skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're correct that most sensible people understand that environmental and inherent biological differences both contribute to behaviors. But the pathological mode of thinking that people are becoming increasingly sensitive to is the willingness to assert environmental causes in the absence of biological or nonsociological evidence. It's precisely this having a default position that makes it an ideological way of thinking.

The gender wage gap is the clearest example at the moment, which was able to get people riled up on the 77 cents on the dollar figure, as purportedly being not only due primarily to environmental reasons, but specifically due to patriarchal socialization and sexism. The thing is, the initial figure was incredibly irresponsible, as it didn't control for field worked in, let alone specific profession, let alone seniority, output, hours worked, rate negotiated. The more of these figures are controlled for, the more the gap diminishes. But the problem is, people still look at the remainder as "okay well then there's a 7% gap, and that's still a problem." But my question is, "why?" They default back to the assumption that the remainder after what has since been controlled for is specifically the result of patriarchal sexism, simply because of a remaining disparity. That is ideological.
Apache Wave can be self hosted on sandstorm at least.
Ask HN: Do you keep a journal of ideas?
How do you take note of interesting ideas you'd like to try out?
Building a neural network today is still more art than science
Actually with zfs and btrfs you can service mysql stop, put checkpoint back and bring it back up at roughly the same speed as AWS can do it.

I also have done enough recoveries to know that actually placing back a checkpoint is admitting defeat and stating that you

a) don't know what happened

b) don't have any way to fix it

And often it means

c) don't have any way to prevent it from reoccuring, potentially immediately.

It's a quick and direct action that often satisfies the call to action from above. It is exactly the wrong thing to do. It very rarely solves the issue.

Actually fixing things mostly means putting the checkpoint on another server, and going through a designed fix process.
Personally, I can't stand wireless ear buds. I've tried to like them on a few occasions, but the trade-offs never really made sense to me.

Then again, it's pretty rare that I use my phone for music (and when I do, it's plugged into the car) so I really have no dog in this particular fight.
Our own choices generate biases for subsequent decisions
Ballpark estimate by somebody who operates in the paint industry and has done so for almost fifteen years (albeit what is for you likely a foreign country: Italy). Industry associations estimate that the cost of materiel amounts to between 20% and 30% of the total cost experienced by the homeowner, depending on various factors (interior/exterior, type of finish desired, & cetera). So roughly three quarters of your “painting bill” comes from labour, not material. Knowing this, the DIY chains actually hike the prices of what are admittedly lower-grade paints because they know that by cutting out labour costs theirs is still a winning proposition for cash-strapped homeowners desperate enough to “Damage It Yourself”.

It’s pretty dismal. And broadly speaking, it's unsustainable.
congress also banned medicare from negotiating drug prices...
Ask HN: What's the Future Of PLC Programming?
Hello. I'm in a company which uses PLCs for assembly lines and manufacturing stuff. PLC world is kinda foreign to me and seems to be far behind current software world. Everything I learned about programming is kinda useless when programming PLCs... What are you guys using or would like to use in PLC world so it can be a bit closer to regular programming that I'm used to?
https://www.amazon.com/Dongle-Dangler-Keychain-Accessory-Com...

I keep mine on my keys, haven't lost it yet.
Now I'm interested in what the Google version that comes with the Pixel 3/XL is like
With a docketed judgment, if the defendant didn't pay up, you and the sheriff can go in to the rental (possibly even while other tenants are in it) and seize the defendant's property until you have seized items that sum to the value of the judgment.

Which is to say, you can probably at least seize the camera that was used to record you, if it's still in there. And you could also take other consumer electronics gear that's in there, that you could use yourself, like routers and televisions.

And if you're getting jerked around and feeling vindictive, you'll go to a hardware store website and check the prices on cat5e cables, coax cables, doorknobs, hinge pins, interior doors, shower heads, toilet hardware, mattresses, mini-fridges, microwave ovens, toasters, coffee-makers, etc. Just bring some tools when you go to collect. Even a small unpaid judgement can render a short-term rental unusable. The replacement cost of all those little things is as nothing compared to the labor cost of delivering and reinstalling all of it.
This is indeed favors FB and YT. They will censor and blame it on the government, and they won’t take any responsibility.
And North of ... ?

