skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> creating a cloud for 30 minutes

I bike to work. During the local dry season (roughly April to November) I need to keep an ear out for leaf blowers on the way to work and adjust my route accordingly. Otherwise riding through one of their dust clouds is like dredging a chicken breast through flour.
Actually if you take an XOR gate with a naive translation into NAND gates you would use 20 transistors, but if you don't need a large fan out from the output you can actually do it with 6 transistors using a pass gate layout (which is neither NAND nor NOR). So typically you don't use NAND vs NOR because of transistor count.
If it makes you feel any better, examining New Zealand’s injury stats shows a large number older men mangle themselves on them. To much power, too little skill, too old.
When I interned at Microsoft I had a private office with my mentor. It was pretty great.

Although from what I heard, my team was more of exception (Security). And some were moving to an open office layout.
Leaf blowers are demonstrably faster than raking, though. So... I don't get your point.

Even more, it isn't like rakes don't have a horrible sound of their own, as soon as you get a single paved section involved.
Thank you for sharing this.

“If you want to try to connect that back to trauma,”

Guilty as charged :-)

you could say that I had a difficult time in middle school socially, but I think that's a fairly common experience”

Okay, great. This is a real thing that I can relate to. “Trauma” may sound like too big and scary of a word for something that we almost all experience to a certain degree in school. We could call it “bullying” or “social isolation due to kids being mean”, ultimately I’m referring to the same thing: some core experience of getting hurt which stuck with you for a while.

But, I would caution you not to downplay the impact of this on your development. Speaking from personal experience, downplaying the extent is very common for survivors of trauma/bullying/etc. There’s many different degrees of “difficult” time. Me, I got punched in the face in 5th grade for standing up (verbally) to the school bully. Later in high school I was socially shunned for being a small geeky kid in a big high school where I knew nobody.

That in itself wasn’t so bad, like garden variety schoolyard bullying. But for me, again only speaking personally here, the reason why I let myself get bullied at school was because I was being bullied at home. The home situation is what led to me not having the self confidence which attracted the bullies. Or rather, the occasional possibly ill advised self confidence, which is what led to me getting punched in the face.

Anyway, it sounds like you’re in a much better place now. So thanks for sharing your perspective.
I have a hard time believing bitcoin could ever replace govt issued currency as hodlers dream. The power of the printing press is too important for them to give up. Any threat to that would be dealt with.
I have not had problems with this (although I am going through my ISP's SMTP server to send, using my own SMTP server to receive; if you are installing Exim by the Debian package manager, select "smarthost" from the menu to enable this function)

(Also, I use multiple email addresses on my computer, although all of them are my own; I do not host any email for anyone else, although you can just as well use the same software to host email for other people too.)
There is just as much "ugh" in saying that it was about slavery instead of state's rights. Either way, you're leaving out important things. This misleads by oversimplification.

You'd be better off saying it was about geography! There is a band of soil running along today's black belt that is unusually good for growing certain labor-intensive crops, particularly cotton. That lead to a non-industrial economy. Meanwhile, water power to operate machinery was widely available in New England.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Belt_(U.S._region)

So right off, you have a huge conflict over things like tariffs, and you'd have that even without adding the issue of slaves. The north preferred to have tariffs on manufactured goods, and the south preferred to have them on raw materials. The "state's right" in question was actually the nullification of a tariff.

BTW, the usual story about slavery in the USA also leaves out the awkwardness of stuff like this slave owner:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Johnson_(colonist)
That has always seemed like such an odd and obvious bit of sophistry to me. States' right to do do what now?
As someone with a lot of experience with opioid withdrawal, it seems that you will experience the polar opposite of the better than baseline feelings. The times you use builds up a kind of debt that you will need to pay back.

Key to making it through the paying back the piper is faith. Trust that your body is far more intelligent than you and it has all the answers to making yourself healthy again. Both physically and mentally.
"Patronizing stench" is not a fair phrase to direct at someone on HN, and I've replied to it. But there's still a difference, it seems to me. Your comments have been the ones sort of inducting this thread in a generally flamewarrish direction. That's understandable when strong views meet strong feelings meet strong experiences, and easy to fall into without fully realizing. This is provocative territory for a lot of us. But HN is lucky to have a user like phren0logy show up to offer his obviously relevant experience on the topic, and if other users respond by somehow questioning his choice of profession, that's a move that's unlikely to lead to better discussion.

