skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cryptocurrencies will not remove the need for a military. Anything that can be bought by a Bitcoin can also be "bought" by force, often more effectively.

As an example, how could bitcoin being the reserve currency fix the South China Sea dispute? There are still multiple countries who want the islands.
The newer Firefox quantum has become my goto browser since it was released. Slower than Chrome but less memory hungry. Unfortunately anytime I hear about Firefox it's often "Firefox removes features" or worse "Firefox disables feature for your good". I literally couldn't log into some old wifi router at an airbnb because Firefox refused to let me visit a non-standard port, with no way to override it. It's not adtech surveillance big brother, it's patronizing we know better big brother.
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Ok, I missed where you were referring specifically to endurance athletes. You may be correct that endurance athletes do most of their training at lower intensities, although they almost all incorporate some type of higher intensity interval training.

The reason I separate elite athletes from others is that they are genetically different than the average person. To be an elite athlete in a super competitive sport, you are not representative of the normal population. You can likely train harder and longer and most likely have some type of other genetic advantage. It's far better to focus on studies that look at normal people rather than elite athletes.

Anyway, to go back to your original question, asking how HIIT is more effective, you are right that it is not necessarily effective at every endeavor. But literature shows that for the average person, doing 10 minutes of HIIT can be as effective in losing weight, gaining muscle, cardiovascular fitness, etc. as doing something like 30 minutes of low-intensity exercise.
Model composability is one of Julia's and MLJ's highlights. Library designers tend to take this into account throughout the ecosystem. It helps that Julia does not need to dropdown into a C or FORTRAN wrapper like Numpy.

That being said, MLJ tends to wrap a lot of models from scikit-learn with a composable wrapper, meaning you end up having to manage Python dependencies and you lose Julia features such as multi-threading (Edit: when using Python models, multi-threading is supported when using Julia models).

Long term I am sure MLJ will slowly replace scikit models but right now it can be little painful to use if the model you want is not implemented in Julia.
Thanks for sharing. I love seeing projects people embarked on for nothing more than they thought it'd be fun to do.
Oh, I wasn't aware that the GP comment suggested that it's something invented by FB. Anyway, how is it a scam and how is FB benefiting from the real names? Especially at the expense of the people? Another commenter above said that they think the real names were the main selling point of FB. Maybe. But then it's not a scam by definition (as FB is a very popular product and if the real names made it to be that, then that's what the people wanted most).
You think the likelihood of all these things are comparable? The president of the Bilderburg group literally provided the bulk of the funding for Blockstream. That should be considered with some seriousness shouldn't it?
It means that in the study submitted to the FDA, the vaccine group had 8 cases and the control group had 162 cases [0]. 8 / 162 = ~5% of the cases in the vaccine group, ergo 95% effectiveness (or more specifically Relative Risk Reduction).

[0] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2034577
The margin on digital sales is a lot better than physical sales, and every large publisher has been pushing the transition to digital as fast as possible. A publisher is getting ~70% on every digital sale compared to ~50% for physical.
I think the issue here is that you’ve tied a monetary value to honor, when honor is often tied to other things and occasionally explicitly the lack of a desire to maximize profit.
My account is a bit older and I was going to say a similar thing ("Why is this upvoted so much", of course you're free to post anything you find interesting).

I really wonder what's interesting about this, maybe besides the hint that there are VM solutions for macOS. That's not in the slightest intended to be a personal attack.

But HN is weird, I suppose.
Interesting, but it leaves the question how do you trust these images if they are not official?
Ask HN: Prometheus vs. StatsD / Telegraf
I see a lot of people talk about Prometheus on here and speak about it as though it's the only metrics gathering solution. In this way, it really does seem like it has become the poster child of Hacker News and metrics gathering.

I've used both Prometheus and the Telegraf / StatsD solutions; and, for a very long time, I've disliked everything from the standard "bugs"[0] in Prometheus to the entire design philosophy of their pull vs Telegraf and similar's push methodology.

