skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been using Scheme as one of my languages for a decade. (Haskell, Python, Ruby, Bash are the main others.) I generally use a preprocessor for each language. The Haskell preprocessor treats indented as code, flush as comments, also supported by my syntax highlighting. Comment characters feel to me like a thousand Hitchcock birds shat on my car. They're so easy to avoid. It also introduces here docs; no language should be so full of itself that it can't embed multiple lines of another language verbatim.

I've gone through several period of straight Lisp parens, and several periods of using a preprocessor. I believe in committing to muscle memory before deciding; I've oscillated back and forth between Querty and Dvorak, for example. I'm more committed to psychological experiments than anyone who claims the parentheses haters are newbies who haven't tried.

Study counting in higher mammals: One finds that "one, two, three, many" is core to all of us, and higher systems are strapped on like the multiple layers of vision mechanisms. Humans can't deal with the tiger tails at the end of lisp expressions. But machines can? Yes, but machines can also handle inferred parentheses. The complainers about parentheses complainers want off-the-shelf support. Real programmers write their own support.

Lisp looks best with indentation to help infer parentheses. Use a pipe "|" to open a parenthesis that auto-closes at the next ")" or the end of the line. Use a dollar "$" (borrowed from Haskell) to open a parenthesis that auto-closes when the indentation returns. Lisp written this way is stunningly beautiful poetry, cleaner than any of the dozens of languages I've programmed in. The remaining parentheses actually matter, so one pays attention to them.

I've spent years each way, back and forth. Inferring parentheses is better, and one can write any tool to follow this syntax.
> Instead, what we need is a simple API with opaque handles and C function calls. No fancy OOP or macro preprocessors. Simple OpenGL style. At least regarding portability, OpenGL made sane choices I think.

FLTK [0] might fit some of this, at the cost of being somewhat ugly.

[0] https://www.fltk.org/
so I ran into the issues I’m mentioning while test driving it.

i have never experienced unpredictable behavior from CloudFormation, but it’s possible YMMV.
It doesn't take more than two dozen or so lines depending on the window arrangement. Nothing truly excessive. Alternatively, viewing the entire code block might mean scrolling up.

If you want scary, check out GNU's implementation of `cat`. I think they hit ten nested indentation levels. Though, because that's C, you can at least jump between the beginning and end of each level by having your editor jump to the matching {}.
The problem with this is the browser and desktop environment makers. The correct thing to do is <input type="number"> and it's a reasonable choice even though it's not the most optimal UI for your site. If the user encounters it the average Hacker News reading developer's site, it's probably a good thing it was there and not somewhere more critical, so they'll notice and maybe not make the same mistake when they're submitting adoption papers or something.

I like the article, and have enjoyed everything I've read that Brad Frost has written, but I will probably keep using <input type="number">. I hope somehow this gets back to browser and desktop environment makers and they fix this usability and accessibility issue.
Nice Chip's Challenge homage on level 14... I used to play Chip's Challenge as a kid on my parents' Windows 95 computer.

Fun fact - in Chip's Challenge, the green key could be reused forever while the other keys were one time use
It's definitely an under-saturated market. Some people fancy regular sized Pixels (of any gen). A family member of mine prefers small phone sizes, uses a Pixel on a regular basis, and it works for them. I expect the same for the newer gen non-XL models.

There are the really niche (and borderline fringy) ones you can find on Amazon. There are also some more general purpose Chinese phones for that. I'm not going to get into any of them because they're probably not what you're looking for, but they exist. (read: Unihertz phones)

On that note, there are the Nokia phones which are reasonably-enough sized, but nothing special. They're also quite terrible and overpriced as phones. The new Palm phone is also kinda fringy but worth considering.

A lot of these aren't really in this form factor, but phones are getting way too big and it's getting harder and harder to find really small phones like these (that can be reasonably used, ofc).
In my opinion the SE is the best phone Apple has ever made. The form factor is perfect to hold when running, and it’s small enough to fit in your pocket and to type with one hand.
I wonder if advanced civilizations would use a lot of energy?

