skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Incredibly minor, but I made a Workflow to log weight + waist circumference to Apple health.

I measure each every morning. Then I press one button, enter both numbers, and get on with my day.

Not full automation, but having waist circumference along with weight has really helped me get a better sense of fat loss while doing strength training.

(Workflow app, for the Workflow)
I'm nervous about what happens. Smash and even Mario Kart have always great for folks just looking for some crazy fun.

At the same time there has always been this tension between the fun aspects of those games and the competitive community who really wants something else from those games and the things they don't like (randomness, indirect help for lesser players) are also what keep the games fun for everyone. The competitive scene folks have some pretty strict ideas of what they want and it isn't what keeps those games fun for everyone.... bend to them too much and those games stop being fun for everyone else.
In that case, I would guess either still nepotism or just incompetence.

A lot of people will hire people from their college networks or whatever it may be. If they're hiring managers blindly based on some alleged track record, then they're just downright incompetent or taking a risk that has low odds of working well for the team :)
Have you seen the recent development of using two TB BCG vaccine doses as a protocol for Type 1 diabetes?

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41541-018-0062-8
> If anyone would like to re-write all that code for Chrome or whatever - for free...

For free? I thought you inherited enough money to retire on for the rest of your life. Share the wealth. :)
One of my favorite acquaintances from my days in school was a much older student from South Korea who often told stories of his time in mandatory military duty patrolling the DMZ, including a harrowing story of nearly setting off an international incident because he mistook a wild pig for a North Korean soldier and set off a grenade.

Definitely a series of experiences completely outside my context. I found it was important to hear about his experiences, and age difference obviously plays a part in facilitating this. Another South Korean classmate turned 18 in school and got shipped back to the DMZ. He didn't get hurt or anything, but I don't think he ever made it back to school in the states, which is a shame.
Facebook is a multi-billion dollar corporation with a history of obfuscating the truth and a terrible record on privacy. With the power they have they deserve scrutiny. I agree that selecting patents isn't a very convincing aproach but it is another data point. Could it
just be that NYT is printing a lot of negative articles because they're are a lot of incidents involving Facebook doing something wrong?
Art school isn't much like other kinds of academia: it's similar to music school in that it's focused on creativity, and whatever it takes to maximise that creativity. Coursework isn't rote learning or repeating facts or applying algorithms: it's understanding the work of other artists, and your place among them - and then putting that creativity into practice with the mentorship of a teacher you (hopefully) admire. I think it's a fantastic idea for mature students.

I've always wanted to go and do undergraduate classes in calculus, but that seems like it would be quite a leap from my current existence and I'm not quite ready to rock that boat.
When I was taking Chinese classes, our teacher would always demand that talk loud, exaggerate the pronunciation, and be as over-the-top as possible. Apparently there's a popular english learning method in China called Crazy English that takes this approach.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_English
If you can't assess what it might be like to work with someone, you can only build that skill by working with someone. I say start a conversation with the VC. If you get to the point where they wanna offer you money, ask yourself if you'd be willing to trust this person when things get hard. If you can't come to trust them, think real hard befoe you take their money.
I was curious about the following statement and am hoping someone could explain why:

>"hashing is one thing that’s considered safe from quantum computers."

Why is it safe? Is this because the number of cubits that will be available in the near future would be too small for something like SAH256? Something else entirely?
Sadly bad audio (room mic with all the ambient noise) and bad video quality (slides are almost unreadable). But great content.
What works is to set GTK_OVERLAY_SCROLLING=0 in the environment. Depending on your setup, /etc/environment might suffice.
You should make it so you can reply by bouncing your leg up and down. (Then go have an Edward Thorp weekend in Vegas of course.)
Companies of this era, before ps2 hardware class you had to make something a bit fun in its more trivial and most interesting sense.
Banning and choosing not to point at something are two different things.
Thanks I found the classification in that link quite helpful. Cheers.
I feel like people spend more time migrating blogging engines than actually blogging.
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Should we allow for algorithms to be patented though? To reserve something so abstract would be near equal to claiming a mathematical formula for oneself. If IBM had patented the fast Fourier transform, where would signal processing be?
Pretty much. The only infrastructure you get between say Netherlands and Belgium is a signpost, but between Schengen and the customs union there's no reason not to. Between UK and Ireland it's less than that.

On the Spain Portugal border there is some infrastructure, at least at some points. One of these is a zipline over a river. Between Netherlands and Germany the border actually runs through some public buildings. Are there any buildings that straddle state lines?
seems like an elaborated https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tag_system
At least then you can blog about the blogging engine migration.
How many times do we need to go through issues like this before people realize that just yelling louder has no effect? Services like this should simply not function at all until basic things like a password are put in place.
Much better quality, thank you.
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People are ‘ghosting’ at work, and it's driving companies crazy
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Having been on the in and outside of numerous cases I got to say I lost all confidence in even the most reputable media outlets (like NYT).

