skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I work in an office with lots of dads and people in the 30-50 range. It's still not that quiet because people get along well and going over to someone's desk to discuss something happens often.

The best thing to do is make your own quiet with headphones. If your headphones don't do enough, request different ones. "I would be more productive and focused with headphones that block out peripheral distractions better." With wording that makes it a potential gain rather than a failing on your part. Most (smart) places will readily jump at buying software or hardware that will increase an engineer's productivity. Your salary is high enough that it's a no-brainer.

"I would get maybe 5% more work done with fewer distractions." So long as that's true, I'd imagine you'll get them.
There is no evidence that she evaded taxes presented by the state, and she has not been given the opportunity to challenge the evidence or present any defense. A confession coerced by an oppressive state is not evidence; it would not be accepted by evidence by any legitimate court. That's why legitimate governments have rule of law, courts, trials, juries, and due process.

Furthermore, persecution for alleged financial corruption is a standard modus operendi for oppressive states. As examples, Xi has been doing it to his political opposition, Putin does it, and the current Saudi Arabian dictator is another example.
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They may not have had the option to avoid the first c-section, depending on the circumstances of the first pregnancy.
Is "deep fulfillment" really linked to accomplishments from being gifted, vs social/family/personal accomplishments?
I get annoyed even by the purported advantages of data collection, like Youtube or Amazon recommendations. Just because I curiously clicked on a stream of data points six weeks ago does not mean I suddenly want to be inundated with more of that random tangent today.

So I hate logical positivism. From logical positivism we get the philosophical foundation of modern tracking and advertising, that every data point obtained about a subject is necessarily meaningful and actionable, and that which cannot be measured does not exist. From there we get the unhealthy Nielsen-style reductionist tendencies in marketing that believes all it needs to know about you is your age, race, gender, sexuality, and income bracket. I think Frankl's discussion on dimensional ontology is the most complete picture I've found of why this is a flawed point of view, though I think any person who has been discriminated against based solely on one of those criteria should be able to understand the limitations of that model.

I hope we can start to understand better as a tech culture that, unfortunately, human beings are decidedly unscientific in the sense that past data collected will not always provide accurate conclusions about future behavior. People grow and change, and collecting data silently in the background and trying to draw actionable conclusions without active user input and feedback is a fundamentally inefficient process, with harms that can be quite difficult to measure, though this article articulates some of them quite well.

I suppose I can imagine that if we lived in a society free from the incentives generating the kind of abuses this article lists, and someone has generated an algorithm that could help you find meaning and success and fulfillment and loving relationships based on all the tracking data you provide, I can imagine this to be the dream of big data for which the sacrifice of privacy might be a necessary one. But given that we still live in a society that prefers exploitation to altruism, what we can salvage of our privacy is still probably the best option until we can reach that next stage of our evolution.
Because somehow we’ve got to the point where being racist is PC. As long as it’s against the right group.
Amazon has some search issues so I made a web tool for this it is a Advanced Amazon Search Tool and wrote an article how to find good products https://medium.com/@ceyhunkazel/amazon-search-hack-eliminate... and here hackernews discussion about it https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12382228
The approach with Akka actors is similar - bytes are sent to and received from some kind of socket actor. I think Pony might do similar.

Other than that:

Go gets rid of exposing select() and co from the user and just offers blocking IO. Which is ok, since spawning goroutines is cheap and makes things more consistent than somewhere trying to do event-driven things.

Other languages like C# also get rid of select, but offer asynchronous send/receive methods according to various conventions to the user. Still, that's also nothing fundamentally different.

node.js might be a bit more different in the sense that the stack pushes received fragments towards the user inside a callback - there is no way to specify the target buffer into which the kernel will copy data on reception.

And also in C, but still quite different from posix sockets: WinAPI in IO completion or registered IO mode. Calls to sockets no longer perform work synchronously, they just enqueue the work for the kernel, and results are obtained via an IO completion queue.
Also, as an employed engineer I only have so many vacation days I can burn on interviewing (esp. since I like to take an actual vacation every so often).

This usually amounts to interviewing at 2-3 companies a year given each one involves multiple rounds, travel (if out of town), etc., only to hear, yet again, that I'm not a "cultural fit." So, I reach a point each year where I'm turning away companies trying to recruit me).
Larry Ellison hates PCs
As an European, I agree.

