skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Markdown type documents in a vcs are the best documentation system in my opinion. The problem really shows up when you are then trying to get non-technical users to participate, hence the abomination of wysiwyg web editors such as confluences (which is indeed broken, especially without plugins).

Markdown has lots of variants but is ok to wrangle most of time and pandoc handles it very well. Github renders it natively.

Emacs org mode is awesome and github renders it native but when not everyone is using emacs or a tool with org-mode plugins it it can cause issues when others try to access/edit it when using some of the more advanced features, so I use it for personal use and as a data science notebook. It replaces Jupyter notebook for me.

Asciidoc and Asciidoctor are currently the particular implimentation of markdown that is working towards a defined spec (https://asciidoctor.org/news/2019/01/07/asciidoc-spec-propos...) that I am leaning into the most. They are the best of both worlds. I am planning on moving my websites to asciidoc instead of org mode.

Documentation from code and code comments is much more specific and so I would say outside discussion scope.

I think that a markdown with a more well thought out spec such as asciidoc(tor) are working towards is going to be the future, and I think that the wysiwyg tools themselves are the main pain point and are what need to be worked on the most.

In the past when I have had to deal with confluence I have just asked confluence admins if we can use the github or html frames plugins so I can do documentation independent of confluence itself.
https://gametyrant.com/news/ultima-online-spent-3-years-deve... has some quotes from the creators.
So their traditional family values are at fault? I think in the US the economic system has changed and left a growing number of people behind. The rate of change is increasing and there is no real plan for how people are supposed to make enough income to support the average American family. We will probably see massive unrest during our lifetime if this continues.
Accounts are free and if you are not uploading completely unnecessary. You can still access the RSS feeds for each channel regardless if you have an account or not.
How is magic leap burning through so much cash? It can't be all salaries and at the same time they don't seem to be selling a ton of devices at a loss.

Are they building factories or something?
Quantum Computing’s Internals Demystified
They really do support everyone owning guns. Think about it -- cops in LA are not all the same color, same politics, or same gender. Not sure what you think a real police department in any major city actually looks like.
> It’s like 3 control characters to color text

It's important to note that each specific terminal can have different control codes. The xterm ended up being the de facto standard but it's probably not a rule.
I think this is not about the service shutting down.

It’s about the service terminating accounts for selected unprofitable users only.
What's the problem, really?

How many retired law enforcement officers go on binge shooting sprees?

Or should we oppose them having a legally purchased firearm just because?
Routine traffic stops usually involve checking for warrants. That is one reason they are performed by armed officers.
So how do you explain self-checkout which is not watched nearly as carefully?

It's not a binary outcome. Self-checkout increases shrinkage, of course there are people who steal when not watched as carefully.

But the vast majority of people walking in a store are not stopped from stealing because of the odds of being caught.

Like, stores would literally not work if that was the case. Margins these stores have a razor thin. The amount of shrinkage they'd have to deal with, and the amount they'd have to invest in LP would be insane.

Similarly, the vast majority of people who are borrowing books would not steal them instead just because there was no late fee (it's not like there's no due date).

And similarly, libraries would not work if that was not the case. When you keep a book, it still has to be replaced before someone else can use it, and if you don't pay the late fees/replacement fees the library either eats the whole cost, or sends it to a collection agency and eats part of the cost.

How many libraries could afford to deal with a populace hellbent on stealing books regardless of late fees?
Bangle.js is the first hackable OSS JavaScript and TensorFlow-driven smartwatch
And they will get as many to switch as when DX 10 was only Vista, and other hurdles announced as the opportunity for GNU/Linux take over the gaming world.
>gaming and high performance graphics

>Apple
>Nintendo

What? Nintendo and apple do not provide high performance graphics for gaming. Apple actively tries to kill gaming on their platform by not supporting vulkan and killing open gl and nintendo has never had high performance graphics.
The Heartwarming Reason Why ‘Just Dance’ Is Still on Nintendo Wii
Self-Supervised Representation Learning
Everywhere else in the world? How do you know that?
thanks, chicago, for your near-permanent overcasts :(

don't have a solar filter for my 6SE anyways, but got some excellent saturn and jupiter seeing this summer :)
Running Windows 10 IoT Core on a Calculator
Us vs Them leads to biased thinking.
Finding and Understanding Bugs in FPGA Synthesis Tools [pdf]
Apple, Microsoft, Google all have some VR tech and a lot of cash.
I wouldn't think they would be a good candidate for patent trolling but they could have some mild interest in buying the IP.
They probably used an analog computer for the simulator.

