skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is pseudo-scientific nonsense, it doesn't prove any causal relationships, it's just observing a correlation.

There are plenty of obvious reasons people likely to die young would end up alone. It's natural to not be attracted to people likely to die young, it's a behavior our evolution has selected for.

We're not attracted to sick-looking people, for example.
That's not exactly what I meant. I was thinking something along the lines of a more universal way for npm to serve up compatible code without the package publisher having to pre-compile everything to make it compatible with every possible usage scenario. I'm not exactly sure how that would work, but I think it's a bad idea to push all that to package publishers .
This is called the Scunthorpe Problem. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem
His wife supported him after he left his IB job to start Amazon. Amazon would not be without her in all probability. I argue Jeff earned half; precisely half, which would otherwise be zero without his wife's 20+ years of support.

https://www.wired.com/story/mackenzie-bezos-amazon-lone-geni...
Better be opt-in or it would be annoying.
20% growth per month in itself has such a non-meaning. It really depends on where you are coming from.

If you start with 10 users in month 1 all you need is 90 users in month 12 to have 20% MoM growth. Well, that's doable.

If you start with a million though you need to have 9 million by the end of said year. Tougher to find 8 MM new users than 80, don't you think?

If you're someone like Facebook with a billion users, good luck finding 9 Billion after 12 months of growth ;)
> Syntactic whitespace kills me.

Okay, I'm gonna be the asshole in the room, but how hard is it to just use consistent indentation? I can't count how many times I've heard people complain about significant whitespace in languages.

Not only is it not difficult to begin with, but every code editor and IDE will show you where there's a syntax error in your YAML. People are free to dislike YAML, even for its significant whitespace, but how does it "kill you"?

Look at this example from the article:

```

something: nothing

hello: goodbye

```

This is pure sloppiness, and anyone who has trouble carelessly adding pointless bytes to code, no matter the language, is sloppy. I don't understand why people criticize YAML and Python because "whitespace is hard".

P.S.: There's a similar configuration language called ArchieML, which is similar to YAML but doesn't have significant whitespace.

http://archieml.org
I agree - humans are able to collate generally disparate, individually insignificant events to identify issues and unexpected events, but the entire idea behind ML is that AI is trained to react appropriately to the specific range of possibilities it is provided with. While ML allows for significantly better generalization within the trained problem set, it still flounders anywhere beyond predicted/tested parameters.

Hopefully, developing gaming AIs such as AlphaGo and AlphaStar will help us with this, but for now I remain dubious - AlphaStar, at least, has trouble reacting at all to the unexpected.
The Non-Compete Software Movement
Definitely. I was a part of C# in the early days, so little else would make me happier than awesome class .NET support. This'll be great for Azure folks -- who knows, PowerShell too?

We are actively working on https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/2430, which will make it easier for our small team to manage multiple languages. Once that lands, I would expect this to be high priority.

Some of our amazing community members have been prototyping this, and it's looking pretty promising: https://twitter.com/MikhailShilkov/status/109278757393889689....

Joe
Science Journal – Google
> something tells me the same people opposing this will scream like banshees when people start sharing lists of known speeders

There is no stigma to speeding. Nobody thinks it reflects badly on you.

People would scream if the government started circulating lists to traffic cops of cars that should be watched for speeding, but that's really not an issue of "being labeled a speeder" so much as "being singled out for harassment by the government".
Seat pitch and width is largely up to the airlines. Korean Air 787s aren't bad at all in economy.
The dagger in the heart of the big 4-engine aircraft are the changes in the ETOPS allowances¹ by the regulatory bodies.

Used to be you needed the redundancy of four power plants to provide the needed nines to cross the ocean and still ensure (well, meet the statistic standard) that you could make land with one engine out.

The reliability of the modern turbofans allow the big twins to take almost the same transoceanic flight path as the 4-engine planes. Considering the complexity and cost of running 4 engines vs 2, it's a no-brainer to give up a few percentage points on ETE for a massive cost savings.