Or did you forget about that part of the world.
Google has weird rules and inconsistent indexing. I recently published a two-part article on using graphql/apollo with react and rails; it never indexed the first part (the graphql / rails bit) but did index the second part (react and apollo). And in fact, searching for with "graphql rails react apollo" still doesn't show any results for this page on google despite ostensibly being indexed, but it shows up on duckduckgo. And looking over the results on google, only ~4 are actually relevant to the topic, so it's not like good content is being shown.
Apple’s New Audio Adapter (2016)
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Wouldn't there be a 4th option of adding support for the newer patterns without breaking the old?
Eye-balling the numbers, you'd pick up less than a factor of 5. I encourage you to look at the details and report back. You should also correct for the natural resources that Norway has the Australia lacks, like fish (almost 10% of Norway's exports inclusive of oil!).
Because:

> RF: It is the way the system operates now. And really, one can’t blame the drug companies. These are profit-making companies. We can’t expect drug companies to behave differently. Imagine if a CEO went to his board and said, “I have decided to lower prices and reduce our profits. It’s the right thing to do.” That CEO would be fired.
Bleve is awesome! In a page worth of code, I was able to make a really simple search for our app's documentation that takes almost no resources. Elastic would have been massive overkill.
Indeed, bleve can be considered on the same level as lucene. It is used to power full-text search in Couchbase, which adds the distributed indexing and querying portion on top (similar to what elasticsearch does to lucene)
Why Every Marketer Needs to Be an Excellent Writer in 2019
What?! The gap diminishes if you rule out all the results of the patriarchy (fields open to women; lack of seniority due to bias in promotions; negotiation that's not available to women because there's always a man who can fill the position)???

Its amazing to me that someone can claim "its not due to sexism" and then, in the very same sentence, make a long list of how its due to sexism. But its somehow ok.
>diplomats, intel agencies, law enforcement, corporate security

Personally, I have absolutely no trust in any of these, and I completely disagree that we should "leave it to the professionals" and let them "handle discretely" whatever is going on. This is how you end up with things like FISA courts, Gitmo, and PRISM.
Not everybody agrees about the sound quality, compared to the jacks on iDevices:

- [German] https://www.heise.de/ct/artikel/iPhone-7-nachgemessen-Audio-...

- [Summarising the above] https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/256241/45492

- Another test: http://soundexpert.org/articles/-/blogs/audio-quality-of-lig...

- https://ifixit.org/blog/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardown/
I'm not so sure- I don't know enough to disagree with you completely, but it seems valid to me that someone who lacks purpose would be more prone to falling into that sorta destructive cycle. That's not to say its the only way, but its certainly a way.
i think the point is that people have to buy it, not that they buy it because they want it.
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I keep two documents:

Projects - for all sorts of stuff that can be anything from little one page apps, t-shirts, art projects, do X but for Y (like do this thing somebody did for US states but for European Countries), slogans to print on beer mugs - whatever.

Serious Projects - anything that will take several months of sustained development to be able to make an MVP and will require funding of some sort.

They're just on google drive, I figure if I get an idea on the bus and it can't last til I get somewhere to enter it in my projects document, it isn't a worthwhile idea.
Ask HN: Suddenly afraid of flying, not sure why or what to do about it
Hi HN,

I thought I'd post here about a weird issue that's cropped up that maybe someone can offer advice on.

For some reason, I have suddenly become terrified of flying. I had a few flights this past week, and for the entire duration of each flight, I had intense fear, anxiety, a strong sense of doom, and I felt like I was going to throw up.

I have no clue what triggered this. I've never been afraid of flying before. My best guess is that it's either all the news about the 737 MAX or the fact that I work at a large tech company and see the huge number of bugs that even really good software engineers make.

I've flown frequently ever since I was young, and I currently average about 8-10 flights per year for work, vacation, or visiting family. I have another flight coming up in a week and am tempted to take a $400 loss just because the thought of getting on a plane again is making me feel sick. I've always heard that the best way to eliminate a fear is to face it frequently, but in my case, it seems the more I fly, the more anxious I become.

I'm aware of all the statistics (e.g., you're more likely to die in a car crash on the way to the airport than during your flight), but logic doesn't seem to have any bearing on my emotions during the flight.

Thanks for any help!
They manufacture their own drugs piggy-backing off American R&D and then sell them for much much smaller margins.

America's lucrative drug market funds research which allows the rest of the world to benefit at no cost to them.

Edit: seem to be getting downvoted because people think I’m saying drug companies do this out of benevolence. Not my intention. I’m saying that wrenching maximum dollars out of America but having little ability to capture returns elsewhere is a mechanism by which new drugs are created and later manufactured as foreign generics
About 2-3 months ago they basically nuked Youtube's search and recommendation. This was associated with some bad press about those features coming up with "harmful content" like unapproved radical politics & conspiracy theories. Now you basically see mostly curated front-page stuff plus some user stuff that had probably never come up in search before (e.g. a fairly common search term will come up with videos that are a decade old and only have 5k views). Maybe changes in Google search are related?
> Either adjust all ratings to an agreed average (e.g. 3 stars) or let users "use up" their 5-star ratings allowance.

This doesn't take into account people who are really picky about choosing accommodations and so only stay in listings that are worth of five stars, vs people who are very budget conscious and only stay in listings that are worth 3 stars.

