skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...But he was right about the last battle. Susan dropped out because she discovered sex and rational humanism. I'm with susan!
More energy stored in the same volume air tank. With normal air used by conventional torpedoes, you get just 20% oxygen and 80% nitrogen, which is not useful for combustion.

I think I might need to clarify - we are talking about a torpedo that is driven by combustion engine. It carries some sort of fuel and because it is under water, it needs to provide it's own oxidizer, which is where the high pressure pure oxygen comes in.

Also, unlike when using normal air, it should be possible for the combustion engine to be more powerful while being smaller, due to the more energetic reaction. Also the exhaust gasses don't contain nitrogen, which is apparently visible as a noticeable bubble trail, which might result in your target noticing the torpedo and dogging.

For more detail, see the Wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Type_93_torpedo
So is your brain. But it's not even yet programmable.
TV is rotting children’s minds. We need to ban television!
LA has expanded its rail system quite dramatically in the past decade and will be opening a new rail line next year...

It turns out the expensive part was not the digging. It was moving undisclosed utility lines and building the stations. Moving undisclosed utility lines is almost singlehandedly the reason the regional connector and Crenshaw lines are over budget.
To everyone that thinks no ports, Qi only iPhones are the future. What if you want to use your phone while it chargers? Charge your phone in the car?

I think we are another 10 years at least from having a device that could last long enough off a single charge to warrant occasionally leaving it on a pad over night as the main charging method.
I know it's probably tough but I wish these got a little more granular. Sure, on the whole raising a child in Scandinavia is probably easier than most other places, but for the U.S. ranking for instance (commenting on the States because I'm from there) I could see there being massive discrepancies in quality of life from growing up say in a wealthy suburb or city compared to growing up somewhere in a small town in the deep south.
Do you do anything different to other libraries like dark mode.js?

https://github.com/sandoche/Darkmode.js
Black Hole Forging New Kind of Star
Caught up in political issues, we're slipping and they are closing the gap. This is unacceptable.
> granted they don't have different variance strategies

... because it's baked into the platform.

> It's not apparent to me that e.g. IronPython has a hard time sharing data structures with C#

https://ironpython.net/documentation/dotnet/dotnet.html#acce...

> Why doesn't the usual strategy of upcast everything to `Collection<Object>` within a language where collections are covariant and then downcast as needed in a language that doesn't care about variance (e.g. a dynamic language) work?

Because that does not work for mutable collections, or even for immutable collections created by, say, an untyped language. Clojure can create a list of strings and pass it to a Java method expecting a List<String>.
Software Upstarts Hit Salesforce, Oracle on Tech and Sales Practices
The big difference is for tobacco, the curve is decades long and may continue to decline for decades more. For coal power, it's unlikely to last until the end of the decade.

Smokers gonna smoke, but outside a few specific places, nobody is going to be generating power with coal in 20 years. Unlike smoking, the consumers of coal power are pragmatic and driven by profit.
I dont even think you need the explosion.

You can imagine two gas sheets sliding along eachother. All of the vortices formed between them will spin in the same plane.

You can imagine similar trends for interacting spheres and other geometries.
What happens when "God" pulls the plug on his/her experiment? I hope he backs us up.
When where you the most productive?
if it had [?] == list of keyboard accelerators, and honours the vi hjkl/asdf type keying for steerage, it would be better.

if it did that, and had some elements at top and bottom of the list, so you can [more] even from the top of the new view..
If you need an extremely quick way to implement dark mode, you can use the darkreader[0] npm package. I set it up for our app in ~30 mins.

The only big downside I've seen so far is performance, but I haven't quantified it yet.

[0] https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader#using-for-a-website
Boring Co has already demonstrated the type of tunnel you get for 10 percent of the cost.

It was so bumpy that multiple journalists got motion sickness and puked during the demo rides.
Ask HN: Which Are the 'Good Parts' of the FAANGs?
Every so often an uncomplimentary story comes out about someone's experience working at a FAANG, and HN comments start proliferating about how what TFA describes, while unfortunate, isn't really representative, and working in some other part of the organization is completely different.

