skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This article is extremely thin on actual evidence, and that's a problem, because I could take any aspect the world which has changed since my own childhood, write a similar article, and have just as much of a point as this one.

I could, for example, write about the easy availability of music, and the fact that you don't have to go to a store to buy CDs. I could take every tiny facet of CD purchasing, anticipation, and delayed gratification that I think was in some way good, and lament that kids no longer have that experience. I could completely fail to point out any possible beneficial aspects to modern music availability, and by the end of it, the uncareful reader might think that I have a legitimate point.

It seems obvious that something simply being different about how children grow up does not imply that it's worse, so there needs to be some way to distinguish legitimate causes for worry from simple alarmism. If you can't find a way to do that for your piece, I think it's fair to say that your position should simply be ignored.

Now sometimes, the scientific community does need a nudge to investigate whether something is a problem. But if you can find no hints within the current body of scientific knowledge that what you're talking about actually matters, you probably haven't found one of those cases.
But there are laws preventing a broker from lending you that money. The hearing cites the SEC net capital rules which Rentech and DB worked together to bypass. There are pages dedicated to how RenTech DB and Barclays knowingly and purposefully circumvented rules with some changing of terminology. Starts on page 79 [0].

I definitely should have been more clear with my original statements. Maybe something more along the lines of: at rentech's scale, using a margin account at a prime broker, you cannot leverage your firm 16x.

[0] https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/REPORT-Abuse%20of...
https://www.healthline.com/health/can-you-drink-distilled-wa...

Got a source for "really bad"? Because that would conflict with the above link. I stand by my comment above: distilled water, passed through a carbon-filter post-distilation, seems like a better bet than drinking water the city pumps out of the ground in Sili Valley.
That smells of equivocation. There is science, the methodology, and there is the body of knowledge constructed using that methodology, colloquially also often just called 'science'.

Yes, obviously one can use scientific methodology to study religion, and given that religiosity is a very common human behavior, it is hardly surprising that you can learn something about human psychology this way, thus contributing to the scientific body of knowledge.

But that does not in any way suggest that the methodology (that is, the epistemological practice of science) has anything to learn from religion, which is obviously the claim that Dawkins and Pinker are rejecting, because that is the claim that religions make when they make assertions about how the world works, as all religions do.

So, the article at best substantiates the obvious and completely uncontroversial interpretation of the title that you can make empirical observations of religious behaviour, while failing to provide any arguments in favor of the interpretation that at least some people will be prone to read into the title, that religion somehow has to offer any useful methods for distintuishing fact from fiction that should be adopted by science.
Games used to need your mind to fill in gaps too. Crude limited capabilities of pre 16 bit era made it somehow impressionist and symbolic. Today it's all faux-reality. Amazing technically really.. but not so on the other side of the paddle.

Also the pacing. There are games that weren't action based, and required contemplation (shadow of colossus for instance, there were a few others). There were also sim city like games, or flight simulators that required some focus.

Even games like Resident Evil, they did capture your mind like a book a bit. That said a book requires a lot more than a game.
I don’t even think that’s accurate. If you watch antiques roadshow, wedgewood pottery comes up all the time. Anybody that’s into antiques knows about them.
IMO, meditation should be taught even to really young kids (say, 4 years old upwards). I imagine they would benefit just as much.

Interestingly, some alternative education systems seem to have such an approach. In the waldorf/steiner system (at least this is what I was told), the early years are supposed to be about learning personal discipline and how to work with others. With reading/writing not taught until later (age 7). The idea being that the kids will learn much quicker if they can concentrate and focus on their work. Makes a lot of sense to me.
It's unclear to me if you are trying to encrypt the days in transit, in memory or at rest?

I don't know anything about your environment but if I were in AWS I would be using KMS; this blog post walks through it:

https://blog.koan.co/securing-customer-data-with-kms-and-env...
I think you should form your opinion after hearing what Cantonese (and other regional "dialects") sound like. Then you should be able to appreciate just how close the Northern speech is to Standard Chinese.
As O'Brien passed the telescreen a thought seemed to strike him. He stopped, turned aside and pressed a switch on the wall. There was a sharp snap. The voice had stopped. Julia uttered a tiny sound, a sort of squeak of surprise. Even in the midst of his panic, Winston was too much taken aback to be able to hold his tongue.

'You can turn it off!' he said. 'Yes,' said O'Brien, 'we can turn it off. We have that privilege.'
> I remember reading a newspaper for hours after school. Now I barely read news for more than 30 mins a day. I am more connected but my satisfaction of the quality of news I am consuming has gone really down.

