skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> So a predictor of your comfort is the non-white, non-maleness of the group?

No. I said "X is not the case", from which you cannot deduce "the opposite of X is true".
> usually end in a horrible loop

Describes perfectly some problems I've had when sleeping. They are not really any problems I think before sleeping and even in my sleep I'm not sure what the problem is but oh boy is my brain thinking hard about it. Usually I need to reset by walking around my apartment for a minute. Thankfully I've had less and less of these nights recently.
> That setup is apparently relatively "easy" for trade with physical goods, our lawyers told us some years ago, [...]

As someone who is going through this process currently (WFOE), the easiness of the thing was probably exaggerated by your lawyers ;). The most annoying thing is that it is quite hard to get a definitive answer of the kind of licenses one needs, who grants them, and especially the criteria to meet.
Perhaps. Then again, people don't often get, for example, how brutish even Western Europe was pre-1945. But realistically, yeah, not during the current generation of people in power.

The next generation looks worrying, too, and authoritarian systems certainly can persist and are able to adapt over time. Yet they are always brittle in many ways. It sure looks like Chinese leaders know this, too.
I wouldn't call it "useless", but it's certainly not what most people would consider Android at that point.
The Mongols really were masters of the retreat mechanic in combat. They used it themselves very often by feigning retreat with their light cavalry (which could move quicker than most enemies they fought) only to lead the enemy into a prepared ambush, since again the conventional wisdom was that a "routed" enemy was most vulnerable and the enemy would push the "advantage" by chasing them.

They got so good at this tactic (which is one of the hardest to pull off, even in modern combat) that they had a special word for the manoeuvre, but my Google-fu has unfortunately failed me in trying to dig it up.
I previously worked in an environment where iPads were distributed to staff; the team responsible for supporting them had toothpicks on hand for this exact reason.

An argument may exist for lint etc being harder to clean out of a USB-C port once it had made its way in there, but haven't witnessed it myself yet.

Anecdotes can be given all day, but I would suggest it's a potential problem for any port of similar size being placed in pockets and bags.
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No offense taken whatsover. : ) On the contrary, thank you for the suggestion.

It's interesting you mention this because by my mid-20's I hypothesized this very condition — a mild form, as I've never experienced psychosis (that's when perception becomes objectively flawed, seeing/hearing things, or failing to censor your own actions etc., hallmarks of the manic phase). However I do display classic signs of hypomany (the non-psychotic form of the opposite of depression), as well as acute and regular depressions (about every other year for 2-6 months) from the age of 12 to 34 (at which aged I "cured", somewhat definitively it seems, my last and by far biggest depression, for once motivated by real mind-numbingly bad events, unlike the mood swings most of my life which were mostly 'internal' for god knows what reason).

(Note that there are "normal" depressions, I merely imply curing the "abnormal" ones here for me. I don't expect nor wish to feel good when bad things happens, even though I know I can do that now. It's not magic either, just a lot of training and not much of a choice ultimately, survival instinct if you will).

So the spoiler is nope, a resounding "no Sir, whatever problem you have, bipolarity is not it." — from one top 10 specialist on the topic in Europe, maybe the world. He was so sure, and such a great psychiatrist, there was no doubt. No professional ever suggested bipolarity for me, but cyclic (seasonal) depression maybe. Anyhow. The only solution I know is to take the matter in your own hands, feel "responsible" in the noblest sense, and work, hard, relentlessly, to make a better self.

You can engineer happiness it seems, or at least deconstruct the lack of it, the inability to feel happy / good. At least, in my anecdotal case.

