skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A few things:

I'm sorry for all the pains you have been through.

Yes, people assume things based on how you express yourself, and what you choose to mention or not. This is normal. Especially when you leave room for ambiguity. What the other person gets from your words is the words themselves plus their own baggage and assumptions. This feature of language is a lot of the problem, and why I would encourage people to take pains to be more clear with their words.

I'm not really trying to argue with you. I'm trying to give you a perspective that I think you should consider, but instead what you do is react, if not overreact, to each piece of information. I don't want you to agree, all I want is that you maybe understand, and accept that people who are different to you might see everything, including your words, differently, and that you might want to accommodate those people even though they are "wrong" in your view.

By oversimplifying, I mean simplifying so much that essential steps are omitted, thus the simplification becomes untrue.

I'm not, of course, saying that choice and resolve are not important parts of change. Just that people who currently don't have the resolve to follow through on what they need to do, and can't see all the reasons, need to know that that is a part of what depression feels like. And they are not to blame for having nothing in the tank right then. You need choice, motivation, determination/trying hard and opportunity - either some spiritual fuel, a break in the fog, a close call that scares you, maybe the right medication or therapy, or just random luck, whatever it is that gives you a foothold and a little bit of light. You need to know that this opportunity is coming, eventually, and you can get yourself out. That clear moment in time you talk about can't be forced through deciding things.

Anyhoo, I hope I have managed to be clear enough about why I think your post is not effective as advice, and potentially harmful. I think Andy Richter does a decent job of tweeting about depression in this thread: https://twitter.com/andyrichter/status/931546890901925888

And I actually see a lot of writing that is brief but still strikes me as effective. Brevity itself is not your obstacle. You might just have a really strong conviction that you know best.
> they could be plotting ... by mass

he was saying, the mass calculation depends on the theory about the higgs? they can't just put it on a scale :)
John McAfee says his Twitter account was hacked
We tried this - there's a lot of political and business issues that basically mean you can't pull it off unless you're a major player (like Verizon or Google) already. Selling the data (of which one of the uses is advertising) is more lucrative than letting users pay direct, and that's before overcoming the hurdle of most consumers who think that they already pay for "the internet" including all the content.

Google's has the Google Contributor option [1], but that only applies for ads via their ad network and not other potential sources. There's also Flattr which is not as automated but it's now owned by AdBlockPlus crew and has raised rates so it's not such a transparent and clean system anymore.

1. https://contributor.google.com/v/beta

2. https://flattr.com/
Forget financial resolutions for the New Year. Focus on keystone habits instead.
I didn't say their returns would be equal, I said my returns will always be equal to the average of the market exactly because I'm a passive investor. The sum of all bets is what I'll be making. The standard text on that:

https://web.stanford.edu/~wfsharpe/art/active/active.htm

As for there not being enough of the small companies available to do the equal weighted S&P500, the smallest companies in the index have 3.5B$ in market cap. So there's almost 2T$ of that mix available and there would be much more if that amount of capital suddenly decided to implement that strategy as the market caps of the bottom of the S&P500 index would certainly rise significantly.
My bet is microsubscription, but that's only because it's something I've been working on (Robojar). Part of my motivation has been to make the best parts of the early web economically viable.

For a few years it was normal to have relatively successful small sites with good writing and regular readers. They've largely been driven out by the economics of clickbait. I'd like to help that come back by breaking the rigid nexus between traffic and revenue.

Adblock/flattr are doing something very similar. Google Contributor was, but seems to have morphed into a prepaid micropayment scheme. Patreon splits the middle.