Really interesting technology that is barely remembered today.

http://www.analogmuseum.org/english/examples/lfsim/
"Alexa", whoever TF that is today, can hear and see your neighbors.
They don't know enough to be scared. Or they do and the temporary convenience appears to be worth sacrificing the long term freedom. As someone that has had many addictions, I can relate :-)
Link from TFA with (near?) live images from the SDO-

https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/2019/

edit: or just go to the main SDO data page-
https://sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/data/
I’m pissed some leaders of the movement like Joshua Wong and Denice Ho are still playing tragedies like this to push their agenda. Instead they should tell people especially young people to stop using violence, particularly pointless and counterproductive violence. The deaths must stop. We must not lose more young lives.
I don’t agree fundamentally with this article. Correct details, but missing the Forest for the trees. There are too many elements at work evolutionarily speaking to ignore the emergence of God knows what. Plus our AI (not to mention our most basic computing axioms) are absolutely juvenile as we are brand new as a species to be developing anything at all that has to do with computing. That doubly goes for “AI”... whatever that means.
Ruby isn't in the critical path, so that's a bad example.

In general, the real issue is the layers of abstractions between the hardware and the end user. The over complicated architectures. The constant re-invention of databases/operating systems/virtual machines at each layer.
Please don't be a jerk in Hacker News comments, regardless of how strongly you feel about programming language names. We want people who are doing interesting work to be able to come here and get interesting reactions to their work. Then they have a reason to stick around.

Thoughtful critique is fine, but there's no need to be an asshole ("hey look", "shitting the bed", "your garbage") and it break the site guidelines badly: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html. Would you mind reviewing those and sticking to them when posting here? We've unfortunately had to warn you not to attack other users or post flamebait before, as well.

For disclosure's sake, I once got to hang out with Cameron at a conference many years ago and can tell you that he's exactly the sort of user HN needs more of: someone with vast experience in the computing world and countless great insights and stories.
Random comments

* Translation is hard. If you needed something translated to Japanese how would you know it was well done? Maybe you personally have a bunch of Japanese friends or colleagues but most people don't. And so it is going the other way.

* Especially for games/movies/books translation is not enough. The content needs to be localized. For example jokes need to be funny in the target language. Subtle innuendo in the original language needs to be translated into subtle innuendo in the target language. Cultural references need to be translated into relevant cultural references in the target culture, etc. One company that specializes in game localization (not just translation) is 8-4.jp. They handle not just translation and localization of text but even managing voice work etc...

* I've always wished RockStar would make GTA Tokyo (they'd need a ton of local input or a local team). I bring up GTA because so much of those games, at least for me, are full of things that have not been localized and would be nearly impossible to localize unless the game itself took place in the target country. The hardest part is probably the radio stations. Driving around in GTA3 (and the sequels) brought back for me some uncanny feeling of actually driving with the radio on. The DJs, the ads, the different channels from talk channels to the various music genres. You'd need local DJs making local sounding comments about locally popular songs or parodies of those songs, local talk radio, local public service announcements, etc, etc, etc... Also the posters, signs, store names, around the city would all need to be localized so they evoke the same feeling of being in on the joke. And of course hearing local actors voice the characters vs just subtitles. Subtitles for characters dialog is the only thing that's been localized in any GTA game so Japan has never actually experienced one. I'm not even sure the random NPCs get translations but all of that would need to be made into something locals would get. I have no idea if a full localization would be a hit, especially now given console/PC games in Japan are mostly dead, but I've been disappointed that I could never share that experience with my Japanese gamer friends.
I tried appguard for Edge,it works ok but virtualbox stopped working as a result due to hyper-v being active. Is this the case with sandboxie?
Oh my God… “Java is a reasonable choice” and “liberally sprinkling in your code with the print statements is an effective debugging technique“...

Oh the pain... my everyday pain...
Mmo designers are very constrained in their game mechanics because they always have to deal with players that will exploit every possibility to grief. This unfortunately leads to things like extremely unchallanging encounters for random matchmade groups as any group will have players trying not just to get a free ride but actively trying to get the party to fail the objective.
Did MacOS finally get up to bash v4 or do you still have to upgrade manually?
The shoe is on the other foot -- we really need to justify the restrictions. Why is it a good idea for cops not to have those guns?

The argument you make about Gen 3 vs Gen 5 Glocks actually suggests there is no reason to restrict the general public from buying them, either. The Gen 5 has duplicate controls for left-handed shooting and is thus safer for some people.

All the points you are making are basically why the laws are dumb -- 10 round magazines are not significantly safer for the public than 17 round magazines, for example -- and no one likes to be subject to useless restrictions. Least of all cops.
I don't have a hat in the game but why won't Ruby do well or not well based on this? It's not like basic webapps need to be much more efficient, and no one was writing high performance compute in ruby anyways.
To everyone that gave me your email, I appreciate it massively. Look forward to some great (and I promise non-spammy) updates :)
Hong Kong Police shot the protester on the street
In 6th grade we started learning about the various torture methods used on Catholic saints. There was one particularly enthusiastic lesson where our teacher explained how doctors recently confirmed the intersection of human wrist bones could, as a pair, support the weight of human body and that rope wouldn't be necessary to bind someone to a crucifix.