One formidable life coach in my 20's did suggest I may be borderline, and I worked hard on this because it was... probably mostly true (I did have a tendency to emphasize the good or the bad). Apparently the borderline disorder often cures itself by one's 40's, and indeed in my case, I no longer display any symptom of that (since, well, my early 30's).
Freeism
This is the problem. Just because two devices both feature the Bluetooth logo doesn't actually mean they'll play nicely together.
The argument parser doesn't accept coordinates 0.0;0.0
Probably just in time for USB4 / USB-D to come and mess it all up again ;)
Yes! Exactly.
I just read the 10 phrases and was of the opinion that mostly they apply to the entire world population? Perhaps more so those with a lot of power.
"You are holding the phone wrong" ... typical Apple BS which people don't call them out on because they well Apple.
Nowadays you can buy a toy quadcopter, and get a single chip gyro with on-package computer and performance of mid-cold war ICBM INS.

Microelectronics is a tough industry. Fear of communism can not match the fear of loosing to a commercial competitor in a half trillion dollar industry.
Microwatt is the first fully open POWER core:

https://github.com/antonblanchard/microwatt

It's also structured very well, quite clean for learning purposes etc. The current goal so far as I know is to perfect this core, and fork for a more complex / powerful variant. Maybe by the time that's done, the open FPGA tooling will have caught up enough to be able to run a usefully fast (~200MHz) POWER soft core, all in FPGA logic...

I'd strongly prefer a ppc64 core over a RISC-V core for one simple reason: we have a wide deployed base of very powerful ppc64 machines, and not having to keep cross compilers and related environments around is a massive streamlining step that we don't even know the full effects of yet (it hasn't been legal until now to have the SoC under development running the same architecture as the high end workstations and servers used to develop [for] it). The demo of using mainline GCC on a POWER box to build a binary for the Microwatt (that would also run on the host with KVM, if desired, for fast trace and debug) was most impressive.
You are right on the money. I went to see a specialized "sleep" doctor around 2006 (can't remember the name of the specialty) in Paris, St Anne. He diagnosed what translates as a "phase shift" of my circadian rythm by ~4 hours (thus my daily cycle runs 28h give or take, sleep remains at 8-9 hours though).

I'm really not a biologist, let alone neurologist, but from what information I could gather, I observe these 'abnormalities' of mine (the good as much as the bad) all seem to stem from the hypothalamus region/function. E.g. I also have a weird digestive cycle, basically ketogenic (1 big meal per day, typically for dinner) is my natural regime. I don't eat for ~10 hours after I wake up usually, then eat a 1.5~2x meal in quantity. Unless I go to sleep, I'll then keep eating regularly however.

But how do you even investigate, let alone 'fix' a malfunctioning hypothalamus?.. I never heard or read anything about such research let alone treatment.
You keep your "atmospheric physics", Professor Science - the gods are angry with international shipping and as far as I'm concerned that's all there is to it.
> any indirect epistemology combined with human proclivities.

This sounds interesting, could you expand this please? It sounds a bit like Plato's cave.
This was income earned abroad. The rules are often different for that.
Early adopters are always a more fun crowd, because "being a fun person" and "being an early adopter of stuff" are related personality traits. So don't give up! Become an early adopter of something new, or if there's nothing worthy, invent it :-)
Very nice write up! I'd be very curious if you had any links/resources related to your solution, or that helped you come up with it.
Tim Cook previously said "not on our platform" before and people warned about censorship and centralized control that would eventually harm to the most dependent users. This is the direct outcome of such a policy where a few have ultimate power over the masses. It's a sad development for Apple.
How is this an abuse of GDPR? I own my data and have the right to withdraw my consent for a company to store and process that data for whatever reason I want. If people no longer feel like they want Blizzard to have their data they have the right to withdraw that consent. What part of this is "abusing" GDPR? The law is working exactly as intended.
Hacker News is the complete opposite nowadays. People who tries to maximize productivity are frowned upon. The norm is to put your family, friends, travelling and stuff like that before anything else.
I did that often when I was 20-25, and then the habit of not having day/night affinity made it to the core. Then at around 33yo I couldn’t sleep for 3 or 4 nights in a row (not sure how to count). You want to sleep, you have to, you close your eyes and go to bed, but it doesn’t work. You don’t know if it ever will. That was pretty terrifying experience. I was also scared to use alcohol or street drugs to fix that, since the perspective of additionally being stuck in a sleepless hangover was unbearable.

