skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. If air pollution decreases cognitive capacity in the short term, it's clear that learning efforts have a lower return on investment for that period of time. This means it directly affects parts of the crystallized intelligence. It's like a temporary learning disorder which inhibits neurogenesis and decreases working memory.

Please correct me if I'm wrong. Sounds very interesting and I hope that people will finally fight against air pollution. Undoing it is not only healthier but also economically relevant. Sad that such studies seem to be necessary, but it's good that such revelations lead to more pressure for the policy makers.
Very interesting article, didn't even know this existed.

My first "proper" computer that my parents bought was running Windows 98, so will have missed this, but I remember using Windows 95 at school.

We also missed the whole walled garden thing (I'm from the UK, I think AOL tried to break into the market here but not sure if it succeeded) and made our first forays onto the internet using dialup via an ISP.

Interesting to see what a few years before my first time on the web was like.

The "everything is an object" thing sort of reminds me of Plan9 with a bit of BeOS too.
Most of the time I honk it is because someone is playing on their phone and have not noticed that the light turned green 5 seconds ago.
Author’s Note. Although I use the word “hear” to refer to how I perceive sound, that’s not an accurate term. Since cochlear implants bypass the natural hearing process, we can’t properly call it hearing.

This is partially true. CIs replace everything up to the auditory nerve -- the hair cells in the cochlea, the mechanotransduction at the eardrum, etc are all literally short-circuited by the implant.

However, much of what we call "hearing", and basically all of the perceptual aspects of it, begin on the AN itself, or in the areas of the brainstem and midbrain that the AN projects to. These areas receive input from the AN as would be true in a normal-hearing individual, with the caveat that the available frequency spectrum is greatly reduced.
>By following the correct speed limit and following distance, you will have ample time to react to any silly behavior.

The problem is that in heavy traffic (e.g. middle of many large cities at 5pm), it's not actually possible to both follow the law and actually make progress towards your destination in a given hour.

One example: Try to make a left turn in gridlocked traffic. You're supposed to avoid moving across an intersection until there is enough room for your vehicle, so that if a light changes, you will not block traffic. The problem is that in rush hour traffic, if you actually do that, you will sit there for an hour or more as other cars see the gap and take a right turn, never giving you a spot to turn into.
Market prices will not solve helium, because helium price is kept artificially cheap via some subsidies.
Uh, you run them over?
Correct me if I'm wrong, but ain't Relish (https://www1.relish.net/) a WISP?

If you guys gather around to chat let me know, I might be interested in participating as well.
Traditionally during times of war the US Constitution does not apply. This used to mean an official vote by the Senate[1], but since WWII the US decided that we no long would have wars with other countries. We renamed the War department the Defense department in 1947 and have not have a declared war since. Instead the Congress passes resolutions authorizing the use of military force. Presidents sometimes claim this gives them "War" powers and the Supreme court sometimes agree. An unfortunate state of affairs, I would say, especially now with the forever "war" on terror.

It would have been great if when the Department of Homeland Security was created it was called the Department of Defense and the Department of Defense reclaimed its true name, Department of War. I wonder if this idea and practice of renaming something to try and change the nature of a thing started around then, or if it has a much older history.

[1]https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_a...
If your views skew right perhaps checking out a liberal podcast like Pod Save America, or a leftist podcast Chapo Trap House or Citations Needed. If they skew left, Crowder, Shapiro, Jones or Limbaugh ought to do it.

Like, these won't be "solid debate and discussion" but you'll definitely work out why people hold opposite views quickly.
There's a book "founders at work" by Jessica Livingston. The technology is old but some stories are amazing like Steve Wozniak one. I like to listen to one story to my way to school/gym. If there isnt audible one (I don't use) avoid cognitive ease and use a text to speech.(1).

(1) apps like eReader on Android have function for TTS. Cognitive ease is a bias and can be avoided changing to make a little difficult. Like harder font to read etc.
Show HN: Dank Learning – mobile app to make memes with AI
actually I'm framing a house right now with my uncle. Having difficulty breaking into programming / dev jobs after graduating this past spring.

End up working 10-13 hours on the house, and try to work on projects when I'm finished there for the day. Still been applying!
> Well, then a common sense incremental change would be to drop or discourage those tiny bail amounts,

Or, we could instead try replacing money bail in a relatively small jurisdiction (say, Washington, D.C.) for a number of years, and if it works well do it in a larger jurisdiction.

Once the first step of that has been done and shown to work, the case for smaller incremental steps in the next jurisdiction, though, is pretty weak. You seem to think we are at the point of considering a first practical test, but that step was taken years ago.
It's tough. Supporting someone through their first contribution is a lot of work and there's a lot of falloff with new contributors. It's easier to say "just do the work yourself if you're actually interested" and it can be exhausting to go through the initial hand holding time and time again.

