skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly this doesn’t consider what effect this might have on population growth, size of which also affects co2 emissions
The problem with some VAIO machines tends to be cooling.

My experience is that the fan controller is quite badly designed, and the machine ends up being noisy. The fan RPMs oscillate a lot, even under no load.

I hope it is not the case this time, and we end up with a nice laptop that can run Linux well. Options are limited, so an alternative with many ports from a quality manufacturer is more than welcome.
Eve is probably most interesting game and community to read about that I never actually feel like playing in.
Proof of Chain Rule Revisited
Without getting killed or loosing a ship once
It's amazing that netbooks are back in style again and it's made by Sony. The reboot of 80s and 90s are over, it's the aughts.
I see tiny has been redefined. Doesn’t anyone remember when there were 6” subnotebooks in the vaio catalog?
Are houses increasing the cost due to increases in features?

Yes.

http://www.aei.org/publication/new-us-homes-today-are-1000-s...
Does it have a Memory Stick Pro Duo reader to go with the SD?
I suddenly want to write a kdump helper which allows you to extract the crashed kernel memory via the connected LEDs.
Suddenly Apple's plethora of dongles looks like the better option
Airline mechanics feel pressured by managers to overlook potential safety issues
I think it’s a lot more fun to read about then it is to play. The stories are very cool though.
That kind of thing has been tried in schools [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_Teaching_Alphabet
I thought Sony quit making VAIO computers at one point?

Am I wrong? Did they never leave? Did they come back? Or are these just rebadged Chinese laptops?
The problem isn’t document hosting, it’s that the journals serve as a proxy for research quality, and everyone wants to publish in journals that have high (perceived and/or actual) impact. To effect real change the editors and prominent authors will need to leave, like when Machine Learning was forked into JMLR
Aggregate gross assets.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/1202

(A) the aggregate gross assets of such corporation (or any predecessor thereof) at all times on or after the date of the enactment of the Revenue Reconciliation Act of 1993 and before the issuance did not exceed $50,000,000,

(B) the aggregate gross assets of such corporation immediately after the issuance (determined by taking into account amounts received in the issuance) do not exceed $50,000,000, and
I wonder, though, how many of those fixed multicast IPs are outside of both 224/8 and 239/8.
It’s a lot more fun to read about in 10 minutes then to experience in the 10 years it took to do it
It looks like a portable version of industrial computers to me.
I'd like to live forever. I find so many things I'd like to try and learn, and sadly there's just not enough time.
HDMI cables are fragile. More than a few times this year I had to revert to VGA. Crazy really.
Yeah, hoping there’s some business model that deemphasizes impressions in favor of engagement. My personal favorite idea is Spotify for news with share of subscription fee given out based on time on site or something less purely click based. Main problem I see there is convincing the big guys to give up some control over their customer base, and convincing them that they’ll make more overall, despite potentially making much less per reader than with their other subscribers. Big problems, to be sure.
Engines of Creation might be the book for you: http://xaonon.dyndns.org/misc/engines_of_creation.pdf
Re: the Byford Dolphin incident - That was absolutely horrifying. I'd never heard if it before. Yikes.
I feel like folks on Hacker News constantly underestimate how much you have to do to end up being someone the government is seriously interested in.

I’ve been commenting on HN in a saucy and flagrant way about the US government for years. And let’s not be coy: I’d gladly sign up to storm Area 51 with these bozos and take home my own alien trophy.

Here’s the kicker: Tomorrow I’m flying from Dublin to Philadelphia. I’ll reply to this comment if I make it through security in America. If I don’t reply within 24 hours, I beseech everyone to downvote me to oblivion for my painful naïveté and baseless arrogance.
$10M per year.

