skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We have a winner! I bought one in 2010, and I've loved it. The only nitpicks I have are: 1) weak front stabilizer control links that don't stand up well to Illinois potholes, 2) no long mode or refresh mode seat settings (you need the first- or third-generation model for those), and 3) top gear (manual transmission) is too short - 3500 RPM at 70 MPH.

But for all that, it's amazingly roomy inside, good on gas, fun to drive even if it won't win races, and just a great car in general. Controls are well laid out, entry and exit are easy, four full-sized adults can sit comfortably in it, the engine is a gem, and when the rear seats are folded down it can handle a lot of cargo.
Microsoft used (and still does) AMD CPUs for their first generation of Azure cloud instances. This did not do much in promoting AMD.
> This continuity can be explained by the “double government” theory

It could also be explained by Obama and Bush sharing similar philosophies on the security state, and there's a lot of evidence that supports that. That's not to say that the agencies aren't problematic, but rather that elected officials have been mostly happy with what they're doing, and that this is the reason why they keep doing it.

Where there were differences in policy between the administrations, we did see a change - for instance, in the use of waterboarding. It's just that these differences weren't as numerous as many people assumed.
I'm not really getting significantly different results in any of them: a mixture of pro-refugee philantropist and nazi sympathiser links from websites with wildly opposing views, roughly 80% overlap in website links even.

Would it matter if one's filter bubble is more on the left or right here? I'm Dutch, living in Sweden and left-leaning - presumably the biggest contributors to any filter bubble that applies here.

Without getting into a discussion of politics itself, could people who do see a difference share their experience, and what they expect the search engines to infer about their political leanings?
I certainly don't. Do you have any compelling reason for doing so?
100x faster means improving the coefficients. A* is optimal in terms of asymptotic execution time, but that doesn't mean you can't improve the overall running time.
I've done some work on this last year -- it's possible to integrate with the Widevine PPAPI component (DRM library) included in Google Chrome to support decoding Netflix videos in any type of app.

Not legal to distribute though, I think.
The map in my game is completely dynamic and every pathfinding technique I've tried is way too slow. I've had to resort to a really stupid path finding algorithm where the enemies just looks a few tiles ahead (meaning they get stuck very easily). Any pointers?
While this is very cool, it raises the cost to produce and deliver comics by an order(s) of magnitude.

Comics have always been a easy low cost way for artists or even people with just idea's to communicate their ideas.

For an extreme example of this
http://www.qwantz.com/
Where the ideas are amazing, but he uses the same few cells for ALL of the comics.

This comes from someone who has worked with 3D content for years, and I see mesh based 3D as the Ultimate machine in handing power to people with money.
He talked about intermittent fasting
Somewhat anecdotal evidence, but I was on safari with a guy who had a superzoom camera (can't remember which sorry but it went to 1200mm or so). He was mocking the size of my full frame DSLR + 800mm Canon prime, saying he had far more reach with his almost pocketable camera - which was of course true. I was curious to see what the difference was in practice so we both took photos of a waterbuck in the distance (him at both 800mm and 1200mm). Comparing them later on a laptop PC the difference was truly night and day, MUCH more significant than I was expecting. Every single hair was razor sharp in my photo while his just showed a mottled "mush" with very little detail at all due to poor optical resolution combined with overly strong noise reduction (the latter of which could at least be partly addressed by shooting RAW).
Mainstream religions have been advocating various forms of fasting for centuries. Thank you science for explaining why and how it works.
I had an idea when I took my algo class to overlay a small graph of "highways" on a map and computer all pairs shortest path to that sub graph. Then when you do your search, you do BFS from both the start and goal till you reach a *highway node" and then you have a short but not optimal path between two points without too much computation.
Intermittent Fasting often means long periods between means (like 6pm-11am) but still daily eating. Sometimes it means a day of fasting followed by 2-3 days of normal eating. Either definition would allow eating after 5 workouts/week.
Over a year in development and it was worth every minute
I love my Metropolitan! And based on all the feedback from this thread I'll soon be ordering a Lamy Safari as well.
http://getmirrorshades.com/agent.js

Does look nice and clean - but I would love to see a license, not just a copyright notice. I am unsure if such a short snippet really is copyrightable? It is tempting to just change the post url and whip up something simple for self-hosting... but tricky to do and redistribute as long as there is no license on the file. For such short snippets I would recommend cc0 - or perhaps bsd.
I wouldn't expect it to be perfect i suppose. I didn't mean to imply that it would be.

I would say having some experience with the actual business of distributing music, that alot of distributors that are used to say, get your content on iTunes and the like en masse, do have the capability of allowing a service to 'sample' a song and do a lot of pre-checks of verification in that way.

They could tap into that ecosystem for legitimacy. It certainly does get harder beyond that though.
Oh no. Folk can get really obsessive about stationary. I have to have Mitsubishi Uniball [1] myself.

