skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting though how Mozilla will be releasing Firefox Screenshots for Chrome too in the future. Chrome's built in screenshot tool in dev tools has been improving in recent versions of Canary, with full screen capture now added. I'll be keen to see how it compares.

Great feature/add-on to have built into Firefox though without the need to get an add-on.
Deep nets made AlphaGo successful, which came from Canada primarily. Also, deep mind is chock full of Canadian deep learning graduates, ie Alex graves.
Can you talk more about those restrictions? I though they could get practical training after completing their degree?
Not old enough to be the prime minister yet.
Blockchains in their original design were special because they could resist contentious changes in the event of political turmoil. Bitcoin protects users against hyperinflation chosen by a ruling elite trying to fund a war, for example.

Bitcoin is a money that doesn't grant massive economic power to a controlling authority. The US has massive global influence derived from its status as the global reserve currency. Using bitcoin does not grant that power to anyone, and therefore could be argued as a better base for a global currency.

Namespace stuff is exciting for the same reason. Today there are powers and squatters and authorities that can decide if you get the right to a domain. This is inherently political for contentious names and sites. Decentralization isolates you from these risks.

Blockchain 2.0 has spoiled this quite a bit by running things like a startup and essentially giving full control to the founding team. I think most people who are newer to the blockchain space completely miss the advantages of a system that is extremely difficult to change.
> By investing in distributed ledgers, a group of banks can collude to avoid settlement feees incurred by going through SWIFT.

How does a distributed ledger remove/lower settlement costs?
One of my favorite party questions is, "Who was the last man who knew everything?"
You can buy coffee from one of the farms here for $96 a pound (~$86/lb if you buy 12 oz).

https://goodlandorganics.com/store/roasted-coffee

Not sure if I could stomach paying $6.50/cup for my daily pourover that I make at home, but hey, this is out there.
The sad thing is we have plenty of big problems—overpopulation, pollution, environmental collapse—we just can't get behind them because we're wired for tribalism, and there's just not enough common understanding on a large scale to put any wood behind the arrow of sustainability.
Did eyelid kid get it re-attached okay?
Heh, so the planet is having a quarter life crisis?

I'm not making fun of this it just sounds funny, and I'm sure the always connected nature does have a large impact. Before, "keeping up with the Joneses" meant a fairly small neighborhood community. Now you can see how you stack up globally instantly to people world wide and I imagine it's hard to not feel a bit lost in the face of everyone looking like they're living the life, constantly one post at a time.

Consolidating that without there being a backdrop of "it's a magazine" or "it's just advertising" probably has some sort of significant impact. It's amazing people can browse Facebook endlessly without feeling a little like they're missing out on something.
They switch because it lets you do things the old, incorrect way.

Like using jquery. People want what they don't have to spend time learning. They're used to templates with handlebars. Used to mutating variables. That's why I think so many jquery people and those touting "you don't need jsx or babel" use it.

Because it lets you be lazy and do things they way you're used to instead of better practices that have been found.

It's funny when I hear people act like its way too difficult to setup babel. I'm sorry, but if you're using any ES6 stuff (who doesn't use arrow functions) and you need to support older browsers (a real production app would). Then you're going to need babel and include some polyfills. Go ahead and use vue without all this "horrible babel pipeline" and don't use any language features that have been added in the past three years if that's really what you want.
I'm in the same boat here actually. If I actually feel like going to sleep at the correct time I feel like I'm just not getting any value out of my life unless there's something that interests me at all times.

I just keep pounding caffeine and it really doesn't bug me. I'm sure my performance in just about everything has dropped significantly, but eh, I'm in a fairly secure situation now, so I feel like value out of my life vs performance in tasks I don't really like that much... I'll take the value usually.
This is not news to anyone who reads AI papers: the number of Chinese authors is amazing.
BTC bubbling to several trillion dollars would mean replacement of fiat, and then one would ask if it is now a bubble or a replacement (ascension?).
I'm not an offender of any kind, let alone a violent offender.
I mean refined sugar. I don't add sugars or other sweeteners to my food.