We always imagine they have very advanced physics and engineering, to do things like take apart planets to build mega-structures and things like that, but usually don't think about their other sciences.

My guess is that by the time they have gotten that far in physics, they have also gotten way ahead of us in biology. They'll have wiped out disease and illness, stopped aging, and only die by choice or accident. They'll have figured out geology and ecology and climatology and psychology.

I suspect that the final steady state for most civilizations that don't end up wiping themselves out by doing something stupid is a relatively small (by our standards) population of essentially immortal beings, living on a world they have restored to a largely pre-civilization state, using less energy by far that we are using but using it way more efficiently.
Oh, good. So Citrix doesn't get to make it effectively proprietary. Like Oracle and MySQL leading to MariaDB.
I love this! I'm a big knowledge hoarder myself. My brain is mostly written down in workflowy. I hope the day I die I'll be able to give friends/family members this one bug massive doc for them to peruse.
Sounds like it should be <input type=“magnitude” /> or <input pattern=“...” />
How about promising russians flexibility on national defense topics after election [1]? If Trump said this, he'd be destroyed in a moment.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nuclear-summit-obama-medv...
Could be one on a collision course with us right now.
I guess so. To each their own, I guess.
Extra-gamified: why are some apps so satisfying?
miniconda still brings it's own versions of python with it, at least on linux hosts
We know for a fact that it is possible for space to expand because we have observed that space is expanding. Who knows why or how, or if it should be called “negative mass” or “dark energy,” but observing a phenomenon has always been the starting point for exploiting it. Radiation started out as a small unexplained observation too and look what we’ve done with that.

I’m not claiming that the warp drive is around the corner, I’m just saying: we do not yet know enough to rule it out.
Not at all similar, but mutt is a fantastic replacement. Like Vim, very powerful once you get in to it.
> To turn down scholarships at other 'better' schools and stick with the one that gave Tani free membership to the chess club and where the teacher that taught him how to play works.

Reminds me of this joke (I'm sure there's better renditions)

https://truthbook.com/stories/funny-god/the-drowning-man
I have a Samsung S7 from march 2016 and just received the march 2019 security update. Not bad ;)
This. You are downvoted but your technical critique is spot on.

Throw in Monero to pay for services and you've got a great technological stack possible right now, while something like that at the time of the cryptonomicon was just a dream.

It could be a cool project if it took advantages of all the pieces of technology we now have that they didn't have back then - PGP was a late addition, replicable builds not a concern, tor and cryptocurrencies yet to be invented.
I dont get it either. The 6S/7 are bargains and better IMo
Hi Hackers! Thanks for your interest. The site is back up now, but unpredictably so if traffic spikes again. In the meantime, here's a stable link to a saved PDF of the page: https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/~csk/hcs.pdf.
I've also noticed a persistent problem with stackexchange sites where useful information is deleted, appropriate questions are unnecessarily closed, locked, etc. by moderators.

Fortunately in this case it looks like a good answer hasn't been deleted.
I am ACIT and ACMT certified working for an AASP and you're absolutely right. The Audio IC issue with iPhone 7 and 7+ is awful but Apple refuses to acknowledge it's their problem. They had a rep program for a few months when it first started surfacing but then cancelled it when their own internal investigation said it wasn't their fault. While we tend not to recommend the 6s, we also don't sell and iPhones whether new or refurb.
This was my favourite phone. Fast. Stable. Flat, easy-to-grip sides and a screen size designed to impress me, not Samsung executives. If they gave it new internals and electronic SIM capabilities, I’d pay $1,000 for it.
Disadvantage for web users who care about privacy; advantage for advertisers and adtech companies that want to track you.

I wonder if Chromium has the same problem?
I think I just have less patience for tinkering as I've gotten older (which is unfortunate in of itself, but I digress). I used to use custom ROMs on old Android phones that were no longer officially supported, but I got tired of the random and unpreventable soft bricks that would occur every few months. I overslept an important appointment because my old Nexus 5X soft bricked overnight and the alarm never went off. That phone ended up dying due to a widespread motherboard issue, one month after the hardware warranty expired.

