skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder why EU can't just strike back with economic sanctions if Erdogan follows through with his menace. I think the lira could go really really down...
They used that tiling system all the way up to NDS IIRC. I remember tinkering with gameboy advance homebrew programming back then trying to implement infinite scrolling and it works just like you described.
There was lots of backlash on Apple when they released the new Macbook Pro with only USB-C. I was happy with the change, however. I do struggle with multiple adapters now but I see that the only way to change the future is to force everyone to come and implement the new standard.

This is a change (like Flash) that Apple forced and should be credited for.
I guess it's better than nothing but 1.) it will cause pages (especially some Google properties) to deliver unoptimised versions meant for the real Firefox (or more generally non-Chrome browsers), and 2.) don't sophisticated websites and apps anyway ignore user-agent string and directly probe through JS?
> If in 2019 you aren't programming, you're either not interested in doing so

In a very trivial sense this is true-ish. In the US lots of women seemed to have lost interest in computing in the mid 1980s: https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when...

With a massive change like this, there must be some sort of societal shift behind it. You don't have to buy the article's thesis regarding the concrete reason. But there was something going on in society that changed young women's minds.

But "society pressured me into losing interest" is not the same as "I wasn't, our could not have been, interested in the first place". So yes, many women "aren't interested" in the trivial sense of "we had enough discussion threads in HN and elsewhere signaling that they shouldn't be interested, and finally this perception stuck".

> If you were in there, it meant you were interested and had wealth to spare.

If we agree that in many cases that wealth came from parents, there is no reason to assume that young women had less of it than young men. Unless there were factors like parents saying things like "computers are for boys". From the article above: "In the 1990s, researcher Jane Margolis interviewed hundreds of computer science students at Carnegie Mellon University, which had one of the top programs in the country. She found that families were much more likely to buy computers for boys than for girls — even when their girls were really interested in computers."

If you were in there, it meant you were interested (check), your parents had wealth to spare (check), and you were very likely a boy.

Anyway, all of this has been rehashed many times before, and we're unlikely to change each other's minds.
That's an interesting thought!

The Dark Souls series of video games are known to be hard, especially the bosses. Many people, myself included, have experienced being stuck on a boss and after 20 attempts they give up for the night. Next time you start the game up you beat the boss on the first attempt!

It's hard to know if this is because your subconscious mind kept working on the problem, or if new neural pathways were formed to handle the eye-hand coordination, or, as you suggest, you just came back to the problem refreshed.

Being refreshed, and not frustrated and tired, seems like the simplest explanation for this.
It’s a South Carolina newspaper.

I for one am glad that writers keep context in mind when writing things.

Otherwise your comment would have to be:

“SC = The state of South Carolina, one of the 50 states in the United States of America which is a country in the continent of North America and is often referred to as the USA, for people who don’t live in the USA.”

I think this is a good time to talk about one of my biggest pet peeves. Aggregators like HN, while extremely useful, remove context from the articles they link to. I think it’s extremely important for readers to read the links, after reading the site’s about page, and maybe quickly glancing through the Wikipedia, or bio page (of the author), if it exists.

Actively creating the context should be a skill we should be teaching children in school, since the Internet has made things that we would otherwise never have been aware of so easily accessible.
My butt helped fix font problems on the web
> Because physicists already knew that electrons had mass and were definitely particles ...

I think that evidence for existance of particles is pretty old and should be reconsidered. I think we 8should more carefully treat the data that convinced physicists that matter is particles, before they knew matter is a wave. Maybe it's counter productive to percieve matter as made of particles with particle qualities (what are those? pointlike, with specific (even if unmeasurable) momentum, position energy).

Maybe momentum, position and energy is not something 'particles' have all the time. Maybe it's just something they manifest only while interacting.
I would humbly suggest that it's more likely to be the dropping of capital controls, which followed the collapse of Bretton Woods.
WeWork founder Adam Neumann loses multibillionaire status
I casually contribute to Firefox and it's not ridiculously hard. It is a somewhat steep learning curve if you contribute for the first time, primarily getting acquainted to the build system, the area of the code you're fixing, and then finding the right people to nag about reviews, but it is far from ridiculously hard.

It used to be ridiculously hard, back in the days of hq merge queues or even cvs, I give you that, but the general build stuff improved a lot since then.

The build system is hg clone/git clone + ./mach bootstrap + ./mach build... And there is a lot of docs for it too. I wouldn't call that "borderline insane".

Submitting a patch for review is a only moz-phab command away (after you set it up once, which took me under half an hour).

