skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but that’s not actually what happened. I didn’t go into detail with that part, because it’s fine. We’re fine with someone else being the publisher and listed as such though, but you’re not allowed to do that on behalf of others anymore.

The result is 98 muniplacities having to pay Apple developer fees, but it gets better because the app can’t be called the same thing anymore. So now there are 98 apps instead of one. :p

I mean, I guess our central digitisation agency should really just pick it up, but the bureaucracy doesn’t work like that.
Voyager 1 is 0.00234 light years from Earth, Voyager 2 is 0.00194 ly. Or in more useful units: 20.5 and 17 light hours.

Also we do not receive images any more (the cameras were made for planetary encounters and have been turned off long ago).

But yes, getting data (at 160 bits per second) from man made objects that are the better part of a light day away is impressive. Even more so because they have been working for 42 years now, 30 years past the initial planetary mission.
Coming to DirectX 12– Sampler Feedback: some useful once-hidden data, unlocked
I just did a new online install of Windows 10 professional and the offline account option was still there.
This!!! I've told everyone who'd listen for years that an electric motor is the better option for a pickup trucks due to the more appropriate matching of the torque curve to the hauling load demands.

When my beloved '00 Ram 1500 died about 5 years ago I decided to hold out for an electric truck that I assumed would be coming to market. Looks like I may finally get my chance shortly. I honestly don't know if the cumulative environmental footprint is better, but I do know an electric motor will be superior.
Lol MS must be p*ssed.

Half the problem is that rails doesn't work on Windows. I'd put that a Rails problem rather than Windows.
Show HN: ReSift – a React state management library for fetches
Many people, myself included, see Nuclear as inseparable from climate change and green energy. We could dramatically cut our greenhouse emissions now, with technology we've had since the 1960s.

It's really hard not to point out when people start talking about better solar and battery storage that we could be solving this problem right now with tech we already have. Instead our solution to climate change keeps being pushed out into the nebulous future because people refuse to look at the obvious solution.
That is why liberals of the coast all move together to Austin, and recreate the high housing prices, homelessness and strangely obstructive building situation.
It really depends on how it is broken.

I bought a digital clock home from the US, and it synched it time using the mains frequency, so it was 20% slow, so it would show the right time once every 0.6 days or so.

There might have been a pin to control 50Hz vs 60Hz but I couldn't find docs.

Instead I bought a 60Hz generator chip, and figured out how to solder it in to make the clock keep time.

Unfortunately they used the positive and negative parts of the AC cycle to control the LED display (saving half control lines by using diodes).

So although it kept time, I couldn't read the time on the display.

Note that my time is more valuable, I suspect I will invest many more days making it work!
If VW wants to make 30k+ EVs per day, they would also have to figure out how to make batteries for all those cars.

Right now, Tesla's GF1 and 3 have that locked down with a significant head-start in time as well as tech. They started in 2013 because they foresaw that 500k cars per year would use up the entire world's battery production. They also acquired Maxwell tech to further stream line their cell production with denser and easier-to-manufacture cell chemistry. All of that will be big hurdles for other OEMs to overcome (and that is IF they dedicate resources to it without half-assing it for compliance purposes).
Shouldn't prices on electric cars fall enough eventually to produce affordable electric SUVs and pick-ups? Or that's too much into the future still?
JSLinux Run Linux or Other Operating Systems in the Browser
"wildly overrated"
Fair enough, but hopefully others follow. There are other "free", or even cost savings, things they could do too.

For example, if silicon valley could hire more remote people, that could help relieve some bay area home pricing pressure. I would love to work for Apple to improve their SDK/API documentation, and that probably isn't a job that would require feet on the ground in cupertino to be effective.
Most historical republics were defined and explicitly ruled by concentrations of wealth and power--Rome, Venice, Florence, Genoa, the Hanseatic League.
> What increase in price?

The increase in the value of the land when it's rezoned.

