skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do lots of projects which I'm yearning to do.
It will consist of game engine, OS related stuff (probably some driver), databases etc
What would you like to learn more about personal finance? That’s something I’m well versed in and want to teach and write about in the coming year.
So admittedly I know next to nothing about CNNs and such, but AFAIK, isn't training the difficult, resource intensive part of CNNs? Once you've figured out the coefficients, I think you can implement the pattern matching with an order of magnitude, or less, resources. You don't even need high-precision arithmetic, right?
- spend 200h at the gym, like in 2018.

- sustain my passive income of ~€28k (http://herrmann.io)

- improve my file manager https://fman.io

- find one new source of (passive) income
The way we make it work in the US is with federalism and huge ongoing cash transfers (poorer states get way more money out of the federal government than they pay into it). Each of these alone are politically toxic in Europe, never mind both of them together; hence the increasingly widespread sense that the Euro is doomed in the long run.
You're referring to verbal acuity and divergent thinking coupled with a propensity to collect information.

Intelligence as an aggregate term refers to a number of things which include but aren't limited to verbal acuity, spatial reasoning, abstract reasoning etc and the individual components differ from person to person. So you might be amazing at abstract reasoning and your friend might have above average verbal acuity.

I agree with the notion of intelligence being a social process. I think IQ isn't able to capture that all. Though that is not individual intelligence, it is collective intelligence but individual intelligence is a function of genetics+non-shared environment+collective intelligence is what I want to say.

You can see collective intelligence at work if you examine language. Certain concepts have a high power:weight ratio and can help you make better decisions than you otherwise would and those concepts first have to be discovered and then they have to diffuse throughout the general population and that happens via language.

I think the '80/20' or Pareto Principle is a fantastic example of this. It's very widely known and it helps you reason better about the world in a useful way. Before that was ever discovered, nobody could leverage it. As time ticks by our models of the world are slowly getting higher and higher resolution (if that makes sense as a metaphor) and that is filtering down into the general population.

Reading is fantastic. You can acquire in 4 days what it took someone 40 years to come to. I think regardless of your IQ the more data and the higher quality you can assimilate you can increase the resolution of your models of the world and that helps you reason about things more clearly.

I'm always really fascinated by people with learning disabilities who really buck the trend and go on to do amazing things academically. Sometimes the strategies they come up with for learning are unbelievable either in terms of creativity or sheer determination. There are some pretty extreme examples of this in Dr Norman Doige's The Brain That Changes Itself and a favorite recent example I encountered was David Goggins' talking about how it would take him 18 months to get through the textbook for his diving training, so he started memorizing it 18 months ahead of time by writing out every sentence in the book by hand 10 times each. I swear there is a tonne of unutilized headroom in the general intelligence of all populations.

I'm pretty optimistic about the general trend overall and I don't think having a low IQ in a general population or even as an individual necessarily consigns you to a life of mediocrity or that you will be unproductive as a society.
Thanks for the reply. Yes I was referring to the Wordclocks. Wishing you the very best to scale your business in the new year.
Find a new job before I'm outsourced/laid off at IBM's newest acquisition.
The POVray ray tracer uses CSG in its scene descriptions as well. CSG is a really neat way to visualize objects mentally, too.
Actually, that's a pretty common standard. It's more or less a part of legal systems based on the Napoleonic Code. Defendants are basically treated as guilty until proven innocent. Don't get arrested in Mexico, for example, unless you can pay good bribes.

And actually, now in the UK you can be jailed for refusing to provide decryption keys or passphrases. We just saw the new policy in India. And things are heading that way in the US. Also, those charged with politically incorrect offenses are more and more treated as guilty until proven innocent.

So anyway, claiming moral superiority is an iffy proposition.
Alan Stern: New Horizons Has Started Its Exploration of Ultima Thule
All of this is covered in Creativity Inc, Ed Catmull's book that's been out for four years now. The first section of the book is entirely the history of Pixar, and it's fascinating. I recommend it.
Greece wouldn't have been punished, either, except that they were also asking for help at the same time. At least, I don't think they would have...
Ironically I bet Amazon sell exactly the kind of porta-potty device that would make his journeys more comfortable
Really confused about Apple's recent design choices.

