skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not sure if Debian packages Pantheon desktop already

It does not, sadly. There is an unofficial third party repo but it’s very much unsupported by both Debian and elementary.
In C-like languages I generally prefer to see:

int has = SDL_PollEvent(&event_buffer[num]);
if (!has) ...

to

if (SDL_PollEvent(&event_buffer[num])) ...

because it generally makes inspecting the return value of the function, in this case SDL_PollEvent, easier to inspect in a debugger.

Particularly handy in the Visual Studio debugger when working with C#.
That sounds plausible. Another issue I have with emergentism and other functionalist theories is that they don’t seem to account for the persistence of identity across consciousness discontinuities. Your consciousness sometimes vanishes the re-emerges as yourself. Where (or when) is your mind during the leap? Does it perform discrete time travel?
Might create something better. It depends what we define as human and how quickly the technology develops.
Fermented Foods: Definitions and Characteristics, Impact on Gut Microbiota etc.
Correct, he was detained on the mainland side of a boundary crossing.
Netflix earmarks $420M to fight Disney in India
Something that blows my mind: we can use our understanding of physics and math to predict the trajectory of a rocket to the moon without actually going there..

But we can’t predict what new color we’d get by mixing two colors. We just have to mix them to find out.
I don’t think it matters. Learning a stack because there are a lot of hot job postings for it will only keep you in framework hell. If you had to choose, choose the one with a community that you like and want to be around. I’m happy I stuck by Node’s side all these years, sure its not perfect but part of the journey is growing with a technology as it matures in the market. From my experience, mid-range developers with a few years of experience working in different stacks rarely make high quality contributions to the project. The only exception is if they’re gifted cs students first. The devs with for eg. 10+ years working with Perl Dancer projects have so much you can learn from.

So my advice would be to pick one and commit to it for as long as you can. To the point where you both love and hate it. Get to a point where you can contribute to an well known open source project that is built in it’s domain.
The internet in Germany is heavily policed and censored. There was a post a few days ago here on hackernews where someone from another country had their domain abusively confiscated by some german police entity.
I've been looking into doing this, have you got any pointers to setting this up? I'm trying to do it with a raspberry pi and a big external hard drive. Darned thing keeps shutting down on me though, and the pi won't boot with the HDD plugged in. Thanks for reminding me to pick up a powered USB hub...
Similar experience here. Joined company as a front end developer but our team generally needs a lot more back end work than front end, so I decided to give it a try. Because it's .net core I can work on it just fine on my MacBook, I have MSSQL in a docker image and do development in Rider. Within a relatively short time I was also contributing and nowadays I'm more back end than front end.

C# is a great language indeed.
There is only one conscious entity that you have direct experience of, which is yourself, and as far as you are concerned, all of science is contained within your conscious experience.

You (and also me) reason by analogy, and we assume consciousness in other beings, but we cannot directly observe it or measure it, in the sense that we can measure all the things on which we can do empirical investigations (e.g. an electrical field of a weight).

So maybe science takes place in multiple consciousnesses (this is what I believe, but I can't prove it), but I don't see how it could take place outside of consciousness.
That's circular logic with a dubious interpretation of quantum physics. The idea that consciousness could somehow be the cause of the collapse of the wave function is anthropocentrism and shows a poor understanding of what measurement is.
Remember with a global system, average doesn’t mean major city. It’s apples and oranges to compare to a SWE.

With Chick-Fil-A, operators just get one store. They are buying a job. McDonalds franchisees usually own multiple stores and have different business interests.
The article gives 2 benchmarks, I am pretty sure it is easy to mash up another benchmark with totally opposite results (e.g subset of specint). I found author's inclusion of an obviously skewed example as proof a little bit disingenuous as well.

Having said that in general Intel still holds a slight edge on pure Ipc. However, considering the terrible track record of security issues and abysmal price performance ratio, a slight edge on ipc can be ignored and I would not consider Intel for most workloads at the moment. Above all, actual application benchmark trumps any ipc microbencmark.
They scrape top results and show it directly in a box (think wikipedia, imdb, lyric engines etc.) thus discouraging users from actually clicking the link.

Personally, I think it’s nice to have the content instantly available and not having to go to a website for it but I can see how for content producers this means wrapping their websites and making money out of their content.
Countries that support global talent hiring
How Protestantism influenced the making of modern science
Safari does still support extensions, but they operate differently now.
James Palmer writing in August in Foreign Policy gives what is the consensus view among journalists in Hong Kong:

"Analysts generally believe that the bill was the initiative of Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam, not a measure suggested or strongly pushed from Beijing. Lam may have been aiming to please the Chinese authorities and strengthen her position, or it may have been an attempt to put a formal procedure in place in order to circumvent the Chinese authorities from simply kidnapping Hong Kongers."

https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/08/03/why-is-hong-kong-erupti...
Germany is 'among top three' countries affected by climate change
Wait a minute! I use KDE Plasma for at least 2 years constantly and it knows my monitors. I use one at work and one at home and when I plug them it automatically changes resolution and keeps the wallpaper I set for each. Also, got a lot of colleagues switch to Plasma from Gnome for exactly this reason!
Copyright attaches to the literal code, text, or art. Making something that looks vaguely similar cannot infringe on the owners copyright.

