skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not only that, it doesn't account for short sellers. Index funds will happily lend their "passive" shares to anyone (i.e. short sellers) willing to pay interest. So if prices start to rise as someone tries to buy 5%+1 of the shares, others will rightly determine that the shares are now overvalued and start selling them short (especially if the buyer is expected to harm the company), allowing the buyer to keep buying at a minor premium over the original price. Or even at a discount, if the purchase is seen as inevitable and the damage they're expected to do gets priced in.
> When it comes to places you regularly or habitually sleep, this could mean direct physical danger to you, depending on circumstance.

Sorry, what are you saying here? That the online identity thieves will come to your house?
No, doesn't work on mobile.
Wow, that actually looks like Klingon.
People complained about Emacs memory usage for decades. Then one day 8 MB wasn’t a lot of memory.

Everyone knows Atom uses a lot of memory. At some point in the very near future, it will no longer be important.

My five-year-old Mac has 16 gigs of RAM. I won’t buy another that has less than 32 gigs.
Losing a lot of weight with very low calorie diets is hard, but not regaining it over the next couple of years is next to impossible.

Your body will try all the tricks in the book, it will reduce your metabolism to way below that of the person of the same weight, it will amp up your hunger hormones so much that you will think and dream about food 24/7.

Only 5 to 7% of people that lose a large amount weight are able to keep it off successfully in the medium and long term. Hope there is more research into this mechanism.
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John Baez: “Duality in logic and physics” (2010) [video]
No idea. Jill MacKay was the name of the "idea thief" in the linked blog entry.
> Maybe you think judges shouldn't have so much latitude in deciding sentences.

Sure scares me. Why wasn't he tried for the other crimes if his punishment is going to be based on them? This isn't a little difference to take into account when sentencing, these are important crimes on their own deserving a right to trial.
> It’s a shame if the woman in the article believes her value as a person is tied to her attractiveness and age

This is exactly my point (and that's why I used that phrase). The letter writer feels that her value in the world is diminished by her age; with her most fertile years squandered she hasn't much else to give it. The response author goes to pains to illustrate that even someone well into her 90s still has value - that she values her interactions with the older woman.

The letter writer's is a misogynist worldview. To get there, you have to assume that women aren't really contributing anything to the world beyond reproduction. Men's lives have meaning without a woman and children, perhaps, but women's don't.

Separately, I think saying that someone's value as a romantic partner is primarily in their physical attractiveness is obnoxiously reductionist. I went off on quite the drunken rant about that last night in another thread (not my best work, tbh).

But basically, I argue optimizing for the most attractive partner I can find for someone at my level of attractiveness and then locking that down (via marriage or similar monogamous institution) is a poor strategy, even if it is the most common one and one implied by genetics. My genes would also love me to sit in bed eating sugar all day, and that won't make me happy.

Ultimately: I accept that people approach dating (especially app dating) primarily by looking at attractiveness, aiming for someone in their "league" or a bit higher as evaluated visually. However, I don't think it's the best approach for your overall happiness, nor is it one that everyone employs.

I mean, can you imagine dating a teenager? They're at peak fertility. But not only is it illegal depending on the exact age and where you live, it sounds like a nightmare. Like just talking to them gives me a headache.

Me? I'm a transwoman and a lesbian so I'm a bit of an evo-psych nightmare. Despite having no real fertility to speak of and a noticeable lack of childbearing hips, I do quite alright. I'm doing much better dating women as a 36yo transwoman than I did as a 31yo cis male. I've been trying to figure out why, and the only explanation I have is that me being more authentic is, in fact, valuable to the people I date.
To your second and third point, recently traveled internationally and the airline concatenated my first and middle name on my ticket and boarding passes. My passport has a space between my first name and middle initial My driver’s license has a space between my first name and middle name.

Needless to say, I was unable to check in online or with one of the machines at the airport.
How do you type "⊻"? I think it'd rather avoid a language where I can't type all the operators. Still, could be worse, some languages allow unicode identifiers, and fun ensues.

(You can allow unicode to appear in source files - either in inline documentation or strings - without allowing unicode identifiers. But even in languages that support this, I usually escape non-ASCII characters)
Calories are not the core problem - carbohydrates are. The research from VirtaHealth.com makes this clear. They are getting T2 diabetics off of insulin within a week, while still giving patients the satiety they want from meals.
At least they were recruiting with that angle some months ago. I'm assuming it'll take a while even if all goes well, though.
Well, you know what they say: There are two hard problems in programming, cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors[1]. ;-)

But there still is a difference between trying to come up with good names and failing on the one hand, and naming a variable "tmp" to indicate that it is a local variable, because I totally cannot see that when looking at the code...

