skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
UofT (University of Toronto) does 10 minutes.

It works really well, except for non-classes no one is ever sure if you were told UofT-time or normal-time. For example if you agree to meet with a prof or ta outside of class..

I think I would have preferred if they just always scheduled things at "xx:10 to yy:00" instead of having the ":10" as implicit.
>Once that technology is developed by its very essence it spreads rapidly almost like the development of the wheel.

And the Fermi Paradox says that if it did, we would see evidence of its effects... but we don't, which imples FTL isn't even remotely possible.
Turing shouldn't have entered into a homosexual relationship if it was illegal.

If he wanted to do so as an act of civil disobedience then he should have been prepared to endure the consequences as a public spectacle that would perhaps further his cause.

Some laws are unjust, sure, but I don't think laws punishing drug deals are unjust.
I mean, it's certainly true that he's not the most rigorous of the pop nonfiction writers! That's not so much the draw, I don't think, but I can't fault you for being annoyed that people behaves as if it was --- perhaps Gladwell himself included.
> the genocide we commit towards animals on an hourly basis

It's not genocide, by definition, if we have no desire to extinct the species.
Thanks for the share. There's too many people out there advocating for "living a little" these days. Its good to hear a solid counter argument.
I wonder why the Mozilla foundation never came up with a search engine of their own. Something tells me it could be quite popular.

Too bad they get so much money from Google. Otherwise this might be cool.
I wish it was that simple. Though some characters are, the majority have evolved through usage along with pronunciation. This makes similar characters mean very different things and are pronounced differently. Mastering Chinese is about memorizing the 2000-3000 most used characters.
What do we call entrepreneurs that break the law?

Criminals.
Maybe not the first few years. Rent payments inflate and mortgage payments don't.
Ok, I tried to read that, but it feels like they are about to sell me something. So much self-help writing sounds like this and it just doesn't resonate with me.

That said, I'm a born procrastinator with undiagnosed ADHD and I've managed to accomplish a few things, mostly after I turned 30. Here is all I would say helped me:

First, accepting who I am, that everybody has some mental struggles and this is mine.

Second, internalizing that mood follows motion. I can't sit around waiting to feel right before starting/doing something. You will never feel right. It's the doing of the thing that makes you feel right. Just start shit. That's the battle.

Finally, conserve momentum at all costs. When I'm really getting things done, keeping grinding, extend the streaks, fewer cold starts makes my life easier.
It's not like it matters to most bouncers.
I have to admit as a meat eater that Impossible ground beef substitute is “there” on a taste basis now.

If they can get it to 25% of its current cost, I could see it become viable to replace many uses of ground beef now. If they get it to 12-15% of its current cost, I think it would displace a massive percentage of purchases of meat protein. It really is good, not just “edible” and I can imagine they’re nowhere near the economic minimum cost to produce.
This is kind of obvious (yeah I know how hashing functions work) but I have to say I loved how modifying from my name "ARTHUR MAROUFI COLLE" to "ARTHUR MAROUFI COLLÉ" completely changed the palette from a nice summery set of green/yellow hues to a dark purple Miami Vice/synthwave vibe
A couple more:

https://github.com/containers/krunvm

https://github.com/weaveworks/ignite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_...
That book/movie was such a missed opportunity to say something meaningful about a VR future, but it just kinda doesn’t follow through. In part, it is what I noted before. It lacks any meaningful humanity. There is a narrative acknowledgment that poverty, personal reinvention, and power exist, but it’s paint on the wall. No choices were contingent on them. No sacrifices made in response to them. None of it matters.

Then also - there is little future in it. Immersive VR is almost entirely where the future starts and stops. Everything else is mined from pop culture.
Not so fast.

Yes, 100Mbps is ~12.5 MB/s, however when I initially tried the .mp4 link I found actual speeds to be much less, (hence the hours long wait I mentioned) so there's definitely throttling going on somewhere.

