skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, so don't they teach beginning options traders about naked call options??
The Kekulé Problem (2017)
Uh, also, don’t steal?
My blog is obviously published as an RSS feed but I also have a JSON feed (https://jsonfeed.org). Don't laugh, there are dozens of us. Dozens!

Considering you've already done the hard work of parsing RSS, do you plan to support JSON feeds at some point?
Then you're singularly incurious. And besides, the article begins with a massive portrait of her (colour changed but otherwise clearly representative).
I used to feel that way, too, but since I moved to Seattle, I traded my car in for a motorcycle, and that feeling of freedom has returned in full force. Maybe it is just a different illusion, but the wind and the noise on my morning commute wake me up better than any coffee I've ever had. Getting forty-some-odd miles to the gallon on a vehicle that can go 130 MPH ain't bad, either.
I really, really don’t get lumping Apple in with Google and Facebook here. The only rationale given is that ‘Apple dominates smartphones and laptop computers.‘ the first - smartphones - is highly regional, and the second isn’t even defensible as an argument, as Apple only sells a small percentage of laptops.

Even if those were both completely true, I can’t fathom how it leads to needing to break Apple up?
I def feel for the guy and how he basically got years of his life ruined by a big player, but him and his family did some pretty shady stuff with regards to the company computers and data.
Mac mini with iPad Pro display
The fact that future forks can happen is destabilizing, IMHO.
It is his job. I'm not an expert on the latest tech for cameras but surely they have remote activation tech now (wifi?)? He could just set it up before he leaves and activate it when he is about to arrive?
iOS Development Isn’t in a Good Place
Dual-screen tablets are an interesting idea
He's my old boss :)
Neil DeGrasse Tyson: Why Elon Musk Is More Important Than Jeff Bezos,Steve Jobs
California the land of sky high housing & rent, insane deadly forest fires, homelessness like no other state, landslides, earthquakes... it just doesn't sound very appealing.

What are the positives ... chasing and potentially realizing your creative (music/film) or tech dreams there? That can be done in other cities like Nashville or possibly close to here in a few years with Amazon building in Crystal City, VA (other big tech companies may follow). Well love to hear the positives of living in California!
Cryptocurrency can be and do everything as the definition depends on what you are trying to sell in the moment
Friends and I, for years, used to go to Vegas for thanksgiving -- late 90s until mid 2000s. The change in travel patterns and when people flew was interesting.

The reason for vegas - multiple people from different areas that mostly had direct flights to Vegas.

These days, I tend to pick areas that are quiet and relatively easy to get to -- a lot of those have been exploring the Sierra or remote parts of the coast.
I was in your place and slowly getting better where people actually say that they like interacting and talking with me. What really helped?

1. Meditation and specific one at that called - metta meditation. Most of the time issues lies with the fact that we as introverts feel unfulfilled and think something is wrong with us.

But, there is nothing wrong with us. This meditation helps with that and makes you realize that you are fine as they way you are.

2. Tiny habits:

One of the biggest problem for me was that I would wake up one day and barrel ahead trying to be another person. But the problem is you cannot change in a day. So, you try and try and eventually give up.

Then I read about BJ Fogg's research:
https://www.tinyhabits.com/

And I took another route to thins. I wake up every day and take one thing and only one thing I want to do.

Let's say "small talk". Then I think of a person I can try this on. So, I set an intention to "small talk" once I meet this person. And because I am aware of this intention I tend to see how they react. Most of the time it's pleasant surprise which makes me feel good and helps reinforce the habit.

3. The mandatory book:

https://www.amazon.com/Charisma-Myth-Science-Personal-Magnet...

It has lots of techniques. So, take it slow. It can take sometime before you see the changes.
He wont. He will resign only if there is more pressure from investors and govt agencies.
> They said she was 45.306 percent Hispanic, 32.321 percent Middle Eastern, 13.714 percent European and 8.659 percent “other,” which included a mere 2.978 percent African.

