skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is great. I've always found it really hard to remember what I did a month ago, let alone 5 months ago for my bi-annual (if that) perf review. Even worse as a manager. Building more of a habit around this stuff would be awesome. (BTW really recommend James Clear 'Atomic Habits'[0], found it really interesting.)

We're thinking about building something like this for people to track personal growth more easily at Progression [0]. Thinking nice pretty exports, benchmarking, all sorts of other stuff too.

Genuine request, if anyone does this regularly I'd love to speak to you.

[0] https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
[1] https://www.progressionapp.com/solo
More bad news for Hadoop HDFS, new benchmarks show object storage is faster
The Federal Minimum Wage Doesn’t Matter Anymore
Ask HN: What your linux workstation looks like?
no debates from me here.

i will add though that from “it’s not science” it does not necessarily follow that “and therefore it’s not useful.”

the obvious example is that the idea of falsifiability as a criterion for what is and is not science is itself unfalsifiable — but very useful!
There are a small number of people who will pay the Mercedes premium. There are a small number of people who will pay a premium to get electric. The intersection of the two is not a large market, IMO.
Facebook Messenger Is Recording Each and Everything You Say
Once-Unpopular Carbon Credits Emerge as One of the World’s Best Investments
"So what would it mean if there are gods of simulation?"

Well, I for one would be curious to find out more about these gods.
I want my strawberries to survive till nightfall. Because strawberries.. yum!
It's just sad that enormous amount of developer resources are being wasted into a tech which should have been used for the standard web instead. It's not just the developer hours put into the AMP project itself. Thanks to all the SEO blogs, every site out there has to wasted resources into an AMP implementation.

The days of maintaining two versions of a website - a "mobile version" (in AMP) and the normal - are back again. Takes me back to the WAP days (not saying it's that bad). Then there are those that are going AMP-only - getting locked into AMP and all the excessive-yet-limited JS baggage (try building a full-fledged site and you will have a lot of AMP JS). JS compilation and execution isn't cheap on phones either. I sure as hell can make faster-rendering sites without that AMP bloat that can compete despite their prefetch.

This proprietary tech isn't helpful and is a massive dev resource sink. And let's not kid ourselves, there were many better ways for Google to prioritize and encourage speedy websites.
It's a component in an AGI that wants to see how many paperclips it can get from a particular strategy.
"Even if the N.S.A. was listening in, they couldn't get his credit card number" -- what a prescient quote for 1994, pre-Patriot Act, pre-Snowden.
Yes, in fact the RFCs for both HOTP and TOTP have a section each dedicated to resynchronization of counter/clock to account for client and server being out of sync. Here are the relevant sections:

- RFC 4226 (HOTP): Section 7.4 (Resynchronization of the Counter): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4226#section-7.4

- RFC 6238 (TOTP): Section 6 (Resynchronization): https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6238#section-6

In case of HOTP, the client's counter could be ahead of the server's counter if a user requests multiple HOTPs from the client before the user presents the HOTP to the server. Therefore the server should look ahead according to a permissible look-ahead window to see if any succeeding HOTP value matches the HOTP presented by the user or client.

In case of TOTP, there is of course the problem of clock drifts. Therefore the server should look backward as well as forward by a few time steps to see if any TOTP backward or forward matches the TOTP presented by the user or client.
I think there’s a general pattern here.

A subscription company can make its service hard to use and decrease usage and therefore costs to increase profit.

But it’s at the expense of long term profit as users gradually get fed up and leave.
This article is not as strong as the headline implies. The "models" being mentioned are supply/demand models of price-setting, not the general equilibrium models that inform policy.

The Bureau of Labour Statistics is already wise to the fact that products change over time, and they implement a quality adjustment factor (https://www.bls.gov/cpi/quality-adjustment/home.htm) to mostly compensate. Something simple like adjusting the quantity of stuff in the package is so blindingly obvious it should be fully accounted for in inflation statistics.

