skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All physicists acknowledge they are composed of atoms, duh!

It does not follow that "if a set of atoms can be in a superposition, so can you." Here's some ways it might fail:

1. In the objective collapse theories, quantum systems undergo collapse when they reach a certain size. I cannot be in a superposition because I am physically too big.

2. In the ensemble interpretations, a quantum state applies to a set of many identically prepared systems. Since there is only one of me, we cannot speak meaningfully of my quantum properties.

Admittedly neither of these are satisfying interpretations, but they have their proponents.

The deeper objection is that "you can be in a superposition" risks detachment from experiments. If we cannot talk about the result of an experiment, that we cannot do science.
Their own variation of HLS. Note that except for Safari, browsers don't implement HLS directly, but rather websites do, through HLS.js etc. So you can implement whatever low latency version of HLS you want (assuming it is constructed of HTTP primitives that JS can access).
It's important to note that the Schengen agreement was only about travel, and not what what is commonly assumed these days regarding border debates: the ability to come, settle, work, and take part in the social safety net.

Switzerland for example was a Schengen signatory. Switzerland has never allowed open immigration, work permits, or welfare benefits for people entering under Schengen terms.

So while I think you give a good example of what can happen in 50 years, I think it's very important to draw a distinction between Schengen-like agreements and what people commonly understand from the closed/open border debate.
If the victim doesn't laugh with you afterwards then it's not a prank, it's just being an asshole.
Rust-Oleum 241140 Dry Erase Brush-On Kit is another possibility. It's a bit more expensive but it's more flexible.
You might also like neatmail:

https://github.com/aligrudi/neatmail

http://litcave.rudi.ir

Or mother (and its, uh, "mother", nedmail) if you're a Plan9 person:

http://plan9.stanleylieber.com/mother/

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/1/nedmail
I missed something. What do you mean?
Tech War Will Be with Us for 10 to 15 Years (Radio)
A simple test to identify disruptor in your vertical
I'm a Malaysian who in the past managed two agriculture private equity funds. I've engaged with dozens of local farmers of over the years.

The problem with palm oil monoculture is that it is so easy that it makes its practitioners complacent. The value chains are established, the prices are commoditized (there is a local futures market) and there is ample government backing for international lobbying. Unfortunately, this means that the value-add (and margins) at each step of the value chain is now really thin. Unless you are vertically integrated and operate at enormous scale, you won't make much.

Short, high-value, local-farm-to-plate, gourmet-ingredient agriculture is what I dream of, sort of like what the Japanese have. It doesn't always have to devolve into mega-agribusiness.
Is this an issue of complexity or lack of isolation? More isolation means more complexity, but at the same time, this issue should crash the iMessage app itself, not the whole system. The fact that springboard even knows about iMessage structure is crazy...
What would these 'hate speech' laws ban exactly? I'm trying to picture who exactly the implied oppressive government is ran by.
From what I understand, the Rust procedural macro system should basically be similar in structure to Lisp macros, much closer than any other language I've used. It still has all of the aforementioned problems, in my experience.
A good friend used to rent a house overlooking the ocean in Pacifica. That was 2000, and that house is gone now. Amusingly, she lives in Manhattan now, and might get to see Chapter 2 or 3 of this epic saga we are living through. My kids will hopefully get to the end of the first book, if we get lucky and avoid a serious war somewhere in the middle. We moved from 8’ above sea level to 700’ above sea level last year. I still expect to help pay for saving the SF Bay Area, which will actually be able to engineer its way out of this thanks to a combination of fortuitous geographical circumstances and an economy large enough to sustain the trillion dollars it will cost to protect the area.

Ocean Beach will be history soon enough, though...
It’s fairly amazing ... this post was +4 and then in about a minute became 0 points. So, 5 points cast against it in the span of a minute, about half an hour after it was posted and amassed 4 points. I wonder about the dynamics.
That's MPEG-LA patent trolls, nothing to do with MPEG in MPEG-DASH for the reference. They can claim they own the Moon the same way. They do it with anything that looks usable and related to video. Patent trolls aren't really the measure of how free the standard is.

Apple however are the owners of HLS, and unlike some random patent trolls, if they are insisting on its adoption, they have to make sure their patents on it are royalty free. Not that it will protect anyone from further patent tolls attacks from the likes of MPEG-LA, but that's a requirement.
Compression artifacts ruin scenes with those things in them. Analog isn’t compressed so it has no artifacts.
> Why imitate the Euro when that experiment has gone badly?

Because the Euro solved a problem that did not exist in the EU. Every nation that joined was able to convert their currency to other EU currencies at reasonably low cost, and because each currency was relatively stable, at a low risk too. Africans do actually have high currency conversion costs, and some of the currencies are risky.

