skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI: Your campnab link in the footnotes has a spurious encoded 'period'. ("https://www%2Ccampnab.com/")

Sorry for the trivial comment, this was an interesting enough article that ABSOLUTELY resonated with my side projects, that I was curious to follow the breadcrumb, ran into that, and wanted to bubble that up to the author somehow :)
Yes, calling C functions is as simple as C.puts('hello world')
Are you sure on ANY? how do you get consent from your pet to treat it?
You don't actually look at your own asshole.

When you have children and wipe their butts a lot you realize how difficult it is to get clean even with a moistened diaper wipe. Even when they start having more normal stools or are old enough to use the toilet (but not to wipe themselves).

Personally I installed a Toto Washlet - one with a built-in water heater. You get used to it quickly and it makes using a standard toilet seem barbaric by comparison.
right, your time spent writing that comment is more useful and solves real-world problems. I feel bad for your kids
I've love to see some performance comparison for the Google Edge TPU, the Intel USB widget, and anything else in that price bracket.
True. However, there's a duality to the citation of press releases.

There's the skeezy usage of them—citing the marketing claims as truth. (I totally forgot about the possibility of this usage, honestly.) Yes, nobody will let you get away with that.

But there's also the more literal way to cite a press release: as a primary-source claim by the company about what the company is doing or planning to do, like the group equivalent of a diary.

Obviously unacceptable: "Apple's new iPhone is the best ever!![citation to PR fluff-piece]"

Acceptable, I think: "Apple issued[https://www.apple.com/ca/newsroom/2017/06/imac-pro-most-powe...] an interrim press release on June 5th, 2017, claiming that they were working toward the release of a new "Pro" iMac model, as a supplement to professional users who are waiting for the next generation of the "Mac Pro" product line, which they mentioned as having been delayed."

It's a use/mention distinction thing. It's not okay to report the press release's claims at face-value, but it's okay to treat the press release as a primary source of information on the corporation's intentions, beliefs, claims, and assertions. It'd be similar to, say, citing the primary-source of a letter(s?) patent, as a source of information of a head-of-state's intentions, beliefs, claims, and assertions.

Or, to put that another way: any claims a PR piece might make are unverifiable, but the mention of the claim is itself verifiable—you can verify that the claim is right there in the PR piece, and you can verify that the PR department of the relevant company really did publish it, and thereby you can verify that the company is in fact making that claim... which can be an important thing to have in an article about them all on its own.
Across the street from the Richmond International Airport in Richmond, VA there are two Waffle Houses on the same road that are about 2,000 feet apart. They're on the same side of the road.

Anybody know why that would be? I could understand if they were on opposite sides of the street but this makes no sense to me.
The scale is a lot smaller :P : imagine a single-cup coffee machine with a scale where the cup sits all at your desk. If you remove the brewing functionality with a desktop-sized tank and a dispenser system, then you have something that would work for any beverage. There is no delivery beyond what the appliance would provide (tank to cup). My other inspiration for this idea was the Norse myth of Thor and drinking horn connected to the sea [0].

[0] http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/pre/pre04.htm (pp 63-64, 67)
The Biggest Threat to Humanity
Myspace popped up before the market was mature and it definitely didn't have 80% market share all across the globe.

Facebook might fall on its own due to user fatigue. But it will still have 1 billion users 20 year's from now :)
Privacy has a new, somewhat hidden cashback program that's not really visible until you sign up. It starts at 1% but you'll get 2% for a year if you refer enough people.

https://cashback.privacy.com/
Facebook and Microsoft develop next-gen Open Rack frame
How much can it really change though? It’s a fairly simple concept. I always considered the cost is paying for trust and reliability. I know a text message might fail. I want those alert redundancies and I don’t want to have to create that system.

I tried some of the competitors out to reduce cost, but UX was definitely lacking (opsgenie for example). We stuck with PagerDuty.