Instead, this article (and the research work it's based on) refers to the odd phenomenon of sticky market prices. In particular (from a bit past the easily-accessible blurb of the article):

> Firms that sell thousands of different items do not offer them at thousands of different prices, but rather slot them into a dozen or two price points.

This is not what you'd expect from a textbook model of economics; there's no continuous calculation that would explain why a company should prefer to sell a dozen different shirts for $14.99 despite differences in quality or observed demand.

The research also suggests the tail wags the dog:

> Retailers, Messrs Aparicio and Rigobon suggest, seem to design products to fit their preferred price points. Given a big enough shift in market conditions, such as an increase in labour costs, firms often redesign a product to fit the price rather than tweak the price.

... which is again counterintuitive given that retailers would ordinarily _set_ the price.

Ultimately, the macroeconomic point is made best at the conclusion of the article:

> What’s more, the substitution of quality for price as firms’ main way of responding to changing market conditions weakens the case for keeping inflation low and stable. Inflation makes relative prices less informative, economists reckon, making it harder to decide what to buy and how to spend. Rather than clarity, low inflation has brought a different sort of confusion: one of shrinking chocolate bars and lost holidays.

... which also makes sense given the research finding being reported on. Retailers evidently feel they can't adjust price to reflect quality (and have to go the other way); if inflation were higher but still stable, then everyone would be forced to make these sorts of adjustments more often.
Eternal vigilance is necessary to hold back right-wing aggression.

Unexpectedly this submission got flagged, but here is the original article: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/10/world/europe/sweden-immig...

People high in RWA are more likely to exhibit
hostility, aggression, and/or punitive control
toward those who are seen as social deviants
when they believe that doing so is approved by
authority ﬁgures.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318260321_The_Right...
Bank of America just tells you your password wasn't right if you are on a VPN. It's terrible from all angles and the only way to find out is to guess what they're problem is or search for forums where people have had the same thing happen and figured it out.
How ‘Am I the Asshole?’ became the internet’s most profound query
The series of events that lead to that was really bizarre. To cut a long story short, a bunch of more right-leaning authors who thought the Hugos had turned into soapboxes for left-wing politics decided to push back by putting together a "Sad Puppies" slate of eligible works they considered good (so called for the photo of its' creators dogs looking sad they used to encourage people to support it). It met with... unexpected massive success in 2015, with quite a few of the works becoming finalists. Folks responded with a fairly effective campaign to vote every work on the slate below "no award" by signing up people en masse as Worldcon supporting members so they got votes, including paying the fees for them in some cases. They also handed out wooden asterisks to every nominee on the slate at the official ceremony to imply their nominations were all illegitimate .

The thing that made this really interesting is that in the major categories, there was quite a bit of overlap with what would've likely got nominated anyway. Apparently the only reason the Best Novel winner didn't make the slate and then get pushed below no award in the finals as a result is because the people who came up with the list hadn't got around to reading it yet! (Some of the less hotly contested categories did end up with right-wing schlock being nominated though.)
Hartford Financial Takes on the Opioid Epidemic
Bosco Verticale Italy
Telegram's privacy bug - a contact list with 10 million items[Google translated]
I suspect it has little to do with education. It’s more about not doing the “traditional“ marrying a high school crush to get laid/because you got knocked up, taking time to learn who you are, and dating around to find the right partner.

The thing I don’t think these statistics always reflect is the societal changes over the decades. Why people marry, when they marry, ease of divorce, the effects of widespread divorce on upcoming generations, it’s all changed enormously over time.
Years ago in Philadelphia these were interesting. Now after the internet popularization of them I see promos and ads stuck on the road Toynbee tile style.
How to Use TruffleHog and Git-Secrets
So much for the "GMO reduce pesticide use" scam.
China’s central bank digital currency is “ready” after 5 years of development
Agree! If there's any inflation I'd like to see it's for sugar products.
Monte Carlo can be used to simulate any stochastic part of a process, not just inputs.
I think the main reason is just performance. The official client is slow and slows down my computer. I have signed up and joined a few servers like Mario maker ones and the one for the diablo disassembly project (which I always forget the name). Currently, once in a blue moon I open it in search for mario maker IDs. However, I never spend any time there, as the chatting experience is not very good.