The best ways I know of to avoid this are to stick to describing one's own experience and to look over one's comment several times for anything unduly personal. It can sneak in in a lot of ways.
Sir Jeffrey Hudson, a 17th century court dwarf who was served in a pie
Due to their lawsuit with FB in the USA. I imagine those documents were obtained by court order. Pretty bold move by the UK gov. Looking forward to the leakage of said documents.
I think we understand those comparisons. The comparison that is missing, and where experience seems to be lacking with practitioners due to its how it has become structured, is doing therapies without harmful medications - that for many people have extremely negative side-effects, withdrawal symptoms - that some would argue cause more permanent problems/changes.
How do you support the statement "It goes up 5-10x, then crashes to roughly 2x where it started, stays still for a while, and then repeats"? It was flat for a long time, it rapidly peaked at somewhere north of 19k, and has been on a fairly steady decline for most of the past year, with occasional price spikes.

If what you say was true, the price would be rising. Which it's not.
Is CG really ruining movies? (2015)
Student loan debt not being dischargable through bankruptcy is relatively recent; the increase in tuition has been going on for a lot longer than that. Even if the step you advocate is taken, US federal student loan guarantees will continue to have a large effect on tuition rates.
Last week, I got hit by a car while riding my bicycle. You won't believe in how many colors an upper arm can shine. Anyhow, I took a picture of the arm, shared it to a friend on WhatsApp and promptly got a newsletter from Pinterest promoting tattoo posts. I do not have the Pinterest app on my phone, barely use it otherwise and would never search for tattoos since I'm just not interested.

I've been trying to find out since then where and how Pinterest might have gotten my blue/red/yellow/green arm picture from to analyze it, interpret it and link it to my account. They might be able to search my friend's phone's pictures (in case he's got the app which I'm not sure) and link the picture back to my account. Spooky though.
>Apple's biggest claim to fame in the last few years has been defending users' privacy.

The vast majority of Apple's buyers don't know or don't care about privacy. To assert "this is their biggest claim to fame" is ludicrous.

>It is in their best interest to be as transparent about this as possible

This is still the only argument for Apple that I've ever seen. They maybe aren't doing this, because maybe it doesn't make business sense for them, and maybe we could detect it if they were. Nothing about this is solid; for me it's just wishful thinking.

>any revelation that they are publicly saying X and privately doing the opposite is going to completely tank them as a company

Literally hundreds of companies have been caught doing the exact same thing and next to none of them have "tanked".

>Especially while at the same time going so far as implementing many security and privacy features like [...] Secure Enclave.

The Secure Enclave is an unauditable chip running god knows what software. Completely outside your control; someone else has the power to dictate what it does and doesn't do. The notion of paying money for my device and having it subject to the control of someone else is... like buying a car with my own money and having it be controlled by someone else.
The Saudis are returning the cash back into the country.. not fearing confiscation anymore.
These replies to my comment are super weird. I'm reading them collectively as, "I don't see how the influx of millions and millions of dollars of investment capital would have an effect on housing prices."

Well, okay, I guess. How many houses do you think need to be built to satisfy the investment needs of everyone looking to outperform the S&P 500? For extra credit, realize that this means that every metropolitan market is now an international investment vehicle.
> The fact remains that as a whole the Union still had slaves, and that didn't change for the entirety of the Civil War.

If you believe in rule of law, this makes complete sense. They had no way to outlaw slavery without an amendment.

> My point is there's obviously things going on here other than just a war to end slavery, and it's important not to downplay that either.

It is true that the USA would have held onto slavery a little longer without succession. But the South read the writing on the wall, it was going to be outlawed sooner or later, so they decided to rebel.

The South wouldn't have succeeded if slavery wasn't in danger of going away, the Union wouldn't have fought the South if the South hadn't succeeded. But yes, slavery was the cause of all of this, even if indirect.

> FWIW, I'd call Seattle "the West".

My white Vicksburg classmates called me a yankee even though I was born out west, it didn't matter if Washington wasn't even a state at the time. As long as I had that standard midwestern accent (the one that the west and midwest basically have), the west not being the north wasn't relevant. (Ironically enough, my friends from Boston were even more racist than my southern white friends, but that is a story for another time)
One possible reason is they might want each microservice to be a separate security domain. So that if one microservice is compromised, attackers cannot use credentials stolen from that microservice to control other microservices.
It's the sheer ingenuity of effects like this that impress me to this day. You couldn't just come up with a concept and poot it out in CGI from the bureau render farm. It took a real understanding of the medium and the camera, and when manual animation was needed, a lot of blood and sweat.
How is this different from the Magnus effect?
Interstate noncompetes are unenforceable in California. See Application Group, Inc. v. Hunter Group, Inc (1988).

Also, one could argue that enforcing a noncompete nationally, would be regulating interstate commerce, and thus the pervue of the federal government. There is no federal noncompete law.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-compete_clause
The heat map in this article is hard to read/understand.

