skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fed sets interest rates, not the US government. It’s not like DJT or Congress can lower or raise interest rates themselves, they can’t even apply pressure to the Fed beyond making appointments.

I’m not making any value judgements. As a once holder of RMB, I find inconvertibility to be a huge PITA, definitely unfair for those that have to hold it. As for trade issues, I don’t think the RMB is artificially valued in a way that seriously benefits Chinese trade, quite the contrary actually (it is artificially high, not low, ATM).
I found Metzinger’s ‘The ego tunnel’ immensely helpful in identifying the constituent parts that we mean by consciousness. Everything the physicist Sean Carroll says about consciousness rings true to me. It is only an illusion in the same way the 2nd law of thermodynamics is an illusion built from particle interaction and statistics.
I have vague memories of Father dragging us along to timeshare presentations each holiday or so, purely so we could get a family ticket to the local water park or whatever.

I don't think I've thought about his for years, so thanks. I think. I didn't recall how cheap Pa was.. :)
> instagram is just how you write messages these days, as if this was totally obvious and not a side feature of instagram.

At times, I just give up on my ability to participate in society because of shit like this.
The shit loads of trash in the ocean are from impoverished developing nations who use their rivers as garbage dumps. Not the ignorant yuppie who let's his Pepsi bottle blow into the marina.

Don't let a few assholes be a surrogate for justifiable outrage that comes from a completely different source on an incomprehensibly massive scale.
> I envy those who never created a Facebook.

what? is it some virus you can't cure from your mind now? just stop using it. I stopped about 6 years ago and have never missed it.
There’s no reason to believe from these two lines that the memory is insufficiently allocated. It’s just two lines. The point wasn’t to share a safe string copy routine, the point of the post was to illustrate a single mistake.
Have used 4 different ones, Jira requires the least point and clicking.
I'm saying it's a narrow case because most people doing international transfers are not interested in getting on the wrong side of the law. If you have data otherwise, let's see it.

Yes, the international transfer system isn't great. But that doesn't mean that blockchains are the best solution. Or a solution at all.

Is Somalia undergoing economic breakdown? I didn't find much evidence for that, and war doesn't mean that it is. And if it isn't, then it's not the kind of economic-collapse case that is typically used to justify Bitcoin.

If you're using an intermediary, then there's no real point to a blockchain solution. Blockchains create a trustless context. If I'm willing to trust an intermediary, then a blockchain doesn't add value.
except twitter is so far left there back on the right lmao
Like I said, trying to condense it down to an HN comment imposes some very severe restrictions. The word "illusion" is not really quite right. A better description might be (and these are my words, not Dennett's) that consciousness is in its own ontological category [1].

[1] http://blog.rongarret.info/2015/02/31-flavors-of-ontology.ht...
In order
Jira
Trello
Asana
Version1
I’m torn. On one hand, he knew what he was doing was on the edge of the law and he knew he was abetting illegal activity. But on the other hand, in tech, we have something like the DMCA where companies can be found harmless if they are abetting illegal activity as long as they aren’t directly complicit.

Also, the drug trade would never happen without the help of corrupt white collar criminals who are never prosecuted. Law enforcement could have offered him witness protection. His biggest fear was endangering his family.

From another perspective even on that, I wouldn’t put myself in a position where I’m surrounding myself with dangerous people. His completely above board speaker installation business probably could have supported him.

Yeah, I’m being really ambivalent about the situation. I’m no lover of the “War on Drugs” or the “justice system”, but he knew what he was doing.
He means in aggregate of the people.

52 people each buy a week share.

Each person gets charged $100 / month.

So 52 people each pay $1200 / year, which is the $62,400. Which I'm guessing is a bit more than the cost of maintenance
Thanks for the tip-offs! I too have been stranded without a decent vimperator replacement for a while. Currently using Saka-Keys but not in love with it, so I'll experiment with these.
The fine print where there actually is a car awarded generally says something like taxes are the responsibility of the winner. In the ones I've seen if you cannot pay the taxes you will be awarded the cash value instead. (I suspect there is a state law in place)

The real contests are generally run by a third party firm that has no interest in the winners. They are payed to pick someone at random and deliver the prize and paperwork.
Is Tree Style Tab as good as it was before all the Quantum changes?

