skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Namecoin is the best example of a real world use case, a proper replacement of a DNS with no central authority. This is clearly one which is very difficult to replicate reliably without a blockchain.
Why eight hours a night isn’t enough, according to a leading sleep scientist
> "The problem is this: if we aren’t paying for the product, we are the product."

Can't underscore this enough. With Google Analytics we are Google's product, feeding them tons of information about our business and clients and trusting them not to be evil with the data.
An old habit that I recently picked up again.

I add every To Do to an online list, and type notes from every meeting I attend and distribute. It takes a ton off my cognitive load, and dramatically increases the likelihood that people follow up.
I wonder if out-of-subscription pods will get security updates or not.
Adults-only entertainment venue. Fill it with bars, bowling alleys, hookah lounges, marijuana dispensaries (where legal), dance clubs, adult bookstores, places that rent rooms by the hour, other places where you can sleep it off more cheaply with maybe less privacy. Car keys deposited at the door into a machine that won't release them until you pass a breathalyzer.
Science Committee Seeks to Launch a National Quantum Initiative
Don't let engineering numbers mislead you. The only number that really matters is cost per kwh at scale. Utilities are investing in this technology because that number has become favorable. We're starting to cross over from early, experimental deployments to bigger production. Utilities, which are very risk-averse, are becoming comfortable with solar.
Awesome doublespeak byline. "As Ajit Pai liberates the Internet"

should be followed by
"and gifts it to his corporate overlords"
I didn't read all the comments - but it should be pointed out that Lasik and PRK are 2 different things.

With PRK, the laser burns off the whole top of your eye. In Lasik, they just slice the top layer of your eye, peel it back, then laser underneath, then pull the flap back down.

I am wondering if this study only focused on lasik, or also looked at PRK.

Anecdotally, I had PRK and it was one of the best decisions of my life.
The whole OSI endeavour is far from uncontroversial in the OSS/FOSS world. It's not gospel to quote from, particularly when it comes to commercial use. A lot of people would say that OSI exists precisely to make sure corporation-friendly clauses like this would prevail in the open-source world. Hell, the whole "open source" term was literally invented by people like ESR to differentiate from Free Software enough to make it an easier sell in the commercial world.
rm /bin/sh
ln -s /bin/bash /bin/sh

What the heck? Installing this package wipes your sh and replaces it with bash?
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Take a few minutes every day and keep track on:

- what happened today (o3 meetings, retros, grooming etc.)
- what I've worked on
- what I learned today (if anything)

What I learned today part (if anything) is the most interesting. Writing everything down, gives me context the next day. I also write things I'd like to ask or need to remember.

I review things I wrote regularly and that kinda cements knowledge. The extend of detail varies greatly, but all in all I'm happy with the process so far.
At some point within the next 3-5 years, storage + solar will exceed the capacity factor of natural gas without the fuel price volatility.
Agreed! Meditation is the single most helpful daily habit I've discovered in lots of years. Maybe ever.
>Do you know of even a single case of a credit card company actually (not just threatening) suing a regular person?

Um, yes. Years ago a previous tenant of the place I was renting got served in a lawsuit from a credit card company. They apparently didn't have the current address for the person so the papers were left at my house several times. It wasn't that much either, less than $2,000 IIRC. I called the lawyer and let them know they were serving the wrong house.

Anyways, if they sell the debt to collections the collections agency can (and does) sue the consumer.

A family member of mine was also sued by a hospital (not collections) for unpaid hospital bills less than $1,000.

Anyway, if AMEX doesn't disallow precious metals then, for whatever reason, they must not have a high fraud/chargeback rate or they don't have a high default rate for those transactions. It's business.

Also, buying something and reselling it for a profit is a totally valid use case for a credit card, they can't meaningfully prohibit that, nor would they want to, since that includes pretty much the entire category of "business expenses."

American Express is a business and they know the type of activities that make them money and the kinds of activities that don't make them money. They wish to participate in the former and avoid the latter. If you're upset about businesses avoiding activities that lose them money, you're going to be upset all the time.
There are plenty of breakfast cereals like that: Cheerios, Chex, Rice Krispies, Corn flakes, Wheaties, Grape nuts, Life, Shredded wheat, ....

They are still pure processed carbs, not really the best regular breakfast.
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Yes that likely would be. I guess the main issue is the really heavy sugar content in many drinks more than the carbonation. I find that it's the drinks like cola that are really brutal but there's also other drinks that are particularly sugar packed but not carbonated. I've been trying to make a conscious effort to not have things like this and it's been very positive overall.
Also assumes the cost won't go down. I fear utilities will start jacking up monthly customer charges and keep rates low to avoid paying solar customers for generation.
> I'd rather see more content there than create their own new line of content.

