skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate to muddy the waters here but for years thought I had face-blindness before realising that I have Aphantasia.

You're exactly right: I know what a Sphere looks like but I am missing the bit that the rest of the world seems to have where they can conjure up an image of it. Even less abstract objects like a desk or Angela Merkel's face, I am quite unable to picture.

To answer your question, if I ask you to picture a barn in a field, you presumably have no difficulty in doing so. You've probably even made assumptions about things like the colour of the barn, the weather or surrounding terrain and have a sort of portrait with a barn at the centre, but I can't do that. I am having difficulty describing what I get but it's nothing close to anything like that. I know my barn is made of wood and I know it's in a field but that's about as far as I can get.

I'm happy that this is getting discussion because obviously it's quite strange to find out that a) you're not wired the same way as the majority of the world and b) that your self-diagnosis isn't a medically recognised condition. I'm excited to see what research comes out over the next few years.
A study of all Americans born between 1978 and 1983, by economists Raj Chetty, Nathaniel Hendren, Maggie Jones and Sonya Porter, found that even the black sons of wealthy parents exhibited extraordinary downward mobility relative to whites. They also had much higher rates of incarceration. Unlike white slaveholders after the civil war, intergenerational transmission of black wealth one century later seems much more fragile.

It has been extraordinarily easy to rob black families of their wealth, whether through exclusionary institutional policy that keeps them from building or maintaining wealth through conventional means, exclusionary networking that keeps them from learning about new and unconventional means, or simply through the act of burning it down.

Many wealthy black men and women are self-made in the real sense; that is, they don't have networks like the ones described in the article to pass down to their children, who, as a result, are essentially starting from square-one (plus their more elite educations, which only do so much good[1]).

1 - https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/05/29/...
Here's my test for phone addiction (for men): If you are pissing into a urinal and need to look at your phone during those 15 seconds, you have a problem. And I see this a lot.

A scary game: when in stop and go traffic, have a look at the person behind you. Are their eyes on the road, or their lap? In my experience, 7 out of 10 are looking at their lap, with a quick glance up every 5 seconds or so.

I spend plenty of time on my phone, but geez, have some phone free moments every now and then.
> Ultimately, if something similar happened today (immediate removal of 50% of rich people's so-called property or some other major wealth shock), avoiding a similar recovery couldn't be done without banning private schools and removing all children from their parents for long periods of time, along with forcibly relocating the previous property owners and not letting them network with each other.

And doing so would be a net loss of value. Making people less educated doesn't help anyone.
I guess then technically IRC servers need a way to have images uploaded and re-serve them. When I share an image on slack I'm usually just uploading it directly to slack, rather than using imgur or another uploader.
Fun fact: in colonial days, grants of land, money, and food were mandated whenever a white slave is emancipated. Turning out all of the black slaves with nothing but the clothes on their backs was a new and intentional cruelty.
The misunderstood consequences of electroconvulsive therapy
I believe "Voting doesn't work" works very well for preserving the status quo. Don't you agree?
Stop nitpicking this. There's nothing unclear or ambiguous about 'less'. It refers to a smaller quantity of something. There's no reason not to use it. This is just pointless grammar Nazism.
In order to understand the Law, we need to know the meanings of words laws are written in. If we follow the logic that some are proposing here, the government would have to license a dictionary and provide it for free to all citizen. That'd be plain silly.

Building codes just provide precise definitions of what constitute safe construction. They aren't laws themselves.
Except some people can be having a conversation while I'm offline. When I get back on, I can catch up or have someone link me to an important part of it. It's handy.
Only as long as "us" is defined racially, which is itself racist.
There are about 20 million speakers of Danish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese and Swedish (including native Swedish-speakers in Finland). If we added the Finnish-speaking population to the mix we'd end up with a population of over 25 million -- not 20.

That being said, I'd say Finns are quite close to the other Nordic countries culturally, even though there is a clear language barrier.

For those who don't know what this is about, Finnish and Sami aren't Indo-European languages like the other Nordic languages are, while Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are closely related and somewhat mutually intelligible.
> I have no ethical qualms with animals dying so I can eat meat

Of the people I know that do not eat meat, including myself, they don't not eat it because of religion or animal pity...
I'm going to guess your father's CEO didn't beat, rape or starve your father with the full support of the law.
Sorry to weigh in this way, but yes it's a rare thing to do. Most people don't have multiple offers sitting on the table. It's a privilege.

It's rare, that's all.
100B? hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
> this is a problem so big that even people walking cross roads with their faces glued to their phones.

I see this comparison a lot, and I just want to clarify: when you are distracted as a pedestrian, you're risking your life. When you are distracted as a driver, you're risking other people's lives.

