skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you know the centre piece colours of five sides you know the remaining centre, the one you can’t see, must be the remaining colour.
The VW Mini? I own a Mini and they’re made by BMW, not by VW. Or are we talking about two different things (unlikely that BMW would let its brand be diluted by such a similar marque).
Build the BUS. They did the beatle. Now they need to bring back the bus!!
Are those 64GB for browsing the web as parent poster claims, or for compiling software, leaving much less for web browsing?
Dithering isn't the reverse idea, but maybe more of an inverse idea. Instead of adding noise to produce more signal, you add noise to reduce artifacts (unwanted signal in your signal).

Dithering exploits the human senses, so maybe in a way it is the same thing, just for the meatware in our heads.
Cunningham's Law in action. Thank you.
Autoimmune diseases used to be very rare a century or two ago. For a long time they were doubling in prevalence every decade or two. But that will not happen again, because over half the population now has at least one (eczema.) Doctors obviously haven't had much to offer during this debacle.
This is probably my favorite novel by Greg Egan. Most of its central characters are AIs.
Workflowy (https://workflowy.com) - diaries, projects, brainstorming, someday/maybe idea storage.

Evernote (https://evernote.com) - a store-and-forget tool for information of any kind that I might need at some point.

Matterlist (https://matterlist.com) - to-do lists, recurring tasks, calendar. (Full disclosure: it's my own Wunderlist alternative, currently in alpha testing.)
The code is saying the British playgrounds are not sanitized, and they are not school playground either.
With the right cube, like the one they’ve used, one with fairly large-radius corners on the centre piece and inside corners of the other pieces, you can / should be able to start turning the next face before the current face as come to rest.

Though I suspect the thing might fly apart if timed wrong. That’d be worth watching.
The article has drawings of a proposed new Microbus. They will have to make it more crashworthy than the original. The original had the driver so far forward it had near-zero crush depth.
Surely 16Gb was more common at least until recently? Haven’t seen many 32gb ram mbp in the wild. Actually, I’ve never seen one.
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This is an old trick, successfully used for a while in domain names (does gооglе.com look suspicious to you? what if it had a valid SSL certificate?) but hopefully all browsers and registrars have smarted up by now.

Another version of this trick has been popular in Russia with corrupt government workers: by law, a lot of government purchase/service contracts should be subject to public calls for bids, usually placed in a website which you can search. However, if you write what you need replacing some of Cyrillic characters with Latin ones, a honest supplier that is looking for a government contract will never find your entry. However a corrupt one that you have arranged with beforehand would, and will be the sole bidder on this contract, with a price that you have arranged before (which of course includes a juicy cut for the corrupt government official) and nobody is the wiser, all requirements of the law are fulfilled, who could be blamed that there's only one bidder?
Yes, still haven't really ever seen the need to use React yet.
Blockchain: The Perfect Ingredient to Solving Food Safety Issues
meh, it’s a nazi holdover anyway. good riddance
"everything is being classified as Autism" because autism diagnosis opens the door to insurance coverage for therapy and special-education services in the schools.
I never said any part of the post was a lie. Most people's passwords are not random. The word "password" doesn't mean random. So there isn't a reason to assume that the password is random. xkcd's recommended password is 25 characters, and 44 bits of entropy. Extrapolating that out would mean a 46 character password would be 81 bits of entropy.

Yes, "from the full set" likely means that it's higher than 1.46 bits/character. But it doesn't mean it's much more.
I’ve never heard of the Higgs being postulated as having a ’curving’ effect (it’s role is more akin to being a kind of molasses through which particles with weak hypercharge need to ’push’).

Gravity at black holes’s event horizon is not quite coming from where you think it is: it isn’t ”emitted by” or ”emanating from” the singularity. Rather, as gravity is a form of energy, and mass-energy creates gravity, the gravitational field at the border, within our observable universe, is intense enough to whip itself up into a self-maintaining recursive but sustainable loop. No communication from what lies within the event horizon is neither possible nor required.
And pushing you done the path of buying stuff from the iTunes Store. The UI funnels you into the store by default, not to your media collection.
A coworker introduced me. I was already looking for a place to practice yoga so when a recommendation came in I latched onto it quickly.
> No good-faith participant in public policy debates aims to push whole generations into debt; they simply disagree about the best way to avoid that outcome.

I feel there is more disagreement about the outcome itself.

Maybe no one could wish upon others financial debt, but a lot of people question why they'd need to help others achieve financial stability.

The idea that we need to actively find ways to raise the minimum standards of living and create a financial baseline seem to me like leaning on socialist ideas.

