skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'Wiring' is called 'Überweisung' here and the most common way to do banking without incurring additional fees. There are no cheques anymore, which were never that common around here, with the exception of 'Postbarscheck', which are gone since the split up of the former Deutsche Bundespost into Briefpost, DHL(Express), Telekom, T-Online, and their pseudo privatization. Regarding trusting random merchants, i can give them a one time account number, dispute any suspicious bookings within a timeframe of at least two weeks, and so on.

Again, from the point of view of someone who despises to have an orwellian tracking device with him at all times, i prefer to go to the branch office, use some self service terminal, and be done with it, without having to care about the infrastructure.

If i'd order something via internet from some shop now which is 4:09 AM localtime it wouldn't be processed anyways until a few hours later, and then i'd maybe have the option of paying per invoice a few days later, or paying the postman when he brings it. Or i'd go to some self service terminal in a branch office of my bank some time during the day to initiate the 'push', the 'Überweisung' which is elsewhere known as 'wiring'. If i'd want to do that right now, i'd have to walk about 30 minutes, or use my bicycle for maybe 10 minutes to do that, because some self service terminals are closed over night because of vandalism, homeless ppl sleeping there, or something like that. Only cash withdraw works then.

Regarding credit history, you don't really need one here, because the bank which issues the card has it, vouches for you, and only if you fail some payment you'll get one via a hand full of companies. But that is a negative one then.

That's how it works for me. And that's OK.
Torrents + Blockchain + _Rust_ would be even better!
I was leaning towards making the same switch this year and giving up my mid-2015 MBP. I've read so many stories like yours and decided against it.
This is the first I’m hearing of the Atari VCS. As someone that lived through the original Atari era I don’t think most of the games would hold up for much replay ability at all. They were fun because they were all we had. They were very crude. Pitfall was one of the best and I can’t imagine myself playing that for more than a few minutes. Commodore 64 games on the other hand would still be quite fun today.
I once had a problem we had thought / talked about for maybe a year, that gradually increased in urgency. We were almost down to the wire on coming up with a solution, we had 3 detailed plans written up, and they all had huge trade-offs, none of which were really acceptable to the majority of use-cases. I once spent an entire day thinking it through non-stop and just couldn't see past what we had already planned. Eventually decided to call it a night.

I woke up at 5am and knew exactly how to solve all of it. Took me 3 weeks to code what I knew the moment I woke up and it worked flawlessly from day 1 of testing. Now if I'm stuck I take off early and rest.
I just signed up, this is exactly the kind of platform I've been wanting. Thanks!
It’s Possible to Inherit More DNA from One Parent Than the Other
Now everything has gone back to serial, after the apocalypse you should be able to toggle in the boot loader by scraping two wires together...really fast!
Literally all I use on a daily basis for the past 5+ years is:

- Terminal of some sort

- Browser (Chrome, Chromium, Firefox)

Really just want a stable OS that stays out of my way, and never pushes shiny new features, only performance and security patches. But the responsiveness of browsers on linux turns me off every time I try to switch (feels sluggish).

Also, I like the MacBook hardware, battery, aesthetic. Just been falling out of love with the OS for the last few years as they seem to be semi-combining it with iOS. Due for an upgrade and have been eyeing the latest MBA... but the OS is getting super annoying.
Interesting that the PDF was created 2019-01-03 10:34:05 and modified 2019-10-04 10:35:22, assuming the metadata is in any way accurate, considering that NROL-39 was launched in 2013.
I'm sure that it must be true based on how other people act on little sleep, but for me the effects this article claims are blown way out of proportion (or just seem wrong).

> longer than 48 hours and you’re looking at behavior that mimics psychosis—incoherent rambling, disconnection from reality, prone to outbursts

Does anyone else here have experience staying awake this long? In college I frequently stayed awake for 48 hours without much effect besides my reaction times falling off a cliff and a mild high toward the end. Hallucinations never kicked in until 60+ (which is a more substantial increase than it seems). My main gripe is all the effects listed in the article seem to take it as fact that less sleep = more grumpy, while in my experience the complete opposite is true (less sleep = more goofy/euphoria).
I haven't been super happy with the prioritisation of that issue in rules_python.

