skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> a person can continue to be happy and have a meaningful life after going through an experience of losing everything

The life of a person who has lost everything is very different from a person who didn't have much in the first place. Whether it should be different or not can be discussed, but the reality for most people is that the 2 cases are very different.

Regret and despair are very real and play a vital role in life after a big loss.

I believe you and your parent commenter don't agree because you seem to be trivializing the issue a bit - in a way similar to how people who haven't been through big loss, or feel that because they got through it fine, so everyone else should also be able to do it as easily.

It ignores the inherently different way in which people deal with such circumstances.

> You have the power to not let your feelings be determined by external events.

There are smart people who are unable to exert enough control over their feelings (even when they know the above idea). People are diverse and often biologically (or culturally or both) wired differently, and people who are a little lucky in the ability to handle such situations better often find it easy to wonder "how idiotic can the person be to commit suicide on losing everything" - just because they handle it better.

ps: About people being wired differently, it is easy to see in certain aspects. Some people tend to panic more than others, and then there are those who have panic attacks under pressure. Then there are those who have an inherent bias towards one of either fight or flight.
This is true, but nailing that timing is really hard. I can't remember the exact numbers but if you missed the 10 best days for the market in the last 40 years, you missed out on 70% of the gains.
Because Javascript.
That is hilarious!! Thank you for sharing.
This is the first time I am hearing this. I though pytorch was based on torch (like the name implies). Do you have a reference or more information?
Most exchanges will ask US residents for multiple forms of identification to prove you are who you say you are. The best thing you can do is fix your ID issue and re-apply to GDAX or Kraken.

Also, secondarily, it is better to use a reputable exchange. I don't think you want to wake up one morning and find the exchange gone.
Well, I think this is simply a matter of how you see AI. The colloquial understanding of AI is something that is able to generally "think" like a human. To them, and perhaps to you too, the goal of AI is to emulate a human.

I think to most AI researchers, AI is seen more as a way to "emulate" intelligence to solve problems - usually problems formulated as "generally" as possible. To the AI researcher, if an incredibly complex modeling approach to a problem performs just as well as a very general one, one model is not strictly better than the other (actually, the more general one is almost always is considered to be), even if one may "theoretically" model how the human mind processes the problem more accurately. Likewise, a bot capable of answering general "getter" questions such as "What is the weather?" may not have a sexy or complicated implementation, and yet could be considered good AI for its problem domain, and may in fact be much more useful than a more sohpisticated bot.

There's actually a lot of work being done on chat bots, and I think perhaps you are limiting your understanding of what is being done to tutorials or toy-projects.
Speak for yourself... that's quite the generalization. I'm a programmer, and I care when something doesn't have tests, especially if it's my own code.
It seems I misunderstood the question. Do Americans not use the term "white flour" for flour made from wheat with the bran removed?
That's part of the announcement, under "Pay in local currency": GCP now supports billing in INR.

(Disclaimer: I work in GCP.)
Daoism, I guess, especially the branch established by Chuang Tzu

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhuangzi_(book)
This is the key! Even when the economy was going into the crapper in 2008, I left my money in (just rebalancing annually). I lost 30% of my money at the bottom.

However, in the last decade or so, I made it all back plus another 60%. If I had pulled out I'm pretty sure I would have missed a lot of those gains.
Microsoft 365 for small and medium businesses is now generally available
> For example, that first visit which installs the service worker can already deliver bad code.

Yes, but that is also the case when you install a desktop app. That's why Airborn OS is open source, so that you can inspect the code.
https://youtu.be/pRpeEdMmmQ0?t=1m58s waka waka eh eh
Question: I've looked at tinc and really want to use it, but I have reservations about running a daemon as root on publicly accessible ports without being very confident in its security. I couldn't seem to find any mention of them ever being audited, although http://www.tinc-vpn.org/goals/ lists it as a goal. They do have a distinct lack of CVEs, but I can't tell if that's secure code or nobody looking. Any chance you (or another commenter) can make a case that it's safe to run tinc?
Yes, calories burned during exercise is no a major part of weight loss. However with the right training you can raise your base metabolism. Otherwise when you diet your metabolism tends to slow, which offsets your decreased eating.
“This is a man is a small time thief with social issues who manipulates people. What is so inhuman about that? Are social problems, thievery, and manipulation not common phenomenon in human societies?”

