skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just wanted to chime in here and say Zorin is good too. It's based on Ubuntu 18.04 + Gnome + some extensions (which make it really beautiful to look at). It's fast and gets out of the way immediately when you want it to.
But my laptop (ThinkPad X1 extreme) isn't charging anymore. That happened with other distros too (on MSI prestige). I can't figure out what the problem is.
From the article it seems like recapturing the helium is impractical without a significant investment in a reliquifier
Not OP but I would enforce the maximum of 25W by standardizing on a particular power supply. To prevent usage of batteries or capacitators, demanding people bring their own hardware with removable casing. You can then inspect the PCB(s).
That's pretty neat. I'll have to try it.

The thread mentioned an alternative, https://graspablemath.com/, which looks similar (note: only judging from the video), which you can immediately try in the browser, but that felt a bit clumsy to me. YMMV.
Sorry will add email option. Only used social logins for fighting spam. Thanks for the feedback
I'm sure there are russian/chinese subs lurking off the coast of the US waiting for an order to nuke cities.
Shouldn't that be Phonosology?

Miller has some thoughts on the sheepdog metaphor:
http://chirontraining.blogspot.com/2017/11/sheepdogs.html

(he has thoughts on lots of things, up to and including how to deescalate when one is amped on adrenaline. I sometimes think that in a more just world, he'd have been an academic intellectual, but am glad that in ours, he choose his parents poorly, and wound up working in law enforcement —due to a financial glass ceiling— otherwise we'd probably have no one who is both familiar with the problems LE practitioners face and has the inclination to theorise upon how the approaches might be improved)
> There seems to have been a considerable push by a number of people to dilute the meaning of open source -- in my tin-foil-hat opinion with the intent of destroying the community behind it.

A cynic always looks cleverer than someone who takes people at their word. I prefer to do the latter even if I look stupid.

Companies like CockroachDB and Sentry invest years of work and millions of dollars making useful products. A concern they have is that someone swoops in just as they find product market fit and hosts a version of their own. If AWS/Azure/GCP offer hosted CockroachDB, fewer people will pay Cockroach for their product. It’s as simple as that.

At the same time these companies also want to make sure that firms have the option of self hosting. If you’re too small to be able to afford it, self host. If you’re large and need to be on prem for regulatory reasons, self host. If you want to make a custom fork, go right ahead. If you want to upstream any changes, you can also do that. Customers have options! The only companies left out in the cold are AWS/Azure/GCP.

This seems like a reasonable compromise to me. I’d rather these companies stayed in business and continued innovating rather than being put out of business by the big boys.

When they say this is their reason for going with a different license, I believe them. I don’t come up with conspiracy theories that they’re maliciously trying to harm something I love. Even if I was prone to conspiracy theories, I’d at least come up with a mechanism for _how_ the movement would be harmed. I wouldn’t just fling a serious accusation at people who are working hard just for the sake of farming upvotes
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One Youtube video has a pretty convincing origin story of the A380.

Apparently Airbus approached Boeing about a joint project, but Boeing's analysis showed point-to-point (787) made more sense, and Airbus got the opposite result.

Pride no doubt had a part in it, as the investment is staggering.

What hurt A380 development badly from a mfg. perspective was the wiring harness initially didn't fit, causing a delay of up to 2 years, so they had to re-design that. (This is common, and happened to one recent Boeing model too.) Also the first examples had a weight problem.

A380 $6.1B in additional costs due to project delays

http://calleam.com/WTPF/?p=4700

But the biggest issues were:

1) point-to-point won over spoke-and-hub

2) renovation of each airport so it would fit

3) no US carriers ordered any

4) operating cost of $29,000/hour, smaller planes are a quarter.

6) The A380 is not a cargo-design like the 747 - the A380 doesn't have a level floor from what I've heard.
This is a very reddit-culture comment. First time I've seen it here.

In my opinion, HN is better off. You have a good underlying point (that Inbox was exactly what GP wanted), but why write it that way?

