skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If you report the pool's hash rate as lower

err, right. If you want to convince people they're getting a fair share, you have to downplay their contributions, and since they know what they did you have to make the pool bigger, not smaller. How long would it take to notice someone was fluffing the pool by 10%?
Let's break it down into sub-categories:

1. There is a time-based relationship between A and B: they tend to happen close together in time

2. There is a time-based relationship between A and B such that B often happens shortly after A.

3. When I (or bot) creates condition A, then B usually happens.

4. When I (or bot) creates condition A, then B usually does not happen.

5. Science or simulations explain how A triggers B, if #2 is observed.

A bot can be programmed to conclude there is a potential causal relationship if #2 happens. If not problematic, the bot can then do experiments to see whether #3 or #4 is the case. If #3 happens, the bot can label the relationship as "likely causal". If #4, label it "probably not causal, but puzzling".

#5 would probably be needed to conclude "most likely causal", and is probably an unrealistic expectation for the first generation of "common sense" AI, although they may have a simple physics simulator built in. The highest "causal" score would be #2, #3, and #5 all true.
Small note: why post an image with the pain points if I need to check the list below to understand what's written?
> in sports bars, not all the screens have the same amount of buffering in the path

Assuming we aren't talking about personal devices, could this be solved at install time by ensuring same-length cable runs the same way you would for e.g. HFT tenants in a datacenter? Or is this a different kind of problem?
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People on ADD medication lose weight from what I understand.
Boeing 777X: Largest twin-engine commercial jet completes first flight
Man the writing really sucks at Ars Technica these days. Thanks for reminding me why I quit reading after Condé Nast took over.
The do-calculus is definitely a step in the right direction (it does help to disentangle confounders and such).

The major (and I mean major) shortcoming of do-calculus is that it still provides no framework for useful induction. You need to somehow come up with causal structure first so you could express it. And normally you don't have it, you only have observations and some a priori theory (which may be wrong or incomplete) of how things relate to each other.

The real question is how do you come up with such theory in the first place. (The secondary question is ok, you have a theory, does the data support it? And if it cannot be determined from existing data, what do I need to perturb to get the data?)
Right - but this gets to my bigger issues with how software development is done these days (and why I’m exiting as fast as possible after a 20+ year career...)... in theory we’ve got advanced degrees, are well-compensated, have to know dozens of technologies from the front end to the database, work twelve hour days, work weekends and nights on call, build systems that generate millions of dollars in revenues that keep the company running... but some project manager thinks they need to take roll call daily because I might not be responsible for myself? Gimmea break!
Whats the doc of the launching of the UK aircraft carrier. They have some info on that.

A lot of the docs on large naval ships cover this - modern marvels has a good episode on it too.
That is exactly what I was referring to. DAO was an "investment" with an unspecified way to make money, it was essentially a gamble. The funds in it were a majority coming from ethereum foundation members. The reason that they were 14% of all ethereum at the time was that at the time something like 85% of ethereum in existance had been premined by the ethereum foundation (at the moment it's 75%).

Most people who opposed the fork also stayed with ethereum because the ethereum foundation, which they'd collectively invested millions in, announced it would not support the fork. (in fact, it announced that the fork wouldn't even exist-- which caused companies like coinbase hundreds of thousands in losses from replays due to not being prepared for it)
I know all of those names, except Brad Fitz. This is like a WTF moment for me.

Like first hearing about Gaiman's Sandman 15 years after it came out and thinking it would have been right up my alley 15 years ago.
Still getting a hug of death message on my end? Edit: It's up now, looking forward to using it.
Recognizing vs. Generating
Can I get in touch with you? I am located in southern California. My sons school would love this
This was how it was for me. I got burnt out coding a lot and studying for interviews (as I'm mostly self taught). I started going to therapy, but got fired after working under an awful manager that I didn't feel comfortable opening up to. Interviewing while unemployed pushed me further into burn out.

Coding originally pulled me out of a funk, it gave me something to work at. But now, I feel like I lost so much passion. I can't imagine coding in my free time even if I wasn't a developer anymore.
This seems a little bit idealistic.

