skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Karl Steel, an associate professor of English at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, called the trio’s work "simply not rigorous research" and described three objections to it. It is too narrow in disciplinary scope, he said. It focuses on exposing weaknesses in gender and ethnic studies, conspicuously ideological fields, when that effort would be better spent looking at more-substantive problems like the replication crisis in psychology, or unfounded scholarly claims in cold fusion or laissez-faire economics.

Yeah... that's the point! The whole point here is that you have these "conspicuously ideological" fields or subfields, which are not doing real scholarship, not interested in truth, but which rather are pushing a specific position and attempting to label as evil and shout down anyone who disagrees; and yet they're able to get away with claiming that they're doing real work, that this is what real scholarship is, and it's seriously damaging, especially (as the hoaxers note) to anyone who does want to do real truth-seeking work in these areas.

Sure, to those of us who realize what's going on, more hardly needs to be said. But lots of people don't, and the "grievance scholars" are slowly convincing the rest of academia that real scholarship consists not of neutral methods and honest argument, but agreeing with the grievance scholars in all things, and finding ways to inject it whether it's relevant or not. The point of this hoax is to make obvious what already should be.

To put it another way -- "grievance studies" is, as Dr. Steel says, an easy epistemological target. But it's a hard social target. It's built up a layer of protection around itself consisting not of truth but of social pressure and demands to conform or be ostracized. No claim, true or false, should be so protected, and that shield needs to be shattered. It's only an "easy target" in the imaginary world where people are rational and such transparent bullshit doesn't work. But in reality, it does, which is why there's a need to puncture it.
Amazon is such a big target ... come on Bernie if you have guts take on Trump and his rabid base.
Yikes, posting like this will get you banned on HN. Please don't do that again.

If you know more than someone else, the best thing to do is to post correct information, hopefully with a good amount of detail. Then the rest of us can learn something too. Alternatively, you can just not post anything. But no personal attacks, please.
> Each new version of Android or iOS changes the UI in small but useless ways. I mean, why change the way the clock app works in Android so frequently.

I thought the same, till I thought about it from a notch perspective. They moved it so that you could fit the system icons with a large notch like the Pixel 3 XL has. The clock was moved on the other side simply to make room for this.
Not to mention it’s actually aesthetically pleasing.
And Tesla is about to enter the pickup market.
This seems like a valid criticism to removing a certification but not access to a course.
I don't think I changed my angle here? I'm still addressing

the same point. Tech doesn't matter. Simplicity does.

Even in our own product line, we only do a small

subset of this. We don't even require a cluster

to run. We also work with tech that people use.

You are currently competing with horovod

and kubeflow. eg: "competing with free"

You need more than that to survive.

Generally, that comes down to services.
I can only speak for myself as an Amazon fulfillment center employee... I haven't directly witnessed any of the horror stories people tell about working there, but knowing the culture as I do, I would not be surprised at all that such things happen. Someone complained on the VOA board where I work about having been docked for time off task when they had to clean up after their own nosebleed, but that's anecdotal. You read about people having to pee in bottles to make quota, people passing out from heat exhaustion, people being forced to stand on injured feet because Amazon has a policy against employees sitting for any reason. Enough anecdotes pile up, though, and it smells like data.

The thing is, not everyone working at Amazon is a young, single person without any ties, who can afford to simply quit at a moment's notice and not worry about the risk of unemployment, or losing healthcare. So it's not a binary situation where if Amazon's employees are willing to work there, then clearly they must be willing to accept anything the company does because otherwise they would quit. For low income people, the cost of quitting can be significant, much more so if they have families to support.

Which is why regulations are necessary - because the relationship between employer and employee is not equal, as is often assumed in a perfectly ideal free market model. The ability of a company to coerce their employee due to holding arbitrary power over that employee's livelihood must be limited somehow, and there must be some means by which consequences can result for bad actors.

In an unregulated market, there are no bad actors, only inefficient ones. That's not a game most people can win alone against a billion dollar corporation.
I'm sorry about your gitlfriend's experience. I agree that these substances are quite powerful and should be handled with great care.

> I am unconvinced that throwing psychedelics at mentally unstable (unhealthy) people is a good idea.

Fortunately, this isn't what happens. The medicine is administered in sessions with experienced therapists present as guides. Extensive therapy sessions are also conducted in preparation for the treatment as well as for follow-up.

> I do believe that we should allow researchers greater flexibility to experiment with them because it would be worthwhile to understand more about why psychedelics do what they do.

This is (finally) happening. The results that are coming in are quite amazing. For example, the use of guided MDMA therapy sessions to treat severe PTSD was actually granted "breakthrough treatment" status by FDA. It is currently in the last phase of trials before the treatment is FDA approved.
As the parent points out, there's no reason this must be the case. I'd encourage you to open your mind to the possibility of separating your core identity from being a programmer. It's totally up to you of course! But believe me when I say there's way more to life than this.
That's a bit of a romantic view, those kind of communities ain't all roses either in my experience.

