skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm reading The Moon is a Harsh Mistress right now (fascinating, bizarre, and highly enjoyable thus far), and there's a moment where the main characters discuss a timeline described as "on the order of 50 years."

This is still a fairly common phrasing, and in general, people around me generally take it mean "roughly" or "plus or minus a few," which is how one character interprets it. Another character then explains that its actual meaning is, paraphrased, "probably not less than 5 years or more than 500 years."

While I had a vague awareness that "on the order of" was not mathematically equivalent to "roughly", I don't remember learning the concept in such a memorable way. Similarly, an order of magnitude are commonly understood as "a lot more than", when they also have a precise mathematical definition.

I think that reason we are terrible at estimating the time something will take is that humans struggle to think in terms of timespans that are actually representative of the variance in an estimate, not to mention the fact that as additional variables are introduced, that variance will almost certainly increase (even if the midpoint decreases). I'm not sure of the causal direction here, but our misunderstanding of terms meant to succinctly express "somewhere between" sure doesn't help things.

(side note: there's also a discussion about designing a revolutionary organization that really clarified my rudimentary understanding of circuits. The book is truly stunning at times.)
not sure exactly what you mean but there is a driver package that can adopt other protocols through the same interface.

https://godoc.org/gocloud.dev/pubsub/driver
> The subprime crisis is completely unrelated! And if anything it was proof that money-making assets should be scrutinized more.

The subprime mortgage crisis is basically godwin's law for finance. Want to make something look awful? Compare it to CDOs or mortgage-backed securities.
The real problem is that it's fairly easy to get random websites to delete info about you. It really is. I contacted maybe 30 websites in the last year or so and all deleted/or hidden my information promptly without any questions.

Getting it THEN deleted from google/bing/and friends is freaking annoying. They act like they're some superimportant holders of knowledge, and require all kind of identification, personal information, ID document copies, whatever, just to even listen to you.

There's outdated link removal console for both search engines, but it only works if websites are implemented certain way, to properly return 404 error on no longer existing pages. Some websites will redirect non-existing urls to home page, and good luck getting anything removed from search engines then. They will refuse, because the page still exists. They will not even check that the page has changed.
Nope! Current GNOME foundation board has one RedHat employee, out of six people. RedHat contributes a lot to the project, because they are one of few companies making a desktop distro with serious resources behind it. (That, and RedHat understands open source enough that they see collaborating upstream as a net benefit). But GNOME is its own thing, and always has been, built by contributions from all sorts of places.
"That is, in let’s say a drug testing experiment, you give some people the drug and they recover. That doesn’t tell you much until you give some other people a placebo drug you know doesn’t work – but which they themselves believe in – and see how many of them recover."

There is actually a science of studying Placebos. It is not as simple as most think. For example the strong the drug in many trials, the stronger the Placebo effect is.
Things like the total number of trials of the drug become relative. Spatial Separation does not necessary imply Independence.
Fast-Growing Startups to Join After FAANG
Chanel Miller on why she refuses to be reduced to 'Brock Turner's victim'
The way he is portrayed in the media almost looks like he is being prepared/setup to be the scapegoat when the house of cards comes down.

Someone will have to pay for lost billions. I think there is an orange jump suit somewhere being prepared with "adam neumann" name tag on it....

Theranos 2.0

Pop corn is ready.
To think how close Wall St was to selling this turd to Investors....

JP Morgan says the company was worth somewhere between 46 -63 Billion, Morgan Stanley estimated 43-104 Billion. Their lease obligations are over $40 Billion and the company loses billions every year. The next recession in Commercial Real Estate space will wipe them out sticking Landlords with billions in losses including upgrading buildings to accommodate them.

If it weren't for SoftBank using money from the Saudis Vision Fund as well as other sovereign funds like Abu Dhabi's, I have no idea if they would/could exist. These funds are going to take a bath unless they can convince someone to buy into it.
Reading that page (on a mac) makes my vision weird for a few minutes.
At our current level of technological know how, we could never hope to capture that much wind.
My (layman) impression is that the "non-obviousness" requirement is supposed to deal with this problem. But it seems like the patent office is (was?) poorly calibrated for obviousness. I'm sure the lawyers writing patents intentionally make it hard on the PTO, but that must be true in every other field too, and I assume the PTO can solve that problem.
QML as in Quantum Machine Learning, not Qt Markup Language.
It’s probably fiber? Is there any literature in the effect of fiber on satiety?
I wonder why all the allusions to sugar are downvoted in these comments ?

