skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think anyone at Intel has been patting themselves on the back for their 10nm failure. This wasn't their plan - cannon lake was supposed to be released in 2016, but now they'll maybe have volume production by the end of this year.
This is worth stressing: such regulations often exist to prevent fraud from outright scammers. If such a regulation did not exist, I am confident there would be institutions that called themselves a "bank" but met none of the basic consumer protections we expect from a bank.
It's not necessary to do that. We could reserve use of hydrocarbon fuel to airplanes, and it would be fine. It's not necessary to go to zero.
The problem with examining from the 'create your own luck' angle is that it's prone to survivorship bias. There are incredibly brilliant people out there working hard in order to succeed, but end up having little success despite positioning themselves in all the right places.

This notion also tends to ignore the people that can fail upwards: They reach positions or become managers that they're not at all qualified at, but end up doing well through a few lucky rolls of the dice. I'm sure we'd all like to say that eventually this comes back around to bite them in the rear, but unfortunately that would imply a just world fallacy.
I disagree with your analogy, on the grounds of human factors.

If we were talking about budgeting money to detect an asteroid in the first place, the analogy would be spot on. And indeed, we do suck at detection, its a tragedy of the commons, its difficult to align on, all those things you mention. Because its abstract.

But, IMO, there is a huge psychological difference between trying to sell the public on detecting an asteroid, vs diverting one we know is coming. The one you know is coming is this concrete physical threat.

This is very easy to sell. At a visceral level, almost everyone has been hit by a rock. Once you believe NASA telling you its coming - and I bet policy makers will believe that piece - the rest sells itself.

This is the difference between getting someone to pay money for health insurance, vs getting them to pay to remove a tumor. The former is a much harder conversation than the latter, though they are functionally the same.

Climate change involves explaining the impact of potential changes to a complex system.

There have been very many action movies about asteroid deflection. Its simple, its dramatic, its sudden. Its like the moon landing. Climate change is this slow creeping abstract thing, and that honestly matters hugely in terms of human factors.
Easier to parse maybe. You can parse it line by line. I also think this format is easier to edit.
binary-ast doesn't give any significant benefits over JS, potentially a small reduction in size vs standard gzip responses, but I've yet to see compelling evidence binast offers any significant time saving to first execution.

It's important to realize: binary-ast is no more readily executable than plain JS, it is no more trustable than plain JS, and even if they were parsing is not been a significant part of ttfe in JSC in a long time. It's the interpreter codgen that eats up time, and the execution speed difference between AST (which JSC used for a looonng time, and the final builds beat the contemporary bytecode interpreters of other engines when it was replaced). The performance of an AST is so much slower than bytecode interpreter that you require a tiny amount of JS before the cost of codegen+execution beats just execution using the AST.
Consultants in what field?
The left out the release that had 3 distinct jQuery versions bundled in the app.
With the exception of tourists around Times Square, there are large areas of Manhattan that are the same way. Kids are sometimes seen but not too often.
See also also also also Scotchgard
OK, we've added performance to the title above.
>New turbofans have efficiencies close to 50%, so it's more like 20 MJ/kg.

Depends if we're talking LHV or HHV. Additionally, we're talking smaller jet fueled vehicles which rarely have access to state-of-the-art efficiency.

>Beyond Mach 0.5, the efficiency degrades very rapidly.

In this case, we're talking Mach 0.5 or less.

>this can be done for any aircraft, not just the electric ones.

Didn't imply otherwise. The highest performance jet plane can fly literally around the world. But this is far more performance than anyone needs in an aircraft. And for whatever reason (partially because of aging fleets, at least for very small commuter aircraft), generally there have been efficiencies left on the table still, just the same as conventional car makers left efficiencies on the table which Tesla and the like have taken advantage of.

> Do you really believe there is a market for 1200km hops at Mach 0.5.

For domestic flights, yes. For transatlantic, no, not a large market. Not as long as jet planes aren't paying for their climate externalities.

>We already have ATR 72 and Bombardier Q400. Why no one is using them for long haul flight?

Because those have the same maintenance requirements and use the same fuel as jets, which are just as efficient and faster.

I don't think we'll do many transatlantic electric passenger flights until the climate externalities are priced-in for the cost of air travel or until lithium-air or similar. But now we've moved the goal posts to long-haul and transoceanic flight. Electric flight is clearly possible and for domestic flights it'll likely be cost-competitive even without fully accounting for climate externalities, particularly for these 9 passenger FAR-23 electric aircraft competing with fuel-guzzling and maintenance-heavy 40 year old fleets.
Sure. But there are a lot of areas where you just shrug and say "here be dragons" and move on.

For example, consider the new for loop syntax

for (auto item: a().b().c()) ...

