skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, here is what I'm working with as of now. Moved recently (like everyone else) and still getting an office setup, but this is the basics. As far as height, I'd say it's a very ergonomically sound setup when in kneeling position with the cushion in between your feet. Laptop just below eye level, arms level, etc.

I think the biggest benefits are it forces you to move and adjust a little bit more than in a chair, and forces you to use your muscles to sit properly much more. Would highly recommend to anyone.
https://ibb.co/XYN3HFx

The coffee table is https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/lisabo-coffee-table-ash-veneer-...
The sheepskin is from sheepskin town, but any cushioning that softens the floor for your ankles/knees is good.
Along those lines, this is more or less where I was trying to get:
https://ecolabsblog.com/2010/11/29/data-information-knowledg...

Basically, these are the same as the building blocks of library and information science.
You know there is the idea of selling software for a one time cost.
Yes, I got the same impression. It seems like they're also confusing a small number of official reports with old war stories on a website for veterans who used to be stationed there. Overall this story seems far less interesting than the 2004 Nimitz incident.
Is modern Griffon usable with Clojure? There’s ancient talk of it being supported via a plugin, but that seems to be before a big re-write and I can’t find mentions of Clojure in the documentation since.
> 2) A plethora of objects to smack into

On the ocean? I'd say that not running into objects that raise high from an ocean would rank pretty low on the scale of control problems that are hard in 2020.

"up to 500 km/h" are military devices built for maximum speed at minimal distance from the surface. A short distance people mover aircraft that tries to trade speed for energy conservation would have very different numbers. And it would be far more nimble, by being able to quickly raise out of the ground effect level, than swimming ocean-surface vessels that are already quite capable of not hitting objects on the ocean (you'd definitely want to improve on the state of that art though).

The biggest issue with this concept, outside of the clearly problematic cost/market size ratio (because designing planes is never cheap) would surely be that an aircraft traveling in ground effect lacks the altitude energy store that allows conventional aircraft to deal surprisingly well with engine outages (or sensor issues) outside of short time windows during start and landing. You'd probably need to spend a lot of mass and effort on making the fuselage properly boatable in emergencies even if it's never intended to swim more than once.
> Even if you don't want to compare yourself to others, comparisons are everywhere.

Where you live and your social circle dictate the comparisons that are made. These are not universal - moving to another part of the country will result in fairly different standards. Some of my friends (now acquaintances?) liked to spend a lot of money at expensive restaurants, hotels, etc. It's my choice whether to spend time with them (I don't spend much). Folks who need to change their wardrobe every so many months? Not in my circle.

Life is great if you set your own standards. It's liberating. Also, I've learned that the guy who makes $1M+ on Youtube is also living a very different life - one I don't want to have. Yes, I'd love the money, but not the sacrifices.

I don't get paid as much as most SV types - but whenever I audit my life, I realize that's the only thing "missing". Almost everything in my life is the way I wanted it to be (by design). I know what I value, and I both consciously and unconsciously achieved it. More money would be awesome, but do I want to sacrifice what I have? I doubt it.
If you’re in a windowless or heavily-shaded office with consistent lighting, probably not.

But if you’re in a normal house in a room that gets plenty of lighting from outside, absolutely. I tend to run my external monitors at 0% in the earlier morning, 20% in the mid-morning, 40% by the afternoon, sometimes up to 70% on a particularly bright summer day, and down to 0% in the evening (and I’d take it towards −20% at times if there was such a thing, their minimum brightness is nowhere near as dim as my laptop’s screen’s minimum brightness, which is even acceptable for use in a completely dark room; their 0% is its 25%, while their 100%s are similar). Leaving them at the 100% they came at would be awful, it’s a little too bright for my situation even in the middle of the day, let alone the evening.
> I didn’t finish my Ph.D. in political science

That's a worthwhile accomplishment in itself.
It couldn’t possibly be that they don’t want to piss of the consoles where 80% of their revenue is derived?
Asciimatics is awesome! I was able to create this terminal-based presentation tool (with colors and effects) using it: https://github.com/vinayak-mehta/present
Natural monopolies are physical monopolies. There's literally only so much room on the Earth's surface. So to the extent that anything is being stifled here, it's because two objects can't occupy the same space at once, not because governments have anything to do with it.

And the challenges airplanes face are very physical as well. It's not really the government's fault if no one proves ever capable of making flying cars safe enough for the airspace above cities to be full of them. At some point it's just an intractable engineering challenge and the limits of human ability.

Personally, I'm doubtful that flying cars will ever be a reality in our lifetime, but the only possible way I envision them ever working is if they're 100% autonomous and owned and operated as a fleet.
Funny you mention that, this reminds me of Windows task management. Windows automatically gives a popup to terminate an application when it detects an application is unresponsive.

