skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the USDA organic accreditation doesn’t mean pesticide free unfortunately. They still use a tonne (actually more by quantity) of pesticides, and those pesticides aren’t proven to be safer. E.g. Rotenone is shown to damage mitochondria, but is fine to be dumped on “organic” crops. So sadly it’s still actually very debatable whether you’re better off going organic or not.

Edit: think of “USDA Organic” label as more of an industry marketing gimmick that allows them to triple prices, than any genuine intent to produce safer foods.
> Yes, explanatory theories rely on observations. But they are not just straightforward extrapolations of the form, "Because we have observed something N times (e.g. we have seen N green emeralds) we can reliably conclude that we will continue to observe it (e.g. all emeralds are green)."

Interesting. I will need to look further into explanatory theories, because my current understanding tells me that anything that uses observational evidence is inductive (even without following the "observed something N times" form).
> Now, with a son of my own - I am constantly thinking about how in the world do I expose my son to technology but also teach him moderation.

Do you and your partner do anything other than use computers all day?

I work with four 26" screens, and am fairly well glued to my phone when I'm not sitting in front of my work PC.

But I also: run / walk / walk with my dogs; train my dogs; go to the gym; do pole dance / pole fitness classes; am learning to play guitar; am a metal fabricator by trade; ski; rock climb; play kayak polo; garden; cook; (slowly) renovating the house; read / research / write.

I started rock climbing when I was 33, started pole classes when I was 34! I learned to ski last year when I was 36!

Obviously I don't do all of these things all of the time.

Perhaps there are things you can do with your kids other than sit at home staring at a screen?

Also, I think perhaps maybe vlogging would be a cool thing to do with your kids. Public or not, maybe just to friends and family, but I reckon it'd be cool to help kids learn how to record and edit video.
Speed is just a red herring anyway; as you said it's all about selective enforcement.

I'd rather there were NOT any speed limit enforcement at all UNLESS there's another infraction.

Even more ideally self-driving cars would just save us. However until then I'd prefer that laws like Washington State's 'keep right except to pass' were strongly enforced.
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This is a dangerous attitude, you should still cut 1-2% from somewhere, and put that away. It will compound up and cover you some day.
Out of curiosity, where did you live? Did you buy a home?
I didn't mean to imply that you were. What I'm getting at is that although things like overt racism aren't often reasons to why the pipeline problem exists, bias is still an underlying factor. Actions like mandating a woman/minority in the boardroom may not be the right solution, but it may come from legitimate reasons.
Well, to be fair an equivalent statistic for baby boomers wouldn’t be as alarming as it is for millenials:

1. A higher percentage of the population back then were working towards a pension and didn’t necessarily have to save.

2. The long-term health of social security wasn’t as much in question back then. Contrast that to today’s conventional wisdom of “plan like your SS payout will be $0.”

And there are probably several other factors that suggest millenials should be more eager to save than their parents—rising costs of college for children, rising costs of end of life care, ever-increasing lifespans suggesting longer retirements, etc.
The evidence is here:

- epigenetic changes - https://www.whatisepigenetics.com/fathers-exposure-phthalate...

- less masculine men - https://health.usnews.com/health-news/blogs/on-men/2009/11/1...

- exposure during women's pregnancy lowers child's iq - http://time.com/3625352/phthalates-iq-toxins/

- obesity and epigenetic changes in rat models - https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/epigenetics/nutritio...

