skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a fairly proficient ESL guy 1.5x is the fastest I can do for audiobooks. Most books are read slowly on purpose I think so they’re easiest for most people to understand and everything is enunciated perfectly. Speeding up makes them feel like normal talking speed.

Mind you audiobooks have less filler than natural speech so they’re a little more information dense than someone shooting from the hip.

I find the best way to enjoy them is on a nice run where the situation holds me captive and I can’t retreat into a more distractive media.

In my experience audiobooks can’t keep my attention, not fast paced enough, and I pull out my phone. As soon as that happens I no longer hear/process the audiobook.

But if I’m running it’s juuuust perfect enough to keep my attention and sort of embed the ideas into my subconscious even if I’m not actively listening.

It’s a lot like speed reading in that way. With speed reading I always felt like I was rushing and had no idea what I’m reading. But ask me questions and I could recap the information back flawlessly.

However, I purposefully avoid speed reading fiction because it detracts from the experience. You get the info, but you lose the feel.
Its the same rules as contactless credit card payments by most banks here: after every 5 transactions you need to verify, everyone not larger than 30€ and the sum of these 5 transactions may not exceed 100€.
If your next spending will break these rules you need to verify it
> To become an expert in D or C++, you really need to understand what feels like a dozen different languages... and that’s not what I’m looking for in a single language.

Well, the alternative is to learn an actual dozen of language - one for the high-performance simd part of your app, one for GUI layouts, one for writing parsers, one with strong typing semantics for your domain objects (but how are you going to keep them aboard in the interfaces with your other languages !), one for network communication...

I much prefer (as a C++ dev, but the same applies to D), the ability of the language to make eDSL adapted to each tasks.
Innovation takes an unreasonably twisty path. An even more stark example: suitcases with wheels. If you have the technology to build a siege engine or a crossbow, then surely you can build a suitcase with wheels. And yet they post-date the Saturn V rocket. How reasonable is that?
Why not do it per capita instead?
This is a great point and one of my biggest complaints with the hard-core FOSS/Copy-left software movement. More indie developers is a good thing, even if everything they make isn't necessarily all open source/free.

As an aside, did you know that They/Them has been in use for centuries as a gender-neutral singular pronoun, and often makes your text clearer and more readable when referring to a single person of unknown or unspecified gender?
I'm particularly interested in the last paragraph. Is there anything out there that can read these emarkers and tell me the capabilities of a given cable? I have so many USB C cables that I honestly don't know which support what, so it'd be nice if I had a way to definitively determine their capabilities.
I see, I was not aware that Thiel was "active promotion and support against a free democracy and towards another means of organizing society" - if that is the case then I guess it would make sense to say he is treasonous. Seems like that would be a relevant tidbit of information to include in the article.
Thanks for sharing this. I totally agree.
No, not "exactly". You and OP completely ignore the point the author makes.

In a lunar eclipse the moon actually really does get dark - no light falls on it any more. There is no point anywhere from which you will be able to see a moon that receives any light from the sun, because it doesn't.

During a solar eclipse on the other hand there is no change whatsoever to the sun, it continues to shine just the same. Only those under the shadow of the moon see a change.

Just to clarify, I'm merely relaying the point of the author. I have nothing to say about the use of language, he chose the words that he did and some may find them confusing and some may not. The way he expressed it is separate from the point made though, and OPs comment ignored that point.
I think the fact that the crossbar is not connected directly to the headtube (part where the fork & handlebar assemblies pivot) would also cause a problem!
Thanks for summarizing the differences. I think anyone interested in function pipeline data flows will also be interested to know about Rx and RxClojure as they both allow programs to be structured to work over a stream of data in many other languages as is available in Rx.
>The real reason Google's still on top is that consumer habits are hard to change, and once people have 20 years of practice solving a problem one way, most of them are not going to switch unless the alternative isn't just better, it's way, way better.

I agree about consumer's habits, but not about quality - i mean google of today is worse search engine than google of 5 years ago.

Now google tries to guess, badly, what you meant, instead of giving you what you asked for. The pleasure of dealing with IT systems is that they give you what you ask them for, not what you meant - it introduces extra error, and worse - one that cannot be fixed by user.

I can rephrase my querry, and google will still interpret it - leading to same batch of useless results.
organizations need hierarchy so the top and the bottom can communicate via a chain. you asked how to communicate down the chain. but it sounds like you should ask how to communicate up the chain.

go to your manager. tell her/him the situation. ask for advice.

if it's unsatisfactory, then judge whether you have a bad boss or whether everything is fucked. if it's one sub par person, talk to another person who you are close with about it.

if everything is fucked, quit. don't lie to your reports, but I also wouldn't say "everything is fucked". but do say you are leaving and say why (politely) if asked. you want them to have the real context they need to make their own decisions. but you dont want them to copy your opinions as gospel.
Rust’s macro system is incredibly powerful — much more powerful than C++’s, which is just text substitution. It’s easy to make DSLs in Rust. That’s not what I’m talking about.

