skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No doubt, but by getting further into it like this, you blew it up 100x and produced by far the least interesting thing about this thread.

The internet is replete with opportunities for getting triggered and starting flamewars. For HN not to sink into a deeper circle of hell, we all need to resist these temptations. So could you and everyone else please not take HN threads on generic, divisive tangents in the future?

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The very fact the price is under $1, and holding, means they're not defending the peg; There might be a promise that it's redeemable but if the price shows this for long enough, it means its broken.
This was my reading of the paper/summary too - a demonstration of correlation but not the evidence of a causal link that the headline suggests.

My understanding of neuroscience is limited however. Can someone with a better understanding point me at what I’m missing?
Higher-quality microphones tend to pick up more ambient sound because they're more sensitive and/or have a larger frequency response.

"Worse is better" sometimes applies to mics as well. For example, new podcasters are often advised to use cheap dynamic mics since it forces them to get close to the mic (improving their signal-to-noise ratio) and doesn't pick up audio over 15 kHz (which is not meaningful for voice recording).
> Why do deployed soldiers need personal fitness trackers

To track their personal fitness while deployed?
I agree that there is no "one-size-fits-all" medical solution, but perhaps having this base-line allows building up when discussed with one's doctor - the article does not discuss this post-operation re-negotiation of how to manage the pain. Perhaps some HNers have experience with a similar situation that they could share.
Physicists create Star Wars-style 3D projections
SlackPass is now LaunchPass
Often the editors will pick a title, not the author of the article. Which might explain the disconnect.
The HN policy of allowing paywalls with a bypass should really be changed to allowing links to the bypass: https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https://www.wsj.com/articles/...
The study's design cannot address causality. They report a correlation between beta rhythms and the subjects' behavior.

It's unclear whether local field potentials (LFPs), of which "beta rhythms" are one specific frequency band (approximately 12-30hz), are actually a mechanism that the brain uses to transmit information. Information is known to be transmitted via the discharges of single neurons; LFPs represent the aggregate activity of tens of thousands of neurons within ~3mm of a recording electrode. It's possible that these aggregate voltage fluctuations feed back onto the activity of single neurons [0], but LFPs are generally considered an emergent property of populations of neurons as opposed to an information transmission mechanism in their own right.

[0] https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.2727
Back in Leopard days, I was playing with the x86-64 ABI on Mac OS X (no real documentation existed whatsoever, or at least that I could find, except for the source code). Very soon I accidentally ran into a kernel panic that could be reduced to a three-instruction program:

mov rax, 1

mov rdi, 1

syscall

and it would bring down the entire OS (kernel panic) when run by any user mode application under a standard non-root user. Took a few releases for them to fix that. I stopped trusting them from a low-level reliability perspective since then.

Fuzzing their system call interface may not have been a bad idea.

P.S. XNU is an interesting as it lets userspace use Mach syscalls as well as a bunch of BSD system calls directly. Probably esoteric interactions between them are not very well-thought-out. (I hope I am not offending Avie Tevanian here :))
On the other hand, the Darwin kernel also powers iOS, and Apple seems to be eager to keep the system secure so that the App Store appears trustworthy. While a local privilege escalation might seem dull on macOS, the fact that the same flaw might affect iOS where untrustworthy local apps need to be sandboxed is probably the saving grace for Macs.
Sorry I was being sarcastic.

Also the german healthcare system is not all financed by tax payers. "paid for by the public health care system" would be a better sentence.
A fresh approach to neuromorphic computing
I think the original intention of Proposition 65 was to provide a disincentive for businesses to use toxic chemicals and a disincentive for people to frequent spaces where they were used. However, it doesn't seem to have been calibrated effectively: the authors of the proposition may have thought that businesses would have a clear and easy choice between "using dangerous chemicals" and "not using dangerous chemicals", but so many things have ended up getting included that the value of that signal has been severely diluted.

