skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With lua + autohotkey scripts in windows this is definitely possible the last time I checked. You run a luascript on another keyboard mapped to a generic key, luascript inputs that as the proper text-based language

There's a tomscott video on it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIFE7h3m40U

Checkout Teran van Hemert (linustechtips editor) for some potential ideas too. He's got crazy macro schemas, I've used a couple of his and there great. All windows based as well though. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLH1gH0v9E3ruYrNyRbHhD...

Mac, I can only assume its something you would write in applescript. But maybe you find some interesting ideas there. I found something called "http://www.orderedbytes.com/controllermate/" that might be of interest to you
A "moped" has pedals. These are not mopeds...
Functions that respond to events, where an event is triggered by some sort of message queue (ie, Lambda + Kinesis streams)
Unfortunately, by simply existing you have an effect on your local area. Divesting yourself from the local community is limiting your stake in it and can make your action in the local area less accountable. Ownership and community are historically ways to have accountability in a geographical area.
I will give it try!
I have the same experience and I'm on both sides in my day job. On the one end preventing developers from having to make the same (learning) mistakes that have already been made by ops so they can focus on developing and delivering, stuff like HA, security, backups, networking, statefulness, etc. Just deploying you apps on containers doesn't solve these problems.

But on the other end I'm constantly fighting the complexity of existing environment and preventing to much new complexity being added. It seems that every time a new tool/product is introduced which makes things simpeler, it just end up being a Hydra and total complexity is only increased.

I still have to find the holy grail if there is one, some middle ground? Or maybe it's just human nature to always make complexity where there is none since "It can't be that simple, can it?".
He’s not taking anything away, just asking others to not buy iPhones. Erdogan doesn’t have that kind of power, at least not yet.

Anyway this is just a diversion to shift attention away from his own behavior causing the lira to collapse.
On more than one occasion I have gotten help from the IRS that reduced the amount of money the IRS ended up collecting from me. I do not think this first-principles reasoning about the IRS is as dispositive as you think it is.
Science Can Now Break a Strand of Spaghetti into Just Two Pieces
Proposing? They're all over the place. Vaping was quite quickly lumped in with smoking in my area. None indoors or within 10 feet of the doors etc.
I don't know why that article is written in the way that it is, but generally "demonstrated interest" in college admissions is a way of evaluating a student's preference for the school. Most top schools don't use this, but a lot of other schools try to look for students who are more interested in their school in order to increase yield for admitted students. Generally this would take the form of visiting a school, going to information sessions, etc. Here's an article about it [1]. In this context, it doesn't have much to do with the major you're applying for or your interest in that specific major. While removing demonstrated interest increases diversity in terms of economic backgrounds, it shouldn't have much effect on gender ratios.

[1] https://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2018...
Not sure about more desert conditions, or office buildings, but I do know that houses used to be built a lot differently before air conditioning. For example, my parents' house was built just after 1900, and they only put in central air in the last decade (so I grew up without air conditioning). Even now, they rarely turn it on, and it is quite comfortable inside Lots of trees around, smaller windows, covered porch, air flow from the basement, etc.

Compare this to the house I bought built in 1998, it is unlivable without the air turned on. And even with it running it is still uncomfortable when the temps get into the mid 90s. It has huge windows, but even with the curtains closed it was horrible -- there was just no natural airflow in it.

One of my favorite houses was one that a relative had in Mississippi, which was one roof with three separate living areas and a T-shaped breezeway running through the house. Another design item was apartments with sun rooms, where you could open various windows to always catch a cross breeze.
It's already in a contract before the relationship ever starts - namely, the university/company's sexual harassment policy, most of which prohibit relationships like this one, for exactly this reason. And such contractual bindings are becoming more widespread, because to not explicitly ban power-differential relationships in the workplace (including teacher-student) opens the organization to lawsuits.
Are you, or do you have reason to believe you might be in the future, hiring in Mexico?
Possible “room temperature” superconductivity observed, with caveats
Arxiv paper[1] reports on possible superconductivity of silver nanoparticles embedded in a gold matrix. The authors were looking for a non-phonon (sound waves) mediated mechanism of superconductivity. In this case, they were looking specifically at plasmon mediated systems.

This is not without a significant helping of controversy though[2]. First, the noise signals in susceptibility appear to be identical between runs with different magnetic field intensities. Second, the thin film and pellet form appear to provide similar responses in susceptibility measurement, which one would not normally expect. Third, the team have not yet shared their samples with other labs, allowing for independent measurement.

Several researchers have pointed out that there could be specific issues with sample preparation which could provide a clue to the noise similarity in the susceptibility measurements.

The controversial aspect of this is found to a degree on the tweet stream linked below. We should be skeptical of the claims until clearly and independently replicated or found to be in error. The burden of proof is upon the discoverers.

