skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
“On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”[1]

It doesn’t have to be tech.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes, I do. By using reusable bags instead of disposable plastic bags, you might have reduced the environmental impact of your shop by a tenth of a percent. But you'll get a hit of dopamine for having done your bit, even though you actually haven't done shit.

You are the one strawmanning. You decided that OP is completely unwilling to make sacrifices to benefit the environment merely because he is resisting making an insignificant, feel good change. Based on this you jumped around the thread harassing him or her.

I then followed your line of argument and asked you if you personally had actually made a sacrifice for the sake of the environment, or are we just condemning OP based on a theoretical here.

Frankly, if conservation is important to you, you're being a poor ambassador for the cause.
The private keys are in a subdirectory under .gpg before you move them to the card. Just back those up and store them in a safe place. The ash and signing subkeys can be replaced easily, but if you lose the encryption subkey you won't be able to decrypt anything that was sent to you in the past.
Except Netflix is actually following the rules from what I’ve read. They’re releasing the movies in theaters for the minimum amount of time required: a week. If they wanted to make it harder for Netflix, make better rules
Cone is an imperative, multi-paradigmatic language in the family of systems programming languages (C, C++, Rust, D).

It is fundamentally statically-typed. However, a language that is too rigidly typed can sometimes degrade programmer productivity. Abstractions like variant types and various forms of type polymorphism can improve code flexibility and reuse, which is why I plan for Cone to include these features (the home page has a link to a page that describes this in more detail).

High-level attributes of a language are always hard to get right, because terms mean different things to different people, but several responders do a better job than I did of explaining why concise and readable don't necessarily have to be contradictory goals, at least for me. My primary aim here is that code be maintainable. By concise, I am actually far more focused on how much of a function's logic can fit readably on the editor window without scrolling than I am the size of keywords. Certain common C++/Rust patterns feel unnecessarily verbose to me (e.g., borrowing a reference in Rust), and I am trying to incorporate syntactic patterns from a number of other languages that I feel encode the same intent consistently in a way that a programmer familiar with Cone will be able to process and edit more quickly. Of course, that's always a judgement call...
>But without copyrights, it is unclear how one could make a living as an author, a publisher, a musician, or a filmmaker.

IMO, the obsolescence of the perceived “need to make a living” is the Inevitable here.
Congrats on shipping! What stack did you use? You should write a blog post about it. Looks really well designed, love the timing metrics in the footer.
Personally I'd prefer as open a standard as possible usable across the greatest swath possible (e.g. Chrome Windows/Mac, Chromium Linux, Firefox W/M/L, Android Chrome/Firefox).

Someone else seems to second lower-level standards as the best way [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19567277
Yes, I frankly feel this design space is the future of memory management. GC, begone!
For anyone considering going to this: There's not much to see. It's basically the short stone obelisk you see in the picture, sitting in an otherwise unremarkable desert. (A fence encloses maybe an acre of surrounding land, but things look the same inside as out.) There's a small one-story home a few miles away where the original test was viewed from that you can go inside, but it's also unremarkable.

I'm really glad I went, but it's more of an intellectual pilgrimage than anything else.
Flexbox and grid are very hard to polyfill since they are deeply embedded in the layout engine.

The only flexbox polyfills are Javascript based and really slow.

AFAIK there is no up to date / usable Grid polyfill.
Code generation is terrible and great (2017)
I wonder if they're using TypeScript.
Presently announced plans will triple battery production in the next 4 years

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/03/31/global-lithium-ion-batt...
Forgive me if this is an utterly ignorant question, or already answered: but with the plan to make 40-50% of power wind-based, is there any potential impact on the environment? Intuition tells me that if wind is able to generate so much power, the energy is coming from somewhere.

For solar, the power is coming from “waste” energy from the sun, but wind takes all its energy from the natural activity of our climate, which is more or less a closed system is it not?

If we’re extracting all this energy from our weather systems, could we not in theory cause some major disruption?
Here is his obituary:

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/spokane-wa/michae...
I’m always waiting for a native Mac App, I love the product, not the Mac client. Spotify: you can port iOS to Mac now
With Win10 they do ship those drivers through Windows updates.
>...because it’s the hardware management service and if it goes down you’re no longer managing the hardware?

I’m no expert on device drivers but to my knowledge, Windows already allows you to manage devices and install drivers through Device Managers.

Then if drivers are already installed for the various devices and hardware components, what exactly is the hardware management service managing on top of the individual drivers?

