skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I think it's much easier and more direct to visualize the time-domain as superposition of helical components and the transform as an exploration of what happens when you twist the "cylinder" with varying "intensities".

That doesn't sound very clear at all to me.

> You avoid the vague center-of-mass spike depicted here and start from the get-go with the terms of the transform.

The center-of-mass spike is the result of summing across all the different complex points/vectors, this is stated very clearly by the FT formula (sum (int_^) of points on a circle (exp(t)) amplified by signal strength (f(t))). Seems very explicit to me.
Strava already has an option to mask your starting location. It tracks it from your house, but the public data hides a certain radius around your start and finish locations
Q: In what sense does the "real" Van Gogh painting differ from a good forgery?

A: Otherwise pointless authenticity.

Q: So why do people spend so much effort identifying forgeries?

A: Because people, for some terrifying reason, value otherwise pointless authenticity.
Since brainwaves are associated with brain disorders and brain disorders are associated with genetics, it would be worth (albeit dangerous politically?) to investigate the link between brainwaves (and by extension, different cognitive faculties) and ethnicity.
> Despair not, never give up, and just keep practicing: there's always room for improvement

There's nought to improve. It wasn't poetry. & if you-all are suggesting my prose is poetic, then that's a compliment, not a zing.
Everything shown in the Afghanistan heatmap is a military base.

The locations of these bases are not secrets, and the locals already know the layout thoroughly. What I am concerned about is that Strava released this data in such an easily accessible format, and also, whether they even had an internal conversation about managing sensitive material.
> Direct consumer advertisement of drugs is also illegal in Germany.

Only for prescription drugs ("verschreibungspflichtig"), so no "ask your doctor if XYZ is right for you" bullshit.

Non-prescription drugs ("apothekenpflichtig") are heavily advertised in pharmacies, sometimes on billboards, and on TV. Most TV ads for drugs are running on ARD and ZDF [1] since that's what old people watch.

[1] Though only between 18:00 and 20:00, which is when the public broadcasters are allowed to air ads.
I don't think it's ironic. Games are not there to be accurate simulacra of life; that's what life is for. People usually play games to escape from the tedium of realism. If I wanted to spend more of my time grinding, I'd work longer hours.
I'm not a super networker or anything, but I've never met anyone involved with adult entertainment that admitted it, or VCs that openly invest in it. I always thought of it more as an LA thing.

I honestly don't think we're so liberal you won't have reputation problems later on, but with multiple exits you have a track record to offset.
An option not to publish tracking for an x km radius around your "home" location would probably work.

It would also cover the military bases, since they could just pick 100km.
The usdt/usd pair on most markets it trades on is heavily manipulated with wash trading. It doesn’t take a big buy order for bitfinex to bounce the price back to $1.

What you really need to watch is the widening spread in price between bitfinex and other exchanges which implies that people are buying crypto at inflated usdt prices because they don’t trust usdt any more.

I think if either that continues or the price of tether continues trading below 1.00, it’ll trigger a panic eventually.
Yep, zoom out a bit more and this recent dip is not that bad.
https://cryptowat.ch/kraken/usdtusd/1d

But still, I'm a skeptic too.
> However, I think the ongoing indifference is because there isn't a workable business model. Firefox is an advertising platform from which Mozilla earns hundreds of millions. It isn't clear how Thunderbird is supposed to earn.

Wow, I’d wondered about that for years as well. I think you hit the nail on the head.

Mozilla likes to paint itself as a charity but it won’t even allocate .1% revenue to a non-profit project that it created and millions rely on.
The one participant I know of was told to chug a lot of Gatorade the day before, and a little bit the day of (IIRC). The main restriction on the Gatorade (aside from quantity) was which colors were acceptable. Apparently some colors make it hard for surgeons to differentiate blood from residual bowel content.

Although he had the surgery circa 2014 and the stated purpose was to study the need to avoid opioids, not to reduce hospital stay. But like the 2006 study someone cited earlier, it was colon surgery.
> yet isn't exactly what they did since then?

