skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I sleep 10 to 11h per night. I may trim that to 6h one day but no more than once per month and if there is an absolute emergency - but then I know my productivity will be killed for at least 2 days.

OTOH, my inspiration will be higher: I will have more creative ideas on how to combine stuff, but I will be too tired to do any of that. I will just take notes.

With adequate sleep, I do not feel happier or sadder than anyone else. I feel more productive however. Sunday I had never done any python because I preferred perl, but for some specific task there was no option but a python library (well, it was also possible in another language I don't like either)

So on Monday, I learned python, then asynchronous execution with asyncio, then parallelizing with joblib. Tuesday, I coded.

Today I have a python3 daemon with error handling and other niceties ready to be deployed to test. It seems robust enough to require minimal oversight by systemd.

In any case, it will be deployed on all POPs and in production on Friday - even if I must have a bad night. But that means I will not do much next day. But that means I will have other creative ideas!
Same with Vivaldi, FF, and Edge on Win 10. Works in Safari on Mojave though
I think the quote they used in the article puts it pretty well.

“When someone tells you there is problem with your game, they are almost always right. When someone tells you how to fix that problem, they are almost always wrong.”

I don't have experience with games but I had the same conclusion with feedback about music productions and concerts. Some of the most valuable input we got was from people completely ignorant of what goes into making music or the theory thereof. They just tell you that they don't feel it, that a part is odd, etc., but can't put their finger on what is wrong.
On the other hand, some of the most useless input came from people that know a little bit about music, but don't have actual experience doing it. They jump to the solution directly, telling you what to change without being aware of the consequences, what impact for example making one instrument louder has on others, whether it fits into the theme, how much is just their personal taste, etc. Often while being very insistent that they are right.

You should certainly always listen what people say. But honestly for me it was only ever really useful if it came from either (semi-)professionals, or from people that don't know anything.
> The practical resolution of the new narrow-field mode is about 4 * 10^(-7) rad, and it was one order of magnitude larger before.

Amazing! :)

> As far as I know, it works better in the near-infrared than in the red part of the optical range, and it gets worse toward the blue part.

Do you know what is the reason for this? Noise from Rayleigh scattering? EDIT: Already answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17559121

> It's funny that your mention super-resolution microscopy because Stefan Hell, one of the Nobel Prize winners for advances in that field, works in the same city as we do. So far, I don't think we have any overlap with what he does.

Why not arrange a kind of meet-up? :) Surely exchanging ideas would lead to interesting ideas, and in the worst case you can at least by inspired by geeking out over mega- and micro-optics together.
That would work if Google was really good at their own hardware. They aren’t.

Android’s rise to dominance was mostly because of partners like Samsung.

Personal preference but Samsung phones are the only ones which I see are comparable to latest iPhones in terms of speed, features and price.
Great, thank you for the help!
Are there any instances of this happening, ever?

> Yes, the existence of less expensive high-density housing in a neighborhood puts downward pressure on the price of single-family homes.

That's false. If land can be redeveloped into high density housing, developers will pay top dollar for it. An 80-story tower going up next to your bungalow may seem annoying to you, but some developer is going to pay you a mountain of money for that bungalow - way more than you could get for it from a regular purchaser - knock it down, and build their own 90-story tower.
Yeah, the presentation here is just fantastic. I love the combination of essay and dynamic illustration. It's the kind of thing that might be done as a video, but giving the user the control over the flow of time makes it vastly superior for me. I'm totally stealing this approach.
Is this project still active? I remember seeing this years ago, but it seemed like the developer walked away from it.

I would really like to have the ability to install asetniop on Linux, and have the layout be configurable.
They weren't working on development for a decade though. It was a decade between games, with a large amount of time between them when no development took place. Same with Diablo.
Excellent points. Chrome has the best development tools. I used the dev tools so much that I just launch Chrome out of habit when I want to browse the web.
Could one use that information the other way around to make estimates for expected "missing data" in Hubble images taken in areas where VLT has not looked yet, for example to decide where to look next?

<something something throw machine learning at it cliché>
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To put the $5B fine into perspective:

- Google had an operating income of 32.9 billion in 2017 [0]. $5B fine for anti-trust practices is 15.2% (5 / 32.9) of that.
- HSBC had an operating income of 63.8 billion in 2017 [1]. In 2017, HSBC suffered a $1.9B fine for _willfully_ relaxing it's anti-money laundering filters in order to profit from the illegal drug industry, regimes that are embargoed, and entities or individuals who are suspected of financing terrorism [2]. That's a 1.9 / 63.8 = 0.29% fine for helping finance murderers.

That puts the Google fine into perspective, but it probably says more about the HSBC case than it does about Google's.

