skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> In the 80's it was considered fact that homosexuality

This is untrue. You could say "it was considered by some/many/bigoted people" but I doubt it was ever true that the same percentage of people with relevant medical experience thought homosexuality was as unhealthy as obesity.

Even if it were true, it would be a straw man unless you were also claiming that all gay people had AIDS and/or it was impossible to have gay sex without contracting HIV.

All obese people are obese. Inside that bucket of the population, some people are genetically or culturally predisposed, but some significant portion of obese people are capable of making healthier choices and are failing to do so. I don't think it's right to go out of our way to make these people unhappy, but at the same time I think it's obviously better for everyone if society encourages these people to make healthier choices.
A thermoelectric generator with a radioactive source would get pretty close.

You can pretty much seal up everything else (encased in a solid glass cube, e.g.). You may want an inert out-gassing source internally, but that would probably only last a few millennia.
IMHO the largest difference is the amount of time you save hunting down stupid issues. e.g. no more spending 3 hours fixing a typo.

Also, code is much more manageable, and refactoring is tons easier.

With enough Babel plugins, you can get ESNext functionality that does whatever you want (some of those early stage proposals are really cool! They might go away tomorrow, but hey, so cool!), so Typescript's old advantage of offering more language features is kinda nullified.

In the end, I started writing the later part of my current project in Typescript, and I much more enjoy working on that part of the code than the earlier parts.
If it's as cheap and powerful as AWS then I'm on board too. But I doubt it is, Amazon's got it down to an intricate science that seems like it can't be beat.
Again, obesity has a causative effect on health, sexual preferences can correlate to health outcomes but those correlations are driven by sexual practices that cause increased risk. One can be gay (or any other sexual preference) and have any level of AIDs risk (ie a celibate homosexual man has a lower risk of AIDs than a sexually active heterosexual man/woman).
Based on countless examples in history, the same thing seems to be true for basically anything… Murder, rape, genocide, withstanding or inflicting abuse or torture are all much easier for people to bear mentally if they believe it is part of a greater goal.
If brushing off a capricious upgrade of a 15 year sentence to a death sentence isn't apologist, then I don't know what is. But don't worry, with this ridiculous display I'm sure you won't wind up on their naughty list anytime soon.
The wiring detracts from the overall presentation of the art piece.

Cool idea though
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Thanks, nice post. Also enjoyed your write up about backups: https://ifelse.io/2018/12/05/better-faster-more-secure-backu...

The funny thins is that I’ve been thinking something similar during Christmas. I now know that I’m not the only one thinking about taking days off work to sort out my backups and network :-)
They might not have thought of a way to monetize the data. Or they did and Tesla was none the wiser.
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Eyewitness testimony is also extraordinarily inaccurate, but courts overwhelmingly consider it as strong evidence of guilt.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/do-the-eyes-have-...
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As evidenced by?
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I think the claim is "rent control reduces inventory of units subject to rent control". That is, new units may be produced, but they are "luxury" units that are exempt from rent control. So the claim is that rent control reduces the supply of affordable units, not total units.

Can you supply counter-evidence to that claim?
I'm partial to number 2 as well, though I would add that having children is widely reported to increase "happiness" or "fulfillment" with the caveat that those concepts and self-report are very wishy/washy.
The Areo article starts with "This essay, although hopefully accessible to everyone, is the most thorough breakdown of the study".

Those words "the study" clearly seek to frame the hoax as part of a research project or "study".

I like the expert opinion quoted in the NY Magazine article that basically says, "yes, this disciplinary action is politically motivated, but it's also entirely legitimate".

It seems like that is often the way the world works—there are many more possible, legitimate, prosecutions than are actually pursued. The choice of which to pursue can be made in unfair ways. Often it is used to reinforce corrupt systems.

In this case, there isn't any visible corruption. Nobody entrapped Boghossian, nobody appears to have had it in for him in advance. He walked into this.
Pi-hole can be used as your dhcp server too, if you can disable the ISP routers DHCP service.

https://discourse.pi-hole.net/t/how-do-i-use-pi-holes-built-...
Are you referring to this event? I'd hardly call that a "broke and crash during test flight".

