skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Although I agree Facebook has a lot of subtle influence, it's only to a point. I firmly believe (no evidence) they are unable to change most peoples minds, they may be able to change their moods.

People create their own social bubbles outside of Facebook, Facebook then gives those social bubbles a way to communicate (messages, images, etc.) online - that's it. If Facebook started trying to do more manipulation, i.e. tried to change peoples minds or something, then people would likely stop using Facebook, because it would no longer be subtle.
FLW!
When the original trash can pro was released, AMD was a reasonable video choice. Unless Apple is also going to release a CUDA compatibility layer, I think most people would want an Nvidia video solution.
Similar situation here. I've got a 2013 MacBook Pro, a 2016 iMac and a 2015 HP z620. The z620 has been nothing but a pain in my ass since I bought it. It's noisy and shuts down all by itself at least once a week. The Macs, rock solid.
But not the most stringent drug laws.
I read the article as "these are the lessons we learned in 2014 at BitSquid/Autodesk and we apply them now at OM for the same reasons".

Updated my previous post: should be past tense in both cases.
Do you have any further details on this? The tabs always looked weird to me but I don't know why.

We practice "gitflow" at my work, except we deviate from it to fit or workflow better. We have feature/fix branches and a master branch that we all use on our dev machines every day, we never ship our master branch though, we ship versioned releases which get backplate of bug fixes as needed. We have hundreds of clients on their own clusters and we stagger new releases to the clusters in order of customer priority. We try to ensure PRs are well tested before merging, bit of minor issues crop up on master we file a bug and sprint it ensure it is fixed before the next release (and generally by whoever did the initial work that caused the issue).
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Meh. She's got a history of being an austerity fan. Since cryptocurrencies basically guarantee pro-cyclic austerity programs, of course she's going to push them.
I disagree that the head of an online advertising company has more power than the POTUS.
RELAY: past, present, and future. (1987)
Google drops 'first click free,' loathed by many publishers
To be fair, most new laptops like the Surface Pro or Dell's XPS 13 make it pretty darn hard to upgrade the memory or hard drive.
Or abandoning such a nice big, hi-res screen. I sort of like the screen and computer separate. Even the highest end smart tv's are starting to diverge into the screen, that lasts a decade or more, and the controller computer that can be replaced.
Moving from a MAC pro workflow to a Wintel (i9 Xenon or AMD) is non trivial you might as well bight the bullet and go threadripper or EPYC now
Aaaah, LOFAR, also known among the students of Groningen from 2005 as "the reason why I can download at 15MiB per second for 10 Euros per month".

(They implemented the data infrastructure before the sensors were active, so there was a lot of bandwidth to spare. No idea how things are now)
I share your concerns, yet can't think of a solution. I think the only thing that can be done is to factor in a large amount of doubt, and amortize that doubt as more definitive studies come in over time.
Wake up at the same time every day. Pick that time and stick to it. Whether you get too little sleep or not.
They make 1U servers with similar space constraints and those sorts of CPUs without throttling, if you're willing to accept that your computers sounds like a jet engine.
Weird. I grew up with palindromes. They were a common concept in writing. A man, a plan, a canal. Panama!
C++

- You can't expect people to have a JVM on their computer and bundling it with your program is going to increase the size of your exe (not everybody has high speed Internet).

- If you want to expand on mobile devices (which you should), I don't think there's an easy way to have a Java program run on iOS
The Jones Act favors one large port in San Juan. If it wasn’t for that there would be well developed ports on the north and west sides of PR. Distribution in a catastrophe would depend less on the long road routes from east to west
I'm seriously considering an iMac these days. Currently I use a 2014-model 15" MacBook Pro, and it's heavy to carry to work every day. I also need a lot more disk space.

If Apple allow upgrading the iMac Pro with a 3.5" 12TB hard drive, I'd be interested.

The new MacBook Pros aren't suitable for my needs because they don't have ports. I need more storage, but can't upgrade my laptop. I don't want to go down to a 2012 MacBook Pro just to add a bigger hard drive in the optical bay. Also, I really like the Retina screen. So, how am I going to store the Big Data for machine learning on my office computer, while also having a nice screen?

The iMac seems like a more affordable option than a Mac Pro, and with cheaper, more suitable upgrades than the non-tower Pro.

If the iMac doesn't have a 3.5" disk slot though, then I take back all my compliments. The 4TB max SSD from Apple won't be enough for me.
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I did a little digging, and don't think so. Being able to access a readonly snapshot is a property of the filesystem, it's a guarantee that if you overwrite file contents, the original data is still available. With btrfs and friends, you could create a "reflink", but these filesystems are not in very widespread use, and it's also not clear to me that it's an overall performance win.
The cooling system looks similar to what you'd see in a 1U chassis. Since it's standing on it's own instead of sitting in a rack next to a bunch of other machines, it should be fine.

