skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I tend to have a slightly different problem when meeting someone for the second time; although I'll remember meeting the person before (and usually recall their name), I'll often not recognize that it's the same person if I didn't end up talking with them for a long time the first time I met them. I never realized that I had this issue until freshman year of college, when it occurred around weekly with various people I met on campus. Like others have mentioned about forgetting names, I found that simply being honest about it was the best strategy; people tended to be pretty forgiving of it, especially since I would able to recall all the details of our previous conversation, which I could bring up after the person identified who they were. It still occasionally happens either at work when I met someone new who joined the company or when meeting someone at a meetup or conference for the second time, but in many circumstances it actually ends up breaking the ice quite well, as the other person has forgotten my name.
Saying the below potential ideas with the tin-foil hat aside, just potential worst case scenarios.

Could access Employee/Employer/Client Data?

Open the password manager with access to vendor/company login info, ssh keys. Could access company systems with access to more data. Could change data/commit code etc to those systems remotely/temporarily.

Be able to open 2 factor apps that could enable access to financial info (tax/theft etc), which could hurt loved ones/heirs. If you were an investment advisor/trader the offender could make trades/wire money on client accounts.

I think law enforcement is one concern but a wealthier/powerful user could attract other parties.

If you died over a long holiday weekend or vacation, that access could go undetected long enough to have consequences.
Interesting. I'm not really into physics, so it's helpful to learn about the mainstream position. I know I use sloppy wording.

I still agree with Tesla that empty space can't have any properties though. Things that don't appear logical, probably aren't.
Is it mandatory to implement this in the kernel? Is this because linux is a monolith?
Reminds me of the 1984 Tom Selleck movie Runaway (trailer: https://www.imdb.com/videoplayer/vi1803551001)
Why would that be unfair?
That’s a good idea, doing it by shimming libc, but it feels kind of fragile. Go, for example, does not use libc and makes syscalls directly instead, so this would not work for any fs-accessing Go code either in the application or its dependencies. Even for things that do go through libc, wouldn’t you end up in a cat and mouse game to add shims for any new file operations added to the kernel? I suspect even shimming the existing interfaces is less straightforward than at first thought.

I don’t think you can have a truly robust solution without kernel support. Maybe the FUSE kernel-side code already supports, or could be modified to support, per-process ad-hoc virtual file systems? If done right, you might even get existing fs caching and other optimizations for (closed to) “free”.

I also can’t quite explain why I find this so desirable. It just feels intuitively cleaner and more robust to not have to spray files elsewhere into some cache.
I never really understood why lower tax is pro-wealth. What does it really mean? I am not trolling, I am really curious. Let's say I see some opportunity to grow my wealth, am I going to look at the current tax level and if it's above certain threshold I am just gonna say screw it, I am not taking it?
The First Sexual Revolution
I personally would love for the US to have a foreign policy that's even remotely humanitarian - I'll vote and advocate here for that.

The reality however is that US' policy has for years been murderously cynical with respect to the Saudis and numerous other dictatorships.

I don't have the ability even now to change much. Well meaning folks don't really have that ability. So really all one can do is throw the brutality and cynicism of those having power back in their faces. Maybe spotlighting this level of actual murderous narcissism will get the attention of who argued the need for the realpolitik approach of supporting the Saudis.
First, that's not the defense. The defense is that the 2007-2009 recession was a "black swan" event resulting from a confluence of factors that nobody expected. To date, I'm not aware of any economic work that points, with 95%+ certainty, to a specific cause of the recession.

Second, a successful prosecution requires proof beyond a reasonable doubt that a specific person performed each element of specific crimes. Defendants do not need to even present a defense--and in fact sometimes do not, relying entirely on poking holes in the government's case.
Two products that opt you into telemetry collection, how is it not relevant?

Every time I install anything I check through all the preferences / settings options and opt out of any of these things. There's been few cases where I just leave it all on.
That's what it used to be (5 power clicks) before the iPhone X/XS - shame that they changed it.
They talk about these things in the article. Somebody did a study on retirees, and 20,000 of them gave DNA samples as well. They used the DNA samples and did a broad test (i.e. not 1 gene but 1,000,000) and were able to correlate the genetic test at a significant level with educational attainment. The article says it explains 11% of the difference. It also mentions that it only explains these things for white people because most gene tests are on white people and attempting to correlate things in other ways can come up with bizarre findings. The test has reportedly been independently verified.
Was Wesley Snipes "snatched" by the US government?

OP said that he doesn't like things about their justice process. Did you just skim over that part of the comment? You want them to come back and say it again for you?