In our Java+Scala+Python monorepo we've got our Java+Scala tests caching so that part of our test suite gets a low as 2 minutes in CI. The Python part of our codebase is maybe 5-10% of the codebase but its tests take ~5 minutes in CI because of no caching.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/ne...

2018:

"The iPhone maker’s latest Transparency Report reveals it received 32,342 demands from governments around the world to access 163,823 devices, with 80 per cent of the requests granted."

Come on, seriously? This is what they ADMIT to worldwide.

Here's on China: https://www.apple.com/legal/transparency/cn.html

Again, what they admit to. And that's only on the second half of 2018. With all their regular anti-consumer practices on hardware, you're really going to imagine they're champions of individual freedoms and privacy?
As these things are naturally going, it is a matter of months before github is blocked and a clone set up. The threat to the matrix is too big otherwise.
This is also covered in Matthew Walker's Why We Sleep where he cites several controlled studies demonstrating the role of sleep in learning and outlines the neurobiology behind it:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34466963-why-we-sleep

I used to see sleep as a waste of time. A few years ago I started to recognize its importance in overall well-being and adjusted my schedule and commute accordingly.

Reading Walker's book led me both to take sleep more seriously still and to take more pleasure in it.
> There's an 881 page thread

Holy shit. As someone who loves to find stories on "what went wrong" for startups and especially kickstarters, this is a gold mine. Especially because it 100% independent from Atari's censorship. Here's a comment I just found on page 750:

> I'm not sure what you're adding to the discourse, but I think this thread is a healthy alternative to:

Self-serving, highly censored comments on the IndieGoGo project page (managed by "Atari")
Self-serving, highly censored comments in the Facebook discussion thread (managed by "Atari")
Self-serving, highly censored comments in the Instagram feed (managed by "Atari")
Self-serving Twitter threads (managed by "Atari")
Self-serving puff pieces on Fox Business News for audiences from hosts who don't care to audiences who care even less
More independent, but constrained by relentless positivity, Atari VCS Reddit group (managed by @Historian but infected with Dubs syndrome, and occasionally visited by "Atari," who doesn't have anything to say)

> If "Atari" felt like coming in here to clear the air, they're more than welcome to do so. There's literally nothing stopping them. What are they going to do? Swoop in here and say "just wait you guys, we've got lots of announcements planned for later this summer!" Because that's all they've done to date. Every time some nimrod falls for the "ooh look, Atari is back," this highly critical but not-so-serious thread gains a new reason for existing.

It's mostly just a bunch of guys joking around about it, but it's actually interesting (having looked at maybe 1% of the content).
Maybe in California.

Most electric utilities in most states aren't regularly given insane contradictory legal directives that can only be reconciled by cutting power. This is not normal.
Well put! I use KDE nowadays exclusively and all the tremendous progress they showcase here - https://pointieststick.com/ - is very real and exciting. They have made the development process easy and friendly and it really shows in terms of contributions they are getting.

I enjoy reading the progress every week and digging into the bug fixes and review comments! One day I will have some free time to contribute.
> Apple most likely did get legitimate examples of the app being used for that, and that was all the pretext they needed to remove it.

If they have examples, they should share them. It would have been easy for Tim to put the dates and locations of incidents in his email. There are plenty to go around on the protestor side: look up what happened at the Prince Edward MTR station on 8/31, for example.
from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6112797/

"...Relative risk of injury by Poisson regression showed that the strongest predictor of injury was <8 hours sleep per night. The results reported that 65% of athletes who reported sleeping <8 hours of sleep per night experienced an injury over the 21 months of monitoring. It was also reported that athletes who slept on average <8 hours per night had 1.7 times greater risk of being injured than the athletes who obtained ≥8 hours of sleep per night."
How Can We ‘Design’ an Intelligent Recommendation Engine?
TensorFlow & PyTorch,
Angular & React,

Or even
Karma & Jest,

Facebook seems to be late to market, but learns from Google's mistakes, to create simpler and more elegant tools.
To expand a bit, I wish it was included in the comparison not only because it has some big advantages, but also because it has some drawbacks worth examining.

