skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If my anecdote can counter your (healthy) skepticism, I ran the "who needs breakfast?" experiment on myself as a high schooler. I regret it. I was constantly dizzy/lethargic in the morning, despite eating well in the rest of the day. (Of course, you can point to the differences between a teenager and an adult person.)
> If I remember correctly, they noticed they could dust costs significantly in storage compared to S3 because the vast majority of files in your Dropbox folder just sit there and hardly need to be read or written again (photos, etc.).

Bandwidth costs alone for S3 are high enough that I've set up storage systems for clients that used S3 for durability but put it behind huge caching proxies that held a fairly substantial proportion of their total data, where the reduction in S3 storage paid for the cache setup several times over.

Storage costs are harder to cut, but yes, S3 is typically expensive there too, but it's also riskier to do your own because of the risk of data loss. At Dropbox's scale it'll be worth it, but letting Amazon worry about durability is one of the few cases where I'll happily recommend AWS despite the high costs.
> We should start moving toward quantum-resistant cryptography now so that by the time these machines become practical, sensitive information will have fallen out of most archives.

I think we actually are. NIST already gathered submissions for post quantum crypto[0] last year.

And people like djb are also clearly interested in it[1][2].

[0] https://csrc.nist.gov/projects/post-quantum-cryptography/rou...

[1] https://blog.cr.yp.to/20170719-pqbench.html

[2] https://sphincs.org/
Can someone explain which side leaked this? The blog seems IOTA related but not affiliated.
If you hate heisenbugs, use Functional Programming (or data-race-safe langs such as Rust). It will kill 99.99% of them.
And this certainly isn't the case in the NHS in the UK where doctors have no financial incentives interfering with their clinical decisions (barring saving the service money). What you describe is a pitfall of private medicine.
That's a lazy comment! You wrote so many words but didn't answer the basic query.

How can an unskilled person get permanent residency in Switzerland if the only connection they have to the country is:

- they have family in Switzerland

- they are a refugee

? It's ok if you don't know. But bullshitting is not ok.
HAL (Hybrid Assistive Limb) from Cyberdine
New Insights on the Neurobiology of Dying
Still a remnant of the hype about certain Apple products, it seems.
Yes, startups can source americans until they grow to a certain size. Not a big deal.
> This argument seems weak to us currently, but further research could resolve these questions in directions that would make it compelling:

> Are individual humans radically superior to apes on particular measures of cognitive ability? What are those measures, and how plausible is it that evolution was (perhaps indirectly) optimizing for them?

Yes, clearly. All the measures defined in this article are arbitrary (e.g. vehicular land speed), and so let's propose an arbitrary one for intelligence: Ability to prove mathematical theorems. Humans have proven many. Apes have proven zero. That is an extreme discontinuity. We can propose many others, of course: complex language development, building skyscrapers, landing on the moon, etc..

> How likely is improvement in individual cognitive ability to account for humans’ radical success over apes? (For instance, compared to new ability to share innovations across the population)

How does human cognitive ability being over-rated counter the discontinuity in intelligence development? Is the argument that our success is due to some other characteristic than intelligence, and so our intelligence is not really that much greater than the apes? If so, that's just a restatement of point 1.
Sure but that leaks some information about your password. SHA-1 hashes are significantly quicker to compute than a password hash (and rainbow tables exist making it even faster). So the first five characters can be used to narrow the search space.

This is however not likely a real problem unless your threat model includes targeted attacks.
Isn't really unexpected change that cause investors to make wrong decisions? Expected change should be already incorporated into prices.
I think this is kinda possible - if you hook up a raspberry pi with a bunch of relay switches. I think there's a speech-recognition project from Mozilla that's actually trained on the pi.

