skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
MS is implementing this in one of their ‘business tools’, and leveraging their position as an enterprise software provider to raise the status of some of their products that aren’t classic Office.

They did a similar thing with Teams (to what seems like some success) and like Teams they are offering IT admins some tools to stop this change for their users (see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/deployoffice/microsoft-sear...).

Personally, I think the change will be positive here only because it might help introduce some people to a web that is not google.com. So many people cannot conceive of a web search or address that isn’t done through google.com that I’m continually surprised by it.

This will be a test for enterprise IT admins: can they control this change’s level of disruption for their users, will they communicate it to their users, and will they stick with Microsoft?
If the scientists have no special knowledge of the likelihood or effects of a nuclear war, promoting the Doomsday clock is simply policy advocacy based on an appeal to authority masquerading as objectivity.

There was a time when they did have special knowledge, but as he points out, that time has passed.
They stated why. If you allow people with the means to do so to opt-out of a system, they do not participate in the system. The system now loses the governance and to some degree resources of those people with means.

More specifically, rich families put their kids through private schools and abandon the public school system. Without skin in the game, they vote to reduce the budget of the public school system. Rich families generally have more time and resources to spend being involved in the schools. They won't be spending those resources advocating for improving the public school systems. Additionally, their kids, who are well-cared for and come from a family who values education, do not form a peer group with the other less fortunate kids. This deprives those kids of better peers to model.

Now, you can argue that the freedom of and benefits to the rich families trumps the benefits that the poorer families would receive, but there is a greater good argument.

I've seen it argued that universal social programs are generally seen to work better and are more popular compared to means-tested ones. For example, Medicare and social security vs Medicaid and TANF.
Sounds exactly like what zswap does out of the box.

"Zswap is a kernel feature that provides a compressed RAM cache for swap pages. Pages which would otherwise be swapped out to disk are instead compressed and stored into a memory pool in RAM. Once the pool is full or the RAM is exhausted, the least recently used (LRU) page is decompressed and written to disk, as if it had not been intercepted." https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Zswap
That's pretty interesting. I started to wonder how seismographs work recently (blame Taal) and how they're used to measure earthquakes as well as monitor volcanic activity. I may be investigating this tech further, soon.
I think you've got what @jmkni said mixed up with the common saying "read this book if you have trouble sleeping at night" -- which means exactly as you said.

"If you have trouble staying awake" would be the opposite, and I'd take it to mean the book is positively terrifying.
Simple blew it when they removed check mailing and then lied about the reason.
This BS detector has a notoriously high false-positive rate. (Which, furthermore, acts as an enabler for making excuses.)

But it actually does detect BS sometimes. Sometimes it even tells you that your mind is in conflict with itself. In the case of school work, maybe some part of you believes the material is useful to understand, but some other part of you is not convinced.

Sometimes that feeling can even nudge you toward harmonizing those parts of your mind. Which can be nice. (But not always truly necessarily.) For example, my CS degree required a digital circuit design (EE) class that I didn't enjoy at all.

But in hindsight, I am now absolutely convinced of its usefulness and relevance. If I could have been convinced of that while I was taking it, it might have been easier to do the work. Although I wouldn't assume that's a realistic approach because maybe I needed to learn it first and then apply it before I could appreciate why it's useful. Sometimes you need to just power through even though you're not feeling it.

Still, the point is that procrastination served as a kind of an indicator that I felt it was BS. It doesn't necessarily fix anything to know that, but it's not wrong either.
Measuring the business value of a hotel ranking model
You seem to be exhibiting the problem I describe -- Fortran 2018 is not the same as Fortran 77.
Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Launchable = Smarter Testing, Faster DevOps
> it doesn't seem like his real identity is really an innocent bystander.