Saying it that way doesn’t allow you to write 2 pages of pseudo-psychological “analysis” of a person we’ve never met.
But exactly these tests tend to be the useless ones that just pass and don't find bugs.

On 2 separate occasions I had an app with extensive unit tests that seemed to work fine but also seemed to have strange rare bugs.

Both times I wrote a single additional "unit" test that fired up the environment (with mocks, same as the other unit tests) but then acted like a consumer of the API and spammed the environment with random (but not nonsense) calls for several minutes. These tests were quite complex so basically the exact opposite of what you're suggesting.

Not only did I immediately find the bug, but in both cases I found like 10 bugs before I got the test to even pass for the first time.

At the same time all the small unit tests were happily passing. Because they didn't hit edge cases (both in data and in timing) that nobody had thought of.
The biggest thing I find missing from most charts is their ability to interactively and dynamically chart over a large data set.

I once found a chart ( can't find it again ) that was super ugly but had a nice scheme for dynamically loading and caching data at different zoom levels that made the chart very snappy
This reminds me of the helium shortage and the long-predicted oil crisis.
Download Cydia iOS 11.1, 11.1.1, 11.1.2 Install Possibilities
Hey all. I’m the author of the poster and subsequent paper. Happy to answer any questions that you might have.

Glad to see this on Hacker News so many years after the poster first went up!
The International Incident – Gaining Control of a .int Domain Name (2016)
My impression of that note in the context is in line with Sartre's intention (or at least according to several highly reputable online sources.) Arcosanti seems set up for free thinking but then is also a highly socialized community so likely very constraining for someone that wants to be individually creative.
Show HN: An in-browser Mips Simulator
but they had nothing to offer over facebook, really.
Why isn't a electric road or a overhead third rail a viable alternative to batteries? Batteries - become depleted, are expensive, heavy. With a grid - unlimited range, that can be supplemented by smaller batteries. Are there technical limitations more than cost.
submitted issue for this: https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Desktop/issues/1635
> while demand for nickel keeps increasing, half the world’s nickel supply is too low in quality to use for car batteries.

Well that article sure disproved its own thesis quickly. If we can't even be bothered to purify cheap nickel, then we are definitely not facing a shortage.
Difficult to believe. Cars are being churned day and night for decades, all of them use a lot of minerals. At least (in my understanding) the rare minerals that go into electric cars and their batteries are recyclable. Once the fleet is built, just recycle.

Of course, I'd prefer a future with electric trams in every street and fewer cars, all electric, all small and light to save in materials and energy.
Bitcoin market cap is senseless. Think that coins are minted, but also destroyed in a limited classic constrained supply market.

If you destroyed all the bitcoins but 1 today, that single bitcoin would be worth the entire market cap.
Have you written anything else that's even half as funny?
PDF of the paper:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/o7gb13j26v9f4dp/Bennett-Salmon-201...
I see I’m getting downvoted and don’t really understand why, the parent comment asks about experience with the watch and I was sharing mine with the cellular version. I could copy & paste the article here, but what’s the point of the www then.
17 miles in a year? I don’t know about that. But half of that isn’t outside the realms of feasibility using standard technology and process especially with the small diameter of this tunnel (13.5’).