The fiber in fruit reduces the effect of the sugar. See this article: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/making-the-case-fo...

Also, I don't eat huge amounts of sweet fruits. Avocados, cucumbers, and squash are fruits too.
What's the point of this anyway?
It makes me wonder if Gresham's law [1] will apply to cryptocurrencies. Bitcoin being slow to change and expensive to mine, may give way to other coins that are more adaptable and use less energy, such as Ethereum and Litecoin. Litecoin has already implemented Segwit, whereas Bitcoin seems paralysed by a debate that is hard to understand by an outsider.

These other cryptocurrencies are only less energy intensive because they are mined by less computer power. However Eth may introduce POS which will reduce computer power required.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law
Yeah, no real ill effects.
I shall make it my duty to become a fiction-grade villain, torturing the AIs that enter my system. insert evil cackle here
Maybe, maybe not. This is speculation, unless you've done a study to sample a statistically significant portion of the population. I agree, your speculation sounds reasonable. But neither of us knows, and both of us have certain biases that this speculation confirms - and therefore it should be mistrusted until confirmed.

Frankly, I think there is a bigger problem than job security itself. It's that the whistle will be ignored by the general population. Even if you are willing to sacrifice to do what is right, it may not matter because no-one wants to believe, or the spin is so good that no-one believes it anyway.
Having never done this before I've got to have a look at the internetarchive tool first, but yes, that would work (I'd hate to take your money then not be able to deliver).
Paleo is high in animal products and low in carbs. My diet has no animal products except fish a couple of times per week, and I eat carbs -- just not refined ones. I don't eat most grains, but I do eat some brown rice, buckwheat, sweet potatoes, satsuma "yams", etc.
Exploring DynamIQ and ARM’s New CPUs: Cortex-A75, Cortex-A55
Back in 90s, some Japanese manufacturers (e.g. Panasonic) tried to sell AI-based home appliances such as rice cookers or washing machines. The buzzword then was "Fuzzy Logic" instead of NN. Don't know how successful they were, but it seemed like a classic case of selling features instead of stories. Ordinary people don't buy stuff because of its features.
Thoughts on tokens
Men, read this
So X decided to reverse my displays today, despite precisely zero patches or changes being applied to the system, and the GUI tool for rearranging them, because life is tremendously too short to go screw with config files to make my GUI work, won't actually save a config file that fixes the problem on reboot.

This is fine. This is great. Everyone should waste their time with this.

Or not.
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petra's just being cynical towards politicians...
Indeed. Yahoo Japan Maps is the best maps and transit solution in Japan and it just got even better:
https://atadistance.net/2017/05/02/yahoo-japan-map-v5-review...
From 2013 and the article itself on Medium is for SEO spam.
That's literally the thesis of “The Entrepreneurial State: debunking public vs. private sector myths” by Dr. Mazzucato.

I wrote a summary if you're interested: https://medium.com/@seanaubin/book-review-the-entrepreneuria...
>Jakarta is pluralistic and religiously diverse. The city's population in 2000 was 35.16% Javanese, 27.65% Betawi, and 15.27% Sundanese. Betawi people are a creole ethnic group that came from various parts of Indonesia and intermarriage with Chinese, Arabs, and Europeans

Jakarta is basically a mix of a bunch of populations. Loads of south-east Asia has a lot of immigrants (2nd, 3rd generation too) from China and other places.

Hell, China is not exactly a homogenous population either.

Not to mention lost of Europe had other ethnic populations that were overridden by people of Christendom. All those wars ends with a lot of intermingling. And of course the US committed massive genocide to make everyone "white".

Your complaint lays on some pretty false premises.
The mood affiliation is strong here... do you feel as strongly about the rule of law when it comes to, I don't know, medical marihuana (the smoking of which is a federal crime, since it's a schedule I drug).

