skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in the military, I have an hour of PT every morning at work as part of my work day. I don't do any study when my kids are awake, they get my full attention. I take them grocery shopping Wednesday afternoon, I do nightly homework, we have activities on weekends and some school nights (i.e. this week is dentist Thursday and school disco night Friday). Most of my friends have children of similar ages so I tend to see them a lot on weekends. I simply spend my free time studying. The average North American watched 5 hours of media per day in 2015, that's 35 hours per week.

I know this life isn't for everyone, for me this is a necessary thing I need to do if I want to change from military to software development. I can't stay in the military forever as a single parent, it's simply not feasible, so I'm doing what I can to set myself up post-Army. It's not the most enjoyable life but it's temporary and it's an investment in my future. I'm not trying to say it's the solution for everyone but if you have goals you want to achieve then it's certainly a possible life for most people.

I think what a lot of people, especially parents, lack is energy. There is a reason I do most of my study in the early morning with a very early nightly bedtime, it's because I have more energy before work than after work. After 7 hours of study and 8 hours of work, I'm exhausted. When my head hits the pillow I'm out. It's probably a good part of the reason why so many people rack up 30+ hours of TV per day, they want to sit on the lounge doing nothing of a night. Having daily PT at work has been a blessing, it's kept a high level of fitness up and I feel this gives me more daily energy.
If you want to play with these ideas a little, the excellent game Crusader Kings 2 (https://www.paradoxplaza.com/crusader-kings-ii/CKCK02GSK-MAS...) has a $5 DLC called Sunset Invasion that's worth picking up. It causes your session playing through 700 years of medieval European history to be interrupted at a random point by an cross-Atlantic invasion of Aztec conquistadors, who bring with them their own religion and strange new diseases.

The game disables this invasion by default, so you don't have to worry about it wrenching your playthrough in weird new directions unless you want it to. But it's a fun little way to shake up the usual with a bit of alternate history.
> Gradually, with Michael's help, I began to realize that my work wouldn't help people be happier in ways that felt meaningful to me.

Could you elaborate on you notion of meaningful happiness?
Dowdall Rule
It's the same story.

That site doesn't dispute that Ulbricht founded the Silk Road with the explicit intent of, among other things, providing a platform for the sale of narcotics and other illegal items. In fact, it opens with this admission.

So, end of story. Ulbricht was charged with and convicted of money laundering, computer hacking, and conspiracy to traffic narcotics. This site agrees that he did those things. He wasn't charged with being DPR, that was just one point of evidence. At best the site could give reason to believe that Ulbricht wasn't the only one who should have been arrested, and also that his sentence was unduly harsh. But it doesn't dispute his guilt at all.

As always, Ulbricht's supporters hold two contradictory beliefs:

1. Ulbricht did nothing wrong in allowing the sale of narcotics on the Silk Road, which shouldn't be illegal anyway.

2. Ulbricht was wrongly convicted.

Whether or not narcotics should be illegal, they currently are and Ulbricht sold them.
Elizabeth Warren reveals her plan to break up Apple if she becomes president
There's a learning curve to being independent, it sounds like you never even got started on it.
> Will we be teaching about high-frequency trading?

markets will still want liquidity, so if there's a functioning economy, there will be HFT.

JPL can be great without taking digs at other activities.
Just change the last line to "you'll be an adult, my child" or "you'll be a woman, my girl" and move on.

If you can't make a trivial fix to a simple problem, you aren't paying attention to the poem's message.
>Like university is the only place you can go to learn things.

I get that the self-reliance learning angle is way overstated, but that's going a bit too far.

I learned programming mostly on my own, albeit while working in QA and having exposure to code and programmers. But it's not like I got mentored or needed someone to hold my hand learning this stuff. If you can read and have the initiative to play around with code and figure it out you'll do a lot better than half the learned fools coming out of university. I consistently out perform my peers with CS degrees when it comes to tracking down a hard bug. I swear some of these people hit the first wall and just have no idea what to do.
There is an alternative, called internet.

I routinely stay in places that don't have internet service, either deliberately (ranches and luxury off-grid getaway places), or because there is no infrastructure.

Internet isn't the solution to everything. In fact, some very high-end restaurants are now only taking reservations by telephone. And there was an article (NYT?) a few months ago about exclusive restaurants now only taking reservations by letter.

If internet was the answer to all of this, then Google wouldn't have spent billions of dollars on a system to call businesses to place orders and make reservations for you.
“We should be excited by that. But the reason we’re not excited by it is because we live in a society where if you don’t have a job, you are left to die. And that is, at its core, our problem.”

