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I've read a few accounts where he made the audience break down like that. Of course, none of those are televised, but his impact on the generation that watched him is larger than himself, yet he was large enough to fit in his own shadow.

It's hard to know how TV has impacted the children who watched it. When I was older, I remember seeing kids watching Barney and Teletubbies and...

It goes without saying that Barney could never stand at the Emmys and taken seriously. I'm not sure who could be a Mr Rogers v2.

Unfortunately, I have no way of articulating my thoughts without sounding like a curmudgeon. I don't really know how the shows I grew up on, like Sesame Street, Letter People, and Reading Rainbow shaped my attitudes growing up, for better or worse. I just know that Mr Rogers would be the most likely to be acknowledge by an older generation without being them being embarrassed about it. He just a human; that human we all wished was our neighbor.
yet I recently read that corruption is rampant in some parts of the huge country. It's hardly centralized nor evenly distributed.
Trying to check your app out, I got "Our security policy blocks MetaMask in Firefox. Please try Chrome, Brave, or Opera."
The censoring is not 100%. The map is cool, but there are definitely some thumbnails you don’t want in your browser cache.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability

Heritability has a very specific meaning. The first sentence from that article: "Heritability is a statistic used in the fields of breeding and genetics that estimates the degree of variation in a phenotypic trait in a population that is due to genetic variation between individuals in that population."

The key part in that sentence is "due to genetic variation between individuals in that population".

Yes, there is a very strong relationship between first spoken language of parent and first spoken language of child. But there is no genetic element to that relationship (Asian children adopted by American parents will speak English, not the language of their parents), thus first spoken language is not heritable.

> I don't think we (humans) know anywhere near enough about how genes compare and interact with other factors to support an argument either for or against your final statement.

There is a difference between knowing that an effect exists and knowing how an effect works. We know, via twin studies, that IQ and height are highly heritable (50-80% for IQ; 80% for height), even though we don't know all the genes responsible or the way in which they contribute. Similarly, wealth/financial status have been shown to be heritable. Siblings raised apart will have levels of wealth that are more similar than random strangers. Identical twins raised apart, even more so.
Slightly off topic. In big non IT corps I have worked with people whose title was developer but they couldn't do a thing on their own. I am not talking newcomer here, but people mid career. They basically mastered, I am helpless look and would rotate whom they ask for help. My turn would come every third week. Great people but just not interested in programming.
Brilliant: learn by solving problems
> Does the United States actually practice slavery in the prison system in any fashion?

Yes, and it is precisely the reason the US is one of the few eligible countries not to have ratified the main current treaty against slavery, the ILO Forced Labor Convention.

> My understanding is that work is optional

Prison labor is generally mandatory for able-bodied prisoners in the federal system, and this is true in some state systems as well.

> Is any US State or Federal prison running cotton plantations in Georgia with forced, uncompensated labor?

Historically, slavery has often had compensation, and, yes, there are literally forced labor prison farms in the USA, such as the Mississippi State Penitentiary, aka “Parchman Farm”.

There have been some reforms since the origins of the penal slavery system in the US, in which the government involved literally rented convicted out to private businesses, but it remains a system of slavery, often involving a public/private partnership for profit.
That's a joke, right? Civ 1 is old enough that it shipped on 5 1/4" floppy disks. Or did he help with a remake I'm not aware of?
If it's possible to always be depressed, why is it not possible to always be happy?
It would be helpful if there were levels of open source:

Community - Fully open to discussion and contribution from everyone, decisions are made collectively and contribution / support responsibilities are shared by all.

Committee - Open to input, but decisions are made by the project leadership. Leadership is voted on by the community and provides support and contribution guidelines.

Ownership - There is a project owner or co-owners that make all decisions and offer support if available and set guidelines on contributions.

Visible - Open source in the sense of being transparent or usable by others, but little to no support offered and contributions may not be accepted.

I think many people think they're walking into a Community project when it's really a Leadership, Ownership or Visible project and feelings get hurt. Much better to set expectations early on in the README.
I've also been a long time Emacs+Org mode user, and while I was aware of babel and the ability to tangle literate programming documents, it simply never occurred to me that I could execute those snippets in-place and manipulate the results in-place like an ipython/jupyter/mathematica notebook.

I had the same reaction to that post, and I'm really excited to get more familiar with it, as it makes a great addition to some of the work I'm doing now.
> How does a dining area and free food affect loneliness? Will it make it worse by highlighting things

This is my experience exactly. I'm sure at a certain company size it might help form connections, but at my larger company people arrange into cliques. It's like the high school cafeteria all over again.