When Nordic countries teamed up and created single Mobile network standard and large market, it created basis for two global telecom giants - Ericsson and Nokia. They are still major players today.

There are five mobile network equipment providers in the world. Two from EU, two from China and one from South Korea. The absence of US companies from this strategically important market is stunning.
The Siri remote is barely usable for content consumption alone. The trackpad is the most frustrating part of a remote I’ve ever used.
Wealth redistribution never works. Universal Basic Income is just another idealistic idea that will never work in the real world.

The actual solution is wealth creation. And you can only get wealth creation through de-regulations, lowering the taxes, bringing jobs back and companies back into the United States, better education, and skill training programs, etc.
But, in this analogy, one should assume that the copyright owner of these books can and does implement restrictions on "making paper boats out of a book" (analogous to restrictions on what code one can run on their own PC while the game is running). Should they be able to do so in such a situation? If not, why is it justifiable to allow copyright owners that level of control over their work?

Now, creating and distributing cheats doesn't ruin the play experience for everyone. It's evident that it doesn't ruin the experience for those using the cheats. It's also possible that there are groups of people who wish to use cheats when playing separately from non-cheaters. Instead of suing this guy and shutting down the cheats entirely, I would suggest they should put those players on their own server, where they won't encounter any players who wish their experience to be cheat-free.
Is this where you use your AR augmented glasses to surreptitiously recognize their faces from your face recognition database.
> Apple needs to do more than just offer developers the tools to make games for its platforms. It needs to sell consumers on the fact that these machines are for games.

Apple needs to do a whole lot more first for the Apple TV to be considered close to iOS devices. The remote is an abomination that Apple should get rid of and then go back to the drawing board with a new design team. Usability wise, it's terrible — tiny, slippery, symmetrical shape where one can't figure out quickly where the buttons are and doesn't have enough buttons for control (the behavior when the side edges are pressed is unpredictable and annoying).

As for tvOS, it's neglected by Apple to such an extent that there's not much going on in every release. It's still a "hobby" project that Apple can't decide to spend time and money on. After all these years of apps on the platform, there is still no straightforward way to update apps individually from the App Store! Seriously, if that's not a sign of it being a hobby project or almost abandonware, I don't know what is.

Apple needs to show that it's serious about the Apple TV, for real. It seems to be distracted with things not directly related to Apple TV. If the past and this year are any indication, it's clear that there won't be a game controller from Apple for the foreseeable future. There are other broken things that need to be fixed for Apple TV to be taken seriously in this space.
Both examples are within a mile of Amazon's offices, and one bus away from Redmond.
Doesn't miniflux use RSS as the backend though? I'm using Inoreader, but it's still RSS under the hood.

>if RSS was easier to monetize

There's no problems with monetizing RSS feeds. It's just a notification system.
Except even if that was enough, people upgrading were just auto-opted back in (AFAICT). It definitely happened to me!
Apparently "nice to see you" is a Hollywood thing, I remember a guest (an actor) on a talk show saying "I hate when people say that, it's so phony!"
Get an nvidia shield. Plays any file you can throw at it and they update it pretty regularly. My original shieldnis still kicking and working great.
c.f. the objections to cuda on the rapids story currently on the front page.
This is actually significant, because as a rule of thumb the law can compell physical testimony (e.g. blood test, fingerprint), but not mental testimony (e.g. password, PIN, which finger to swipe, what face to make).

Though practically, I doubt many people will want to scrunch their face each time.
My Vision on Average Joe Investments
Or if you're me and millions like me -- take off your glasses. Works like a charm! (By which I mean it doesn't ever work.)
Yes, I planned to move and continue development to mhsys.org after I needed to have multiple repositories. Having said this, I have a few outstanding patches that fix the tool chain building — a change got lost in the split.

Thank you for your interest btw; this was completely unexpected and a rather pleasant surprise!

Development is currently stalled mostly for personal reasons, but I am more than available to help and answer questions to anyone interested in it.
Rich always have the advantage of better nutrition, information and resources (if parents don't have time, they hire tutors). Is it truly a genetic advantage or a socio-economic advantage? Is there a good way to hold all other variables as a constant in this study?
And probably can be divided by 2 or 3 (twins, triplets) more frequently than non-caesarean births can.
You realize that you're just complaining "they" are not using your data well enough. You certainly can't realistically sort through youtube yourself, nor can you realistically find what you need on Amazon.

