skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder which is harder/takes longer, starting a new business after a SEC violation, or some othe serious misdoing, or getting back on the Play Store.
My 9-year old is learning to code with a Kano Harry Potter kit, and also learning tinkercad and 3D printing in her classroom! She doesn't need a smartphone/ipod/etc.
How about when my kids and I are watching low quality nursery rhymes sung in an Eastern European accent, then I see ads for horror movies, isn't that just great?
Ask HN: Getting Sued for Leaving Behind an Encrypted Partition
HN,

A former employer has threatened to drag me into court, over an encrypted partition that they don't have the password for. That they believe they can compel me to disclose the password is somewhat amusing to me.

They have no valuable information to retrieve. It's on a daily-use personal desktop machine. One that was left powered off, they are now in the physical presence of. It does not host any mission critical services. I created the partition for my own use.

Given the pervasive monitoring tools deployed onto the company network, I found it a huge distraction to have a heavy handed desktop support team breathing down my neck and possibly logging every click and keystroke. Used as a start-up disk, I found it easier to concentrate, and do more work for them, knowing that they wouldn't be able to interrupt me by abruptly taking control of my mouse and keyboard when I'm in the middle of something. The encryption served as assurance that they could not install OS level rootkits.

I also used personal laptops in the course of working for them, and it hasn't even occurred to them that such a thing is likely much, much worse than a mysterious black box occupying 500 GB on office equipment currently in their possession, and under total control.

Needless to say, they are a toxic organization, and there's a reason I left abruptly. I even forfeited 14 days paid vacation time, just to never have to talk to them again. No damages have occurred, and I think that much is obvious to all parties. I'm doing nothing.

Why should anyone develop an opinion that it's acceptable to jump to legal tactics in a civil context, when they could just wipe the partition and call it a day? Is it the shiny object factor? Is it a malignant, sociopathic urge to dominate?

Is there a REAL reason to try and force me to divulge a password to a partition they did not create or modify? If so, please help me to understand.
I hope not, yes there will be death, nothing is perfect, but i will just consider it an acceptable loss.
A lot of groups claiming to be for free speech just want to promote their own ideologies. At least YouTube is obvious about the content they take down.
Block YouTube and have them do something else instead. What did you do for fun as a kid?
I would also suggest check out Bowers and Wilkins PX. Built like a tank and sound amazing.
Maybe the first, but monorepos are used company wide and contain millions of lines of code.

The monorepo approach and vendoring does work, and there are a lot of advantages to having everything work on each revision, you just need to be conscious of it.
As someone who's used VR headsets for hours at a time weight is not a factor, resolution is. The resolution is far too low. Font sizes have to be gigantic to be readable.
His Transformers movies also have a horrendous amount of product placement
Nvidia definitely hasn't forgotten about super hardcore gamers, even if people buying 2080 Ti's are a tiny minority.
I'm not sure why I'm getting so many replies like this. I agree, a NAT is not a firewall. I also agree that IPv6 doesn't need NAT.

All I was saying is that you can use a NAT with IPv6 if you wish, and I'm interested in the sort of routing that a NAT can accomplish.
Learnings from reading 50 books in a year
Of course you could study it. Give 50% of the participants individualized Arurdvedic medicine and 50% the standard medicine. Give both groups the consultation Adudveric style as a control measure. See if there is a statistically significant difference in results, then you have an answer.
(Your starting point will be people with the same problems/symptoms).

Or am I missing something?

(Your answer comes across as implying "no one is the same we can't possibly disprove / prove this stuff")
> The trouble is all the hypotheses are lies

The problem with p values is the opposite: in a complex system, null hypothesis is almost never true. Everything affects everything else. It's the magnitude of the effect that is important, because it can be too small to have practical implications.

If you do enough studies eventually you'll find a result with p value below 0.05 that will overestimate the magnitude of the effect by a lot, and publish it.
Developing Slack Bots with the Go Programming Language Book
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/jdbc/basics/processi...

