skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not just certain populations, but each individual is likely to have different nutritional needs for different desired outcomes. Hard to study that though.
It's on a 38" monitor now, but even held my CHG90 until I got rid of it, none of them have had issues, and this is a 3 or 4 year old, 30$ arm.

The CHG90 would droop about an inch every 3 weeks, which was a total non-issue for me
The energy density of this betavoltaic battery is only about half that of an LiMnO2 primary-cell battery, about 370 mWh/cc versus 650 mWh/cc. Examples of LiMnO2 batteries are the extremely common CR2032 or CR2450 coin cells.

Self-discharge isn't much of an issue with LiMn02 batteries, either, at only 1% per year.

And, of course, LiMnO2 cells have the benefits other commentators have mentioned, such as the ability to supply more than just 75 uA short-circuit.
Btw: The old system was the editor reading and reviewing all submissions himself. The new system of only a quick glance by the editor and then further scrutiny by a peer was instituted for two reasons: 1.) to many submissions for the editor to read all and 2.) increasing specialization. So going back to the old system would either lead to very cursory and potentially incompetent reviews or the increase in the number of editors to a point where all current senior reviewers are now editors. The former is completely intractable and the latter is still worse then the current status quo, especially since it removes the practice of having two or more reviews that specialize at different aspects (e.g. having on reviewer focus on the numerical side of the simulation and another on the statistical side of the comparison with observation data).
I can see a similar technique in use to detect cheaters in Kaggle competitions.
Ask HN: Tools of the Trade, 2020 Edition
What are your favorite tools of the trade in 2020?
> Random note: the word "kava" is Tongan, not Fijian. In Fiji, it's called yaqona, pronounced "yanggona".

This is correct. However, kava is the word used in the west, in international trade, and in the Codex Alimentarius.

> I also don't think kava is ever going to take off worldwide until they figure out a way to deal with the taste and appearance.

Kava drinkers hope that never happens. Kava is difficult to grow and already expensive. Having it become more popular would only serve to increase prices beyond what the average person can afford. Also, I reckon the taste is a feature, not a bug. It keeps the kids away from it lol
> And just FYI, reasonml "is-a" ocaml, so you can also build binaries with the regular compiler back-end - you're not "locked" to targeting js.

The full isomorphism is great. I started with the Reason syntax and when I decided I preferred standard syntax[1], I just use formatting tools to convert my codebases in O(1) effort.

1: Because of tool maturity, and the ecosystem around the standard syntax specifically. I wanted to be able to run `dune utop`, but getting that working with Reason was a WIP; and then there's syntax extensions... And docs are in the OCaml syntax, except the BS ecosystem, which is conveniently bilingual
How does Zadig work, then?
I noticed the risk is higher for poultry than for red meat.

So people eating poultry only can reduce their risk by switching from poultry to steak.
Very generally speaking, it costs about $5M to start a U.S. bank. Someone of Epstein's personal wealth, not to mention the assets under his control, would not have a problem starting a bank easily. His criminal record would have been an issue in the U.S., however, and any regulator worth their salt should have found it and denied the charter accordingly.
I think your insight is a perfect description of humans authority bias.

People love to be told what to do. Even if in the face of overwhelming real world evidence people blindly follow their GPS, and to ignore it can cause a lot of stress.
Very happy with hover.com for domain registration.
This might be ill-informed, but if it goes out of control, wouldn't it reshape worldwide demographics? Young and old would die at different rates. That seems like the potential biggest impact.
I've tried Kava twice at "The Root Kava Company" in Boulder CO - $12/pop and I can't say that I felt anything specific. I was hoping for sort of an anti-coffee that wasn't alcohol.

The taste was really good though, at least based on my assumption that the drink would taste like medicine. It tasted more like a raspberry lemonade.
Yes, but criticizing someone's work in a single-blind and private review leaves less motivation and opportunity for the powerful to be vindictive.
Billing is the #1 growing package YoY here in Australia for our consulting firm. Nobody knows what they're doing. It's great.
You just admitted that you were reading it just fine and found yourself agreeing with it, only to then identify that it was "the wrong opinion" and dismiss it as "an agenda". Sad.
This feels like a scam/spam to me.

