skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Their comment wasn't directed towards improving the ratio. They were suggesting that the focus should instead be on the current users. I imagine this is a result of everything being so new, they think it makes sense to take some time and figure out why people are actually using the app before trying to tackle more directed problems like the uninstall ratio.

In that context, it's really not a survivorship bias. If you want to know about the survivors, it's not wrong to consider the surviors only.
"Most people that work in politics or intelligence in liberal states aren't in it for the power."

True, but those directing and financing them are. Sorry but this is exactly how being in power works. You don't spy on common people because you want to arrest them all now, but rather to keep an advantage position "just in case". Power is all about maintaining an advantage position with respect to an adversary or a potential one. Should you one day, say 10 years from now, become a political figure, the pictures someone collected 5 years ago of you dancing naked and stoned in a disco would instantly become a tool to be used to either destroy your political career, or use it for their gain through blackmailing.
Knowledge is power. AI training aside, gathering all possible information about everyone is how Cardinal de Richelieu would get something enough to hang any of the 7 billions people living on this planet, or have them work for him 24/7.
Genuinely happy youve reached out to a community to help. First off Ill say that you’ll probably get a ton of different answers but nobody can really understand your motivation, your “blocks”, what you think the issues are, etc in a post. That kind of thing takes some work and time with a really good counselor/ therapist.

Id really suggest finding someone. Dont go for fancy titles, just look around your area and start coming up with some criteria. Would you feel more comfortable with a male or female? Phd and brainey or soul searching? Meet with 5 people. They should all offer free 30min sessions for you to at least see if you’ll click

Go with your instincts and trust them.

And please, keep up with the exercise.
> Unless the programmer is programming at a very low level, the listed events occurring are out of his control

> CPU caching is mostly transparent in the ISA

Nonsense. Even in a relatively high language like Java, you can use primitive types like int[] to ensure that certain elements are close to each other in memory. As such, you can have good memory access patterns even in a high language like Java or C#.

I'm fairly certain this stuff is important when choosing data-structures: Vector vs Linked List for instance. Linked Lists are harder to cache than Vectors, and this chart helps explain why both of these O(1) traversals can have dramatically different performance characteristics.

> disk seeking is scheduled by the kernel or in storage controllers, file buffers are cached in the kernel

But you can read a file from beginning to end. Even in a very, very high language like SQL, you can often ensure a high-speed sequential table scan if you write your joins properly. And knowledge of sequential scans can assist you in knowing which indexes to setup for your tables.

Knowing that you have SSDs vs Disks can be helpful in the architecture of SQL architectures.
For me, doing hill sprints on a bicycle sometimes completely fails to register on the Fitbit. My heart rate will sometimes show up in the 90-100 range on the Fitbit, despite my Garmin (which gets data from a chest strap monitor) showing me 160-170, which is far more believable.

And then there are weird situations while merely walking around where I'll see strange spikes (160+) on the Fitbit when I know my heart rate is near 90 or so.
It's highly unlikely. There is a lot of competition for entry-level jobs and not many remote positions available. The barriers to entry are exactly academic qualifications over certifications and portfolios.
I disagree. When you're struggling to survive, you don't care what your trash fire is doing to the environment. Caring about the environment is a wealthy person's problem. Technology creates wealth.
Paranoia Is Now a Best Practice
Well, he definitely "coined" it as in "transform it into coins". Crypto-coins, to be exact, mostly of his own currency, which has seen a quite exorbitant rise in valuation, not in the smallest part based on exuberant hyping of this "Web 3.0", of which everyone really needed to be a part (by buying Ether) or they would miss out on the next big thing.
I'm old enough to remember when Web 3.0 was another name for The Semantic Web[1]. I'm sure Gavin Wood is a clever person but the opening of this article made him come off as a dotcom boom era huckster.

[1] https://archive.fo/jUSh#selection-627.0-627.56
>May I ask you a few quick questions on how you see that happening?

