skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In addition to users submitting articles, is there a reason this doesn't have a spider of its own based off something like the Google zeitgeist to seed some topics?

This project looks neat, I think first experiences with it would be much more improved if you could seed it with some content.

Maybe this could run my search with other search engines to compare and gain insights.
fool is playing big now.
Brain machine interface controls prosthetic via open EEG
Curious if a potential solution would be having open, read only databases, that you could query directly, vs everyone copying the same data over and over. Kind of how you don’t download Wikipedia but access what you need. I realize there are a lot of things to consider. But not even a rest api/etc, an actual database.

Realize it wouldn’t scale, would cost money etc, but could be interesting
Learn how to learn. I think it'll be a great investment. If you can develop a framework for yourself that will help you learn quicker and more efficiently, you'll be able to add more stuff in your "knowledge" bag. How? I'd start by googling "learn how to learn".
The bottom line: Brokerages are getting rich on your money. You have the right to change how they handle your cash, and you should.
Beyond selection bias already mentioned, I suppose some of that comes from people who try to find some meaning in their corporate job. Because what's soul crushing is the realization you spend 3/4 of your waking hours doing pointless work that's not meaningful to you, your friends, or often even society at large.

(Sometimes it's because it's a socially negative job that serves only to enrich some people at the cost of everyone else (cough ad cough tech), but often - perhaps more often - it's because of the complexity of our world. Your job may be a crucial component to some very socially good thing, but if it's one of thousands of such components, it can be hard to see the connection between your work and the end result.)
pocket is long dead
In the end it has to do with calories in and calories out. That is why a wholesome plate full of vegetables is great for feeling full whilst keeping calorie intake low.

Also adding seeds to everything means better gut bacteria and adds fiber to a meal. I use a mix of pumpkin seeds, flax, sesame, and sunflower seeds and add it to as many meals as I can.
It's not too surprising that people are generally waiting to have kids later in life. But still a very interesting analysis of 4 decades of birth in America and how socioeconomic and geographical factors play into it. With lots of good data to look up based on county, age, etc.

Some quotes I found interesting:

"Lower-socioeconomic-status people might not have as many opportunity costs — and motherhood has these benefits of emotional fulfillment, status in their community and a path to becoming an adult."

"But if going to college and achieving an upper-middle-class lifestyle seems unattainable, then having a family might seem like the most accessible source of meaning to you.”
And you know better because...?

The main point of the article is that the issue is far from settled, and that evidence for both sides is lacking. Until the consensus is reached through scientific means (instead of bullying) the matter is not closed.
I've said before in similar threads about PoE, and I'll echo again here: It's a remarkable success and a high point of dev output, to me. Some expansions haven't turned out well. I haven't liked some changes. There have been some bugs. But it _blows out of the water_ pretty much ever other "always on" game I've every played in terms of dev professionalism, consistency, stability, and mechanic growth.

I don't know if "you've bought yourself a good amount of emotional-leeway with this fan" helps lift any stress from the GP, but as one service-running-engineer to another, I look at PoE when I need to hold up an example of how I should be producing as a True Professional(TM).
So a company doesn't own hackernews? If the hn servers just go down, everything stays up because it's all distributed across a network?
It's more than copyright infringement. Once you start having a few students or researcher deploying P2P, it's going to saturate the dedicated 10 Gb links very quickly.

P2P will consume any amount of upload bandwidth available. It's horrendous to have inside your network, as a university or research center.
They call those "poll watchers" in Minnesota. And yes, every party is allowed to place poll watchers at any/all precincts. Poll watchers are also allowed to challenge the registrations of any individuals coming to vote. I don't remember the exact details around it, but they aren't powerless.

I remember one election in particular where I was working a mixed-race, poor neighborhood precinct in Minneapolis. The Democratic poll-watcher was convinced the Republican one was going to challenge every single voter and paralyze the precinct, preventing hundreds from voting. The Republican poll watcher was convinced that Democrats were going to bus in thousands of paid illegal black voters from Wisconsin. Of course, neither of these things happened.
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We live in a society (many of us) where "low calory food" is synonym of "healthy". I think it's one of the ultimate modern luxury, to look for food that will yield little energy for you.
They are all banned by the terms of usage. Some of the popular ones are also blocked by technical means.
Thanks for the resource though! Looks interesting
Last year, a jury in California issued an even larger $417-million verdict for a woman with ovarian cancer. Against Johnson & Johnson, an American pharma company. It was about talcum products, that is baby powder.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnson_%26_Johnson#Baby_powde...

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-cancer-talc-verd...
Ask HN: Wondering if any of you still frequent slashdot
Why? Why not?
I adopt Hemingway's attitude:

> "When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest. The only thing that could spoil a day was people and if you could keep from making engagements, each day had no limits. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."

