skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Indeed melatonin supplementation causes tolerance development. The correct dose to avoid it is 0.3 mg [1].

Nevertheless I'm glad pharmacies sell pills with much higher dosage - you can just buy the 2-10mg pills, crush them and take the dose you need. I bet they would sell 0.3 mg pills for the same high price if they knew.

[1] https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/07/10/melatonin-much-more-th...
> To write an article about this concept, he needs some short phrase.

Really? Perhaps the author could have dispensed with the use of the term altogether and just talked about...

> their day-to-day ability to express themselves: They worry that a lack of familiarity with a topic, or an unthinking word choice, could lead to serious social sanctions for them.

...and then referred to that as "their concern". But I think the author deliberately reached for the vague, inflammatory and loaded, but convenient name. I think it is simpler to ascribe this to a lack of desire to have a genuine conversation, than a lack of reader charity. Perhaps if the author was attempting to provoke genuine discussion, that attempt would be clear in their choice of words. I'm not particularly keen to write this article for the author in a clearer manner than the one they managed.
seriously? most I ever could get from a day job was about 50/hour, now I get $100-140 depending on size of company, and moving up from there. The downside though is making sure I get paid in a timely manner and always have a pipeline is a bit rough. (Freelance fullstack developer using: nodejs, laravel backends and vue frontends with bootstrap, vuetify, and elementui as primary frontend frameworks.)
What dosage were you taking? (Same goes to zdragnar.)
Nothing is bad in melatonin except the tolerance development. If I wasn't afraid of developing tolerance to endogenous melatonin I would take huge doses of it every evening.
US senator Warren elaborates on her plan to break up Apple because of App Store
Front-running has been illegal (under that name) since 1987, long before the full automation of trading. Again: front-running involves an agency relationship; by law, you're not "front running" simply by beating a part of someone's block trade to an exchange.
You need to add data to Elasticsearch for it to be useful. I wrote a search engine for Confluence using Elasticsearch- which is amazing, but you need to add components to get it functional.

I'm thinking a "index this site" or "Index this fileshare" and go.
Good for you! I hope you continue to enjoy a good quality of life, and please remember all the inspiration you bring to others around you.
Banks to stop profiting from immigration policy, but Big Tech remains defiant
> The scary thing about what I just described is that plenty of it is indistinguishable from what is already happening in some cases in US elections today. I'm willing to hope that the US case is just pure incompetence, but the attack surface is very large and we've seen that foreign state actors are extremely motivated to meddle with elections.

Whether it's incompetence or foreign attack, the damage done will be the same in both cases, so it's a terrible system to use either way.
Basically yeah, so you might charge 100/hour, and the client will get 40 hours @ 4,000 -- but your expectation is to put in 25-30 in dev work, 10 hours is spent in planning, meetings, consulting, give or take.
IRS Can Revoke Americans’ Passports for Unpaid Taxes
That isn't true. You can also use podman, and cri-o in the case of Kubernetes.
That’s a cheap political shot and even if it were true (democrats are actually pro business, they’re just pro sustainable business) then the whole point you are missing is that the choice of which businesses to target could be better imho.
That is probably the wrong angle to look at it. It's more that individual humans are contributing less, and they cause too much harm.

For example, we can trade labor for money and money for wood. So we create great logging corporations who try to chop down as much wood as possible. At some point, the demand for wood drops, so we start creating more wooden products, marketing toothpicks, or selling cheaper cardboard boxes. Later on, some meal box startup decides that the price of cardboard boxes is so low that they can send a meal box every day.

Housing prices have not 'gone up'. In fact they get a little cheaper as people have better house building tools, and the raw material costs are about the same. But the average person produces less average value, and struggles to produce enough value to trade for a house.

Maybe a big part of this is that all this automation technology really has made people less useful. Inflation and overhiring masks the fact.
The first message sent by telegraph was supposedly "what hath God wrought?"

The first message sent by gravity wave will be "SELL 400 AMZN"
It should be easier to make a Guix package and submit it. Then you could run Guix on top of Debian, or use Guix functionality to make a container. Either a tarball or a docker container if that's more your style.
https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/blog/2018/tarballs-the-ult...
How A Day Trader Cashed in on the Trump-Kim Summit Collapse
The third stage of the PPIO blockchain: decentralization
At this stage, the blockchain still maintains one main chain and multiple contract chains. All nodes are decentralized and anyone can join the network to deploy them. Learn how our decentralization phase works > https://buff.ly/2J0DKpF , then talk to us > https://buff.ly/2J36IoK

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D1KIFo6WsAApC2N.jpg
With hyphens enabled it's not that bad.
> you have no evidence for saying it

I have more than enough experience to know who commonly "disputes" this, and it's not anyone good. You can use this kind of "dispute" as a very clear indicator about those who do it.