Also, don't count your chickens before they hatch. I remember downloading Flight Simulator 2002 mods over a 56K modem in my youth - anything over 10MB was a stretch - and I didn't actually have a broadband connection until I went off to college in 2005.
Both ?: and if-else have cases where they can be compiled into cmov type instructions and where they cannot. Given int max(int a, int b) { if (a > b) return a; else return b; }, a decent compiler for X86 will avoid conditional branches even though ?: wasn't used. Given int f(int x) { return x ? g() : h(); }, avoiding conditional branches is more costly than just using them, even though ?: was used.
Neither is production ready because they have no code comments. And if ever there was code requiring comments, this is it.
It is an 8 year old kid. The fact we're worried so much about legal resources is the problem.
I am regularly reminded of William Kahan's (the godfather of IEEE-754 floating point) admonition: A floating-point calculation should usually carry twice as many bits in intermediate results as the input and output deserve. He makes this observation on the basis of having seen many real world numerical bugs which are corrupt in half of the carried digits.

These bugs are so subtle and so pervasive that its almost always cheaper to throw more hardware at the problem than it is to hire a numerical analyst. Chances are that you aren't clever enough to unit test your way out of them, either.
A beginner's guide to Miles Davis is listen to Kind of Blue.
Thanks for the reference. I just read through parts of it. Two part question:

1) So what is wrong with all these psychos?

and

2) and what does any of this have to do with drinking? All of these cases seem to be people either retaliating against former employers or just not wanting to wear a mask. Banning drinking seems to be a band-aid that doesn't solve the issue at all, and doesn't even address the core issue at hand.
I could nitpick that I said cryptographers and we've seen one cryptographer for SSLv2 and one for SSLv3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwHGE7uhjco

But really that's fair. And it's even possible that the key difference was only ever that we learned along the way how to do this and so any bunch of fools might have developed TLS 1.3 knowing what we did by then, while not even a prolonged public effort could have made SSLv3 good. Perhaps if that's right in ten years every Tom, Dick and Harry will have a high quality cryptographically secure protocol that isn't just TLS...

But I think what I was getting at is that at last TLS 1.2 had a bunch of outside cryptographers critiquing it. It's just that they're too late because it was finished. Some of the things that today are broken in TLS 1.2 weren't discovered years later, they were known (even if not always with a PoC exploit at the time) at roughly the time it was published. Having such critiques arrive during TLS 1.3 development meant the final document only had the problems known and accepted by the group [such as 0RTT is inherently less safe] plus, so far, the Selfie attack. Not bad.
It's interesting that DDG runs on Azure and uses Bing as its backend. That makes me wonder if this whole privacy theater of DDG is the new iteration of Microsoft's "scroogled" negative campaign.

As much as I hate corporations who resort to smearing their competitors instead of elevating their own offerings it looks like it does change public opinion and essentially works in practice.
This is cool. I can imagine art pieces (think NFTs) being created in a manner similar to this. Imagine that to create a new piece in a collection (a new crypto punk for example), all you had to do was to create a new hash. Is anyone familiar with any products similar to ops?
Real reason 10 x 4 works is because every day you lose an hour of focus at the beginning and end of the day.

Typical work week 6 x 5 = 30hrs.

8x4 work week = 32 hrs.

Longer periods for developers to hit technical strides or remain in flow.
You're not disagreeing, or the way you think you are disagreeing doesn't fit the original statement. Your exchange is analogous to this one:

A: A square is not simply "a quadrilateral whose every angle is 90 degrees."

B: Of course it is. What is a square if not a four-sided figure with all right angles?
Amazon's utter failure in curbing fake reviews in reality despite the numbers thrown about in their blog post has driven even companies that make good products to feel the need to play the fake review game to remain competitive against the fly by night operators.

