skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I thought I just provided examples that powerful people hold a wide spectrum of positions on most issues.

It will be a difficult task for a comedian to identify a position so contrarian that no influential/powerful people or institutions favor it.
Agreed, but they do mention it on their website:

> The IndiaRxiv repository accepts all the scholarly works in english and all the indian languages...

http://indiarxiv.in/policy/
With Redis it's just a matter of locking the request with an expiring key and the promise effect can be done with Pub/Sub.
Don't facial recognition systems generally use predictive models?
So imagine a single 6x12 table. You can comfortably seat 8 people at a table that size. Even if you packed those people into 4 person offices, 2 offices take more space than a big table in the middle of a floor that shares walking space with the other stuff around it.

They’re awful for productivity, but they definitely are cheaper.
Rock fell, no one died.
Well, if I could offer content (some of which was unique) to a self-selected audience that has very low price sensitivity, I would absolutely put it at a higher price point. Seems like a no-brainer.
Are you calling bullshit on that quote?
A mostly correct but somewhat flawed basis is likely better than none. Gravity, relativity, particles, germ theory, etc are flawed descriptions of the nature of reality, but they've still enabled us to develop vaccines, visit the moon, and do all kinds of amazing things in the meantime. Jenner had no idea how the smallpox vaccine worked, but he still saved countless people.
> Google has been explicit about that fact.

I don't think that Google's word can be trusted. They may be correct, but they may not be. Evidence either way would be welcome.
You and me both. I constantly berate myself outloud and hate myself for what it must do to my neighbor who's too considerate to say something, or not considerate enough to bitch to my manager so I could turn this into a remote job.
A speculative hypothesis related to this (based on my own experience as someone who has read the Checklist Manifesto and is a big advocate for checklists):

Over time people internalize the checklists because they unwittingly conclude the reason for the checklist is to learn a new procedure rather than foolproof their procedures and avoid errors. As a result, they start to skip the checklist or get sloppy with it.

There are a couple other points related to this that I believe Gawande does address in his book:

1. Doctors (more generally experts or egoists) will be resistant to checklists because they find them unnecessary (given their experience or expertise).

2. Checklists need to managed with regular review and updates.

You can boil Gawande's book down to: "Start using checklists because they're really effective." But his book goes deeper than that and addresses some of the underlying human factors involved in getting an organization to use checklists effectively.
Why capital I though for integer. Not only doesn't it seem to fit in line with the rest of the syntax, the capital I and l in some fonts is a well known psychological annoyance for many.

Edit: Funnily the issue ( I & l )is now visibly noticeable with HN's font choice

Might be a bit over-critical, but when I read that it's main selling point is making it more human readable, this seems a bit troll
IQ is a lot like GDP. It doesn't measure what we need as accurately as we need. If you keep that in mind, though, it can remain a broadly useful metric.
I don't mind you being offended, I was talking to the creator.
That's an argument for multiple preprint servers, not region-specific servers.
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I'm starting to recognise that the Internet —despite all its potential benefits— is a platform to streamline the process of lying to each other. Occasionally political, occasionally commercial, and very often social white lies. The instant access it affords us is being exploited by everybody to affect how we think, what we buy and who we like.

It's very rapidly becoming much worse. Machine learning will adapt to people faster than legislation can protect them. And most of all, I don't know how we reverse all this.That's what really scares me. I usually have an answer for everything. All I've got here is: unplug all the things.
There have always been 3rd-party choices on the ballot.
> I hope this never comes to something like Let's Encrypt, so the vast majority of developers can never use this.

Let's Encrypt's response:

I think it’s likely too early in
this draft’s development for Let’s
Encrypt to prioritize implementation.
It looks like it has a ways to go
within the IETF before it would be
an internet standard.

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/cansignhttpexchanges-ext...
I love prepared checklists! It's the ultimate productivity hack for me. I spend time upfront preparing the list, and then I go into auto-pilot everytime I use it. No stress, no cognitive load, no questioning whether you've forgotten something.

I use one for travel (did I pack a neck pillow?), night-time (did I pack my gym clothes for tomorrow?), and recently for the gym (what workouts am I doing today?)
That's exactly right. And even if they do, it'll be some small article on page 20 equivalent of the web.

For Guardian (or others) to really regain the trust, they should have a WE WERE WRONG article on their front page for as long as their fake story was there. And it should outline where they went wrong and what steps will be taken to make sure it doesn't happen again.
As someone who is pretty secular, why do you think we must not?

I mean, I've posted a couple of John Gray links here and it would be difficult to have read anything of his without having spent at least a little time thinking about the secular analogs to religious practices, as that is one of his major themes.
Maybe, maybe not.

