skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The doubts about the technique seems warranted. On the other hand there is a simple reason why it might be true : if large herds destroyed the herbs on which these herds depend on, they would die off. So from an evolutionary point of view, it makes a lot of sense for large herds to fertilize soil. They NEED grass to thrive.
That's actually far from the truth. A lot of US based businesses rely on cheap immigrant labor.
Cool vid. Nope, never been there, but I want to go now. I'm in the hills of the peninsula. I've done a ton of hiking near my house but I've never found one.
You could index it with cost of living. So an H1B in a California company would expect to see a higher salary than one in Kansas.
A nice idea but would make it impossible, for example, for my kid’s foreign-language school to bring in qualified teachers.[+]

It’s difficult already as teachers switch jobs over the summer which over the past couple of decades has been when the supply is already used up.

[+] English teachers are recruited from the California system. Unfortunately CA schools are so terrible that if the kids go back to their jobs,encountry they are frequently behind in English!
Dendrites are just a specific part of a neuron (1), so you are no more correct.

More importantly, neurons are nothing like transistors. Each neuron contains significant computing power. For example, in the retina of a frog there is a neuron that accepts as inputs dendrites from an area of light-sensitive cells (rods and cones) and only fires when a small, round, moving object is in the field of view. These neurons are colloquially called "bug perceivers." (2)

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuron

2 "What the Frog's Eye Tells the Frog's Brain" (1959)
FWIW, my family has had an Echo for almost a year and we've come to realize it's really just a fancy radio. The microphone is disabled most of the time (except when we're requesting a song), the ordering functionality is disabled because we would never order anything that way, and the various apps and integration we've tried are all more difficult to use than simply doing things "manually". Meanwhile, it's nice to have a DJ in the house.

Amazon is probably a bit frustrated with us and other families like us. Even the songs we listen to are generally a bit old and probably don't indicate very many preferences that advertisers would want to target.
Apks are signed. There's no explicit public way to check ownership of a key, but comparing the public keys to those on the same app retreieved from the play store works.
I don't want to downplay the issues at hand, but when we talk about poverty and wealth, we should always be aware of the definition. AFAIK poverty is often defined as a relative ratio, leading to very different absolute conditions in different countries. For example, in the US or Europe, it is presumably something very different than in Africa.

For my taste, Anand Giridharadas mixes those things a bit too loosely. One moment he is talking about the elite that is fighting for a better future in Africa and the next minute he talks about how the funding of public schools in the US is organized.

Sure, his point is that the US elites are helping Africa because (it is cheaper and) it doesn't endanger the system of their wealth in the US, but I wonder if helping the people in Africa isn't more urgent than the ones in the developed part of the world.

That said, I like how he presents and explains his view to the audience at Google.
​What's the deal with Microsoft's open-source friendly patents?
And the network effects of having some of the smartest people in the world together in proximity where they are able to cooperate and produce real innovation.
Apple is not a human being, it is a company. That means expecting it to have integrity the way you would a person will only lead to disappointment.

A better way to understand the actions of a company is to look at incentives. Apple does not have a huge incentive to collect and monetize user data the way Google and Facebook do. Therefore, Apple has an incentive to try to differentiate their product based on this fact. That's all that is going on here, morality does not enter into the picture.
The problem with both is it's not the default. I shouldn't have to know some special syntax that makes my code safe (having to put $ in front or use `var` or `let`. It should be hard to mess up, not hard to not mess up.

You can see the progression of perl from bad to tacked on workarounds. First "local" was added to manually copy values to some stack. Then "my" was added. But all the old problems are still there.

Then there's all the massive mess of $foo vs %foo vs @foo vs &foo. That's super cryptic and leads to really hard to parse code (IMO obviously).

And all the ridiculous cryptic globals
https://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=353259

No thank you
I agree with you, especially considering that the same complaints aren't really any easier on any other smartphone. You can't lump "Androids" together because most of them have some sort of custom skin over top of the base Android install and, even if they didn't, most end-users still wouldn't know how to change the text or manually select a WiFi network without some kind of instruction.

The author's issue lies with the complexity of today's modern devices vs. the number of people that require certain features. It's definitely in bad faith and, frankly, is nonsense.

I say this as an Apple fanboi with both a PC and an Android Nexus phone.
I consider them two different games and I've been a member of Hard Drop for a long time.

I used to have Top 100 records on both Sprint (sub 50 seconds) and Ultra, and one day, confidently challenged a top-Classic player to a classic game and got crushed. So much respect to classic players.
Apache Spark and real time predictions
Important note: at Sears, different departments fought against each other for years - essentially a dozen of small businesses with the overhead of a large corporation. No way it could have ended well.