Both Aukey and Ravpower made good products and shouldn't have felt they needed to play this game. I'm not excusing their behavior but Amazon is playing the victim in this scenario when they have been a large part of the problem.
Every time I read one of these posts, I wonder what the commenter expects will happen. Do you think the feds will go, "ah, you've got me! I didn't think of this edge case. Let's just scrap the whole thing."???

They'll figure it out and let certain apps be installed.

It's clear that most of HN hasn't had to deal with a single legal issue in their lives. Legal matters are not black and white.
I have noticed Uber pricing is slowly rising.

Wait until they put all taxi services out if business, and lobby politicians more heavily than now.

They proved money can buy a Proposition.
I recently completed a SOC 2 Type I audit and tools like Lynis are indispensable not only to configure your servers according to a standard, but more importantly being able to produce evidence that the servers meet the standard.

This tool looks like it is for AWS / GCP accounts and help to both secure and to prove audit and compliance. The easier it is for the auditor to review your controls and evidence the easier to pass the audit. Really looking forward to using this tool and checking to see what has changed in the CIS.
The only reason most meats have B12 is because the animals are supplemented with it as well, because modern farming has sterilized to the point where even these animals don't get enough naturally.

So either way your B12 is coming from supplements. It's either in a pill already, or the flesh of animal who didn't want to die, and they simply took the pill on your behalf.
But the marginal cost of an additional dollar of revenue for Google was close to zero - for Tesla it’s much higher.

Google’s lead grew as it grew (Metcalf’s law). Tesla’s won’t for the same reason that everyone doesn’t want to drive the same car (a the Model T issue). [0]

So we have seen this story before, but some people are attached to different points of it.

[0] - http://www.autolife.umd.umich.edu/Design/Gartman/D_Casestudy...
There are tons of branches in those log and pow calls. Programmers are lost in branch free religion.
Most popular doesn't necessarily mean best, since Android is arguably more "popular" but Apple is clearly making the bulk of the money (and thus delivering the bulk of the value). But Oculus also right now is also probably one of the easier to use headsets. Keep in mind some of those Rift/Quest numbers might be overlapping users who've upgraded.
Why are solutions to increase 5G range being blocked
Not quite. Changing inflation causes (and itself is) volatility, but steady 4% inflation wouldn't be much different than steady 2% inflation.
Just block off times as “reserved” for work, and unapologetically so.
Nope, sarcastic.

If JavaScript devs don't know if a function is async or sync it just gives more evidence that JS is a monkey-language. LOL!
I am skeptical of this narrative that shorter workweeks boost productivity . Shorter workweeks means less possible productivity at the endpoints of the shorter week, due to people slacking off or being hungover due to long weekend. It also means time wasted trying to resume where one left off, similar to children returning to school from Summer break. For these reasons, the discontinuity of a long weekend cannot be beneficial to productivity. I am sure any employer can attest that productivity tends to fall off a cliff before and after 3-day weekends. I hypothesize that productivity can be maximized with a 7-day workweek but a shorter workday to keep the # of hours constant, eliminating the loss of productivity between weekends. I think this is also why productivity boomed during the pandemic, thanks to Zoom and remote working, again, by eliminating or minimizing the discontinuity.
I read this article and elaborated on the prompts while procrastinating from work and felt immediate relief which allowed me to finish up work for the day. What I’ve taken away from similar ideas is that if you treat yourself like an old friend and can break the cycle of mild to severe self hatred a lot of us procrastinators develop over the years, then it becomes easier to tackle harder tasks with more of a growth mindset which I think more productive or efficient people are able to do. In some ways it feels like the stakes are lowered and I can focus on the actual task instead of why the task won’t end.
They killed the chicken, so you know it wasn't treated well.
I would assume for backward compatibility. If you don’t have the font with the updated emojis you can still get the reference.
Yes, but Facebook didn't kill Oculus either. imo it's stronger because Facebook is much more aggressive in the VR space than anyone else. Their approximate $300 subsidy is a pretty generous one by console standards.
I'm going by memory here, but I think it was the other way around - the comment preceded the other thread.
I don't know why you are being downvoted. The best solution here is for the author to admit using log was a bad idea and rewrite an entirely different version.
It's not clear that the labor pool constraints will subside along with the pandemic.
Holocaust then?
Another robots and transformers on 2021-02-02:

