skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Working in Industrial Automation has given me alot of respect to ants. While I was interning at Tesla a few years back, it amazed me how 'no one person' understood the massive operations of building the model 3, but together (along with our 1000's of suppliers) we were able to make extremely advanced technology.

Essentially, humans are just a more advanced version of ants. No one understands the vast amount of knowledge we've gathered, but this knowledge has allowed us to be able to sustain our vastly growing population numbers. Without this 'specialization of knowledge' or given some apocalyptic scenario, our ability to sustain our numbers would drastically decrease.
That looks like a good addition because anything that makes code more concise and easier to read is a win.

Off topic, but I have been feeling nostalgic for Java, even though I now almost exclusively use Lisp languages and I am happy with that. In early Java years, Sun‘s main Java web site had a link to my site and I wrote a number of Java books. I was the number one search result for “Java consultant” for about a decade; Java was good for my career.
The PinePhone starts shipping–a Linux-powered smartphone for $150
> That does not scale.

Maybe the problem is that we require businesses to scale in an anti-human way?
one gets time signals from photomultipliers, but those are too bulky for traditional pixel sensors. And something as bright as a satellite flare might fry them at an unexpected moment. They are usually built and tuned to be able to observe few to single photons.
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Advice needed!
Two slipped disc, one operated on. NHS discharged, still in pain daily. Working on my feet, stretching, walking etc.
Is there anymore I can be doing?
I was told by my physio at the time it was very rare for someone to have two slipped discs at the same time???
A lot of preventative care just delays old-age care rather than avoiding it entirely.

I remember a professor in law school saying that during the big tobacco trials, someone mentioned that people dying younger from smoking meant lower healthcare costs overall, because the major predictor of healthcare costs is age. Basically everyone dies, and the older you are when you die, the more expensive it will be.

Obviously that's not a good reason to die early, but preventative care is mostly good for quality of life, rather than from a financial perspective.
Interesting! I'd have to say it's one of the ugliest computers I've ever seen personally :)

If we're giving awards for looks I'd have to say that the current MacBook Pros take the cake for me.
As someone who had not read the books before seeing the movies (I know, I know) it added a lot of context when I found out why the elves were leaving at the end. I remember wondering why everyone was leaving if they had won. I know it was already long, but I wish they'd explained the ring's connection to magic better. It also would have explained why everyone was so willing to take the rings of power in the first place, and given more weight to the somber tone at the end.
On my distribution (Arch Linux) the `sh` tool comes from the `bash` package, and is partially shared code I believe, though I'm unsure exactly how they are related at this point.
Are there news organizations that exclusively use verifiable sources?
Freakin’ love this. Thanks. Genuinely inspiring.
> I don’t think you’re wrong, but I would argue that if getting it wrong is a felony, not properly protecting the data should be a felony as well.

It probably should be; I suspect that it's not because making involvement in porn risky for adult participants (and thereby discouraging it), while not the central focus of the law, isn't actually undesirable to lawmakers.

> Of course, in this case, this is a site registered in Andorra. So who even know what those laws required in the first place.

My understanding is that the US applies it's rules to anything of an adult nature sold into or among the US states, regardless of origin, though in practice applying it to foreign entities with little US exposure is difficult; but certainly it wouldn't be the only law that applies, to the extent it might apply.
115 when logged in, 25 when logged out.
Seconded.

As a tall human being I also had to get fairly big monitor stand to add to the standing desk to save my neck from strain. Cervical disks can herniate too, and it sucks!
You have a great understanding of most Swedish IT organisations...
Great analogy, makes a really convincing point.
No, I don't think anyone's working on this. It is also very unclear if it is really worth the effort (for a good overview see https://lwn.net/Articles/615235/ from Stefan Monnier, Emacs' ex-maintainer). For speeding up Emacs Lisp, I think the current work done by Andrea Corallo using libgccjit is more promising. Another big boost would probably be to replace the current regex engine with something better.
I've never used them, but from what I've read 10.0–10.2 were pretty bad across the board, and 10.3 (Panther) was when OS X became a truly viable product.

