skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I wonder if the Higgs particle could be a candidate for the force carrier in the QM representation of GR

It couldn't. The Higgs boson is a scalar particle (spin 0), the graviton (if it exists) must have spin 2.
WebAssembly is going to totally reshape the definition of what browsers are capable of!
> U.S. sales only. International customers, contact sales to inquire about lease options.

Not any business.
Unless you're on a laptop most people have a monitor large enough to put the PDF reader on one half, effectively putting it into portrait mode. I mostly read technical books, so I'll have a terminal or something open on the other half so I can work through the exercises in the book on the same monitor.

When I'm not working at a computer, I do prefer using my Ipad Pro for PDFs.
Dammit, there's a limit on the number of them you can purchase online at once.

Only two robots may be purchased through the online store.
Please request a quote to get in contact with a sales representative.

Spot® Explorer
Quantity: 101
Price $74,500.00
Total $7,524,500.00

Do they come painted in Dalmatian? How much is delivery? Do they deliver themselves?
> Like all potential energies, its definition is relative and its zero point convention.

But for gravity it is different. Gravitational potential energy can go to negative infinity, but never to positive infinity. in particular there is a well defined possible maximum value.
1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
Ah, shoot. You are right. Energy is force times distance, momentum is force times time. I was thinking about force times time.

wipes egg off of face
Sport games form bonds, in other words they make networks.

They also bring back older graduates for a piece of nostalgia and bit of donation.
Ask HN: Anyone using a Desktop-as-a-Service product that can recommend?
Also, what are you using it for?
Would you mind sharing which course you took please? It sounds very interesting.
I like this bit a lot. Might have to extend it for QuestDB. I did a Notebook for QuestDB earlier this week, but having this part would be great!
They didn't mention Java as a possible solution, even though its GC's are far better than anything else out there. I have nothing against Rust but if I was at a startup I would save my innovation points for where they're mandatory
Wow! Great writeup.

I see some people saying that as an object gets farther away from the gravity well, accumulating more potential energy, the mass of the object increases. Is this true? It seems like it would be very surprising if an object became harder to accelerate just because it changed location.
It's good that they have this language. My first thought was that some rich asshole would want to "release the hounds" on unwanted visitors, only with machine-gun-equipped deathbots rather than abused, hungry Dobermanns.

It may not be so good if this means they can actually monitor robot use in order to enforce this requirement?
Alright man, let's try this out.

Looked it up on amazon and the book was free with an audible trial.
Hope it works.

There was one other book, a very short one, it's more like an excercise book really with space for you to write your answers.

Has a very "commercial" title I'd say, it's called
Self Discipline in 10 days.

It's a bit of a psychological rollercoaster and but I did find it pretty effective when I went through it years ago.
It will ask you to write down and articulate your biggest failures fears etc.. Try it out :)
I am pretty sure my X does. At least the regen gauge seems to report that to be the case.
Why not both?

Tesla does, after all, manufacture cars — it doesn’t just write software that goes into cars made by others.
> BTW, someone had the "great" idea of not using a framework for an internal admin portal. It turned immediately into a huge ball of mud.

It's never the case that you "don't use a framework" for something like that. You'll use a framework, alright. The choice is between using something well-built based on best practises as we know them, or... building it yourself. Other than in very rare circumstances, I fail to see the point of reinventing that wheel. UI frameworks (web front-end or not) are a quagmire of edge cases and other infinite time sinks.
I'm trying to find a citation here, but it's difficult because "Backtrack 2 ssh exploit defcon" is going to produce a lot of content which is unrelated.

Anyway I can give you the skinny of the situation:

1) Backtrack 2 did not have an installer, it was a live-CD. But that doesn't stop you installing it by just copying the live environment to a disk (with some mount-binding and grub install, you're all good!) There were guides for doing this although they all had large warnings and the backtrack maintainers cautioned heavily against doing it.

2) because it was a liveCD there was no package update mechanism, it was not based on debian at the time so there was no apt or anything similar, even if there was there was no repositories, backtrack was a "tool" not a distro really.

