skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why downtown Oakland is booming
That's working out real well for Africa.
> How many other people were there that didn't find the type of success you did? They were just as lucky to be at that conference at that time as you.

Ha that's right.

What I must have seen but failed to put into words is https://dri.es/drupal-sucks-less:

>
All content management systems suck, Drupal just happens to suck less. — Boris Mann at DrupalCON Amsterdam, August 2005.

Typo3, Tikiwiki, Phpnuke (heaven forbid), XOOPS, even Mambo/Joomla, these were the systems of the day. Drupal ... sucked less and gained a lot more marketshare.
Sure, why not. Add it to the list. There's a long list of his associates who've already been convicted of money laundering and related offences.
Driving while sleep deprived is also a huge problem, unfortunately it's much harder to observe.
> Military history can be divided into two parts - before machine guns, and after machine guns. Before machine guns, bunching up was good tactics. After machine guns, it was terrible tactics. Too much of WWI was about learning that the hard way.

Terribly good point! I want to refute you, but I'm not really coming up with much. Automatic rifles are just devastating. How did you come to this conclusion?
Ok, well fuck NordVPN. Can someone recommend something good that doesn't log, without setting up my own entire VPN (yes I get its the only way to be sure blah blah blah. I definitely care, but not enough to waste a week doing all that)
I don’t have the exact model to hand, but they are a super discrete little thing in the ceiling. I can get the exact model later if you want.

It does motion in 3 directions using infra red, and gives you light levels and temperature as well.

They can sense really damn far, and actually I had to turn most of them down in sensitivity to make them useful.

I use the same sensors for triggering the alarm system. They look way more attractive than those ugly corner sensors most security systems use.
You are an optimist in a way. What you seem to be forgetting is that the leadership does make the decisions. What do you think are the odds of making a decision hurting their bottom line? It is a rhetorical question.
Dream to play it someday
Can you tell us what sensors you are using?
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Convert your income in Bernard Arnault's revenue
invents new incremental computational paradigm that is hyped everywhere

"I'm casually involved,"

Humble understatement of the year! Thank you for your work!
I did. I went to Walmart for their pre-Black Friday sales that start at 6pm, and couldn't find any. Sample size: Easily 500 people in and out of that store per hour, I was there 2 hours.

Walmart represents a store that is easy to go to for much of the US population. That means a good percentage of people in the US are buying TVs at places that don't offer non-smart TVs for sale.
This article is probably wrong. You can buy IP address blocks or parts of IP address ranges assigned to other people. There is a market in residential IP address blocks, particularly for VPNs, scraping services, DOS.

These will be servers running in a data centre that have been assigned an IP address that used to be owned by comcast and is still marked as residential. And the VPN provider will have paid a premium for it.

For disney, it'll be whack a mole with these ranges, and I'm sure the VPN are doing clever things to make the ranges look innocent.
For any business or individual that intends to allow clients book appointment, take payment, improve sales and retarget existing customers. Use followedit.com. It's free and easy to use.
Inside Macintosh (1985) [pdf]
“All these super smart people who came before me spent more collective time than my entire life, but the solution they arrived at is wrong “
If you understand Spanish, here is a video of a complete and easy to grasp introduction to what this new force is, what it means and how it was discovered:

https://youtu.be/u_O2hW2J8TE
Maybe a more tactful restatement:

This looks and feels a whole lot like what the Rails community was doing a decade ago with interpolated server-side values into ERB templates that contained script tags of jQuery. It seems like an old pattern that fell out of favor for good reasons (lack of fine grained control over the final rendered page's design and performance, still needing competencies in the front end tools when things don't work ideally, update and migration path difficulties for the front end, performance and caching issues, etc). I would personally not use Matestack as it seems like it has all the same pitfalls.
I spun this OS up as a VM and it does not detect my Wemo smart plugs. However, I'm also not able to detect them from my current phone (running v1.24, I believe, of the app). However, my former phone, which is still running v1.23.1 of the app, _is_ able to see them and connect to them.

