skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've told this to a lot of people around me... unfollow everyone on Facebook.

This does two things:
1. No more facebook feed
2. No more facebook ads

You still get to keep messenger as an extended contact book, people can still tag you in stupid things and pictures, you don't have to have that awkward conversation telling people you're no longer on facebook. I guarantee you'll never feel like you miss your feed. Nobody even has to know you've unfollowed them.

I've quit facebook twice and they didn't last. But I've had no feed for months now and I don't see myself going back.
Cramming people into cities is more efficient from an energy and environmental footprint standpoint, and if there's enough vertical construction, it can be plenty comfortable.
I believe it is a matter of paying a large amount of money. I recall seeing an offer at a company I worked at to buy a TLD for around 100k.
I have kids and they will get phones soon. They already have some tablets and a Chromebook.

I don't care if my daughter ever memorizes a phone number or leaves the house without a map any more than I care if she learns to write in cursive. She plays games, but is also reading Kindle books and learning to code. I even chat with her on Slack.

And not to pile on, but please be aware that whatever plans you make for how you want your future children to be are 100% guaranteed to go off the rails and your kids will probably be fine anyway :)
Yes, it might have, assuming it's available in the 360 compilation environment.

Another solution would be to split the existing function into safe_function() and unsafe_function(), and remove use of the PREFETCH_EX flag. But then you have to explain to callers that they must not protect calls to unsafe_function() with any kind of conditional statement.

The author hinted at possible solutions but it was probably a case of "twice bitten" by that point.
That mindset doesn't change these numbers then seeing that AWS released Lambda in 2014...years ahead.
Pure speculation but I wonder if that was caused by the rapid shift in environmental temperature resulting in rapid blood vessel dilation? [1] Or do you know it was a heart attack and not fainting?

[1] https://answers.webmd.com/answers/5038612/why-do-i-faint-or-...
> It is disgusting how hobbled students are by crushing financial obligations related to, when it comes down to it, the passing on of knowledge from one generation to the next.

When you frame it in these terms, it's really quite troubling. Our generation actually _needs_ future generations to accept the knowledge or it effectively disappears.
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Butter is in "less" and salt and bacon in "as little as possible". With what we know now it should be the opposite.

About fat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S6-v37nOtY
About salt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ygExIZm7Wo
This sticker only works against this classifier. If you start changing the algorithm, you'd need to change the attack to match.

If you think you can write a better image classifier by first segmenting the image before using ML, then I encourage you to get your own computer vision paper published and see how that works for you.
Really love the idea, I've been planning on working on my calisthenics and this was the best thing I've ran across, however, I do have some problems with it.

- I realized that many people have already complained about the sound so I don't think I really need to go into much detail about having optional alarm sounds

- When I had my cam on the ground so it would be able to see my face and detect my head going up and down I ended up having to do about 30 perfect form push ups to complete my goal of 5 push ups. One idea that popped into my head was maybe show some sort of outline for where the face, shoulders, arms, etc. should be so that it could be more efficient in detecting a push up.

- I found that when I kept my laptop on my desk and bent the cam down it had counted all of my push ups which was much less frustrating than when my cam was on the ground.
I do this when I lift. I wonder if it is dangerous.
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That's true, the general recommendation for drug addicts is to keep their drug of choice in their home and within an arm's reach, so that they can exercise their willpower for the sake of the stronger fight. Someday you'll be strong enough to break free! Keep at it!
> Did you do warmups before shoveling snow?

Seriously? Who does this?
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Ask HN: Linux on a Macbook Pro. Viable or Get an XPS 13?
I have a 2015 Macbook Pro (15 inch, Core 17, 16gb, ssd, retina display).

I'm not happy with OS X 10.13. Is Ubuntu or Fedora a viable option? Things I care about: trackpad, wi-fi, sleep?

Would an XPS 13 be a better laptop option?

Edit: clarify retina display
It's amazingly hard work in the cold. Which means it takes longer for the unpleasant feeling of sweat to reach the gloriously provider-focused man-brain. So men just keep pushing through. The impulse to push through has probably saved more lives than it has claimed over the centuries, I reckon.

I like that this article came out the same day that the Damore stuff is being rehashed.
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Wouldn't the fix be to stop the slimey ones from "encouraging" people to leave in the first place?