(me: licensed aircraft dispatcher)

¹—https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ETOPS?wprov=sfla1
Wouldn’t IP addresses be routine information collected by apps that collect information over the network? That by itself would give away the location to a good degree of accuracy in most cases.
Simple: they shouldn’t be able to use the word tip. That word has meaning and expectations.

Call it “wage subsidy” and see how many people leave anything.
Most important two paragraphs in the article:

But for the most part, the new parenting efforts seemed effective. Dr. Doepke and Dr. Zilibotti can’t prove causality (to do that, you’d have to randomly assign parenting styles to different families). But when they analyzed the 2012 PISA, an academic test of 15-year-olds around the world, along with reports from the teenagers and their parents about how they interact, they found that an “intensive parenting style” correlated with higher scores on the test. This was true even among teenagers whose parents had similar levels of education.

The most effective parents, according to the authors, are “authoritative.” They use reasoning to persuade kids to do things that are good for them. Instead of strict obedience, they emphasize adaptability, problem-solving and independence — skills that will help their offspring in future workplaces that we can’t even imagine yet.

Can't prove causality, and relying on teenagers to define the style of parenting they're subjected to, I'd guess that almost 100% would respond with "intense".

So their definition of 'Helicopter Parenting' is actually 'Authoritative and Rational, Reasoned Explanatory Parenting' (which I'd refer to as 'good' parenting) and the author is also referring to it as "new parenting". This definition differs significantly from my experience of being parented, and of those I'd consider to be 'Helicopter' parents who are those that stand over their child not letting them fall over or take any risks or hold sharp things from the ages of zero to thirteen, although these same 'Helicopter' parents frequently give their spawn soft drinks, sugary lollies, and abundant screen-time so that their little prince or princess SHUTS THE FUCK UP when Tattoo Nightmares is on.

'Helicopter' parenting is 'Short-Term Anxiety' parenting and 'Parental Love is not allowing exposure to anything that may be ultra-short-term painful' parenting.

'Helicopter' parenting is not:
use reasoning to persuade kids to do things that are good for them. Instead of strict obedience, they emphasize adaptability, problem-solving and independence

That's generations-old 'good' parenting.
(I'm one of the authors of the blog post)

We considered it, of course, along with many other block ciphers. However, heavily optimized Threefish-256 is 22.6 cycles per byte on Cortex-A7 (by far the most common CPU this is needed on) which is over twice as slow as Adiantum. Threefish-512 and Threefish-1024 would be much slower still. We're already at the borderline of the performance needed to actually get all Android devices encrypted, so over 2x worse performance is a no-go.

Threefish also wasn't published as a standalone block cipher but rather was part of Skein, which lost the SHA-3 competition. Therefore it hasn't received as much cryptanalysis as ChaCha and AES, and probably won't get much more in the future.

Finally, note that unlike Adiantum, Threefish isn't a wide-block cipher, where flipping one bit in the sector scrambles all other bits. So comparing its complexity directly to Adiantum's is somewhat unfair. Other wide-block modes such as HCH and HCTR are also more complex than narrow-block modes.
Azure Analytics up to 14x faster and costs 94% less than other cloud providers
Timestamps on the photos could show Bezos’ affair taking place earlier than previously stated, which would definitely affect a divorce trial.
My biggest criticisms of Google News are:

1) low signal-to-noise ratio - i.e., lots of duplicative stories, publishers are commoditized, and there are no mechanisms to distinguish (and reward!) high quality content

2) paywalls and/or extreme ad loads lurking everywhere

3) local news is a second-class citizen

4) lack of user control in customizing topics, while at the same time all the (uncontrollable) targeted "for you" stories tend to overfit (e.g., Google seems to think tech news and the Patriots are all I care about)

In general I'm extremely dissatisfied with the functionality of available news products and with the consequences of attention-optimized digital news media on our world. There's a lot of data which indicates most people feel some degree of similarly [1][2][3][4] and I think there's opportunity and demand for creating better.

