skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ha, I remember reading about that in university. One of the options my group considered for a culminating project in our engineering degree was a 6-stroke rotary (Wankel) engine that would have a water injection phase after the exhaust was pressed out.

I don't think manufacturing a working model of such a thing would have been within reach for a couple of undergrads, although the project we went with was almost as ambitious— we ended up building a mostly functional laundry washer from scratch.
In the US it highly likely means you're getting fired and they're now documenting reasons. Well, "reasons".

The reasons don't need to be accurate; they just need to be not provably inaccurate and to be well documented.
Rhapsody didn't have Carbon, the Blue Box was a virtual machine that ran Mac OS 9 and the desktop interface was based on NeXTStep.
Whew lads, this thread is fire and there's only three comments thusfar.
For the commission the guy got for doing the relative;ly simple job of selling a house it was frankly the least he could do.
https://blog.acolyer.org reviews a computer science (scientific) paper each week day and gives decent insight. Not really an alternative to HN, but the comments are usually high standard and often highly technical. As others have said, HN is good for serendipitous discovery of topics you may not have been looking for. However it can sometimes be an echochamber of superficial/similar comments.
I'm sure Dartmouth will get right on it and get one of the eleventy billion diversity officers and assistant deans of such and such on the case, if they can be diverted from the urgent task of putting the crippled remains of the Greek system on double-secret probation for organizing a Cinco de Mayo or Kentucky Derby party.
Pioneering Deep-Space Atomic Clock Taking Flight This Month
This is something I've found fairly shocking as a parent of an 8-year-old: the deep commitment on the part of other families to really commit to a specific sport or hobby. I don't know if I just grew up in too small of a rural town to have access to these opportunities (or if they're even healthy).

As an example, one of the girls on my daughter's volleyball team is on 3 separate volleyball clubs simultaneously. She plays 5 days a week at least an hour a day.
Power generators in the future are: 1) more numerous, 2) lower output, 3) more intermittent, 4) more democratized. Therefore communication is more important than it was in the 20th century monolithic model.
I don’t know... this seems likely easy to get going, but limited by the cards. And then you can jump to JS, so it may be a good gateway?
I absolutely agree on you, the entry level of Windows developer used to be lower than other developers. People use visual studio to drag and drop the controls, glue the code all together. You don’t need to type command, you don’t need to understand how the things work behind.

This may be ok for a junior position, and in closed environment. However, people are lazy and not all people are hard core. As a result, there are a lot .NET senior who don’t actually “know” how to code. Nowadays things become extremely complicated, all sort of API, library and framework. Even Microsoft can’t provide a completed solution, and it go back to command line approach with .NET core. I have been recently contacted by my ex-employee who want me to do some C# API communication freelance because their .NET developers just don’t know how to read the documentation and implement them in code.
“You can build your own cards with Javascript. Game Builder comes with an extensive API that allows you to script almost everything in the game. All the code is live, so just make a change and save it, no compiling required.”
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It's very bizarre to see this seemingly very pro-public-domain/anti-copyright/anti-IP decision given the reputation that Texas has for patent trolls.
Building a “Serverless” API Using Firebase Cloud Functions (2018)
I like the idea that the job of the OS (or really, the DE) is to respond to why we're using our computers. Each application should have its own job, but the DE's job is to help us achieve our intentions.
Simply put: There's too much of it.

Chrome is dead simple, minimal, and predictable. When I want something, I look in the one menu. Firefox, on the other hand, has multiple bars, multiple menus, sidebars, icons plus text. It's too much.
I didn't say it wasn't useful, I said it's not essential. And since burner phones can be traced too, I would lean toward simply planning ahead, memorizing things or writing them down, and showing up to things in person. That covers everything you need. That's how things were done for the first 40 years of my life, and it worked, and all of those things still work now. Then when you reach asylum you can think about the nice-to-haves.
I place a lot of the blame for this stagnation followed by backward progress on the fact that a decent number of developers actually have a kind of quiet or even subconscious contempt for ease of use and RAD tools. "Real men" code by hand in a text editor. RAD tools are for wimps. As a result few developers work on them or use them.

It's sad because what developers are really doing here is wasting tons and tons of time. If we had really awesome modern and especially cross platform RAD tools the time savings would be enormous. We could spend that time working on more interesting stuff than wiring up controls to events.
It will far more likely be a database under the hood than a cryptocurrency.
Don't you need shared drives, etc?

We can't connect to anything internal from outside, there is VPN access but it seems a step too far to use that all the time.
A few things you could try: taking a magnesium supplement, use a weighted blanket, add some exercise to your routine. Is there noise that might be waking you up? A white noise machine or earplugs could help. Are you sharing your bed with someone? Their tossing and turning could affect your sleep, so fixing your bed frame and getting a mattress which isolates motion could both help. Is your life stressful? That could be something else to address.