It should be noted that HSBC broke a deal to avoid prosecution, thanks to then Attorney General Eric Holder who overruled prosecutors' recommendation to pursue criminal charges. As part of the deal, HSBC confessed to above allegations, which was just a theory at the time.

[0] https://www.statista.com/statistics/513129/operating-income-...
[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/258399/total-operating-i...
[2] https://www.marketwatch.com/story/netflix-documentary-re-exa...
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That's a wrong analogy, because the security itself is there, it's just that the user has to turn it on. It would be more like selling a car and allowing to drive it without seatbelts.
Support is rather abysmal.
Oh, interesting failure case.
I'm pretty sure that an important part of the Microsoft argument was that you couldn't uninstall ie and it was used by certain system functions even if you set a different default. That's an important distinction.

(Im a Googler, but that's not particularly relevant to this comment)
The paper author gives a very clear talk explaining a new dimensional reduction algorithm. From the video, UMAP shows some impressive benefits including a substantial speedup over t-SNE (13x on MNIST).
My credentials: In high school and university, I used WordStar 3.3 on CP/M. Today I'm a technical writer. I reluctantly stopped using WordStar when WordPerfect pushed it off the stage.

It's hard to state advantages WordStar has over modern editors. Maybe looking at it in a historical context helps.

User friendly: WordStar was for non-technical users. "User friendly" was frequently abused in industry marketing. The implication of user hostility was real. You often had to assemble your computer from a kit. I don't mean plug in an SSD and a graphics card. I mean solder chips onto a board and cross your fingers. A non-techie could use WordStar out of the box.

Power users: Newbies dedicated 1/3 of screen space to an interactive command list. Power users used all screen space for text.

WYSIWYG: Editing and formatting were traditionally separate programs. Competitors sorta kinda integrated them. WordStar seamlessly combined them for the best WYSIWYG that display hardware allowed.

Flow: If there is a genuine advantage, this is it. WordStar was for professional touch typists, like secretaries and writers, paid to bang out words all day. But keyboards were simpler, typically 50-60 keys. WordStar used only Shift and Control as meta keys and laid out its keyboard commands intuitively. WordStar let you stay in the flow to get to your final draft quickly.

Adaptable: Computer, printer, and communication hardware rivaled the Cambrian explosion in variety and incompatibility. WordStar worked predictably on serial terminals, dedicated displays, and daisywheel and dot matrix printers, serial or parallel, one floppy or two.

Ecosystem: MicroPro and third parties supported WordStar with many add-on applications for spelling, mail merge, and so on. Yes, spell checking was an extra.

Nostalgia: WordStar pushed the envelope in its day. Comparing it to today's editors and word processors, WordStar is quaint. But maybe since then we've forgotten some important reasons about why we use computers. WordTsar might be a good reminder.
That isnt bad at all. I will re-read the article and consider it. Thanks for taking the time to respond!
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Inability to find workers seems to be a very common issue we have here in Utah. There are way too many >$15/hr opportunities that don't require experience or credentials. It's a miracle to keep competent employees at anything less than that. You can also afford to buy a house here for around $15 per hour.
That makes sense to me for power users and people who are tech savvy, but most Android users are neither. I believe there are a billion of them now.
I literally don't understand.

If Google manufactured all Android phones, and Android were closed source, and Android came pre-installed with the Play Store, Search, and Chrome, I think it wouldn't be a problem, right?

That turns this into an open/closed dichotomy.
Build a sortable list with Laravel and Vue.js
This is highly confusing to me. Pipelines in Jenkins are fragile. You can spend entire days trying to do very common things and run into tons of friction. The differences between scripted and declarative are severe, in terms of how erros and continuation are handled, the way that plugins interact depending on how you've nested stages and steps. Even things like environment vars and CWD can be a pain to coordinate. Trivial pipelines take far, far, far too long to setup and get working well.

This just appears to be a layer on top of the still-limited declarative pipelines. I'm not sure trading a groovy DSL for an extra layer (of yaml, no less) is a good deal.

It doesn't solve the weirdness around multibranch, it doesn't address the mismatch between having a parameterized pipeline where that parameterization has to live outside the Jenkinsfile (or if it is encoded in the Jenkinsfile, it acts really oddly, like running the Jenkinsfile actually reconfigures the job that invoked it, etc). This is why everyone has to continue using Groovy DSL and/or JJB to reinstantiate parameterized jobs or handle jobs that deal with multiple Jenkinsfiles in a project.

I know Jenkins isn't going anywhere but it's legacy shows a lot.
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> However, combinations where the ring finger is up while its neighbors are down is physiologically problematic.

