skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That and Berkshire Hathaway is buying up homes at an impressive rate and then driving up the rental costs.
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> Our results further indicate that the GDPR’s principles of data protection by default and purposed-based consent would require websites to use consent notices that would actually lead to less than 0.1% of users actively consenting to the use of third-party cookies.
This article - https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190828/UC-San-Francisco-... - touches on it.

The researcher mentions the typical effects of sleep deprivation - "This has well-known, long-term health consequences. You're more likely to suffer from cardiovascular disease, cancer, dementia, metabolic problems and a weakened immune system." - but says that these people don't suffer them.

This would suggest that they get all the sleep they need. They're just better at sleeping than us so it doesn't take them as long to get enough.

As a less serious and more fun aside, I want to breed these people with that group who have ridiculous endurance capability. The ultra-runners who only stop because they fall asleep :) Like this feller; https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/the-running-blog/20...
Cool... this reminds me of what "cyberspace" was supposed to be in the fever-dreams of cyberpunk fiction.
The UN chart for "human rights" is not some kind of holy scripture.
Coins are just the metric used to quantify the amount on an address.
> This is hardly possible. The whole idea of exceptions is that each function only deals with a subset.

Why? It's totally possible to infer the most general type for all the functions in the program, hence to infer the type of the needed handler.

Any language with subtyping and powerful type inference can do this, here is the toy ocaml example with typed algebraic effects (you can think of them as of exceptions):

val read_file : path -[ Not_found ]-> string

val process_content : string -[ OOM | Intern_err of int ]-> float

let computation path =
let content = read_file path in
let result = process_content content in
if result < 0
then raise Bad_result
else result

the type of computation would be inferred as

val computation : path -[ Not_found | OOM | Intern_err of int | Bad_result ]-> float

The handler should catch the corresponding exceptions. This could also be used with the result monad as well [1].

Even if you want to keep some exceptions unhandled, you can easily choose which ones, and track them carefully.

[1] https://keleshev.com/composable-error-handling-in-ocaml
> Can you honestly say that you can't speak freely in Spain?

Yes, I believe you can. Where to start? The disgusting re-appearance of political prisoners in Spain, for Catalan leaders expressing the idea that Catalunya should determine its own destiny, while Spanish politicos laughably and hypocritically complain about the same in Venezuela (but to the twisted fascist mind, their political prisoners are just 'criminals' - I'm sure Maduro would use the same justification).
The destruction of an edition of the Jueves comic drawing that showed the (then) prince earning a childrearing grant having sex with his wife.
A rapper in exile to avoid being remanded for singing about the king. Plenty of other examples.

No, free speech is not protected in Spain, quite the reverse.
I read Uber engineering blogs and there's a new blog every other day. IMO they are just over-engineering things thus justifying the size of engineers?
not sure if i will upgrade for a few years. i regret going to iphone 7 plus as i can't use any decent headphones with it
Two such genes have been independently identified, that I know of. There has been more than one study.

Here's a piece from 2015; http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20150706-the-woman-who-barel... , which discusses this from 2009 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2884988/

A search for studies on DEC2 suggests a steady stream of work going on; https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=DEC2

Here's more recent research identifying another gene; https://www.news-medical.net/news/20190828/UC-San-Francisco-...

There has been more than one study, more than one family and more than one gene implicated.
Better rigidity is a good reason to have a smaller screen.
> Smartphone hardware is done. There's no significant gain in buying a new smartphone if you have bought one in last 3 years, absolutely nothing if the battery is replaced; there could be even diminished returns if you buy a new smartphone(unavailability of headphone jack, losing metal body, losing faster biometric authentication).

Yep. I have a BLU smartphone that I bought for $55 bucks off of Amazon. It literally does everything I need and has now lasted me > 2 yrs with no sign of slowing down. I will never understand why people would pay the price equivalent to buying a decently speced out desktop or laptop for a phone when there are so many cheaper alternatives that provide the same features and functionality.
Two easy questions:
1. Metaphysically, is everything actually constructed from sine waves? Or is this totally arbitrary (e.g., just as easy to construct things from square waves)
2. Neural firing approximates sine waves in the brain (e.g., alpha waves). Is a single neuron firing a square wave with a small duty cycle, or something else altogether?
Ask HN: IT illiterate farmer needs clarification
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/do-you-actually-have-time-build-your-entire-agtech-solution-faleide

In simple language, can I have some clarity about the above post I found online ..and esp from the POV of Ag?
> Does everyone here also drive a base model Honda Civic because “car hardware is done”?