I still think the model where a single subscription fee is distributed amongst participating sites/services/apps approximately according to usage is the best overall model.
I think Chicago has participated in the nationwide trend of a mid-1990s-to-present decrease in violent crime. I think the idea that some people have that it's "American carnage" is an exaggeration.
psf, °F, inches, mph, feet, psi, pcf — What a mess. Do structural engineers seriously still work in imperial units?
Yes I learned the same thing in consulting, craft the narrative first.
This is not realistic. The actual options are

a) slow the phone down

b) make the battery percentage accurate so that people will know when the battery is empty

I have used Samsung phones for a long time (since Galaxy S4), and I've never had a phone turn off on me when the battery percentage was anything other than 0%. Are we supposed to believe that the maker of the "world's most advanced smartphone" (their words) cannot figure out how to prevent random shutdowns without slowing down the whole phone?
> Why pay for a news subscription when you can get “news” for free on Facebook and the like.

Did you miss the whole Facebook "fake news" thing last year?
It's a false scottsman, those other experts aren't true experts.
You don't believe that Ukraine has safe deposit boxes?
Mine would be Huawei Mediapad m3 lite 8 (just ordered, to pick up tomorrow).
> sex crimes are quite up (again, reported)

From the article:

rapes were down from last year by one, to 1,417, misdemeanor sex crimes — a catchall for various types of misconduct that includes groping — ticked up 9.3 percent to 3,585 so far

In addition, note that this is the year of the #metoo movement
So I've lived in NYC for 7 years now so have some personal experience with this. Note that I live and work in Manhattan so my experience is probably skewed and is only really anecdotal anyway.

My personal experience with the NYPD has been very good.

- As others have noted, heavy police presence in heavily frequented areas, particularly by tourists.

- During Sandy I was in the area without power. At night a police cruiser would go down my street every couple of hours (IIRC) with the lights on but no siren, I guess looking for looters.

- I had a car alarm go off at 1:30am early Sunday morning right outside my window. While I was figuring out what to do and calling 311, a police van turned up (around 1:50am) and broke into the car and disabled the alarm. I went out to speak to the officers and they said just call my local precinct and any unattended car alarm is cause for the police to come up (defined as >10 minutes).

That all being said, there's a pretty dark side to policing and the criminal justice system in NYC too, most notably in the treatment of minorities. Some examples:

- New York's ridiculous gravity knife law [1], which seems to be used by police selectively to target minorities. The New York legislature has now twice overwhelmingly passed reforms only to have this (now twice) vetoed by Governor Cuomo on thin justification [2]. One can only presume he's kowtowing to the law and order crowd.

- Alleged racial bias in pedestrian stops, seemingly often under the guise of seeking a mysterious African-American male suspect in his 20s who is 5' 10" (which can be pretty much anyone).

- The appalling case of Three Years in Riker's Island Without a Trial [3], as win-rate obsessed prosecutors use stalling tactics, the imbalance of power, the ignorance of suspects and plea deals to deny people due process.

- The arrest of James Blake [4].

- Chokehold death of Eric Garner [5] for a relatively minor offense.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/opinion/new-yorks-outdate...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/24/nyregion/gravity-knife-cu...

[3] https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2014/10/06/before-the-law

[4] https://www.boston.com/sports/tennis/2017/09/19/ex-tennis-st...

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Eric_Garner
also there is limited liquidity and limited secondary activity so it is either sell at $49 billion or wait for an IPO, Softbank has all the leverage, why on earth wouldn't they try to lowball investors who were going to sell and had no other options
Has paywall, please remove from HNN
> Since people are publicly boasting about their crypto fortunes

