skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting view! I was actually experimenting for almost 3 weeks in a row to try a strict "diet" where my smartphone would mostly rely on sms/call and all other social apps(including whatsapp) removed and wifi off 90% of the time. Many of my friends sms-ed me after the cutoff day ( i did gave 2 weeks notice on all social media to my friends) asking if I am ok, what happened? Withdrawal syndrome?

Well I failed miserably to stick to my goal ( 12 months of phone diet) so after 21 days aaand.. i was back.

When running my whatsapp backup ... here it is 100k messages restored. At first I was thinking it should be a whatsapp bug... how i could have 100k msgs haha

As they say " Anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to consult an attorney , but we already got your whatsapp backup "

Anyone tried the low wifi diet?
Pardon if it comes off jaded, but what I note is very true. I’m in no way trying to impress Sam Altman like i gather some others may be.

No idea his background... yet did he not go to an Ivy League school?
So you use the load-balancing service. That's what it's for.
> have to somehow manipulate

Now I fear you're just putting words in my mouth, and certainly not responding to the strongest possible reading of my comment.

Regardless, the implication that any domestic animal can have a diet that is not manipulated in the first place, stretches credibility.

> Could you imagine if the toilet required you to eat a certain diet?

Let's use a more accurate analogy, of a toilet that requires I not eat a certain diet, but where the vast majority of other diets, including an overall healthier one, are acceptable.

I don't need to imagine. That's all low-flow toilets and a low-fiber diet.
I realize you’re joking, but Übersee is a german word that denotes everything across the ocean. (Der See => the lake. Die See => the ocean)
I think there may be a problem in step 5. Human nature is not that malleable and anyone that would be so dumb to rear end a car because it’s not turning soon enough will likely not change.
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Because automation is time consuming! Process comes first because it's easier to fine tune the process, then automate it. If you automate too soon you waste time building the wrong things.
You're looking at 9 hours or so per TB over USB 2.0 (~30-40MB/s typically). That doesn't seem beyond painful to me, just run it overnight and you're done in 2 days.
Can you tell us a little bit about your scientific background which would help us understand your qualifications to make that statement?

I'm really tired of non-subject-matter experts on HN coming in and declaring things that require very specific expertise bullshit because they didn't immediately understand or agree with them on a first pass.

I'm not saying you're doing that, but that's an awful lot like what it seems like given how argumentative your comment is.
Well my point was not to show flash as superior but to point out the development in that area... every use-case has reason be it flash or Magnetic... author choose to paint Magnetic as better alternative to Flash (in capacity dimension), which is obviously can not be true for all the use-cases... (same for flash) my comment it to high-light that fact...
> Florida is a recourse state, isn't it?

It is, and the lender almost invariably chooses to first sue on the note so as to avoid taking title to the property for as long as possible.
Someone took Metaphysics 101. It turns out reconciling science and philosophy isn't so easy.

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/is-scientif...
If it's even installed, for that matter. No guarantee that your system comes with locate. Or ifconfig, cron, or zip, while we're at it.
Measuring progress should display an ability to quantify and communicate value. So, it's up to you to decide which metrics are best for your company / product / project.
Honestly, the fact that your comment is downvoted speaks volumes about the audience here. The people who deny climate change are no different than antivaxxers.
Oh, I'm not saying it's the "only" reason - but a contributing factor. Constant high expectations, the poor work/life balance, and that losing your job after you're 30 basically means you're now considered unemployable doesn't help either.
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So, for a lay person, what's the summary? Does using optics as an interconnect in an otherwise electrical system add noticeable latency?
While relatively ideal, that ignores potential edge cases like the real driver driving with enough momentum to cause the driverless car he/she rear-ends to hit the car or curb or some other obstacle in front of them.

Hopefully by that point the driverless system's smart enough to apply all emergency braking to reduce the chance of that, but it's one possible scenario.
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> Although, I'm curious to hear how the witch hunt you describe would not, in fact, happen with a similarly concerted attempt targeted at far-right views.

This is a concern of mine, which is why I took time to differentiate Jones and Damore. I see one as having a legitimate cause for deplatforming, and the other as reactionary.

> If anything, that's an argument that we don't have to ban Nazis, because all of that happened without any kind of laws in the first place.

I'm curious, do you see a difference between social deplatforming, and a technological deplatforming? Those Nazi's are no longer able/willing to express their ideas in physical space because of pressures exerted by private citizens and institutions. As a society, we've limited these peoples' free speech, and I view that as A Good Thing because it has resulted in lower attendance at subsequent rallies. In the same vein, big tech companies may also be limiting the access to free speech of these people, but I'm okay with that given the views of the people they are limiting.
Toxicity might be hard, but some stats might end up being a fair proxy.