(1) In generalIf the taxpayer has eligible gain for the taxable year from 1 or more dispositions of stock issued by any corporation, the aggregate amount of such gain from dispositions of stock issued by such corporation which may be taken into account under subsection (a) for the taxable year shall not exceed the greater of—

(A) $10,000,000 reduced by the aggregate amount of eligible gain taken into account by the taxpayer under subsection (a) for prior taxable years and attributable to dispositions of stock issued by such corporation, or

(B) 10 times the aggregate adjusted bases of qualified small business stock issued by such corporation and disposed of by the taxpayer during the taxable year.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/26/1202
The real crisis is that policymakers in Washington are hellbent on pursuing two diametrically opposite housing/real estate goals:

1. House prices will increase to generate appreciation (through 5:1 or more leverage) that households can tap into to finance consumption. Mortgage rates will be kept as low as possible through programs like QEX and abandonment of QT. Tax code will be kept in a state that allows at least the more extravagant spenders to claim a mortgage deduction on income taxes, stimulating home buying.

2. House prices will be kept low so that new families can afford to buy a house. Zoning, highway construction subsidies, and suburbanization tax giveaways will keep the dream of a standalone house alive as long as possible, unsustainable economics be damned.

It should be obvious, but house prices that routinely outstrip consumer inflation are incompatible with affordability.
The book will be published by Springer (at which point the online draft will be removed).

Yoni Nazarathy.
> Medical 'anomalies', while sad and terrible in some cases, can also be fascinating

I developed some kind of lump near the top of one of my butt cheeks. It was quite a bit denser than the surrounding tissue and it pointed up in a way that it could have been used as a hook to hang a hat on, if for some reason I was naked and needed to carry an extra hat around.

My doctor didn't know what it was, and sent me to have a biopsy. The biopsy showed that it was not cancerous.

It was way too big for my doctor to consider removing, and he sent me to a surgeon to see if she could remove it in her office. She said it was too big for that, and it would need to be done in a hospital. She also had no idea what it was.

Next stop was a dermatologist to see if he had any ideas what it was and wht to do about it (short of surgery in the hospital). He too had no idea what it was. He checked with some colleagues at the University of Washington, describing it to them. They had no idea either, and wanted me to come over to let them look at it, and also show it to the medical students as an example of the strange ass (no pun intended) things that the human body sometimes does that they will encounter as doctors and have no idea what the heck is going on.

Since it wasn't cancerous, and, aside from dashing any hopes I might have had of quitting programming to become a nude butt model, didn't cause any problems I declined and just ignored it.

A few years later, it started shrinking, and a few months later was gone.

One of the doctors told me that this kind of thing--a patient with some weird thing that the doctor does not recognize--is a lot more common than most people realize.
An inbound firewall for all traffic has exactly the same security level as NAT.

There's a very small argument for privacy but (a) we have privacy addresses and (b) even behind NAT many of your devices are probably already identifiable in many other fingerprinted ways that obscuring the address for this sake would be pointless
The other unpaid labor is peer review — keep in mind that reviewers don’t get paid!
What are the practical and functional use cases that benefit from a clit mouse vs, say, a trackpad? Genuine question, I've seen them on older laptops but I always assumed they were purely vestigial from a time when trackpads were no good.

Also, mandatory: in Russia, clit mouse is blue.
MAPLE: Towards Interpretable Tree Ensembles
you overestimate what it takes to be one of the best programmers. they are not geniuses. they just work harder. that makes a big difference. what you did does set you apart, and if you keep it up, it is exactly what will make you a great programmer. it makes you the kind of person i want to hire.

and from different perspective, the feeling that this came easy to you is exactly what would make you gifted. you are not impressed by your own achievements, but they are achievements. this is what gifted means. what's hard for someone else is easy for you.

that doesn't make it a good idea to call people gifted, because that has a tendency to make them lazy. it seems you saw through that though.
If like me you were curious: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/52/eve-online-mmo-game-p...
Can't have it both ways.

We can't have it both ways because we've zoned/policied "starter homes" out of existence. That part can be reversed. It doesn't have to remain true.
Glad to see it trending again. I raised the same concern years ago, and was mostly ridiculed. Nothing has changed since then.

