skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Giant Pumice Raft Floating to Australia Could Help Replenish Great Barrier Reef
> hardware makers fuse everything in to a single board so when one thing breaks you need a new main board which costs as much as the whole device

As frustrating as this is, it's a natural consequence of the monolithic system integration which means that the whole device now costs barely more than the mainboard. Repair hasn't become more expensive, new things have just become unbelievably cheap.
Well, there are bateria living on chemical energy deep down in the oceans near volcanoes, that's not far from your example.
I have found 3Blue1Brown's videos one of the best math sources on youtube. Give his videos a try I think you will find exactly what you are looking for.
Is that correct? Note that the US does no longer allow deferred taxation of foreign income (which was what was happening before 2017).

(Even at the time, money stashed overseas was still subject to US taxation, though it could be deferred until repatriation, so calling it untaxed was somewhat misleading)
1. The energy overhead seems quite significant - as the concrete barrels don't really drop.
2. What guarantees non-collapse in case of winds (and ignoring floods)?
3. Does this really scale? I mean, concrete is more dense than water, but I think it's only... what, twice the density?
If you apply even more voltage, you can make more smoke. :D
"A lot of the best programmers and the most productive programmers I know are writing everything in Clojure and swearing by it, and then just producing ridiculously sophisticated things in a very short time." - Adrian Cockcroft

http://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2019/08/22/WhyClojure.h...

I want to learn some Clojure!
I believe it only works for UWP apps, thereby making it almost completely useless.

Also, nobody wants to give Microsoft a cut of the software price if they can help it.
Indeed, this is exactly why I left france few years ago. I noticed your message was downvoted, be careful there is a lot leftists here on HN, don't say too direct things like this, truth is hurting them a lot.
It's a ringing admission that the EU is entirely broken, they can't control their own tax havens in any manner. Since they can't manage that, they've begun implementing arbitrary tax schemes against revenue.

The extremely obvious, proper solution is to curtail the tax havens within the EU.
No, it's the electromagnetic field which propagates at around 2/3c in the conductor. The electron drift velocity is on the order of a fraction of a mm/s.
That's why I wrote

What we need is a user friendly browser

A browser we can trust. That is built to serve the user and hands all power to the user.
> pretty much any road marking or guy in an orange vest

That only works if a police car doesn't come by and catch the perpetrator in the act.

With a wireless communication to automated drivers, someone could plausibly feed bad information from a hidden or otherwise remote location.

Beyond that, just as automation allows human-intensive processes to scale by removing the humans, fooling automated drivers can scale much more readily than fooling human drivers.
Britain Our 51st State? Better That It Become–Gasp–A U.S. Territory (2018)
(3) Astronomers - usually not on purpose
Are Amazon forest fires really that bad?
Maybe this is true, but for newer cars, installing third party parts or even having the car looked at by a third party will void the warranty. So at least during this early period, the incentives are such that you're better off taking the car to the dealership so you still have the warranty later when you really need it.
> some guy having fun with his medication.

You don't think that's a bit disingenuous?
Correct. See acid rain and ozone depletion.

Those were problems that had economically viable solutions, and (relatively) short term impacts.

The same can unfortunately not be said of climate change.
Nope, for sure not.

A good implementation would stick to the standard (size_t nor word_t), and would inc the pointer, not the counter. Formatting would be better (the final ; ouch).

This is junior stuff.
Plant meat is not sold as an alternative to fast food meat, it's sold as an alternative to meat.

It will exactly go the way dessert corn flake breakfast has gone over the decades. A highly taste engineered food, loaded with chemicals and macro nutrient stuff which will give you a lot of diseases on the longer run.
Beautiful watch. On top of looking good, it will never be 'outdated'. Your average _insert here smartwatch_ will be outdated in 2 years as technology evolves.
Side note, the Edge (not the ChromeEdge) has a nice feature where you can set aside all the tabs so that you can view them later with pretty much the same state, much like a tmux server. I couldn’t find similar features in other browser.
You've been played: when your kids start beating you at video games
Neither were the refugees displaced from the eastern parts of the german reich after WWII. They were dismissed as Polacks (pejorative for polish people) and worse. Sometimes they were from a town no further than 30 or 40 kilometers away - just on the other side of the new border. These sorts of identities are twisted and made up in ways to suit the narrative.
That's not data. No scale, no data.

