skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you mean for work, home, or both? I'm definitely interested to see how AR comes into play in the workplace, for home I think Americans already watch television or are on electronic devices most of their waking hours outside of work (can't find the article but know it was a few hours a day at least) so I'm not sure how much of an impact it'll have there
I sure this thread is going wonderful places.
Which study are you referring to? Several are referenced.
Nobel Prize in medicine goes to cancer immunotherapy researchers
Since you mentioned it I'll plug it (simply because I think it's cool): FermiLab has a lot of public events they host as well as various interesting lectures http://news.fnal.gov/newsroom/public-events/

It's in Batavia, about an hour's drive outside Chicago.
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£400 a week, in York? Hell yes. £800 once you’re done training for someone who couldn’t program before they started is not just good, it’s fantastic for anywhere in the U.K. outside London for a junior.
If you missed the link, here's the actual presentation:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1c_NyUhOZ8erdqU2AGZJZtNfFeA9...
Free service that requires a credit card? That is almost always a red flag for me and just screams “scam”. Who falls for that?
I definitely think that it makes being alone more painful. I stopped using Facebook, Twitter, and Snapchat almost a year ago, and I just shut down Instagram about two months ago. It made me realize how much more
I focused on how lonely I felt because I saw all of these interactions but it never felt like I was connected or intimate with anyone. I’m still lonely and spend a lot of time alone, but it doesn’t feel like it’s taunting me and driving me towards suicide out of despair.
I mean there's still millions of them clogging the roads and polluting, they're just not private vehicles.
In Defense of Optimization Work
Visual maps (mind-maps) don't scale well over 20-30 items because the model becomes hard to grasp and lots of scrolling is necessary. Such models are nice while they are small.

I'd love to see a cross between a wiki and a mind-map where parts of a larger mind-map are represented on individual pages of the wiki, with links between them. I'd use such a tool to organise my ideas / learning.
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I built a cloud to deploy autoscaled docker apps, being tired of waiting for AWS to apply changes for 30 minutes. It was built to be extremely fast (read sub 30 seconds for any operation). It also has neet features like auto HTTPS, zero downtime rollout and rollbacks, image storing and CNAMEs.

It all runs on Kubernetes and I use it to host my own projects. I would love some feedback :)

https://usekube.co
Explosive user growth in "free" SAAS and social media starts to taper towards a limit.

Public companies, pressured to maintain that revenue trajectory, compensate reduced growth by squeezing more value from existing users.

This tends to lead towards more obtrusive advertisement, aggressive data collection which, if not carefully implemented, leads to negative publicity and attrition.

The struggle in 2018+ is to find what we collectively considers "acceptable privacy", or in other words where is that line between what valuable personal information folks will offer up and what's considered generally creepy.
Previous discussions:

From two days ago about Solid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18100895 (244 comments)

From yesterday about payments on Solid: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18104867 (47 comments)

From three months ago about Tim Berners-Lee:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17441820 (109 comments)
Recently tried to order directly through the website, since retailers only offer FHD but no 2K screens.

Education store didn't proceed after checkout, with a 1$ reservation on my visa account. Lenovo's solution via e-mail: just buy at normal price without education discount :-)

[not US, not X1. just mocking about the customer experience]
I think this is measured on average, and it's possible that people are undecided, or look through everything and take their time making sure to do it right.
Personally I'd be pretty sure that, at least at the bank I currently work at, this would rarely ever work.

I mean, other than the attempts to foster a relationship between bank staff and the tech people through things like days of letting tech people hang out and try and be helpful at branches in order to "see what real difference they could make" - and that laegely ending up being a fairly regular educational exercise for everyone involved theres two problems I see:

1. All the phone calls into branches are monitored (you may have noticed so many "we will record this call and it may be monitored" messages - they arent kidding) and if certain key words, or even key tones of voice are picked up someone from a relevant team silently dials onto the call to listen in.
2. The general process for anyone not in it interacting with any IT system is to click a button on their screen which generates a 6 digit pin and if you cant match that pin with the person talking to you and dont confirm success then alerts go out immediately.

And given the hit rate on the "generate pin" api, tellers are definitely using it properly.

So i'd be inclined to go pretty small if I where to bet at all.

Not sure why the assumption that you can social engineer your way onto any half way competent institution still persists,but nowadays, as far as I know, you have to pick the really low hanging fruit for someone to let you in so easily.
When you are voting for a dozen candidates and a dozen ballot measures, it takes time to read through all of them and make sure you are marking the correct boxes, even when you know how you will vote in advance.
There is likely more to solve than just code. COBOL is often running in a proprietary environment with dependencies on things like job schedulers, databases, terminals, network protocols, character sets, etc.

