skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> we're punishing them because they decided they didn't have to abide by the law at the time it existed.

Should we punish lawmakers for implementing oppressive laws which prevented good people from pursuing viable businesses? Why can't there be accountability in the reverse direction?
> There are a lot of good things to spend that money on, and if scientists want a piece of it they should provide a convincing justification.

But that's not the right way to frame it. We have some amount of money to spend, and we need to figure out how to deploy it. We know that in aggregate basic research has resulted in astronomical payoffs over time. Therefore it's in our interest to put money into basic research. It's not the scientists who should provide convincing justification on why they deserve our money. It's us who should provide convincing justification why more people should become scientists.
This seems to help quite a few people a lot: http://www.habitbull.com/

It gives you a bit of a dopamine hit every time you check the box and really helps build good habits over time. The system is remarkably flexible for different kinds of habits.

(I am not the developer, just a happy customer)

One last thing, the best thing that seems to make a difference is to schedule your day hourly and maintain a rigid sleep/wake/exercise/eating schedule. Don't skip any of these and things will get better.

Mindfulness also seems to help but only if you practice it regularly, for ADHD folks that may mean scheduling a class and going to it every week to have the enforced practice.

Lastly, there is no quick fix, you are already motivated to get better since you asked the question; you now have to be motivated to be consistent and not let small failures make you give up.
lol markdown linking on HN
...which is not on the residential street with any responsible adults available.
Let’s say you figure out how to run a company with 100M customers with only five employees.

What stops me from getting together a few friends and stealing your business model?

At some point you have to add value just to keep the wolves at bay.
MySQL's pluggable engine really is a killer feature.

From these results you would think it makes sense to have RocksDB the default for MySQL and then have InnoDB be there for the larger users.
You don't need to transform your yard. You'll need to smash the kids' electronic devices.
"Black Box" car insurance already exists :)
What is the best architecture for a YouTube downloader site?
The incentives are aligned that way... once you're big the biggest thing is protecting your position.
Whenever this comes up, I’m reminded of two of my favourite calculators: the HP48 and the HP49g+. HP used a processor called the Saturn for a long time, and when they finally could no longer source it, they switched to ARM running a Saturn emulator for the ‘49. The ‘48 had battle-hardened firmware, and this was probably a great decision.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP_Saturn
Turning it around, what's wrong with parking in a city garage, and reclaiming residential infrastructure that has been lately overrun with automobiles? Why give automobiles primacy over people -- Ford Prefect's blunder?
There is evidence.

https://examine.com/supplements/magnesium/
The problem with that is that when you propose a hypothesis and someone pays you to prove it, anything other than a positive result is also considered wasted money. This is the reason why we have all the paid-for junk science out there today.
Right that would be a pretty awful place to segfault :)

Thanks for the clarification.
Why not a two-step process, where you (A) generate a hash from fixed user details and (B) use that hash to access a lookup-table for the final UUID? This combines some strengths of both systems:

1. Outsiders can't determine an arbitrary UUID, even if they know the original user-details.

2. You can easily destroy a relationship (to limit correlation or to comply with laws like GDPR) by erasing the corresponding row in the lookup table.

3. Insiders can't directly go backwards from UUID to real-name, due to the hashing step. They would need to generate hashes for all the users, and hope that matches still exist in the lookup table.
It's been what? 3 1/2 years? He was probably under contract to stay for 3 years and he now has a big pile of money and the power to do what he wants.

So he gloriously exits on principal and plays hero for a day while thumbing his nose at the company that made him rich for the decisions that made him rich.
I would NEVER join a company, esp. as a co-founder if my vesting was over 10 years for 10%. Nope.

and as @sharemywin states, at 4) he is fully diluted - and would happen way faster than his vest schedule. Especially. given its just the two of you and you still need to build a company, hire people, raise money....

I think the whole proposal is bad. What I would do is give him more - and then when you bring on other entities (investment/employees) the future equity come from your both positions.
Managers and accountants can handle the idea that a car's oil and tires need to be continuously replaced to keep the car in working order. They can handle the idea that airplanes need mechanics to go over them before every flight. They can handle the idea that certain equipment has a lifespan of X years before it needs to be replaced. There is nothing in management or accounting that is fundamentally opposed to the idea that something needs to be continuously maintained. It is simple incompetence by those in charge.
OWL is not available, but ResearchCyc will definitely run on a laptop
A fitbit wellness program similar to this is attributed to one of the ignition points of the West Virginia teachers strike. The gamification program was added in conjunction with a health insurance cost increase and in the context of already very low pay.

https://www.thenation.com/article/the-west-virginia-teachers...

