skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sleep on 2-3 blankets, so a little padding. But too much padding gets uncomfortable for me. Let me try to elaborate what I think I learned during the past year. But take it with a grain of salt, it's just subjective perception:

I slept on my side or stomach most of my life, it was the only comfortable way to sleep for me. I started to sleep on the ground just like that and guess what, the first nights were horrible. Once I started to sleep in different positions, everything changed. My theory is that there is no real feedback on a mattress/very soft ground. I can sleep like I want and it will be comfortable, even though it might be "bad sleeping posture". If I do the same on the ground, there is no padding, my body gets real feedback and reacts with pain in bad "sleeping postures". But what does the pain tell me? In one way: Sleeping on the floor is bad because it hurts. In another way: My way of sleeping is bad because it hurts, so I need to change it.

An example: Sleeping on the stomach on a mattress is still somewhat "comfy" for me (even though I don't like sleeping on a mattress). Sleeping on the stomach on the ground is a no go, because my weight presses my chest against the ground, making breathing way harder than sleeping on my back with no weight on my chest. I just got so used sleeping on my chest that sleeping on the back was horrible at first, but once I got used to it I felt more replenished the mornings after. So if I sleep on my stomach like in this example, is sleeping on the floor bad because I can't breathe properly, or is sleeping on a mattress bad, because I don't get the necessary feedback to realise it affects my breathing? I guess that is something everyone needs to decide for himself, but for me the answer is: sleeping on a mattress is bad.
$10/month is at the high end of what I'd consider paying for a note app - that's more than Microsoft Office. $2.50 is a bargain, but I don't want to pay for 5 years at once (although I can certainly understand the reasoning behind that model). $4-5 (OP's app or notion.so) is right on the money for what I'd expect to pay for this kind of tool.
C3 CSS: A methodology to help you write human-friendly CSS
The 48 Laws of Power also gave me a strange feeling, it was hard for me to express it at the time.

It seemed like a manual for operating in a world where you and everyone around you is motivated by increasing their power, a zero-sum world of dominance.

That might be true locally for the environments in which some people operate, but it’s not true generally for everyone, since luckily humans are equipped with more complex motivations than only the desire to dominate others.
"no business model" e.g. one off payment

and yet Microsoft (worlds most valuable company btw) built an empire selling software.
When the insident is over, does it look like 55:50 in that video? :-)
Improving on protobuf with IValue: efficient representation of dynamic types
> You only need to pay if you start using the features that securely sync your connection details between devices

That is its one advantage over regular ssh and e.g. JuiceSSH for Android. I can also sync my connection details over dropbox (host+port) and authenticate each device using public keys. Yes, Termius would be a lot more convenient, but the parent's point stands that "is this convenience worth 60$/yr".

I suspect the answer is yes to a big enough portion of sysadmins, especially if they can get their company to pay for the license. The rest of the poor folk get to learn how to build it themselves, as usual.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20122666

Furthermore the combining with other works is not clear in on GPL3 cases.

When combining happens and when doesn't? What happens if I combine it with proprietary software?
Doesn't project Catalyst mean that we'd be able to build react-native iOS apps on macOS? :D That would be great, cause with MS support you can build react-native apps on Windows and even Xbox already, just Linux is still out of reach.
I mean, finally. We were getting a bit bored of the "latest in web design 1/2/3".
> Saying "98% of climate scientists agree that AGW is happening" IS an argument from authority, but it's not an argument-from-authority fallacy, because they are in fact authorities and we should listen to them.

That is the claim that people make when they make an argument from authority. That doesn't make it not a logical fallacy.

> It's only argument-from-authority if there isn't sufficient evidence that this authority is most likely correct on this count.

Sometimes this works (the Earth orbits the Sun) and sometimes it doesn't (sanitizing hands/scalpels is actually a good idea between dissecting cadavers and doing c-sections).
Ask HN: Composing programs from global function registry – is it viable?
Here's a rough idea:

- have a globally available (s3, cdn and whatnot) registry of functions

- each function is a tuple (name, dependencies, arity/spec/something about types, source, compiled bytecode)

- functions are referenced loosely by name and strictly by sha of that tuple directly in the code

Why would anyone do that?

- you no longer have to deal with dependencies - they are inferred from functions you reference/require in your code

- your build process becomes simpler and faster - dependencies are all pulled at boot time (or constructed locally at deployment site) from the registry

- your deployment becomes much more granular - down to single function that can be swapped during runtime if the language is right (erlang, clojure, anything that's functional and dynamic enough?), can't get any closer to zero downtime deployments without hassle

- when bug is found in one of the functions or a change is needed for any other reason, a new function gets published in the registry and it has new sha - amazing for discovering vulnerabilities, auditing and having reproducible builds

now tell me that this has been around since 50s and why it can't work.
I mistyped, he uses a vector network analyzer for tuning RF stuff. Measures the amplitude and phase of a circuit and generates a smith cart in real time. They've come down in prices a lot but they used to be $50k or more.