I’ve been using Google Drive integration to share photos securely, but Google just announced that this will be going away.

In addition I realized that Google strips out metadata from my files during conversion. Common sense, but not something I thought about before.

Time to switch. If anybody has good alternatives I am all ears.

https://www.alexkras.com/do-not-share-your-google-photos/
Wonder how much time the character spent idle training skills to fly, you can get basic cloaks fairly quickly but to be able to fit a ship to never fall victim to a web, decloak, etc? That’s a lot of SP, and you’re still reliant on luck and skill even then.
Shivetya was talking about Telsa battery packs, which are rechargeable.
My college roomate in the early 90s announced that an entire week (24x7 hours) of his life had been devoured by a MUD.

Since I am only doing social media, that is in some way better. #NoItsNot
> They need to beat the Model S on performance

The Model S overheats when doing a lap at a racetrack. It's not a performance car:

https://insideevs.com/news/323053/tesla-model-s-fails-to-lap...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfZLGIs0H14

> Ok the ID3 is a reasonable name, But we still don't know what this supposed flagship is going to look like

Of course we do. Have a look:

https://insideevs.com/news/359253/production-parts-vw-id3-st...

https://insideevs.com/news/359217/vw-id3-light-camo-rechargi...

https://insideevs.com/news/359140/video-vw-tease-id3-dashboa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RENix0of9Dw
Eve probabbly is a good example of the level of time and environment you need to get all these cool things to happen with a big universe to explore, all the weird politics and etc ... but sadly to get all that you need a fairly time consuming system.

I remember some old MUDs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD I didn't play much but I tagged along with some committed players. In that MUD (I don't recall the name) death was a serious consequence, something like a 25% exp hit when you die... serious consequences. Also the players role played pretty hard. No need for silly language but if you were a knight you were expected to be helpful, etc. Everyone played along.

One day a little trash talk happened when unexpectedly some high level dark players who you rarely saw (they had their on private island on the MUD and rarely left) hassled some random user in a big city. I was hanging with the knights and then all hell broke loose. Most of the players involved died (including me who was dumb enough to grab a sword I couldn't handle and ... it was cursed so I started attacking at random, dark guy's didn't like that).

The great part was that for years afterward people read and commented on other people's description of the fight. Totally organic event, serious consequences for all involved... it was great.

When games like WoW came out I was just ... not interested if there wasn't really anything on the line.

Eve looked awesome, but man I got a family and career ;)
The whole thing about 'spelling bee' seems crazy to me. What is the point in memorising a dictionary and then repeating what was in it to an audience?

Most competitions (why is it a spelling bee and not a spelling competition?) seem to revolve around a specific skill that stands on its own, and it's rarely about retaining facts that are described in a book. Compared to a physical sport, it's as if you'd remember all the rules but then not play the game. Or compared to a sport like Go or Chess, there is no interaction with an opponent, there is no improvisation or strategy, just data.

Maybe it's an American thing, and it holds it's value because it's a tradition that was recently created (well, relatively recent). It's what most searches seem to suggest... (as well as it being the reason that I don't run in to a 'bee' in other countries)
Much of NYC Including Subways Without Power
It is now made by VAIO Corporation. Sony owns 25%, rest it sold to Japan Industrial Partners in 2014.
or just to be able to keep going until i find that bug where others have given up.
No movement of the fingers off the homerow. It's really actually very useful if you get a good one, though having no middle mouse button (I'm looking at you HP Elitebook I have to use for work) is a horrible mistake.
> these aren't rechargeable

The only use I could imagine for these would be for a trucking company that wouldn't mind swapping and recycling the packs to keep their trucks going continuously.

For folks who have adapted to EV cars, never having to go somewhere to fill up (or swap) would be hard to give up. And rechargable packs will get better.