Since then I rarely abused my sleep cycles, but my week schedule drifts often. At monday I get up at 10, at friday it’s 16-19 (4-7pm). I un-drift it by not sleeping the sunday day. Can’t do anything with it.

Sleep drugs help to fall asleep early, but can’t make me unbroken on wake up. Even a couple of hours now make a big difference, and if I get up early it “doesn’t count anyway” for my body at the nature’s evening.
fixed in 77.0.3865.120
Lightning came out several years before USB-C. So I don’t think going straight to USB-C was really an option.

(not suggesting that’s why you were downvoted, just clarifying the timeline of the ports)
This article sounds like someone has an axe to grind. Blaming extremism on a handful of companies sounds awfully convenient and completely ignores the motivation for extremism in the first place. Next they blame transportation companies for making it too convenient to travel. Those things are just the result of governments pampering to capitalism. Customers want a service and then a company (or a radicalized activist) provides it. The problem is that governments let themselves get manipulated by large corporations and the wealthy instead of listening to the rest of the population. The end result is an environment in which companies are allowed to engage in destructive behavior.
Yes. MAD assumed that, even if one side launched everything and hit all it could, the other side could launch the remaining stuff and devastate the other side just as much.

First strike capability requires a time pressure that isn't as intense in MAD. For example, Russia's Dead Hand system was designed with the philosophy such that, even if America struck first, there's still enough leftover to post-mortem launch the counter-destruction. That no longer applies, so now there's tons of immediate time pressure to determine if an early-warning alert is a true or false positive.
A lot of that was for PR, especially against rivals like Google and Microsoft. Apple definitely made some improvements but there were better approaches for just about everything they did that would've helped users and industry alike.
Yes, You Absolutely Can Travel Without Traveling
That should be working.

> python3 j6.py --longitude 0.0 --latitude 0.0

> sliceable-ensure-disband-handed-turkey-lure
When and because Russian's started to develop doomsday weapons.

"Status-6 Oceanic Multipurpose System" seems to be huge salted nuclear bomb similar to the the cobalt-salted doomsday bomb in the movie Dr. Strangelove. The goal of is to contaminate wast areas for long time.

"9M730 Burevestnik" is experimental nuclear powered, nuclear armed cruise missile. The US had similar crazy doomsday weapon development program (SLAM and project Pluto in the 60's). Nuclear powered ramjet is insane compared to ICBM. When you use it, you don't care abut contaminating the launch site or anything between launch site and target.

These kinds of weapons can be used only as retaliation when all hope is lost and you want to kill hundreds of millions of civilians and make wast areas inhabitable. Russian early warning system has deteriorated as well, so they need something like that.
I find it hard to believe you don't know that casually contributing to Firefox is ridiculously hard. The build system is borderline insane, building takes hours, and most importantly people who can approve your changes clearly have more important things to do and regularly fail to answer. I have tried contributing a couple of times. Thank you, no more.
Actually sleep deprivation results in death and is one of the reasons it is used as a torture method. Some neurological conditions which degrade sleep significantly result in death. Among the failures observed are things like loss of thermoregulation. Guinness book of records stopped recognizing sleep deprivation records because of the dangers of going too long without sleep. Sleep deprivation has been more extensively studied in animals like mice and rats etc and invariably results in death.
How did they know USB-C was coming? Didn’t lightning debut something like 4 years before USB-C? And one would assume they had been engineering lightning for at least a year or more before that.
Is there a such plug-in?
How to Center with CSS in 2019
Sleep is very very important, and I've learned this the hard way. Sleeping well has been a challenge, and I am glad I'm not alone.

