skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"The problem is, nobody knows which factors are actually responsible for downregulating immune system activity, because every astronaut gets all of them."
They could check?
Might be a good idea to know before they send Astronauts to Mars or something?

None of your examples are space dependent, and compared to SLS, slightly cheaper.
I'm just exploring an idea here but I wonder if the point is that practicing language skills (writing, reading, presenting) are as important as practicing technical skills (computer science, chemistry, math). I might argue that in the business world, we call those language skills soft skills and that they are VERY important in the success of software developers. A great developer who can't communicate or express their ideas thoughtfully struggles more than a less technically inclined developer who communicates more effectively.

One of my favorite interactions to see is when my developers have a thoughtful conversation on a pull request and come up with a creative solution together using a combination of their language and technical skills. Maybe we need people to do both?
Microsoft/TextWorld: A sandbox for training reinforcement learning (RL) agents
It's not one bit useful for people busy searching an image that they SEO their way above other images, only to be met with a login wall I'm not gonna fill out.
Google’s attempts to undermine adblockers
Syncthing does this with Go and a web page using localhost.
The Art of Problem-Solving
> I'm constantly reminded of the cartoon where a heckler is standing up during a Climate Change presentation, yelling, "What if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"

The truth is that if climate change really is the catastrophe that people are talking about, we will have to take drastic action that will make the world worse. Maybe we have to convert large portions of our land into solar and wind farms spoiling previously pristine wilderness with installations and power lines? Maybe we will have to embrace nuclear power and decide that having a Chernobyl every decade or so is a tolerable risk? Maybe we will have to decide that seeding with sulfur in the upper atmosphere is required to help with temperatures and that acid rain will just have to be an acceptable trade-off.

If people really believed that climate change was the catastrophe that they say it is, they would be willing to practically give away everything in exchange for getting legislation through that would help climate change. If democrats went to republicans and said "Look, climate change is a life or death thing. If you support an effective global carbon tax, we will support everything else in your platform." You could probably get legislation passed by next month. Of course, nobody really views climate change as being that much of a crisis!
In a way this is actually the only "solution" to ensure privacy. A lot of ensuring privacy is knowing down to a very precise detail exactly what data is sent where and what happens to it. The only way to know this realistically is if you wrote the darn thing yourself. Otherwise you have to trust someone that the thing does what it says it does.

We as a society haven't agreed precisely on what "privacy" means so it is effectively impossible to know is a particular service's handling of data provided to meats you definition unless you just don't hand it the data in the first place.
> airplane to undergo spiral divergence

Hmm...I don't see the need for anything of the sort. The graveyard spiral can be achieved purely due to erroneous pilot inputs, the plane's behaviour is basic aerodynamics:

- you lose lift because the wings are at an angle. Nothing you can do about that relationship.

- the tightening of the spiral is also due to basic aerodynamics/geometry: once you are banked, the lift from the aerodynamic surfaces has a horizontal component in addition to a vertical component. You increase the lift from the surfaces by increasing the angle of attack, you get additional force in the horizontal component. Of course you also get vertical component, so in a normal turn this is fine.

Since there is continuous pilot input, even if the plane were stable in such a fashion as to automatically try to revert to straight and level (which most planes don't, you have to explicitly command exit from a turn), that wouldn't help you in a graveyard spiral.

Now the plane doing this by itself due to instability is an additional problem, sure, but it's not a necessary condition.
So who's to blame for HomePod + Siri working only with iTunes and Apple music?

Siri won't control Spotify at all, and Spotify playback on HomePod is only possible indirectly through AirPlay2, which is a buggy pile of crap.
Yes, USA has been a paragon of virtue in intellectual property matters.
Just because the marketplace didn't do something 100 years ago doesn't mean that it never would. Obviously, there wasn't a need for such a thing, so what problem is being solved here? You just contrived some set of circumstances that you believe fits your hypothesis; in no way is this a reflection on the free market's capabilities.
Create an iterative loop with three major steps in it:

1. Consume external knowledge by reading books, watching videos, taking classes, etc.

2. Apply the new knowledge, plus your intrinsic store of knowledge to whatever problem you're working on.

3. Note mistakes, lessons learned, synthesis of ideas between "new" and "old" knowledge, etc. Update your bank of intrinsic knowledge.

Lather, rinse, repeat.
Here's a large study indicating that states with the highest abstinence education level had 25% higher teen pregnancies than states with the lowest level [1], after not controlling for Hispanic teen population, the teen population demographic with the highest birth rate. Whereas, here's one claiming that state policy affected STI rates, but not pregnancy rates [2].

edit: these studies consider "effective" to mean "reduces teen pregnancy + STI rates". Many organizations including WHO consider what they call comprehensive sex education to be a human right, in which case abstinence-only education can never be effective.