Seems so.
I can carry AirPods always in pocket and easily pop them to ear before answering call. I did not like wired ones, because wire would get tangled with keys etc. Is this worth the price? For me yes, but certainly not for everybody.
I was going to point you to a study showing that autosteer reduced accidents by 40%, but Google told me that this was recently shown to be wrong. In fact it increased accidents by 60%.

See https://arstechnica.com/cars/2019/02/in-2017-the-feds-said-t... for details and verification.
It's a gamble when you're on a Facebook product website, and you have whitelist certain scripts for the page to render. On other sites I can just block everything that has to do with Facebook.
If it were not the case that the resource was being shipped off and sold for more that would mean I could stay in an AirBnB for the same price as a pay for rent, which I can't.
The "field strength meter" results quoted in that article are nonsense. No units, no frequency, no notes on usage...
https://www.blurbusters.com/blur-busters-lagless-raster-foll...

is pretty good starting point. The whole website is dedicated to low latency and high refresh rate graphics, with plenty of indepth information. As far as I can tell, PCs should be capable of single-digit millisecond end-to-end latencies with the right hardware (display and input devices) as long as you can afford to burn cpu cycles on your drawing routine.
Interview with Paulus Schoutsen, Creator of Home Assistant, about Its Future
That’s why I wear AirPods, because they don’t isolate inbound noise.

I’m talking about external background noise that the mic picks up.
Exactly! Thank you for clarifying that. The documentation still needs some improvements, and this is one of them.
The fundamental problem is that 0 is a privileged value of effect size. So you can replace a p-value with confidence intervals, or credibility intervals (which are the same as confidence intervals as N increases to infinity, and the data dominate the posterior), or whatever, but it will always be appropriate (in the relevant scenario) to ask "is there an effect size at all?"

This is why these calls to eliminate significance testing always seem really naive and short-sighted to me. P-values are abused, and people confuse p-values and effect size, but there will always be a need to focus on 0 as that supremely-important number. ε can be judged on its practical significance but 0 is always less.

Anyway, I agree with you but wanted to point out that there's two sides to the coin, and both lead in the same direction.
I charge my AirPods case probably less often than every month. With heavier usage that might be weekly. (The AirPods themselves are recharged by the case, which is where they go when they're not in my ears anyway.)
Optimize What?
From my experience a non-continous user action with a response under 100ms is perceived as "instant". Continuous input is different, and humans can perceive individual frames at 16ms for sure.

The video/audio is well studied, I forget the number but it's pretty short, this is out of my butt but I think it's around 20ms?

Keep in mind frame drops are different from average FPS. Every frame taking 16ms will feel far smoother then most frames taking 8ms but with spikes of 80ms (which is far more common).
"That's not to say they definitely don't do funny things to your brain."

Exactly.

I actually just went in to Ardour and edited down that one "20 Hz" video I mentioned made me feel weird [1] so that it played the loudest part continuously instead of fading in and out, and then listened to it again and after 5 or 10 minutes of listening to it I felt really weird again, and started to get worried about what it might be doing to me, so I stopped.

It's really interesting, though, and I hope some serious research is conducted on this sort of sound's psychological effects.

[1] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-eTVW8VMRQ
Thanks for the feedback umvi. I will be working on making it clear that Docli is a Go library.
> It seems pretty simple to audit your 10,000 largest ad-spend domains and check to see if they're actually just ad fraud. You'd need maybe 300 person-hours to do so, at an overhead-in cost of, let's high-ball it, 100$/hr, which puts you at a cost of $30,000.

You're figuring 10k domains in 300 hours, or 1.8min per domain. It's way more expensive than this, and it's an adversarial system. If you have rules about how spammy a site can be and still show your ads many sites are going to try and get as close to the boundary as possible without going over. This means it takes substantial effort to figure out which side of it they're on.

Then, the spammier sites run many different domains with multiple accounts, which means they're not that likely to show up as top domains. Spammy sites also can "cloak" so they show up one way to a reviewer at the ad network and another way to a real site visitor.