> Well, the alternative is to learn an actual dozen of language

That’s a false dichotomy.
On one level you can tell this guy is intelligent, his love of the subject material draws you in. But then his statements about lunar v solar eclipses, I just disagree with completely.

It's good sometimes to be reminded that differences of opinion aren't always down to stupidity.
On even gravel tracks having wider tyres will help you more than a front shock. Cobblestone or similar is easy to ride on a racing bike, a shock is totally unnecessary.
This is correct. (Something else to add on here: Initial and final encodings are bijective – theoertically, anything one can do, the other can too.)
Yeah! The Ukrainians had small but vocal numbers of fascist volunteers on _their_ side, and that got a lot of bad press and the Russian side went to great lengths to paint the whole of Ukraine as fascist. So its really surprising they'd have fascists going to the _Russian_ side.
It's possible that the change to burst discs will not affect the feasibility of propulsive landings, depending on how the system is pressurized and used.

During a propulsive landing, the Dragon capsule would test the SuperDracos while still at a reasonably high altitude; this way, in the event of a failed SuperDraco, the parachute backup can be used. (The landing burn for Crew Dragon would start only a few seconds before landing, far too late to deploy the parachutes if the engines don't perform properly.)

That said, this is old information, and many things could have changed since then.
But you can't serialize a function - that's the whole point of the post.
Bpf isn't Purely a Filter

Better Performance Finger-counting

Better Party Firecracker

Build Pretty Funnels
I don't get why people mention this title so often, for a beginner it's confusing at best especially the first few chapters.
What is the use case for a Unicycle?
That would be a Hollywood version of the ideology. Right extreme groups are quite a tangled mess. Many of these groups in Europe are looking up to Russia (and Poland, and Hungary, and Serbia) right now. Those eastern european countries are perceived as the possible source for a European nationalist renaissance, as they display a strong stance against both european federalism and mass immigration.
Obviously, that vision of Eastern European countries' politics is just as oversimplified as Hollywood's neonazism, but the war between Russia and Ukraine has been largely presented by western supporters as a war between nationalism and european blending.
Cool concept, though solid sheets of silica aerogel are very difficult to manufacture.. I wonder how well this concept holds up with leakage between panels, or using the 'gravel' version of aerogel?

Also having handled aerogel in the past, it has a very rough surface texture. I suspect it would quickly build up a layer of sand, negating the greenhouse effect.
This is ultimately one of the underlying principles of the EU, or at least the single market.
I find it weird too, especially considering that Donbass and Luhansk declared themselves People's Soviets. I think it's just shoddy journalism and those people actually fought alongside Ukranian troops.
couldn't you just link to a c file in the same dir then use that to read up the file tree. I would be interested to know how D would prevent this.
They didn‘t fight on the russian side. For some reason english media mistranslated original press release.

https://www.poliziadistato.it/articolo/225d2c47fb2c9ef299497...
It says "avevano combattuto nella regione ucraina del Donbass contro gli indipendentisti". So they were fighting against separatists.
Edwin Bradley coined the technique Type driven development... You can look for a bunch of videos about it on YouTube
> Things like mixing in a data file is incredibly useful and not something I would want to use a rebuild step for at all.

It’s not directly part of the const function, but rust has compiler built-ins to import files as values as compile time, which makes it easy to declare global static variables that contain that data.

This is different from being able to walk a directory and read random files.

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.include_str.html

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/macro.include_bytes.html

> They share the same frontend so there is very little difference.

That’s excellent.
There's no point in updating, apparently. Not yet, anyways -- well, unless you haven't installed the firmware updates that fixed the last round of vulnerabilities (2016).

Fortunately for Logitech customers, one of the three vulnerabilities should be getting fixed in a future firmware update -- possibly as soon as next month.

The other two have been deemed WONTFIX because "thise would negatively impact interoperability".

Luckily, you can easily protect yourself against these other two -- just don't ever let anyone touch your computer or come within 10m (30ft) of it and you've got nothing to worry about.

> Two of them relate to extracting the encryption key that secures the communication between the Logitech device and the Logitech Unifying USB receiver. The third one relates to overcoming the barriers to keystroke injection between the device and the USB receiver.

There's plenty of downplaying the vulnerabilities (three of them, four CVEs) in this advisory -- several times they claim that only a sophisticated hacker with "special equipment and skills" would even be capable of exploiting these vulnerabilities -- even though the first comment here linked to a PoC.

