skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A couple of years ago I was in stop-and-go traffic, and while at a stop, I watched in my rear view as the woman in a minivan behind me slowly rolled into my bumper while looking at her lap. We pulled over to see if there was damage, and she had the nerve to claim that someone had rear-ended her, pushing her van into my bumper, then they sped off. Even if I hadn't witnessed what really happened, the freeway was at a stand still, nobody was speeding off anywhere.
Smoking addiction
Does anyone want to get rid of the addiction to smoking?
What point are you trying to make?

Because that's not what I said and any honest reading of my post would back that up.

I just can't imagine what kind of background you have to think this is an insightful or clever addition to the conversation.
I have Personalised licence plates that read "AFK".

It used to be a nerdy geek joke... but these days I see it as a bit of a statement on my and (what others) driving habits should be.
Facebook  says it will use AI to determine when someone has died
This is on my PiHole blacklist:

austin.logs.roku.com

captive.roku.com

scribe.logs.roku.com

(^|\.)logs\.roku\.com$

(^|\.)sw\.roku\.com$
I don’t know, but I can change the colors of all our products from one single place in the code. If you have to do it in multiple places something is probably wrong.

Excecutives change their minds on a whim, you are much better off anticipating that.
Especially when all the new "exclusive" to the Roku Channel features are either actually already available for other channels to take advantage of or will be shortly.
I do similarly as you except s/DO/codenvy/
I don't think anyone that is, has been, or knows someone who got a PhD in the past decade+ and tried for an academic career -- finds her story at all unusual, or thinks from what we've been told that it would likely have been different if _she_ had done something different.

Almost anyone familiar with how it works will find her story familiar and familiarly awful. Almost nobody familiar with how it works will think "if I had been in her place it would have ended up differently." This is how it is.
I'm aphantastic and have taught myself to draw fairly well over the past year. In fact, it was only in learning to draw that I learned what aphantasia was. Many lessons described "picturing" something in your mind's eye, and it slowly dawned on me that people actually "see" a picture in their mind -- I had assumed that was just an analogy.

I have tried some exercises that started helping me with mental visualizations. I've seen gotten quite busy with other stuff, but I think that if I had pursued those exercises, it had the potential to help. One exercise is called "image streaming", and although I'm skeptical it helps with general intelligence as some people claim, I have heard some fairly convincing stories of people with aphantasia learning to visualize: http://www.winwenger.com/ebooks/guaran4.htm

Edit: I'm now reading a lot of skeptical takes on the image streaming I describe above. So I'm no longer as optimistic that it would be helpful.
> Why doesn't the article excerpt any language from the bill, or otherwise link to it?

This seems to be a trend among recent articles.
> However, all the Pocket features that Firefox integrates with are (still) closed source

All the integration code is open source. Pocket is a web service that is currently not open source. This is like saying that because Firefox uses Google Safe Browsing, that it is open source in name only because the Google Safe Browsing code isn't open source.
Given historical relevance it’s hard to imagine a time when someone would make a comment like “Regulations on human psychological experiments, what are we, a bunch of delicate flowers?!” But I have a hard time believing it would be seriously novel to conflate what goes on online with group psychological experiments. I’m not sure which side of the debate I would land on, but I do think it’s a reasonable enough thing for a deliberative body to consider, and certainly reasonable enough for a healthy debate without trying to sandbag it as “safe space”
Columns don't really work well with scrolling, unfortunately. You can do multiple pages of multiple columns or one scrollable column for longer content - personally, I prefer the latter (and it's simpler technically), but either works.
How about fully remote? Anyone?
After the civil war the southern states instituted black codes to continue the institutions of slavery.
Seems like it would harm job growth, because labor costs would increase for low wage jobs.

Also what about income from investment?
That’s until you hit trance states of consciousness. Then perception of “reality” changes quite a bit.
So she completed a second-rate major and luckily joined the fastest-growing company in US history ... that makes her smart and capable? Like OP, I know several people who knew her at Stanford (I didn't go there) and she was regarded with uniform disdain by everyone who was technically sharp.

I know several people who worked with her at Google, and she was fairly disliked there. She got frozen out and would have been eventually run out of the company had Yahoo not foolishly come calling. I WAS at Yahoo with her and I can verify that she did a terrible job there. Random decision making, company-wide initiatives that whipsawed from quarter to quarter, billion-dollar impulse acquisitions that almost immediately got written down. And let's not forget Polyvore - the 200m indulgence that she paid to her former assistant against the recommendations of the M&A team; that was just straight cronyism and corporate malfeasance.