If I open my Instagram right now, I will see thousands of those courses. All of them making mistakes about what a masterclass is, all of them talking about "modern" stacks and lacking a lot of content.

To put into perspective: 2 of the 3 courses that I've enrolled missed the "how to put in production mode" part.

But don't get me wrong, I like what you are doing. It is just that I miss the "real advanced" part. All of them seems to teach the same thing, in the same speed.
They were attempting to land with a quartering tail wind. The tower might of been a bit slow with the runway change. The pilots were advised of the wind direction and speed so it would of been their call in the end.
NameSilo is my go-to registrar - consistent pricing, free forwarding, free WHOIS privacy, instant security alerts on account access, simple and functional interface, great customer service, basically everything you could ask for from a registrar. I have yet to see any negative reviews about them.

I use NameSilo's default DNS service for simple things, Route 53 for anything more complex.
Qua? I believe the zeta function goes back to 1859, and arose in number theory... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Number_of_Primes_Less...
Assuming current trends, it will likely be though of as the 21st century's Spanish flu, though that is assuming that the trends continue.
Ads enabling free online content is a bit of a glazier's fallacy. Yes, when ads are an option most content producers will be funded by ads. it's simple to implement and does not require end user consent but as soon as the degenerate strategy is removed new strategies become viable such as micro-payments.
> have a job waiting for those on reserve when they returned from active duty deployment.

That's the law...

> Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)

https://www.military.com/benefits/military-legal-matters/use...
Illusion Using Movies #13
She is under investigation. That's step 1 to extradition.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/12/27/jeffrey-epstein-friend-ghisl...
This really gets me - you have to go out of your way to build a solution that won't work for 1,700 users[1]. I have seen systems that would collapse under less users but they are few... and all of them were train wrecks.

1. Ignoring like... stupid high information transmission systems where clever solutions may be required to concurrently stream data to even dozens of customers - the data here was measurable in bytes, _maybe_ kilobytes.
Is it still correct that the coronavirus is still only as problematic as the flu, with the majority of eradication effort going into it with the idea that having two flus going around is still worse than one around? If so I don't really anticipate any real long-term effects at all, it'll just be another seasonal batch of sickness and death for society to deal with.
This starts as a pet project which was an excuse to keep in touch, experiment with new technologies and most importantly have fun.

Given that, it sounds like you've already won, no matter what happens next.

As far as advice goes, I'll just leave a couple of book recommendations.

https://www.amazon.com/Discipline-Market-Leaders-Customers-D...

https://www.amazon.com/Differentiate-Die-Survival-Killer-Com...

https://www.amazon.com/Positioning-Battle-Your-Al-Ries/dp/00...

https://www.amazon.com/Its-that-Small-Fast-Slow/dp/006662053...
Thank you for the clarification. I personally have never drank kava or used any sort of kava derived product, but I have used Erowid to great benefit concerning a wide range of other substances and thought that the information there would be up to a similar standard. Still, there is information there that echoes what you’ve outlined in your comment - so it doesn’t seem like it was all hooey.

How does that saying go? The road to good answers is paved through Cunningham’s law? :)
It’s possible to remove the infrared filter from a normal camera and replace with one that only lets in IR. lots of articles online but no idea how hard it is.

Edit: for example https://www.extremetech.com/electronics/144388-how-to-turn-y...
I remember the very early days at Amazon in distribution operations.

It was an incredibly eclectic and progressive group of awesome freaks.

We needed to:

1)delight the customer
2)manage the constant growth of orders
3)grow the team to help manage the constant growth

Somehow we managed to achieve all 3, although often not unlike the famously funny I Love Lucy skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkQ58I53mjk

But from my anecdotal perspective, I do believe it resulted in the rise of a harsher and more transactional culture.

