skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They have the best API as well and 2FA.
Apple warns suppliers of 20% drop in new iPhone parts orders
What sexual side effects are you talking about? I was on Finasteride for 4 months.

Never spotted any side effects!
By way of comparison, Microsoft is the single largest funder of academic CS research in the world, significantly larger than the NSF or US government, and unlike competing companies like Google and Apple they encourage academic researchers to publish papers on the work they fund to the point where if you don’t publish your work you don’t get more funding from them. Microsoft also doesn’t file patents on the academic research they fund.

But we all know Microsoft is the one that’s evil, because they bought GitHub unlike Google which is merely trying to stifle all use of and research in the most important arena in CS.
Military stuff, sure. The civil aviation stuff, no. Boeing did try to sell the military the 747 as a tanker, but that went nowhere and Boeing did not receive any government dev funding for it.

The 707 did have a tanker version, the KC-135, but that happened after the 707 was flying. The 707 was funded entirely out of profits.
Other than the CFC ban, in most of those cases, the old medicine is still fine to use.
So it Begins: Spotify directly licensing with some Indie Acts for a 50/50 share
London has many problems, but "zoning" (almost always seen from an American perspective) or lack of private development are not among them.
I believe this is just a Microsoft Research project. Based on the wording of the article I suspect they'll be using it within Microsoft products.
Probably some governments are bad at it because knowing what will happen in the future, which you need to in order to keep a defined benefit plan solvent, is impossible. Other governments/employers were luckier.

But it's not so hard to say that you can do it.
Great!

This has important consequences for visually impaired programmers, so I'm glad of that as well.
> I think there's a good chance that the ability to stick to a diet is highly influenced by genetics, as evidenced by the fact that dieting is a notoriously poor long-term intervention, even though it is incredibly simple in concept.

This conclusion is based on data with very poor controls. The success of dieting depends entirely on its macro and micronutrient composition.

Dieting also has poor long-term success because people see it as a temporary measure, and not as a lifestyle change as they should, ie. this is how I should be eating from now on. It's no wonder they revert back to previous body composition with that mindset.

Studies have also shown people vastly underestimate the number of calories they eat. There are numerous studies that demonstrate that people who stick to a fixed nutrition plan of X meals per day with decent portion sizes, and no snacking outside of meal times, easily maintain their weight long term. This doesn't require superhuman genetics or some kind of iron clad will power, your body compensates for small fluctuations above or below your caloric target.

Which isn't to say there are no more mysteries in nutrition science, but the basics are well understood and simple to adhere to. Most people just don't want to. I was in that group a little over a year ago.

> The person I responded to specifically mentioned abs. Having visible abs requires an incredibly low level of body fat, which is not achievable my most people unless they take performance enhancing drugs of some kind.

Well that's completely false. Abs are visible at body fat levels as high as 15%, depending on the underlying musculature. At 10-12%, even that's no longer a factor. These body fat levels are readily achievable. 10-15% is also easily sustainable and not "incredible" by any stretch. You can get abs just with a good diet without any exercise at all in fact.

Edit: go ahead and google image search "skinny abs" for plenty of pictures of skinny people with abs. You're telling me they're all on performance enhancing drugs?

> But in my personal experience, funny people all tend to be funny in unique ways.

Which they learned through life experience. Mimicking relatives and friends, seeing and retaining what they and others did that made people laugh. If you decide to one day change and become funny, these kinds of observations followed by trial and error are exactly how all the funny people you know became funny. Ask any comedian if their jokes just come naturally to them via genetic inspiration, or if they have to actually work at it. They'll tell you how many times they've bombed on stage.
> 3. is libelous, defamatory, or fraudulent;

> 4. is discriminatory or abusive toward any individual or group;

Nailed it. To close an issue, even to edit the title might be fine.

Changing the person's words so it seems like they are admitting to being a troll is insane and a clear attempt to discredit that individual.

Considering that some people use GitHub as a resume, the owner of that repo deserves far worse punishment that just being dropped from "tending, IMHO.
what? your comment is exactly wrong..

The content is being served by many peers on the network. You find the peers through a gateway - ipfs.io is one such gateway but any peer can also act as a gateway.
You're essentially proving my point; why even have these people when they're, by your admission, walking talking aisle signs?

There's certainly validity to your argument, and my point is that employees do need surface-level knowledge about general product categories in their store, which we both agree upon. In my previous posts, part of my gripe with Home Depot is their employees often fail to be helpful in finding basic items that aren't of specific brands. For instance, those stick-on felt nubs used on cabinets can be in any upwards of 3 aisles dedicated to cabinets, drawers, shelves, etc. It would save me time for an employee to remember where the shelf space is for those type of products.