Actually, the period of greatest technical change in human history was probably 1860-1910. Steel, electricity, autos, airplanes, subways, radio, elevators, skyscrapers, machine guns...
> Not only is the browser a laughably complicated app runtime that isn't capable to do anything with local files (so you need "services" to store your eg. photos), it's also blatantly power-inefficient and a privacy catastrophe.

Yes, but there are no practical alternatives. No matter how inefficient it is, there is nothing to replace it. And the gatekeepers of the devices on which the browsers run won't let anything else replace it unless they are the ones controlling it.

> Where has the idea of personal computing shared by a whole generation gone?

I would say it was eaten by profit seeking corporations.
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When software on your machine starts doing things before you ask it to start doing things, it calls into question who it's really working for.
How do you think Apple are allowed to exist in China? Who gave you the impression that they're the exception to the rule for independence from the government's "oversight"?
Windows firewall will actually block the telemetry requests if you add all the telemetry hosts to it. Hosts file hacking doesn’t work because it bypasses that somehow.
We had that effort in C++.
As we saw it backfired.
C++ stdlib strings are so overengineered that they are much slower and bigger in the general case.
Haha that was because the base Indy was shipping with 16MB of RAM and IRIX 5 was too bloated for that to be usable. Meanwhile everyone with Indigos kept running IRIX 4 until things got better around 5.3.

The Indy had XZ graphics available, which I believe were the same as the top Elan option available on the Indigo (4 GEs)
Just let them know your day rate.
Did you read to the end? The final results show that in the end the computation on the vectors with 8-bit elements is 4x as fast (per element) as the computation on the vectors with 32-bit elements.

EDIT ignore the following, I was mistaken: Infuriatingly the article doesn't benchmark signed 8-bit vectors. If the issue is due to the special aliasing properties of pointers to unsigned bytes, signed should just work really fast out of the box, without jumping through any hoops.
There is a (Firefox and Chrome) WebExtension called OneTab which provides this.
Remote operators solve these issue.

Once you have autonomous cars that driving safely, but can't manage complex situations like you describe, you delegate those for remote pilots that are allowed to operate car in slow speeds. You need 5G network coverage
with mission-critical features (mcMTC) to archieve that. BLER 10^-6 and E2E latency < 5- 10 ms. Construction work crews might be required to erect 5G mini cell tower before they can start working to make sure that traffic goes smoothly.

Taxi fleet of 10,000 vehicles might need only 100-200 remote operators to manage the fleet. That kind of reduction in workforce provides huge savings.
Yeah except TFA shows this is exactly not what browsers are doing (with the possible exception of Safari)
Here's a look at how discount brokers make their money, with HN comment for good measure.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20276551
Building Equity
"Behind that devotion to heterodoxy lies something softer. She admitted that she’s chosen to censor herself in front of her students [...] I don’t want to upset them. The historical material is too painful for a music class,” she said."

I don't know if this is representative of the current times, but sad if so.
Or a $20T economy.
Same goes for Europe.

My parents generation bought all the housing for investment making it impossible to buy. Together with student debt we don't stand a change.
Well if you want vegetables, you might as well skip this whole ceremony and straight away eat real vegetables. It's not that hard to make a vegetable sandwich.

The problem is you are selling processed vegetable mash with salts, chemical preservatives, conditioners and oil as meat.

It's not meat. It is, what it is. Processed vegetable trash. Sell it that way, and its perfectly fine. People can eat it if they want. Let's not signal this as some healthier alternative.

