skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We can certainly agree that the if the time spent reading dietary advice and nutrition articles with clickbaity headlines was spent on exercise instead, we'd all be better off.
IBM Has a Watson Dilemma
As someone who has frequently traveled for work I have to disagree. When you're in an unknown area and just worked through lunch to finish something up, anything that will shave time between you and access to food is greatly appreciated. I can't investigate the app as the api limit was hit, but based on the name, I'd be very interested in this.
To add to the plight, ATM’s were always empty. It’s the governments responsibility to make sure they print the new currency and fill them in ATM’s as per anticipated demands.

I had myself witnessed this. One of those days people were waiting outside a particular bank ATM, since the guard had said it may take 2 hours for cash to arrive. An ATM Van came and cash was unloaded into a bank ATM machine.We saw that bank officials were withdrawing the cash, and wouldn’t let us (the general public) withdraw cash. Obviously they were doing this to curry favors to some influential rich.

Also, I missed my friend’s marriage because of this.

Only yesterday did I get to know that one of the prominent builders ran out of business courtesy demonetization.
How is this different than Unix `units`?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Units
The confidence is unreal! We're lucky to have so many experts in our midst. I hear one of them even read a book on the topic and you should read it too so that you can know the REAL correct diet that will lead to immortality.
"The fact that we still don't have a fully functional human body model to test theories on, doesn't help either."

What does this mean?
French who moved to London here.

Yes, that's what happens in London however that's not what happens in France. Expect zero increase for the next many years, even if changing company.
Is it possible that they reverse engineered your business information by whatever information you have available on your storefront? Phone number, business name if you also have other marketplaces like ebay, or your own website, etc. It's pretty easy to figure stuff out once they have a business entity.

On the other hand, maybe Vorys was able to get the information by threatening Amazon with a lawsuit?
Microsoft doesn’t know that you have a virus on your PC (and won’t call you about it) but Facebook can identify your friends in a photo you posted better than you can.

That is not obvious to most people, because the concept of customer service we understand, while we really don’t understand learning algorithms.
It's really unfortunate that abiding by local laws and regulations is considered unethical. But even if we assume that there is no legal way for a company to operate ethically in China, is the world meant to close our borders to them entirely? 20% of the planet lives there and we do business with China every day when we buy something manufactured there, but do not feel morally required to boycott them on account of their government.

Edit: to all the comments saying I equated lawful with ethical, please read my comment again. In particular the second sentence in which I clearly distinguish between the two.
Huge queues at ATMs and banks even months afterwards. As a Westerner with high value rupee notes getting change was a nightmare too.
Here's another for you:

https://twitter.com/Popehat/status/1027671587825172480

You sure you want to keep digging into this sewer? I'm sure there's worse we'll find.
Ask HN: Why do many websites use a country code as the top-level domain?
Many top-level domains correspond to a specific country code, such as .ie or .nz. I'm familiar with the .com, .edu, .org, .gov convention used in the United States, so using the country code as the top domain seems pointless and confusing to me. For example, for a long time CERN used cern.ch despite the fact that they're located in both France and Switzerland.

Why is this the current practice?
this would undermine the fundamental premise of human rights as such.
I love mechanical computers like these. The engineering is amazing, and bugs are not considered a fact of life in these systems. One thing I often wonder about is how many mechanical computers/state machines are still in operation and why.
> Why would they ever voluntarily remove a game unless it had broken some kind of law?

Because they're bankrupt. Which they will eventually be, the only question is when.
H110 don’t remember if I or not it’s a pretty old one I had for nearly 5(?) years I’ve replaced the liquid in it with distilled water a few times already.

My vcore is set to 1.34 but the LLC pushes it to abit more than 1.35 under a burn test, AVX offset is -2 (it seems to be stable at 0 but temps reach to 90>), IMC is at 3666mhz.
Normally I only lurk here but I wanted to say that I support your claim. Been suffering from anxiety and later also depression for almost 5 years now. After 3 years I started jogging every other day. My good episodes last so much longer, bad ones are less severe, panic attacks have decreased from daily or weekly to every 3 - 6 months and are much shorter and better to handle and the general feeling of unease have also decreased. Also I did behavioural therapy from the start and never took medication. The therapy helped by giving me methods I could used when the panic kicked in or dark thoughts would begin clouding my mind. But sports helped me to feel good again for the first time in years. That was incredibly empowering. Even if it doesn't appear to help after the first exercise, give it a little time and watch the magic.
Oh dear. So we figured out that SD cards „directly from asia“ are either counterfeit, fake or low quality. But apparently cameras are fine? Well, good luck then.
The last amendment to the claims narrowed them to the extent that the patent is useless. The examiner knew this and allowed the patent.
This is completely off topic but the headline made me immediately think of this: https://youtu.be/TGkPMZxWPpA