What is the collective's general stance on Prometheus vs Telegraf; and why does the collective tend to end up preferring one over the other?

[0] For example, Prometheus clients does tend to consider a counter that hasn't been incremented to exist, so if you have an error counter, the sudden existence of the error counter is how you find an error. The 'increase' is 0, though, because it went from not existing to a value of 1. Citation: https://github.com/prometheus/prometheus/issues/1673

No, it's not technically a "bug", it's how it's designed; but, it speaks to how it's used and the work-arounds are unsatisfactory, in my opinion.
This is nowhere near enough though, and it used to be even worse. Basic spyware such as Google Analytics could be blocked by uBlock for ages and yet it's only recently that the built-in Firefox solution started blocking it (by replacing it with a neutered shim).

Furthermore, considering uBlock Origin and the underlying filter lists are available under a permissive license, what's the point behind developing & maintaining your own (inferior) implementation?
But is Reno any better?
> for an industry which is the lifeblood of many businesses

Is it? Or is it a negative-sum arms race, where businesses are forced to advertise, or lose their market share to competitors that do advertise?
I got a funny thought reading your post. We have these deep fakes based on data from a still photo.

Some day that 12MP goat picture will be the data for a pet-based deep fake of your dog or cat. :)
I had been dissatisfied with their management for a long time, but that was the point where I switched browsers.
I believe that an inappropriate anxiety response is typically one element of a syndrome, and generally not a stand alone response. Most likely, if you are focusing on anxiety to the exclusion of other aspects of your life, and I mean past, present and future life, you are likely missing opportunities to effectively address it.

That said, one therapy that has worked for at least one person I know was Dielectical Behavior Therapy[0]. As they went through the program, they learned that their hyper-arousal to any unexpected event led to an anger response that led to saying terrible things to the person who had not behaved as expected. This led to a general mistrust of others and a dwindling supply of friends who transitioned to acquaintances who then stopped calling entirely.

DBT get them to recognize that their response was not typical and offered a path to practice alternate responses. They learned to defer their response and seek clarification or confirm intentions before reacting. They've become a much less unpleasant person to be around.

[0] https://www.verywellmind.com/dialectical-behavior-therapy-10...
The only trust problem that blockchain solves is that of transaction settlement. Anything else requires a hybrid solution with a trusted third party.
> I recommend working with a qualified teacher in a spiritual tradition. These practitioners will have extensive training (at least decades) and will be drawing from a few thousand years of careful study of the effects of meditation (as found in Buddhist and Yogic/Hindu documents and oral traditions).

How many teachers actually have this, and how can one know that the one you’ve chosen is one of them?
The argument makes more sense when you realise that Valium/Diazepam is basically a muscle relaxant.

Edit: Source here, happy to hear from another domain expert refuting this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAOnSbDSaOw&list=PL848F2368C...
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Shoot, missed the edit window. Thanks for the heads up, though.
It's not a bug, it's by design.
> First, no, anxiety is not in your body. Fear, just like any other emotion is in your brain. You might get physiological responses in the form of chemicals in your body. That is an effect, not a cause.

Do you have a source for this? I remember seeing an article on (I think) HN about research indicating gut bacteria influences emotions which would seem to me to indicate cause rather than effect. Perhaps it’s impossible to definitively say either way. I can certainly see anxiety being the sort of thing where a feedback loop spirals out of control.
You know, the tech folks in Silicon Valley aren't native either.
Helpful, thanks!
What's surprisingly missing from these discussions is a special case of propaganda.

Should e.g. Goebbels-like informing have a place in modern society? Is yelling "fire!" in a theater an always protected speech?

