skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I agree that prevention is the best method. For many people, therapy is more like basic self-care (ie, brushing your teeth) than a new limb. There are a great number of experiences that can batter us emotionally, and we can access therapy now while we work to fix these societal problems.
I imagine that would mainly concern those who ran ICOs, not retail crypto speculators (unless they did not declare their gains).
That might very well be true, but in our case, the two-year home residency does not apply to me nor to my spouse.
I did this during my quest to find a flicker-free LED light bulb. I found that basically all of them flicker. Some appear to alternate between banks of LEDs to reduce the dynamic range(?) of the flickering, but they all flicker. Home Depot has a rack of LED bulbs that are always turned on, so that's a good place to test many models at once.

My first thought was: why don't they just filter the output? My guess is that perhaps LEDs are more efficient when being driven full ON or OFF rather than with a steady DC.
Aren't we - as a group - better in this? I'm thinking about the scientific method, and the common differentiation there between the context of discovery and the context of justification.

So you are free to discover a mathematical theorem by intuition or during daydreaming (like the molecular structure of benzene) - anything goes.

But in the context of justification, you have to be much more disciplined - even if you trust your own intuitions and don't need to persuade yourself (of course generally you should not trust your intuition in scientific context that much;), you have to persuade others who are missing your insight.

edit: And of course - in the end - to accept something as a true A.I. system, it probably has to persuade us that its intuitions are right, using the type justifications we accept. (So even if it has better types of justification - if we won't get it, they has to dumb it down to our level of scientific understanding)
I made something similiar, but it is not nice looking like this :/
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Hedge funds have been using location data to ‘predict’ corporate earnings for at least 5 years, that I know of. There’s also speculation that they use the data to identify locations of VIPs and where they’re going (by clustering activities of the VIP’s entourage). It’s unfortunate that news organizations as reputable and prominent as the NYT only get on these stories so late in the game. This information would have been more useful to the public back in 2013.

What I don’t understand is why these types of activities by hedge funds aren’t considered insider trading.
Some of them probably did this knowing they were bogus. Those would be the targets of anti-fraud actions.
China Gene-Editing Scientist's Project Rejected for WHO Database
I wanted to write exactly what you wrote, plus this:
AirBnB and other similar big companies, can "afford" to let go of react native because they have enough resources to make their own way of working. Specifically AirBnB have their own layout engine. React native is very very good and usable. But trying to integrate it with your own tools is up to you since Facebook and the community don't have access to that private lib that someone might have. That is what make some of these companies drop RN.
I think it's important to understand that, and not just keep the title "X dropped RN" and think "oh it must suck then". I've seen many people do that and it's unfair.
In the EU, there is this legal concept of "informed consent" that was implemented in the GDPR.

It hasn't been tested much in court yet, but the theory is that users should actually understand what the "deal" between them and the company is when they "agree" to those terms of service.

It seems pretty reasonable to me, otherwise stuff like slavery could also be brought back hidden in companies' ToS.
Engineering genetic circuit interactions within/between synthetic minimal cells
Disagree on the implication that the kanban flow (which is essentially what he described by moving stories between different phases) is inherently a waterfall; it is in as much as the idea that a project is expected to be completed (or at least reach feature completeness) at some point is a waterfall. Scrum [1] often does become a collection of short waterfalls, but nothing in the kanban flow prevents a story moving in any direction.

He says that epics are not enough to depict the bird's eye view on the project... But he doesn't elaborate how and I certainly disagree.

And the city construction analogy is a flawed one. Cities are, in 99.9% of cases, hackjobs cobbled together over hundreds of thousands of years. There are very few cities that were planned from scratch.

The "extension to the metaphor" he mentions is essentially every software project --organized process or not-- and it's the archetypal example of the software crisis. Maybe programs are not cities...

I also have a very different concept of "huge requirements document" because what he described as alternative is very much a huge requirements document.

The comparison to art (even if there's always an inherent artistry in software development) is because he talks about art using "shoulds". No, there are no rules for art, while there should be rules for software development (even if they ought to be flexible).

[1] Actually, most of the complaints I agree with (points, too many meetings, loss of the macro view, pressure to deliver whatever at every point and in a set of defined stages) are mostly about scrum, which can be run without jira or any other tools.
On June 29, 2009, Judge Chin sentenced Madoff to the maximum sentence of 150 years in federal prison.

I vaguely remember the economic collapse of 2008, partly because at the time I was just getting out of a rough patch in my life and I'd bought a starter home. Granted, it was a mobile home, but it was 50,000 i'd made sure I could pay off at the bank and start building some equity. Then out of nowhere I lost my job, the machine shop I worked at closed, and after about 3 months I was effectively homeless.

