skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're barking up the wrong tree. This has nothing to do with meditation aids.

This is about a user who already enabled a "distraction free" time on their phone, and how you might design a bypassing process which (A) deters a user who was really just looking for a quick dopamine hit and (B) tries to let them through in a way which is less-likely to lead to immediate backsliding.

I only mentioned meditation because it would be nice if a hypothetical psychic mind-reading phone could tell that you were about to use it mindfully.

> You want people to stare at a blank screen as a form of introspection.

No, the real point is that it is boring and imposes a delay before gratification. Any kind of boredom-driven introspection is a side-benefit.

> Good lord you think that task is relatively easy?

Remembering three digits while having no other demands on your decision-making nor on your memory? Yes, you ought to succeed at that.

> Also what is this "uncomfortable alone with their thoughts time"?

"Hey, I've been staring at this goddamn thing for what feels like ten minutes already... did I really need to bypass this lockout just to check if I got another e-mail or tweetstagram?"
$Language -> English is generally very good.

English -> $Language is usually less awesome and has more errors.

$Language -> $Language2 tends to be the worst. Sometimes I get better translations by going $Language -> English -> $Language2
Why not use a gpu. A lot of AI stuff is linear algebra: Multiply accumulate etc.
Neural Engine = General Matrix Multiplier?
I am on my third month as a paying subscriber, and it is worth it to me. I am lower-middle class, so my budget is pretty tight. I wouldn't mind a discount!
Common core is a pretty interesting curriculum. There is something similar for science (I don't remember the name). Arizona teaches Common Core math but not the science version of it. It links things together across subjects at a higher density ... stuff that, when I was a kid, I did on my own time. I think I would have enjoyed Common Core a lot as a kid.

Finland has an education program that goes along the same lines that cuts across all of the subject matters.

The downside is that common core is great for neurotypical kids ... and not a kid on the Autism spectrum.

Common core is also weak on drills and practice. It's great for learning but not for mastery. That's me being raised in a first-generation Taiwanese family and my martial arts experience in my 20s talking. Without the drilling that happens after learning, the kid never develops sufficient grit and discipline. There is a tendency to short-circuit. You think you can stop when you "learned" it, and never dive deeper. You fool yourself into thinking you know the material, but you don't. (Personal experience). Basic skills are not practiced to the point of effortlessness, so building advanced skills on top of basic skills is fraught.
What does the instruction set look like on that? Is there another example out of this type of chip?
Wow. I often wonder how much creativity in our society goes untapped for lack accessible channels to filter and distill it. Thanks for seeing the potential value in his inchoate ideas rather than dismissing them for not being fully thought out.

One a side note, quite a few leaderless cults are well worth joining - not the social kind but the ideational/experiential kind.
Note: 1986

Ah, what wonderful chips the 68000 series were, at least for the era. So many registers, such a nice clean architecture. Good times.
Unfortunately when you need the chip in the card to sign the transaction details before sending to the bank, validate the response from the bank, and all of the steps in between, it takes a lot of time. There is a ton of work going into making this process faster. Things like EMV Quick Chip and contactless EMV (tap and pay) are quicker, and should be coming to retailers in the US soon. Of course we also have the option of Apple/Android Pay, which is somewhere in the middle.
Yeah, the myth persists because the idea of learning styles is intuitively appealing: people do have varying preferences for how they learn. The basic problems are that 1. evidence doesn’t support the hypothesis that people naturally cluster into distinct & consistent learning-style groups, and 2. someone’s preference isn’t necessarily what will be most effective for them.
> For example, if the evangelicals made a petition to ban abortions in USA, it could potentially get a lot of support but yet there is no way for others to show their strong opposition against that as well.

Plus, even if somehow the evangelicals and those supporting them were to have the upper hand in terms of numbers, you still can't do things like ban abortions based on numbers alone. Basic, more modern human principles shouldn't be left to democratic vote (i.e. the voice of the majority). The right of a woman to have an abortion is a basic (and more modern, judging by recent history, if we exclude the Romans) human principle.
The dystopia you envision foisted on us by evil centralizing puppetmasters isn't realistic.

For the most highly productive places, a UBI isn't going to result in fresh bidding wars that substantially impact prices. For one, it's simply way too small to have anything but a marginal effect. For two, any plausible funding mechanism for a UBI will substantially tax people and investments in those areas. You're more likely to see a drop in prices in SF and Manhattan than an increase. (Yes, that means a decline in the standard of living for most people commenting here.)

A UBI would have a centrifugal effect, in that it would encourage many people to leave the most costly areas for cheaper areas. But, there would also be centripetal forces too, because of the microstructure of how labor mobility happens: many people are stuck where they live now in Bumblefuck because they lack any liquid capital and are stuck in an economic and social rut. The places that would see the real influx of people, and substantial inflation in real estate prices, are regions that are not top performers but also still economically productive.

