skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where do you get 5:1?

At least 84% of the positives were correct.

> It sounds like many of those who got a bleep from their iWatch subsequently had some effect detected by standard tests. But that isn't the right number. We don't necessarily know that we should treat everyone who fails standard tests. Especially if our previous knowledge about such tests was limited to patients where there was other evidence.

I agree, but there is a very important distinction to make here. When we don't know what to do with the results of a test, it can be wasteful and negative even when the results of the test are completely accurate.

That is the much bigger risk here. That the true positives are a waste of time and net negative all by themselves. They have the real potential for issues here, not the false positives.

Because the true positives outweigh the false positives by so much, for there to be net harm because of false positives, each one would have to do more damage than the effect of five true positives. I doubt that's the case. I'm pretty confident that either the test is an overall good thing, or the test is a bad thing because of true positives.
Delusion as a policy is pretty common, e.g. "Pinterest respects the intellectual property rights of others and we expect people on Pinterest to do the same."
I think the opening was meant to show the opposing perspectives on each politician.

There's no question that the Fox Newses of the world like to portray AOC as a raving lunatic who is moments away from erecting guillotines and starting another October Revolution.

Mainstream liberal outlets have similarly detached problems with trump, with their primary criticism being that he's crazy and an asshole and says stupid things, and not that he's an instrument of neoconservative nihilism and promoter of the American White Ethnostate.
Need to put (2016) in the title. This is an old article.

None the less, good for us. Even though our valleys are becoming more filled with trees now that there is no livestock to keep it down.
This is a long, well thought out [theory] with graphs that ends concluding that the world is in chaos because there are more [is more communication than before, among more people, in more detail].

Note that changes in medium of communication have lead to political upheaval every time they’ve happened, whether we’re talking manuscripts to printed books (the Reformation), the rise of periodicals (nationalism), radio (fascism, socialism, the New Deal), cable tv (the first fracture in the post WWII US liberal consensus, as the ruling class had forgotten that amiable mostly non-partisan politics was an abnormal state of affairs that had been engineered) and now the internet (suddenly everyone realises there are large parts of “their” society that genuinely, non-ironically hates them and what they value).

If you go earlier every leap in communication technology makes more efficient bureaucracies possible, so you get larger states that are better at warfare.
It did not happen for phones either. Why should this be different?

Maybe laptops now are mature enough as a product that what you suggest could be feasible but it is too late for business reasons, now.
Idiocracy would count if it were released in the 20th century. It was released in 2006.
Well, NIH posts some supporting evidence here (https://nei.nih.gov/health/errors/myopia), but they seem pretty constrained to people within a critical opthalmic development window.

> I leave it to you to find them on your own via google.

Considering you made the assertion, is it really a stretch to do the heavy lifting yourself? For all you know, the person who asked for your specific insight ("What leads you to believe this?") tried and failed to find anything within the software engineering realm which could account for an increase in eye issues.

The closest I could find among the links you provided are:

> People who do an excessive amount of near-vision work may experience a false or "pseudo" myopia. Their blurred distance vision is caused by overuse of the eyes' focusing mechanism. After long periods of near work, their eyes are unable to refocus to see clearly in the distance. Clear distance vision usually returns after resting the eyes. However, constant visual stress may lead to a permanent reduction in distance vision over time.

But no studies are referenced. I'm unable to find anything specifically, and I'm the second person asking you. It'd be neat to know what you read which specifically substantiated the long-term effects of near-space work on the eyes.
AOC is not under investigation. A complaint was filed with the FEC alleging minor violations. It is yet to be seen if the FEC determines the complaint provided enough evidence to warrant an investigation.
This really is a 2D question.

I will not deny that a low income and low education people would find it a massive upfront cost to learn how to code and be ambitious.

The question I'm more interested is among educated people. (or among people that grew up low income)

There is a gap between Engineering workaholics and Engineering workers.
Woman Sings Bohemian Rhapsody in Original Cartoon Voices
Stop linking to paywall articles. No one pays for that trash.
> by delivering strong results

The thing is...you shouldn't be able to guarantee that, and the idea that you can is the root of a lot of academia's problems.

The results of your experiment should be determined by the nature of whatever you're studying, nothing more. Sometimes, they'll be very clean with obvious, high-impact applications. Sometimes they'll be muddled with unforeseeable complications. Obviously, skill can help you turn the latter into the former, but there's a huge amount of luck involved there too.