So, let me try to follow your reasoning:

(1) he was arrested because of a case of mistaken identity

(2) the person he was mistaken for was arrested later and positively identified

(3) he must have been guilty of something because he was arrested

I'm really not following, care to explain?
I will say one of my favorite memories is when our founder who (not an engineer, but intelligent as he has a law degree) corrected some of my SQL early on when we were working up some ad hoc reports.
Sega Megadrive Hello World – Computerphile [video]
I had been using PocketMoney for a very long time, but it was recently destroyed by the company that acquired it. Seriously looking into GNUCash to try to avoid that kind of thing in the future.

Using an online service for financial tracking seems crazy to me, given the data free-for-all that is going on now.
Ambitions for a Unix Shell
>On my smartphone Blokada regularly stopped, probably because I use an energy saving profile.

I had an issue with it stopping every couple of minutes, recently I figured out it was Google Fi's VPN causing it to stop after noticing it was only doing it on my phone with a Fi sim and not on my device with a Sprint sim. At some point Fi updated it so that the VPN is always on instead of only turning on when it finds an unsecured wireless network and automatically connected you (which is extremely rare where I live).
Yes, that would have been harder to detect if it is allowed. My understanding is that for a kernel competition (like this one), you can't use model weights that you've trained outside the kernel. Oddly, I can't find a rule explicitly prohibiting it.
I use Mint regularly, perhaps there have not been many improvements, but it works very well and I have had no issues.
If you're just curious, there's a gopher->http gateway:

https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw

And a search engine:

https://gopher.floodgap.com/gopher/gw?=gopher.floodgap.com+7...
Amazon asks court to halt Microsoft's work on Pentagon 'war cloud'
I feel like Mint has reverted in functionality. It used to be that I rarely corrected and auto-categorization and now I feel like I do it with 1out out of 10 line items.

The Flash issue is also terrible.

For more challenging but important features

- With companies like Amazon, a purchase can span multiple categories. While fraught with privacy issues, an innovation in this space would be to work with payment providers to capture more information, like receipt line items. If an amazon purchase could be split into my groceries vs media, that'd be amazing.

- I feel like Mint's budgeting misses the mark and is useless to me. While literal categorizations can be useful for digging into the data, it isn't how I budget. For example, "fun" money could come from several literal categories.
Twitter tells Clearview AI to stop using site's photos
I've been writing about this for a while, I don't repeat everything in every post, which is probably why it was confusing.

Anyway, what Twitter did is repeat the body of the tweet in the title and description sub-elements of item.

The reason they did this is probably that the dominant reader of the day, Google Reader, pretty much required titles. So when you'd read a tweet in a feed reader you'd see the text of the tweet twice. Not a good user experience.

The problem isn't with RSS, because it allows for titleless items, rather with the reader.

And that problem is still with us today because there isn't much consistency among the readers other than the Google Reader model. They are all following GR, not RSS.

And that makes tweet-like-things-in-RSS pretty much a non-starter.

For examples, look at my blog on any given day most of what's there is too short to have a title, like a tweet.

http://scripting.com/

Hope this helps.
Do what you like, enjoy life how you want, but there is no need to describe swimming in water as “subversive”. Submersive, sure.
> Is it indeed?

Sure, https://yearbook.enerdata.net/coal-lignite/coal-production-d...

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_mining#Production needs an update then.

And I know of a brave man who could do it

> Assuming that a coal plant's going to be hopelessly unprofitable the next time it needs maintenance

How come? See no reason for that
CBT only works if you are a dumbass without questions. As in if you dig deep enough you realize there is no fucking point to doing anything.

Lots of people claim this is "dangerous" thinking, but that only reveals their own inability to find a satisfactory response, their own terror in confronting the reality that their entire life has been nothing but a waste of time, and there is no way it could be anything else.

Everything they thought was important is just as illusory as those deemed unimportant. The foundations of their beliefs are nothing more than hollow tribal chants.
I would like this, but in Excel or Google Sheets. Realized my CSV exports don't go as far back as Mint does though :-(
There so much money in search referrals they could afford to send someone to your house and configure it
"He remained loyal to the London-based Polish government-in-exile after the communist takeover of Poland and was arrested in 1947 by the secret police on charges of working for "foreign imperialism". Pilecki was executed after a show trial in 1948."

