skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand your point. I work with sociologists and I also follow the ongoing "Internet cultural wars". People like Jordan Peterson (who I don't either dislike nor agree 100%) really brought these matters to the forefront. His criticisms of postmerdernism are somewhat relevant, but they are also exaggerated. Some corners of "postmodernist academia" are as bad as he paints them, but not all of them, by any means.

Even the Sokal scandal is somewhat simplified. It was not so easy for them to get the paper accepted, in fact they were rejected many times by other journals. This is rarely mentioned.

The cited work in TFA compares performance evaluations with raises. It found that for the same performance evaluations, an explicit focus on meritocracy leads to worse monetary outcomes for women. That seems fairly objective and methodically sound to me, and not at all related to Sokal-style bullshit.

The income gap is a complex topic, and it is clearly not as simple as either extremes of the cultural wars paint it. It is not true that the pay gap is 100% due to discrimination against women, but it is also not 100% true that such discrimination plays no role. As usual in real life, there are nuances and complexities that cannot easily be reduced to simple slogans.

Silicon Valley has a religion-ideology that we have no name for yet. It is a very American kind of Protestantism with zero gods. I know the environment and I know what I'm talking about, even though I accept you might disagree. My view is that the self-proclaimed ultra-rationalists are not as rational as they would like to think.

It is true that Sociology has a left-wing bias. In my view, this is true of all academia. There was a time, not so long ago, when academia had a right-wing bias. This too is a subject of sociological research :)
Maybe this is more interesting than I initially thought. I was thinking this would just the encryption keys used to store the information for your whole organization Slack account. Instead, the keys seem to be much more granular, since you can revoke access to a single file, specific channel, workspace or organization level. [1]

I see one benefit of this being able to securely throw away data. Like if you are doing work for customer XYZ and chatting about it on the corresponding channel you can throw away the keys for the channel when the project ends.

Wonder how all this granularity works together with the search functionality. Or maybe they maintain per channel search index that can be covered by a separate key.

[1] https://slackhq.com/enterprise-key-management
They are doubling down on what a lot of their population wants. A lot of what gets left out of the discussion of cities in the US is that tons of people have no interest in public transportation due to bad experiences or preconceived notions.

People need examples of good public transportation in the US beyond NYC or Chicago because those cities come with a lot of other baggage (high taxes, high rent, high CoL in general). Without an example, it looks to a suburbanite like the trade off is they lose their yard and 75% of the square footage of their home for less flexibility and a dirty transportation experience.

These people do not marvel at the efficiency of the Yamamote line as people are shoved in by train operators during rush hour. They hug the steering wheels of their luxurious personal space SUVs.

What makes it worse is that prominent politicians in the US on the side promoting public transport don’t bother to use it when slightly inconvenient (e.g. the “scandal” of AOC using a minivan when she could have taken a subway). Even people on the “left” aren’t leading by example.
While there is plenty to complain about with OpenTable, I find their competitor Resy to be far worse on almost every dimension of privacy & data sharing. Meanwhile, Resy has been aggressively pushing to undercut OpenTable’s price per reservation to get restaurants to switch over lately.
To correct some misinformation:

Medium-intensity exercise (e.g., jogging) for weight loss has been debunked. Long-duration, low-intensity exercise (e.g., walking) or high-intensity exercise (e.g., interval sprints) will both lead to weight loss. Most people don't have time for the former (unless it's part of their lives, i.e. they walk a lot in a city), so if your goal is weight loss, skip the jogging and look at HIIT.