It doesn't look like. They did what they wanted to do (test their nukes and ballistic missiles) and now they're offering the carrot of better relations with their south counterpart. Trump has been substantially ignored.
Check out Framework7.io - it's easy to use and mimics iOS and Android pretty well.
Britains first Bitcoin heist: masked men held crypto-currency trader at gunpoint
Yes - artists deserve to be able to make money from selling scarcity and authenticity. 100%. If they can do that while not restricting access, it is the best of both worlds.
It's not paid by taxes but by health insurance. We have both a private and a semi-public system (managed by "Krankenkassen", independent insurance entities, that compete for members; it's... complicated, but less so than in the US, and it does not depend on the employer).

Some might say it's like a tax, it gets deducted from your paycheck, but then that's the same everywhere, including the US. Difference is that it's managed by independent entities and not the government, and they even compete. The private insurances are quite significant in Germany too. You are allowed to leave the government-mandated "Krankenkassen" if you earn over a certain amount of money per year, then you have to get private insurance - which is less expensive if you are young, but unlike the Krankenkasse family members (e.g. non.working spouse, children) are not included and it may become much more expensive when you get older, it's hard to predict because it depends on many factors including if you picked the right insurance company (that didn't lose as much money and now has to raise prices).
It must be. I've had Vicodin a few times, and found it had had no effect other than pain relief. There was no experience of a "high" or euphoria. I have never finished a prescription, as it simply stops occurring to me to take it once the pain is gone.
It's such a strange bimodal distribution, among people I know - there are those who take preposterous numbers of painkillers on a semi-regular basis, and those who won't take an OTC painkiller except under duress when they're on the edge of blacking out from the pain.

I do think a great many people either overprescribe or are overly dependent on painkillers, opioid and otherwise, but there's also many different kinds of pain. I have a fairly high pain tolerance for most things, but certain kinds of acute pain, mouth pain or the warning pain of a migraine immediately disrupt my ability to concentrate usefully, which can be problematic when you need to concentrate to resolve the source of the pain.

There's also a weird thing where a good number of people I've known have regularly taken well in excess of the maximum safe dosage (even for Rx) of painkillers for days or weeks every month, and not think this is something they should bring up with their doctor. If this were "I talked to the doctor and made this choice based on X information," I wouldn't be as surprised, but it just never crossed their minds that it was abnormal to have crippling pain on a recurring basis.

In the US, I recently had two teeth removed that had horrendous infections (the swelling was tremendous); after the surgery, I asked them about painkillers, and they told me I wouldn't need them, just take ibuprofen if the pain gets bad and it'll go away in a day or so. I was skeptical but listened, and much to my surprise, the pain did almost magically vanish after I went to sleep that night.

AIUI the reason they still tried opiate painkillers is that there aren't really many non-opioid alternatives available other than the OTC stuff - and the effectiveness of both types varies wildly by person, but since the distribution is wider for the opioids, on average you're more likely to get pain relief from it. (My brother, for example, gets almost no benefit from any non-IV opioid painkiller, whereas if I take a single hydrocodone I'm both pain-free and borderline asleep.)

It'd be nice if we could find ways of relieving crippling pain without risk of physiological addiction, but so far, I don't think I've seen much compelling research toward that.
That's still approx a $44 million loss on their market cap.
I am always reminded of this TV ad[0] where the side effects take up more than 90% of the ad time.

0.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hp_y0wDFz0
Inspecting the Internal Logic of Recurrent Neural Networks [pdf]
> the only thing worse than overprescribing necessary medications is underprescribing them.

There are only three categories: overprescribing, underpresribing, and prescribing the correct amount.

In the case of opioid-based painkillers, overprescribing leads to unnecessary addiction, in turn leading to heroin or fentaynl abuse, breakup of families, overdose, etc.

If you’re underprescribed opioid painkillers, you just feel temporary pain (or not, since non-opioid painkillers exist).

