skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find my gameplay performance is a lot worse when I'm moving on a cardio bike.
Do you know if there's a report button here? That guy's comment should be removed.

This conspiracy theory he posted makes this entire platform look bad. And that's not even considering the missinformation it could spread..
You can control which categories of ads will be displayed in your Adsense account settings. It shouldn't be necessary in a civilised world, of course, but there you go.
Go out and ride a real bicycle, either around town or commuting to/from work. I do a lot of cycling (thousands of miles/yr) but cannot stand to spend more than 5 minutes on a stationary bicycle/trainer.
Mid-30s. My attitude definitely has changed. When I was younger I thought different. I thought I would want to live forever, and figured I could if I did all the right things. The older I get the more I realize that it’s luck that determines the majority of outcomes. I’ve been surprisingly lucky, literally zero health issues in my life. But I see what happens to the people around me and it just seems like mostly luck. When my luck inevitably ends I don’t think I’m going to want to stick around.

The fittest people around me seem to actually be the most miserable. Arthritis, bad headaches from whatever fad diet they are doing, agitation from fasting, various food sensitivities, back problems, etc.. Antecdotal of course, but that’s my experience. There’s probably some confirmation bias here too, as people seek out fitness as a way to compensate for various conditions.

I just don’t know what to make of it. I’m not saying you have no control, I just think it’s vastly overstated.
Prophets as divine magnetizers
>2. Hacking the servers after being fired and deleting the data

May I ask what happened with this?

For many companies step one would be to contact the feds, and then the former employee would awaken to the sound of their door being kicked in pursuant to a search warrant for all of their personal devices.
Yes (I’m guesstimating $10 per customer). That’s fine for a mom and pop coffee shop maybe. But does that support a Starbucks? I’d guess no. I’d guess that Starbucks needs 2-3x that to justify keeping the location open.
Because it's self selecting, if your more interested growth and business strategy it's unlikely you would become a developer.
True but they get clicks, and make money, so it's never going to change.

Most of these click dependent websites are an unreliable source of news.
Better to use youtube, preferably channels that get most of their income from patreon rather than ads.
Just put those videos at 2x and get your information while doing other things.
> While t Hooft is a genius, this particular work of his is not taken very seriously by most researchers.

As I wrote: this work is controversial. For a very positive review, see for example

> https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.3629

According to 't Hooft himself (source: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.6.4.2017071...) "The response [by fellow researchers] has been very mixed. Many other researchers are clearly very skeptical. They should be, because there are important unanswered questions. Others have expressed their interest and support. What concerns me is that I haven’t yet found colleagues who completely understand my approach. And also, of course, I don’t know what they say behind my back.".
I agree with you 100%. I think I’ll just get more reckless as I get older and start to deteriorate. Pick up activities with a higher probability of death. I’d rather die skydiving or in a sailing accident than from chemo.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zd748KfMnLY&t=3s
We can't keep phone books around after my sons and I learned to rip them in half. We even glean them from neighbors and co-workers...
I think it's more like a meme. Countless other mathematical insights in the same time period have been at least as important and counterintuitive.
For me part of the problem is that the sort of satiation one gets from vegan options is different and less complete than the sort that comes from a meal with even a small portion of meat.

I can feel “full” with with beans, lentils, rice, etc, but it’s not nearly as satisfying. It’s a kind of “empty” fullness that quells the hunger but doesn’t leave me with the sense of having eaten a good meal. I’m never left particularly happy with the conclusion of these meals, they’re just OK, even if they’ve been fantastically well prepared and seasoned. It’s hard to explain, does anybody else experience this?

I think if I had to I could go vegetarian, but I absolutely cannot imagine going vegan. At minimum I need eggs and dairy.
The State of America's Heartland
Having seen what happens when you don't ban any assholes, no, it's not a balance. You shoot first, shoot later and shoot again a couple of more times to make sure.

All it takes is a few days for a community to turn toxic. The communities that ban people preemptively work, the ones that give them the benefit of the doubt don't.
If you're interested in smart contract security, this repo [1] is a good resource too.

1. https://github.com/trailofbits/not-so-smart-contracts
GE Reveals Engine That Could Make Aerion's Supersonic Business Jet Take Flight
I built my house with solar, heat pumps, an EV charger... And natural gas service just for my stove and grill. It costs $500 for gas service, or $500 to put in the high amperage outlet for the stove, so it's a wash, cost-wise.