I think Apple knew this, too. If you look at the timeline of macOS releases, 10.0–10.2 were released in the span of just over a year, and 10.3 had barely a year of life before Panther replaced it (incremental annual releases are the norm now, but they weren't then). And of course, Apple was still supporting OS 9 at the time.
I have a bunch of XKCDs in my screenshots and somehow this app was even able to index those! I’m very impressed with the quality of the OCR tech. Great work!
Early NLP was basically Grinder and Bandler trying to codify hypnosis in grammatical structure. Later NLP was the MLM/PickUp stuff. Too bad the two are conflated. It was an interesting concept until it was commercialized.
I made a little desktop end to end encrypted messaging app
I think the problem is many people don't want to commit to season's passes, and at this point that is the only way to make skiing economical. Sucks for people who only get out 3 or 4 times a year.

If I lived Van I'd totally ski Cypress, though. :-)
Cloud Servers UK with NVMe Cache and SSD vs. NVMe VPS vs. Cloud Hosting
Spoken like someone who's spent a bit too much time in KSP :)

There are more issues than just sheer mirror size in this case.

- Resistance to vibrations is a _major_ issue if the mirror is monolithic (as with HST) as opposed to segmented (as with JWST).

- The mirror also has to either be very resistant to extreme temperature changes (and the contraction that comes with it), or must be cooled before launch. For extremely large mirrors, the cooling assembly would add _tons_ of extra weight, since this would most likely be active/liquefied gas cooling, and the weight of the cooling medium alone would be significant in this case.

- Using a shape that's close to being a cylinder is great for cooling too, because cylinders have a very good surface area-to-volume ratio, which matters when you have to account for heat exchange. If memory serves, only ellipsoids are better (with spheroids being a better than ellipsoids, and spheres being ideal).

- The support structure for the mirror (the satellite fuselage proper) would probably have to fit in there too, at least for the first launch. That's not small, even though it can be made collapsible.

- All of the optical elements have to stay outstandingly precisely positioned within insanely tight tolerances. Any shifting could result in a lack of clarity, chromatic aberrations, or other issues, even if the mirror(s) aren't directly warped or damaged.

Even accounting for that, a fairing that's irregular around the long axis of the rocket is often undesirable. While it reduces (compared to the alternative), it can cause issues with rolling after launch, and introduces additional complexity.
There should be a ban on exports, unless it is proven they are recycled.

You buy garbage from Germany to recycle in Poland. You store it in some field temporarily, before the recycling. You set them on fire, getting rid of the problem. To avoid liability you blame the badly recycled trash e.g. candles. Now it's hard to do in Poland, since the regulations have changed, but I bet you could pull it off in Ukraine.
Ahh, now I understand this Futurama jab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSt04IPqFfM

Compare:
https://www.applearchive.org/1984-feed/macintosh-tv-ad-1984
What You Should Know About LiteSpeed Web Server
1. I don't trust FooCorp, because reasons.

2. I build on FooCorp anyway because it's free and easy and I can't think of any other way to build an MVP.

3. I never bother to upgrade my MVP to a stable platform or add a fallback system.

4. Free easy system is killed.

5. Whine on Medium/Twitter about how I'll never trust FooCorp.
I don't care how young HGH will make me feel if I'm sacrificing longevity because of increased cancer risk. Cancer is the #1 enemy of longevity.
Tech Interviews: Do They Select for “The Best”?
For modern nuclear weapons yes. For the ones we were still carrying around in 1960 much less so.
Ah sorry I misunderstood your comment. I thought you wanted to say it was obvious for the target to know. Haha yes a notification protocol would be a weird thing to have. It would be gamed the millisecond things went beyond friendly warnings.
> I was told by my physio at the time it was very rare for someone to have two slipped discs at the same time???