With the latter most link, it looks like supplements can help prevent effects.
It's 6.4 MB. But maybe the URL was changed?
Not defending their actions, but the page says that this happened in the 2000s, and the details are not clear. Do we know if this is still happening?
Reformatting parent for readability:

100 / 10 = 10 gallons used

100 / 12 = 8⅓ gallons used

10 - 8⅓ = 1⅔ gallons saved

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100 / 30 = 3⅓ gallons used

100 / 60 = 1⅔ gallons used

3⅓ - 1⅔ = 1⅔ gallons saved

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As a side note: I worked in the factory that make Chevy Tahoes when they started making 2 mode hybrids. The hybrids didn't make more highway mpg, but they improved city milage from 16 mpg to 20 mpg. One of the problems is that doesn't sound like much of an improvement, but it's actually 1 1/4 gallons saved per 100 miles.

https://www.autotrader.com/car-news/chevy-tahoe-hybrid-great...
As Barnes and Noble Struggles to Find Footing, Founder Takes Heat
Is it a word semantic stretch to say that Facebook has perpetrated a Nigerian scam?
As someone who's driven over distances that had notably higher speed limits (EG 75 MPH in extremely rural areas), I have found that /in those areas/ the speed I went //without// looking at the dashboard was more or less very close to the actual speed limit. I was actually driving at the real speed that is safe for a typical small car on such a road in 'ideal' conditions.
It's a rather large set, but it's got some noteworthy holes. Cosine distance, for example.
I would point out that this is "nonsensically pedantic." Clearly the frames of note are the one you begin your acceleration in and the one you end your acceleration in.
Dell's TB16 supplies 130w through USB-C to the XPS 13. More info there: https://www.dell.com/support/article/us/en/19/sln296825/usb-...
> I can't imagine who these millennials are that have so much in a retirement account — presumably they also live in expensive areas if they are able to earn so much?

Keep in mind ridiculous house prices are only in a handful of cities. The rest of the country exists and is doing just fine, thank you very much.

I live in Houston and made $75k right out of school as an IT consultant. I lived in the cheapest apartment I could find in my favorite Houston neighborhood -- a place with a lot of art and nightlife. Despite it being a happening place, it only cost $700/mo in 2012.

I was a big fan of the finance blogger Mr. Money Mustache and lived cheaply, on about $30k/yr. The rest of my salary went towards paying off my relatively low school debt, then I funneled it all to my Roth IRA, 401(k), and ESPP. After maxing that out, I bought taxable investments too.

My goal was to retire in my mid-30s after making an average developer salary. From 2012-2015, my net worth went from -$30k to $150k. It's still rising, but not as quickly because my fiance doesn't have the same crazy ideas about money that I do.

I bought a 3-bedroom townhouse in a nice neighborhood right near downtown. I can easily afford it and I'm not even making 6 figures yet.
Slimey technique to drive traffic to their ad riddled site. Just keep rehashing bs and out a clickbait title on it. Profit.
Wow, you just went way beyond the deep end. The mental gymnastics here is Olympic-level.
meanwhile i2p users just fly under the radar
Agreed. I was just trying to see it from her perspective.

But that doesn't mean that I'm blowing off concerns about kids having their minds pwned. It's a hugely serious issue.

And still, "no phone for you" was a harsh, and ultimately counterproductive, intervention.
Awesome. Is there any way I can make it so ctrl+r invokes hstr (similar to how installing vim replaces vi)? It seems to be an stty setting but it isn't obvious, even after searching, if this is possible. If it is, would make a nice addition to the readme.
I feel like I retain information more easily when listening to audio on 2x. Listening to audio is significantly slower than reading, and often by the time the speakers get to describing the results, a lot of time has passed from when they described the context. Shortening that time gap is helpful for retaining the information for me.

(Of course if you're playing the audio so quickly that you can't even make out some words, then I'd expect comprehension to go down)
> the coding isn’t most difficult part of the innovation process.

This. Exactly my sentiments. I believe coding could also be one of these easiest things to do. Hardest are - requirements gathering and selling.
Um - metheglin, I’m pretty sure I’ve had that before. https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/fe...
Good point! Since my suggestion actually would not stop trolls (abusive users) anyway (they would just click it so they could then abuse the site), how about blocking all Tor traffic with this message:

"
Why we are blocking Tor users

You appear not to support dictatorship and or want to live under a dictatorship. As the operator of this site, I don't believe in freedom of speech or expression on any subject, even banal everyday subjects. For all subjects, I oppose freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and the right to read anonymously or express anonymous opinions, regardless of content. If I could, I would repeal the fourth amendment ('[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects'). Come back when you are ready to be tracked by your government."

