skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was the same before. I could get myself to sit down with a book and read, and wanted to, very much actually, but could only stomach it for 15-20 minutes. Then I was looking for the next dopamine fix. And not every day. It was a bit boring, really, compared to all the things I "learned" from just skimming hacker news.

It took a long time, but now I can easily read for an hour. My normal routine now is to wake up an hour before I have to and read for an hour or so, and then again in the evening read for an hour or so. Reading a book in the morning is really a great way to start the day, I find. I still prefer ending the day falling asleep to the office or something like that.

One of the things that has really worked for me, other than training the practical side of reading for prolonged amounts of time with focus, is to get used to preferring long pieces instead of the quick fixes that is mostly what's online. Before I wanted the quick reads, they felt like I achieved things. Now I want the long pieces, the books, the journalistic marvels that took years to produce and an hour or more to really go through properly. It took time to get here, getting rid of the fear of missing out - which I'm still working on - and understanding that all sorts of things happen in the "now", but almost anything of importance and substance is best "consumed" at a distance - maybe a week or more after it happens. That's especially true for news, except for the odd once that you want to know about right now, but I feel like when that happens, word will get to your from other paths, like family, friends and so on contacting you if it's that important. Any news that is not important enough to warrant your attention after it's a week old, is it really worth knowing anyway?
Hmm. Yes, but the alternative is you pass the roller on to your neighbor, or you use a roller from a tool bank, or sell it on second-hand, which things work better if the quality is better.

FWIW I inspected several rollers, not just the cheapest and they all appeared to have the flaw of very short metal "tang", and hollowed out plastic handle, just that bit too thin meaning it flexes too much. If the "tang" was a cm longer then they'd be fixable with a bit of old broom handle (drill hole, add epoxy, ...).

I'm not suggesting it's a conspiracy, just a natural part of the race to the bottom that Western Capitalism creates.

It's the same pressure that leads to reducing the food volume and keeping a packet the same size - "hey boss, we can reduce ingredient costs 2%".

So, "we want to reduce material volume", so the 'tang' is shortened until the thing just holds together, and the plastic is thinned so that as the plasticiser leeches out, and the extra pressure of the shortened tang acts on it, then it snaps. "If we reduce materials this much it'll break within 20 hours of use", which the boss thinks is perfect because they're optimising locally for profit and not globally for "keeping the planet livable".
> As with previous iterations of the game, physical cash isn’t even included, which should help eliminate at least one method of cheating.

How does this work? Is there an always-on display showing how much cash you have? Doesn't this hurt the game by making it impossible to "hide" your money from other players by stacking it up?
In addition to the point verelo raised about the repair/replacement cost of having used a parachute (vs. replacing a motor), I was thinking specifically of a wingtip-motor failure at takeoff (typically the worst-case scenario), possibly too low for a parachute (some figures here: [1]).

This is a 9-passenger airplane, maybe too large for current recovery parachutes? (though I imagine that will change.)

[1] https://www.cirruspilots.org/copa/safety_programs/b/pull_ear...
I think it's just a fun name. But maybe it's allegorical in that everyone "took what they wanted from the commons" (got their preferred features implemented), leaving the whole thing a mess (bloated language).
Our brain craves dopamine releases, which signals future reward. This rewarding-ness of food, info, drugs can be converted to a monetary value and measured.
Which indicates that the "age of electric flight is not finally upon us". People have been putting electric engines in gliders for a lot more mileage and flight time for years.
> with a much better overall browsing experience

That's a bit of stretch given recent Firefox versions. One can argue about the gap, but such a gap, is pretty small these days between FF and Chrome.
> Glad to hear this. Apparently, unfortunately, for many HN'ers, this is exactly the kind of post they don't want to see! There has been a movement clamoring for a pure tech HN without any marketing business-y type of stuff.

