skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember reading this years ago, and always found this part by far the most interesting:

> A further five cells appeared to serve no logical purpose at all--there was no route of connections by which they could influence the output. And yet if he disconnected them, the circuit stopped working.

> It appears that evolution made use of some physical property of these cells--possibly a capacitive effect or electromagnetic inductance--to influence a signal passing nearby. Somehow, it seized on this subtle effect and incorporated it into the solution.
People will hate you if you ask for an Alt Bier in Munich...

Seriously, though. I think you make a very strong point, which I’d like to call “resolution effect”. If you look at that something like the US from far away things look petty similar. However, once you zoom in patches appear and suddenly homogenity is replaced by heterogeneity. People tend to forget that easily. Conversely, I never felt more European than during my two years in the States
Married life means you won't do a lot of exciting/risky things.

Married men live longer. So do indoor cats.
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It's from here: https://www.amazon.com/New-computational-paradigms-computer-...

As attested by this: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3465 and the author's own intervention in these comments.
If web components will be built-in, I imagine it's possible for browsers to provide a way to style them in user-land.
What I Learned About Tech Privacy from Jury Duty
They are scapegoats.

The person who ordered the murder, commonly believed to be the Crown Prince, isn't going to face a thing.
FYI, if you expose clay to really really hot fire, it still melts. A mere 4,000°C will even melt everything in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultra-high-temperature_ceramic....

I have no real concept of the sorts of heats involved in fires like the one described above. But even if the clay isn’t melting, it’s fun to know that ceramics aren’t magical non-melting, non-burning things—they just require unusually much, typically impractically much, heat to achieve it.
Why New Yorkers Insisted on a “Worse” Subway Map [video]
Cheaper to short the utility company stocks probably.
Maybe because they are competition.
On what grounds would they blacklist Splintermail? There are already guards in place against sending spam, for instance.
Multitasking Boosts Performance, Research Finds
That's really interesting, thanks. How would you describe the agenda / bias of the Mercatus centre? I've developed a pretty positive view of them based on what I've seen of Tyler Cowen, Alex Tabarrok and Robin Hanson.
I have probably 8-9 Zero W boards in projects at this point, running everything from cat cams, temperature sensors in various rooms, even my stereo amplifier is controlled by (but not passing audio through) a Pi Zero W.

All of them now have a very specific model industrial MicroSD card in them, and none have lost or corrupted data, or refused to boot, since those cards were added. They had SanDisk ultra cards before that, and they had to be reinstalled all the time.

I picked the card because it's an aMLC* model (cheap overall, $15 for 4GB, $25-28 for 8GB), which significantly improves write endurance even compared to MLC cards, and because the controller is designed to handle sudden power loss, which is where a lot of these Pi+SD problems come from; consumer MicroSD cards are generally designed for use in devices that have batteries and rarely if ever lose power suddenly, so the controller can take risks for optimization that it wouldn't otherwise want to take.

They're also rated down to 0C, which I can say is definitely true as I have some operating close to that right now.

This is the card: https://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/atp-electronics-in...

4GB isn't huge in a world where 32/64GB cards are common for a similar price, but a full headless OS installation doesn't even take half of that, and there's no real use for more space most of the time.

* with aMLC mode, it's still MLC flash (so cheaper than SLC), but each cell only stores a single bit rather than 2 (MLC) or 3 (TLC), so there are only 2 voltage states it needs to be able to measure, rather than 4 (MLC) or 8 (TLC). That means you lose some storage capacity (half vs MLC), but the tolerances for the voltage measured in each cell is significantly relaxed, so it remains usable long past the point where a plain MLC mode card would not be able to accurately program and measure the voltages that represent the 2-bit values of 00, 01, 10, or 11 anymore.
This is very forward-thinking. Props to whoever came up with this.
Updated Quantum Development Kit offers chemistry library and improved dev tools
The fundamental problem is that SMTP mandates accepting multiple recipients per transaction, but only a single status code when completing the transaction. Transaction level rejection is incompatible with per-user rules that filter the message body.