Its not that rare, infact having one disc herniated can put you at risk for another herniated due to the uneven loading you may be doing to protect yourself from pain from the first injury.

I found gabapentin very very helpful. Reduced neuropathic pain tremendously.
You have misunderstood what this is about. Yes we all know that we will die. And yes we still think that if you can add 1 or 10 or 50 or whatever healthy years by using some simple to use technology - then that is very valuable to a lot of people, and is a very worthwhile scientific pursuit.

And no, it is not hopeless or futile. There are animals that live 300 years, what basic biology class did you miss in order for you to think that it would be futile to modify humans which are biological machines with genetic programming to make them live at least that long?
The People of Sand and Slag
How about create new materialized view, then rename (or drop) the old, rename the new? That is assuming you don't need model changes, or can guard/fence them somehow.
I had something similar happen but with GCC generating an internal compiler error and just plain failing. Still haven't figured out why.
>I still have an iTunes playlist with all of the music from the dancing silhouette iPod commercials

Me too! They had awesome song choices.
Everyone is giving book recommendations but nobody has mentioned The Doomsday Machine
Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner by Daniel Ellsberg?
It's a great site. There have been a few threads here over the years:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
I love the vaporwave aesthetic of this photo! Thanks for sharing.
I have never heard of that happening in _any_ real-world version of communism. Maybe you are thinking of an employee-owned company?
Theoretically yes, through interferometry. But that is really difficult when there is relative motion within the constellation such as with starlink.
You shouldn’t need to ask if your employer is shady — and even then because it isn’t shady, not because someone tells you afterwards that it should’ve been obvious to you that it was bad before you started.
Politicians only care about money and power.
National interest the winner as NSA alerts Microsoft to critical Windows flaw
I still prefer the Texas Instruments approach starting with the BeagleBoard by offering the SoC to the market. I understand that RPi is subsidized but it also limits the use cases in commercial appliances besides the compute module.
One of the targeted markets of VantaBlack was the aerospace industry to paint the inside of baffles on telescopes and optical sensors. It is currently being used in some star trackers on satellites [1].

Overheating is definitely a big concern for painting your satellite back. There is a lot of work that goes in to thermal design of satellites and that surfaces have the proper optical properties for absorption, reflection and emission.

[1] http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-news/worl...
I think layout is a big hurdle for no-code tools. I also think it's going to get solved. But until then, I think you really gotta dig into HTML and CSS and understand them well to get things to work properly.

"Don't abstract away your problem domain"

I dunno. I tend to think of it as getting good at what you do, then finding the rules, then taking those patterns and making a company out of it where those patterns are built-in to the product.
As someone who built Forth compilers back in the day, I really like this language. There's a nice overview of Factor as a paper here: https://factorcode.org/slava/dls.pdf and a Google tech talk video of Slava Pestov (Factor's creator) showing off the language here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_0QlhYlS8g
There really isn't a POSIX sh manual page; and you are conflating Bourne with Bourne Again on RedHat.

The closest that anyone comes is, I believe, OpenBSD. The ksh(1) manual page is the PD Korn shell manual. And the separate sh(1) manual page "describes only the features [of ksh] relevant to a POSIX shell".

On others, sh(1) is usually the manual page for one of the named shells.

Debian and Ubuntu's sh(1), for example, is the dash(1) for the Debian Almquist shell, which is famously not a POSIX sh, because it explicitly includes 3 extensions that Debian people could not bear to part with in their big project of over a decade ago to remove bashisms from package maintainer scripts and suchlike.
As someone in the middle of an ERP integration to SAP. Its painful to say the least.
> Success in 1942 meant Japanese domination of the entire Pacific, including areas of the Soviet Union.

Japan and the Soviet Union did not go to war with each other until August 1945.
I don't think it would make sense for the GP to provide a reference, for what is, after all, an anecdote about a class he took.