So, I'm curious: Which are the best parts of these heterogeneous organizations to work at?
Interesting. Their focus seems to be gaming dev. Does it really play well with the kinds of multi-disciplinary projects I mentioned?
There's a similar product for YouTube videos called www.fluentu.com. I used it for French and thought it was great.
I’m planning to do 450k or EPIC BEADS chip, not whole epigenom sequencing, as most researchers used 450k chip for finding the interesting methylation differences for people affected by high air pollution. I saw about $500/sample, but if it’s significantly more, it’s not a problem for me, my chronic disease isn’t going away anyways.
Does Your Product Work? Building a Counterfactual Time Machine
How almost everyone can make an info product and find customers to sell it to
If you are looking for growth, I've heard 8 Sleep (a YC alum) is hiring at all levels. Could be a great time to get in early ;)
It might also be that fatal accidents are much harder for automated driving systems to prevent. They could drastically reduce parking lot fender benders or low speed rear end collisions, but those are ultra low risk.

Someone doing 140+MPH is going to receive minimal benifits from 1/8th of a second of early breaking before hitting a tree. Similarly, losing control on ice and driving off a cliff, or getting hit with a jackknifed semi truck etc.
I would not be a fan of not having a charging port, but I Qi charge my phone in the car every day. It's fine. One of my cars has it built-in to the armrest, and in another I have a third-party mount with an integrated Qi charger.
is it really more complicated than that?

I bet your argument is going to be "but alcohol is technically a drug", at which point I'm going to roll my eyes so hard they roll out the door.
Speaking of dark mode. How bizarre is it that after all this time Apple finally puts something in iOS, and IT JUST MADE THINGS WORSE.

In the beginning there was invert colors. Then came smart invert - it worked with some things, failed with others, but was generally pretty good.

Dark mode (by way of prefers-color-scheme etc) should make things awesome in the long run, but at least for now all that's happened is to keep things dark I have to juggle fucking THREE different switches - and end up having to fall back to classic invert most of the time. Smart invert basically stopped functioning with iOS 13.

Properly implemented they could've had a fallback css override a la DarkReader and just put an extra switch per-website, crowdsourcing the results, as well as keep their own database/system override for lazy developers with already-dark apps who refuse to respect wishes (nudge nudge, Spotify...).

Ok, this is ranty, but this is such a weird regression touted as a "feature". Poor form.
(Author here)

It's not about interfaces being an impediment but there being too many composition models, none of which seem to scale very well. A composition model is more than an interface. E.g. the way you compose a C program is you write the pieces (functions, structs) that are designed to fit together in certain ways, and then run the compiler which binds these together. The way you compose a web application is you invoke multiple processes that have a pre-shared notion of the protocols and they bind with each other. We're inventing model upon model, stacking them up like an wall of rocks. I'm saying we should look for models that are powerful but compact and can scale up. It should also be something that leads to less reimplementation because composition within it becomes easier. I don't think we have such models and I believe this needs deeper study.
I remember reading a similar side effect of slower technology during the sinking of the Bismark. The British were using older bi-plane torpedo planes, while the Bismark had the latest anti-aircraft, mechanized guns. The swiveling speed of these newer guns was too fast to accurately track to slow bi-planes. This made the Bismark's anti-aircraft less effective.
Well for me, it didn’t work because I wasn’t able to execute it. I understood the concepts I was taught well enough, but don’t really possess the tools needed to make it work. I’m not a people person, I talk very monotone, quite frankly I don’t have the personality for it! (Why I tried to learn sales at all is a whole other story) Haha, that’s why into programming, which is perfectly suited for my personality.