The other side can claim that there are winners and there are losers, and that's exactly how things should be. Reward the winners, and motivate the losers to work harder, simply make sure they are allowed to compete.
“The Senate Committee on Formal Methods Published a Coq Proof of Budgets Safety”
It worked for me pretty well before they hit the double digit version numbers. Back when the icon was green/blue
Replying to myself to add: maybe we could see a triathlon with three stages of intellectual pursuit added to the three stages of physical activity.

Run one hundred meters, solve a Rubik’s Cube, swim one hundred meters, solve a riddle, cycle five kilometres, then the first two who complete that have to head off in a game of Go.

Why not? There’s people advocating eSports be included in the Olympics, so I’m open to anything at this stage.
Some lightweight browsers to try: dillo, midori, epiphany.

Also, ps_mem can be good for tracking what is using up your memory: https://github.com/pixelb/ps_mem
I am the same. It seems like when your body doesn't have to spend energy/overhead on keeping your temperature up it can make it all available to your brain.
Motorola may release a MotoMods VR compatible with Daydream
I have paid support. It's socket connections we're hitting super quick.

Interesting and thanks I had no idea on the end response CPU time. It's just storing the json to Google Cloud Storage but it does take 100-300ms it seems!
Nobody knows minecraft intuitively. There are many children's games that you can figure out easily, but minecraft requires "a lot" lonely experimentation or reading or someone shows it to you.
The Mini is pretty much all that is left of BMW’s acquisition of Rover [0] in 1994 - there is no chance VW is making a Mini.

I love the irony that the GP touts the Mini as being more likely to be owned as a “big vehicle”, yet in it’s original shape and size it would be perfect as a small electric vehicle!

0: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rover_Group
I had to pivot a startup far more than 3 times to get to success. The key is really how fast it gets to product market fit.

Before that, startups need to build very cheaply and crudely. E.g. I wouldn't even build a database unless I'm certain I need one - in many prototypes, hardcoded data or dummy data works too. Once you get the first $1000, you can start scaling.

I've seen multimillion dollar companies start with an annual revenue of $10k. Startups always start slow.

To answer the question, you should have a good gutfeel for it. If you think the leadership is strong and the product is something people want, stay. If you're just in it because you think the market could be big, but your heart isn't into it, then leave.

Startups thrive on the outliers. There's not much process to it.
and if you (OP) continue asking "well how was the ceramic material made?": it is produced by dry dust pressing.
The problem with this type of system is that the primary benefit is outnumbered by at least two unwanted detriments.

The primary benefit is that remote control can be effective from around the world and outer space.

This is countered by the reality that your command might get bounced off a satellite, even if you’re across the room from the device you’re controlling remotely.

The converse additional problem is that you could be standing next to a device on the north pole, and someone from antarctica could override you.

We haven’t become sophisticated enough about this level of remote control yet, to mitigate these undesirable side effects of extended range remoting via internet tunnels.
Could we make it small enough to fit it in the registers?
"Always on" means "doesn't need storage" pretty much by definition.
Its an advertisement but it was the best explanation of getting around the steel tariffs.
Yes and that's what I meant. I have Personally experienced this recently. Doctors wants to classify any deviation from their checklist as Autism.
Cult of Early Retirement Meets (Or Doesn’t) Cult of Entrepreneurship (2017)
It's odd that older generations feel the need to build in risk into playgrounds when any kid will be just fine pushing risk. It's moreso overbearing parents halting their fun.

I remember sitting in park watching kids daring each other to climb on top of the plastic safety spiral slide and try jumping down the ground from 15 feet up. Eventually a gaggle of adults kept lining up to talk them down to be more safe.

Not to mention kids these days are under a massive amount of social stigmatization through social media that permeates their daily lives. At least back in the day when you got beat up at school you could go home and feel safe for a bit. Nowadays your bullies come home alongside your Facebook account.

I tend to believe that the resilience built into the current teenage generation is unprecedented. When I see others complaining about a lack of grit in kids I see a generation that has developed a strong set of coping mechanisms for a reality older generations are simply blind to.
>multiple specialists all telling you that it's "all in your head"

This has been my experience since I started having systemic inflammatory symptoms since the age of 12.

It has wrecked my life in as literal and as figurative a way as one can imagine.

A lot of doctors blur the lines between their own hypotheses and facts. It's always "all in your head" until it isn't, but few ever admit they were wrong even after the facts come out.

Many also have such an ego that they prefer to concoct convoluted and implausible explanations for irregular test results and obvious symptoms rather than to concede that their prior implications about the patient's character (as being one who makes up symptoms) were unacceptable.
also you can your save your one long master password on a yubi key so you never have to type it.
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It's called the curse of the talented, and every intelligent person suffers from it. For me the realization came pretty late, although I already stopped getting top math grades in my 8th year of school, despite an earlier 2nd place in a school wide math contest.

