skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
3-D printing 100 times faster with light
Mark Zuckerberg's New Year's resolution is to help fix technology
I've always wondered in the back of my mind how judges and elected officials are influenced by movies and television.
As long as the loot boxes are for cosmetics and are not deceptive in any way, I have no issue with games including them.
Fair use is annoying vaguely defined in the law. This means media companies will tell you that's it is so limited as to be almost useless, while the EFF and the courts may disagree. You may hear stuff about "10 second clips are the max allowed by law", but the law doesn't draw any clear likes like that and in fact is usually much more generous. Typically quotes like that come from a single precedent where someone was acting outrageously in many other ways and not relevant precedent for what you're doing.
Yeah, if someone hacks my phone/account, then they will have access to my location. If that happens them having my location ranks pretty low on my list of concerns.

The recommendation that you could disable GPS is pointless because if they could sneak a 2nd account on it they can also re-enable GPS.

Cell phone companies have your location regardless of whether or not GPS is enabled. You don't even need a smart phone.
> This is the sort of thing you are paid to do

You sure about that?
Unfortunately, such edits are rarely accepted. The intent was for the site to be more wiki-like, but these days "respect the author's intent" is the prevailing wisdom. The cases where someone edits a top answer with a significant correction or update are very few, and require overwhelming community support or they'll be reverted.

This is particularly distressing in the case of security vulnerabilities. Vulnerable code being copied from Stack Overflow into consumer applications isn't hypothetical, it's been empirically demonstrated (https://www.aisec.fraunhofer.de/en/stackoverflow.html), yet the community and company refuse to accept responsibility and address the problem. (Of course the developer creating the application is more responsible, but Stack Overflow is in a position where they could help protect innocent end users and the common good.)

Pinning of accepted answers to the top of the list was a good idea when the site was young. These days, it prevents updated better answers from taking the place of ten-year-old misinformation.
The most surprising thing for me is how Instagram became such a big success. I never thought it would take off that well. Now it's so big it can support lifestyles like these.
Dejavu 3.0 – The missing web UI for Elasticsearch
Postwar analysis

Postwar analysis placed the overall accuracy of daylight precision attacks with the Norden at about the same level as radar bombing efforts. The 8th Air Force put 31.8% of its bombs within 300 metres (1,000 ft) from an average altitude of 6,400 metres (21,000 ft), the 15th Air Force averaged 30.78% from 6,200 metres (20,500 ft), and the 20th Air Force against Japan averaged 31% from 5,000 metres (16,500 ft).[46]

Many factors have been put forth to explain the Norden's poor real-world performance. ...

from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norden_bombsight#Postwar_analy...
It's pretty well undisputed that health care, rent and education have far eclipsed inflation and especially not kept track with wages and income.

Here's a simple source for reference, but there are plenty more if you stick to those metrics:

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/06/21/life-is-much-more-expensive-...

https://www.cnbc.com/2017/04/24/things-are-more-expensive-th...

Now what we're arguing here isn't facts. Both of us are making true statements: You're saying the aggregate cost-of-living is not that much higher. I'm saying the necessities of health care, housing and education are hugely off track.

What we're disagreeing about is the philosophical interpretation of those facts. I'm saying it hardly matters if mobile phones are cheaper every year, if health care is more expensive. An aggregate doesn't take into account the relative weights of importance.

Not to mention the fact that wages and income are stagnant. That's a whole other issue that multiplies the concern.
Selling user data to a 3rd party company and turning over user data to a local government are two very different things. They both have their own sets of implications. Ideally, you'd wish that a company would never turn your personal data over to either. However, governments and 3rd parties are very much not the same.
This will either be really good by forcing people to run their own sites (the web is a giant social network naturally) or will kill the meme culture.
Silence from people who forward chain mails seems desireable.
I trust that you have well intentions, but I'd like to dispute most of your points. (I was once a YC founder -- that startup had since been shut down)

1. YC's investment amount can cover your costs while in SF, but not much more than that. If you have family to support back home, it may not even be enough for that. If your startup didn't have other investments already, you're also on the hook to raise funds at the end of YC too, or else you're in another bad place.

2 & 3. Having been a YC founder on your resume does not make you a gold standard everywhere, you still pretty much go through the exact same hoops at interviews everywhere. I job-hunted after our YC startup shut down. It was not any easier than before YC. In fact, it seemed like it was harder (not because of YC experience but because the overall environment for software engineering interviews got a lot different than I last job-hunted 10+ years before that). In the end I landed at a place I'm very happy at now as a regular ol' senior engineer, but it was certainly not effortless.

Of course, YC is awesome and there is no downside for the company or yourself to getting accepted. But definitely not riskless if you have a family to support and you don't already have a lot of savings as safety net.
The social piece is hard for me... my GF moved in with me last year... I was eating one meal a day for the most part and doing pretty well, now I'm trying to keep lunch in check and not overdo dinner. The other aspect is the bagels, doughnuts, and birthday cakes etc at work.