3) sshd is one of the services that gets started on system boot for backtrack2.

4) someone at defcon unveilled an sshd exploit, a pretty nasty one, they had disclosed responsibly and everyone had been patched for at least 6 months, except the people who went against recommendations and installed backtrack2. They all got rooted.

Bonus: everyone who ran backtrack2, without exception, ran it with the root user; as that was the default and they had patched software that normally complains about such things to not complain. xD
or rather than being bitter, having apple open up to other browser engines will open the way to your users to get better experience from your own web app as well.
especially because all VoIP codecs sound like shit. It's intelligible, but the bar isn't high for fidelity.
I gave up on netgear long ago for access points. Been running stuff from https://mikrotik.com/ since 2016. They are a bit dated in some areas, but they are cheap and I've never had any issues.
CRISPR systems are molecular "scissors" you can use to cut a particular piece of DNA right where you want to, which is useful when doing gene editing. Usually, you put the scissors inside the cell, and it just sort of goes and cuts on its own timeline, you can't really control it. Here, they've designed a pair of scissors that will go right to where you want to cut, but then just hang out there not doing anything until you give the signal. When you give the signal (activation by light), the scissors make the cut "on demand."

So before, if you want to study/control the processes that go on after that cut, you'd be a bit out of luck since you didn't know when the cut would happen to start experimenting, it would be a hard messy problem. Now, you can just trigger the cut to happen right when you're ready for it.
its sad to see a king (Intel) slowly dying. Microsoft got its groove back with Satya Nadella and turn Microsoft into player two in the cloud computing and unlock .Net.

AMD ryzen to EPYC with Lisa Su and TSMC became king of pure-play foundry under Morris Chang.

i think there is a pattern here. a good engineer CEO have a vision of what a company can be while a CFO turn CEO only see the bottom line.

i don't know how long Intel can keep squeezing 14+++++++++++++++ nm.
No worries, I'm happy to keep investing in the most profitable companies regardless of the current misandrist prejudice that seems to be everywhere.
Google Duo End-to-End Encryption Overview [pdf]
Everyone always looks to consumer tech but at least where I am at the far more successful and interesting domains are outside of that (and frankly most serious jobs too).

I used to work for a lab doing coral reef sea floor mapping to track reef progression year over year, this was only possible because of recent advances in ml. This is just an example of course.

There is tons of work being done (and successfully used today) in healthcare domains, weather modeling, wireless rf tech, geospatial remote sensing etc etc etc.

My point is AI is being leveraged a lot and is moving forward quickly but the applications for average consumers that are both cost effective and highly useful are growing thinner.

If you want to see consumer tech examples that have been at least moderately successful I think some highlights are Google photos image recognition, current speech to text processing in most places (Apple google amazon), image processing in most smartphone cameras (wrt ml especially night photos) and unfortunately (IMO) a lot of content aggregation algorithms (YouTube, Facebook etc) optimizing for engagement.
Google Meet arrives in Gmail for iOS and Android as a giant new tab
No, he asked him to do 80% of what he would normally do (something like 95%) because the last 20% usually takes the same amount of the effort.

Development example: cover 80% of the possible file types an application might need to ingest. If users start asking for one of the 20% of filetypes then you can add said filetype later on.

Mowing the lawn: it's fine to skip the absolute edges of the lawn. You can come back with a strimmer later on to tidy up.
I know I'm answering late but I'd like to respond.

I appreciate your perspective, and I'm going to ask you to take another look at it. How much of what you've written is gender-specific? Only the first sentence identifies your gender.