Also, the ‘personality’ piece is a small (but important) part of the larger framework that is car sales. We literally had a physical ‘playbook’ to follow. A very well defined ‘road’ to walk the customer down, and if you skipped any of the steps, it would jeopardize the whole process. Sales really is a solved puzzle, every step & technique is there for a reason, because it is proven to close people down.

So no, a great salesperson won’t be great regardless, they will be great because they follow the rules of sales. Natural charisma & like-ability go a long way, but I saw numerous guys who were terrible when they started, work hard at the system and perfect the process, end up selling 20 cars a month.
I reread the Dune series last year. I knew of, but nothing about, the Brian Herbert books other than that a handful existed. I was pretty surprised and very disappointed to see how badly they were panned. Clearly not another Chris Tolkien situation.
Because, while not true for the frog, it very aptly illustrates that it is apparently true for one hominid.
Apple's A chips were, once upon a time, manufactured by Samsung in Austin, Texas until 14nm in 2015. Tim Apple switched to TSMC in Taiwan shortly after defending Apple's outsourcing practices in a rare national TV appearance, boldly claiming that "the engines of iPads and iPhones are made in US."

Tesla's chips are made in Samsung's Austin, Texas plant.
I think a before and after screenshot, with minimal configuration, would help to understand what it does, and see the "quality" of the results.
How many is 'a lot'?
> usually people tend to stick to some modes of behavior

Well, congrats, you have defined what a personality is.

The whole point is that the colors thing is BS. Humans are much more complex than that.

> I don't see many people being "analytic, careful, meticulous" in one day and "let's just go at it / throw caution to the wind" the next.

That can easily happen, depends on the context.
So basically some subset of EU Parliament legislators have an opinion about something.

In Apple's defense, the lightning connector and previous iPod connector both served as a charging cable and computer interface cable. So it was never the same situation as the old devoted phone chargers.

And they invented them without any standard alternatives available. If this passes, the next time you think about inventing an interface and start with all your products and the whole accessory market, remember the EU Parliament might legislate away your right to use it.
> ham-fisted tariffs

Tariffs could and probably should be used to punish nations that doesn't want to play with reasonable rules though. Given reasonable politicians it could be used to make sure that everyone are applying carbon taxing and/or similar policies.
>As to intermittent fasting, that has become a major fad since the Nobel Prize for Autophagy (with the most popular implementation being a 8/16 time restricted eating "fast"). In other words the goal is to trigger the body to begin consuming/recycling dead cells and other cellular waste; however, this typically isn't triggered by time restricted eating, but requires longer periods of fasting (usually kicking in around after 20-24 hours of fasting).

There's always OMAD (one meal a day). I generally fast 23 hours out of every 24. I rarely think about my next meal until I get home from work and it's time to cook something.
Robot Rights? Let's Talk about Human Welfare Instead
My car has an option for a built in Qi charger. It’s in the spot you normally put your phone anyway.

That being said, how would you service a portless phone? There would be no more DFU mode.
My iPhone SE
Ive always considered Chinas status as both a valued trading partner and supply chain asset, as well as a security threat and trade-sanctioned nation to be a rare example of the sort of capitalist schizophrenia that seems unique to the United States in the 21st century. On one hand you have capitalists drive for more capital, and on the other hand their increasing paranoia and distrust of any nation that seems to be enjoying the fruits of capitalism to advance the living wage and progress their society that hasnt avowed question-less allegiance to Washingtons foreign and domestic policy.

Perhaps its because the nations, at heart, arent really so different? the US maintains the largest prison population in the world, followed closely by China. Both China and the US employ dragnet spy tactics against their own citizens. Neither country seems particularly keen to protect whistleblowers, and both have their own tongue-in-cheek definition of freedom of speech as somewhat of a moving target that suits the administration as its seen fit. Both countries are willing to openly steal technology to advance their respective causes, with the US perpetrating theft from the Germans after world war 2 and rocket technology theft from the USSR. china conversely steals from corporations that partner with it for cheap manufacturing and lax labor laws.
Both countries use forced prison labor, although the US tends to toss a few coins to their laborers as a token gesture of "pay."

