skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> We're considering offering E2E encryption, but we believe that we can deliver a ton of value by allowing users to search through their messages and for us to efficiently organize and categorize your content.

Why must you organize the data? I’d like to be able to perform searches client-side, just like iMessage.
The problem is, ultimately, "the trades" are like any other occupation. You can't make $60k a year, let alone $150k a year welding, if you're otherwise making poor decisions.

The people doing well at the trades are bright, skilled, conscientious people -- above average at all of those qualities. Just like the 'professionals' doing well with their college degrees.
They way to look at this from a insulin resistance perspective is that years overeating caused them to develop insulin resistance, which in turn caused them to become obese.
I tried Terraform this weekend and it was awesome to use. Spinning up a new ec2 instance was very quick. Almost just as quick when you spin up multiple instances.

It supports "providers", which are interfaces to the different vendors (aws, foogle cloud, etc), and "provisioners", which are frameworks for configuring a running instance (chef? Docker? Zookeeper?)
There are kinds of PRNGs that are designed to emit every possible ouput value in the range. There are some that will emit every possible value before a repeat.

If you look at his code, the first function seems to be calling a method that claims to do the latter. I think his documentation may be out of sync.
ROBOpilot converts general-purpose aircraft to unmanned aerial vehicle
Play games without touching keyboard
Woke af
The software you need is called Widex COMPASS DREAM: https://forum.hearingtracker.com/t/diy-self-programming-how-...

And you're going to need a wireless programmer, too. Unfortuntately, you're out of luck a little, since Widex is not using the industry standard hardware, but it's own proprietary programmer - Widex Pro Link: https://forum.hearingtracker.com/t/widex-beyond-programming/..., which seems to be available on Ebay.
This would lead to difficulties with heat dissipation.
> Not all football players are idiots.

There are probably some who wouldn't be accepted to their school on academic merit alone.

Aside from that, I'm very opposed to college football (and soccer) as it's played now because of what we know know about brain injuries. I wouldn't be surprised to see a class action lawsuit in the future from current players that shuts down the programs at a lot of smaller schools.

Any coach working today knows that the way they are asking the kids to play will injure them.
Yeah - I don't see Thread as the right product for privacy nuts, as you refer to yourself. There are better services for that, like Signal.

I imagine Thread as a company that focuses more on delivering products that allow people to build more meaningful relationships and connections in a way that benefits their long term mental/social health. I believe we can do that in a way that delivers an 80/20 on privacy too, by not using targeted advertising, and having 0 incentives to sell your data.

If you're not willing to trust our servers, I don't think the product is right for you. Hopefully we build trust as a company that does right by our users in the long run, unlike what I'm seeing from companies today.
I seriously can't tell if this is sarcastic or not.
Is there a study or something that backs up your assertion?
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Pretty much all locks are like that: Some determined folks will take a work-around or take what they can. But they also do what a lock is supposed to do: they deter crimes of opportunity. You bike is no longer as easy to steal as the unlocked bike.

Bike insurance can cover the rest of the bike.
Infra-as-code is mainly just a method to force people to write things down, rather than the default of nobody writing anything down, and people just manually making changes that nobody else knows about, making it really difficult to manage changes. Even a bash script that creates an ec2 instance is infrastructure-as-code.

OTOH, I kind of hate Terraform now, because you can use it in a way that will surprise you and blow up, leaving a mess that you have to clean up manually. It's more "infrastructure as code" than Ansible, but Ansible will at least attempt to fix things that aren't "right". So everything that has a certain label is not by definition superior to all alternatives. (I actually hate both tools for different reasons, but they have their uses)
1. I'm using a first-gen Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 and Ardour.

2. I didn't have any experience with DSP programming before this project. I mostly just wrapped an existing library, but I'm getting more comfortable with the idea of delving more into the algorithms now.

If you're interested in trying something, a colleague and I are considering modernizing Rakarrack (an aging guitar effects bundle), you could jump in before we get started developing it. Here's our fledgling github repo:

https://github.com/rkrv2/rkrv2

Edit: Also check out the forum at https://linuxmusicians.com if you want to discuss Linux audio/music production.
In principle the FDA should inspect the US-made drug after manufacture so inspecting all of their suppliers would be redundant.
> I did tests for weight loss. I found that you don't lose weight until you sleep.

Your test lacked any semblance of science. Aside from your unblinded sample of 1, you obviously didn’t run a control.