Trademark covers the idea of knock offs but honestly similarities are skin deep and would be trying to protect vague similarities where there exists no confusion.

Even if it were possible to make a case Apple owes more to open source than vice versa and it would be terrible publicity
My personal preference is for panexperientialism (essentially a bare bones panpsychism), with the idea that the phenomenon is somehow connected with change, and belongs to anything capable of change in some way and is probably a fundamental property of nature, as fundamental as space or time.

It's important to divorce consciousness from all ideas of "thought", "will" etc. to consider it's essence which is more connected with "awareness of being", though even that is too complex I think.

Obviously this is complete conjecture, but it has growing philosophical support - at least as an idea worth discussing - I think.

http://www.eoht.info/page/Panexperientialism
If the project owner is referring to their own mother, why would they need to use age and gender neutral language?
> B: I care about protecting the privacy of which websites and web pages I visit - even if you don't

Then use a VPN and/or Tor and stop wailing on the author for no good reason.
Plus,[0]Brave is going to block [1]CNAME Cloaking first-party trackers, AFAIK no other browser, not[2]add-on, has or plan to have such blocking capabilities.

[0] https://imgur.com/a/4DdMh7X

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21604825

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21582698
devcpp is probably conflating circumstantial luck with personal skill, assuming they are implying they bootstrapped themselves. The evidence for luck is ubiquitous: most people stay poor, regardless of ability.
Why Xamarin Is Best Cross-Platform Framework
What is important is not how much you are paid. What is important is how much buying power you have with the salary you are paid (minus taxes) and how much your society gives you for free (education/health/...)
I had a similar experience. Bought a 1U server on eBay. It was apparently the central controller for the flight information displays at a big airport. Lots of plain text passwords for upstream services in config files, etc.
Their browsers website (https://notochrome.org/find-a-new-browser/) makes it somewhat difficult to understand that Firefox is also available as an option on macOS and iOS. Plus it has a link to Midori that looks like it's been taken over by scam.
I suspect in the end it's not much faster, but it is smaller. Really the fun in the essay is that that's not what any normal person would do as a solution to that problem, it's a stunt to show off deep mastery.
.NET Core 2.2 will reach End of Life on December 23, 2019
No, accounts are instance-bound, you can't just log into another instance in the federation.
On this I agree. In Finland the seasonal workers do have strong protections, and recently some witnesses were flown in from Thailand to testify in a court case against one of the exploiting employers. The rules and regulations are thankfully strong and enforced in most of Europe; they definitely can contact the police.

I'm not sure how to react to cases where this is true but the seasonal workers still see it as a good source of income. Would the market bear the increased cost? Likely not. Avocados would be imported in the US, and in Finland berries would disappear as an industry ingredient as there are no low-cost countries with climate suitable for cultivation.
Algorithms on Regulatory Lockdown in Medicine
From my understanding of Mastodon, you register an account with an instance and that's where your account and data are stored. You then get an address which is something like me@instance.tld. Federated instances can then connect together to read and exchange information, but for the most part your data doesn't leave your instance. I imagine the idea behind this is you can choose (or host) where your data sits, but still interact with a large network of individuals. That said, my understanding of Mastodon is limited.
The definition of freedom depends on what you value, and what you value varies with time and place. Were sweatshop workers in New York City free? Ranch hand employees out west? Chinese railroad workers in the USA? Are starving workers freer than well fed slaves? Theres a big push underway now to get rid of all American civil rights in favor of security theater, will we be free once we eliminate the Bill of Rights? Kinda unclear what this "free" thing is and who has it.
Ask HN: Some questions on transitioning to UUID in a large ecosystem
We are a large company and have many small systems with disparate key sets that we would like to standardized and would like to use UUIDs for the new global keyset. I have several questions regarding UUIDs if anyone can help with the answers.

1) Are there any issues co-mingling v4 & v5 UUIDs in a single system? We would use v5 to transition the legacy systems to UUID and v4 for generating anything outside the legacy systems (new systems).

2) Per https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4122, "A UUID is 128 bits long, and requires no central registration process.". This implies anyone in our ecosystem can generate a UUID and probably never collide. However, are there minimum restrictions on the machine that would generate these UUIDs? For instance, I would imagine a dependable clock (eg one that doesn't reset to 1/1/1970 ever time it restarts) is necessary, but do they all have to be in sync or is some measure of skewing acceptable? Anything else?