https://github.com/linpengcheng/PurefunctionPipelineDataflow...
Docker does not allow specifying a docker container by the SHA-256 digest of its contents. I hope the US Federal Government will get them to finally add that crucial security feature.
If you'd like to decompose Chinese characters (e.g. if you're trying to use handwriting recognition and it's /almost/ right), try the Pingtype keyboard. Enter the character into the lower text box, and click Search. It'll decompose, and recompose characters based on the parts. I agree that the meaning is often hard to grasp from the glyphs, and can even be misleading.

https://pingtype.github.io/
There was a flap when people realized that you can combine the zero-width joiner with the "Prohibited" symbol to put that on top of anything you don't like.
Peach QE – Relay Visualizer
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PeachQE is a feature-packed tool for developers using Relay. But before we introduce it, there are a few questions we have to answer.

Peach QE is an all-in-one Query Explorer built for Relay. PeachQE assists you in parsing, organizing, editing, and creating new GraphQL queries. This feature-rich application uses the Relay framework to compile your queries with precision and speed guaranteeing accurate responses and real-time variable input updating.
It’s everything you expect from a Query Explorer, plus some Relay-specific tools and features that make working with Relay easier and faster.
Want to upload dozens or even hundreds of queries? You can render them all with a button click in PeachQE.
Want to save the history of your queries for multiple GraphQL schema and endpoints? PeachQE comes with a built-in history for your queries and conveniently stores references to the GraphQL Schema and endpoints you work with.
Have another query file to test? No problem! Peach QE allows for drag and drop query files so you can test and use any GraphQL query you want!
All this, plus a visualizer for the Relay Store that you can save and revert as you explore and edit your updated queries. It’s a one-stop-shop for your Relay application.
imo the FB requirement wouldn't be there if they didn't subsidize the system by about $300. The subsidy is just as important as the Quest being stand alone and self contained as opposed to requiring a PC.
During the pandemic I started listening to a bunch of Jazz again, listening to Miles Davis of course, but also a bit more of his collaborators such as Bill Evans and Wayne Shorter.

One person I really started listening to a lot more of that I didn't before is Ahmad Jamal, who I know is an artist Miles Davis was a big fan of. IMO if you like Miles Davis you should really have a listen to Jamal as well. Davis was clearly listening to Jamal.

Miles Davis was often criticized for being too commercial, but I I didn't realize that Jamal was criticized for the same thing. Jamal had cross over to pop appeal well beyond a typical Jazz musician.
> Seems to me that 'registers' are just really fast memory locations that get referenced by a 'stunted' address space in order to fit into most instructions. In other words, this is not a conceptual necessity. It exists because it's hard to build HW which can access all memory locations really fast.

Registers are unavoidable. Even if you could directly address the whole memory space on every instruction, even if it was all "really fast", the hardware would still need to read the input operands from memory into internal registers, and store the result into an internal register before writing to memory.
Not really though. It's up for the month. There's a huge difference between a correction after a surge and a stock being a train wreck. That's just wishful thinking to the ethos people want to see.

Go look at netflix. Is netflix a train wreck? Similar claims could be made, but they're up 9% YoY.
I forgot what this conversation was about, giraffes or something? Anyway, thanks for the tips, I'll make sure to stay away from coconut trees!
They also did this in the original cartoon… actually, their spaceship scanned earth & programmed them with earth-like vehicle forms.
That's not entirely what is happening there. The shell doesn't exit because the [[ "$BASH_SOURCE" == "$0" ]] condition is false. Its status is checked, so it doesn't cause the shell to exit. What's happening instead is that the exit status of the "source" command is that of the last command executed in the sourced file, and its status is not checked, so the failure there does cause the shell to exit under -e. Add a command that's just "true" or ":" or "echo debug" to foo.sh and you'll see a change in behaviour.

