skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was supposed to be gold standard. The "inverted pyramid"[0]. It's taught to journalists as very important. It's also universally ignored everywhere.

I've seen one news source do that, by putting a bullet-point summary at the beginning of the article. Sadly, I don't remember which one was that (I don't usually pay attention to who is writing, when an article lands on HN). Most others prefer to do the inverse - bait you with the headline, make the beginning confusing, and only later on reveal the important details.

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[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_pyramid_(journalism)
'Localization' not just language customization. But also what locals want.

- Dual SIM phones. Most people have multiple SIM, mostly prepaid and recharge them based on the cheapest offer. Incoming calls are free. So if a provider has better offer on outgoing calls, that sim is used that month for making calls and next month they use the other number.

- SD card support. Best selling phones support this. People carry lots of movies and music with them, mostly pirated and takes lot of space. And you can normally buy SD cards pre-filled with popular songs and movies that you just insert into your phone when traveling.

- 3.5 inch headphone jack. Yes, people need this. Bluetooth sets are costly.. $30 for bt headphone, compare that to a $100 xiaomi phone.

- And of course, side loading of apps. Android allows this, iphone no. So you get apps from some one and just use it, without going to play store.
Let's Encrypt now offers wildcard certs, so you don't have to expose specific internal domains in the certificate transparency logs anymore (just the top-level one).
Former NSA spies found to be working for the cryptocurrency company Blockstream
Money is going into biotech fortunately though. Sam Altman started nudging YC towards biotech a few years ago (one article example https://www.wired.com/2015/11/y-combinator-sam-altman-interv... ) and to date has funded the following companies directly involved in cancer research and treatement: Cambridge Cancer Genomics, Oncobox, Mednet, HistoWiz, Luminist, iSono Health, Notable Labs. And I agree, cancer needs figured out (at least the common ones) I lost my father's mother and my father to cancer in my youth and my mother is a survivor of thyroid cancer, I figure I'm a ticking time bomb.

Space needs to be a priority though, we're quickly screwing this planet and we're one space-rock or super-volcano away from extinction (both have happened before, both will almost certainly happen again).

What I'm more upset about is people spending obscene fortunes on Farmville, World of Warcraft gold, Candy Crush EleventeenNinenty4 Now With Extra Bedazzle, Fortnight etc. Energy, agriculture, medical, space are often neglected in favor of the iPad fruit of the month app of the week. It is extremely frustrating.
I know a ton of people with dogs and have heard every owner say that, and only one or two were serious. The joke is usually that the dogs like people too much and would think the intruder was a new friend. Perhaps it's a regional thing but I don't think most expect protection from their dogs
I am glad it was helpful.
Core counts from i3 through i7, threading for i9. According to the article, anyway.
Ask HN: How much money would you need to feel comfortable never working again?
What's your number, beyond which you can do anything you want without worrying about money or working for someone else? Does this change for you when you factor in having a family?
A vastly more interesting blog post about the same work:
https://ai.googleblog.com/2018/03/open-sourcing-hunt-for-exo...

It contains many more details, like techniques used to investigate what their net was actually using to decide and a link the the actual paper.
To be fair cancer is super overfunded and a waste of money to fund relative to lots of more easily cured third world diseases or poverty itself.

Always someone with a better case than you.
>Sometimes I think the deepest, most absurdist corners of the internet are its last bastion of humanity.

You might have overdosed on memes, my dude.
A Beginner's Guide to Serverless for Python Developers
How is that an "indictment" of "the capitalist system"?
No. My life is really expensive right now (kids at college), and I need the money.
Building a Robot Umpire with Deep Learning Video Analysis
Even if the UK decides to accept fraud and have a customs-free border, shipping is bi-directional; once the tailbacks start, lorries start parking up on the M20. Drivers are going to be reluctant to cross the channel if they can't get back again in a timely fashion.