You can take my gas stove over my dead body. I'll happily pay whatever it takes for carbon neutral methane to come through my pipes. (Natural gas is mostly methane.)

The flame just makes everything taste better, and methane is pretty easy to produce without fossil fuels.
Hah, hardly. I only care about my enjoyment when it comes to this. There is a difference between a person unable to control their desire to eat animals in the face of the suffering those animals undergo versus eating animals because they enjoy it and not giving a damn. Do you consider it wrong? Maybe. Do I? Not even slightly. I would sooner bludgeon and cut the animals myself than eat only vegetarian food. I'm not sure how this is hard to grasp.

Your assumptions about me are mistaken, don't be a jerk.
> Perhaps the people and companies are doing OK

This.

Chicago is a bit of a paradox.

The city and county are definitely struggling financially due to debt load from crushing pension obligations and historic entitlements (along with a dose of financial mismanagement and corruption -- I mean, this is Illinois).

But its economy is actually doing OK.

Unlike Detroit, many corporate headquarters are still moving to the city (McDonald's and Discover, for instance, recently moved their HQs to Chicago because of corporate incentives). Chicago is still a major draw for young talent especially around the midwest. The city of Chicago itself is vibrant and has a great deal of creative energy, and despite all the bad press, many people still want to live there. The cultural and intellectual life in the city far surpasses most US metro areas outside of Boston, SF, NY and DC. It is also home to great universities like Northwestern and the University of Chicago.

I would say if one doesn't aspire to home ownership, Chicago remains a very attractive destination and a very affordable big city. Renters are mostly doing fine. That said, if you do choose to settle down long term, there are challenges. There's a deep sense that you aren't going to seeing your money's worth in services, and Cook County taxes are going to keep going up.
DontFuckingEatIt Challenge
Yes! I agree the HIIT research is great and very interesting and impactful - they designed and implemented an intervention with a control group and measured other correlative variables including muscle biopsies. And as you say the results are actually useful for getting some people that don't have the time or inclination to run marathons.

I would certainly distinguish this kind of research from the many redundant retrospective observational studies (often with self-reported exercise activity levels) of the kind linked in the original post.
"More randomised studies of interventions to do that on a society level are needed." This gets at the heart of things. We used to have societies in which exercise needs were often met through activities of daily living. Many places in the world still require walking, biking, hauling water, carrying children, transporting food on your back, etc. Many places in the world people still dance at community events, for fun, no matter what their age. But the US -- we've been working as hard as we can for 90 years to eliminate exercise from daily life. And now we are doing another classic US-ian thing and shifting this formerly natural and communal thing to an individual responsibility, preferably an individual responsibility that can be monetized. What so many instances have shown in the US is that when you take an activity that used to be built into daily life and 'gentrify' it -- make it something that costs money and time because it's denied to some groups by the very structures of the buildings and streets they live around -- we end up with huge public health costs and unforeseen consequences. But taking a conscious approach in the design of our cities, public housing, public transport systems, private transport systems, zoning laws, energy policy, food policy, medical care delivery, public school requirements, and private school requirements is considered to be some sort of socialist brainwashing that kills the seed of freedom in one's heart, or something. Only if you are forced to commute on the highway rather than being able to bike safely to work are you truly living the American dream. Only if you must drive thirty minutes to get to the nearest place with chicken that tastes like something other than styrofoam, rather than being able to walk to the neighborhood store for it, are you satisfying the extractive demands of our apparently-preferred economy.
I found rock climbing to be a very effective for exercise, because there’s quite a thrill looking down from the top. It’s exciting and you almost forget you’re getting sweaty and gross and tired. Plus there’s that immediate sense of accomplishment when you get to the top, which is much more immediate and concrete than the sense of accomplishment you get after jogging 5 miles or whatever.

Also if I have a free day I love just walking all day exploring and listening to a good fiction audiobook. Audiobooks are weird if you’re not used to them, but trust me, eventually you’ll swear by them if you get over that initial hump. And randomly walking around and exploring is good exercise, you’ll forget exactly how tired you are while listening to the audiobook and it won’t be in until you stop to take a break several hours later that you suddenly realize “Holy crap I just walked 12 miles and I’m tired!”

