skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Jeff Bezos Is Now Worth More Than Bill Gates Ever Was
I've advocated for that, as well as an ATM PIN to use if one is being forced to withdraw funds. It could alert police, mark the security camera footage to be saved, and show a very low account balance.

Try as one might, the world doesn't seem to want to be better.
> do they even still sell Windows, or is it all ad-driven revenue now?

Yes. I built a gaming PC last year and had to buy Windows 10 since I wasn't upgrading any existing computer. It's not cheap either—it was one of the high cost components of the system.
'Just to add some anecdata'

Is 2018 the year when anecdata becomes a thing, I wonder?
I consider every ICO to be a scam and that this sort of thing will become par for the course, with basically every speculator in the space losing money - except those who manage to trick main street investors to cash them out.

However, this is weird: “Within hours they refunded me ethereum with a dollar amount equal to what I had contributed in early September, but since the coin has more than tripled in value since then, they kept the rest of my contribution, essentially stealing quite a lot of money from me.”

Yeah, that's bullshit. They owe you your money back, they don't owe you the gains that you would have gotten if you had speculated in Ethereum instead.
It is, when it's attached to a day - it could be at the very beginning of that day or the very end.
In response to Trump's fake news awards, CPJ announces Press Oppressors awards
I don't support this (more schools in every country should teach foreign languages in primary school), but AIUI from the article learning English is not now forbidden for young people in Iran, it's only now blocked in primary schools, where it didn't happen much anyway:

The teaching of English usually starts in middle school
in Iran, at the ages of 12 to 14, but some primary
schools below that age also have English classes.
Author here. I don't know about "The Secret" other than it being an Oprah thing, what, ten years ago?

Abundance vs. scarcity has nothing to do with “Believe and you shall receive... somehow”.

Scarcity thinking means that you fear giving people credit, and letting others have success. You fear that praising others makes you seem weak. You think that if someone uses a different open source project than yours, that you or your project suffers. You might not even be aware of the thinking. You might just feel it reflexively.

Abundance thinking says that there is more than enough praise to go around. It says that your success doesn't hurt me in mine (unless in some tangible way it does). It says that you can use ag and I can use ack and Susan can use ripgrep and it's all good.

In this specific case, abundance says that I, as the creator of ack, don't need to own the "market". In fact, the creation of other tools only helps ack. It gives the ack team ideas for things we can implement in ack. Who am I to think that I'm the only one with good ideas?

It gives our users a wider choice of tools. I put my work out there publicly to help people. Why would I not want them to have a variety to choose from?

That's abundance vs. scarcity.
> When a PC first starts it's essentially an origina IBM PC from the 80s including the original text mode and built in fonts.

Thanks. Now I feel dirty for touching my modern MacBook and imagining that IBM horror inside it.
My 7 year old finished Zelda several times without a lot of help (mostly early on we helped to show how to cook, etc) ... I do recommend Super Mario odyssey or Lego City though - may be more age appropriate.
I think men are also more likely to have internalised a self-image about "manning up" and pushing on when their body is telling them to stop.

Or at least, every time I've seen someone staggering under the weight of a pile of chairs they can barely lift or carrying ten bags of shopping from the car in one trip, it's been a man :)
As in, yes, people don't give up those leases. Instead they pass them on to friends, then friends of friends, etc long after they've left the city. Or worse use them as AirBnbs to make a killing
They addressed this argument in the article, and why smartphones are inherently different than TV (or any number of other distractions that people have worried about in the past).
> Are you absolutely sure they're "mindlessly scrolling", and not just being fun and engaging to their friends on the other end of the social network?

