skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>while science isn't saying you should use magnesium for sleep per se, it isn't necessarily a crazy idea

taking nutritional supplements without any evidence that they accomplish anything useful and without a physician's advice is generally a bad idea (the default mode is not 'take until suggested otherwise' but 'only take if necessary'), and trying to make money off it by marketing them on youtube is even more miserable.

I'm very much in favour of youtube taking a proactive stance here. As a related note on nootropics, most of the products advertised under that label don't actually do anything at all. There's two very well known nootropics, caffeine and nicotine. So the next time someone tries to sell you weird nutrition supplements, just get a good old cup of coffee.
> This is much less interesting than the rust belt decline

Can you expand on this? Is it because you don't care about farmers in comparison to industrial workers, or is there a deeper meaning?
Oh how much i would love to have good way how to generate print quality PDFs. The real problem is not hyphenation but how lines are composed. If you want even lines in type set to block then there is probably only Adobe Indesign and LaTeX anything else uses "single line composer" i dont know the algorythm but Latex and Indesign are only ones which take multiple lines into considiration. Latex is sort of Okay but the algorythm in Indesign is still highly superior. I suspect that is some Adobe secret sauce. Pity because you cant run indesign on server, you have it open and use "extendscript" their version of old ECMAScript 3 :(
Thank God it's not a glioblastoma. Had an acquaintance die from it after years of resections and chemo. She'll pull through.
Will it do 802.11ac? When I looked into OpenBSD a while ago (2017), there were no ac-compatible drivers available for the apu2.
That's only true to the extent that the chosen measure was only coincidentally something that looked like a good measure to start with; if you were actually measuring the true feature of merit, making it a target wouldn't make it a bad measure. Making a measure a target incentivizes discovery of its deficiencies, if any, as a measure.
The Technology Behind Fast Websites: 30 Man-Years of Research in a 30-Min Read
With the internet, small towns should be more viable in places like Kansas.
The github is a little more descriptive and answers a few more questions: https://github.com/kelu124/un0rick/ (though don't expect all your questions to be answered here either).

I'm curious what the FPGA approach offers above a regular CPU/DSP approach in plain English (quod non intellegunt: technerdese attracts followers, latinnerdese less so). I've been interested in FPGA's since dabbling with them a couple years ago but haven't come across a use case that's tangibly beneficial yet. If this is one, I'd love to contribute, but I'm not so far gleaning that from the docs. Can OP assist here?
The failed promise of telecommuting is a tragedy of the tech world. I'm a Kansan born and raised in the KC area (suburban rather than rural), and I wish a work-from-home career was more feasible in my line of work. I'd like nothing more than to live in a small Midwestern town; the city-hives hold no real attraction to me. The Internet should have freed more of us to live where we want, but in the most connected point in the world's history we're clustering in tech hubs.
You keep claiming that he sold licenses, albeit counterfeit ones. The way I understand it is he sold copies of recovery CD. Those could be used to restore a copy of Windows with a license from another source.

Maybe the license was on a sticker on the computer, maybe it was on a broken old medium. Maybe the people got a license key from another broken computer? What do we know? Why should the court care?

From what I read (just this one article) he never claimed to provide a Windows license. If you have more information please kindly share.
This explained a lot about evolution and government that previously seemed paradoxical to me.
I'm not so sure. Maybe I'm naive but I could see imitation and reinforcement learning actually becoming the little bit of magic that is missing to bring the area forward.

From what we know, those techiques play an important roles in how humans themselves go from baby glibberish to actual language fluency - and from what I understand there is already a lot of research ongoing how reinforcement learning algorithms can be used to learn walking cycles and similar things.

So I'd say, if you find a way to read the non-/semiverbal cues humans use to communicate understanding or misunderstanding among themselves and use those as penalties/rewards for computers, you might be on a way to learn some kind of languages that humans and computers can communicate with.