If you insist on outsourcing your manufacturing technology to undermine your domestic labor in pursuit of profit, there will come a time when your pay to the piper no longer calls tunes you like.
It's great to see so many reading parents here. I read The Hobbit and LoTR to my daughter starting when she was around 9. It must've been almost a year per book because we finished last year when she was 13. I had to explain some of the subtler passages and backstories, but she got much of it. We watched the movies together this year and she picked up most of the differences (though even I didn't pick up on the deep changes in Eowyn's character, as linked in another comment here).

I had read the books as a teenager in the 80's, 20 years before the movies existed, the same paperback books from my father that we re-read together. I was happy to re-read them, because I had missed much of the poetry (as noted in other comments here) and forgotten some of the story. I had seen the movies in between, but I'm referring to the deeper stories and in-book legendaria that the movies didn't cover. Despite the changes and omissions (and Hollywood effects), I still think the movies did a good job, as good as could be expected.

BTW, we started reading Little House on the Prairie when my daughter was 4, and also read all of Narnia and a few others before Tolkein. Reading with your kids is a great way to re-discover the books of your childhood (or discover, because I'd never read LHotP).
There is a lot of excellent inspiring youtube content (including well presented secondary and undergraduate level math and physics lectures) buried in mountains of dreck.

People can learn all sorts of useful things from youtube, but they can also easily waste huge amounts of time, become radicalized by extremists, ....
I hear the first trillion is the hardest.
Darkmode.js uses `mix-blend-mode` to invert the colors on the pages and offer a class based custom style system.

Here you also have the class based custom styles but also have a CSS variables based styling system.
You can chose what value will take a variable depending on the current state of the darkmode.

See the readme of the github page for more informations, ask again if you need additional informations.
That's the difference right here. If you are in business of making engine then yes you can benefit basing your engine on something like Vulcan. To me: I am not exactly doing games/engines. I do use hardware accelerated graphics for some other type of development. OGL/DirectX are already a nuisance enough for me (just a friggin too that I want to use and forget). Having to go even lower level will not make me any happy at all. Well that is unless I find suitable rendering library. Hopefully some candidates are available now, just have to find time to evaluate.
Don't most folks speculate they're going to abandon it within the next generation or two?

I don't want government telling me what ports I can use in my design to be frank. I get there are issues out there, but this is something that the invisible hand of the market has done a good job of culling. Remember how it used to be with every device having a wack connector?
Nowadays you can count on pretty much anything being a common variant of USB.
Then the trend seems to indicate that Taiwan is moving away from a pro-PRC stance.
I'll do that for the next version, it is already planned, thanks for the feedback!
I mean, it's good to reduce disposable cables, but it's not like Apple is egregious about this. The Lightning port has been in use longer than the time between the release of USB and Mini-USB, Mini-USB and Micro-USB, Micro-USB and USB-C, or USB-C to today. The 30-pin connector was current for 9 years, even longer than Lightning has been around.
Sure, can you explain it to me and cite your evidence? Because that's the wikipedia article about protons, not an answer. The truth is this is a controversial area of physics heavy on theories and light on experimental data. The simple fact of the matter is we lack the measurement technology to understand the inner workings of a proton. Theories are just that.
It requires a lot of tuning. When I first tried it out I rapidly abandoned it when I couldn't get useful stuff out of a screenshot of text I typed in.
If every new phone comes with a charging cable how much are we truly saving?
The one I'm terrified of is the switch where the laws of physics all change at the speed of light. We will simply cease to exist and not even see it coming.
The EU seems to be making an environmental argument, which seems credible?
Plot-twist: We are those self-assembling replicators, and DNA/RNA is the deployment mechanism.
Sarno comes up because what he suggests works. It did for me back in 2001 when nothing else did.
ah, that makes sense, but also feels pretty lame overall. I definitely won't volunteer again or org anything for them.
What I am skeptical about is putting large car batteries in tunnels, which store enormous amounts of energy that could potentially be released in combustion and need be managed by adequate ventilation and fire suppression systems.