As someone who is interested in growing a medium sized open source project, it's difficult to find the people who are interested in contributing without feeling too pushy. You want to give people the best information and tools to go forward, but you also want to let them learn independently (since scratching your itch is typically an adage within FOSS).

I do push the "just pop into the IRC channel" approach because it's hard to give better recommendations before knowing who the other individual is and what they want to get out of volunteering. I don't know if any particular thread could accomplish the negotiation of "who want's to help whom" due to the vast differences of all the different specializations, project sizes, project collaboration styles, etc. It would be nice if it did though.
Ethereum in Google BigQuery: A Public Dataset for Smart Contract Analytics
Yes. Their NLP is unparalleled. I'd say the uncluttered UI, query parsing, and search algorithm were all the major factors.
Eh, I can sympathize with the lady. It's really annoying when someone needs to come to a near complete stop to make a right turn in otherwise flowing traffic.

Yes, you don't need to whip into the parking lot at 45mph, but at the same time you don't need to take 15 seconds to creep around the corner and build up a big line of cars. There is a goldilocks zone and some people just plain miss it.
> There’s a strong gun culture in Australia as well, and as an Australian, and a gun owner, I am perfectly fine with not being able to have an assault rifle. Because no one else can either, and schools don’t get shot up

Civilians in the US are not allowed to own assault rifles either, and haven't for decades. There are a tiny number of assault rifles in civilians' hands that were first sold over 30 years ago and were grandfathered in, but they are absurdly expensive (due to their rarity) and are generally owned by collectors.
I’ll bet this has something to do with the Referer header. Iirc DDG used to always use this forwarding method so that you don’t leak your search phrase to the site you’re going to. I wonder if now there’s a way for DDG to instruct Firefox to omit the Referer header (or if DDG detects that you have Firefox configured to not send the header), but that Edge still sends the Referer header?
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Using FOIA and public databases to track down Department of Defense contracts
Yeah that struck me as odd too (and I'm not American). I think a year of school makes me more educated, but not more intelligent.
>I think the degree to which driving is a social behavior is underappreciated.

I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

>We can design a conservative robot to put into a school of fish. The real fish will avoid it and leave it behind. The robot fish is safe, in that there are no collisions. But is it fulfilling the mission of being a good fish?

Has anyone even built a robot fish that can operate fairly seamlessly in a school of fish?

Obviously there's less resources being devoted to this because there's less incentive to do so because there isn't the same demonetization potential as self driving cars but it seems like technology capable of acting like a fish in a school is a prerequisite of a properly self driving car.
I upvoted you. But now that I reread the post above, I think that the implication there might have equally well been different - that the driver would not be able to afford alinsurance anymore and thus forced out of the privileged position of being able to (legally) drive. So the person might still be a jackass, but no longer a jackass driver.
Fair enough, but you'd be missing out on a huge market. And unlike Asia, it has a single regulation to follow for things like data protection.

If your company was unable to comply with GDPR, many wouldn't want business with your company anyway, especially other companies who are trying to comply with it.
I spent many years writing motion control software for medical instruments and I am absolutely in awe of talented mechanical engineers.

Something as seemingly simple as retrieving parts from a bin of bulk pieces, singulating them so they're in a straight line and correctly spaced, making sure they are all oriented in the same direction and then passing them off to another moving sub-assembly all the while achieving a spec of "no more than one jam every 5,000 pieces" and still maintaining sufficient throughput is amazingly difficult. Especially doing it while avoiding all the other patented solutions.

The subtleties of, say, fixing a problem by making a tab just 0.05" shorter need a level of skill that's only obtained through decades of honing your craft.

A nice discussion of doing something similar with zipper pulls:https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364
Concerned Canadian here. You're referring to Bill C-76 (the "Anti-Foreign Interference" and/or "Election Modernization Act")?

Is there a good critical analysis (WRT free speech) of this bill you can recommend?

Text of bill is here: http://www.parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/42-1/bill/C-76/first-re...
If helium is “running out” then shouldn’t we have some sort of embargo on wasted helium uses like balloons? Or are consumer product uses of helium not a significant dent in the supply?
Thank you for the reply!
I could not find your email address on your profile. If you could please share - then I had a few more follow up questions and I am curious about the opportunity you have written about.
Thanks again
> Is it politics when human rights are violated?

Absolutely. The most important politics.

Of course, using “politics” as a dismissal of importance is only a technique to protect the political status quo from a challenge one cannot otherwise defend against.
I don't think this is true for the general case, though. At some point one has to declare that the data has "arrived" in its usable form at the destination, and RAM seems like the wrong threshold (since, for now, it's volatile).

Although one could consider HDDs to be immediately usable at the destination once they're "plugged in", there are too many exceptions (including good reasons not to re-use a device subjected to such conditions in production) just to assume it's true.