Or ... perhaps many HN folks just hate the concept of hacking the human brain to generate more sales.
Netflix model would probably be best. Isn't Apple doing something like that?
Google is a huge organization. It is possible for Larry or Sundar to have a 30 year plan that involves Maps making money while every engineer working on Maps day to day (including Director and VP-level people) cares deeply about product quality and has the freedom to actually put a lot of resources towards that.

I agree about quantity over quality -- the product strategy boils down to "collect lots of data and build models with it". In the short term, each new feature has middling quality data with middling quality models. But over time they get better and better. It's just Maps keeps adding new features that are at that early, kind of crappy stage, and you forget how much the really polished ones used to suck.
Not if you're trying to block Google as well, but for all other parties it probably is.
It would be nice to know what this specific "Raspberry Pi" vulnerability is, considering the software stack is almost entirely Debian.
My dad worked at a company that was researching hydrogen (probably for scram jets). Problem he said with hydrogen is the size of the fuel tanks starts negatively impacting the amount of payload you can carry.
Not that it matters much overall, but, amusingly, Netflix doesn't even have anything to do with Good Omens. The group addressed their concerns to the wrong party. It's an Amazon Prime show.
Can you please edit out personal swipes from your HN comments? This post would be just fine without the first two bits.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I have 5 lines (3 actively used, 2 mostly dormant) active on Ting (an MVNO) and our total bill is usually $55-65/mo all-in (post-paid).
Yeah, I see this kind of thing repeated any time Eviation comes up.

I don't believe them. The design is sound, if radical in the decision to be mostly-battery. And I think that's partly why people are so skeptical: it definitely goes counter to the industry grain. But it IS the right way to build a serious electric aircraft for regional/commuter passenger travel. Pressurized, extremely high lift-to-drag ratio, very high battery mass fraction, focus on high propulsive efficiency by ingesting boundary layer with the pusher propeller and countering wing-tip vortices with wing-tip propeller. The passenger count is also right, at the limit of FAR-23, allowing you to use a single pilot.

The only thing I would do differently is probably have a higher cruise altitude and higher aspect ratio wings (and probably counter-rotating dual-motor pusher propellers) instead of using wing-tip propellers and gettin, but theirs is a valid design choice as well.

So much group-think especially with the larger aerospace companies. They insist on hybrids for flight (notice how whenever Airbus or Boeing buy one of these exciting electric flight startups, they all of a sudden switch to hybrid?), which ends up compromising the design and adding a whole new propulsion system to validate and certify. Others have a valid approach of retrofitting electric onto older airframes, but that is not going to get anywhere near the operational efficiencies of a clean-sheet design. And still others insist on VTOL, but I have my doubts as to whether the focus on VTOL by so many of these electric flight startups is going to really be worth it in the end except for niche cases.
> the bandwidth involved for millions of TCP connections for a single broadcast is staggering.

The technical solution for that is multicast.

The internet doesn't really support multicast, but there are workarounds; the best known is BAMTech, which grew out of live streaming MLB baseball and was purchased for $1B in 2016 by Disney.

I have no idea how they do it, but I imagine it's not that different from Netflix. Put a box in ISP's everywhere that acts like a multi-user PVR. One stream per channel going in to the box, thousands going out.
Several would-have-been-awesome ready or near-ready new chipset designs were discarded by CBM management. Years upon years of effort wasted, on a critical time in the history of personal computers.

"This is too expensive."

As if releasing what would have been the absolute best microcomputer for several years (as per what actually happened, that is, assuming the competition didn't pull a miracle after seeing it) would have no value. As if economies of scale weren't a thing. As if making it cheaper later wasn't an option.

Morons.

For detail on the insanity, refer to The Insider Story[0] book.

[0] https://blog.amigaguru.com/book-review-commodore-the-inside-...
OP agrees with you: antithesis of non-public = public.
Avoid getting it for as long as you can hold out. If you’re not reliant on government subsidies, the only coercion now is to link it with PAN and also quote it in the tax returns.