You cannot charge Apple's flagship smartphone with Apple's flagship laptop without an adapter that does not come bundled with either of the two!
11 sucked for older iPhones. 12 brought the magic back and new useful features.
The Teddy Bear Effect
What is the culture like otherwise? Do you guys do happy hours and stuff like that? I’ve thought about doing a short term stint in India, if only to learn more about my cultural roots/heritage.
Scalable blockchain with EVM compatibility
Delayed sleep phase syndrome is an ada protected disability, your employer must make reasonable accommodation. I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but might be worth looking into.
Same for you friend!
Oh. Now I understand. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense.
Qualify for 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
The boycotts are hollow when Chinese airlines continue to buy Boeing and Bombardier jets.
It is. Ctrl + F “past” and you’ll see it between hide and web up top.
Three things:
1. Eat well (cut carbs as much as possible);
2. Exercise (even taking the stairs counts); and
3. Volunteer your time to help others in need.
This will not cure all depression but will help quite often.
Yep, I was a bit confused earlier today why my wife was looking for wired headphones—-that is, until I got on an airplane and realized I can’t use my AirPods with the inflight entertainment system.

At this point, I’d rather go without entertainment than carry around anything more than AirPods (or equalavent). I know it probably sounds pretty smug, but I use my AirPods ~5-10x more on average than I did wired headphones.
I just switched a moderately complex personal project from Next.js to Navi. The use cases aren't precisely identical but are more than close enough for my needs. I'm super excited about the huge reduction in complexity and I got while switching to Navi and the sense that if I have to be dependent on a mostly one-developer npm package it will be a lot easier to wean myself off Navi if the developer disappears in the future than it would be to wean myself off Next.js if Next's essentially one developer disappears atsome point.
You can check also Tencent opensourced software: https://github.com/Tencent
I thought that’s what college was for — a once-in-life-time 4 year contiguous block of time for building caffeine tolerances.
Writing is a huge business. It used to be the case the book authors often ended up with couple of hundreds of royalty. These days if you do it right, even niche authors make comfortable living. Authors with talent and in top of their games often rack up $1M-$10M in book sales. There are also plenty of writers who make their living through only blogs and many have celebrity level fame. Setting all these however require lot of tech savvyness and fine tuning over years. I hope someone can build platform that takes tech away from this problem. Overall, I think people are reading more than before and making money as an individual author is much more easier than before. The key is not being a worker for newpaper or magazine but look at yourself as tech startup founder whose product is writings.
- More trail running next year.

- Finish at least 2 books from my shelf (https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/5198521-aljohn?shelf=t...)
Physical - Body fitness:
3 month: Increase reps to 2 per workout, experiment with 2 days and 3 days between to find out how to increase strength. Cardio once per week, 5-10 minutes
6 month: Increase strength to 3 sessions per workout day. Cardio 15-20 minutes.
1 year: Increase mass to 140 lbs
2 year: Increase mass to 150 lbs
Body wellness:
1 month: Stop drinking coffee
6 month: Stop eating sugar
Stop masturbating to porn.
1 year: Stop picking lips (and stop using balm)
2 year: Investigate ways to heal ‘permanent’ damage (left wrist, right hand, right foot, neck, back, breast, eyes)
3 year: Heal 2 ‘permanent’ damage

Intellectual:
Learn to program:
6 month: Complete 2 to 3 courses on edx, create simple program.
1 year: Complete 5 to 6 courses, complete moderately complex program or contribute to same open source.
2 year: Complete 10 to 12 courses, contribute to complex program/large codebase.
Right brain things:
2 month: Stop reading news.
6 month: Write weekly post, 3 paragraphs or more, about a topic of personal interest. Paint or craft 1 work of art.
1 year: Write 2 weekly posts or make two weekly videos 6 paragraphs or more on a topic of personal interest. Paint or craft 3 works of art.

