skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Foreign to whom?

You're sounding as if Facebook were a global site and not just American company caring only about American controversy-of-the-day...

> If a Less than a million dollars of Facebook ads shown to a few thousand people can determine who becomes president in the US, then there is a much bigger problem.

"If". It is obviously not the case, but it's much easier to scream "Russians stole our presidency" than own up to actual mistakes made. Especially if one of the mistakes would sound like "selecting me as a candidate"...
Districts like that don't get "extra resources" or any material benefit to kids' education from parental participation. The kids are spending all day sitting in classrooms with public school teachers just like any other district.
German grammar - he really means he hasn't found a better friend so far
Why wouldn't they do this? Intel is a fab company, architecture second. The main reason they bought Altera was EMIB. EMIB frees them from spending huge amounts of resources on cutting edge Architecture and Microarch, freeing them to focus on pushing the boundaries on their foundries (which are falling behind). Using EMIB enables Intel to incorporate whatever IP will sell in the market, theirs or somebody else's. The alternative for Intel is to drop their foundries and use GF or TSMC (don't see that happening). I can see Intel using Arm, AMD, Nvidia (if they'll let them, Nvidia seems to be pushing the discrete path hard...that'll fail given high latency of PCIe). Arm has already arrived in the HPC market, SC in Denver's unofficial theme was Arm (both Cavium and Qualcomm). There are even awesome desktop machines now (https://www.avantek.co.uk/store/avantek-32-core-cavium-thund...). HPC is the vanguard for server, already Arm compatible chips are providing perf greater than Skylake Intel server parts at a cheaper price point...why pay for Intel when you can have a Qualcomm Centriq or Cavium Thunder X2? IBM Power is yet another option, but hugely expensive. Definitely useful for GPGPU accelerated applications, but like Intel, IBM is going to be given a run for its money by AMD in sheer number of PCIe lanes.
In case anyone comes back and sees this thread, instructions for launching different profiles simultaneously can be found here: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Opening_a_new_instance_of_Firefox_...
An AI album that automatically organizes photos for you
I never want to giveaway my email address either, unless it's really important.

I'm hundreds of times more likely to sign up via Google Account, sometimes Facebook.

So much easier and no activation emails etc...
This is in fact what classes are.
> we work for the US government

It isn't even "US government". It is a part of US government that is gripped by paranoia-of-the-day and wants to grab powers Constitution does not give then, because paranoia is excellent grounds for power-grabbing.
Here's a mainstream example of how being vegan won't affect your performance. Or make it hard to eat...

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/10/25/16505120/nba-vegan-veget...
Sure, but even natural gas and rooftop solar have higher rates of death per year than nuclear. (In my second link above.)

In a world in which we must choose the lesser of evils for energy, nuclear is among the least evils, yet faces the greatest overall public resistance to new installations.
Thanks for the feedback. The whitelist email idea is basically something that I need. I use fastmail and getting sick and tired of marketing email. They always find the way to my inbox. But yeah, I see what you mean. Hardly anybody uses emails these days.
Wonder how much money coinmarketcap.com is bringing in.
Supplying stuff "for free" (particularly as part of a bundle with expensive stuff that you have a monopoly on) to undermine your competitors is a pretty central example of the sort of behaviour that anti-trust law is there to prevent. It's an extreme case of predatory pricing.

I agree that it's odd to see such a case when the competitor's product is also free, though.

Opera used a pay-to-remove-the-ads model around that time, but I don't know if Netscape ever considered doing so.
WTF: Bitcoin Cash going up from 1180$ to ~4720$?
I sold all my BCH. Is it true that Bitcoin Cash will gain 4x today due to adjustment to Bitcoin rise? Someone told me so I am wondering. WTF?
1. Preview / Questions - Take a gander at the chapter by reading the introduction, headings, sub-headings, diagrams, images, example code, summary, exercises, questions, etc. Also, write down questions as I preview for myself to answer after step 2.