Really? Why?
Very interesting! I can't speak to the accuracy of the data, but the overall app is quick, simple and easy to use. One minor UI suggestion: in the live search results, perhaps color code the GI, as you do on the results page. e.g. for "Apple", "GI:38" would be in Green to denote "low" instead of Teal.
Perhaps it's the opposite angle. When they're all family, it's understandable why things were so stable. Any nationalism and cultural differences that might cause tribalistic wars were tempered by family ties and shared blood of the leadership.
It is the only sensible way. Your profit is in no way representative for what size of fine can be paid or is applicable.

The size of the fine is based on the violation type and size, revenue and a case-by-case evaluation, as company finances vary wildly.
Not in the same sense, because none of it might pan out. It’s literally research grants, which might be called a subsidy because it’s for the common good, but it’s not about building expensive industries at a cheaper private cost. This is $1.5B. That’s nothing compared to what it costs to build a semi-conductor industry.
Not in disbelief, but could you link me to a source detailing this bribery?
The fact that Google allows other OEMs to install their OS, as opposed to Apple which does not, is being used against them. If the lesson that Google learns is that it will kill it's OEM program then consumers will be worse off.
It would have been if they said "we will fly you home, as per your cover" but they didn't, the flight home was a goodwill gesture. If they weren't going to pay for my 2nd operation, I would have ditched the "reasonable attitude" and claimed for the 1st operation. They knew that, so by offering me the goodwill flight home they were literally trying to make me void my own cover.

Furthermore, the policy says clearly, until I CAN fly home. My DR had explicitly told me I could not. I wasn't going to risk my health for the sake of my arsehole insurance company and their bullshit attempts to wriggle out of paying.

Ask yourself, would YOU have ignored the advice of your DR, who knew your case personally, in favour of the "opinion" of a private company whose sole motivation is financial?
I was also rather confused, as I had not heard of Volvo having been caught, but I did not feel like engaging that deeply.
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Same where. When I miss sleep the world becomes a very confusing dark place. Things that should be easy suddenly become difficult and I can get very short tempered.
I've wondered the same thing but haven't come to a conclusion about it. I'm skeptical of any improvements the ortholinear layout would bring to be honest. If you are using a keyboard enough, the particular locations of any given key will be firmly in your muscle memory. However, perhaps it makes sense ergonomically for a split keyboard like this, since your hands are pretty much exactly perpendicular to the horizontal direction of the keys, so finger extension direction would indicate an ortholinear layout being ideal.
I agree with your sentiment, but there is a lot of off label prescribing and research on ketamine for depression. Much more so than any of the other substances.

It's still in its infancy and doctors are still scamming patients with $600+ IV infusions.

It's important to set the context. Those with treatment resistant mental illness are looking for other options. It makes sense, but often they are vulnerable to pseudoscience.
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Surely there is not enough sleep because you are buzzing after a great experience and/or anticipation of events tomorrow, and then there is anxiety and bad sleep patterns because of stress?

Spending too long in bed due to feeling lethargic and not wanting to get up doesn't result in happiness.

I am a big fan of 8 hours of good sleep a night, and definitely need it to be on top of things, and on some occasions to ward off depression and fuzzy thinking...
Python was specifically designed for many of the use cases that people use perl for. Guido's paper for I think a language called ABC was a precursor to Python and explains some of the motivation for its design.
https://www.quora.com/Speeches-For-the-average-person-speaki...

Average speaker is 150, an auctioneer is 250-400, the fastest person. The fastest talkers male and female can recite over 500,600 words per minute.

People can certainly and some people while exited/upset may.
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At a certain point there's simply going to be too many options. There's already a huge overlap of content between the big players, so it'll come down to who has the best originals.

People aren't going to pay for 3-5 disparate video services, especially where 80% of the same content is available on all of them.
Understood. I was specifically referring to this part:

> plus higher taxes, insurance, and maintenance costs.
> The better question to ask is if any of those other sites who did benchmarks did heavy workload testing on the computers for extended periods of time.

I would expect so—benchmarks often have long-running tasks; if a task only takes a few seconds it's hard to distinguish the overhead from the task itself.

But if nothing else—they will do so going forward.
It's not a ruling. It's an administrative decision. And it's not dangerous. It has nothing to do with trade wars. Even insinuating that this is somehow a corrupt decision that takes aim at American companies is just way off. This decision has been several years in the making, and Google was told to stop their illegal conduct in April 2016.

EU treaty article 102 is about as clear as it gets. Google even had precedence to look at. And finally, they were warned by the EU commission more than 2 years ago but chose not to comply. This is a company with hundreds of lawyers on staff, and with the best law firms on retainer.

