skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For me it was weird having to tap around (to open and to close) in such a fluid article. It was distracting in a way. I would suggest trying to simply insert them into parentheses on mobile, perhaps heavily grayed out if you want to deemphasize, or if they're not that important drop them altogether.
No food on weekends and ice-cold baths:Twitter’s Jack Dorsey’s “wellness” habits
I tried, but Siri is still really bad at speech recognition whenever I try it.
I'd go the other way and write it into law that the law is uncopywritable.
Can we do this for other driving offenses? Like drivers who don't signal lane changes or drive slowly in the passing lane? I'm all about publicly shaming drivers into doing better.

</sarcasm>
I ride a bike in London traffic and you can tell which drivers are on phones from quite some distance. I think when police stop them they are mystified as to how they got caught - they genuinely don’t realise just how all-over-the-place they are.
I'm a cyclist. Over the past 5 years or so I've learned to check inside of people's cars to see if they have a phone in their hands. If they do, I try to keep as much distance between myself and them as possible.

Until we change the incentives, distracted driving is very likely to remain a problem. Right now there's a lot of talk but very little action. I live in Austin, and I've spoken with the police about distracted driving after nearly being hit by a driver who ran a red light because they were distracted by their phone. (I spoke with them afterward.) The police tell me that they periodically do distracted driving enforcement operations, but only in school zones so that they get double fines. I've never seen a single distracted driving enforcement operation in Austin, but I've gone through cyclist stop sign enforcement twice. It would be interesting to see the statistics here. How many people are ticketed for distracted driving every year?
“Apples, citrus, strawberries, leafy greens, grapes”—those are the five big enough to justify automation.

Some questionable assumptions there.
The federal government forcing a state to enforce a federal statute would definitely violate the 10th Amendment if the state has laws against that. I think most states have building codes irrespective of copyright status.

However, the very scenario is covered generally by statute already. Regulations, even copyrighted ones adopted by an agency, must be publicly accessible to have the force of law. Freely accessible in most cases relate to having physical access to the text in some free way. This seems like something that can be solved very simply on the state level: just redefine publicly accessible to publicly accessible on the internet.
> In only two instances were black people not the most likely to have experienced discrimination: Asians were the most likely to say they were the brunt of racial slurs or jokes at 61%, while white people reported the highest levels of people assuming they were "racist or prejudiced."

> Most adults agree the legacy of slavery continues to have an impact on black Americans. But while 78% of black respondents said the U.S. has not gone far enough in giving equal rights to black Americans, only 37% of white respondents agreed with them.

> White people's views on race varied greatly by political party. For example, 77% of white Republicans said the bigger issue in the U.S. is seeing “discrimination where it does not exist” — rather than not recognizing real discrimination. 78% of white Democrats found the opposite to be true.
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Wholeheartedly agree, and I think it comes down to "signalling by association". For sure she is a workaholic and that gets you far, but to me it seems like she is filling the gap of providing confirmation to insecure overachievers after she - being one herself - made mistakes and reflected on them. Mistakes that could have been avoided had you taken out the ego in the first place.

In contrast to my hypothesis: If you like her, feel free to share your thoughts or prove me wrong. What is special about her?
RAND Study - Graphic Warning Labels on Tobacco Packages Can Deter
> More than 40 NEVs spontaneously combusted in China in 2018.

I will be the first one to complain about shoddy quality control and questionable practices but... this doesn't seem like a high number at all.

I mean, ICE cars will catch fire pretty often, but this is not news.