People merging onto the highway are supposed to reach highway speed before attempting to merge, but they very often do not do that.

And they're supposed to to find a gap, but there may not be one or other drivers may deliberately try to deny them one.

The merging lane may be very short.

The merging car may start to change lanes even if it's not safe to do so.

Congestion may require more deliberately courteous behavior.

The right lane often has many trucks clustered together and rote exercise of the keep-right rule will require an excessive amount of lane changing.

And on a limited access highway, lane changing is the most dangerous routine maneuver so one should be thoughtful of balancing lane changing with expediency.

And the idea that a driver has no responsibility to accommodate another merging driver, if applied strictly, also means that one cannot always leave the right lane at will, because driver in the left lane are not permitting. So you change speed a lot, which is rough on fuel efficiency and precludes cruise control if it's adaptive.

Being religious about keep-right is kind of miserable on a congested highway, especially one with a differential of speed speed limits depending on vehicle type. The people most steadfast about traffic laws get punished at the pleasure of people who flout them, which doesn't seem correct.
It’s about the same in Canada. 2-4 weeks depending on your job, seniority, and position if you’re in regular employment.
The top ships there - Crystal, SeaDream, SilverSea, SeaBourn - are all small ultra-luxury vessels. C̵a̵r̵i̵b̵b̵e̵a̵n̵ ̵P̵r̵i̵n̵c̵e̵s̵s̵,̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵o̵n̵l̵y̵ ̵R̵o̵y̵a̵l̵ ̵C̵a̵r̵i̵b̵b̵e̵a̵n̵ ̵v̵e̵s̵s̵e̵l̵ ̵o̵n̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵l̵i̵s̵t̵ ̵[̵0̵]̵ ̵h̵a̵s̵ ̵a̵ ̵p̵a̵s̵s̵e̵n̵g̵e̵r̵:̵c̵r̵e̵w̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵0̵.̵3̵7̵ ̵-̵ ̵a̵n̵d̵ ̵h̵a̵l̵f̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵p̵a̵s̵s̵e̵n̵g̵e̵r̵ ̵c̵a̵p̵a̵c̵i̵t̵y̵ ̵o̵f̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵s̵h̵i̵p̵ ̵i̵n̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵v̵i̵d̵e̵o̵.̵ ̵S̵o̵ ̵I̵'̵d̵ ̵i̵m̵a̵g̵i̵n̵e̵ ̵0̵.̵3̵ ̵w̵o̵u̵l̵d̵ ̵b̵e̵ ̵a̵ ̵g̵o̵o̵d̵ ̵e̵s̵t̵i̵m̵a̵t̵e̵ ̵f̵o̵r̵ ̵a̵ ̵s̵h̵i̵p̵ ̵t̵w̵i̵c̵e̵ ̵t̵h̵e̵ ̵s̵i̵z̵e̵ ̵-̵ ̵r̵i̵g̵h̵t̵ ̵a̵r̵o̵u̵n̵d̵ ̵2̵0̵0̵0̵ ̵c̵r̵e̵w̵.̵ EDIT2: Caribbean Princess is not a Royal Caribbean ship, and Royal Caribbean's naming scheme is "* of the Seas" not "Caribbean *". Really not sure how I messed that one up.

EDIT: But we can do better than that! The Oasis-class of ships are the only ones with a ~6600 passenger capacity, and they of course all have wikipedia pages [1]. And that lists the crew at 2200, for a ratio of 0.33.

0: https://www.cruisewatch.com/cruise-ships/caribbean-princess/...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oasis_of_the_Seas
Funny how obesity accelerated with the decline of smoking. Sure lots of obese people smoke, but my anecdotal experience with my immediate family tells me that a decline in smoking is a factor.

Everyone who quit smoking in my family replaced it with food (except for one, who replaced it with alcohol, and then later replaced alcohol with food when they realized they were becoming an alcoholic). Instead of reaching for a cigarette they reached for a snack.

It hit my grandparents the hardest because they quit smoking in the late 80s when there was also a war on coffee/caffeine with wild studies blaming it for a ton of health problems.

Boom - they lost two appetite suppressants in one fell swoop.