Suppose you have a house currently worth $500K because it's only zoned for single family homes. Rezone that area for higher density and developers could be willing to pay you $700K or more for the land so that they can build a dozen condos on it, sell them for $300K each and get back $3.6M. It's worth more after the rezoning because they weren't allowed to do that with the land before.

Then you take your $700K, buy a $500K home similar to your original one in an area still zoned for single family homes and have $200K left over for whatever you like. Or maybe you have $300K left over because you only have to pay $400K for that single family home once there is less housing scarcity because there are now lots of new condos ten miles down the road where you used to live.
Not only that, I remember reading that something like 1/3 of the US federal government's receivables are student loans. A mass default or forgiveness program would dramatically lower the governments ability to pay other obligations.
> Even countries like France, Netherlands, etc which have lower costs for college, place you in a track when you're in your freshman year of high school.

Imagine trying to do this in the US. I wonder to what extent colleges are free in places where there is stricter criteria to get into college.
It's wise to view a degree of such cost which is unlikely to re-pay itself as a luxury good. We call most other quarter-million dollar products that have little investment potential, such as yachts, luxuries. The whole point of free college is to give everyone a shot at the middle class. Personally I think we'll just get degree inflation; college has been used as a distinguishing factor because there are a limited number of such jobs. That aside, basket-weaving degrees don't move people into the middle class. Would anyone, progressives included, contend that everyone ought to get a free yacht (or other luxury good of your choice)? A free stem degree is at least much more likely to lead to long-term, multi-generational success.

Markets provided some balance here, but were taken out of the picture. No thoughtful lender provides equal capital at equal interest rates to a poetry and a business major. This is reasonable, as the business major has a significantly higher lifetime earning potential. Making more capital available at lower rates to higher-earning majors is a good strategy because it helps to push people into higher-earning jobs. The invisible hand seems better-equipped to do this than a central planner.

I haven't seen ISAs (income-share agreements) mentioned much here, which is a pity. The obvious solution is to modify the incentive structure such that colleges have a strong financial interest in the success of their students, which ISAs accomplish. If you want to read more, I recommend this article: https://reason.org/commentary/a-better-path-to-dealing-with-...

Purdue is currently offering them, so we'll hopefully get some real-world data on how they work, but they seem very promising on paprer.
Tokyo helipads aren't for routine flights, rather disaster preparedness (2016)
Wow that is a lot closer than I realised. I was always of the assumption that the US tax rate was much lower than the UK and Europe.

That 2.5% extra in the UK (so about £5k/$8k a year) includes free healthcare too (plus at £200k you'd almost certainly be in a job that also has excellent private health care for you and your family with no extra payments as well as the free NHS). I understand that this can cost many tens of thousand in the US even before you use it.

I just don't get the US system sometimes I really don't. Perhaps instead of calling for SV companies to move elsewhere in the US, why not just come to London or Zurich or Berlin?
> Pano is no longer making those batteries just for cars because TSLA can't meet the volume needs

Demand ^ Emphasis mine.
FWIW there are some studies being done by the DoD on children with autism. [1]

There is also some discussion on this by Dr. Rhonda Patrick and Dr. Jed Fahey on youtube about Isothiocyanates and the related DoD studies on autism. It's 2 hours, sorry I forgot how far in they started discussing this. [2]

[1] https://n.neurology.org/content/90/15_Supplement/N1.002

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8IjvUVL3tw
It is:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_clock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WWVB

I've had several that set automatically after plugging in, without the need for wifi.
>restricted behind rigorous entrance exams

I don't know which nations you're talking about, but I'm not certain that I'd call entrance exams in France "rigorous". But the entire system is different than in the US, so I guess maybe it's not comparable?