Fair compromise? It sends the message across while blocking all Tor users.
Yes. In Russian, ty/vy etc.
And what do you suppose is the real issue?
How do you tell which bills were targeted with their lobbying dollars?

In 2016 Intuit's revenue was something like $4.7 billion. And they spent $2 million lobbying against bills that threaten the fundamental nature of their business?

That seems absurdly low to me.
How does that math work out? Why didn't you get at least half of it? Did you get full ownership of the house or something?
@sadikkapadia - Any idea why Recommendation Engine as a Service has not picked up? I realize that building a use-case specific recommendation engine is unique.

However, I am wondering is there a recommendation engine as a service, which is similar to algolia available/possible.

I see only 2 players - yusp and recombee.

I'd appreciate any thought you have on this.
They may also have employers that match generously, probably uncool companies that actually have to pay people to compensate for their relative lack of hipness.

1:1 matching is almost unheard of now but was normal twenty years ago.

Contemporary jobs provide for "unlimited" (translation: uncompensated) vacation time...no 401k matching...sometimes even a huge copay for health insurance.
1. The paper isn't the product, the journal is.
2. The paper is free.
3. $31.50 isn't cheap for a digital copy of a casual read.
Yeah but can it convert US measuring cups to anything usable in the EU? I’m still not even sure if it’s a weight or a volume.
Note: Allowing non-enterprise to block countries was a bug, see https://community.cloudflare.com/t/code-10016/28039/13?u=jud...
That's rather a pointless nitpick. If we want to get from point A to point B, we can do it faster by travelling faster.

The reference frame of either the origin or destination is a perfectly good/useful reference frame to choose.
Accessibility API Updates
Gerd Gigerenzer has a good book called Reckoning With Risk that talks about this, and gives several real examples of people taking action after being given information by medical staff.
GTA V Cash Drop (PC)
I've always been addicted to gaming. When I was younger, my parents wisely chose not to purchase a PC, so I would usually play at friends/relatives' place. I assumed it was just how I was.

Now that I am an OK adult with decent life: my playstation just lies there, and its really hard for me to start playing any new game.

I figured that when I was younger, the video games provided an effective escape from the reality of being a child, with never having anything of consequence to contribute (I blame my parents for making me feel this way; even though they were perhaps just ignorant). Games had a structured environment, with rewards for specific actions, rewards that I did not find in my real life with doing anything. The fake medals/trophies were so much better than what I had in real life (which was nothing). It gave me a sense of belonging to a group, or to many groups, something which I did not in real life.

Perhaps this applies only to kids without siblings. But video games were the one place where I could really be happy. When that changed and my real life became more amazing, I stopped playing them. Perhaps thats all that kids want.

I should note that video games were not the only form of escapism, I enjoyed reading Harry Potter for that very reason too.
Good idea for an audiobook app/other audio listener program setting. Pretty easy to detect periods of low volume and reduce the speed.
"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."
― Jorge Luis Borges

Library science => information science => information systems.
You should keep the toolbar on the screen.
> I have cash in the bank of more than a year's worth of my current salary BUT, zero saved for retirement

Just out of curiosity, what's the difference between money in the bank and money for retirement? Should the retirement money go into a dedicated (investment? pension?) fund? Can't they be your savings that you manage by yourself?

I'm asking since I was raised with a different background with pension in Europe being a very different concept from the US.
A simple graph traversal would usually make good recos.
Why not just captcha everyone?
An Interview with Galen Strawson
> It looks like this is basically a 6502 with no Y register and a reduced set of instructions.

