skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most of my experience is with non-profit orgs, but unlike a lot of people in the NPO space I have a fair amount of for-profit experience. I think people who work for NPOs tend to burn out at even higher rates than people in for-profit orgs because they get emotionally invested in the mission, fail to set reasonable boundaries, and because they typically make less than people who work for for-profit orgs and therefore have more money related stress and fewer resources to deal with stress.

Working for an NPO can be existentially rewarding, but I hear a lot of myths about how NPOs provide better work life balance, etc, and I don't think that's true at all.

I have a theory that a lot of people do things in certain ways in order to keep up appearances. For instance, a lot of startups waste a lot of money on things that are 'business-y' to legitimize themselves as a 'real business'.

To that extent, I find that a lot of NPOs waste a lot of resources appearing 'thrifty' (read: cheap). I've worked with a lot of NPOs that waste tons of employee time and money because they don't want to spend money because of the 'optics'. What this means is that getting anything done takes more time and energy at an NPO.

My specialty is database marketing, and I've literally done thousands of experiments across millions of mailed letters. I've found that for most donors, anything that can make a letter appear 'cheaper' improves response rate and the average donation. Most people interpret similar data as people preferring more 'personalized' letters, but I think that's because there is a lot of overlap between 'low-budget' and 'human touch'.

The irony is that at once place we spent more than three times as much per letter to make them appear cheaper.

This mindset also applies to people who work at non-profit orgs. People would spend 3 days doing stuff by hand rather than paying $100 to have it automated. On a similar note, I was stuck with an ancient Pentium 4 for a long time because the IT department bought them used. They were eventually replaced with Core 2 Duos. They were slow as hell, which was bad enough, but if you did the math the lifetime cost was much higher than buying a new computer due in large part to how much power Pentium 4's used. Not to mention it took them forever to upgrade from CRTs, which use so much more electricity than LCDs.
Also, as progress is made on things like heart disease, people who might have died of that, eventually die of cancer instead.

Longer lifespans means more people dying of cancer. Something eventually gets you..."natural causes" isn't really a thing.
I don't mean this sarcastically but your description of the best language learning program is almost how all parents teach their kids their native language(s).
Efficiency is pretty much irrelevant when the land in question is worthless. You just cover more land. With current utility-scale equipment you need only 300000 acres of PV to generate all power demanded in California today.
Great point and I'm glad you brought this up. Like I mentioned, America has many gaping wounds which I believe can be traced back to institutional racism. When talking about the prevalence of black kids raised under single family homes we have to take into account why these kids may be raised that way. Is it a character flaw of black families? I don't think so. I'm black and familial ties run DEEP in almost every family I know: especially those with Southern roots where most of black America still resides.

I think the answer to this question can be found in looking at incarnation rates. Right now there are about 1.5 million black men who are "off the grid" because they are locked up in prison[0]. How many of them have kids? How many men who were previously locked up were incarnated while their child was of elementary school age, and could not be there to provide the stability that is so crucial in the first five years of a kids life for them to succeed? Even if they came back into their kids life at 7 or 8 years old they missed out on kindergarten, which many study have shown that kindergarten performances correlates to school performance later in life.

0: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/20/upshot/missin...
And to make things even worse, they don't have the same electoral potential. Stripping voting rights from felons is incredibly immoral, IMO.

http://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/felon-v...
Some totally anecdotal points.

It seems like it's far easier with early exposure to languages. I speak six languages, and don't find languages too difficult, which I attribute largely to having grown up speaking two languages from two different language families, and being exposed to a third one fairly early. Thanks to that, it's completely natural to me that ideas are expressed differently in different languages. When I encounter people who speak/write a foreign language poorly, it usually looks like they think of a sentence in their own language, and then replace the words individually with words in their target language. It's not so much a difference of skill level as it is a difference in the basic way of thinking.

I've also watched some videos along the lines of "see me speak 10 languages", and those are almost always less impressive than the title. They usually show a person fluent in 3-5 languages, and then saying introductory basic things in the others. That's very respectable and I don't want to play that down, but it's also not "wow, s/he's fluent in 10 languages!" like people might think from the title.

One more thing that keeps me wondering is the practical limit of how many languages you can maintain. Personally, with six languages, I already feel I'm pushing it. I use four languages in day-to-day life. If I don't read/speak either of my other two for a while, I feel my skills deteriorating. Personally it seems like maintaining seven languages would take a deliberate, considerable time investment, and more than that wouldn't work.
Better Geometry Through Graph Theory (2018)
Firefox has a blacklist of sites that can't be modified by extensions, specifically addons.mozilla.org and testpilot.firefox.com (which can both install extensions). It's there to protect against malicious extensions that might try to install further extensions or otherwise escalate permissions by making use of those sites' permissions.