The same goes into the other direction. There is a sector of software where human users not only frequently master highly intricate interfaces, they even do it out of their own motivation and pride themselves on archieving fluency: Computer games. The secret here is a blazing fast feedback loop - which gives back penalty and reward cues in a similar way to reinforcement learning - and a carefully tuned learning curve which starts with simple, easy to learn concepts and gradually becomes more complex.

I would argue, if you combine those two techniques - using penalties and rewards to train the computers and communicate back to the user how well the computer understood you, you might be able to move to a middle-ground representation without it seeming like much effort on the human side.
> In any case, the trick is alive and well with 74HCU logic, good in to the tens of MHz whenever exact gain and distortion don't matter.

But you don't get the voltage tolerance with 74HCU (6V limit).

This was one of the interesting things about the old 4000 series because they had metal gates and thick oxide--they tended to work from less <1V (probably not for analog, though ...) the whole way to 20V (convenient for 2 9V batteries).

Old 4000 series were also notoriously vulnerable to static discharge, so I suspect that they didn't have much in the way of ESD protection (if any at all).
Cities can disincorporate when they run out of funds, or be disincorporated by the state when they are abandoned. In 2012, the State of Kansas officially disincorporated the city of Treece.[0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treece,_Kansas
This is a pretty popular item to bring to these discussions. I'd be interested in seeing some actual statistics though as to number of those incarcerated for marijuana-related crimes.

I'm not questioning one way or the other, but I'd like to see some statistics to better understand this.
What if a user you want to ban is not fraudulent, but a nuisance?
That makes no sense. People who can't afford $10 a year are not randomly distributed through the world. You can have a North America network just fine.
Would you hold the same position if instead of being imprisoned for drugs, they were imprisoned for homosexuality or marrying someone of a different race?
this is a thing that exists, it's called "municipal disincorporation".
Good introduction to Keybase from their engineer, Michael Maxim
I've had a lot of bad luck with isync. Gmail keeps locking IMAPS access, even if "insecure app access" is enabled. When trying to access the account through thunderbird, it redirects to an online login page to authorize the app, presumably through Google auth service to get an access token. I'm not sure it can be worked-around without implementing the same logic in isync :-(

edit: using the trick in the page seems to have done the worked. It would seem that my account access got locked during my last attempt. Time to run some backup !
WhatsApp Founder Jan Koum to Leave Facebook Board
MTU is the most broken thing about the Internet today.
Sad how this technology is being used for tyrannical surveillance when it could be used to improve the mental health and emotional well-being of people instead. I imagine using this to improve the emotional well-being of your employees would boost productivity much more.
Well, third world countries are nations which are significantly behind the "First World" nations in terms of social, economic, and political development or progress. For example, much of the middle east still believes that an imaginary sky-fairy has given them the authority and permission to murder women with rocks anytime the men get upset about something, and they think simply being men gives them the right to rape women. These things basically makes them cave-men.

So "second world" countries are those which are not quite stone-age savage, but are still noticably behind.

So an example of a "Second world" nation would be the United Kingdom, which enjoys many of the modern luxuries of the first world, and much of the social freedoms and progress, and yet still suffers under a completely irrational monarchy and lacks essential freedoms such as the right to self defense. As citizens of the United Kingdom are completely forbidden from keeping arms for the sole purpose of defense of self, family, and property, they are essentially servants of the state. Such a nation cannot then be justly described as "first world", as real first world nations such as the United States have enjoyed these additional freedoms for many generations now.

If my definition is not "official" then I apologize, nobody ever really explained the meaning of the phrases to me and my understanding is simply based on 3 decades of contextual usage. The implication is that there is a single path of progress which all nations are basically following. The first world is setting the example, and the rest are following our lead.