Incredibly sad, and probably typical of how communist regimes dealt with resistance heroes after the war. See František Fajtl [0] for instance.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franti%C5%A1ek_Fajtl#Persecuti...
I am out of that game. Once upon a time, I labored over WebTrends for about a hundred different sites. It was not a great time.

I am not sure what would be a good replacement for Google Analytics these days but I had an absolutely terrible time with WebTrends and server-side logs. I was pretty doubtful about the results produced, as well.
I spent two years with a fantastic psych in the bay who studied under Burns. She used a combination of 50% ACT, 50% Burns CBT and it was very impactful. Workbooks for homework were The Happiness Trap and the Feeling Good Handbook.

Fundamentally changed my life for the better.
Normal Firefox for iOS with "Strict" setting enabled in the "Tracking Protection" section of Firefox's in-app settings menu reduces nytimes.com advertisements on the front page for me to basically 0. In my experience, it's just as good as Firefox Focus for blocking trackers and ads.
To me nothing much has happened to mint. It is fine and it always could be much much better but this article does not make much sense. Who cares if its flash, it does the job like before. It still has issue categorizing some of the transactions but it works.

Mind for personally has been a game changer. It helped me take control of all my finances.
They keep him in there because he has been radicalised over the last 17 years to detest Americans, and now would be deemed a credible threat if he were to be released. /s
I've been using Bromite on Android which is Chromium with ad blocking and Google services stripped out.

It's been flawless for me since I installed it. The maintainer is a user on here but I don't remember who.

https://github.com/bromite/bromite
Right! This can be done by changing the name of a page people like. Not just a post.

Seems like you can get really good amount of likes for a popular thing (like calls for impeaching Trump in 2017) before changing it to some thing you want to promote (like Tom Steyer for President) ... and you can even qualify for the Debate stage!
All these procrastination articles are obviously finding their target audience here on HN!
Mint used to be ahead of most banks. Nowadays, a lot of banks have budgeting tools built-in. My use of Mint slowly faded away as my bank's software became better. Now, I don't use Mint anymore.
I use Personal Capital and love it. It's just better when you have a variety of 15+ assets and supports things like Carta. Admittedly, it's been a long time since I used Mint but I now need a much broader view. I don't really care about my individual transactions; I'm more focused on turning a different set of knobs at this point in life.

My biggest complaint about Personal Capital is the frequent phone calls from their financial advisors despite asking them to stop. I'd be happy to pay $10+ a month just for their aggregation services but my private bank is leaps ahead in terms of sophistication and access to alternative investments not typically available to the public.
> Hopkins probably isn't in-network for him even if he works across the street from it.

Hopkins probably isn't in-network for a lot of people who physically work in the hospital every day. Custodial, cleaning, security, etc. often are contractors and therefore do not have access to employee benefits of their platinum-level customers.
I've been using it for about two months now, and while it takes a little getting used to, it is so much more powerful for actually getting a handle on your finances. Highly recommend.

I finally feel like I have a solid handle on my budget, Mint never gave that to me.
Something by Oppenheimer perhaps? E.g. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1949/02/the-ope...

Or Einstein: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1947/11/atomic-...
I'd call it malware behaviour, but I agree with your general point.
That is not a flag for me in version 79.0.3945.130 on Mac. What OS / version of chrome are you using?
This is similar to pomodoro technique [0]. I love it because it gets me in "the zone" quickly.

> I recently adopted a timed activity method

I'm not sure how long you'll be able to sustain it, but my experience has been that unstructured free time is absolutely necessary for recreation. If you push yourself too hard, you'll burn out.

Good luck!