Ideally what's needed is a mandatory, pervasively supported SMTP extension that permits per-recipient status codes, such as LMTP provides. More feasible is permitting MTAs to accept only a single recipient per transaction, but even that is difficult given the huge installed base of MTAs and libraries.
Presumably those gigabit speeds are shared by the thousands/millions of people on your node. Wireless is a shared medium.
Kymeta is coming out with a directional flat antenna. It wouldn't suit for a phone but I don't think these are meant for phones. I was not saying cell phone would have spinny disks on the top.

The last part is, where I think the real fun will emerge. Doing everything above but optimized based on the load of each satellite with a link budget computation involved will be cool. It may prove out that the optimization isn't needed but I think that kinda stuff is fun.

https://www.kymetacorp.com/markets/connected-car/kalo-trek/
In other news, "I don't really want to work for IBM." Say Some Computer Science Students.
The Hair of Physicists (2012)
I'm not "curiously silent" on my own bias. What do you want me to say exactly? You're trying really hard to paint the same picture you're criticizing, namely that I'm some sort of shill.

I think the idea that everyone at FB who doesn't leave immediately is a "mediocre sell-out" is very far from the truth, and contrary to my own experience. Thus I'm suspicious of people who claim such.

There's already enough people on HN that will type out a borderline vitriolic four point list of why anyone who defends FB is wrong.

Why don't you look at JumpCrisscross' post history? This isn't the only anti-FB article he's submitted. Or are you a bit biased here? :) He has even commented on FB's stock price and predicted it will go down more in the future.

My bias is that I think there's another side to the story.
I've found Peter Reinhart's methods to produce an easy, consistent, extremely tasty and well-risen whole grain bread. It does require letting the dough soak overnight.
Tell Us About Your Unusual Collection
I love that you put it out there so early on. You've got guts.

The HN crowd loves open source and facts. They have access to world-class free databases like PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and SQLite.

I'm afraid that without an open source license (which you'd monetize through upsells or support contracts) you'll get very little traction.

Should that work, I think you need more facts. Storage-efficient at what cost? Data integrity? Speed? What's it worth? Storage is relatively cheap these days and PostgreSQL is super trustworthy. Why should I pay for Ecodb when I can get PostgreSQL free?

Your comparison should be a table showing storage savings compared to these other alternatives too.
The ugliest, most incomprehensible code I've ever see was when I had to mess with RedHat's version of Anaconda (for building distros) back in the early 2000s. It was worse than the multi-thousand line TCL screen-scraper that I had to occasionally fix in 1999. It was the first code I'd even seen written in Python. You couldn't really trace anything, it was all so nested and idiomatic. It made the Perl code I inherited from a long-time Perl guru downright comprehensible. I've looked askance at Python since.
Quite brave. I'd A/B test that with something more benign to see how it's really performing.
That's a great article. I especially love the bit about equity, which ought to be valued at $0 for all practical decision-making purposes.

My experiences with the tech giants have featured neither autonomy, fun, nor anything resembling a work-life balance; they do pay well, but not well enough to make that kind of experience worthwhile. Life is here to be lived, not put off for later, and I'm not going to waste mine grinding away on a bunch of tedious bullshit so long as I have an alternative.

Then again, here I am writing from my cubicle at yet another tech giant, which recently acquired the startup I was working for, and it's been a much better experience so far. Who knows? Maybe I'll end up sticking around for a while.
I'm no l33t hax0r or anything, but when I see "I've hosted a personal mail server for 10 years", I think, "I could probably own that person."

Almost certainly false (I couldn't even think of a more technical word than "own"), but I just dunno why people take that risk. I get that the threat profile of Joe Schmoe isn't the same as Car Company, Inc., but still...
Let me present it a different way.