This happens regularly when I open large files in some app, they take a fair bit of time to load, Windows offers a popup to kill the app after few seconds. Have to carefully wait and not click anything.
Aren't flying cars called, "helicopters"?

Perhaps a bit too snide, but helicopters can take off and land vertically and can carry roughly as many people as most passenger vehicles. And they're mature technology that has been around for over half a century at this point. The problem of moving people through the air without a runway for takeoff and landing has been solved for 60+ years.

What advantage does this flying car have over a helicopter? It's a quad rotor craft so presumably is mechanically simpler (no swashplate) but at the expense of lower speed and reduced ability to operate in the wind. Also it means a crash if any of the four rotors fail (no autorotation). It can also drive in the road like a car. But on the other hand it looks like it seats just one person, and in an open top vehicle so it'll be uncomfortable in the rain.

Helicopters are already supplemented by cars in most use cases. I don't really see the advantage of a flying car over flying a helicopter to the nearest heliport and driving in a car the rest of the way. The only real advantage is the fact that there is no vehicle change. But that comes at the expense of using a vehicle that makes major sacrifices to both fly and drive on roads.
I actually hadn't considered the idea that they might have a financial interest in grid security. It makes a certain kind of sense.
Yes I think the focus is on RFICs where these take up a lot of die area. Potentially that's really important for more exotic processes like InP, GaN, or even diamond, where wafer space comes at a huge premium.
I suspect self-driving is much, much easier when you get up above ground clutter.
That is not what they are referring to. For some strange reason there is a myth that you can’t ship an app on iOS if Apple has a competing service. Even though there are all sorts of existence proofs that it isn’t truth.
What Zeno’s paradoxes can tell us about the hard problem of consciousness
Until someone else puts spyware on your phone....
Save yourself time and watch the Mick West debunking videos... https://youtu.be/Q7jcBGLIpus
Incredible. I grew up in Italy, studied Latin, and never heard of TWO Senecas. The most famous one is the Younger Seneca. The Elder was simply his father.

From wikipedia:

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (54 BC – c. 39 AD), known as Seneca the Elder.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (c. 4 BC – AD 65),[1] also known as Seneca the Younger, is the one that married to Pompeia Paulina.

Both born in today's Spain (Hispania, then a Roman province), but both educated in Rome.

From the Wikipedia's page on Seneca the Younger [0]:

In AD 65, Seneca was caught up in the aftermath of the Pisonian conspiracy, a plot to kill Nero. Although it is unlikely that Seneca was part of the conspiracy, Nero ordered him to kill himself. Seneca followed tradition by severing several veins in order to bleed to death, and his wife Pompeia Paulina attempted to share his fate.

Also interesting about Seneca the Younger [1]:

His life took a sharp turn in 41 A.D. once Claudius became the emperor as he exiled Seneca to the island of Corsica on the premises of supposed adultery with Julia Livilla, the emperor’s niece and Caligula’s sister. During his exile, he wrote a letter to his mother consoling her during his exile. Eight years later, in another twist, Agrippina, mother of future emperor Nero and wife of Claudius secured permission for Seneca to return and for him to become her son’s tutor and adviser. Nero later became one of the most notorious and tyrannical emperors in the history of the Roman Empire raising even more questions about Seneca’s character. Not surprisingly, Seneca’s wealth came largely while in service to Nero.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seneca_the_Younger#Death

[1]: https://dailystoic.com/seneca/
I'm sure it seems that way, without the stress of fighting over decisions related to kids.

What last name would the kids get?
Question for googlers (and ex-googlers). Is there anything out there that's as convenient as /streamz, but in opensource form?
NP completeness seems much more relavent than GIT to me (still not really fully relavent. The question is can computers rivial humans, not can they prove all provable theorems in reasonable time, since clearly humans cant do that)
Yeah, arbitrary vandalism was the first option I considered. Can't rule it out, although whoever did this seems to have shown more caution/coordination than you'd expect from a couple of drunk idiots taking potshots at street signs.
Wow, those are gonna turn someone into ground meat at some point. I'm not sure that having that many propellers at knee and waist level is a good idea. These seem like less safe helicopters?
Someone else mentioned job security/contracts as a possible motivation. It makes sense.

I'm less sure about the terrorist angle. The point of a terrorist act is to advance or discourage a specific political agenda; that only works if you're clear about who you are and why you did it, though. These guys never did that (although maybe scaring PG&E into securing their facilities roughly fits the definition of goal-oriented violence, even if it wasn't motivated by politics).
You mean like making a mistake and clicking “yes” and giving permission to all of your text messages to a third party that can then log it and use it to take over accounts?

How many people trusted the “no logging VPNs” before the ES hacks showed they were in fact logging everything?
The mythology surrounding the Intel tools and libraries really ought to die. It's bizarre seeing people deciding they must use MKL rather than the linear algebra libraries on which AMD has been working hard to optimize for their hardware (and possibly other hardware incidentally). Similarly for compiler code generation.