I used to roll my eyes at my dad's frustration with his crappy old Windows desktops when I was a kid, but now I understand how he felt. I just want something that works and that I can depend on and use for basic tasks.
US vs. EU advertising spend is about $200bn vs. 100bn euros. On a per capita basis, that is $611/pp vs. 200 euros/pp. I wouldn't call that "only slightly smaller".
this is truly really cool! are there any resources you'd recommend to learn more about this area of music theory?
There is a contingent of people who prefer the small size and the headphone jack of the iPhone SE in a world that's moving towards larger and larger phones; recently released iPhones lack a headphone jack.

The entire screen can be reached with the thumb when the phone is held in one hand, which is a nice design feature.
Are you arguing that the best time to be a woman was a few years ago when their life expectancy was one month longer? Okay, I'll accept that. Is the decline somehow the result of Jeff Bezos making even more money compared to the average woman in the last few years? Remember, wealth inequality is original proposed root cause of our supposed civil instability. Please try to tie these things together.

How does there being more people with more wealth in more places highlight your point at all? It seems to be a complete refutation of it.

I expect the people in India and China to slowly transition into service economy jobs, much like the people in the US and other wealthy Western countries did.
Sorry, meant 21, i.e. "endOfTheLine.js"

PS. No you don't, it seems to have lost the original gist but I recreated my solution here: https://gist.github.com/Untrusted-Game/6971dbb8ac6d311989edf...

And, yes, I know I said < 10 == 0... that was a typo originally and it turned out not to matter.
How is the SE different from the 6S?
These are not refurbished, they are new. It’s a bit confusing because the clearance section is in the refurb section, but these are indeed brand new in box.
Bit of a surprising comment - Xen is very widely used - even all of AWS is Xen (I believe), are you perhaps thinking of XenServer (Citrix's OS / Distro based on Xen)?

If you do mean XenServer, well - yes some large places are still using it but it's definitely dying out after they proved very slow to deliver new features then put a restriction on free / open source users as of 7.3 onwards that prevents clusters great that 3 hosts rendering mostly useless.

XCP-ng (https://xcp-ng.org/) is a fork of XenServer which is picked up where XenServer left off and is doing a lot in a short period of time (IMO) to add new features and build / support the community.
Yes, and the sooner we dispel with this absurd notion that we have any evidence we are closely modeling the human brain, the better.
The company I work for produces a VM based product and distributes at least 100 instances (copies of the VM product) a month. We ask what VM platform (and have maintained Xen support) in more than a year not one person has bought a Xen instance. Tons and tons of Hyper-V a fair bit of Vmware and a boat load of KVM variations (Generally using Proxmox and VirtualBox, or a taste of doing it ourselves) but never Citrix. I believe of the 3000+ instances we support only about 100 are Xen based.
Absolutely agree, I migrated us from XenServer 7.2 to XCP-ng 7.6 without issue and the community has been great.

https://smcleod.net/tech/2019/02/11/hello-xcp-ng.html
> They were at 4:00 on weekdays

I am involved with the Manhattan community board that oversees, amongst other areas, Times Square. Meetings are at 6 or 7 on Thursdays. Public input is sought and listened to—on accession, meetings are shifted to the weekend.

No difference in the make-up of the turnout. A lot of the population self-selects out of the political process.
there's no license file at the link above. I believe this software is mainly intended for the use of educators to develop new content locally.

