the intellectual property of my software?

[2] Would I be able to commercialize it?

Ideally, I would open source as much a possible.
I sm so upset the game is being shut down. This is a classic game that would have been enjoyed by generations to come. Just like the Monopoly board game can be enjoyed by generations to come.

I am so sad the game is being shut down. It is such a waste to see the enormous creativity the designers put into it just disappearing! I've played for years. Have elaborately and beautifully decorated my island with flowers, walkways, fences, arches, fountains, etc. It's truly a beautiful game. And I feel proud to have designed such a magical place.

There were multiple challenges and fabulous pets which exhibited such nice behaviors. It truly was a magical place.

I think I'm most sad because there really isn't a game to switch to. Playing Paradise Bay wasn't just about completing challenges and winning prizes. It was about beautifully decorating a magical land you created. And enjoying the visually prettiness of the island. Butterflies abound, the characters were all sweet, and the island was uber friendly.

Other games totally lack the estetics. I wish the owners of this gem would reconsider shutting it doen. There is no game for us to move to. Very sad.
I'd argue that the JVM is a good move from python. There are a number of rich frame works on the JVM with great tooling. Also if you use PyCharm switching IDEs is easy with Intellij. I switched from python -> F# -> Kotlin.

I do agree the language is part of the battle. The other is tooling, and libraries. F#/dotnet was painful as a linux dev. The JVM works on almost any platform with great tooling.

For Libraries. I haven't found anything akin to django admin, but I don't really miss it. For me

SQLAlchemy -> Jooq

Flask -> Spark/Vertx
These are refurbished.
No, it just comes with a different SIM kit.
Note that hiring a private piano teacher for every child in the country would also be a difficult proposition, politically / economically. Especially if we expected every person to reach the level of competence at music that we expect with numeracy/mathematics.

If we wanted to switch from the current classroom model to a private tutorial model, with the amount we currently spend per student on teachers, we could hire 1:1 tutors for only a few hours per week for each student, which would (a) not really be enough time to cover everything students are expected to learn in school, and (b) would then also leave huge amounts of time where the school wasn’t providing childcare service, which is one of its primary purposes.

However, just as upper middle class families can currently afford weekly private piano lessons or 1:1 sport coaching, you are right that they could likewise afford private math tutorials, and get better results than classroom instruction.
> And when it doesn't remain high the alchemists' prescription is to further debase wages and middle class savings, as if the only thing keeping displaced workers unemployed is simply not having the screws turned on them hard enough!

does inflation really hurt the real value of people's retirement accounts? or are you implying that middle class savings are primarily cash?
Nah, it's a 1939 espionage cipher for transmitting Chinese characters. 147MB for a 97 page scanned .pdf is a bit extreme so piping it through Acrobat, selecting Optimization and OCR shrinks it to 20MB. Checking OCR results using SPELLING script on page 20 copied to an LibreOffice text page yields:

盟伊盤:L皿LIN

(there are four kanji in the above line if you don't have the font)

The first three translate to : leader Italy tray then a smiley with its tongue hanging out then a character meaning dish, or a helping then LIN (wherever that is). :-)
You can take on debt to buyout another company
Can anyone suggest a replacement for Paradise Bay? I haven't found anything that is as besutiful or rnjoyable.
Back when I had a truck and a good back I helped friends move their couch into an apartment. It was close but I somehow managed to get it in. They told me later that they weren't able to get it back out no matter how hard they tried. Is this an example of the moving sofa problem?
Henrik Fisker is back with a $40k electric SUV
The iPhone SE is traditionally a fan favorite and turned over many heads when it first released (or rather, upon its first big price drop).
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You are right.

One person's action to improve the life of another without any preconception of glamor is far greater than the fulfillment of donating to a heartwarming story, or hearing about a successful fundraiser.

Our (American) attention is too easily focused on the next shiny thing and we pat ourselves on the back for cheering a worthy cause, without consideration of those left out of the spotlight.

This story was amazing to witness, though not unexpected. We love to lift those who embody our virtues, without reflection as to where our backs are turned.