A lot of women could have written something almost identical. This is not about one gender vs. another. This is a human condition of trying and failing to find close relationships.
iPayTotal Leaders in high-risk payment processing
yes it's called interacting with your local government through the proper channels to get the statue removed
Nah, it's still going to be a lot easier to animate a robot rather than train this one do what you want.
Your comment implies that "do[ing] this three times more" would be very difficult. That's totally incorrect. As the level of immunity rises, R0 goes down naturally. The effect is huge at even 20%. Giant at 50%, etc., especially with moderate social distancing. Moreover, there is every reason to believe that some people are just naturally resistant/immune to the virus. I believe Bergamo never got above 57% sero-positivity and even the USS Rosevelt was around 60% sero-positivity. It seems impossible to believe the other 40% weren't exposed. If (okay a big BIG if) 40% just don't ever get COVID, and 50% get it but have mild moderate symptoms (the data strongly supports this), NYC is basically done with this emergency.
It worked, I answered on Discourse because someone pinged me for an answer, saying "you've been summoned" haha.
Don't forget the Bruce Alyward incident.
I think Asians also need to push back a little against the "there are too many Asians in tech" viewpoint. We face a considerable amount of racism and underpromotion (especially into management roles), but there is rarely any activism that's directed towards resolving these problems. A lot of initiatives I have seen in tech explicitly exclude Asians, so I'm wondering if there's initiatives directed at us.
The way I read it, the conclusion is that Rust compiler is indeed slow when there are dependencies, even as "simple" as argument parsing?

Now I would like to read why is that, and is it only about the "rebuild time" or also about "make time", once the dependency is built and hasn't been changed. If it's about the rebuild time, I agree that it's not important. If it's a penalty for every use of dependency, then for my tastes it does reduce the number of iterations one can do during the fixed development time.
I don't think it's possible for the US president, they are limited to 10 years (two terms + two years if they were vice president and became acting president) which, afaik, is per life-time.

I agree though, it's not an issue, precisely because the German president has historically not acted partisan (even though he's usually a member of a party) and not be involved in day-to-day politics, so it's not too hard to find somebody that everybody can agree on. This may change if the office becomes more politicized, but I doubt we'll see somebody get re-elected after having paused for a term.
Managers are not eligible to join the one big union: https://iww.org/membership/
If you want to follow Reddit r/COVID19 is regularly posting preprints and has quite a number of professionals in the comments.
I don't think you quite understood the point: XHR was not fetches predecessor, because few people were using XHR directly when fetch was being designed and released.

superagent was released in 2011, axios was released in 2014 (jQuery also had an HTTP client that was nice but I don't know much about it). Both of these libraries were wildly popular and do more out of the box than fetch (which came later) does.

Standards should pave cowpaths. Fetch was designed in a bubble.
Being evolved ultimately from fish, we have an evolutionary history of sea-living. Therefore humans are sea creatures by your logic.
I remember reading somewhere (one of Gian-Carlo Rota's essays?) that one of the most powerful words in mathematics is "but." Can't recall the exact source, unfortunately.
Doesn't support NTSC. Better to force everyone to deal with irrational sampling rates than pretend they don't exist.
Pomodoro is magic and should be worshipped.

It's the only thing that seems to consistently work for me. When I was so emotionally overwhelmed I couldn't focus and it took me half a day to begin working, I would switch to doing pomodoros and rewarding myself for achieving a certain amount any given day. I tried punishing myself through not achieving too (via Beeminder), but that ended up worsening my emotional negative feedback loop, so I stopped.

Over the past decade, with tremendous help of my wife, I've managed to resolve some of my anxiety issues, so these days my main sources of work anxiety are: 1) trying to do a thing I have no first clue how to approach, and 2) the tension between spending time coding for money vs. doing hobby projects. If I do too much of the latter, I don't have money, but if I do too little, I burn out quickly. So I reward my work time with hobby project time. I keep a small pad on which I put a tally mark for each pomodoro spent on working. These tally marks represent pomodoros I can then spend on hobby projects (software on otherwise) guilt-free. This satisfies my emotional self, as I literally work to earn time to spend doing something else.

In practice, I end up buffering tally marks and then spending them in batches, this fits well with me being an independent contractor (I can work less today if I worked more yesterday), and also works well for the state of flow: if I have 10 pomodoros buffered up, I can let myself spend them all in 5 hours of continuous hacking.

I'd say the key thing here is getting rid of the guilt: I've agreed with myself that as long as I never exceed the accumulated pomodoro budget, I can spend it without feeling bad about not working.

