skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> - The first phone with more than 2GB of RAM was the Samsung Note 3 back in 2013 - with 3GB.

Samsung Note 3 is exactly the model of my phone. I've always believed it has just 2 GiBs. Let me check...

Yes. free -g in Termux says 2. However...

... free -m says 2834 which means ~2.77 GiB. Well, this indeed is "more than 2GB of RAM" but not much and what a weird number...

> That would be awesome and is my ideal view of the mobile computing future.

Seems like it's the past already. There were numerous attempts (successful in a way or another) years ago and despite the fact smartphones become more and more powerful and add more RAM this approach still doesn't show signs of becoming popular and the most hyped projects get either discontinued or stagnant.
It’s not an invalid question. It just tramples on a lot of peoples toes.
>What you're missing is that many employers don't have the perspective whereby gender, skin color or political views are irrelevant. Biases against gender, race and religion are part of the reason that many professions have been dominated by certain races, genders and religions (although laws have attempted to counteract this effect.)

Yes, but you can mitigate those biases with gender/race-blind hiring practices. This seems like a much fairer and more reasonable option than enforcing quotas.
Bike lanes aren't great, nor are they a separate space -- they're in the street.
There was/is a "C-Force" branded hub that was smaller and (slightly) cheaper than the DeX dock that put the S8/+ into DeX mode just fine.
With the caveat that I think stretching the metaphor too much further would exceed its utility, my point is only that awareness is not a smooth process, but occurs in fits and starts, slightly delayed from actual reality- it takes time for a brain to assemble meaning from its sensorium.

Different parts of the brain can work semi-independently, while other parts are strictly single-use. And 'resetting' one's mental machinery after this kind of interference takes a measurable amount of time, much like the triggering of garbage collection.

The Stroop Effect is a good demonstration of this kind of cognitive collision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGpzftQf8oI

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroop_effect
Will humanity survive this century? Sir Martin Rees predicts 'a bumpy ride'
Learning music early can make children better readers
I have been using Now in production for about a year. I fell in love with the version 1 product because it lived up to the mission, which I think went something like: make deployments as easy as using an iphone, or something like that.

I trust the leadership at Zeit are making the right decisions technically, but as the company grows, it also seems to get further away from its original mission.

The swift deprecation of previous versions is threatening to undermine any resemblance to the mission, if ease of use is still the mission.

The React team got this so right with the release of hooks in 16.7. Dan couldn't have been any more right on the money in his delivery, which was laden with promises of no breaking changes and "don't feel like you have to rewrite anything."

When Zeit released cloud v2, about three months ago, they made v2 the default, which broke many development workflows and required me personally to spend three full days refactoring code and resolving Docker issues due to an obscure error that Zeit support had trouble identifying. The breaking change was a shock and a surprise. The explanation? You should be doing things this way anyway.

Perhaps that was true, but maybe not.

After going through all the trouble of converting to cloud v2, I reverted to cloud v1 because I could not set the min instances in cloud v2, to eliminate cold boot as an issue. Someone on this thread said cold boot is 200ms. That may be true for a particular application, but I received so many customer complaints about slow boots (5 seconds or more), I had to revert. Reverting has solved the issue.

As of today, I have a deprecation warning when I log into Now which says `Your account is using a legacy platform version. We highly recommend upgrading.` Or what? Are you going to make my unmutable application mutable?

This announcement about Now v2 is confusing, first of all because Zeit already released cloud v2. How are the versions related? Next, serverless may be the future of everything, or it may not work for some existing environments. The jury is out.

To someone at Zeit, please watch the React Hooks Intro video, and the parts of Dan Abraham and Ryan Florence in particular: https://reactjs.org/docs/hooks-intro.html

This is a great way to treat your stakeholders. Also, what helps is that React is going in a direction that focused on simplicity in design. I've experienced the opposite with using Now, but I still love the mission.

And if I want to keep my now 1.0 (or iphone 6 plus) because I prefer it, why do you want to take it away so badly? My complaint is not that you are making improvements. I trust your leadership in this space. You're obviously smart people. The problem is the behavior around deprecating earlier versions. It's herky-jerky and inconsistent.

Also, what is the mission now? That would be great to know.
I think Non Hispanic Latino means Brazilian.
Show HN: A funny (and true) rap song about working remotely
You can extrapolate based on what's being done with the information that people are gathering now. Targeted advertisements, intrusive employee surveillance in places like Amazon warehouses or the TSA, to name some instances I've personally read about. How about buying data to target political ads?

