skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right - I understand that. I'm asking why you would assume that gum disease caused Alzheimer's since it appears that CURING it directly preceded the Alzheimer's.
It isn’t clear that any amount of time would lead to it being falsifiable.
Hmm - I just recently picked up a couple of TRS-80 Model 100 machines...

...and I am pretty certain I still have one or two old MultiTechs.

I need another project like I need a hole in my head.
Correct. Craig Venter’s “innovations” are mostly in marketing and self promotion rather than basic science.
Look again at the the PFF (Pro Football Focus) link in my post which the moderators flag banned : https://www.profootballfocus.com/news/fantasy-football-metri... .

Check out the PFF grades in the graphic for the last 2 years of his career: way, way down : https://media.profootballfocus.com/2017/05/Kaep.jpg. Way below average. NFL careers tend to decline after age 25. Kap was looking at 30. He was past his prime and riding the bench. He was not banned from the NFL, he lost a step. It happens.

BTW, your link has the narrator questioning why Goff and Cam Newton have jobs but Kap doesn't. What the what? Seriously. wth?
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If Switzerland (Zurich) would work, I'd be happy to provide meeting space and potentially housing for YC/interviewees.
I remember after a few weeks I figured out a move that could swap two pieces without other changes or something like that (don't remember the details). It was horribly inefficient but it did the job.
I remember those days...I lived in a small town that didn't have a local ISP for a long time, so stayed on AOL for dialup
because of their local dialup number. I'd used the AOL client from another machine and then set up NAT behind AOL's TCP tunneling to get access from Linux and Solaris machines.
Thank you so much for saying so I really appreciate you speaking up I am a Dasher and it happens exactly like you said I may be doing two deliveries but may only get a few dollars for that second delivery when it's doubled off and I've even been asked to do three for orders at a time so thank you someone is finally speaking up about this
X-rays help researchers pinpoint the origins of pottery from ancient shipwreck
I don't know if you realize this or not, but humans are capable of living in entirely self-contained biodomes, outer space, and deep under the ocean for months at a time. Humans have invented nuclear energy, a nearly infinite energy source, along with countless other forms of electrical energy. Humans have perfected the science of agriculture and can even grow plants underground and even grow tropical plants in Canada. This is hyperbole. If you had to put the odds at humans going extinct, you'd have to place the odds at something like 1 in a trillion chance, short of an interstellar disaster or nuclear war.
I worked on this with Peter Gardenfors in my PhD thesis. If someone is interested in a mathematical model of conceptual spaces which is not machine-learning oriented, you can check this out:
https://arxiv.org/abs/1608.01402
In the same vein it would be nice to have the same for "how to build an emacs UI like sx.el for your favorite discussion site".
Okay, technically it's copy on write, but I think if you put a bit of effort into understanding what people mean, you're smart enough to understand what the parent comment meant. Let's avoid making this holy war into a semantic argument. :)
True, but it's not impossible, ie. sense of sight has some planar projection, taking psychedelics may be skewing perception plane so you're able to pick some patterns from this twisted cross section.
Here's a detailed visual guide about how the loom worked:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6NgMNvK52A

(Sorry, no sound apparently...)
> "...Kaepernick will have them squarely on the wrong side of history"

I wouldn't be so sure about that.

Remember Craig Hodges? Michael Jordan's teammate, who won two championships and lead the NBA in 3-point shooting for three years? Probably not. He was the Colin Kaepernick of the 1990's, and virtually doesn't exist now.

Never underestimate the ability of money and power to shape the history books. Likewise never overestimate people's attention spans.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Hodges#Political_activis...
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Four words that could kill your startup
I haven't heard that one since I don't know who Jack Dorsey is. :)
Is something wrong with the layout of this page? If I'm zoomed 100% in chrome, I can't scroll to the top. I have to zoom out to about 50% see the top of the page.
It holds more weight than your baseless accusations, but please refrain from posting inflammatory comments that do nothing to further the conversation.
It has to agree with every prior measurement in Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. That, in itself, is impressive.
I'm on a moderately complex UI right now, that has a JS payload around 364kb gzipped, react-dom, chart.js and material-ui/core bits accounting for most of the heavy bits. I've also been heavy handed with pulling out libraries that could be done easy enough with just React and JS. Svg is suprisingly easy in React, and a couple events while tricky aren't as bad as some other tooling I've used in the past.

Overall it loads in right around 1s, as I mentioned the splitting for async load on demand doesn't work at the moment, which I had the initial load for a page not using chart.js down to around 115kb gzipped. Part of that also includes the embedded SVG icons as well as the JSS for styling.

