skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get it that this is a simple thing one can do today to help increase their privacy a little, but this is wholly the wrong attitude. One can still easily be caught up in a geofence dragnet without riding bikes, regardless of how often they turn on airplane mode.

If law makers/enforcement continue down this dystopian path, having your phone off or not with you at all may become enough to make you a suspect.
OpenBSD is huge (just like any general-purpose OS would be today). It's not a "teaching OS."

Minix would be a better alternative, IMHO.
Avoiding another thalidomide is not the only objective in drug discovery. Arguably the pace of progress[1] in medicine has been made slower because of the extreme cost of regulation. How many thousands are dying because they will be treated by drugs that could have been but are not because of regulation. I don't know, and I doubt anyone does. Ultimately this is problem with a regulatory body who's incentives are tied (or more tied) to only one of two competing bad outcomes. Its really easy to never have another thalidomide, but we should aim higher than that.

[1] One example of this is dietary treatments for disorders. It is very difficult for these to become standard of practice, because no company will want to fork over the $$$ to do a clinical trial to prove that a specific dietary intervention improves outcomes. When after its all done people can just do the intervention on their own and not pay the company money. This biases treatment towards pills that can be prescribed and patented.

Earlier I said think of the thousands of lost lives, but it might truthfully be millions considering the damage caused by type II diabetes which pharmacological interventions are relatively impotent to treat.
It started out with a germ genocide clean slate. Then declared not beeing bogged down in resources limitations loops(science came to the rescue) a virtue of its people, and the unwillingness of the Europeans to engage in exponential daydreaming decadent and worse. City on the downhill of history indeed.
I put together a comparison of the 2020 Democratic primary candidates on disability rights and accessibility.

Especially relevant to my developer followers who are fellow web accessibility advocates
65+: there are only a few years left, very little matters, it's wonderfully liberating.
These are ssd’s.
The schools have curriculums for each grade which are usually mandated or approved by the state. The teachers create lesson plans based on that curriculum.

In theory, the lesson plans could be distributed to parents (or whoever is supervising) and they can teach it. For older students home alone or students who's parents are not able to teach the subject, there are many great teaching videos just an internet search away. The discipline to self-learn is something that would need to have been instilled by the parents.

It seems to me that as a society we have forgotten that the primary responsibility for teaching (let alone raising) our children is our own. Instead we pass it off to 'the system' and make a big deal about having to raise our own kids.
Hi folks, I'm the author of the post — I wrote it because I think a lot of brands tend to pluck numbers out of thin air when they're talking about marketing targets, without knowing how they're affecting their bottom line.

This might seem like econ 101 as zwaps mentioned, but there are a lot of brands who don't take anything like this approach still.

Keen to hear people's thoughts :)
Another day, another bloviating "think piece" written by a consumer VC. When will we call out this content free garbage for what it is?

Minimum viable product, minimum viable company, all of these masquerade the idea casino that many large consumer VCs function inside of which occlude their mechanisms and numbers. Consumer VC is a historically poor performing asset class that funnels pension money into lightweight marketing experiments that enrich the operators much more so than the institutional asset holders via the greater fool theory. The exceptions (Facebook, Google, etc) prove the rule (WeWork).

By the way, let's take those two classes (FB/G vs WeWork) into consideration. If you want to read a better article about corporate craft, read this article [1] by a Two Sigma investor. The hypothesis is very simple: gross margins matter, and it's challenging to build a company with defensibly high valuation without them.

You'll notice that while Facebook and Google are high margin businesses with giant valuations, WeWork raised on premises that were out of line with the reality of their margins, and which were subsequently brought back down to earth.

Build a company with high margins and taking on VC capital will become a choice, not a necessity. That's the way it should be.
The whole point of the rule is that it's more expensive to not run the flights than to run them with few passengers. So the fine would need to be higher than the cost of operating the flight resulting in the exact same outcome.
The lottery ticket hypothesis is IMHO the single most interesting finding for deep learning. It explains why does deep learning works (vs shallow neural nets), why is initial over-parametrization is often useful, why deeper is often better than shallow, etc.

I recommend for an overview:

- the original paper "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks", https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03635

- "Deconstructing Lottery Tickets: Zeros, Signs, and the Supermask" https://eng.uber.com/deconstructing-lottery-tickets/ showing that if we remove "non-winning tickets" before the training, the trained network still works well
Right.

I can't blame Israel, given America's track-record of weaponizing all vulnerabilities.

I also can't blame America.

Without secure computing nobody can know whom to trust.
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The performance of actively managed hedge funds would disagree with that. Doesn't seem like anyone can manage it consistently

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/15/active-fund-managers-trail-t...
Oh, I introduced him to “kakipea” (kaki no tane with peanuts) , a Japanese snack food. He alternated between shoving money into my hand when we went to the Asian market for lunch and then cursing me around a mouthful of them the next several days and calling me his dealer.
Yeah I was very disappointed to see that this is limited to the "regular" three...
You never know.

