skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's correct - a US president cannot serve more than two terms. If they were already acting as President for two or more years, they can only be elected to the position once. This was codified in the 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution.
Rust doesn't have a GC; it uses an ownership model instead.

Ultimately in a startup it comes to what people are comfortable with. I personally would use Rust for something like this because I am comfortable with Rust. It's a perfect use case for it as well, imho.
Except someone would try to steal/destroy it and it couldn’t do anything, so not really. Maybe in a decade or two.
Yeah spotify shows the way. If you like developers, buy their apps and make them exclusive, dont lock them into your garden with 1000 tricks.
> You've never listened to audiophile equipment have you?

You're saying that I ought to judge the merits of audiophile equipment by the subjective measure of whether I like the sound of it. Which is the metric I said audiophiles would favour.

> If apply "some soft clipping" it will sound bad

Soft clipping often sounds nice, which is why it's very commonly applied to music. You're saying that eg. the sound of a classic Vox amp is bad, which I guess you're free to believe if that's what your ears tell you, but it's certainly not an objective truth.
It seems like something in our way of understanding gravity is also confounded that our perception of it is skewed by our assumptions of time orientability in any given region of spacetime, extends to all regions of spacetime, even those outside of our light cone or those of a light cone trapped within a event horizon.
Some comments here show the max payload is too low. But I've had the same thoughts, so what does it take to scale Spot to the size/max payload of a horse?
Why Mercedes electric cars are not Tesla quality then? I mean the drive, the interior is better in Mercedes.
There are two conflicting attitudes for Prestige universities

A) Ivies/Standford are better than regular universities because they have resources, powerful alumni and well connected students
B) They should let XYZ in because they have great test scores

If B was really the most important A would no longer be true.
It's in the article: $35M per year budget ($57M in 2020 dollars).
There is a particle for gravity, it's the graviton (massless, spin-2). It is not observed experimentally because it's extremely far from our technological capabilities.

In fact, mathematically, General Relativity can be understood as the classical field theory of a massless, self-interacting, spin-2 field. In the same way that electromagnetism is the classical field theory of a massless, non-interacting, spin-1 field.
The media lab has done a ton of research on this. I seem to remember people being able to notice visual latency at 30ms and audio latency at 80-120ms (this is because light is faster than sound).
Slavery in the United States was an especially brutal form of slavery referred to as chattel slavery. In this form of slavery the slaves are not regarded as even being human, they are treated with the same regard as one would treat an ox. American slaves were not the working class as you describe.
Evolution has built altruistic behavior in many animal species. Just recently I read about some single celled species where in extreme circumstances, a few of cells self-scarfice so that rest can survive.
500 requests a second.
The subhead: A new book by Michael Gordin shows how 16 months in Prague formed a young Albert Einstein—and the shape of science, politics, and intellectual history to come.
And here's my incantation for screen recording under X Window (also used one like it under MS Windows, but I don't have it on hand):

ffmpeg -rtbufsize 2147M -f x11grab -video_size 1920x1080 -i :0.0 -r 30 -preset ultrafast -vcodec h264 output.mp4
One of the strangest things I've ever seen was Boston Dynamics doing a Spot demo at a VC summer party at the same time somebody was demoing their next-gen Twitch-streaming drone that could circle around an object (Spot). Spot strutted about while the drone flew around it and streamed the strut to the internet.

All the VCs were rushing to stream themselves while I was thinking "am I seeing the next-gen war technology?"
I feel like the author would need a completely different scale for it.

Pages load considerably slower with it, so much I’m considering just removing it.
If you only need a P2P video stream https://github.com/CESNET/UltraGrid/wiki is amazing and lower latency
Google Cloud introduces high scale file storage
Why they paid me roughly 1.5 USD and the consultants several thousands per hour.

My bad, I originally wrote " They hired every highly specialized consultant available for .... guilders each" but I only hear the price of one and I failed to remember if it was 5000 or 20 000 for a 2 hour chat.
Very cool from a tech standpoint.