In order to achieve the 3 above, it meant there was precious little time to invest in helping those who were struggling in a very high operational tempo environment.

It was very much sink or swim.

If you were a proven consistent swimmer, there was certainly far more sympathy for having an occasional bad day.

If not, it was very much a cold and clinical:

“Knock knock”
“Who’s there?”
“Not you anymore.”

It doesn’t make it ok.

But it doesn’t make it illegal or evil either.

Amazon distribution operations was not, and is not, for everyone.

“March or die.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7z691yC9pc

Having seen many thousands come in/out of Amazon’s gen 1&2 distribution center doors across numerous locations(20 years ago), a high percentage of people quickly leave when they learn they can’t hide from their lack of reasonable productivity.

But there are very few companies on the planet that have created as many opportunities for unskilled workers to develop and grow with the company as well as earn a stake in the outcome.

A guy working for me who started as an Associate and was promoted to Lead when we were expanding beyond books is now Director of Logistics.

Countless others were promoted and transferred within the company.

Early stage Amazon distribution operations associates stock options are easily worth $2-3+ million, not including additional stock units gained since.

There isn’t the same upside on stock units today, but wages and benefits are much better compared to 20 years ago.

Things could have been better, and they have gotten better, and there’s certainly more room for improvement.

But if Amazon wasn’t valued at $1 trillion, this would be a non story.

It’s not that I’m unsympathetic, it’s that when I look at the profit per employee for Amazon’s distribution operations, it has far more in common with Applebee’s that Apple.
hello Altered Carbon
I'm shocked. Shocked!

The question is, will the government do anything about it. It's a pretty clear antitrust violation, although I'm not sure there's room for prosecution for lying to Congress.
> It tasted more like a raspberry lemonade.

:O Are you sure you had kava? I've never heard kava descried that way, and I'm a kava farmer.

Perhaps you felt nothing from it due to the drink having only a tiny amount of kava in it. Did your mouth go numb at least?
RPC is pretty much also a "cross-language FFI boundary", except it can fail.

Of course it has some advantages, but it's hardly universally better.
Also, poor (people and countries) would suffer more.
Everytime I see an elemental critic of the these legalisms and its schemes, there is always someone trying to play the marxist card. Someone who hasn't read a single line of Marx's books.
This is not marxist. And if it were marxist then: so what?
Gotcha, fair enough
Landmark ruling by Dutch court stops government attempts to spy on the poor
Namecheap. Out of habit really.
Create enough noisy data so that the data these companies receive is so unreliable that they give up. Have a Chrome extension that runs and clicks on things randomly or a separate app that controls the mouse that feeds bad data. If it ran on every computer maybe Google AdWords might become useless.
New Origin Story for Gross Blobs That Wash Up on Beaches
Newest-left graphs would make sense in analysis domains that consider “the most recent time interval” exponentially more important than “the least recent time interval”, and would display the most valuable data (most recent) correctly on mobile screens of any width leaving truncation to cut off ancient histories.
30s are old in tech,

Bullshit... quit buying into that crappy old meme. At best, that might be sorta true IN Silicon Valley Proper, for a subset of companies. In the rest of the Real World, there's nothing particularly special about being 30 in tech.

If you're in SV and you buy that, then my advice would be move somewhere else. If you're not in SV, then quit worrying about being 30.

I'm feeling overwhelmed by the sheer number of technologies out there that I "should" learn: Python and R (and their libraries), Spark, Hadoop, TensorFlow, and pytorch. You also need to know how to productionalize things: Docker, AWS, distributed databases, the latest web stuff (sockets?), etc.

You don't have to know all of that stuff. A given firm, for example, probably uses Python OR R, but probably not both. Learn one or the other, you'll be fine. And not all roles require you to do everything from writing Dockerfiles to writing Map/Reduce code in Hadoop, to working with Tensorflow or PyTorch. Which bits of the stack you need really depend on the specifics of the job you wind up going for. But don't put that much of a burden on yourself to think that if you don't know every single thing on some "list" that you aren't employable.
>Maybe supply chains become a bit more distributed, or less centralized.