There are also simulation tools that allow you to simulate antenna's.
Thank you very much sir, i could not remember the name of this site. Just bookmarked it
When the key signs some embarrassing video it gets revoked as compromised. Simple as that
Deep Learning Toolkit-Enabled GPU Acceleration for Modern VLSI Placement
Can't they just cover the sidewall like a normal tyre? If needed to inspect the inner structure just make it removable/replaceable.
Big shoes to fill and it seems like history shows us those shoes rarely get filled. But he seems like a very happy guy and that's important too.
It's the superior format. Just like yyyy-mm-dd [hh:mm:ss.sss] is, because lexicographic string order matches the time order.
Show HN: Improved of CLI Git quick statistics
You should send a pull request.

https://github.com/opengaming/osgameclones
I don't think so - the reason I don't use VSync for first person shooters is because it introduces 1 frame (8ms ~ 16ms depending on your frame rate) of input lag. It really feels laggy when I try to move my mouse and aim.
This is a very good point that I hadn't thought of, that is, is react-native adds support for it. I imagine Catalyst would make things easier though.
Notes on the Limitations of the Empirical Fisher Approximation
I have a directory open and edit a 260 line file.

roughly 750MB RAM...
And with the advent of dating apps, we, the machines, are selectively breeding them.
The engines compensate for the air resistance

That's not how zero gravity is achieved. It's done by parabolic dives that result in periods of simulated zero gravity.
I left the ad industry because of data tracking
I actually love this ongoing cat and mouse game. I don't follow the events in this field keenly so I don't know if it exists, but the challenge is to find antidote to this concoction, created by mad scientists just for sake of science, that will be weaponized anytime now.
They only have big outages. The VMs are incredibly reliable other than the big incidents. And, as I am often reminded by my product owners, people don't mind big outages as much as much as small random failures. If the whole thing is down, ok, fine, I'll go home. If it fails 0.1% all the time, my life is suffering. And in GCP, you start a VM and it just stays up. We've killed them from inside with memory leaks and filling the disk etc., but I haven't seen GCP kill them (50K VMs for couple years).
It's nice to see a fellow Bulgarian on HN :) Good luck with your product!
Nice, I will have a read.

I think you need to get rid of the margin-left and margin-right styles on '.article-content pre' for '@media screen and (min-width: 989px)'. It pushes the code off the bounds of the page on my screen.
> Hydrogen was a dead end in 2000 and it's only getting deader

Easy sentence with no content. Dead on which aspect ? In Elon Musk propaganda speech ?

Hydrogen never was a dead end technically. It's only blocker is cost of generation, cost that goes away with scale and cheaper electricity.
See https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle. We're one month into the three-month freeze, so it's unlikely that new features are going to be merged in before the tree reopens.

Bugfixes are still welcome, though, as long as they're safe enough for 1.13.
The horseman serves the horse,
The neatherd serves the neat,
The merchant serves the purse,
The eater serves his meat;
'T is the day of the chattel,
Web to weave, and corn to grind;
Things are in the saddle,
And ride mankind.

There are two laws discrete,
Not reconciled,--
Law for man, and law for thing;
The last builds town and fleet,
But it runs wild,
And doth the man unking.

-- excerpt from "Ode Inscribed to W. H. Channing" by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eagerly waiting for "How does a Processor Execute my Code! And Why?!" to come out in the public domain.
Except where the same person is both publisher and consumer. I run a couple of systems at work were RSS is invaluable, a website with news and a set of screens on the premises running Xibo, that ingest the news via RSS to display.
Beancount is really cool. I've been using it for about 2 years now and really like it so far.

I'm also maintaining an "awesome" resources list for Beancount here - https://awesome-beancount.com/ , in case it's helpful for others.
That's what I always say about my business ideas when I start getting the death threats though.
>There's no mathematical way for it to know that you won't modify

That's an overstatement. That's currently impossible in C#, but Microsoft is working on it in F*: https://www.fstar-lang.org I hope some of that will trickle down to F# and C# some day.
Interesting. Small world. It is just a few hours ago that I listened to Naval @ JRE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qHkcs3kG44
Why Rwanda could be the first country to wipe out cervical cancer
The Mystery of Cosmic Cold Spots Just Got Even Weirder
I cannot wait for it.
Poland has virtually no guns, yet there is 6.7:1 male to female suicide ratio.
Not at all - in many recent renovations they reduce the car lanes from two-way with parking to a single one-way, making room for double wide bike lanes.