Almost every tracking method or tool that has been created is used by businesses to exploit me as much as possible, so why should I believe that further developments would be used any differently?
I think it probably removes plausible deniability by the perpetrator. If someone did X and X is explicitly in the sexual harassment training then they don't much of a leg to stand on that way.
Something like https://www.sentio.com/?
Since the exploit in question requires non default settings which most people won't use this part is actually far scarier:

> P.S. I recommend setting net.inet.ip.maxfragsperpacket to 0 to prepare for what's coming next.
So, they didn't have backprop and automatic differentiation in the 50s. That's pretty fundamental and not just "fiddling with architectures"
What if all guns disappeared? (2018/04)
Also of interest perhaps is a podcast episode from Software Engineering Radio with Bruce Momjian, who maintains the PostgreSQL query planner: http://www.se-radio.net/2018/06/se-radio-episode-328-bruce-m...
I didn't have any suggestions, I merely asked for the counter argument to the idea.
I generally don't get headaches, not even from drinking too much, but i remember clearly the day after i stopped taking those damn things having The Worst Headache Of My Life.

Looking back, what a blessing that was. Haven't taken another opiate since. Never will.
Although I agree with the argument but their chart and their data actually do not represent what they are claiming. I’ve checked their paper while back [1] and contacted them about it but haven’t heard anything back. Their argument is sound but only because!

[1]: https://amirmasoudabdol.name/likelihood-of-finding-null-effe...
I would say that not all research needs to be held to the pre-registering standard of clinical trials. Some research is more exploratory, and should be interpreted that way.
Texts are probably possible. (I use Pushbullet, but Android Messages would also work).

Only Apple seems to have got the control over the stack to get calls through iPad/macOS. I was hoping that Dell Connect would be an option but it's not clear that voice is pushed through there.
Serious question- did you look into the project any further than reading the purpose? I've never seen a "travel instagram/blog" that included 9 unique interviews that focus on the interviewee/local culture. There is actually minimal ego involved in the entire thing- the primary focus seems to be on shedding light on a lesser known locale with very few (3, to be exact) personal articles.
Yep.

“over the past 15 years. Increased US efforts are correlated with a worsening of the overall terror situation. Statistical modeling indicates for every additional billion dollars spent and 1,000 American troops sent to fight the war on terror, the number of terror attacks worldwide increased by 19 (data available from the author). Furthermore, the model finds up to 80 percent of the variation in the number of worldwide terror attacks since 9/11 can be explained by just those two variables—US money spent and military members sent to fight the war on terror. The data for both money spent and troops deployed come from the Congressional Research Service publication, The Cost of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Global War on Terror Operations Since 9/11 by Amy Belasco. The number of terror attacks is from the Global Terrorism Database, hosted by the University of Maryland.”

“The data show countries the US invaded had 143 more terror attacks per year than countries the US did not invade. Similarly, countries in which the US conducted drone strikes were home to 395 more terror attacks per year than those where the US did not.”

https://ssi.armywarcollege.edu/pubs/parameters/issues/Spring...
"we might care more about one or the other"

Caring more about one or the other is exactly the issue. The reasoning about the degree of which to care about either at all is the issue that cannot be resolved objectively.

Putting a dam in place that won't impact the ecosystem so much--sure, we can minimize the tradeoffs, but the tradeoffs remain, and all resolve to what we value vis a vis what it costs. Which is not objective.
probably was meant in abstract terms seemed rather romanticist which I see as a danger in itself - dogmatically clinging to abstract ideas because of feelings regardless of outcomes.

Found myself in a perplexing discussion not long ago that-after a lot of words that seemed to operate similarly to what you're describing here.

The topic was over banning plastic bags versus something with more politically loaded outcomes like Brexit, though. The argument the other person brought up was to equivocate banning plastic bags with banning plastic straws and how this constituted a real harm to the disabled community and those who may have a valid need for straws--forcing me to ask if a better outcome for someone with a physical impairment would be to promote durable, fabric bags that are less like to suffer to sudden structural failure (overfilling a plastic bag that rips open unexpectedly), and where the logical limit was in comparing the harm of removing plastic straws and removing plastic bags.

They clung to the comparison that banning bags was equivalent to robbing the physically disabled from needed resources but couldn't really articulate any position beyond that emotional appeal to a community who-I conceded-should be considered more than they probably are. Comparing bags to straws on the grounds presented didn't feel like it was very outcome oriented, though.

It's an endlessly interesting phenomenon of thought to watch take place in real time.
Some Windows 10 Pro licenses are mistakenly deactivated  Comments
Production Rules (Read-Eval-Print-λove)
The first robot citizenship test
You have a very narrow view of "the workplace".

I used to work for a large well respected software company. On Fridays, after work, there was a subsidized bar where we could have a beer or two and discuss work or non-work things in a more relaxed atmosphere. Would you ban that?

If I go to a conference and we have an official conference social meet-up should I be prohibited from consuming alcohol?