For more information read: Ship Of Theseus.
I wouldn't call ASCIIZ arrays "strings" anymore.
Strings need to be nowadays all unicode, where most use utf-8. None of that is in the standard. Only very minor unicode support and no utf-8.
Being mainly focused on writing, you need to take another look at the typographical style of the theme. Longer posts are hard to read.
People using bluetooth headsets in vc is irritating.
Thank you for your input, at least it gives me a bit of perspective.
Another major difference probably is people who log in to Microsoft account vs local account.

I don't remember seeing web results in my start menu, is that a Cortana thing?

I suspect that there are also regional differences, more crap being pushed to US consumers
Right-Wing Star Andy Ngo Exits Quillette After Damning Video Surfaces
Ugh. Aliasing rules in C/C++ are very unfortunate, but it's hard to tighten the rules after the fact.

Related: The Strict Aliasing Situation is Pretty Bad (2016) https://blog.regehr.org/archives/1307
Chrome 32 calls
Edge 130+
Opera 19
Firefox 26
You're using "recession" and "stock market crash" as though they're synonymous. That's a dangerous assumption to make. It's possible for either to happen without the other.
Unlikely it can scoop material and use it for propulsion just yet, though I have seen some articles about ion engines accelerating the rarified upper atmosphere being studied.
I am hoping that privacy and security concerns are about to push the local/remote pendulum back towards local again. An antidote to the Cloud madness is well overdue.

Of course, that does rely on having better security models and software installation and update systems in our desktop OSes, and particularly in the case of Windows, they are running at full speed in the opposite direction lately. :-(
“These minor French theorists have had a disastrous effect on American education. Lacan encourages pompous bombast and Foucault teaches cheap cynicism, while Derrida’s aggressive method, called deconstruction, systematically trashes high culture by reducing everything to language and then making language destroy itself.”

She's right, but it really upsets many academics for someone to say that. Good.
Will do, thanks for your suggestion!
Small Technology Foundation
Let me code it in Common Lisp.
Highview Power: cooling air for energy storage
The application IDs can likely be paired up with cookies later in your browsing journey.

Their safe browsing API is (or was, 3 years ago anyways) also downloaded by Firefox.

All it takes really is one unique piece of identifying information for a large proportions of your browsing to be known to Google and attributed to one entity (you)
Is there a collection of the sort of unusual / unexpected things that companies do / can do.

Not Google does X, but there is a market that sells X, and X can be linked to you personally by Y, Z

So

* A market exists for reselling credit card transaction data. Your card provider (ie Barclaycard) sells to companies such as $FOO who will aggregate same data from different providers and sells it for marketing purposes. The size of the market is $Billions

* Google can link the purchase history to you personally by multiple means including - reading your gmail, and looking for purchase confirmations using last 4 digits

* There is a market for reselling your mobile location and call history. your cell
provider ...

I would love to see this - I honestly need reminding of this and it seems like a great press expose.
Do the same for OSs. I recently put win7 through ufw to see what it was doing....lots of interesting calls. I allowed one app to get out to a specific IP and when Windows saw it get a few return packets it went bezerk trying to get out to Windows update etc.
Not true. Home prices can stay high even without many people buying because it's fairly easy to just let a place you owe no money on stay vacant until someone comes along and pays what you think it's worth. If you have an extra house you can take your time.

If you have no house, you don't have that luxury. You have to take what you can get, right now, or be homeless. You're at the mercy of the sellers of housing.

I say this as a seller of housing: It's totally messed up.
很整洁！Really like it!

What's the thinking behind the Bitter font? I thought it was monospaced for a minute, which would've been cool.

May I recommend spacing out the lines? The usual rule of thumb is 1.5x spacing vs. line height.

More examples with photos and figures in various sizes would help users who are picking out the theme.

