skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure this is normal, but just something most people aren't aware of and it's hard to make people aware of.

I think it's a pretty common thing with hallucinogens like LSD where after the effects wear off people notice the normal visual noise they didn't before and it can bother them.

I see it all the time and also notice it more at night too.
In Italy bar personnel tends to be paid next to nothing for grueling shifts... it’s really incredible. But yeah, outside of tourist trap areas, your average caffè (that’d be the espresso) is usually around 80c
> This way their citizen is not "forced" to work with these company you deemed "exploitative"

Yes. When the basic income comes, it will redefine all the parameters by which we judge the qualities of jobs. But that doesn't mean that such jobs are not exploitative now, according to current standards. Your snarky quotes are unwarranted.
Lyft is very focused on winning the US market before doing aggressive international expansion.
"non Latin text" would be the correct way to put it.

This script is called "Latin".

> on the one hand I get that most browser (and OS?) dev happens in the West by people unaffected by these issues.

As far as I can tell, this isn't in the browsers' hands. It's a font/unicode issue. Unicode has to encode these variants; and fonts have to support them.

That said, I am seeing that red table work in Firefox but not in Chrome; however this might just be because Firefox is my primary browser; and I've done a bunch of fiddling with font settings for any language I speak or am learning, and Chinese is one of them. The default OSX fonts may not be so good for that.
Doing meaningful things is risky. But the riskiest thing of all is to do nothing meaningful. Death comes either way. You can be an advertiser or a passive middle man. You can lie, cheat, steal, and sell your way through life. You can watch yourself die, and civilization pass away into a spiraling clusterfuck of anxiety and broken dreams.

Or you can buy State Farm business insurance. The insurance that will set you free. Call a representative today.
FWIW - the author seems to jump to conclusions quite a bit, from their other piece on DuoLingo:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15678928
Banks don’t have any incentive to do anything that doesn’t make them money except for regulation.
meta about hn's comment systems, but:

why else would you ban low-karma accounts from downvoting? It seems like upvote-only systems make for better comment sorting, thus why downvoting is not even allowed by low karma accounts.

Still, trolls and total irrelevance need to be policed to keep the quality of discussion high, so high karma users will police the trolls and irrelevant posters, rather than down-sorting things they disagree with, but which contribute to the discussion? I thought I had read this somewhere on here, that it's all about relevance and inciting conversation, rather than sort-by-mob-rule and prevailing opinion?
To get even more pedantic: I wouldn't say Cangjie or Dayi inputs are an "alphabet", and a sizeable number of users use those. They're certainly a way of inputting characters; and a method of looking at how glyphs can be broken down (one by stroke order, one by shape), but for it to be an alphabet there must be a rough phoneme mapping AFAICT; which there isn't.

(but yes, the majority seems to use phonetic/alphabetic input methods, i.e. pinyin or zhuyin.)
It's not fair to hold up Gates as an example of how things are unequal. He's using his foundation more effectively than most people to research real solutions to hard societal problems. He's one of the rare instances of rich people who I'd trust to give my money to make the world a factually and legitimately better place, including the concept of a more equal place. In fact, Warren Buffett has promised to give all his money to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. So have other rich people. Gates also is a driving cheerleader of The Giving Pledge where rich people commit to giving their fortunes to charity.
It’s funny that you introduce time in your equation, because it shows how your view is incomplete. In our visual system, you cannot reduce to three dimensions without creating a recursive relation. It should be more like:

Ret(a,b,c)_t = f(Ret(a,b,c)_{t-1}, current_stimulus)

Since it is a recurrence, we cannot reduce to three dimensions.
My favorite IF Comp game ever is Lost Pig: http://pr-if.org/play/lostpig/
Most of the time for big companies it's 1 year.
I bought the MB10W cleaner on the recommendation of this article and have been very happy with it.
Entirely plausible hypothetical: what happens if Deepmind train a massive neural network on the entire Spotify catalog, weighted for Billboard chart position and Grammy nominations? What if that algorithm turns out to be as good at songwriting as AlphaGo is at the game of Go? Will anyone listen to human-written songs if AlphaSong starts producing superhumanly beautiful music? Will any of us listen to the same music if AlphaSong can analyse our personal playlists and produce an infinite number of songs that perfectly match our musical tastes?
I wonder if it's an introvert/extrovert thing.