2. Read / Recall - After previewing I start reading in full. During code examples I like to soak them in without running them. Then I'll close book and try to recall the code by typing.

3. Teach / Explain - I follow up with pretending to teach / explain the code examples and my exercise solutions out loud. This helps me figure out what I didn't really understand.

4. Project - I try and apply what I've learned from book to a personal project.
> nobody wants to host potentially highly illegal content even encrypted.

Good point, I didn’t think about that. Thanks!
For some reason, the top link for Stanford goes directly to the Stanford Marching Bands homepage. A band known more for satirical themes rather than music.
> That said, iOS has a file browser itself now

Oh right, they did just add a file browser. Does that make it easy to access files from multiple apps? ...actually, upon looking into it more, it only shows files saved in a very specific way from apps with explicit support. It's 90% an icloud app, not a local file system app. That's not good enough.

> (and of course it had windows from the start, if by "windows" you mean the ability to show UI apps. If you mean "overlapping windows", it has side-tiled ones, that are even better than overlapping).

I mean multiple apps on screen, which is probably good enough in iOS at the moment.

> As for terminal, there are several for iOS as well.

Local terminals? The issue is not ssh clients, it's getting a shell open. The best I can find is https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/284556/can-i-run-a... with an answer of "none exist". And there's definitely not one with access to your files.
The first page I wrote when I was making the site was this one (https://ircdocs.horse/specs/) – and the initial drafts were a fair bit screechier than what's there now. I wanted people to know that everything on ircdocs is pretty much just my thoughts (as opposed to the more consensus-based approach of IRCv3), and figured the horse TLD would make people take it less seriously.

Didn't exactly work out, now that a fair number of devs are using it as a legit protocol reference. Still, gives the site some decent character and makes it memorable :P
This unfortunately is one of those cases where the fact that someone has taken some time to write a nice looking article about a subject does not signal that they have something interesting and valuable to say.
I don't think Tor is a good idea in general, but my categorical "never" is about the browser bundle.
> The public school curriculum today was built around a need for literate men who could do arithmetic working in factories from the 1920s and on. That is why the core "skills" of public education are mastery of basic reading and math.

You are so ignorant about the curriculum that it is embarrassing. I would wager you have nothing to do with a school except drive past one at too high a speed.
A better question is, why?
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Thanks, I'm glad it's useful! Feel free to check out this page for some other useful links if you dev on it in the future: https://ircdocs.horse/info/ :)
There have been studies that show high concentrations of estrogen-like compounds in soy-based products. People trying to maximize their testosterone levels while ingesting high amounts of protein are generally advised to stay away from soy

Edit: here's an article from a bodybuilding website that tries to summarize the conclusions of various journal articles on the topic:

https://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/ivan3.htm
The problem is that incorporation documents are frequently only a small part of the story. It does allow you to correlate ownership, but unless you can actually show some kind of money movement into and out of accounts, it is difficult to show evidence of a particular crime.
Oh, your sentence explained to me something I had never understood. Alpha radiation is harmful because the helium nucleus acquires an electronic, becomes helium that tries to escape? I always thought it was just the impact of the particle that caused damage but now I understand better, thanks!
> My parents sent me to a Jesuit school after K-5. Best decision they could have made, and says a _lot_ about public education.

But how would you know that? You can't possibly compare what you did to what might have happened. And maybe your mom is just a bad teacher?
And it starts to make more sense now:
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/11/intel-poaches-amds-t...
This is great thanks for posting.
> if a presidential election can actually be swayed by "people buying ads on Facebook" then the USA has problems

No, people persuading other people by showing them arguments is called "debate" and if this happens and people can be swayed by it then USA has it excellent. It's when people can't be persuaded by any new information is when political process is dead and USA is in a huge trouble.