(Are EU truck licenses valid in the UK after Brexit? And vice versa? Who knows?)
An option is to write your own web server and have the likes of Cloudflare provide TLS (and a bunch of other stuff!) on top of it for free. Best of both worlds.
In those situations, why not go ahead and keep the code up-to-date and consistent, and simply not deploy when you don't need to?
Efficiently Labeling Data for NLP
You could say the same about development vs. politics and absurd emotional dramas in the past. It turned out to be wrong.

Truth is, it's not developers that are hiring you. It's the regular folks.
ASRT_SpeechRecognition – A Deep Learning Based Chinese Speech Recognition System
Very cool! Is there a link to the repo? I didn't see one...
I disabled Javascript in my mobile browser a year or so back for privacy reasons, and it's made my browsing experience much better - no more ads, subscription popups, or bloated pages that grind my phone's cpu to a crawl - and, of course, no more "helpful" mobile-specific behaviors. While I fairly frequently have to make exceptions for sites that are nonfunctional without JS (anything video-related, for example), I recommend trying it out.

Of course, that does not excuse poor web design.

Disclosure: I have a vested interest in getting more people to disable JS, as it means developers are more incentivized to design with us in mind.
A user opting for a free / cheaper / ad-supported app is not doing anything illegal or wrong. It's how free market works and benefits the consumer.

Implying that not buying into a more expensive platform with more expensive software is illegal is just wrong.
IntelliJ IDEA 2018.2 has been released
I think if we in the U.S. stopped killing people in senseless wars, we could use some of the trillions we spend on that to both fund medical research and fly to Mars. But that's obviously a fantasy.
I thought part of the problem was the lack of a magnetic field? I'm not sure if that has anything to do with keeping an atmosphere or just the ability to survive on the surface with radiation protection though...
Firefox or any other browser that downloads the PDFs that you browse. When searching/browsing PDFs, my firefox is set up to download the file into ~/Downloads/.
Objectively speaking of course you're right, but maybe he values his intelligence/work ethic more highly than his money (the latter being largely a result of the former + luck).
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Source: Ken Whistler

Date: July 16, 2018

Background

The UTC is now working on the Unicode 12.0 release cycle. The tentative
release date that I and the Editorial Committee are working towards for
that release is March 5, 2018.
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This seems like a terrible move just as AMD is getting more competitive. AMD cpus are just going to be that much bigger bang for the buck. I don't buy that they're going to limit ht to only their top end cpus.
> That’s the reality of privatized healthcare.

What makes you say this a problem with "privatized healthcare" rather than a systemic problem with how it works in the U.S.?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landauer%27s_principle
Is America Encouraging the Wrong Kind of Entrepreneurship? (2017)
Assuming this is true (which I doubt - HT was the main differentiation between the i5 and i7), this seems like the exact opposite approach you'd think they'd take with Ryzen breathing down their necks and boasting high core counts- AMD's i7 equivalents are all 8 core / 16 threads - Intel would want to return fire in some way.
New Google book Site Reliability Workbook, free download until August 23
For me, philanthropy is about money, cooperation and identification and selection of causes. Has Silicon Valley helped in those areas to improve philanthropy?
Or you could leave it all in there (cheaper and easier) just disabled and instead enjoy better yields:

* Parts with broken HT can be shipped as fully working non-HT parts.

* High-leakage parts can be shipped as they now pass the power screening.
The good news is that you can ignore the 1% differences. Here's your new decision tree:

1. How much can I afford?

2. In that budget, do I need maximum instructions per second on one core or maximum cores?

If maximum cores, AMD is over there.
You need to consider rates for things. "Multiple reports" means absolutely nothing when you're talking about something that's been running for decades for one can only imagine how many total millions of hours or whatever other metric you want to use.