I vaguely considered it - but honestly, what's the point? Light switches are excellent tech. I think I'll go for a home computer the day somebody makes a roomba that can pick up trash, and clean the bathroom. Before that, all the really time-consuming stuff has to be done manually anyway.
(1) If India hypothetically broke into 50 nations (at independence there were 556 states), this problem would not arise. Suddenly, India's diversity index would "shoot up".

(2) India itself is very diverse: ~30% speak the same language (Hindi) with different dialects. Rest speak over 16+ regional languages with distinct scripts and a 1000+ dialects. Someone speaking Tamil won't understand a Punjabi speaker and vice versa.

(3) If someone was born just 5 kms from say Gorakhpur in India , across the border in Nepal, they suddenly meet the diversity bar.

(4) Not sure why two immigrants from Austria and Germany are 'diverse' but two immigrants from India's Nagaland and Gujarat, who have different religions, cultures, languages (even facial features, if those count) are clubbed together.

(5) Logically extending your argument, you'd also agree with a quota system in all jobs classifications. For example, we should have a 12% quota for African Americans in Google's engineering team.

This is an asinine argument.

Merit, fit and an ability to contribute to the society should determine America's immigration policy not some racist concept determined by the accident of birth.
We voted down such an idea a century ago http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080709_19991377isreg...
The idea is about trying to keep seperate the things you do/feel/believe and what you are. For our waiter friend, is the fact that he's a waiter somehow the essence of his being? Or is it a job he does, because one needs a job and this is on balance a pretty good one?

In the latter case, if someone says that waiting is a dead end job, he can much easier say sure, yeah, not many places to go, but the hours are really convenient for my life situation. This is obviously a much more productive (or at least not destructive) outcome.

It's almost impossible to have a productive discussion with someone who is a [ideology]ist, but quite possible to have one with a reasonable person who is of the belief that [ideology] offers some good answers to problems in society.
The full title is "The clinician impact & financial cost to the NHS of litigation over pregabalin: a cohort study in English primary care | bioRxiv" - too long for the 80 char limit.
Now some racist will come and pull up stats about African immigrants doing this. People please, stop. Facts have no place here. Don't trigger us. African immigrants, are single young adults running away from terrible conditions that caused them to lose their women and kids, and are coming to enrich Europe. Don't scare them. Give them your daughters.
I strongly disagree. Datacenters are super cheap compared to EC2. (I'm not talking building your own: start by leasing space from existing datacenters). There are a surprising number of places where you can go and lease a rack or ten or a whole room and be up and running in a couple of months.

I make the case that colocating pays off at just about any scale, assuming you have $10k in the bank, have a use for at least 40 cores and are able to pay upfront to handle anticipated scale.

Hurricane Electric has prices online of $300/mo for a rack. On AWS, a single full c4 machine (36 threads) costs $1.591 per Hour x 24 x 30 = 1145/mo -- this is more than the cost of running a whole rack with 40 machines. Decent internet can be gotten for hundreds per month.

Ok, so how about buying your own machines? E5-2630 with 20 threads is $700 x 2 = $1400 + motherboard + disk + ssd brings it to several thousand, so it will pay off in at most 6 months, and we're not even talking bandwidth or storage costs. Depending on the application you could be looking at a payoff after 2-3 months.

Worried about installing or remote management? IPMI, iDRAC, etc included with basically every server make this a piece of cake.

The only good case for cloud are if you may suddenly scale 10x and can't predict it; don't have $10k in the bank; or don't have 1-2 months to order machines and sign a contract for rack space.
This is not really true. See: http://www.daft.ie/dublin-city/apartments-for-sale/dublin-ci...

Note that none of the newspapers or media will talk about the low end of the market (which isn't actually very low), and focus on the houses/apartments that very few people can afford, which is odd.
"you can't answer or dial them without looking."

... How often did you dial something without looking before? You probably had a handful of numbers memorized. Otherwise, you needed to look up the number in a phone book or address book. Perhaps you memorized numbers for speed dial?