It would probably be more useful if they had some kind of scale of danger, kind of like in the NFPA fire diamond where hazards are rated from 0 to 4. Another alternative could be to label only substances that a typical citizen would not expect to be present in a certain kind of facility (which maybe could be established by having the state perform surveys). For instance, a typical citizen would probably expect jet fuel to be present at an airport.
China does have a home grown chip that will look more attractive to them: https://www.pcworld.com/article/3086107/hardware/chinas-secr...
That's still a big assumption without additional evidence. Most web cybercrime also comes from Eastern Europe,.
NFL Pro Bowl 2018 Live Stream [pdf]
Didn’t the Winklevoss twins of Facebook fame buy like 20% of all bitcoin some time ago?

What is their worth now?

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.businessinsider.com/bitcoin...
Tiptree’s selected letters to various intellectuals of her time, including Le Guin, were published in 2015, it’s great. It’s a pity that she’s not known more widely, especially in these times.

Her story http://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/love-is-the-plan-t... is one of the most moving stories I’ve read, SF or otherwise. “The Women Men Don’t See” could have been written last year.
Even the purported difficulty of assembling the furniture: When we moved last time, we decided that it was time to invest in some “proper” furniture (at, uhm, decidedly non-Ikea prices) and all of it needed to be assembled in some manner or other (one shelf-system rather extensively so) and the instructions were singularly opaque and the steps required convoluted and difficult. You can get into some interesting gymnastics with Ikea stuff, especially when you try to skimp on the “two person” recommendation, but nothing like this. I love our new furniture, but I’m never laughing at an Ikea-assembly-joke again.
Well, I guess I’m an elephant then.
I've waited for the dust to settle before doing the upgrade, and did upgrade one machine after another, but I didn't meet anything problematic, this has been a smooth upgrade.

I've waited a bit after the "root" security issue, and now I prefer to be on the latest version.
Me three. This is an honest question. There are other industries that I'm personally opposed to (at least in practice), but that's no reason to flag a solid, honest question.
How many milliliters of coffee is a cup?
Side note: They can't even ask WHAT exactly you have that prevents you from working. Important detail in case you have something that could be stigmatising or somehow discriminated against.
That's your opinion. Art is a matter of perception.
Yup. Especially since China is already manufacturing their own x86 through a joint venture with Via Technologies. [0]

After the Meltdown/Spectre fiasco with Intel I'd be willing to bet China is weighing the performance penalty of switching to Zhaoxin CPUs versus paying Intel for buggy (and potentially backdoored via IME) CPUs.

The Chinese have shown over the past decades that they're fully capable of innovating and building strong businesses in segments where they didn't previously compete (Huawei in telco, Lenovo in consumer PCs, Xiaomi in smartphones).

Given that AMD was able to come up with Zen on a shoestring budget, who can say China can't do the same? They can certainly afford to throw money at R&D.

[0] https://techreport.com/news/33018/via-joint-venture-reveals-...
So there's reproducible protection against coffee for adults themselves and difficult to reproduce, potential harm caused by maternal consumption during pregnancy.

Personally, I've enjoyed my coffee for years being aware of its prophylactic effects toward cancer.
It may be hierarchical, but it abstracts away what's actually stored, and as a result of this translation it feels different. Hard to put my finger on every aspect here, but in the various combinations of desktop and mobile OS-es that I've experienced, MTP feels slower, more klunky, more prone to fail during data transfer, and most importantly - over it, devices expose only a small part of the stored data, which leads regular people to wonder a) where their transfered files end up on the mobile device, and b) how do they transfer e.g. downloaded documents.
Further anecdote: (Diluted) plum juice works wonders for babies.
Why humanoids will not replace people – they lack social intelligence
did the supply of Tether also just jump $600m? https://coinmarketcap.com/currencies/tether/
Yep, bought a set of non-toxic chalk pastels for my son and found the generic "know to cause cancer" warning. I had to go to the manufacturer web site and look up the MSDS report. Turns out the white chalk (presumably) contains Titanium Dioxide—you know, what makes some sunscreens white. It wasn't clear if nanoparticles are the concern or just that TiO2 is just on the list.
Heya, I think I got to the root cause of that issue and I deployed an updated version that (hopefully) fixes it.