It's not very good because:

- notifications work badly for me (notifying a lot more than I'd like, I briefly tried to get it to only notify me when someone called me specifically, but I can't couldn't find a way that wouldn't involve going through all the channels

- it's slow and uses too much memory for my puny little pc

- it's hard to keep track of the last read message and current latest message. It requires clicks and it's clunky to use.

- this is a personal one, I find the interface really ugly and I value beauty in my UIs

If there was a server I was incredibly excited about I could put up with it. But given my mild interest, I end up never logging in. If there was a terminal UI that I could leave running in the background, not taking too many resources, I'd definitely leave it on a tab and interact on topics I found interesting, just like I do currently with IRC.
Top secret teens: The high schoolers recruited by the National Security Agency
Do you also get that sci-fi arch with a portal and some computer controls in your room if you say "Arch" out loud?
Remember, the ideal situation for a business to be in is you paying them, while they do nothing.

Moviepass took this to a whole other level.
We have a similar subscription model in the UK for Cineworld. For a monthly fee you can go to the cinema as much as you like.

The key difference is, the monthly fee costs about 50% more than a single ticket, and you’ll be lucky to have more than 2 or 3 movies you want to watch each month, with the obvious dry-spells where nothing really appeals. Since it also gives a discount on snacks (already hugely expensive), it’s just a way to sell more sweets and pop.

It pays for itself after two films, when there are two worth watching, and as long as you don’t bother with snacks. Cineworld easily claws back some of that money when you skip the cinema for one month, or only go once.

It seems a lot better thought through than what turned out to be a free-for-all cinema subsidy with MoviePass.
Because the discord desktop program is kind of crap? Why can't I collapse the godamn channel list? edit: because I was misunderstood, I mean collapsing the column so that chat takes up the entire window space. I've only been able to do this through developer mode edits.

It's all so bad. Wasted UI space. Takes up my entire screen. Sys req is way out of proportion for a chat client. Weird UI prompts.
Surely there's a place that sells burritos near you?
Even financially. If they help you at all when you’re old, it’s worth the investment. The cost of in home care, independent living, etc is insane
Yalies have been "rich enough to play poor" at least since the 90s. I remember seeing the son of a prominent senator at a picnic with a hole in the sleeve of his old (but probably expensive) sweater and a local friend commenting that those Yalies always want to look poor.
China has been stealing from us and I'm shocked by all the traitors that side with China. You like slave labor and socialism that much huh? You literally support suicide net slavery in china. Please kill yourself.
Looking around, all of the LinkedIn profiles I could find for these people look suspiciously empty and suspiciously similar. Most of them have only worked at companies closely related to that parent company.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maritza-banda-116806120 /
https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-foster-039805111 /
https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-nangle-b60255173
Oh, please. If Mossad really wants my messages, they're not going to give up at the "Oh no, he uses Signal!" step. They're going to go full knee-wrench if they have to. And considering they have a habit of forging my country's passports, don't pretend that me living in another country is a barrier to that. The same goes for my country's government. Our laws are chock-full of "throw him in jail until he gives up the password" allowances to law enforcement. And that's not even getting into the fact that Signal's owners, OWS, are located within the jurisdiction of the "we'll star-chamber NSL you on a moment's notice" US government.

But Signal is perfect to stay private against non-nation-state actors. If I want to make sure that my ISP, mobile carrier, etc. can't snoop on my messages, Signal is my phone messenger of choice. Until and unless Facebook is demonstrated to not be on the level regarding Whatsapp's implementation of the Signal protocol, then I'll keep Whatsapp on the list as well.