We could all do to learn from the lesson of Tani's family and "spread the wealth" that which we receive, or send, to those in need who do not fit such a story book narrative.
Tesla has a new rival in its quest to make solar rooftops happen
Al Capone was only convicted of tax evasion. I am sure he denied that accusation at the time, and he also boasted about a plea bargain that the sentencing judge reminded him wasn’t between Al Capone and the court.
Apple had multiple batches in a row that were not refurbished (interestingly, at the same price as these refurbished ones).
Hopefully they will refresh the specs soon. There is an Apple event tomorrow...
Yes but https://www.flyertalk.com/forum/travel-technology/1957264-ap... they have up for a month, at least. How is this news?
Yea, that's one thing that I envy Apple for. I legitimately still use the iPhone 4S as my daily driver. It had software updates for around 5 years and has iOS 9. Still works as an alarm clock, a music player, and for everything else I use it for.

But it's also important to consider that lack of Android upgrades are also slightly disregardable, as API and app level updates will exist for years, and the majority of older phones support custom ROMs. I understand how that's not the ideal use case for people, just providing my own take on things.
Can we kill photon by increasing its wavelength too much? Like put him between two mirrors so they would eat its energy multiple times (without absorbing)?
Supposedly SharedArrayBuffer and atomics have been in Node.js since version 9.

I wonder if there are any articles where people use them in threads.
I doubt Uber is taking a loan to buy them. Probably mostly shares of Uber with some % in cash.
> However, even with C APIs, all these things end up with something like "fancy OOP" (after all, even Gtk is a C Api). That's because GUI widgets seem to be one of the few places really well suited to OO ideas like inheritance and non-trivial getter-setters.

How much of the GObject system is there for the benefit of Gtk and C developers and how much is there for interop with other languages and gui builders though? Programming against the C API it seems to be very much not OOP, you're always casting to a base class to call methods on that level, it doesn't appear that the OO system is used much internally.
Retirement accounts generally aren't liquid, and to the extent they are people really don't want to treat them as such. So yes I do mean to say that the economic power of the middle class is essentially held in cash.
There doesn't seem to be a great answer regarding recycling or disposing of composite wind turbine blades:

https://www.windpowerengineering.com/mechanical/blades/recyc...
We have a fair idea how many layers are involved in some activities, such as eye-hand response times, because we can divide the observed delay by the speed of a single layer. It's not a lot of layers. Reference needed.
The article mentioned $1.4B in cash.
Languages encourage various ways or styles of solving problems, though, and some of those ways require more self-discipline or care than others. For example, many languages with static types make it so that you can make sweeping changes to the interfaces between things and the compiler will catch any mismatches for you, but in a language like Python, you'd better hope you have a unit test that will catch it.

I like Python well enough, have been using it since mid-2001 and was very much a hardcore Python enthusiast for a number of years, but nowadays I prefer languages that encourage immutability and functional programming styles, as I find that they make it much easier to avoid bugs. I've had plenty of Python experiences where bugs were caused because something somewhere else was mutating stuff behind my back, messing up my mostly-unrelated code. Usually this other code was also written by someone else, so I had no way of knowing about it. This kind of thing can be prevented in other languages, but requires a lot of discipline to avoid in Python (and other languages, I'm only picking on Python here since that's the topic of the article). These problems won't follow you to the next language, if the next language is more suited to avoid them.
> Was it almost pure price discrimination on the part of Boeing?

In at least one other case I vaguely recall, monitoring two sensors required bus bandwidth that was unavailable without a physical refit of cabling or electronics, so that could well have been the issue with AOA sensors and MCAS. I have no knowledge either way.
> most notably text can neither be selected via keyboard nor mouse and rightclick doesn't work

Are you referring to text inside a text input? or some generic label? If it's labels check to see if they have an flag/option for this, but i'd guess that traditionally GUI library's gtk, winform, etc... have never defaulted to allow text to be selected or right click, but can be enabled with certain flags are set.
iOS. And claiming that those other phones are "better" is opinion.
Welcome to HN!

And on that note, with some Android ROMs and even with some modifications, privacy issues on Android devices are slightly alleviated. But yeah, Apple is natively better for privacy.
Google Cache returned a 404 for me, but I was able to locate this on the Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/20190325003050/http://isohedral....
How much are the houses to pay $30K-$40K in property taxes? The wealthiest city in GA is Johns Creek with top rated schools and just looking at Zillow, a home valued at $460K has property taxes around $5000.
I'm really curious - What else can I buy in that size range? I'm very interested in newer small phones.
I’m guessing Lime soon too.
Dr Alien, PhD: the horror classic that academia loves
Every pilot has an absolute right, and responsibility, to refuse any aircraft they deem "not safe for flight in all weather and conditions". Period.