The top-level zones are its weakness. The further apart two coordinates are from each other, the more difficult it is to reason about their relationship. MGRS works fantastic for reasoning about coordinates on the same grid square, but gets harder as you move up to comparing between grid squares and harder still as you compare between zones.

A grid square is 100km x 100km, so it's pretty big, and coordinates in the square are easy to manipulate. If you know your office is at 4QFJ 21631 04440 and the Starbucks is about 500 meters down the road to the north, then you know Starbucks' coordinates are roughly 4QFJ 21631 04940. To indicate your uncertainty, you'd say 4QFJ 216 049, or possibly just 216 049 if the grid square was already known from context.

The system is typically extended to allow that reasoning to work even at the edges of a grid square, by allowing eastings and northings that extend past the grid square edge. This means there's more than one possible way to describe a location, though only one canonical way. Unless you're already familiar with the area, you may need a map to compare coordinates on different squares.

Some of the grid zones are also a little oddly shaped. It's mostly not a big deal because they're huge, and it really only affects which coordinate representation is the canonical one at the boundaries, but it would be nice if the top-level 6° by 8° grid zones were more regular.
I recently read _The Body Electric_ and it gives insights into the body regenerating limbs.
Copy and paste work in all apps.
Now we have 17 competing standards...
If you don't mind me asking, do you use a laptop for work/personally? And if you do, what do you use?

I've been looking for one and I have the same concerns you do, and right now the only thing I realistically see if I want completely open is a thinkpad x200/t400 flashed with libreboot.
I remember a couple of bush coal and watering stations where the entire train platform was a bar. My mum said that in the 50s women weren't allowed off the train (impossible to do without entering a bar) so they needed men to hand them cool drinks through the windows.
So the answer is simply:

Why not?
I have heard that Keras has made using Tensorflow much easier. Isn't that the case ?
Thanks for the great answer. I am not familiar with DES but the reason I wondered about this is because I saw that some VPN hardware devices still has 3DES as an option and even as the default encryption algorithm. I was really baffled by this because I had assumed that 3DES has completely fallen out of favor. So I guess the company isn't choosing sensible defaults. But at the time, I thought maybe they knew something I didn't (although I still switched the algorithm to AES since there's no reason not to).
Thomas Edison too: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1649850
Nope, GP post is correct. Your body dramatically increases muscle synthesis and nervous system improvements while you’re asleep. A caloric surplus is one piece of three-part puzzle: progressive overload, caloric surplus, and sleep.
Crowdsourced wage transparency spreadsheets are going ‘viral’
All articles on topics like this blow way everything way out of proportion.

I also used to do 48 and 72 hours regularly during my college days and it really wasn't too big of a deal for just getting through a lot of work but creativity/reaction times definitely suffer.
I stayed awake two nights in a row during college and, while I felt miserable and perhaps somewhat dilirious, I don't believe I had such disassociative effects. I could believe incoherent rambling after maybe 4 or 5 days, but that seems extreme for 2.
Intel's First Chiplet CPU Revealed [video]
Thoughts on Microsoft's Surface Neo and Duo
We ran the Clausewitz vs Sun Tzu A/B test and we know how it went. "War is merely the continuation of politics by other means"
Apple's iCloud servers for Chinese users are located in China, run by a Chinese tech service provider and provides them with the keys - as stipulated by the Chinese government. Of course the government has access to the data.
This article describes roughly how I use Evernote for about half of my notes, and this process has made me a lot more creative and improved the quality and coherence of my thinking.
https://gist.github.com/chitchcock/1281611
Why Mansions Have So Many Bathrooms
The only real tweaking that you need is for anything aesthetically. Most of the stuff works out of the box. Granted I can only speak for my hardware, as I am on Intel/Nvidia, whereas AMD/Radeon and Linux have not always played nice with each other.