It would be far, far better if people were judged on their ability to find and rigorously test interesting questions, rather than whatever crapshoot nature spits out.
Does it? It made me close the browser tab. Then I came here and read one of the comments that vouched for the rest of the article, and went back.
The political situation in the USA being what it is I honestly have difficulty deciding which politician to assign to which 'biography' in your list, although your nick clearly hints at which order you intended to describe them. It is flabbergasting to see how political systems so often seem to excel in pushing what appear to be the least suitable people to the highest positions.
Context Deadlines and How to Set Them
Well written and interesting article.
If got a few points:

Education:
The cost factor is an American thing. Here, in Germany it way more affordable.
I have a Bachelor's in pure mathematics. I wouldn't have studied all those often hard and boring fundamental topics if they weren't required by the curriculum, that's what I like about the university. Now, I'm more interested into research and there the university is the best place to be
Of course you could offer a curriculum online, online learning doesn't have to be cherry picking. But I see a value in beeing enrolled. This whole student culture helps broadening my horizon.

Media:
I'd argue that the internet is getting more centralized. Most people use Google Search and YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter. There, an algorithm decides what you see. So yes, it is easier to diversify your media intake but there is still a central entity.

Attention:
I think that's the thing this essay is mostly lacking in coverage. Having only the New York Times as reference you read a thorough report on a subject. Would you read it if you could get just a TL;DR or a quick video? I am not sure if the general public is really getting more educated or shut gaining a shallow knowledge based in FB or Reddit.

For example this article, or every Wait But Why article, are long and you read it only if you're interested. Otherwise I often catch myself only reading the comments.

Still, good article
You are completely missing the point about what makes them populist and thus you are trapped in only one perspective when there are in fact several. If green new deal isnt populist i dont know what is.
but isn’t implied operator precedence and using parentheses to group and control order of operations one of the things people often find confusing in mathematics, despite it being familiar?
I think you'll enjoy Junichiro Tanizaki's essay: "In Praise of Shadows"[1] on Japanese aesthetics - from toilet design to art of Kintsukuroi. If you haven't read it, it was written more than 50 years ago[2] and still stands true about the Japanese aesthetic culture - it is amazing.

[1][PDF] http://wwwedu.artcenter.edu/mertzel/spatial_scenography_1/Cl...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_Praise_of_Shadows
Thank you, I will check them out!
Since the author of this article doesn't even use the same definition of capitalism that everyone else uses, the arguments and conclusions in the article are highly suspect.

It doesn't help that the article starts out excoriating people for not understanding economics, schools for not teaching economics. Running the bulk of schools and people down for not studying economics, then using a highly idiosyncratic definition of "capitalism" doesn't make you look all that smart.
4chan: The Skeleton Key to the Rise of Trump (2017)
Consumers "prefer" what the billions of pounds spent on marketing tells them to prefer.

If companies spent money telling consumers to value upgradability and not to buy new stuff all the time, then we'd value that more .. but that doesn't sell more stuff, it just helps save the planet, so why bother ....
China performs remote brain surgery via 5G technology
Sketch is great as a design system manager. It's not all that great as a sketching tool (in spite of the name) and is a terrible photo editor. It shines when you embrace Sketch symbols, which allow you to build DRY, component-based designs, and Sketch libraries, which allow you to reference other Sketch files (local or remote) as dependencies.
Create 3D Environment Models with Standard Smartphone Camera
In JavaScript with prototypical inheritance, where you inherit from an instance rather than a type, it becomes very confusing what Foo would mean in a line saying Foo bar. So there some more explicit distinction is needed which is easiest to do with colon and moving to the right.
Yep. "Hackers" has changed definitions at least six times that I can think of.

And anything to do with the telephone network was "phreakers."

And "cypherpunks" wasn't always about encryption. It was about passwords.

Before the internet, and on the internet before the web, it was common for hackers and casual sysops to create an account on a system with the username "cypherpunk" and the password "cypherpunk" to let anyone in to explore. This was very useful once data started getting siloed into pay services. If you think paying $2/week for nytimes.com is bad, before the internet, you might pay $60-$100 an hour in today's dollars to read a newspaper online.

There's a watered-down version of it happening right now with store checkout systems where you enter a phone number to collect "points." I ran into it a couple of years ago, and I'm surprised how many stores it works in. There's no way I'm going to spill the beans on HN, because I enjoy collecting my gas discounts through the collective help of this anonymous community.
Nvme SSD slot + plenty of USB 3 slots + ability to plug in 32GB RAM easily is great.

Any company reducing physical peripherals slots on their devices should be publicly condemned!
I really love research but here I am stuck in a coding job. I tried my shake at academia but I got depressed at the lack of stability. I wanted to start having a life but there was just no stability in any of it. It's hard to plan long term when you're always 6-12 months away from having your income dry up.