It's not paying attention when lodash + underscore, + rambda + momentjs, etc. all get loaded via dependencies... most of that can expressly be avoided with specific smaller frameworks and tooling.

https://i.imgur.com/gf5cpNd.png
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> The actual work of porting, however, is matching the security features provided by OpenBSD's pledge(2) and unveil(2). These are critical elements to the functionality of the system. Without them, your system accepts arbitrary data from the public network. ... rsync has specific running modes for the super-user. It also pumps arbitrary data from the network onto your file-system. Do you want that running without specific mitigation in place?

This is a confusing claim. What exactly does "accepts arbitrary data from the public network" mean? (Most servers do that, they just choose not to process the data without additional validation.) And in what way is it critical to the functionality of the system?

Is the claim that, after calling pledge() and unveil(), the openrsync process is happy to satisfy arbitrary read/write requests from the other side of the connection, and so without them it is insecure?

Does openrsync view peer-induced memory corruption after pledge() or unveil() as a vulnerability? Or is the idea that the attacker can already "pump arbitrary data from the network onto your filesystem" and that the attacker gaining control flow is not a meaningful escalation of privileges?

My impression is that pledge() and unveil() are hardening tools, intended to limit the damage from a process that has already gotten out of control (in the same way that e.g. running Apache as non-root does not mean that you're actively fine letting attackers run code as www-data). Is that impression wrong? Is openrsync using them for the basic functionality of making sure that a file is only being rsynced to the filename given on the command line?
This is the first line in the Myth gameplay Wikipedia:

All three Myth games play very similarly. They are real-time tactics games, and as such, unlike the gameplay in real-time strategy games, the player does not engage in resource micromanagement or economic macromanagement, does not construct a base or buildings, and does not gradually build up their army by acquiring resources and researching new technologies.[9] Instead, each level begins with the player's army already assembled and ready for combat
Companies do stuff like that because they think or have proved that it sells. I've heard and read that people increasingly don't want just products any more. They want a brand, a story, etc. That might not work for beer or TVs but that won't stop Budweiser and Sony from trying.
I really wanted to go AMD for my current build, but for full-stack Javascript development, or most things involving a single thread, Intel is often significantly faster. I would have gone with AMD anyway to support competition, but the requirement to add a graphics card for all their performance CPUs, which I don't want until I actually need one, always tilted things toward Intel.
Can this procedure confirm that the machine properly recorded my preferences, reported them to the central tabulator, and that the tabulator included my ballot choices in the final counts?
While technically correct (the best kind of correct), the owners expect to make back a good chunk of the construction cost from the Olympics licensing fees that they will get and from the tax breaks they are getting, which were justified as being funded in part by the Olympics. So yes, it's private money, but private money backed by Olympics money.
(and one continuous paragraph harms readability)

edit: here's a great talk on zig from the recurse center: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4oYSByyRak
See also this story:

For all of the supposed liberating power of their digital devices, they might as well be wearing ankle monitors.

Today’s students live their lives so publicly — through the technology we provide them without training — that much simpler errors than mine earn them the wrath of the entire internet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/09/opinion/sunday/dumb-mista...
True. When we did finite elements linear algebra seemed more accessible. But I still don't think I could be cutting edge in any area of math.
I very much doubt you are immune to social pressure. I do withstand it sometimes but one can stay vigilant only so long
Good point. What about Windows support?
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With the level of education and the reasons most women in a country like Hungary do not have a lot of children, i doubt this amount would make any dent. Although i am unaware of local complexities such amounts only encourage breeding amongst the poorer sections which should not be encouraged.

At the risk of being flagged, it true though that a certain religion has much higher fertility rate than the others and have observed it in very high population countries in South Asia. One, if not the main reason for poverty
anybody sees a specific link for Feb NYC event when they login? Do I not see anything because my application is pending?
> Type-checking only helps with one class of bugs that can occur in a codebase

TypeScript is not only about eliminating bugs, for instance maintaining a large project is much easier comparing to Javascript.

However, A lot of teams would still use Javascript for small backend applications, and the best example is Lambda functions! With rising popularity of Serverless architecture JS is here to stay for backend.

While TS will remain a good alternative for many things of course.
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> If you ask a chess afficionado about...ok, I don't know what will set them off.

Ask them if they think women only Chess tournaments are a good idea.

That'll generally do it.

Source: Chess player.
I freelanced for a couple years, and that was how I always did it. The contract spelled out exactly what functionality was included, and that was priced on its own. I often did projects where it was assumed that the completion of one contract would immediately start a new one, but that new one was also similarly defined and priced. This enabled iterative building out of a system while giving the client the ability to judge value of each piece. I usually focused on systems that I could define a good ROI for (replacements for existing systems with high maintenance costs or requiring lots of man-hours to operate, etc) because it's pretty easy to sell almost anything to a business if you can show them that within 2 years it will have paid for itself.
That's true. Just for the record though, I wasn't in a soul crushing position. Things were good, but I'm vastly more excited about the new path I'm about to take.