Manual inspection is definitely a valuable tool, and is something that ad networks use, but that a process like you described would catch 99% of fraud is massively optimistic.

(Disclosure: I work at Google on ad stuff, but not this sort of ad stuff. Speaking for myself and not the company.)
The new HP headset is surprisingly quite promising as a higher end option, I tried it out yesterday and the resolution is great but it is still using the standard Windows MR inside out tracking which is decent but not great, particularly when it comes to the tracking volume for the controllers.
I used to use a mac, but moved to Windows when it became obvious that Apple isn't making top of the line laptops anymore. My old MBP was one of the best computers out and stayed at the top, spec wise, for a while. Eventually I needed more, but when I looked at what I could get for the money, Macbook Pros were ridiculous.

Moving to Windows had its hurdles, when an program doesn't support font scaling it's a pain in the ass, I bought a non-4k monitor just to make sure I would always have the ability to use apps that broke on my 4k.

WSL is amazing and easy to use. Mostly I found I missed the Windows ecosystem. OSX has a few nice programs, but does not compare to the options available for Windows.
As someone that wasn't expecting that, and accidentally clicked the call-to-action button subconsciously, can you please make it a little hard to miss that clicking the button will play a porn video? :)

I'm sorry, maybe it's just me and I should read things more clearly. I thought it'd be an image, and not a video. I wasn't expecting the audio.
There's obviously nothing inherantly wrong with that and it's great that you can run it anywhere. However, isn't it a shame you have to resort to that? Shouldn't there be a way to easily specify to the computer what you want without having to go so far outside the OS? Obviously this isn't Star Trek where you can ask the computer to do something and it knows exactly what you want. At some level of complexity you will have to start writing real code and at that point I agree it doesn't matter a whole lot whether you're using Python, Bash, C#, NodeJS, or Haskell. However, if you're doing something really simple like loop over some files that match a string in a directory, parse the files, and make a report, that should be easy. If your first thought is "let me go open Visual Studio"...then your OS has failed in my opinion.
That's debatable. Controllers and tracking make a pretty big difference to the overall VR experience, and the Rift S has some pretty big advantages in that department.
As someone who does a lot of meta-analyses I'd prefer you left in non-significant values as well, if they bear on the hypotheses at hand. Aggregating over nonsignificant effect sizes can still result in an overall effect that is significant.
I've collected a curated, abridged list of empirical laws:

https://mechaelephant.com/dev/Empirical-Laws/
Your description almost matches an experiment done in EEG research called the Libet experiment [1], although it's a bit different than how you describe it I'm confident this is what you are referring to.

They find that when you perform an action, there is a EEG spike [2] in the motor cortex well before you actually consciously decide to perform the action. The experiment is conducted with a dot running around a circle and the subject has to tell when (as per where the dot was) he decided to act. The EEG potential is seen prior to that decision moment.

This is related to free-will as it is as if the decision of acting is not coming from your conscious self but from a deeper layer.

[1] Libet experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjCt-L0Ph5o

[2] Bereitschaftspotential: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bereitschaftspotential
Psychology didn't move on because they didn't like Hans. They changed because they identifir a spectrum from mild to severe. The problem is that by collapsing the vocabulary, it obfuscates communication where one person thinks you're talking about Asperger's and the other is thinking of someone who can't speak or hold down a job and communicates by screaming and kicking.
Your link on debtors prison is referring to people not paying their government imposed fines, which seems the opposite of your point.

We forgot/neglected to make the last payment to AT&T when we switched to Comcast. I am not so worried about the police sending me to AT&T jail. My unaddressed car registration is a different story...