Anecdotal, but moving to the US, the insane amount of sugar that is put in every form of food is very scary.
Why would we be better off ? Harvard consistently produces well rounded and above average graduates. Most people here aren't comfortable with that thought.
Which flavor is "tea flavor"? Black, pu-erh, oolong, green, white? For black, is it Assam, Ceylon, Darjeeling, etc, etc? Why should the specific flavor blend that Lipton's tasters put together for their Yellow Label be good enough for everybody?
Makes sense. I'm on a low-carb diet for almost 10 years, it was the only one that worked for me, as has worked for my dad (he follows it since he was 33, now he is 73 and strong as an ox). One side-effect of this diet is look for better food - most if not all processed foods have carbs, so you are forced to eat vegetables, different meats, etc. to avoid food boredom. I ate more fish and lettuce in the first year of diet than in my whole previous life.
A site where mass murders are encouraged to post their killing spree videos? Where hate groups and anonymous cowards promote hate, violence and other ideas? Spare us your "" defense of the indefensible.
That right there is not an example of violence, despite any assertions to the contrary. There is a clear distinction between statements and actions.
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I think what they uniquely provide is actually tracking the cab to your door.

I probably called 3 cabs total before I was aware of uber, and my experience each time was wait for around an hour, even if you had pre-arranged the pickup, and when calling the dispatcher, they would just say the cab was 10 minutes away, no matter what was actually going on.
Not only EFF, IBM is on the tag team too now (via Red Hat).
Not sure why you would bet against Google on this.
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Yes, I feel the same way. I've lived in the Seattle area most of my life, and when I went to LA for college people would constantly talk about how much they hated rain, clouds, darkness, "cold temperatures" (which to them was pretty much anything below 70), etc. but I've always enjoyed the cold and rainy seasons far more than summer. Personally, I'd rather perpetually deal with a Seattle winter than have to live in LA with the constant heat.
That same user posted this “Tell HN”:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19562222
Harvard has way more than legacy admissions. Why do you care anyway ? In your head it mustn't be good with all these "legacy admissions".
> "Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequences."
> I am free to say anything I like, but if I say the wrong thing, I get punished for it

Not quite. You did not quote a critical part -- being free from consequences from the government. And as governments, almost everywhere, give themselves a monopoly on the use of force "if I say the wrong thing I get punished for it" does not apply.

Thus whoever wants to punish you needs to petition the government for help and prove their case -- if I make false claims that you consider damaging you can ask the government to help and prove your case in a civil court (instead of, say, punching me in the snout to punish me directly). Just my 2c.
Have you done a PMP by chance? Do you know how difficult it is?

Online it seems like a 4 day course and then U have to pass some exam?

Just wondering if someone has any experience with this and if they could share?
A category of food that had escaped me as highly processed was food at specific kinds of restaurants. David Kessler has an eye opening chapter "A visit to Chili's" in his book, The End of Overeating.

Everything they serve at chili's, even seemingly innocuous things like a chicken breast meal have been made or modified to make them hyper-palatable, easy to chew, swallow, and overeat.

For non-American's, chili's is a sit down chain restaurant where you order off a menu. Other comparable restaurants are Applebee's, and TGI Fridays.

https://www.chilis.com/
“ There are laws, like Robinson-Patman and the Clayton Act, which, if read properly and enforced, prohibit such conduct. The reason is very basic to capitalism.”

This is critical in this issue. Societies have grown but our legal systems have not. Justice today is conditioned on the interpretation of judges and on the enforcement of some bureaucrats. These are vulnerabilities and they are being exploited.
That's just libel and an incitement to violence (though you could have rephrased the same information so it wouldn't be).

Only the incitement to violence could possibly be considered violence, though I personally would say it is NOT violence, but a separate offence.
Almost every I know has both Uber and Lyft, will check both and pick whichever is cheapest at the moment
Yes, I struggled with the operator, to the point where it would not install at all. I even fixed some of the documentation, but later my database was not responsive.

I ended up using the somewhat deprecated community-made .yaml files in https://github.com/sbaugher/arangodb-kubernetes

It has a problem of it's own, but I have some idea how to fix it (next time it happens), and am very interested in Oasis.
Here's a counter-argument:

https://gist.github.com/Rich-Harris/0b6f317657f5167663b493c7...
mitmproxy is indeed a similar project.
It offers a dashboard similar to devtools (no modifying in there though).

You can, however, write small python scripts that have read-write access to the http flow (request and response objects).

I guess it's a more low level tool, because it doesn't provide mocking and other helpful tools out of the box.
No. They just aren't packaging KDE for RHEL.
Don't know why you got downvoted. Dr. Maté's work is really interesting.
I personally think that no murderer should ever be released from prison, no matter how rehabilitated. However, given that this is not policy, I would rather have released murderers working in the oil fields or sawmills, or anywhere very far from me, not in my home with my fucking kid.
> The subprime mortgage crisis is basically godwin's law for finance.