That being said, as a potential investor, I don’t think it would be hard for these companies to reproduce what PagerDuty does, or anyone. They just happened to be one of the first but companies with large pockets, especially Atlassian/VictorOps can make a lot of headway here.

I was surprised to see they aren’t profitable, but I guess a lot of the spend is marketing/sales and the long cycle to get those enterprise customers. Especially the $100k ARR ones.
Good luck!

A year and half ago I had to write down all the spices/ingredients we had and how much was left, because we kept running out and finding out when cooking. My wife and I discussed how a scale like this would be awesome!

Hope this works out!
The article (which I have read) argues the opposite - that calorie counts on packaging are in fact rather unrelated to the availability of energy in the food. Most are calculated using an 100+ year outdated and never reproduced study of basic food groups which used a calorimeter (that burns the food). Your log would therefore have a pretty high calorie count.
If you like Wintergatans marble machine, checkout Martins second build, the marble machine X! It is amazing to follow the work.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLLYkE3G1HED6rW-bkliH...
Well, enjoy it, this will last about 4 months
This is a very fast command-line tool to count lines of source code, written in ATS:

https://github.com/vmchale/polyglot
Remote Mob Programming
Ann Coulter also criticizes both the left and the right. Credit should be given to those who can do so intelligently and egolessly, and neither Coulter nor Greenwald pass that bar.
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.

Now imagine that www.example.com has A LOT of visitors, and myhome.example.com has only OP and his family using it. So now millions of clients need to make up to 96 times more DNS queries each (one day divided by 15 minutes, because 24 hours seems to be the actual maximum amount of time that for example Windows caches positive DNS query replies) because if they are visiting www.example.com and the way too low TTL has expired, all because a handful of people needs a low TTL for myhome.example.com.

Per-record TTL is great and I see no reason to do it the way you are suggesting instead.
Some genuine questions. Can you prove watching the video is mentally damaging?

If it is, why is it damaging, yet movies with shootings, explosions and torture aren't?

Can the damage be measured? Is there any grounding in experimental psychology?

If you watched the video without having read the news, and someone told you it was fiction, would it still be equally damaging or would that change the effect it has?
Cheese eggs and raisin toast, with bacon and grits. Hold the apple butter. It’s the only thing I’ve been eating at waffle house for 30 years.
I didn't realize that temperate rainforest go all the way down to the NW of California. Coming from Seattle, WA that's pretty cool. (the more you know). :-)
I think they must be referring to this:
https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/toc/index.html
Certainly bribery should be illegal and also attempts at bribery should be made public. Don't you think? Certainly I think it's highly concerning when politicians suggest bribery should be legal.
It seems to me that some of these points essentially suggest, 'hey, don't worry about the details of your funding, they aren't that important to whether you succeed. Just don't totally screw up on funding, focus on what you do with it'.

And, hey, that might be true.

But it also seems to me that there is a conflict of interest here in several of the main points.

> Founders who quibble over selling 18% or 20% of their company in a round have lost sight of what actually matters.

If each VC is getting that extra 2% of the company for free each round, that adds up.

So maybe we should take these points with a grain of salt. They don't seem obviously wrong to me (but I'm not an expert), but there does seem to be a conflict of interest in what they say and where it comes from.
I just cannot take seriously anything that claims exercise and calorie restriction are ever ineffective. It's literally always user error. The law of thermodynamics dictates this, any other opinion is pseudoscience. It might be difficult or impossible for the individual to stick to the plan, but if you start off your article by claiming they did everything right and it still didn't work, then I know the writer has no interest in facts.
Here's an interview with Erik Rasmussen, an ex-pat React developer in Spain. I don't know if it answers all of your questions:

https://www.expatarrivals.com/article/interview-with-erik-r-...