Now you can dial by talking to you phone if you'd like, so long as you have the person's number in your phone's computer. You can often dial a company directly from their page or from the phonebook... which is online.

And finally: Of course people have gradually moved to text. Voice is often not needed, and I would rather not stop everything to talk to most people.
Interesting that suicide had a weak correlation. Intelligence obviously has little bearing on depression
LP#255161 is not a heisenbug.
Housing and transportation politics are severely under-appreciated. Your local zoning and public transit authorities have far greater impact on your life than anything happening in Washington D.C., yet federal politics get all the airtime. Decisions about local government are made by very small groups. Until recently, the politics of development have been project-by-project skirmishes between the developer and a few opposing neighbors. The rest of us were not necessarily aware that this was happening, or how the pattern of outcomes in hundreds of these block-level skirmishes over decades could hurt us.

"Complaining," as you put it, gets people thinking and talking about the issue in a general way, and it doesn't necessarily take that many people doing so to create radical change in municipal governance. There's potentially a large constituency that's fine with seeing more multifamily structures and on board with supply-and-demand market dynamics, but doesn't necessarily know or care about their municipal regulatory regimes until the impact is explained. Activating these potential pro-growth voters is a worthwhile project. It worked on me.
A power outage looks exactly like flipping the switch twice.
I used the Gobee.bike rental service in both Turin and Milan, and the only vandalism I encountered were two bikes that had been thrown into the Navigli canal, other than that it didn't appear to be much of a problem in Italy. For the French market maybe they need to look into attaching the device to a physical object (lamp post, docking station), other than just locking the rear wheel, to keep the oppurtunists at bay.
Actually, Iota already had the rework you are demanding, months ago.

You should start reading at #76. It is a fast read.
> Edit: it'd be nice if the downvoters explained why did they downvote.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading."
Thorium: the far side of nuclear power [video]
I understand companies like Tata have job-titles like “Account executive” for (relatively) low-level employees which meets the “Executive-level employment” critter and rule for EB-1 classification - even though the term “executive” is clearly overloaded and inappropriate in this context.
@noahdesu Thanks, I listened to the entire NPR series on launching something. So interesting! I never realised how much there is involved, and they didn't say the prices, but I don't think it will be less than $100,000 for sure now!
There seems to be very little love for these bicycle companies and their aggressive and border-line illegal tactics of establishing themselves — i.e., it's not just petty vandalism and theft. People who normally wouldn't condone destruction of property appear to make an exception for these bicycle dumpers.

The common approach these companies take is to try to establish their brand as the leading one in a large city, so that in time they can turn a profit due to their scale and dominance. To get there, they need to beat the competition first. Because this is a new type of enterprise and a novel use of public space, they simply start operating, and hope to persuade the local government of their merits in the course of operating their business.

In a city like Amsterdam, where a bunch of these companies popped up overnight, this caused a sudden increase in the number of bicycles parked on the city streets (most people in Amsterdam already own their own beat-up city-bicycle which tends to be parked in front of their houses) that took on such a worrying scale that the municipal government banned them for now. These companies lost their bet in Amsterdam until regulation is in place, but they will continue to push their business model everywhere.

What makes otherwise reasonable people irate is the way these companies are laying claim to our public streets without taking responsibility for the consequences. Their business model depends on smartphone apps that show users the nearest available bicycle, instead of having dedicated parking spaces for them. So as a consequence of this model, users leave their rented bicycles wherever they dismount, because it stops being their problem at that point, and the pickup trucks that gather these bicycles from inconvenient locations for repair and redistribution tend to leave them in places with a lot of pedestrian traffic, blocking the pedestrian paths in the process.

People tend to not like it when local inhabitants can't pass through a street with a pram or a wheelchair without stepping onto the car lanes because someone dumped a bunch of brightly coloured rent-a-bikes on the footpath.
>if forking a C compiler for generating code is "fast"

I don't think anyone claimed this, even the author report a 6 times slower boot time. However the generated code once loaded is "fast".