Weigh yourself. Now don’t eat or drink anything for 8 hours. Now weigh yourself again. I bet the scale moves whether you’re sleeping for those 8 hours or not.
this is extremely misinformed. there are phisical education and phisical therapy degrees, team sport is essential to character development in children and sport in general done early and constantly is useful to combat a wealth of health related issues including obesity.

sport in school is not an USA anomaly, in Italy the school curriculum basically includes for all obligatory cycles as much hours of physical activity as there are arts and culture hours every week.

the USA anomaly is making a business out of it, but that's just them.
When the Pianos Went to War
Terraform is great but if you want to change to a different cloud provider you pretty much have to rewrite everything
Brightness is a non-local effect. i.e. if you change one pixel, the rendering of the adjacent pixels can change.

Also, the rendering is different depending on how the signal made it into the CRT; in particular composite video does not preserve certain things about the image, and in some cases developers took advantage of this/

Most famously the genesis had a poor composite encoder, which was taken advantage of by many games; Sonic 3 in particular looks bad even on a CRT with a real Genesis if you use RGB or component output.
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The ability to do something about it is the key difference.
It's not. Tense is important here. From the first sentence of your article, emphasis mine:

> American telecom companies are being pressured by the government to avoid doing business with Chinese hardware manufacturer Huawei due to concerns that the Chinese government would use Huawei devices to spy on Americans.

US authorities have not said Huawei has done anything nefarious. Almost all concerns are about what could or would happen.

Someone tasked with national security recommendations must consider the future scenarios that could unfold as a result of present-state policy. This is why countries around the world have long considered basics like agriculture as an essential component national security. This isn't because they think other countries are poisoning their food during times of peace, it's because a reliance on basic needs gives excessive power to the country supplying it.

I highly suggest reading some actual official reports to get a non-clickbait version of the argument:

https://republicans-intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligenc...
Personally I think DevOps is like religion. It means whatever someone wants it to mean. Some companies think DevOps means having an automated pipeline for building, testing, and shipping code. Other companies think it means micro-services. Others think it means making developers do DBA / SysAdmin work.

All of these things are fine for companies to do. How you run your org is on you. But I wish companies would go deeper than "DevOps" when putting up job posting requirements.

That's like saying they do "security". There's a lot of different ways that can be interpreted. I (as an applicant) only know a handful of those interpretations really well, so it's important that companies clarify these terms in their job descriptions. This way they have the right candidates applying.
At the beginning of the 20th century, before antibiotics and safety rules, the top killers were pneumonia, tuberculosis, childbirth, and farm accidents. Yes, work was dangerous.
> I absolutely tested for water loss.

No, you didn't. How do you think you tested for water loss?

Briefly, you'd need to separate out the water for your urine, weigh that, then separate out the water from your feces, and weigh that, and spend all your time in a sealed chamber and monitor the humidity of that chamber to see how much water you're exhaling and sweating out. I'm guessing you did exactly none of this.

Oh and after all that, there's the confounding fact that a small part of fat's mass is metabolized into water, so even measuring all your water excretion doesn't actually allow you to separate how much of that water is water you took in, and how much of that water is the result of fat metabolism.

> And it's not through excrement, it's through urine.

Given urine is mostly water and you didn't control for water loss, your result is exactly what I'd expect from water loss and not fat loss.

Look, do you really think you're the first person to research this? There's a whole subfield of biochemistry devoted to this, with more brains, equipment, and funding than you have. You're right that weight mostly doesn't come out through excrement: most of the mass of burned fat is exhaled as CO2[1][2][3].

[1] https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141216212047.h...

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/health-30494009

[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families...
Ah, that's the same submission, which makes this one a dupe. Thanks!
> and whatever they draw stays where it is in physical space.

Wow... that's a great way to utilize AR.
I suppose Mr. Stallman has never heard of "grooming." It's entirely possible they were "willing" in an denotative sense of the word, but given maleability of the young mind it's not exactly informed and willing consent as between two standard adults.

There's a reason teachers in many states cannot have relations with former students no matter the age of consent and of those involved.
Why doesn't something like Metformin help with significant weight loss?
> It's not at all clear to me why we allow American football and universities to have such a perverse relationship, when it's plain to see that football itself has nothing to do with education,

People are arguing in the comments about the money, history and prestige US football brings to colleges in the US. I have to wonder in other parts of the world does soccer have such sway over universities? Are there universities that have soccer programs that bring in large sums of money for the university?

