skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many big things were ignored at first and many thought of them as just another fad: 1. internet 2. PC then Smart phone 3. digital camera 4. bitcoin ... the list is long.

continuous battery innovation and expanding flying range / lift power will make drone delivery a regular every day occurrence, just like uber service or amazon next day delivery service have become.

there are so many ideas and applications that are just waiting to be unleashed...!!! we live in truly amazing times!
This speaks to me. I used to spend my childhood tweaking and retweaking my game engines. Never really got my games past the cool demo phase. I guess I also now stay with maintainable systems too.
Perfect. Nothing in particular other than TF.
What would you do if you had 8 bosses in a row all do the same thing?
there are simple solutions for minimizing drone noise :)
The way the files are loaded on Bash has a standard.

Apple breaks it, but there is.

Here’s info, https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/170493/login-non-lo...

ZSH follows the same for login/non-login but I don’t see it for interactive.
Interesting that they tried to design the walking motion from scratch and ended up with a jittery, jerky mess with each leg moving one by one. I wonder how they would've done if they tried to replicate the walking motion of real six-legged creatures.

https://i.imgur.com/tinN5vA.gif
AGN jet feedback, lobe energetics and X-rays in a realistic cluster environment
I feel like this comment is rather insulting. You shouldn't feel sorry for him -- don't assume that he or his family regretted his lifestyle.

Is being the CEO of Oracle not creative? Is there anything wrong with devoting your life to a company? I would say there is nothing wrong with devoting one's life to a startup, so I don't see why there is anything wrong with devoting one's life to being a CEO.

Maybe some people don't want to die in mediocrity.
You can spoof it in the inspector, under application/sensors I think
I think it's THE standard. Almost all teams at Google use it. It's just the few people outside of Google who are still using legacy tools.
Consistency is just prescription by precedence
Of course this behind a pay wall.
" and the main differentiator is a gimmick.

My bet is that drones will be able to service these deliveries MUCH more quickly than humans. They're not in traffic. They can scale up with demand much more easily (much of the wait for Door Dash et al. is just getting someone available to make the delivery). Those advantages even get more pronounced with distance (up to whatever serviceable distance drones will have).

I'm very bullish on the idea of drone delivery. I'm hopeful that it will empower smaller businesses to compete with Amazon prime even, but that's probably a pipe dream.
Very cool. Addictive.
I use binary literals all the time, for what it's worth, in code involving hardware interfacing. Only complaint with C++14's implementation is that they didn't allow underscores to be inserted for clarity, a la Verilog.

Those underscores turn out to be a really big deal, and leaving them out of C++ was a massive mistake. Nobody wants to read constants like 00110100101101011011011101011110, but 00110100_10110101_10110111_01011110 is fine. An implementation of binary constants that doesn't allow this is going to be less popular.
Unfortunately all of those things are open to anyone's subjective interpretation. And I'll add again that said subjective interpretation has gone off the rails in recent times.
Jordan Weissmann writes a negative article about Andrew Yang and Elizabeth Warren and their respective economic plans bug includes no substantive analysis of either. Not worth the time to read.
“One company that probably won’t be bidding is Apple Inc., the people said. The tech giant has eschewed controversial programming that could damage its brand, and it’s wary of offending China, where it sells a lot of iPhones.”

Did Bloomberg change the title or did the submitter editorialize? This is the only mention of Apple and yeah, Apple was never going to pick this up because it’s a TV-MA program and they’re not trying to go there with their streaming service.

This is such a reach for Apple concern trolling.
A Talk Near the Future of Python
A lot of people are used to Postgres where you can create an index on the expression itself, and then it's cheap to seek or order on that expression. (Common ones are things like this-- substrings, date expressions, uppercasing of things..)
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

Albert Camus
Stolen from another HN comment about using AI on medical records.

"Finasteride is a compound that is used in two drugs. Proscar is used for prostate enlargement. It is old, out-of-patent, and has cheap generics. Propecia is used for hair loss. It is a newer, and (at the time) very expensive. The only difference is that Propecia is a lower-dose formulation.

What people did was to ask their doctors to perscribe generic Proscar, and then break the pills up to take for hair loss. Doctors would then justify the prescription by "diagnosing" enlarged prostate. This would enter the patient's health records.
If you apply deep learning without being aware of this "trick", you would learn that a lot of young men have enlarged prostates, and that Proscar is an effective, well-tolerated treatment for it.

Health records are often political-economic documents rather than medical."
That can work, but if you want maximum performance, you need to use the ef_vi library, in openonload, that needs (a fair bit of) custom code. Exalink has libexanic, Napatech has their thing. libexanic is surprisingly elegant, and you can do a lot of the work (e.g. extracting a timestamp) while the rest of a packet arrives. Netronome has an eBPF way to allow you to run packet-handling code right in the NIC, maybe even freeing up a core.

