skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I completely agree. I cannot stand some random YouTube ad that YouTube itself plays before videos because it's not relevant and I do not trust the people that are marketing it.

When I see someone I trust on YouTube recommend a product in a pre-roll ad or the like, then I don't really skip it and I do really keep those companies in mind in case I ever am looking for a product that they might offer.
This is so petty, so low, so unworthy of a thinking people...

For HN to continue it’s “safe space for brogrammers” policy is what’s going to make them blush in 50 years, when asked by their grandchildren.
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I meant preloading it in the shell. The real /usr/bin/sudo would be never executed, so it wouldn't matter if it's suid or not.
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Yes so we could imagine a new upper bound of 100 tx/s

This isnt future proof but should alleviate some pressures while internet and widespread computational infrastructure improves
The same can be said for exercising: you’re out of breath, your heart is racing, you can get dizzy and nauseous, you’re covered in sweat, and the next day all your muscles are aching. Surely, such an activity can’t be healthy!

Of course after the first few sessions you’ll start to get used to it, and actually feel better after exercising. Just like how you feel better after smoking once you’re addicted.
Exactly. Crossrail in London had some insanely difficult challenges (like threading a new subway tunnel between two existing ones with only a few cm of distance between them), and hitting an enormous ancient Roman burial ground at Liverpool Street.

Despite that (and many more) it is currently 6 months ahead of schedule.

There's a great documentary about the project called the fifteen billion pound railway which covers a lot of these challenges.
It would be nice if the government came up with a basic calisthenics program for the average person to follow.

A lot of people cant afford a gym - or sometimes it's too cold.

There is so much info about exercise and health that it ends up being "non-information". People give up. If the public health system gave a consistent message about exercise when you can't afford a gym or if it's too cold out - people would be better off.
Next up is doing your own nuc[1] and upscaling the image using bilinear or biqubic upsampling [2]. Enjoy :-)

[1] http://www.flir.com/cvs/cores/knowledgebase/index.cfm?CFTREE...

[2] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scaling
> but I don't see the security consequences of open microcode being severe: if you're in a position to install a microcode update, you've already won.*

Soft flashed roms must be cryptographically signed anyway... the main danger is surely in making various types of timing attacks or side-channel attacks substantially easier to derive, usually those attacks are inferred with great effort. The argument of security through obscurity is more complex compared to higher level software, it's not purely about finding bugs and refining implementation.
some how I think the US DS is not resourced to do this sort of project it's not a simple website. All they could do is assuming they have enough senior resource from telecoms as project manage some one else doing it.
Americans pay a huge percentage of GDP for relatively poor outcomes.

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/issue-briefs/20...

So it’s not a wrong analysis. Helth care costs distort entire markets in the US.
And the circle of capitalism...continues.
I couldn't find any info on the list what makes the people awesome speakers or criteria for being included on the list. Don't mean to sound negative, but anybody can put up repo with random people names and call them awesome.
Will it still receive updates? I don't own a Pixel C, but I'd just like to know since it bugs me immensely that every device Google delivers is discontinued in less than 3 years. My Nexus 5 was marketed as a stock Android device that would get updates immediately and now it hasn't been receiving updates for 1-2 years. I know that the problem kind of lies with Qualcomm because of some security applications, but it still pains me to see this.

This imo is the same as planned obsolescence. Can we really not get phones that will be supported and working for 5 years or more? Not all of us get a new phone every year like you Americans.
Thanks! If anyone else is interested, the speaker was Carl Anderson (https://twitter.com/leapingllamas). The talks aren't on YouTube yet. I've messaged him and CARTO on Twitter asking if the videos will be uploaded.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrestrial_Trunked_Radio

It's getting outdated though. In Sweden there's talk about a nation-wide LTE network specifically for first responders. Cheaper and better, I presume.
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Ad blockers generally _don't_ block acceptable ads. Acceptable ads, by my definition, are ads which are hosted by the website owner and doesn't include spyware; even a small banner ad from a third party ad platform is not acceptable, because regardless the size of the third party ad, it's part of the ad company's surveillance program.

Ads which take the form of an <img> tag pointing to an image hosted on the same domain, aren't blocked (at least in my experience).
That has been my experience as well.

Perhaps with each upgrade, Apple can let us know how much of a performance hit we will be taking.

That way I can weigh the benefit of the new/improved features of the new OS vs the performance penalty.
I have a small desk, about 1.6m by 0.6m. At the moment, it has my laptop and mouse, five USB external drives, notepads, pens, pencils, etc. On the other half of the desk is a Rigol DS1054Z oscilloscope, 24v power supply, power controller and an A3 cutting board with a small handful of leads, components and two small prototype boards with my latest projects.
The DUP and LibDems are examples of FPTP distortions in the UK.