Since most here are not Dutch it requires a bit of explanation , this was a parody video made in the early 2000’s of the countless “QVC” style info/commercials that used to be aired during the day or late at night on dutch television to fill airtime. They would take some b-grade TV products from US (and possibly other countries) and just poorly dub it over for the Dutch market, often by the same guy. These “Tellsell” (which I believe was the actual name of the company) commercials everyone would know about and sometimes joke about the crappy products and commercial style. This parody has all the typical cliches of these commercials like every time the name of the product was mentioned it would be extra sloooow and disadvantages of “alternative” products exaggerated to comical extremes. I believe this video came out before YouTube was mainstream, and circulated on USB drives and shared on LAN parties. Ahh the old times (when not every piece of content ever made was instantly available).
I mean, his endgame still got him to being a quant. Like I'd be able to do that.
> I also have a young family so I need to be careful with my time commitments

Find a better paying job if needed. Taking time out of family time when kids are young is something you will definitely regret later - as do some of my friends who took up high paying management consulting gigs when their kids were young and missed the whole childhood of their kids.
Unless they fixed it though it didn't work well in certain situations, like with nested stacks, and often doesn't provide nearly the same level of detail as to what EXACTLY is changing and why.
D'oh! Why didn't I think of that? Thanks for the reminder.
Because industry is dedicated to finding truth?
As far as I know, a nice car and a big house does very little to increase your happiness. Once you meet nominal needs of living, all the 'extra' stuff does very little to make you 'more' happy. It also usually comes in balance with the work or other parts of your existence you have to perform which usually comes with a higher price, offsetting the 'extra' stuff you think you have, because you don't just get 'extra' of the 'nice' parts of life, also 'extra' of the bad parts.
Heavy-handed security searches of hotel rooms at Defcon/Black Hat
I like it. Thanks for the motivation in continuing writing :D
I think that is an urban legend, along the lines of "the Internet was created to survive nuclear attacks." AFAIUI the Internet was created to unify various predecessor networks (NSFNet, ARPANET, etc.), and as an experiment in computerized communications. Sharing research data may have been an early application of the Internet or its predecessors, but I am not so sure it was the driving purpose of the project.
The claims in the referenced patent are drafted to be extremely limited and inflexible. It would not apply to your product. You already get around it by considering geography.
What happens if the machine loses power on a hot summer day? Seems like either the dog would be incinerated or the door unlocks in a failure mode. Either scenario sounds like a nightmare.
I found the article hard to read with the constant switch from very assertive summaries and very nuanced quotes, so I might be missing something. Is it actually finding the opposite ?

For instance:

> Our findings indicate that inaccurate measurement of sodium intake could be an important contributor to the paradoxical J-shaped findings reported in some cohort studies. Epidemiological studies should not associate health outcomes with unreliable estimates of sodium intake

Basically, this seems to me to argue that the error range in the methods used would be bigger than the relevant range of results discussed, so to draw any conclusion measurements need to be redone.

That would be a bit different from a denial of a specific thesis, although I am sure the researcher must have an opinion on the matter.
AWS Lambda + Serverless Framework + Python – A Step by Step “Hello World”
For some perspective, the bills that were revoked were the 500 and 1000 Indian Rupee notes. 500 INR was worth around 7 to 8 US Dollars at the time, so the comparison to 100 USD bills is around an order of magnitude too great, despite things being cheaper in India.
How many people were passive consumers then though? Also, hough much lighter weight was the content? This is before smartphone videos were being uploaded after all, 2004 was still an era where you might have a page on your personal site for your dog and everything was static html + css.
As someone with extensive scarring on one arm from a water burn I'd prefer it if you didn't put things like this out there.

Fast reflexes won't help your hand to recover from a bad burn, they won't prevent it either, your hand is much too large to be immersed fully and retracted before substantial damage will occur.
Absolutely. I'm OK with getting rid of anyone who is doing what they are doing solely for the money.
Has he or has he not declared himself a National Socialist? You can't just go around and call people nazis because you dislike their politics. That would be as valid as me calling you a commie because I don't like yours. Words have meaning. Commie.
When I did my mechanical engineering degree a long time ago this would have been the holy grail for engines. Let's hope reality doesn't offer drawbacks to this system like it happens to so many other engine designs.
I do HIIT in a fasted state weekly. Am I at my peak performance in said state? Maybe not, but I'm not competing and get through my workout just fine, so...
Seems like the logical response short of waiting for the laws to change or expanding elsewhere would be to partner up with businesses themselves to get them onto private property. The doghouse company and property owner could split the income, and the property owner could market it as a reason to do business there.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't space actually not cold at all -- there's barely any matter there to have a temperature?
Proportionate is easy: if you're making money in the free market, then manifestly what you are making is proportionate to the value you are providing to someone. The problem is that some people's contributions measured this way are wildly disproportionate to other people's contributions. A movie star really is providing orders of magnitude more value than a McDonalds cashier. The question is: should a movie star therefore be entitled to orders of magnitude more compensation? It's not clear that the answer to that really ought to be "yes".
Sorry, I wasnt clear. What I find amazing is not the patent, but the company. As I understood it, behind the company was the youngest female billionaire, and turns out it was all a scam all along. Valuation in billions for essentially vaporware. Poof. All gone.