About the handcuffs, tbh it's not just the money. There's also other intangibles. I had built a lot of connections and a good reputation inside the company, and by leaving I've lost access to that. I could reason about the money in a spreadsheet, but the other things were harder to value.
I use Firefox, a very unpopular paid email service from Germany, pihole for dns level ad blocking, ublock origin, DuckDuckGo as default search engine and use TOR for any medically sensitive searches or embarrassing stuff... still get targeted ads for things happening in my life which I thought I took enough precautions to hide from the ad trackers.. there is simply no easy way
Sure, your child, but what about someone else's?

Way more people use cell phones than watch the NFL and more people die or suffer life altering injury supporting that industry than they do playing football in the NFL.
Looks fairly broken for me too, paragraphs and a border which doesn't overlap the text would be nice.

I'd say reader mode makes it more bearable but the lack of even paragraphs still makes it kinda hard to read..
I'd recommend Qatar. Qatari government would probably be willing to cover costs/admin and potentially deep discounts on QR flights. You might even be able to do it all airside at Doha Airport, otherwise they'd do hotel + meeting rooms.
http://www.hyrumslaw.com/

With a sufficient number of users of an API,
it does not matter what you promise in the contract:
all observable behaviors of your system
will be depended on by somebody.

It's a nearly insurmountable task to make a change without breaking any users. Semver is an improvement over the status quo, and it at least means that when code breaks someone made a mistake.

I think the next potential step up from semver is a way for a library to run all public tests of its dependencies to look for new breakages. This is not a trivial undertaking, because tests can be slow, resource intensive, and flaky, but it's possible and incredibly freeing for a library or infrastructure developer.

I seem to recall some work in the rust ecosystem like this, but my search-foo is failing me right now.
I have to roll my eyes at these articles that say we should be angry at the second to top quintile- a quintile whose total wealth is something like 12% of the national total.

The middle quintile holds about 3% of national wealth.

Thats really low, but the 60-80% group isn't exactly high or disproportionate.

We're talking about a real power law distribution of wealth in the USA, and it's downright counterproductive to scold or shame the hockey stick before the blade.
It also has developed some interesting mathematical tools and perspectives, but as a TOE I think the growing skepticism is warranted. The worst outcome of course being that M-Theory is accurate, but untestable. It would be a bitter irony for humanity if our best theory required a galactic-scale collider to test it!
Gaming: 2600X

Workstation: 2700

Only a select few games are able to use more than 6 cores, and then only in some situations. For compilation and other workstation tasks the 8-cores (and more) are king, but they're expensive, so unless you have money to blow, go for the 2700.
> It’s hard to imagine how a company that received $15 per month from 12 million WoW subscribers for 10+ years can go bankrupt, but I guess nothing lasts forever.

I don’t think Activision is anywhere close to declaring bankruptcy? While the stocks of many gaming companies have been suffering as of late, many of them presumably rose too high from the hype surrounding esports gaming, etc.
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Elon Musk: A Round-Trip Ticket to Mars Will Cost Just $100,000
Having worked for the man, I can tell you this is a generous description.
There was the "this is what your year looked like" feature that was, uh..., not good to Eric Meyer.

https://meyerweb.com/eric/thoughts/2014/12/24/inadvertent-al...
It's also important to remember that the dynamics of an MMA fight and a boxing fight are only part of the damage a fighter will take during their career. They will also endure many, many sub-concussive hits during sparring that will also contributed to brain damage.
Same. I've been through two computers that have randomly been flaky. It turned out, after 2 years of debugging, that the PSU didn't really like suddenly having load on it (like when the CPU turbo-boosts 8 cores) and that that was leading to crashes. (It was a 1000W PSU, too; I thought overprovisioning would solve all my problems, but I guess not.) I suspected the memory the whole time, though, and having ECC would have at least been one less thing to worry about.

The other thing that annoys me about PC hardware is that the motherboard tries as hard as possible to make your system unstable. I don't want overclocking. I don't want to run the memory at XMP speeds. Just give me a button for "run everything at its conservative spec". (With that in mind, I'm not sure memory manufacturers test anything other than their XMP timings, leaving you to guess whether the non-XMP profile has the right voltage/latency numbers. It's infuriating!)
Same thing here but reader-mode in Firefox cleans it up for me.
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Advertisement improves economic efficiency, resulting in increased prosperity. It’s part of the desperately needed decoupling of economic growth and energy consumption.

