skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I’m an adult and I do that. I watch them because I’m trying to get better at the game and watching what better players do helps.

I’ve also watched people play through games to see if I want to buy them.

There’s a few twitch streamers I’ll sometimes watch because I think they’re funny or whatever but that’s closer to like listening to talk radio than watching sports.
In many other eras these two would be dead. Can you imagine a couple farmers in the 1200s with planning this shitty?

Instead, modern society has provided Tom and Kate with stable upbringings, solid graduate-level education, good jobs, readily accessible resources, and even a mini bail-out of their own.

I get that this is an outlier case, and am not arguing that this story supports libertarianism. But surely this story is not by itself an argument AGAINST capitalism.

If Tom and Kate can’t be expected to exercise even a modicum of agency and self-control, then most people are just automatons in dire need of a nanny state ruled by a philosopher-king.
That is possible. However the segment of users you might have in mind would get the MacBook Air -- in my opinion.

The "Pro" branding implies battery, horsepower and ergonomics. Something Apple consistently failed to deliver ever since they peaked with the MacBook Pro 2015.
I can't name a country that's a "good" country in that area. Egypt, Iran, Jordan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Syria, Iraq etc all are essentially dictatorships, one way or another.

Now can we agree that the West has interests over there? War is bad for energy prices. So we have to support one side. We can use leverage to push for some change but honestly, leave the Saudis and China will fill in the gap. Then you have zero leverage.
I think nobody knew what being a media company in the internet age meant. For another example, see AOL/Time-Warner. Being a media company was perceived (and compensated) as more valuable than a tech company. Just the opposite of the perception now.
This victim mentality (we are victims of the immune rich) is not helpful to society, especially since it isn't true. Bernie Madoff and the Enron executives absolutely were prosecuted. But you have to actually break the law to go to jail in the US. Being immoral and unethical, being sociopatic and manipulative isn't illegal. Those characteristics aren't limited to rich people, either, they are just the most visible people.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccination_and_religion

> Christian Science selectively rejects various forms of medical care including vaccination.[14][15] The Congregation of Universal Wisdom, a religion based on belief in chiropractic spinal adjustments and Universal Intelligence, forbids vaccinations
Some Orthodox Protestants claim it interferes with 'divine providence'.

If an animal is used at any process in production, some Buddhists will argue it goes against the precepts. Some vaccines are grown in chicken eggs so there's some basis for arguing the manufacturing process takes a life.

As far as I know, those are the only remotely valid claims that vaccines violate a religion's beliefs aside from Christian Science.
> The one thing I wonder while reading the article is how they managed to figure out where the elevator was if it was in a blind shaft

Can't the technicians just open any of the outer lift doors and have a look?
> Why on earth would you not want to pay a better qualified teacher more?

Maybe I'm misreading what the parent said (and got downvoted like crazy for). My interpretation of it was an indictment of the teachers unions, where someone who comes in with a background like his teacher had (serious industry experience) is going to get bottom of the barrel pay because of the lack of seniority etc.

I absolutely think someone with that kind of experience should be able to make good money as a teacher, even if they're teaching grade 10 physics. There's also some amazing teachers who came into the career through the traditional path that should be making way more than they are.
> Ps how do you get a 4 year old to lie still in an mri ?

I’m curious about this, as well. Could it have biased the results at all by finding kids who were able to sit still and focus long enough to get measurements from the FMRI machine?

Also, a sample size of 27 doesn’t seem sufficient, though maybe it is for a study like this.
Any idea about how well Flutter would integrate with C/C++? As in, using Flutter for the UI and having callbacks to C++.
And what did the professor make of your excuse for missing class?
How Long Can People Live?
What Was the Cold War Space Race? United States and the Soviet Union
My inconsequential guess is that he only not launched it yet because (i) he thinks the technology he uses matters more than the product and (ii) he is building features that should not be included in the first version.

I was able to launch my side-project (the for-profit bootstrapping biz type), a web app, in 7 months even being a junior frontend developer.