Anyone else experiencing this same thing?
You exaggerate. Seattle looks bright compared to half of Europe.

Compare the sunset times with London, Copenhagen, Oslo.

You had 1½ hours more daylight today than Copenhagen.
I don't think the book mentions any green, fertile farmland in Mordor, nor do the movies show any.

So even if the Orc-eats-Orc or Orc-eats-Man "supply" might work for a short campaign, the biomass must come from somewhere, initially.
Yes, it was a heck of a good dive! The conclusion, extremely briefly, is that Sparta is to be learned from, not emulated. The gist of Sparta is less like a well balanced, yet brutal, place, and more like an extreme version of the Lord's Resistance Army of central Africa, only with more rape and child abuse. If they were around today, we'd 'liberate' them in a heartbeat.
Kaveren: Mindfulness meditation research is well validated now – I can provide many meta analyses. You can also take a look at the following article that I came across today: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/lifestyle-changes...
Zalando/connexion: OpenAPI framework for Python Flask with auto endpoint mock
It seems that the author is getting a different IP from NordVPN each time they make a request. Does that mean Disney could block this by preventing the request from coming from another IP each time a request is made?
The old CRTs I grew up with need a good 15-20 seconds to warm up first, but you did have the audio pretty instantly.
Friendly reminder that in the UK all ISPs are required by law to keep your entire browsing history for a year, and that history can be accessed by few dozen agencies, warrant free. That's why I use a VPN personally.
See thermal physics, which combines statistical mechanics and thermodynamics:

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

For a computation focused example, see Schneier's essay on strength of a 256-bit symmetric cipher:

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/09/the_doghouse_...

Edit for completeness: rest energy converts to mass as follows: E = m*c^2
https://bi-group.org https://bi-group.org/ru/smart-home

Functions so far: circuit breakers for mains, water valves, district heating PID control, intercom metering, door lock/sensor, curtain bobbin servomotor, thermometer, aircon control, smoke/co detector, lighting and rgb mood light. AV control is being worked on
For air quality I’m using the arcus neo which can do co2, Voc, humidity and temperature. But they are damn expensive.

Unfortunately all the other KNX ones I looked at were super ugly/huge. The more ugly ones also had better features like particulate matter as well.

These are a super discrete and small brushed aluminium circle on the ceiling.

Other than that I have PIR sensors in every room that I mentioned in a sibling comment with presence, temp, light level.

One sensor I’m super happy with is the infrasonic water level sensor for the water tank, so I always know how much water I have left.

I also have a weather station connected in with a pile of measurements for outdoor stuff like light, humidity, temp, pressure.
Few people enjoy facing a prickly Alexandrian phalanx. You’d have to more than whip me to run at one.

To my knowledge, much was just shield bashing, posturing, and manoeuvring. It’s very hard to convince a group to close in on an enemy.

Problem is, that would make for a very dull film. Logistics, waiting, posturing, passively starving out a city. No speeches, no charging sword aloft.

The notion that we’re only marginally more intelligent than our ancient predecessors is quite a beautiful one I think.
oh, shit. that means if i just send a timeout promise and a worker promise to Promise.race([...]), and the timeout finishes but the worker never does... then I have some unfulfilled promise hanging out somewhere indefinitely? I guess so... if I do Promise.race([p1, p2]) and p1 fulfills and p2 doesn't, p2 is still alive...indefinitely. Am I right or wrong...?
What am I missing here? Surely if this were true, Nord would be able to unblock basically every service. Netflix, prime video, etc. Would all work. That's not the case though?
This is awesome, thanks!

If the paragraphs were set to wrap, I could actually read it on my phone when zooming in.

I could zoom in and scroll back and forth on each line, but that's worse than squinting.