To each his own, but I used to have your exact same attitude about exercise and these two things worked for me. I’ve lost 50 pounds in the last five years. Obviously there’s other factors like diet and mood and body type and whatnot, but these have been my main forms of exercise. Hope that helps!
Show HN: Learning Languages with Netflix (Chrome Extension)
Hi. Me and a friend, Ognjen, have been working on a chrome extension for learning languages that works with Netflix.

It aims to solve a few issues the user faces when studying with Netflix:

-- poor subtitles that don't match to the audio (solution: catalogue of titles with faithful subs, see http://languagelearningwithnetflix.com/catalogue.html )

-- monolingual subs (solution: provide a machine translation of the original subs that follow in meaning closely, albeit with occasional flaws).

-- dialogue is too quick (solution: give the user the ability to step through the dialogue with keyboard keys, A S D and SPACE).

There's a pop-up dictionary, and also a feature that greys-out infrequent words, based on word frequencies (compiled from OpenSubtitles corpus). It supports 15 languages, but we haven't tested it much yet.

We are both quite happy with how the project turned out.

You can get it on the Chrome Web Store, it's free for 30 days, then paid:

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/language-learning-....

Here's the number of titles in the catalogue in some major languages, although they are not available in all regions, see the catalogue for more info:

English: 8012 titles

Spanish: 480 titles

German: 294 titles

French: 271 titles

Italian: 146 titles

Dutch: 127 titles

Portuguese: 83 titles

Swedish: 89 titles

We didn't just make the extension just because we could.. for an understanding of the pricipals that lead us to the current project, here's something I wrote a year ago or so: https://www.reddit.com/r/languagelearning/comments/66myn1/a_...

If we get more than a handful of users, we can also add support for titles with non-latin scripts (there are many titles in Chinese, Japanese, Korean), and add support for more titles. There's also some more features we could add, like merging shorter subs, generating Anki flashcards etc.

Hope you like it.
The author did include this caveat:

> WARNING: This method of DRM will keep honest people honest. But determined people will figure out how to break it. This is the case with any kind of DRM.

It seems to me that this is more about essentially preventing the link being shared.

Having not played around with HLS I don't see why this couldn't be done by simply doing an authentication check and refusing to serve content if the auth check fails.

Preventing decryption of the video is obviously impossible as it's being decrypted on the box itself.

The key rotation seems odd to me.

If you're worried about users sharing their session key or something then that can be dealt with on the back end (it surprises me that, for example, YT seemingly don't care about the same IP downloading a ton of videos in parallel with ytdl, say; I suppose NAT makes it slightly more difficult to detect, but not much more so...).
The Universe Is Always Looking
We can't stockpile electricity for the winter. When days are short, demand for energy is much higher than what solar can generate.

We can stockpile natural gas, which is mostly methane. And we can figure out how to make methane without fossil fuels.
Stop the fear mongering.

Things will be fine, we'll have a few minor hiccups to resolve, but that will be it.

Some people really underestimate human ingenuity, do you really think that we won't be able to solve this issue in a manner of days if need be? Come on..

We're a few decades away from AI and immortality, and some people are worrying about fucking politics?

Think long term, and chill out.
That's quite an interesting take on how to counteract depressive states. Do you know if there are any academic publications that have similar findings? I think this needs to be explored further, because this sounds prima facie credible.
#1 isn't true; you only have access to the state that subclasses are allowed to have (assuming you're using a language with any protection at all).

#2 is a good point. But there are some limitations as well. You don't get to augment the default implementation unless it is also exposed somewhere (passed into the function).

Both methods have a lot in common with the obvious differences that you mention. A class with no public methods and a empty virtual function is equivalent to a class calling a higher order function in the same place. If that virtual function has a implementation, you can get the same functionality with a higher order function by passing in the base implementation as a parameter. For full equivalence, you could also pass the object instance as well. Add in protected methods and/or state and you can get that with a second class that implements an internal API and again pass that to the higher-order function.

Ultimately you can achieve all kinds of equivalence this way. I think there is some advantage to using the terminology in the language (private, protected, virtual, abstract, this/base, etc) to describe the more complex situations. Having a simple function call is useful for more simple situations. This is the classic struggle.
I’m well aware. I just don’t think that we’ve given analog error correction good enough of a shake.
A regular personal trainer at a top gym is $12k/year. That’s not that much. It’s approx $23k pre-tax which isn’t a game changer tbh.
nonsense.

author is complaining that the business model of others doesn't align with his need to have the tiniest possible budget and spend the bare minimum on security. boo hoo hoo. if you need sso, suck up the cost and yes, you'll have to pass it on to your customers. if you don't like the pricing model of the saas vendor you're using, how about try to build the service in-house. suddenly you'll realize how cheap even the enterprise offering is.
> Note, that the more elaborate "neural net within neural net" approaches involve vast levels of computing power...