('that we still have such a long way to go is one of the reasons it's so amazing we haven't nuked ourselves to extinction yet :)')
Neither of those costs anything extra to run though. Since it's end to end encrypted with no sever backups the images and video can be communicated directly between the clients, WhatsApp just plays matchmaker.
Has Ubiquiti started shipping the toolchain necessary to build their Linux, or are they still violating the GPL?

When last I checked, you could not compile your own kernel for Ubiquiti devices and get something that worked the same way as before -- the switch ports, IIRC, and probably other stuff.

My firewall runs actual Debian Stable, gets updates to everything including the kernel, and happily handles the gigabit that VZ claims to be delivering to my house. (Actual speeds tested vary from 700-950Mb/s.)
on the front page: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16962328
Cool project :)

I just got back from shenzhen where I purchased a handheld ultrasound probe with built-in screen about the size of a really chunky smartphone for $1800 with wifi & connection to ios/android
Perhaps they're already using mechanical translation and then only correcting sentences that are basically ungrammatical, not just weird.
To find email for a given hash should be rather easy. Not sure how that satisfies GDPR.
I am running mikrotik as home router for... I think 2 years and am perfectly happy with it. It is extremly stable and you can configure it into every detail (to the LEDs and beeper... and I am not joking). Microtik is also very fast with updating vulnerabilities. But I wouldn't recomend it to everyone, for configuring it beyond basic configuration (like QoS), you need to understand networking, it is not a consumer grade product.

Bottom line, great routers, packed with features, not simple to configure.
Does this support converting an existing LLC into one that Atlas would set up?
Change the law.

Marijuana is illegal everywhere in the US. Weed growers exist and make millions only because the DOJ has chosen to exercise discretion, which they can stop doing at any time.

When it’s actually legalized, nobody will be making money, as it’s an agricultural commodity that is pretty easy to grow.

In terms of justice for those who are incarcerated, all governors have pardon powers, and legislatures have the power to take actions as they deem appropriate. It is a political problem.
Technology tends toward centralisation.

Given the same Internet, a larger, denser, more central location has a greater comparative advantage.
Bidirectional Certified Programming [pdf]
Exactly last Autumn I was in a renal clinic recovering from surgery.

One of the patents on my ward was an OAP who had been taking a lot of Zinc which reacted with the meds he was on and it Totally shut down his Kidneys FFS.
This part - “ Horwich says Wittgenstein imagined everyone sketching individual faces to convey meaning, rather than relying on standardized faces as we do today. “I don’t think we get the variety and the flexibility unless you’re drawing them yourself,” says Horwich. “You’re shoveling ‘sad’ into one particular face. [Wittgenstein’s] idea was different degrees and shades of sadness come from ways of drawing it.” ” - made me wonder if we could do with parametric smileys.

edit - just thought, making parametric smileys is somewhat linked to the fictional technology for expression that Juanita worked on in Snowcrash.
If they're taking it down because of Government pressure or exposure to government litigation then it is censorship, even by your very limited definition
"The ethics panel member added: "Facebook is rather deceptive on this and creates the appearance of a cosy and confidential peer group environment, as a means of gulling users into disclosing private information that they then sell to advertisers, but this doesn't make it right to an ethical researcher to follow their lead.""

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/apr/24/cambridge...

The article discusses the Cambridge University ethics committee rejection of proposal for use of Facebook app to gather data.

Anyone have a non-scribd link to the full comments from the ethics committee members?

When the Facebook CTO recently testified before the UK Parliament, at one point they laughed at him for being so blatently insincere.

Facebook is now copying Reddit/HN up/downvotes, trial in NZ/AUS.
Text Classification made easy with Elasticsearch
I've thought about starting a "build an ecosystem for Racket" project where I document gaps in the extended ecosystem and review best-of-breed solutions from other languages as a kind of literature review / review of prior art.

Racket has such a great story for so many things that are painful in other environments. It's an under-appreciated language.
Such a fallacy!
That is definitely not ok.

