skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my last year of business school, I took a class called
Consumer behavior. It was easily one of my favorite courses and the professor was incredible.

But one day she wanted to prove a psychological insight about rating Coffee - namely that in blind taste tests, people can’t distinguish between $5/lb coffee and $100/lb coffee (she literally bought all types). We set up a blind tasting line and all rated the drinks after a sip or two. Then we submitted an o line poll.

Her mistake came in actually showing the results real time - they showed that we COULD tell the difference, even if subtly. She went on to explain, without looking at the screen, that we had just proven the theory right.

Now, it’s true that we could’ve been the “outlier” group that randomly aligned with the the ratings. But it shows that if our group had been the first to be tested all those year ago, the researcher may have stopped - who reports on what you expect?
Ride sharing might work well enough for young single people. But it's a miserable experience for parents with multiple small children.
I don’t think I would be that harsh in the com plugin for vscode. It works fine for me. I’m not a vim power user though.

They are planning to use neovim as a backend for it too.
Since there is already unsourced commentary here, in the spirit of fact-checking, I'll add a solid source for those of you wondering who the state actor is:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/mar/24/tumblr-sa...

More directly,

https://tumblr.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360002280214

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Vet before you fret.
Logging what with what, in 1962?
Your phone company has, in all liklihood, maintained a log of all your calls, dating to the 1980s.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/03/atts_19trilli...
I wouldn't know, but either way, not all your housing needs to be built for parents with small children. You set it up so that those of us without kids don't have to drive, and especially in the bay area, you've solved a lot of the traffic problem.

Anecdotal, but everyone I know with kids already lives some distance out and commutes in. New, expensive apartment buildings in this area seem to be mostly the domain of people without kids.
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Great to know, thank you.
This program goes beyond branding efforts, according to the report[1] the partner program includes:

- high-effort engineering engagements

- early tech engagement

- launch partner status

- game bundling

- sales rebate programs

- social media and PR support

- marketing reports

- Marketing Development Funds (MDF)

Conditionally including MDF as part of this program is behavior similar to what caused the government action against Intel by the FTC:

"The FTC settlement applies to Central Processing Units, Graphics Processing Units and chipsets and prohibits Intel from using threats, bundled prices, or other offers to exclude or hamper competition or otherwise unreasonably inhibit the sale of competitive CPUs or GPUs. The settlement also prohibits Intel from deceiving computer manufacturers about the performance of non-Intel CPUs or GPUs."[2]

1: https://www.hardocp.com/article/2018/03/08/geforce_partner_p...

2: https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2010/08/ftc-s...
As an ex-employee could you please also confirm whether or not the average employee is able to access user data, and what kinds of permissions (if any) this requires?
I can clearly think of very good reasons for most of the things you cited and a large majority of them have to do with neighbors who don't respect your privacy rights. For example it's entirely legal in a town near me to burn your garbage within feet of my house, creating a fire hazard and ash fall on to my freshly washed car. No legal repercussion because there's no "damage" to my property aside from the fact that my car is no longer clean, and my house may burn to the ground, but hey it's their property and regulations wouldn't help this right? When their habits cause my house to catch fire and they don't have the money to cover it, you know what would have been nice? Regulations to prevent this risk to my property.

Hair dryers become a fire hazard above certain temps, same with the tea kettle. Septic toilets can overflow if not properly sized and done on the cheap in neighborhoods. Fences fall over, trash in your yard impacts house values of your neighbors that you can't recoup, width of doorways affects handicapped access as well as impedes egress during fires. I used to service homes affected by disasters so I've seen a lot of these first hand because we're in an area with a lot of houses built before the regulations. Regulations clearly provide value, especially when protecting property and safety rights that either are unlikely to be recouped or aren't able to be effectively proven otherwise.

I absolutely HATE neighborhood associations though. What you're growing in your front yard, who you have over for guests, what outrageous color you paint your house, none of that impacts other people nor contributes to overall safety of others.
I work as a tax auditor and this is completely false.

Taxpayers only need to pay the MINIMUM amount of tax required by law, not the maximum. If you are audited then we will tell you why you owe additional tax. No, you will not go to jail for paying less tax but upon audit you will be required to pay the deficiency or provide additional explanations/documents etc. Then you can introduce any counter arguments like you didn't know such a law exists, the tax code is ambiguous etc. Making these types of claims will help to provide case law to clarify it for others as well as for auditors.

I agree that the taxation of crypto related transaction is quite ambiguous when you start getting into the theoretical nature of how the transaction is conducted.
Well, if you're going to take the high road and give him the benefit of the doubt, I won't argue further. Maybe I'm just being cynical.

