skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps there's some kind of correlation there? The science/math/tech world is rife with users of amphetamines (including the ones that are prescribed for use by medical professionals, e.g. Adderall, Vyvanse, etc.). Mathemetician Paul Erdos famously championed them.

Maybe you can explain why you felt the need to point this out with such disdain?
The art of creating very tiny programs for the 80x86 family of CPUs
Balance is the key. I worked in the office, then at home, back to the office and now I'm 100% from home. The first time I worked at home I worked WAY too much. Going back to the office was so nice. I hated the commute, but I loved leaving work at work. After going back and forth, this 2nd round of working from home is great. No commute and I rarely get sucked back into working hours that I normally wouldn't. It takes some discipline to keep a balance.
See century of self. Governments have been "hacking" people since probably the beginning of government. Free will yet remains an ever present concept that is the basis of fundamental things such as the law.
Boosting Machine Learning Models Using XGBoost
Not really.

ISIL and the various other groups from whence they came had no material presence until the Syrian uprising, which was part of the Arab spring. They were a small band of angry nobodies before that.

During the Syrian uprising, those groups coalesced and came to power, taking territory, getting funding, bringing in foreign fighters. Even if they had origins elsewhere, 'they came to be' during this time, in Syria.

Iraq materially comes into the picture later, when Obama withdrew American forces form Iraq, which enabled then Iraqi PM Malaki to purge government of Sunnis, deepening the rift between Sunni/Shia, as you mentioned.

Then ISIL effectively came into Iraq - as the local Sunni tribes in Iraq turned their back on their own antagonizing government, and allowed ISIL in.

If Obama had of left 10K troops in Iraq, behind the wire, giving him enough leverage with the Iraqi PM so as to be able to contain the Sunni/Shia animosity (as they had done up until that time) - then there would have never been any ISIL incursion into Iraq and the state would have remained intact.

Whatever we think about the 2003 invasion, there is no amount of 'US competence' which would completely disable small groups of dudes from forming some degree of insurgency. Any country invading any other always faces this kind of opposition.

Without Manning's cables, there wouldn't have been an Arab Spring, without that in Syria, none of us would have ever heard of ISIL. I'm not promoting or defending Manning, just indicating the course of events.
I was curious so I looked at their marketing vid. "I found a bunch of research about keyboard design [...] and every keyboard design in the last 20 years has flat out ignored it"

It also seems they flat out ignored the single most beneficial feature for a keyboard on hand ergonomics: having your hands rest at a negative slope. The UHK seems to have this feature.
I have also to recommend longboarding here. Way funnier and easier to carry with, and commute time is pretty much the same in the city.
Is using an IOMMU with a USB peripheral really enough? If my PC satisfies those and I plug in a random USB device am I safe?
> We decided to adopt “/e/” as a textual representation for the symbol of “my data is MY data”

Discussion appears to be here: https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/leaving-apple-and-google-e...

I appreciate the reason for the name change, but if the goal is to target laypeople, /e/ is not obviously pronounceable or meaningful for my mom or kids/teens.
'It's Like Amazon, but for Preschool'
I'd agree. For beginners, Guitar Dashboard is probably overkill. I really wrote it for people like me, who'd been playing guitar for a while and know all the basic chords, but want to get deeper into the underlying theory.
SaaS SDRs: Ever used a sales script interactively? Free template here
I think that even without interactions, it makes people less ready to be angry, which is a plus.
> same as BitTorrent is only good for illegal downloads.

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/8-legal-uses-for-bittorrent-yo...

Number 3 will surprise you.
I think they make a point of this fairly regularly, double blind machine learning (apologies if this is the wrong phrase..) and also on device facial recognicitan - ie. not on apples servers (as in Google’s / facebooks case).

I think it is highly unlikely to come out that they are selling company data. Look at all the comments that Tim Cook made about Facebook - that he wouldn’t be in that situation as it would compromise his morals etc..
Agreed -- many of the shared paths have low 10-15mph speed limits for pedestrian safety which is fine for a recreational cyclist, but for someone going to work, 20mph on the flats is doable by a reasonably fit cyclist.

