skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So I need m^n spearate deployments for n m-valued flags? Wow.

What problem does this solve? What's so wrong with 'if' statements that makes and external routing engine and a zoo of deployments (and the attendant load-balancing hassle) better?
Anyone on macOS who values battery life and system responsiveness.
Whats wrong with MongoDB?
How to Practice Minimalism the Right Way
RE: deep fakes, in a few years a movie director will be able to say to his editor: "increase Tom Cruise's rage and facial contortions in this scene by 50%"
If given enough time, classical computers can calculate anything that quantum computers can.
I would feel more sanguine if they let me sort emails by size making it easier to trim the bloat.
I really like Joe Rogan, and the format of its podcast. I don't know other medias where they let people speak for three hours. I was suspicious the first time I listened to him. I thought, can this beefy archetypical MMA dude say anything interesting? actually he can. He's at ease with all types of guests, he just seems to be an outspoken, honest guy.

I agree that he tends to bring up his favorite topics all the time, which gets a bit repetitive but it's ok. You can't expect him to run hundred of conversations without being repetitive.
Nice! https://undraw.co has good collection as well
I was wondering the same thing. I've been on Ubuntu for 2 years now and I've never run into an issue here.

EDIT: I see it now. He's running Ubuntu SERVER with i3 window manager installed and not the actual desktop distro. Just a guess, but that's the root of the issue.
Not release information on how we spy on other countries.
The cutoff is on a complexity level. IBM claims it is linear complexity so that is easily solved in a classical computer, regardless of the time it takes. Google's claim is that it is exponential which means they achieved quantum supremacy or proven a quantum processor that can solve a problem a classical processor cannot.
Different circumstances: Snowden's location is well-known, he's protected via political asylum. El Chapo on the other hand was being hunted by the local government so he was dependent on his location remaining secret.
Their forums are pretty bad though, very barebones.
It is, their infrastructure was (or maybe still is) mostly based on EC2.

However, I think they kind of wanted to support many cloud providers, so maybe they stopped focusing on it througout the years.
Yes because he’s not an expert on trans issues, he’s a comedian, which Rogan knows, but chose to use him as a foil for his equally misinformed stances.

Connover, to his credit, went so far as to provide additional context for his defense of trans people’s agency post-interview:

https://www.adamconover.net/adding-evidence-to-the-discussio...
I agree with you SCdF. Win 10 has been the most reliable Windows for me since 3.11, except maybe late-stage XP when all the worst bugs had worked out. I think it’s always the case that people that have bad experiences are going to be vocal, because you don’t go around talking about “oh hey, everything worked normally today.”

The deletion bug WAS pretty bad, but it also affected a VERY tiny group within the subset of users that had opted in to experimental/advanced-preview updates.
It's almost as if a word could have a different meaning depending on the other words surrounding it.
In France meals are subsidized and it costs me between 2.40 and 5-6 € per meal.
And the fullscreen mode of Firefox doesn't seem to be very well integrated to me. It's the only feature that is still superior with Chrome. I wish there was a way to maximise screen space used by the page displayed itself.
I worked with a client recently who ran a successful site comparing products in a very popular and lucrative industry. His affiliate income was in the high six figures annually. He runs the entire business by himself

Personally, it might not be completely successful yet, but I started a music blog a while back (don't want to share the URL) just to test some SEO strategies. It's pulling in low four figures every month with very little work on my part.
I've used Fedora (albeit not with Gnome) for more than 5 years at my job and didn't have major issues with it. If you're the kind of people that think Fedora = Gnome, then that's not true. You can have Fedora and run KDE, XFCE and whatever else you want. But I agree, Gnome sucks.
Hierarchical Coding of Attended Auditory Objects&Multitalker Speech Perception [pdf]
"It isn’t even the right word to use since the intended meaning is a quantum computer that can do something that a classic computer can’t do at all, not just better at it."