The “extortion’ by the Greens doesn’t seem to have damaged Germany unduly, except by forcing it down the path to so-cheap-it’s-almost-free renewable energy.
Here's a pretty detailed analysis of "Cozy bear" and "fancy bear"

https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/bears-midst-intrusion-democ...
Think that’s bad — visit a Hollywood film location. I was a camera assistant for a film and I literally couldn’t drive dailies from the airport in my own car — that’s the Teamsters. I couldn’t touch a broom to sweep up our camera loading area — that’s another Union. I couldn’t plug a surge protector into an outlet — that’s the electricians. I couldn’t touch a dolly upon which we were to mount a camera — that’s Grip. I couldn’t move a $500 light five centimeters — That’s Lighting — despite being trusted to load a $100k+ Panavision camera or attach at $85k lens. And god forbid shooting take 30 seconds longer than the schedule — the entire crew on the set gets overtime.. costing thousands of dollars.

However to be fair, Hollywood is a private enterprise so it’s what the market allows — but when it comes to public money, it’s infuriating for such egregious waste and inefficiency.
Funny thing when I thought of fantastic catches the first thing I thought about the first catch in that video of yours. I remembering seeing that live and I think that was the first time in cricket history someone consciously did that double step catch. It seems in recent days (I haven't followed much lately) that thing has become a lot more common even two players in tandem doing it. It's so interesting that once you know something's possible a lot more people can do it. But yeah that first one was special at points, both the reflex and the speed of thought to find a way to do this that never been done before. I think he single handedly raised the level of fielding in cricket by showing what's possible and that it can truly be a game changer in terms of producing result.
You seem to be criticizing mostly how the book is marketed as opposed to its actual content. And I will agree with you, this page is awful, and it absolutely reads like the typical "get rich in 2 weeks" scam. But the content as described in this gist is interesting.

Do you disagree that effective engineers need to come up with strategies to be continuously learning? Or that it's important to make sure you spend time on tasks/projects that matter as opposed to busy-work? Or that it's important to properly use your daily tools? etc etc

I haven't read the book, and I only went over the main headers of this gist, but this all looks like pretty sensible advice to me to be more effective and productive.
Driving alone around in Africa is what you consider life? I know working 9-5 is not a good life. However working on something you love, in an environment with friends and family and fun, is a good life i.m.h.o. I always have the feeling nomads always need to shout of the roofs of "how much better their life is". However I do think, what you are doing is super cool. However seeing it as "this is the only life thats worth living" is a bit extreme.
you know, scratching damages the skin, numbs it too, but might worsen the itch, so its quite apt if introduced by double tongued nanny types.
>Every cap weighted fund has a cutoff where it omits companies that are too small.

The whole market isn't just S&P500 funds, if it was there wouldn't be much price discovery. But in the S&P500 I bet most cap weighted funds actually hold all the assets.

>I don't think the small cap stock is "mispriced".

For your argument to hold it has to be. Specifically it has to be priced lower than it should so that an equal weighted fund can outperform a cap weighted fund. If that was the case the large fund manager should pick up that opportunity anyway, even if he can only do it in a lesser percentage of his portfolio than the retail investor. When that then happens those opportunities disappear.

>That's a good thing, but it doesn't justify pretending you don't know things that you do know.

The problem is that you haven't named a single thing a retail investor knows that the 100B$ fund manager doesn't and can't take advantage of.
That comment is a fantastically informed response piece in itself. Are you going to post it elsewhere?
Ask HN: Coinbase took my money, what should I do?
Okay, bit more details:

I am an Indian working in Sweden transferred money (5000$) to my coinbase "euro" wallet from my Singaporean bank (under my name) to avoid the hassle of converting SGD -> SEK -> EUR. It is four months since that tranfer, but yet to show up in my coinbase account.

Their support replied once to my ticket about two months ago, after that no communication. Tried calling them, creating new tickets but zero response from their end. What are my legal options now?
That depends on what the metrics are that make up "impressive" in this context. Since those are entirely subjective (I may be impressed by an athlete's endurance, but the author may be impressed by physical strength, etc) the quoted statement is meaningless anyway.
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This is interesting to me. I had to deal recently with a service desk in America, and they were as unhelpful as any other. But they dressed up all of their comments with a dose of 'Thank you for calling sir, is there anything else I can help you with, have a nice day.' It was as if they felt that being sickeningly polite was a good substitute for resolving my issue.
Sugar != Carbohydrates

Talking about sugar will make many enemies. For example, the dairy industry. Or worse, fruit-farming. How do we convince people their smoothie is actively bad for health?

Because at the end of the day, we don't know for sure. There are of course, some benefits to eating fruits. There are also likely downsides as well.

