skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What would be a good number of years to use? "Literally as old as the Universe is now" seems like as close a number as you can use to put timespans that big into _some_ sort of perspective.
The mistakes are not cheaper. The result of mistakes is a high risk of death in both circumstances. And measuring insulin into standard syringes while not being able to think straight is dangerous as hell.
Getting jiggy about the gig economy? Get down and dirty in the spreadsheets
zsh combined with oh-my-zsh changed my life, but I spend a lot of time in the terminal.
Life sucks, diabetes sucks, and poverty sucks. More than people who don't experience it can understand.

But you do the best with what you have, and that means picking your pain.
Ah, so its a factor of sqrt(2) on the length scale, corresponding to a factor 2 of area and (I guess) a factor of 2 improvement in transistors/cm^2. Makes sense, thanks!
Maybe the reason was his incompetence, incisiveness or something else, but he ended up putting people to work on a project without revealing relevant stuff of his intentions and underlying situation. Not communicating and stringing people along is not a good personality trait.

see:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/233#comment-1715
it's a faceted issue: the idea is to subside people to attend university so they can have a more productive and happy life from which everyone benefits (trough taxes, reduced welfare, reduced health costs etc).

the issue is that not every student makes the cut and not every university has the same ROI, whether because the degree itself holds little value on the job market or because the degree costs are too high to ever recoup.

another question is do we want to finance liberal arts degrees that traditionally have a bad ROI or do we want only the wealthy to engage in those sectors?

it's not a simple question, and the angle "who pays for it actually" seems reductive.
Citing human psychology is a sad excuse to excuse one's self from personal responsibility. You are the final arbiter of all decisions that you make. Nobody else. You are the one that is ultimately responsible.

If this were loot boxes, then maybe we'd be having a different discussion, but unless they're tricking you into something other than what is advertised, then the onus ultimately falls upon you to control your desire to purchase something.
Ha! I live a few blocks from that corner. Always wondered who set that up and for what reason.

Nicely done. Hopefully the construction there will end soon, too.
Creating new standards of design with the NHS website
It depends on how much profit will be generated by investing the same amount of capital in the two activities. Say that half a mil in pharma shares return you 5% yearly; if you can generate more than that with a price-competing activity (also pricing in the risk to your capital, of course), you should do that instead.

In this particular case, there are actors for whom the profit would not be directly generated by sales of goods, but by the amount they save elsewhere in their operations - which, depending on various factors, might actually be multiples.
It's always helpful to check how old a user is and his karma.
Floppies had richer, warmer bits, man. The bits coming off USB drives are cold, tinny, and mechanical by comparison.
Yes I was sincere. I enjoyed the machine, the support experience after it failed was appalling.
Ada has always been intriguing to me. Is it used much anywhere these days?
I was pure Physics and did the same.

I'd summarise the relevant sections for the exams in LaTeX documents as well. The pain of having to put it into LaTeX made me absorb it better I think...
Let's be clear that this is a "government" goal, and that isn't necessarily a goal of the people whom the government serves. The government doesn't have it's own money to serve it's own goals, so I'd appreciate it if it stopped using my money to ignore my goals for society, so that it can pursue it's own. See also: having to donate basic school supplies to the public school, but the state patrol has state-of-the-art weaponry and technology headquartered in my town that hasn't had a murder in 20 years.
We really need some kind of highly compressible alternative format for podcasts. Representing speech with a very limited set of code points. It might be a bit lossy, so you could lose the tone of the voice and other speech characteristics, but there could be some ways to still represent that by carefully picking the words you utter in the podcast.

Of course I'm only spitballing here, this would require some pretty advanced research to be made.
Keylime: Using TPM to Secure Your Slice of the Cloud
kinda was hoping for some fun pics of floppy disks..... ;)

And also this all reminds of old demoscene/music tracker days when groups would release "music disks"
Article about syprine in NYT (2018)

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/23/health/valeant-drug-price...
Lol, sure, ok.

I guess the fact that every restaurant employee I work with can easily afford $129 will get downvoted too.

Considering private lessons would cost at least $150 / week, $129 is a steal.
Yes almost certainly we can keep speeding things up, just a lot more slowly than we are speeding things up right now. There's a lot of room for improvements in more specialized single-purpose hardware, more different sorts of cores tuned for different workloads, and academia has a lot of ideas for algorithmic improvements too. But don't expect these to provide the same rapid increase in capabilities that we've seen with transistors shrinking.

Eventually we'll have nanotube transistor or photonic or spintronic or nano-electro-mechanical or quantum computers. There are firm physical laws saying what the limits of efficient computation are and we haven't reached them yet.
Virtualize large lists with react-window
Sure that's a great recipe to lose your customers. Shops have an interest in having honest reviews, and if they are gaming them, someone else will provide more honest ones.
Ask HN: Password manager with best experience on Linux?
I've been really happy with 1Password, but it seems 1Password does not have a Linux client. They have what seems to be a browser extension (1PasswordX), but so far I've hated the 1Password browser extension on OSX, so I can't imagine using that full time on Linux.