Due process, if actually executed faithfully (cough), is a method for trying to ensure justice is reached most of the time. In this case, OP is arguing that it looks like they got to justice.
The actual filming locations for the new 2018 Halloween
You didnt go to college?
That sounds like a healthy life. To bad things aren't setup for the majority of people to have time to care for themselves.
Well said. For me the 90s and early 2000s internet was completely magical. My fondest memories of my teens was finally having a computer in my room and the freedom to stay up late and explore the online universe. I met a lot of people and saw the advent of a lot of new things.

I wonder if that's going to happen for my kids. Today's internet feels so highly commercialized. All the new exciting discoveries are in the form of profit-driven silicon valley products with no humanity or soul.

I may very well be wrong. This is all emotion based and I really don't have concrete evidence. I'm probably falling into a fit of nostalgia.
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Our best universities involve a symbiosis between the bright and the rich. They're famous for the talents of the brightest, which achieve their full extent because the rich paid... to be around this fame. This has, for a few centuries, been quite a productive system.

Other systems are possible, but they have other tradeoffs. You can for instance pay for everything out of taxes, but this means putting those in control of the tax system in charge, and they have their own interests. The extreme of this was the USSR, and it did great science in some areas. But was far from paradise.
Pointing to the fact that it's GPL licensed in such a tone sounds like a warning, and I'm quit sure exactly that was the intention. Or else why would someone stress that fact? Never read something along the lines:

"Note for anyone considering this: it's BSD licensed."
Glad I'm not the only one. Where in the MDN source is the scrolljacking code?
I interpret meritocracy as being judged by the outcome of your doings. If someone has IQ 10000 but spends it to dominate WoW, then... I don't see why they should be paid a lot (some other people might disagree, though). Likewise, if someone leverages their genetics, family, wealth, skills, efforts, and luck towards great outcomes (e.g. Elon Musk), then they should be rewarded, as they're meritocratically the best.

To all "proponents" of "the luck argument": there are thousands of people far more lucky than Elon and Steve (born to wealthier families, smarter, better connected, etc) that didn't achieve what they have. So... luck obviously isn't the answer.

Having said that, even if luck were the answer, I'd still support meritocracy, because it results in the best outcome. It's not about fairness, fundamentally - it's about creating the best society. If the only people who can do that are "the wealthy" (or whichever category you choose - most likely "the intelligent" these days), then so be it - it's best for all the rest of us if they "rule", meritocratically.
It literally specifies all these things in the article. There are thousands of genes that are all in part responsible and the study was initially performed across 20,000 people and then was replicated in independent studies.
And fwiw MapD is now OmniSci.
Techmoan was not overly impressed: https://youtu.be/is-rSK5y6EQ
I used to get frustrated at not being able to remember names. After many trials and failures, I stumbled upon a remarkably easy mnemonic (for me).

Due to generations, geographies, culture, etc there really aren't that many different names (especially when only pronunciation matters).

I eventually found that, when meeting someone, I would immediately think of the name and face of someone I already knew with that name. Even if it was a girl from a class in middle school, the number of previous names or the passing of time doesn't seem to matter. If I can apply the new face to a face and name I already know there's a high likelihood I'll remember the new face/name association forever (just like we can all remember the name of some random kid from second grade, somehow). It's as simple as saying to myself:

"This is Shannon, like Shannon from middle school and Shannon from that gym you used to go to."

Then the next time I see the "new" person I'll often immediately recall:

"Oh, hey! That's Shannon. Like Shannon from middle school and Shannon from that gym you used to go to."

It really seems to scale almost infinitely and to this day I can go almost anywhere I've been before and remember the names of people I may have "met" once years ago.

If it's a new name the process is slightly more complicated. Many times I'll try to think of a place, town, business, item, pretty much anything and that generally works. I've also found that it happens so rarely simply remarking "WOW, that's actually a new one" is enough to give me a pretty good chance.

The reactions are really interesting but I keep doing this and using this method because the results are almost always positive for all parties. In many cases (especially in the service industry) you can see their face and demeanor change instantly when you've demonstrated you made some effort to remember their name.

Reminds me of the "What's That Name?" SNL skit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZ7OJdDSXVo
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Are they actually being shut out because of laws and culture, though?

Most of the instances I've heard of where talented but disadvantaged people are shut out of opportunities are actually because of implicit bias. Someone may be very good at a particular skill, but they don't "pattern match" as the type of person who would be successful, and so they get passed over by the folks who could give them opportunities.