From a product point of view, I find it interesting that the illustrations/concept videos for these things always show people interacting very closely to the wall - e.g. playing chess, sitting around a table, etc.

https://tonari.no/static/media/family.48218197.svg

But in practice, people tend to keep their distance from it. E.g. the pictures of this setup tend to show people clustered in their own group on each side of the wall, with a solid 2-3 meters from the wall.

https://blog.tonari.no/images/ea56c74d-a55d-4183-9a7b-d69795...

It makes sense, it's awkward to be close to a large solid (emissive) surface, and humans instinctively get closer to their in group when faced with an out group. I wonder how the system could be designed to encourage participants being closer, if there is an advantage to that.
Let's turn that statement around and instead of thinking about audio bitrates, focus on experience. A great "audiophile" setup can make the performers sound there in the room with you. No matter how much BS the hobby spews, when you hear a really great setup, that guitar truly sounds 6 feet away from you.

Zoom calls do not sound there in the room with you. Microphones are terrible, there's compression artifacts, latency, packet loss, background noise, and tiny speakers. No one could possibly close their eyes and forget that the other person is not there in the room with them, on any POTS or VOIP technology that exists. But what if you could create an audio communications system with an actual illusion of auditory presence. Sounds amazing!

And given that this company is trying to create wall-screen, life size ultra-HD video conferences, I'm pretty sure that "audiophile" exactly what they're going for. Personally as a remote worker, I would absolutely swoon for this.
Machine Learning-Based Damage Assessment for Disaster Relief
> If you're going to risk your business's livelihood to bravely take a stand, it should be in a situation where you can win.

I fundamentally disagree with this. Your argument is akin to stating that there should never be any casualties in a war. There is no way to effectively win a war without sometimes sending some troops into situations where you know they will die.

Compared to soldiers who knowingly lay down their lives in losing battles to help win the war, choosing a moral course of action that merely ends a company seems like a pretty cheap sacrifice.
Do you have the right KPIs for your remote dev team?
It's better than some older Java GUIs but still really doesn't feel native.
I'll withdraw the post (rather than spend a bunch of time, hunting down comments that just get me depressed), but the tide may be turning.

Now that the VC money may not be as easy to get as it once was, there may be a bit of a demand for software that ships, as opposed to glossy slide decks.

Us old farts ain't so bad at that.
One step beyond good Java GCs is to write fully zero-GC Java code. The advantage of it is complete control over your performance which means your software is going to be consistently fast. The disadvantage is that it is relatively difficult to obtain.

If you want to see an example of fully zero-GC Java, you can check out QuestDB on Github [1] - Disclaimer I work for QuestDB.

[1]https://github.com/questdb/questdb
> snuzzles

This word is a treat, thanks :D
calling it "x86" tells me you were not without any prior knowledge of assembly before :)
If anybody is looking for a low latency high bandwidth P2P video streaming solution there is https://github.com/CESNET/UltraGrid/wiki It can do less than 80ms of latency
Does anyone even like Nvidia?
Just mount a remote controlled weapon for self defence!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNPJMk2fgJU
Sounds fascinating, stuff like that interests me a lot. Hope that video surfaces one day, would really like to see it.
The User Guide is a fun read too. Lots of things I hadn't thought about:

- pinch points and other safe handling concerns

- it cannot perceive glass windows or the edge of a cliff

- "entertainment" is mentioned as a possible application, but you should not operate it near pets or children

https://www.bostondynamics.com/sites/default/files/inline-fi...
> Typescript's structural typing feels like the opposite end of the spectrum from Java's nominal types.

Be that as it may, I said nothing about type systems. I said that TS feels closer to Java than it does to JS. Seeing as JS has no type system, I fail to see your argument.
We're finding exoplanets at an incredible rate. See NASA's Exoplanet Archive (https://exoplanetarchive.ipac.caltech.edu/) for the current 4164 known exoplanets.

Related: The Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile just confirmed the existence of Proxima Centauri b, a roughly Earth-sized exoplanet in Proxima Centauri’s habitable zone—the closest star to Earth, just 4 light-years away! https://www.universetoday.com/146262/powerful-telescope-conf...