Spiritual/emotional
Job:
3 month: Work on expunging record
6 month: Work in a place that doesn't strain body, try out beekeeping to become more independent
1 year: Work for government or self in programming or computing.
2 year: Working prototype for $SECRET_VIDEO_GAME
5 year: Release $SECRET_VIDEO_GAME
Family:
6 month: Have family dinner every Tuesday, join or create social group to foster encouraging socialization, became more vulnerable with wife and stop criticizing her.
1 year: Family dinner Tues, have weekly social meetings with diverse and encouraging groups, speak only integrously with wife and don't direct aggression at her.
2 year: Have healing conversations during weekly family dinner, try and integrate extended family and friends with the dinner and foster healthy relationships that contribute to growth, try to actively develop more intimacy with wife.
Subjectivity and reality:
Observe, relax more often, be in others' shoes, "educate" less.
Discover highest life purpose.
Consider that you can improve your conversational English by just reading more on your own. This is much more difficult in languages with logographic writing systems.
Never heard of this, details?
JK Tyre Is Using Altizon’s Datonis Manufacturing Intelligence Platform
I'm not a fan of the VLC icon change but I use something else because of it. It's their choice to include it an my choice not to use it.

Disabling it is easy enough but I have other things to do.
Is it moving blue or have the GOP just moved deeper (crazy) red?

Maybe “blue” really means they’re more left-libertarian and don’t feel the GOP is a sane choice?
It says no language is perfect there are some or another compromise in all.
We also have to be up by 6:45am to get our son to school, but after he's on the bus at 7:30 we typically go back to bed for an hour and a half. Would that not work for you?
I wish IBM could turn itself around
3 datapoints of banks with no mandatory 2FA: BofA, CapitalOne, Wells Fargo
And full Typescript support right out of the box is a total win.
I’m an SI subscriber for 20 years and counting. 99+% of the articles I remember seeing have been about sports.
How to leverage other people’s activities to build persuasive designs
Leave tech
* Officially launch byobudget.com - my first side project, hopefully on new years day.

* Continue at my day job.

* Have another child (crossed fingers)

* Being more kind, patient, understanding and towards my fellow man.

* Quantify myself - weight, food and sleep tracking, along with room temperature tracking

* Do a handstand for 60 seconds without support.

* Better manage my money

* Get good with the $20 dollar drone I got today :)

* Build stronger binds with my family.
Or using arrow functions.
Curious why more plant based is considered an improvement?
* Finishing my degree.

* Weekly goals: 10KM in runs, writers pages, meditation, being more put together (varying uniform from T-shirt, jeans and trainers).

* Making money in the markets (should be a good time to short)

* Becoming a whiz at linear algebra and data structures.
I meant he sounds like he wants his to discuss his views but not have his views criticized.

Also people often take criticism of their ideas as personal attacks so framing criticism as an ad hominem attack is often used to silence the criticism.
I have two big goals:

- I want to complete my CS degree, get a post-graduation work permit (I am a US citizen going to school in Canada), and find a full time job

- I'd like to learn to deal with my anxiety better. I have a diagnosed disorder, and lately it has made it incredibly difficult to enjoy doing things outside of my comfort zone. I often have problems eating and socializing, and I would like to start seeing a therapist and develop coping skills to deal with the shit that goes on in my mind.
It's not enough to have flexible policy at one or even many workplaces. The world is run by Larks and as long as that's the case, meetings will "need" to be scheduled at certain times, people will "need" to be at home at certain times, errands will "need" to be run at certain hours because places close, children will "need" to be picked up, social events will happen at certain times. Owls will always be second class citizens.
Huh? You can charge an iPhone over USB and their latest laptop includes USB?
An IDE doesn't have to guess anything, if the string is preceded by v-if then is code, that's it. Pretty much how a string literal inside eval() could be parsed as code.
Jack, I was in a similar place regarding your H&F statement not long ago.