The last time I tried it in a recent Firefox, I had to modify the user chrome by hand, the extension was incredibly slow even on modern hardware, and there wasn’t feature parity with previous versions.

I ended up going with Firefox 52ESR.
Oldest domains in the .com, .net, and .org TLDs
Single or composite primary key in Rails?
Suicide is not selfish, it is a desperate act to stop the pain (physically or mentally).

It's sad that we even consider it to be selfish. It shows how little empathy we have sometimes.

If someone jumps from the 40th floor of a burning building we can understand it. It's an extreme reaction to an extreme situation.

Like suicide.
I am quite privacy conscious. I have deleted my FB account. On principle, I dislike targeted ads, user tracking, etc.

BUT, I hate to admit this, the ads I get in Instagram are the most relevant I have ever gotten. I actually look forward to them, to discover new products. They are perfectly tailored to me.

Dammit.
Well it might have played differently. If Facebook hadn't bought it then Facebook would have competed against it and that's not an easy fight. Look at Snapchat.
Or our brains are tricking us into believing that they are universal knowing machines -- that is anything we cannot know cannot be, and anything that is we are capable of knowing.
There is never something that is "good enough" to solve all problems. In addition, stronger approaches are often harder to adopt (which is why they often don't get adopted). This effort to encourage STARTTLS everywhere provides reasonable protection against bulk passive monitoring, at very low effort. I think encouraging the use of TLS for all email traffic is a good idea.
I agree that using an ImageNet-trained model to classify a new set of subclasses should be easy, and is. Subsequent lessons show how to adapt the same approach to distinguishing dog breeds (more specific), and for identifying types of terrain in satellite images, which bear much less resemblance to anything in ImageNet.

That last one sounds pretty similar to your second sentence. Given what we know about transfer learning and CNN's, if we had a massive boat dataset, I bet it could be re-purposed to do pretty well at cat/dog.
There Is No Biological Difference Between Male and Female Brains
During a recession you borrow money, spend and that constrains future cash flow. During an expansion you repay what you borrowed - that's the constraint.

We're constraining future cash flow during an expansion. That is stupid.

I am not sure how you keep mis-reading me.
Intelligent Robbers _ Funny Clips 2018
To you, obviously. That's kind of the point: your own consciousness isn't really what you think it is. Yes, I know that sounds really weird to the point of being a logical impossibility, but trust me: there's experimental data to back it up.
It's $1200 per year for every week of timeshare you own split evenly into $100 monthly payments.
Hiding individual tabs is necessary for one of my own core workflow addons that broke with the recent changes: panorama/tab-groups.

With tab-hiding in, the "Panorama View" extension successfully replicates all the features I wanted from the old version of the addon.

Mouse-gestures/addons-in-system-page is still the last big gripe for me too, but even with the current limitations, the situation works well enough for me 80% of the time.
Hello all! I built Fastbmk.com as a fast, lightweight and reliable bookmarking service. You can create bookmarks with tags and notes. List bookmarks by tag. Search bookmarks. Import and export bookmarks.

Browser addon is available for Firefox and Chrome. Using addon, you can create bookmark and check if the current page is already bookmarked.

I intentionally used a minimal set of web technologies to create a tool for everyday use, which doesn't waste resources of client's computer.

Minimalistic design Low CPU/Memory usage Quick server responses

I already use the service on a daily basis and it works just fine. So I invite you to try it too :) Currently the service is more like a minimum viable product. A lot of features are planned to be implemented in the future.

So your opinion, questions, suggestions and ideas are greatly appreciated :)
Botswana is a model country for Africa. It is ahead culturally, socio-economically and educationally of many countries in South America, Asia and even Europe. Conservation efforts over the last 20 years have been on par with Yosemite. It's important to build a full understanding of the problem before pushing solutions.

