skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What do we take for civilizon? We often are so humanicentric. Shouldn't we count ants and termites as civilization? I saw there is a reference about a book on ants in this thread.

The same is true for advanced galactic civilization: we are so ignorant of it, of what life is and what should or not qualify as living being. What is intelligence and wisdom? Recognition of plant communication is so recent, what lesson do you take out of it? How many dimensions actually encompasses us and how do they interact?

Take the Fermi paradoxes. Let's say your are some kind of very advanced civilization so advanced you know how to deal with all your civilization need to ensure perpetual sustainable forcastable needs of your civilisation. Let's say you manage to do that in a parcimonic way, avoiding to reveal your existence to other potentially hostile exogenous civilisations. Let's say that you are on top of that able and willing to explore other civilisations. At least in a first time in a way most likely undetectable. So your exploration project lead you to earth in a way like the hologram guy in code quantum. Would humans be the most interesting topic of interest for you? If so, would you see them as species you would think that you would label as wise, intelligent? Would it worth to decipher their language and try to give them some advises, with which chance that they would be followed? Given the way we treat each other and how we treat the rest of the biosphere, what opinion would you have of our species, seriously? Then, wouldn't it some form of wiseness to not reveal yourself until the species proves able to overcome the challenge of leaving peacefully and in harmony with the rest of the cosmos, or goes extinct, or destroy it if it seems to evolve toward a possible form of threat? After all, for such an advenced civilization, spawning a distinct civilization far less advenced such as us, or other forms of life/entity should be a peace of cake, so this would be no big loss, would it?
Static executables are a sweet spot between the craziness of dynamic dependencies (where we come from) and the idiocy of shipping a whole virtual machine for each program (where we seem to be going to). If we could just stop at that spot!
My guess is, that the moment his brain matches the perceived shape to the stored form of 8, it scrambles. That´s why he can feel the individual forms, like the circles inside the 8, just fine. Also why he can see the horizontal 8 as a mask. A mask is a distinct object, although similar in shape. Makes me wonder, if we have a stored shape for every object we've ever seen.
I can source every word I said - most of those links are in my previous comments.

If it would make a difference, I would. But after months of pandemic, HNers are still too intellectually lazy to do anything but do childish ad hominem attacks.
A few comments:

The patent and trademark systems around the World differ.

USPTO is very open to business method patents, and software patents.

In EPO countries software has to have a real World effect, mostly, to be patentable.

Patent agents/attorneys do specialise.

Defensive publication is cheap, no need to get a patent to defend yourself. Though if you want to retain a "secret sauce" as part of your product they could probably help there.

Passing Off is a thing in lots of jurisdictions, like an unregistered trademark. Geography and company size matter in UK/EU trademarks (don't know about others), and you have to trade to retain trademark protection.

>This may help in getting the patent, but it also enables someone else to exploit the same loop holes to file a patent for the copy of our invention by just changing the grammar/vocabulary because our patent was too generic. //

That's not how that works.

I think the takeaway of "capital management might mean patents are a bad fit" is a good one.

In the UK one of the first questions asked of most companies in Dragons Den (equivalent to Shark Tank; an investor seeking "game" show on TV) is "do you have a patent" because they are seeking secure investments. Investor expectations is a big reason to get a patent.

[I'm imagining the author is not in a Western country based on the dropped indefinite articles?? Some idea of their experience would help give authority to the article.]

tl;dr it's a good attempt at an overview, but some things you can't broadbrush. At least seek an overview tailored to your target market.
> OS: Android 8.1

Ops.

> Security: Face unlock

Hopefully not the only method.

> Dimensions: 50.6 X 96.6 X 7.4mm

Wonderful.

> Weight: 62.5 grams

More than wonderful.

> GPS Workout: Up to 4 hours and 45 minutes

My old Sony Xperia Compact records GPS all the day long. I used it to record a 8:00 to 20:30 bicycle ride one year ago. Sorry for the Palm.
UBI is not the same thing as a negative income tax. I would be sure to get a UBI this month, and next month, and the month after that independent of what I do. With a negative income tax, I might be employed this month, then lose my job and barely scrape by next month, and starve the month after that. And then sometime next year, after filing tax papers, I would get some money to keep me alive... this year.

It's true that in the grand scheme of things, averaged over many years, I would get the same amount from a UBI and a negative income tax. But at critical points in life, where my employment status changes significantly, the delay from the negative income tax would not provide the security that a UBI does.
I was on usenet before then and you did use your own name
What about YouTube Music? Google recently added a possibility to transfer your library there from Google Play Music: https://music.youtube.com/transfer
This should work for purchased and uploaded songs as well(https://support.google.com/youtubemusic/answer/9698084?hl=en)
Do you really think that ordinary civilians will sign up for a term of enlistment as police where ~40-50 officers are shot and killed every year? (This only includes deaths by gunfire alone and not knifes/assaults/beatings). AFAIK more police officers got killed in active combat than American soldiers in the last couple of years.