Solarflare has ruled the roost, but Xilinx bought them out, and the future of their NICs is cloudy. Mellanox used to be a big deal; now they are part of NVIDIA. Mellanox and Solarflare (like Napatech) have spent a great deal of effort to make kernel bypass work for clients running in VMs.
> I've come to realize that the sun is never directly overhead, not even in summer

It's only ever directly overhead in the tropics.
Ολυμπιακός vs. ΟΦΗ, για την ζημιά στο Καραϊσκάκη
55 Lessons from 5 Years in React
Love the URL in the example screenshot, whitehouse.gov. Fantastic example of a source that _needs_ to be archived.
We condition our cuddly civilians not to freak out when they hear large explosions by having fireworks as a plausible cover. I don't know how you make all of society 'soldier safe'.
With this mentality, we wouldn’t have had women in positions of power or even women voters. Same for people of color etc. I Personally _love_ that some companies, people and countries are bold enough to experiment with unorthodox approaches, because sometimes those ideas work and the rest of us benefit from the learnings.
Well, my recollection was of the former.

That is, I think I read long ago that the confidentiality of Swiss bank accounts was compromised during WWII for the benefit of the Nazis. I thought it was common knowledge.

However, I seem to be having difficulty finding a reference with Google at the moment.
Most epic thread in the History of TIG. Platinum standard of indie game dev logs ;)
Perhaps app license management?
> And when you work a shit job, a large soda is a welcomed mini vacation

Exactly.
Since the headline doesn't mention it, it's the IJN Kaga.
That's pretty much what they're doing, the city of LA and the state of CA (by way of UC Berkeley) have their own apps that I believe are just rebroadcasting that data
Got me thinking about how much storage Internet Archive uses. The answer is:

Total used storage: 50 PetaBytes

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https://archive.org/web/petabox.php

A few highlights from the Petabox storage system:

Density: 1.4 PetaBytes / rack

Power consumption: 3 KW / PetaByte

No Air Conditioning, instead use excess heat to help heat the building.

Raw Numbers as of August 2014:

4 data centers, 550 nodes, 20,000 spinning disks

Wayback Machine: 9.6 PetaBytes

Books/Music/Video Collections: 9.8 PetaBytes

Unique data: 18.5 PetaBytes

Total used storage: 50 PetaBytes
Visual Hide and Seek
Like I said, I think "carriers" are important for plumbing-type infrastructure services. This includes phone companies and ISPs. It strains credulity to say that Facebook or a webhost falls under that same umbrella.

You're assuming that networks are looking for an excuse, but plenty of network operators don't want to serve certain types of content. Making that illegal just means network operators are the ones being censored, rather than their users — except the penalty for disobedience is no longer simply finding another network, but fines and jail time. That does not strike me as an improvement.

This also still doesn't answer my original question: if I as a business owner/network operator don't want to serve certain types of content, why does it then follow that I should be liable for everything I do serve?
> Doesn't similar code work out of the box anyway

No, very notably both Express and its modern counterpart Koa don't work out of the box and devs using them have to learn, install and configure quite a few packages (middleware). This includes common functions like parsing the body of an HTTP request, parsing cookies, etc. This is the reason I created `server` in the first place, to do `npm install server` and not worry about these things on a per-project basis :)

Thanks for all the feedback, I'll replace "server" for "webserver" in my previous sentence. That alone is a great improvement over the current text IMHO.
You'd be surprised how much this underlying root cause is the source of so many online arguments over who is "right".

It's amazing how many people seem to think that the words on the screen are someone just down the road living a life virtually similar to theirs and not sitting in a country where holding hands is illegal in public and people get stoned to death in public.

I'm the latter. Hi!
The Dark Enlightenment
Definitely not a great family man, he was terminated from HP for bad behavior with a Playboy model turned contractor.
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Ask HN: How widespread is the use of steganography tools?
Two friends told me that people use steganography tools like OpenPuff to hide illegal porn in seemingly innocuous images. One friend told me that ebaumsworld has archives of child pornography. After being told this, I decided to start a project that focused on detecting whether or not an image had a hidden file in it (steganalysis), and eventually seeing what that file is (as a movement to spread awareness and stop the sharing of illegal porn). Recently, another friend of mine told me the only people still doing steganography are people using botnets that do CNC commands across the internet. What does hackernews know?
Thank you for sharing. Your immune system is searching for an antigen in a process similar to brute forcing a password (thankfully the file has more than one password). Once a password is found, the immune cells multiply like crazy and tumors melt. It can happen at any time. If your cancer is virus related, you can use vaccines to expose your immune system to potential passwords and improve your results. Though I'm not a doctor my gut feeling is that you should do as many different things as possible, that you normally don't. Go deep sea diving, change your diet, change it back, do sprints if you're normally more of an endurance person, etc.

