skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As an old person my assumption is that a desktop app can basically do whatever it wants with the screen, mouse, keyboard, or audio while it's actually running.

Isn't that what apps are for? This just seems like expected behavior. If you don't want apps doing stuff don't run them on your desktop computer.
Lately, this has been my go-to recommendation: Vaster Than Sky, Greater Than Space: What You Are Before You Became by Mooji.
Based on my experience (which admittedly is extensive and has been expensive due to BigNetCo changing their APIs) it isn't more common because there are business reasons behind the changes. There was a reason why some API was dropped and that reason doesn't involve your life being pleasant and rewarding..
I agree. I currently can’t draw for shit, but at one point I went from not being able to draw to being pretty good at it, because I practiced. Then I stopped practicing and now I can’d draw anymore. Some months ago I also watched and worked through a little bit of an online drawing course and was doing quite well, although I stopped due to lack of time and now can’t draw anymore once again.

I also have no talent for sleight of hand, I’ve never been good at it, until recently, when I deliberately started practivcing for a few hours every single day (learning sleights for card illusions and caradistry). I’m not particularly good yet, but the difference from even a couple of weeks ago is huge.

It takes deliberate practice, motivation and time. Sometimes, you also need a good teacher.
We're there, check out Qubes OS
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Which both parties paid in the billions to reach.

In this heavily divided, partisan atmosphere, no amount of propaganda (Russian or otherwise) is going to make someone living in the rust belt vote for someone like Clinton. Likewise, no amount of propaganda (Russian or otherwise) is going to convince some hipster startup founder in the SF bay area to vote for someone like Trump.
I refuse to think the only way that humans can live successfully is with large portions of the population living in crappy neighborhoods because they don't have enough money to do otherwise, or that this even counts as "successfully".
You are sitting on this OS as an administrator/root and apps can do anything that they want. I dont really see this as an issue. Its always been this way! Go run Qubes OS if you want to protect against this.
I would gladly defend social media against people who say it's bad for anyone. It all boils down to the person using the social medium. Exactly the same way someone uses a public forum for speaking.

I think people who bad-mouth social media are just looking for someone to blame something on. For example, if their child is misbehaving, if their wife/husband/gf/bf is doing something differtent, it must be social media right?

My child was using "insert social medium here" and now they are doing "insert whatever you want here", so it's obviously the fault of "insert the social medium here"... I think the people who blame social media just don't want to admit that there are bad people in the world, they need something to blame besides people, so they blame something else, and hey, social media is the bad thing these days.

Remember when television was said to have negative affects on children? It's the same freaking problem, just a new thing to blame it on. I wonder what it will be next? AI? Let's start blaming AI now, so we can just avoid that in the future.

I bet the same people who hate social media not only use social media daily but also hate donald trump. Maybe the social media haters are the sheep of society, maybe this is a good way to identify them.

It's also pretty hard to say someone is being bullied online when all you have to do is not be their friend or look at their timeline or read their messages. It just seems like poor parenting to me.
The sandbox is designed to make that not expected behavior - even if, as demonstrated here, it has holes…
ars answered perfectly for me, but indeed I believe it is not going to work. Impossible? Well that depends -- for some constrained version of the problem (no human drivers, special lanes/roads for SDVs) perhaps. In the distant future when strong AI has been built, well sure then it's easy.
Yeah the Bible is typically overlooked these days. Even most Christians probably don't read it. And many of the type who discovered Seneca or Dogen through a self-help blog probably take pride in how intelligent and "rational" they are (for flowing along with the dominant current of our culture ha) in rejecting Christianity. But the Bible is literally just a library of different writings, the whole point of which is to give a complete picture of life, to furnish the imagination with stories and characters and lessons. Proverbs is a place to start I guess, though I'm hardly the person to ask. I remember liking the Gospel of Mark as a kid?
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Interesting idea, I believe Thunderbird even has NNTP support of some kind, although haven't investigated it recently.
Outside of that one book, there is no authorship controversy vis a vis ‘Frankenstein’ which would certainly explain why you were not aware of it.
Devastating changes in society are not new either, so maybe that?
So you first parsed the sentence as saying 1) there's a well in the deep ocean 2) the well is pretty and 3) starfish can see it.
That makes grammatical sense but not, I think, any other kind.
The downside is that lawsuits are public in most places which might come up as a negative for future job prospects.