For instance you can find that thousands of people have been killed because of seat belts or air bags. But these things don't really matter because the rate of incidence is extremely low. Perhaps also a bad example on my part as they also save lives when they work, but you can pick practically anything -- given a large enough sample, you'll find people manage to die to just about everything. My favorite is Isadora Duncan - a celebrity, no less! So the key question is what is the incident rate here? Given the most condemning data we have is "multiple reports" over 2 decades, that sounds like a pretty good baseline for 'extremely safe.'

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Also, can you please provide evidence of even just a single duck boat with windows? I just tried pretty hard to find even a single one, and failed. But yeah, velcro or drop sheets are of course part of the system. And again those are designed to be able to be rapidly removed.
You can (and generally do) have multiples of these tokens. They are easily revoked. The Fido only tokens are $15.
In general I don't think blow-by-blow Intel SKU rumors are a good use of HN's time, but it's useful to understand the context here: https://www.computerbase.de/2018-07/spezifikationen-core-i9-... The i9 is rumored to be 8C/16T, so Intel has to make the i7 worse in some way. An 8C/8T i7-9xxx is presumably still a little faster than a 6C/12T i7-8xxx even though it has fewer threads.
I respectfully disagree. Calories are not created equal.

https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/theres-no-sugar-coating-...

https://www.webmd.com/diet/news/20120626/all-calories-not-cr...

"That’s just not what the unbiased studies have shown. Looking only at calories ignores the metabolic effects of each calorie; the source of the calorie changes how you digest it and how you retrieve energy from it."
Nice. An "easier" source of water is a huge bonus for the first people landing no Mars.
There is no reward for rising prices as I need somewhere to live, I likely won’t realise those gains.
And this is really important! As SpaceX goes from “recovery is a nice bonus” to “recovery is a standard part of every launch,” they need to be able to handle challenging conditions. Weather delays for launch already cost a lot of time and money, and requiring perfect weather at the launch site and out at sea could make it much worse. I think this is a really important milestone for them, even though it doesn’t look that way at first.
Note that this article is not about the random number generating scheme, but about post-processing to get a random number within a certain range. That said, the author specifically points out xoshiro as a random number generating scheme to watch out for:

One other concern we might have is that some generators have weak low-order bits. For example, the Xoroshiro+ and Xoshiro+ families of PRNGs have low-order bits that fail statistical tests. When we perform % 52 (because 52 is even) we pass the lowest bit straight through into the output.
Common usage is "I'd rather rewrite than understand the problem", as well as "I disagree with decisions that were made."

> Perhaps this will help: http://wiki.c2.com/?TechnicalDebt

Seriously, it won't. That's the point. People overload these words. It's a cute ideal definition though.
The EFF has a good write-up on this also:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/07/federal-circuit-reject...
Yes but that's exactly the problem. He's focuing on himself. He has huge resources beyond his mind (ego). It lacks self awareness to think only you can solve problems and as a manager of multiple companies he must know other people are better at some things especially when they are 100% focused on the problem.

He could also use his media reach to publicize some charities and not just focus on himself.
"that are a bit outdated now due to scientific discoveries, like finding the polar caps are lousy with water ice"

They are? The north cap has more than 800,000 cubic kilometers of water in it. Not much compared to Earth, but in space terms that seems pretty abundant to me.
Mars Express detects liquid water hidden under the south pole of Mars
Intel claimed that HT used about 5% of the die area, but that was with HT Pentium 4. The numbers probably changed in 15 years.
>If you look at drill rigs used by humans for water wells and such, the rover will need to be 8x larger and heavier than the current Curiosity.

Not necessarily. The hole will be stationary relative to Mars so you could just send a little base station with radio and power that drops a paper towel roll sized module with an unspooling data/power link cable and your science stuff into the ice. It can either bore its way through like a TBM (hard but good scientific value since you can measure environment on the way down) or just have it heat itself and let gravity drop it through (no moving parts but less scientific value since you're altering the environment around the probe). When you hit water stop unspooling the cable and just hang it there by the cable.

I'm sure college students in Maine or Montana would be able to pool their ice fishing expertise and come up with some working prototypes if given a sufficient quantity of beer.

