skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> The problem isn’t the fluff we read online.

There are some alternative theories linking deep immersive reading and short sporadic reading to different parts of the brain. Spending significant time online does seem to lead to shorter attention spans.

https://www.wired.com/2010/05/ff-nicholas-carr/
Google Next London 2018 Key Takeaways
Absolutely worth watching. Cannot un-watch.
Genome hackers demonstrate that no one's DNA is anonymous anymore
You'd think, after over 30 years of going nowhere with this objective, that the DoD would realize there's no silver bullet to synthesizing common sense. If nobody in the research literature has recently shown any improvement in implementing common sense that's superior to Cyc (which I believe to be true), does this mean DARPA is also renewing funding for other lost causes like perpetual motion machines or time travel?
If only.

As has been demonstrated in the news recently, not all technical issues are purely technical. Bias in Amazon’s AI hiring tool. Election results being impacted by Facebook’s algorithms.

If someone downvotes on grounds that it is someone just venting (a fairly charged term in my opinion) their opinion...

- downvoting without discourse

I see no reason a downvote shouldn’t require accompanying rationale. If provided it would indeed make a agree / bump distinction superfluous. Looks like my points 2 & 3 should have had an “or” involved.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/21/...
Google Voice is on track to be a core service in Gsuite, which has pretty impressive phone support in my experience.
iceland has no military, and no real political or economic significance in the world. it has no genuine allies to whom it is worthwhile

Iceland is a founding member of NATO and is located in the backyard of two of the world’s most powerful navies. The Royal Navy spent the entire Cold War thinking about GIUK. Arguably its a free-rider in NATO but the idea anyone could invade it is laughable
It's possible that mafia gains control of a union, think Jim Hoffa. That of course is not the purpose of labor movement.

It's a bit like marriage you have to pay a bit for it but having someone support you and fight with you is worth the commitment. Unite!
Bigger question as mentioned in the article. Who owns the copyright? If I bought a car, I should own all the data from it.
EU has "sweat of the brow" doctrine, US does not.
Here's an example from Old Krakow: https://www.chabad.org/library/article_cdo/aid/71893/jewish/...
In the end it depends on the economic incentives, or lack of them.

The potential economic value for space exploration comes from satellites orbiting earth (communication, sensors), mining near earth asteroids for rare and expensive minerals and possibly even energy generations. Moon is possible destination because it could serve Earth.

From the point of financing the effort Mars is just a sink. First spend hundreds of billions to start it, then billions per year to maintain it.

People don't spend their wealth to permanently reduce their living standards and the change for survival of their children. Permanently breathing bottled air inside a housing in a desert planet, having reduced lifespan etc. is not fun. All the space exploration romantics goes away in few years and people lose the interest.

If you want to colonize Mars permanently, first create (de facto) post scarcity economy on the Earth. Before that' there is no change for permanent colonization. Research settlement in Mars is possible.
The disagreement is over what "just works" means. Obviously the author things Protobuf isn't suitable for some use cases. They don't work in his view.
Here is some discussion of how to easily use Let's Encrypt certificates with the prosody XMPP server. That gets you C2S and S2S encryption which is more or less mandatory these days. End to end (OMEMO) doesn't need the server to do anything special so there isn't any setup to do past just getting the server running.

* https://prosody.im/doc/letsencrypt
I'm not sure what the state of AVX-512 codegen was in the CLR/JVM back in early 2017, but given that LLVM's was still in buggy early stages, I would guess that it was a WIP at best so performance was probably not ideal (we had to work quite hard to get decent quality code generation). On KNL, you're either running AVX512 all the time or you're pretty much dead in terms of performance.
How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database
Thyroid hormone signaling specifies cone subtypes in human retinal organoids
I know that in France the unions are mostly doing contract review. They have their little desk, and employees come see them after they have been wronged by their employer, and the union member spends hours with the law books reviewing the contracts, various written interaction and timeline of event. People think of them as mostly organizing strikes or demonstrations, while most members spends their time reading laws and contracts. When they start seeing a new illegal trend, they blow the whistle publicly.
Digital nomad - are you AirBnBing around various countries or are you staying in coliving/coworking communities?