Articles like this one and books like Why We Sleep however make me very anxious, since all they seem to do is point out how bad it is if one doesn't get enough sleep. I know that. How can I fix it? I had CBT based sleep therapy last year, and things have since improved, but not much. Then I have the occasional random doctors who tell me how sleep is actually not that important and how they used to sleep only 3h/day when they were my age. Even the cult book Why We Sleep has chapter after chapter of telling me how screwed I am because I don't sleep 8-9 h/day, with little actionable items that can help me. I get that it is super important to raise awareness about sleep, but every time I open such articles, I am invariably made anxious about my sleep, and people who know what I'm talking about know how hard it is to sleep with anxiety about your sleep.

Sorry for my rant :(
I'm so happy to learn that! I wish I could edit the parent post.

Way to go, CA. Really. I imagine it's not exactly easy given the 'context'.
Heh, that's an interesting idea! I'll have to look into finding a C201. Finding a POWER base station shouldn't be too hard to find.
Salvatore Cezar Pais's another futuristic patent: a terawatt fusion reactor
> So is this.

Yes. And I don't know what your race or gender is, nor do I care, nor would it make a difference if I knew.

> Which is enough for you to spread the old, tired, harmful, and incorrect trope that "people who are not in tech are just not interested".

At this point in time today, not only it's not a tired trope, it's pretty much an obvious truth. Programming today has zero structural barriers to entry, minimal capital requirements, and unprecedented amount of affirmative action targeted at all kinds of minority groups. If in 2019 you aren't programming, you're either not interested in doing so (a fine choice!), or can't (due to economic or health constraints).

Still, I was talking about the times where the Internet was a peculiar things only particular types of nerds, discriminated against in the physical world, ever found interesting. Getting on-line, or into programming in general, required more effort and money - you had to convince yourself or your parents that a PC and a modem and future phone bills were useful expenses - and didn't yet offered obvious paths to riches. If you were in there, it meant you were interested and had wealth to spare. That means, obviously, that a lot of people were excluded.

But if the point you're making is that any group with barriers to entry will exclude someone, then I don't see the point of making that point.

(You'll also notice that all the talk of the tech being unwelcoming started only after commercial Internet exploded and some of those high-school oppression targets made a shit ton of money and influence. Once tech became seen as the easiest path into money and fame, people started asking "how come the population of tech workers isn't uniformly distributed across all the characteristics you could think of", and people who were underrepresented followed that with "how can we fix it so we too get a piece of the pie?".)

I see some people on-line have a peculiar definition of what it means for a field to be welcoming - not only it has to remove all the barriers to entry, but it also has to bend over backwards to make the demographics uniform. It's true that the tech, until recently, didn't do the latter.
Fortunately we have a real-world example to demonstrate the effect of technology on surveillance: China. Let's see if they ever manage to become a democracy.

On this topic I've noticed something quaint on HN: people making excuses for China's "special" situation or even arguing against democracy itself.
you don't have conspicuous interest rates set by the market or state

Not explicitly, but you could say that the interest rate on technical debt is determined by the rate of change in connected components (be it build-time or run-time dependencies, data producers or data consumers).
“Admittedly we have access to stupid amounts of hydro power and a population that's a lot smaller than California.”

Well, even if the mission isn't too difficult, the prowess of being a great counterexample should be noted and praised.

Now if you guys could just write the book so we can export your ideas... ; )
Why is the system knowingly risking human life?
This is the same US Navy man who got patents for

1) Room temperature superconductors

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20190058105A1/en

2) An "inertial mass reducing device" (a.k.a. UFO tech)

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20170313446A1/en

3) A gravitational wave generator

https://patents.google.com/patent/US10322827B2/en

I find it absolutely ridiculous these patents are granted without working prototypes.
Why should we send people further than orbit, rather than robots? Robotic missions have been huge successes - you could have teams of people lead many robotic missions instead of one very limited human visit.
What about stimulant abusers who stay awake for > 10 days?
Although, going downhill often ends up hurting more.
I see. Well, the national average seems more in line with what we'd infer from the macro.