The plan is to make it so cars won’t drive through the city, but still be able to reach each spot.
While I agree it sounds like their networking modules cross-talk too much - you still need to store the networking config in some single global service (like a code version control system). And you do need to share across regions some information on cross-region link utilization.
Well, Teams is using less memory than Skype for Business that I also have running and compared to Visual Studio and multiple browsers windows I have open they are hardly using anything.

Edit: Yes, I think Electron/nodejs are "bloated" too if I look in node_modules - but once I stopped worrying about that I got over the whole "bloated" perception.
Is charging really fast enough?
I do not have the possibility to charge an electric car overnight, because I live in an apartment and the building has no garage.

Can I just charge my car before going to work in the morning in 5 minutes, like I do with petrol?
At the university, every time i put the array length into a local variable for a loop, i got 2 points deduction on my Homework.
I'm not a big fan of the Web stack, but I think if for whatever reason I had to write an offline app with a web-ish frontend, I'd write a cross-platform HTTP local-server and use the regular browser. I'm biased towards Electron, because I use underpowered systems and just one modern browser is a big resource hog, but one per application is nuts on a low-power system.
HA! Same w/ me, a "silly" movie actually changed my life for the better, thank you for letting me know at least another person got the same out of it.
> You don't get to play the game if you literally have no surplus income - and many Americans don't.

Except...he was a poor Indian immigrant who presumably did not have disposal income. So how then did he not only play the game, but seemingly win it?
We used to use the top end of the HP plotter range (approx. £12k) when I worked at one of the Big consulting engineers.

I recall we used to move them into the aircon computer room so we could run them over night for increased accuracy.
California's largest wildland fire started by hammer sparks
> Humans have faced lots of problems over the millenia, but the reality is that our lives continue to improve as a whole..not get worse.

I think this is no longer true. Life expectancy is actually on the decline in developed countries, driven by (among other factors) the loneliness epidemic described in this article.

You can argue over 5,000 years or something things have improved, sure, but in the present day there's a strong argument that quality of life is getting worse.
I usually notice input lag in first person shooters when I have V-sync / fast sync on. V-sync introduces about 1 frame of input lag (0.5 frames for fast sync), so 8~16ms is just enough to throw myself off. I would guess platformers and fighting games would have similar kinds of input lag problems.
50 km from the surface, there are hurricane force winds, with temp and pressure similar to earth, but carbon dioxide atmosphere infused with sulfuric acid. Would be a bumpy ride. I wonder if there are tornadoes within that.
Yes, daily. Access to a network of friends and people I can ask for advice and provide advice in return.

Several channels for open source projects.

Sadly not for work anymore.
Unique Cereal Rings Were Not Made to Eat, So What Are They?
Yeah got locked out of a dedi this way (bad ipfw ruleset which killed my ssh connection) and the virtual console wasn’t working. Fun times. At least it was a personal machine.
Of course. I use it every day for keeping in touch with technically minded communities and some talking channels. Irssi is my wagon, it runs on my server in a screen and I use ssh to access it, both on desktop and mobile.
From the same wiki article what I gather is that attending Stuy has nothing to do with economic status or money. It is very selective in a merit based admissions test and the tuition is free.

It is very plausible that he was a poor kid in India, parents put all their savings to immigrate to US, and by sheer hard work he got into Stuy. You can't rule out that possibility.
This is a reminder of what the web should be about - publishing great content in an accessible format.
While visiting this site for a first time all I saw at the top was huge clunk of JS code. I took me a white to realize that it was some FF extension that injects (non malicious) code to the every webpage (Web MIDI).

It was a truly brutalists experience to see some things more exposed than I was prepared to.
I've always been interested in notional "starting points" like the appearance of writing representing the beginning of "history."

Since reading "Sapiens" I buy into YNH's definition of the beginning as the point where culture takes over from genetics as the driver of progress. He attributes this to the paleolithic revolution, and supports the hypothesis that this poit represents a breakthrough in language, enabling cultural concepts like tribalism, money, priesthood or whatnot and leading to much more sophisticated group and intergroup behaviours. That resulted in a creature that was no longer an animal a meaningful sense.

From that point on, human behaviour evolves so much faster than genetics that natural selection is replaced, as the meaningful driver of change. Biology becomes a legacy and a platform, but the culture grafted onto biology is what matters historically.

It's hard, with our biases, to put younger events like the industrial revolution into context alongside palaeolithic events... but it certainly seems like a revolution on that scale.

In any case, speculating about the present... It seems plausible we are currently at a point where technological advancement is (a) driving change rather than culture and (b) cultural institutions can't keep up.

