skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Many people scorn others for blocking ads. I'd be taking in content without paying back. But honestly I see it like this:

If I walk down the street and someone hands me a flyer that says: new shop open at X! Come now for discount.

I'd consider that fair advertising. But what happens on the internet nowadays is more like this:

"Hello. Our cameras saw you stared into the windows at shop X, Y and Z. Our system also noticed you are walking slower than usual and your phone regularely turned on during the last 3 nights. Are you not sleeping well? Get a better bed! Come to this shop."

That is basically how intrusive online ads are. And I have absolutely 0,00 regret about taking meassures to block this 24/7 subconscious priming from my life.

If content creators don't like this they should find a different business model.
Some kind of link to that ?
It's the duration that gets you. For example, if you go out in a 3/2 (3mm torso, 2mm arms/legs) when the water temps call for a 4/3, sure, you can surf for 45 minutes or so, but after that you'll start getting quite chilly.

This guy spent 75 hours floating in the water, not paddling around expending tons of energy competing with the pack for the next set wave :)
How the Internet Gets Inside Us
>> Small study

>Almost entirely irrelevant, provided it's properly powered--and based on the effect size and p-values, it is.

Sorry to state this so strongly but I feel it's important to point out that this is misinformation of the most egregious kind.

There is no examination of statistical power in this article whatsoever so there is no basis for your claim that this study is properly powered.

Large effect sizes are not evidence of adequate statistical power. Quite the opposite is true. E.g. See this article:
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3475/figures/5

'Effect inflation is worst for small, low-powered studies, which can only detect effects that happen to be large.'
2 hours should be enough for you to decide if the game was worth it or not.

This seems to be straying off-topic. The question isn't whether it was worth the price paid. The question is does it violate consumer protection laws vis-a-vis does it do what they said it would.

Sounds reasonable?

It does not. Applying a uniform hard limit to the full range of all possible games seems unreasonable. Practical, but not reasonable.
LNG is only ~22% of worldwide electricity generation not not growing that fast, the US energy mix is rather unusual.

Also, from a climate perspective the US is less important than many people in the US assume.
Why should programming be more accessible? There are too many programmers already. The only persons benefiting from it are the ones in the huge teaching/conference/consulting industry.
It's not just one thing. At different speeds there are different things that help you stay balanced. At low speeds, yes, what you do with the handlebar and so the front wheel is predominant. At higher speeds gyroscopic forces do not actively keep you upright, but they help by slowing down the speed with which you loose you balance and so you have more time to react (by steering).
he would have learned it regardless of his dad teaching him - because he is smart. education can't do much to change the population distribution of intelligence.
Contract to Perm was always a definite "no" for me before. I viewed it as too risky. But since getting married and my spouse having benefits, I've done it twice - with opposite outcomes and I'm starting to like the trial period. I think it's a win win.

The first time was back in 2012. I was laid off from my job after the company I was working for was acquired for the customer base. I needed a job fast, and they were using the technology stack I was trying to transistion to. I didn't have the network I have now.

It was the worse experience ever. I went in to talk to the manager about me turning in my resignation because it wasn't working out, I wasn't really able to contribute, and I wanted to look for a job full time. He said just to stick around until I found something. I couldn't. I called my recruiter, and had a job offer four days later at what was then a Fortune 10 company.

If I had had a permanent job, I probably wouldn't have just walked out.

A few years later I was applying for my current job as a dev lead. It was a W2 Contract to Perm (W2 means you are an employee of the agency and they pay employment taxes). The hourly rate was well below what I wanted and the conversion rate they submitted me at was below market. I took the contract anyway because I hit it off with my now manager and felt I would be in a much better negotiating position in 6 months if I went permanent.

The way I saw it, we were taking a chance on each other. It was my first lead position so he was taking a chance on me and the department that I was leading wasn't set up for modern development. I was taking a chance that the company would support me coming in and basically recreating the department.

While contracting, all the work that needed to be done couldn't be done in a 40 hour work week. I got paid for every hour I worked and got results. When it was time to go perm, I had a proven track record and the company had evidence that I knew what I was doing. I was able to negotiate a much higher pay than I could have when I first started and received a promotion.
In fact they have been used to adulterate stocks of black pepper since a long time.
> 1) by acknowledging that paying for "faster" service was really just paying for the service they used to get by default.

This is what everyone is missing. There is no "fast lane" and we need to stop acknowledging that phrase. There is only "your "the service you currently pay for" and "artificially slowed traffic".
The case does indeed predate the current policy.

Actually Steam refund policy now goes beyond what Australian law requires. That is, you can refund a game simply because you change your mind (and have played less than 2 hours of the game). Australian law does not specify change of mind as a reason for refund.
>When it comes to their health, people will go where there are results.

