skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>Ok, so if you eat as much as you want of home-cooked bacon, eggs, and fresh-sliced potatoes fried in lard you'll lose weight? Or is that not "real food"?

Yes, if "as much as you want" means you maintain a caloric deficit.
Except they announced this before it was known that Microsoft buys Github...

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/
Interesting! Thanks for the data point.
Perhaps this is part of what is coloring my opinion: as a semi-professional musician who occasionally plays with serious folks and who knows a lot of both DMAs and "self-trained" successful pro musicians, I don't know if there is a lot of value in music school once you learn how to practice an instrument (a difficult task in itself).

As a a substitute for doing the legwork of getting gigs and sitting though a ton of shitty ones, a collegiate musical education might serve well. But beyond that networking, it's just time spent learning scales, tunes, technique, and so on. Go to summer camps and play with as many people as possible, and you have a much more useful experience, IME, especially for the price. That's my observation, not the only solid opinion on the matter... but it is my opinion.

For what little it's worth, I've been taking online classes in math with an eye to learning calculus and staistics... I feel like that skill alongside my current programming skills will set me up to do some really interesting stuff in 24 months or so. Really, I feel like I make plenty of gains in understanding just by doing a ton of exercises... I wouldn't have been able to do this when I was 20, but I'm a lot more disciplined as a 40-year-old... so maybe that is my point here:

as I've gotten older, my experience is that the kinds of self-directed learning which might be the core of what a PhD program is instilling in people, are a lot easier to practice.

But of course, that's my own possibly idiosyncratic understanding of a PhD and learning. I don't know if other folks would agree.

In any case, consider doing 20 minutes of math every day for a while and see if you like it... it's kind of fun. It won't rock your existence probably, but if you do it long enough you'll get better at it. Maybe it would be easier in the context of an undergrad class. Maybe you'd be better of with an actual teacher grading your work. But you are likely capable of doing that work on your own.
You can not sum like this the populations on the table, because it does not cover the same things all the time. A couple of problems for example:

- When a kingdom/empire spreads to Africa and Asia, the whole population of the country is counted even though only a part of is in Europe. You can observe that with Muslim caliphates who suddenly appear in the table like Umayyad Caliphate with 29 millions people in 711 when it was not in the table the year before. Between 392 and 484, the Roman Empire lost North Africa and the Middle East, that counts for million of peoples.

- Some populations on the map are not represented in the table when they should have a good amount of people, maybe because we don't have estimates of them? I am thinking of the Kingdom of Soissons and the Alemanni in 484. These places are in the ancient Gauls and were fairly populated.

On top of that, it was the time known as "Migration Period" where a lot of people moved around (some going out of Europe) and a lot of war happened (hence a lot of death). The population of Western Europe was going down already in the 4th century and it accelerated with the breakdown of the Empire and the rule of law, people started to leave cities and move to the countryside, trade plunged and food was scarce.
Makes sense on both counts.

The fact that it's not seeded at all is very interesting. A lot of Dota expertise derives from knowing what the opponent is going to do at a particular time. I remember many comments from experienced Go players that AlphaGo made moves that no human player would make, so I wonder if that will appear in this case as well.
We completely agree with you here. We want TODO to be meaningful and useful to everyone. The UX team is working through an exploration issue to address this, we would love to hear your thoughts on the issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/43474
An article from 2005 with the same prediction:
http://money.cnn.com/2005/12/27/news/economy/inverted_yield_...

The recession didn't happen until 2-3 years after that, making me question the utility of such predictions. "A recession will happen - eventually" is about as useful as predicting your own eventual demise.
I understand that Gitlab helm charts are now beta in 11.0, does it also mean Gitlab is fully running on Kubernetes on Azure (there's no mention of AKS)?

I wonder if they'll also publish the difference in cost between the two platforms.
I don't think moving to GKE implies that AKS is inadequate. They could just be choosing the best of two excellent options.
No They haven't done the impossible , they just decided to use 5ghz wifi .
AT&T is buying digital ad platform AppNexus
> If your communication is encrypted it shouldn't matter if it passes AT&T networks.

IIRC, the signals intelligence agencies like the NSA learn almost as much from traffic analysis (e.g. who's talking to who and when) and metadata than from actual message content. Mere encryption itself often doesn't protect much from that.
previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17341508
The bottom like is that fusion energy is now engineering problem and not basic science problems. Engineering risks are more manageable and predictable.

It's like Manhattan project, you can do it if you want it bad enough.
Talking about false confidence is spreading FUD to me.

Quote from the page:

> Does Oxy have...

> Years of testing and battle hardening? No, it's super green. But hey, if you try it you'll help make it less green!

Maybe not at the top of the page. But at the very least in the relevant section.

