skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Somebody comes up with a "useful proof of work" a few times a year, and so far there has always been a reason why the proposed mechanism is infeasible. In this example, the reasons are (1) the ML tasks require large amounts of data, which makes them infeasible for a blockchain POW algo and (2) in their proposed scheme, there is no way for a regular node to validate the blockchain, because it has to trust a separate node they call a "verifier".

(but I only glanced at the paper quickly, if someone has the time to do a thorough analysis, please feel free to explain why I'm wrong)
You can't stick up for the American worker while starving on the streets. So in relation to your last paragraph about theoretical do-overs, I would argue that keeping the job until you actually have a replacement lined up would be the wiser choice both for your wellbeing and the potential to have a greater positive impact for others.
"Capital punishment is a legal penalty in the United States, currently used by 29 states, the federal government, and the military"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_the_Unit...
At least a great step forward from the default notion that everything has but one cause (maybe two).
I'm no fan of XML and think its use is one of XMPPs biggest flaws, but I wouldn't pick JSON over it… with XML at least you get a lot of the stateful encoding and namespacing (eg. extensions) right in your XML library of choice, with JSON you have to reinvent all of that which is more code, more spec, etc. I'm not really sure if there is a good alternative to XML, sadly :(
I see no reason to not add it, but we're currently busy so it'll have to wait till we either have time or somebody contributes it. Should be an hour of copypasting one of the sql data sources and adapting it for sqlite.
Blender has recently seen Animation studios switching to it. It's recently seen a large amount of investment from Epic and a few others and one of the recent releases (2.8) made a lot of interface improvements that brought it in line with other industry tools.

https://www.blender.org/user-stories/japanese-anime-studio-k...

https://blender.community/c/today/2gdbbc/

https://www.blender.org/press/epic-games-supports-blender-fo...
The whole history builds up a picture of your habits and reading times where only storing the last gives just that the last time you read the book. Think about the difference between storing the last place you were vs everywhere you've been. Individual data points may be innocuous where a collection of the same data points isn't.
I don't find this feeling uncomfortable. I have been driven by an unending curiosity about things that I don't yet know anything about. My career has had many turns into unknown territory.

I wonder if a compulsion to be an authority makes the noob feeling uncomfortable.
Same here. I still remember that fiasco wih Lenovo malware reinstalling itself even after a clean Windows reinstall. How does a company expect not to lose all trust with a stunt like that?
I love my cars. I have 6. And I hate cities.
Hmm, presto is not Postgres.

In a way, presto is like a bunch of FDWs on steroids, and a query planner that has above average cost model for hive etc.

There are plenty of things that presto isn’t, such as a good replacement for Postgres in classic oltp workloads.
Jepsen: Etcd 3.4.3
I hired my first programmer – I'm not freaking out. any tips on onboarding?
just wanted to share some good and positive news... i hired my first full-time programmer!

i know this is pretty self-serving post, but, as you all know, hiring talented technical staff is... ... hard.

it can be really hard when you're an early-stage startup trying to compete against much larger compensation packages.

the only solution that i know is to be authentic... these posts were helpful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493206
and
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19493206

so, that's what i've tried to do.

part of my solution has been just more transparent with who we are as a project... like creating a very simple open source handbook and describing what the first day / week looks like:

https://github.com/yenio/handbook/blob/master/1-employment.md#onboarding-your-first-day--week

so grateful for this community because i learn things every day.
Icefin Robotic Sub Snaps First Images at Foundation of Antarctic Glacier
They did just approve a 600 million dollar construction package to rework market. A protected bikelane and new sidewalks will help a lot, but it takes time. Enforcement in general is for sure still a huge issue in the city.
The irony is that there is no service. It's a duck-and-tape solution reminding me my first years in Linux ops industry.
That actually sounds like a cool SaaS business idea on it's own.