We learned all sorts of confusing and depraved ideas that made it nearly impossible to concentrate during the non-religious classes. At least that was my experience. It's arguable that these schools should be attended by no one, let alone be publicly funded.
A bit of searching failed to turn up anything on how the simulation was done. I'm curious if it was all digital, like a modern simulator, or if it included analog simulation.

It was built by Link, which had been building flight simulators since 1929 [1], so certainly had extensive experience with analog simulators.

According to Wikipedia's article on analog computers [2],

> Analog computers were widely used in scientific and industrial applications even after the advent of digital computers, because at the time they were typically much faster, but they started to become obsolete as early as the 1950s and 1960s, although remained in use in some specific applications, such as aircraft flight simulators, the flight computer in aircraft, and for teaching control systems in universities. More complex applications, such as aircraft flight simulators and synthetic aperture radar, remained the domain of analog computing (and hybrid computing) well into the 1980s, since digital computers were insufficient for the task

It sounds like the '60s, then, were well before digital flight simulators were common.

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

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer
At the paragraph level or sentence level, with context markers (like tags) in order to "re-assemble" a document.
Hong Kong protester shot with live round during early morning clashes
Cease to show and you'll cease to envy
Have you (also) seen https://www.os-js.org/ ?

Nice btw
The Developer Plus version is $500 over the Developer version, and the only difference is an extra year of priority service. It doesn't look like there any differences other than what you pointed out.
Sure, but current procedure doesn't invalidate what I said. Checking for warrants doesn't necessitate a physical escalation if they're found. If the person wants to speed away, tack it onto their list of charges and perhaps call in a proper team.

Or simply stop checking for warrants altogether, so that every unlucky motorist isn't put into a situation that is primed to deal with a cornered animal.

There is a deeper philosophical point that if the reason someone is being stopped is a moving violation, then that is not a cause to address anything besides that specific violation. Sticking to that would also help reduce the occurrence of "broken taillight" pretexts.
I suppose it depends how one defines nationalism, wikipedia says:

"Nationalism is an ideology and movement that promotes the interests of a particular nation (as in a group of people)[1] especially with the aim of gaining and maintaining the nation's sovereignty (self-governance) over its homeland. Nationalism holds that each nation should govern itself, free from outside interference (self-determination), that a nation is a natural and ideal basis for a polity, and that the nation is the only rightful source of political power (popular sovereignty)."

I totally agree so far.

"It further aims to build and maintain a single national identity—based on shared social characteristics such as culture, language, religion, politics, and belief in a shared singular history and to promote national unity or solidarity. Nationalism, therefore, seeks to preserve and foster a nation's traditional culture, and cultural revivals have been associated with nationalist movements. It also encourages pride in national achievements, and is closely linked to patriotism. Nationalism is often combined with other ideologies, such as conservatism (national conservatism) or socialism (socialist nationalism) for example."

Mostly agree, but perhaps not necessarily with shared religion or "cultural revivals", depending on what that means.

Orwell's opinion (and unless I'm wrong, it's just that, although it seems to be popularly considered fact nowadays):

"By 'patriotism' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life, which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people. Patriotism is of its nature defensive, both militarily and culturally. Nationalism, on the other hand, is inseparable from the desire for power. The abiding purpose of every nationalist is to secure more power and more prestige, NOT for himself but for the nation or other unit in which he has chosen to sink his own individuality."

I disagree pretty strongly with this. Personally, I'm not terribly patriotic, and I certainly don't consider my country the best in the world, not even close. But But politically, I consider myself a pretty hardcore nationalist. I believe in sovereignty of all nations, I believe a wide variety of approaches to life and organizing society is (or could be...it's a shame more countries don't seem to learn from each other) very beneficial to mankind, and it concerns me that no one seems to worry about whether we're losing some valuable things with the ongoing cultural homogenization of the planet.
One great example of that was how in some later Sims game (2 or 3), one of the actions possible on a bonsai tree in the Swedish version is "Katrinplommon", translated from "prune" - unfortunately, prune as in a dried plum, not the pruning of plants.
Phone number is already a 2FA for regular logins in many services. The problem is their processes also allow it to used in a 1FA reset scenario, so it's not true 2FA.
It’s fundamentally language specific, so any comprehensive solution is going to need to interface with the localization system. Really, names should be keyed by (user, language, tag) triples, where the localization defines the acceptable tags based on language requirements. For example, a single person may need their name stored as:

en:disp Eric
is:disp:nf Eiríkur
is:disp:þf Eirík
is:disp:þgf Eiríki
is:disp:ef Eiríks

Designing a UI to collect this information is left as an exercise for the reader.
https://dpaste.de/nUKs
But its Apple Card?

