skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’ve been to every country in Central America from Mexico to panama.

I was in areas that had active gang wars between rival cartels, where gangs were driving around in technicals and that had razor wire up on the walls of the hotel I stayed at.

I never once felt like I was in danger, and I was going into way risky areas — comparatively speaking the resort areas are Disney land.

There’s no money and a lot of risk in fucking around with tourists. In fact in one town i went to in Guatemala was heavily implied that the locals murdered a guy that robbed a tourist so they wouldn’t risk the tourist dollars coming into town.
It isn't possible to make light that is faster or slower than other light, so does it matter that some other property is derived from this constant* ? A property derived from one variable and a constant property is perfectly logical to refer to as intrinsic, since it's always exactly linked to one intrinsic property. Splitting hairs there doesn't make sense.

Which things can a light source vary, besides wavelength and intensity? It's easy to define intensity
in this context as the photons being emitted per period of time. This isn't like trying to define the intensity of sound as an intrinsic property, when it really depends on a number of actually intrinsic variables.

*within a given medium, which is external to the light... which means it won't change based on reflected vs LCD.
Also, significant amounts of daytime sunlight exposure during childhood is a huge factor.

https://www.aao.org/editors-choice/sunlight-exposure-reduces...
This is my lazy excuse for not being an overachiever. I see people at the top of their fields and they so obviously seem innately driven to perform and be amazing. I was not born with that instinct and my brain doesn't reward me the same way theirs does. I'm fine with this.
Very different, the middle east violence is sectarian and religious based, latin america is a crime problem and it is hard to generalise anyway because some countries are doing well in both places and some don't.
When I set it up, I knew it could be annoying, which is why I automatically whitelisted everyone I knew. I was seriously concerned people would rather just not be able to send me emails and will willfully ignore my emails, but as I pointed out, that's the exception rather than the rule.

And I am proactive. If I see an email in the quarantine folder from someone I want to be on the whitelist, I press a button and he's in. This isn't a hard line, binary, black and white situation. I can and do place people in the whitelist.

If I've requested something from someone, I don't expect them to respond to the email, and I usually reply back to them with an apology about the email. So far, no one has complained.

And I don't use captchas. There's no need for them. All they have to do is click on the link and type in their email address.
The question I'm more interested in is: what advantages does this provide vs creating my own document style schema in SQLite. Using the JSON1 extension to SQLite, you can even query inside of JSON blobs.
My marriage.

No one else in my life has my back, protects my confidence, and shares this wild adventure like my wife does. We have invested a LOT of time and money into getting better at overcoming disagreements, digging deeper into what is actually causing a rift between us, defining the company we want to keep, etc.

We are both athiests, so we didn’t have access to church or religious marital counciling (probably for the best). We took it upon ourselves to study all we can, to treat our marriage as a foundation to improve our self-awareness and help each other see their blind spots.

Some education that has been helpful:
- Nonviolent Communication by Marshall Rosenberg. Great foundational book. His other book “Speaking Peace” is a how-to manual for conflict resolution between warring communities/tribes/nations. Both are VERY powerful and cheap. Both have audiobooks.

- Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin. Great book about building a foundation in a partnership.

- “Deep Psychology of Intimate Relationships” course (DPIR) from RelationshipSchool.net and the free “Smart Couple Podcast.” DPIR is a “masters degree” in building a rock solid partnership, and the podcast offers some great ongoing commentary.
What secular relationship books or courses or events do you recommend?
Then they’d push heroin, fenatyl, synthetic opiates, etc. they’d push weapons, other illegal stuff and no way should meth be legal in flyover country. Cocaine is mehh no strong feelings either way there
Can you give a source for that? I remember reading something contradicting this statement and my own research into possible myopia causes seems to indicate environmental factors as the cause (but not conclusively).

As a myopic person that has no one in my extended family suffering from it, I am very confused as to the possible causes.
Former Apple engineer alleges ethics tanked after 2011
Man I hate notification dots that won’t go away. Like in PayPal, there’s a “notification” that I have a “to-do” for setting up a new profile! That is something I will never do, it’s not something I can mark as “read”, it’s just a damned red dot in the corner forever now.
There is plethora of embedded K/V stores, but most of them only solve the simple to implement parts. That means either no concept of concurrency control or global RW-lock, zero resiliency to power failures, no support for atomic transactions...

If you want on-disk K/V store for critical data you are pretty much stuck with BerkeleyDB.
I believe subdomains on force.com are used for support portals by companies using Salesforce for customer contact. I've seen it used by Western Digital and a bunch of software or SaaS companies.
Anecdotally, anyone who has ever recontacted an adopted-out sibling will be able to tell you how much this is true.