It's not about having company, it's about having company with whom you feel a togetherness - shared workplaces and shared beds can be surprisingly lonely places.

Solitude, if voluntary, is a gift and should be embraced - it's the place where you grow and develop. Involuntary solitude is loneliness and modern society provides both the cause (atomized lifestyles and little time) and the cure (meetup/dating apps, airplanes).
Ah, sadly I believe your personal experience is very common.

It's insane really; a company puts out a status page to say to their customers "you can trust and rely on us through that dedicated medium to know our status", and if the customers in question buy into the proposition and use it the very first thing that company does is make it so you cannot trust and rely on them through that dedicated medium. Succedding is what causes it to ultimately fail.

Status page should have stayed as undocumented features for "the little guys" behind the scene to communicate and never get into the open world where PR and marketing and decision makers can roam.
Ask HN: Side income while still highly invested in full time job?
I’m a software engineer with a job that I really enjoy with a company I want to succeed. At the same time I’d like to start earning some side income. I also have a young family so I need to be careful with my time commitments. Any suggestions?
The Emacs web server had to garbage collect.

https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/HttpServer
For a while at university I was eating one meal a day. I half did it to lose weight, and half because I was lazy and was poor.

I found it surprisingly easy. I didn't really have any problem with cravings or hunger pangs.

These days, I eat 2 meals a day, one at 1 PM and one at 7 PM, I generally don't snack between meals. I guess it's technically intermittent fasting? I also often forgo eating on Sundays, I just can't be bothered. Recently, I've also been eating less meat, just once or twice a week, also not on purpose, but I just stopped wanting to eat meat.

Between all these changes in my diet, I've managed to lose about 10 kg in 2 months and I'm still steadily losing weight.

In the end, I'm convinced that it's all in your head. Some people psychologically want to eat more than others, and that's why they're fat. It's not your metabolism, or because you eat too many carbs, or because you're not practicing intermittent fasting. Fat people are literally addicted to food.

If only there was a way to rewire your brain to eat less. There have been studies that show that ketamine used in a therapeutic setting can help with overcoming alcohol addiction [1]. I wonder if it could also be used to tackle obesity?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jan/24/radical-keta...
Younger generations have grown up on fb and youtube...everything they do--they share...sadly. They don't care about 'trust' of their data, they don't seem to care about privacy at all, because they've never known privacy, it's a foreign concept to them...
Is there a chance that we never see a traditional 10 nm Intel processor?

I wonder whether they could embrace whatever problems they’re having through instead of trying to model strictly 1s and 0s including intermediate states.
Is there anyone here who used both amazon CF's and azure's ARM and can comment on the benefits and problems of each?

When I used CF a few years back (when it started) it was a pain (for those things it actually supported). I'm now using azure and ARM's integration with azure's cloud seems better to me.
I was not expecting the change to MDD (Marketing Driven Development) at the last minute. But at least 1.0 is out, I hope those wild west times, get past far behind us now. I'll wait for Julia 1.1 and most packages at 1.0 before diving back in.
It's not much different than any other service, if you don't limit it or use in moderation it'll saturate the network. If someone would host some linux ISO's over http like some universities do for Linux distributions it'll have the same effect.
Yes you can just run `redshift -O3400` (where 3400 is your colour temperature of choice) at startup and it'll switch to that temp, without fancy timing or latitude
Show HN: Local Sheriff – Browser extension to show PII leaks to third-parties
To clarify:

Velleman wrote "How to Prove It": https://www.amazon.com/How-Prove-Structured-Approach-2nd/dp/...

Polya wrote "How to Solve It": https://www.amazon.com/How-Solve-Mathematical-Princeton-Scie...
In my experience of having lost fifty pounds and having kept most of it off for a year or two now, "move more" is significantly less important than "eat less". (For overall health I'm sure it's very important, here I'm specifically talking about losing weight.) I increased my activity only a little bit, by adding a 10-30 minute walk.

And while "eat less" is important, it's secondary to "eat what". My rule of thumb was (and is) "It's almost impossible to control how much you eat. Controlling what you eat is merely very difficult." In other words, your primary target is changing your diet from unhealthy foods to healthy foods, and you will "eat less" in calories as a result. If you keep eating junk food and try to control exactly how much junk food you eat you will have a much harder time.
It does, but I don't believe it would be of much use, it was never really used on the original machines.
its clear they are seeking external validation and status.

money is only a part of that validation.
I've sometimes wondered whether it would work for a search engine to reduce the indexing problem by focusing more on quality than quantity. Rather than indexing everything in the universe and then trying to rank it, focus on maximizing ROI and keeping the aggregate quality of the corpus up by aggressively pruning low-quality paths up-front. In practice this might require splitting the difference between classic Yahoo and modern search engines, with manual maintenance of various black/white/greylists and rules to assign different quality metrics for different users on social media sites, which might reduce the effectiveness of this approach. Anyone know if something like this has been tried?
I don’t think that’s a good summary of the article.