Create an API to convert email addresses like example@gmail.com to links with custom search parameters like so: hxxps://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/from%3Aexample.com+subject%3AComplete+Registration+in%3Aanywhere
Try Xrdp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xrdp

I use it on a bunch of Ubuntu 18.04 systems, works out of the box with apache guacamole.
That is a hammer looking for a nail.
The problem is things have gone to far the other way now.
Those with Chronic Pain are now committing suicide (as did my wife) when they are let to suffer.

The CDC itself stated in April of 2019:

"CDC Advises Against Misapplication of the Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain
Some policies, practices attributed to the Guideline are inconsistent with its recommendations"

Sadly the medical community is not getting that message due to this mater now becoming political.

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2019/s0424-advises-misapp...
Matrix works well as a big distributed graph protocol, not so much for chat. XMPP works well for chat or anything where you need efficient near-realtime streams (eg. stock trading and tickers sometimes use XMPP, some accessibility caption systems, etc.). Also XMPP is better standardized (by virtue of having a long-term non-profit standards body, Matrix is sort of trying to do that, but also trying to figure out how to monetize it which is never a good recipe for long term success when your spec becomes part of your product).
It's just another accumulation of data unnecessarily just having the last page I read for each device doesn't tell you much but having a history of all of that gives Amazon information about my habits and combined with info about the book maybe mood etc.
Imagine not rewarding regulatory arbitrage! Let's ban personal vehicles except for if the personal vehicle is owned by someone who claims to be a taxi cab driver despite minimal training and questionable familiarity with the city, being pressured by their passenger to drive quickly and drop them off promptly or risk getting a 4* or lower rating that pushes them towards getting kicked off the service.

Taxis aren't exactly perfect but I've had some truly horrible experiences with unqualified Lyft drivers so anything that gets drivers of questionable skill away from pedestrians is fine with me. I use Lyft frequently and something like 80% of drivers make an illegal turn to get to my apartment because Google Maps tells you to do it, despite the fact that there's a super visible sign telling you it's illegal and unsafe. If I don't wave them away they love to pull into an exit only driveway, too.

I'd be in favor of banning taxis from the street too - maybe you should contact local representatives and push for that.
I have never understood why dropbox refuses to allow folders
other than "Dropbox" to be sync'ed. It mystifies me and keeps me from using it.
Also, I've never heard a good thing about Epic...
It seems likely to me that if user pays 10usd, Amazon will take it's cut like say 30 percent. Following 7usd will be divided amongst authors according to pages read. Each author will get 7 * pages read that month / total pages read that month.

For example if user reads one page of one book this month this author should get 7usd.

Medium works the same way except with reading time and maybe claps.

This at least is the most logical, fraudfree and fair way to do this.
Expecting medical institutions, taken as an entity, to prioritize the well-being of their patients is a fool's errand. I want to be very clear that I don't believe this about any individual doctors I've met. But there are a lot of doctors in my family, I've had minor to moderate brushes with the medical system, and I have immediate family that's significantly and chronically ill, and all those experiences and conversations have exposed me to the combination of a poisonous culture, institutional rot, insane legal restrictions, and doctors' (somewhat understandable) anti-patient biases adding up to a system that really doesn't give that much of a shit about your well-being if you don't fit into a clean box. Psychiatric issues in particular almost _never_ fit into a clean box, and the medical establishment is somewhere between criminally incompetent, negligent, and malicious when it comes to psychiatric issues.

Now despite all that acid cynicism, I'm not actually suggesting that you fully refrain from medical or psychiatric treatment. It's just not a system that's amenable to the kind of blind faith and surrendered autonomy that you describe, especially in the case like psychedelics where they've aggressively abdicated their responsibility for half a century.
Using it in production here since a few versions. It works perfectly for RDP (VMs that several non computer saavy people have to use including when abroad) and LDAP (slapd) for auth. Performance is really good even for tens of connections at the same time and the users are using old apps that tend to refresh half the screen each time a single pixel changes
. Works on Linux, Mac and windows for the clients without having to give specific instructions for each. I used the docker containers for deployment to reduce the hassle
As it is running on a VM anyway, I will switch that to ansible playbooks at some point, but the docker install was really smooth, I'm almost wondering if it is worth it.
That's what I meant - you can use that first phrase and the doc's very likely to say "No." with no explanation. Even if your current drugs aren't working well.