In any case, trying to get a perfect score on an SAT is way harder. Probably the whole reason an industry has popped up around increasing your score on the SAT/ACT/GRE/GMAT/MCAT etc etc etc.
I can only speak for the Netherlands, we have a tiered high school system, and you can enter most university programs with just a high school diploma of the highest tier.
I use Nix for this. I have a library of building blocks that I import and customize to make `shell.nix` files, and then use nix-shell. Unfortunately, the Nix design patterns (though not the language, really) are esoteric and rather unstable, at the mercy of nixpkgs.

If there were a "scene" around nixpkgs the way there is around apt PPAs, everyone could just put a shell.nix in their Githubs and onboarding would be instant. Still, I wish someone would get behind a FOSS project like nixpkgs.
For the satellites to communicate to each other they need some combination of a powerful transmitter and a large receiving antenna, so that puts a limit on just how small they can be.
> You just made college out of reach for everyone that isn't already wealthy

Immediately yes, fortunately, there is a supply and demand curve, so if you cut the demand for a bunch of colleges that already exist; then the price should find a new equilibrium. Of course, as is the science of economics, time and outside influences matter.
This new logo will surely solve all of Facebook’s problems
Sounds like what contemporaries have said of another urban project: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haussmann%27s_renovation_of_...
> I'll worry about that when Ford/GM/VW/BMW makes an EV worth buying.

Well you wouldn't have to worry about this regardless unless you are the competition. But otherwise it's like saying "I'll worry about EVs when I can charge them in 3 minutes at every corner". If you worry only when the threat already materialized then it was pretty short sighted. Which is an ironic attitude considering we're literally talking about companies ignoring reality until it hit them in the face and the threat materialized.
Microsoft Japan Tries 4-Day Work Policy and It Raises Productivity
I see a lot of people telling everyone to just go to another university if the one you want is too expensive or isn't up your standard in the degree you're chasing. Remember that out-of-state tuition effectively bars students from attending any university outside of their state and, if you're in a smallish state like Oregon, your options can be pretty limited, particularly if you'd like to stay in one geographical region.
That's like saying that we all need to accept that any and all whales will be harvested for whale oil to keep our lamps burning
I’m unsure if you’re serious, but I’d be interested to hear an argument for the subconscious nuances going a long way.
I don't see how this is actually any different than any of the many doughnut (KK specifically) fundraisers around the country where groups (sports, music, etc) either pre-order or buy large quantities to resell. Its exactly the same model, other than that this guy was doing it repeatedly and KK wasn't getting to set the terms.
Given the hard core attempt to subvert eduction going on in the public schools, maybe. At least with software you’ll have logic, math, and history. https://www.reddit.com/r/conspiracy/comments/dqd6ca/activist...

You should take a moment and read that individuals post. It is well researched. Just because it’s from r/conspiracy doesn’t mean you should skip it.
That won't really look native, will it? I thought Qt things looked like Qt things.
The point of college is a name and certificate. If it was about actual education and learning, we'd see online classes with in-person exams in the forefront.

So, never? A tutor cannot give you a magic piece of "job qualification" paper.
I'm a bay area software engineer, but on a government contractor's salary. I would never even consider setting foot inside of a Whole Foods for fear of spending my entire monthly grocery budget in a single trip. In my mind Whole Foods solves the grocery store issue every bit as well as a 7-eleven.
The Guardian is notoriously biased and rabidly left wing. Just look at how they characterize TVP in the article. Is Antifa's propaganda bureau running this newspaper?

From what I understand, the investigation was done by the Polish branch of Newsweek, owned by Ringier Axel Springer. For context, people here should know that Ringier Axel Springer is one of a handful of German companies that hold about 80% of the Polish media. These companies are notorious for their hit pieces on conservative politicians and politics. This is a serious problem for Poland, e.g., geopolitically speaking, because it means that foreign interest is molding domestic opinion. By now, anyone who hasn't been pulling a Rip van Winkle knows that the EU is largely a means for Germany to project power and influence, a means to fuel its export market, and a means to acquire cheap labor in the East.

