skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Creating tether out of nothing to buy bitcoin is similar to the Fed creating dollars by QE to prop up asset prices.

Sure... if the Fed claimed some secret mega-investor was bankrolling it all, and that of course there are audits but uh they're not finished yet and we fired the auditor but this random guy says he saw our bank account balance so it's all OK...
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> The "Big Three" television networks will become the "Big Two". The "Big 6" film becomes the "Big 5".

Just as worrisome is the merging of delivery/distribution ( ISPs ) with content.

> You can mark this as another major event in the consolation and monopolization of news and entertainment under a rapidly growing singular corporate umbrella.

Not just news and entertainment ( and ISPs ). The past decade has seen tremendous consolidation in banking, pharma, agriculture/seed, food and even the tech industry. It's funny how a decade after "too big to fail" banks and promises to break up banks to prevent systematic issues in the future, those banks are much bigger today. They pose an even greater systematic problem.

We know with monopolistic industry, it only leads to corruption and then price fixing as there is no room to expand. When it's a handful of companies control an entire market, then the next logic step is price fixing because there is no more room to maneuver. Look at the lysine price fixing scandal of the 90s.

It is strange how both political parties are so supportive of the monopolization of the nation. All the while saying they are for competition, diversity and workers.

As more and more wealth and power is concentrated on fewer and fewer companies/institutions, politicians will be even more beholden to the interests of the wealthy.
The article I posted appears to disagree that guns are used for self-defence. Perhaps there is an illusion of safety, or there are unreported cases that discredit the article (I don't doubt), but when you have burglars robbing homes specifically because they contain guns, you have to wonder whether gun ownership provides real security.

I feel like we're getting off on a tangent regarding Apple's decision to further strengthen the privacy of a device. Happy to discuss in another forum the practicality of gun ownership.
Where do you get those? I was thinking Amazon but I fear those are just placebos. You know, all they sell is fake…
It's possible--but his public actions suggest he doesn't have an unbiased view.
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Some personal strategies / ideas (no advise of course):

- Sport (for me it's mostly HIIT Training and bike commuting at the moment), check out https://darebee.com for free workout plans and nutrition advise

- 1 tab LSD per season

- some Kratom once in a while

- Vitamin D3 + K2

- definately no alcohol

- getting educated in basic psychology

- a regulated daily routine (early to bed, fixed times for eating if possible)

- drinking enough water

- not hoarding too much stuff (minimalism)

- making my bed in the morning (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgzLzbd-zT4)

- socialising (cooking with friends, doing sport together)

- GTD for organization of work and personal life (it's pretty much all about writing down stuff to have a clear mind)
The nice thing about emojis (maybe the only nice thing) is that they are so popular that they force companies and developers to implement proper support for all planes of Unicode, which means that all characters and symbols in those planes that are actually useful are then also supported.
Best one:

2042: given the AWSOrbitV incident, a total ban on neural networks trained on cat pics is put in effect. (as a result the dark net market for catnets flourishes.)
I really hate HP for this stupid fakeraid shit. The regular SATA AHCI controller is unusable on the HP servers I have because it does not pass the temperature info to the iLO and causes the fans to skyrocket to 70% permanently.

Obviously, using the B120i was out of question due to their crappy driver only targeting RedHat's ancient kernel so my only viable solution was to have to go out and purchase a 200$ real HP P420 smart array RAID card to connect my drives to.
“If congress would do its job...” is an interesting point. Congress have all sorts of incentives to consider “their” job is to stay elected by keeping special interests and local constituents happy. Perhaps we should have a few members of congress who are elected by the whole country and answer to the interests of the nation as a whole.
1. Exercise - Doesn't have to be much, just enough to raise your heartbeat for 20 minutes every day. You don't even have to go outside to do it.

2. Vitamin D - if you dislike being outside, or have anxiety and can't go outside, then take Vitamin D supplements. If you live somewhere where the Weather is never great, take the supplements anyway.

3. Mindful Thinking - A lot of people say 'Meditation' but for many people starting out, that's a big ask. So start with something easier. Being Mindful is focusing on where you are for 5-10 minutes. Close your eyes and listen to all your senses. The sounds around you, the smells, the warmth of the sun etc. After a few goes you'll be able to feel the benefits of this simple exercise.

4. Invest in friendships. Making new friends is hard when you feel like you have nothing to offer, so work on the friendships you already have. Spend more time with your friends. Explain to them (be frank!) about how you are feeling, and ask them to help a bit. Say if you are feeling low you might reach out to them for a chat. They know what you are struggling with, but are unsure how to actively help - by giving them pointers, they'll be all too pleased to support you.

5. Look at the things in your life that make you sad or angry, and remove them if possible. These toxic things can be anything; a Job, a Person you know, Where you live, What you Eat - anything. If it's your Job, change Jobs - _no_ job is important enough to wreck your health over. Don't be afraid to reboot everything and anything until you start feeling better.

