skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Don't leave us hanging, what is the root cause?

This is somewhat conjecture, but bloodwork indicates that my pituitary gland completely shut down at the beginning of 2018, following multiple viral infections and a year of intense triathlon training. My hormone levels were just completely out of whack. I've been getting shots from my endocrinologist, and a week and a half later, I'm feeling like a different person. Hopefully I just need it temporarily as a kick-start, and can then wean off.

Otherwise, my sleep habits are functionally pretty close to perfect.

* No food or blue light after 6pm

* I only use my bed for sleep (no reading)

* No caffeine of any kind after noon

* Black-out curtains

* In bed by 9pm

Falling asleep and staying asleep has never been an issue for me; it's just getting good sleep that's been the problem.
Amateurs
Well great then. My hunch didn't pan out.
I don't know that that analogy follows, because agglomerations of thousands of people doing a complex task really aren't that comparable to two people doing one simple task.

Taking one example I know of second-hand:

My brother worked for the #2 company in his industry at the time they acquired #3 in an effort to overtake the market leader. It worked out disastrously. It turns out that #3, despite being the less profitable (and therefore less valuable) company, was also physically larger. Internally it had a lot of inefficient ways of doing things that resulted in them needing a lot more people to accomplish the same volume of work.

You might think that #2 was then able to lean up #3 and make them more profitable, as part of the acquisition process. But it just isn't that simple - this was a large multinational with ossified internal procedures that were baked into the very infrastructure (both physical and IT) of the company. Things were never going to change overnight.

So, instead, what happened was that, over the next 1-2 years, #3's culture got imposed on the employees from #2, by simple virtue of the #3 camp being twice as many people. So, in the years since then, the #1 company's market lead has consolidated into outright market dominance, as a result of their #2 competitor suddenly becoming no more competitive than their #3 competitor.
My point of aggravation is that there's no good way of measuring it, at least not right now. If there were more targeted, absolute actions could/should be taken.
I didnt mention that I now live on my land an am building a farm..read my rant below for more info in you care..or dont.
>But do they have free will if their startup is majority owned by VC funds?

Yes. Even if the VCs control the majority of board seats and voting rights of the startup, companies like Google/Facebook/Amazon/Microsoft are not in the business of doing hostile takeovers with uncooperative founders. Yes, hedge funds will do that but not FAANG companies.

Typically, it's always a friendly deal and they want to lock in cooperative founders with "golden handcuffs" -- e.g. 4-year stock vesting, etc. So yes, even if the startup founders have less voting power, they're still in the driver's seat in multiple ways.

Can anyone think of an example where a FAANG acquired a startup with uncooperative startup founders? I guess it's possible that there's a startup out there and the only thing valuable about the company is its patent portfolio and FAANG doesn't care about the founders skill sets at all. In such a scenario, I guess they could collude with the VCs and override the founders to buy the startup. I just can't think of such an example.

The point still remains: if you're a startup founder, you can listen to the offers from Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, when they come calling -- but that doesn't mean you have to accept it and sell. Even though billions of dollars being waved in your face is persuasive, many founders have egos and like them, maybe you don't want to report to LP/MZ/JB as your new boss. Part of the joy of running your own company is that you're not someone's subordinate and you don't have to follow the agenda of a manager above you.
You also need something like `nethogs` to view network IO, I wish there were a colored, htop-like utility for that as well.
Google has already been sued for linking health data, so this should certainly raise eyebrows for those interested, and I wouldn't expect Google to have any free pass here either.
Are you saying everything is fundamentally just imagination?
Agreed with this, SVN (short for subversion) is a good alternative.

I understood and was comfortable with SVN within a few minutes (using the TortoiseGit front-end, which I highly recommend).

I wrestled with git for months and at the end still feel I haven't subdued it properly. I can use it reliably but SVN is just so much friendlier.

So my suggestion is go with SVN + TortoiseGit. SVN is your butler. Git is a hydra that can do so much, once you've tied it down and cut off its thrashing heads.