A full build on a slow machine can take hours indeed (on my 2015 macbook it takes about about 2 hours I think, but my beefy desktop finishes in under one hour). But you often do not even need a full build, but an artifact build[1], which brings it down to a few minutes and just a few seconds on rebuilds (./mach build faster).

>and most importantly people who can approve your changes clearly have more important things to do and regularly fail to answer.

Now that's actually a problem. It's usually not that they are too busy to respond, but that they do not read their bug mail (because they get thousands of emails a day). That's why you either have to actually request a review or need-info them on bugzilla. That usually draws their attention, simply because review requests are listed in a neat list and need-info-s are listed in another neat list, and if that still fails to grab attention, there is enough folks on the irc channels who can either help you directly or point you in the right direction.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_g...
I have the exact same issue with my Pixel 2, even after thoroughly cleaning the port it still hangs very loose and comes out easily. It has put me off USB-C, especially for mobile devices.
> "We strive to build sustainability into everything that we do"

I very much hope at least a part of the heat is converted back to electrical energy...
Life is not a computer you can hack. I bet we barely understand 1% of how our system works and trying to hack it means one is not even aware of their ignorance.
Extraordinary to claim that this decision is the result of corruption, you got any evidence or you just inventing stuff in your head?
My understanding is that it's based on the region setting of your phone, but I'd be happy to be corrected.
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During a stressful part of my life recently I struggled with getting to sleep. I just couldn't stop thinking about shit that was going on.

until one night I fell asleep on the couch in front of the TV, and it occurred to me that I could just modify this behaviour to bed.

So I put a handful of old Star Trek episodes on my phone. Each night I put me earphones on (so as not to disturb my wife), turn on an episode of Star Trek, and I am asleep within the first five minutes. ... I can even repeat episodes... it doesnt even matter since Im asleep within literally 5mins.

At first the earphones were annoying, but after a week you dont even notice them.

The stress at work continues, but I sleep like a baby.

I think the familiarity of Star Trek (which I watched a lot as a kid) gives me a subconsious sense of security.
I find the tone the maintainers used when talking to reporters interesting.

>[Do you have a] live website or is it a project under development? […] We will fix the issue for 78 if that is alright with you.

or

>Are they going to upgrade to 77? Enterprise customers usually only upgrade if things are alright.

As if the reporter's apps were more special than the thousands of other websites that it broke.

And I don't mean this in a negative way, I'm just surprised.
The whole point of the article is to ditch capitalism and socialism and replace it by an algorith.

A decentralized algorithm and here the questions begin: who writes, maintains and ensures that the algorithms "are fair", it's another form of socialism but replaced by a new almighty entity (the algorithm).

Who defines what is fair and what is not. Why does the author believe that the free decision between two parties is worse than between two parties there is a third party, intermediary, and this will always be fair?

The best future it will be freedom.
Pytorch Global Hackathon 3rd Place – AI Generated T-Shirts
"Doing an IE6" for Google would be quite different from what Microsoft did, who wanted the desktop to stay relevant. For Google the web is just an advertisement platform. If/When Firefix is gone, they will hold all the cards. "Doing an IE6" might mean removing support for ad-blockers. Or making Google DNS mandatory. Or have everything you do on the web be phoned to Google, to improve your advertising experience. Assume they will find creative ways to monetize the web, ways that we didn't even think of yet. If you thought the web in 2019 was bad, beware of the Google Future.
The literature price committee's has zero credibility after the scandal.

The nominations are just trying to signal something related to the functioning of committee. Let's pick man and a woman who signal we are better people now, somehow.
Mutual Funds’ Embrace of High-Profile Unicorns Backfires
> As if the reporter's apps were more special than the thousands of other websites that it broke.

Frequently breakage like this affects literally only one site. The engineer probably thought that was the case here.
Wow, why on earth did they do this!? Are they trying to hobble devs working with their browser?
>Isn't this very destabilizing?

Yes and no. Even if you can destroy all their silos and bombers submarine portion of the triad still provides a check.
React Native EU 2019: React Native at Microsoft
VirtuaVerse – Official Trailer
Apparently the previous versions just weren’t that scary
Thanks! Not to mention how annoying paywalls are...
It is. I've used it for side-project code a couple of times and it's absolutely wonderful. The ability to group code semantically at unit-level, cross-language is extremely powerful. Go to definition and the like in other editors work to some extent but very often, abstractions hide the actual link between code parts and you have to rely on your (brain-)memory or a debugger to figure out what the graph looks like.