Of course, you may have a long and uncomfortable conversation with your chief pilot regarding the nature and quality of your judgement, but every single pilot is supposed to make an informed and independent evaluation of each aircraft before every flight.
Ask HN: How can I learn to listen and communicate effectively?
Burp Extensions – Setting Up XSSValidator
I think the primary gain here is the examples. When learning the eps-delta or eps-N def of limits as a child in high school (15 or so yrs old) it took quite a few examples before I grokked it, despite the concept being quite simple.
I wouldn't call that overpriced. Aside from just a piece of hardware, you also get the whole new-device deal with box etc. as well as free support, warranty and a clean serial/id/iCloud/IMEI/MAC combo.
I think that iPhone 4 (and subsequent copies including SE) has the best design ever, still unmatched by any phone.

And iOS, of course.

I really hope for SE 2. Might be SE X :) I bought 8, but I can’t get used to its huge screen after my 4S. The only feature that I like is wireless charging.
There are no other phones that can compete with the SE on size and specs, unfortunately. Companies stopped making reasonably sized phones long ago.
Very interesting, but this assumes life evolves to Type II civ.

I mean, looking at our own planet, it seems this might be extremely unlikely.

To the best of my knowledge, another Planet Earth could possibly be within a few hundred ly of us(0.000000001 of known universe), and we'd have no idea(1)..?

1-https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2012/05/31/is-our-civilizati...
Perhaps not all of them were available for Apple Store online inventory. Stock keeping as a science in itself.
Tor should be the only way to link nodes.
The only reason for anyone to use batched mail and news in 2019 would be for the security - which means tor.

There is no reason to use SSH, as it expose the IP address of the participants.

Setting up UUCP for mail and news on localhost is not so easy anyway (meaning you must setup an MTA +NNTP daemon unless you do old school QWK), so you might as well ask the person to spend 5 minute to configure an onion address.

Like the previous author, I also strongly suggest you change the design to make it a cool and useful project instead of just a nostalgia fueled hobby (SGI servers??)
As your link says, I think people use a mix of different resource models. For myself, I seem to have a momentum model for "thing-y" work (engineering, paperwork, cleaning, etc.) but a resource model for "people-y" work. Most importantly for me, depleting my "people-y" resource will knock out my "thing-y" faculties: 10 hours of coding leaves me tired but OK and I'll be good to go again the next day. A two hour client meeting leaves me drained for a couple of days, during which I'll be no good for client meetings OR coding.
Google "aussi pullback" (aka peelback) to understand why reliable automatic fire is often more important than range or even accuracy.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_peel

Practicing pullbacks on full auto was probably the most fun part of basic training. My rifle (c-7) was ancient but never jammed.
The Case for Big Business
The iPhone 7/7 Plus is the series I tell everyone to avoid purchasing. We refuse to stock them for resale as well, and it’s gotten so bad we even have customers sign a disclaimer when they bring them in for repair. (Note: We are not Apple authorized, so this is our policy, not Apple’s.)

They have a serious manufacturing defect commonly known as the “Audio IC” issue. Apple downplays it, but eventually it hits almost every 7 series.

Apple offered a free repair program for a while, but has since discontinued it.

The 7 series is pretty much “designed to fail.” We have seen flawless phones in Otterbox cases have this issue.

The 6 Plus also has defects on the Touch IC chip. We recommend the 6s or 8 series for customers.

If anyone reading this has a 7 or 7 Plus and is concerned about this issue, back up your phone on a regular basis at a minimum. Trade it in for an 8 or 8 Plus when you can. If you’re happy with your 7, you don’t need to go to the X/XS, but I would recommend stepping up to the 8.
The 100-step rule is a connectionist theory constraint from below in cognitive science and neuroscience that states that no primary brain operation (e.g., face recognition) can take more than 100 neuron firing “steps.” This imposes a temporal restriction on primary brain processes of 500ms. (Feldman & Ballard, 1982)