skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, because that never ended badly before.
DuckDuckGo: The [Former] Solopreneur That Is Beating Google at Its Game
It can hardly be the first because it's made too perfectly. It's obviously not a prototype.
Is this really a common thing? I don't really have experience with battery powered audio processing circuits. In my experience you usually create a virtual ground when you've got no other choice, like say signal conditioning with a single ended supply.
Yes the distance is the same, which is why time spent waiting and travel speed matter so much.

I'm personally more interested in the impact on local transportation (loop) than intercity (hyperloop)
The Economics of Software Design
You misspelled "billions".
“With LEGO”, rather than “by LEGO”. A remarkable achievement nonetheless, but nothing compared to the original Greek mechanism – the independently acquired celestial knowledge, mathematical ability, and the technical skill required to complete it is mind boggling given the era.
Over this project - while interesting and excellently executed - I use passportindex.org [0].

I can't validate its sources directly, but its backed by Arton Capital, which after a few minutes of research seems to have a pretty decent reputation in this field.

Its also been validated by some respectable sources: WSJ, CNN, MSN, WaPo, HuffPo, and more [1].

[0] https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php

[1] https://www.passportindex.org/about.php
https://remotehacker.com is essentially the same thing
It's generally understood that sex is biological and gender is social, or grammatical: it makes sense for those two to go together as in many languages, including standard English, you need to know a person's gender in order to talk about them easily.

In the UK, at least, official documents specify "sex", not "gender". We may be slowly moving towards a world in which sex is officially recorded only in medical records, while gender is an optional field in social media accounts and the like.
Can you explain/link more about sha1 and underscores?

Can't seem to find anything on web.
Prácticas de laboratorio diciembre 2018
log.Print("Missing argument for files direcory, Exiting...")
os.Exit(0)

Exit code 0 is usually used for success. This is clearly an error.

filePath + "/" + file.Name()

There's path/filepath module for cross-platform joining of file paths.

Don't use defer f.Close() in the loop — defer will execute after the function returns. What you're doing is opening all of the files in the directory and then closing them only when the program exists.

if file.IsDir() == false {

Already boolean, this should be

if !file.IsDir() {

Apart from all of this, it looks like the algorithm is very inefficient with all of those slice manipulations.
Interesting video. I'll confess I still don't understand why it's so hard to keep track of the position of subway cars in real time. I can think of any number of ways to do that more or less trivially. (For instance, they already have to run power on a third rail, don't they? What's wrong with time-domain reflectometry?)

Seems that using lots of inexpensive redundant sensors would achieve the necessary fault tolerance and avoid frequent maintenance shutdowns. It sounds like they have instead elected to implement a monolithic system with a lot of expensive hardware at both the station and car levels. I guess that's how they (don't) roll in New York.
Why didn’t you try retrobrite?
The $1bn hostage deal that enraged Qatar’s Gulf rivals
I'd love if you would elaborate on that so the Create React App documentation[0] and the official recommended tutorial[1] could be improved on

[0]: https://facebook.github.io/create-react-app/
[1]: https://reactjs.org/tutorial/tutorial.html

edit: Saw your points above and while I do not agree I can understand your point of view.
In medical and demographic datasets where there is a need to differentiate between biological sex and self-identified gender then yes, they are used that way.

But in other settings they are usually conflated.
I have one as well and that is a shame. It seemed a bit pricier but I also tend to but one or two generations back just because it is good enough and cheaper.

Perhaps it didn't scale well so the costs were higher so it didn't sell as well.
How tone-deaf can they be? Raising taxes can bring tax revenue down. Europe already has quite high corporate taxes and high income taxes for top brackets.

Also, raising taxes to spend the money on immigrants? Are they purposely fueling the raise of right wing nationalists? Do they have any self-awareness?
>Although the declared value of the head on the customs form was $25, the going rate for a human head in the U.S. market is currently around $500

Occam's razor explanation for this would be the harvesting of a little extra profit, by defrauding the customs tax system.
Angela Merkel's successor
>The cheap Gucci / LV stuff has the biggest logos. Their expensive stuff is generally quite subtle which is pretty interesting.

I noticed this when looking at Mercedes-Benz vehicles. Their most expensive car (the $200k Maybach) has a very small, subtle hood ornament. Their other cars have those huge MB backlit emblems in the grill.

I took this to mean that at a certain level of wealth you don't need to show off a brand to prove your worth.
Nicely written article, but the author needs to have a conversation with a chemist on the difference between carbon, carbon dioxide, and hydrocarbons. The author calls all of them "carbon", making for confusing reading.

Anyway if you need a summary: Spray cow manure on fields to encourage plant grown. Done right you can actually increase topsoil, burying older plants under newer ones and store hydrocarbons there.