First, it shows Boston Harbor and Mystic River as water, but I can't find the Charles River, which makes it really hard to figure out what is where.

Second, the intensity at each point in the map with a survey response seems to be fixed to the exact value at that point, and then between points there's some sort of averaging taking place. In 2D charts, this would be like drawing a jagged line connecting each point to the points next to it.

For example, if I live at 1 Main St and I responded with a value of 10, and you live at 2 Main St (across the street) and gave it a 0, the map would deep red at my house, deep blue at your house, and yellow in the middle of the street.

Some parts of the heat map are broad regions of red or blue. Are those places where there was broad agreement in the poll? Or -- as I suspect -- are those just places where only a few people responded to the poll?

Other parts of the map are chaotically speckled with small blue and red dots. I figure this is because there are more survey responses in those places (it seems responses are clustered around the Red Line, and especially in Cambridge & Somerville). It's confusing to read, and I'm not sure what conclusions I can draw from it. I doubt there's this much fine variation between one block and the next with regard to leaf blower annoyance; but if there is, I doubt this survey or heat map accurately shows it.
That's cool! Although I'll take linear code with bunch of matrix-vector products over bunch of branches any day :-)

As you may know, where this algorithm of 2D homogeneous rasterization really shines is in how it simplifies the triangle setup by deferring the perspective-divide until later rasterizer stagee. It's tricky for cases where (w <= 0.0f) so explicit clipping/generating new vertices and handling all the additional vertex attributes is not needed. In reality, there is no mat3::inverse() or even per-vertex attribute bary calculation so it fits rather easily and elegantly to the rest of tri. setup. The original paper I link there explains greatly how for HW the gains can be even bigger.
Background on Six4Three's lawsuit against Facebook:

Is Facebook a publisher? In public it says no, but in court it says yes [7/3/2018]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17462238
SimCity Port Comparison – Super Nintendo vs. Amiga
Here's some great unedited footage from Mad Max: Fury Road, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfm4gvxNW_o
You seem to have chosen arbitrary time frames. You know that after 2013 it was stagnant for several years, right?

> then crashes to roughly 2x where it started,

I consider it to have started in the beginning of 2017, around $1k.
I worked with a guy that was at AOL during the sale to TimeWarner. Apparently, in a large layoff round, they gave everyone a check for 6 months of salary and everyone went to a bar. The party was legendary. Lay-off + cash + lots of alcohol = cops + fights + tears.
One section of this article is fairly accurate - a custodial holder of an asset (e.g. a bitcoin exchange) doesn't "own" the asset.

They have a contractual liability to the actual owner completely irrespective of any on-chain activity. It's not really even a "Bitcoin". The customer doesn't care whether they get the same Bitcoin back - they just want A Bitcoin and a legal agreement was specifically entered in to for safekeeping.

Outside of that, the majority of the article seems like someone external to a system trying to muscle their way in and exert authority over the participants in that system.

There already exists a mechanism to determine ownership in Bitcoin (e.g. "physical" Bitcoin, the cryptographic system).

A UTXO requires a puzzle to be solved in order for it to be released. This puzzle may or may not require the input of multiple parties.

The participants in that system accept this basis.

A court _cannot_ force a Bitcoin holder to give up their key except in specific cases with naive/bad key management. It is actually impossible to seize. Cooperation is required.

People can be locked in boxes, but a sole owner of a private key is the owner a priori because no legal title is required in order for them to maintain sole use.

It's literally the entire point of the system - if you revert to Men With Guns as the dispute mechanism then you may as well scrap the whole thing and use traditional banking.
In 1998, $1 was worth $1.53 (in 2018 dollars), so this transaction would feel like a $6.4B deal.
Many consider these powers to be essentially spent: they have not been exercised to any significant extent in a very long time, and since then various changes (e.g. the need to comply with the European Convention on Human Rights) have put them on very shaky ground. If he had refused to go along with the Serjeant at Arms, I suspect nothing would have happened because parliament is keen to avoid a small constitutional crisis over these powers, and to avoid losing even the power of threatening to actually use them. In particular the power to compel witnesses, documents and so on in a process that is entirely separate from the courts could conceivably breach the right to freedom of expression as protected by the ECHR.

I am surprised that he actually complied with this order, especially as the article says the documents were under a US court order restricting their dissemination/publication, but maybe what happened is the Serjeant at Arms appeared with these scary warnings, his lawyers didn't know quite what to do, so they just did what they were told even if they probably didn't have to.

It will be interesting to see what the US court makes of its order being broken due to the order of a foreign legislature.

