skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thermometers weren't very accurate initially, and the scales were defined multiple times in the early years. Here's what Wikipedia has on this:

According to a letter Fahrenheit wrote to his friend Herman Boerhaave,[10] his scale was built on the work of Ole Rømer, whom he had met earlier. In Rømer's scale, brine freezes at zero, water freezes and melts at 7.5 degrees, body temperature is 22.5, and water boils at 60 degrees. Fahrenheit multiplied each value by four in order to eliminate fractions and make the scale more fine-grained. He then re-calibrated his scale using the melting point of ice and normal human body temperature (which were at 30 and 90 degrees); he adjusted the scale so that the melting point of ice would be 32 degrees and body temperature 96 degrees, so that 64 intervals would separate the two, allowing him to mark degree lines on his instruments by simply bisecting the interval six times (since 64 is 2 to the sixth power).

Fahrenheit soon after observed that water boils at about 212 degrees using this scale. The use of the freezing and boiling points of water as thermometer fixed reference points became popular following the work of Anders Celsius and these fixed points were adopted by a committee of the Royal Society led by Henry Cavendish in 1776. Under this system, the Fahrenheit scale is redefined slightly so that the freezing point of water is exactly 32 °F, and the boiling point is exactly 212 °F or 180 degrees higher. It is for this reason that normal human body temperature is approximately 98.2° (sic) on the revised scale (whereas it was 90° on Fahrenheit's multiplication of Rømer, and 96° on his original scale).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#History
Authortarians have a real problem with anything that introduces children to the idea that they can defend themselves.
It's not the best metaphor on just the technical debt, but to the whole modern corporate governance, which prefers short term profits instead of fixing things for long term gains.
>From what I've read, the downside is that working on larger programs in a team is challenging. It takes a lot more communication to keep the code base consistent and structured.

I don't think that's an inherent limitation of image based development -- just that the current systems don't offer facilities for syncing etc.
You mean, how much you can develop during a PhD on scientific computing with a known technical computing syntax and paradigm on top of a modular compiler infrastructure with an enthusiastic community?

(Not to detract from Julia devs but there were plenty of Lisp based contenders ready for scientific computing before so its useful to ask why Julia why now etc )

*edit: this was kinda snarky but I actually meant a compliment on the excellent strategic choices Julia devs made as compared to other scientific computing attempts
A single transaction isn't what's opaque and illogical, it's the motion of the market. It's extremely chaotic and far too easily influenced by rumors and superstition.
I'm guessing most ammo being used isn't for hunting, it's for target shooting. Lead ammo is still legal for that (and ranges can make some decent money by sifting through their berms and recycling the lead).

Kind of a moot point, but I don't think Cabela's has any locations in California, and they stopped shipping here after Prop 63
Odd that you would hate a chain for being successful, especially if they are taking steps like redesigning their stores to help fix the problem. Also I would have to disagree with calling Chick-Fil-A fast food crap. That's more like value menu McDonald's burgers and Chick-Fil-A is a step above that (in both price and quality) IMO
I think the idea is to merge the multiple bad images available from the videos to make one good image. They're not asking to improve the quality of the image using just one image.
It's mostly true, but your cynical experience is probably also anecdotal, unless you are in law enforcement dealing with these cases daily. It's also defeatist not to "stick up" for yourself when you've been done wrong, which consequently only serves to embolden the wrong-doer.

In fact I watched these two videos on Ring, since by insane coincidence this happened in a neighborhood less than 3 miles away. Someone there had already recognized seeing the person sitting outside a nearby Starbucks.

Facial recognition, image search, and the internet has come a long way. It shouldn't be long or far-fetched that local law enforcement can start leveraging these tools to pursue more of these cases. For all the fear-mongering, and true ethical issues, of facial-recognition and surveillance, this is a situation where it can actually pay dividends.

(and no they'll probably never get their stuff back, but that is what insurance is for. Hopefully it was nothing sentimental or otherwise irreplaceable and truly just "stuff")
In this case, you really need to go back and look at the issue trackers. It wasn't just people making demands; people had submitted patches that fixed safety issues. Some of them were merged in, but some were ignored, one was called "boring" and it then mean things started being said. Entire issues were deleted.

I don't agree with the mean things. Yet I can understand the frustration: here is a new patch that works and fixes something that could lead to a security issue? No one wants to fork the entire project and start their own version.