[1] https://www.penaddict.com/top-5-pens/
47, strongly believe this is inappropriate censorship
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The US is NZ's third-largest trade partner. As of 2012, the US had $44 billion invested in NZ, which is about 30% of the NZ GDP between 2010-2015.
Maybe I'm mistaken, but weren't the <h1>, <h2>, etc elements defined to be essentially equivalent in HTML5, with the number being there for legacy agents only?

I.e., non-legacy browsers should already ignore the number and only take nested <section> elements into account when building the tree and calculating the heading level.

So the following:

<h1>Heading</h1>
<section>
<h1>Sub heading</h1>
...
</section>

would be perfectly valid.
I did the 72 hours fasting 3 times, just to see if I was able to do it and because I read that 3 days it's something like a reboot of the inmune system.

I do this every week: last meal on sunday night, next meal on tuesday night, next meal on thursday night, next meal on friday night and on saturdays and sundays I eat all I want whenever I want. During fasting I only drink water or tea.

I've been doing this for a year, I feel great :)
DDG doesn't even show me any autocomplete options when I add "is"

Which is even stranger, shouldn't we all see the exact same thing with DDG?
Sadly, it goes both ways. I wouldn't be surprised if there weren't "leaks" or outright statements which attack Susan from Uber or other Uber "employees" showing up on Twitter and in the news.

Deserved or not, public shaming of users on forums like Yelp or Twitter has become a common business tactic to battle bad press.
And they aren't censoring anything. I mention legitimately in the context of the article. True censorship would be say...stopping all Reuters news from showing up in google searches might be a decent example. It get murky in the real world because google is a private company and isn't bound by censorship laws the same way the government is.

Should it be? Different question all together, but currently it is not.
The suggestions, not the results
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>Edit: For what its worth, these are private companies after all. So 'censorship' in terms of a legal or constitutional definition under freedom of speech, would not apply here anyway.

The article never claimed it was unconstitutional
Are you path-finding every frame? Can you take a snapshot of the game state and run full-path finding on a background core just once every second?
The author's story is undoubtedly inspirational, to the point of being on the verge of unbelievable; and yet, the titular goal seems positively unattainable for not only average folk , but even above average folks , and possibly reserved just for those with an iq of 125/130+ (at least 2stdevs+) to even have a go at such an auto-didactic trial by fire at the frontiers of physics.

What may be MORE interesting to see, not just for HN folks but in general, would be a parameterized set of possible/reachable (as well as 'stretch') goals, for folks interested in learning more about math/physics/cs at various bands of natural/innate ability. While these bands may not be set in stone and raw effort may help level up someone up one tier above their 'home' range, it is for instance frankly impossible for at least 99% of folks to ever become competent at QFT - and likely, 95-99% cannot even grok it in part.
I have also been moving towards Kicad. (Amusingly enough, I was also bitten by the Apple eMagic/Logic buyout).

Unfortunately, the way technology moves on, the only way to really ensure this is to commit to it as an active process.
Much like backing up your data, it has to be an ongoing and active maintenance process. This takes time and effort and incurs risk and disruption (changing formats and software).

I understand how the person in the original post got themselves into this problem, and I don't blame them. But with the benefit of hindsight one can see the lesson. For data to be durable over time, it has to be in the most compatible formats or the most general formats which allow them to be economically (wrt time/effort/money) moved to other systems.

With OSS and open formats you have a fighting chance, but even then the ultimate cost can be having to maintain the software yourself which for most people who are using design software isn't likely their main goal.
Right, and it's the multiple "counts" that get you.
Ask HN: Best wireless bluetooth earphones?
I'm having trouble finding good, wireless, bluetooth earphones.

The headphones that have fit me the best are the Bose SoundTrue ultra in-ear headphones, but they're wired and I'd like to find a wireless pair that fits and performs well, too.

I've tried the Bose SoundSport wireless headphones but they fall out of my ears due to the added weight on the outside of the ear pieces.

I've also tried the Phaiser BHS-750, but it wouldn't consistently connect to my Apple Watch 2 (and when it did, the audio would go in-and-out during a run), and I also felt its battery didn't stay charged for very long (approx. 2-3 hours).

The Apple AirPods also do not fit/stay in my ears.

I want them to fit well (especially while running long distances and sprinting) and perform well (sound good AND easily connect to my iPhone and Apple Watch 2). Strong battery life would be nice, too, but not required.

I'd prefer not having to wear a neckband like on the Bose QuietControl 30 Wireless headphones (because it seems like it'd be bulky/annoying while running), but will consider it if that's the best solution.

Does anyone have any recommendations?
as for alternatives - the second keyboard (I use in office) is Filco Majestouch 2 (tenkeyless) - great one. The only gripe - I decided to go with brown switches, but I actually prefer blue ones (as in Razer model).
Please don't indent quoted text. It shows up in a preformatted block with no line-wrapping, making it difficult to read.
It doesn't matter what we say...go find some customers and ask them.