EDIT: ok... what about racers? Current EV racing is limited by the batteries. A lightweight aluminum pack that can be swapped when they change tires might make EV racing interesting. That assumes the power output from these packs isn't fundamentally limited in some way.
> *In fact, this UI is basically identical to the Drive UI, including separating the functionality of creating a public, shared link and sharing with a specific person. It's downright surprising that Google Photos acts in a different way than Drive here.

Just a guess, but I'm betting this is an issue with how compartmentalized Google is within itself, that it was just simply two different people had two different solutions to how "links to objects" should work and it simply never occurred to either of them to check what the other products are doing.
Hello HN,

I decided to build this because we needed to set up daily webpage performance audits by running `lighthouse` against our websites on daily basis and emailing the generated report. The plumbing required to run existing command-line tools as cron jobs is still too high.

CloudCron runs on Google Cloud Platform and Kubernetes Engine and should scale pretty nicely. I'd love to have you try it out. You can run 3 tasks for a total cost of $ 15 for completely free.
I dunno, the people in that picture don't exactly look... cool. I love D&D but have had a hard time finding a group of people who play who I would actually want to be around. Maybe that's a little harsh though..
>> That is to say, every individual neuron is in and of itself a two-layer network. Think about that.

That was the conclusion of another paper linked here a few weeks back.
Indeed. And as the original article mentioned, clay rewards a player who can "be a wall" and just keep getting the ball back and not beat himself. The article mentioned Nadal's heavy topspin, and I think Borg actually pioneered that. It's the only way to to hit powerful strokes with a margin of safety. The ball clears the net easily but then dips and doesn't go long.
Java was a very plausible language for teaching software development at the time. It had memory safety, good multithreading support, static typing, exceptions with some static checking, and supported OO. The sandboxing and VM was also appealing, for tools support and research.

OO was very popular, and not just for fashion: (1) academia was concerned with things like interacting objects as models of computation; and (2) OO methodologies of the time were very useful tool for practical reasoning about systems designs, and Java arguably supported mapping design models to code better than any non-research language of the time (though there's still a gap).

I was involved with a university CS department effort to learn about and evaluate many OO languages, for rethinking intro CS education, and I recall Java did very well. This was before most companies other than Sun had ever heard of Java, so I'm not aware of any employer push at that time.

Turning exciting Java (which initially seemed targeted at the kind of programming work then using C++, not corporate MIS programmers using 4GL frameworks and such) into a bureaucratic enterprise language, came later.

Regarding pre-corporate university interest in Java, I can mainly tell you what I recall, but you can still see this 1996 Emacs mode for writing in an assembly language for the JVM (like a student might go to the trouble to spend time on, if Java had research target appeal): https://www.neilvandyke.org/jasmin-emacs/
Not saying Rust is bad by any means, but it has about 20 times smaller market share than C++ according https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/ and 11 times smaller according to http://pypl.github.io/PYPL.html.
The problem is those poor people can't live anywhere near the millionaires.

There was an article linked here on HN recently detailing the problem of running a restaurant in SF. They couldn't pay their employees enough to live within a reasonable commuting distance.
I'd prefer a world of end-to-end communication (which IPv4 can't handle w/ it's 32-bit address space when you consider the simple example of the world's mobile phones), but I'd take a world of SRV records on IPv4 as a close second.
Hofmeister Kink
Ports are useful (to state the obvious). I like this.
> He also has a very reliable 2 handed backhand

I've not analyzed it in depth, but against Federer on grass the other day he avoided hitting his backhand A LOT. It was as if only 20% of the court was in play for his backhand. His forehand is absolutely excellent, so perhaps that's part of it.