I've switched to eating at my desk, not because I don't want to be social, but because it's less painful than being rejected by the cliques.
We'll end up doing exactly the same here in the West. Just after much drama and a few terror attacks. I admire the Chinese for their efficiency.
Gutted Tesla street racing https://youtu.be/ARzujfRiQ3c
4.5 million youtube views...
When I was in LA, I noticed that they had about 3 three different types of buses and their short/minibuses were everywhere.
> “Private property owners are some of the biggest conservation stewards right now,” he says. “I feel like the beauty of our lands and species survival is up to private landowners.”

Stands out as somewhat hypocritical to think in those terms but then act selfishly and hide the beauty away.
Sad. He did the right thing reporting Manning and I'd do the same thing if I was him.
Does a flesh and blood person suffer from increased fines for repeated violations? Then so should a corporate person.
I suspected that you were right, and doing a bit of research, you definitely are. The rate of fatalities in busses is quite low compared to cars and light trucks.

https://journalistsresource.org/studies/environment/transpor...
Thank God that doesn't sound the like the US at all.
Because 'nudging' is trivially tested, has been repeatedly tried, and does not work.
Yeah, it's pretty unfortunate. We have a CSP in place to keep our site secure, but Firefox enforces it differently than other browsers, which prevents MetaMask from working. To make it work we would have to relax our CSP to the point where it wasn't really secure at all, so for now we don't support FireFox. We put a bounty on Gitcoin for someone to fix it.
What's the public benefit of hanging around on hacker news and chatting about things in general? Why would this be any different?
white chocolate has no chocolate either.
Same, except I went to Clojure (and some toy Lisps for fun, like Hy) instead.
Please don't post job ads as submissions.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Great book! Adler really changed my perspective quickly in that short read and addressed many problems I've encountered. Imo, it was rather lacking in the techniques for reading fiction, and Nabokov has some excellent insight in this domain in his "Lectures on Literature" series (which I have admittedly only yet read small portions of).

There's an algorithm[0] I stumbled upon that I refer to often that was derived from Adler's book, might as well share it.

0: https://pastebin.com/wGFMM1pZ
Show HN: Spotifyd – A spotify daemon
I've always been fascinated with the appeal to authority. I suppose the ultimate authority is a repeatable experiment that demonstrates a fact to an acceptable level of certainty.

Such experiments are often not possible when considering the fuzzy structures that have concrete effects on our daily lives. How do we come to conclusions on sociological or economic theories for example?

When the going gets tough, we all tend to appeal to authority.

"Look I don't know why it's true per se, but this book right here says it's true, and it was written by this guy that everyone agrees is really smart!"

At some point, we all must appeal to another authority in some way. We can't know everything, so we must rely on and trust in others. How can we possibly do that now in the age of Google and Facebook? What about when images and even live video can be convincingly faked?

I have this sense of dread that we may reach a point where we all stand around and go "huh... I don't know what the truth is. I guess we'll never know. Oh well." And from then on we will live in our own simulations divorced completely from reality. I mean, it feels like we're already there in some cases.
This is an exam question, so the author is free to assume whatever he wants. But, more importantly, the interaction as large as half of the main effect is already pretty large -- in real world, many studies look at much smaller interactions. The point here is that if you need 16 times sample size to get enough power to detect the interaction at half effect size, you will need even larger sample size to detect smaller interactions.
Inside Intel's Own Spectre Meltdown Performance Benchmarks on Last 3 Xeon Gens
Computing the running max
I grew up with MrR. However when I try to show it to my 5yr old, he can only sit through the factory-on-site visits ( which are very cool ) the rest he doesnt have the patience for as those interactions can't compare to all the hyper activity of NetFlix Kid's shows. He prefers to watch a marathon of Power Rangers kicking ass all day long.

Is there a moder-day Mr. Rogers out there ?? If not someone please invent him.
> That's correct, but the Enterprise was clearly written as a metaphor for the perfect society.

My perspective: I grew up in and around the military, I understand military command structures and I see them as distinct from our overall society. That doesn't mean that there is no place for that sort of structure within a society. Star Trek always appeared to me as representing that military structure within the overall structure of the Federation's society. In fact, most members of the Federation were not members of anything military-like (or so it's claimed in the show, you don't really see too much outside the ship and non-Federation planets). The ship, the Enterprise, never seemed like a metaphor for anything (the Federation, on the other hand, was clearly meant as an analog to the the US and most of Western Europe, or the direction Rodenberry thought they were headed).

> I've also seen it referred to as such by people wanting to create the perfect society.