As to whether the deadlift in fact has a high risk of injury, it would seem he agrees with you (and myself, for what that's worth): not really.
Show HN: Learn about electricity with spaced repetition
Leak contains photos of identity documents from many different countries and some include information about parents.
So, contrary to the OP, you would argue that clients don’t like time billing, but when the stakes are high, the price doesn’t matter. That makes more sense to me than the idea that clients actually like a pricing model that encourages inefficiency.
Amazon is making a lotr universe TV show for prime.
Me too. I think just moving your body around and getting the blood flowing through your muscles tends to loosen things up a bit. Something like yoga can be extremely helpful as well, although I've overdone it and actually hurt my back too, which required two weeks of lots of Advil, ice and heat until it got better.
people supporting enterprise. enterprise software is bad to begin with and often has long shelf lives. ActiveX, old java, flash et al are all still flourishing at a large corp near you
This [1] is a useful site for replacing the firmware on your Chromebook.

[1] https://mrchromebox.tech/
It is. One of the articles mentioned that they are trying to prevent piracy (rolls eyes) so maybe that’s what it is.
> There's a lot of people that seem to think that Midway would have been a disaster for the US if they lost, but there's not much reason behind this. The only thing the US was really risking that had a significant strategic impact were the carriers - if the island of Midway fell it would have been essentially unsupportable by Japanese forces (being far past Japan's supply lines, when Japan was already facing logistical issues, and within B-17 range of bases in Hawaii) and even the carriers weren't absolutely critical must-not-lose assets for the US like they were for Japan.

The Japanese were well aware of this.

The Battle of Midway was not an attempt by the Japanese to capture Midway but rather to lure the American Pacific Fleet into a trap and to destroy its carriers. Ironically the direct reverse of that happened.
Hey dude, your games look pretty fun, sorry you're getting downvoted here

I miss the simple, fun, free linux games of the 90s/00s. And other apps, for that matter. Somehow nowadays everyone thinks that cobbling together an RSS reader or a Solitaire game should entitle them to a permanent passive income or make them into a millionaire CEO
Ecopsychology: Immersion in Nature Benefits Your Health
In the books, he's a confident, charismatic leader. He has self doubt when things go wrong, but he knows who he is and he has a plan - reforge Narsil, go to Gondor, unite all men, fight Sauron. In the books, he fights off 4 ringwraiths with nothing but a couple of flaming sticks (he didn't have a sword at this point). He was courage incarnate - he looked into the Palantir knowing Sauron was looking back, and he beat him. He led his men through hell - they literally go to a crypt and recruit a bunch of undead - and it was only his will and his courage that kept all of them except legolas (who doesn't fear the dead) from losing their shit.

In the movies he's a blubbering wuss. He whines about how weak he is and how weak men are, he talks about how he doesn't want to lead, he can't lead, blah blah blah. It takes Elrond saying, "you're not getting any elf strange if you don't act like a leader," for him to shape up.
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ikr! I did test XKCD comics when making this. I am primarily using this to index my memes :D
Hey HN, I created this mostly as a proof-of-concept for ways of creating learning material with spaced repetition through my app, Mochi.
What do you envision a world where all wars are fought with drones or other robotics would look like?

International wars are generally fought to either gain territory (which is only valuable if it's livable and people tend to live where it's livable) or resources (and people tend to live near or work near where there are resources). How would a robotic army not still lead to civilian casualties in this scenario? Wouldn't that just make it cheap (in the public opinion sense) for a larger economy to fight senseless wars?

Besides that, think about how civil wars would be impacted. Think about how the recent genocides in darfur or kosovo would play out if they had access to current information tech and drones.

I hope wars stay extremely expensive, both in the monetary sense and in the public opinion sense, of which one component is that the ones risking their lives are actually the citizens.
There is a zero percent chance making your chest stronger will fix your back
> At Microsoft, we expect to emit 16 million metric tons of carbon this year.

So, Microsoft emits as much carbon as the whole of Ireland? Or did I get it wrong?

