skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> You can be in bed and say “goodnight” and all of your lights turn off

Well that is qute, but the flip side is that FANGs and gods know who else may be listening in.

> Schedules are also helpful. I use them on grow bulbs for
plants.

Timers for turning appliances on and off have been around for decades.
What happens after 10 years?

I have been a software developer for more than 25 years. It is getting boring. Any "new" problem is just the same old problem with a new layer of abstraction. Look at this new language/framework that is so great! You could do all that with the previous language if you cared enough to learn it.

Anyone has experienced the same frustration?

I now use my spare time to learn to draw. I found it way more exciting and I see a challenge that I do not find in coding anymore.
That doesn't contradict my point. We push things to the edge of our tolerance for safety, and inevitably cross over sometimes. Only when something bad happens do we step back and focus on safety again.

That's not even necessarily bad, unless the bad thing that happens is so catastrophic that it destroys whatever safety record you previously had.
Coreboot is a great project, it's unfortunate that more devices don't use it. OEM machines from the big names like Dell or Lenovo can't/won't support it due to Boot Guard as far as I'm aware

Some of the smaller niche venders like GPD or 51nb who make much more exotic gear though would be great to see support for

Alternatively I'd love to see the range of "old" motherboards supported. A retro machine with Coreboot would definitely open up a lot of interesting possibilities compared to clunky, buggy old OEM BIOS's of the era
No one intentionally makes shitty products. Or at least I’ve never heard of anyone who does.

But I can sympathise with the people that made the decisions to put the plane in the air.

I never intended to make products that customers wouldn’t like. But I’ve shipped things that didn’t meet my own (low?) standards due to financial and social pressures for me and the companies I worked for.

Most employees have done the same. Most business owners have as well.
Tech became tech because it was unregulated. Biotech is anything but, in the west.
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Safari also does this with their Intelligent Tracking Prevention (ITP).
Those people would have a two or even three-hour commute otherwise. They chose to sacrifice space to save time and energy. Most workers wasting 10+ hours in a car or public transportation don't get to choose.
The Shape of Fraud
I don't see how that applies. We typically have backchannels and other recourse when we have differences with allies (like Obama had with Israel).
Genes are spreading just fine without any assistance from wallets.
Right and also encrypted media extensions are a new development.

I think the solution is a new web protocol that does not require an OS in a box (browser). It will be supported by decentralized (mostly p2p) protocols. It probably will not have any JavaScript.
> I think a company can issue unlimited press releases saying whatever the company wants to say. But the amount of money they get to spend on political, policy, and perhaps even social advertising, should be limited.

The foundational problem is this. Media companies like CNN and The Wall St Journal are corporations and their business is talking about politics. What does it even mean, then, to restrict how much money they can spend on it? How do you even measure the value of being able to choose which anchor with which viewpoints gets which timeslot, or which story goes on the front page? Or being able to just not report on stories (like media consolidation) that they're not interested in people knowing about?

But if buying a TV network to get airtime for your viewpoint is speech then so is buying airtime from that TV network.

The solution to this isn't to restrict corporations from saying things. It's to make sure that everybody else gets to say things too. So that's things like public financing of elections, and decentralized social networks (in the style of email) so that nobody gets to gatekeep information.

Make it cheaper to reach voters without corporate sponsorship and you erode the corrosive utility in corporate sponsorship. Making it more difficult only does the opposite and makes it worse -- nobody wants Zuckerberg to have the power to determine the President with an algorithm.
This isn't a safe bet at all; we're the first arrivals, it would be a shock if we did everything right the first time.
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I've been writing software for 14 years. I've done it professionally for almost 2.

There aren't many interesting problems professionally (and early-career you don't get many). I'm getting bored and stupid, but goddamn I'm well paid. I don't think I could remedy this without going for a PhD or switching fields.

My hobbies are mostly outdoors now.
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Arizona and California are the folly of big government infrastructure building. Enabling unsustainable economies in places that should be desert. Unfortunately no way out except bailouts, probably.
> then why do people still upload their content? That makes no sense to me at all.

Why do websites exist that don’t have ads? Why do people have personal websites and blogs? Perhaps it is, in fact, physically possible for a website to exist without serving third-party JavaScript ads.
So, make it worse by opening it up from the top 5-10 most capable state actors to the next 200?

This just isn’t a good idea. Full stop.
Strong bones but death st sge 50. It will take as long as fifty years to learn that. Or maybe this system will be easy to fix forward and hack. I mean evolution is clearly going to result is modularism as a design principal and separation of functions of chemical pathways. Not like hacking some hand crafted assembly code by a dead mad genius, it wont be like that.
Last I checked it isn't out yet and Podman offers this already.
You have the order wrong.