Our healthcare costs are insanely high, with the fundamental performance of the system the worst in the modern nations of the world, our life expectancy being the only one in the group actually dropping. Instead of addressing fundamental issues, our employer benefit systems are experimenting with behaviour modification via gamification programs like some sort of bizzare black mirror dystopia.
The US is starting to build its own piles of abandoned and broken bicycles, now that bike-shares have reached the US. Interestingly, most of the bike share companies are backed by Chinese companies that have the relevant experience.
serious question: is it insurance fraud?
Yes. Despite the fact that kana are printed on the keys, pretty much no Japanese person who is not very elderly uses kana input. They use the romaji (no N) input instead, and that's the default setting for keyboards on Japanese PCs.

You are right that the ten-key method is more common on cell phones (and older feature phones had kana assigned to number keys), although romaji input is also available.
Wasn't that bug triggered in the case of adjacent non-bitfield 32-bit fields too?
An example of how not to use bitfields: https://lwn.net/Articles/478657/

I am not sure whether the underlying spinlock_t struct is something in memory or mapped to a hardware register. But it seems like this was being used to save space rather than to access hardware.
Is it enforceable? If you get a letter in the mail, throw it in the garbage. They'll move on to easier prey.
Here's a follow-up to the original blog post: https://lucklab.ucdavis.edu/blog/2018/4/28/why-ive-lost-fait...
Scientific funding is actually one of the things I would want to cut to fund a UBI.

I feel like a lot of "college professor/researcher" work is dealing with the paperwork of justifying why someone should give you enough money that you can pay an undergrad or master's student enough money to cover half of tuition so that you can get them to do some experiments with you.

If people didn't have to worry about rent or putting food on the table, they wouldn't have to spend time on government paperwork and could just focus on advancing science instead.
Madison is about twice the size of Ann Arbor and also the state capitol: it's going to drive quite a bit more economic growth than AA
Announcing the .NET Framework 4.7.2
I've encountered type 2 leaks while working on a popular web browser. It wasn't type 1 leak and so it got overlooked.

One example: on pages that self-refreshed at regular intervals, the same page URL was added to the history list each time. That ended up leaking a ton of memory if you left the page open over several days.
So... you can build exactly what they supply, and possibly add-subtract kernel modules for a kernel so old that Android devices are more up-to-date?

I'm glad they're in compliance with the GPL now, anyway. They were remarkably resistant.
Photographing glass: Lighting techniques for transparent glass objects
It goes beyond a question of intellectual property to knowingly selling customers something other than what they believe they are buying. To take another example, you could argue, I think probably correctly, that there is no sensible reason to avoid eating genetically-modified foods. But I do not think it would be ethical or that it should be legal to put a label on your food that says "NO GMOS" when, in fact, you are using GMOs. The argument here seems to be the same -- it should be OK because the result was the same, if you bought the counterfeit disc and installed it, as if you got what you thought you were buying. I don't think that's correct.
To pick the one they used in the article (:nerd-face:), it has buck teeth and glasses. Buck teeth and glasses may be virtually unknown in 100 years, due to lasik surgery and orthodontics. That symbol might suggest retro-hipster. Thus, my theory the meaning of emoji might drift less over time than words is a :pile of poo:.
There was a spate of brake-line attacks last month (I'd call them anti-bike terrorist attacks), but the magnitude was never reported and there was no follow-up after the first announcement.

https://www.google.com/search?q=seattle+brake+line+cut
Just commenting to add this wonderfully succinct summary of the post by John Overholt:

>It takes a tremendous amount of work to make the work that goes into photographing this goblet invisible.

https://twitter.com/john_overholt/status/991110369082068992
It's actually not a terrible article. But argh is the framing in the title awful.

Fine, fine. Isaac ?!@# Newton can get away with theorizing ab initio and turn out useful theories. You can't.

More to the point, and relevant to the practice of modern science and not the Work of Giants: experiments designed without an eye to a clear hypothesis are pretty much guaranteed to be exercises in p-hacking.
You probably don't want to become immortal. At first glance it may sound desirable, but once you start actually thinking about it, you quickly realize that you were probably pretty naive about that. You may however want to live a bit longer than what your current life expectation grants you.
They did. Before it all went free
Have we been, uh, fooled by randomness?
When I use the web mail I always keep images off anyway.
And now we're back to the argument that we shouldn't protect the public against systemic unethical behaviour, and rather we should protect the bad actors while blaming the public for not being educated enough. Wanting better education is a fine goal (and one I agree with), but the reason why we have seat-belts (as well as driving lessons) is that sometimes you also need other protections for the public. The same logic applies for consumer laws. We don't blame the public for not doing enough research to know that their new phone charger blows up after 3 months -- we blame the manufacturer.

Also there's the fact that companies can end up sharing data to other parties, or a company can be acquired and change their mind about what the data will be used for (which is allowed because of the originally nebulous scope of their T&C which was specifically designed to allow for expansion without asking for user consent explicitly when usage changes). GDPR provides methods for users to be protected in both of those cases -- while just enforcing education does not.

