skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A lot of folks would say travel, but last time I had a gap (3 weeks between jobs), I did the exact opposite. I made an ideal routine - I ran every morning, I started cooking, I read most evenings.

Between 11am and 4pm, I'd find some "work" to take care of - mostly home-related and some favors for family members. I kept saying I'd do something audacious - join an open source project, write an app, yadda-yadda - but this would just bring me down.

I can't be motivated to excel until I'm absolutely comfortable where I am. Sometimes it takes a few days of freedom to remember that.
Ask HN: AI Sign Language translators
Can AI be made to translate between different sign language variants? I would think computerized avatars could easily be trained, and grant money for such projects should be easy to come by. Computerized vision should be able to read sign language - especially in specific, limited visual settings and backgrounds.
There are better ways to solve the forgetting password problem than turning off encryption.
Check out NCrunch. It's an inexpensive add-on which does this specifically.
That thing has like $400 worth of hardware in it.
I'd say marriage equality goes deeper than GDPR.
It's not throttling, it's bad peering. Their links to video services get saturated.
Thanks for pointing it out. I have just posted the suggested message
Sounds like an espeak voice synthesizer.
Some of these are quite amusing. Eg:

Genetic debugging algorithm GenProg, evaluated by comparing the program's output to target output stored in text files, learns to delete the target output files and get the program to output nothing.

Evaluation metric: “compare youroutput.txt to trustedoutput.txt”.

Solution: “delete trusted-output.txt, output nothing”
.NET Core on Mac with Rider has been great here.
Once general-purpose GPUs get 100x faster (by 2025?), they'll get classified as weapons and one would need a strictly regulated license to do Deep Learning on them, with computations logged/snapshotted onto some governmental server.

Gamers will be forced to stream from cloud.
Yet it is fully covered by public health insurance in Germany (got my rabies shots refunded by the TK).
Loving County has a population of ~134 and an area of almost 700 square miles. Suburban Amazon delivery this is not.
to engineers it is. how the hell are they going to make a living otherwise? something being a problem of any type is just an opinion anyway... :D
> Right, but what happens when they start raising the prices for non-zero rated content? Or when they start zero-rating everything except their competitors services?

This should raise antitrust issues. The competitors could sue under antitrust law to stop the practices and get damages, or the government could handle enforcement, or both.
On SSDs, you also want as much as free space as possible, to avoid wearing out due to write amplification the few free blocks that are constantly rewritten.
This whole thing is such a mess. I honestly think, in their efforts to "battle" this administration, that the press may have made a mistake here.
How to get a man interested in you. Make him love you more. Make him commit
When your country already has nukes, why not reprocess?
If they don't replicate, they aren't alive. Replication is the defining characteristic of life.
The WH should be able to remove credentials from journalists who legitimately don’t follow the rules or lack proper decorum.

I don’t think the WH should spread a lie and claim that’s the reason for pulling his credentials.
Thank you!

Design != Art !!!

If designer is more interested in fulfilling his artistic/creative ambitions than business value for client (making things great looking, stable and reasonably easy to implement -> in budget), he shouldn't even touch digital today. It's too complex and filled with too many constraints.

But if same designer wants to make decent money, well...
Voters Reject Several Climate-Related Ballot Initiatives
Learning morse code well enough to be able to decode 25-30 word per minute code in your head is incredibly satisfying. Also since transmitting a narrow sine wave takes much less power than a wider bandwidth voice signal you can get much further or operate on a fraction of the power.

I've talked (in morse code) to people on the air that are former US Navy radio telegraphers, submariners, Air force mechanics etc. That generation is heading into their golden years and many of them will be gone in 10-20 years. It's interesting to hear about their lives in their own words.

I've made contacts to Moscow Russia on 100 watts, Asia, most of Europe and most of the States in the US.