I get it, they're nearly always overworked and tired, and most of their clients are idiots.

But people should be free to try something new without all this gatekeeping that keeps getting worse.

At the same time, place the responsibility on the user if they request something out of the ordinary, of course.
SF needs to build diagonal crossing bridges (or tunnels). The traffic jams come from all the vehicles i pedestrian spaces.

Fixed that for you.
I had to go to 50%, but the title, '1000', and 'Video' are still obnoxious.
Have you tried Bitnami VMs and cloud images? https://bitnami.com/stack/guacamole
great, dont come to them!
Because go is very used in data plumbing code, i found that many functions can actually work fine at the byte array level, and that it leads to a better design.

It would be very tempting with proper generic support to try to have every function work with the topmost types, just because we assume it provides more type safety. I could imagine a struct representing a "User" byte array, or other atrocities.
Does anyone here on HN have experience using Sovereign in a team setting? I have a few questions:

* Mobile contact and calendar syncing: How well and reliably does it work?

* Calendar group features: how well do they work?

* Setup and maintenance: how much hassle is involved?
I thank you for sharing your story and I can't even imagine the pain your wife and you went through.

I do think that even though there are dangerous drugs, there are costs to making the use more expensive or harder to get. All drugs have side effects and some are truly devastating and the best way to handle that risk/reward tolerance is talking to a provider and managing it. The same way some drugs create dependence, the lack of them also cause enormous pain, and their increased price also create inaccessibility.

There is definitely a rampant culture of consuming pharmacological products in the US: maybe there are things that are causing the US society to be so dependent on drugs that can be addressed.
My favorite of such applications of probability is the Poisson stochastic arrival (get arrivals at discrete points in time) process. There are two amazing, powerful, useful, non-obvious biggie points:

(1)Axiomatic Derivation

As in

Erhan Çinlar, 'Introduction to Stochastic Processes', ISBN 0-13-498089-1.

an arrival process with stationary (distribution not changing over time) independent (of all past history of the process) increments (arrivals) is necessarily a Poisson process. So there is an arrival rate, and times between arrivals are independent, identically distributed exponential random variables.

Often in practice can check these assumptions well enough just intuitively.

Then as in Çinlar can quickly derive lots of nice, useful results.

(2)The Renewal Theorem.

As in

William Feller,
'An Introduction to Probability Theory and
Its Applications,
Second Edition,
Volume II',
ISBN 0-471-25709-5,

roughly, with meager assumptions and approximately, if the arrivals are from many different independent sources, not necessarily Poisson, then the resulting process, that is, the sum from the many processes, is Poisson.

E.g., using (2), between 1 and 2 PM, the arrivals at a busy Web site, coming from lots of independent Web users, will look Poisson and from (1) can say a lot for sizing the server farm, looking for DDOS attacks, security, performance, network, and system management anomalies, etc., e.g., do statistical hypotheses tests.

Similarly for packets on a busy communications network, server failures in a server farm, etc.
An easier almost-proof of the N trials with 1/N chance bit uses the approximation log(1+x)~=x for small x.

See: let's find what is Q such that Prob(no successes in M trials)~=Q. This is:

(1-(1/N)^M ~= Q

therefore

M log(1-1/N) ~= loq Q

Using the approximation,

-M/N ~= log Q

that is

exp(-M/N) ~= Q

M=N yields the result.

