skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Antimatter is old news. When CERN discovered the higgs boson a few years back, we did so by looking for the higgs decay products (the higgs is really unstable), a significant fraction of which are antimatter.

For example: One of the most important higgs signals was the Higgs -> 2 Z boson -> 2 electron + 2 anti-electron decay chain. Or in particle physics jargon H -> ZZ, Z -> e+e-. The important thing is that e+ is an anti-particle, one of the few that was discovered early enough to get its own name (the "positron" was discovered in 1932 [1]).

Since the positron discovery we've discovered so many anti-particles that we stopped giving them special names. We just call them e+, mu+, tau+, p-, etc, to say nothing of the composite particles that are composed of both matter and antimatter.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positron#Experimental_clues_an...
Even if you pick recipes first and shop second, I'd say that American home cooking is (monetarily) cheaper than buying prepared foods or even eating from the fast food dollar menu. A week where I don't cook is a more expensive food-week. When I was in graduate school I didn't have any weeks like that; it was too expensive to outsource my food prep to restaurants or manufacturers.

Home cooking can be costly in non-monetary ways: time, skills, variety (if you're on a really low budget). But my eyes roll pretty violently if I hear anyone opining that poor Americans have to eat potato chips because they're cheaper than raw ingredients. It's like they've never experienced or known even secondhand what food actually costs at Walmart. (Compare chips with a bag of actual raw potatoes, for example -- trivial prep (microwave whole after poking holes in the skin), less expensive to purchase by any measure, at least slightly more nutrition and roughage when you eat the skin.)
A couple of weeks ago, idle speculation led me to discover both the existence of screenshot-diffing QA as well as some other options:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13136205
Fun war EXTREMENESS
The traditional solution is to feed that half an onion to your pigs, and then later eat the pigs. Doesn't work too well in urban areas though.
If RISC-V is supposed to scale down to the low end, why doesn't it have delay slots? On an implementation with a simple instruction pipeline, delay slots not only improve performance, they also simplify the hardware.
Really its not unless you somehow stop counting them as people. People have high maintanence costs whether or not they are a slave. Slaves also revolt. Beasts of burden and Robots (so far) cannot revolt.

Also you miss out on a large portion of the person's output if they are slave. There are very few slave inventors.
It's fascinating how easy it is to misinterpret an author, particularly when the work was published a long time ago.

I'm currently reading a modern take on the subject of power - "The Dictator's Handbook" by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith. It has the same no-nonsense approach as "The Prince".
Cooperative, concurrent tasks
Uber Mideast Rival Valued at $1B After Funding Round
If there were one perfect programming language, everyone would be using it already.

If a particular language were horrible in every possible way, nobody would be using it. If lots of people are using it, maybe you are not understanding why.
This project hasn't been updated in two years. A couple of active alternatives:

https://github.com/BBC-News/wraith Wraith: A responsive screenshot comparison tool.

https://github.com/garris/BackstopJS BackstopJS: visual regression testing by comparing DOM screenshots over time.

https://github.com/Huddle/PhantomCSS PhantomCSS: Visual/CSS regression testing with PhantomJS.
To Blog or Not to Blog: How to Get People to Read Your Blog
Out of curiosity, what's the alternative to if/else? Assuming polymorphism wasn't around in the 50's, did people express the idea of conditional execution based on the result of evaluating some expression using and/or? Does this mean that lazy evaluation was around before conditionals?
Check out whattomine or coinwarz for a list.

There are a number of currencies specifically designed to be gpu mineable, in an effort to be more "democratic".
Two short but life changing books:

"The Prince" -- Machiavelli

"The little Prince" -- Saint Exupery
A World of Surveillance Doesn’t Always Help to Catch a Thief
It's the same in every country: Some historical group's advantage can't be removed because they are enough people to get leverage against any opponent. There's a need for a new advance in democracy, because it has almost-bankrupted a few countries now (including Greece). Perhaps the separation of powers in our democracies (executive, judicial and law-makers) isn't enough. Maybe we should add a 4th weight, which translates hard limits from nature into limits that politics can't cross: "You can't allow a global warming", "You can't increase debt beyond 4%", "You can't let people work dramatically less for 5 decades (like in Greece), unless you justify it with an incredible progress in NGP/GDP/technology" or "You can't have discrepancies between public and private sectors". Somehow I'm happy Europe provides a bit of pushback against my country (France) because God knows how much debt our politics would otherwise subscribe.
While I really do like this article and the really interesting techniques it showed me, I'm bothered by the fact that they constantly mention performance but there's not a single benchmark on that page. It's not that I don't believe that these are huge theoretical gains, it's just that I'd like to see how these perform in practice compared to other approaches.
> "Calling it AI is a bit of a stretch though"

If so, then Machine Learning is just predicting the next possible result using the statistical probability of previously studied data, and could not qualify as AI either.