That's the main reason why Sears went this way.
As many people are pointing out, they has been used as an alternative singular pronoun for a very long time. For those who think that these things are unacceptable, one only has to look at other Indo-european languages.

German has sie, which means 'they' (in addition to 'she'). However, they also have Sie which means formal 'you'. This is the same mechanism at work, albeit formalized and thus further along the path to acceptance.

French has a more recent example. The pronoun on means 'one', in the third person singular, gender-neutral sense. In recent history, it has been transformed to take on the sense of 'we'. The motivation, as with many things French, is to shorten words and to make things less formal. The on conjugation of verbs is more brief than the nous (we) equivalent.

These languages have re-purposed pronouns in a natural way, and have accepted it--even formalized it in grammar books. English needs to do the same.
Including cannabis, which contributes to the variety of strains with differing smells, tastes, and psychoactive effects.
Is that related to re-selling personal, intimate data (like where you are and what you like) to third parties? If not, why mention it in the context of privacy?

I'm not an Apple user and I don't even think the iPhone UI is particularly great (no . and ? keys on the keyboard? No notification drop-down I can quickly, in one-stop-shop fashion, remove notifications without that silly number on the icon remaining?). But we're talking about privacy.
Show HN: Excalibur – A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs
They're comparing human brains to rodent brains here. Suzana Herculano-Houzel did some interesting work recently that showed that human (and primate, and bird) brains have neuron counts that scale linearly with volume while most mammals only scale something like the 3/4 power of volume. So I wonder how a crow or lemur brain would look in this regard.
I agree. It's amazing how many people on here are blaming the framework for their organization's implementation/interpretation of the framework. There's an insane amount of work going into discussions with people who've been burned by Dark Agile.
I always thought H1B should simply be $100k or $120k+ plus jobs only.

I was looking through online records and found folks being brought in for sub 50k jobs that looked like low level ... customer service roles.
Why Tech Founders Need a Moral Compass
> This will deprive rural and middle America on the skilled labor that they need to survive.

That's kind of already happened. Since the recession almost all new jobs created were in cities and metro areas, and mostly to educated workers.

Rural and middle America have this problem all on their own: skilled labor does not want to live in rural and middle America. Especially young skilled workers. There's even the concept of rural brain drain, as the top 5 % are sure to leave right after they're done high school.
Chapter 12!
> If they are getting the data from Gmail, then it is useful for the heuristics in understanding what is and what is not spam.

Do you have evidence that they use their trove of personal data about you to improve spam filtering? No other email provider on the planet has the same amount of data, and they manage to filter out spam.

> AFAIK, ebay don't use GA although most of the web do.

eBay was an example, but my point was more about, if you used Google Pay on a shopping site.

> That is useful because it gives website owners (who choose to use it) analytics.

That isn't beneficial to the person whose data they hold, it's detrimental, and fucking creepy.
I'd be tempted to say "I'm long since out of junior high, so I'm going to skip the silly games and just tell you what happened."
Immigration, World Poverty and Gumballs - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPjzfGChGlE
Younger are better than older at telling factual news statements from opinions
https://www.ted.com/topics/inequality

I'm not saying there's no valid criticisms of TED, or even really endorsing it, but the claim you report clearly can't be strictly true - there are TED talks with "inequality" in the title.
We have bees and wasps, which cause several deaths per year:

"Estimates of the prevalence of anaphylaxis vary widely. In 2000, it was estimated that 25% of all UK deaths from anaphylaxis were due to reactions to hymenoptera stings. Every year in the UK there are 2–9 deaths due to anaphylaxis from bee or wasp stings."

https://www.nice.org.uk/guidance/ta246/documents/venom-anaph...
If you're a zsh user you can also use the other zshparam(1) stuff too. Like "mv file.ext{,(:r)}" to perform "mv file.ext file", or :l to lowercase a filename, or any number of other sometimes useful or often pointless things ;) I've used :l a number of times, but :s for substition is probably the most useful in general.
It is very prudent to take the lump sum. Future tax rates are likely to be higher and there's potential for a future government debasing the currency and the winner seeing the payouts eroded by high inflation. There's also a remote chance the lottery or payment provider fails or is nationalized in some political act. You also can better plan your estate if you control the asset outright.
I think we can agree that the problems are similar but the risk is very different. Just like plane crashes and car crashes have similar problems but different probabilities/risk.
Hi, yes, our security library uses OpenID to authenticate users which then in turn allows us to restrict pages based on user roles provided by FusionAuth.
Hacking for fun is one of those activities that engulf me and make me forget to eat for many hours.
Crediting a web page in a footnote is almost no credit at all. The web page didn't compile the data. A person did. Sometimes the person is inconveniently pseudonymous, but other times they should be credited by name.