If they were SSDs, I might agree, but those are still too expensive for the use case.
I disagree. Using a shit sandwich is a way to show empathy in a conversation and have your words heard by the other party.

Contrast:
I think the functionality of the application is very useful. The UI is really lacking, especially when doing X, Y and Z. I really like the Q feature it would save me some time.

With:
The UI sucks.
In NJ we actually use an algorithm to determine whether someone gets bail. The system is designed so that most people are released with no bail, and the algorithm uses various risks factors to determine bail for those who do get pretrial detention.
Since people are complaining about the title, I took a crack at making it less misleading. If anyone can suggest a better (i.e. more accurate and neutral) title, we can change it again. It's a bit hard for an outsider to read exactly what happened here, or why it matters.
IANAL, but I believe that a sub-license has to be more restrictive than the parent license.
Those bureaucrats are there to represent society, reduce conflict, and serve the greater good. Regulating is their role and somewhere up the chain of command is an elected official that oversees their power to do so. Sometimes the unelected bureaucrats are misguided, ignorant, corrupt, or otherwise misinterpret their role and/or power, but we have elections and city council meetings where issues are to be addressed; new policies can be enacted and complaints can be filed. It is not perfect but overall it tends to work.
And sadly, the one I prefer is in effective at anything but self-inflicted lower extremity gunshot wounds.
That zip system you describe isn't far from how most of the App Stores work today. Android's APK and Windows' MSIX (fka APPX) are "just" zip files with particular metadata. Updates are often delivered as delta zip files. MSIX even uses a copy-on-write methodology to support in-place updates, modifications, and extensions. (Yes, there are tools to modify MSIX installs to extend apps or customize them. Most of them are targeted to corporate needs, but some of them are already used for games, too, thanks to the Xbox.)
Helium might be the second most abundant element in the universe, but that doesn't say much about the abundance here on Earth and how much of that can be feasibly extracted.
I know it’s mostly about wording and legalese, but it’s disappointing that this is where we are now.

I don’t think we should be able to redefine things that would be outside any reasonable expectation. No reasonable person would call a monopoly market a competitive one, but here we are. If they were going to change something then get rid of the competition requirement instead of changing the definition to absurdity.
Not sure why the need to freeze it, just keep it at boiling temp until you need it
[1] This study makes the assumption that lower ldl is less risk and then looks for mutations in genes that lower ldl. It's putting the cart before the horse.

> e. In each study,
we estimated the odds ratio for disease among
carriers of any NPC1L1 inactivating mutation, as
compared with noncarriers. We then calculated
the summary odds ratios and 95% confidence
intervals for coronary heart disease among carriers,
using a Mantel–Haenszel fixed-effects
meta-analysis without continuity correction

[2] This starts off by saying that if we gave statins to 10000 people who are at risk that it would help 1000 and 500 people only. In addition 100 people might have adverse effects. If you ask me, an expensive drug that barely helps and only increases mortality by 5 days on average isn't worth it, and it comes with chances of adverse affects. If we just eat foods high in saturated fats and raise our HDL that is far better.

[3] a meta analysis of randomized trials. Says 11 out of 1000 patients had a reduction of major vascular events. So that is saying out of 90 or so people who take statins, only 1 of them will see any benefits.

Basically statins are poison that give hardly any benefit and treat an assumption that lower ldl leads to less heart attacks.

Try this one https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/5/9/e007118.full

> The median postponement of death for primary and secondary prevention trials were 3.2 and 4.1 days, respectively.

The average life increase of taking statins is 4 days!
On the topic of right wing hate machine, that twitterer seems to have a agenda of trying to prove how white men are hated. And "please donate so I can buy an iPhone". It seems he even interprets things like "Scholarship for minorities" as racism. I do agree some of her tweets are questionable, but I wouldn't say all the ones he screen captured prove that she is a racist.

It seems I've stumbled upon Gamergate. Let me just back out of this slowly...
A million comments is a strange metric, maybe a million commits?
Are you at a language school? I started learning Japanese recently, and would love to move there one day.
Actually that link makes no prediction at all about how much sea levels will rise. It merely looks at the impact if the sea level were to rise by the given amounts.
> Are you claiming that [...]

No, I'm saying that the person you are replying to has no need of you reminding him of Pike's words, given that he actually knows Pike, unlike you.
Elephants have a grasping limb, not grasping limbs. That may seem pedantic, but having at least two hands is probably a prerequisite for a lot of simple technological development.
This happened recently with a fake version of MetaMask stealing crypto.
I've seen every kind of way a company handles a firing or layoff, good, bad, everything in between. Doesn't matter. That's not you. What kind of impression and what kind of legacy do you want to leave? It costs you nothing to be the bigger person in any case. But hopefully, you leave a toxic company long before they do this kind of thing to you.
The cryptocurrency market’s reliance on Tether is a recipe for disaster
Probiotics shouldn't be treated as a food supplement, according to a new study
Corporations want cheaper ads; I understand that but I don't understand why I should be tracked. They should develop better ads without violating someone's privacy or anonymity.
“The relative sea level trend is 2.39 mm/year with a 95% confidence interval of +/- 0.43 mm/year based on monthly mean sea level data from 1931 to 1981 which is equivalent to a change of 0.78 feet in 100 years.”
According to [0]: Border Patrol cannot search the interior of a vehicle without the owner’s consent or “probable cause” (a reasonable belief, based on the circumstances, that an immigration violation or crime has likely occurred).