But why doesn't Google do the one thing that would render this entire argument moot? Provide a mechanism that allows users to opt-out of getting AMP pages entirely.
It blew my mind, then I tried to hit 'back' and now I understand why nobody does it (yet) :P
> The accuracy of any of the selection methods we use in education is very poor. It just is.

The SAT when combined with the high school GPA (HSGPA) has an adjusted correlation correlation coefficient of 0.56 with first-year GPA, meaning the combined measurement accurately predicts how a potential college applicant will perform in their first year of college 56% of the time. [1]

That's actually pretty good, what other proposed metrics can say their signals match outcomes with 56% validity? How much you liked their essay?

Lower SAT scores have about 63% retention rate for first-year students whereas high SAT scores have about a 95% retention rate [2]. That is, high schoolers with poor SATs drop out of college about 40% of the time in their first year.

Standardized tests have many problems -- obviously -- but no one has developed a less unfair system.

When colleges abandon standardized tests what else are they relying on? Random signals made up by admissions officers? That's worse than job interviewing.

I have no problem criticizing standardized testing, but I feel everyone who does should be obligated to propose a better alternative method with a higher validity rate than 56%.

[1] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED563202.pdf

[2] https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED563471.pdf
I think a good example is human rights. Remember, these started out as natural, or god-given rights. We all know what the world looks like without them. All the ultra-rational, anti-religious political economies of the first half of 20th century were hells on earth. You cant come to reasonable arguments for human rights without faith in some belief in natural good, dignity or humanity.
Newer 2018 article:
https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ramp-up-in-antarctic-ice-...
Bringing Webrings Back from the 90s
What is the difference between a public and private instagram profile?
I want to know if they have some rule for protect private profile
It depends on if it's public or private land.

https://www.space.com/18009-meteorite-collectors-public-land...
I'm an aviation enthusiast and have started developing check-list for maintainers of the software I develop at work. I hope it will reduce cognitive stress in situations of on-call.
Laminas -  A community-supported, open source continuation of Zend Framework.
Ask HN: PSD2 - Is EU trying to rid itself of all SaaS?
Stripe just emailed their customers a link to this page:

https://stripe.com/docs/billing/migration/strong-customer-authentication

If I read it right, it means that the EU is forcing a 2-factor authentication flow for every single payment, recurring or not.

I'm running a SaaS business (https://talkjs.com). My reading of this is that we have to send every EU customer we have an email each month that goes "Hi! It's time to pay again! ^_^" with a link. They then have to click that link, login to our site, and then go through a 2-factor payment authentication flow. This means they need to have all the required gear for that on them, which depending on their bank will often mean having a special bank-issued debit card reader ready that can generate unique one-time auth codes.

Our customers will get one such email every month for every service they use. If they're a SaaS-heavy business like we are, they'll get tens of these emails each month, driving them mad and away from us, to any alternative that can help them escape from this madness.

Am I reading this right? Is this stuff really this insane? Does anyone have more insights here? Mitigation strategies?
I'm surprised to hear that all the burglars have been caught.
Delta made $5B in Profit? Wow. I thought airlines had razor thin margins...
This is a several-years old study that has been controversial. Other results using independent observations from mass-observing missions have come to very different conclusions [1] [2].

One thing people should understand is that the method used in the linked article is altimetry from radar, so you get a very accurate surface height, but the height is not a direct indicator of ice mass because of compression of snow/ice, and rebound of the underlying continent.

It's really important to have some appreciation of the limitations of measurement techniques, before jumping to conclusions from a single study.

[1] https://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/resources/31/antarctic-ice-loss-2...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19683895
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The content is served from Google's servers according to Google's (not publisher's) privacy policy. While Google cannot alter the content, it sees the unencrypted HTTP request. I don't want neither Google nor publisher to control contents of my address bar.
It says typescript and ML, but it looks quite a bit like Rust/Swift, which is great for my tastes.

I'm still not sure what is the raison d'etre here.

Why would I use this instead of, say, Rust to WASM?
Mahoney's benchmark is missing the large-window brotli numbers, which are about 5 % better than those of zstd and 10 % better than those of small-window brotli.

Brotli with large window can do around 199M for the 1G text corpus: https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/brotli/aq9f-x_fSY4

Here a large window aggregate result view:
https://encode.ru/threads/2947-large-window-brotli-results-a...
I don't want to challenge how you decide who to hire.

I just wanted to voice my point of view here. I have a terrible sense of "what looks nice" off the bat, have depression, anxiety, possibly on the spectrum according to my doctor, and I live alone. Things like this I'm scared of, while to an interview I 100% make sure everything fits properly, etc. I don't always have a great sense as to what I look like, so I'm scared of other people's decisions based on how I look, act, etc.
1. Linux (usually Ubuntu)

2. Install Emacs.

3. Install Git.

- Set git's core.editor to Emacs.