Sure, fire away here too, I'll try to answer as best as I think it.

(Also in what sense do you mean "how I see that happening"? Technically? Legally? UI-wise?)
Interesting to know about the turning radius issue. Bicycles can cut very sharp, and I suppose that's a function of both mass and velocity. (Possibly the lighter bicycle is easier to tilt over into a tight turn, driven down by the rider's weight, while the motorcycle has to tilt under its own weight.)

Ultimately, though, on a city street my gut says that motorcycles are in pretty much the same situation as bicycles, or better. Not sure how the stopping distance compares, but what a motorcycle lacks in being able to swerve, it should make up for in power. (Different benefits in different situations.) I believe part of why drivers don't see bicycles is that bicycles are usually ridden on the right side of the right lane. But I have never ridden a motorcycle, so my gut could well be wrong. :-)

(Highway, that's a different beast. I care less about how loud motorcycles are out there.)

So I guess here's a question: Should bicycles be equipped with constant noisemaking devices?
I think it's cyclical: there are periods of lots of funding available and less of funding available. There's still market economics at play. So the Lean Startup is not permanently dead simply because we see articles of startups getting $XX million funding or have $X billion valuations.

A company that is restricted on cash and "lean" is more inclined to be risk-averse and calculated in their business model decisions because they have to 'do more with less'. Whereas a company pumped full of cash has a greater 'trial and error' risk-tolerance because their goal is to overpower a target market to become the dominant player as quickly as possible. Investors still want to see a pleasing return either way.
I asked my girlfriend this, and she said a few things:

1) It looked tedious and frustrating to learn.

2) It's filled with a bunch of dudes, which makes her uncomfortable.

3) It doesn't come "naturally" to her so she thinks it'd be frustrating in the long run as well.
Some services I'm looking at:

Pingdom - https://www.pingdom.com/

Assertible - https://assertible.com/

Also Application Insights, but it was down during the outage.

We can also roll out our own on AWS Lambda or something, but I'd rather not.
I have no words of wisdom. I have PTSD from something that happened to me, but I'm in a similar situation. All I can do is say you aren't alone, and I wish you the very best.
> It's a college level course offered to high school students.

I took the AP Physics C MITx course on edx (when I was in high school) and it was way below the level of our college Physics 1 course (electrical engineering, European university). Not saying it wasn't a great course (much better than anything my high school offered), but it just wasn't as mathematically rigorous.

Are introductory college classes in the US really so basic?
By definition, it does "A monopoly exists when a specific person or enterprise is the only supplier of a particular commodity" [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly
David Sanger on the perfect weapon, and why we're so lousy at cyber defense
Consider going back to school. I have a feeling you entered the workforce too early. It might give you a new perspective on things, and open a path to a completely different career.
I'm not sure if it is even fair to call it Pro.
I think there are several different types of C programmers, and that terseness and functional design are very different.
Thanks, I've added them to my todo list.

First movie I ever saw Jennifer Lawrence in was Winter's Bone [1]. Goodness grace, she's such a heroine in that movie. No wonder she got typecast for the strong female roles.

[1] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1399683/
Life is relationships. Put most of your work into those and your mood should improve.
https://archive.org/details/TerryADavisTempleOSYouTubeChanne...
More importantly, asking someone if "having a child" was a good choice 2months and 6months after they decide, isn't measuring anything about having a child, which generally takes at lease 9 months of advance preparation.

It takes years to measure the quality of a parenthood or a marriage.
> a return to 1.0 ideals of information-sharing

Jaron Lanier often makes the point that the goals of free information didn't turn out quite the way they intended

> The internet was built on a socialist model that everything should be free and accessible to all. But it also celebrated visionary tech entrepreneurs who made it big with their world-changing ideas. “How do you celebrate entrepreneurship when everything is free?” he mused. Tech companies looked to advertising to fund their operations, and that’s where all the corruption began.

Ads powered by algorithms that perform behavior-modification on it's subjects is the only model left when all that "information" is free.