You don't need people boasting about their crypto fortunes. As soon as you set up a Bitcoin tip jar, anyone can look directly at the blockchain to determine how much money you have - and how much you have had at any point in time and where the money went.
Huh? We stopped using lead in petrol about 40 years ago. You do have to make a tradeoff between keeping the economy going and unknown risks. We continued to use concrete despite early fears about the danger of cement dust. We still use social media despite fears about psychological problems. We still drive cars despite the high danger of death. Nothing's perfectly safe. We even still have babies knowing that all of them will die, and worse males will probably die sooner than females. Abort male foetuses for their own safety? You have to draw a line somewhere.
That would be easy to check to looking at employment history.
i follow alice maz on twitter (@alicemazzy), was surprised to see her on the front page here. not sure I agree with about half of what she says but she's always insightful and interesting nonetheless. if you do twitter she's worth a follow.
You don't get to pick your terminal disease. But you do get to pick what you do with your limited time after diagnosis. And I would put the quality-adjusted life year measure of time as a Martian pioneer really high. I would also put the same measure really low if I was stuck in a terrestrial hospital bed.
A powerful library powered by aop to manage Fragments
IIRC, by being a ubiquitous mobile payments platform.
No need to be smug, FreeBSD is hardly the only operating system available to us.
The Voting Technology We Really Need? Paper
and what of those so called developers who wrote the code in the first place and never documented anything? :)
Typing a letter, seeing the keyboard respond to show that letter was recognized... Then putting the phone down, making a sandwich, coming back, and finally seeing it actually make the key click noise and enter the letter in the input field.(That is not an exaggeration. That happened.) A day after that it turned into a brick and I had to give it that DFU middle finger to get my iPhone 6 back into a workable state. That was all because of the iOS 11 upgrade.(I skipped past 10.2.) While the full reformat of the phone has more of less resolved the issues it still experiences slow downs while rapidly draining the battery due to iOS 11 idiocy.

My phone's remaining battery life is above 80%.
There’s great irony in complaining about Trump’s lack of truth then in the same breath blaming “malicious actors”. The truth is that Trump gave a voice to a large group of people that the media and other establishment didn’t want voiced. And now he’s president. I don’t know if that could have happened without the internet but I doubt it.

I see Trump as the Internet’s first president. Every other avenue was strongly against him but ultimately couldn’t shout down the “truth” of his popularity because he had internet based communication channels that mass media didn’t control.

Structurally speaking, Trump was a major victory for alternatives to mainstream media and politics. That’s why the defeated parties are desperately grasping at the “malicious actors” fabrications. They can’t handle the loss of control.
>you can't just dogmatically say it's equivalent to cap-weighted plus leverage

I'm saying it's strictly better to do cap-weighted plus leverage. That's what financial theory tells us anyway, that the best portfolio is whatever mix between risk free cash and the same mix as all the assets in the world. Deviating from that brings you farther away from the efficiency frontier. Now for this to hold EMH must hold and we know it's not true in the stronger forms which was why I was asking for a risk adjusted benchmark.
If it's FTC robotics, they typically use an app framework that manages the wireless connection and enforces some game rules (ex: autonomous vs driver controlled period), and they just program in Robot behavior around that.

Or at least that's how it was when I left a couple years ago.
The article seems to suggest that at least some sites are embedding the script to avoid same origin policy, which will also bypass uMatrix.

This is equivalent to hosting something like JQuery from your own domain, instead of using a CDN. As a site owner you have to trust that scripts like JQuery aren’t going to do bad things.

They could just as send the email addresses (and passwords) directly to third parties. It’s not clear whether the site owners are witting collaborators in this or if they don’t know what the scripts are doing.
Makes sense. I can't stand classroom learning either.
Dan Luu did a review of a lot of the literature at the time, and included a short analysis of this paper.

https://danluu.com/empirical-pl/#a-large-scale-study-of-prog...

This review ends with a harsh but fair assessment.

> The authors of the paper repeatedly run into what Pinker calls the igon value problem. The authors appear to not understand the subject they’re studying well enough to even say what it is they’re studying.

If you're interested in actual research, I personally think this other study seems to be OK.

http://ttendency.cs.ucl.ac.uk/projects/type_study/documents/...
What were you doing overseas? Depending on what it was, it could synergize "on paper" with the masters.
What's your point? Neither you nor me personally can tell Apple what to do, and certainly not congress.