4. Install Chromium and Firefox.

5. Write JavaScript.
I guess you're referring to "Fair and Balanced".
That was retired a few years ago... if you can believe NY Magazine. :)
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/06/fox-news-is-dropping-...
I think you're wrong.

That quote assumes that when people think about "calling bullshit" in relation to the news that they would immediately think of Fox News or The National Enquirer. Is that wrong? Won't most Guardian readers immediately think of Fox News when they read this headline?

When I clicked on this article, I started from a perspective of "Oh look, it's The Guardian, a lefty publication, talking about how Fox News is bad. How shocking". I was wrong.

So yeah, I don't think the bit you quoted is an attempt to manipulate readers. By referencing Fox News, it's just trying to account for what it assumes its readers already think. And I think it's basically correct in those assumptions.
You have to gauge the company culture and figure out what's most likely.

Could be that they didn't want to overwhelm you so you got less than usual work to begin with and their expectation was that you'll come asking for more work (that's what I do when the job is "easy").

Also could be that the incumbents are defending their positions by rating you lower than you should be. If they put you in a bracket below themselves then it's increased job security for them and a higher probability for raises/promotions.
Steven Pinker's rules for writing better
> A number of studies found that they only help for a few months, while they're new.

This 2014 review looked at 34 studies that looked at the effectiveness of safety checklists:

> The main findings were improved communication, reduced adverse events, better adherence to standard operating procedures, and reduced morbidity and mortality. None of the included studies reported decreased patient safety or quality after introducing safety checklists.

> Safety checklists appear to be effective tools for improving patient safety in various clinical settings by strengthening compliance with guidelines, improving human factors, reducing the incidence of adverse events, and decreasing mortality and morbidity. None of the included studies reported negative effects on safety.

So I'm going to ask for a citation on that claim.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24116973
In the aviation industry, lawsuits aren't necessary. If a pilot makes a serious enough mistake, he dies. If we executed doctors when their patients died, lawsuits would be the least of their concerns.
> I don't think people understand why Amp was created and is being heavily pushed by Google: global accessibility.

I think people understand this. The issue is that AMP is forced on people who don't want it. I have no problem with AMP being provided for people who do.

A method of opting out would resolve this.
> secularists

This is one of those words - like "glorious," "pro-abortionist," or "non-Madhayamaka-Tibetan-Buddhist" that lets you know exactly the ideology of the speaker.
Nope, not what the story says, not what even Merkel said.
What a waste of time, if that's the best you have.
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I was responding to the claim that Fox is pushing an invasion narrative. The invasion is real and dismissing it doesn't help anyone. Unless you live down there or have family that does, you can't comprehend how bad it is down there right now. Maybe we should have livestreams setup so the rest of the country can see it.
Yeah, how dare they call it racism when it’s built into the system, and conveniently uses highly correlated features instead of race itself! We also don’t discriminate against men, only people called “John”, “David”, or “Jack”.
>I was also then able to figure out the origins of the compression algorithm; it's called LZSS, and the particular LZSS format used here turns out to originate from some public domain DOS code which someone posted on a Japanese BBS in 1988.

Seriously. One of the latest high performance server grade NIC firmware from very famous vendor still use the code originated from somebody's comment at 1988 Japanese BBS? We can guess the rest of the firmware quality with this fact.
Was just talking with a friend about this -- we agreed that if this were an American businessman getting the blessing and will of the Christian God from a priest or a bishop, we probably wouldn't think too much of it.
Guess what "nova" means ...
i followed your reasoning until you said that you think "their time is coming to an end." IDK. i don't see much evidence of that.

like elements of the crowd that wants to stone a woman for adultery, we're all itching to chuck a rock or two, not so much because we love violence or hate the woman, but because we're afraid someone more powerful will accuse us of failing to throw a stone and we ourselves will become the next target. i don't see any Jesus on the horizon to stop it.
> including the Guardian

especially the Guardian.
> Well, Taiwan is in China. What it is not is in the PRC. Do you mean the PRC's strategy to finish the job? Or do you not know about China?

> The reality is that the KMT will never agree to surrender to the Communist Party.

I do not think you know what you are saying.

Taiwan is nearby mainland China. It has, at times, been claimed and occupied by the current governments of China and Japan . China claims it because it's strategically important (it's also an ego thing), and the people of Taiwan, who are more Japanese than Chinese (thanks, ethnic cleansing!) are not keen to join the PRC (the communistic current governing party in China). The people of Taiwan have recognized and declared allegiance to the ROC (the Republic of China, an attempt at democratic government) which was more or less ended when the Communist Party lost, threw a temper tantrum, and raised an insurrection. The ROC was on its way to becoming a proper Democratic country when it failed to civil war (because the Communists didn't want to recognize that they'd lost). Taiwan has essentially declared allegiance to the "rest of China" on the condition that the Republic of China, a democracy, is the governing power.