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.08572

[2] https://twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1027717419400392705
Yes, but you typically build your functions to split up the work if necessary. (Create additional queued events)
> they do in fact have much higher levels of fraud and chargebacks

Sorry, but [citation needed]. I don't agree with your assertion. I've seen horrible chargeback rates in apps and non-adult VoD. As high as 4.something percent at one point for one developer. The problem: kids. The lack of control over the payment process was killing him.

And that's the thing, it's not 1999 any more. You can improve chargeback rates by collecting more data, forcing 3DS, forcing AVS, SMS verification, doing statement charge verification (old school), fingerprinting every authenticated transaction. If my business and my processor's continued business depends on it, I can get beyond reasonable doubt and prove it's you making a transaction. That means a lot more drop-off (AVS alone can be 5%) but chargebacks past that are either your fault or stupidly simple to refute with evidence.

But many processors are still just unwilling.

The only way things become more reasonable is that we stop forcing otherwise legitimate adult content sites into the arms of companies that coast along on decades-old tech, making the good actors pay to offset the bad actors' actions.

Until then, when we can have mainstream processors allay risk fairly, putting a spur-of-the-moment sub-$1 micro-transaction through isn't viable and that's where porn's going to explode.
Yes, https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/92unvp/my_guide_f...
You do a lot more lung damage by driving by them in car.

I'm not a vaper, never have been never will but I'd rather deal with the faint smell of strawberry than cigarette smoke any day.
Ask HN: Best way to build a paper reading list?
Yesterday the top question was How to publish papers as a non-scholar.

One of the most repeated pieces of advice was to read as many papers from the field you want to publish in as possible.

Does anyone have suggestions on how to build this reading list?

The problems I see are some papers reference others, you might not have enough knowledge to read some, and you can't start in the beginning of every field/sub-field due to time constraints.
But you can swap batteries and thus charge the bus almost instantly.
Thanks, I'd only skimmed. I've read it now and edited my comment. Having lived in both places, Atlanta is actually pretty similar to Raleigh weather wise.
Same here. Nicotine is perhaps the very worst drug known to humankind in terms of addictiveness:

* High lasts the shortest duration (a few seconds after the last inhale)

* High has a high physical factor (relaxation) but a low psychotropic factor (mood-altering effect like alcohol or mj), which is the opposite of something like psychedelics (which can be useful in curing addiction)

* High requires a physical adaptation (smoker's hack) to be felt most fully

* That physical adaptation is challenging to undo and takes at least 1 month (in my case 2) before cravings are replaced by disinterest or dislike

So the last 2 points were key for me. If anyone reading this is struggling, I highly recommend intermittent intense physical activity as a way to hack the physical adaptation process.

For me, squats work best. Go to the gym and try to get 15-20 reps of a weight you can manage, for at least 2 power sets. Something like: 95x10, 135x20, 135x15. I find if I do those at night and come home, my body rejects the thought of smoking because I'm already high on life. It also rejects alcohol to some degree which is nice for weight loss.

Once you've felt that lifter's high (not sure what to call it), you start feeling in control of your body's repair process. Then you notice it on the fun days too, like chest day. After 2-6 weeks, you'll likely find that cigarettes don't do much unless you smoke a couple in a row, but then they mostly make you sick, and you might find yourself going a day or two and forgetting to smoke.

Hope this helps someone.
Almost bot-like response.
Funny - I was just thinking the same thing:

"But wacky match would have you believe their lowball offer was anything but the offer of a loser! sad!"

I mean, for crying out loud...
>There are too many mosquitoes to spend too long outside or have open windows without screens - besides, even then they'll still find a way to get through.

To put this into some perspective, some 2 billion live in Asia, Africa, and Latin American regions with the same or worse conditions re: heat and mosquitoes.
so you rebind lots of key chords?
Isolated in groupthink.
Using scripts in any language for Bash/Zsh tab completion
Why would anyone want a mechanical watch? If you want an accurate timepiece, use a quartz oscillator. If you desire more accuracy, get something that sets itself by radio transmissions, or uses Bluetooth to synch with your smartphone that in turn uses NTP to set its internal clock.

AFAICT the only reason that people want a mechanical watch is to show how much money they have to waste.
Alternately, the "erroneously insufficient specificity" might be quite deliberate, if not explicitly considered. Blanket attacks on "feminists" often have origins other than mere academic inquiry.
It's stunning to me how this mechanical watch borrows its outside design from the Apple Watch. It's got a round mechanism, and yet it's still using a black square case with rounded corners [1].

I don't really know what to make of it, other than be impressed by the design impact Apple manages to have even in neighboring markets.