Companies would be weary of hiring people that sued previous employers and not for no reason no one can ever know the facts first hand and even borderline frivolous law suits tend to be settled, so having the choice between someone who sued a previous employer and someone who hasn’t most companies would opt out for the latter.
48 VDC will be good for amateur radio and car audio. Specifically the power amplifiers for both.
I would imagine that it's not implausible that being poorly socialized impacts reproductive success, particularly for men.
The Book of Job might be one that the Stoics could appreciate, as in it Job is robbed of every worldly good, his health, his friends, and his family. Though they'd probably point out that if only Job had practiced Stoicism he'd be able to meet all of these privations with indifference.
Oh I understand! I wish some law makers understood though! Crony hypocritical Capitalism picking winners and losers.

The foxconn package comes out to paying $200,000 per "created job". The economics of the deal requires other supporting firms/companies popping up to support supply chains. But how will they survive without incentives or using robotics/automation instead of hiring labor?
Ahh! I wasn’t sure, so sadly I chose “z as in z axis” not Z as in Z/space-filling/Hilbert/Morton order. That’s a grid in disguise! :).
"Bismuth's extremely long half life means that if the entire Earth was made of bismuth when it formed, less than one billionth of the bismuth would have decayed into thallium." What? Isn't it irrelevant how much bismuth you started with, if you measure it as a ratio??
> democrats ... can’t begin that without proper understanding of past mistakes or else we will move 8 years down the road and do the same stupid thing over again

Indeed. So who is the best candidate for 2020?

> middle america ... labeling African Americans as criminals in the best case, or as genetically inferior and predisposed in the worst case

You might want to check your stereotypes of middle america. Those are really ugly accusations.

> how democrats and the coasts are to blame, well, this is revisionist history

I didn't suggest anyone is to blame, I just said they've been forgotten
The reproductive rates in trailer parks suggests otherwise. Poor socialization doesn’t hurt you as long as poorly socialized members of the opposite sex are available.
You're looking at the wrong study. It was a survey financed by the FDA, not by the media or manufacturers.[1]

Findings:

- Most physicians agreed that because their patient saw a DTC ad, he or she asked thoughtful questions during the visit.

- Many physicians thought that DTC ads made their patients more involved in their health care.

- The study demonstrated that when a patient asked about a specific drug, 88 percent of the time they had the condition that the drug treated. And 80 percent of physicians believed their patients understood what condition the advertised drug treats.

Not all positive though:

- Physicians thought the ads did not convey information about risks and benefits equally well.

So if you had said DTC has pluses and minuses I would have agreed with you. Blanket "it's terrible" just demonstrates that person's lack of knowledge of the data that's out there.

[1]https://www.fda.gov/Drugs/ResourcesForYou/Consumers/ucm14356...
Most good password managers will do this for you automatically. When I copy a password out of 1Password, it doesn’t stay in the clipboard forever and there’s an option to specific the amount of time before clearing it.
I remember reading some interview or other with some pro gamers who said they basically practiced for 15 houars a day, every day.
Maybe your friend's email server is misconfigured? Incorrect SPF records, etc?
>ready to attach to whatever big idea came next

Well, that's just it: the vaccum is being filled with tiny ideas. We don't seem to go much deeper than what can be communicated in an animated gif.
You can use thinner cables or have the same cables with less loss.
As for actual component size it’s not that simple the higher the voltage the more clearance you need between conductors. So that is bigger airgaps in PCBs and higher rated insulation where gaps aren’t possible.
Two points:

Look at my other post. I'm sourcing actual data that shows benefits and drawbacks. Care to source something to back up your claims?

You realize that a decent amount of DTC in the US is around disease awareness and not a specific product, right? It's those commercials that say "Disease X has new treatments that can help you, ask your doctor." Products are not mentioned.

BTW - NZ allows for DTC the last I heard.
So really it’s just well targeted then? After all, you just described a significant chunk of people who seem keen to throw their money into a variety of open flames. Maybe this is the poorly-worded “Nigerian Prince” email of pitches.
Just goes to show that not all sandboxes are created equal (though I don't think I've ever even used a properly sandboxed Windows or Linux app, so those OSes don't get any points anyway). For example, reading other tabs or processes out of the web browser sandbox isn't possible short of exploits like Spectre and Meltdown, and even seeing something like the history of visited links requires cleverly tricking the user (and coarse guesswork) e.g. https://tinsnail.neocities.org/ and http://lcamtuf.coredump.cx/yahh/ . I imagine the behavior in the OP is impossible on both Android and iOS too?
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>my prediction[1] that WebAssembly will bring opaque "compiled applications" that treat the canvas as a "standard pixel buffer", allowing adblocking CSS and request filters to be bypassed.