Their content strategy (and Amazon's) seems to be evolving toward developing their own content library, much like HBO. In theory, it frees Netflix of over-dependence on networks and studios. In practice, we get crappy shows and standup specials.
I'm not going to list all the ways Kotlin is superior to Clojure for real development but suffice to say the two aren't really comparable when you have a team of programmers with heterogenous backgrounds.

However I do want to note that Kotlin having great IDEA integration is not lock-in. You can (and I sometimes do) code Kotlin + gradle with a pretty vanilla vim setup.

Clojure has one big advantage and it's also it's biggest weakness. It's a Lisp. I love Lisp's but I would never want to use one in a professional setting.
How do you tel CIA?
>I don't see a problem with this. It's not hard ...

What's not hard is being able to see a problem with preparing all your meals from scratch. I don't know a kinder way to say that you're just wrong.
Canadian aftershave is probably the better name for the facial hair variant.
While I like the idea of synthetic fuels.

I think combining advanced nuclear power (producing both electricity energy and incredibly good thermal energy) with synthetic fuel (methanol) plants would be far better.

The fact is that the amount of solar and wind you would have to install to cover all intermittent AND large parts of the fuel sector is mostly unrealistic. There is absolutely no scenario the cost of synthetic fuel in large quantities could beat extracted carbon based fuels.
I think there are also cultural differences between areas where real estate prices differ that have effects on the birth rates of those areas.
That is my biggest excitement. Blockchain is something the CEO wants to say they are doing at the board meeting. If this enables an end around so that we get more transparent healthcare or government or ...., they I'm fully for that.
PGs comments on equity resonate with me, and actually align with what I would have wanted. One of the replies to my original comment actually has the article.
Yeah, I wish they would just charge me the real price of the Pi, and let me buy as many as I want. No need to buy a case with it.
Edit: Just nevermind. I don't want to be the target of this hate train.
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It's on the opinion page, which is where such statements belong.

Don't take that as my agreeing with it, though.
Let me get this straight, they think the Raspberry Pi - a primarily low-cost device aimed at teaching kids the fundamentals of computers/computing - is going to ship something more expensive (it will be) to better support AI? Upton has repeatedly made it clear that keeping the price low is key and anything that threatens that needs to add substantial value for Foundation's teaching goals. I think it's fair to say that OpenCL and neural networks are well beyond that.

I'm curious, which part of their 3B+ prediction was accurate? It all seems totally wrong and looks like they forgot why the thing exists in the first place. The VC4 doesn't even have hardware support for H.265 decode (I assume they mean decode). You can do it in software with a much faster clocked ARM but that's not what they are saying and you won't get 4k. Why RPF would even care about 4k support I have no idea. I'm also not sure where they got the idea that power consumption is important either. 2GB of RAM is a fantasy considering the substantial cost brings little gain. Making these sort of predictions is so difficult but they really were way off.
> Was there ever a stage in your development where you might have done something like that?

I think I would have done a little bit of reading. I also think it's the norm.
That's the bad part. Simple carbs from bread have high glycemic index and easily convert to body fat. Modern diets are composed of way too high amounts of carbs.
This is reality of today's America - death threats against those you disagree with.

The person!=policy. We may dislike Pai, but he's merely a pawn in a bigger game of chess. Frankly, I don't think he has the option of not playing
I think it’s probably to win over the last bit of TV people who claim “but where I’ll get my news if I cut the cable?”
Well, yes. They're handing out large six-figure starting salaries to computational mathematicians. Relative to adjunct professor or junior researcher salaries, it's a fortune. And that's before you've proven yourself successful. I was being hyperbolic, but not completely.

I lament that finance and tech slurp up all the scientists, as I love science. It doesn't pay off for nearly as many people as the alternatives, though.
In the Alanis Morissette way, I guess.
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Yet for some reason tech giants insist on building more opulent, centralized megaoffices in unaffordable areas. Perhaps it is because they do not bear the brunt of these costs.
Which real numbers? All of them? That's a kind of mental infinitude that I don't think exists, although Kurt Gödel did.

Anyway no numbers exist unless you're some kind of mystic or dualist. This numeral "2" isn't the number two, nor are these two dots: . . Nor is the word "two".

There are many twonesses, but they're not in the world, they are in our heads.

Like "tuesday" doesn't exist. The words exists, and if you ask somebody what day is today they'll use that word, but there is no tuesdayness in the real physical world. You can prove this my going to the a pole (North or South) and wandering around. Now "tuesday" is stuck in gimbal lock.