Someone comes to you with two formal models of computing. Both models involve representing the state of the computer as a vector of real numbers, they both involve finite dimensional subsystems combined with a tensor product, both involve gates defined over the reals also combined via the tensor product and so on. That is, both models are just about evolution of a vector in some (very high) dimensional real vector space according to gates acting on a small number of subsystems. In fact these two models are identical, except for the fact that in model A the readout procedure involves computing a property of the output vector with the 1-norm, while in model B the 2-norm is used.

This is not an analogy, these are valid mathematical formulations of classical and quantum computing, the correspondences (and differences!) are well understood and rigorous.

Now you read an IEEE article that vociferously objects to the feasibility of building a computer based on model B, but all the objections are to do with properties of model B that it fully shares with model A. And model A you know can be very well approximated already in the physical world, which means reality was somehow was not inhibited by those objections. To try and refute the physicality of model B with an argument based on premises already satisfied by model A is silly.

(Note that even if it were the case that complex numbers were necessary for quantum computing, which they are not - see eg. my book Q is for Quantum - you can map the quantum density matrix on n qubits to a real vector over the basis of Hermitian matrices).
They sound desperate.

Why would you move from one place to another place to be a remote worker for a third place? This would make more sense if there were businesses in Tulsa which needed more workers.
I think historically people were thin due to malnourishment.
As a man why would you be interested in marriage?

The divorce courts are not exactly friendly to men.
Thank you for your comment!! I agree with you this thing seems to fit better on tablets/mobiles
An aside. Chomsky made a sizable contribution to intellectual criticism of the modern imperialism. I wonder who will pick up the reins when he's gone?
Wow. Freedom of the press is dead.
There has been a collision between an Iridium satellite and another one before. It's a valid concern.
Personally, I’ve just never applied. Based on what they do, I wouldn’t be surprised if I could do something useful at Facebook, but I just don’t think I could stand working there as it is now. Am I missing out on some potentially interesting projects? Of course. Will I have a lower salary? Probably. But generally I believe the compromises I need to make aren’t all that large, and I can feel better about myself just not working there. If they change their culture, sure, I might reconsider, but from what I’ve seen so far nothing has changed (down to the people they hire-some of my acquaintances who have gotten good offers from them are what I might call “morally dubious”).
Uber lost more than $1B last quarter
Wut. Since I've gotten married I've:

* quit a job with nothing else lined up to try and start a company

* moved cross country without a place to live

* started boxing

* learned improv and performed in shows

* fostered a bunch of kids

* learned to race rally cars

In fact, the only thing I've done _less_ of is played video games.
What are prerolls and cbd flower?
What do we really need to encrypt? Cheatsheet
If you need UPS you can put a simple USB battery between the charger and your Pi. Works like a charm. My Pi has been making hourly backups of 3 machines in my home network without a single reboot/intervention for 347 days.
Struggle, Not Perfection: What the Matrix Teaches Us About Making a Metaverse
My partner uses a CPAP machine (possibly not a "modern" one... it's 3-4 years old I believe). It's tolerable, but not great.

Cuddling is not really possible once the machine is on. It makes some noise which I've mostly adjusted to, but sometimes it gets significantly louder for a while, waking me up or keeping me awake unless I put earplugs in. Occasionally it blows air on me (not sure if the mask is leaking or what), and I have to rearrange blankets to block it before I can get back to sleep.
I'm putting on my shocked face
My girlfriend and I have been together for several years. We're happy. We're not religious at all. I don't see why we have to declare our relationship commitment to the government. Beyond that, our incomes are similar and after some research it looks as if we would pay more in taxes if we were married. Plus, my girlfriend has substantial student loan debt and is on the public service loan forgiveness track. Her monthly payments are based on her income. If we were married my income would be considered and her payments would go up significantly. So... marriage?
So much for WikiLeaks thinking there was a lesser evil back in 2016
I have a couple L2’s that I mostly speak and read, virtually no writing - my grammar is poor and my vocabulary is limited. Because of this I would feel uncomfortable/embarrassed to translate any tech stuff I wrote to it. However, I could read someone else’s translation and know if it’s way off the mark. Also, I have plenty of friends that speak the language natively, so I could ask them to review. If they say it’s good, I’d vouch for the translation because I trust them (even if I couldn’t read it at all).
to be fair that what she says about our troops is most often pretty on point.
I mean I do not like her and she also says a lot of bullshit.

also it's not really hard to see the weak points of our "bundeswehr" and trying to make it better.

