skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm sorry to say that beenBoutIT is spot on. As someone who actually values learning about a broad range of things, I find the more I learn the fewer people I can interact w/. This is because 1) it becomes more difficult to tolerate the nonsense that the avg. person is steeped in; and 2) because people aren't that interested in knowing things that contradict their imagined existence, their perception of self.

> Your value as a helpful and effective teacher will be widely recognized

Not so much. Think of it w/respect to a bell curve. Most of the people on the curve aren't going to give two hoots about learning. Of the rest, they may thirst for knowledge, but may not appreciate that someone who isn't them has what they perceive to be superior knowledge. All of this is very "interesting" to see play out when you start introducing 'variables' like age, sex, ethnicity/race, even professional titles.
And even if you are recognized as being a "helpful and effective teacher," people will not take kindly to not being able to access you on demand, for the most obvious of mundanities.

I spare everyone a religious example and go w/one of my favorite scenes from the Matrix trilogy. IIRC, in pt.II, there's the scene w/ the guy who betrays Neo and co., because he hates his life in Zion. He wants to return to 'life' in the Matrix. He's seated @ a table with a 'steak dinner and a bottle of red wine'. As he takes a bite of the steak, he mentions knowing that the steak isn't really there, but he loves thinking that it is.

I find that character to be representative of a great many people. Sure there are those who don't realize that there is a Matrix, but there are many more who are aware of it, and purposefully choose to pretend otherwise. And they don't take kindly to people saying anything that denies them that steak dinner.

So, learn for your own fulfillment with the understanding that the cost is quite high.

BTW, w/ regard to the OP, I think broad conceptual knowledge is best. Try to know a little about many things so that you can dig into subjects as needed.
The original article [1] referenced is interesting, but I'm not sure if the proposed algorithm is useful in a completely unauthenticated and decentralized network, since it makes assumptions about identity of nodes and the latency between them. Are these chosen "observer" Nodes doing any PoW? Otherwise I assume this is a nice vector for a sybil attack.

PS: Could the link be changed to the original paper [1]? The linked article doesn't add much and shows ads.

[1] https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/08/07/99_fault_tolerant.html
Need for entertainment and trends can be user problems. I would argue that Snapchat and the likes solve a user problem : boredom and need ton express without leaving trails...
Missing the point. We need Empathy
This is a huge problem. Way too much diet advice takes the concept of a "balanced" diet for granted, while descriptions of what that means tend to be at least one of:

1) uselessly vague (eat "a variety" of foods, eat sugar "sparingly", get "enough" fiber, and so on; "eat lots of colors" is actual dietary advice that has been given by credentialed dietitians),

2) driven by some fringe/fad theory of nutrition, or

3) based on unrealistic or parochial assumptions of which foods are readily available/affordable.
"If you are willing and able to offer sponsorship, reach out to me at marcuslager at the biggest email provider in the world * dot com."

Is that still yahoo.com?
This has existed for years.
I see what you're saying, and perhaps The Pirate Bay wasn't the best example I could have picked. Remember that the site IsoHunt was taken down as a result of a lawsuit, despite the name of the site literally suggesting it was a search engine for finding disk images of Linux distros. They also effectively complied with the DMCA, despite being based in Canada where the DMCA didn't apply:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IsoHunt#DMCA_takedown_notices

Of course the "intent" of the accused is something that a legal process can consider, but I've always been unimpressed with the argument of "It's right in the name!" when considering whether to censor The Pirate Bay. If they had changed their name to the "I Rate Bay", and branded themselves as a site for people to discuss and rate the quality of certain hex strings (magnet links), then, by the "It's right in the name!" argument, the site should be perfectly legal.

There were a number of factors which lead to the legal judgements against The Pirate Bay (across the multiple jurisdictions where the site is censored), but if the legality of a site were to come down to a single letter in its domain name, and not based at all on the actual functionality of the site, then I think that would put us in a very odd place in terms of freedom of speech and the enforceability of the law.

We're back to the "wine bricks" of the Prohibition era, with their "warning" not to leave the contents dissolved in a gallon of water in the cool cupboard for 21 days, to prevent "accidentally" creating wine:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ingenious-brick-he...
In my opinion, the best diet is what your forefathers ate.

I've a firm belief that the ability to extract nutrients depends on the genetics.

So changing your environmet or diet can have adverse effects like more diseases. Even lifestyle shouldn't be changed drastically in my opinion, even if someone pays you more to do exactly that.

Gene function depends on the nutrition and environment.

Genes learn slowly, so things must change a little over generation for learning to happen.

Ofcourse, a Human tribe is resilient to drastic changes lik famine, but please not that a large portion of the tribe gets wipped during such transition.