I do not doubt that you've seen this. But I've, personally, only heard and read people reference the Federation as a perfect society, not the Enterprise. Until today.
A state employee in Texas was charged with a felony for making a $0.25 personal call on a state owned telephone.
Please avoid deadnaming[1] people. There's no need, in this context, to disambiguate who Chelsea Manning is.

[1] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deadname
"The chances of dying in a crash in a late-model vehicle have fallen by more than a third in three years ... Improved vehicle designs and safety technology have a lot to do with the continuing decline in fatality risk." [1]

So, no, there are other factors reducing fatalities.

[1] http://www.iihs.org/iihs/sr/statusreport/article/50/1/1
What do you think "spices" is?

The real shocker is the amount of sugar. It has 5g sugar per "1/4 cup".
Your bottled water probably contains plastic
Remember, with the Great Firewall: "China is the prototype." (My words, back when.)

They started off purchasing and as an initial market as well as testing ground for Western technology and Western technology companies.

Now, China has gained the technology and sophistication to roll their own.

But that doesn't mean they won't market it, both commercially and to aid their allies in creating and maintaining similar forms of governance and stability (at the tip of an connection, if not a gun).

So, they may be building this domestically, from the ground up. Nonetheless, the expression remains and remains apt, and concerning: "China is the prototype."

Many people around the world, in government and in private business, continue to express enormous interest in this type of monitoring and control.

In the U.K., of all places, that "bastion of democracy", leadership is openly advocating for the ability to monitor and censure all connections.

They are going to control with whom you communicate and associate, by way of real world penalties and controls.

In the U.S., what greater limit on "freedom to associate" than taking away one's ability to travel?

"It can't, won't happen here."

Ahuh. Just like outsourcing was going to elevate our employment prospects and wages. "We'll be the managers."

How did that work out?

Automation is going to get a lot more done with less hands. How do you think they are going to decide who benefits?
With a spacecraft in trouble and the White House watching, SpaceX had to deliver
It's fashionable among certain segments of the population to bash America whenever they can. It's almost pathological. Any time something negative is mentioned about something happening outside the US, there is an inevitable deluge of "well yeah but really bad stuff happens in America too!" comments.

I feel that most people doing this subconsciously feel like they're acting as a counterweight to the ultra patriotism of other segments of the population, but in acting as such a counterweight they appear as absurd as their ideological opponents.

Both sides annoy me for the same reason: they are blind to reality.
This was every company I've ever worked at or consulted to, which is in large part at the root of why I went freelance. Are there really great companies with culture that treats highly-paid, highly-skilled professionals as professionals? Yes, I'm sure there are, but they are rare.
> Whatever you think the West is doing is not even close to this.

But I worry the West will be watching this closely to see how they might implement something similar.
McLaren: We Won’t Follow Ferrari, Corvette into the Electric Future
> According to the article, the actions described seem like discrete and well-defined like giving false information about terrorism, and not paying fines.

That's just the sales pitch to make it seem reasonable and positive to the average person. It's naive to think that this social credit system won't have a political component. Here are some descriptions of some current pilot programs that make that much clearer:

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/chinese-government-social-cr...:

> But the fourth category, behaviour and preference, is where it gets interesting.

> Under this system, something as innocuous as a person's shopping habits become a measure of character. Alibaba admits it judges people by the types of products they buy. "Someone who plays video games for ten hours a day, for example, would be considered an idle person," says Li Yingyun, Sesame's Technology Director. "Someone who frequently buys diapers would be considered as probably a parent, who on balance is more likely to have a sense of responsibility." So the system not only investigates behaviour - it shapes it. It "nudges" citizens away from purchases and behaviours the government does not like.

> Friends matter, too. The fifth category is interpersonal relationships. What does their choice of online friends and their interactions say about the person being assessed? Sharing what Sesame Credit refers to as "positive energy" online, nice messages about the government or how well the country's economy is doing, will make your score go up.

If they're slurping up your purchases and social media for your credit score, it's going to be a lot more than about if you lie or fail to pay fines.

Also what might "false information about terrorism" really mean in practice? Vouching for your friend when the government thinks he's a dissident?
Most companies could be cashflow positive by firing their employees or selling their technology.
borderline? what more than psychological torture do they have to do to be over the line?
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1897/
Yikes. That is bleak.
If you get paid to drive user growth are you really going to stiffle it?

Those accounts and their interactions get wrapped up into overall stats presented to investors. They're not going to clamp down too hard on bot traffic as it's inflating their actual user base and interactions.

As a content company blinded by growth stats, I'd want bots craving out content on my platform too as long as it was legible.

As someone trying to build a quality platform, I wouldn't want them on there or would at least want them marked with a robot icon.