AI is being broken down in to so many parts, some that are invisible to us, that: either we abuse it to the point of over simplification, reclassify it as common sense, and redraw the finish line of where AI starts; OR we start calling everything we do a version of AI from computers turning off the lights to balancing the controls in the first Apollo missions.
Digital Ocean wanted me to pay 100$ upfront before they let me create any droplets it's a pretty common thing with credit cards.

That said if you have an amazon or an msft account which was billed in the past it's likely to count.
> Google's assistant might be striving for more openness, but I don't have high hopes here either; at least until a formal development kit is released.

But they have released one? https://developers.google.com/actions/
> * "Single" Onion services, dropping the anonymity requirement on specifically configured Onion Services to improve bandwidth (Possibly motivated by Facebook?)

Had to read the reasoning twice before i understood what was going on. Its about big sites that have a .onion presence giving up anonymity they do not require to offer higher access speed to, still anonymous, users.
It's not "negotiation" when you bankrolled the other side into their position of power. The public sector unions in California have bought politicians through campaign donations (and most assuredly less scrupulous means such as bribery) for decades. The REAL problem here is the tax payers have no representation at the negotiation table because their politicians are crooked.
I think it's more a performance benefit to have MSSQL be aware of and handling encryption directly. Of note in the article is how much they bypass the host OS for things like disk read-cache etc.
Harvesting Whois Data for OSINT
For people interested in this topic/catching visual regressions take a look at Kontrast

https://github.com/harrystech/kontrast
Previous discussion on SHA-1 certificate sunsetting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12734970
Yes. Just mount the logs into the container.
Put it behind HAProxy!(or nginx if you just starting *nixing in the last 5 years and don't know what haproxy is)

Both are battle tested(HAProxy more so), and like another poster said...if you don't use something like them, you're going to re-invent the wheel in several areas.
>maybe this study was an isolated result from 30 days in that one facility

The study covered significantly more than one facility. The data included nearly 60k physicians and over 1.6M patients.
It is pretty obnoxious, but I think most of us understand why they are doing things this way, it's just a shame it's not more obvious up front.

FWIW it only took me about one week to get approved and there was no difficulty in it, I just put in two tickets and that was it.
The Year in Reading
I just need it to be able to render an ultra-wide-screen tmux session with several 80 column splits of 12 point type. What's the lower limit on font size that you can easily read on the vive?
I'm amazed that the plane was flown for another 25 years after the incident!
> Ageism is more real than you think.

Citation needed. Most of my coworkers are easily over 40. The best programmers I've met at most of my jobs are late forties/fifties. What studies are you using, rather than your hypothetical "though process" of the hypothetical employer?

> If he's providing $10,000 in value by staying at home, It will be 6x as costly to apply for a $15,000 job than for a $40,000 job.

It will be 6x more costly to accept the 15k job than to accept the 40k job. The application costs are still the same. Also, by applying for the 15k job in your example, you are able to a) spend 10k to offset the value you bring at home or keep the 10k and let some chores remain undone and b) Keep 5k regardless.

> but most of you are finding the time to comment here, on HN.

We are not the ones who have to stretch 30 dollars a week to cover expenses for a family of four. If you have a steady job that doesn't frown too heavily on some procrastination, go ahead.

> If you had ever spent job hunting for a significant amount of time, you'd know it's at least as mentally draining as any job, so getting distracted or having some down time isn't unwarranted.

We're talking about degrees here. I'm procrastinating right now, but if I procrastinate too long I will end up unemployed, just like this guy. There's a difference between getting distracted and down time, and taking weeks off between interviews.

> show some goddamn compassion and maybe step outside of your bubble for once

From all accounts, this man who wrote the article is the one in the bubble. It's all about how he feels, how his friends will hurt his feelings if they figure out he's unemployed. He's the one that needs to step outside himself.
No source, but I've simply never gotten sick from food my entire life (excluding alcohol!)

Definitely make sure you cook ground beef, pork, chicken all the way through. Many things like whole beef and fish will really only have bacteria on the outside so it's not particularly important how throughly you cook it. (that's not to encourage people to not try, but to encourage them to not be scared of 'messing up'.)
he isn't the type of the person to reach his goal regardless of rules...right?
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13213421
what's it going to take - a weekend

Something revolutionary? No. Software like that would take more than one person over a few weekends. And that's the catch.

You said, "Investors are looking to make money," and you're right. The problem I'm trying (and failing) to articulate here is that true revolution in software or hardware is not always something you can do over a weekend, and it's not something the customer might request (that works better for variations of existing products).

Governments and large companies used to have bigger budgets to fund such research; they don't do as much of that anymore, so it's left to private investors, who understandably expect a clear return on their investment, but that precludes a deeper type of innovation in favor of shallower innovation.