Finally, keep in mind that possibly, these wrist sensors may not actually be able to detect deep sleep all that well.
Functionality may be different - we don't know yet. It hasn't been announced how decentralised it will be.
Newspapers aren't competing with google or facebook. No more than newspapers were competing against news stands. Newspapers are competing against each other and those that have the power to force google and facebook to give it preferential treatment will do well. Those without the power to strong-arm google and facebook will do poorly.

Newspapers biggest enemy are "authoritative sources" and the preferential treatment these "authoritative sources" get. Small and local newspapers are going to suffer as their top enemies ( NYTimes, WSJ, CNN, Foxnews, MSBNC, WashingtonPost, etc ) get the "authoritative source" special treatment on social media and the internet overall. This applies to other smaller outfits like huffpo, vice news, vox properties, etc. As they get squeezed more and more, they'll fold if they are independent or if they are owned by a larger parent companies, the parent company will either absorb them out of existence or slowly shut them down.

When the CEOs of Facebook, google, apple, etc all bend to pressure by "authoritative sources" and pledge to give them special treatment on their platforms, it spells doom for smaller competitors.

Look at how many nytimes articles we have here. As time goes on, it'll get worse and worse. The diversity of news, thought and speech online is slowly being destroyed by a handful of state backed news companies.

Apple, Google, Facebook, etc are each worth hundreds of billions of dollars. NYTimes is worth a fraction of that. Yet the nytimes is able to bully these massive tech companies. Strange huh?

How much would "special treatment" on facebook, google, apple, etc be worth? Tens of billions? Hundreds of billions?

Imagine you had a business and you could force google, apple, facebook, etc to show your product to customers first . How about you could get them to only show your product. How much would that privilege be worth?
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A lot of good things to consider there, thank you.

To start with, I'll try to add lifting to my routine and maybe a magnesium supplement. I might do the supplement first for a week, to see if it has any impact.
Sure, but lead-acid and zinc-carbon, both 19th century technologies, were the main - essentially only - types of batteries until the age of the Walkman in the 80s. Then we got Duracell alkalines and cute adverts. Until then there wasn't a lot of pressure to get better, so they mostly didn't and they wouldn't have sold anyway. Around the same time rechargeables got some development pressure in the form of mobile phones, and there was effort to do better than rubbish NiCds or heavy lead-acid. Even cell sizes remained constant for nearly a century. If there'd been more pressure there'd have been a lot more chemists thinking about improvements than just Ever-Ready, Duracell and Motorola.

Maybe a global electric car industry working on the problem 4x longer than we have would have come up with something better, maybe not. Alternate time lines are never certain. :)

Batteries aren't all of it though - how would personal transportation have evolved if every city and road network had electric distribution points for vehicles - as was planned in the 1910s - instead of filling out with petrol stations? The fast charger networks could easily have been something of the 1940s rather than the 2000's. We'd undoubtedly have standardised on a generic one that worked with every make of car by now. We'd probably have designed cities a little differently too.
Withholding a permit until the property owner does something not explicitly required by law is exactly the shakedown I'm speaking of.
They could very well steal the WSL idea from Microsoft and make something similar. Currently there is iSH which runs certain Linux utilities unmodified, but I'd love to see first-party support.
The block-based visual programming system also looks similar to Scratch. I think kids still pick up valuable experience with basic logic, side-effects and weird cases like non-terminating loops.

I met a 10-year-old who made a cat-and-mouse game with Scratch. He was thrilled to explain to me that in a previous version of his game, touching the mouse would do infinite damage. He needed to throttle the damage function to 10 times/sec to get reasonable scores.
It still could introduce people to logical thinking. For me when I was kid I was too stupid and gave up too easily to code anything. It felt like an impossible task to learn everything to even get the basics up and running. And it was my dream to make games as a child. Even modding felt like magic beyond my grasp. I couldn't even make a game with RPGMAKER. Maybe this will help someone like my kid-self find that with a little bit of time they can do it.
Grandparents tried it. She still did it not long after. After that we decided it wasn't worth trying.

The twins bite her when she does something they don't like. Doesn't stop her from doing those things they don't like either.
Yes, and the emulation was awful prior to the G3
Highly recommend this one. Has a really tight focus on high quality tech topics only.
If by easier you refer to the whole lifecycle of a reasonably secure application, I’m sure that many web frameworks with rapid CRUD builders are much easier, and don’t require distributing binaries, standardizing the desktop platform to Windows, or giving the client binary direct access to a SQL server.
VMware Announces Intent to Acquire Avi Networks
I think he means there is too much NYT and WSJ, and not enough cool project or tech hacks.
And yet, Apple TV and AirPlay now as native capabilities on TV sets...
That is untrue.