Well, I do (although it's a base model Hyundai). I also still use an iPhone SE and will do for the foreseeable future.
This has only recently been possible. For a long time Slack was capped at 5k per workspace, then later a similar number per channel.
It’s something I’ve been wanting too. I use a desktop for serious work, tablet for casual browsing and game, and then a smartphone for when I’m on the go and messaging.

I would love if I could just have one device, and different adaptors for different situation. Although I’m not sure if current smartphones are powerful enough for pro-desktop users.

Obviously the OS would have to adapt as well, and not just the smartphone OS scaled up.
Even with coal, the pollution is much easier to filter and control at the one big ass stationary plant chimney than at thousands of separate moving car exhaust. And modern filters (both electrostatic and mechanical/pulse-jet) are pretty good.
This is the best introduction to FTT I've ever seen. I wish I had this when I was an undergrad.
I don't know... it also requires:
- charging cables that can't easily be stolen, between my car & lamp post.
- infrastructure that allows me to pay for consumed electricity, and doesn't allow random person to steal it (or are we assuming electricity will be free?)

I mean, I'd love to see that, but it doesn't look likely in the near future, unfortunately. I still think it's more likely that we'll have fast-charging batteries that you can refill in a few minutes, rather than charger-at-every-parking-spot.
great? how?
That Mirana arrow is definitely pay to lose xD
I doubt that these are going to sell a lot, but they have their uses. In many jobs you just buy the phone that takes best presentable pictures and videos without effort and money is not an issue. As much as possible automation and defaults is positive if it gives you good photos.

Real estate agent, free lance journalist, some kind of surveyors, assessors, construction, landscapers, interior designers, repair and maintenance. Either you remember to carry a small camera everywhere in job or you buy a phone. $1000 is not much if you use it for work every day.
France now views cyberattacks as violation of sovereignty, can react
I really like Clubhouse, but I'm somewhat skeptical about the free version. (even though it says 'free forever')

In the past two years multiple companies that initially had an affordable plan ( 10 dollars a month or less) for small companies had the same strategy: change the affordable plan to a free plan. And then within a year kill 90% of the features on the free plan and have you upgrade to a full plan much more expensive than the plan you were on before everything became free.

The product is great though, main feature for me is the ability to plan epics at a milestone level.
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It partly depends on how "world" is defined, but generally: no. No one has come up with a way to test it against other interpretations (or indeed any interpretation against any other, with the possible exception of dynamical collapse models).

I had a discussion with someone on HN about this a while ago and realised that "world" or "split" isn't necessarily synonymous with "superposition". Rather, I believe that a split occurs when the superposition entangles with the environment and causes sufficient decoherence that there is negligible probability of (measurable) interference.

In principle you could imagine a thought experiment where you had a super-powered quantum machine which finely could control the quantum state of a large, isolated room. In that situation you could imagine someone in the room conducting an electron spin measurement and looking at the outcome, before the machine enacts a reversal of the room's quantum wave-function, thus causing the two copies of the person to interfere. If we ever reach that level of technology, it will be fascinating to see how the interpretation debate progresses.
I have a Xiaomi 6" flagship and it's too big for me. I mean, I can use it, but it's not too comfortable. I wish there was a bigger market for the 5" phones, but seems the trends are for bigger and bigger.
What I find interesting, is the great number of people - specially in the last decade when reading 1984 suddenly became popular - that keeps telling us all that Orwell's works are a warning specifically against fascism and point Orwell's role in Spain as proof that he was himself a communist.

Orwell left quite clear that after having seen both Nazism and Communism in action, he was staunchly against both forms of totalitarianism.
No, that's 25 per HOUR vs 350 per MINUTE.
>People here always cry for 'voting with your wallet'. Well, people did and here we are.

Did the SE sell poorly?
Stop beating up bystanders and yelling "fuck your mom" at people who disagree with you, calling mainlanders "locusts", and stop setting bonfires and destroying public property and trying to blind police with high-powered lasers, then we can talk about your due process and civil liberties.
Interesting! I'd have put PHP and C++ at the very top of the list, then reverse the whole list. As a rule, I'd much rather start with a language that makes it easy to spot massive vulnerabilities, and then move towards a speedier and more volatile language where needed.
Tangential, but why are plug-in series hybrids not selling? They could make better use of anaemic grids in India. For example my office was running on backup power for several hours. I left at 7 pm in the rain, saw linemen climb up a damaged transformer in a narrow congested road where buses zip by. Elsewhere, farmers' pumps blow up transformers. A hybrid could power weekday commutes and maybe 25% of a weekend trip, from private solar panels, well before powerful public grids are installed.
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@stephc_int13

I'm genuinely interested in what you mean by unwanted feedback. Like I said, it can be the most important.

re the quip about competent managers, I regret putting that in, and it wasn't meant badly; see my comment of a few hours earlier https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20917668 which said something quite close to what you said about know what your employees are doing.
> Graphene battery, foldable display, 5G network, >1TB internal storage, Fingerprint reader at any point on the screen could all kickoff new generational cycle.