Isn't that exactly what you are disputing?

I think we have to allow for the possibility that some of the correlations identified over thousands of years may actually be real.

I would never follow any of that advice, because I agree that the scientific process we have today is vastly superior and supercedes traditional medicine.

"Try things and see what works" wasn't invented yesterday though. That's why people were successfully using citrus fruits against scurvy long before double blind trials became a thing.
Here's some really silly examples. They all have reasons, and it makes sense in context, but it's part of the deal.

- Java code needs to be in a class. I can't open up a file and start typing immediately

- bool(midnight) being false

- C header ifdef silliness to make sure you don't double include a header

- circular dependency import issues in many languages

- strings and bash as the lowest common denominator meaning that almost everything that glues commands together must first write a parser for the output of `ls`

- our not putting encoding explicitly into files meaning that there have been decades of people getting weird glyphs when sending files to each other.

- implicit str to bytes and back in Py2 causing billions of spurious decode/encode calls. And many more incorrect calls

All this stuff is small , and has reasons. But it's also stuff that's been around for decades and decades and cascades into massive weirdness. Death by a bazillion idiosyncrasies.
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Is Security Your No.1 Priority During Mobile App Development?
"Secure 7-Zip" even sounds like a good name.
This would have been a great bookmarklet, no need for a browser extension.

Unfortunately, bookmarklets no longer work as easily and as reliably as they used to work.
As per my personal anecdotal evidence: diet is always key to Acne. I have been suffering from Acne vulgaris, Acne conglobata, and—worst of all—Acne inversa for all my life (26yo), and whenever I fell into bad eating habits with lots of (saturated) fats and carbohydrates, my skin issues are worsening. Western food is just poor quality in general, being heavily processed and “enhanced” and all.
I'm also not using social media often, is this a sign that I will become a social media boss? :)
Finding what?
To OpenStreetMap and OpenMapTiles. https://openmaptiles.com/terms/
No, you can get them from the official Sourceforge project over HTTPS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sevenzip/
CloudBalkan: Most popular Linux distributions from 2017
Yes, exactly: https://github.com/dominictarr/ssb-docs#is-it-possible-to-de...
If I had T-Mobile I would definitely take advantage of zero-rated streaming. Naturally this service is influencing people's choices about what sites to visit and 'binge on' when they have down time. Evidence of this can be gleaned from the reviews from content providers that have gotten themselves onto T-Mobile's Binge-On list...

What Binge On providers
are saying. Many of the
smaller video providers
rave about Binge On and
what it means for their
business:

Since joining Binge On,
we’ve seen twice the
flow of new T-Mobile
customers coming to the
app and spending twice
as long than customers
of the carriers.”
-- David Moffly,
CEO, Baeble Media

Sure, it's great for those who decide to opt-in to T-Mobile's terms. And of course it's free... for now. To me it seems suspiciously similar to a silicon valley-type tactic: offer something that clearly has value, but oddly charge nothing, act like of course it'll always be free, and wait patiently as they flock to your platform.

Of course there is always a catch. I was interested in what that catch currently looks like, since it will never be more mild than now. I've facetiously paraphrased it for ya'll (if you'd rather read the policy first hand, without the snark, I've linked it below)...

--------------------

Binge-On Content Provider Policy and Technical Criteria
To be included, a content provider's video delivery will meet the following requirements:

A. [Allow us to identify and monitor your content, and we will help you degrade its quality, otherwise we'll make our best effort to degrade it for you lol]. Use of technology protocols which make detection of video difficult such as https and UDP require additional collaboration with T‐Mobile to enable the video detection.

B. [Any decisions to change the way you deliver video must flow through us.]. T-Mobile reserves the right to suspend the content provider’s participation in Binge On

C. [Your video content is all we want. You're a video streaming service, just stay a video streaming service. If you try to deliver other content, we will count that against our customers data cap].

D.The network caps the bandwidth to detectable videos to 1.5 Mbps and as a result, many video services will deliver videos at lower resolutions that will look good on mobile devices, typically 480p

F. T-Mobile reserves the right to [degrade] your content in the event of consistent failure to [degrade your own] content within our guidelines

[Lastly, for those that want to opt-out, fine. Just... keep in mind our customers have Bing-On switched on basically always, so that all content delivered to them is under 1.5 Mbps ~480p. If your company can't deal with that for technical reasons, you must OPT-IN to OPT-OUT, per se. That is, we need to identify and monitor your content (ie. stop using https) so we know not to throttle the content when our customers are using Binge-On (aka all our customers, always).

-------------------------

[1] https://www.t-mobile.com/content/dam/tmo/en-g/pdf/BingeOn-Vi...
Well, HTTPS and high-confidence builds are popular concepts here, given that this forum is frequented by people on both side of the security fence.