True, Yahoo would have been a challenge for any CEO. But there were rational strategies that could have yielded some success. Marissa, on the other hand, went in the opposite direction and recklessly destroyed billions in shareholder value while pocketing hundreds of millions herself. Read the Kara Swisher articles on her at Recode. They were spot on. I heard a Business School professor on MSNBC argue that Marissa Mayer was the single most overpaid CEO in history. As a Yahoo employee who got to observe her tenure up close, I can't disagree. She's a terrible example for women in tech.
That an organization is a recognized 501(c)(3)/(6) doesn't mean it isn't a business.
Surprising that the US consider themselves to have better social support than Canada and many other european countries.
Slack lags seconds behind when I type anything.
All the poets, songwriters and comedians would have a collective heart attack if they were told they needed to use language like that.
lol firefox. i wouldnt hate the guys if they had stuck to their guns on DRM and didnt kick the guy because he made a religious donation.
Right, for one thing, with automation, it's also reasonable to produce many smaller crops and make up for what you lose in individual crop volume with combined varietal volume.

Or, more likely, produce another, lesser-known fruit or vegetable and market the hell out of it.
This is just a hack and doesn't solve the real issues.
This bill is, or at least appears to be, bipartisan.

> U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Deb Fischer (R-NE) have introduced the Deceptive Experiences To Online Users Reduction (DETOUR) Act.

https://www.scribd.com/document/405606873/Detour-Act-Final
I suspect this is more that when people look at a bike, they don't notice detail and just recall the concept of a bike having two wheels - one forward and one back, a seat, some handles, etc.

Their failure to draw an accurate bike is in fact proof they don't have a photographic memory, rather than they can't visualise one. That is to say, they're entirely capable of visualising a bike that is incorrect from an engineering design perspective.
Exactly. The cost is still passed on to the citizens, probably even more so. In addition, every year in the US, $4B is wasted in construction rework which is really dumb. One of the things we're trying to do at UpCodes is to create a checker for 3D building models to help catch some of these errors upstream. If we didn't have the fundraising to fight back against the lawsuit, we'd never have gotten to work on this.

BTW, it's not only government officials and industry people who have to read these laws, it's also all homeowners doing any kind of renovation or DIY project.
Bitcoin is the first ever distributed ledger, that can store and publish transaction information for a number of adversarial parties.

All other systems are centralized, only work without adversarial parties or both.

This means Bitcoin doesn't need central banks. It doesn't need reporting transactions over 10k to some central governing entity. You can memorize a list of words that the cops can't seize in a random search from your car. It gives some freedoms to people.

However, the hash difficulty/energy consumption problem is a serious issue and many people in the community are investigating alternatives for it.

Also, take into account that the energy consumption is related to the hash calculation power available in a given moment, not to the number of transactions performed.

This also means that Bitcoin mining will consume the same amount of power even if no new transactions are being done between the owners of Bitcoin wallets.

If there's a way to make a distributed ledger that can store and publish transaction information for a number of adversarial parties without consuming the energy of an African country, I am confident someone will find it.

Many alt-coins are experiments on that regard, using several different algorithms and ideas.

However, this is still an open problem and I don't know any timeline about when it can be resolved.
https://help.venmo.com/hc/en-us/articles/221073067-Verifying...

I mean it makes perfect sense, they want to know you have enough money to start transfers.

And the ability to do X doesn’t mean they’re doing X, It sounds like they might be tracking transfers related to Venmo, but their being honest and admitting that same power allows them much more access.

AFAIK they’re using Plaid, and nothing here is an unusual application of Plaid
> Does the homepage work better? Good experiment.

"Better" for who? The website owners interests are rarely in alignment with my interests. They want increased sales, higher user engagement, etc. I want less engagement and the ability to make informed choices on products.

Let's say there's a product listing with it's list of features and this list has been extensively tweaked to maximize sales. As a result of that tweaking they took away a line item, that would have caused me to not buy it, say an annoying LED status indicator. This is good for the website owner but bad for me because I've lost the ability to make an informed decision. It's asymmetric manipulation and I'd regard it as immoral.
"I had a long analytical evening with a friend of mine where we looked at all the job offers I had received. We created a giant matrix with one row per job offer and one column per value"

I think this is a luxury problem. How many people have competing job offers that are even close to each other in attractiveness?
Until recently, you could show up in Vancouver and buy a $10 million house for cash, and then put the company into the name of some obscure trust and nobody would ever find out who you are. And it turns out that there were only five RCMP officers handling money laundering in the entire country or something like that.
For these companies "improve their experience" = optimizing for maximum time spent with the product even when it's not in the best interest of the people using the product. i.e. Netflix autoplay, algorithmic newsfeed that tends to show more outrage-inducing content, and artificial notifications that aren't from people you know, but are engineered to get you back into the product unnecessarily. They just want to capture as much of your attention as possible because it increases the number of ads they can show/sell. That's not improving user experience, that's hijacking attention to maximize profit. Considering attention is the primary instrument nature has given us for crafting our lives, that's a pretty user-hostile thing to do.
Today yes, in the past no. Language changes over time.
You've never had an earworm?? E.g. where a song is stuck in your head and you can't get it out?
Why the disclosure? Are you saying this in a personal capacity or is this the stance of Google Ads team?