Free BLASs are pretty much on a par with MKL, at least for large dimension level 3 in BLIS's case, even on Haswell. For small matrices MKL only became fast after libxsmm showed the way. (I don't know about libxsmm on current AMD hardware, but it's free software you can work on if necessary, like AMD have done with BLIS.) OpenBLAS and BLIS are infinitely better performing than MKL in general because they can run on all CPU architectures (and BLIS's plain C gets about 75% of the hand-written DGEMM kernel's performance).

The differences between the implementations are comparable with the noise in typical HPC jobs, even if performance was entirely dominated by, say, DGEMM (and getting close to peak floating point intensity is atypical). On the other hand, you can see a factor of several difference in MPI performance in some cases.
> Finish things. No matter how ugly it is. Even if you have to half-kill yourself to drag it that last inch over the line. Congrats, you've beaten everyone who never finished.

With the caveat that you should abandon things you've realized you don't value. I've seen far too many people spend too much time to "finish what they started" as a principle, even when they no longer valued the goal. Time is a zero sum game. All that time you spent on it is time you could have been spending on the other goals you have.

People like me have more goals than time. Gotta pick wisely.

> Any action is greater than no action. It doesn't matter how much you suck at something. Do it. Congrats, you've beaten everyone who never started.

Similar comment :-) Too many times in my life I was glad I didn't act (where all choices involving action would have led to negative consequences).

> That's not who you're competing against. You're competing against the pool of real people a company / project could afford to hire, who are available to hire.

Depends on your goals. For most of my projects, I'm competing with myself, not with others.
What is the purpose of an article about monopolistic business practices?

Very recently, Apple became a two trillion dollar company and a single man's net worth is 10% of that. Meanwhile, over a million in his country have recently filed for unemployment.

I really don't understand the leap from the article to ridiculous conspiracies (and derailing the discussion).
It’s awful that this happened to you, and I appreciate you providing your insight as to why you personally decided to go through with it. However, I’m still curious why most other women do so–those who have no reason to separate themselves from their family.
Any sort of fixed token without expiry is poor security .

No security protocol is perfect, however using a private key aws style , or oauth2 short expiry token like google , GitHub and many others is vastly better than Basic auth like system sendgrid is using in the older API.

There are many ways without changing API you could have improved security, Rate limit , IP whitelist, force frequent password changes, force use pass phrase etc and other techniques could have mitigated this issue
Guardian VPN developers successfully challenge App Store rules after rejection
In the US, house slaves were no less slaves just because they could boss the plantation slaves around. Women in Saudi Arabia do not have autonomy, and they're treated as property by the legal system and by the culture. You're responding to somebody who said "effectively slaves," an attempt at softening the language that you're taking issue with. What other word in our language conveys that a person is property?
I don’t know that people necessarily expect immediate responses, I don’t think you’re an outlier. But the article is explicitly calling for accurate chat status for the purpose of being able to chat synchronously and immediately. And there are some behaviors that indicate, if not the expectation to get immediate chat responses, at least the signal of being unwilling to use chat until responses will be immediate. I’m referring to how some people start their conversation with “hi”, and wait to hear back before telling you what they want to talk about.
So your “source” is a HN post with no citation? You can simply compare prices on the NYT’s website and compare them to the iOS app price to find out that this isn’t true either.
didn't think about that, great point!
They do list some prices for their managed service - I agree it's not clear what to expect you have to pay for self-hosting beyond the "community edition". At least eg ms sql has a pretty clear free/dev tier and a pretty straight pr core/price license.

https://cloud.arangodb.com/home

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server/sql-server-2019-p...
I don't understand why this is called a terror attack.
From the article it seems managers got spooked, sure. But it doesn't read as if the general population was.

Granted, it's possible the attack failed to achieve its goal and that's why the population is not terrorised. But even then: an actual terrorist could've easily kept track of news on damages caused and how close to great effect they had come. That would surely incentive them to try again. But I'm not aware of that happening.

So what is the terror angle here?
What that practically means is power that would have normally come through those substation would be delivered by some other source, and thus go through a different set of substations.

What most people don't understand is that it's important that the demand + the transmission losses = the production, not just as a whole, but also for each link. To help with that most places don't produce 100%, and a lot of higher power links are redundant. But that can only cover so much. If it's not a high demand day you can probably source power from other providers, but sometimes that's not enough.
Unhappiness working from home has little to do with remote work
You're making it sound harder than it is. I'm literally just looking at a list of all the local times for the meeting's participants, so not even worrying about time zones at all. The calendar app itself already knows what everyone's time zone is and does all the time zone arithmetic for you. So it sounds pretty similar to what you're describing with the global view.
> Why is it OK that hundreds of thousands of people are dying because they are mostly older? Should we amend our laws so it’s OK to murder anyone above a certain age, because they’re elderly so who cares?