"HAV suffered a setback last November, when the parked airship broke free of its mooring mast. An onboard safety system automatically ripped open the hull in order to deflate the aircraft, thus keeping it from drifting. It has since been determined that the mishap occurred due to an incorrectly-secured locking mechanism between the airship and the mast." [1][2]

[1] https://newatlas.com/airlander-10-passenger-cabin/55515/

[2] https://newatlas.com/airlander-10-incident/52254/
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A miserable pile of organic molecules. But enough talk...Have at you!
But one could use it scoped to the FileWatcher class or to each member function, or is my C++ too rusty?
And that whole water thing always works out flawlessly, too?
> they wrote "going down TO 1/3 of"

They didn't; as the OP already mentioned, they went back and edited it.
It will be interesting what happens at airports.

Nominally, the reason they check your bag at the airport is for security. But in the process they can find all sorts of other stuff that isn't dangerous to fly with but is illegal, e.g. marijuana. So the whole thing becomes an avenue to warrantless search.

You can't make the same argument about a computer or phone -- you can't bring down a plane or hurt anyone by having certain pictures on your hard drive. Anything you could do with a phone (e.g. trigger a bomb) would require some other physical infiltration, which hopefully would be caught by all the scanning and searching of people and baggage that we do already.

So I would hope that a sensible explicitly disallows this "airport loophole" in the process of bringing phone search into the normal legal process of warranted search... but I am doubtful. There are powerful people in the USA, UK, Australia, etc. would love the unfettered ability to search the phone of every air traveler.
The salary.
People win the lottery every day and those odds are very much against thrm, but they play the odds in hopes of a positive outcome. When talking about life and liberty and negative consequences there should be as few chances taken as possible. I don't think 86% is the best we can do.
They actually made a few laptop AS/400s for sales guys to take around back in the mid 90s. I'd like to get hold of one of those :)
You can configure by channel to ignore those in your notifications preferences.
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Is this the video you mention?

https://youtu.be/4fFDFbi3toc
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Are there any people that have switched to TypeScript that still think dynamically typed languages have advantages over statically typed ones? Even for small projects with only me working on them, I find static typing saves me a ton of time and dynamic features are very rarely required or useful. The vast majority of bugs in my TypeScript programs collect around the places they interface with untyped JavaScript code.
Not that it should be necessary, notion should not be violating you're privacy by default, but at least uBlock/uMatrix block the entire fullstory domain by default.
Considering the fact that a government shutdown is always possible and that unless the government is going to collapse, you’ll get back-pay once it starts up again.. why are you posting this and not just looking for a job the usual way without qualifying yourself as a victim of the shutdown?

I have sympathy for those affected by the shutdown, especially those living paycheck to paycheck, but I also feel that it is irrelevant when looking for a job.
> The hoax authors have emphatically claimed that this field is more akin to theology than any kind of meaningful science, where any paper that reinforces the orthodoxy gets published, no matter the methodological flaws, and that's what they attempted to demonstrate (and they did I think). This result is far, far worse than the replication crisis.

Interesting claim, considering https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/04/16/is-th...

It is interesting to me that sometimes people seem to argue that the "grievance studies" subjects are useless practically, and then in the next sentence to argue they have a massive impact on other disciplines. In fields like economics we can, however, often see and measure the effects directly. And the effects of the orthodoxy that wants to justify, in this case austerity, using bad papers, with publically available data, that anyone could have checked, is far worse than the sokal squared hoax.

> No, I mean quite literally that these "academics" think that the scientific method, and that logic and mathematics itself, are tools of white oppression.

> There are thousands of papers, articles, blogs and posts debating this claim.

The first article you linked quotes an orientation video. The second rests on the "feminist glaciology" paper, which I've seen parroted by the right as an example of this claim you're making, many, many times, and another article posted on a website. I might be justified in asking you to provide evidence that "thousands" of papers defending the claim that "the scientific method is oppressive" but I don't expect you to, or be able to, defend that statement. Lets focus on a smaller scope, and try to prove that there exist papers in the two articles you've linked here that make that claim.

People who read these papers often make the mistake of reading an argument against all knowledge by conflating a few things:

1) That the institution of science represents pure infallible access to scientific knowledge

2) That objective truth is equivalent to, and accessed by scientific knowledge

We only have to go back a short period of time to see scientific justifications of awful things. But, the vast majority of academics aren't arguing that we should discard all of science. And, anyone can make a blog post. Objective truth is always necessarily filtered through humans.

It is also a good point that scientists should listen to indigenous people and their theories about natural phenomena. There are many examples of scientists correlating myths and stories with natural events and discovering that there was an eruption at a particular time. Understanding those perspectives advances science.
Oh. But then we're not talking about equivalent levels of senior. Senior in the US can be reached in 2 years.
I hope when they get enough money it doesn't take 15 seconds to switch from one slack organization to another. Working for x different companies at the same time can be infuriating.
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Yes. JWZ posted a story about a repair in one such cable: https://www.jwz.org/blog/2002/11/engineering-pornography/
And in this case, when the cable broke, it was hideously expensive to fix (downtime was costing $13,000/hour and this was back in 2002).