That's the point of my pessimism – modifying your own behaviour does not make any difference. Even if millions of people boycotted iPhones that would still be a smaller loss for Apple than changing how they're doing things, because doing things right is suicidally expensive when most of your customers don't care. An even smaller loss would be doing some marketing to make most of boycotters ambivalent enough to forget the whole thing.

Using Apple just as an example, could be any company or government.
Quite likely that governments will force exchange operators to get appropriate security. Hell if I had the keys (or were in a position to be used as "leverage" for them in a kidnapping) to a Bitcoin exchange, I would surround me with a bunch of ex-military guards.
Every time I think their walled garden will hurt them, I end up at my parents trying to help them through various issues on their Android devices, which come from different vendors so it's all kind of different even between devices when it should be the same, and I realize that the walled garden has some really obvious benefits that the HN crowd is somehow uniquely unable to appreciate.
SSDs don’t suffer from access latency due to fragmentation like spinning disks do. In fact, one would probably be better off not defragmenting an SSD because all those writes will reduce the life of the disk.
The random shutdowns sound like a technical problem with the phone. The correct solution is for Apple to fix it. It doesn't happen on any other flagship phone. So you are being disingenuous in listing that as a choice. The real choice is between slowing down the whole phone or the battery lasting a day instead of a day and a half. Or another choice is for Apple to include bigger batteries so that the degraded battery still provides a day and a half of usage.
Full wireless mesh networking where each computer has a broadcast-enabled wifi card and can do impromptu ad-hoc networks.
Politicians in the US do not do what their constituency wants. This is before getting into the numerous issues like gerrymandering, lobbying, lack of education and informed public, propaganda and social media, etc.

As far as owning Apple, unless you are a major (read: majority) holder, good luck trying to make any difference because the actual majority holders want the profits, and they are not (as much) concerned about the externalities involved.
Did you check this one of Jack Dorsey ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEQawgkCMOU

Jack Dorsey takes time to explain his point of view, and thanks the audience for taking time to listen to him. This is basic and yet very inspiring as itself.

One chosen moment :
https://youtu.be/wEQawgkCMOU?t=17m46s
You got it 180degrees off. Drum is the opposite stereotype from the one you put forth.
most popular android phones have large development communities[0] behind them. Removing the default [Android] OS that's ridden with spyware, including always-on Google Services, is critical to getting control over your phone.

Flashing something like LineageOS (formerly CyanogenMod) is the best way to get started with a lean android os

[0]- forum.xda-developers.com
No, I didnt. I said I don't see the duopoly as a failure. Not all aspects of the current advertising industry are necessarily a consequence of duopoly.
Pass/Fail
Having a verifiable voting artifact that participates in an observable and verifiable tally protocol really should be addressed at the level of the Constitution now that it has proven so open to interpretation at the State level. According to the article, 14 states still have purely electronic voting systems with no artifact whatsoever.
Depends what you mean by "egalitarian" for starters. E.g. socialists come in many shades - some want redistribution for the sake of some measure or other of fairness, while some see redistribution as a means for the poorer in society to demand a better deal.

Assuming that people actually bring their ideals to a game - which is by no means certain (my Civilization-style games tends to end with total war because it's fun when nobody gets hurt for real), the two (and numerous variations) would lead to very different results, and such results would also depend greatly on ability of in-game enforcement.

E.g. you can't have a revolution and change the mode of production if the mode of production is hardcoded into the server (property right enforcement; protecting capital; inability for the in-game community to set and enforce their own law rather than rely on the mods) - unless of course the mods are in on it.

The latter, I think highlight a lot of the difficulty in getting such societies to be good simulations rather than "good enough" simulations for specific types of games: they tend to take a lot of shortcuts in enforcing certain rules "out of game" because having malleable but reliable in-game government and law enforcement is really hard to do with NPC's and requires a fairly big and dedicated user base to make viable with human players, and a lot of the potential strife it would lead to may not fit most games.

