skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're attaching the issue to the US (or maybe western society), when in fact this issue is inherent to humans as a whole.

People are able to create mental connections between things. They are able to see patterns and extrapolate. This is one of the things that separates us from most other species and gives us tremendous capabilities, such as the ability to examine the past for mistakes and plan things out for the future. It also leads to storytelling and culture - ways to rapidly adapt at a societal level rather than a genetic or behavioral one.

However, this capability doesn't have to be 100% accurate to work effectively - it only needs to be effective most of the time to provide a significant competitive advantage as far as survival. You can see this in any number of current or past societies, from small tribes to continental civilizations - beliefs and behaviors develop and become standardized/traditional, which are frequently a mix of useful/effective and pointless.

A simple example would be prayer - consistently, human societies invent higher powers that they ascribe control of various aspects of the world to and construct rituals around them, and regardless of the lack of evidence, you can find this is pretty much all human societies. The details, of course, vary widely.

In short, humans have never had a firm grasp on reality - we've already invented things and filled in the blanks with our own imagination, amped up our importance in the universe, because we're limited in scope as far as what we can interact with and control.

Today things are both better and worse than in the past - we have cultural patterns like the scientific method, which ideally gives us more reliable information than most prior constructs; tools that expand our ability to examine the universe around us, giving us a better idea of where we are; consistently better information transfer (spoken word > written word > mass-produced written > analog mass media > digital).

But at the same time, these things can be used to spread incorrect information just as much as correct; things can be cherry-picked, ignored, manipulated; logical fallacies abound; and, as ever, people will see the things they want to see to fit their patterns and beliefs, ignoring or deeming irrelevant the pieces that don't fit for them.

We know more than ever as a species and society; but individually it is completely beyond anyone's grasp to gain a solid understanding of everything we know simply because there is so much. We're relegated to trusting each other - and unfortunately, people don't choose who they trust based on how accurate those people might be, but on things like social relations, world-view match, and so on.
I think a better discussion is how almost none of them appear to understand the correlation between negative unit economics and writing a bullshit, "At least I tried!" failure-disguised-as-success Medium post about how your company failed.
Default Notes on iOS/OSX
Would you expect someone living in Russia and being active in business to come out as anti Putin?
Isn't "macOS Server" just an app on the app store now?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_time_hypothesis

See also

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Chronology_(Fomenko)
Show HN: PRMTV – recreate photos with geometric primitives (iOS)
Why would anybody keep their passport in a safety deposit box?
Hi, Pacific Northwest native here. We learn about Japanese concentration camps, which were usually not deadly but still embodied all of the things that we don't like about them: Lack of due process, forced relocation, racism and prejudice, etc.

WP discusses the deadliness, or relative lack thereof, of Japanese concentration camps: "Despite a shortage of healthcare workers, limited access to equipment, and tension between white administrators and Japanese American staff, these hospitals provided much needed medical care in camp. The extreme climates of the remote incarceration sites were hard on infants and elderly inmates. The frequent dust storms of the high desert locations led to increased cases of asthma and coccidioidomycosis, while the swampy, mosquito-infested Arkansas camps exposed residents to malaria, all of which were treated in camp. Almost 6,000 live deliveries were performed in these hospitals, and all mothers received pre- and postnatal care. The WRA recorded 1,862 deaths across the ten camps, with cancer, heart disease, tuberculosis, and vascular disease accounting for the majority."
I'd buy one in a flash. Color is overrated, while the ability to work in sunlight and display an image when computer is turned off / sleeping would enable me to do things completely impossible before. Also, it would be cool if such monitor also worked as a standalone tablet/reader with long battery life. I'd be more willing to spend $700+ if it was dual-purpose.
Quiver app
Programming as a job doesn't suck. You were just unlucky enough to find one of the shittiest companies out there, and it sounds like you decided to live in an area without much competition. I can tell you right now, in an area with a halfway decent number of employers competing, you wouldn't have that many problems, and would more easily be able to switch jobs.

I hope your situation improves soon.
Quite a few flat-earthers really do believe it, and they're generally not dummies.

I've engaged in open-minded and friendly conversations with flat-earth individuals off and on for quite a few years. It's fascinating stuff; many are pretty chill and willing to chat if you go in with a positive affect.

I think if you graphed the total number of people who truly believe the earth is flat compared to the number of people who profess that just for 'troll' purposes, the latter group would be growing rapidly, and the former growing very slowly.

Why do I do this? Because the older I get, the more I realize that all of us, everyone, make a lot of choices every day that we think are based on logic and reason, but that are actually based on irrational experience and emotions. I think we tend to back-fill with logic and reason as much as we can.

Many people get more things 'right' than others, but what's 'right' is damn hard to know, isn't it?