Like, hey we love and embrace any technology that fights our team's fingerprinting efforts...
Not all cost surfaces are equally likely to occur in real problems...
Also depends on the constraints, linear assignment (i.e. one job to one worker with a big matrix of cost for job to worker and you minimize the sum) has a polynomial complexity solution.
I think it's good policy and will also be really funny, which is why I think it should become law. It'll force Silicon Valley to learn empathy overnight.
My life. :)

I gotta wonder if Dorsey has intermittent snacking going on, I find I'm pretty damn functional on one meal plus semi-healthy snacks (mixed nuts/berries/small chocolate bits, mostly).
So as a married person I can't enjoy masturbation? This author has a fetish for writing 'incel' it seems. What a creep.
> Who benefits from this dislocation of social and cultural bonds?

Good for business for several reasons.

Business no longer need to pay person enough to raise a family.

When genders or people are completely interchangeable, this puts downwards pressure on salaries, increases supply by increasing mobility.

People with dislocated bonds, and people doing work they don't like, are less happy in general. Makes it easier to sell them shiny stuff they don't actually need.
How does this compare with Cloudability and others?
There was an incident some years ago where an EP-3R recon plane was forced to land by PLA fighters. Flight crew had a few mins to destroy critical components but the Chinese gathered some tech from that incident. Also, the unlucky Gary Powers.
we're likely all aware this is an incredibly difficult thing to quantify; indeed this represents a respectable effort.

it's not that i am not interested in raw data over interpretation. usually we don't have access to such data, or we don't know exactly what said data should be.

so this to me is a sort of data pornography that i enjoy with a grain of ky jelly.
I find the terminology around this to be so vague as to be meaningless. Rather than using the words "image", "visualize", or "see" I'd rather use the more specific term "hallucinate", or to "see something that is not actually there". To those in this thread that do not consider themselves to be aphantasic I would propose this question: in your mind's eye, whatever that means to you, imagine a sphere or a barn or whatever physical object is easiest between you and your screen. What are its qualities? Is it opaque, translucent, transparent? Does it obscure the text on the screen? Or can you only hallucinate the object with your eyes closed? Or do you not hallucinate it at all?

Personally, I can imagine my apartment in detail down to the relative placements of most objects, proportions, the colors, the way the wind enters if the window is opened. I can do similar for past apartments going back 8 years as well as my parent's home. Hell, I can imagine the Reno's steakhouse from my hometown that I haven't been to in over 13 years in much the same way.

I do not consider myself to have aphantasia, however none of the "visualizations" I mentioned are hallucinations as some comments in this thread imply. I do not perceive them with any of my senses, including visual, as if I was there now. Rather it is more of a complex conceptualization in my mind.
I just assume someone with a water sports fetish is about to get a dick pic.
You can't justify sexism with "hey look she did something bad for mothers". The merits of the article have nothing to do with what's wrong with your comment.
The text measure / line length argument probably makes sense for paperback books, and that would likely extend out to mobile/tablet as well.

But perhaps it doesn't make sense when reading on the desktop.

In desktop, you can easily scroll the page to keep track of your spot. You can also use the mouse cursor for to keep your spot in difficult areas. The gains of having long line lengths likely outweigh the occasional difficulty in keeping your spot. The eye reads across faster after all.
Ask HN: How often do you ask for help?
And how do you ask for help when it seems like the same people are being asked by 4-5 others?

Now I feel like a jerk asking about something that I know is likely a silly error but I just can't see it.

Does frequency of asking for help differ with the kind of help you need?
i.e. do you ask design/high-level questions more or less frequently than stupid mistake/compiler/missing semicolon type questions?
I can vouch for this. I have it too, and a few years ago my partner died. I was the one who found her dead, but because I can't remember any visual aspect of it, I'm sheltered somewhat from flashbacks of the trauma. I also hypothesise that it's the reason why I very rarely ever remember dreaming, and this is probably also helpful as I suspect I'd otherwise have nightmares about the event.

It has a double edged effect though: I also can't really visualise her face, and that really depresses me at times because it feels like I'm forgetting her memory (I have to remind myself that I'm not really).
Can you explain what is wrong with most people's implementation of rest?
Didn't see your comment but I said the same thing. Just goes to show arrogance of Google right now they are sisaying in many fields. Because they probably think only they will have the capacity to effectively fingerprint if browsers fought back, because you know, its Google. Most weaker plays will drop out.
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Whoa! I didn't know they used Plaid. Plaid's terms are even more alarming. Why does Plaid need all this information?

