skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Of course, your concerns are valid on what installed apps can do on your machine. For HappyMac, the updates are stored in ~/HappyMac, so you can always verify what the app does. In contrast, a lot of applications perform truly silent updates, including Chrome, Firefox, etc. The admin privileges are not automatic obtained by HappyMac, but only obtained when you explicitly provide them...
Supermemo is the other one, and it uses a different algorithm. The flashcard world, I think, is pretty evenly split between the two.
I read this over 20 years ago as a teenager. Looking back, now I feel the evidence for the bicameral mind is sketchy (evidence for the bicameral brain, i.e. left-brain/right-brain even more so).

However, I'm still enamored by the idea that consciousness is somehow related to (if not generated by) a mental model of the real world: while animals can only contemplate things that are within their senses and in the present, our mental model allows us to bring far away things (and things in the past or future) to immediate awareness, and thereby be able to contemplate them.
I wrote about this in the past various times. For example here [1]. I learned about it from HN as well though.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18275494
I use them too, but note that they are not a bank, so your money is not protected, also consider Revolut
Try newsmax. A lot of products targeting older people do really well on their email lists. And the advertising is cheaper because mainstream brands won't advertise there due to the right wing and almost nutty voice of the publication.
> how do you do that out of interest?

Mount with -o noatime. The default (-o relatime) should however be good enough for most situations.
Not sure how long it will last but I still default to https://old.reddit.com/.compact

No pictures and video previews, but I actually like it that way.
I'm aware of the issue, and trying to fix it. But medium won't let me make any edits. Since I originally published the blog have been in constant touch with their support but they all seem to be away for thanksgiving. Just keep getting the error "Oops! Something happened to Medium. We’ll fix it as soon as we can."
Video about the MONIAC here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVOhYROKeu4
I'd be a counter-example. I frequently dream lucidly. But I never hear voice or see anything even remotely resembling hallucinations. I'm also one of those individuals who are not susceptible to hypnosis (I've had a professional try and fail repeatedly).
You are correct, HappyMac is open sourced at https://github.com/laffra/happymac. The license check error should simply have been a log statement. Please reinstall the app from https://happymac.app to get an updated version. As this is open source, you can also build your own version from the github sources, of course.
Really cool! I like it that the Japan generally is not given to the BS-till-you-make-it attitude of SV.

The spiritual successor to the 60s pioneering project, the Chuo Shinkansen, which is the result of proven technology developed over 30-40y continues to chugging away slowly and silently, at an estimated cost of $80B to connect Tokyo with Osaka (in '2037).

Musk's Hyperloop's on the otherhand is what you get from SV. BS vaporware, which would magically connect LA and SF at a mere $6B, with technology which hasn't even been invented yet! Even the current Shinkansen costs twice as much as this valuation (in India!).
Thanks for the explanation, that's clearer now.

Just another question, are the "middleboxes" well prepared for a massive switch towards UDP traffic? I don't know the network hardware world very well.

Also I thought TCP traffic was benefitting from hardware implementation and optimization, I guess that's also wrong.
It would have been better if you had included the reasons for your opinion...
How is your experience with them so far?
This explains a lot about S. The mystery book with an additional story in the margins and various artefacts tucked in the pages.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17860739-s
It's not really a bank but you can add funds and you manage your account online. [Referral Link] https://bit.ly/2KC8hr3
London has loads of pockets of areas where diversity is low. Not just white folks, but every ethnicity and religious background will have a pocket of low diversity in London.

I’m not saying it’s right, but it does happen.
Central Park didn't exist until 1857.
Good for you, now we know you have a set of banks in Swiss. Care to namedrop them so others can take a look as well?
Crazy to know this train appeared so early.

I'm also quite curious about the recent US regulation that was dropped about wagon weight. Could not understand how this regulation made sense.
Ah ok. The article read as if high protein (bread) flour was the default in the US.