I don’t know about the media our parents had but I can personally attest that today’s media is poor entertainment at best and hateful propaganda at worst.

I stopped reading 99% of news a year ago (by blocking all outlets websites on my phone and computer) and am just doing fine...heck I would say I am actually doing better since I have more headspace for things that really matter and have more balanced view points (the later is obviously self attested).

The real news trickle up to me anyways.
> I can count on one hand the number of times I've used the Switch outside the house

I use it regularly in handheld mode and in fact Switch is my first Nintendo console, which I would not buy if it wasn't portable.
related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17196238
Having few assets is better than having a fancy asset pipeline. https://www.gatsbyjs.org/ supports code splitting and since it uses JavaScript, CSS generation libraries like styled-components, Glamourous, and JSS are available. That means only outputting the CSS and JS that are needed for the page. This is great for blogs where someone might only read one article. The Hugo community is working toward minimal assets too.
One wonders what people 400 years from now will think, looking back at the horror of abortion, and whether the numbers are believable or not. There will be around 1 million abortions just this year in the US, or 3000+ a day, more than 2 each minute. Also a non-mechanized process.

It's amazing what people can do when they put their mind to it. It's also amazing what people will rationalize when they put their mind to it.
+1. There are other ways of looking at what you are and what this world might be. You are defining yourself by what you appear to be here. You are much more.

What if the meaning of your life right now is to have lost the thread of meaning? You are traversing a knife-edged ridge. I wish you good will, and come safely through.
Stop finding excuses to stay on Facebook. Be strong and do what is right. You can convince your friends to use other things if they are truly your friends.
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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17382114
I cannot believe there isn't a single mention of coffee or HTCPCP here...
I've use instalooter as a library to great success: https://github.com/althonos/InstaLooter

Even made an issue on the repo when I ran into an issue setting it up on AWS and the maintainer was fast to respond.

Used it to make a bot to scrap soup special menus from a sandwich place near my work: http://blog.matthewbrunelle.com/projects/2018/05/07/Soup-Bot...
Where was this level of scrutiny before last year?

Did fb turn evil in 2017.
I was wondering what is a columnar data store and found this on Wikipedia:

> by storing data in columns rather than rows, the database can more precisely access the data it needs to answer a query rather than scanning and discarding unwanted data in rows. Query performance is increased for certain workloads.

This seems true only in very specific circumstances. And why can't a database figure out the best way to store data, rather than let the user make the decision upfront (which they may later regret when requirements change)?
Firebase used to be open by default, (to ease the dev experience, presumably), but sometime around the Google acquisition became private-by-default. It also warns you incessantly when your security rules are too open.

I suspect (hope?) most of the apps still using it insecurely came from before the acquisition by Google.
Other manufacturers just seem obsessed with raw specs and power, rather than actual gameplay experience.
If you have a CDN or Varnish, they can provide eTags, and you don't need an md5 in the URL, except to save the browser from doing a GET request and getting a 304 Not Modified. A few Not Modified requests served by a fast server is worth the tradeoff of not having to deal with an asset pipeline, or worse, overly aggressive caching, which is common in asset pipeline environments where the cache settings designed for md5 tagged assets inevitably get applied to non-tagged assets.
I'm glad you care about HN!
Do you automate the selling as well?
wow there was a beautiful video. I like at the beginning how he explains how difficult it was to actually create this experiment, so I could understand how important this actually was. Also that it hasn't been done in like 40 years or whatever.
What’s the AUM of the VC? Do they have a long history of success? Be weary of any thing on a website. I have seen startups lie about their VCs, and I am sure some VCs do the same. They are just betting their won’t be caught cause there are so many around. Do you know anyone to vouch for them? Plenty of VCs individuals tend to be predators because they know startups are desperate. Few startups investments does not necessary mean they are choosy, VCs like to bet the entire table rather than pick since they know it’s hard to find winners base on gut feeling. Yes, it’s gut feeling and who you know when you don’t have cash flow. Read the contract 3 times and seek legal counsel.
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It’s surprisingly sturdy.
For your 7 yo it should be perfect: on some parts some help might be needed, but mine got it done 99% by himself. The app is really well done.