The tunneling part is actually not that costly. When we think of big expensive subway projects and the like the major cost component is the stations. Still I hope he shows that vertically integrating the whole project and running continuously can drive down costs. The Spanish have shown similar results in the past (before their economy blew up).
Canadian Government successfully hacked at least once per week
Sony Aibo
Compare escape(), encodeURI(), and encodeURIComponent()
I agree. This may be a useful and simple way to implement locking. Often when editing for things other than minor punctuation or spelling, individual sentences or paragrapshs often get split or combined as statements are rephrased or ideas reorganized.
I would love to say that I have, but I fear that I may have peaked in 2010.
Shame it sounds like such a bad article. I think basically all companies should be public benefit corporations by default.
I presume someone else has already thought to share with you zach weinersmith's interpretation of your results http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/fmri
In addition the "rare" materials are low in usage compared to carbon and other components for batteries. If I were to guess copper is probably of the largest concern.
Is it just me, or are the rails in that tunnel awfully wavy?
> And when this changes? Must I audit the code every single time I load the code? Because yes, I need to do that to ensure you havn't changed anything.

No. The whole point of what I've done and made is to make sure you don't have to do this. The Service Worker checks all code that is coming from the server. If you've opened Airborn OS before on a computer, and don't see a notification saying that Airborn OS has been updated, it is guaranteed that it's still the same code. If it did change, you get a notification with a nice link to GitHub, where you can inspect the commits since last time. That code is guaranteed to be identical to the new code that you will be running if you refresh Airborn OS.
Being extremely aggressive about cleaning up/terminating/scheduling dev environments have led to tremendous cost savings. Also, monitoring those instances and downsizing them has helped a lot too.

These are usually the quickest and most common solutions to cost problems that I’ve seen. After that, you look for “minor gains:” storage (S3 instead of EBS, Glacier instead of S3 for infrequently accessed data), using reserved instances, moving to RDS (though reliances on underlying OS can make this difficult and many databases have them), autoscaling, running ALBs/ELBs instead of EC2 instances running HAproxy, CloudWatch alarms for things that exceed cost parameters, etc.

One of the biggest cost issues that I’ve seen is people treat AWS like an internal PaaS cloud (like vSphere) and move their ways of maintaining bare-metal hardware/software into AWS (i.e. “lift and shift”). It saves time in that you don’t have to actually think about how your application works in a cloud world and gives managers that “I did the impossible and moved us to the Cloud in three months” badge/bonus, but it costs SO MUCH MORE to run and really does a disservice to what AWS can do. (Cynically, I guess this creates another carrot: “I did the impossible and saved us tons of money by fixing the cost explosion from lift and shift!”)

Breaking that culture down is paramount to efficient usage of any cloud in a way that won’t break the bank.
This is not part of GCP, and there's tons of big companies [0] like Spotify, Snapchat, Ubisoft... relying on GCP. Google closes projects that are not working, this one probably wasn't. What's the risk with GCP? That they will just give up on Cloud, the department that is growing the fastest? [1]

[0] https://cloud.google.com/customers/
[1] https://www.inc.com/business-insider/google-alphabet-earning...
An extension to redirect/block/modify http URL/header, Chrome/Firefox supported
Misspellings are usually on purpose to provide distinctiveness as a in built defence against a trademark being claimed to be a term in the art or a generic term.

I like the name, -born (i.e. conceived) on the air - i.e. in an ethereal space. As opposed to the suggestions for "Airborne" which would be carried on the air, the use of "born" is better as it suggests genesis.
Yeah! One of the other authors on the paper sent it my way right after it was published. Freaking amazing - I love it.
They could try not writing it in javascript and actually make a native application instead hiding behind semantics.
Did it help? Did people understand the message you were sending and take corrective action?
It seems wrong to categorize the war in Iraq as part of The War on Terror(ism), since Iraq wasn't involved in 9/11. The best explanation I ever found as to why the US went to war in Iraq was in the article below. It basically says that the Neoconservative faction of the right wanted to bring democracy to the middle east long before 9/11, but 9/11 was their opportunity to actually do it. Here's an excerpt:

"Neoconservatism, which had been around for decades, mixed humanitarian impulses with an almost messianic faith in the transformative virtue of American military force, as well as a deep fear of an outside world seen as threatening and morally compromised.