If numbers are "real" it is in some "other" Universe, some realm of archetypes and dream-stuff.
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Expressed as a percentage, it would be 100%, though ;)
The government should do precisely NOTHING.

The jobs don't belong to workers, so the premise is entirely wrong to begin with.
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FOMO = Fear of Missing Out

JOMO = Joy of Missing Out

I have replaced FOMO with JOMO.

(I'm not perfect, cause I have FOMO with this post.)
It's twin, Spirit, died almost 10 years ago. It might still be alive too if it hadn't been trapped in the sand.. or it might not. Clearly we need to send more rovers to get more data points for statistical analysis.
Apartments on the second floor, it's worked in some places, but mostly where the mall was already centrally located http://www.businessinsider.com/americas-first-shopping-mall-...
The original gluonvm1 project link is fine, as in its description there are links to its successors. Thank you for caring!
Do you mean to imply that this is their income by choice? Because they don’t want to work more than this? This sounds like a bold accusation.

Let’s not play dumb. Part-time work is preferred by low-wage employers because it skirts providing benefits and job security. I content with this as a seasoned professional. I can’t in any honesty imagine low-wage workers would not face this problem to a larger degree.

“Average worker”...OK, even worse. So there are enough workers at Amazon warehouses making making less than that to give us an average of $12,000/year. I’m sorry, I do not get your point at all.
Because you haven't thought about bitcoin and cryptocurrency enough and instead let others think for you. It's pretty easy to tell the difference between roulette and crypto - including the existence of a house third party.
I hope she got disgustingly rich from her time at Apple. Her designs were an integral part of making the Mac what it was and is today.
There's almost no clearer indication that the speed of business is quickening at an amazing pace. In the scooter world, the land grab is on, and everyone is looking at ride sharing as the obvious analog, which means raise a lot of money, expand to new cities, and earn market share... quickly.

Whether a couple (or all) of these companies flame out remains to be seen, and is probably likely. But there's also likely to be a winner in this category. And the winner is likely to be worth a lot of money. These companies likely don't "deserve" their valuations based on current metrics like revenue, but the market potential is huge, the growth is high, and the capital requirements are large... so investors seem more than willing to make bets.
Britain and Ireland are Northern Europe by various definitions, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_geoscheme_for_E...
'The bromance of the century': Trump's bizarre trailer for his summit with Kim
When he so openly and brazenly ignored the results of the American People's overwhelming, bipartisan support for Net Neutrality in the repeal's request for comment, you can't exactly be shocked that some citizens might be upset. He's not exactly a hallmark example of being beholden to his constituents.
me too. On ebay, a m365 costs about $500 and takes a month to arrive.
You mentioned Pocket Beagle, but did you know the OSD335x[1] is readily available on Mouser and DigiKey? I certainly would have specified one instead of a BBB if it was available during our product development cycle.

[1] https://octavosystems.com/
I don't think whenever someone says "psychology" they're going to have extensive knowledge on the subject. Sounds like he's speaking from his own experience. What would you call it? He's talking about the brain isn't he? Or are these terms reserved only for those who've gotten their PhD?
Well, almost...
Is it really cheaper? There are some economies of scale, but how much? Rooftop solar has zero land cost and low transmission costs.
The basic idea of "I'm tired, and more likely to make sloppy choices" is pretty well established, however.
I can't find a $500/month 2-bedroom apartment for rent in Des Moines (https://www.padmapper.com/apartments/des-moines-ia/2-beds/pr...).

The cheapest I see is $625, which is 25% more than $500/month.
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That’s a distinction the average person wouldn’t make.
Building exercise into my day. I've always worked out but up until recently I viewed it as 45+ minutes of my day that I had to dedicate it to that.

Recently I got one of those door frame pull up bars for the office and some dip rings. 80 (I worked up to that number) mon-wed-fri and 100 dips tue-thur has been a huge game changer. Even if I don't go to the gym at all I'm able to keep a basic level of fitness.

Throw in a 20 minute ab routine once a week, 25 minute sprint workout once a week, and a shoulders day at the gym and I've covered just about everything. Less than a half hour a day of exercise. Add in a healthy diet and I can stay in great shape without dedicating too much time to it.
That is more of a idealistic fantasy world then a reality.

Roof solar and smart grid are incredibly expensive.

Why not just look at countries who have already solved the problem. France, Switzerland and Sweden all have essentially zero carbon in energy production. They all use water and nuclear energy.

For the US, you can just start replacing goal with nuclear, without the massive cost of the fundamental transformation to the whole energy system and grid.