Basically reverse soil erosion, with benefits in carbon dioxide capture.
The entirety of the Super Mario Bros video game was just 31kb, almost 20 times smaller than the total transfer needed to load the YCombinator home page, so I'd argue that's not a great heuristic for performance or efficiency, especially given that processor speed, network bandwidth, and most importantly storage has increased exponentially over time.

And conversely, it has never been easier for a single developer to quickly write complex applications that can be deployed to multiple operating systems at scale around the world. It's important to weigh the cost with the benefit.
Over the course of couple of years I went through all possible drugs the doctors could think of. Some worked but side effects outweighed the benefits. In terms of side effects Co-codamol (Codeine and paracetamol) was best but they didn't want to prescribe a version without paracetamol. Once consultant even suggested that I am making this up and I just want to get opiates and he won't fall for that. This was heartbreaking and since that point I have not asked for any treatment that relates to opiates. I have made a complaint against this consultant but the hospital dismissed it and didn't consider my appeal even though by law they must. I just have no strength to go through courts I have too much on my plate.
Credit specialist
I am Melanie. I’m a single mom of 2 disabled kids and very little income. We were going to lose our home because I didn’t have the credit score to purchase it. I had already worked with a hacker that took me to cleaners and back with zero results. He also had one of his friends as well try to help but they claimed because of the new security on the credit bureaus, they were unsuccessful but if I paid $800 more, they would send me a cloned CC and it is nothing but another big mess. I continued making more research on whom to help me with my credit behold! I saw and read some posts from people saying Dprotocol help people who have been victims of credit repair scraps. I was told that he helps people fix their credit quickly (7 days max). I texted him on his number (+1 320 245 4036 ) and email address (DPROTOCOL7@GMAIL.COM) asking him if everything I heard and read were legit that I am interested in his service. He responded and further explained the process although I was lucky he is on a supper weekend and his birthday promo discount so the cost was supper substantial. We moved on and he actually did all he said he would do and now I’m happy sitting on a very high credit score (799) with zero negative items on it. He is still on a weekend/birthday promo and it will last till April, 30th so you can quickly hit him up and get your credit issues fixed.
I wonder, how low does crypto need to fall before coinbase becomes non-viable?
I haven’t used amazon for a while (and haven’t had prime in years) and a couple months ago, after reading some posts about amazon I decided to see what my life would have been like if I had used amazon exclusively for all my non-grocery shopping.

Rules: I only buy it if it’s Prime eligible, otherwise it’s skipped. If I bought something because it’s on sale, I take the lowest price amazon ever offered for that item (with prime). Otherwise, I take the price of the item on the same day.

Results: https://i.imgur.com/kDeM2pM.jpg I saved about $330 by not having a prime membership and buying stuff only from prime eligible stores. However I spent at most 27 more days waiting for items (in reality a lot of these shipping times overlapped).

So the takeaway is that amazon made things easier and faster but not cheaper. I know a lot of people still think amazon is the cheapest place to get things but that hasn’t been true for a while.
Looks like VC Ben Narasin's personal website is hacked by some startup guys
They'll have trouble getting audio. It's LOUD when the Shop-Vac's on.
Pretty much off topic, but the opening paragraph of this article highlights what I think is a little-known benefit of Prime membership. The author notes that "sharing an Amazon Prime account with loved ones is surprisingly intimate" but it doesn't have to be if you use Amazon Household:

"Sharing benefits through Amazon Household requires both adults to link their accounts in an Amazon Household and agree to share payment methods. Each adult keeps their personal account while sharing those benefits at no additional cost."[1]

It's limited to two adults (plus teens), so not a solution for all cases.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId...
5% is a staggering number! I rode the trains for four and a half years in NYC and just avoided the empty cars and never had too many issues.

Also people seem to focus exclusively on the negative interactions which is a very human thing to do, but this discounts the positive interactions.

It can be really nice seeing people offer their seats to the elderly, or kids meeting and playing, or the occasional furry companion in a cute bag.

But I enjoy people watching in general. It can be neat to try to imagine a persons world and how it looks.
Some people don't carry an adult Game Boy with them at all times like an addict. Some of us don't even own one.
The internet was never meant to be decentralized or anonymous: it was conceived more as a redundant network that would enable communications in case of a nuclear accident. I think we already live in Orwell’s world - I don’t care or believe privacy is something that can be attained easily today unless you are willing to cut your contact with every computer in the world, which is just not feasible.
In an ideal world everyone would be perfectly informed, no one would ever runs scams, all food and medicine would always be safe no matter what, and cars and weapons would only affect the people who purchased them.
If the Antikythera mechanism was a computer, then so arguably is the abacus, which is probably not much younger than numeracy itself.
Thank you for the detailed explanation!