If you normalize these two people's ratings that will give the same 3-star average rating to both marginal and great listings.
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I believed the idea that it was a space saving and water ingress issue until the latest iPad Pro also lost the jack.
Those situations are certainly relevant to 'wicked problems', yes. I grabbed a few highlights from what was formally a ten-point definition; Rittel and Webber managed to be impressively restrictive while still including a lot of problems.

I think several of the rules they give imply wicked problems are likely, though not necessarily, multi-causal issues like you describe:

1. There is no definitive formulation of a wicked problem.

2. Wicked problems have no stopping rule.

4. There is no immediate and no ultimate test of a solution to a wicked problem.

6. Wicked problems do not have an enumerable (or an exhaustively describable) set of potential solutions, nor is there a well-described set of permissible operations that may be incorporated into the plan.

8. Every wicked problem can be considered to be a symptom of another problem.

9. The existence of a discrepancy representing a wicked problem can be explained in numerous ways. The choice of explanation determines the nature of the problem's resolution.

1, 8, and 9 imply that the scope of wicked problems is undefined and linked to the choice of solution, so we should problems with multiple causes. 2, 4, and 6 imply that we can't be sure when a solution is adequately tested or a solution space is exhausted, so we can never eliminate the possibility that the solution is "all our measures plus one more." What's more, the difficulty of assessment means we might never know if a solved wicked problem was multicausal, or if the final measure which produced change might have sufficed on its own.

And you're definitely right that multi-factor solutions are a big part of what makes this harder. It's not enough to run antismoking ads, or raise tobacco taxes, or implement black box warnings; it could always be some combination that mattered. And if you try all three and smoking rates drop, you can't backtrack to find out, because the problem might be hysteresic - what if the taxes stopped smoking, but the ads plus warnings prevent it?

The implications for ongoing problems, from drug addiction to gun violence, aren't terribly comforting. Not only can we not try each solution, we can't be sure a measure we've already tried unsuccessfully is safe to dismiss.
Googled that for you: https://www.apple.com/shop/product/MU7E2AM/A/usb-c-to-35-mm-...
How do studios find “the next Game of Thrones”? - HBO Exec has advice
To OP really between coal and LNG alone dalore is making a fair comparison.
This reminds me of the Overshadow paper which VMware published during my time there. We never ended up shipping it but it was a neat proof of concept:

https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs380s/overshadow.p...

EDIT: I see Overshadow[14] was indeed one of the cited references.

Also, direct link to the actual paper is here:
https://www.ndss-symposium.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/nd...
You can't equate a service not being useful to a large portion of humanity as meaning that it's a net negative on the world. That was your claim, but it's not qualified in any way whatsoever or immediately obvious what your viewpoint is when ambiguous descriptors like "better" are used.
Google, Apple and Co. are making “countless wrong decisions” about AI
To first order, gravity is indeed linear in the way you suggest, so you can just add up the effects of different planets separately. To see why this is the case, note that the Sun itself could be considered to be a collection of independent masses. If there were some non-linear gravitational effect, then the gravity of the separate components would be different from the gravity of them all together. However, the surface gravity can be measured across a wide range of masses and scales as you would predict from Newtonian gravity.

That being said, general relativity predicts that there is in fact a non-linear scaling when gravitational fields are extremely strong. The reason for this is that the there is some energy associated with the gravitational field, and any energy produces its own gravitational field. So the gravitational field itself exerts its own gravitational field, leading to the non-linearity.
Patients need education and advocates. Not everyone is smart enough or motivated enough to challenge their doctor’s initial prescription, but an advocate could help.

Maybe there is a business model in advocacy as a service.
Being secretly taped, esp in intimate moments, is a valid fear that many women have. It has long term repercussions on their life esp when the videos get shared.

I don't actively sweep rooms but I'd be lying if I didn't say I inspected something that looked out of place when staying with the family at hotels and rentals. When I am by myself, I am less paranoid about these issues.
It is an impressive engineering feat, and certainly better than the Android ones that just pass analog through the USB-C jack, but it's worth noting that this DAC performs worse than what it replaced [1]. Dynamics have less range, there's more THD, and output impedance is lower, so it's harder to drive heavier headphones. I noticed a difference in clarity using Audio-Technica ATH-M50s and Beyerdynamic DT 990 250Ω. Specifically, the Beyerdynamics could be driven "good enough" for me with the iPhone SE jack, but I wasn't happy with how they sounded on the Lightning dongle.

