skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you use the controls that slide down from the top of the screen (I'm at a loss as to what Apple calls it) and "disable" Wifi it simply disconnects from the associated AP and won't reassociate. It will turn itself back on at 7 AM tomorrow morning.

"Disabling" Bluetooth is similar, it will disconnect from paired devices, but BTLE is still available.

You have to use airplane mode, or go in to the Settings app to fully disable it. If that isn't discouragement, I don't know what is.
Chinese wealthy have been historically moving capital out of China regardless of the controls. It has been so prevalent that the newer housing development next to where I live doesn't have the number four in any of their street addresses.

Wouldn't a weakened Yuan make them want to move the wealth back, to capitalize on the new arbitrage?
Beeminder – Pledge money to stick to your goals
I believe Chan has been openly pro-CCP/Beijing for quite some time.
Thank you for expanding, I appreciate the time it took and have already found further reading to be very interesting
I'm surprised this hasn't been done before; a monolithic wafer can achieve denser interconnects, and is arguably simpler than a multi-chip module.

On the other hand, multi-chip modules can combine the working chips in low-yield wafers, whereas a monolithic wafer would likely contain many failed blocks, uselessly taking up space / distancing the working chips.

Cooling isn't really a problem, as the TDP scales with area as in other chips. Water cooling or heat pipes can transport the heat away to a large heat sink. 3D / die-stacked chips have a harder cooling problem, potentially requiring something like an intra-chip circulatory system.
Name itself is important. It is faster and more efiecient than cgi
The idea came from the fact that I wanted to play with the NLP work and wanted more useful data sets to start from (parsing Shakespeare gets old :-). And the fact that my fairly simple search engine for PDFs was basically just a classic n-tuple index into the word clouds minus stop words and gave good recall (like the old AltaVista) but not good precision.

Another comment in this thread about having a tablet to do that suggests an interesting way to deploy something like this on inexpensive table hardware with a somewhat more bespoke (aka performant) OS and application architecture for appliance type operation. (think running a unikernel rather than a general purpose kernel in order to not spend cycles on things you won't ever need)
I generally avoid using C++ for new projects, despite having written a ton of it in the past.

My problem with C++ is that writing "best practices C++" in 2019 is so different from writing "best practices C++" in 2011 that it may as well be a different language. And if it's going to be a different language, I'm going to prefer a language and toolchain that started from a cleaner slate, such as Rust. For example: C++11 got rvalue and move semantics and that was pretty awesome, but it took me a ton of mental overhead to cleanly reason about interfaces where I wanted to support move semantics. I think Rust's borrowing semantics clean up a lot of C++'s memory ownership/management issues into a simpler model that I just don't have to think as hard about.

I sometimes still use C++ because it's easier to work with existing code. For example, if I am prototyping something that requires hitting OS API's, C++ is often the best combination of easily calling into the APIs while still getting modern conveniences.
Agreed, games are turning into a Disney themepark tours of cool cinematic experiences.

This is why indie game people are doing so well, they are limited in scope and are forced to make actual games.

I still think the gaming scene is in a good place though. Always tons of good stuff around.
Reactors are often quoted in MW-thermal vs. MWe (electric). They also mention there are 2 steam turbines. Here's my analysis.
2x 380MWt. They have two for redundancy. Then 1x 380MWt, assume 33% conversion efficiency => 125MWe.
80k SHP implies after losses, guess 85% conversion efficiency, 80k/0.85 HP to MWe ~= 70MWe. Which leaves 55MWe left over. That's still a lot of power, but it puts this closer to realistic I think.
> I generally prefer text

Encarta had text. It was mostly text. But sometimes text isn't the best medium for conveying some information. For example, maybe there's an article about lizards. You can describe the way a lizard moves, but it makes much more sense to have a video embedded that can show you what that movement looks like with all of its nuances that would be difficult to describe and understand in text.

So, think of wikipedia, but curated by professional library scientists and verified subject matter experts with first source video and audio clips (and photos) embedded where helpful.
Please elaborate. Please.
Every single version of Edge I have used has had unexplainable random pauses and jitter in GUI responsiveness. If they do some "clever" side-thread processing and queueing of inputs, I can imagine where this comes from. It was the number 1 thing preventing me from giving Edge more than a cursory try.
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One of my biggest factors for choosing an ISP and contract is how much bandwidth streaming a high-res movie is going to take.

I had to chose Comcast when I moved because the alternative could only handle HD streaming but not 4K. And then I'm paying half again as much to be able to watch a pretty movie while others are using the internet, or for several of us to watch shows on our own.

Comcast is getting paid for bandwidth, plenty.
I remember getting Encarta 95 back when it first came out (I was 14 at the time) and the interactive elements and audio clips blew my mind. It changed how I thought about information and got me that much more invested in learning technology.