I chose the tech with the sole criteria of how easy it would be for me to build it (I went with Ember, that I use on my day-job, and Rails).

And the whole time I was constantly thinking hard about a feature and then realizing "I don't need that for now...". I then would write the feature idea in a card on my backlog (a Github's project board) and move on to the next important feature.

What I guess is making so hard for him is not the diligence, commitment or motivation, but the product decisions he has to make (and I speculate he is making the wrong ones).
After a review of the course materials I'm not sure what makes this course 'Advanced'.
> Why is it impossible to parallelize this?

One of the mentioned articles touches on this:
http://utaharch.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-dram-refresh-tutorial...

> Upon receiving a refresh command, the DRAM chips enter a refresh mode that has been carefully designed to perform the maximum amount of cell refresh in as little time as possible. During this time, the current carrying capabilities of the power delivery network and the charge pumps are stretched to the limit.

I guess: it's actually hard to deliver power to refresh all the bits at once? Also note that ancient cpus like Z80 had the memory refresh machinery built into CPU as opposed to memory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_refresh

> What's the cause of the 3200ns+ readings?

No idea. Random noise? Timing interrupt? Some peripheral doing DMA transfer? Kernel context switch? System Management Mode?

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

Feel encouraged to run the code and try to debug it!
Obligatory: What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory

From 2007, but still almost entirely relevant.

https://lwn.net/Articles/250967/
It seems the only survivors will be MBAs and lawyers...
Actually, it was a tasteless joke on my part.

>Well that is the usual way of getting kids in an MRI.

Wait, is chloroform still used as anaesthesia?
I believe Apple just did this with their new MacBook & MacBook Pro. Closing the lid physically disengages the microphone.

Edit: Source[1] and also to say that I suppose Apple's solution only gets us halfway to your suggestion. There's still no way to physically disengage the microphone (or Camera, for that matter) when the laptop is open. It's a step in the right direction, at least.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/apple-macbook-air-and-2018-m...
I this is actually true and feasible, this has immense implications. Imagine mirror powered airplanes.
The I/O shields behind the PCs don't fit well, can cut you and are really bad design. Glad that new (premium?) motherboards have them integrated. https://laurentschoice.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/io-1.j...
The truth about a no-deal Brexit – Britain and the EU
Yep: https://blog.metaobject.com/2015/04/model-widget-controller-...
The Municipality of Tirana Migrates to LibreOffice
You're right. It took me over 5 years from the moment I assembled this PC to the moment I found the mistake ;)

Anyway, I don't think that anyone would actually think that I worked on this for 3 years. But when applied to software (to which this story lead me), I often hear "it took them 3 years to fix this". It's pretty much the same here. The bug was there, it caused serious issues (also with other systems), I applied various random workarounds and I spent a lot of time on it and yet, it got fixed by an accident much much later.
Flutter is built on top of Skia, so there is some kind of integration there.
EHD/EAD Electrogravitics Researches and Experiments (J. Naudin)
Again, as someone who does not completely grok QUIC I am not dismissing it. I was hoping if some parameters were not exposed work would be put toward making these available through existing interfaces.
No, it worked out of the box on the 15" model.

The GPU must have a HDMI 2.0 output for 4k@60, and this is usually not present on all but the most recent laptops, producing the 30 Hz limitation.

On the other hand, DisplayPort 1.2 supports 4k@60. This is built into the Thunderbolt 2 ports on Macs, so as long as the GPU supports DP 1.2 it will work.