Getting behind a wheel drunk is considerably more dangerous to society than going home on foot. Phone use equivalently so.

I have far more patience with people risking their own lives, rather than those of others.
I imagine that Twitter is abusing the HTML5 history API. It's a Web specification. It can be useful when used right, but any scriptable functionality is open for abuse.
Many IRC servers provide a service that allows users to send messages to offline users, which are then relayed to the user when they come online.
They are constantly looking for people looking at their phone while driving. Quite regularly in certain areas, like along Cesar Chavez downtown. I know because I've been ticketed!
I think we've all seen the state-of-the-art with words the system have never seen before, and it's not very impressive. I think you confused some terms in your comment. Word embeddings like word2vec, is a vector that considers surrounding words typically, and is really just a way to compress one-hot vectors into a smaller dimensional space. So it can infer from the surrounding words that it is similar in position to another word in a given word sequence but that is pretty much it. Generally you cannot vectorize a word it has never seen in the fitting stage of word2vec. I think once you really start hacking away at this stuff, you will someday come to the thought: is my "creative" model over-fitting (repeating its trained inputs), or is this something completely new generated? Where do you draw that line? A word embedding AI cannot invent new words. It can make new word combinations, and even pick up grammar rules, but the results suck. I have tried my hand at text generation using LSTMs, and much smarter people than me have tried, and it's not looking great. I will continue hacking away at it however :)
I thought they stored the graphics on the server with Discord. I know there is that out-of-band file protocol that some IRC clients support, but it was always a terrible hack that hated firewalls.
That's not how I use the feature at all. The vast majority of images and files I send are created locally. I can then upload or paste then into the chat client, they get stored on the server and shown to the other users. With IRC, I would need to use a separate service like imgur to first upload the images. And or a file hosting service like Dropbox for the files.
Interesting. That article is dated after I spoke to the police, so perhaps they've changed their strategy. Though I still have not personally seen any evidence of actual enforcement.
Ask HN: Leader Ethics Question
Been reflecting on an issue and would like fellow hackers opinion. Is it okay if a tech leader, indirectly, through their action causes a talented developer to be pulled off a ‘Socially-good’ mission that may benefit the whole community in the future into the commercial environment thereby detracting from ‘Socially-good’ mission.

Or is this outside of leaders sphere of responsibility
Not just cores. But memory currently is capped at 2GB.
What they did at the time was absolutely horrible. You're free but how free can you really when you need to keep food on the table and have never been taught any skills outside of your role as a slave? While they might have been granted freedom many, probably most, were not given the resources to truly act on that freedom.

That being said I think reparations at this point would ineffective and a politically infeasible. The money that would hypothetically be used for such a thing could be more effectively used providing services to low income areas.
As long as you remember which ethnic group(s) owned and shipped the majority of slaves, I'm totally cool with reparations. Reparations should of course be made from the coffers of the descendants of those individuals, where possible. Generational wealth is a very real problem in some countries.
Some screenshots would be nice. And you really need a privacy policy ;)
That's incorrect - you can send binaries over IRC with DCC.
Is there any reason older/more senior developer prefers backend than full stack or front end?
The problem was the MCAS. That's new technology.
> Hierarchy is by age because... heavily correlated with...

Listen, the same exact things were said about women, or Jews, any number of groups of people who were excluded, by whatever means, coercive or not, from opportunities of employment, in various societies in the industrial world.

I'm not saying we should throw out applications of people over 30. I'm saying that management is now open to young people, and it turns out businesses make tons of money despite being full of young people, so all your god-damned correlations are really just a bunch of fucking folk wisdom that doesn't add up to anything.

It's basically the best time, ever, in the history of the world, to achieve prestige or power as an 18-21 year old, ever, a benefit that is available to everyone's kids, including yours, and you're never going to want to change that, even if it personally sometimes results in less prestige or power for older people.
Not sure if anyone saw this...

"Is Finland Really The Happiest Country In The World? (HBO)"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPU4F-Ajh8
Zoom could be valued at $8B in upcoming IPO
Google Cloud Run runs stateless containers, serverlessly
> Where I used to get weekly updates, and focused, useful, invitations to what are called “Product Group Interactions” — stuff about the new WDK or changes to OS features — I now get an endless stream of invitations to SQL and SharePoint events.

If I had to wager why it seems like the MVP program dieing (I have no clue if it is, this is the first post I've ever read about the MVP meta) it has to do with this point the author called out.