You see typically extroverted people having no problems with being on the phone all the time, probably because they call equally extroverted people who do the same. Look at sales people, or people who have to work with other people a lot, they approach the phone as a tool for getting what they want and quickly.

My solution, as an introvert, is to never answer calls from people who are not my family. I have a twillio service setup that manages my voicemail and sends me an SMS message of the transcription, that way I can review the content and purpose of the call and decide what to do next (although I don't think Twilio's voice transcription service can accurately decipher British accents that well so you do end up with some hilarious results)

99% of time it's either recruiters who've managed to scalp my number from somewhere, or the odd spam caller.
Can anyone tell me how secure web browsers are on linux generally. I was looking at the pwn2own results and was quite impressed with the edge compromise that got out of the host OS it was running in. However, I didn't see any web browsers on linux being compromised - is that because it is harder, or no-one bothered?
I'm sorry if it's dumb question, but how could one perform dictionary attack without having access to the hash table? From the login page? Unlikely, it will lock itself after a few unsuccesful attempts. Yet article implies that if password is weak everything else doesn't matter.
Nanobox
I mean yeah, changing DB minor versions probably won't affect anything, perhaps even changing major versions is alright in most cases.

To me, the value is in reducing the number of potential issues a developer can have in their environment and making the build and runtime as consistent as possible. And when the solution is so easy to use, I don't see much of a downside to the docker approach.

My team switched from Vagrant to docker compose for our development environments and since then we've had much more stability and have wasted much less time tending to them.
Just relax and sleep well.

Always worked better for me compared to times when I spent the last days furiously trying to learn all the stuff.

There are very few things you can learn thorougly at the last moment and it’s not worth it usually.
I think the above poster is being sarcastic...
The forgotten Muslim heroes who fought for Britain in the trenches
I'd suggest that you review how computing was reported on in decades past. We made a lot of predictions that seemed utterly fantastical for some decades, but eventually came good when Moore's Law caught up. Many of these predictions drastically underestimated the impact of computing, particularly with regards to networking and mobile.

I sincerely believe that the move towards deep learning is every bit as radical as the development of the microprocessor. We're starting to find incredibly elegant solutions to problems that have stymied computer scientists for decades. We're finding orders-of-magnitude improvements to difficult problems at an astonishing rate, often with remarkably modest resources.

There's clearly a huge amount of hype happening at the moment, but genuine technological revolutions are usually preceded by a ludicrous hype bubble.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HW5Fvk8FNOQ
Next level: look into ways of doing hot backups.
I guess I can classify myself as a true digital nomad then. My home is a 33 ft RV and we (me, wife + 4 kids) are moving throughout the US on a weekly basis. Being in Ops I don’t need a ton of bandwidth so good cellular data is what I bank on. While I’ve worked in a few coffee shops my office is usually wherever we are staying. BLM land in Moab, campground in Glacier NP, dry camping in Grand Teton, WA coast beaches, these are all my offices. While not everyday is suitable for outdoor work (think AZ desert sun) most days are pretty incredible. Heck, call yourself a nomad if you want. Even if you have the ability to be mobile but don’t take full advantage. Just don’t take all my bandwidth from the lone cell tower nearby so you can stream 1080p EDM mixes on YT; thanks.
For me this is one of the most interesting concepts which has only been briefly touched on -

Jaynes proposes that in the Iliad the Greeks "heard the voices of the gods" and used those to make decisions. In our modern society I'm sure a lot of religious people would find God(s) speaking directly to them a fabrication of the mind, but auditory hallucinations are common and well documented. I often find on the edge of sleep I can lucidly think of a tune or song and hear at as clearly as if it was actually being played in the room.