This is the worst possible interpretation of that statement, and not at all the argument they're going for.

The argument is that lockdown policy is being made over what's turned out to be barely noticeable in the larger picture, and those policies are causing a lot more suffering than necessary.

In other places where I see this argument, they often also say that lockdown-style measures should be enacted for the vulnerable, leaving the world business-as-usual for everyone else so that they can support the vulnerable.
I know Swiss and Singapore used to have them but I think both may have since been eliminated. I don’t think any US carriers do unless United has one and I’m pretty sure BA doesn’t anymore now that OpenSkies is gone, so that doesn’t leave many obvious contenders. Thai? LH?
There's a bit more subtlety than that. If I press down on a button, then move my mouse off of it, it will be deselected. This is normal and not too hard to implement your model. But, if I keep my mouse button held down, and drag back on, it will become re-highlighted, and it will go through. Note that only the button I originally clicked on will have this behavior. I just tested this right now in the ImGUI demo, so clearly per-widget state is tracked (or at least which "widget" is the one that has the mouse's active state): https://github.com/ocornut/imgui/#demo

If you think this is obscure, try implementing a slider widget any other way. You need a way to keep track of which slider you were dragging, even when the mouse cursor leaves to another.
This is wonderful advice. I went on a news hiatus some time ago and can attest to its benefit.
Yeah, but the point here is that everything’s relative: #000 is the blackest black possible on screens, so within the scope of the screen if you use it you can’t get anything blacker. Within the scope of the screen, the items you describe won’t be #000.
Well it's a good thing the author didn't claim those things equivalent then. Or he might have seemed silly.
Need a game demo like solitaire.
There are increasing scale distortions as you go farther from the equator, but angles (and thus shapes) are always conserved.

Tissot's indicatrix is a way of visualizing both scale and shape distortions on maps. It shows how equal-radius circles drawn on the Earth are distorted by a given map projection. This is what it looks like for the Mercator projection: [1]. This is what it looks like for a map projection that does not preserve angles (shapes): [2]. The latter projection would produce very misleading road maps far away from the equator. Intersections would get squished in the North-South direction, so the angles between roads would be wrong.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissot%27s_indicatrix#/media/F...

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tissot%27s_indicatrix#/media/F...
Will More Nuclear Explosions Make Us Safer?
For a while, up until the T480, you had both an external and the internal battery. So if you had a few batteries it was pretty trivial to swap them while on the go--and sometimes you really do need 18 hours of battery life on a laptop, even if you aren't pleased about it.
Reading black text on a pure white computer screen capable of a decent contast ratio is more akin reading black text on tin foil with a studio light behind you.
Sometimes I think the MSM is deliberately writing articles so they will trend on HN.
so that slideshow I linked was probably written by an intern or something - but here's a serious analysis of the tech dated 1999 from DTSO (australian army) that states: "There are no apparent technological barriers to the
successful design, manufacture and operation of WIG craft"

"http://www.seaphantom.com/pdf/MILITARY_ANALYSIS_WIG_AIRCRAFT...
This is exactly what is described in Bestbuy three comments upthread, but in reality what is happening is the batteries are dumped in the trash.

What _really_ happens to the batteries that you responsibly deposit in the recycling container at your local supermarket?
Of course I researched the decision outside of HN. But just the superficial exposure you have to so many different things that you wouldn't have by just browsing around is invaluable. And just by hearing something like a name can take you on a tangent that can be very fruitful.

Case in point: I'm very familiar with Kafka, and the discussions on here usually lead to hinting about new technologies that you may not hear of just by reading a Kafka threat. Things like NATS, Jetstream, liftbridge, pulsar, and the list goes on. Having that kind of exposure just knowing that alternatives are out there, and people having real-world experience with them is really useful.
I don't know about VASP because it's proprietary, but I have compared other DFT code on 64-core Bulldozer with 12-core Sandybridge nodes. I don't remember the numbers, but the high core count was rather effective in reducing the communication costs with all free software.

https://www.archer2.ac.uk/ will run a lot of that sort of thing. I think at least cp2k and CASTEP are included in the benchmarks, but they're listed somewhere.
This paragraph is baffling:

>According to a court document, Ramesh is in the US on an H-1B visa and has a green card application pending. "Although he and his employer recognize that his guilty plea in this case may have immigration consequences, up to and including deportation, his employer … is willing to work with him regarding the possibility of his remaining in the country and continuing to work for the company," the document [PDF] says.

Why would you re-hire someone who quit and wiped your servers?
Most of the time the framework is not in the top 10 bottlenecks of your application.

Believe me (or not) when I say that Amazon, among all FAANGs, could be the most data-driven, at least in the teams I knew, almost to an excess.