Honestly, the maintainer seemed kinda arrogant to boot. It might have just been a language barrier too, so who knows. I think if you took enough time to really look at all of it, it's a much more complex situation that what everyone is simplifying it too.
Try tomatoes with mayo, you will never go back :)
> Fahrenheit set 100F as normal human body temperature

Nope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit#History
I’m a professional Airbnb host in Columbus and know some big hosts - 20+ properties. Any way I can help bring this to Columbus? I run into the storage issue every few days
100% winrate trading strategy open sourced?
I don't think the GP meant "you must work for a business you started" - I think they meant "even if you're working AT $bigco, you should be working FOR yourself".
Oh Amazon...
No. I'm saying that the vast majority of people are not capable of doing this, and that it's a better option than weak passwords.
I really struggle with discipline because of depression, inertia, and burnout.

You're lucky if you've been raised in such a way that you are disciplined and can maintain it long-term without burning out.

I wish I had a solution, but I'm feeling more and more hopeless about this as I get older.
I have issues around code churn as a useful metric with your definition. Large Added/Deleted lines could just as likely be signs of a productive team.
Don’t Buy into the Technical Debt Illusion (2019)
I would love to see some research that attempts to correlate this to other species that have local declines in birth rate. Maybe it’s a mammalian response to over population.
Which project is this so that the rest of us can check it out and get inspired properly?
Access directly your SQL databases via HTTP. In full security
That is only true in the short term. Most people shouldn’t be day trading.
Name the Abstraction, Not the Data
Hey man, who designed the front page?
Am I the only person who gets annoyed at names like this that step on search results for existing topics?
Oversimplifying for Fun and Profit
Actually, Fahrenheit set 96°F as human body temperature (and the scale has been changed a bit since). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit and https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1266/on-the-fahren...
This study is comparing now to the early 1900s, when Aspirin was just starting to take off. Selection bias probably plays a very large part; they may have been able to measure temperatures but I doubt they were rigorous about taking representative cross-sections in 1910. Additionally the bias towards obesity has roughly switched- wealthier people were more likely to be obese in the 1900s, and now poorer people are more likely to be obese.

Given that the people involved are in their 20s I would guess that obesity plays less of a role than you'd expect.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obesity_in_the_United_States#/...
Nice work. To be truly usable though you need to ensure that the flight times match up. There's no point flying to an intermediary airfield to find that your connection flight left 30 minutes ago.
Irrational hype about companies can go for years.
I once interviewed a candidate who decided to use Pharo to solve my technical problem. It was an absolute joy to see not only a good approach, but such an interesting and alien language employed to solve it.

He got the job. :)
Not as much as you see on TV, of course, particularly the "zoom in" that you see there, but there are specific enhancers that sometimes do what appear like "miracles".

If you want to test one, for "motion blur" (let's say the licence of a car driving away), get this (last freeware version):

https://github.com/Y-Vladimir/SmartDeblur/downloads

And test it on the images here (actual test images from a reknowned Commercial vendor of a suite that is also for videos):

https://articles.forensicfocus.com/2014/10/08/can-you-get-th...
> However the problem they are working on

> sequence -> structure

I recall reading about a result a couple of years ago supposedly demonstrating that "synonymous" DNA codons were in fact not synonymous, because the ribosome took systematically different amounts of time to process them, and the difference in construction time resulted in different folding for the protein.

This would imply that the problem "sequence -> structure" is not well defined, at least if the sequence in question is the sequence of peptides making up the protein and not the sequence of codons making up the gene that codes for the protein.

Do you know anything about this? Am I just making it up?
Either it was a poorly taught class, it was aimed at civil engineering and similar where you want simple models with broad applicability and don't care about the wide error bars, or maybe you remember best the observational stuff.

But fluid mechanics has a very deep theoretical underpinning, and generally has interpretable models. I'd suggest skimming through a copy of either Lamb or Batchelor's book, to see how far you can get just with pen and pencil and no statistical input at all.
I don't know about those places in particular, but it's quite common (especially in Europe) to see people described as "postdoctoral researcher" or "postdoc research associate" on their staff pages, website, email sig etc, while in the official HR scheme and on payroll those titles only exist without the word "postdoctoral".
The stereotype is that developers lean liberal, and tend to be in favor of gun control and opposed to glorifying war. As such, is there a conflict between those positions and working on games like CoD?
Try: "Getting Started"
Noam Chomsky, commenting on 9/11 conspiracy theories, was saying that one of the things that made them impossible in retrospect is that secrets are very difficult to keep, that there are always people who will leak something.

But one thing that really stuck in my craw is how the military intelligence Chelsea Manning had access to later on was accessible by thousands of people, and there are very few who have followed her example. Similar with Snowden, except that much fewer people had his kind of access.
If you're a founder scanning this list and feeling overwhelmed: Don't worry, this is not a list of strategies. It's a list of tactics that your marketing team may or may not deploy as part of an actual strategy.

(If you tell a Sand Hill Road audience that your go-to-market strategy is, say, "Strategy #31 -- Launch Your SaaS on ProductHunt," or give a list that's 43 items long, you'll get laughed out of the room before you can pop open the lightly flavored seltzer they gave you.)

