skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO a "podcast" is sound files stored on a server, indexed by a RSS/Atom feed, consumable by any client over HTTP. Spotify exclusive content should not be called podcasts.
particle/wave duality. it means neither fully encapsulates "light".
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OK, here's something big and way out there:

A global power station that taps 'natural' electricity in the ionosphere. Unlimited free power, already in the form we need. No emissions, no need for mining or damming or drilling.

And the term 'aurora power' has a really nice ring to it.

In more detail: a few days ago on HN there was an article (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23580362) about the risks of solar storms and EMPs on America's power infrastructure. Solar storms induce potentially huge electrical currents in the power grid. Rather than regarding it as a danger, why not find a way to harness it?

The Amateur Scientist column in Scientific American had a lovely article about electrostatic motors, powered by the Earth's electric field: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-amateur-scien... (Search for the article title, there's a PDF available elsewhere on internet)

The SF writer Murray Leinster made extensive use of ionospheric electricity in many of his novellas...

This is a civilization-changer. Like I said, big.
That really does seem like an implementation issue and not a connector standard issue. Connectors should at least be secured with through-hole pins for the casing IMHO.
Please choose another hill to die on. This is just not worth it. Clearly it's possible to do this on device like mozilla did it.
In what way are Chrome's dev tools better?

I got used to Firefox's dev tools and can't find my way around in Chrome's.
Newsletters are the easiest way to retain readers since it just pops in their inbox -- if the writing is good and/or specialized. Good design also really helps. When I managed the newsletters for a New York urban planning nonprofit, we averaged 23% open rates. Another good hook is when issues don't have a public web archive, or it's paywalled.

I saw the bundling mentioned in the Digiday article with the "Everything" brand, and I unsubscribed since I just wanted the business analysis and not other topics (like productivity advice) mixed in. Maybe bundling is okay for other readers.

I have to check out what Substack offers in terms of analytics and email design templates. Personally, I'm interested in series-based newsletters for storytelling that's pubdate agnostic (everyone gets the same first issue). I'm going to look closer at ConvertKit and BareMetrics.
And it also makes the adapter more expensive and fragile (they can overheat and kill themselves)
It seems very strange to me that we've had this radical flip in the last twenty years where kids don't give a damn about technology. When I was in high school we drooled over the latest slick laptop, or who brought a brand new massive flash drive to class, or who had the fastest internet connection at home. Not anymore. Tech has gotten so convenient now nobody has a clue when the first thing goes wrong with it. There was recently a to-do regarding a bunch of kids who failed a standardized test because the website took uploads in jpeg, png, or pdf and they couldn't figure out why submitting webp images didn't work.
This is the "You are holding it wrong" opinion I guess.

If A-heads are entertainment then why does it say A-head and not Entertainment? I am not at fault here if I don't know what the hell A-head is supposed to mean and just think that this news site is kinda garbage.

What exactly about the presentation of this article was I supposed to pick up on and see that it is entertainment. It is the exact same presentation than their "U.S. Seeks to Seize Iranian Fuel Bound for Venezuela" article. Is that one news or is it also entertainment?
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And surprisingly many cables even have just those two wires inside of them and can't carry any data
> You aren't reading carefully. I said and not due to other reasons.

I read it and ignored it as a completely arbitrary constraint that you added.

> There are legitimate reasons to complain to someone's employer about their behavior.

Sure.

> Coworkers complained to Google leadership because Damore's document made them feel unwelcome.

This is not a legitimate reason. First of all, because no one can tell whether it's actually true, since it's an entirely subjective feeling, justified by an aberrant interpretation of what he wrote. Andf then because "makes me feel unwelcome" is ridiculous when it's the opinion of a single employee in a company of 120 thousand.

The objective fact is that a number of employees were angry at someone who expressed a political opinion they didn't like and mobbed their employer to have him fired. They can claim whatever subjective feeling as a reason for this.

> Anger? No. Revenge? No. Harassing employers? Not really. Scare tactics? I can't recall anyone threatening Damore inside Google.

So, you deny that the people who asked for him to be fired were angry? That's pretty curious. You believe they were "feeling unwelcome", a pretty vague feeling, but you aren't able to detect a primal, generic anger in their actions.

