skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
my strava says 100km cycling is ~3370kcal
He can't be "aggrieved", because his relationship with her would also be unethical, and because _she dumped him to be with Brin_. I'm pretty sure Barra wasn't entitled to her sexual favors, so there's no leg for him to stand on in that argument. I can see how he'd be pissed off enough to leave though.
Thank you, will look into them.
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Fair and thank you for that. Wouldn't their value to Stripe be much more than 3.75x in this case?
Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no".

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge's_law_of_headline...
That just means that he used a poor term or didn't qualify it. Ultimately those features are the desired ones. So that's what they are looking for, regardless of what it's called.
Famine deaths [1] still outclass genocide deaths [2], and there is still insufficient data on the Native American genocide, though it is likely on the same order as the Holocaust. You are right that the death rate per unit time wasn't as high, and the Holocaust is probably up there on that basis. The Holodomor is pretty on par with the Holocaust for death rate per unit time at the low end of death estimates, and outstrips the Holocaust at the high end of estimates, happened first, but wasn't publicized until relatively recently.

Never underestimate the depths of muderous intent those who wield power can potentially inflict.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_famines

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_genocides_by_death_tol...
I predict in the next year or so a deepfake will go viral and cause significant harm to an important public person. I bet it will come in the form of a supposed candid shot where the person will speak thinking they are not being recorded and say something damning or inflammatory.
This attitude lets off the hook the many, many "news" stories that are deliberate lies. They're not about different framing, omitting relevant facts, or even click-baity exaggerations. They're complete fabrications designed to go viral and corrupt the public knowledge-base. Personally I'm worried that democracy can not survive too much of that.
I've heard it happens far more often in the US prison system than it should, regardless of profile.
Interesting story and some good detective work but the ending isn't satisfying.

I'm guessing this is Direct Connect out of the Equinix/Ashburn location, so they are probably working with a partner. There are probably a few black boxes in between their servers and AWS S3 edges. If this is affecting them I would expect to see a lot of people seeing the same thing.

I'm not really surprised an AWS support team shrugged it off but it seems like there are some more pieces to this.

https://aws.amazon.com/directconnect/partners/
The idea is similar but I wanted to build something a bit more modern than boardgamearea.

Focusing on adding more features and growing the site at the moment. Hope to license official games eventually.
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Incredibly impressed with the ThinkMyco team
Most everyone else is interpreting this in the context of Epstein trafficking young women from eastern europe, because that's what he did.

If you interpret it as you describe instead, I also desperately hope you are not a professor and don't visit MIT.
Excited to meet more people interested in this space - send me an email and let's chat!
Given the nature of the wealth taxes that have been proposed, you will never become homeless or destitute. Having to pay a few points above 20 or 50 mil or whatever is not going to break anyone the way property taxes will and do.
But how else are you supposed to encourage users to give you their phone numbers so you can track them better?
Remember that that's a public list. Also https://news.ycombinator.com/upvoted?id=SubuSS that is private to each user.
Asking other countries spy on US citizens is also illegal. You are spreading a rumor that has no basis in fact.
1) Will the taxis always take you to your destination in Columbia?

In the US at least, if they didn't want to go where you were going they wouldn't pick you up or would make you get out. That's not a problem with Uber. I've done 1hr long uber drives without complaint to out of the way places. Very impressive that Columbia is so far ahead here.

2) Will the credit card machine in the taxi always be working?

In the US at least, they always say the credit card machine is "broken". I would explain I didn't have cash or access to cash and since the machine was broken I wouldn't be paying the fare. They would then "fix" the machine. What a joke. Very impressive that Columbia is so far ahead here!

3) The taxi commission did not enforce behavior for drivers

Talking on the phone, driving unsafely, smoking etc were all common. Does Columbia have great enforcement in all these areas based on rider complaints? Very impressive that Columbia is so far ahead here!

4) If paying in cash the driver doesn't have change (which makes no sense since he gets lots of cash).
Not really. Eric Schmidt (also a notorious womanizer) had a saying while I was there: "More revenue solves all known problems." When everybody at the company is getting rich, they're all working on exciting problems, Fortune and Time and BusinessWeek and Playboy magazines are featuring employees on the cover, and everyone you meet is impressed at where you work, then employees are willing to overlook a large number of shenanigans and petty injustices. It's only when there's no chance at getting rich that people care about the little things like being treated fairly, not being sexually harassed, and so on.