You also need to work 70-80 hours in high stress situations.
You have been throwing your plug in the bin.
No I would very much prefer client side validations instead of hogging the server every time client requires a feedback that concerns the rules.

For example: Playing backgammon, you choose a piece, you get highlights on where it can go. That requires the full working ruleset on the client side. There is no case to be made for requiring this feedback from the server no matter how confident you are that your server can handle it or how good client's internet connection is.
Quoting from their page:

> December 11, 2018

> Meet the new Palm

> Back in 1996, Palm released the PalmPilot and forever changed the mobile handheld game. Today Palm is back—same name but a whole new company. We’re a small San Francisco-based start up harnessing that same innovative spirit to help bring people out of their tech and into their lives.

It looks like they bought the rights to the name.
Same as It Ever Was
On the contrary, the question I had while building my product was - “Am I infringing someone else’s patent?”

That was years ago. Now, I focus on value creation first and let the product succeed before venturing into patent research.

Hardware might be much tougher though. Would be interesting to see someone with hardware experience to share their real life experiences.
It works for the Amiga because the Amiga has simple DRAM.

It gets harder and harder to do such external muxing as the ram gets more and more complex. With multiple banks, row open delays, bursts and more complex signalling (fast and faster ual data rate at lower and lower voltages) it's near impossible to control modern DRAM without a proper controller.

And that controller has to live inside a single chip. It would be insanity to try and have two different dram controllers multiplexing the same DRAM chips.
What do you mean by "Ops"?
M-16: A Bureaucratic Horror Story
Can’t believe the article doesn’t mention why it is called the Silurian Hypothesis [1]!

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silurian_(Doctor_Who)
Watching movies

Talking face to face with friends and family
There are smart-dumbphones with features like hotspots. The Nokia 8810 has WhatsApp, 4g and WiFi hotspots, as well as lots of other features previously only found in low end bonafide smartphones. Added bonus with the Nokia I mention is that KaiOS (formerly Firefox OS) probably doesn't ship telemetry to Google.
> You don't have to, most NixOS/Guix systems use binary caches.

Yes, Nix/Guix and Spack are up to my knowledge the only systems that got that right. The centralised recipe repository (and their functional nature) make scratch recompilation reliable and easy.

Now good luck to get that with most lock-file based package managers like npm, cargo or pip with ~1000 packages in your dependency tree that hardcode their dependency number...

The distributed approach of some package manager often come with a security cost unfortunately. And that's a problem for static linking.
This particular judge is an Obama nominee with an activist track record[0]. I expect this will be stopped by a higher court before it takes effect.

[0] https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/02/justice-still-denie...
Punch Nazis is bankrupt in any case: Punching an ideologue makes you feel good, but it won't change their mind. So it serves your own need for righteousness but little else.

"But it worked in WWII", someone will say. No. They didn't punch Nazis in WWII. They killed them. They took to them with rifle and bayonet, bombed their towns and factories, and forcibly dismantled their party and government.

You don't need to convince the person if you're unilaterally revoking their right to live. You just shoot, bomb, and stab them. Punch a Nazi is bankrupt because it doesn't solve the problem it purports to. You reduce Nazi headcount by convincing them and by giving people sane alternatives so they don't end up throwing their lot in with clowns celebrating Hitler's birthday or by straight up killing them, and Punch does none of those.
oh cool, I gave up with boardgame.io in the end (I liked the API design though) because I spent 99% of my time trying to rip it out of react (both server and client) so I could use it in a non-web situation. (I have a game engine with high-level JS, and the game server/client is only one small part of it)

Maybe I can go back, although I'm writing game logic much faster now I'm in NIH territory, it would be nice to contribute to someone else's project
Yeah, true! If you scale your browser window to mobile-size-ish, you'll see a picture that compares it to a SIM card, that's a great comparison.

The second comparison is also visible on desktop, but it's not a very obvious one, the CC size is kind of hidden, so could be better.

Weird to display different pictures for mobiles than for desktop, especially when the mobile picture is way better than the animation desktop sees.
The mini pro or ninebot S blows them away. We rent with handles bars in dc
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The Austrian Pirate Party's UBI model specifically states (or stated, last time I checked) that the monthly UBI payment should be unseizable.
Inside chips it's common to have dual port ram. But it's really expensive.

I'm not aware of any designs which have large amounts of dual-port RAM as main system memory.
Customary Units and Imperial measurements are bad, we all know that. However, play Devils Advocate for a moment to see the benefits of these allegedly backwards measurements. Take the foot. This is twelve inches. You can divide a foot into thirds or sixths without any recurring numbers. This is of practical application.