No, that's exactly what it means in Googles research. It means it can do it faster than a classical computer, not that it's impossible for a classical computer to do.
Progressive Web Apps to Samsung Galaxy Store
It doesn't exactly qualify as a one-man business, but I'm running a few side projects bringing around $500/month:

- https://batgrowth.com: A website monitoring the growth of The Brave browser / Basic Attention Token, in terms of publishers adoption (Fun fact: Wikipedia founder, Larry Sanger, tweeted about the site)

- https://ethereum-cours.com: A CMC clone built mainly for fun, bringing some decent referral revenue

- My tech blog

I've built many more side projects, most were earning $0/month after a few months, but I've also sold 2 side projects, so overall it's worth the effort
> If this notion of 'oops the rules changed right in the middle of the contract, that is not fair!' becomes relevant, they probably were.. NOT acting in good faith in the first place

That assumes a benevolent government. Rules can change because of balance-of-power shifts, or as a result of misinformed debates.

If you do business in a heavily-regulated economy like Europe, part of the cost of doing business is legal and compliance. This is a valid tradeoff the Continent has made. It makes many consumers and workers happy while adding fixed costs to commerce.
I have an Apple developer account...
I think it was just for the council, and mayoral races were always FPTP.

Fusion voting is the odd practice in New York State of allowing one party to endorse another party's candidate. For instance, in last year's election for governor, Cuomo ran on the Democratic, Working Families, Independence, and Women's Equality Party lines, while Molinaro was the Republican, Conservative, and Reform Party candidate. https://www.elections.ny.gov/NYSBOE/elections/2018/general/2...
You're a smart man. I wish I had done that.
Bipartisan Letter from Congress to Tim Cook on Hong Kong [pdf]
A Small and Simple Pen Plotter
Am I going to pay $100/year for the same services and still get ignored when I get locked out of my account? Enterprise users already pay for Google services. It seems like recourse for them is no different than a free tier user (aside from blowing up on Twitter/Reddit/HN). Why would anyone want to pay for that?
On my mobile device, yes, facebook. Specifically because I won't allow fb apps to install themselves on any of my devices.

On my laptop, yes I use some of the others. Mostly gmail and github, of those.
I feel like there is some law in the universe that says that if I don't use an intermediate variable, then I will for certain need that intermediate variable some time later when I'm debugging.
Sandboxing is orthogonal to the store.
> To this day the product has terrible reputation as buggy and unfriendly.

In what way is that an argument against paying attention to bug reports? Are you saying that the continuing existence of this product means it does not matter? Arguably that strategy will work, up to the point when something better comes along, and by then you will be too deep in bugs to pivot.
ANY sorting would be nice.
User friendliness aside, the 30% that Apple keeps is just plain & simple monopoly abuse, especially on the iOS App Store where Apple does control a majority of the market in US.
That they haven't been held up for anti-trust shows that capitalism is not all well.
Apple provides no value in exchange for that 30% except charging gatekeepers fee for the entry ticket to their platform. And as this article states, they in fact stand up more hurdles by shoving their limited payments system down the developer's throat.
The companies worst affected by this are digital content providers like news/mags which are already struggling.
New Zealand Post runs a service like this: https://www.nzpost.co.nz/tools/youshop

Doesn't cater to Australians though!
OTOH if you get locked out of your BigG account and you don't have a backup elsewhere, you are screwed for good.
So, I'd treat HW failures and account closures on the same level. You just have to think about the possibilities in your specific case: which HW are you willing to invest on VS how you are going to behave with your Google account.
I created Mascot Gaming Logo Maker (https://mascotlogomaker.com/). It's a tool that allows you to create a gaming logo for your esports team. As of now I have private beta testers using it and while it's not enough to live on its awesome to help a community I care for gg.
How do you manage to kickstart something like this? You mentioned you get your traffic organically via Pinterest, but there had to be something you did initially that set off that growth.
Do We Live in a Simulated Reality?
From 10,000 years, down to 2.5 days on your classical box - - - is still not 200 seconds that Google claims to have achieved - - - IBM'ers
Yes, we should selectively filter people whose ideas we don't like from being able to speak them to any audience. In fact I question the value of letting people like <person whose ideas you value> speak on such a big platform.