I find the page absolutely clear and to the point. Yes - it would be nice with code signing. Being slightly less anonymous might also be better to gain traction. But overall I think it is an impressive start to a rather ambitious goal.
It was a technical decision. They announced it before the GitHub acquisition.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/04/06/why-and-how-gitlab-abando...
https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/
Asymmetric cryptography for 5 year olds
I think this is quite impressive. I'm a bit confused about the section saying that "binary rewards can give good performance". Is it saying that binary rewards (instead of continuous rewards) work fine, but end-of-rollout rewards (instead of intermediate rewards such as kills) work poorly?
It's worth pointing out that in most cases, the only reason why meat can be cheaper than vegetables is massive government subsidies.
An impossible to beat Starcraft AI is already doable without all this AI training. Just by controlling every individual unit seperatly in impossible to counter maneuvers far beyond any human actions per minute.

You could basically get an AI to win every single time with a handful of zerglings in a few minutes this way.

You could train an AI for 1 billion years a day to play pong or you could hardcode it to never miss the ball.
Though Vulkan might finally unlock those powers in a cross-vendor, easy to use way, just in time for both technologies to die out anyway.
Your metabolism is a little bit elastic, it is most definitely not 100% elastic, which is what you argued.

The vast majority of people will definitely lose weight if they cut a third of their intake, all else being equal.

You're arguing about a marginal effect, and arguing against the primary effect. The primary effect is that eating more than burned is what caused the weight gain, and eating less than burned will cause weight loss. That's true regardless of metabolic elasticity, but even so changes in metabolic rate account for only a small fraction of changes in intake.
Researchers: Last Year’s ICOs Had Five Security Vulnerabilities on Average
Following your dreams is a luxury for people in the global top 5% (mostly in the west). Everyone else is locked in bitter competition. I'm not convinced America will stay comfortably above that fray over my daughter's lifetime.
They might have put these two things together: https://twitter.com/jasonfried/status/430871267881672704?lan... https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/08/21/github_ceo_chris_wa...
In a large project, you'll have all ways of doing any given thing represented in a code base. Reducing that number down to 1 means that searching for all occurrences is reduced to 1 operation. If you are working on a large project, searching for usages/senders/occurrences is one of the most common tasks that you do. In fact, using escape analysis of the same kind used for "Extract Method" refactorings, you can even catch clearing interspersed with other code in the for-range loop.

A 50%+ reduction in programmer work is nothing to be sneezed at.
Correct me if I'm wrong, doesn't Netflix run their billing / search / recommendation /... systems on AWS and their whole video content streaming are engineered / hosted internally in collaboration with ISPs?
I think GV investing $20 million on them helps too:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/10/09/gitlab-raises-20m-series-c...
There are people in this thread saying the same thing, it is very confusing why people think this.
Might be cool to have a comment section that allows for snippets of code much like StackOverflow. I could see this becoming a platform with a lot of tutorials and being able to hash out the code from the video in a comment section and get answers like StackOverflow could provide a ton of value.
They didn't, they announced this in April.
Yep, my bad. I got it confused with SPE.
It would be nice to see the benchmark that support the 1/3 faster claim. I don't doubt it, but there are always a lot of hidden assumptions and details that are missing, that I'd like to see the exact benchmark. Is it a small vector? Is it a large vector? What happens for different vectors sizes? What about int vs a complex struct? Too many questions ...

I'd would be better to change the license to an standard license. In the spirit of the current license I recommend looking at the BSD license without atribution. Try to search the different variants and pick the one that is closer to your wishes.

It's funny to make up a license, but does your license protect you of liabilities if a moron uses your software badly? What about if your library has a bug? Also, someone inside a company may prefer a usual license because the company lawyers had review the usual license, but an unusual license needs too many talk with the lawyers to get approved.
I think he meant "balance sheet"
Take a look at the consumption of various forms of energy globally in figure 1 of this wikipedia article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_energy_consumption#cite_...
(sourced from BP's Statistical Review of World Energy https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/stat...)

Now look at some of the figures in this slide deck:
https://www.svensktnaringsliv.se/Bilder_och_dokument/mattias...
(in particular, slide 3, showing rate of added generation/year for various countries, comparing nuclear to wind+solar+geo+bio energy, compared to the needed rate of addition of carbon-neutral energy to hit 2 deg C warming goals.) These data are also sourced from the BP statistical review and the World Bank.

If you trust that information, evaluate for yourself whether or not we can reach 80% penetration of wind and solar in time to avoid anything short of catastrophic warming.

If your response is to extrapolate current trends in cost reductions for wind and particularly solar, please bear in mind that there are no indefinite exponential growth processes in the real world where transfers of matter and energy are concerned, only processes that show logistic growth. And we can't necessarily predict when we'll reach the plateau phase of logistic growth.