We got back into contact with my older sister who had been adopted when I was about 12. She's absolutely the spitting image of her parents, both in looks and behavior, despite being raised in about as different a household as is possible.
Is that project still alive? I don't see any activity in the past few months.
Lying to people in order to advertise to them is what is harming the industry
The name though — what is it supposed to mean? “Un” as in “One” in French with QL Lite or “Un” as in a prefix for an opposite in English with QL Lite (like “No QL Lite”)?
At this point you're trolling. Please stop.

Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules when posting here.
This seems really reductive. USD in a debit account would rank pretty highly on that gradient, and yet for many purposes it is totally useless.

I would propose a diffuse cloud of uses, with different assets filling them out. More like a long tail than a gradient from “useful” to “not useful”.
I’m not saying I’ll be doing this - but All-Access consumers pay money to access content. Why should they be tracked to an inch of their lives?

There’s nothing “entitled” about wanting to maintain your privacy.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099434 and marked it off-topic.
People often say body or mind, but really it's all "body" . Not everyone has the same arm and leg strength, so why should each brain be the same.

Reflex for instance, if u do an action long enough, it has been shown that a reflex curve grows in the brain, basically a "GOTO" in programming, which is a direct path. This directly increases performance, as can be seen in any sport, videogame or instrumentalist (music) This is "as muscle" as something can be.

There's an overemphasis on the cognitive/sensory part of the brain, which i take hindrance in, especially with AI development.

Motivation, Gut feeling, instinct, focus, excitement, persistence, self-motivation, annoyance, inspiration. I can list 100's of things, which hasn't even seen a single notion of being synthesized in AI, yet all these things, often not even aware, make us do what we do, and it's totally unknown how much of a factor they are in the grand scheme of our intelligence, and the ability to create/come to solutions by our own sentience.

imagine we synthesis fear in machines. Fear is what often keep us motivated. Closely tied to loss, losing people in a natural distaster creates incentive to fix/prevent. However, this only logically applies if empathy is present. Without empathy, no incentive to fix some other's bullshit. I don't get why these things are so grossly overlooked in our way to create more sentient machines. It's all so tied together in the simplest of human actions, that leaving it out seems a very un-scientific thing to do. Evolution of the human is it's own prove on how well such a system can work when it relies both on cognition as well as emotion.

Our mind only describes "how" we do what we do, but not "why" we do what we do.

/rant
Actual title of the article: "Apple went rotten after Steve Jobs’ death, former engineer claims"
Do some of these work? I haven't been able to login to any including the ones listed here: https://github.com/solid/solid-apps
It seems to me this will face the exact same challenges that any competitor to established companies does: user aqcsition in a market that has already been “won”. Whether or not your application is built on this framework, you still have to convince ordinary users who generally do know know, care or understand the implications of privacy and security, who don’t understand the concept of “decentralized” web vs non decentralized, to use your product in place of the things they already use. Gmail, Facebook, Instagram et al are established products with billions of users and millions of hours of ux refinement. Although I applaud this, I don’t understand how they expect to supplant the established players because their “killer feature” is something that ordinary users won’t understand or be motivated by. If the ux if 0.1% worse, 99.9% of people will not be willing to sacrifice that in order to gain something they don’t understand, know about or care about.

The only way this can work is to get laypeople on board. I wish him luck but I don’t see any path to success. Someone please convince me otherwise!
Could be 3 very wide and short-in-height lines stacked vertically?
> is it morally bankrupt to pay federal income tax, a portion of which will finance the killing machines?

To be fair, it could easily be said that we all engage in the morally bankrupt act of voting for politicians whose foreign policy ideals aren't as well-thought-out as Ron Paul's.
Elon Musk Settles SEC Fraud Charges
Un SQL = no sql

And a pun on SQLite.
Why not Recoll? http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/index.html

Recoll will index an MS-Word document stored as an attachment to an e-mail message inside a Thunderbird folder archived in a Zip file (and more...). It will also help you search for it with a friendly and powerful interface, and let you open a copy of a PDF at the right page with two clicks. There is little that will remain hidden on your disk.
I watch Netflix on Firefox without any issues.
Also remember businesses are taking risk - they may fail in making a profit but your income is (barring them going bankrupt) risk-free.

Profit is the risk premium.
As a native, this is the first time I hear of someone learning Polish as a foreign language as a hobby, as opposed to having a partner or a job in Poland. This must be hard work. I am happy it works for you as a hobby :-)
Software Development interview questions. My skills, experience and education don't seem to matter as much in the industry. Those questions were the single factor that got me better jobs and increased my salary several times, the effects of which extend to myself and my family.