That block is also going to keep uMatrix from being able to block anything specifically on addons.mozilla.org
> Not sure where you are getting the "free work" part of this from, unless you want to be paid per comment.

Oh, that's easy to explain. You said:

> This is a real production issue for me, so could you please elaborate on why you think one of these (whichever you prefer) is better or link me to a source?

Specifically:

> This is a real production issue for me,

If you want a cryptographer (i.e. lvh) to solve a real production issue for you, that would in most cases be a business transaction.
FWIW, you call the version served to Fx "ugly", and I'd call it "bullshit-free". Nevertheless, it's still surprising.
Contracts that purport to protect user privacy are often rife with weasel words. So I wouldn’t assume anything.
Why async: how JavaScript interacts with the real world
I hear Reason used to be good. My experience with it over the last three years or so is that it's mostly garbage. It's become a lot of narrative confirmation but with little quality reasoning (drink!) or evidence. I don't go there anymore if I can help it.

This law could be terrible, but if that's true, it should be provable without pretending to have data (the safety ratings are the same after non-safety legislation was passed!).

Then there was that one time they published an anti-first amendment screed on the website.

Reason annoys the bejesus out of me.
Yeah, I have considered that. What were you thinking for a pixel width?

I'd really love to add the markdown links from BetterSlack, but I worry that is more likely to anger Slack, since it would be introducing JavaScript.
There are problems and complaints with every weapon system:
the P-51 Mustang was designed for high-altitude bomber escort but the original engine couldn't produce power > 15k feet. Oops. The British put a Rolls Royce engine in it and it was gold.
Unfunded? They are suppliers. It's just another cost of doing business with Microsoft.
I may have a bit of a gift of mimicry for languages - I can usually pull off a passable accent in multiple languages pretty quickly. I've had natives comment that my accent was good. The first few times I considered it politeness, and that probably is a factor, but I've heard it enough over 20+ years that there's probably a kernel of truth in it.

I've done travelled in various areas of Spain, China and Russia (and had studied Japanese years back), and have been able to do rough communication with all of them to some level, but ... when you are doing it, you realize how much you don't know. No, I can't just read any level of book I want, can't understand all the news programs (or the local ramifications), couldn't go see a theatrical play, couldn't conduct business, etc. BUT... the few phrases and words I know, apparently I sound good enough that people have mistaken me (for perhaps 30 seconds, until I keep going) for a native speaker. (well, not in china!)

I remember feeling quite humbled that the 4 year old at a mcdonalds in China was still more 'fluent' than I was as an adult. That gave me a lasting impression, and deep respect for people who move to other countries, develop new lives, and learn a foreign language and culture. I'm not saying I could never do it, but... it's immensely difficult.
We probably need to make significant improvements to the grid in order to support this. Solar power doesn't feed into the grid at a consistent rate, so we need to be able to store large amounts of energy for off-hours.
thanks for the ultimatum.. partner?
I built a tiny link web app for myself and it just shows me the last time I visited a website and how many times a day I visit it and this is enough to make me stop visiting some places too many times a day/week. Of course this depends on using the web app for visiting your most frequently visited sites.
Diversity quotas are the dumbest invention of the 21st century. All they do is create racial discrimination against a group of people. If you want to have a balanced admission process, which isn't biased towards a certain group of people (good schools, parents with money, Asians, etc.) then simply change the entry exams from tests which require someone being very book smart (= coming from a privileged background with access to higher education) to someone who just generally is very (street) smart. Smart people will always pick up what they need in order to succeed university, with or without a previous academic background.

A blind process wouldn't discriminate and doesn't need quotas. Instead of asking questions with the hope for the right answer, ask questions to explore the right thinking which can be equally achieved no matter what someone's background is.
I think you need to source the claim "There is no educational / societal intervention that can reverse its impact on Black kids' education"

Consider, just as one example, the paper "Are High-Quality Schools Enough to Increase Achievement Among the Poor? Evidence from the Harlem Children’s Zone" (Dobbie and Fryer 2011)
https://scholar.harvard.edu/fryer/publications/are-high-qual...

Here is the abstract:

"Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), an ambitious social experiment, combines community programs with charter schools. We provide the first empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ charters on educational outcomes. Both lottery and instrumental variable identification strategies suggest that the effects of attending an HCZ middle school are enough to close the black-white achievement gap in mathematics. The effects in elementary school are large enough to close the racial achievement gap in both mathematics and ELA. We conclude with evidence that suggests high-quality schools are enough to significantly increase academic achievement among the poor. Community programs appear neither necessary nor sufficient."
> Could they understand a complex news story about economics and finance in all those languages? Read a novel? Write an essay on a complex topic?