It sounds like blaming the game rather than striking out against those who abuse it.
> Is that a situation you think Google should be required to forgive?

Required? No. Appropriate? Yes
I've found parrot continues to build neat stuff. Too niche?
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Homecourt advantage.
> NPM shouldn't scare you.

>> It absolutely should, just like any dependency on any other third party code or servers

There's no need to be scared of any of those things if you understand the trade-offs and risks.

>> Especially when they regularly have incidents like this.

They don't.

>> Simple fact is you should not be relying on ANY package registry at the time of deployment.

> This is true, but doesn't prove the previous claim.

The 'previous claim' follows from it. If you don't treat a package registry like an essential part of your own infrastructure, there's no need to be scared of it.
In Vancouver, last winter, GlobalBC News made such a big deal out of people not shovelling their sidewalks. They even went so far to shame some owners. They seemed wreck-less about this issue considering that some people (like my dad who's a senior) would be risking their life shovelling the snow. Can you tell I hate the news sometimes? On some issues they really like to stir up outrage.

[Edit]At one point people were talking about the issue at work over lunch. Ugh.
I had no idea, thanks!
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> wow that is an atrocious analogy

For a guy so concerned with the rules of debate, you sure do like to make strong claims without offering even a shred of argumentation.
> They're all trying to Venmo-ify payments.

Not all -- Apple Pay doesn't do the balance on their platform thing.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207886
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So maybe more should be done to incentivize vertical construction. From what I understand about San Francisco, though, it's actually kind of discouraged because of historical preservation stuff. I can also imagine established landlords without the capital to do large construction projects would still oppose measures to incentivize it, as well.
For us, that's part of it.

The main reason is how worried we are about the impact unfettered, always on, modern Internet/technology will have on the developing brains of teenagers, and beyond.
> Perhaps the reason people don't feel sorry for conservative white males is that if they are rejected by one company they can keep trying and will find an "old school" company that will hire them. We have not had that luxury, for blacks and women it was 100 nos for every 1 yes. It's not that way for white guys, sorry.

More recent studies don't show any bias against women in callback rates. In fact, some show slight bias for women (and if you're willing to look at non peer reviewed sources, more than a slight: https://talent.works/blog/2018/01/08/the-science-of-the-job-...)
> Were kind of seeing a kind of trend where every new media invention goes though a cycle of hype and fear towards a new normal and usually a new political and cultural structure. And i suspect that a lot of the "fear" is at least partially a part of that process.

That doesn't make this fear unjustified. The radio made Nazism more powerful. Trump doesn't become president without the current 24-hours news culture. ISIS doesn't gain nearly as much influence without social media.

Also, where exactly are you getting "decentralized authority free media landscape" from?
Oddly enough, even here in central Indiana a snowblower is only needed about once in one or two seasons. Most snows are 2" or less and handled with the shovel easier than getting the snowblower out and warmed up. But when you need it, you need it. Fortunately it fits easily under a workbench with the handle folded over when not in use.
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I believe this is exactly my current dilemma:

I live in San Jose, I commute to SF 3 days a week (super thankful for the chance to work remote 2x a week). My current apartment (a 1BR I live in by myself) costs a bit less than 1k a month and is rent-controlled. The equivalent in SJ is probably worth 2-2.5x as much per month, and in SF (or somewhere in-between) it can be worth anywhere from 2.5-4x as much.

I've been hunting for an apartment more on the peninsula since I don't necessarily need or want to live right in the city, just closer (especially in case I switch jobs eventually), but I definitely want to halve the commute time at least (Caltrain plus door to door is nearly 1.75hrs each way).

But why would I want to leave my rent-controlled steal and be spending over half my monthly income for the equivalent? It's ridiculous.

So now it's a matter of figuring out the cost analysis of moving into a better area that's closer to work, and therefore an increased quality of life, or stay where I'm at where I can save much more money and have a rather crappy quality of life (I don't care for where I live now strictly other than the cheap price of the rent).
Apple pay means I can just take my phone and my keys. It is great for going for a run.
Most of the rest of the world uses debit, and as a result enjoy very low transaction fees. Credit cards have much higher, and highly variable, transaction fees that cost merchants and thus all consumers, money.
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Don't exercise. Got it.
Yeah, but it seems a lot more reasonable to suspect that women don't have a unique way of shoveling snow.