This might seem like a wallow in all kinds of intellectual relativism, but it's really not. We should all strive for logical and rational thought and decision making, yet at the same time realize that we are all still fundamentally driven by forces that are quite the opposite, and that drive is largely invisible to us.
The Chechnyan governor, Ramzan Kadyrov, seems to be a Putin loyalist/friend. If this report is true, Putin should force Kadyrov to stop this evil. Of course, Putin either doesn't care or approves of it.
People who buy consoles don't generally care how far behind PCs they are.
I don't think you want to do that with bones from factory-raised chickens.
Why would you do away with them just because they aren't HTTP-y?
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Nice of them to not mention any of the regulations that they claim are causing harm. This is The Register.
> The DPT-RP1 still only works with PDF files, so you won’t be able to use it to replace your Kindle anytime soon

Oh that sucks, I've got a large epub/mobi collection, I'd hate to have to convert them all to PDF, but it probably serves a different purpose than a device for reading your standard books. It looks like a textbook device.

This looks amazing for me personally. I love the idea of having the PDF on one side and notes on the other. It would be great for the various math / programming books that I read. The price might be a deal breaker though.

Edit: it looks to be competing with these types of devices by Onyx, the reviews indicate it's ideal for technical books https://www.amazon.com/Onyx-Max-13-3-Flexible-Handwriting/dp...
Descartes was wrong: ‘a person is a person through other persons’
> These players are rated on 10 criteria: vision; go-to market strategy; partners; production strategy; technology; sales, marketing, and distribution; product capability; product quality and reliability; product portfolio; and staying power.

These metrics seem absolutely stacked to favor incumbents with "wait and see" approach.

Why not simply have self driving car algos compete in a random and controlled computer environment and see which performs the best from a clearly objective standpoint? Why such completely subjective metrics in this scale when these types of technologies can be measured so easily with a single computer?
That is an extension of the old 'managers need to know how to manage, not how to do things.'
Changes without notice, processing transactions around the time of such changes, exceptions for locality not typically reflected in anything as simple as the country code and so on.
Not every project needs to use React.

Sometimes you just want some quick JS for your one dropdown component that comes with the framework you're already using.
> it's about the workload.

... Why did you repeat yourself? I already told you I agreed with you on that.

Is it something specific you want me to tell you? It's going to be easier if you tell me what you want to read, otherwise we'll keep going in circles.

> Quite easily [...] poor purpose

That's an immediate contradiction. Yes, if one picks the wrong tool, that tool often becomes the bottleneck; but for every other scenario in which the tool is alright, it takes poor developers for the tool to become a bottleneck.

In my first comment I wrote that the language isn't the bottleneck, except for specific circumstances... And you took one of those specific circumstances and keep running with it. It's not a counterargument to my original point, if that's what you're trying to do.
"San Francisco, for example, recently decided to not pump oil from land owned by the city in Kern County"

"Chapman University forecaster James Doti notes that, in large part due to regulation, Inland Empire housing prices have jumped 80 percent since 2009 — almost twice the rate for Orange County."

Or did you mean chapter and verse of regulations? If so you are correct, I didn't see anything like that.
Trying to solve np problems as p problems...
Family Earned $11,000 by Not Flying Delta During Delay-Filled Weekend
The biggest ace they can play is process the payments outside of the EU.
Launch Festival Highlights
Got an eBook reader from Sony a few months before they totally abandoned their store and now all I've got is an outdated product. OTOH, it works quite well with different formats. Great hardware, so-so software, crappy post-sales service.
"Absolutely standard" for the financial industry, which is the context for this story. It's an industry well known for having a large part of compensation paid as a performance-based bonus.
What Switching Back to Gnome Means for Ubuntu
Nobody said the transition would be easy, and nobody said what we have now is the gig economy... The gig economy we were promised is made up of decentralized enterprises built on protocols like ethereum, not market companies.
What they should have done was keep offering better and better incentives someone would have eventually taken it.
Announcing TypeScript 2.3 RC
Nos. 1, 2, and 4 are far more plausible than conspiracy theories like flat-earth-ism, holocaust denial, and moon landing denial.
Push shouldn't be used for GETting things that you can cache. For that you can use pull with HTTP pipelining.

Push should only be used for updates, including updating the cache. Ideally you'd only be sending the deltas (changes).
The key difference from the FY 2017 Cap press release is that the FY 2018 news release does not say anything about lottery. So there is a speculation that this year there will not be a lottery for picking H1B petitions.
Only slightly worse than the time I watched United throw a guy off a plane for a) complaining that the FA had put someone else's bag in the place in the overhead from which he had just temporarily removed his bag in order to get his iPad out and then b) asking (politely) for the FA's name so he could post it on Twitter.
OmniOutliner
Loans 'Designed to Fail': States Say Navient Preyed on Students
It wasn't "their funding". The GNOME Foundation handled payroll for an internship program sponsored by the participating organizations. Net expenses on OPW for 2013 were about $25,000[1], which included paying several people to hack on GNOME.