"In 2003-2007, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 287,000 vehicle fires per year. "

The ICE fleet is pretty big, but this also goes to show how absolute numbers are worthless.
"I will be hours late because I got into an accident attempting to text this to you."
I don't know about J, but on occasion I have to deal with q/kdb+ and I hate it with passion. That system is pure crap. I'm convinced that the primary purpose of q/kdb+ is to extract as much money as possible on support from financial firms that happen to use it. Support contracts must run in millions of dollars if not more. The system is designed to be incomprehensible by human beings. All in a name of "performance." But is it really any faster than, say, Pandas/Numpy? (Numpy can automatically parallelize computations, whereas q/kdb is inherently single-threaded.) Q error messages drive me crazy. Basically, there are just a few error messages, like "'type" or "'rank" with no further explanation what caused an error. The Q language is full of idiosyncrasies you have to remember. I code in multiple languages including functional ones, but Q is completely illogical. There are arbitrary restrictions like number of local variables or the precise place you put a closing brace that ends a function. It's also impossible to find any help for it due to its abuse of special symbols, incomprehensible function names, and its very low popularity. There are C and Python interfaces for Q/kdb and they suck too. The C interface is actually on Github; you only need to take a single look at it to understand what I mean.
GCP CloudSQL Now Supports PostgreSQL 11.1 (Beta)
Actual probabilities are uncertain. If you think of the probability distribution on probabilities (the Bayesian prior), the claim that "one of the extreme probabilities is more likely than a halfway one" makes sense, eg. [0]

It makes more sense philosophically to make claims about one's model than about the real world, anyway.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcsine_distribution
Apple's CarPlay heavily restricts what you can do while moving - you can only browse through lists that are short, and you can't type anything. These functions are replaced with talking to Siri, which it is assumed you can do with your hands on the wheel and your eyes on the road.
I don't think the idea is absurd on its face. Stuff like the building code or similar engineering standards doc will involve significant judgment in balancing competing concerns, just like a drawing of a bridge.
I really like reading Nassim Taleb's books, but he appears to have all of the social skills of, say, Linus Torvalds, when interacting with others in a public way.
I am seeing users on their mobiles very frequently when I see through the back mirror while driving in the city where I live. I assume this is mostly WhatsApp use.

Phone and software makers have an unique opportunity to save lives on the road by taking measures to prevent this terrible behaviour. They'll be rewarded by getting some of the public trust back, and seeing they are optimizing around public good as opposed to eyeballs.

A good example is Android Auto, which prevents the driver from typing on the car's screen while driving.
Proof Without Words
Not just London ...
The fact that professor could ever be considered low status is the story though.
Valid point. :)
I'm having trouble operationalizing the "blind mind's eye" concept. Catmull's brain knows what a sphere is, and my brain knows what a sphere is, and we can both describe the experience of seeing a sphere, so we both know what one "looks like."

Compare this to the phenomenon of "face blindness." My friends who suffer from this genuinely cannot describe what makes Angela Merkel's face (for instance) different from others because they lack the facility to remember it. But I can, because I don't have face blindness: Merkel's face is wrinkled, craggy even, with crows feet that resemble smile lines.

What can I do that an aphantasia sufferer cannot?
iphone/imessage, turn-on find friends, leave phone in pocket, done. my wife knows where I am 24x7 (for better or worse lol)
I think there's a legitimate difference between a quick glance at a mobile and actually trying to //compose// something on it. Even speech to text can be poor enough that if it isn't dead simple it should wait until stopped.

Edit: If you disagree maybe you would like to reply with how and thus form an actual discussion? I'm suggesting the split second shift of focus equivalent to changing a radio-station or disc track is equally as distracting as a quick glance at something and indicating that I /agree/ anything past that should be a zero-motion dependent event.
Financial institutions offer a vast array of services, safeguards, and functionality and significantly higher transactional infrastructure versus Bitcoin/cryptocoins.

Exchanging cash versus submitting a Bitcoin transaction would be more on par.
Our views on vehicles and vehicle fuel consumption are symbolic of how we view our commitment to lowering emissions. People aren't buying huge SUV's because they've analyzed the data to determine that the relative impact of their consumption isn't worth buying a smaller vehicle. They are choosing to spend more on fuel-guzzling vehicles (and spend more on fuel) because their consumption and output is an afterthought.

