skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Reminded me of the rocks xkcd https://xkcd.com/505/
I though we didn't Incinerated plastic because of health reasons(toxic chemicals releases) and we burn more plastic than recycled.

Recycling: 19.5%
Burning: 25.5%
Discard: 50%

Revealing metric
It is such decisions from Google that make me question if they will continue supporting GCP down the line.

How will google pivot away when entire companies are dependent on their service staying up ?

Sometimes I think Google should simply spin off less than super profitable ventures into a small company and host it under alphabet.

As long as the service breaks even with employees working on Google wages, it can stay up. Once it goes into losses, the company can file for bankrupcy or move employees back to google.
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Fear of exposure to litigation if someone injured themselves, maybe?
Air Force One is based on a civilian airframe. Of course the Hollywood movie was full of exaggerations, but I wouldn't be surprised if the actual Air Force One was reinforced in some ways to afford a certain level of protection for its precious cargo.

How much could Boeing, for example, modify one of their civilian airframes to support active countermeasures and make it capable of withstanding more stressful maneuvers without altering the outside too much? Quite a lot, I would think.
What the Heck Is a Tensor??
What I’m saying is Google should require access to the source code and the right to modify it. At that point, it is Google’s responsibility to make any changes to keep it compatible with the latest kernel.
Of course people will adapt, but there is also a cultural loss here.
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Why it is important to stick with goal-oriented people
To wit:

> Named after bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto (aka Dr Craig S Wright)
You may want to check Boox Max2 monitor mode ;-)

https://youtu.be/SSv0g-pYMAk?t=603
I honestly thought Games For Windows
you can do it pretty easily if you have a dual socket wall socket because it follows the exact same principles. But you have to be very careful.

In these cases it's probably worth doing it though.

https://media.screwfix.com/is/image//ae235?src=ae235/38040_P...

FWIW I do not endorse doing this, just stating that its possible and would work, it's not electrically safe and is dangerous for not only the hardware but for you too.
GNU Guile 3.0
SpaceX Abort Demonstration: 8am Saturday (large explosion expected)
The cultural loss of not building a space station on every hill ..
Pattern comes from here: http://c2.com/doc/oopsla87.html It even says so in the GoF book.
Both this article and the one you linked reminded me also of what Nassim Nicholas Taleb described in "The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority" [0].

> The main idea behind complex systems is that the ensemble behaves in way not predicted by the components. The interactions matter more than the nature of the units. Studying individual ants will never (one can safely say never for most such situations), never give us an idea on how the ant colony operates. For that, one needs to understand an ant colony as an ant colony, no less, no more, not a collection of ants. This is called an “emergent” property of the whole, by which parts and whole differ because what matters is the interactions between such parts. And interactions can obey very simple rules. The rule we discuss in this chapter is the minority rule.

> The best example I know that gives insights into the functioning of a complex system is with the following situation. It suffices for an intransigent minority –a certain type of intransigent minorities –to reach a minutely small level, say three or four percent of the total population, for the entire population to have to submit to their preferences. Further, an optical illusion comes with the dominance of the minority: a naive observer would be under the impression that the choices and preferences are those of the majority. If it seems absurd, it is because our scientific intuitions aren’t calibrated for that (fughedabout scientific and academic intuitions and snap judgments; they don’t work and your standard intellectualization fails with complex systems, though not your grandmothers’ wisdom).

Of course in this context the grandmothers' wisdom is tradition in some way, as this is passed down by generations. Same as many practices in religion, some of which that might have been useful at some time (like not eating pig meat, because one would get sick quicker as pigs might eat anything they would find).

I live in Thailand and my girlfriend is Buddhist. Often I just go with the flow with regards to Buddhist practices, even as a non-believer, cause there might be some real use for these practices that I don't understand as a non-believer. At the very least it will make the Thai people in our village accept me more whenever they see me doing the same actions as my girlfriend at our local temple (burn incense, "pray" to some statue, etc...).

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[0]: https://medium.com/incerto/the-most-intolerant-wins-the-dict...
Oracle, OpenZFS Respond to Linus Torvalds Saying 'Don't Use ZFS'
Because, unlike Ghosn, the guy will face trail since you don't go free by simply saying that you did what you did because someone made you. He obviously committed a crime, now it will take time to receive a ruling and a sentence(which hopefully will be a fair one, based on his claims and the findings of the prosecutor).

He will probably lose his job, his family will go through an ordeal and possibly poverty until the case closes.

Or maybe he willingly participated and took some serious money, who knows? Unlike with Ghosn, his incident would be put on trial.
The article touches on one of the core issues. It didnt come with every xbox, which caused developers to not support it. And then there was the existing base of hard core gamers playing stuff like Halo. Their expectations of how games are played were probably incompatible with getting off the couch.