They also have a blog: https://erikras.com
Sorry if I expressed myself wrong, english is not my native language and I am missing zoo-technical terminology. I was attempting to tell that it does not make sense AFAIK to get a cow pregnant more often then it is natural
the fireball was canadian (though maybe not "whiskey") ;)
I love waffle house because I can tip 100%.
I was reluctant to state it completely because California's constitution itself limits water rights. It would be unconstitutional to cover your entire property with a giant roof and capture all the water, thereby eliminating the creek downstream of your property and denying the downstream users of their riparian rights. However this is not the use I believe the OP was looking at.
I suspect that even if you could leave your herd out in the snow all winter, a detailed analysis would determine that bringing them into the barn to keep them warmer and feeding them hay for the winter yields more milk per acre. That would, in turn, imply things like a lower carbon footprint and less damage to already stressed ecosystems.

It's kind of like burning wood to heat your house: It may be traditional, but that doesn't necessarily make it better. Realistically, the only reason all sorts of traditional practices were sustainable way back when was that the human population used to be a fraction of what it is now.
> Basically, colors have three "axes": hue (is the color red? blue? yellow? green? purple? etc), saturation (how _much_ of the hue is there? low (but not 0) means pastel; high means neon), and brightness (low is black, high is bright).

Not quite. Or, to be more accurate, the naive HSV is a poor approximation of the perception process.

The visual process is dominated by a luminance scale--the perceived amount of total light. Not all wavelengths contribute equally to it (which is where HSV goes wrong). L is devoid of color information; grayscale images would only have an L channel. Then there is hue, which is essentially a mix of red-versus-green and yellow-versus-blue but is generally described as an angle. There is also a colorfulness property, which is roughly how much the spectrum departs from a flat spectrum.

Except the visual process is more complicated: these values are both considered in absolute and relative terms. A grey that's surrounded by dark greys looks lighter than if it were surrounded by light greys. So you can't look at a color in isolation, you have to consider its context; CIECAM maps colors not to 3 dimensions but to 6 dimensions. This makes accurately mapping a numeric range to colors very difficult.

Finally, there's an added complication when trying to represent colors of physical objects rather than computer screens: there's a difference between specular and diffuse reflections.
A Robotic Leg, Born Without Prior Knowledge, Learns to Walk
My app is location based, so either I have to edit my screenshots while I'm on-location or I have to edit my code to spoof my location. Either way it's extra work for me that could easily be handled on Apple's side
NatWest trials fingerprint debit cards to remove £30 limit
The feature we need to add to https://amixr.io . No idea how exactly but we need to...
Can you point me to a document listing the changes from this effort?
You can make one yourself pretty quickly with a Raspberry Pi and a few dollars (<$20) worth of parts. All you need is a load sensor[0] and an ADC[1].

[0]: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10245

[1]: https://pimylifeup.com/raspberry-pi-adc/
This is a nice article but doesn't discuss the most widely used and impactful application of "personalized medicine" thus far: selecting patients for inclusion in clinical trials based on their genetics. When you talk to people in the biotech and pharma world this is often what they mean by personalized medicine, although outside of biotech and pharma this definition is not what you think of when you hear "personalized medicine"

Studying homogeneous, genetically / biomarker-defined patient populations, rather than more heterogenous populations, meaningfully increases the success rates of clinical trials [0]. This is important because clinical trial failure, mostly Phase 2 and 3, is the biggest driver of the cost of drug development [1]

Interestingly, clinical trials are not more likely to succeed when the drug is developed to act on a particular genetic pathway -- ie, if you find a particular mutation related to disease, then develop a drug for that, you dont necessarily have a higher rate of clinical success. But defining your study population based on biomarkers does increase probability of success (can't find source offhand)

[0] https://academic.oup.com/biostatistics/article/20/2/273/4817...

[1] https://www.nature.com/articles/nrd3078
Presumably when you hit the point of shutdown, most companies don't want to (or realistically, can't) spend the money on what is a new feature (and potentially a pretty significant one)

(though a simple export to CSV would be better than what most companies do)
Consumers love Big Tech, even if they say they don't
I am an (early) millennial and I find some classical music (not all) a lot of fun.

