skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>Qualities of unhelpful politics (both conservative and liberal):

Whether it's "unhelpful" or not depends on what you're trying to accomplish. I would like to see Airbnb go out of business, and its smug, leftist, billionaire SV investors suffer huge financial losses. I think a parade of tearful witnesses giving testimony to congress about the horrors of their Airbnb experiences would be very helpful to achieving that goal.

But so far, I've been all talk and no action.
> For example if the time between breakfast and dinner was 10 hours instead of 14 hours, the 10 hour mice weighed less than the 14 hour mice, even on the same diet.

Doesn't this contradict calories in - calories out?
Any particular ones you'd recommend.
So the last time I had put on weight (an accident -> was bedridden for long) I decided to fix my food intake along with running and sports. One advice I received from a dietician was that have dinner at least 2 hours before you go to bed and I followed it. I don't know whether it was other things that worked too or only others worked but I felt a clear difference in my fitness, sleep pattern ("very" uninterrupted), digestion, and mood when I woke up the next morning.

On a side note, when I was S Korea - dinner happened at 5pm and I could never get used to it :-)
Wow if only we could get Gnome and Linux on there and give up this mailing list for patches nonsense we'd be golden.
Do you have a link to the ILP one?
I'm one of the co-founders of Educative which is an interactive learning platform for software developers.

We are working with authors to either transform their existing content into an interactive course or create entirely new content from scratch.

If you are a content creator instead in knowing more, send me an email. My email is in my profile.

Happy to answer any questions.
Another Indian here. I don't know if, ever, I have had dinner before 8 in my entire life here or maybe not even before 9pm. I mean I am sure I would have a couple of times but I just can't remember. Dinner for us meant the thing you do before you sleep.
Beyond reasonable doubt can admit that doubt does exist, it's just not reasonable to entertain it. 100% proof strongly implies that there is no doubt at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasonable_doubt
> There's a persistent footer when I scroll, which reduces the visible screen area.

That fad is spreading on the web like wildfire. Looks like we (mostly) survived the low contrast epidemy only to get afflicted with the reduced reading space one. Some sites even stick in a huge (as in 1/4 of the screen) persistent header...
I live about 30 minutes from BOS by bus/rail. Let's say everything is timed perfectly: I get TSA Precheck, 10 minute curb-to-gate, 5 minute wait, boarding commences at T-20, first in line for takeoff.

That means I leave for the airport 75 minutes before my flight, fly for 1 hour, arrive in JFK/LGA/EWR, and then take about 30-40 minutes of public transit to my destination in Manhattan. And that's the ideal.

There's some break-even point for travelers between the more relaxed pace of train travel as opposed to the efficiency of air travel, but BOS - NYC is still within the realm of the train, even at Amtrak speeds.
They compel you to release everything, but don't allow the client-attorney communications to be used as evidence.
US cotton farmers worrying that Republican policies threaten their livelihood by robbing them of their cheap labour. Everything old is new again...
Well, a flight from SFO to LAX is $70 if you book at least a couple weeks in advance. If you assume parity for the ticket price, you need to sell an average of 100,000 tickers/day. With 100 passengers per car and 10 cars per train, you would need 100 trains/day, full, in order to make the math work.

I agree that seems pretty dubious. Why on earth is infrastructure so expensive in the US?
That's exactly what I was getting at. Special treatment and exclusivity breeds feelings of superiority and inferiority where none need exist. Starting this at a young age tells kids that they haven't been "chosen," and kids are too young for us to blame them for not trying to take college classes etc. when they have been structurally told that those classes aren't for them.
Just bought it. I've been building a React app for about 2 weeks, but there's always more to learn. I look forward to following along with this tutorial!
No, it actually boggles my mind, much like how people who create memes somehow make money.
"There's nothing specifically required by a kernel to support new processors..."

Does that go for motherboards that can support these new chips too?
I used gerrit and did not utterly despised it. Hi.
Sad day. Don't forget that github is a closed source tool. This is equivalent to them announcing they are switching to Jira.
A lot of these services won't be able to receive a lot of those 2FA text messages. Short code SMS isn't universally able to reach all SMS capable services/providers. I found this out the hard way when I ported my number to Twilio and stopped getting commercial SMS messages. I've since ported to Google Fi and many of those SMS messages still don't work.
Pros: Whatever tools, back-end lang/framework I like

Cons: Whatever tools, front-end lang/framework I hate. (Yes, React and friends)

Not a joke, this is my real struggle. I love backend, and I love working with ui designers, elegant elements, so love frontend.
The last statement in the article is technically a hardware decision (the article says: “As an extra treat, XOR can be considered an imparity function. When its input has an even number of zeros, the output is zero. Otherwise it is one.”).