Does this make you nervous? It should. In the above, suppose a(), b(), and c() are all returning objects. Which of these objects remains valid until the end of the for loop? And this is a dragon in one of the most helpful parts of new C++.
Yeah, I am too. My point was just that it's harder to know than appears at first glance without actually measuring. It could easily go either way.
i haven't thought about paint shop pro for a long time. fond memories. i might try and run that in wine.
the result then basically being that they just end up destroying what they sought...
> If Yellow Vests movement taught us anything, is that you can ignore protests long term

Peaceful protest can be judged on four goals: "(1) the extent to which the relevant outgroup (e.g., policy makers) would be influenced by the collective action (intergroup concerns), (2) the extent to which relevant third parties would be influenced by the collective action (broader societal concerns), (3) the extent to which the collective action would be successful in building an oppositional movement (intragroup concerns), and (4) the extent to which the collective action would be successful in expressing one’s values (individual concerns)" [1].

The Yellow Vest protests resulted in direct action (1) when Macron backed down on the proposed fuel-tax increase [2]. Hong Kong isn't a full democracy and Beijing is ruled by a dictator. Direct influence is thus unrealistic.

On influencing third parties (2), however, the protesters have leverage. By threatening Hong Kong's economy, they can swing the Legislative Council's tycoons [3]. International visibility, in turn, deters Beijing with the thread of sanctions and, potentially, military support (if not for Hong Kong, then Taiwan).

On building an opposition movement (3), we're witnessing a permanent political change in Hong Kong. The LC recently removed opposition candidates with minimal fanfare [4]. That will be difficult to replicate.

On (4), we again have a clear win in forging a Hong Kong identity built upon peaceful democratic solidarity. That shows brightly against Beijing's violent and autocratic alternative. (And has influence outside Hong Kong [5].)

[1] http://eprints.qut.edu.au/3815/1/3815.pdf

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-04/french-go...

[3] https://www.msn.com/en-gb/money/news/as-hong-kong-erupted-ov...

[4] https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/politics/article/3013437...

[5] https://www.ft.com/content/2feba0a6-8eba-11e9-a24d-b42f641ec...
htm is a nice bridge, because it works with React and Preact and both allows for development in standard JavaScript as well as being a runtime perf boost because strings are a lot faster to parse than nested function calls.

But htm is just a shell over VDOM (that's why it's small, you still need the real VDOM implementation).

React + htm still suffers from its use of VDOM and the diff that necessitates. lit-html doesn't do a diff because it remembers where the dynamic expressions are located in the DOM, so it can directly update them.
Swedish Couple Builds Greenhouse Around Home
This doesn't surprise me at all. One of the big draws of assigned seating in any activity is that it's efficient, reduces confusion, and over time encourages face-to-face discussion based on proximity. You also sometimes get into weird arms races with hot desking where people want certain desks and will do strange things to ensure they get them regularly.
It's probably linked to the session's cookie?
This is what I learned/intuited/assumed (?) to be the practical value of raking the gravel in a zen garden. It's not the effect, it's the process.

I've also assumed that this was the moral of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance though I've never read it.

(I have my own rituals.)

[0] Not mentioned on the Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_rock_garden
> "Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."

> https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Forgive me but can we not be skeptical of claims made about a commercial product?
> do you copy the threads content?

Basically we take each message of the thread, normalize the typography so that it can be consistently styled, and then strip off the signatures and quoted reply text while leaving any quoted inline replies. There are some open source libraries that do parts of this, but none of them worked well enough for this particular use case so we ended up just developing some new techniques ourselves.

The other thing the tech does is it lets people run much more accurate NLP on threads. This isn't fully productized yet, so right now there are just a handful of companies we're working with to clean and normalize their email data.

In terms of the spammer, yeah I see that but I'm not sure what I can really do. As the app creator I don't seem to have any special ability to delete comments or flag things as spam.
I've never used FORTRAN, so I'm just going off of my reading of the article. It looks to me like the correct requirement is that the C source code itself include the string length, and that developer have not been doing so.
Surely there can't be any problems in computational chemistry that have actually been proven to be NP-hard? Simulating an experiment atom-for-atom is in BQP, which is not known to contain NP (and is suspected not to contain NP).

EDIT: To put it another way, we can't solve NP problems by doing chemistry experiments.
Have you seen gron[0]? It's similar: flattens JSON documents to make them easily greppable. But it also can revert (ie, ungron) so you can pipe json to gron, grep -v to remove some data, then ungron to get it back to json.

[0] https://github.com/tomnomnom/gron
A little more off-topic but my work laptop is a Panasonic toughbook (CF-C2), and I was impressed to find that I could swap-out the storage drive with my bare hands (no tool!). That was pretty cool. You just unlock the tray holding the drive, pull it, unplug the drive from it, plug the new one in, and push the tray back in. Super simple.