Those things have been harder than retraining myself not to eat when watching TV in the evenings.
That is indeed the best solution. I'd love to have them everywhere.
> But recent advances in causal discovery have actually rendered it possible to black box the structure of a DAG from data -- happy to provide citations if this is down the rabbit hole.

I would be very interested in these references.
That just sounds like capitalism to me ;)
Website owners already have your general location based on IP - they're not getting 'leaked' any information from location-based ad targeting that isn't already available to them when you visit the site.
I'm saying that the underlying data is the same for both, so allowing one (targeted ads based on location) provides the data necessary for "locate where someone lives/works/hangs out/etc.".

With the result that you have to believe that the "targeted ads" provider is both secure and ethical.
Michael Atiyah 1929-2019
The Einstein quote is one of my favorites. I believe it's misplaced in this thread.

I asked for advice besides "roll over and deal with it". I wasn't able to find any actionable advice from your post other than accept the status quo.

I love perspectives that rebel against the widely accepted status quo. Szasz suggests a perspective I personally had before my diagnosis when I was stubborn and thought I could handle everything without help. That stubbornness led to a self-destructive path and hurt the people I care about and myself.

The mental health education I've received over the years has led to solutions that have improved my personal status quo substantially.

It's offending because people with mental disorders live with challenges that neurotypical people do not. Your unturned stone is rampant outside of the mental health community and is often used to invalidate experiences that make others uncomfortable.

A professional relationship once gave unwarranted advice regarding my mental health to defy what my doctors told me and change my fate by simply utilizing personal empowerment. Been there, done that, doesn't work by itself.

I hear it often and feel frustrated that the tendency to make a statement about how to live life without hearing an individuals story and empathizing is prevalent in industry social rituals. The painful growth individuals impacted by mental health go through is excruciating. Most of us desire genuine connection with human compassion and validation of our experience.

I appreciate your comment. It demonstrates a thought out response.

My intent is to confront the stigma and for us to reach growth. I hope that this dialogue helps both of us to better interact with multiple walks of life.
The problem with Jira is not that it's slow or crusty. It's not slow anymore, and any crustiness is hidden under the hood.

Its real problems are a polarizing UI (I like it, others hate it) and flexibility that leans toward bloatware-level complexity. But you can configure it to look/feel as simple as Trello, of course.

To beat Jira for me, you'd have to do something revolutionary, like having the entire issue tracker hosted/versioned in git (so issues are inherently tied to code in some way).

I haven't thought that concept all the way through, but it seems like the only way Jira fails me -- when I need to manually tie issues to commits (even though it can be as easy as using a hashtag).
I wouldn't say so. Many game functions which are currently handled by players would be done much better by computers. But that means that much of the content of the game would now be consumed by computers. It's very expensive to develop content, so as long a significant fraction of your player base sees it as a worthwhile activity, you would not want to make it amenable to automation.
> There's so much more to it than 'people producing wealth'. That's pretty much going away - almost all manufacturing is already automated, and the rest will soon be so.

That's not going away, automation doesn't mean people aren't producing wealth, it just means said wealth is produced by fewer people but those robots belong to someone and its output is rightfully theirs. Just because a robot produced something doesn't mean everyone is entitled to it.

> This puts us all between a rock and a hard place - most of us will be out of a job, and at the same time the factories are in the hands of the folks who built them. So lots of goods available, and no market (few people have any money).

This is true.

> Clearly this is a different world than the 1800's free market system anticipated. So we'll have to change.

This is true as well, but that change isn't going to be moving away from capitalism and seizing the labor of the productive to give to the non productive for nothing. The productive will not stand for that and will simply stop producing for others which means no robots and no automation and everyone fending for themselves again. Automation drives down the cost of goods, less work will be require from people to obtain those goods, but those who produce must necessarily have incentive to do so or they won't, and that incentive is wealth and always will be.
Seems strange to have a NYT article about this without mentioning Basecamp/ 37Signals. They've been a proponent of the bootstrapping model for a decade.
This case looks like it involves master-slave/sub-dom sexual deviancy, which seems aesthetically opposed to prevailing social mores at Google, which place a high moral value on consensuality. Leaving aside who's right or wrong, innocent or guilty, I wonder if there isn't a cultural and world view disconnect between the rank and file at Google and the high ranking executives? Could it be of the same size and nature as that between the Saudi rank and file and their elites?

Many of the rank and file Google employees I know personally seem to hold with a quasi-fundamentalist fervor to the secular belief system of "Intersectionality" -- especially similar with regards to parallel mental constructs to purity and original sin, like "privilege."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AvyqUOKhGA

This case may have privilege at its core. Elites across history and cultures often adopt more permissive sexual behavior, as their position and resources enable this. It's quite common to see a disconnect between their mores and the standards of the rank and file.