The firing can easily be interpreted as a revenge against someone who expressed a political opinion they didn't like. They mobbed the employers until they had to do something as drastic as firing him. And finally, they didn't threat Damore, they actually damaged him, implicitly threatening everyone else who might want to voice similar opinions.

> You can make the argument that everyone lied: that no one really felt unwelcome due to Damore's document, and that Google leadership agrees with you that he did nothing wrong but felt pressured to fire him anyway and that...

Exactly. And sorry, but I think that what happened is extremely plain, and it requires a lot of ideological contorsions to deny the anger, the harassment and the revenge, all based on vague purported "feelings", "asked for drastic action but not harassed", etc.

> is acting in bad faith

An individual acting in bad faith lies to others; an adherent to an ideology might lie to him/herself first.
> I cannot believe that the one thing we have bipartisan consensus on is destroying strong encryption.

Most differences between republicans and democrats are superficial. Republicans don't really believe in small government no more than Democrats really believe in social justice.
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Turbine engines are quite expensive in comparison to piston engines.
>What we should also not do is treat people as experts just because they say they are.

Agreed 100%. Experts should make decisions based on open data that anybody can review. Also there are a lot of grey areas, so often we look for "scientific consensus" where a community of experts can debate issues and attempt to decide whats best.

The rest of your comment is basically that government does a bad job at a lot of things, but my view is we should fix government rather than reject it.

I live in a much smaller country, and here, I feel a small group of individuals _can_ make enough noise to shape policy. Sort of. At least they have a say. A good corruption watchdog would help - we don't have it yet, but at least there is talk of one. No climate policy. The whole witness K thing. Massive expansion of Defense this week. Cuts to the ABC. Err, dark times for Australian politics, but it _could_ be all rolled back at the next election. It will be a close race. I'm rambling now.
That has not been my experience at all. I find it easier to plug in USB-C in the dark.
If you don’t mind me asking, what are some of the top domains that you have sold on Sedo?
The SpaceX cockpit’s control setup also saves weight.

I suppose it also saves cost that could be better put into rocket development too.
Google is a big target for law enforcement though. The EU for example can't wait to slap them with another huge fine.

Go here and turn your "web and app activity", your "location history" and "ad personalisation" off, if they aren't already:

https://myaccount.google.com/data-and-personalization

If you do that, there's no evidence that Google is more privacy invading than DuckDuckGo, since you're left with taking their word for it. And frankly I trust a big, bureaucratic company more than I trust a startup. The ideal would be to trust technology (e.g. end to end encryption, open source) but that's not the case here.

Note that I also use DuckDuckGo in my Private Mode, as Firefox allows setting different search engine for Private Mode. I do that because it's better to compartmentalize your online personas, plus I keep my "web and app activity" in Google on, with deletion after 3 months.
> I think we all have realized over the last 2 decades that though JIT compilers (like the JVM) should be theoretically faster than a traditional native code compiler, this is rarely (if ever) the case.

This is a very broad claim. Do you have data to support it? It would mean comparing production-quality JIT and AOT compilers for the same language, which are hard to find.

I'm vaguely aware that LLVM's JIT ambitions never worked out because compile times were too slow, which (IIRC) they tried to mitigate by running fewer optimizations in JIT mode, which meant the quality of the generated code wasn't as good as AOT. I wouldn't call this production quality though, and even so it wouldn't allow you to make your claim as broadly as you are.
appears to be the search engine results _not_ the browser.

How if you type a url into the browser how do you stop the browser from sending that url to ddg to get the favicon?
"It's not about the government having your bank account details. Do you want scammers to have your bank account details? Identity thieves? If encryption is outlawed, you won't be able to keep it from them."
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I liked this quote from the page: "Tim Berners-Lee on home page:
Q. The idea of the "home page" evolved in a different direction.

A. Yes. With all respect, the personal home page is not a private expression; it's a public billboard that people work on to say what they're interested in. That's not as interesting to me as people using it in their private lives. It's exhibitionism, if you like. Or self-expression. It's openness, and it's great in a way, it's people letting the community into their homes. But it's not really their home. They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself. People don't have the tools for using the Web for their homes, or for organizing their private lives; they don't really put their scrapbooks on the Web. They don't have family Webs. There are many distributed families nowadays, especially in the high-tech fields, so it would be quite reasonable to do that, yet I don't know of any. One reason is that most people don't have the ability to publish with restricted access."