On my MBP (15"), the DP(Thunderbolt) + HDMI ports are wired directly to the Nvidia GPU.
Parent mentioned his computer only had the Intel Iris graphics (13" model), which apparently can't do 4k@60 (so my previous comment was incorrect :( ).
There can be an open door to an empty shaft when the elevator is undergoing maintenance. This happens sometimes in the high-rise building where I work. Normally the area around the open shaft is blocked off with some kind of barrier during maintenance, but I suppose that the mechanics could forget to put up the barrier out of negligence or someone could disregard the barrier and walk past it. It's also possible that the people who fall into the shaft are the elevator mechanics themselves rather than passengers.
Grassland expansion–not human hunting–drove ancient African extinctions
OK, can you just buy a solar heating panel? You and your best friend can install it...depending on location you can easily get hot water for 6-10 months a year. That's quite a savings. You don't have to solve everything today ;)
I find it funny how people treat companies. To me the Yellow Pages, Yahoo, and Facebook are all almost the same 'thing' for a lack of a better word.
Yeah, but they don't really seem to work well at all. A friend of mine who works in IT bought a bunch of these to test for work laptops, according to him they are all basically crap, with maybe one or two half decent. And they don't have the handy charging light indicator either, like on the old magsafe.
How many minutes are you off task per day?
>calorie restriction in rats increased lifespan, sometimes by as much as 50%.

Important distinction to be made:

1. Calorie restriction that significantly increases the lifespan compared to the typical lifespan.

2. Calorie restriction increasing the healthy lifespan and helping individual to live longer (avoiding diseases and healthy ageing).

The first type effect seems to have inverse relation to the size or typical lifespan of the animal. Very long increase of lifespan for C. Elegans, significant increase in mice, much smaller effect on humans. You can't expect to to get 50% improvement and live to 130 years with calorie restriction.
This is definitely a risk. There are valid needs to wanting to resume a connection as it hops between gateways, but I definitely see abuse for this. The identifier doesn’t necessarily tie you to a location or name, but once you can associate that it is a risk.
That's because other UDP based protocols don't have tcp like sequence numbers or other anti-spoofing measures. Quic has a source address token that makes it hard to spoof.
A WebRTC "RTCDataChannel" is an SCTP-over-DTLS-over-UDP stack, and webservers exist to stream to these. They're just mostly proprietary, existing as part of vertically-integrated stacks like that of Google Hangouts (i.e. its "app sharing" feature.)
I'm about halfway to launching a side project (I seem to be close than 50%, but there's always the 90-10 rule).

It's been fun. I've been writing the backend in rust, using squire for storage, and actix-web for the server framework. The front end is plain html without a lick of js. And my css is really just compiled scss.

I'm happy to report I've only engaged in a small bit of yak-shaving (writing a custom derive for defining APIs I need to hi from my backend for integration purposes) and only a small bit of framework churn (I switched web server frameworks because I wanted an abstraction that wasn't ergonomic/available in the initial one i had chosen).

And it's been fun. The best part is that even if it flops, my wife and I will still use it.

Edit: I've only been at it for a couple months
My HS AP Bio teacher (2008) told me one of his college professors did this to cure his wife's cancer back in the mid-2000s. While very effective, this method depends on a customized approach unique to each patient, which is why this isn't standard practice ten years later.
For me, it's easy to complicate things by saying "for this side project I'm going to learn new thing X" -- using 'learning something new' to help justify the time spent, but usually screwing up the project as a result.
Sort of true. It is indeed the case that, at least in the US, the cost of the cells is a minor part of the cost of a rooftop solar array. You’re missing one detail, though: a lot of the costs you’re describing scale with the area of the array — the costs of mounting, wiring, sealing roof penetrations, shipping, physically hauling the panels to the roof, etc. are all related to the number and size of the panels. If you can shrink the array by a factor of 3, it makes a big difference.

I’ve read that the economics may already be close to favoring multi-junction cells for this reason, and they’re nowhere near 90% efficient, nor are they cheap.
Vaping alcohol in a balloon is a new way people are getting wasted now
You can't claim that a high-speed line between Boston, Providence, CT cities, NYC, Philly, and down to Washington is not sensible. For many other states like Illinois, where there's one big city without much else near it, yes it's sensible to not have a great network of rails. However, there is really no geographic excuse for not having high-speed rail in the basically linear east coast corridor.