However if the title was "PHP is the best programming language in the world", then the account should be banned, and they should possibly forward the authorities the offenders IP Address so they can get the crazy person on a watch list.
Banks, Credit-Card Companies Explore Ways to Monitor Gun Purchases
That is to say, drug dogs are extremely effective, it’s just that their job is different from what their name might make you think.

As long as it doesn’t result in evidence being thrown out, a drug dog that alerts when drugs aren’t present is a feature, not a bug, for the police.
BTW they were running ejabberd.
As a contributor or as a visitor?
I predict they want to ad advertising but won't break the encryption for snooping purposes. If they hook it to the FB account they can just use the ad preferences that their AI picks out from FB interactions. Even if not everyone has FB account, a majority probably do.
Kansas was never bustling, the rust belt was.
> we're talking about naked eye stars here

We're talking about pole stars. Being a naked eye star isn't a necessary condition. Choice of a pole star is a balance between brightness and proximity to the pole.

> again no one in the Southern Hemisphere I've every heard of looks up and points at a "pole star"

It's never too late to learn something new. :)

More to the point, "the north and south polestars" would be well understood by much of Sky & Telescope's target audience, and that's who they're writing for. I get that it's going to be less common knowledge outside of their target audience, but that doesn't make the article incorrect, which seems to be what you want to argue.
It is cruel, but as long as they continue to vote Republican, they'll see themselves stomped to bits. The reason Donn Teske can't get much out of the Republicans in the legislature is that he's no money to offer them. There's little left for the large businesses to steal from except their land and they'll get that through automation and debt. There's few public services to privatize into the hands of Republicans' sponsors except the roads. And those meatpacking plants? They will automate as soon as they can and scrap the workers.

Meanwhile the national Republicans want to replicate The Kansas Experiment across the country. Expect more pain as the Republican Party's ideal is implemented elsewhere. Survival of the fittest and the Republican voters have showcased they weren't the fittest in themselves or their vote.
I can't envision code or classes hardly at all. Most of my thoughts are so nebulous it takes my full concentration just to write them down.

I doubt we're going to make much progress there anytime soon.
No. I asked them. They said

We're still in the growing phases and constantly looking for ways to expand and improve, but I'm afraid, the Atlas program is only accessible as a package deal.
> There is no way for a consumer, buy a new license for $20. That is program for Register Referbishers, and requires a 14 page contract with MS that has all kinds of conditions and requirements on the person

I think Microsoft is alleging that his CDs are designed for refurbishers who think they're getting the authentic OEM disk.

> I believe this to be a false assumption on your part. The License does not magically disappear if the Restore CD was lost, especially given the fact that I am not aware of any system on the market today that actually comes with a physical Restore CD anymore

I don't know the law well enough to comment, but Microsoft thinks it does:

> A new Windows license is not required for a refurbished PC that has:

> 1. The original Certificate of Authenticity (COA) for a Windows operating system affixed to the PC, and

> 2. The original recovery media or hard-disk based recovery image associated with the PC.

[...]

> A new Windows license is required for a refurbished PC if:

> 1. The refurbisher did not obtain the original recovery media along with the system to be refurbished or

> 2. The PC does not have a hard-disk based recovery image

https://www.msregrefurb.com/RRPSite/Information/LicensingGui...

So is Microsoft misinterpreting its own contracts? Is this in the contract with Microsoft refurbishers, but not Windows licensees in general? Is the contract unenforceable? Something else? This is the point where I need a lawyer...
In the case of salts, the article admits "Don’t get me wrong, this does make it significantly harder to attack a leaked database to unmask every user..."

So salts definitely do help. And if you chose your salt well (e.g. global fixed/rotating plus local/temporal) you significantly increase your protection compared to not using a salt at all.
Support?? This is Google we're talking about
It is worth noting that the edgerouter-x, which is only $48, and its more expensive cousins have a pretty good origin of their OS. Ubiquiti's EdgeOS is a fork of Vyatta. UBNT hired most of the talented Vyatta developers when Vyatta was acquired by Brocade. Vyatta is based on Debian.