They're the ones that matter.
That's also certainly a way to cut down on ones grocery bill. I'm amazed at self control of some
People.
That's a form of censorship
The only difference is that I get some Swedish suggestions mixed in with Bing, and that DDG shows no suggestions at all (but without "is" they are similar again).

This makes me wonder: has anyone ever looked at per-country filter bubbles?
The Intercept makes less and less sense over time as they run out of sensational stories to publish. Thanks for the weird opsec tutorials, I guess.
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Is this actually legal? I mean, these are public institutions funded by the people of the US. They should be allowed to communicate, no?
IF can just mean skipping breakfast or something. Apparently I've done it for years without meaning to by just often not being in the mood for breakfast. I wouldn't call it "real" fasting in the way you'd usually think of fasting, though maybe it does have health benefits. I'm skeptical—seems far too mild and too similar to ordinary eating habits to possibly do much, aside from maybe resulting is slightly lower overall caloric intake, which admittedly would be beneficial for most people, however that's not really a special effect of fasting per se, though it could still be an effective way to achieve it, which is fine.
Key question is not, is there a "deep state". The question is this... does the deep state have US National interests at heart, or are they another special interest group pursuing their own interests. Several ways to tell:

- Where do/did suspected private sector "deep state" players invest? In the US or abroad.

- Whom do/did they lobby for or represent in the private sector.

- Who do they associate with.

The criticism in some circles is that suspected deep-state members are too close to certain countries (eg. Saudi Arabia).

There are criticisms leveled that suspected deep-state members are either compromised by foreign powers, or they have compromised US officials, and journalists.

I am all for accountability and an infrequent but meaningful shake-up and reset of political influence and power. But the realpolitik bottom-line is that intent and effectiveness matter more than process or accountability. In other words, it doesn't matter if you think John Podesta, Dick Cheney, Kissinger, Soros or Facebook is the "deep state". What matters is the NET result on US national interests at home and abroad.
It's only baffling until you realize that it really just is horrible, blatant sexism of the worst kind. That entire department had turned so corrosively sexist (going from 24 to 3% women) that it needed to finish the job and get the rest of the women out by making it plain that they weren't welcome. We're talking about the people in power here being so horribly sexist that they have to force the women out in order to feel comfortable being themselves.

Any company that cares one inkling about diversity will go out of its way to make minorities feel comfortable. We're dealing with the opposite situation here: A department actively working to drive out diversity.
We are absolutely looking at buying large quantities of (Ry)zen, if the numbers work out. We're most concerned about multi-core / NUMA penalty compared to Intel.

I assume we also get some sort of volume discount with Intel that may not be reflected in consumer pricing. But maybe we would get the same with AMD.

Also, CPUs are a tiny tiny portion of our costs of goods sold. So in the end, it doesn't matter too much how expensive Intel is relative to AMD. That said, we would prefer to see competition for the long run.
>>With the slight difference that in America, the wannabe dictator is the one being targeted by the deep state.

That's not a difference. It started out that way in Turkey as well when Erdogan came to power. He eventually crushed the deep state in a series of maneuvers that purged the "dissidents" inside the intelligence agencies, the judiciary and the military.

The exact same thing will happen in America as well unless the practices of the current administration are nipped in the bud quickly.
Attention downvoters: Cosmic rays don't even make it through the atmosphere. They are depleted atomic nuclei which essentially smash into another atom and that's the end of it. Not even multi TeV cosmic rays, which are rare, get through. They never "pass straight through the Earth" either, that's pretty much reserved for neutrinos only. Particles with energies of about 10^18 eV arrive at the rate of about one per square kilometer of atmosphere per century. These very high energy cosmic rays are detected at the ground by looking for the secondary photons, electrons, muons and neutrons that shower large areas of the ground after the primary particle impacts the atmosphere.

Your ground-level bit flips are most likely caused by terrestrial radiation sources, not extra-terrestrial ones. This is just basic physics.
I directly experience the sensation of making choices. All the scientific data I have ever perceived has been through countless filters and transformations. I find it hard to muster faith in my perceptions of scientific data if I can't trust my perceptions of something much more raw and unfiltered.
Yeah, it's pretty badass. That being said, is it worth spending 60% of your whole nation's budget every year to have a military this badass? I am seriously asking. I feel like there is a better place to be spending that money.
AFAIK this article doesn't suggest getting dehydrated at any point. That's just evil.
Just watched the entire video - very interesting; however, there are two major caveats the speaker mentions that is worth noting.

1) This requires expensive precomputation. He mentioned it took 10 hours on one of the large starcraft maps.
2) (I may have misunderstood this point) This does not necessarily respond well to map changes - so in maps where you have the map changing structure (new walls, etc) you will have to run the precomputation again.