I am asking this as the only plausible reason to be doing this (at least for me) is if Windows isn’t providing enough tools for device management that needs coordination between the hardware components on the machine, so I would appreciate someone with more knowledge to shed some light on the subject.
I'm not saying that people shouldn't have the choice whether or not to sell their data - I'm saying that even if they have that choice, it doesn't prevent many society-wide harms. (Edit: Which implies that we do need to restrict some uses of large datasets that would cause these harms.)

I'm not sure how you would characterize my position in terms of increasing or decreasing 'control' or 'choice' - I find those terms tricky to apply in this case, so I prefer to apply concrete concepts like 'harm'.
Is there any surprise?

None.

It is good to see this being discussed. I am not making light of that.

The more I see the market shape our Internet, the more I feel some baseline law, to set reasonable, ethical norms, makes great sense.
And can cause you a deadly blood poisoning if you get bitten because of bacteria in their mouth and saliva...
Yes, but that's not what I meant in that quote. Cone is not ready for any use right now. So, I am making no effort to market it right now. When it is at least MVP (at least a year or more away), I will get more serious about marketing, including especially for 3D web.
And that was the failure; one Facebook learned from and has applied, with varying intensity.
MIT AI: OpenAI and AGI (Greg Brockman) [video]
Or more concisely, Hitchens' Razor: that which is presented without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.
For those in the area, the Spring VLA Open House is also taking place on the same day.

https://public.nrao.edu/event/vla-spring-open-house-2/2019-0...
It already does multi-line lambdas (lambdas and built-in control structures share the same syntax), see e.g. the call to "fold" here: https://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://raw.githubusercontent...
> There are limits to how far transmission losses allow you to go.

These limits are higher than you might think. The currently longest HVDC link in Brazil (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Madeira_HVDC_system) is 2300 km; there is another one being built that will be over 2500 km. For comparison, a quick web search tells me that the "width" of the USA (from the east coast to the west coast) is only 4500 km.
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For those going to this, the Spring Trinity Site Open House is taking place on the same day.

https://www.wsmr.army.mil/Trinity/Pages/Home.aspx
To be fair, doing things for which "There is no valid reason, ever" is not unheard of, especially in software.
There is a big difference between Cog and the C preprocessor -- the generated code actually lives within the file, and your IDE / type checker / linter will process it. Sure, they aren't hygienic, but for lightweight macros (which, in non lisps, is the majority of the macros people write imo) hygiene isn't a must-have.

I have found Cog to be very helpful while writing Rust code. I love Rust, but I'd prefer to write my macros in a different language (like Python). I also find debugging macro expansions to be much more painful than debugging Cog macros.
Yeah. I think the 0..1 case is cleaner as a nil/not nil vs a collection. The issue just doesn't go away. users.addresses.first&.street or whatever functional voodoo that buries if/else - users.addresses.map(&:street).first. You just end up switching empty/not empty list rather than nil/not nil. And the interface makes it look like a 0..n relationship which is super confusing for anyone not clued in to the pattern.
They're cold blooded, meaning they're basically completely paralyzed for about 12 hours a day. Until 10am or so you can basically sit on them for a photo op if you want.
Yeah I've also been. It's not one of those 'you have to be there' things. If you happen to be in Albuquerque or Socorro* for some reason: yeah check it out; it's not worth more than an hour drive.

*Was in Socorro myself, honestly not even sure it's worth the drive from Albuquerque unless you're a real atomic bomb fanatic.
The anonymous CEO of Trump real estate running in 2016, the anonymous Senator from Illinois running in 2008, the anonymous head of Bain Capital...

At some level, someone’s accomplishments uniquely identify them.
On http://strlen.com/lobster/ I only see a dead link to Google+ (which I'll remove, thanks!), but no other dead links?
I hear LISP has a pretty good macro system...
> Immediately closed the article

You shouldn't have done that because a few sentences later the wiki describes how he was motivated by other mass shootings, which is precisely what the article is talking about. Was he a white attacker, well yes, but based on the wiki I wouldn't say he was a supremacist.
You don't need to be a millionaire to either rent or buy a million dollar house. You do need ~$1-200k down payment, but that's not millions.

I have the option to rent part if a house, but I've also lived alone or shared $2k/mo total in condo/town in the same area without a garden. A 600sqft apt in Tokyo is about $700k+, but it's true rents (for ethnic Japanese) are lower (not so much for gaijin)... although you need to own to have a traditional wife/family. You also have no option of living in a 200m sq house in any case.
[In which Spotify doesn't actually explain what they did to build the new web player]
If we allow the big five to write the regulations and set the standards that will govern the technology for decades to come we're going to have major regrets.
The VLA is much cooler.
That sounds like the person's own problem.