You can safely ignore this list until you figure out a real strategy, and once you do just hand this list over to your marketing manager in case they run out of ideas.
Maybe grandpa already knows, but in Pharo's case, there is Iceberg. It's a Git interface that's included in default Pharo images that understands Pharo's packages, and so on. You can push your stuff to Github etc. and teams can work together that way.

I've never worked in a team in a Pharo projects, but I imagine it works well somehow. There's ~75 contributors to the 8.0 release.
Trollope is pretty great. Especially if you like a long story arc and a large cast of characters, try the Warden series and the Palliser series.
The whole financial system is designed to rob value producers and keep them poor.

The Fed keeps injecting new fiat money into the economy through loans at very low interest rates. A lot of that new money goes towards government bonds which the government uses to pay for expensive government contractors (well-connected people; aka rich people).

The Fed loan money also ends up going to the public via regional banks but this requires the borrower to have collateral; so either way, most of the new fiat money injected into the system goes straight to the rich in the form of cheap loans (so cheap in fact that they're basically free because dividend payments or earnings from just about any asset are higher than the interest rate that they have to pay back).

Then at the same time, the government taxes workers based on their income (not based on wealth); this form of taxation depletes the working classes of any surplus disposable income and as a result, makes it seem like inflation is stable but in reality, because rich people don't pay much income tax (through offshore holdings, etc...), their wealth is silently hyper-inflating. Because rich people can only physically consume so much stuff, this kind of top-inflation doesn't show up in the Consumer Price Index; instead it shows up as increase in the Shiller PE ratio and an increase in the valuation of speculative startups and private equity.

Since fiat money was introduced, the system has been on a death spiral. The more time passes without complete economic failure, the more brittle the system is becoming.
On the Engineer's Responsibility in Protecting Privacy
by Paul Baran

A discussion of the engineer's responsibility to protect privacy in an age of increasingly automated personal and business documentation. Computer systems could be designed more carefully than they are at present, but safeguards that provide the protection of privacy are expensive. As the engineer has been trained to focus his attention on carrying out the task assigned to him in as inexpensive a manner as possible, concern for privacy has been too often ignored. In the absence of an organizational structure to enforce a code of ethics, a restructuring of the profession at the engineering school level is indicated. The engineering school curriculum must be modified to cope with large systems in which the citizenry are an integral part of the system, and a new curriculum be devised that would provide course material on the behavior of individuals and of organizations to balance the weight given to training in quantitative methods.

Published: 1968

https://www.rand.org/pubs/papers/P3829.html

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/papers/2018/P3829... (PDF)

"There are many amongst us who would not hesitate to build equipment to compromise the privacy of any given individual provided the price is right. These are the whores of industry. They would not hesitate building systems and devices contrary to the public interest; their only concern is the buck."

From May, 1968.
Wisdom of the crowd? Building better forecasts from suboptimal predictors
Going even farther, I'd love it if full receipts passed through the credit card system. Yes, my credit card company would mine the data, but replacing "$20 at FOOCORP on 11/23" with "$20 at FOOCORP on 11/23 <click for receipt>" would be well worth it to me.

(I wrote up something advocating this in https://www.jefftk.com/p/attach-receipts-to-credit-card-tran...)
True. Though this is a minor benefit, considering the risks we will be incurring for it. It's like warming your hands on the flames as your house burns down.
"Bytecode is first-class, can be printed and read, and is human readable (the representation is a string of normal low-ASCII characters)."

Anyone know where I can read more about the VM and its human-readable syntax? I'm not immediately spotting it in the repo.
On the Engineer's Responsibility in Protecting Privacy (1968) [pdf]
What many of us want is a high level standard that doesn't require being a driver engineer to take advantage of modern GPUs.

If WebGPU ends up being as castrated as WebGL, then we either keep using OpenGL, or change to modern middleware engines (which is what most are doing), with the added benefit that they make the actual 3D API less relevant, it is just a checkbox.
Should you though? So some drone in the legal department can accuse you of “hacking” or “stealing proprietary information”?

With a tech company, maybe you could but it’s still a risk. With a big, ‘old school’ company? No. Hell no. Unsolicited advice on anything security related is a bad idea.
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Definitely yes, but I can't write it without thinking like merge sort ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The point is to keep lead out of the carcasses many other animals eat as direct ingestion would cause the second most harm (first being to have it delivered straight from the barrel). Lead shot that falls to the ground when clay shooting is potentially dangerous but far less than when ingested.
Afaict Chaitin independently came up with the concept of Kolmogorov complexity... as a teenager!
Original article:

Forecasting high-dimensional dynamics exploiting suboptimal embeddings

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-57255-4
I suggest you read the linked methodology about how they concluded their definitions. It's pretty thorough.

https://www.oecd.org/dev/44457738.pdf
Strong Towns' Hiring Process
Strong Towns is frequently discussed on HN, but submitting this because their hiring process seems interesting: 1) answer questionnaire 2) if selected, answer another questionnaire 3) if selected, interview 4) if selected, offer; no name/id/cv until end.