Checking my plain and sr flour, protein content is 9% and 8.9% so seemingly a bit closer to your cake flour. Sponge flour is a thing here but I think its just finely ground, and not very common.

So that would suggest a 20%/80% mix of bread and plain flour would get closer to your AP flour.

I assume all this is because the American climate is better for producing high protein wheat? I know the Chorleywood method was developed to make bread with low protein flour, because that is what was commonly produced in the UK. Bread flour was imported from Canada, and so was in short supply post war.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chorleywood_bread_process
That's not "security by obscurity". Security by obscurity is relying on keeping the working of the combination lock secret. All cryptography depends on keeping some information secret, it's just that in good cryptography what is kept secret is relatively small and well-defined (and hard to guess).
Or https://i.reddit.com for a faster mobile view.
In fact they don't care that much if you are deemed reliable, like some state institutes, researchers, there's is a priviledged net CSTNET for those people, they don't block anything on that. They are far more lenient on English sites, presumably due to the requirement of high education level to read.

And there is a university net, it's slightly less blocked than public nets.

They've charged someone for selling VPN online, but charging users is effectively unprobable due to the sheer number,
but since Chinese laws are generally vague, judges and prosecutors are easily influenced and arbitrary on party security cases, they can always pick couple guys off to make a statement or set an example, like Sabotaging Computer Systems.
I hope your getting banned, not even mentioning the service but instead trying to force users to visit your fishy bit.ly.
The link he is referring to is: https://www.payoneer.com
Ricky Jay, American magician and actor, dies
noatime mount option
Just to add, JK Rowling said that she wrote it in the hope that one day one of her kids would find it in a thrift shop and they’d be amazed to see their mum’s name on the cover.

She wasn’t expecting to be this successful either.
China doesn’t have a good track record of policies: the pest control, the one child. One could also argue that their economy is also showing a crisis in the future.

This system if it is unstable and has side effects will probably screw up two generations at least.

The main issue I see is that people with low scores can “infect” other people’s scores. Considering this like a viral phenomenon the score will be impacted starting with family, friends, colleagues, strangers. I can’t see a solution except going the old route of “killing the nine family relations”.

I can see some kind of ghetto of low social score people doing barter and what not.

There are some contradictions like donating blood giving good score but what if for someone with a low score. There goes empathy if punished.

Or some exploits like colluding and creating cartels of increasing social score artificially.
Academics may get paid an advance for textbooks, some of which will earn out their advance, an even smaller portion of which will go to a second edition, an even smaller portion of which will make their author some serious money.

For the overwhelming majority of books published by academics that are not textbooks fewer than 5,000 will ever be printed and that’s being really generous. They’re academic books, written for academic readers and the only people who make any money on them are the publishers.
Biases exist for more reasons than biased interviewers. Within certain structures, well-meaning people doing their jobs will inadvertently propagate injustices and biases. There is evidence for this. This isn't hard.
It's amazing when you consider that this is a direct image (the first image in the article) of planets almost 200 light years away, taken from telescopes on the surface of the Earth -- something that would have made me jump up and down with excitement twenty years ago. It is now almost routine.

Also note that these planets are gas giants about 20AU away from the parent star. It's entirely possible that there are rocky planets closer to the star that might be getting occluded along with the star's light. Those may have water too.
Put an email in your HN profile, even if it’s a throwaway email so people can respond to posts like this personally. To answer your question: I weight the interviews on-site the highest, then the HackerRank, and the CV is an optimizing tool to ensure I’m not spending my time on bozos.
Have any of your friends self-published? That seems to be the way of at least possibly making some real money off of publishing a technical book, particularly if you have some added value content you can sell with it as a more expensive package, like a video course, extensive sample code or cheat sheets.
Just rode the Shinkansen last month from Kyoto to Tokyo. Very enjoyable trip, except (like everything in Japan) at my height and size (190cm/6'3") it was a tick too small. Even in the green car.