It's going to be very loud under a full load though, it would have been nice if they went with liquid cooling instead.
Buying a Mac for business is simply outsourcing IT support to a different vendor (Apple vs. local support options) and paying for some of the support upfront vs. on demand.

Getting good support from a vendor or hiring in house implicates a lot of overhead.

The choice to go with Apple is very understandable to me, based on my experience with how much time it takes to find and supervise IT support personnel/vendors. They are about as hard to manage as office cleaning staff, where when you look away for 5 minutes the carpet doesn't get vacuumed because it's hard to detect at first.
I had this same problem. But having to wake up to get the kid to the bus left me little choice.

Take a look at your diet. I cut out refined sugars and switched to a (mostly) LCHF diet and I can now function at nearly 100% on as little as 4 hours of sleep. Most nights I get 5-6 hours and can usually function at 100% as long as I get a good 7-8 hours once every week or so.
> There's the subtle implication in comments like yours that this posting is not worthy because it was posted before.

Well, it _is_ less worthy if it has been posted before, isn't it?

> It doesn't matter. Stuff is re-posted all the time, sometimes simultaneously. That's just the way the web works.

Being common doesn't make it desirable.

> It's not your job to moderate or research this site for others.

Is it a bad deed if it's not "your job"? In my eyes, someone needs to do it (and it would be great if we had mods to do it instead).
Show HN: Online pivot tables/charts by CSV/SQL/MongoDb
They say about 20 percent of the US population has been infected and then we see this:

The research team found that 22 percent of the people with IED tested positive for toxoplasmosis exposure, compared with only 9 percent of the healthy control group. About 16 percent of the group with other psychiatric disorders tested positive for toxoplasmosis, too.

So the people with IED had about the same rate of infection as the general population. This looks to me like one of those "nothing to see here" situations based on the numbers.
What exactly does Lobsters solve? Who does this cater to?
About 6~7 hours a night, more trending towards 6 hours and less. It impacts my productivity greatly, I wake up still wanting to sleep more and am tired for most of the day, which causes me to be distracted more easily (open office...) and get way less work done. Also stress affects me more when I sleep less
It's sensible to understand (for us, brazilians) that much of our land is a bastion of pristine environment and that we should preserve it. On the other hand I think it's very hypocritical of many countries to point a finger at us when they have enriched themselves through pillage, exploitation of their own environment, slavery and shady practices from their government and corporations, most of which had consequences on the troublesome political and economical development of the (South American) region.

That being sa(i)d, does not justify bad behaviour from both parts and a mutual understanding can only arise when both sides have a dialogue to work together on these issues.

If you want people not to burn forests to grow cattle then you need to understand why there's economical sense on that and mitigate the issue on it's root instead of trying to enforce a law that's very difficult to apply. Same thing for energy requirements of a country vs exploitation of it's environment where it's so much easier to point a finger than to propose and help on a solution. Case in point: http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/09/02/216878935/ecuad...

> President Correa said scrapping the program was one of the hardest decisions of his presidency. "The real dilemma is this," he said in a televised address last week. "Do we protect 100 percent of the Yasuní and have no resources to meet the urgent needs of our people, or do we save 99 percent of it and have $18 billion to fight poverty?"

I also looked for a translation of a great speech form Cristovam Buarque for when there was pressure to internationalize the Amazon, it's worth the read: http://www.diaplous.org/amazo.htm

> If the Amazon Region, from a humanist΄s point of view, has to be internationalized, then we should internationalize the oil reserves of the entire the world as well. Oil is just as important to the well being of humanity as the Amazon Region for our future. Nevertheless, the owners of oil reserves feel it is in their right to increase or decrease oil production and to raise or lower the price. The rich of the world, feel they have the right to burn this valuable possession of humanity. Similarly, the financial capital of the wealthy nations should be internationalized. If the Amazon Region is a natural reserve for every human being, then it could not be burned down by the decision of a landowner or a country. To burn down the Amazon Region is so tragic, as the unemployment provoked by the arbitrary decisions of world wide speculators. We cannot permit that the world΄s financial reserves serve to burn down entire nations according to the whims of speculacion.
The treatment for Toxo isn`t a easy one: when thing get serious you take massive doses of pyrimethamine and sulfadizine, for example, and have to take extra folinic acid (not folic, folinic).

And it won't kill all T. Gondii, it will remain latent inside your body.

There were some studied, few years ago, about combining pyrimethamine and aminoacids to kill the latent toxo, but I didn't find the results, if it even worked or not.

For almost everybody, infection will go away without signs. For few others, it will make you remember it for the rest of your life.
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> On August 7, 2015, the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (ODRC) notified the Office of the Ohio Inspector General that on July 27, 2015, Marion Correctional Institution (MCI) staff had discovered two unauthorized personal computers hidden on a plywood board in the ceiling above a closet in a training room. The two computers were connected to ODRC’s computer network and were not owned by the State of Ohio.