So, they’re not even really close in terms of long term consequences.
Lol how American centric. North Korea has so far gotten everything they aimed for. The Olympic games, continued nuclear program and the cancellation of US military exercises. And North-South diplomatic talks without US involvement.

Apparently someone managed to explain to Trump that he has no military options and that nobody in the region appreciated his crazy talk.
Can't happen soon enough for me.

Also smart: '“Member states should mull over together which time – summer or winter time – should be adopted on a permanent basis.”'

Let's keep it on summer time, having light at 4 pm is more valuable than at 4 am. (I know, exaggerating, but only a little)
Classifying Emails Using Embedded Image Contents (Google Research)
How to Cure Sleep Paralysis
I have that same Amscope setup, but without the camera monocular. Working distance is key for an inspection/soldering scope; the more the better.

The ring LED is not strong enough. Go with the fiber light, though the potentiometer crapped out on mine and I had to replace it. It’s not UL listed either.

Can take decent pictures just holding a camera up to the eyepiece, through lose about 1/2 the field of view.

You can get fiber LED, but those are $1500 themselves.
That's a complex answer but the easy answer is there are various standards for digital collectibles and based on the type of collectible we'll implement the appropriate standard. ERC-721 is appropriate for "collections" of 1of1 assets.
I've been to 27 IKEAs in 27 different countries and have eaten 27 different hot dogs. I swear. I have seriously done this....
> We need to put more pressure on China, or else North Korea will be the puppet that sends a nuclear missile straight into Silicon Valley

What? What is the logic behind this conclusion?
What if we could automatically sign T&Cs by a blockchain profile
contractReduce (from 2012-2013). A blockchain implementation of those pesky T&C we hardly ever read. Have an AI fill out those "I accept forms" based on your preferences

bit.ly/contractReduce
I think in terms of business apps (not games!) it's better to go PWA first. Check out this really good case study of the Starbucks PWA.

The PWA is 233 kb compared to 148 MB iOS native app.

https://formidable.com/static/Formidable-Case_Starbucks_PWA....
I think this is probably quite accurate. Looking at tv in various countries, they just don't have the pill advertisements like America does. ask your doctor about...
In the UK, you can buy a pack of 16 generic Ibuprofen tablets at the supermarket for as little as £0.25 ($0.35, €0.28). Similarly, Aspirin can be bought for as little £0.45 for a pack of 16 tablets.
Nailed it - I'm not sure video will be a good use case for RDA although I think there will be some interesting instances.

For example: Sweepers Clock is a video sold as a limited edition art asset today, using a paper contract and traditional auction houses. It's very hacky and buyers often are worried they'll just "print" more copies, but it still sells and has value. I think rare digital art would be perfect for this kind of thing, less so a Hollywood film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXNT4T56EmM
OverTheWire: Wargames to learn and practice security concepts
Why are they offering that carrot now, if not as a reaction to Trump?
Maybe I am mistaken, but I find it hard to believe that if people in that demo are on Facebook enough to see movie trailers there that they wouldn't then post about the movie they just saw.
Gorgeous 50-megapixel panoramas shot on an iPhone at 20,000 feet
As a counterpoint, charities are a thing.
The chaos monkey is pointedly unsophisticated, but a system that can reliably survive its attack is likely to be very sophisticated. Airline pilots are effectually faced with a chaos monkey in their recurring simulator trainings and as a result have a very sophisticated skill set (indeed, one most of them will never actually need, but train for anyway, for obvious reasons).

Also, I take issue with it being “destructive”. Compute resources are effectively free on the margin (at least at the scale that concerns us here) and ephemeral. Killing such a process doesn’t meaningfully destroy anything of value.
Spy Tech: Nonlinear Junction Detectors
You are splitting hairs. "people/companies who pay into the German universal health insurance system" are effectively being taxed, whatever the wording is.
Solving Towers of Hanoi by walking Sierpinski triangle [video]
Also here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16251390
Mark Cuban calls for verification of users on Facebook and Twitter
I am reminded of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

George Soros broke the Bank of English's attempt to maintain a minimum exchange rate for the Pound against various other European currencies.