That, and the annoying foot rest which takes up most of the space in front of you whether you need it or not were the only negatives. Awesome train (although the styling of the modern noses doesn't appeal to me at all) ride. Super smooth.

If you're going to be riding, don't dawdle getting off. You're expected to be at the door ready to get off when the train stops, if you wait, you'll be encountering passengers getting on, and the train doesn't stop long at the station.

p.s. Please don't get offended that I said Japan was a tick too small for me. It doesn't have to fit me, I don't live there. I was just making an observation. :)
This is potentially semantics, but arguably 'Bitcoin' (or at least the specific bitcoin you claim to 'own') is defined by the set of rules. Thus if someone adds another rule, they are not using the same 'Bitcoin' any more. In that sense you still control it, even if everyone moves to the 'new Bitcoin', though it will now be worthless.

This does happen in practise, it is what is known as a 'fork', and things can get complicated, because generally when the rules change most people will be able to control addresses on both sides of the fork, and more confusingly, it may be possible to 'transplant' transactions from one fork to another (i.e. if you start a transfer from address A to address B on one set of the rules, anyone can also initiate the same transfer on the other set).

Another point, more specific to the example you gave, is that within the rules of bitcoin, the 'miners' who verify the transactions with a proof of work are free to choose which transactions they include. If a sufficient percentage of them choose not to include transactions from a particular address, then it becomes much slower and/or more expensive to transfer anything out of them.
OCaml Standard Library – Modernized – Unofficial
"modern American accent"? Which one is that?
Outlined: https://outline.com/ApdhMt
998, the first super-luxury apartment house on Fifth Avenue
> he water level in various chambers (with precision to fractions of a millimeter) represented stored numbers

I wonder how did they deal with thermal expansion. Maybe instead of using water at room temp they heated it to something higher and then a thermostat took care of it? But it still would be very hard to distribute heat evenly.
Please stop censoring me. I've asked and made good arguments for each of my comments and you just ignore me. You are in the wrong dang; you are the censor.
People have all sorts of crazy sounding stories, partially because so many of our memories are fake, and it doesn't cause huge issues. And if they can't realize that their problems were impacting their memories I doubt they're truly over them.
The strange postulated link between the human mind and quantum physics (2017)
The damage done to human culture by our current copyright enforcement regime is heartbreaking.

We have to means to make human cultural output accessible to unprecedented numbers of people around the world, but we don't, largely because it would interrupt the flow of money to incumbent rent-seekers.
Send me a message (email in profile) and I can do a mock interview with you and give some feedback.

Outside of technical ability I look for people skills, communication, reliability, self sufficiency.

Where are you applying? Aside from iOS what are you technical skills?
I am also suprised about GDPR because it seems that on facebook side it didn't change anythin. They added few more checkboxes and thats it. European companies had to change a lot (for better in my opinion).

Maybe thats why EU politicians are starting to be harsher about this. They feel powerless.
I’m currently writing a book, and I’ll be very impressed and happy if I get as much as $2000 for it.

This was not financially “smart” given how long I spent on it (it’s around 400 pages), but even if I was doing this for the money rather than the need to tell the story, my main financial risk isn’t piracy — its all the other highly competent writers writing better books. In fact, my desire to make it the best it can be is why it’s taking me so long…
No, it does. I am not going to post the same story on five different social networks. But I can easily have 5 different chatting clients on my phone.
Personally, not for such a tiny saving - and it's only invisible until it stops working "because NPM", and needs tinkering with to get working.
ESP32: low-cost, low-power system on a chip (SoC) series Wi-Fi and dua Bluetooth
The city blocked new housing religiously for a decade

Specific examples? (I'm a MV resident for 26 years and have seen no such examples.) There have been significant blocks against new retail (e.g. the "gorilla" campaign that killed the Home Depot at El Camino and the Americana), but not housing. There's little bare land except on the Bay side of 101.
J.P. Morgan has a date for the next financial crisis-and it's not far off
I don't know where you are getting that from, and the link I posted plainly says otherwise - could you share your source?
I want to make a comment about not being able to decide whether we are fully adopting European things or not, but I won't.