[1] Flashback to the infamous design patent https://www.theverge.com/2012/11/7/3614506/apple-patents-rec...
Curious as well. Have been looking at stuff like https://www.floydhub.com/ and https://www.datarobot.com/product/ - we have some use cases we want to implement but nothing built yet.
Obviously you haven't been to many US hospitals if you think the care is much better than that here.
Agreed. The more I grow, the more I realize it is unrealistic to develop skills in scaling architecture, massive-scale software, etc. with only your own projects.

You either need to contribute to large projects, find large projects to hire you, or push for scaling patterns which may be out-of-scope for your current job.

This is actually something I've been thinking about lately: how can I train/practice these meaningful skills without the risk of damaging a reputation or losing sensitive data in real systems?
Fly fishing
More of the latter: in 2018, more than a quarter of the submissions got one. https://www.red-dot.org/about-red-dot/news/product-design-re...
> This article was completely unnecessary because everyone should know by now what a startup entails, and that it is fundamentally unstable, but that doesn't mean it's not important as a venture and concept.

Strong disagree. Living in San Francisco I often hear the phrase “I work at a small startup, we have just 100 employees”

That is significantly different than what you describe which is more of a 5 to 20 people stage. By the time you have 100+ employees and are hitting proper growth curves, your management can no longer be shit, there has to be mentoring, and there’s little room for shit employees.
I think it was issues improving startup performance + largely that it was a one man show.

It doesn’t take much to terminally derail an effort driven by only a single contributor.
> Air conditioning is anti-social. It buys its owner comfort at the cost of shifting the surplus heat somewhere else

You could make the same argument for heating, no?
Fear of the unknown. We still don't know the long term effects, so he may be on to something.

Also it's pretty crazy to put a battery that close to your face regularly. I know only a few have exploded, but the risk of that alone would deter me.
This is _bananas_.

- Unlike previous speculative execution attacks against SGX, this extracts memory "in parallel" to SGX, instead of attacking the code running in SGX directly. It always works: it doesn't require the SGX code to run and it doesn't require it to have any particular speculative execuction vulnerability. This also means existing mitigations like retpolines don't work.

- It lets you extract the sealing key and remote attestation. That's about as bad as it gets.

- The second attack that fell out of this allows you to read arbitrary L1 cache memory, across kernel-userspace or even VM lines (and even reading ring -2 aka SMM).

If there was any doubt left that speculative execution bugs were an entire new class and not just a one-off gimmick...
TensorFlow 2.0 is coming
> The Turing architecture is armed with dedicated ray-tracing processors called RT Cores, which accelerate the computation of how light and sound travel in 3D environments at up to 10 GigaRays a second. Turing accelerates real-time ray tracing operations by up to 25x that of the previous Pascal generation, and GPU nodes can be used for final-frame rendering for film effects at more than 30x the speed of CPU nodes.

Interesting. If one were to ray trace a scene at 1920x1080 and 100fps, tracing 100 rays per pixel (for soft shadows, global illumination, reflection/refraction, and so on) at 60 fps, that comes out to be 12,441,600,000 rays per second. So, "10 GigaRays a second" seems to be in about the right ballpark for interactive, high quality rendering.

Of course, the computational cost per ray is hugely dependent on the scene and the memory access patterns (which tend to be kind of random), and the number of bounding boxes a particular ray has to traverse (could be a few or it could be hundreds).

One semi-popular rays-per-second benchmark used to be to place a Stanford bunny in a particular location and generate random rays around the bunny, testing each one for intersection. That way everyone is comparing their rays-per-second scores in an apples-to-apples comparison. I don't know what the most popular benchmark is these days.

I'm also curious if Nvidia has hardware acceleration for the process of rebuilding the acceleration structure when objects in the scene move around.
Agree wholeheartedly.
We generally don't like to spread anti-seismetism here on hacker news.
Looks very real (and cool !) in this unboxing: https://youtu.be/nd9Srch9IeM?t=267
My current theory is that it's a form of signalling:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signalling_theory
Why Every Attempt at Regulating Privacy Will Fail
Again, you aren't going to get familiar with the patterns in computer science in one week. That requires years of practice. Most likely you will just hit a Dunning-Kruger peak and try to shoehorn in a pattern where it doesn't belong.

And yes, js is used in other contexts as well, but it is primarily used in front end developer. Which is why I used the word 'likely'.
Thanks, that probably caused a lot of confusion.
Elon responded by saying he doesn't know her.
> The US expends more energy on air conditioning, for example, than the whole of Africa does on everything. Then again, it expends even more energy on hot water, which doesn’t get the same rap.

I'd like to know where the author got that information from. I recently thought that a lot of homes (not apartment buildings) could be made energy neutral with a combination of geothermal hvac, solar water heating, and solar panels

The geothermal would help drive up the efficiency of the HVAC systems (considerably), and the solar heating would take care of the second highest energy user in the home. My guess is that with those two options most houses could then handle their other energy needs with a modest 3-5kw solar array and "small" battery bank
here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gif-scrubber/gbdac...
"The first one I've ever actually felt like I was a part of, where I was always welcome and could always rely on finding people like me."