Check the COBOL job postings, and you'll see desired skills in TSO, JCL, CICS, Natural/Adabase, VSAM, etc. Or equivalents of those for OS/400, MPE, or VMS mid-range platforms.
Can you clarify on that a bit? Obviously no one would expect his detractors to spend a bunch of time discrediting him, but at least a cursory explanation of the flaws in his methodology/data is kind of necessary.

Why is this "poor data science"?
http://katz.fastmail.us/scientist.html

>American universities train roughly twice as many Ph.D.s as there are jobs for them. When something, or someone, is a glut on the market, the price drops. In the case of Ph.D. scientists, the reduction in price takes the form of many years spent in ``holding pattern'' postdoctoral jobs. Permanent jobs don't pay much less than they used to, but instead of obtaining a real job two years after the Ph.D. (as was typical 25 years ago) most young scientists spend five, ten, or more years as postdocs. They have no prospect of permanent employment and often must obtain a new postdoctoral position and move every two years. For many more details consult the Young Scientists' Network or read the account in the May, 2001 issue of the Washington Monthly.

It's gotten worse since then.
Honestly, if you’ve given a project 6 years of your life, regardless of how much money I pledged I wouldn’t ask for more.

If you made a good effort and are burned out, you should just stop. I can only imagine how liberating writing this post must have been, even if it was hard.
> 2 gallons of water every day

Ok, maybe that's working for you, but I would caution other people, hyponatremia is a real risk if you over hydrate.

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyponatremia)
> Voting machines are a solution in search of a problem.

Not really. If done properly they would allow faster and cheaper vote counting, a more secure audit trail and the ability for voters to verify that their vote was recorded properly.

But they do seem to be one of those things where the government is happy to just hand out bags of money to rubbish vendors and then wonder why it doesn't work. Reminds me of the NHS digitisation fiasco.
Ask HN: Why does a video rewind on YouTube require a rebuffer?
I've noticed that even after I've fully downloaded a video, it appears to rebuffer the entire thing when I replay it. Why is this? Why not just stream it once?
Insider Trading’s Odd Couple: The Goldman Banker and the NFL Linebacker
> Bugs the heck out of me, because if the language they use is literally true, then no one would ever be convinced to change their minds ever. And yet, we do.

This is the wrong conclusion to draw from the discussion. People do change their minds, but rarely all at once. What they want is to be consistent, so you have to move the needle a little bit at a time.

One technique to convince somebody of something: first you have to show you understand their position better than they do and are on their side. Then you can lead them towards the correct solution. It's called "pacing and leading".
That is completely untrue. You can open a case and get access to downloads outside your support contract if you reference a vulnerability that’s affecting your current hardware.
That's fair, but it really feels to me like a kind of "token gesture" that makes it seem like it's in good faith (and could actually be done in good faith!) but keeps all the same underlying issues.

After all, a lot of those counting machines are proprietary and un-auditable, so you have no way of knowing if they are actually just windows-xp wireless laptops crammed into a fancy plastic case.

I don't know enough about it in this situation to know, but things like that can sometimes cause a false sense of security or improvement that can actually make things worse in the long run.
American elections are very rarely one box. Generally there's a whole series of offices being elected separately, and probably several different measures of various sorts being voted on directly.
Measurements of metric are objective only from the people who establish them, who are biased. Even if the professor is right, challenging meritocracies is always valuable and necessary.

This doesn't mean you should throw away all systems for selecting people to do a job; it means examining we must examine the consequences of using those systems and examining whether they are a net positive not only for the work you're doing but for society as a whole.
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Maybe the author of the article browses HN and/or Reddit and saw some comments about there being few COBOL programmers (I've seen a couple of comments about it in the past), and decided to write an article about it?
My only counterpoint to this is two fold.

I know writing asyncio code is newer and therefore less established and that will certainly crop more bugs for less experienced programmers I’ve witnesses this myself.

