skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is incongruous with how the book ends — which shows the wife as finding the mask and leaving the mask on the pillow to indicate her understanding.
Yea, it's been pissing me off for a long time so I've ended up creating my custom keyboard layout so i don't have to switch between the two
To be honest, a regular life with limits is probably best for our health. Humans are built for mild adversity. Closest to happiness are probably the monks meditating in the mountains wanting for nothing. Conversely why so many rich folks are mentally ill, imho.
I very seriously doubt you can survive in Germany less than 4 euro per person per day, including restaurants. What's more likely is you haven't carefully tracked where your money goes. Try it for a couple of months at least. The results are guaranteed to surprise.
I had this problems for years and I thought it was because of some to-me-unknown combination of keys I was pressing. I don't know now how to feel
This reminds me of dorkbot and runme.org. :)
Yeah, no way I want to go into middle management if I don't even receive respect when I come in to interviews for a IC position.
Amber Road
As a New Yorker...

...I don't understand the value crowdsourcing provides, for transit.

Official real-time subway data is already provided by the MTA in all sorts of forms (apps, API's, etc.). I don't know what there is to crowdsource -- you can tell just by analyzing the data directly whether trains are stuck or not, and for how long. And if you're stuck in a train car, it's very rare you have any knowledge of how long the delay is going to be anyways -- conductor announcements are almost always just "we hope to be moving soon". Same if you're on the platform -- just a generic "trains are running delayed". And for big delays (a train being shut down between stations for half an hour, etc.) the MTA posts real-time notices explaining. So what's to crowdsource?

(Not to mention that if your train is stuck between stations and you wanted to tell the app why, tough luck -- there's no cell or Wifi service between stations anyways when you're underground, so you can't.)

There's always room to improve on transit apps, and crowdsourcing is hugely valuable for car traffic, but crowdsourcing+transit makes no sense to me, at least in NYC.
How does that value proposition for an organization of 100 compare to Confluence?

Comparing it to slack, I believe, is a apples to oranges. Slack isn't a knowledge management system and was never meant to be.
Overdrive primarily uses Adobe's DRM system. You can "liberate" the titles with the use of the DeDRM toolset or get the resources directly off their "libby" platform, which simply requires reassembling the assets into an EPUB
Or we rename JavaScript to RustScript and everyone will be forced to love it!
Break the work up into smaller chunks, writw them down on a physical piece of paper. Also try running the program Focalfilter, block the sites which most commonly distract you.
For anyone else interested in WW2 reverse engineering and design etc., https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJCF-Ufapu8
"The secret war" is a huge documentary covering british efforts to counter german electronic warfare and V-weapons.
>Why didn't they use randomized and scrambled serial numbers?

Because it happened 80 years ago, when German army (or any other) did not understand statistics as well as they do today.
It was a groundbreaking achievement by allies.
We had no idea why it
happened at the time.

You mean you didn't know why the game induced a loss of consciousness?

Or are you referring to the mystery of the emergent social phenomenon, for why information got around via word of mouth, and kids were discovering the game?

You have no idea "what" happened? What do you mean?
> You could make something for RISC-V that looks like DOS in a lot of ways (command prompt, filesystem...), and maybe is similarly structured, but no program, or driver, would work with it unless you have full blown PC emulation—in which case you’d just run PC DOS.

There were some programs that would run fine with just a DOS-compatible API rather than full PC compatibility; WordStar was a significant program that relied only on the DOS API (and thus would run on otherwise relatively incompatible systems) , for instance.
I've always enjoyed that the most common response on just about any Windows support question is something along the lines of

> If you would like too you can do system restore to restore some settings on your PC.
Publishers are more willing to trust you with their collections if you can ensure them that your platform won't be a hotbed for piracy of their content (I've worked on multiple "protection" systems for localized Japanese comics, and publishers want to know what DRM you're using and if it's strong/safe).
right: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/06/30/tightening-up-privacy-in-...
"that since 1995 at least 82 youths between the age of 6 and 19 have died in the United States as a result of the game"

That doesn't seem too dangerous to me, compared to many other dangerous activities teenagers do.
And suddenly this sounds like a telenovela.
It isn’t a jit issue it is a parsing issue.

Also micro performance becomes macro at scale. This is not something that you worry or think about with a handful of literals. It would be good for an inner loop or code generator.
> Why didn't they use randomized and scrambled serial numbers?

Because there weren't well-known examples of the risk of not doing that, and not doing it is the easy and obvious thing if you have no clear reason to do it, and makes lots of things you might use those numbers for yourself easier (and if it wasn't for your own use, you wouldn't issue the numbers at all.)
>widespread traffic noise, for the first time in almost a century

Well, in cities horses and horse driven carriages on pebbles/stone pavements weren't that much silent even before that.