Personally, I live a 3 min walk from a grocery store and it's great. I stop by on my 8 min walk back from the train station (after a 17 min ride to work) a couple times a week. Many things I buy wouldn't last 2 weeks (though for things that do, I still take the occasional trip to Costco). If I lived in an area not designed for walking (like 95% of America), I'm sure I'd feel similarly to you, but I much prefer living here in Seattle (and walking) than I did living in a car-oriented city.
This link was once on HN

The Real Reason Your City Has No Money

https://www.strongtowns.org/journal/2017/1/9/the-real-reason...
Blockchain books you should read
The fact that every function/operator has multiple meanings, often very different, depending on the actual data passed to it doesn't help readability. It tries too hard to use only symbols, which are limited on an normal keyboard, and so it crams multiple functionalities into the same symbol.
Dennis Ritchie, ladies and gentlemen.
Both you and blakesterz sound like me. Like blakesterz I have a high end desktop with lowend laptop. I would have bought the new Macbook Air but wanted a 2-in-1 and went with a Samsung because of the quality of the S Pen being unmatched. I've loved it and upgrading to the 2019 Samsung 9 Pen very soon. With the 13.3" it's just really handy to take notes or use it as a tablet if it's more comfortable. My 2nd choice was definitely the MBA. Are you suggesting that there are limitations with a dock on a MBA vs MBP (outside of just performance)? I'm unaware of any issues there but would be interested to know.

My desktop is a Ryzen 2700X with 32GB of RAM. I really would like to pickup a TB3 dock at a point but am currently using RDP to my work laptop. Which works well enough over the local network.

What I wanted to respond to was your point about having your work machine be a powerful laptop so that you're prepared. I've been mulling over ditching the desktop for a Thinkpad X1 Extreme for the same reason. While I could remote into my desktop in a rare coffee shop scenario, it wouldn't work out if it were happening often.
The more scientific authority is used for political aims - politics being "help my friends and hurt my enemies" the more it will lost it's authority.

Politics corrupts what it touches. It's corruption itself so it looks for sources authority to accomplish it's goals. When it finds one of those sources it uses it and then turns it into itself.
Isn't that what the Signal Foundation is?
For nearly essential services (like child care, groceries, etc.) having a population that must go to one or a few particular establishment(s) out of geographical necessity is a recipe for rent seeking and other bad behavior.

See also: food deserts
He's donated $50 million to the Signal Foundation. That sounds like putting his money where his mouth is to me.
In the context of the GP's post, that is free. The user did not have to outlay any more money to acquire it.
A huge fireball exploded in Earth's atmosphere in December, according to Nasa
On a Remote Island, a Lost Part of the World Is Found
It is cool (compared to Visio or even Rational Rose), but it makes me wonder about the value of the diagram itself. The textual input is just as readable and takes up less space on a screen (or, God forbid, a printed piece of paper) - other than giving managers a warm and fuzzy feeling that there's a pretty picture there, why bother generating the diagram at all?
> 2. a parent spanks their child because their child misbehaved, and the parent is then investigated by the authorities

They should be investigated if their parenting is so poor that they resort to physical violence against the child.

It's absurd to suggest that hitting children is acceptable - as absurd as saying a boss can slap an employee, or that a husband can slap his spouse.

You can be an authoritative parent without abusing your child.
>Can this guy stop talking and actually take some action

by deleting his facebook account?
It is difficult to enforce this without politicians ignoring the will of the people. Which in turn tends to keep them from being reelected.
The space plane ideas for using a Sabre engine are fairly early stage designs, since the whole engine isn't even a working prototype yet.

Of the various designs I've seen via wikipeda, Reaction Engines PR, and on-line forums, it seems that the thermal management proposals are :-

* Bigger lighter air frame will do more thermal soak than other spaceplanes (I mean, what else is there apart from Shuttle and X15?)

* Retain some fuel to be circulated through airframe during decent, and then used for powered landing

* Less intense re-entry profile to avoid sharp heat spike, but at expense of longer thermal load

* Avoid going all the way to orbit, using a small final booster for orbital insertion

If they can harvest enough LOx/air in the final ascent, then they could also do a retro burn I suppose.

Perhaps a mix of all these, plus heat shields. SpaceX are learning how to deal with similar issues right now too.
I find my self amused by your comment, since on a number of occasions when I've posted the exact headline, it's been edited by moderators.
> the "basic" iPad went back to an older design for the display to cut costs, it has a non-laminated display that can really bother you if you are accustomed to the more recent iPad models.