I have my own straw man. You say:

> they should be presenting to work fit & as prepared as possible to do it

I propose that we ban coffee in the workplace because we should all be at 100% all the time and coffee obviously shows you aren't turning up ready to work.
He says it. Others have done it years ago.
It's a chroot. (I think)
That would sound like a case where the employee could disclose her alcoholism as a disability, and request the "reasonable accommodation" that no work events she is required to attend have alcohol. Then, if it can be demonstrated that she's actually required to go to a drinking event, gets trashed and acts an ass, she's got a wrongful termination claim. IANAL of course
The article seems to suggest that scientific studies aren't reliable, but fails to point out the key takeaway that now (post registration requirement), studies are much more likely to be valid/useful than before.

So the headline really should read something like "Why you should trust scientific studies a lot more now than you did before"
The problem with that - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8boWQvgo18U#t=04m44s

Not the best example because that place didn't have a stoplight, but in any case, the driver didn't see a firetruck with its lights on because the sun was right behind it.

So even in rural areas with "nothing for miles," the room for error exists.
That isn't something this article discusses so that isn't actually a "TL;DR."

Additionally cryopreservation itself can cause sperm damage (during initial freezing), which while often inconsequential for people e.g. undergoing cancer treatment or who would otherwise find themselves infertile before finding a partner, should be weighed if you're opting to forgo kids and view cryopreservation as a mitigation for age-based sperm damage.

If you have the opportunity and ability to have kids before 45 then it is safest just to do so. Freezing and waiting because it is inconvenient isn't a risk free venture.
> A BASIC cable TV subscription costs over $100/mo.

No, it doesn't.

> Streaming services are typically $10/mo or so.

Streaming multichannel video distribution platform (MVDP) services that are most comparable to a cable subscription, with live TV channels (YouTubeTV, SlingTV, PlaystationTV, DirecTV Now, Hulu with Live TV) have some variation in pricing, but the bottom is way above $10/mo. ~$40/mo seems to be typical base fee, comparable with basic cable plans (U-Verse Basic is $19.99/mo + $10/mo for HD.)

$10-15/mo. streaming services are typically more comparable in what they offer to a single premium cable channels, but without live programming and sometimes with little better on-demand catalog. Some of them are exactly equivalent to such a channel (e.g., HBO Now).

In addition, streaming services count against your broadband services data cap, which may necessitate additional charges for uncapped service (and require sufficient broadband bandwidth, which may also force a higher tiers of service than you otherwise would use—cable/satellite mostly subsumes all of that.)

> The fact that distribution of content is now worthless, and distribution is the primary value proposition of their business model

Essentislly all the cable companies are both (owned by, or own) major content owners and major broadband (often both fixed and mobile) ISPs, they often also own or co-own one or more streaming services (sometimes both MVDP and “single channel” style services). They are making money no matter what route you choose to the content.
I met a fellow at a Schmidhuber seminar who claimed amazing things for physical reservoir computing, specifically a kind of spiking LSMs. I fooled around with ESNs a bit as a result. Sadly this review doesn't really look super encouraging, though I guess enough people are interested to fool around with hardware.
How does a lack of pilots sound like a surplus?
Anyone want to bet whether or not Andy Rubin has actually attended sexual harassment training?
Some exception cases: the phone needs to run a Mobile device management agent that installs and launches an antivirus, or the mobile happens to connect to a corporate VPN that routes all traffic and then inspects it via some appliance.
I was able to find some of my college textbooks new or used in great condition for far cheaper than my bookstore at AbeBooks, including saving hundreds of dollars off books within my major if I purchased the international edition.

Hate to see that opportunity removed as an option.
Chinese AI Company Can Identify People Based on How They Walk
Yeah, but the way between the real problem and fundamental non-objective feelings is a pretty long one, and on the way you may discover that differences in those feelings aren't that great, and they all can be satisfied in many ways - which means you can devise a solution that's acceptable to every reasonable person. Sure, it may not always work, but it's worth trying.
Gp was probably reacting to the dns idea.
It's always confusing when your restaurant booth is dark, until you remember to pay the electric bill.
I'd just activate the hotspot on the phone to use the laptop.
Hardly equivalent "for all intents and purposes." The purposes of the layman are nothing like those of the research community.
2048 – Solving 2048 with Monte-Carlo Tree Search (MCTS) AI
I've compiled the best SaaS Landing pages and broke down all their secrets
What is Investing?
Hi HN!

Although there are too many resources online to learn about investing, I always felt that most were not aimed towards complete beginners, but required knowledge on which the content was built on. And of course, details in a narrow field are often more valuable than a broad outline, but when we don't even know the keywords to search for, getting to the details can be quite difficult.

Investing is one of the fields that many people want to learn about, but have no idea where to start. And instead of discussing ETFs and asset allocation right away (which is usually where most introductory resources start from), there is some basic knowledge to be covered. For example: what is investing, what are stocks and how to read them, the risks of picking stocks and timing the market, what are market indices, etc.

