skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree with the observation that people expect a reason. At least in my experience in Australia, "no thanks, I'm driving" works well. It is somewhat socially unacceptable to convince a driver to drink, and bar staff are supportive generally.
Huh, I didn't know it originated at Google. I thought it was just a code review thing.
Maybe as people who were not murdered were buried in some sort of burial site? (Like a cemetery).
As a working scientist a big problem with Kuhn is that he got a lot of people thinking that it is "boring" to do "normal science" and that the exciting thing is to overthrow the "current paradigm". So you get people with very minor discoveries claiming that they've created a new paradigm because they've found some discrepancy with current theory. It really is unhelpful and leads to misleading magazine covers like "Was Darwin/Einstein wrong?" when new discoveries in biology or physics get made.
> Your comment was in defense of the rationality of believing that a god, specifically the Christian god, planted fossil evidence in order to test our ability to discount it entirely.

That's right.

> Now you're saying that this God character doesn't follow from this "purpose" and that invoking that idea is suddenly a straw man outside of this discussion?

Yes, but you left out a very important caveat: I would restate this and add one word:

"... this God character doesn't necessarily follow from this "purpose" ..."

I'm not taking a position on whether or not God does follow from teleology, only that he might. Sorting out whether he does or not is a very thorny problem which is ridiculously beyond the scope of an HN comment.

All I'm saying is that, because God might follow from teleology, you cannot (rationally) dismiss out of hand someone who believes in God as being irrational no matter how irrational their conclusions may seem to you at first glance. Quantum mechanics is pretty frickin' bizarre too. It is possible that they have come to their beliefs in a perfectly rational manner, but starting from an assumption (like teleology) that you simply do not accept despite the fact that you can't actually prove that it is false, at least not rationally :-)
While I switched back to Firefox a while ago due to loss of trust in Google, it should not be forgotten that they support DRM on the web.
Being rational is not about proving every fanciful idea false. It's about not believing in things without rational justification. You can't simply propose an unfalsifiable idea and declare that the fact that the idea is unfalsifiable means it is rational to believe in it. I could believe that the universe actually runs on invisible, undetectable fart gas left over from a dead race of cosmic faeries, and just as easily can declare, "If my fart gas theory is true, then assuming it is true is useful."

Generalized: "If my wild idea about X is true, then assuming it is true is useful for figuring out what is true."

This is the definition of irrationality. If you want to be rational, you don't start with your conclusion and work backwards from there.
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> Many employers will terminate you instantly for any arrest, regardless of disposition.

lol, that kind of stuff should be illegal. As long as an employee doesn't have to go to jail it should not be allowed to fire the employee for anything that happens outside of the workplace, much less blanket automated policies like that one you describe.

And stuff that's gotten dropped should be either erased or at the very least sealed from the public instead of being provided on Google for all eternity.
I'm a huge fan too but it seems like Mozilla keeps dropping the ball on specific odd, "easy" things. The built-in screenshot tool makes it really easy to accidentally upload private information to a public inage sharing site and the Issue tracking a simple button relabeling has been open for months. They refuse to back down on Pocket integration that still leaves an awful taste in my mouth. The Library/Downloads windows have weird UX behaviors, should probably just be regular tabs, etc.
I think it's funny during Christmas and Easter, thousands of sermons and positive Christian videos are posted to YouTube but do not warrant a special response from Google, despite Christians being a large user base. Google is of course free to do as they wish with their platform and promote whatever they want, it's their choice and they own it. What I dislike is they advertise it as sort of free speech platform but rankings are intrinsically geared towards special interests.
Could you elaborate in this?
Same here, almost exclusive FF user on OSX (Sierra) and never had any issues
A dog's parents, grandparents, and all ancestors for the last n hundred years may have been selected for their ability to grab something and shake it until it's neck breaks.

This isn't the fault of the dog, but also not always fixable by training.
Could you please provide reasoning and evidence for this assertion? Benchmarks, for example?
I didn't mean it as a bad thing. Firefox's sync features are encrypted.

In fact, if you reset your password you lose all your sync data as a result[0].

[0]: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/ive-lost-my-firefox-syn...
Suffering from that issue myself, one thing that helps is a checklist, and go through that when you leave.

Another way is to unplug them, because then one remembers doing that.

Ovens can also suffer failures where the gas is turned on, but it fails to ignite. This is no issue when you're there and notice the gas smell and the burners not going on. If you're not there, the house fills with gas and explodes.
Ya, I don't mean to suggest that they're all irredeemable. They're definitely not. But the problem group is a lot riskier and takes a lot more investment to help.
So the hack is, carry packet of obscure tree seeds in your pocket if you think you're gonna get murdered
> I don't see that it says, "Purpose, therefore God."