Lest you think I'm being cynical (I am, but also realistic), note that similar cultural shifts have also played out at other Silicon Valley startups (notably Uber and Zenefits), that the financial and cryptocurrency worlds have even worse cultural problems, and that 49% of America elected a president whose attitude toward women is "grab 'em by the pussy!", usually explicitly citing his promise to bring back jobs, glory, and power to America as the reason why they overlook his personal failings.
uh.. No, and NIST has been saying this for about 5 years.
I'm certain that given the size of that market, some enterprising company would step up to fill it.
Typing too fast on my phone.

I meant to say that I’ve worked both on the East Coast and in California, and California has a very different culture. So different that it may sound a bit strange or even ridiculous to East Coast residents.
Which is of course exactly why politicians are pushing the idea of a wealth tax so hard. You can't get the kind of money required to fund their projects just by taxing the income of the rich. In order to come up with plausible-sounding figures and push their narrative that their proposals would totally be affordable if only we could make the evil wealthy pay up, they have to suggest converting a substantial proportion of the ultra-wealthy's total wealth into immediate, actual spending every year.
Yeah, most of the answers are either related to the butterfly effect or are just silly like "sliced bread" or "the printing press." I was hoping for more serious/well-thought-out responses.
Nothing special, after he locked the child lock, we unlocked it, jumped out, and found another taxi. He wanted to rob us with a friend of his, not alone. Also I already knew that it's not worth going to the police, as they prefer not to do anything.
It's just really really blurry. I can see colors fine, and if I zoom OSX all the way on my external screen, I can read text. If I only had that vision, I'd probably be able to move around in the world, ie walk to the store, but I'd have a hard time doing many things I take for granted.
I know several people who were at that island and have discussed this event; one even told me that he remembered it because Marvin came over to him and said "this woman just offered to have sex with me." Also Gloria, his wife, was there, though I haven't asked her about it (and wouldn't). This seems believable to me.

OTOH I did read Giuffre's deposition and she says not just that she was told by Epstein to proposition various people but that it happened. I find that very hard to believe having known him so long, but she made that statement under oath. Also I'm not sure Marvin was famous enough to be worth making up a story about (as opposed to, say, a famous heir to a throne).
Facebook is to human connection what sugar is to nutrition.
The PinePhone will be launching soon, and you could install any flavor of mobile Linux you want if you are still interested in owning a smart phone: https://www.pine64.org/pinephone/
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I am so not worried if the ultra rich will have a cutoff allowing them 20 or 25 or 27.5 lifetimes lived in luxury without the need to work. This is not where my concern lies.
> At least "steps" are understandable, and the data are roughly correlated.

The point though is that it is very rough, and they may as well have always been called "fitpoints" or "beans" or "gimmicks" for what good it does calling them "steps", especially because of that confusion both inside the industry and out that A) devices have moved from being directly pedometers at the foot to being indirectly pedometers at the waist or now the wrist, and more critically B) that they were always meant to be more of an overall aggregate activity score and the one specific physical action of a "step" never the end goal in measuring the metric anyway (it was just the easiest metric to measure in the early days of pedometers, and being called "steps" as much a historic throwback than an accurate name even in the early days of pedometers).

Whether or not the metric is consistent today, it's at least somewhat in one direction or another inconsistent to call it a "step" and an abstract name would have been more fun and also likely avoid more confusion than the "rough correlation" suggested today.
Haven't seen this being discussed anywhere:

>In addition to his own donations, Epstein claimed to have arranged for donations to MIT from other wealthy individuals. In 2014, Epstein claimed to have arranged for Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates to provide an anonymous $2 million donation to the Media Lab.

From the PDF linked above: http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf
We're already there - most developed countries have negative fertility.
Silicon Valley (TV Series) calls it 'brain raping'. Although this also includes getting you to reveal IP. Worth watching that episode.
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan

A beautiful book about waves, love, writing, and living a good life. As a surfer, skier, mountain biker, and overall risk taker, this book affected me in the same way "Walden Pond" or "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek" affects some people. It is the most impactful book I've read in the past 10 years. Probably not for everyone, but for those of a certain ilk it is stunning.
Agreed. Up until I was about 20 years old I could remember details about seeing movies such as which venue (theater, house) and which familiar people were present. Eventually that started to fade.

Nowadays, after another 20 years, some movies get re-watched and it's like I'm watching them for the first time. It just seems like the catalog is too large and the significance of seeing a movie is much lower.

I think we may all have slightly different "file systems" as well too. So one person's memory might fail in a different way. Similarly, I think we may all have different methods of facial recognition. Note how some people will say "oh, this person looks so much like that person" while you might really disagree.
Sounds like you have a lawsuit to file
Indeed :) —> https://golang.org/pkg/net/http/

> Package http provides HTTP client and server implementations.
Amiga Learning claims they use Deep Learning to leverage AV processing to measure stress of students to inform restructuring first-readers curriculum of children.