I am not advocating for smoking, which has worse or comparable health effects to obesity, but I do think it is a factor in a multi-factor phenomena.
Wow. Reach out if you do. I want to do it too but it looks like such a huge undertaking.
US submarines also got AC when fire control computers were installed in WW2. (The space for the computer room was subtracted from the bunk area.)

German uboat staff were treated like heroes in Germany, but that was partly their success in nearly amputating Britain from her colonies, and partly from boosterism by Admiral Karl Donitz.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_D%C3%B6nitz

IIRC, he said he'd win against Britain with 300 subs, but initially only got about 100.
I think I understand where you’re coming from and I’m willing to bet you understand the nuance but my concern was mainly for the uninitiated reading and drawing too drastic of a conclusion.

I think the USDA info I read was that the “typical” cattle are pasture raised for around 4 months before going to a feedlot. Once there, the feed may be as high as 90-95% grain. At that point it almost feels pedantic to claim they are anything but grain fed, but a purely grain diet can cause them to founder like horses on grass as another commenter said.
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This seems decent, except for the “submit some code you’re proud of“ part. What about applicants whose only jobs have been on proprietary code they can’t share? This is the same problem as using GitHub resumés: it’s kind of unfairly biased against people who either don’t work on open source projects, or like to have a life outside of coding when they’re not on the job.
Great insight. Thanks for sharing.
I like this idea! I'd like to try this out again when the API is online again, and I can get a few other people I know online too. It was nice that readyoursicp joined me for a few minutes in the room to chat though.

A lot of this is off-the-cuff, and not match up with what you're aiming for here. Hopefully some of it is useful though.

1. During the process, I couldn't quite figure out how I was doing or what I was doing wrong. One example was the determining if a number is a palindrome or not. I didn't see indication about if I was failing certain tests in the test suite, or if I had an issue with syntax, etc. Some more feedback would help here.

2. A minor thing, but on my laptop I noticed that while the line would wrap, the code itself is running under the chat portion of the room. Makes it harder to edit.

3. I think the room concept is nice, especially if I just want to jump into a certain class of problems and go. However, it would be cool if you could have one room indefinitely. Perhaps a private room of sorts?

4a. It would be nice if you could request the difficulty of problem in the room itself. Right now you need to make a new room to match the difficulty, but I think that having problems come to that room might be nice.

4b. In addition to requesting difficulty of problems, requesting kinds of problems might be nice too. I can imagine a CS student being in some kind of data structures/algorithms class and wanting to focus on that specifically. Something like "medium difficulty problems involving trees" or "hard problems involving strings."

Anyway, cool project and good work!
It's beyond terrible. I quit my last job (which I otherwise enjoyed and felt fulfilled by) because of the open floorplan and the impossibility of changing it.

Sometimes you have to vote with your feet.
Disagree about the local stores part, but yeah for specific areas like electronics I always go for a more trustworthy site (like NewEgg, Jet or sometimes Best Buy). Prices are usually the same as Amazon, and if not they will almost always price match.
The guy who’s taking away the likes on Instagram
Does this pertain specifically to facial recognition or does this also include other biometric markers? If solely facial recognition, then this means jack shit, as people will be identified with other measurements.
Sounds like the perfect job for outsourcing to a 3rd party solution or using a battle tested framework!
I think that this is probably a combination of spurious correlation and a food additive whose name implies things about it that aren't necessarily true.

High fructose corn syrup is, from a nutritional standpoint, pretty much equivalent to table sugar. The most substantive difference between the two is a hydrogen bond that is easily broken by even fairly weak acids - it doesn't last long at all once it hits your stomach, so what actually hits your bloodstream is (typically) a 42/58 fructose/glucose mix for solid foods with HFCS, a 50/50 mix for table sugar, and a 55/45 mix for HFCS-sweetened beverages. Those numbers also imply that, unless you just guzzle soft drinks, the industry replacing sucrose with HFCS presumably actually tilts the fructose/glucose mix in your sugar intake away from fructose. And if you do guzzle soft drinks, blaming HFCS for your metabolic situation seems just a bit dissonant.