Wii used motion control for everything, and the Nintendo audience isnt the CoD gamers either. People didnt use the Wii to play games, they played Wii. Older people played Wii. The expensive peripheral for Wii was the balance board, and it was used for fitness games, not epic war games.

Wii was a thing. Kinect was just a peripheral mismatched with xbox. There are some good games, but it's nothing like the Wii ecosystem.
Moderators: this article was updated with research from 2019, suggest dropping the date from the title. It's current.
There is also an arrogance that the past 120 years represents how geological earth should have remained forever.
I think your solution is fine.

Just another perspective on that server message. This server might be actually running a real-time legacy interface to one of your biggest customers who pay a 6 figure premium to keep this old thing running, just so they have time to migrate. Which they have been trying to do since the 80's, hence the fact that few people remember why it is there.

I'm not saying this happened here, but it happens a lot more than any of us want. Just keep in mind there might actually be a good reason for the warning, although I would object to the wording. First head the warning. Then figure out why it is there.
"But an Iranian journalist based in London who initially posted the footage has insisted that his source is safe, and that the Iranian authorities have arrested the wrong person."

Ugh. Even worse.
That's still a shit load of users.

Chrome claims it has 1 billion users, thats 10,000,000 users of chrome apps, 1/6 of the french population.

Of course I myself never used them, I learned not to trust any Google product to begin with. These are the kind of decisions that will damage Google on the long run. I've heard that Stadia is not doing so well...
One factor is that it helps with self-control making it easier to calm yourself down or to stop ruminating.
> As for LISP, TypeScript services as a good test case for layering dynamic languages with type systems, so why not TypeLISP?

Lisp users think that a 'dynamical' and a 'dynamically typed' language are two different things. Lisp is both. Being 'dynamically typed' supports or simplifies a lot of dynamical features.

There are a bunch of languages which implement a subset of Lisp features and which were adding type systems. Historically much of typed FP was developed out of Lisp tradition.

Common Lisp for example has CLOS definitions like:

(defclass person (living-thing)
((name :type string)))

So the definition makes clear that are a class/type which inherits from the class/type living-thing. It also defines that contents of the slot name are of type string.

A CLOS method then is:

(defmethod say ((from person) (to person) (m message))
...)

Which means that an object of class person sends to another object of class person an object of class message.

Multi-methods in CLOS allow us to define and dispatch on the class of several arguments.

Common Lisp then also has type declarations:

(defun collide (a b)
(declare (type moving-object a b))
...
)

This allows programs to document types, compilers to use types for optimization purposes and some compilers to do type checking.

What Common Lisp lacks is a more extensive/expressive type system which would be competitive with what Haskell/or similar would offer.
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Man City star ‘given rollocking by WAG after partying with 15 Instagram models’
I'm saying its a problem to change the email without using an email verification link to do so
To quote a friend paraphrasing the article:

SpaceX are doing what an inflight abort of the Dragon 2 spacecraft this Saturday. To make sure Dragon 2 can keep astronauts alive should the ascent phase go badly, they are going to tell it to go into inflight abort mode at MaxQ (when atmospheric pressure is highest) and they hope it will use its rockets to clear off to a safe distance, deploy its parachutes, and splash down safely. The 1st stage won't be protected from the atmospheric forces by Dragon 2 so it will disintegrate with a side order of exploding. Worst case is they scrub (launching early on a Saturday without a launch window, so easy to delay) but under all other scenarios we should get to see something blow up.
Chinese firms make crucial progress in SSD production with own tech
IMO Lisp is just overrated, it lacks visual clues, reads right to left with horrible nesting etc..

Sure it has some good concepts. But fanboys on internet make it seem like some God tier thing.
There was a guy releasing SeaBIOS ROMs so you can install regular Linux if your device is supported.

The project is dead now, but since your device is older, there's a fair chance it's supported.

I used it for a Chromebox and the process was pretty straightforward.