Before you wasted multiple hours a day on ephemera when you could have read something lasting or done something more fun, now you waste less than an hour. Before you had no information sources to provide alternative viewpoints or later, more in depth reporting after the initial flurry of news reporting. Now you realise journalists are often ignorant, writing under really tight deadlines and have no incentive to fix mistakes unless someone can sue them or has their own media platform. Journalism was always awful, you just didn’t know.
> every last feature of my IDE to make sure I don't have to alt tab all over the place. Terminal, database, docs and code is all in my IDE

Which IDE is this?
I'll add MO discs. They were supposedly more durable, longer-lasting, and (at one point) GB than CD's and DVD's. I discovered them playing Resident Evil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneto-optical_drive

I also had a drive for 100MB, Zip disks. Only ever owned one since I couldn't justify the expense. Hardly anyone else had them. What's point of a tech for moving data if you can't use it to share the data with friends and local businesses? ;)
Airbnb Increases Home Prices, yet Escapes Regulation
Society has been slowly but surely working at decoupling everything. Every problem gets a ~solution. You don't need to depend on people directly, it's easier than having to deal with them. You don't have to deal with physics, put VR goggles and enjoy unlimited retries at shooting preys.

I think it's a bit sad.
Incarcerations are not persecutions. Arguably a negligible number of percecutions occur in the U.S., as most of the incarcerations are due to violent crimes. Most of the Uyghur re-education camps (which is just one of many examples known and unknown) are not due to violent crimes, but ethnic or political backgrounds (I.e. persecutions)
https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/find-by-topic/#cat=mathematics is where I'd start.
You can do "restore previous session" from the hamburger menu the next time you start up, even if you don't force close.
Possibly stupid question:

Is there any fundamental reason your corporate email system couldn't, for example, just not interoperate with the rest of the Internet, at least by default? I understand if this doesn't work for people in sales or consulting or whatever, but 90-99% of my work email is entirely within the same company, and I think it would be less onerous and more secure to just block external email by default and use a separate, secured system when you had to email anyone outside the company.
I am an atheist but I believe pursuing religious thought can be a laudable thing for individuals who do it as a spiritual and self-reflective exercise.

When it becomes an instrument of social control, whether that means using religion to excuse bigotry or merely using religion as an excuse for manipulation or control in your own household, then I can no longer agree and feel it is an intrinsic civic duty of all people to actively discontinue that portion of religious practice.

Somewhere there is also a gray area related to what I would call “faith-based reasoning.” In some circumstances it’s fine to make decisions by consulting some form of faith. But in others, say denying a child’s medical care, it is clearly indefensible.

On this side of things I subscribe to the idea that was described on LessWrong in terms of “making beliefs pay rent in the form of anticipated experiences.” Along the same lines I admire a quote from Robin Hanson: “I wish there was less of a feeling of entitlement to believe whatever you want, and more of a sense of social responsibility to believe accurately.”
Isn't there some pseudo quantitative form of estimation based on a first draft system network diagram ?
The Fulfilment Centre – Amazon Warehouse Coin-Op Game
That app shows up in the app store. What changed?
Pixel would be manufactured in China, though the sales might be very low. As I assume other google hardware.
> When rats are put in normal laboratory settings they choose drugs over food and water if given the choice.

We've shown that cocaine addiction can be mitigated or altogether avoided by enough positive social interaction.

When the benefits that cocaine would provide to the dopamine system are already present from other external sources, the rat is much less likely to self-administrate cocaine to "self-medicate", and this is likely further modulated by if medicating inhibits the rat's ability to continue getting dopamine from other sources.

It's clear that psychosocial health is a huge factor in avoiding addiction.

Another huge factor more relevant to today's era is post-capitalist existentialism, which we can't really test with lab rats but I'll be damned if it doesn't make me want to erode away inside a warm fuzzy ball of artificial pleasure sometimes.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-018-0246-6
I don't understand the reason behind this example?

It boils down to "I did a read-modify-write without a lock, now there is a bug". Of course there is! that's what locks are for!

The swift value system and copy-on-write do not somehow absolve you from locking.
I have this sort of discussion, at minimum, three times a week (we're in-house developers). Very often the project scope isn't even defined and upstream dependencies are known to be critically lacking and will need to be augmented to even perform the work. Yet we're always pressured for dates and the caveats given are immediately forgotten and almost never communicated.

The biggest pet peeve is when I give an estimate such as "I don't currently see a reason why we can't deliver X by the end of next week, assuming no other priorities come up." Of course something more important comes up in the mean time and I get scolded in a large meeting with a statement such as "You promised me I'd have X by Friday!" — this is especially infuriating when it is the PM's other project that is the higher priority interruption.
Evolution has not prepared your brain for today’s porn
It mentions it in the article. Supporters keep putting it back up and Apple continuously takes it down (under pressure of the US gov).