With that said my 2 points are as follows:

1. Asyncio has comapbility for running threadsade code (asyncio.Lock, loop.run_thread_safe etc) which can take those blocking functions and run them without having to give up all the benefits of awaitable code. In my albeit somewhat brief testing SqlAlqchemy worked okay in this context (I know peewee does its my personal ORM of choice)

I happen to agree however that fileIO should’ve been the first thing they implemented as async as it’s the biggest gain instead of leaving it up to the community to re implemented

In fact thinking about it it’s the explicit use of Futures that allow me to often bridge sync code like an ORM into asyncio without too much trouble IMO

2. Given that, did you test any of your io heavy code against an asyncio version? I’m just curious. I’ve been seeing personally huge bumps in performance by switching our production apps from Django to Tornado
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Sometimes there are 10-25 different votes you’re casting on a single ballot (for example: city council, judges/prosecutors, state representatives and senators, federal reps and senators, president, local and state ballot initiatives)
Maybe Wikipedia don't scale as gwern assumes.

You would think that editing work related to the number of pages is sublinear or linear, but maybe that's not true.

When the organization grows in numbers number of management positions grows logarithmically, but the amount of communication may grow much faster. Wikipedia has a editing hierarchy and process that is much more complicated than just a simple tree hierarchy for a good reason.

The culture of the organization may also put limits to the growth and is related to communication. You can't just assume that the organizational culture can be maintained without increasing efforts to maintain it. Large companies and organizations always struggle with this. The mission is lost.

I really hope that genuinely meritocratic pedias like http://www.scholarpedia.org/ , https://plato.stanford.edu/, https://www.iep.utm.edu/ will continue to grow as alternative to Wikipedia.
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It's one thing to say it's a very good approximation of a sphere. It's another thing to say it's in fact an absolutely perfect sphere.

People had firm belief in the second and discounted evidence to the contrary. Even ignoring that rotation causes a significant distortion (https://www.nasa.gov/topics/solarsystem/features/oblate_sun....) they would not accept https://eclipse2017.nso.edu/coronal-mass-ejections-cme/ as a 'real' thing.
> likely have negative repercussions on the company's ability to raise capital in the future.

Perhaps the increased independence of the board will facilitate raising capital?
How few options were on the ballot you cast? In the most recent election here in California, there were a rather ridiculous number of candidates for most positions, plus quite a few propositions. Even if you pre-select your choices before hand, you still have to find those choices on the screen (or on the paper ballot) since the ordering might have changed from the sample ballot. I want to say it took me about 4 minutes to vote even with 100% pre-selected answers on my sample ballot to refer to. Other people who did less research took quite a bit longer.
I'm just speculating, but network effects are extremely important in science and I see it as very possible that women might have a harder time networking (presenting their papers, talking to peers, given benefit of the doubt by peers, etc.) in a field that is dominated by men. My SO did her bachelors on AA in big corps and found a lot of studies that supported the hypothesis that males bosses statistically tend to promote and acknowledge the work of other males more than of their peers. (Though I have to concede that it was just a bachelors degree and could also have been badly/unbalanced researched and that I am too lazy to find citations, as I have no clue of where she got them.)
In the US they often group together all federal, state, local and various referendums in the same election so it's not uncommon to have over a dozen choices to make when casting a vote.
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Specifically, this makes the job much easier for non-tech journalists to report on the findings. Consider that Heartbleed practically became a meme due to the discoverers’ creation of a logo and website. If you want to stop the hack, social-hack the fix.
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Especially while still at an age where you can drop out of college. It’s a bit hard for me to drop out of a marriage, child and job to take on spending years on a passion project.
According to a Pew Research Study [1] in regards to vaccine refusal it appears to rather than politicial affiliation (left/right) it's the magnitude that is the big indicator. Which isn't surprising given that anti-vaccine is an extreme position, that those who are extreme in their political opinions are also extreme in their private lives.

[1] http://www.pewinternet.org/2015/01/29/public-and-scientists-...
What don't you follow? If 3 letter agencies had been given backdoor access by Cisco, why would the 3 letter agencies need to develop exploits that take advantage of flaws in the software? Cisco could have just added port knocking instead of adding additional accounts and logic errors and hoping nobody except the US govt finds it.
>I’m not a dumb guy—I got good SAT scores. I’m disciplined, I have a good work ethic, and I love what I do. I’m a lifelong learner, always evaluating my work and experimenting with new approaches. Should I be failing this badly?

This paragraph reads like the guy thinks all of this means he deserves success. I can't say I feel bad for this guy.
Are you using Everhour?

I'm asking because we do our best to support the most popular browsers: Chrome, Firefox and Safari. We do not force you to use one. I.e. we offer same functionality in your preferred browser.