It's certainly not still funny after the 1000th (or even 2nd) time reading it, and it's harder to understand for people who aren't in on the joke or speak English as a second language.
Yeah--compare an alternate phrasing here, like "I watch and give a lot of presentations at work."
Remember that AT&T was split up successfully, despite people insisting it was impossible due to there only being one set of phone lines. They just forced the split up parts to follow rules for sharing the infrastructure. It took a lot of work, but it happened.

Gmail or google cloud's dependencies on the rest of Google are comparibly much easier to solve.
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Shortest lattice vector is currently thought to be quantum-resistant.
I would watch if you posted it on YouTube
With neural network computer engine like lc0, the run-time power is not so important, because it used a lot of compute during its training phase. Also there probably need to be some memory constraints.
> you can distinguish the single photon hitting a screen at more than two different times, or at more than two different places, or at more than two different energies.

You can't transfer information by any of these means because you can't control the time or the location or the energy of the photon hitting the screen.

The reason polarization is used to carry information in quantum computers is that you can control it, so you can use it to transfer information. But, as I said, a single photon can only be used to read out one bit in this way.
The hard versus soft science distinction is an old one, cutting off around biology. Basically physics is the "true" science and as it gets harder to relate phenomenon back to the underlying physics involved, the study is seen as more soft.
The misapplication of "shortage" to describe situations where prices are functioning as expected and supply is available is one of my pet peeves.
Sociologists often complains that economists don't bother reading established peer reviewed sociology and opt for own guesswork based on own intuitive observations whenever they attempt to incorporate sociology-lite into their writings.
Here's one that doesn't hide the snaps but but still keeps it not cluttered (relies on ripgrep) :

function df {
OUTPUT=$(/usr/bin/df $@)
snaps=$(echo ${OUTPUT} | rg "^.+/snap/(.+)/.+$" -r '$1' | tr '\n' ' ')
printf "\x1b[33m\x1b[1mFILTERING SNAP MOUNTPOINTS:\x1b[0m\x1b[33m\n$snaps\x1b[0m\n\n" >&2
echo $OUTPUT | grep -v "/snap/"
}
> Favoring mustaches over security is always the choice you can make

Unfortunately not. If most of my friends and family favour mustaches and effects (which seems to be the case, I would imagine as a general rule), and I favour security (the minority, as a general rule?), then I won't be able to talk to them securely.
Seems like the constraints of this basically mean that you might as well just stream the database to the client and let them do the query.
> conflation of humanities and social sciences.

You've missed the entire point. A sort of conflation is the problem - not by the author, but by people in and around soft sciences and humanities throwing a bit of statistical jazz into their papers and then drawing ostensibly rigorous conclusions which influence social policy.

The reality is that by their vary nature, both soft science and humanities (there is a lot of overlap) cannot be held to the same rigor as, say, mathematics, physics, chemistry. These sciences are pure theory (like gender studies), non experimental (like psychology), and fundamentally unfalsifiable in the majority of cases...but laymen, and apparently government officials, either don't understand or pretend they don't understand - either way shitty policy and legislation is passed and innocent people (society) are worse off frequently.
> The Dragon spacecraft also runs Linux with flight software written in C++. The ship's touchscreen interface is rendered using Chromium and JavaScript.

I'm actually shocked by this statement. I would never trust JavaScript on a spacecraft.
> He is failing every user and employee of Facebook.

Why are users seen as powerless vassals? Why aren't they assigned any responsibility for their actions?

It's entirely possible to use Facebook as a "read-only" Rolodexfor finding people for personal communication. There's no need to "engage" with whatever public posts are "promoted".
Another reason to include those fields is that reported bugs are often a case of misaligned expectations between those designing, implementing and testing a feature.