Decimals aside, since when is "Hispanic" a race? What could that even mean?

That too aside, 3% African is black according to the still predominant "one drop" doctrine of blackness in this country.
The kicker is if a client connects to you via HTTP/2, you can't upgrade/hijack that session to be a websocket stream since the underlying TCP connection could be being shared by(used to multiplex) multiple HTTP requests/sessions. You have to take care to make sure the request ingress path from the client to the app is HTTP/1.1 end to end. That is something that is getting harder to do. Browsers use H/2 by default, more and more CDN do, more and more middle-ware does etc. The draft RFC I mentioned is a websocket upgrade mechanism for HTTP/2.
I don't know what to tell you, other than those "scientists" must have been doing it wrong.

I mean it. What you have presented above is pseudoscience. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

> The replication crisis (or replicability crisis or reproducibility crisis) is an ongoing (2018) methodological crisis in the social and soft sciences in which scholars have found that the results of many scientific studies are difficult or impossible to replicate or reproduce on subsequent investigation, either by independent researchers or by the original researchers themselves.

These are not physicists. Their inability to measure some effect of NLP techniques argues for their incompetence, not the non-existence of the effects. NLP isn't hard. I don't consider myself a practitioner, but I have some experience applying NLP to get definite results. The techniques work. "Submodality" manipulation alone should garner a Nobel prize.

Let me ask you, do you have any direct, personal experience with NLP? In other words, what's your motivation here? You're not going to convince me it's bunk, because I overcame crippling depression using it, and because I understand the principles and they make sense. (Most of them, there are NLP-derived techniques that work but no one know why. The so-called "VK Squash" for example. Profound effects without a trace of theory as to why.) Am I going to convince you? Maybe we should talk about NVC instead? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonviolent_Communication
Blowing Up: a crappy webserver. Here's a mirror: http://archive.is/ezjyH
I'm definitely in favour of PG&E getting hit hard for this one due to what appears to be gross negligence on their part.

_But_, doesn't the liability also, in part, apply to the state and/or the federal government? How far did the fire unnecessarily spread? Was the land in the area being properly maintained, with good fire breaks, routine controlled burns etc, or are they skimping like they have been all over the country?
You are, obviously, free to choose the software you use. What you install on your computer is, again of course, completely up to you.

What I take issue with are people who jump into any discussion of proprietary software and downvote / criticize with "proprietary" being the only point. A fair criticism should take the form "Cons: Not open source", "Pros: ...". But it never does. It's always just "Nobody needs this proprietary crap". That is what I consider actively harmful, because it suppresses options that may actually be useful, if not for you then maybe for other people. If you don't like it, why not just let it be? I don't like JavaScript. I don't go around forums and shout "It's a horrible language!" where ever I see it mentioned.
This is happening because of Project Treble which creating a boundary between device drivers and the kernel.
Earlier, kernel versions (even android versions itself) were subject to integration of device drivers into the kernel source code... which took a long time and often resulted in forced obsolescence.

By separating out the driver interface using Treble, you can update the kernel and android versions from upstream without worrying about driver integration/updates.
Is this thread fake news ... all i see are reviews of how great this is?

Sorry never heard of this and hearing this many HN members gush about a not that well known paid service is odd.
He's acting Attorney General but may not be Acting Attorney General.
Would you please stop it with the flamewar comments and political battle comments on HN? It's not what this site is for, we've warned you before, and if you keep doing it we're going to have to ban you. Please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.
An Analysis of Google's Patent Policies on Open Source AI Software (1)
Quantum computers and blockchain
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Looking at graphs of the DJI [1] for various timeframes over the past 5 years makes me think NTY is crying wolf.

1. https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&tbm=fin&q=INDEXDJX:+.DJI&...
> The solution furthermore is to legislate to remove the barriers to competition that California has set up.