Is the goal to create an idealistic distributed energy system or is the goal to effectively reduce carbon?
Dean Kamen must be sitting out on his private island asking himself "WTF???".
Fair enough, I wonder how it compares to kubernetes on AWS :)
What kind of environmental impacts?

Also, what do we do with dead solar panels? Is there a recycling program, or research going into such a thing?

I'm so excited for this news and I feel like these are pretty minor cons though.
It's even worse than that, really.

You get an optical network terminal that converts the fiber to gigabit ethernet (the closest thing to a "modem"), but then you still have to use their router to plug into the ONT, because they use 802.1x auth on the network and the client certs are burned into the router.

You can't put their gateway into a proper bridge mode to use your own router. The best it allows you to do is "passthrough" where it puts a device behind the router in DMZ mode and assigns it the public IP address so it looks like bridged mode. The gateway still maintains its own internal NAT tracking table anyway.

At least they don't charge extra to rent the box.
The mass of a blackhole determines the size of the event horizon.

To have an event horizon smaller than the planck constant, the mass have to be also small. While theoretically possible, i don't believe this has ever been considered possible in reality - see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kugelblitz_(astrophysics)
Agreed. Fresh IDE has a great sample that generates a Mandelbrot image when you "compile" the source file.
Watching porn has health risks?
Rackspace's HQ in San Antonio, Texas was an old mall.

https://blog.rackspace.com/get-an-inside-look-at-the-rackspa...

https://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/31/realestate/commercial/rac...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzXDRBp68W4
Rockwell Automation allies with PTC
I thought that too. And then I actually checked the nutrition labels for Cheerios and Rice Krispies, etc.

Of the ones you listed, only Shredded Wheat has less than 5g sugar per serving.
> If the founders don’t take 50% raises, neither should the super early employee with decent equity.

You're missing the point of my original post. If a founder owns x100 the equity, why should an early employee be bound to the same salary restrictions?

If anything, since I have 1/100th the equity, that means I should be able to get a multiple of some raise when series A comes through.

Remember, equity is a lottery ticket (especially for an employee). If you're a founder, even if your startup fails, you can get a job as a highly-paid EIR or your founder reputation will allow you to join some other startup in a high level role (VP, Director, etc). This does not apply for engineer/employee #1.
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Another one: the ability to include the output of an external command.
Hopefully a more capable nation beats us (US) to Mars, while me continue to figure out how to get back to the moon to relive the glorious 1960s.
Keeping in touch with people. Related to this, connecting with people with no care whether I get rejected.
He means the Python+GraphQL ecosystem – and he's right, Graphene-Python and graphql-core are still evolving and changing their interfaces, and there's essentially no useful documentation beyond trivial examples.
> Building better models that simulate a human biological process must have some sort of payoff? It increases human knowledge, and should provide a foundation on which others can build.

That really is still not clear for the models described in the article. In reality, these models are rehashes of what Murcko was having people do 25 years ago. Big articles were written about Vertex applying Free Energy Perturbation with pictures of Murcko accompanied by David Pearlman and Govinda Bhisetti. A book was written about these efforts, The Billion-Dollar Molecule, and more recently a sequel which partially describes how Vertex's efforts using these methods failed (The Antidote).

Obviously, computational power has improved by orders of magnitude since 1989. So have our parameters for modeling proteins and small molecules. But it really is still not clear that MD or FEP really provide any useful insights into proteins that cannot be obtained more simply via NMR-based screens and linear regression. In fact, I recently saw a talk by Relay's VP of Computation where he described using Free Wilson Analysis at Relay[1] for their drug discovery, which is a linear regression method from 1964...

[1] https://github.com/PatWalters/Free-Wilson
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I would phrase the crux as follows:

Any physics theory is basically a map from one set of measurements (past) to another set of measurements (future). Any physical measurement can only have finite precision, due to fundamental constraints from physics and information theory. The set of finite precision numbers has vanishing measure in the set of all real numbers (since finite precision is a subset of rationals). So are real numbers really necessary?

As a physicist, while this question is definitely interesting, it’s not clear what will come out of this line of questioning (aka research).
I can believe it works differently for others, but for me the pomodoro technique works very well. When I'm "in the zone" and banging away, I am much more likely to _fail_ to notice that there is a much easier approach that I could be trying. Interrupting my work occasionally for a few minutes, and then coming back, vastly increases the odds I will realize, "oh wait, instead of spending the next three hours doing this thing here, I could change a bit of this other part of the codebase and not even need that."

Just my experience.
"Last commit was over 2 years ago" is a common phrase when it comes to Erlang.

Of course, I'd consider Erlang to be one of the best platforms in terms of stability. It's rare that they double back on old features.