With that said, very interesting stuff coming out of Digipen.
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oh wow this is going to be a fun ethical rabbit hole to go down in a few years
I'm going to go real old school and suggest the slide rule. While there is a short learning curve, once you've mastered a few simple rules, using one is a breeze and if you keep the slide lubricated and don't abuse it, it will perform it's function reliably and accurately for decades. I have a Pickett, it's now 40 years old but works like new, but just about any brand will offer the same performance.
I was interested in what their definition of prolonged fasting was, so, FYI:

> Prolonged fasting (PF) lasting 48–120 hours (Introduction)
That sounds right, and your experience obviously gives you a negative experience of the manufacturer. But as an engineer in this situation I can relate. If we had phone-home activation I'd probably try to argue that it should be expiring re-enabled every year in the product so that if we abandoned it then users wouldn't be stranded.

The question I'd have to answer is - would this be a net positive? Would it lead to more or less sales? Would we only lose customers who wouldn't buy a new license anyway? What would the cost be of my proposed feature that helps customers in the future?

In our situation there is zero risk of e.g. losing business to open source, so management would likely be deligthted with the idea that users would not be running our old software. In reality we avoid the problem entirely by just selling subscriptions like so many others these days. The software has a kill switch that makes it unusable after the planned release date of version N+2.
> On which I call bullshit.

Why? DRM adds cost and complexity to Netflix's operations. I bet a not insignificant number of customer support issues are related to DRM (e.g. bad drivers).

> They still use it for their own productions and series.

Because that's what their platform is. The vast majority of their content remains licensed, and that licensed content requires DRM. They'd have to run a largely different platform just for their own content to be DRM free and now have customers with inconsistent experiences depending on which content was displayed.
Native bees in North America are affected by habitat loss and pesticides. The are many species in serious jeopardy because of that, even without the negative consequences of our direct management for honey or pollination. The industrial monoculture model is certainly one contributor to this problem, so it is a matter of conservation, separately from the issues of honeybees.
My steel backplate original IBM Model M keyboard in use continuously from when it was new until today. I can't figure out any way to improve it.

Logitech trackman wheel from a decade or two ago, perfect to have a desk with 3 or 4 machines on. Must have thousands of hours of FPS and minecraft on it, feels new, feels perfect.

The original Radio Shack wire wrapping tool, you could pay up to 100x more for something less reliable or slower or harder to use but I built entire 8-bit microcomputers with mine. The wire stripper which is perfect for 30 gauge wire wrap wire stores inside the tool. You could pay more for something faster but less reliable or whatever bad engineering tradeoff, but somehow this cheap tool had the perfect engineering tradeoffs.

The hyper orthogonal PDP-11 assembly language instruction set. Essentially you wrote C in assembly. That and the 6809/68hc11 general family are the only two architectures I ever miss programming in assembly, everything else is perfectly doable but a chore.

I grew up with a surplus Tektronix 531 oscope, the kind with pluggable chassis. There's just something about tools designed by engineers specifically for engineers where everything just feels perfect and everything just worked. If it weren't for weighing a hundred pounds and drawing half a kilowatt every oscope would be a Tektronix 531.

Somehow I did electronics for over 30 years before buying a top of the line digital Hakko soldering station. I was so dumb, I should have invested in something of that quality level decades ago. Its perfectly repeatably capable of anything; after some flux cleaning I've had people ask if I own a wave soldering machine given a couple hundred perfect and identical joints on a board. Its weightless in my hand, perfect heating, ESD proof, and a joy to use. It cannot be improved.
Absolutely love mine and I can't tell anyone why either. Just feels right.
Amsterdam has an amazing public transit system... plus you can basically walk from one end to the other.
I shared an apartment with two 20 year old when I was 45.

They didn't know that knob 2 changed the power (despite it being labelled), they just kept adding more time and eventually giving up.
Double slit experiment is already explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsaUX48t0w8 .
Interesting. It's worth noting that semicolons are generally optional in javascript, and there's a growing contingency of folks who actively do not use them and rely on their build tools to inject where necessary. Sounds like it would lead to subtle bugs but I guess it works ok.

Anyway, nice work in general! Assuming this only works with 'let' to avoid the weirdness around 'var' scoping?
If you're a search engine and I send you a billion takedown notices, of which one is legitimate, and you don't comply with that one, then you will be liable for infringement. Is it worth the risk?
I would also say the definition of censorship only explains the narrow concept and not the broader context in society, culture, law and politics.
Interestingly, for me Google gave me "is dead", DDG and Bing gave me... nothing. The suggestions didn't even pop up. THis is in Germany, but for the .com domains.
Change your map generation to generate a higher level graph first with ensured paths between nodes and generate subareas so that they connect to higher-level graph?