[1] I do have to admit that I totally love foreach-loops, when I was still coding in C, I ran into / caused my fair share of off-by-one errors, they were nightmares to figure out.
yeah, its like me saying my name is every character that was/is written by a human. it keeps growing. you have to accommodate me

try our best, find compromises, and fail gracefully.
Just declare trucks corporations which makes them people and then they'll be able to carry guns in most rural areas.
The plot thickens.

This document suggests an overall impressive persona. So why would she do something so evil as this?
Someone else has finally figured it out.
How to Uninstall All Windows Updates in One Shot – Onenaija Blog
The net effect is not even close to the same; it's far worse.

Methane is ~36x more potent as a greenhouse gas over a 100-year timespan. This includes the eventual decay to CO2.
It's this one, according to screenshots.
U.S to grant permits for companies to kill marine life in search for oil and gas
Does Atom work with mounted directories yet? Especially sshfs? I'd love to go back to Atom, but unfortunately, last time I tried to use it, it had massive indexing problems when working through mounts.
Type II diabetes is a diet-related illness. If you cure the illness with diet, then switch back to what you were eating before - of course, diabetes will come back. These dietary changes need to be seen as new habits, not temporary changes.
This is a black mirror episode it has to be right?
Did you do this in a product or agency environment? What was the typical talent bar for a green new hire and what was your financial arrangement with them?
Rookie Mag founder explains why they're shutting down
> (b) what people read doesn’t correlate with what’s important
> It becomes a lot harder for journalists to justify spending months on a subject when the business side has hard data showing it brings in barely more than reprinting the soccer scores.

This is already true with the current advertising model.
>Only 5 to 7% of people that lose a large amount weight are able to keep it off successfully in the medium and long term. Hope there is more research into this mechanism.

Are there any studies in this area I can read that discuss the figures you've mentioned?
I think that this is effective because it reduces the carbohydrate load. Protein and fat consumption also increase insulin response but not nearly as much. Type 2 diabetics could get most of the blood sugar reducing benefit of this by just removing/replacing the carbs. That has been my N=1 experience with both fasting and carb restriction.
There's a open source benchmark here: https://github.com/objectbox/objectbox-performance - last time I checked ObjectBox was several times faster than Realm.
Validating elliptic curve signatures using Golang
Haha, I've definitely "considered" that, I've been depressed for the past ~9 years. Finally know why now though! It has nothing to do with ADHD.

Taking an antidepressant won't cut it for me, unfortunately. Although I do expect to get on them soon-ish, maybe it'll help a little.
And that's why weight loss techniques need to be treated like a new lifestyle, instead of a goal you hit and then finish. I lost 60 lbs a couple of years ago and found that 20 of those had recently crept back on, so I went on another shorter diet to get myself back on track. It's totally doable. You have to be aware and keep correcting.
Is there a reason you didn't just link directly to the website?
Tesla will live and die by the Gigafactory
The problem is that a 'browser fingerprint' is not some function call that can have its result be spoofed. There isn't even a single specification for what constitutes a browser 'fingerprint'

It is simply a series of attributes that are tested and compiled. Attributes that are consistent for a single browser but have some degree of variation between different computers.

Put enough of those together and you can uniquely identify someone. The exact things that are checked, however, will vary between implementations, and can always be changed in the future, so there isn't an easy way to spoof all of them to be identical.

In addition, many of these attributes that are tested need to return accurate results for normal functionality to work, so you are again limited in what you can fudge to avoid fingerprinting.
you are correct. That's why they don't really compete with each other. You put it on a train for a long distance and then trucks pick it up to spread it out from there.
Ask HN: When to choose back end vs. front end data entry?
I'm pretty old school, and just now getting into js frameworks / more serious frontend CRUD. I'm starting to think maybe I'm taking it too far, and more data should be delivered with the page vs. gotten from the front. I don't have a good sense of what javascript can handle well, and I'm wondering - especially based on some examples of slow js, like even Google Charts - how much of js slowness is mitigated by good coding, vs. real js/browser limitations.

I work alone so I don't have a mentor or know where to look for this - what are some suggestions on how to decide whether data should be sent with the page, vs. gotten via API? When should the whole CRUD be on the frontend, vs. old school backend, no js needed? (Does my question make sense?)
> Empirically speaking, sexual liberation was practiced by women on a wide scale in the sixties and it did not work: that is, it did not free women.

I think that calling this empirically true requires a highly dubious operationalization of “free”; it is absolutely the case that sexually (and in other ways which are indirectly related to sexual and reproductive choices), women have more options that will not lead to near-universal condemnation.

It is true that this is not cost-free for women of all preferences (and particularly for women who strongly desire universal acceptance), in that the one option that previously had near universal approbation now only produces large minority approbation, overwhelming majority (but not near-universal) acceptance, and small minority condemnation.