While 2-input XOR behaves as “one or the other but not both”, a many-input gate is generally implemented by chaining other XORs and the chaining causes even/odd parity instead of a “must be only one” behavior [1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XOR_gate
Well that sure settles things. I'm totally sure now.

Guido's last commit, in both the github repo and the mercurial repo.

https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/934aba66ef09e94422b...

https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/3db1959c2c53

Someone sensible may be able to shed some light on it. Presumably there's a bridge between the two somewhere.
It depends on the routing especially as you get to traveling over borders in Europe. It does seem to be steadily improving though. Just a few years ago, I was going from Dusseldorf to Paris and I was rather surprised that train really wasn't a very good option.

Today, as I go to whip that out as a counterexample, I see that Thalys would make a whole lot of sense vs. flying for me (though I don't know how door-to-door costs would compare).
I get your point, but that's a slightly inconvenient comparison. Shenzhen - Beijing is ~1200 miles, SF - NY is ~2600 miles. At the highest passenger rail speeds out there, the trip would probably end up being 12-18 hours.
Fight or Flight
I've been watching 3Blue1Brown a lot recently, and he's been linked to many times here too. His work is absolutely amazing, and he even wrote a python library to make the animations!
Actually, the substance of the article wasn't that bad, but after looking again at the browser title, I realized the title didn't square with the article at all, as usual.

Also, I think I would pay for the site, definitely, as long as it still somewhat pays publishers who contribute freely to the site in some cases.
Backreferences are certainly an extension. They are the primary reason that regular expression engines that allow them are slow.
I come to changework (coaching) from a slightly different direction; I'll share what I see as underlying mechanisms in case it helps.

Basically, what we do is based on how we see things. If we can change how we see things, then new actions & results become available.

Then the question just becomes, how can we change how we see things.

If how we see something comes from what we've experienced, then introducing a new experience can have us see it differently.

If how we see something comes from what we think about it, then we can introduce a new thought about it.

The point being to change the internal mental model related to the thing, so that we see it differently, we experience it differently, it occurs for us differently than it did before.

In the case above, step 3 introduced a new thought and internal experience related to the thing, and thus the step between 3 and 4 is, "their internal mental model, connected to the thing, changed".

Again, the mechanism (and the missing step) becomes, "change how we see & experience something, change our internal model relating to it". And then, some possibilities for triggering that include having a new thought about it, having a new experience about it; and various techniques can exist for introducing those experiences or thoughts.

At least, that's how I see it (how it occurs for me, how I've experienced it).
Agree with the general sentiment here. AppStore search is badly broken and the system has been gamed to the point of being nearly useless.

A site that helps me (no affiliation whatsoever) that at least allows filtering based on release date and "star rating" is https://theappstore.org/
You are correct that you pretty much have no rights at the border.

The moment you step outside the US, you can be killed by US a drone strike, or the CPB agent can simply shoot you if they wish.

It's a broken hole in our system that needs to change, but don't expect any change for at least 2-4 years.
It's not called Celiac disease, it's called Coeliac disease. And 'Celiac disease' redirects to 'Coeliac disease'.
Thousands told to evacuate in face of California dam risk
Academia relies on students to exist, the students are the customer not the workers - so the power is a lot more in favor of the grad student, not that academia itself is any more noble or humane.

I doubt academia is inherently any more humane than corporations - the drive is pride and recognition instead of money but they compete just like businesses do.
It's a giant cornspiracy.
Dismantling Microsoft would absolutely be the correct response. That's what they did to Bell or AT&T or whatever they were called, and it was a good thing.

Break up Microsoft into a company that makes Office, a company that makes Windows and a company that does .NET.
It's not clear that any of the oils are harmful in the sense you're implying, i think. Though olive oil certainly has its own unique health benefits.
No, an industry with a company that has a very long history of extremely anticompetitive practices is prone to becoming a monopoly. There's nothing inherently pro-monopoly about office software or operating system software. There is something inherently pro-monopoly about Microsoft.
I never got into TADS, but have fooled around with Inform, as well as with libFrotz for the old Infocom games. The old text adventure days were very impressive. Some of my most memorable experiences gaming come from Zork or Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, or some of the later IF community games.
>>> so I open multiple tabs, and start reading only when it finishes loading.

I think you should go one by one. They have their own SPA logic, so when you click new article, only the content will be loaded, other parts will stay same.
> when people only live somewhere for a month or two, they don't participate in the community.

I bought a house and lived in it with my wife at the same address for 15-or-so years, and wouldn't have recognized my next-door neighbor if I were to run into him at the mall. Why do accidents related to zip-code have anything to do with "community"?

EDIT. My other neighbor turned out to be a co-worker, in a distant group, and somehow was transferred into mine. He was a sucky engineer who spent all of his time politicking. I had little interest in spending time commiserating with him about office politics.

