skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But generics are not all they are cracked up to be. Bottle of Lies, for example, details problems with generics. And I've had personal experience with the FDA (finally) pulling a generic off the market b/c there was a potential for the drug to cause cancer.

I'm all for generics, but I'd like the government to do its part to protect the health and safety of the citizenry. (And no, I don't believe big pharma is being honest.)
If it's a video, I'm very likely to just hit the back button. I skim read far faster than a video is capable of giving me the information and I can't copy and edit example code from a video. I get that some people like videos, but unless there's a transcript, I'm not going to be using it. Now, if it's a general talk on a subject, a video is great as the speaker can entertain as the talk. But if it's tutorials, please write the article's to go with it.
This is what I did when I moved into my house. Dead bolts only, and dummy handles below.
> I'm not sure of the exact claim of what they were/are trying to achieve, but essentially they want to put the brakes on capitalism by making people consume less, and ultimately disrupting economic growth.

That cabal definitely exists, it's the old "Malthusian vs. Cornucopian" debate, revived in the form of the Club of Rome and people like Paul R. Ehrlich. Lots of scientists have this attitude. The scientists that do not have this attitude are rarely heard, because anything less than the impending apocalypse barely sells an newspapers.
No, they cannot all be 9 bits, they have higher minimums.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C_data_types#Basic_types
http://archive.is/h5ejA
No transcript was released. A memorandum of the 'recollections of the staff involved' written by the whitehouse describing the call (and widely referred to as the transcript) was released. The actual word for word transcript is still stored in the top secret security system it was moved to when it was obvious there was a problem. No one outside the whitehouse has seen that yet.

If you read the actual released document, it has a huge disclaimer on the first page which states this.

You can see it yourself here
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/25/politics/donald-trump-ukraine...
Why in earth would you trust AI alone ? Same like driving my Tesla in deep sleep. So many times is been close encounters with obstacles..
Moderators: please add [paywalled] or [$] to paywalled content so I can ignore instead of wasting time. Thanks.
Try living life to its fullest without money.
No, the narrative is, that he expects the technical ability to send humans to space with the Starship next year. It should be obvious, that this is a best-case szenario, especially as there are non-technical considerations in play, when actually flying with humans.
Good point. I've put the challenge back in the title. It's a bit of a monster now, but oh well.
Why not use a debug release build. Like O1 with debug symbols.
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Charging higher prices when demand is high is not gouging.

If people are making 200k At faang what’s wrong with tradespeople making 100k when their skills are also in demand.

Everybody who supplies or resells equipment puts a mark up on it because there is some cost for them to select it, procure it, store it, transport it, finance it, etc.
In this context "adiabatic" usually refers to "slow continuous transition" (even if this is not the literal meaning of the word). This device uses the circuit model (discreet gates), not the adiabatic model (continuous transition between hamiltonians) of quantum computing.

Your initial comment also had an imprecision that is pretty common: 1. Adiabatic quantum computers and circuit model quantum computers are equivalent models. 2. Dwave never constructed an adiabatic quantum computer, rather something they called a quantum annealer. These are interesting devices inspired by the model of adiabatic computers, but we do not have a reason to think they are better than classical computers.
He was a great raconteur.
using IFTTT != hacking a Google Home
Ask HN: What is your plan for life?
I recently entered the 30's and have been grappling with this question. I have steady job as software engineer, make decent money. And while its not over the top, I am satisfied with what I have. Maybe you change jobs for higher salary/better opportunity and rinse-repeat. But is that it? It seems pretty pointless inspite of the comfortable lifestyle that comes with it. How do you go about trying to solve this question of coming up with a plan for the long-term.

Anybody else feel the same way? I would appreciate some wisdom from the folks here.
It is not fair to call someone "empty" because their motivation stems from something you don't share. It does not make their work and contribution any less difficult or necessary.
Maybe this is related to https://keybase.io/a/i/r/d/r/o/p/spacedrop2019

I saw a bunch of new accounts spamming their Keybase proof in all the wrong places. Maybe HN did something to combat the spam and it accidentally hit your account.

Try contacting them at hn@ycombinator.com
More than 50% of the Population will live inside Mega Cities by 2050 [1]. While it is good to have Solar cheaper for Houses, the reality is most people won't have a rooftop Solar option.

Edit: This is not to say 50% cheaper is useless, it is a point of information for people living in houses and not realise large population around the world cant afford a house.