That has winners and losers, and it does mean that some of the UBI would be consumed by real estate inflation. But it's implausible that all of it, or even a majority of it, would be.
I could easily be mistaken, but I think that wasn't intended to be an accusation/insinuation?

> ... sounds like it contains ...

I interpreted that as referring to the "Russia/'hacked election' meme" having psyops-ish markings, not my paragraph. That seems to fit with the final comment about it appearing to be "pretty successful".
Doesn't surprise me. I tried them a few times and the food always seemed mediocre and uninspired.

Near the end of the company's life they switched from fully compostable packaging and utensils (wherever possible) to the standard array of plastic containers and utensils you'd expect from any restaurant, while keeping their price just as high.
I graduated high school in Montréal in 2013. I never had an actually challenging English class, I learnt more watching south park, going to america and reading than I did in school. My friends that only relied on school didn't have the best English either, they perfected it by travelling.

A lot of people go to Cégep in English for this reason too, and it works out pretty well. English is a language you can just catch and learn through immersion, even more in North America where you're surrounded by it. I honestly don't think school is a good place to learn a language. You need to be fully immersed and for it to be a necessity. I learned more spending a weekend in an american household at 8 years old than in a year of English classes in elementary school.
> I can learn dancing by observing other dancers

You could always tell the self-taught ones. Their mental image of what their dance looked like did not match what others saw. That's because what you think you see is not what the actual movement is.

I know it's hard to believe, but it's true. A lot of dance movement is awkward and contorted, but it looks natural and fluid.
Schools are for the benefit of parents.
> But again, either way I'm confident that Tesla is going to be within regulation. They are already getting so much scrutiny/bikeshedding about the center display, I can't imagine them not following the required laws. With so much attention on it, it'd be silly to have it all get fucked up by not having the screen positioned a few inches differently.

Considering Tesla has actually lobbied to a few European governments to change the law, it seems like they try to attack the problem from that side instead of actually fixing it on the hardware side.
thanks; I missed that
Very cool... The map comes pretty close to my house so I put in my address and they allowed me to preorder for October.

Thanks!
> The most counterintuitive thing is that having a cryptic name for a concept can have advantages: it has a precise meaning, and if you don't know what it is, you can't convince yourself that you do.

To see complete and total saturation of that concept, take a look at the source code of Urbit
> SO is a HS teacher, her kids really really really do not want to learn

At the High School level, you've got prejudices built from years of engagement with the school system involved. If the schools in general are failing to engage appropriately, by that time large numbers of students are irrevocably alienated.

> Look, the super-crunchy idea of kids that are naturally curious is really just ... rich and white.

No, it's not, though privileged home environment (in rough order of importance, educated, rich, and white) all play a role both in preserving and enhancing that natural trait until hitting school (and through it, when the school experience is negative) and in making it less likely that outside social influences will interfere with realizing it, it's pretty clear that the basic inclination is universal.

> They get raped habitually by their mother's many 'boyfriends', they don't eat all weekend and if they do it's 2 bags of Cheetos, they have drugs forced on them by family members that really do think pot is medicine and can cure everything, their parents think school is nonsense and they should start working the fields to earn something for the family, etc.

Its certainly true (and I'm find of saying it) that the biggest problems in education are outside of the school system.

That does not mean, however, that the problems inside the school systems should be ignored (as difficult as they are, they are often far easier to address than the outside problems.)
No worries, I am also unwontedly snarky sometimes when I'm ill. Thank you for your follow up and I hope you're feeling better.
Off-lease used cars are flooding market, pushing prices down
Hilariously, using contactless EMV payment (i.e. Apple/Android Pay) with the same POS terminals is lightning fast.

But this gets filed as "infrastructure is hard". A related example: If you get a chance, try the IC card system used by the train and transit systems in Japan; they're delightful.[1] At peak rush-hour, commuters are darn near running through the (many) pay stations tapping through without breaking stride -- including display of remaining balance!

Yet, the relatively recent transit tap card system where I live is laughingly slow. At a much more modest walking pace, it's easy to pull away from the reader before it's confirmed the transaction. Seconds per commuter, for system that's considerably newer than the IC card system.
Google has their Tensor Flow. chips, I would imagine it is similar.
I have to say that this completely contradicts my experience. The room price listed on the hotel's official website is always close to the highest price on the internet. Discounting via other sites is so common that I now plan on it. I can often find half price rooms with modest effort.
Oh look, the natural course of bubbles.
This is something a robot could eventually do, I don't see any reason a bot can't fix plumbing issues... It'll start out as a bot that goes in and sprays something on pipes to repair them, or goes into the drains itself and drills out muck to clear clogs, then the bots will show up via delivery drone and be able to do all that on their own without a plumber, and you just ship back when the issue is fixed...
Disney Made More in 2016 Than Any Studio Ever
The problem with the Venus project is that it basically looks at human individuals as robotic entities that will behave and function if only put in the right environment and subject to the right inputs. It's all horribly modernist/constructivist.