It's not just me, our whole (small) company moved to it it burnt too much of our time and mental resources.

Edit: after learning TortoiseGit, learn the SVN command line commands (it's easy), and learn ASAP how to make backups of your repository!
> Maybe some people like an email notification, and some like an app-based one.

And I still wonder why we can't have notifications depending on where the user sees it first. Whenever I turn on wifi on my tablet(once a week or so) I get flooded with dozens of old notifications I already cleared on the PC or phone. YouTube somehow manages to host countless videos with amazing technology in the background but their website and app can't remember which comments I've already seen, and sometimes which language and color scheme I've set manually. It's so uncanny to have such modern technology mixed with bugs and behaviour that I'd only expect from a hobby project.
Yeah but you really need to buy the IPhone to go with it.
Hah! Just answered above. :)
Like many of the commenters I heavily used asterisk 10 years ago. Seeing comments like “can’t believe it’s still around” leads me to believe something better came along. Did something better come along? I’d like to play around with something new. Ps - still running my home PBX on Asterisk/FreePBX.
Well, obfuscation is great for that sweet frisson of resistance and for laughs (I guffawed when I read about ah's datapools; https://ahprojects.com/datapools/) but if we're resisting by hiding ourselves, then we've already lost.

We should not need to hide ourselves from anyone, because there should not be anyone to spy on us. We should not have to think about how to obfuscate our activity, because there shouldn't be anyone watching our activity without a very, very good reason (and even then, with enough safeguards to discourage all but the most commited of spies).

If we're subverting the authority of democratically elected governments -governments that _we_ have given authority to- then we are in deep, deeep shit. We might as well obfuscate ourselves out of shame of being recognised for the negligent democratic citizens that we are.
In financialized capitalism growth is everything. If capital isn't generating growth for its holders it is losing it (relative to other investments).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Midgley,_Jr.
Keep going! 60 seconds in, it throws a huge pop-up at you.
> This is however true for any mainstream technology as far as I am aware.

It's too bad bitmessage can't scale :/
Right. Google seems to never have created or bought a product that did not collect data in a new way. It's the only question I ask when I see a new product from them - "What new data is this giving them?"
eunalogy methinks
Humans do not use explainable models. We confabulate an explanation post hoc.. There is some evidence that we may do it down to very simple cases (“why did you reach for that cereal? A: it’s good for me”).

We don’t do this for complex plans where we track multiple intermediate goals, even not on a piece of paper, but the intermediate gaps between what is written down are truly inscrutable.

That being said I have some sympathy for the technical portions of her argument (and for the rest too).
I would add to it that a large part of this skepticism is fueled on purpose by respective interest groups. The real obstacle is the confusion in the public opinion spurred by big oil marketing and lobbying. It's really hard to find quality information online, but it exists since many years and it's pushed down on purpose by such interest groups. Here is an example:

Exxon, a big oil corporation, had accurate predictive models of climate change, agreeing with scientific consensus, already in 1982 and confirmed "it will cause dramatic environmental effects before the year 2050".
https://twitter.com/i/status/1187719206562910209

Shortly after Exxon began to deny global warming and started "greenwashing" marketing campaigns, which today show up directly in the news articles on global warming, e.g., in The New York Times:
https://twitter.com/status/1187435336185581570
The perceived complexity often also depends on how you are using your current setup. For example, if you use dynamic inventory and lots of plugins, Salt doesn't look very complex. But if you use bare sensible with some static files, then it does indeed.
Doesn't Amazfit GTR cover that? https://en.amazfit.com/gtr.html
Wish there was a TL;DR; section on that post. It's a freaking bible book.

Bait n switch at the last minute scam?
I think we agree that we are in the middle of a cultural shift, but I don't think it's going where you think it is.

It's exactly this cultural shift that I'm worried about. What exactly does crowdsourced school security look like in an environment of radically open data?