Southwest was founded before deregulation and planned to fly exclusively intra-Texas routes to avoid federal route & fare planning. Obviously they also saw a market for the shuttle service they were running.

Separately, as part of the plan to build DFW all operating airlines at Dallas and Ft Worth signed agreements to move all service to the new airport once it opened. Key word: operating, Southwest wasn’t flying yet when the agreement was signed.

Between the agreement and DFWs opening Southwest started flying their shuttle service. Knowing that wouldn’t work from DFW, and since they hadn’t signed the agreement to leave, they planned to stay at Dallas-Love.

This sparked a bunch of lawsuits and other fights but the end result was the Wright Amendment which heavily restricted flights from Dallas-Love. The restrictions were a response to Southwest, not an initial factor in their plan. They were also another form of regulatory capture, since the incumbent airlines used their connections in the federal government to get a law passed restricting their competition.
using nukes to improve petroleum extraction. oh the irony.
> How much obesity and depression could be prevented or alleviated just by making sure people could get a decent night's sleep?

There's some body chemistry where being sleep deprived can manifest itself as hunger. I forget the details, but I read about it in "Why We Sleep"[0].

When I had a sleep study done, the pre-study questionnaire seemed to have more about depression symptoms than about sleep itself.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Sleep
3 Reasons:

1. The taxes wealthy people pay is both higher in amount and higher in percentage that non-wealthy folks.

2. The way the tax money is spent is inefficient

3. Because it is legal to minimize taxes, and to waste money is bad.

Lots of wealthy people are charitable. It's preferred to spend money through charity versus give it to the government to spend in their preferred way, which can often include buying votes.
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>You'd be talking about gutting the entire state's agriculture industry and destroying millions of people's lives.

I am curious why you care whether the agriculture stays in Arizona or moves to Illinois or Iowa or some such. Do you have family in agriculture?

(AZ's climate might be particularly advantageous for growing leafy greens, but cattle and eggs can be grown / produced in many places.)
> Unless EasyJet counts

it does.
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Funny timing, because a GOP candidate looking to unseat Ilhan Omar, was just busted for serial shoplifting at a Target.
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Flash shares a lot of the original blame.
A $3M prize for a more efficient AC unit
So did you stop eating as much, or having fewer cravings or anything like that?
I still don't "get" docker. I've deployed systems with it, and it works fine (maybe except for postgres containment, there still seems to be some "bare metal assumptions" that postgres may use that docker may invalidate), but why not use Ansible/Vagrant to build images? It appears (to me) to be the same thing, but with new mental overhead and/or cult involved.

Lots of ways to make sure that images get built and tested and deployed by scripts that keep a lot of config and directory in stand-alone (twinned) services. Why there is a "docker" cult (which may be the wrong word - it may be very very valid) escapes me.
A security research does not have to develop an entire exploit to demonstrate a vulnerability. This is analogous to that.

It is valuable research if someone can take it to the next step. Inasmuch, it is definitely worthy of publishing.
Goulds argument is that different cases have different causes. The difference between my brain and a chimp is mostly genetic. The difference between brains in the neighborhood I grew up in and the brwins in a more wretched to2n are mostly environmental. The act of measuring heriditability without the context for what effect you are analysing is as meaningless as reporting means without variances. Have youbactually read this work? It is primarily a guide to avoiding conceptual phallacies that preceed the experiments/numerical analysis.
Agreed. Though if the author really has existing materials about faster alternatives, it's still strange not to mention them. The article is strictly speaking about one way of doing I/O (or rather, an abstraction often involved in I/O), but the author should know that many will read it as saying "all I/O in Java is always slow".
Aren't Ethereum wallet private keys 'completely' random?
I'll expand my own take on this thought, borrowing a mathematical analogy I read recently.

Take the real and complex numbers. The real numbers have the nice property that they are easy to order since they form a line. Given any two you can tell which is larger. When you go up the complex numbers you lose this obvious ordering, you can define a new ordering, but it is no longer trivial since you are comparing points on a plane.

Now, some people see complex numbers as an extension of the real numbers, but it would be more accurate to call them a generalization of the real numbers. The real numbers are a subset of the complex numbers that satisfy the property of having this obvious ordering.

This again extends to the complex numbers and quaternions. A quaternion is a point on a 4D plane that does not necessarily satisfy commutativity, AKA ab != ba. The subset of quaternions that do satisfy commutativity are the complex numbers.