If you're forced to describe what happened and what you expected to happen it makes it very clear when those expectations do not align with those of the people designing or implementing it.
Sure, it might be better to bootstrap their product then rather than taking VC (which I know is the point of the article but I digress). Actual revenue will validate whether their product can work or not, and VC can definitely obscure this validation.
5) If there was really a big market for the A380 why wasn't Boeing selling more 747's.
The final spark was one that has no excuse and was essentially a public lynching in broad daylight while onlookers openly recorded and pleaded for it to stop.

There are few things more loaded with terrible, horrifying historical imagery in America than a white police officer lynching a black man.

And I promise you, the significance of this horrific imagery was not lost on a single black American.
US military also has "up or out".
> The government stated that the syrup, when diluted as directed, would result in a beverage containing 1.21 grains (or 78.4 mg) of caffeine per 8oz serving

> Coca-Cola then voluntarily reduced the amount of caffeine in its product

That's interesting. 8 fl oz is 236ml, roughly the same size as a regular Red Bull can at 250ml which contains 80mg caffeine.

Caffeine mg per ml -

Monster Energy: 0.34

pre-1912, post-cocaine Coke: 0.33

Red Bull: 0.32

Modern Diet Coke: 0.12

Modern Coke: 0.09

People must have been pretty amped in the early 1900s.
> SpaceX uses ordinary electronics parts in their ﬂight electronics, as opposed to ded-
icated radiation-hardened parts, since systems can be made radiation-tolerant with re-
dundancy, and commercial oﬀ-the-shelf components are easier to work with.

Something about this confuses me -- for years, I'm assuming since the earliest days of human spaceflight, the convention has been to used radiation-hardened hardware, yes?

I absolutely see the benefits of not using this expensive, unfamiliar, specialized hardware when you can instead use cheap, well-known, store-bought CPUs that everyone is familiar with and knows how to use.

But... how do you solve the original problem? Does it turn out that radiation is not that big of an issue after all? Is it a big deal, but SpaceX found a workaround? Do you have three CPUs all running the exact same computations and you assume there was no impact from radiation if at least 2/3 give the same result?

It makes me somehow both extremely satisfied, and a little jittery, to know we just flew two humans to the space station on off-the-shelf CPUs :)
Zuckerberg wasting our time as usual. Hope he can shut the eff up. Obviously he is one of the main weaknesses in our democracy. I hope he gets eaten.
Not within the spec. Which was sort of the point I was (poorly) trying to make - that it's a huge caveat, but otherwise a decent fallback if and when that changes.

Google is adding an implementation into Messages, and it's honestly not a critical problem if OS vendors are supporting it at that level, but there's still too much we don't know about it imo. Will that be supported by iOS, if and when it supports RCS at all? Will it work for third-party clients, if and when Android gets APIs?

I'm not sure how much optimism I have that this will be anything other than a fragmented mess in the short term.
> one of best balanced planes out there

Airliner design is regulated for stability for passenger flight on IFR approaches. So they're all pretty smooth.

(The reason for the 737 MAX MCAS system was to meet those requirements, although they failed in that case.)

All planes can glide if the wings are attached, and any essential electricity is available for control (if necessary.)

A corollary of "all planes glide" is that planes cannot really fall or dive straight (vertically) down from an appreciable height with the wings attached. A good story to tell passengers afraid of flying.
Really? I'd think if you're poor and uneducated, and you have bad sleep habits, you could benefit from the advice to sleep better a lot more (relatively) than someone better off.
I'd hesitate to even call them intricacies. Billions of years of evolution in biochemistry and multicellular organisms, half a billion years in nervous systems, and over 200 million years in mammalian brains have culminated with about 50 million years of evolution of the primate brain. For every human being that has ever lived, nature has run 10^X continuous brute force "simulations" to arrive at our present civilization, where X is a ridiculously high number that's impossible to even estimate.