-- "Report of Investigation" [0] (PDF), Office of the Inspector General, State of Ohio

They used them for, well, pretty much exactly what you might guess they would use them for [1]:

> The inmates used the computers for credit card fraud, reading material on how to make drugs and weapons, download porn and music, etc.

Articles:

- "Prison Inmates Built And Hid DIYs Computers In Ceiling, Hacked The Prison Network" [1]

- "Two Ohio inmates hacked their prison from the inside using makeshift computers built from spare parts" [2]

[0]: http://watchdog.ohio.gov/Portals/0/pdf/investigations/2015-C...

[1]: https://fossbytes.com/prison-inmates-diy-computer-hidden-cei...

[2]: https://qz.com/958503/two-ohio-inmates-hacked-their-prison-f...
Realy have they finally replaced finder with something as usable as filemanger in windows 3.1
XPS laptops use standard nvme m.2 SSDs. Source: have one that I've opened up
Doesn't that assume zero student population growth?
Homotopy type theory is most definitely not a one man project. It's a huge loss for the project to lose him but I think his vision will be realized.
No touch bar.
That's up to personal taste. I have every day contact with macOS and can't stand it.
I have used Eudora and don't think it was the best. I would include it in the top ten, but not call it the best.

What would I call the best? Try not to laugh, but I liked Outlook Express. OE is one of the few applications I miss from the Windows ecosystem.

I also liked The Bat and the client that came with Opera. I have grown fond of Thunderbird, but I'd not call it the best.
I worked with a japanese postdoc who, when he finished up, said he was returning to Japan. I asked him if he was going to get a job as a professor and he said "no, I have to wait for my current advisor to die before I can be a professor".

I used to think that was just Japan, but then I tried to become a professor (during the post-NIH-training exponential burst of the early 2000s) and found that it's basically the same in the US now.
I'm going to be honest: I never had any PC problems really until Windows 10 came around. Occasionally windows update would get bonked or I'd hose the machine myself but it was pretty reliable. That's going back to Windows NT 3.51 for me. Since Windows 10, screw it. QA is gone. So many little papercuts it's not worth it any more. I use my two Macs and rarely touch the PC, an HP z620 which has just been a total pile of crap to me really. Nothing but problem after problem.
Also perhaps of some interest:

> Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love is a book by Dava Sobel. It is based on the surviving letters of Galileo Galilei's daughter, the nun Suor Maria Celeste, and explores the relationship between Galileo and his daughter. It was nominated for the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.[1]

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo%27s_Daughter
8-10 solid hours a day. No alarm clock. Work from home.
This is consistent with research linking Toxoplasmosis with PMDD [0]

[0] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5012242/
I have, but I'm no security expert so perhaps I'm not seeing something obvious. -- Do you have a specific attack in mind? Is it an insurmountable vulnerability?

If so you can just explain it (or report it).
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

https://norvig.com/paip.html

Classic expert systems, but IMHO not outdated. I think they will make a comeback soon once we understand how to integrate probabilistic reasoning, logic and connectionist approaches.
5-7 hours on work weeks, 8 hours on weekends. I don't think my productivity at work is affected, but I feel like a zombie when I get home at ~7pm. I fall asleep within seconds after hitting the bed. Dreamless sleep too.
I sleep somewhere between 3-5 hours on weekdays, and 8-10 hours on weekends. If I had to put a number on it, I'd say my productivity decreases linearly by roughly 10-15% every weekday.
No, don't subtract 0.5. Just reinterpret (through a cast) the MSB as a sign bit: 0.9 => -0.1
https://z.cash/technology/

http://zerocash-project.org/paper
I try to get 7-8 hrs but sometimes I can only get 5-6. It is a negative to my productivity if I only get 5-6.
I've tried doing that. Even if it is possible, I really don't like it. When married to a fixed schedule, life just isn't as much fun for me.
6-7 hours. Probably averaging 6.5. But I also commute for an hour both ways by bus - I'll often get a half hour or more of sleep both ways. Probably not great sleep (no REM) but better than nothing.

I sometimes notice as the week goes on I get a little more tired - usually make it up on the weekends by sleeping around 9 hours.
That would be me.

Productivity for me depends more on other factors like: relationship status, familymembers wellbeing, drinks & feeling in or out of control.
Good-lookin' diffs. Actually… nah… the best-lookin' diffs
Agreed, 5 years ago I would have made the same post. I just did the "wake up" time for 4-6 months, which had a lot of bad days, but eventually it clicked in that I wake up then, so I get tired at 12.
More like two laptop fans combined.
I had this problem all my life. Now I take 500 micrograms of melatonin every night an hour before bed. I'm out like a light.

