skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This time, maybe they hire some cryptographers too instead of letting the network engineers design the security features. For crying out loud, they took their sweet 20 years to actually create a protocol with forward secrecy and resistant to offline attacks - WPA3.
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Because Taylorism is a blunt instrument that is marginally effective.

If you’ve ever worked in an environment with those sorts of incentives, it’s immediately obvious that they are loosely related to productivity and turn into tools of favoritism and control.

Amazon isn’t doing this out of the kindness of their hearts. They no doubt concluded that just focusing on objective, easily controlled measurements like hours ultimately made more sense. The workers themselves are disposable anyway.

Besides, the workers now have more guaranteed income that can be invested in Amazon stock! They gain the freedom of dollar cost averaging.
>private investments far exceed public investments

Nope, sorry. Public investment just fell below 50%... for the first time since WWII. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/data-check-us-govern...

>It just shows you're a waste of time to talk to.

haha, you're a peach.

Attack the messenger to your heart's content. Game, set, match.
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This is the main reason why psychedelics are so high risk - the variation of the experience makes them hard to recommend in any serious way.

It's not even a bad trip necessarily, a positive trip can still cause after affects, increased risk of psychotic episodes, or pretty severe anxiety and it's very hard to predict whether or not you'll be unlucky.
there are many business people who don't engage in that. at least on main Street, where relationships actually matter.
It only detected a activity on a motor skills task in the motor cortex.

This has not been generalized to cognitive skills beyond, "the subject is inactive"
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I developed a fitness App, but our retention was bad. If it is nice if we can know why users leave based on their actions. Any idea?
That starts getting into difficult territory. A strict interpretation of SB 826 would require a person to self-identify as "female" and nothing else. It would be a legal question to be decided by a court if genders such as "genderfluid" or "non-binary" would be acceptable.

There is a law in CA that prohibits employers from asking for documentation of your gender or sex. However, I don't think board directors are considered employees. They are either volunteers or independent contractors.
I can probably buy your SSN for under $10, conservatively.
>in Europe nobody fantasizes about roadtrips

Even besides the German brands (VW, Mercedes, BMW), there are a huge number of European car manufacturers (Skoda, Peugeot, citroen) > showing ability and demand for cars in Europe.
Also, the small size and mostly flat nature of Europe, cultural diversity, and longer vacation time all contribute to Europeans traveling more than Americans. Not to mention excellent roads, family/student hostels for less expensive trips (pre-Airbnb era) and obviously Visa free travel.
So yes Europeans might not have the same idea of long distance road trips we have in the US but that is not to say they don't take the same trips or more than in the US
People can be divided into infinitesimal categorizations

Down to the person. Which is why merit has been and will be the best measure. And also why identity politics are so damaging.
Is there any interesting research happening on what's limiting our lifespan?

Is this super interesting and important question being given enought attention in the research-community? Or is it super-niche?
Knowing about patents like that opens you to triple damages for "willful infringement".
Is this politics or real threads? It would be nice to see the data behind the decisions.
The font was probably the most jarring thing to me - it really is much less readable than the old one.
Got a chance to see a MapD presentation 2 summers ago at NVIDIA. I was super impressed with their tech, and it's continued to grow since. The real time graphics pipeline is pretty neat, they render visuals server side (because duh, you've got a GPU) and stream frames to the client.
1861 and 1979.
Are the workers completely and totally incapable of deciding for themselves what the proper tradeoff between increased income and whatever decreased health comes from working harder??

Such a decision would be short-lived, as the level of work required to maintain bonus-level status would become the new baseline. Minimum wage + bonus will become your new pay structure.
I just tried to make a monotonous sound with my vocal chords while changing my mouth cavity to a melody, like in the "chhh" experiment, or as if I were whistling, and for me it's kind of impossible. If my vocal chords are vibrating, then the pitch they make follows my mouth shape.

I'm wondering did you need to practice that?
Code is harder to read than write.
Most published stuff is irrelevant crap that will never be cited or included in the central canon. This is true even in computer science. Also, as we know from computer security, system design becomes massively more difficult if it requires hardening against malicious actors. The presumption of good faith is a valuable component of any community that shouldn't be abused to score stupid points.

For these reasons, Sokal Hoaxes (and their like) are damaging wastes of time and the perpetrators should not be praised.
Guess what, lobbyists? Nothing comes for free.
> When there's a bug in their code, point it out, but don't tell them how to fix it.