Literally a week after getting Encarta a door to door encyclopedia salesmen came to our house and I showed him why I did not need his books. You could see the look of terror in his eyes.
When you figure it out, please have my name at top of the beta users list.
An alternative to ignorance is to be enthralled by the process. I knew many of my programs weren't great or amazing growing up, but I was too into the puzzle of how programs and programming works to care. The result was, frankly, secondary to the process.

I'm not an amazing piano player, but with a MIDI keyboard and headphones I can gameify it, enjoy the process of practice and learning, measure progress even when it's sometimes hard to see, and do this all even if I'm still skittish about actually performing any of it for others.

With something like art - I have trouble seeing my progress, gamifying it, I have a certain vicious judgement of my own work beyond what I judge the art of others by, and I'm not particularly into the process for it's own sake. I haven't made any progress there since high school!
Only if the compromises in a Tesla do not outweigh the presence of fart jokes (well, and no oil changes).

But then, I just honestly do not see how anyone in good conscience could give even a red cent to Elon.
I agree. I come to HN for tech-ish news. Usually it'll include things related to work/tech stuff, like the economy or employment laws, or whatever.

But when you're just softballing in "human interest" stories about pets then it's just reddit with less features.
If you're interested in Singapore's story with Lee Kuan Yew here is an in-depth review of his book.

https://old.reddit.com/r/TheMotte/comments/ceajmw/book_revie...
There is an entire book on the creation of Explorapedia, I sing the body electronic: A year with Microsoft on the multimedia frontier by Fred Moody (my copy is ISBN 0-340-64927-5). It's fascinating for its insights not only on the messiness of the design process, but also the process and deadline constraints that the team were working under (which feel like a general rather than a specific set of lessons).
Did he suggest that women drink only pure-grain alcohol during pregnancy?
That counts as "yes, he did" in my book and I'd buy him a beer, too.
Thread from 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11098653

2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3204006

2010: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1991078

2009: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=800029
I also was able to solve it in a couple/few min after seeing the comment. I did have a couple issues, index was off by one, and didn't catch an issue if I had already seen the substring using a brute force nested loop, but otherwise it works (Python). Edit: I also did it without a nested loop using a dictionary. Why I didn't think of this initially I don't know.

I've also had a couple FAANG onsites and get nervous as can be, but that's just a practice more and be more confident with my abilities problem I feel. No offers though yet. Still trying and practicing.
> In a world of 4k streaming video, global wireless, and high-speed everything, there's really no analog to the feeling we got watching the Moon Landing as a video in Encarta - short of watching it live on TV in the 1969! For most of us, this was the first time we'd ever seen full-motion video on-demand on a computer in any sort of fidelity - and these are mostly 320x240 or smaller videos!

I remember watching that video. I was dazzled by the novelty of it and immediately tried searching for all videos and playing all I could find on the CD-ROM.

Just to compare I perused the Wikipedia "moon landing" page to compare. At first I was surprised that I couldn't find this video. Then I realized there's a separate entry specifically for the Apollo 11 mission. It links to the following page:

https://apolloinrealtime.org/11/

... which as a whole HTML5 interface to go back and experience the launch in realtime.

I'm going to watch it later, but I'll ask ahead of time-- is the author really stating that the feeling of watching that single video on Encarta was more enthralling than what I'll experience with that HTML5 interface?

Edit: wording
One could ask, "What would China do to WeChat if they showed sponsored content from the US promoting democratic reforms in HK?"
Kerbal Space Program 2
It's 15kW, you need a custom liquid cooling solution that they package the chip with.
I believe AirDrop defaults to "Contacts Only" so you'd need to have every customer add your reception phone number.
Voluntary groups coming together like that creates a prisoner's dilemma, and thus an unstable alliance.

Only externally enforced rules, evenly applied, create a level playing field where individual companies can have confidence that they are not harming themselves by adhering to the rules.
This seems targeted for training, not inference. It definitely seems to me compute need is growing for training. (Is TF Lite even relevant at all for training?)
Ah, apparently I didn't try hard enough then.
This is an ugly code snippet. No one should write C++ that looks like this and if they do they are asking for problems.
.sh is for shell scripts which is the only time where #Script stand-alone .ss scripts are used, overloading .sh would confuse what’s a Bash Script or a #Script Script, which are completely different.
Google OAuth API Is Down
This is the only Google status page I can find and it's all green still: https://status.cloud.google.com
Has Germany ever been truly part of the West?

https://www.hsozkult.de/publicationreview/id/reb-23043
A bunch of small threads:

2018 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17385586

2015 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10073663

2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4453300

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2568945

2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2110779

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1195641

and one larger one:

2010 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1476425
The author is very cavalier about open source licenses - they seem to be implying you can just use open source code whenever you want, even for closed-source, proprietary applications. Whether or not that is true depends on the licenses involved.
Ah.. I can imagine all kinds of weird bottlenecks making it hard to deliver a high-res bitmap at a reasonable framerate, or at all, to a screen back then.