Fact is you cannot use these sites realistically without these algorithms. It just can't be done. Or at least one can say, you can use Amazon and Youtube better when guided by these algorithms. I do think that it is the difference between not being able to use them at all and using them, but maybe you think it's just a bit less than that.

(also logical positivism and inferring things through statistics are pretty much diametrically opposite things. No logical positivist is ever going to accept statistical evidence about anything, but no matter)

> I suppose I can imagine that if we lived in a society free from exploitation, and someone has generated an algorithm that could help you find meaning and success and fulfillment based on all the tracking data.

That's exactly what these algorithms do. They try to find what YOU would find meaningful and fulfilling and they really do try to give it to you. When that means money will be exchanged they prefer one vendor (that has paid them) over another (which hasn't, or paid less), but does that really change anything ?
I always thought that the price of a car always go down.
The next version, which is currently under development, will change this to BSD: https://github.com/xxsds/sdsl-lite
I recommend the book "Your Brain at Work" by David Rock. He does a great job at explaining what goes on in your head on a given day, for a given decision.

https://www.amazon.com/Your-Brain-Work-Strategies-Distractio...
Vector, call 911. Beep beep beep. 911, what’s the problem? Beep beep beep.
Ain't futurism dead? Unfortunately?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_(disambiguation)
Ask HN: How do I approach buying a company from someone?
Are there dos and don'ts when it comes to approaching someone to buy their business?

Especially businesses that are going well and growing organically and the owner/founder is comfortable and has no need to sell.

How do I broach the subject that can optimize the likelihood that they would realistically entertain the idea of selling their company or more importantly selling to me?
I heartily recommend trying one. I ride a ZeroSR and it's just a different experience, riding sedately along country lanes allows you to appreciate things in a whole new way. It takes some getting used to though, first few times I stopped it was eerie being able to hear nothing but the traffic next to me rather then the bike itself.
I’ll be honest, if I’m dead... you’re welcome to it all.

I’m much more worried about a court compelling me, while alive, to provide my face or fingerprint. They can easily force biometrics out of me, but they’d have to torture a passcode out. Even if I have nothing to hide and/or give it up in the first five minutes at least that was my choice and not one made for me.
Facebook’s 29M Hack Got Personal Data
Except you can use Qt for free in proprietary applications too, the response to that comment makes it clear.
NASA's new Mars Rover drove through NYC
> you'd still have a functioning option market

Most of the time. Professional options market makers would be degraded.

(As an aside, you'd also spawn systemic risks. Increased market-making risk favors small shops; access to inventory large. To bridge the gap, shorting would be replicated–more expensively, less transparently, and more riskily–through banks swapping their inventory to funds writing options. Add in your suggestion that hedging rely on historical correlations and you have a recipe for a preventable crisis.)

On underwriting, secondary issuances for seasoned issuers don't require options markets. But it reduces risk. That, in turn, reduces the cost of market access.

Australia's short-seeing ban "reduced trading activity, increased bid and ask spreads and increased intraday volatility" while providing "no evidence for lasting price support from the restrictions" [1]. It's a stupid idea that raises costs for everyone while sounding cute to the naive.

[1] https://epublications.bond.edu.au/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?refere...
Personally I think that, as a package, US weapons are best. Meaning that Russia might have a better x weapon but that's it. Now the Saudi (Gov) is as bad as they can be. But let's suppose that we trigger things that makes the Saudi Royal family to go back to their desert roots (US TREAS can make their life miserable if ordered, no matter how many assets they have overseas)....will we be better with the replacement? What will true democracy be like in Saudi Arabia when it comes to human rights?

As bad as it sounds, punishing, but not overthrowing them might be the best option. Of course tighten this screw and loosen this one is a game, but if played correctly they'll tow the line. Maybe show them a video of Muammar Gaddafi's last minutes?
> How good with names would you say you are now?

Much much better than average. Some people are surprised I can recall their name months/years later after 1 interaction.

> qualify for spaced repetition. Do you do it again later?

I think with Marjolein and the subsequent 10 - 20 I did. But it becomes "natural" after a while.
And then South Park does an episode on "it".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OACjYGw6BkA
Babies ingest vital microbes during natural birth helping kick start their immune system when exciting from the mothers vagina. It also helps to get the babys breathing started. The microbes that babies get in contact with during natural birth help form their gut microbes. Gut microbes are essential to human health. If we eat food from animals that have been given antibiotics or we take antibiotics, we mess with the gut microbe system that prevents us from getting sick.