I also went for something minimal for my blog. Here's a comparable page: https://shan.io/writing/
There is no reason why sandboxing needs to be evil. In fact this is already proven by the sandboxing efforts on linux where there is no mandatory repository and the user is always in control, its the applications that are not.
The Tesla app allows you to manage all Tesla products, like the Powerwall and Solar panels, but that's as far as the ecosystem goes right now. I don't see any incentives on their website.
> Esperanto is a language where you can communicate with people that don't speak English ;)

To some extent, but what percentage of esperanto speakers don't also know english? Is it pretty big?
If they don't start as your customer, then there is no problem in the first place.

If they are your customer, there's no more hoops to jump through.

I don't see the problem you are describing here.
Current Affairs in India January to March 2019
Drilling specialty tempered glass is not advisable.
> but it needs consistency in style, colour and lighting. His art isn’t terrible, but its also not great and I actually did pass over some of his games in the past because the look just felt a little off.

I am not surprised and there are certainly more people like you. The issue is that, as he says:

> I am still super-bad at art. Always have been.

He knows his writing and game design can sell games. It is totally reasonable for him to stick to his strengths.

It would be nice to see better support for custom tilesets / assets built into his games, but that also takes time / money.
I work on OpenJDK at Oracle, and there are several inaccuracies in your account.

First, not only has OpenJDK not been "spun off", OpenJDK is the name of one and only JDK project at Oracle. It is not the only product, but it is the only project.

Second, while we happily cooperate with other contributors like Red Hat and Google, and greatly appreciate their contributions, Oracle is not only very much in the driver seat, but ~90% of the work on OpenJDK is done at Oracle. Nearly 100% of new large features are led by Oracle.

Third, I don't know about add-ons, but the transition we've recently done was open source all of the previously proprietary features in Oracle's JDK. Oracle's JDK is, for the first time since Java's inception, 100% open source.

I agree that the messaging could be better (we're working on that). The licensing change, from a semi-free/open, semi-proprietary/paid JDK to a 100% open source license combined with optional paid support has, indeed, confused some people. That it came at the same time as a change in how we name our releases has only added to the confusion.

In any event, the recommended path is to use the current JDK, for which you get perpetual free support (by which I mean patches and updates) from Oracle, or from other sources. Java 9 was the last major release ever, and if you follow this recommended, default path you'll never have another major upgrade again. We believe that it is the easiest, cheapest upgrade path Java has ever had. Companies that for some reason cannot follow the cheap, easy path and prefer large but planned upgrades, can stick to the paid LTS service, and that is how Oracle funds OpenJDK.

In the past, when much of the JDK was closed, Sun and then Oracle funded the JDK by licensing Java for mobile/embedded devices (as there were field-of-use restrictions) as well as that annoying search toolbar, and the sale of quite expensive support. All of that is gone when we changed our funding model. Everything is open source, no field-of-use restrictions and no search toolbar. Everything is funded with support, and the prices have been cut drastically to be competitive with other companies that offer OpenJDK support.
> The browser is the OS. The website is the application.

No, that's wrong.
I think this is why I like my dumb watch. I already spend too much time on my phone and checking the time on it just triggers further procrastination.
Based on what grounds?
I wonder if it would be possible to "skin" the games. Allow for artists to reskin your game with "better" art. Let them put a price-tag on it and see how many of the people who dislike the art will be convinced that way.

It seems to me that for indie game devs, you will always have games driven by what the developer is good at. Great artist, great looking game, great writer, well written game and so on.
How did it adjust its own time? I'm guessing GPS receiver?
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I suspect that is at least partly due to Esperanto content using a smaller vocabulary. Irregular Spanish grammar makes writing/speaking perfectly harder, but in my experience it's not a big barrier for reading.
Seems like a lot of people here are using the term "beat the market" to mean "had higher nominal returns than the market" which is not a very useful metric without taking risk into account.
Student debt, in Europe?
Someone pretty please port this to Gatsby.
https://outline.com/Sm9UCL
My guess is that it (full 100% self driving) has around the same technological difficulty as putting a man on Mars. It also depends on what constitutes "100%" of course.