I have halved my standard drink intake to maybe ~20 a weekend now and I feel SO much better on a daily basis now (probably due to sleeping better on the weekends).

What helped me curb the rampant binge drinking/partying was a renewed focus on software projects I had been meaning to work on, and training for local races (10ks, half marathons).

I am sure you will succeed as you have already identified what you can divert the time and energy to.
Thanks for this answer. You helped me think about things a little deeper. I also read through the recent guide on how to self-study logic and learned a couple more things on the subject.

If I'm understanding things right it's that proving things with logic means you are showing that something is consistent within a system and that is all you are definitely able to say from that. Not whether something is 'true' in a wider sense outside of that system. And all axioms are assumptions, so all our proofs are saying is that 'assuming that these things are the case then we can show the following result is commensurate with those assumptions and completely internally consistent'.
I think the more important point from the article is that China backed EVs big time and it is beginning to pay off. Not a lot of other governments made such forward thinking bets 20 years ago.

It's now a matter of 'when', not 'if' in China's case.

Here in India, we get random murmurs about EVs from the government, but no concrete action. There is just a single crappy EV model on the market, no charging network, and no infrastructure investment
I recommend jailbreaking, if you have a supported model. You can get access to a full linux box, which can be surprisingly useful. I can now play zork and nethack while pretending I'm studious.
Learn how to invest - it seems to be relatively simple (especially if you're a news nerd like most peple here) but emotionally deceptive. Not many people in Australia are doing it (past their regular Super/401k-equivalent).

I've started to read the 'classic' books (The Intelligent Investor for example), and will probably do some paper trading before I jump into the 'real' thing
Ask HN: How are you securing your apps in 2019?
Hello makers,

I’m curious to understand how much of a priority security is for the apps that you create and develop.

Arguably, security is paramount and a key consideration for every step in the development lifecycle to ensure that the user’s data is protected.

On the other hand, there is a clear need for speed in getting features shipped. It’s easy for security to move down the priority list.

How do you secure your code and applications? What tools do you use, if any? What tools have you used in the past, but didn’t find useful? How should security testing tools look like in 2019?
I definitely care more than the average person, but all things considered I prefer my wired IEMs over over-ear wireless headphones, or today's chunky earbuds that need to be charged too often for my liking (and/or their charging cases, to be exact). Same reason I didn't get into smart watches, the pros were outweighed by the cons. But like wireless gaming-grade mice, I think we'll get there with audio.

I'm the meantime I'll be keeping an eye out for the 3.5" jack in the future, I guess. I do think that it's very convenient to not fiddle with wires, but I like the choice I have now: Preferred shape/sound, vs all the friction associated with wires (sorry ;).

The way I see it, if wireless is here to stay, my situation should only last until someone comes up with a wireless product that I like more than today's lineup. It's just that I prefer my wired setup for the time being!
So true. The fact that they still don't have a solution that allows for concurrent charging and wired headphone use is crazy. I've tried wireless headphones and have found all of them lacking. The two big issues are they are never charged when I need them to be and they don't pair/sync without a lot of fiddling.
Mariah Carey’s record-breaking day shows how little musicians make from Spotify
How can it be the "edge of technology" two years later? Not being able to charge and use wired headphones concurrently is still a major issue for me.
The biggest one was simply going to bed earlier. Every 3 days, I shifted my bed time by one hour. Within two weeks, I was going to bed by 11PM.

The hard part is telling yourself that you won't do any work past bed time. You have to have a hard red line. Takes a bit of discipline but it's just about 2 weeks of effort before you switch to a new habit
Interesting that corporate America typically likes to have cookie cutter schedules that often intrude into our mornings. However, Jeff Bezos, arguably one of the more successful business people in the world doesn’t schedule early morning meetings, sleeps 8 hours a night and wakes up naturally without an alarm clock.