https://johnlewis.ie/custom-chromebook-firmware/rom-download...
Chrome Apps are more like sandoxed Electron apps which do not require the user to install the same runtime every time for each app installed, unlike Electron. No need for NaCL, they can be written in Javascript.
How Startups Fill the Gap Between Revenue and Investment
You publish your code in plaintext, it goes to github where someone reads it through some fancyfying code formatter that github applies to it and which might not even do the same ligatures as your editor. I'm not saying this is a dire problem, or a problem with you or even this specific font - rather the idea of ligatures in program source code to begin with, somewhat similar to using code identifiers (as opposed to literals or comments) outside of ascii-compatible characters of unicode.
Last decade was warmest on record
In 40 years time we're going to be experiencing ecological collapse.
Forever? Nah, but I’d prefer if things changed at the usual pace - slow enough for species to adapt and evolve without catastrophic extinctions.
They have a non-exclusive deal with the owner?
U.S. Recommends No Jail Time for Nav Sarao
They actually didnt verify anything. Plenty of Twitter accounts verified the story some 10-ish hours before NYT reported this ground breaking information. These reporters are sitting behind their desks (like you and me) and are sifting through Twitter feed and they stumbled upon what was already geolocated video+ several images of missiles. But this became a story only when a big media (in this case NYT) published it.
Models based on the Canvas technology with A2 refresh mode are quite up to the task for programming, if you can stand a little ghosting here and there. The problem is, they're small (13'' max), and obviously more expensive, but not more than a decent gaming monitor.
They "lock on" before the missile if fired.
No, but I might add myself.

Speaking of fast bug fixes. 8th is a commercial Forth-like language for embedded, desktop, server, and iOS/Android that is kind of like that. It is basically a small (few MB) binary that is a full REPL that can cross-compile your code into an encrypted binary. It has nice GUI, SQL, Rest, REPL,JSON/CSV/XML...etc support all built-in as well as a bunch of other goodies. Releases happen very regularly and reported bugs are fixed incredibly fast. There is a forum with a lot of activity from the fairly small user base. Probably not everyone's cup of tea, but I've had a blast playing with the free version. The professional version is like $250 and after your free upgrades wear out you can then upgrade for a reduced cost. Full source is also available in the Enterprise edition with an NDA. In some ways it has some similarities with K.

Long story short to see hundreds of posts requesting some obscure feature of edge condition and seeing a reply a few hours later with "fixed". It seems to be a pretty mature language for one person to build. I have not bought a professional edition yet as I'm having fun with the free one and this is probably not something big corporate IT would like. If I start building enough tools at home, I might go in that direction. Also, no affiliation with the project, they just seem to get a lot of my wish list right. I really wish it was a free/open source project as I bet it would catch on more.
My understanding is Google certifies each chrome book. They should be able to say give me all the source code and the rights to modify them as I see fit or you won’t get certified.
For some counter examples:

Bill Joy co-founded SUN - but also wrote ex, vi, the BSD UNIX tcp/ip stack, and other things.

Marc Andreessen wrote Mosaic and Netscape - and is a famous VC person now (of Andreessen Horowitz fame).

Bill Gates, also very technical (wrote early MS programs, BASIC interpreters etc).

Eric Schmidt (ex Google CEO) wrote Lex (the lexer, now more known by its GNU port, flex) and was SUN's first programmer.
Ok sure - you're welcome to your opinion. I feel like expecting endless maintenance builds from Google for any manufacturer's hardware forever is a bit of an optimistic expectation though, especially for old models. They guarantee at least 5 years support (1) for updates which I don't think is unreasonable considering that they are so cheap. If that is not long enough for you then I guess you are not the target audience (students and enterprise users are the target audience)

1 - https://support.google.com/chrome/a/answer/6220366?hl=en
No, they will use snow canons and artificial snow as long as they can and will do everything they can to deny that this is happening. That is pretty much what you could observe there for many years.

(Though admittedly "just" convert to summer activities sounds much easier than it is. Skiing was something that was always confined to few areas, you can hike just as well in many more places.)
>I am still looking for a better way to check, if a double will convert cleanly to an integer of the same size or not.

I'd say the cleanest would be to decode exponent and mantissa, check if the exponent is within the 64-bit limit of long, then check if there's any bits set below the decimal point. (+plus some extra care for two's complement negative numbers)

The problem with this is of course that this would be platform dependent.
Basically what I heard from the Adam tablet, they couldn't guarantee reliable build quality, so they ended up dying.

I've also found this:

https://goodereader.com/blog/electronic-readers/the-rise-and...
Ostentatious, wasteful winter sports are easily the least of my worries here.
I don't think there's much culture lost in moving a few ski lifts to a higher altitude place.
As far as I know, there is actually a pretty easy defense mechanism against this: strong alphanumeric password.

The hard part is trying to defend a physical device in the hands of an attacker while using a simple 6-digit passcode.
I recently read an article by Nicholas Nassim Taleb:
https://medium.com/incerto/the-intellectual-yet-idiot-13211e...

Here is an excellent description of the Big Tech employee today: "but their main skill is capacity to pass exams written by people like them".

Yes, Facebook is like a cult. You can verify this by asking any Facebook employee their view on privacy. You will usually get a ramble which will look exactly like the other passage from that essay:

"that class of paternalistic semi-intellectual experts.... who are telling the rest of us 1) what to do, 2) what to eat, 3) how to speak, 4) how to think… and 5) who to vote for."