I just think you're being very optimistic.
That's an extreme and useful counterexample. Did anyone distill Apollo project management lessons learned into something we can apply now?
git commit -a then.
That's a lovely and succinct way of putting it.

I really dislike the way so many companies are pushing ml based systems as some kind of scientific, perfect, measure for difficult human problems like recruitment.
> This is aimed at Joe Average User

It's not important who this is aimed at but who it hits.
It’s not useless. I for one associate language with their run time properties..

Written in Python - easy to understand, but lacks performance. Probably cant use more than 1 CPU core. Needs a lot of memory.

Written in Go - fast enough for most cases, all CPU cores, but possibly high mem usage becUse of GC. I need to plan for it.

Written in Rust - possibly new and maturing, uses memory effectively, likely to use all cores. Easy to deploy (single binary)

Written in JS - probably not for me - personal taste and hate of npm ecosystem.

Written in C - probably the best performing, but less robust, no memory safety.

So, “written in” helps in judging whether to care for that project or not to some extent.
I used to believe that absent the lawsuits that BSD would have been THE choice instead of Linux, but I think there's a lot of truth to the position that Linux was far more experimental and evolving rapidly -- and exciting! -- than FreeBSD (et all) which were busy doing things like powering the biggest web companies of the 90s (Yahoo and many more). Making waves and iterating rapidly was never going to mesh with the Unix Way (even open source Unix). As such, Linux got the mind-share of hackers, idealists, students, and startups and the rest is history.

(I think it's a pity that the useful innovations that happened in Linux cannot be moved back over to FreeBSD because of licensing -- the computing world would be better off if it could.)
I'm a little bit disappointed that they didn't mention the critical role played by Speak & Spell in the movie "E.T.":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.T._the_Extra-Terrestrial#/me...
Nice, that looks much better!
> He said an HR dip which I think means heart rate. That might be achieved by daily exercise, I think?

Unfortunately exercise didn't help me either; I'm convinced it's just body chemistry (although, if you're already somewhat healthy, I think daily exercise can influence that). I was at a point where exercise had no effect.

My theory is that HR dips lead to what the article suggests; lower blood flow in the brain opens up space for cranial fluid to flush things out.
If we go by number of people-hours in space, then spaceflight is pretty safe... 150 years of human life in space, and 17 deaths in orbital spaceflight... mean time of 8 years between deaths, safer than general aviation (7 years)...

Russian/Soviet spaceflight is particularly safe (about 20 years mean time between deaths), especially if you exclude the first dozen or so years (no orbital spaceflight deaths have occurred for the Soviets or Russians past 1971), making it about as safe as biking or driving (so long as you use a Soyuz for launch and reentry).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spaceflight_records#To...
It's announce only (though it avoids running over other communication on the frequency).
Seems like an interesting idea.

There's a huge problem with this website, though. It's a search engine and the most prominent thing on the page is a giant picture of some people.

Put the search box, writ large, right in the middle of the page! Not only is it the "language" of search engines, but it's a simple and obvious accessibility win. I'm sure the people all matter to each other, but not to the end user.

Also, if the goal is to eliminate top search results, why not set "exclude top million" as the default option? By default it's currently just a worse Bing. If your mission statement is to get people outside of the Big Tech Bubble, it seems silly in the extreme not to have that as a default.
I thought Google acquired Moto for the patent portfolio. On that basis the transaction seems to have paid off given the relative lack of noise on the troll front recently.
Then there shouldn’t be any defaults, right? All of these issues could easily be avoided by forcing users to provide explicit parameters. It only makes sense to offer defaults if they’re intuitive.
was about to comment the same before seeing your comment.
The biggest win with QR codes is their error recovery capability, though. This will just corrupt data if there's errors.
Hrm, I don't really agree. There are a lot of very interesting things that are not very risky. Most productive activities are not very risky (art, woodworking, home improvement, etc.), and are very interesting to some of us. Sex is another example of something a lot of people like which carries little risk of harm.