I think Charlse River Analytics is doing dynamic dialog systems as well, for guiding through experimental design

I think this is also the strategy that Knewton uses for their product
This is seriously dope, love it!
If you are taking any suggestions for commercial games, then I would play the hell out of Imperial.
You'll need this: https://www.theregister.co.uk/Design/page/reg-standards-conv...

I suspect that acres were chosen because it is a reasonably familiar unit, given the organ is NPR, and makes for a huge number. If you are aware of an acre, you will know it is a fair sized bit of land and 1.5M of them is absolutely huge.

For us European types (lol - UK) 0.3 Wales or 0.2 Belgiums gives an idea as to absolutely awful these fires are.
Funny the other day on another HN thread, someone was saying btrfs is good even though I said RedHat has abandoned the btrfs ship but then he said Facebook had been using it heavily.

But seeing how so many people had lost data using it, I will never use btrfs...
It seems to me that if we both edit the same function then we end up with three functions in store (original + two modified). Now obviously I want the main function to call my new version function and you want the main function to call your version. So in the end there is a conflict somewhere - even in the git sense.

If that conflict always shows up in one single line saying what hash of the main function is the one to use - then it doesn’t seem like a huge improvement in terms of conflict handling. Conflicts bubble to the root hash. I assume they thought about this and have some sort of tooling for “traversing” conflicts from the root, choosing my function, your function, or allowing a merged function to be created.
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> Cons: no sync with a mobile device

How do you access your notes on your phone? How do you edit?
But this is only an issue if your machine can see the broadband modem/router, right?

I've always run my own router. It's double NAT, I know, but I'd rather not open my LAN to the ISP.
I used to have your view about this too, but I've lost confidence in your premise that "society works and thrives when we've a common goal".

I don't think we can really know what makes society thrive, and some of the traditional measures like unemployment and productivity may not be the right ones to use.

I think the answer is in some sort of UBI, where everyone can have a base level of existence for "free", but if you want nice things, you have to work for them. It seems to me that we would hit an equilibrium where everyone who's content not working can leech a little, but people who do want to work will have much greater rewards and would be higher quality workers.

Based on the number of people that I've met who are concerned about status symbols and having the latest and greatest toys, I suspect we'd see most people actually working in a UBI scenario. We would certainly see more risk takers, which could be the best possible thing for society.

I'd like to think that I would have founded a startup by now if I didn't need an income.
Ok. Then perhaps confiscation of 10% of personal net worth?

It NEEDS to hurt, else it will just be considered a "cost of doing business"
Even if we can derive 'more from less', the massive absolute amount that we are deriving is large enough to have significant negative ramifications, such as global heating and all that implies.

On top of that, the number of nations armed with nuclear weapons capable of igniting a conflict that could wipe out the majority of civilization in weeks continues to grow. That's certainly not a context that has been present for thousands of years; rather less than 80.
I think one of the root problems is that there are too many "public" companies, that serve not the public, but their shareholders instead, with the additional problem being that public companies are required to put their shareholders first; thus "public company" is a complete oxymoron.

As we've seen so many times, this results in the public interest being put aside, with negative consequences to the public in order to benefit the shareholders.
The answer is no, but is it more secure than no 2FA?

Of course there are much better 2FA options, but for the general public, they are probably too complicated to use.

Everyone understands SMS.
Yes, but that was typically a difficult to access switch, not something you'd easily locate in a strange car. If the driver wanted to use the child lock, they'd just use it without telling the passengers (they would find out only after closing the door).
For some at the office midnight commander still rocks their world....
Ah, a question I can answer.

This used to be a huge problem for me, but it's become much less of an issue. It's a bit weird, but I think what helped the most was that I really got into the concept of "thin-slicing" as my default approach at work: "what is the least amount of work I can do that gets me closer to where I want to go?". I'm really ruthless with it now, like

- do I need to design my whole db schema right away? hell no, I need one table

- do I really even need the db layer to get to prove out what I'm trying to see? actually no, I don't

- do I need a UI? yes, but I only really need these elements, I don't need auth, I don't need X, I don't need Y, I only need Z.

It's really easy to fall into trying to optimize multiple things at the same time and thinking about second and third-order consequences of choices that you make. My new ethos, as bad as it sounds, is "focus on making something shitty. when i've got something shitty, then i'll make it less shitty" and repeat as needed - the compounding effect of "less shitty" is "eventually awesome". That doesn't always fly at work, but it's IMO the best way to get things done. I'd say 9 times out of 10, you learn so much more from making the shit thing than you do prematurely optimizing something in your head.
Sodomy is still illegal today in most of the world.

There's a difference between what is law and what's enforced.