Soccer (football to the rest of the world) is probably 100 times as big with arguably ~6.5 billion vs ~300 million fans. It probably generates 100 times the profit of US football. It would be odd that the US college and football relationship is so strong when soccer is immensely bigger in every way.
> DevOps is NOT… a job title or role

In which case DevOps as it exists in the real world is roughly on a par with 'agile' practices in the real world. Nothing like they were originally conceived, and nothing like the wildly optimistic descriptions of them that are shared amongst practitioners.
People close to me have died, and I found rather than adding desire to realize full potential, it took away my enthusiasm, because it emphasised the pointlessness and futility of everything I could do and might do.

When those you love are gone, the emptiness is so obvious. Even though the trauma and grief gradually heal, any sense of purpose seems like an empty, made up story. You know you'll die at some point too, everything you do will be undone, and the world probably isn't real anyway. Why even live?

It doesn't stop me working on projects. But they do seem relatively pointless in the end.

The one thing that seems to give things I do value, is when others value them. I'm never sure if that's because they see something I don't, or if they are deeper into self-made illusions.

I don't mean trivia like clothes, status, social media. I mean things others really value, like time together, listening, caring, assisting, relief from poverty, their health, happy times, friendship, that sort of thing.

So from that point of view, I think social concerns of a certain variety are to be prized. Maybe they are the only thing that has meaning.
> What [digital technology] cannot do is faithfully reproduce natural sound in a way that is subjectively satisfying and moving and true.

There is a one-word description of that sentence, and the word is "bullshit." It might be the case that most digital hearing aids today do not reproduce sound as faithfully as older analog ones. But it is always possible to build a digital signal processing path that is audibly indistinguishable from an analog one in a double-blind test. It might cost more or require better engineers than those who currently design hearing aids, but blaming the problem on "digital technology" is utter nonsense.
Thanks for the update - interesting study.
It looks like most phones on US carriers are safe from this.

According to T-Mobile and Sprint, their SIMs do not contain the S@T Browser. AT&T says the same for their US SIMs. Verizon doesn't seem to have issued a definitive statement, but say that they believe their SIMs are not affected. See [1], [2].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/09/hacke...

[2] https://www.pcmag.com/news/370736/sim-card-flaw-poses-spying...
It's an issue everywhere. Almost all generics are manufactured in India and China. And most with Chinese precursors.
Pharmacy Mafia
And here comes the black-and-white thinking from the SJWs.

rms is socially out of touch, and his insensitive take on this bullshit isn't surprising. MIT absolutely shouldn't take the money. However, his views on this don't merit complete dismissal of the Free Software movement. Everyone who attends LibrePlanet knows and sees that rms comes from on old class of macho white nerds, and is slowly learning how to interact in a new reality. We still have a lot to learn from each other. In the mean time, let's stop 'cancelling' each other left and right, and all move forward productively.
European universities have lots of intramural sports, including soccer. They just can’t understand our massive commercialization of college level sports, but no one else in the world could either, it is uniquely American.
Likely candidate is NSO [1].

1. https://www.nsogroup.com/
True, but the ACA is likely going away next summer, either partially or completely. This is based on the 9 or so rare cases where the Solicitor General did not act as defendants on a court case at the Supreme Court level. [See the table on pages 58-60. Note: there are better ways to represent the data in the table.]: https://scholarship.law.wm.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2...

Do not get excited about the first 2 cases in the table being "clearly unconstitutional". Because to diehard conservatives (which is how the court is currently balanced), the healthcare law is "blatantly unconstitutional".

Not only that, this summer, at the Federal Circuit Court of Appeals level (the level right below the Supreme Court), the Department of Justice did an unprecedented move, historically, and joined the side of the plaintiffs. According to legal experts, the court case at this level could not have gone any worse for the defendants of the ACA.

The Republicans are doing this on purpose, as the final decision will come months before an election.

I have a rare disease and I require an extremely expensive orphan drug, so I know I am likely going to be in a bind within the next year. It is extremely upsetting to me, which is why I mention it. But, I am a dual national (I naturalized due to my health issues) of another developed country with universal healthcare, so I can always leave the US. I have basically given up the prospect of the US being my "home", even though it always has been. I basically feel unwelcome here, but it is merely my perception.
Yes but, I feel like he's still working too hard.

I've 'reinvented' an algorithm at least twice to generate/iterate all permutations or combinations of a list by counting from 1 to P(n, k) or C(n, k) and just doing repeated divisions to determine the next element in the sequence. That generates them in order. If n is small enough to fit into memory then you can shuffle the inputs, but that still gives you a partially ordered output (all outputs with 'foo' in the same position are contiguous, for instance).