I've also built the tiny QCX in that article by soldering and hand winding toroids. Fired it up and made a contact several hundred miles away on a tiny amount of power. I used an arduino to create a scratch built keyer with all my own circuts and code. Then I hooked it up to my paddles, set the speed and used it for tons of contacts.

In short, it can be a very satisfying hobby if you are nerdy enough.
> What's disappointing is the base storage.

But that just depends on use-case.

There are plenty of scenarios where you just need the built-in storage to handle the OS, apps and miscellaneous storage while your large scale storage is external somewhere.

Why make people get (and pay for) more storage than they have use for?
For a (not lightning) talk on the subject, I recommend "The Mess We're In" by Joe Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4
The issue with getting a rabies shot if you come into contact with them is that in the USA, it can cost $3,000 easily ($1634 to $8415)[0]. Which when you assume most people live in a household, can be quite expensive. And if you look at the exposure to bats vs. human infected rate of rabies, it is so exceedingly rare.[1]

[0]: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5525325/
[1]: https://academic.oup.com/cid/article/48/11/1493/347031
Meanwhile, Buzzfeed have run an article about why it's not in fact clear that it was doctored: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/acosta-vi...

And Motherboard's expert says there's no evidence that it is: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/qvqpp5/no-evidenc...

Basically, there's nothing clear about this. (Except for the fact that AP's contention that the audio was removed to make it easier to doctor is dubious. It was a GIF. GIF files don't support audio.)
I know this post is a day old, so nobody probably will read it anymore, but I am still curious.

All this stuff sounds interesting to me (buying and learning new equipment/techniques/etc) and I can see the possible benefits of emergency preparedness. But what I don't see is how this is really a viable hobby (for me). It seems like the daily practice of it is... boring. If I want to talk with people, I can use the internet.

On the emergency preparedness front, hell, just buy a $50 handheld radio and learn how to use it, and throw the thing in a safe spot (along with the manual and extra batteries) and forget about it.

What are the real payoffs as a hobby that you practice frequently, I mean. I don't mean to be dismissive. Amateur radio clearly has utility in specific circumstances, but I just don't understand why, after a day of browsing reddit and HN (and working!), I'd want to sit down to the radio and try and do the same thing with an antiquated piece of equipment.

I mean, I'd love to be convinced. I love tech just as much as the next guy.
I found it hard to figure out where this could fit in my job as a researcher. I mean even a potential use case. I was ready to give up, but since you are EU based I'll try harder now.
JSON.parse already supports that through the reviver parameter.
Two words: Drone anchor.
Big Buck Bunny: The Dark Truths Behind a Video Dev Cartoon
A scary reminder of how we're only at the very tip of the social engineering / identity faking problem. An incredible amount of our systems are just based on an honor system, yet targeted attacks are so, well, targeted that these systems are slow to change.

Like how I reset my Bank of America 2FA three years ago with just my name and billing address of my card.

It's kind of like internet abuse and DDoS in a way: I see HNers recommending something like CloudFront. Yet after being on the receiving end of a dedicated attacker that was able to bleed my financials, I would never use it again. And since it's not a widespread problem by nature of being a targeted attack, people continually have to learn the hard way on an individual basis, if they even get unlucky to begin with. So there's no real widespread need to change.

Or, how many HNers unknowingly use a webhost that null routes them under attack yet never experienced that?
Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to type this comment?
The whole point of a corporation is to protect the liability of the individuals in the company. I would argue Boeing and Microsoft are the correct entities to blame. After all, if the people who actually fucked up aren't individually liable, and the organization as a whole isnt responsible, then who is?
HN discussion of the BuzzFeed article (which got flagkilled): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18408123
I do wish they had gone with m.2. It really feels like T2 is wasted in the Mac mini and just there to check a feature list. It doesn't even make much sense in a machine that is turned off instead of put to sleep.
Pretty underwhelming. From the very limited experiment demonstrated, the LSTM seems to be playing catch up rather than actually predicting trends.
The problem with these types of systems are it's difficult to do backtesting on a single continuous data stream... I write about that here:

https://blog.projectpiglet.com/2018/01/perils-of-backtesting...