This is one of the things that I've been wondering about the last few days. I recently read an article discussing how because China is essentially shut down, the supply chain has been disrupted for manufacturers in other countries. So much of manufacturing in other areas of the world depends on components made in china, and when those stop other manufacturers also stop. People get laid off, and it becomes a cascading problem affecting everyone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/04/business/hyundai-south-ko...
Will it be the pin that pops our economic boom into a recession?
If you vote by mail in Florida, it’s 10 times more likely the ballot won’t count
> I work for Google on ads, speaking only for myself

> Ads are what fund the open web.

"Open web" is one of the Orwellian terms used by Google (and their controlled opposition - Mozilla), so it seems you aren't speaking only for yourself, eh?
From what I read on various articles linked in this thread and others, the votes were being checked against the warehouse (who knows where the warehouse is getting data, if that’s the one true source, why even have this app). It failed to check against it properly (they were getting back an error). I guess election night was the first time they tested this validation phase , as they were not able to account for it and the app simply failed.
TEQ: Measuring the speed and frequency of quantum collapse
Ordinal Markup: an incremental game based on ordinal numbers
Most ads that I remember when I was new to the internet were all running flash and had really annoying circus-game-like objectives such as "Can you shoot the basketball through the hoop?!?"

I hate the means by which advertising is targeted today, but I would be lying if I said the format of the ads themselves were more annoying or less useful than the past.
Submarines require a fantastically higher amount of maintenance to keep running.
It is likely to break the back of China’s debt crisis.
He seems like a cool guy. I wish him all the best.
I would hope that ultimately, to the authors point #1 - collaboration - that it shows that we can all still come together to fight a common existential threat, or to accomplish a common goal.
Edit: apologies it may be a fat finger issue.

Please don’t auto play the vid. Is there some trick you did for that because usually safari iOS stops that happening. Maybe like highjacking the first event that can play video?
A thread from 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3736247.
Better not run too fast to catch your flight!
Can confirm that Kindle does in fact sell devices that are ad-supported.

For a $20 one time fee you can remove this feature (which can be done after purchase at any time). But most people won't notice the tiny option select on the amazon purchase page that defaults to "with Special Offers".

To make it even more confusing, they make it sound like the better option to pick is the ad-supported version. I mean you are choosing between the model "with special offers" or the one "without special offers"? Most people that don't know any better will leave the default "with special offers" options selected.

Source: https://www.amazon.com/All-new-Kindle-now-with-a-built-in-fr...
The correct (admissible) decision rule for testing a hypothesis minimizes the Bayes risk, the integrated loss over the posterior distribution.

The authors don't really convey what an e-value is, or why they don't use an admissible decision rule. I'm skeptical of this research. I don't think there is any more room for basic research in this area as the book is already closed...
Appreciated. I've re-opened it for editing if you want to take that bit out.

If you do, let us know at hn@ycombinator.com so we can remove the [flagged] annotation.

Edit: removed now.
If the intelligence community can't publicly deny that perhaps the most prolific child rapist in known history was an asset, we have serious problems. Regardless of standard policy.
The company leadership basically didn’t take the Iowa caucus seriously. It’s obvious to me they wanted to bang out a quick frontend mobile app with a skeleton backend (Skeleton frontend for that matter) as a proof of concept to say ‘hey we did it! Now give us all the other primary contracts’, at which point perhaps they’d invest more heavily on a more comprehensive tech team/platform.

They did this with a minimal viable product approach for what should have been a critical production ready/tested app.
It isn't a new thing, but the false belief among tech elites that by using ad-blockers or a tool like Thor you are unaffected by modern marketing technologies is new and perhaps naive.
You'd have to boycott street ads, tv and radio, our financial system, reputable news sources, friends who use cellphones near you, and more to actually remove marketing influence from your life.
The cookie will be dead in 2 years and every DSP has a plan to continue operating normally.
Smart countries should be using this as a trial run for "what happens during WWIII?", and determining where the critical gaps exist.
It's the only one I know of applying standard semiconductor wafer techniques.