When the worst case consequence of a failed attempt at in-game revolution, coups or large scale war is that you "burn" an account, and empathy can be expected to be stunted by lack of perceived real world consequences for your victims, it's much harder to expect people to behave.
Where in Brooklyn? Williamsburg & Bushwick are teeming with cops
Your browser can enforce whatever font choices you want.
The assumption is more that gang activity doesn’t thrive in wealthy neighborhoods. This is very much a case where one bad apple spoils the bunch.
Just want to note that Samsung has made their phones thicker for the last 2 generations. It has directly resulted in much better battery life compared to their older phones and I don't think it has hurt sales at all. So maybe people don't really want the thinnest as much as apple likes to believe.
It’s sad that people need to rediscover the power of the rubber hose this way. I like the idealism in the crypto community, even if I think it’s unfounded. Seeing them face the reality of human nature and behavior would be like watching a really nice old nun lose her faith.
> capital flowing to those who are best able to convert it into the most happiness for the most people

Capital flows to those most able to make money, which isn't necessarily by "converting it into the most happiness." You can even see it in this space: Facebook is the dominant social network and wins by essentially getting people addicted to getting mild social affirmations from a slot machine. Studies have actually shown social network use makes people less happy.
That chart shows time increasing since 2008. When did Mexico ban lead gasoline?
This.

As a positive example, I like how many YouTube channels take 30 seconds out of a 10 minute video to talk about some company's product that might be of interest to their audience.

Not an annoying video ad that has nothing to do with what I'm reading / watching, just the host talking about a product or service that their audience has a chance to be interested in.
The governments of the world?
To be fair, some contextual amazon recommendations would probably fare better than most stupid ads.
On average 70% of China's power comes from coal. I can't find data with regard to Shenzhen or Guangdong (the province it's in) though.
Ill echo this statement, don't throw away your devices!

I never throw away a cell phone as long as it is still functioning. You can set them up to be a sensor suite or any other application you might need a compact computer. I use an old cell phone for a GPS on my bicycle (offline maps downloaded, phone has GPS built in, so I don't actually need service).

Even after they break it can be fun to take them apart and attempt a repair. Worst case it's just an old phone you weren't using anyway
The original model (2012) was pretty terrible as you mention.

The 2013 (with rear facing camera) is still more than usable. I'm more than happy and have bought several over the years. (Rough environments, but £50 used on ebay is doable)
One piece of advice, never ever ever bring work from your previous or current employer to a job interview. I’ve had to reject very good candidates because of this.
Define "good", and how the best existing ones fail to be "good"?
it's for educational purposes

to express concepts like these to anyone interested using real world data to show why these concepts are important

Like why Newtonian physics is insufficient to explain Mercury's orbit

Or how infinitely divisible energy leads to the 'ultraviolet catastrophe'

Or how one can approximate the speed of light just using orbital data of io and earth (romer's initial method)

I can appreciate that my wording may have been ambiguous

Brevity can sometimes be the enemy of clarity but questions can help avoid assumptions
It's a mistake to focus too much on one problem to the exclusion of all others. There are problems caused by government intervention but also problems caused by the lack of it.
L3 != L7
What I like about this series is that there’s a whole book on GUI which most other resources ignore.

http://www.fysnet.net/the_graphical_user_interface.htm
NYC is a wonderful and safe place to visit or live. People raised on too many cop shows may miss this. It’s not perfect -no place is - but it is quite safe.
> Of course, when a chemically aged battery is replaced with a new one, iPhone performance returns to normal when operated in standard conditions.

Has Apple ever acknowledged battery replacement that explicitly? It's almost like the iPhone just grew a removable battery door with those words.

(Also, for those curious, I'm impressed to see that this has 466 comments only 3 hours after being posted.)
At least it's very easy to run 7.1.2 and soon 8.1 even on S3 (I do), while with iPhone you're completely at Apple's mercy.