skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As if "Photo OPs" haven't been essentially exploiting this principle for 100+ yrs.

This is nothing more than legacy media bemoaning that media production (and propaganda production) has now moved mainstream and is out of their control.

In the end its a good thing, having a "trusted news sources" is not a normative expectation to any critical thinking based society. Everything should be viewed critically and viewed somewhat suspiciously. The entire concept of "trusted news" only has real appeal to the intellectually lazy. There is no objective truth in matters of politics, economics, society. Having some class of companies designated as "Trusted" has 1000x scarier potential than "view everything as a potential political statement".
It is an extraordinary risky decision to do a PhD (maybe except in CS). I have seen the best ones fail career-wise.

Excellent blog post about it:
https://blogs.harvard.edu/philg/2018/06/14/losing-the-nobel-...

Quote:

"My take-away from the careers aspect of the book is that if you (1) love competition, (2) have a huge appetite for risk, (3) don’t mind working long hours for a minimum of 27 years until getting that first grant, and (4) are mostly indifferent to money, pursuing a physics PhD and an academic job might be a reasonable plan. You’ll get to work with a lot of smart people, for sure, but, as the book notes, quite of few of them may be planning to stab you in the back when it comes time to assign credit for a Nobel-worthy discovery. It is not like most other fields of human endeavor where there is room for everyone to excel in his or her own way."
The Shirky Principle and Homelessness
never herd of it
My Channel 5 comment was meant to be in jest.

I didn't see it, but I'm not sure the point of the scene you mention was 'property snobbery'; it sounds like it was perhaps a dig at those people with a chip on their shoulder who hate when others have something they don't and will grasp at any pathetic attempt to mock them.
The problem is we fixed the lead problem in the 70s. It's not the 70s anymore.

Making that argument is like saying "people used to get polio all the time in the 20s, why are you worried about an increase in polio now"? Because it's polio, not a free puppy. Any amount of polio is too much polio.
I am in no position to judge one way or another - but it seems like you already know what you want to do.
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"Poisoned" is not defined by your contribution to society though. I could be poisoned by carbon monoxide then get some fresh air and be fine for the rest of my life but it doesn't change that I was still definitely poisoned.
It's much too strongly worded for the point they're making. Sure Flint might not have a "lost generation" but that doesn't mean there's no crisis or that we shouldn't be fixing up Flint and other places with relatively high lead levels.
There are a few advantages of modules. One is that they can encapsulate types along-side functions/values. Also, it can be advantageous that functors are applied at compile time.

The really cool one though is abstract types. You can distinguish types purely in the type system, with no change to run-time representation, using module signatures that don't specify the concrete type of a type entry.
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Hi HN,

I'm a data scientist fresh out of college, and have some experience doing data analysis work. I was wondering what benefits a data scientist may have for a small company that does business to business work, as I have an interview soon. I assume that it is most likely going to be on me to pitch ideas to executives at the company, but I'm not entirely sure where to start. What could a data analyst/scientist achieve at a small company like this? Is there any reading material you'd recommend? Thanks!!!
I can recommend https://www.seat61.com/ for information about longer-distance train travel: frequently updated, lots of useful information, discussion of different route options, etc -- he has a page about Trans-Siberian railway journeys.
> To be fair, I feel the same way every time I see an article saying that some other city has it just as bad if not worse than Flint.

It's indicative of a race to the bottom mentality. "Yeah, we're terrible, but we're not as bad as X."
I'd love much more work on Issues. I'd replace JIRA with it if I could, but Issues is very feature poor (and we are a light JIRA use case).
Right, like figuring out why you would want to bother lifting significant amounts of water mass into space in the first place.
Thank you for this information!

I’m interested in something like this (though maybe not as beefy) for self-hosting.

Are there any companies that sell the gear you describe, or guides/wikis on getting set up?
Except;

> It is not possible, statistically speaking, to distinguish the increase that occurred at the height of the contamination crisis [in Flint] from other random variations over the previous decade.

Whereas;

> Right now in Michigan, 8.8 percent of children in Detroit, 8.1 percent of children in Grand Rapids and an astounding 14 percent of children in Highland Park surpass the C.D.C. reference level. Flint is at 2.4 percent.

By those numbers Flint was, apparently, another media manufactured hysteria which happen to fit the desired narrative and drive a lot of clicks.

There seems to be an endemic propensity of current mass media to run away with the facts in an effort to see who can express the most virtuous outrage and bring some chosen enemy-of-the-people to justice.