I think we should be looking first at the big picture: Overall calorie consumption over the past 50 years is way up. If you break that down, fat, having nearly doubled, comes in first, followed by complex carbohydrates (up by about 1/3), and sugar is comparatively a quite small portion of what's changed.

Over the same time period, caloric expenditure from physical activity has gone way down, too.

To me, that picture doesn't imply, "Nabisco changing the sugar they put in my Wheat Thins is ruining my health." It implies, "Driving my car to the supermarket and coming home with a back seat full of Wheat Thins is ruining my health."

FWIW, the word "additive" also has a tendency to be a bit of a weasel word in this context. The glycemic index for starches and sugars is typically about the same, and your metabolism doesn't care that the starches are typically considered the food itself while the little bit of sweetener that's added for flavor is just an additive.
FCC Opens Up 3.5GHz Spectrum for Full Commercial Use
Like Amazon reviews and the rest of the internet, HN is being overtaken by commercial and political interests. Fuck them all; their souls are empty and destined for nothingness.
Scotland to use 100% renewables on time to host 2020 climate summit
Only if you have a spare, or you use it so little that you can do without it—no mobile email, no GPS, no AAA, and no 2FA for up to a week.
Also, it's an elasticity problem. There is essentially no damage and minimal wear until the forces exceed the elastic limit on the stress-strain curve.

A road is a spring, and will behave elastically, with almost no deformation, unless you exceed a certain point on the stress-strain curve.

This is why the main concern of highway departments is not exceeding maximum axel loads.

Worrying about the amount of wear commuters are responsible for is just a distraction.

It's like a toddler jumping on your mattress vs a 350 lb offensive-lineman doing it. They both technically cause some amount of wear, but it's not worth figuring out the proportions.
It's still kind of gross when you see all the piles of food all at once. I don't have a solution.

EDIT> Also, it's not like we're just bystanders. The whole economic system that allows people like us to go on cruises has been built on centuries of violence, propping up of corrupt but useful allies, and at best turning a blind eye to human rights abuses. Sure, that's the past and things are getting better, but we are complicit at some level, not entirely bystanders.
This has changed back and forth over time for me.

Tests in middle school, I could recall writing things down, even the part of the page I wrote them in.

By college I would write TODO's down and lose them, and not be able to recall what I wrote down. Misplacing the note was more likely than forgetting the task, so I stopped writing them down.

I should try to measure this again because right now I couldn't tell you which works better.

One of the most uncomfortable things about getting older is that in your teens and 20's you spent all this time figuring out who you are, what you like, what you're good at and what you struggle with. Age, changes in health, coping mechanisms, changes in perspective all fuck around with this and you can find yourself in situations you should avoid or avoiding situations you could embrace.

It's like a weird mid-life crisis.
There are at least 26 Royal Caribbean vessels on that list--they are the ones ending in "of the Seas".

Harmony of the Seas can handle almost 5500 passengers and 2400 crew.
This is fraud. If I order food from one restaurant you can't substitute that with food from somewhere else. This is doubly true for food from a fancy place.

These delivery companies are flaunting the law as a matter of policy. Every month there is another article calling them out, and nothing changes, so I can't imagine that this is a one off. "Uber did it and so the end justifies the means" is what I hear from people working there.
T-Mobile has launched 600mhz 5g which solves the 5g through buildings problem. Not as fast as millimeter-wave but will get 5g to everyone.
His arguments seem week. I’ve used both docker and k8s for couple of years now. Sure there is a learning curve but because shit is consistent and sane we’ve been able to have better uptimes, and our pages went significantly down(self healing and auto-scaling properties of k8s are a god send).

Before we used to fab-ssh into the servers, manually ask some human at softlayer to provision new servers, bash script install things, and use native package managers like pip install. Fun fact. Pip is not deterministic. Until package-lock came, npm wasn’t deterministic. Things that worked in dev and staging would end up borking prod and we’d be serving 500s. Other language package managers had similar issues.

I see docker as just a glorified package manager. Make a docker file, build an image, run the same image in prod/dev/stage for consistency.

