skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I'd much rather hear 'Professor X's most important contribution was Y.'

It's rather funny to me that for years, Cornell's biggest professorial scandal was Daryl Bem transitioning from groundbreaking psychology work to ESP studies. It was a much-discussed embarrassment for a while, then he started putting out successful ESP findings with uncommonly-good practice and people started worrying about what else you could prove in the same way.

These days, it looks like Bem may come out rosier than some professors there who were still on the rise while his ESP work was causing outrage. Most of Bem's results are disputed at best, but they were actual contributions which led to further study. His methodology and basic integrity have never been seriously indicted, which puts him leagues beyond Wansink and Sternberg.

With Bem, it's easy enough to talk about his most important 2-3 contributions and analyze their merits. The others look more like they were being paid by the word, and that should have been a warning even before the specific problems were found.
First of all, congratulations! You've made it above the pack.

Now your upward mobility is significantly improved.

I would recommend taking the VC route.
But the media tells us to be scared of the red.
> Rust isn't good as boasted

What do you mean? What's being boasted about Rust and what makes it untrue?
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I live in a small city (Alameda, CA) that has a couple of concentrated "downtown" areas with limited parking. The construction of a 6-story municipal parking garage as part of a large renovation of the old movie theater complex in 2008 was beneficial to all of the surrounding businesses. It seems like this is a pretty good general strategy, it just requires a large up-front investment by the city.

More details:

http://www.alamedatheatres.com/historic-theatre/

https://www.overaa.com/projects/alameda-historic-theatre-res...
It is inherently risky in that it encourages shipping first and fixing stuff later. This is the opposite of what you do with something like someone's bank account. (Yes, ETH Solidity developers, I'm talking to you.)

I absolutely love the agile process and I'm a big believer in pair programming, which was part of the original doctrine but is hardly mentioned today. That being said, no one is smart as all of us and there are inevitably things in your code which you (two) as developers won't immediately discern. Waterfall, though protracted and boring, is crucial for identifying and fixing those problems before they ship.
Some links at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distance-bounding_protocol
No, but Google will retrain their personalization features post-delete so you’ll start from a clean slate but ML models for spam filtering etc. will not be changed until a re-train.
seems like a great problem to have

a source of depression for some.
That kobe quote is poignant and experience on a much smaller scale than kobe was on, has taught me the same. Also, your advice re: single private investment is spot on. If you read any story about a formerly rich athlete, etc going broke, it invariably involves a large investment in a dubious, high risk scheme (restaurants, companies, real estate, etc).
I'll list a few:

Conducting psychology experiments on people without their consent (or awareness of it)

Documented evidence that Facebook as it is now decreases people's quality of life, but they don't want to mess with their formula because that's what brings the dollars in.

Theres many more. But these two are the biggest I can think of off the top my head.
At its foundation, Faceboot is a man-in-the-middle attack dressed up to attract users. The standard "web 2.0 defense" was that these companies would remain benevolent in the interests of their users to maintain their own profits. The onus was really on them to demonstrate that trusting third parties with our communications is a reasonable thing to do. The more time passes, the more blatant the evidence gets that this is not true.
I don't agree, but it's probably not worth making the case. Facebook has billions of users. I assume you think that they want to leave, but they "can't", or that they just don't know how hostile Facebook is towards them.

I think a lot of people who hate Facebook just have a hard time believing that most people just don't care about the same things you do, or to the same degree. They're still on Facebook and Instagram and Whatsapp because they see the world differently from you.
It really saddens me that the best way to get to actual research these days is via Twitter. It always feel like I'm forced to wade through a sea of manure because that's the only place you can find diamonds.
I don't think your choice to not use Facebook alters by very much the amount of data they collect about you. I think other steps are needed if that is your goal.
Looks boring but the thought of facing off against "PirateBae" is appealing to me.
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Wait! After several users complains (the ones that survived), they've "fixed" it. Now you can "choose" a "12 hour range" where this can happen.
As a Silicon Valley resident, it doesn't come close to what I've ever experienced in my day to day life: one of your typical suburban grunt worker at a big corporation how goes to work in the morning and goes home in the evening for family dinner and invites friends over on the weekend for BBQ.
For Hyenas its even worse.