The same company behind this patent of course.

Its saddening. Like wtf now.
Seen this so many times already. Would rather like to know what is he doing these days and see his latest video - if he has any courage to record one. When bubble burst, scam artists usually vanish.
I’d need to see some spy shots of Stallman in an Uber, talking on an iPhone and tapping out a denial on a Surface to really believe this news was true.
Google Search provides information. Blocking access to information is, by the nature of the action, disenfranchising and oppressive. If Google were to re-enter the Chinese market, their Search product would either be controlled by the current government or they would be kicked out. I would argue that Google providing censored results is harmful to that 20%, so it is better to stay out.
They amended the claims which required the examiner to do another search.

As mentioned above, Final Rejection just means you have to pay more money to continue the patent prosecution. This is called a Request for Continued Examination. RCEs are common.

Generally, the initial filing fees provide for two rounds of examination -- a non-final rejection and then a final rejection.

If the applicant re-filed the same claims that were rejected in the final rejection (w/o amending them), the examiner can issue an immediate final rejection on a subsequent RCE if he disagrees with the argument the applicant might have supplied.
Of course, but potassium is mainly intracellular (a much larger fraction of the body's water) so it would be quite difficult to cause the same problems. Hyperkalemia definitely has its own problems though.
Don't forget the direct time waste of people getting to the scareport early and waiting in line to get molested.

The average lifespan is 79. 700M passengers * 1hr / 79yrs --> every year, over 1000 babies are killed by the TSA.
Using btrfs with DigitalOcean
> The simplicity advantage of electric will soon take a quantum leap when driveshaft-free 4 motor all wheel drive vehicles hit the market

You can't just eliminate the driveshaft because the wheel must be on a suspension. Remove the driveshaft and you have to put the motor on the wheel, increasing unsprung weight, exposing the motor and making high voltage parts subject to damage.

4 motors is more complex than 2 and doesn't buy you much except in niche packaging applications (like buses). As far as torque vectoring, you can achieve the same effect with differential braking (the duty cycle of torque vectoring is very short, so you don't lose any efficiency). A 2-motor Tesla is probably already the optimal passenger car configuration.

Agreed on everything else though.
Zero PII. On occasion there are loyalty programs and IDs but there is no link back to the consumer. Companies like IRI and Nielsen recruit their own panelists and build models of the consumer that they then project into census style data.
GNU units
API limits are reset -- up again! :)
Coming from a hard science background, I just ignore nutrition studies altogether nowadays. The reproducibility seems even worse than psychology research. This isn't a knock on the researchers themselves — these are hard subjects to make definitive conclusions in — but we do need to at least be able to accurately quantify the uncertainty on the results. It's not acceptable to have so many studies contradicting each other, particularly when the general public is making lifestyle decisions on the basis of the nutrition findings.
I think the issue stems from a holdover great depression mentality. Growing up I was taught to "clean my plate" and disciplined when I failed to do so, as wasting even a small amount of food was apparently some sort of cardinal sin despite my family being quite well off. I was also taught that eating large portions was a sign of health, an "active metabolism" (whatever the hell that is). Whenever I said I was done people would ask me if I was sure and offer me more.

I was educated enough to figure things out in adulthood, but you raise a poorly educated populace on that mentality while making the least healthy food cheap and delicious, and shocker we have an obesity epidemic. :P
I find myself wondering how many Swift converts actually wrote Objective-C like it was supposed to.

I’ve run into a lot of programmers that worked with ObjC as they would Java or C++, that is, using very small and fine grained objects to divide up the problem.

It’s the standard way in Java. It’s also the opposite of how ObjC is supposed to be, which is ”a few big classes” that uses message passing as glue.

How many former ObjC programmers actually heard of ”Software IC”?

Using ObjC like Java/C++, the language quickly becomes unwieldy and verbose. If you do that, then obviously Swift feels like a huge improvement.