Time to PR resolution, PR acceptance/rejection ratios. These probably get more useful as you break them down by the average profiles of who gets accepted and rejected (i.e., project has a high general acceptance rate, but no one with fewer than 5 PRs has ever had one accepted. Or, project hasn't accepted a PR from a previously-unaccepted user in over a year, etc.

Maybe worthwhile to repeat the calculations but only track PRs submitted in response to a CodeTriage prompt.
Disclosure: I work at Google on Kubernetes CI / Infra etc.

The tooling, configs, etc are all open source [1] (and largely run on Kubernetes!), but the actual deployments have been Google operated. This is about opening up access to operation of the deployments. I'm not about to stop working on the automation etc. :-)

[1] https://github.com/kubernetes/test-infra

Edit: if anyone is interested in more, we have a post out on the Kubernetes blog today about some of the infrastructure: https://kubernetes.io/blog/2018/08/29/the-machines-can-do-th...
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It's silly, but I do carry around a notepad so I can make a list of things to look up later.
only if you consider the 15th century the very distant past. へ‿(ツ)‿ㄏ
gvim, however, looks pretty 1990s in its use of GUI elements surrounding the editor part. I wondered if that is what they meant.
> Maybe we should replace them by people who are able to problem solve in the face of adversity.

One of our political parties has been paid to ensure that doesn't happen.
That’s sort of like saying that “buy low and sell high” is clever investment advice.
> They definitely aren't illegitimate if you think there should be bail system

Incorrect.

First, a bail system still will exist in California, just not a money bail system.

Second, most of the history of money bail didn't require up front payment and specifically prohibited those providing surety from getting paid.

So, yes, it's quite possible (and the historical norm) to both accept bail systems as legitimate—even specifically when money bail systems are seen as legitimate—and view anything like the current American profit-driven predatory lending and privatized fugitive apprehension industry surrounding it as quite illegitimate.
> The highlight of the release for many developers is probably the launch of the 17 new WaveNet-based voices in a number of new languages

I like having more options for the same language, and English is well served in this point.
Is it not annoying to stop at every traffic light? The traffic lights are tuned to the speed limit. I stopped going faster than the speed limit(maybe 5 over sometimes max) and it’s a smoother experience.
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I'm assembling this right now, and the stator doesn't pull them out - it seems like the magnets on either side help keep them in place.
If it takes 4 hours to write to the drive/tape, 4 hours to transport it, and 4 hours to read it back in, that is 12 hours. If you are sending it over a wire, say the wire speed is 6 hours, the reading and writing are happening at the same time as the transmission. So total time is still 6 hours (you don't have to read the entire drive before beginning the transmission, and you write out to the remote side as it is being received).
I'll counter with some more basic and more broadly applicable advice.

1) Build a product people actually want and need and will pay money for

2) Promote yourself incessantly because others will be promoting themselves even more incessantly.

3) Spend your money wisely - focus on people, product, and marketing. Don't waste your money on office trappings and stuff that makes you feel good. Save your lunch money.

4) Ignore Venture Capital. If you are actually selling something people want, you can grow on revenues. If it takes a lot of money to create what your customers want or if your growth is greater than revenue, then the VCs will want to talk to you anyways. Because a) you're growing and b) customers actually want what you have. But don't start by focusing on what VCs want. Focus on what your customers want instead.

5) Always be selling. To your customers. To the press. To your employees. To anyone who matters. Never stop talking about your company.

6) Always be listening. To your customers. To your employees. The easiest and best ideas come from others.

7) Re-invest. Plow your earnings back into the company and promotion.

8) It's ok not to have a competitive advantage. What? Ok maybe you need to have some advantage but it doesn't have to be nearly as significant as is stated in this video. You need to have some reason for your customers to buy your product or service instead of competitors', so there's always some advantage. It could be price. Features. better service. But it could also be just a better connection with your prospects. Or perhaps you manage to place yourself in the right place at the right time. Or maybe you're just spending a lot on marketing. If you want to be successful, you need to identify at least one FAIR competitive advantage that your customers care about. And if you want to be super successful, identify one UNFAIR competitive advantage that locks out the competition. That could be an exclusive partnership, some intellectual property advantage, or connections with your customers that your competitors can't easily obtain.

This applies no matter if you're running a silicon valley style startup or a cybersecurity enterprise-focused government client startup -- both can make you millions or billions.
Pedestrians generally judge speed by noise.
Most of these are pretty good, but some of it is just nonsense.