For context, the app was created to track human rights abuses during the disclosure of the US's covert surveillance and assassination program in the Middle East. This was a scandal for the United States because it was disclosed that they were killing innocent people with knowledge and through reclassification, even killing children (internally using the terminology "fun sized terrorists").

The pressure to remove the app was brought to Apple during a sweep to control the scandal and public perception of the program.

(Given the public conversation has moves far past the scandal, and the Trump administration continues the indiscriminate assassinations, that censorship program does seem to have succeeded)
How are speeds compared to Linode?

Too early to tell here. The site hasn't been promoted yet and is in "private beta" mode, so the traffic is trivial. Subjectively, when I visit for testing and admin stuff, it feels fine, even though the servers are in Europe and I'm on the US East Coast.

I'm also curious about their management functionality.

I find Linode's stuff to be a little better from a UX perspective, but I have no particular complaints about Hetzner so far. But keep in mind, I'm running one app there that I stood up a month ago, which has no paying customers yet. So I can't exactly offer the most in-depth critique ever.
Yes, I would think so as well, but every retail entity avoids saying "Super Bowl".

Maybe everyone is afraid to be first into the breach, like so many avoided using "Happy Birthday to You" for decades in fear of the bogus, broad copyright claim
ALIENS THE RIDE (Planet Coaster)
Back then, public key signing of any strength was considered a munition.
my current job lets you set the autoresponder to only autorespond to people in the org. how is that such a bad risk?
only 10!... wow... well iguess that's an avrage... propablly many poor people are offline....
top's the wold!? ih please how do you get your facts... let me see the data... i don't belive tha bullshit

man.... and to think i'v got no facebook or social media...
i work using the internet and live useing the internet... it's hard for me to remember the last the i was less then 10 hours online...

wow man... so the avrage people don't use the internet much ugh...
The author of this site is also the author of Bulma (https://bulma.io/) - my goto CSS framework. He's also created another similar site for HTML: https://htmlreference.io/
Weed out classes shouldn’t exist. Not when a degree is mandatory and student loans can’t be defaulted.
What would I use? Rails + React
Chinese Students Help America Innovate
I visited the Philippines recently, and was shocked at how non-neutral it was. ISPs have promotions like "free half an hour of YouTube per day". It is like the nightmare scenario that we in the rest of the world were warned about.

Worse, someone told me that in 2012, internet service was way better, but then they realized they could just throttle everyone down and jack the prices up.

And I also had to have a Globe and Smart SIM cards, since the two cellphone companies have a cartel.

I loved it there, but it is a shame about the infrastructure.
I'd have to go back and look up all the details, and it's not apples-to-apples anyway, as I have just one VPS at Hetzner, and several at Linode. But just going by the VPS specs and the published pricing, I was impressed enough to do the experiment of deploying this one app to Hetzner as a trial of sorts. If it goes well, I may move more, or even all, of our stuff to them. I estimate I'd save at least 50% off of what I pay Linode today by doing so.

The one downside, of course, is that all of their datacenters are in Europe. So if your customers are not in Europe, and latency is a big issue, then that could complicate things.
Let me introduce you to the song of the Emacs People.
Sure, which is why my point was that you can't treat all video games as the same.
Data is cheaper than calls. I don't even bother with call or text plans when I'm in the Phils. It costs a reasonable $8/mo to get 8GB of data if you use the right refillable promos.

With that said, internet is so darn slow and unreliable it must be messaging services. It's hard to get real work done from the Phils as a remote software developer. Thank goodness for Tmux and SSH.
I should have written most reported, since there can be any number of unreported cases. But the fact stands; you can check with SFPD and SFMTA. I could post 3 more examples, but you'd just claim that there are more that don't flee but somehow evade SFPD documentation.
This was the point I was about to make, some apps don't want users all over the world due to country limitations.
This reads like something someone logiced out in their head but has no basis in any information that indicates if any of this is a real risk.
The article containing the quote from Richard Dawkins can be found here:

https://uktech.wordpress.com/2006/09/25/dawkins-on-theology/

To paraphrase, he's arguing that very little beyond the obvious has come from religious teachings, and much of the rest can be proved false with science.