While total overall emissions (in the U.S.) may be steady or shrinking, the total amount of emissions for transportation is growing. There's no excuse for that. All it tells us is that an overall reduction in GHG emissions could be even lower if people made slightly more conscientious transport choices.

https://rhg.com/research/preliminary-2017-us-emissions/
Some people want to work for a frat house. Telling you early on that is what the company is should be viewed as a favor.

I worked at a similar place, and it was a fucking disaster. They would be in the office for 12 hours a day and maybe do 5 hours of work. Meanwhile, there were endless gokart races, pingpong tournaments, and general nonsense. People wouldn't just waste their own time but also made it nearly impossible to focus on your work.

I made it nine months because I was too foolish to quit faster.
If your accent doesn't match the country you are in, change Siri's language to your native one. As a British person living in the USA, if I don't set Siri to British, she has a terrible time understanding me, but it works fine on British mode.
Different kinds of sites would be Facebook (tons of features) versus a local dentist's site (one page Bootstrap site with hours). The joke is that when people ask,"What kind of site?" they're actually asking,"What kind of Bootstrap site?" Both example Bootstrap sites are the same (just styled a little differently).
People (and especially kids) don't know how to handle idle time anymore.
Question: Did having an engineering background help you as CEO?

Answer: ...I think I was a good engineer. I was an even better product manager

...lol.

At least she appears to have stopped claiming credit for the Alibaba stake.
Rust Actix-Web + Magic Links
Most provinces have a minimum price threshold (e.g. https://www.ontario.ca/laws/regulation/100116/v2), and then the tax is a major component of that retail price -- something like 47% for beer, as a so-called sin tax.

As an occasional consumer, Ontarian and Canadian, I don't mind. Alcohol has a lot of societal costs.
The State of Oregon tried to claim copyright on state law:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/apr/19/oregon-clai...

but they decided "not to enforce any" after word got out:

https://lawblog.justia.com/2008/06/19/oregon-decides-not-to-...
The mechanism of high-temperature superconductivity is found
We don't really know any of the details to judge that decision. I would imagine it was more than "a few people mistaking her for a janitor." But who knows. We all leave jobs that are burning us out sometimes (hopefully). We also all make mistakes. I don't feel any need to judge her life by one decision we don't know much about.
bumper, hood, radiator, connecting parts, paint matching on a 7 year old car, etc. Not a big deal, I just wanted to tell people my story so people realize even doing it in a parking lot or neighborhood can probably kill if it is possible for me to crash that hard in bumper to bumper traffic.
Not sure about that, think about the case of (Bayesian) logistic regression.
Yes, netlify makes an open source CMS (single page app) which works with a bunch of static site generators. You can upload an image, edit the posts, and then the SPA will use github API to upload or edit.

https://www.netlifycms.org/

Just migrated our wordpress blog to jekyll + this. So far the content writers aren't super happy but the SEO speed scores are better :)
I have never heard of this either, but yeah... through a quirk in Canadian law, only the crown is allowed to transport liquor between provinces, modulo some exceptions for small quantities: https://constitutional.findlaw.ca/article/how-much-alcohol-c...

I can't legally very much beer or wine back to Saskatchewan when I make a trip to Alberta, even though it's significantly cheaper there.

Edit: I knew about the "no transport between provinces" thing, but I didn't know about the receipt thing. I suspect that if you're in Alberta, with Alberta plates, you're not going to have your beer confiscated. If you're in Saskatchewan with Alberta plates, and have a trunk full of beer... they're probably going to suspect you bought it all cheap at home and are bringing it to friends.
An open door doesn't give permission to steal, but as any insurance will tell you the blame for the theft will fall on both sides: The justice system will find the thief guilty and punish him, and the insurance will find the shop owner guilty and punish him.

If the security problem is more subtle than an open door it's not unheard of to consult the criminal, who may be given a lesser sentence or other freedoms for helping make everyone more secure.