The ER-X is actually a little Debian box with a decent GUI.

Unless you have >600 Mbps symmetric gigabit home internet, an ER-X is more than fast enough for routing, firewall/NAT functions for the average residential user.

It is also a really good way to economically separate the functions of router and wifi. Have a router that is a wired 1000BaseT router with no wifi. Buy one or two of the 802.11ac Unifi dual band access points, priced anywhere from $75/ea to $200/ea depending if you want 2x2 MIMO or 3x3 MIMO, or wave2 functionality.

Set up the unifi controller as a virtualbox VM on your laptop that you use to provision it and make changes. The controller does not need to remain persistently on the LAN once the APs are configured.
In Maine, where I grew up, it's not uncommon for dying towns to disincorporate and revert to Unorganized Territories. Services formerly provided by the town revert to either the county government or the state departments.

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=469705...
Perhaps this is a side topic, but I don't understand the seeming obsession with "web service" or microservice API's that simply mirror data calls. If they are automatically wired from meta-data (such as the "Model" table above), they are perhaps an improvement over hand-wired ones; but still, why have an extra "middle-man" layer that doesn't currently contribute anything? For one, it creates more potential security leak-points. Wait until there is a real need. Don't pre-bloat all the data calls for the 0.00001% chance your org merges with Netflix or China. YAGNI.
> But do nod and smile when he says it.

No, fuck Jeff Bezos the bozo.

edit: whale biologist
I was wondering recently whether I could depend on bitfields being packed in the "obvious" way. Few people would pass a judgement on it, but the desktop targets I tried all did it the same way. Any common setups that pack them differently?
for a contrasting opinion, I had a completely different experience working at various small companies, although you could put that down to a different work ethic in the UK. I've worked in small teams building large important features without having to do any overtime. When I worked at a large company, most of my time was wasted having meetings and communicating/coordinating across teams because it was impossible to build most new features without buy-in from 2-3 different areas of concern.
They were Wittgenstein's, the "Letters to C. K. Ogden with Comments on the English Translation of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" includes detailed notes on their typographic treatment.
Indeed. It would also be key that, like electricity, gas, and water, the rates are relatively flat and very granular. You shouldn't fall over 2 GB of usage and end up paying for 3 GB, it should be by the MB, so you don't get rounded up to a much higher bill, for instance.
>Problem is medical claims are highly regulated in the West.

so highly regulated that I can buy a one-time dose vial of mystery liquid at my local liquor store that promises harder erections and improved cognition, without the active ingredients printed anywhere.

If this was triggered by pressure from any group like the FDA, i'd sure be curious why they decided to start regulating medical woo-woo at the YouTube level, and not at the "homeopath that can cure any cancer" level, which is totally prevalent in the U.S.

When I had a commute I used to count the car windshield banner stickers that advertised the sale of miracle juices, berrys, extracts, whatever. Those 'Avon-esque' pyramid schemes are dangerous from both sides -- both for suckers that get pulled in as sellers , and for the folks consuming the stuff hoping to cure colon cancer, but that stuff is still as prevalent as ever..

When, exactly, does western medical regulation kick in? It seems to be when you're making lots of money on-shore.
Claude Shannon, Father of the Information Age, Turns 1100100
Drug dogs are excellent at barking at the person their handler wants to search.
I've used OfflineIMAP[0] for this sort of thing successfully, but gmailieer & isync do sound interesting — particularly the ‘high performance’ bit about the latter. OfflineIMAP is not exactly a speed demon.

0: http://www.offlineimap.org/
Store the delta's + the identifying information somewhere else as a lookup table and use a random ID to join to it. Keep the PII database secured, offline, or whatever makes you feel best, and then if anyone needs direct correlation back to the end user, it is done through a different process that ensures higher access controls/auditing, etc.