[1] https://wiki.gnome.org/Foundation/FinancialSummary
Google Keep

http://keep.google.com/
Mobs of entitled children are not rational.
Gonzo Tech Review: The Panasonic Toughpad Press Conference (2013)
I've met someone who claimed he believed in the flat earth theory. I see no reason to believe he was misleading me. Not massively educated, not really interested in analytical games.

I've met people who believed they could communicate with aliens by meditating under pyramids made of steal pipes.

I've met people who believed that putting a crystal on a bottle of water will make it stay fresh longer. That they could charge batteries with their mind.

Not sure what kind of proof you might want to be sure these people really believe what they say. And I'm not sure how meaningful that statement is. I never thought they were playing the mind of fan-fic games you suggest though.

My observations lead me to believe people in general believe some pretty weird things.
Emacs with org-mode and git for syncing across my computers.
Nginx configs are still terrible because the documentation is not good.
At a glance, this looks essentially like a recreation of Deepmind's work from a couple of years ago. Is there something new here I'm missing?
I've tried this recently, and I can't get 10.11 to build the 10.11 xnu. Parts of the kernel throw deprecation errors, etc. Pretty weird actually. I'm assuming this is due to toolchain mismatch, but I haven't been able to figure it out. I'd appreciate it if anyone has any pointers.
Reliance Jio:What to Know [Infographic]
Personal notes in Evernote but increasingly taking team notes in Dropbox's Paper.
I would say that the United States does not want a functioning government and that is by design. Remember the Federalists? They argued for a better government than the US had under the Articles of Confederation (kinda EU like body before our current Constitution). Many Americans read these guys and agree. What we often forget is the AntiFederalists, amongst them was Jefferson. As a result of the Federalists and the AntiFederalists, the US has the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Guess which side brought what to the party.

Our current problem is that under FDR the government got too big, but we didn't ever try to clear it up later. As a result we have a pretty shitty hybrid of big government and Republicans running around not doing their jobs of removing the root. This leads to a hodgepodge of restrictions and regulations that make it hard for big government to streamline/be efficient. It also makes it hard for small government to take root since everything has to be done in the bureaucratic manner.
>stop drugs, or stop guns, pick one. Which would make the most impact?

Legalizing drugs?
Ha! Get this. It's unassailable.

Godzilla... was just an ordinary human in a rubber suit, in a movie studio sound stage where scale models of cities and landscapes had been built. In later years, as film technology improved, the more detailed films of Godzilla were created with a CGI model, with the virtual skeleton and muscle movements derived from filming a human actor in a mo-cap suit. It only looks real because the animators are so skilled, and the actor is so good at mo-cap acting. It is in no way live footage of a real animal.

That's right. Godzilla doesn't exist. He never existed. He was always a made-up movie character. I bet you could get literally thousands of people to believe that. With enough gaslighting, I bet you could even get someone whose actual home was actually stepped on and burned by Godzilla to believe that it was due to an earthquake or tsunami or tornado or nuclear reactor meltdown or something equally farfetched.
A cloud offering of OS X? Who would need something like that?
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I think if you broaden your view a bit more, you'll realize that humans are at heart irrational animals. Understanding, appreciating, and respecting the flat-earthers is a way of understanding and appreciating yourself, because you never truly see the many ways you are broken.

It's the ones that don't understand this who are truly dangerous, not folks who believe weird stuff. You can believe anything you want with a spirit of humility and openness.
I've begun using the term "epistemologically disabled" to cover those in the general class of crazy people that includes flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers, chemtrailers, climate change deniers (anthropic or not), "Obama is a Kenyan Muslim" republicans, &c. Because seeing this problem as a disability changes my response from contempt into one that's more sympathetic.
OneNote webapp on Linux
Evernote for personal use, Slack messages to myself for work
I guess you're right. It makes me wonder how many of own opinions might just be subconscious grabs for attention, even when I believe they're rational and carefully considered. It is a little unsettling if you think about it for too long!
It's been a patent scam from the get go.
The Honorable Nir Barkat (ניר ברקת‎), Mayor of Jerusalem @ Yeshiva University
Fifty Years and Counting, the Boeing 737 Remains One of the Safest Ways to Travel
It's funny how multiple people mentioned topology. But the simple response is that you just went in a loop on a plane, because you don't know how to navigate properly.