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2018/05/17/two-thirds-of-global-populat...
Can you please not post like this to HN? We're trying for something a bit more thoughtful than the usual internet assaults. I'm sure you can make your substantive points more thoughtfully.
Interesting, GDPR to US is the new VPN...
Haha it shouldn't be that complicated! This is a lot of good stuff...thanks for replying
We got spiral-bound daily planners for homework with a section at the bottom of each day for hall passes / late passes. When deciding to issue one, the teacher could check what you had already been issued that day, or even thumb through your history. Desire to track this stuff predates classroom tech.
If it had a button on the lid, it would just be another FM radio - not really a market that a small hardware company want to be in. The statement this radio makes by being untunable is literally the only reason anyone buys it.
And for small businesses, the analogous barrier is often "creative software". More and more administrative services used by businesses are moving online, and in some cases we're forced to use them whether we like it or not (for example, because certain tax/legal returns now have to be filed online using approved software). However, when it comes to creating reports, or artwork, or engineering schematics for a new building, or the 3D model you're going to be animating using WebGL on your new site, the dominant software is still almost entirely on desktops.

Some of that software is Windows-only. There are quite a few good products that run on Mac. Relatively little runs on open platforms like Linux. And for now, macOS has its own issues for long-term professional use, starting with Apple's reluctance to give any sort of concrete guarantees about support longevity. So that can be quite a barrier to migrating away from Windows for businesses.

It would be nice to think that in time Linux or other free platforms would fill the gap, but it's a chicken and egg problem. As an interesting contrast, within a very short time after Adobe went cloud/subscription with the dominant package of graphics/publication software, we had several smaller and more agile competitors entering the market at much more attractive (and non-subscription) price points: Sketch, the Affinity products, etc. We don't know to what extent any of these might already have been in development before and how much they were motivated directly by the shift to Creative Cloud, but we do know that the closest OSS equivalents have been around for years and made negligible impact, which doesn't bode well for the viability of Linux desktops as an alternative platform for "normal" business use (as opposed to, for example, specialist work like software development).
Maybe I'm missing it, but does the article actually say what the benefits of this are?
Actually - the number of attorney's in govt is enormous.

It's often annoying because they sometimes lack domain knowledge, but the dept in charge of X will have lots of attorney's who can write lack this but don't know (much) about "X".
I do R&D in computer vision, and everyone is shocked when I tell them that the roles don't pay that much better than software engineering. Articles like these make people assume you can make 2-3x what you would as a software engineer at the same level of experience (remember a fresh PhD has ~5 years research experience), and it's usually not the case. The actual multiplier is something like 1.3-1.5x. I had one offer come in under the equivalent software role at the same company.

I also suspect that other fields have similar patterns where a few experts make a ton of money, they're just not as publicized because the media is so hyped on AI. How much you think Jim Keller is making?

TL;DR do the PhD because you love the research. If you want the money do some internships, land a FAANG job, and try and get to senior as fast as possible.
An obvious PR piece on the front page?
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When Life Gives You Lemons, Make a 'Stoic' Lemonade
Really like the part about being constructive
> No serious academic Communist/Marxist/Socialist claims this.

Ah, yes. Quite so.

Tell me, must a "serious" academic Communist also be a True Scotsman?
Are you saying that one group has commitment to learn and one doesn't? Or it's a mixed bag?
Thanks - but also check out the “citrus genetics and interactions” section further down in the wiki, it’s fascinating.
Why Facebook and Amazon are making computer glasses
Yes, excellent points. On top of that, people are clearly (as a group) less well off than their parents, with hardly any pensions, not enough money from a single income (think about how elizabeth warren's mom supported the family and a house with just a min. wage job in the 50s).

It's only people who are in special job categories today (like say programmers) who have so much opportunity. And nothing lasts forever.
A Merkur 34 costs $40 and blades are $6/100. I broke even vs. cartridge razors in three months, a decade ago.

This is not a throwback to the safety-razor hipster era of yesterday, this is a manifestation of the artisan-chic post hipster/hipster-yuppie/yupster reality of today.

Alternate take: in an increasingly complicated world, people are coming to value simplicity and aesthetics, and will pay for these things.
If anyone hits this the tactic to overcome it is called "blessing" the CSS:

https://github.com/BlessCSS/bless

It's a giant pain but if you're running highly complex sites that have to work in old IEs then this may be something you want to implement. Often you see the need for stuff like this when pulling in frameworks like Bootstrap, etc.

Haven't had to do this for years (thank goodness) but depending on market, etc. IE9 still rears it's ugly head sometimes.
Deleted like 3,200 and worked fine for me
But it is tunable which breaks the whole 'statement' for me.
I meant having a sufficient amount of time before certain crypto schemes are broken. Maybe I really meant reasonable. In a reasonable amount of time we can expect quantum computers to attack crypto schemes.

