skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its usage hundreds of years ago inside the US, yes. That's a pretty irrelevant argument for the rest of the remaining countries that are part of America, isn't it?

No, the continent(s) have traditionally been called America. A look at Google Ngram Viewer shows that Americas has hardly been used. It's a recent phenomenon, probably a result of the US hijacking "America". Even I feel sometimes compelled to call it "Americas" in Europe because it has become a given that US=America.

Not sure about the literature of the US, but in Latin American literature, writers have generally referred to the continent(s) as America, e.g http://www.historyofcuba.com/history/marti/America.htm

The original map by Waldseemüller has "America" written on it: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/db/Wa...
Office 365, Skype, MS Teams, and VS Code Are All Being Rewritten in React Native
Def worth a buy for the kids
Empathy is an emotion and is not sufficient to restrain murder. You should use everything you can to restrain it. It is not either or. That is my point. Plenty of irreligious mass murderers out there by the way
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nations_and_intelligence

Do you have any reason to suggest all nations have the same average IQ?
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I partly agree, though I don't think the actual ultimate goals are "chosen" in any free way. Instead, I think they for the most part have evolved through natural selection (most of them by genes, but some by memes).

Direct pursuit of the ultimate goals is not efficient, both because it is computationally impossible to calculate what action is most efficient in any situation, and also because direct pursuit will lead to a lot of conflict.

As a solution to this problem, one or more levels of heuristic rules have developed that solve this problem in a social environment, and that form some kind of low-level social contract that we will follow if others follow it. Part of "signing" this social contract (ie be perceived as cooperative), is to bind yourself to the commonly accepted morality. Part of this is that you have to convince yourself that you hold the rules sacret.

Of couse, if you experience radical changes to the environment, it is likely that your fundamental goals will be in conflict with those additional layers, and your behaviour will change accordingly. Most people are surprised of themselves when this happens.
Anaconda Data Science Survey Results Released
First time comment here; felt compelled after reading some of the comments.

Please make sure you all pay attention to your physical state while trying to concentrate etc (for the people who’ve been seeing dips in performance and/or getting “in zone”).

Only yesterday I noticed that I had somehow formed the habit of holding my breath when reading/learning/absorbing anything complex.

Seems pretty ridiculous but I went from having a hard time understanding some high mathematics to - when regulating breath appropriately - breezing through.
They seemed to have stopped posting in April but this person on Twitter was very active during the bull market in calling out the market manipulation by Bitfinex, https://twitter.com/bitfinexed I cannot speak to the credibility but at the very least it was entertaining to read the tweats and responses.
That's an argument from/with random people on the Internet, not clients. The nice thing about being around clients for a long time is that you build a working relationship with them based on mutual trust and respect.

That said, adequately informing clients of risk and dissuading them from nightmare projects they don't realize are nightmare projects yet is doing your clients a service. Sometimes that means advising them to avoid a feature. Sometimes it means implementing something slightly differently. Most of the time it's not even a trade-off. People use JWTs with just user ids in them, but not necessarily for any particular technical/philosophical reason that you have to address first :-)
> What is a wife else? Some female room mate, that pays rent with "love" whenever she feels like it?

Life-long friend that supports you however she is able to, respects you, accepts you and lies to you so you can feel that you are a better person than you actually are, which altogether helps you with achieving whatever goals you aim to achieve.

Personal advice for you. Please wait with marrying someone till "having another mouth to feed" and "rent" is a rounding error on your salary so you can learn to appreciate other things.
Looks like they ignored the national origin of the people tested. Norwegian IQs didn't drop. The average population of people living in Norway dropped.

The first chart in this link shows why: https://www.ssb.no/en/befolkning/statistikker/innvbef/arkiv/...
WxPython: Set Which Display the Frame Is On
Correct. There's also a strong relationship between Tether and Bitfinex directors. It's suspected they were using margin loans to leverage their fake money further, while denying fiat withdrawals to real customers.
Possibly because most forums seem to have died? Or maybe they died because they got excluded from search results?
Tesla shorts take an estimated $2 bil of losses in Elon Musk’s ‘next level burn’
There have been plenty of amazing discoveries and advances in the area of protein Dynamics. but I don't think that anybody has any authority to claim that this particular approach is going to revolutionize pharmaceutical discovery.

If you'd like I can also show you a few of my drug Discovery papers. I'm actually one of Shaw's biggest competitors in the field and advise Venture Capital companies who consider investing in companies like relay
Ask HN: What comes after BitTorrent?
We use to do P2P with Limewire, directly downloading from people's devices.