And I will add 6) why privacy does not matter.

My point is: I think this person is lying. Now, if only Facebook open sourced its entire codebase, I would be willing to take back my view. See the problem here? It will be back to square one.

"Trust us. We know we are right. And we must be right because we are successful.."
90 Days of Learning
Ask HN: Do you donate to open source projects?
I just donated to Mozilla (choice of the org may be controversial). But this is the first time that I donated to any open source kind of an organization. The process of donating was easy which is really important to me.

Do you donate to open source projects or some other technology related cause?
Meh, they can use snow cannons. And waste a lot and lot of electricity in the process.
Are you saying they didn't do the analysis they said they did, but copied it from someone else? I agree the analysis doesn't "verify", but it did lend more credibility to the (then) suspected root cause. It had value.

They weren't claiming they were the source of the posted videos.
Back in the day there was mostly only 1 website per IP, so when you connected over port 443 for HTTPS, the server would only have the one cert to give you.

One day people wanted to serve multiple websites from one IP, so they had browsers tell the server which site they are looking for (Server Name Indication); that way the server would know which SSL cert to send for the handshake.

SNI is still plaintext, it's a glaring privacy hole that most people aren't aware of. Encrypted SNI needs to come sooner.
One reason, from my 20's, since you declared that parameter: The sort of clothing one wears to a cultural event doesn't fit in a carry-on. There's no way I was going to show up for an opera in Vienna or a symphony in Prague in jeans and a drip-dry t-shirt.
Knowing little about neuroscience outside of biology class, I've always wondered why neurons would be so simple as to just compute weighted sums and thresholds.

I mean there are unicellular creatures that can do incredibly complex things, and neurons, as all cells, are ultimately the descendants of such unicellular organisms, "teamed up" into a multi-cellular creature. They have a lot of internal structure, organelles, whatnot. Modeling them as some simple switches seems a stretch.

My point is, overall this doesn't seem so surprising to me as a layman. (Which doesn't mean more than just literally that. I'm not claiming laypeople should decide scientific questions from their armchairs.)
The novel "Children of time" by Adrian Tchaikovsky imho greatly picks up this notion among others, highly recommended read
The default is to create a passcode - you have to specifically opt out if you don't want one.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT202033
Search 'Wikipedia US Involvement in Regime Change' for more details.
Should I check email? – Wendy MacNaughton
> like angels unable to choose evil.

except when they do it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fatal_dog_attacks_in_t...
I did not realise how close the impact was to the airport. It looks like the plane took a normal flight path. I thought Iran said the plane entered a restricted area. Does anyone know if that was true?
Or they have behavioral analysis AI that can tell when a missile is "locked" on target.
Live Sync in React Native with CouchDb
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5321#section-4.5.3.2

anyway given that their network was 100% switched, and "time to connect to a
lightly-loaded remote host on a nearby network would actually largely be
governed by the speed of light distance to the destination rather than by
incidental router delays."

I'm thinking it doesn't apply to email delivery to Proxima Centauri or basically most places.

on edit: though with a long enough distance to the destination it would be pretty close to speed of light as the various times to respond etc. would be negligible.
The problem is that in most languages, to novices floating point numbers swim like a duck, quack like a duck, but it turns out they're alligators.

A good way to get around this is reading https://floating-point-gui.de/ to weed out any preconceptions, but yeah it's difficult to steer novices there without them stepping on one of the pitfalls first.
Yes, especially if you depend on security critical libraries like OpenSSL that might require urgent updates.
> activities like hiking and mountain biking

While I would love to see more bike parks, I think most mountain resorts would shutter if these were the only activities bringing in revenue throughout the year.
They did clearly state "given the context". The context being someone who, supposedly (I don't know, that was before my time and outside of my circles), had those traits.

So I think saying "by thinking anyone with differing opinions is Xist" is a mischaracterization of what was expressed originally.
Building robotics ground vehicle. Part 1 – mechanics
I applied a patch for powerline!
If you want this, use it!
https://github.com/ryoppippi/JetBrainsMono
> What I’m saying is Google should require access to the source code and the right to modify it.

I guess there would be 0 hardware manufacturers left to choose from then.
> That space doesn't usually fill up completely, so you have a lot more leeway in boarding.

Maybe the airlines I fly are just the worst examples, but I frequently fly business/first both domestic and international and the overheads are always full, usually due in part to passengers not in that cabin.
There's a gap, between admitting to downing a plane and "admitting liability" for it, in which the US places its downing of Flight 655.

But the parallel you would need to draw here is of the former: admitting to downing the plane.
The temps need to be below freezing for snow making to work.

One can easily see the changes over last 20 years by looking at the ski mountains on the East Coast. The skiing season now is late January to mid-April.