Sadly, I have not been able to convince anyone to use it in a team setting and on top of that, it is a very primitive code editor. There is some syntax highlighting and that's basically it. No VIM bindings and no IDE-like features. So I now use it as my org-mode text editor, with the occasional link to code or config files here and there, which works well.
Might be a stupid question, but what's the advantage of using PyTorch Mobile, compared to converting to ONNX-> TF -> TF lite
(or something similar)
Every now and then bellingcat covers a "lesser" news story like this one, so they can pretend their main purpose isn't to push for regime change in Syria.
What advances in physics are necessary? I understand it to be an engineering, economics and political question.
Agreed. Sleep has been a critical tool for foreign language learning for me. I'd also point out that exercise improves sleep quality.
What's the point of 40 meters CEP in a high yield nuclear missile ? what's wrong with 400 meters ? 1 Km ?

[edit]

> Very little of the precision of this guidance system is even exploited during a ballistic missile flight, it is mostly used simply to maintain guidance system alignment on the ground during missile alert without needing an external reference through precision gyrocompassing. Most ICBMs require an external alignment system to keep the INS in synch with the outside world prior to launch
Gruber confirms it's real. https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live...
Other Nobel Prizes sometimes do get awarded decades after the research they're rewarding, in order to see the impact of the result, whether it actually turned out to be true, etc. I wouldn't mind if they did something similar with the Peace Prize.

Obama's prize, for example, was clearly too early. Although it would have worked if it had been given to the American voter instead. To elect a black president in a country with such a history of extreme racism against black people, that's a fantastic step forward. But it was the voters who did that. Awarding it for getting elected, or even for that nice speech that Obama made, it feels like that's a bit of a thin reason.

Similarly, I know a lot of people would like to have seen it go to Greta Thunberg, and it would have been a lot more deserved than some other recipients, but I still think it's better to wait a year, to see the real impact she's had.

I also imagined that if Greta had gotten it, she might have given an angry speech that she doesn't want awards, she wants people to act, and I would have agreed.
Yes, but that in itself was not enough. It was the Petrodollar system that brought home the bacon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XU6ZHZ8TDg
Yes violence increases in animals too if the environmental stress (biotic and abiotic) ratchets up. It stands to reason the same applies to humans although we have more conscious control over our responses but we don't often exercise them unless we're aware. These are all subtle mechanisms by which destabilising effects can cascade and proliferate. This is why ecologists and conservationists warned against unrestricted exploitation and an appeal to the assurance of science and technology rescuing us out of the resulting mess, but this is exactly the path we're down on.
So far Boeing killed far more passengers and pilots.
> Drinking a cup of coffee is "still strong enough to affect brain function", and yet we do it every day. In fact several times...

Yes, the crucial difference being that you are not exactly breaking scientific ground by sipping a cup of coffee. The effects coffee has on our brain and body, both short and long term, are well researched and sufficiently tested.
They are very responsive to data.

Hundreds of people saying "My app is broken" isn't data. Someone saying "based on a search of the top Alexa 1 million sites, this will affect 8% of users" will catch their attention.
We have all sorts of hacks. You just need to be careful and may get unintended side effects.

(Steroid creams to fix skin conditions, caffeine for energy, alcohol for relaxation and fun, anti-inflammatories, antihistamines, the list goes on.)
The American blueberry (northern highbush blueberry, Vaccinium corymbosum) is, well, American. And also in British English the word blueberry refers to the American blueberry. But the British must have had access to the European blueberry (bilberry, Vaccinium myrtillus) long before anyone transported American blueberries to Britain/Europe? So, to which berry did the word blueberry refer to in England 100 or 200 years ago? And when did the meaning change? I am puzzled by this.
Meditating right before going to bed, given that you haven't stared at any screen for an hour prior, can help tremendously with insomnia. That and intense and regular exercise, a clean diet, hydration... Healthy habits, to cut it short. Also, make sure your bedroom is dark and its temperature is cool.
The displays are good, but you get similarly good displays on similarly priced machines.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-Best-Notebook-Displays-As-...

For the touchpad I am undecided how much here is software and how much is hardware. E.g. install ubuntu on a macbook, is the touchpad still great or just average?
Apple is open about the fact that their cloud services are operated by a Chinese company in China. No Chinese company has the option of refusing government demands for access to information. Therefore, at least the cloud services should be considered backdoored.
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As a small form factor PC capable of playing some games, it's a pretty good value offering. But that's only really appealing to tinkerers and hobbyists who want to set these things up to their liking.

I have a Linux PC hooked up to a TV in the living room for exactly these purposes (video/streaming and light gaming), thrown together from old parts and a bit of a mess to use. So a £300 device that does the same thing holds some appeal, even moreso if it had a developer behind it pushing some games on the platform, and making a good software experience. But it's not that, it's basically the same as that clunky PC I have in the living room running Linux, capable of playing games if you launch Steam or streaming whatever works in a browser.