Every time you go up a level you lose an axiom, which is an assumption on how things work for that system. In a sense an axiom is a useful limitation that gives a certain structure to things. So what if there are 0 axioms? This would mean everything is possible, no limitations. 2 + 2 = 5. Obviously everything being possible is not useful.

Now how does this apply to physics? Physical laws are our axioms. But what if there are actually no physical laws, we are just witnessing the subset of "everything" that appears to have structure? If we are only capable of understanding things that are rational, we would be inherently unable to process events that are irrational. We would project this irrational observation down to the rational subset that we can make sense of. Let me finish with an example.

Take a uniform quantum superposition. It has an equally random chance of being measured 0 or 1. There is no hidden information determining this, it is truly random. This is irrational because there seems like there should be a reason for one final outcome being measured over the other due to our familiarity with cause-and-effect, but this ultimately appears to have no cause. We project this phenomena down to the rational and explain it the best we can with quantum states and probability.
I didn't want to block ads either; originally I just used policeman / uMatrix. Unfortunately Google analytics broke pages (because some pages required all scripts to load before rendering anything), so I had to switch to uBlock Origin with its extra Google analytics shim.
Because they have to use a hypervisor to get the benefits of the Linux kernel. If you want to speed things up and get native benefits then try switching to Linux or convince Apple to add native containers.
I think there is a simple solution--pay civil servants well
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Works great with Skaffold
Paper: https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/woot12/woot12...

Slides: https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/conference/protec...
Meanwhile, it seems the southeast is drowning in floods.
I suppose, if given the choice, most people would prefer their most intimate secrets to be leaked to a total stranger than to the people closest to them. Of course, both situations are bad, but the latter is arguably worse.
About as much as binary search being wrong in many languages for 20 years: https://thebittheories.com/the-curious-case-of-binary-search...

Nothing. Mistakes happen.
I'm chronically ill and had bad fatigue. I am a small, skinny woman with no muscle.

So, first time a doctor asked me if I did CrossFit, I thought it was a bit odd but didn't think too much about it. The third time a doctor asked "Do you do CrossFit?" I replied "Does it look like I do CrossFit?!" and she was like "Yeah, it does."

Apparently it's not uncommon where I live that there is some sort of vegan CrossFit disease, where the 80% of the treatment is is to stop being vegan and stop doing CrossFit.
Was biotech previously not tech? What an odd thing to say.
The commenter I replied to is asserting that a regression in safety is the natural order of things, and this is in response to article alleging systemic dysfunction on the part of Boeing.

I wanted to know what statistical basis he's working from, because the phenomenon he describes is not at all self-evident, not when airline safety has been solid for decades. That we just recently had the lowest annual crash-fatality count, in a decade that is arguably the safest decade in history of passenger travel, undercuts his claim. Unless he thinks the Boeing crashes are the harbinger of this inevitable safety regression.

I don't understand your comment if it's meant to be a rebuttal to me. The fact that after 2017's record safe year, hundreds of airliner passengers have in crashes involving new Boeing airliners, is support for the NYT article's thesis that Boeing is to blame. Not just, "shit happens as things get better".
I agree that when the genetic markers of intelligence become better understood and gene-editing becomes cheaper, balance-of-power considerations will tend over time to push states to sanction gene-editing.

Two other options though:

(i) states will realise that a global competition in human enhancement is collectively irrational, and proscribe it through a robust international convention, e.g. as they have with chemical weapons, and nuclear weapons through the non-proliferation treaty

(ii) states will sanction, pressure - and even attack - those who launch mass human enhancement programmes, e.g. as they sometimes do with countries breaking out of the non-proliferation regime
Java has many inefficient parts. For example there's no immutable array concept (or owning concept, like in Rust), so there's a lot of unnecessary array copies happens in JDK. String is not well designed. There was an attempt to abstract String concept into CharSequence, but a lot of code still uses Strings.

I made a similar benchmark. The idea is as follows: we have 2 GB byte array (because arrays in Java have 32 bit limit, LoL) filled with 32..126 values, imitating ASCII text and 13 values imitating newlines.

The first test is simply does XOR the whole array. It's the ideal result which should correspond to memory bandwidth.

The second test wraps this array into ByteArrayInputSteram, converts it into Reader using InputStreamReader with UTF-8 encoding, reads lines using BufferedReader and in the end also XORs every char value.

For 2 GB I have 516 ms as an ideal time (3,8 GB/s which is still almost order of magnitude less than theoretical 19.2 GB/s DDR4 speed) and 3566 ms as a BufferedReader, so you can have almost 7x speed improvement with better implementation.