Source: Visited Botswana in April
Tearing Down Dropbox and Box's Pricing (Case Study – 19k Data Points)
Agreed, they definitely were. But those early devices like the eeePc were exploding the market segmentation of thin/light being a price premium. (Fujitsu and Toshiba were the players there) The customers were nerds and the OEMs were mostly bit players.

The iPad and Chromebook is where the market was exploded. Companies like Comcast were buying 40k iPads to displace laptops. That’s when shit got real.
I grew up in Silicon Valley, and I realized at an early age that it has no culture.
> Also 1v1 me scrub

I wanted to play SF against the bot so badly - even knowing I'd get absolutely destroyed over and over agin
He did not consult the board (nor did he need to as he controls a majority of stock, but its customary), it was clearly a personal choice by him.
Intel Has No Plans to Patch TLBleed Hyper-Threading CPU Exploit
I've regained a lot of mental peace once I quit Instagram. When you have hundreds of friends and follow other random people on the platform, you get the impression that every single person is always on a beach in Bali, eating at Michelin star restaurants, riding lambos and partying with attractive successful people in the most exclusive venues out there. All the while you're a corporate drone sitting in a cubicle all day, or you're stuck in traffic, or are dealing with a shitty boss, or you're trying to figure out how to pay rent.

In reality, those people don't have that lifestyle. They're simply marketers and FOMO generators, but our brains aren't super good at seeing past that.

It's analogous to how regular people don't realize just how much Photoshop and photographic skill goes into making someone look as good as they do in magazines and on their IG feed. We look at them and immediately conclude that we're some kind of a sub-human degenerate species compared to them, whereas in reality it's all bullshit.

It feels SO much better to swim in one's lane, not looking around to see how everybody else is doing, especially when it's not real.

I'm not a religious person, but there's something really powerful in the admonition not to not covet your neighbor's spouse, house, animals (car?) etc. Except it's much worse with IG, where you're exposed daily to hundreds if not thousands of "neighbors" who are all showing off their pretend-success.

The genius of IG is that it makes people willingly subscribe to hours of marketing every day.
For me the problem was only when firefox was running in retina mode. Going into Applications > Firefox > Right Click Get Info > Check "Open in Low Resolution"

The problem was fixed, but all the text looks bad now.
Sane defaults matter. Why does brotli do maximum compression by default?
In the 90's there was at least one good software book: 'The C Programming Language' by messrs. Kernighan and Ritchie - you may have heard of it? It correctly told you, among other things, everything you really need to know about using pointers in C. It is still available.
Thank you kindly!
Mackay's information theory text book is wonderful.
Product page: https://cloud.google.com/filestore/

(disclosure: I work in GCP, but not on this product. Just happy to see it go public for more users.)
Japan unveils Hello Kitty-themed bullet train
A successful business is not the goal of an addict who deals, just enough flow of cash/product to skim some (product) off the top for themselves.
You would be making monthly payments of $5200
Japan has a conviction rate of over 99%, most of which are secured on the back of a confession.

https://californiainnocenceproject.org/2013/01/japan-concern...
I don't really care for hilighting peoples past skepticism but this guy literally asked for it:

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This is not going to be one of the best tech acquisitions of the next decade. YouTube helped to propel Google into content. It also helped to commoditise web video in a massive way: reminiscent of the way which Google commoditised search (YouTube is probably just short of being a byword for online video at this point).

Instagram is a photo service in a sea of other photo services. Photography has been around on the web in meaningful ways for a long time. Flickr lost out to Facebook in the community stakes, and Instagram is doing great in whatever-the-fuck market it's in (the share-to-my-twitter-followers market?), but this is not Google acquiring YouTube.

Bookmark this comment. See you in 2022.