At least I would assume it is. There are lots of white-hat reports, so...
I think what the parent is trying to convey is that usually when someone means when they say "this decision couldn't be done by a computer", what they mean is that "I don't really know how I'm making this decision well enough to describe it precisely enough to encode it into a set of rules."

To be able to decide if something is fair, one has to be able to understand the process by which a decision is made, no? And not just a woolly, after the fact justification that a person might well invent to explain their decision. If we can't reliably look at the inputs and determine what the outputs would be, how are we able to decide if the process is 'fair'?

As someone who is looking to understand a system, the argument of "But it couldn't make a human decision" triggers alarm bells of "What you mean is: It couldn't make a non-rational, unfounded, biased decision influenced by whether the person is hungry or not". Is that how important decisions should be made?
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Time for one of them to pull a Ratner? [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Ratner
Yea, you completely misunderstood my point.

Even just building and testing rocks has killed people because they are fucking dangerous. However, so is putting solar panels on people roofs. That does not mean nobody should build rockets, just that safty is a major consideration when building them.

IMO, astronauts are almost irrelevant from an overall safty standpoint. Rocketry has killed more people on the ground than it has people trying to get to space, though this may change over time as we get away from those extremely dangerous early days.

Ex: Just VLS-1 an unmanned rocket killed 21 peopel more than the total number of US astronauts killed so far.
Similar survival story of a surfer who got dragged out to sea and had to survive in the irish waters. Admittedly this was 32 hours in comparison but the effects of what happened are remarkably similar. Nocturne had a great podcast episode on this. https://nocturnepodcast.org/ep-31-shortboard/
Let's just say it's important to distinguish between what Yudkowsky considers to be quantum mechanical ideas, and what the equations and experiments actually say.
There are lots of cruise ships in the Baltic Sea, and there's perhaps 2-3 cases per year where someone falls overboard and quite a few who go missing without a trace (ie. fall overboard at night with no-one noticing). Practically no-one is ever found, even though several ships participate in the search if the falling is detected.

It is possible to jump off a cruise ship and survive, though. Every now and then an idiot decides to jump off before reaching the harbor and swim to some island near the coast. And get a hefty fine afterwards. But at this point the ships aren't doing full speed or at the open sea.
Some people simply cannot float. Me included. I've had 3 different instructors try to tell and show me that everyone can float. I can't. I have 5 swimming certificates, I'm fit, but I think I just don't have enough body fat? Even in the Red Sea (if it's called that in English) I can't float. Not for more than 5 seconds.
The emotions that most drive engagement with social media are all negative ones: gloating, FOMO, jealousy, outrage, schadenfreude. Even if the humans running didn’t know this perfectly well, their ML would have independently discovered it. Social media by its very nature CANNOT be good for anyone so long as engagement or time on the site is used as a success metric. Which means, at all.
Sorry, but if you have constrained plattforms- all the frameworks/software tends to look this way. This is how many gamecodes look internal- and do horrible things behind the scene to keep it save.

So if a native java dev had written the whole plattform, how would he handle the limitations of the plattform any diffrently, except for alot of abstract wrapping and exceptional execptions?

There is a reason why there is no rte every time something comes to the limits of machine feasible. Projecting ones unwillingness to cope with reality on a developer with a difficult job - is sort(off, sad);
The problem is that supply on the internet is unlimited. You can make a webpage as long as you want and keep adding more ad units. It's also hard to measure with the sheer scale of it all.

Add in the complete lack of regulation and the highly political sales process for most large campaigns and you end up with the current mess.
agree that replication is important and that it's too early to believe fully, but when a study size is small and you still find a difference, then it implies the effect size is large.

If you meet statistical significance, then diminishing n means increasing clinical significance.
Would you mind taking a look at https://github.com/stefanhaustein/codechat ? WDYT?
Shouldn't this behavior be explicitly enabled, defaulting to disallowing it?

Or do I need to tag all my links with a long series of "Don't allow this crazy thing", "Or that other thing", etc.
>We need to have a conversation about the possible paths to make programming more widely accessible

I assume that means you think that programming is not accessible enough as it is? Why do you think that? As far as engineering disciplines are concerned I consider software engineering one of the most accessible to complete newcomers. All you need is a computer, something that's not very hard to procure these days (at least in wealthy countries). Then you have endless tutorials online, from learning to code websites to video games to raytracers to databases to physical simulations to neural networks.

As a self-taught programmer (who started coding in BASIC at around 15) I never found programming particularly hard to approach.
By coincidence The Morning Paper has this today:

A static verification framework for message passing in Go using behavioural types, Lange et al., ICSE 18

http://blog.acolyer.org/2018/01/25/a-static-verification-fra...
social media FOMO --> crypto bubble?
It's not innocent to inject the thought of MONEYMONEYMONEY in a 5 year old's mind.
A whole lot of 5 users, I realize that in bigger companies it's probably less hassle to just install AV software and "hardblock" undesired behavior.