Having traveled many times from Boston to NYC via car, which is about 5x cheaper than Amtrak and yes actually comparable in cost to the bus, depending on your MPG, it's kind of ridiculous to me that we don't have a better version of Amtrak by now.
> that help and support can begin in prison

Could begin in prison. In most countries' prisons, including in the US and most of Europe, it can't.
If Sono Motors' Sion lives up to its description, it's approaching usable for commuting using only solar power.

https://sonomotors.com/sion.html/#st-viSono

Edit: Ah, this car is mentioned in the article. Good!
My understanding of the Model-View-Adapter pattern is that the adapter is the dependant of both the view and the model, which are disjoint objects. The diagram shown here has the arrow inverted between the adapter and the view, and the author mistakenly assumes it is isomorphic to the MVVM pattern. This might seem nitpicking, but it's an important distinction. In the MVA pattern, the adapter is the only thing that knows about both the model and the view, ensuring that the two are cleanly separated.

The MVA pattern is underused. People have a tendency to make their views dependant directly on the model, or vice-versa, and often don't keep a clean separation.
People don't work that way. For example, I suspect some will decide to hold out for higher money.

http://freakonomics.com/2013/10/23/what-makes-people-do-what... gives a well-known account of how monetary incentives don't always work, in that case with late fees for parents who are tardy picking up their children from day care.

> The picture that emerged from this experiment, co-authored with Aldo Rustichini, was that parents had a whole set of non-financial incentives for being on time – incentives that were completely incompatible with money. Like, for example, avoiding the guilt of inconveniencing the day care workers. As soon as parents had the option to pay a small fine and avoid that guilt, they took it en masse.
A carbon nano tube antenna that is capable of working at infra-red frequencies have been around a few years, thats fairly simple[1]

The hard part was finding a diode/rectifier that was capable of running at terahertz frequency. I cant see how this rectifies. I assume its to do with the layout: https://l0dl1j3lc42iebd82042pgl2-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-...

If they are not telling porkies, then this is a wondrous breakthrough. (assuming the nanotubes are UV stable.)

[1] 1/2 wavelength conductor, which is possible with carbon nanotubes
Are people still doing menial tasks that can be automated by computers? Yes? Then there is a shortage of people who can code.

You wouldn't argue against people learning math just because there are billions of people who can add numbers at $15 / hour. The point of teaching kids to code is not to make them all professional software engineers but to give them basic skills to automate the boring stuff. If that makes a greater pool of people who can do machine learning or whatever the current shortage is, then those skills can be used to solve more problems than just targeting ads and playing zero sum trading games.
Reminds of the saying "You can own 100% of nothing or 10% of something big."

When partnering with a distributor like IKEA, and considering they've sold ~500K of these prints, a "cheap" royalty can be very lucrative.
At some point, there has to be a standard to which roofs are built (including wiring and power ports) such that you can just buy shingles and put them in or replace from the inside. Just cut the middle men and installation costs.
You make good points, but accuse the gp of not reading the article and talk about post scoring, both of which are against guidelines.
The malware example would be you have limited sandbox space, so you have some first phase detections before doing the more expensive dynamic analysis.

For mail classification you could use ML on non-spam messages and flag them as suspicious. Then that signal could be corroborated by volume, being sent by multiple senders in volume, or a user manually classifying content matching that as spam. While ML can't give perfect true positive and false positive rates, it can be combined with other signals.
>Right, it's only been on the childhood vaccine schedule for 10 years. Most people don't know that nor that there's even a vaccine available for it.

Indeed, this thread is how I learned there is a vaccine for it.
People with bad credit can still get jobs and rent apartments. I rent to tenants with bad credit all the time. It’s just one factor. And I’m guessing that people who are otherwise qualified getting turned down for employment due to bad or no credit is a very rare thing.

Regardless, there’s a world of difference in me considering a rental application with bad credit and the government forbidding me to rent to someone, not because of their prior ability to handle credit responsibly, but because they didn’t follow the political wishes of the government in power. I seriously can’t understand how anyone can compare them with a straight face.