These are all nice, but I'd rather have thin AR glasses powered by the phone's CPU/GPU at some point. Might fix the smombie infestation, too.
It’s under the “I don’t like line”, but I came away from this feeling like I should look into Ruby.
Seems more of an issue with health insurance than with the Gig Economy, though.

What is the reason insurance providers don't want to insure contractors?
How Hong Kong can be gateway to liberal values when it itself cannot be liberal enough to reconcile with the fact that everyone in Hong Kong is a Chinese citizen (except few permanent residents) following Chinese nationality law. Unless it cannot be liberal enough to acknowledge it's true state how can it serve as an example to others.

For people who lived in Hong Kong before 1997 and after it Hong Kong people (except the discriminated groups) discrimated openly people from China and other parts of Asia except Japan. If they happen to seat in MTR, the Hong Kong person will not seat next to them even, deny them jobs due to ethnocity. Indeed in some cases they run full page ads against them openly without repurcussions, which might result in a severe punishment in UK in the form of libel laws, in USA in the firm of racial discrimination.

There are no laws against racial discrimination or discrimation based on color in Hong Kong. There is a small toothless organization trying to show as if they care.

This is laughable by the economist to even think Hong Kong can ever be an example of liberal values to Chinese in China who did not treat people from other parts of Asia with open contempt like in Hong Kong.

Again as it is a minority view I know it will be downvoted, but for people who lived there know the truth.
printf is not c++
Even if that would work from a legal perspective, I suspect that it would be enough of a practical hurdle to greatly decrease the number of people willing to drive for Uber/Lyft.
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> fastest phone

Are folks running ML training algorithms on their phones? Why does one need the "fastest phone"? How many apps are there for which how fast your phone is even matters? I am not saying people shouldn't buy these phones but the pricing on these things is absolutely insane, it seems people are basically paying an Apple tax on these devices. Even high end devices from other manufacturers are not priced this crazy.
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Just added Shift to sprint, enjoy!
« Support for bitcode » ???

I’m extremely confused. Isn’t bitcode equivalent to llvm IL ? Doesn’t dart have its own compiler ?
When I browse the web, it feels like 100% of websites do it wrong. Consent needs to be active and cannot be enforced unless technically necessary.

Telling people "by continuing to browse, you accept our cookies" is wrong. You need to clearly offer a decline option and you can NOT force people out the door when they dont want to be tracked.

Nobody does this right.
Shift to sprint is done!
Why doesn't anybody do a startup providing health insurance to the uninsured?

Are there too many regulations? Insurance is just a business, it seems to me.
I've never seen a guide, but I worked on some console games around 15 years ago where the rule was "malloc is evil". That mindset was enlightening and felt "correct" compared to some of the sloppy memory management I'd seen (and, sadly, implemented) on some PC game titles I'd worked on before.

Basically we treated the heap like a stack of large context oriented memory blocks. Each of these blocks contains fixed data loaded from disk (static game resources like bitmaps, UI layouts, etc) and fixed size pools of fixed size game objects. The big blocks would get allocated in a stacked manner at distinct times like game title load and level load.

So if your game has bullets, you have a memory pool of say, 100 bullets to maintain the state of each instance. If you try to shoot a 101st bullet, you either don't or you have an ejection strategy. You never malloc or free during gameplay : you only allocate from one of the pools.

When it's time to unload the level... boom, you free the whole block at once, popping this stack. This is extremely efficient compared to freeing many individual malloc allocations.
Is Juul the new big tobacco? Wave of lawsuits signal familiar problems
> when someone says they “went to college in Boston” you know they went to Harvard

People say this because they have learned that when they answer “I went to Harvard” they get instantly treated differently by many people they have tried talking to, and it’s annoying.
People don't think about this about FB but LinkedIn is definitely a danger. LinkedIn has had similar bad privacy policies in the past (their app farmed contacts from my phone without asking). But these days more and more places are asking for your LI instead of your resume.
And on HN you are competing for the top comment.
What? California has 4 different payroll taxes: https://www.edd.ca.gov/Payroll_Taxes/What_Are_State_Payroll_...

Minimum wage requirements alone will raise incomes and thus taxes. Add in bigger salaries, benefits, vehicles, equipment, etc that the company will now have to pay for.
If these people don't need the money, then I guess it is no problem.
This is a great point. It’s a premium product that people will buy simply because they like nice things.

I’ll buy one because I like buying new/nice things and the fact that for $1200 I’ll get a lot of value out of it, due to how much I use my phone is an added bonus.