Whether the parameters of some neural net are trained on the Facebook pictures of your baby you uploaded is entirely insignificant.

On the other hand, the psychological harm this author will do to their baby if they raise them with an attitude of fear and anxiety is likely to cause them to suffer greatly.

I’m not sure what you mean by “pushed to the fringes” - it seems this author’s isolation is self-imposed. I’m familiar with the ways depression and anxiety can isolate a person, so I’m sympathetic. But it’s often not useful to express that fight-or-flight response by trying to spread your anxieties to others. Learning to distinguish which perceived problems actually matter is important. Most of them can be dealt with inside your head, or by talking them through with someone you trust. Learning to do this has greatly improved my quality of life and my personal relationships.
Shocker: the top 20% possess superior values, habits, and cultural systems for social success and upward mobility, and make choices to gear themselves and their children towards development of important skills to thrive in the modern workplace.

Disappointed that 4,000 words of herd morality drivel is upvoted on HN. Guess it's en vogue everywhere, even here.
next-routes is good, but it was unmaintained for a long time, with issues and PRs (27 at the time of writing!) piling up. A new maintainer was just added [1] who seems more active, so hopefully things will improve.

[1] https://github.com/fridays/next-routes/issues/244#issuecomme...
Why is there an margin-top: -513 in the css? Whatever it is supposed to accomplish, aside from me having to open the page source in order to read the article it isn't doing anything else than messing up the page (Firefox).
It's because ads, google cloud, and a few other business units represent almost 100% of the revenue of Google (and parent company Alphabet).

In a deeply fundamental way, every service or software product that isn't part of the revenue stream doesn't really matter to the business and there is no incentive to maintain it.
Back when money was tight, I built many a computer from components found in discarded computer cases. Many had lovable quirks, like the one that POST'd in dutch every time and could not be changed. I used to call them Frankenstein computers.

While I'd say that would be a far more accurate name in this story, I doubt their marketing department would like that...
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ruuda pointed out an excellent talk/rant by Rick Hickey about the difficulties with versioning:
https://youtu.be/oyLBGkS5ICk?t=1792

(edit: change video link to start right at the ranty part about Semantic Versioning)
Found comment via CMD-F for "ely" - because these pics look a LOT like what is depicted in the film "Elysium". I do not recommend it, FWIW :P
just a quick knee jerk example here, it seems the visual cortex has an intrinsic noise that is normally filtered out but is shunted through when psychedelics are in the mix.

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

>" Many observers see geometric visual hallucinations after taking hallucinogens such as LSD, cannabis, mescaline or psilocybin; on viewing bright ickering lights; on waking up or falling asleep; in “near-death” experiences; and in many other syndromes. Kl ¨ uver organized the images into four groups called form constants: (I) tunnels and funnels, (II) spirals, (III) lattices, including honeycombs and triangles, and (IV) cobwebs. "<

http://psychedelic-information-theory.com/geometric-hallucin...
There is a lot of money waiting for whoever can help the beef and dairy industries become more efficient. My theory is that before we try the big "boil the ocean" stuff like a marketplace for private cattle sales, we need to find smaller easier wins. Dominance of a small market could open up possibilities for bigger markets.
What was the attack surface of the jails/zones? I don't think the distinction here is startup vs. large company but internal vs. external. We used jails at my last company as a last line of defense (and, full disclosure, I wrote about 100 lines of code to use unshare(1) etc. when that machine was our last FreeBSD box remaining in our Linux conversion), but it was on a non-internet-accessible server where the jailed network connection was routed only to a single other (much larger) business that we had an established relationship with. If attacker code were executing inside the jail, there was already a serious breach.

The distinction here is that people are running containers in the cloud and also often running untrusted code (e.g. vendor software, random exciting open-source things) inside containers, and collocating those with high-value targets in other containers. And large, established companies are doing that now just as much as startups are.
Ask HN: Individual Contributor or Manager? What Was Your Motivation?
I work in software development, which is still a relatively young industry. It is well-known that our industry pushes individual contributors (ICs) into managerial roles. But I also recognize that some of us make that decision more deliberately.

I also realize that there are "technical leadership" roles that may not align perfectly with "line management". And these roles may allow us to keep a hand in technology as a maker, but also give us a taste of what management could be like.

I'd like to ask the HN community about what made them chose one track over the other? What was your motivation? What is it that still keeps you on the same path? Or are you even on the same path (maybe you went back and forth, tried different things)?
https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/28/us/super-bowl-male-cheerleade...

There were actually male cheerleaders in the Super Bowl this year.