Next came Soulseek in popularity, directly downloading from people's devices.

Then more than a decade ago, came Bittorrent where you downloaded from the swarm.

What comes next? Are there any next-gen systems being developed to replace bittorrent for file sharing?
"OK, picking distributions. I can't imagine that there's enough data to even do that."

Of course there is enough data to pick the distributions of estimates given by various people. We have all the estimates given by people in hand.

You seem to be being dismissive without even remotely engaging with what is being discussed here.

Let's skip over the part where you fall back to the claim that the distribution of probabilities given by people isn't relevant to anything, because that's not important to the paper. The entire point is to examine the distribution of such probabilities, and compare it to the observed universe, and that's it. Nothing more.
it isn't entirely case insensitive, just to clarify.
Yeah, this makes sense - though I'd shift Inyo and Mono counties to Southern California to prevent contentious two state discussions about water rights.
The lunch boxes isn't really caused by our affluence however, rather it is caused by our traditional poverty. Most other European countries serve school lunches. The French have amazing school lunches. When on vacation in France we passed schools in town and every school had their menu posted at the entrance. They had fricken 3 course meals on every dam school! And it was pretty fancy stuff.

Norwegian food culture is in fact rather primitive. The only reason we are somewhat healthy is because we don't eat that much sweets and fried stuff, and we tend to eat primarily whole grain.

> Here in the US, we have too many children living in poverty, often with single parents and broken families, who would never bring their own lunchbox in the first place. School lunch is a necessity, otherwise a lot of kids would go hungry and not be able to learn anything.

I get that, but they might already struggle given what I've seen American school lunches look like. Also one need to teach parents how to cook healthy food. It doesn't help that they get something healthy in school if they just eat junk at home.

> Norway also doesn't have a huge domestic agriculture sector with outsized political power, and school lunch is a really nice subsidy for them as well.

Hahaha, then you don't know Norwegian politics ;-P We have a whole political party just for farmers. Farmers get more subsidies than anywhere else in the world I think here. They got very strong influence. This is tied to our history and identity. Farmers manage to project this idea they they are the sole of the nation and that food from any other country is scary and dangerous.

I would claim the issue in the US isn't your agricultural sector but the political clout of the food processors. Fast food chains, grocery store chains and makers of food products don't have that much influence in Norwegian politics. But they seem to have a lot of influence in American politics. Anyone with money seems to have.

Farmers in Norway don't have influence due to money but more from an emotional stand point. They appeal to basic emotions. We are a country which has historically suffered a lot of food shortages and so there is an ingrained belief that we need to be self sufficient. There is also an element of xenophobia. That foreign food is full of anti-biotics, hormons, e-coli, salmonella etc. Which is partially true but not as dangerous as people make it.
What alternatives are used elsewhere?
For the same reason the Flynn effect exists I guess. Most immigrants come from less developed countries so should have a lower IQ on average.
>The second is that you can acquire crypto for free because you created dollars

If someone pays bitfinix for tether, what makes this 'created'?

I dont use tether because it is fiat currency which is exactly why I bought Bitcoin- but I dont see the big deal either. Its easier than cashing out to USD.

Is tether real or fake? Who knows, I only trust Bitcoin.
The amount of p2p-ness in it is not any much more than that of any DFS of previous decade.

The P2P slang though is freaking everywhere here. There are P2P bank and P2P brand sausages.
They stopped printing tether when they came under investigation.
Lodash has two values, a bunch of utility functions and it works cross browser. The most common utility functions are now standard issue in es6+. And a transpilation build process is a superior way of dealing with cross browser incompatibilities. Babel + browserlist + caniuse all work seamlessly to ensure you only have the polyfills and browser support you need, vs the one-size-fits-all approach of lodash.

There's probably a handful of functions in lodash that are still useful but why take on the security risk and maintenance of another package dependency if you can just copy a couple ten-liners into your own utils folder? It's not like the world is going to come up with a more performant debounce anytime soon.

I guess lodash also relies on jquery which is in the same boat. es6+ has stolen a lot of its thunder and target-aware transpilation is a better approach to cross browser support
First, we know with absolute certainty that here is substantially different from anywhere else: we know there's life here, we haven't found life anywhere else.