I have an ipad air 2 and our screen is cracked. I went to have it replaced and I believe the cost was $299 which was more than I paid for it BF a few years back.

I am very much looking forward to purchase a new ipad with laminated display (on sale).
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With the 12-inch Macbook and 13" Macbook Air already clogging up the portfolio, I can see them dropping the MBP 13 and keeping just a single large MBP 15 model for the professional market.

iOS is nowhere near good enough for Apple to consider scaling back their x86 line too much further. Hardware wise the iPad Pro is really nice, but it doesn't even have mouse support! Android has had that since 2011 at least, but it doesn't have the same ecosystem of good quality work apps.
What's TD?
The way in which public considers science today is much more analogous to the way the public considered religion during the time of Galileo. Think of the way people are castigated for not believing in scientific "truths". I see signs in peoples yard saying that "in this house, we believe science is real". As someone who has studied biochemistry for years, this kind of reverence for science is truly troubling. The one thing you learn in high level science is that nobody really knows what they're talking about, paradigms shift, and further study is required. Blind devotion and rejection of different viewpoints is dangerous regardless of which cause is being dogmatically held.

This article is ironically akin to the 'The Preaching of St Paul', except that instead of burning Galileo's work, the author is trying to burn religious texts and dissenting viewpoints to their "settled science".
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I'd wait for a 3rd party to confirm this.
I get where you're coming from but my diet is simple enough at this point that the stuff is isolated. I had sinus headaches for 23 years. I slowly cut out foods over a period of 5 years to find triggers. I eat the same thing everyday now that I know what not to eat.

I do check the ingredients first now, but previously it was all reverse engineering from getting a headache to going back and seeing what I ate. I'd happily do a study in a lab, if it meant published research was going to be put out. The sinus headaches are miserable enough that I'll never be doing it just for interest.

Chocolate is a no go because I've cut out sugar and caffeine as well. I mostly eat meat, non-gluten carbs, and broccoli.

For MSG, I don't know about it ahead of time. If I do, I don't eat the food. For example, went to kbbq, ate some plain meat, rice, and egg, got a headache after leaving. Next time I was there I asked about MSG because it was the most likely trigger to be used. Turns out it was in the steamed egg and the salt and pepper mix. Avoided those and felt fine for multiple visits after.

I think this is a blind way of discovery because I didn't have assumptions about the triggers when I started trying to figure what they were.
There is an ambitious project that aims to make that the case:

https://hu-manity.co/
Note 9 with Ubuntu on DeX actually comes close to fitting this bill. Although the issue here may be that the primary display is only few inches :)
Are you saying that the problem here is that people aren't doing what they're told by authorities? Because I can confidently say that this is not an accurate reading of the fine article. Or, you know, reality.
What defines a “real” tech company? Gatekeeping what can or cannot be defined defined as a tech company. Am I on Reddit or hacker news? Wow.
This seemed like a grab bag of "Here are some bad things about being poor that are vaguely related to privacy" with the only common thread being Professor Gilman's willingness to speak about them. Poverty is brutal, but I'm not convinced that the privacy lens really adds a lot.

I'm also not convinced that privacy problems truly affect the poor more. The government surveillance mentioned here is a big problem. But on the commercial side, companies are a lot more interested in acquiring the personal, financial, and medical data of the rich. And as the article admits, people making higher incomes are more likely to have their information stolen.

A lot of the evidence in this piece amounts to "surveys show that people earning under $40k worry about X more than people earning over $40k." That's a very weak form of evidence.
Can you elaborate? As a non-American and non-TV watcher, I always believe DVB-T is a good way to avoid paying to cable TV yet still be able get some basic TV programs like breaking news.