They could already do that. It's called serving the whole page as an image
You're right. My girlfriend watches the news first thing in the mornings, like Good Morning America, and yes, easily half the commercials are for prescription drugs towards non-emergency issues including weight loss that have horrendous side effects. Scary actually. Directly targeting middle of America. The casualness of "seeing a doctor" and putting X,Y in your body is astounding. It's usually relief at best..
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I wear black dress pants or jeans (depending on what is clean) and Hawaiian shirts.

If it’s cold outside, I’ll wear waterproof hiking boots.

If it’s warm, I’ll wear Keens sandals.

If people don’t like that, then I’m working in the wrong company.

In the case of the OP, I would take what the CEO said and ask “wait — didn’t you just say that there is no dress code policy?” And then I would give him a very quizzical look.
Any contiguous fluid surrounding a solid body will form a sphere around the system's center of gravity. Currents, tides, and temperature may cause some deformities, but the variations on the force of gravity due to the the solid earth's nonuniformity in shape and density won't effect the 'level' of the sphere of water that surrounds the center of gravity.
In the current era, I think the bible has gotten enough press. Far fewer people have read Seneca than the bible - and the bible permeates US culture. It's like telling someone learning about IT who's only ever worked with Windows to keep right on developing their Windows background. It's not awful advice, and it's not comment worthy.
3: utilizing this in software isn't as easy as you might think

That's the part that worries me. Stuff that's hard to get right in code, is often coded wrong.
The lesson of the Web is that when you expose some interface for people to use, they will start depending on documented features, undocumented features, and downright bugs of the first popular implementation. Second and subsequent implementations will need to spend a bunch of time reverse-engineering those bugs so they can be documented and reliably implemented in future so that existing websites keep working.

The only alternative is to make sure all new interfaces have multiple, popular implementations simultaneously, so that authors can't afford to take advantage of bugs in one implementation. This is the sort of activity you see in WHATWG these days.

The problem with "a SQL dialect" being available for use on the Web is that every browser intended to use SQLite as the backend. Nobody wanted to invest the time and effort to write a second, compatible, equally-reliable implementation; nobody wanted to exhaustively research and document bugs and flaws in that specific version of SQLite; nobody wanted to commit to back-porting security fixes from later versions, or forward-porting the required bugs to later versions.

And since nobody wanted to do the work to make it possible, using SQL for local storage remains impossible.
Not perfect practice, but deliberate practice. For example, I practice sleight of hand (for card magic and cardistry). If I just practice, then whatever bad habits and mistakes I make, well I make them permanent. If, however, I, for example, video my practice sessions, watch them back and correct the mistakes I make, then I get better and my technique gets better. The point is to find out where you go wrong and correct for it.
If you think about someone in a job they hate, ruled by managers and treated as a cog in a machine that makes money for others, it starts to make sense. If you feel helpless in the face of life, then just gritting your teeth and bearing it probably seems appealing. If what you really fear is risk and change in your employment and life, then a philosophy which teaches you to accept the inevitable may attract you.

In short, Dilbert probably reads Seneca.
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This is a really badly designed study. I started playing violin when I was 4 and started performing professionally when I was 7, and continued to do so for 20 years.

Learning to play an instrument or sing is not the same as studying pitch differentiation or rhythm. There are a surprising number of successful musicians who are bad at these things. But the method laid out here is utterly meaningless. You might assume that practicing the violin would have some affect on these things, but it doesn't necessarily. Many people simply learn these things by wrote for specific pieces of music from their guidance in private lessons and teachers.

You might also assume that someone who practices a lot and got a degree is also good at Music Theory or Music History, but that's also false. There are tons of professional classical musicians with graduate and Doctorate degrees who are bad at all the things measured in this study as well as history and theory.

I'm really shocked that the authors couldn't figure out that they were measuring two completely different things and calling them the same thing. It almost seems intentional for the sake of publishing a controversial result.

People absolutely get better at these specific tasks when they practice _these specific tasks_. Every music curriculum in world specifically requires classes in these exact tasks, although the bar for minimal competence is extremely low.

I run a small side business tutoring people who are already professional classical musicians who want to get into a DMA program. They have to demonstrate competency at these tasks, as well as some basic knowledge of Theory and History. They can't; even though they are top-level performers on their instrument and practice hours every day.