We would rather gather fruit than plant seeds. Gathering fruit is where the money is, so it seems to make sense. But that's short term borrowing from the long term. We're facing barren trees and scratching our heads. We're not out of ideas -- we just haven't invested in them.
You don't get share options for one and you haven to take pensions fund valuations with a very big pinch of salt as both sides have interests here.

As long as you have a steady state of members joining at the base DB schemes some of the more extreme cases are very unlikely and would require for example losing 100% of the deferred scheme members overnight.
> Back in the old days (so like 3 years ago) before the majority of screens were 'retina'

I can assure you that the majority of the worlds screens are not retinas. maybe the majority of screens owned by experienced developers in the US (very high incomes + cheap electronics) are retinas. Maybe. But in the world? Absolutely not.
Taxpayer funds versus other taxpayer funds. How productive.
>This is a bit too simple: writing more of the same, in the same style

I think the author means there's a correlation between the amount of code one writes and their progress.

For a more complete view, there's the often cited article The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance[0] where the authors make a point that it's not just practice that makes perfect, but deliberate practice. They set to find and explain patterns exceptional people follow.

What you're talking about is what someone who says they have 20 years of experience but, in reality, they have 6 months of experience they've been repeating 40 times.

[0]: http://projects.ict.usc.edu/itw/gel/EricssonDeliberatePracti...
Russian Ambassador Shot Dead in Turkey as Syria Roils Region
2FA with SMS?
While this is no fault of the submitter, it should be noted that the title's omission of the world 'illegal' is deliberately obfuscatory and obviously politically motivated.
These look super cool, but they'll never replace the terrorism of predator drones. Why waste time on complicated walking machines controlled remotely when we have airplanes that can already assassinate people remotely without any type of trial or oversight?
lol have you seen how little relative to inflation public sector pay has gone up in the last few years
https://democracy.io
Til you realized those hand-delivered delights aren't particularly well made, and then grumble to yourself about how you coulda made them way better and faster in less time than them, maybe even less time than it would take to eat the food on your plate :P
Nearly all immigrants are law-abiding community members, whether they are documented or not. The only "crime" that most of these people have ever committed is moving to this country without the right paperwork.
I'm not on board using taxpayer funds to provide legal support for people here illegally. Hopefully someone will sue the city over this.
+this. You just described every morning at my house (including asking Google home what the weather is), and we only have one kid. It's also very useful that everyone in the room gets to hear the answer. Same for setting timers. "you have five minutes left of play time. " It makes the process very transparent. We have a 20 minute walk to school, rain, snow, or shine, and getting the munchkin dressed appropriately (and willingly) is key.

Both Alexa and Google home have been great with a kid.
It seems this post has been moved: the actual link is
http://www.fast.ai/2016/12/19/favorite-posts/.
Most really huge, old, bureaucratic organizations resemble the Microsoft org chart from here:

http://www.globalnerdy.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011...
We're throwing tax dollars against tax dollars to protect those who came here and ignored the law? We have no duty and no reason to do so. This idea is completely flawed.
Clipper – a macOS agent handling clipboard sync for tmux et al, local and remote
The other side to it is that you'll rarely be writing completely new code from scratch in the majority of development positions (especially as a new developer). Being able to dive into someone else's code, think about it, an add something to it, is probably more important on a day-to-day basis than being able to create something from scratch.
>Law-abiding immigrants, documented or not...

"Undocumented" is a euphemism for illegal. These are not law-abiding people.
As another reply said, buy a thermometer.
And the train line running up the middle of the main street.
VS Code now has an extension for querying against MSSQL that's cross platform.

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-mssql...

Still missing several things that SSMS has, but it's a nice start!
OMG, no! This is false! Don't listen to this nonsense! especially if you have children, elderly, or the immunocompromised in your household.
It looks like Google uses SMS for account recovery, could have been something like that.

https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/183723?hl=en
Molten iron river discovered speeding beneath Russia and Canada
Some memory allocators use them for tracking free blocks because insertions/removals are cheap and they're good at best-fit style searches.
Illumos is still around, with the support of many former Sun devs.
Those in charge are seeing just how much they can take.
People don't seem to understand the entire spectrum of consequences that comes with so tightly integrating some cloud service on the other side of the web. That distance is an important detail that these client-gem implementations like to gloss over... because the same developer that reaches for said library may very likely be the same guy to use that gem in some tight inner loop, and then wonder why his app is so slow because get_base_id() has to roundtrip that distance multiple times to answer his question...
In the general programming industry over the last several decades, "artificial intelligence" has also applied to simple decision-making algorithms, even as simple as playing checkers. Arthur Samuel [1] was renowned for his work on a checkers AI circa 1959.