Also I haven't followed the projects that closely, but if I'm understanding correctly, that shell out to the compiler is a stub.
The would be the F16 if memory serves me well.
Maybe you should also read https://twitter.com/ShitcoinDotCom/status/965910847645212672

It is from the same author
Something that might take a little explaining:

The US system is set up such that each state has a say in how we elect a President. The whole thing is specified by the Constitution.

If you subtract out the votes of the people who live in ONLY the major cities like San Francisco and New York, the idea that a majority of people in the US wanted Trump to lose falls away. Another way to look at this is that the people in this country who were being left behind by policies that favored urban areas turned their back on HRC.

And then you have the fact that African-Americans in large part didn't come out and vote to support HRC.

When you voluntarily enter a race set up according to rules that have existed for a couple of hundred years and lose, you don't get to complain that the rules are unfair.
Looks like notracist has been downvoted to hell by racists already.
If anyone has ever read Speer's memoirs, the striking thing is just how ordinary all of the Nazi big-baddies were.

He'll be recounting some story of Bormann or Goering, and you'll be thinking to yourself, "That's just like Joe in HR!" or "Matt does that all the time!"

Take the ordinary schmuck in middle-management, give him absolute power, then BAM--nazi.

https://archive.org/stream/Inside_the_Third_Reich_Albert_Spe...
Unless you try running a demanding AAA game in 8K resolution :D
Yes. From my layman's view the fact that there are serious scientists in the field who still doubt that practical quantum computation is even realistically possible surely indicates we're not on the verge of being able to order one for delivery.
Yes maybe it's pooly phrased. I was trying to convey that, as opposed to pretty much all the other version control tools for designers, Kactus doesn't force you into a workflow. It's more an additional step that comes after, just like when you code, git is a tool that you use after.
Here [0] are some stats from 2016 provided by the French Home Office.

[0] https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Actualites/Insecuri...

Edit: More up to date stats from 2017 here: https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Actualites/Insecuri...
> For some reason nobody talks about the extreme nuisance of those bikes.

In Melbourne where we have oBike no-one talks about anything else.
>The likely outcome of quantum computing is the worst of all worlds: all known practically useful cryptography will be broken, and practically nothing will really benefit.

I agree with you on the technical points, but I think this is a tad pessimistic.

Firstly, by the time we have quantum computing we will probably also have quantum cryptography. Quantum cryptography is secure against quantum computers and is also vastly more simple than existing crypto (no complicated algorithms to mess up). So I expect cryptography to improve.

Secondly, while quantum computers won't be useful for everything, they will have amazing applications. The "simulating quantum systems" thing will be hugely useful for studying chemistry. And Grover's algorithm will provide a significant speedup for a whole host of interesting problems, especially in machine learning.
I can’t find any evidence of whether they controlled for obesity (which is certainly believed to be a factor is several of the diseases that a correlation was found for). But other than that, I’d say that it is a very interesting study.
Fun fact, the Raspberry Pi's GPU can access everything. And to deal with that, the Mesa VC4 driver validates every shader to prevent reading other processes' stuff.
Just because one can't go to that particular country doesn't mean anything, including that the US has the most liberal laws on the planet, which is what this comment focused on.

You might not be able to go to Switzerland, but other countries aren't so bent out of shape about it so long as you have some income. And if I remember correctly, if you are rich enough, you can go. Even technically unskilled.
> embedded?

This is the Ruby implementation targeting embedded: https://github.com/mruby/mruby

> tons of security issues

Any examples?
أنشاء حساب ابل ستور , عن طريق الكمبيوتر 2018 – ميمو تك
I didn't get any new downvotes after the edit, but I don't really care about the downvotes, it's the lack of explanation that bugs me. I never edited comments like this until one month ago because there was no need, but that changed since around half a year ago when I noticed that instead of participating in a discussion, people just downvote. I don't think that the purpose of downvotes should be to disagree without saying anything, that creates a very toxic environment, so I'm trying to encourage people to discuss.