Wanting to create an introduction to investing in a way that I would have liked to learn when I started, I decided to start the "Become an Investor" series. The series will require no prerequisite knowledge and will be self-contained with no familiarity with any concepts or terminology assumed.

And yes, they will cover index investing, ETFs and investment strategies, but not before the building blocks are explained in detail.

So, if you're someone who was interested in the field but had no idea where to start, this is the right place to do so. The first post explains how timing the market is harder than some people think, what investing means, and how it's different from trading (terms that are often used interchangeably by newbs). In other words: it is aimed for absolute beginners, allowing them to learn the concepts through posts that will build on one another over time.

So, if want to learn more or just want to support the cause, check the first post out. I'm releasing content on weekly basis and would be really happy to reach out to as many people as possible.

http://monkwealth.com/become-an-investor-part-1-what-is-investing/
I can confirm this happened to me on two of the systems I used. Though now at least one appears to have fixed itself.
I found the buses in Beijing to be "good public transport" as long as a) you could do the entire journey on one bus, or one transfer where a lot of buses could be used to get to your destination, b) the beginning stop was close to your location and the ending stop was close to your destination, and c) both stops were served by multiple lines. Given that buses in Beijing are spaced an average of about 10 min apart, C means that you didn't have to wait long for the bus. The subway travels faster, but you typically have to walk ten minutes on either end, so the bus will win. I frequently used the bus on routes that satisfied all conditions.

The down side is that you need to be familiar with Chinese characters, and do a lot of clicking and zooming in and out at ditu.google.cn beforehand.
No, I suggested that working 100 hours a week like Elon Musk will not likely lead to happiness.
Did someone really ask for pointers?
There isn’t currently, but nothing stops someone from hosting it.

However, there isn’t currently a way to sign up, but there have been opened PRs that wouldn’t be too difficult for someone to implement if they really wanted.
Wow, this is more like a master class on GUI application design than the usual guidelines you see. I don't see a byline but someone poured a lot of love and wisdom into this.
The response to automobiles when they were introduced was the correct response. It took a ton of marketing for the car companies to effectively privatize and ruin our public streets.
The comment you were replying to makes no mention of the VC environment, merely the hours that people work in various countries. VCs also don't fund companies full of people who "hardly do any work", they fund outliers full of passionate people who work twice as hard to make up for lack of manpower.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spigot_algorithm
That divmod can be replaced with table walking like CRC code does for division and remainder of fixed values, which is certainly fast, and does not require bignums. Unless you now want to claim all CRC code is also slow as hell or requires bignums. These are solved problems.

Many compilers even expand the code inline to generate fix size divides into mult and shift.

Here's a 4 year old Hacker news thread on compiler tricks then [1]. They're even better now.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8368639
Seems like a duplicate of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407269
Is the grammatical error in the title intentional?
Not proper ones. Real bike lanes in bike-able cities have a small curb separating them from the street and then another one to separate from the sidewalk.
The fact that infrastructure lags behind scooter reality can be solved either by (1) upgrading infrastructure or (2) banning scooters.

I hope for (1) but expect (2).
I'm curious about this as well. Assuming the effects they found were actually legitimate (that is, the alleged "torture" of the data was statistically sound), how is this at all a bad thing? Shouldn't it be safe to assume that they could simply repeat the trial with a different stated objective and successfully yield the positive result? It seems counterproductive indeed to waste time and money like that.

I'm having a hard time seeing the problem with taking an exploratory approach and just testing placebo vs. some treatment and reporting whatever you find.

Please correct me if I'm misguided on any of this.
Perhaps I just don't understand this semi rad thing. And yeah that makes a certain amount of sense. But it also seems dangerous in that it can easily be used as a justification for underachieving.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18407482
Outlier Detection Techniques (2010) [pdf]
I don’t remember where I saw it first (reddit, likely), but: have you seen a msle diversity officer?
> if it was useful for commuting, why wouldn't people just end up buying one so they always have it when needed?

I own a bicycle, but I don’t always have it when needed.
> With the advances in treatments for cardiovascular disease couldn't the problem just be harder?

I'm pretty sure we have no significant advances in the treatment of cardiovascular disease.

And given the alarmingly climbing rates of chronic diseases, e.g. cardiovascular disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, I'm also pretty sure that the health care industry has done more harm than good when it comes to chronic diseases.

For everything else, for problems they can measure and treat with a pill, sure, I'm no anti-vaxxer, but they failed hard at chronic diseases, promoting cures and guidelines that did more harm than good.
> what agenda does this website have by publishing this clickbait title

Contrarian positions will always attract clicks. Their agenda is eyeballs.
Can someone explain what /8s /16s etc. are? Or a link to a good explainer?
Building Builds – TeamCity Pipelines as Code Using Terraform