While I think you’re generally on point, this misses the mark a bit. We don’t want more transmission lines running in CA, right? We don’t want lots of little companies increasing the risk of fire by managing lines independently and the one that’s losing then doesn’t have the means to maintain those lines.

We might want competition at the generation point, but the transmission lines should be a monopoly. What needs to be fixed on the transmission is that there should not be a profit in maintaining them, bc the profit comes from lack of maintenance. The last three disasters caused by PG&E, can basically be boiled down to a maintenance problem, or lack of.

All the transmission lines and maintenance should be transferred to the state, and the profit motive, by not maintaining the infrastructure properly, be removed.

Again, competition in power generation (and storage) is good, competition in transmission is bad.
Inside of Google's Continuous Integration
As an iOS engineer, I remember reading that OpenCV is a few TIMES slower than alternatives like Core Image.

I wish OpenCV made use of the GPU and vector hardware on phones. Is there an alternative to OpenCV that does?
Yeah it is an attempt to correlate genes to geography with far more precision than actually existed and assumptions that populations were hermetically sealed when they weren't. Regional classifications are often even worse in GIGO associations from what I heard with trying to distinguish between say Dutch, Polish, German, and Swiss. It brings to mind sarcastically asking questions about connections to long gone civilizations that nobody really identifies as. How many people globally are Scythian? Babylonian? Carthaginian? Sumerian? Minioan?

It brings to mind the 'smartass genie' technically most accurate way of classifying blackness by just including a count of melanin producing genes.
Your area also has the highest rates of compulsory mental health hospitalization in Europe. To do so in the US would likely not be constitutional.
The shoddy build quality, plus lack of microSD & heaphone jack means I will never buy a Pixel or other Google branded hardware.

My friends seem to get a year or so before the SoC desolders from the motherboard, causing the device to bootloop, or the battery fails, or one of a million other things. Among us, there are a few dozen Pixels that are unusable due to their hardware defects.

Meanwhile, both of my old Galaxy S4's is going strong, and ditto for all but one of my LGs (one had its charge controller start smoking, LG repaired it).
After they revised the size of the machine its volume increased by two orders of magnitude and its power density fell to 0.5 MW/m^3. This is 40x worse than the power density of a PWR primary reactor vessel (and 200x worse than the power density of the PWR core proper.)
Everyone who's family has lived in North America for more than a few generations has at least some of both European and African ancestry. This means, that of these people, "black" Americans have European ancestors, and "white" nationalist Americans have African ancestors. We're all mutts, there's no "pure" anyone... just pure human.

Ancedotally: I'm an SAR member with non-tanning skin but have European, African and Asian/native American genes.

The conclusions: races are illusions and racism is completely idiotic. There are bigger things to worry about or look down on than which flavor of human a person ticks checkboxes for identity politics games.

Questions: Let's be honest, what is "diversity?" And then, why do organizations claim to be diverse when they either hire people that all look like them or hire only people that think or believe as do they? Isn't that the opposite of "diversity," but exclusive monoculture or groupthink?
Much of this article is about appearance because our ancestry defines it. I bet most readers would have found a picture extremely relevant to the article.
> If that's the key insight you could do SSSS before any actual digital computers were built

The time window between Gödel's incompleteness theorems and the first digital computers seems to be roughly 1931 to 1946 (if you count ENIAC as the first). That very, very closely overlaps with the Second World War--and even the years before the war were treated by many governments as exactly that, years to prepare for war. I suspect that would put a damper on publishing any interesting results in cryptographic techniques, though to be fair, there is also no evidence that anyone secretly, independently invented SSSS during that period or during the 24 years afterward.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18496870
Curious how many of the "signals" they used were simply detecting LIBOR lies.
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It’s not that much when you consider the size of the airport and the amount of video people now watch between Netflix, YouTube and FaceTime. You can burn through 1GB and hour with ease, so that’s really only 15,000 video hours of you want to think about it that way. I’d guess on a normal day SFO hosts at least 100,000 people.
He got promoted because he was replaceable. This is an art-form to cultivate if you want to be promoted yet be good at your job.
It's not a dupe by HN's standard because that submission didn't get significant attention.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
Isn't one theory of granting a government monopoly franchise that it allows pooling of risks related to that activity? PG&E is, in some sense, the government's insurance plan.