I would love to see the research backing for my belief.
I did, it's for "investors" rather than developers. I'm reading Vitalik's blogpost now. I see what he's talking about now. I'm going to finish it and decide, but I see which part of Lamport's work he's referring to.

A network using this technique needs a reasonable upper bound on network latency for validators (hard to get) and needs to keep the set of active nodes relatively small (which forever dooms a traditional mining pool to be somewhat concentrated).

The former problem can be substantially improved by:

1) Using custom time hardware a la spanner.
2) Causing the network to halt entirely in unfavorable network conditions.
The part of the answer here that NASA always seems to skip (perhaps because it's not as fun as talking about all the cool heat-resistant technology) is that the vehicle is in an orbit that will only take it into the corona for a short time. While the closest approach is very close, its aphelion is (at closest) about the orbit of Venus. This gives it time to cool down after each corona encounter.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMNQeCWT09A
(libpaths or '').split(":")

This isn't quite the same: if libpaths is None, the above will evaluate to [''], while the original evaluated to [].

Of course, the original code was rather awkward itself, redefining the same variable to have a completely different meaning, as well as potentially involving four different representations of nothingness. I'm not sure the syntax is the biggest problem here...
I wonder whether calories in - calories out is too simplistic a picture. Why do people put on antipsychotics gain an ungodly amount of weight? If metabolism slows down sufficiently, it will take more effort to burn those calories you take in (even if one hasn't substantially increased ones intake). This is a complex issue and I wish more scientists studied the link between medications and weight gain.
I'm glad I could make you curious about this. I will gladly expand on the documentation around the language model and querying as soon as I can.

In broad terms: its a 16-bit vector space in which you can encode anything you like. I have chosen to encode phrases and words as bags-of-characters. This separates terms from each other enough that they can be searched for reliably (in almost all cases).

Terms that share a character have vectors that intersect one another and we can measure the cos angle between them. That's the score.

That is represented as a binary tree.

A scan in the tree gives you the closest match and an address into a file on disk; a list of document IDs.

At query time boolean logic is used on the result (document ID list) from each query clause (AND/OR/NOT key:value).

I'll write something up.
You need a lot of bits of pi if you want to have an even vaguely accurate result when you do sin(MAX_DOUBLE)
With hindsight, all yagni justifications look either correct or stupid.
Frankly speaking, when they write "paper" I am actually expecting a paper and not a blog post, too.
The installation environment for Windows has always been overly complicated, error-prone and fragile, and a danger to system stability. There have been numerous cases of app uninstallers getting DLL reference counting wrong and destroying a Windows instance because they removed a critical component or deleted an "unused" registry entry. One workstation I'm running now has some software that cannot be uninstalled; the installers just say "sorry, something bad happened" and that's it -- it's a practical impossibility to manually remove the packages, and in one case it involves clobbering tens of thousands of registry entries.

I wrote apps and drivers for MacOS 6/7 and early Windows; there was really no comparison in sophistication between the two systems. MacOS's approach was simple, elegant and worked well, while Windows' was baroque, poorly documented, and generally a very bad experience in terms of debugging and having confidence it would work in the field (I'm not talking about writing the apps or drivers themselves, just installing them).

There's absolutely no good reason for the current state of affairs on Windows other than an initial bad design that Microsoft chose to carry forward as architecture. (Read the INF file format documentation, it's a horrorshow).
When your unaccompanied minor's travel goes awry
Show IH: make money with your game art
Download Windows or MacOS Installer (https://getpublii.com/) and install it on your mother's computer. No tech knowledge is required to manage a website with Publi.
So go watch the Falcon block 5 landing simultaneously on 2 pads reducing the cost of space launch by an order of magnitude, and call him a fraud. He modern Howard Hughes
Part of that is probably laziness, it’s hard work to keep things simple, it requires to enforce a lot of discipline, to redesign things frequently, etc.

I think also increasingly there is the view that users shouldn’t even be aware of these things. If you grew up on iOS, you have never even seen a filesystem, let alone an OS directory structure.
Sorry, you are right (I actually have both in front of me... and Beeler's "How to Count"). Polya is also a nice read ;)
> Resumes live in that weird world between documents and data

The words you're looking for might be "marketing collateral". A resume is a marketing document
Which shows why letting a single country's private companies, with their single (anglosaxon, pro-market, puritan, pro-US-national-interests) point of view, to dominate the internet is a problem...
While I agree to most of what you said, the attitude of paying based on what someone needs doesn't seem to be a fair basis for negotiation to me. The case you mentioned is surely an extreme that deserves an exception to be made and I highly appreciate that you helped your employee in this situation, but this shouldn't be the general way to assess what someone is worth to you as an employer.