Thus, interpreted through this lens, this article starts to look suspicious, perhaps one of those smear pieces where something (unfortunately very commonplace) is attributed exclusively to the enemy. May I remind people that Obama made use of social media long before Hilary and Trump both did, yet Trump gets all of the attention.

So if you still don't at least suspect bias, then you're hopeless.
Thank you for providing a citation.
The complaints about tech raising costs aren't totally unfounded. Most people will point to the rather absurd salaries that employees of these companies get.

These large salaries are affecting inflation in the areas the employees live, driving up the demand for large homes that the typical non-techie could never hope to afford.

It's indirect, and it's not fair to lay everything at the feet of the companies, but there are consequences to them growing so quickly.

That said, this is a systemic issue that needs to be solved at a higher level, not at the level of individual companies or people.
I haven't watched the episode, but I've been in a situation where I had to make the choice between taking the high road or getting money. For better or worse I've always made the choice to take the high road, and I've never regretted it.

Money only goes so far, and beyond a certain point it just doesn't matter if you make a little more. I'd rather keep my dignity and contribute positively to the world.
>This does drive down drug costs, but also means that some treatments just aren't available.

If you aren't rejecting some treatments, you aren't controlling healthcare costs. A drug or device must be safe and effective to gain market authorisation, but the threshold of efficacy is statistical significance rather than clinical significance. Many drugs and devices on the market are almost useless - not actually useless, but very nearly so.

The usual examples of controlling care costs are stupendously expensive novel treatments for rare and serious diseases, but an equally serious problem is marginally effective or ineffective treatments for common complaints.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NHS_treatments_blacklist
But that’s not how it works, it’s not one in place of another; it’s one that depends on another.

If your physical bureaucratic entity delegates decision making to an AI, you have no hope of redress unless due process was mandated.

If you cut the bureaucratic middleman then you have to build an AI that can question itself and correct errors.

AI will never do that. So what you get instead is negligence because a computer makes a mathematical computation and the human element treats it as infallble.
Anyone has any details of how its implemented ? Arch diagram of some sort ?
I would argue that's not really a "first-class" developer experience from the perspective of developing for Apple products on a Mac.
I was sad to see that in the release notes, I had not heard. I remember Kurt from the Old Days, when I went to some open houses at UUNET and attended Usenix conferences.
Because you suffered, everyone in perpetuity must also suffer?
Oh? You prefer that she was just a hypocrite after all?
Can I ask you on which GPU (brand and model) it runs?
While OS X is ver.10.13.6, right?
So I add it between the hardware and software tested, thanks.
The USPS is my go-to example of why “Net Neutrality” is a requirement for communication.
I wonder if there is any potential direct observation possible of them from humans after the radio becomes too weak. Could we build a laser powerful enough to get a reflect back that we could measure, with some kind of incredibly large reflector/receiver? I doubt they have 'reflectors' back. Did you know they put reflectors on the moon that we still use for laser 'range finding' today.
Its just simple is awe-inspiring
1. Intellectual Property is not about "allocation of resources". IP is not physical property (which is a separate question). IP is the threat of punishment for using or copying information.

2. The Chinese economy actually has plenty of IP restrictions (e.g. Huawei is very keen on patents); and China is a signatory to the Berne convention. Some Chinese corporations may have failed to observe it, but this is not legal.

3. How would specialist tools get created? Depends on whether the economy is more Capitalist or less so. Maybe large corporations need those tools and will put money into consortia which produce them. Maybe there are lots of small organizations, public/state organs, and/or individual artisans/professionals which need them - so either they pool resources, or the government funds such projects. If the economy is not money-based, then it's a different kettle of fish.
Why do those things have to be a part of a university?
FreeBSD has incompatible executable files with Mac.
Private school tuition is the same as healthcare in the US.

Everything has an enormous sticker price for anyone who asks, but no one is expected to actually pay that amount. And if you do pay that amount, it's just because you're a sucker who didn't get in on the fact that it's just a made up number.