It was this experience that taught me that you can not cost free fix the exchange rate between currencies unless you are using "magic". And USDT has always seemed magical to me.

BTW: https://www.coindesk.com/tether-confirms-relationship-audito...
I can't say it, you understand—I'd just be falling into their metaphysical trap of socio-hierarchic power structures
Related: http://www.tetherreport.com/
I'm surprised they didn't go with the headline that practically wrote itself: Tether Becomes Untethered
Spouses of Entrepreneurs
>Never heard of those. What are they exactly?

Anecdote: Dried plums work pretty well for me.
I've recently moved to an eyepieceless microscope, and it's really quite an improvement over traditional stereo eyepiece microscopes. They are made for SMD work and part inspection, and generally max out at 20x (which is plenty of magnification for SMD work).

To see into the microscope, you look straight ahead into a viewing window. There's a huge margin of error for head position; you can move your head around quite a bit and still keep the image visible. Additionally, it's much less strain on your back, as you're not hunched over. Your focus distance when looking into the microscope is the same as when you glance down at the work, significantly reducing eye strain. These microscopes can also be used with glasses. (Quick summary video here[1])

One of the coolest parts of this setup is that you can actually change your 3D view of the object simply by moving your head around. You can actually "look around" the magnified object. It's hard to describe how impressive this is -- experiencing it in real life is quite astonishing.

As far as I know, there's only one eyepieceless microscope on the market: the Mantis. Buying these new[2] is very expensive ($3000, plus $500 per objective lens), due to the massive optics inside the unit. However, you can find the older models on eBay for $500, sometimes even including some objective lenses.

I recently got a cheap one from eBay that needed a bit of repair, and now have it mounted to my bench for general inspection and SMD work. If you end up going this route, I recommend replacing the MR11 halogen bulbs with LED bulbs.

Dave Jones (of EEVblog) is a big fan of this, and has a good video describing it[3].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KpN83dv0f7Q

[2] http://www.visioneng.us/products/stereo-microscopes/mantis-e...

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3o0EWHEH08
It's not bad, nothing's a show-stopper, there's just several little annoyances and embarrassing security issues.

My example is that there's an empty blank line in the bottom of about half of my terminal sessions. I haven't looked into it, and I assume it'll disappear in a future point release.
That’s why they announce the coin right before the pump
Good HN sites that can filter/segment links by specific topics?
like new products, python, linux, noisy politics, privacy-related, city design, etc.
I wonder whether the people exploited by IKEA east from the Iron Curtain during the Communism had similar professional growth opportunities.
What carrot? They’re just replaying the “Sunshime Policy” symbolic crap from the 80’s. This is pure DPRK playbook material to drive a political wedge between the ROK and US.
At one point a few hours ago, the buy side of the depth chart was so weak that a million usdt sell order would have dropped the price to a penny.
I think the answer is necessarily "no," because the rhythm is a sign we observe of some functional system in the brain, not the functional system itself. Similar to how your heart rate is just a sign of the beating of your heart, only the latter of which is a real functional mechanism. Something is happening in the brain that generates these patterns and which also has to do with the cognitive faculties described in the paper; I don't think anyone has a very clear idea what that mechanism is, though.

I'm not sure if this answers your question, or is just pedantry. :)
This is a group for all the spouses/partners/significant others of entrepreneurs. Doing a startup is NOT easy, being the one behind an entrepreneur is NOT easy either! We are usually the first one to hear their ideas, the first one to encourage them to purse what they believe, and the first one to cheer them up. This is a community for us to share our stories as spouses of entrepreneurs, a community to support each other and make us stronger. Let's hang out, if you are/were/will be a spouse of entrepreneur.
I don't think this is the popular understanding of "single payer" by its advocates in the USA. They think it means "I get any medical care I want, any time, with no waiting, for free."
Not sure why your comment is grayed out. This is very much true, and part of the reason I run CentOS when I want infrastructure to work 24/7/365, but eg Fedora for testing new software.
Timers in general are a code smell to me. It’s one thing if you’re waiting for something to complete, but having arbitrary sleeps in your program is undesirable IMO. It makes reasoning about your program more difficult.
I'm surprised Svalbard is so lit up[0]. I wouldn't expect too many folks to be running around out there.

