skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Marcel Duchamp Interview on Art and Dada (1956) [video]
Adaptive icons is a stupid bad idea. Humans distinguish different objects by shape and color. Now when all objects are mandatory made to have same shape, it only made harder to find needed icon. It effectively just made icons smaller and harder to distinguish from one another.

Best Android icons were in Android 5.0, and went downhill from that.
Call me crazy, but this also reminds me of our housing problems. Take for example the person who get an education, a good job, works hard, and saves up to buy house. Then when it comes time to buy, some kid with rich parents, whose done fuck-all with his life, swoops in and buys the house.

Rich people have a huge advantage in society, which I'm not opposed in theory, but I am opposed to it when rich people elbow out lower classes. It's weird when rich kids use their parents money to live a middle-class lifestyle on "easy mode" and simultaneously make it more difficult for actual middle-class people to live a middle-class life.
Yes, but now consider that you have to forward the query. If you unpacked the ANY to individual known types at the frontend, will you only forward A, CNAME and MX (which you yourself know about in your example), and omit AAAA, SRV and INFO? (And also be responsible for packing them back into a single reply, I guess?)

More correctly you should probably forward the ANY as ANY, so you have to do it slightly later than "up front". And then cache the individual answer records as if they came from individual queries.

I haven't fully thought this through, though, because: a) As you can see, it's not necessarily "simple"; b) it's not impossible to suss out something that makes sense, but the article at least claims that the resolver side is undefined so far, and several implementations do several different things by now. Giving up on ANY is probably for the best, at this point.
I actually already built a tool for that specifically hahah. https://www.makerstories.io
It was pretty amazing to see today driving on the I-10. :) It's nice to see at least some bugs in the sky for a change.
Do you think I am ignorant of the arguments for and against violence, for and against its affects on society?

Do you think I have personally seen what I believe are positive or negative affects of real and artistic violence?

Are you a majority or minority believer?

Does my opinion actually matter to you?

Why have you asked me these questions?
I presume that if Boeing arbitrarily decided that all new production 737NGs were to be renamed 738 with no engineering changes, on just the whim of some marketing team, the FAA would recognize it as the same airplane despite the different name. Perhaps they'd be quite annoyed with Boeing for doing that, but I can't imagine they'd actually require all pilots to retrain.

That's just my presumption though.
That's an incredibly generous response. Thank you!
I'd be surprised if that's true.

I'm pretty sure addition is always 1-clock tick latency / 3-instructions per cycle. While Multiplication is 5-clock tick latency / 1-instruction per cycle IIRC.

So if the timing of those instructions are constant, it seems difficult to side-channel / timing attack them.
Astronomers Just Found 300k Hidden Galaxies in Just a Tiny Patch of Sky
I might even go further: not only is it not constrained, there are certain kinds of fun that one can only have while politely sitting still.

Of course, I'm biased, because I'm one of those people who likes attending classical performances. But its for the same reason that I don't want 3 televisions blaring while I'm eating a fancy meal.

At a certain level, distractions take away from the enjoyment of the thing you're concentrating or enjoying.

I don't think there's anything uptight in this: I could say the same thing about people turning on the stadium lights during a mosh-pit/rave.

Its as simple as some human experiential dimensions exclude other human dimensions: we can't, biologically for the most part, experience or investigate the full extent of all our senses at the same time.
I don't understand, how/why do you waste coffee without this product?
According to the UMAC paper, the 32x32=>64 multiplication only contains 32-bit of entropy, even though it uses 64-bit space. That's understandable : most of the entropy will be in the middle of the register.

That's enough for XXH3. Since it maintains a 512-bit internal state, that means it transports 256-bit of entropy.
how is that measured ?.
initially we thought, how stupid we where in not paying for facebook earlier because of increase in signups. but on closer look the registrations all where from private individuals (remember we are b2b) and they would never fill out the data about the company or even log again after initial signup.
even those that where registered as companies never used it.

i think facebook user has a different expectation then google. i know some companies first hand that had great expirience with b2c, i never meet some that did great in b2b.

maybe if our focus was more on creating a community around a common thema, and then do brand building or so, it could work as a secondary generator of leads, but for pure,i pay for an ad and the goal is to get an conversation it was not that great.

so if you could write more about what does work it would be great because only relaying on adwords and always increasing cpc is not that appealing.
> The only hit I get when I search for "ban glasses of water" is this post.

Used to be when you went to a restaurant they would automatically bring a glass of water to your table. Then "they" decided this was a bad thing so now you have to specifically ask for water if you want water.
He wrote this:

https://web.archive.org/web/20041214030544/http://www.cultde...