I suspect that, at least in its early days, the MVP program help guide product development teams. In return for helping guide development, these MVP's were given preferential treatment over other customers and access to insider information. Now that Microsoft is (at least appearing) more open, they can get their feedback from their open source communities.
That paper does an excellent job of describing what I usually refer to as tribalism.
I will add though that I do attempt to retype code I find on StackOverflow rather than rely on copy pasting. I'm a PhD student that can't extract a tar file or correctly set up an Apache server configuration because I work primarily on a Windows machine and it's "not needed" for my career path. However, this lack of ability annoys me, so either I continue to rely on SO and having the Internet to save me, or I learn to do it myself.
No, there isn't. Have your phone read messages aloud when in the car, but just reading something is not really that much better than trying to answer. Any time your eyes leave the road/mirrors you have a chance to miss something crucial. And yes, interacting with the entertainment system is just as bad, that's why there are steering wheels with controls to change the track, to enable the driver to do so without taking their eyes off the road.

Around here you get a fine and a slowly-decaying record of doing something dangerous for any usage of a phone while in a car with the engine running. That might seem too harsh, but I really think it isn't. If you've endangered someone or damaged something while doing so it's also an immediate ban from driving for a month. The only sad thing is that police has to catch you doing this and that's rare.
Definitely more than I would have anticipated; impressive
Isn't this essentially the case already, just that most don't get the $200k? (only partly joking).
A quicker way to multiply big numbers
No, the point is to minimize the cost of dealing with waste. Reprocessing doesn't do that.

But let's stipulate that they want to destroy the waste. What's the cheapest way to do that? If they wait to reprocess the fuel, and destroy the actinides in the future, it comes out cheaper than if they reprocess now. That's because reprocessing, and developing and building fast reactors, is quite expensive, and the net present value of that cost is minimized by moving it off into the future. Moreover, reprocessing becomes easier as the fuel cools off.

So, reprocessing NOW is a pointless waste of money, even if ultimately you want to do it. The ONLY reason you'd want to reprocess now was if you needed the actinides now for use in energy generation. And no one needs them for that.
I was hit on the highway by a phone user who almost killed me and my parents. Speed differential was 55mph. That is, we were completely stopped on the highway and she drove for something like a quarter mile and hit us, leaving me with nerve damage and severe lower back pain. Luckily rehab went stellar and although I have some residual burning/stinging nerve damage, I can walk, run, play sports, go to the gym - you wouldn't even have known that I spent some time in a neck brace, cast, and back pain so back I could hardly leave my bed (but it also hurt just as bad to lay in bed) after almost being killed by the distracted driver.

Oh yeah, the concussion too. That was pretty rough as well.
YES! This is awesome. Have it up and running with Slack.

I checked for:

* Thread support (yes)

* Drag n drop images (yes)

* SSO support (yes)

* Quick Switcher (yes)

* Default dark mode (yes (!!))

There are some things missing, like search, fine grained notification controls for muting, profile editing, code snippets, moving emojis, etc. But for daily communication, I'll give it a try. Feels fast and light.

Edit: After some time, I think I will keep it around for when I am on the go and want to preserve battery. I do not think I'll use it full time because I miss some of the colourful whimsy of the Slack client.
Yes, but here you don't need to manage a Jenkins installation.
People don't understand how hard it is to get tenure. You have to win grants from the NIH to get tenure. Why? Because for every grant the NIH gives to scientist, the Universities tack on indirect costs (whatever that means) allowing them collect upwards of 50% of the grant for the University. Research grants are a cast cow, and it's really f* up
In this scenario $200k/year becomes the minimum income, since nobody earns less than that. It certainly wouldn't have the same purchasing power in that society as $200k has in the USA for instance, unless you take some kind of globalization effect into account, in which poorer foreign countries accredit this super-wealthy country purchasing power. Wealth is relative.
改善 literally only means improvement and it’s not a cultural trait. It’s just a word, and to many, a buzzword.

Japanese drivers are always glued to their phones. Almost every car has a built in TV and drivers watch it while driving and messaging someone on their phone. Bicyclists often hold an umbrella in one hand while playing a game with the other. Police aren’t making any effort to crack down on it and nobody is willing to accept that their own driving is dangerous and in need of improvement. The western idea of “kaizen” is sorely lacking here.
I use both, for different things, and I far prefer Slack.
How to Understand the Image of a Black Hole
Glad to hear there's enforcement. I don't go downtown, so I wouldn't really know about that location. I'd prefer if they moved farther north. I've seen a lot of distracted driving on Manor, probably more than anywhere else.
> During the T9 days, was texting while driving statistically safer

I have fond memories of being in high school and texting one-handed in class on my Blackberry without looking. Not quite as ideal as T9 for one-handed use, but I was essentially stupid for the few moments I spent doing that. My brain was elsewhere. The problem with distracted driving isn't purely vision (although that's a factor). The mental context-switch is a huge problem.
I don't "like" Pottering because I don't know the person in the slightest. I have found systemd to be useful software and interactions on the issue queue have been reasonable.