If you mean brute forcing an encrypted message, then yeah: that could take until the heat death of the universe for complex passphrases. Infact you might even need several universes of time to crack some passphrases.
The Real Engineering show has a really great and detailed video on these types of inverted wing designs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN6vGxyMcVU

It has a lot more detail about the aerodynamics and advantages than this article. It's worth the watch if you're interested.
Lol. No.
We "bother so much" when our needs (or values) are not met.
We also get bothered a lot when the needs of people we care about are not met.

Notice that most people whose needs are met don't "bother so much".
What do you think?
Constructive or a waste of time??
It looks like something from Fallout or Rocketeer ... the space nerd in me is disappointed at the "look" but I really really hope it works.
Serious question, is this value justified? I don't have any contact with AI development or AI researchers. Do they really bring that much value to the business? It makes sense that for Google, these positions would have almost unlimited clean data. But many companies are not Google.
Disable TLS 1.0 and 1.1 for Nightly
Not for Mojave+, and it’s a bleak outlook.
> The key trick is to focus on the lowest cost highest impact ones. For instance, getting a PhD is an insanely high cost marker, as is going all-in and getting a perfect GPA. Those aren’t bad things in themselves, but the signal value compared to the investment is much lower than other things. For some things on the other spectrum, things with high signal value compared to the investment, I would say having built an open source project (that people use), or some award, having written things that got published, having started your own company (even though it failed), or many other things.

This really stood out to me. I definitely will be reminding myself of this nugget the next time I think about 'going back to school to get a leg up in my career'.
There you go, yet another conclusion about something you have absolutely no knowledge about.

I'll tell you what, the forum is yours. Conclude anything you want. Not my problem. Live long and prosper.
I'd like to fix that. It's just that there are other things to do which are closer to the task of keeping the site functioning at all. We'll get there eventually. Move slowly and preserve things.
Do you use a personal 'knowledge base'?
Years ago, I had a local mediawiki installed, but didn't seem to use it. Now, I store all my knowledge, ideas, etc. in markdown text files, manipulated with Emacs.

But, I'd like to have a more visually organized, full-text searchable system that's (a) local/private, and (b) accessible when away from home office.

How do you organize your knowledge/notes/learnings?
I will replace our bunch of json files for each country with this. Thanks for this.
iPhone TheNote.app – keep chains of notes
I wish I could buy a really good screen with no “smart” software at all.

I can plug an Xbox if I want, or a shield, or a Roku, or an Amazon fire stick/tv, or an Apple TV, or a chrome cast

Just add a bunch of ports and KISS.

- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle
That does make sense, especially for IoT devices (literally anything low power). However, I haven't seen PoE used outside of business use. The problem is that Wifi is becoming ever more prevalent (on my network I have 12 devices using wifi, and only my desktop using an ethernet cable - ironically the only device that isn't suitable for PoE).
You're welcome to post and proof of that
You can still find sherpas in Europe, restocking the Chatas. Really makes you appreciate the food and beer more, knowing someone carried it up on their backs.
U.S. Steps Up Scrutiny of Airplane Cybersecurity
I don't think it's mentioned in the article, but it's to reduce shockwave formation, generating more lift, efficiency and maneuverability. I posted a link to a real engineering video in another comment that goes into a lot more detail.
Yeah, hasn't "don't eat grapefruit while on birth control" been common advice for years?
I think he means secure as in less crime.
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I'd argue that a company at the near trillion dollars scale can and should be Contributing mere than the few tens of millions they've put into open source, but you are not wrong and I'm not particularly willing to die on the hill I've climbed.
Yes. I mean it was there first in the Unix environment, so there's tremendous historical inertia that would be almost impossible to overcome.
HN discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19127613

Of course, the original publication of NHTSA's botched study is still the number one HN search result for both "NHTSA" and "Autopilot," and it still routinely gets referenced in comments. As the saying goes, the lie made it halfway around the world before the truth had put its pants on.
Second that. This conclusion "Simplicity leads to complexity." is just too much of a shortcut of the author's own train of thought. As you said, this sentence should read "Interaction and coupling leads to complex emergent behavior". I feel this summarizes this article better.
In what circumstances will you have 100%, unobstructed line of sight to:

1. Your car.

2. Your car's avenue of travel. [1]

[1] This is the important part. If you can't clearly see the entire path of travel, you could run a child over. Tesla obviously doesn't give a shit about that, because their collision detection doesn't work, and because the feature does not require this kind of line-of-sight to work.