Not to mention that if education was mandatory, then the same companies complaining about GDPR today would be complaining about educating users how their services abuse their dignity. Cutting Google/Amazon/Facebook/etc slack for making hundreds of billions from users' personal data and creating "Big Brother"-esque profiling systems for their billions of users doesn't really seem rational to me.
And then there's the Broad Institute[1]. For some research a hypothesis is too reductionist. Sometimes you need to catalog at exhaustive scale: sequence the entire human genome, catalogue the structure of all cell types[5], and their pathways[6], log all gene expression for every tissue type in as many states of disease as possible[3], examine repurposing drugs by exposing every type of cell to every compound in the US Pharmacopoeia to look for novel effects (via transcriptomics)[2]

Genomic sequencing, microfluidic liquid handling[4,7], and novel statistical approaches allow for scientific knowledge to be generated at an astounding pace. After the data exist, then we can make hypotheses. This is the new model for biomedical big science.

This model of science is often criticized for not being hypothesis-driven, either as "stamp collecting," or as a force for vacuuming up funding that would otherwise support myriad small labs. It does bear fruit for schizophrenia[8], depression [9], as well as diabetes, obesity, and heart disease [10].

Where are the most interesting, most complex, and most challenging data problems these days? Not advertising. Not finance. Not crypto. Biology. (And many from cryptography, math, CS, and physics have switched gears to work on biological problems.) We run on messy stochastic software, and we finally have the tools to read the source code and save edits. It's an exciting time.

1. https://www.broadinstitute.org/about-us

2. https://clue.io/repurposing

3. https://www.gtexportal.org/home/

4. https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/dronc-seq-microfluidic-s...

5. https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/international-human-cell...

6. https://www.broadinstitute.org/klarman-cell-observatory/appr...

7. https://www.broadinstitute.org/files/patents/WO2016149661.pd...

8. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4112379/pdf/ems...

9. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-018-0090-3

10. (Via profile of common author in several fields) https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=EISUuucAAAAJ...
If you simply follow the basic compassionate principle that you should lock up as few people as necessary for as short a time as necessary to maintain the law then the answers are obvious for both cases:

If someone committed an act which was illegal at the time and is now legal, they should be freed.

If someone committed an act which was legal at the time and it is now illegal, they should not be prosecuted.

They're not two sides of the same coin at all.

EDIT: This compassionate principle is known as "lex mitior", which simply means that you should apply the mildest version of the law (from the perspective of the accused) in these cases. This is also in line with the widely accepted innocent-until-proven-guilty principle.
One day all of us have to do stuff like this to keep up.
Worried About Risky Teenage Behavior? Make School Tougher
The cars have space reserved for them, so they don't block walkways. Unfortunately no such space has been made available for bikes. Also, parked cars just look nicer than toppled-over bicycles. Properly parked bikes don't look so bad.
Don't ad earnings scale accordingly?
I was using Mikrotik for a while until I wanted to optimize bufferbloat issues - my goto algo has been fq_codel, which Mikrotik does not support. I've fiddled around with the other available algos, but nothing comes close to the performance that fq_codel has out of the box.

I ended up switching to Opnsense instead. It was a good medium between dd-wrt and Mikrotik in terms of usability / exposed features.

Mikrotik is for those who want to do traffic manipulation at very low levels - it's not for the faint of heart if you're not a network pro.

I also didn't like that I had to pay for a new license if I had to change the hardware in my box.
At least the grants I am directly aware of there was no pressure to 'confirm' the hypothesis, on the individual researcher they may have felt they wouldn't get a paper out of it if it didn't confirm but the grant was written to the experiment proposal and experimental controls.
https://bikesnotbombs.org/international
Machine Learning in a lot of ways is legitimate, but its applications to a lot of NLP / chat-bot technologies is far from cognitive computing.
But you still bought it, it didn’t magically appear

I on the other hand read about it and didn’t even pick up a single bit

Lucky bastard
What type was the GNOME terminal leak?
Alex Jones should certainly be kicked off of YouTube and it's a shame he hasn't yet been.
That's good to know. (For the record, I'm from Australia - and most of what we hear about healthcare costs and social security in the US are staggeringly frightening.)
I take vyvanse and adderall for adhd, and a common thing people say that rings true with me is that it's a tool to concentrate but it's still up to you how you use it and decide what you concentrate on. An analogy I like is that taking stimulants creates a hyperbeam of focus but you have to be able to yield that hyperbeam and point it where you need to focus.
A healthy dose of paranoia is absolutely the way to survive on your bike. About the only thing you can trust not to screw you over is a tree. Of course, trees can easily conceal other objects...
For some reason, one of my favourite paragraphs on the internet is from the Wittgenstein wikipedia page.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Wittgenstein#1953:_Publ...