I think Jaynes made a really interesting observation about older theistic societies that took for granted the ability for people to receive instructions in their heads from the gods. It seems commonplace in religious literature at the least that people can interact with gods and hear what they have to say, something which we tend to interpret more as a metaphor nowadays.

If we reject his theory on consciousness as being a modern substitute for heavenly direction, I don't think that necessarily rules out a cognitive function that we've lost over the past few thousand years - one which could have developed from a young age by not writing off auditory hallucinations as mental noise...
it's not a disease, it's a normal aspect of vision
Not WebExtensions (which are the only kind of extension allowed on Firefox 57+ unless you change another pref).

I mean, Firefox even has a `security.turn_off_all_security_so_that_viruses_can_take_over_this_computer` pref (used in testing; you won't see it in about:config but IIRC you can manually add it. Don't.). Prefs that break security are not new :)
an aside, but an interesting one, Biophotons... was new to me, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=biophoton
Exactly...and even though he spends so much time discussing basic chemistry as if he is talking to an average joe, he jumps into use the term "mole" without explaining it.
> No, it isn't - just like the subject in the Chinese room experiment cannot understand Chinese yet is able to reply with perfect language to given input.

Oh, come on. This is silly semantics. Human written engine doesn't "understand" the game state any more than an AI does!

Game engine here _merely_ means the algorithm that takes user input, calculates the next state of the game and outputs it to the screen. No-one has claimed that this engine would be a generic engine capable of running a variety of games. No. Only this game.

Whether the engine is written manually by a human or is a trained AI is irrelevant. It's still a game engine. The AI trained may have a different internal representation of the game state, but it still must have something like that.

The whole POINT of this exercise is to find an automatic way of generating this algorithm without manually writing code.
I think it depends when you were born.

In the 70s/80s/90s it was very common to get phone calls (on landline phones) at all times of the day from family members or friends.

I remember being on the phone to friends from school for hours in the evening, I don't even recall the subject matter of the conversations but it's just what you did.

Then as more and more people got on the internet, using other communication mediums like IM, IRC email etc became more and more common, and nowadays I'd find it very unusual for someone to call me out of the blue.
cant open
Windtraps and deathstills.
Westpac - 6 char alphanumeric password, with stupid virtual keypad.

CommBank - at least last time I had an account with them, I'm fairly sure their passwords were case-insensitive - which can be done while still using hashed passwords, but it's not an encouraging sign.
Digital Music
Can anyone suggest alternative options of Artists generating profits from Music created at the expense of manipulative, greedy Record Labels taking a large chunk of earnings? A new system Digitally without the need of Record Labels?
Spoken language doesn't have kanji and people can communicate just fine.
Typically thought of as "strained" and not filtered.
Take it from the Swiss: the Brexit referendum wasn't legitimate
The Node.js ODM for Cassandra Now Supports Elassandra and JanusGraph
Seems a bit overkill for personal use.

I use Twilio with a small bit of code to call their APIs when I receive a voicemail, and send me an SMS transcription of the content of the audio.

Costs much less than $1 a call!
FYI, I’ve been digging around and the internals seem to be mostly Open Source, hosted here: https://github.com/nanopack
Easiest way to solve this would be to simply bundle a precompiled Vue into the browser and call it a day.
> Is there any proof that this gets better employees? I haven't seen a shred of real scientific evidence. Is it anything more than corporate hazing?

Hiring is super hard, and anyone who tells you they have a surefire, simply-articulable description of what interview characteristics guarantee a good employee is lying to you. So given that unrealistically high bar, sure, there's no guarantee that this "works".