Admittedly there were much less vehicles overall, but the sound of the horseshoes is very loud, to which you add the wooden (but usually with a steel ring) wheels, possibly the drivers shouting at their horses and what not and I don't think that a street in - say - central New York in 1899 was particularly silent.

Compare with (scroll down to find "THE HORSELESS CARRIAGE AND PUBLIC HEALTH":

https://archive.org/stream/scientific-american-1899-02-18/sc...

>The noise and clatter which makes conversation al-

most impossible on many streets of New York at the

present time will be done away with, for horseless vehi-

cles of all kinds are always noiseless or nearly so. This

question of noise has much to do with the general

health of the community. Specialists have many times

expressed an opinion that the nervous diseases which

exist in the city are aggravated, if not caused, in many

cases, by noises incident to a great city's traffic. The

bells of the new vehicles will of course be somewhat

annoying at first.
I'm not sure there's any solid evidence that she's the girlfriend of the WMF chair - that mostly seems to be a salacious rumor. However, there does seem to be evidence that the WMF chair and Laura Hale directly worked together over at Wikinews on the same topic area that Laura Hale and Fram ended up in conflict over on Wikipedia (sports in Spain). That seems like a better thing to focus on than juicy gossip.
It's not just serialization costs, but rather a change in presumed trust boundaries. The graphics hardware abstraction is becoming less like storage or communication, which can be easily virtualized and reasoned about to manage risks with delegated access. Graphics is becoming more like the host processor and memory, running arbitrary application code. GPU allocation is more like process or job control and scheduling, with a cross-compilation step stuck in the middle.

So, the very abstraction of "textures, models, display lists, and draw commands" is no longer what is being managed by the graphics stack. That is just one legacy abstraction which could be emulated by an application or gateway service. As people have stated elsewhere, one can continue to operate something like X Windows to keep that legacy protocol. Or, one can run a web browser to offer HTML+js+WebGL as another legacy and low-trust interface.

But, one cannot expect all application developers to limit themselves to these primitive, legacy APIs. They want and need the direct bypass that lets them put the modern GPU to good use. They are going to invest in different application frameworks and programming models that help them in this work. I hope that the core OS abstractions for sharing this hardware can be made robust enough to host a mixture of such frameworks as well as enabling multi-user sharing and virtualization of GPU hardware in server environments.

To provide transparently remote applications in this coming world, I think you have to accept that the whole application will have to run somewhere colocating the host and GPU device resources, if the original developer has focused on that local rendering model. Transparency needs to be added at the input/output layer where you can put the application's virtual window or virtual full-screen video output through a pipe to a different screen that the application doesn't really know or care about.
What does this have to do with anything Hacker News-related?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randomness_extractor#Von_Neuma...
This kind of blurs the line between hardware and software but there have been recent attacks where groups have written attack firmwares to motherboards and hard drives of cloud computing baremetal servers.
> I don't think this is odd at all.

I'd wager a ton of money that fewer than 1/1000th of the internet enabled population browses in private modes. I'd guess that the real number is closer to something between 1/10000 and 1/100000.
Show HN: Bamburgh Free UI Kit for Bootstrap 4
Also, some browsers (like chrome) consider data URLs hostile and limit them further. Awhile ago I was messing around with some tiny js decompression code I was stuffing into a data URL that let me get a bit more content into the payload, but chrome wouldn't run the scripts at all.
Maybe it had greater assets under management, that doesn’t translate to power or direct ownership. They are custodians and facilitators. Their worth is traded on NYSE and doesn’t exceed top internet companies, who imo have more power.
i don't think this holds. ebooks are often the same price as paperbacks, and you still have to buy them individually.

okay, they're refunding people, which is a decent enough move (still inconvenient though). presumably, they didn't do it out of the kindness of their own heart, but to avoid controversy/lawsuits, what with public opinion slowly swinging away from DRM and towards right to repair.
World War II was (at least one of) the first industrialized war. So the whole situation was genuinely novel to most participants.

Additionally, the German army command didn't think that way. Where the US relied on overpowering by materiel dominance, and the Soviets fought and won through unimaginable human sacrifice, the considerable initial success of the German army was based on better, smarter tactics, individual leadership, bravery, ruthlessness, etc. The leadership assumed they'd be able to win the war that way, even when the war had turned into a much more industrial operation.

You can see that in operations such as the Battle of the Bulge, the war in Normandy, and most importantly in the the Russian campaign.

This is of course over-generalizing, but I believe the general mode of thinking was there, and that'd explain the lack of attention on such details.
Which sites do you deem to be worth paying for?
Man completes first round-the-world autogyro flight
You can get a dried veg and bean mix for stews in the UK, it isn't what i would describe as nice though.
It's the toxin the bacteria produces that's dangerous. AFAIK botulism bacteria don't grow inside humans
For many it is hard to find that amount of time in their day, due to modern work schedules and conditions (eg commute, expectation to keep working at home).