The thing is - this is self-correcting by market mechanisms. It's profitable to spend a little more time overcoming your unconscious biases and learning to evaluate candidates on their own merits, because by doing so, you can get a talented employee who others are not extending offers to, likely for less money. And then once people realize this, either they'll do it or they'll be outcompeted by people who do it, and wages will go up for disadvantaged groups.

We don't need collective action or societal change, we just need more greedy bastards who want to fuck over their competition by being smarter than them. There's a market opportunity here for people willing to get over their prejudices.
Normal in the sense that they get vacation time last, unlike in the USA (outside of the middle class+ bubble).
While you aren't wrong, I think the original commenter was trying to say "it shouldn't be this way".

Pre-trial detention is a thing too, of course. They can afford bail, but many innocent people who literally did not do the crime they're accused of still sit in jail for months/years waiting for a trial.
Apple doesn't really use through hole parts - the connectors are SMT. I can't see any high volume repair shop using a soldering iron on SMT parts when hot air is so much easier and faster. A hobbyist might, but only because they don't have the hot air rework tools.
> It's not buying ebooks, it's leasing them.
I mostly agree, though in some cases you do own them in a format that is reasonable. In other cases some ebooks are open on github as well under Creative Commons.
In the Mass defect case, it's not an invisible mass what it is substracted. When some nuclei react to produce another nuclei, the energy of the mass defect is emitted as a gamma ray or as the energy of a fast electron/positron or something else. But all the mass can be found somewhere. It is only missing because you can't keep the gamma ray inside the balance.

There should be a similar effect in a galaxy, because when the stars/gas/whatever get closer they have a small gravitational binding energy. I didn't do the calculations, but I'm sure it is so tiny (relatively) that you can safely ignore it.

For comparison, in the Helium nuclei the difference is only 0.8%, in a galaxy it is (I think) abysmally smaller because the gravity is smaller than the strong force and the stars are much far away than the nucleons. But the dark matter is much bigger than the normal mater, something like x5 or x6. So it's not possible to explain the dark matter with a something that has a tiny effect.
Its not that pressure is bad, but bottom up would be better than top down. The rich top already have pleny of disposable income, it doesn’t change their lives all that much to get a bit more. More affordable housing in the bottom would mean a revolution to the people affected, they’d suddenly have money for education, travel, quality cars and luxeries. The rent is too damn high, and it doesn’t matter for the top but means the world to the bottom.
No you don't, where is this supposed to come from? 130 IQ on 15 SD is probably significantly too high as well to be the mean average.
Just if wealth is correlated with graduation, and graduation is correlated with success, doesn't mean that wealth is correlated with success.

If anything, the article could be interpreted to apply the opposite - those skilled poor people that do graduate have climbed so high so fast compared to unskilled rich graduates that they're very likely to climb even farther further in life.
Or funnier: AMD does not even sell GPUs.
I guess this might be a precursor to the type of behavior we can expect to see with the GitHub acquisition.

Secondly, is there anyone out there that has a solid emacs step by step guide that might be able to replicate the functionality of vscode? I haven't had time to look at it but I think the time has come where I can't put it off any longer.
Well, what do you expect? Of the last four secretaries of the treasury, not counting the acting ones who had the job briefly, three were from Goldman Sachs. The other one was from Citicorp.
Or at least one can say, you can use Amazon and Youtube better when guided by these algorithms

In the case of Amazon when I search for "headphones" there's plenty of data in my history on there that could aid a product recommendation - they know what music I like and what devices I use to listen to it via Amazon Music, they know what mobile phone I have from the Amazon app, they know that I like the Anker brand from what I've bought recently, they know approximately how much I spend on gadgets, they know I only buy things that I can get Prime delivery on and they even know which headphones I bought last time. And yet the search listing doesn't have the things I'd like most at the top. Or even in the top ten.

If they're trying to make the search better for me then they have failed completely.
A rational investor is concerned with risk-adjust returns after taxes. The fact that capital gains rates are lower than income rates allows an investor to accept a higher level of risk than if the two tax rates were lower.
All the while thinking about how you can figure out a way to make enough to sustain your family's life style while doing something that doesn't involve employee engagement surveys...
Why is it offline?
So we measure „better“ in life using academic success now? Is academic success the ultimate goal in life, the key to happiness? Or is the WP just pushing typical political propaganda using fake science these days?
You can work during college
Apologies. I was unthinkingly trying to condense the sentence from the article into the character limit for HN titles
^ this is real talk. Companies constantly confuse

"company success [worker gets to pay their rent this month]"

with

"employee satisfaction [worker's role and tasks in organization are congruent with how worker sees / wants-to-see self]"
I think he is a shitty person and not qualified to be on the supreme court. However, regardless of that he succeeded by any conventional level of success. He was involved before this in the highest levels of government, and is now at arguably the highest level.
That's a great quote, but I think people there are pretty happy with things. Something like 400M people have gone from subsistence farming to the information economy in a single generation. Their government builds infrastructure instead of letting it crumble while overspending on military and foreign wars. And they don't have a hot drug war imprisoning tons of people.