It's fun to play armchair engineer.
This is the status quo with i5 v. i7 binning, AFAIK.
My three-year-old son still asks me to "watch the rocket" every few days. I am always happy to oblige :)
This is indeed a very helpful read. Thanks for the link.
Is that really the exact language they used in their briefs?
At least with the ones above (Soundtrack Business), all that licensing seems to be included at least in US/CA. Sounds really complicated to deal with each one otherwise...
The facts on the ground demonstrate that whatever you think about what proves what, and how hard it would be to garnish wages three states away, that isn't how things happen.

Rich, sophisticated people with good lawyers can and do have a big hassle convincing New York tax collectors that they are no longer residents.

If it was just as easy is disappearing, these people would do it. They spend tens of thousands of dollars (if not more) convincing New York that they aren't residents. If they could do it more cheaply, they would.

And if the facts on the ground don't match your theory, then your theory is wrong.
> why are you skeptics so certain that it's just another fad diet that will come and go?

Because, like most skeptics, we have seen this pattern before. Supposed scientific support and loads of anecdotal evidence are common to all popular fad diets. The scientific support of IF is also much less solid than it's advocates would have you believe.

> IF can actually be a useful enforcement mechanism for the first two parts of "eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables"

I agree with this - so can basically any other fad diet. People that recognize IF as a method of enforcing a basic CICO diet, I agree with. There are plenty of people that, like any other fad diet, think that IF is somehow special in ways unrelated to it's restriction of calories. That's what makes it the same as any other fad diet to me.

> I've actually experienced weight loss, less hunger, better focus, more stable energy levels, lower blood pressure, better sleep

People report this from atkins, vegan, paleo, keto, juice cleanse, weight watchers, south beach, etc. I am happy that you've found a diet that works for you. I hope that everyone finds a healthy diet that works for them.

I just want people to realize that CICO will always be the key to weight loss regardless of how it is achieved, and "eat food. not too much. mostly plants" will (probably) always be the key to a health diet.
For that matter, it's not that I'm opposed to asking the kids to spend time reading. It's an excess of assigned reading as homework that seems worrisome to me, precisely because it might mean that the only exposure some kids get to reading is a bunch of crap busywork reading. As soon as you start regimenting a thing like this, you suck all the joy out of it.

What if, instead, schools simply set aside a chunk of time out of the school day for reading, maybe 15 minutes, maybe 30, and leave it entirely up to the individual kids to decide what it is that they read?
Import taxes in India are punitive, the article goes into this and it looks like Apple is doing in-country assembly in India for some models because of this.
Agree - the only real protection is as early warning (barking). Then the intruder licking begins.
L1 cache is shared between threads on the same core so, with SMT, you can attack the code that runs on the sibling thread too.

However, that is more for Spectre, which abuses the reads done from foreign code to observe the effect they have on the cache. That foreign code can be the kernel, another process, the hypervisor, etc. running on the same core. Meltdown can read the entire comments of memory without needing foreign code and therefore SMT doesn't matter for it.
ah I remember that. I can't help but think in a modern context that this bit falls into the whole, "nostalgic for a better time that never existed fallacy" though.

For example: old crufty rant about how no one talks to each other and everyone is on their phones. Get a video from the 1960s of people on a train in NYC. Everyone has their head in a book or newspaper or magazine. By the 1980s, some nerds have walkmans. By the 90s everyone has discmans, plus their book. Today every has their phone, on which their either reading a book, a magazine or listening to a podcast or music. The media is different, it's a bit more interactive, but it really hasn't changed that much.
maybe we should let Elon Musk nuke mars https://edition.cnn.com/2015/09/11/us/elon-musk-mars-nuclear...
This is a false dichotomy that always annoys me. It is entirely possible that by spending $400B to safely send people to Mars and live there, especially in a moderately high radiation environment, that we will discover EXACTLY the mechanisms that send cells into cancer states and how to reverse that so they stop. Otherwise we're going to have colonists getting cancer and dying too quickly.