That at least somewhat supports my interpretation. I was thinking more along the lines of image files.
Seems like MetaMed tried working on every buzzword in medicine.
* Artificial Intelligence and diagnosis (check).
* Evidence-based medicine (check).
* Personalized medicine for all (check).
Consider, for a moment, all the capital and smart minds working on those things. I'm certainly not saying that's a reason not to work in any of those fields. Rather, a small startup is probably better suited focusing on 1 specific hard problem and gaining sufficient domain knowledge in that area to do meaningful work.
Russian-American Crew Blasts Off to International Space Station in Soyuz Rocket
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> citation needed
Supportive Scepticism
> Even biology related topics are subject to external pressure from journalists, politicians and activists.

One of these things is not like the other...
not all RFCs are standards. RFCs that become one are labeled as STD and a number, but nobody uses those (afaik)

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/std-index.txt

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Standard
I used to believe firmly in this too. Now, I'm a bit more open-minded, and I don't believe it's as simple as the "law of thermodynamics".

True, noone can store more energy than you ingest.

But - as the article says - it's very difficult to know exactly how much you're ingesting. The calorimeter is a very blunt way of determining how much energy is "in" food - not only do food labels probably routinely understate how much energy something contains, it has no way of explaining how that energy is actually digested or metabolized by the human body.

Many people calculate their diet based on very slim (~500 kcal) margins. It's conceivable that these are obliterated by these small fluctuations in actual vs labelled calorific content.

That's without getting into issues like insulin sensitivity and so on.

My go-to recommendation for people trying to lose weight is eliminate all sugar and simple/starchy carbohydrates and start a fairly light exercise program. This will have a marked impact on appetite, and most people will naturally start losing weight. If weight loss stalls, start playing around with meal portions and feeding windows.

So far, I haven't heard of anyone who hasn't lose weight with this routine.
I don't think the article really advocates any alternative, but I think things the best benefit of MyFitnessPal is to promote awareness of what you are intaking.

I have been receiving health coaching for last 4 months or so, and most important part that working for me is to be able to be conscious about food choices, and also being able to reflect what I have been eating and doing how well I'm doing with sugar, carbs, protein, fiber, etc., rather than just looking at the calories count. (and I do eat unhealthy stuff time to time, and I don't think my health coach is necessarily against that -- unless that's my regular habit, that is. It's more important to know how they balance out in the overall intake,)

It never occurred to me before I start measuring what I eat using MyFitnessPal. But now, seeing those numbers, I tend to consciously adjust my intake, for example, I will just eat 1/5 of that chips I wanted to eat, because I had bit of carbs today, etc., etc.,
Steps between colors are not hard, I actually made a game out of it: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nkcss.shad...

Note: aborting a game or asking for two hints triggers an ad. If you never ask for hints or abort games, you'll never see an ad.
Shady tactics like lowering the cut to 15% after 1 year.
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I call bullshit. Classic case of correlation != causation.
What an odd way to respond to two people willing to take the risk to start a new thing. You can say something similarly flippant and derogatory about most every company at its start.

- "Books online?! Feh!"
- "Power from hydrocarbons?! Nonsense! Get a real job!"
- "Flying machines? We need more bicycles!"

It would be better to engage with the founders and ask why they started the company and what they think the can achieve. I did that and have enjoyed working with Liana and Michael. Also, though it doesn't matter much, neither of them studied CS in college.
Any chance you have a link to the podcast episode?
0xAAAAAAA5 make a lot more sense as it is a 32 bit integer.
Btw it is 36 * 52 * 157109, so not an integer, just like you expected. Then again you don't care about that, but the bit pattern.

Any reason why use use 0xAAAAAAA5 instead of 0xAAAAAAAA or 0xA5A5A5A5?
From the inventor of the Moth Ladder.
All I know is that such language would first be called “Go with classes,” then “Go++.”
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> But if things are done your way then because myhome.example.com needs to have a TTL of 15 mins now all of example.com must have a 15 min TTL instead of two days.

Er, why? I was proposing precisely the opposite of that: that if you made myhome.example.com a separate zone from its parent, it'd have a separate TTL.

Honestly, there's no reason (other than the awful UX of current DNS servers and registrars) that any/all subdomains that have reason to change independently, aren't made into independent zones that are simply "managed under" their parent zone.

In software, you decouple components that have different rates of change (e.g. policy and implementation layers), so that teams corresponding to those rates of change can deal with the components using engineering strategies suited to their lifecycles. (E.g. a policy DSL can be quickly modified and pushed by the ops team; while modifying the implementation requires code review and a successful CI build.) Because this is pretty much an unalloyed good, we do it more than we need: we modularize everything, even things with the same needs, because "keep everything modular" is a lot easier of a principle to follow, and it allows us to group things into different change-flow-rate layers after the fact.