As such, last summer I set out to build Gatherscope - a news ecosystem designed from first principles to serve readers and sustain quality journalism. At the moment, the high-level plan is:

1) build an aggregator layer that's differentiated in the breadth, depth, quality, and customizability of content that's surfaced and in applying machine clustering and summarization to make it faster and easier for busy consumers to digest what current events are happening, see varying perspectives about them, go deeper where worthwhile, and then get on with their lives

2) stack other layers around this - either by building them or through 3rd party relationships - to further deliver a rich, insightful, frictionless UX (e.g., bundled multi-publisher subscriptions, community quality review, synthesized audio, contextual search and feedback loops, publisher tools for local journalists)…these should all work independently but best together

Today there's a (quite-rough) MVP of part 1 live at https://www.gatherscope.com and a very long way to go :)

All this to say: if any of this sounds interesting and/or you have strong, thoughtful opinions about news media, I'd love to hear from you. I've recently begun a hunt for collaborators, and even if that's not for you it would be good to hear how to build you a useful product faster.

Cheers,

Rob

[1] http://www.digitalnewsreport.org/survey/2018/overview-key-fi...

[2] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/06/05/almost-seven...

[3] http://www.pewglobal.org/2018/01/11/publics-globally-want-un...

[4] http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018/07/30/newsroom-emp...
And if your app has any kind of online component, there's probably an HTTP request hitting your server whenever the user launches the app. So even without explicit telemetry in the app, you can easily get decent data from your web server's logs.
Yep, and nope.
How would you use data like this: https://www.findchips.com/detail/tlc555cd/2477-Texas%20Instr...
SoftBank's Vision Fund to Invest $440M in UK Startup OakNorth
Perhaps a nice clear line we could draw would be individuals who are treated as 1099s. This way, companies could still use it and pay their own taxes, while defacto employees would be treated similarly to W-2s.
It'd be really interesting to try that. I think anything organic it'd work well with - people, landscapes, etc. But I've noticed that a lot of the cars that come out of stylegan are pretty abstract - it seems to have trouble with machined objects. Lines don't always line up, which is fine on something organic since there's already an aspect of randomness in our bodies, but on mechanical objects it feels foreign.

Once we open source this I'd be interesting in doing gan placeholders as a service though, completely license free.
I've tried many RSS readers since the terrible day Google shut down GoogleReader, and i used to have at least 2 or 3 websites for my news: a RSS reader, GoogleNews for the top stories, etc...

In the end i was tired to have to switch between apps and websites to get my news, and was frustrated by Google News, not enough categories, not enough content sources...

So i decided to build a Google News/RSS Reader crossover that i could use to manage my RSS feeds, and check the Top Stories of the day, all of that in a single app.
I added some processing on top of that to automatically cateogrize content, extract names of people, places, companies, etc...

It still is an early version, there's a lot of room for improvements and new features but i feel it's definitely going in the right direction.

You can check it out here: https://aktu.io/about

Would love some feedback!
We're not questioning whether they deserve to be fairly compensated for their labor, we're arguing whether that compensation should come from fair salaries provided by the employer or whether that compensation should be haphazardly dispersed in the form of tips.
They are in Washington state. It is a no-fault state and property is split 50/50. Photos don't matter.
Recycled couches? Great boost to Culture of Disgusting.

But it's their right. Maybe it's time to create legislation to limit the government to buying only recycled furniture.
Back to your original comment,

>Thank god one's civil liberties aren't dependent on whether or not you are convinced by them.

Apparently they are dependent on whether SCOTUS is convinced.

A DUI checkpoint is fundamentally different because police are unable to discriminate who they stop. They stop everyone who passes through the checkpoint.
> how datasheets are distributed over random websites and ftp servers usually covered in watermarks and could go offline at any time.

There are simply too many vendors' products on the market, only a handful of vendors have a systematic way of providing searchable datasheets online, like Microchip or ST, others simply come and go, so it's extremely hard to obtain an official one.
As I understand it, Limbaugh is also deaf, which adds to the complexity of working with his speech in the studio. He may need special compression if he can't effectively perceive (and thus control) his own volume.
We have ksonnet expats on the team (we're all in cloud city -- Seattle), and I've been keeping an eye on that project myself, since I think it got a lot of things right and frankly many of the ideas for Pulumi were inspired by early chats with the Heptio team. But, as you say, why create a new language when an existing one will do -- that was our original stance and it's working great in practice.