But it is a little insane that we have built a society where most cannot afford to take an hour to prepare and enjoy a meal, yes.

In France, as recently as a couple decades ago, it was common for people to leave work at 12p, pick up their kids from school, have lunch at home, bring them back at school at 1.30p and be back at work at 2p. But that’s been quickly going away with increasing work hours, increasing distances between home/school/workplace, etc.
Microsoft's Games for Windows Live DRM servers had a close call a few years ago as well.
I buy mostly fresh food, so I go the store every other morning at 6am. They are still stocking shelves (a job I had in college), but there are no crowds. I live 2 blocks away from the store, so small takes are easier to carry home. The only canned stuff I buy are beans and olives.
I’m not sure how much higher math you’d really need to answer the question “how many tanks has the other side produced?” if these were the serial numbers of the captured tanks:

[689, 341, 386, 741, 982, 414, 845, 241, 180, 447, 880, 21, 583, 993, 812]

it’s tough to see an argument for anything other than:
a. about 1,000, or
b. 1,000ish but there may be a confounding fact pattern we are unaware of....
Programming languages and human languages are really not the same thing at all, unless maybe you consider some extreme outliers like AppleScript[1]. It seems like the choice of character set would make a bigger difference. Most of the today's popular languages would seem to be strongly impacted by making them compatible with code that is entirely in 7-bit ASCII. I don't know enough about other character encodings to try to imagine how they might make for a very different programming language design. What would a Chinese-influenced programming language look like if its designer(s) had never had any exposure to alphabetic or syllabic writing systems?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AppleScript
I don't think "lynching" is a reasonable term here to describe being banned for a year from editing a single Wikipedia instance, even if the thread were not mostly leaning in favor of Fram as it is. TFA makes it clear that they didn't say what he was banned for and that there's no public info.
I love when I tell people that I garden and they say things like "that's a nice hobby".

Growing your own food is not a hobby, you are literally participating in the economy.

It is great exercise and really helps you understand just how much labor and time goes into making food from seed to harvest to storage and consumption.

I feel like there is a growing movement of more and more people trying to relearn these skills.

As for food waste, the way I compost kitchen scraps is to dig a 1-2 foot deep by 1 foot wide hole in my yard where I dump a week's worth of scraps into. I chop it with my shovel and bury it while chopping. In 1-2 months time it will be completely taken in by the soil life.

I use a 5 gallon bucket with a lid that seals in the kitchen to collect scraps.

Each year I pick a new place to dig my holes. I keep the holes about a foot apart and I remove rocks as I go.

They next year I plant a crop in the location.

I like this method of composting because it enriches the land and the soil life does most of the work without any smell.

I'm slightly tilling, preparing, enriching, and de-rocking(?) My land over the course of months. It takes about as much time as emptying the trash.

You end up doing a lot of work, but it doesn't feel that way because you are "eating the elephant one bite at a time".
This might be the first article to hit the front page in 10 years on this site that made me think the same thing.
They did know about encryption and developed the Enigma machine.

I don't think you need deep statistics knowledge to know that if the enemy captured Serial # 0020, 0120, 0439, 1293 and 1356; they would at least have some hint that the lower bound is 1356 tanks.
But that’s an ideal case.

People eat a lot and exercise to lose weight. They don’t eat to only replenish expended energy. They over consume then often compensate with exercise. So a particular rider might eat more or might eat the same regardless of whether they pedaled or they used electric power.
I worked with a German version of VBA for a little while. MS soon gave up on this but it was a really weird experience.
> there wasn't anything I could do about it

Reverse into the driveway when you park in the evening so you don’t have to reverse out in the morning?
I've checked out Dhall very superficially, but it seems to be aimed at being a strict language to generate YAML and JSON, so IMO it has different goals than Jacl. E.g., an empty list is [] : List Natural in Dhall vs [] in Jacl. Dhall has A LOT of features. It looks more like a programming language than a configuration language. Since its goals are different, Dhall lacks a few features of Jacl like optional commas and underscore support in numbers. etc.
I had this problem as well.
However, it only appeared when using the English language pack together with a German keyboard layout.
When installing the German language pack parallel to the English one (and using the German keyboard layout from that language pack while still having the English language pack selected for language/region/date), the problem went away.
I'll take a wild guess and say this is probably a proclamation or executive order, which is written up by staff and signed by the President.
Thank you - I will check it out!
Related from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13095178

2015: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10517882

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=670065
I don't think that your definition of American discourse is totally accurate- it's definitely true that happens, but not everywhere in the US.