The term "free software" was effectively coined by RMS & The Free Software Foundation. It is used explicitly when referring to copyleft licenses, which restrict certain uses of the licensed software in order to protect user freedoms. You can argue that other people use the term in other ways, but the most commonly accepted definition is the one used by the FSF.

The term "open source" is somewhat vague. Software that is merely "open source" is not necessarily licensed in a way that allows redistribution/modification. The only thing guaranteed about "open source" software is that you can read the source.
My 2013 motorcycle gave me 72mph.... in first gear (yes, super sport bike are nuts).
It's "performance improvement plan".
Techniques to Tackle Overfitting and Achieve Robustness for Donkey Car Agent
Interesting, but it requires adding a file to your machine. I'm constantly on different machines. Being able to log in, get all my info and settings, and then log out leaving the machine in its original state is invaluable to me.
Looks amazing!!

I wonder how well it will cope with non-basic games, as in non-platformers, non-shooters.

I've noticed that many frameworks are great for basic tutorial project usage but don't do well once you start on a real project
But did you remember to tick the "I'm not a robot" checkbox[1]?

[1] https://twitter.com/marcirobin/status/998030243981033472?lan...
Facebook's equivalent of Google pay on the sense of data gathering?
UFO? during SpaceX launch (left side blinking object) at 17m 6s
That's a shame. I think I paid about $70 being in Australia with the other ~$500 covered. If they had managed to fix me, it would be probably be a very good investment for Medicare since poor sleep predicts many issues.

You could try nasal strips to open up your nose as a cheap hack in the meantime and see if it works. They make me itchy so I stopped, but did help my airflow when they were on.
But states can be wrong. That's why it makes no sense.
“Fecal transplants have come into increasing use to treat severe intestinal disorders, particularly an infection caused by a bacterium called Clostridium difficile, which can be deadly and tends to occur in hospitalized patients who have been heavily treated with antibiotics. The idea behind the transplants is to use stool from a healthy donor to restore the normal balance of bacteria and other organisms in the intestine, the microbiome.

In some cases, the transplants have worked quickly and saved the lives of patients who were wasting away with uncontrollable diarrhea. But the procedure is not approved by the F.D.A. and is considered experimental.”

For anyone else wondering what this procedure is for.
Can you go in to more details about how to get this setup?
Quite the contrary - tools like these kinds of gamemaker programs, which factor out knowledge -that previously required a huge amount of individual energy expense- into the social domain, make that strong visceral+interactive portion of computer art more likely to be experienced by more people, leading to the greater likelihood of wanting to learn how to go deeper into those experiences teased by the gamemaker programs. The obvious analogy is how the usefulness of view-source in the earlier days of the internet lead more people into pursuing programming than when you needed some sole purpose programing language compiler or interpreter to see the power of computer code in action.

More people being able to do more stuff is just better. Gatekeeping is rubbish.
That's a luxury the US can afford because for about 50 years it's never fought against a country with an air force capable of challenging it. If the US and China come to blows over Taiwan or Korea, if there's an intervention (however limited) in Ukraine against Russia - then the Army and Marines will have to deal with enemy air presence.
I was wondering when teleoperation was going to be taken seriously to plug the gaps in full autonomy.

If Starsky is successful, I suspect this will be used a lot of places. For instance:

Image vision detects a police officer. Maybe a police officer doing hand signals. Immediately switches to teleop (with last several seconds replayed) if in a safe situation to do so. Corner case: solved.
It's valid point to have the older kids help, it just bothered me how it was done. The mom would basically expect a 10 year old girl to change diapers while the other kids played, and the mom drank. (the reliance on the older kids was just over the top)

Again, these are friends of ours who we care about, but they did some things that seemed selfish. But again, their adult children and decent and so far well adjusted.

I have kids too, eventually you are done doing the baby-chores like diaper duty. It is exhausting at times, but it's not forever.
It’s the opposite for me. With the tracker, I have solid evidence I got a few hours of sleep when I think I didn’t sleep at all. It makes me calm down and stops insomnia attacks from occurring.
A lot of that report had me going "yeah this is not good" but it wasn't until

"I falsified the [traumatic brain injury] report that changed a distance from the IED strike [to where] one person was standing. So that way someone didn’t come back down and stick a finger in my CO’s chest and say, “You need to evac that lieutenant right now!” Because in the middle of [a] RIP, that’s not going to happen. If I do that, I’m going to put my boys in bags because they don’t have any leadership. That ain’t happening. I owe the parents of this country more than that."

That I really had to stop and stare and re-read the paragraph to make sure I understood what had happened.

That is horrifying but the worst bit is I can sort of see the reasoning behind it, but bloody hell...
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Could you post the rest of the tex file?
Russia Signs Huawei Deal
I think all business has to know what they are selling. Google and Facebook know it very well. They sell ads. All their business endeavours hence are to sell more ads.