People like me dont have "hedge fund" investment money. I had to give my dog away because i couldnt afford to feed it and sell my car for a deposit on a studio apartment. I guess Bernies bones will bleach for those hundred some odd years of biblical retribution, but for me I never saw any justice.

As far as I can tell, nobody, not one person responsible for crashing the economy and taking everything from me, was arrested or jailed. Im just supposed to imagine that the economy "got better" and everything is OK now. Madoff just seems like 'millionaires getting a few million back' to me.
I think it went out in 2012, so that makes it 6 years old. The field has developped enormously since then but the principles probably hold quite well.
I avoid Quora links in search results because it hides content from unauthenticated users and I don't understand why I have to register only to read the answers. Stackoverflow is so much better.

I wonder what is the motivation for the users to contribute to a site that hides their knowledge from others?
NextCloud, ForgeFed, ValueFlows, MoodleNet, Pleroma, Mastodon, PixelFed ("soon"), PeerTube, WriteFreely, Anancus... (so many more)

The ActivityPub grassroots is slowly growing.
I've noticed this with the LED strip on the lower front bumper of newer Mercedes cars.

I'm pretty sure the DOT requires that your headlights don't blink, so I wonder how low the PWM frequency can be until they consider it blinking?

I also wonder whether they do it on purpose. How hard would it be to run the PWM at a few kHz instead of the < 100 Hz frequency it seems like they're using?
So, have you refuted the argument in anyway or just downplayed it?

I would have preferred that text in the comment you responded to had less of a trash talking feel to it.

Also it’s a bit overplayed because although these are special moments, there’s no shortage of examples in history where a new approach in one field is applied to get results previously unattainable in another.

However there’s no need for rationalizations. The result doesn’t generalize to anyone is smarter than anyone else, or that it’s not important because it’s not the super most important drug discovery tool.

It’s just a special moment where a technique is impacting another area of research. Which is part of a special period in history where AI/ML is evolving from being literally a joke that could defund your research, to finally having a broad set of useful applications.

We should be glad to see as many of these moments as possible from any discipline to any other.
> Lots of LEDs flicker. Shitty ones with twice the frequency of the main current (so 100/120 Hz)

I'm wondering how annoying those might be for a dog.
That's generally how I see it. For the most part, other countries don't care much about you. You're only subject to their laws in particular circumstances. And taking you into custody is relatively complicated and expensive.

But there are exceptions. China has gone after supporters of the Dalai Lama globally. Dropping malware, backdooring servers, etc. But yes, they can't arrest you.

The US, on the other hand, has more "friends". Consider The Pirate Bay. Even Russia has turned over "cybercriminals".
This article does a great job at pointing out just how needlessly difficult computer science makes itself when it doesn't have to. Example:

!(a || b) == (!a && !b)

`a` and `b`. They're meant to represent, well anything really but to the average person (or weirdos like me) it would be infinitely easier to understand if the author wrote it like this:

!(Bob || Sally) == (!Bob && !Sally)

I don't know why but whenever I encounter single-characters-as-math-variables in computer science I have to spend far more time unpacking such statements into things my brain can understand. It is so much easier if such statements are written as nouns that describe actual things.

I remember having a hard time working with C for loops until a friend of mine wrote one like this:

for (int number = 0; number < 10; number = number + 1)

Suddenly it all made sense! I am not alone in this! I have taught programming to kids and others who have struggled to learn programming and this seems to be how normal people think.

Note: We, as a geeky community are not normal. I just have a strange exception in that at least one little part of me thinks like a normal person and that is with "what we name things" :)
I think he's talking about this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_(acoustics)

I don't see why the same effect would not happen with the light sources.
Did a complete refactor to do it more efficiently
If you can add a section to Readme, on how to run tests in a repository with this, it would help. I got a high level picture of 'How it works'.
I guess I'm stuck in a bad equilibrium/filter bubble then (which only hurts Quora because I haven't been on the site for ages, precisely for this reason).
See also the canonical table of long GNU-style options:

http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Option-Table.htm...
Who got 2018’s marketing predictions right – and absolutely wrong?
Do you think if you buy a stolen good without knowing it is stolen you should get to keep it? If not, where do we draw the line?
I agree. This also sets an important precedent that future investors in different funds must consider. If something seems too good to be true, there might be consequences for them. They are disincentivized to look the other way.
How Subscriptions Are Remaking Corporate America
don't you see. we need democracy so when people like giving we can give them SHIT and tell them their generosity hurts our values.
Bus bunching as a synchronisation phenomenon
The Top 1000 Most Prevalent Trackers on the Web
Mayflies.

I think "Galaxy" was the name of the first commercial cross platform UI library I used. Back when ClearCase was the hot new thing.

I remember starting out so excited. That didn't last.