In the same way that people who witness a lot of civil rights abuses might get into fighting for civil rights, a person that witness a lot of end of life suffering might be inclined to work on right to die issues.
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You might "doubt" it but most States now offer exclusively online programs for middle school and above, including public school districts. This is particularly popular with quasi-home school kids. Ours does in a different state, and they count as regular school for attendance/funding (state and federal).
Pursuing shoplifters isn't about getting compensation -- that's secondary. It's about justice. Letting people steal stuff is unjust.
I will be camping later this year for 3 months into places where shopping will be impossible. I'm not planning on taking anywhere near what people have been hoarding. Whatever the reason I hope they plan on eating food as well.

A few reasons why some people use a lot of toilet paper: poor diet, food contamination, lack of fiber, lack of exercise and just being overweight. The overall process requires hydration to flow, physical movement and general ability to digest. Even regular walking helps with later bowel movement.

Perhaps these people are revealing more about themselves than they realise?
You might consider the Japanese experience. In the 1980s they had an asset price bubble fueled by loose monetary policy.

The Nikkei never recovered from its peak.

Is that probable? Perhaps not. Is it possible? Definitely. We have had an asset price bubble and loose monetary policy.

Investing on margin is a mug’s game. You can’t realistically know when the bottom of a market is. Also, if an asset price bubble does pop, your home will likely go down a lot in value too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Decade_(Japan)#/media/Fil...

Also: in the great depression stocks fell for 3-4 years. They didn’t recover until after world war II.
Ask HN: What are problems with implementing authentication and authorization?
Hey y'all,

I would like to hear strange problems you encountered while working on authentication and authorization (when you work on a mobile app, or web app, etc...)? What are things you did not think of before implementing your system. How would you avoid such problems?

If you are using Identity and User Management Services (or probably you work there) like Auth0 (or others), why are you using it and what are you missing?
Totally, same with Australia - they've got so much uninhabitable land and a tremendous wild life refuge - thus, we don't say "Austrlians have systemic problem with survivalist mentality". I found the GP comment glib, unthoughtful and somewhat bigoted and condescending.
American justice system is broken; if you’re arrested you get put in jail until your court date unless you can pay the bail. If you can’t pay the bail then you can be in jail for months or years for something you didn’t do. The prosecutor will tell you to take plea deal for a shorter sentence or risk losing fighting in court and get a more severe punishment. A lot of innocent people end up taking plea deals because the odds are against them. Court cases can drag on for years and cost a fortune in lawyer fees. The biggest lie is that you’re 'innocent until proven guilty'. If you get accused of a felony and end being proven innocent, there’s still no way to get that off your permanent record and will show up in background checks and follow you for life.
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You're right that there's more than just last-click cost per conversion, but that doesn't mean this approach is incompatible with these extra complexities.

You might run conversion lift tests as a way to calculate the impact of increased brand awareness, and you could plug the data from these into the method outlined in the post. There you'd be looking for the optimal cost per incremental conversion rather than just optimal cost per conversion.

This is just one idea, hopefully shows that the post's method doesn't have to just use last-click conversion data.
I’ve talked to other parents that tell me their kids use TikTok as a messaging platform.

Why TikTok and not the other 1,000 choices? Who knows. Maybe the fact that the olds won’t use it / don’t know about it is hugely appealing. Grown ups wreck everything, right?
Downturns in the market will kill you if you are leveraged. Once the money it's gone, it's gone and it will be hard to make it back. that is, unless you have a rich dad who gives you more money. That's why I think it's very important not to be naive with investment advice.
> "If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking." -- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood

There's value to this sentiment, but I disagree. I'm the same age as the author of this post, and I remember when I was in high school, my parents were transfixed by the O.J. Simpson trial - the car chase, the analysis of Marcia Clark's outfits, the whole spectacle.

In college a few years later a media studies professor asked us for a show of hands as to who followed the Simpson trial. Groans, eye rolls, not many raised hands. He was blunt: ignoring media phenomena, especially repulsive ones, is a mistake, he said, if you want to understand how media affect our culture. Study them like a physician studies a virus.
WHO excludes “herbal remedies” from “should not do” in Chinese Covid-19 FAQ
At the bottom of "Q&A on coronaviruses (COVID-19)" webpage there is a section "Is there anything I should not do?", which lists four measures which ARE NOT effective against COVID-2019 and can be harmful: Smoking, Taking traditional herbal remedies, Wearing multiple masks, Taking self-medication such as antibiotics. See: https://www.who.int/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