(I'd much rather see social norms of "live and let live," while personally, I think keeping one's personal life simple and uncomplicated is by far the best policy.)
Can social engineering be stopped with hardware keys? Or would attackers figure that out too?
A topic not covered thus far: what happens when the computer is powered up? Dig into writing your own boot ROM/FLASH. Nothing like having to research the various CPU registers that require initialization during boot to give you an intimate understanding of what the core of the system is.

A project I worked on that was also an interesting challenge was a RAMless monitor ROM. Write a program that will boot up the monitor (not the OS) and provide an interactive console that uses no RAM at all. Commands are to poke or dump RAM, read/write IO ports, probe the bus for devices etc. You can’t use the CALL instruction because you have no stack. Test your code by pulling the RAM modules.
>This seems like it will benefit the whales more than the fish,

Well, who do you think wrote it? Not the fish.
I used to contribute quite a bit on the MyFonts.com WhatTheFont forum. Then one day someone called Tecnotronic showed up and started dominating the board. He probably makes about 90% of the posts now.

Just another anecdote to support the premise of the article.

Edit: The link said "outliers" not "insane" when I first saw it. I did NOT mean to imply that my example was someone insane, far from it.
It's interesting to learn that there were orders to handle the device with the utmost secrecy within the US air force, while the Germans already had the blueprints:

> But U.S. intelligence experts received a shock when they interrogated Luftwaffe personnel: The Germans had known the bombsight’s secrets even before the war, thanks to a spy at Norden.

> Herman W. Lang, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had been employed as a draftsman and inspector at the Norden factory during the 1930s. American authorities didn’t know that he had served as Nazi stormtrooper in Germany between 1923 and 1927. Recruited as a member of the Duquesne Spy Ring, in 1938 Lang gained access to the plans for the bombsight and hand-copied the blueprints, which were then smuggled to Germany via ocean liner. [0]

[0] https://www.historynet.com/not-so-secret-weapon-the-norden-b...
How machine learning could help shape the future of education
SSPL feels a lot like a bait and switch to me
It's funny but breakfast was really easy... I never felt hungry at breakfast anyway. I have noticed how well I do if I get a fat coffee (coffee+butter+mct oil, and flavored stevia blended) in the morning over ice though. I do that about once a week or so.
"I always want to try to understand why things work. I’m not interested
in getting a formula without knowing what it means. I always try to
dig behind the scenes, so if I have a formula, I understand why it’s
there. And understanding is a very difficult notion. People think
mathematics begins when you write down a theorem followed by a
proof. That’s not the beginning, that’s the end. For me the creative
place in mathematics comes before you start to put things down on
paper, before you try to write a formula. You picture various things,
you turn them over in your mind. You’re trying to create, just as a
musician is trying to create music, or a poet. There are no rules laid
down. You have to do it your own way. But at the end, just as a
composer has to put it down on paper, you have to write things
down. But the most important stage is understanding. A proof by itself
doesn’t give you understanding. You can have a long proof and no idea
at the end of why it works. But to understand why it works, you have
to have a kind of gut reaction to the thing. You’ve got to feel it."

­­­– Sir Michael Francis Atiyah
What you learn is not the path, but how to find a path. And that - finding a path in an environment with lots of constraints - is an invaluable skill.
Running AdNauseam - no such irritations when opening the link, and it's likely at least marginally more efficient at annoying the adtech industry than sarcasm (not mutually exclusive, of course).
Fast, good search and stable UI.
AT&T decides 4G is now “5G,” starts issuing icon-changing software updates
The old "net neutrality" did nothing directly for end users. It did not ensure anything for all views. Before it was even terminated, mass censorship (privately by the internet giants) had already started.

Instead, it benefited the likes of Netflix at the expense of the telecom industry. It also put the internet in a legal classification that would allow more government control of speech, though this had not yet been much of an issue in practice.

None of the above seems to have made much of a difference to end users.

It would be great to have a new sort of net neutrality, focused on end users. A nice thing about the end of the old one is that a new one could replace it, giving people what they mistakenly thought they had.
The truth is that "significant" compensation is often worth little or nothing, and always has been. For every guy who makes $400K off his FAANG options or RSUs, there's at least 100 who made nothing off of their early stage stock options.
Thank you so much for your well-reasoned response :) I think we've found middle-ground in trying to estimate these numbers too.

It sounds like we could ball-park the number at 33% of Americans being in high cost of living areas.

Additionally, it sounds like we agree that that percentage might change based on if you're looking at urban, suburban, or rural areas, and if you are factoring in dependents or retirees.

I think the question we ask from here is, "how do we increase the number of people who are able to have a large chunk of discretionary income coming in?"