Would you mind elaborating on the polled aspect of rust futures, or link me to some documation? Do you mean that there is a loop polling the result of a future? How does that work with things like select?
Typical technocentrist: "politicians are ignorant, technologies are the most important thing to regulate now, if politicians can't get interested in technologies, they will be irrelevant soon"...

It does not answer the question asked in the title one bit.

And it completely forgets that there are huge fields out there that don't give a shit about technology.
“We”? ;)
When I think of a computer, the first thing that pops up in my mind is whether the Antikythera computer is Turing complete? The article makes no mention of this.

To give it a title as the first computing device, I think there should be some analysis of operations that it can perform and whether they can constitute as a universal turing machine.

Otherwise, we can call stones as computers. They can do addition and subtraction by the virtue of counting. I am not familiar with Turing's thesis on a theoretical basis (having only read the popular "Turing's Vision" by Chris Bernhardt), is it possible to determine turing completeness of this mechanism?
“51% attack” is meaningless if you can’t find a way to profit on it. It costs money to run an orphan chain that long. You can’t simply double-spend because you are the biggest miner so long as everyone is running software that prevents it. To profit you must find a way to earn money with transactions on a given chain that are then wiped out when you release the longer chain.

The typical way to profit from this is to deposit to a centralized exchange, trade it for something else, and withdraw before the exchange recognizes what’s happening. However there are simple calculations you can make with the cost of 51% hashing and then the exchange can bump up the minimum confirmations required for deposits and limit the amount you can deposit for weaker currencies.

In general the 51% problem is no longer easy to profit from except with low quality exchanges.
TFA says that the problem is Agile run by bad managers. Why the hate for this tool used to implement Agile?
Wonderful article.

But it was not only the 1970s: there were still many a hidden spot in Asia in the early 2000s, as travel was restricted in countries with civil war, or dictatorial regimes, and there still are. As those geographies get connected to the global trade- and political system, these habitats of men and animal change, for better, or worse.
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You're completely wrong.

On a fixed guideway system--that includes vanilla railways and things like monorails--a train that is stopped completely blocks the entire track, and cannot be routed around except via switches. The minimum headway between trains is dominated by switch fouling: how long it will take a train to pass over the switch, and then for the switch to switch to a different track, before the signal can go green again. You'll also want some extra padding on top of that for timetabled trains, to take into account unexpected long station dwells and schedule recovery.

The throughput of most subways is about 26 trains per hour. With good signalling and track management, you can push it to about 36 trains per hour on a branched line; an unbranched line (which simplifies management a lot!) can get up to 45 trains per hour, but those are definitely not typical numbers. Train length doesn't impact these numbers much, definitely not at the scale of variation being discussed.

Express trains require dedicated tracks to be able to bypass parked trains, or insanely good timetable-keeping to not get stuck behind a local train before a bypass. NYC built a lot of its trunks to 4 tracks, which allows it to make local/express trains, but most systems have found it's easier to just build another 2-track trunk a few blocks away than to try to add 4-tracks to the 2-track trunk.

The idea of trying to use tiny cars with much narrower safety margins for headways is the idea behind personal rapid transit, but PRT systems have been shown to have utterly lousy throughputs: pulling 10,000 people/hour on a trunk PRT line would be a significant milestone, whereas the standard 8-car train on a 26TPH subway easily pulls 25,000 people/hour without needing much effort.
Well if you work with even smaller data sets every additional attribute narrows the field quite a bit unless it is ubiquitous. Adding a species field to employee records or "doesn't have Marfan's syndrome" wouldn't narrow much but cummulative divisions of N help a lot with scaling.
They're trying to take more slices of a shrinking pie, hoping to capture enough of the long-term cryptocurrency market share to justify their current size and valuation. It's also a really good time to muscle-out some of the weaker players.
Yeah, still using PSP5 and 9 here
Huawai isn't charged (but given that it has facilities in the US it probably can't pretend to be totally free of US law, and at least some reports say executives have avoided traveling there after the US parts were subpoenaed for information).

Apparently the executive is charged with financial fraud: misrepresenting the nature of financial transactions to banks. That's probably a crime in Canada too (I'm sure some government lawyers spend a lot of thought on the right wording for this so it does translate to Canadian law, even if the specific sanctions that are the reason she did that don't exist in Canada), and so she can be arrested and extradited if the courts agree.
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If you're interested in the history of the mechanism itself and the lives of the people who tried to make sense of it, I found this book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5456216-decoding-the-hea... both very enjoyable and informative
Ok, let’s cultivate the Sahara!
I love reading about clever ideas like this, but at the same time, I'm leery of the notion that we can fix the climate at the last minute, a narrative that stems from the late capitalist imperative to innovate. We don't need to innovate to find a solution; we need to act.
Ive nabbed the cover photograph of a big steaming pile of dirt to fertilize my desktop environment with - its splendid :D
I don’t get where this mindset comes from. I love my watch for the purpose of telling time. Phones are a distraction and the less time I can get caught in that, the better. I had the same mindset until my boss told me it was better to look at your watch in front of a client than your phone. That got me to switch but it’s so much better at doing the job it does than a phone. Just turn your wrist and you can see the time.
Ask HN: Is there a future for federated services on the Internet?
I have been wondering if there is a way for a federated service to catch up on the Internet today?