Why would you do this? It absolutely can't have made any difference to the cost of the processor in 1998.
Good reminder about home prices around the country — my perspective is certainly skewed by my background in biglaw, where top salaries only exist in expensive markets. In tech, things are different — especially for those who can work remotely.
To be fair, a lot of times I feel that it's more Hanlon's Razor than active censorship. There still is a lot of Old World Russia running the show in Russia, and stuff you could pull off when the entire populous was farmers just doesn't really work now, and Russians are not afraid to call their leaders out on it. The problem is that there still is an overwhelming sense of apathy in the population, though this is steadily changing as more and more people become active politically, even if for now there isn't an immediate effect.

But a lot of things that agencies like Роскомнадзор do are simply because it made someone a quick buck somewhere down the line. Many of my friends/colleagues work for businesses run by old men who are more interested in 10,000 rubles now than 100,000 rubles in a week. The decisions that Роскомнадзор and other government entities makes rarely have much more of a thought process beyond a simple "well, we wanted X". When the Telegram ban came into effect and folks outside of Russia were flabbergasted by Russia's choice to just block major parts of AWS, people came up with the most outrageous of theories as to what was happening. The simple and more accurate truth was probably that whoever made the decision at Роскомнадзор to do the blocks neither thought about the implications of such a decision nor had the technical knowledge to really understand it, and those underneath this person likely didn't have the will or inspiration to care, hence why the block is so trivial to bypass (like all the other blocks)

Like with many countries, a lot of old political methodology has to die off before Russia can really step forward, and while that is happening, it's why projects like Tor are essential for providing unmitigated access, whether it is a malicious block (Telegram) or a senseless one. That so many US companies just have a straight up IP block on all things Russia doesn't help to advance the situation past this stage at all.
What bothers me is the CEO goes out and recruits (convinces) the best people he/she can find. Gets them to work for the company. And the founders/CEO/principals collect almost all of the money. Based on the hard work of others. All the money goes to number 1. If you want to be well compensated you have to start your own company. Or come across a Steve Case, or Khosla/McNealy. And even then you may have to demand (Joy/Andy Bechtolsheim) better compensation.
Why would you expect it to continue existing just because it's popular now? Lots of things that were popular were eventually changed or removed.

The consequences are serious and the time it takes to determine whether it's worth worrying about is in decades. It's like global warming. If you wait to find out what happens, it's too late.

In South Korea, suicide rates are high because there is no social safety net. Old people just kill themselves. If SS gets made effectively defunct, what recourse will 2/3 of the aging population with no retirement have?
The parent's comment still applies. If the progressive brackets were just swapped for a flat tax, the tax man still needs to know how much each employee had as deductibles, e.g. number of dependents, donations to charity, mortgage interest, etc.
Other than closely reading the literature that informs what you are writing about, one way to write better quality papers is to reach out to the relevant academic researchers and engage with them. If they are interested in your ideas, they might be open to giving you their feedback. It's also impossible to write in a vacuum. I'm friends with a few people who were grad students when I met them, and are now either post-docs or working in industry; without them, I'd be lost.

Another thing to do is to hire an academic editor. Even though it might not get everything right, there is nothing like peer-review quality feedback on a paper that highlights both the strengths and weaknesses of your writing. One thing to keep in mind is that a peer reviewer will be less likely to tell you that your whole paper needs restructuring. They are often instead focused on "within-the-box" improvements.

Seeing that a paper needs to be completely restructured can stem from being a good non-fiction writer in general, rather than being a good "paper-writer." It's a general skill relating to effective and efficient communication, and it can be improved by writing blog posts, more feedback, and writer's workshops. Similarly, to publish a paper without a PhD, you are probably going to have to become, at the very least, a "lay-scholar" in the field you are thinking about anyways. Maybe you are already well on your way.

Also, I went through a phase of thinking that I was special due to what I was attempting to write and get published. I'm pretty sure that I was looked at oddly by academics during this time. Maybe this is common for those of us trying to publish a paper and who are right out of college. My point is that this phase gave me the energy to submit to peer review, which was great. At the same time, I'm very grateful to have outgrown it. I suspect this phase is something many people go through; it's common.
If I _wanted_ to use a bot on your site, despite the captcha trying to prevent it... and you exempted tor users from the captcha... why _wouldn't_ I use tor to get around it?
This is getting downvoted, but seriously. The man build large company which definitely suggests strong business and social/political skill. You can talk about priviledge and yes he has some. Nevertheless, even equally or more advantageous people fail at growing companies, so it is absolutely achievement and proof of political and busines skill.

