skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think there are two dimensions (likely correlated)

1. Race.

2. Socioeconomic status.

Callibrating a score on race would be a problem, because you are explicitly reinforcing virtues that lead to suboptimal performance. However calibrating a score on (2) makes sense because kids with unequal resources should have access to the same opportunities, and it is reasonable to me that a top performer in a lower socioeconomic neighborhood would do better than someone who performed similarly were they raised in a more affluent neighborhood.

Where you run into problems is that lower socioeconomic neighborhoods are associated strongly with black/Latino populations and so it is indirectly biasing for select racial groups. I don’t think there’s a perfect solution, or one that is 100% equitable to all parties but I think we can do better than we are now, in fact I think it is crucial.
Semantics aside, are you saying that someone with extra compute resources shouldn't put those resources to work to store their personal data to reduce reliance on for-profit third parties?

What is your argument here? That people shouldn't be encouraged to do something on their own? That people shouldn't bother reducing their reliance on "freemium" or paid PaaS companies, even if they have the skills/resources to do so?

You seem to want nothing more than for me to admit that "the online place where I store my personal files" is not the same as a "Cloud" and in reality it doesn't matter what it's called. It's purpose is the same, and it fulfills that purpose well.
I do believe you need a balance of habitual activities and trying new things. Doing stuff you've never done before and going to places you've never seen has the effect of slowing down the perception of time, which is great if you have the sort of time anxiety described.
I’m learning about Bug Bounty. Burp has a feature properly named “copy as curl command”. It converts the captured request to a curl command, so you can just paste it in the terminal or a file and start playing with it.

After making changes to some argument values in the body, I was getting a weird error. It turns out that I was suppose to also update the content length header. The work around was to simply eliminate that header. But I wasn’t able to find a good explanation as to why.
So does this mean that there's a market failure, or is this a regulatory failure? It's hard for me to accept the latter, given that ISPs and government have consistently said that no regulation is required, and in fact, have reduced regulation.

I, and I'm sure other free market fundamentalists, find ourselves on the horns of a dilemma.
Dispossess on-demand* :)
It was an adversity score, not a diversity score.
>McDonald's is much better than any other fast food place because they put so much effort into making them nice places to go.

Exactly, and that is actually my point.

Since all these features have (obviously) some costs (as well as ingredients, staff, rent, energy, etc.), the moment McDonalds need hypothetically some more money to cover them they might simply increase the prices (correct) or introduce an extra "vague" fee through some weasel words (the Uber way in this case), the end effect is the same for both sides, the customer will pay a little more and McDonalds will have a larger income.
In particular, to bring a white collar case against an extremely wealthy defendant, they must feel they have a pretty good case.
Hugo does too
Steve Jobs was diagnosed, by his doctor, relatively early, as pancreatic cancer diagnoses go (many people only discover it when they have weeks or months to live, and there are no effective treatment options...five year survival rate for pancreatic cancer is something like 1 in 5). Jobs opted to use alternative treatments rather than treatments that (might) work.

That's a wholly different conversation...nobody diagnosed his condition, or could have helped his outcome, by looking at him and talking about his health on the internet. And, nobody could have diagnosed his condition by looking at him. By the time you have visible symptoms of pancreatic cancer, you've already likely been experiencing pain and other related symptoms, and treatment options are practically nil.

How about we just leave people's health between them and their healthcare providers and optionally their family? It's none of our business, unless they specifically ask us for advice or tell us about it.
It is not objective by any stretch of the imagination.

I suppose when security enhancements are made to any other system to make them safer (i.e. everything in the realm of security), you apply the same logic? Subjective.
There's a socialism-themed Monopoly game with a message tailored for capitalists
Jekyll has a plug-in (jekyll-feed) for adding an Atom feed, which is what I use for my website: https://saagarjha.com/feed.xml
Par for the course on any sort of diet that has fairly high weight loss.
"Honestly, the quality is probably on par with a 40 year old digital camera. On the other hand, it hopefully means that in about 40 years we will have GoPro’s with this capability strapped to our helmets showing us what’s around the corner before we even get there!"

I would have guessed there are some resolution limits. For a traditional [line of sight?] camera, the resolution is limited by the imager and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angular_resolution . What limits are at play for non-line-of-sight imaging?
Google wants you to go through them, not direct to the source. The more you go through them the more data they can track and ads they can sell you.
Back in the old days, there was a clearly-defined place in a newspaper for speculation: the op-ed page. Got no problem with it there. The problem comes when you play shell games with news and speculation on the front page.
Are you fit? as in, do you lift weights or are active in sports that require strength?