ActivityPub is out there, but are many services using them? I feel the Internet doesn't care, and it is going to be tough for federation to catch up. Centralized services tend add the competitive edge very easily.

I wonder what HN thinks? Are there any startups/corporates betting on a federated Internet?
It doesn't but the beauty of it is that there are plugins like Structure, that do
> Isn't that a failure state for the network?

it depends on what you define as a failure state. Technically, the network is still working - but business-case wise, it failed.
Which Spanish people? No one in Latin America(or for that matter in Spain) use your weird definition for South America.For classifying America or the Americas there are 2 different models: the 2 continent model (that Anglo people use among others) and the 1 continent model that we use in Latin America. In neither of those 2 models Mexico is considered a part of South America.
I’ve been testing this hypothesis - as best as one possibly can without conventional medical support - for the past few years.

I’ve found that with persistence, emotion-based therapies are effective at bringing about healing of chronic physiological illnesses.

Prior to that I’d spent several frustrating years seeking diagnosis for conditions that were debilitating but not apparently identifiable or treatable.

To me they manifested as chronic muscle and joint pain, digestive issues, fatigue/lethargy, skin conditions, signs of inflammation. Medical tests found only mild deficiencies of Vitamin D and iron, with recommendations to treat with diet or supplements but otherwise nothing wrong. Yet the pain and fatigue was debilitating and made it impossible to live a normal life.

In desperation I turned to unconventional therapies and came across a set of techniques that seek to identify and resolve traumas/complexes/phobias stuck in the subconscious mind.

I’ve been undertaking these practices consistently for about 6-7 years now, and slowly but surely my symptoms are subsiding and all aspects of my life are improving.

Why does has it taken so long?

It turns out there was a huge amount of emotional baggage to work through. Not obvious stuff like childhood abuse; just a lot of unpleasant experiences that began from being an anxious child, and snowballed as life progressed.

I’ve now worked through several thousand instances of trauma from throughout my life. Much of it is minor or seemingly trivial, and some of it is profound, but it all seems to play a role, and the process of identifying/understanding/resolving it is directly correlated with the alleviation of my symptoms.

I’m now quite certain that this concept would have a huge impact on the medical world if it were to be embraced by the mainstream, but there’s huge resistance to it so it seems set to remain confined to the fringes for a long time to come.

Recently there's been coverage (on HN [1] and elsewhere [2]) of Dr. Gabor Maté, a veteran physician who has studied the role of trauma in addiction and chronic illness. He advocates the position that there is near enough to a perfect correlation between chronic illness or addiction and trauma. From my own experience and from what I've observed in other people I know, this rings true.

I'm not sure what it will take for this notion to be embraced more widely and researched more deeply, but it seems pretty important.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18497985

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUGGNPAK6uw
Mackie MR5s are studio monitors, not headphones.

I can plug them into an analog output device and they work perfectly. I'm talking about digital, and the only digital devices that work are a Vizio TV (possibly others, didn't really test against TVs), iPhones, iPads, and Macs.
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What’s wrong with that, assuming the rich food is nutritious and in reasonable portions and accompanied by exercise and adequate sleep.
What made it a good bug tracker? I still use it and find may design choices like not being able to edit a bug or comment frustrating. Also the lack of some basic formatting in the bug descriptions.
It's an interesting and complicated question, but it seems like the coinbase business model should be pretty dramatically affected by the massive sell-off. First, as prices go lower, the average value of a transaction is (probably) declining, so the money they make on fees is (probably) going down as well. Second, as the market looks worse and worse, the number of people casually entering or trading is likely declining too. The have a lot of correlated risk with the decline.
Are you mocking me? Why?
Some people are literally ignorant of luxury brands. My bougie sisters-in-law are locked in a competition to outdo one another with Kate spade bags, Michael Kors watches, etc., and have no idea that these aren't the height of luxury. Here in Topeka, they are (where 100k gets you a nice 3br home).

Me? I'll stick to my brand name athleisure thank you very much.
I have near constant neck pain and have done every route I can think to mitigate,manage,cure or deal with it. The strangest part is it switched sides randomly. I've tracked/logged it multiple times and can make no sense of why it switches. I think I need to track more things I'm doing to see what's related to it... neck surgery, stim, acupuncture, multiple types of therapies, heart, cold, massage, etc.. all give negligible results.