The credit system (and a lot of other things) in the US is a mess, I agree. Howecer, this rampant whataboutism that’s reflexively thrown out when discussing truly horrific human rights abuses against millions or even hundreds of millions is intellectually bankrupt. It makes me worry that too many of us no longer value our freedoms enough to protect them like we should.
Yep, most of it from ads.
A more likely reason is that Google and other internet companies see internet infrastructure as an economic complement: the better and cheaper the internet is, the better and cheaper the total internet + Google services package is. That's why they do so much web performance advocacy, make their own browser, keep trying to kill off ISPs etc. Every dollar you spend on internet service is a dollar you don't spend on digital subscriptions, and every second you spend waiting for pages to load is a second you're not consuming content and watching ads.
I don't know that its specific to Amazon but more generally comes from a core ideology of abiding by concepts of free market rules to the exclusion of concepts of humanity.
Capitalism works just fine.

You can't stop everybody from self-harm, no matter what you do. This couple has already been given extra chances-- we cannot save them from themselves.
Give me a break. You don’t need good credit for the vast majority of jobs.
> The credit system is a pain, but it is also very simple to have good credit.

When I first moved to the US it was not possible for me to have any (US) credit. I had good credit in Canada, but that was mostly by accident (I had a credit card that I rarely used -- I didn't really need one in university) and it turns out that Canadian credit doesn't translate into US credit.
This is correct, and, the size of a dram "page" (which is not the same thing as a tlb page) has scaled up as memory chips have gotten larger.
My understanding is that it is usually better than nothing but not nearly as effective as well adjusted CPAP or Bilevel PAP even in relatively mild apnea.
I have a fairly strong memory of an electromechanical space docking game (Apollo command module and lander IIRC). My favourite of that type was a "sit-in" fighter aircraft simulator where you had to shoot aircraft images projected on a wide screen - the chair would turn to point at your targets on the screen.
> What matters is that your product lets people do something that they couldn't do before - or in the case of blog entries that it teaches them something they didn't know already.

Hard if you don't really know who your audience really is, e.g. if you're selecting projects based on market opportunity vs. having a skin in the game yourself.
Absolutely. I'm reacting to the display of judgy mcjudgysons on display here by the young whippersnappers who think the world was always what they started paying attention to in the last few years as they emerged into adulthood.
See https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-road-to-quic/#deflectingrefl...
Well indeed. I assume that the tubes don't grow at a uniform height, which means wide band performance.

What I don't understand is how they pair up a rectifier with each antenna so that you don't cancel out the signal due to either path/frequency mismatch.
Secure Scuttlebutt, DAT and Cabal are working p2p apps that can help expose you to the way things can work. Personally, I wrote frontends for two of those and it's helped me understand them better. These are all written in Nodejs, though.

There's a nice p2p and kappa database primer here: https://github.com/kappa-db/workshop
If you operated such a hut outside the jurisdiction of the US, it doesn't matter what laws the US has, they don't apply to you.

I don't know what a 'hut' is in this context, but if it's connected to the USD payment system, not only can the long arm of the U.S. try to apply itself, but the said hut can be cut off via pressure on the international banking system. For the former, see the links I sent, which includes a case about New York State applying laws to an overseas entity; for the former, consider Iran and sanctions.

If your hut consists of a person shuffling US currency around with thumbs and rubber bands, well, that's a different story.
I'm in no way defending the meddling with Iran. I'm just pointing out the situation now.
> "how do I make this into a program?".

This! It looks unbelievably promising, but still very much a work in progress, with no deploy-able examples. Can't wait to see what it turns into though
I wonder if an app can be built, so that when above normal people are dying in a place a well funded international team can be dispatched to figure out the issue as soon as possible.

So that we are able to contain mysterious virus and other such outbreaks.

Why wait till more people lose their life?
I wish there was a open source verison king like PyCharm