skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve had to leave a job because of office noise. Fuck the architects who sell open plan ostensibly in the name of collaboration. Even more so when it comes to housing actual scientists.

By the way, striking resemblance of the design of inside of The Francis Crick institute to that of H.M.P. Pentonville [1] not too far away. Same architect, maybe?

https://static-independent-co-uk.cdn.ampproject.org/i/s/stat...
This article starts from a completely wrong premise: a beneficial mutation is not a decrease of entropy in a closed system. There's no closed system involved.

Organisms are not thermodynamically closed, because they take in both material and some sort of free energy (whether together in the form of food, or separately as in water, air, sunlight, etc), and also emit both waste heat and waste material. Organisms don't even have any (nontrivial) closed subsystems.

Most of the interesting things organisms do -- grow, reproduce, evolve progressively, maintain their states -- run counter to the general thermodynamic tendency for systems to approach equilibrium. This does not violate the second law of thermodynamics because organisms' inputs have lower entropy (and higher free energy) than their outputs. As long as there's more entropy leaving than coming in, internal entropy decrease is allowed by the second law (up to the difference between influx and efflux).

(Actually, I'm cheating a little bit here. Entropy is a property of things, not a thing itself, so talking about it entering or leaving isn't really right. But it acts like a thing, and entropy flux is (usually) well-defined and acts as you'd expect flow of a physical thing to work.)

(BTW, there's a bit of inconsistent terminology here. Physicists call systems that don't exchange either energy or matter with their surroundings "closed". Chemists call those systems "isolated", and use "closed" for systems that exchange energy but not matter. Which physicists call "open". Yeesh. Anyway, this version of the second law applies to physicist-closed/chemist-isloated systems. Organisms exchange both energy and matter, so they're "open" in either terminology.)
> Sure it does.

> php -S localhost:8080

Ok, are we talking about single files now or command line commands? Make up your mind.
Big growing economies benefit from tax havens, because they get capital more easily, because the profits can be extracted at a low cost from other countries.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21571339

And naturally, as others noted, the security is quite good.
Right, and this machine moves further towards a portable workstation by embedding more power, allowing people to do some tasks on-site that would have previously required a fixed workstation.

The “but why would you want a powerful portable machine” argument has always seemed really strange to me. It’s the same reason I’d want any portable machine.
> Since you did not read my post and obviously didn't read theirs, I'm not entertaining yours. You lack the required information to make a useful contribution to this thread.

Apologies for misunderstanding what “the prior positor” meant (did you mean “poster”?) — but wow I have to say your angry response seems highly disproportionate to my misinterpreting a typo of yours.

As you yourself lack the required humanity or empathy to make it worth having a conversation, I guess we’re both done.
There's also GP Blocks, which is a better Scratch written in itself:

https://gpblocks.org/

For more background information about GP Blocks from the team that brought Smalltalk, Squeak, Etoys, Scratch 2.0 and Snap! read the following paper:

http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2015003_modsys.pdf
Maybe using this technology posted here a few days ago?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21525878
The cost of additional plumbing is not small. Also, what is the source of grey water? If it's your house drainage, when you rinse chicken blood or poop or one of the other many nasty things people rinse down the drain, now it sits in your tank for an undermined period of time?
https://sadtrombone.com/
Certainly. When using the flashing tool referenced here: https://luftdaten.info/en/construction-manual/

...you simply select the English firmware `latest_en.bin`. Or one of the languages you prefer.
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I love (and am typing this on) a bluetooth keyboard that came with my 2008 iMac. Is the "magic keyboard" (which apparently came out in 2015 and is lower-profile than its predecessors) sufficiently better to warrant the moniker "magic"?
> you could pick from multiple pre-packaged solutions

> like any other random software you'd find on sourceforge or whatever

> could click a button to turn on PHP

> etc.

tl;dr you don't need to know anything. Good summary of why PHP in production "back the days" was usually of very poor quality.
I've done that sometimes, leaving me alone with my tinnitus.

It's still better than the incessant jabbering of phone meetings and other office noise.

Some days, the noise puts me on the verge of another breakdown. And no one in management cares.
One of the things that I find challenging is getting people to think beyond a few months. We really are victims of short-term thinking, and this spoke to me.

The challenge of course with having visions is whether or not they are relevant to the world.

My hope is to retire and be absolutely prolific without having to constrain myself by a shared engineering discipline (i.e. I'll write my own language and ship code that people will not understand without a heavy investment of time; market failure for sure, but I'll be happy because it is my art)
When Bank Communication Is Indistinguishable from Phishing Attacks
"Integrated cash management" (a debit card, etc) is abundantly available from discount brokerages, and is systemically important to their businesses. Fidelity legally can't call it a checking account so they call it a Cash Management Account; brokerages that own banks (Schwab, etc) just call it checking.
A modular, easy to repair system would be great, but I would settle for a repairable system. That is, that a trained technician can perform the repairs in a reasonable timeframe without throwing components away, which are not defective.