Rich kids may pay that amount, but it probably gets flipped around into some tax-advantaged "donation" that also helps people feel good about themselves.

Poor people get "scholarships", which are really just the university cutting the sticker price down to what they actually need from the person, with some creative shuffling of funds to make it look like they are paying "sticker price".

Healthcare works exactly the same. The key is to have enough layers of bureaucracy that no one can quite figure it all out.
I found that idea to be fascinating also.

He expressed the idea of editors being a two-way service. They not only curated your feeds, but also monitored the data you make available to others.

Wealthy people could afford human editors to look after their personal 'brand', and ensure the quality of their consumed media, whereas poorer people had to make do with AI editors run by the likes of Google, or Facebook.
i am confused about font rendering,
this article states the exact opposite: https://pandasauce.org/post/linux-fonts/
Not a comment of the article itself, but for anyone interested in both Voyagers, PBS recently did a great documentary called "The Farthest". I highly recommend it.

http://www.pbs.org/the-farthest/home/
Quick summary of the findings:

- Patient had a PSEN1 E280A mutation, which predisposes you to a 99.9% risk of developing early-onset Alzheimer's.

- Patient was expected to have Alzheimer's by 50. She is currently 70, with very little signs of cognitive decline. Although she has large amounts of amyloid proteins (hallmark of Alzheimer's) it has not reduced her cognitive capacity.

- Patient had two copies of the APOE3ch gene variant. The study indicates this mutation was primarily responsible for protecting the patient from Alzheimer's.

- Imaging tests showed she did have large amounts of amyloid protein deposits, but the amount of tau tangles, was relatively low.

- Experiments have shown this APOE3ch gene variant reduces ability of APOE to bind to certain sugars called heparin sulphate proteoglycans (HSPG). APOE <-> HSPG binding has been implicated as one mechanism that may contribute to amyloid + tau protein deposits.
Microsoft launches public preview of Visual Studio Online
found an article re: _irate joe's

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/29/491824957... [2016]
Actually both the Haskell and type script definitions don't communicate the concept of a functor well. Especially with the way it's used.

The interface only requires you to implement the mapping between morphisms, but a mathematical functor also includes mappings between the objects from one category to the next.

Additionally fmap is actually mapping

(a -> b) to (f a -> f b)

but the way it's typically used in haskell breaks this intuition. Most people see it as

((a -> b), f a) to (f b)

as a result of how it's used in FP. Technically the usages are isomorphic but using it this way blocks your intuition from fully understanding the true nature of a functor.

The following would be more a more accurate type class for a functor:

class Functor f where
fmap :: (a -> b) -> (f a -> f b)
tmap :: a -> f a

See here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functor

Note that there are TWO axioms for functor, I added the second axiom to complete the definition.

I think the reason why tmap doesn't exist is because it's trivial? Not sure maybe some expert can pitch in as I'm certainly not an expert in haskell.
I did some archaeology as an undergrad, and found it full of amusing/annoying conventions in this regard. “Ritual significance” was a (heavily used) euphemism for “no clue what this was for”. And who could forget the Law of Stratigraphy, which says that things that are deeper are older?
I agree -- a browser wasn't needed at the time. But without one, they're not practical for use as a desktop/laptop/phone OS today. And I also agree that a browser is not sufficient (as you cited, BeOS/Haiku, etc) but it is necessary.

As a related example, NewtonOS (Apple's MessagePad/eMate OS), did have a couple of HTTP 1.1 / HTML 2.0 browsers. But it wasn't able to support SSL/TLS, nor JavaScript, and as a result using one today is impractical.

The world has moved on since the 90's. Some evolutionary lines had features that were lost.
I agree that, as developers, we can't ignore people who use MSVC on Windows. But we shouldn't encourage _this_ kind of initiative, especially among junior developers. They shouldn't be caught in the web of depending on Microsoft for things.