Basically was describing the concept of social networks before they existed on the web.
Spring Boot is setting the Java ecosystem back 10 years. But such missteps aside a lot of modern Java libraries have a more "plain old Java" attitude, and it's now reasonably idiomatic to write Java code in a style that doesn't depend heavily, or even at all, on reflection.

(Myself I'm interested to see how well this handles Scala, since avoiding reflection completely is pretty much the norm there).
With all due respect, Nim is a great language performance wise however I fail to see how is it different from D. Many advertised features have been present in D for a long time.

Syntax wise Nim it is a step back. It's hard to read and understand while any C/C++ dev will have next to no effort reading through D code. And of course while D is C ABI compliant it interoperates with C++ well too.

I seriously doubt that Nim or any other language in this regard has better metaprogramming than D.

Nim might have a speed overhead in certain tasks but that depends on a benchmark. Besides, does Nim have anything similar to NumPy which is actually faster? D does.
By the same logic, I would like to see every senator's crotch streamed live 24/7 please. Just to make sure there are no child abusers among them. Why stop at Senate, do the same to every law enforcement officer as well please. I'm sure that they, of all people, have nothing to hide.
The Greeks cared enough to change the country code from ISO-3166 GR to EL in all Eurostat official statistics.
some even suggested that horizontal makes your brain work differently
Does anyone know what the black box is that he's connecting to in the picture? Is that the logic analyser or just some other accessory?
I'm curious, how do you measure open rates for a newsletter? Many email clients prevent external content from loading as a security measure, thus precluding any tracking. Do you adjust the final figure to account for resulting underreporting? Or do you reckon more clients load external content than I think?
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Because it's the easiest (and sometimes only) way to get this functionality on major browsers and browser developers have no plans to implement this functionality natively.
You might pay for the curation. Finding what's interesting takes time as well, even if it's just scrolling through HN, and you will miss some things. If somebody saves you that time, that's probably well worth a few bucks a month, isn't it?
On quantum interferometer, I’ve always wondered if you could use it for navigation in space. Say you send a probe to another system. Navigating the uncharted system with precise gravity measurements that also expose its kinematics would be handy.
And somewhere was /dev/null ?
Seems they are cherry-picking their cases somewhat. This graphic [1] shows a comparison of European countries with Germany pretty much in the middle.

[1] https://de.statista.com/infografik/16765/todesfaelle-auf-aut...
But working with fluorine compounds is seriously dangerous, and the process requires literally hundreds of centrifuges working day and night for months to produce the required amounts of 238
You still have a GC and no value types.
Yep. I took a high school computer science class back in 1995. My end of year project was a website about my MUDing adventures and I put it up on the free web hosting from our ISP. I wish I still had it. I remember thinking it was pretty terrible even back then.
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By the way how DDG spend money on the ads like at bus stop, I already starting to NOT trust them. Spend the money on development of development of products.

Seems like time to get SearX a try now: https://searx.me
In the same sense Uber has spawned a new class of driving entrepreneurs.

The only asset a newsletter author has is his audience - with substack they won't even have that, in fact their publisher agreement explicitly prohibits the authors from asking any sort of contact information from their readers.
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That meet the staff part was delightful.
Events is something I can't give up, unfortunately. With the death of street press it's easily the best (and often only) way to find out about gigs and raves, and my friends organise events on facebook too.

Australia's IM is dominated by Messenger too.
> By entering your email address you are opting-in for transaction related emails

You realize that you can't send marketing emails without double opt-in, right? "Hey, you forgot to buy these ..." is definitely a marketing email.
looks like the DSLogic: https://www.dreamsourcelab.com/product/dslogic-series/
Server side JavaScript? That’ll never catch.