Until we fix the issue of homelessness, it is good to be wary of automation. Especially because you can't just invent new jobs for people that had no demand before just to employ them.
Elizabeth Warren: Here’s how we can break up Big Tech
I suppose you could leave a review somewhere like GlassDoor? You're not allowed to single out bosses, but detailing the culture could help someone else from making the same mistake, and can force the company to change their ways if it's preventing them from hiring good people.
It will be interesting to see how carriers react to the option, though. As it stands, they are happy to help themselves to your location and usage data (much like ISPs do), having a handset that could turn that money-making flow on and off might cause at least some to refuse to take you on as a customer.
Genius! Applauding for the concept and clean, easy to understand design.
Thanos.js Reduce the total file size of your project down to 50%
Sounds like it overlaps with "The Shangri-La Diet":

"The consumption of flavorless calories supposedly lowers the set point, and therefore, lowers weight."[1]

"AMA" Are you going to be answering questions? What are "food pills"? What is in them?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-La_Diet
I would take a look at archive.org for gaming/hardware sites. Hardware sites used to be a huge thing back then, when every geek was drooling over the latest gear, whether it be CPUs, motherboards, network cards, sound cards (for real SB Live! Ftw!), gpus, etc.

Firingsquad was a big one- It was originally started by a guy who won John Carmack's ferrari in a quake tournament if I remember the story right: http://web.archive.org/web/19990101000000*/firingsquad.com

Others you may want to look at:
AnandTech
arstechnica
tomshardware -really great coverage around intel's Rambus RDRAM debacle around 2000.
sharkyextreme
Aces Hardware- this site was really in depth for the time, but it updated infrequently before just stopping altogether around 2004. https://www.aceshardware.com/ Their stuff is still online.

Those were the main sites that I would check that I can remember...
I got Resolve set up on Ubuntu 18.04 this morning - the trick for me was switching to the nvidia drivers, before that it segfaulted on my machine too.
Are you assuming people with technical degrees don't have these same skills?

You can also train entry level for a good amount less too.
Nokia also invested in C3 and had the first 3D maps available to consumers before anyone, completely in WebGL which used to be on https://wego.here.com. I guess Apple had more money to acquire them.

*Disclaimer - I worked for Nokia at the time.
Show HN: NomadList for Foodies
My first question was: what does recent mean? Would be nice to have that at the top of thw article instead of in the middle. It's 10-15 million years.
> if no page on the Internet links to it, will it even by indexed by the Google Search?

Probably not. To fix this problem, you create a sitemaps.xml on your server and then give Google/Yahoo/etc. the link to it.

https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184?hl=en
This seems consistent with personal anecdotal evidence.

Whenever I start eating "too clean", which for me consists of mostly bland foods and protein shakes, my appetite for calorie-dense snacks/meals tapers off and eventually results in me losing weight.

This usually happens over the course of a 7 - 12 days at which point I catch myself, overeat for a couple of days while going a bit harder at the gym, and bring myself back to baseline weight.

I'm 5'11", 172 - 178 lbs with an average TDEE of ~2800 and change.

Yes, I even lift, bro. And climb. And run. etc.
The discussed algorithm doesn't match reality though.

The problem as stated, includes (although there may be variants):

"•After evaluating a person you can offer them a job. But if you reject them at that point, you can never come back to them.

•You want to choose the best person in the sample. Every other outcome except choosing the very best person is equally bad."

In reality choosing the 2nd best mate or candidate isn't much worse than choosing the best and is certainly better than choosing the worst (unless you believe in 'the one'?).

And in reality we can go back to rejected candidates / mates.

My understanding of the article is that that is their problem (with the problem) also.
U.S. Lawmakers Would Like to Force 'Smart' Devices to Be Less Hackable
How secure do I need my restaurant take-out order to be?
The pirate scene isn't what it used to be when it comes to adopting new technology. In the past the scene would adopt whatever codec gave the highest compression efficiency with little regard for anything else. You could see this in the adoption of MPEG4 ASP even though it was not widely adopted by the commercial market.

Today compatibility with set-top boxes is much more of a consideration than it used to be. The increased speed of internet service and reduced cost of storage have also lessened pressure to pursue ultimate efficiency.
You should put some contact info in your bio
While I really appreciate the clean news, it does seem a bit weird to me, because most news stories originate on actual need feeds, like AP Wire, or Reuters.
Having done work with those wires, you can see how diverse they are, to the point that you spend more time glossing for your interests than not.

HN is a great example of not that model: it's a curated list for targeted readership/ engagement.

Edit: and then there's the issue of what feeds to use, so based on some target demographic, some feeds will not be shown (eg some small local community News from outback Australia), this means that it's already semi- filtered/ curated, but in a way that's minimally effective, imho.