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3818055
Seconded if you have ever been cycling behind a badly maintained diesel buss and had to stop because of the fumes half way up a hill you will empathise.
Over-the-road shipping is obviously heavily subsidized by the government in the form of the interstate highway system.
I don't eat meat for fun. I eat meat because I like it and humans are omnivores.

That said I try to reduce meat consumption and I buy as clean as possible. Organic makes sense when it comes to meat because of animal welfare and because it tastes much better. I also eat "lesser" parts and I love offal. I believe that when we kill an animal for food we should eat everything and not just the filets and entrecotes.

I agree with you that mass meat production is an atrocity and one of the biggest moral human failings.

There are alternatives, but they don't scale and are obviously more expensive.

If factory meat becomes the only available option I'm out.
DATA.ECO- Decentralized AI-powered data authentication protocol
Again: no-email-exposed-never-not-even-encrypted-or-hashed. So just an IP address and user agent; if that is a leak, I would recommend disconnecting from the network altogether.
For me it just consistently hovers around 18% cpu. Chrome on the same site sites around 1%... could it be optimized for memory usage isn’t always better if it means more cpu usage?
> The Fed sets interest rates, not the US government.

Who said anything about US gov? If I say "the US sets USD interest rates", responding that "it's not the US gov, it's the Fed" sounds likes you're using an argument that's often used in a different conversation.
The Counterfeit Parts Problem (2009) [pdf]
As an American: same.

It makes more sense when you consider that in many U.S. states, the criminal justice system is used as a political weapon. Felony disenfranchisement is an important means of keeping minority populations from the ballot box. If you don't like how minorities vote, targeted laws and selective policing, prosecution, and sentencing can help you suppress their votes.

From the article:

> he was confident that a jury would sympathize with his plight.

Hoping for a sympathetic jury in California might not be a bad gamble, but for a man with a Hispanic name and appearance, the odds are not so good in Kansas.
Hi HN! I'm one of the authors of this resource. Here's a little bit of background on why we created this resource:

Adversarial machine learning is a relatively new but rapidly developing field. It's easy to see why people are excited about this research area: ML systems are being increasingly deployed in the real world, and yet, they're very easy to fool with maliciously perturbed inputs. There have been dozens of proposed attacks and hundreds of proposed defenses against malicious inputs to machine learning systems. To help researchers keep up with developments in this field, we created this community-run reference for state-of-the-art adversarial example defenses.

Unlike most subfields of ML, security is a negative goal: the goal is to produce a machine learning system that can't be fooled. Showing that a system can't be fooled is really hard.

Measuring progress in traditional machine learning can be done through a monotonically increasing objective: if a paper increases accuracy on a given benchmark from 94% to 95%, progress has been made. Future papers may improve on the benchmark, but accuracy will not decrease. In contrast, measuring progress in adversarial machine learning is exceptionally difficult. By definition, the metric used to measure accuracy on a given defense is success on the best attack (that respects the threat model), which may not exist at the time of publication. This is why future third-party analyses of defense techniques are important.

robust-ml.org lists current defenses along with analyses of the defenses, making it easy to get a complete picture of which techniques have been shown to be broken and which techniques currently seems to be working.
I'm not a big fan of STARTTLS, I'd rather just have implicit TLS (All or nothing) from the get go.
Psychedelic drugs and their countercultural following were transforming into something like a radical religion in the mid 20th century (the 60s prominently).

An example:

Timothy Leary was a Harvard psychologist who went a big rouge and was said to be "the most dangerous man in America" by Nixon. His slogan was "Turn on, tune in, drop out" and a lot of people were taking him seriously.

Charles Manson used LSD to indoctrinate his cult members.

Psychedelics are powerful tools, they can give profound, religious experiences and the people administering and using them have a lot of power to change their worldview, behaviours, etc. It seems they can be used to do a lot of good or bad or something in between like any powerful tool, but they were being used by a counterculture that wanted quite a lot of change very fast.
Well...

If dst is larger than src, the strcpy* family of functions will also copy over the null byte.