Versus an electric train. Theoretically, since the energy is transported into the tunnel via power lines, wouldn’t fire suppression and ventilation systems be cheaper since they wouldn’t need to handle so much stored energy potential (via batteries) traveling through a tunnel?
Nobody has credible data enabling reproducible comparison of programming languages. The big lacuna of PL research ...

If popularity mattered ... PHP, JavaScript etc.

I find the evolution of all successful programming languages eventually to evolve into an ML-like core fascinating.
Oh my! Collecting that 2/20 while I sleep is sooooo exhausting! /s
Its pretty much the kimball books - https://www.kimballgroup.com/data-warehouse-business-intelli...
It won't, unless only a fairly small elite ends up using Vulkan. And I believe that's what will happen indeed: Vulkan is low level enough that most likely, only engine devs and middleware devs will touch it.

You will of course have the occasional cowboy (which I personally am, though in a different domain), but that shouldn't matter that much in the grand scheme of things.

Now if you ask me, Vulkan is not enough. What we really want is a stable, usable hardware interface. Basically an ISA. The thing will have close to zero bug, because hardware folks know how to properly test their designs. Undefined behaviour is likely unavoidable, but I believe it can be reduced to a reasonable minimum.

If AMD and NVidia started something like RISC-V, except for graphics cards, it will likely have a greater impact than RISC-V itself.
While I'm fraustrated with the connector diversity in my home, I'm not at all keen to have technology design mandated.

Would this forbid a certain type of product from using something better, and force new design to be via committees?

I mean, it's not like Europe uses all the same mains power plugs.
Well, I guess UK leaving will help there.
How Did Humans Boil Water Before the Invention of Pots?
> find a sequestering use for that algae.

Beer.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-01-15/growing-algae-to-brew...
The Copland stuff? Yeah, I remember getting a Mac Addict (or one of the others) that had all the extensions to make 7.6 look like the upcoming Copland stuff. I still am fascinated by System 7. It looks dated now but, it's still pretty dang amazing compared to Windows 3.1.
Ron Conway alone disproves your thesis. Some people are just very good. Some prescriptions are also very good, like Sequoia or Kleiner Perkins. And the success of the good is not purely Matthew Effect, rich gets richer stuff, as Andreesen Horowitz shows. If you’re good enough you can go from not a VC firm to top 5 VC firm in under five years.
How does that matter? Signal doesn't have to use the SIM card either.
They are telling the industry to choose one common connector, and to standardize around it....

They are not dictating which one.... and that the one they choose has to be set in stone (i.e. never change)

De facto it is going to probably be USB-C, and I think it is a good move....

If years down the road, there is a new connector called USB-D (or whatever it is called), they can switch to it.... Also, this is for charging, and not data..., so it shouldn't hamper adoption of new data transport protocols.
Pumping young and dumb people full of debt is bad design. This phenomenon will die as we upgrade the economy.
You're absolutely right about not being able to predict the security. But, to be honest, I doubt people genuinely do that in a scientific manner.

And yes, I do expect the failure point to be my containers, not the container orch platform. The container orch platform allows me to use containers, though, and the fact that containers aren't append-only the way that long-running machines run by sysadmins are gives me a head start out of the gate.
Its popular because it works :)
Yikes with the whataboutism.

I don't see concentration camps with millions of Uyghars in them in America.

I don't see any state owned companies whose R&D is amplified by state actors engaging in corporate espionage.

I don't see people being executed for minor drug offenses.

I don't see tanks rolling through Washington DC used to crush the bodies of protestors.

I don't see artists or reporters being locked up for being critical of the government.

I don't see a one party state with a dictator ruling it for life.

And I don't see a population that is fine with any of the above because they nominally increased the standard of living over the last 30 years.

By the by, there's way better examples of "theft" than Operation Paperclip.