But each browser has its own features and ecosystem. Chrome is the easiest from tech perspective. Safari for example has a very strange review policies. Judge for yourself, as soon as we release a new version of our extension, Chrome releases it within an hour and does it automatically. In Safari, we need to send it for review each time and wait for a week or two. During this time we can release a few more updates.
Most people would be quicker like a minute if I had to guess. But someone with a physical disability could easily take 6 minute. All you need is someone faking such a disability or ailment they could just pretend they are super slow moving so when they don't come out after 5 minutes no suspicion.
I wish there were way more transparency on the backgrounds and political leanings of the contributors/authors to the paper.

It may not appear to be important whether any one of the authors/participants is or is not part of, e.g., a member of the "resistance" domestic political seditious insurgency that stole it's slogan from Infowars, or part of the organization that the department of homeland security has designated as a domestic terrorist organization called AntiFA (Anti First Amendment); but reality simply is that the nexus of this issue, voting, is very much tied into both of those malignant movements in the USA and both have direct ties to the efforts to disintegrate the USA by nullifying national borders and advancing the invasion of national territories and communities by foreign national citizens of other countries.

So any objective and rational and reasonable investigation of the voting issue would demand transparency as to the perspective of these contributors, investigators, and authors ... especially since they are first and foremost also active in the suppression of free speech all over the internet, including here.

You didn't see any discussion of the singularly biggest vulnerability to the US elections system of all ... foreign national citizens being in the USA and thereby counted in the census, which determined seats in the House of Representatives among other things like money and even the Presidential electoral college vote, which thereby inherently defrauds American citizens of seats in the House that are given to states that harbor illegal foreign nationals. Americans are literally being defrauded of control of their own government by illegal foreign nationals that have invaded the USA. There is no other way to describe it than invasion, the takeover of power by a foreign power against the will of the resident population ... invasion.
None of these “facts” refute the hypothesis that “physics is built by men” because that’s who has been allowed into the field to date. For example, the points about citations can be explained by the fact that male authors are much more likely to cite themselves, and the fact that social networks play a role in how often works are cited: https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2017/05/female-authors-ge.... It also ignores that the citation gap has narrowed dramatically over the past decades, which is the opposite of what you’d expect if measures to admit more women into the field led to underqualified women entering the field.

This ia just lazy reasoning from people who should know better.
usually many options to pick 1 from.
Aha, that explains.
Earlier thread, promptly flagged to the oblivion -

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18112125
Why was this flagged?

I don't think it deserves to be flagged - even if the opinion the person holds is unconventional.

OT: He does say his conclusions might not be fully right. But that the assumption of identical brains is ideology. Now, I agree with this but it does not mean one is better than the other.

The fact that women might produce _less_ output (as shown in the stats?) does not mean they produce less valuable work. They might just get their priorities different later in life, as opposed to men.

But again, those are generalisations and you probably should not try to generalize these kinds of things to apply to _all women_.

It was also not the right place to make those comments I think.
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California should secede. It has enough people to form its own government representative of the population.
You're spot on with the gamma producing zones. We don't see any of those, and that's why we don't think any galaxies are made of antimatter.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-we-know-th...
for MK:Wii, use a mushroom just as blue shell briefly gains height before smashing down on you.
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A former coworker of mine who works in industrial automation told me that Siemens had to give US authorities access to their source code; I would not be surprised if that source code had "leaked" to the intelligence services.
Thanks! I don't know anything about York, and am honestly not even sure what the £:$ conversion is at the moment.

(Being paid to learn a skill from scratch does sound pretty objectively good, though.)
California becomes first state to require women on corporate boards
> The term "bully" is not helpful in the first place. It's too vague. It used to refer to kids who beat up other kids in school. That's a specific behavior. Modern usage had deteriorated into meaninglessness. It's kinds of ridiculous that the terms is used to refer to adults.

A cursory look at the Wikipedia etymology contradicts the notion that it was ever limited to children, or that the current usage is significantly broader than it has been in the past. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullying#Etymology
One of my favorite phrases is “a man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still” because it reminds me of the ever-useful principle that if someone has personal (and maybe even irrational) reasons to keep believing something they shouldn’t, like that they have a good chance at winning the lottery this time (no they don’t) and finally get out of the poverty that’s haunted them for decades, or that bitcoin is finally their ticket to entrepreneurial independence (probably not), or that the foreign prince really does want to send them money and all they need to do is buy iTunes gift cards and send him the numbers over the phone, no amount of facts are going to change their minds.
I'm OK with him arguing against the norm.

The least I expect from him is to not use terms based on conspiracy theories in his slides.
Doesn't matter if you present facts and actual studies, if you go against the narrative you're done. And Strumia is a dead man walking, he just doesn't know it yet.