Nice enough neighborhood. Good schools. Not a lot of through traffic. People kept their houses and lawns up. But I don't know that I've ever felt any inclination to spend any time with anyone because of the accident of a street address numbering scheme. Am I alone in this?
That's just semantics. He's jailed without a conviction at this point.
Because NYT actually invested in building an ecommerce system for the publishing vertical.
> How are normal citizens supposed to understand the stakes when we can't even see most of the information?

I'm just cynical enough to honestly believe that the answer is: "We're not."
> So going 1/10 of the way should still bring some benefits.

Not according to any data I've seen. It's either "you barely have enough food to survive, so your metabolism is so slow that you live longer" or no benefit whatsoever.
>First of many iterative design changes coming

https://twitter.com/mdo/status/830138373230653440
TIL the Oroville dam is the highest in the USA, 44 feet higher than the Hoover dam. It's kinda mind boggling that it could actually fail tonight (though the latest reports indicate that the situation is improving).
He introduces e^x as a way of converting adders into multipliers.

The infinite sum is not important. I believe he is showing it purely as a visual tool to indicate that e^x is just "some function".

More specifically, based on the video, the important feature for a adder -> multiplier converter to have is that f(x+y) = f(x)f(y). However, many functions satisfy this requirement. He states (without justification [0]) that e^x is the most "natural" choice for such a function, and provides the infinite sum as a visual aid to show that it is just some function.

[0] Rather, justification is provided by reference to another video.
If having your lawyers read the license is the requirement to using any programming language...
I don't think there's a difference. For instance, let's say we have a video of little Timmy shoplifting a candy bar. Clear face shot, maybe the video even has sound and there's a vocal-print match. Pretty slam-dunk case, right? Not much room for reasonable doubt there.

Oh, but you see, little Timmy was actually being telepathically controlled by a diabetic alien about to pass out from hypoglycemia, who had him steal the candy bar. Can you prove this was not the case?

This is what reasonable doubt protects against. There will always be the ability to create a (probably fanciful) scenario in which the defendant is not guilty. An unreasonable scenario, one might even say. Being able to convince the jury beyond reasonable doubt is as close to 100% proof as you are reasonably going to ever get.

> Beyond "the shadow of a doubt" is sometimes used interchangeably with beyond reasonable doubt, but this extends beyond the latter, to the extent that it may be considered an impossible standard. The term "reasonable doubt" is therefore used. [Emphasis mine]
Ask HN: Google no longer hiring Software Engineers in Zurich?
I've been keeping tabs on the job openings for Google Zurich [0], but as of the last few months the general "Software Engineer" position that used to exist has been strangely missing.

The only engineering positions listed are:
* Software Engineer, PhD University Graduate
* Release Engineer
* Sales Engineer
* iOS Software Engineer
* Software Engineer, Mobile Applications (Android)
* Front-End Software Engineer
* Software Engineer, Research and Machine Intelligence

None of those seem like a good fit for me. I don't have a PhD and my background is systems and application programming, mainly in C++. Front-End development is not my area at all; and while I have done some mobile development on Android, I would rather not do it professionally. I also don't have any experience with Machine Learning, nor do I want to get into research.

So overall it looks pretty dire. Have all the backend/infrastructure C++ jobs dried up?

[0] https://careers.google.com/jobs#t=sq&q=j&li=20
Well, without really disagreeing, you tend to need a layout where hub & spoke makes sense. With older east coast cities (e.g. NYC & Boston) you have commuter rail lines radiating out from central city stations from which people can walk or take the subway to jobs connecting to suburban stations with parking.

It doesn't work if you don't have that central density & transit. It doesn't generally work in the opposite direction either. (Urban dwellers to suburban jobs.)
What’s New in Connected Autos
> Could you explain how this happens? What's the reason for Globalstar (or anyone, for that matter) to pay for the spectrum, if at any point some joe shmoe can just build devices that introduce interference in that spectrum, thereby rendering it useless?

Keep in mind, Globalstar already owned half the originally requested spectrum. This is less of a 'paying for' and more of a 'being given value'.

Generally interference is unintentional. Operators of different wireless technology like to ensure a small buffer between their owned spectrum and a different technology. See my other comment about the 700A license elsewhere in this thread. In that case the potential for interference was between DTV and LTE. Read the FCC link, it will explain what was initially claimed.

Nothing technically stops someone with motivation from illegally tampering with spectrum. Years ago I used to carry a small cell jammer that could jam around 10 meters around me ($30 from china). But this behavior is actually enforced against now and I can name at least 2 situations (Florida car commuter guy, and Chicago train commuter guy) where people were prosecuted for jamming spectrum. Some hotels also had equipment to block wifi AP's but they ended up in court too. Fines/penalties are steep for this too, and rightly so since it's tricky to catch. But it's enough to stop someone with a novelty interest (like me) from doing it.
Well I'm glad someone likes Gerrit. :D
The thing is, the person that attacks your family already broke the rule, so you can use violence against him.