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A source on the status of these powers: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18875266
I do not use GitHub for any of my own projects. (And I have not seen any such distracting links; maybe they are only visible if you login)
Can you describe how you reached your conclusion from the data in the spreadsheet? I don't see any of the three series correlating particularly strongly with house prices. My own pet theory is that adding the Fed's QE purchases to the graph would show stronger correlation than the series that are present.
We're are a civilization of people that can't maintain proper tire pressure in cars. There really is no hope.
If you are not born into wealth you shouldn't be controlled by it - you should be able to get "free" education (tax based) so you wouldn't end up with a collar on your neck when you finish your studies and you should be able to get sane leaving conditions. Anything above that is "bonus" for the hard work that you put into making your live better.
Ya, I agree, it could, in a sense, be trauma. But I think my experience was not at all uncommon. I don't think I had it exceptionally bad, and given that, I find it hard to use as an explanatory variable. If almost everyone has a certain experience, but only a fraction of those people develop an addiction, what good is it at explaining the addiction?
There's a good Netscape documentary filmed during their last year leading up to the acquisition. When they were working to get the Mozilla source code released.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Q7FTjhvZ7Y
monies paid, one presumes
> I can't, that's my point we need to provide good opportunities for people of all abilities, not just for the smartest

I agree, I was talking about affordability. You can be super smart, but if you're 2/3 as smart and also rich, you're still likely to do better in life than the smart, poor kid would.
This falls under "figuring out how to regenerate beta cells."
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I see that it's now possible to buy an electric leaf blower with a backpack battery. As battery tech gets cheaper over time, it seems likely that all 2-stroke devices could become obsolete.
Or they make up the majority of your company :)

I think we're all part of this on some level.
Some addictions are more socially acceptable than others. On a continuum:

Least acceptable: Meth, heroin

Most acceptable: work (SV issue)

Middle: alcohol
To add onto this, I found it really constructive when I began to understand what was actually causing me to feel bad about being unhappy.

That is, we all have an ideal self that we aspire to, and when we don't live up to this ideal, we feel bad.

At first, I thought maybe it was NECESSARY to feel bad in order to motivate oneself to reach your ideals.

Then, I thought that it might be impossible to feel good when we reach our ideals without feeling bad when we don't. That is, maybe the two are dualistic, by nature, and inseparable.

But, as I thought more and more about my past and how children operate, I became convinced that it's not natural to judge/chastise yourself when you don't live up to your ideals. For me, it's primarily a trained behavior that resulted from judgmental parenting styles -- think, a parent making a child thinking they are a 'bad boy' when they've done something wrong.

It's entirely possible to feel good about yourself when you reach your ideals without feeling bad when you don't -- it just takes a bit of rewiring. If you have any doubt, spend some time around children and you'll see that humans are naturally incredibly resilient to failure -- this should include failure at being happy.
These rap songs are both funny and ring true. Please make more, and a video would be cool too :)
Honestly, that just seems like a coincidence. Do you have thoughts on how that information got transferred?
In the US, most code written by an employee is considered a “work made for hire”, and the IP devolves automatically upon the employer. This is also usually written as a clause in most freelance/consulting contracts.
> That's true, but Google is one of the companies that pushed very hard to make the current situation socially acceptable

Do you think the current situation would not have happened if Google was not there?
One is a court of competent jurisdiction ordering discovery.
The other is not.

As far as i understand (from my British friends): They generally can compel people inside the UK to produce papers, but would not otherwise have jurisdiction to order much here.

Instead, they ordered a person in the UK to produce non-UK protected documents.

So what they did here is pretty extraordinary, and if everyone didn't hate facebook, would likely cause a very serious diplomatic incident.

One of the underlying problems is that they aren't six4three's documents to produce. They are not the owner or custodian of these documents.

They simply have access under a protected set of circumstances by court order.

This is quite literally compelled espionage:
"Espionage or spying, is the act of obtaining secret or confidential information without the permission of the holder of the information."
Thank you. Could you link to some of his online pieces you like?
Seeing people flip out and want to ban free speech because of some social media nonsense

No one wants to "ban free speech". There just need to be limitations. There is no valid reason for anyone (outside of art/education) to fly a Nazi flag, doing the Hitler salute or call for putting people into gas ovens, stoning them, raping them or whatever.

Can anyone tell me which of these memes presents an existential threat to democracy and how?

Uhhh... there is this thing called "freedom of religion". Calling for "no more mosques" runs directly contrary to this. And yes, people get riled up by these "memes" so hard they'll even burn down mosques or bomb them. It happens in Germany with increasing frequency. What these memes do is create a massive anti-Muslim, anti-refugee movement that sooner or later feels entitled to violence.

Many of those people caught attacking refugee centers etc. are not classic neo-Nazis. They're ordinary citizens (http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/fluechtlingsheime-...), often radicalized by social media.