With that said, I'm super happy with 1Password's UX on OSX. It sits in the tray, can be activated with a toggle, allows me to search a password name, and then keeps that site/etc active while you toggle back and forth between the app and 1Password Mini. Copying in this manner is quick and easy. This, plus excellent support for Windows/OSX/Mobile makes 1Password a joy.

What are you using on Linux and do you enjoy it? Any problems with it?
CDs that you burned chemically with a laser at home were much less durable than those physically pressed in a factory from a glass master.
> If you know about climate change and you still fly ... you are just a bad person

This seems a bit extreme. I fly so my kids can see visit their grandparents once a year. If fighting climate change means sacrificing family, then I guess the planet is toast because I'm not willing to give that up.
Love it! That's a great setup, bet it sounds amazing through those SSL racks too.
Business Casual Attire Is Destroying the Planet
The other drug market has fewer people selling than otherwise, at a higher price (for the quality) than otherwise.

I'm not sure how you are able to the opposite conclusion.
It isn't just a dichotomy that bad writers produce bad writing and good writers produce good writing. Good writers are even better at producing bad writing, because they produce bad writing that masquerades as good. We're not dealing with random defects, we're dealing with agents and their agendas.
The single biggest challenge facing data centre professionals today
This subfeed of my blog has all my D language posts, about a dozen of them (apart from a few videos of D or related confs):

https://jugad2.blogspot.com/search/label/DLang

They may be of interest to beginners or others wanting to get a bit of a feel for some of the kinds of things D can do, via simple command-line programs, along with checking the D site and tour at dlang.org .
Not to discount, but I'm sure you benefit from buying in bulk as well. We are a family of 5, about as efficient with food costs ($250/week) (yet, also our preschoolers are still quite picky eaters).

I'm just enjoying your comments. Sounds like you're doing a lot of things right. Right on!
I think most of these tactics are explicitly forbidden in the EU. Opt-in (to newsletters and spam) is mandatory, for instance.
There actually was work on CSS additions to give hints to Text-To-Speech engines, e.g. https://www.w3.org/TR/2018/NOTE-css3-speech-20180605/
I'm not an electron hater, but when only using 300mb of memory while idle is something to boast about, they may have a point.
They computed, verified and measured wear and tear (lifespan in Gy) as a function of temperature. The paper, which I linked, includes the full plot. They had to pick _some number_ (temp or years) in order to communicate it as one data point. There's nothing special about 462K -- it's what happens when you pick the age of the Universe as how long you want it to last form now. Pick a billion years, or 10 billion, and you get a different temp.

Given that they had a hypothesis, designed an experiment and validated the result, it seems a bit much to say it "flys[sic] in the face of the foundations of science".
I found it not very flexible compared to Rust's Serde (https://serde.rs/), which is my only comparison in statically typed languages. Customising things like mapping camel case to snake case required creating whole classes.
Throughout the entire 2008 crisis, the payment networks never stopped functioning. Not for a day, not for a minute.
Yeah, something along those lines. Not sure how well it'll work on a pure technological solution, but with a social app you may get people to summarize it.
MS Flight Sim might be a good pilot case (pun intended) for WebGL and WebAssembly. The nature of simulator is not that CPU/GPU taxing. I would assume the players play it more for the actual simulation and less for the specular graphics.
It's not a 'rant'. This is exactly why speeding up CPUs is more difficult, even with billions of transistors. People expect to write whatever they want and have it run faster. 1% of the transistors in a CPU are actually running instructions, the other 99% are trying to keep it busy.
In a discussion involving C, C++, Rust and Nim, "on par with Go" is probably not considered fast. Also, it would seem Crystal is closer to those languages I mentioned than to Go in speed.
Oh my zsh and a few zsh plugings completely blow fish out of the water for me. First off zsh doesn't have any supposed syntax improvements so I can take any new skills I acquire to environments other than my own.
Is this why we receive spammer phone calls that come from numbers that we have a history of dialing? I assume this is still happening because I visited Nashville for the first time this year and must have called a restaurant or two for reservations there. Now, I get a ton of Nashville spammer calls among the usual area codes that they always hit me with. Pretty curious.
I can’t help wonder if Apple are at least in part behind this increasing awareness of the impact of noise on wellness. It’s known they are releasing active noise cancelling headphones (perhaps this year) and WatchOS 6 has a noise meter as one of the complications...
according to the executive in question, yes.

https://medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-mo...

> Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful executive who was confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course. In a casual restaurant setting, I was explaining how Google’s Trust and Safety team (a team I used to work on) is working to help prevent the types of online foreign interference that happened in 2016. Google has been very public about the work that our teams have done since 2016 on this, so it’s hardly a revelation.
I'm so glad that this is a thing now! My first memories of MSFS was FS98, which was one of the few games which ran acceptably on our dated 531MHz Pentium 3 desktop. I remember getting FS2004 a few years after and I was never so simultaneously excited and disappointed to play it when our poor desktop could only sputter out 4-5FPS with all the settings turned down to the absolute minimum.

Years later when we upgraded to a more acceptable desktop, I spent hours of free time in middle school trawling simviation for the most absurd addons, including a Flying Hawk, a cruise ship, a space shuttle, and a BMW 760Li, because why not? My FS2004 install swelled from its initial 3GB to 12GB with all my addons. I've done a countless number of commercial flights and became a lot better at landings thanks to the FSPassengers mod which added some life to the barren FS2004 world, complete with options to serve your passengers drinks and listen to their screams when going stalling into a free-fall :)
How does this compare with Prepar3D from Lockheed. I thought Lockheed had bought MS FlightSim and even hired a good number of their developers and that was the end of MS FligthSim

https://www.prepar3d.com/
as a d user, i definitely do not recommend d for web development. for everything else, go for it. it's just because d does not have a mature web development ecosystem.

i'm hoping this will change soon but this is the case for now. i simply don't want you to be disappointed when you finally decide to jump in.
I'm sure there are other barriers as, if what you are describing is complete, one could earn a pretty riskless profit by some combination of (a) 'threatening' to become a new entrant in the market for an expensive drug; (b) stockpiling the existing entrants drugs when they drop their price to try to drive you out of business.

I remember reading a book about the history of some (famous) chemical company in the U.S. – Dow? Dupont? – doing exactly what I described to compete with the at-the-time existing German chemical company cartel.
Lol, true. My girlfriend thought it was "too smart" at first. But now she loves it.
I don't think it's productive to use the language of morality (good vs bad) for behavior very far outside the realm of interpersonal relationships.

I think it just makes people defensive (I'm not a bad person!) and even less likely to change.
Yeah - I found it ironic that out of the box I couldn't get a pi-hole to do DNS lookups. It always took manual fixing.
Are they harming you buy talking about this frequently? If not, then who cares? It's their personal quirk. Play along. Let them own this one thing that they have to talk about. Maybe they're insecure and not good with social interaction, but they feel like they have to talk about something.

If you're honestly annoyed by it, then complaining on some random internet forum about it isn't going to fix the situation. Confront the person and tell them directly that they need to find new experiences to talk about or that it's getting on your colleague's nerves.

Stop being a coward around your coworkers.
I've done all the research I need to, thank you very much, and I was there when this thread was started and much earlier than that. The consensus in the elixir community is hardly relevant when most of the users aren't experienced enough with type systems to know what they're talking about.

If you asked a community of people who primarily have never used languages that don't have garbage collection, they'll likely not understand at all why it could be a bad thing.

Someone who has used a language without garbage collection and is comfortable with basic allocation strategies is very likely to remark that having control of memory allocation and deallocation is very often something that you end up wanting instead of having to re-architect your solution in indirect ways to influence the garbage collector. This comes from having a wider perspective and the elixir community at large does not have this.

Given that the elixir community is also very cultlike it's hardly a productive thing to take what they say as the objective truth.

(I'm not saying this is an outsider at all, I've been a part of the elixir community since 2016. It's not really despite that I am saying these things, it's because of that.)
Thanks for sharing! Your post is full of things that might seem obvious in hindsight, but all too likely to be ignored absent a compelling writeup like yours. Bookmarked the linked repo, will revisit w/ my next Electron app.
Medicalising everyday life doesn't help anyone's mental health
> Revolut is not profitable. It reports an operating loss.

It reported an operating loss for 2017, because it stopped losing money on monthly basis only in December 2017.
I remember Flight Simulator making a lot of news in the Fall of 2001, and then Microsoft seemed to let it go dormant for a while. Maybe they didn't want more news stories like that.
To amend that, it seems Lastpass has a CLI! While this may not be the best UX, I can likely make it good enough. Even writing a client myself might be possible with a CLI backing it. So at least that is promising.
As much as I don’t like PayPal I will never sign up for any subscription that does not go through PayPal. Reason being, I can log into PayPal and stop my subscriptions any time without jumping through hoops.
I am an electron hater but this is a really good setup. Server reloading with that debugger is rad. I'm going to use these methods with a platform I don't like.
>It's always helpful to check how old a user is and his karma.