I don't want to poop on keto but I suspect a lot of people can't follow it through and even if they could, I don't know if it is good for them.
> The system can't handle the load during large calamities.

For a system that's supposed to be used during one I'd say that's a rather large problem.
I think this is an interesting topic but that article is basically incomprehensible. It could have benefitted greatly from a little more of the "first this happened, then this happened" approach rather than being an impressionistic onslaught of feelings and vagueness.
Yeah, any site that pops-up "pls whitelist us!!" gets an instant X on the tab from me. It sucks, but I will never tolerate ads of any kind, no matter how good or bad. To me, they are done, along with tracking on the web (including mobile).

Oh, and before you scream at me, what about people that simply disable JS, which is basically how all of this works anyway.

I'm not entitled to a free web, I get that, but ads are a failing revenue model due to years of sustained abuse, and that damage is not going to be reversed ant time soon.
But the millions of people working at news websites and at ad companies need to feed themselves and their families. What do you have to say to them?
there is a link to a white paper on the github. they show there is a x10 or more decrease in train time on a couple of datasets.
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I love to be out and about, but it's been really cold and dark lately and I've been struggling. At the very least I make myself run up and down the apartment stairwell a couple times to wake myself up.

I realized that unless I wake up my body, it stays half asleep, and my mind suffers too.
Hej,

- $300k SEK or USD?

- What is the name of the dinner network you joined?

- What services do you provide? Do you subcontract or do the work yourself? Hourly rate, day rate or value based project fees?
Not sure how the parent would respond, but early on, while discussing Rosalind Franklin's DNA diffraction findings, he makes an unnecessary comment about the Nobel prize going to "the two white men." It seemed out of place compared to the rest of his talk.

I didn't feel like the talk gave off an overtly political tone.

The New England Journal of Medicine on the other hand...cancelled my subscription due to how political it has become. Still has very good review articles, though.
What beaner is saying is: If City A orders cops to hassle rough sleepers and panhandlers, closes homeless shelters and offers the homeless bus tickets to other cities; while City B doesn't do those things; then City B will have more homeless people on the streets despite the fact their policies are kinder, more charitable and more humane towards the homeless.
As long as it's growing, correct.

But if you want to get that value, then bitcoin is unreliable in the amount you get. And that is only if it has grown over the period you stored your value for.
It has. Compare to healthy societies.
Is Bitcoin a Ponzi Scheme?
'Reach out' also annoys me. Instead I would just use 'contact'. E.g. 'contact Joe to ask about the spec.'

'Shuttered' is another one I personally detest. 'Closed' is a perfectly good word, which doesn't need replacing.
Title is pretty bad. The actual claim is "exercising twice a week may help preserve memory and thinking skills in people with mild cognitive impairment."

Meanwhile things like https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.0064... directly contradict the title. That is, exercise et al. are good to help cognitive functioning but have no prediction on cognitive performance.
I don't think the original notes do, but there is this comment by the owner of the gist:

"FWIW: I didn't produce the content present here.

I've just copy-pasted it from somewhere over the Internet, but I cannot remember exactly the original source. I was also not able to find the author's name, so I cannot give him/her the proper credit."

How convenient? It was copy/pasted from somewhere, but oops, can't remember where or who wrote it, oh well, I'll just put it under my name :)
And 17-18 yo is the age of accepting a football scholarship to an NCAA school.
It isn’t either or: you don’t need to work 9-5 in order to have a family and friends, the only alternative being driving through Africa. He just said 9-5 isn’t life and I think he is right. I work 9-5 and now that I am a father I will beging cut down work. I find it a lot more rewarding to see my daughter starting to crawl than building some software for someone.
I have that last model of Nexus 7 and it still works wonderfully. I love that thing to death. If it had SD slot, it would be perfect. However, there's OTG - so, until it breaks it's wonderful.
Consensus driven websites reflect world view more than accuracy, but primarily because people dont use upvotes/downvotes for the same reasons

Sites that pride themselves on accurate information should consider a different model
Maybe he should try some nomad-coliving stuff out there
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I recently discovered the "holy trinity" of human energy and metabolism: regular sleep, regular meals and regular exercise. My previous chaotic approach caused chaotic (and very sub-optimal) energy levels.

I realized instead of working on my productivity directly, I need to work on stabilizing my energy level, because everything else ultimately depends on that.

Regular sleep, meals and exercise, practiced consistently, get your body into a pattern, where at each time of day it knows whether it should be releasing energy or resting, so it gets easier over time as the metabolism begins to work with your plans rather than against them.
Cool. What kind of work do you do on the road? Also, if you don’t mind (ball parking is fine), what do you make and what are your expenses?
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Some time in the early 2000s a friend of mine who was on the core team of an immensely popular open source project wrote what I consider to be the most important PPT slide ever in software development. It simply read:

"Nobody cares if it works for you".