[0] https://labs.strava.com/heatmap/#5.00/15.91558/77.77306/hot/...
Well, Cyan Bannister went on from founding Zivity to be a partner at Founders Fund.
> "HEY DO NOT UPLOAD YOUR RUN WHILE DEPLOYED OR YOU MAY GET MORTARED" is likely a better option here, just below "MAKE SURE YOU WEAR YOUR NEON BELT" on every sign.

I take the whole lesson here to be: information can leak in unexpected ways. So solving this particular issue does nothing to help the larger problem. I'd imagine there are countless similar side channel leaks that already exist... and then even more that don't exist yet but will retroactively exist with a future phone or app update. The fox is in henhouse.
But the public health insurance system (which covers 90% of the population) makes joint decisions (through broad guidelines) on what is covered. An economic assessment is always part of the decision. Representatives of doctors are heavily involved in the process as well. Gemeinsamer Bundesausschuss is the name of that body.
1,800 Studies Later, Scientists Conclude Homeopathy Doesn’t Work
I've noticed a huge difference between movie behavior based on city. It makes sense that it would vary by regional culture. In Los Angeles, clapping was semi-common, particularly during the early days of a big new release; it seemed to vary in direct proportion to how many people were in the theater. I consider that extremely obnoxious. I've almost never seen clapping during a movie anywhere on the east coast however.
But that's the point. If the provision lets me withhold part of the source code from inspection, there is no way to actually verify that I don't do that.

I could hide the above manipulations in some component I don't have to expose and have the machine play nice under testing conditions. (See certain automakers for examples)
I'm happy to pay a premium to never again have to deal with xorg.conf. All platforms come with a cost.
Well, Kink.com just moved to Nevada. But that was because California OSHA started requiring condoms for porn. Also, because the once-abandoned SF Armory was now too valuable a piece of real estate for that use.

The only other porn producer I knew in SF gave it up around 2007 when she moved to Texas. SF used to have a film scene, but it relied on cheap large spaces being available, and those are all gone.
Re Ubuntu and docs, this something where I find CentOS valuable: it moves slowly but is very stable. I’ve never seen network issues on CentOS on cli or GUI. Red hat also puts out great comprehensive docs so you don’t have to dredge the forums.
Exactly, and that's why we need to hit them (North Korea, China, Russia) where it hurts. China's sputtering economy. We don't need China's manufacturing; we can outsource from other countries SEA, or we can start to move back our factories via automation. China on the other hand desperately needs our consuming power.
The default size of an array for V8 is over 1304209 elements?
No we don't! Not even close.

That article is about creating fake faces. That's all.

Being able to create a virtual actor that can somehow generate a compelling performance from a script, or which can even be programmed to create a compelling performance, is orders of magnitude more difficult, and far beyond anything we can currently do.
Honeybees Help Farmers, but They Don't Help the Environment
Pressure on China -> China stops supporting North Korea -> North Korea collapses
>That was a headline written by the journalist, and not a statement she actually made.

Well, she said the heading wasn't an exact quote, but also not a misrepresentation. From an interview in 2016 she admits that while the headline was 'click-baity' it was not unreasonable given what she had said in the interview, also stating:

'My colleagues were upset over it being a misquote, but that was not really the case.'
Could you elaborate on how there's no such thing as a former addict? I'm curious, as there are a couple substances I used to be addicted to but am not any longer.
Tether (USDT) has “dissolved” relationship with auditor Friedman LLP