Checking different language versions of this webpage, you will see this list is the same except in the Chinese version, where "Taking traditional herbal remedies" is removed from the list. See: https://www.who.int/zh/news-room/q-a-detail/q-a-coronaviruses

Chinese is actually using traditional medicine in COVID-19 clinical trials:
https://www.clinicaltrialsarena.com/comment/covid-19-clinical-trials/
http://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojen.aspx?proj=49415

Besides herbal medicine, Chinese is also using QiGong in COVID-19 clinical trials:
http://www.chictr.org.cn/hvshowproject.aspx?id=22582
http://www.chictr.org.cn/hvshowproject.aspx?id=22264
https://youtu.be/JnbjACXp-SE
http://english.eastday.com/Latest/u1ai8666358.html

Placenta:
http://www.chictr.org.cn/showproj.aspx?proj=49712

Umbilical Cord Blood Plasma:
http://www.chictr.org.cn/showprojen.aspx?proj=49382

General Secretary Xi Jinping is a strong advocate of traditional Chinese medicine http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-10/25/c_138502458.htm
> E.g. you can't say "fuck" on TV

Broadcast TV, and it gets messy when it's a fleeting expletive. And you can wear a shirt saying "Fuck the Draft" in a courthouse[1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohen_v._California
Sorry was unclear about this. But that's what I meant, I rather have searchable conversations with the option to delete things, non-ephemeral by default. And whatsapp is the app older people adapted to and get along with. It's what they now.
People only have a need for these things because they don't know any other way to live. You can't fault someone for not being raised or inspired to try living in the woods (or wherever). Plus, it's completely okay to rely on modern technology and luxuries. That's why we invented them.

The axe was probably a modern technology and convenience at one time too. Some elder or survivalist of the time was definitely irritated that a young person was using an axe when their sharp stone and biceps did the trick for years.
I don't get it. How did data taken by runkeeper end up with google. Can someone help me get paranoid here?
I find it's okay for desktop use, but frustrating on phones, because of the far inferior search suggestions. When I'm banging out nonsense on the shitty touchscreen keyboard, Google usually figures out what the hell I'm trying to search for. Duck Duck Go fails miserably at that, unfortunately.
'Codes' here being 'source code'.

I wonder why some industries (HPC, defence) talk about code as being a discrete countable noun, where almost all other industries talk about code as being an uncountable mass noun.

Example: GitHub and Amazon have code, whereas Cray and Raytheon have codes.

I wonder what 'one code' looks like to them? Is it on function? One line?
Sandy Kidd and his invention (Angular momentum to linear momentum)
Though one’s right to a public defender only applies once you’ve been charged, right? In TFA, the guy being investigated was only the subject of a warrant.
I wonder, isn't the new CPU training with locality sensitive hashing similar to constructing something close to a winning lottery ticket?
Amazon uses it mainly for Fargate and Lambda (from what I've read).
Docker is a container technology (shared kernel), while Firecracker is an actual VM manager so it provides better isolation. It is more comparable with QEMU.
Probably Thunderbird, but maybe consider looking at Postbox. Their latest version includes a variety of colourful themes, and it seems that customising the visual appearance is very important to IncrediMail users.

(For context, I have a small business making Photoshop plug-ins, and a lot of my customer support emails were from IncrediMail users. I've seen a few bright yellow Comic Sans emails on purple background with animated smiley-face GIFs. The point of IncrediMail seems to have been to make emails more like the penpal letter writing stationery kits you can find at a scrapbooking store. The customers used my Photoshop plug-in to design plaid backgrounds that they used as stationery in their outgoing IncrediMail HTML emails. I did find that the IncrediMail users were among the friendliest and nicest when dealing with their support emails.)
You are right, if the defending party has enough money to defend, then the case will mostly be decided on the abilities/experience of the lawyers and the merits of each side.

But what happens when the defendant just simply doesn't have the money to defend themselves in court?

Have you represented a client in court for free for 2 years and paid for their court fees and discovery?

You've also probably dealt mostly with relatively rational people in good faith. But when you have someone who's very vindictive or irrational, acting in bad faith and with a lot of money, it can be terrifying to be on the receiving end, and you can feel absolutely hopeless if you don't have the knowledge or money to defend.
Agner is an absolute treasure. I hang on his every word.

One essential reference not cited is https://danluu.com/branch-prediction/ .
You’re not wrong, but government bonds actually have a somewhat different role in the modern financial system. Specifically, they are used as collateral in the interbank lending market, which means they have exchange value above and beyond the discounted cash flow of the bond itself. Which is basically how negative yielding bonds could even exist.
The human genome is full of viruses
People fear being stuck at home for weeks, in which case toilet paper may come in handy...