One of the things that has made me better has been people who were willing to tell me "please stop", "you seriously screwed up", and "good job"- but if you listen to the wrong people, you won't get anywhere.

Fram seems like one of those people that's actually worth listening to, and that his criticism and praise have some merit.
From Mother Jones: "Chill Out: Frozen Foods Are Just Fine", https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/09/benefit-of-f...

TJ's frozen Brussels sprouts at 99 cents for 16 oz are a winner.
Zooming into the grid representation of 64KB of memory reveals some fun artifacts. Tiny o’s appear kind of regularly. I don’t know what kind of resampling would account for that... maybe a mistake or a counterintuitive way to shift error among the cells?
myself 40
I have used parts of that book at university, and have a reasonable grasp on parts of it. I assume it serves more as a reference, as you carry out more practical exercises?
You should just make Thai Objective-C. Their method style is to write things verbosely like “didFinishLoading” or “willAppearInBackground”.
I meant this very thread on HN. Here he is being "lynched" by people who do not know anything about the case calling him a harasser.
The word wiretap has a clear meaning that is unrelated to the physical process it used to represent. Literally everyone understands this. There are many terms like this, and it's not a problem. We don't need to redefine the term "wiretap" just because you're no longer physically tapping wires. What is being revealed is the same, that is what everyone cares about, and so that is how the term is used.
Many languages these days support Unicode, so you could technically write them in whatever you want. I think it's great that the world has settled on a popular, relatively easy to learn language. It helps immensely with sharing open source libraries worldwide. However it would be nice if doc formats ala Javadoc had provisions for translation.
From 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11961223

2013: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6315913

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=524758
The books are great and the TV series is now on Amazon Prime, with future seasons coming. Anybody on HN ought to be watching it.
Two of the people I've known in my life have died this way[1]. There are many ways to die, and we all die eventually, but dying from intentionally inflicted asphyxiation has always struck me as exceptionally stupid and tragic.

I understand that people place a different value on their life, and things like skydiving are thrilling and life changing with a chance of death if something goes wrong. I don't always share the same risk/reward profile that is neccesary for someone to asphyxiate for thrills.

[1] One as a child doing this using a plastic bag and one as an adult presumably practicing the erotic version.
I work at a non-profit and not a University, so I can't use them for free.

My very nice, but slightly used car cost me less money and it has been driven over an hour per day for 7 years. That makes those solvers very hard for me to justify outside of production where the license costs are worth every darn penny.
More is Different: Broken symmetry and hierarchical structure in science (1972)
Quite well, see pg. 86 for a plot of all predictions
It really frustrates me when I have a specific technical problem with windows (I only use it for gaming) and search results are full of psuedo mystical tech advice from community experts advising a system restore or changing registry values.
Sorry, I should have put a date on there. I was referring to the era right before the Great Depression.
It's actually pretty common for single-page apps to have a large amount of configuration data (e.g. all the client-side routes) and potentially a large of amount of application data sent from the server-side renderer. And code compilation can be a significant part of the cold-boot time for large single-page apps. I haven't verified, but it's very conceivable that this would significantly speed up time-to-interactivity for a very large single-page app.
Very nice summary of the moons. I showed it to my kids.

Though I was surprised to find a scientific astronomy related page using inches and Fahrenheit units.

Though I guess the target audience it has been made for is perhaps US based school kids, but the page works really well for anyone across the world.
Also, people tend to be consistent in the weight of food they eat, so eating less energy dense foods helps people lose weight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGbGKSNPBzo

For example, adding an apple between meals helping women to lose weight.
“class” and “inheritance” are just abstractions of the very traditional meanings of these two words. I’m sure Thai has to have equivalents for those?
Signald allows you to make an account via pairing (which requires a smartphone) or by registering a new number. It also supports having multiple registered numbers.

Both of the programs I mention are built atop Signald
As a renter I gardened for years, but I finally bought a condo and no longer have a yard. Early attempts at establishing a community garden program have been failures. I will continue the quest. However, I think you are overselling the idea, growing your own vegetables is not "part of the economy" even while it may have economic impact. You are not selling, correct?
The length limit is high in most browsers (100k chars) except for IE, which will eventually be killed by MS Edge on Chromium.
The runtime can't know whether it's parsing a plain old JSON-compatible object literal until it, well, parses it.
What about Tesla? IIRC they also prevent owners and third parties from working on their cars.
Take a silly premise, get a silly argument and a really silly conclusion.

Confounding question: 1000 years ago, would this argument look any different? Answer: mathematically speaking, it would not. In fact, far more humans have been born than you could have predicted using this method. Conclusion: the argument is flawed.
At least this time it's Microsoft closing down gracefully. I can't see the same happening if it's a smaller, specialized business going bankrupt and going away without the ability to mitigate the shutdown.
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