What I conclude from that, personally, is that we shouldn't gamble on continued trends in solar and wind adoption to get us to decarbonization.
Saw a video about two women, one overweight and one skinny. They ate together regularly and the skinny woman would always eat much more food. They followed both around and while it was true that the skinny woman ate more at meals, that was also pretty much the only time she ate anything. The overweight woman was snacking all day long.

When I was working on losing weight, I very loosely did the calorie counting thing and realized that the milk and cookies I would occasionally make after dinner was like 700 calories. Before I would just think about my meals with almost no thought about the extras.
I wanted to add the observation that all the restricted heroes are ranged. Necrophos, Sniper, Viper, Crystal Maiden, and Lich.

Since playing a lane as a ranged hero is very different from playing the same lane as a melee hero, I wonder whether the AI has learned to play melee heroes yet.
No professional would recommend a crash diet for a typical person, so I'm not sure what your point is. You're right; moderate deficit is best, but I don't see anyone recommending anything else and you implied that calorie accounting in general doesn't work, which is nonsense.

Also, one big issue yo-yo dieters encounter is that, once they reach their goal, they go back to their old habits. You can eat more once you hit your goal, but you can _never_ go back to your old, unhealthy diet if you want to maintain what you accomplished.
They did have an outage a couple weeks ago. servers were down for an hour or something. Logs are published on a google doc
Critical vulnerability in monocypher
The S&P on roughly that date was 1268. In the depths of the recession, it reached as low as 684.
> we don't have to come up with all sorts of crazy scenarios to resolve the paradox, as people often do.

Run-away climate catastrophe, nuclear war, or alternatively, the physical impossibility of interstellar travel are not crazy scenarios that explain the paradox. They are real threats that we have put far too little into mitigating. [1][2]

[1] I think we are putting the right amount of effort into mitigating the latter.

[2] A few smart people are playing with mental what-if toys like 'If we could send 100,000 people to a planet which has already suffered a run-away climate catastrophe!' The rest of us are digging our heels in, and finding every excuse to do nothing.
What is the goal of essentially reducing the amount of money in the economy?
After The Pilot Ejected, This F-106A Flew for Miles Before Landing Gently in a Field! https://www.warhistoryonline.com/history/plane-flew-pilot-ej...
US–Chinese trade war puts scientists in the cross hairs
And would have looked very stupid if they had been bought by Google instead: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/05/github-interest-from-google-...
I meant balance sheet but mistyped, sorry about that
Would be interesting to see if when one agent declines to help another several times, the other one would decide against helping him when he calls. The logical explanation would then be that the agent would come to value his life more than his comrade's (because he is helping, and his comrade has refused several times). The human explanation would be that he refuses to help out of spite. It could even lead to those two agents "hating" the other, though it would be more like cold calculation.
Predicting recession reliably 2-3 years in advance with 2 year window would be really good indicator.
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GV is not partial to a particular cloud vendor. They do not push GCP onto the startups they invest in.
Options are fairly priced. Meaning that they are priced according to the risk. Unless you have some very good reason to use them, they can lead to ruin. This is just another way to say that it is like playing in the casino.

On the other hand, if you have a lot of gains in the stock market, using options may be a small price to keep your piece of mind. Just understand that they give you no clear edge.
Etherisc- a open source platform for insurance applications
Same, I remember how much the last one stressed out my Dad. I was in high school and didn't fully appreciate the significance of what was going on. I'm a bit anxious anticipating the next one, but it's part of the game!
I always thought that if a civilization was so advanced, why would it spend time interacting with a world like ours?

We may feel special, but that's only because we haven't found anything else. If they found hundreds (or more) of worlds like ours, then maybe we're just another dot on their galaxy map.

Plus if the media is anything to go by, all we do is shoot each other. Might not be too exciting for a civilization who can travel amongst the stars.
It's interesting to see this, and the reference to "one million emails", considering the prevalence of opportunistic TLS on MTA connections. Gmail reports 89% of their inbound and outbound flow is protected by TLS [1]. Wouldn't that eliminate the ability of the NSA to intercept those messages?

[1] https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview
I've played DotA for over 10 years so this development is quite relevant to me. So excited to see this next month!

Although it's extremely impressive, all the restrictions will definitely make this less appealing to the audience (shown in the Reddit thread comments).
I think that's mostly irrelevant. 2-3 years prediction would actually be quite good. If you have large investments, 2-3 years would give you a good heads-up for what to do with them before the recession arrives.

The reason I say that point is irrelevant is because what matters most is the signs that a recession is about to happen. Once you have the signs, you pretty much know the recession is inevitable, given the fact that the signs are bad enough that you think the recession could happen in a few short years.
Here's a plugin for FF and Chrome:

https://bypasspaywalls.weebly.com/
Global markets have at least .5 correlation with each other. Doesn't matter which country or money you buy investments in. If you want to avoid market risk then just stick to short term bonds(arguably the safest investment).
Mostly I wanted to learn about databases and I was bored one day so...