The author also said To be perfectly scientific, the researchers have no way of knowing know that shovelling [sic] did the guys in. So I guess you can discount the whole thing.
For those reading, acute myocardial infarction is the scientific word for heart attack. Not sure why that needed to be used in this context.

Second... if take a 15 year old who is out of shape and an 80 year old who is out of shape and have them shovel equal length driveways ... sure my money is on the 15 year old.

But... you can't say that this problem is due to people being older. 30 year old folks can still have heart attacks shoveling snow. There are loads of folks out there who are in their 40s and 50s who won't experience any medical issues with the exertion required to shovel a driveway.

So the point I was trying to illustrate is that it's not fair to blame age. Age is one variable in a very complex equation that influences your level of fitness.
If you're addicted to the phone, mine is obviously the wrong recommendation. If you're addicted to one specific service or industry of the phone, then perhaps it's a better solution.
Indeed, the scenario you describe would be optimal.

Meanwhile, however, trying to make the current society function better under the ubiquitous-welfare thesis is a step in the wrong direction. Better to, instead, make the act of discarding ubiquitous-welfare a more and more serious+obvious+viable solution to more and more of society's problems.
If you don't shovel it, you risk having it compact into an icy mess, which can be unhealthy in its own way.
I think the whole story worked in favor of Google.

As a middle aged white male software engineer, this story had made it less likely for me to apply to Google.

Firstly, the odds are against me as I have to do much better than people who would improve their diversity numbers.

Secondly, I can't help but feel that the only reason they want me to interview is to improve their stats by rejecting me.

But I guess it was about time for the tables to turn.
Hmmm, wonder what the cascade failure of a "full" superconducting ring heated past it's superconducting point would look like?

Maybe impressive fireworks/explosion?... from a safe distance. :D
When I'm in town (Cupertino area,) I use Apple Pay almost everywhere. I love it. France just recently got it, so I'm looking forward to being able to use it more.
Seems like an easy way to help fix this would be to require a snow blower or have the city do it. Or at the very least something in place to make it easier for someone at risk to not have to do the work themselves.
The US is simultaneously blamed for everything bad that happens in the world politically, while receiving between zero and very little credit for anything good that has happened since WW2. If Russia annexes part of Ukraine and threatens to go further, it's the fault of the US. If Venezuela installs a Socialist military dictatorship with horrific economic ideas, it's the fault of the US (even though the US tried to stop Chavez). Meanwhile you don't see the US trying to topple Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Japan, France, etc. because of their quasi Socialist tendencies. The US hasn't tried to invade, topple or obliterate Canada because of it's far more Socialist-leaning beliefs. It's the irrational blame consequence of being the sole superpower during the post WW2 era.

Here's the reality: the US isn't even remotely as powerful or influential in about 180 of the 195 nations as the propaganda would have you believe. The US plays very little role in the affairs of most nations.

People take it to absurd extremes in trying to blame the US for anything and everything that happens, including: all poverty and crime in Latin America (but not the prosperity in Canada of course), any and all polical chaos in Africa (but not the improvements there in the last 50 years), anything in Eastern Europe that is bad (but not the dramatic increase in most standards of living there post cold war), et al.

Typically if you dig into any claims about the US doing X Y Z, you'll find the story goes dramatically beyond any influence the US had on the situation. Iran's last 40-50 year history is a classic example of that intellectual fraud (usually the false claim is put forward that the US toppled a democratically elected government, which isn't true (it was never democratically elected for one thing), and is therefore responsible for every bad decision Iran has made about installing and keeping a 40 year theocracy).
May I ask what age you changed your ways? I'm 38 and it feels like constant failure. I also worry the damage is done :(
Shoveling snow is obviously exercise. Does it seem weird to you that people warm up before lifting or running?
My college has had a food pantry for the past 20+ years
> To be perfectly scientific, the researchers have no way of knowing know that shovelling did the guys in.

Devil's advocate - perhaps it's some other activity altogether? Just for example, being snowed in with the spouse could lead to some indoor exertion?
Probably the same reason that men have lower breast cancer survival rates than women - the common assumption is that it's a gender specific disease, which delays diagnosis and treatment: http://www.breastcancer.org/research-news/20120517
> The correlation was true regardless of the patient's age, the presence or absence of cardiovascular risk like high blood pressure or other health conditions.