As long as the products are not repairable, we should call Apple out for not being as environment friendly, as they try to present themselves.
If your hands are particularly dirty (a very possible use case for a sink) do you flush after? Genuinely curious.
I bought this guy for the office - works well https://www.amazon.de/gp/product/B00TH3OW4Q
Blockchain Analytics: How Companies Use Crypto Transactional Data for Insights
If anything it could be _improved_ by deep learning. Shitty narrators will disappear, and we'll get high production values audiobooks instead, assuming humans want to get paid, a-la Dune, where there's an entire cast of well selected voice actors narrating the book, and the result is amazing.
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> “Kubernetes” is the Greek word for a ship’s captain. We get the words Cybernetic and Gubernatorial from it. The Kubernetes project focuses on building a robust platform for running thousands of containers in production.

I thought Kubernetes was Greek for more containers than customers. https://twitter.com/srbaker/status/1002286820078571532
Naturally this empathy only self-reinforces itself, if it selectively ignores those who agitate against it. Eg if someone advocates against free-speech, maybe protecting them won't preserve this basic empathy.

And it seems this instability is real, as we have a hard time defining the minimums of free speech.
Troubleshooting shell scripts that grew slower with age
I'm pretty sure that whoever disrupts banking will do it the Uber way, by disregarding all the laws that they are required to follow and trying to claim not to be what they actually are, with the same eventual success this route has had for Uber.
On-the-Fly Linear Congruential Generator Using Emacs Calc
Monero Binaries on getmonero.org Infected
Total sales tax ranges 5-15% across all provinces, it never exceeds 15% (unless you include taxes on specific goods, like alcohol).
See also this reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/Monero/comments/dyfozs/security_war...
Questions,

Do Apple now owns the Mapping Data, along with Live street views? Where previously Apple were just buying Mapping Data from multiple sources and glue them together.
Lol, billionaires don’t spend any time thinking about this.

A special tax firm approaches them and says, “yo, give us 10 million and we’ll save you $200 million in unnecessary taxes.”

The billionaire says, “sure, I’d like to use that money to build spaceships.”

That’s the amount of thought the billionaire has to put into it. The rest is attorneys and accountants doing the work.

Did you forget that billionaires can... pay people to do things for them?
Could you elaborate more on business model? Commonlyfree projects which are hosted costs money. So eventually you need to charge money or sell data. I'm totally ok with flat fee, not so much with my data used for something.
you left off the ending: "if it's brown, flush it down".
The heavy server load is also caused by lots of downloads. You can get the latest Sourcetrail 2019.4 now also from GitHub https://github.com/CoatiSoftware/Sourcetrail/releases
I would also be anxious if I couldn’t do any any deep thinking in silence. It is unbelievable how bad co-work spaces are for for thinking.

Personally I use my trusty Bose over ear noise cancelling headphones when i’m with a customer that has loud open plan offices. I’ve had my Bose headphones for almost a decade now. Today I use them even when I’m at my office which is quiet But because its open plan I still get distracted and we are working on acoustics however most of us are deep thinking engineers and we have a liberal work from home policy so our work environment is good enough to get stuff done.

I would talk to someone you have value to the startup and people don’t even think about this till its too late.
I would wager that people who vote Republican and oppose gay marriage do so for a variety of reasons, not just the one you stated.
Eh, it's nowhere near Super Hyper Street Fighter II Turbo Extra Special Champion Edition.
Having the keycaps slightly curved inside allows for better finger positioning.
Yes, they still need unlimited kernel threads (for liveness reasons). When I asked a few years back about this, go-nuts@ suggested implemented my own rate limiting in application space.

In my case, it was for running Go on a resource constrained Raspberry-PI, where the kernel threads could easily live too long, and use up all memory. The threads were calling read(2) on a network mounted fuse fs, and would last for 30s+.
Yeah and I can afford way more Legos now, I still prefer the old school kind. Compare 42054 to 8480. They're both great sets for sure, but the shuttle pieces are more versatile in other builds.
Honest question from someone who knows nothing about American culture except what the media chooses to tell me.

Wouldn't the position outlined above lead to preferring policy that:

1. In the best case, removed all government recognition of marriage: e.g. remove all differential tax treatment, remove marriage licenses, remove any recognition of marriage whatsoever from government documents

2. In the case that (1) is not possible or complete, ensure that what regulations do exist make no distinctions at all between "types" of couples that marry - e.g. no distinction or restriction between same-sex marriage, cousins marrying, more-than-two-partner marriages, etc.