Hasn't there been a drastic rise in teenage depression linked to smartphone and social network use?
“Reference frame” is a way of assigning a coordinate system so as to split spacetime into one dimension of “time” and three dimensions of “space”. Light doesn’t have a reference frame. Light doesn’t experience “space” either. Two points in spacetime along the path of the light are displaced by a “null vector”, i.e. the relativistic magnitude of the displacement is zero.
That's because shoveling requires arm and back strength which running doesn't provide.
This is a snow job by the meat, egg and dairy industries. Don’t believe it. Downvotes should at least try to address the facts in this video.

https://youtu.be/vBtfzd43t8o
Pulling xargo functionality back into tier 1 mainline would be an excellent piece of enabling infrastructure for all embedded work.

I think a challenge with embedded is that the platform landscape is highly fragmented. I would advocate for picking one target CPU and making it tier 2, let the rest stay at tier 3. Pick one that has a cheap development board to use as a reference platform. Don't even try to test everything in the cpu/platform matrix -- just pick one to be the pilot, and the rest will benefit from at least having that one big snowplow clear the road in front.

My specific suggestion would be an Arm Cortex-M4 with hard float of some flavor. That clears the road ahead for a lot of hardware of general interest. ST has quite a few easily available dev boards at reasonable prices, but that is just what I am most familiar with -- there are certainly others. I am also a big fan of Micropython, and the reference board for that is the Pyboard, which might be a good inexpensive choice also, not to mention a good way to spread the open source and open hardware love. It would be easy and reliable to flash a Pyboard back and forth between Micropython or some Rust-on-bare-metal image, I would personally be a fan (that's only one data point, but it's mine :)
If you went to a Seed fund and tried to pitch them your idea (whitepaper) with no working prototype 99 out of 100 times you wouldn't get any funding. After you have your MVP then they will start asking you for traction. Again 98 out of 100 times not getting any funding.

Here you can raise a tremendous amount of capital, given that the majority of seed rounds are $500k-$3MM, and with an ICO entities are raising tens of millions of dollars to build something that again has no actual working mvp to show usage.

Doesn't really seem like a sound investment ;)

Tokens have already been in use for a long time with chat sites, I suppose if one of them decided to re-create their tokens on the blockchain and offer an ICO they could make more money during this period than actually operating their service.

At least that would have some basis in reality in that there is an existing site that is generating revenue, profit, and visitors.
Turmeric is my pain killer of choice.
Franchisonomics: Why Tim Hortons Became a Flashpoint in the Minimum Wage Fight
Asus windows mixed reality headset launching soon in 2018
Exercise. Lifting weights, running, playing tennis/football/basketball/etc. In college I used to mentally review and visualize algorithms and other CS concepts during long 10+ mile runs. I always came home with new insights. Even if I'm not thinking anything technical, after exercise I'm always mentally invigorated. Also a good night's sleep will improve every aspect of your life.
We are wired for accomplishments and refining our skills. Games definitely hack that process like a virus.

This isn't completely new though, it's why chess is regarded so skeptically in the Hadith.

Maybe we are in a newly rapid iteration cycle in humanity's quest for better distraction... But we've always had distraction nipping at the heels of meaningful accomplishment.

I'm just not sure how to measure the delta... How much better is distraction today than fifty years ago? How much steeper is that curve than the one measuring our ability to tackle meaningful societal problems? (Does the second curve even have a positive slope, and do they draw from the same pool of human effort?)
Nietzsche would advise against all forms of painkillers.
I think that's a problem with the USA the fact that your rights and statutory benefits vary by where you live would be an anathema in any other first world country.
BTW, does anyone here have a Sperry Luggable and is willing to dump the screen font to a file (or take enough high-res pictures that it can be recreated)?

Sample: https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/MGIAAOSwFqJWk6Wq/s-l1600.jpg

If someone wants to grab it: https://www.ebay.com/itm/vintage-sperry-luggable-computer-20...
Well, they’re making the argument that if they ‘invested’ ethereum that they should get the same amount of ethereum back, not dollars.
It wouldn't be much of a stretch to follow that line of reasoning and propose that people should never buy smart products ever again. They should instead rent them. maybe that's what Google wants also.
We developed a product for editing architecture models in VR (VRsketch.eu). I wonder what company did you try to work with? The potential is enormous, a bit unclear how to sell those though, architecture is a tricky market :)
From the PDF:

Unfortunately, this hardware cannot safely be dismissed as "simple" or not in need of in-depth analysis. A relatively simple interface can hide vast implementation complexities and the 80x86 interface is far from simple. For example, the Pentium contains approximately 3.1 million transistors. Its instruction processing and pipeline architecture are extremely complex.