The 2007 HN link about Inverse Power of Praise was the eye-opener for me. a.k.a. "How not to talk to your kids"
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6999481

The takedown is "praise for effort, not for intelligence". Because intelligence is perceived as something you can't change.

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Our university programming teacher liked to say a good programer should be lazy, because then he will think how to do the job with least effort. How to apply the least amount of force and still get the job done.
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Alexa doesn’t require ‘Hey Alexa’ command for follow up requests
Merge request checklist (2017)
None of this makes sense to me.

VW is not going the way of Nokia.

And no, it is not clear to me that a moderately priced electric beetle would sell like hotcakes. It isn't even a particularly slippery shape, the original beetle had so much lift the front end would unload the suspension at speed.

Good riddance.
I’m constantly encouraging the second, third, and fourth year apprentices at work to be the first stop and series of escalation points for the more junior apprentices and students who come in for week-long work experience sessions as part of their high school requirement.

Part of learning is learning to teach, to share the skills and knowledge we have. It isn’t strictly necessary, but we know more is revealed when we attempt to impart a skill or knowledge because we are forced to use our Beginners Mind.

Lots of kids will just do this as part of play. I think it’s important to continue doing as we age, but maybe that’s just my secret desire to be a teacher. As tradesperson at a company with two new apprentices each year that desire is fulfilled.
I consider 2GB acceptable, 4GB normal, and 8GB high-end (maybe even overkill).
The blind spots on that proposed design are crazy bad. I can’t see that surviving productization.
There is indeed a video on YouTube of the cube being turned into pieces. I think it was linked in the Ars Technica article.
Where is the "resonance" here? What would a non-"resonating" version of adding noise to a sinusoid look like?
It lived on because it was small, cheap and simple. The new model was neither. Like the new Mini, it was just another premium hatchback living off the name of a classic.
Nope, he was living in the north. Sadly I forget exactly where.
Perhaps then I respectfully disagree. Classifying everything as Autism means huge medical spend which could be used better.

Trying to classify every deviation from the narrowly definition "normal" is just lazy.
ExpressVPN, all the usual features including pc/linux/osx/android/ios.

But, what I really like is almost 24/7 live chat to resolve any issues that arise, like BBC blocking a particular server or similar.
If by "theory" you mean "darker skin in higher altitudes -> low vitamin D", I don't have anything against that.

If by "theory" you mean "low vitamin D -> autism", you're reading science wrong (by only using correlation when reasoning about it). You have to control for other factors in Somali population. That's how you do proper research. In its current form, as the researchers themselves point out, this says that a future study is needed.

Let me repeat: you might be entirely right but "this correlation supports the theory better" is not scientific evidence. It's just a hint to direct research.

As I said, if they find Swedish mothers with really low vitamin D and compare with Swedish mothers with high vitamin D, that would say a lot more.
A friend who does networking @ VW tells me they're working on an electric bus. But last I heard it was kind of fancy and expensive, not a low-cost eco-friendly hippy RV.
Sometimes you need to browse in the darkness. It should be implemented in the OS, but it isn't. I don't have a mobile OS on my TODO list.

The night mode would be just a small additional setting on top of a color scheme selection.
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Yeah, I don't think the picture is correct. It's just showing how a signal can be detected even in a high noise environment by observing threshold crossing events.

The article talks about the white noise resonating with the signal but not the noise. I'm trying to picture white noise as a summation of all frequencies, but I've never thought about the phase of the components. If two signals of the same frequency are in phase then they resonate, but if they are out of phase they cancel each other out. What does the phase of the components look like in white noise?
Very funny. (My cousin was born in Wibly-upon-Fluberstuck)
And early behavioral intervention is one of the few things we know yields tangible benefits to quality of life outcomes
I wouldn't expect that getting a new phone number would help. I'm guessing that these scammers sequentially call all the phone numbers in an area code rather than targeting specific individuals. (If they were targeting me, they'd probably stop wasting their time after the hundredth time I didn't answer their call.)
Yep, I have noticed this myself. I am much more likely to get into fights when sleep deprived. I have less patience with people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grZ6371HcJE
> I also happen to know people who have done “important new things” and they mostly don’t match that description

I'm curious what exactly that person is doing. You seem to be describing a leader but not necessarily tech/science innovator.