To put it in Krugman's terms, the African nations have mostly committed the 'original sin' anyway, and this is a way of making a bad situation better. Italy was free of the original sin and was making a good situation worse by joining the EU.
> So you don't agree with how taxes work and think you could do better? I challenge you to find someone who DOESN'T think that.

If you can point to a country that has only one tax or a party that has that position I’d be much obliged.

> This is already the case. There are many services open to only US citizens, and others open only to citizens and lawful permanent residents.

The US has different classes of citizenship, with different rights?

>> Civic nationalism is incoherent unless people can be expelled from the community.

> In the US we refer to this as "jail".

Timeout is not the same thing as being told you’re no longer part of the family. US citizens can’t be deported. Plenty of states allow ex-convicts to vote.

> Many Protestant Christian denominations refer to this as "confirmation". I believe there is an equivalent concept in Catholicism; Bar/Bat mitzvah serves this purpose in Judaism.

The context in which I was saying this was membership in a national community. I am unaware of any country that demands citizens affirm a statement of shared values to partake in political life. The closest any country has is conscription for male citizens and it’s not that close.
But big changes do happen. In 1948, the west coast changed their power standard from 50Hz to 60Hz[1]. Or changes don't happen, Japan still has two standards[2]. Or, like metric in the US, it slowly changes but likely will never completely happen.

[1] https://gizmodo.com/before-1948-las-power-grid-was-incompati...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_Japan#Tr...
>I feel that. But on the other hand, without trying to sound too mean: what exactly does he expect?

It's not unreasonable to expect to be finished with software.

>For better or for worse, this is simply how software works.

This is false. The author has already fallen into this trap by using a programming language which is also subject to this, however.

>Things have to be updated. Unless you want to eschew security updates (which is not smart), there is never such a thing as a fully "finished" product.

There is such a thing as finished software, but I can understand why something such as a WWW framework wouldn't be. The WWW is ugly and misguided and inspires disgusting systems to accomodate it.

>Software maintenance is part of the job responsibilities.

When you have a project with no real design goals, apparently, I agree. Otherwise, you can remark on how a program achieves its goals and so is finished. That doesn't stop minor improvements or reworkings, but those would be entirely unnecessary.

>This post is particularly targeted at Django, but I feel that it applies to almost every web framework or piece of software

I agree, because, again, the WWW is a disgusting tangle of systems that encourages similarly disgusting systems.

One language I enjoy is Common Lisp. The standard hasn't changed in decades and there are many implementations. I can finish a library and then never need to touch it again. Python can't compare.
And that sounds like reason enough for Apple to ignore the DASH spec. Case closed IMHO.
Damn right it can’t.
This lack of distinction annoys me to no end.
Zaphod mode is still available. nVidia pushed its TwinView solution while everybody else was using either the Zaphod mode or Xinerama. I don't think TwinView on Linux allowed any dynamic configuration. So, when the rest of the world switched to the RandR extension, every graphic card was able to dynamically add/remove monitors while nVidia users were stuck with a subpar solution.
I tried Samsung S8 a few years ago and nope'ed out immediately. Switch to iPhone, I promise you - none of these stupid shenanigans.
The whole point of a prank is to put somebody else down.

Think about that before doing it.

When you prank somebody as an adult, don't be surprised if you're victimized next.
Apple should be out of video business, if they are scared of patent trolls.

But the problem is the reverse here. Apple have patents on HLS itself which are not free, so it's not suitable for general adoption.
Deutsche Bank axes whole teams in Asia-Pacific as job cuts begin
This is definitely going to happen. There'll be western/liberal/democratic trading group and the repressive/dictatorial/despot trading group. Actually, This has been the case for sometime but now it's clear that China has switched teams.
ICE Used Facial Recognition to Mine State Driver’s License Databases
But now we have the cricket world cup in the middle of footy season and soccer football in the middle of cricket season. I blame climate Change /s.

More seriously, the CSIRO has attempted to define Australia's seasons better (in line with plants) with the addition of Sprinter on Sprummer: http://www.publish.csiro.au/book/7221 . The BOM has a page on various indigenous seasons too: http://www.bom.gov.au/iwk/index.shtml . I'm enjoying an unseasonably warm Chunnup day today.
> (:color "brown" :name "fred")

This works, but it's a plist and thus O[n] for lookup. I assumed the questioner wanted an O[1] data structure; thus a hash table is the better answer. (Granted it makes little difference when n is small.)
I'm still using Thunderbird, which is barely maintained for a decent standalone IMAP client - it's beginning to feel pretty ridiculous. I was having some search issues the other day and I looked at alternatives - the options were basically Outlook, Claws Mail which is ugly as sin, eM Client which is Windows only and Mailspring which actually looked pretty good... right up until it asked me to make an account for use with my own IMAP servers - no thanks.