When there's a road next to a mixed-use path, I'll usually take the road since it's safer and easier than sharing with the pedestrian traffic.
>"What I discovered sent a shiver of horror down my spine",
"I couldn't believe my eyes",
"Holy shit"

These seems like a lot of histrionics for a summary that reads:

>"Conclusions Nothing really, I just found this funny and wanted to share."
Distractions doesn't cause bad code, poor system design experience causes bad code. Programming is like any activity, once you're good at it, you can do it while doing other things. You can code while listening to music, watching a movie, talking on the phone. Provided you know what you're doing. If you have poor system design experience and have no framework for your current task, and you're pretty much experimenting, then you will easily fail especially when distracted, without noticing you're on the wrong path. However, if you have a unit of work to do, and a known framework to map it to, distraction won't cause you to lose sight of your goal, sure you might have a typo or even an incorrect logical cause, but I argue that those are minor and not bad code but mere and easy to fix mistakes.

Bad code is code that looks like good code, works, but is really bad because of poor design. Begins to show itself for what it is once it's time to modify and maintain it.
Cool. If you let us know the app I won’t install it.

If you’re invasively tracking users, you should stop doing so.
I feel like people are blaming the tech companies for their own flaws. As Homer Simpson once said: "It's easy to blame ourselves, but it's even easier to blame Flanders."

The targeted ads and (fake or not) news are not what's "threatening democracy". It's an ignorant populace that doesn't know how to evaluate credibility of news sources, or open themselves to multiple viewpoints (e.g., you can read Fox News and the NYTimes!)

Bad politicians were able to get elected long before the Internet came along.

Personally, I love the benefits of Google's ecosystem. It's handy. I use Facebook, but only for Messenger and events. I resist the urge to read the news on my feed. Apple's products are nice but Siri is garbage and I like the cloud.
I don't think you are doing it wrong but in 90% of the cases that's on the app developer. The OS usually doesn't ask for wifi randomly but many apps do. They check for connectivity and if wifi isn't available they prompt the user. It's not hard code to write but it shouldn't be used often. I'm actually writing similar code right now but for a pretty good reason, I'm working a feature that might use the presence of a wifi network to indicate proximity to an IoT device.
True-ish. Since the formula uses confidence intervals[0] it does better with recent talks than a simple (likes - dislikes). But you're right, breaking into "all time" status is tough because there are a number of talks with many hundreds of likes and 1 or 2 dislikes.

0: https://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating...
I love Charle's book, Code. Thank you for writing it.

http://www.charlespetzold.com/books/#code
I just saw a girl on TV saying she was doing 6km to go to work. Granted that's not possible for kids before middle school, but after that I think it's not far fetched.
Right - home and office both have distractions. I find I can manage them better at home. It has been much easier to train my kids than my old co-workers.
I've had mine for about 2 months now. I like it better than my Ergodox, but it's not perfect (yet). Maybe I need to train muscle memory more still, but I'm looking forward to the extra modules shipping for having extra thumb keys. Furthermore I'm still annoyed at the arrow keys needing a modifier, where the Ergodox has an extra row of keys for that. Hardware build quality is impeccable, software/firmware is only just getting there though. Programmability is better (well, easier) than w Ergodox, although I imagine that by now there are graphical tools for that; back when I configured mine, I had to hack the C firmware to get it to do what I wanted.
I've found a looper pedal a fantastic tool for learning theory. Play some chords from a particular scale, then try improvising over it. You get a real feel for how the different modes sound.
Chicago in the winter is little different from Finland in the winter, and in the latter plenty of people commute by bike all winter. The discomfort of cycling in the cold is exaggerated; there is a way to dress appropriately, and then it is not a big deal.
The first step to using Google is to seek an alternative or to accept the reality that at some point the good times must come to an end.
Performance is bad on firefox but on chrome it worked fine. As for the game I think the gameplay is very awkward. In a skillshot game I want to be in really good control of my character. This could be improved by faster turn and movement rate(and perhaps being able to stop) or alternatively a more cave flier style both hands on keyboard combat where one hand is controlling the ship(arrow keys/wasd) and one hand is controlling weapons. As for the skills/weapons there are way too many in my opinion and the synergy of them feels awkward and the cooldowns are way too long. If you have 2 defensive spells I think they should be on a sub 5 second cooldown but maximum 1 sec duration and have all offensive spells kill on first or second hit to make to combat fast paced.
Speculation about how an embedded x86 works. Just because their desktop focused, non-power optimized products do something, doesn't necessarily mean their embedded line-up does the same.