Modernization is basically the right thing to do, but you didn't need to be an expert to see that our bundeswher needed that.
I'm pretty sure they want you to move there and continue working where you already work (remotely).
Depends on the neighborhood. They're fairly common in upper-middle class or nicer neighborhoods.
Soaking/extended autolyse is definitely helpful. And just using a lot more water overall.

Also if you have a coarse-ground flour you can also sift out the bran, soak it separately and fold it into the dough later, which allows the gluten to develop a bit without getting cut by the bran. That’s kind of a pain though so I don’t usually do it.
Keep in mind that unhappily married or divorced people are the ones who are more likely to say something about it. I'm happily married. I don't really mention it, and I'm sure others in a similar situation do the same.
It's like Tyson always said: Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.

Everyone is moral and principled until they have to choose between morals/principles and temptations. That's the true test.
This is actually a topic that has received a lot of investigation. It's true that men who marry differ, before marriage, from men who don't. But it also seems to be true that marriage has a strong causal effect on male behavior.
I'm going through this now, luckily without the surgery. I was self-diagnosing on webmd and thought I had fibromyalgia! After much research, and a sleep study, I found myself in the situation your wife describes.

My narrow palate is due to sucking my thumb until I was 9 due to some mental trauma from home fires and moving a lot when I was a kid, changing schools etc. I had braces/headgear until I was 17 and was left with a jaw set too far back. 20 years of growth hormone from working out caused my jaw to grow back into my throat and narrow my airway.

After being dismissed this year by 2 orthodontists who also said I needed orthognathic (jaw) surgery, I began researching on my own and stumbled onto orthotropics and the A.L.F. appliance:

https://www.google.com/search?q=orthotropics&tbm=vid

https://www.google.com/search?q=alf+appliance&tbm=vid

Luckily I found a dentist locally who specializes in this. As an adult, it takes several times longer to move teeth and expand your upper jaw, but it is possible. I'm about 3 months into a 9-18 month treatment and have felt immediate relief. With breathe right strips, I'm back to feeling awake and happy again (I don't know if the strips are as safe as CPAP, especially over the long term though).

I'm also starting myofunctional and osteopathic therapy. It turns out that many problems in the body with posture and breathing start with the teeth/jaw/tongue. Computer geeks are at terribly high risk of these problems due to our sedentary lifestyle. I think Gen X finally reached middle age and is hitting long-predicted health issues like these.

Hope this helps someone.
I don't think you can do this. You have a reasonably good upper bound of the probability, but you don't have any justification for putting any lower bound other than zero on the probability.

In particular, if you're considering the probability of a catastrophic event, it's probably better to find some other rationale for estimating the probability than just saying 'it has never happened before'.
I mean, heck, you don't even need computers, just play a game of Go. Suddenly you're juggling "variables" in a humongous parameter space.
Came here to mention the Open Plan Hell that being a FB dev would mean, which is just a layer on top of the primary evil they create with product.

Or do the kids just think that's how it is/has to be these days?

The data against open plans is abundant and solid, but firms just won't abandon a clearly failed design experiment <beats head against desk ... in our new open office>.
You probably need to factor healthcare, rent etc for a fair comparison to, say, the Bay area -- 85k affords a nice upper-upper middle class lifestyle (it scratches the 99th gross income percentile in germany). So 10x sounds like a stretch. What profile would you suggest someone who takes 200-800k € might have? (Tangentially, out of curiosity: Are you in a position to share what the ex-googlers worked on?)
My devices are sending and receiving data every two seconds, even when I sleep
You mean speculative execution? Do you know of an sample implementation?
yes, they are worse than all those. Perhaps loot box companies are close and only less so because of current scale and not because of less sinister intent.