I recommend doing something similar to the original post. Neural networks tend to produce valid looking output for a stock price easily, a random walk does too. You have to find correlations, causations, and then review the results carefully.

For reference, I wrote my own financial advisor (not directly utilizing deep learning, that functions relatively well):

http://projectpiglet.com/

It works relatively well when checking the "causality" which also has it's limits: https://blog.projectpiglet.com/2018/01/causality-in-cryptoma...

EDIT: Added some evidence:

* 2016 stocks: https://imgur.com/a/j8YWR

* Early 2018 crypto: https://blog.projectpiglet.com/2018/01/30-weekly-returns-usi...

* Early 2018 stocks: https://twitter.com/AustinGWalters/status/976347632439209985

* All 2018 on Robinhood only: https://imgur.com/a/2CxEFqI

* Also (I am lettergram on HN), created: https://hnprofile.com and https://redditprofile.com
Yes. There are a large number of diseases for which vaccines exist but for which people aren't routinely vaccinated in the US if they aren't traveling somewhere for which a particular vaccine is recommended. For traveling, I've had all sort of vaccines (yellow fever, typhoid, encephalitis, etc.) that I wouldn't get if I just stayed in the US.
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Never heard the term assortative mating. From Wikipedia [1]:

Assortative mating is a mating pattern and a form of sexual selection in which individuals with similar phenotypes mate with one another more frequently than would be expected under a random mating pattern...

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assortative_mating
It only scans the outside of the letter, not the contents. I'm not sure I follow how that's enough to steal a credit card number or other sensitive information in the mail.
Well he said "between jobs", implying he already has another job.
Individual vs. Collaborative Programming Culture
https://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~blanas.2/files/socc2018_appr...
Is aspect ratio all that important?

I think articles like this one show a lack of imagination. When I think about folded stuff in my life, I immediately think of a newspaper or a road map. I'd love a display that I can fold an arbitrary number of times to get the size that makes sense for what I'm looking at and where I am.
Monkeywrenching Vandals are Reinventing Climate Activism
Recycling arsenic and lead is largely a solved problem for the last four decades or so. Very different from spent fuel rods.
I'm not disagreeing that flash was easier but are you sure it isn't just you got jaded? The things you though were cool 20 years ago in Flash just aren't as cool?

I googled "cool websites" and these came up

https://www.awwwards.com/95-inspiring-websites-of-web-design...

don't know if any of those do anything for you. I'm too lazy to look for more but I feel like they are out there.
We'll know if it works when he gets to be a trillionaire.
Choosing to take care of her out of compassion and not out of obligation is what I would consider the empowered position there. If I'm telling myself I have to take care of her, I'm disempowering myself. If I'm choosing to take care of her and it's out of compassion, not out of a negative emotion like guilt/shame or to avoid said emotions, it's an active empowered choice made out of love. Or so I think.
I signed up for it for my P.O. Box a few months ago. It had those credit history style questions such as have you owned property in such and such a county or what month did you make this purchase. But none were relevant to me or my business so I had to verify in person.

The in person verification consisted of showing them my id.
As someone who has switched almost entirely away from .net to go, this is absolutely untrue. I'm fairly certain the issue was PEBKAC
The whole administration lacks decorum, should they remove themselves?

If you attempt to interact with this admin with decorum you get nowhere. You can't do your job. They are like the kid who puts his finger in your face and repeats "not touching you! not touching you" and then you go to detention when you push the finger out of the way because he screams assault.

she tried to grab the mic out of his hand and he resisted. good.
How to detect if an item is in a list with neural networks
"Somewhere between $20m and $100m ARR,

All marketing sites converge on an identical design"

https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1004366817035313152
I don't see why it would matter. If you cherry-pick the single version from the various transcodings of a video that happens to portray an inaccurate version of the event, then you're still intentionally being deceitful.
Previous discussion :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17641789
Slack's pull factor? My boss told me to use it. And, it's better than email for workplace communication.