[1]: http://webdocs.cs.ualberta.ca/~sutton/book/11/node3.html
This is a fascinating project. The hardest part of writing crypto software will always be avoiding the little mistakes, and every time we can bottle the understanding needed to detect some of them, we free cognitive labor for finding others. This is a necessary part of the future of crypto development. I tip my hat to the Wycheproof team!
but the companies aren't doing anything unethical

I think you may be confusing "illegal" with "unethical".
Until voice interaction becomes on par with, and about as useful as, the computer interactions we see in Star Trek: I'm not interested.

The last think I need is a device that gives me access to that subset of life that a given vendor supports (stores, searches, people, etc) or that requires some sort of "accommodation" to get to work properly. A very, very high bar that may be reached with the help of today's early adopters.... but not with my help. I spend too fucking many hours a day as it is dealing with "good enough" technology. Getting into arguments with a box in the middle of the room?! All I can say is get off my lawn, Alexa!

As for who will win? Seems that in many of the consumer device battles Amazon has a way of being so exclusive to their products that I wouldn't bet on them being the long term winner even if they do have the lead. Consumers want a lot of Amazon stuff, but that's far from making them the cultists they'd have to become to not be bothered by the Amazon ecosystem (.... and I mean consumers, AWS is a different matter in the marketplace).
Evolutionary tension between larger brains and smaller pelvises in humans
Never doubt the power and intelligence of a few open source programmers dedicated to building something.
The lawyers get rich whoever wins
It is interesting how little we now need to think on the weather.

With modern heating systems (specifically thermostatic radiator valves) we no longer need to ensure that the heating is prepared at the right time, so we don't need to know the weather.

With the prevalence of tumble driers washing doesn't need to hang out, so we don't need to know the weather.

Most modern clothing is suitable for a very large range of temperatures and good waterproofs can be comparatively small and lightweight, allowing them to be brought everywhere without burden, so we don't need to know the weather.

Cars and roads have improved significantly, the impact of the weather on a small or long journey is often negligible, so we don't need to know the weather.

More jobs are performed indoors now and where they aren't special machines and tooling have been made that make the job easier alongside significantly reducing the risk and discomfort that weather can cause, so we don't need to know the weather.

There remain some situations where knowing the weather is very important, but very few of them affect 'the general populace' is a consistent enough manner to cause them to waste time following it.
His "Discourses on Livy" is also a pretty solid book.
If they were law abiding, they would not be unregistered. Your argument invalidates itself.
Wow. I just wasted 10 minutes of my life...

TL;DR: whois data may or may not leak information.

PS: My first OSINT-binder is from 1986 and that article did not provide anything, anything at all, that goes beyond what that folder contains.
Public sector usually pays less, but the benefits tend to make it about equal to the private sector. (Health and Retirement)
Three time-saving AWS command line tricks
Thanks!! Done already all this. On developer forums apple developers said they messed with the Xcode so wating for next Xcode release. That's what I am talking about :(
https://forums.developer.apple.com/thread/62737
Nobody said picking out healthy foods is hard. Anyone can point to some fruits, vegetables, rice, and boneless/skinless chicken breasts and say "those are healthy".

But this isn't about that. This is about comparing the relative nutritional value of foods that aren't as easy to categorize.

Like trainers always say, the best workout plan is the one you'll do, and the same is true of diet. Most people won't be happy very long eating "Mainly plants. Not too much." They will inevitably deviate from that diet. That doesn't mean they'll have to eat unhealthy foods, but they will need a way to judge the relative nutritional value of foods that aren't "mainly plants" in order to make good choices. At that point, nutrition does become fairly complex.
It is absolutely as simple as "bottom lines can decrease quality".

Removing the bottom line from consideration doesn't guarantee a good result, obviously. But that doesn't mean that bottom lines can't decrease quality.
So much truth in this series. A lot of what he talks about I can back up with my own experience building and running SaaS apps. "I want you to understand first hand that building a SaaS startup is mostly a marketing optimization problem — not something that you can just code your way out of."

Part 2 & 3 can be found here

https://medium.com/@cliffordoravec/the-no-bs-approach-to-bui...

https://hackernoon.com/make-it-rain-building-an-mvp-for-fun-...
A somewhat surprising feature of suburbia in the US (for those of us that come from less safe countries) is that someone like Mark could ever have unbarred windows at street level directly facing a public street. In many places, this kind of recognition system would be at the outer gate of the complex, surrounded by tick concrete walls ending in an electrified fence or similar[1]. At that point, the face recognition does become the weaker link.

Also, even in US suburbia, smashing the window is likely going to trigger a burglar alarm and get the police called to the location, whereas bypassing the face recognition system will not.

[1] For a non billionaire house: thinner concrete walls ending in broken glass or decorative-yet-functional metal barbs, outer wall shared by a 10-20 homes neighborhood.