Moral of the story: there's always someone willing to sacrifice more than you whether its their health, money, life, ethics, whatever.
For those looking for a quick overview, the diagram on page 11 nicely shows the internal ribs OP's article talks about.
Why Capitalism Isn’t Working for Millennials
Couldn't the 3 people in the World who need that just dob some epoxy on there?
The whole purpose of all these Google services is to collect private data. Very few people actually realize the scope and power of the data they are collecting and how it is used, and how they plan to use it when they will have the technical capability. If they would have it written out in clear text exactly what they do with this data, and what they can do with it in the future then nobody would use their services. Therefore all these services are deceptive.
Consumers don't know that they have the option to fix their machines. They are trained to toss devices (not just computers, but also cellphones, TVs, and appliances) instead of taking them to a repair shop.
Infer specs from any Avro type
That's completely fine. I would never say that the stoner video gamer should be your surgeon. I just don't think it's fair to call such a person "lazy" and dismiss them out of hand, as so many are apt to do. This person needs help to find some meaning in their life and it is not at all trivial how to do this.

The more complicated society gets, the harder it is for people to keep up with it.
NNTP host not found.

Who decided using news as a sub domain for an http site was a good idea?
What Chromebook do you use if I may ask? Do you use Crouton or did you completely flash Linux on it?
Have you considered that the rational bond villains use celebrities as a visibility and accountability shield to accomplish goals that would otherwise be shut down if proposed directly?
The article argues that college bundles education and signaling (of competence). And that as information becomes more available, and college tuition costs skyrocket new signalling mechanisms are emerging / will emerge.
What are these new signaling mechanisms?
PHP has those (e.g. function() use ($var) { })
Theory is too kind a word for this stuff. It's theory like critical theory is theory.

Sure, there have been massive changes in social organization that have accompanied changes in media. That doesn't say much though. Those changes compound and interact in unpredictable, chaotic ways. We like seeing patterns so we come up with stories about how we're either reverting to some imagined mean or how we're converging on another.
Trump was the last one who were able to do everything that would have killed any other politians hope. I am a bigger fan of his policies than his rethoric but the republicans needed someone like him to counter the bullying tactics the democrats normally use.
Adding more competition isn't an answer, because competition is about individual profit, thus monopoly. Neo-liberalism, global free market etc do encourage a world-wide competition: it's already the current trend. What you probably mean is some kind of "healthy/fair competition": the fact we need to add another adjective hints that this is about doing something to balance it. I argue this is about encouraging cooperation. A good balance between both leads to interdependence, which is exactly what we would like: a state where everyone has some possibility of moving around a bit, but where nobody is free to ignore what people they interact with have to say.

A ref i really want to push: "Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution" (1902, Kropotkine). There is a whole part mostly about the evolutionary analysis of altruism (the rest is about analyzing several human social orders throughout history: pre-medieval villages, medieval cities and 19c industrial cities).
What about the GPU?

I wanted a ThinkPad but while they were overall good laptops none of them offered a decent GPU except for the very expensive and massive "workstation" models with Quadros on the level of a mid range GTX.

I get that these aren't gaming laptops but why not give us the option of doing at least some gaming. And GPUs aren't just for gaming we did some projects at work that involved 3D rendering, plus there is all that GPGPU thing.

In the end I got a light gaming laptop, and at work, they also got gaming laptops for these projects that involve 3D. With RGB and all that, something I find kind of fun in a "serious business" environment.
When people write "persons", my head starts spinning.
Really it's worse then that. The 737Max is a good example of technical debt. The plane more or less is the same fuselage as a Boeing 707 (with material modernized). Boeing went back to the well one time too many instead of doing a cleanroom design for it's narrow-body fleet.

Boeing has hinted several times that they want to look at a Blended Wing Body (BWB) design for the next generation of planes. That time may be now.
Tax evasion is a bit of a national sport.

And paying into a national health system might not be free its a lot cheaper than the USA's model.
Hackers Pulled Off a $20M Dollar Bank Heist
Well ultimately platforms like Facebook should be held responsible for the content they distribute in the same way that newspapers were. The safe harbor provisions should not apply to platforms that do way more than just passively host content. Google and Facebook should not be able to hide behind algorithms if the real world outcomes of these algorithms are as bad as they currently are. If they can't find a way to police their platform automatically, they will have to change something else. One thing would be to require people to provide proof of real identity, so that anyone that redistributes content like this can be sued and it gets much harder to create fake profiles.

The amount of harm these platforms have caused is at this point much larger than any positive value they provide.
If you really think education is all about signalling, shouldn't you be more, not less, optimistic that it will be robust to technological changes that make delivering course materials cheaper?
It’s light, fast, cheap, easy to use and has excellent support for reusable components, making working with design systems a breeze. Adobe have been working on XD for years and are still nowhere close.