They see the due process problems as unlikely to affect them personally as long as they don't go looking for trouble, while many other things have been great for them and their families.

The big question is whether Xi keeps getting more aggressive or if he's replaced in 5 years with someone more moderate.
Ask your phone: Hey Siri, whose phone is this?

That disables biometrics at least on iPhone 7
The sad thing for me is that a lot of those strange, eclectic sites are still there, only they became really hard to find. Thanks to Google and other search engines prioritising recency and Brands (with a capital) in all results, the eclectic is penalised to the point of near invisibility.

There was never a point to them, but they were hugely interesting. Today there's no point bothering as it would be gone forever a month after posted to twitter or a Facebook group now bloody everything has to have a stream or timeline. So akin to a chilling effect it invisibly promotes things that have releases. Products.

Nostalgia is some of it I'm sure, but I really do think there's something more concrete there too.
Thanks. I'm gonna keep working on some of my other projects, and get back to applying to what I find open involving those technologies and others I know. It was just a frustrating thing hearing that and, since I have a steady job (even if I don't particularly enjoy it), it was hard to make myself apply for programming ones after hearing it. Just need to move on and keep doing it.
I don't think it's actually any more effort than a triple-click. "Several seconds" actually means 2 seconds, so you can basically grab your phone and squeeze for two seconds to disable Face ID. It's probably less obvious than a triple-click too, because there's no repeated clicking noise. Whether you're attempting to triple-click or hold volume + power you'll need a good grip either way, and you may be able to triple click in one second vs. a two-second hold, but I think the probability a literal second would make a difference is pretty low.
Looks really well written – the fun & practical examples look very inviting.
This isn't completely fair, although most of it is.

Some of the reasons for modifying Linux are performance enhancements to the filesystem layer that only make sense with a Bε-tree filesystem (and are not possible without patching Linux). They cover this in the hour-long talk at MS research linked elsewhere in this thread.[1] (Yes, it's long, but it's a pretty good presentation.)

E.g., they describe modifying the page cache to write-through small modifications to file data, rather than dirtying the entire page and writing it back later (a form of write amplification).

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBt5NuNsoII
Who are you to decide what's fair?
Directive 96/9/EC, perhaps?

https://eur-lex.europa.eu/lexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
Wow, you started great there and then went off the rails. Why does everybody bring grade-school lessons about Russian communism to the current Chinese situation? The cultural revolution ended a long time ago and they're not proud of it.

Chinese society is extremely family-oriented. Xi Jinping has been much more aggressive with government power than his immediate predecessors, but his biggest themes are conservative and traditional. Lots of taoism and confucius.

I'd posit that their government doesn't go after (han chinese) families because it turns one dissident into 50.
Incarceration is supposed to protect the upcoming trial, from the accused fleeing, tampering with evidence or witnesses.

It is not a punitive measure. Innocent until proven guilty, etc.

So while it's fair to criticise the disparate abilities to post bail, changing the system to incarcerate more rich accused would just be compounding injustice.
Writing callbacks is much more fun if you make use of closures and named functions.
iOS 12 lets you register a single alternate appearance for Face ID. Assuming the glasses aren't blocking IR, you should be able to register yourself with the glasses as the alternate appearance.
Minor correction: The accelerating expansion of the universe implies the existence of dark energy, not dark matter.
The story mentions "ten-to-the-seventeenth grams in mass and ten-to-the-minus-eleven centimeters across", but I'm not sure if that's the black hole in question, or a hypothetical one.

They definitely mention it being smaller than an atom, though.
> locally, it is expected to be approximately uniform in density, which makes any gravitational interaction negligible.

This seems like a weird thing to expect. What else has approximately uniform local density of distribution? Why would dark matter be different?
There should be an app for this.
Well done to the authors. I am deep in this space. This book looks to be solid on my skim of TOC and chapter 2.
AFAIK many hospitals have a "MBA manager" and a "doctor manager" - I don't know exactly how they relate to one another (who's the "boss boss"), but the idea is that they each bring their part of superior skills to the table.

Would the same idea work for IT? Or, another idea would be, to take a look at how traditional (non-IT) engineering companies work (although the main difference between both medicine and engineering, and IT is that the former are both very high-risk industries that move much slower than IT).