They breed a lot of narrow minded small thinking bigots, even if they do return wallets.

The idea we should as a society somehow return to a romantic past that never actually existed isn't a good one in my opinion. And we can't do that anyway because our understanding has changed.

Not that there aren't a lot of good things from the past that somehow got dropped by the wayside, there are.
In the South Bay part of the Bay Area, they are like 1 out of every 10 cars.
This is true for me, but only because nobody calls me except for my wife, and even those calls only happen when she's on break at work and bored. All my other non-work-related communication is over SMS, Facebook Messenger, or Discord.
I always tell new developers to write the comments first. It forces them to think thru the whole solution before jumping into code.
> Tesla's enemies are everyone from Trump to the incumbent car companies Tesla would have already soundly beaten if they hadn't received a massive bailout.

Tesla also would not have survived without government money.

And the idea that Tesla would have "soundly beaten" the other car companies is simply not possible to believe. They make and sell far more cars every year than Tesla has made since its founding. Tesla simply does not make enough cars to satisfy mass market demand. Tesla is not able to do this because its manufacturing processes are not mature.

If every American wanted to buy a Tesla less than a million of them would be able to, and the rest would have to get their cars from the incumbent car companies. It’s hard to see how Tesla could beat the incumbents in such a scenario.

I like Tesla, but come on, be realistic.
That's right, you can't go back to a Toyota Camry any more.
Out of interest why have an on call SRE when you have Google employees around the world. It's a reasonable time somewhere? The advantage is having someone who is more 'with it' when the problem arises.

I can guess the answer - maybe it is a trust issue, they want to minimize the number of people with rollback privileges.
In other DNS-over-HTTPS news, dnscrypt-proxy 2.0.17 has been released: https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy
Oh, I thought you were talking about the clock in the system tray. Sorry, I completely agree with the clock app. I would wake up every morning and the UI would be different. It definitely drove me insane because I would forget how to snooze while I am groggy in the morning and end up sleeping in longer than expected because I swiped the wrong way or whatever.
Notion.so is my favourite piece of software, and has fantastic support.
Taken to the limit most regular employees are a union of 1 and it doesnt work like a union. How would collective action (strikes) work? What about tragedy of the commons (join the cheaper union, but get the better collective bargain) ?
Anyone know whether it's too late to join Cruise?
I know it is old-fashioned, but you could always set up a mail client like Thunderbird to talk to Gmail and keep a consistent UI.
IMO there are plenty of reasons for me not to use Java. I could write an essay on it, but the only one that really matters is that for the 4 years that I coded in Java, I didn't enjoy it.

And to suggest Go doesn't offer anything different to Java is just silly.
Sure and also make sure that a single hr department can’t hire more than 30% of the staff and make them compete for employees.

You have a single employer on one side, you need a single union on the other side to make negotiations fair, otherwise they just would just low ball each other to get more jobs.

The history of labor activism shows that workers only get big gains when they work together.

Unions were largely a victim of their own success, though — once a lot of their gains were codified into laws and regulations there wasn’t as much to fight for.
Big difference between dark matter and ether: Ether was required conceptually, because people could not conceive of a wave of light without a medium for it to propagate in. Getting rid of ether required a huge conceptual leap, and so the idea of ether hung around longer than it should have. As a mistaken concept, ether is a "sticky" in that it has intuitive appeal and that makes it dangerous.

It wouldn't require the same kind of conceptual leap to get rid of dark matter, though. Either there's stuff there we can't measure as of 2018, or we'll need a better theory of gravity. Many physicists recognize dark matter as a hack and hold on to it only because it's the best guess we currently have. Dark matter isn't "sticky": people would rather get rid of it than keep it!
> and master it

Mastering something is expensive, one should have multiple good justifications for doing so.

Deep familiarity is what people usually need, beyond exposure, but below mastery/trial by fire.
I have not seen this at all.
Wrong. Even without self-driving technology, people would buy these cars. Several friends specifically deleted the self driving hardware on their Model 3's.
There is only a finite number of people willing/able to spend $60k on a recreational vehicle.
Snippets are more likely to be fair use. One of the fair use factor is how much of the original work you use.
>Who pays for it: the readers of the published paper, since they benefit from not having to do the peer review themselves when they just want to use the results.

I can't make sense of this. Are you suggesting that journals should pay reviewers and finance this by charging people (more) to read articles?