It's probably best to ensure that sourcing a source-able file results in a 0 return status if sourcing succeeded even under +e, since the caller may be using something along the lines of source file || { echo "failed to source file" >&2; exit 1; }. And sure, using if-then-fi rather than && can be a perfectly good way of achieving that.
Not entirely related, but at the end of the 90s, just before the big Y2K, I was living in San Francisco, and interviewed at a residential house with some guy who was in the business of popups. The malware of that time. The job was to basically to do WHATEVER it takes to make those popups pop. No rules, anything goes, dirty tricks and all.

Hated popups. Didn't take the job.
> Also, the reMarkable is open - you can add all these things yourself, if you're sufficiently motivated.

Since I had bought (and later returned) the RM2 largely due to misleading statements here on HN about it being "so very open", I'd like to add a warning to anyone reading the parent comment:

The RM2 is open in the sense that anyone with a background in reverse engineering might be able to modify a few things. It is far from being an open platform, though. Remember how some people complain that Android is not really open because Google controls it, source code often gets released with a delay and some libraries are proprietary? Well, I've got bad news – in terms of openness Android is still light years ahead of the Remarkable software stack.
85% into the article

> So far this has been mostly drivel.

Yep, and the other 15% is not that different. The other day a person here showed a site he created where he aggregates all the "good" articles that dont get any traction here ( https://bengtan.com/interesting-things/) . The existence of that site combined with the multiple first-page appearance of articles like this one or even ones of lesser quality is a proof that we , the readership of this site, are not that as smart or as sophisticated as we would like it to be.
> Second, internalizing that mood follows motion. I can't sit around waiting to feel right before starting/doing something. You will never feel right. It's the doing of the thing that makes you feel right. Just start shit. That's the battle.

I can really resonate with that.
If you can afford meat protein, you can afford protein from plants. There is really no excuse why anyone who is already able to afford a life of the basic comforts cannot do so on at least a plant-based diet, if not a vegan lifestyle.

Plant-based diets being prohibitively expensive is a myth, and nothing more. We know this. Nutrients, proteins, etc. It's all there, and for the same price or less than animal products.
> E-bikes are a great opportunity

Until you round the corner on a sidewalk and narrowly avoid collision with a 7 year old on an electric bicycle.

I lived in Denmark for a bit in the 80s and I don't know how it is there these days, but back then, the police pulled you over and ticketed you for the tiniest infractions on a bicycle.

I can't imagine 1/10th of that level of enforcement in the NYC metro area without full scale rioting.
Wow it's fun, what game engine this game use?
This does not take away from what I’m saying, like at all. When territories are unable to be held on to they are no longer territories of their metropole but independent states. I also like how you chose the US as an example to claim I must be joking.

1. The US territories existed in a time before our current technology which allows one to send drones to other planets

2. The US was heavily settled by the time it gained independence it could hardly be called a colony anymore at that point.

3. I said the foreseeable future, not indefinitely. Sure by the time there are millions of people on another world with their own economy, militias and legal tradition going back centuries that territory could make a bid for true independence but that won’t be the case for centuries at best. Any territory doing so anytime soon will seriously lack the industry and manpower to even hold their own territory against a large Earth based nation capable of colonizing other worlds.

I think it is you who must be joking here
Stripe Terminal
Relative to the population:

So much land... but so little "open" land.

Edit: The US has a higher population density number than I thought: 36 people per km^2. Still, it's not far that away from Sweden's 25 people people per km^2. Norway: 15 people per km^2, Finland: 18.

These scandinavian countries have a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam - of course it's culturally quite different in the US for historic reasons, but.. it just seems so weird to have opening hours to the nature.

If it was culturally/legally possible to step-by-step implement something like this in the US, I think it would be a great thing. I do see the challenges.