6. Therapy. You can't do this alone. Not having a professional on tap is one of the most common mistakes most people do. A good therapist will guide you through the above steps and also teach you how to deal with how you are feeling, and how it affects your everyday life.

7. Drugs. Don't accept or live with the first SSRIs/SNRIs you try if they don't seem to work. It can take several goes with different types before you find one that works. There's no such thing as 'the drugs don't work'.

I could go on, but I'm also on this Journey so I don't have all the answers yet.

Source: Me. Depression for most of my life (I'm mid-40s), also suffering from Generalised Anxiety Disorder. All stemming from an abusive childhood and exacerbated by a nasty divorce which left deep emotional scars.
what worked for me,

1. disable social media, even netflix
2. running, swimming, and weight lifting (make new friends )
3. lower my expectations in life,
4. socialise more with family and friends
5. explore new stuff (fishing, gardening, cooking)
6. meditation (or prayers since i am a muslim)
7. smile more, and care less about technology
> It's a tool for your toolbox, reach for it when needed

Sure, apologies for being negative about a tool you've worked on and are rightly proud of. I'm sure you already have more users than any open source project I've ever written. :-)

I struggle a bit at this point in my career, as I've made enough mistakes and seen enough mistakes, that I generally have strong gut opinions on "yeah, that's probably not going to work/scale/etc."

So, when observing new developers/teams starting to "make a mistake" that I've seen before, my gut says "no! bad idea!"...but I know I could be wrong, so it's tempting to say "well, sure, that didn't work for us, but go ahead and try again".

Because, who knows, maybe eventually someone will figure out an innovation that makes a previously-bad approach now tenable, and even best-practice.

But, realistically, that rarely happens, and so teams, orgs, the industry as a whole stumbles around re-making the same mistakes, and codebases/teams/etc. pay the cost.

I've thought a lot about micro-service testing at scale:

http://www.draconianoverlord.com/2018/01/21/microserving-tes...

Basically there are no easy answers, short of some sort of huge, magical, up-front investment in testing infra that only someone like a top-5/top-10 tech company has the eng resources to do.

So, definitely appreciate needing to do "something else" in the mean time. ...record/replay is just not a "something else" I would go with. :-)
It's a pity I still coulnd't testdrive Siri Shortcuts. That app is coming much later apparently.
List of countries which block Telegram but not WhatsApp

1.Russia

2.Egypt (signal is blocked too but why not whatsapp claims to use same encryption layer)

3.Iran
I don't think copy on write would work in Python because you wouldn't know which variables to update to point to the copied list

x = []
y = []
y2 = y
y.append(1) # Should also update y2, but not x
The gervais principle is more interesting than the peter principle.

https://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle/
Certainly not the democratic or republican parties. And certainly not the government watchdog institutions which are all run by former execs of major corporations.

It's hard to imagine any organization that can stand up to such concentrated wealth and power now.
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EDI/EBCDIC on leased lines, yes!

Jokes aside, the embedded web-of-trust sounds very interesting. Can you elaborate on that?

Would switches and routers be "certified" or "licensed"?
> Bubbles and crashes will repeat again and again, and nothing will be learned from them.

This is a larger scale version of the same psychological factors that power Las Vegas. Go to a Vegas casino's slots section and you'll see people sitting for hours and hours and hours staring blankly into slot machines. They're kept there by those hits of dopamine they get when they occasionally win, and the slots are calibrated so as to time those wins so as to slowly empty their wallets over time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operant_conditioning_chamber

Gamified social media, grinding-based MMORPGs, adversarial bullshit jobs, and many other things share similar characteristics.

Should we expect humans to behave differently on Wall St.?
Survivorship bias is a problem in science, too, IIRC. Eg, "I looked for evidence that eating onions causes cancer and found nothing" doesn't get published, but the "successful" study does. I remember hearing of efforts to make researchers state their intended research up front and publish the result either way.

Similarly, shouldn't business schools should be eager to do studies following new businesses, bootstrapped and funded, and analyzing their success or failure? YC and bootstrapping communities could provide a lot of interviews if they wanted to.

(This seems obvious and has probably been done.)
Not sure if sarcasm, but you can use mace, a sound horn, or just yell (surprisingly effective for women when confronted with an assailant). Take a look at studies related to gun ownership and physical safety and you'll see that gun owners don't use their firearms against aggressors as much as on themselves or their relatives. In other words, it's safer not to own a gun than to own one.
This is a really funny one. I opened The Verge and got the usual GDPR popup, I followed (pretty well hidden) links to the form where you can set your ad preferences and guess what they told me:

You are using Safari which blocks third party tracking cookies. You have to enable third party tracking cookies to be able to disable our tracking cookies.