Now we have billions of transistors in a single chip.
Not true: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155060/

I'm making a documentary about all of this stuff mentioned in the comments. Would like feedback:

http://FoodLies.org

or google "food lies film"
They mention complaints to HR and dismissive responses - you'd think they wouldn't lie about such things. It's pretty obvious to me that "bash white men" was an acceptable thing to say at Google.
I constructed my argument poorly - I should have said not that those situations are boring - but that the addictiveness of devices and instant infinite content is so great that those of us who are addicted do literally nothing else but consume digital content in situations where we'd normally be observing the world around us or thinking.

So I wouldn't say that the world is boring, but for many of us it's more boring than the shiny thing on our phones.
WPA3 was announced
Women reached parity in law school graduation about two decades ago, but still lag in practicing law, becoming partners and becoming judges today so it may not be changing all that rapidly just based on that single statistic.
> Fines are not for breaking laws, but for torts.

Again, try looking outside your bubble of the US. This is certainly not the case in countries outside the US.
mlloyd has a point, the P value is right on the edge of significance and the study has only 31 people.

Take into account the bias that the negative result (no-correlation) would not pass the bar for publication and you likely have noise.
To make sure I wasn't hallucinating, using an old Droid Ultra, I downloaded an app named "Mobile C (C/C++ Compiler)", turned on airplane mode, launched the app, compiled and ran hello world, than compiled and ran some demo programs that app is bundled with (many of which are simple multimedia demos). That's not opinion.
No. I already know this is not a good idea but, strangely, I wouldn't have previously applied this obvious logic to shovelling snow?
> What's the downside of Qatar's hub?

No flights to Vilnius nor Riga. The best I can do is Warsaw/Copenhagen, then Palanga, which is sort of more convenient, but more expensive.

Also, I haven't been to Istanbul, but it must be way more interesting than Doha :)
If you make thousands or millions trading an asset and think somehow you don't owe taxes, you've got other problems than just the IRS
There's some of that in iOS: "Settings -> Restrictions", which will be locked by a passcode.

It has a lot of options, but probably not enough (like restricting specific apps.) You can however set to allow only apps rated "4+ years, 6+, etc.

Time limitation is possible too, via "Settings -> Accessibility -> Guided Access".
If you're asking if this is generalization to other healthy white men? It seems okay for a first shot. There is no fancy stats in this paper (they just use unpaired t-test to look for significance). They measured at two time points (+ the baseline condition) and both "real" (I don't really feel like including the Free T/LH ratio...) measurements that they found significantly different at minus 14 days remained significant (and same direction) at 44 days. The dose response curve seems particularly convincing to me.

It does seem that the particular study was centered around a single electrically stimulated exercise session. It would be difficult to try to guess what happens if combined with different (more sustained? more repeated?) exercise.

If you're asking if this is generalizable to any other group? No idea. Probably okay to generalize to all healthy men. But that's about it.

As for why this is so small? Looks like they just piggy backed on another study. Pretty reasonable use of resources.
>>Except a tendency toward consolidation and monopolies.

That assumes no government provisioning of public goods that can counteract capture of natural monopolies, but there's nothing inherent to a free market to prevent such government intervention.

>>And, inherent in the word "unrestrained", a tendency to use corporate money to unduly influence politics to benefit the corporation at the expense of the public interest.

The term here is "unrestrained capitalism", meaning people in possession of their right to contract and secure in their person/property, not "unrestrained society". An absolute free market doesn't mean anarchy. It doesn't preclude checks within the electoral and political process itself to prevent corruption. It doesn't prevent laws from being passed to place restrictions on those in public office, like, to give an extreme example, a lifetime ban on receiving any compensation from the private sector.