> A monetized information economy will create a strong middle class out of information sharing—and a strong middle class must be able to outspend the elite tip of an economy for democracy to endure,”

https://qz.com/1249955/jaron-lanier-at-ted-2018-to-fix-the-i...

https://qz.com/87795/free-information-as-great-as-it-sounds-...
Skills? Aren't lots of InfoSec pros self-developed hackers?
i can neither confirm or deny the existence of clandestine fediverse summits.
In general small scale Web development the only thing that matters are:
1. Are there not too many queries fired at the database (N+1)
2. Do the queries perform well

Once you use SQL or any external service to your application what you do else often does not matter very much. As long as you keep the big O in the back of your mind, you would not optimize to cache lines etc.
Well, their comment is flagged now so I can't directly quote it (drats). More or less they said, "private schools are indicative of racism". In other words, people who send their kids to private schools are racist or support racist constructs? Racism is fairly malevolent.
Emirates flight quarantined at JFK with many passengers ill
>It was over four years ago that I coined the term “Web 3.0.” Back then, it was clear to me: Ethereum—the platform I helped found—would allow people to interact in mutually beneficial ways without anyone needing to trust each other.

Well, I'd rather we have a web of people trusting each other...
3D-Printed Firearms Are Blowing Up
Richard Saplosky has written about some of the common traits in these cultures. Interesting stuff.

https://www.robertsapolskyrocks.com/aggression-iv.html
Right, I'm not suggesting that it's even remotely possible for millions of systems to be updated at the same instant, just that outside of some special circumstances like beta channels (yes Google Play supports this) the huge numbers of devices are offered the same updates.

If trust is lost in the update mechanisms then something will be done to restore it. That would likely be large developers like Apple, Microsoft and Google deploying a technical solution to prevent themselves from sending different updates to different devices without loudly warning the user and automatically reporting the attack to the world. That would please users and reduce compliance costs. Really, the major operating systems should just do it now to prevent this from becoming a problem in the first place.
People don't put the same meaning behind "mentally damaged". Some people are really mentally damaged. You don't sound mentally damaged to me.
A list of information shared would go a long way. Assuming it's a short list (hah), it wouldn't be hard to prominently display it aside from the privacy policy.

Edit: Also, turn ALL of this into a single step, and make it easier to find: https://blog.fitbit.com/go-incognito/
Guess what the digital bathroom scales are just as bad when it comes to body fat measurements, and even worse when it comes to weight measurements.

(The algorithm that shows your weight has hysteresis built in, so that if you step on, get a reading and step off, then step back on with a 1- or 2-lb weight, it will give you EXACTLY the same reading. This is to fool you into thinking its accurate)
Relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He7TnoCM7fo
I think a lot of us scientists wouldn't view any discipline not fundamentally based in collecting and interpreting observations as a science at all, much less an ur-science.
> neutrino signalling could make it faster

you need a nuclear reactor for transmission and a deep array of detectors buried underground for reception...
Iran Admits: Regime Working with Soros Organization
> it's my choice as to what I consider "good" genes (which is arbitrary, after all)

But is your choice yours, or just your genes speaking? I'd also dispute the idea that there aren't universal indicators of genetic fitness that we all find attractive. Given free choice we would all prefer someone with better skin, brighter eyes, more lustrous hair, better teeth, etc. etc. wouldn't we? No one sets out to look for an ugly, physically lousy mate, do they?

> If the state does it, then I have no choice, plus I might be getting paired with someone who I don't consider to have "good" genes, or I might not even be allowed to breed at all.

Like it or not, Eugenics of a type is probably coming down the track anyway via gene editing. Who would turn down the chance to upgrade their offspring's intellect or height, given the option?
"Carriers say they’re throttling to manage internet traffic. To deliver the videos people want to watch on their phones, sacrifices in speed are required, according to the three largest U.S. wireless companies"

Moving from the US to Switzerland a few years ago really opened my eyes to how much US wireless carriers were fucking me as a customer.