[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3194801/

[2] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26918400
Aliexpress is flooded with simple 2g phones that just do voice, sms, and address book.

Pick a few, and try. Some are like 50 bucks only.
Well, a slide rule (even a circular one) is not an "analog computer"...
I didn't like my 3310 because it didn't have a good keypad lock and I normally put it in a place in my knapsack where the keys could get pressed.

The first problem was that it would keep the display on as long as a key was pressed. That would kill the battery quickly.

The second problem was that the phone would happily dial 911 without unlocking the keypad. My city has asked that phones be configured to not be able to do that. As a result I had to return the phone.

Currently using an ancient Samsung A157. Flip phones solve the keypad lock problem entirely. Dunno what I will do for a phone if it breaks.
Government websites shouldn’t use javascript at all. Problem solved.
Perhaps a person's interests, income, or lifestyle are salient variables as well? I would guess that each person's circle of friends has some of these in common in addition to age (likely true for HN discussions as well). For a less biased picture, here are some statistics about tablet use by age:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/805143/us-tablete-users-...

and for a baseline, iPhone use by age:

https://www.statista.com/statistics/203063/iphone-users-in-t...

It's striking how uniform the distribution of tablet use was across age! There was a bump after age 25, though that was mirrored in the iPhone usage. This is really salient at the low and high end: age 0-18 was 20% of tablet usage and only 6% of iPhone usage, and age 55+ was 20% of tablet usage and only 14% of iPhone usage. Given all of this, it seems like tablets are quite broadly adopted devices
I follow all of this, but something doesn't pass the smell test. Disclaimer, I'm a pilot, former CFII, but I don't have much knowledge about aircraft certification requirements.

I cannot comprehend feature XYZ that helps achieve aircraft certification, that can also be disabled by the pilot. Either feature XYZ is mandatory for certification or it isn't.

I can imagine a feature that provides better handling behavior or safeguarding. But if it can go crazy in a way that it's routine to disable such a feature, it must be mandatory the pilot know about the feature's operation, and they must demonstrate competency at handling the aircraft when the feature is enabled and disabled.

And all of that tells me I don't know the full story yet.
I recall from reading the law the the government is explicitly exempt from GDPR. I can't pull up a citation right now so take it with a grain of salt.
Ditto, except the one I wrote only works for landlines. https://github.com/dgnorton/norobo
While true that the US is no saint in this regard, the scale of IP theft by China is industrial, and well known.
I don’t think those signs indicate blind, unquestioning support for “scientific truths” as practiced by some mythical scientific priesthood. They are a response to a troubling political tendency that has made the evaluation of certain scientific findings into a question of political and tribal beliefs rather than one that involves proper skepticism, education and scientific investigation.

If the situation was that there was a strong evidence-based disagreement about scientific findings, those signs wouldn’t be necessary. The situation is instead that a vast number of scientists are producing findings that contradict certain political preferences, and the response has not been a deeper investigation made in good faith — but rather an outright political rejection of the findings. “I support science” is not shorthand for “I take every scientific study as fact because scientists are gods,” but rather “I am inclined to give weight to scientific arguments in either direction as opposed to political arguments that reject those findings based on non-scientific reasoning.”
Isn't it a little disingenuous to call analytics tools "adtech". Yes, you can integrate analytics with adtech platforms, by even in isolation, knowing how your users use your own site and how they arrived there, allows you to better serve them.

In a physical place of business, for example, a retail store or restaurant, keeping track of what times or parts of the store were busiest, or where people spent the most time, would allow you to eliminate waste from your business, and sometimes that involves knowing how many unique customer foot traffic you're getting.
1. Make lots of mistakes.

It's all about hundreds of cost/benefit trade-offs in a particular context. There will be trade-offs between short, medium, and long term goals and issues. There will be trade-offs between the developers, management, sales, and the users. Try to find as many compromises as possible which are synergistic.

When it comes to hiring and otherwise interacting with other coders, you will even make compromises with the developer community!

4. Repeat for 5-10 years

At least. Always be learning from your mistakes. Be skeptical of yourself and your own model of reality. You should be actively looking for your biases and misunderstandings. Try to understand where the contrarians are coming from. If they have a point, it just might be valuable.

Be wary of dogmatism.
You realize most people don't get any symptoms, right? Many people contract it as a kid (a kiss from a relative) and their immune system suppresses it. Unless you get an HSV blood test you will not know.
Social Media and Viral Evil
Of course. If you want to play games with numbers you can make them say anything you want. To reach the top 10% you need just over $100,000 in income. That isn't rich in most people's book, though it is upper middle class.
It's huge. Like "you'd never believe it if you couldn't see it with your own eyes" huge.