I always left myself a TODO to use a PRNG instead of an increment if I needed the outputs to be more shuffled than that, but it never got that far.
Can you share your blog?
Honestly, I'd happily ride a bike there because it is so flat.

Trondheim (Norway), on the other hand, has a hill with a bike lift. Just one, though. The rest you have to pedal. I, the immigrant, still find it amazing folks ride bikes with studded tires on the snow, let alone manage the terrain. I usually just walk.
Here are some links about that 2017 quantum video call. I've narrowed down my selection to (perceived, I may be wrong) Western media. Searching the names of both participants appears to yield the best results, they are "Chunli Bai" and "Anton Zeilinger".

It would seem that no China-sympathetic media left it out to herald it as a sensation, whereas in Western media, reports appear to be mostly confined to scientific[0][1] or alternative[2] medias, a notable exception being the DailyMail/tabloid[3] article(?).

I only have a very rudimentary understanding of both cryptography and quantum mechanics, any takes on the actual significance of this?

[0]: https://phys.org/news/2017-09-team-world-space-ground-quantu...

[1]: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/06/china-s-quantum-sate...

[2]: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/xwg53k/china-is-another-s...

[3]: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-4930302/Chin...
Considering the fine American tradition (dramatically amplified in the last decade) of underfunding every important regulatory agency and then hollowing it out through other methods, it doesn't seem very surprising that the FDA is bad at checking products. Hard to imagine closing offices because of "regulatory capture", if anything the big US companies would want more enforcement on foreign generic drug manufacturers to secure their hold on the market.
The Thirsty Men Problem
For Show HNs, there needs to be a way for people to try out the product beyond just requesting an invite.

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
This article was frustrating to me. When it started out in the mid-90s (which is when I started my career also), I thought our experiences would be more aligned. However, I've never worked with an operations team.

In all the places I've worked I've been expected to do everything from setting up servers (originally physical servers, later cloud servers), hardening them, installing software, optimizing the software, installing and optimizing the database, creating database schemas and related objects, writing untold number of sql queries, writing server side code, writing front end code, etc.

I was hoping that the article would explain what devops really means today and how I can jump on the devops wagon to hopefully make my job of doing all of the above easier.
Right, portion control requires a lot of discipline. I choose to have fewer meals instead :)

It's easy to overeat even with just two meals per day.

As for better cognitive facilities - I feel like a lot of that also can be achieved with being disciplined about sleep and getting enough of it. Nothing can really replace it.
Our dog also likely had this in late august. Started with vomiting, then diarrhea every hour or so for a week. Scariest period we have had as dogowners. Dogs were likely getting sick for a while before the media picked it up.
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ah my bad
> Empirical

I think the word you’re looking for is “anecdotal”.

No one here knows anything about your TDEE so it shouldn’t be surprising to anyone that you could lose weight on 3500 calories/day. If your TDEE is >3500, then yeah, weight loss. Especially since the thermic effect of food is quite high for protein, and that people suck at accurately recording or even measuring their actual intake.
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Yes, I'd think people would be more excited to receive cryptocurrency over a secure connection than over an unsecure one.
> Some companies think DevOps means having an automated pipeline for building, testing, and shipping code.

This seems to be the most common interpretation, but I largely agree with you on no hard and fast rule here.
A young man is walking down a dusty country road, putting out his thumb for each passing vehicle. None stop.

An hour goes by and a old red truck rolls past him, ineffectually coming to a soft halt, front brakes obviously worn out years ago.

The old guy in the truck asks him where he is going. The kid points to a location on the map. And the old guy says, "oh they blew the bridge up years ago. You can't get there from here, at least not anymore."
Yes, nobody is disagreeing with physics. But a discussion about weight gain/loss that always has people saying "calories in = calories out" is like a discussion of every business saying "well profit = revenue - expenses". Obvious but not helpful. The interesting thing is discussing how to modify those variables.
Apparently NDMA has also been found in Zantac (ranitidine), a common OTC heartburn medicine.

The FDA has issued an alert - https://www.fda.gov/safety/medwatch-safety-alerts-human-medi...
Diets fail because people view them as "temporary struggles". Something to get through and then it's over. It's obvious why that doesn't work. It has to be a way of life.
I've read that some telegraph operators found they were able to operate the transceiver even when the power is disconnected, due to the induced current during the storm. Just imagine what would happen if the transceiver is made of solid-state semiconductor...