If you are working with some DIY task and everything is in Imperial measurements then it all works out as easy as Lego pieces.
>>> This makes me wonder what kind of trading systems can actually have any kind of edge.

The secret is simply to have an edge.

If you're trading on behalf of clients. You don't care what happens to the market because you don't depend on the high or low to make money.

If you're buying or selling for yourself, same thing. Guess who's buying coal and oil, power plants and refineries and assimilated. They sell what they have and buy what they need.

If you're making money on arbitrage, making sure the New York and the London stock exchange have the same USD to GBP to EUR price and vice versa. You could make money but you better be faster than other corporations and more careful at the same time because you're not the only one doing that. Anytime you buy one side, the other side might have changed because you can balance out.

There are clear factors that drive many markets. When the weather is cold people consume more energy for heating. When it's hot, they go out to make barbecues and buy more sausages. When there is a drought or crop sickness, wiping agriculture exploitation, prices of food and meat go up. That's some examples that are easy to understand.

The stock market is not about speculation. It's about buying real items in the real world and providing services.
Yup, that's the only one I can remember.
Here are some examples of statements / content, I am curious as to whether they would be considered inciting violence:

- "Let's make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they're not welcome anymore, anywhere. We've got to get the children connected to their parents"

- "How do you resist the temptation to run up and wring her neck?"

- (A parody or fictionalized depiction of a politician being murdered - decapitated or shot.)

- "I could take him behind the gym. That's what I wish"

- "Throw milkshakes at them. It's only a milkshake"

- Op-Ed by politician entitled "Send in the Military"

- "Come and take it" (pointing to their gun)

It seems as if it's upto the platform to decide when they can be charitable in the interpretation and when they will err on the side of caution. Given the demographics of Facebook, I wouldn't be surprised if it goes the way I'd expect it to.
Android 8.1 was released in August, 2017, so it's very old. Although, it did have it's latest update just one month ago, so hopefully the security would be alright, even if it doesn't have the latest features.

But my guess is that the target market for Palm doesn't really care about the latest features, they care about gear that works and fits normally in a hand. So probably not a big issue really.
Maemo Leste – Thirteenth Update (April, May, June) 2020
I’m guessing “oops”, in reference to Android 8 being a few years old.
You say that as though 1.14 million dollars is a lot.
Military small arms ammunition must be jacketed, per the Hague Convention.
There is a general misconception that advanced modern technology equates to an advanced civilisation. Looking back to ancient Greece, Mesopotamia or Egypt there were a lot of interesting ideas implemented in those societies that we haven't even thought of today. Ancient Greece had a very interesting healthcare system for example which was passed down to ancient Rome in some form. A lot of countries today have advanced weaponry, rockets, digital computing but haven't managed to implement a solid healthcare or education system.
Glancing the frontpage and seeing a bright red heart in the corner of my eye my first thought was: How did click-bait like this make the frontpage.

After reading the full title I have to say, this is the most appropriate use of a non-baseplane unicode character - or whatever characters like this are called - I can imagine.
What facebook needs is a dislike button and making it invisible to other users when it reaches 3 dislikes. That's how an organized society work. In facebook they only started with likes that's why bad post are amplified because there are engagement even if lots of people dislike the post.
As much as it's a fun story, I don't think an F-15 would be dispatched for such task, even on an emergency basis (unless they were bound to return to Florida).

Send in a C-12 and the job will get done. Unless you have, I dunno, less than 4h until the launch.
If it's the "before" you're questioning ...

You can't do it afterwards: USA has now aligned with the rest of the World as a first-to-file patent system.

Your product, if available to the public, would be a prior art citation against your patent.
I'd like to add a couple of resources that I've found useful -

1. All courses by Will Sentance on Frontend Masters

2. Eloquent JavaScript
Right you are, $339M at current exchange rate. Anyway its silly money.

The problem with open source platforms are that they generally provide tooling to target only generic motion systems, and generic motion systems are poorly matched to most specific tasks when it comes to real world metrics. Even if they can perform a task, they tend to be cost, time, space or programming inefficient, require additional complexity (eg. vision system pairing or very high complexity actuators/effectors), come with reliability challenges, etc. Efficient execution relies upon whole domain conception, which includes software, process engineering, mechanical engineering, food safety, cost, reliability, serviceability, manufacturability, IP protection and other considerations.

The domain is simple in conception, but very complex in execution.

The robots by this competitor are not reconfigurable at all, they have one for burgers, one for stirfries, one for basically boiled rice stew, one for ice cream, one for drinks, etc.

We are far more advanced.
I have tools which are almost all customary units.