It might not be for everyone, but it's changed the way I feel about sleeping. And it's non-habituating
This is great! We need more of these sorts of posts. There is so much the community can learn from excellent code bases. Thx for posting!
The part which interest me a lot is this:

"Why might citizens hold virtual currencies rather than physical dollars, euros, or sterling? Because it may one day be easier and safer than obtaining paper bills, especially in remote regions."

This could be read either ways. This could also mean expanding network to ensure people are able to transact online using dollars held in their accounts but not in physical form ie "virtual dollars".

Then there is the word - "virtual currency". Sure bitcoin exists online so it is "virtual" in nature. But the supply control is defined by cryptographic proof so it cannot be created, at least for now, in an unlimited supply.

This makes me wonder what is Christine Lagarde even talking about.
For-profit also doesn't fit well in an organisation running a bus network that spends £1.5b a year more than it takes in.
Yes you can own a US company and manage it from China.

Creating a company is easy. But there are two problems to solve that are not so easy.

— Banking. You can open a bank account for your US company even if you are a nonresident, but you will need to go to the bank in person.

— Tax. You will want to understand how your US company’s profits will be taxed in the US and make this as efficient as possible. This requires talking to someone with some skill and experience: someone who knows cross-border tax rules.
That's based on a few dozen anecdotes over the past half decade - workplaces almost fully on macs. More and more common wi-fi issues, battery/charging problems with latest MBPs, display issues (especially with external monitors), ever more frequent system hangs and weird behaviour in general (locked up processes, memory trashing), animations like mission control keep getting slower unless it's a fresh system, half-assed incorporation of iOS design, continuity hardly works, unreliable bluetooth (and useless outside connection peripherals). App Store has been taken over by crap and marketing scams. They've also been opening the enterprise program to more and more customization (= more crap pushed onto your machine root system, outside of your reach). I might be forgetting something.

I'd still prefer a brick to the face over having to use Windows for work :)
Seems like a tech news link aggregator like HN, except it's invite-only: https://lobste.rs/about
Thanks.

The discussion just says "torus" leaving everyone to infer what category we are working in. It seems like people are inferring different things, and that's what confused me.

I'm not super familiar with homotopy theory but do know that universal covers pull back a lot of nice structure from the base space. Is there a theorem that makes this precise?

Anyway, since the original article here discusses distances, I'd have thought that we'd be wanting to hold ourselves to isometries or something, which universal covers usually aren't, e.g. R^2/Z^2 isn't isometric to a doughnut.
Ask HN: How do I choose an OSS license or find an OSS lawyer?
I am going to release my startup IP as OSS, what are the future consequences of this?

Is there a lawyer-approved online resource that will help me choose an OSS license and anything else I need to know, like timing requirements to file for defensive patents, copyright etc?

Where can I find general counsel with deep knowledge of OSS and is up to date on the BSD+Patents drama?
If you're working on the cutting edge, let's say in graphics or machine learning you'll probably want to upgrade your GPU every year.
Well, I guess to some degree this is a result of payment processors being incompetent, but really, the idea of "detecting an abnormal state" is idiotic. You shouldn't build distributed system for the unproblematic case and then bolt on corrective measures to make it work through failures--you should build it exclusively for the failure case, and the unproblematic case will just work, with the benefit of fewer special-case code paths and generally lower complexity.

You don't build a payment transaction mechanism that assumes that TCP connections cannot break and then bolt on recovery mechanisms that try to fix things up if they do anyway--you build a transaction mechanism that simply assumes that the TCP connection will break every time. If it doesn't, great, you get better performance, but that's it.

The idea that somehow the uncertainty whether your request was received and processed by the other party is created a certain amount of time after you have sent the request is just confused. The uncertainty starts the very moment the request leaves your machine, and it lasts until you receive an acknowledgement. As long as the uncertainty lasts, you keep retransmitting, in order to guarantee that the uncertainty gets resolved at some point. In order to avoid that retransmissions cause repeated side effects, you assign a unique ID to the transaction so that the recipient can avoid applying duplicates.
"For now, the faint sigh of spacetime rippling from the collision of two black holes is still momentous. But revelation turns inevitably to registration. One day, detecting phenomenal cosmic events through gravitational waves will not make the news."

Ok? Gravitational waves move the earth by about the width of one atom, so detecting them has always been more about verifying theories rather than anything else super exciting. What does the author expect?
When things are going well I sleep about 8 or 9 good hours, and I feel rested and able to cope with the day ahead.

When things are not so good I sleep maybe 4 hours of broken sleep.

When things are bad I might get one or two hours across a 72 hour stretch. That has pretty severe impact on my ability to function.

I have an understanding GP who knows that I make sure my "sleep hygiene" is good when I'm having problems, so when I ask for a few zopiclone it's because I'm at risk of other stuff happening.