If you can afford the penalty for late filing of tax returns, go for that. There are still several review petitions against last year’s verdict on Aadhaar. The Supreme Court, as usual, is delaying hearing those. Check out no2uid on Twitter, rethinkaadhaar.in and others.
Save someone some Googling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgfG2DfPB6I
Malls haven't really gone away, just changed shape. The big indoor malls of yesteryear are being replaced by (mostly) outdoor developments that combine restaurants, stores, offices, apartments, and entertainment.
I'm ready. An asteroid is an alright way to go out for me, everything else seems lackluster by comparison. This would be an acceptable early-ending to my normally schedule programming of marching endlessly behind the other humans towards oblivion.

In all seriousness, what can be done about this sort of thing(mitigating it)? Opinions(albeit ones from the internet) range from spacecrafts intercepting and mounting thrusters to divert the object's course, or planting nuclear bombs, and other "fantastic" sounding solutions. Is there anything to be done other than expect the unexpected?
Try this link:
https://twitter.com/BenBrelje_says/status/106484220091004108...

I believe tristanb cut & paste his own post from six months ago on this same topic, and it broke the links.
I think comp.lang.lisp had this discussion 10 years ago and the "core language" semantics of Common Lisp is something like 25-30 functions/operators. Rest of the language could be a separated into libraries.

But even with the all those 'libraries' COMMON-LISP package has just 978 external symbols.
I agree there is some benefit. But it also may lull people into a false sense of security thinking that information cannot possibly be copied outside the organization.
Try to auto guess based IP geolocation?
If I didn't care about rounding I'd just use a primitive constructor

['1', '7', '11'].map(Number)
Back then your attention was valuable enough that presenting news to you was an honor. Obviously some money was made on the side by embedding sponsored messages, but the core content was for the listener/viewer's benefit. Now, cheap content hogs all attention and there is no profit in presenting the facts plainly. There is still honor, however, and honorable news organizations still exist due to mostly volunteers. Personally, I very much enjoy wikipedia's recent events section. The citations are particularly useful.
The distractions smart phones are causing in our population is serious and scary. I like information everyone as much as the next person, but whenever I am checking my phone I try to remind myself of Robert Green's concept of "alive time" vs "dead-time"

>"He told me, Ryan while people wait for the right moment, there are two types of time: Dead time—where they are passive and biding and Alive time—where they are learning and acting and leveraging every second towards their intended future. Which will this be for you?"[1]

Social media is mostly dead time (I would say all dead time, but someone will probably give me shit about it), as is reading the short form versions of the news, TMZ, skimming an article instead of reading the whole thing, etc.

If you spend 30 minutes a day studying a new language you can achieve amazing results in less than a year. Instead of wasting time on facebook, bring a kindle and read about something interesting. Compound growth is very real, and more people should take advantage of it.

>"Compound growth gets discussed as a financial concept, but it works in careers as well, and it is magic. A small productivity gain, compounded over 50 years, is worth a lot. So it’s worth figuring out how to optimize productivity. If you get 10% more done and 1% better every day compared to someone else, the compounded difference is massive. " [2]

>"You observe that most great scientists have tremendous drive. I worked for ten years with John Tukey at Bell Labs. He had tremendous drive. One day about three or four years after I joined, I discovered that John Tukey was slightly younger than I was. John was a genius and I clearly was not. Well I went storming into Bode’s office and said, How can anybody my age know as much as John Tukey does? He leaned back in his chair, put his hands behind his head, grinned slightly, and said, You would be surprised Hamming, how much you would know if you worked as hard as he did that many years. I simply slunk out of the office!

What Bode was saying was this: Knowledge and productivity are like compound interest. Given two people of approximately the same ability and one person who works 10% more than the other, the latter will more than twice outproduce the former. The more you know, the more you learn; the more you learn, the more you can do; the more you can do, the more the opportunity - it is very much like compound interest. I don’t want to give you a rate, but it is a very high rate. Given two people with exactly the same ability, the one person who manages day in and day out to get in one more hour of thinking will be tremendously more productive over a lifetime. I took Bode’s remark to heart; I spent a good deal more of my time for some years trying to work a bit harder and I found, in fact, I could get more work done."[3]

End of rant.