3) Is there a list of reliable (future proof) uuid implementations we can use to cover all the major languages or are the standard libraries sufficient for v4/v5 uuid gens? We have a mix of various flavors of *nix and windows in our ecosystem.

Thank you!
Is there any evidence that the gene edits were actually targeted at HIV immunity? Seemed like an odd selection, I always figured it was a cover story.
One way out of this is by narrowing your definition of morally relevant others - which historically has excluded women, or slaves, or people of other races (and currently excludes non-human animals, but that's a broader debate...)
Biological and Psychological Considerations: How to Permanently End Diseases
AI-powered Lego sorting machine built with 10k Lego bricks
See mossrankings.com to explore how the Spelunky community handles competitive speed running.
That sounds like a bummer, everything was working just fine pretty much out-of-the-box, INCLUDING printer, scanner and WIFI, which are/were notoriously frustrating to set up on a Linux machine.
They've agreed to deprecate the program but once the post was out and got terrible feedback, they realized that deprecating a developer program is not the best idea for something like GitHub, let alone announcing it as such. So instead of admitting they've made a mistake in deprecating the program, they're blaming the messenger and pretending it never happened. They went as far as getting the archive.org pages blacklisted/hidden apparently, which shows somewhat clearly the mindset involved.
Winter, All Season and Summer Tires Tested at 0c, 2c, 6c, 10c, 15c
Should aging lab monkeys be retired to sanctuaries?
It's sad that in the US Latin is taught with an anglophone accent and spelling (of vowels in particular)
Another Surprising Awk Trick
Food is already regulated. This is not about regulating "the internet", it's about applying existing rules to a retailer that just happens to operate mostly online.

The argument that Amazon's suppliers are "retailers" to avoid any liability is disgusting. Imagine if Walmart did that in stores: "our shelves are just a vehicle for other retailers, take your health/counterfeit concerns to them". It's insane.
So, I still don't know if you are irreversibly dead if your brain stops all activity.

I.e. is the state of your brain preserved just by the connections of the neurons? Or is the "RAM" also critical?
I have trouble understanding why this deserves a paper. This is what I learned in middle school back in Vietnam (although I did take advanced Math).

For equation Ax^2 + Bx^2 + C = 0, the roots are:

x1 = (-B + sqrt(B^2 - 4AC))/2A

x2 = (-B - sqrt(B^2 - 4AC))/2A

Now the author looks at a special case where A = 1. The equation becomes x^2 + Bx^2 + C = 0. Of course the roots simply become:

x1 = -B/2 + sqrt(B^2 - 4C)/2 = -B/2 + sqrt((B^2)/4 - C)

x2 = -B/2 - sqrt((B^2)/4 - C)

> "The author would actually be very surprised if this approach has entirely eluded human discovery until the present day, given the 4,000 years of history on this topic, and the billions of people who have encountered the formula and its proof. Yet this technique is certainly not widely taught or known (the author could find no evidence of it in English sources)"

I certainly don't think it has eluded humany discovery until the present day. It's known to middle school students in Asia that multiplying the original equation so that A == 1 would greatly simplify the roots formula.
New membrane unlocks energy from chemical difference between fresh and saltwater
Fact: All software is constrained by hardware. Period.

What you describe as "no way" is a 2-second napkin sketch for any witting electronics hobbyist, let alone a proper design EE professional.
They are in place for a reason, but how much of the reason is due to decisions that are already set in stone is kind of my question?

It's kind of agreed that object composition is a design goal we should be reaching for but are stopped frustratingly short of being able to compose objects from smaller components directly, so the design has to be top-down (class-based inheritance) rather than bottom-up (object composition).

It's also cleaner than dependency injection as you wouldn't need to pre-specify what a class hierarchy can or cannot be composed of at top level.
Thames Water don't get password security
Aren't commercial degaussers still a thing? A hammer still leaves big chunks.
Smaller scale effects are visible way further than mentioned in the article. With the wind blowing just the right direction, my town 600km away from Sydney (and over 700km from the fires at the time) experienced a haze over two days. Not a dense/coloured one, but the sky still disappeared and there was the "it's bright from every direction" feeling during the day.
Volkswagen demonstrates use of quantum computing to optimize traffic routing
hey, i'm the author of the article

really... surprised it got submitted here

incidentally i'm running pleroma, not mastodon. minor detail but you know
Why Microsoft's Surface Duo Will Be a Good Failure
Just curious: why would I need ublock origin if I am using Brave (which is already blocking ads)? Thx
I wonder as being privacy focused, why did they not put Brave as recommended browser instead of Firefox?
Correct. Hypothermia and drowning (particulartly in cold water) the patient is not pronounced dead until the body has been warmed, this can be 12+ hours after the event.