So why, oh why, do we not obey this principle with our DNS subdomains? The same team who owns the "microsoft.com" zone is responsible for any changes required to the "technet.microsoft.com" zone, and the "zune.microsoft.com" zone? How crazy is that, as the best-supported, idiomatic-UX default to have in DNS systems?
But there's 64-bits of input (32-bit A x 32-bit B). So if you have 64-bits of input, but only result in 32-bits of output entropy, then you've lost information.

I realize you have to compress data down in a Hash function somehow, but ideally you want to minimize the loss of entropy / information from the input bits. The ideal mixing function would have 512-bits of internal state, with 512-bits of entropy starting off... and ending with 512-bits of entropy once all the mixing were done.

If your factoid is correct, then we're starting with 512-bits of entropy, but only 256-bits of entropy after the multiply.

> That's enough for XXH3. Since it maintains a 512-bit internal state, that means it transports 256-bit of entropy.

Why not optimize the function, and aim for only 256-bits of internal state (with 256-bits of entropy) ??

See: you can cut down on state and possibly improve performance. Maybe not on Intel Skylake, but probably on ARM Neon / AMD Zen (which have 128-bit SIMD registers internally). Hmmmm... 512-bit (aka 2x AVX2 registers) is probably needed to get good ILP on Intel processors. So there probably wouldn't be much improvement for Intel.

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Again though: I'm not sure if its losing information yet. Its just something I'm thinking about... (32-bit XOR would be 32-bit + 32-bit input, with only 32-bits of entropy output. But unlike multiply, you only have 32-bits of state)

32-bit multiplication with a constant, keeping only the bottom 32-bits, keeps all 32-bits of entropy without being forced to expand to 64-bits. I definitely like the bit-mixing properties of multiply, its just difficult to find configurations of multiplication that saves every bit of entropy.
I don't know about this. In the past, entire soundtracks consisted of classical music. One track for the good guys, another for the villain, but all were orchestral. I think classical music works well for soundtracks because it can convey feelings well, without the distraction of lyrics. Some of my favourite games ever were from the Final Fantasy series, and they often used composed music that was a similar style to classical music, and it added greatly to the ambiance, whether it was walking around a village or fighting a boss. Classical music just conveys a lot of emotion without the use of lyrics.
To save anyone else from staring at the page for a minute (wondering if it's linked just because it looks like 1992 called, not knowing what the "sec" USA government department does or what an S-1 form is): PagerDuty seems to be going to the stock market.
I believe that this is just the initial release for testing, and the author plans to clean up the header file to separate out the interface from the implementation, and add documentation.
Yea EMs. I don't know about non-tech.
You're right, and we'll probably just keep doing scales.

Some people have a mental block with the word "scale" in this context, so we like to remind them it could be other stuff :).
Largely regardless of ones definition of a hacker it was a subculture in the '80s, '90s and even early '00s. Because of the scarcity of information and resources there was motivation to organize, form groups and publish things in a way that you don't have today. A hacker was therefor at the time (regardless of the underlying activity) largely defined as someone who took part in hacker culture. In that sense it was about curiosity and exploration. You are trying to learn things that aren't readily available or necessarily considered worthwhile.

Once the Internet became widely available there wasn't the same need for a culture to being able to do that (at least in theory). Who is considered a hacker therefor changes from people engaged in hacker culture to people who for example do information security. You can to some extent go to university, never talk to anyone and come out of there being considered a hacker. While previously being a hacker would be quite distinct from academia (though there would of course be overlap among people). As the point was that you were doing something different from what was already established. Whether that was coding, security or community.

I wouldn't personally judge someone who was consider a nefarious hacker when hackers were more of a subculture, as most of the activities would be considered relatively mundane today and there motivations often benign. I would judge someone for running a dark market, distributing malware or even just run an unethical data business today however.

As a further tangent, I do think it is curious how most people (myself included) thought that the plot of the movie "Hackers" was a bit ridiculous. But then 20 years later Maersk gets hit by ransomware.
I've half-joked in the past that the Pacific Northwest starts on the north side of the Golden Gate Bridge. It really is true that by the time you're a couple hours north on the coast, though, it's a pretty profound difference: foggier, rainier, cooler but moderate (i.e., lower highs but higher lows).
Farming in the Netherlands works under different constraints. Farmers don’t have cows in pasture, they often have long concluded that it is more efficient to mechanically inject manure into their land, mechanically mow the resulting grass and feed it to their cows. Grass production increases that way, and it makes it less labor intensive to move the cows from and to milking stations twice a day.

Also, once you have enough nitrogen in your land, cow piss doesn't make the grass grow faster, it seeps into the surface water, kills fish, and makes algae grow faster. The Netherlands mostly is way into that “once you have enough nitrogen” zone.
Waffle House is perhaps the only reason I would return to the South.

Having spent many years in the Carolinas, it was a special time with my daughters that we would have “our time” at the Waffle House. My wife from New Jersey never understood and was happy to let us go.