The former is hard, but they want to be first to market, so they don't care about not building it right, and the latter would make this feature near-useless, so naturally, they don't ship this sort of fail-safe.
In the scheme of writing systems it's hard for me to see why English is so bad. In general writing (like spoken grammar) is so heavily used that all the "rough corners" get sanded smooth pretty rapidly and continuously. For example, though the histogram of Kanji/Hanzi has a very steep drop-off, it's not that hard for people to recognize and keep track of, because characters that were hard to read at first tend to get restructured or dropped.

As far as Indo-European languages go, languages like English and French are quite conservative in spelling and underlying meaning, which means they do diverge from pronunciation but retain semantic clues which help the reader unlock the meaning of unknown words. While languages that continuously reform to try to match pronunciation shifts (e.g. German) discard this info. In addition they have to pick one canonical pronunciation, and themselves typically retain various homophonic issues (e.g. how many ways can you write the sound of ä (I don't mean "ae")).

Even as a kid (should be "easy to learn", right?) I struggled far more with the variants of the devanagari alphabet even though it was so phonetic. But hundreds of millions of people use it every day without thinking about it.
These are between micrometer and millimeter sized, depending on technology and exactly what you count. But miniaturizing them is by far not the most pressing problem. And it will not be a server rack for now, rather a helium dilution refrigerator that works at less than 1 Kelvin.
What is the point of the human race continuing to exist at all if the standard of living of each future generation is worse than the last? In the long run each of our descendants must live better than the previous, or there is no point to civilization whatsoever.
If you've had a liver transplant, grapefruit is on the list of things that you can never eat again -- it messes with the anti-rejection drugs that you have to take to suppress your immunological system.
Here's a good video on the problems of transmitting power, and why we need such high voltages.

How do Electric Transmission Lines Work?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjY31x0m3d8
"The basic principle of HOM is that the fundamental job of an executive is to deliver results"

Just like every other job in the world.
It does but good luck getting licensing. They explicitly try to make getting the LTSB/C difficult because they know everyone would buy it if they offered a "clean" version of Windows.

But - if you can swing it - LTSB/C is the only thing that I would prefer for any sort of automation etc.
This is one of the big ideas in Neal Stephenson's recent book, "Fall, or Dodge in Hell", which is a kind of loose sequel to "Reamde". He really foresees the future, to my eyes, across all his works. In his world they call our internet "the miasma", and it's full of people trying to push opinion in different ways with obvious bullshit. Yet lots of people believe it, just like today! Rich people in the west hire 'editors' in 3rd world countries (or in the us if you are really rich) to filter the internet for them. Not to show them a false view or hide them from reality (at least for the main characters), but to prevent them from coming across say pictures of dead babies or seeing too much lying and agitprop. I love these very very long books.
Json is easier for humans to read and modify, and it's more straightforward to work with in languages like python where you don't have to declare types. Json c++ implimentation is large probably because of trying to provide one library that does all the dynamic things json can do, but in a static language. It also has to be safe to parse, so there's that.
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Example animation gif is cool.
Trying to pick up some APL over the last year, I've found it mildly annoying to find APL code without explanation. I'm expecting that's fine for experienced users, even trying to work it out is useful, but it's hard to get to a point of being able to do that without some hints.

This fib code in the parent comment translates to:

def fib(n):
if (1 >= n):
return n
else:
return fib(n-1) + fib(n - 2)

and it does so with:

fib ← { "scriptblock" function declaration
implicit variable name ⍵ (omega) for the right side argument

1≥⍵ : ⍵ guard case, if 1>=⍵, return ⍵

⋄ statement separator, like ; in C-languages

if no guard clauses matched, remaining code runs

∇ recursive call to the function it appears in

∇(⍵-1)+∇⍵-2 fib (⍵-1) + fib (⍵-2)

}

More notably, the kind of tacit programming support looks like this:

(××∘⌊|+1≤2||) N Rounding to nearest even number (favouring away from 0)

which evaluates to a function that takes N on the right, and the tacit train looks like this, from TryAPL.org visualization:

┌─┼────┐
× ∘ ┌─┼───┐
┌┴┐ | + ┌─┼───┐
× ⌊ 1 ≤ ┌─┼─┐
2 | | <- N goes in here

The tree evaluates from the lower right. Each triple is a fork, N goes into the right prong, the left prong, then the result of both of those goes into the center prong. Unless there's a constant on the left prong, then that's used as-is. So:

|N for the magnitude; 2|(that) for the remainder of dividing by 2; 1<=(that) to find whether to add 0 or 1 for the rounding, (|N)+(that) to re-do the magnitude of N and add the 0 or 1. xN to get the direction +1 or -1, multiplied by the floor of the calculated result.

N enters in several places, which avoids having to store temporary variables and name them, when you aren't actually interested in new variables.

And this works on a single number, a vector or multi-dimensional matrix of numbers.