What you probably wanted to say if "if presidential election could be swayed by a tiny number of foreign trolls with a budget of 0.01% of candidate's electoral budgets, showing idiotic ads betraying no understanding of actual politics" - and the good news it could not be, it's just a lie.

> To any politician ready to crucify Facebook over Russians buying ads

I would ask this politician "why you are doing your job so badly that a Russian troll drawing silly pictures on Facebook can boot you from your seat? If you delivered any real value to your electorate, that couldn't happen. You are the problem, it's it time for you to leave?".
Yes, that surprised me too. Are there any fusion designs without high vacuum?

But on the other hand, magnetic stresses in full-scale systems would be huge, right? And one could consider that to be pressure. In that it reflects confinement of the plasma. Or it could be an incoherent edit.
When I visit this URL in Firefox on Android I get a warning that says "This connection is untrusted". That might be turning away visitors.
For large scale tests we run https://goad.io on lambdas . We used this a lot and can confirm that most APIs can be well stressed with it.

For quick tests we use loadimpact.com
This is just fundamentally a waste of time and talent.

If you have the time to work enough to pay for 3 years of college in high school and still perform well in the school itself and jump through all the hoops required to get into that prestigious school you always wanted with a plethora of extracurriculars you aren't learning jack in high school anyway and are probably doing severe harm to yourself working so many hours of the day.

Education in general is messed up, mostly because years 5-18 are almost exclusively a black hole of nothing for most people where you go to learn to read, write, and do arithmetic. Which most people will do by age 8. Then there's a decade of Shakespeare, algebra, and dissecting frogs which plenty of people use in their daily lives and that plenty of employers eagerly need more of in the workforce.
I think you mean this paper:

https://blog.invisiblethings.org/papers/2015/state_harmful.p...
> if Russian adverts are having such a huge effect on American politics

The key fact to understand here is it did not, and literally zero evidence was shown that it had any effect at all. There is evidence the ads were run, but that's it. All the talk about "huge effect" is pure speculation which has no base in any observable fact.
And claw you into their ecosystems.

Amazon is more than happy to sell you other brands of USB cables or clothes, despite having their own "Amazon Basics" brand.

But they draw the line at other brands of eBook readers and media players.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I couldn't find a source for their claim that "Two-thirds of the top OSS projects are maintained by one or two people".

How many projects? How are they rated "top"? When you make such a bold claim, you should be able to back it up with verifiable sources IMHO.

Also, being a Red Hatter that has welcomed thousands of people in our New Hire Orientations, I dare say that we actually do employ quite some developers that continue their good work in a lot of communities. Describing that as "the 1% approach" feels a bit wrong.
Did anyone else find it bizarre that they quoted "grams of protein per ounce/cup" of food? America seems to have slowly adopted the metric system, but it's not what I expected to look like...
I have to second the Aeron chair. I started working in a government office a few years ago and when I found out they spent $700 dollars on our chairs I thought it was a huge waste of tax payers money. Now I recognize it as one
of the most reasonable purchases we ever made. When you sit and code all day a good chair makes all the difference. It's one of the few things that are still built to last.
Grin testnet1 has been launched
Trick is the residents of those European towns and cities are going to school for free or nearly no cost that they can pay for in real time, don't have to declare bankruptcy if they break a bone a month out of college, and don't need to invest in a car to be able to go anywhere.

I really feel the future is in Europe. The winners of American capitalism might be burning a great fire, but it has no kindle to last. Most of Europe burns calmer but more sustainably, at learn in terms of having an educated and skilled population that isn't endemically mentally ill or drug addicted from all the abuses of their society.
You assume sexual harassment is always directed toward women by men.

I'm a man. I was harassed by a woman and lost a promotion.