I ask because I'm interested in doing that soon.
oh for sure, but for Python/R the barrier to speed isn't any of their important productivity features (as far as I know) but just a high quality compiler/JIT

If I was Lord Of Computing I wouldn't let languages out of beta until they had a high quality compiler or JIT. Turns out I am not though.
I think a lot of people are still attracted to the "hostile genius" persona, or whatever. Maybe it justifies their own poor behavior.
Sure but boots are a very different animal. I wouldn't call my hiking boots "shoes". I more had the shoe from the original comment in mind (https://www.balenciaga.com/us/triple-s-shoes_cod11271302nb.h...) which looked more like a walking shoe (sneaker) than a running shoe (that heel is massive). But it's definitely not a dress shoe.
Here's what I try to do:

1. Start with the intuition. (The big concepts i.e. for BigO trying to figure out the best, worst and average number of steps it takes to run a function as the input size grows). Make sure everyone gets the big picture, core concepts, and intuition before moving on.

2. Use as many graphics and visual aids as possible.

3. Let people work step-wise up to getting the full solution i.e. get them to just sort one element in a list. Then change the algorithm to sort two elements, etc..

4. Start very easy, I mean very easy (like sorting a list of 1,2 and then 3 elements), then let people slowly step up in difficulty until they implement full algorithms and data structures. Also make sure everyone can at least describe, draw, and sketch out solutions that may not necessarily be precise but cover the "gist" of what the algorithm is about.

5. Use Stories: If you can tell them stories with algorithms / data structures its even better. (For stacks I like using the example of the professor grading essays on his desk, or a person browsing the internet, for binary search I like looking for a book in the library, etc)

6. Use Lots of Examples: When explaining the mathematics be sure to have exercises/examples which let them play a lot with the parameters (RStudio or jupyter is nice for this), make sure each expression is clearly broken down and clarified. Also having positive examples (for how it should work) and negative examples (for common mistakes and when things are incorrect) can help improve understanding too.

hope some of these tips help. Good luck!
All easing central bank monetary operations involve "printing money" in that sense. What's more, when you have central banks operating an inflation-targeting regime, the entire purpose of easing operations is to stimulate higher inflation. This wasn't new with QE.

Before QE, central banks mostly influenced the market via interest rate targets. If the "market" rate is higher than the "target" rate, that means printing money to buy debt in the market). (And before interest rate based policy, some central banks explicitly targeted money supply measures).

QE extended that from short rates (overnight secured) to long rates (long-dated government bonds at first, then other high quality collateral), because once short rates were near-zero all they could do was to target long rates (well, some central banks have experimented with negative rates but I think the jury's still out on whether that's really worth trying or not).

The thing is, that's not what people (at least used to) mean when they talk/talked about "printing money".

"Printing money" is normally shorthand for "printing money to give to the government to spend". This is generally viewed as "bad" because if government simply prints money to finance itself then it suffers none of the short term negative political or practical consequences of doing so via taxation. This means it also faces comparatively little pressure to spend efficiently, which results in serious misallocation of resources over time.

It is only a short step from QE to "printing money" in the "government spends it" sense though, and some central banks have gone at least some way down that path. If the central bank provides a significant bid into auctions of government bonds, either directly or because market participants know the central bank will immediately purchase bonds in the secondary market at a known, or fairly easy-to-guess price, then the government is really financing itself by selling to the central bank who is printing money.

It still has to pay interest, but it's no longer worried about being unable to raise the money, or the impact raising too much money will have on the rate of interest it pays.

But it can also absolve itself of responsibility for paying the interest bill, by giving the government a claim over the "profits" made by the central bank, including interest income on its government bond portfolio. So the government pays interest to itself on bonds it sold to the central bank. Some governments/central banks have done this.

That only leaves the government concerned about principal repayment, and the theoretical view that QE is temporary and will be wound down still constrains behaviour here.

As a separate point though, I don't think QE is the sole cause of the asset bubble we're arguably experiencing. I'd put much more blame on the ultra-low short rates of "conventional" policy personally. QE being withdrawn is much less of a problem than short rates going up for that.
> what is an effective way to communicate that you want to be an effective do-gooder, without triggering the cynicism?

A more important question, I believe is: is there a way for such method to not be immediately perverted by those seeking to exploit the status bonus? I can't imagine there is; it seems to me that every honest signal that brings goodwill is soon coopted by scammers and marketers.
Hi! That's a name I haven't seen in a while. :-)

Oddly enough, I worked on film-industry data plumbing for a couple of years before I joined Real - a distributed, fibre-channel based file system called Centravision. Just looked it up and it's apparently still in use, two acquisitions later, under the name "StorNext"...
I can't wait to cite this when another person claims that e.g. the GDPR is so anti-corporate, and the EU's only goal is to punish American companies.

Somehow the EU is always the bad actor, it doesn't matter which side it ends up favoring in some specific action.