I ask because I wonder about the effects of extended fasts on muscle loss/retention, a big problem cutting weight for some people is that they get rid of some muscle mass along with the calories they wanted to eliminate.
Imagine not being satisfied with 120 million dollars. Unreal to think about, but greed is never satisfied.
Yes it does. See - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20813736
> Future time anxiety: thoughts about what may or may not happen in the future, which are the cause of worry and “what if” types of internal questions.

gah, this has been torturing me for the past year, as I discover more and more what I wish I was doing. I'm only 21 right now, so a lot of my anxiety may be unfounded, but so many things I want to do require major risks, opportunity cost, or more importantly monetary costs. I want to stop worrying about the what-if's, but it just seems so much more complicated than that
Not really. RSS is still on nearly every WordPress site. I simply switches from Google Reader to Feedly.
If he thought it was close to roll-out and worth billions, he's more a lucky manager than an actual engineer. Which makes his criminality far more understandable.
You can see that there was protein turnover just after 10 days in rats: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7119891

In healthier rats, protein turnover (cannibalizing muscles / organs) was faster than in obese rats. I had some human studies bookmarked, I'll try to find them again. There were a few ketosis studies that discussed "starvation mode" so maybe try searching for that.
If you're on a Mac, NetNewsWire just released a new version after many years. Plus, it's open source.
Misspelled: spelled a word incorrectly

Mispelled: an example of Muphry's law in action
There are many services that run applications colocated on VMs in containers.

I don't disagree they are leakier abstractions but they can still satisfy a wide variety of workload security needs.
I have a cron job that copies the internal drive to an (encrypted) USB drive every night, and about every 3 months I sneakernet it to an offsite location (eg my parents' house in another state) and bring back the previously-stashed drive. It's nice to know my data is in multiple places I trust, and not plugged in. I also do a lot of digital photography (~1TB/year) so it's cheaper than cloud solutions (at least last I checked)
Just some tangential food for thought: A few years ago Google did an Earth Day stunt where they set their homepage background color to black to symbolize saving energy by remembering to turn out the lights. It was tongue-in-cheek, but I've been curious ever since if major websites making a conscientious change to reduce JS execution and transfer bandwidth would have a measurable impact on worldwide power consumption.

Kind of branches out to more questions like: how much energy is wasted running poorly optimized code (on the web and otherwise) where the same outcomes could be accomplished with code that executes fewer instructions? Should developers have an obligation or at least a conscience about writing performant code for the environment's sake? Would the impact even be measurable?
Can we survive extreme heat?
Every single one of those ideas have been proven workable in hundreds of cities around the world.

That comment even lists a city where they've been successful: Paris
I think we are a little too comfortable with people generally taking over-eating to an extreme. A 5’ 10” male’s optimal BMI means a body weight between 130lbs and 170lbs. You’d need to be 110lbs to be severely underweight. No-one would bat an eye if they saw a severely overweight 5’10” celebrity weighing 210lbs.
A pretty big one was the options backdating scandal at Apple: https://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2011/10/06/steve-jo...
Really? Like specifically marketing and providing mass surveillance solutions to governments? That's a pretty major thing that Palantir does that other data analysis tools do not. Sure, if you want to keep being pedantic and trying to play off what Palantir does you can say they're "just" a consulting company, or "just" a data analytics company, but it's incredibly apparent that they primarily assist governments and organizations with mass surveillance, and trying to argue otherwise is disingenuous. You can try to pass the buck, but it isn't fooling anyone
Xilinx Announces World Largest FPGA: Virtex Ultrascale+ VU19P with 9m Cells
>How about we just leave people's health between them and their healthcare providers and optionally their family? It's none of our business, unless they specifically ask us for advice or tell us about it.

What about the shareholders?
Google has special compensation structure for some startup-like projects designed to keep talent in the company instead of leaving and building their own company. After they hit (or were thought to hit) all milestones, self-driving unit was valued at 8B by independent assessment. As one of the leaders, Lewandowki’s share was 120M.
> a single metric for adversity is completely ridiculous

What about a single metric for scholastic aptitude, though? :)
- Even on fast days, make sure you take vitamins (I take Fish Oil, Zinc, a Multivitamin and Magnesium)

I have done some fasting recently (water, some water/apple cider vinegar in the morning; coffee, green tea, Ooolong tea), and have a similar vitamin intake (B complex; calcium/D combo; Magnesium; Zinc; Iron; Fish Oil).

During the fasting I don't take the Fish Oil, I haven't read anything about it specifically, but just assumed Fish Oil was fat that would break the fast. Do you have an opinion on that? I'm Guessing the caloric intake (if any, I am not even sure) is not enough to trigger metabolic response, and as a fat wouldn't trigger insulin response.
> the truth is that all of these “trackers” make Stratechery possible.

Do they? I use Ublock Origin in hard mode[1], meaning just about everything is blocked. Every third-party domain is blocked, as are webfonts and first-party JavaScript. Yet, the site works and I can read the article without a problem.

You could make the case that Stripe is necessary to “make Stratechery possible” because it allows people to pay for memberships, but all the others seem superfluous.