It seems there's a separate account for their MIT licensed software: https://github.com/mathigon/mathigon.github.io
Older TouchID Gen1 sensor mainly. Same SoC, was advertised at the time as an option for those that prefer smaller sized phones.
this is literally the ONLY modern smartphone at this size. miniaturization has become so costly that no major phone manufacturer is capable of doing it at scale.
Before that we had Sony, Sharp, and Toshiba at the top of the world. You can lose your competitive advantage very quickly, and then all of a sudden you'll either get launched into a lost decade or two (Japan) or beg the IMF for money and have to sell off the crown jewels (Korea, 1998).
Why would you ever want eSIM support? The very existence of eSIM is completely antithetical to reason SIM cards were created in the first place. Without physical SIM cards, you're forced to grovel to your wireless provider to please provision your phone, and they can refuse to do so for any reason. With SIM cards, there's no limit to what devices you can use on what networks, outside of hardware ones.

I find it ridiculous that companies are positioning eSIM as "innovative" -- we already had the exact same thing in the US back with CDMA, and it was awful. eSIM is no different.
Main difference: smaller form factor, flat sides. This alone makes it easier to hold for people with small hands or motor coordination issues (eg: elderly people).
Plutus Pub-Sub: A Way to Communicate Using Cardano and Plutus Smart Contracts
The SE has similar internals to the 6s, but is the size of the iPhone 5s. They’re extremely popular with people who love the size of the 5s but want a faster processor and better camera than the 5s had.
For the principles at Uber, it's all other people's money, so why not try to get as much more of it as possible.

For "investors", they are gambling that either the shares go up before they sell or that Uber builds a profitable business after they buy.
As I replied in another thread, a Dyson sphere in its original intent was a swarm of habitats, not a rigid shell. No known material is strong enough to support that.

What you're talking about I think is a ringworld, popularized by Larry Niven's "Ringworld" series. They have the same problem a Dyson shell does: the centrifugal force would tear the ring apart and there's no known material that could handle that.

A Dyson swarm has basically all the advantages of living area a shell or ring does with none of the material problems. It can also be built incrementally, one habitat at a time. And that too is important.

This is why a Dyson swarm is seen by many futurists as near inevitable:

- Can be built out of modern materials like stainless steel

- Can be built incrementally, one habitat at a time

- Is orders of magnitude more efficient in terms of living area per unit mass than planets

- It avoids large gravity wells, which are a problem for getting off planets

- It can take advantage of the full energy output of a star
As far as I know, nobody takes the "Society of Mind" theory seriously anymore and none of it lives in present day AI work. There was never a clear algorithm that could be constructed from the chapters on K-lines.
Doesn't this, so close to their purported IPO, fly right in the face of what they consider to be their network effect? Why would they need to buy competitors if not because it's expensive for them to compete against local upstarts who own a smaller market?
I'm pretty sure Apple announced all the hardware last week, and tomorrow's event will be all about services.
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> 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.

If a civilization has the intelligence and foresight to build a Dyson sphere, how much more intelligence and foresight does it need to hide one?
I recall reading somewhere the density at the event horizon of the super massive black hole at the center of our galaxy is about the same as water. The singularity is supposedly infinite, but the event horizon depends on the size of the black hole.
In that case they have outlines, and are clearly buttons?
This is Android P that was released 7 months ago?
Show HN: The Legend of Trykon, a 3D Zelda-like exploration/puzzle game
>this is literally the ONLY modern smartphone at this size

androids?
Doesn't Uber have a large investment in Bird?
My favorite input type=number quirk is you can type the letter ‘e’ into it for compatibility with scientific notation!
The Nokia 6 was released back in January 2017 and is still seeing major OS upgrades (most recently to Android 9 Pie).

I would expect a larger, much higher volume vendor like Samsung to do more than security patches for older phones considering that a smaller player like Nokia can keep up. It isn't a herculean task!

Pretty sure my next device will be a Nokia or iPhone due to the long term software support.
Dyson Spheres are not solid objects; they're swarms. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pP44EPBMb8A&t=331s
No. They did invest already in Lime.
Unfortunately sub-5" phones are nearing extinction. The last holdout on the Android side was the Sony Xperia Compact line, and even that seems to have been discontinued.

All that's left now is a dwindling supply of existing models on the secondary market and a handful of extremely low-end Android phones.