While a brief search shows no trace of "Galaxy", I did find this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_platform-independent_G...
Good point I guess - was Madoff regulated by any obvious regulator? SEC?
Control.

Or is that answer too simple? I think control, final answer. I don't know why control though.
The quality of a news source passing a simple test of credibility by presenting an accurate account of a topic the reader is deeply familiar with.

For instance, if you are a Computer Scientist and you find yourself agreeing to a layman explanation of the halting problem while reading a NYTimes article (targeting a general audience) then the article passes the Gell-Mann test.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect
> No, the diodes don't, the drivers do. You are speaking to a technical audience ;)

I've seen 'drivers' that are nothing more than a resistor in series with the LED. So the LED, acting as a half-wave rectifier, causes the flicker. To your point, in this case the LED should be considered part of the driver.
Here's a generalist explainer https://futurism.com/researchers-just-solved-one-of-the-bigg...
I posted the Nature article because it's the original source, as per HN policy.
A lot of people make the mistake of thinking that all bad people are mustache-twirling stab-your-grandma-for-a-nickel types. There are evil bastards throughout history who loved their family and friends deeply.

If you think this way, then you'll logically conclude that anyone who genuinely loves his family must be a decent guy who won't screw you over, and that's a very dangerous mistake.
I grew up without my own room too. Slept in an entry hall for many years.

But if you're going to have kids there's at least one other person who will have an opinion about this.

You will definitely reduce your chances of having kids if you insist on finding someone who is totally fine with squishing the kids together.
It would probably be a lot easier to deal with such problems if Windows was open source and you could just have a look what the system libraries are actually doing.
The IRS (in the US) does not give out information. At. All. Even to other agencies. The USPS as well.

Isolation can be done. It's not perfect, but we can have stronger protection than any private bank can give us.
How about a working, documented plugin API? Or sync clients that work? Instead of taping more random crap onto a base product that only barely works?
YouTube Rewind 2018 becomes site's second-most disliked video
I can't understand any point to writing 'a' rather than writing 'Sally'. What practical difference does it make?
People that need to remember their searches should configure their preferences in such a fashion.
Some Madoff-touched money is going to be invested at a profit, some at a loss, some spent, some beneficiaries will be dead with assets left to heirs, etc.

Unwinding /anything/ from a decade ago is non-trivial.

It's even possible (likely?) that some direct Madoff investors were also customers of the funds that have money being clawed back.
In my experience with Firefox devs, if it's not important enough to fix immediately, bugs will simply be closed and ignored. I've come across other bugs that exist for 10 years (not security related) which were closed again each time they were brought up every few years.
PiPhone – A Raspberry Pi Based Smartphone
Thank you for sharing this with us.
I think you are better off with IntelliJ for Java projects for now. Also, the free community version of IntelliJ is very capable, open source Apache 2 licensed, and fun to build your own from source.
edit: I thought they were talking about ActivityPub since the issues look similar to ones people raise about it. Whoops.

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I am of two minds here:

1. Minimal specification worked for HTTP.

2. Most problems with HTTP come from it being minimally specified.

ActivityPub is exploding the way HTTP did. At worst, it's as imperfect as HTTP. At best, it's a way to get people used to federation for whatever comes next and improves on it.
A-GPS is a feature. It exists because GPS is so slow.
I assume the statute of limitations has passed for the OSHA suit here
Well they sure are doing a shit job then - if they were smart they would realize they have the most to lose from weak crypto.

But there will always be sociopaths who would rather be dictator or a pathetic state of starving and poor people rather than president of a prosperous.
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Apple's users in China don't have an expectation of privacy. Chinese consumers have never had a web service offer privacy, and therefore don't expect it. Apple running a priavcy-less service in China isn't violating the users expectations, as long as they don't ever claim it's private or secure.

Australian users however do expect privacy. They do expect that their chat messages will only be read by the recipient and not the government.
They are 100Hz, as I found out while trying to do an optics experiment, but they never bothered me directly. I think it has to do with LEDs going completely dark, where fluorescent just has slight fluctuations. Or maybe it is a 50Hz vs 100Hz flicker thing.
Another perspective outside of the SV bubble. I grew up in a typical middle class home - mother a teacher, father a factory worker.

Because of $reasons I really didn’t focus on my career until my mid 30s. I bought a house in my late 20s in a new (statistically) middle class neighborhood. All of the houses around the area and all of my friends were middle class. Some houses slightly bigger, some cars slightly better but no serious differences.

Then I got married and had (step)children who were use to going to school in the more affluent part of town. When I was single, I really didn’t think about the school system. I was making more by then and we moved to the more affluent part of town. While we were on the bottom of the top quintile by income, since by definition the top quintile is boundless, there is a much wider disparity in income between the 80 percentile and the 95 percentile. I was exposed to the lifestyle of people with a lot more money than I have.