As a data point, one business I work with offers subscriptions, and sometimes the majority of its entire churn is caused by unexplained failed card charges from Stripe. For comparison, where Direct Debit schemes are available in Europe and used by that business, they essentially never exhibit unexplained charge failures.

To put that in terms of somewhat realistic numbers, say you have a 97% retention rate on a typical monthly subscription for some SAAS offering. After 12 months, just from attrition, you have lost more than 30% of the subscribers you had at the start of the year. This is why improving retention for subscription business models is such a big deal. Now suppose you have a 92% retention rate, because you're losing an additional 5% of subscribers each month due to failed charges. After a year, you have lost over 63% of the subscribers you started with. That's a devastating difference.

Now suppose you are also attracting new subscribers at a respectable 10% per month. In the first case, you have net 7% growth per month, meaning your business will be around 125% bigger at the end of the year. That's more than double its previous size -- yay for hockey stick growth charts! But in the second case, with just 2% net growth per month, your business is only 27% bigger at the end of the year. The 5% losses due to unclassified failed card charges have basically cost you as much as your entire business made last year in terms of lost growth.

Stripe do seem to be aware of the problem, because they have rolled out a number of systems over the years for retrying failed transactions and the like. Unfortunately, these systems have often been rather complicated, incompletely documented, and most importantly almost entirely untestable before deployment, which seriously undermines their value.

In our experience, shifting subscribers to other payment methods can be an effective solution if it's an option, but of course in places like the US card payments still dominate. If that's where your customers are, you could probably save a lot of lost business by handling those failure flows better. Just be aware that with Stripe in particular, you may have to read between the lines in the documentation, put your first integration into production largely untested, and then rely on monitoring your logs to pick up and deal with problems if you've done anything wrong.
Depends on what you mean by "meaningfully encrypted". If E2E encryption is what you are going for, then yes. Companies that use Slack specifically don't want that, though, since they want to be in control of all communications (due to industry regulations or whatever other reason). So it is still encrypted, but the company holds the keys.
Maybe they will or maybe not.

I can remember similar predictions about Japan and... let's say they didn't make it.
Check this thread out that explains Google really has no control over the device: https://twitter.com/punkt/status/1103276818340212737
The fine arts are great, after you've put food on the table and a roof over your head. Most people are much happier to have stable employment than esoteric knowledge. The economy and society are better for it too.

School's primary purpose is to prepare people to be functioning members of society.
How do you know that what you are doing is a “mistake” if it works?

Reading. Plenty of books, blog posts, and forum posts point out that you shouldn't have "10 KLOC UserManager classes".

The thing is, one has to figure out how to integrate "book learning" AND real world experience, so that they're constantly synthesizing a newer, better understanding.
They’ll collaborate, as soon as they figure out how to charge for spam filtering.
Conferences.

Meetups.

Hackathons.

Reading books (google for "best software books" and you'll find some lists).

Hanging out in online communities whether general (like HN) or language/tech specific.

Read articles.

Follow interesting people/companies on twitter.

Blog about your work.

All of the above can help, but you need to pick what works and is fun so you can stick with it.
It's pretty common all around... it's as much about documenting who to point the finger at as anything else.
"amputations"

Leg amputations sound to me like they could be a potential advantage in space.

Is it a circulation thing, or swimming out of a flooding capsule thing?
Sounds like a cult: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJtrLKGZZFg
How do you know? Have you had HSV blood tests?
> Some diseases are not a big deal for most children but can outright kill others.

This is exactly what I wrote, isn't it? The person I was responding to wrote:

> The alternatives in pretty much all cases are death. Which side effect is better than your child being dead?

I'm not arguing against vaccinations. I'm arguing against exaggeration.
it's a lot easier to audit a script
"We believe science is real" is not a statement of dogmatic belief in scientific conclusions, it is a reaction to anti-scientific movements that attempt to influence the public perception of science. It is usually primarily directed at the moneyed interests opposed to climate science and the impacts it predicts, though it also deals with related issues impacting health and the environment.

If you spend a cursory time searching for that statement, you'll find that it's associated with the March for Science, which is, itself, a reaction to active and successful attempts at having persons in government distort, remove, and ignore science that flies in the face of moneyed interests.

By the way, just about everything you know about Galileo re: perception and persecution is wrong.
How severe? If the acne is really severe, yes indeed they don't go to space.

Space travel is like that. At something like $20,000,000 per person, going to a difficult work environment, being picky is important.
As an aside...

"...how that authority [of scientific thought] waned in the mid-20th century and today..."

The high point of the authority of science in the United States was probably between ~1950, after Sputnik, and ~1980, say before Reagan's "Star Wars" proposal. Certainly, the descent had started by the early '90s, when a scientist went before a congressional committee and couldn't find anything more useful to say about the SSC project than "the God particle".