On Swisscom, my mobile provider, I get unlimited unthrottled data (with tethering!) for ~$99/month. With this I get speeds > 100Mbs on the "good side" of my apartment. And 60Mbs on the "slow side" of my apartment:

I also get these speeds in the Alps.

For another point of comparison Salt (rebranded Orange here), offers a home internet plan of 10 Gbps + 250 TV channels + a free Apple TV for $49 / month.

https://fiber.salt.ch/en/?utm_campaign=saltfiberen&utm_mediu...
> If used by researchers, for research.

Sure, but that's application. Great things usually can do terrible things depending on application.

At some point we have to take a leap of faith and acknowledge that some things, like heart data ingestion, is an amazing advancement for humanity. Lets not try and stop it, lets try to move it in the right direction. Ie, not private, etc.
How much equity do you need to give away to get VC money for an unproven business idea? Is there a ballpark figure? I heard like $100k for 20% or something but I guess that's more like angel investing? What's the minimum amount of work you need to do before getting money with no track record as a founder?
Visualizing Our Rapidly Aging World
Surely, anyone with deep pockets can replicate it. However, it will most likely take a lot of time since getting city permits tend to be bureaucratic, at least in the US.

In the case of MB, they haven't even announced anything (I think) of the sort.
>At full power, the XR-7755 generated a tremendous amount of heat.

Speaking as a full time engine mechanic for a small chain of midwestern repair stores, this is the death-knell of every heavily customized car. Heck, 3/4ths of the engineering for a Dodge Hellcat or Mustang cobra is just to keep the thing cool enough that the driver isnt chased out of the cockpit. You cant idle them the same way you idle a Toyota...they'll burn up.

the Dodge Viper is another perfect example of engine displacement gone wild. The intercooler and radiator are massive, but the additional cylinders and their size means the V-10 motor has 10 cylinders firing onto a 90-degree crankshaft, which means it has an uneven firing interval for two of the ten cylinders. it makes the idle rougher than a garbage truck, and very prone to overheat with a 220 degree camshaft.
You still need to pay for marketing, sales, some administrative work (accounting, legal...) Maybe you need help outside of your expertise (graphic design, UX...) There is a lot that goes into a startup on top of just building the product.
This article could be considerably longer, I agree. As such, it is merely an interesting introduction.
I don't see anything on their sites about accessibility features. An ethical FLOSS phone is an awesome idea, but I'm concerned that if they don't think about accessibility at all in making it then it will be hard or impossible to add those features in after the fact.
First, stop thinking of yourself as mentally damaged. You're normal. If by the time you're 30-40 and you haven't realized that all new things that you encounter will eventually go away, then you're mentally damaged. It's a normal transition from shortsighted childishness to farsighted maturity.

You're in the prime of your life. You're at a stage where you have skills and experience to do lots of things and make decent money. Your job may be boring as hell, but view your job as a tool. It something that gives you the means to do what you want.

That is the hard part, figuring out what you want. Ultimately contentment comes from within but it's easier to have with the correct external forces supporting you. Things at this point in your life should be easier to achieve, not because they are in fact easier because often time they are more difficult tasks, but because you have years of experience knowing that you can overcome any obstacle placed in your path.

I'm 45 and can relate to much of what you've said. I wish I had time to write more, but you really are in your prime. Do want you need to do so you can do what you want to do. Those two things should be very balanced at this point in your life, whereas when you're younger you're always doing the needs and you never have time to think about your wants.
Ah! The misogyny!
I live in Belgium and was surprised to find out how regulated our media is. However, it is mostly for linear media (i.e. a single continous stream like traditional TV channels). The law is somewhat vague, requiring that "the largest portion of broadcast time be dedicated to European productions".

Rules for nonlinear media like Netflix basically state that they have to promote insofar possible European productions, but without hard numbers. I can imagine that these vague rules are blatantly ignored by modern streaming providers, so at least in Belgium you could see this as simply a more specific wording of already existing rules.