I think a part of it is that imperial units are human sized and quite useful. A pint of beer is the natural correct unit of measurement. A cm is just a bit too small for a guessed at measure, an inch or foot can be understood to be inaccurate generalisations. Metric equivalents not so much.
Road signage is a mess though. Distance: Miles, except shorter distances: Metres. Both shortened to 'm'.
Here's a short video of a train going through the station in Odawara.

https://www.dropbox.com/s/qc4nlf6p9fhbdi0/IMG_1450.m4v?dl=0
Well, I was told once that the more you expose a chip to stress-generating heat (for example running a game with a bad quality cooling fan), it drastically reduces its life span, and will also make it slower.

Apparently chips "age", but they still function because or error mitigation, which is witnessed by a performance drop.

To me it's the only explanation why I see so many computers turn slow, despite the fact that I have reinstalled them, cleaned them, etc. I argued many times against the "just put a SSD and add RAM, windows 10 is just slower", but in my mind, I just cannot explain why a newer OS becomes so much slower and memory hungry and unresponsive, even when running very basic programs.

I think there is a myth that chip will always perform exactly the same as long as they work. Chip engineering sounds much more complicated than it seems, and I cannot trust any IT support person telling me to "upgrade".

I'm sure military-grade chips have different designs and cooling requirements, which doesn't turn them into domestic/obsolete products after 3 years.
Not a bank per se but Revolut is any option perhaps.
I’m surprised by the number of Chinese phones on the supported list. Does this mean a simple OS reinstall overwrites any backdoors these phones may have, which suggests any backdoor is software related? What about hardware? Dos the new OS inhibit hardware backdoor communications?
"This diagram gives us a sense of the biases of each of the providers and how sensitive they are. Higher values for TP and TN are better. Values for FN and FN should be as small as possible."

I suppose this should read "FP and FN" instead of "FN and FN".
Why do you trust the VPN more than you trust Tor?
One really needs two sleeping bags on a trip like this. One +10°C and one 0°C. When combined, you can survive -10°C. Those take less room than regular +5°C bag.

BTW nothing is worse than one (too warm) bag on a multi-season trip. You'll get skin problems, because of constant sweating and itching and scratching.
And then you add [1] this - Facebooks ability to access WhatsApps files on iOS from any other app in their “family”.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18479567
Or, if moon's gravitational pull flips the bits.
Thanks. I sure hope you are right and it will not (and never) end up in the official system, and that all the articles mentioning it are just speculating or sensationalising their story.

To me, as a lay man reading about all that is planned already, it does not seem all that far-fetched to see this being implemented soon. But as you rightfully say: it's the facts that count.
I agree with you on both points, but your comment has no supporting arguments. That's not a good way to discuss anything.
Why wizards often get into the sheep business
Not so much the rich as like social security the cost caps out fairly low. Save on the low end ~100$ to high end ~500$ a month from birth and collage is mostly paid for via compound interest. That’s expensive, but students with 100+k in debt mostly don’t go to affordable schools.
Lead batteries are cheap.
Debt is a great concept to describe the withdrawal period of chronic substance use.
You could extend the argument on price though.

You can easily pay an ISP $50/mo for broadband, so why should you trust a paid VPN that will handle all your traffic for only $5-8/mo on top? Is the difference all infrastructural costs? What about those cheap $3/mo VPNs? Where do you draw the line?
Incidentally, these were the computers in the early Heinlein books.

I was mulling the comment here a few days ago pointing out Heinlein's prescient depiction of networked computers, and thinking that the hard part would be having mechanical computers pick up the phone and sending electromagnetic pulses down the line. Perhaps pecking at telegraph keys ...
Honestly? My VPN setup works for me, so I haven't particularly bothered to spend time investigating alternatives. It's not that I do or don't trust it more than Tor.