Of course in this case all of that is kind of moot. The rigging attempt was crude and quickly detected. Everything worked as it should, and while organizing an election brings a high burden of ensuring no manipulation occurs, everything was executed perfectly. The real problem was students not being forced to change their default password, which is akin to an open door, just from a different department.
This could be a game changer if it is well integrated. No more dealing with forks of open source projects that respect the interface up to a certain point. That way we can a full local stack that is exactly what runs on the cloud.
There are many required fees if you want to follow the law. Building permits, drivers license, car registration, the list goes on. every bit of it is awful.
I mean I wish we just stopped there, IRC, done, call it a day, never ever think about many to many written communication ever again. It works, scales, supported on all platform, text based, small memory/cpu footprint. Just like we stopped developing hammers a while ago. CS is the only field where 1.0 is never good enough. We keep "innovating" adding features that nobody needs and complicating things until it becomes this unmanagable mess. </rant>
The same reasons patients get charged $1000 for a $1 ibuprofen dose while hospitals are still running out of money for running operations?
In most cases they still owned large plantations which was always the real source of wealth. Slaves were the means to extract that value from the land. The end of the war lined up with serval advancements in farming technology (or at-least the widespread use of them). Combined that with many of the former slaves having no transferable skills and very limited bargaining power forced them to work on the plantations for horrible wages.
You may enjoy my favorite collective noun- a parliament of owls!
I literally gave up on Funimation because every time I had to login, and looked at my password manager's randomly generated password, I died a little inside, since they didn't use the typical "just enter those couple of digits from the website and you're good to go", which is a nice compromise.

Dunno if it changed, it was a while ago.
This reminds me part 1 of the 2 part "Reconstruction: America After The Civil War," airs tonight (April 9 and 16).

https://www.pbs.org/weta/reconstruction/
The problem is always differentiating between driver and passenger.
Badly written Javascript/Electron apps are resource hogs.
Sure, it may be efficient but what percentage of feature compatibility do you think they'll be able to reproduce and maintain?
I referenced this in my prior comment, calling out their consumer rubbish which they don't bother to maintain.
It's trivial to mandate a phone be designed so that it can't be used in a moving car or for a certain amount of time since it has experienced significant acceleration. In fact you could ban certain apps like txting and calling during these times. I guess you could even mandate tech to help the phone figure out where in the car the person is sitting and only disable their phone.
The deterrence effect of punishment relies on two factors: severity of the punishment when caught and the probability of getting caught. You can only up the former so much before a single stupid mistake ruins your life. But we could increase deterrence a lot by increasing the second factor. Just think about it: You a $5 fine stop you from using your phone? Right now probably not. But if it cost you $5 EVERY TIME you used your phone in the car you'd stop rather quickly.
I have a friend who was an adjunct professor for a number of years, and I would describe him as barely above homeless most of the time. He never knew whether he would have a job in the fall, and the pay was barely above minimum wage. He was planning to give up and move back to his hometown before this year when he was hired as a full-time professor.

I learned a lot about modern higher education from him, and I would absolutely describe adjunct professor as a low-status job.
There is nothing strange here. Google has both open source and proprietary software. Source is not available for nearly all of Google's websites.
Is 800Mb acceptable for a chat app?
Yes, I feel this way. Public skies, public code.
How does it distinguish driver from passenger?
Presumably they go into the Officer Memorial Slush fund?
Your example would look a bit like this:

The 1% own all of the property in the country, because their purchasing power is so enormous.

One of them earns ten times more than 99 of the others put together.

The 1% turn the screws on the 99% such that $200K actually isn't a high income any more. For example, monopolising land.

Money is just a number. What really matters is the share of resources; there's some sort of Schwarzchild radius beyond which the wealthy turn into black holes.
Wow, really love it :) If I'd ever start writing a blog, would it be okay to copy the CSS? :-)
Hugh, the article is much shorter than I expected— even past the paywall it seems to be mostly just a pointer at “The intergenerational effects of a large wealth shock: white Southerners after the civil war,” by P. Ager, L. Boustan and K. Eriksson.