When those in media begin to feel like their job is not so much fact finding as it is to “protect democracy” or some-such, the news writers seem to start acting like over-zealous prosecutors instead of neutral truth seekers.
The standards for what constitutes poisoning have decreased over time. Part is a recognition of long term effects where originally the term was applied only to acute effects. The other is an increased value placed on the individual as society progresses. Its a trend since the 19th century.
Thanks guys. 44 stars given out so far.
Not every fucking terrible thing is the Great Filter.
I would say it is one of the most _feature complete_ email client, but I don't think it is a good email software. I've seen it crash too many times at the worst possible timings, and, latest updates have rendered almost unusable without patching on Mac for Exchange enterprise users (I even had to make a script to disable Outlook autodiscover on all our corporate macs because from 16.12 version and up it started trying to go to office 365 to authenticate a local exchange account...)
Opensource or not, I thank every company who thinks of linux as a target where it can invest. Let's face it, proprietary software needs to be in linux too if linux can eventually gain marketshare in the client landscape, and given the state of Windows 10 and its spyware, and all the big problems with MacOS since 10.10, any help to increase linux adoption out of server and embedded platforms is welcome. I will give this a try tomorrow, using linux at work and having no choice but to use evolution to get access to Exchange I think my use case is exactly the target client:)
A Vigilante Fighting Engine Exhaust
Yea. You don't see me trying to break it down do you?

There's a very clear pattern of headlines about a potential Tesla doomsday that's almost always rooted in rumors or anonymous tips...and guess what...sometimes you look up the analyst and find that they're openly shorting Tesla.

This article is sensationalized. We all now know that this is standard industry practice yet the article strongly implies that without these retroactive discounts, Tesla won't be able to stay afloat. What did we find out since this garbage publication? That the discounts they're asking for aren't as retroactive as the original article claimed, and the consequences are completely baseless.

I'm just pointing out this aggressive pattern of Tesla shorters taking these rumors and running wild with them. I don't need to read every unfounded rumor to comment on it.

If I was more savvy, I would look into today's selloff and see if that analyst Elon made fun of on the earnings call finally dumped his borrowed shares but that's way too much effort to justify my internet comment.

Looks like it worked: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tesla-stocks/tesla-shares...
Same here. The academic freedom that I had during my PhD combined with the intellectually stimulating environment, I cannot find anywhere else. Also most of my current close friends I made during my PhD.
There was a massive crime wave as those generations entered adulthood...
In case this ever comes up again... they have attic fans that are activated via temperature so that would your overnight issue and I'd imagine the gains by rotating which side is pulling in air is negligible compared to the effort to control it.
I don't think you understand my point: the implementation doesn't matter, what matters is the user's mental model. The mental model of typeclasses is focused of a specific, clearly defined use.
This quote from the article does not seem to leave much room for ambiguity:

"Based on this more comprehensive view of the data, we are forced to admit that the furor over this issue seems way out of proportion to the actual dangers to the children from lead exposure."

This is an increasingly serious problem. While everybody will know about the 'Flint Poisoning' because it's an emotional story that spread through social media (and traditional media alike) like wildfire, I imagine in the end only a tiny percent of people will ever hear of this. The old Thomas Jefferson quote is more true than ever: "The man who never looks into a newspaper is better informed than he who reads them; inasmuch as he who knows nothing is nearer to truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods & errors. He who reads nothing will still learn the great facts, and the details are all false.". The sad thing is that that quote's from 1807.
The idea, assumed throughout this story, that PhDs are wasted if they don't go into teaching is a very strange idea. It made sense in monasteries, whence schools took many ideas, but it shouldn't be the goal of modern universities.

Rather, you should consider PhDs that end up teaching as the overhead of the educational system, and the ones that go into industry or research labs as the valuable output.
> most modern PhD factories are sweat shops

I don't know if that is universally true. This type of anecdata tends to be very program specific.

I worked on the computational side of things and got paid a lot to work on (what I thought was) interesting stuff.

Folks who did experimental work (especially on the bio side of things) tended to put in more hours even over the weekends because biological substrates are no respecters of leisure time. On the other hand, it's much easier to publish experimental results than to come up with a new algorithm, so many ended up with quite a few publications than I did when they graduated.
>Anything that sick people do less is inversely associated with mortality.

All the more reason to do it more. Even if there isn't a casual relationship, why adopt the lifestyle of the sick?
Melatonin (the "sleep hormone") production is/was linked to time through red light. If you're staring at a screen, you need* to use a blue color filter or supplement melatonin, same with going to sleep during the day.

* not really, most of the time the body can somehow manage, but if you're looking for quality sleep, or you have issues that you'd like to solve, you should look into it
I've been thinking about this and I think a tricky part is editing, since naturally people are going to want to edit the video for normal reasons but I think that will mess with the signature?