I think an important factor is... the hardware. The modern way most people listen to music (often with crappy speakers, or with headphones and lots of background noise) is not great to enjoy classical music.

When I was a child and I lived with my parents, they had a great hi-fi system and I loved listening to classical music in it. Then, I grew up and my habits changed. I would listen to music in my PC instead of with my parents, or in my MP3 player on the street or the bus. I all but stopped listening to classical music, I didn't enjoy it much any longer, I preferred music with less dynamic range and more "punch", which endures that kind of conditions better.

Fast forward to 2 or 3 years ago, I buy a relatively good Bluetooth speaker, which gives good sound (for a Bluetooth speaker). Suddenly, I begin enjoying some classical music again. I listen to like 20% classical music, 80% other genres.

And a few months ago, being 36 years old, finally I do something I had wished for a long time: I get hold of my own hi-fi system, perhaps not as good as my parent's, but quite good. Now that I can listen to music with high dynamic range and not suffering from distortion in the strong parts, I enjoy classical music a lot again, and now my listening is like 70% classical music, 30% others...

tl;dr: cheap headphones, iPods, listening to music on the bus, etc. kills classical music.
I swear half the time my Slack notifications don’t go off on my phone. Even with background refresh on. I would never trust that service for critical alerts. As in, you need to wake up and fix this now.

I’ve run my own monitoring solutions. My own Asterisk systems. Even my own Twilio integrations. You are grossly oversimplifying what is needed to create and maintain those systems. For many, PagerDuty is absolutely worth the cost, which is why it’s so popular. People will pay for reliability they can depend on so they can focus on their core business.
we tried it and it did not work for us, sure we got some leads/registrations from facebook, but most of them registered for whatever reason, im pretty sure they did not understand what they are signing up, and those that where ok (maybee 10%) did not stay after trial. we even tried traditional media/portals banners with a bigger budget, nothing, and for both of those we hired outside agency to run it. The only thing working for us is adwords/seo and recomendations. it would be great if we could diversify but for our b2b it does not work like that.

i can imagine fb being great for b2c especially for something with emotional connection. but for b2b i'm sure that in most cases it does not work, at leas not in creating leads/registrations.
I'm a computational biologist at a company that has briefly explored this space. The challenge to lifestyle optimization is that current genetic information is very limited in its utility. Either genetic variants have very little impact on health/disease phenotype, are very rare, or are not actionable. Consequently, the people in the general population will not have variants where they can take steps that will lead to a noticeable impact.

There are other areas of personalized medicine that are likely to have much higher impact, e.g., personalized drug responses. A well-understood application is Warfarin dosing, but a large number of drugs with bad side-effects are candidates for screening (and you only need to screen a smaller population of sick people looking for an optimal treatment).
I’ve worked with a number of Indian and Arab people in Poland. I’ve never heard them complain, and some have settled here for good. I am sure there is some level of latent racism here, but that’s true of any society.

Regarding tech companies, Poland has Google, Amazon and some pretty good game studios (CDPRed). It is not an innovation hub by any means though and most people just do regular corporate programming (frontend, backend) or maybe some not terribly innovative startups. If you want to create something based on existing tech, Poland will be fine, but if you want to develop new one, you might have trouble finding the people for it (that’s true for 99.9% places in the world though, Tallin included most likely).

As for Poland being a nice place to live - just come to Wroclaw or Krakow for a weekend when you have a chance and see for yourself. IMO there’s very little difference in living in Warsaw vs say London or New York. The air quality is a worse in the winter - on the other hand, there are no drugs/drug dealers on the streets, no homeless people (or very few), no guns/murders and no terrorism.