Not clear what happened in your case, the Gas Company notified the police to evict you? Is the Gas Company following a law in which they are required to tell the police?
Thanks! It was a friend of mine. You can see more of his work at https://www.instagram.com/sutocreation
What do the beacons bring to the system? Genuine question, curious how they fit into the scheme.
IIRC I believe some IOT baby monitors have been shown to have security vulnerabilities.
One of the interesting, teeth-gnashing ironies is that the father of modern genetics is a Catholic monk, Gregor Mendel, and the inventor of the Big Bang theory is a Catholic priest, George Lemaitre. George Lemaitre was given a papal award for his efforts.

Odd that Hitchens and Dawkins never mention that fascinating fact that their audiences would have been fascinated to know.

Nor mention that most of Christianity never had a dogma of a literal translation of the Bible. hmmmmm...

Nor tell them that most monotheisms define their supreme beings identically, ie it's the same god. Nor that the Catholic Church, that rigid institution that will not be polite enough to die or bend, teaches that the supreme being has manifested in most other monotheisms. Indeed few of them are exclusivist as atheists like to wrongly assert.

Meanwhile, it is a fact that something in the universe has the property of 'existence'. Logically, it exists of itself and could not have ever not existed. Existing of itself, it appears to be a logical feedback loop. Which leads straight to a possibility, the grandest of feedback loops: self-awareness.

And Dawkins main objection "Who made God?" is answered since...

The real question has never been "Is there a god?", but rather "Is the fundamental thing self-aware, and if it is, does it care?".

Meanwhile, despite the objections of atheists and agnostics, especially in what they see as the otherwise incomprehensible suffering of the innocent and children, the answer has always been to ask.

Ie, "If you exist, God being, please reveal yourself, and show me why it is that the innocent must suffer".
How many monitors do people deserve? Is anyone allowed to have a car? What about food processors? Are wifi routers okay, I mean wired ethernet worked just fine for decades.
Oh, I didn't notice how big it is! I will fix that as soon as possible. Thanks for the feedback.
Agnosticism is "This claim is untestable and therefore not scientific. I don't accept that claim, not just based on the (lack of) evidence presented so far, but because I reject it's underlying question."
Internal libraries are a huge pain to build now. I don’t need the rigor of semantic versioning for this, it just gets in the way. My act is together, I have tests that confirm my libraries work, I have a idempotent versioning system that is automatic (git sha) and if something gets merged to master that is my stamp of approval that it works.

Between the versioning behavior and trying to figure out how to document transitive dependencies correctly go mod has made my life as a maintainer harder.
I have never lived in a city--and that includes Manhattan and Cambridge--that had a "good" grocery store within a couple of blocks. I've had small markets but that's not a grocery store. Though, yes, you can get grocery delivery these days.
Go grew as a result of the open source ecosystem that grew around Docker. Google has backed plenty of other languages that have gone nowhere, so I think it's a fallacy to claim that's why Go has risen in popularity. If anything it was containerization and maybe the fact that Ken and Pike were involved more than the Google brand.

Go is also just really great. You don't need an IDE or a big crusty language to write good software. Go is small, compiles quickly, runs efficiently, is easy to teach, and has great tooling that lets you get up in running in just a few minutes. The ecosystem is centered around open source, the Go project itself including the name, logos, and specification are open source, and the Go conference in Denver is fantastic.

Go is not kool-aid.
Why did you ignore me when I stated earlier that those two things are not equivalent?

> They are arguing that this isn't boolean logic.

> "god_exists == false" is not the same as "god_exists != true", because "not true" can mean "false", but also "almost certainly false" and many other things.
stop using statistical anomalies to make your point
This is a well known experiment that has deep implications (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuroscience_of_free_will see Libet experiment among others). It doesn't question free will directly. Making decisions without being consciously aware doesn't contraindicate free will.

Personally, I side with Dennett (as always).

Also, many studies have n=12 and still have statistical power.
You are a retard.

Tesla is calling the thing "autopilot", only say "keep hands om wheel" for purely judicial reasons. As a consequence it is a more dangerous system overall because full attention is always better than the "partial attention" state in which driver are with autopilot. Then it blames people for having accidents...