Anyway, if you end up reading this: I really enjoyed so many of your dadhacker posts, years ago. Thanks.
Ask HN: Startup Founders, what percentage of your week is meetings?
What percentage of your week are meetings? What types of meetings?

For me - I spend M - W with absolutely no meetings.

And then I spend Thu/Fri chatting with fellow founders, customers, investors, etc..
> What language do you recommend for this type of application and why?

This is the #1 reason why .NET Core gets so much of my mindshare these days. If I write something and put it out there, it will Just Work (TM) 99.99999% of the time. As soon as the user runs `dotnet build` or `dotnet run`, it'll automatically go grab the exact right versions of packages from NuGet and set everything up locally. The only time anything tricky ever happens is if some third-party library doesn't ship a native library dep for each platform; that's rare, but does occasionally happen.
If you're wondering about some weird social ill plaguing society from the tech industry, 99% of the time the root cause of it is Section 230.
Technically you're a robot made from meat - a "meat-based machine".

You can flip your argument around - at what point do your consider a computer to be the equivalent of a human? At what point does such a machine deserve what we currently call "human rights"?

I'm not expecting you to answer this, but rather think about it; it's an interesting question and topic, with lots of philosophic undertones, questions, etc. It can't really be answered, because we don't know how we actually work; that is, how does "mind" arise from "brain"? What is consciousness? Can a machine become so? Does the substrate, organic vs inorganic, ultimately matter?

It's a trip down a rabbit hole with (currently) no end in sight...
I'm not sure what your question really is?! Is it whether I would want to buy an internet connection that's too slow for watching most video? Or whether I would want an internet connection that is too slow for watching most video to be offered on the market for people to buy? Or ... what?
There are styles of programming with no conditionals, especially in purely functional languages.

A common technique inside compilers is to separate out which code gets run, and which result gets used. If everything is side-effect-free, then there's no harm in running the code whose result won't get used. In highly parallel systems, you can just run both versions and select at the end. So you can rewrite:

if foo < 2:
a = foo
else
a = 2

to:

a = phi(foo<2, 2, foo)

(the phi operator is taken from SSA notation. See https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#phi-instruction if you're unfamiliar)
Snap Did Thanos Kill You
> In part, because most video sites will adapt the stream to the achievable bandwidth.

Why is that a reason to force them to use less than their fair share of available bandwidth?

> In part, because if the throttle all bulk data transfers over some minimum size, all the time, most people are only going to notice on video streaming, since videos are the most frequent bulk transfers.

How is that a reason for anything, and what is it actually supposed to be a reason for?
> unless it can prove that the transaction was legitimate.

And what is the standard of evidence for that?

> So basically, they can't put liability on the customer unless 2FA is used. The second factor is usually the credit card PIN.

That doesn't sound like a second factor? Or are you talking about POS transactions?

> Banks have to maintain a balance between convenience and risk of fraud.

Really, they don't. The bank should never decide to take on risks for me. There is nothing wrong with offering a feature where the customer can select to allow certain transactions without 2FA. There is everything wrong with forcing that feature on customers.
I’m going long $TWTR with this news, the quarterly report is going to be great
For one, social media companies are a different kind of entity in legal terms and have different legal responsibilities.
What's there to understand? We know how intelligence "happened". We just need to build a few million human-sized brains, attach the universe, and simulate a few billion years of evolution. Whatever comes out of that could just be called "AGI" by definition.
vector::operator[] does not check bounds, neither do some libraries that I have to use, notably Google Protocol Buffers can turn a logic bug (bad index to repeated field) into an access to unallocated memory.

Best practices do not fully eliminate segfaults. This is a practical observation.
The main difference seems to be that the world doesn't force you to do something anymore, it begins to ask "what can I do for you?".

At some point money becomes more than the hard money you buy your food with, but a means of control. Within some limits you can, at some size even have to, provide meaning to others through organisation.

Instead of worrying about the next paycheck you worry about risk, the perspective has to become ever more "macro", lest you lose money because the world model you use to make investment decisions with isn't close enough to the reality of the world. Which, at the highest level is just a cloud of beliefs, constrained by psychology and ultimately physics.

I'd like to read more about the experience of others, and how much it differs between people who have worked/lucked into it during their life and those who were born and perhaps raised with that knowledge and in this environment (inheritance).

How do you find meaning if everything can be accomplished by a mere decision to invest/acquire/influence?

What are the values of the (ultra-)rich? What does still have value to them?

Can leaders of large, complex institutions have a true connection to the reality of the process?