The analogy is not entirely facetious: immigration is--like pot--a crime with real economic benefit, and where any negative externalities are exacerbated by knee-jerk prohibition. Take as an example wage depression due to immigration. The less that undocumented immigrants can report unfair labor practices, the more they are likely to be exploited for extra-depressive wages.

The same dynamic is present, for example, when it comes to prostitution (also a crime). If you punish the prostitute instead of the john, prostitutes are more likely to be abused, exacerbating the negative consequences of prostitution.

(Again, the analogy goes deeper: the answer to immigration is the same as prostitution or drugs or whatever: _tax the externalities_. If you really think that some honduran woman scrubbing toilets for less than minimum wage at a motel 6 is "bad for america", then you should jus _tax her_).

One other comment: you seem quite upset about the use of the phrase "undocumented immigrant" instead of "illegal." There are Really Good reasons why the first term is preferred:

1. Not all undocumented immigrants are criminals. The only criminal act is crossing the border without permission. Overstaying a visa, or coming here as a child, is emphatically not criminal. Yes, it's a deportable condition, but not a criminal one. Undocumented seems to be a better description of that situation--and unless someone has been tried, how do you know?
2. Semantics matter. Undocumented immigrants have rights, just like all people in America. To refer to a human as as being "illegal" anchors the situation in a way which makes it easier to treat them in a way where those rights are violated, and _no one cares_. For example, alleged illegal immigrants are not offered counsel in immigration courts. Flagrant violation of their sixth amendment rights. It somehow seems to be ok in the public consciousness because they are "illegal."

I'm not advocating for open borders, or for amnesty or whatever. I'm just asking you to think, critically, about the situation, and leave your mood affiliation aside.
While I agree with you, it's a real easy thing to say and a much harder thing to actually do. Having been in a similar situation myself (not quite as drastic—no lives were in danger and no laws were broken), we (the engineers) argued vehemently with the CEO (there may have been yelling involved), but eventually capitulated with a "ok, but this is on your head" attitude.

Maybe if it were more important I would have fought harder. But I honestly don't know.
Honeywell backs out of $40M Zonoff acquisition – Goodbye Zonoff
Where does this claim about being educated mostly on the US taxpayer's money come from? A lot of my classmates in graduate school have said they are in graduate school since it will give them more chances at the lottery allowing them to work in the US. Others have said they just wanted the best education they could get.

But all of them are always complaining about how theres basically zero financial assistance for them and they are lucky that their parents can pay for them, since even getting a part time job or internship is a massive hassle that most companies won't even bother with due to their student visa situation.
> So if you don't have an up-to-date and accurate list of instructions for installing ReactOS on VirtualBox, prominently displayed near the download page, then you might consider prioritizing that.

If you scroll down while on the downloads page, you'll find preloaded images for QEMU, VMWare, and VirtualBox under the "Advanced Downloads" section header.
You can create these easily using SQL, Postgres, & PostGIS.

https://postgis.net/docs/ST_VoronoiPolygons.html
Is the bamboo ceiling string enough and well known enough that it would drive a majority of Chinese graduates from US schools out of the country even if they received a green card? I don't find this assumption oblivious at all. It's easy to underestimate discrimination if you aren't the ones being discriminated. Do you happen to have any data on the actual discrimination and more importantly for this discussion the perceived one?
Gwern has an extensive write up on melatonin at https://www.gwern.net/Melatonin

Personally if I'm off caffeine for too long the resulting metabolism strangeness takes me out for about a day, but the next time that happens I'm going to try a good amount of water and salt to see if that can combat it. Probably something around 1L/6g salt. Other things to consider with caffeine: adding l-theanine to temper the jitters. [ Search for l-theanine caffeine stack for other information on this. ]

