skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Firefox, go to the location bar and type in "% foo" and it will search for foo in open tabs (the space is required). I have no idea why this isn't documented better; it's a lifesaver.
"This is business" excuses shitty behavior.

If the most important thing to you is not to be decent to others, you live poorly.
> Sometimes lawsuits are like a “4th branch of government”.

Except that they are just the context in which the Judicial branch acts, so it doesn't make sense to call them a different branch.
What about time spent by active users? They can still be active, all right, but not so much.
Any time there is an investigative event, whether a internal one, litigation, police, etc, written communication is a used to infer all sorts of things. Attorneys and others build careers out of sussing these details out of email.

Do some googling of “Enron email corpus analysis” or similar things for examples.

It’s very easy for someone to say even innocuous things that in a different context sound damning or infer a state of mind that may or may not be accurate, but can give someone a way to dig into more detail.
AI Benchmark rates smartphones' neural network performance
11% may be the YoY growth in world-wide MAU, but MAU has actually dropped in Europe and remained constant in the US compared to last quarter.
I wouldn't say that Twitter survived; I would say that whether or not Twitter survives is right censored.
I don't disagree, just like there is a substantial difference between living in a submarine and living in orbit. But we've gone from "impossible to live in a submarine" to living in orbit in less than 100 years."

There are a lot of indications that 'living under conditions that were true for the last 1500 years but may not be available again for a while' is also a good plan. A city on Mars is likely a 100% energy sufficient and materials sufficient city. Such a city could survive any global warming catastrophe as well.

Most of this discussion comes down to various belief systems. I believe that any civilization that can live on Mars will also be able to treat cancer effectively, as well as survive other threats like asteroid bombardment, climate change, or major volcanic events. I don't believe that a civilization that can "only" treat cancer can survive those other problems. Clearly others have a different set of beliefs and that guides their research investment priorities.
This is used in assessing stories from history as well - a story with aspects that reflect poorly on the hero is considered to be more likely to be truthful than one that lauds the hero in all things.
You'll see more in banks and sometimes registering papers and I admit I hate it because I don't remember it as I use it maybe only once or twice a year and it provides no benefit to anyone.
> Where is this technological leap

Umm Moore's Law? Curiosity was a big leap from Opportunity and Mars 2020, while built on the same platform, has a laundry list of upgrades.

Meanwhile, a manned mission is likely to be a trillion dollar project and even if they come in at half a trillion, that's still literally hundreds of $2 billion rovers.
> The cost of the NYT's 'disinformation' about Iraq was a war that cost hundreds of billions and thousands of lives.

Are you saying that had the NYT reported things differently the Iraq war wouldn't have happened? That seems unreasonably strong because it implies that the New York Times had a greater responsibility for the war than did the president and congress.
Yes!

IMHO, it seems like there are some political activists on HN. It's really discouraging to see smart comments downvoted (into grey) because they offer a political opinion that doesn't sit well with the activists.

HN can be so much better.
He is not a private tutor, he is their teacher and an administrator of the program which they are in.

It's 100% a conflict of interest and a way to take advantage of his position in the program.

Many parents do find other tutors for cheaper, but he is the programs #1 referral for when a student is struggling in math and physics.

This is what happens:

Student is struggling in math class, so they meet with guidance counselor. Guidance counselor recommends hiring this teacher to tutor them.

He is ALWAYS recommended. Not because he is good, but because he is first on the list. Hell, I don't even think there is anyone else on the list.

This is a corrupt relationship as the teacher takes advantage of his privileged position in the school.
There are huge benefits, I agree with you.
My concern is that 23AndMe is a for-profit company advertising the huge benefits in order to push a for-profit agenda.

What I would like to see is some tighter regulations around all of this: No sharing of specific data, complete anonymization of all the data sets would be a good start
Post of the week.

Thank you.
The example with the musician (the case of K.A) in the article doesn't support the "suddenly" part of the title.

Specifically, that person knew how to play a bunch of songs on the piano - it just didn't click for him until a certain point in life.

If anything, that seems like something was missing from his picture that should have already been there. As in - not seeing the forest behind the tree for a while. It's not a sudden development, it's the opposite.

Of course someone who can play popular music has some form of understanding of basic music theory (chords, harmony, voicing, structure - etc). Just like someone who has been coding for a while has some form of understanding of things like data structures, loop invariants, computational complexity, etc. even if they haven't formally learned them first.

"Whereas he could play simple popular songs from rote memory before", the article says - well, at that point he already was a musician, even if he didn't know what the hell he was doing.

But that's how anybody learns - you do some activity quite a few times, then you start seeing the patterns, then it clicks and becomes your nature. That's why you have exercises - in music, math, science, dance, sport, languag - anything that people learn.