Regarding the temp visa, sadly I don’t know anything about it.
Apple earned $60B in taxable income in 2018. Amazon $2.8B. Amazon has a business model where they continue to reinvest profits in the business. Amazon employs 500,000+ people at minimum wage of $15 an hour. They do plenty for the economy as a whole. And if you tax them with VATs, they'll just increase prices on goods. There is no way around it. If you tax with VATs and extract value out of Amazon, you get less capital investment from companies like Amazon, which are highly efficient at capital allocation. That's the reason our economy grows in the first place. Redistributing capital to consumers only incentivizes and subsidizes consumption. To some extent consumption is good, but too much consumption and not enough production leads to a stale and stagnant economy.

Alaska has a budget crisis right now, and they owe back pay to their citizens on the PFD. Besides that obvious disaster, it's a variable payout based on oil money. How sustainable do you think that will be once, say, electric cars become a thing?

The variable payout has been as high as $2,000 a person per year...to as low as $800 a year.

Alaska has benefited, like many oil-rich nations (including Norway), from a relatively small population with relatively large oil reserves and huge markets to sell those reserves to. Alaska has a population of about 750,000. Smaller than most large U.S. metropolitan areas. If they had the population of Texas (28 million)...that oil dividend would amount to $54 a year (in its highest amount ever).

The U.S. is almost three orders of magnitude larger than Alaska in terms of population. A LOT changes at that scale. Especially when the U.S. is THE largest market on the planet. We are the market other industries strive to sell to. Wreck that market, and you'll wreck the world economy.

(https://www.newsminer.com/news/alaska_news/dunleavy-embraces...)
I just listened to Michael's podcast interview. Very smart & inspiring!

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/invest-like-the-best/mi...
Repairing a severely damaged tuba [video]
I would love to have this solution for every product in my fridge. Even my entire kitchen.

Re-ordering things when you're actually almost out of them as opposed to on a fixed schedule seems ideal from the consumer's perspective. To me this is a better solution to the problem Amazon tried to solve with Dash buttons.

I could imagine living in a future world where my grocery list is dynamically defined as the products e.g., below 25% of their original weight.

I am excited to try it.
I'd be interested in learning how you plan on keeping up with corporate wi-fi networks kicking you off, changing passwords periodically, and/or having a weird login screen (the kind you see at airports, for instance).

Also curious if you're using the same PITA approach to "learning" wifi credentials that everybody else is (disconnect iOS from primary wifi, connect to IoT device as wifi, teach it the network and credentials, reconnect iOS to primary wifi).
Or a career as a cow whisperer.
Yeah. It's just another tool. Emotion works quickly over large and/or vague sources of information using heuristics. Sometimes this is useful, and sometimes it isn't.
No, mine is an attachment that fits under the seat. My concern is simply that you have a nozzle spraying water onto your body, and you don't have a way to trust that nozzle is clean. At home, you can trust that, or if you don't you can clean it.
I also made a Cyclone II FPGA implementation :] It looked like this and supported very primitive line rendering:

https://github.com/niedzielski/swankmania/blob/master/DSC057...
https://github.com/niedzielski/swankmania/blob/master/DSC057...
https://github.com/niedzielski/swankmania/blob/master/DSC057...

Unfortunately, the physical hardware and later the code were both stolen in separate incidents. I was able to recover some version of the latter I had shared with a peer. It's posted in the same repo but probably not worth reviewing as it's from my college days and a total mess.
I can guarantee you it can work for B2B at scale. I've personally grown multiple B2B accounts from $0 to an ROI positive six figures monthly. From seed stage start-ups to post IPO companies.

That's not to say you did anything wrong - it's possible your specific set-up wouldn't work. But many agencies do not know how to do it.
Intel-offers-ai-breakthrough-in-quantum-computing – Shashua
Thanks for catching that. It’s fixed. :-)
I waste way less coffee using Bottomless than I did before. Cheaper for me, better for the environment. Real world doesn't have to mean "huge".
Yes. The latter are words, cfg is not a word. Words are easy to google, say, pronounce. "shortenings" are up to interpretation, have no translation.