That is a huge timesaver.
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You’re 100% correct banning facial recognition means jack shit. I guess it’s a start though.

Chinese ‘gait recognition’ tech IDs people by how they walk
https://apnews.com/bf75dd1c26c947b7826d270a16e2658a
Food and drink, plus packaging. Allow for spoilage. And include crew in your served total, as others have noted.

Fresh fruits and vegetables have a high water weight, while being relatively calorically-sparse.

The total seems high to me, but it'd be interesting to see the breakdown.
Yes I think this is a big factor - also the social barriers to eating this junk food is lower. It used to be you'd eat at home and seldom buy and eat anything when out, social eating at a restaurant was a special occasion and you'd eat 'treat' foods like cake or ice cream. This sort of eating is now nearly every day, all it takes is 100-200 calories to much a day and you're a fatty in 10 years.

I suppose a good example of this is to look at asians who have a traditional diet - they sit around as much as the westerners but are still predominantly thin, though you can tell who's adopted a western diet.
We probably use habitual trial and error to train our biological neural net to perform our arm and hand movements rather than mathematical formulas. You can watch a baby experiment trying to grab and move items for hours a day. (Poor cat.)
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I think Computational Notebooks are a great idea, and yet I have the feeling that we are in the process of seeing them overapplied. They are wonderful for certain situations, and teaching or demonstrating code to others is right in its sweet spot.

I get the impression that people are creeping in the direction of trying to do everything with one tool, which sounds like it would end up in the same swamp that Eclipse went into. Sometimes, you need to use different tools for different tasks, and not everything should integrate. Just my opinion.
Until you run into the guy who literally cannot code. I'm not talking hard algorithms either.
This website appears to be messing with my history? After clicking some filters I can't go back.
What link? This one?

https://plague.com
Very interesting... but there's a trick to that:

https://www.euronics.ee/t-en/89517/home-appliances/sbs-refri...

75kWh/year is for the "cooler" only, which doesn't go below freezing. Ice takes a huge amount of energy to make, so that isn't surprising. I'm not sure I can even set my vintage fridge to not freeze, but it would probably consume in that ballpark too if I never let the evaporator go below 4C or so. The above link shows the companion freezer, which does, uses a 237kWh/year --- pretty good, but then the two together use a far more realistic 312kWh/year.
Thats not even the first fine they received. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnival_Cruise_Line#Controver...

Cruise ships can also avoid having to report or even really investigate cruise ship deaths or disappearances. Ken Carver is one of the only people on the planet currently pushing to investigate and hold cruise companies accountable for deaths and missing persons.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLgc1dqhCsQ

https://www.cruiseshipdeaths.com/
Ignore the title. This is about the Saudi/Jeff Bezos/Trump saga that's unfolding like a Hollywood thriller.
Ouch, I completely misremembered their naming scheme then...
At the level where large, security-centric organizations make decisions, these instances argue for getting AMD in the door like nothing else that I can recall. So, it's a good time for AMD to have such performant hardware and a process advantage. If it stays this way for a decade, I'll be able to put in a PO for AMD hardware...
>Clearly 20-30 years is not enough for genetics to play in

Unless it's some sort of epigenetic factors changing genetic expression?

It's a possibility considering our animals are also getting fatter [1], including lab animals, whose diet is controlled and has not changed.

[1] https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2013/10/its-not...
There was a comment by someone on a vid i watched who made it sound as though the virus was tacitly allowed to get into the states so they can get a first hand understanding of the real risk/rate etc of the virus.
ESP32 serial interface modernizes old equipment
2.5 indeed looks too low now.

The median estimate of the size of the outbreak by Imai et al as of Jan 18 is 4,000; the new median estimate by Chinazzi et al as of Jan 26 is 21,300 (assuming a catchment population of 20M, their middle case). If both median estimates happen to be spot-on, the size of the outbreak would have grown by a factor of 5.3 between those two dates.
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P.S. Hope you enjoy learning OTP style programming!
My coworker used to swear by TW and every once in a while when I read browser release notes I have wondered if it still works for him.

It sounds like you're saying that nobody bothered to modify it to use LocalStorage, which is a surprise.