I'd have to watch him on clay again (haven't in a while) to see if the slower court means he can avoid hitting that backhand even more/more easily
The "command" the brain fires goes through a tiny cable we call "nerves" so it doesn't strike me as particularly strange if some sort of obstruction renders you unable to move the leg, our debugging capabilities are lacking in many areas so actually resolving those issues is a different matter.
Mir, the Soyuz fleet and the Salyut stations were operating at sea level pressure too. I'm not sure how influential that was in the Shuttle's design, but it certainly simplified docking the Shuttle to Mir. The pressure difference between Apollo and Soyuz was a source of complication for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Program.
Apart from excesses, I don't even consider trademarks "real" intellectual property. If you infringe on a trademark you don't commit "theft", but fraud.
I want my public ip to be 0.0.0.1. How cool it would be to be the first computer on the internet? Of course 0.0.0.0 would have been ideal but that's still reserved.
The final review process (for ISO standards) is most probably the bottleneck there.
Your seeming assumption that I want the federal government to dictate what gets built is in error. I mostly want them to stop dictating what gets built.

The Federal government plays a significant role in deciding what kind of housing can be readily financed. This plays a really substantial role in what actually gets built.

They've done this since shortly after WW2. It's a de facto stranglehold on the housing market.

There are also substantial tax breaks etc that influence the housing market.
Does anyone know what gallery they run this on: http://gallery.saganexplorations.net/# ?
This game is really amazing, and I’m often trying to find something like it. My problem, besides lacking the time to do all the things I wanted to in game, was that some people are just so far ahead that you will just never catch up without spending a bunch of money for skill injectors. I’d love to get into a game like this from near the start. I had 3 accounts on it at one time!
Honestly not really. I used a low SP alt to run blockades with expensive cargo all the time and never once lost a ship. And these were systems I knew were being actively camped.

It's almost impossible to catch a fast cloaky hauler if they know what they're doing. It's been a while, but if I recall, you wait on the gate for around 15 seconds, then decloak, pulse your MWD, cloak, and immediately change directions. It's almost foolproof if you execute correctly. Now use a frigate like an exploration ship, and it's even easier.
Much simpler would be join the scooter scheme of ~swappable rechargeable batteries ... a ready made standard that could then work for any vehicle up to a car

By forcing ownership of batteries outside of consumers effective recycling could be much more effective too. Right now there is a huge cost, almost a planned obsolescence, when a EV's battery degrades ... as is inevitable with current tech.

~swappable

https://electrek.co/2019/06/10/yamaha-ec-05-electric-scooter...
I actually hate it when software teams adopt the "we will release it when it is ready" stance, because it makes it practically impossible to plan and prepare for the new version.

I am also a strong believer that it is a sign of gross lack of internal discipline, or at least severe lack of confidence. It means you still suffer from "unknown unknowns" and therefore can't come up with and stick to a proper estimate (even if it is something broad, like Q2 2019). This doesn't say good things about a software team, in my opinion.

I know very well that estimates are difficult. But, again in my opinion, going with "we will release the next version on February 20th, now let's discuss what features we can implement during that timeframe" as opposed to "here is a list of features we want in the next version, now let's discuss when we can finish them by... actually never mind, we will just tell people 'when it is ready'".
"lol" was my first thought as well, and I suspect many peoples, despite the down votes.
Why a VGA port? What would I do with that in 2019?
The Unthinking Depths have bubbled up into The Beyond.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Fire_Upon_the_Deep#Setting
Very good point! I was only thinking about the specific case of a statement that just makes an object and shoves it into a unique_ptr (e.g. does what make_unique does in the linked Herb Sutter article), in response to the comment about not being able too use a normal constructor. You are totally right that this isn't exception safe in cases like you mentioned.
This is what's kinda talked about in Rainbows End.

The Christchurch attack was a very extreme form of meme behaviour. HWNDU is another. Anti-Scientology protests perhaps were among the first.

What's different here is it will take a lot of people in a organised way. The others have been IRL one person or small cells of people, distributed manifestations.

I don't think it will be pulled off, but if it is, I'd be a new complex IRL attacking meme behaviour.
Food production/ consumption also emit (way more) carbon dioxide. Why is it right to fulfill one kind of desire, and wrong to fulfill another? The fundamental problem is over population. And porn watching is alleviating it.