The architecture proposed has no individualism about it, this is like a cartoon version of collectivism where there is no opportunity for self-actualization.

I wouldn't want to live in that world, but even if I did I'm sure it would quickly morph into something else entirely.

The resource idea is nice at first glance, but it only considers needs and not wants. The Soviet Union had the issue where production was always lagging behind trends and demands, China started growing when they cut loose entrepreneurial forces (though those are still heavily guided at macro scale, much like seen in postwar developed countries during the Keynesian era).
No idea what instruction set the Apple device uses but Google just announced alpha access to their Tensorflow Processing Unit: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/ on Google cloud
Great illustration of the effectiveness of "Final Level: Write an Angry Blog Post". :)

But yeah, I do understand the challenges that are attached to having a very very large user base. There's no realistic way you can handle this in a great way for every person reporting a bug once you have 10M/100M/1000M MAUs.

Maybe machine learning can be a help here? At least in filtering out the, ahem, "idiots".
>The only thing that is notably missing from IDEA is the graphical representation: but raise your hand if you ever missed to see your program represented as a flowchart, for example.

(raises hand).

>Does it actually have any real value?

Yes.

>Perhaps, while you are learning programming.

Or when you're trying to understand the structure of a program you've just been assigned to work on, or that you wrote years ago and have to do a change, or when you want to see the big picture, etc etc.

Ever worked with a visual language?
Here's the email sprig CEO Gagan Biyani sent out today:

https://pastebin.com/raw/9DPWQ4QC
I largely agree, but I no longer consider myself a utilitarian because few situations are so straightforward that cognitive, systemic, and other biases don't come into play, not to mention the practical limits of foresight. I'm also very concerned with informational asymmetries and the economic costs thereof. You're not wrong, but I encourage you to consider that there is more to the picture.
I like to see lots of personal projects, the more complete and fleshed out the better, it shows you have a passion for the craft

Translation: young, impressionable, willing to work lots of unpaid overtime
Key is 'latency', If DDR interface speed is increased, normally latency "CL" is increased too.
As someone that has developed ads before, not really.

I mean, anything is possible, but nowadays ads are hooked into all sorts of analytics software that determines how long an ad is on screen and things like that. You could try and implement something like what you're proposing, but it would show up as weird metrics on the advertiser's side.

Ads are already in a sandbox (iframe), so you could just make a little extension that sets iframes to display: none and give it a whirl if you wanted to test an MVP.
I am 100% positive that they considered that before starting to work on this ASIC. Some possible reasons: GPUs are insufficiently specialized, or use too much energy on the subset of work that Apple wants to enable with this chip. GPUs are too large. GPUs are busy doing other things, etc.
While we're at it, a good starting point might be that UBI only be used for those under the poverty line. We just guarantee people make it to the poverty line.

But if we only look at below poverty we have 45m people making under 12k (per person, not household). So that's only $580B. That's a much easier number to come by. And could be less if you're bringing them up to that level, but I think this would need to be above poverty level.

We could make it a little more fair and diminish the amount given based on income. If you're worried about incentives, this might ease problems on those near (but above) poverty line. Possibly providing more social mobility.

This is just me spit-balling here though. We could look at "hybrid" methods that can help ease us into this shift in economy.
I would add that if a car is your only option and if it still runs, you actually should get in it before the wind brings any fallout. Most modern cars have some air filtration. It's not as good as a HEPA filter, but it's better than nothing and might get you to a nearby building faster. Unlike in the movies, the EMP won't likely harm the cars computer.
Big Data with Go Instead of MapReduce
>even though so many years later I tend to think that it is actually an evolutionary dead-end (anyone remembers 4GL and 5GL languages?

Many, fondly. Where they a "evolutionary dead-end" or just commercial, and thus less likely to succeed in an open source world?
This website is unreadable on chrome for iOS. Content appears for the seconds and completely disappears for 15 once you scroll.
Something to keep in mind is that Apple/Android Pay support both MSD (magnetic stripe data) and EMV contactless modes, which can result in different timings. EMV contactless also drops significant portions of the EMV contact requirements. This is why banks generally won't let you get cash back, or make large purchases on contactless, there's a trade off.
... and then deal with several thousand bug reports a day? as much as I'd like that from a user perspective, a bug report is only helpful if somebody will actually take a look at it.
Which they do. There is absolutely a report bug item in the help menu. There's a full "Feedback" section in the menu made exactly for this purpose.
Teaching dance by steps is like teaching racing by telling the student to turn left 4 times each lap.
Here's a cool side-by-side comparison of the English translations of the Enchiridion: https://enchiridion.tasuki.org/display:Code:twh,twr,gl,pem,s...