The fine is huge, but it's a small fraction of their revenue. This fine is measured based on guidelines that have been the same for more than a decade: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX:52...
Do you know when lack of multitasking actually hurt in MS-DOS?

Copying and formatting floppies!

Everything else wasn't that big deal as desktop user.
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Yes but defining things this way seems to totally breakdown a distinction between 'art' and 'science'. To the point about whether an individual dominating his field is proof that his technique is science it's lacking. Dr. Luke may be Euler or he may be Picasso.
I can definitely see this, I've known a handful of police officers in my life and everyone says the big strapping men are constantly getting into fights where the smaller women aren't. I'm sure there's a certain amount of the men being more likely to instigate, but if you're an inmate going into jail for the night you're not going to score any points with the other folks in there by punching a 110# female officer.
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The typing speed increase wasn't my main concern, it is just a side-effect that I felt would be easily measurable and that some people might care about. I also wanted to get an estimate for how long it would take me to become accustomed to the new keyboard, so measuring typing speed in a rigorous, empirical way seemed the best option. The main reason I did this was ergonomics.
This is great! Forum search is genius, well done.

Let me search by year.
Correct me if I am wrong, but you can still see the URL you navigate to when using https, is that not correct?

Once the connection is established you can't see the traffic between you and the URL.

Is my understanding correct?
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Operationally and technically speaking. What is the full cycle from deals, QA testing, and production operations?

If this is not public, how would it most likely look?
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Cases like these are the reasons why common law grand juries should be utilized. Done correctly, they can serve as a check and balance against institutionalized judicial corruption that operates federally divorced from the people it is supposed to serve.
I think it's Seymour Papert. Mindstorms: Children, Computers, and Powerful Ideas, 1980, ISBN 0-465-04674-6
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Perhaps weighted keys make the difference?..
looks like it to me. i had read this earlier and came back to read comments and i had to go several pages in. why would YC want to sensor this?
I think there's more to the world than "formula" vs "talent".

Skill would be one possible explanation. As would focus. So too could be having an emotional distance from the performances.

Perhaps if Max Martin and Lukas Gottwald had formed a band in 1998 they wouldn't have a single top hit because they would have been putting their attention into performing, touring, and being celebrities. Instead somebody else might have been the producer whose narrow focus was tracking pop music, taking popular artists, and figuring out how to write a song that would take them to #1.
It is, by definition, a perfect copy at the time it is made, albeit potentially displaced in time and space. Yes, after that they diverge, but so what? The situation is exactly analogous to making a copy of a digital image, where there is no economic value attached to "the original" because the very concept is correctly recognized as meaningless.
> Researchers exhumed Nicholas's father Alexander III — himself assassinated in 1881 — to prove "they are father and son."

Alexander III was Nicholas II's father. He died in 1894 of illness (I don't see any hint of assassination). The Alexander who was assassinated in 1881 was Nicholas II's grandfather, Alexander II. Which body got exhumed?
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The standard "singularity looks too much like rapture" argument.

Although unfortunately now only existing in the Internet Archive, here's a pretty decent rebuttal of this standard cognitive stopper by Steven Kaas:

http://web.archive.org/web/20110718031848/http://www.acceler...

After pointing out that the similarity is mostly structural (read: accidental, relevant at best as a heuristic) and listing a set of important differences between the two ideas, he finally concludes:

> It’s also interesting to think about what would happen if we applied “Rapture of the Nerds” reasoning more widely. Can we ignore nuclear warfare because it’s the Armageddon of the Nerds? Can we ignore climate change because it’s the Tribulation of the Nerds? Can we ignore modern medicine because it’s the Jesus healing miracle of the Nerds? It’s been very common throughout history for technology to give us capabilities that were once dreamt of only in wishful religious ideologies: consider flight or artificial limbs. Why couldn’t it happen for increased intelligence and all the many things that would flow from it?
> I would assert that for now, you have to design around latency in real-time multiplayer games.

Yeah but I believe they mostly do that with client-side rendering using the graphics card, and then reconciling that with what the server side "thinks" things should look like.

That sort of thing wouldn't be possible if you're just working with a video stream.
In addition to Nativescript (from Telerik, although the Vue bindings are community-sourced), there's also weex[1], which is backed by Alibaba. Downside is that a lot of the docs are in chinese.

While NS is fairly mature at this point, the vue bindings only reached a 1.0 release this year. There's been a lot of development done on it recently, though. I am unsure if anyone major company has shipped using NS-Vue.

[1]: https://weex.incubator.apache.org/
That's not free. That's a restriction.

Free is letting your users choose what to do, and just making sure you get credit for your work. You can't take ownership of code that's been permissivly licensed, you just don't have to share your contributions. Nobody could just copyright OpenBSDs code and then sue them