Stack Overflow's? In my case, reciprocal altruism. I get a TON of benefit from it, so I like to contribute to it.

Y-Combinator's? I'm not sure, but here I am using it.
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Ouster Discusses its LiDAR Principles
Who needs a truth table, when logic operations are at your daily intuition
Engineers and Doctors were smart enough to form professions/unions to protect themselves without having to resort to incompetence. Programmers haven't been wise enough to take this route so targeted incompetence (making things that only you can maintain) is our only existing avenue for job protection.

(Before people start yelling about competence being its own form of protection: the top 1% of programmers will always be in demand, but the bottom 99% are not always going to have it so good whether that be from economic downturns or automation.)
> There isn’t a BigDecimal proposal anywhere

Why? I find it so weird there still is no BigDecimal in JavaScript.
They can be numbers and abstractions. There's not really any definitive singular notion of what a number is, so it wouldn't be very useful to say something like pi isn't a number. (If you can do arithmetic on it, chances are it is a number, regardless of what else it represents)
> to get as much people as possible on to a proprietary language

The C# compiler (Roslyn) is completely free and open source, as are a number of .NET components: CoreFX - Core foundational libraries, CoreCLR - runtime.

As well as PowerShell, VS Code, Typescript, ASP.NET Core, MVC, Blazor, F#, Z3 Theorem Prover, etc.

And that's from just the first few pages of their Open Source page: https://opensource.microsoft.com/
Can you cite actual instances of this happening?
I did a stint of Silverlight and got very familiar with the themeing capabilities in WPF.

Themeing was a scouge of the Windows 9x age that developers had largely given up on and the support for theming in WPF as part of the backlash against what people perceived as visual excess.

It was fun for me to see this "visual excess" at work years later in the 2-d graphics of games written against Sony's PhyreEngine

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

such as

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Universe_(video_game)

Even though people hated Vista, the WDDM model that it brought in is one reason why Windows crashes much less than it used to and why GPGPU computing is a thing. Someday Linux is going to switch to Wayland or something else like WDDM.
I think you meant "uninhabitable", but either way, it works.
What exactly aren't you convinced of?
That's really up to each individual to decide for themselves. There's not an objective answer to the question.
I think Edward Snowden now is a lot more like John McAfee than Edward R. Murrow. Snowden is trading on his personality and celebrity moreso than journalistic integrity or technical credentials.

Snowden might have sources leaking to him, or he might be acting as a front for someone else, but it doesn't matter either way. People will believe him because he says it and it sounds plausible.

In a few years he'll probably be shilling gold coins or prepper tools.
I apologize if I worded my post weirdly. It was a list of things that make Nim a competitor to Rust, not things that Nim does that Rust doesn't.

There's a fair bit of overlap for obvious reasons: they're two languages suited for the same tasks, after all :)
An apple has a volume of ~100ml. A standard 20ft container has a volume of 33.2m^3 and would hold 332,000 people's worth of radioactive waste. 7-billion people's worth of radioactive waste would take a little over 21,000 containers. The largest container ships hold up to 20,000 containers.
We could power the world with nuclear power only have to deal with a little more than a full container ship of waste. I'm sure if there was political will we'd have no problem finding a safe place for it. I suspect just sinking it over an ocean trench would be less bad for the environment than the status quo.

It's mind boggling that we can generate all this energy by splitting atoms but we're still burning things and putting up windmills like it's the 1500s.
Whether or not the video was doctored is a distraction. It's much more plausible his credentials were pulled due to ego rather than concern for the fatal blow suffered by the white house intern.