/s

Surely you understand that what you're suggesting here is totalitarian? The value you mention is the strengthening of a society where freedom of ideas is considered a core value.
Narduar is my favorite example of a master interviewer. Watch him leave Pharrell speechless multiple times (starting around the 5:15 mark is a good example). This guy does his homework better than anyone.

https://youtu.be/5RKbSi87J5Q
You can have monads in any language. If you have a functor you have a monad. If you have a type that wraps or encodes another type in a lossless or lossy way you have a functor. Therefore a functor exists in any language with compound types therefore every language that has compound types has monads.

The difference is Haskell makes these concepts explicit.
It seems like the most reliable support system with Google is to have a SWE friend who works there who will document and enter tickets for you, which is completely absurd for a company of their size.
I've thought about a voting mechanism where you'd get 100 'points' that you can divy up... you can also convert points to 'negative' points.

Say for example you had:

Sanders,

Warren,

Gabbard,

Biden

and you despise biden... but like the other two...
you could do something like :

Sanders: 50

Warren: 20

Gabbard: 10

Biden: -20

Then you'd add up all the scores, the negative 20 you gave Biden would cancel out a 20 someone else gave him in a positive sense.

This would probably need to be electronic to auto-calculate things as I'm sure many people might end up doling out 110% or 90% if they don't do the math right.

Could also have a button to auto-divvy if you have no preference, or auto-divvy by party if no preference as long as they're a democrat, etc.... I've not researched all the voting theories out there, but I'm curious if this type of system would work or not?

I'm not sure if IRV/ranked choice will work better, but I know what we have now is a major failure, so I'm excited that we're at least testing and willing to break things to get a system that works for more people.
The simplest explanation for lots of confusing events is that the intelligence agencies have enjoyed supremacy over the government for some time already. They run the media as well: just look at the glowing plaudits for their fake "whistleblower" as contrasted with the ongoing disdain for actual whistleblowers.
Thanks a lot, that was insightful!
Interestingly, the mindset of the people who develop software toolsets (and operating systems like Unix) is exactly the opposite.
Amazon DNS servers under DDoS attack
No idea where exactly you got that idea (feel free to quote any part of the paper), but no, it isn't.

Even the brute force "simulation" of a quantum computer is like UN...U2.U1 where Us are unitarity matrices. The hard part is obtaining those unitaries (whose dimensions grow exponentially with the number of qubits). For fixed number of qubits though, once you have N unitaries, you do N matrix multiplications. If you double N, it'll take twice long on a classical and roughly twice on a quantum computer (different gates take different amount of time to implement). But on an actual quantum computer, there are tricks you can do (if the Hamiltonian allows) which may allow you to do it in fewer unitaries.

Circuit depth is still important because it is important 1) for modelling the noise in the device and extracting gate fidelities, that's basically how randomized benchmarking works although they're doing something else for fidelity estimates it still is a function of circuit depth 2) for doing anything meaningful when using a given set of basic building block gates.
Iiyama sells a 27" 5K monitor that works over a single DP 1.4 link (unlike the previous models from Dell, HP and Philips that used two DP 1.2 links).

While pretty niche, it does exist.
Show HN: SimpleWeb
You can view the site here:
https://simplewebs.netlify.com/

I have been working on SimpleWeb, and I am proud to announce that SimpleWeb will be released very soon.