Then not only do we get to be multiplanetary so that when the crap really starts hitting the fan there is a lifeboat, but we also cure cancer.
Chinese investors realize the market has topped out.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chinese-real-estate-investors-r...
I don't mean to discuss this in the abstract. The left and the right both have proven themselves to go too far and the end result is the same: genocide.

The issue is that we have an indicator for the right (ethnic nationalism) and that we don't have one for the left.
> we're quickly screwing this planet

I'd love to see humans achieve interplanetary colonization in my lifespan, but that one is a lame reason: as much as we hurt Earth, it will remain much more habitable than Mars.
> The rationalization comes after that.

For Android users as well. I hear more Android users defending their choices than Apple users. You talk about peers, but Apple has about 20% of the mobile OS market, the rest is Android. There are more Android devices. So if anything, you'll "notice" your peers have Androids.

And I dislike usability arguments. Often they're rooted in learned behavior. Pretty much: "This doesn't work like this other thing I've used all my life, therefore it's not as 'user-friendly'".

I found Android devices to be a little more frustrating at first because I was used to other paradigms. I get frustrated with Windows 10 because they've changed where a lot of things are from previous versions. It took me a while to get accustomed to Mac OS X's various paradigms.

I personally prefer the iPhone SE. It's got enough beef under the hood and comes in a form factor I'm physically comfortable with. I find most other high-end iPhones and Galaxy devices to be way too large. I don't need a 13 inch screen on my goddamn phone. Hell, if they could make a modern phone the size of the iPhone 4 (Android or iOS, I don't care), I'd be happy as fuck.

But I know exactly why I chose what I chose and I don't cast aspersions on those who choose differently because I don't need to defend my choice.
Control of Data and the Future of TV Advertising
I'm starting to believe that calorie restriction is the key, with carbohydrate restriction playing a role as well.

For context, I'm a T2 diabetic, whose diabetes has "progressed" to the point that I take insulin. I'd recently had to adjust my dose to 100U / day (I only use a once a day, long-acting insulin at the moment).

Then a buddy of mine mentioned a book on fasting[1] and said that some diabetics had had great results from fasting. I ordered the book, but haven't read it yet. But I did start a sort of psuedo-fasting routine of my own design. Basically, I allow myself a normal sized meal, and then for the next 48 hours I an aggregate total of maybe 1000 calories. A typical meal during that time is a thin soup made of chicken broth, jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, cherry peppers, cactus and onion, with some spices thrown in for flavor. Note that jalapeno peppers, banana peppers, and cherry peppers, and cactus share a common trait: extremely low calorie content, and low carbohydrate content.

Anyway, after doing this for about 2 weeks, I can already see a pronounced difference (for the better) in my blood sugar numbers. And that's even after lowering my insulin dose a bit.

I don't know that the protocol I'm using is anything close to what the experts recommend or not. But it definitely seems to be having a positive impact. I'm really looking forward to seeing how this works out long-term. Especially once I can start lifting weights again (I hurt my arm a few weeks ago doing some bench presses and haven't been able to lift for a while). Resistance training has been shown to help with insulin resistance, so I'm hoping the combination of regular lifting and this dietary approach will yield some good results.

[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Guide-Fasting-Intermittent-A...
Dr. Eric Berg has a great Youtube channel where he explains his take on how a ketogenic diet and also intermittent fasting (and the two together) can help to reduce insulin resistance (and type 2 diabetes) and improve metabolism. I personally find his explanations very helpful:

His channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3w193M5tYPJqF0Hi-7U-2g

One video: "Can Diabetes be reversed?"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdpnAkYlWwo
reminds me of pre ps4 design, Sony was fond of overengineering with mild tooling, now they're on 90% standard hardware
I assume he meant https://slashdot.org/