As for reviewers checking statistical analyses, remember that this is peer review. The reviewers, on average, are going to be just as sloppy and ignorant and careless as the authors. If a field is awash with papers with bad stats, then most reviewers (being drawn from same same pool of people) will not be competent to check a paper's stats. Andrew Gelman isn't available to review every social science paper.
Are you saying that developing novel treatments is the sole purpose of a drug company?
The primary difference between the scientific method and religion / dogma
Obviously.

The point of the thought experiment was that you start with a universe with no other matter in it that's not expanding, both of which conditions our universe violates.
Wait times in the US for the existing models are already low enough that there's basically no backlog. (out of the 420k reservations they had at some point, you can think of it as half those reservations being overseas -- not yet tapped, and of the remaining 210k half or likely more of those are for the 35k version. They've already shipped 91k cars, pretty much only to the US and Canada, so the US/Canada backlog for reservations is mostly new reservations. Also, they don't yet offer a leasing option, which is how most people like to buy cars these days.

Either the demand will die down REALLY soon, or not at all. Having seen the effect of someone I know test driving a tesla with no intent to buy, and then complaining about how intensely bad "regular" cars have felt for her since then, if anything sales will grow as more cars are distributed and people's immediate family and friends get to experience the car. In other news, 40% of Europeans said in a recent Ipsos Mori survey that their next car will be electric.[1]

In other words, I wouldn't hold my breath that this is going to die down any time soon.

[disclaimer: I am a big fat tesla fanboy (if it wasn't obvious) and have bought stock in the company, but I hope I am making the case with logic and data and can be convinced otherwise. That said, my phone background image looks like this: https://i.redd.it/lx9635tjoyf01.jpg]

[1]:https://www.treehugger.com/cars/europe-40-drivers-say-next-c...
I mean, China's the one censoring it. Google could link to the censored websites in the results but that would be a terrible user experience. Wouldn't it be better to do what they do with DMCA takedowns in the US, where they tell you how many results have been removed and why?

And Google already censors search results in the EU with the right to be forgotten, where they've received 41,000 requests from EU politicians, so there is precedence in working with local governments
I think it boils down to features which are not currently available, which hamper self-directed learning today.

Is it that what you mean with „new capabilities of digital experiences“ and „creating content a 20 year old way“? Or do you talk about the formats they are created in?
Same here (in Australia). They used to be special to see, now I can't go for a walk without seeing a few. Haven't seen a 3 yet (I'm assuming they're not here yet, I don't follow it), just the S and X, but I see multiple S every time I take the kids to the park.
Forgive my utter ignorance but, what if black holes are not "holes" but solid spheres of massive density? There you may have your dark matter to boot.
> There are guys that my brother would love to promote

Manager complains about unions. I’m absolutely stunned.
They use 3D sensors (lidar) and dense, 3D maps and scans of the operational area. Also they plan to own the vehicles and operate in a designated service area rather than sell a vehicle that works everywhere.
I had a commercial real estate appraiser as a client once. She had a massive excel workbook for the calculations her and her employees used. Originally it was set up so they input everything by hand, used a calculator to figure everything out, input the answers back into excel then copy and paste everything manually into a report template.

I made it so after inputting less than ten variables it automatically calculated everything they needed, generated several charts and graphs, and a fully completed report at the press of a button. I turned it from a two or three day job into a 10 minute one.

Needless to say my client was fairly excited.
How China's biggest social network fights fake news
Not always true. In New Zealand we had subsidies for farmers (about 40%) and then they were taken away. The removal forced the farmers to innovate and now we have very efficient farming methods that have far less environmental impact. 2/3 of NZ's exports are agricultural.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agriculture_in_New_Zealand

Edit: The thing I found most interesting about this is agriculture was deregulated by the left wing government in what is a very socialist leaning country. Kiwi's are very pragmatic.
Study: Artificial sweeteners toxic to digestive gut bacteria
Oh yes. That's actually good as far as Android goes.

I bought a non-carrier Sony Android phone that came out in October 2017 and it came with the August version of Android so it was already three months out of date. Then there were no updates for around five months. Then Sony started sending updates that were about five weeks behind upstream Android and they've shrunk to about three weeks behind now.
Managed to crash mobile Firefox with that one. Scroll down a bunch, select all, copy, paste into address bar.
I'm skeptical that a hybrid F150 would be much of a success, outside of people that probably don't need to have a full-size truck anyway.

It might be mildly interesting if any batteries were stashed in the rear - in the winter I have to put about 1000 pounds of sandbags to make it safe to drive on snow and ice.
Sure they can. They just can’t charge $10,000 for that work. It’s not like every power pole is a unique snowflake.
I would like to go on the record as saying that the big car companies of today, short of a miracle, are on track to meet the big mobile phone companies of the pre-iPhone era. Remember when Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola, Alcatel, Sony seemed unassailable?
I used to get snail mail almost daily from SoFi trying to get me to refinance my student loans with them. It was really annoying, especially since they wouldn't match my credit union's rates, despite my 810+ credit score.