Opinions are applied to something subjective and they indeed can the the subject of dispute. Facts can't be replaced by them and disputing facts is rather strange to begin with.
Not to mention housing is cheaper in the South Bay, and the South Bay tech companies generally pay significantly better than the SF ones.
Great ideas!

To those, I'd add just one thought: Most Open Source people are incredibly helpful and friendly. Often times, you can find out where they hang out (IRC, Slack channel, etc.) and get to know them. Once you get some name recognition (after the requisite learning process, of course) you will almost always be welcome to participate.

It really is fun.
It would be incredibly capital intensive. It would need to be very nearly as easy as recycling, which would be incredibly logistically complex and expensive.
> Especially scaling by it's nature requires knowing what approach is the best based on the employed algorithms themselves

I have yet to design a system that requires more knowledge in algorithms than understanding architecture and CAP theorem. Scaling systems is based on a series of trade offs. There are very few scenarios that would require knowledge based on the underlying embedded algorithm unless your problem domain requires so.
"Asked what moment she was the most happy in life, she replied: 'Now.'"

Absolutely awesome!
How to animate Chrome extension icons
I'm assuming you mean https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbmV1bnQ-i0 ? If he's putting code into one file because it is easier to manage while using terminal based editing, that doesn't make a good case for using those tools.

I've seen similar demos of peoples "enviroment", but they are all demos, not actually doing real dev.

I did see https://www.twitch.tv/curlhacker ( guy who made curl ) and he worked on real issues, he worked pretty well, but I didn't see that it was any better than using an IDE...sometimes it seemed more awkward Unfortunately his coding videos have been deleted, there is one still image which shows his multi terminal setup

What I like seeing is, project setup, debugging, acquiring packages, API discovery, refactoring, unit testing, navigating code / multi file management, git management, etc. Seeing developers struggle with the natural frictions that occur is much more interesting I find.
> a smartcard, secured and provided by state officials [..] The (state-provided) USB reader [..]

are not immune to attack either. Unless you go to the extraordinary lengths of making your own hardware in a facility you secure and keep secured for the duration of your democracy, there is no such thing as a 'secure device'. Not when the prize is something so hugely lucrative and advantageous as control over an entire country.

All assuming you trust your government. With opposition parties monitoring vote counts, that's easy. But what about when they have to look for dopant-level chip defects?
I had not heard these statistics before but they are very informative. I live in New York but visit SF often for my job. Every time I visit I am shocked all over again at the extent of the homelessness and poverty right next to obscene levels of wealth from tech.

I always assumed New York just had fewer homeless but these statistics prove that the CA government has instead completely and utterly failed to support this population of people. In general, San Francisco seems like a terrible place to live.
I appreciate your open-mindedness. The only point I would make in reply is that is is possible to know if it's real or a hallucination, it just hasn't been thoroughly tested. It is possible to design an experiment to test the extent to which our normal world and this seemingly other space might intersect.

It would also be possible, though ethically controversial, to test whether or not a person in an OBE state could reliably alternate between being pronounced dead, and then resuscitated. It would be a substantial finding to learn that someone could will themselves to both "die" and also to be revived.

What is certain is that as meditation becomes more popular these experiences will become more common and no longer ridiculed. We will then learn more by virtue of level-headed people sharing information about them. Who knows what we'll find?
Often times you want to run a newer version of a package but it has new dependency requirements that conflict with other packages. Most solutions around this involve tweaking the package, or using a chroot. A container lets you avoid this problem as each container has it's own rootfs and can be a different OS and can run different versions of software however you want without worrying about conflicts.

It's somewhat similar to static linking, but at a higher level.
Showering and then driving to the airport both are have a >> X chance of you dying before you even get on the Max.
LA banned them many years ago but will not enforce the law.
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Before that, I worked on the Nokia family of GNU/Linux devices and the GNOME desktop.

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BASIC games printed in 321 Contact magazines that you had to painstakingly enter yourself to play. At about 8 years old.

Ex: http://www.petesqbsite.com/sections/zines/others/basictr3.gi...

Inevitably you'd copy something wrong, the game wouldn't compile or wouldn't work correctly, and debugging began.
A great thing about the OSI layers, even if what we use doesn't exactly map to them, is that it provides a common pattern for a good way to approach things. Even if a protocol doesn't map perfectly to it, it's a really solid way to build up the abstractions for end-to-end communication.