Rather, the article is saying: you don’t even know what is good yet, so stop wasting time trying to perfect what you are likely to need to replace anyway.
What evidence do you have to support this claim?

I could sit here and just pull out random CVEs too, with as much validity.
Each state of the USA is large enough to be its own country. It doesn't work equally well for all states, but there is a high degree of freedom of movement, and free trade between states. If every state were indeed its own country, it seems unlikely there would only have been one war between them since 1861.
Linux packages are distributed by HTTP or FTP. There can be public mirrors handled by the network operator or some universities.

It benefits everyone because the automatic mirror selection in Linux distributions picks the lowest latency mirror automatically. That means all OS running in the academic network will pick the public academic mirror, since it's the closest.
Two things on the CA part:

1. Mastodon is closer to Twitter than FB. Things are public by default. Users even have an RSS feed.

2. Get off targeted-ad-driven platforms and the Cambridge Analytica business model goes away and this stops being an issue.

I don't know if sock puppets can be eliminated on any large platform.
It has to do with their business model and style of game. As a F2P product they benefit most from people simply playing the game as much as possible and occasionally seeing little things like ads or other players' outfits pointing towards the store. The game is very replayable so it works well with a regular content schedule to remix the game a bit and keep people coming back each season.

And I gather that you believe this is The one dev - there is a sizeable team making this game.
Would be big news to discover that GNU.org runs on some cloud hosting
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Pocket is a nice idea, but probably a poor substitute for Search Engine money.

If it worked, Mozilla would publish real numbers. (The way Mozilla works nowadays, they would probably publish a blog post with an overly excited tone describing how Pocket saves the internet, destroys fake news and even averts climate change)

Just like they don't publish real data anymore for Firefox absolute user numbers, which have gone downhill in recent years.

The 75% number is meaningless without revenue numbers and an explanation what this 75% even pertains to. There shuold be around 100 Million Quantum users who have Pocket in their new-tab section.

Finding a long-term strategy will be a challenge for Mozilla. Since the browser is losing more and more users, if they don't invent themselves completely new there will be no way to keep the revenue stable.
So what? I would rather have Google/Amazon employees on the issue than some random DevOps dude.
Benno Rice: The Tragedy of systemd [video]
“Comparison is the death of joy.” (Mark Twain)
Has never been a problem at my German university (don't know if it is theoretically forbidden or not). Sure, if you misbehaved you'd get in trouble with the sysops, but as long as you don't break the network or do something outsiders loudly complain to the university about nobody cares.
Fast reflexes will prevent major damage. It won't prevent pain though.
Or when the tech bubble or retail leasing bubble pops in the next recession. Considering who they are targeting as customers, it could be a very painful 2 or 3 years depending on the severity of the recession.

Also, when the execs of a money losing company is wasting time with vegan activism rather than turning a profit, I suspect it's future isn't too bright.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17524534
> Agreed. Python code tends to be concise as is. There's no need to add little tricks to cut out a line or two at the expense of readability.

I must say I agree fully, and even so, in cases where you really want to cut down verbose sections or boilerplate, there is so much you can do through defining your own classes and functions and overloading operators. Even then there is little need for new fundamental syntax.
That’s what the current academic publication infrastructure was built to be. Then capitalism happened, and we have abusive monopolies instead.

Historically, as empires collapse, they burn their libraries, but the usually don’t get to the copies that are kept on the outskirts.
No. The culture became too toxic.
"bailout or the catastrophic collapse of the world "

In 2008 this is what the bankers told us but are these really the only options? I have my doubts.
Could you link to some of this purported notoriety?
Creating an artificial system such as the ones which are today mainstream can have undesirable side-effects.
What stops a group of indivudals (or bots for that matter) from injecting rule-breaking content into an otherwise-acceptable thread?

Soft-censorship and derailing is done on purpose to censor certain topics which go against the establishment status quo.
Reddit is fertile with such examples.
If someone is making a comment which does not bode well to those in power, it is common for the thread to be sunken with low-class behavior and baits in order to shut down valid discussion by forcing an emergence of rule-breaking content.

That is a far more greater threat.

How do you propose to mitigate that?
Are you aiming at passive or active side income?

I find active work on the side to be much more manageable than passive. E.g. you could start doing contract or consulting work on the side. Keep your employer in the loop. It's important that they know about your side activities or otherwise you might get into trouble.