Benchmark: https://pastebin.com/xMD4W8mn
Agreed. I think you are being downvoted because you forgot to paste in your benchmark results.
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I tried IF for a while. I lost a couple pounds and then plateaued. What I realized is that the main thing it was doing was preventing me from snacking at night. I didn't really eat any more than normal during the eating period, I just didn't eat my usual outside of it. So exactly in line with the study. It just didn't do much for me weight-loss-wise.

I was already skipping breakfast most days, so waiting until lunch to eat wasn't a big deal. But Stopping at 8pm was tough. I'm usually up until 1-2am, so not eating for the last five or six hours of my day was tough.
Definitely experienced that in finals period in college where I consciously substituted sleep with calories
The net add people know it was invented by a brit at a major European project. You're welcome.
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Certainly, a natural-born genius raised by wolves wouldn't make any great contributions to mathematics. I suspect that what gets missed in the nature/nurture debate that the two are in a complex feedback loop, with the result being the product not just of nature and nurture but how the two interacted. I would think even if we run out of low-hanging fruit in optimising our biology, correctly tailoring education to temperament (or vice versa if that's how the societies of the future prefer to approach it) could be another huge area of advancement.
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The NIO API uses channels and buffers

Path path = ...
var count = 0;
try(var channel = FileChannel.open(path)) {
var buffer = ByteBuffer.allocateDirect(8192);
while(channel.read(buffer) != -1) {
while(buffer.hasRemaining()) {
if (buffer.get() == '\n') {
count++;
}
}
buffer.clear();
}
}
System.out.println(count);

but in your particular case, i don't think there is a Gzip decoder that works on ByteBuffer.
Thanks for pointing this out. That makes sense. Also now I don't have to look up my wife's SSN.
He who collapses, must relax, for otherwise he's doomed to relapse.
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to sum it up, the US jails teenagers who deface websites (and foreigner journalists because why not). But if you created hacking tools specifically to steal money and provided support for those tools, you are in the clear?
>A major problem is that regulatory capture leads to less competition

Safe regulations are to avoid people dying not to stimulate competition. Without safety regulations, way more people will get sick, injured or die.

And, in this case, it is not about adding more regulation. It is just about making sure that the current one is in place.

Someone though, too much regulation is reducing my profit and 350 people died. Will deregulation bring that people lives back?
That's the web, not the internet. The internet existed continuously for over 2 decades before the web was created (although the general public didn't know about it).

"Existed": had actual users. (The US government started funding continuous research into packet switching in 1960.)

Also, if Tim Berners-Lee (TBL) hadn't created the web, someone else would probably have used the internet to create something like it in a few years whereas if the US hadn't invested heavily in packet-switching in the 1960s, 70s and 80s, a much longer interval of time probably would've gone by before someone created anything capable of enabling an ordinary programmer or sysadmin like TBL was to create something like the web.

"Ordinary": not able to command a lot of capital or labor.

TBL persuaded his boss to let him create the web during working hours. His boss agreed largely because he thought that the project would be a good way for them to evaluate a new computer the boss had bought (by NeXT). In other words, the existence of the internet (which in turn enabled the existence of a community of programmers interested in donating code to innovative projects, a community that got a very big boost when Stallman started publishing on the internet in 1983) enabled the creation of the web without any serious commitment from government, corporate executives and people with lots of money.

In contrast, the creation of a network that allowed an ordinary programmer to recruit open-source contributions to his project and to easily deploy server and client software of his own design required massive outlays of capital over 3 decades. It easy for such massive outlays to go awry in various ways. The US government avoided its going awry. In contrast, the French government retained so much centralized control over Minitel that at no point in Minitel's history could an ordinary programmer have used Minitel to create something as innovative as the web.

(It wasn't until the internet had been almost completely turned over to the private sector in the early 1990s, for example, that any software started to track users more than absolutely necessary for the operation of the network: in the early 1990s, anyone could send and email with president@whitehouse.gov in the "From" field. The reason it worked that way was to maximize anonymity of senders. There was no way for the sender of an email in the early 1990s to know whether the recipient read it, the reason again being a desire among the designers and maintainers of the infrastructure to maximize privacy.)
let's hope it doesn't get linearly itchier with time too.. no one wants that
I'm with you. We need to make planting trees and growing local gardens cool again.

One thing that is kind of popular here in Vienna are window gardens .. there's a high jankiness factor, but it always feels very rewarding to visit someone who has put the effort into tending their window gardens a little ..

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/206673070369456616/

It cools down the apartment and in many cases provides fresh herbs, which - in a concrete jungle like Vienna - is a welcome reward. Plus, at least in the ones I've visited, it smells so good. I wonder what can be done to push window gardens a little higher up the mainstream acceptance scale?