Other general liability insurance is now priced for damages that cannot be assigned or recovered. But "no fault fire insurance" would shift cost from the government-backed-utility-rate-pool to private insurers.

It's hard to imagine that such a shift would be more efficient, in part because PG&E is in the best position to assess its own risk -- and buy its own insurance and reinsurance.

Surely, somewhere in the utility, someone bought a SwissRe or Loyds policy against freak catastrophic loss.
I lived in NYC for five years and the decline in metro service was significant between 2016-2018. From most reports, it was due to faulty switches or expiring subway cars.

Fast forward to living in Tokyo, the difference is night and day (except for the rush hour crowdedness). Maintenance is done every night (somewhere) and all lines shut down between 12 and 1 am. It's super inconvenient, and this is where I applaud NYC for allowing me to get home every late night I spent out. I would hope there's some middle-ground in there, though.

The MTA is looking at this in such a primitive manner, though. I know (from my time there) that track work is not efficient. It looked to be a lot of sit and wait until something is ready. Tokyo metro workers are _always_ doing something. It's almost if they have clear defined goals that they must accomplish before their day starts.
It does matter though. If the cost of road wear was added to the products that caused them those products would become more expensive and sell less. Suddenly there's an incentive for Potato Inc. and friends to figure out how to transport such that there's less wear etc.
You're missing the point.

You cook meat the vast majority of the time. This massively reduces the risk of foodborne illness.

Lettuce on the other hand, is eaten raw. As a sibling comment mentioned, at best lettuce gets a rinse, if that.

So while the source isn't actually the lettuce itself, lettuce is the perfect carrier. This is why produce is the source of half of US food poisonings, while meat and poultry only cause 22[0]. You can get pedantic about the original source, but from the end consumer's perspective this does not matter one iota. It doesn't really matter much whether or not the ecoli on your lettuce grew there, or was deposited by cow feces, it matters that there's ecoli on your freaking lettuce.

0. https://www.vox.com/2015/3/6/8158289/food-poisoning
As someone who occasionally gets downvoted for reasons I don't understand, would you mind elaborating on what you find flame-ish about the GP?

AFAICT, the post contains hyperbole, but its main thesis seems worth discussing. Even if it's just to conclusively refute it.
I think it may be because I grew up playing classical music, but I can't stand listening to it while trying to focus on anything. I find it far too distracting, there is just too much going on in the music.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18498646
Yeah, plus you don't incur the health risks associated with dangerous coffee.
> but it is precisely because of the 'fanatics' that it is so

People fought for the freedoms in our democracies with their lives, and killing others. That doesn't mean we have to keep doing these things. I understand that it was a fight to get here. But it's not like we will lose it all again if an indie dev like me writes proprietary software.

> You will be asked why fman is proprietary from time to time

I'm not just "asked". I'm told it's shit for the mere fact that it's proprietary.

> You're free to ignore them

They're not just ignoring me. They take time out of their day to actively hurt my product by downvoting or commenting in the nice way I described above.

> if fman itself was GPLed, you'd see an uptick it sales, not any downturn

I talked to the author of a once very popular Mac app for developers. He open sourced it under the GPL. Sales went down by 90% over night. So, while I am with you and would love for fman to be open source, it simply is not viable.
Support Lifecycle for Clang/LLVM, Go, and Rust
"California the land of sky high housing & rent, insane deadly forest fires, homelessness like no other state, landslides, earthquakes... it just doesn't sound very appealing."

This is just sample bias. California is the size of NY all the way down to Florida.