It doesn't. I'm extrapolating. I'm saying that it is possible that such a conclusion can be arrived at rationally, for example, but starting from teleology as an assumption. Because this is possible, you cannot rationally conclude that a person is irrational just because they believe in God. They might be irrational, but they might not. To settle the question you'd need additional data.
You may like to know that it is encrypted on their servers, and if you lost your password, resetting your password nukes all your data. So I don't mind letting Mozilla host the contents.
When is the book out?
As I understand it, the formula is designed to keep a trending video around on their list for roughly a day. It would be interesting so see a list which optimised for showing videos (of any age) with accelerating views, and had a stronger decay over time, so you could see what is trending right now, but it might be heavily biased by the very recent uploads from popular creators.
I think it was also more advertisers switching to facebook and new ones giving fb ads a try first and not even considering Google ads (btw the rebranding from Google adworfs is another sign that Google is losing new advertisers to FB and yet another thing pointing to that desperation).

This ultimately affects Google's future growth and it's why you'll see Google do more such "desperate" moves like trying to become a military contractor, building its own iPhone-like phones, tracking users more aggressively, and I imagine android users will soon see os-wide ads, too.
For those who've switched over to Firefox recently and find Youtube inexplicably slow, it's "because YouTube's Polymer redesign relies on the deprecated Shadow DOM v0 API only implemented in Chrome." [0]

The YouTube Classic extension will speed things up: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-class...

[0] https://twitter.com/cpeterso/status/1021626510296285185
No license is required to ride a bicycle, and I'd wager that a bicycle is more dangerous than a scooter, since it weighs more and goes faster. I think bicycles just get grandfathered in.

Not that I want licensing for bicycles or scooters, mind you! I bike to work every day, and it's indisputable that much smaller vehicles going much slower are way, way safer than cars and trucks. 37K people were killed in vehicle crashes in 2016, the most recent year for which I can find data.
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In my experience of living in multiple shelters/streets/camps in multiple cities is that there is a lot of truth to this idea.

For example, I knew a man that was incredibly ornery, almost always drunk, and prone to occasional violent outbursts. Everybody (including the rest of us in the camp) avoided him. About a year after I left the camp, I ran into his daughter and learned that he had been a normal, successful eletrician that had sustained a severe brain injury at work, and his employer managed to avoid paying for workman's compensation or helping with his medical bills, leaving him permanently disabled and with no safety net.

I knew another man that also received a brain injury during a car crash in which he also lost the only extant copy of his masters' thesis in anthropology (the crash occurred in the 80s), and was in a similar position.

I knew a man that actually managed to get a section 8 apartment, but lost it because he opted to move back to the riverbottom and let a pregnant homeless woman stay in it in his stead. He was then also cut off from ALL social programs.

I saw a man get banned for life from an entire network of shelters spanning a huge chunk of the state for taking three (3!) single-use packets of Tide laundry detergent out of the facility.

I have also met a (very) small handful of genuinely odd people that just preferred to live mostly off the grid but still wanted to be near their families/veterinary clinic/spouse's grave/etc. but they are very much the exception and not the rule. I think that for some people with limited experience with the homeless, people that are chronically homeless might appear to all fall into this category.

I do 't think this happens all the time, or even to a majority of the population, but it is an idea that I have heard repeated numerous times.

From my experience, the details are almost always surprising, and the search for simple explanations or solutions is frustratingly unsatisfying.
There is an increasing demand for people (and practices) to secure the entire DevOps space. Not only in tools, but throughout the very culture.

It is hard. I recommend looking into the ~newly named concept of SecDevOps - at its core it is about applying the engineering mentality into securing, hardening and enhancing the entire development-operations cycle. Lot of it is obvious. Even more of it is flat out boring. Practically none of it is new.

In resilient systems, the gold standard people seem to aim for is chaos engineering: systems that behave correctly in the face of random failures, with the resilience exercised frequently. Well done security adds an additional aspect - that systems also behave correctly in the face of maliciously introduced inputs and/or failures.
Yes, the considerable, positive results from the dramatically expanded US social safety net are widely ignored. It's a mistake to ignore those results, they should be held up as a triumph. It worked, we have the positive results to show for it.

The US child poverty rate has dropped by over 50% since the 1970s. It's at an all-time record low solely due to the expansion of the US social safety net.

US homelessness is near a record low (it hit a record low two years ago), solely due to the expansion of the US social safety net.

The overall US poverty rate is near a 40 year low.

The number of people with healthcare coverage is at record highs, primarily thanks to the expansion of Medicaid, CHIP and SS disability.
Yeah it's easy to point at tech that never worked out. But it's also impressive to look at the tech that did work out and no one 50 years ago would have been able to predict where society is now.