The wild card is that technology can influence biology (and culture) in ways that culture could not. But. whether technology replaces us or subsumes us doesn't seem that different to the eye-in-sky perspective. It is technological progress that dictates progress from now on...
Data Is the New What? Popular Metaphors and Ethics in Emerging Data Culture
This is great, I don't like subscription. I prefer to pay upfront price and play the game how long I want for free.

Last time I used a subscription bases streaming service for 6 months until I finished Witcher 3. When I saw how much I paid I started thinking that it would be better to create a gaming rig.

But with such proposition from Google I can't wait to have it available in my country.
I feel it's actually pretty fair. Not perfect, but keeps users safe
I like what I think you're trying to say...but:

> Once you understand this, though, it's easier to note that this piece is itself a bid in a status game -- it defines a set of values and sets them up as higher than a competing set of values. And the set of values he's advocating seems to be one by whose standards he would have a high status. ;)

I don't think this is actually true. As far as I can tell, Naval isn't setting up any particular set of values as higher than any other. He's not saying that you should or must want wealth. He's speaking to you on the assumption that you share this value. I don't think he's trying to justify that value being better or higher than any other set of values.
> They most likely have no-explanation-needed-policy

I wonder when alternatives to today's big sites will take serious root. It used to happen much more often.
From the Wikipedia page I pointed to at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduced-gravity_aircraft :

> The sensation of weightlessness is achieved by reducing thrust and lowering the nose to maintain a neutral, or "zero lift", configuration such that the aircraft follows a ballistic trajectory, with engine thrust exactly compensating for drag.

"air resistance" (my term) = "drag" (WP)

"The engines" (my term) = "engine thrust" (WP)

It seems that I am substantially correct, yes? Or are you picking at the specific wording I used?
Depends on the car. The Porsche Taycan is supposed to be able to charge to 80% state of charge in 20 minutes. And it's supposed to be able to add 180 miles of range in 9 minutes:

https://www.drivingelectric.com/porsche/469/new-porsche-tayc...
It is not an easy operation and neither cheap. However, in those days getting a working visa was probably a no brainer. I really applaud his parents for taking that route. Usually employers sponsor the airfare. Still, a very gutsy move.

One of my uncles went to Carnegie Mellon on a full scholarship in the 80s.He hailed from a village where education was the least priority. He was very poor but figured his way out without any money. It can be done.
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> I'd write a cross-platform HTTP local-server and use the regular browser.

That doesn't actually solve the biggest problem. How do you package up that server? Can you make it something people can run like a regular executable on that platform? How do you distribute it?
I consent to my location data being tracked, to the extent that I don't turn it off. Sometimes I choose to, but usually I don't. I consent to Google scanning my email to serve me relevant ads and provide useful information to me about arriving packages and the like. I consent to them monitoring my search habits, to the extent that I choose not to use incognito mode, in order to populate my Google Now feed and again, better target ads to me. I could go on enumerating more things for more companies, but I think you get the point.
When I was in college I was mystified by genetic algorithms, without knowing much about them. After taking 2 subjects on the matter and reading some books, I came to the conclusion that apart from being inherently inefficient (that's what you apply them when you have no alternative), they are actually outperformed by hill climbing (which can be seen as a particular case of the former if population = 1). Also, the crossover operator seems to make more harm than good, and it's not fully understood it's usefulness in nature, although there are some theories (this last point is taken from Pedro Domingos book).
There's plenty of luck involved. He probably won some genetic lottery that contributed to his intelligence (genes = about 50% of intelligence). He (presumably, having only skimmed) also was lucky enough to have had a stable family life, managed to avoid major trauma as a child, and I can see from the rest of the thread also had a good education (environment = much of the rest of intelligence.)

Of course, he did apply himself and take initiative to get where he got. But, it's dangerous to work backwards from success stories and say "well, anybody could have really done what I did, ergo anybody who didn't is [....]"

That said, I wonder how many of the really driven entrepreneurs among us started from lower than middle rungs in society, and/or share the "immigrant mentality".
Or a free/paid app pair. Think old shareware games from the '90s, for example Doom2 1.9 shareware.
It’s due to crypto scammers using it. From the founder’s post:

At some point in the past crypto scammers used JSFiddle to host pages with a wallet code and posted links to that on Twitter.

Due to the nature of JSFiddle, anyone can post anything, so wallet codes are ok – we did implemented a content filter to shadow-ban these.

I asked Twitter if they they could help out and ban twitter accounts that were posting scam tweets that included links to the rouge fiddles.

Twitter just went the easy route and blocked all jsfiddle.net links instead of blocking spammer accounts on their platform.

Tried to contact Twitter many many times, with no reply whatsoever. They most likely have no-explanation-needed-policy, which is why they never replied.

There's nothing that can be done here unless somebody has contact to a higher op at Twitter who has the decision power to help out here.