This is how people develop their own problem solving skills. When I was a junior developer, that was one of the skills my team leads / senior developers really focused on. Super important to be able to think / problem solve for yourself.
Wait, you mean that drinking cases of Diet Coke and beer all day and working 18 hours a day for your 20s May have long term health impacts?
> can be fooled some of the time

7⁄20 or 7⁄17, depending on how you want to count is concerning.
While I have never had a bad trip, I tend to argue that a bad trip is more likely to occur if you are in a unstable inner state and or your projection of the drug or the possible experience of using the drug is unstable.

Then again, I think your question comes down to semantics. I have heard friends say a bad trip is their best trip. But anyways and above all, I want to say, don't use labels of good, bad, etc, and just experience the experience.
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I'm curious as to whether the variant of Ophiocordyceps that makes the ants cling onto twigs instead of leaves will make its way back down south. It seems that the mutation would still be favorable in the winter, even in tropical climates.

As an aside, on Firefox the article's formatting is screwed up for me with the submitted link, but when I remove "amp?__twitter_impression=true" it appears normal.
I use FastMail at home, but we have G Suite at work. The worst is when opening a new message from a mailto: href, I used to be able to start typing as soon the text box appeared. Now I often end up sending a (nearly?) blank message, which I luckily have always caught with the undo feature (but still!). I don't know if it's catching my return after the greeting and triggering the send button or what, but it's annoying!
Just move to fastmail. I mean yes, the gmail load screen sucks, but the Gmail compose window is awfully slow too.

Fastmail does imap push in an ios compatible way, and their web client is fast and works.

Fastmail's import process for Gmail is stupid - it asks you questions it should already know the answers to - but it worked and ported my 5GB mailbox a week ago.
I don't think there's anything to judge here. Amazon said multiple times that with bonuses and stock awards their average compensation was well above any compensation for fulfillment workers in the sector.
People thought this was bullshit/paper money and kept demanding for a higher hourly wage.

So Amazon did the logical thing. It increased the hourly wage, removed a highly unappreciated and misunderstood form of salary and simplified the compensation scheme so it could actually rebalance this value into a more predictable, easy to understand and liquid compensation. This should help anyone that felt exploited and of-course is going to piss off the people who actually understood the variable portion of their compensation and the ones who were already above the 15 USD mark.

I don't think what were people expecting? Hourly wage raise + stock + bonuses?
I mean I don't want to sound like a capitalist pig, but that doesn't make sense, especially when we are talking about this kind of job.
People deserve livable wages but also they deserve to get recognized economically when they pursue advanced studies and put the effort to get into jobs that require more specialized skills.
You are the only person who will recognize and value your own overachievements. Prevailingly, others will view your efforts and either think nothing of them or wonder why anyone would go to such lengths.

If you're going to go above and beyond, you should seriously question why you are doing so. When in doubt, do it for yourself.
They don't really.

Telesurgery is a bit of a myth. It's been done a few dozen times.

It doesn't make that much sense economically. It's actually cheaper to fly a surgeon or a patient around for the few occasions when it really needs to be done.

Most surgery still isn't done with Da Vinci robots or whatever. Surgeons with their hands can do many more things. That's not to say those robots are not amazing, it's just that they don't do everything.

The military is the one area where it might make sense, but have a close look. They don't do it either. Instead the US military has an amazing extraction system where someone injured in battle in the middle east can be at Rammstein within hours.
Much more detail, with figures, although for UK Amazon workers here: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/oct/03/amazon-of...

The TL;DR for the UK is they lose over half the pay rise from losing the bonuses.

They got one share, worth £1,500 or $1,960 after every year, and an additional share once every five years. That can be tax-free if held for 2 years.

They also lose the possibility of cash bonuses for meeting targets.
Congratulations, you have discovered information asymmetry!
Given that is an experiment on human subjects, involving deception, the IRB review should be interesting.

Or weren't they aren't concerned about that type of ethics?
> Half these things take under a few days to learn sufficiently for any business with ARR under ~$1M.

And publishers used to sell "TEACH YOURSELF C++ IN 21 DAYS". Doesn't make it so.

> And there's no MBA program that will teach you strategies that are especially useful in reaching customers

There are courses about exactly and entirely this.

> if there was a professor who really could teach that, (s)he'd be monetizing that skillset instead.