As I understand it they have a high level of testosterone so the females develop penises, which they have to give birth through.

The wikipedia page backs me on the penises but couldn't see the reason mentioned (but does mention penile spines?!)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotted_Hyena

I'll stop mentioning penises now.
The 76 year old woman I know who seems to be addicted to facebook and gets harrased by people reporting her posts and whatnot just wants to talk to people and share photos. The people and the photos and the emotions and the words people bring themselves -- Facebook just adds grief to that.

At best it's invisible, at worst it just kicks people out with no recourse, because some troll reported them, and because they're not a FB employee or a celebrity. These people are people, too. You barge into the public and drag it onto your platform, and then you don't just dehumanize people on it, you completely remove them. The rest either is friend or not friend, blocked or not blocked, posts are liked or not liked. Yes, it's a very poor model -- don't assume everybody else is using it, too.

> It makes me really happy to see my friends thriving.

That's the equivalent of "it's fun with friends" for game reviews. Every multiplayer game has that. Every site that allows sharing of photos and text has that. Because people have that.

> With people, by compartmentalizing some unsavory perspective someone has, you have the ability to change it later on through discussion.

When later? When was Facebook ever up for candid discussion? How come you blame it on those who, in absence of any say, ever, now think badly of Facebook?
They are making a point.

If Zuck had given evidence it would be in the public domain. He didn't, they have gained access to the documents, and are putting the bits they believe relevant to their inquiry into the public domain.
The possibilities for Star Wars puns are endless.

There are alternative explanations that theorized that the 2nd law is not linear for extremely weak forces.[1] Thus, two masses that were sufficiently far apart would experience an attraction larger than that predicted by an inverse square law.

I think some particular applications of these theories were proved wrong some years ago, but I can't find those results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Newtonian_dynamics
My Grandfather does agree with you. It’s exactly what he told the Americans when they questioned him after WW2.
> Seriously, AVOID PRIVATE INVESTMENTS.

Good advice. My understanding is that private investments are the #1 way professional athletes with even more money than OP go broke (excludig straight-up fraud by their investment managers).
Not sure how common this is, but I was able to improve my resistance to motion sickness by incrementally doing more reading (interspersed with breaks) over a period of a couple of years that I commuted by bus.
Mental trick I recommend: You don’t have $8M - you own a business that lends money to people. Your business gives money to various companies through financial vehicles called ‘index funds’, which ensure that your loans are distributed across many different companies. The businesses use this money to fund their ventures, and are happy to pay you some money for the access to this capital. Your business is quite successful, earning you (.03 * 8M) = $240,000 per year. If someone else saw your balance sheet, they may be willing to pay you $8M for access to such a lucrative and easy-to-run business! Thinking this way allows you to spend the money however you want. Want to buy a Lamborghini? Go ahead! Use your $240k salary to finance your new car, just like any other normal person. But NEVER mortgage or sell any part of your amazing business just to buy a toy.
> I don't know why you're strawmanning me into being responsible for every act of suppression by a person who claimed to be acting for social justice

You are the one claiming "no harm done". I proved you wrong. Otherwise I would have absolutely no interest in that issue.
Well, that'd be the only use case for that platform, right? Maybe a better example would be if they explicitly told companies who joined the platform that they couldn't compete with Visa's core business, and then Mastercard signed up because they have a mobile payments division. Would Visa be justified in kicking them off?
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Reduced costs.
Another cooperation problem, sadly. It'd be best if all the towns started to reduce parking and make it more expensive, so that going elsewhere wouldn't even be a consideration.
The problem is that the industry is littered with con artists and the downside damage an unethical person can do to your finances is horrific.