Also, this link might be a bit more appropriate for the HN crowd: https://github.com/mame82/UnifyingVulnsDisclosureRepo (a "summary / overview" from the security researcher).
Yes, but it's very slow for human lifetimes; it would take millions of years

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmospheric_escape#Mars
I guess point is that you can do something else while listening, like I commute with a car so reading a book is out of the question, but listening to audiobooks and podcasts fits well.

Besides commuting you can do other things like house chores.

For me audiobooks have opened reading in a whole new way. I used to think that I was dyslexic, but I've since discovered that the right term is subvocalization. I was slow reader as a kid and never grew out of it. So reading is really slow for me, I've tried to work on it, but in the meanwhile I might as well be listening audiobooks.
When people ask why I work from home so much
Italy's right wing movements have had a fondness for Russia for quite a few years now; Ukraine fascists are just not as famous as Russian ones, nor as powerful, so I guess it was an easy pick. An anti-EU stance might also have been a factor.
Exactly.
I use audiobooks mostly on tedious tasks daily. Like washing dishes, feeding the washing machine, dryer, ironing, etc. Often I tend to bundle those tasks together for a longer listening experience.

Other then that it's great for commute on trains, planes, taxis, or bike or if you go somewhere where waiting is expected.

It takes some time to get into though. I have struggled with it in the beginning so I started with a book I read already some time ago so it wouldn't be such a big deal if I miss something. Now it became almost the only way I consume books for entertainment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/08/russia-is-...

TLDR: Russia backs these groups to undermine Western societies. Nazis admire Putin because of shared disdain for democracy.
Bluetooth. Device A and Device B can see eachother, occassionally throughout the day, via bluetooth. An app using either the Google or Criteo Framework records these and through knowing that one devices has VPN on, knows that it's endpoint is likely not real and assigns the two devices together.

Even better, thanks to criteo's bluetooth beacon service, if you go to pick up your pizza, they will know you bought it and can present you with further ads from that specific pizza chain.

If you think Criteo isn't doing that, you should check out their marketing material.
Ask HN: How did you get your first 10 users/customers?
How did you get your first:

A. 10 users (paying and non-paying inclusive)

B. 10 paying users
It's the same for me, maybe worse because I do many search in Italian.

I'm currently using Startpage for this reason.
LLVM RISC-V back end 'official' for 9.0
I think those countries stance against liberal ideas like gender equality, lgbt right and so on as well as a rather authoritarian form of government at least in Russia and Hungary might make western European fascists a bit jealous as well.
Thunderbolt 3 cables can definitely be different from fully featured USB-C cables though. They're also labelled differently, with the Thunderbolt lightning bolt mark.
A.I. Expert Says Automation Could Replace 40% of Jobs in 15 Years
It's not CGNAT. My home router is behind ISP's NAT. It's double NAT.
It would be used for analysing past gameplay, not during live matches
What I want is for every display to have a USB-C port that can power an external thumbstick PC while transmitting video and audio in the other direction. eGPUs already work more or less the same way, so the technology is there.
You may be interested in watching The Planets (2019). It's a entertaining summary of space exploration/theories of the last two decades, and it talks about Mars and Venus (including the atmospheric loss theory on Mars versus Venus retaining an atmosphere) for an episode.
That's the thing with these entrepreneurship forums, they (almost) only reveal their revenue.

I've heard many different reasonings to this:

"Profit margins are a private matter"

"Showing profits open up to competition"

"Profits don't matter at this stage, as we haven't scaled or optimized yet"

And it just makes for a better story.
Static Resource Programming Language
Good catch. That's because we're still on the 7th day according to the Tanakh.

The form of the verb translated that God "rested" is in fact progressive in the original Hebrew.

https://wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/2011525
Might this be informed from evidence he has knowledge about? After all he is very close to Palantir.
> Guaranteed memory safety: Yes! (in code marked with the appropriate annotations)

Really? So if a thread passes a pointer to an object to another thread which frees it, the sending thread can no longer reference it? Genuine qn.
How to Create a Beautiful UI in Xamarin Forms
Not at the moment, but planned according to the developer: https://github.com/zxqfl/TabNine/issues/13
I’m addicted to the news, and especially if it makes me feel like i’m under attack by forces i have no control over. Thanyou BBC, you’re my opium.
Woods were a larger percentage of land, but you're not thinking far back enough.
Is he the new Joseph McCarthy ???.
Instead of Slavic commies we now have to look for Asian commies behind every bush ???.
This post is from 4/2018, why sharing it now?
How to model hierarchical data in noSQL databases
I could very well be dead wrong about this, but isn't any game that allows you to construct the equivalent of a transistor turing-complete with enough work?
Rust macro system is much more powerful than D mixins.

I personally find Rust macro system infinitely easier to use than D mixins as well. In D, I need to learn a new pseudo-language to work with mixins, but Rust macros are just normal Rust code that gets executed at compile-time on other Rust code, and this code can do anything that any running Rust program can do.