Perhaps we should say that a sedentary lifestyle is by itself a cardiovascular risk factor, even if it affects the majority of the population. The same thing goes for body weight: even if the majority of adults in the US are overweight, we don't redefine that as the new normal weight, for good physiological and medical reasons. Perhaps with physical activity we have already normalized an unhealthy lifestyle.
Or maybe its a good thing that society has progressed far enough that physical vitality is no longer a necessary trait for the advancement of our species.
Yeah, I almost typed "immune" before menopause, but that's not entirely accurate. And as you point out, it implies that a pre-menopausal woman having a heart attack just doesn't happen. Hell, my brother-in-law had an nearly fatal heart attack when he was 34 (bad genetics, helped along by too much drinking and smoking). Gender and number of wrinkles are just data points, but not the deciders of who's having a heart attack and who's not when their arm goes numb.
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Somebody please correct me, because it sounds like they're saying a $40m investment got them to a $1b valuation, which would mean the investors (Sequoia, Blackbird and Felicis) got 4% between them? Why would they take such little equity?
I'm not arguing what's legal. If your package name is a trademark, thinking you're entitled to hang on to it is naive. This is well understand with domains, so why do you think a package registry should be different?
>The old agricultural system was too demanding it's true, but it's not removing it that makes life better. See how people eat shitty things, waste meat etc .. Also with proper education, one can go really far if he knows how to use energy, even without heavy industry behind.

>It's a shifting plane, new ideas create new societies, they don't make the previous one better.

Would you mind explaining this more? It sounds rather cryptic to me the way you are saying it.
I don't think there is a place called "Arizona University." JshWright means University of Arizona.
> The better alternative would be to improve the situation where the original injustice occurs, not sometime later in the pipeline.

So, go back in time and ban redlining, to allow black families to live in the areas with better schools and build wealth through home ownership? Sweet bro.
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The problem here is the character of current housing markets causing the progress and poverty paradox. Rent control then is just (quite unfortunate) measure to mitigate the poverty problem when rents rise rapidly.

The paradox occurs because rent prices are much more flexible than peoples' income. If you have rapid increase in wages (like in SF area), then landlords match the increase by raising rents even faster than the wages rose and the tenants don't get no better services nor quality of living. Just higher prices they have to pay.

That supply and demand determine the price is like describing gravity as "things just fall to the ground when dropped". While true, these tell you nothing about how fast things fall nor where the market prices stabilize.

To see where rent levels come from and why they match up with general income level for a given locality, look at David Ricardo's "law of rent" (introduced in 1809), which tells you exactly that. It basically tells you that rents increase exactly to the level that wages increased. Therefore eating away all technological progress and only giving you higher rents and house prices.
This is the progress and poverty paradox. The harder the society works, the larger wealth gap and poverty.

Failing to understand the cause of all this people just slap some random regulation to alleviate the problem - in this case the rent control.

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To observe the law of rent, simply look at the fact that rents almost exactly match some general level of income of majority of bottom workers so that they barely get by and don't save a cent. Any excess goes to rent.

Just plot wage vs rent of any city on earth and you'll see it.
> But that doesn't preclude a new layer on top of bitcoin, or using an alt-coin (monero) that has anonymity baked in.

Perhaps, but I'd want that technology to exist and be well peer-reviewed before even considering recommending it in a sensitive context.

> I would say that USD/Euros do have the risk of deanonymization (unlikely as it may be). The government would simply need to say "all bills $20 and over will be worthless in 2 weeks, you need to exchange them for new bills at your bank where your transaction will be recorded". India just did that with not 100 Rupees and higher.

Note that I was talking about that in the context of a stable currency used in an unstable country, where e.g. the Venezuelan government can't force the US Mint to do anything.

However, either way that seems like a much better situation to be in because cash doesn't have a permanent history associated with every bill. Unless they setup the infrastructure to require everyone to record every transaction, all you'd need is one transaction to break the chain — take those new bills and buy dinner and who can link you to the change?
I loved that they put the word suspect in bold. I wish other publications would do this.
So because an 18 year old made a poor decision, he should forever be barred from monetizing an online presence?