No shit, Verge. No I won't. I'd rather not read the article.
Right, code units not code points. My mistake. Nonetheless that’s what you get back from e.g. java’s charAt.
There are reasons for trains over buses (like increased capacity and lower dwell time), but neither of those are important to the system that Musk is envisioning.
Agreed. We don't water it down, but we do consider it a treat -- a juice box is a lollipop, not an apple. It's not for daily consumption.

I also see lots of parents offering "fruit snack" candies to their kids as if that's a legitimate substitute for actual fruit.

Don't even get me started on breakfast cereal.
This decision was made before InnoDB was the default.

While the performance differences are historical now, consider the case that because of fixed sized buffers, one query could switch from a temp table in memory to a temp table on disk. The profile of the query has effectively changed.
Sometimes it's more illustrative to look at what you can do to ensure you'll be depressed.

7 Ways to Maximize Misery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
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Chicago already has two rail systems that go in that direction. One, the CTA Blue Line, literally connects O’Hare and the Loop. The other, Metra, goes most of the way to the airport already.

The El (that’s the blue line) already has absurd capacity problems. Chicago airport transit, at both Midway and O’Hare, is already pretty great compared to similarly sized airports: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/planes-trains-and-taxis...

In conclusion, maybe we should have more trains on the El, express and otherwise, or invest in Metra to get to the airport, instead of betting on an unproven, totally new, single-use kind of transit?
First things first, talk to your regular medical doctor about medication. I could not fathom talking to someone without first having that, partially because it was so overwhelming.

Outside of this, it really just depends. Religious? Pick one that follows your religion. Not religious? Start with one connected to the local hospital. Have a gender preference with friends? Then choose that gender. I'd stick with folks with psychiatric degrees - a psychologist (therapist) or a psychiatrist. If you see a psychiatrist, not only can they prescribe medication if you need it, but they might hook you up with a therapist that can help you best. On the other hand, if you'd like to try to avoid medication, start with a psychologist or therapist. Licensed and educated, of course. This just helps you narrow choices, after which you can pretty much pick at random. The important part is just to make the appointment.

Tell them upfront you are uncomfortable talking to them. They should be easily able to deal with it. If you have a few sessions and still feel uncomfortable talking to them, you can try again using similar criteria.
Compared to desktop publishing software? Would not say so.

No intention of diminishing the great things about modern CSS, just stating it for what it is.
> Guess what doesn't fit in 767 bytes? VARCHAR(255) in UTF8MB4. Anything above VARCHAR(191) would not be indexable.

The utf8mb3 optimization was made before InnoDB was the default storage engine (2010).
I hate this so much.

First, nobody who's lived in Chicago for more than about thirty minutes can possibly believe that this will end up being free to the city. At some point, somehow, we're going to pay.

Second, we already have a perfectly fine train to O'Hare! This is an incredibly marginal improvement, and only benefiting a group that already has plenty of options. The existing train systems are focused entirely on an outdated model of exclusively bringing people to and from downtown. And huge swathes of the city don't even get that.
I unliked all the publications I was following in favour of an RSS reader and I couldn't be happier. Between that and blocking parents of newborns (I get it, you have a baby and no social contact), Facebook has been reduced to inspirational text on colourful backgrounds. I'll keep it for universal login, groups and messaging, but I'm done with the news feed.
That sounda like an incredibly bad idea from incentives and exploitability alone. Machine learning on public data is bad enough /without/ paying people for it. At that point you'll get random garbage from a bot at best or deliberate attempts to turn your application as vulgar, violent, and racist as possible. Just look at the Twitch talking banana and the sheer level of effort to make it say racial slurs.
Yes but this article is not about developers. Not everyone who uses excel can just dump 700 bucks worth of memory into their corporate provided workstation.

Regular users matter too.
You can have that now, but it doesn't work the way you think. The SVG is embedded in the font, not the string. Demo: https://eosrei.github.io/emojione-color-font/full-demo.html

To create user-defined characters, you can occupy any code point in the reserved areas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_Use_Areas
In 2004 no one cared about face with monocle or woman farmer (I still don’t). The question was why did people pick UTF-16 back then. The answer is they were willing to make accuracy trade-offs for performance. Especially where they thought those trade-offs would only impact a small percentage of their users.
That's literally the definitions of natural and artificial.
Thats just a textual display of the structures, not a different presentation (i.e. a graphical tree or table, allbeit in text mode).

BTW: In GDB, all commands have shortcuts i.e. 'b'=='break'. (Saves a lot of time).
Java 11 is going to a similar model.
40 minutes is a perfect amount of time to catch up on a tv series episode
Don't despair, in the Anaconda installed with visual studio (now a default) you can't update or install packages without being admin! And if you install Anaconda again it merges the start menu entries and you can't tell which is which...
There's a pretty bad mistake at the beginning:

But you can change immutable object:

Appending to a list contained in a tuple does not change the tuple. The immutable object does not change here.
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Dangerous? How do you figure?