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-daily-routine-201...
How would that work with some third party uploading (and registering on the blockchain) something to youtube they ripped off another place?
usb-c. But iphones don't come with usb-c adapters.
Neither the phone nor the laptop comes with a Lightning -> USB-C cable.
When someone says 'china' hacked these companies, what does that even mean? The chinese version of the NSA, or FBI hacked these companies? Can anyone shed some light on this?
I am taking my first step towards independence and also taking a big gamble. I will take a loan to do a masters in a field I have no previous experience in.
I miss people having a modicum of self-control and a mild tolerance for personal sacrifice.

Just buy a shitphone with a headphone jack. They exist! I have one. You'll live. Apple will get the message. Problem solved.
I'm sticking with my 6 SE until its no longer feasible.
Here's some more information on the design of SimCity:

Will Wright on Designing User Interfaces to Simulation Games (1996)

A summary of Will Wright’s talk to Terry Winnograd’s User Interface Class at Stanford, written in 1996 by Don Hopkins, before they worked together on The Sims at Maxis.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/designing-user-interfaces-to-...

>SimCity Classic:

>Unfortunately I didn’t type the notes from this part of the talk in, but it’s been well covered elsewhere. Chaim Gingold’s PdD dissertation on “Play Design” has some excellent in-depth analysis of SimCity as a cultural artifact, its code, algorithms and design, the story of open sourcing SimCity, his SimCity Reverse Diagrams, and many interesting quotes from interviews with Will Wright and other game designers. It includes a fascinating chapter about Doreen Nelson (who wrote the original SimCity Teacher’s Guide) and her lifelong work on Design Based Learning (formerly City Building Education):

Gingold, Chaim. “Play Design.” Ph.D. thesis, University of California Santa Cruz, 2016.

https://search.proquest.com/docview/1806122688

>I did my Ph.D. research on play and the history of computing. My thesis argues that it is productive to consider playthings, playmates, playgrounds, and play practices as constituting a set with shared design characteristics. SimCity, a software plaything that confounds game-centric approaches (e.g. game studies and game design), is the keystone in an arch of case studies that takes us from some of the earliest examples of computer simulation all the way to model cities enacted with children, cardboard, and costumes, and unusual playgrounds made of junk.

Chaim Gingold: http://chaim.io/

Open Sourcing SimCity, by Chaim Gingold

Excerpt from page 289–293 of “Play Design”, a dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor in Philosophy in Computer Science by Chaim Gingold.

https://medium.com/@donhopkins/open-sourcing-simcity-58470a2...

SimCity reverse diagrams. Chaim Gingold (2016):

https://lively-web.org/users/Dan/uploads/SimCityReverseDiagr...

Doreen Nelson: https://www.cpp.edu/~dnelson/aboutdoreen.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design-based_learning

http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8p55t3m/entire_...
That's enough for me. The directions on the bottle recommend 1 x 200 mg pill every 4-6 hours. But it is possible to take a lot more: the max is 3200 mg/day. I've never had any stomach problems with ibuprofen or other NSAIDs.

I once cracked a rib and my doctor put me on 800 mg ibuprofen twice a day. _All_ pain went away as my swim times dropped steadily - so much so that it was upsetting the swim team's male hierarchy. Each new day I was recovered and invigorated, much to the irritation of my teammates. This went on for a month until the prescription expired. My swim times rose over the next 3 days as swimming became harder and the usual day-to-day pains returned.

Some people say that NSAIDs will prevent you from improving your ability in athletic events but that was not true for me and ibuprofen.
Interesting project. How many "Oh by"s have been created so far?
Looks alright but BYD is better and owns the market.
I’m disappointed we got the touchbar instead of an integrated wireless charging component in the MacBook Pro. If it’s technically feasible, it’d be so convenient to charge my phone by putting it on top of my laptop.
As if humans in cars does not make mistakes. Last time I checked humans have intelligence.
iPhones ship with lightning to usb a. The latest MacBook pros only possess type c ports.