Exercise definitely helps with concentration. I believe that it was only recently "discovered" that the brain is a giant lymph node and the only times it appears to be able to clear the decks of waste are when you're asleep or when you're pumping blood with a good exertion. [ http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v523/n7560/full/nature1... ]
Yes as STEM graduate you get a few years for practical training in the US. After that you gotta leave though.
You're thinking of ambrosia.
Before I was into computers, I studied "primitive wilderness skills" for a long time.[1] The paleo diet doesn't match with what I studied about hunter gatherer cultures. I don't like it for a few reasons, so I avoid the term. Check out some of the criticism of it online.[2] Paleo tends to rank pretty low relative to other diets.[3]

[1] http://artofmemory.com/forums/traditional-wilderness-living-...

[2] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-paleo-diet-ha...

[3] http://health.usnews.com/best-diet/best-diets-overall
I mean, there is a big difference between peeing on someone and trying to choke out one of your relatives. My family is full of mental health disorders and I've experienced the damage they cause first hand. For me, it was much more of a "so this is the complete extreme" experience -- it was a good example of "almost entirely far gone."
People have mentioned headphones/earphones and earplugs, but you can actually combine the two.

Take in-ear earphones, take off the thin rubber plugs on their end. Cut off the earplugs to the size (or 1.5x) of those rubber plugs. Then compress the earplugs to coin-flatness, and punch a thin hole through them 2mm or so. Put them on the earphones. As with earplugs, press them before inserting, then wait a few seconds for them to decompress in your ears.

I've used that in the past before I got Bose active noise cancelling phones. They work basically as good as unpunched earplugs, but you can add white noise or music or whatever on top of that.

Edit: Found that (of course) someone made a video of that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0m_RseMrok
The system is build as a training for just one type of work and nothing more. (if we are not talking about gymnasiums) So changing tracks means starting from zero again. It is doable, but very few people want to start again in class full of 15 years old, second problem is money: there is nothing like student loans. Also society will view as a failure.
Thanks. I'm not sure that it's just the calories. I suspect that it's a lack of certain types of fuel in the gut that results in the wrong balance of microorganisms.
> In reality it's just not black and white like that.

I made it clear in the last paragraph it isn't black and white. Everyone has their own situation. I can still support people to come out before they actually do it.
Meanwhile Elsevier, who is widely known for inhibiting science progress by setting incredible high prices even for government funded research papers, makes a move against SciHub [1] and LibGen [2] again [3].

[1] https://sci-hub.cc/

[2] http://libgen.io/

[3] https://torrentfreak.com/elsevier-wants-15-million-piracy-da...
I've seen number of transactions used as a vanity metric. This leads some people to "spend and rebuy" BTC to juice that.

Number of full nodes also looks like a vanity metric.
This thread is getting too long; how do I contact you?
I need special diet to get a six pack (naturally high body fat), but I can do half-marathon, kickbox etc.
To provide a context here - one of the key value propositions of BTC is real interest rate.

Cash real interest rate: 0% interest - 2% inflation through debasing currency = -2%

BTC real interest rate: 0% interest - 0% inflation = 0%

Note how this benefit of BTC is not bubbly by itself (growth expectation usually is - due to it being based on past growth)
It's like when you watch a film and the credits roll by at the end. There seems to be hundreds of people involved and I often think maybe they could have gotten away with a few actors and a cameraman.
That's a really interesting thesis that warrants its own HN thread
A few years ago GeorgiaTech† created a special anti-bacterial copper alloy (Cu-PANI††), which is now significantly used in the Atlanta Airport drinking water pipings.