I don't think there is good evidence beyond anecdata that the retired die early or that trust fund kids are depressed.
In 2012, in a concurring opinion on a case involving warrantless GPS tracking, justice Sonya Sotomayor wrote:

"More fundamentally, it may be necessary to reconsider the premise that an individual has no reasonable expectation of privacy in information voluntarily disclosed to third parties. This approach is ill suited to the digital age, in which people reveal a great deal of information about themselves to third parties in the course of carrying out mundane tasks."

Just wondering when we're actually going to reconsider that premise and its legal cognates.
I agree that the ardent tribalism and group-ism can become a big drain on mental health, and can only imagine how exhaustive it must be to constantly measuring oneself up against other groups and demographics that seemingly enjoys more privileges than oneself.
Ask HN: Name the most relevant problem in your field for 2020
Hello, Just another brainstorming for the usually clever and passionate HackerNews-ers here: is there a particular problem hindering progress or even a breakthrough in your field (not only cs or eng and medical but also humanities and socio-politics very welcome). What would you like to see in 2020 in order to make it happen? Thanks!
I answered your questions based on what I gathered from wikipedia:

> how do "the toxins" get out of the cerebro-spinal cavities

It gets caught up in cerebrospinal fluid. Note sure if it is has to be properly dissolved in it or if it also transports mechanically.

> if the flow is not unidirectional (with new fluid comming in), why would not the toxins just settle at slightly different place, after those fluid movements end

Cerebrospinal fluid is constantly being created and then deposited to the blood stream. According to wikipedia you produce 500 mL a day and there is 125ml at any given time, so the cycling rate is pretty fast if we compare to how long Alzheimer takes to form.

> how is the fluid itself cleaned

It is extremely filtered blood, so it is basically cleaned blood. In other words it is cleaned in the creation step.

> what about the blood-brain barrier

Seems entirely unrelated, cerebrospinal fluid seems to be like its own circulation flow where blood doesn't reach. I guess it basically being a lot cleaner blood makes it another layer of protection for these parts of the brain.

Source:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerebrospinal_fluid##targetTex....
"meme language". lol thats hilarious.
The title says 3D because I could NOT use the word "360" on the title for some reason. the platform automatically removes it.
We are also looking to work with someone that is active in Drone programming systems.
The idea is that users use a drone to go around a building in the circle and take 48 images to create a 360 spin image. If you know of any one that is interested, please let me know . Sean@glo3d.net
80-90% of Google's revenue derives from organizing your personal information and selling ad products derived from it. It's not a direct transfer of data into cash.

I'm not sure people really need biometrics data to advertise to you more effectively.
Kimono was cool, nice to see another option. I still have a Kimono t-shirt in a drawer somewhere.
My comment is based on some articles from years ago about Germany and maybe other countries having trouble getting their gold back from the US. Googling a bit now results in a couple of articles that say that Germany did eventually get their gold back, but there were some hiccups and delays that made people wonder whether the gold was even there at all.

https://bmg-group.com/germanys-gold-reserves-u-s-paper-claim...

https://www.rt.com/business/445133-germany-access-gold-us-fe...

https://www.kitco.com/news/2017-08-24/Germany-Gets-Its-Gold-...

Turns out everything is fine, but a couple of years ago, people were worried about this. It looks like only Germany was involved and no other countries.
Weird. Nobody wants to limit the authority of the government until the government is infringing upon something they care about.

If only there was some concept where we could specifically enumerate powers to the government, and that's all the government was allowed to do.
That makes no sense.

Devs write "written in rust" because:

- it's interesting to other developers (which are HN's main audience) to see.

They don't sell some shrink wrapped software, where the language doesns't matter. Nor some already established package you just download and use as is like Postgres or Bash, or whatever.

- it matters for those looking for compatible stuff for their own projects (for libraries, reusable packages, etc.)