If First Amendment isn't absolute - it's not clear - what are the important differences? Did Twitter overreacted on Trump's tweets and curbed free speech - or did it finally decided to protect its users from dangerous manipulations?
Impressive, I wouldn't know where to begin. Could you expand on which items you included and how you decided on how they were weighted?
I just got my first fpga and i have no idea where to start. Any recommendations so I'm not overwhelmed?
It's not monetarily valued. It's not societally valued, in any tangible sense. Power is not allocated to whomever has the most honor. So what good is it?
Sorry, you're complaining that a year's retrospective post by the CEO doesn't include announcement of product development plans or launches? I would think that... unwise. Unless you're trying to create a cult of personality around your CEO.

She'd either be undercutting her own marketing department, or tying her personal popularity to products/projects. Neither would be a very good idea.
We in the West see things from a Western viewpoint. We're also used to seeing things from a position of strength. Those times are steadily and rapidly disappearing.

The WHOLE of the West (US, 5-Eyes, Europe) COMBINED is only about 70% the size of China ALONE in terms of both population and manufacturing capacity.

We're not going to win the next 'big one'.
TDMA/CDMA don't bypass information theory, though. Shannon always wins in the end.

You can improve the situation with spatial beamforming, polarization isolation, mmWave bands, etc, but there eventually comes a point where the added complexity doesn't win over just hiring a few guys with a backhoe to run fibre down the street.
What do you mean by crypto? I think we do lots of interesting work in that area. Heck, our CTO was the editor of the RFC for TLS 1.3.

https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/01/09/eric-rescorla-wins-...

(Disclosure: I work for Mozilla but only ever tangentially on this)
As a person who is currently in CBT (and seeing positive results), the biggest thing that helped me is to understand trauma, and cognitive distortions.

Just as this article says, your thinking brain is trying to piece together and digest what has happened. The problem is often that we repress it during the peaceful down time that our thinking brain is trying to make sense of it. We drown it out with drugs and alcohol, or we try to make ourselves so busy that we don’t think about it (hence creating more anxiety through work issues, family drama, or overstimulation). Best thing that works for me is to learn to accept it. Process it. Digest it. Learn and talk through examples of how it’s safe to experience the world again. This is part of the de-escalation process. Note, this goes against advice of “oh just don’t worry about it”. This approach is essentially “okay self, bad shit happened, let’s finally talk about it”. Your thinking brain is designed to keep bringing this up until it gets resolution. This is resolution.

And cognitive distortions helps me because I understand now how my mind plays tricks on me. When I say things like “this bad thing happened, I’ll never be able to get over it”, it’s giving too much power to that bad event. I don’t have to feel or think that way. I’m allowed to change my thought process and think “yeah that bad event happened, but I can’t let it be the end of the world for me.”
Is this through an agency or solo? I work in Sydney but in a very back-end 'department in a bigger company' setting so have limited exposure to that side of the industry.
But patents are nation-wide, I suppose?
Just seeing the picture of the article made by throat getting bigger from the inside. Anxiety sucks.
If you can't tell the difference between 34ppi and 65ppi and typical viewing distances your eyes just don't work very well and you just literally don't realize most people see better than you even if they need glasses to do so.

We aren't talking about near the limits of human perception we are capable of perceiving 115ppi at a typical 8 ft viewing distance. 8K for a 65" screen is about the limit. 4k is itself about 1/4 the resolution we can perceive and 1080p is 1/16. You are saying that people can't on average distinguish between 1/4 the resolution we can perceive and 1/16th.

The link I posted was the informed opinion of an electrical engineer that worked in display tech. If people really can't tell the difference between 4k and 1080p shouldn't there be scientific research by this point to show this? You can't because there isn't.

You are like a color blind person exclaiming there is no difference between green and red! There is.
Gosh has it been 15 years already? I never liked Java much. But several companies I liked and hired me where using mostly that.
Then I did some consulting / freelancing / firefighting. ORM and mostly Hibernate was often a topic.

My experience and methodology is as follow :

- Write test for your ORM layer. Possibly not in Java. Some high level integration type test. ( calling your web-layer or API and checking for what comes out )

- Burn your ORM layer down.