You might want to check out Maitake mushrooms (but talk to your doctor first):
https://www.mskcc.org/cancer-care/integrative-medicine/herbs...

and even psilocybin, for the mental aspects:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5367557/

Good luck.
The ancient Egyptians had a sense of humor. The problem is that ancient Egyptian literature is usually only read by people who are learning the Egyptian language. Wenamun is a comedy of errors. Setne Khamwas contains slapstick. Hathor's rampage across the earth in the form of Sekemet is ended with massive quantities of beer dyed red.
I have my reservations about drone deliveries. But if they are proven to be reliable and somewhat cost-effective, I would pay a 10-15%+ premium to get my groceries delivered by airdrop. What's more valuable, your time or your money?
Any idea why the right tail is a different shape? Is that an antenna sticking out? Why the bulbous white part?
And that got me thinking to how much 50 petabytes would cost...

From https://www.backblaze.com/blog/petabytes-on-a-budget-10-year... on September 24, 2019.

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Storage Pod 1.0 allowed us to store one petabyte of data for about $81,000.

Today we’ve lowered that to about $35,000 with Storage Pod 6.0.

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Obviously they paid more in storage in the past than today and it is a different solution but if you were to buy 50 PetaBytes today in one of Backblaze's Storage Pod 6.0s it would be $1,750,000.

And there is ongoing maintenance & costs of drive failures.

I feel the need to donate to Internet Archive soon, as I have greatly benefited from it in the past and am sure to in the future too!
As an avid reader + book buyer I see little value add coming from the publisher other than marketing which should be available separate from the publisher or lack thereof ... As with other media like music the author/artist should cut out the middle man and reap the bulk of retail costs using print on demand

ditto for academic publishing
Here we go again with downvotes-as-disagreement; completely understand the sentiment behind this post and it ought to read 'proper' business, not mutual exploitation

You'd think all the free thinkers on this website would understand the value of thinking differently
What's wrong with a grocery van dropping them off?
The only ones that get to make that trade off are the ones with money :p
Well, considering they're moving due to things like poor Wifi, GPU and Bluetooth support...
Love this!

> Avoiding premature death is a process of not occupying the same space as fast-moving metal or motivated microbes. Living is mostly a series of repetitive and unrelated tasks.
This is kind’ve a bait question. I mean the “no duh” answer (as others have already mentioned) is “whichever you are most comfortable with”. I’m confused as to what other answer you could want
My EE professor of the static fields course taught us from drafts of his book. Much later I learned that it was the primary book in the field. So I would say yes.
I had a feeling Apple was pushing for encryption and privacy, to be a counterpoint to Google's massive data collection. However, seeing how they are handling China (one could say, how they must handle China given their dependency), I don't know if that will be a selling point anymore.
Is Enlightenment Compatible with Sex Scandals?
“Although magma formed Devils Tower, it was probably never part of a volcano.” [1]

1. https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/devils-tower-geolog...
The direction of the Trade Winds [1] is determined by the rotation of the Earth due to the Coriolis effect. They would reverse, and I guess it would cause more humidity in West Africa and less humidity in East Africa.

The effect of the big mountain range is more difficult to estimate (without a good simulation). In South America the Andes cover all the West Cost. In the South part the winds go mostly to the East, so it rains a lot in the small west past of the Andes, and there is a semi desert part in the big part to the ease of the Andes. In the North part of South America, the winds go mostly to the West, so you get a big humid part in the Amazon. If the winds are reversed, the semi desert part and the rainforest part somewhat exchange positions.

I don't understand the sea currents enough for handwaving, but a big change in the Gulf Stream [2] would make the United Kingdom much cooler.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_winds

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_Stream
Drones can work all hours.
I made the title that because it was the part of the article I was most interested in.

I changed the title to "Apple won't bid on 'South Park' streaming rights fearing controversy and China" in order to better reflect that Apple doesn't want to hurt its brand with controversial programming, as you mentioned. I would rather make the title "Apple won't bid on 'South Park' streaming rights fearing controversial programming that could hurt its brand and China," but that doesn't fit withing HN's length limit.

Edit: Apple has a history in cooperating with China's censorship, so it's not much of a stretch. If so, Apple wouldn't say that's the reason they didn't bid, for obvious reasons.