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According to Wittgenstein, philosophical problems arise when language is forced from its proper home into a metaphysical environment, where all the familiar and necessary landmarks and contextual clues are removed. He describes this metaphysical environment as like being on frictionless ice: where the conditions are apparently perfect for a philosophically and logically perfect language, all philosophical problems can be solved without the muddying effects of everyday contexts; but where, precisely because of the lack of friction, language can in fact do no work at all.[219] Wittgenstein argues that philosophers must leave the frictionless ice and return to the "rough ground" of ordinary language in use. Much of the Investigations consists of examples of how the first false steps can be avoided, so that philosophical problems are dissolved, rather than solved: "the clarity we are aiming at is indeed complete clarity. But this simply means that the philosophical problems should completely disappear."
Note MyRocks really excels when data set is larger than memory. For mostly in-memory workloads many smaller users have Innodb is better.
Yes, but producing & automating != success. The article talks about how there's a surplus of wheat everywhere in KS. There are places where you can see giant mounds of three year-old wheat stored under tarps. They can't possibly sell it all (at least not at a price where it would be profitable at the moment).
Depends on how many gigabit ports you want. I wanted five, so it pulls about 20W idle and 45W max. If you can survive with 2 and a WLAN, you can get down to about 5W idle and 25W max.

Nothing is as small as custom non-PC hardware. However, I think mine is reasonably small and you can go to a NUC size for 2 gigabit ports.
This paper was written by the PhD advisor of the creator of Gidget, which appears to also have been funded by the NSF and Microsoft (like the research in the paper).

Probably not a big deal, but I thought it was an interesting connection.
Thanks. Fixed. Can't ever figure out when apostrophe is needed :)
I actually think the correct conclusion is the reverse: if you can fit your tables in RAM, choose Inno. Otherwise, Rocks outperforms Inno when the working set no longer fits in memory. OP's testing is a little confusing because the working set remains constant and the memory is scaled, where normally we think of this in terms of seeing how much we can scale the workload on a node with fixed resources.
Are you suggesting that scientific funding doesn’t have benefits for society, or that it’s benefits are outweighed by the need for UBI?
There's a VSCode plugin for plantuml, it's fantastic.
That's probably because all those farmers own land and farming equipment. So it has a lot of net worth (capital), but return on capital isn't very large. It's kind of like people who have lived in the Bay Area for years and whose house is now worth a million or two. Yes, they are millionaires, but that capital is only useable (in the "I'm rich!" sense) if they sell their house and move somewhere cheaper. And if farming is your career, you'd have to switch careers to use that net worth, which is daunting and maybe not very likely to be successful.
lol I remember AllAdvantage; I had a set of programmable Legos and I made a little jig that would sit there and spin a wheel under the mouse ball back and forth.
EU people can buy my courses. And maybe once per year someone does. Does that mean I should shut off access to EU billing addresses or even EU visitors?
"That's why little chocolate donuts have been on my training table since I was a kid..."

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/little-chocola...
It's a problem with who you're comparing against.

Generally people think superhuman = better than the best humans. I understand this and it's an obvious choice, but it assumes that humans are measured on a objective scale of quality for a task, which is rarely the case. Being on the front line of deploying ML systems, I think it's the wrong way to measure it.

I think Superhuman should be considered relative to the competence level of average person who has the average amount of training on the task. This is because from the "business decision" level, if I am evaluating between hiring a human with a few months or a year of training and a tensorflow docker container that is reliably good/bad, then I am going to pick the container every time.

That's what is relevant today - and the container will get better.
Bareos Backup Server on FreeBSD
Plenty of businesses sell things that aren't publicly advertised. You just have to know who to talk to.
NuScale Small Modular Reactor Becomes First to Complete NRC Phase One Review
So just block all visits from IP addresses from EU countries? Or block account creation/purchases from those countries?
Household net worth would include the value of your house and the land you own. If you're a farmer with a square mile of land (that's in the region of median farm size in Kansas), that's $1 million of net worth right there.

That median net worth sounds high, but most of that is captured as land, and the actual income and liquid wealth is quite poor.
UniFi is awesome for managing the extended family's stuff, tho I've been leaning towards AmpliFi Mesh (another Ubiquiti product line) for those who don't have very fast Internet -- the phone app is super friendly and supports remote management.

As a geek with more complex networking needs -- multi-WAN, site-to-site VPN tunnels, lots of port forwards -- EdgeRouters are the way to go. UNMS gives me some centralized management and insights into what's happening with my EdgeOS (and AirMax) gear. Rest of my network is UniFi APs and switches.
That makes sense, I guess I assumed they just need to surface briefly then it's all the same.