It's just more exciting to me to envision a future where VR will work out, and I will keep working on it under that assumption.
If I’m not mistaken, this also ensures that when you sign out of Gmail, you are signed out of Chrome (no?). That seems like a win for user privacy, insofar as it addresses the likely failure mode of mistakenly leaving the browser signed in after signing out of the website.
From your perspective, what's the killer app for glasses that phones don't do better? Is it just the way it's always immediately there?
This has a naming collision with the controversial exactly-once message broker Kafka.
No, previously if you logged in sync was enabled - TFA and googles own privacy policy explain this quite clearly.
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I find that I cannot watch a YouTube video on my MacBook in Firefox for more than 10 seconds without the fans coming on at full throttle. This is one of the few reasons that I start up chrome, as strangely I can watch the same video in chrome without performance issues. I haven't had this issue on Firefox on PC
> there’s a lot one can do to counteract the disadvantages of having a device only a few millimeters thick.

There’s only so much you can do in software to negate the lower absorption of photons due to the dwell size.
That’s amazing that worked for you. I know it works for some people, but there are a significant number of us who have tried all of those things and it doesn’t work for us. What does work for me, consistently and amazingly well, was to accept —after years of earnestly trying all of the incredibly well meaning advice from others— that I’m not a 6:30am riser. I adjusted to a 9am wake up and it just works. Actually just works, easily, and always. I wake up rested and alert. I’m incredibly lucky that my job doesn’t require me to rise at 6am.

It really is a shame that so many in the world seemingly assume that we’re just not trying to sleep in the proper ways or that we’re not trying with enough conviction. Once I was lucky enough to be in a position where I could set my own schedule, my performance jumped significantly. I was no slouch prior to slightly altering my wake up time, but the changes after are remarkable.

Again, I am genuinely happy those changes worked for you, but for some of us, the same things just aren’t impactful in any meaningful way, sadly.
Vehicles are safer for those inside them at a given speed, sure. The problem is they're much less safe for anyone outside them (i.e. pedestrians and cyclists), and they're also capable of getting up to much higher speeds too.

As a pedestrian I would surely rather be hit by a bike going 15 mph than a car going 45 mph. Bicycles also don't have blind spots, so they're less likely to hit a well-behaving pedestrian to begin with.
I might be missing something but I couldn’t find a way to trigger shortcuts to make them useful.

So for example, I’d love to have a shortcut that checked if I was still at work at 17:15 each day and tell me to leave (potentially after checking for train delays). It seemed from the developer intro I read about shortcuts this would be possible but it doesn’t seem like there’s an interface to wire up shortcuts to trigger like that. Anyone have a workaround?
1996 being the pre Windows 98 Era
> except this one isn't localised/customised for your specific country.

It is. I get results in German. (And yes, they're all clickbait I'd never watch.)
I’m saying that teleology without a mind(s) to hold the purpose is not a coherent concept because purpose is not an intrinsic property of objects. Even if it was a coherent concept, you seem to have decided that it is unfalsifiable, and for some reason you think that makes it rational to believe in. Do you think that all unfalsifiable ideas are perfectly rational to believe in merely because by definition they can’t be proven wrong?
Houston is not a great example because most of the cheap real estate is at the perimeter and that perimeter keeps moving outward at a quite astonishing rate.

In addition, Houston has de facto zoning through land use restrictions:
https://kinder.rice.edu/2015/09/08/forget-what-youve-heard-h...
Also, as mentioned, here's a C to Rust transpiler funded by DARPA to help with migrations https://c2rust.com/
RustConf video https://youtu.be/WEsR0Vv7jhg it uses clang and bindgen under the hood
Go to Brave - it's fantastic.
I would say that the main difference was that, in its heyday, Apple was looking and developing solutions for specific problems most people were not actually aware they were having. On the other hand, Amazon has a bunch of really solid solutions, very well executed, and is now experimenting with known problems they can be applied to.
That's of course not always the case. We're in a thread about homelessness, so this is quite appropriate:

NY Times 2008: "The number of chronically homeless people living in the nation’s streets and shelters has dropped by about 30 percent — to 123,833 from 175,914 — between 2005 and 2007, Bush administration officials said on Tuesday."

"the officials attribute much of the decline to the “housing first” strategy that has been promoted by the Bush administration and Congress and increasingly adopted across the country."

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/30/us/30homelessweb.html

2013: "The Astonishing Decline of Homelessness in America"

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/08/the-ast...

Ultimately culminating in an all-time record low rate of homelessness in the US by 2017.

The George W. Bush administration deserves the negative flak it took for its various bad policies. It also deserves credit for the positive things like its policies on homelessness or PEPFAR that were astounding successes.
I'm not allowed to give any details, but I work for a major consulting company on a team where we do nothing but build VR training systems for major retail chain clients. The improvements in engagement, knowledge retention, and reduction in injury are very significant. Again, not allowed to say how much, but basically it's stupid for companies like this to not be using VR training these days. It's too easy to build for too great of a gain.
Interesting points in that article.