Sure, our intelligence allows us to skip a lot of those processes just like it allowed us to escape our gravity well and explore our solar system, but the jump from CPU to brain is like the jump from moon landing to intergalactic travel. The discrete nature of digital electronics alone prevents them from matching neurons because of sampling, let alone their lack of architectural (i.e. neural) plasticity. It's like trying to weld with a q-tip.
Donate rice while learning a new skill or language
Yeah, I couldn't find a better way to say "do something about it". I meant in the sense of "don't use it themselves and maybe occasionally point out the problem". Kind of like Stallman's infamous GNU/Linux copypasta. I have no intention to police anyone, but I see no reason to not object. At least then people know that not literally everyone uses it - although they will point out that "literally" everyone does.
Us not babysitting two countries with our annual budget and servicemen and women because we are afraid to leave. If you dont have an exit strategy you probably shouldnt go start a fight you cant finish (Im obviously generalizing a complex situation but 20 years at war is beyond ridiculous), Colossal waste of money after killing bin Laden, Iraq was a made up war. No idea what the exit strategy was there beyond Bush wanting to kill Saddam.
Prior to 2006 I had never touched a computer, and my phones, if I had one were the classic Nokia types. Between 2000 and 2006 I didn't even watch TV. Spent most of my non work time exercising, drinking, and reading.
I really enjoy the 20% of the screen i am left with after the cookies warming and the ad and the subscription banner all appear.
French bureaucracy is one of those things that totally lives up to the stereotype. Nothing has changed since Asterix' time.
Show HN: A low(ish) code development tool I've been working on
Hello all!

I've been spending my time working on a low code development tool. While it's not so as low in terms of code as I would like it right now, I think it should allow for easy interfaces to be put on the top, while still retaining the ability to jump into your apps source.

It's all very much a work in progress to flesh out concepts etc.

I'd love to hear what people think, good or bad!
"Please Login with you work credentials"... never saw someone putting so much work into a phising website ;D
Their pdf won't load on my phone. No matter:

https://sci-hub.tw/10.1109/MAES.2017.160182
This is an idea that I think of everyday but I can't find an answer because of these reasons

Most doctors have a very poor IT knowledge. Most of them know only to use Facebook

Most patients are elderly people, or people with extrame poverty. They either don't have the knowledge facilities or the money to pay for such a services.

Most of the work in hospital are still done by painful paper work. But making hospitals computerize has failed.
The problem is that presentations are not just short documents. I think GP would be fine with a short document.

A presentation is a sequence of slides, along with which comes many issues that prevent critical thought, such as the lack of random access, the lowered bar of evidence, and so on. You can convince anyone of anything as long as you craft your slide deck deviously to hide the lack of evidence and internal inconsistencies.

That is much harder with a document, even if it is short.
The macros are really cool, too.

https://github.com/luckyframework/lucky/blob/master/src/luck...
It's a good point.

I suspect there's an argument that a newer design could be more fuel-efficient, but I haven't read anything on that.

(The only things that operators care about are fuel efficiency and operating cost/commonality, and will the lenders finance it. Passenger comfort has no bearing.)
That's true, but JavaScript is something especially controversial :D. I've yet to find a programmer who doesn't have some sort of stance on JS

Also yeah it is fine to say "I don't care for JS" sans explanation. But if someone were to ask why, it'd be reasonable to expect a list of justifications that had some nuance.
Full time? Awesome! What is your start up?

Are you using a framework? Please tell us more :)
Apple is making the looted iPhone invalid
US banking is possibly the most backward in all of the world. Even most (all?) of Africa has a leg up.
I am a developer who happen to also have to manage a QA team and found this article interesting to atleast ask some questions to get the interview warmed up. Otherwise I always struggled to find good questions to ask for a QA interview.
Am sure if I had googled I might have found something- but I never did. This coming on the HN feed just removed that friction too for me to read!
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You can use tricks to reduce this requirement. For example, you access a random subset, and at the same time you randomly rearrange a portion of the data. Viewer can't narrow anything down because you are shuffling fast enough to invalidate anything they learn from your access patterns.
> Can you give a more technical description of "each photon carries one bit?"

The strictly technically correct version applies (as I've said in response to others) to polarization in a setting like quantum information or quantum computing experiments, where the polarization is controlled in various ways, and where measuring the polarization of a single photon at the end of the experiment corresponds to "reading out" one bit of the result.