- it offers certain guarantees other languages do no (e.g. memory safety, native binaries) which can be an important criterium for those looking for a project

- it's important for possible collaborators to know the language (the project being Open Source and everything).

- in a field where a Java based project (Lucene/Elastic Search) dominates, it is important to advertise that you offer a non-Java alternative for people who want to avoid Java/Oracle/etc.

- Rust is also currently on the rise (!= meme), and thus gets new programmers, and new greenfield projects. And since those people are trying the language, they want to advertise their involvement to the community, talk about how they found the experience, etc.
Keybase is a great alternative to Slack with end-to-end encryption. https://keybase.io/blog/introducing-keybase-teams
The slack importer makes it pretty easy to move over existing slack channels. https://keybase.io/slack-importer
Absolutely, and I would add Google Analytics to that list of "big services" as well.
Sidenote: expecting some company will lead the Android tablet market with an interesting offering because Google discontinued their tablets.
People are regularly detained until their day in court. That's how it's always worked.

You realize there's not a country on the planet that won't detain you if you sneak across their border right?

The fact is we don't allow unfettered open immigration for many reasons.
Countdown to when my fitbit just stops working...

And that's probably the end of Fitbit's customer service department. Not that they are particularly great, but, you know, they do exist.
but found myself oddly bothered by the fact that they feature telepathy.

Same here, mostly. I'm not a fan of introducing "Woo"'ish stuff like telepathy, but they were still enjoyable stories. I like the Cas Russell character a lot.
WAIT. You entered the US? You're not a citizen? You're complaining about our rules after we let you in?
Google surpassed 1.000.000 stars on GitHub, Microsoft and Facebook follow
Definitely. FreePBX was an amazing way to get a fully featured PBX with very little time investment.

When I finally wanted to ditch the GUI and get to a bare-bones Asterisk years later, the concepts carried over. The hardest part was tuning the very full-featured default config down to only the features I needed for a simple home PBX! I probably only retained 5% of the modules and config files that were default enabled
Interview with Kansas City Based Hip Hop Artist Boyboiiat
This is where I start to get paranoid about data collection. Once you start combining biometric data along with all the rest of the data they have on you, how valuable does that data profile become to a health care provider?

There are so many bad implications of this, it will never outweigh any good Google claims this will do.
Embedded systems often have real time constraints that don't mix well with most garbage collectors.

That being said, there are plenty hobby (and commercial) projects where .NET is perfect.
The changes for just one commit are `git diff $commit`,
while the changes for a branch are `git diff $branch`.

While there are a metric ton of things which are confusing about git, this was perhaps not the greatest example.
Kettle and toaster are independent actors and so is Roomba and yet here we are doing fine.
Rust is an interesting language both for its technical characteristics, which is a direct appeal as other commenters have noted, but it can also be worth noting because Rust interoperates almost as well as C. If I announce a cool Python module, someone who primarily uses Ruby is probably going to ignore it because the level of effort to use it would be more than it's worth. If I announce a cool Rust module, they might think “you know, it's pretty easy to build a wrapper…”.
Yes they believe much of the care for the needy should be undertaken by institutions like religious organizations.
> Also, not getting enough sleep can wreak havoc on your hormones.

Yep, and that was a part of my problem. Unbalanced hormones lead to poor sleep, and poor sleep leads to unbalanced hormones. My pituitary just stopped working correctly, and no matter how many hours I spent in bed, my body just wasn't doing what it needed to dial up the deep sleep requirements. Horrible negative feedback loop.
I really want to implement that Planchon Darboux algorithm now...
KDE Plasma Mobile Weekly Update, Part 5
Yeah well I'm from Eastern Europe where it's more expensive, never on sale and I have less money
A blind and deff guy make a good team.
Most ideas in CS are old as dirt. There was a flurry of theory advancements mid-century and a lot of work since then has been putting those ideas into practice.
They seem to agree, approximately: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21418786