This is so spot on - I'm 100% going to steal this.
the CTF prompt is fiction. they wrote a CPU emulator in about 300 lines of C!

https://github.com/koriakin/cpuadventure/blob/master/emu.c
That's great, thanks for the link! In recent Android versions it has become difficult to inspect the traffic precisely because certificates installed by users are no longer trusted, so one has to either root the phone or modify the apk.

Do you plan to automate app repackaging with the needed changes, or is there a better method for apps to trust local certificates?
It cost Newegg $60,000 to fight their patent troll. Gnome team is going to need a lot more then $20.
Canada's FNMI (First Nations, Metis, Inuit) relations have been really screwed up for a long time, and the current Federal government has not improved things by trying to steamroll a pipeline through traditional lands in BC (despite talking a big game about reconciliation during their election campaign). Meanwhile the newly-elected conservative provincial government in Ontario immediately backed away from plans to include content about residential schools in the public school curriculum, which was to be written in collaboration with people who actually lived through it, see: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-education-tru...

Anyway, if you're interested in more about what FNMI life is like in Canada, the APTN First Contact show is a pretty great place to start:

https://aptn.ca/firstcontact/video/season-1/
Small bag. It's the diminutive of "sac" (bag).
I'm not sure how being headquartered in 2, 20 or 200 countries is going to make a difference, can you please explain? At most, those would be satellite or region offices, which in the end will report to a central HQ.
Who cares if you're "aligned with a mission"? It's a paycheck.
> the Viking lander in 1976

I love this as prior art. The Viking lander was definitely "a mobile device", was wireless and transferred images. I think the only question might be if the "filtering" involved qualifies.
And I had luck with calorie counting - by actually weighing and recording everything I didn't overeat (though I was hungry), even though the food I ate was partially ultra processed.
Any string dipped in tea is going to wick moisture and dribble on the side of the tea cup. This is due to a property of liquids known as capillary action.
There are not many types of tea which should be infused for ten minutes! Most "builders tea" in the UK get less than a minute, most just get dunked to colour the milk.
The instructions say around three minutes. Loose leaf tea should be between three and five or more depending on grade.

However I did note that the plastic tea bags get in the cups in the USA for longer as the water is lower temperature. It appears as if American baristas use coffee brewing temperature for the teas so a customer has to leave the tea bag in for the length of the drink.
Well, if you look at the facts:

The brand new Apple A13 CPU beats e.g. the 2018 Snapdragon 855, fair enough. But benchmarks have already leaked for next years Snapdragon 865 (e.g. for the Samsung S11) that beat the A13 again. So far from "3 years ahead", they appear to be very much equal, just being launched in alternating years.

And why should they not be equal, when they are produced by the exact same manufacturer (TSMC) using the exact same 7nm process and have basically identical physical constraints on cooling, footprint and power budgets? Ain't no arguing with physics.

Their camera systems have lagged behind other maker's flagships for several years. You don't have to take my word for it; here is a quote from Austin Mann's recent review of the iPhone 11 Pro:

> Many of us iPhone photographers have watched as other phones like the Pixel and the Huawei P30 have passed us in low light performance.

I gather from his review that the iPhone 11 Pro is now on-par with the Huawei camera flagship.

When was the last time you heard of the flash memory on anyone's phone failing? I have a LG P500 from 2011 that the kids literally throw around in their toy box, that still boots and works just fine.

Modern day screens are far beyond what the human eye is capable of resolving. Pick up a $200 Motorola, and you need a strong magnifying glass to even make out the pixels.
There might be technical reasons why browser extensions are particularly problematic and it might make sense to phase them out in their current form, so, to be clear, that's not what I'm getting hung up on. But there seems to be a broader acceptance of Apple's vision for a nice walled garden where users are safe from everything, especially themselves, and criticisms of this are just "bitching" from people who need to see the bigger picture. I'm sorry but I don't accept that.

Mobile is the primary user environment for a whole generation of kids and millions of people coming online in developing countries around the world. What we're bequeathing them is worse than anything in early-2000s Slashdot's worst paranoid nightmares. Billions of iPhones only load OS images signed by Apple and jailbreaks are aggressively patched as urgent security issues, guaranteeing vendor lock-in. Third-party code is too dangerous so users have to get it from a vendor-controlled app store and sideloading is forbidden for security reasons. You can't have browser extensions because they can see too much, so now you have to hope that Apple implements an API for whatever you were trying to do. There's a weird double standard where the tech literati are fine with things on mobile that they would never accept on their desktop. I guess it's because we have the luxury of putting our phones away and retreating to our "real computers" to scratch our tinkering itch. Not everyone has that privilege, or inclination. If the freedom to tinker means anything to you then mobile shouldn't be an exception.