Do you have time to do this? If not, will you accept pull requests, and or is the source available to contribute to?
Colonization, not Civilization: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_Meier%27s_Colonization
One middleman might be better than another, but 10 middleman are better than 1 if you are truly interested in mitigating the invasion of your privacy. There's nothing preventing you from using multiple VPNs to make it harder for any one middleman to build a profile of your internet activity.
Be aware that a lot of streaming services block traffic that doesn't originate from residential IPs, AKA Digital Ocean, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Linode etc. Apparently BBC even uses a whitelist instead of a blacklist. ISPs give them the list of ip addresses they use for individual customers, and those are the only ones permitted. No VPS will help you in this case, trust me, I've tried.
It moves in real time. It is drawn continously by phthon software. Visit the mentioned https://vrangen.net/fuzzy/static/images/debug.jpg url for a snapshot of how the particle workers are currently moving around
I think it's the cost. You can make a cheap driver off 120V that looks like shit and has terrible thermals.

A solid driver with good filtering and good thermal characteristics is expensive. So you're left with a $15 LED bulb that sits on a shelf next to $5 bulbs, selling to customers who see nothing other than two LED bulbs where one is grossly overpriced for no reason they can comprehend
From 2014 to around 2018 I was part of a team that was heavily invested into bringing these concepts to reality. What we accomplished was amazing and I still use some of them tools day-to-day, unfortunately we had to stop.

What I wanted to share is that it was extremely hard (and ultimately impossible for us) to accrue a critical mass of people that is willing to use these things AND pay for them. We reached a few hundred paying customers; but we were 6 guys working on this full-time, so that means salaries and overall we were losing money like nothing else.

That aside, I would do it again if I could, particularly now that the "standard tools" of the internet have become useless with time. Example, Google never gives me what I want anymore and they're removing the URLs now from the results (why?).

If someone reads this and want to kickstart some kind of "internet renaissance" with me, you can reach me here: alex@<HN-username>.com
Whoa. That's brilliant. Thanks!
They are unaware of the underlying image they draw. Each particle is associated a random picture to draw at birth and continous to draw until death. Draw means copy a pixel from the source image to the displayed output image.

Each particle class is defined with a color in the debug.jpg image
The tail end – most time with loved ones is behind you (2015)
Yeah very unnerving. It is also nearly as hairy as i am hahaha (long haired danish dude here)
Which is basically TOR
So a form of Platonic realism? The abstract stuff forms the structure of matter.
It can also be a case of wanting the means to that end. Some have certain minimal needs either professionally or simply personally and the more efficient that process, the more time there is for everything else.
Bonsai kitten made me sad :-(

Also - the author uses GMail. That's an information apocalypse right there - the apocalypse of large commercial corporations and the government spying on your personal correspondence.
The image on the site is refreshed every 5 seconds. Changes are minuscule it does 1000 pixel changes a minute currently. Particles move at 1 pixel speed with an angle based on their behavior
> A bit of SQL in stored procedures on top of a DB is good enough all the time.

You do need an HTTP server if you want to offer an HTTP service.

> Heck, why don't we just let the users get what they want by giving them access to a SQL prompt.

I don't think any RDBMS has a sufficiently complex permissions system to accommodate the needs of a webapp.

> We could eliminate the UI completely.

Obviously, any user needs a UI to interact with any software, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say here. Your proposed SQL prompt is also a UI.

I feel you're trying to imply something here, but I'm at a loss as to what that is.
Spam and Phishing in Q3 2019
Ah, sorry, I didn't know what kind of wheelchair or control scheme you were using so I didn't know whether you'd be able to align yourself precisely enough to get the thing to charge.

> If I understand you correctly, it might be cool when my iPhone is connected to my wheelchair to be able to drive up to something while I am working and have it charge. It would have to be pretty robust as I will drive into it at some point!