Also someone working on the side (within limits) may actually benefit you as an employer. It's a way to gain experience that you otherwise couldn't get your hands on. I agree that things need to be made transparent and agreed on before, but I'd rather not recommend a general negative attitude towards this.
New WhatsApp engagement technology launched
Your friend is right in theory, but in practice no State is capable of providing such a service.

The US isn’t even capable of providing a search interface to its own web sites that competes with commercial offering (eg, using google is better than the sites built in search).

The EU attempt was called Qaero [0] and wasn’t an exact google didyougogo competitor as I think it’s focus was on video and audio. But they spent at least $99M from 2005-2013 and had absolutely trash results.

It’s kind of weird how hard it is for some organizations to do some things. You would think with a hundred million bucks you would get something. DDG [1] was self funded initially and then with $3M and they are pretty useful despite 30x less funding.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaero

[1] https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/duck-duck-go
> as of now

Don't shift the goal posts.
When Protomammals Ruled Earth
What’s the minimal you need to do to see results? As a measure of spectrum.
Congratulations on graduating high school. That's quite exciting, and I'm sure you'll love university.

The about page states that the book is for "an intermediate level (i.e., after an introductory formal logic course)." It'd be advisable to look elsewhere first if you don't have any exposure to propositional logic. For example, the first eight chapters of MIT's Mathematics for Computer Science textbook should be sufficient: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/spring17/mcs.pdf

The standard tip for reading mathematical texts is twofold: always try to come up with a proof before reading the one supplied in the text, and never ignore the problem sets. As Pólya famously put it, mathematics is not a spectator sport.
https isn't just about something being sensitive or not. If there's no https then everyone can just inject stuff in the page and do whatever like your ISP showing ads and siphoning out your search history, a random person in a coffeeshop adding a malicious site to your search results,...
at AWS/Google? :P
Pocket is owned by Mozilla.
>Sure, it is no joke paper, nor meandering about music theory without any hard proofs.

Well, similarly to how one comments without having read the paper, but just the article.

>"Ha-ha! People did a lot of drugs in the 60s!" nothing more...

Points to a common fact: people's memories from their drug-fueled periods are hazy, and a historical fact: the Beatles did a lot of drugs during the mid-to-late sixties.
Mozilla owns pocket.
I was wondering, thanks. Rain has been wild recently
Ask HN: How can anyone afford to start a business in SF?
We all know the myth. The myth is a young engineer, who moves to San Francisco and starts a company. That company quickly gains traction and then applies to YC and becomes fantastically successful. How can anyone afford to do this, especially the young engineer? I'm not even young and I played out the scene from Office Space where I calculated how long it would take me to completely run out of money and ultimately go homeless - and in San Francisco that number is not long! How can anyone afford to start a business in San Francisco?
soo basically, backtracking and refactoring after having started small. Sounds nice, also sounds like something my network infra colleagues completely fucking hate.
I just finished a month on a beef-only diet and I've never felt so good in my life. Stable energy all day, the bottomless pit in my stomach is gone (a combination of depression, cravings, and not feeling satiated).

Two days ago I ran out of money for beef, so I'm back to eating mostly carbs (and grains), and within 36 hours my depression and skin problems are back. It's amazing, like an on/off switch for my well being.
It would seem that point 1 makes it even easier for companies to slurp everything about a person.

Point 2 is only true if the data has no other use. Political parties might find a lot of value in discovering Mastodon users whose posting habits indicate that they are currently voting one way but are disatisfied with that party. Insurance companies might also be interested about users being part of groups for people with certain mental or genetic diseases. I can imagine a sort of "reverse glassdoor" site where employers can pay to get a complete profile of everything an applicant has ever done or said online. The CA business model works very seamlessly with ad targeting, but that is by far not the only use for such data.
Yup, I realized this mistake after I posted but the edit option was not available.
Where are you seeing 'Poland in the output'?

>Edit: Nevermind, I see what you mean (on the map). I'd be interested to know too... maybe PL is a big player in their attack monitoring?
istributed, and curated search was a powerful tool in the days of Veronica and Archie

No it wasn't. I'm old enough to have (tried to) use it, and it was terrible.

It was usually quicker and got better results to manually connect to FTP sites, and run directory listing on likely directories untily ou found what you were looking for.
An 11-Year-Old Changed the Results of Florida's Presidential Vote at DEFCON
As maintainer of Wekan https://wekan.github.io , I warmly welcome this new release :)

A moment ago I installed installed Friend server to my laptop and tried it with locally installed Wekan in iframe, source code to Wekan FriendUPApp is here:
https://github.com/wekan/FriendUPApp

More related Wekan at Friend links are here:
https://github.com/wekan/wekan/wiki/Friend
I will add more instructions there how to that page.
Wekan is not yet at Friend Store, there will be login, file dialogs etc integrations needed before that.