That seems to me to follow logically, but also does not seem to be the position of the Republican party, at least the parts of it I read about.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs8yldyeoZg
People can be empathetic toward one person easily. A small group, yeah sure, it happens. But the moment they need to consider a group roughly the same size as theirs, and with opposing intents, fuck no. (And that's why seemingly two part politics devolves everywhere to a zero-sum game.)
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I have heard from my friends in AUS, and he said there were lots of interest from Old Cables, Satellite, and TV companies to not want people with faster Internet where OTT will become the norm.

Not sure if this is true.
> we have a hard time defining the minimums of free speech.

In what sense? Legally, for example, we don't.
Docker and Kubernetes are not real world enough for you?

I have ported stuff from Java to Go, for my long running app, and very happy.

Also at a client place, over the past year, I developed stuff in Python and Go, where Java was traditionally chosen, and it led to faster execution times, and stable microservices.
I am not aware of any tax that is specific to the City of London. How is it a tax heaven?

And half of finance in London is not even located in the City (West End and Canary Wharf).

The UK is certainly not a tax heaven.
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YMMV I guess.
I'm in France too and none of those points apply to my experience (except the monthly fee for the debit card and the snail mail for the new PIN).
I have not set foot in my physical branch in 10 years, and have not written a paper check since 2011.
The thing is, that if you want to run MacOS, you have to buy Apple hardware. There is no choice for MacOS users, so the market cannot decide whether they want more or less repairable laptops. You have to buy whatever Apple is offering.
Pretty sure there's more smoke from forest fires near California cities than smoke from brush fires in rural towns.

I don't know of anyone who uses a wood stove. Most would use natural gas, propane, or electric. Electric is common until you get too far North, then it's cheaper to get fuel.

It's very nice to live out here. You can see the stars and breathe fresh air.

Source: live in rural town.
Am I the only one who can't access techcrunch from europe?
Single App for Multiple Chat Apps
Is it technically possible to build a single App that interfaces between multiple chat apps such as WhatsApp, weChat, LINE etc all on a single App and messages between apps can be sent and received.
> Although I will always be curious why countries are letting those small, insignificant islands and countries manage all this wealth

This is easy, after all hiding cash is needed by everybody.
And when it comes to finance , there are no countries only financial interest. Of course nothing bad will happen to these financial heavens, because they are protected by the richest and most powerful people and organisations.

"The Spider's Web: Britain's Second Empire"[1] gives a good overview of how this started.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=np_ylvc8Zj8
TLDR: OP turned problem wants passage for family and trial. OP parent does not want Bobby speaking and is using family as leverage.
That's certainly a problem, but whatever we start doing now is going to take a decade plus to start making a difference. That's no reason to sit on our hands. It's not as though if we can't keep warming below 2 degrees we should just give up.
This has puzzled me as well. I lean right of center, and know some really super people who also lean conservative. I haven't been able to reconcile their values, their support of Trump, and Trump's behavior.
The majority of that water is surface water - that is only used for consumption if there is no suitable groundwater reservoir, and it is returned. So the environmental impact is less that irrigation as that removes the water from the source.
Haven, not heaven. :)

The city has had the deserved reputation for being a tax haven for well over a century.

https://www.newstatesman.com/economy/2011/02/london-corporat...
The quiet revolution of a shipping container
>I also don't understand the obsession with key stability on the corners. I like the instability. I use it when I'm touch typing - it gives my fingers a lot more tactile feedback.

This!. Along with smaller Keys and hence more spacing between keys. Little things like these you dont appreciate but you will notice once they are gone.

I love the instability.
Not a source but a huge multiplier of the effects of stress is a lack of sleep.
Rumours seem to be that Alyx is the playable character and it's set between the events of HL and HL2.

So maybe you and your robotic dog sidekick that your dad built get to try and survive with all the wild aliens around, until the organized aliens show up.
Uber is succeeding? Its finances don't think so.
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"black swan" events - avoid this term as it is super confusing.

Black swans were thought to be rare, then they discovered that they were common in the Southern hemisphere.

Black swans are definitely not rare (there are many hundreds within a few kilometres of my home).
Is the screen noticeably larger than the 15 inch? I am thinking of buying one but can't get to a store to see it for myself.
Possible! Source please.

Ref:

https://americangunfacts.com/pdf/www-telegraph-co-uk.pdf

"2034[1] vs 466 Violent Crimes UK vs US per 100k people"

[1] The July 2009 Telegraph article says "over 2000"
Probably highly empathetic folks would be hard to find in todays information overloaded world with so many bad news.

Eg I have a relative who very much cannot look at the news because it's all bad. And actively seeks out positive things. (Like meditation, Om chanting, they try to bring positivity to the world, basically the new age thoughts and prayers.)
Highly empathetic people should be the ones most able to empathize with people who are deeply unpleasant. Else they wouldn't be highly empathetic.

> Maybe highly empathetic people don't like assholes.