If they can't keep work-life creep, they don't understand their own value.
OK, for example, there's an argument in tech world about one technology: Does X scale ? or Is X faster than Y ?...

Providing a details answer on these kinds of arguments require a bunch of technical details, man hours of works,...

And on my side, i'd like to pay for those details if it's worth for my choice. Even if the person who said it doesn't say about evidence, i don't require him to provide it for free for me.
Yeah it's perfect for my project but I was wondering if anyone has firsthand experiences using it in production? I have heard that it costs everything.
you get a bonus point for mentioning dhog, may he rest in peace.
That would make it much harder to parse in certain cases, both for the compiler and the human, given that it uses this same syntax to parse not just control structures, but also higher order functions / lambdas.
We actually do put a monetary value on human lives in a huge variety of situations. We just like to pretend that we don't and try not to talk about it.

For example, most health insurance systems around the world have a value they place on one year of "quality" human life, and won't cover medical treatments that cost more than that amount per year. In 2008, that number was about $50k [1]. I don't know what it is now.

When considering whether the monetary costs of a regulation are worth it in the US the EPA used about $9 million as the worth of a life saved in 2010, and the FDA used about $8 million. The DoT used almost $10 million in 2016. Cites for those are in this Wikipedia article [2].

[1] http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1808049,0...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Value_of_life
> I didn't understand it tbh, and I still don't...

The point is to highlight your hypocrisy. You say you want influential people to be more overtly political but you really only want people you agree with to be more overtly political.

> That doesn't mean someone should be voicing opinions about e.g. homosexuality in a place where it has no relevance (Typical context: a github issue discussion)

This was my point all along, it seems like you do agree that there is such a thing as being apolitical. So why is context only important now? Why is this political position out of context on a GitHub discussion but in context for a football player or someone doing backflips on a bike?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/information-age/

that page looks like something out of a cyberpunk fiction, amazing.
Affordable Housing Crisis Spreads Throughout World
By consolidating production facilities and positioning the facility as a factory, I can add some unique capabilities for moving things in and out of the reactor core.

As an example, most research reactors have a facility called a "rabbit tube" which is similar to the pneumatic tubes at a bank. You can basically shoot little capsules in and out of the core at will this way. But most of these reactors only have one of these tubes, or none, and every experiment they move in or out of the core is done by hand with 20 foot poles.

I want to automate the entire process by making every irradiation facility in the core accessible via a pneumatic tube system, and have a software system automatically eject material that had "cooked" long enough and send it straight to the chemical processing rooms via this shuttle system. This would drastically reduce human performance errors, reduce personnel requirements, reduce radiation exposure, reduce the capex required to move highly radioactive material around the facility, and allow me to move things in and out of the core without first needing to shut down the reactor.

In the short term, I'll most likely be sticking to the "cow" method, but as I learn more about that end of the supply chain, I'm sure I'll find more places to push for innovation.
The idea is that the extracted CO2 would be injected in oil fields to boost production. But I think EV's mean that oil consumption is going to start going down in the not-so-distant future, which will in turn crash the price of oil, and this whole project will become unprofitable.
My point is more like this:

If i know the one who make argument could prove it, i'd love to pay it. It's not free to me in this case.
No, not barbaric, that's the liability attached to all normal activities.

"Knew or should have known" is the standard. Boeing management knew or should have known that selling an essential safety system relying on a single sensor is categorically unsafe.

All blame to management unless the programmers knowingly miscoded the software.
> Panel member Joanna Bryson, defending Coles James’s inclusion on Twitter, said, “I know that I have pushed [Google] before on some of their associations, and they say they need diversity in order to be convincing to society broadly, e.g. the GOP.”

Yet anyone appointed to the board will be vetted for conservative associations or statements, and if found, be objected to by the same people who object to James. Google will either have to drop this goal or be prepared to anger large numbers of their employees.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19560515
> I mean, it's goofy, hacky, and has obvious security flaws but doesn't look malicious.

Plausible deniability. If you were to implement a backdoor for a company, would you write "professionally done" all over it?
After using one for over a year now all I can say is it shouldn't be this hard :(
What challenges are you running into? What sort of data augmentation are you doing?
If you're in Las Vegas, the National Atomic Testing Museum is very worth a visit. The last time I was there they had a traveling exhibit of Soviet nuclear propaganda that was fascinating, and there's a lot of info on Trinity and other testing sites. I found the quality of the exhibits to be very high.
Agreed, those are nice benefits. But there are also huge downsides, in the sense that you're writing all the glue code in the wrong language :) The amount of speed of iteration you get from having your entire engine + game's structure in a friendlier language is impressive (in my experience).