(Well, the second big trick was to block HN on my router during work hours; this ensures I actually get to both earn and spend my pomodoros, instead of procrastinating here all day.)

(EDIT: Well, the third big trick, one which lets me keep anxiety down, is that I keep running journals - both personal and work - and I dump my train of thoughts straight into them whenever I start feeling even slightly anxious or confused. I almost never read them again, but the act of going through my thoughts in writing calms me down, and lets me pinpoint the sources of anxiety.)
Somebody needs to read GEB...
If you're on Windows or macOS there are good premade builds available at https://ffmpeg.zeranoe.com/builds/. If you want to build it yourself look at https://github.com/rdp/ffmpeg-windows-build-helpers (this supports more than just Windows).
Samsung Galaxy Watch 3 specs leak reveals display sizes, batteries, and more
I'm just now getting back into webdev after 3 years. Can you please recommend a good tutorial/demo using Hooks? Especially if it's using Typescript!

I strongly dislike the create-react-app project because it abstracts everything away.
Interesting. Wonder if it'd be possible to embed it for visualisation in a Go web app?

Was adding basic online chart capabilities to our SQLite publishing website a few weeks ago (eg:

https://dbhub.io/vis/justinclift/Marine%20Litter%20Survey%20... )

But if people could do Jupyter notebooks and visualise them like this too, that could be useful.

Hmmm, should probably set up some kind of survey on our website to ask... :)
There was suspicion. There was not "clear evidence" yet (in the WHO's hands, at least; China may have had evidence they weren't sharing).

Full timeline here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2020/04/17/trumps-fa...

Later that same day:

> Van Kerkhove added, however, that human-to-human transmission would not be surprising given the WHO’s experience with SARS, MERS and other respiratory pathogens.

> Van Kerkhove’s message was not lost on reporters. The Telegraph in Britain headlined its article on the news conference: “WHO refuses to rule out human-to-human spread in China’s mystery coronavirus outbreak.”

It only took a few more days for the evidence to emerge to the WHO's satisfaction, too. Widespread attempts to justify American officials' inaction in February/March based off the Jan 14 tweet are disingenuous.

> Jan. 19 WHO tweet: “An animal source seems the most likely primary source of this novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) outbreak, with some limited human-to-human transmission occurring between close contacts.”

> Jan. 20 WHO tweet: “It is now very clear from the latest information that there is at least some human-to-human transmission of #nCoV2019. Infections among health care workers strengthen the evidence for this.” At the time, there were only 222 confirmed cases in the world, including four deaths.
Inlining is also what’s behind the classic “C++ is faster than C” example of “sort()”.
Seems like a very idealogical thing to argue without evidence
The data on long-term immunity for COVID is non-existent, that is why the experts are being cautious. However, the data on animal coronavirus vaccines (not COVID) is very suggestive that yes they will be immune in a year and two. Coronaviruses do mutate but do not mutate like the flu virus does.
I'm not a business guy, but if Apple's going all-in on ARM processors, and then they expand into the server market (which the article speculates on), could we potentially see Apple opening a new product branch devoted to competing in the Cloud space with AWS, Azure, and GCP?

Imagine developing apps on an ARM-powered macbook, deploying onto ARM-powered servers owned by Apple, specifically for applications to be used on MacOS & iOS devices.
See SPECint2006 in [1] (ctrl-f “absolute performance”). SPECfp is maybe more like a 60% IPC lead, but less relevant to typical users.

I've taken some measurements of the A13's microarchitecture (mostly, its ROB size), and Apple has a bigger lead here than you'd expect. I don't want to share his data without permission, but the bulk of the code is at [2] and I'd be happy to help anyone able to run code on an iDevice repeat the same measurements.

[1] https://www.anandtech.com/show/14892/the-apple-iphone-11-pro...

[2] https://github.com/Veedrac/microarchitecturometer
You “thanked him for his help” at the same time as calling him a criminal.