But in the review he wasn't just talking about "people who make maths the primary focus of their study." If he had just been talking about students' areas of interest or work ethic I would never have objected. It was specifically this: "One should pick one's audience carefully... and treat these gifted kids like apprentices." In my experience that approach misses a lot of talented people who were different enough not to get matched by the "gifted" filter.
Employee Engagement in U.S. Stagnant (2016)
Ive watched his Harvard speech from last year. I was impressed, though I had low expectations to be sure.
I was confused because the first thing that came to mind was the Irish Republican Army, but this makes a lot more sense.
> If my news feed is tainted by a group like CA manipulating it at the algorithm level, what hope can I have that anything I’m receiving over the Internet isn’t compromised?

Was it CA doing the manipulating, or was it Facebook?

It's Facebook that runs Facebook...CA was merely taking advantage of Facebook to the fullest extent it could.

I'm not saying what CA did was right, but your comment seems to suggest Facebook was somehow helplessly complicit in executing CA's malicious plan.
The FBI stole my Litecoins from BTC-E ... I didn't even claim that loss because it was very small.
He meant actually put a piece of wood log inside the capsule and observe the marks on it after it returned to earth.
There are lots of jurisdictions & employment contracts that would require pre-approval from a candidates existing employer before they could accept that contract.

You can imagine why that wouldn’t be ideal.
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Considering that your comment at issue didn't actually contain a gratuitous use of "female", you perhaps shouldn't focus too much of your argument on that bit and instead defend yourself only in regards to what you're actually being accused of.

You've repeatedly used the term "natural right" without defining what you mean by that, and without explaining why income taxes are a particularly egregious infringement on those rights. All you've done vaguely state that income taxes infringe on a category of rights that by their very name can only be infringed unjustly.

"Pernicious" is not a word that anyone uses conversationally today. It's archaic. (According to Google Ngram, usage of "pernicious" peaked around the time of the American Revolution.) A phrase like "pernicious to liberty" is the kind of thing you write when you want to give the impression that you're quoting a famous scholar from a few centuries ago. It does nothing to explain how income taxes are exceptionally harmful to liberty compared to other means of funding a government. This is not to say that you cannot use the word "pernicious", but your use of it is remarkable. In reality, you're borrowing language from what seems to be a contemporary anti-tax crackpot.

All you did was use uncommon language to repeatedly assert that income taxes are bad. You said nothing to actually support that assertion or provide any more detail. There was nothing superficial or peripheral about your word choice; it was clearly the most carefully thought out aspect of your comment. There's no content in your comment to have a meaningful discussion about except the rhetorical tactics and allusions.

And to cap it off, your first response to criticism was an incorrect usage of the term ad hominem.
How does VSCode Vim bindings compare to Vintage mode in Sublime?

I like the idea of Oni, but I also love that Sublime is native (I'm already running FF Quantum, I can't burn too much more battery!). I know Sublime's Vim keybindings aren't that complete.
When I read "Outsource undifferentiated heavy lifting", I was skeptical, but outsourcing infrastructure and components to established companies makes sense (especially the list mentioned). Startups should not outsource to random body shops unless they either have experience doing such or have specific targeted/quantifiable/definable needs that a specialist can help with. Outsourcing, in general, sucks more time and money than the benefit it brings - specifically speaking to job/body shops.
Good read and info
Syntax is somewhere between Python and JS, but simpler than both. Almost looks like pseudo-code.

I think the Python comparison is made because of significant whitespace, easy to understand syntax (control structures similar to Python from what I remember), and that was their inspiration. It's easier and simpler than Python though.
I’ve been considering taking these supplements but I’m concerned about increased risk of cancer. Have there been updates on this since the publication of this study? https://siteman.wustl.edu/pathway-linked-slower-aging-also-f...
I was similarly confused when I got an email from Tumblr about interacting with Irish terrorist propaganda. I was puzzled because I wasn't aware that the IRA was still a thing, and I didn't know there's another initialism like that until this very moment.
The best other service: a mailto: link. People do write e-mails on posts they like, sometimes. Also, 9 out of 10 comment threads under blog posts I've read are just plain stupid logorrhoea.

Maybe a subreddit would work too?
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Sorry to respond so late, but I want to get things clarified.

> If you use a bit of imagination, robots at the lowest level can free up jobs so that the lower level say coal worker or walmart worker can be freed to pursue something slightly higher level, which can free up options for jobs at an even higher level, and so on and so forth, until pressure is relieved to allow for more cancer researchers.

I don't understand this connection. They are already "free" to do those things but can't for varying socioeconomic reasons or simply because they don't want to. Suddenly losing their job isn't going to free them into making their life better.