If you would still like to give it another shot I would appreciate it :)
The point of Tether, afaict, is to make a bunch of people bagholders while the folks running it walk away with both the cryptocurrencies and whatever bank account balances they managed to acquire.
With China being a much larger consumer than the U.S.[0], it is a logical decision to warn those first who would have a larger loss than others. Ultimately, by preventing China from gaining vulnerabilities, we in turn will help the U.S. in a greater sense by hopefully achieving a >95% protection rate on chips.

"In 2012, China consumed 33% of the world’s integrated circuits (i.e. microchips) while the US consumed only 13.5%"

[0]https://qz.com/72542/china-just-surpassed-the-us-in-semicond...
I think it's just a trick to live a more reflective life in general and to have your higher powers (i.e. cortex) to win out more often over your lower self (i.e. lizard brain)
Yeah. Their TOS says that they're under no obligation of giving you dollars in exchange for tethers. In fact, no one has ever redeemed a single tether and there is no process in place to actually do it. Why people believe that 1 USDT = 1 USD is beyond me.
I know this is controversial but the default html layout is what most people need. You can use markdown or org mode etc. to generate it. One improvement may be centering the content on bigger displays, which I do for my blog with two @media rules as follows: https://www.gkayaalp.com/style.css
What does this add to the conversation?
Let's just erect a giant billboard at SFO/LAX/etc. reading "WARNING: This state contains chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm" and be done with it. It will be about as useful as now and will be much less of a hassle.
So Intel knowingly ships faulty chips which smells of fraud and reveals a weakness in all of USA computers to another country which is known to employ cybercriminals ... how on earth do they get away scot free? No criminal charges?
Oh. Thanks. That seems obvious to me now. :)
So being ethical doesn't really change anything?
I'm pretty sure CoinMarketCap just updated to include the previous minting issues: http://omnichest.info/lookupadd.aspx?address=3MbYQMMmSkC3AgW...

What is interesting, is it appears that CMC updating the total supply occurred simultaneously with the drop in value. Is CMC data impacting the market independent of the actual supply?
I believe it's more the innate tendency of legislators to escalate the extent of the law so they can justify their existence and boast of their legislative accomplishments in the next election cycle.

The rest is just the law of unintended consequences. If everything causes cancer, then all the warnings will just be ignored.

Legislators in general have a horrible track record when it comes to understanding relative risk.
I find it comes naturally when I do the right activities to boost it: code, reading, discussing complex topics with friends and co-workers, etc.
Does the Service Worker caching ability require approval?
I agree with this mostly. However, the data coming from MoviePass may be flawed. I'm much more likely to see a movie I would never normally pay to see with a MoviePass subscription.
FWIW, X configures itself nowadays and Wayland also just works. But I know where you are coming from. Everything audio related for example is still in very bad shape when you want more than Intel HDA.
According to [0], "per additional cup of tea or coffee daily, adjusted to 200 mL or 2 g of dry tea each cup as appropriate" suggests that they consider 200mL, or closer to 6 than 8 oz.

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4340062/
Many cosmetically coated pharmaceuticals also use TiO2 in the coating formulation, to make the coating nice and shiny white. Iron Oxide is another common pigment used for coating tablets and pellets.
> An Intel spokesman declined to identify the companies it briefed before the scheduled Jan. 9 announcement. The company wasn’t able to tell everyone it had planned to, including the U.S. government, because the news was made public earlier than expected, he said.

That seems to imply that Intel had planned to tell the US government some time between Jan 3 and Jan 9. That seems rather late.

I think that the distros list was notified before that, and I'd be quite surprised if there aren't a couple of government agencies monitoring it.

This article doesn't seem to say when the Chinese vendors were notified.
Is This Shiny Satellite Sky Art or ‘Space Graffiti’?
In addition, there's been some other recent meta-analyses (0,1) that suggest the same thing, where coffee may actually be a net positive on the cancer front (at least if you're consuming a normal amount). I'd be skeptical and lean more towards there being no effect either way.