I'd be happy if they could do this even 50% of the time. I'm not expecting perfection. At any given Home Depot I've been to, I've only gotten actual help about 5% of the time. Contrast that with almost any other hardware store, including ones of equivalent size, and it's a different story. Even the employees of Lowes are of better assistance. Orchard Supply Hardware is even better, although their stores are smaller. This doesn't even stop at grocery stores; employees at Target, Walmart, and various grocery stores are more helpful in my experience and know about their inventory to a greater extent than those at Home Depot.

I don't know exactly how other stores like Lowes manages to improve this customer-employee interaction, but if I were running Home Depot in optimal conditions, I would create incentives for employees to familiarize themselves with products and various product categories. If they could make it to optional trainings, watch short videos, be of help to pretend customers, pass quizzes, all of which are voluntary and are not included on an employee's performance record, they could see raises and other benefits. But I've never been an employer, so I don't know how well that would work in practice. I also have no idea if Home Depot doesn't already do these things to any meaningful degree.

It may seem like I'm ranting and raving about Home Depot, but that's only because I don't think my expectation that employees should be paid to do something kinda hard isn't an unreasonable one. Unless they're stocking shelves or helping me cut wood, I can't see their presence to be of value. Better signage and promotion of their mobile app(which I only learned of today) could easily replace these employees, and probably will once the next economic downturn hits.
> Economic collapse or apocalypse, you'll want food, medicine, and alcohol (possibly the most barterable good, also delicious).

Also:

Potassium iodide in case of nuclear fallout ($9 for 2-week supply)

Chlorine dioxide for water purification ($10 for 1-week supply)

Both are pretty shelf stable (4-6 years) so you don't need to keep buying them.
How Britain's Biggest Local TV Co “Gamed” the BBC for Licence Fee Payers' Money
construction labor is seemingly entering a vicious cycle where workers can't afford to live near where the most new homes are needed.
I think part of the issue is that AirBnb is probably not very good at catching a banned user making a new account.

I don't think they ask for users' IDs. Presumably anyone could sign up with a fake name and a prepaid credit card, act wild, get banned, and repeat the process.

Determining the identity of an online user can be pretty hard. AirBnB doesn't want to add verification steps that will cause attrition in the rental pipeline, so they'd rather do nothing than do a little and be seen as failing at it.
The EU has laws explicitly declaring this kind of software patent invalid, though, which is what I assume the grandparent was referring to
I don't think microsoft.com will drop from #1 spot in search results.
This is cool, I hope you guys keep posting these
Like Galt's Gulch?
Amazon scammers headed to federal prison after $1.2M fraud
It's a shame most media outlets don't use the word "socialism" when describing conditions in Venezuela.
Not if they are fully funded. But the issue is that most pensions systems are woefully underfunded, thus, are a huge risk.

If pension payouts floated as a percentage of overall asset value, then they would a great retirement strategy. But promising people a guaranteed (generous) fixed-income is not sustainable in the long-term.
What does a Blockchain Engineer do?
I would love for someone to do an investigative piece on this, to determine the unit economics of shucking the scooter as well as talk to those doing this.
My company got to ~20 services in separated repos prior to moving them all into one monorepo, so we've ended up with 20 root commits and an enormous commit graph around the time where it all converged together. We did do them all separately though - rather than as an octopus merge.

Has been particularly interesting to balance the different languages in the same repo. Few painful bits, but overall has worked out really well.

We also build the entire thing into a single Docker container containing every service. You just start the particular one you want via the command (the entrypoint is a little shell script to invoke the correct executable).
Given how desirable abs are and how few people have them, how is it plausible that they are merely the result of effort? Surely if all you had to do was follow X program for Y months, most men would have abs. But they don't.

Similar situation for humor. Women consistently rate a sense of humor as one of the key things they are attracted to. Yet most men are not funny. Surely if all you had to do to be funny was follow X program for Y months, most men would be Dave Chappelle. But they're not. Probably because being funny is some kind of an indicator of intelligence that can't be developed or faked easily. And that's probably why women are attracted to it: it's a reliable, genuine indicator of genetic quality.
To be fair, front-end heavy web apps decrease a lot of human delay: it used to be that I clicked "submit" and then the screen went white and when it came back I had to recontextualize and connect the results to what I had previously inputted. Modern one-page applications with edit-in-place textboxes and content that reacts to draggable maps, etc. are much easier on the human brain.
I pay my share of the burden for your bridges, roads, traffic cops, traffic lights, parking spaces, and the public health cost for your parking too. It's no straw man- the burden of automobile traffic on our society for the benefit of a few auto manufacturers is hugely out of proportion. I applaud any dent that any public or private entity can make into alternative modes of transportation. Is it a cash grab? Sure, in some respects. But if it results in a widened bike lane that scooters can share too, or a way for me to bike around the city without getting a car door to the face or worse, bring it on.

