skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Great point! I bet the junk food group will still feel better (less depressed) than the group being left alone, unless they were somehow constantly being reminded about the "bad quality" of the food they were eating. It's all about long-term vs short-term state of mind. And three weeks is just too short.
There's also this amazing thing: http://www.simple-cc.org/
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Employees felt like they had to use these systems to please the company leadership. So, that wasn’t helping at all in terms of employee happiness.

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As framed above the story is little more than make-you-feel-good if you get rejection. The data makes sense only in the following contexts:

- How many accepted papers did win the Nobel Prize?
- How many rejected papers did not win the Nobel prize?
- How many rejected papers are utter batshit nonsense?

Other way to say it, what is the likelihood that a rejected paper is Nobel prize-worthy?
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On an individual level that might be understandable, but on a larger scale, you end up excluding large groups and declaring them effectively less valuable, second class people.

Ultimately, wherever people are born, wherever they live, they are still people. They're not much different from us, they're just living in different circumstances. We could have been born there. Some sympathy is absolutely justified.
I remember hearing that the original graphene paper was initially declined by Nature because the reviewers claimed that isolating a 2D material was impossible. I feel that's a more firm rejection than many of those listed here.
FYI for those unaware, grecy is the guy who recently completed a >50000 mile Africa expedition[1]. This guy knows Africa. It's nice to hear that Rwanda is doing well.

[1] http://theroadchoseme.com
You make it sound as if this line of thought only happened in the world outside. But it’s evident internally where I guess it matters, not caring about your own neighbor is leading to this very violence you speak against.

You’re saying world does not care. Let’s suppose that’s true. However, locals aren’t caring and are shooting each other. Who is worse in that scale, the outsider or the very locals are obviously are very uncaring about each other?
Unfortunately this doesn't do anything for the people who believe that global warming is a geoengineered conspiracy, rather than the result of carbon emissions by industry.
> they spend like 3 minutes of loading time generating textures

this implies that they do 'know so much more about their data' than a simple bitmap
The part of the brain measured in the study to be fatigued is the lateral prefrontal cortex (the prefrontal cortex is responsible for decision making).
That was a dreadful time to be a fan of video games. It really felt like the industry was swinging irrevocably in the direction of turning out nothing but these lame attempts at "interactive movies."

News outlets like Wired breathlessly covered these things and lots of folks from outside the game industry were pouring money into them.

These full-motion abominations were the absolute antithesis of everything I loved about video games: smart and tightly crafted design, fast and responsive action, and the fact that games in general were an alternative to the low-IQ crap turned out by (what felt like) the big bloated corpse of Hollywood and the rest of the mainstream entertainment world.

In hindsight, we know that most of those games were huge critical and fiscal failures. And that was somewhat evident to me at the time. Still, I worried: were the powers-that-be going to pour sooooooo much money into these things that they might achieve some level of respectability and actually become the new norm? There are countless examples of this happening in the entertainment world, such as the music industry's longstanding preference for marketing bland one-size-fits-all music. etc.

Games like Ripper may have been comically bad, but perhaps they were like early Hollywood movies... "quaint" efforts that paved the way for a new and emerging dominant art form that displaced some of its predecessors?

Of course, in retrospect, those fears were laughable.

Turned out those FMV games were a true evolutionary dead end, and in the long run they were probably responsible for the game industry recalibrating itself and embracing the things it actually does well.
How to delegate work the right way. In startups
Who's leading the protest? My understanding was that it is leaderless.
Since the topic came up, it's worth noting that the Border Zone Reasonableness Restoration Act of 2019 proposes reducing this distance to 25 miles along with some other changes.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/218...
About the driver stack that would never fit:

When you have a single hardware (C64, Amiga...), it is not more complex to address than addressing drivers. Peeking/poking ports and directly addressing video memory is not much costly in bytes.
Not having heard of them doesn't mean they don't exist.
Seems to me a large part of growing up is keeping up with the herd. Like a pack of zebras in the savannah. If you stray too far behind or show weakness, you get picked off by the roving lions.

Now I can see utility in behavior divergent from the norm being encouraged. But at the same time, peer pressure to keep moving and keeping pace is a great motivator for growth.