Oh, and here's this topic's prerequisite xkcd: https://xkcd.com/786/

(We write about exoplanets really frequently on https://orbitalindex.com)
In the java realm you have very fine-grained GC logging that provides insight into the overall behavior of the GC and its different subcomponents. Then there are recording/debugging facilities that allow you to trace allocations, how long objects live, analyze the entire heap (including unreachable but not yet collected objects). And higher-level monitoring APIs separate from the logging and debugging stuff. You can also choose between collectors with different characteristics, trading between overall heap size, latency, utilization of CPU cores and other factors.
I'm way too tense and can't deal with emotions at all. I procrastinate about everything because I get overwhelmed when things go wrong. I'm learning to just accept who I am and change my goals so there are less things to procrastinate about. This means giving up a lot of fantasies about what I could accomplish, things that other people can manage but somehow I can't.
Why People Don't Like When Chrome Messes with URLs
The Russian Disinfo Operation You Never Heard About
Unlike Intel, Micron has practically outsourced most of their manufacturing to Singapore, Taiwan and Japan. Their only production fabs in the US are in Utah and Virginia both of which are mostly focused on niche or older products. More importantly, they only produce memory. Logic and memory processes are very different.
Not entirely accurate. Your client software builds a TLS client with your sole private trusted root. Nobody can MITM with a self signed cert unless they can reverse your client (or system) enough to hook the TLS stack, which there are numerous tools out there to do which is also why (but also irrespective of the fact) IMHO the "zomg we must prevent the user from seeing _their_ traffic" is a totally bogus pursuit. However, if you're dead set on thwarting some subset of the script kiddies, then mTLS is your friend because it's a real solution to the "I want to authenticate my client (perhaps because only it should see the traffic)" problem.
I would avoid doing state management in Typescript. It's still too early in my opinion.

Use as many hooks and context as possible and keep your redux store as simple as you possibly can because if you end up with a deprecated state management library (redux-thunk, sagas, easy-peasy) replacing that is like pulling gum out of hair.

If you add up the time spent working around typescript errors when dealing with state, it's possible for it to be more time than you need to rewrite the entire app.

For backend work then yes, I'd say doing a singleton or an abstract class in typescript makes more sense in hardening your API code and even making it more readable too.
Yep, same here... I also thoroughly enjoyed it, and was deeply dissatisfied with how easy was the final test, which for me tested very little. Seeing as they do not allow a calculator, that limits a lot of possibilities for problems on the test.
From my very naive understanding, isn't there a belief that habitable planets are a bit more rare than we thought? Since most stars are red dwarves, the tidal locking zone overlaps the Goldilocks zone. Neither the abstract nor the phys.org article mentions tidal locking.

And don't forget the nasty flares that tend to fire up from red dwarves, either.
Progroms like Kristallnacht were widely publicized by Nazi media (the word "Kristallnacht" itself was coined by Nazi propaganda). So it is not like you only knew about the persecutions if you had Jewish neighbors. The party itself made sure everybody knew about the persecutions.
These are pretty inaccurate or exaggerated statements. Real estate in Taipei is expensive to buy, but reasonable to rent. To buy, price per square feet is comparable to a high priced US city (SF, NY). It rains a lot in winter and has typhoon season, but can be nice otherwise.
Asimov's laws are only good for a lifetime writing career in exploring their exceptions. Is there any Asimov story where the laws were applied strictly and successfully? I don't remember one.
There are some general tricks that are language-agnostic, like allocating a huge "buffer" object when the app starts, the size of which is some significant portion of the memory you allow the process to use, which always has a reference, then storing references to other objects you need in that big object. In other words, circumvent the garbage collector.