I don't think the walled garden is even necessarily good for the ill-informed or careless users we're trying to protect. Checking out the "Advanced" mode is how users learn. While it may be dangerous for a casual user to be able to run a command or make a tweak they found recommended on some website, it also can be incredibly helpful - software doesn't always work correctly or the way that you want it to, and there's not always a nice button that does exactly what you need. And there's a real danger of the browser and the other public API surfaces calcifying to only permit what Apple thinks about ahead of time, smothering innovation that could have genuinely benefited users. Imagine if computers followed this philosophy from the beginning. I doubt users would enjoy an app store where user input (text only, of course) is sent securely into the app's stdin and output is text fed securely from the app's stdout to the screen, with no interference permitted by potentially insecure code attempting to provide things like scrollback because it could see all of the user's activity.

So yes, protecting users from the worst malware can be a thing but it's not as obvious as you make it sound that this should necessarily entail removing agency from the user. By aiming for the lowest common denominator user, Apple is depriving everyone else of real advantages. And, I would argue, producing a sterile and stilted experience that's best for no-one.
Here's an interesting sentence from the complaint filed by Rothschild:

>On information and belief, Defendant sells, offers to sell, and/or uses network storage systems and methods including, without limitation, the Gnome Shotwell platform, and any similar products (“Product”), which infringe at least Claim 4 of the ‘086 Patent.

Does Gnome Foundation sell Shotwell?
Ever since Taylors time and motion studies (if not earlier) we've known that if people are being observed they tend to behave differently. I don't see why that wouldn't also apply to diets also. That could involve avoiding ultraprocessed foods, or it could involve having a healthy drink with your meal, having a salad or whatever.
There's one aspect of this that's very lazily written: what exactly they mean when they say people ate "more" food.

The big open question for me - and what I've long thought was one of the main contributors - is caloric density. Were these people eating roughly the same volume of food, which just happened to have more calories when ultraprocessed? Or is the density about the same, and they are actually consuming a larger volume?
The intercept did a long series of articles about the PFAS issue: https://theintercept.com/collections/bad-chemistry/

The Russians are replacing the hypergolic fueled Proton with a new kerolox fueled launcher called Angara. Hypergolics are still used in upper stages and in things like RCS thrusters etc.,but the amounts are of course much smaller than in the first stage.

WRT firefighting foams, there are apparently some green (sugar-based IIRC) alternatives that are almost as good as the fluorine based surfactants used today.

For rocket launches the spraying you see is plain water, and it's done for sound suppression, not to get a head start on putting out the fire in case the rocket blows up.
I wouldn't be surprised if lots of sweeteners/sugars suppressed the satiation response to some degree. I guess it is beneficial to fruit bearing plants to get us to spread lots of seeds..
I'll admit, I have no idea how to do anything advanced with it, but I like it because I can double click almost anything that is an image, from old Deluxe Paint files, PICs, RAWs, TIFFs, whatever, and it'll try to open it and put something on the screen, usually successfully.
For those people, it might be beneficial to recognize that they are not God, and there's only so much that it's reasonable for them to expect themselves to control. - that, and that sometimes you can do everything right and still lose.

"Ditching thoughts of victimhood" can be taken to the sort of extreme that your last question hints toward. People who have been abused learn a variety of coping strategies, one of which is the specialization of apophenia that leads us to imagine that our actions and those of our abusers are meaningfully linked: "if I do X, Y happens; if I don't do Z, A happens". That easily lends itself to believing that, because I did X, I had Y coming - a belief that abusers, for obvious reasons, encourage. Discarding that is part of recovery, and for that reason, I'd hesitate to give advice like yours to someone early in that process, who may well still be in the habit of blaming themself for someone else's behavior.
A little bit before this in the article the company is described in enough detail that someone familiar with it would recognize it:
"I read puff pieces about the analytics startup’s co-founders, now twenty-four and twenty-five, with one Silicon Valley internship between them ... the C.E.O. and the technical co-founder left their college in the Southwest to join. The startup had twelve million dollars in venture funding, thousands of customers, and seventeen employees."
I maintain that Masayoshi Son and the vision funds are nation-state level money laundering.
> [Company] then used this cash to underprice competitors in [market], hoping to be able to profit later once it had a strong market position in [market].

This template appears to be one of the author's deepest understandings of capitalism. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't look at his resume and realize he was Senior Policy Advisor and Budget Analyst on the Senate Budget Committee from Dec 2014 – Dec 2016.

edit: also 2 years as a Senior Policy Advisor for a congressman
Except going vegan often involves massive increases in ultraprocessed foods. Realistically, vegan food prep takes a long time, so meat substitutes end up in the diet for convenience if nothing else - and meat substitutes are pure processed food.

I mean we have one group handwriting about gluten and meanwhile one of the tastiest vegan foods is pure gluten.