But it definitely extends beyond "corporate hazing". I've done hiring both within Google (interview + HCs) and outside of Google, and while I had to drastically (_drastically_) lower my standards for some of the post-Google hiring (due to crappy candidate pools, usually), the general principle remained the same: these kind of questions provide me valuable info about the intelligence of the hire and this has been _incredibly_ predictive of their productivity in the medium- and long-term. Note that I'm not talking about by-rote memorization of drop-in solutions: when I get the sense that the candidate knows the solution by heart, I mentally "drop the data point". Though I usually have fairly complex, multi-part algorithms/whiteboard coding questions and seeing how people react to mistakes being pointed out, changes in the structure, etc has been very useful.

I've told this story before on HN, but there was a company I was employee #1 at where our next two hires were 1) a guy with no engineering experience (he know how to program) but who I could tell was smart and good at creative problem-solving, and 2) a guy with 10 years of engineering experience, good references, and an interview that gave me the impression that he was dumb as a brick.

We hired #1 with my recommendation and #2 against my strong negative recommendation. #1 needed a month or two of onboarding guidance by me to learn most of the basic conscientious habits of being a good engineer; he ended up by far our best employee (excluding me, the senior engineer). With a tiny fraction of the engineering experience of the other two, he was (after me), the go-to guy to understand any part of the system or investigate any breakage. By contrast, my founder bounced #2 around from task to task, trying to find somewhere he could be productive without horribly breaking things (legends say he's still searching...). I literally can't think of a single task that he handled even competently, let alone impressively.

I had a similar experience at Google with a math PhD reportee who struggled really hard upon joining Google, but after a couple months of my mentorship, was IMO one of the better engineers on the team (it was a research/engineering team, so creative problem-solving counted for even more).

It's simply not that difficult to learn the habits and discipline required for good engineering: ability to manipulate logical structures easily, think critically, and problem-solve creatively is IMO infinitely more valuable and infinitely harder to create out of thing air. As much as people gnash their teeth about how algorithms interview questions don't resemble day-to-day work, I've found them to provide a LOT of predictive power for eventual productivity and quality of employee.
Figure out what is the name of the SNP of the CYP1A2 variant, download your SNP data from 23andme and look for it yourself.
I blocked inbound international calls and since then no more spam calls.
I know no one wants to be that guy who said we only need 64k, but hindsight is 20/20.

The DL hype is driven more by the singularitians than by actual usefulness of DL. The personal computer revolution was driven by the fact personal computers are very useful.
Too bad the web page doesn't work on iOS.
Making phone calls "unnannounced" has always been a struggle of mine, mainly because I start to think "am I bothering them?" and then negative thoughts start to flood in. I do have anxiety issues which I go to therapy for, but I'd put making phonecalls lower down the priority list of things to tackle because it's not that important to me in the grand scheme of things.

Completely irrational, I know, but that's where I'm at. Usually if I want to make a phonecall I arrange it with the person for a set time that suits both parties.
In the category "differ only by the relative lengths of the upper and lower stroke", there's also 未 and 末.

I'm not sure what you mean about the hooking of the second stroke of 囗 and 口. Do you mean the fact that in the former, the angle tends to be 90° while in the latter it tends to be < 90° (except in fonts, as you note).

I don't know about Chinese, but in Japanese, the former is not a character on its own (at least, it's not in the 2136 Jōyō kanjis, neither is it in the ~6000 characters of the top level of the Kanji Kentei).
If frame prediction counts as a game engine, then I can write a game engine by recording myself play call of duty.
Not databases as you asked for, but, I stumbled on this data while looking for persisting numpy arrays. You might find it interesting: https://github.com/mverleg/array_storage_benchmark/blob/mast...
I was not referring to templates only, but to the overall complexity of the C++ language. Examples: syntactic ambiguities, the preprocessor... Templates are a big part of the problem, but not the only one for sure. Languages like Free Pascal have outstanding compilation times because they privileged language simplicity, and IMHO Go falls in the same ballpark.
Bro, totally not a dumb question.