If they were to take on the news wires head to head directly, and to allow a tiny publication to publish to the news wire: then they'd be onto something!
It's a big part of the reason I do a lot of jobs with my kids. I teach them how to cook, we grocery shop and I discuss how adults purchase things, I fold the laundry in front of TV with them, etc. My 4-year-old son has shown a lot of interest in my tools lately and last week he helped me repair a cupboard. My deep intellectual work is after a nights rest when I wake at 4am (I go to bed at same time as my children, ~8pm).
Well put, and accurate. VMIX FTW.
I don't know a lot about the specifics of this release, but isn't there always going to be a N+1 version which is better?

After a new version comes out it's going to take a while to work through the pipeline of inclusion into various projects, and that'll take a while, then people need to upgrade, etc.
I use full-screen windows similarly and it drives me crazy that MacOS has "spaces", which would be perfect for this, except for the stupid animation that MacOS insists on playing every time you switch between spaces, and which can't be turned off.

This makes them pretty much useless if you switch hundreds of times a day.
> US is a multi-party state with two dominant parties.

The US federal government is a two-party system with some non-party representation; not only is a multi-party system is defined by having multiple represented parties, but the US has a number of government systems set up whose structure is fundamentally predicated on their only being two parties that matter, and both the major parties observe that structure even when they have the political opportunity to gain immediate advantage by exploiting the huge loopholes that this opens in theory; e.g., a party could pack the so-called “independent” government commissions whose members are Presidentially appointed with a limit of a bare majority (3 on 5-member commissions) from a single party by appointing friendly independents or members of ideologically-aligned minor parties, but even when the President’s party controls the Senate and so shutting the opposing party out completely would not provoke confirmation battles that might be lost, the form of duopoly is strictly adhered to.

It's clear that functionally, everything outside or the major parties is decorative and non-functional; even the independents in office functionally are tied to one or the other of the major parties (whichever they caucus with).
Are/Were there any other options of taking up a voluntary heavy load other than one you find mind numbing? Say things like run for politics, start teaching or even start your own company etc.

As you mention, this is a dream for many. My fears are literally what you described - I almost shut shop and left for my home country 5 or so years ago to start my own company, but finally decided not to because of variety of reasons. One of them was definitely rusting away alone. So I am looking to hear more!
Microsoft Launches Free AI Business School for Execs
These people have spent their entire life in the Valley, they don't know any better.
>>3. Robot takeover

This is an interesting take of what could happen if humans loose control of such AI system [1]. [spoiler alert] The interesting part is that it isn't that the machines have revolted, but rather that from their point of view their masters have disappeared.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame!_(film)
It's not so much 'lag' that people notice as much as the torque roll on. Even a supercar doesn't deliver 100% torque the second you hit the throttle, the RPM has to build to increase the torque, hence the reason torque and HP are on a curve. Electric on the other hand has ALL the torque available ALL the time. Generally they actually have to limit it for takeoff otherwise every Tesla would just roast the tires if you slammed the throttle.
I'm not sure I agree, madam.

There is a gulf between "misogynistic" and "being part of a culture that largely ignores women". It strains credulity to claim that the words "son" and "man" don't draw males closer and push females away. Any one poem is a "micro", but it adds up across the culture.
Thank you for the encouragements! There are still a ton of work to be done to get the user experience to what we envision. Please keep the feedbacks coming!
Object-Oriented Programming Is Bad (2016)
How much progress do you think you've made in the past 3 years towards that goal and what makes you think that you'll get there within the next few decades?

Also what makes you believe that Open AI will get there way ahead of thousands of other research labs?
Evidence of these "feeds", as you insist on calling them, was put here by the Devil to upset and confuse you.

I have a PWA that will clear all that up for you, friend.
Agreed we could have used either of those. We needed a PRF keyed by the Game ID (so the revealed secrets of this game can't be replayed in the next). Blake2b and SHA3 would also have worked fine.
Like an iPod Touch? https://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/

Despite the name, it's basically just an iPhone without a cellular radio (though I'm not sure if it's actually removed, or just disabled/neutralized). So you can use it to do anything an iPhone can do, it's just dependent on having access to a WiFi connection if you want to do anything over the network.
Gaza is held by a terrorist group, defined as such by US and other western countries. It also keeps attacking Israel with missiles. Nevertheless Israel exports medicine, food and concrete on a daily basis to help the civilians in Gaza. Do you think Israel should help them more in any way? What is a sufficient aid for an area which you're in war state with?
In addition, for importing/exporting commodities, Gaza could use the their western border with Egypt, which in contrary to the Israeli border, the Egyptian is closed most of the time for the same reason - Egypt doesn't accept the terrorist regime in Gaza. Maybe you think Egypt occupies Gaza as well?
Open up "Resource Monitor" and go to the "Disk" tab. Under "Disk Activity" you can see all open file handles.
I can't even imagine swallowing food pills all day.