Description:
Are you sick of having frameworks?
SimpleWeb provides you with a huge list of elements, that are created with just simple and plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
U.S. Navy Files Patent for Nuclear Fusion. How Realistic Is It?
Yes if you listen through other services Joe reads ads from several sponsors at the beginning and end.
I think if stackoverflow conducted their survey on HN readers alone, the
editor-used distribution would be very different.
So let's be angry at the recently emboldened white supremacist movement in the US, instead of people who are saying "yeh, kind of sucks that we have this concept that has a name clash with a racist belief that we thought had largely died decades ago" or getting mad about completely made-up ideas of not being able to say "black" or "white" (like a sibling comment did).
Isn't the wireguard implementation on MacOS a userland implementation? Seems like a poor example to compare with the Linux version, which is technically superior specifically because it requires a kernel module.
We're talking about a barrier to entry to casual cycling here, people commuting in work clothes are not going to be able to reach speeds of 20mph in a busy city, if they do it's up to them to decide whether or a not they should wear a helmet.
I lived in Palo Alto, CA, (heart of Silicon Valley) and commuted by bike to work. (I even took my bike on the train for a few weeks.) Once I met my wife, we were able to bike to each other's homes and also bike to work.

It was great!

Then we moved in together, and because she had a dog, Palo Alto became prohibitively expensive, and we had to move a few miles away. I only used my bike three times after that. Even worse, my job then moved in the opposite direction, so I ended up with a commute that was only possible by car.

This is why I laugh at these kinds of articles. There's a lot we can do to encourage many forms of transportation, but the nature of a large world is that a car lets you drive 20 miles from point A to point B in a manner that's prohibitive by foot, bike, or train.

IMO, I think extremely large, subsidized, easy-in, easy-out parking lots on the edge of population centers makes sense. Within the population center, vehicles should only be for public transportation, deliveries, and people with physical disabilities. It's a great compromise that works for people who just can't bike 60 miles a day, or for people who live in areas where trains don't make sense.
Personally I would say the opposite. You should define yourself by outside interests rather than by what other people pay you to do.
Well, these distinctions are not all-or-nothing. A common way to further the independence of the judicial branch is to appoint judges for life. A judge that cannot be fired by the executive branch has less need to appease it.
The FIU and Taiwan's Nanfang'ao Bridge collapse (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanfang%27ao_Bridge) each precipitated in seconds.

Contrast Tacoma Narrows, whose final throes were long enough for crowds to form and traffic to be cleared.

Tacoma:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mXTSnZgrfxM

FIU:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=BSq8295GFk4

Nanfang'ao:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=mjsZbbG5fag

Morandi, Genoa, Italy:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_gEMep8xLHk

I-35W, Minneapolis, MN:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=74JNl5n-YdI
We live in a time where the president of the United States himself questions any law that inconveniences him personally, same goes for any oversight, and he retains a great deal of support from the population and his own party.

I wonder how / if it is possible to convince the public that laws and oversight are necessary for good government.
That's not nearly as simple as the explanation that the public doesn't actually care about whether domestic agencies are spying on everyone. I think most Americans are in the "I have nothing to hide" line of thinking.

The media won't carry a story that their numbers tell them doesn't have legs with the audience.
Show HN: All design plugins for Sketch, AdobeXD, Figma in one place
Multitasking was added iOS 4, the very first iPhone (Gen1) only supported up to "iPhone OS" 3; and even then, with limited functionality.

In fact, the iPhone 3GS and iPod Touch (2nd Gen) did not support multi-tasking either, even with iOS4. Apple noted performance issues.
Something like 15 years ago, during college, I kept a series of windows "Portable Apps"[0] on a thumb drive, which allowed me to take my most frequently used applications and settings with me to any of the computer labs on campus, etc.

[0] https://portableapps.com/
> If you don’t trust VPN's

That's the exactly the misnomer that the title didn't do justice. Of course you MUST trust VPN in order to make sense of using it. The differentiation is whether that VPN is some 3rd party manage it or you manage it on your own. With 3rd Party VPNs you have no idea how they setup it and no transparency how they secure the VPN node. If you manage your VPN node on your own, you have full control what algorithms and configuration you are using and you pick the right node in an "secure" environment, all are risks factored into the big picture.
I developed Semester Planner (https://semesterplanner.com) which is what helped me pay for college. It is a online student planner for college students that helps them keep tracks of their classes, notes, assignments, and documents.