The arguments around why laptops are becoming less and less modular are usually that having mechanisms to attach and detach these parts take space, and so if people want thinner and thinner laptops, they need to remove these mechanisms. Personally, though, I can't see why I'd want a thinner laptop. The toughbook is thick, even by pre-ultrabook standards, but it's still very, very comfortable.
> As a software engineer, I can get access to realtime institutional-grade data

One can get API access just like that? If so then I'm interested, might be fun to dabble with--can you name some of these providers?
For someone who's been harping about how great Spotify is for years, I kinda of feel like an idiot for not realizing this side of it earlier. Of course they're going to monetize emotional data... what else would they do?

Assuming even as a paying customer one's data is mapped with FB/phone number/email/friends/profile name against a myriad of other data for advertising. As silly as this might seem, I almost feel a bit betrayed...
i agree. but i suppose even einstein had a few failures . It's just that failures are magnified with notoriety, even if these failure might just be the prelude to following success.

> Maybe it’s like a programmer’s blind spot ?

Nah this must come from entrepreneurs , which is a lot more like gambling than science etc.
IME the "artificially and ineffectively trying to enforce e-mail confidentiality" part is malicious in itself. You don't get to tell me what I can do with a physical letter I get from you, so you shouldn't be able to do that with an e-mail either.
There's a lot of value in those tools, but it's better to entirely eliminate the family of bugs 'by construction'.
Digital nomad has traveled to all four corners of his apartment (satire)
If I could double upvote this I would. My most recent encounters with burnout were a result of taking on too many projects to check boxes on a promotion. I found it helped my optimism when I chased personal development over projects that I really didn't care much about. Handing everything off made me feel better, was strategic from a leadership development position and gave me the extra time to concentrate on my own interests and development.

Saying "no" is a forgotten method of self-preservation.
That can't possibly be true. For most people, consumption is limited by income. And average incomes are barely rising.
What's different about the next 10 years than the last 10 years?
This comparison is inappropriate. When Common Lisp was standardized, the goal was to unify several different Lisp dialects, not to make the language "small." Furthermore, there was no standard library for Common Lisp. The language itself is its standard library. If anything, the language by itself is too small for a lot of modern applications. (The situation is different now; there are hundreds of libraries to fill in the missing pieces of Common Lisp. But they're not standardized like the core language is.)
It's due to the "trigonal bipyramidal" lattice structure. By changing atoms in the structure, they've created pigments with a range of colors. https://ws680.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=921441
similar video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc_clnBY-2I

Both very cool!
I think the biggest point that you and others that bring this up is missing, is not just how electric designs gives you higher efficiency and close the gap (as others have mentioned).

The main thing you're missing is that modern jet planes have absolutely ridiculous range, and a huge number of flights use only a fraction of that range. Electric planes don't need to match modern jet planes to be viable. They just have to compete on cost at a range that covers a significant amount of routes. And electric planes have a potential for huge cost advantages.

A related aspect is that electric planes are much more quiet. Being cheaper to operate and more quiet means you can fly smaller planes from smaller local airports to other small airports. You can create an entirely new market.

Electric planes are not going to take over transatlantic flights any time soon. But they don't have to in order to have a huge impact.

I do agree that carbon neutral fuels are important for long-haul flights for the coming decades. With batteries for land transport and short-range ships/ferries and planes and hydrogen for heavy trucks and ships, we might be able to sustainably make enough carbon-neutral fuels for long-haul planes.
Google IO game dev track was a joke, versus what gets shown at WWDC or BUILD.

Google really doesn't get game development.

While Apple and Microsoft make frameworks, IDE tooling, and talk studios language, Google makes PR talks about their cloud services, does some intro level talks about middleware and shows how to do 3D with bare bones FOSS libraries and CLI tooling.

Stadia will surely fail if that is all they have to offer to game studios.
I don't think so. You cant steer a parachute well and you don't want some bypasser to get hit by a heavy battery on a parachute. The descent speed on a parachute is very high so it will hurt or more.
Does Fastmail even provide an API like this?
Submarine War Reports
I kept one in the lab and the habit has stuck with me.

There's good advice in this comment page but I will add two things I haven't seen:

1 - If this is your personal notebook (not a lab book that is the property of your company and will be archived by them when you leave), don't be selective: write anything of interest in, including shopping lists or whatnot.

This has two benefits. One is that personal stuff (e.g. order those flowers for your sweetie) won't be taking up "space" in your head while you're actually working on stuff. (This theory is part of the GTD movement by the way)

The other is that if you use this system in your whole life you'll hone it more appropriately to your needs, and won't ever have to decide "is this worth writing down?"