From an Attacker's point of view, yes logging in from the same IP against the same account will get you banned fairly quickly. People put up their best defenses on the most obvious endpoint, which is why a good attacker quickly tries something else. However, two possible routes to circumvent this are

1. Find a vulnerable API call/Webportal on the bank's other sites that don't have IP banning but require authentication. This happens much more than you'd realize.

2. A distributed attack, either with a large proxy network or if you have a botnet, in which you bruteforce the credentials with different time intervals/simulated human behavior to not lock out the account.
Why do you prefer [] to <> for type parameters?
So we are looking at it from the perspective of an ai. wow. that was really cool.

I did not understand the part about the internet though, what does this mean?

> oh-so-carefully persuade them to give us Internet access, followed by five minutes to innocently discover their network protocols, then some trivial cracking whose only difficulty was an innocent-looking disguise.

and what about AIs melting? why is that? I feel dumb but I enjoyed it:)
Same here. Found this online though.

https://digitators.com/cost-minimization-strategies-bootstra...

Seems it's a marketing piece though.

> P.S. I am a partner with some of the companies I shared with you today. Some of these companies will share a % of their sales with me if you joined. The % is at no cost to you.
I still don't understand why you'd convert to Roth.

My tax rate will be higher while I'm working and earning a salary than they will when I'm retired.

Also, by keeping the base amount higher (pre tax), won't I have more growth than compared to the after-tax amount?
> Who takes responsibility when a customer loses money because of bank's poor security?

The bank.
That’s a good observation. I’ve also worked at organizations where the policy pendulum swings.

For example, “Gotta release code quickly” to “quick is good, but all code must have unit tests and rigorous code reviews” to “gotta be quicker, can’t always be holding things up because of a rejected code review!”

I’ve also worked places where that didn’t happen because management, and the engineering culture, were strong.
Oh, really? I hope not in production builds, at least.

Defense in depth concept is not new either.
It's a conspi^W^W unlucky that neither Slack[1] nor Discord[2] the messengers got their names from those.

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/where-did-slack-get-its-name-...

[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/discordapp/comments/4itsnj/why_did_...
I like communicating with companies via live chat. You can do it discreetly without bothering people around you (e.g. in an office) and usually your situation can be expressed better in text, and you have a transcription at the end to keep to.

For example a few weeks ago I was having problems with my phone, so I contacted OnePlus via their chat, and the lady on the other end arranged the RMA process quickly.

Much quicker than having to enunciate my email address, home address etc over the phone, plus I had a transcription that I could refer to afterwards in follow up emails.
Actually I can help you out some more. The SNP in question is rs762551.

Go to Tools -> Browse RAW data -> search for rs762551.

It should show something like this:

Gene SNP	genomic loc Variants Your result
CYP1A2 rs762551 75041917 A or C ? / ?

If you have A/A you're "fast metabolizer". (good)
If you have A/C or C/C, you're "slow metabolizer". (not so good)

From SNPedia:

"In terms of genotypes, only rs762551(A;A) individuals are considered fast metabolizers. Individuals who are rs762551(A;C) heterozygotes or rs762551(C;C) homozygotes are both considered slow metabolizers."
This sounds nice, but makes zero sense. Direct short will be fused and isolated, otherwise UPS banks would get damaged (maybe even explode).

Edit, and reading further there it is:

>"If there was a ground fault in the facility, the impacted branch circuit breaker would open and the rest of the facility would continue to operate on generator and the servers downstream of the open breaker would switch to secondary power and also continue to operate normally. No customer impact."
English loanwords are only a tiny part of either language. The parent was pointing out that in Chinese 生 is always sheng, while in Japanese it can be any of sei, shou, san, nama, ikiru, ikeru, ikasu, umu and 50-odd more readings depending on context.

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E7%94%9F
HOW WEINSTEIN SEX SCANDAL DEFACES HOLLYWOOD
I know that that happens for the Rust compiler, possibly some libraries as well. I don't know that it's systematic but I do know that they regularly leverage Cargo to find out major dependencies/users and run those against pending changes.