Don't build web apps? That's asinine.
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It's been a while since this trick stopped working.
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When a self driving vehicle is ticketed for going too slow when it was doing the posted speed limit as happened with a Google vehicle; Googles' response should be "please post the appropriate speed".
>So I'm not surprised that self-driving cars are disliked.

Assuming you're implying that self-driving cars won't have behavior that's easy to learn, I'm not so sure.

Even self-driving cars should fall into certain patterns (maybe those will vary with the tech, depending on if they're run on Waymo or some other company's version of it).
Does it have VR support?
Please ignore comments like that; they're explicitly forbidden by the guidelines anyways. I feel like I'm speaking for a lot of people here when I say that the very best comments on the site tend to be written by people with firsthand knowledge of what's going on in the stories, and we need more of those, not less.
Agreed that the scientific community are the worst offenders, but I don't think it's just them. There are examples all over, but I don't think this conversation will benefit from their enumeration. I will point out that you're letting SQLAlchemy off the hook because their DSL is "opt in" and it's par for the course for DSLs; however, their DSL is not really "opt in", it's the standard way for building queries. Further, "DSLs will be DSLs" is kind of missing the point, which is that the Go community rejects these kinds of hacky DSLs while the Python community embraces them.

At the end of the day, I notice a significant difference in wanton magic between the Go and Python communities, and it's big enough to make me prefer Go over Python when given the choice (despite that I've used Python far longer and more regularly).
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In its defense; that close button is in a weird location. It threw me off as well. Should have been able to handle it though. Not too much strange stuff going on.

What was the result?
Don't take him in.

People grow, and you can encourage/assist, but each person ultimately has to choose for themself. If he needed to get out from his abuser he could presumably do it on his own, with varying levels of difficulty / pain. The fact that he hasn't done so means you would be "saving" him, a terrible choice. Unless he takes the step himself to become a fully self-reliant adult he is very unlikely to become that person under your protection.

Alternatively you could help him escape and provide a safe place for him to grow, while realizing that your relationship will probably be doomed in the process. I don't recommend this path.
Also, anyone planning on writing a pl/Julia for Postgres? Please do ...
They said "no single byte ever" previously: https://mobile.twitter.com/durov/status/880114461075439616
Yeah, I was thinking of that, but didn't want to extend the post.
The website is directly exported from the app, as a directly useful demo. I think that's the point of doing it that way.
Absolutely don’t :)

Emacs + ESS all the way .
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> I have never seen someone run a yellow and think they were being unsafe (even when the yellow turned red)

I have seen people who have so egregiously missed the yellow that the cross-signal turned green before they entered the intersection. Saying that running a yellow is safer than not trains people to be entitled to running yellow lights, and that is going to make their actions much less safe.

If there is someone in front of you, do not plan on running a yellow light. That is a very simple rule to follow and is going to be safe to follow. If you planned on running the light, and the driver in front of you did not plan on doing so, it is you who is going to be at fault.
Yes. I was surprised to learn that Australia has taken the crown from England of being the go to choice for filing libel lawsuits.

Mind you they were helped by England passing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defamation_Act_2013 to cut down on libel tourism. But it still isn't a crown that you particularly want to have.
> Would a giant sea wall work?

No. Miami (and pretty much all of South Florida) sits on top of a sand bar on top of porous limestone rock. The ocean will just come up through the limestone rock and through the sand no matter how tall your sea wall is.
I’m just here to point out that this boneheaded effort makes no effort to solve for the following cases:

- Companies becoming “collaborators” in the future

- Companies that are on the list ceasing “collaboration” with ICE

The latter is especially dumb when you figure it is the exact outcome this move is trying to inspire.

This leaves aside more fundamental questions of enforceability and so forth.
Nice! I joined the #phillymesh channel earlier but it seems to be +m.
Raising children is like investing heavily in a 401k or other savings vehicle. The cost is VERY high! But the payoff can be much higher.
The word you're feeling around trying to find is "white".
Or the cars suck at driving.