That said, the few times in the far past I've tried to use Tor as a VPN, it's been slower and less reliable than the VPN I pay for (especially on my phone). Using a regular VPN also makes it easier for me to do things like spoof my country for region-locked services.

(If I was going to bother making a change, it'd probably be to hosting my own VPN server on a VPS provider instead of specifically paying a VPN provider)
I've had the X1 Yoga a few days. I haven't done a proper battery test, but I think it will do at least a solid 7 hours of browsing & emailing, and it feels like it will be on par with my MacBook Pro 2012. The 7 hours is a pessimistic estimate - sometimes it bounces up to 10 hours, and I did 2 hours of actual work & the battery only drained to 80%. But if I watch a YouTube video, that estimate drops to 7 hours.

I'm more worried about screen issues. I got the premium HDR Dolby Vision screen, and I love the 500 nits & the wide color gamut is stunning & very OLED-like. But the calibration is off, the screen has a red-tint that hurts my eyes and makes the rest of the world look sickly green when I look away from the screen. I fear I'll have to buy an X-Rite and make my own calibration. It isn't like my Dell monitor, which came individually calibrated & with a printout of the calibration.

Also, this X1 Yoga (or Windows?) does lots of dynamic screen dimming, which was messing with Sublime Text in Monokai (dark) theme. It would dim the screen so much that white text would become mid-grey & it was unreadable & low contrast. I was able to turn that setting off, but doing so has reduced battery life to the numbers you see above.

If having a large / replaceable SSD wasn't a priority (and battery was more of a priority), I think I would very seriously consider the Surface Book 2. But hopefully I'll like the X1 Yoga more as I get used to it.
When Cities Sign Secret Contracts with Big Tech Companies, Citizens Suffer
"Rogue actor" is currently a highly political term, so I left that aspect out on purpose. For China you would be a rogue actor if you reported truthfully on free speech issues. For the USA you are a rogue actor if you report on their unconstitutional spying apparatus. It's neither morally nor politically unambigious what a rogue actor is. Such is life in a world where we all have a different morality, talking becomes hard!
Babel-plugin to remove debug code
Europe’s 100 digital champions
Dang's and HN's censorship is getting pretty disgusting. You're supposedly allowed to reply to comments with your support, but in reality that is a joke. They get killed before you can and then you cannot reply at all.

What's with the censorship of thanosnose's comment in this thread and many others? You just don't like his politics, dang? I've more than proven myself too - and I'm still shadow banned... We've had extensive emailing and I've offered plenty of proof that others have tried to support my previous comments that got me the shadow ban (which you ignored). I've also learned how many others have been banned too. We will support each other's right to not constantly make new accounts to voice basic, consistent, and evidence-supported opinions, dang! Absolutely ridiculous.
Yeah. It was already running the whole time, heck, it was the very shell of the OS. Opening an IE window was literally no different from opening a new (filesystem) Explorer window. Hence the decade-long antitrust battles.
Never thought of using a third-party relay SMTP server. That's a great idea.

Gmail has a relay [0][1], but I'm not sure if it's still free now that the G Suite free tier is gone.

Amazon SES [2] has competitive pricing, or it's free (first 62,000 emails per month) if you're using EC2 for sending email.

Then there's a bunch of marketing oriented SMTP providers that have free tiers. E.g. mailjet [3].

[0] https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/free-smtp-server/

[1] https://support.google.com/a/answer/2956491?hl=en

[2] https://aws.amazon.com/ses/pricing/

[3] https://www.mailjet.com/pricing/
a few decades ago, the US taxed the 1% at up to 90%

Almost six decades ago. (Meanwhile, it was 95% in England).

The original driver of reducing rates in the US? John F. Kennedy. There's a great speech he gave before The Commonwealth Club on this very subject; audio is available online.