On the other hand, if you essentially write C and let ObjC be your reusability layer, then Swift might feel like you’re back to working inefficiently in Java / C++ with objects all over the place.
Surely milk is good for you, whereas American-style cheese is perhaps better avoided. It seems somewhat misguided to knock out whole food groups like that.
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And on how willful misinterpretation of an analogy isn't actually a point against the analogy
The temporary 2 stroke idea doesn't sound very well cooked. Fine control over the valves is great, but the exhaust and other aspects of the engine need to be tuned for that use case.
This is a key piece of information. Thank you!!
Wonderful article! I absolutely adore graphs just for this reason - you can solve a massive number of problems with a few tools.

And of-fucking-course OP is at Google Brain.
Are there Chinese citizens who are members of the ACM who also work for their government? If so, how does that square?
Great article. I am not so sure about the concern that a new generation isn't connecting with books as prior generations have.
That's great! Really great!

It's always worth giving it another shot, no matter how hard it seems.

I also want to back up the positive effect exercise has on mental health— it really can't be overstated.

And to any others who feel the same way: get outside. It might change your life. And don't forget to maintain a sense of humour—it really helps with perspective.
The State of California should erect warning signs at the border that read something like this: "Welcome to California! Just remember that we got here before you did, and we're going to screw you every chance we get."
Don’t forget employer-tied (!) health insurance.
Also the "2 strokes are the future" remark seems a bit off too. The future of enduro bikes and chainsaws maybe.
Not if you have some good patents on your core tech.

It can save you from IBM, et al, and encourage them to do a cross license deal.
Does popular hip hop music threaten or promote the status quo?
Why would “cognitively taxing” and “attention demanding” be criteria for an intellectually superior experience?

Many concepts are simply better described by a visual demonstration. There’s less communicative barriers that way. Just observe the cause and effect. You could be illiterate and still understand a visual demonstration.

My three year understands engineering concepts from goofy YouTube videos. He doesn’t read.

Is all of this proclamation about books being the superior format just akin to old-timers screaming “back in my day we listened to great music, not like this crap nowadays!”?
The effective temperature of a vacuum is the temperature of whatever is on the other side, because that determines whether radiated energy is emitted or absorbed. For most of space, the "other side" is the cosmic microwave background, which has a temperature of about 3K. So yes, space is generally pretty frickin' cold.
In Sweden, my home country, the se TLD became the de facto default for local companies, or the Swedish branch of international companies. Using an se domain just seemed like the correct choice for a Swedish site. I'm guessing it's for practical reasons to begin with. It was probably much easier to deal with the local registrar, for example. Payments and the registration process were not as simple or fast as they are today.

RFC1591 may also give a hint:

"This domain has grown very large and there is concern about the administrative load and system performance if the current growth pattern is continued. Consideration is being taken to subdivide the COM domain and only allow future commercial registrations in the subdomain."

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1591
Megabytes (1000^2, MB) or mebibytes (1024^2, MiB)?
Salt really only tastes good when you need salt. It's satiation depends on the body's current levels/needs.
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Sorry, Vert.x web would be a more appropriate comparison.
> and they contribute less to the economy (because they die early)

The typically don't start to die in significant numbers until they're getting up to retirement age, they're an economic burden by that point.
A bit of high velocity rock salt is a wonderful deterrent.
No. Storefront is not connected to business name at all. And I'm not the only one this happened to. It also had parts of my name that isn't connected to my business in public records, but which were provided to Amazon.

I don't know for sure, just a strong suspicion. It's possible but very unlikely that Amazon would provide that info through official channels without even a complaint being filed through Amazon. I know others who've sued to get counterfeiters off their private label products and it's hard to get info out of Amazon even in a lawsuit, let alone without one.
Yeah, it's not like they are building important stuff like: oppression tools for China; privacy destroying tracking software; dark pattern Skinner's boxes; advertising delivery platforms; and so on.
Good question. How does heat radiation work in space?

Seems the answer is that you don't need matter for heat radiation.
Not trying to be a jerk but I disagree with about everything here.

Casino cash games are of the most profitable games, and certainly some of the most accessible, given that they typically run at consistent hours with usually a variety of tables/game times (depending on the size of casino).

Expected winnings are not the growth the economy, they are based off your personal win rate in your personal player pool, established by playing a high number of hands.

I agree you'll want to start by playing a lot of hands, but definitely do not just try to 'make your money last as long as possible'. I would recommend playing around a million hands online at the small stakes, using bank roll management, and working your way up that way. Develop strategies by reading some of the related content and adjusting it with your personal experience against your player pool.

Professional poker players love 'gamblers', they make the world go round.

Note: This is for people who want to get good at poker and maybe make some money off it. If you like to play just for fun, by all means do so at whatever stakes you enjoy. Poker is honestly a lot more fun if you are just trying to enjoy yourself and playing within your financial limits, and not trying to play optimally.