The structure of the 2 fundamental Rust libraries around Rust macros are super intuitive to me (maybe its the CS background?). `syn` is a Rust parser from tokens -> AST, and it supports doing AST->AST folds and other common operations. And `quote` gives you semi-quoting.

With `syn+quote` most macros end up as 10 liners. Tokens->AST->AST fold->Quote->Tokens.
Anyone can experience this by overtightening the headset (the steering axis) on a bike. Suddenly one has to focus on balancing way more and riding a bike no handed becomes almost impossible.
Does it matter, really?

It sounds like a nice enterprise to me. It might not be the highway to billionaire but definitely sounds well paying enough to have a nice and pretty easy life.

And he doesn't need to live in a high cost areas either as the shop only needs a smallish warehouse/cellar for the alcohol.

it's basically a story and was probably never intended to be a recipe to duplicating what he's done. I think it's a little of bragging and maybe even a little advertisement for his service. Just read it like that and it's a perfectly fine story
I’ve actually been using TablePlus as well, mainly for accessing a MSSQL database. I find it a bit awkward to use and not as fast as Sequel Pro, but nonetheless a useful and a good recommendation.
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How useful is this in actuality?

Could I launch it from the ground, or does it need to be launched from the air? Could i just strap it to a Cessna, or does it need other systems (radar?) to work? Does it need the original war head, or can you attach any old explosive device.

In short, if I as a potential terrorist wanted to shoot down a plane, would this be a reasonable starting point?
I always find reasoning like this to be weak. Why is it on Google that China is run by the morally bankrupt?
Many unis offer a prereqs class just for people like you and for others who might have had inadequate secondary schooling. You might want to check out whether your prospective college/university does this.
Huh, maybe I'll look into that for my own search needs. If the whole issue is people aren't paying, and this comes without all the other strings, it'd be worth it.
I wouldn’t want to associate with Nazis then, clearly they support supremacy, secrecy, and a criminal state. Democracy is associated with fairness, openness, and justice.

I would like to think that the US educational system inoculates everyone from those dreadful -isms.
Or some candidates go through the easy route and privately fork an existing solution from GitHub which they heavily modify it to submit that as their own to go to the onsite interviews.

"Take home projects" are not enough to identify this so-called "talent" that you are searching for. Just ask all the candidates if they have any significant open source projects or patches sent to relevant high-profile projects and you have raised the barrier to entry to weed out hello-world, junior, mid type candidates.

So yes, You're crazy.
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2.5 Crore Android Phones Hacked (Hit) by Critical Malware: Details Here
Is Competitive Programming Just for College Students? Maybe Not, and Here’s Why
> Advantage of web app is cross platform uniformity. Write once, run everywhere.

In theory -- yes. But in practice, it is write once, debug anywhere. Remember a certain electron app consuming 100% CPU for a blinking cursor on a certain platform?
The point wasn't very relevant though, regardless of the confusing language of "real". Obviously eclipse is measured relative to the observer, so how is it relevant that "the sun continues to shine just the same"? It's not relevant to the concept of eclipse, and doesn't make it any less real.
They were only a few steps away from development of a milkshake capability.
The reasons why you consider Baidu not as good are probably not technical, but are due to censorship and Baidu's abandonment of non-Chinese websites and pages.
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal

https://www.amazon.com/Dream-Machine-Licklider-Revolution-Co...
Unwitting users of WeChat aid the app’s blacklisting of sensitive images
Nice try nazi, I'm not going to help you
I've been having loads of issues with my Outlook.com acct. with AirMail, constantly getting prompted for login. I paid for both the Mac and the iOS version but I'll have go over to Spark/back to the built-in Mail app, it seems
Russia is funding and supporting several right-wing groups and parties in Europe.

The cooperation is based on mutual pursuit of more power.
Ideal free markets simply cannot exist when the safety of people is our primary goal. I'm not sure if you meant that with the statement "because we don't have them anyways" so I'm pointing this out loud because on every discussion about regulations and free markets this is one argument I still would haven't heard a good counterpoint to.
v2 is zero bytes, but v1 works: https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.03098v1

This preprint paper contains no indication of participation by an Ethical Review Board and lists 5 @linked.com email addresses as the sole authors.

How is this study ethically responsible?
Ars Technica needs to issue a correction to the story. Otherwise I'm going to lose considerable respect for them.

There's a fine line between making a genuine mistake and lying to your readers.
They were trying to sell it, not use it directly. At which point it may end in the hands of someone who might know how to use it or how to retrofit it for other uses.
People who feel shafted by society will reject its values. No amount of inoculation prevents that. The best way of prevention is to genuinely care for the rejected.