Disclosure: I've never seen one in action, just stating a possibility.
Just like those guys in Casablanca will always have Paris, I tell people when I compare Miami and New Orleans that the latter will at least always have drinking water, even if it is reduced to the French Quarter and Algiers Point.
Not affiliated (nor previously familiar) with CodeTriage, but I see a number of "I wish it did X" responses already and thought it was worth pointing out that their About page links to the repo for CodeTriage itself: https://github.com/codetriage/codetriage

They have over 100 contributors, so it seems likely they'd appreciate your issue or pull request.
This is explicitly part of the process of transferring each property. We need to be able to produce reports on spend in each area, and those reports are property of CNCF, not Google.
I was unable to find the actual breakdown of helium consumption by application, but I assume party balloons are pretty high on the list. Most of the other commercial uses (such as in medicine, welding, diving, etc.) tend to use smaller amounts of helium and do not lose the helium after one usage. This seems like a great example of something where market prices will sort make helium balloons obsolete before helium starts to become too cost prohibitive for its more 'important' uses.
This story seems to resurface every few months, and the answer to the question of whether or not we’re running out of the second most common element in the known universe is still “No.” It is true that most helium is the byproduct of natural gas production, and demand for Helium is rising while (hopefully) demand for fossil fuels will dwindle. It is also true that Helium may become more expensive if we keep wasting it on party balloons. That is not the same as “running out” however, and we’re not running out of it.

Maybe someday the media can honestly reflect reality in this case with a headline that talks about being less wasteful of a valuable resource so that it doesn’t become painfully expensive, rather than framing in terms of actual scarcity on Earth. It’s also one of those areas where the market can probably handle this because few people will be willing to pay big bucks for a single party balloon. Given that balloons are harmful to the environment to begin with, letting that tradition naturally die off seems like a win-win.

Edit: As another poster has pointed out, natural gas subsidies are a problem, which artificially depress the price of Helium. That is still not “running out” though.
In these instances, can the URL of this post be changed to the primary source rather than reporting on it?
I read the article, and it seems like it could be an important difference for some types of biology research, if they actually verify it isn't found in other species that they haven't checked yet.

But my initial reaction to the headline was about AI research. My personal belief is that if you are looking at biology for help creating more powerful general purpose AI (AGI or "strong AI"), the idea that humans are special is actually mostly wrong and is counter-productive. For example there were many earlier efforts that emphasized reproducing the more rational aspects of human cognition (things animals seemed unable to do), but those turned out to be dead ends for AGI. Computers can do automated mathematical problem solving or proofs or play chess much better than humans, but it turns out that much of what people do doesn't have cut-and-dried rules that we can just enter in.

Most, if not all of the capabilities that have been more difficult to achieve in AI are shared between humans and animals. If anyone has had a pet they might have noticed some abilities that may or may not have seemed particularly smart at that time. But when you start to look at it from the perspective of reproducing those abilities in robots, no one has come close. And those capabilities are shared with humans and can be mapped to higher-level abilities.

For example, start with the advanced vision and motor systems that work together in the average house cat. Add in the ability to communicate and coerce humans into providing fresh food and water at will (ok, my cat was spoiled). The desire and ability of the cat to play in a slightly creative way -- my cat would look at me, arch her back, puff up her tail, tilt her head, as a clear communication that she wanted me to play chase with her. Then she would run and find a new place to hide. Or she would run up and smack me with both paws on the ankle at the same time, check that I had noticed and then run away -- another invitation to play. (Coincidentally, tag was also by far my nephew's favorite game when he was little.)

I guess I don't really have the motivation today to make a really in-depth and convincing argument here. But at least consider making artificial cats before you make artificial humans. Even if you don't agree that it is a big step towards reproducing human abilities. Because cats _can_ be pretty great, but litter boxes are disgusting.
All: This is a good and on-topic article but dread leads me to a caveat: if you comment, please resist the obvious internet reflexes.
Here's a (the?) source for 3' that Bloomberg omitted
https://www.coast.noaa.gov/states/stories/data-models-sea-le...

Misreading the link - as many newspapers have done, and it's wrong absent further data - results in 6'

EDIT: As noted by Accipitriform I made the same mistake I pinned on many newspapers.
I tried Open Street Maps, but it is so bad compared to Google Maps. The results sometimes made no sense and it was just a pain to use.
Your point about red vs blue isn’t at issue here. These are all still the coastal states that are the most vociferously denying climate change. You’ll find it pretty hard to argue that any of them are more in favor of climate change action that the other coastal states regardless of whether they show up blue or red on an election map.
With apologies to Neal Brennan: if you're asking that question, congratulations on having a great life.
If I thought the side effects could be mitigated I’d be doing it all the time ;) But I’m skeptical and don’t buy into all of those downplaying the effects as “minor”.
I think he was.
Honestly the comment doesn't make much sense when you think about it for a second. He seems to think having ready access to information you want to find is a bad thing.
FWIW I'm the random twitter user (https://twitter.com/m_held + https://github.com/mheld) and use duckduckgoog myself, so when it went down all of a sudden I thought I'd just continue running it for folks. Will probably ask to transfer the repo at some point
Noel Ignatiev's "How the Irish Became White" is supposed to be a nice book on this subject