Of course, this has its own issues, but I've seen it done in e.g. Go before. Its likely you'll inevitably end up with leaks, but if your service is fungible and can tolerate restarts, basically what you're doing is moving the "GC Pause" to be a "Container Restart" pause, which may be slower, but would happen less often. Some languages have ways to manually call the GC (Node is not one of them, afaik).
As others have said you can't directly ride it (the max payload is too low), but Adam Savage did manage to hook it up to a rickshaw and ride it that way: https://youtu.be/zyaocKS3sfg?t=1358
They aren't claiming that this cures the virus. It's purely to treat the cytokine storm that causes most covid deaths. This is for people who are already hospitalised and receiving oxygen, with the most dramatic results for those on ventilators. At that point the mortality rate is high enough that the risks of side effects are worthwhile.
I don't know if this counts. I worked briefly at a place that was making sensors for fitbit-style wearable medical devices. One thing that was really cool was a device that could measure your blood alcohol level. They were trying to miniaturize it to fit in a watch or whatever.

The investors and intended market are a staunchly Muslim oil oligarchy.

(In case it's not clear: ¿ɥǝ 'sɯǝlqoɹd ǝq ʇɥƃᴉɯ ǝɹǝɥʇ sɹǝlɐʇoʇǝǝʇ ɟo uoᴉʇɐu ɐ oʇ sɹosuǝs ǝzooq lɐuosɹǝd ɔᴉʇɐɯoʇnɐ ǝɔnpoɹʇuᴉ noʎ ɟI )
Ah yes, a 236 word "article", that says to choose "boring old technology" and also to use Rust in the same breath.

This article should mention that rust isn't close to ready when it comes to web backends. As much as I love Rust, if I were running a startup or even a decently sized company I would always choose Rails. Now -that- is boring, old... and mature technology. Certain components could get re-written in Rust, certainly, but there's no reason to ignore a mature ecosystem from the start.
It's funny; we in the west can pass laws that companies boards must have a certain arbitrary number of gonads[1], but forcing them to operate in the national interest (I dunno, let's say, not exporting everyone's job to some foreign hell hole), suddenly it becomes "muh free market decision, we must obey the free market, muh shareholders."

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/us/california-boardroom-g...
> "The new 3000XT family of processors focuses mostly on boosting the turbo frequency by 100-200 MHz for the same power."

Except they've only done this for the high power 95W/105W models, not the 65W 3700X I actually care about, so "for the same power" isn't very exciting.
Sad that it does not ship with Gnome 3.36, one of the best releases of Gnome ever.
People were still writing CoffeeScript in 2015.
I hope you don't suffer through all of these simultaneously. I'm at the stage of repeatedly checking the gas stove after each use and whenever I enter or leave the kitchen, plus closing the water faucet in the bathroom repeatedly until it clicks the right way several times in a row (there's a pattern to it). And triple-checking if I closed the apartment (sometimes with additional gas stove check) when I'm leaving anywhere. Overall, it eats only ~20 minutes from my day, but it's still incredibly frustrating (and I worry it's going to get worse over time). I can't begin to imagine how it must be to experience everything you've described over the course of one day (or week). If that's really how things are for you, you have my deepest sympathy.

(The worst thing is, several times I was this close to stopping with my gas routine, but then I always discovered someone left one of the knobs half-turned, which suddenly justified my OCD. My stove has auto-shutoff, so it isn't all that dangerous, but I grew up with a stove without this safety feature, and my brain just latched onto that and can't let go.)
When I was in college in engineering, I noticed a woman dressed in a sister's outfit always in the labs, I think she was studying EE? She was running PSpice. Very interesting.
You're right, I'm being stupid. Thanks for pointing that out!
Hey by Basecamp
I'm not too into the specifics, but if you are interested take a listen to Bryan Stevenson:
https://www.npr.org/books/authors/356964348/bryan-stevenson
https://www.vox.com/2017/5/24/15675606/bryan-stevenson-confe...