Dodging a parked scooter on the sidewalk is no more burdensome to me than having to step around every parking meter that crowds the sidewalk presently.
I don't understand the legal or ethical rationale that these scooters are different from any other items discarded on the sidewalk.

This is different from leaving your personal scooter for a few minutes while you shop, or from someone accidentally dropping their wallet or phone. If you intentionally strew things around in public and leave them there, why shouldn't anyone do with them as they like? How is this not littering for profit?

The reasoning of, "I left this thing on the sidewalk...I have no plans to come back for it any time soon...I hope someone comes along and wires me money to use it for a bit then drops it somewhere else...but don't you dare touch it unless you pay me!" seems specious.

That is not part of the social contract. No one has a reasonable expectation to use the sidewalk as an unattended warehouse or storefront for as long as they like. At best, this is gaming the question of what is or isn't abandoned property.
Nevertheless, isn't "Can" still different from "Should" in this dialect?
What it takes to face your depression
SOPA and Net Neutrality got the benefit of US-based partisan PACs funding PR staff (which translates into blog/news article volume) and social media posting/resharing/upvote bots. If it's policy made by the EU those organizations do not activate.
I did the same but it's not too late. I can turn a $40K account into $100k easily.
"FASTER access error"
"FASTER login"
"FASTER keys"

Not great.
The charts are using volume of transactions in Bolivar. The bolivar is being devaluated at a crazy rate, for sure the bitcoin transaction volume value IN BOLIVAR would be skyrocketing as well. This should look at the equivalent in USD or just pure number of transactions.
Is there a way so you can rebase and push without breaking everyone who already pulled your repo? I have this issue continuously when using rebase on branches that have gitlab or github merge/pull requests. I need to create a different branch all of the time.
Love it. IMHO comments are the best part of HN. I always read the top few comments before clicking the linked URL.
These sound a lot like Erlang escripts as well.
About the same length of time and I still have to google it.

While technically git is great, usability wise its not (for me).

I've joke it's the source control version of stockholm syndrome before.
What about ZMQ?
Can't remember a single time Google sued people for patent infringement except for that one time against BT [0] (which was retaliatory anyway).

These are purely defensive patents because they know that other companies will be more than happy to sue them for patent infringement.

DeepMind (+ other research organizations at Google) are among the biggest publishers of AI papers + open-source AI code.

[0] https://www.ft.com/content/ea436a88-762a-11e2-8eb6-00144feab...
I mean, you'd snap your fingers today and regrow all your hair if you could. Nothing wrong with making small improvements.

IMO having a defined hairline again can really help frame the face. You still look bald/buzzed after the SMP.
Now do people see why it matters that it was Google the one building military drone AI, and not just "Random Company X" working with the Pentagon on this?

Google is far far ahead of others in AI, with or without the patents. The patents just ensure they also get to have a legal monopoly on some stuff to ensure that nobody else can catch-up to them in the technology area.
I prefer the n-gate highlights. http://n-gate.com/
I'm curious about #3. I've done some online chats with tech support where I was chatting with a real person, and I found them infuriating. First there was the very fake small talk the reps are required to do. Then there are the long pauses between when I input information and when they react to it because they're clearly chatting with 4 or more different people at the same time. Then they don't really read what I wrote carefully and give answers that make no sense or that I've already said don't work.

Like anything, it depends on how the person on the other end acts, but in my experience, they're set up to make the interaction repulsive.
All too often people call Linus' rare passionate rants "his usual fashion".
I can't use albuterol due to side-effects. The CFC ban caused the medication I used to disappear completely. The alternative is half as effective.
It succeeds in the goal of helping programmers understand how they are perceived by business people, and how to be effective in a business environment.
It's also a great example of using statistics to create a conclusion that fits a narrative, based upon statistically insignificant behavior.

This article is entitled, "Over the Past 5 Years, Inflation for Millennials was 14% Higher than for Baby Boomers". Yet, we find out in the last paragraph, indeed in the final sentence, that there is virtually no difference between groups over a longer, more significant period of 18 years.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
Using Regression and Neural Networks to Predict Fantasy Football
I'm sure the German and Soviet scientists thought that it would be best if they developed nukes first, too.