Google is not fbook, (not that I am a fan of big G - it's evil in other ways more so than fbook) -

Where is ethical in my mind is more shades of grey rather than place A is and Place B is not..

I think many people do not understand the immense power the fbook wields to truly get how damaging it is and can be. Some of us may not get sucked in by our evolving news feed, but that does not mean that it is not indeed sucking people in and keeping them hooked for it's benefit and to the detriment of other's lives.
I don't think Freedom of the Press is dead. WikiLeaks isn't a news organization, especially when they released campaign emails during the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. They have been to be a known tool for the Russian government, even going as far as creating a show for Julian Assange on the state-backed RT TV Network.
The purpose of the study was to test metabolism, not weight loss. The tested variable was the amount of calories/day attributable to carbohydrates.

A key part of the study was that they fed the participants more or less each day to maintain weight.

In other words, there should not have been any weight change at all, as weight change would have confounded the results since weight loss is known to effect metabolism.
The HN comment section is turning into Reddit
I've been using http://mizage.com/shush/ for macOS push to talk. Highly recommended.
How low-level do you need? Vivado lets you place individual LUTs where you want, and to some extent dictate the routing.
This is incorrect: there's no reason to expect that X and Y will each appear 3 times in 6 trials if their probabilities are equal. If all 3 measurements of X are smaller than all 3 measurements of Y, then you have X < Y with confidence 1 - 1/8 or 87.5% confidence. You'd need at least 5 measurements to be 95% confident.
Another company, working in a fairly niche b2b space.
Schools (at least around here in a pretty good school district) have terrible Wi-Fi, and if the school supports BYOD then the APs are commonly at capacity. It’s much easier to use Ethernet if you want to get some Pis for a classroom, since the teacher can just hook them up to a switch and not have to think about whether the Wi-Fi is good, sharing PSKs (or having every kid log in to 802.1x), making sure that the devices all get on the same subnet so that its easy to communicate with them, etc. And the Pi is aimed at schools, so that is what they will think about. Especially in lower-class areas I wouldn’t be surprised if they don’t have Wi-Fi on the entire campus (although in the US, we have eRate to help with that).
I think what's being got at is "the power over the users is also concerning, and not something we can get at directly with these laws."
> If (big if) you can choose the next Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase etc. and become one of the first 20 employees,

Completely irrelevant. As one of the first 20, you have exactly zero idea if it's going to be the next Dropbox, Airbnb, Stripe, Coinbase, etc.

Your chances of landing at a company like this as a first 20 are perhaps .0001%, and if you did land there, you won't know it was a success for 5-10 years afterwards. And as a person straight out of school, you are not getting key-hire level of equity in your offer package. You'll get an amount that would equalize the total comp were you to go to a bigco, IF the startup sees modest success.

Big payoff is not the reason to go to a startup. As one of the parents said, work environment is the reason. IMHO anyone out of school should go to a startup, not a bigco. For the work environment.
If a "credible" (read: state-approved) news organization had released those emails, would you have the same thoughts toward them?
Already commented elsewhere, but the researchers noted that the fed the participants different amounts of food each day as necessary to maintain weight. They were testing metabolic differences associated with the ratio of carbohydrates in the diet.

Studies have already shown that weight loss affects metabolic rates.
If it doesn't make sense, don't do it!

The concept isn't hard to get your head around. Businesses draw up similar contracts all the time. You're just expressing a formal mutual accountability. It enables one partner to "safely" make sacrifices (or exploit time preference).

If you don't want to be accountable to each other in a formal way, by all means, keep your relationship informal.
Yes... but averages are not overly meaningful when considering a single event.