[1] https://thoughtcatalog.com/ryan-holiday/2014/09/alive-time-v...

[2] https://blog.samaltman.com/productivity

[3] https://www.gwern.net/Spaced-repetition
I feel like the outcome of the case discussed here runs completely opposite to the outcome of the Marvin Gaye estate against Robin Thicke and the other writers on Blurred Lines, whereby the song, without any sort of similarity note-wise, was found to be infringing based on the "feeling" of the song, which seems incredibly problematic for anyone writing music nowadays.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blurred_Lines#Marvin_Gaye_laws...
Enjoying things is fine, but as someone without "fuck you money", 90% of the time I'd get more enjoyment out of a $20 plate and the ability to retire a day earlier.
Most plastic is photo-degradable. Left in the sun, it will disintegrate as you saw. [0]

Most plastic ends up in a landfill or deep in the water or burred under more plastic where it is not touched by the sun and does not degrade.

Plastic on the surface of the ocean breaks into smaller pieces which end up deeper in the sea, and does not degrade further. The ocean is filled with tiny plastic bits. [1]

[0] - https://www.rsc.org/Education/Teachers/Resources/Inspiration...

[1] - https://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2011/01/26/our-oceans-a-plasti...
That country doesn't, and never has, existed. All societies, no matter how free they may claim to be, have limits to what they will tolerate, and all will ostracize you for opinions if you move outside that box, be it through public shame or imprisonment.

When the US was founded, one would have been ostracized for being a loyalist to the Crown. Or an atheist. Or, depending on where one lived, believing that blacks shouldn't be slaves, or being a Protestant or Catholic in the wrong neighborhood. And as societies go, the US is incredibly laissez-faire compared to elsewhere, where unpopular opinions have gotten people killed for centuries or millennia.
That's true, it comes down to privacy. Firefox sent the full URL history of some users to a third party, an advertising company: https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2017/10/06/testing-cliqz-i...

Take this into account if you're considering moving to Firefox to get more "privacy".
It also has a working location bar that doesn't forget my history from a day ago. And a functional history that indexes on more than component prefixes (thanks Chrome).
Some employees of a credit card company got in trouble for this sort of thing a while ago. They were running queries against customer transactions to figure out sales ahead of earnings calls. For example, they figured out that Chipotle was going to beat expectations and bought a ton of stock just before the earnings call. (This very predictably got the attention of the SEC)
The omnipod insulin pump, by insulet, uses this in a clever way.

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/19322968187988...
> Is a citation really needed about the NSA collecting basically all the data on the Internet?

Honestly, yes. According to some random infographic I came across, americans use ~2 million GB (2PB) of data per minute. We'll round down and call that one EB per day. So round down again and call it 300 EB per year (a high estimate would be 1K EB, or 1 YB). That's more than the entire global output of disk storage annually, and the NSA aren't the only ones who want hard drives.

Keep in mind that much (most?) of that data is encrypted in transit, so targeting exactly which data they want is not always possible.
Tracking - or the lack thereof - is their problem, not mine. I don't feel I should be obligated to participate in order to be notified that my account has been compromised.

And I certainly don't care about their "goal", whatever that is.
I too remember the time when we didn't assume there'd be a Makefile-ish system that has to bundle everything, compile the sass, pull bootstrap, etc. Then there's the map files for debugging that will generate cleanly every now and then.

I've adapted but these strange abstraction languages are still where I'm drawing the line. At a certain point it's like, are you choosing the language for the project or is it the other way around.

Hah, I just remembered Vala.