Those skills can't even be assumed in native speakers.

For example: https://nces.ed.gov/naal/
Huh, interesting. This is tangential to the main thread, but I had the exact opposite experience - 0 to 1 was impossible, 1 to 2 was overwhelming, and 2 to 3 was merely difficult.
Wallaroo Up: automating the Linux developer experience for Wallaroo
I agree that AirBNB is enabling (and profiting from) this behaviour but what is essentially happening is people using AirBNB to turn on their own neighbours.

Have there been any government initiatives to educate AirBNB hosts about the impact of their actions?
but does it work for browsing on the phone itself? if so, slam dunk.

even without that, it is what U2F was always destined to become.

it's especially better than u2fzero. ;)
> Personally, I absolutely want to know when sites are trying to spy on me and sell the data.

It's best to assume they're all doing that to some degree whether they tell you they are or not. For one, most of the world isn't beholden to EU law. Also, bad players don't play by the rules and by the time you know they're bad, it's too late.

> Despicable crap like that should be forced out into the public, not quietly agreed to by the browser.

But the cookie law doesn't fix that problem, or any problem for that matter. The notifications are 100% pointless and we're stuck with them because of a stupid law. If anything, having a standard way to block the notices might encourage more users towards a real fix for the tracking problems, which is using something like uBlock Origin (just don't tell that to the site owners that don't want users having tracking blockers).
This is the heart of the matter. it is also the heart of globalisation and the very heart of the internet - we should be very aware of the massive social dislocation caused by the globalisation of the food industry in 1870s following the first wave of refrigeration (ice in atlantic ships)
With those latency requirements why did you use Java?
AirBNB restrictions should be based on housing vacancy rates. In areas where either through poor zoning or historical preservation there is a restricted supply of housing AirBNB should be strictly limited.

However, if vacancy rates are high enough AirBNB acts as a nice pressure valve distributing residential and vacation occupancy without the expense of having to overbuild hotels.
Over a year ago I Stopped watching and reading any news except those I can see here on HN. Never looked back.
I can do about twice as much work if I work 'fewer' hours. Actually it's not about the number of hours, but the expectation that I should be working at some time or for some number of hours. My best work happens in spurts of a few hours a day, or less frequently, a binge of 20 hours over a 2-3 days (after which I need to take a step back). So a company who can offer me this kind of flexibility, to work when and how I work best, could pay me half the BigCorp compensation and get more and better work out of me.
Procrastination is more about managing emotions than time: study
Well right now my wife (who is a stay at home mom) is seven months pregnant and I’m looking for a job. If this was mandated at any of the companies I was applying to I’d be guaranteed to not get hired. I don’t want 12 weeks, and it’s not like this baby is a surprise.
Remote Debugging Webpages in iOS Safari
Anecdote time:

The high school I went to served two neighboring communities, one uber wealthy, the other lower class.

As such, the uber-wealthy income taxpayers allowed our district to pay teachers in excess of $150k. I think our gym teacher made $200k. Several of my high school teachers were former university professors. And besides being qualified, these teachers were in general top-notch educators of high school students.

I didn't notice any difference in achievement between the portion of students from the lower-class area and the portion of students from the wealthy area.
My favorite hidden feature in Firefox is having multiple profiles[0],[1]. Unlike containers, profiles have separate bookmarks, extensions, etc. I have found profiles even more useful than containers for development.

[0] about:profiles (paste into URL bar in Firefox)

[1] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/profile-manager-create-...
Show HN: Progressive Tooling – Tools that can help improve webpage performance
It might be nice if someone started a collection of all the open source Slack improvements that were shut down or died off so that other developers can pick and choose what they like and continue evolving Slack in a somewhat distributed way.

http://www.sblack.online/ also had some neat ideas.
I think fluency is a bastardized term, kind of like what Facebook did to "friends". I don't like the term either. I like "proficient" better.

When someone asks me "Are you fluent in Spanish?", I take that almost always as an indication that they have no idea what it takes to learn a language and try my best to educate them about what it really takes (The 1500 words frequency-based vocabulary, for example).
Back when cash app supported email I used it because I’d much rather send an email and cc cash with a subject of “send $x”. Completely avoid the bs social stuff that i don’t really want
But that additional housing can also destroy the character of existing areas. That doesn't mean we don't build, just that it has to be considered, which is harder to do when demand is increasing too quickly.
Safari is one of the most popular web browsers. Make sure website is up for it in terms of performance.
>We would not need affirmative action if every school district in America recieved proper funding to support teachers and enable smaller class sizes, test prep for students to take specialized exams, and after school extracurriculars, both academic and non-academic to prepare them for college.