Wilson is talking about people who invent and build innovative stuff. They can become leaders only as long as they are forced to, in order to achieve their goals (e.g. become a founder and lead a company). Lack of focus applies to things that are not interesting to these people, but then they become hyper-focused and even obsessed about their own ideas.
I was convinced of solar when I read the solar efficiency is >60% of the output in the Sahara in most states, which is enough.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/Solar_la...
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Perhaps the dividend rate for entrepreneurs who run the company should not be the same as that for investors, similar to entrepreneur's relief on CGT.
Datapy
DataPy is a light data processing library which could be used in loading data from data profiles easily and contain or reduce part of the data easily. Additionly, it contains some basic formulas that help the developers to understand the basic variables about the data set. The first Stable version (V1.2.3) will be uploaded to pypi by March 15.
I believe you are over estimating the degree that the diagnosis has widened. Instead, awareness of autism is leading to more diagnoses. The instruments have not changed.
I agree but I also would remind you that the player plays a large role in keyed music. For example, constant velocity MIDI makes a dissonant slaughter of any harmonic music, and totally destroys the swing of rythymic music. A player with the wrong motivation or lacking passion, pretty much reduces to a souped up MIDI. Organs are especially expressive, even more so than pianos.

Try listening to the "Frankenstein music" from Bach, it is pretty easy to relate to and Hans-Andre Stamm plays it on an appropriately large church organ with the necessary emotion and "godhead" existential feeling/motivation behind it.

https://youtu.be/Nnuq9PXbywA
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> I'm perfectly willing to wait a second for the page to be reloaded from solid-state storage, if I haven't visited the page for an hour or more.

Great, then set vm.swappiness = 100

And stop complaining about about virtual memory usage.
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That is at least part of the fun. I bought it when it (Minecraft) when it first came out. It was FPS Lego as far as I was concerned. At the time, and still, more or less, it was a game with none of the Psy Ops modern game makers employ to get people hooked. It was just intrinsically rewarding to make stuff. My son learned to use a mouse on Minecraft (he is 11 now). Now my kids and I have a long running world where we have been working on th same castle and world for years. It is cool seeing kids grow up with this game. Watching their building skills and ideas grow with thier minds is pretty cool.

So, it isn't intuitive, but my 6 year old can do pretty much everything in the game now. Mostly her older brother showed her. So, I dunno, maybe it is lonely, but in the same way building Lego is lonely.
Uh, this is a very interesting (and intriguing) perspective.

Couple of questions:

- Does this mean that there’s a case for QE to be made permanent under a low-inflation environment?

- Under this model, govermnents would be directly responsible for the allocation of the newly created money. How can this not lead to a depressed economic output over time?

- Where can I read more about this?
I usually create reminders from my desktop but I want to READ, DISMISS, SNOOZE and RESCHEDULE them on my phone. This led me to combine two usefull apps.

1) Remind Me Later (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/remind-me-later/id408236729?...) - Let's you create Google calendar events from your desktop with single shortcut. It works like google "quick event" text box. Just write the reminder with a day or time at the end. I created a new calendar in Google to group all my reminders.

2) Calendar Notifications Plus (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.qua...) - Ensures you get a notification for every calendar event, even ones without an alarm. From the lock screen you can dismiss or snooze the reminder. You can configure the list of snooze times and the default swipe length. You can move the event to a different date and time. You can pick which calendars it monitors, so if you just want it to see your reminders, it can.
Perhaps the difficulty of success/failure attribution in complex engineering projects makes it hard to motivate people properly with money as the primary means. One might be able to hide bad hacks/technical debts in a product for a long time after one is promoted or has received bonuses. It might not always be clear why the decisions were made and who others helped shape the decisions as well.

The financial industry tends to have clearer attribution and shorter feedback cycle, in some way similar to sales, and this allows tangible rewards to be given out more objectively.
Is there by any chance a speed comparison against IPSec (IKEv2) i.e. strongSwan with AES-NI?

I haven’t used OpenVPN in many years, so such a comparison would be much more interesting.
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In my mind's ear you're turning up the volume until you hear the beat.

After that, filter out unimportant frequencies and return the volume to normal.

The important data isn't the volume necessarily, but the specific frequency and tempo.
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I think part of the implication was the opposite, a turtle that was registered by AI systems as a gun, potentially triggering a automatic “swatting” response.
The is a very personal opinion and subject to taste rather anything quantifiable. It’s also possible for VW to cater to more than one type of customer so take the following with a pinch of salt.

To me there’s something intellectually dishonest about these retro models.

In the original Beetle and Transporter they started with function and then gave it form. Doing it the other way round will not produce a truely desirable classic only something momentarily fashionable.

The same goes for their T-Rock model, mentioned in the article.

Instead of designing for offroad performance they’ve taken a road car and just added enough shoulder pads, fake pockets and redundant zips to puff it up to look like a small off-roader.

It’s for people who think they need to go off road but really know they never will. Its size is just large enough that they won’t feel intimidated by other vehicles when sitting traffic jams. That extra size of course come as a compromise to the vehicle real purpose as a road car.

Personally I’d much rather have a new and improved Golf or Transporter/California.
The bus never went away in Europe, it's called Multivan nowadays and pretty popular over here, albeit somewhat expensive (50-70k€ for a decent model).

https://www.volkswagen-nutzfahrzeuge.de/de/modelle/multivan....