Telegram is not on that list. If my threat model consisted solely of "that guy with the manbun and macbook working on his novel in the coffeeshop", then maybe Telegram would be acceptable. Let me know when Telegram has default and mandatory end-to-end encryption, using a properly-implemented and proven-secure protocol like Signal's, on all clients both mobile and desktop. Until then I'll consider it to be about as secure as SMS - "hilariously not".
JavaScript OTP One-Liner
Have you tried running it in a browser? Most features work, and Firefox/Chrome have much better notification systems and performance.
My point is that saying that something is written in 18 lines of code when actually all the heavy lifting is done by the libraries is misleading. That doesn’t mean I don’t appreciate Python’s expressiveness and rich standard library.
Real people, fronting unreal businesses. Here is their head of Business Development, Designer, and Cryptography Advisor

https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamapollo/
Also from BBC then: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-38566114
Apple Transforms Central Park into an Augmented Reality Gallery
CEOs Who Cheat on Spouse Twice as Likely to Cheat at Work, Study Shows
The other posters have brought up a lot of important points, but if you're struggling to change, here's a first, really easy step for the lazy: Go to your nearest electronics store and buy a MS Natural 4000. Do it now.

Yes, I know, it might not be as high-quality, sophisticated and thorough in its design as specialized ergo keyboards. But: It's widely available, it's cheap, and - an often overlooked pro - it adheres to a standard keyboard layout, which means that it only needs minimal adjustment, both initial and when changing computers (if you don't want to lug it around everywhere or switch out every keyboard you are in contact with). All IMO deciding factors for doing that first step and sticking to it. :)
And: In my experience it still gets you there most of the way regarding ergonomics - split and curved keyboard, and especially negative tilt(!).

I only wish MS would rerelease a modern, higher-quality version the model (the current model is almost 15 years old now!). It is still servicable, but oh, what could be possible...

PS: The immediate next step should of course be checking and adjusting the geometry of your workplace. An ergonomic keyboard won't help much if you're hunching there like Quasimodo.
It seems you are inutitively always converting everything to the decimal system and taking that as "the way" to think about numbers. That wouldn't be surprising, because we are brought up this way and even our language focusses on the decimal system. Not having good words to speak about the binary number 1101001 makes it difficult to think about it without converting it first. Two (I'm decimal again!) isn't a good base for human communication because there is a lot of repitition of simple symbols. Maybe a new way to pronounce hex numbers like a17c03 would be able to replace the decimal system.
Stock Xubuntu here.
It's more like the simulation authors can influence population of different places to have different religions, ideals and rules, to see which one would win. If you look at it, it could be some kind of optimization, you put different ideologies together and see how they interact (commerce, wars). This also allows avoiding cultural degeneracy, i.e. seeing some prosperous society turning into something horrible (e.g. sacrificing humans daily to make sun rise), that would be then killed off by a competing culture in an inevitable clash of cultures, leaving the stronger/more viable alive. I worry about globalization as a single unified culture because of human tendency to degenerate; having a cultural competition seems to be needed for humanity to progress.
Men and women went to great lengths to make sure no one ever got a straight answer regarding glyphosate. Y'know they use it to kill wheat before harvesting? Makes it lighter so the harvester can save a few piastres. Whole wheat bread can actually be a lot less clean than white bread, because the glyphosate is not washed off of the outer layer of the grain, which is discarded in the production of white bread.

Is it safe to eat glyphosate? Well Patrick Moore says that a person could drink a glass of the stuff and be fine. He also said "no I won't drink it. I'm not an idiot."

In Hawaii I notice absurd amounts of pesticide use. Look at any place where humans gather: if it has plants, it has pesticide. Golf course, soccer field, planter, sidewalk turf.
This was my thought too and it can be a good investment. If you think your stock is undervalued by a certain amount then why wouldn't you buy up the stock at the lower price? You can pour money into R&D, but if you could take what could be a potentially free return then I don't know why you wouldn't take it.
At that point it broke my BS detector, I had to order a new one.
Fossil Free Yale kids are making a good effort, not mentioned in the article.

https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2018/12/08/ypd-arrests-48-peo...
The snippets feature looks quite powerful and particularly like the enumeration conversion example. Are there any plans of making these kinda of transformations extensible?