[0]: https://francescocirillo.com/pages/pomodoro-technique
I agree. And Canada and Hong Kong, and a few places in Europe.
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It seems that this side is a faq of plaintext accounting tools. What do you personally use?
Facebook has trained an AI to navigate without needing a map
In other news, the Doomsday Clock has moved closer to midnight:

Humanity continues to face two simultaneous existential dangers—nuclear war and climate change—that are compounded by a threat multiplier, cyber-enabled information warfare, that undercuts society’s ability to respond. The international security situation is dire, not just because these threats exist, but because world leaders have allowed the international political infrastructure for managing them to erode.

https://thebulletin.org/doomsday-clock/current-time/
Mafia-Style Gang Bosses in Baghdad
> Is it asking so much for an interface from my bank that can classify transactions, include basic budgeting features, and pull in some data from other accounts?

Up until a rewrite of their online banking site to have a more modern, responsiveUI, my credit union used to have a pretty good implementation of the first of those. (After the rewrite, those features still exist, but hamburger buttons and poor information density have made it impossible to use them efficiently.) I honestly thought it did a better job than Mint for a time when I was young and did everything, even my credit card, with that one financial institution.

Which brings us to that last one, "pull in some data from other accounts". My guess is that that would be hard to get past senior decision makers, precisely because it would make it easy for customers to keep most their money elsewhere.
It's more of intranet plus internet search. It may appear like filesystem but that is because it's searching internal services like SharePoint to the company that has chosen this integration.

It's also not mixed in, last I remember using this feature it was displayed in a banner section and made it really obvious these results came from a different sources.
There's a whole genre of such tutorials. The best one I've seen is the Non-Designer's Design Book: https://diegopiovesan.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/livro_-_th... It shows many messy layouts, and applies four principles (alignment, contrast, proximity, repetition) to make each layout look better.
Ruby did a great job back in the day with their 1.8 release which changed the language to be Unicode friendly.
Last summer I ran to the beach and went for a swim in the ~58 deg f ocean almost every day. I love it—you feel amazing after. From casual googling, it seems that the cold water triggers an adrenaline response, causing lower adrenaline levels afterward, i.e. less stress. I find the effect to be pretty dramatic. I also noticed a significant increase in my tolerance for cold in general.
I thought they incorporated other existential threats like climate change?
I don't keep up with SEO trends, but if you can spare a one-sentence summary or a link: I'm curious what fits under the umbrella of current SEO madness?
Where Are NYC’s Street Plazas? A Tale of Open Data Spelunking
AFAIK it's impossible to smuggle it in a way that you can't be caught. Maybe the use of MD5 made it easier to see but if examined I don't think there's a totally hidden solution.
> It became a "top-of-the-funnel" lead generation tool for other products

If I recall correctly, the original pitch deck for Mint stated that this was the plan. Weird to say it morphed into something that was just the original vision.

Edit: found the deck https://www.slideshare.net/hnshah/mintcom-prelaunch-pitch-de...
Is the American Dream Unattainable? (2007)
I think Gluon is a good example of how Rust can be 'bulked up'.

The idea is to have a DSL inside Rust that essentially has haskell semantics. This allows you to write performance sensitive code in Rust and then marshall it into Gluon where you can do high level manipulations with type safety before you unmarshall into a performance sensitive section again.

To me the failure of Rust is more that it didn't go full-on-haskell syntax wise and (to a lesser extent) that there isn't a specification (or some standards) beyond the test suite.
These changes only happen if ever because money has no longer become an issue. Which tends to be the case if you spent several years earning an ever increasing IT salary.
I've been using YNAB4 for about 5 years, when it eventually stops working I'm planning to move to Eqonomize[1] - it's GPL so should avoid your concern, but isn't quite as drastic a jump as GNUCash, and it's cross-platform too.

[1] http://eqonomize.github.io/
Thanks this is the story.