FYI - Apple is a hard driving customer, they do not compromise on power, performance & cost/pricing
I think it's more that Apple realizes that people of color tend to drive culture in the U.S. What's the latest dance craze, what's the hottest song? Chances are they come from a community of color, usually Black Americans. So with these images, they can kill two birds with one stone and say "We're hip, we're diverse, etc.", furthering their image as a luxury lifestyle consumer electronics brand. In reality, they perpetuate a cycle of mindless consumerism with extremely expensive phones that further push people into poverty (even if the true price of the phone is hidden behind a contract), with little disdain for the color of the people buying them. You could even say that they are exploiting the very people who drive the popular culture that they showcase as a lifestyle if the group cannot afford Apple's devices.
That's perhaps a bit of a stretch, but whole thing just makes me sad.
You're mistaking the movement per unit energy efficiency of the car vs. The bicycle as the only reason for preferring one over the other. There are a myriad of emergent benefits to people having affordable climate-controlled engined-vehicles with storage that has improved their lives dramatically.
The issue with logging levels is they only convey basic information through the levels and the rest through the actual message which results in the mess that is log processing.
Wires are so last century. Bluetooth headphones have been available for at least 20 years. (I had a pair for my SonyEricsson m600c, and I'm not an early adopter.)

Knowing my altitude is something I need on at least a weekly basis. I'm OK with losing a port I haven't used in a couple of decades.
Can't think of any off the top of my head, but you could build a Let's Split (or Chimera, or... actually there are a lot) with Kalih low profile switches and keycaps.
Airware is shutting down after raising $118M
The shoe market has 'whales' who spend a double-digit percentage of a median income on shoes every year.

That said, no, it's really that simplistic. Amazon will do the same thing for vacuum cleaners, and vacuum cleaner whales do not exist, as far as I know.
You can still talk in economic terms by estimating value in others ways, e.g., using scientific models based on replacement rates, etc.

I think that parent comment is spot on in saying that value determination based on what people are willing to pay for it, does often come not even close to the real/potential value of complex resource systems. Of course all estimations are still grounded in base prices of less complex resources.
Creating LambdaEdge and Route 53 Resources with CloudFormation
I had a similar disposition but my desires recently changed. My family moved to the US when I was ten and growing up I lacked a sense of permanence/place and carried the idea that freedom (not being tied down to a location, or a set of traditions) was paramount. I moved often, spent years working at a company aspiring to "belong anywhere" which culminated in me having the freedom to maintain the lifestyle more or less indefinitely. My plan was to continue traveling overland (with an expedition vehicle) for the foreseeable future.

Then a year ago, I got this desire to experience a place through all its seasons, really get to know a community, and be concerned with a longer time horizon. I bought a house (which I always viewed as an assault on my freedom) and some land in a 2000 person town. I'm volunteering for political campaigns and planning to become a volunteer fire fighter.

It's a simple lesson but desires change. It's great to have the ability/privilege to embrace those changes.
If any competitor wants me to switch from DDG, I need a bang replacement. You are not Google. Everyone knows it and no one expects the same quality of results.

If you don't give me an easy option to switch to google or something similar or tell you where exactly to look for results, you are not an option (for me)
Uncle Bob's stuff missing on purpose?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884 was kinda a classic for the Rails community.
No, it’s more convenient. I personally would argue that AWD can make cars less safe because of the false confidence it provides.

The most important thing you can do with a car is brake and turn, as those affect safety the most.

All cars brake with all four wheels, drive type has absolutely no effect at all. All modern cars have enough braking power to slide on clean concrete, let alone snow and ice. The only thing you can do to improve braking distance is to change your tires.