And also use a MBPro at work. The amount of issues of that I had with it surpass any windows laptop, most notable of which how the usbc port will just stop working, needing an SMC reset, and the laughably long startup from shutdown time despite having an SSD.

The notion that Mac can do hardware or software right is laughable. I guess people forgot the $1000 monitor stand.
The app developer supposedly made $150 before the app was taken down. Hardly a successful cash grab. If people didn’t feel the app provide value worth the cost of its services, they can choose not to buy. What is Google’s place in the making of that decision?

There is no reason to give Google the benefit of the doubt here. They’ve been making efforts to re-enter The China Market (tm) for years.

[0] https://www.wsj.com/articles/apple-pulls-hong-kong-cop-track...?
I am using a slightly older version of MacOS on an older MacBook Pro and everything is perfect. My keyboard works. My OS works. My apps work. I have USB-A ports, even an SD card reader!

Apple seems intent on driving the Mac off a cliff - both hardware and software, but for those of us who have not upgraded in the last few years, the good times are right now.

I'm going to keep my MacBook Pro maintained like a classic car until something better comes along.
They're going to have to fight this place for that name:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/America's_Stonehenge
That’s accurate. But the data cited in the page I linked is based on CO2 equivalent, which accounts for the higher global warming potential of other gases, including methane. I suspect that the high global warming potential of methane is the main reason that rice is more impactful than the other non-animal-based foods.
People will now experience rolling black outs in California just like in South Africa? Is this just because of the lawsuit?
Interesting wave of downvotes. Care to explain?
I would love to see this work continue; 84% is not bad for a starting point. Fascinating stuff!
Correct, you can buy the commercial license if you don't want to open source. This is a benefit of AGPL to the creators, and should you choose to open source your product, to the community as well. If you don't have the money, you can negotiate with the creator for the price. Note that this is a pricing/business problem and not a license problem. The creator, knowing your plight, may offer a commercial license for free, or a cheap, negotiated price.
Apple is under pressure from China to remove App.
Billions of dollars at stake for Apple.
That's why Apple does that.

If you'd be offered $1B to agree to remove the app, would you do that?

You know the answer.
So bazel and brazil solve similar but very distinct problems. bazel is solving the problem of fast, repeatable, "bulletproof" builds for (very large) monolithic repos, whereas brazil is solving for fast, repeatable, "bulletproof" builds for (very large) collections of repositories or packages.

brazil is EXTREMELY agnostic to what happens within any given package build, with the associated tooling primarily focused on dependency artifact discovery. The (IMO) most important component of brazil is the version set, which is a versioned dependency closure that allows for one-off builds (so your auto-build application packages) as well as merges from upstream version sets (where library vendors release their code). they are the glue that makes the distributed, manyrepo software development model at Amazon feel safe and consistent.

If I had my way, I'd combine the single codebase UX of bazel with the multi-code base dependency tracking of brazil, because i think they solve complimentary problems extremely well.
Just curious if the medication was a benzo or z-drug (e.g. Ambien). If so, did you take it nightly during your 6-9 month cycles? Did the tolerance reset after a few months' break?