How sure are you that the present-day United States is the "right" group to have AI-controlled murder-drones?
Why do you think Google doesn't encourage publishing papers? Google has a very big amount of papers they publish ... as an example, https://ai.googleblog.com/2017/12/google-at-nips-2017.html
Some people's admissions of unethical behavior could result in a little more than "egg on one's face".
Despite partisan bickering, this is a very insightful comment that illustrates a long-standing problem in government, politics, and economics.
Elaine's bf the swimmer. shaved his head to go faster and she pushed him to grow it back after seeing a photo of him with. he had started to go bald
https://www.emedialaw.com/do-you-even-meme-bro-the-law-of-in...
The Venezuelan regime is still in power thanks to the help of Cuban intelligence, and armed militias and paramilitary groups that are financed by the regime and do their dirty work, like using violence to intimidate opposition.

Venezuela provided a economic lifeline for Cuba at some point, but now they can barely provide for themselves. I hope both regimes fall.
If there’s a word that needs to be focused on its corruption.
https://www.wired.com/2015/12/airbuss-newest-design-is-based...
I have a nice printer at home; is it equally ethical to print money?

But that money doesn't only exist in your home!, you might cry out. To which I say: you think all those profiles were just sitting and talking to each other? Were they paying the dating site proprietor?
Boeing bought the land and built an entirely new plant and factory for the 747 (the Everett plant). No government funds were received for it.

Boeing lost money for the first 10 years on the 747, but then it started making massive amounts of money off of it. Those profits funded the 757, 767, etc.
In a train tunnel you could be suddenly be crushed by rock or water. You have time to contemplate your fate in a plane.
There are giving away 8086 different i7-8086 processors, so that's what 8086^2.

https://game.intel.com/8086sweepstakes/

PS: I did not check if there are any nasty terms and conditions around this one.
Almost a literal example of the tragedy of the commons, only with scooters instead of cows. Or privatize the profits, socialize the costs. I dunno, pick whatever metaphor fits you best, but it stills boils down to, "find a loophole in the social contract and exploit it."
Negative assertion doesn't imply tacit vs. explicitly stated, it implies whether the government is obligated to provide you with it to ensure your right is served.

In America, for example, the right to legal counsel is positively asserted. "If you do not have a lawyer, we will provide one for you." Most other rights, including those explicitly enumerated in the constitution, are negatively asserted. We have the right to keep and bear arms, but it is encumbent on no one to aid me in that right, only the government may not interfere.

What does Canada (or your province) do to ensure that all housing prices are kept to affordability?
People effectively map “server” to mean “centralization botteneck” or “Single Point Of Failure” these days. In both of those senses, this system is “serverless.”
Full is still encrypted, just not checked to match the domain.

For example, until recently many people used it to add a custom domain to sites hosted on github pages, but the connection from CF to GH was still encrypted.
>But relying on suppliers got Tesla into trouble with the Model X, when its engineers designed an extremely difficult-to-make “monopost” seat and an impossible-to-hit timeline.

I chuckled a bit when I read this. I can relate to this a lot.

For awhile I worked at a university in the mechanical engineering department machine shop. I like to think I know when I'm talking about when I say that everyone makes this mistake. They just usually stop making it by the time they've got their degree.

Designing parts that deviate greatly from industry standards for marginal gain and then finding out it's impossible to build what you want in the time you have is rookie engineer mistake 101. It's always tempting at the time but it's basically never worth it in hindsight

If you need a widget for your application and this particular widget isn't central to your application then use an off the shelf widget or tweak it as little as possible. Don't design a bespoke widget from the ground up. Designing your own widget from scratch consumes resources you should bet spending core aspects of the thing that you're building and has a high risk of being a time and effort black hole as you work out teething issues. Reinventing the wheel is fine, you should require that people have damn good reason or every team will want to reinvent every wheel and nothing will get done on time.

edit: I want my ass to be comfortable as much as the next guy but I'd rather have an off the shelf seat and have a Tesla now than have a bespoke seat and be on a waiting list.
It means that the price cannot be meaningfully quantified en masse, the price is set at the moment of purchase.

Art is a good example of this as it generally has no immediate utility, and even it cultural significance is created less by the piece itself, but rather by it's philosophical foundation which is not part of the purchase (nor even ownable).

The Mona Lisa may be 'priceless', but all the money in the world is just a lot of money.
A friend of mine died last year in his 20s from related issues.

It's unfortunate to see the events bringing it to light, but I'm glad to see the issue receiving greater public attention.

In the US at least, suicides have been and continue to be much more prevalent than homicides.
"please complete the captcha to continue" and the spinner spins forever.

No errors in the console.
Trump's recent USPTO appointed seems like a patent extremist. He recently argued that the USPTO (which he now leads) should not be allowed to call patents invalid after issuing them. He said the Supreme Court was wrong to rule that.

And I believe the previous USPTO chief was a former Google employee. So, either way, I think Google will get these, unless some organizations like the EFF start going through the process of attacking these patents.