Steering is only affected by drive type when you’ve got the hammer down, as you may be asking the front tires to propel and steer the car at once (this is partly why FWD cars often understeer). But in a snowy situation you won’t be driving flat out, so which wheels are driving will have little effect on steering, and zero effect if you’re coasting or braking.

What AWD is great at is getting you off the line in low traction scenarios, which is convenient. It also means that you can get an AWD car up to speeds that are unwise in the present conditions (remember that steering is two wheeled in almost all cars).

The only real advantage that AWD has is that AWD cars are typically heavier than their two wheel drive cousins, and weight absolutely confers safety in snow.
Why move to firebase when it will be shutdown when it becomes useful?
You can deny Google Search location services and iOS blocks far more tracking cookies than Android, so I don't think you can support that claims about privacy falling apart.
There is a Let's Split kit with Kailh Choc low profile keys. It's not chiclet, but it's short travel.
This analysis is somewhat dated and leaves out one important fact: nowadays, floating point arithmetic is carried out using a set of special scalar SSE instructions (and not the ancient x87 co-processor, as was done in the author's benchmark).

SSE instructions remove performance pitfalls related to infinities and NaNs. The only remaining case where slowdowns are to be expected denormals (which can be set to flush-to-zero if desired.)

In other words: it's perfectly fine to work with infinities and NaNs in your code.
Yeah, I don't mind crazy packed subway if I don't carry more than a backpack. If I have to move a large box I won't be happy.
My current ranking stuff knowledge is coming from Evan Miller's blog, here's a post that deals with star ratings: https://www.evanmiller.org/ranking-items-with-star-ratings.h...
It does support negative tilt, though only with the palm rest attached.
Yep. See also: Every credit card transaction you make.
I studied technical analysis while doing my PhD (Comp. Sci & Finance). After a lot of research, I really could not take it seriously. For me it seemed as astrology.
"SpaceX announces plan"
Ah right - "serverless." I hadn't yet heard that acronym. Thanks.
Why not just hash the string using constexpr ?

====================

C preprocessor based compile time hash from lolengine:

http://lolengine.net/blog/2011/12/20/cpp-constant-string-has...

====================

#define H1(s,i,x)(x65599u+(uint8_t)s[(i)
<strlen(s)?strlen(s)-1-(i):strlen(s)])

#define H4(s,i,x) H1(s,i,H1(s,i+1,H1(s,i+2,H1(s,i+3,x))))

#define H16(s,i,x) H4(s,i,H4(s,i+4,H4(s,i+8,H4(s,i+12,x))))

#define H64(s,i,x) H16(s,i,H16(s,i+16,H16(s,i+32,H16(s,i+48,x))))

#define H256(s,i,x) H64(s,i,H64(s,i+64,H64(s,i+128,H64(s,i+192,x))))

#define HASH(s) ((uint32_t)(H256(s,0,0)^(H256(s,0,0)>>16)))

template<size_t N>
constexpr uint32_t h(char const (&s)[N]) { return HASH(s); }

constexpr uint32_t h(const char s) { return HASH(s); }

uint32_t h(const std::string& s) { return h(s.c_str()); }

int main(int argc, const char argv)
{

auto s = "keep";
std::string x = "simple";

switch(h(x))
{
case h("keep") : std::cout << "keep"; break;
case h("it") : std::cout << "it"; break;
case h("simple"): std::cout << "simple"; break;

};
I encourage you to think constructively how your commentary can further a discussion which, by both the article and other comments, has proceeded well beyond infantile jokes and worn-out stereotypes.
That's my experience as well. My town converted an abandoned rail line to a biking/walking trail. It does run through downtown, but beyond that it basically goes noplace very desirable. It gets recreational use by a small subset of the community, but it's not a big difference-maker in making cycling practical.
In San Francisco one major barrier to cycling is theft. You basically cannot leave a bike for > 1hr. This additional burden means many who would bike (such as myself) no longer consider it an option. I previously biked upto 45minutes each way for work.