I've tried pretty much everything. Of course Melatonin and Benadryl don't work much. Klonopin and Ambien both work well, but I try not to use it more than 1x a week to avoid a tolerance.
This has been my experience as well, but I'm starting to worry that its an unhealthy habit.
Zero tolerance ends up punishing the victims, often instead of the bullies. Furthermore, it doesn't even work. If the bully gets punished then the victim will likely suffer worse. The victims very quickly learn that there is no help, the victimhood must be hidden even from well-meaning parents and authority figures. Their blundering efforts to help only make the problem worse. They think they solved the problem when they really just drove it underground. It "works", they keep using that strategy rather than doing something effective which would be very difficult. Parents, understand that you probably have only one chance to address it, if you fail to solve it you won't know unless your child suffers injuries they can't hide.
Or Advanced Small Modular Nuclear Reactors.
Optimistic Recovery for Iterative Dataflows in Action (2015) [pdf]
Ask HN: Would You Recommend Game Development as a Day Job?
I'm currently a Web Developer, and working for 1 year as one. I have always wanted to be a Game Developer but hasn't started anything from it. Would you recommend being a Game Developer as a Day Job? is the Salary Enough or decent?
All utilities should.
Why do we keep pretending that children are wiser than adults?
I really hope the whitelist grows longer, however due to the powerful incentives involved I don't imagine it will anytime soon. Maybe if China does something the international community finds completely abhorrent then companies will get enough social pressure to resist China's influence.
Can confirm. I was bullied by my verbally abusive brother for almost 35 years. I have diagnosed PTSD now.
Microsleeps are amazingly weird. you are there and then you are .. somewhere else, and what happened inbetween is unclear. (for some value of 'there' and 'somewhere else')

Anasthaesia, you at least know you're going out to lunch. Microsleeps, its random. And very dangerous (driving)

The hallucinations were quite a jolt too. I've had the drug induced ones, these were qualitatively different.

I don't recommend it. Sleep is good. Stick to a good sleep regime, and if you have problems sleeping seek help (note: waking up in the night and getting back to sleep is fine. waking up and not being able to get back to sleep, or not being able to get to sleep in the first place, is not fine)
If things are so broken, as you describe, why not just pack up and go work somewhere else? Personally I love many of Apple's products but wouldn't be willing to put up with that kind of workplace just for the sake of it being Apple.
I've actually given up on using laptops for now. I still have an old x201 and t400 but they don't get out much due to the Intel silicon vulnerabilities.

Nothing I do with secure data hard-requires that level of portability, and for insecure (tracked, DRMed, closed + signed firmware) mobile use a Lineage smartphone is good enough for what I do. A laptop with closed / signed firmware simply doesn't gain me anything worth having over the phone.

My personal desktop is a Blackbird. The couple of old x86 apps I can't easily ditch (because they are open source but need MVC APIs and I'm too lazy to write the shim layer) I just forward X over SSH to an old corebooted Opteron box.
Yes people are generally interested in Japan, it's an interesting place.

This story is also interesting because:
Nestle is a huge company
KitKat is very popular within and outside of Japan
Changing the wrapping from plastic to paper, for this product, in this volume, is a big deal.

If this link was for a similarly large market, meaning its environmental impact was similar, I would read it and be impressed, regardless of where it's from.

Yes Japan is fetishised by westerners but this story would still be interesting without it being related to Japan.
Problem was VN was both a Civil War and a proxy war between two ideologies vying for supremacy.
Plus it's... California. UC Berkeley is literally a 44 mile drive (reported as 1 hr 19 min right now) from Tesla's HQ. Generators do present some retrofit issues, but now that I read this I'm actually moderately surprised they haven't long since investigated at least a few Powerwalls for various labs. UC Berkeley has a $4.5+ billion endowment IIRC, and on the scale of lab equipment, grants, and how much value would be lost if even a single experiment or sample set was in fact destroyed it does seem like a weird oversight. PG&E's woes are hardly breaking news either, nor are fire seasons even ignoring any other disasters.

I mean, I'm used to IT in general, and security in particular, being treated as a cost hole and given as skimpy as budget as possible and then some until something breaks. But at least that's more intangible, and I guess from a cold hold MBA point of view it's not as if most places are really punished that hard for security breaches unfortunately. But power loss and having valuable work/material lost every year seems like it should be more tangible.
No, closest thing is the mediatek chip-sets that at least dont enforce wifi parameters via firmware (fullmac vs softmac).
Apple absolutely does not pay top dollar for most engineering staff.
I mean, don't live in a desert? Seems like an obvious conclusion
Thanks for the compliment, I just lurk here on HN and I finally came across something in my wheelhouse. Happy to contribute. With private practice and a house full of kids I imagine my blog should be ready by 2029.