On the other hand, newspapers seems to not know that they are selling.

If it's content or information, then they don't create enough unique and valuable content that enough people are willing to pay enough amount.

If it's content distribution or platform for opinions or civil discourses, they are almost anachronistic.

If it's ads, they simply don't have enough eyeballs.
Science Posters Suck. So Let’s Reinvent Them
Squid could thrive under climate change
There were a few attempts at steam motorcycles/bicycles too - which boggles the mind a bit. Definitely not going to meet modern health and safety.

Here's one from 1860: https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/motorcycles/a26052/186...

Ransomes, famous maker of traction engines and inventor of the powered lawnmower had a couple of patents for steam motorcycles, but I've never seen details of what they envisaged.
I vote for the coin to be called, "The Zuck."
This Calculator Will Guess How Many Healthy Years of Life You Have Left (2017)
Corrupt government and an apathetic electorate

For a minute there I thought you were describing the USA - there's way too much corporate money in government and the electorate just doesn't care.
This is neat, thank you!
The Puerto Rican grid is already partly segmented - Mayagüez was on a minigrid even before Hurricane Maria. The fact that Mayagüez was the only city on the island that retained power after the hurricane was not lost even on PREPA.

(An aside: I first made it over to Mayagüez in the second week after the storm, hoping to find a cell phone I could use for Internet access - National Hardware not only had power but working telecommunications, so I could actually buy a few supplies on my Visa card. And their air conditioning was working. It was literally like walking through another world.)

Adjuntas is working on getting their downtown on a separate solar minigrid. Everybody thought this was a particularly good idea this week, as the power was out downtown on Wednesday.
Perhaps we could have had electric vehicles sooner, but we would have needed clean sources of electricity, not coal powered generation, to make a difference.
Are you claiming the act of writing bytes to a ring buffer as being memory allocation? In that case I misunderstood what you were saying and it was indeed a straw man.

In any case, we're clearly not going to find common ground here.
> unfortunately too smart for their own good because their handiwork means [certain doom]

Reminds me of a certain mammalian species.
A famous competitive programming prodigy is tourist[1]. You can find his rating graph starting from 2006 on topcoder when he was just 12 years old: https://www.topcoder.com/members/tourist/details/?track=DATA...

He's now indisputably the best competitive programmer in the world. But it's comforting to know that he too had to slowly grow over many years starting from a mere mortal 1200 rating.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gennady_Korotkevich
There was talk that Duke Energy was interested in a purchase. I haven't heard anything recently.
Generalized Information: A Method for Judging Machine Learning Models
Lucet – A Sandboxing WebAssembly Compiler
If you keep the default settings and use it to buy anything it will spam your 'friends' just like Farmville. "Joe Wilson just used Libra to remove the ransomware from his Dell, how will you use it?".
It is legitimately terrifying the power over our lives these tech companies are amassing. The ability for them to arbitrarily cut us off from our livelihood is terrible. I'm afraid that we are headed toward a world of corporate tyranny if this trend can't be reversed.
One option is to get an FTP account, mount it locally with curlftpfs, and then use SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem.
I don't think you can discount the military applications as a factor. It is not as extreme as in aviation in terms of raw innovation, but without the demand for millions of engines for trucks, tanks, jeeps, and all the other machinery of war sparked by the warfare of the first part of the 20th century, the internal combustion engine would not be as ubiquitous as it is today. In thirty years armies went from marching on oats and horseshoes to petrol and Goodyears.

Maneuver warfare would have been impossible on electric. And then when the war was over, all that surplus machinery was around, and so were the factories that built it.
Sure - better at keeping to terrain masking. However, the A-29 has far superior performance; in fact, it was originally designed as a helicopter hunter. It has a maximum speed 60% higher, can take almost twice as much payload, and a substantially longer range. In the context of the asymmetric wars the US actually finds itself in, the A-29 is a very good platform.
Sorry, I should be more clear. When I say “things we have heard,” I mean “things someone said to us to our faces, which we heard with our own ears.”
I'm glad you found it helpful, though if I'm the best guide you can find, you are probably doomed.
Maybe readers aren't the customers and newspapers are actually selling narrative control.
iMessage will likely never be cross-platform. Apple sees the writing on the wall, only ~10% of their userbase gets the fully integrated iOS/Mac experience, and they know they can't leave the remainder out in the cold wrt accessing their own files (hence iCloud being web accesible).

Yet you won't see Airdrop, proper Time Capsule support or other core features that don't make Apple recurring revenue add support for Windows, Android or Linux. Apple has been selective about what they're willing to do on other platforms, and its whatever they think they need to do to ensure their 1 billion iOS users are somewhat happy, while not letting their Mac sales lag (by letting the moat disappear).
Will this be a centralized currency?