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

(1 ton of carbon = 3.67 tons of carbon dioxide)
I'm genuinely curious: may you please provide more information about how it was "undercover"? None of the references I've found suggest that knowledge of its existence was kept under wraps at the time of its founding in 1865[1] - it was merely the federal agency responsible for countering counterfeit currency, and that doesn't require secrecy.

I suspect the whole 007-like mystique only arose much later - after it was tasked with protecting the president in 1901/2

1. not-so-fun-fact: Lincoln was assassinated while the legislation to create the USSS was awaiting his signature on his desk
6-12 years of Japanese total domination in the Pacific would have led to their eventual defeat. Their probability of victory was zero from day one of the war.
> while causing inefficiency,

More inefficiency than we already have?

> accounting headaches for everybody.

What headaches would they be?

> goods shortages

In the developed world we already have more stuff and kinds of stuff than most of us need. Reducing the supply of new mobile phone designs is not going to materially reduce anyone's quality of life.

A lot of the world just needs the kind of stuff we already have, and we already know how to make that stuff. As William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed"
This is a scary comment for me. I'm partially commenting to remember it.

I do exercise, but I avoid exercise while uncomfortable from back pain. Clearly, if I keep not exercising, I'll eventually only get worse...
Ribbon (YC S17) is hiring software engineers. Help us simplify healthcare
Right, it is intentionally not POSIX compliant. This saves fairly significant development effort and also permits expanding the tool to be more user friendly, such as transparently searching UTF-16 encoded files.

ripgrep cannot be a drop-in replacement. Despite that, it can certainly replace grep in a wide variety of use cases. See: https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/FAQ.md#pos...
"Talent costs money"

And yet that argument is never made to justify paying line-workers more. Non-profits often pay regular workers less than public sector or private sector jobs because "the mission is the reward". Shouldn't the same apply to non-profit leadership?
It's nice to be able to do it anywhere chrome exists in a consistent, quick, point/click, non-admin user way.
The Experian settlement pretty well solidified security as a waste of money.
the entire "STEM Against Science" section is about what he means by "technology" so I am really not convinced you've read the article.

> The sciences and mathematics have a historic place in the cur­riculum, and technology does not, for the simple reason that the latter is not inherently “about” anything. Absent human contributions on specific topics, cut off from the subject matter of academic work, technology is nothing—an electron microscope without any samples, darkened VR goggles, an empty spreadsheet. Specializing in techne as such means trying to teach people to be good at “making” without having any idea of what to make, or why to make it.
I'm sure there are many variations to this problem. What worked for me was like McKenzie (sp?). Roughly, picture doing a pushup, except that every muscle in your body is completely relaxed, aside from your upper arms. You're sort of passively arching/tractioning your spine. Do it slowly and repeatedly. It should feel good. Do as many cycles in a day as you care for.

Beyond that, be careful when you get out of bed each morning for 30m or so. Your discs are full of water, and you're more susceptible to injury during this time.
So, you clear your CCD, collect photons for 30 minutes, then some satellite sprays you with a multiple of the number of photons collected thus far, and then ... what?
The BBC when I worked there had a policy of all news had to come from two sources. That has always been the case and not changed AFAIK. Though those second sources could ne reuters or other newswire source, which in the digital days has enabled the initial source can quickly create a second sources based upon the first. Which in some instances can prove hard to connect.

Personally, I prefer to look at some news stories from polar news sites to get both sides interpretation and with that get a balance to see the middle ground - which for politics has become the only way to read between the lines.
AMD is winning over PC gamers from Intel, suggests new report
Launch capacity scaling isn't only possible through useless comsats.

And astronomy is still an extremely important component for becoming space-faring. No use in going somewhere blindly when you can have a look first. But if there is no-one looking because nothing to see, funding dried up, scientists demotivated,...
GDPR <> checklist
Not only check for verifiable sources, but actually go and verify them.

For example: story says proposed bill will have horrible effect on thing you care about: bills are public record, go read the text of the bill and see before freaking out.