I wonder how much it cost them to send all those mailers. It was at least one a week for a couple years before I finally went to their website to opt out.
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply it was all true. I'm not Christian either. When I say "Noah lived for hundreds of years" (950 in fact!) I just mean according to the Bible. Same way I'd say Darth Vader ruled the Empire.
If any of those, (3) is the red herring. Your genetic markers are not write-once-at-gamete-recombination / read-only-at-every-transcription. The genetic code humans have includes many graceful degradation mechanisms that allow for plasticity in widely varying conditions. Many 'code sequences' are actually selected by the environment throughout an individual organism's life and the resulting signaling pathways can amplify or suppress various fallback modes.

There's a lot of these scenarios that are well documented, anything from the loosely defined and often poorly understood epigenetics processes, but also the signaling regulation of cell growth and death, resulting changes with hormesis, acclimatization, availability/scarcity of nutrients, hormones, pharmaceuticals, viruses, and even mental state.

(1) is typically the largest factor of all that listed, with experiments showing repeatedly that 'genetic markers' specifying risk for heart disease, cancer, etc all vastly improve with a reduction of excess body fat and elimination of recreational drug usage such as excessive alcohol and cigarettes.

And as for (4), definitely a trump card is not taking a dump in your drinking water supply without reasonable recycling treatment. Many people tend to associate the medical industry as responsible for the supposed improved living conditions of modern developed countries. However, if you look at the repeated succession stages of colonialization throughout the past several hundred years, it's obvious that when people in underdeveloped countries stop shitting in their food and water, illness and resulting death plummet until a few generations later when economically enforced diets and 'sensible medical care' are in full effect leading to a rebound of misery.
They are objectively nice cars. They look nice, they drive nice, they are high performance, and they are usable in daily life. That is plenty of reasons for people to buy them.

The only viable electric vehicles at the same price point are the Chevy Bolt and the Nissan Leaf, and if you ever see one of those parked next to a Model 3 you'll notice that the Model 3 is far more attractive.
I will add my own anecdote that if anything Tesla is underrated. Not only is the drivetrain in the car worlds ahead of anything else on the road, but the fringe parts of the company like the supercharger network and service organization so far ahead of the legacy automakers that I don't see how they will ever catch up without an organizational split to separate the ICE business from the EV business.
I had an SE, 11 didn't slow it down. 12 was made to be faster than 11 even on the oldest supported devices. The SE has the internals of the 6S, only a couple generations behind, so it'll be fine.
For lighting we have gotten some real gains in the last few years on full spectrum high-efficiency diodes. There are easily and cheaply available diode boards and spotlight CoB leds that will do 200 lumens per watt in white light. I myself just bought 600 watts of Quantum Boards which have Samsung LM301B diodes because it puts pretty much any older lights and diodes to shame in both efficiency and in light spectrum. Most household LED socket lights are only 100 lumens per watt but new diodes can get 200 lumens per watt for only about $1 per watt and you need around 30-40 watts of these diodes per square foot for fruiting and flowering plants, half of that for plants outside of a production cycle.

With everything else I definitely agree. I think picking ripe fruits by hand is what needs to be automated the most, everything else is already 95% automated with basic farm equipment. Automating growing cabbages is about as impressive as making a car drive in a straight line without a driver. Seasonally handpicking fruits for pennies out in the sun, bent over 12+ hours a day, is the real grueling work. I would rather be roofing houses than handpicking strawberries or other handpicked soft fruits.
I've been mucking around with RPA a bit, and was wondering if you have any suggestions on writing tests?
The problem is Gmail forces you to switch to the new interface. It doesn't stick with the HTML version, which, no surprise, is superior to the new dumpster fire.
More specifically (I looked it up because I was curious):

Maize is an annual grass in the family Gramineae, which includes such plants as wheat, rye, barley, rice, sorghum, and sugarcane.
> Our maximum lifespan may not have changed much, if at all. But that’s not to delegitimise the extraordinary advances of the last few decades which have helped so many more people reach that maximum lifespan, and live healthier lives overall.

Sure, maximum might not be changing much, but the fact that the average has changed so drastically means there has been unfathomably less death and suffering than otherwise would have been. Also, the advances have not been just over the last few decades, but more likely one or two hundred years (i.e. since the industrial revolution).

There are also serious thinkers (e.g. Kurzweil) who think that biotechnology will increase maximum lifespan pretty soon. I found it strange for an article tagged with 'Biology' to not talk about biotechnology potential related to longevity.
source? not finding anything for "the k8s guy" on google other than this post.
This new interface finally pushed me to use FastMail. The interface is way better, and I can use my domain name. No more Gmail.