You can be 100% peaceful and the state will still use violence against you based on its own criteria.
I think there are at least three or four things that keep Gatsby compelling:

* The prose style keeps a consistent balance of fluid/grounded and imaginative the whole way through. It's nowhere near as "sticky" as other literary novels, which can force you to grind down on each sentence to get at the meaning.

* The storytelling, at its surface, relates to self-absorbed goals that people connect with as fans automatically. When people are fans of something, that's basically down to them liking the characters, setting, and specific scenes or scenarios, not the hard details of the plotting or any subtextual stuff. "Everyone is here to indulge their kink" applies to pretty much any media, and here the kink is clearly "the American Dream as ostentatious wealth". If the novel were focused on Jay Gatsby's hard-striving bootlegging days, or if it concluded with a sudden turn to frugality and Puritan ethics, it would never be as popular.

* The aspects of the book that are ordinary and humanizing of the characters act to make them even more relatable than a book that tried to make them worthy of their wealth. Gatsby's version of the American Dream, besides involving a very performative version of wealth, contains a mythologized, Icarus-like aspiration to ever greater ambitions. Nick Carraway is there primarily as an observer of events, and only occasionally a participant, and in fact gradually withdraws from his own aspirations over the course of the book - making him a great self-insert for the middle-class reader who would like to believe themselves better than the rich, while simultaneously indulging in the luxury aesthetics.
Governments neither need to nor should fund free software. The US Government should have fined Microsoft at least $10billion for their monopolistic business practices when they had 95% of the desktop OS market, then dismantled the company into its constituent parts, then used that fine to set up a fund to fund innovative software development companies.

Instead, they... did nothing. Classic US government.

>The ironic thing is that it is not even expensive to break this monopoly. So many countries share this interest in breaking the monopoly.

It's not expensive at all, no. It's the opposite of expensive. Microsoft has done countless things that are completely explicitly illegal to do, that are very anti-competitive. They should have been fined billions and broken up a decade or more ago. No lawsuits, no juries, just the FTC doing what it was made to do.

>Why the EU spends billions to protect farmers but is not willing to spend millions to finish and maintain a nearly workable independent software infrastructure is beyond me.

I have no idea how you think it's okay to blame the EU for 'protecting farmers' while not blaming the US for its much more pervasive farmer protectionism and subsidies (including paying people not to farm their land) and not dealing with Microsoft themselves, an American company.

>Most politicians are old and most old people don't understand computers, the internet and it's consequences. They don't get what is at stake. I still hope that some day people will get elected in Europe that understand theses issues.

Saying that 'politicians are old and don't understand computers' might have made sense three decades ago, but it makes less and less sense today. Politicians today grew up with computers.
Therein lies a difference: "it's called" vs "it's proper name".

For a point of comparison, we can look at Google Trends to determine relative popularity. This would give us an idea as to what "it's called".

https://www.google.com/trends/explore?q=%2Fm%2F0h1pq,coeliac...

"Celiac disease" is consistently between 15 and 20 times more popular than "coeliac disease".

Also, the Wikipedia article opens with "Coeliac disease, also spelled celiac disease,…"

Given the widespread use of "celiac", not only among the public, but also in the literature, one might reasonably argue at this point that "celiac" is the proper name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coeliac_disease
I loved Chomsky's response to this "Like the one I took in Japan... in the 1950's..."

For extra fun, realize that California had already begun about the same time as Japan to install more public transport, but the car companies moved muscle on them to stop it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Motors_streetcar_consp...
I was just looking over some videos posted by a Canadian jet engine shop. Jet engines are so fascinating! Here is one on how to start a jet engine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4pqEzfKXcA
I'm not saying that this would actually become a reality but its just to point out that technology alone can't solve what is really a human problem.

Assuming that the courts maintain the 'safe' metaphor over the 'speech' metaphor for encryption I would expect a court to have some criterion like the the following.

The prosecution must prove beyond reasonable doubt that:

(0. That the search of the encrypted data is lawful)

1. There is actually encrypted data on the drive.

2. The data has not been modified or corrupted.

3. That the defendant actually knows the password.

Because you're completely right that people do forget their passwords all the time. You could being thousands of IT people on the stand who will rant all day about how their users cant remember a stupid eight character password without a post-it note. So the prosecution would have to give evidence that shows that the defendant is lying and knows the password. For example, if they're trying to access the defendant's computer the could show a video of them logging into it right before it was seized.
Survivorship bias of beautiful math. Who want's to study systems that don't simply and compose well. The exception that proves the rule is the 4 color theorem - ugly big-arse proof generated by a machine. Who is going to look into that any further?