If dst is shorter than src, and if strlen(src) is used as arg for strncpy then the function will overflow in dst and your null byte will also be outside dst buffer. In hardened environments you wouldn't trust strings to contain null byte if it comes from network or user and use strlcpy with known size of dst then append a null byte at end of dst anyway to ensure it is null terminated.

Using strlen to compare buffer sizes is totally wrong and is the source for many bugs (hint, strlen doesn't actually return size of anything but the distance of the first null byte from the address you provide it).
Peeling the Covers Off the Summit Supercomputer
IBM literally does not care about “the AI community”. They will strip-mine the AI hype then move on.
You are now a consumer.

Welcome to the machine.

Your primary function to society is to consume.

Congratulations.
From the school of bad faction, un-fucking-readable,Tom Wolfe would be rolling in his grave :]
Good point on nabilone being an analogue, not THC itself.

I guess my point is that the DEA doesn’t require it’s scheduling to be logical at all.
Setting up a VPC brought back a nostalgic feeling of manually setting up subnets and routes on unix boxes.
"Fixing." Don't ask me how many sites are still only supporting Basic Auth, in 2018 - I frequent several. How is FF ("they") supposed to fix that?
Ironically Mrs Thatcher (former chemist) questioned the dash to diesel instead of clean burn engines back when the policy of favoring diesel over petrol was being discussed.
We tend to have issues with Equal rights/protections: slavery, voting rights, [school] segregation. Please help us understand how to do this Equally:

> Furthermore, (1) write a function to determine whether a given Person has a (natural inalienable) right: what information may you require? (2) write a function to determine whether any two Persons have equal rights.
Mindright, a non-profit that advocates for mental health does this. but its for students up to 21 YOA , but the check in is done via text message.
The 70% Rule: When Imperfect Understanding Is Best
$100BB strikes me as true on the face of it, but there's something in my gut that tells me that is much too large a valuation.

Is a television network worth $100BB? That's what Instagram/Youtube/Netflix etc. are becoming a network of original shows. Of course, Instagram/Facebook are still early so they still look like Youtube in their early days, but they'll all converge to the same point of just outright creating their own original content.
If you have a point please make it more substantively than by helicopter.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I use tab center redux. Worth noting it doesn't do trees (just a long vertical list if tabs).
SQL and the relational model is designed for good performance rather than predictable performance. It may use statistics collected at runtime to improve performance, so this is not predictable - but it will be fast and getting faster. Hardcoding the query plan will most likely be slower unless you know the usage patterns up front - including the amount of data in the tables. This is very rarely the case.
Oh, the submitter had already changed it. The original submitted title was "STARTTLS Everywhere: Let's Encrypt, but for SMTP").
I think it requires a different mindset in that with programming, I can, for many tasks but not all, kind of get in the zone and crank things out. But (for me) design is not like that. It's more experimental, a bit slower paced, requires a lot of subjective decisions and iterations. And sometimes the changes are very minor -- it's no code refactoring typically. But a number of small changes can have a big impact (just like code in a way). I think part of the problem is the decision tree is very big and the subjectivity makes it easy to go down the wrong path. So it's easy to dismiss it as too hard and settle for subpar.

I think all of that is fine as long as you pick it up again another day and keep on trying to make it better. I was all set to hire a designer to help with my most recent side project but I wanted to tidy it up a bit first and I ended up really happy with my changes and decided not to go with a designer.

So I think it is about effort and being willing to approach it as something different that takes time and relaxed effort to improve at.

As a side note, I'd recommend not studying (or accepting as ideal) designers output before evaluating it critically. A lot seem fixated still on print and ship static screens that often overlook user experience (or don't convey it at all). When I see things like more than 3 to 4 different font sizes on a web page design, I start to suspect the designer is more print-orientated. Obviously this is subjective and I'm talking about an initial design. Sometimes such a variety of font sizes is required but I wouldn't expect that early on. The hint here is that simplicity is incredibly powerful in design and it is more accessible to beginners so even if you think 10 font sizes on a page is fine, you might not want to go that path as a beginner.