The best thing is to read, read, and read more before even looking for outside consultation on any of these matters.
It's poorly funded compared to US science, not to Polish janitors.
No. In fact a lot of waterfall projects just get called agile.
Ah, so that must be why there's sometimes a delay to click to accept a download in Firefox!
This was known for a very long time. The "Dumb fucks" comments were brought to the public attention many years ago. The problem is that Silicon Valley gave Facebook a pass on all of the ethical transgressions for years (most likely since they minted many millionaires and billionaires in the valley)
Sure it takes time, but before the public ever sees anything, I just have a tough time believing they didn't test it on the inventory of images (or at least a large subset) before inflicting it on the public. Improper testing is a PR embarrassment and has real consequences.
I think the consensus is that those powers are inoperable

https://www.consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Select-...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.theweek.co.uk/93679/can-mps...
So the other side of this problem is resident education. The ACGME in conjunction with medical specialty boards govern the requirements for graduating from residency. There are hard requirements on how many and which kinds of procedures you need to do and patients you need to treat over the course of your residency. Residents meet those requirements with the current average 80 hrs/week and ~3–5 years of training. Moving from 80 to 32 hrs/week would likely require an expansion of training time to ~6–10 years, which residents would be absolutely against (I know I would be). I've been in school forgoing a "real job" with a salary for nearly a decade, and I'll be in my mid-30s before I become an independently practicing physician under the current system. Although the work hours are abhorrent, I don't want to add more years to my training in exchange for better hours.
It's seems really pertinent to point out two other profs doing somewhat the same thing. Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay recently did an interview with Joe Rogan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlqU_JMTzd4

The interview is really interesting.
> I'm excited because VPNs are all about shifting trust: I'm no longer trusting Comcast not to sell my data, I'm now trusting SketchyVPN.

If you use a laptop, it would rather be: "I'm no longer trusting [home ISP] + [workplace's IT staff] + [workplace ISP] + [family I'm visiting's ISP] + [cellular service provider] + [train station hotspot] not to sell my data, I'm now trusting SketchyVPN".
>I believe 99.99...% of interactions on Facebook are positive

Ah, the old Sundar Pichai maneuver:

>"Yet, a little more than a week later, Google CEO Sundar Pichai attempted to invoke an engineering defense by arguing that Google would not need to censor 'well over 99 percent' of queries."
Roll your own dynamic DNS update service (2016)
People don’t think that ‘order’ actually has any effective legal power though.

https://www.consoc.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Select-...

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/www.theweek.co.uk/93679/can-mps...
Corporates mostly, who have with (little) time realised that it makes no commercial sense to keep such an extension secured. We are yet to see graveyard for some (most) of those novelty consumer-facing gTLDs. Give it another couple of years.
You sequence the motor, get a pick up from the light sensor and then turn it into a note trigger. It'd be simpler to sequence an array rather than a motor and generate a trigger based on array content.

But sure. Art. It's a piece of kinetic sculpture....
"The app is not technically daunting and and[SIC] does not create a competitive barrier, as witnessed by the fact that many other players have copied it."

I would say the app and and [SIC] its server-side framework is one of the most sophisticated in computing history. The companies that have something similar can be counted on one hand.
Evil mode.
I suggest re-reading your parent comment because that's not what was said at all.
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> Political movements often attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by a differing value system

Evil is only meaningful in the context of a value system.

Malice is will for things which are evil.

Valuing something positively is willing for it to transpire.

Valuing something negatively is seeing it as evil.

Valuing something positively that others value negatively is, therefore, exactly malice in the context of the others’ value system (it's not wrongly attributed to malice.)
Neural networks as “hidden” variable models for quantum systems
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Your layouts & styles are typically all in XML. But honestly I don't find it bad - it's not "proper" XML, so there's not a ton of cruft. It's really more like XHTML.

It works fine.
More concerning is the legal interference by corporations.

Yes Russia interfering with everything is an issue that needs to be resolved, but afaict the current administration will favour corporations over people every time so I doubt it was even necessary in this case. Pai had stated repeatedly that this he had every intention of doing whatever his former employers wanted.
emphasis on gameplay code. And even there, if you target 60fps (sure a minority of developers), then GC is a liability at best.
My favorite way to tell if a car is a self-driving car is to look and see if it has a driver in it.
Still a very restricted subset of python, can't autodiff custom types etc
Author uses Cultural Revolution as an allegory but that is such a hyper-exaggeration that you can't compare the two, Cultural Revolution was more a civil war of randomness and a descending into anarchy that went crazier than expected:

"As revolutionaries dismantled ruling government and party organizations all over the country, it was no longer clear who truly believed in Mao's revolutionary vision and who was opportunistically riding the waves of chaos for their own gain"

It might have started as purging in the 1960s but fast descended into infighting at all levels that stopped the economy and industry. People started with revolutionary purposes but then ended up fighting each other for random reasons.