[†] https://www.truepani.com
[††] http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/am507746m
1999 wasn't a bad time to sell Amazon stock, actually, since it got punished in the bust and took years to return to 1999 levels. But Amazon is a huge exception because it was a real company and most dotcoms weren't.
Crazy thought: what if the AI is in 10-20 years the first field in which major breakthroughs will be first published in Mandarin instead of in English. Language is power, and currently English speaking countries have the edge.
Information about Primary key and Foreign key
I have no mental health disorders though. I just had some completely off the handle reactions to people bullying me, or picking on me in any way. I was one of the smallest people in my class, and it never turned out well for the other person. I would blackout with rage. I've never remembered what happened in a fight, but can still remember every detail leading up to it.
SQL server has seven types of keys. primary key and foreign key are important keys to them. Each table has only one primary key in a database table. Because of its unique, not accept the null value and duplicate value. We can create more than one foreign key in tables.
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I keep hearing about an inherent problem in this capability to "resist contentious changes". In dark corners it keeps whispered that if any one entity gets control over 50% of the mining capacity, they can essentially decide the "immutable truth" in the blockchain. Is there any merit to that scenario, or is it complete bogus? And if it's true, how come it's not more openly discussed?

I guess what I'm asking is if things like the hard fork of The DAO Ethereum blockchain are actually a fundamentally solved problem. Stuff like that happening when our banking infrastructure has moved to a blockchain sounds like a disaster.
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It sounds to me like they are discounting the possibility that an entirely camera based solution could be developed that bypassed the whole lidar cost issue altogether.
Those top-rated Chinese researchers are publishing in English. Their Chinese-only venues are not at the caliber that they would consider publishing ground breaking work to.
Ford did that by paying his workers very well; imagine Foxconn paying their workers enough to buy iPhones! On the odd side he had a team of moral police who would show up at your home unannounced to make sure you were living like a good American.
> I didn't see anything in the article that showed that people lost weight without eating less then they burn. This is still as far as I know the only way to lose weight.

It isn't just calories in, calories out. There are other ways to lose weight that suggest there are other things at work.

- https://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-will-test-freeze-d...

- http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/25/health/fecal-bacteria-obesity/
Node.js needs to die in a fire and Golang is the perfect arsonist
Thanks, now I did get it. Guess for me it was easier seeing it than reading a description!
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Ok I have zero interest in blockchains and somewhat firmly believe them to be a fad but, honestly, you read like an Amish decrying "those metal monsters."

Software was good enough to send a few guys to the Moon and back fifty years ago, software is enough to tell you that your house is yours.
It's a list for people that have trouble sleeping. Just because A implies B, it doesn't mean that "not A" implies "not B".
Maybe instead of physically trying to stop these people from killing themselves, we should try to make them want to live. It is the only humane answer anyway.
I think a slowdown in China would actually accelerate capital outflows and further inflate crytocurrency valuations.
Show HN: Regl, a declarative low state WebGL abstraction
I figured as much, that's why I said "my limited understanding" (for those who love downvoting and not explaining).

For the commenters below, true. Thanks for the replies all of you.
Something that I am planning to do. But it is incredibly difficult to manage with a full time job.
By the time governments fear that cryptocurrency could overtake fiat too many voters may already be in favor of keeping cryptoassets.
Speaking as a co-founder of Sia, the primary advantage of a blockchain is the inability of any third party to interfere with your infrastructure. This also means you aren't depending on anybody to have uptime.

Today, when you put your data on a cloud, you select and trust a service provider. They essentially own all of your infrastructure at that point, and can easily disrupt your business or life if they decide that they don't like you. They can also do things like change price based on income level. Etc.

Sia removes that uncertainty from the equation. It's based on algorithms instead of people, and there's no controlling authority. It's a free market for data infrastructure with low barrier to entry and fewer places to introduce unfair competition. But most of all, it's going to be stable in the event of political chaos. You don't have to be an aws based logistics company worrying that Amazon is moving into the logistics space and now has a conflict of interest. You don't have to be a company in Turkey worried that the US is going to apply sanctions that revoke your access to the cloud.

Blockchains in general are a response to the systemic risk that we've built into the internet. I don't think that most people realize that they are useful for that (mostly because blockchains like ethereum really aren't useful for that)