I guess you could always have the unedited version posted and verified, but that has its own difficulties too.
I would love that guy. Yeah, he seems brutal from your words here.

But, that can often be what it takes.

I have had similar experiences. Once a person breaks through, the relationship changes.
Why some people suffer during heatwaves
I don’t want “Linux desktop software” to grow. I want computer users to have zero-proprietary software.

The problem with thinking of GNU/Linux in the same way as Windows and Mac OS X is that it assumes a world where proprietary software is the norm, or is okay. I believe that is isn’t okay, and that it is harmful.
How would you verify the country someone enters is actually true?

We normally do this by riding the credit card rails....which requires the full address...
Only if your looking for a USB-C to USB-A hub. There is a surprising lack of good USB-C multi-port hubs, let alone any that support USB PD on anything but the upstream port. You're just now starting to see any that even have generic pass-through of PD.
There is a lot of potential work that needs to be done. The market is not providing the capital for it, but the need is apparent and you have an educated labor force surplus.
It is logical, moral and efficient to put that educated labor surplus to good use. It is stupid to throw that potential away, just because it does not enrich a few bankers and their wealthy shareholders. What about the rest of America?
The education system and social expectations have not changed WRT entrepreneurship since the pre-1950s era, so naturally a model designed for producing cannon fodder factory workers in 1900 isn't going to work well in a 2020 economy. In that way the first half of your comment is correct. It'll be a cold day in hell when corporate funded clickbait journalism permits anything positive to be written about entrepreneurship. All big government retraining programs revolve around giving tax credits to big corporations for participating in taxpayer funded programs to retrain people to work for those big corporations. In exchange for campaign donations of course. Its always a scam, and its never to primarily benefit the individual participants.

The problem with the second half of your comment is its multiple applications of the magic dirt theory, in that somehow there exists a magic dirt in some countries that grows great entrepreneurs who are also magically forbidden from success in their own lands, yet supposedly magic dirt in other countries produces the opposite effect of people who cannot create business while in the conditions for great success. And somehow the solution to this magic soil fertilization issue is to take a solution that works for 1 person, such as moving around the world, and scaling it by 7.6 Billion to move the entire world population to Silicon Valley. The exact biochemistry is also mysterious, in that moving people around is implied to be a perm fix, although its more likely that moving people from "where X is broken" to "where Y is broken" will merely result in a larger quantity of "where Y is broken" people after a short amount of time, essentially re-enacting the slave trade to harvest a perpetual supply of human capital. Or maybe its a weird varient of old fashioned imperial era colonies complete with mercantilism. Move all the unemployed orange growers from Florida to Alaska, the only economic result will be a larger number of unemployed orange growers in Alaska rather than FL. Likewise there is no number of experienced profitable Maine fishing boat captains adequate to import and create a lobster fishing boom in Nevada, South Dakota, or Wyoming. Problems that don't scale have to be solved at the root of the problem, rather than brute force. On an individual basis, of course its nice when immigrating entrepreneurs work out, but for a variety of reasons it's not a scalable or long term solution to the very large scale overall economic problem.
On android this
Is done using LRU cache for background app.

If your app has a cached process and it retains memory that it currently does not need, then your app—even while the user is not using it— affects the system's overall performance. As the system runs low on memory, it kills processes in the LRU cache beginning with the process least recently used. The system also accounts for processes that hold onto the most memory and can terminate them to free up RAM.
FYI, new ones aren't as loud/scary and actually move more air. Builders include it mostly in places where the outside temperatures drop significantly at night to comfortable levels before rising again during the day.
>The act of simply existing is very expensive in the USA

Someone who lives a lifestyle one typically associates with someone who's employment can be describes as "own office, secretaries and assistants, along with titles like “director” that spoke to her decades of experience" will become impoverished if they lose and do not quickly replace that job on any continent. It's not just a US thing.
We have to take a lien on loans for cars that in some cases are much less money than school loans.

Maybe make schools take some brunt of the loans. If they feel so strongly that their degree is worth it, its like they should back you as an investment.
No one said that they were.

Someone said that you shouldn't give a platform to someone who wouldn't extend the same courtesy.

Someone replied that it runs counter to the ideals of free speech that is one of the hallmarks of the country in which Facebook is based. They then asked why should Facebook lower their standards.

You then said that "Free speech relates to protecting people from the government punishing or silencing people for what they say". Which is wrong. Full stop.

The concepts of free speech apply everywhere. If you choose not to give a platform to certain viewpoints, you are not a place for free speech. But that is within your right on your own property. The concept is still valid, but you choose not to allow it.

So your question is meaningless.