I'm not their target audience though, and if I was then it'd be a pretty narrow niche to target.

It's amazing how much you can get away with when you have a recognised brand. They've combined the worst of over optimistic/under prepared kickstarters, with the worst of big corporation penny pinching. And yet just because people know the name Atari, they got millions of dollars in pre-orders, and even got Walmart and Best Buy to sell their (non-existent) device.

Edit: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/08/atari_architect_qui... is another article I read about this which I was basing some of my comments on - they apparently are planning on just releasing it running a generic Linux distro without any sort of console UI/ games launcher, and without any particular support for streaming platforms aside from a web browser.
This does make perfect sense. They're holding up the M in MAD by creating these kinds of weapons. They're no different than ICBM subs in that they ensure the ability to strike back.

I find the comments about nuclear ramjets being dirty laughable. If you're shooting nukes you're in a situation where whether or not some area is contaminated it the least of your concerns.
Thanks. Do you think you can use this portal for obtaining insights on topics/companies?
This is totally right.

You might really like Isaac Arthur on YouTube if you don't know him already. "Orbital rings" [1] in his "Upward Bound" series might be just right your alley. Of course, there's so much more he produced, it's even hard to keep up. I personally dream of some "Megastructures" he suggests...

Actually already began myself to think of a Dyson Swarm around Earth (for starters) which could then serve as a positional basis for future orbital rings. He really inspired me to think bigger, now.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMbI6sk-62E&list=PLIIOUpOge0...
Is MacBook Air 2019 suitable for developer?
You’re saying even if police/security had all that power, and they abused it, the public wouldn’t care.

I’m saying they absolutely would.

We sure cared about Rodney King, and that was the result of a video of a public event that occurred before a smartphone was in everyone’s pocket. You really think we don’t have the tools to watch the watchers today?

These agencies want encryption back doors, not elimination of encryption. Think about that for a minute. Think about it for an hour.

What if there was no encryption at all? What if there was a decentralized blockchain of hashes or whatever that resulted from “Johnny in Tucson AZ visited the New York Times at 11:41PM EDT on January 21, 2019”? Reconstruction of any other event wouldn’t match.
> Why should users believe that (closed source) iMessage encryption is free from backdoors

That's an easy one: the encryption happens client side and thus any backdoor has to sit on the clients and, if it exists, would be available to security researchers. There is no guarantee of it happening, but I believe some of those researchers reverse engineer whatever binary apple published and then check it for backdoors.

Of course there are still tricks that apple could pull, like adding backdoors only to targeted phones, changing the filesystem to present one version of the binary to the OS command that executes it and another to anyone else (like security researchers), extracting the unencrypted message contents using chips that sit on the memory bus (e.g. baseband), etc. But these tricks are harder to pull off and are still detectable as they happen on end-user devices.

They definitely won't say "yeah there is a backdoor". Ultimately, you need to trust them.
I find the standard-issue Apple EarPods as good as anything for sleeping.

And yes I also find listening to something familiar helps me get to sleep quickly if I’m overstimulated and/or anxious, which is often the case.

I also find it helpful to play binaural beats in the background, which you can do with an iOS app called BrainWave (Dream Inducer).
Funny. For me the carrier grade NAT via DSLite performs better. If i run full dual stack my router is getting warmer, and there are dropouts/pauses. IPv4 only is nothing special. Best performance of all is when only IPv6 is involved, like unbelievable pings and rtts over the atlantic. I tested that a long time ago because it could switch it at will, and after a reconnect it worked like ordered. Anyways, it also depends on the peering of your ISP and the involved devices.
EY’s radical plan to get major businesses using Ethereum
True fact. Having a baby has helped enforce boundaries on my work schedule (which had been routinely 50-60 a week); however, I am as busy as ever.
Characteristics and Problems of the Gifted (2007) [pdf]
If your phone is backed up to iCloud, and your phone (or iCloud account, it's not clear) has the region set to China, then your messages are most likely accessible by the Chinese government, because Apple's cloud services are operated by a Chinese company in China, and Chinese companies don't have the option of resisting information requests from the government.
>may get unintended side effects.

Oh, if one sees the enormity of complexity body & mind has - one can be sure he can not foresee all side effects. I like that you gave examples like caffeine which messes up your nervous system or alcohol which destroys your conscious attention and lever, among other things :)
SpaceX's goal is to establish an independent human presence beyond Earth to have a life insurance for humanity.

Stephen Hawkins agreed: https://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/05/stephen-hawking-human-extinc...
Long-term Lyme disease ' chronic fatigue syndrome'