The surprising part is not how sudden the epiphany of seeing the structure came, but rather how awfully long it took and how far he got without seeing the structure.

It's like being able to write down the first 50 terms of the Fibonacci sequence (1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, ...) from sheer memorization only, and only seeing the pattern that makes everything simple after doing it for years for fun.

Must've been awfully difficult.

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TL;DR: the K.A. example doesn't seem unusual or "sudden" - more like connecting the dots one day.
The title of this article and post presents a question. The first comment in this thread appears to be answering that question by blaming it on the NYT.
Why people still use facebook is beyond me. It's a platform where you are the product. Your privacy is for sale.
It seems odd to me that you single out Americans here. Do you have no experience with any other group? I have observed Europeans do this as well.
Nope, he got the "Graphics Group" team of Lucasfilm and turned it into Pixar.

The team had not done anything previously as Pixar.
Yeah well, a broken clock can still be right twice a day.
Pakistan election live: incumbent party rejects result claiming vote rigging
I still don’t understand why Angular hasn’t died out. It’s very hard to understand and the tutorials can’t simplify that because it’s just inherently very complex. It feels highly over engineered like classical Java. Instead of allowing you to opt into more complex features as needed like a good framework should do, it forces you to learn its steel curve up front!
At least it's clear it's not 2022 in 2010 but imagine if they were close... Now we're resetting it down to 1, perhaps no big confusion but still, a pointless system.
Oh man that's very cool. I'm kind of a fan of 23andMe now. A bargain for GSK, I'd imagine.
I remember seeing reports that the Qualcomm powered iPhones has superior performance over the intel variation. I wonder if Intel has been able to make improvements to reduce the gap?
Yes, I think that's called "homework" :)
... which begs a trading card game on how to crowdfund a tabletop game about DMing, right?
The genius behind Google’s browser (2009)
> Do we have reason to believe that the government knew there were no WMDs?

Yes; many of the specific bases of support they pointed to had been debunked before they were publicized by, among others, UN weapons inspectors. While it's far from proof, that alone is reason to believe that they were knowingly fabricating their claims.
To be fair, security is an amazing amount of policy. I took and passed the CISSP, and that exam must be at least 30%, maybe 40% policy. Things like knowing how does the Commerce Department’s rule of Safe Harbor apply to US companies doing business in EU. Stuff like that.

That being said, it made me way better at my job. No matter how many technical justifications I have for why we should implement X, the second I brought up a small to medium legal thing everyone would fix it immediately.
This extension requests the following permissions:

- "Read and change all your data on the websites you visit"

- "Read and change your browsing history"

That's a lot of power to grant to a third party, especially on a work machine where some of that data you're looking at may belong to your users.
He is the number one recommended tutor that they all go to when they are struggling in the program.

There is supposed to a list of people/companies that the guidance counselors recommend, but that's not the case with this school.

They only give out his number. Honestly, he shouldn't even be allowed to tutor these students. He is an administrator in their program, it's a huge conflict of interest.
Manufactured or pre-made split keyboards aren't cheap. However if you're making your own the costs aren't all that different. So it's easier to ignore the cost and effort if you're making a split keyboard. Also by definition, you're talking about someone willing to go down the less beaten paths.

I would love for split keyboard to become more mainstream. They're far superior to the traditional key layout. But if the sample set is customs, it's probably selection bias.
I don't think aerophobia is related to statistics but rather to the perception of the accident if it happens. For those who travel by air every day, a car crash still is a lot more likely than an air crash, but while in most car crashes you don't have the time to see it coming, in most air crashes you have entire minutes to process what is going on.

Mildly aerophobic here: i took the plane when I had to, but definitely never enjoyed it.
He's asking for 3 bucks. Does that really matter?
> I think widely available overly sugary garbage food does.

This "overly sugary garbage food" is what most people are referring to when they say "carbohydrates cause obesity". Even worse, it's not just "garbage food" but even well prepared food can often contain a surprising amount of added sugar. Perhaps "cause" is an imprecise term and a better phrasing might be: The significant increase of sugar and starches in a typical diet seem to account for the significant increase in obesity in practice.

Also, the Complex/Simple Carbs are somewhat antiquated in diet terminology and instead use digestible vs undigestible (fiber). Anyone who's done Keto (a "0" carb diet) counts carbs using "Total Carbs" minus "Fiber".

This means you're avoiding sugars and starches but advocating for more fiber. Sugars are simple, starches are complex, but fiber is also complex.

As a fatty who has lost lot's of weight, stress ate my way back years later, and dropping them again: I found cutting carbs to be helpful, BUT(!) my diet philosophy is this:

THE BEST DIET is about psychology 80% and nutrition 20%. Most of the value you're going to get by keeping your weekly calories low. You can try variations of macronutrients, meal timing and frequency, voodoo, etc. but the best one is the one you stick with, and can stick with long enough to reach your goals.