I kind of like transmission, had it doing its thing on my low-power NAS for a couple years with zero problems. The thing with duplicates was the rss feed sending ~7 days of shows and needing a way for my python script to tell if it had already seen an item or not so I was just dumping them into a log file and searching through it on the next run -- crazy inefficient but it did the job.
On the assumption that all other civilisations are either hundreds of millions of years ahead or behind you; if they are hundeds of million years more advanced, they surely already know of your existance and if they had any hostile intentions you wouldn't even exist, while if they are behind you, they are at your mercy after you aquired all the resources in the galaxy.
Intel’s advantage was built on scale. They could build more which meant they could invest more which meant they could build better and build more. By leaving scaling opportunity on the table, TSMC can now build more which means they’re investing more and oh no they just passed Intel.
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I suspect it's fine. Two-seater planes fire the seats in sequence - if it's not frying the other passenger, it's highly unlikely to be melting the instruments.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9c/Ejection...
To be fair, the economy was still fairly strong by that point. It wasn’t until 06-07 that the subprime lending really got out of hand, and even though 07 was technically when the recession started, it didn’t become a full-blown panic until 2008 when Lehman Brothers and Bear Sterns collapsed.

The yield curve is like seeing upturned leaves in the wind: a storm may coming, but it’s not clear when.
Internet of Things means that we can enable new synergies with Web Scale techniques, like making each tread run its own software package with logging, analytics, self-maintenance, and the normal operational features, each implemented as a reliable, portable Electron app.
Hey! Amazing effort.

Do you have a detailed meal plan of what you ate? This is the part I have always find hard.

Just to have a clear Monday > Sunday, breakfast, lunch and dinner simple food plan with all the measures etc.

I have looked at things like Huel for Breakfast + Lunch and then have a real meal (fish / chicken + veg) but in lots of different ways with herbs/spices etc. Tend to do in foil to steam / bake. I like to cook - but that's the problem, I like the good food :)

So many diets I find are focused on women, and I think guys just want to keep it simple, healthy and tasty without too much hassle at the end of the day.

Also do the 5:2 as well. Monday and Wednesday no eating at all - just water. I find it quite easy, but after a few weeks my health went down hill - was clearly not eating enough and then your body starts getting very upset quickly.

10,000 steps a day and swimming 3x a week 500m I have found to be good.

We need an open source meal plan app!

or wish there was a simple pill you could take and just not eat at all.
GitLab began migrating to GCP months ago, long before GitHub had anything to do with Microsoft.

https://about.gitlab.com/2018/04/05/gke-gitlab-integration/
Not the first time:

Room 641A: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A
For everyone saying this is a political decision, I don't see why Gitlab would be afraid of being political, especially seeing as a lot of developers were annoyed/angered at the Microsoft buyout.

I also can't see on a technical level a company planning this kind of maintenance operation this quickly. It would be reckless.
Shitty IXes, maybe.

At a proper one a single IP address belonging to the exchange, which will be assigned to the router port of one member, is only allowed to appear from a specific single MAC address, and specific port on the ix switch, which corresponds with a physical fiber cross connect that matches a specific patch panel port.
That's the subject of about a century of science fiction speculation.

The deal is, if we were one among hundreds or thousands, what are the odds nobody at all in any of those other civilizations would want to interact with us? Because we've received zero interactions. Dead silence.

Why is that? Well, it takes a lot of energy to broadcast, so they'd have to beam us a message. We're not really looking for beams. Don't even know what they'd look like? Laser pulses? Soliton trains? Neutrino bursts?
Github being aquired by MS could be a thing if Gitlab was not doing this transition before that. Some of the jobs listing for Gitlab were specifying GCP knowledge because they were migrating from Azure (and this was written there).
They don't. QE ended many years ago.
> And we're probably only a century away from being able to spam the entire galaxy with probes, if we wanted to say take apart Mercury and use solar panels for propulsion. The probes would be small, smart and able to replicate themselves.

1. We're really not.

2. Solar panels obey the inverse square law. Right now, we can't even use solar panels to power probes beyond the orbit of Jupiter - let alone drive an energy-hungry ion engine.

3. Even with an ion engine, you need fuel to thrust.

4. Even if we could send them, they'd need incredibly power-hungry antennas to transmit any useful data back. See 2.

People say things like 'only 1% of c' as if it's trivial. It's only 1%! It's also 3,000 km/s. No man-made machine has ever gone faster then 16 km/s. If we tried really hard, we might hit 1% of 1% of C.

And then it would still take that probe 400 years to visit our nearest star. 10 million years to cross the galaxy.