I've recently been working with LoRaWAN at a low level, and it's a great example of a standard that could have used the OSI layer to make it suck less for implementers. Lots of the encryption and checksum pieces mix up which layer they're working on. Building a nice clean layer cake for LoRa is a disaster, and I've resigned myself to just having a single big state machine that takes care of everything.
Here is one pointer. Your Question is: "How do I develop or change the way I talk as a leader?"

* Lead with your point first. The above question should've been first in your HN post. Try it yourself. Cut the above line, put it first, and then the rest of the text, and reread your HN entry.

* When you start writing with your point first, you start practicing how you should write/talk to higher ups.

* Once you get better at writing point first, you then should start speaking point first.

* When you speak point first, you will grab attention. Once the attention is there, only then can you go into detail, should you be asked to go further into detail.

Examples for your question:

People Issues:

(GOOD): We may have to replace so and so. ... then proceed why so and so is not performing as a conversation.

Do not start with:
(BAD) So and so is getting on my nerves. I asked him to write the code for widget and he keeps not reading the APIs and going off the tracks blah blah blah.

The same applies for operational matters. Start with the point, and if details are asked of you, then keep going. It's a conversation, not a one sided rant.

I won't add to the numerous books and links that people have added of "great" leaders and how to be a great leader because there a lot of good ones in this thread.
I'm in favor of UX upgrades as you say, but not total redesigns. Incremental improvements are best in my opinion.
>People like Elon Musk have gotten in trouble with the stock market for simple things, like thinking out-loud. I'm pretty sure he hates the stock market, and only by law was he forced to sell stocks.

Since this is how his company has been kept afloat for the last decade I'm pretty sure he doesn't hate the stock market, he just hates the agencies that regulate it.

You're alone in this thread, but no one here has given any real defense of HFT other than "providing liquidity", which is sheer garbage in a world where we have giant speculative bubbles forming and bursting and taking out huge portions of the economy all the time - it requires a real fanatic devotion to efficient markets to be trying to race against the speed of light. This is bunk; prices are just wrong anyway, and markets don't need to be that good as a result. What we do need is less financialization of the economy. Transaction tax all the way.
I think it says a lot about how the musical instrument industry works --- you can buy the tubes, but they're not that cheap, possibly because they're not made in large quantities:

http://www.jlsmithco.com/tubing-and-pipes

On the other hand, if you don't restrict your search to "instrument-oriented" suppliers...

https://www.amazon.com/Precision-Metals-9115-Thickness-Lengt...

Now I wonder if anyone has made a trombone (or other brass instrument) from plumbing supplies. That would be more in line with the "hacker spirit"!
I’m a mathematician and tend to take things literally. I should not have mentioned the infinite tape part. What I should have said is that according to the article we don’t store memories in the way that a Turing machine does. There is no tape as such and there is no set of rules that the brains abides in terms of how to do the next step so to speak.

I gathered that the quote I referenced means that the state of a brain at time t is not sufficient to reconstruct memories or other meaningful information. The fundamental point of contention between you and others criticizing the article appears to be that you all believe that there is a storage mechanism in the brain in a similar (analogous?) fashion as a computer. I gather the author claims this is not so. Information is not stored in neurons in such a way that one “retrieves” it by accessing a storage location.

I don’t know enough about this stuff to intelligently comment on the veracity of it. I just know that someone far more knowledgeable than me and just about everyone else commenting says that our intuition about how this stuff works is wrong. That alone is worth causing me to reconsider my intuition on this stuff.
As someone who works with GIS data and map meshes this is really awesome. Hats off to the author.
Convenient that "doing nothing and not worrying about it" is both what you believe after doing exactly 0 research, AND the correct response to drinking tap water! What are the odds?

Depends on where you live.

Chicago water is notoriously shitty and has been found to have a large amount of lead in it.

Your body cannot filter out lead or other heavy metals, and it will build up in your system and lead to brain damage. I know it is macho to "not worry about those contaminants like some weak manlet" but you should actually know what is going into your body before making unilateral decisions.
There was a monoculture which may have been biased. I saw nothing in this article to indicate that the researcher was seeing something different because she was female - merely that she was following a different evidence trail.
Facebook like automatic alternative text for images using object detection (PHP)
Sounds like you already believe you're in a "besieged fortress of sanity".
Does anyone know where I can buy one of those signs?
If you remove the rubber nub, you still have a little plastic joystick poking out of the center of your keyboard. Also, the trackpads on Thinkpads are pretty worthless when compared to offerings by other manufacturers.
It is definitely not proven. If it was we'd have a completely different view of quantum mechanics. This was even quite a big debate among quantum physicists in the 20th century and talked about in the beginning of every quantum book (at least that I've seen).
Great piece.