I have already partly translated Friend to Finnish, and plan to translate rest of Friend to Finnish.

I'm open to any questions about Wekan and Friend :)

BR,

xet7
yeah, by google and amazon.
>that you interprete that as a physical threat

Yeah, because "you should hope to never meet a guy like me b/c that's not going to be a fun experience for you in the end" is so open to various interpretations, right?

I guess the "tells more about you than me" part is also not an attempt at cheap pop psychology ad hominem either, I just interpreted it as such....
Conway: Trump White House requires non-disclosure agreements
It was Purdue's CS503 course when I took it a number of years ago. I don't think there are any materials to be found online though. As I recall the professor outlined how x86 paging worked in one of the lectures and then we were given a link to the Intel manuals and told good luck. To keep things simple there were no disks in the system so the memory was paged over the network and they had a special lab setup to support the whole thing.

There is also an Operating systems course at Marquette University based around Xinu. That one is for undergrads though and based on a version targeted for an embedded MIPS processor so I don't think it covered paging but I never took that one so I'm not sure.
I can't even read about it.
> This is something we handle really, really badly.

We handle it bad because the news scaremongers with hyperbolic exaggerations. The people get overly anxious and of course politicians rush to the worst possible "solutions".

I remember a while back there was hysteria over pilots not being screened. Then people found out that a pilot doesn't need weapons to take down a plane and screening pilots doesn't make sense. Common sense.

If everyone would just calm down and think things through, we'd come to more sensible solutions. And much of the time, the sensible solution is to do nothing. Bad things happen. Just the way life is. So we should weigh the options calmly and sensibly, not hysterically.
Healing dry eye syndrome with optic nerve regeneration
Check out Time Restricted Eating, lots of research on that lately. No change to what you eat, only within what time window.

Every day, the first substance you consume which isn't water starts a metabolic clock. You should have your last meal (or non-water drink) of the day within 12 hours of that moment. 9 or less is even better if you can manage.

Benefits include drastically cutting risk of diabetes and cancer (look into shift worker health stats), improved metabolism (on a cellular level), leading to faster weight loss (on same amount of calories), and increased endurance and muscle mass.

That's the most bang for your buck I'd say!

Here's a great introduction: Dr Rhonda Patrick JRE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6KClPkotxM
I would love to notify you of the progress this project makes. As of now there is no email list and I'm not sure there should be one. How about if I announce these things on the home page and you come back to it, say in a week and do one query and one URL submission after having read a blog post about the progress?

Please? :)
>I can talk with my friend, in great detail, about sex. Outside of work. At work, it's inappropriate for the same reasons that talking about religion or politics can be. It will alienate people and make them uncomfortable.

In some cultures (e.g. Southern Mediterranean), people are not alienated by talking about "religion or politics" at work either. In fact people do so frequently.

See, not everybody shares the cultural constrains of your own culture...
Yes, calories in - calories out is too simplistic. It really ought to be modelled with a partial differential equation, where calories out depends on calories in, current fat storage, exercise levels, sleep routine, stress, and more, with all of those things being affected by subjective energy level.

It is a well established fact that the body makes a host of metabolic adjustments in response to changes in diet.
It runs very well on android with termux.

Like most open source software: don't bother with the "apps" just install it in termux the same way you would on any other computer.
I'm quite sure it would not at all change their position on torrenting copyrighted works without permission.
Define traditional.

I think Intel has to follow AMD's many CCX per CPU approach, especially after Intel hired Jim Keller who ran the Zen program at AMD. If they have started the many CCX program before hiring Jim Keller I would have hope it could come out in 2019, otherwise I think it would be 2020 at the earliest.

Thus the "traditional Intel processors" will likely have time to launch on 10mn before then. 10mn must be ready at some time right?
You are making a 2500 year-old argument against democracy. Democracy serves the interests of the needy. That's the whole catch with the democracy.

If you don't want democracy, your options are monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy or tyranny. There are two sides to every coin.
Why I wrote buy the i5 macbook pro and not the i7
Well, it’s sortof just that. But it’s like saying “the key to safe driving is to avoid accidents.” It’s completely true... but probably not helpful advice for a person who is having trouble avoiding accidents.
> Pocket is, however, sending almost 75 percent more traffic to Parse.ly’s publisher network than it was at the start of 2018.

That's meaningless without knowing what percentage of traffic Pocket represents to Parse.ly. Did it go from (for example) 5% to 8.75%? Or 0.1% to 0.175%?
It's funny how a lot of these articles start out about how the diet made them feel so good and it felt so natural. By the end they've gained back the weight. If it was so great why couldn't you continue with it? The obvious answer is that in the beginning it was new and exciting and the drawbacks were ignored.