I think that that's doable, yes! Above, I linked the amazon page for a receiver pad that's designed to be mounted to cell phones to let them use wireless charging even if they don't have it built-in. If you mount one to your wheelchair somewhere and connect it to your phone, you should be able to mount a matching phone charger pad on your desk or the wall so you can drive up to it and your phone will charge as if you'd placed it on the pad. It might be a bit slow - it'll probably only charge at 5W, which looks like it'd take about 4 hours to fully charge an iPhone while it's in use - but it should work.

The hardware itself is pretty durable. The receivers are designed to be mounted underneath phone cases, so you can do the same thing to the one you mount on your wheelchair. The pads are designed to have phones tossed at them every afternoon for several years; I've never had one get even close to breaking. If it does have trouble, the wireless charging tech is designed to be able to run through cell phones' shells and cases and you can build version two with a polycarbonate cover that'd survive a charging battlebot.
One ketamine shot could help heavy drinkers cut down
I doubt anyone else could have faked being that snarky!
I totally get what you mean about loudness, I toned down the brightness (technically, saturation) of the colors in the palette I used once I started using semantic coloring.

I don't know what you mean about "when everything is highlighted, nothing is"—shouldn't they be highlighted different colors, often diametrically opposed colors?

With my coloring most of the time I don't even notice the semantic coloring except when I'm looking for it, especially when I type a long variable or method name and I'm thinking "did I spell this right?", if I see the same name somewhere else and if it has the same color, then I have high confidence I didn't make any typos.
Consider it a little gift.
Ask HN: Dealing with newcomers' arrogance?
I've been working(as a developer) on a software development project for quite a long time now.
During this time, the team has changed a lot (a lot of people left, others arrived).
Two coworkers and me are the oldest members of the team.

Recently, I've been annoyed by the behavior of the majority of the developers on the project (those who are new compared to how long I've been on the project).
Whenever they see something wrong in the codebase developed by former team members, like poor quality code or simply a defect, they laugh about it, making fun of the developer who wrote "such bad code"(without even knowing the developer in question or the context that caused him/her to write such bad code).
Now, I've been long enough on the project to know that many reasons can explain poor quality code (like short deadlines, low budget, etc...), and the quality of the developer is not always one of these.

Of course poor quality code should be pointed out, showed to people to learn what not to do or what is a better way of doing things. But It should not be used to make fun of people or humiliate them, especially when the people mocking others do not even write "triple-A" code.
What also bothers me is that, the two other oldest members of the team don't say anything about that behavior. And that's why I'm asking if I should say anything or just let it go? Am I wrong feeling the way I feel? What would be the better way of telling it to the whole team? What would you do in my position?
What brands have you found reliable and well supported?
First of all, you only need to touch a single byte of each page to populate it. Besides, this approach doesn't ensure that the backing pages is allocated, for it's (technically) legal to only allocate one physical zero page after the calloc.

Therefore, you must use OS-dependent primitives to force eager allocation. On linux this can be achieved by two flags for mmap:
MAP_POPULATE initializes the page table entries eagerly (but doesn't guarantee a backing store allocation), and MAP_LOCKED for touching all pages (just like the calloc, but at kernel level and more deterministic). Note that MAP_LOCKED doesn't raise error for touching errors due to low memory, so you still need to touch it again at user-level.
There is some decoupling, or actually some decreasing coupling; however we need strong negative decoupling right now, and nothing hints that it's even remotely possible.
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A contest near the end of this chart: https://xkcd.com/435/
> You could argue in the same specious way that a computer is not a computer because it is really a bunch of atoms interacting via non deterministic quantum mechanical rules so it can't really implement deterministic algorithms and error free information storage.

Jaron Lanier argues that computers and computation are cultural. Why give them a special ontological status? Yeah, we can think of the universe as computational or informational. We can also think of it as mathematical, mental or just whatever physics posits (fields, strings, higher dimensions, etc). Whatever the case, when someone like the article in the OP states that reality is X, then an ontological claim is being made. Its metaphysics.