A lot of business professors are independently wealthy from side businesses. Karl Ulrich springs to mind as a serial entrepreneur, teaching at Wharton.

> There is potentially tremendous value for someone looking to have a career in business at larger companies.

This is true for some MBAs or, rather, some course designs. But there's no law that professors at business schools can't study, themselves experience and teach entrepreneurship. Because they do. The faculty at Wharton or Stanford have honest-to-goodness entrepreneurs because they want to be there.

It's one thing to say that teaching is an imperfect substitute for doing. It's another thing to say that there's some mystical essence that business schools are somehow magically blind to and stoically opposed to learning about, studying, experimenting with and teaching.
I haven't encountered period fiction where a 40 year old is treated like an 80 year old, but that would grate on me too.

There was still a significantly lowered life expectancy in adulthood due to disease, hunger, violence, childbearing, accidents.

See for example John Graunt's life table of Tudor period Londoners:

http://www.stat.rice.edu/stat/FACULTY/courses/stat431/Graunt...

Only 25% (!) of Londoners survived until age 27. More than a third of adults who lived to 27 died before age 37. In modern London you can neglect pestilence as almost a rounding error within overall life expectancy, but in some ages of London-past pestilence was the dominant term.
Google's started to use Product Sans in Google Maps on Android too, and it's just as bad there.
The SDR is also an option.
I think generally people tend to assume that colleagues aren't dishonest, and mostly peer-review is supposed to catch honest mistakes.

You could try working without any faith in your colleagues of course, but you are probably better of switching workplace if that sounds like reasonable behaviour to you.
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This is a wonderful book. The title is a clear play on Tolstoy's masterpiece about the previous invasion of Russia, but so what? I was introduced to it by a dear friend whose father was purged by Stalin so it's doubly poignant.
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I work in the industry and am scptical of even the big players ability to deliver on the promises they made 3-5 years ago including waymo and cruise.
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> I gave up trying [...] that’s all I can do

That's unfortunate that you feel this way. Quite frequently the ones I see succeed aren't the best at their tech either (be it their focused field or general tech). Tech VCs gravitate towards tech people. Surely that is obvious and you shouldn't give up after only consulting them. Let them solve things the only way they know how, and maybe you can find someone else to take a different approach with your ideas. Or maybe not. You shouldn't feel so slighted/jaded by it though. We all feel our ideas, be they ones proven in other scenarios or not, are workable.
Euro 3 means you're probably not eligible to enter a good chunk number of European city centres - and for good reason.

As for MPG are you talking US gallons or imperial? Also what's your car's segment?
If you are novice of course you have to think more and things don’t come automatic. That’s basically how they are measuring this.
Are unions anti universal healthcare? It seems like they would be since it would be one less thing they could negotiate about.
> an enterprise that relies on a widespread presumption of not-fraud

This is section really gets me. How in the world is science supposed to rely on “not-fraud”? Sure if you fake your data you might dupe a diligent reviewer, but this is why results are supposed to be reproduced.

Anything that relies on “not-fraud” seems inherently unscientific and straight up naive.
Genesis 6:3 Then the LORD said, "My Spirit will not contend with humans forever, for they are mortal; their days will be a hundred and twenty years."

I think this is pretty interesting even if you're not religious.
China certainly isn't technologically inept. They are playing a game of catchup that is mad impressive, makes plenty of sense that they'd seek to "appropriate" IP instead of reinventing the wheel.
All of the above, because it exposes vulnerability to bad faith.
> And CORS implementation is terrible. The server has to transmit validation rules for the browser to enforce (with vendor specific caching differences), rather than just enforcing access itself.

The only concerns of CORS is with Javascript running in the browser. CORS is not about server-side security but what Javascript can or cannot access. It is there to protect the browser's user and make script execution more secure.
> 3. I ran up some debt as a student until I figured out personal finances, which boils down to; increase income, reduce expenditure, save and invest the rest, avoid liabilities as far as possible

I agree with but I'll be careful. When you are young (20-30), you are better off investing the money in yourself. So I say do spend reasonably but on things that might grow you. I learned the hard way that renting an expensive duplex with a garden did wonders to my mood and productivity. You might spend more but you get in returns.

Also don't be a cheap jerk with yourself. Nowadays, I value experiences more than gadgets (like I'd go on a trip to a close city than put 12 hundreds on an iphone) but do these things. When you are old, you can still do them but being young was different. Even when in budget.