What are the groups that dominate American digital antenna TV station? Who are their backers? What are their political leanings, and what kind of propaganda do they air?
The paragraph before the one you quote: "If the original title begins with a [...] gratuitous adjective, we'd appreciate it if you'd crop it"
Use the list on the left to browse common fallacies. Useful knowledge for preparing an argument, debating, or reasoning.
You can also add Coq's to the mix:

[3] https://coq.inria.fr/library/

Each 1-3 is language specific (Isabelle/HOL, Mizar and Coq respectively).

Logipedia too, is using the language Dedukti, although it is designed to translate into other proof languages, and list these on Logipedia.
I believe the new Pencil requires the hardware upgrade on the pad to make it work. It seems like with this refresh they were more concerned with keeping the cost in a range that makes sense for these models.

And reducing the price for the iPad Air may prove to be crucial to help boost sales which have been in a slight decline for the iPad line as a whole.
I've always wondered if someone wrote a close-to-the-metal C compiler for the CDC 6400.

60 bit words, 18 and 60 bit registers, 6 bit characters.
again, caused by the close proximity of cities splitting up the metropolitan area around the bay, the actual sprawl is of those cities combined as people do commute from one another.
50 Mil out of 19 billion = 0.2%. Not enough, by a long shot to deserve accolades for.
Not that its your job to figure this out for anyone, but just out of curiosity, what do you imagine when you think of taking action on something like this? The way I see it, his words probably mean a decent amount to a lot of people. Maybe it bolsters their confidence to finally tear these horrible tools from their lives? I'm not sure. If someone has actionable methods to embody to these sorts of arguments against social media, I'm personally all ears. For me, so far, it's been to just uninstall Facebook/Instagram/Snapchat, etc., though it kind of sounds like you're saying that's not enough? Let me know if I'm misunderstanding you.
Sure

making real Jedi saber
This is a good method for testing their facial recognition algorithms before deploying them everywhere.
Having bought the 12.9" Gen 3 Pro & owning a 2012 iPad Gen 3 & 2013 iPad mini Gen 2, I will say that I can't imagine ever again buying a tablet WITH bezels. Sense of immersion without borders is WAY more intense.
No. The Nexus 7 was a huge step but from then it went downhill.
Using Spark-Select on Minio to create a high-performance data lake
I would guess he put his laptop close to a candle which was subsequently tipped over.

But maybe there was Satanism involved. In that case please do tell, Mr. OP!
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That may be the case, but make no mistake, people who are poor do find a way to pay for cable and tune into the propaganda networks, especially Fox, even though they can’t afford medications and proper food.

Source: worked for a cable company setting up white angry people in Oklahoma. I saw white because there literally were no other races. Every other customer was angry because Obama something something Muslim destroying the world and their Fox News is out. shudders
Your class will not work without language-level if/else construct or something equivalent. In Samlltalk if/else is implemented purely through message passing. There is no "real" if/else.

IIRC, Smalltalk has Boolean class and two subclasses of Boolean: True and False. There is a single method with two arguments (:ifTrue:ifFlase). The method is then overloaded. True calls ifTrue argument. Flase calls ifFalse argument. This is happening dynamically, at runtime. Again, the mechanism is generic enough to fully replace all use cases of "traditional" if/else constructs.

Clearly, you haven't thought this through.

Edit:
People here would do well to read this:
https://pozorvlak.livejournal.com/94558.html
But it's still 50 million...
This is way outside of my expertise, but I have an honest question: why do we need a separate .getDeep() when .get() could be written do the same for any dot-delimited path?
isnt this already available?

https://developer.mozilla.org/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Globa...
Yes because “when Steve Jobs was alive”, they didn’t have the iPod shuffle, Nano, regular iPod and the iPod Touch....
This is interesting. How did you build your list of local recruiters - through trial and error? And did you use services other than LinkedIn?
The weird thing is, many vegetables are full of nitrates but people only seem to care when they are in meat.
I've been following this somewhat because I learned about Tock, a Chicago startup founded by one of the Co-Founders/Owners of the Alinea restaurant. [1]

Their founder Nick Kokonas is quite interesting and seems to have a bit of an ongoing fight with OpenTable, Tock even built a tool where restaurants can analyze if they're paying too much for OpenTable's services [2].