So, I would say the issue needs to be studied with greater depth than it sucks for the guy being bullied. What is the greater effect on the entire population? If you ensure no one gets bullied there is a non zero possibility that it results in a negative effect for the entire population in the long run.
I'm no expert, either, but I'm pretty well convinced that sugar is addictive. It offers a similar quick mood bump to what I used to experience from nicotine. And, like nicotine, it turns out that I felt like crap for a good long while when I decided to stop consuming it regularly. And, like nicotine, eventually I pushed through that phase and found that my overall sense of well-being had noticeably improved.

And one of the dirty tricks our brains play on us is, a quick but short-lived mood bump is more salient than a constant improvement.

FWIW, for my purposes, "sugar" maybe has more to do with the blood sugar spike than chemistry. Mashed potatoes would count, insofar as, at least according to the tables I've seen, mashed potatoes have just about the highest glycemic index money can buy.
Perhaps I wasn't clear, what I meant to say was:

In many cases of constitutional law there's room for debate about what the founding fathers meant - what's with all those commas in the second amendment? What defines an "unusual" punishment? Is the commerce clause supposed to be as broad as Wickard v. Filburn makes it?

However, when looking at the specific question of whether the founding fathers meant for searches at the border to require a warrant or probable cause, we have clear evidence: The same people who wrote the Fourth Amendment also passed a law allowing customs officials to search boats at the border.

Of course, this doesn't preclude arguments on narrower grounds than border searches overall - I don't imagine the founding fathers imagined carrying naked pictures of their partners across the border, and border guards demanding a copy!
Was? "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" is still going, running since the seventies I think. There was a series this year. Sadly no longer with Humph.
> But the researchers found that in 38 percent of the impacted colonies, the polyps had devised a survival strategy: shrinking their dimensions, partly abandoning their original skeleton, and gradually, over a period of several years, growing back and starting a new skeleton.

Is it that 38% use this method or they all try to use this method and only 38% are successful?
Many companies have policies, especially when visiting China, to send in users with blank devices and wipe the devices on return.
Yup:
"During a routine data run, they unexpectedly found foreign, non-bovine DNA that had bound itself to the animal’s genetic sequence during the edits—specifically, genes from the lab material"

https://newfoodeconomy.org/fda-gene-edited-cattle-antibiotic...
What You Can Do with a 13-Year-Old Laptop
I was 13 in 1996. Friends of my parents' asked me if & which computer game would I want as a birthday present.

I said yes, and that I wanted Command & Conquer. We went through a couple iterations where they brought some FMV point & click adventure game and asked if I would like that one or if they should go to the shop to replace it with another game.

After a few tries (every time I said "no, I want a game called Command & Conquer") I despaired and accepted their latest attempt.

That game was Ripper.
I would summarise it as:

Google/Microsoft/Facebook are a bunch of horrible companies, Apple is least bad.
My 2013 Volvo can be fitted with exactly these as an original part by the dealer (it seems they were not available with the original order); the module is placed into the Volvo logo, and the driver sees a split image in the infotainment display.

But like the Audi A8 it's not exactly a cheap car; maybe it will be available in more cars in a few years (or once some patent expires?).

Edit: Here is a 52s video/ad for the feature: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkF9Txbeaxg
If you don't want people to riot, free internet during rioting hours sounds like a very effective distraction.
My wealthy great aunt paid an accountant to minimise her tax bill. She said it worked out around even, the costs of the accountant were about what she saved on the taxes, but she preferred paying the accountant than the government.
>I'd bet even money that the third group would have been less depressed too.

Maybe, but certainly their biomarkers would continue to show chronic (dietary) inflammation and otherwise they would have no improvement in seratonin production in the gut.
Tornado. That brings me memories. ;-) IMHO it was much better than the current Eclipse-based IDE they have now. At the time, and especially with custom SoCs or CPUs like the SPARC you were using, there were very few options to do that. These days we have tools like Percepio's Tracealyzer [0] that targets a multitude of microcontrollers and RTOSes, and allows you to decouple a bit your development for a specific architecture. Many vendors also have similar tools for their offerings, for example the RTX viewer for ARM tools.

[0] https://percepio.com/tracealyzer
> Lights used to be dynamo powered (and go out when not moving). Now, $5 devices will provide more light than what we previously had available, and are more reliable.