Alternatively, it requires (as seems to underlie most of Dworkins fact claims, in RWW and elsewhere), simply the willingness to claim whatever suits your ideological agenda as proven fact no matter whether it has any correspondence with reality whatsoever.
> there is evidence for a Sub-Himalayan Saraswati-like river flowing into the Arabian Sea

You do realize that Allahabad (or Prayag) is in the opposite direction to the Arabian Sea, don't you?
CloudEvents
Spectrum is joining GitHub
Hijacking trucks filled to the brim with sensors sounds like a recipe for jail time.

The logistics of stopping and looting a truck involves too many parties, and ensuring that each party is following enough security protocols to not be identified via face, vehicle, or gait will ensure that only a few small sophisticated heists will ever be successful.
I have to disagree.

> Tracking the index and voting are two separate concerns

I do not believe this is really true. The entire point of exercising shareholder rights by voting is to improve the performance of the company. A shareholder's decisions might be right (improved stock value) or wrong (reduced stock value), but you can't argue that it's passive involvement in the company. Changes in a company's stock price will necessarily cause changes in the index that the index fund tracks.

Now, let's consider the point of an index fund with a passive investment strategy: the goal is to remove the need to make decisions in how a company operates and leave that to the better-informed investors and marketplace as a whole. Index funds in the ideal world simply want to ride along with what decisions the marketplace is making in the companies that the index tracks.

This is an important tension that really cannot be resolved if index funds are to be considered passive and also vote.

In practice, the votes made my index funds tend to be (thus far) ones that are on less controversial issues like best practices for management, etc. You don't see Vanguard pushing for mergers or spinoffs like Carl Icahn would try to do. However, in principle all shareholder votes exist on some continuum of activist investing.
Facebook's plans to sell user data revealed in email
It depends which healthcare system you're dealing with. Legacy systems often have severe limitations. The more modern HL7 CDA R2 data interchange standard has an extremely flexible model for names which can properly accommodate the majority of "falsehoods".
This can go the other way too => People kept complaining about Internet Explorer for years. Then one day better alternatives showed up (Firefox, Chrome) and dealing with sub-par experiences was no longer a necessity.
He's not wishing it away. His answer could just have been rooted in, "I understand my software won't cater to anyone. I'm ok with that."

Bristle at that if you must, I guess; some people aren't happy unless they're mad.
Money. And money. And pathological drive to win.
> would anyone use this over KiCad?

It appears the key reason is how parts are managed (the part libraries).

I use KiCad and mostly like it-- it can do everything. But the biggest problem [with KiCad] is there doesn't seem to be a coherent/opinionated workflow about how you manage parts (part libraries).

By "managing parts" I mean the associations in your "project" between the schematic symbol, its footprint, its 3D model, and perhaps even datasheet, spice and vendor info. Keeping this stuff straight is a major pain in the ass and it's stressful to add new parts.

These are hard problems and people have wildly different ideas about what's correct. The fact that LibrePCB is signalling improvements in these areas makes me want to give it a spin.

There does seem to be some initiatives lately to make this stuff easier (eg SnapEDA, UltraLibrarian, EE Concierge, and others). But to really make it work, EDA vendors need to standardize together or find a way to work with "everything".
Not yet but as the famous quote goes: "Art imitates life."
One of the biggest problems with react-table is you end up with 2 headers. There doesn't seem to be a way to get rid of it. Its annoying if you have to fit the table in small space, or if you have just a few rows.
Announcing Clarity 1.0
That seems like a different kind of problem though. If funds that vote according to the recommendations of the board own >50% of the company, the board becomes unaccountable. (Unless they apply different rules to board elections, but then we're back to the original problem because the minority activist can elect their own board.)
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Ask HN: What are your principles of design?
I lost 40 pounds in 3 months, then another 20 in 3 months.

I've kept the weight off for another year.

I still eat healthy and in moderation (and occasionally fast).

I avoid sugars and high-carb foods and my body has been hovering at the same weight.

Maybe, for some people, it's harder to keep the weight off (assuming diet is the same)? Or, maybe some people don't have the mental will-power to stay on the diet that lost them the weight?
Not always true: https://www.rtl-sdr.com/nexmon-sdr-turning-a-broadcom-802-11... (not sure if it normally uses SDR, probably not, but it does provide low-level access needed for SDR)
What's the most basic product you've shipped and gotten paying customers for?
After reading all these comments, perhaps its time to branch Firefox to something else?