- Have someone who know the business logic sit with you. And re-write the ORM layer from mostly scratch.

- While doing the above, train that person on the very redondant gotcha ( Inverse n to n, accidental carthesian product, bad ID generation, compulsive flush, un-needed @lazy or @eager to deal with performance, @embedded abuse and fucked up SQL schema because of the previous)

- Train all dev on the persistence lifecycle of stuff in JPA. "No, most likely you won't have to call .persist or .merge yourself" being the bottomline

- Have a shiny documented exemple of 1 to 1, N to 1, N to N examples ( both with or without inverse link )

- If some report or API needs a fucked up SQL query with 18 join. Write that thing in native SQL and shove it in your DAO. You don't need to mess up you'r whole DAO layer for those 3 queries

- Pray

- Run the test from step 1.

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TL;DR : if the ORM layer is somewhat clean. you can mostly forget about it. On the project I'm on now, I did not had to touch it more than once in 2 years. ( and that was terrible, granted, we touched a test and stuff that had nothing to do with it started to blow up. But still, once in 2 years is not a lot )
Apple sued Samsung with scroll bounce back effect. Yes Samsung is a big player, but the lawsuit means other developers also avoid to implement same thing.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/04/appeals-court-re...
That 30% is also the industry standard. (Microsoft, Google, Sony, Nintendo, Epic etc). Which has only recently started to shift.
No, it's not distributed world wide evenly in all oceans
It's the same thing. horse-drawn carriages are automobile. Today's car is a more advanced version. In a sense, today's laptop is a spaceship comparing to the first laptop.
This is the great thing about homeopathy. Water from any major metropolitan area has homeopathic levels of any drug you're liable to think of. So just drink tap water and all your illnesses will be cured!
I see frustrated WiFi users all the time, but I've never seen a frustrated Ethernet user.

If I had a dime for every WiFi user in a video call who's "breaking up", I had a whole bunch of dimes.
Reminded me of a passage from Sapiens on Buddah.

"...Gautama Buddah found that there was a way to exit this vicious circle.

If, when the mind experiences something pleasant or unpleasant, it simply understand things as they are, then there is no suffering.

If you experience sadness without craving that the sadness go away, you continue to feel sadness but you do not suffer from it. There can actually be richness in the sadness.

If you experience joy without craving that the joy linger and intensify, you continue to feel joy without losing your peace of mind.”
You're talking about 2 different things, general business knowledge and SaaS startups.

For general business knowledge:

1) read the financial section of a daily newspaper. (The Economist is ok too.)

2) watch Nightly Business Report (I miss Paul Kangas - even as a kid I knew he was a gem.)

For startup knowledge:

1) develop a SaaS product and promote it

2) HN occasionally has startup articles, but not as often as it should.

There's 2 main reasons not to do a startup until you feel very motivated to do so:

1) It complicates your income tax filing to the point of not being worthwhile if your business is not profitable. (However the knowledge about Schedule C is valuable to know. Most bootstrapped busineses are better off using an online filing tool for under $200/annum instead of say H&R Block, which can be $1,500/annum. A talkative CPA is good, but I've used some that refused to let you watch them work while asking questions, essential for itemized returns.)

2) A successful startup averages 7-10 years to reach that point - a very long commitment.

For somebody as newb as you are, you might need to find a relative or friend and copy their behavior to get rolling.

Note that in the US, there's almost no legal requirements when starting a company/business (as long as any employees are 1099 contractors.) Just store your receipts in a box and do it.

What Bill Gates and the Google founders did to learn business was to read 10 or so business books. Bill Gates was a special case because his family was on boards, and he started Traf-o-Data as a teen, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traf-O-Data

(My father was a successful business person and investor, so I started reading 3 newspapers per day and watching NBR since I was about 4 yo. - learning by osmosis I guess, or 10,000 hours if a meme. Often accountants and lawyers are surprised by my level of knowledge.)
Does this no longer work? http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.security.ports.banned.over...
> This is such a pipe dream.