Last year, I forced myself to release something every two weeks -- even if it wasn't finished or was just a poorly-written blog post. I can proudly say it was one of the most productive years of my life[1]. Most of those projects won't see the light of day -- no one will care and no one will notice -- but releasing is far better than endless planning.

And just to really hit it home: this year I built Lofi (a small Spotify player replacement[2]) and I shared it on reddit[3] (and on HN). But if you read most of the posts, it's a whole bunch of angry people arguing about Electron sucking, about why the app is 100mb, about how C++ and Qt would be better, etc. etc. The difference between me and those people? I'm already working on my next project ;)

[1] https://dvt.name/2019/01/06/retrospective-stuff-2018/

[2] https://www.lofi.rocks/

[3] https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aufj4m/lofi_a_...
all 737 max have just been grounded in china by government order: https://thepointsguy.com/news/china-grounds-737-max-aircraft...
Mobile design with device-to-device networks
Loads so fast. I miss you, Internet.
LOL! I said almost this exact same thing to my wife as I showed her this site. web 1.0 before we knew it was web 1.0.
Sunsetting Promo and 15 Lessons Learned from My Failed Startup
The only stories I wonder about are thinly veiled gossip or marketing. Anything music related reminds me that many(most?) hackers are musically inclined
For people turned off by the title: "Future You Masturbation gives you the pleasure of all your future accomplishments with none of the work. It’s your brain tricking you into something that feels good today in exchange for lost meaning and purpose and accomplishment in the future."

It actually sounds a lot like the concept of not telling people about dieting or whatever long-term task you're engaging in due to the dopamine rush from telling people rather than accomplishing things.
Wait, was the sign thing for real? I thought that was a parody...
You don't need to explain how the model works, you just need to explain what factors the model cared about when making a certain decision.

A strong example is a classifier that distinguishes between wolves and dogs. When you look at which pixels were the most impactful in 'Wolf' predictions, you can see that it is actually pixels of snow that are leading to predictions of 'Wolf'.

It's still a bit of a black box, but now it's a black box with an obvious, measurable flaw that you can work to address.
I don't think this is satellite data, most likely photos captured from planes.

And I'd kinda be curious to what Microsoft has been working on, I remember their birds eye was pretty good a few years ago.

Apple I'd believe the are selectively trying to improve their data in areas that are heavily visited by their users.

Also, I did for the first time see an Apple branded car with a photo sphere on the roof recently and kinda got excited that they are gonna try and bring competition into maps / street view that Google has dominated for the last decade.
I'm not so sure that California is ahead of the rest of the country. The effect of the tech industry on the Bay Area's fortunes is not that unlike the effect of the auto industry on Detroit or even the textile mills on New England. Silicon Valley is just the latest iteration of a cycle that has existed for a long time.
It was written in PHP with CodeIgniter I believe. Some of his journal entries detailed how hopeless he was at developing it and how he had to hire people who were better programmers.

https://codeigniter.com/
Other cities have the same problems, but are not following the same failed solutions. Another commenter posted about how Minneapolis upzoned the whole city, something unimaginable in the bay. Rent control also has little traction there.
Well the common description of a data scientist as "better at stats than a programmer and better at programming than a statistician" can also be reframed as "worse at stats than a statistician and worse at programming than a programmer" in most cases. I think it's typically a rebranding of PhD in a science field realized that market for that educational track is very small so rebranded as "hottest job of the next millennium"
Or, heaven forbid, skip a week.
What’s Deadletter.io
Hey,

could anybody tell me if they’ve used/know anything about deadletter.io? Seems interesting but I wanted to hear from a user before jumping into it.
Look, these things are horrible for the environment... no doubt.

But in my opinion, two-stroke gas leaf blowers and lawnmowers are the best engines to take apart and learn engine repair on -- repair and maintenance being cornerstones of mechanical engineering. I love doing small-engine repair and these were my gateway drug.

Plus... the smell of mixed grass trimmings and gas is something magical. (Wait, is that weird?)
that is a solved problem. the person who can do “AI” on the results to save all the human postprocessing hours stands to make a fortune.
Can you elaborate on "It will delete audiobooks from your library and not even tell you."? How can this be detected?
CA state workers hoarding vacation days creating $3.5B debt for taxpayers
Well, Electron does suck.
I'm going to be honest, I thought this was going to be about Transformer characters desired by a Deep Learning AI