This ideology stated that authoritarian states were inherently destabilizing and dangerous; that it was both a moral good and a strategic necessity for America to replace those dictatorships with democracy — and to dominate the world as the unquestioned moral and military leader.

Neoconservatism's proponents, for strategic as well as political reasons, would develop an obsession with Saddam Hussein's Iraq. That obsession would, by the end of the decade, congeal into a policy, explicitly stated: regime change.

Their case was always grandly ideological, rooted in highly abstract and untested theories about the nature of the world and America's rightful place in it. Their beliefs were so deeply held that when 9/11 shook the foundations of American foreign policy, they were able to see only validation of their worldview, including their belief in the urgent need to bring democracy to Iraq.

It was this ideological conviction, more than any piece of intelligence or lie told about it, that primarily led America into Iraq. Weapons of mass destruction were the stated justification, but they were never the real reason, nor was bad intelligence."

https://www.vox.com/2016/2/16/11022104/iraq-war-neoconservat...
There exists a third option. Pay for the game, then pirate the superior cracked version.
Seems to me that at the moment there are a number of state and non state actors who seem happy to pull that tail of the US tiger, knowing that the consequences of the US reacting badly is the significant destruction of their country. Doesn't seem to deter them.

Expecting terrorist orginisations or rogue states to act in a rational way is the same as expecting the US to back down when their pride or national interest is threatened.
I was curious about the answer myself, and bumped into kinto: http://kinto.readthedocs.io/en/latest/overview.html

- Build collaborative applications with real time updates and fine-grained permissions.

- Our JavaScript client for browsers leverages IndexedDB to work completely offline and synchronise data when online.

- It’s even possible for data to be encrypted on the client to keep user data safe on the server.

- Permissions can be set on the stored objects, making it possible to share data between users.

- Kinto is an HTTP API in front of a database. Interactions with the server are simple HTTP requests rather than complex SQL or map-reduce queries. It is meant to be minimalist and simple.

This would be a self-hosted solution. They have a pre-built docker image to spin it up.

Previous HN links:

- 641 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994736

- 687 days ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10733164
> I'm surprised I have to write this,

Insulting the reader

> but Google is not a charity

truism

> They are pouring commercial resources...

As opposed to "non-commercial resources"?

> ... for a reason.

Everything happens for a reason.

> That reason is Google Cloud.

> How do I know this?

Pray tell!

> Because Tensorflow works better on Google Cloud than anywhere else.

This is the only real argument in this conspiracy. And if "anywhere" includes the users' hardware, it's wrong: tensorflow runs flawlessly on any Linux/NVIDIA hardware. Maybe it works better with GCE than AWS, but that would once again fall into that "rather unsurprising" category of factoids.

> Google is making a concerted effort to catch up with AWS in cloud, mostly through machine learning.

This can be re-written as "Google has a cloud offering, which it tries to sell. And right now, machine learning is pretty hot". Throwing a "concerted effort" in there is just trying to jazz it up to something ominous. Which it isn't.

> I didn't compare Tensorflow to Android services. I said that Tensorflow would serve as the basis of a service bundle, much like Android did.

"The basis of a service bundle" actually doesn't sound that scary. Nobody is disputing that Google offers services build on tensorflow. It just isn't any sort of "Trojan horse" conspiracy, and it is somewhat limited by the fact the tensorflow is OSS licensed and could be forked by anybody people suddenly find out it's full of geek soldiers.
"Born in the air" is indeed why I named it that, after I got the idea from the book by Kenneth Oppel with the same name.
That's true. The only part of this post that applies generally is the discussion of golden handcuffs; the rest is specific to US tax law.
That's not entirely true.
While Telegram's "cloud chats" are not end-to-end encrypted by default, they're encrypted at rest. They claim that "all data is stored heavily encrypted and the encryption keys in each case are stored in several other DCs in different jurisdictions."[0] It's not even close to perfect, but it's also not everything that the government wants.