:)

what's the water level like in austin? I know some places in texas you dig down and you hit groundwater.
Why We’re Freaking Out About Substack
In nearly 2 decades a high 90s percentage of their profit has been search deals for Firefox which is where a lot of the stuff from Servo ended up so I'm not sure it could be construed as unsurprising or useless.
That's the secret to writing children's books. You have to write something an adult can read 100 times without going insane.

One I really liked was The Bravest Ever Bear. I forget who it's by, but it is pretty good by the "adult reading 100 times" test. It may be for kids a bit older than 4, but not a lot.
Maybe this has to do more with nationality? HN is a US focused site after all.
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Boulder as well. The greenbelt and height limits are pushing properties in Boulder proper into SF-Bay prices. The surrounding cities are also feeling the push too. The whole Front Range housing market is going bonkers (relative to 'normal') with appraisal gaps of ~$80k that buyers are paying outright, no inspections, 10 day closing times. It's bananas.
> It’s treated like an accepted fact though, not an opinion

Hope you've never read the "opinions" section in a newspaper! Or the comments in the thread above mine. This one actually cites a lot more references/sources than a typical editorial.

I specifically linked it as "here is Cory Doctorow's take on [the situation]". I don't endorse it wholely, but I found it very interesting.

> That’s intellectually lazy.

Doctorow's take is much, much, much less intellectually lazy on the causes behind Ant's IPO shutdown/Alibaba's antitrust fine/Jack Ma's withdrawal from most public facing activities than comments I was responding to (ie "[the CCP is being so capricious!]" <1> or "Look how small his offense was!" <2>)

<1> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26766726

<2> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26766748
Tritium radioluminescence is actually really cool. It's too bad they aren't commercializing this instead of dumping it in the ocean.
Exactly, with hibernate if something is too hairy, I use the native query system. ( and hibernate still map the result for me )
Excellent police force.
Certainly will get there in time :) unless they're planning to contain it in little aquariums.
This is what you get when you sell your soul to Google and rely on your competitors funding for years on end.

And what does Mozilla of today have to show for it?

A self aggrandising, navel-gazing, tone deaf, hollow templated puff piece which will cause the unfortunate inevitable sad downfall of Mozilla.

There is almost nothing left of this once innovative company, resorting to present a facade as a cover while ignoring the real issue:

Not focusing on making a revenue generating product for over 10 years.

Also, repeat extremely tone deaf in Mozilla laying off their top engineers on Rust, Servo and Firefox and not a single mention of it in this post.

Looks like all those free years of Google money caught up with them.
Investors may use entrapment to cause people to make foolish decisions in order to buy the dip.
I wonder if that is why we like music. We can experience emotions without worrying that they are permanent or need to be resolved.
> From what I've seen, Matrix is far worse metadata-wise than Signal

What have you seen? I haven't come across anything to suggest this.
I don't disagree, but the website URL is called "the hustle".

I don't think it would be far fetched to think that the content should be viewed with a healthy dose of skepticism ?
I'm being downvoted here, I think mainly because frank admission of facts is considered mean. For reference, I'm speaking as a member of a tiny ethnic group that survived well into the 20th century, including a period of strong repression. What we couldn't survive was modernization. The need for work led to embracing the English language as the only way forward, and mass media, mobility, and exogamy have all contributed to extremely rapid cultural disintegration. This is the way the world works.
> Wegstunde

> One hour's travel, used up to the 19th century.

Funny. There is still (colloquially) a thing called a Wegbier which you drink on your way to have another drink. Used in Dresden with friends once ;-)
If that was my reflection on anything I’d consider myself a vampire
It looks fun to play. Is there some thing like this for the iPhone?
On my phone, I moved from Firefox to Brave. The overall experience is much better.

I don't know about democratic compensation, but I don't regularly hear about Brave making political statements or picking sides, which matters to me. I still get ads blocked, and I experience far fewer issues.