Having had a Christmas present rejected by a 10 year old I’m well aware of fake apologies. The kid, who had expressed interest in basketball multiple times, asked me a pointed "why did you give me a basketball?" Accusatory tone as if I had gifted him a turd. When suggested by the relevant horrified parent to apologise he laughed. Then later when forced to apologise he did so robotically. I asked him why he was apologising. "Because I had to". When I asked him if he understood why, he said no. Being the offended party I suggested he think about the why before he considered apologising. He disappeared for awhile then came back with a smirk on his face and apologised again. I asked him why he was apologising again when he didn't mean it. Again "because he was told to."

Delivery and intent actually matters.

Maybe this year a certain someone will get some coal.
Well worth the long read. Astonished that the author is a "mere" grad student. Keep an eye on this one.

Nice to see a sympathetic account of Kuhn from a scientist. I've always felt that he wasn't worthy of admission to the Sokal Rogue's Gallery. (I sometimes wonder if I've been too quick to judge some of the other big names in that gallery)
> It sounds like they were using an expression tree and changed it to something like truth tables, which are essentially "flat" expression representations that can support any boolean expression.

I don't think that's an accurate description - it's more that we converted the tree representation (which still exists at parse/plan time) into an opcode/bytecode representation, evaluated by a mini-VM. Obviously that VM is quite specialized, and not general purpose (and currently it's afaik no internally turing complete, due to the lack of backward jumps, but that's just a question of the program generator, rather than the VM itself). The VM uses computed goto based dispatch if available (even though on modern x86 hardware the benefits aren't as large as on older HW).
For now. The next step in the dark pattern is to note the "User confusion that arises when chrome is logged in to the account, but the data is not synced", and automatically turn on sync.
Over £72M is spent each year in England on what? And probably wastefully
I live in downtown Vancouver. I'm in one of the more affluent neighbourhoods however about 11% of housing is non-market (depending on how you count). Vancouver has a fairly large homeless population because it is the most temperate Canadian city.

Most of the homeless people are just regular people. Sure, some of them have substance abuse problems.

But stand up in your cubicle when you get to the office on Monday morning. One of the coworkers that you can see from your desk has probably taken an opioid, cocaine, amphetamine, or a prescribed drug for ADHD or anxiety.

And they are fully functional.

Your coworkers are regular people. Just like the homeless that you see. More people than you know are one missed paycheque away from being on the streets.

Many of the "chronically homeless" as you call it are one medicine away or one therapist away from being fully functional. And one of your coworkers is one paycheque away, one bad week away from being chronically homeless.
Somethings are supposed to be painful. If you put to many commands that should have root privileges with no password, you do two things. 1 you load the gun to shoot your self in the foot because you took the safety off. 2 if you forget to lock your session and walk away, anyone can do root things you added to sudo config.

I would suggest if you absolutely need non root users to do things manage it with groups. That is one of the reasons groups exist. Don’t use the sudo group as a dumping ground for random commands as if you need to revoke a users permission you have to edit sudo config to lock certain commands down to specific users. What you need is a group. So then if a user needs permission add them to the group, when you need to revoke permissions remove them from the group.
Sorry for the confusion, I meant that the Saturn V could haul 310k lbs and the payload didn't necessarily need be the CSM/LEM. So in theory they could attach a dragon/bfs type thing as payload.
I'm pretty sure you could still turn it off while remaining logged in.
Unify all web APIs in a single, programmable, and customizable interface. It matters because people's data does not reside in files anymore, it's behind a very heterogeneous set of web APIs which, as a whole, are very hard to use.
Disable "Automatic graphics switching" in "Energy Saver" in OS X settings. This fixed this problem for me (which started about 4 months ago).

(I'm on Yosemite.)
I just disconnect when I'm done watching and the next person can connect using their device. With Netflix you need to at least switch profiles so it's about as convenient but I rarely watch anything on TV and never actual TV so it may be more annoying for heavier users.
NMDA antagonists usually make it possible to dream while awake. Low NMDA goes with higher dopamine and higher NMDA with norepinephrine. Schizophrenia is said to be associated with poor NMDA signaling (high agmatine, low D-serine/coagonists, high NMDA receptor antibodies, etc).
Is it really a Google reference? Do you have any source for that?
Wow, this is nice!

It's very hard for me to resist watching too much youtube, so I'll probably start to use this.

I wish the video player wasn't as large as the whole screen so that controls are partially covered by the scroll bar(on chrome) and you basically cannot zoom out, it's a bit frustrating.

Other than that, thank you for doing this!