I'll take the other side of that bet. What odds are on offer (10^15:1? 10^80:1?)?
Though if we are talking multi-leg options, bid/ask spreads are likely significant too.
They had a relationship with Bitfinex, so they could easily convert to other shit coins and dump those to avoid tanking the BTC price when they dumped it.
You should be able to access the paper. Arxiv doesn't require any logins or credentials or anything; just check the "download" section in the upper right. This should go straight to the PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.02404 (Unless, you just mean you're on a device that can't render PDFs or something. It's a simple PDF, though, even a phone should be able to handle it.)
I'd put $100 on the researcher coming up with the title and working from there. "Dank Learning"? Come on, it's a meme in itself. That said, worth publishing? Sure it's at the top of HN. Ground breaking results, nah. Though, I admit I am impressed with the applied solution, using deep learning and some apriori direction to derive context from images is neat.
Yes, the standard way to do this a few years back for conversion optimization, was to RLE compress and send the data in intervals. Also the resolution/measurement does not need to be in the milliseconds.
Ask HN: Debugging serverless systems?
We switched a number of core processes to AWS Lambda and my team is now spending WAY more time debugging.

Our strategy has been to add more logging and metrics to better find root causes of issues - but that's getting unruly.

How are you debugging? What dev tools are you using understand what's happening within your distributed system? If you're logging...

- Where does your state go?

- Are you tracking startup latency?

- Are you tracking limits in memory, concurrency, execution duration?

Super interested in what others are doing for this, as well as other problems like testing, deployment, discovery.
I was diagnosed with low testosterone about ten years ago. Since using supplements, several issues have resolved: 1) I've stopped losing muscle mass, and exercise builds muscle, instead of causing inflammation and tendonitis; 2) I'm no longer prediabetic; 3) I've lost weight, even with more muscle, and that seems self-reinforcing; 4) I have much less acne, especially cystic acne; 5) my hair is darker, but maybe pattern baldness has worsened; and 6) focus and mood stability have improved, although modafinil may account for that.
Yes. Clarity is important.
Maybe not from the ecosystem at large, but from Microsoft, on something like Outlook, sure you can expect efficiency.
As someone who grew up in Orange County - most of Orange County by land is closely culturally tied to Los Angeles, not San Diego.

The dividing line is the 55 freeway - everything south of the 55 is 'behind the orange curtain' everything north is part of LA, culturally.
There are still heaps of tiny but useful utility functions in Lodash (`fromPairs`, `takeWhile`, ...). Sure those are trivial to code yourself, but with recent bundlers' tree-shaking abilities, it's just better practice to import a thoroughly tested version instead.
How is it dystopian to tell parents that if you give your kids candy it makes the job for other parents much harder, since now their kids will fuzz about getting candy too?

It is just about people agreeing to common sensible rules for the benefit of everybody. It is about showing consideration for other people.
> Good luck with that.

Since the Brexit vote net-migration for the UK is over half a million people, your native Poland is still suffering huge negative net-migration. "Despite Brexit" the UK attracts top talent from across the EU due to well paid jobs, culture and a business friendly environment.

Look at immigrant attitude surveys across the EU to see how much they value the UK compared to many EU countries. Italy, Poland, Hungary, Austria etc are hardly trending in the direction you may desire.

> whose grandfather fought for the freedoms in WWII alongside British pilots

The British have a huge amount of respect and gratitude for the Polish pilots and honour them annually.
> If Tether prints, say, $100M USDT, and buys Bitcoin with it, they'll move the market up. But then when they cash out their gains, they'll move the market down.

The hysteria generated by Bitcoin's skyrocketing price likely allowed them to cash out quietly without crashing the market.

Now that the excitement has worn off, that's no longer true, and hey, look... they're suddenly not printing USDT so much.
Every card terminal in the world supports a "card not present" payment which only needs the long card number. I suspect most places don't do it this way because it's potentially more expensive, and they need to have a terminal instead of a simple web form that can be used anywhere. It's probably easier for you to reverse a "card not present" payment compared to a full web payment where all details are entered too, so companies taking deposit/payment over the phone don't want that.
It looks like a joke now but I'm fairly convinced that in the not too distant future the most influential social media accounts will be run by some kind of AI.
that's still funnier than 9gag
Hear hear all you young uns. This is what happens when you work your ass off for someone at low cost. Never ever work for less than you are worth. Your income minus stock should always be par or above with the market.
What's the latest for the US? Did any of the ideas of making the US more accessible for foreign tech entrepreneurs I've seen in recent years come to pass?
Oh cool, I hadn't heard about this. Thanks!
I certainly won't be "shocked", having read about Einstein's attitude towards women. The daft thing is how people made him into a "humanitarian icon" in the first place. This happened primarily, one suspects, because of his hair style and some quotable platitudes that he spouted. That said, it would be just as wrong to claim he was an exceptionally bad person. No doubt he had his strengths and his weaknesses, just like anyone else.
This is welcome move by the new Home Secretary, but the thing that terrifies me the most is the end of free movement when we leave the EU. As the director of a software development business, I have to contend with a very tight market for good developers.