I didn't think this was a big ask but I guess now that most people just use a single Gmail account the market for such things is dwindling. Here I sit with 7 accounts in Thunderbird. Maybe I'm just going to be stuck with eM Client or Outlook and using RDP to check my email. I'm willing to pay, someone please give me a decent cross platform alternative with a GUI, ideally a proper, non-electron one.

The TUI clients I've looked at all seem to suffer from some mix of:

- Poor mail notifications

- Poor multi-account support

- Single maintainer that could disappear at any time

- Archaic keybindings, or perhaps I'm just too lazy to learn them

- HTML mail is used widely now as most people use webmail and just doesn't map well to console applications

Overall when I want my mail client to "just work" I've found them to be piss poor compared to Thunderbird. Which is beginning to seem rather silly, but it's still my experience.

I don't know what to do. Maybe I should fork Mailspring, strip out the account garbage and just tolerate Electron, but that'd create a whole bunch of maintenance work I just can't take on right now.
Show HN: Automatically encrypt all of your incoming email
Sure, but there's an issue in business where people lacking the degree of technical understanding required to evaluate feasibility are the ones that give (or rather demand) the go ahead on a major change.

The relentless promotion of cynically optimistic arse-kissing yes-men will one day doom us all.
I agree, learning calculus does enhance one’s life. Statistics enhances your life even more though since you will actually use it. I use calculus sometimes at work and I use it when learning new mathematical concepts but it still doesn’t even come close to how important statistics is to me.

Sometimes it just comes down to utility. If you live in Nevada and you’re wondering whether you should learn how to drive or how to sail, pick driving.
It's a nice idea, not a fan of the name if i'm being honest. Although I know that names are hard.
You only lose data if you’re not backing up your phone - it’s not a corruption bug that breaks the ability to restore backups (like one of the iOS iOS 11 developer betas did).
> Can you imagine going to your boss and saying:

> Coder: "The program is finished"

> Boss: "Cool, when can I demo it?"

Yes. Absolutely.

If I had a design worked out over a decade, multiple substantial prototypes, including one written in Haskell by a hundred lambdacamels, an acceptance test suite designed over a decade with over a hundred thousand tests, a production compiler written by top notch devs, field testing of thousands of modules, toasting of the compiler over the test suites of those modules, and the compiler passing the formal acceptance test, then yes, I can not only imagine it but would look forward to it.

> Coder: "Well you can't actually run it, but all the test cases are finished, someone just needs to fill in an implementation"

That's bullshit.

> (And yes, I get that the implementation is usable. But if the language has been done "forever" and the implementation is still partial... maybe the language is a little too complicated?)

What the heck? So the `leave` keyword is not yet implemented. Big whoop. It was designed so it could be left out. So you just leave the key word out and code works correctly anyway. Can you name a single other language feature that's not implemented? I thought not.

Why are folk here all assuming the absolute absurd worst case scenario twisted interpretation of the OP's words?

Have you noticed that Rust 5 isn't done? Haskell 2030? Swift 10?

Or, forgetting the fact that the P6 design was deliberately forward looking, so has `leave` as not yet implemented rather than just having never damn well mentioned it in the first place, what about just current versions of languages? Is C# "done"? Python? Racket? Idris? No bugs? No feature requests? No new versions?

In fact, how about you name any language that's done?

> Also the argument that it doesn't need a demographic holds no weight to me.

Who cares? The OP wasn't saying it matters whether you think the truth holds weight. They were just saying that some folk are getting into P6 despite P6 not targeting a demographic.

And what the heck is it with folk just assuming the worst?
Apple has never been shy about communicating which technologies of theirs they have patented. While it would be nice to have an explicit statement from Apple, the absence of it speaks volumes.

Has MPEG made any statement about the MPEG-LA patent pool?
>who wants to live in a world where e.g. every single jaywalker gets fined?...

I don't know? But I'd bet you could sign the vast majority of people up for a world where every single child rapist goes to prison.

But debating behavioral extremes as we did right there is useless. The real issue is whether or not all people are treated equally under the law? If all people aren't, then the law does not rule. Those people who are above the law rule.

There is no such thing as part time rule of law. Again, the best you could do is put it on a spectrum. This one is more rule of law oriented, this one is less.

It's like being pregnant. A girl can be further along, or less far along in her pregnancy.

But I mean really, she can't call herself a virgin because she didn't do doggy. That's not really how virginity works.
one more I follow: https://www.aedaily.net/en/
I’d be surprised if you were incapable of independent thought. If your political views all fit neatly within a single party’s mainstream it could be true but there’s enough that isn’t subject to political shibboleths that you likely hold some unconventional views. Just being the kind of person who takes part on a discussion board like this is (weak) evidence of the kind of engagement with ideas that renders taking a party line unlikely.