People who think like you do, who will never challenge you about anything important, or expose you to uncomfortable ideas or opinions, or cause you to question your assumptions about the world.
AFAIK, it's legal in the US, too, but I'm not sure what point you're making in the context of the sub-thread.

Typically, the decision to convert to contracting is between the worker and management, excluding the worker's peers and the company's owners (unless manager-owned).
Well MoviePass was competing on price, not on experience. Is that why people flock to MoviePass?
awesome points, in your experience does having experience in big corp tech (am a .NET dev) hamper your success in getting hired at a startup? I really do enjoy the .NET world and invested many hours in it, i would hate that to be a crutch.
I did similar measurements in a past life[1], when I was still working in physics. This is in part why it is so intriguing to me, in that higher temperature superconductivity is definitely something of a holy grail.

[1] https://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.99752
I think you're right. Being civil doesn't pay dividends unless most other people are civil too too, and if incivility is punished. Neither of those things are true, generally, right now, so being civil just makes you look weak.

C'est la vie.
Inside Evernote’s brain
The Bing team at Microsoft use FPGAs in production. I was chatting with one of their developers recently who is focussed on that space for them and he mentioned they find they get similar performance to GPUs, but with significantly less power consumption, while affording them the same levels of flexibility for their particular use case.
Hey Agustín, Nico Goles here.

Just wanted to write here to congratulate you and your team. I've been following what you guys have been doing for many, many years, and you have never ceased to impress me.

Since I've been living here in San Francisco, I've gotten quite into personal finance and retirement investment. I've wondered many times why my family there in Chile can't have access to some of the tools available here. Having read your post and done a bit of research the reasons seem pretty clear to me.

Thanks for working on such a meaningful solution, I've already recommended it to several family members.

Good luck to you and the team, and if I can help with anything don't hesitate and reach out :)

Best,
Nicolás
I find this argument confusing. Rationally, this is still more than 3 times cheaper than any theater. My goal isn't to take revenge on them but to spend my dollar wisely.
> Why would anyone want a mechanical watch?

Because it's neat. Prices generally are above my "I'd pay that for the neat-factor" level though, so there's an element of your suggestion...
I love how this blatant neoliberal propaganda piece attempts to brand the gig economy and perpetual licensing of streaming content in lieu of CDs and other physical media ownership as "communal" (certainly they didn't mean anything by that wording?) when it's clearly a natural progression of the rent-seeking motive that capitalism is literally based on. "All the bad parts of %ideology% aren't real %ideology%!" Gee, where have we heard that before.

Also great to see them deliberately misuse "private property" when discussing ownership of personal property.
It is good if the society evens this out: it should not completely take away the fruits of your labor, because then your incentive to be productive will be low. But it also should ensure that less lucky children get a good start as well, to ensure that as many children as possible become productive citizens. To do the latter, the wealthy have to give up some of their wealth.
It's a bit worrying that such an obvious troll account was so sucessful in getting people to feed it.
These are (almost) all of them, I'd say it's a bearable amount:

https://github.com/vemv/.emacs.d/blob/master/lib/non-submodu...

(also some are redundantly rebound, like left-key to left-char. I do it for... reasons)
>Some social problems are blatantly obvious in daily life, while others are longer-term, more corrosive and perhaps mostly invisible. Lately I’ve been worrying about a problem of the latter kind: the erosion of personal ownership and what that will mean for our loyalties to traditional American concepts of capitalism and private property.

The "traditional American concepts" where the pioneering spirit and individualism (and of course various forms of protestantism and religious nuttery and so on).

Not consumer capitalism. It took a lot of advertising and nudging to turn the more independent 1920s and 30s American into a consumer, and even more to turn him into a consumer of today's proportions.
AWS bulletin: https://aws.amazon.com/security/security-bulletins/AWS-2018-...

Amazon Linux bulletin: https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2018-1058.html

TL;DR: AWS is patched. Go update your kernel (especially if you run other people's code).
Asteroid Mining
Pepper's Ghost
That’s not a real quote, right?
> "I have the option of interacting with people who actually share my interests or concerns or hobbies"

Have you stopped to consider the unintended consequences of this? Mainly, that you become so comfortable with lack of adversity and diversity (of ideas, etc.) that when the time comes to leave the bubble you're unprepared. You don't have the tools and mindset to adjust to those who are unlike you.

Yes. It's nice to find others similar to you. But just the same, there's also value in being an island and still being capable of interacting with strangers.
I never wear a watch. But this looks beautiful and is only US$150...
More likely they aren't testing your knowledge of the algorithm but testing your ability to write code.