The latter brings up a good point: the authority of science would probably be more respected if scientists didn't spend so much time fighting each other.
See: personal drones.
Don't forget that the Herpes family also includes Herpes/Varicella Zoster, aka Chickenpox; and it also can be awakened by stress.
> If I remember 2005 correctly, it was a time where you'd have to play with DivX and XVid codecs before anything actually played on your PC. Definitely not easy for casual users.

The casual user also changed. I remember that 90% of my computerized friends eMuled all movies they could get. The Lord of the Rings copies filmed using handleld cameras from cinema screens are distinctly burned in my memory.

At the same time, DVD and Video CDs were quite popular when attached to magazines, which bumped the computer usage, as most everyone had a computer and few people had DVD players.

Together, I think most heavy watching happened on computers also back then.

When it comes to the internet, eMule arrived because dial up was dying already, meaning that people could actually use it for something useful.

I don't think usage patterns changed that much.
Almost all Elsevier development and infrastructure work is farmed out to companies in India, so they're probably not directly responsible for the cock-up, but their general attitude towards development, and their customers, probably plays a role.
People don’t argue back by claiming divine authority. They argue back by claiming to have the truer scientific authority. Science shouldn't have any other authority then itself. It should be open and reproducible. Everything else can and should be seen with a skeptical eyes on. No expert is incorruptible.
I used a Kyocera DuraXE for a bit while travelling. It's rugged, and supports LTE/tethering, but I abandoned that experiment due to how unpleasant I find T9 texting.

I was recently looking for a new phone for my father... he currently uses a Gingerbread-era LG slider phone with keyboard. He's never connected it to data or wifi, only uses it for calls and texting. Doesn't look like there's much available to serve his uses anymore. Maybe a (significantly more expensive than his slider) BlackBerry KeyOne or Key2 which he can also leave disconnected from data.
A certain amount of cross-pollination is not unknown, either:
https://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/a21238129/seveneves...
It’s a mystery to me too.

Similarly, the cost savings from increasing my deductible just isn’t there. Going from $1000 to $2000 should be more savings than a handful of dollars per year, since that will save insureco on just about every single claim.

There’s no way they’re charging me $100+/month if my risk of a claim is 2-3% per year.
Let's not be coy. Laypeople don't have a compelling reason or the expertise necessary to dispute or vociferously defend any scientific conclusions, at the end of the day, there is no science involved here, it's all about politics. Whichever side of the debate you come down on with regard to climate change, vaccines, evolution, the shape of the earth etc, the people in these debates don't really care about science, they only care about policy.
Wildly speculative. Turkey is predicted to have 9.1 [some unit], while Germany 6.8 [some unit]. There are two countries with similar demographic profiles, with Germany having 5x the [nominal] GDP of Turkey today. Short of nuclear war or an asteroid landing in Ruhrgebiet, it's hard to imagine what would lead to Turkey's economy overtaking Germany's in 11 years.

PS. "nominal GDP using purchasing power parity exchange rates" is nonsense. Not sure if the error lies with the journalist or with the source.
If history is any indication, once countries start becoming net exporters of IP, and net importers of low-skilled labour, they very quickly adopt the same neo-liberal trade and IP policies that are currently championed by the developed world.
I worked on a piece of software that was meant to communicate over wireless and the test bench folks were getting horrendously bad numbers compared to the rest of us.

They were getting 50% packet loss and so the throughput was maybe a tenth of what we were hoping for. Streaming really hates high packet loss rates, unless you've built FEC into the protocol (and we hadn't)
Was there a reason the author redacted parts of the robocall phone numbers? They're robocalls, the numbers should be garbage by definition.
This is a often reappearing topic, and to some people it sounds like the end of the world, but that's just too sensationalistic.

Well, even when it happens, then what?

China will still be poorer per capita if it reaches parity in net GDP, and beside the symbolic change in the modulus of GDP gap, nothing will change.
In my scene, it’s the drug of choice. I’ve never really understand why but so it goes
> At a certain point, that's the same as being forced.

At a certain point, the risk you impose on the insurance pool by not driving safely is greater than your ability to pay for that risk, so you have forced (priced) yourself out of insurance coverage.

You can always go with another insurance company who will offer you terms that don't involve the tracking device, but they aren't going to extend that coverage to you for a lower price.

But not everyone can be a safe driver, which is one reason we need alternative transportation options for them.
I am a ‘cloud’ engineer, and I find great use in pairing my iPad with an Apple Bluetooth keyboard, and then running shells in Terminus or Google Cloud Shell.

I wouldn’t code on it, but for running scripts and checking servers — I can travel without my laptop.
Unfortunately, HMD hasn't released the 8810 with US bands, so it's not feasible to use it in the US.