I.E. it was illegal to mistreat your wife in Germany 300 years ago, but how often did the women win against the man compared to today? How often did they even bring up a case vs today? We don't know. But I'm skeptical it was even close to as fair as today.
Oh god yes, everything here 100%. This is why I don’t have a PushBullet account - because they don’t offer the option of non-3rd party auth. I have no problem snubbing any other service out there for the exact same reason, no matter how compelling the service itself might be.
I had heard once upon a time from a coworker that F5 pivoted from a game company (failing to commercialize an MMO, created a load balancer instead).

The company bio has disabused me of that notion. So one of us is either confused or has mixed them up with some other company.
Lol downvotes. The google pr force is out tonight!
Dashless 1A isn't as hard as you think - just go into options and remap the dash button and then take it one room at a time - you can die as much as you want, you just aren't allowed to dash. Watch a video if you get stuck. I was able to do it in one sitting.
I made this same complaint about Android/ARM a while back[1]. ARM is just random shit soldered to random pins. I wish Microsoft would open source all the drivers to their dead phone line, since at least that had ARM+UEFI. I suppose there's DeviceTree but .. honestly that's just laughable and I've seen very few boards even release a correctly configured/working device tree.

[1]: https://battlepenguin.com/tech/android-fragmentation/
This. In fact this is quite common in Chinese domestic market phones too.
E.g. The Vivo branded (subsidiary of BBK who is also the parent of Oppo and Oneplus) phones are generally domestic market targeted and use FuntouchOS which has arguably adware/spyware built in to the OS level.
It's also impossible to flash a custom ROM as it has a locked bootloader.
It’s probably worth remembering that the term “fake news” has essentially no coherent meaning at this point.

It seems quaint now, but in 2016 when the term was publicized, it was very specific and direct: there was an epidemic of utterly fabricated political clickbait being shared from anonymous websites. Stories that were literally no more than unattributed fiction were widely circulated on social media, seen by millions, and a huge proportion of those people were taking them to be genuine (if politically motivated) news reporting.

Maybe at the time, it seemed like someone would do something if they pointed out that this was happening.

Of course, what someone did was immediately adopt the term to describe (what they saw as) low-quality, poorly-sourced, or overly-opinionated political reporting. And then a bunch of people who thought that reporting was actually pretty good started throwing the term back at what they thought was overly-opinionated, and suddenly the discourse was about bias in the mainstream media, and no one seemed to care much anymore about the tsunami of literal fantasies being deliberately spread by propagandists unknown.
I'm right in the middle of reading "Where Wizards Stay Up Late", fantastic book if anyone is interested in how the internet came about.
Most wranglers don't see proper off-roading, none of the crossovers. But even though, you have the whole front trunk where you can add a range extender (similar to BMW i3). You can strap extra canisters - range is not an issue.

What you've got is a superior off-roading machine. With 4 electric motors you can apply torque with extreme precision. Increasing ground clearance is not an issue since you don't need a drive shaft and diffs.
I too hope people remember that, because it was the case one minute ago. You save $20 or so by having ads on your Kindle when it is sleeping. The ads are not burned in, they are delivered via WiFi the same as other Kindle content. I don't see the problem with it.
Not in Russia. Numerous examples exist when victim's number was linked to attacker's sim card to obtain 2FA code, then linked back to victim's sim so he does not notice anything.

This happened both by government-linked parties, where they are able to coerce providers to do it, mostly targeting prominent political opposition members. It also happened without government involvement, done by provider's personnel with sufficient access and some entrepreneur attitude.

The rule of thumb to protect against it:

- do not use SMS 2FA

- if you do, use a foreign SIP number with SMS capabilities

- if you HAVE to use local sim, use SIM that belongs to someone else and noone knows you use it
Ask HN: Tool for compiling regular customer and team updates?
Would the tool described below be useful to you (as an entrepreneur, consultant, or team lead, for example)? Does something like that exist already?

Situation: Entrepreneurs, consultants, marketing departments, and team leads alike need to regularly inform their audience (usually customers or their team) about relevant news, such as a new product releases, fixed issues or helpful articles.

Problem: This information is usually scattered across various systems and resources. Compiling such an update document can be tedious and expensive. Not only do you need to search for the information to be included in the update but you usually also have to manually copy & paste that information into the document to be sent to your audience.

Proposed solution: A tool that automatically suggests relevant information to be included in the next update, e.g. Jira issues and releases completed since the last update, Trello cards moved to a list since the last update, or company blog posts.

These suggestions could then either be accepted or rejected and complemented by additional free text.

The finished document could then either be exported as an HTML page or a new blog post or newsletter issue could automatically be created or sent (using Mailchimp, for instance), respectively.