This is one thing I worry about, that even if we were to get closer to AGI, the algorithms/system might not feasibly run with our current computing paradigm.
There does not exist a R^3 parameterization of the 3d rotations without some problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charts_on_SO(3)#Parametrizat...
The remarkable thing about quaternions is that you can describe rotation around any arbitrary axis! Try doing that with real rotation matrices and you will bump into a major problem:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gimbal_lock

Because matrix multiplication is not commutative, you can't easily compose a matrix representing rotation around an arbitrary axis from "component rotation matrices".

With quaternions/clifford algebras, you can say "here's the vector I want to rotate about and here's this is how much I want to rotate", and it just magically works.
Remember that while family planning may not be rocket science, it does require coverage or money for contraceptives, a doc who'll prescribe them, a guy who'll use the condom or get a vasectomy, and the ability to get an abortion if the above fail. In many parts of the US that's not so easy.
https://harpers.org/archive/2016/12/with-child/
so so so heartwarming oh my god
If you look closer, you'll notice it's a community with featured threads on the front page. Like any forum, the quality varies across posts. The thread I link is well-sourced and presents compelling arguments.

EDIT: Granted, the author of the teleporter article is the same guy...
One could reasonably use llvm for the backend (assuming <cough> they had an actual reference grammar for the language</cough>) and then you'd have the same problem, the output would just be some unreadable intermediate language that is far from transparent to the average user.

The manual doesn't really go into enough detail to imply you'd need to fiddle with the outputted code but I'd imagine any case would be a bug rather than a feature.
That doesn't work for most people, so they put money on the line.
Top 300 mentioned ​books on stackoverflow.com
What about the privacy of the users? How much information is shared with the advertisers?

Also, 61,000,000 is a lot. Like 100 packages sold per minute, or 80,000 annuals users (that drink two packs per day).
...so where does the money actually come from?
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Show HN: TAPIR, a [hardware] Audio Player for Studying Languages
It just showcases your own arrogance
Can we maybe cut the coastal snobbery just a bit? Plenty of people care about Nevada, specifically, Nevadans. (Not sure that’s the correct demonym.)
Ah, sorry for misreading you.
> So how can one claim the hardfork fixed a protocol bug?

If I understand it, it isn't fixable without affecting every existing contract, so, the best fix was to patch the problems it caused, patch Solidity, introduce safer opcodes that avoid it, and invest heavier on security, which is exactly what was done (just see how much the EF is spending on security-related grants...)
i checked out stockx it's like an ebay focused narrowly on street wear. i guess tech$co$ acquiring this could provide some jobs but isn't ebay laying off/rebranding and doesn't craigslist (similar concept) operate with 50 employees? hopefully the car industry can overcome AV level 3+ challenges and bring some affordable autos to mkt soon with true hands off autonomous (level 3) capabilities
For context, consider that I live in a city where homeless people can regularly be seen hoarding multiple partialy disassembled bicycles that were almost always stolen off the street.

https://bikeportland.org/2018/08/16/portlands-most-prolific-...

Mere battery theft would be inevitable.
Pony has a lot of promise but it needs a few key missing libs. If it had a quality http and postgres libs it prob would be perfect for web dev. but it does not have either yet.
Mountain biking is also great. You put in loads of work to get to the top and then you get the fun of going down vs a stationary bike which is all work and no fun. You can make them slightly more fun with games like zwift that make stationary bikes competitive and gamified.
Thanks. It is the correct demonym. Just because there is a lot of unused land doesn't mean nobody cares.
Isn't the whole point of the BEAM languages to keep distributed state reasonable to work with through the actor model. If you can put a service in a docker container and spin it up or down without losing data, then it doesn't sound like you need any of the BEAMs.
Why force a dichotomy between real and nonsense mathematics?

Presumably, JTG was internally consistent and logical. Even if it didn't presage new forms of industry or warfare, like meditation JTG surely provided value to its practitioners.