Barnouin and Yu summarized the Cultural Revolution as "a political movement that produced unprecedented social divisions, mass mobilization, hysteria, upheavals, arbitrary cruelty, torture, killings, and even civil war"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution

A better allegory as hinted would have been the Islamic revolution in Iran because it started off non-violent but called for thought to be focussed around one idea.
> And I know what you are thinking: You'd rather they take the bus or whatever. But think about this: Why do they chose to drive anyway, forcing you have to encourage them not to?

It doesn't work like this.

Imagine a person considering visiting the town. They have a threshold of pain/effort in their mind, say V, above which they'll just go sightseeing elsewhere. Let C be the pain/effort of visiting our town by car, and B the pain/effort of visiting by bus. If C < B < V, they'll visit by car. If you can arrange to have C > B, while still keeping B < V, they'll still visit, but via a bus.

So the goal for a town is to make it so that for most interested people, B < C && B < V.
Pseudo language would do for me and i expect candidate be more explicit her/his thoughts.
When I hear "X is broken" I translate it to "We haven't really figured out X, it must be hard"

And usually then things make more sense. We haven't fully figured out interviewing. Interviewing is hard.

We haven't fully figured out vetting academic papers, perhaps vetting academic papers is hard
I'm not finding where in the GDPR text the user is stated to be the owner. The text frequently refers to the user as the "data subject". Ownership is not mentioned. The article you link to claims that the EU resident owns the data, but never backs up this claim with references to the GDPR text.
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We should have more people who can't wait to replace chrome.
No. Safety-wise you can't just shut the engine off and lock the steering because the RF connection to some keyfob is wonky.

These thefts have been going on for years and they will not stop until key-less go is dropped or changed such that the key requires interaction (like every higher security transponder has for, like, always).
You missed a few things:

- They have telemetry turned as the default

- They are experimenting with TLS over HTTPS and use beloved Cloudflare to handle every DNS request

- They are always in the headlines about some shady 'addon' or 'extension' been sold off and taken over by shady actors

- The TorBundle which is a fork of FF ESR is always in the headlines as been unsecure and way behind FF mainline release
Seems like a pretty dangerous road to go down, personally.

Looking at some of our politicians in the US, I don't really want them to have unfettered power to misuse the law and their elected position to destroy any person or organization who raises their ire. Even if I don't like that person or organization and want to see them destroyed.
It's a bunch of small things, none of which are showstopping, all of which are annoying.

You can't have these two functions co-existing in the same class:

void Frob(List<String> someList) { ... }
void Frob(List<Integer> someList) { ... }

because, after erasure, they have identical signatures.

You've got to repeat yourself a bunch, because generic methods don't know their own type parameters. So, to take an example using the Jackson JSON-handling library:

MyClass foo = objectMapper.readValue(json, MyClass.class);

is a bit annoying if you're coming from a language like C#, where you'd expect to be able to write code more like:

MyClass foo = objectMapper.readValue(json);

Generic type instantiations aren't really types in Java, they're more this sort of type-ish concept. List<String> and List<Integer> exist as distinctions made by Java's type checker, but their actual class is just List - there's no such thing as List<String>.class. That's what's going on with that method overload example above. It's also the reason that this won't even compile, and you've got to resort to hacky workarounds in this sort of situation:

Node<MyClass> foo = objectMapper.readValue(json, Node<MyClass>.class);

Then there's all the stuff about boxing, and how you can't have generic collections of atomic values, only boxed values. Which is responsible for a lot of excess memory consumption and pointer chasing, and also for things like that whole extra side quest in Java 8 streams where you get classes like IntStream and DoubleStream (but not FloatStream).