This is hypocrisy at its finest. Please open your eyes and see the biggest picture.
I know nothing about Apple's Bluetooth stack so I'll take your word for it; have they not licensed it to anyone to make some high quality over-ears? I just don't see Apple ever making any in-house, and I'm not sure why that is (maybe not compete with those awful Beats headphones).
Negative/weak atheism ("I do not believe there is a God") expresses the absence of a belief, and therefore is compatible with the scientific method, and with agnosticism.

Positive/strong atheism ("I believe there is no God") expresses an unproved and unprovable belief, and therefore is incompatible with the scientific method, and with agnosticism.

The above is true for any definition of God.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negative_and_positive_atheism
Yes but it is age restricted and you can also blacklist individual apps in the parental control phone app.

She is also not using it without supervision, the same goes for her laptop. My wife or I sit next to her.
Wow. Where I'm currently at they'll put up "left lane closed signs" and you don't know if it's the left lane, the right lane, or neither, that's actually closed until you get there.
It's not really flame bait in todays culture.
i was talking about self driving cars, not really Tesla autopilot. but do you really think this (paying attention and correcting autopilot mistakes) would not be a bigger problem knowing well that no.1 reason of accidents is not paying attention.

yea, other drivers are also part of this, but even then I would like something alot better then average. sure there is a chance a distracted teenager is riding somewhere around you, but it's not better if there is now 10 slightly less distracted teenagers around you.

average is really not a great measure here if we are talking about self driving cars.
https://www.airbnb.com/s/Bensonhurst--Brooklyn--NY--United-S...
why'd ya wanna shake it that way? There's nothing stopping him from giving back at a later stage.
Refugees are refugees for a reason, people leave countries for a reason. When the conditions are right again I'm sure they'll visit or their children will, giving an opportunity to contribute. Sometimes you've gotta leave, would you be annoyed for a Russian leaving Putin's autocratic Russia? For some (depending on career and background) it becomes the only safe option.

Whenever people express this principle you did in that fashion it can't help but sound like a dog whistle of rationalisation for isolationalist and nationalist principles.

I'm sorry if it isn't.
> The US has 7.3 deaths per billion km driven.

This is a meaningless measurement. Segment those km by where they occur. Most of them are either:

1. "cruise-control compatible" kilometers—e.g. freeway straightaways—where you're surrounded by cars but they're all going the same speed in a straight line, and all you need to do to be safe is to go the same speed in a straight line as well.

2. "closed-course" kilometers—e.g. most rural roads, and most suburban roads any time other than rush-hour—where the road may curve and have intersections and such, but at any given time of day, it's probable that there aren't any other cars (or even pedestrians) on the road for you to collide with, no matter how bad your driving is. (Think "roads you'd have a teenager practice driving on." These roads are good for practice because there are effectively no accidents to get into.)

3. (a smaller segment, but still relevant because of the number of freight kilometers driven here:) "empty" kilometers—this has all the properties of segment 2, but also, the road is at grade, and there's nothing abutting the road (i.e. the road isn't a street), so even if you veer off the road, you're unlikely to hit anything. (Examples: the Nevada desert; Saskatchewan; most farmland.)

People point out that the safety-per-km stats for airplanes are a nonsense measurement, because what little crashing that airplanes do tends to mostly occur during the first and last 50km of the planned flight-path—so short flights are just as dangerous as long flights.

Well, the same goes for car accidents. Subtract all the "trivial" driving that humans and AIs can both do by just doing... nothing much at all, with no obstacles/hazards to evaluate, let alone react to. The kilometers that are left (freeway merging; city driving; suburban streets during rush-hour; parking in parking lots) are a lot more crash-y, and are the place where both human and AI competence is questionable.
I didn't know if treatments targeting amyloid directly would improve memory, but this tests both in one study, which is pretty great--big effects on memory and amyloid plaques.

Also, I think Ruth Benca at UCI can measure amyloid levels in humans using high-resolution EEG.