Pick your favourite!
" If it's not "one-size fits all" doesn't that mean different modes are preferable for different students, wouldn't it be reasonable to call these modes "styles"?"

Not really, because a.) it is often situational b.) you can get better at learning with other "style" if you are exposed to it more c.) it is more of a scale then discreet grouping.

The individualization is not so much about always talking vs always reading. It is more about identifying individual stumbling spot, figuring out what the child missed in prerequisities, whether the child does not develop faster/slower then expectation, adjusting breaks to individual attention span and so on.
While I agree with the general sentiment of this article, there is something that articles with this theme always seem to miss. For those not born into wealth, hard work and applied intelligence in an endeavor where it is at least possible to make tremendous amounts of money is generally a prerequisite for financial success. Luck may well be the deciding factor in the the level of success that those in this group attain, but the vast majority of the population never does what is necessary to be a part of this group. Accordingly, most people have almost no chance of obtaining vast wealth, regardless of whatever "luck" they may or may not have, while the small percentage that are in this group have a very high (relative to the general population) chance.
My point is that it's not really 'untaxed' in practice.
Ah! Many many moons ago when MS refused to even answer the phone I ended up in frustration telexing (yep!) a guy in MS HQ who turned out to be called Bill Gates, and dramatic things happened quite quickly. That's what we used to do before blog posts...

(It also resulted in my first start-up getting funded.)
> I know too many adults who don't like to read, hate math... - they never would have learned to read or do basic math if they had not been forced at some point.

I only liked to learn math in 9th grade, a little late, relatively speaking. It all came down to me changing teachers, it turns out my high-school math teacher was way better at doing his job compared to the teacher I had previously had. Had I been asked before 9th grade if I had had any interest in math I would had most certainly said "no".
Incredible; not one mention of how this 'facade of competition' lowers costs of living and caps inflation, keeping rates low, making markets go higher and prices cheaper by making our lives easier.
They considered it sure - but why did they conclude they should go with an ASIC? That's what grandparent asked and it was a reasonable question. "They considered that" isn't a suitable answer.
The real trick is to know somebody who works on the product. Seems to be the only way I've ever seen any bug get reported and fixed.
No great loss, I'd say.
> AFAIK, they don't give you any way to contacting each other until the ride is accepted. Am I mistaken here?

You're not mistaken, but the implication from the parent was that the rider had ridden with the drive before...

> I know many people around where I live who use local Uber drivers whom they trust to schedule early-morning rides to the airport and things like that.
despite gpus being fairly "general purpose" these days, there is still a lot of circuitry built for graphics pipeline like workloads. If you just want to do linear algebra you just need a high bandwidth interface to memory and lots of math units.
Oh gosh. I tried it once in Chicago and it was pretty awful. Does not surprise me as well.
> Just out of curiosity, is this this something you would do (intentionally or not)?

To be honest, it's probably happened before. When it involves other people, I make sure it doesn't. When it's just me and I am willing to bear the risk, yeah, bureaucracy def gets done late.

As for brushing people off with "yeah sure". That happens when you bug me while I'm deep in thought on something. Like I'm in the middle of writing an article or I'm coding something that takes a lot of focus. If you bug me during such a time, I will often agree to things without even listening to you because it makes the distraction go away faster. I'm not ready to have a conversation about it or to deal with your protestation when I say "No", so I just say "uh-huh".

It's very obvious to everyone when this happens. And we all do it to an extent. Like when somebody is in the middle of furious texting and you say from across the room "Honey can you take out the trash?" they'll often say "ahuh" but then not do it becuase they don't even remember the interaction.

Almost everyone I know does that. My girlfriend included.

When it comes to important things, I should hope that adults would understand when it is and when it isn't a good time to make the ask. Like, if I'm scrambling to put my things together because the taxi is waiting downstairs to take me to the airport, don't use that exact moment to be like "Yo dude, the cartels are coming on monday, you have to get X Y and Z ready by tomorrow".

Basically, make sure I'm paying attention to you before you ask me for things that you intend to rely on.

Ya know?
That's interesting, although I almost never give my email address to a merchant before committing to a purchase, it just invites an inbox full of spam.
Git dependencies with semver support seems to pretty much leapfrog yarn. One of the few reasons for a private npm package is removed with this feature.
I've seen first hand students waste time trying to highlight something correctly or navigate the menu by pecking away at the screen of their iPad, when a mouse would have made their actions much faster and more precise