For me, the problem with Signal is based mainly moxie's position on the LibreSignal fork, which aimed to be a Google-Free version of signal, but moxie said he was not OK with LibreSignal using the Open Whisper Systems servers and the name "Signal".[1] I kind of understand his position, but that's not what I'd expect of the free software community and definitely not what I expect from someone who's in the middle of my communications.

In the end, the hope's in matrix.org. It supports end-to-end encryption, works without a number and is fully federated. Maybe someday Telegram and Signal can even federate with matrix.

[0] https://telegram.org/privacy#2-storing-data
[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Wow, reading that thread basically made me decide against using Signal.

For an app that is supposed to be the pinnacle of secure messaging, leaving anything unencrypted on the local device is just breathtakingly negligent.

The way moxie ushers people to take the discussion elsewhere doesn't help either. It just reinforces the perception that he doesn't care.
I feel like this thread[0] in the discussion sorta delves into that. It's certainly an area with differing opinions and I can see why some might prefer having it simply be strings the whole way down, but at some point you are going to need to interact with the values you have, and at that point you need to know what type you are dealing with, so I really feel the serialisation argument is a bit weird. In databases you also have types on everything, albeit often less powerful. If not caring about types is really what you want, nothing stops you from treating everything as a String in Haskell. Heck, you can even do dynamic programming in Haskell with Data.Dynamic and Data.Typeable if you wanted to, but that sorta defeats the whole point of a nice and powerful type system.

I think it's kinda ironic for you to bring up "parochialism" or narrow-mindedness when that is exactly what I was thinking throughout Hickeys talk.

[0] https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/792nl4/clojure_vs_...
Ignorance, you don't know what you don't know, even if it's what you need to know.
They got a “foothold” because they are owners, who own more stock than all of management and the board put together. The amazing part is it took 20 years for an activist to get a seat.

“During Immelt’s tenure, GE’s stock market value fell by about half. Its stock is trading where it was 20 years ago.“

This is a testament to the amazing power of entrenched management.

The author is just butthurt because a CEO who helped espouse his personal lean management mantra got canned as incompetent. His complaint that the activists will gut innovation at GE is ludicrous, given GE hasn’t successfully innovated in over twenty years.

Activist investors are investors. Gutting a good business for parts to make a short term profit at the expense of long term value isn’t good investing. But recognizing the stage a business is in, and managements ability to fix it is important into fdetermining the best possible future for it.

Warren Buffett once let himself get talked into letting management of one of his investments to invest cash flow back into its tough business and ended up regretting it greatly. Since he finally made the decision to shut down Berkshire Hathaway’s textile business and strip its remaining assets and cash flow to invest in far better companies, BRK.A stock price has increased a bit, from around $10/share to $200,000/share.
I posted, I have no connection to the consultancy. I thought there were some good arguments in the PDF which I agree with after > 10 years dev experience.
The original poster was correct though. Just because you only need to do it once doesn't mean it isn't required. As a person without a smart phone I can't use it.

Nor would I since it still requires a phone number to use.
The Boring Company has you covered, power supplied by the track:

https://www.geek.com/tech/musk-shares-first-image-of-boring-...

People are really underestimating the impact of lower cost tunneling.
And some places this is how entire cities are heated...

Well, usually they run out of excess heating in the winter.

Perhaps, Yellowstone and Iceland ought to have some heavy industry.
No, I'm not. In my experience the mods are quite responsive, and have explained site behavior on more than a few occasions. They've also adjusted flags and weights of submissions if they identify an issue.
Judging by his resume... yes.
It works on iOS, and I think there are a lot more iPhones out there than win7 desktops. ;)