I don't even like the questions. They're mostly puzzles, which I'm not good at, in the guise of programming questions.
I think a lot of people here are getting hung up on some imagined implication that any code that could ever be used for evil is wrong to make. Yes, this is a grey area and there's no clear line of what the correct ethical choice is in many situations. But the point is that it's barely discussed professionally at all. Other disciplines have quite a bit of exploration into their professional ethics, but software engineering seems to gloss over it. Yes, there is some precedent, but it seems disproportionately small when considering that it is becoming an increasingly ubiquitous role in our society.

It seems like it's not even in our vocabulary as engineers to comprehend the ethics of our work. There's no framework for analysis or disclosure. Sure, there aren't any easy answers to most situations, but have we even tried?
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18099961 and marked it off-topic.
Ok now I'm really confused. If killing is necessarily bad, then how can it be justified in the case of self defense?

And it's a distraction to point out that capital punishment is banned in some countries. Those countries still have cops that shoot criminals and they have military forces that would kill other soldiers in the event of war. Capital punishment is about depriving someone of life after they've been captured. Capturing is rarely an option in a warzone. Given that constraint, it's better that the military kill someone like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi rather than let them go free.
Not sure, but my first thought was Un(structured) Query Language
There is a built-in =QUERY function, which let you to run SQL queries on a spreadsheets' content.
I find `git add -p` useful for that kind of work.
Overall I think Google did a good job here. I really like Material Design when it's done right (Android 9 was a design win as far as I'm concerned).

I agree about the silence on the Calendar side. At present, Gmail has a thought-out theme function but Calendar has all the themeing stripped out. Gmail and Calendar should be consistent. I hope this is rectified at some point.
This is the kind of thing that is stupidly hard to fight now. Even if you block Facebook’s 80,000 domains at your router, your friend’s address book dump gives lots of goodies to Facebook and 3rd parties and you can’t touch it. Every new thing they try becomes illegal in 2 years “but not yet” so they do it until they can’t.

Sometimes it seems like the “Default deny” security concept needs to apply to Internet companies. Instead of having years to screw with data and the Internet until told “no”, how about every idea they have is illegal until it can be proven through thorough review that it might be valuable?
> UnQLite is a standard key/value store similar to BerkeleyDB, LevelDB, etc. but, with a rich feature set including support for transactions (ACID), concurrent reader, etc.

This is slightly interesting, since the big reason I personally prefer applications using SQLite over those using BerkeleyDB (which used to be very common, btw) is that I’ve had lots of problems in the past with corrupted BerkeleyDB files. Like, almost all the time; if it used BerkeleyDB, it would sooner or later get corrupted. If UnQLite can be a “non-corrupting BerkeleyDB” for those who don’t actually need SQLite, it can serve an (admittedly niche) purpose.
>I recently built [a simple app built on a platform for building simple apps] in the fraction of the time it would take me just to setup a webapp

Ok, sure

>It's pretty impressive and goes to show how badly setup the web is for apps

That conclusion really doesn't seem to follow for me. Someone else wrote a library that does all of the setup work, and then you didn't have to do that work, so you concluded that something else wasn't well set up?
Insulting people is necessarily cruel. It is done to make the one saying the insult feel better at the expense of the one insulted. And insulting people is not necessary when correcting them.
Regarding socio-economic status:
I have more than 2 university degrees. My dad attained the lowest higher educational attainment there is. My mom did not even finish high school. My mom and dad have all kinds of addiction issues regarding alcohol and drugs. I don't. I have more patience than both of them and am more level-headed. And I'm also pretty sure I'd be a better parent than them, since they set such a low bar that I had to be adopted and raised by my grandparents after 1 year.

Sometimes I wonder how I am a product of both my mom and my dad, because there are quite a bit of things in which I don't recognize myself in. If it was all nature, then it'd have been easier to spot and I'd also be addicted to a lot more things.

My upbringing was similar with regards to my mom (same people). But the situation was different, my grandpa didn't work much when I was around but was a workaholic during my moms time. My dad was beaten as a kid. I wasn't.

If it really is al genetics then how do you explain such a difference in socio-economic status? I think for them it's part drug abuse, a fucked up childhood and no nudge to do your best at school (in my dad's case, I don't know about my mom). I know that my dad had a propensity for learning but he never got to utilize it.

I'm pretty sure that if my dad had been in a better upbringing that he'd have fared better. I'm also pretty sure that if my momd would've been born around 1995 that she'd have fared better.
Thanks for the graphic driver tip. I've never had an issue with SD cards, but the 4G is (I think) the last iteration of the original 700 series, so presumably it was fixed by then.
>The thing is, I use my inbox for receipts of purchases,

Stuff like Amazon.com emails are whitelisted. They go into the "low priority" folder, not my inbox. For one-off vendors, I simply "save" their emails without adding them to the whitelist. It's easier to understand if you've used notmuch. I simply remove the quarantine tag from them and they're stored in the email database. One keystroke.