I imagine that depending on the country you are operating in this might even be a requirement to prevent legal hassle, getting sued for "neglect" if not running AV software and something actually goes wrong but IANAL.

But let's also keep in mind that AV solutions can have the exact opposite effect of what they're supposed to do, from data leakage [0] [1] to straight up remote code executions [2]. Which isn't that surprising, considering that more complexity is usually a bad thing to add to any system, especially if it's as deep-rooted as most AV suits tend to be.

[0] https://www.directdefense.com/harvesting-cb-response-data-le...

[1] https://www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/kaspersky-nsa-lea...

[2] https://landave.io/2017/06/avast-antivirus-remote-stack-buff...
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Do you consider it credible that they have received, this year so far, somewhere between 5 and 10% of the entire volume of fiat currency that has so far been put into cryptocurrency in its entire history so far ? And between 10 and 20% since tether was launched? Without much in the way of formal banking arrangements?

I don't really. And the more you look at their activities the more suspect it looks, tether magically appearing in their hundreds of millions to prop up the markets when they look like falling further, it all looks very, very much like market manipulation and lies.
Everyrhing depends on the scope. Webpack is a complicated tool solving a complex problem, which makes it useful in large projects. But it's also way overcomplicated and unnecessary for small projects. A lot of incidental complexity comes from misapplication of powerful tools to simple problems.
Serviceworkers now in Safari
none of this applies to a double-blind, placebo-controlled, randomized clinical trial (which is what this article is).

the reason it's the gold standard for medicine is because the only thing that is different in aggregate between the groups is the intervention. Therefore, it is the strongest possible evidence of causality we have, and does say something about causality (rather than correlation).

It's important to replicate, but the points made by Pearl are not relevant here and the mechanism is moot when you have a causal link shown by RCT.
Lemonade stands are still popular and 5 years old do it. But beyond that and forgetting parent discussion, of course parents teach 5 years old about money.
>> Here's a thought - Bitfinex has been one of the largest exchange. Today's coinmarketcap says they had 500 million in volume. Assuming 0.11% charge that is nearly 50k in fees today or 15 million a month.

This month alone they have created 850 million in tethers, with complete opacity about where they might come from. I don't believe that's funding, I think it's printing tethers from nothing.
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Where does it say that they don't though? Some Twitter execs tweet more than once a day, Facebook's exec profiles are private so you can't see their activity. Am I missing something? Quotes like this:

> Facebook’s locked-down nature means mere mortals can’t see the private posts on Zuckerberg’s timeline, but it is hard to imagine him getting into arguments about a racist relative’s post of an anti-immigration meme.

Make it sound like the article is just about bashing social medias, without having an answer to the question in the title.
I think this is an older article?* Any updates on support?

* I also don't understand how this is being served. If you go to https://github.com/mathiasbynens there should be a repository called mathiasbynens.github.io right? But I can't find it.
People who downvoted this (original comment is at -1): seriously, just go do some research on over-policing and corruption in police departments and prosecutors' offices.

I know it goes against some cherished beliefs, but this really is how much of the US handles "justice".
Please make the "continue" and "play" button stay in the same location, or make enter/space proceed.
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What? You said:

> Divers' suits are not dry

Wetsuits are wet. Drysuits are dry. Sometimes divers wear wetsuits, and some of the more experienced ones wear drysuits.
I think people back then spent more time over their reading. Nowadays we expect easily digestible text we can speed through or skim. When reading something like that it pays to slam on the brakes and take some time over it.
It seems all Startup and other Business moving to the cloud are all AWS.

Does anyone still uses Heroku?
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> I think you are misinformed about the current state of watercooling (even AIO). I'm running a very hot overclocked machine running extra voltage than normal. A 280mm radiator is an improvement over even the largest copper hsf.

I'm not saying it's not an improvement, I'm saying the improvement is marginal, meaning it's not worth it.

> I do a ton of 4K gaming and VR as well. Definitely not the primary goal but a nice side benefit. I mention some of the games I play in the setup section.

I think that's my point, it's more a gaming/overclocking station than an editing workstation. The article is fine and well written from this perspective.

Oh, and a small bonus for you: you should move your cpu watercooling radiator from front to top. In your configuration your radiator is basically heating your whole computer, including you graphic card. Since the graphic card is warmer and usually louder, this is not what you want.
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I'v read a few studies about demodex mites causing chalazion[1]. Demodex mites are something humans picked up from having dogs and cats as pets. Do non-western countries have these animals as pets?

[1] ]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26408604