If something bad happens on the west coast it has a 60% chance of being in CA but if it happens on the east coast it could be in VA, MD, DC, FL, GA, SC, NC, WV, DE
The funny thing is the SoC in these smartphones can totally run Linux & Darwin, but the driver support for the peripherals is shovelware. Vendors do the bare minimum to suppprt the hardware, and you get a mess.

Its frankly shocking that the Allwinner A10/A20/A64 (which can run Win10!) /H3/H5/H6 has nearly complete mainline kernel support, whereas nearly any of the smartphones made since 2008 can't boot mainline Linux and drive their cameras, screen, GPS, etc. Its a huge failing of the industry.
They should try instead to copy Apple.

And make very nice hardware....
Prions aren't even living. Prions don't do what they do to survive. It isn't like cancer which is somehow, very ironically, trying to survive. They are a simple mistake, a ghost in the machine of the programming of life. That somehow makes prions the scariest thing there is to me: the lack of a reason.
Romaine lettuce is less nutritious, more expensive and make you fart more than spinach. The last part is what made me stop buying Romaine for good.
Public transport in Singapore is privatised (well less of it has been as of last year) and it's the cheapest, cleanest, and most reliable system in operation today.
About to go in cosmic terms would mostly mean not earlier than a millennium.
SFO had 55.8 million passengers in 2017 so around 150k/day on average.
The ideological rhetoric. It wasn't a thoughtful comment, which is what we want here.

In case it's helpful: people sometimes think that we enforce this standard because we're uncomfortable with intensity and only want (say) a nice and civil bourgeois discussion. And they make legitimate objections to constraining discussion for this reason. But it isn't our reason at all. Rather, it's because of the systemic effects such comments have on a large public forum like HN. Experience teaches that they lead rapidly to lower-quality threads, in which people drop thoughtfulness, start to yell, and eventually just try to blast and hurt each other. Since the whole point of HN is to try to sustain a higher quality level on the internet, we have to moderate such comments rigorously.

So when we moderate HN, we're not thinking so much of the specific comment we're replying to, but what that type of comment leads to. I don't usually explain this because, as you can see from this post here, it takes too long.
If his attempt was to disappear with something really valuable, he would've left for Beijing without leaving a note, and let their lawyers having fun persuading Air China to detain him on arrival.

It amazes me that in this day and time, some naive rich people genuinely believe of some piece of code can simply magically make money out of thin air (while some look to do so, what they do is a banal spread trading without realising it.) Quants people... they have that habit of puffing an air of mystique around themselves, but when you read their technobabble you can't hold yourself from laughing.

I met a number of such, all claiming some bizarre "supersophisticated" strategy, but even with a level of math availing me, a half baked engineer wannabe, I can't not to notice their math being junk, to the point of it having banal arithmetic errors. Sometimes, they resemble me the crazy guys who are trying to invent perpetuum mobiles - people in that cult-like subculure are not dumb for sure, engineers and mathematicians, but all having trouble with thermodynamics, all thinking that it must me them to find a hack for the first law.

How much of quant thing is RNG, and how much is just a cover for insider trading, think yourself. A man like PdP, may have much more reasons to go after Xu just for suspicion of him getting an idea of how his business was actually making money https://offshoreleaks.icij.org/nodes/12016846
This is clickbait based on old news. The MTA hired an unconventional transportation turn-around guru. It's going to take time to make things better.
I don't know about the others, but Hong Kong's system has far fewer stops and is mostly cheaper (it's distance-based and exceeds New York's flat fee at the high end) than New York's. The reliability difference rings true, though.
> It's worrying that something of this quality resonates with people.

I wouldn't be worried about that. Just because people are reading it doesn't mean they are agreeing with the conclusion. It's all just stuff to think about.

Where it becomes worrying is when people vote for something of that quality.
2017: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14155533
This post vaulted to the HN front-page shortly after I posted it, but now is nowhere to be found.
I found https://serveo.net as a good alternative to ngrok since it requires no signup, no installation and provides a custom subdomain for free.