> Over 600 million people in developing countries have to walk miles to get fresh water. Arguing that automation should be impeded to save jobs is the same as arguing that these people should continue walking so they don't lose their jobs walking for water.

I, and I assume most people, are not arguing that. What we are arguing is that when these things happen they are painful and hurt people and that often their lives don't get better. When we, as people in tech, automate out a career we also have a responsibility to help those people whose life we ruined. Collecting water to survive != working at walmart making some goober in a suit a ton of money. Of course when people's basic needs are met better their lives get better. We are taking away their ability to meet their needs (income), not freeing them from those needs to improve their lives.
"Specifically, the world’s billionaires – the richest 2,000 people on the planet – saw their wealth increase by a staggering $762 billion in just one year. That’s an average of $381 million apiece. If those billionaires had simply been content with staying at their 2016 wealth, and had given their one-year gains to the world’s poorest people instead, then extreme poverty would have been eradicated."

This kind of blew my mind (though of course it's not as simple as just giving). Full report here - https://d1tn3vj7xz9fdh.cloudfront.net/s3fs-public/file_attac...
It's liberapay that they've banned, not mastodon.
I'm still kind of awestruck by this. Hosting an OS inside a browser. It's great as a time capsule to perfectly see the past. But because it's an emulator, it would be difficult to add a more modern feature, like ViperCard's share-url-to-stack and save-stack-as-json.
Are you suggesting they aren't even aware of these issue because there's a big difference for one to look for answers and stay educated and one who chooses to stay ignorant knowingly. No one will empathize with the latter group because that's how most weak people in history become complicit to great atrocities.
It’s not an excuse. There are just way way way better things to focus our outrage
> By default every iPhone logs and sends to the mothership your gps locations.

> They designed iMessage in a way that ensured they could access the conversation

Neither of these sound correct. Can you explain more or link a source on either?
This is the crux:

"this move by Google is to ensure that device makers can’t simply bypass Google’s CTS and ship devices with the promise that users can simply side-load Google Play apps and services. Doing so will now bring up these warnings which will shame device makers and force them to go through the proper certification channel."
Having set up a mail server myself (as a newb), all I can tell you is that you've got a long road ahead of you if you go this route.

Of the many things that can go wrong, here are just two:
1. You can get a recycled IP address from your hosting provider that has already been added to various spam blacklists.
2. You can get the mail server program up and running, but be rejected by all the major (and some minor) email providers for not supplying the right email headers, and/or, not having the right DNS entries that they want you to have.

>>I think the best way to implement it quickly is to use a mail server

Unless your idea absolutely requires a mail server to function, I would recommend searching for another means of implementation, if only to save yourself the time and learning-curve of modern email systems.

On the other hand, I'm actually very glad that I took the time and energy to set up my own mail server, since it was an interesting, but frustrating, learning experience. But on the other other hand, it doesn't inspire a lot of confidence when I have to call a client and give them a different address because my mail server is borked.

Long story short, go with exim and dovecot. And be prepared for it to take you 4x-10x longer than you think it will.
Long gone are the days where the IRA let people know a target and property damage was done (towards the end of "the troubles"). But much history to explore on both sides of that long time conflict.
Is this a good engine to begin game programming with? I am an experienced web developer with deep interest in interactive stuff.
Would this not outlaw the entire field of marketing and advertising? It's essentially entirely to cause an emotional reaction that bypasses your logical need centers to encourage you to purchase something.
>pressure on hospitals to reduce prices

Elsewhere it has been said: choosing between bankruptcy for your family or cancer care for your child isn't an actual choice, it's two loaded guns pointed at your skull. One held by the hospital, the other by the insurance company.

The reason first world countries choose universal healthcare is that healthcare is a human right. Full stop. It is not an economic issue. If you want to get economic about it though you'll lose because as it turns out a healthy educated populace is more productive than one that loses productive families here and there to lances of bankruptcy from the unpredictable nest of human disease.
So Russsia is partially behind the current left vs right / Black vs white tension going on in the USA?
That's whataboutism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
I think personally that the ACA is a great step toward affordable health care. We really need ACA++ that would address these small issues but unfortunately we probably aren't going to get it passed within the near term.

Repealing really isn't an option (due to the near impossibility of repealing an entitlement) and the public doesn't want that either. I don't know how you would fix the issue that the loss ratios will be more skewed negative since the fact that sick people pay more attention than healthy people for insurance (even when you introduce tax penalties).
That doesn't make sense, unless you're talking about a specific framework that has bad performance characteristics.

Let's say you've got a request that does SSR and takes 500ms, with 450ms of that time spent processing the request and 50ms spent rendering the response. If you switch to CSR, you still have to wait 450ms to process the request, and you've got to serialize the response data (eg: render it to a more concise format than html) which is going to take some of that 50ms you're trying to save. So, where is the blocking you're talking about? How does CSR make it go away?