"The types of information we collect from your financial institutions may include, but are not limited to:

Account information, including financial institution name, account name, account type, and account and routing number;

Information about an account balance, including current and available balance;

Information about credit accounts, including statement due dates and balances owed, payment amounts and dates, transaction history, and interest;

Information about loan accounts, including due dates, balances, payment amounts and dates, interest, loan type, payment plan, and term;

Information about the account owner(s), including name, email address, phone number, and address information.

Information about account transactions, including amount, date, type, and a description of the transaction."

src: https://plaid.com/legal/
I'm working an an agricultural robotics startup and can confirm that if anything, it's challenging to find robotics use cases in specialty crops that have a large enough market to justify the R&D investment necessary to get the product working in the first place. Corn and soy add up to hundreds of billions of dollars of market value a year, while even a huge specialty crop like strawberries is ~1/100 of that. There's an argument to be made for building out a robotics platform in a crop with higher value per acre (i.e. a specialty crop), then moving to the larger markets (i.e. row crops), but the degree of specialization real world robotics requires is a counterpoint to that - making the jump is often nontrivial.

PS - if anyone reading this is a roboticist/mechanical engineer in the Bay Area and interested in working on something like this or even just talking more, let me know! My email is my username (at) stanford.edu
Sure. Or for example intercrop in ways infeasible with traditional harvesting methodologies to achieve higher density and support more heterogeneous and nutrition-dense farmland ecosystems. Or perhaps remove current needs for transport, processing, sorting, washing, distribution loss, packaging. Or even relocate a plant or set of plants to an alternate location for picking instead of picking in-place.
Cyclists do the same thing. I’m primarily a pedestrian, and lately I’ve seen too many cyclists texting while cycling and blowing through red lights and zebra (pedestrian) crossings as well as riding on the pavement/sidewalks. This is in London.

And for that matter, pedestrians also check their phones while walking and put themselves in danger or just obstruct the pedestrian flow around them. Luckily that is less likely to harm somebody than a car or cyclist.

But let’s not restrict this issue to just drivers. There’s a universal obsession with phones, and people who are unable to stop themselves (whether driving, cycling, walking) if they do need to send a text or email.
>> Will automation get cheaper than paying people basically nothing overseas like the garment manufacturing industry and to a lesser extent the electronics industry - like Foxconn?

(a) Unequivocally, Yes. (b) The cost of manufacturing goods in China is within 5% of the cost to manufacture within the US, the difference is the US has cheaper power and China has cheaper labor. If we remove the labor it will be cheaper to manufacture in the US with machines than China with labor, for instance. I'll try and find the economist article where I got this information from.

In fact the promised Foxconn plant in the US was/is going to be almost entirely automated. And why wouldn't it be?

>> I’m not arguing for not making progress, but the more we become a digital economy, the more you will have a few fortunate people who work in businesses with 0 marginal costs and make a lot of money and the rest doing the unglamorous poorly paid work.

This is a social problem, as I mentioned, and the solution isn't to make the lower classes hammer things all day and root around for shiny rocks. That at best slows down the process, it does nothing to reverse it. The solution is to revisit social contract. It'll be a big change, and it will be worth it.
Prometheus is borgmon. Which is a bit funny as it's used by k8s now. It's also funny as the author left Google, wrote it in 2 years for SoundCloud, then went back to Google.

https://prometheus.io
I run a robotics company in China myself. Would be very interested to chat further and will send you an email.
Open access to the default phonebook, and everyone's can be made to look different.

If it is in the Senate, someone is doing it. They hear about active intelligence.

Target the psycho demographic, and get them to drive by your house.

Get striking workers madder. Dump a few thousand in vice ads, and destroy a city to get one person.

It's used to go after threats they know, not to trip up good people.
Sure why not?

And the linked article, while somewhat related has an entirely different message/purpose as this one.
A vehicular manslaughter charge often leads to jail time. That's more likely to cause someone to lose their job.
This line length stuff probably only applies to books/mobile/tablet, but not desktop where it's easy to keep track of where you are w/ scrolling & the mouse cursor.
Criminal Justice Reform bill is the masterwork of Jared Kushner. Kushner is the reason why it exists at all, so it wasn't really "congress" that "produced" it.

http://time.com/5486560/prison-reform-jared-kushner-kim-kard...
Amen, brother.

I used to be on a white R1200RS and I'd get mistaken for CHP in California. It was amusing to see them try to hide their phones when I'd honk at them.

A lot less amusing when they'd wander into my lane, oblivious. Every single close call I've had in the last year of riding has been from a motorist operating a cell phone.

I'm nearly of a mind to roll a helmet cam and start a Twitter account with footage of these people, along with their plates and a CHP tag. I haven't done it yet because that would take my riding focus away from steering the safest path. But it seems like it's gotten worse lately, and there doesn't seem to be much enforcement.
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