So I say be careful but don't be greedy and while interest can pile up on money you save, that trip you have done or that money you spent to go to a conference might pay up x1000.
Ask HN: What’s one thing you wish more people you encounter knew or understood?
Original question by Stephanie Hurlburt at https://twitter.com/sehurlburt/status/1047284295134412800
Alternative take: A system designed to detect bad research failed to detect blatant falsehoods, algorithmically generated noise, rabid propaganda and other seemingly easy things to detect. That PhDs worked on this doesn’t mean the system didn’t fail spectacularly.
You better pay reviewers anything at all if you want them to produce few type 2 errors.
That paper was accepted as a non-reviewed paper. There was no peer-review process.
I use the basic HTML interface, so I almost stopped reading at "The new interface loads more slowly than before (especially in Firefox)".

My takeaway: nice info for helping friends & family, but I'm staying on basic HTML.
I was an early employee at Cloudera, am a Hadoop contributor and think this entire market is garbage. Basically the big data field went off the rails and this is Cloudera's way of trying to remain relevant. It's hard to point to a product that came after my tenure (I was on the team that original made the POS called Cloudera Manager) that's really used by anyone at scale. Cloud is displacing all of these tools and never got the clouds to play ball.
Not a discipline.
After Dropbox stopped supporting filesystems besides non-encrypted Ext4 I've dropped it entirely.

I now use SpiderOak One, which doubles as E2E encrypted cloud backup in addition to folder sync.
Why do you think they don't have farmers as advisors/consultants already? While inefficient now, perhaps they could have a few hundred machines running around once they scale up. And it looks like they have a variety of "premium" produce versus just the cabbages in your link.

Your website offers food from a "little farm". Wouldn't tech companies prefer to partner with experienced large scale commercial growers? In addition, you seem to take things (that aren't even criticisms) overly emotionally/personally, which would probably not be ideal in a cofounder.
What your describing sounds nothing like rigor.
I think it is a selection effect, it takes a special kind of person to want to do ayahuasca all the time. Or any more mind altering drug. Normal well adjusted people don't use drugs to excess. Maybe a little here and there.
I think a big part of this comes from the lack of emphasis on group projects and technical communication in MOOCs. How many MOOCs have you seen where you're actually encouraged to work in groups, and then eventually present your work?

Even though the concept of an MOOC has been around for quite some time now, it's only recently that their curricula at the course level is actually consistently on par with what would be seen in a good university environment (think like "Top 50" University).
Some of them, sure. But the benefit of not dying horribly of polio or smallpox is pretty nice, as is the wildly better odds of surviving childbirth.

It's kind of anecdata, but have you ever noticed how in classical books from a few hundred years ago, it's sort of normal that Mr So & So might be on his third or fourth wife because the others died in childbirth? Just something that caught my attention.
>Citation Needed

The London Transport budget report for 2018/2019[0].

The 4 billion is total ridership over all London transport services, equivalent to the 2 billion number you used for all MTA services. If you just wanted to talk about the subway you should have used the numbers for that in the grandparent

[0]https://tfl.gov.uk/cdn/static/cms/documents/transport-for-lo...
I think that's only an exaggeration of likelyhood, not of quantity. There are forty bazillion bacteria in nearly everything we touch, if you foster the right ones you get that many good bacteria rather than mixed. Having forty bazillion probiotics isn't extreme but the human mind can't conceive of large numbers such as this so there's an indirect implication that this is indeed an extraordinary product.
I think you're dramatically underestimating what a buildpack is.

The Java buildpack is a Ruby application with a modular dependency download/caching subsystem to enable both internet-connected and air-gapped enviroments, hundreds of unit and integration tests, support for runtime injection and configuration modification for TLS certificates, support for several languages including Scala , Groovy, Clojure, support for several package types, several app runtimes, etc. https://github.com/cloudfoundry/java-buildpack

The PHP buildpack is a Python application with a modular dependency download/caching subsystem to enable both internet-connected and air-gapped environments, hundreds of unit and integration tests, support for easily configuring many different PHP extensions, libraries and modules, and extension points to customize the container staging behavior. https://github.com/cloudfoundry/php-buildpack

For developers, this saves a lot of time, effort, and variance for staging their containers.

For operators, this enables a control point that simplifies CI/CD pipelines dramatically and standardizes a means of containerization across projects.

It might not be for everyone, but I think it's a useful alternative to Dockerfiles.