320 pills/day seems outrageous.
> might shave a few gigabytes off their data plan

I think I pay about $10 a gigabyte? If I actually used that many gigabytes a month, the savings would pay for a new phone!
> From their original announcement: "You can now return a car within 7 days or 1,000 miles for a full refund. Quite literally, you could buy a Tesla, drive several hundred miles for a weekend road trip with friends and then return it for free."

Come on, do you honestly believe returning a Tesla will be the same experience as returning a random trinket on Amazon?

With all the financial pressure on Tesla, they will be doing anything to recognize the revenue of a "sold" car, which they can only do after the return window lapses. If the NYT forces me to call someone if I want to end a $20/mo. subscription, I shudder to think what Tesla will do to protect their $50k+ sale.
This is not how contract negotiation works. In a market where housing demand is weak, it would be perfectly reasonable and possible to propose terms of sale which reduce the seller's agent fee or return it to the buyer in the form of a discount. Worth remembering in all forms of contract negotiation (buying cars, etc.) - just because they write it down doesn't mean you (the buyer) have to agree to it.
If you're referring to the arrest of Green in the beginning, the authorities had built up a case that Green was a major player in the Silk Road and the package delivery was the final confirmation.

You seem to be talking about entrapment, but entrapment is when law enforcement induces someone to commit a crime they would otherwise not have committed. Here they had evidence that Green routinely arranged and received drug shipments, and that this final shipment made by an undercover officer was part of that routine.
Surprising Discovery Hints Sonic Waves Carry Mass
Well, I am not a cryptographer, so I can't really make much attestations myself, but here's what I read:

- OP claims that the security claims of SipHash are incorrect or misleading.

- SipHash paper author defends claims made in SipHash paper.

- OP responds, claims that the security properties are misleading because most people would just assume it meant it was a "secure hash" and not a secure PRF. To prove this, he alludes to a Rust bug that as far as I can tell would work exactly the same with any hash function.

So I'm curious. Can you recover the seed in SipHash with side channel attacks? The response can be summed up as "PoC||GTFO," and I tend to agree; it seems to contradict at least some of the security claims they are making, after all.

All in all, if they have a point, it's missed in the flurry of unrelated points that were brought up there, and I definitely am not sure what to take away from it.
This is a useful way to handle tasks. It sounds like backlog grooming in scrum. It's nice to just write down the various ideas you get, regularly prioritize them, then grab a few of them per sprint to finish and deploy to prod at the end of that sprint.
I went to the model 3 AWD performance test drive day at their HQ, and walked away knowing I wouldn't buy one. The entire driving experience to me just felt so floaty, with essentially zero road feel. Im sure my mom would love it, but it's the antithesis of what i'm looking for.

You can pry my all mechanically/hydraulically linked pseudo racecar from my cold dead hands.
Even as someone who is in some regards-but not all-annoyed with and frustrated about the state of policing in America, this take is even too cynical for me.

And the beat cop who was to take your statement is going to be more qualified?

Emphatically: yes.

Threat assessment is literally one of the things police departments are trained on in some degree or another, and they have a pretty powerful escalation path at their disposal when working to vet and take action on those threats if deemed credible when someone says "I will come to your office and kill you"--if the situation warrants it (PNI).

You may not like the outcomes, but one's personal opinions on how effective an investigation is doesn't preclude the constabulary from having much more expertise in their ranks than a direct line supervisor at investigating a threat to someone's life.
You may joke about SW, but there are not a few applications for a secure encrypted channel that is difficult to MITM and doesn't go through nation-state infrastructure.
I am yet to see actual images of this phone. Sounds like something I would buy, especially if I can install just a plain Debian release on it.
SWIY is 100% correct about "is"-ness vs "being"-ness. It may be simple but it is incredibly profound. And yet, some things aren't actually changeable. Case in point, sexual orientation. Even with total personal commitment, it does not seem to be malleable. Not that it has never changed or evolved for anyone, but that hard work and time are not sufficient to create that change intentionally.
I bet pretty much every Windows user would trade confusing command prompts in strange circumstances for not having to reboot for pretty much every single Windows Update (due to it being unable to update files that are in use)
> why did we convert hardware knob to software

Because it was cheaper, and most consumers want cheaper goods.
How cloud providers make hosting simpler for SPA and not for server-side rendered apps? Agreed, for the front, you can use something like Netlify. But for the backend, the game has not changed. What do you use?
> A very good article, but I think that there is a missing concept - which is organisational maturity.

Maturity and also scale - I suppose a small or even one-man shop requiring a generalist could be mature. Once you get to a certain size specialization happens automatically.
Good to see it's not full of "5 BERRIES DOCTORS HATE".

Good job! Gonna use.