[1]: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-hard-m...
These guys think differently. https://www.planetaryresources.com
hydrazine is N2H4 -- a different fuel

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-test_peroxide
Show HN: Grafiti, a search engine for charts and graphs
Do you mean OH, H2O and H3O?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydronium#Determination_of_pH
High Speed Multimedia or HSMM is a mesh network for ham operators. I would be interested in getting into it but the off the shelf equipment is microwave band and does not propagate like 20 meter. So it has a kind of chicken vrs egg problem for now.
Curl is really handy if you want to write a quick crawler for some globs of urls.

For example if you want to download a gallery of images with some fixed format you can do

curl "http://example.com/imgs/[01-99].jpg" -o "#1.jpg"

And it will fetch them and name them with the correct zero padding.

Or if you want to download the first 10 pages of hn:

curl https://news.ycombinator.com/news?p=[1-10] -o "hn_page_#1.html"

It can glob pretty complicated patterns! See this for syntax: https://ec.haxx.se/cmdline-globbing.html
The question to me is to what degree gig businesses would be destroyed if this bill got passed in a few states including CA. I've commented before that Uber and Lyft prices have already gone up noticeably over the last two years to the point where I think twice about taking one vs. driving or waiting for a bus. And that's with per-ride revenue already likely below cost. AB 5 seems like it would increase that cost at least 20% more just to cover all the new employee overhead, even if wages were kept at local minimums.
This change was reported over 4 weeks, or 28 days.

For a 180lb person consuming, on average, 1900 kCal/day, a 37% drop in calories is a 703 kCal/day deficit below their initial equilibrium. This is 19,700 kCal over four weeks. Divided by 3600 kCal/lb, this is about 5.5 lbs. 4.5% of 180 lbs is 8.2 lbs. So, we're in the ball park. A 3-lb deficit from reduced inflammation (water) seems reasonable.

For a higher initial weight, you can get the numbers to agree exactly. I'm 6' and 182 lbs., which is just barely overweight. In the U.S., were I live, I look pretty "fit" by comparison with the average person. (I'm not, but that's another story.) According to [1], Austria, from where the participants were likely sourced, is only slightly leaner than the United States.

Therefore, their numbers seem to line up. Westerners are stuffing themselves.

[1] https://www.indexmundi.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/w...
Studies of taking vitamins aren’t nutritional studies in the sense of “diet”. They’re more similar to studies of drugs and can be reliable.
I think you must be right, the hydrogen doesn't vanish. So this could be a way to produce H2 has without electrolysis.
It uses the time of arrival to determine where a particular reflection came from, but it can also observe the intensity of that reflection to determine reflectivity.
Well, no, and here is the Crux of the issue with affirmative action, and possibly one of the strongest base drivers of the cleavage between the American left approach to race and equality, and the American right approach to the same.

These policies attempt to achieve equality of outcome based on the implicit presumption that given equality of opportunity outcomes will be equal among various demographics. Thus any systematic inequalities are, without much in the way of hard evidence (a limitation of the related fields of psychology, economics, and the like) immediately explained by uncompetitive social norms of successful groups, i.e. racism/discrimination - unlocking the justification for penalizing those on top to equalize outcomes for those on the bottom.

The result of this implicit and fundamentally unproven assumption is the conflation of equality of outcome with equality of opportunity by the modern American left. This is a point of consternation for those near the center and leaning right primarily because it punishes success without allowing for the possibility of personal/internal explanations for discrepancies, i.e. cultural factors independent of poverty which limit economic success, and/or things like proven heritability of intelligence. Further, one could argue that such a conflation optimizes economic equality over merit, which is probably worse for society overall.
Sometimes any change and increased observation of test subjects has a temporary effect even if the subjects are unaware of the reason for the change or the hypothesis behind the experiment. Just the attention paid to them can be motivational.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawthorne_effect
Sometimes it seems as if everybody thinks differently, but then popular trends (or politics) seem to show the opposite, and personal interactions with some people suggest very little thinking at all.
Maybe you're like me, maybe not, but meditation and CBT helps with this a bit. Also - and I'm gonna say this may make your anxiety better, it may make it worse - think about the most influential people in the last 100 years: Einstein, Turing, FDR, Obama, etc. Now think about the most influential people in last 1,000, then the last 10,000. How many people can you name from over a thousand years ago (hopefully you're not a historian)? My point is, even the greatest people today, although their contributions were great, will probably not be remembered by very many 10,000 years from now. We all ultimately go to the same place, great or not. Time is the great equalizer.
Is there anything to format your responses when using curl ? the reason why I dont use curl often and rely on some browser extensions or an app. for simple usecases
I like the story of describing pays by 'Levadownskis'.