No, it’s not generally criminal to make a mistake, and you’re assuming everything else you’ve written.
I worked on a project that basically was a very simple rules engine, encoding a bunch of domain knowledge in a digestible dashboard format, which happened to use a few predictive models' output as well to drive a few of the rules. The product owner insisted that "AI" be in the name, whereas I was reluctant to put lipstick on that pig. Ultimately (as usually happens if the product owner is your boss) the "AI something something" name stuck, but the whole branding of the endeavor rubbed me the wrong way (even though the product was actually somewhat useful).
At least in the USA it's my experience that when people say "Asia" they mean maybe what some other people would describe as "East Asia." This has been true my whole life, despite there usually being someone there to say "but what about India?"
Most sheriffs in USA are unopposed. Even if they do a bad job, you don't really have a choice in the vote.

Its not really a system I'm a fan of. The voting population only can pay attention to so many issues, we should have our representatives pick (and hold accountable) more positions.
No need to run it twice.

Basic syntax is

ffmpeg -i video -filter_complex "[0]split[vid][pal];[pal]palettegen[pal];[vid][pal]paletteuse" out.gif

ffmpeg 4.0 and later will automatically insert fifo buffers for the main video while one copy is analyzed to generate the palette.
I’m not really seeing that - a Tesla Model S seems to me like a much simpler device than a Mercedes S Class. Talking about overall complexity, not just software.
Sorry, I must be missing something in this blog post because the requirements here sound incredibly minimal. You just needed an HTTP service (sitting behind an Envoy proxy) to process a mere 500 requests/second (up to 1MB payload) and pipe them to Kinesis? How much data preparation is happening in Rust? It sounds like all the permission/rate-limiting/etc happens between Envoy/Redis before it ever reaches Rust?

I know this comes across as snarky but it really worries me that contemporary engineers think this is a feat worthy of a blog post. For example, take this book from 2003 [1] talking about Apache + mod_perl. Page 325 [2] shows a benchmark: "As you can see, the server was able to respond on average to 856 requests per second... and 10 milliseconds to process each request".

And just to show this isn't a NodeJS vs Rust thing, check out these webframework benchmarks using various JS frameworks [3]. The worst performer on there still does >500 rps while the best does 500,000.

It's 2020, the bar needs to be much higher.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Practical-mod_perl-Stas-Bekman/dp/059...

[2] https://books.google.com/books?id=i3Ww_7a2Ff4C&pg=PT356&lpg=...

[3] https://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/#section=data-r19&hw=...
That 5% of the world population comprises 83% of the world's native English speakers. Since we're talking about making modifications to the words we're using in English then I'd argue that 83% have considerable sway in that conversation - way more than the 5% sway you're arguing they should have.
"If". I would suggest, for freedom, that Abraham Lincoln did more to increase freedom by directly emancipating millions of slaves; for prosperity, I'd choose Albert Sabin, one of the vaccinators against polio. What, exactly, did Jefferson do that is comparable?
Well, you can always ride a bicycle for 10 minutes and find yourself in a thick jungle on top of a mountain, far removed from any hint of smog.
>>> Get an enterprise router/firewall.

I would have said the same some time ago, working in networking in a world largely made up of Cisco.

But then a few major vulnerabilities later and blog posts disclosing vulnerabilities that they refused to acknowledge when contacted. Then I'm not sure paying for enterprise equipment is a solution anymore.
Yeah; I think your timeline is off. I don't remember React being the very clear choice until probably 2017. It was still up in the air in 2016, and certainly moreso in 2015.

> by 2015 React "won" the framework battle.

Things have calmed down now. Its better, and has been for a couple years (not 5+ years). But, this isn't a battle. Its not a war. Just because things are calm now, doesn't mean they won't go crazy again.

The core of the issue has nothing to do with technology, or the frameworks, or programming languages. It has everything to do with how you, I, and Dave, who's reading this right now, respond when these new technologies come out. Just. Say. No. Play with them. Build toy projects. Give feedback. But for the love of God, at the end of the day, you Say No. No, we will not be integrating this. Looks cool though, we'll circle back in a year and see what progress you've made.