See https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/13/strong-towns-is-hiring and https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2020/1/19/questions-and-answers-for-our-open-positions

Do any tech companies use a similar process? Does it have a name?
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That’s awesome! I typically send handwritten cards or letters and include my email address under my name to make it easy for them to reply if they’d like. As the volume of email and other electronic communication has increased, traditional mail has become more of a treat to receive. I first thought it might creep people out that I found their address, but I’ve never gotten that reaction. In fact, I’ve gotten far more meaningful replies than I imagined. My impression is that many/most well-known people feel very alone and yearn for contact that feels more real than the constant electronic communications from fans and the flattery from those immediately around them.
Thank you for this thread.
Fellow indie hacker here, I'm proud to join the celebration that my product Remote Leaf just acquired 20 paying customers and it's started paying my coffee for a month :)
Is Venture Capital Worth the Risk?
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> by buying stocks you are entitled in their present and future stream of dividends

If the value of stock was driven by the potential dividends, I would agree. But the actual dividend payouts are meaningless in the transaction; it's only worth what the next owner of that piece of stock will buy it for.

For example, stock in a business that has no revenue (or doesn't pay dividends) and that provides non controlling votes, should be worthless. But it's not. Instead, you have prices per share set so high that even if the company was wildly profitable and paid out dividends it would take decades or centuries to make that money back.
My mum grows her own tomatoes and they are absolutely amazing. So lovely and sweet.
Bridge: Why Shuffle the Deck Seven Times?
I found this passage interesting (about the impact of climate controlled environments on resting metabolic rate)

> Changes in ambient temperature may also explain some of the observed change in body temperature over time. Maintaining constant body temperature despite fluctuations in ambient temperature consumes up to 50–70% of daily energy intake (Levine, 2007).

> Resting metabolic rate (RMR), for which body temperature is a crude proxy, increases when the ambient temperature decreases below or rises above the thermoneutral zone, that is the temperature of the environment at which humans can maintain normal temperature with minimum energy expenditure (Erikson et al., 1956).

> ... Thus, the amount of time the population has spent at thermoneutral zones has markedly increased, potentially causing a decrease in RMR, and, by analogy, body temperature.

Source: https://elifesciences.org/articles/49555
"Amateur" has some negative connotations (as another native speaker). It's often used an inferior comparison to "professional". Just search "amateur hour" to yield a stream of disparanging comments.

https://twitter.com/search?q=amateur%20hour&src=typed_query

I would definitely use "enthusiast" over "amateur" (or other variants, e.g. fan, fanatic, lover, or a label that's specific to in-group members of the genre, if one exists). I'd also suggest a-b testing all the things to end the speculation.
Immune discovery 'may treat all cancer'
The important ones are intrinsics. The C++ function is understood by the JIT so well that it just emits the code for it itself.

Our C++->JS calling convention sucks, partly because we just avoid going down that path.

We do have a C++->JS call IC that we could use more.
They already gave their "bribes" to get it fixed, by buying a product and expecting a reasonable level of support.

Personally, I haven't liked most Netgear hardware I've tried... but since the FCC cracked down on open firmware for consumer gear, options are really limited with most vendors.
I could imagine a lot of scenarios where BMW wasn’t ready to publicly share its SDK for security reasons
Hi, yes I did. Any feedback? :)
Good question. I agree that this is a problem but I wonder whether it is mitigated somewhat by search engine customization. I think the set of people that are simultaneously interested in Sumerian (the product) and Sumerian (all things relating to Sumer, the people of Babylon, etc.) is relatively small I imagine?
I would use it. My wife would use it. Then I read the comment about being iOS only.

Fingers crossed for the future of your friend's work.
> A sedentary lifestyle with minimal exercise has become the norm.

The people being studied were in their 20s- obesity has increased 4-5x among children since 1980, but it's still only 20-25% for people in their 20s. Since then we've gotten gym class and advil- they had barely gotten aspirin.

Selection bias probably plays a very large part. They may have been able to measure temperatures but I doubt they were rigorous about taking representative cross-sections in 1910. Additionally the bias towards obesity has roughly switched- wealthier people were more likely to be obese in the 1900s, and now poorer people are more likely to be obese.

That said, muscle mass correlates almost directly with energy consumption. Muscles literally require energy to stay limp. Rigor mortis is caused by the supply of energy being cut off. The majority of the body's energy requirement is spent just keeping your muscles in working order- not even moving.