Maybe you'll need to think about essential minerals and nutrients if you're trying something really really extreme. But with even minimal variety you should be good.
There's some truth that lack of "security" is what makes money (ads) and gets views (fake news stories), and users (fake users).
Eric Weinstein has some thoughts on this: https://mobile.twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/94208170561...

Read the paper he links to there.
VLC is blacklisting recent Huawei devices to combat negative app reviews
Was there consideration for going with (say) MariaDB instead?
Interesting to have Greenwald define treason. Is he trying to keep himself out of that illustrious crowd? Guess living in a foreign country makes one braver than usual.
Companies go public to raise capital. But it'd only make sense if they are generating enough earnings so that investors are not losing their money. For example, in the case of Snapchat, it'd probably be better off if they raise another few more rounds of funding from venture capital and figure out a profitable business model. Otherwise, who wants shares of a company that only takes but do not give?
Thanks for this perspective. I wish I could save comments the way I can favorite posts, so I'm replying as a workaround.

It gives me new perspective on the value and purpose of the Apple Stores, which I previously viewed as just a luxury shopping experience as window dressing on the usual consumer electronics buying experience. That's still a big part of it, but your quote explains the deeper value.

It also explains to me why Microsoft chose to follow suite with their own Microsoft Stores, although I still wonder why theirs aren't as successful. It's always amusing and a bit sad to go to the Valley Fair Mall in Santa Clara, where the Microsoft Store is literally right across from the Apple Store, but Apple is packed where Microsoft is a ghost town. What secret sauce are they missing? My thought is that the Microsoft brand is still poison to the average consumer.
I place my Kickstarter Bonus card into defense to add a new reward tier to roll d20 to ask my Mom to order pizza for the party, and end my turn.
There's no way to put human beings on Mars without contaminating the planet with Earth bacteria. The bigger the chances there may be life on Mars, or that life once existed there, the more important it becomes to confine exploration to sterilized robots.
what would be really cool is a bloomberg mech keyboard with the green and blue keys. but i think the pcb is proprietary.
Blazor 0.5.0 experimental release now available
but is the page smaller/faster now? that's what matters
Well, yeah, of course I care. But not for the determination of whether a bad idea is bad. This may be an instance of worse is better, but it is a bad idea regardless, and thus at best an additional piece of evidence against the philosophy.
The market has expected this for years. Look at Facebook's declining P/E ratio.[1] 81 in 2005. 22 now. Successful established companies have P/E ratios in the 10-20 range. Facebook is coming in for a landing as an established company, ending its growth company phase. This is a normal part of the corporate life cycle.

[1] https://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/fb/pe-ratio
On occasion maybe individuals. And certainly more on the right than the left. But they don't work together in the least.
eye twitching from OCD

Aargh, that bottom key! Just switch the high keycap with the low one on the other side!
Maybe you misunderstood me or I wasn't clear. What I'm saying is to let NASA keep the money but shift focus towards general technological development, ala Australia's CSIRO. NASA's budget is relatively tiny, especially when compared to the military industrial complex(sure, a lot of that is just benefits for troops, but still).
I agree, and DNA is actually very easy to collect without the owner's consent.

How can this be solved though? A model where DNA is only shared if you want to, and where you fully remain in control of your data.
I recently replaced jQuery on a project with a small custom DOM library. It cut more than 20% from the footprint of the application and helped to push load times on 3G under 3 seconds.

If you use some of the weirder stuff in jQuery or use plugins you might end up doing some targeted refactoring or just porting that code but I found it a relatively painless transition to make.

Tip: write unit/integration tests for the code you're about to convert as it makes the process much easier and faster.
In my observation these fact checking organisations usually fall down on the left's side of things, so either it's predominantly the right that lies, or the fact checkers conveniently ignore controversies that are open and shut bad behaviour on the left, or my perception is incorrect. Though I have to say the whole concept of a single self-appointed authoritative source troubles me, what with its Ministry of Truth overtones.
Soon, SF will ban kitchen in new homes, everyone should eat out. /s
It hasn't just slowed down. MAU/DAUs in Europe have dropped compared to last quarter, and stayed flat in the US.
He is the schools #1 recommended tutor. His number is given out by all the guidance counselors when the student is struggling in a math or physics class.

Honestly, I don't even think other private tutors/companies are even on the list. They just give him all the referrals.

He really shouldn't even be on the referral list, let alone the ONLY one they use, given that he is an administrator of these students in the math + science program.