Of course, I believe you! I'm not a flat earther. But to someone who has already made the mistakes necessary to convince themselves that the earth is flat, it's easy to deny your proof. You don't have direct empirical evidence, you have the evidence that you went in a loop, plus a bunch of science that these people have crazy reasons for denying, and that science tells you that loop involved going around a sphere.
Org-Mode and Emacs: http://orgmode.org/
Ask HN: What are your strategies for booking cheap plane tickets?
>Since workers for most gig economy companies are considered independent contractors, not employees, they do not qualify for basic protections like overtime pay and minimum wages.

It concerns me how eager we are to be to roll back the hard won protections that our forefathers fought for. Time and again we see that the vast majority of businesses only look towards maximizing the short term, and exploit any loopholes that allow them to.
Crown Heights, Brooklyn

majority black (mainly Carribean) neighborhood. > 90% of the buildings in the neighborhood are owned by absentee landlords, who are typically either Hasidic Jews in South Brooklyn or faceless development corporations based out of Manhattan. most of the businesses in the neighborhood, besides the requisite black barber shops and hair braiding shops and bodegas on the corner, are either corporate chains owned by a national conglomerate, or they are owned by white entrepeneur transplants that just moved in to the neighborhood a few years ago.
The gig economy is not build upon technology ideas, it is built on disposable and expendable labor.
What an awful thing to happen on your first day. Thanks for sharing your stories. Another reason added to the list why I'll never try snowboarding (skiier).

I was out in Aspen two weeks ago and we were wondering if the lifties get drug tested (never thought about it before). I said they have to, they are responsible for other people's lives and safety. My friends all said no way.

What's your experience?
Apple's Sticker Fight? Data on Where Branded Emojis/Stickers Are Being Shared
Show HN: Get Stripe notifications on your Mac
We know why these models make decisions on data. They're optimizing for lower error rates.

The black box unveiled for a convolutional neural network is this: over the course of several thousand rounds of performing the dot product of the RGB values of a given training datum against a weight vector, this network has determined that a weight vector containing these values optimally reduce the error produced by "squashing" the output matrices of said dot products in a softmax function when the "squashed" value is compared against the pre-determined true value.

If you would also like to be able to correctly predict whether a given input is part of the class for which this model was optimized for, we suggest your weight vectors also contain these values as this will reduce the number of false positives and false negatives you will produce from your prediction.
possibly only to show that in a day an age where people record the police that every business needs to be wary of their actions being recorded by the public.

This news is on Drudge and Reddit, the former is likely to cause United to take notice a lot faster and spread its embarrassment further.

all this so that some airline employees could fly and better yet the guy dragged off was put back on the plane and has a concussion

Still curious how long before we see laws attempting to stop the public from recording private places like an airplane or similar. it has failed so far to prevent the public from recording the police but this is a lot of power outside the control of the authorities and it has revealed some ugly truths about our world
"In reality, there is no utopia"

Shocking! It almost leads one to the conclusion that the only route to a successful happy life is hard work and persistence, regardless of whether you do gigs or a 9-5.
The jobs I'm thinking of are full time, year round, but I understand that may be an issue in some segments of agriculture.
Surely they could have found a price cheaper than this bad PR.
Why does Bootstrap 4 feel like a sinking ship?
Trying to replace paper with eInk isn't wise. However, those devices could have other, entirely new usages. For example, digital blackboard that consumes little power and can be remotely updated would be extremely useful. This isn't something that is possible with normal monitors because of power consumption and the annoying glow. That's just one possibility.
OcherBook: Open-source replacement Kobo firmware
Concentrating all my credit and financial information into one company does concern me. However, I do want some insight into and options for my finances and financial health, and I know I don't have all the information to do that.

I used YNAB for a bit, and I found it pretty stressful to do all the bookkeeping. I went back to my heuristic budgeting. I don't need to track every penny.

CreditKarma is really helpful for monitoring. I've gotten some good card recommendations from them and my credit score has gone up 60 points with little effort. I did my taxes through them this year (more data for them!), but I was disappointed when my state return was incorrect and I got less money back. Given that my financials are getting more complicated, I'll likely be using an accountant/attorney this year.

Most people, including myself, seem willing to give up their privacy and confidentiality in exchange for convenience. I try to play it as a zero-sum game. I've deleted all my social media accounts, because having that info plus my financials floating around seems like a bad idea. In regard to my financial data, I'll probably freak out in a few years and move all that to a professional to handle.

This whole "social" experiment with tech is, in my eyes, a frightening failure. Given how slipshod the security and data handling is at most companies (including my workplace), it's only a matter of time until there are millions of digital doppelgangers running around committing fraud.
really nice list. sony still continues to make very well engineered weird gadgets. want wireless headphones with active NC? sony has ones that it lists as 8gb mp3 player (which it also is). Then there was PCM D1, and the current DSC RX1 is bordering on weird, too.
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