The cost decision involved was of course not to have the follow up appointments sooner..
Ken Burns -> David Burns
Nothing happening today is even comparable to the past events of a world where nuclear attacks were seen as a legitimate first strike option. There has been a lot of "doomsday time inflation," where inconsequential things today move the clock just as much as serious threats yesterday.
Thanks for that bit of information, pun intended.
I hope I'll never have to rely on it in production.
What I Learnt Running a Hackathon
Blog: Gradient descent in spiking neural networks for low-power inference
Open Source List of Cafes to Work Remote in NYC
Heh, yeah, but I guess I still have some vanity left in me. Sometimes it takes some silly catalyst to force you to do something you should be doing anyway.
i’ve recently moved from a frontend / swift job to a backend / go job and i have to say that i don’t see swift going anywhere.

i love the language, but it is clearly going towards a very different route from go, which is gaining even more momentum.

As for the client side, i recently had to explain to a colleague the ecosystem of mobile development, and the various options, and going full native using swift really appeared to be a measure of last resort, in case when neither web tech nor cross platform techs were good enough.

And i’m saying that as someone who loves coding in swift. I just don’t see the point anymore.
Their sales calls are the reason I deleted my PC account and (reluctantly) returned to Mint. I, too, would be willing to pay some small subscription amount.
> if you were unsure, it was usually so slow moving you had plenty of time to figure out what to do.

I don't drive, so I wasn't unsure, just terrified, as you would be if you being driven round it by my then girlfriend, who combined the driving skills of a rally driver with the mentality of Mr Toad from Wind In The Willows.
I think it's great that it includes factors like climate change and disruptive technology in addition to nuclear threats, which are just as grave of a threat as nuclear weapons. I disagree with the author that it's time to do away with the clock, the Bulletin is doing a great job of keeping it relevant and useful in the 21st century.
Another example of this is the downtown area of a small PA town I stopped in recently. They had recently re-paved the entire center street with brick and stone. The sidewalks were wide and there were no curbs, only rubber-covered metal posts marking the boundary between car and pedestrian areas. As a driver, I found this design scary, because it was hard to visually see where I should be driving. But I noticed that the natural result of this was that I drove around 15mph despite signs coming into the town saying 25mph as the speed limit. Another cause of this is that the sound of bricks under your tires gives the impression that you're going faster than you actually are. It was scary, but it put my focus as a driver on not hitting pedestrians, poles, or other cars, rather than slavishly following lines and curbs. Not hitting pedestrians, poles, and other cars is the entire point of the lines and curbs, so it's a more direct way to solve the problem.

I think the fear aspect comes from the fact that hitting a pedestrian seemed like a real possibility the entire time I was in the town. But that fear is rational: there is a real possibility of hitting a pedestrian, and a high-foot-traffic area shouldn't be designed to assuage that rational fear. Drivers should be afraid of hitting pedestrians.

A placard commemorating the redesign in the town square said that since the redesign in 2017, car/pedestrian accidents dropped from 279 to 43.

* I'm citing numbers and locations from memory here so take this all with a grain of salt. I only stopped in the town for lunch on a long drive, so I don't remember all the details. My memory for numbers is usually good, but is not infallible.
Is there a categorical difference between advertising and fake news?
This is a great example of the author's point - what can nuclear physicists say about "cyber-enabled information warfare," other than by copying the ambient claims floating around Washington?
http://bit.ly/ABTesting_article
You might like Tiller Money. It's basically the bank integration that Mint and YNAB have, but instead of being forced to use their interface it backs out the data into an Excel/Google spreadsheet that you can build your own system on top of. (It costs money, but after what happened to Mint I consider "sustainable business model that doesn't involve selling your data" a feature for this sort of service.)
How come they have access?
I had an unused g600 and went back to that. It's comfortable, although I do miss the "free spin" of the wheel.
I use the 3rd mouse button as middle click (it's on the ring finger). Since I use that a lot, saves me dealing with hard to click wheel buttons