The article posted suggests that science may have more to learn from religion, given that science has shown there is some benefit to practices like meditation and ritual. This reads a little bit like a justification for all of religion after science was able to pick some of the interesting parts out and show they have use beyond a religious context. I'm not sure I buy the argument. A seized engine doesn't become workable simply by showing the bolts are still in good condition.
That has nothing to do with the subject or my comment.
If I had time for a side project I would either do:

* an info product (a book on a popular new technology, or an evergreen topic, preferably related to software development). The best example here was the stripe rails book. I bought it for $40 because it saved me hours of dev time. Used it once. Never opened it again. Was worth every penny. https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com/

* Or, if I was looking for a longer play, find a local niche business type where people spend money and search online. Prefer if data is already collected by someone else (data.gov or the state agencies are good places to check, for example child care facilities). Use a WordPress directory plugin to gather demand side up and then monetize by ads plus premium listings.

No coding for either of these.
It's become a fairly widely known concept in data engineering circles, expounded upon in Martin Kleppman's Designing Data Intensive Applications book. (buy this book if you want to get up to speed on modern ideas around distributed systems and data architecture)

This became popular as people were trying to figure how to use Kafka as a persisted log store that could be "replayed" into various other databases. This meant that you could potentially stream all the deltas (well, more accurately the operations to create the delta, e.g insert, update, delete) in your data -- through a mechanism called Change-Data-Capture (CDC) [1] -- into a single platform (Kafka) and consistently replicate that data into SQL databases, NoSQL databases, object stores, etc. Because these are deltas, this lets you reconstruct your data at any point in history on any kind of back end database or storage (it’s database agnostic).

Event sourcing to my understanding is a term used among DDD practitioners and Martin Fowler disciples but with a different nuance. This article explains what it is:

http://cqrs.wikidot.com/doc:event-sourcing

[1] Debezium is an open-source CDC tool for common open-source databases. Side note: A valid (but potentially expensive) way of implementing CDC is by defining database triggers in your SQL database.
I found Kopp's article easier to follow after reading Siegel's, myself. YMMV
Event sourcing is still the best paradigm for exposing valuable service data to an undefined number of services downstream, especially when there’s enough data to make querying painful for some use cases. They are like a NoSQL buffer between services and databases. Not always necessary but sometimes useful.

Event sourcing brings its own complexities (eg Kafka clients) but it’s still better than having one huge shared database or even RabbitMQ fanout exchanges. In the best cases, developer experience of Kafka can be very good and comfortable. You can write short python scrips that ingest data and dump to other databases and services, it’s very nice. In some cases you want services writing directly to databases but sometimes you don’t.
Pushing AI into the Mainstream
> any medical costs should be covered by the government

Why? If I get sick, I need to go bankrupt if I don't have an insurance, but if I run a stop sign on a bicycle, government should pay for medical bill?

This would make more sense in countries that have universal healthcare. USA isn't one of those.
Aquifers aren't like plastic water bottles that can be refilled when empty. Depending on the soil, when it dries out the structure can collapse/compact, greatly reducing the amount of water it can hold in the future permanently.

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/earthgwlandsubside.html
>Look inside a SAGAN or something and you'll see the conv2d calls.

...Yes, because SAGANs operate on images, so the foundational operation is a convolution.

>You're reading that in an overly narrow way and imputing to me something I didn't mean.

You characterized the Transformer as "convolutions with attention". You then attributed the success of Transformer-based models to "the non-locality & easy optimization of convolutions". The "SOTA for most (all?) sequence-related tasks" applies the regular Transformer variants, not the Evolved Transformer which was published about 5 days ago.

No one is denying that convolutions are useful across many domains. But no one seriously working in the domain of NLP would consider convolutions to be anywhere near the most novel or notable parts of the Transformer.

(In case you do want to look it up, OpenAI's GPT also uses character-level convolutions for its word embeddings. However, BERT does not.)
Prosecutors tend to only take cases with high certainty of conviction. It’s also why murders get classified as “accidental deaths”, because prosecutors are unwilling to prosecute on iffy evidence (they know someone was murdered, but just don’t have bullet proof evidence).
Filipino here, gonna have to agree. Its not really tech adoption but more 'new modes of communication' adoption. We adopted SMS like wildfire and now its the same with Facebook/Messenger. Gonna be a good bet that those 10hrs are disproportionately spent on FB properties. Lack of net neutrality also helps build a bigger FB wall - for most telcos its free to use messenger and facebook.
In America activists can potentially sue/appeal for to free those wrongly imprisoned, and the incarceration rate is about 0.75%. The Uyghurs, by contrast, are currently imprisoned at a rate of minimum 6% (calculated via lower estimate of concentration camp size and upper estimate of Ughur population in China), another 6% of their population is matched by live-in Han Chinese family monitors, and no one is even pretending that they broke any laws.