I added the Google Books Ngrams example slightly later, but: People _do_ publish papers about their data, and their citation counts are often extremely low, because research users continue to use footnotes instead.
I use Firefox and DDG on my EvilCorp Pixel. I suspect there's a lot more than that - for example, it seems widely accepted that it funnels GPS data out even if you're not using a GPS-dependent app like GMaps in the foreground.
This is not necessarily true. My parents had a Mac with an iCloud account and managed to purchase an iPhone from Verizon without ever logging into their iCloud account. It's one of the reasons I moved away from Verizon. They prioritized the sale of the device over making sure that people understood what they were buying and how to use it. Luckily, the iPhone is user-friendly enough that they were able to use it fine but they were never even asked if they wanted to enable iCloud and eagerly said yes when I mentioned what that meant.
> It's worrying that academia is slowly turning into a rigid "appeal to authority" church

Seeing as how academia literally started out as an accessory to the various Christian denominations for educating priests, I don't see how you really could characterize it as "a space for truth and inquiry". It's only been relatively recently that "appeal to authority" has given way to more secular/scientific ways. Even within the last couple of years, I would wager that academia is no more authoritarian than it has ever been- tenured professors have almost always had a disproportionate amount of influence over their trainees' futures, etc. The head of my father's department when he was getting his PhD in the 70s actually attempted to pull my father's stipend because of an avant garde project that would today be accepted as normal.

I've seen a trend towards the opposite, actually, with graduate students becoming more skeptical of the institution and more proactively addressing its shortcomings through grad student unions and advocacy of open science policies (which neither university administrations nor longstanding tenured professors are fans of in general).
Our exterminator told us they're terribly common and difficult to 'solve,' especially in a house with a wood shake roof.

He suggests ignoring them, unless you find they've wiped out all the other spiders in your house. The brown recluse is, apparently, the apex spider in mid-Missouri.

Even then, sticky traps are the best recourse; because they're reclusive loners, they don't spread poison to others.
Any serious Modern SRS Tetris player gives mad credit to the crazy people who prefer to play WITHOUT the "SRS Training-wheels". Lol.

Those classic Tetris masters are truly nuts. That game is way harder and less flashy. I'll stick to my SRS Bag Randomizer thank you very much...
4) notify users that updates may slow down their model of phone.
AFAIK this is not a "complete straw man". Democratic National Committee deputy chair Keith Ellison (Minnesota) is strongly in favor of open borders, goes around wearing T-shirts saying the same. He has even been quoted saying that "America’s national borders create an injustice by keeping Mexican workers from traveling to the United States to look for higher-paying jobs". Maybe he has a point, however he does not share that opinion alone.
Oh yeah. I forgot the smaller wild cats too. I think moose are probably the scariest animal Minnesota has outside the zoos. Maybe deer or cows if you're driving...
Browsing the web with Common Lisp
I've always had Androids, and my wife has always had iPhones. Recently I setup a Pi-Hole on my home network and I was floored by the number of network requests to various tracking services my android was making in comparison to my wife's iPhone. My wife has the facebook app and is always playing those junk free freemium games - but my relatively clean android was averaging at least double the amount of DNS lookups and blocked tracking domains. Apps that I hardly ever used, that I hadn't even opened since my last phone reboot - were almost constantly phoning in to some tracking service or another. It was an eye opening experience. I just recently switched to iPhone for my first time and have found replacements for most of the android apps I had become accustomed to. I want to be clear that switching devices isn't some magical button to disable all tracking, but I have seen a significant reduction in both the number of tracking domains on my network and the frequency that they are called. Now the blocked requests are much more in line with times that I have various apps open and not all the time whether I'm using it or not. I also feel better about the type of data apps have access to vs. the almost free-for-all of Android. Anyways, that my anecdotal experience with the two types of phones.
The great thing about rules is that there are so many to choose from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singular_they#Acceptability_an...
Reminds me of the time Warren Buffet's company insured a gambling company against a "billion dollar" payout [0]. Buffett noted that the insured value of the payout was far less than a billion dollars because the payout was spread over 40 years and joked that the gambling company rejected his advice to spread the payout over a billion years - paying $1 per year.

[0] https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/national/2000/10/03/11...
Yes. Like Enter? People might still like the fact that the cursor doesn't need to move from wherever it's editing the command to run it, and can still continue to edit there.
no feature to shell into a directory ? that'd be useful
> How can we own our own data but exchange it with others and build trust over time just like we would in the real world.

Well that's pretty simple. Don't use services that are paid for with your privacy.

> So not sure why you are asking about about something that is only part of what I wrote when I elaborate further down.

You claimed it's beneficial, I'm asking how.
I never understood this attitude. You should always "gaf" because taking care of your tools is a good thing to do, not treat them like crap and then complain when they break or don't function correctly.
> they do have an ad platform, actually, and that all apps on the App Store are mandated to use it if wanting to monetize.