Edit: I know that South Park's controversial/adult nature could be a factor in their decision. It says that in the article, and it's why I decided to change the title to include that.

Edit: Alright, I suppose I am in the wrong here. I'll change the title to more closely match the original article.
Factorio is still Early Access, 3.5 years and going strong.
The game is lots of fun and a creative take on snake. The sound effect is very loud though. Cool work.
Amazon Brings Gifts for This Festive Season for Your Loved Ones
South Park is a litmus test and so is subordination to the Chinese party leadership’s egos.

I wonder if we’re witnessing the shift of economic gravity center and if companies like Apple are running long term analyses of the costs of protecting their brand in one market at the risk of tarnishing it in another.
But why was this a problem in the first place? Pretending non-ASCII characters don't exist isn't the right solution.
Ask HN: How widespread is the use of steganography tools to share illegal porn?
Two friends told me that people use steganography tools like OpenPuff to hide illegal porn in seemingly innocuous images. One friend told me that ebaumsworld has archives of child pornography. After being told this, I decided to start a project that focused on detecting whether or not an image had a hidden file in it (steganalysis), and eventually seeing what that file is (as a movement to spread awareness and stop the sharing of illegal porn). Recently, another friend of mine told me the only people still doing steganography are people using botnets that do CNC commands across the internet. What does hackernews know?
That Wired article is from 07/15/2018.
If you’re in a public place, why would I need your consent? Does TNG’s Geordi La Forge need consent from every being in sight because his visor is recording them and relaying images to his brain?

There should be no expectation of privacy in public places. Commercialization is a different story, I think.
Thanks. The air pressure is about 85% of sea level pressure at that altitude. Maybe that's enough to get some data about how the engine responds, but it's nothing like a real launch, and I think it's borderline fair for Tim Dodd to say these that "none have ever really flown" in the context of orbital rocketry.
Seattle startup ecosystem poised for acceleration of company creation?
I believe that's a Pitot tube. It's to determine the airspeed of the drone.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot_tube
It would be nice if a drone could make deliveries to a spot in my backyard. There are too many packages being stolen from people’s front porch in my neighborhood.
I'm a little ashamed that it took me about 30 seconds of staring at this page before I refreshed it and actually got the joke.

Good reminder to be careful using/trusting password generators online.
High frequency noise pollution until they fly like owls.
Huawei in early talks with U.S. firms to license 5G platform
You can use ' as the digit separator, like:

0b00110100'10110101'10110111'01011110

It's not ideal, but using underscores was off the table, because things like _100_ are actually valid variable names and it would have caused parsing issues.
But you've completely misrepresented the facts.

Apple isn't specifically turning down South Park because of controversy/China. They never said why and to be honest it could be just as simple as it doesn't fit in with the rest of AppleTV+. Which IMHO it really doesn't.
Does anyone know if Earth's rotation is influenced by it's electromagnetic polarity and if shifts in rotation are possible during magnetic pole shifts?
In all fairness I think I first heard it here.

https://youtu.be/7qNGWjDzxpQ
I feel obligated to interject here as I have not read the book OP linked to but I have attempted to read the paper weight calling itself a book that you linked to.

I have it right here actually. It's basically total trash. They claim to show you how to do the math but at the very best all they do is restate random formulas without any explanation. It's not even good enough to serve as a refresher if you know the math. It relies very heavily on you mentally decompiling mathematical notation. I can't believe I got fooled into buying that book.

If you just want to learn the math there's no easier way than to pick up some math books from half price books. They're $10 a pop. It's an affordable way to learn at your own pace.
Bitcoin still hasn't been disproven to be a fad :)
Don't know how old you are but, I was born in the early 70's and it was pretty common slang around my region and most knew the reference. I don't know what we are doing for once, I was just giving some guidance on why someone of an older generation or of a certain ancestor could be offended by the comment. In all honesty I could not care less if he uses it, as it has pretty much fallen out of colloquialism and I am not the type to get offended, but the parent poster genuinely seemed unaware of what offence they did, so I offered one of many possible explanations. I get it, people are too sensitive now days and you have an axe to grid about it, fair enough, but I personally don't think I was doing anything other than providing a possible explanation.
Craftsmanship – The Alternative to the Four Hour Work Week Mindset (2018)
Hi, Brendan Eich here. I was not ousted from Mozilla as "a conservative" and no one who might fit that label at Mozilla was forced out of their job or otherwise mistreated, either -- as far as I know. It may be that Mozilla-the-Corporation (vs. the Foundation) has become more inclined to ideological litmus tests, but that was not the issue for me in 2014. Please do not make stuff up.
Reposted a few minutes later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21296306