Why do I care about the business relation of Apple and GS or whatever? If my MacBook CPU fails, its on Apple, not Intel. I don't care where they got it.

I don't have an Apple card though, not available here.
The "Bitter Lesson" post from Rich Sutton from earlier this year [1] seems a very good complement to this article: he explain how all of the big improvements in the field came from new methods that leveraged the much larger compute available from Moore's law, instead of progressive buildup over existing methods.

A great quote from McCarthy also regularly referenced by Sutton is "Intelligence is the computational part of the ability to achieve goals", which (IMO) help picture the tight link between compute growth and AI.

It's only a few minutes read, I highly recommend it:

[1] http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
Prediction: When we watch the transit of Earth from Mars, it will be remotely--there just isn't much advantage to humans physically living on Mars. We can see/understand what's going on, without pointless expense, tragedies, and indignities that would go with human presence.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Earth_from_Mars
Eco is that game

https://store.steampowered.com/app/382310/Eco/
I build my own monolithic kernels, and only enable the features and drivers I use.

My host is all 64-bit userland, it's just exceptions like Steam stuff that need 32-bit support (even the Steamworks/Steampipe developer side is annoying like this). So I boot into that kernel when doing those things, and keep those userspaces in separate containers which also get "booted" when needed.
Biased: unfairly prejudiced for or against someone or something

If I desire to paint my house but not my neighbors, or have my tax dollars spent in my country rather than another country, am I guilty of unfairly prejudiced thinking?
Take a look at the video. I don’t care if you’re in Hong Kong or New York, if you’re taking swipes at an officer who has his weapon drawn then there is a high likelihood that the cop is going to pull the trigger.
The Definition of Intelligence (2016)
Nepotism. The people running the company hired all of their friends and family into kooshy do-nothing positions.
This is it. I find that establishing a social network is one of the most important things to do in the first few weeks. It makes your work more enjoyable.
This is the NBU market - Next Billion Users.

India is the world's fastest growing consumer of voice traffic. At this point 30% of all google searches in India are voice and growing.

The fact that we have over 20 mainstream languages contributes to this. a lot of people now write Indian vernacular in Latin script which is highly unstandardised in spelling.

Voice is far far superior.
Regular biotech is already very cost-efficient, it's just a matter of putting the gene in, not breaking anything, and then optimising the hell out of the protocol (optimising temperature, pressure, nutrient mix etc. in your bioreactors).

For synthetic biology, I have no idea why this is not commercially feasible. We probably oversimplify the cell's system too much, so that introducing a multi-level computer breaks things we don't know about? But I'm purely speculating.
He kind of has a point, though -- I agree the right to travel does not specify a specific mode of travel and should cover planes, but then pretty much everything that goes on w.r.t. planes and cars is unconstitutional.

(Consider that while the government definitely has the right to tax you for road use, requiring you provide an ID to prove you paid a tax is like requiring you to carry an ID proving you paid your federal income tax, or requiring an ID to exercise free speech.)
My experience from nearly 20 years of gaming on Linux: Just because a developer can support a platform, doesn't mean they will (sadly). It becomes less likely with any additional complications such as special libraries.
We'll take it. Thanks!
Are these the typical steps students go through? I would guess that most students know to convert it to a string and count the length, with a smaller group knowing about base 10 logs.

I like the general idea of it--improving the algorithm incrementally, finding exception cases, but I wonder if there is a better example that could be used.

It seems to me that one either knows how to use logarithms or not, and thus students would either skip to the final solution, or be stuck until having the answer given to them.
I'm not sure that's a given, who's to say we won't be happy with the current performance we have?
PyTorch Hub
I definitely designed my site with the stereotypical 90s hacker terminal in-mind :)
Should have gone for length tbh
Nokia was originally a pulp mill (1870s), which produced input to make paper. And it also produced paper in the 1950s and 60s.
> I would be shocked if the CA data was valuable in any way.

Indeed. There are plenty of companies that would pay a LOT of money to use that data in any meaningful way. It doesn't happen, but people will convince themselves it's important data, enabling a host of dying properties to fool a handful of market actors into getting a profitable exit. The amount of user data leveraged from most acquisitions is basically 0, excepting a few mailings. Conversely, consumer reach (active users) matters a great deal.
Probably not, at least not compared to the naive solution using Euclidean division.

for larger numbers it is probably faster.
No particular channel I follow. I just do searches for whatever task and look for the lowest budget video I can find.
JavaScript Console Log Function Tutorial