They are trying to remain as free as possible while being respectful of all opinions, especially ones they disagree with. It is difficult. You want to go somewhere extreme because extreme example serve to demonize the side you don't like or to make it as obvious as you can.

But should Facebook allow targeted paid religious advertising? Should the allow targeted paid advertising for Scientology? Flat-earth? Anti-vaccine? Chiropractors? Fast food? Cigarettes? Alcohol?

Where is that line supposed to be drawn? And why there?

I'm not calling them principled. I'm saying the issue is messy and complicated. Something you refuse to acknowledge.
People go to extraordinary lengths to justify the status quo, no matter how heinous, pointless, harmful and negative.

Its purely reactionary, just world fallacy nonsense that is better off ignored.
Whatever you think of GDPR in total, this is one of the advantages. If you were an EU citizen, Uber would be required to let you know what data they have on you informing their banning algorithms, and they'd be required to let you fix the inaccurate data.
I worked as a lab tech for a while and then switched to programming, which I’ve been doing happily ever since. I miss working in the lab a bit but overall I prefer the freedom and more meritocratic culture of working as a developer.
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There’s no reason free software can’t be paid for either.

I agree that not every type of software will be built by community efforts alone, which is why many companies are contributing to free software.

Out of interest, what free software would you like to see?
Same, once or twice a week I have to close evolution and open it again to get it to resync but otherwise it's less painful than Outlook 16 on W10.
Something has happened to Comp Sci programs over the past 3 decades. Based on what's too small a sample size (the graduates I've been interviewing in SF) it seems like a very large number of graduates from CS programs with 3.75 GPAs or above, can't do much more than glue together libraries, can't practically design a system on their own, and if ever confronted with a graph theory problem, can't do much more than name-drop algorithms, and fall far short of being able to implement those algorithms.

There are literally problems that were 1) once covered in freshman year, 2) could once be recognized and solved by CS grads in seconds, 3) stump recent CS graduates, 4) prompt HN commenters to say how they could solve it if given a few days, and 5) come up in conversation if you go to meetups and talk to people doing actual work.

How does this relate to BFS? It used to be that someone trained as a computer scientist would look at a data structure or a graph and start running some quick gedankenexperiments: What would happen if I tried to find that with DFS? What would happen if I tried to find that with BFS? Those aren't going to be suitable solutions for all problems, but it's a good place to start thinking. There seem to be a large number of recent grads who can't even get that far.
I feel that's way too much info.
Adults and children in the US today today are still being poisoned by leaded fuel. Aviation fuel, or "Avgas" is still leaded, and is a major problem around municipal airports. Leaded aviation fuel is used by planes which use internal combustion engines instead of cleaner, more powerful, and more expensive jet engines. Most of these small planes are for personal use.

In 2011, 483 tons of lead were emitted so a small group of prosperous people can enjoy private air travel. EPA data from the same year shows airports as the top source of lead emissions in 42 states [0].

I think the costs of lead abatement should be included in the price of AvGas, or its use should be discontinued entirely.

[0] U.S. EPA. Calculating Piston-Engine Aircraft Airport Inventories for Lead for the 2011 National Emissions Inventory. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA-420-B-13-040, 2013. Page 5
I'm not a lawyer but it seems like misrepresenting the addictivity (spellcheck tells me that's not a word) of the product could be illegal.
Could not agree more. I hate when developers try to be "clever" at the cost of legibility and simplicity. Scala is full of this "cleverness" built into the language itself.
At an ISP of <200 I'm surprised they are bothering with the microwave tech. It would be more efficient to separate the water into H2/O2 and then burn it in the traditional manner.
Well put.

There's probably a theory that better explains this, but I think of it as getting to 60%. How can I get to 60% certainty without wasting too much time?

I'll never get to 100% (likely not even the 60% I think I am getting to) but how can I uncover just enough information to feel confidence in my decision? (edit: to add the "?")

The rest is just assessing past decisions and asking the same questions until we get satisfied with the result.
And I also store them separately. But don't you agree that storing them in 1Password is still better than nothing, as there are still some use cases that you are protected against that way?
> Also, yes the creators probably don't condone proprietary software but who cares.

Linus Torvalds was pretty widely quoted as saying If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. I'm pretty sure he was being sincere. The guy has praised PowerPoint, of all things.

The GNU fundamentalists are a noisy minority. That's not intended as a commentary on their usefulness or the correctness of their position, it's just a statement of fact.
In the UK we are going to solve this by letting everybody get a degree, there is a move to allow apprentices to become graduates. Add in the fact that shops are offering apprenticeships for 'sandwich artists' and you can see where it is all going.
I thought of Naval Ravikant of the word 'Rav'.