I'm not any different from you. If I purchase anything on the Internet and get a confirmation email, I aim to keep it.

I still check the quarantine folder from time to time.

>confirmations of online accounts

I'm not sure I see the problem. I still can see the quarantined emails. If I'm expecting such an email, I check it within a few minutes. I click on the link to confirm my email address - I merely do not add the sender to the whitelist.

>all sorts of other stuff where I am interacting with, or storing information from an automated agent.

An example would help. Some use cases from me:

- Calendar reminder emails - Whitelisted: They go to the low priority folder (as counterintuitive as the phrase sounds). They do not go into my inbox.

- Library overdue emails - same as above

- Emails from my medical provider (e.g. "new test results") - same as above

If you get automated emails for which you have automated actions, those can go right into the Python script and handled before they are quarantined.
Your government. Not mine. Not everyone here is american.
I learned in my bedroom and got a degree in comp sci. Between the two, the comp sci degree was less useful.

What has turned out to be more useful was knowing how to ship software that delivers business value without being an architect astronaught. I credit that to my few business classes in undergrad and my MBA studies before dropping out.
Great, then I can easily see that I do not wish to access your website!

Ads should be blocked relentlessly until companies realize what reasonable, secure and tasteful ads look like, instead of the intrusive malware-ridden pile that interrupt our lives at the current time.

Tracking, on the other hand, will never have a place in this world.
Linux now dominates Azure
I love the way how meta your last sentence works. Kudos, you must've got a talent for this.
> I have no idea what it is supposed to accomplish, let alone what the advantage is

Did you read/view any of the references?

I tend to cite everything so that you have direct access to the source material for reference in case the context isn't clear.

This is not a "mess of buzzwords." It's how we move beyond the limits of Moore's Law. A lot of smart people have been working on various aspects of this for a long time. It's a big deal because it's a big change in how we model data, write algorithms, and think about computation in general, from the design of low-level hardware all the way up the stack to application design. It will behoove you to understand the change that's coming because it's what's next, and it's already here.

Re: your question on "Why did someone write an entire paper about counting triangles?"

Prof Tim Davis wrote the paper. He is one of the world's leading experts on sparse matrix implementations, and after the GraphBLAS Steering Committee finalized the 1.0 spec, they asked him to create the reference C implementation. Triangle counting is a common graph algorithm so it provides a familiar reference point when illustrating and comparing the characteristics of an implementation. Dr. Davis presented the paper this week at the HPEC 2018 conference (http://www.ieee-hpec.org), and in the paper's abstract he articulates precisely why:

Graph algorithms via SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS:
triangle counting and K-truss

Abstract — SuiteSparse:GraphBLAS is a full implementation of the GraphBLAS standard, which defines a set of sparse matrix operations on an extended algebra of semirings using an almost unlimited variety of operators and types. When applied to sparse adjacency matrices, these algebraic operations are equivalent to computations on graphs. GraphBLAS provides a powerful and expressive framework for creating graph algorithms based on the elegant mathematics of sparse matrix operations on a semiring. To illustrate GraphBLAS, two graph algorithms are constructed in GraphBLAS and compared with efficient implementations without GraphBLAS: triangle counting and constructing the ktruss of a graph.

http://faculty.cse.tamu.edu/davis/GraphBLAS/HPEC18/Davis_HPE...

Watch the RedisGraph video for a general overview of how it works, but the big picture in the gist of it all is that data used in machine learning, AI, and relational databases is now being modeled in the same way -- as vectors/matrices/tensors -- to take advantage of modern CPU/GPU/TPU hardware accelerators that are being optimized for vector/matrix/tensor multiply-add operations. This means we can now run local and global algorithms in the same way, using the same code and the same data model, and we can return queries in real time -- executed in parallel, both locally or distributed -- it doesn't matter how the data is partitioned, the computation model is the same. Not only is this fast and compact, it unifies and simplifies things.
There's a wide variety of different breathing techniques that can be used for specific purposes. It's been literally life-changing for me. Some techniques can help you getting out of a bad moment (anxiety, stress,...) but others have much deeper effects and can transform how you function as a human being.
You can for example check the following broad categories: a) Conscious breathing (Holotropic, rebirth, and the likes), b) Pranayama (Kapalabhati, anuma viloma,..), c) Buteyko + McKeown, d) Anapana Sati, e) Qi gong, f) Wim Hof.
It takes time to absorb the practical knowledge and use it in daily life but as the question asked, I was richly rewarded for the time I've invested in mastering these techniques.
I found that setting the country in the top left corner helps a lot.
Conscientiousness and intelligence are both traits and they are independent of each other. So it’s possible