(0) http://www.bmj.com/content/359/bmj.j5024

(1) https://www.nature.com/articles/srep33711
Well, that applies to the user, not to whoever spun the distro to begin with. Google could have put them wherever they wanted.

Anyway, not a huge deal, just a bit odd. And evoking my OCD: ...must...keep...clean...root.
Yeah, when hardware failures are expected, simulating hardware failures is no different from simulating trucks driving over a bridge.
Malaga introduces DNA profiling for dogs (2017)
My top 5 AI trends to focus on
In Magic, booster packs are actually useful for drafting. Adults in the MtG community constantly stress that you shouldn't buy booster packs for yourself--they're made for draft play.

In pretty much all video games that have them, you can't draft with loot boxes, or it wouldn't make any sense. I played Destiny 2 recently and had a good amount of fun, but much of the game felt so artificial and designed around a boardroom-brainstormed economic strategy. It seems this has just resulted in chaos in the fan community. I strongly recommend Monster Hunter World instead. Loot-based, grindy action game, without loot boxes.
I have a big screen 4k HDR TV, a 7.1 Dolby Atmos system, and very comfortable recliners.

But I would never consider a movie theater a subpar experience to my condo for any movie worth seeing on the big screen.

Maybe I'm just lucky that I live in Tinseltown and we know how to operate good theaters here, but every major-chain local theater has laser projectors, massive sound systems, and reserved reclining seats. The concession stands offer beer, wine, and cooked foods. Security regularly patrols the theaters during screenings to make sure that people aren't on their phones or talking.
Interning in Venture Capital (2/2)
If it's a non-negligible amount compared to other wallets, that would be pretty easy to track down. I mean, you'd look at new wallets compared to existing wallets.
In International discourse and comparison (e.g. those done by the OECD) most of those typically run under the label "taxes". The German distinction doesn't translate well into other systems.

It should be noted that (based on the vague description from the article) her insurance probably got compensation payments from the federal government for her insurance (if it was in fact free through her husband).
In the US, it's almost entirely rich, white people that upload data to strava. You can easily see racial/economic divisions in any major united states city. Baltimore is a great example[1]; white people live in the center but not on the east or west sides (Canton excepted).

[1]: https://i.imgur.com/RXSfgz1.jpg
I think you'd like this overview of England's South Sea Company and how John Blunt used all kinds of now illegal monetary fraud to become England's largest company, worth more than their GDP: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kndKWJKB8
If I read this story correctly the other day, giving birth to premature twins in the US can max out your $2M insurance cap and leave you with $450k of medical debt to boot:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/commentisfree/2018/jan/1...

In my own back of the woods in Europe, the same would cost you nothing.
Why in the world would is that something you shouldn't do?
http://archive.is/saZrP
Necessary not sufficient.
> Why people believe that 1 USDT = 1 USD is beyond me.

I imagine it's because Tether has an effective PR team.
Can you please not post unsubstantive rants to HN? It lowers discussion quality.

You don't need to change your views to post here, but you do need to post in the key of thought, not rage.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I'm not surprised at all.

If you look at GPS watches like Garmin tactix Bravo. It has a feature set, where some of the features, really only makes sense in a military/hunting setting. Although I wonder what kind of animal you are hunting if you start your hunting trip by doing a HALO parachute jump.

Garmin is not the only one making those kind of GPS watches either. I believe that Suunto has similar watches as well.

Obviously the soldiers should not be uploading their GPS tracks to Strava. But banning your non special forces soldiers from buying the same "civilian" watches that your special forces soldiers use. Sounds like a morale killer.
It's really because of theming. I was trying to theme my latex document, but it don't know tex well. I do know CSS well though. So theming my header, my margins, my bloquotes, my images etc is very easy in CSS. I have no idea how to achieve this easily with tex.
Credit card companies and the banks behind them do not see which movie a customer went to, only that they went to see some movie.
I don't know about scaling, at least technology wise. Their trading web interface maxes out my CPU core at just 4-8 tx/s. And that's usually the time of big movements, exactly when you don't want trading interface to freeze up on you.
https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Michigan/Detroit/Race-and...