Who's wrong, you or the ACLU?

[0]https://www.acluaz.org/sites/default/files/field_documents/a...
Areas that used to be covered by glaciers.
HDDs, yes, but tapes, no.

That is, HDDs are generally unbounded in the parallelism because disk bays are cheap [1] and plentiful.

OTOH, tape drives are expensive, multiple thousands of dollars, which makes them scarce.

[1] $100/bay in quantity, but, in some cases, effectively $0 if counting unused bays in existing servers.
That's better. I really see this as "Google opens administration of Kubernetes infra, donates $9M in credits to keep it running".
With both Chrome and Firefox preventing users from running unsigned extensions at all, even with a configurable option, we are being too paranoid about extensions in my opinion, handing our decisions over to centralized organizations.

If I lost the ability to filter out shit on the web, whether it be ads, the junk YouTube displays over videos, or just things that I find visually unpleasant, I'd probably stop browsing most sites. User control is more important than anything, in my opinion.
"second most common element in the known universe "

How about here on Earth? Since it doesn't chemically bond to other elements, the gas form escapes the atmosphere and is blown away by solar wind, effectively lost forever. All that we have is the byproduct of nuclear fission that is prevented from reaching the atmosphere by stratigraphic trap. It has that reservoir characteristic in common with natural gas, but as we know Carbon is much more reactive and goes through the carbon cycle. We could run out of Helium in any practical sense.
It's really great that Google people are coming forward to clarify it but what's with the scare-disclosurinating? Your affiliation is not a source of potential conflict of interest with some detail of what you have to say. It's the most relevant bit and the reason you can make a knowledgable comment. Say it loud, say it proud, etc...
I struggle with cronic injuries. Over the years I've accumulated a few different injuries to my shoulder, back and knee which put me in a constant state of pain. It's not debilitating but it is relentless. I'm always around a 3/10 on my pain scale, which just means I'm always uncomfortable. I can manage with stretching and some targeted exercises, but generally my injuries do not subside.
It does now actually, an Apple app named "Files".
I sort of disagree in one important sense: all generic advice is pretty useless.

How to succeed in sports? practice, focus, take care of your diet and health

How to succeed in a large company? keep your boss happy, work hard, focus

etc

This is not Altman's fault. I don't think the videos can -- or are supposed to -- replace actual detailed daily advice on struggles which, presumably, you get if you join Ycombinator.

I don't think that "focusing on bringing stories of various startups to light" is all that different from what he is doing. The same criticism applies: it is their story not yours.

And the same caveat applies: it is a sample of the kind of advice you will get.
Unfortunately this is the reality of undergrad. Most kids are scrolling facebook, the others are extremely shy and afraid of saying something stupid.

I'd say the biggest hurdle to get over is showing the students that it's okay to speak up and get the answer wrong, it's ok to say something silly without penalty.

All the lecturers I've seen who made the classroom engaging would simply not move forward until someone has answered the question. Eventually you get the situation where 1 - 3 people regularly answer the questions just to get the class going. In this case the approach professors would take is to then ask sections of the room where no one has answered.

Thank you for wanting to make your classroom engaging I hope this helps!
That sounds like it just changes step 4 into "Tailgater's insurance rates skyrocket after his insurer is forced to pay the maximum to repair the expensive driverless car and the maximum to repair everything the expensive driverless car was forced to hit."
During my brief period working for McDonald's long ago, I'm not sure that there was anyone who was the head of a multi-person household, and I'm pretty sure that the manager and assistant manager were the only ones not still in high school. I did not enjoy working for McDonald's, but compared to the other options open to a high school student for a summer job, it did not stand out for low pay etc.

The difficulties arise when McDonald's etc. become not a starter job but a long-term one, or when McDonald's terms of employment and pay become the model for what one can get.
Given the choice between stats from the government and stats from organizations who clearly have an agenda...
> The complaints here are really just demonstrating how bad humans are at driving

Or that the letter of the law is not a useful abstraction for how systems optimally perform.
Making sense of the pay package startups offer can be daunting
I don't think I've ever had a keyword removal produce something worthwhile.

Perhaps there is a different class of user that this is useful for.

If only there was a way to disable it. Some sort of "advanced" mode.