Credit for that really belongs to LEDs. Dynamo lights sucked because the bulbs were 1/10 as efficient as modern ones. Standard alkaline batteries are quite sufficient for bike lights.
The problem isn’t pge, it’s the weather. How does anyone expect pge to never allow a single failure? They used to happen all the time and it didn’t matter because California wasn’t a fucking tinder box. The problem isn’t pge it’s the tinderbox. Take away pge and you will still have fires as was demonstrated today in Moraga where 50 acres burned where there was no power. Take away the tinderbox and you won’t have fires. Everyone hating on pge is nothing short of a mass hallucination.
It was interesting article. I think web development and online business are competetive thing. You need to be a perfect developer if you want to be successful. I am interested in web development and saas tool which is famous business model in the world of digital products. Plus I browse some additional information on https://spdload.com/blog/what-is-saas-product/ and want to use it in my work.
So stop fucking announcing it and just fucking do it. Dumb fucking trust fund babies. The revolution can’t come soon enough.
In that case take a look into Switzerland - most probably the most free country in the world (most direct participation in government by regular citizens by frequent polls, tons of true personal freedom, huge gun ownership yet little criminality etc.).

I get where americans come from, and its still great place for many reasons, but for any western-european these statements are pretty weird. I guess if you are told since childhood you live in greatest country in the world, hollywood and politicians keeps playing the same tune over and over, it might feel like its true.

What we see is repressive police state outside anybody's control, sometimes properly evil government which is openly xenophobic (if you are not US citizen you mean nothing), being one serious illness away from utter bankrupcy, huge class divides that are getting bigger, biggest (private) prison state in the world, being caught with some weed in many places can still effectively ruin your professional life forever etc.
Comparing these different approaches is not trivial, of course.

One view is to look at "Formalizing 100 Theorems" by Freek Wiedijk, which lists 100 mathematical theorems and the various systems that have formalized a nontrivial number of them. It's basically a "challenge list" for these kinds of systems:

http://www.cs.ru.nl/%7Efreek/100/

This list is discussed in "Formal Proof - Getting Started" (Freek Wiedijk, Notices of the AMS, Volume 55, Number 11, December 2008).

That list is absolutely not the only way to compare different tools. Still, it gives you a sense of how far along each one has come in actually making proofs. Here's the current status:

HOL Light 86
Isabelle 83
Metamath 71
Coq 69
Mizar 69
ProofPower 43
Lean 29
nqthm/ACL2 18
PVS 16
NuPRL/MetaPRL 8

As you can see, the top ones today are HOL Light, Isabelle, Metamath, Coq, and Mizar. Lean has far fewer, but to be fair it's also much newer.
In this case no one would have to do anything as the app was already live on the appstore.
Yeah, it's fine that the encoding is not infinitely extendable. But if it didn't encode the length into the first byte, you'd have 1 extra bit for 2-byte sequences, 2 extra bits for 3-byte sequences, etc. That means that you can double the number of possible glyphs per 2-byte sequence (for an extra 2048 glyphs in the 2-byte range). For 3 bytes, it's 2 bits for an extra almost 200,000 glyphs before having to jump to 4 bytes. This would be a huge boon to East Asian languages like Chinese and Japanese.
I've heard the opposite! Any piece of information that you can share to back it up? Highly interested.
How about Android license? I assume they must be purchasing an Android license from Google in order to use the Play Store etc.
The uncharitability of my paraphrase does not make it inaccurate, and even at that I've already conceded that it was a joke. Specifically, it was a joke about wanting to see who among the audience he might want to fuck. No one has disagreed that this was the substance of the comment to which I and others took such exception.

All that remains is to argue over whether or not that exception was merited, and "it was just a joke, god, why are you being so emotional, jeez" - another uncharitable but accurate paraphrase - doesn't strike me as much of an argument. Neither does, again, claiming that I must be lying about what people did, or how many, in response to that comment of his.

Would you please step up your game? Answering the same tired objections over and over again, as they're reiterated in slightly different ways, grows dull, and it's difficult to distinguish one's interlocutors from one another when they're all saying the same things.
A similar, but different, concept that I've seen is "slow computing." It also involves the use of terminal applications over GUIs but with the goal of having an environment that changes less often, is easier to investigate and modify the source code, and is easier to understand exactly what is happening with your data.

After so many frustrating experiences with modern GUI apps significantly changing interfaces and functionality, phoning home and creating privacy concerns, or being just plain buggy, I've moved to "slow computing" and have found it a huge relief. And incidentally, not slow at all -- I'm far more productive.
If you look at all violent crimes in the US versus UK, they aren’t all that different.
What do you mean - we were always at war with Oceania...
oh wow, living the dream! Not sure if I'd feel safe traveling in some places, one thing that kinda draws me to wanting to cruise. Like egypt want to see the pyramids, but not sure if a place I'd want to go alone.