One interesting thing is he’s super attached to it (specially the robot one) as it took him so much time to build. I’m waiting for the interest to wane a bit to go for the customizations and try to build new things.
I think it's pretty obvious considering how shallow and frequent the reporting is that this isn't traditional media criticism. There are real issues with Facebook that are not new but they have nothing to do with "creepy patents" or Facebook giving data to Chinese phone makers. (Who, you know, make the phone.) The NYT subjects no other corporation to this sort of scrutiny. In fact it's difficult to the recall any anti-"specific firm" editorials from the Times this year compared to the 4-5 anti-Facebook editorials. All of this suggests that the NYT is waging a campaign and targeting Facebook and it would be good to know why.
Okay, I take it back. Guile's theme sounds way more epic on the CPS2. Damn you Internet.
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A patent shows only that someone within the organization is supported in thinking about how to do its thing. You can infer a commitment to that thing based on it and/or other context, but it doesn't show that.
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I've used pretty much every product out there for static site generation, and I gave up.

So I created [0] Statik.

I dont mind manually building out the mardown/razor/etc. In the end, I get exactly what I want, with no overhead or heavy abstractions weghing me down.

[0] https://github.com/pauldotknopf/statik
Well put :-) I was actually taking a subtle dig at folk who say, "just ditch IE, how hard can it be?" If you have an enormous corporate or personal application, the answer could be: "impossibly hard", unless a good fairy appears from the sky and rewrites it for free!
This bog post by Branko Milanović touches on this. (A development and inequality specialist)

https://glineq.blogspot.com/2018/06/bob-allens-new-poverty-m...

I when I carefully read it the claim was poverty in the developed world is underestimated. As is poverty in the developing world.
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> You missed one more option: "we can discuss a problem without involving emotions...”

How exactly do you have no emotions in a marriage disagreement? Most arguments are about emotions. No one argues about things they aren’t emotional about (unless it’s a proxy argument for something they are emotional about).
Really the network is the least expensive part. To get IO that can saturate a 10G costs around 20k, while the infiniband card sets you back less than 4k. Now you're talking about 100G, which will go faster, you could easily be looking at a 500k box of ssds.
I'm from there. Nice enough city...don't know if I would move back.
The AirPods might be a temporary help if you have iOS. You can plug them into your ear when needed and send a command. Probably not the most ideal but Siri seems to be getting better.
I recently completed a pretty fun little website[1] for the U.S. freight rail industry using Hugo, Vue.js, Nuxt, Vuetify, Chart.js and Netlify. It is open source on GitHub[2].

It will soon replace an aging version of the site[3] that was built with Sitecore CMS, .NET, and SQL Server.

At first I considered using Hugo to generate the HTML for the site from git-backed JSON/YAML/TOML files. But the quantity and complexity of the Golang templates was clearly going to be tedious, inflexible, and tough to maintain.

So I settled on using Hugo to generate a read-only REST API instead[4], based on a nice blog post I had read[5][6].

This freed me to use any front-end framework I wished, and I chose Vue, Vuetify, and Axios for their simplicity and productivity on this solo-developer project.

In the end I was quite happy with this combination. Hugo was incredibly fast and productive for ranging over and manipulating all of the JSON/YAML/TOML data files to produce the final read-only REST API JSON... after the initial learning curve with Golang templates.

And the front-end really just boiled down to some key Lodash transformations of the JSON into the various shapes of data that were needed for tabular reports and Chart.js graphs.

[1] https://app.rrpm.run/
[2] https://github.com/railroadpm/site
[3] http://www.railroadpm.org/
[4] https://api.rrpm.run/reports/bnsf/all
[5] https://discourse.gohugo.io/t/build-a-json-api-with-hugos-cu...
[6] https://forestry.io/blog/build-a-json-api-with-hugo/
Extensive discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17370614
The platform is censorship resistant. Individual instances are not. If you upload something to a specific instance, you are at the mercy of the instance owner. But you can upload to other more "open-minded" instances or host your own.

Moderation is necessary, otherwise you'll attract "undesirables" that will most likely scare away regular users.
What do you have against striving to be elite? Being elite is admirable. One should strive to rise in society, not sink. Success beats failure.

It's a matter of degree of course, and there is no perfection, but that doesn't mean one should be complacent with less than the best.
Yeah, but this was supposed to new and modern development, people-centric (my understanding) so sticking to "other cities have it like that" doesn't sound too good.

And as the article (and sibling comment) mention - they have the option to turn it to something more pedestrian friendly, but they wan't people/pedestrians now so they should have started with people-friendly communication in the first place IMHO
I've no idea what they are! They're all random strings within the integrated password manager that I wrote as part of the package!
> Even the most critical observer must concede that these distributed networks are novel and interesting.

Nope.

Anything you can do with blockchain you can do simpler and easier and cheaper either with a standard database, or something like git with signed git commits and a trusted third party.

The blockchain exists to try to remove trusted third parties but leads to every increasing energy consumption or order to fuel incentive for "proof of work", and the coin concept is a flat out ponzi scheme.