I've recently gone into speech assisted video editing and came across Kald about a month ago, was interested specifically in its diarization feature ... it's quite daunting. How did you get up to speed on it ... I've talked to a few people who've worked with it but it took them months to feel comfortable with it.
I find it interesting that movements such as feminism and multiculturalism trace their roots to countries that hated the US, UK, etc supporting radical professors with intel assets, as a means of subversion.

Arguably, feminism and multiculturalism, as currently embodied, are weaponized memes meant to destroy a society.

Neither is supported by factual basis, and both rely heavily on emotionally manipulative propaganda tactics. Feminism has left men happier and women less happy than the social dynamics of the 1950s, while causing generational scale institutional misandry and breakdowns in relationships.
Why data centres are the new frontier in the fight against climate change
Hubble Constant Tension: Cosmologists Debate How Fast the Universe Is Expanding
This past week I read a critical essay penned by George Orwell on Wells, Wells, Hitler and the World State (http://orwell.ru/library/reviews/wells/english/e_whws). It serves as a great supplementary read to this article.
Ask HN: Are startups moving away from HK?
Also, sandbox escapes. :)
Only if you have enough of them for each of your developers to spend all day in one.
It would be fun if this turned out to be a Sokal-style prank to illustrate the reputational risks to conferences of accepting sponsored talks.
Yeah, there are often lights before the on ramp
There's a cool package called Nengo from Chris Eliasmith's group at UWaterloo which hasn't received as much attention as I think it should: https://www.nengo.ai/nengo-dl/examples/tensorflow-models.htm...
Read that again.
I'm genuinely confused here... some audio equipment does actually sound better than other audio equipment. Are you referring to snake oil audio cable salesmen?
Even when Commodore and Atari attempted to market their 68000 machines as serious machines they were given no respect by the press. Both made a concerted effort in the late 80s early 90s to make workstation class machines and sell them into the expanding Unix workstation market, and had no success.

I distinctly remember picking up a copy of UnixWorld in about 1990 or so and seeing an Atari TT030 in it, with the caption "up from toyland" and a couple paragraphs describing the specs of the machine as being workstation class and it shipping with AT&T Unix and it being cost effective but how could anyone take it seriously coming from a home computer and games maker? That was the start of the last couple years for Atari and Commodore, they were both done soon after. Apple barely survived.
Show HN: A daily reminder to give more compliments and thanks
Why is a long lasting bad thing better than a short lasting good thing? Why not buy frozen berries, dehydrated berries, or just cardboard, if shelf life is the priority?
Man I’m relaxing now. Got my feet up, contemplating getting a drink after I read these comments.
You're correct, that was sloppy wording on my part.
Agreee, although I think the arguments and calculations in that thread are a bit silly. If you take any finite distribution of fixed charges, and you fire a test particle from infinity at the charge distribution, one of two things happens: either it hits one of the charges, or it goes back out to infinity, possibly in a different direction, with the same velocity it started with. The idealized field distribution that accelerates everything going through does not exist in electrostatics.

So either some time-varying fields are needed or interactions between space plasma particles is needed.

Also, the efficiency calculation doesn’t account for particles hitting the grids and thus creating a short-circuit current. Which has its own issue: in the original paper, 500W is going somewhere, but there is no explanation of how, exactly, any current flows in the circuit, which is inconsistent with any power at all being used.
Better link: https://www.centauri-dreams.org/2018/06/29/the-dipole-drive-...
It's like TimeCube guy had wealthy parents or something like that.
This seems based on the assertion that people are only using Uber because it's cheaper which, as far as I can tell, is completely unfounded.