Looks like I've seen some of your videos on YouTube before, when looking at videos about people who live out of their Jeeps. However if money wasn't a limit I probably would want a class A RV, but the Jeep Wrangler makes a prefect tow car, people in the RV community call them toads. But you leave your RV at a camp spot and then can go explore in the Jeep, grocery shopping, etc without needing to break camp.

But yeah I think the nomad lifestyle has its challenges, but also some great things too. I love going to new places, reminds me of family road trips back when we used to go somewhere every year.
If your computer vision application can't even recognize which way up a picture like the ones in the article is then surely you have bigger problems then EXIF orientation.

As others have said: what about pictures that are simply not aligned with the horizon?
let me show you my one byte compressor, it only relies on a 1TB data set
In that particular situation I imagine that a smart line of Javascript in the developer console would also have worked. Without the email file (so you must copy the result from the dev console), but it is considerably easier than using curl or wget when the page is behind a login page.
bash-completion provides sufficiently smart completions for dd: https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/blob/master/completi...
I think you're being a bit cavalier with the distinction between complying with a law and enforcing it. If complying with a law is morally equivalent with enforcing it, you're tarring a lot of Jews in Nazi Germany with a very nasty smelling brush.

I really don't get this. Apple has done far more than any other company in the whole industry to fight for privacy rights. They have gone right up against the legal limits every time, while all the other vendors rolled over belly up at the slightest chance.

iMessage is one of the most secure messaging systems available anywhere and is very widely used in China. For most Chinese it's the only practical secure communications system they can buy. It puts industrial strength end to end encryption in the hands of millions of Chinese.

So I get you're angry about china, that's fine. I have family over there, so I know what it's like. But going after Apple, of all the companies doing business in China you could go after, just makes no sense to me whatever.
> ...because clouds are quite warm.

And are, therefore, radiating heat back into the small body via parabolic reflector.
No, they just realise how utterly incompetent Corbyn is.

If he keeps sitting on that fence, his bum's going to be full of splinters...
Improving your diet can reduce depression symptoms and improve your mood
In eastern political systems such as China and Russia, the prevailing sentiment among the masses is cynicism. In democratic systems it is hypocrisy. Pick your poison.
The argument that any kind of wealth distribution is akin to Soviet-style communism is the extreme idea. It's been practiced peacefully throughout Europe. Authoritarianism is a different political dimension.
Hmm, maybe an auto-correct error or maybe while editing I thought I'd written "racing cycling" and corrected to "racing cyclist" but actually I'd written "racing cyclist" and the change gave us this error.

So yes, whether racist or not, and indeed even if using some less conventional wheeled transport like a skateboard or shopping trolley - all fast wheeled travel creates PM2.5 pollution and we just have to suck it up. I presume maglev doesn't do this, but maglev isn't exactly at the top of the list of cheap inner city transit options.
A while back I tracked my mood and a bunch of other variables I thought might be related. And what was most surprising when I reviewed six months of data was that total calories was most correlated with being in a good mood.

I guess at least for me a calorie deficit is really depressing.

Also days I ate strawberries were also correlated. Go figure.
Bees are better at counting if they are penalised for their mistakes
Apple removes Hong Kong police tracking app
+1 for high adrenaline sports. Everyone is different, but I sure find that if I don't get my heart pumping from an extreme sport once a week, then I fall into a slump of boredom and lack of motivation.
Wow as someone who knows the NES well this article contains an error in almost every paragraph. They really got all the technical stuff wrong! So many made-up numbers everywhere!

To explain Super Mario a bit better, it's really not using many tricks. The graphics are uncompressed and take up 8KB. The code is uncompressed. The only thing really compressed is the levels. The explosion in video game size from then to now is because asset detail grows O(N^2) - if you double the detail of a texture you end up squaring the size.
>t's all about long-term vs short-term state of mind.

I think the point is the "state of mind" is a product of everything else going on in the body. It will be infinitely more difficult to have a positive state of mind while your body is contending with chronic inflammation and your unhealthy gut isn't producing serotonin. Your right 3 weeks isn't enough, but biomarkers can be dramatically improved in 3 weeks with change of diet, especially with respect to chronic inflammation.
Not seeing it. You got hacked? Plugins maybe?
75% of managers talk about growth in 1:1s
>occupy a sovereign country for 12 years

>Continue to keep soldiers there

>no relationship

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