Which is itself behind a paywall [1].

[1]: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3363436
I'm thinking of randomizing the entire stream, and getting something that looks "reasonably random" to casual inspection by human beings, using only O(1) space.
It would be hard to filter out the false positives. I'm almost always a passenger or riding a train. Locking out my phone during either of those situations would be a problem.
Sticker Swap
As a big fan of IRC, I would have to say that it doesn't "work" at all when compared to Slack or Discord. You have to be online to receive messages, making it pretty much useless for any serious communication needs. Yes, I am aware of, and run, an IRC bouncer, this is not a real solution for 99% of users.
Many years ago my neighbor was a woman in debt up to her eyeballs with a sociology degree, who dreamed of working in the nonprofit sector. She got a series of (unpaid) internships with nonprofits around Boston but could never land a permanent position. She wound up taking a job at a local sandwich shop.

Domino's Pizza managers make over $40,000 and don't require a college degree.[0] They also have benefits. In 2007 when I worked at Dominos the manager was salaried and worked about 50 hours a week, but he was an ex-convict and really enjoyed his job. He was a super nice guy who made us excited to work there.

There is no need to pay $200,000 for a worthless degree to make minimum wages as you are overworked and stressing yourself to death. If that was me, I'd go back to Dominos, it was a pretty fun place to work.

[0] https://www.glassdoor.com/Hourly-Pay/Domino-s-General-Manage...
I think most bayesians would disagree with you on this point :)

It's not incoherent to analyze the posterior distribution by reporting a credibility interval instead of a single number (for example the posterior median).
The idea that people resent inequality might seem sketchy to some or self evident to others.

A better way is to actually ask them how they feel and correlate with gini. Which is what the study did.
> An arbitrage is just a strategy that's guaranteed to make money. If you know for sure that something will go up and down at different points you could make money risk free. Simply buy at any point below the current price and sell at any point above.

This is not arbitrage. Also this is precisely the kind of strategy Taleb would have argued against in his book about black swan events.
How much did it cost??
Modern R&B Re-interpreted with guitars (HER Focus)
I don't know how I feel about Ansible as a means to idempotency.

I used to create ro filesystems for embedded systems and then move /var and /tmp to a tmpfs ... Imaging "just" running ansible every hour on it seems like a total shitshow by comparison.
Also keep in mind this is AI circa 1996. Some changes since then
Having the self driving features on a car such as Tesla auto pilot has really made this problem worse. People rely on their cars to stop in time, although this is not always the case
They've been doing this for years for me. Did they just recently turn on location services by default or something?
No country did it with wind/solar in the past, because wind/solar weren't competitive.

No country will do it with nuclear in the future, because nuclear won't be competitive.
It's also pretty dumb to vote for something, knowing it will end up in a mess since there is no good solution for it. Excuse of "someone smart will find one" is outrageous. Let them first find a solution, before voting for something that becomes a requirement already now.
Even though my car doesn't support Android Auto, I still have it set to auto-launch on my phone. If you attempt to close Auto with the auto-launch set up, it simply re-launches.

> see if they're expecting you/changed plans

This is impossible with Android Auto, you can't read or send texts (without voice, which doesn't work properly in my car). It auto-responds telling people to phone me if it is time-sensitive (like changed plans).

If they don't call back I'll arrive late, big whoop, at least I'm not arriving in a body bag. If they have a problem with me being late, they changed plans last-minute. None of which has happened to me.

> do it the moment it has utility?

It never has utility.
By that link's characterization Taleb's argument is pure fluff.
Oregon also tried to make it illegal for engineers to point out safety flaws in their red light traps.

https://ij.org/press-release/oregon-engineer-wins-traffic-li...
Welcome to being in your 20s in the USA.