To clean environment is not good for humans. Ie with a little dirt our immune system is better. That is why for example people growing up on the country side has less allergy.

https://www.wired.com/2014/04/missing-microbes-antibiotic-re...

The Normal Gut Microbiota: An Essential Factor in Health. Article
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3983973/
I keep getting ads for things I do not want to buy due to the average. For example a championship belt that recently has a tacked on women in my feed. By no means is that something that interests me but can understand the average may be tempted.

In regards to the younger generations I definitely understand the fear. But we get bored as a species, otherwise networks would never of gone down the outrage path of targeted ads had an absolute effect. And even then more and more people are setting aside their smart phones and jumping off of social media or just using it for the bare minimum.

What you are arguing is happening, but whether or not we are truly on the last leg of the data argument is not true. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carpenter_v._United_States
I had no idea this existed. Thanks!
No, it's to decrease manual translations between the CPU and the GPU by having the virtual memory maps match between them. Then you can just share pointers back and forth between the CPU and GPU.
Russia is mentioned in article but is underestimated. The fact is they sure as hell can sell aircraft, missiles and tanks.
Even a few $billion diverted to Russian military industrial complex would be huge loss for American foreign politics, not to mention 20 billion a year.
> Of course dark matter "deniers" don't have the same religious convictions of creationists.

Can you support that "of course"? I'm not so sure that there is no correlation. E.g. it is known that the same persons who tried to convince us that the "smoking is not dangerous" try to convince us that the "global warming doesn't exist, or at best it's beneficial." There are definitely the circles that immediately welcome and use any way to raise the doubt in the relevance of the majority of the scientific claims. It is intentional, it is supported by a lot of money, and it comes not only from one political direction. It is complex, it's not only a single ideology or a single religious group, but there are multiple correlations.

See the books: "The War on Science" by Shawn Otto and "Merchants of Doubt" by Oreskes and Conway.
BBC News announcement of "bandwidth as a currency" from 2007:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6971904.stm
Of course it does cost something. If there is unjustified ageism, then the market value of older people is lower than it should be. In this case, hiring a younger person will cost you more if adjusted for output.
I don't understand. How does it respond to your queries? For weather it seems to animate little rain droplets on the screen, but in the example: "what's an epsilon?" they never show it actually answering.
The investors I know and have to work with are mostly no technicians. They scan the news for investments and reported problems in growing business. If you can convince them that you thought about scaling issues and know how to solve them then they come up you should be fine :)
It's not just weapons...it's protection, alliances, orientation.
Holy moly true pro tip. Thanks good person!!!
Does anyone have any information about how Anki is doing as a company? They have raised almost $200m. Are their products selling well?
> remember what they do to engineers that are over 40.

May I ask what do you mean by this? I'm an engineer entering my late 30's, what is it exactly that I have to prepare for by the time I enter my 40s?
The difference between a theory and a theorem
Or a bicycle or e-bike. Those are also pretty quiet and fun to ride.
The US can sanction anyone that buys Russian weapons, as they've done with China and threatened to do with India [1][2].

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/u-s-...

[2] https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/05/asia/india-s400-deal-intl/ind...
The Third Wave (experiment)
#unrelatedtothetopic

Maybe it is a signal of the current times we are in but I can't read a NYTimes article talking about Trump/current administration and not feel conflicted that it will biased against him/them.
Indeed, one of the tragedies of the past couple of years for me is this realization that even centuries-old trusted press outlets like NYTimes are inherently biased (and doesn't represent the thoughts on all Americans).
Standard of care may not be relevant. Stats are great for making policies to improve population health and wellbeing, but when you are the one in a million to whom a rare and catastrophic event occurs despite best practice, where does that leave one?
More validation that I'm a shitty JS developer.
They have it speak in the video ("Hey there").
Also: I'd like to see the photo so that I can evaluate claims in context myself. Text leaves too much to imagination.

Not putting actual, real photos or videos in media reporting can and does easily lead to overhyping things. For an extreme example, consider the Magic Leap debacle.
That is the only reason I wanted the glasses, but I seem to remember that use was banned by Google because of privacy concerns?