During the Communist takeover, political refugees went to Taiwan, and brought their democratic ideals along with them, which have grown and flourished- today, Taiwan is a Parliamentary democracy with fist-fights in Parliament. They're government is healthy, and they want to stay that way.

The issue here is that the Foxxcon corp. has probably been subsidized by China at some point, directly leading to profit for the CEO, who will then want to edge closer to Taiwan. This is very dangerous, and I worry that if he gets elected, he may pull Taiwan, as we know it, to the edge of extinction.

This is an alt account for hopefully obvious reasons.
My comment stems from a desire for something better. I know the power of religion, belief, and a community with a shared worldview. I was raised religiously.

However the major belief systems on offer today are stunted with so much baggage (e.g. wild claims of the supernatural, conflict with science, outdated morals, etc.) that they don't work for a growing number of people.

As long as there are great unknowns in the universe and in life, which I think there will always be, then there will be an important role for some form of spirituality. And ethics will always be important as well.

We need something better than the major religions of today. They are insufficient. They are not what they claim.

In my own life, having been unable to take on the belief system of my parents, the best thing I've found so far is meditation of the breath along with a dash of Buddhist ethics and philosophy. Of course, I have kept many of the moral teachings from my upbringing, which I appreciate. But it's not the same.

There's more to say, but I don't yet have all of the words. I want better, and if I can tactfully push others to help me find a new way, then I'll try to do so.

I realize my initial comment probably didn't do this very well. Perhaps this isn't even the right venue. Much to think about.
My awareness comes from a tragic event, but I still must say that the Colossus is pretty cool. I wonder if the birdlike Boston Dynamics robot could be adapted for indoor firefighting in confined spaces. (Perhaps with a flippable/rotatable 4 wheeled gimbal like the Dean Kamen iBot has, which would enable stair climbing.)

https://gizmodo.com/boston-dynamics-new-robot-is-a-giant-seg...
> This is a stated goal of Russian anti-Western propaganda. Spread the narrative that all news outlets are equally untrustworthy, and that Western news consumers cannot ever be informed.

This "narrative" spreads itself. It's a conclusion you reach once you beat the Gell-Mann amnesia. And it's not about whether $tabloid is or isn't equal to $large-national-station. It's about realizing that it's all mostly garbage, and it's a waste of time to try and rate the relative merit of one clickbait source over another.
I'm not justifying it in the slightest. Continuing your analogy, it would be like saying "I don't know why all these people have a problem with Islam, a religion of peace." without recognizing that some people did some things and here we are.

I'm not saying that these peoples' reactions are the correct ones, but it's not like they all just spontaneously decided to hate on Muslims one day, randomly. It was almost certainly the wrong reaction, but there was a trigger. Your statement:

> I've never understood the term incel (involuntarily celibate) as an insult, incels are just people who cannot get female/male attention for various reasons and some make up crazy conspiracy theories to explain it.

makes it seem that you are unaware of this and think that the public's view of incels is just because it thinks they are losers or something. Incels were not even in the public's general awareness until these incidents.
As fjfaase said “The first is that you should try to include realistic examples in your documentation and promote good coding styles.”

That ‘sign’ example could be somewhat improved by having it return an optional int instead (returning null on null inputs), or by having it take a double and return an optional int (returning null for not-a-numbers), but I think it isn’t that hard to come up with a more realistic short example.
It's interesting how the US military copied the British class-based system of management, officers v other ranks. It does stymie a lot of creativity and talent.
The pilots quit because they don't get to fly. Isn't that obvious?
Wise cautionary note. Use the right tool for the job.

Back when we used to burn "golden" CD-ROMs for releases: Our checklists were getting too unwieldy, we were still making mistakes.

So I started a Go/NoGo process, aka Roman Evaluation. Any one could stop the release for any reason. We'd fix the problem(s) identified, try again the next day.

(Of course, we fed each release's results back into process during the post mortems.)
Makes me feel like there's a similarity between implementation of checklist methodology and implementation of agile methodology. Depends so much on culture and processes and people.
Because they're dead? Surgeons don't have that much of their own skin in the game...
Facts are, geographically it's entirely separate. Taiwan does not even intersect with China's convex-hull. (not that this matters)

Politically, Taiwan's de-facto sovereignty is always an internationally recognized fact.

And I do believe this has been an international consensus for years (except for China and [Winnie the pooh](https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-china-blog-40627855) of course)
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