Until you have reliable data about women's behavior matched to men's, you have no argument. You cannot rely on the prevailing feminist perspective on men and women as a substitute for data.
Secrecy + PR is a good way to make a project look good.
FWIW, the core Wave team are back together again, working on language translation. See lexy.io
can we get the title changed? actual title: Beijing vies for greater control of foreign universities in China.

also, paywall bypass: facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.ft.com/content/09ecaae2-ccd0-11e7-b781-794ce08b2...
The Connection Between Opiate and Smartphone Addiction
Alternatively, education level is just used as a proxy for other forms of discrimination. If X is free they will just require X + 1, so free public education will simply reduce the number of productive years as people spend ever more time being educated.
This seems like a workflow issue to me.

Writing documentation should come BEFORE writing code. The developer should know the feature that they are going to implement and how they plan to implement it before they open the IDE. I've found this keeps me from coding myself into a corner.

Obviously some things might change, and the documentation will need to be updated while implementing the feature, but then it is just incremental changes to already existing documentation.

It shouldn't be a matter of "getting" developers to write documentation.. its part of the job.

As for a User Guide, I would think this would be the responsibility of the product owner, or whoever is driving the requirements around what the application is supposed to do. The developers shouldn't be deciding what the application does.. just how it does it.
SIM card PINs are not discussed in the article. Instead they recommend asking your telcos support rep to attach a note to your account to prevent sim swapping, which doesn't work.
Public school funding in the US is probably the most inequitable in the developed world. Not only does each state decide its funding and taxes, but smaller local areas do too. High home values => high property taxes => more school funding.
>and halves the power usage of a traditional design.

Um, really? Rumors talk of a 65W (and a 100W) Kaby Lake G CPU. The CPU is 4C/8T @ 3.1/4.1. That's 10% more than the 7700HQ which is 45W. The GPU side is rumored to be 1000MHz 24CU and 4GB HBM2 @ 700 MHz.

Now the Ryzen 5 2500U is a 15W part with 8 CUs up to 1100 MHz. The CPU surely eats some watts out of that so I do not think it's too outlandish to claim 24 CUs eat less than 30W especially with a lower frequency.

All in all, I absolutely can't see the claimed gigantic power usage savings Intel purports here. It looks like 10% perhaps 15% based on the above data. What am I missing?
For anyone like me who didn't recognize the EMIB acronym: https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/foundry/emib.html.
7. Visual Basic .Net, at 2.909 percent
...
9. Delphi/Object Pascal, at 1.744 percent
10. assembly language, at 1.722 percent

I'm astonished that these three are still in the top ten. Any ideas who or what types of applications actively use these?
Androgenic?

I keep hearing that soy proteins promote estrogen production but I've never found an actual study with significative results proving this. Any sources?
Yeah, that is what I guessed down thread. I just latched onto "non-deterministic."
Three shady things that digital health startups do to make money
You're right about how people have been impacted. That's going to continue to hurt as long as their point of view is ignored. Can't just tell angry people to stop being angry. Doesn't work.
Sure. Birds die, other birds take over nest.
If society put its morals in front of its face they would abolish bankruptcy and let people drown in debt.

Society doesn't because those writing the rules like having bankruptcy protection. But at the same time, the electorate dictating laws is also way past college age, but also wants their kids to be guaranteed to go to school (and if student loans weren't protected there would be dramatically less money for kids to go into lifelong debt with). If they are in debt for the rest of their lives... thats their problem, but I'll be damned if my kids are not going to college!
This is a lesson they learned from the cablegate: releasing a full stash of data is not going to get the public or even the journalists, interested.
Or LibreBoot T400 https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t400/
I don't think it's so bad to mix metric and imperial units; I'm in favour of using whatever units keep the numbers readily comprehensible.

Grams of protein per ounce of food seems like a good example of this.
I understood that statement as saying they were halving the power usage compared to a traditionally designed chip interconnect that uses ordinary traces rather than the EMIB silicon chip talked about in the article. Not halving the power usage of the entire chip, just the power required for the chip connection.
Thanks, someone else told me this issue which I relayed to Amazon Web Services and they said they didn't see the problem when testing it for themselves.
It seems pointless to me when people become "vegetarian" to opt out of the factory farming/animal cruelty machine...only to eat massive amounts of eggs and dairy.
Thanks! I'll definitely take your advice!
More design principles for the NewWeb
What about the actual bovine estrogen in any milk product?