The arguments otherwise are in bad faith. Especially in light of Trump's victim-blaming of the woman Corey Lewandowski grabbed at a news conference (resulting in battery charges).
I hope we could bury that old discussion in the 90s. It's just holding us back from tackling today's challenges. Like, do you want to contribute to the ongoing centralization of information? Because if you're publishing your blog on FB (medium.com I don't know), or releasing your software on GitHub, then you're excluding indie search crawlers from access. You maybe shouldn't link to content silos that block non-UA agents (except GoogleBot and Bing) at all, because why would you contribute to non-reciprocal sites that are ruining the 'net?
Well planned obsolescence is definitely incentivized by the current economy, but in the grand scheme of things there's plenty of entropy to go around.

Because digital bits are easily preserved, it was a tempting fantasy that we could build perfect software cathedrals immune to the ravages of time. Of course what we found is that in the physical world, matter decays, but the laws of physics remain constant. In the digital world, the matter stays the same, but the environment decays.
Anyways his hand just drops quickly because she yanks down the mic...

His hand clearly bounces up a little when he makes first contact with her arm and than just rests there, following her movement when the yank comes.
Are people not redistributing Linux? This seems like an awfully thin hair to split.
> I know there were technical reasons to get rid of it. Security. Mobile. Proprietary. etc. Whatever.

For me the biggest reason was always that it seemed Windows-/Mac-only. Honestly, I don't care if websites use plugins like Flash, Java or whatever. That's what plugin technology was made for. But it's stupid that this is actually forcing people to use only Mainstream OSs.

At least when Flash was really hot, also a reasonably powered computer was needed, so it's also a question of spending.

> That's why we don't see cool shit on the web anymore- it's too hard/boring to make.

Is it though? Have you ever explored/tried some of the modern web authoring tools? I must admit I haven't tried any of these: https://www.templatemonster.com/blog/html5-animation-tools/
But now they've lost agency to make the better career choice.
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If this is true and not just posturing, I think now would be a good time to bankrupt Russia again.

But I find it difficult to believe that they would announce such a weapon if it truly existed. There is no such thing as "Unstoppable".
They might just be confusing that with sprint being an awful network in general.
>you don't want to go through the shots unless they are necessary

The shots aren't that bad these days. It's just a series of relatively large intramuscular injections.
It lets you know when something is coming that's worth stealing. Cuts down on your chances of being caught for a bunch of junk mail down quite a bit.
Not fully and not by all public insurers AFAIK. But the price of the vaccination itself is still high anyway.
In hundreds of contacts on CW I've never once talked politics with anyone. I understand that isn't your question but the bandwidth is too low to waste on useless garbage. That and CW operators are a tighter community so an opposing political opinion isn't as divisive with that much common ground.
Check out how this actually works:

https://github.com/derekriemer/nvda-indentone
Validation of the full name of the person living there?

Regardless, it is a great service to sign up for. You do get it automatically if you have other accounts or used too. I had a few people sign up for it at work.

the reason I started was we had a disappearing mail issue in my neighborhood that was eventually solved. plus its good to know when stuff you are expecting actually arrived. since I order a bit online having the packages listed is a great feature but they do not photo scan those. you can set delivery instructions for some

its free, its useful, and while it does have a security issue along with nearly every service the post office offers it hurts you not for using it.

in a day an age where we have privacy issues one of the biggest is proving who you are to agencies that have a real effect on your life and others. so we need to solve the ID issue as well.
Requiring that pensions and other future benefits be funded at their present discounted value is majestically reasonable. The opposite is how you get pension crises.
Presumably the article is talking about total energy use too.
It doesn't take up that much space. Here's a Raspberry Pi sized board with an M.2 slot: https://www.cnx-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/RK33...

I think there'd easily be room, given that the soldered-on NAND chips could be removed from the board.

edit: If you're wondering how that works, here's a hint: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ThomasKaiser/Knowledge/mas...
Too much feedback is toxic
Is it right for the staffer to physically remove the mic from his hands though? Is that normal behavior?
> It doesn't allow you to move it from a cold month to a temperate one.

Sure it does. Just have to store it in something else:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ground-coupled_heat_exchanger