>>It's kind of irrelevant anyway, all I really meant was UBI should be evaluated in comparison to "the status quo"

Fair enough. I just take issue with the connotations of "unrestrained capitalism", where it implies malevolent behavior is legalized. A less biased term would be "free market".
Not the same professors salary and other costs rise with inflation a drug once developed and a production line is in place does not face the same cost increase
No, there aren't. There are alleged examples and supposed evidence of lots of things in the lawsuit, but that isn't one of them.
When the bells of Big Ben — or any chiming clock that rings out the hours of the day — chimes with one bell, we know that the first hour has just been completed. As one commenter observes, having it ring zero bells wouldn’t tell people what time it is. You can’t go from ringing eleven bells one hour to not ringing any bells at all an hour later to then ringing one bell the hour following the one in which you failed to ring any bells at all. People wouldn’t be able to tell what time it was because of something they didn’t hear!

Imagine this dialogue:

TOM: Oh good, it’s time for lunch!

JERRY: Oh really, and how do you know that?

TOM: Because it has to be noon, since I just now didn’t hear the clock!
I find it very useful for one reason: the senationalism around it makes the companies far easier to track and learn about because they frequently pop up in the media thereafter. Typically you're going to get a lot more articles written about you at a $1b valuation than at $200m. There are hundreds upon hundreds of interesting technology companies around the world, most are difficult to learn about initially, or to find at all. The unicorn / billion dollar tag gets them plastered everywhere.
Wikipedia:

"As of 2017, seven countries formally do not use the metric system as their main standard of measurement: the United States, Myanmar, Liberia,[3] Palau, Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, and Samoa.[4] However, both Myanmar and Liberia are reportedly essentially metric, even without official legislation."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metrication
> Well, if you are used to physical cards, it's pretty much the same management mechanism…

Not really. I have 2 cards from the same bank and they look identical. I grabbed a sharpie and wrote on one of them so I could tell them apart. Sadly I can't do that on Apple Pay (and it sounds like Google Pay takes the same approach)—I just have to memorize the last 4 digits of one of them. Sigh.
What gains? 1 eth is 1th, there are no gains there. They took something like 1 eth from this person, and gave back .3 eth. That's stealing. (numbers not to scale)
Hi, author here - completely agree.

I did try the preview version of Core 2.0 on Azure Functions but it's absolutely woeful at the moment and the dev team confirmed they've done no performance work at all. As I recall the single request response time was around 15ms faster for Core than for full fat framework but the response to increased load was dreadful - never falling below a several second response time with the 400 concurrent user test and errors creeping in.

I largely set off down this path as even in isolation the Azure numbers were concerning and not at all what I expected from a serverless architecture and so I wanted a reference point.

As soon as I get an update from MS about Core performance work or it leaves preview I'll be rerunning the tests as I'm very aware that doing this across the two runtimes is less than ideal.

However from what I've observed the issues look to be more about the broader architecture used for Azure Functions than the framework runtimes. I'm hoping to learn more from Microsoft.
1000 cases in the US because there are no child friendly pain medications (sweet syrup and oral syringe) but by all means risk your child’s liver to prove us all wrong
Haha my apologies. Good luck with your quest for domination.
No really, it would be the same if after the fraud, Google told Facebook, Amazon, etc. about you and they rejected your business.

If you commit fraud against a bank, I find it highly dubious that such bank will ever accept your business again, even if others do (after a decade).
We allow customers to decide how long their data is retained
Address what? A vague reference to "stickiness and inelasticity when it comes to housing?" I suspect you're misunderstanding what the "swap houses" example means. It's not actually about two people who might want to swap their houses. It's just a "bottom up" way of showing how housing restrictions create inefficiencies by limiting choice.