For this the answer is probably political, contentious, and complex. Not everyone can be a programmer, as there's only 4 million computer professionals in the US right now. Not everyone can be a licensed employee either, who tend to make more money (health care, law), because labor supply is strictly regulated for these professions.

I think if we were to somehow reduce rent-seeking behavior in the economy (real estate and health insurance prices are pretty good indicators of state-enforced supply restrictions), then prices and salaries would begin to approach the mean again, which is around 50k per person.

I guess what I'm saying here is I think the roofer who makes 37k a year in Newark NJ is being underpaid, and the physician's assistant who makes 100k a year in Scottsdale AZ is being overpaid. I would wager their labor is of equal value, but is being artificially disrupted.
A nice saying that sums up what you're saying more clearly: Dog bites a man is not news. Man bites a dog is news. Rely on the news for information and suddenly there seems to a rampant culture of men biting dogs! Is YOUR pet safe!?
No one size fits all and there's no ideal. Choice is necessary.

There are some universals though. Fast. I hate waiting 10s for page loads in Jira or anything really, if I'm searching for something.

Good data export. Jira is very good with this. You can get XML with all the information, IDs, relationships between things, comments, etc in a single call.

With this I can create a tool personalized for my particular use of the issue tracker, and only go to the issue tracker's website for non-routine tasks.
>...If only we had a government that took better care of people in poverty.

Have they tried getting SSDI? No one gets rich off of that, but it is one of the major government programs to help support those with disabilities.
Ask HN: Is anyone here happy with Google Fi service? I ordered a Pixel 3 phone directly from Google Fi and signed up for service with Google Fi the end of December. When I ordered the phone it showed up as in stock and estimated I would get my phone by the 4th of January. On the 2nd I got an email saying that the phone shipping was delayed and I would receive an email when it ships. I have heard nothing from google so I called Google Fi support and was told I would get an email from the shipping team letting my know when my phone would ship but that was 2 days ago and have not heard a word from them. I tried following there instructions to cancel the order but when you click the edit order button where they say there is a cancel button none can be found. Anyone else have similar experience? Before I placed my order I was thinking the user experience from Google must be better then T-Mobile or Sprint but I am starting to regret the choice.
I agree. I think there's lots we don't know about this. It feels like "Clash of the corps" rather than "Boo! Evil bigcorp!"

Until we know more I'm hitting the popcorn.
Just realized I am very privileged to have siblings and cousins who all equal or outperform me.
Had to see this in action:

The New York Jersey Rail Car Float Operation from NYC to NJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWTXrpgYO4Y
It's worth noting at that level, it doesn't need to be huge activity... 5-10 minutes a day lifting all you can for a few reps (deadlift, sandbag lift-press, pushups, trx row) and a 15-30 minute walk will yeild huge benefits... you don't increase calories much, but your body response is pretty good.

Eating towards keto macros if you are diabetic and at least intermittent fasting are really helpful too. Not snacking is the hardest part to start with.

edit: as to the exercises, form over function... slow for both up and down movements.

deadlift (hexbar if straight is too difficult) at near max weight for 4-5 reps.

sandbag lift and press, go as heavy as you can handle, for as many slow reps as you can handle. (if you're over 25, increase the bag weight, go s-l-o-w, requires more effort)

trx or regular pushups, 4 sets of 25 reps (100 total)

trx row, or pullups, 4 sets of 25 (100 total)

standing squat / deep knee bends (no extra weight), 4 sets of 25 (100 total)

walk to the nearest convenience store, buy a bottle of water, walk back.

Can generally get it all in well under an hour total.

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aside: yes, there is more that you can do, and you may want to increase from a walk to swimming, cycling or an eliptical a few times a week as you are able.

there's also more weight training techniques you can do... that said, if you are over 2x the typical weight for your gender and height (mostly from fat), you are so far off, you can get away with just this. Also, if you are looking for just general health, it's a good place to start from.
VR vastly overestimates the amount of space people have in their living rooms. Unless we're designing houses with rooms just for VR, I don't ever see it taking off. Maybe as a destination like a holodeck?
Congratulations on bouncing back. There were a lot of good points to learn.

I wish you best for the future.
Imagine this kind of reception for any other content. Someone spends a year into composing a new symphony and the reviews go "I love live music but wouldn't it have been better if the composer would have re-orchestrated a familiar classic rather than developing a whole new score that won't be performed as often as we'd like?"
Yes, it is. How do we get more visibility on it?

https://forum.sublimetext.com/t/install-package-not-working/...

https://es.stackoverflow.com/questions/228896/intento-adapat...
A dedicated, authorized investigator can probably work the difference out really quickly (literally in seconds in most cases, I would imagine, as soon as they speak to the "slave"), but, by contrast, there's pretty much no data we can obtain in this debate (other than a report by an authorized investigator) that will allow us to tell the difference from here.