Also doing savegames by just serializing the entire scripting VM may work in some cases, but can also be problematic, since you're mixing ephemeral data with gameplay state. Last U3 engine game I worked on had explicit savegame serialization :)
Neither 'digital' nor 'standard analog', both of which allow one to almost mindlessly ascertain what time it is.

I see this item as basically very expensive and 'exclusive' jewelry; OK if you feel you can afford 'something different'.
Thank you; that means a lot to me. I will definitely have to follow up sometime in the future.
> I'm not sure what you mean by it not working. I haven't tried but they're a regulated system, are you sure it's not on your end? Have you been reporting your capital gains and losses over the course of the transaction on both sides? If not the tax authority may have some serious questions for you.

It is actually very simple: A lot of these services do not provide services in Mexico. Really, the passive aggressive comment is not necessary.

I assume that you live in the UK or the USA. Usually what happens is that people that live there live in a "technological bubble" where all of those first-world services are available. But most of them do not have service in most of other countries.

I work in a B2B payment company and have had the opportunity to deal with these kind of issues. Believe me that cross-country payments is nowhere a solved problem. The blockchain technology definitely has something on it if used correctly.
From what I read about AI researchers and their optimism, I'm on the side of belief that it is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox?wprov=sfla1).

An ethics board would never be strong enough to stop AI development in the world if needed. We can't even limit CO2 output of the world with policy, and AI will be much more profitable than oil.

There's a strong agreement between most AI researchers that the biggest problem AI creates is the loss of jobs, and AGI is just too far to worry about, but I feel that at the same time they all hope to be the one who create the first AGI.
Can you tell me more about the UV light diving? A cursory search doesn't seem to show up anything about the dive mask filter you mentioned. From what I found, it looks like the lights are similar to regular low-power UV-A black lights that are not a hazard to skin or eyes.

What was the model of dive light used? Was is a long-wave light like those in tanning beds or disinfecting lamps? I would imagine that any light unsafe for your eyes would also be damaging to the coral and fish.
In my view, the audience's negotiating position still isn't inherently strong enough to demand a performance to prove a claim. Shouldn't burden first and foremost be decided by willingness to pay?

In a sense WSJ is making claims with snippets of their article and headlines. Do they have a burden to prove themselves by revealing the rest of the article to me, as well as their source material? Without me even paying? But what if WSJ isn't motivated to do anything for me unless I pay them? Are they failing their burden?
Now that Cloud Native Buildpacks build OCI images instead of platform specific artifacts (slugs or droplets), developers can choose the best build solution for their problem (buildpacks for 12-factor apps, Dockerfiles for a data store)and deploy them to the same container orchestrator.
What does any of that have to do with Bitcoin?
I don't know if they handle this case better specifically, but I found almost all GitLab page functionality is better than GitHub - plus it's more generic, you can wire any static page generator into the built-in CI/CD, not just limited to jekyll or doing it yourself.
I love a good prank, but imagine a stock broker or forex pulling something like this. It probably looks a whole lot like market manipulation since it could lead holders to buy or sell based on a false trend.

It certainly makes me suspicious of the charts and claims forever thereafter if it is that easy to post fake info on a whim.
I mean, the term 'backdoor' has a connotation of intentionality. Unless you write perfect code 100% of the time, you probably rely on the difference.
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You've not done a very good job of pseudonymizing. It's clear where you stand, but try in earnest to imagine how we might limit the scope of the candidates' presentation to, e.g. a 60-plank, 3-dimensional platform (ie pro/con/neutral).

Not saying this exact implementation is ideal, only that it's a more accurate representation of a pseudonymizing solution.
> Annual maintenance cost for the US T&D grid is $40 billion. We're talking "increase it by a factor of 10”

You quoted $2300bn to replace the transmission and distribution system, you say you’d need to increase the $40bn maintenance figure tenfold to replace the grid, but $400bn a year would mean doing that in five and half years. In reality whatever increases turn out to be needed have to happen over thirty to forty years.

And of course doubling demand would be accompanied by huge extra revenues, the electricity system takes in on the order of $400bn a year, doubling the unit production of electricity would mean $12tn of extra revenues, $24tn in total revenues over a 30 year timescale, relative to this it’s difficult to see how $2tn of extra costs on its own can mean a doubling in electricity rates, as you suggest.
The microsoft article mentions that Windows Defender caught multiple machines performing kernel injections near the same time with this driver as the root cause. Meaning it was already being exploited.

This doesn't mean the actual flaw was malicious, but being actively exploited, it seems intent doesn't really matter.
Don't work with them.

I hate when they do that also. I refuse to work with third party recruiters.