This is definitely not a compelling upgrade for many people.
> A cabby can easily be on the way to pick you up, find someone on the way and never let you know.

...what? That sounds really unlikely.

> cabbies never let you know if they're not coming in my experience.

Well, that's opposite of mine.
American are piling on credit card debt, despite recession warnings
I read it as "Lots of people tried to reinvent the wheel because they thought it's easy, but it isn't - it's complex and expensive. We're here because we realized that. Work with us so you have less work and we get a part of your revenue".

Essentially, they say "we have the expertise that you probably can't afford to develop on your own".
The 'gateway' to liberal values in China really is Taiwan that shows that China and Chinese culture are compatible with democracy and these values despite what some claim to justify refusing any such development on the mainland.

Taiwan is the home of the Chinese state that ruled over the whole country from 1912 to 1949 and it managed a democratic transition.

Hongkong has no "liberal" credentials. It has always (which means 150 years) been a commercial and trade centre only without democratic tradition and the recent protests show that politics very quickly turns into "my way or the highway" on both sides.
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No, it can’t. This line assumes a rational, strategic-thinking CCP with long time horizons.

Pre-Xi, possibly. But Xi is a dictator, a leader for life. He is optimising for short-term political survival. There is zero chance of China liberalising until he either dies or is deposed. With respect to either, Hong Kong will likely be irrelevant.
Just calling all these people from all walks of life "radicals" doesn't even pass the smell test either way.

https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/comments/d0iqpy/2000_medic...

You can give up your own human rights however you wish, but not those of others on their behalf.

https://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/ind...

edit: wow, I dropped 14 karma in a 13 minutes of posting this comment, because apparently one or more people are going through older of mine comments and downvoting anything that can still can be voted on. That's actually the first time in over 6 years that happened.
Yeah, at least his previous x-ray source looks like it could very well be real. Roughly matches designs of real machines I'm vaguely familiar with.

I do wonder how they cool the tube head. If they don't do it at all, I don't think device lifetime will be that long.

Luckily x-rays have pretty limited range. I think 5m/yd should be minimal safe distance. The further the better, of course.
Char.gy (referenced in the link) seems to be in just 2 or 3 London boroughs[0], whereas Ubitricity seem to cover more boroughs[1]. Looking at the photos, it seems Char.gy add a box to the lamp posts while Ubitricity don't, which may be an issue for conservation areas which have installed heritage lamp posts.

[0] https://char.gy/map

[1] https://www.ubitricity.co.uk/residential_charging/
Quite a lot happening in the morning, before you go out. Those are many steps which are not reported on the daily summary.
Especially if it has a footer.
Completely with you. I used to wear a vivosmart® HR+ [1] next to my mechanical. With the vivosmart rotatet 180° to wear on the inside of the arm, it was an acceptable look. But I was not happy with garmins privacy policy, so I stopped wearing it.

Still looking for a replacement, ideally no display (even longer battery life, smaller), heart rate monitor, motion tracker and everything just pushed into iOS health app or a cloud-less app.

In the meantime I will give the Apple Watch a chance.

[1] https://buy.garmin.com/en-US/US/p/548743/pn/010-01955-36
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Only companies with mega deep pockets (to pay the real winners ie the lawyers) would engage in these type of tom foolery.

I am talking about Samsung and Apple here..
"Hong Kong can be a gateway to liberal values for China". Oh really ? Is China aware of this ? I think we should stop trying to export western values to China. Ladies, Gentlemen and all non-binary people, I have a news for you. These guys are a bit different.
I've noticed you posting well-informed comments and I realize that it's annoying to be accused of bias for that, but I've also noticed you responding aggressively to ad hominem attacks and I think that's unnecessary. There are many more people reading comments than posting, and for them it would be better if you kept only the informative part and cut the confrontational rest out.

I would keep the following:

> If by hardline you mean balanced instead o flow effort hot takes then sure. I literally just submitted a post on Chinese rural surveillance program today. Prior to that a post on US company sentiment about Chinese tradewar using both US and Chinese commerce department data.

> I also post in health and construction related stuff when it comes up, or Chinese geopolitics. The latter just happens to be more popular and filled with misinformation.

> E: highlighting the greater context and atypical nature of formal death sentences is not an appeal to authority but provides actual information relevant to the subject matter. CPC could executed any of the 13,000 terrorists it claimed to have caught since Strike Hard escalation in 2016, instead it chose to execute these two? Why? The reasons are worth considering. And it's not even that I don't believe CPC wouldn't trump up charges or that the situation in XinJiang is grossly unnecessary, but I also don't think that these two couldn't also be both excellent academic scholars but also maybe have funded or sheltered Turkmenistan terrorists on the side. They're not incompatible notions.