Maps ok-ish to the African American population distribution
The graphs don't render for me, even with a fresh profile or a different browser. There's also a TODO left in the post.
PreTeXt from http://mathbook.pugetsound.edu/ has gotten some mindshare.
Yeah, except 15 years ago it was xf86config with xinerama if you wanted multiple heads, and lcds are a walk in the park compared to CRTs - I actually killed a nice 21” monitor by screwing up the frequencies. I even recall the delightful process of having to modify graphics drivers to work with the bizarre Chips&Technologies integrated graphics I had. At that point, OSX was such a breath of fresh air.

Xorg.conf is a delightful stroll through a meadow compared to the nightmare fuel that came before, and in setting Linux (Kali,Ubuntu) on several machines of various spec over the last weeks, it has Just Worked.
Wait, what's the downside of scanning for everything?
Not what he’s saying. You can’t open an account even if you are from the us, much less so Iran.
Yes it is a pornography website.
The reason is out of my control and family related.
Purchase, pirate, publicize: Private-network music sharing and album sales [pdf]
Expecting your brain to operate in a way that produces certain frequencies because your ears are detecting air vibrations with those frequencies sounds extremely homeopathic.
I wonder if you have ever actually been about to die or, rather, you felt as if you were going to die but were in no actual danger.
Yes. Which is my main fear with issuing bitusd on the bitshares network.
Is Strava snitching on US soldiers at secret military bases?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/nov/16/ikea-regret...
Ok, and this was published two years earlier in 2013. What’s the point?
Reminds me so much of Mt Gox
Strong agree. My desk chair contains chemicals known to cause cancer in the state of California. Does that mean it outgassed some fumes in the factory, will release fumes when burned, will give me skin cancer just to sit on, or is only dangerous if I eat it? Beats me; A, B, and D all seem plausible, and C seems unlikely given consumer protection laws, but it doesn't give me enough information to know.
Thorp's paper: https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/thorp.pdf.

Submitted by pg ten years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=148395.
Also a skeptic: this author doesn't know what they're talking about. "Turning on the printing presses" to defend the USDT/USD price? What? No, the opposite: Tether would have to be buying USDT with USD then destroying it.

There remains the possibility that Tether doesn't need to have the money in reserve (or not 100%, anyway). It can just conduct open-market operations to maintain parity: printing & selling Tether when USDT/USD is above parity, and buying & destroying Tether when it is below. This could even make for a very nice business model, as explained in this blog post:

https://kevinlawler.com/tether

Of course, the conclusion that Tether will stay solvent from profit motive does not concord with history: FDIC came around for a reason, and that reason was 30% of all banks started in the US ended in insolvency. Plus, there are obvious parallels with Black Wednesday:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Wednesday

You can even short Tether on Kraken, although then you have to worry about counter-party risk through exchange insolvency.
The placebo effect is still an effect.
The US government is not a PC maker. The goal of the disclosure was to help companies figure out how to patch systems. Why would anyone expect the government to be notified first?
This is seriously pathetic. I literally see these signs everywhere - when I enter my car, when I enter a restaurant, when I enter a grocery store, in my office etc. At this point, I am completely desensitized. I don't even read them anymore since I have just assumed they are there because of some useless law passed few years back by people who didn't foresee how worthless this could become. At this point, even if the barista draws Cancer on top of my coffee instead of a smily face, I will gladly drink it since I know she did it because of some stupid law which doesn't make any sense. That is how sad the situation is.
http://www.beesbeesbees.com has been one of my favorite 'joke-domains' for some time now.
The issue is unlike previous anti-consumer practices (like day-1 DLC), no more does one customer = one wallet vote. Sure, 50 of us could not buy the game, but that one whale who spends $3000 has just outvoted us with his wallet.