What you wrote sounds like you're describing a singleton that handles all rendering for all requests, and can only handle one request at a time. If that's the case, your framework is a toy and you need to ditch it for something that can handle multiple concurrent requests independently of each other.
I did the same thing: Unfollowed everybody except for the people I truly cared about. Needless to say the news feed wasn’t nearly as full, and a lot of the content was redundant because I had a real “off network” relationship with the people I still followed. It became unnecessary to check Facebook at this point, and now I rarely log in, if at all.

I also highly recommend curating who you follow, you may realize you don’t need FB after all.
I'm confused, as already mentioned at the bottom of the article, there are other supplements to boost NAD+ like nicotinamide riboside.

Is this research pointing to NMN having a greater impact on NAD+ than nicotinamide riboside ?
>Can you tell me how and where you would broadcast your location via Mastodon?

For a network observer, your IP address, associated with your account name.

>I don't think restricting a message to followers is an applicable model for e2ee

But requiring TLS between clients and servers, and between servers (for the federation), is applicable.

>Direct messages yes, I can see the point in that.

The average joe expects direct messages to really be private. If they're not, that's bad.
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I think it's a little shortaided to focus on the issue of fake news, or misinformation in general. WikiLeaks, the DNC emails, etc show that Truth can be just as powerful a weapon.

The only real defense against this is to come together as a nation, rather than turning everything into a partisan squabble, but this seems unlikely in the near future.

Everyone wants to blame tech or Russia for the situation, but this problem is much larger.
In some locations they recover metals from garbage before it enters the landfill.

Methane is also captured and converted into electricity, though it’s more to keep the landfill from exploding and for greenhouse gas reduction.
I liked Runtime Revolution. I wish the broader coding community would taken environments like this more seriously, is the text editor sacred? I left the platform before they added more mobile+online support, I'll have to see what they have added recently.
We couldn't agree more, Michail. So much so that we founded a company (Workona Inc.) and built pretty much exactly what you've described.

Workona's extension turns your browser windows into "smart windows" (workspaces) that remember the tabs you open in them. This allows you to shut a project and pick up right where you left off later.

Your workspaces will help you split up your 477 open tabs into the 70 projects, topics and ideas you talked about. Workona also lets you "switch to these groups in your workflow" seamlessly so you can focus on one thing at a time. Soon workspaces will be sharable and even have URLs that can be used to access them, which will open the set of tabs in their own window. To ensure workspaces open quickly, we prevent the tabs from loading the content until you click on them.

We haven't officially launched yet, but we recently opened up the beta if you want to try it out (only Chrome for now, but support for Firefox coming soon). We'd love to hear your thoughts:
https://workona.com
Define "hidden."

I hate to say this but 90% of what I know about NASA comes from that movie and the one with Tom Hanks.
Had a co-worker implement something similar to this dynamic throttling in a back-end analytical process, based around access of a DynamoDB table that was accessed by multiple front end services.

The code on the back-end processing software would throttle itself back hard (about 50% of the speed it had reached) whenever it ran into a DynamoDB throttle message as a response, and then would ramp itself back up steadily. Combined with good retry logic on the front end services, it meant we could keep the DynamoDB table humming along at near maximum usage.
That's one way to look at it, but it also locks AMD out of existing gaming brands like ROG and Aorus.
1). Attack conservatives as 'Russian agents' and remove their online platforms.

2). Attack liberals as 'Russian agents' and remove their online platforms.

3). Only let corporate friendly publications have online platforms since you can't trust anyone else.

You'd think people would have realized this would happen since it's what always happens when you start silencing opinions you don't agree with.
If a message is sent through an unencrypted connection, anybody sniffing the network gets:

- Your message

- Your account name

- Your ip address (thus location)

- The time at which this happens

If the message is sent through an encrypted connection, but the federation connection between the servers is unencrypted, a powerful enough observer could still deduce the above.
Why `or`? why not all 3? Because FB's role in all 3 elections has been disgusting and has made modern election into a degenerative state than it once was.
The major complaint here is that not being on Facebook leaves him out of things that are now on Facebook. And I get that, for a good while I was off facebook entirely and felt quite left out. But still... it doesn't really make sense to me for that to be your primary complaint. You could make the same complaint about email, or the internet in general.

That said, I think it is a terrible shame more efforts haven't gone into making an alternative -- and at this point, it would need to be a compatible alternative -- that is not controlled by a single for-profit organization.
Probably worth pointing out that this is satire. Please don't actually burn your yoga mat. That would be terrible for the environment.