This situation feels like the old Mozilla vs Firefox issue that happened a decade and a half ago. Perhaps the fact that the Mozilla Foundation is treating their browser like an Apple device is the final impetus to move elsewhere?
Show HN: AWS Blueprint for Running Angular on AWS
I think you are right that fingerprinting is much better at tracking than just cookies. And that it has become trivial to do.

I think that your comment makes it seem trivial to control fingerprinting by controlling the information you send over the internet. While I suppose it is true that you can prevent fingerprinting by not allowing data transmission, this will also make the intenet and especially the www unusable.

Masking your IP address would require access to multiple IP pools, which is cost prohibitive. Alternatively, you could use some centralized proxy, which just changes who controls the information about you, but perhaps in even a more scary way.

Obscuring your screen size breaks responsive web design. Obscuring your browser still breaks a lot of everything even in 2018. Chrome vs Firefox vs Edge vs Safari still don't have the same web api. Disabling Javascript breaks most websites. Disabling XHR/fetch also breaks a great deal.

Once again, privacy and convenience conflict.
And that’s as it should be. The average user gets signed addons and the “advanced” user can jump through some hoops for advanced functionality.
Outside of the privacy problems (which, let's be honest, our data is already out on the web) if you changed your credit card since your last visit you're probably safe on that particular financial attack vector, right?
Yes, the wifi antennas are very specifically sized for the 802.11 frequency ranges. They also often have band pass filters built in to prevent transmissions outside of those bands, as required by FCC regulations and such. That said, if you are really interested in that kind of thing, and you are willing to switch to Linux, the wireless card drivers are very hackable.

Source: I forked the driver for my wireless card many years ago and still maintain it, tho these days it's mostly the upstream kernel driver plus a few hacks to get the most out of the hardware: https://github.com/FreedomBen/rtl8188ce-linux-driver
It's just a happy nerd smiley
Citations for the 5 to 7% would be nice. Here's a meta analysis that states otherwise.

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/74/5/579/4737391
You probably don't do a lot of queries? Badger is a K/V store and has no knowledge about the value. Thus querying sucks and if you want indexing, you are on your own. Relations? Anyway, for simple caching that's probably fine.
(Note: the preloading feature is experimental and not included in the public version)

Right under the download links.
Also, after a project fails the business is always close to 0% likely to work with you on it, even if it isn't your fault (I was brought in as a clean-up man and my billing was insignificant).
the author of this article would do well to admit that he "doesn't know" bayesian inference very well. unfortunately, the usage of pyro is incorrect here. in particular data subsampling is handled incorrectly (there may be more issues). the weights of the network represent a global random variable. consequently, when doing data-subsampling care must be taken that the ELBO that is constructed is scaled correctly. that is not done here. probabilistic programming languages like pyro are a great tool for making bayesian inference easier and more accessible, but they can be produce arbitrarily bad results if the user uses them incorrectly.
Ya. I suppose you're right.

So long as the client runtime can inspect the host, inferring the fingerprint, and call back to the mothership, there's no foolproof, durable way to defeat fingerprinting.

At best, fudging the fingerprint just buys some time in the arms race.
Yeah, it's not an unprecedented situation. What's concerning is that we have this level of debt after a period of relative peace and stability. (Though I vaguely recall there being some expensive wars recently too.)
It's bad for Mozilla to take a stance that's obviously against the preferences of their users. They can't play both sides of the field - either you're for the User, or you're for the Corps. I once sincerely believed that Firefox was part of a statement that they would fight for the User. That disappeared somewhere between 4.0 and 27.0. I believed there was still some hope in Mozilla - all of it has been eroded over the years.

So now, they've taken their stance. They don't want free users. They want corporate servants, the same as Microsoft, Apple, and Google.
Source?

Here's what I have:

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

"Methane has a large effect but for a relatively brief period, having an estimated lifetime of 9.1 years in the atmosphere..."

Either way, the conclusion is the same: better to leave it where it is.
If they didn't keep the data from long ago, then the damage would be much smaller. Such companies definitely need some help from lawmakers. Companies shouldn't keep personal information for years.
I knew a "Dick Rogers". I have a really difficult time calling anyone 'Dick', but I also didn't feel right calling him "Mister Rogers" because that just conjured up images of the American Public Television kids show host.
Scalable vector graphic with animation capabilities, audio file, or both.

An SVG file could render Prince's symbol, a series of ASL hand movements, or a regular old ASCII text string.

Searching and sorting would be a real bitch, though.
I inherited a code base that other people thought they understood. People have very different tolerance levels for complexity and lack of control. People here complain about bad coders but the incentives out there are all aligned against quality: short stints and glorified short-term-thinking (a.k.a. Agile) and proprietary code. Imagine if you were bound to work on a codebase for most of your career, were given all the time you need to do your best and had all your code in the open, forever part of your reputation. Would you write better code?