I am currently working on Enqode (https://enqode.io/) which is platform that takes a hand-drawn wireframe and converts it into a design file or code.

I would say that for any successful business requires a great deal of work to be done. On the surface it will appear that it is easy running such businesses but, in reality it is very difficult especially at scale.
I don't quite understand how SaaS-everything is fine nowadays but if you call it "paying for updates" people will be outraged
> "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."

Yes, but: "Sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice"
I run a blog to book service (https://pixxibook.com) that while physical product, non-SaaS and firmly B2C has proved to be both low in support and reasonably profitable.

Sold our first book about a year ago and has grown steadily to the point where it could replace my day job. I've done blissfully little marketing beyond buying ads. Currently spend less than 1 day per week on it and during summer holidays I was able to keep it running from my phone with irregular connectivity.
Start menu 'web search' is the first thing I disable. Of all the stupid things in windows 10, web search is quite possibly the worst. It's a feature nobody wants except Microsoft.
Eventually that isn't practical though. You cannot take a pallet of anything on any sort of transit and never will, it will always be delivered on non-public systems. Your new couch has the same problem. Train tracks to your front door are easy to imagine, but the flexibility of roads (with cars and trucks on it) is a lot more cost effective.
Facebook and Amazon Set Lobbying Records Amid Washington Scrutiny
More regulations
More border between authocratic countries and western
More military budgets, less economy grow
More brainwashed people
More monopolies in hi-tech, although it won't be monopoly but in fact 99% will go to 1-5 companies.
More protectonism, less global economic grow
Oil will be slowly going down in price. Although not that much for authocratic regime fall, they just become more and more authocratic. But at least it should make them eat themselves. Slowly percentage of retarded people will grow in such countries as money flow from oil decreases. And clever people will immigrate to west.

Elon musk will make some cash on tourists to the moon but nothing revolutional. Maybe they will make some hotel on moon for rich people to have fun.
Win 10 is fine for me.
Tomorrow, anybody?
As was Watson...
Snowden: But I didn't come forward to be safe. If I wanted to be safe, I'd still be sitting in Hawaii, making a hell of a lot money, to spy on you.
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Is the real solution here to use a display with adaptive sync?
All text-based input fields. Like this text-area element I am typing in now. But also for elements with the contentEditable attribute set to true.

This is one of the features I appreciate a lot. I am not a native speaker of the English language, and I sometimes mix British English and USA English, and the spell-checker helps me to write consistently better messages.
The Opioid Settlement Will Fund Desperate Counties–But Could Come at Steep Cost
This is so rudimentary..

In old days, when hit by dreaded mailbox size exceeded notification, in Outlook I always used to sort mails by size and remove the attachments - which used to be the only culprit in mailbox bloat.

Go through top 10-20 mails, and you are set for another year or so before you hit the mailbox limit again. Rinse and repeat.
Perhaps your games on Steam would be better received if they didn't force the buyer to also install a crapware like Uplay on top of Steam and forcing to create another user account to play a game the buyer has just paid for (perhaps it has changed, I haven't bought an Ubi game in years).
They have previously served up game wallpapers with a link to more info about the game, or a link to the Windows Store page for that game.

E.g., googling turns this up: https://www.howtogeek.com/243263/how-to-disable-ads-on-your-...

But as I mentioned in my other comment, for me it's been literally once and I leave 'Windows Spotlight' on, because I like the random city/nature photos it shows.
Algebraic reasoning is not “low-bandwidth,” because there is a high degree of “compression,” which is much of the modern algebra is all about, and which is why, for example, algebraic topology has taken over the point-set topology as the main tool in the topological research.