Edit: Here's a link to an article discussing how much soy is too much: https://nutritionfacts.org/2013/02/19/how-much-soy-is-too-mu...
There's evidence kids are being taught to read too early. http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/discussion/school-starting-age...
The article lists protein density in grams of protein per cup or ounce, but a more relevant measure is grams of protein per calorie.

Most people's health issue is too many calories.

In grams of protein per calorie, many plants score high. You just have to eat more, which, if you make delicious food, is a benefit.
Of course you can smile with depression. You don’t have to be happy, you don’t have to enjoy it. Inside you want to die, outside you have a smile on your face, and attempt to process what someone is saying to you and reply to what they are saying in a friendly way.
I had the same thought. Apple seems like a natural big customer for these chips.
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This article basically says soy protein is great.
This was a fantastic list, is there a larger, or more up to date feed or something similar to this list?
This new material is not "alpha radiation resistant", so I don't think that's the right way to describe this article.

I think the term "resistant" in "helium-resistant" is too ambiguous. Helium is inert, meaning it rarely reacts with anything (only a few helium compounds are known). But some things are permeable to helium, including low density solids like polyproplene.

Here's the start of the paper at http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/11/eaao2710.full (Thanks to mtgx for the pointer):

"Metals do not absorb helium (He) from the environment. Large quantities of He may nevertheless be introduced into metals by nuclear reactions that produce α particles (He nuclei) (1, 2). Because it is insoluble in metals, any He forced into solution this way rapidly precipitates out into nanometer-scale “bubbles” (3). These bubbles nucleate as small He/vacancy clusters and remain approximately equiaxed as they grow into micrometer-sized voids (4–6). When they impinge on free surfaces, He-filled voids form blisters that release the He trapped inside them as they burst apart (7, 8)."

"We show that confinement within nanoscale layers markedly alters the life cycle of He precipitates. Rather than expanding continuously while remaining equiaxed, He precipitates confined within nanolayers spontaneously coalescence into elongated, He-filled channels."

I had to look up "equiaxed": "Having axes of approximately the same dimensions".
It does seem like an odd unit of measure, but might make sense in the following way: Most people don't know or care what a gram of protein looks like. What they might know is how much they're supposed to eat, in grams. And they know what a cup is. So they can do the mental math and estimate how many cups are needed to make up their daily requirement.

More generally, and anecdotally, I had a health scare that resulted in going through a fairly standardized regimen including exercise and dietary advice. I received many pamphlets and handouts! There seems to be a substantial effort to convey health advice in a way that downplays or minimizes any kind of math. People just freeze up when they see math.

This could give rise to an effort, from a public health perspective, to come up with units of measure that people can use without being put off by math.
Facebook ads, since I can use them to make clients money.
While Audiogalaxy was great at doing P2P, the magical feature that differentiated it from the competition was that all known files were always indexed and available for download. This was not true about, say, Kazaa or Soulseek; when someone closed their client, their files would disappear from searches.

This meant that you could search out a whole bunch of files you wanted, and queue them up for downloading, and whenever the sharers came back online the downloads would start and go through. These days, BitTorrent operates the same way.
My guess it's a convenience compromise. Nutrition labels list macro nutrient amounts in metric, but packaging still has the product amount more prominently in imperial measurements.
A lot of why these tech leaders go wrong is due to a techno-utopianist ideology which assumes that if bad is happening in the world it is always only because people don't have the technology needed to do good. This in turn rests on some very mistaken ideas about why humans behave in good or bad ways.

That is in turn due in part to the great influence Ayn Rand's crackpot ideas have had on technologists.

The books Naughton recommends are much more realistic.