Nobody likes assholes...
Agreed. Especially if when one kinda did once, they were told they might be autistic. Not that there is anything wrong with autism, but you can see how armchair psychiatry would put other people off discussing issues ever again.
I can't trust anything in this article when its counterexamples are bogus and it doesn't cite evidence for its position.

Paying a higher price is not a loss. Loss is when you have something and lose it. Paying more money in exchange for a product is something else.

"You will lose out if you don't buy our product" is not a loss. It is lack of a gain, which is psychologically very different.

People's ratings of a $10 loss may not correlate very well with people's actions when faced with a $10 loss.

With this many basic errors, I can't make out whether the author's strawman has any substance or not. The author is hung up on things that could be logically equated to losses, which is bizarrely irrelevant when the effect under question is specifically about how people's actual behavior differs from logical behavior.
Cloud
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is the on-demand delivery of compute power, database, storage, applications, and other IT resources via the internet with pay-as-you-go pricing. Whether you are using it to run applications that share photos to millions of mobile users or to support business-critical operations, a cloud services platform provides rapid access to flexible and low-cost IT resources.

In other words, cloud computing means, storing and accessing information and programs over the internet instead of the hard drive of your computer. You can access as many resources as you need, almost instantly, and only pay for what you use.
10mbs on a good day. 5mbps is more common - inner city suburb.
It seems the blog was fixed now (without a note)
Not everybody hates the feel of the butterfly keyboard, I kinda like it too. The problem is in its reliability.

Anyone who works in a shop with a large population of Macs will have see them fail in droves. My 2016 has had the B and V keys fail, a couple keys falling out, and now spacebar and a few other keys come out duplicates every other sentence.
ISM 2019 Fuels Multimedia Revolution
I think Wikipedia has macros that allow you to create a variety of charts with just textual information. I've seen at least timelines and family trees being created that way. The benefit is that it's text-editable, and the information is still accessible. In some cases, the markup is very, very unreadable, though and might actually be tool-generated. It still maintains the benefits in theory.

For things that are trivial in SVG or even HTML, like bar or line charts, there should be little to no excuse not to use markup, agreed.

In this case, we've concentrated on parsing graphs, though, as that's our main line of work (you could draw charts with yFiles, but it's not really that useful for it). We're still trying to find the time to clean up our code and publish it somewhere. This has been just a week-long effort by four people, but was definitely a fun learning experience.
Allegedly if you get better at it, you can safely remove them. Alas I already ran out of plastic tabs to break :^)
But we do. In many countries, and even in the US the history of what is and isn't a good trade off to limit speech is a long and still ongoing discourse.

Sure, the gov part seems easy, but then people call on FB to filter lies in political ads, and again people want laws to mandate social networks to do this, and so on.
Depends whether by "the industry" you mean "businesses making audiobooks" or "people working as audiobook narrators."
The science of audio: How a podcast reveals the pleasant mysteries of hearing
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> Honest question from someone who knows nothing about American culture except what the media chooses to tell me.

As an American all I have to say is don't take anything that guys is telling you at face value.
Not regulated well enough, imo, MasterCard is already willing to sell data to these same actors: https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/30/17801880/google-mastercar...
>Key travel for the 2016 is 1mm

Well even your article say the 2016 keyboard are the same to 2017 and 2018 which is 0.6-0.7mm. Although the general accepted Key Travel for 2016 - 2019 15"MBP are 0.5mm.
The problem with goroutines is that an unhandled crash can cause a shutdown, and if the goroutine is started by a badly-written library with no proper recovery, you are dead.
US government would have you think that China...

The US did exactly the same thing to the UK back in the early 20th century. All developing economies do. Protecting "Intellectual Property Rights" are only relevant to a nation's economy when those rights have value in that economy.

Nations that are in the "developing" state are generally the destination of outsourced manufacturing from developed states. They are arbitraging their lower costs of labor, less developed regulatory environment ("light touch", "economic development zones") and lower standards for environmental and other protections.

China is starting to enforce IPR because it now has the developed capacity to create IP.
Perception of sound is a differential sense. If you sit in a very quiet room your sensitivity to noise goes up, similar to how your pupils open when it’s dark.

Noise cancelling AirPods and gentle background sounds may provide a smooth enough waveform to be ignored, while stopping the increase in audio sensitivity, and smooth out “spikes” of surrounding noise.

Perception of sound is not just some cumulative scalar, that view is far too simplistic
Is the 3 months interval a regional thing, or based on the heat exchanger? Mine have 1 year intervals, and with a subscription for filters it is easy to remember to change the filters
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Gnu make build systems can horrible to debug when they get complicated. Cmake or some of the other build systems can generate makefiles in addition of checks executed prior to building the project which are useful for finding all dependencies. I find it easier to work with cmake than with pure makefiles.
Being safe from ad tracking and identity spoofing.

The biggest challenge is getting rid of fingerprinting and password-guessing.
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