Edit: There also the Sharp Aquos R2 compact, but it is only available in Japan.
The implications that any advanced civilization would have Dyson Spheres, that these are in any way detectable and overall that the civilization would be unwilling or incapable of hiding themselves; are entirely based on speculation as well.
I don't know about this case, but it's not that rare to see source code published under ex. Apache 2 while official binaries are proprietary or something (see ex. Caddy), in which case it's easy enough to just grab the source, enable all features, and distribute the result. Arguably similar to what AWS did with Elasticsearch recently.
They already own Jump (which does scooters as well as e-bikes).
My sci-fi plot theory: our universe is what is inside a black hole. The big bang was the formation of a black hole on another universe pulling matter to ours.
Agreed. I also want to thank good scientific journalism writing when I see it. Translating scientific news into a format geared toward a layperson is very difficult, and I thought this author did a great job. I thought his "thralala" neologism was great and made for a better read that was also easier to understand.
AFAIK Google Analytics doesn’t collect PII or aggregate that data in any way... or am I wrong?
IDK with Google Fi, on a new phone I just install to the app, am auto signed in, takes a minute to connect, then am good to go. No small nano SIM to lose, no finding paperclips, no need to open the phone. Feels pretty slick.
> even all of AWS is Xen

Majority, but the latest generation ("nitro") uses KVM.
I read a write up on the square law scaling on ships and moving resistance in water. A guy there swore that if you leaned on a battleship with loose cables long enough you could overcome static resistance and move it, irrespective of the enormous mass differences between you and the ship. Basically, you can 'pull it along' if you keep trying.
Nope, OP is talking about basic security patches, not Android version bumps. The S7 is stuck at Android 8 Oreo, and it would be a surprise if Samsung upgraded that to 8.1 or 9 (Pie).

Samsung is one of the worst vendors when it comes to Android updates, only flagship phones will see any major updates, generally for less than 2 years.
Ain't nobody got time for that. Seriously. I've played the ROM dance game and it leaves me wanting to throw my phone off the nearest bridge. As much as I don't like apple, there is no way I'm going back to the android minefield. Purism is the only alternative that piques my attention.
Not sure if I understand, but it seems the dendrites are "grouped" in a way, and their influence on the output is a function of the group?

Is this functionally equivalent to having a two layer mini-network (that represents one brain neuron), with one neuron on top, and "child" neurons on bottom that mimic the grouping behavior? If this is true, then I would suspect our networks are already doing something like this automatically.
The more digital your business is the better able you are to monetize digital (and any) advertising.

Digital advertising becomes more valuable the better you are able to track digital intents/impressions/sales through all your channels.
Much hot air over blinking cursors
The assumption that anyone who can build a Dyson sphere would want to has always seemed a bit off to me. Energy use in highly developed countries is stagnating or even falling, and the rate of population growth looks set to decline. What do the hypothetical Dyson sphere builders actually want with all the energy?
I thought the general recommendation was to use type=“tel” to pull up the 9 digit keypad
That's a little annoying, but it looks like it's not too terrible to fix: https://github.com/mirrorer/afl/blob/master/docs/parallel_fu...
I'd wager good money the exact opposite is true.

Big factories should be better regulated and more professional leading to less accidents. It's the weekend dad with a beer in his hand trying to get something done quickly that saws through their tendon and fucks up their wrist.

Also python is definitely not as simple as a hammer and hand-saw.
I was going through a HN "best books" thread recently and found someone recommending "How to Speak How to Listen" by Mortimer J. Adler. I'm about halfway in and there are loads of great tips in it!
none at 4".
This seems to make intuitive sense. If we ever create a true AI it will probably be on the order of billions of neural networks connected together.
AWS has been maintaining there own custom version for more than 2 years based on the open source code, and mostly use KVM now from what I understand.
Isn't that just a mainstream physics theory?
The name of this place exceeds HN’s title limit. The full name is Taumatawhakatangihangakoauauotamateaturipukakapikimaungahoronukupokaiwhenuakitanatahu
I really feel that no civilization would build dyson spheres. Why would anyone want to signal others, here i am?
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