Sketch also can’t do much more design-wise than you can with HTML and CSS, a good thing as it’s too easy to put things into a design with photoshop or illustrator that are a pain to implement.

The file format is basically zipped json files, so there’s a robust plugin ecosystem and you can do things like git integration pretty easily. And it’s a native Mac app, unlike Figma, its closest competitor, which is Electron.

It’s an example of simpler is better, especially when compared to Adobe software which doesn’t just include the kitchen sink, but the kitchen, the house and a large part of the street.
Indeed, very insightful. I myself is of similar opinion. The West is undeniably having a societal crisis now, regardless of what digits say about its economic wellbeing.

The West these days reminds me of USSR in the eighties.
That’s a fair criticism. Having any kind of profile image I think is preferable to the default, because then it distinguishes you from someone who signed up a day ago. So it doesn’t have to be a photo of you, it could be a photo of your city, pet, some hobby etc.

Just something to humanize the profile, even if it doesn’t gender the profile.
Reading Herodotus' "The Histories" was life altering for me - I highly recomend it - but you MUST read a quality translation. I read the translation by Robin Waterfield. There are other good translations. What you should not do is download any old version you find online. Bad translations ruin the book.
One picture shows a rotary phone on a side table. I really hope that is the actual phone model that each room will have!
Searchable information? Things people publish or is written about them. Instead of proxies like educational institutions you get to examine them via other evidence. So education remains important but renown of institution as proxy for the individual goes away?
I use borg backup running via cron multiple passes per day. When needed you can mount any backup as a file system for easy restoration. Yes, short-lived files can't be recovered, but that's something I am willing to live with.
Sounds like the Hitchhikers Guide.
A recent HN thread discusses the topic of how School is for Signaling rather than Skill-Building from another article, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19406432. The concept also explored within this post.
You might be interested in Fuse Open (aka FuseTools) which is a design application that generates working application code. Before that there were various UI editors in software IDEs but those tend to produce a lot of boilerplate code. Interestingly, there are a lot of visual programming tools used in education now, such as Scratch, which get away from the text editor paradigm.
That paper does not report "WebAssembly is running at 67% of native speed in Firefox and 53% of native speed in Chrome".

That paper reports — "… applications compiled to WebAssembly run slower by an average of 50% (Firefox) to 89% (Chrome), with peak slowdowns of 2.6× (Firefox) and 3.14× Chrome)."

When you write "53% of native speed" that's really confusing!
It seems like a lonely, difficult existence. At least he appears to have a good paying job, but it's already clearly taking a toll on him.
I think this is one of the most important pieces of the puzzle. Graduate students are so common they they can't differentiate themselves from the rest by simply being graduate students. They need to do more to be above the rest and this leads to the bad circumstances.
When making such a distinction, people refers to a group en masse, while persons refers to a collection of individuals, emphasizing their actions as individuals as opposed to as a whole.
Rupert Murdoch was overtly portrayed as a Bond villain in one of the late ‘90s films...
> You wouldn't call Nintendo a monopolist because they dictate the rules of the Switch, would you?

We really should.
I like it, but could there be some more instrumental elements? Ie, not just a piano, or a droning synth, but a piano with a droning synth!
Thank you for posting these! This inspired me to take the time to run an ECG, and enable auto-ECGs with notifications.
Well, the US does currently have a president who got (at least partly) famous in the Pro Wrestling circuit, so big points there. But it's only a superficial resemblance.

President Comacho saw a real problem (lack of food), realized he needed help tacking the issue, sought out literally the smartest person in the world, followed his advice and solved the issue.

President Trump makes up problems, staffs his cabinet with some of the lowest quality members those offices have ever had, discards virtually all expert advice (In his own words, he only consults himself because he has a "very good brain") and generally seems to exist solely to troll people.

So even though Idiocracy seems to have hit it right on, it didn't. Mike Judge still could not make the mental leap required to make Comacho different from what he already knew (and I don't blame him).
I’d also add to this that the quality standards in academia are generally piss poor, and my own type A perfectionism was a big reason why I did not follow in my advisor’s footsteps after finishing grad school: I saw that he rose to fame and rank by essentially creating low-quality demoware to be pleasing to the eye at conferences, and had zero ambition to work on results or problems important to the field.

Professors are not self-selected for any notion of quality at all. Some of them happen to focus on quality, some of them on politics, etc., just like anything else.

In many companies, being promoted to senior levels of engineering is a far more meaningful mark of quality effectiveness than post-graduate degrees or research publications.

Regardless of any of this, treating students with respect, working with them to define their work based on their career goals, and respecting a healthy standard work/life balance is a basic requirement of professionalism.

By this notion, a lot of professors are not professionals in their field, rather just compulsive amateurs.