It might help to think of it in a "top down" fashion. Imagine laying out housing for everyone in a metro area as an optimization problem, where you're trying to maximize a value function over things like amount of space, proximate to peoples' workplaces, quality of schools, affordability, etc.

Housing restrictions add additional constraints that make the solutions worse for everyone. E.g. say some group of people with kids are willing to live in a duplex on 1/8 of an acre rather than a detached home on 1/4 of an acre in order to reduce their commutes and see their kids more often. But they're not willing to live in a city apartment with their kids and pets. Housing restrictions basically eliminate that part of the solution space by making it illegal to construct such housing. That group of people get punted to their less-preferred alternatives, and the resulting solutions are worse for everyone.
I can’t take Ibuprofen (or any typical NSAIDS including aspirin) because of a medical condition, which has sucked over the last decade because acetaminophen really doesn’t help me at all when I’m excruciatingly sore for whatever reason.

In Oregon and Washington, where I’ve lived for pretty much my entire life, legal marijuana has been amazingly helpful, at least since I finally got around to trying it.

The various products out that are high in CBD and low in psychoactive ingredients have been really good at even my worst muscle aches and really painful, but not super serious, injuries like sprained ankles and such.

My surgeon after hip surgery even blessed the notion of using the opiates I was prescribed for as short as possible and then using high CBD edibles to cover the gap between excruciating post-op pain subsiding but still being in a lot of pain. In fact, he didn’t just bless the idea, he practically endorsed it as a “still emerging but very likely positive course of treatment” in his words.

I don’t use CBD like someone might (even if maybe they shouldn’t) pop ibuprofen, but it’s great to have an option between acetomenaphin and opiates.
And the performance is dreadful: https://www.azurefromthetrenches.com/azure-functions-v2-prev...
These diets have been around for millions of years. I try to explain some of this on my site:

google "food lies film"
In that case, use ketamine?

In all seriousness though, there is research being done and evidence to suggest that ketamine can be used for pain management. Most of it seems to be about using it synergistically with opioids, to reduce the amount of opioids required.
I added smartcase in ack because I used it constantly in vim. I don't normally want to have to remember if the function I'm searching for is "format_ISBN" or "format_isbn", for example. Some languages (PHP) aren't always case-sensitive, so you need to search both. I'd rather use a "-I" in the few cases where I don't want case-sensitive, than having to remember to add "-i" in the 99% of the cases where I don't.
Yes, sorry, this was back when TAA (which changed to Australian), Ansett etc. had the domestic market sewn up and QANTAS were doing purely international flights. (Though I believe they may have done some longer domestic routes like Perth-Sydney with 747s?!?).

When Australian Airlines was brought under the QANTAS wing and rebranded, then they went back to 737s, 767s, Airbuses etc. for domestic routes too.
>> I don't recall asking, but while we're throwing bona fides around - so am I

Did I say something to offend you? I'm sorry if I did. Anyway I see you don't really enjoy the conversation. Apologies for that, too.
> The silly games and facebooks are only a problem for those who choose to participate in them.

This is a bad argument. Usually it's not an informed choice, often made by someone who's immature.

Also, some of the...

> massive progress in science, medical, renewable energy, etc.

...was used to make stuff like...

>>> Playing fucking candy crush.

...as addicting as possible.
Ironically maybe having a glove full of ants once in a while is safer than shocking your head repeatedly every week for years...
How long would the noon and midnight LEDs burn?
Isn't their Fusion (https://shop.gopro.com/cameras/fusion/CHDHZ-101.html) camera supposed to be the equivalent of the Rylo? I see nothing the Rylo can do that it can't, although the Rylo looks far nicer doing it.
nah, I saw it in that answer but I replied before clicking the link. a bad practice, yes.
In fact, if you look within the next 27 minutes, the departure board for Clapham Junction has most minutes around midnight, but not midnight itself.

https://traintimes.org.uk/live/CLJ
That's assuming that there's only a handful of people to pick from. But if your top choices are all top tier developers, then slicing it up by gender or ethnicity shouldn't make a difference.