> A 2013 report by the city’s legislative analyst estimated that 4,085 bikes worth $4.6 million were stolen in 2012, with the downtown and South of Market neighborhoods the hardest hit.

https://www.sfchronicle.com/crime/article/DIY-crime-fighters...
I mean "regular history". About ancient civilizations, bronze age collapse, Napoleon, the Russian revolution, things like that. It is a personal preference for me to listen to such talks, but I think there could be interest in many other topics as well. I have come to the conclusion that apart from literature, talks in academic settings are more likely to be interesting, compared with documentaries produced for television.
That wasn't the issue...
> Heard some Chinese companies sell phones with ad injections in default apps.

Don't need Chinese companies for that. When GDPR came into effect I received privacy policy msgs from adware (Foursquare) inside my standard Samsung Image Gallery. Not only Google, but Samsung as well is a horrible privacy nightmare.
Refusal to trade? Since when did we have a broad trade embargo on Venezuela? We floated the idea of specifically an oil embargo only this year, with damn good reason given their human rights issues. You're reading too much Noah Chomsky.
There are still places in the US where electricity isn't used, the primary languages aren't European, and the gdp per person is that of a third world country. If it's fair to compare those places to New York or San Francisco, France vs Ukraine doesn't seem terribly far-fetched.
A 7nm process Pentium III is going to use almost no power and take up very little space. An 80486 would be even tinier.
Biking isn't just a means of transportation, it's also a means of recreation - on weekends I bike to get outside the city, tree lined country roads make for a nice relaxing ride.
Right now, I just want more people to know about it and get some good feedback on what works and what doesn't. I'd be super happy if guitar teachers and other music educators pick up on it. It'd be great if I got some good pull-requests too. I'd like to make more YouTube videos, relating Guitar Dashboard to the theory and showing some examples. I'm not a keyboard player, but Piano Dashboard seems like an obvious addition :)
This fascinates me, the days of near digital-free days. From today it feels empty, but I remember being quite happy (if not a lot happier then). We just enjoyed things differently.
Also the electric scooters sure help avoid Uber and Lyft bloat in cities, and getting more resistance than they should, IMHO. Hey SF, might want to consider that. The scooters weren't that messy compared to getting down 2nd street at 9am on any weekday.

Personally I try to OneWheel since I can ride it and pick it up with me. Don't have to worry about it being jacked by the SF petty crime syndicate.
I'm using a Pok3r and the programming is great for remapping keys - I definitely need Ctrl on Capslock. I bought it because my Unicomp was taking up too much desktop space.

To get to the point: Even as an Emacs user I am missing the arrow keys and Insert and Home. Tenkeyless is better.

So for me the above keyboard wouldn't be the ultimate hacking keyboard.
Show HN: How and Why I Solved Server Side Rendering with Elixir [Video]
Sadly, they are. GDP is a measure on transactions. Most of the things you mention have substantial transactions coupled to them.
GDP is a good indicator of opportunity for rent-seeking in an economy, which is directly linked to the opportunities of the financial class.
Charles is the one I use but there are several in the App Store.
This is my recommendation also. There's even a Storefront child theme specifically for books: https://woocommerce.com/products/bookshop/
And I'm sure the $349 iPhone SE is still being sold until stock for that runs out.
Dune. A camp counselor gave it to me when I was 11, and it changed the course of my life. Opened my mind to thinking about fear, courage, family, sacrifice, Empire, and the scope of human affairs. I reread it every 2-3 years.
Looks neat, but doesn't look like they have a UK layout? Not sure I could cope with the tiny enter key on the US/ISO layout
>Now adults of both genders have a full-time formal job

That would require a doubling of how much work needs to be done - while possible, that's not what the grandparent was hypothesizing. Unless exactly 50% of the population wants to be homemakers, there's going to be a problem for the people who used to have a job but now don't. So, whether or not 100/0 --> 50/50 is happening, it would be a crisis for 25% if it did.
TokenBacon, the first blockchain with the implementation of cloud services
All the new phones use the Intel modem...
Goodbye Hjson
You can do this on iOS as well, but not for App Store apps.