While your experience feels very important to you, as you willingly demonstrate by extrapolating your subjective experience to near universal truth, it isn't significant or important. What portion, or proportion, of users, and the experience they have, is important is not even that easy to figure out. You have certain problems and certain users that carry more weight, and it isn't always obvious why and how.

I'd be careful to use the number of posts on Apple's support forums as any indicator of how big an issue is. Apple's support forums are, after all, fairly pointless in that there is a close to zero chance that they will be helpful. It is the wailing wall of Apple products – people come there to moan, to be joined by others who moan, to a deity that never shows itself nor provides meaningful response.

However, there appears to be a consensus that Apple isn't delivering the software quality one would expect from a company with their resources. There also appears to be some consensus that things are getting worse, if you read forums and discussion threads. It would be wise to at least investigate the mounting discontent with Apple from the ranks of professionals.

Nobody but you cares if your 2013 MBP has had zero freezes.
You are overthinking it so much. It's all about just shoving that brand name or product reminder in front of you as often as possible, wherever they can. Eventually you might click the ad and give them .002 cents of revenue, or you might even click through and buy that new car for $30,000! Before I installed AdBlock, I myself constantly saw ads for eBay items I've looked at, and I see them on all sorts of websites. I've also found that certain T-shirt websites are particularly persistent. And even when I unblock ads on certain sites, as I've done on about 40, I'll see the eBay ads again.
The first trip was in 2009-2011. His second trip started in 2016. He must've put in some work inbetween. He's also monetised his traveling with books, partners etc.

More importantly though, from the info he posted, it shows he spends about $1200 a month traveling mostly through South-America. Which isn't too crazy, gdp per capita in the continent is about $450, Africa is even 'easier', in that the gdp per capita is about $150 a month. So he's often spending a multiplier (2-7x) of the national average on a minimalistic 'sleep 500 days of my 650 day trip in a tent' lifestyle. Keeping this number low is key to everything, if you don't have kids it's doable to save for such a lifestyle.

He does mention he worked along the way, really curious as to what kind of jobs he landed and if that meant he stayed in any one place for longer periods of time!

I've got a few friends here and there who've got a few hundred thousand in equity sitting in their home and modest savings. At a 5% annual return, one could spend $15k a year of their $300k investment and live such lifestyle in perpetuity.
https://hn.algolia.com/?query=hyperapp&sort=byPopularity&pre...
Their is some measurable chance the NFL and football disappear w/in 30 years. Sooner or later a college / high school will lose a lawsuit for a player w/CTE, and schools will have no choice but to stop participation. Once that happens, talent level and interest in the sport will die off. Kinda silly cities are in such a rush to continue building new stadiums.

The unspoken elephant whenever these studies come up is skiing and snowboarding. Lots more participants, and I bet the concussion rate is similarly high over X number of visits. Damn well better not make me wear helmet though, my worst injuries came when I had one on (overconfidence syndrome)
Willrow Hood's Ice Cream Machine in Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Interesting link. Avatar the movie (2009) had glowing vegetation on Pandora, and I am sure I could find earlier references. IIRC the algae glows in the movie The Red Planet (2000) too.

Bioluminescence is very neat, however, I worry about runaway light pollution no matter the source. I used to like to look at the stars from my rooftop in Brooklyn back in the 70s with my small refractor telescope. Now the amount of light masks the sky.
My old eyes are blinded when driving at night by the pure white, intense headlights on the newer cars even if I look aside to avoid them.
I agree. Now that I think of this, I realize that there are lot of americanisms I would never use. Things such as "I'm gonna" or "dude". I feel it doesn't sound right when you have a heavy foreign accent. Maybe the best thing to do for a non-native English speaker living in the "global world" is to target an English free of local idioms, and a neutral north-american accent.
Wouldn't the drastically reduced total sleep time in polyphasic schedules be an issue?
Thanks, this has been up for 8 hours and it still doesn't have (2016) after it
> except that i researched chevy thoroughly and decided that it sucked

Time for a re-decision. Expect to see those ads for years to come. How does a 2019 cherry-red Corvette sound?
LineageOS with microG [1], microG in general, or installing another port of an OS such as Ubuntu Touch or SailfishOS. The Fairphone [2] can run any of these OSes, without unlocking the bootloader and without rooting the phone.

[1] https://lineage.microg.org

[2] https://www.fairphone.com
Could someone please post the text of the article? I find it challenging to read this site...
What would be an example of a non-garbage ad that could've been there?
They usually don't send you the content for a paywall without a login. But adblock detection is another story. They need to render the ad to detect that it's being blocked. They could use some js to do this before downloading the rest of the content, but they usually don't.
Is iOS 10 still receiving security and reliability updates?