Of which there are probably thousands, if not tens of thousands every year. But sure, the world ending always hinges on exactly the one action some commenter happened to dislike that day.
Maybe that's the wrong approach then. Contracts have effectively been weaponized by those who can afford lawyers against those who can't, with those who can't rarely ever benefiting from any sort of contract. Perhaps the solution is to just remove the problem. End contracts entirely between people who can and can't afford contracts.
Vitamin D and bone density, fractures, and falls: the end of the story?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18152356
That kennings etc. show that the Homeric poems come from an oral tradition, was eventually accepted on the basis of Milman Parry's studies of Balkan folk poetry. That folk poetry (and similar traditions worldwide like the Kyrgyz Manas) is for entertainment. So, there is no need to claim that Homeric recitation must have been bound with religious ritual. Certainly Homer's forebears might have performed at public festivals that also included a religious element, but that doesn't mean the poetry was of the same nature.
I can't appreciate any increase in quality as a running shoe price goes over ~140 $. I bet any 200 $ running shoe has an equivalent for about half that price. (which seems to be what you're saying)
Should the entire contract then become void when one subclause becomes unenforceable?

If not, how is this different from the case where a previously unenforceable clause becomes enforceable?
The compression format is really smart, there's a neat trick to make the logarithm calculation fast, and there's a concurrent thread handoff mechanism so you can swap out a histogram without disturbing the thread you're measuring (though last two probably only in the java version). Those three make it super useful for very low impact performance measurements.
Let's say you're running a board game night each week over the summer in ten different cities and it's a standing rule that the group buys pizza.

If everyone has to anonymously chip in to pay for pizza, everyone will eventually chip in less--"Someone is going to pay for the pizza, but I shouldn't have to pay for more than my fair share! I already paid for a night's pizza this summer!" This is true for all board game nights in all cities.

HOWEVER, if you pay attention to who chips in for pizza and allow people to anonymously steal from attendees to board game night, regardless of whether they were a freeloader, that uniformity between board game nights stops.

In some cities, after several weeks everyone starts pitching in money for pizza. Why? Because the freeloaders want pizza, but don't want to have more money stolen from them than the cost of pizza that they ate. Pitching in removes people's justification for stealing from them and they still get pizza.

In other cities, counter-intuitively to certain demographics, when people can see who's paying for pizza and anonymously steal from attendees, certain people start stealing from the person who's habitually putting in more than their fair share. This cancels out the gain from people stealing from the freeloaders.

To account for the latter cities, the study authors posit that it's because the freeloaders are punishing the people that bought the pizza because they're the people most likely to have stolen back the cost of the pizza eaten.

The author of this article posits a different reason: in certain cities, they used to have a collection for pizza at board game night, but the delivery was slow and the good pizza rarely showed up before the night was over. And the host got to keep the leftovers. And board game night was always at Keynes's house, conveniently.

So in these cities, people still remember Keynes and punish anyone trying to restart Keynes's bullshit way of getting free pizza from them. Everyone who attended Keynes's board game night in the past feels it's better to just eat leftovers when they get home than to pay New Keynes to get pizza 10% of the time.

And, coincidentally, if there's ever another board game night at Keynes's, you eat everything you can get from him, because he's an asshole that buys Little Caesar's Hot-n-Ready's when he's paying alone, but guilts everyone else to pay-up next week when he orders a giant fuckin' pizza from the stoner hole in the wall that he gets to eat by himself because he won't stop whining about "B-B-but I bought the pizza last week!"
I was adopted at birth, which I guess in some ways could be considered similar (I was literally delivered from my biological mom and handed to my adopting parents). My parents have always been upfront, honest, and supportive if I wanted to find out who my biological parent(s) are. However, I have never asked or followed through on finding out. There have been a couple times throughout my life where I have been curious, but always have defaulted back to not wanting to find out. I think the upfront honesty and support were a driving factor in this decision.

Since I was adopted at birth by my parents, I have never known anyone else in terms of family. I grew up in a loving household with supportive parents in an upper-middle class area. I think these all also factored into me not having a desire to find out about my biological parents.

I have gone as far as looking once a while back at one of the websites where biological parents try to track down their children that were adopted. I don't know if I would have reached out, but I was curious if someone was looking for me. While I would not actively seek them out, I would not decline if they reached out to me.

On the downside though, it would be nice to have an idea when it comes to health issues. I have never known if there is a "history" of anything in my family because I don't know who my biological family is. Also, as medicine and technology advances, having some knowledge of this history may be crucial in determining future healthcare methods/procedures.