[1] https://ifixit.org/blog/8448/apple-audio-adapter-teardown/
Well, maybe the Russians would hypothetically go that way. Hopefully the world has learned it’s lesson about tangling with the Finns.
Maybe we should eat foods native to our culture and region. Being from Louisiana, I eat plenty of meat (I have no ethical qualms with animals dying so I can eat meat, its apart of life), vegetables that can grow in the region, starches that also grow in the region e.g.,, converted Louisiana white rice, and take in a good portion of dairy. I don't need my food imported from around the world, I eat what is grown and raised here. Couple that with an active lifestyle and I don't see any need to change.
How about a tool like croc instead?
https://github.com/schollz/croc
I plan on posting some more soon; work just got crazy for a bit. And that's a good idea, I should provide links to blogs I follow!
Because of the internet, a lot of people are becoming aware of stories like how the CIA watched over the "get Gary Webb team" of industry experts who said "we're going to take away his Pulitzer," before Webb died by "suicide" by two gunshot wounds to the head.(1) Just one of thousands of outrageous stories questioning where global power lies and what those who have it are doing with it.

Iraq lies were territory of "fake news" and conspiracy theories, same as a lot of what Tulsi Gabbard is saying about the US military industrial complex.

Every group of individuals will always have psychopaths whom try to cheat to exert control over others. Obviously many powerful people in the world dont want a democracy of individuals sharing ideas freely.

https://theintercept.com/2014/09/25/managing-nightmare-cia-m...
I think the combination of the actually-not-that-discreet camcorder and the fact it didn't really have a reputation for being able to do much else interesting at launch was the perfect storm

I'm not really that bothered by people holding phones in a way that might be surreptitiously recording me, because I expect they're actually using them for something else.
You seem to be making a lot of baseless assumptions about this topic
Author here. Sorry, resizing my droplet now.
The reason we did that is thalidomide.
I was disappointed by this sentiment by the author

>And really, one can’t blame the drug companies. These are profit-making companies. We can’t expect drug companies to behave differently.

The notion that corporations should only work for the maximization of shareholder value is relatively modern, and leads to companies doing societally destructive things like this all the time, yet the author takes it as an inviolate truth. I would suggest that this is also part of the problem, and an area to look to fix it.
Plenty of other companies make or made IP68 waterproof phones with exposed headphone jacks. It's not an issue.
> This founder advised me not to work with this person, but wouldn't tell me why.

This could be a Giant Red Flag, or simple personality clash.

If you can, follow-up with the Founder for a confidential 1:1.
Tracing the roots of photo sharing, from mail art to Instagram
Having money isn't everything. Not having money, is.

Same with food and sex.
I have a strong fear of flying, and I deal with it medicinally. My doctor wrote me a prescription for Xanax - I take one on the way to the airport, and by the time we're boarding, all the anxiety is boxed away.
Still on an iPhone 6S for just this reason (and a slight preference for touch id over face id).
Good question. Would be interesting to hear what (if any) additional training pilots there got.

And, yes, the Ethiopian Air pilots apparently did follow the procedures initially, flipping the Stab Trim Cutout switches, but did not manage to recenter the trim manually (via the trim wheel), so apparently re-enabled electric trim, and then let MCAS drive the trim even further down to their doom. :-/
Canada's oil is very different from Norway's oil. Tarsands are extremely energy- and water-intensive to exploit. This makes it far less economical of a resource than the North Sea oil produced by Norway.

Because Norway's oil is more profitable, it can be taxed much more heavily. If you were to tax the tarsands at the same rate, it would put the companies out of business.
Normalizing hostility towards devs is already harmful. Why not take steps to reverse that?
Cambrian explosion? The main distros (Debian/Ubuntu, RH/Centos, Arch, Mint, Gentoo, Suse, Slackware) haven't changed in like ten years or more, the only relatively recent additions being the Devuan branch of Debian, and Alpine. Or have I overlooked something?
There are lots of marketing plays on existing, well-established technology. That's like half the things Silicon Valley develops. So what?

With regard to the Ketamine example, what the drug company is selling is a nasal spray (versus the traditional method of using an IV), and freedom from the stigma of taking a "party drug": https://www.theverge.com/2019/3/11/18260297/esketamine-fda-a....
It takes a lot of effort to onboard someone so it is better to get one full time vs a bunch of part time or freelancers. For smaller operations that can't commit to a FTE freelancers are a great option. There is a monthly HN post "freelancer/seeking freelancer" where you can find these. I found a few gigs there where people were looking for 10 or 20 hours a week.
Sure, but there are other IP67 devices, like the galaxy s5, the Sony xperia z, and so on that are ip67 rated and have a 3.5mm jack.
>without fear.

Do they mean fear on the consumer end or the content creator end? There is a natural tension there which must be resolved. A fearless internet for content creators means lots of ungood content out there (sometimes doubleplus ungood!). A fearless internet for passive consumers means they won’t run across this ungood content, unless they go through great efforts to seek it out.
Prison Escape – Solving Prisoner’s Dilemma with Machine Learning