I have a much nicer house (relatively - its nothing extravagant), in a better part of town, making twice as much as I was but I actually feel poorer even though my income is more than double what it was 10 years ago and I’m much more comfortable now.

We are not at all “rich” but as a software developer/architect with a working spouse, our household income is more than 80% of households - again not bragging, almost any experienced developer working in a major metropolitan area would be in the same boat.
"By studying the boots, we've been able to gain a fascinating glimpse into the daily life of a man who lived as many as 500 years ago," said Beth Richardson

"Hes wearing boots, hes fit for work" --Theresa May
My hope is that as the fediverse grows, support becomes a must-have feature for any new social site/app. A nascent social site doesn't need to attract an initial core community if it can plug you into one that already exists.
Rewind 2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbJOTdZBX1g

Top comments are telling:

> Who the hell are these people?

> If you have a platform with thousands of creators and only get along well with twenty... You know you are a failure.
First time I've heard of this, this is really interesting. Don't most phones release updates for the first ~2 years? Maybe this law is the reason?
I was a bootcamp instructor (hello HN -- I'm for hire as one! See my email in my profile). Since I'm in between jobs I can be frank (to potential schools wanting to hire me, I care about the right selection of students).

There are 3 types of people in bootcamps:

1. People who are too good. They should run away from bootcamps.

2. People who are the right fit.

3. People who aren't able to understand what if-based thinking is (if I am cold, then I will put on an extra layer of clothing). These people shouldn't do a bootcamp. All people in this group seem to have less education or less high quality education.

My tip: go to freecodecamp.org and do 2 weeks to 4 weeks of JS. If you notice that you're motivated enough to learn alone then continue and don't do a bootcamp. If you notice that you struggled (motivation-wise) then do a bootcamp.
How the Times Analyzed Location Tracking Companies
Because the cost at the margin for pulling credit reports is so low and because banks will periodically pull for customers anyhow, some banks are starting to offer it as a perk to customers. Capital One and American Express both have reasonably good experiences here. (No CC required at Capital One; you can get it with their deposit accounts only, which have no minimums.) This very literally results in your FICO score being on your dashboard with an option to click through and see what changed.

People should not generally pay for credit monitoring, for the same reason that one would not pay monthly to subscribe to tests to a disease one is not at risk for. Various errors will cause you stress for no reason.

(You can get a full credit report 3X yearly by going to annualcreditreport.com ; this is probably overkill for most people who are not actively attempting to improve credit in advance of e.g. a mortgage application or because of catastrophic errors.)
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I see what you mean and I agree, but those buying overpriced homes with too good to be true mortgages should bear no responsibility? Especially in a country like US where people don't like to be limited/controlled (read protected) by laws.
My mechanic actually has almost exactly the same model (same colour too!) from '74, but his has the Citromatic gearbox. Mine has always had the 5-speed manual. If not they would have needed to replace the engine as well.

The engine that went with the 5-speed manual was different than the other engines, because the transmission was bigger. It was therefore not possible to get an engine with the manual starter at the front of the car, if it was 5-speed.
He's talking about NextCloud, not ActivityPub, by the way.

My experience has not been that it "barely works", it works quite well for me.
America is corrupt so corporations can spend a little money and shape legislation around these issues.
>Putting my tin foil hat, I hypothesize Google anonymously tracks your location even if your location services if off (allowing them to do traffic, how busy a restaurant is, etc.).

This has already been reported.

https://qz.com/1131515/google-collects-android-users-locatio...
Recently Reddit began to insert a huge "you want to see this too" block into the comments section (at least for unauthenticated users). What an awful solution. People don't want to see our links in the sidebar so let's put them directly into content.

They think that I am a monkey that came from Google search and is going to click links that they show to me.
Am I alone in thinking that the sign, exponent and mantissa model makes more sense, and that (-1)^S * 1.M * 2^(E-127) isn't that hard to understand? Maybe because I already understand that model, but his explanation just made it more confusing for me.
Just looking at location settings on my android phone, it says Google Play Services queried my location recently

But on looking in the settings for Google Play Services there's no option to disable the Location permission in the permission settings, which means location is permanently on (if you keep the location sensors on)
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What are the techniques/therapies you actually use?
I ask them what skill they wish
they were better at. Then I ask
who they think is great at it. It
only takes a moment for it to
click – they don’t need a perfect
mentor that can do everything,
they can start by just reaching
out to learn a single skill from
a single person.

I'm stuck in this place where I'm not sure what I want to progress towards. It feels like a pre-mentorship phase because a mentor can't help you with an undefined goal. If they could, I'm not sure how they would be identified.