Nationalist views are not as old as time. They postdate imperial views substantially. If supporting open borders or massively increased immigration to developed nations makes me a nationalist the label rests easy. I don’t think open borders is compatible with the current constitutional settlement in the US. If that makes me a nationalist so be it.
Forget about Uber. Drive mining is the new money-making machine
One of the comments on the bug has the answer:

For testing purposes, there are three ways that I found to unbrick the device:

1) wipe the device with 'Find my iPhone'

2) put the device in recovery mode and update via iTunes (note that this will force an update to the latest version)

3) remove the SIM card and go out of Wifi range and wipe the device in the menu
EDIT: guidelines

As a note, I think there are probably better crypto technologies these days, but none of them do what pgp aimed to do, but rather we have a bunch of smaller tools that do small parts that pgp did. I am not going to send you a singed file over singal, and I think it is silly to have to use a alternative means of sending the file that will either remove the ability for authenticity, or require me to do the authentication dance again with you.

PGP suffers from bad tooling, and further suffers from the relentless onslaught of people who want fancy electron or phone apps that can only do a small % of what pgp would allow.

Final note, I think something better than PGP could exist, but nobody has made it yet. In either case, validating keys will always be a hard problem and any attempt to automate it will result in false sense of security. While end to end encryption will keep on lookers from viewing your communications -- you just might find out one day you are talking directly to the people you were trying to hind your communication from.
> Stop assuming rational actors when the evidence is telling you there are none.

So you are assuming people are irrational and trying to convince them to rationally act according to rational arguments you provide? Looks like you don't even believe you own assumptions.
I see.

That seems to be mostly solved with high speed links and better encoding technology.
Film photography shows signs of revival among Japan's youth
My experience says that a communal lunch is extremely valuable in building a sense of community. Companies can get a better cohesive workforce by providing lunch options that bring people together.
It's a sliding scale which depends on the user's competence and not just the hardware. To a completely non-technical person, a hard lock-up is "bricked" even if it could be fixed by pressing buttons. To a normal user, a borked ROM is "bricked" even if it could be fixed by plugging into a computer and re-flashing. To a power user, a busted bootloader is "bricked" if it stops them flashing a ROM, even if it could be fixed with a JTAG debugger. To a sufficiently good EE, it's not bricked until the whole thing is physically destroyed.
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Here is a list of pranks pulled at Sun. Some are quite a bit of work.

http://tech.gaeatimes.com/index.php/archive/april-fool-prank...

I asked Andy about the fish tank 911 at some point .. he said “it never ran correct after”.

Damn funny prank however.
First, the guidelines ask you not to talk about downvotes. You can find out more about that by reading the guidelines.

Secondly, Signal sends files just fine, and does so more securely than GPG. If you don't want to use Signal to do that, you can also use Magic Wormhole, which also works better and is more secure than PGP.
I have run a GT 1030 with a pair of 4K displays for a few months and the performance is terrible (for a desktop usage). I don't know where the bottleneck is (PCI bandwidth maybe) but you should avoid this card. I have replaced it with an RX550 and I don't have any performance problem anymore. It is not passively cooled, but the fan can be stopped from software if you want.
INTC stock is down 10% over the last year... AMD is up around 400%.

stomp, meet curb.
I plan to build a new gaming machine on AMD. Civ6 with a huge world might even work well. Fingers crossed :)
> Why are you asking this question?

Because I am interested in your opinion on it.

An even better question is: why didn't you answer it?

> If Russian intelligence engaged in an action against the USA then it is an act of war.

For the sake of argument, let's take that as true (I'm curious if it actually is, I've never read the formal text on what constitutes an act of war, if you have please share it). Considering that, once again: does this apply to all countries, or only Russia?

> Everyone knows this. So why are we still talking about it?

Well, now that you put it this way, I think I would like to formally request a link to where I can read about how a Twitter post (which is an an action) by an individual who is employed by Russian intelligence is considered an "act of war". My intuition tells me this is an exaggeration. Or maybe it's just "common sense"?
I wonder what happens if we take a square shot of a face, then use something like the deep fakes to generate different predicted views and then feed those in to the original system.
The ocean is literally inundating your town, and you're worried about home values and 30-year-mortgages? These people all need some kind of loss and grief counseling. Can't wait for the federal bailout money to start pouring into these areas over the next few decades as localities deny and delay until they have no choice but to up and relocate in a hurry.
Those "pranks" that went "wrong" aren't pranks, they're simply workplace abuse.
Ah, you haven't installed a module that decided to override one of the default editing key combinations yet (Ctrl+D, in my case). That was absurdly frustrating.

VS Code has never made me hate it, but I have come to hate configuring it to work with two different languages that have their own REPL simultaneously (Python and PowerShell). Their modules seem to argue with one another or cause the other to crash or hang unexpectedly. It's extremely frustrating.
Couldn't have said it better. Make sure they share your sense of humor beforehand.