If it interests you, check out his interview on Tim Ferris' podcast, it's well worth the listen. [3]

[1] https://www.exploretock.com/join/
[2] https://medium.com/tock/weve-built-a-website-to-check-if-you...
[3] https://tim.blog/2018/10/18/nick-kokonas/
Why do you object to those points? For example, I’d say a developer earning $200k per year in total comp (which is at the very high end of the spectrum) is drastically underpaid at almost any company, relative to the revenue they directly bring in, even after you account for risks that investors / owners are taking, costs of benefits / office space / equipment / sales / distribution / etc. The developer is still drastically underpaid.

And if they are really a skilled developer whose productivity is sincerely a large multiplier beyond their peers’ productivity, they’ll be lucky to earn even 30% more, despite literally accounting for 10x, 100x, 1000x more revenue.

I do not see how any rational argument could be made to suggest this is even the tiniest bit meritocratic. And we’re not even discussing the role of political favorites or nepotism might play in bonuses or promotions, etc. etc.
Do you have a source for the exercise claims? That article pocket recommended me seemed to imply the contrary for walking.

I don't mind walking my dog for a while or going on trails, but walking all the time for practical reasons doesn't register as fun for me. Additionally it seems like walking on concrete/asphalt strains my feet a lot faster than dirt/grass.
https://scsh.net/docu/html/man.html
They can't sell small trucks in the US because of the Chicken Tax:

https://fee.org/articles/chicken-tax-makes-trucks-expensive-...
For anyone else curious about what DAL means:

Design Assurance Levels (DAL)

DAL A describes flight electronics hardware whose failure or malfunction could cause a catastrophic, hazardous, or severe condition that would result in the deaths of everyone aboard the aircraft.

DAL B describes flight electronics hardware whose failure or malfunction could cause a severe or hazardous condition that could involve some loss of life.

DAL C, meanwhile, describes hardware whose failure or malfunction would result in a major flight condition that likely will involve serious injuries.

DAL D describes hardware whose failure or malfunction would result in a condition that causes only a minor non-life-threatening flight condition.

DAL E, finally, describes hardware whose failure or malfunction would have no effect on the aircraft's operational capability or pilot workload.

>https://www.militaryaerospace.com/articles/2016/11/safety-ce...
The Saga of a Stranded Space Station Supercomputer
MSG unquestioningly is a headache trigger for me. I've done multiple A/B tests with MSG with/without spices.
The article fails to mention a growing problem associated with such cameras: class and economic disparity. All too often such cameras are setup in rural areas by outsiders. Whether in africa or texas, the story is generally the same. The educated and literate city folk setup cameras in a "wilderness" occupied by less-educated and less wealthy farmers and hunters. When asked to explain why the cameras are needed the response is some version of "counting animals to protect them". Locals understand this as counts today, new regulations tomorrow. Over this is a layer of legal nuance as to land rights. What is listed as wilderness or public space in a government registry may be understood very differently at the local level. So by setting up a camera a researcher can unwittingly aggravate some underlying land dispute. In the worst case, that local "game trail" you want to watch with a camera may also be a local smuggling route.

The answer is that researchers must bring local populations into the project before cameras are used. And when they are installed, the locals need to retain control over their placement and the images they take.

We had a problem with cameras being setup in my area. One day I spotted a few in a local park boarding a watershed (canada, rain forest). Other people walking dogs had noticed at least four more in the area. Nobody knew who was installing them. So someone (not me) setup a hidden camera watching one of the cameras. A local cop was caught swapping the SD card. The cops were using cameras to count mountain bikers riding on trails where bikes were not allowed. Counting today, tickets tomorrow. After this became known the police cameras didn't survive the night.
His share wasn't 19 billion. What percent of your net worth have you donated to causes you support? Is the total anywhere close to .2% of 50 mil?
Uber very famously took $3.5B from the Saudi government: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-11-03/the-insid...
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