Is there a way to cope with the massive social responsibilities other than to ignore them or finding a way to accept "small" misfortunes (laying off hundreds of people, shutting down unprofitable companies) in pursuit of a greater good (sound resource allocation, long term strategy)?

Is there still something, beside history, science or religion you can look up to and find instruction? Or does one have to look to ones side, to the few lonely people at the top of the pyramid?

Simply put, what is their perspective on the world?
I wish this was the case. 5 years ago I could train the most advanced, largest DL models in reasonable time (few weeks) on my 4 GPU workstation. Today something like GPT-2 would probably take years to train on 4 GPUs, despite the fact that GPUs I have now are 10 times faster than GPUs I had 5 years ago.
People are doing a lot more with async/await than five-line echo servers. They're converting entire codebases and seeing dramatic reductions in noise.
I didn't see any indication, but I'd give ~0% chance that the full address space can be accessed in one clock.
I wonder if pumpkins are considered vegetables or fruits? Squash? Eggplant?

Peanuts considered nuts or legumes for "taxation"?

Etc.
Ask HN: Resources for 7 Year Old
My son will get his first computer (a Chromebook) for his 7th birthday this weekend. What are some of the resources (websites, apps etc) that you would recommend for a 7 year old to be 'wow'd' by the infinite possibilities of having a computer with uninterrupted power and internet connectivity at his disposal? He wants to play Minecraft and watch YouTube videos of fast airplanes.
Exactly. This is going to go extremely badly for the UK.
That's a nice story, but the numbers don't support the narrative. Tesla's been reporting revenue for 13 years (that I can find). So I took the first 13 years of both Tesla and Amazon financials. Amazon was breakeven by year 7. Telsa is just losing more money as time goes on. (Apologies for bad HN formatting). Here's the data:

Tesla annual net income, in millions:

Year 1: -$78

Year 2: -$82

Year 3: -$56

Year 4: -$154

Year 5: -$254

Year 6: -$396

Year 7: -$74

Year 8: -$294

Year 9: -$889

Year 10: -$675

Year 11: -$1,961

Year 12: -$976

Q1+Q2 Year 13: -$1110

Amazon annual net income, in millions (rounded):

Year 1: $0

Year 2: -$100

Year 3: -$700

Year 4: -$1400

Year 5: -$600

Year 6: -$100

Year 7: $0

Year 8: $600

Year 9: $400

Year 10: $200

Year 11: $500

Year 12: $600

Year 13: $900
I have a distributed networked system on $35 off-the-shelf modules running Linux synced to under 100 microseconds measured deviation.

There is no good technical reason for slow UI elements in 2019.
Maybe what you are after (I think...) is some form of code ethics like the code of Bordeaux for journalists [0] but then also applicable to tech corporations in Silicon Valley.

Many journalists and more important journalistic organizations take this seriously. Doesn’t mean there aren’t bad apples or mistakes. It just means there is a moral guideline to fall back on.

[0] https://www.ifj.org/who/rules-and-policy/global-charter-of-e...
This is a really good book which documents the development process of Encarta. Its a fantastic story. I found it so engrossing it inspired me to become a developer. Its also a fascinating snapshot of a very interesting time in Seattle's history, at the intersection of grunge and the nascent tech boom.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0788157930/ref=dbs_a_def_r...
Why would it be ok for the Chinese government to influence public opinion on Hong Kong, but Russia can't influence public opinion on presidential elections? Feels like it should be both or none.
Realities of Startup Life
It already exists and it's launching next year... several reviewers have already driven one.
> So often, people take on tasks because they think you have to do them, or the task meets some criteria that someone else has set. You feel you have to do the project because it's required for a class, or your boss told you to do it, or it's the only way you see to get the credential you need to take the next step in your career.

Remided me of passage from J.K's book.

"There are two kinds of action. One brings you reward, and the doing of it strengthens the ego, the ‘me’. The other kind of action, the action which you love to do, has no reward or punishment and is not concerned with what the neighbour says, or with gods or with the priests or with belief. You do it because it is the only thing to do. You rejoice in the very doing of it, not for heaven or the avoidance of hell. You just do it and in the very doing of it is the delight. This action is of freedom from society and has nothing whatsoever to do with morality. This action is from nothingness. When there is this, you can look at the world from that silence of nothingness."

Seems like you need all kinds of productivity tools/hacks for the former and none for the latter.

> clash between your short-time desires and your long-term goals

Or maybe its a clash between the artist in you with cog in the machine that you need to be live the life you want
Personally I've been using Nitroshare for years in my home network and it works like a charm (between Windows, Linux, and macOS). Android is also supported, but not iOS (I saw someone created an iOS app, but I doubt it works still).
I hope they also put a stop to Russian and American propaganda... :-)