Short story: Having confederate monuments and the way history is thought in schools in some places is for sure a start. We need to get away from the south did nothing wrong, and of course put focus on what the north did wrong as well. There is a reason Minnesota is not the best place to live for black people.
Maybe 70% really is good enough and you don't need to be so hard on yourself?
I almost went full Unifi, got lazy and got Eero. So far everything has been fantastic. It's not perfect but it works and delivered on its promise. Speed is fast, it's not Wifi 6 but neither are any of my devices. Paid full price too, not a shill here.
EU: Member States Agree on Interoperability for Mobile Tracing and Warning Apps
Interesting, would love to read more if specific papers/authors come to your mind. I suspect there's a big gap between e.g. "noticing the audio latency when audio is played as a result of pressing a button" vs "audio latency affecting the flow of a multiparty conversation".
It ended up succeeding eventually...

https://mac-optimization.bestreviews.net/four-apfs-problems-...
They sold at fixed prices without limiting quantity or specifying requirements. They are already getting sued over it.

Edit: 600 million, source: https://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/corona-krise-jens...
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> The audiophile definition of a "warm" sound signature

I don't really know what, if anything, that means. But if we're talking about fidelity, surely the ideal would be no sound signature? If a particular "sound signature" makes it sound "warm", surely it's decreasing the fidelity?
Ask HN: Is there any browser extension for note-taking?
Is there any good browser extension for quickly writing 1 - 2 line notes?

Like Pocket but for short notes?

I generally found myself reading something that I really want to write down, only to find myself opening a software (MacOS Notes / Bear ) or website (Evernote) and getting distracted from reading.

What do you guys use for taking quick short notes?
Show HN: 100% offline Shamir's Secret Sharing GUI
Short version is - I both automatically back up a lot of data and manually export items from Android, and also use the app to grab files (i.e. PDFs or audio) that I don't necessarily want persisted.

My understanding from the parent is that if the Android ecosystem becomes toxic to Syncthing, its functionality becomes restricted, and some of the base cases I use it for won't be available.

---

To answer your question, yes you can access files from your Dropbox in other applications. For example, I make a lot of video doodles for my Instagram, and the Inshot app lets you import audio and music directly into the app from Dropbox. This means I can render some audio on my computer,sync it to dropbox, make a silly video doodle on my phone, combine them and then upload to Instagram.

It's fairly seamless, something I actively use and definitely something I would want in a file-syncing tool.
Maybe little flasks of dex, apropos of today's covid treatment news.
iPhone 11 – Learn About the Key Features and Specs
> The core competency of the US today is finance.

Since when? It didn't look very competent in 2008...
How to Procrastinate
I can't figure out the copyright aspect of this; yes, it's probably fine for everyone to download them while they're available, but will you be theoretically allowed to keep them after they end the promotion?

I'd say yes, but maybe that's not what they meant... or maybe it's such a small revenue loss that they don't care
Indeed. Focus on fundamentals never hurts.
I'm currently watching his General Relativity videos along with the MIT stuff. There's a really good explanation of vector co(ntra)variance and tensor algebra at the beginning of that course which I needed. And contrary to the sibling, I really enjoy his presentation style which assumes that I am not a graduate student in math who lives and breathes abstract algebra.
Practically speaking, what would a therapiat tell me that I can't find or learn on my own?
Same for me. I even got into CSS and Javascript. Just, you know, right as Ajax was becoming a thing, before SPAs, before Rails even, etc. It was very straightforward.

Now...I'm lost. Every time I poke at the frontend, I get lost again. >10 years as a backend developer of various stripes, three of those in Node even...still lost.
You seem to be arguing that there will be no need to use the --random-source option after November. If so, that is incorrect in my view.

ELS versions receive critical security fixes and urgent bug fixes until the end of their support. They are used right up to end of support, or even beyond in some cases.

RHEL 5 ELS will be supported thru November 30, 2020 and RHEL 6 ELS will be supported thru June 30, 2024.

This implies there will be RHEL 5 ELS users for at least 5 more months and there will be RHEL 6 ELS users for at least 4 more years.

So, for at least four more years, it appears there will be users who should use the --random-source option with shuf if they want to be cryptographically secure.
Node allows you to call global.gc() if you enable that functionality with a separate argument. In many cases this is an anti-pattern that would make your application behavior worse rather than better, that's why you have to opt into that.