After brexit takes place, any EU citizen I wish to employ will have to go through the Tier 2 visa route. There are 3 major issues with this. 1. It's capped at 20k people per year. 2. We do not have the deep pockets and the legal/HR team to navigate the home office to procure such a visa 3. It does not provide sufficient guarantees for bringing and settling down a family

On top of that, we also have to contend with many structural issues that makes the UK (London in particular) a less appealing place to attract talent:

- High cost and low quality of living in London

- Poor transport infrastructure (it's cheaper to eurostar London-Amsterdam than train London-Manchester)

- UK politicians and media do not stand up for the benefits of immigration and is willing to allow blanket demonisation of immigrants to go unanswered

- All the negative externalities associated with an overcrowded city (overcrowded public transport, knife crime, NOX pollution in excess of legally permissible levels)
It sounds like this issue rallied AT&T / Time Warner's legal team as well. Per the article, it sounded like AT&T / Time Warner used this "issue" to demonstration that the DOJ was opposing the merger not due to any logical reason, but out of spite.
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Another problem is 'semi-abandoned' code. For example the Open Source program QGIS used to use Python2 is its main plug in language but recently switched to Python3. The end result is the most plug-ins don't work any more. And since many of the plug-ins where useful little niche scripts that someone wrote years ago and then stopped updating/supporting once they where done, the chance that most of them will see a port is tiny.
I just read "Always Hungry" by David Ludwig and it is pretty good. I like the fact the book has a number of recipes as well. If you're trying to lose fat, then really the key is just eat a diet that keeps insulin low. There has been a lot written on this topic, so you should be able to find information on this very easily if you haven't come across this idea already.

With that being said, I've found that cutting out sugar and fast digesting carbs isn't hard due to not knowing what foods to eat, but it is hard because you have to plan meals and it can be psychologically difficult, especially at first. You have to plan meals and cook since it is near impossible to find food that aren't packed with sugar or fast digesting carbohydrates. This requires a time investment and potentially clearing up some time in your schedule. If you are someone who rarely cooks, this is a huge change. Some psychological barriers that I have personally experienced:

- Dispelling beliefs like "Life is not worth living without beer".

- Finding healthier ways of managing stress than eating sugary food, fast digesting carbs or drinking.

- Not just eating or drinking something because you're out with friends/family and they are doing it.

- Turning down offers from coworkers for unhealthy snacks at work.

- Having a reason to continue on the diet such that you won't just quit when things get tough.

- Getting through the initial stress of taking sugar and fast digesting carbs out of your diet since your body and brain will be used to using that as fuel and you have to initially feel worse before you feel better.

If only we lived in a world where most of our food wasn't garbage and most people didn't eat garbage, then all of this would be so much easier.
Many (most?) companies do that. That's what equity, options, commission, bonuses, and profits-sharing are.
This game is very addictive. My 7 yo daughter and 9 yo son pester me every day to play with them. The worst part is that they kept ganging up on me. However, the best (and very surprising) part is to witness my kids being able to explain some basic programming concepts when I showed them some Python code after several play. It's very impressive.
Updating the DOM in Electron is like updating the DOM on the web -- you can do it fast or you can do it old. Most Electron apps I've worked on or looked at the source are using things like React for the DOM, which is much faster than what you describe.

But if an app does it "old school" then it can definitely be very slow.
Printing money and using it to buy crypto is what inflated the price
I find it interesting because if N=1, then we're an incredibly statistical fluke, and yet there's no reason to suppose that our solar system or planet is that much of an anomaly.
Cars and TVs go down in price for the same feature set as technological improvements and nor efficient business models are created. Healthcare has gotten more expensive every year for the same features(ex, a physical, or treatment for the flu). That is where healthcare is leeching money out of the economy.

They haven't provided any improvements in service or products, they've just learned how to wring more money out of everyone
What's your approximate age (or age range)?
I don't think it implies that at all. The New York Times is reporting on in-depth research from UT Austin which seems clear from the title.