For cases like the radio telescope observations of light from the black hole in the article this discussion was originally about, the "one bit" more or less corresponds to a "pixel" of the image that gets constructed from the data collected by multiple telescopes and combined by computers.

> The number of photons is itself a quantum observable (number operator) which is non-commuting with other observables.

There isn't a single "number operator" for photons. There is a number operator for each "mode" (or Fock state in more technical language), which means for each possible combination (k, u) of momentum k and polarization u.

Eigenstates of the number operator for each mode are also eigenstates of the Hamiltonian and the polarization operator, so it is not true that the number operators do not commute with any other observables.

Actual states in laboratory experiments are not always Fock states, but AFAIK they are close to it in quantum information and quantum computing experiments. However, the states being detected by the radio telescopes are not Fock states or anything close to it; they are coherent states, which are basically classical EM field states and are not eigenstates of the number operator, or indeed of any observable.
I feel like this depends a lot on yor tasks and use cases.

For example, if you have a blog, or if your professional role includes a lot of writing, you can benefit a lot from notes. Usually, when I start a blog post, I go through my notes on the topic and when I am done with that, my post is halfway finished.

I have a post about knowledge management that has a section specifically about when to take notes:

https://tkainrad.dev/posts/managing-my-personal-knowledge-ba...
You think being cooped up isn't part of the motivation?
Yeah maybe "JS is best language ever!!!" is a better example. Or "JS is perfect!!!"
Try to get a French company (take its largest insurer for instance) to send a transfer to elsewhere in the EU. They'll insist on sending cheques (which can't be cached outside of France). I'm still waiting on my refund two years later.
I use vim regularly on my day job. However, I am not familiar with more of the advanced side of things, and would never call myself an advanced user. That aside, I was always of the impression that vim was simply vi but extended in a sense.

Is that not the case? How different is vi to vim?
I wouldn’t be so sure of that. Their edge in search and email is eroding. The general public wouldn’t see much difference if their default search engine was DDG. Not saying it’s not a monopoly, but I see it more as brand power than impossible to match by competition. Same for email or maps, you can switch on a individual level for nearly the same experience.

I’m way more concerned by Facebook in terms of monopoly, because here I truly don’t have a choice between products, just to opt out with social consequences. That’s not the case with search or email.
Be careful with asking people to do what the law says.

King (Martin, not Rodney) said[1] "[a]ll we say to America is to be true to what you said on paper".

Kennedy suggested[2] a world "where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved".

If he were alive today, I'm sure JFK would have half a mind to ask "how could you elect such a schoolyahd president?"

[1] https://kinginstitute.stanford.edu/king-papers/documents/ive...

[2] https://nationalcenter.org/KennedyInaugural.html
(incidentally, Earl Warren has an interesting history; he once became Governor of California by winning both the D and R primaries)
Author here: late night writing, wanted to push it out. Was expecting it to be ignored completely on the internet. Editing today — real good feedback here. Thanks!
Wavelength certainly has more than one bit.
Faz isnt a tech newspaper but also not a local one. Its famous throughout Europe.
I knew who it was before clicking. I learnt to love Crystal from this channel. Great content.
Its dead jim
If they don't want to talk securely to you, then they don't want to, why do you want to force them to? They will spill secrets to other people all the time, using Signal or not. They will talk to other people about things you thought was a secret between you. They don't patch their computer. They use trivial passwords to their computer, they reuse passwords on all websites, they don't encrypt their drives or their Micro-SD on their mobile phones. Why should they care about things you want them to care about? They won't.

I use WhatsApp to people who don't care about security, and I can only be contacted by Signal for business stuff.
We need a fully homomorphic encryption scheme specifically designed for encrypting executable code; such that encrypted code is also a meaningful code, visible arities of instructions does not change in encryption, operands get encrypted in the same manner as but separately from instructions.
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