I believe bad things happen when someone gets really greedy and tries to find ways around basic rules.
You don't eat 100% equivalent of your body mass everyday. You probably eat 2-3% (just an assumption). So, cutting from 3% to 2% over a course of few months should not drastically lower your body mass.
> I think I'll totally drop cynicism about politics when we get a real progressive in the Oval office, or if Biden doesn't win and Warren or Bernie does. Just the fact of the progressives beating the establishment would totally lift my spirits and resolve. I'm hopeful that we do see more and more progressives, and intellectuals run in 2020 and win. Guess we'll need to wait and see how things pan out.

There's realism and there's cynicism. Realistically, your goals will not be easily achieved. Realistically, many people are flat desperate. Cynicism says, "why bother trying, it'll always be that way".

But I can tell you this: the current world didn't fall out of no where, it is not static. Many activists in worked to build it this way.
I completely agreed with you until you wrote:

> Case in point, "racism". Implying KKK and lynchings.

Is there really a group of people that participate in intellectually honest debates that actually think the use of the word "racism" in 2019 implies "KKK and lynching"!? This sounds incredibly out of proportion to me - yes, KKK/lynching are near one of the extremes of the spectrum of racism, but it is (or used to be) incredibly far from the main realization of racism today.
A large part of what he made was paid before he went to Otto/Uber. He will be financially very well off for the rest of his life, unless he does stupid shit with the money.

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On second thought... https://www.wired.com/story/anthony-levandowski-artificial-i...
Probably glaringly obvious (but in this case also), but you should make sure that the specific message starts with something highly conspicuous like "DAT KEYSERVER KEY REVOCATION REQUEST ID#<token>" to avoid social engineering someone with "Hey can you sign this token so I know you're you?".
Re: JavaScript and networking:

My random observation tells that sadly most "modern" highly complex websites do it wrong and it can hardly be any worse (this applies to all web products I've been working on for last several years):

1) analytics beacons fired every N seconds (which means the network stack on mobile never goes to idle mode)

2) JS frameworks doing event delegation that capture mousemove events and various other stuff like that + various setTimeout/setInterval (perhaps from third-party code).

If you want a sample of 2) just open devtools > debugger on any page and click "pause". You will immediately hit a debugger in some just-now executing JS callback even if you do nothing at all on the page.
Vancouver pretty much hasn't built any new roads since the 1960s. Accordingly traffic flows in/out of the downtown penninsula remain at 1960s levels even though the amount of people living and working there has massively increased. Vancouver has managed by building public transit and high quality cycling infrastructure as alternative transportation options.
Eben Upton on the Pi’s Industrial Crossover and Why There Will Never Be a Pi 9
I did for a few months this year, but I've been lazy over the summer. I'm 155lb, 6'0, so fairly skinny, maybe at around ~15% BF. I noticed that fasting doesn't help with BF at all unless I eat very clean and lift. I was at 170lb, around ~28% BF earlier this year and had to work my ass off to get my body fat percentage down.
PPMI: Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative
It only feels disingenuous because you're not familiar with Palantir's business or offerings. You're not alone in this, most people who have strong opinions on Palantir have them based on lazy journalism from publications who's primary goal is to spread FUD (it's funny how we laugh at the average journalist's understanding of technology until the narrative aligns with our personal beliefs). I tried my best to explain but it seems you've already come to your conclusions.
The CIA, NSA and Pokémon Go
Decibel
Unfortunately there is a large gap between the developer experience of both ecosystems.
I've never really understood how one is supposed to use RSS.

Do authors include the whole article in the RSS article "body" or only a glimpse? I think I've seen both things and don't know what to do. Are readers expected to read the article in the RSS reader itself or open it in a web browser?

I've read a couple of tutorials and tried to use it, but I never quite understood it, and I didn't like any of the clients I tried.
I'm super interested in this because I've developed an opinion about software used in higher ed:

It. All. Sucks.

Not one piece of software I have used (Canvas, Sakai, Slate and numerous in-house tools) are easy to use or easy to integrate with. A group of students here at UNC created https://www.coursicle.com/ which deals with the student scheduling side of things and actually looks pretty great but I've not used it. I'm sure you've seen it already.

I'm curious how many CIO/CTOs have had concerns with moving to your system or if you've got a canned response for all the FERPA FUD that gets tossed around?
> For regular off the shelf SaaS like dropbox, gmail, slack, surveymonky and just about any other tools that SMBs use the pricing seems very clear: it's always clearly listed on the site.

All of the providers you listed have clearly listed rates, but each of those listed will also willingly negotiate those rates.

At a previous job, the owner of the company required you to request a discount/custom pricing before purchasing anything. It took me a while to get used to it, but more often than not we got price breaks with little friction simply for asking. Even if there were clearly listed prices with self-service checkout and even if there wasn't a "Contact us" price option listed. And this was at a ~30-person company, where most software purchases were only for 3-5 licenses at most.