There is just something about the simplicity of the place that just makes me happy. Now that I live Out West nothing comes close - not IHOP or Denny’s or anything.
More and more companies are also involving PagerDuty in their support! Incidents and multichannel escalation are great complements to standard support workflows for high impact cases.
Yup, I'm completely on board for a way to monitor my consumable items.

The re-ordering part is a bonus, but simply knowing what I'm nearly out of in real time would be very, very, helpful.

I imagine this is more true of people with kids, who are not naturally inclined to track and communicate this information. They will, however, chew you out when you return from the store without more of the cereal that they have just finished. ;)
https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/5770516-The-Great-Re...
GP comment can be backed up with news reports and with quotes of MP/government members. What do you need more?

> because you love campaigning against your own country

Democracy works best when discussion is open.
I remember when a horde of Painted Ladies took over Bullhead City AZ for a day back in the 90s. So amazing to watch.
Sure, coffee roaster here. It's false that allowing beans to degas c02 preserves them indefinitely as the parent comment seems to imply. There is however about a 10-hour window after roasting where degassing of c02 is so vigorous it impedes oxidation. Freezing vacuum sealed coffee, both green and roasted beans, will preserve it almost perfectly for years because freezing decreases oxidation rates by more than 90% and slows the movement of volatiles.[0] Enough people have documented and tested this and it's very common for Cup of Excellence winning and other notable coffees to be stored for extended periods of time this way. There are even cafes with reserves of such coffee, you can walk in and they'll pull winners from years ago for you to try. Scott Rao documents the research and resulting evidence of why it's beneficial to freeze coffee in his book The Coffee Roaster's Companion.[1] It's just not economical at scale, or necessary. Green coffee is "fresh" for about 9 months on average, most roasters go through specific lots of coffee well before that window closes. The sad reality is that most roasted coffee is well past its peak by the time it reaches the consumer.

You can conduct an at-home experiment yourself by finding a local roaster, asking when their roast days are and if you can get some coffee from that batch before it's allowed to rest. Seal and freeze a portion while keeping the rest in a normal valve-release bag and compare after a week or two.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Technology-Michael-Sivetz/dp/0...
[1] https://www.amazon.com/Coffee-Roasters-Companion-Scott-2014-...
Yes, there is indeed. But it's very rare, and I can't tell whether or not those are the sorts of ads being used, so I have to assume they're all bad.

Almost all app developers who include advertising are using third party libraries to do the ads, after all.
Shows how unreliable experiments like this are. Needs some Bayesian analysis.
Behold, The Hacker's Diet:

http://www.fourmilab.ch/hackdiet/

Written sometime back in the 1990's, the author (creator of Autocad) determined that weight gain and loss is simply a feedback and control problem. Most of us eat open loop. By counting calories in and calculating your weight trend[1], and adjusting calorie intake accordingly you can deliberately control your weight. Simple, right? :-)

Iv'e tried it. It actually does work. Mostly. The cool thing about it is you don't even have to count every calorie you eat. Just eat normal and start the weight trend measurements. After a while you'll see what your trend is and his online tools will calculate how many calories of intake you should reduce (or increase) to give you your desired rate of weight loss (or gain). Finding a way to cut 200 calories a day, for example, is easier than counting every calorie.

The downside is, I think, what this article gets at. Twice I've focused hard on using The Hacker's Diet and lost a good amount of weight, but as I dropped I started to get really hungry and fatigued all the time. It was weird. At first it felt really good to weigh less, but it became very hard to maintain. My best guess, and this article seems to support this, is that the composition of my calorie intake wasn't optimal (or even close to it). Both times I lost my will and gained the weight back.

It's interesting to note that he mentions in the book that he's "weird" in that he eats all his calories for the day in one big meal in the middle of the day. "You don't have to do this," he assures. And now, 30 years later, there is a loud group of people who do exactly that in order to lose weight (see: Intermittent Fasting). This article also mentions eating 3 meals with no snacking in between is better than grazing all day.

Anyway, just thought I'd share that in case anyone is interested. I have no easy answers. I'm not hugely overweight, the gains and losses I'm talking about here are on the order of 20 to 30 lbs over the course of a few years each time. Take all this as is.

1. weigh yourself everyday, calculate an exponentially smoothed moving average
This reminds me of Juicero. It seems to be solving a problem that only exists in the Bay area.
AIUI they're not claiming to ever remove already-linked devices, but you can't add more devices without going back under that threshold.
Technology makes seemingly inconvenient tasks easier — but at what cost?
What I do in my team is dedicate time in regular meetings for "fun talk" which is non work related, but still different from a true informal thing.

What friends of mine are doing is "nearmote" everybody still in a one or two our distance, so you can meet up on relatively short notice and can schedule regular team meetings, but also have benefits of remote.
Sounds like a way to promote something.