What counts as proper funding given many school systems get massive amounts of money that is lost to corruption and past debts (which are themselves likely attributed to corruption). And how will money fix the problems of lack of parental involvement and a culture that disparages seeking further education.
Will hydro be viable if the rainfall gets worse? Lake Mead is about 40% capacity, I can't imagine other dams are doing much better.
In Norway despite rising Airbnb hotel revenues increased. On a recent conference I talked with PhD students and they told me that without AirBnb they would not attend as travel expenses would be outside their travel budget.
That makes more sense, as it seems to be 4,156,932,140 total[0].

[0]: https://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm
Sinopes.com, the Chinese Snopes.com? Dang, it's already taken.
You’re wrong about minority rights. They ought to be specifically labeled and supported under that label.

You’re wrong about the benefits a company and its workers enjoy from specifically protecting itself against allowing in the animus that exists outside the workplace. Being an inclusive workplace which goes out of its way to accommodate minorities carries a small price — but pays excellent dividends. Doing this in no way would alienate any prospective employee — except a person like yourself, which seems 100% okay to me.
I use "popover" because modals can serve a real purpose (logins etc.).
That looks similar to a try/catch... You just called it if/else.

Also, why can't you make the database request in the request pipeline, right before that "if(hasAccess)" statement. You don't need JWT for this...

You are already wrapping all of your controllers...
And, interestingly enough, AAs only have 17% of kids in single parent homes, the lowest out of every race.
I feel the same way about nearly everything in California. For example the first phase of the HSR project, which will serve pretty much no purpose whatsoever, is planned for 2029 which means realistically 2035, which might not even be in my lifetime. Meanwhile, in China, https://twitter.com/CarlZha/status/1034348241402265601
Definitely shows their expertise in the space. Strongly agree with all of this, one of the most important things for me as a candidate is to feel appreciated as a person, not just "headcount". Being thoughtful and considerate is a very rare thing in a hiring process.
There is a proposal to convert the Hoover Damn and Lake Mead into pumped storage.

https://www.utilitydive.com/news/los-angeles-considers-3b-pu...

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/24/business/ener...
In the UK we have a magazine called The Week [1].
Crucially for me it pulls in excerpts and opinions from all matter of sources (regardless of political leanings) and allows me to easily digest the big events in a single 45 minute session on a Saturday morning.
It truly has changed my consumption of news to a wonderful experience.
[1] - http://www.theweek.co.uk/
Edit: Turns out there is a US equivalent. https://theweek.com/
Take a completely random sampling of 1 million people from populations all across the world. And in fact, take them from the day of birth to avoid any sort of early biases (actually 'harbor' the parents from the day of conception to avoid any sort of prenatal differences). And now put all of these million people on a completely homogenous and equally fertile chunk of land on an island. Raise each and every single one of them identically until they are of an age to take care of themselves. Give each and every one of them the exact same amount of starting 'capital' and set them free to achieve as they will.

200 years later, with a population that's multiplied several magnitudes over - would you expect to still see a completely equal people? I wouldn't. People are different. And each child that is born is different, even when born to the same parents. Even identical twins are no longer completely identical by the time of birth. These differences express themselves in different ways (and wow was that the most tautological statement ever), but the point is that I think it's highly illogical to expect to see equality.

Out of genuine curiosity, do you disagree?
They especially don't care when they have no chance of growing to a level where they can get dangerous (because they can't advertise).
> it is also the heart of globalisation and the very heart of the internet

Except that real estate is intrinsically a geographic issue. Manufacturing and distribution aren't.
Check out my comment below about Dobbie and Fryer 2011 (AEJ Applied Economics)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17878703
Teaching the Google Assistant to Be Multilingual
It still boils down to a first amendment issue: can the government tell Google what it can and can't say? If Google is using its market position illegally, that's one thing, but there's no such thing as an illegal use of its free speech rights (except as legally prohibited, e.g. libel). Google could keep a 'We think Trump is a traitor' banner on every single one of their pages and be within their rights under the Constitution.
Same here,

The reason being that two youngsters, who illegally subletted their temporary lease, deemed it a great idea to run an illegal hotel.

It's a massive impact for the quality of life for the neighbours.
You act like Wal Mart hasn't been mandating all sorts of things, in the other direction, for 50 years. The only thing new about this is which way the compass is pointing.
Are any of those occupied by locals for whom it's the best housing they can find?
Air superiority basically means being able to deny airspace to your enemy's forces while ensuring the safety of your own air assets. What if we developed swarms of drones to the point where both sides could ensure the destruction of anything flying in contested airspace, but not ensure the safety of anything flying?

Maybe warfare will return to a static mode, like WWI, but with much deadlier weapons, including automated AI area denial tanks and swarms of suicidal aerial drones.