Nothing whatsoever to suggest anything nerdy through, unless everyone who ever touched tech counts as nerd.
It does not work with numbers either, though that can be worked around a little bit by using the number-in-circle variants.
Are some school-issued Google Drives storing personal info without consent?
I agree with their stance, but why do women get emphasized in this situation? Isn't it equally as unacceptable when a man gets a "security check" in the middle of the night by multiple people?

But the whole thing seems like security theater to me. There's no way this is going to prevent anything other than people actually going to those hotels.
Right. But that's not saying anything. You could apply that statement to literally any aspect of government, but nobody does. They apply it specifically to Social Security. That's no accident. That's the result of a direct, targeted FUD campaign against Social Security.
My impression is other generations at this age also hadn't exactly been saving a lot.

I would have fallen into that bucket when I was that age. Hey, I wasn't always a highly-paid software tech. I expect to retire comfortably with a couple million, and I didn't hit the startup lottery. (One or two that paid off very modest five figures, and late-90s MSFT options.) After a point, it's time to start putting some money away, and after 35 you can pull it off if you're aggressive. We haven't always maxed our 401Ks out, and missed other opportunities, and we'll still come out okay.

But that's for you tech bros and sis's making bank. I don't know what Mr. and Ms. Median-US-Wage are supposed to do.
https://threadreaderapp.com/ will do it -- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1027717419400392705.html

and yes, it's ridiculous that this is necessary
"Interestingly, Iowa, which people on the coasts would probably lump together with Oklahoma as low cost of living flyover states, has very high state taxes. 8.98% on earnings above $70,785."

True, though so far, at least, I think that's still balanced by being able to deduct federal income tax when figuring what you owe the state. I recall that there's a move to get rid of that deduction.
A little faded gray hint could have helped :)
It's not a fundamental restriction in the character set; "𝕦̈𝕓𝕖𝕣" is valid.
This little beauty
https://archive.org/details/bstj39-5-1125
is, I believe, the first description of computer-generated random dot stereograms by Bela Julesz. Note that the original paper came with a free pair of Fresnel lenses stuck in an envelope at the end to help you fuse the images. Those were the days...
Parents Break Teen Out of Mayo Clinic
> The brokerage reported some RSU stock-sells to the IRS but didn't report the cost-basis, and so the IRS assumed the cost-basis was $0 and thus taxed the full sale as income

Similar, yet ... stupider...

Did some standard stock buy/sells in a year, and the brokerage reported all the sales as full income, and no original cost, so they'd reported that I'd had something like $120k in 'income' ... No penalties for them for filing bad data, but it took me a while and some CPA time to respond accordingly. :/
It doesn't matter if you choose retirement, retirement will choose you. Do you honestly think you are going to be applying for jobs when you are 70? They'll give you a lollypop and send you on your way. Its bad enough in tech when you are over 40.
Yeah, it's driving me crazy that I can't remember the author or title. As I recall there are some older species desperately trying to keep younger worlds from using the technology because the problem is going to keep getting worse.
At some point hotel employees will start "taking advantage" of this policy by stealing stuff and other even more malicious things. It doesn't look good.
Flowbox 1.7 – the most powerful video processing startup
I think Ferrari, Porsche, et al would beg to differ. Most high end Mercedes, Audi or BMW cars are limited to 155 mph but you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference in ride quality between the top 50 mph of the range and the bottom 50. If your car gets shaky and unstable when you hit 90 mph then I'm sorry but you just don't have a very good vehicle.
Incidentally, the zone system for the Danish public transit system is not a metric space. (The ticket you need from A to B is not necessarily the same as from B to A.)

That's a kind of practical graph where you want efficient shortest path algorithms for.