Edit: Also this thread and the internet in general make me feel bad for liking javascript. It has issues with the global namespace being all wrecked when used for DOM, but the language in and of itself I just find cool for the same reason I find JSON and the way lisp treats objects/data/code cool. So many playa hataz :(
Fun story, but one quibble: with a week's warning, Pasadena, Texas could manage an efficient & orderly evacuation. The region has a high level of cooperativeness in the face of imminent common threats.
The group protesting it is called "Return to Order". Just at first glance, that choice of name is repugnant. It's like an unholy mix of Christian Right / Moral Majority + authoritarian echoes of the past all in one. Gross.

They are indeed a theocracy-promoting group, as one would easily suspect.
I pretty much only go to movies on a Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings these days. Cheaper and less crowded.
You should check the Aadhaar amendments bill (previously pushed as an ordinance). The government is pushing for Aadhaar linkage on different fronts again, and is also making private access available and easy. One of the places where linkage is being proposed (as it was in the past) is for driving licenses and vehicle registrations.

See this recent opinion piece. [1]

[1]: https://thewire.in/law/aadhaar-rbi-supreme-court-uidai
As comented on other thread:

Pro tip I didn't learn until embarrasingly late, they can recharge it in many (all?) places that they accept it, especially in convinis. Just say "charji" and give them money + tap it.
After programming for 20 years, I've noticed that programmers are aware of the potential benefits of any abstraction that they have internalized, and blithely unaware of the costs. Because, having climbed that learning curve, it is now free to them.

The result is that programmers introduce complexity lightly, and when they walk into a new language/organization/etc are inclined to add random abstractions that they are used to from past experience.

And yes, I am not immune.
Wizards Unite Is a Bloated, Slow, Harry Potter-Ified Pokémon Go
This was a better story from 2016 on how they are deploying the satellites...

"A company called Planet Labs Inc. has launched a small constellation of what it calls “cubesats” that can deliver much more frequent imagery of economically sensitive spots than traditional satellites. Those spots include retailers’ parking lots, oil-storage tanks or farmland"

https://www.wsj.com/articles/satellites-hedge-funds-eye-in-t...
It is only first party cookies set via document.cookie, not HTTP cookies. So login mechanisms will not be affected by this.
I'm guessing they didn't stick around for the dragons.
I'm unclear, why transform to a bytecode as a first step?
Wouldn't it be simpler to instead to transform to an AST and work against that for everything? Wouldn't it make sense to generate the bytecode as sort of a last step before doing heavy duty optimizations?

Seems like with JS you would be constantly transforming from bytecode -> AST -> bytecode -> machine code, such as every time a method adds a new field to an object or some optimization assumption is violated. It doesn't seem like it would be easier or faster to work with. I'm guessing there wouldn't be a whole lot of memory benefits either.

Would someone mind illuminating me on this design choice? (Granted, I've not taken a compilers course, so feel free to call me an idiot for not knowing something basic about how compilers work).
To confirm: Yes, amd64, as a descendant of x86, was included in the condemnation.

As for the bitmanip extension, it is well underway; the latest risc-v workshop had a presentation on it.

The keys, in my opinion, are the vector extension and the DSP extension. They do seem to still be 1-2 year away.

Other than that, there's some work on making interrupt and context switch latency lower. This is important for RTOSs and even more in general for microkernel multiserver operating systems such as Fuchsia which will matter a lot starting in the near future.
> You want your own domain. I don't know how I'd cope with the mess the internet is without an infinite supply of disposable email addresses.

I'd be surprised if there isn't a service for that.
Why Section 230 exists and how people are still getting it wrong
Central European countries block EU moves towards 2050 zero carbon goal
This is an important factor many people neglect. It's so easy to end up on the wrong end of an AXA suit in this case. Many people forget how having a minor difference in treating a disabled colleague can mean the company is going to get sued for a whole shitload of money. Especially true when talking about developers who command a relatively high salary compared to most.
But then the shape of this light-absorbent object would be resolvable. If you surround yourself with a cloud of absorbent material, you get "plausible deniability" to your expedition.

When you're asked, "hey were your forces in our solar system", you get to say "are you sure it wasn't just a cloud".