Also, I didn't comment about voting. I replied to a comment and then added a line about the downvotes later (after I got downvoted without any explanation) because I don't feel good in this kind of environment.

Edit: apparently now I'm "posting too fast" (2 comments per hour is fast? OK...), so there's my reply to the child comment that says it seems trollish: "Yeah I agree - if there wasn't the explanatory sentence after that. You can't just downvote the whole comment based on its first sentence, it has a completely different meaning without the rest."
Ask HN: What to use for fast uploads of GB-sized files?
I'm working on a SaaS that will allow users to upload large files (I expect 100MB - 5GB). These files are hard to compress. My users will probably be sitting on very good lines - a gigabit link shared for an institution is typical. I probably don't want to saturate the whole line.

I want to offer fast upload from the browser, so no sFTP/rsync/...

Does anyone have experience in this? I've found resumable.js and tus.io but I couldn't find a good comparison between the two. Then there are some cloud services but with my file sizes I would have to get a second mortgage to pay for those.
The main advantage is that you can combine them with public transportation: you take a dockless bike to an underground/bus station, then once you get off you take another dockless bike to the destination, which effectively gives you very cheap and very fast transportation from anywhere to anywhere.

The other advantages are not having to worry about theft, being able to get a bike wherever you are even if you didn't anticipate it, and being able to get somewhere by bike and go back in a car with someone else or vice versa.
People have been known to throw bikes of the city-sanctioned system (Velib) in the river too. Apparently 16000 were vandalized in the first two years of operation alone.
Weird, since Nouveau itself is based on Gallium.
What is the ethnic makeup of that town, if you don't mind my asking.
Well, Bootsnap only aim at speeding up code loading / boot, whereas the author of the JIT talks about something like 6 time slower boot, so I don't really see the relation between the two.

Also since I'm somewhat part of the Bootsnap creation, I'd be very interested to know why you're itching to remove it.
On the other hand I'm sure you could find lots of other achievements where some scientists were denying it was possible right up to the point it was achieved.
Does that work even if the visa-less person can't remember which country they came from ?
Large, white and fast you say?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_Stratolaunch
Not clicking the full screen button is a great way to reduce the resolution :)
It was response to deleted comment about "sticking shell" inside of a black hole, to illustrate that such shell will have superluminal speed, thus it cannot exist, because any matter will decay.
There's a YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcAlTqd9zID6aNX3TzwxJXg/vid...
I made a little playground "game" for training with gabor patches if someone would like to try, if it will improve your sight.

(hide the menu)

https://kjaku.github.io/eye/index.html
> I would not call cygwin a native Unix shell.

Nobody called cygwin a native Unix shell.

Cygwin is a POSIX compatibility layer which allows you to run things such as Bash which is a UNIX shell.
> If the NSA or anyone had managed to find a use for the sort of Quantum computers that are floating around the world would be very different.

Remember how much effort the British put into making it hard for the Axis to realise that Engima had been cracked. To the extent that they allowed ships to be sunk and sailors to die. If a 3 letter agency does have anything then they are probably hoping to keep that edge for as long as possible.

(This doesn't mean that I believe they do - merely that I don't think it would be immediately obvious if they did)
Not just humans. Other hominids operate at a tribal level.

Obviously there is a survival adavantage to help ensure the genes of your tribe (genetically close relatives) survive.

I can’t help but think that human political ‘tribalism’ is just atavism.
That IOTA team is good at marketing but IOTA itself is worthless.
A phrasing such as "the government sure feels like a sect" comes across as trollish. Without any substantiation such an outlandish claim seems designed exclusively to provoke people, rather than engage them in meaningful discussion.

Edit: as a consequence, people tend to downvote instead of engage with your comment, because they don't want to feed the trolls.