EDIT: don't click directly on the link or you'll be horrified by what you see. Instead, copy the link. JWZ doesn't think highly of HN.
What if they have a warrant? At that point I would argue that you are not self-incriminating. In my mind, it's like if the police had a warrant to search your apartment and you didn't let them in.
It appears the tide is changing and what was once hated upon by many in the JS and front-end community, has now become cool and a tonne of projects are migrating. Another project migrating to TypeScript is the Aurelia Javascript Framework for its next version coming out later in 2019.

It's funny because I remember when Angular 2 was announced and that it would be written completely in TypeScript, they copped a lot of backlash for it, but it appears to have been a good move.

I exclusively have been writing in TypeScript for about 3 years now and it's crazy how good it actually is, especially for distributed teams in different time zones. The code is self-documenting and the number of silly mistakes being committed into our codebase has dramatically been reduced, combined with solid unit tests, we haven't really had a code level bug in what feels like months, browser bugs on the other hand...

My favourite thing about TS besides the types and interfaces is the compiler. I no longer have to use transpilers like Babel anymore because TypeScript handles compiling to many different module formats and targets. Back when I used Babel, it felt like pulling teeth because of the different plugins and packages you had to install and configure to use.

I find it really hard to use anything other than TypeScript now, it is simply too good.
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do you trust a startup still to exist in 41 years, and to honor your plan that long?
What's the "emails aren't papers" thing in reference to?
I think that's why the article mentions finger prints and faceid. Those are the 'keys' to your phone.
The lyrics also mention Mount Kilimanjaro and (in a metaphorical sense) Mount Olympus. I think it's probably generous to assume that the lyricist had a specific place in mind :)
I'm offering it as a possible explanation for why onsite-only Bay Area startups could be a success but remote startups not be able to afford Bay Area salaries.
Why would you care? Waiters don't expect tipping as much as in the rest of the country.
> No, they are still not selling music; in fact, they are beating piracy at its own game: the music industry is selling convenience. Get nearly any piece of recorded music ever made, for a mere $10/month.

I find it more convenient, to have a DRM-free backup of the music I paid for. Sure, streaming is useful, but not when it's available in the form of rent only. That's why I'm using Bandcamp and not Spotify.
Except criminals that could beat you up on a street are not interested in your data, they just want to sell the hardware and have money for drugs. It's easier for them to just type wrong passcode 10 times and have the phone wipe its whole content.
Energy used to be fully regulated for a long time. All in all, they did a good job while getting a guaranteed return. Deregulation didn't really deregulate everything (the industry is still super regulated), but it brought in competition and more market based mechanisms. Stoft's power system economics textbook covers this subject pretty well. Deregulation helps incentivize innovation, but it isn't a slam dunk. We have a different system now that is definitely better in some ways and worse off in others. I doubt wildfire safety would have been radically different prior to deregulation.
I hope Regulator has been decommissioned ;)
Exactly. If the government takes your phone and gives it back its time to wipe the phone and sell it. Restore a backup on to a new phone.
There is a related story: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18895064

I think (as I said in the previous discussion) that the key issue with the lengthening phone upgrade cycle is security patches.

Manufacturers are trying very hard to have built-in obsolescence: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/05/31/dutch_court_says_sa...

Unless this fundamentally changes, most non-techy users will have to needlessly upgrade perfectly good devices, run insecure software or become much more savvy about which manufacturers are better in this regard - and the outcome is likely to be some malware has a very large distribution followed by a lot of press.
How? It is optional and plenty of other people are not tipping. I think you're being an idiot for throwing your money away if you tip because you feel forced to. If you tip because you appreciated the service then it's different.
Realise that the advice is nonsense and baldness has no meaningful impact on your life. Go bald and be happy.
Hang on, I don’t understand the distinction you’re making. I definitely think the customer should see it as soon as they can they see something.
I migrated Polar from JS to Typescript:

https://getpolarized.io/

It's a pretty sizable app. The migration wet pretty smooth and I would absolutely never go back. Typescript is amazing.
Maybe they should have considered this:

Most people who do searches are probably tightly focussed on the answers. Ads are pretty much unwanted distractions in such an environment.
On a guitar in standard tuning (EADGBE), the Em chord can be played by fretting only two strings (the A and D), both on the 2nd fret. It's basically the easiest chord to learn to play. And if you start in Em, it pairs with G, Am, C and D -- all of which are also very simple fingerings. Correlation isn't causation, but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts this is a factor, given the absolute dominance of the guitar in popular music songwriting.
I learned that basically all of Imessages and contacts are stored on foundation DB, it's pretty great this is making it into opensource. Thanks Apple!
What are the reasons, if you could elaborate?
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I am speaking at a talk "What programming language should I choose" and thought would be funny to have a formula to convey the meat of it. Am I missing something or do you have a better formula?

f(x) = (context * times) - financial net

context = what are you working on

times = how current is the language, are there newer better ones or are their current versions unstable

financial net = will this help you find a job or do you need a job ASAP
I haven’t seen the word neocon used much in quite a while. Never seen this fact checker thing before. I thought the Bush clan were generally not friends with the trumplicans.
I previously tried to sign up via a Google account but it required a 'company Google account' - I was slightly confused about the reasoning behind this.
Commercial content

I seem to remember the internet being a pretty fascinating place in the 90s before advertising became mainstream (or Google Adwords was a thing). But then it was user generated content and communities.
It's the default if you name your project-level config file jsconfig.json instead of tsconfig.json, which is an interesting convention versus configuration trade-off. VSCode makes this somewhat clear in some of its tools (it will offer to create a jsconfig or tsconfig for you and tries to guess based on source code metrics), but it's easy to miss in most Typescript documentation.
It's cyclic. When employees are highly paid, rents will go up. Other people will also want in on the high salaries, so competition goes up to acquire the best employees, salaries go up, rents go up, rinse and repeat.
Any opinions on Webstorm vs Visual Studio for using TypeScript?
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> they don't necessarily have to live in the Bay Area. This becomes a personal preference

This was part of my point: you're taking the Bay Area as the standard by which you're judging everything else. This is backwards. The Bay Area is an extreme outlier.

Yes, it's a personal preference. But if you choose to live in the Bay Area, your income requirements eclipse everybody else's. Everybody else can live extremely comfortably anywhere else on that kind of money. If you have the personal preference to live there, why should a business pay you more than everybody else everywhere else? It's your personal preference and it doesn't help the business in the slightest.
So you're suggesting that this isn't enough money? Then we'll pass another prop C :)
Hey everyone, Krishna here, I’m on the hosting team here at GoDaddy. There are some excellent points in this thread. I wanted to give a little bit of background about GoDaddy’s use of Real User Metrics (RUM) and our plan regarding its use moving forward.

A little more than a year ago, we created a RUM javascript for our customers. The javascript is extremely lightweight and evaluates hosting performance only. We did this to create a better hosting environment for our customers. We rolled this out to a small subset of customers.

As the RUM proved very beneficial in optimizing our hosting platform for our customers, we decided to roll it out to a wider audience. That said, we clearly could have better communicated this program.

Based on all the feedback, we have decided to turn off the RUM javascript immediately and focus on designing the program so that customer participation is on an opt-in only basis. While the RUM data is beneficial in helping us improve our customers’ website performance, we regret that the implementation has upset many of our customers and we apologize for any inconvenience this has caused.

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R&D + production done by Foxconn

HMD it's just sales department slapping Nokia sticker on Foxconn phones
I'm not sure how you got that $25 = 41 years of 120GB of storage on Backblaze.

Their current pricing appears to be $0.005/GB-month... which would be $295.20 for 41 years of 120GB of storage.

> i wouldn't trust a cheap SSD to still work in 41 years

I wouldn't trust almost any company to still exist in 41 years, including Backblaze. Preserving data over that length of time will probably require active management of the data in some form or another. DVD or Blu-ray discs might last that long... but it's hard to trust any storage medium to last for 41 years. Modern storage technology just hasn't existed that long.
It depends on how you define "relaxed", if you mean low CNS arousal as a base state but can easily move into a highly aroused state when needed then maybe.

But if you mean low CNS arousal generally then I completely disagree, someone that pushes to 100% will out compete you if you never breach 50% assuming equal ability. If you and I both have the same capacity for strength but you are an intense person and I am not you will be the stronger one in the short and long term. Same goes for the intelligence question as well.

However modern society short circuits part this general behavior though and all bets are off though I still think it holds true. It is often not the best political or business idea that wins, it is the one someone is willing to push through. Human relationships are similar, an activation energy must be reached in order for mating to happen and someone with a higher intensity is more likely to reach that activation energy more often.