(I'm not entirely sure how I feel about this btw, I'm just providing some context for those interested.)
B is really important. For all the lovely American paranoia about oppressive government killing business opportunity, the power of massive but still fast-moving companies in the same industry is far harder on innovation.
Cool, thanks for the details.
As an American, I've come to the cynical view that most vote based on their identity, or their perceived identity, instead of specific issue priorities.

After someone has firmly established their "identity", active debate on a specific plank of their party/identity's platform is received as a personal attack.

When the party/identity diverges from the person's personal ethics, they won't seek out a new identity/party (too much sunk cost) but instead rationalize why their current identity/party is still coherent with their individual stance.

It doesn't matter if "Netflix being throttled" is at the top of their list of priorities, it matters if the identity/party they align with makes it a messaging priority.
If you haven't had a regular therapist and start looking, realize that it usually takes a few visits with you mostly talking to establish enough history in order for them to start sorting you out. If you don't start clicking with them in 5-6 sessions or so, look elsewhere.
How Two Students Made $100K Bringing Korean Hot Sauce to America
The direct physiological benefits are blocked by glass, which is naturally UV opaque, fwiw.
I'd guess the shift from Desktop to SaaS, the demands of keeping a service running 24/7 are quite high compared to just offering a download.
Is there a similar chart for bandwidth numbers.
Have you tried a little meditation to help with some symptoms? I recommend this. Sit in a slightly dark room, be comfortable. Close your eyes, relax & take no thought (try it's hard). Do that for 15-30 minutes. Do this at least once a week, more the better. This will help you focus.

Peace and love on your journey.
JTR
I just coined the term Web 4.0, you heard it here first.
Show HN: Looq, Image Filters Using Neural Networks
My solution was to buy a pair of headphones with good sound isolation. The building could be burning down and I'd wouldn't give a shit.
Psychotherapy, meditation and community.
>What was truly unique about the cams was that there were two sets of lobes for each cylinder. One set of lobes optimized the operation of the engine valves at high power settings

VTEC, yo. In in the 1940s no less.

There's tons of tech that was well understood for WW2 aviation that finds its way back into land transportation given enough time. Adding water and alcohol blends to the intake charge to reduce temperature and prevent detonation, ABS, Fuel injection, probably other stuff as well.
Behind the New Everwise Home Page
Ahhh, thanks for that.
Having read the article, I can't tell if this is satire.
I have occasionally imagined flipping a coin, on the ground that when the coin is in the air I will know how I'd wish it to fall.
Firefox 62.0 Released
Id and Ion Storm are/were both in Texas. There’s a lot of sun there. Enough that you can afford to hide from it.

Anecdotally, I was a lot more nocturnal when I lived in New Orleans than when I lived in Boston and Seattle. It’s impossible to get too much sun up here, but down in the tropics, that’s a definite problem.
> I'm 40 this year and as a milestone birthday

It's only a milestone if you make it a milestone. You don't have to participate in these made up events if you don't want to.

I'd recommend the book "a guide to the good life" by William Irvine. It may help you transform your "anhedonia" from something negative to something positive.
You implied that the illegality of purchasing such a plate rested on the customer. I think it is perfectly legal to purchase such a plate, it's just not legal to sell one.
Also no spaces. This hurts so bad.
"The upshot is clear: If you find yourself mapping a “whether or not” question, looking at a simple fork in the road, you’re almost always better off turning it into a “which one” question that gives you more available paths."

#ThingsEnderWigginKnew For those who never read "Ender's Game", the main character must play an unwinnable game where he is given 2 choices where both decisions end in death. He manages to find a hidden third option (killing the Giant) that allows him to continue playing.
I think it's pretty common complaint to say Chinese doesn't translate simply to English. Like Chinese poems are said to contain wordplay based on alternate pronunciations or homophonic information which simply can't be translated.
Root Cause