Thanks for explaining!
Oftentimes, multiple failures cascade. About 2 decades back at Ohio State University, there was some renovation work going on. Due to this some sensors were switched off. This was wintertime and heating was on. During a weekend something failed and temperatures in a few rooms went as high as 50C. These rooms were used to house mice and rats for several long running experiments and all of them died or had to be euthanized as the data was unusable. Some people lost years of work.
When I feed it 0.0; 0.0, it responds with the usage message.

Python 3.7.4 here.
I really wish HN had some policy/method of changing the links to such pop-sci articles to the actual source. The paper they're talking about is much more readable. These news articles manage to spread all the information in the concise abstract over multiple pages without adding anything of value.

Here's the paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/201...
Does any of them literally deny climate change?

I did a quick Wikipedia check on first two of the mentioned organizations, CEI and the Heartland Institute. Both seem to acknowledge that the climate changes because of human action. They are called 'climate deniers' because the other side does not agree with them on policies.
I like the definition of legacy code as untested code, since it means your fresh pile of untested crap is immediately legacy code someone will have to deal with later -- often yourself.

Refactoring (for testing or not) is something you can do without the company 'allowing' it or adding 'dedicated trust work time' to the schedule. Sure, it does need buy-in from whoever reviews/signs off your commits if they bother to ask why you did that thing, and in pathological cases you'll have to keep a test suite to yourself / a local environment, but the social issues seem less of a barrier than people just throwing their hands up at perceived technical issues. I like recommending Feathers' Working Effectively With Legacy Code since it serves as a technical reference of solutions to the usual technical challenges/complaints that hang people up.
> pure euphoria

Probably MDMA would be a better choice.
It is because maintain and fix doesn't raise your profile as much. People do what they are incentivized to do. If there were extra points at review time for maintenance, people would refactor old code all the time.
I've recently started using FF for some uses, and find it quite laggy compared to Chrome (on Windows, even with dozens of extensions, and heaps of open tabs in Chrome, and one or two tabs on FF). I would like to use it, but performance wise doesn't seem to do for me, unfortunately.
Can you give me more details about your configuration? pm is ok
I thought it wouldn't be possible, but, after a quick googling, it seems it is.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7462850/mouse-movement-e...

Sounds like an interesting idea to implement. Have you dug into the tmux bug tracker to check if someone already tried?
> Apple is in a tricky place because there are so many accessories in the world that work with Lightning. Customers would be pissed if they had to use dongles for all of that stuff they already own.

To be fair that didn't stop them dropping the legacy iPod dock connector for Lightning in the first place.
Previously addressed ;-)

https://ello.co/dredmorbius/post/u4dgr0tkxk4tk9npuvex5a
I honestly don't think that's acceptable. It shouldn't take 5 years of consumer pain to get a technology right when we already have 2 decades of prior engineering experience to help us get this right on day one of release.
Surprinsingly enough, the French nuclear electricity costs about as much as hydrocarbons. It seems the "almost free electricity!" slogan of the 1960's was less than accurate in its predictions.

Lots of valid reasons though, I don't know that we've been particularly bad at this. Nuclear fission is just not the insanely cheap producer economic theory would suggest on paper, at least not in all configs/countries.
The depressing zeitgeist going on everywhere honestly makes me wonder if he would be able to freely make any remarks in support of Hong Kong vs. China without having this prize revoked.
Your friend should have added an additional trusted phone number: https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT204915#trusted
I think Wittgenstein was probably wrong about lions.
> One question that recently came to me regarding technology is: "What happened to all the hope and optimism?". Growing up as a kid in the 80s, I remember the development of personal computing as exciting...

Back then nobody (that is, O(0)) people cared about those things so the tech could expand in peace.

Nowadays, computing is ubiquitous and in the front page of the paper so the people who feel threatened by it attack even the smallest green shoots of progress.