Joe Beda will be doing a deep dive on Pulumi on the TGIK videocast tomorrow, so it's a timely opportunity to check it out: https://twitter.com/jbeda/status/1092963296565587969
> The "it's just a job" rationale falls apart when there's no alternative to having that job.

If there's no alternative, doesn't that mean they'd starve? Are you saying death by starvation is preferable to sex work?
Check these stats:

https://www.westmifflinpolice.com/west-mifflin-dui-checkpoin...

86% of the citations they issued at that “DUI” checkpoint were not for DUIs.

The name is misleading. It’s not a DUI Checkpoint. It’s just a checkpoint. The definition of a police state.
$10/GB is high. Purposely high, because the point of Google Fi is to use WiFi as much as possible and avoid cellular. So it's there if you need it but you don't want to need it much.

This hardly works for the connection which is actually providing your WiFi, or if you want to try to use cellular exclusively.
Show HN: A git-centric policy enforcement tool for CI/CD pipelines
At a corporation she founded? You think nudies of Martha Stewart would dethrone her?
There are some holes in your argument. Most glaringly, this fire presents a risk to everyone who has to fight it, and anyone else in the area.
It may not be that serious, but it is pretty childish.
Here’s a piece of context: My ownership of the Washington Post is a complexifier for me. It’s unavoidable that certain powerful people who experience Washington Post news coverage will wrongly conclude I am their enemy.

President Trump is one of those people, obvious by his many tweets. Also, The Post’s essential and unrelenting coverage of the murder of its columnist Jamal Khashoggi is undoubtedly unpopular in certain circles.

Is Bezos implicating Trump himself in this scheme?
> Wouldn't a pop filter stop this?

Clearly, the real solution is to speak a language that doesn't use aspirated stops. :D
Ehh. It doesn't matter up until the point it does. I quit my last job partly because we moved from a nice area in a dumpy building to an awful space (no natural light) for ~10 months. My health suffered, I felt depleted, and the entire team was on edge. How easy to commute to ($$) and how nice it is are definitely things I consider. Free food gets an outsized return too, if we're talking >100k salaries--I'd bet $4000 in free food gets more goodwill than a 5% pay bump.

Agree that remote should be more widely used, especially in software.
Emirates ordered 20 confirmed + 16 options only last year:
https://www.emirates.com/media-centre/emirates-orders-36-a38...

But it seems likely they will be the end of the line.
data caps are not the reason. $5bi of free government money is. Remember that one?
We clearly just need fire smelling and fire fighting robots. And robots to repair and maintain said fire fighting robots.
Look at BA flight 001, which is a transatlantic flight from LCY/SNN to JFK in an Airbus A318-100 [0] with only 32 (business class) seats. According to BA, a standard two class configuration would seat 107. Admittedly, it has to refuel in Shannon to allow it to make the Westbound leg, but the Eastbound trip goes non-stop from New York to London.

0. https://www.britishairways.com/en-gb/information/about-ba/fl...
I think using video as some source of truth is just as ethically shaky.

Synthesizing texture, adding faces, meh. It's all an array of pixels to aid hallucination. The sooner we break out of video = impartiality, video = truth, the better off society will be.

Choosing what to record, how to crop it, what to show destroys videos supposed fundamental impartiality.
Note, that in spite of my opposition to chemotherapy, I strongly support curing cancer.
Moving from Go to PHP Again
Don't worry, that's on the list! Completely agree. I was devastated over lost books after reading this one.
The best defense is a good offense. That means taking your time and examining the message fully before taking any actions. Does the from address match what you're expecting? Does the message create a curious sense of urgency, fear, or authority, almost demanding you do something? If so, those are the messages to be suspicious of, and the ones most likely to result in compromised accounts. This is why I never open links directly from an email.
No user actually wants to be tracked. Some users might want “relevant” ads, but nobody wants to be tracked.
I built my own AI curated news called https://lettergram.net

Basically, the entire idea is that the system identifies experts and rank content based on how often they discuss and share it. This filters out the fake news and produces significantly better results than most "news curation" systems out there.