It's fine to consider it as an extra signal but many people do not realize that reddit accounts can be gamed by marketers for stealth advertising:

https://www.google.com/search?q=sell+old+reddit+accounts+to+...
I agree with this one. The managers job isn't to hide it. The managers job is to push back, and then communicate to their team in a way that is honest without stirring up resentment.

Trust is a lot like privacy in the sense that if you lose too much of it, it can't be recovered. I work for someone I don't trust now.. it's pretty lousy existence.
The entire military industrial complex is predicated on murder for profit. Remember this every time someone tries to sell you the lie that we need to airstrike Iran because they shot down a drone.

Guess who's really winning there? Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, General Dynamics and their shareholders. Certainly not the Iranian or American people at large.
Thank you! So happy to see the response from Montreal (/ Mile End) HNers :-)
300mb of memory to do a bit of money-counting, which you could probably do equally well with MSVC in 2mb.

Such a wasteful world.
> I don’t think this issue is really confined to social media

This isn't new. Social Media is just another channel. http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Facebook, Libra, and the Long Game
Yeah google isn't built on popularity, but everything else is. And it's partly our fault for using aggregators.
I believe it was very much Bill's pet project, and neglected after he left.
On Prodigy, there were boards where people would log their flight time on FS4, F-15 Strike Eagle (Microprose) and other sims/games. People would hand out ranks and medals too.
I can sort of understand someone having that opinion, but if you know running there's powerful evidence that it didn't happen (more than comes through in the linked article) and all of the alternative explanations sound very fishy. And I don't see how it's a lynch mob mentality at all if everyone is open to the guy going out and demonstrating conclusively that he has that level of fitness, which is quite easy for him to do if he wants to (if he really does have that level of fitness).

It's a tired scenario that's been seen many times before. The accused cheater here, if he were a reasonable person, would say, "Yeah, I understand how it looks, it certainly doesn't seem like I could have actually run that race without cheating. So, here, let me go out and show you that I really am that fast." Why doesn't this happen?
Did you read the article? It says 230MB for starters, you're clearly trying to paint it negatively. And the first thing it says after that is "still not ideal". Looking around at other native apps and at rest they are consuming between 150-200MB.

It goes on to say that there's a memory-intensive piece that I haven't even optimized yet and will rewrite into Rust which should bring the memory down a lot more.
I mean, there's no need to look further than this incident (but you're certainly welcome to if you'd like).

https://medium.com/@gennai.jen/this-is-not-how-i-expected-mo...

> Project Veritas has edited the video to make it seem that I am a powerful executive who was confirming that Google is working to alter the 2020 election. On both counts, this is absolute, unadulterated nonsense, of course. In a casual restaurant setting, I was explaining how Google’s Trust and Safety team (a team I used to work on) is working to help prevent the types of online foreign interference that happened in 2016. Google has been very public about the work that our teams have done since 2016 on this, so it’s hardly a revelation.
I've been using Flight Simulator since the 80s and it was one of the driving factors that caused me to later become a commercial pilot.

I used to be into the simulation side quite intensely, and I own FSX, P3D, X-Plane and hardware peripherals. However, the underlying engines on these platforms are suffering due to age.

If Microsoft re-enters this market correctly (modern engine, focus on SIMULATION, 3rd-party support, global scenery, etc) this is HUGE for this "niche" market.
Are there any firewall style apps to block this type of behavior? Something like uBlock or uMatrix but for apps. I'm not inclined to trust any apps and would prefer explicit control over what they do.

Also, it's a bit strange to me that we didn't/don't seem to have this explosion of data leakage for desktop apps despite them having unique ids just like on mobile (idfa/google ad id).
There goes that nasty evil legacy language, "It wasn't my lack of programming skills and cognitive short falls that caused an exploit in internet-critical software ... it was C's lack of memory safety. I'm completely innocent and would never make bad decisions of my own accord ..."

And ask yourself-- who benefits the most from the borrow checker? Because it's sure not John Q. Programmer ...
Damn. I'm kinda happy it's easier with Twitter. This is some bullshit...
But Weiner's Cybernetics withered on the vine, or floated off into fluffy "Second Order" cybernetics.

There was an experiment, I don't have the details to hand at the moment, I'm sorry, but Gordon Pask and someone else mage a cybernetics "machine" out of a dish of chemicals, and got it to grow an "ear" (filaments that were sensitive to certain sound vibrations, just like the hair cells in your inner ear)!

If you really think about what they did (and you have to know some Cybernetics to understand it) then it's actually pretty scary. Like more-scary-than-atom-bomb scary.

I'm only mentioning it here because we're about to need to grapple with this sort of thing in a minute or two...

"Introduction to Cybernetics" W. Ross Ashby (1956) http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html (PDF kindly made available from that page.)
I bet at least someone is using this data for trading as it is likely an indicator of revenue/profit for quarterly earnings.
Solar car with range of 'up to 800km' to launch next month