Now, if we slightly change the problem so Q is a probability threshold such that Prob(no successes in M trials)>Q, we get an exact statement: since x>log(1+x) exactly, -M/N > log(1-1/N) > log Q.
Like anyone goes to San Francisco by choice anymore. Gross.
I wonder if this isn't in response to a single large customer. Maybe some film studio has ordered a large number of these and they want official support for the OS of their choice. Since Lenovo is already supporting this configuration for one particular customer, it's relatively easy for them to offer support to anyone else who wants to run the same platform.
How to hire your first autistic employees
Yea but if you've ever been a regular smoker then successfully quit, the smell is infuriating because 1) it smells SO disgusting unless it's something like pipe tobacco or American Spirits 2) the temptation to have one, while brief, is strong

1 and 2 combine for a moment of micro-anger

Whether or not second-hand smoke is carcinogenic or otherwise detrimental, the smell alone should force a public ban.

Or my solution: let businesses determine whether or not they want to allow smoking and for the most part the non-smokers will self-segregate to the non-smoking establishments just to avoid smelling like a cancerous ashtray.
Reinstalling doesn’t necessarily help - coincidentally (or not), Lenovo has been caught in the past embedding crap into the firmware so it persists through reinstalls.

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150812/11395231925/lenov...
It will depend on what features your workflow appreciates. Being the creator of Calva I am biased, of course, but it certainly supports my workflow.

The big culprit right now is that Calva doesn't handle large results well at all. I find strategies around it, but it is a thing that really needs to be fixed and it will be in focus during the Clojurists Together funding.

Another feature lacking, that CIDER has, is a step debugger. Something that doesn't affect my workflow very much, but I know some people will lack it. It is also part of what we will try to fix during the CT funding period.
Develop Locally a Custom WordPress Using a Bitnami Docker Image
It's not like the constellation move in unpredictable manner. The orbits are known, the movements are predictable, surely with some processing it shouldn't affect astronomy too much? If astronomers can overcome random atmospheric dispersion, surely they can elimitate starlink from post-processed images too?
What a great resource! Thanks for sharing this, I wish we had this handy at my previous workplace when we were redesigning/rethinking our onboarding process. I/We wasted a lot of hours in meetings and discussions in trying to think of things from scratch.
Well because it's a anti-virus program.

Users trust this kind of programs normally more. It's the fallacy of "oh they help us to be protected from bad guys so they can't be bad themselves"

Through many (most?/nearly all?) anti-virus companies are untrustworthy in my opinion so it's not really surprising for me.
Congratulations, making the first steps towards something like this is usually the hardest part.
Abraham Wald's Work on Airplane Survivability (1984) [pdf]
It's made in Visual Basic, and it literally cannot interact with its own versions. Hospitals have different versions of the same system in the same building and cant exchange information.

All EMR's suck though. (note: I made one)
In the middle of this document is a reference to Joseph Nacchio who appears to be a rare CEO who was punished for respecting his customers' civil rights. Up until that moment he was lauded as a go-getter CEO.

I remember my impression of him at the time was that he was simply a tough CEO who could also be a bit of a jerk to his team. But he refused a government request to break the law and shortly thereafter was arrested. I don't know the merits of the government's case, but it was suspicious that nobody else in his notoriously corrupt industry ever got into trouble for their quite blatant corruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio
As someone who doesn't live in SF but has visited many times I'm not really sure what the issue with Market Street and cars is. It's always seemed fine to me. Compare this to say Oxford Street in London (where I lived at the time congestion pricing was first introduced), which was clearly an issue. But sure, I'm on board.

Although I'm not sure why taxis need an exemption. I guess it's another way to prop up a dying industry. Having caught cabs in SF before, I never will again, even if they can drive down Market Street.

The article also mentions 14th Street in NYC, which I live near and am very familiar with. This has been a contentious issue. Originally the L was planned to shutdown for 15-18 months and there was a plan to make 14th street sort of car free. I say sort of because cars were allowed to turn onto 14th Street but had to make the next right turn. This plan is now moot.

But a big concern was that it would just push car traffic to 13th and 15th streets, which are "residential".