Trouble for me Google News will send fake news, and is often based off of search results (as opposed to topics you decide to follow). This leaves me with news often unrelated to my interest and often more related to things I needed solutions for.

Further, I want stories related to my interests. For instance, I follow "Iran" I want topics related to items impact Iran, such as stories about Israel, Syria, etc.

Finally, there is no clear "trigger" for the article. It's not based off some sentiment change in the topic or new trend (not just topic being discussed, but a spike in discussion, etc.). Hence, Lettergram.net can be configured to send on sentiment changes, trend changes, or on a schedule.

Finally, Google News is a product, they have perverse motives and (such as needing to be on boarded, which this post is about). Overall, I just couldn't take it, so I built my own.
YAML quoting is only optional if you're obsessive enough to always remember to quote the country code for Norway.
This is a relatively recent development! Pretty remarkable the pace of competition within the wireless market, which was relatively stagnant only a few years ago.
> That was the basis of a lot of early 20th century regulatory thinking. That was thoroughly discredited because it turns out that government price controls are worse than duplicated infrastructure.

I'm sorry, I don't buy it.
I had terrible experience with Gumroad (more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13139000) and even pinged you on quora: https://qr.ae/TUrSmp No response what so ever. I still believe Gumroad provides one of arrogant customer support I ever received.

If you have 'startup' with so many unhappy customer - its expected to fail. https://gumroad.pissedconsumer.com/review.html
Focus more on being open, transparent and being kind. Good luck!
I had assumed Sánchez herself revealed the texts to someone who was unscrupulous enough to sell them. But pictures? It seems like really poor judgment on her part. Unless Bezos thinks that they were surveiled/stolen from her or his phone?

In any case, it's great that he stood up to them. Regardless of how they got the pictures, revealing the extortion really undermines this publication and its leadership. It's downright criminal.

Also, let's all take a minute to remember that digital is forever. What's the appeal of a dick pic anyways?
How Zoho Works? FactorDaily
Some servers "stage" power on to disks. as spinning up disks is often the largest source of inrush current for e.g. a 10 disk server might only apply power to bays 2 at a time with a delay between each, this doesn't solve the inrush current problem of switching on a rack full or servers together (where managed PDUs come in)
I read about the loudness wars, got super upset about the injustice of lost dynamic range, posted something about it on my dorm room door... 15 years ago. NOTHING has changed.

The article notes that Spotify, but originally it was terrestrial radio, that hyper compresses their music -- it makes listening in the car far less annoying. But to see the dynamic range destroyed on the album itself, that is tough.

This quote from the article "It is a super-discouraging situation." summarizes it quite well.
He got cochlear implants at some point, so I don't think he's totally deaf
But isn’t there a strong financial incentive to try to understand why you’re doing what you’re doing, whether it’s an algorithm or a human executing the trades? Otherwise it seems very easy to lose a lot of money. I can't find the article, however a guy once drop a million in bitcoin using a trading bot on a short sale.
Release Radar · December 2018
For point 3. I believe Airbus has a lot of commonality between its cockpits on different aircraft, so it is easier to get type certified on an A350 or A320 if the pilot already has a rating on the A380. This means the reserve crew can fly the other smaller planes when not required for the A380. Boeing has not had this commonality until recently - I think it was a selling point for the 787 that it had the same cockpit layout as the 777, thus minimising crew training.
That's hilarious that a journalist thinks that datacenters are "often built inside icy mountains or under oceans".
"Man reflects on horror of being millionaire instead of billionaire."

Should we start a Gofundme for him? What an unimaginable fate to befall someone.
User owned projects–your personal workspace
It's not me, Google, it's you – from GA to Fathom