I was a happy Upstart user before Upstart threw in the towel too.
Folks probably perceive that because she was a high profile CEO that ran her company into the ground. Yes Yahoo! was not doing great before her but if you get paid tens of millions of dollars to do a job I would say it’s not unfair to be judged unsuccessful when you fail. She’s still rich after all. Do we also need to unquestionably agree she is excellent?

Also she killed remote work at Yahoo! and practiced great hypocrisy by simultaneously building a private daycare for her kids next to her office.

She is no hero and it’s ok to point that out.
Back then it would have been fair to give them payment for the years they worked for free (or shares worth the equivalent amount). It would likely have lead to a more equal society today. But we already fought a war over just freeing the slaves, I don't think giving them decades of wages at once was politically viable.

Reparations today would be an entirely different topic and would probably look more like social programs that seek to repair the lasting effects of the less than ideal way those people entered the (paid) workforce 150 years ago.
Does this mean that by using Cloud Run GKE I can also leverage the primitives provided by Istio and Knative Serving?
Then there was this plan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pluto

heck the mission is to turn the enemy to a radioactive rubble. Trouble is the test flights.
As someone who feels they're from the outside looking in (left college to work, still ended up in the technology but without a traditional college education) one of the most frustrating things is watch folks who I perceive as traditionally trained CS and similar folks ... is their desire to go hyper analytical ... and then REALLY commit to the result as the best choice above all others because of whatever analysis they made.

Now granted there are time to hunker down and commit but sometimes all that data doesn't really tell you anything and you're still facing an unknown no matter how much work you do, and it might be worth thinking about it after taking a few steps down that road / experience. It's not uncommon to come across a variable(s) that plays a far stronger role than any other, only AFTER you tried doing something.

For hyper analytical folks the data on hand is the hammer for every nail it seems sometimes.
Are we sure this isn't a scrape error, because it's stopping literally at the end of the public view.
I miss Trillian. That was a fine program. I actually wrote an extension for it that allowed me to automate things with Tcl/Tk.
I'm planning to move to SF form Barcelona next year and this kind of article always makes me doubt a lot about my decision. Especially because of the fact that seems like that there's nothing less then tech to talk about in SF, and i'm seriously worried about how this can affect not only my creativity but also my relationship (my girlfriend is not tech). Can you advise me any other place (in the US) to move for a while where i can improve my network, discuss interesting ideas that have a similar wheather condition to Spain??? I'm starting to consider new options.

Thank you!
Taleb is simultaneously both worth reading as well as one of the most pretentious, unpleasant asses I've ever read.

The Black Swan was mostly fantastic, but Antifragile was mostly regurgitation.

The biggest problem with him is he thinks he's much, much smarter than he is, like a kind of inverse-Dunning-Kruger effect. It's odd because he is quite a smart man in the first place; there's no need for him to be such a pretentious asshole.
Of course! Everything you need is in here: https://github.com/Eiriksmal/lawler-dot-io/tree/main/theme
> more security around the data that is used for fingerprinting, such as [...] screen size, window size

Available in Nightly under a hidden boolean preference `privacy.resistFingerprinting.letterboxing`.
> Its tempting to glance at the text and see if they're expecting you/changed plans.

My desire to avoid the inconvenience of some extra driving (if I drive all the way to the destination only to leave because plans changed) is not more valuable than other people's lives.

There's no good reason to be on your phone while your car is in motion — absolutely none.
I find the second part of that paragraph more interesting.

However, Sorby says, the course has made a small difference in retention rates for men, “but we’re seeing a big difference for women.”

What I would like to know if the bottom percentile of the men who score badly on partial tests will benefit of the course. If it does not then that puts the initial theory into question that spatial cognition influence retention rates in STEM.
Traditionally, AWS has "stolen the thunder" of these vendors, providing a wireline compatible offering (Elastic, Redis, Memcache, Mongo, etc). It's smart of Google to partner with them to help bolster their cloud offering against AWS ("the enemy of my enemy is my friend").
If she can't wait 10 min for you to safely reply there is something seriously wrong with your marriage.
in the mid 90's the younger adult generation was replaced by kids who didn't grow up exposed to leaded gasoline: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead%E2%80%93crime_hypothesis
>Yahoo was already dying when she joined.

She joined it.... that is something she decided to do.
So you really think venezuelans are super happy with hyperinflation, totally destroyed public services,etc?
It was illegal to rape or starve slaves. Your statement is incorrect.
Communism has had a famously difficult history as an economic model.
Microsoft got some search tech out of them later.... that's all that would be left I imagine.
What’s Up with Hungarian Notation? (2003)
At least there was no fire.