I love these examples of historical calls made too early...
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I agree that it is strange that, in all of the discussions surrounding relatively modern languages, and new technologies, while nim and rust and many others frequently get mentioned, so rarely it seems that anyone talks about D. Wonder why that is? I’m genuinely curious.
No one says it's not easy. Stealing mail is fairly easy too. Federal prison is not a fun place to be, though.
They have a standalone app called Local but I was talking about events within the main app. Being able to easily see what my friends are doing each weekend and what else is on in my city is great (especially as we no longer have weekly street press).
“The site owner” is Warner Brothers, they likely have a department responsible to keep movie-related websites up - and might well do it in-house, after the AOL acquisition. A site like this is basically free to host: a domain registration for 20 or 30 years will attract a massive discount, space on disk is probably less than 50MB, used bandwidth is minuscule... after you set up log rotation by file size and automated domain renewal, you can basically forget it exists.
Actually the JIT compiler often outperforms native code when hot because the latter doesn’t typically get compiled with PGO and the JIT is effectively PGO at runtime.

In addition, the JIT can perform optimisations that a native compiler can’t do, because the JIT can take different decisions if a field is null repeatedly, and thus elide the inclusion of code that supports the non null case leading to potential further optimisations due to dead code elimination and additional inlining opportunities. This is something that PGO won’t give you – the native code compiler will have to be defensive and compile everything, not just what it measured on a few runs of test cases.

In the JIT’s case, when an assumption is violated, it falls back to the interpreter and recompiles with the new knowledge of the change and thus includes more code than before.

The speed advantages of the JIT tend not to be seen on comparison sites like Debian’s language shootout because they don’t exclude start up time and rarely run the code a sufficient number of times to trigger the JIT’s compilation (10,000 method calls by default) to become hot. It’s why the JVM world has tools like JMH to do micro benchmarking.

Finally in the Graal case, it’s actually possible to use the Graal compiler as the hotspot replacement so you can see the difference in speed and behaviour between the two. Graal has some nice wins but also some disadvantages; it’s good at fixing some of Scales’s generated code which is why Twitter are big fans, but on regular Java code the advantages are not as pronounced.

The main benefit to Graal is the reduction in startup time, not execution speed at runtime. For long running servers you are better off with the JVM’s JIT for performance; for short start up times (like AWS Lambda) you could be better off with jaotc or Graal.
New features planned for Python 4.0 (2019)
Sounds like it could be an entertaining hobby though
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> why should you close your shower curtain?

Because otherwise you get water all over your bathroom floor?
Because Java is much cheaper in terms of development time and HR
Cross-Platform Task Apps
But node js is alive now.
As how a web site ought to be, online forever!
Although iOS background killing is obscure, it's well known that background service would definitely get killed(at max ~3 mins?), the behaviour is same across all devices and different OS iterations.

But in Android, apart from default doze, battery optimisation feature, each manufacturer implement their own aggressive app killing services and so managing background tasks becomes very hard. At least in recent versions of Android, app developer can navigate the user to disable battery optimisation for their app if needed, which would affect default system behaviour but out of luck if the manufacturer implements their own app killer.

Unfortunately, I didn't see any of the contact tracing apps of several countries explicitly asking users to disable battery optimisation/app killers or whitelist bg task permission for their apps and I think that's one of the main reasons for the supposed failure of contact tracing apps.
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Or mpv (for single videos, or local playlists), or mps-youtube, or youtube-dl.
Yup, should obviously be blocked on antitrust grounds but I doubt the current DoJ will do so.
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There are alt garbage collectors you can plug in or write yourself.

https://openjdk.java.net/jeps/304
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not everyone has the ability to travel. especially now. making remote a non negotiable. so if they are not 100% on board up front, i feel it would be a waste of energy to even apply.

i don't like to work for someone if they feel they are not getting what they want. that goes for everything i manage to negotiate. sure, i may be able to take advantage of their need and negotiate a bunch of perks, or a higher salary than what they offered, but if they are unsure about it, and as a result their expectations are extremely ly high, then that doesn't create a good work environment.

underpromise, overdeliver doesn't work in such a case
New building with a view, pool, rooftop, gym etc. Only comparable buildings are on 42nd st (which is another distinct area that I’m not a fan of). Personally I like the energy, lots of good restaurants, close to trains. You can get to Brooklyn in 15 minutes!
It is kind funny (or click-baitish) articles with "one click" seems. From a developer point of view, pretty much anything can be done with just one click.