All these ideas need to get relegated to the dustbin of history.
3 years is a long time. I appreciate that people like this exist.
N.B. Patents are a lagging indicator of what a company is doing. They're made public more than a year after submission.
So it's similar to "lateral inhibition", but for synapses.
I used this python script to automate filling out a google form for 1000 times xD
https://github.com/vedipen/AutomateGoogleForm
I am open to your theory that the US hasn’t had a significant influence on Latin American corruption...

But I’d need more than a base assertion... can you address specifically the theory that the U.S. has deliberately propped up corrupt governments sympathetic to US corporations to the exclusion of democratically elected ones?
And bad cut-scenes.

There are some notable exceptions, but storytelling and just narrative quality and variety is .... not really there.

If they're going to fill my time with cut scenes they should be good.
Him and his family are truly role models for how I want to be when I grow up. Easily one of my favorite creators.

I mean, look at this! https://twitter.com/smartereveryday/status/10084779939482828...
Having taken undergraduate classes in calculus (at a good school), I'm afraid you'd be very disappointed. They're typically huge core courses taught in lecture halls with smaller recitations with TAs (graduate students). I doubt there's anything about typical freshman calculus you couldn't replicate with a MOOC.

Here's video of MIT's first-semester calculus course right here (from a number of years back though I doubt calculus has changed much): https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-01-single-variabl...
With earnings of publicly traded companies in the US reported quarterly by law, how is this distinct from the list of all high-growth tech company stocks?
Have you back tested this. It seems really risky.
Libtards and their Soros.
This is exactly why I loved IRC and continue to use it to this day.
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You need X amount of money to run a campaign and you get money primarily by accepting campaign contributions from completely charitable wealthy donors and interest groups whose objectives just happen to align with your political ideology.

If you chop out the euphemisms and rationalization, it's a mandatory bribe quota.
Oo, that will be awesome. I use hugo for my personal website, and currently run the node-sass cli separately.
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I remember after the GameCube was short on games and thrid party support. I was done with Nintendo.

Nintendo then said their next console wouldn't compete with MS or Sony directly. I was sure they were just going to be a handheld gaming company after that as they were sure to die in the console market.

Nope, the Wii sold like hot cakes and I bought one and had a ton of fun.

They just keep doing it...
> Having few assets is better than having a fancy asset pipeline.

It's not about a fancy asset pipeline.

It's taking app.css and turning it into app.a5fec617.css so that you can configure your web server to cache it forever. It's important to do this for CSS, JS and all of your images and other assets. Each blog post of mine has a cover image and with 170 blog posts, that's 170 blog images that need to be md5 tagged.

The asset pipeline (transforming SASS into CSS and minifying everything) is just a nice convenience.

It's also nice to be able to just write {% asset foo.jpg %} and end up with <img src="images/foo.34fbc1e9.jpg" width="256" height="256" alt="foo" /> in the HTML. Never having to manually set a height/width or alt tag (unless I want to manually override it) saves a lot of time.
Yes, this is good advice. I was a doe-eyed fresh dev back then and in an advantageous position in the sense that nothing was riding on this job. Getting fired wouldn't have been the worst thing in the world. That said, had I gone ahead and made a mistake doing cowboy development on a live site... it would've fallen in my head I would've lost the contract anyway.

As I mentioned in another comment, I work in health now. You really can't turn a blind eye to these things in my current field. You might say I found a field more calibrated to my speed-quality balance than the old job.
It's all justified because "We connect people. Period."
I don’t yet have that luxury, but this is one of my big overriding goals - FI by early 40s.

I’ve been in one or two situations where I would have walked if not for my mortgage and being sole provider with a young family.

Absolutely hated not having that choice, remembering how disempowering that was keeps me on track to work towards that freedom.

(I am not in SV, and good options at my level in my location take a few months to find)
Disclaimer: I'm an insurance broker. I currently have really terrible coverage through my employer ($5,000 deductible, nearest in-network hospital over 1.5 hrs away)

Ironically, for the truly poor (sub 16,000 in income per year), you can get health insurance in many states for $40 a month with expanded Medicaid coverage. The copays may be high, but it will protect you from catastrophic expenses. If you qualify for Medicare as a senior, then for $200 a month you can get 100% expenses covered.

It is the people making 35k - 60k per year, like myself, who either have to pay in full for terrible medical coverage, or get a job in a high cost of living area. This is why I was saving more money living rurally on low income than I was living suburbanly on moderate income-- the rent and lack of federal subsidies leave me with very little takehome pay.

Now, to say that a poor person isn't poor just because they have a DVD player is disgustingly absurd. And these days, a phone is incredibly useful and realistically only costs about $120 upfront and maybe $20 a month ongoing for prepaid service.

The biggest expense will always be rent or a mortgage. It is disgusting how much these things cost for how little quality they are.

For this we can only blame the town governments that restrict building supply, and the financing companies that force people into over leveraging themselves to buy a house of questionable value.