Many people assume a DB is the only way to store data. Now that’s dangerous.
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A corollary to this great answer, which I hope is apparent, is to get a lawyer who has experience with this sort of deal. A good one will be able to advise you through the whole process and tell you when they see red flags. Worst case you burn a few thousand dollars to prevent being taken for more. Think of it like insurance in that case.

To put it another way, it's usually cheaper to hire a lawyer to avoid a dispute than to resolve one.
Self-reported, meaning fewer people "willing to confess that they use Facebook for news."
Say, anyone can recommend a good Safari extension that blocks all the tracking stuff? I don't mean only ad blocking here... all the ad network data that isn't visible as an annoying video or so.
I always figured 'model zoo' was a general term for for a collection of trained models.
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You should already have an NDA in place preferably including a non-solicitation clause, usually that comes first. After that you should have an LOI in place. After the LOI and before signing a purchase agreement, you'll go through DD. Even at that, you should hold back your IP until the Nth hour and you have a final version of the purchase agreement if you think that there's IP that they could steal and recreate to put you out of business.

Obviously, you should speak to a transaction lawyer too.
Sure, thanks. I am always put off Julia because of the documentation.
> What kind of regulation do you think is stopping everyone from wanting to get paper money for their entire life savings?

That's missing the point.

The point of regulation is building a society where you don't need to do that. A bank collapse no longer means you lose your money - the FDIC insures a good-sized chunk, and the Feds come in and take over operations temporarily. Bank runs are prevented not by having enough paper money on hand, but by making people feel confident in the entire system - that your money will be there when you need it.

Fascinating read on how relatively seamless this now is: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102384...
Detroit’s connection between airport and downtown is a complete disaster compared to either Chicago airport. A high speed rail link would make a ton more sense there.
It feel very silly that this article has to exist, but here we are!
Science doesn't apply to a rapidly changing, politically charged topic.
Different branch, but isn't that effectively the President/Vice-President? Especially when you consider the VP is the head of the Senate.
I was doing that for years. I was riding my bike huge distances (400km in a day for example), I followed a solid lifting schedule and managed to reach a 370lb deadlift, and I ran far and relatively fast when I wasn't cycling. I kept that up for years and really loved it. In fact I miss it still.

But it didn't keep depression from getting to me. These days I'm in alright shape still, but getting back on that wagon is hard as hell when you feel like trash. I've done it before, I'll do it again, but I think for some of us it unfortunately takes more than exercise.

I still also highly recommend exercise as part of any effort against depression. If you're able bodied, chances are it will only be able to help.
Facebook is completely unusable for news, optimizing for what will make you "engage" instead of what's really interesting. Some time ago I went back to an RSS reader, which massively reduced my frustration.
With so much talk about GDPR and analytics, I thought this might interest you!

Yett is a small webpage library to control the execution of (third party) scripts like analytics that we use at Snips to remove analytics until people opt-in
List of Angel, Seed and Series A Funding Rounds Between Jan-18 to May-18
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Cutting just news cunsumption out of facebook is not terribly difficult. Why would you lie about it?
I assume he is Tom West, the leader of the team that developed the machine...
Thanks, it's a typo, I was referring to the mutable object (list).
Fluoxetine aka Prozac.

Surely, a lot of people are afraid of medication and the stigma of mental illness that comes with it. Prozac made wonders for me, I am where I am thanks to this well researched and safe "selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor".

With hindsight, I realize no exercise or lifestyle change could get me out of the dark place that sucked me in. Depression is like a broken leg - you better go see a doctor.

After the first couple of weeks of treatment, my level of serotonin stabilized (so I think) and the darkest thoughts and panic attacks receded. It did not magically solve any of my problems but it gave me back my strength to fight with them over time. There were no severe side effects, maybe a lower libido in the first months. Actually, one side effect surprised me - I started to be talkative again. I totally forgot I knew how to talk to people and enjoyed company around me. Now I am a mild extrovert again, I manage people, I quit weed and booze and I take the lowest dose (20mg) of Fluoxetine every evening.
License it to them as a whitelabel reseller (15% commission) with the option to buy? They can go to market with it immediately giving you immediate cashflow with less DD and you are protected by the resell agreement that they can't copy it.
People use Facebook for news? I mostly use it to find out the special flavor of the day at my local ice cream stand.
I think you're being too dismissive here. First of all, VLIW has been hugely successful in DSP cores. Your phone probably has a few in it. Second, Itanium wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either. And the Transmeta/NVidia lineage have also been not terrible. There isn't any reason to choose them over a conventional OoO processor absent security concerns but if they really do help with security concerns then these approaches bear careful investigation.