> How quickly do think we'd get self driving cars if the USA spent 4% of the federal budget on it like NASA received in the 60s. (That's about $40B a year for a decade).

At that cost we could adapt all infrastructure to suit self driving cars, instead of developing self driving cars to adapt to human infrastructure. But I think that kind of cost is always going to be beyond what's acceptable.

I think the discussion is mostly pointless because of diminishing returns: if you can have "99.9% full self driving" for a tiny fraction of the cost, who would want to pay to go from 99.9% to 100%?

Initially human remote drivers will take care of the rest. And then there is a very slow commercial race towards using fewer humans that drives the very slow march to 99.9% and 99.99% self driving and so on. Driving the last second of the last edge case route is basically something that requires AGI (as long as we don't adapt infrastructure).
I won't use this shady software.
> Conlangs are easier to learn than natural languages as that's largely the very reason they are constructed in the first place, outside of fantasy conlangs

Even excluding fantasy languages, I'd bet that "I want my own" and "I want X cool feature" absolutely dwarf "I want a language that's easier to learn".
An economy isn't a bureaucratic organization, unless of course it is centrally planned.
I know, I know, the editorial staff is separate from the advertising/sales staff etc, but still find it funny that when I try to access the article in incognito mode, as I habitually do (for privacy), I get

> We noticed you’re browsing in private mode.
Private browsing is permitted exclusively for our subscribers. Turn off private browsing to keep reading this story, or subscribe to use this feature, plus get unlimited digital access.
Which can be done, since OCaml has objects

let (+) a b = a#add b
> Charging for something like that is a good way to make unhappy customers.

I don't mean to sound snobby but I have the feeling that people who are emotionally invested in playing solitaire on a PC are the ones who are least likely to uninstall windows on favour of Linux or equivalent
Found these:
https://themes.gohugo.io/hugo-theme-yinyang/

https://blog.joway.io
With uMatrix I'm often without the necessary script to load basic static content. I love JavaScript and PWAs, but many sites aren't an application so I don't want extra scripts running who knows what.
How to start my own banking account
About 8% of Americans (19.6 million people)[1] have high-impact chronic pain (chronic pain that limited life or work activities on most days or every day during the past 6 months), and the 76 billion pills figure spans six years. That figure accounts for 3/4 of total opioid pill shipments (it's oxycodone and hydrocodone only)[2], so the total shipped is around 101.3bn. So, if we assume chronic pain suffers sufferers need 4 pills a day[3], that gives us:

19.6 million people * 4 pills/person/day * 6 years ~= 172bn pills

Given that figure is significantly _more_ than the actual number prescribed, it doesn't strike me as overprescripton. Yes, there are issues with diversion, and the number of pain sufferers may be inflated by people faking pain (to get opioids or malingering for other reasons), but the volume of pills prescribed alone don't suggest there is a major issue.

Furthermore, 11.6 million 'true' high-impact chronic pain sufferers would still get you to the shipped figure[4], and I find it hard to believe that 8 million people are faking pain, especially as the data is gathered from a survey, rather than a situation that may result in opioids or any other non-clinical benefit.

[1] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/67/wr/mm6736a2.htm

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/investigations/...

[3] I (non-US) am on (up to) 8 opioid-containing pills per day, so taking 4 as a rough average doesn't seem unreasonable

[4] 11.6 million people * 4 pills/person/day * 6 years ~= 101bn pills
> Manjaro comes OOTB with MS Office 365

Huh?
How does anyone consider this to be a sensible format to publish content in?
The cost of licensing instruction set is very small part of licensing.

High performance microarchitecture is never going to be open source. They cost hundreds of millions to design and the design stays relevant only 4-5 years.
Very practical advice! This theme is still in progress and I think your suggestions about the spacing and the line height really did help.
You may be looking for mathematical philosophy: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/philosophy-mathematics/
Nah, can't be. HN is surely an unbiased sample of the population. /s