The term rent seeking is probably misapplied, but it's clearly a conflict of interest and the type of corrupt relationship that we need to fight against.
Funny it needs to be considered rude. I don't know the use of the emperor system except it's wasting our taxes and a huge land.
You cannot say a 20% drop AH is "expected" by investors. If this was truly "expected" then the slowing growth would've been long accounted for in the price.
I'd respond with "OK, thanks. I won't waste any more of your or my time here then..."

Even if there are no other competing coworking spaces to use locally there's bound to be other temporary/occasional desk space options if you look around hard enough, and _I_ would choose not to be contractually obligated to those sorts of arse-clowns. (Intellectual property in co-working space??? _Seriously??? Patent it or GTFO...)
The state that 23&me is incorporated in needs to pass a law pronto that says your dna belongs to you (despite any ToS).

Something about affiliates (and companies buying their way in) can't use your data without express written permission.

Probably want to call the European Union on how to get the wording right and not watered down by lobbyists.
Just before the landing at 85s in: https://youtu.be/zhOUkBZrO1E?t=85
People often promote this but there’s a huge gap between script tag to include jquerg.min (for example) and requiring the entire node/npm ecosystem to cross compile etc everything else (provided you weren’t already). This is a high tax to pay.
Come on. Sheryl Attkisson is now a reporter for Sinclair - the local news equivalent of Fox. Her integrity was compromised at CBS News and it's now non-existent.
Algorithm developed to predict the vertical growth of cities
Yhis was all after the bell as was the earnings announcement, and the quoted stock drop was in the after hours trading market, so it could be less tomorrow in the standard market.
Maybe 090-0000-0001. (090 signifies a mobile phone number)
That's incredible! It gives us all the gift of something to hope for.
How are Uber, AirBnB, UpWork, and Stripe rent-seeking business models?
Until there's a solid third party teardown, you just don't know. Look how many backdoors in major products have been discovered in recent years. Juniper Networks.[1] Cisco.[2] Dell.[3] ZTE.[4].

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2016/01/junip...
[2] https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cisco-removes...
[3] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/dsdtestprovider/
[4] https://thehackernews.com/2016/11/hacking-android-smartphone...
You've always been able to reply to a comment you downvoted. Replying doesn't cancel the downvote, either - I tested it on a willing subject.
Dominance theory and the alpha pack stuff is very outdated. It sounds like you had a great relationship with your dog though. Giving them a job (warning), redirecting the behavior (barking with sit) so it doesn't carry on.
It makes sense, I just am trying to figure out if there is a reasonable way to numerically denote this characteristic.
This would be an excellent move.
Don’t take it as condoning the action of Jobs, but accepting how the world is and act accordingly when you’re on the other side.

Knowing that the lion is not going to be fair to you, means you need to run from the lion and not sit there and get eaten.
This is such an ambiguous question, it's like what color should the garden shed be or the bike shed or the stable, you chose. Your title should summarize the question. Then it's not clear if you're talking specifically about online training.

Anyway -

Workplace training works, duh, how else do you learn to flip burgers.

Online workplace training only works for compliance issues. (Counter examples?)

You have to do it for compliance so just buy the app and do it. It'll help stop you being sued, so yes it works.

If you want to make a "difference", be a tourist in the third world, then work / volunteer in the 3rd world, then realise how broken NGO's are and set up a burger chain to move lots of money between the middle classes and the lower classes in the third world and be a good boss. There's a 10 year plan for you to make workplaces a better place.

Otherwise it's a compliance issue so it's a moot point, just do it. Whether it works or not is out of your hands, worry about the stuff you can change, like the people you work withs happiness.
If you only care about writing code, sure.

But in this case (as in many others), code is written just a couple of times per month, and executed millions of times per day in millions of computers all around the world.

Therefore this kind of "low level JavaScript"* optimizations will have a net benefit much, much bigger than the convenience of reading shorter code for a relatively small group of people.

* Quite the contradiction, I know.
I don't think that's really it at all. Most of us have to sit in classrooms for months or read and study to understand the intricacies of music theory. None of that is necessary to learning a few pop songs on a guitar or piano.

You can learn to play songs purely through muscle memory as long as you have a basic sense of rhythm. That doesn't mean you understand anything about musical composition, scales, chords, modes or anything else that underlies what you're playing.

The epiphany described in this case seems like it's suddenly and intuitively understanding all of that, in addition to the layout of the piano (why it takes the form that it does) along with the ability to actually play the thing competently.

I've been playing music for years. I understand a good chunk of theory. I wouldn't consider myself an expert by any stretch, but I understand the layout of the piano. I can't play the damn thing. Waking up one morning and having that ability would certainly be surprising.
So you're saying that plea deals encourage people to lie under oath? That seems like an entirely different problem from innocent people pleading guilty.