Passive side income is much harder to do if you don't have experience with this kind of work. Especially if you have a family and cannot commit to investing a lot of time. You need to get really good at self management and make sure you don't commit months worth of your time into something that later turns out to not earn you any money. Start as small as possible. Don't make the mistake of thinking that a product consists of code only. From my experience at least two thirds of product success is outside of engineering (design, marketing, sales, finance, management).

Good luck!
It's not simpler - quite the contrary. Dynamic sites can be taken down by a number of different attacks. Static sites are a much harder target.
That's an interesting point, raising a couple of interesting issues!

No lives were lost (apart from the thief's) but the company is out a plane and the taxpayers are out some fuel. I know embezzlers are often required to make restitution, but I've always assumed that this was for rehabilitative purposes. Presumably companies have insurance (maybe embezzlement restitution goes to the insurance company?) and the taxpayer, well, that's what we're paying for.

A second interesting question is the innocent family members who presumably have depended on the income from the thief. Clearly the last (partial?) paycheck won't be material either way, but who would be "punished" and whom "provided restitution" in this case?
Thanks - that was exactly the kind of info I was looking for!

Amazing that they had the ability to just run ad-hoc LISP on the spacecraft. It appears their method to ensure safety in the face of arbitrary code execution was to divide up the spacecraft into isolation zones and run the parts that have a REPL on a non-essential CPU. From [1]:

> To protect the main DS-1 mission from possible misbehaviors of RA, the design included a “safety net” that allowed the RA experiment to be completely disabled with a single command, issued either from the ground or by on-board fault protection.

[1] https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/176h/0176%20(Havelund)...
I use Reddit is fun app and browsing fine
with or without appointment?
Day trading, Landlording, freelancing : some of the things I do.

But if you have young family, you might want to invest your time in the family and build a solid foundation. That could help you spend more time away from them being ambitious in the future.
Google BigQuery does this though. They host huge public data files and then only charge for the queries.
It adopted features from the OPENSTEP file manager (column view, inspector vs Get Info) but I doubt shared much if any code with it. It was written in Carbon and IIRC built with CodeWarrior (at least at first)
Inside James Dyson's all-or-nothing quest for an electric car
Well FWIW I live in Palo Alto so usually used either Redwood City or Santa Clara DMVs.
1st 10nm Ice Lake-SP Xeon Chips Arriving in 2020, 14nm Cooper Lake-SP in 2019
probably a dumb idea, but perhaps automated tracking and targetting embers from a mobile platformm?

either speed up their combustion in flight (CO2 laser? releasing oxygen?), or stop their combustion (small targetted water jets?)
To elaborate a bit more, I try to stick with the No S Diet (http://nosdiet.com/), especially the part about "no snacks". I used to be extremely prone to snacking, and it would almost always be snacks of a very unhealthy variety.

So I cut out snacks almost completely, but I still let myself eat a burger+fries or a pizza once in a while. But they count as a full meal plus a bit ekstra, so my next meal will have to be smaller to compensate. Seems to be working out.

But the biggest difference for me was changing my sedentary lifestyle. Standing as my desk, always taking the stairs, riding a bike everyday. It adds up.
Maybe volcanic debris somehow interacted with a passing object (like Messenger-1) and changed its trajectory to pass through Earth?

It's very human to want to connect these events into a cohesive narrative, but there is still the possibility that they were independent events in our universe.
The absence of rules is anarchic, but not democratic. In anarchy, the powerful coerce, manipulate, and otherwise dominate the masses, creating a status quo that the powerful desire, and abusing the weak without restraint. Historically, the outcome is despots, warlords, feudalism, and brutality. In democracy everyone has an equal vote and equal rights, and it requires a system of rules.

Many had the same hopes for the Internet and social media, for example. But when these things became valuable - influential - powerful interests acted to control and manipulate them, to obtain money, political power and social outcomes. It's hard to claim that the results are that people are choosing information that is "the best or most useful".

I think politics and social outcomes, such as status quos, are unavoidable results of human interaction. Eliminating rules eliminates the protection against arbitrary power and returns us to the world of despots. The politics is unavoidable; the question is, how do we want to manage it?

EDIT: Some major edits; sorry if you read an earlier version.
What you are describing is also a limitation of Credit Cards and Apple Pay and Google Wallet. That does not make these things worthless either. Just wait a minute until power is restored.

Or pay in cash off course, but that only works if you remembered to go to an ATM first and that ATM had power.

Off course you could also write an IOU to the merchant about the amount of government IOUs that you will withdraw later.

I guess that means that your bank notes are worthless in the moments transaction if they are stored in a bank?
Correction from Vitalik[1]:

> I did NOT invent 99% fault tolerant consensus; Leslie Lamport did. I just wrote an explainer and adapted it to a blockchain context. Please fix, Trustnodes.

[1]: https://twitter.com/VitalikButerin/status/102797212659301580...