If it works out, I think this one (https://spectrum.ieee.org/energywise/energy/environment/a-gl...) is a more promising battery technology in the long run due to lifespan. It appears to be far more preliminary at this point however.
Mostly agree. However, I think pure software companies/ software companies that have far less human complexity can get away with building better software over improving processes and compliance.
These graphs suck, but it looks like last quarter was a much lower decrease than the past. That doesn’t fit the articles argument that CPC is falling off a cliff and google is trying to hide it.
Fast-spreading coronavirus leads to contactless services in China
Mobile web browsers existed long before the iPhone. At the time mobile web browsing meant using regular GSM with EDGE if you were lucky. Remember people were browsing the web on feature phones and PDAs like the Treo and Windows Mobile stuff.
If you want to keep the money, presumably yes. If you don't mind becoming an anonymous but financially insecure expat in the jungles of South America or Asia, then sure.
I'm 100% like you feel. I also did a top uni for years, it was super stressful but I eventually managed. Now I just got a work at a tech company similar to Wacom. I thought okay, we all know how unethical are Google, FB & friends, but a company selling hardware accessories only, c'mon no way it should not be too evil... Well that Wacom story is cute in comparaison to what they do. Ofc they also log all apps used like wacom, but they are also implementing systems to analyse if you have health issues from your peripheral logs, analyse your emotions and stress level from microphones & cameras, facial recognition, eye gaze, etc.

I love technology and computer science but tech is so screwed up in terms of ethics.

I wish we'd see more people coming together that care about this (like truely care, not the #Tethics of the sillicon valley) to make some open and private alternatives to all this toxicity. But it is super hard to make things change.

I'll work in that direction in my free time, but I feel so alone. HN seems the only place people care a bit about that. Around me at uni or at work, the level of ethics and care for privacy is so low, it's depressing. It's not only that "rich boss" telling its employees to exploit people's data, it's also engineers themselves being happy collabo of this because they make huge salary working for those companies.
Mortality rate (outside of Wuhan) is 10x worse (0.16%)[1] than the flu (0.014%)[2].

I'm personally not worried about a virus with a 99.84% survival rate, but it's still technically 10x as deadly.

[1] https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-...

[2] https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/influenza-and-pneu...
Frankly I would rather you be forced to take the 2 months off so that I can safely take it without people like you sneering at me the entire time.
I recently encountered a company that uses ad-tech pioneered identification techniques to snake around patient privacy laws and clinical trial anonymity to sell re-identified data back to insurance companies.

So no, fuck that.
It is snappier than VS+R# (and I can't bear to give up all the R# features), it supports emacs key bindings, it has (IMO anyway) much better support for ancillary stuff like directly issuing DB calls or interacting with source control, and I'm just used to the IntelliJ platform after using it for years.
I think some Allwinner SOCs have blob-free mainline linux. If there are solid drivers for everything (camera, ISP etc.), not sure. V3s is even QFN with onboard ram, so easy to make a board for. Or use a board like this: https://licheepizero.us/

But, yeah, I think you're right, you'd struggle to compete on cost and features with mass-market players.

You could offer open source firmware for some existing cameras.. I think some people do do this.
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Imagine the political change that would occur from half of the boomers being wiped out.
Repeating myself, but I like the key bindings and performance and find the support for VC and databases better.
Markets don’t appear to think so. There’s a lot of money to be had for you if you think so.
I'm not sure why you've been downvoted, what you say seems true. Smaller nukes are not necessarily efficient nukes. The smallest nukes, using a "linear implosion" design, are very inefficient. A W48 warhead with a tiny 0.072 kt yield has more Plutonium than the 21 kt "fat man" bomb dropped on Nagasaki. (~13kg for the former, <7kg for the later)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W48