2 - review it daily, either before going to bed or first thing in the morning. Mainly just review what you wrote down the day before; older stuff becomes reference. Before you go to sleep offers the possibility of your brain chewing over some stuff while you sleep; doing it first thing in the morning pages in the state from yesterday. So whatever works for you.
At about the seven second mark in that video you'll briefly see the full shot that the camera is taking.
Thank you for all your hard work on Firefox! Many of us Firefox users really appreciate all the work you and your team does!
When thinking about saving up for a home theater system I calculated that for the same money I could go to a movie theater once a week for the rest of my life. So it's not that expensive if you have a theater in your area with good gear and good acoustics.
It seems easy because you don't need to prove it. You can do your best and then launch it.

But you can't prove it for under $15k and if you are successful eventually you'll need to prove it.

Anyway, I'm not talking about the GDPR. That's just bureaucrats testing the water. The US congress is starting to look for ways to get their cut as well.

It will get to the point where you need to prove compliance with multiple conflicting regulations first, before launching. Now you need to spend $100,000 on auditors before your first push to heroku.

Most people in software, especially startups, have never had any contact with a regulated industry and don't know what they are in for.
> I'll stake my engineering reputation on that statement

Such forceful claims should not be made anonymously. I'm with you on the claim itself but feel that if you want to make that statement and stand by it that you should do so with your name and 'engineering reputation' attached to the claim itself.
Are they going to have to change their name to "Wine Is Now an Emulator"? At least it's only one letter difference.
And part of his pitch was the argument that his company was missing opportunities by not creating products that catered to different cultures. Responding to his success by creating an executive position dedicated to finding other such opportunities seems like a logical step.
Minblog: Host your own blog for free (updated)
Good lord - these ICFP puzzles are not fun anymore. Look at the length of the spec and problem description. I already do this everyday - it's called work. A good puzzle should fit on a single piece of paper. The challenge should be solving it in a novel or optimal way, not slogging through a litany of boring requirements.
>There are incredibly brilliant people out there working hard in order to succeed, but end up having little success despite positioning themselves in all the right places.

Then they aren't as brilliant as they think or don't work as hard as they think.
Please don't post unsubstantive comments like this to HN. Two better options are: (a) make it a good comment by substantiating the accusation, or (b) don't post.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
YInMn is supposed to have high NIR reflectivity useful on a sunny roof. The Apollo 11 Lunar Module used gold foil to reflect heat, I suppose future vehicles could have a brilliant blue foil, apt for Blur Origin.

I liked how the lunar module used gold foil, and Apollo the Greek god was the Sun deity; gold often used to represent the Sun.
>Why should you deprive an inventor of the rights to his invention merely because he's funded by the government?

Same reason the company i work for owns any code I write while I'm on the clock.
Isn't it Québec anti business and with arcane language laws ? Why would anyone start a business or hire someone from Québec ?
The ability to refactor, for one.
For me it's tidying my office at work.

When I'm at the point of defenestrating the computer, I tidy up the flotsam and jetsam that accumulates in any workspace, once everything is back in order I grab a coffee and carry on.

Never ceases to amaze me how often a simple solution to a frustrating problem occurs midway down the stairs with a box of empty amazon packaging or whatever.
Sure hope I’m being downvoted for not being funny. Am afraid that in today’s world, some of you really think I’m anti-science. Scary!
You test it with animals.

It's inorganic, has simple structure and contains only non-toxic compounds, so there is no reason to be worried.

If you want to worry, direct your attention towards Vantablack and other carbon nanotubes. It has specific target organ toxicity from single exposure and while it does not appear to be carcinogenic it needs more testing.
Surely you would need to be modelling at a subatomic level to accurately simulate chemical interactions?
You could turn it around and say, assuming I eventually succeed, what's the distribution of failures I'd have to
endure? You might get lucky, but it's definitely possible to quantify how long it would most probably take to succeed.

If you have a bunch of people tossing dice and stopping when they roll a 1, only ~1/6 will succeed immediately. Most people will take a few tries; a few will take many tries; there's a nonzero chance you will wait forever without a success.

That's not to say that a success gets more likely with time (the Gambler's Fallacy) but on the whole, you'd expect most successes to have some prior failures, unless the dice are rigged.
All of Safari syncing is possible on Windows with the (recent) iCloud client on the Windows Store. In fact, with more browsers than on Mac or iOS!

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204283

It is true, on Linux no joy.
Actively developed and written in Go.

The project linked to is from 2014 with last update in 2015.and it is on NPM...

What is left to say? Thank you!
Finally the narrative is changing from features to privacy. It’s a fantastic modern and fast browser but it’s really Mozilla as an organization and their commitment to users that’s making Firefox the most important browser out there, if not the only one, users can trust.
How much snow do they get? Seems like it would be serious work to make sure ice and snow didn't pile up or bring down the greenhouse.
I also started seeing much slower performance in Google Maps and street view in the last few weeks.