What? This is not true at all. Source: I released an iOS app that used a non-apple third party to serve ads.
This guy had dubious ethics right from the start by offering most users a free version with weak encryption just so they can pay for the premium version. The export control excuse is bogus as by then DJB had already won the lawsuit against the U.S. government over this issue.

So all in all, I could see it coming that he would be offering the source code on the silver platter to the NSA after reading the first couple of paragraphs from the post.

I also like how he calls that guy a "dumb criminal" for not buying his military-grade encrypted software, as if he hadn't already admitted that he was giving the source code for the full version to the NSA anyway. In other words, he didn't just break the trust of the free users, but also of those paying him to keep their conversations private. This is why I said he had dubious ethics.
From what I know, neurons typically click on or off, so they are digital in that way. Signal strength is implied by the frequency of those clicks, so that's analog. Transistors are analog electronics, but used to make digital switches so it's sort of the reverse.

I guess my point is that calling neurons analog or digital is not a very good analogy and should probably be avoided.
> In an LLVM context it also means you don't get runtime feature detection. You would need to build N dlls and then write code to load the proper one at runtime based on feature detection.

Does LLVM not support GCC-style function multiversioning?
Diabetes is a disease (like most) characterized by symptom rather than case. If you have excess glucose in the blood it could be because you aren’t producing adequate insulin or because the cells aren’t taking it up properly (or combo). It’s somewhat easy to figure out which but the standard of care for adults exhibiting DM in the US is simply to assume it is insulin resistance.
Companies don't train their workforce because said workforce then leaves and joins another company, which then benefits from that training.

...that's how it was explained to me by an executive at my former job (a big part of the reason why it's my former job).
You can make a trash command if you want and a cron job to periodically remove everything over x days old.

The default rm doesn't do this because shell users are supposed to be able to figure out how not to delete things they want to keep.

Kind of like not pointing a gun at people who you don't want to kill.

The undo for rm is regular backups.
Tesla slips several spots in Consumer Reports reliability ranking
One of the most productive periods of my life was in the late 90s writing C++ code and being able to embed an optimized asm block in the middle of the code when high performance was needed for blitters (note the Output Operands and Input Operands sections):

https://wiki.osdev.org/Inline_Assembly

The power of this is that the compiler did the work of connecting variables from the two environments so we didn't have to write glue code.

There have been countless times where I've thought to myself "this would be trivial in another language". Can you write some kind of general purpose "embedder" that lets us use Javascript in C++, or PHP in Javascript even (PHP is simultaneously the best and worst language I've ever used). Maybe Swift or Kotlin or even Rust in Javascript. Stuff like that?
Agile works fine with actual human beings. The problem is getting agile to work with actual managers, especially upper management.

I mean, I've done agile with a team of maybe 30-40 people. It worked great... for a couple of years. When it fell apart, the problem was that upper management didn't know how to manage something that wasn't waterfall-ish.
Here's a list of reasons wasm can be slower or faster:

Faster:

1. Compiled to a strongly typed IR, wasm code means just one thing. For instance i32.add means addition of 2 i32s. In JavaScript a '+' operator has some 70 different possible input parameters. Hence, the engine cannot assume the types (until a later optimization stage) during execution

2. 'JS -> AST -> machine code' is a typical sequence for js execution. In contrast, for wasm it is 'wasm->machine code'

3. For medium to large code bases, wasm's binary format is more compact than a js text format. Wasm can also be gzipped for further compression. It should lead to smaller downloads over the wire in such cases.

Slower:

1. Passing data to and from wasm needs to happen on it's heap. Oftentimes, this is a non zero-copy operation of a JavaScript object onto the heap, and back. This can lead to preformance bottlenecks

2. The actual calling interface between wasm and js incurs a cost. If the rate of calling across this interface exceeds time spent within the wasm, performance degrades. Think CPU<-->GPU where the invocation and dates passing between the interface exceeds compute time on GPU

3. Wasm doesn't have access to Dom, network, storage, .... If your app uses these from within wasm, it's essentially calling back and forth to js while stalling wasm execution and incurring high costs to navigate the wasm<-->js interface.

There are plenty of samples available online demonstrating the above points. A simple demo is that of a fibonacci series for a large number. As the number gets larger, wasm starts to easily outperform js
I use PA Server Monitor. The Web Page monitor can check a URL, submitting form data if configured, and check for text on the returned page.

It can also alert if the SSL cert is within X days of expiring.

https://www.poweradmin.com/help/pa-server-monitor-7-1/monito...
I think the poster is talking about the Quick Pick rather than how the winning numbers are generated.