I'm honestly not sure why 14th Street needs a dedicated busway as it does have the L. Compare this to say 23rd and 34th street that have no cross Subway (42nd does).

But the elephant in the room here is that you can still park on 14th street. If you're serious about increasing the traffic flow (of buses or otherwise) the obvious thing to do is free up 2 lanes by getting rid of the parking. But weirdly free street parking is sacrosanct in NYC politics. Why people who live in downtown Manhattan need this huge public subsidy is beyond me.
I'm piping 5TB/day through 2 Graylog hosts with plain stupid DNS round-robin, all good.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxejbb/avast-antivirus-is...
So, this is an extremely well-known claim for which you can find numerous reasonable-looking citations if you actually cared to spend the couple seconds to ask Google, but FWIW there is a lot of argument as to whether it is really true in such simple terms, despite so many sources and citations.

https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2013/06/be-careful-ho...
I dont quite understand how bad “private” cars really were on market.

I bike commuted throughout the city for a decade, and my biggest problem on market were muni buses and the cheese grater.

As a driver, there is a little black hole to get to via private car easily and thats the marriott marquee and target.

It takes an extra while to loop past markrt back around to get to marriott in certain circumstances.

Also, i once tested taking muni down from mission and duboce to embarcaderro vs how long it would take on bicycle; muni bus took 40 minutes. Bike to 7.

Although muni was plagued by little swarms of ticket cops causing massive delays to check tickets and hassle people. (They spent many minutes engaging in not productive discussion with people and arguing with them over tickets, which only delayed the rest of the bus longer)
a free market of lesser pain management therapies should be available to all consumers so no one would have to medicate with opioids
It's an ALGOL-derivative, not a BASIC-derivative. It's trying to be ALGOL. Bourne was one of the few people to write an ALGOL-68 compiler.

I might just hide instead of touching it.

This code (the Bourne Shell source) is actually the reason why the IOCCC was created.
The primary purpose of my project folder is to contain my project, including source, dependencies, build output, etc - so it makes sense to me that tools like Git allow you to exclude/ignore parts of it.

But the primary purpose of the Dropbox folder is to sync stuff to Dropbox. The idea that I would put something in my Dropbox folder that I didn't want to sync is bizarre.

It sounds like it's a common case where people put their project folders inside their Dropbox folder. Before today it never occurred to me that anybody would do that.

I do have some projects I periodically Git Bundle into a Dropbox folder though.

Not criticizing anybody's workflow, just surprised it's so common.
Yea, I've never noticed much of a difference between the two. I'm bolstered in this belief by the fact that everybody I know has a confident, contradictory opinion about how exactly they're different from each other.
It's way more than that because the page breaks will also change based on screen size including apps on other devices. We aren't seeing the full data here so I bet one of the columns here is currentLocation using the word break location (which I've heard is how Loc XXX is calculated for kindle books) instead of a page number.
Not quite that price, but with 308EUR/month not too far off:

https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/sx292

I guess if you buy and host the machines yourself, you should be able to beat hetzner's price.
Tap Strap 2 brass knuckles wearable keyboard, mouse and air gesture controller
Lungs damaged by smoking can heal according to study
The author is 76, and retired. This is from UNIX v7, before the standardization of C.
Incredible that this is another comment of yours that manifests the answer I gave you in this topic.

Providers are under the microscope for opioids now, so why risk it, it's not their pain.
Medicine is a rough field.
Its so I can have my computer burn down, and set up another one, install Dropbox, and continue work uninterrupted.

Hey! This person has a way:
https://superuser.com/questions/469776/how-to-exclude-files-...
France says its poultry industry will stop shredding male chicks by 2022
Candy Crush adverts in Windows 10 was bad enough, but this is next-level evil.

Time for the software industry to wake up and realize it's not the advertising industry.
Pain Warriors documentary about Chronic Pain and medical establishment teaser is on my YouTube channel.
Read the reviews of those that have seen the full movie previews.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN3T7lfab7Y