One could instead argue that the world just is itself, and anything we say about it is our human model or best approximation. Which would be a combination of realism (the world itself) and idealism (how we make sense of it). Then it's just a matter of not mistaking the map for the territory. Instead of saying that the brain or the universe is X, we say that X is our best current map for Y. We don't say that London is a map. That would be making a category error.
Oh, awesome, I didn't realize youtube still let you subscribe to an rss feed.

When I've self-hosted I've found I occasionally have to do maintenance that I find annoying. Most recently, I had a nextcloud server I needed to move to a bigger hard drive, which was a huge pain.

Have you just not run into those kinds of hurdles, or is it worth it to own your own data?
Storage at anywhere even remotely close the scale required to displace nuclear and fossil fuel generation remains a fantasy. To put this in perspective, California's largest energy storage facility has as much capacity as the Diablo canyon plant generates every five minutes.
I've switched a lot of my existing light automation over to esphome [0]. I flashed it on various cheap LED Wifi bulbs that have been 'liberated' via tuya convert [1]

After going through zigbee and zwave, I feel like I finally arrived at a solution that allows me plenty of reasonably priced selection and extreme customization (e.g. just using the warm/cold white LEDs on a RGB+white bulb).

Great experience so far and completely automated integration within homeassistant.

I hope that the esphome-configs project [2] will grow over the next little while and provide more and more copy+paste configurations for various hardware.

[0] https://esphome.io/

[1] https://github.com/ct-Open-Source/tuya-convert

[2] https://esphome-configs.io/
Watching pornography rewires the brain to a more juvenile state
Yes I agree he didn't choose his parents, but he chose to go to Harvard and work hard and take peoples data and ect ect. Each step of the way he could have turned back, or made the film Born Rich like other people with the extreme luck of being born into a good position in life and get cut out of the family empire. Or go and start a religious cult with millions/billions of dollars.

I've seen enough people mess it up from all positions in life that I commend the good choices people make (apart from Zuckerberg's hot button issues) to achieve a life worth living well. That has a meaning to it, and going through suffering to get there.
Everything is a file if you are brave enough.
Your linked article is about transcendental meditation - not mindfulness mediation. Mindfulness meditation research is well validated now – I can provide many meta analyses. You may also like to see the following recent articles:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/health-fitness/lifestyle-changes...

https://theconversation.com/mindfulness-meditation-ten-minut...

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/cultural-psychiatry/be-here...

https://theconversation.com/mindfulness-can-help-phd-student...

https://thriveglobal.com/stories/meditation-3-reasons-why-yo...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/being-while-doing/20...

https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/blog/mindfulness-in-frant...
More secure than keys—you can't remote-wipe keys. (And, presuming the network requires a password, remote-wiping the phone would make it not join the network any more.)
Ah yes I agree, I've had the most luck with the above method if I block network connectivity to prevent automatic updates. But thats not always possible / you have to give up many other features potentially.
I found that home assistant does not appear to have native integration with Google home the last time I looked? I ended up using openhab which has native Google and Alexa integration, although I am not a fan of openhab as it feels ludicrously over-complicated for even the simplest of things.

My lesson learnt after several years going through smartthings, home-brew stuff with raspberry pis, home assistant, demoticz, and openhab using ZigBee or zwave is to make sure your core infrastructure (i.e. things you want to control) is MQTT-based running over wi-fi/ethernet and all your plugs/lights/etc are independently controllable via sending raw MQTT commands on your home network.

If you need to rely on a working internet connection, or too many third party things (e.g. IFTTT) you are going to have a bad time when things inevitably break/change/have an outage/become inexplicably slow/get shutdown etc. Once you standardise on MQTT you can switch out HA/OpenHab/others with minimal fuss, and you have great controll and backup options. WiFi just seems rock-solid Vs ZigBee or z-wave that just seemed so troublesome and unreliable.

Tasmota (1) + mosquito running on a RPi has finally given me a reliable set up after years of struggling. It is some rock-solid MQTT compatible firmware for ESP8266 devices.

1 - https://github.com/arendst/Tasmota