Children do better.

The mammalian diving reflex prepares the body for long periods of immersion. Not to be relied upon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diving_reflex
Creative Ways to Use a Digital Whiteboard in the Classroom
yep, i had the same thought

which is what led me to block all other IPs - it's not the hardest thing to just make an openssl req and get the common names of the certificate returned

especially if you know the hosting provider, which narrows down the ip space significantly
A once-a-month oral contraceptive
They run NTP servers that are (were?) included in the NTP pool to fish for clients’ IPv6 addresses.
You take off your shirt and throw it on the ground.
You pull out your knife and slice open your belly. You start eating the meat from your arm. You keep eating
until you reach your chest. You pull out your intestines and toss them into the fire

> what the fuck
SoundCloud Will No Longer Cap Its Free Users' Uploads at 15 Tracks
I very often go out at night to walk or take some picture of monuments in Berlin. I get stopped every single time by security guards, police, &c. "It's a private property you can't be there" Ah right, the sidewalk is a private property now. The worst thing is that you can't says anything, you can't call the cops on the cops...

Try taking a picture of police officers/cars or of a security camera. It's 100% legal but they'll act like it's not.
Last place I worked where we had to dispose of customer harddrives, we had some home made contraption that was basically a metal frame with a bottle jack that moved a pickaxe head. No data coming back after a few passes with that.
You don't hire strategic consultants because you don't know what to do: you hire them because you want someone else to tell your colleagues to do the thing you think you should do.

So, essentially it requires the same skillset as a fortune teller.

(In the private sector)
Apple Maps is now quite usable if you're on iOS...although it's no Waze.
They're still using paper slips for their archive of lexicographical data - not an actual database? That was, um, surprising. And maybe it explains why the whole thing is taking so damn long.
> Orders, kinds, types, sorts, classes, groups, categories, genera, flavours, colors, shapes... same thing.

Same thing, to first order.
Note that I said "basically impossible", so I was leaning towards b :)
Two of the biggest US earthquake faults might be linked
There does seem to be a kind of turnpike theory-like effect to technological development.

I'm reminded of Schmidhuber's PowerPlay (https://arxiv.org/abs/1112.5309), too. It just trains on increasingly difficult problems with no direct objective function beyond solving the current problem and devising a harder one.
>That's sounds swell but I'd venture that it's a pretty vacuous statement.

It's not vacuous - it's abstract.

>Let us part ways here, I wish you well on your journey.

Godspeed.
Effects of Immersive Virtual Reality Headset Viewing on Young Children
I guess I'm thinking that the primary purpose of a company is to make money - and the primary way in which this leads to social utility is through taxes.

Obviously, some companies provide useful and socially beneficial services, but many (most?) do not, or even provide socially destructive services (e.g. tobacco industry). Even in the case where they do provide social utility through their products, it strikes me that a company that doesn't pay income taxes is essentially taking away customers from one that does, and so, all of the usefulness is kind of amortized.

I guess the limitation here is that companies are not all fungible - if TSMC didn't want to pay taxes, you couldn't just replace them with another semiconductor company - they do sometimes bring unique utility to the table. But on balance, I think TSMC is a unusual case, and even there, the expertise and utility is almost entirely in the skilled workers and machinery, which would survive the company's dissolution (be picked up by competitors, etc).
Try !s instead -- same results as google (apparently) but via startpage which supposedly doesn't track..

I don't really understand how startpage is able to operate such a service, I assume it's maybe because if google started trying to stop them it would be rather hypocritical?
Thanks, my impression was that Beijing tried to quickly capitalize on an opportunity that presented itself with the Taiwan murder - if this is really Lam's own doing then the level of either stupidity or self-dealing is staggering.
A volcanic eruption helped create modern Scotland
Is it because of the origin of her passport or because she flouted immigration/visa rules?
How does one make logical gates with waves?

Quite a few such things popping up recently, looks like alternative/natural computing is trending.

I wonder what the reasons for that are - Moore’s law drying up?

You can read more here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21665931 and (OC) https://juretriglav.si/computing-with-nature/.

Any other interesting sources?
I use https://maps.openrouteservice.org/ and find it to be perfectly adequate.
An MRI scan, while incredible technology, is an indirect measure of an indirect measure of brain activity, has several seconds delay and a spatial resolution of a couple of millimeters. The "same" brain activity in two mri scans to me doesn't approach the kind of evidence I would be looking for here.
It seems like they're avoiding any and every Chromium-based browser. I wonder what their reason behind this would be since it's open-source so any browser using Chromium can take Google out of the code.