As in the case for all panics, there is a snowball/contagion effect. People see others panic-buying and empty shelves so they also start to buy for fear of lacking.
Hello from Cortina! My wife is a Montessori teacher here, and they've been working hard to keep students engaged and parents happy (the former is obviously the priority). A mix of Remind for parent communication, Loom for pre-recorded presentations, and Zoom for in-person group and individual meetings with the children has helped.
My retirement account is up 20% in two weeks from SPY puts and GLD calls
Avoiding another thalidomide would be all well if weren't for the fact that for many disorders the prognosis provided by standard practice is absolutely terrible.
Yeah, only the parents and grandparents who they then go home to.
Actually, Italy banned direct flights from China more than a month ago, well before the outbreak, and took harsh criticism from China.

https://www.aerospace-technology.com/news/italy-israel-ban-f...
Just curious - what's wrong with buying a large instance (24 cores) and running it for < 10,000 users? Kubernetes feels like an insane complexity that doesn't need to be taken on and managed. You're gonna spend more time managing Kubernetes than writing actual software. Also, it feels like if something goes wrong in prod with your cluster - you're gonna need external help to get you back on the feet.

If you're not going to build the next Facebook, why would you need so much complexity?
Browsers provide a cross-platform runtime allowing users to run remote code in a sandbox. Users don't have to download and install executables, and developers don't have to worry as much about getting people to update their clients.

I'm not very happy that browsers and JavaScript have become the dominant app platform, but I think we'll need something with similar features to displace it.
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I like the idea - why waste all that energy going up and down, and missing out on swimming in zero g? :)

But rotating space habitats might not be as good at replacing gravity as some think. Even with the really-huge 'O'Niell cylinder' scale (8 kilometers diameter), coriolis effects would be noticeable. I suspect a number of industrial processes would be affected by it.

I expect some of the major industrial processes will still need/want to be done on a big pile of rock or sand, rather than in a more fragile object that inherently wants to explode and fling apart all the time :).
Everyone is getting old. Stay strong, Murat!

Also to me a distinctive marker of being young is using Snapchat and TikTok. People of my generation (30+) are actively using stories, but haven't heard of any Snapchat experience from everyone.
> why would you ever trust Huawei?

Why would you ever trust any US corporations?

Snowden, Intel Management Engine etc.

(Corporate) backdoors everywhere...

I think RISC-V, open hardware and OSS has to be the future.
Seeing that "normal" schools are very strict about attendance even with the online/charter options in same district, I'm assuming their funding model still needs them to count children on campus.
I think that depends on where you live. I’ve lived in places where there were not that many restaurants better than “just ok” unless you wanted to spend a lot of money. Nowadays, I feel as you said, that I never have a reason to go out of my way to new place that’s “just ok” but that’s because I live in LA (and previously SF) where there are “seriously great” options everywhere. My standard for affordable food has gone way up after living in California.
One of those went cashless... do I need to say more?
Augment with discord?
The Selectric didn't really do rollover, but it had a mechanism that felt like it. Each key lever had a small tab that entered a trough of ball bearings that had just enough slack for one tab. If you pressed a second key, it would displace the balls and descend when the previous key withdrew.
TLDR: opportunity cost

It is the primarily responsibility in some domains. For others, the system is designed to allocate responsibility to the education system in order to balance with the time demands of fully employed parent(s) (to support the family) and the cost that would be otherwise incurred.
Future economy growth =/= infinite economy growth.
Thank you for speaking up.

I don't know how to constructively engage your points, but I appreciate that you posted.

Given how rampant this issue seems to be, I'm somewhat appalled that there isn't a more supportive response to the comment. It suggests an awful lot of men think they absolutely don't do this when observation suggests to me that it is more or less the norm.
I think it's just saying that information provided in the John Doe motion to block Google from releasing his identity led them to believe that John Doe was not the burglar. It's not like the police had any info to rule him out, just some fragment of a location trace or whatever that said he was someone to look into. It could be some guy biking round his neighborhood or some guy who drove in to stalk the neighborhood for a burglary. If they don't know his identity, how can they even know it was his neighborhood? They don't have any reason to exclude him until they have more info.
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What's going on is those of us who have been using the Web since Google was brand new (or earlier...remember AltaVista?) expect a search engine to find text on web pages.

What the average user in the post-smartphone world expects a search engine to do is deliver an answer to a question. These are basically incompatible, and it seems like a progressively smaller circle of the Web is being surfaced by Google these days, as they focus heavily on popularity and novelty.
The wording of the original author may have been imprecise, but I’m in a similar place so I’ll try to translate my feelings as well.

It is a certain form of awe, to realise that one’s life so far will likely just be a small fragment of the whole. It isn’t intuitive aside from mathematically — it is a thought that only at a certain age becomes apparent and then drifts off to be forgotten again.

Realising that the journey is so much longer, it both storms and calms the soul. The calm from the meditative “I still have time to become”, the storm from a similar “But I only have time to become”.