Sockets, Allen wrenches, calipers, wrenches, drill bits, taps/dies. All customary. Its just what's available used here.
For what it's worth, this is really good quality writing.
The last release of NeXTSTEP was in the 90s. It’s fascinating how many of the concepts that are still the same, or similar. DNS, TCP/IP, NFS, FTP, resolv.conf, tar, ICMP... Some of them are outdated, but still. The Unix paradigm has held up well IMO.
Generally speaking static compilation has had 30 years of head start across multiple OS and hardware architectures, until dynamic compilation was even an option on mainstream computing, it was after all the only way, with dynamic only available in research platforms like what was going on at Xerox PARC.

So this widespread lack of knowledge that static is actually more mature than dynamic is kind of ironic.
The Diamond-Square Algorithm
The author apparently saw comments that the article is dated 2013 and updated the date at the top of the page to 2020-06-22.
Your politicians sold you out to big business and the internet showed the majority of population that they are being deceived by the elites and the population is feeling the deception because they are now becoming poorer because of the decisions of the business that owns the politician. It will take time to get back to good USA again because it took decades to destroy it.
I've seen people use this word a bit recently. I assume it's a mis/alternative spelling of oops?
Ireland: Extraordinary Times Brings Extraordinary Party Support
In my childhood, I was in an area with so-called community-policing (not in the US). It was a living nightmare. Our family was glad to get out of the area.

Even knowing that US police are harsh and trigger-happy, I find it deeply amusing that first world citizens protected by the world's strongest military will talk about community policing.

Pass laws to reform the police. Abolishing them will just ensure that power hungry and petty tyrants fill the void. And these folks will happily beat and murder any and all who act against them, tax/toll all economic opportunities (roads/bridges/vendors, etc), keep the local politician and bureaucrats in their pocket, assault/abuse any woman on the streets - and no-one will dare to report anything.
And of course, both kind of foot are defined in meters.
The Amiga "chip" memory was actually quite slow to use, precisely due to it being accessed by both the CPU and chipset - the solution was to add "fast", CPU-only RAM. The address space was unified between "chip" and "fast" memory, but the underlying hardware arrangement was different.
I've been thinking of buying one of these, but waiting for the V2 - the battery life and large bezels on these isn't great.

But if they keep the size, reduce the bezels, and bump the battery up they'll definitely have my money.
Not the OP, but I have.

I've spent years doing the work that you specify above, and pandas & notebooks are probably one of the least good tools for it. SQL is super fast and useful (and everyone understands it, at least in the data world), while dplyr and ggplot2 are basically a DSL for this work, while pandas is an irritatingly bad clone of base-R which manages to keep the bad parts of both Python and R, while having the good parts of neither.

I really feel like you should try Rmd with R if you like the notebook flow, as it's similar but much much better.

If you really want to stick with Python, then org-mode is a much better notebook than anything else.
https://media.giphy.com/media/GAXMzzd2XElnG/giphy.gif

Life will find a way.
poor security & quality. it's ok for doing hw compartmentalization (throwaway/burner) but they die like flies.
Dolphins learn from their peers to use empty shells to catch fish
How are you going to carry something thick in your pocket? It's going to have pretty strong forces applied to it if that pocket bends.
A simple Reddit client written as a Vue component
World record of concision for an academic paper's abstract? (1991) [pdf]
Understanding Machine Learning Through Memes
If apple can risk it all by going into the music industry then I think your small startup can take the risk.
There's another place to store information which isn't in the genes themselves but in the mapping of codons to amino acids. This location would be invariant across generations.

This paper on "biological SETI" made some noise when it came out and then disappeared, literally gone from arxiv, perhaps because the crackpot smell is too strong? I am curious if it merited either debunking or further study but didn't see much of either. If there is a signal there, it seems more plausible that prior inhabitants put it there than ET.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190925044740/http://arxiv.org/...
The video linked in the article gives a nice overview and shows videos of different foraging techniques used by dolphins.
Minimists still need to.meet their friends and athletes still need to measure their distance or reps.
sigfpe is too simplistic and conflates a few different aspects of atomic spectra, photons and EM fields.

The sci.physics reference for this is Baez & Weiss:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/photon/schmoton.htm

If you have read that, you know the number of photons is just another quantum number, with aspects of uncertainty, superposition and entanglement, so this will not be a surprise:

https://phys.org/news/2019-08-photon-number-quantum-superpos...
Kevas is asking why he would use Prisma instead of raw SQL. There are numerous user testaments on this very page from developers explaining why they prefer Prisma over raw SQL. But it is much more fun to just call us "gobbledegook" instead of engaging with the people who are right here.

If you scroll down the page, you will see a different thread where Kevas compare Prisma to left-pad.

Kevas is a grumpy HN troll, and I have no patience for that.

As you will see from all other interactions on this page, on twitter and on our 30.000 developer strong Slack community, we engage happily and constructively with anyone who comes with curiosity and an open mind. But if you come with negativity we will ask you to find another community to hang out in.
We have micro-disposable income.