I offer a 12-week crash course that covers these types of tasks and as well as the knowledge component, and people usually find me because they've already applied to a DMA program and been rejected for failing these prerequisites. I know for a fact that they get better with deliberate practice because after working with a couple of dozen clients, every single one of them gets in on the second try.

Not to mention the fact that every single day, there are students in Music degrees who start off really sucking at these specific measures who get enough better at them to pass the class at the end of the semester, through very specifically designed exercises that target these abilities.

This whole study is an infuriating waste of time and money, and it's an example of some really bad science that's floating around there in the world I really have a hard time believing this was accepted anywhere for publication.
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain De Botton is a very approachable introduction to Socrates, Epicurus, Seneca, Montaigne, Shopenhauer, and Nietzsche and the practical takeaways from their teachings.
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You're not wrong, but you should probably tell the whole story if you're going to post on HN.

Primary Objection: Um, Ohms law gives V=IR. And P=IV. So, P=I^2R. Except that P ALSO can be calculated as P=V^2/R. So, we got squared losses anyway and R should go the other direction. WTF?

The answer is that a copper wire is a distributed system, not a lumped system. So, you derive the power loss from the generated heat across a differential slice of the line and then integrate over the whole length of the line--which gives you Power=RI^2 in the limit (and V->0 for any individual slice as the differential ->0).

It is one of those (un?)fortunate happenstances (like the Bohr hydrogen atom model) where the system in the limit sums to something we already know and leads to a bit of misunderstanding when you confuse two things which appear to be related but really aren't...
Workers moved from agriculture to industrial manual production as farming tools and machinery became more efficient. Then workers moved from industrial manual production to more mentally demanding work like radiologists and web designers as industrial automation became more capable. Now AI is taking over these more mind-based tasks.

The onus is on you to explain which entirely new sectors of the economy are suddenly going to spring into existence to provide jobs for people whose skills can't compete with those of ever more capable machines.
Claim: In order for the overall population to hit a maximum number of children, every subgroup within it must also hit a maximum number of children.

Proof: Assume the opposite, that there is a subgroup S that never hits a maximum amount of children, but the overall population has a maximum amount of children X. Since S does not hit a maximum amount of children, S at some point has more than X children. This contradicts the initial assumption. QED
Lithium in batteries is highly recyclable, which helps quite a lot. It’s not a pure consumable like oil. And none of this takes into account the possibility of novel chemistry taking over at some point.
OK, so I should have limited it to fascism, given that "national socialism" has become so closely identified with German Nazism. It was opponents who labeled the "National
Socialist German Workers' Party" as the "Nazi Party". And there was a lot more idealistic socialism there, before Hitler and his associates took over and created what we know as Nazism.[0]

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I disagree on all counts. The first program that would be generated by such a procedure would very likely be the constant program that happens to always respond with the correct questions to your test. It depends how you randomly generate code, of course, but I doubt the complexity of a "general AI program" would ever be smaller than the complexity of the constant program which by luck returns the correct answer to your test.
From my reading of the article, 48V has been chosen to comfortably fit in under some regulation that defines 60V as “high voltage” which required special (read “more expensive”) components.

Keep in mind there’s no such thing as a “48V battery” or a “60V battery” if you have hard requirements on those voltages. If they’re using lithium polymer batteries, they’re rated at 3.7V per cell nominally, but will be at 4.2 or 4.3V when freshly charged - so a 48V lipo battery will probably be 13 cells and 48.1V nominal, but possibly as high as 55.9V fully charged (and one more cell in a 14 cell pack would hit 60.2V fully charged). Even lead acid batteries do the same thing, your 12V battery today is six 2V nominal cells in series, but you’ll commonly see 14V when it’s fully charged, so four current tech car batteries with a nominal 48V rating will have 56V fully charged.

I don’t think there’s anything “optimal” about 48V apart from it being as high as you can risk going using available battery technologies without bumping into the 60V “high voltage” regulations when your battery is fully charged.
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Your comment reminds me of this Zen story:

The Emperor asked Master Gudo, "What happens to a man of enlightenment after death?"

"How should I know?" replied Gudo.

"Because you are a master," answered the Emperor.

"Yes sir," said Gudo, "but not a dead one."
If you like Job you should seek out the play J.B. by Archibald MacLeish. His take on the story is that Job in the end forgives God, making him superior in some way to the God he loves so much, which is a view of the story you don't often hear.