Which side do you think Twitter is on?
Naïve question here: how is Google able to have Docs and Sheets without getting the crap sued out of them by Microsoft? In a similar way as the OpenOffice and similar reverse engineering efforts avoided getting attacked?
A caste system dressed up in pretty philosophies is still a caste system.

If this is a modern iteration of confucianism, then confucianism is equivalent to a caste system.
How about we start with condescending blog titles?
I immediately thought of the anecdote about World War II British SIGINT operators being able to identify individual German telegraphers by way of their distinctive style of Morse keying.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2005-April/...

https://web.archive.org/web/20100820000534/https://www.wnyc.... (Search for 'fist')
Don't forget that cars are much less than 50% here, and bus commuters are among the people that stand to benefit.
I created a Hacker News token. If anyone is interested, I'd be happy to send you some (for free!). Either request on Hexel or comment with your Ethereum address.

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To be fair to them, this looks like it is at night in a closed off road to what appears to be an industrial complex. About as safe as you can get, save a drag strip. They also had lighting and people all down the strip.
> Garlic, onion, coconut milk, salt, ginger, chili, spices

Huh?
I feel like I will get Mick Mulvaney and he will tell me that everything was great in the 1950's and that is where he wants to take the CFPB.
And if it's your car, and you want to claim that it's not you, they ask you who it is.
Do you know what else helps with the GPU shortage? The current market! There will be lots of damaged, cheap GPUs on second hand markets in the coming weeks and months if this continues.
The ingredient list says "SPICES". Wouldn't that be a blanket term for all the various spices that compose curry?
Russian Hack Penetrated U.S. Aviation as Part of Breaches
DataChief – Flexible Data Collection and EForms Solution  First Pre-Release
I grew up with him also, but Mr. Rogers isn't something we'd put on and sit and watch and do nothing else. It's something that's on while you're playing with other things. For example, building a Lego castle while the TV is on. The non-factory scenes are more about listening and occasionally looking up rather than staring at. At least that's my experience.

Years ago we'd leave on the TV in the background and watch sparingly sometimes. But now, my TV is always on-demand and if I'm not watching a series or movie, I'm on my computer in the other room.
Mulvaney openly has advocated for the abolition of the CFPB.
A manager's job is to deliver business value. A manager's job is not to hypothetically deliver business value if their employees were less emotional.

If the manager chooses to deliver business value by hiring humans instead of robots, the manager is obligated to care about the fact they are human and help them improve their productivity, to ensure that effort the company spends training the employee is not wasted if they lose morale and leave, and so forth.

A manager who ignores these responsibilities might be great at pursuing an ideal, but their job is not pursuing an ideal. Their job is delivering business value.

If the human you hire needs to socialize to be productive, that's no different from the printer you bought needing toner to be productive. Telling a printer without toner "You're paid for your output" is shirking your responsibilities.

(There are certainly a lot of managers—and a lot of businesses—that are more interested in pursuing some philosophy of how business should be run than effectively delivering business value. They are objectively wrong.)
+1 to not logging on to the company’s IM. Emailing somehow feels more ‘persistent’ so it’s unlikely that conversation like the one above would have happened in an email thread. Or, people have to come and talk to you in person; in which case they will probably think twice first and maybe solve the problem on their own in the process.
The most important one is of course at the bottom of the list:
8. Know When to Call it Quits.
The article claims that certain popular dance songs from the early 2000s were in part generated using evolutionary algorithms. Does anyone know which songs they might be?
There may be an expectation at work for you to have the desire to advance within the organization, i.e. career ambition.
Go work for a big 4 as a consultant in your specialty? Sure you’ll work 80 hours a week and travel basically all the time, but you get a lot of latitude and professionalism in exchange for that.
> You're lonely, your problem.
If it causes lower productivity, then it's the company's problem. Unless they're skilled at hiring people who don't have this problem.

> At every job I've ever worked, you're paid for your output, not to socialize.

Of course, but if socializing increases output, then aren't they the same thing?
I don't want to ride a bike everywhere I go.
I don't want to have to shower and change a suit between meetings.
I want to sit in the comfy, climate-controlled cushions of my car and relax.
Biking activism will not change that.
Creating bike and bus lanes in a city as dense as NYC is not a solution. Subways are faster, carry more people, and don't block existing traffic like bike and bus lanes.
Well ... I was asking the author of the article :)

But thanks.

I would be OK with it as well but I think lots of people wouldn't. I think the only way to formalize such a system that treated all bad behavior equally in an automated fashion would result in the bikes having visible identification and I think that might be a non-starter for many.