I have thought about getting 23AndMe just so I have some clue have my genetics and what I may be susceptible/not susceptible too, but just haven't pulled the trigger on moving forward. I think if I had a current health issue I may be more eager to move forward with that.
That SVG is very well done!
The problem I have with this argument is that it sets up Amazon in a caricature that always makes them look evil and anti-labor:

1) Don't support lowering the minimum wage = Democrats + labor groups hate on you for not paying workers, even if you can hire more of them = anti-labor
2) Support the minimum wage nationally + across their international workforce = "This is an automation ploy + competitive advantage = anti-labor

There seems like no ideal approach for low-skilled labor here that won't seem anti-labor in the short-to-medium term
Nothing needs to be fixed. Make the opportunity available to women but do not enforce a gender quota. Candidates should only be selected on merit. Equal opportunity is good. Forcing equality of outcome is BAD.
Well that clears that confusion up :)
I think that's oversimplifying it a bit. I minored in Economics so I'd like to believe I have a decent understanding of it.

The problem isn't that Google just says, "Hi, donate time to us, your corporate overlords, in exchange for nothing." Instead, they make a very reasonable argument of, "You should help your teammates and colleagues."

Imagine that you're on a team with a junior developer. Their feedback is basically worthless to promotion committees because they're low-level. If they say, "Hey, can you help me understand why my code is crashing?" the selfish answer is, "No, if I spent two hours helping you, the benefit I provide to you is not measurable or quantifiable and won't help my case for promotion." But it would also be kind of miserable for everyone if you constantly avoid helping your teammates and only do the absolute minimum required to avoid standing out as egregiously unhelpful.
Is there a single Asian city that scores on all of the examples you cited?
We use Julia in our group and I really like it: the language design is pretty neat and it offers a very good performance. I don't know of any libraries targeted specifically at agent-based modelling, though. (But in the end, as an experienced programmer you don't really need that - plain object-orientation is enough.)
I'll chime in here with +1. It's why I refuse to mess with KFR anymore. Wound up in a situation with multiple directories with the same name appearing, with different file contents, with different behavior depending on how you accessed it. Kept coming back despite not being how I'd configured KFR. It was a fucking nightmare. Nothing like staring at what is supposed to be a filesystem view and seeing things that make no sense.

You're not alone. It's been a bit reassuring that others run into these things. I figured maybe I was just "holding it wrong".
>What if the contract is complicated and you end up having part of it invalidated in court?

Sounds like a feature, not a bug. Contracts have to be simple. If you can't do the transaction with a simple contract, you have to find a different method to carry out what ever is desired to be done.
Facts aren't supposed to be copyrightable. They aren't creative works.
They also know that if you are always claiming a crash is coming, they will eventually be right.
I know they're talking about different kinds of sanctions, but they're spending 110 billion dollars on military equipment and on things that create jobs, like jobs, and others, for this country. I don't like the concept of stopping an investment of 110 billion dollars into the United States, because you know what they're going to do? They're going to take that money and spend it in Russia or China, or someplace else. So, I think there are other ways - if it turns out to be as bad as it might be - there are certainly other ways of handling this situation. But I will tell you, up front, right now, and I'll say it in front of senators: They're spending 110 billion dollars purchasing military and other things. If we don't sell it to 'em, they'll say, well, thank you very much, we'll buy it from Russia or thank you very much we'll buy it from China. That doesn't help us, not when it comes to jobs, and not when it comes to our companies losing out on that work. But there are other things we can do. Let's find out what the problem is first, okay? I oppose... I would not be in favor of stopping a country from spending a hundred and ten billion dollars - which is an all-time record - and letting Russia have that money and letting China have that money. Because all they're going to do is say, that's okay, we don't have to buy it from Boeing, we don't have to buy it from Lockheed, we don't have to buy it from Raytheon and all these great companies. We'll buy it from Russia, we'll buy it from China. So what good does that do us? There are other things we can do. They'll be something that has to take place. First I want to find out what happened, and we're looking. Again, this took place in Turkey, and to the best of our knowledge, Khashoggi is not a United States citizen. Is that right, or is that right? He's a permanent resident, okay. We don't like it, Johh, we don't like it, and we don't like it even a little bit.

(The US President, talking to press about presumed murder of US resident by KSA - https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1050419760113037313)
Even copying the real world is copyrightable. If you take a picture of a street, you own the copyright to it.

Shouldn't you?

PS: Not including the weird exceptions in the EU of monuments and such.
Depends on your baseline. Compared to their projected crewed launch of June, it's well within the margin of delays.
Using it as my default on my personal gadgets. Practically the same as Google for generic searches.
Telemetry isn't facts. Taking a picture of something isn't a fact.